skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they can, but they’re trained on conversation and stories (among other things) rather than simulations. These are more general than the log of a simulation run in how they use time. Stories can be chronological, but they can also fill in the details in any order using things like flashbacks. Or they can get really complicated with time travel stories.

So it seems like to understand a story well, an LLM would need a more sophisticated notion of time, where there is a history and events are slotted in as they’re learned from the narrative, and sometimes the whole history gets reinterpreted based on new information. (Plot twist!)

It would be fascinating if some mechanistic interpretability researcher figured out how they actually work with story time. Are there the rudiments of that kind of understanding yet?
It was never an assassination attempt, but an attempt to increase the cost of doing business and further incentivize the CCP to waste money and run their economy less effectively.
It is a fact that corporate plans change and rugpulls happen. All it takes is for the VCs to stop funding, and this happens eventually. How is Modular going to make money when it's open?
Wa-Lang: Design for WebAssembly
See also:

- https://gitee.com/wa-lang/wa
Has the truth of Wallin's claims actually been established? IIRC that hasn't been done, and if so that case is irrelevant.

And it's not an article, it's an opinion piece by a person who also claims to have been mistreated by Virtanen and helped spread Wallin's statements about him: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/granskning/ug/reportern-skrev-att...

Edit: Should probably add that there is very little chilling from our defamation criminalisation, it's commonly used in far right political activism for example. The Lamotte case is an outlier where I think the victim didn't engage the cops and ran his own civil case against him instead.
Can we build conscious machines?
The attitude in the comments regarding the "look you can see how it's built" is concerning.

A simple virus could easily backdoor every binary on the system which built the file, rince and repeat.

Before anyone says that Linux virus do not exist, I have written a handful, as I'm sure many others have. Do not assume lack of observation to be confirmation of your view.
>I think that’s sometimes framed as not wanting to help China improve in technologically advanced industries?

If this was the case we'd pull all manufacturing out of China completely. The knowledge transfer from the US to China when it comes to manufacturing, from basic goods up to modern tech, has been wild. With that comes a lot of information on how to advance technology.
We Are Starting to Enjoy Hatred
That article claims that exactly the same thing but swapped:

> People new to the mouse find the process of acquiring it every time they want to do anything other than type to be incredibly time-wasting. And therein lies the very advantage of the mouse: it is boring to find it because the two-second search does not require high-level cognitive engagement.

> It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press. Deciding among abstract symbols is a high-level cognitive function. Not only is this decision not boring, the user actually experiences amnesia! Real amnesia! The time-slice spent making the decision simply ceases to exist.

> While the keyboard users in this case feels as though they have gained two seconds over the mouse users, the opposite is really the case.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-are-starting-to-enjoy-hatred...
Everyone seems to be ignoring the core thesis of this article and seems to only be discussing the title

> America’s policymakers are also learning from their mistakes. The gradual ratcheting-up of sanctions on Huawei, and especially the 28-month gap between the announcement of the most severe measures in 2018 and their implementation in 2020, gave the firm lots of time to prepare, China hawks lament. But the bigger lesson from Huawei’s torment has not yet sunk in: that cutting the firm off from Western technology did not stifle it, but instead increased its incentives to innovate. China is still years behind the West in chipmaking. Sanctions on high-powered semiconductors have raised costs and slowed the uptake of ai for thousands of firms, as intended. Hubble’s investments are still far from replacing Western lithography machines and other components. But if Huawei was a worry when America first declared war, it is a bigger one now.

Basically, the ad hoc and imprecise sanctions regime used by the Trump admin gave too much lead time for Huawei to begin indigenizing its capabilities.

This is a mistake the US learned from and can be seen with SMIC, YMTC, and other state run champions (BYD is a domestic champion but NOT state run).

I'd highly recommend listening to Rush Doshi if you want to understand the US's China policy - he's the NSC Advisor who was in charge of China policy in the Biden admin until a couple weeks ago.
Isn't using the term "saint" in the first place, moving the goalposts? He never claimed to be one.
> And it can suddenly demand you take over in a failure mode that completely disables itself forcing you to instantly take over in a split second.

Like FSD, too, you mean.
I just opened DataGrip and JSON1 is not there.
Might be worth pointing out that quaternions themselves are often represented as matrices as well: That’s the Pauli matrices, widely used to model quantum spin.

One advantage of quaternions is that it’s (IMO) easier to calculate things with them using only pen and paper than it is to do equivalent matrix multiplications by hand.

