skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large Language Model algorithms do not reason.

They are statistical text generators, whose results are defined by their training data set. This is why the paper cited reads thusly:

Despite extensive research into the reasoning capabilities
of Large Language Models (LLMs), most studies have failed
to rigorously differentiate between inductive and deductive
reasoning ...

There is no differentiation because what was sought is the existence of what does not.

The authors then postulate:

This raises an essential question: In LLM reasoning, which
poses a greater challenge - deductive or inductive reasoning?

There is no such thing as "LLM reasoning." Therefore, the greatest challenge is accepting this fact and/or that anthropomorphism is a real thing.
> TFA claims the GeForce 256 was "the world's first GPU", but why not consider the NVidia Riva TNT a real GPU?

GeForce 256 integrated hardware vertex processing (transform and lighting),
which Riva TNT and others did not - the CPU had to do this part.

The RCP of the Nintendo 64 was probably the first modern GPU integrating RSP for vertex processing and RDP for rasterization into a single chip.
Yes, it is. They are measuring the milk in isolation, which in this instance means to pour (and measure with your eyes) as it fills the empty container before the tea. Whereas you can't really measure how much the volume is changing (eyeballing) in isolation.

Think of it as the difference between measuring a liquid in a container and eyeballing a liquid in another liquid.
China-born neuroscientist Jane Wu lost her US lab. Then she lost her life
Ok, so it's a city planning problem, not a weather problem. I'm glad we agree.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240831131533/https://www.scmp....
But that's not a CORS problem. It's a CSP problem. (And CSP deserves to be despised.)
overlooked explanations: gas, cars, rent , storage + transport too expensive. The process of transporting your stuff costs money. Looking for rent or other housing is an opportunity cost. This means paying a big deposit and background and credit checks.
Demographics aside, there’s lots of intertwined things mentioned here but the strongest thing is the mortgage.
As soon as your house becomes too precious to simply leave behind without thinking much of it, mobility is lost.
Cheap housing and the resulting mobility was the key difference between fast growing US and stagnant Europe.
Now that advantage is gone and it looks pretty impossible to go back to it.
My instinct is it is a distinction without a difference in this context. i.e. if deductive is "I watched the cue ball hit the 8 ball, therefore, the 8 ball is moving" and abductive is "the 8 ball is moving towards me, therefore the cue ball must have hit it. I cannot claim to have deduced this because I did not observe it", LLMs cannot observe the situation, so any deduction (in the binary induction/deductive sense) must be done by abduction.
The rest of the world can be like Tokyo, that's the important part.

Weather is not a good enough reason for why we need cars in cities.
When looking at the disc brooch, it's interesting to note that while each quadrant appear generally symmetrical, the branches that cross over or under are not consistent. A branch in one quadrant crossing over another actually crosses under that same branch in another quadrant.

It's certainly intentional, but I wonder if perhaps it conveys some meaning... or perhaps the artisan just thought it'd be neat. It seems like a lot of work though to have no significance. Intriguing.
putting bad values into pointer variables in gc'd languages is arguably worse than doing so in non-gc'd ones. i'd say that gc'd languages should prevent you from doing it.
This is just a different way of saying your managers need to be more engaged with the work they are doing and not just worry about abstract metrics like measuring progress by number of tickets they close or something as such.

The thing is this is hard to pull off even for the actual founders. For starters its just hard, and tiring(and even pointless) to keep jumping over the ever increasing bar. Even more so when you are aging, know you are going to die and you are better off enjoying some of that money you earned, in the time and health that remains. At that point, you let things go on autopilot and begin to reduce engagement with your work.

The middle managers and employees you hire don't have incentive to even care this much. They are neither paid this high to care, nor have much to lose if they don't. Younger people show some passion because they wish to learn, but once they have enough of it, they go on the same mode.

To summarise. For people who made big money making a little extra doesn't matter all that much. People who don't get paid, don't even bother to try.
Tornado Cash does this. And you can find articles on how it functions online. You can even read the smart contract that directly implements it.

Roughly: you have 2 secrets that you hash together and the central authority adds the result you disclosed to a list (either to print money or as part of a transaction to transfer money). To spend a note you reveal the hash of one of the secrets (to be added to a list of nullifiers to prevent double spend) and you do ZKP to demonstrate that you possess both of the secrets to *some* note from the public hash list and that the nullifier for that note is what you claim it is. Central authority rejects if nullifier is present in the list.

There are some other approaches to such a system, I believe the Tornado Cash one is the most elegant though it limits you to a discrete number of note denominations.

