skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I visited Hiroshima about ten years ago while on vacation with my wife. The museum presents accounts of the day and artifacts from the bombing very plainly, which by their very nature means it's horrifying. I've always had some "normal" level of fear of nuclear war. The first decade of my life was in the UK during the last decade of the cold war, so I think that planted that seed. I don't think visiting Hiroshima increased that fear about nuclear weapons though. My overwhelming memory of the day is just deep sadness that we have the capacity to do something like that to each other. I do also remember feeling some glimmer of hope coming out of the museum as there was information about the current anti-nuclear weapons movement and, apart from the Genbaku Dome, you would never know that Hiroshima was the site of a nuclear bombing based on the city today. So maybe it's possible to recover from anything.

Before that visit I felt that I could detach myself emotionally from the reality of an event like that and make justifications for the continued existence of nuclear weapons for "bigger picture" reason. Now I find it impossible to make those kind of arguments. So I think I grew up a little that day and became more empathetic to others at an individual level.
It has been trained on public test set as it’s on github
Mental imagery and mental language could both be a layer above a lower more basic form of abstract thought. You might not need either to think, plan, and reflect effectively.
That'd be reason to take away the reenable from UEFI but write protecting the EFI variable where changing it already requires to boot into an EFI editor is just being dicks, pardon my French. Just let me enable it , I am aware of the risks.
It seems like you don’t understand the rules of the competition. Entries don’t have access to the internet. The OP acknowledges in their post that this is not eligible for the prize. The HN comment from the prize co-founder specifically says the OP’s claims haven’t been scrutinized. (implicit: they won’t be for the prize set unless the OP submits with an open LLM implementation)

There is a plan for a “public” leaderboard, but it currently has no entries, so we don’t actually know what the SOTA for the unrestrained version is. [1]

The general idea - test time augmentation - is what the current private set SOTA uses. [2] Generating more examples via transforming the samples is not a new idea.

Really, it seems like all the publicity has just gotten a bunch of armchair software architects coming up with 1-4 year-old ideas thinking they are geniuses.

[1] https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

[2] https://lab42.global/community-interview-jack-cole/
There is 3d acceleration, but just AMD Radeon, not NVIDIA.

NVIDIA does not document its hardware, thus why the open source driver situation is bad.
They have moderators who revert overwrites. However, one thing they don't do is fact check new pages. Some fandom pages are majority junk because the moderators aren't going to boot up the game and see if some new boss that supposedly appears 300 hours in to Terraria's calamity mod is actually real. It just isn't feasible for paid labor to do, and all of the community gardeners who give a shit have moved elsewhere.
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I dunno, I think go simply treats us as if someone else will be reading the code we write.
Ask HN: I feel physical pain from some noises, especially from modified vehicles
It started several years ago, but I realized that I'm much more sensitive to some kinds of noise that other people. An example: I'm having a conversation with a few people and a noisy car takes off. I can't keep the conversation, but when I ask the others, there are sometimes people who have not even noticed the noise.

In the middle of the night, such a noise can wake me up and I might have problems going back to sleep for hours.

That said, I feel random mild pain in my body, usually around chest when these vibrations are around. I have no problem with low frequency vibrations in music, unless it's really loud.

There is a related condition. If I'm in an area where there's a flickering light, it can cause me real trouble. That can be a damaged LED light, or some shops that intentionally put flickering lights to attract attention.

So, my questions are: Are you aware of conditions that can cause these symptoms? Is there anything I can do to improve that? Are there correlations with other conditions that you are aware of these? Is there any effort going to ban Audio and Visual pollution in Western Countries? (I currently live in Canada)

Any links or pointers to related resources or people is appreciated as well.
For me, the Roger Linn designed MPCs always felt like instruments in their own right, especially the 3000. JJOS also fascinating, not Linn design, but wonderful in its own right. The modern ones don't really come close to those, IMO. They're interesting, but they're more akin to DAWs in their scope, and with that flexibility comes compromise.

Always loved that you could run SMTPE on older MPCs for scoring picture, that's what made Maschine an interesting proposition as you could just run it in-DAW, but unfortunately nowhere near as fleshed out as oldskool MPC offerings. The friction with Maschine for me was not being able to record mutes ala MPC—you still can't! That's without even getting into the lack of PDC in Maschine and clock stability getting worse with project complexity (this was a problem for years until I realized they didn't implement PDC!). Modern MPC software on the PC doesn't do PDC either. It's funny how things advance but regress in other ways, feel that way about computers and software in general—pretty, but lacking depth in a lot of software.

I love these exchanges in unexpected places. Makes me so happy to find passion for music, especially enthusiasm for the instruments and tools.
Broken link. The correct URL is:

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/17/bird-flu-milk-pasteurizatio...
FUTO License: changes to our license and the reasoning behind it
There's something to be said for throwing everything out and starting from scratch every once in awhile. How many decades old is Unix now? How many is Windows, even?