Personally I find them “intuitive” in the same sense as complex numbers are intuitive: They seemed weird on first exposure, but they now feel simpler to use and reason about than the alternatives I know.
This is really interesting. As a child I loved reading and I think I know why. It's the only way to acquire more information about the world at scale.

As a little child I grew up in a home the grounds of which had tropical birds (mynahs, hoopoes, massive eagles) of all sorts, snakes (vipers, cobras, pythons, garden snakes) of all sorts, cows and scorpions, peacocks and fish.

So there was no shortage of real life observation of the world but the variation you encounter in a book is far broader.

I'm grateful for my parents picking out so many books for me and helping me learn to read because it unlocked a huge world with no horizon. And when you're young all this learning doesn't feel like work.

I remember being excited to remember my tables, or to know trivia like the capitals of nations, and so on. Bizarrely, I was terrible with the exact placement of events in history and consequently hated it.

And a fun game I'd play with myself was the idea of figuring out things without remembering it. When did X happen? What is a Y? And I think that was possible because I read the things I read when young. And I decried rote memorization. It was obviously intelligence that gave me this ability. Looking back now that's funny because it's my good memory and all the things I shoved into it that did the trick.

Hurray to indulging children's curiosity.

Also, it's been illuminating following your blog, Jake. I check it every time I see your username. But I've recently gotten back into reading things through RSS so I'm glad you've got one.
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/child_safety-Clau...
Joining Strings in Python: A "Huh" Moment
Its still the good old artisanal paradigm, we shove it in the pipeline, a subcontractor builds them for a few millions each to spec then we repeat that on failure to perform.

Meanwhile other military only have "standards", you buy of the shelve components, add standardized interfaces and can iterrate and produce ridiculous fast. Drone does not fly or bombs otherwise? Change it, even automated build it, fly it, while darpa hasn't started reading reports on equipment failures.
I'm a dad. I replaced myself with an LLM (2023)
Scientists develop fatigue-free ferroelectric material
Awesome project! I've been very excited about stuff like this cropping up - where people take model-builders and then load those models into first/third-person 3d scenes. I know someone trying to do a similar kind of thing with Cities: Skylines, and I just can't wait!

But this is exactly as satisfying and surreal as I had thought it would be. You did a great job with this! If I had one note, it would be to start the player high above the map and let us fall into the town so we can kind of see the whole of it, as we fall. I simulated this in your demo map by running and holding jump as I ran up and across roofs which resulted in some wonky super-high jumps. Which I'm not saying are a bug! It just led me to being way up over the map and falling back down onto, which was really nice.
I'm in the same situation (mobile Safari, French phone) but if you use Chrome it works
One hour later, it seems like you've got your 10th zero! :)

Luck plays a tiny part too, I'm testing sequentially and I got my 9th zero with only ~7e8 hashes, a whopping 100x earlier than expected.
But we have math processors, I own several, they're just not implanted in my head, so what? Why would sticking them in there make me "super-intelligent"? If my calculator has a better interface so I can use it faster, is that also making me more intelligent? These things are tools, the hype about super-intelligence is just about a person with very effective tools. Oh noes!
Have you seen Miracle on 34th Street, where Kris Kringle convinces Macy's and Gimbels to tell their customers that their competition has what they're looking for? That isn't as fictional as Santa Claus. I was in a Walmart yesterday when I heard a clerk tell a customer that the hardware store down the street has the thing that Walmart didn't. It happens a bazillion times a day.
Virgil: A fast and lightweight native programming language
All you need for a good value function is high quality simulation of the task.

Some domains have better versions of this than others (eg theorem provers in math precisely indicate when you've succeeded)

Incidentally, lean could add a search like feature to help human researchers, and this would advance ai progress on math as well
Back of the napkin math shows it to be the most likely, especially with some of the more recent discoveries in regards to water evaporation and co2 emissions.

IPCC is sorely outdated by this point.
I've been thinking about incorporating more SR in my life (mostly toying with my own impls). Since you seem to be smitten with the practice, any tips you've discovered on writing, managing, etc SR cards?
They could invent Tele transportation and Time Machine which essentially the same thing.
> Given that it was 20 yrs ago it is possible that this was an effect that was not well known and it is better controlled today.

This was known at the time. If you think about it, it's an obvious effect if you can't correct all of the surface that will admit light in. I had a great outcome with my eye surgery from around that time, with my vision needing no correction for 20 years now. However I distinctly recall the doctor saying that if some features were a bit wider (iirc iris), then his equipment wouldn't be viable for me. I feel strongly that the poster who had this situation had an unethical doctor.
Bear in mind this was 10 years ago hopefully Go have a debugger now, but still, it won't be gdb.
It's defense is n depth.