Note that the proof system Tornado Cash uses is not secure to a quantum computer and such a device will allow to "print money" - in reality, drain the smart contract.
Not in disagreement. Still have two jobs. My mental model still has an SQL output. I was dreaming of a two-way tool for diagrams.
Echoing a lot of people here but...

Password manager like 1Password, for the few passwords that do need to be managed

SSO as much as possible. Fewer places to manage access = easier onboarding and off boarding

In general you want to use role based access control. I'm not familiar with off the shelf solutions, but the concept is that you grant people access to systems according to what they need for their job (role). A role in this case may be a team, or a specific job on that team (e.g. engineers on xxx product team). Then e.g. when that team has to add another engineer to their oncall rotation, they give them access associated to that role. When person moves off the team access gets removed. when the team realizes they need another permission to troubleshoot their systems, everyone in that role on the team gets it. Etc.
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just finished https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS-MyPage-HTML4-theme

adapted to HamsterCMS
https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS

but can be used as a regular html template, no annoying frameworks, works on old browsers
interesting javascript effect for content

The code is simple and clear
The template is perfect for learning HTML and maintaining a home page
> Defining what is and isn't part of a species based on their gut microbiota seems nonsensical.

OP never said this. They said complex organisms are not fully defined solely by their DNA. That is a finer point than the one you're engaging with.
I know several people who finished grad school and entered the workforce in the 1960s. Compared to later generations, they do seem to have lived a charmed life.
It's not so important these days since most ceramics don't shatter much.

But is said to still be a class marker.
CSP is a poorly designed, dangerous, user-hostile standard that should have never been written, let alone implemented.

Better idea than "using Content-Security-Policy to block untrusted scripts": don't link against untrusted scripts.
I don't write anything new and use inheritance anyway.

Even in an embedded context you have classes and destructors, operator overloading and templates. You can still make data structures that exist in flat constrained memory.
Israeli is more than capable of bombing Gaza into the stone age even absent US military aid.

That's not true at all.

Israel's military machine is far more self-sufficient than it was 20+ years ago. But over time, its capabilities would be significantly hobbled without U.S.-supplied parts and munitions. Don't forget those two aircraft carriers parked offshore, either.

Losing access to U.S. military aid, weapons sales, and strategic backing would definitely hurt. Given that it has now chosen to expand the war to 3 fronts, it really doesn't want to put itself in that box.
My wife teaches Chinese, and this is spot on our situation. Schools and language centers are always hiring. She usually has 1-2 private online students she tutors (generally adults who are learning Chinese for fun). As long as she commits to a semester at a time and doesn't leave in the middle of her semester, she can always return to her job. If we have kids, she can go part-time or be a full-time mom for a few years. Every school teaches the same stuff, so it's not like she has to "keep up" like I do as an engineer and learn new things every few years.

Her income is a lot less than mine, but the extra cash is nice. We've set up our life so we don't NEED the money she brings in so if it ever goes away we'll never panic.
I remember people buying bricks in a VCR box at the flea market in the early nineties. Scam works no matter what time it is.
> LLMs don’t feel like a whole brain ...

Because they are not.

LLM's are a better form of Bayesian inference[0] in that the generated tokens are statistically a better fit within a larger context.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
The point is not how much they weigh, but that we can't survive without them.

It's not just the digestive tract. Our eyes, out lungs, even our skin rely on a huge diversity of specialized and symbiotic organisms to function correctly. This ecosystem evolved in parallel with our DNA, and it's been lost for the mammoth.

Yes, it seems we have the technology to create something with this DNA, but it won't be a mammoth as the organism existed in the past. It may not be viable, and it may suffer horribly.
It took 10 years to force a breaking migration from Python 2 to Python 3 in order to handle Unicode...

I have resigned myself to repeatedly smashing my keyboard on the desk until it rains keys in blind rage induced frustration to let off steam and then calmly creating an issue in the appropriate repo instead of allowing even a modicum of hope that this will ever be fixed systemically.
Since this article is just a list of thoughts, a few other ideas:

- Dual incomes. It was easier to move when only the father worked.

- In the 1960s (which this article uses as a baseline) 70% of households had cars and this number was growing. It is 90% now and is stable. Everyone getting a car made previously unlivable spots livable (and cheap), but there haven't been as many innovations since.

- Laws like prop 13 in California gave people incentive to stay in their abode or face rising tax rates. In California that was passed in 1978, but other states have similar laws.

