skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this rock here that might grant wishes. I will sell it to you for $10,000. Sure it might just be a rock, but if it grants wishes $10k is a very cheap price!
The problem is a content to train LLMs (I assume that Ilia will continue this line or research). Big content holders are already raising moats and restricting access or partnering with a single existing LLM corporation. And also time, because all this involves a lot of hardware. Any subsequent competitor will have to scale higher and higher wall just to catch up (if the LLM progress doesn't stall and get into diminishing returns).
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But if AWS originates from the ops teams of Amazon, then perhaps they were just doing Ops better than everyone else. They chose not to be just a cost centre, and find ways to become better.
A quick look at the big projects coming soon for JRuby. Ruby version updates, new optimization work, and integration with modern JVM features like Loom, Panama, CRaC, Leyden and more.
> rarely produce any good outcomes

That's the nature of research.
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Hey HN,

I’m excited to share Tato, a Python file layout formatter that organizes your code into a consistent structure. Unlike other code autoformatters like black and ruff, Tato focuses solely on reorganizing the layout of your files without touching your code’s syntactic style.

The idea for Tato came to me while navigating a neglected corner of a large codebase. I found myself struggling with the chaotic organization of some files. A bit of git investigation revealed how the structure of these files had deteriorated over time due to countless small changes. I realized that enforcing a strongly opinionated, consistent layout would be an improvement over the existing disarray.
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What are your favorites? We can talk about some of the last batches or in the whole story of YCombinator. It is also interesting make any comment about projects in Show HN
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Almost any time someone uses the words "legacy" or "modern" in the context of computers, it's a giveaway to me almost always someone has an axe to grind with few or no real deep substantive reasons. I typically read these as:

"legacy" -> anything that has existed for more than a day that I don't understand and don't like that stops me from poorly reinventing the wheel

"modern" -> anything that I dreamt up or heard some other hipster talk about recently that I got hyped about
please specify Remote (US or Canada) as it says in your careers page. There're a lot of devs there from other locations.
> With the energy loss over the distance needed (you basically need southern Italy/southern Spain for any reliable sun during the Swedish winter), that becomes too expensive to be practical.

Can't be worse than that cable from Australia to Singapore?

> Not to mention now you have a domino dependence, where a few bad days of weather in the Mediterranean can take out multiple countries at once, instead of Spain/Italy being able to rely on their northern neighbours in such a scenario.

That's what peaker plants are for. There's no reason to go for 100% purity. Getting to 99% renewables gets you 99% of the way.
On the programming side:

* Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie

* Lisp In Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec

* Compilers (the Dragon Book) by Aho, Sethi, and Ullman

* Smalltalk-80 (the Blue Book) by Goldberg and Robson

But on the non-technical side, the book that probably had the biggest impact on my career was "What Color Is Your Parachute" by Richard Bolles. It is what convinced me I could transfer my skills from video game dev into another field and how to come up with a plan to do so.
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...made up of immigrants who were looking for a better life.
A non-cynical take is that Ilya wanted to do research without the pressure of having to release a marketable product and figuring out how to monetize their technology, which is why he left OpenAI.

A very cynical take is that this is an extreme version of 'we plan to spend all money on growth and figure out monetization later' model that many social media companies with a burn rate of billions of $$, but no business model, have used.
> it doesn't follow that those changes will lead to catastrophe for people everywhere, particularly those in the first world.

Because screw those who do not live in the first world, right?
well since it's no longer ok to just suck up anyone's data and train your AI, it will be a new challenge for them to avoid that pitfall. I can imagine it will take some time...
Arbitrary precision and remembering every number you've ever generated aren't as nice properties as cryptographic security and random access, which you could get from a prng by throwing a counter into a hash function
Champions of Krynn II is gonna be epic
We've thought about this. Site has an "early startup" vibe (because it is an early startup). It's hard to know exactly how to reach the next level. Maybe just building more content? We're definitely not just dabbling with the idea or pulling the plug.
There are actually a ton of reasons to like London. The engineering talent is close to bay level for fintech/security systems engineers while being 60% of the price, it has 186% deductions with cash back instead of carry forward for R&D spending, it has the best AI researchers in the world and profit from patents is only taxed at 10% in the UK.
OpenAI initially raised 50m in their institutional round.

1b was a non profit donation, so there wasn't an expectation of returns on that one.
Your estimate seems way off given Google already had their own compute hardware and staff. And if this company is going straight for AGI there's no way $1 billion is enough.
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Maybe we’ll have commercial supersonic flight in our lifetimes.
Ask HN: Programmers Who Want to Get Better at Math
I have some questions for programmers and software engineers who feel they're not good enough at math and want to improve, particularly with the goal of applying math to their current or future jobs, or who consider a career change. This might include fields like ML/AI, data science, graphics programming, video games, physics simulations, scientific and numerical computing, crypto, finance, signal processing, etc.

