skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are young children able to quickly surpass state-of-the-art ML models at arithmetic tasks, from only a few hours of lecturing and a "training dataset" (worksheets) consisting of maybe a thousand total examples?

What is happening in the human learning process from those few thousand examples, to deduce so much more about "the rules of math" per marginal datapoint?
i feel like this link would be more useful if the title said "as/400" somewhere in it; 'ibm i' is a cringey artifact of ibm pretending the as/400 is so well-known it can be identified by a single letter, like c

the as/400 design is pretty interesting, just because it's so different from currently popular systems. if you're familiar with unix and you study vms or windows 11, you won't learn that much, because vms and unix are almost identical. os/400 is a much weirder beast, and its design doesn't just have disadvantages relative to more widely used system architectures, but also advantages—even if, in the end, the disadvantages turned out to be more important
I disagree because the complexity doesn't exist. If you concentrate only on the places you can handle errors/exceptions and what you can handle that is significantly simpler than fussing over the individual error return types of every single function call everywhere. That's just a make-work project. The big advantage of exceptions is that you can mostly ignore all that noise.

The fact that some function somewhere can trigger a network exception has nothing to do with where I can handle it and do the retry. Even network failures are rarely handled at the specific exact function that calls the operating system to put a byte on the wire. It's probably at least 5 levels up before it even gets to my code.

Exceptions and properly using Result types are effectively equivalent. Add checked exceptions and they are almost exactly equivalent. But that misses forest for the trees.
US accused of offering Boeing 'sweetheart deal' over fatal crashes
Big Endian is also called Network Order because some networking protocols use it. And of course, UTF-16 BE is a thing.

There is a non-trivial chance that you will have to deal with BE data regardless if your machine is LE or BE.
Beryl nears Caribbean as it becomes the earliest category 4 hurricane on record
From what I’ve heard from people in artillery is that the brass hardly cares about occupational safety. If they need to get rounds down field they get rounds down field first and make sure you have proper ppe for that second. And what ppe they do have is seen as improper. Not much you can even do when the issue is local blast damage and the gun design demands you to be so close to it.
Why is it a bad thing if Google uses click rate and dwell time for ranking? It seems like those are pretty natural signals.
StupidStackLanguage also has this pleasing property:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/StupidStackLanguage
I have a very low opinion of developers who decry having to pay for a commercial licence for otherwise LGPL licensed software libraries. They expect to be paid for their work, and ensure that by creating closed source software. That's fair enough. Yet, the devs that solved the actually difficult parts of creating a UI library have to be utter saints who freely bestow a gift of code upon the world.
They should take the apple approach. There will be hundreds of options when they decide they really need an “AI strategy” it will fizzle out. It’s pretty obvious for Apple that they can use AI for some tasks and they’ll work it in practically as opposed to panic Keeping Up With the Jones’ mode. Apple is doing it the right way, since they aren’t actually in the AI business (yet), just a consumer. This is the way people need to think. When an actual use for LLMs presents itself then there will be plenty options, no need to panic.
Caltrans would buy it the land this case. They've got a pretty significant real estate portfolio that they've acquired for a variety of projects over the decades.

One random house I think they still own is Julia Child's childhood home in Pasadena.
If you dont want government to compulsorily purchase land first, you can also do "value capture" which is in essence saying "anything developed to the new planning controls needs to pay money based on the difference between old and new controls". The economics is quite simple for developers to cost in but it needs to be there early, not imposed after all the developers have bought land without factoring it in.
All long-distance transport construction requires "confiscating" land. Somehow it's completely routine to take huge swathes of land for freeway widening, but build one little train line and everyone loses their minds.
Seriously asking this - How did it survive so far?
I was going to suggest embedding the native WebView ActiveX control (which I did in the past with great success) but it turns out the WebView has been updated and wants end users to download and install the Chromium-based runtime library nowadays.
> have been kvetching about

Yeah but they don't want this bullshit route. They want to go from LA to SF and MAYBE go through Santa Barbara, or go to Las Vegas or San Diego.

Plus, Even with inflation, it's super cheap to fly from SF to LA. Who is going to pay more than airfare to go between those two cities in a longer amount of time?
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense in context.
See why today's hackers aren't real hackers? Where are the mischievous hackers hacking Roombas to raise and lower a pen and scrawl dirty messages on their owners' clean floors? Instead what we get is an ELIZA clone that speaks like a Roomba sucked all the soul out of the entire universe.
I haven't shopped at a cash-only business in years now. The last time was the little snack stands at parks but post-COVID even those take cards now.
Complying with environmental regulation, permits, planning, etc
> It's not fair use when you're going directly against the license.

