skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought can't be reduced to a sequence of states, or functions acting on each other. I've tried to explain why in some other comments on HN. But let's grant that it can be so reduced for the sake of argument. I think even then, your position is impossible.

>> If there is no unchanging person having the thoughts, then there is no connection between the thoughts

> This is a non-sequitur.

You're right, I apologise. I should replace 'person' with 'thing' -- then it ceases to be a non-sequitur. I'll try to explain why:

> Thoughts can arise, like pure functions operating on their inputs, and returning some output into the global workspace.

This presupposes unity. Suppose, in case A, the thought "2+2" leads to the further thought "4". Let's suppose, further, that this is the case of a pure function operating on its input ("2+2") and returning the output ("4").

Suppose, in case B, exactly the same, but it returns the output "5".

I assume we agree that A is correct and B is incorrect.

You can affirm that the content of case A has some kind of unity underlying it, or you can deny it. (We could argue about the precise nature of the unity, but let us simply say that it is some kind of unity.) If you deny it, then you must say that there is no connection between 2+2 and 4. Connection presupposes something that connects. If there is no connection, then there is nothing that makes case A correct. That obviously undermines the possibility of any argumentation or logical thoughts. Alternatively, you can affirm the proposition. I think your position requires you affirm it, because by positing any kind of sequence, or function operating on an input and returning an output, you are positing unity. A sequence of any kind has a unity to it, otherwise it wouldn't be a sequence.

So in positing a sequence, you're positing unity. And in positing unity, you're positing something that unites, and that is different from that which is united. Such a thing must change from having the thought "2+2" to the thought "4", but it must persist as something underlying these changes in order for the changes to have any unity, and therefore for the arithmetic to have any coherence.

So we must logically get to the existence of something that persists while changing.

Obviously we could argue about what that thing is -- specifically, whether it's a person. We could also argue about when it comes in and goes out of existence. But the fact that there is a thing that persists in one sense, even as it changes in another, is all I'm trying to demonstrate here. I think once that's demonstrated, the position you're arguing is undermined.
AI and big data were key players
I didn't say that. I said "hallucination" is a value judgment we assign to a piece of text produced by an LLM, not a type of malfunction in the model.

If we're going to nitpick on word choice let's pick on the words that I actually used.
Separately,

> And then we proceed to the myth of "the center", much like the myth of the "swing voter". What the US has politically is a choice between the far-right and the center-right who have completely capitulated to far-right messaging on immigration.

A gradient or spectrum always has a centre. It's less a myth and more of a mathematical property for this sort of object.

Your inability to see this centre as the centre is just you broadcasting that you're a political extremist. If you stand insanely far enough to the left I'm sure everyone looks like a Christian fundamentalist. Similarly if you stand far enough to the right everyone looks like a cat-eating illegal immigrant. It must be tough to live like this but I don't think you saying "Everyone else is conservative" bolsters your credibility the way you think it does.
Personally I was disappointed to find this generation of consoles still asking us to choose between performance and visuals. It felt like a necessary compromise last generation because those consoles were seriously underpowered; I'd hoped this time around we'd be back to just plug-and-play. It's easy to forget that prior to the PS3 and 360 generation, 60fps was very common.

I know I'm in the minority and a lot of people prefer the choice, but when a game is offering three or four different fidelity/performance modes (not uncommon now raytracing is a factor), I get decision paralysis and worry about whether I'm getting the optimal experience. I'd like a "developer recommended" option that they feel best matches their creative vision.
It seems to me that this is a clear example of an issue to be addressed by the empirical methods of natural philosophy (i.e. science) rather than by introspection of one’s own experience and of other peoples’ reports on their introspection. There is a meme in the philosophy of mind which asserts that we cannot be mistaken about our experiences, but if that has any validity, I think it is only for our most immediate experiences, not what we make of them.
To me it's quite good for Rust as it usually suggests me some (unknown to me) borrow checker API that actually helps me either solve the issue at hand or at least point me in the right direction to figure what is actually wrong with my code and it doesn't compile
Pruning plants is very often good for them.
How to Succeed in MrBeast Production
The issue is that handhelds are limited by their batery capacity. Running a steam deck at full power will exhaust the battery in ~2 hours. The ROG ally X outperforms the steam deck, but at the expense of nearly 2x battery consumption (25 watts vs 15 watts). You can't even run the ROG Ally at full power unless plugged in. Valve is probably waiting for efficient processors to make a significant leap in computing performance at the same TDP.
I used it and was really disappointed, maybe because of the hype. It generates a long page of entries that I used to generate in the past, often with better results. Note I use it for code generation, not for problem solving.