- Measurement error. The stat of Americans "living at home" includes students who live in dorms 6 months a year. 50 years ago these young people maybe moved to a city and waited tables. I'd argue that going to college could at least sorta count as moving. At the very least, more people going to college skews the results.
> fine tune their diets by measuring their response to different foods or feeding times

Needing to get such feedback from diet is completely unnecessary. It is very easy to estimate the rise in glucose using these factors: percentage of fiber, how processed the food is, how it was cooked (high-heat (bad) vs low-heat (good)), whether the carbs are complex carbs (fibrous) or simple carbs (starch), and whether the meat is red or white.

> variance in the hemoglobin turnover period

Whether there is variation or not, it is still the thing to optimize. Your point is like saying there is significant turnover of how people spend money, so they don't have to bother looking at their bank balance. Also, I hope you're not claiming that the reference range is vastly different for certain people.

Unless one is diabetic or an athlete, given basic nutritional knowledge, there is no benefit to a CGM over HbA1c.
I think this is the wrong promise. Photoshop has had "generative AI" in it for many years and no one really had a problem with it, and there are many similar features that would make sense in Procreate. I would imagine there will be customer demand for them to go back on this, which puts them in an awkward position of either reneging on a promise or losing customers.

What I imagine Procreate really want to express is their dedication to art and artists, which are certainly threatened by aspects of the current generative AI wave. I think they could have done this without promising no generative AI features. Promising to focus on artists, to not use creations for training, not partnering with companies who aren't respecting artists rights, all would have gone some way towards this.
Ever had a coworker who feels the need to repeat everything you just said?
For example:

Them: Where did you have lunch today?
Me: I went to that noodle place downstairs.
Them: So, you went to that noodle place downstairs, right?

Them: What’s causing this bug?
Me: The AWS data center's network is down. I’ve already submitted a ticket.
Them: The AWS data center's network is down, and you’ve submitted a ticket, right?

Them: How was your weekend?
Me: I spent the whole day gaming at home.
Them: So, you spent the whole day gaming at home, right?

… Basically, no matter what I say, they feel the need to repeat it back to me, with a “right?” tacked on. It’s like they can’t process my answer without echoing it back as a question.
> perhaps they had no desire to continue farming like their parents.

I think it is also that making a living in farming became harder. I had an ancestor who was a small farmer in the 1880s-90s, and his career was one of increasing prosperity. His son worked just as hard but it was a struggle, and he eventually lost the farm in the late 1920s and went to work at a factory.
Just to be clear, the sample size of 1200 is enough for a margin of error of 3% with a 95% CI. It is a huge sample for the claim being made for a population the size of Brazil.
As long as you have the codes!
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I honestly don’t know anything about that market. We don’t use sonographers because it’s interventional; I need to be able to control my own view very tightly.
Also, some of those most capable people don’t have the desire or means to risk entrepreneurship.
I couldn't find much information on those. I assume that they don't include range reduction?
Learning is a concept that presumes an entity with volition, aspiration, consciousness.
What is the output of the three reactors worth of electricity? Hot takes and shit posts ?
'Amazing' Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland
This is a suggestion that deserves serious consideration. I started using VS Code after I had learned all the basics so I don't know what it feels like to be a new learner who is getting started by using VS Code. But it sounds like it worked for you. (And on campus, the proxy should not be an issue.)

It does answer the question of which text editor to use when the time comes to teach them about editing text files. For a course, it helps that it is free and available on both macOS and Windows.

I have a vague recollection that at some point I was testing without an install of Python and after I selected the Python extension for VS Code, it offered to install one for me. (I don't recall if this was on macOS or Windows and memory could be playing a trick on me.) But in any case, the people behind VS Code do seem to be trying very hard to make it easy for someone who is getting started.

I am a little uneasy about the nudges to use Copilot, but on balance, it might offer a better path for students who are getting started.
I wonder what he'd think of the "jumping ring" experiment: https://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/jumping-ring/
They are not statistical text generators. They are black boxes wrapped in an interface part of which is a statistical text generator.

You can write programs into transformer models and run them deterministically; they aren't "statistical".
> What’s the risk of bringing back a wooly mammoth?

I imagine a big one is the needless and possibly intense pain and suffering for the surrogate mother elephant, and her experimentally-GMO'd calf. Elephants are highly social and by all accounts quite empathetic animals.

