skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaningful. Sensible. Coherent. Our conscious experience is NOT random nonsense.

An analogy, tune an old analog TV to a station and you get a meaningful picture with meaningful sound. Tune it to a station that doesn't exist, and you get random static and white noise, not meaningful.

If computers are producing conscious experience, it's going to be the latter, random and incomprehensible. The underlying computation does NOT matter in this case, because computers are simply incapable of producing meaningful conscious experience.

Maybe consciousness is an inevitable consequence of neural activity, but the complex coherent consciousness we experience today is most certainly a product of natural selection. That much is no accident.
Are you nitpicking that specific complaint? Or saying that Biden seems relatively okay?

Even the Democratic Party has given up on the far-fetched excuses. It’s time to surrender to the evidence. That example is just one out of dozens.
> A fair number of Dems have seemingly engaged with the prospect of Biden stepping aside as a gateway to their wildest fantasies

Uh, who? Certainly there are people who have their own opinions out there somewhere, but virtually every name brand democrat over the past few hours has either explicitly endorsed Harris or notably avoided boosting a different candidate. And absolutely no one is going even the tiniest bit negative on Harris, at all.

No, it seems like a fait accompli at this point. Add to that her control over the almost $100M campaign warchest, and... yeah. The fight now is over who gets to be VP.
> That said, it's infuriating when you have an opponent that can literally say whatever he wants however unintelligible it may be and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said.

Yeah, just three days ago, praising Hannibal Lecter, or remember "covfefe" from a few years back? Or the QAnon bunch where some people managed to assemble millions of people [1] by essentially doing "tea leaves predictions" on Trump speeches?

There is no equivalent to that level of derangedness on the Democrat side, not even close.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-mil...
"The author critiques ChatGPT's ability to summarize accurately, arguing that it merely shortens text without true understanding, resulting in incomplete and sometimes misleading summaries, as demonstrated by a comparison between their own summary of a complex pension fund governance paper and the flawed version produced by ChatGPT." (GPT-4o)
True-swing voters are a tiny minority.

Most of the folks who say they’re unaffiliated or moderates or open to voting for either party in fact vote exactly like a self-reported partisan. They just don’t like the label.

Lots of crappy reporting doesn’t differentiate between self-reported swing/moderates and true swing.

GOTV matters more. Do your people show up at the polls?
The only example I could think of that sort of fits that bill:
"National Union Party was a wartime coalition of Republicans, War Democrats, and border state Unconditional Unionists that supported the Lincoln Administration during the American Civil War. It held the 1864 National Union Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president and Andrew Johnson for vice president in the 1864 United States presidential election." (wikipedia)
Great success as an electoral pairing, not so much afterwards with Johnson's reconstruction policies resulting in all former Republicans leaving the National Union Party and an impeachment.
> in circumventing all the Democrats' vote during primary

It wasn't really a primary, there was no actual opposition. I don't think anyone is somehow offended that they voted in a primary for a person who stepped down due to age as if their choice was taken to them.
An overnight run of memtest86+ with all the tests enabled (including the RowHammer ones) is necessary to verify RAM correctness. I wonder if the latter is related to this somehow.
Threat that they will use article 25 to get him removed as president if he didn't playball
Hm? AMD's investing in APUs is not a new thing, that's going back to the FX days with their FM1 socket. Since Ryzen 1 they have their G APUs, and their integrated graphics power the steamdeck and many other mobile handhelds. Plus, Intel's integrated graphics are known for their driver issues (and so is Arc, for now), so I'd disagree with that recommendation.
I agree. Heck, even reading clickbait headlines can cause adverse effects, even if they've summarized the text properly.
> basically "coronation" of Biden back then replaced the normal, though painful, democratic process of producing a new Democrats leader

There was a whole primary with like 12 other candidates and Biden won though. Bernie, Warren, Andrew Yang all had their shot, some did pretty well, but ultimately the democratic base voted for Biden
One option would be to combine chaos mode with a dynamic race detector to try to focus chaos mode on specific fine-grained races. Someone should try that as a research project. Not really the same thing as rr + TSAN.

There's still the fundamental limitation that rr won't help you with weak memory orderings.
You think Harris would abdicate?
I've always thought of chips and the unrelated peter principle ("people rise to the level of their own incompetence").

Except with chips it is shrink instead of rise. Like if a chip works well and is reliable, time to shrink it (or run it faster, or run it hotter, etc) :)
Admittedly taken out of context, but that doesn't make what I said any less true.
Chinese's EV's can't break into the us market. Biden put 100% special tairf on Chinese ev.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-t...