I used both obscure ports AND strong passwords or keys.

Whether we like it or not, in practice the obscure ports stop a ton of drive by bots.

Even if you are using a keys, the obscure ports stops the bot with a 0day exploit from getting in.
I specifically said self-selected, median students. 60-80% of students could be educated without the support services required for special education (high or low), but those students are put into facilities that are not efficient for the average student.

I also never said our public schools were failing, just that they have cost equivalent to private schools without any of the benefits.

I’m sure there are terrible charter and private school, just like there are terrible business. With a terrible business, I can go elsewhere. My community is stuck with a public school regardless of its quality.

Public schools also have little accountability and their monolithic structure amplifies bad decisions across cities. For example, my children’s school chose a math curriculum and purchased a seven year contract approved by “accountable” parties. Every year since that curriculum was adopted math scores in the district have declined. An entire generation is failing to be properly educated in basic math fundamentals!

The school district is flush with resources for everything but teachers and students. Want to put new technology in all of the classrooms and give a superintendent who failed all his metrics a raise? Sure. Maybe we’ll have money for teacher raises and a working math curriculum next year.

If a charter school costs the state less money (which even district run charters do), to pull out a portion of the population to meet their specific needs, why would you be against that? That leaves more money for special education.

I have skin in the game. I have a highly gifted child working two grades ahead in math (he went to a different district that could meet his needs). I have two students who need outside tutoring, one of which qualifies for special education services, and a fourth who would succeed in any environment you put him in. I’ve had to fight to get services required by law for my kids in a district that is supposedly working as intended by public school advocates. My wife taught in the district our kids attend. We are constantly discussing whether we should move them to private or charters that would better meet their needs or continue to fight the bureaucratic public school district.

If you don’t have school age kids and just read news articles, you probably don’t understand what parents go through when their kids don’t fit the slot the public schools provide for them. As someone living it, I’m happy that parents are able to find schools that fit their family’s needs, have resources from the state to attend them, and those resources cost me less as a taxpayer. If we had an option that suited us, we would take it.
Incidentally his shots in dark have proven true. Microtubules do seem to rely on some QM tricks.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/05/brain-really-uses-q...
My older brother was pissed that I sent it in. I had a potential cousin contact me via 23andMe and I asked my brother about some possible common relations. He thought that we were probably being scammed and that I was a reckless idiot.
I strongly disagree that they are wasting resources and time. One of the main missions of such organizations is to protect customers' health. You can look up, for example, the origins of the FDA and why it was introduced.

It's clearly not enough to make customers aware, given how easily TikTok creates trends especially among teenagers. There are no age restrictions, unlike with Red Bull and other high-caffeine drinks, so anyone can buy these products without understanding or caring about the potential consequences, even if they are clearly stated on the packaging (though I am not sure if they are).

It would be interesting to see if there is a body of research on the effects of capsaicin on health.
As has been said many times, world hunger is not caused by a shortage of food, but by unequal distribution.
Bear in mind he was selling shovels to the miners, not shilling coins, I think?
What do you mean about the starship stack? That's the array?

For Voyager, I'll argue that it's mission is much simpler (doesn't need to aim forthe position of something 30 years in the future) and that we keep transmitting to it (the sheer distance will limit our involvement as the delays between transmissions grows). It's also not going at 0.15c, where it needs to do the calcs very quickly.

I'm not sure how easy it would be to make a km wide Gw array on Earth, but building and powering it in space seems much, much harder. Just harvesting the GW takes 3 million solar panels. Just getting that to orbit seems unlikely. Even with very generous 1kg per panel we get 3 million kg to put in orbit, or 21 Falcon Heavy at max payload, or two years of putting nothing but solar panels up. It's so much.

And then how much money is going to make the gram scale probe appear?

Edit0: to clarify, the probe will have less time than the duration of the blink of an eye to take measurements. That's limiting what you can learn AND makes it very hard to aim correctly.
That was a great read overnight. Thank you. Also one of the prettiest functional websites I've had the pleasure of reading on my phone.
No, without assigning value to pieces, the heuristics are definitely not obvious. You're taking about 20 year old chess engines or beginner projects.
I guess you could place a zeroing allocator wrapper in between the arena and it's underlying allocator. That would write zero to anything that's getting freed. Arena deinit will free anything allocated from the underlying allocator so upon completion of each request, used memory would be zeroed before returned back to the main allocator.

And that handler signature would still be the same. Which is the he whole point of this article so, yay.
> It's not enough for robotaxis yet, and Tesla doesn't claim that it is. They just think they'll get there.

