skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wc2 is faster than wc, but unless I am missing something, I can't find an instance where the author benchmarked wc2 with the core state machine loop replaced with branches.

wc2 and wc might be compiled with different flags / use a different strategy for IO, which makes it hard to compare speeds directly. The theoretical speedup of branches is tiny compared potential speedup of changing your compiler flags!
Don't be so smug about it, plastics in the waterways and tire residue in the fresh water are global problems.
What if we flip the script - would it be cool if Disney scraped DeviantArt and created merchandise, movies, etc. based on the art and characters of small creators? Rules need to exist to protect the little guy.

Technically a lot of the merch people sell at conventions is infringing, but Disney, Nintendo, etc. recognize that pursuing action against them would ultimately be worse for their brand.

Generally speaking, whether a fandom existing around a creator's work is good is ultimately up to the creator. If the fandom economy chokes out the product of the artist, then the artist should have legal recourse (this is effectively the same scenario as counterfeits / knock offs). But if the creator's work is able to flourish alongside the fandom, then the creator may well decide that keeping the fandom engaged is worth more than being a legal prude. The protection should exist legally, and the creator should be allowed to exercise it as they deem necessary.
> given a fixed denominator, any 16-bit modulo can be rewritten as three 8-bit modulos

Anybody know what's the exact transformation here? I searched around and found this answer, but it doesn't work:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10441333
> He most certainly was not just some dude.

We're all the same, maaan! Interchangeable cogs that social engineers can swap at will to implement their grand designs!

You're absolutely right about the Turing test. It's pretty funny, and morally abhorrent, copium to question the only measurement we will ever have for "whether this thing is like us cognitively". Anything to justify slavery. Quick! Increase the purity test to compensate!

The solace is that we don't care about that stuff anyway, in practice. Power grows from the barrel of a gun. If the AI can kill you if you don't acknowledge its personhood, you'll suddenly respect its personhood. In the same vein, you don't respect people or laws because of considered philosophical positions. It's why you listened to your parents as a kid all the way down: power.
antibiotics are toxic in general, likely affecting way more than bowels. many are ototoxic for example.
The best skill is understanding your limits.

Just because quantum research is in demand doesn't mean you will be in demand or successful.

Take Elon musk for example.

He knows a Stanford PhD is highly valued. But it only took him two days to realize that he doesn't have the IQ that match his classmates and he is not smart enough to be a leading researcher. He realized it early enough.

Had he decided to continue to stay at Stanford, he would have probably dropped out after 2-3 years feeling demoralized with imposter syndrome.

So the best skill I can think of is always knowing your limits.
You think there is a direct link between some words on paper and how people act. This assumes that you understand what these words say. That also assumes that people are simple robots with simple input and output.

By the way, both scriptures and laws are just words on paper.

I propose that you actually believe in the power of some sacred book too much, and that “Islamic this, Islamic that” are just fans of Islam in the same manner people are fans of a football team (which sometimes gives them “authority” to riot or beat other people). They may call themselves true believers, but that's an old story.
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I guess many more will want to identify themselves as European now.

Jokes aside, this feels like Apple’s effort to jab at the EU market for forcing them to allow other App stores and forcing RCS on them.
Social engineering, sales, marketing, being Sam Altman, history, maths and writing real good.
I'm pretty sure that SharePlay screensharing is encrypted like FaceTime is, so I don't think you're sharing that stream of screenshots with Apple by using it. Their concern would be that if you allow third parties to use that API, they might stream your screen elsewhere.
Umm... where exactly? Politically I've mostly seen a growing infestation of very lost communists who forget they are at a venture capital backed website.
That same person could update the license, no?
Sure but all of their contract customers still need to find a replacement
You just need the animal studies to be long term and large numbers of animals.