You lose the years of battle tested code, sure, but you'd also lose decades of baggage, tech debt, obsolete code for things no one has had to worry about for 20 years, etc.
The Bosch dishwasher has a kind of a plastic brain on one side as well, a labyrinth of water that sets off certain things in the washing cycle. It's neat!
> Most new machines here now have a legit OEM copy of Windows.

Are they legit legit? Or is this just because it's trivially easy to get a "legit" OEM license for free via Microsoft Activation Scripts?
> I think the bar for recognizing intelligence in general has been set too low.

I think that the problem is not being too low, but being not very clearly defined, and by assuming that you can just be quantified by numbers; I think that intelligence (and consciousness) cannot be properly quantified by numbers.

> What is consciousness? I don't think we're any closer to rigorously defining that anymore than intelligence.

It is a valid point. You will have to define such things clearly in order to know them scientifically, properly.
So healthy people had 28 particles per gram and unhealthy people 42 particles per gram? Where is the statistical analysis? This is usually in the abstract.

Looking at how they controlled for confounding factors I see one question on diet “Do you usually cook at home or eat take away?”.

I think I’m going to put this in the “low quality” research bucket.
We don't think in language. If you take the time to become fluent in two or more radically different languages then this becomes obvious.
This is cover. Look at his emails for the real story. https://oversight.house.gov/release/new-covid-select-memo-de...
I think you underestimate the amount of functionality in something like the Linux kernel and how much work it would take to recreate even a small percentage of it.
From one Brit to another, this is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you. I know I need to do this now.
> I've never shot myself in the foot writing Lisp, and have not heard any anecdotes about it. (Well, maybe the one about Cycorp's Cyc decades old code base being large and inscrutable.)

> You're making shit up.

An unnecessarily abrasive way of saying you disagree, no? Your own lived experience doesn't match mine, and therefore I must be lying? You're being irrational and mean spirited.

Lisp can't at the same time be uniquely powerful, but also no different to any other language. Lisp is a uniquely flexible language, which is one of its main strengths. Uniquely flexible languages impose a cost for readability and collaboration. You're free to disagree and insult me further, but I think this is self-apparent. Lisp's flexibility makes it a great lone wolf language (well, if you neither want access to a majority of libraries nor closeness to bare metal, which is a bit of an odd middle ground for a lone wolf), but it's awkward in organisations and collaborative contexts, where other, less flexible languages have generally overtaken it.
> Judging by this map: https://www.fiberatlantic.com/

Those maps are shit. They are London tube style and don't display anything useful, not even bandwidth let alone locations. They are worse than London tube.

Only one cable was cut recently (IA) - mid last week.

(APG) - March 10, (AAE-1) - May 23
The Ecuadorian forest granted legal personhood
Not specifically Stack Overflow, but I don't think we are adapted to live in an environment where correct/useful knowledge is buried so deep in mountains of AI-generated advice which looks plausible but is in fact wrong.
Y chromosome is evolving faster than the X, primate study reveals
congratulations ser

did you try other things like try to get employed by the team, or consider submitting an altruistic pull request? or was the bug bounty the adequate incentive from the getgo
The science is cool, but I wonder if a specialized popular science magazine of yester-year would do a better job at presenting it? "We made a high-precision accelerometer that uses lasers and quantum effects; let me tell you everything about it." Right now, it reads more like "Dr. C has this very peculiar quirk when he goes to the London underground. Admittedly, it is not as bizarre as his habit of drinking coffee instead of tea, but going to the underground carrying an aluminum tube instead of a newspaper is just a tad flummoxing..."
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Cosmos uses go panics for error handling. Transaction runs
out of gas? panic. Try to spend more coins than you have?
panic. Invalid inputs? panic.

...

For safety, later on the panic was removed entirely.
"

Next time someone suggests using panic's as exceptions in golang... I'm going to point them at a nice $75k reason not to do that.
Hosting a family chat server is a fair amount of work, I wouldn't call it super-easy. I would prefer that the hosting for my server has at least half a dozen people for whom it's their full-time job. I don't think one person can really keep such a thing secure and reliable to the standards that I would prefer.
Audible is similarly bad. The only notification of my 12mth subscription renewal was after it had occurred. If I cancel, I lose any unused credits plus access the the included-in-subscription content immediately. There's no way to cancel auto-renewal - you're either subscribed or you're not. I have a reminder set to cancel close to the renewal date.

I find it strange because the rest of Amazon seems pretty good in this regard.
Sure, but 40 billion years later.
Yes. Black holes existed before we had the words to describe them.
No. The DAG should be "manually pre-baked" ( defined at compile/design time).

In runtime you only parse the "user question" (user prompt) into a starting and end node, which is equivalent to a function call.

