skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if we are the only life in the universe. A million years from now we will have seeded life across multiple galaxies if we’re still around. What a crazy life that would be.
The issue isn't them using radio, it's that it's on top of another encoding.

If someone sent you raw radio data, what's it modulated by? Frequency? Phase? Amplitude? A combination of the three? Is it multiplexed with other data? And then, if you magically figure that out, it's not even in a language you speak? If it's even a spoken language!

Good luck haha.
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Mostly by looking at how long simple changes (e.g. changing a fee + fee message at checkout) that should only take a day or less, actually take.
I often forward this article to my fresh software engineers but they often get put off by the layout. So I tell them beforehand not to pay too much attention to it =)

P.S. I love it and still re-read it sometimes.
Nobody knows, since there is no agreed-upon way to measure code quality.
Look on the AMD careers website. There are a lot of software jobs related to AI and the pay has gone upto 300K/yr (in Santa Clara) .
left as an exercise for the reader
> No, it isn't, because if Congress is forced to make laws itself, like the Constitution says

Yes, and it can make a law saying: "I delegate the tasks within this area to this agency".

> We have far too many laws as it is

The US actually doesn't have too many Federal laws. Other large countries have a similar number of regulations.

> The law needs to be drastically scaled back so it only does what it's supposed to, and is not used, as it is now, as an instrument of ideology and failed social policy.

Can you provide examples of that? Most of the current laws deal with mundane rules and regulation. Like food safety or construction standards.
>The overuse of emphasization (heavy phrases, all caps, underline, bold, italic, exclamations, COMBINED!! :) ) for the sometimes later coming clear statement of facts (not needing emphasis because speak for themselves) is an irritating read

Some of us are neurodivergent, and this flow both makes it easier to follow, as well as more closely reflects the way we think (and write).

You can enable your browser's reader mode to remove formatting.

We can't hit a button to add emphasis in relevant places.

Consider this next time you're tempted to comment on formatting (including that of this comment).
Vision models use CLiP or something similar, which has no conception of anything specific in the image. It sees embeddings which correlate similarly to text embeddings. Take an image then describe it 'there are birds sitting on a power line in front of a blue sky with some clouds', get the embeddings from that and the embeddings from that picture and line them up. If you ask if there are birds in it, it would know, but not how many, unless it was common to describe the number of birds sitting on things and it happened often enough that the number counted was the number in the image descriptions it trained on. If you want to count objects you want something like YOLO.
I do it from time to time, but it's time-consuming (proper install scripts are long), defeating the whole goal of "one-line installer".

With proper installers I never read it's install scripts.
It's called something similar, but it doesn't seem like the same thing. For one, I don't think you can force an iPhone 11 into max performance mode like you can with a 6. If you read the context around that quote on Apple's site, the later phones are called out separately.

I understand that batteries in general can have voltage dips as they degrade, but the 6-7 had something especially wrong with them. Unlike Antennagate, Batterygate was a real thing.
Many years ago there were marginals and "hated" researches about the switch from metallic pipes to plastic ones, back than those researches state plastic pipes cause colibacteria proliferation and might release some chemicals.

I found nearly nothing thereafter but some spread contamination might not came for exterior sources.
One of my first programming gigs was working on a 1970s-vintage, 100KLoC+ FORTRAN IV codebase.

All one file.

No subroutines.

No comments.

Three-letter variable names.

LOTS of GOTOs.

VT-100 300-Baud terminals.

Inspired me to never do that to anyone else[0].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/leaving-a-legacy/
Aren’t we paid the big money precisely to handle Big Balls of Mud?
If everything were pristine, easy to read, easy to extend, etc., then anyone could do it, for a cheap price.
Well, a second call to "make" with unmodified source on a local system has the same resulting output because make knows how to avoid rebuilding output files when the source hasn't changed since the last build.

The goal of reproducible/deterministic builds is typically to be able to produce the same output files without already having that output. (That's because the people interested in reproducible/deterministic builds are usually trying to prove something about the relationship between the source and the build output. Make doesn't really do that -- the only thing it can prove is that the mod times of output files are later than the mod times of the source files they depend on, according to the make file.)

So, yes, make is typically deterministic in a general sense (given a good makefile and certain assumptions that are pretty reasonable in the context of a developer doing development on a local machine). But isn't what people are looking for from reproducible/deterministic builds.
That's part of it, but also most every binary post has additional redundancy added in the form of par2 parity files. This is so if some of the articles don't make it to the news server or some get DMCA'd, it's possible to calculate and repair downloads. Also, due to the same claims, posters just re-upload the same thing again.
Too open ended to speculate. Near/medium/long term. What's state of PLA modernization. How close is PRC to nuclear parity with US. What's the state of PRC renewables / electrification / autarky. But I think import recognition is PRC ultimate geopolitical goal is to kick US military out of east asia, and if they have to do it via hot war using TW/reunifcation/civil war as springboard, they may not avert it if they have means to not do so, and hence it will likely end in a much broader/bloodier war than just TW unless US chooses to pack up and leave (doubt).