That makes them very expensive though. But that's probably worth it to avoid population scale health impacts.
That looks wrong! As Slashdot never got tired of mentioning, correlation != causation. So A and C are still correlated, a causal relationship is not relevant.
I have an Awair, which is generally good and has a locally accessible API. However, one dick move they did when they shut down (cloud) support for the old Awair, they shut down local API access too. Unfortunately, I was only aware of that after buying the Awair.
Same. I never quite got the collective hate against unity. It always felt more driven by an anti canonical sentiment than anything else.
Statistically speaking a senior (more experienced) engineer is more likely to consistently deliver time saving results, while a junior is more likely to occasionally do it, if ever.

Proving it’s not a one time thing is what pushes you in the salary and seniority ranking.
Show HN: Probably the Most Flexible Flight Ticket Search Engine
I built this app specifically for flexible and budget travelers. Also a practice project to pick up Nextjs 14 + shadcn for UI.

- Natural Language Search: You can search with phrases like “New York to Europe for a week in Aug”.

- Flexibilities: Allows for search with date ranges and regions (e.g., South America, US West Coast, etc.). It also supports multi-city searches.

- Tech Stack: Built with Next.js, shadcn for UI, Cloudflare Workers, and GPT. It's been a fun learning journey.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
I often request Canadian government records through freedom of information, and they keep sending 10mb PDFs on CD-Rs. They’ve improved a bit recently, but was annoying for a while.

Also learned that a PS4 (or was it a PS5?) cannot open PDFs :(
I feel that a community can def be heterogenous AF. I participate in exactly that type of (IRL) community, and it is worldwide.

It does require some common focus, and common agreement that the community is important.

I do believe that we have those, here. The "common focus" may not be immediately apparent, but I think everyone here shares a desire to be involved in technology; which can mean a few things, but I'll lay odds that we could find a definition that everyone could agree on.

It is possible. I guarantee it.
Hi Pavel. For people who don't know, this is the person whose lab produced Herbie (https://herbie.uwplse.org/).

Tacking on to this, I have seen rational approximants in "fast approximate" math libraries, while the ones targeting the highest numerical accuracy are often still using polynomials. Setting up a solver for 0.5 ULP when you have a rational function is definitely a lot harder. In my own work, it also empirically seems that the division creates some problems for precision of the last bit, so your polynomials are longer than you might expect.

One interesting approach for bit-accurate rational approximants is to have a rational approximant get most of the way there while fitting the error of your rational approximant to a polynomial, but I don't think there's a good way to figure out where the computationally-efficient split of the problem is (ie how big to make the rational side and the polynomial side).
Wikipedia now labels the ADL as an 'unreliable source' on antisemitism.
>The person you are responded to said it's a sign of dysfunctional org

He said it was his go to example of dysfunction.
This one is pretty obscure, he plays an elite open-heart surgeon at a time when the artificial heart seemed like it was just around the corner.

He shows the hubris of trusting technology in a way that was perfect for the early 80's. It's also an example of how cable TV was good for discovering movies in a way we can't really do today.

https://youtu.be/MWJr6r_Vz0g
There's a few lately that have been ignored: Dealer cyberattack/CDK, Perplexity being reckless/lying, UK NHS having a blood shortage due to cyber attack.
The ancient spirits of the enchanted forest, the Greek dryads, the Shinto kami, and Microsoft's Clippy.
We probably have not discovered the unified theory of numbers yet, and these are all patches to the current system
I forgot about the SLS until after I wrote that. SLS makes most of the same mistakes, plus plenty of new expensive ones, from the Space Shuttle program. SLS has yet to carry a human passenger though.

Its mind boggling that SLS still exists at all. At least $1B-$2B in costs whether you launch or not. A launch cadence measured in years. $2B-$4B if you actually launch it. And it doesn't even lift more than Starship, which is launching almost quarterly already. This before we even talk about reusability, or that a reusable Starship + Super Heavy launch would only use about $2M of propellent.
I pulled apart the innards of CRIU because I needed to be able to checkpoint and restore a process within a few microseconds.

