skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A third world with a reliable govt doesn't need it. You need trustless currencies only when the centralised alternatives are actually untrustworthy.
I'm sure that consciousness is a spectrum and that big mammals are near us on it, if there's any difference at all except for intelligence levels.

At the same time I have no issues with animal resource factories. I justify their existence by the fact that I'm a carnivore and needed meat and fats to properly operate since forever, no need for complex philosophy here. The necessity to justify that against ethics usually means you got way deeper into it than is reasonable.
Netflix to Open Two Massive Entertainment, Dining and Shopping Complexes
Same.

I upgraded to a 4 TB NVMe drive that theoretically reads/writes at up to 7.7 GB/s, but I only get 3.5 GB/s because my CPU is still an i9-9900K running PCI-E 3.0.

Planning on upgrading once the next Intel generation drops.
Also playing music: it's very common to “play the song” you're hearing, but not realize just how much of the melody, the rhythm, the chording you're eliding.
Is Apple Intelligence Artificial?
>Nice try FBI cockwad...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884541

Goofy (but not r*ddit-tier) comments like the above are iconic in their own special way on this intellectually serious site.
>The critical distinction here is that your sexual orientation does force you to marry someone of a particular sex.

>It is perfectly possible for a homosexual (or bisexual) individual to marry someone of the opposite sex, and it is perfectly possible for a heterosexual to marry someone of the same sex.

These seem contradictory? I guess you meant to say "doesn't force"

>In contrast, if a black person gets married, that will always be a "black person's wedding", so refusing to service it on that basis would be racially discriminatory.

Using your logic it would be perfectly fine for someone to refuse to bake a cake for a mixed race couple. Nobody's forcing them to marry someone of another race right? So discriminating against them is fine because... reasons?

Regardless the "distinction" you keep insisting on is wholly useless and meaningless for any reasonable person, all it does is attempt to justify the behavior of someone who believes Leviticus 20:13 is correct (the person uses the Bible to justify their actions so it's safe to assume they believe in the entirety of the bible including Leviticus 20:13).
Mozilla Thunderbird has good RSS feed that you can apply filters too the same way done for email.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source
I teached myself Basic on our C64 when I was 11 with a manual my father had. A year later we had a few hours of introduction to programming in our math class. When I read the first very abstract lesson, I thought: My god, this so hard, it’s so difficult to understand. But when I saw the code examples on the next page I had to laugh, because they very incredibly simple. It’s just the way the math book talked about them was too abstract for me. I then got for the First Time the idea: Could it be that all the other math I have problems with could be much easier if it was explained differently to me?
YaFSDP – a tool for faster LLM training and optimized GPU consumption
The blog post seems to contain more details and the core ideas: https://medium.com/yandex/yafsdp-a-tool-for-faster-llm-train...
Why don't you build something better then?
You can basically think of insects like this as organic ASICs. Input in, output out. It's a biological circuit that just has a raw response that's hardcoded in. Kind of like asking how does a computer know to do "MOV". It's baked in to the circuit. Do trial and error trillions of times and some of the circuits end up functioning and survive.
https://archive.is/NAGXU
No. Nothing.

EDIT: This is a great article about Ed Catmull and aphantasia:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256
thanks :)

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham's_L...
No. In the common use of the word fine-tuning, one is in the supervised learning scenario. One has an input prompt, and an output sentence. One teaches the model to say that output in response to that prompt. In the reinforcement learning scenario, one has a prompt, and a way of rewarding the model for different outputs. One can have, for instance, a reward model, that assigns a reward for a given model output. One could also have a pairwise reward model, where the learner is sampled with that prompt twice (with different RNGs), and the reward model gives a reward based on the better of the two samples. You could also have humans give these pointwise or pairwise rewards.

In essence, one is not telling the model "This. This is what you should output next time." but rather "I liked this reply. Have a cookie." The behaviors that you can learn in RL are more subtle, but you get a lot less information per step. That's because, in a causal language modeling objective, when I tell you "For the prompt X, you should output exactly Y[0...m)", you get a gradient for P(Y[0] | X), another one for P(Y[1] | X Y[0..1)), another for P(Y[2] | X Y[0..2)), another for P(Y[3] | X Y[0..3)), and so on. It's a lot more of a step-by-step guidance, than it is a sentence-wise reward that you get in the RL framework. In RL, I'd give you a cookie for P(Y | X). What part of Y made me give you that cookie? Was there even such a part? Was it perhaps some internal representation that made everything in Y better? That's for the model to learn.
Thank you. And, Well said.
Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space
Hello HN! Here's Billard. It combines music and physics into a unique creative tool, as I explore various unconventional methods for generating music.