So I cancelled two of my 3 subscriptions as I realized OpenAI goes in a direction that is not useful for me at all. Claude, on the other hand, is incredibly useful.
I'm a bit lost by your arguments here. You're saying that games need more CPU and Sony decided to ignore that?
Alternatively, if you prefer to watch over a 1000 videos featuring a non-standard programming approach and that end up going nowhere, you could go over to youtube and consume the Handmade Hero series...

Sarcasm aside, there's still lots to learn from the series although it does look like Casey's promise of "writing a complete game [...]" might not actually become a reality in the foreseeable future.
It's no better at exporting to CSV. I wrote a CSV parser a few years ago that had one set of logic for Excel CSVs and a completely different set for everything else.
It's a typical problem of this lists they don't always point to the underlying issue they want to list.

5.,6. are likely about how all kinds of things infer with your packages mainly merging/splitting but also potentially messing with them in other ways (and in general the package->frame mapping). So if you want to build anything which relies on TCP packages being a thing it likely will not work, at the same time you can't always ignore package size either (e.g. for flushing byte streams, higher level protocol chunking etc.). Through as long as you don't create transport protocols write a network stack or fine tune your TCP stack or similar you likely don't have to care about it. I mean you also probably shouldn't use TCP directly but something more high level in most situations (e.g. HTTP, gRPC, etc.).
These are intended to be used like grenades but for intelligence. If it fails or lands wrong it’s not a big deal the idea is they will pump these things out by the millions.
With a rate of 1.5%, paying the loan off might not be a smart move, as long as you don't mind not being fully debt free.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547132
sure it's powerful enough but I'd rather it built into the hardware for energy efficiency. But I guess we can't have our cake.
> This intuition only works for gaussian or may be a few other distributions, not for a general p(x)

I don't think that's true. It's that if X is a random variable and φ is a convex function, then

φ(E[X]) ≤ E[φ(X)].

It's not necessary for X to be Gaussian, only that φ is convex.

An intuitive way of thinking about it is if φ is convex then it is cup-shaped. So if I sample two points from X and draw a line φ(x_1) to φ(x_2) then that line will clearly lie above the points in x that are between x_1 and x_2 in the cup right? Jensen's inequality just generalises that to say what if I take all the points from X, then the expectation of φ(X) is going to sit above φ(E[X]). Because E[X] is just going to sit somewhere in the middle of X so φ(E[X]) is going to be down in the middle of the cup so is going to be smaller than (φ(x_1)+φ(x_2)+...φ(x_n))/n, which is E[φ(X)].
This is what happens when you decide designers are no longer necessary.
How does Linux handle testing? They don't seem to have a CI system as far as I know. Presumably there's no big lab with automated testing on real hardware. Does anyone know how releases are tested?
I don’t understand how it is better to have an occasional (= significantly time-delayed) backup. You’ll lose all changes since the last backup. And you’re doubling the cost, compared to just one extra hard drive for RAID 6.

Really important stuff is already being backed up to a second location anyway.
I am really surprised with RNDA3 support. I have never seen so many issue with iGPU (APU). It started with VP9 decoder issue (e.g. just playing videos on YouTube was enough to trigger it), but that got fixed after a very long time (required a new firmware). Multiple constant [different] crashes, but you can workaround most of them by adding amdgpu.sg_display=0 to your bootargs. It's already listed in Arch Linux wiki, Gentoo wiki, etc.

Again, I was surprised by the number of firmware and driver issues since RNDA1/2/3 have been around for years now.
> You don't think it's possible for someone to simultaneously think that Google has made a terrible call

Yes it is possible, but it is not what you did in not just one but multiple posts. And it is also offtopic so your justification is nonsense
Some rendering engines do smear time in various ways like Motion Blur. Ray tracing can pull it off more cheaply than rasterization but you still need to compute geometry multiple times in as single frame.
There are more than a million people with a US security clearance. Finding enough to fill the board of a new company shouldn't be prohibitively difficult.
The difference is surprising. Digging deeper, the US shop does not include shipping or taxes. To get an idea, I tried for CA and that already adds $12. That's already $38 without custom tax and VAT.
Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction
Or you could pump the heavily biased bit stream into a modern cipher and get a - for all intents and purposes - super high quality, completely unbiased random stream with the same bandwidth characteristics as the input.

And, as a matter of fact, much faster than the input if required.
Agree with other comments regarding play vs. visuals.

Don't get me wrong, I've been floored with some of the visuals the PS5 and Xbox have produced, and every generation there's a few titles that just blow my mind with how good they look.

But Nintendo has really been the winner here - they march to the beat of their own drum and while their games don't look jaw dropping, the enjoyment I get out of playing them more than makes up for it. Games, at their core, for me atleast are for playing and enjoyment. And I'll take a game that can put a smile on my face and give me and my friends hours of enjoyment together versus a game whose visuals are effectively real-life and running at 60fps.

