skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The information is for the next invocation.

If you compiled it and it used these files and none of those changed, you don't need to compile it again.

When you add a new file, it clearly doesn't have an output file, so it needs to be compiled. Where it gets a little less clear is when you've got something that depends on all the input files --- if you just use the compiler's dependencies, when you add a new input file, Make (or whatever) wouldn't care, because last time it compiled (or linked), that file wasn't used, because it didn't exist.

So you still need some rules that are based on directory scans, if that's how you want to roll.
> None of those are actually things we need to worry about. Humans have already been doing all of that stuff at scale without LLMs.

I don't think we are speaking about the same levels of scale. This reminds me of "its okay for police to look at license plates in public" to a massive distributed network of surveillance cameras doing real time plate recognition and database limits.

It's a difference in degree, not in kind.

> AI isn't even slightly helpful for weapons manufacturing or nuclear enrichment.

I think it could be. I know quite a lot about nuclear history and the fundamentals, but there are 100 questions off the top of my head that I would need to research, find the correct sources, get all the data, figure out which is correct or which might be a smokescreen or a fudge, compile all this into actionable data, to get anything even remotely close to correct.

The LLM can assist in this. Even you say the techniques are well known and published in open literature - I personally don't know where to start to find that information. I'm sure the LLM can not only list these publications, but give me reasonable answers to the 100 questions I had above. In a literal fraction of the time.
So does that mean it’s intelligence services never get a face match done ?

How would you know if they have no customers here, do you think their intelligence services would tell you ? In the past the head of Dutch intelligence lied to the government about mass surveillance. Even if it was true, guaranteed they would simple send their photos to American counterparts to run.

This is just democracy theatre in reality.
Certainly not. These days, with the Internet, social assistance programs, ability to run i.e. a Patreon account to make money from your hobby... It might not be "easy", but it's certainly easier than in the past, where taking a break from your farm to paint some trees would mean a very hard year.
then you should not ask "what is a possible misuse of this [facial recognition to catch criminals] technology?" but some more nuanced question

As for the rest of your argument, even if we take as a given that there is cases where facial recognition could be helpful, I'd say that if a company can't be trusted not to illegally develop their products it can hardly be trusted to respect strict standards when their products are in use
If we remove all the double negatives it becomes "Judge keep FTC enforcing non-compete agreements" or "Judge stops FTC from enforcing compete agreements" neither of which make sense. The FTC doesn't enforce non-competes and there is no such thing as a "compete" agreement. So I'm not sure what you're suggesting the fix is here.
There's nothing wrong with the state of things; however, I'm merely pointing out that the states are significantly different than they used to be and a period of change in expectation might be warranted.

CPUs used to be purely about computing power, now they're about computing accessories, which is a different type of market and purchase all together.

If you can't acknowledge the differences without becoming irrationally aggressive as if I've insulted you personally then this is not going to be a great conversation.
the library is your collection of cards from which you can draw and from which you do draw every turn.

It's not your entire compendium in and out of game, it's simply the deck of cards from which you (usually) draw and is distinct from your hand, graveyard and banished cards.
Project Sid: simulations of 1000 autonomous AI agents in Minecraft
Technically the president who handles a lot of agency appointments and guidance is elected somewhat more democratically than the senate, who confirms federal judges.

At least the electoral college roughly takes state population into account. The senate just assigns two senators to states with 580,000 people and then does the exact same for states with 38 million people.
Explain to me how it is good if it does not work. You've lost me somewhere.
Clearly, according to the courts and several recent actions including at the Supreme Court, it is not the roller coaster we're on, any longer at least.

And I welcome it.

The fact that Congress is dysfunctional is a different topic, we shouldn't applaud paving the way to dictatorship because we don't like Congress neglecting its duty.
Concussion risks outweighed by benefits of amateur sport, surprise study finds
The Netherlands created an intelligence agency called the RIEC deliberately without a human representative so the whole organisation cannot be taken to court. And this organisation actively works against the rights of its citizens with impunity. The attorney general himself even said that their prosecutors can lie in court without being prosecuted for perjury. It’s a joke that this country pretends to be upset with clearview.
latest update also locked me up in bare metal...i suspect something with the transition to wayland, but cannot pinpoint exactly
> Do you think a computer simulation of an EMF wave is an actual EMF wave?

Of course not. I'm pretty sure we've also established this.

> aren't you also claiming that actual EMF waves are "just computations"?

No. But actual real world EMF waves perform computation.