"Senior Senate Republicans are furious that Donald Trump may have killed an emerging bipartisan deal over the southern border, depriving them of a key legislative achievement on a pressing national priority and offering a preview of what’s to come with Trump as their likely presidential nominee.

In recent weeks, Trump has been lobbying Republicans both in private conversations and in public statements on social media to oppose the border compromise being delicately hashed out in the Senate, according to GOP sources familiar with the conversations – in part because he wants to campaign on the issue this November and doesn’t want President Joe Biden to score a victory in an area where he is politically vulnerable."
Great project. I am mostly impressed that Glisp provides a great experience of reversely modifying code by dragging the ui.

Personally, I really agree with the philosophy of code for design. I often feel that code is more useful than gui in many cases. I developed Glicol (https://glicol.org) for live composition and sound design so that I don't need to open DAW for music improvisation. In addition, I have always thought that there should be a better way to make slides. I have tried revealjs and now use remark, but I hope there will be a simpler way to achieve programmatic specification like keynote magic move.

Btw, I am also very curious about the philosophical comparison between Glisp and the LOGO language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
A stream of consciousness rant is not a sign of mental decline as long as the sentences are coherent.
Information content is not proportional to word count.
Ford is building a battery plant in Stanton TN based on grants from the IRA and Biden administration, creating thousands of jobs in a county that has been in economic decline for 30 years. But none of the folks working those jobs have any idea where those jobs came from. They just credit Ford:

> MADLAND: Yeah, I talked to a lot of workers on the site, and this is this very large facility in rural Tennessee, a couple hours outside of Memphis. It's going to be a big electric vehicle battery and manufacturing construction in an area that had for 20, 30 years, really tried to spur investment, and nothing had happened. [...] So these big steps forward in their lives that you can see from these projects, which are good union jobs, constructing the big facility. Then when I also spoke to them and said, well, how or why do you think this project came to be? This project received many billions of dollars in loans from the federal government as part of these investments we're talking about. It also received significant state funding. And the workers to unanimously said, Well, I credit Ford, which is the big Ford Motor Company as a joint investment there. And then I would probe and push and they'd say, Well, I also credit my union for helping make this happen. I had to keep asking and asking before ever mention any elected officials that had anything to do with it. But their sentiment was, well, if any, elected official had anything to do with it. So I would like that and support them, but I have no idea about this.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-ford-ev-battery-plan...

https://apnews.com/article/ford-electric-vehicles-battery-te...

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/g-s1-9460
I don't know how much name recognition matters when people are SO polarized about the extremely well-known name on the other side.

It seems like this is really going to be a "for Trump" and "against Trump" election at this point. Nobody's going to leap out and knock anybody's socks off this close to the wire. All the dems need to do is present any body people are reasonably sure will still be warm in four years. The results won't differ much.
You can just assume it's right or mostly right and move on with your life. We're not talking about designing spaceships here. Being wrong is allowed.

> Reading an inaccurate summary is actually less useful than reading nothing. It's not like the utility of the summary is to exercise a reading muscle.

No it's not. You're acting like these tools generately wildly inaccurate text. Even when they're wrong, they're mostly accurate. Almost everything people read is a mostly accurate summary, whether it's from some guy's article or wikipedia. We rarely go to the primary source.

edit - as a concrete example, I did my taxes this year with help from ChatGPT. It was a big improvement over using Google or reading through the instructions myself. And if it was wrong, well, maybe I'll get a bill or a check in the mail, but that was always a possibility and making a mistake on your taxes isn't illegal.
You realise that the idea that developers who work at google are more intelligent than average is the product of the work of marketing graduates who work at google?
The Inflation Reduction Act is the most important piece of climate legislation since the 1970s
Some more info if it helps anyone:

CPU Ryzen 9 7950X. Family: F (ext.: 19), Model: 1 (ext.: 61), Stepping: 2, Revision: RPL-B2.

iGPU: Raphael, revision: C1.

MB: ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-PLUS WiFi. Rev 1.xx. Southbridge rev.: 51.
> On the other hand, there is virtually no chance that the US could have forced Israel to stop the war because Israelis view this as an existential threat. No threats or measures the US would take would override that view. This is likely why Biden is not able to stop the war by making a phone call.

No chance? That's a very unimaginative view. Here's one way to do it that would have caused Israel to immediately stop: "If you keep going against what we are publicly saying, we will no longer veto security council resolutions against you, and UNGA will move forward with sanctions once they realize we're not going to protect you anymore."
The long POST times are a consequence of DDR5 link training. It's not entirely an AMD-specific problem. Most motherboards for either Intel or AMD now have a feature to skip most of the link training if it doesn't look like there's been a hardware change or since the last boot, but it's unavoidable on the first boot.
Current YoY CPI inflation is at 3%, barely over the long term average, down from a peak of 8-9% before the IRA passed.