I could bring out an old gamecube or n64 at a family gathering and we'd all have fun playing with and against eachother in the same room. Can't say that for many Xbox or PS games.
"Say what you will about the tenets of Perl, but at least it's an ethos."
1040 Schedule 1 Line 8(z) "Other income"

IANAL, etc.
It's not useless, just bad at it's job.

I mean in practice it's so broken, imprecise and messy to a point it's often more misleading then helpful and IMHO should have been replaced in teaching with something better well over a decade ago.

And to be clear I'm not saying it's bad because some small implementation details don't fit, it's bad in it's job of being a high level abstraction where you ignore many implementation details.
You lost me at '... that do not take advantage of powerful hardware.' The risks they should be taking are in making new kinds of experiences ... for existing hardware. There is plenty of room to innovate. They are scared to innovate so you propose that they innovate _and_ require costly hardware upgrades?
After trying the Vision Pro at an Apple Store I’m more convinced than ever that immersive VR entertainment is the future. I have no doubt we will need high end graphics arms races for a while more.
6.10.5 fixed all my amdgpu issues.
Bro, this stuff will be wild for our iot stuff
I'm fine with cloud gaming being an option for those that don't care about the compromises, but I hope it never becomes the only option.

Ownership and preservation has already effectively vanished for gaming given the steady move away from physical media (and the fact that what often ships on the disc is severely compromised without a day-one patch); streaming only would be the final nail in that coffin.
> whoever came up with this was able identify what can be traded off to make the previously impossible, possible, unlocking new scales and possibilities.

In fairness, that is an extremely standard trick so it's reasonably unlikely that the author came up with it themselves.
This isn't how I would define whistleblowing. This is more like mercenary stings.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvecto...
As far as I remember, there is some automated testing before release but very limited in scope.
That makes some sense, but seems to be answering a different question of whose jobs may be in jeopardy from LLMs, as opposed to who might currently find them useful.

Note though that not all companies see it this way - the telecom I work at is hoping to replace senior onshore developers with junior offshore ones leveraging "GenAI"! I agree that the opposite makes more sense - the seniors are needed, and it's the juniors whose work may be more within reach of LLMs.

I really can't see junior developer positions wholesale disappearing though - more likely them just leveraging LLM/AI-enhanced dev tools to be more productive. Maybe in some companies where there are lots of junior developers they may (due to increased productivity) need fewer in the future, but the productivity gains to be had at this point seem questionable ... as another poster commented, the output of an LLM is only as useful as the skill of the person reviewing it for correctness.
Uhh.. or you could just wear multifocal contact lenses which work via concentric rings instead of dividing your vision into halves. Your brain very quickly learns to focus on objects up close more easily, and you don’t look like a dork.

https://coopervision.com/contact-lenses/biofinity-multifocal

I love these things. They’ve been on the market since 2011.
Didn't Cerny that 75% of PS5 users or something like that opt for the performance mode?
Ok, honest question:

Is this why guys have so much trouble peeing only into the toilet bowl when standing?
He spreads conspiracy theories and misinformation constantly. But go ahead and defend that.

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...
> People are too stupid to be helped.

We can see that. Need help?
At the very least the first 10 or so videos teach you a bunch of stuff about win32, loading dlls dynamically, ring buffers (for sound), etc.
>"7. If we fail to connect to a well-known remote host, then we must be offline."

Now that is a very interesting one!

It's sort of related to the question:

"How much of the Internet is accessible from any given point (location, locality, etc.) at any given point of time?"

Which is sort of unknowable, at least, without attempting to connect with every possible connection point on the Internet, which (if it could be done) would still consist of a range of time, and every point in time following that point would bring changes, perhaps small relative to the whole -- but accruing over time -- more and more, as more time elapses...

Observation: That same (or possibly similar!) phenomena would seem to be at play with respect to the measurment (observation) of quantum systems, i.e., the more certain you are of position, the less certain you are of velocity, and vice-versa...

Well, the more you measure the connectivity to all points of the Internet at one point in time, the less certain you might be of the state of the entire system as more time elapses from that point in time...

But now, why?

Observation: Generally speaking, the larger a system is, the more degrees of freedom it has, in attempting to "lock down" (know by observation, be "certain" of) the entire state of that system at one point of time, the more the parts of the system with degrees of freedom (how many degrees of freedom does the entire Internet have?) will change/evolve/move/"be subject to change" as more time evolves the state of the system... in other words, if you can know position (instantaneous state) with certainty then you can't know velocity (where it's heading to and/or future state and/or that which predicts future state) with certainty!

Sort of like you can know the instantaneous state of the Stock Market and its history... but no one can exactly predict its future (it has many, many degrees of freedom, all of which are subject to change in various unpredictable and bizarre ways!)

Which brings us back to #7:

>"7. If we fail to connect to a well-known remote host, then we must be offline."