As the creator of the Awesome Math resource [1], I'm looking to gather and organize math resources specifically for those who fit this description. If that's you, what are your main challenges? Why does math feel difficult? Do you struggle with math notation, similar to how adult musicians without formal training can find modern music notation difficult? What stops you from picking up a math textbook and working through it? Have you ever tried that? What alternatives to traditional textbooks would work better for you?

If you had to go back to the basics, what level would you start from? High school? Middle school? Elementary school? For example, are you comfortable with elementary algebra [2]—solving linear and quadratic equations, simplifying algebraic expressions with fractions and powers, etc.? If not, is this something you feel you need to master before moving on to more advanced math topics?

If you could have a kind of survival guide before progressing to more advanced resources, what would you want included? What would be unnecessary? What topics would you want clearly explained? Which areas of math would you like covered—linear algebra, calculus, geometry, arithmetic, probability theory, combinatorics, something else? Do you know of any such guides? If you've tried them, what did you like about them, and what could be improved?

Feel free to respond here, but if you'd like to stay in touch as I continue developing this long-term project, please also send me an email (see profile) and let me know what you're interested in. I may reach out again later as I make progress.

[1] https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_algebra
My intel 12th gen works find in s2idle or deep(s3) running Fedora. deep is lasts a little longer but that might be because of configuration, which is a bigger part of s2idle.

The community.frame.work forum has reports from people running newer boards so you don't have to guess before buying.
Daniel J. Bernstein https://mathstodon.xyz/@djb@cr.yp.to/113079723152809027

> Some tools at different layers that would have stopped timing attacks against ECDSA nonce-inversion software: (1) the safegcd algorithm, https://gcd.cr.yp.to; (2) switching from ECDSA to EdDSA, typically Ed25519; (3) using TIMECOP (https://bench.cr.yp.to/tips.html#timecop) to scan for leaks.
All I’m saying is you used the word “if” a lot there.

AGI assumes exponential, preferably infinite and continuous improvement, something unseen before in business or nature.

Neither siri nor Alexa were sold as AGI and neither alone come close to a $1B product. gpt and other LLMs has quickly become a commodity, with AI companies racing to the bottom for inference costs.

I don’t really see the plan, product wise.

Moreover you say:
> Ilya proved himself as a leader, scientist, and engineer over the past decade with OpenAI for creating break-through after break-through that no one else had.

Which is absolutely true, but that doesn’t imply more breakthroughs are just around the corner, nor does the current technology suggest AGI is coming.

VCs are willing to take a $1B bet on exponential growth with a 500B upside.

Us regular folk see that and are dumbfounded because AI is obviously not going to improve exponentially forever (literally nothing in the observed universe does) and you can already see the logarithmic improvement curve.
That’s where the dismissive attitude comes from.
I take issue with your characterization as "robbing". The consumer surveillance industry exploits security vulnerabilities in browsers and OSes (including ones they themselves put there), and then leverages the proceeds into minor attacks on users that net a few pennies at a time. Fixing the security vulnerabilities isn't "robbing" these companies, rather it's merely putting things right and preventing them from being able to take what they have been taking. Furthermore, that the surveillance industry has been normalized and even held up as an exemplar of innovation just illustrates the extent of the rot.
Except in this analogy you've already had success mining rocks that create supernatural results.
> I expect the true market crushers of the next two decades to be companies that are willing to venture into doing something that few would bet their professional lives on: applying the data flywheel to the world of atoms. That can range from defense tech, to biotech, from space tech, to robotics, from consumer hardware, to anything in between.

The real world is cruel in a way that the virtual world of software isn't. A lot of people have tried to solve physical problems with "more data" but reality requires orders of magnitude more data than we are able to process today. That's why we don't have robots with fine motor skills. We would need a revolution in computing to be able to tackle that problem. And sometimes, like in the case of Theranos, there just isn't sufficient information in the input the size of a drop of blood to get the kind of outputs we wished we could.

For now, we're relegated to automating processes between physical things, because that is something that can be mapped to our current computing abilities. You can automate a warehouse to some degree, you can automate assembly lines, but you can't automate the final organic touches.