Isn't the whole point of fair use that it's stuff you can do even if the copyright holder isn't okay with it?
Show HN: My home project to work with biosensors got 200k downloads from PyPI
You assume it's a funny coincidence, I'd say Eight Sleep picked a name that as a easy to confuse with Sleep Number as they could without getting immediately sued.
> Who is going to label the "general purpose computing" training dataset

That's what i imagined to be easy to automate. We have tons of inputs* and real computers, that will output what real computers would output.

* and hopefully the knowledge to come up with a set of inputs that (together with an actual general purpose computer) contains the essence of what general purpose computing is.
Perhaps he shouldn't have used the word 'never' (never say never again), but you've unfairly represented the article. The Parthenon-and-golden-ratio image is not used as a reference; it is related reading. And if you visit that article, you see it's about how the Parthenon is NOT designed after the Golden Ratio!

The main article's point about nested levels of repetition is interesting, and it introduced me to Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order books.
From Arnold Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Music Composition:

> "Intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition. While repetition without variation can easily produce monotony, juxtaposition of distantly related elements can easily degenerate into nonsense... Only so much variation as character, length, and tempo required should be admitted."

I'm not completely sure how this squares with the fact that I can listen to a song that I like dozens of times and still enjoy it, but I definitely understand it from the point of view of constructing an interesting work in the first place.
Can machines fly by themselves?
Everything's relative. Sure, the BIOS whitelist is a serious mark in the "bad" column. In the "good" column, my daily driver is a Frankenpad made from a T480 with the 7-row keyboard from a T25, the 500 nit screen and glass touchpad from an X1 Carbon gen 6, a 2TB SSD upgrade, a 32GB RAM upgrade (two slots! I could even have had 64) and a magnesium lid for kicks. There is no other laptop brand with this many options for slicing, dicing, and upgrading in this fashion.

Is this modularity mostly an incidental side effect of part reuse and corporate serviceability for Lenovo's benefit rather than ours? Sure. But hacking isn't always about what things were designed to do - it's about what they can do.
Feel like by the time this rail is done, last mile will be fully covered by robotaxis
>> I think this kind of computer exists and is called ”brain”.

True, but there are ethical and rights considerations unless you are building / growing an artifical brain.

You can't just grab a human or sufficiently-suitable animal brain and turn them into your personal mentat (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organizations_of_...) or computing servitor (https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Servitor) to do your computing for you. (At least, not ethically.)

Where would you get a brain to train?

Also, it's not easy to train human / animal brains in their natural state as any parent / animal trainer can attest.
Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about this website. My favorite post on there is "Exploring the Ripley Scroll: A recipe for making the Philosopher's Stone" [0]. Now I'm feeling motivated to make a painting inspired by the Ripley Scroll. There's something so whimsical and delightful about it. I really wonder what the creator was thinking when they were making it. I love all these arcane magic systems.

[0] https://artsandculture.google.com/story/OwXBNEuJqIJzLg
You may be interested in the venerable visidata: https://www.visidata.org/docs/graphics/
I wonder if its possible to losslessly download & cut video from remote server. Currently i'm using a bash script with ffmpeg i've got from stackoverflow to download a small portion of video from the likes of YouTube. But currently, it has to re-encode the video on the fly while downloading. For now, I assume it's impossible to losslessly download & cut this kind of video because we don't have the information about the video locally (keyframes, etc). But I like to be proven wrong!
You should probably read Stewart Alsop on the decline of the WASP Elite
For casual users like me, I find Kickstart (https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim) a good and sensible default that's not too opinionated.
the thing with the coreutils is they provide basic core functionality; you dont need bash on your system - `ls` is not bash (and then you still end up with busybox where json still would not be part of ls). add more utilities to your system to do more complex logic; ive used similar apps to this in the past: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

there's also using zero terminiated lines in ls with `--zero`; then piping that to a number of apps which also support similar (read,xargs,ect)

might also checkout powershell on linux which may suite your needs where instead of string manipulation, everything is a class object
I’m all for eminent domain when it comes to providing infrastructure, but I feel icky about it being used just to hopefully profit. Reminds me too much of Kelo v. New London
I apologize, "harass" was too strong of a word. The way the reminder works in and of itself hardly bothers me at all. I'm more upset on principle that there's anything at all that runs on my device that I'm not allowed to change.
Even better, thanks for the context.
Huh. It was available on an hourly basis when I checked. There's a follow on book called Fortress Rochester: Inside the iSeries, that I had but gave away. It seems to be very expensive.

My skill level is zero. :) I've read the book and know a bit about the system, but have never used one.
I think that all machine learning is solving a convolutional equation.

This paper talks about it in the context of RL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06115 but most approaches fit within that paradigm.
Ryan Holiday: 37 (Or So) Lessons from a 37 Year Old
BART is insanely expensive? I went from Oakland to San Francisco last night for $4.70, which is cheaper than the bridge toll. I don’t know if that’s expensive compared to other systems, but it’s totally fine by my standards. It might be a lot for a poor person though, hopefully they have some discount programs for those who need it.
> This is quite plainly nonsense. Every other manufacturer allows WiFi adapter replacements because every module on the market must be individually FCC certified.