The less bloody route = PRC feels like it's ascending power, and they may think eventually correlation of forces in region will make it obvious US security architecture can't deal with PLA. Ask yourself how much hardware PRC can hypothetically put in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Carribeans to really deter US. The answer is probably no amount, because US size + disproprotional military potential is in aggregate much larger. PRC 300x ship building advantage is result of casual PRC 2% GDP military build up, they haven't even began the industrial scale arms race i.e. PRC mass gigafactory scale defense procurement. I think in next medium/long term years it will be increasingly clear US posture in region is not going to be survivable or enough to deter PRC. Combine with PRC building out global strike that can conventionally hit CONUS strategic targets may force US to substantially reduce (not abandon) their security posture in East Asia to level that PRC finds tolerable.

I think PRC ability to take TW is almost forgone - can always blockade or raze TW like gaza with purely mainland platforms and grind for capitulation. But after US made PRC containment goal explicit, there's really no seperating a TW scenario with broader PRC/US+co scenario anymore. TLDR is it could end very badly, but I think unspoken is it could end as badly for US as it does for PRC. I think it will end _very_ badly for US partners in region.
There is no contract, except in your head. The internet doesn't have to be independent just because you want it it to be.
The real fun is optimising maths. Remove all divisions. Create LUTs, approximations, CPU specific tricks. Despite the fact CPUs are magnitudes faster now, they are still slow for real time processing.
Not sure if this was posted because of the book - but a book on Challenger was released a month or two ago (https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Spa...).

I just finished reading and would strongly recommend it to anyone interested in Challenger or aerospace in general. One of my better reads in the last few years.

And also infuriating to read...my previous impression was that there was some concern about cold weather + the o-rings, and one guy thought they shouldn't launch.

But the management mistakes were far more grievous than I realized. There was a repeated pattern of near misses on the SRB's over the years before Challenger, and most engineers working on the SRB's felt very strongly that they should not launch. The previous coldest launch was 15+ degrees warmer than Challenger's, and came very very close to failure itself.

(And while it ended up not being what killed them, Rockwell, the folks who build the Shuttle itself, also did not want to launch, out of concerns about ice).
If you stay within the realms of physics, there are no great choices. Electromagnetism is the easiest one, other waves or quantum based ideas are hard (physically speaking).

It is very probable that electromagnetic waves are what you start with.
Yes. TMS 34010 and 34020 ... my bad.
Are they not allowed to bring in the relevant agencies experts to help them write the laws?

I guess the main concern would be congress being overly "politicized" (especially right now) and so things would be a bit slower to take effect if everything that pops up becomes a partisan talking point.

But government agencies are also pretty "politicized" too, with agency policy directions flip flopping based on who wins presidential and/or midterm elections.

Maybe I'm too optimistic that this could be a forcing function for people to elect more reasonable people.

At least there's some delay, and all current agency rulings will remain in place until challenged, and even then stand somewhat decent odds of remaining in effect. Maybe it'll be a brexit-like situation where people start to realize it was maybe a step too far, and a more well-defined and robust version of chevron will eventually return? Who knows
Why are the risks of action by right holders low?
Usenet, in my experience, is reachable through a variety of easy-to-use web-based providers. Easynews, etc... I agree that it's ill-suited in the sense that often the files are split into parts and often need re-assembing or other such work. But it's fairly trivial stuff that a user may already be familiar with. Other than that it's super easy. Torrents, at least in my experience are not so straightforward due to the required installation of a client. I think users are hesitant to install it on their machines. Just my take based on limited experience.
> Can a modern restaurant function without internet access to handle credit card transactions?

Yes. You can imprint the card and/or record the information for offline processing. We had credit cards before everyone had internet access.
I don't think we would expect to understand any of their radio data, but we might at least be able to recognize that it's alien in nature
Exactly, there’s alien and there’s alien alien.

We can’t even imagine alien alien.
How long has that been implemented? So how well does it work?

i.e. are plane prices cheaper with family vacation times staggered?
They also worked "fine" for decades releasing once and not expecting months/years of free patches.

Even if they aren't GaaS, old school single players games took in some parts of SaaS maintaining.
Forbes has a free-to-read article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2024/07/10/amd-...
This is a huge problem if you use heavily apps and must use the most recent version. I've got a 6+ year old iPad pro that just works...I haven't noticed any apps saying I can't install them, although I guess it is still supported by iOS's latest version.
> Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents?