Most traditional music composition tools revolve around the idea of a repeatable pattern. Billard is a webapp that never repeats itself. It generates music automatically based on the collisions of balls in a 2D space. Collisions trigger notes (or chords) in a given key. One can add balls or move them (y-position is pitch); the app remembers its state between reloads; or it can be reset with the 'init' button on the top left. Gravity can be adjusted in real time to change the behavior of the balls.

It owes a lot of inspiration to Brian Eno and Erik Satie (inventor of musique d'ameublement, or "furniture music"). Some may think the lack of pattern makes it not musical enough -- but this lets it be listened to —and watched— for a while without boredom.

The webapp is made using plain JavaScript. (All SVG icons were made 'by hand'.) It uses Tone.js only for triggering piano samples. Beyond piano, it's MIDI-enabled and works well at slow speed with haunting, dark synth sounds.

Hope you like it!
The fun thing about language is that we define it.

(On a serious note, this one always gets me after midnight!)
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> And then think a little how amassing enough silver by slavery to make a 60feet high altar 300 years ago didn't give you quite a nice headstart on dominating a world where most other competing cultures valued the same metals as currency.

This is where we disagree. My position is that colonialism was a consequence of post-medieval Europe being dominant, instead of the other way around.

I'm not disputing that colonialism profitted the perpetrators, but I think giving it major credit for 20th-century Europes wealth is just a misattribution (if I had to reduce that to one word it would be "industrialization" and not "colonialism", very clearly).

Early ~1900 power dynamics are another strong indicator-- even at the height of colonialism, the nations engaging very heavily in it (British, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch) struggled to keep up with Germany which did not get significant benefit from it at all.

I would also argue that the biggest value of colonies was less in the raw extraction of ressources, but instead in the trade/arbitration (and additional markets) that they enabled (i.e. the big value-add was not so much stealing the silver out of the ground in Argentinia, but instead the act of getting/selling it to China).
I couldn’t find the first one.

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610005

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570438

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30723129
The fact that successfulness of parents predicts successfulness of children is "woo woo"?

I hate racism. It makes people dumb.
>With E cores like this, who needs P cores?

Based on their the current performance, anyone who need it.
that's copy pasta, not a buryat original
>My cat can’t comprehend code written on my screen and the world that is internet.

My grandma is the same.
> grabbing a raspberry pi and sticking it in a laptop chasis

OT, but does something like that exist for the Pi 5? I actually loved the Pi 400 Desktop Kit (I hope they make one for the Pi 5!), and I saw quite a few laptop shells for the Pi 4, but I've not seen anything announced for the Pi 5 except for various ridiculous "desktop" cases (like the Pironman 5 that I've actually ordered).
Why?

man systemd-tmpfiles
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

man tmpfiles.d https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/tmpf...
Stream Processing Is More Ubiquitous Than You Think
If said Craigslist rando likes getting police visits and potentially being criminally liable for helping you commit a felony ...

All code signing promises to give you the name of a real person or company that signed the binary. From there it's the end user's responsibility to decide if they trust that entity.

In practice the threat of the justice system makes any signed executable unlikely to be malicious. But that doesn't mean you have to uncritically trust a binary signed by Joe Hobo
We started like this as well, and almost 20 years later we still haven't gotten around to doing anything different.
Perf regressions in MySQL from 5.6.21 to 8.0.36 using sysbench
You are citing amdahl's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Theres actually a ton of different ways. The most obvious is probably MRIs of which many have been conducted with the subject having a huge variety of different stimulus. Then theres the good old fashioned behavioral studies ranging from the classic "does the subject jerk their hand back in the presence of heat?" to the more recent hungry judge phenomenon.

I wouldnt think the fairly self evident assertion that exterior stimulus changes both the internal state of a person as well as their behavior would be controversial.

At this point in history "free will" is really just the god of the gaps and those gaps shrink every year. Its probably a useful religious concept but as far as reality goes its the least interesting question one could ask about the whole human experience.
> In other news, I'm getting a Xeon with 4 whole GiB of DDR2 ECC RAM shipped from China that has 3 ISA slots. ;D

There is no DMA there, so your Sound Blaster wouldn't work [from the box].
If I can repeat back to you what I just read, I heard "I see other people finishing things, and I can't finish anything. How can I finish things?"

No snark intended at all -- I'm in the same boat! -- but the solution seems patently obvious: finish something, anything. It really just comes down to perseverance.

The beginning of a project is really really fun. It's setting things up, it's exploring new technology, it's trying new ideas to see what works. But the closer you get to the end, the more tedious it gets. It's harder to find fun in integration testing and making sure this button is pixel perfect and this API is returning the right fields and running migrations with no downtime.

At your job, this seems like a reasonable list of things to do, but that's for a few reasons. One, you're being paid to do it, and two, it's literally your job to do it and you don't have much choice. But for side projects? Why write dozens of integration tests when there's a shiny new project over there that looks fun?