Perhaps every other OEM are running antennas through the case that have exactly the gain you'd expect on the bands you'd expect; while Lenovo are using better-than-average antenna designs together with lower signal amplification to achieve the same SNR with lower total power consumption.

If that's the case, then swapping out the wi-fi card for one that hasn't been programmed for below-standard signal amplification, will get you a system that's above the FCC limits.
nonsense.

Locking someone in a cell and keeping them awake for the purpose if inflicting suffering is torture. Making noise so that someone in the freedom of their own home has to put ear plugs in is not.

conflating them ignores the clear differences and stretches the meaning of the word. You might as well say an ice cream display in the super market is torture.
Which particular .NET Gui? There is a collection of them: MAUI, WPF, Blazor Hybrid, WinUI.

Microsoft have utterly screwed the pooch on getting their .NET GUI story straight.
I don’t know where the HSR is expected to stop, in or near SF (although last I heard was the Caltrain corridor to 4th and King), but Bart is neither especially expensive if only travelling on the peninsula, nor is it the primary transit for SF (Muni).
He doesn't quite fit the character.

Besdies, he had his share of Gibson-verse with Johnny Mnemonic.
What language? It's been great for me in C#, Java, JS/HTML/CSS/etc, and xml configs where it can easily learn from all the surrounding boilerplate.
It really depends. I try to train in Europe when time and price aren’t overriding considerations but flying is often faster/cheaper over any real distance—especially between countries.
any plans for go binding?
My Mormon friend in college was an avid consumer of Monster Zero.
>Do you think it's because of whatever brain damage they may have encountered, or because they could not find meaning in their civilian lives?

I have no idea.

Strangely the most common thread seems to be the ones who off themselves went back home after getting out.

Almost everyone I know who got out and stayed away from home is doing ok. Almost everyone I know who got out and went back home is a wreck.

Some had TBI exposures, some didn't.
But then you have to write a standard.
Pretty much. You can run your business basically saying things like "we will take PITR not less than every seven (7) days" and then just run it on off hours with `pg_dumpall` on each database and the memory/storage costs are basically nil.

This entire blog post reflects a lack of awareness of how much these problems can flat out be ignored with different approaches.
Show HN: John Romero's Scout Search [video]
Perhaps in the future where we've perfected child sex cyborgs we will have also figured out how to just fix the defect in pedophiles so we won't need the cyborgs?
I assume you know this, but depending on what the enclosure was made of, what frequencies the devices inside were broadcasting at, and where you placed them inside, you could very well have accidentally produced a resonating chamber, parabolic antenna emitter, or other type of structural frequency-specific gain-boosting mechanism.

They likely wanted to just make sure that you hadn't done that. (And to do that, they had to send some fellows whose time was very expensive, because it takes long experience to build up an intuition for these things to the point that you're confident enough in your answer to not have to bother with the "measure everything and plug-and-chug the dynamics in a simulator" step.)
I have a separate IOT vlan, but ensuring things like AirPlay work correctly is really, really, really annoying.
I'm the opposite. And I live in an opposite world.

Cash is the only way I pay in person. I have a prepaid card and amazon gift cards for online purchases. If I'm in a store, I have cash. If you don't take cash you don't get my business. I live in an area where many of not most businesses have a cash discount or outright don't take cards. I closed my bank account a while back.

To me, it's embarrassing that there are places that call themselves businesses that don't take money.
Crazy that there was a proposed remake:

„In February 2007, Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella announced a deal with The Weinstein Company to produce and direct an English-language remake of The Lives of Others. Minghella died in March 2008 and Pollack died less than three months later.“
Rapidly increasing the population in this situation is probably not the smartest policy.
it's unfortunate that qnx wasn't open-source; revoking source code access would have been impossible
What makes you think the battery technology we've been using in consumer electronic devices for the past 20 years will improve suddenly and dramatically in next 3 years?
Your bosses' bank would have been charging him a cash processing fee. Easy to forget!

A quick Google and found Danske UK's small business fees, 80p per £100 (or 0.8%). Without all the other costs associated that I mentioned that your boss took a lot of risks not handling. Obviously stores that 90% of transactions actually happen in can't take those risks.

And that 30% for a $5 is totally made up, that's not the fees charged.

I'm not from the US or Canada, but UK, so the first Google result is Square's fee that say 1.4% + 25p, so on £5 that's 32p, or about 6%.

Obviously that's for small transactions.

https://squareup.com/help/gb/en/article/5068-what-are-square...

Obviously bigger chains won't be paying anywhere near that much.

