skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
libertarian ideology seems rather counter to the existence of a police state. though many in favor of a corporatocracy seem to claim be libertarian as they look no deeper than low taxes and minimal regulation while ignoring the personal liberties for masses as that part isn't profitable for them.
> Xbox and Playstation dont earn AMD much profits at all

It doesn't cost them much either. Lisa Su, in an interview that was posted to HN a few months ago, said it is a deliberate strategy to repackage IP AMD has already developed. They are willing to pull designs from the shelf and customize it to meet partners needs. Having a long tail of products adds up, and sets you up to get first dibs on higher margin partnerships in the future.
Just putting it out there for people who care about the quality of information they consume.
I've used it in anger on a project with an unreasonable start time in its test suite. Put an alert sound on VS when breakpoints were reached let me start a test with debugger attached, and then go do something else for the time it would take to start, but not forget what I had been originally doing.
I especially liked "if you were on the road seeing customers" as if they're reluctantly granting an RTO exception to people meeting with customers and those employees should be thankful for it.
this read like a post written by Grok or Elon himself NGL
This is a site setup by ppl unaffiliated with OAI it seems and has wrong claims -- ex O1 doesn't solve 83% of IMO problems -- it solves 83% of AIME problems which are significantly easier.
People have a real hard time with harm reduction strategies and I don't really know why. Ego, sense of moral authority, bein just plain old mean?

I heard all the same crap when vaping became big 10 years ago.
star wars fashion incoming!
It is actually impressive.

One could argue that writing enabled chain of thought across generations.
sure, but holding a mic boom for entertaining millions of people is not meaningful work
You still holding AIG?

At some point all of your stocks are going to be in recovery mode if you never sell at a loss.
No reason to think they’re not already doing it. Def not 20-30 years out.
Omni/poly wheels have similar drawbacks but perhaps less so. Arranged holonomically they provide about the same abilities. Possibly cheaper to purchase and maintain.
Right. They're blowing money on real estate. Getting a little bit of it back in the form of a tax rebate isn't going to reverse that fact.

You'd think that capitalists would be beyond excited to make the workers pay for their own workspace. Strange that they aren't.
So why do something irrational that is not in the company’s best interest? Must be they want to reduce headcount, but even then, this is a poor way because the people with options will leave.
New Maps features launch only in Bay Area.

CarPlay EV integration works only with Porsche Taycan.

Are they implementing things just for Tim?
> Elves were more imps than tall, eternal sages. See Santa’s elves.

Post-christian elves were diminutive. But Tolkien was using pre-christian myths as a foundation for the LOTR. The elves leaving Middle Earth is a metaphor for the old legends being replaced by sanitised children’s stories.
Sean Combs Arrested in Manhattan After Grand Jury Indictment
Hm. I would have thought the worst of the radioactivity had decayed by now.
The obvious assumption is that they'll try to integrate with more utilities as time goes on and make it a more universal feature.
Apparently the officials relented and put portable units in the bedrooms but not in other areas. Certainly better than only rich countries getting them, but portable units are very inefficient.

(Also, air conditioning can be fully solar powered and in fact has synergistic effects with solar power. And also, making a permanent venue for the Olympics will probably save a lot more resources in the long run, but no one's willing to talk about that.)
I appreciate that Congress is not trying to make the IRS’s job easier. But I found it hard to square their third letter with the idea that they’re not trying to be malicious.

I actually had to contact the DMV the same number of times to get my problem resolved, but at least they didn’t make up a new justification for the discrepancy after abandoning their first attempt.

Your tip to contact my congressperson is a good one and I appreciate it. As a high schooler I interned as a legislative aide so I know that calling in does do something. But I think my faith in the IRS was too high before this happened; I never thought they’d do something like this.
and it just works. I'm glad there's a monopoly of UGC video
Considering how the wins are blowing, I'm going to guess the next consoles from Sony and Microsoft are the last ones to use x86. They'll be forced to switch to ARM for price/performance reasons, with all x86 vendors moving upmarket to try and maintain revenues.
I used to work at a company where running the full test suite took about 10min on my local machine. I would often run

./test.py; beep

where beep is a script I made that plays the Macintosh boot beep[1]. It was pretty useful.

I also did something similar that one time I had to compile LLVM (~4h on my laptop) and that other time I had to compile Firefox (~6h on same laptop).

[1]: https://ieks.cc/articles/mac-beep.html
I suppress all the sound effect alerts Windows makes. They're not helpful, just annoying.

