skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody involved with the NASA manned space program seems to only care about their slice of The Budget nowadays, with actual mission requirements being a distant second priority. This results in a patchwork of bad design decisions and a weird mix of obsolete and yet-to-be developed technologies. This further results in endless delays and extremely low launch volume, which means you basically learn operations anew for every launch, and achieving anything resembling reliability becomes essentially impossible. Which brings us to this situation, where the Starliner was given the go-ahead out of budgetary desperation, despite having many known reliability problems. For a longer and more colorful version of this argument with sources, see [1].

[1]: https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
Careful, I think there's a large difference here between:

1. An LLM's mathematical "confidence" of having a clear best-scoring candidate for the predicted next token when given a list of tokens.

2. A not-yet-invented AI that models the idea of different entities interacting, the concept of questions and answers, the concept of logical conflicts, and it's "confidence" that a proposition is compatible with other "true" propositions and incompatible with false ones.

To help illustrate the difference, suppose you trained an LLM on texts where a particular question was always answered with "I don't know, I have zero confidence in anything anymore." Later the LLM will regurgitate similarly nihilistic text, and by all objective internal measures it will be extremely "confident" as it does so.

> Why is it compelled to provide one, anyway

It's following the patterns in its training data, which probably reflects a whole lot more people trying to provide answers (sometimes even deliberately wrong ones) as opposed to admitting uncertainty.

This is especially true if developers put their thumb on the scale by injecting primer-text like "You are an intelligent computer eager to provide answers", as opposed to "behave like Socrates and help people understand that nothing is truly knowable."
Kent said some things, drew some kumbaja diagrams...
How does this account keep managing to make every thread on HN into 'communism bad' without getting flagged? Tell me your secrets Walter.
Show HN: Io_uring like asynchronous API and coroutine powered IO tasks for Zig
I had always wondered how much "Action" weighed.

Its not been made clear in the guardian piece
You'd be hard pressed to hear anything on a plane if it weren't happening right next to you. The background noise is very loud.
NNs are, in a way, already "compiled". If all you want to do is inference (forward pass), then you mostly do a lot of matrix multiplications. It's the training pass that requires building up extra scaffolding to track gradients and such.

It occurred to me that NNs ("AI") are indeed a bit like crypto, in the sense that both attempt to substitute compute for some human quality. Proof of Work and associated ideas try to substitute compute for trust[0]. Solving problems by feeding tons of data into a DNN is substituting compute for understanding. Specifically, for our understanding of the problem being solved.

It's neat we can just throw compute at a problem to solve it well, but we then end up with a magic black box that's even less comprehensible than the problem at hand.

It also occurs to me that stochastic gradient descent is better than evolutionary programming because it's to evolution what closed-form analytical solutions are to running a simulation of interacting bodies - if you can get away with a formula that gives you what the simulation is trying to approximate, you're better off with the formula. So in this sense, perhaps it's worth to try harder to take a step back and reverse-engineer the problems solved by DNNs, try to gain that more theoretical understanding, because as fun as brute-forcing a solution is, analytical solutions are better.

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[0] - Which I consider bad for reasons discussed many time before; it's not where I want to go with this comment.
The authors say their opponents want a singular fundamental aspect, supposedly because of parsimony or Occam's razor (but this is the authors' framing). It's not clear to me who's account is more likely.
Fun fact, Jagex (the makers of RuneScape) were very close to acquiring OSBuddy (a closed source Runelite competitor) and shutting Runelite down, but Runelite blew up in popularity weeks before the agreement to buy OSBuddy finalized. When Jagex finally told Runelite to close doors, the community retaliated big time, and Jagex+Runelite came to a compromise [0].

[0] https://runelite.net/blog/show/2018-05-16-Update-RuneLite-th...
Viva Amiga Documentary Inccluded in Amazon Prime UK
Pretty sure he would die, to be honest.
The hobbyist or non-profit CAN use it for free. Until they make a profit, at which point they'll need to pay.

Profit usually involves a lot more than a measly €500 (or €762 for gamma) for projects using tools like this.

VVVV even offers weekly/monthly subscriptions if you want it cheaper.
I believe the concept of multimodal token embeddings is quite fitting for my own thinking. Certainly, my 'embeddings' are not always fully formed words, but sometimes they are.
I agree, especially regarding accents. Something becomes really clear if you move to different areas with even a slight accent change: the dynamics shift to "your accent is bad and ours is better."
The majority of the Chinese immigrants were male, many having left wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and future spouses at home in China. Foreign miner taxes in California, often aimed squarely at Chinese immigrants, prevented them from staking mining claims, which in turn forced them to look for opportunities elsewhere.