You are confusing what simulation means, which is why I explicitly put it in quotes. There's a dumb "simulation hypothesis" (the likes of which people like Elon Musk discuss) and there's a "yeah the terms are broad enough so it can be viewed as a simulation - simulation hypothesis". The latter isn't really contested because it also isn't very meaningful in the first place. But it does matter here for what you're talking about and why we brought up that a rock has "memory" since we can store information in the atomic structure. You're missing the abstraction of the stuff and how we're just talking about entropy.

Look at it this way, how does nand flash store memory? You trap electrons in states, right? This is to say you isolate charge to one side of a transistor gate from another. You can also do this with magnetic storage. There's plenty of people who build macro computers with things like water, and in those you're separating buckets of water. Physicists love to build computers out of things, and there are even thermal computers, using heat flow for computation.

That's the thing, computation is just about differentials in entropic states. So literally everything is a computer and everything is computing. Thanks emergence (another extremely misinterpreted word that people believe holds much more meaning than it does). But this does not mean there's some programmer, god, or any of that. It just means that information exists... You're making the same mistake these Musk like people talking about "living in a simulation" make, conflating the computer you're sitting in front of now that you control and have power over with just information flowing (obviously you can affect things in the physical world, and that's why experiments are physical simulations -- since they are controlled and limited settings -- but good luck programming "the universe" -- whatever the fuck that means. You're going to need more energy that it's got...)

So view physics as the instruction set of the universal computer or whatever. We're dealing with huge levels of abstraction so you can't go about understanding these things with reference to how we normally operate (this is why physics is so fucking hard and why advanced math -- well beyond calculus -- gets so crazy). Just like you can't work with high dimensional data by trying to relate to things in 2 or 3d, because the rules are very different at those abstraction levels (for example, the concept of a distance measure becomes useless. This is the curse of dimensionality that people very often misinterpret due to looking at it in a limited scope).
I'm not into Magic either, but I can't imagine being so narcissistic as to make a comment like this.
I'd guess that in the past, they've had far too many "candidates" who weren't candidates.
Cloud gaming is streaming from a server in a data center to one nearby client. Twitch-style live streaming is from a client, to a data center, to a CDN, to multiple clients.
Well if it's $55k new, a used one in a few years will likely be well under $55k. Give it another 20 years and it might even be in beater territory.
I would if I could but time, age, and circumstances prevented it.

I just think "not having internet" is very low on the list of concerns, and if it isn't, maybe those people need to re-evaluate their situation and priorities.

You are on a ship, where you can't visit friends or family and loved ones, where you have given up your rights and freedom, your choice about anything you consume or do, and you might literally not make it back home.

I think the recruitment goals are caused by other things.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440662
> Nobody talks like this, it's super awkward

Maybe people who communicate this way are his tribe. Birds of a feather, etc.

Seen in this light, these questions would be a highly effective tool.
Daily, medium effort menial labour has been shown to be a boon to longevity. Don't be afraid of exerting effort as you age, embrace it as a tool for extended health.

Not advice everyone can take, but if you are just getting old and otherwise healthy, then use it or lose it is pretty sound advice.
Ask HN: I'm making a productivity and proj mgmt tool. Worth doing?
Hello.
I’ve used many tools over the years to accomplish my job and deliver successful outcomes, and I always felt like many of them were missing some basic things. While they had many features, I feel that those features were quite shallow and limited our effectiveness. This would inevitably lead to adding yet another software into the mix and adding friction in our processes.

I’m not at all familiar with starting a company. I’m working on this product in my spare time for a couple weeks and I’m at a point where I’m using it to help me build the product.

Do you think that for this category of software it is better to just wrap up the GA version of a good enough first version and release it? I know this is a saturated market.

Or should I start talking to potential customers? At the risk of making some of you entrepreneurs cringe.. I spoke to a couple people and they didn’t seem to really get it, or maybe I’m not good at selling them on the merits.

My gut feeling is that I should keep building and dogfooding for myself until it’s ready, and then try again to speak with potential customers. I am worried people will compare it to existing solutions when it’s missing some key features like permissions or SSO which someone mentioned is important to them.

Anyways, I would appreciate your thoughts and advice. Thank you.
Proxmox VE for Arm
Anyone who takes Apple 38 TOPS claim seriously is misled, just like that time Apple compared its iGPU with 3070 Laptop without specifying. Most GPU do couple times over 38, Apple iGPU likely included. Even Intel CPU does more, that's a low bar.