It's very possible to construct an argument (certainly I'd believe it) that it didn't actually affect inflation per se and that the inflation burst was transient and would have subsided anyway. It's absolutely not correct to say inflation wasn't "addressed".
This is interesting. I simply do not connect my TV to the Internet and choose Apple TV, which gives me everything I need. Modern “smart TVs” are just ad terminals. That's why I think they are relatively cheap.
I would agree with your recommendations and your concerns. If you have RAM errors and proceed to install an OS, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Windows SFC scans, DISM, etc can fix up some these issues after the fact, but unless you’re also going to repair-install all your software again, just save all the data and reinstall. It’s just not worth the trouble and you’ll be chasing your tail and ghosts forever.
> The Journal, my supervisor said, did not want its reporters seen calling for greater freedoms—because, unlike in Western nations, it is not an established principle in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong ranked pretty high in Press Freedom: 18th in 2002, around 60th before 2014 (when Xi took power and the Umbrella protest broke out), then it went downhill and suddenly dropped to lower than 130th after the 2019 protest and the recent national security law [1].

It is an uphill battle under the rule of an authoritarian government which disregards freedom.

[1]: See the graph “Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index: Hong Kong” at https://hongkongfp.com/2024/07/19/wall-st-journal-union-urge...
You can cut it any number of ways: the CHIPS act has existed in some form or another since 2019, but it only gained legislative momentum when Biden threw the weight of the executive branch behind it. The IRA was probably going to happen in some form, but the concrete scope and priorities listed in it come directly from Biden's legislative agenda[1].

TL;DR: 100% credit? Of course not. But has Biden's administration been more effective at advancing its policies through the legislative than the previous administration? IMO yes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan
You're ignoring the case where I the author want to create a summary of my own work, to be published along side it.
I think the problem is that both parties have moved, the democrats shifting left and the republicans shifting right (and to put the cards on the table, I think the republicans have shifted a lot more rightward than democrats have leftwards). This leaves people pretty unwilling to go for a split the difference approach. Like if you ask people in favour of a centrist position, they're probably picturing someone in the middle of Bill Clinton and George W Bush, and thinking " I could manage with that". But for a lot of the core democratic vote, they see a Romney as the result of drawing a line down the middle and they already decided he was too right wing for them. Or similar, the republicans are worried that splitting that line down the middle ends up at Hilary, who they already didn't like. So while a lot of people express support for compromise and consquently centrism, you'll get into a lot of infighting when you try to decide what the centrist position actually is..
I would never buy an AMD machine again after my last Ryzen 3600X. So many issues. It had to be power cycled 2-3 times to get it to boot. Memory corruption issues and stability issues galore. Not overclocked. Stock configuration. Decent quality board and power supply. Just hell.

Swapped board out assuming it was that. Same problem. Turned out to be the CPU which was a pain in the ass getting a warranty replacement for.

Ended up buying a new open box Intel 12400 Lenovo lump off eBay and using that.
But there’s no one else to vote for, they’d still vote for her with Romney as the VP. With that vs Trump as the other option, she’d still get the votes from the progressive base and potentially bring over a few more independent voters.
That's the wrong status code

The HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response status code indicates the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").

Unless the server believes you as an individual user were sending too many it should not have been a 429
If the server was unable to handle the volume of requests more generally it should have been a 503 which also supports Retry-After
> Its easy to create spending bills with 1.7T annual budget deficit

Budget deficits have been smaller under Biden though.
I was waiting for the House to censure him for not stepping aside. It was pretty clear that the flood of leadership democrats and donors insisting he step aside was building.
The Duopoly: You can pick Pepsi or Coke

You: I want water

The Duopoly: That’s impossible and un-American
I think it's pretty obvious that the assassination attempt will not generate good discussion.
Most online platforms are just a collection of spicy take memes about the event.

In case of Biden stepping down, there's a lot more to discuss, ranging from his legacy as a statesman to the future of the election.
> backstops [...] like superdelegates

The Electoral College is often cited as serving a similar purpose... I think recent events show despite paying the consistent premium it extracts in elitist gatekeeping, when it finally mattered it failed to provide the promised protection against unethical demagogues.
I'm still running that fan/CPU combo... I intended to replace it many years ago but have never pulled the trigger yet.
Crowdstrike doesn't give that option. Updates happen without a choice to "keep you safe".
This is democracy in name only. There are much better alternatives in existence. Don't defend the current system, build a new one that is more resilient and fairer.
I wouldn't call that an evaluation. They are expressing subjective opinions and feelings, text summarization is an active area of research, there are many benchmark datasets and evaluation measures that make progress quantifiable. Which makes rants like this seem rather pointless and uninformed.