So to reiterate, the solution is to finish something. Finish it. Put it out there. Then and only then move on to the next thing.

All of that said, you are also missing some less concrete components of these people that you admire. Maybe they're hyper-fixating. Maybe they're using coding as an escape from something in life. Maybe they find those integration tests really, really fun! Also, some of these people are truly experts in some areas that seem esoteric and complex to you. I have a number of friends that have PhDs in particular topics and they don't know how to dumb things down for the layperson. To them, quantum physics is as easy as basic algebra is to you and me! Phil Eaton, for example, can write a lexer blindfolded with one hand behind his back -- he's written dozens of lexers! I've written a couple, and I still stumble through each one. But I can run 10 miles on a dime!

It's worth remembering that prolificness doesn't mean anything other than they're prolific. It doesn't mean you're not good, it doesn't mean they're amazing. It just means they're prolific.

Hope that helps. :)
"The 4-color map theory is bunk," [0] a comment in which a user boldly refutes modern mathematics and, when faced with contradictory evidence, continues to double down on his assertions.

(Note the OP is flagged so you need to be logged in with showdead to view it.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862553
"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.
Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076
Thanks so much for this. This is now definitely where I want to visit next.
Eric the cofounder here, we've just launched our open beta, and we'd love for the HN community to give Siege a try.

You can get a free API key and own cloud instance here: (https://siegeai.com)

If you just want to play around with the demo I showed: (https://demo.siegeai.com/) This obviously doesn't include the data collection piece.

We are very curious to hear your thoughts!
I'm not defending them, I'm saying that their behavior is probably a different sort of bad. There are lots of ways for companies to extort consumers, they can't all be "enshittification".

If enshittification is anything a company does that involves delivering a worse product for more money, that's fine, but then it becomes a less useful concept.

My attitude in general is that diluting useful ideas to the point where they encompass an entire vibe is unhelpful. If anything anti-consumer a company does is enshittification, the causes are so disparate that solutions seem impossible. If you draw a tighter boundary around it, you can try to nail down causes and solutions.
Nor disrupt B2B storage, apparently.
There are a lot of reasons to put humans atop a sharp cliff though. Ascending the cliff means devising language, farms, fire, steel, math, NFTs etc. Reminiscent of Brin’s Uplift novels about giving dolphins (if you’ll pardon the joke) a leg up.
Apple Store can override security no problem.

MacBook remotely locked by an ex partner through a management profile? Take it to the Apple Store and they'll unlock it.

Inherited an Apple device and can produce the receipt? They'll remove it from the previous account.
doesn't this suggest that the "zeitgeist" is an overtuned PID?
My dog is microchipped, too.
I wouldn't go _that_ far because the case, mouse, and controller are actually really good quality. But yeah, the bundled games are a bit underwhelming and ultimately it's just a Linux/Emulator box.

I wish someone would make an Amiga shell for a Raspberry Pi that's quality like that. I can 3D print my own, but injection molded plastic is still a quality level above.
What about what I said implied anything about various other systems like stress hormones not being lastingly be affected by trauma?

I don't think most surgical patients are concerned with the kind of trauma their cells or gut microbiome sustain during surgery. In fact, if these systems recollected zero trauma it's doubtful the surgical outcome would be positive. When most people discuss suffering they are usually discussing the suffering of their selves. The self requires coordinated effort from the brain. When surgery occurs, it could be well argued you would want to use the least anesthesia necessary to avoid the kind of suffering the patient wants to avoid.

What are you actually on about? Why be purposefully insulting?
You don't even need to 3D print anything, just get the official mainboard enclosure https://frame.work/ca/en/products/cooler-master-mainboard-ca...
I've been on the $29.99 full Creative Cloud plan for over 2 years. I got it as a Thanksgiving offer in 2021. Just last month they told me the deal was over and I needed to pay full price. I went to faux-cancel and they gave me 2 free months, but I still need to find a way to get a reduced price again.
I love this as an American!

One of the things I learned at the end of the Cold War is America needs something external to wage "war" against in order for us to not devolve into the nonsense we see now. Of course, I'm hoping that "war" is a competitive war like we had with Japan in the 80s and 90s - which was productive - and not a Cold War like we had with the Soviet Union, which while having its productive moments, there were also a lot of counterproductive moments, not to mention a lot of stress and angst.
Matrix protocol is pretty lively these days. Quite a few FOSS projects using it and that's spurring adoption, e.g., NixOS.
oh damn, thanks. TIL.
Why yikes? I followed the former POTUS's trial closely.
For starters, the pads are on the other side on the Live, so that's not actually true. The Live is also missing most of the buttons of the yesteryear MPCs. You can't muscle memory a touchscreen UX like this one.