The project ended up being a dead end because it turned out running my program in a QEMU whole system vm and then fork()ING QEMU worked faster.
> As a European, it’s incredibly sad to see this trend: the “right to forget” (HTTP status 451), GDPR, cookie prompts, losing the UK, DMA and DSA, Chat Control, immigration issues, Germany’s anti-nuclear stance, the war in Ukraine, high gas and oil prices, COVID-19 deaths, even the storming of Tesla’s factory.

With the way how you mentioned these things side-by-side maybe you just need pause from social-media.
Major power outage hits Balkan countries
I think the only bit that looked handy in there would be if it could parse PDF datasheets and help you sort them by some hidden parameter. If I give it 100 datasheets for microphones it really should be able to sort them by mechanical height. Maybe I'm too optimistic.

The number of times I've had to entirely redo a circuit because of one misplaced connection, yeah, none of those circuits worked for any price before I fixed every single error.
While I'm only 40 y/o - I started with computers really early (Amstrad CPC 6128, later Amiga before PCs).

And both of you seem correct.

Looking at short enough time window, and especially if you don't know those lower/deeper levels (concepts) - even more so if you focus on buzzword/trends - it does seem to change a lot.

With deeper and longer term context, and focus on concepts - IT is seemingly doing circles. From mainframes and thin clients to fat clients to big servers, to "serverless".

Last time I checked "serverless" it went from it's initial "So it's basically like CGI scripts - each request executes a program from scratch" to "And now it's faster with persistence" (so like FastCGI/Plack/etc).

Of course with orders of magnitudes improvements in memory size, execution & computation speed and bandwith/latency...

Every now and then, some things which were impractical/gimmicky and maybe even not possible (e.g. text to speech, sound/image to text, 3D/VR/raytracing, ML/AI ...) finally become possible.

And on occasion the sum of those "new but theoretically/conceptually old" things unlock something that's really kind of new - like video deepfakes.

To me personally - ChatGPT and similar still seem like just much less (but still a bit) gimmicky variant of those end of 1990s IRC and early 2000s phpBB chat bots.
I might have to add that I am an educator at an art university and work in a country with nearly non-existent admission fees.

Artists that don't risk things during their studies will have a hard time producing interesting things.
This was expected, multinationals have always offered a china specific product. Now there are 3 primary markets/product groupings. China, The US and the EU.
Here's a blog post that I just pushed that doesn't use them at all - https://blog.dagworks.io/p/building-a-conversational-graphdb (we have more on our blog - search for RAG).

[disclaimer I created Hamilton & Burr - both whitebox frameworks] See https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1d4p1t6/comment... for comment about Burr.
Amazon reportedly thinks people will pay up to $10 per month for next-gen Alexa
Show HN: I started a blog to showcase my projects
Greetings!

For some time now I was reading a lot of hackernews and always felt like I am missing. Until now I did not have any web presence were I can showcase what I do.

I think one of the biggest reasons is not technology but that I am neither a native english speaker nor good at writing.

Even now I am not that happy with the blog post but I thought, if I do not start, I cannot get better.

Also there were many posts here interested in E-Inks and personal projects. This finally encouraged me to write a post describing a project I created one and a half year ago.
It is basically an E-Ink Screen powered by a battery and an esp32 with autogenerated images using stable diffusion.

As mentioned in the article: I prepared a version in my words, with my structure. Kept the structure but ChatGPT did a lot of rephrasing. Thus it is only partially my writing.
That was important for me as it made the first step easier.

For future posts I plan to keep my own writing even if it means more work and worse style.

Feedback is welcome! Ask me anything.
Dextro
Well it's weird for me, because I was one of the people being treated better (I'm a guy). I just don't want to work with assholes, so when I see people being assholes to other people and leadership doesn't take it seriously then I leave.
Starship’s cargo bay is 9m in diameter.
It's a memory retrieval and synthesis model, akin to human long term memory. I think it's a bit disingenuous to call true multimodal models for "language models".