My point was cash has processing fees, and gave people some context for that.
Another approach would be to implement undefined behavior in a way that is random.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
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The definitely added it to the web version n LinkedIn, you can see it when you want to write or reply to a message and it gives you an option to "Write with AI".
Lots of good advice here. I recommend that in addition to exercise, good diet choices, and trying out some recreational things (hobbies, sports, etc) find a therapist to talk to. You might just be dealing with the malaise of maturing and gaining a greater understanding of the world, but you might also be dealing with something else. Just like you see a doctor if your foot starts to hurt randomly, see a psychiatric doctor if your mind and the way you feel changes. Maybe it’s a small thing, maybe not. Brains are weird. And in case you’re not sure, it’s totally fine and normal and there is no shame in it.
We already have a solution for most UI presented in this paper [1]. Functional programming let you represent the solution in a much nicer way after you've hidden the oop/imperative machinery away. But it's a complete package where the declarative part is only the shell. The UI part of any application should be considered as an external module, (like the data access layer) and the code architecture should reflect this. In an extreme way, if you can't create a telnet interface to you GUI software, that means your interface is already too coupled to the rest of the code.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/62402.62404
I use this feature in my painting class all the time. The ability to zoom in so close to a painting is incredible. In many ways, it offers a better learning experience for a young painter than seeing the paintings in real life.
I trust you that it's not what you meant, and that you wouldn't sue over it, but not that any potential future copyright holder wouldn't (see, e.g., https://gavinhoward.com/2022/01/the-law-of-strict-licenses/). Could you make it less ambiguous by chasing the license to only restrict commercial distribution rather than commercial use?
`do' Unchained (2022) [pdf]
The point is that Google is being dishonest
This was what I was looking for! Thanks!

Ironically. I think a swipe+T9 layout could possibly work....

Time to do my own analysis..
That’s exactly my thoughts. If search is broken, expecting LLMs to fix that sounds naive or just disingenious.
For the legally paranoid, this is already a "fruit from the poisoned tree" situation.

Some people are informally "banned" from working on whole categories of open source projects because they've had provable exposure to closed source code in the same domain.

That's a partial motivator in maintaining pseudonymity online. If no one knows who you are, and they don't know you've done kernel work at Microsoft, you or the open source kernel project you're contributing to can't be sued by Microsoft, hypothetically, for "inspiration".

There's legal questions here for which there's never been precedent, so nobody knows where the line is -- and this is all before LLMs ever entered the picture. For other countries, whose courts don't rely on precedent, it's even more of a minefield since the legal outcome of a case is always undefined behavior.
This describes humans, cats, dogs, …

Just like humans our source some tasks to classical computers, this computer will have to outsource tasks to classical computers.
> There could be separate personal fine-tunes per use

Yes, but that contradicts the earlier claim that giving AI more info makes it better. If fact, those who send few emails or just joined may see worse results due to the lack of data. LLMs really make us hard to come up with ideas on how to solve problems that did not exist without LLMs.
In my opinion, it's usability has decreased over the years. Predictably this is a result of Google adding new features like pre-curated collections.
Rain, or even a short time at the bottom of the pool, is easily managed with a simple seal compatible with user replaceable batteries. Failure rates will be a tiny bit higher because users won't always get the closure perfect, but that's not going to affect most people. What will affect most people is an immediate two or three year extension in the life of their phones with a $15 Amazon.com order.

That's hundreds of dollars a year in savings. For me it would be about $330/yr in savings, enough to cover my streaming video and music bills completely. That savings falls in half if my time is valuable and I've got to drive to an Apple store and pay $90 for the replacement, so I've never done that. Instead, I go on Amazon.com and order an entirely new phone when my battery gets to be an issue.

I think replaceable batteries will make calculus work for me and billions of others over the long haul. Maybe 50% of consumers take advantage and save money, 49.999% never notice or care, and 0.001% miss scuba diving raw-dog with their smartphones and have to buy a specialized case for piece of mind.
Where's the -c copy or -c:v copy -c:a copy ?
what sel4 shows is that it's entirely preventable with a rewrite from scratch by a team of formal-methods ph.d.s over many years, if they invent a design that allows the kernel to only be a few thousand lines of code so that the titanic effort of formal verification becomes feasible, barely. it's not something you can do with a codebase of millions of lines of code or a codebase that wasn't written from scratch with formal verification in mind. yet, anyway
I made a free to use realtime database for No-Code
It's almost time for my Product's Launch...A Realtime No-Code Database.
As if those are all detrimental to the society at large.
I imagine the price of land thats going to be rezoned into residential would be much higher than land thats marked for transportation.
How do we know they didn't construct aeroplanes and fly in the comfort of business class? (I know that we're no supposed to sneer at the community but with so many stupid questions it's hard to restrain myself)
Are profiteering government employees and environmental NGOs considered "labor"?