We might be offline... but then again, we might not be! (Ping, ICMP, UDP, Telnet and Gopher anyone?)

But then again, we might be!

The Internet's online/offline status (is it really off if it is off? Is it really on if its on?) -- is much like some modern relationships, that is, "It's complicated!" :-)

The Internet is a Black Box!

It's Schrodinger's Internet!

You know, "if a TCP packet travelling at 99.44% of the speed of light on a westbound train track meets a UDP packet travelling at 99.43% of the speed of light on an eastbound train track, then when do they meet?"

You know, "solve for x..."

You know, "assume that the speed of light is constant and that quantum effects are not present!" :-)
Show HN: OpenAI's o1 building and running ML model with code interpreter
Makes me angry to see Apple bragging about their green credentials when the products are destined to become e-waste faster than necessary due to inevitable battery degradation and intentionally difficult battery replacement.

(Even worse when it's a $3K+ laptop and not just a phone. With a keyboard as well as a battery that'll wear over time, neither designed to support repair/replacement. Not sure if the newer models are as bad, but M1 MBP keycaps wear terribly)

The biggest upgrade they could give to the iPhone right now is a method of replacing the battery that doesn't require dealing with applying heat and removing adhesives, let alone batteries being cryptographically paired to a phone.

But they want to sell entire $1000+ phone/$3000+ laptop upgrades, not replacement batteries.
I'm working on a toy language (in the US), and I'm 1/8th Danish.
Let me get some popcorn before reading these comments.
These are two separate things: (1) the party being right-wing, (2) the immigration or more precisely the lack of integration causing problems for the Swedish society.

The previous left-wing government that basically said "we're taking everybody" had good intentions but extremely poor execution. Merkel's Germany didn't do much better tbh.

In any case, when migrants don't integrate, and you fail to make them do so, you can either ignore the problem hoping it goes away or try to solve it in a way that is human and causes as little suffering as possible.
> Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others

Basically can you provide a new perspective on solving a problem that hasn't been considered or a new way of looking at an existing idea in a new way to unlock a path.
Are there any alternative Windows tiling WMs that would hide the title bars altogether? More than a decade ago, there was a dwm fork for Windows [1] which did this, but no idea how well it works on W10/W11.

1: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dwm-win32/
I dunno - for me git doesn't really have branches. What it calls "branches" could more accurately be called version/commit pointers.

A "branch" traditionally in SCM was a sequence of versions/commits. In those SCMs, the "main" (or master) branch was an identifiable sequence of versions/commits.

There isn't a "main" branch in git, there's a current "main" version/commit. If your history is fully linear, a pointer to the "main" commit allows you, via parent following, to discern a "main" branch. But if you've been using merge, for example, there isn't a unique path from the current main commit to the root.
Because they need to support their executives and capital projects / debt service. That’s the discretionary budget… training doctors doesn’t improve the bottom line.

Hospitals are really quasi-government entities. Their pricing structures have price controls based on Medicare reimbursements. A third of hospital revenue is Medicare and Medicaid.

Both programs have been slowing rate growth, which in turn impacts private insurance as well. The institutions haven’t been successful in reducing cost growth. ACA built out regional cartels^H provider networks, essentially eliminating competition.
Not only that, but you're not even given the compiler. If all you have is the DNA (even if you had the mitochondrial DNA too), you have source code for a language no one knows with no compiler.

Or, more accurately, it's like having binary machine code for an unknown ISA with no information about the CPU, and no example CPU.
What makes you thin the 2GP is relevant here? 2GP has to do with coordination and consensus, not exactly-once-delivery.

> you can simulate it with exactly once _processing_

What exactly do you think is the difference between "simulating" exactly-once delivery and actually having exactly-once delivery? What do you think "delivery" means in the context of a computer network?
Related:

Terence Tao on O1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540902
i wonder if ‘finger’ and ‘.plan’ files can be used for uptime monitoring in similar fashion
What makes you think the 2GP is relevant here? The 2GP has to do with coordination and consensus, not exactly-once delivery.
This is what stolen device protection is for
New table top role playing games come out all the time.
Ah - it's a project that's only for computers that use apt, and probably only amd64. How uninteresting.
Dirtree – Generate directory structure representations in README files. [RUST]
Hey hackers, while learning RUST I built this simple tool for updating the README.md file of your GitHub projects with an updated represenation of your directory structure. I know it's kinda dumb, but some might find it useful :)
Yes, I actually found lots of interesting stuff (for me personally) even in later videos. Just recently I watched the ones where he introduces OpenGL, and found that quite informative.
I only ever used cache to find what google thought was in the site (at the time of crawling) as these days it is common to not find that info in the updated page. For everything else, there is the Internet Archive.
Glad to see Tao using Mastodon instead of Twitter.