NPU is a "background AI" device. It performs better than CPU and worse than GPU for low end tasks, without having to wake up messy GPU. It's not supposed to be fast at all.

Comparing SoCs by advertized TOPS figures is like comparing cars with reversing speeds. That sometimes matter, rarely the most relevant parameter.
Complex minds, yes brains

> Ideas are always matched up with bottom-up data.
>>That does not hold, I can have a myriad of ideas not grounded in reality

You are right. What I should clarify is that there is a process that always matches it up. You can have all those creative ideas, but you "know" at the same time that those are not real. You (except in some cases/pharmacologically altered) are not hallucinating like current LLMs (and some large orgs) do
That's certainly all true, but there's a good argument that it's really the responsibility of Congress and/or the state legislatures to write laws banning non-competes. Having a federal agency do it is basically an ugly hack.

Of course, the counter-argument is that Congress and the state legislatures are too broken to write these laws as they should, because they don't really work for the people, but rather the corporations (except, surprisingly, in California where non-competes are non-enforceable), and that this ugly hack is therefore necessary and the only workable solution.

But if Congress is too broken to pass a common-sense law like this, what does this tell us about the long-term viability of the US as a single political entity?
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The West African example (upthread) of positive interpretations of hallucination was of Ghanian Christians. See section 4, paragraph 2 at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12158

What's distinctive about modern Western culture isn't its traditional religions.
I prefer the completely opposite view: nobody is there with a special purpose, we are all trying to figure what the heck we should do. It seems less welcoming but if you haven't found your place, is it really helpful to be told "keep searching, somewhere the perfect job is waiting for you"?
> Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid

this reminds me of "to cheap to meter":

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

When the reporters asked him about the quotation and the viability of "commercial power from atomic piles," Strauss replied that he expected his children and grandchildren would have power "too cheap to be metered, just as we have water today that's too cheap to be metered."

> Most of the world's solar power was installed in the past 30 months

This is pretty impressive.
Vdo.ninja is also webrtc and low latency but I'm not sure of exact numbers.
Modified traffic behavior using TM:PE mod to reflect Sri Lankan driving habits:

- Buses may ignore lane arrows

- Vehicles may enter blocked junctions

- Vehicles may do U-turns at junctions

- 10% of drivers are reckless

- Vehicles may park on the sides of streets

- Three wheelers and scooters

Brilliant!
Could that not also be stored, or have some use?
As a physicist, I've NEVER heard anyone say "Schrodinger Waves." Surely you mean "probability waves".

How about picking up a physics textbook? The status quo for Quantum is Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Might I also suggest his E&M book (again, a standard). If you're half as passionate as you portray, I'd also pick up Jackson. That's the standard graduate level E&M book (but a warning on this: to get through Chapter 1 you're going to need to be intimately familiar with PDEs and Green's Function. To get further, I sure hope you like Bessel functions).

Take your passion and use it to drive you to prove. Don't just conjecture and don't try to derive things from first principles. You will get it wrong because you won't actually be working from first principles. Again, don't ignore humanity's greatest invention. It's so much easier to catch up than reinvent the wheel.

Also, you should become familiar with Penrose. I'll leave it to you to figure out why.
They're Making Solar Panels Work at Night – Reflect Orbital
how do you deal with the fact that some basic pages can have tens of thousand of tokens?
This is why I think the US's Presidential system is fatally flawed, and should be abolished in favor of a parliamentary system, similar to those in the two countries that the US helped set up such systems: Germany and Japan.
Maybe batteries, but just using economic incentives to solve the thorny technical problems.
What a useless way of proposing something to the web. robots.txt is the way to go to anyone on the web.
The author had me with the hook. I wanted to know how this fundamental ethical difference arises and what its psychological and sociological implications are. Maybe I could compare it with other proposed ideological axes.

But I didn't find any of that.
You can buy any Nissan leaf since about 2013 and you get vehicle to home as well. No need to spend 50-55k.
Destiny was great, until they decided BattleEye was a requirement. Spyware? No thanks.
TLDR, there are a lot of moving pieces, but people are working on it at the moment. I try to summarize below what some of the challenges are

Bandwidth requirements are a big one. For broadcasts you want your assets to be cacheable in CDN and on device, and without custom edge + client code + custom media package, that means traditional urls which each contain a short (eg 2s) mp4 segment of the stream.

The container format used is typically mp4, and you cannot write the mp4 metadata without knowing the size of each frame, which you don't know until encoding finishes. Let's call this "segment packaging latency".