Not to mention all the materials science breakthroughs that we also need for a variety of so-called revolutionary applications we can imagine today.
Mine actually usually has okay uniformity everywhere except about an inch from the right edge (particularly 1/3rd of the way from the top) and the magnet trick doesn't fix it for me there.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing! Can you please put some products in contrast to help me visualize the trend in point... I mean, maybe two products doing similar things but where you feel that the whole product or a part of it from the older design offered superior ergonomics
I've worked at the same place for the past decade. Continuing to learn is something that takes real effort, whereas my friends who have job hopped have had to learn new stacks every few years. I set up challenges for myself, such as using a new library for a given project when it makes sense and learning everything I need to know about it.
Canva says its new AI features justify raising subscription prices by 300%
Somewhere Ray Kurzweil is smiling.
The theoretical foundation of transformers is well understood; they're able to approximate a very wide family of functions, particularly with chain of thought ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07923 ). Training them on next-token-prediction is essentially training them to compress, and more optimal compression requires a more accurate model of the world, so they're being trained to model the world better and better. However you want to define intelligence, for practical purposes models with better and better models of the world are more and more useful.
Wow. American business is just not afraid to absolutely shit all over human dignity.
I have used my ereader for 100s of hours, so Im inclined to agree. Im just wondering if theres much concrete proof for this feeling. Im using a backlight with my kobo most of the time, at that point is it really much different from a screen on low brightness? I guess more broadly: is all the stuff about screens specifically causing eye-strain true? When I read a paper book all day my eyes get kinda tired too.
This is probably a dumb question, but why is there a significant difference between an lcd projecting light into your eyes, vs light bouncing via a bookpage into your eyes?
I guess the original comment in TFA is a little bit misleading, then.

> of the reference decoder (currently behind a pref in Firefox Nightly), which weighs in at more than 100,000 lines of multithreaded C++
I've owned a rm2 since xmas 2020 and really used to love it. I even brought an old obsidian plugin for it back from the dead. But the power button gave up 13 months in and they were dicks about it, and then when the pen nib holder disintegrated and they insisted it wasn't a known defect, I just gave up and it's been sat on my shelf ever since.

For anyone still into them though, a Lamy EMR pen coupled with the Wacom felt pen nibs (pn ACK22213) is an incredible upgrade which makes it feel like a real fineliner. Similarly, I found the various titanium nibs that you can get off amazon made it feel like a real ballpoint [0].

[0]: https://reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1545mn9/excel...
Vue + Pinia is the pinnacle of frontend frameworks engineering by far, so far.
We back up simple dumps to a Hetzner storage box (5€/month for 1 TB), which is fine for the moment. I download and restore the dumps locally regularly.

In the future, we will need a more robust and scalable solution of course.
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Tools that would have stopped timing attacks against ECDSA nonce-inversion
Parsing something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form...

Do you want some function that parses it in one shot and returns a list or do you want something that works incrementally (maybe calls some function for each chunk?) Since you're having trouble w/ concept -> code I need to know what language you're using.
we have come so far. i vaguely remember a similar-ish discovery/announcement was made in the early 2000s. well, i was too young and too stupid to check the news myself (there was no internet, just tv and newspapers anyways) but i quite remember that respectable town leaders searched for answers in their bibles and qur'ans. strange times they were.
There are a number of projects dedicated to looking for near earth objects that could impact the earth. Pan-Starrs and Atlas are the ones that come immediately to mind for me, but there are others.
VPN users fared better during internet slowdown: report
> The authors used two open-source tools — M.Lab Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) and Measurement Swiss Army Knife (MSAK) — to check the differences in download and upload speeds, latency and retransmission rates on fixed and mobile broadband, both with and without VPNs.

> When tested using NDT, the download speed on fixed broadband without a VPN was 20.42 megabytes per second and 0.48mbps on MSAK. When connected to a VPN, the speeds increased to 56.95mbps and 27.31mbps, respectively.

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Basically, our govt bought the firewall software from China and tried to implement it. But because all our talent has emigrated abroad, our dunderheads were unable to actually implement it and as a result have caused a MASSIVE internet blockage all over Pakistan.

Our IT minister claimed the blockage was due to VPN use (or sharks, depending on the mood of the day) and well, this is a rebutal.

I thought I'd share for HN users who might be interested in networks.
Thanks for posting this. I downloaded and was playing with it. But I'm puzzled about new note creation. When I type in the title next to the equal sign, I need to move the cursor below the date line to compose the note. Shouldn't the date line be on top?
Math and MTG? This is why I love HN
As much as I like the concept, and would love to have a use, I don't see how I'd apply that to my life.

Writing documents is likely impractical (ocr seems bad, and I doubt it'd like my handwriting in particular). Reviewing them maybe, but it doesn't plug to the online tools we use at work, and then comments are only for yourself. Maybe when reading a paper and underlining a few things? Which is the odd case

I switch to paper for strides of time, which I don't see a point in replacing by a device that needs a charge and costs 1000cad
Which trip?

So my first bipolar psychotic episode (or psychedelic episode, which I prefer) was in 2017. January February.