Here is an example for something less subjective: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04269
I don't understand why do "smart TV" even have to exist when we can just attach whatever a smart box to any ordinary TV/monitor/projector?
A few small things as I think of them:

-To practice for the moment of a real launch command, he would receive encoded messages every day that had to be manually decoded as quickly as possible — this decoding would be done independently by him and the second person on duty, and they would then compare to make sure they matched. In the case of a real launch, not only would the two people in the underground facility need to agree that the command was issued, but a second team in another facility would need to do the same.

-He was not allowed to know the targets of the missiles he would be launching, though these targets were fixed for each missile.

-It was almost assumed that if they were launching, they would have already been hit on the surface by a nuclear weapon (locations of the launch facilities were not secret, because they wouldn’t be a deterrent if they were secret). The two people underground are positioned in what looks like a shipping container suspended inside a submarine hull, all encased and locked behind one giant thick steel (?) door. If the elevator shaft had collapsed during an impact, they would be stuck inside to die. So they did include an escape hatch in the roof, but buried deep underground — this would involve the two men opening the escape hatch, letting a bunch of sand fall through, and then digging upward through 100-ish feet of ground over many days to get to a surface that was a wasteland. He was never really convinced that this would work, but the men had to believe that if they did their jobs, there would be some way to survive it.
I think it's a matter of personal preference. I much prefer going through a series of search results than reading anything a chatbot has to say about any topic.
rr was introduced in 2014 [1].

gdb reverse debugging was introduced in 2009 [2].

You can see a fairly comprehensive history of time travel debugging here [3].

Not to say the built-in gdb reverse debugging was any good. It had (has?) like 1,000,000% overhead which is basically unusable. At least some implementations in the history that were introduced earlier only had ~1,000% overhead or less in general. Yes, a literal 1,000x overhead difference.

[1] https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/03/introducing-rr.html

[2] https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ReverseDebug

[3] https://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/1564
> Right now the cheering on of AI is overwhelming

Perhaps everywhere else. On HN mostly what I see are these fairly shallow dismissals TBH. It is a natural reaction when your own livelihood is affected, old as tech itself to be sure [0]. Still, it's getting tiresome. A new technological revolution is unfolding, and the people best positioned to lead and keep it in check are largely balking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
> Has it ever been done?

McCain/Lieberman almost happened in 2008.
How many 90 year olds do you know who have jobs that are 24/7? Unlike his predecessor, Biden has taken the job seriously.
And if a paralegal did just invent case law, I'm betting they'd find themselves in a shitstorm of legal trouble.
A big reason for 'content drift' is that LLM's are like a sliding context window of the input text plus the prompt, and for each new token generated, the next token prediction is using the previously LLM generated tokens as well.

Giving a LLM too much context causes the same effect, as the sliding window moves on from the earliest tokens.

It's also why summarization is bad.

It's not exactly linear though according to the text from start to finish, bit's of context get lost from throughout the input text at random and will be different each time the same input is run.

A good way to mitigate this is to break up the text and execute in smaller chunks, even with models boasting large context, results drop off significantly with large inputs so using several smaller prompts is better.
Moderate Republicans who won't just vote for Trump are a dying breed. I don't think they are worth courting over just convincing young people and women to turn out to vote, purely on demographics. I could be ideologically blinded by this though.
Except here the grocery store pricing is “name your price” and folks are free to pick the price that suits the level of service they desire/receive.

It’s a leaver we have, and it’s rather powerful if you know how to use it. Doing away with it because “the mental gymnastics” of calculating ~1/5th of a total is too much for some folks to handle is just ridiculous pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I’m happy to receive the best service available at the places I frequent because the staff knows I will compensate them generously. If folks are unwilling to do so, that’s fine: they can still get food/drinks. But they’ll always be further back in the priority queue than me, because I value the time of the wait staff.
It's cool to hear about something substantial that isn't just an api call to the "God" machine. This sounds like a pretty sophisticated and well considered approach, but it does call in to question whether a system that needs to be used as a subsystem in a larger one to be reliable is worth the amount of money being invested in making them right now.
> He is in a way worse position now than he was before the snap election, and while you can say nobody won, no one can seriously question the fact that Macron lost hard.

Good point. I replied to another comment below, I'd been reading political commentary/analysis saying that maybe his goal was to defang Le Pen's party by letting the French people see what they'd do with power before the election in 2027. But as far as I'm aware he never actually said that was his goal, it's just a guess, and from a hard numbers perspective he called a snap election and lost seats.
Sooner then you think. President GPT is coming