"By 2019 it will be financially irresponsible not to own a Tesla, as you will be able to earn $30K a year by utilizing it as a robotaxi as you sleep."

This was always horseshit, and still is:

If each Tesla could earn $30K profit a year just ferrying people around (and we'd assume more, in this scenario, because it could be 24/7), why the hell is Tesla selling them to us versus printing money for themselves?
America Is Losing the Shoe Race with China
The real life USB C experience has replaced the "which side is up" problem with the "is this cheaply made garbage electronic device going to charge at all with my $80 MacBook USB C charger", which it often does not (and instead requires a USB A to USB C charging cable)
Eye surgery happens in such large quantities that the small percentages of edge cases will keep coming up. I have for e.g. met someone who got lasik whose cornea was thinned enough that it resulted in keratoconus and needing corneal transplants to even see. That is very uncommon but is apparently possible
Yes, but are you aware that it's an election year, and none of those easily confirmable details fan the flames of jingoism?
> Has the truth of Wallin's claims actually been established? IIRC that hasn't been done, and if so that case is irrelevant.

No, it's absolutely not irrelevant. The court refused to consider whether Wallin's claims were true because it held that they would be criminally defamatory even if true.

> In this case, despite Mr. Virtanen’s being one of the highest-profile writers at the country’s largest newspaper, the court concluded that he was not enough of a public figure to justify public interest in his personal conduct. Ms. Wallin’s posts, in other words, were not justifiable, and as a result, it didn’t matter whether her account of their encounter was accurate. “The court will not review whether the statements were true,” the verdict read.

In a country where truth is a defense against defamation charges, like the US, the court would have had to have considered whether Wallin's claims were true. Because Sweden does not consider truth a defense Wallin didn't even have the opportunity to present a case for truth.
Ive dredged though Julia, Numba, Jax, Futhark, looking a way to have good CPU performance in absence of GPU, and I'm not really happy with any of them. Especially given how many want you to lug LLVM along with.

A recent simulation code when pushed with gcc openmp-simd matched performance on a 13900K vs jax.jit on a rtx 4090. This case worked because the overall computation can be structured into pieces that fit in L1/L2 cache, but I had to spend a ton of time writing the C code, whereas jax.jit was too easy.

So I'd still like to see something like this but which really works for CPU as well.
> A better question might be who cares. The number of shoes is not a good indicator of national power. In fact, no single technology is a good indicator of national power ... The concept of a “race” itself is a questionable legacy of Cold War thinking – the Cold War had a finish line (identified by Eisenhower and Dulles at the onset), while the current situation does not.
Ulysse – A Simple Linux CLI tool for blocking your distracting apps and websites
They are not elite, but they also want the independence because that is what they were indoctrinated at schools when their minds were fresh.
Trump is easy to hate. It’s just a small step to hating anyone that supports him.
Having a UPS makes sense but I've seen enough of those electric scooters going ablaze videos that I'm quite uneasy about having a pretty large battery under the table.
Chip may soon allow smartphones to look through solid surfaces
> Elizabeth Holmes ascends to the tech firmament permanently while her enablers congratulate each other.

Holmes and at least some of her supporters still ardently insist, to this day, now that everything is out of the bag, the "pulling filing cabinets in front of doors to specific labs on FDA inspection days so they only see the labs we want them to" crap, all of it, that she, and humanity, have been robbed of the truly magnificent biomedical advances that Theranos was just about to solve.
https://archive.fo/UKuNX
Oh I didn't notice, I've written something so it automatically submits if it's a better value haha.

Yep, crazy how long it took, but currently I'm also running multiple 'variants'.
All the same program except the nonce generation, one with numbers, one with 32 character long 'base64' and one with 64 character long 'base64'. I got inspired by seletskiy who instead of using numbers used the whole allowed character set for the nonce.
I like the Odin language because it is really joyful to programming with it. Hope there are more resources and mature packages besides gaming development.
> I have to do a mild safety intervention maybe once a week .... (yes I still pay attention)

Except by your own admission you're not "not driving." You're monitoring the car, except without any physical feedback loop with your hands and feet. The only difference in mental load is the physical control of your limbs to do minor speed and direction adjustments. YMMV but I just find that less taxing than vigilantly monitoring a piece of software because I know how that sausage is made.
Yeah it's definitely the college educted class for whom everything is a 15 minute walk/bicycle/subway ride away, who see cars as evil and drivers licenses as unnecessary.

In the country side people love their cars since they equate to freedom as the only public transportation option is a bus the goes to the city every hour.