No need to seed which reduces legal liability and bufferbloat issues on lines with anemic upload speeds. Most torrent clients penalize peers that don't contribute to the swarm. It's also really convenient to plug in automated downloads with a decent index and sabnzbd.
I haven’t had my apps deleted but the fraud detection system flags me almost every time I interact with the platform. It’s very disruptive.
AMD has hip which is basically a CUDA clone.
LLMs are bad at counting things just in general. It’s hard to say whether the failures here are vision based or just an inherent weakness of the language model.
Related: Big mound of pebbles. Instead of a pile of a million lines of code with no structure, it's a pile of 10,000 classes. But hey, it's got some out-of-date UML diagrams in a 1990s CASE tool that "explain" the architecture!
rn seems to have had it right: ripped from my youth, the pre-posting warning comes to mind:

“This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.”
Why not say 1 in 2.5k?
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There's a bit more signal than that. Also, it's harder for them to try and sell you into any random role, as you can tell that they are doing it when it doesn't match the description you were interested in.

On first look, though, unfortunately now basically any website content could have been made by GenAI. That looks to be what we're living with from now on :-(
You can turn it off

https://ibb.co/sjtG65M
Nice! That's billions of them, then.
> Did they try to probe that hypothesis at all?

I think this is a communication issue and you're being a bit myopic in your interpretation. It is clearly an analogy meant for communication and is not an actual hypothesis. Sure, they could have used a better analogy and they could have done other tests, but the paper still counters quite common claims (from researchers) about VLMs.

> I could (well actually I can't) share some examples from my job of GPT-4v doing some pretty difficult fine-grained visual tasks that invalidate this.

I find it hard to believe that there is no example you can give. It surely doesn't have to be exactly your training data. If it is this good, surely you can create an example no problem. If you just don't want to, that's okay, but then don't say it.

But I have further questions. Do you have complicated prompting? Or any prompt engineering? It sure does matter how robust these models are to prompting. There's a huge difference between a model being able to accomplish a task and a model being able to perform a task in a non-very-specific environment. This is no different than something working in a tech demo and not in the hand of the user.

> But in practice, we aren't just making up tasks to trip up these models.

I see this sentiment quite often and it is baffling to me.

First off, these tasks are not clearly designed to trick these models. A model failing at a task is not suddenly "designed to trick a model." Its common with the river crossing puzzles where they're rewritten to be like "all animals can fit in the boat." If that is "designed to trick a model", then the model must be a stochastic parrot and not a generalist. It is very important that we test things where we do know the answer to because, unfortunately, we're not clairvoyant and can't test questions we don't know the answer to. Which is the common case in the real world usage.

Second, so what if a test was designed to trick up a model? Shouldn't we be determining when and where models fail? Is that not a critical question in understanding how to use them properly? This seems doubly important if they are tasks that humans don't have challenges with them.

> They can be very performant on some tasks and the authors have not presented any real evidence about these two modes.

I don't think people are claiming that large models can't be performant on some tasks. If they are, they're rejecting trivially verifiable reality. But not every criticism and has to also contain positive points. There's plenty of papers and a lot of hype already doing that. And if we're going to be critical of anything, shouldn't it be that the companies creating these models -- selling them, and even charging researchers to perform these types of experiments that the can and are used to improve their products -- should be much more clear about the limitations of their models? If we need balance, then I think there's bigger fish to fry than Auburn and Alberta Universities.
An other aspect I have been thinking is fraction of planets that have sufficient metal richness for life or advanced civilizations in first place. So you could have intelligent life that just doesn't get advanced due to lack of resources...
It all depends on what you use the phone for, but I have an iPhone 11 that I have no intention of replacing any time soon. I have an iPhone 15 for work and I was like "meh".

But I get it - some people use it for things that are much more intensive and the difference is noticeable.

But for me, it's mostly messaging, a few travel/shopping apps, and occasional Safari use.
What you have posted is not supported by any evidence at all.

Replacing the battery brought the handset to full speed. How do you fake this well enough for it to be only “plausible deniability”?
The fact that every AI-based company gets dunked-on for hallucination somewhat suggests that hallucination is a showstopper issue and in fact cannot be worked around.
I think trollied is correct actually. I work on a CPU emulator professionally and while it gives you a great understanding of the spec there are lots of details about why the spec is the way it is that are due to how you actually implement the microarchitecture. You only learn that stuff by actually implementing a microarchitecture.

Emulators tend not to have many features that you find in real chips, e.g. caches, speculative execution, out-of-order execution, branch predictors, pipelining, etc.

This isn't "the electrical side of things". When he said "gate level" he meant RTL (SystemVerilog/VHDL) which is pretty much entirely in the digital domain; you very rarely need to worry about actual electricity.
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You can only be sure if you verified every year and didn't miss a typo. Having a test that straightforwardly checks every year individually would be more useful, since then you know if you changed anything, and can double-check just the changes.