So the question

"What league does Messi play in?"

Is parsed by the llm as

League("Messi")

So if your dag only contains the functions team(player) and league(team), you can still solve the question.

But the llm isn't tasked with resolving the dag, that's code, let the llm chill and do what it's good at, don't make it code a for loop for you
hearing hypersensitivity can be tested for, and characterized; you might then be able to hack noise cancelling headphones into more of a specific notch filter. an anti-hearing aid, in a way.

flicker sensitivity causes epileptic seizures in some susceptible folks, at some frequencies. There was some problems with particular anime shows setting off the audience some time ago. Again, this can be something you can test and characterize. At home, with a strobe light whose rate you can vary, if nothing else. Mitigation might be harder but at least you'd have a better idea what sets it off.
FYI, the figure of speech is "doe-eyed", as in having large eyes evocative of a female deer, not "dough-eyed".
You could also think of it as declining to _lose_ a decimal place; a.add(b) ought to be the same as b.add(a), so there's no reason to prefer a's precision to b. You need to take the higher precision of the two for an exact result; I assume that's the rationale.

> The BigDecimal class gives its user complete control over rounding behavior. If no rounding mode is specified and the exact result cannot be represented, an exception is thrown ...

- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/math/BigDecim...
audi's dakar car (the rs-q e-tron) proves that it's at least more efficient than petrol based competitors. it doesn't charge overnight so always uses the energy from onboard fuel tanks, which are smaller compared to the other competitors. it doesn't reach peak efficiency of course, but still uses less fuel overall.
Hadn’t these two AI orgs within Google been fighting over resources for a long time? At the end of the day that’s just counterproductive. A merger was all but guaranteed and it’s clear given current stock market sentiment why the product team was chosen. Doesn’t mean I don’t feel bad for the Deepmind researchers impacted. The genAI hype is sparing no one, not even the foremost AI labs in the country.
That’s foolish for the companies paying for them, maybe not for the companies charging to vend them.
The stretch was in reference to comparing Chollet to Einstein. Chollet clearly understands LLMs (and transformers and deep learning), he simply doesn't believe they are sufficient for AGI.
Yes, but it’s true in the general case. Defaults are usually the defaults for a reason — someone putting thought into what makes sense for most users.
What exactly is your point? China built 2 reactors that use TRISO fuel. Are you saying it was a bad decision? Good for you. Maybe you should write them a letter and explain to them why it was so, and what to do in the future.
The claim rests on the simple to understand principle that purposely targeting civilians (entire cities of civilians) for destruction is a war crime. Should the American Empire falter one day, the claim will be made with just cause.
Just because things are one way today, does not meant forever will be.
Succor Borne Every Minute
> Not as small or power-efficient.

I wonder what the latency for switching medium is these days too (for the super small transceivers). To my understanding optical is better for attenuation than electric (less noise, and thus easier to shove more frequencies and higher frequencies on the same pipe), and can be faster (both medium dependent, neither yet approaching the upper bound of c).

I'm imaging the latency incurred by the transceiver is eventually offset from the gains in the signal path (for signal paths relevant to circuit boards and ICs)
Left to their own devices, software engineers would act as the philosophical razor, removing the complexity of the world; automating employees —the engineers themselves included— out of a job; simplifying systems, along with the organizations that own them, out of existence.

A lot of people I've worked with appear to have realised that and taken it to the other extreme --- for them, complexity is what keeps them employed, so they find other excuses for justifying its (and their) existence and continue taking the abstractions beyond 11. Some communities/languages like Enterprise Java and .NET are an example of that; and more recently, JS. The old Stroustrup C++ satire also comes to mind.
I'm going to chime in here with another solution to the alt+tab problem, since I have the same gripe about macOS. I've been using the FOSS AltTab.app and have been really happy with it so far. It's a really simple yet superbly useful piece of software.

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Would you prefer those animals never existed?
The film was made for entertainment. It doesn't teach morality or answers hard existential questions. It's a comics inspired by reality, in my opinion.
That sounds well-informed. How come you know so much? If it happens all the time how long does it take to repair a cable?
Because it implies that we only behave based on how we feel, not how we think. The thinking part is an illusion. Therefore, our “consciousness” has no effect on how we behave.

I’m not willing to die on this hill by the way so if someone else comes along and argues otherwise, I’m open to other ideas.
Not necessarily so when you're trying to sell stuff...
My long form account of my week in SF
I am going to revise my joy of waxed paper. I thought it was carnuba and soy. However PFOA free paper is a thing now, I have hope for the future.

For plastics, reuse has limits, sure. My dad's tool room was packed full of pipe tobacco tins, for screws, bolts, thread-cutting die. I think when we banned smoking we did two harms: we allowed people to grow old and become a burden on the state instead of dying young, and we stopped providing almost limitless tins for things to be put in.