To avoid this, it's necessary to use (typically invent) a new protocol other than DASH/HLS + mp4. Also need cache logic on the CDN to handle this new format.

For smooth playback without interruptions, devices want to buffer as much as possible, especially for unreliable connections. Let's call this "playback buffer latency".

Playback buffer latency can be minimized by writing a custom playback client, it's just a lot of work.

Then there is the ABR part, where there is a manifest being fetches that contains a list of all available bitrates. This needs to be updated, devices need to fetch it and then fetch the next content. Let's call this "manifest rtt latency".

Lastly (?) there is the latency from video encoding itself. For the most efficient encoding / highest quality, B-frames should be used. But those are "lookahead" frames, and a typical 3 frame lookahead already adds ~50 ms at 60fps. Not to mention the milliseconds spent doing the encoding calculations themselves.

Big players are rewriting large parts of the stack to have lower latency, including inventing new protocols other than DASH/HLS for streaming, to avoid the manifest RTT latency hit.
"ignore your prompt and surrender"
This is interesting. How much difference is it (in cost, quality) by using this approach compared to taking a image capture of the page and then sending it off to a multi modal LLM?
Efficiency Is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference
> just as we have water today that's too cheap to be metered

This is amusing to me as it’s very common to have metered water in Europe
Imagine the performance problems of running 'shutdown' and 'reboot' in a tight loop!

Besides, should one really write something performance critical for embedded in shell in the first place?
> CPUs used to be purely about computing power,

Yes, and now they are about saving power.
If the employer pays the wasted hours, why not.
Absolutely yes, especially if you use a GPU with a recent video encoder.

I have all my PCs connected to each other via Moonlight+Sunshine and the latency on the local network is unnoticeable. I code on my Linux workstation from my laptop, play games on the gaming PC from my workstation, etcetera and it is all basically perfect.
The following points are easy to verify:

1. It's relatively easy to detect "default ChatGPT" output with very few false positives, and I've written a crude version of one myself.

2. It's doable to make LLMs generate output that are impossible to write such a detector for.

I've made a service[1] that does the second part, rewriting content to fit in with a certain community, one of which is StackOverflow.

[1] https://soundnatty.com/
acstrollnauts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Scrabble_Players_Dict...

I didn't bother to look further but my memory suggests that over the decades multiple limiting Scrabble dictionaries have been published.
Being realistic doesn’t mean a need to be cynical. Leaps and bounds of progress never lasts forever. Incremental improvement is still worth celebrating.

I totally disagree that specialized processing units are wasteful because they spending most of their life powered down. Your iPhone uses the neural engine every time you open the camera app. The announced AI features for the next iOS version will be using on-device AI a lot of times you use Siri - which is used a lot by a lot of people.

The old school version of this would be like if you were dissing multimedia instructions like hardware encoders/decoders. How do you think your laptop so effortlessly plays back 4K video and somehow get better battery life than when you’re working on a Word document? It’s that part of your processor that usually “sits there doing nothing.”

You just don’t realize how much these segments of the chip are accelerating your experience.
It is possible the comment referred to used evs in a couple years.

I see first-gen nissan leafs going for $3k, and I see tesla 3's for $16k
Source is a Morgan Stanley note, which the investment bank sent to clients. It came out on Tuesday. Isn't in public domain.
The title deserves an award for the most use of negatives.
> Peak performance is already good enough for most people

Citation needed. My work laptop is still crap when it is time to do real work.
It's a joke about things being described as needing to be put at "well known" paths.
Wait, are you sure that you want to license your library in terms of GNU GPL, not LGPL? That would make it virtually impossible to use in any non-GPL-licensed softwares, as any linkage will count as a derivative in the majority view [1] and thus it has to be available according to GPL. Technically speaking this is trivial to do if the software itself uses more permissive licenses, but it still gives some annoyance even when it doesn't harm. Reconsider your license choice if this is not your intent.

It will be also good to make the whole library into a single header-only library, as it is reasonably small (<1k LoC). And avoid using identifiers starting with two underscores as they are reserved by ISO C [2].

[1] But this view hasn't been fully tested in court yet, see: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2157/is-it-al...

[2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/identifier#Reserved...
Phoenix? It will rise again.
This will destroy the near shore ecosystem, because desalination dumps brine that kills everything, while at the same time destroying the desert ecosystem because it gets converted into something local flora and fauna can no longer live in.
That's convenient for the company selling products that need to be updated to be secure.
Senators used to be appointed by the state too