A prompt triggers a bunch of memories which gets recombined to satisfy the input.

For cognition you need an agent that uses these recombined memories, a temporary scratch pad (short term memory) and an algorithm for solving the problem.
They are working on 4m and 6M versions as well and yeah, the 8m is for Starship.

https://www.gravitics.com/news/nasa-saa-verification
> giftedness is more about being developmentally more advanced

in some field.

async development is a significant challenge for gifted kids
The difference of TV advertising is that it was only loosely (channel audience) targeted. There was no individually-level tracking and micro-targeting.

So while my cohort was bathed in cathode rays, I don't think it was as influential.
I would argue that all the success of mathematics in modern times has been the result of constructive branches of mathematics. Where has anything useful been achieved from a non-constructive premise?

Physicists and engineers are notoriously imprecise with their use of mathematics -- "all functions are integrable" and "all matrices are invertible", etc., and that's where all the real-world uses of mathematics have yielded results.

I would love to hear examples where non-constructive techniques have yielded anything of interest. There have been places, for sure, where mathematicians working in those spaces have emerged with real and interesting work (Turing and von Neumann come to mind) but their work ultimately fits well within the bounds of intuitionism.
RCS was China, not the EU
While spring-cleaning tech cruft recently, I was pleasantly surprised to find that many CD-ROMs now have eBay value, even ones that you'd think no one would ever want anymore.

(In the US, I assume a shipping cost of $4.13 Media Mail, with whatever eBay discount. And I can tape together a mailer of corrugated cardboard cut from an Amazon box. Plan to net $10+ after postage and eBay's cut, value your time at 0, and a box of old CD-ROMs adds up.)
Is it similar to flutter?
I also work at a large financial institution and have had many similar situations. Fortunately, I'm the one in charge (team lead of sorts) and I have a pretty standard response to such "high level" nonsense:

"Your inability to adequately track my team's weekly or monthly performance is not my problem."

Every "project" has plans, deliverables, and due dates and those are the ultimate arbiters of a team's performance. Not the weekly/monthly statistics! If we open 10 or 10,000 tickets it makes no difference. It's entirely arbitrary and only carries meaning for the team in question (not upper management).

Like some high-level manager/PM is going to be able to make any difference whatsoever on some software development task by watching weekly Jira ticket statistics. Sounds like they're giving themselves busywork to justify their role. Because having fancy charts and statistics at meetings of managers makes you look like you know what you're doing (LOL).
I disagree a bit. Some things might require long-term data storage. For example, GPG keys, personal wallets, private documents and certificates.

Imagine how much of your life can be wiped out by a Carrington Event, which is not that unlikely.

I don't trust clouds for this. Right now, archival-grade DVDs are not a bad option. Almost 5 GB, and under good storage conditions these can last >50 years, probably more.
impressive to decide against something as shiny as langchain as intern
Strange… The finance company I work at also does this. And it’s so strange. I feel like they value Jira tickets more than actual work being done. It’s even funnier cause we get asked to close work when we want to go into prod and told to create new tickets to put our work in to prod. which kind of is annoying.
Productivity is ultimately the measure of the efficiency of human labor. The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy.

In the short term, lagging productivity can be masked by debt spending and other measures, but in the long run, the only thing that increases human wealth and material abundance is labor productivity. Everything else is illusionary.

All human societies have sought to increase labor productivity. The first stone tools, agriculture, and nuclear reactors are all productivity-enhancing inventions. Any society that opts out of seeking labor productivity will eventually see their wealth, living standards, and ultimately happiness decline. There is no way out of that trap.