The CPRR hired an initial group of 50 Chinese workers that in short time dispelled the negative assumptions held by some CPRR managers. They fostered a reputation of strength, efficiency, and reliability. More Chinese workers would be hired and they held a variety of jobs: laborers, foremen, contractors, masons, carpenters, cooks, teamsters, interpreters, and medical professionals. Even so, racial inequalities persisted. Chinese workers were paid an average of 30% less than their white counterparts. They were segregated in work camps and had to pay for their own lodging, food, supplies, and equipment.

The disparity came to a head on June 24th, 1867, when all Chinese railroad workers from Cisco to Truckee, California, a 30 miles section of track, stopped work.

https://www.nps.gov/gosp/learn/historyculture/chinese-labor-...

Confrontation, Threats -- and a Bloodless Resolution

After a week's worth of lean rations had settled upon the men, Charles Crocker returned to the work camps. He dictated the options as he saw them: wages and hours were immutable. If the hungry Chinese workers returned to work immediately they would only be fined, but if they continued on strike they would not get paid for the whole month of June.

Motivated by malnutrition, most men agreed to return to work

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-ch...

Numerous other examples in colonial history.
I used to use O&O defrag and recently found out they're still going at it old school styles

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

and this free tool took care a lot of painful things in windows
It's not just less or more food. Calorie density matters, as does taste.

Yes, one can lose weight by drinking some Soylent Green mush with the exact correct caloric count and macros for steady healthy weight loss.

You know what else that person will lose? All happiness and the will to live =)

Some people really are just "food is fuel" and don't care what stuff tastes like, others (like me) actually get enjoyment from eating food, different foods on every day.

This is why there isn't a one size fits all solution to weight loss. Even "calories in calories out" is a bit hazy, because not every single calorie in the food is consumed with 100% efficiency - it depends on your gut bacteria, which we know way too little about.
Juiced some stats before I realized. Should have realized the bait with the 'less than coffee' benchmark. Ad.

I need a drink, I don't need to pay for email
>136,079 online (53,634 in game)

Amazing that there are so many people active still, if that's accurate. RuneScape feels like a half forgotten childhood memory to me at this point.
I'm glad that the wages for teachers come from the government. Imagine a world with only private schools.

Same with books. Easy access to books was a huge contributor to the industrial revolution and especially Germany profited from weak copyright laws. Would you rather insist on your rights for a few coins more - or transform an entire generation?
I wonder why enterprises use Windows and Java rather than convert to the latest new language.

The enterprise want to keep running.
IT is a cost so not needing to upgrade is a massive win.
The point is that it's more profitable for who runs the taxi company.

Eventually price will always be what people are willing to pay.

I bet what that in a decade the price will be identical to (disappearing) human drivers and then gouged higher.

It's depressing how focused we are on the wrong things for cities and planet, self driving taxis rather than quality public transport. We are destined to extinction and we deserve it.
The hardware is not a bit faster. It is many order of magnitude faster.

I can play video games at 4k 10bit HDR 120Hz with a 1kHz mouse polling rate. I can copy data at 10Gbps across computers via 30m of copper. I can transfer at 1.3Gbps through wifi.

But it takes 250ms for the f'n calculator to start up on a good day?

This is a general issue to all modern software.
I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.
> We all secretly believe that deep down, everyone experiences thought like we do.

Not a universal law. I don’t think I work in the same way as other people at all, as I cannot see what is obvious to others, and they cannot see what is obvious to me.

I don’t think, per se, the information and the integrated results of information are just there. People call it “intuition” but it isn’t some magical sixth sense, it’s just not using one’s language centre for compute, which is what many seem to do.

The moment I start consciously considering something, it all usually goes to hell - so a large part of how I operate is preventing myself from lapsing into “conscious thought”, and instead to keep whatever it is just below the surface until it’s cooked.

I infuriated teachers throughout my childhood by apparently paying zero attention but then inexplicably having the correct answer to whatever was posed to me, and have never quite related to other people, as it usually feels like I’m trying to bridge an immense gap of comprehension - not, to be clear, that I think other people are stupid - just more like I am running fundamentally different software, and everything has to go through an extensive translation and abstraction layer to make sense to others.

If I speak my thoughts directly, then they often emerge as allegory, as it’s the only way I can try to encapsulate the otherwise rather inchoate froth of connection which leads to a result. Sometimes others understand the allegory, but more often than not, they do not, as the symbols mean something else to them.

So yeah. I don’t think my mind works like most other people I encounter. The only other person I know who I think operates in the same way is my sibling, and people who have observed our conversations find them downright bizarre. They sound like beat poetry half the time, as with five well chosen words presenting the correct allegory we can transmit deep meaning to one another.
The problem here is you are putting language as mutually exclusive to humans.

Other animals communicate, by our standards they have language - although their concepts and form is quite different. Language can also be non-verbal.