Glass is god level re-use. Second time round is a bare minimum for many economies use of glass, but the steps down the chain from clear through coloured to aggregates for construction are still an amazing chain. Hopefully with improved renewable energy the whole heat-cost to re-form glass (and aluminium and steel) can be worked through.
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> Once you can pass on information orally and written through the generations, knowledge will always improve.

I suggest reading up about how we found the cure for scurvy and then lost it. The problem wasn’t that someone forgot to record “the cure for scurvy is vitamin C” the problem is that people were wrong with what they “knew” cured the disease.

Basically: the act of preserving and carrying on the wrong bits of knowledge lead to a regression with deadly consequences.

The social side of things can’t be ignored either. Rulers, religions, and pop culture can and does choose to selectively remember history. In recent years people even take delight in being uninformed about various topics.

So it seems like there’s a sort of knowledge decay working against general progress. The question is: will progress always (on average) increase faster than that decay or will we reach some kind of equilibrium or perhaps even regress (idiocracy, for example)?
Just like in my japanese animes!
I think they were likely referring to the behavior and not the choice of shortcut keys. On Windows, alt+tab switches between all open windows across a apps, whereas in macOS, you have separate shortcuts for switching between apps vs windows within the same app.

Personally, I find the macOS behavior really irritating and unintuitive, but thankfully there are plenty of apps out there that solve this issue so it's not really a problem.
Every time you’re wrong and you disagree with someone who is right you are inventing things that don’t exist.

Unless you’re saying you have never held on to a wrong opinion that was at some point proven to be wrong?
Rouge in a library is a bad idea anyway. It could stain the books.
> Polish tax office (which is permitted to check legality of software in business)

Ugh, what an egregious misuse of public funds. Maybe they should also check the labels on the employees' clothes, in case of illegal knock-offs.
The way out is to do what we did before plastic. Better and more sustainable materials like wood, unbleached paper, ceramic, and metal, reuse, and stop using plastic shit everywhere by default because we're poisoning ourselves and killing the planet right now. Plastics should be taxed heavily.
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It's unclear tech transfer is speech driven. People can read machines and reason about purpose without natural language. We've all learned tricks from undocumented code. I've learned mechanical tricks poking around scrap yards.
Go always had hidden magic:

- Lowercase symbols are private to the package they are declared at.

- A function called "init" will get executed implicitly on startup.

- You can have multiple functions called "init" in the same package or even in the same file.

- Files ending with "_unix.go", "_linux.go", "_windows.go" etc. will only be compiled when compiling for the specified platform. The exact list of platform is very hard to find in documentation.

- There are a handful of magical built-in function that have lowercase names.

- Some built-ins were generic long before generics were introduced to the language.

- The copy function is defined as "copy(dst, src []Type) int" (i.e. both src and dst have to be slices of the same type), but "As a special case, it also will copy bytes from a string to a slice of bytes".

There are many cases of magical behavior in classic, pre-Generic Go. Sure, if you read the documentation you can learn about these thing and you wouldn't be surprised (although good luck figuring out the order of calling init() or finding out what happened when Go introduces a new compilation target platform that happens to have the same name as the ending of one of your source files). The thing is, if you read the documentation about iterators and see that your iterating over the results of a function that returns a another function (rather than a slice, string, map or channel), you also wouldn't be surprised.

And unlike the old magic, the new magic is always transparent. You can always tell what an iterator function by looking at its source code. But you can't exactly tell what suffixes trigger platform-specific compilation without looking at the Go compiler source code, and knowing where to look.
...and just in case you're tempted to take sides, don't forget about Pearl Harbor nor the Nanjing Massacre either.
>But it's not material.

the corporation President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer, and Board of Directors and Chairman are legally defined titles, they are material titles, they imply fiduciary duty, loyalty, etc. (CEO isn't really a thing, it was made up to point out whether the President or Chairman wielded the ultimate power in situations where the largest shareholder might be more active than passive)
> things have a way of working out

The definition of survivorship bias because you literally are alive to say this.

Tens of millions have been killed by CEOs of tobacco companies, and that's just one industry. Energy companies will likely cause the death of billions.

We got rid of many dangerous American oligarchs in the Gilded Age by using govt to break them up. Things don't "just work out," people sacrifice huge amounts of time and energy to fix them.
Assuming it was 16tb/s.... Imagine a JIT data lake loading stuff into main memory like brrr...

Actually at that point, a pcie7 nvme would be faster than ddr6

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2237799/ddr6-ram-what-you-sh...

That said, per-pin, 16GB/s seems to be the same ballpark as contemporary (to pcie7) main or graphics memory..... Like, actually more if I'm reading this right?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21287/jedec-publishes-gddr7-s...
A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can LLMs Serve as Creativity Support Tools for Comedy?