The reason to use an MPC in 2024 is to get away from the irritations of interacting with software via a keyboard and mouse—the touchscreen on the modern MPC isn't very responsive to use, a stark contrast to being able to muscle-memory your way around MPCs of yore. It's nowhere near as responsive as a smartphone screen and chopping samples on it frankly sucks due to it. It's more annoying than a keyboard and mouse by a long way, IMO, and keyboard and mouse is actually pretty efficient and accurate for most things.

Linn's video also edits out navigating menus and other friction, so I would take the video with a very pinch of salt. Great dude, immensely talented, love what he does, but I am very sceptical of this video in terms of intent and honesty.

Remember: Linn has had nothing to do with Akai Pro, and he didn't receive a bean from them in all these years. So, to suddenly be receiving anything from them, disclosing that he was given it, and the video having been doctored and his observations being not strictly true, I'm not too convinced by the intent of someone—perhaps not even at Linn's behest.

A lot of musicians think each and every DAW sucks. Ask musicians about Pro Tools if you want an equally polarising "industry standard". I didn't say anything about Ableton Live anyway. Strange remark.
Not to forget that "cheap fees" is an argument that doesn't hold up anymore - Bitcoin and Ethereum fees are outlandish; Solana and other chains are just about "alright".

The tech at its core is really interesting though, sadly the most innovation seems to be in marketing at the moment.
Yes it is indeed possible that in that small and shrinking gap of behavior that isnt explained by some complex set of circumstances and stimuli there lies some magic immaterial soul that grants the ineffable quality of free will. Bbbut since we have yet to find any evidence for such a thing I wouldnt keep my hopes up. Also theres much more interesting questions to be asking.
Okay I admit I'm confused and think I probably missed a crucial thing here. You're saying the publicly available problem set isn't indicative of the distribution of the test set? If so, I can see why you object to that. Still, it's potentially possible that the test's intention is to demonstrate something like progressive integration of compositionality given an abstract model. A lot of machine learning systems can do well as long as they've seen an example similar to the problem they've been presented, but can't do things like respond to a situation that presents them with a novel composition of two abstractions they seem to have already learned in the way a human can trivially.

Like only having [1+1=2, 4+5=9, 2+10=12] in the training set and [2*5=10, 3/4=.75, 2^8=256] in the test set would be bad, but something like [1+1=2, 3+4*2=11, 5*3=15, 2*7=14, 1+3/5=1.8, 3^3=27] vs [2+4*3=14, 3+3^2+4=16, 2*3/4+2^3/2^4=2] might not be, depending on what they're trying to test

Compositionality of information, especially of abstractions (like rules or models of a phenomenon), is a key criterion in a lot of people's attempts to operationally define "intelligence" (which I agree is overall a nebulous and overloaded concept, but if we're going to make claims about it we need at least a working definition for any particular test we're doing) I could see that meaning that the test set problems need to be "harder" in the sense that presenting compositions of rules in training doesn't preclude memorizing the combinations. But this is just a guess, I'm not involved in ARC and don't know, obviously*
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Yes.
Un-wise super intelligent programmers are the worst. They come up with the most amazing roundabout way to achieve even the most mundane tasks, and consider complex code a mark of honour, rather than a pathology to be purged.

At some point people mature and realize that their job when writing code for work is not to concoct brilliant puzzles for next maintainer, but to do exactly the opposite. And then they reach the meta-level of realizing that simplifying things is actually just as hard and pleasing as puzzle-making, and they've reached a maturity in the quality their program design.

The worst kinds of programmers are those that plateau at the "Riddler" stage. They potentially are able carve themselves a nice safe niche, but the value they could have delivered could have been so much more if they'd ever matured. "Oh, that code... yeah, better call Edward ... it's his baby, supercomplex. Nobody seems to be smart enough to work in it except Mr. Nygma".

There are pieces of code that are potentially super-complex due to the intrinsic complexity of the problem space. But since for an outsider it's impossible to distinguish between the two, utmost empathy should be always used to introduce new people to such a thing.

-- fsloth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808848
The benefit is there is no risk of puncture in the first place since solid state batteries are solid and usually use a ceramic matrix.

Normal lithium cells use electrolyte gel and metal sheets.

Basically think ceramic vs electrolytic capacitor.
It's a bit strange that the author doesn't mention the population projections published in The Lancet a few years ago (https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/population-forecas...). They note a lot of the problems with the UN projections, which include the modeling but also include other factors, like the effect of female education. In the few years since their study came out, their numbers appear to be more accurate than the UN approach of assuming fertility ends up at 1.69 everywhere.
I think it makes sense to see friction as disincentive, the opposite of incentive.
PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar
if they are undefinable and unmeasurable i'd argue you don't understand them well enough to prove or even argue that there aren't similar complexities in other species