More likely 40,000 years ago we needed to go beyond simple concepts to more abstract ones.
Greyscale!

A horrible disfiguring disease

I saw two case examples in Game of thrones
ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968) [pdf]
This is just simply untrue. Go to System Settings, General, Software Update, then click on the "i" next to Automatic. Turn off "Check for updates".
The first and only time I've ever felt like I really know Chinese was when I came across the phrase '洋汽扑鼻' in "Fortress Besieged" by Qian Zhongshu. It literally means 'the breath of the sea assaults the nostrils". It's a joke on how fashionable and in demand everything Western was in China in the 1920s. For me it's just laugh-out-loud-for-10-minutes funny. I've tried to explain it to literal dozens of my friends and now I know not to even try.
If cloud is core component does it mean that Windows requires internet to run?
That's funny, I've been much more inclined to use Coderpad since the sale.

The creator's behaviour towards my colleagues when he would write in to get support was overly aggressive and borderline abusive, and I committed to not using any product he was a part of. Using a throwaway for an obvious reason not to out the company, but it was bad.

Once he left, it once again became an option.
XML is easier to edit by humans than JSON any-day. SVG is one of the few graphic markup languages whose basics one can pick up in a couple of hours and go to production. If folks object to XML, then they should also object to HTML, JSX, etc.

We just need browsers to implement SVG 2.0
there is a small difference: you also need to make your own hmr reloading script when using bun. But it does so much more than just frontend bundleing.

If you need an hmr script you can use the one I wrote for my webframework: https://github.com/spirobel/mininext

(my goal with mininext is to provide index.php like productivity but with all of npm and typescript at your fingertips)
You can replace the Kindle with Kobo. For the most part, Kobo just gets out of your way. Integrates tightly with Calibre. Easily hackable. Many extensions available with installation as simple as dropping a file on the device.

Not a perfect device but good enough that I feel like I own it.
You may own it, but it serves a different master.
>This is propaganda from people who benefit from the system that rewards owners of capital who fear community ownership of the means of production.

The Capitalist System does not imply restrictions on community ownership of the means of production. And I believe you are here not trying to appeal to a system that is completely ok with community ownership, you are trying to appeal to a system that restricts or completely bans private property on the means of production.

The problems with such systems are that they always end up with Famine and Gulags - because community ownership work and managed way worse, but the government gets all the power ower the whole economy and use it to remain in the power no matter the results
Does Squenix still hold the trademarks?
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://beta.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/06/14/what-goo...
Probably. The biggest blind spot internal auditors have is things that didn't leave a paper trail.

It is too common that such investigations don't even start because there is just one connecting piece of evidence missing.

Leave a paper trail people!
On Ryzen, in particular with their use case (gaming), the fTPM was known to introduce issues. Lag spikes of some sort. I don't remember how or why, but there's a bit of a concert where this is concerned

I'm pretty sure it's fine now with updates applied...

I went and bought a discrete one since my platform was in a weird middle ground. New but not integrated
> It's a tiresome rhetorical device when people call me out on not knowing something
Checked again, only available in some countries.
That was before snap. Now, Ubuntu doesn’t ask you, and just refreshes snaps in the background.

Which is why I have stopped recommending Ubuntu.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://beta.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/20/the-exponentia...
Didn't catch on. ^C did, mapping to ascii equivalent just worked. "Hat" for control key was a winner.
Don't forget they also failed to gain any traction with Google Video before buying Youtube.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://beta.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/20/the-exponentia...
What, in particular, are you getting away from. And why hn (or have you been lurking)?
Isn't it the English-language world tradition to use a word play in news articles like this?
They are an odd couple for me in another way. I think their best writing is found outside of their fiction.

For Evelyn Waugh it is his letters. For Greene (with the exception of The Third Man) it is In Search of a Character: Two African Journals.
1. the air is negative
2. the air's temperature is negative
3. the air's temperature is -1°C

1. the electron is negative
2. the electron's charge is negative
3. the electron's charge is -1 p

and there are more levels in between and with higher precision. But you see, the 3rd version is true, not confusing, not surprising. The 2nd version is somehow fishy, but accepted in practice, when people operate in good faith, and it does not create confusion. baez opted for the first version, which is not common, true, or acceptable. Only to create confusion, which is trolling. While pretending that this is a real problem, for the third version. It's not.

I hope this answer is satisfactory, I hope to end this conversation, I don't like it.
FEDFUNDs is the rate at which banks lend to each other only for overnight balancing of books; it is not the rate at which companies like CSFS can borrow money.

> Let’s see when the Fed starting hiking rates

>> March 2022

Except that is not true. Look at your own graph - it was raised continually from 2015 through fall 2019.