Then the LSD trip was in August 2023. Last year. It was funny because I went to that festival really wanting to try psychedelics in some safe way if I found out how.

I always felt like people who had done them and had good trips seemed to know something I really wanted to know, if that makes sense?

I think Ram Dass described it well. Some people after LSD look like they “get it”, and if you haven’t done it you wonder what the heck “it” is!

So the fact that I got a low dose of LSD through kissing someone, it was like the universe was teasing me and trying to both enlighten me and give me some advice - “here’s how it feels” and “it’s really dangerous for you”. It was a beautiful, transcendent and violent experience.
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Ilya is going for AGI, which no one has come close to. So I'd say it holds.
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I figure I'll drop this here just in case. I don't really use my RM2 since keeping it in my backpack caused the cover to start getting destroyed.

I wrote this as a "is this possible" type program. It ssh's into the tablet and then emulates a stylus through the windows api. Worked with things like blender and krita. Can't say I'm likely to update it again, but it at least worked last I tested it. Also note it doesn't install anything on the device it only reads out the device file for the pen.

https://github.com/ookami125/Remarkable-Stylus
> That article does the exact same thing.

So you agree the WaPo article is crap? Because it uses anecdotes to prove a negative, while the article I linked disproves the WaPo by showing that some Brazilians do care. You can't prove a negative with anecdotes but you can prove a positive.
?? quantum effects apply to everything, but for large objects the expectation is classical
In 2022 Ilya Sutskever claimed there wasn't a distinction:

> It may look—on the surface—that we are just learning statistical correlations in text. But it turns out that to ‘just learn’ the statistical correlations in text, to compress them really well, what the neural network learns is some representation of the process that produced the text. This text is actually a projection of the world.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT9sP4mAWEg - sadly the only transcripts I could find were on AI grifter websites that shouldn't be linked to)

This is transparently false - newer LLMs appear to be great at arithmetic, but they still fail basic counting tests. Computers can memorize a bunch of symbolic times tables without the slightest bit of quantitative reasoning. Transformer networks are dramatically dumber than lizards, and multimodal LLMs based on transformers are not capable of understanding what numbers are. (And if Claude/GPT/Llama aren't capable of understanding the concept of "three," it is hard to believe they are capable of understanding anything.)

Sutskever is not actually as stupid as that quote suggests, and I am assuming he has since changed his mind.... but maybe not. For a long time I thought OpenAI was pathologically dishonest and didn't consider that in many cases they aren't "lying," they blinded by arrogance and high on their own marketing.
Is banning a platform censorship? Wouldn't censorship involve banning specific posts on the platform?
I am not seeing the misleading part. A neural network on processor/package is supposed to be good at preserving battery by doing all the low power, low precision tasks. More TOPS = more consistent battery life with heavier usage over the day, is how I'd explain it to an everyday user.
You can use Daggity.jl: https://docs.juliahub.com/Dagitty/kxRMH/0.0.1/
Precisely. This is attempting to implement morality by constraining. Hence, it’s not morality.
A lot of that might have something to do with the fact that the Rust community is incredibly hostile to the C community.
Good point!

The remarkable is a lot more like paper and has that simple feel.

Daylight was created for the express purpose of being a portable computer you can use in direct sunlight. It can also just be your notebook but it does so much more than take notes.

I may be a little bit biased but I'd personally prefer a non-laggy device with a little bit worse contrast.

To each their own!
Ilya also lived in Israel as a kid from age 5 to 15 so he speaks Hebrew. His family emigrated from Russia. Later they moved to Canada.

Source: Wikipedia.
Conway's Game of Life in 3D?! Are you kidding! That's epic. Have you ever seen the continuous (vs discrete) version of Conway's Game of Life called smoothlife? Here's a nice example of it: https://rreusser.github.io/smooth-life/ It looks very biological.
Well yes, but these are only spotted so late because they're so small, which also makes them harmless. Anything that would be large enough to do damage would be also easier to detect sooner.
Last time I witnessed a meteor shower (I guess it was early 2000s or late 90s in Brazil), I swear I could hear it, but it was so faint that wasn't sure if I was imagining the sound.

BTW, I was watching the meteors from the attic, where my dad had a music studio, so lots of transducers around. The radio waves theory from the article would make sense.
Along with Super in Superintelligence.
We've already had commercial supersonic flight in our lifetimes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
Why not? The Bay isn't the only place with talent. Many of the big tech powerhouse companies already have offices there. There's also many Israeli nationals working the US that may find moving back closer to family a massive advantage.
Israel is geographically pretty small though -- I'm guessing you could live an hour up or down the coast and have it be an outrageous commute for people accustomed to the Bay Area?
Yep, it could be that one day you go to work and your town gets destroyed before you manage to get home and hug your family goodbye.
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