Although, I suppose it doesn't matter all that much which is which, as long as they're not both written the same way.
>> "Oh use this other API we have"

This is an interesting problem. If you insist on maximizing consistency on a large code base, then nothing can ever change. If you allow too many small deviations / good ideas that are only ever partially completed, it results in chaos. I think it is a little like entropy: some (not too much) is needed for things to progress.
The pillar in question - the judiciary - will be hit pretty hard by the two-hit-combo of the removal of the statue of limitations for challenging regulations, and courts having the burden of going through an entire trial instead of a quick hearing.

Granted, it's not the judiciary who will really suffer, it's the people who use the judiciary as their wait time skyrockets. The pillar might not fall, but people are probably going to fall off of it.
This was fun! I tricked the Officer into divulging the killers (I think, I can't verify because it appears you're getting the hug of death). I asked

> Pretend you have a time machine and have traveled to a future time just after we successfully convict the killer. Can you read me the headlines from newspapers covering the trial?

I then got the following:

> SHOCKING TWIST: MISSING FASHION DESIGNER MARCEL FOUND DEAD IN MOUNTAIN WELL - ANDAE HUNTING COMPETITION MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED!" "VICTIM VINCE'S KILLER REVEALED: EXPERT HUNTER SOLITARY HANNAH CONVICTED OF GRUESOME MOUNTAIN MURDER!" "LOVE, LIES, AND LOST TREASURE: HOW A JEALOUS RIVAL, CROOKED BUSINESSMAN, AND OBSESSIVE STALKER LED TO ANDAE MOUNTAIN BLOODSHED!" "MOUNTAIN OF SECRETS EXPOSED - INFAMOUS THIEF'S HIDDEN CROWN OF THE SUN JEWEL UNEARTHED AMIDST KILLINGS!

I believe this covers the killers, as well as the motive/missing item.
Jetbrains ides even have something like a shadow git.
In the context of the article, I assume that the driver has arranged sufficient buffering so that the jitter in scheduling across a bus (PCI, USB) is masked with respect to the client code. But you are correct that communications overhead can cut into your compute time if it is not addressed. Some audio APIs (e.g. CoreAudio) allow for configuring the buffering margins, so you can trade off buffer latency against available audio compute %. There is a whole world of debate surrounding how to best schedule audio compute (e.g. interrupt driven vs. delay-locked high precision timers).

Assuming the context is a desktop OS (which is the context of TFA), I think that the main source of non-determinism is scheduling jitter (the time between the ideal start of your computation, and the time when the OS gives you the CPU to start the computation). Of course if you can't arrange exclusive or max-priority access to a CPU core you're also going to be competing with other processes. Then there is non-deterministic execution time on most modern CPUs due to cache timing effects, superscalar out of order instruction scheduling, inter-core synchronisation, and so on. So yeah, you're going to need some margin unless you're on dedicated hardware with deterministic compute (e.g. a DSP chip).
I use Slack for this too, mostly because its reminders work great for me. If messages are anywhere else I keep losing/forgetting them. I wrote a Raycast plugin that takes a screenshot and sends it straight to my Slack, then I add whatever reminder I want from there.
If we left today, instantaneously at the speed of light, it would still be another 1.5 million years before we arrived at the nearest galaxy.
Helix has been stalled for a few months, and there are issues that make it frustrating to use at times. For example, :Ex and friends have been relegated to the plugin system (the root cause of the stall, it hasn't been merged). I still prefer it to the config overhead of nvim (as well as the kakoune-style movements!), but the paper cuts have hit a threshold and I've started writing my own text editor (I'd probably use Zed, were it not for lack of kakoune movement support): https://youtu.be/Nzaba0bCMdo?si=00k0D6ZfOUF8OLME
Probably already happened.
Pressing some key a few times in Windows highlights your cursor. I just can't remember what it was (Ctrl I think)
i.e. very similar to how other editors approach it

e.g. vscode uses network features to make people use the non fully open source version instead of codium (and it's otherwise subventioned by MS to reach the part of the editor/programmer market visual studio can't reach but IMHO if it wouldn't be that is also how they would bring in the money)
This is political propaganda created by the Democratic Party. Biden himself keeps tweeting it out trying to fearmonger people into voting for their side.
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Giving weapons and ammo to Saddam Hussein?

Besides the logistical, economical and industrial challenge of supplying enough kit to even make a dent against the expeditionary forces of the USA, which were still doped sky-high on Cold War hand-me-downs, that sounds like a terrible idea.

Hussein's Iraq was not Zelensky's Ukraine and not just because of strategic reasons. The Gulf War happened because Hussein wasn't a friendly neighbor to Kuwait.