And if ZIPR was somehow responsible for such a fall, then you'd see it across a ton more companies, since they all play in the same financial environment. Yet those are not there - 2022-2024 has been spectacularly good for companies.

I think your ZIPR is a boogeyman looking for post rationalization.

If you look at their SEC filings, you can see an actual reason: they invested in buying media companies, like Redbox, that have not panned out well at all. They bought Redbox thinking DVD rentals from corner stores was going to see a resurgence, and it has not, across many such companies.

You can also see how these were financed from the SEC filings. Guess who is not there? That's right, ZIRP funding. All stock transfer for the buy has zero borrow from banks (which again, don't lend at Fed rates, and certainly not at that rate to a company buying an already failing Redbox).

Unless you want to blame consumers preferring streaming over disks on ZIRP, your argument lacks merit in light of actual business filings and investor reports, none of which mention Fed boogeymen.
FreeCAD is ok, I use it for simple 3d printing designs, but you have to be very careful how you build the model as it likes to ruin dependencies if you change something in earlier sketch.
1.0 dev builds seem more user friendly.
> The idea of thinking independtly like that though seems unbearably slow to me

So, as a person who definitely has an inner monologue, I absolutely agree. It's not like I'm literally sounding out words in my mind all the time. The vast majority of things I do I do without explicit use of language.

I think my understanding (mostly coming from Chomsky and in disagreement when OP) is that language is a mechanism for thinking that is mostly not accessible through conscious introspection.
Donald Trump said foreign-born college graduates should automatically be authorized to stay and work in the United States — a position once championed by former rival Hillary Clinton and at odds with his usually restrictive stance on immigration.
“What I wanted to do, and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country,” Trump said in an interview on a podcast titled “All-In” released today. A green card is the colloquial term for legal permanent residency.

Trump went on to specify that he would apply the policy to anyone attending a two- or four-year college.
Dozens of obscure config files

…most of which are backed by a man file. I’ll take that over the registry any day.
I find it curious that you say things like "Docker runs better on Windows" but also "MacOS is worse than Linux for development". It reads like you think you have two choices Windows or MacOS, and that it's very unfortunate that they're both worse than Linux. Why isn't Linux one of the options?

And yes, Docker and most other development works better on Linux than any other OS.
To be fair to Chomsky, the historical context is that he was pushing against a particular dogma of his time. So later on Chomsky evolved his own position and came up with i-language/e-language for internal vs external language and so forth. And a few years ago he was recommending a new cognitive science textbook where the first chapter begins with Claude Shannon's communication/information theory.
Slavery created the wealth that made industrialization in the north possible, and was the basis of the economic machine that you speak of.

You've reduced slavery to a parenthetical. Where do you think the cotton and tobacco went? Where do you think the money came from? Where do you think it got spent?

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-ec...
It would be cool to implement some of these in either library to see how they stack up. In the Hamster.js case, I am envisioning each worker having access to a seperate GPU on your local machine..and having results come in asynchronously on the main thread. Massive in-browser simulations with access to existing JS visualisation packages would make real-time prototyping more feasible.
DOS game "F15 SE II" reversing: more stories and now on GitHub
I am not sure what this means? Is this pure lies and insults? I don't see anything else here? In that case, fuck you very much :shrug:
Which means paying extra money for a Pro license just be able to edit settings on a computer you own. Microsoft's policy is bullshit.
Thinking is more than just communication; it involves reasoning, problem-solving, etc., according to the paper. You can definitely think without using language, such as while driving, flying, or even playing sports. A subcategory of thinking probably requires language, one that will be used to communicate with others, like addressing an issue at work or even writing a comment here.
Yes, why? Would Tajikistan for some reason be the only adequate example of muscovite colonial history?
Sure. But when you do have it, would it be fair to say it does shape your thoughts, no matter how small?
This week in KDE: Plasma 6.1 cleanups
Hello Battlestar Galactica fan
I'm in the 'visualising the words as text' category, and I've always thought I have a bad memory compared to other friends, though I can recall every little detail of large software projects that I've been in.

During exams, where I had to cram lots of theory in a small amount of time, I recall trying to 'access' the slides via how they looked like in my mind and trying to somehow read the stored image, because that's for me easier to remember than the actual text when I'm not doing any deep understanding, but just memorization :/ I hated these kinds of exams, what's the point of repeating 500+ slides out of 14 weeks of courses word by word ?

Open book exams + internet + tricky questions were the best.
That was said about IBM. It was inevitable it was going to take over the world, an unstoppable juggernaut.

Yet it faded away into irrelevance.

Plenty of other examples.
The only problem we see with our old legacy Java code is third-party libraries. Some of them do not exist in newer versions.
Well „modern“ MMOs are so bad that people still stick to the good old stuff.
Honestly MMOs feel so over now, some old ones still clinging on, but the genre is dead now more or less