And to be clear, there’s absolutely nothing good about low productivity for workers. All that means is that you’re spending more time working for lower wages, to produce things of lower value.
Kid hit the jackpot at conception.
Yeah, that makes sense and they are likely communicating. The dimension is often used approximately to know what class of launch vehicle it is fitting in. For the standard existing rockets we will say things like "this spacecraft fits in a 5m fairing", but the actual static payload envelope is 4.82m or something. So don't take it as a precise measurement.
If guess it won’t affect anything. We have the same phone wars as everyone else: Samsung/Apple, Android/iOS, etc.
Absolutely. I think living in a densely populated area, it can be hard to get a perspective for how big and largely empty the world actually is – and that's just land (and coastal seas, as far as LTE/5G reaches).

The remaining 70% are ocean, and people sometimes go there too! Some densely traveled oceans actually do have LTE coverage, e.g. parts of the north sea, since it has existing infrastructure in the form of wind parks that make adding a base station fairly easy, but that's the absolute exception, globally.

A single direct-to-cell satellite can cover a circular area measured in hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Due to the Earth's curvature, that's simply not feasible using terrestrial base stations.
This, exactly this. I know so many people who are "above average" developers that I would love to work with because they are nice, collaborative people that are a joy to work with. The biggest problems we've faced are with these so called "10x developers", who do get stuff done, but are a total pain in the a* to deal with!
I feel like a cat after reading this.
Pardon my puritanism, but this seems like an awful lot to put your body through to get your rocks off and engage in this sort of indulgence.
Well OpenAI's annual revenue is more than $1.6 billion, so it doesn't really matter if you haven't.

Tons -- and I mean tons -- of people have spent money on it. Because it's worth it, it's generating actual economic value for them.
This is a parenting issue, not a government issue.
Show HN: Zero data retention LLMs as a service
As an engineer recently turned technical product manager, I think this is one of the values I've provided. I focus on feature deliverables and meeting timelines. How you get there is sausage making that doesn't need to be over-emphasized.

There are too many ways to game the metrics. I've done it, and I'm constantly impressed at seeing how innovative colleagues do it. If you focus so much on metrics during the development process, you're going to just add useless overhead and piss off developers. My boss comes from a sales background, and thankfully he gets it despite pressure from other senior leaders.
- All large organizations – both government and corporate—need an innovation doctrine or else risk being outpaced by competitors.

They not risk anything, because competition to government is forbidden by law. They have monopoly and will to use force if their system is threatened by alternative one. Innovation is not priority as it is in free market.
> 3. A and C are uncorrelated: However, coffee consumption (A) and typing speed (C) are not directly correlated. While coffee might indirectly influence typing speed through increased productivity, there's no direct causal relationship between drinking coffee and typing faster.

Hmm, not too sure how much I buy that... ;)
My jest was aimed at Siri's Apple Intelligence (AI) upcoming Onscreen Awareness. I'd like to also share my screenshots stream to be analyzed Microsoft AI's Copilot+ Recall feature for ultimate AI analysis and any other company that wants to send my screen to AI. Alphabet Intelligence? Sign my screen up!
I don't disagree, plus people in this thread have bashed iOS just as much. Still I'm giving GP the benefit of the doubt, might not be purely irrelevant fanboying...?
In my company, awards and prizes always go to people that go "above and beyond" the processes the company sets in the first place.
I expected most of these countries that were colonially exploited to shy away from a country that is actively trying to rebuild its Great Powers-era empire.

Guess not.
# We have real choices, and it's the only one of the three where that's the case.

Choice is not a substitute for quality. It doesn't really matter if i have the choice of 23 sedans if what i need is truck.

In many ways, i feel like the choices in the linus desktop ecosystem are an illusion. Repackaking and slicing of the same software stack because someone doesn't like a color theme. And the price we paying for this illusion is the fragmentation and lack of cohesive experience afforded to other major OS.

# That's way more important (to me) than a lot of the other things they talk about.

That's fair. But i think the point is that you might be different than the vast majority of desktop user, for which a OS is just a mean to an end.