Also the opportunity cost - elephant populations are highly endangered and every pregnancy cycle used up for this research is one less actual living elephant.
Considering that Procreate is overwhelmingly loved by artists while Adobe is at best seen as a necessary evil (and at worst bloatware owned by malevolent rentiers), I think the former has a better handle on their audience.
Being able to dig a ditch and being able to dig a ditch well are two different things. I've worked with people who can't do basic tasks after a decade at the same place.
People say that treatment is the solution, but a fentanyl or meth addiction is like being involved in a terrible car crash. You give people back surgery and physical therapy and accommodations at work, but it's extremely expensive and most of them will never be the same afterwards, and a lot of them die. This was the situation in the 60s with cars, and it's the situation today with serious drugs. You have to prevent the car crash and you have to prevent addiction to these drugs, or you wind up with a ton of broken people that we can't really fix.
Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux (2021)
Not a pentium question, but..

> Due to the end of the Cold War, Hughes acquired General Dynamics' missile business in 1991 before being acquired by General Motors in 1985 and sold to Raytheon in 1997.

I'm guessing that's supposed to be 91 -> 95 -> 97?
IMO what needs to happen is python needs to get rid of system installs and only work via venv. It should check the current folder for some .venv or something and auto-config itself to the current directory (or complain that you need to config with a messages like "python not configured for current folder. Run 'source bin/activate' to configure. Honestly thought that could be so much better.

The entire problem of python an venv IMO comes from it not being the default.
You also need to be happy with a limited amount of views with that scheme/ videos going private after that, because storage is literally the cheapest cost. I used that as an example how far removed you're from a realistic price estimate
This strikes me as saying "Brains aren't brains, they're merely a collection of neurons that output some voltage in response to their input voltage".
I wonder whether pouring them together in addition to the first or second cases would be useful for helping to ascertain how keen the sense was.
This condition is known as echolalia and is often associated with autism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia
It seemed people in the 2000s had some sort of mystical belief about computers that if you took all your data and put it in some kind of XML format it would give you good karma.
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I really dislike these non-sequitur arguments of "LLMs do not reason, because <detail on how they work>", as if a detail on how they work unequivocally proves the impossibility of reasoning.
> pretty impossible

The solutions there are extremely straightforward and uncomplicated in a technical sense (such as overriding local zoning and permitting to allow hihg-density construction everywhere). The barriers to it are purely political.
Thanks for the link. Apparently there were issues even as recently as 4 months ago, specifically conflicts between the determinate installer and nix-darwin though I'm not sure they are intended to be used together.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158558#40159195
There are also plenty of used CPUs of older models, but those tend to be fine since they don't really die unless abused (or are certain Intel 13th and 14th gen models...) and were probably run at stock settings for the few years the server it was in was warrantied for before being sent to recycling (creating tons of unnecessary waste, but good to see people have figured out how to encourage reuse while also profiting from it.)

I've also purchased used pre-Rowhammer RAM from there, and it was perfect too.
I like the article as a whole, but I'm unsure about this point:

> For example: Disabling CPU turbo just to save some current consumption is a bad choice, because the resulting extra time will use more energy than just getting the job done quickly and shutting off.

In one of my computer engineering classes, I learned that power consumption rises as the square of clock frequency - so doubling the clock will quadruple the power.

That seems like it'd imply that you'd actually have to measure the power difference to determine if the quadratic increase from the clock boost will outweigh the product of the constant power consumption with the additional time spent on the task.

Related - it'd be nice if the Pi's CPUs included granular power consumption information, either derivable from the datasheet, or as real-time values exposed in registers.
Did you forget $15B in “lethal aid” (so far)?
Wouldn’t this end up like the XKCD standards cartoon. You’d have yet another Python package system and even more fragmentation.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Another big thing was "industry towns" - if you wanted to build cars, you moved to Detroit. If you wanted to do "that computer thing" you moved to silly valley, etc.

There's still some of that, but everything is much more mixed - you can get a quite decent "tech job" in almost any city now, and that's not even counting remote work.
Tim's Vermeer (2013) [video]
Should have (2022) in the title.
I can see applications in multiplayer gamedev - imagine being able to run the whole game simulation on a clients machine and have them assert back to you that they killed 7 goblins, looted a rare sword from a chest, and died 3 times - and you could just trust them.

Your server costs would only need to be for the metaprogression/persistence related stuff that could be done relatively infrequently based on updates from the client.
>Your body is your mind, but a physiological reaction relayed from a nerve is only part of the equation that’s you.

you are presenting an untestable-and-only-descriptive-hypothesis as a theory.

if we assume that what we know about it today is all there is, then yes, it must be your way. But why assume that what we know is all there is, that assumption has always turned out wrong for thousands of years? Better to say "we don't know what the nature of the mind is or where it comes from beyond the clear evidence that it's tied to the brain."
Those scammers who will sell you a chip with whatever you wanted printed on it probably profit the most from "collectors" who don't ever try to verify what they actually have.