But when debugging real time software, where instrumenting the code breaks it, I would have the code run an instruction that toggles the speaker state. By the tone it makes, I can infer what's happening.
Right. So you don't do that. No development process ever has provided bulletproof predictability. Your job as a project manager is not to provide bullet-proof predictions; it's to manage risk, and expectations, and make sure that development work is correctly prioritized. And of course to keep your development team protected from external insanity, because happy, stress free development teams are productive development teams. (But that's a separate issue).

Here's the feature list; here is where on the list we'll definitely get to, here's where on the list we definitely won't get to, and everything else is some shade of inbetween. Now, would you like to adjust the priorities of any of those features, or would you like to change the deadline?
IF it were a net good, they'd let me disable Shorts. But they don't.
https://xcancel.com/bradneuberg/status/1835680235049869495
since a lot of people here have adhd-tldr, i repeat: not an endorsement, but if you see “the writing on the wall” (i.e. the plebes flushing inalienable rights down the toilet for cash and prizes), and that we’re headed for a feudalism revival, it would take a martyr-like devotion to libertarian principles to abstain from the surveillance-state gold rush.
Justice without mercy is cruelty.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.

- St. Thomas Acquinas
Let us know if you're actually using it in a week or so. (I tried it a couple of times in the beta. It is slow. It is clunky. It is an impractical way to interact with your iPhone.)
Is this the infinite monkey Shakespeare trope?
Amazon already had very high turnover before Covid. Many people don’t stick around (willingly or otherwise) after the year 2 hiring bonus cliff.
I worked for a company where the main workflow was to download an entire postgres dump at the start of the day and work off that. It took 25 min. I aliased our download command to play run a profane version of `say "beep beep"` after it finished. Then one time it spoke up during our stand up and everyone heard. It got more polite thereafter.
Maybe it's moralizing, but I don't think it's wrong. I'm using the same model as you, after all, only I'm applying Kantian ethics instead of unconsidered egoism.

• If you wish yourself maximal reproductive fitness, then all humanity will be your descendants, and the next few centuries of all human interest is your interest.

• The iterated prisoner's dilemma is a classic economic argument, by which Tragedy of the Commons-type behaviours can be averted. (Garrett Hardin's 1968 paper is a load of nonsense.)

I'm not sure what would contrast my earlier "leftist moralizing", because I have absolutely no idea what a leftist is.
It's because feudal is a technical term that has a long and misleading history of being used as a deliberately confusing term of abuse. The professors get ornery about it because they have to clear up the same misconceptions every year. For "dark age," many professors also try to take the opportunity to revise their students' perspective by deliberately highlighting brighter themes of art, philosophy, and so on to jazz up their introductions.

Part of that is just that particular specialty trying to make a case for itself in contrast to the more popular classical and modern periods. Then there is the complexity added by the fact that the classical era never really ended in toto; it just stopped being as evenly distributed.
That's the kind of engineer I like to work with!
In Iran, AI powered facial recognition cameras are being rolled out to catch out any women who dare disobey their religious clothing rules. Once caught, these women often face severe abuses at the hands of the state.

The state in this case believes this is "good behaviour", but this would be shocking to most HN readers. This is a good example of why you should never give one person or organisation too much power.

Who gets to define what "Good behaviour" is?
If you stop doing a thing that has a positive effect on you, the positive effect is gone. Like, if you stop exercising, you lose muscle you've gained by exercising. Does that make exercising a bad thing?
This is the thing: When you "draw the conclusion" you're making shit up. "The roman empire collapsed" <all good "because..." <beginning of making shit up.

All history books should begin with "A map is not the territory" to remind historians what's going on.
We're not in 2012 anymore. Modern players don't only want a clean break to play the new AAA games every month, they also want access to a large indie marketplace, they also want the games they play every day, they also want to improve the performance of the games they already have.
I was sympathetic to the argument that the IRS is overburdened with work before.

But the IRS spent a year harassing me about $300. If that’s the scale of supposed tax fraud that they’re spending staffing resources on I think their prioritization could be improved.
We Turned Social Media Chatter into Explosive Growth–and You Can Too
Was at UNSW recently, can confirm that apple doing special L4 stuff right now.
Theoretical results exist that try to quantify the number of CoT tokens needed to reach different levels of computational expressibility:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07923

TL;DR: Getting to Turing completeness can require polynomial CoT tokens, wrt the input problem size.
For a field that constantly harps on parallelism and compute efficiency, this requirement seems prohibitive.

We really need to get away from constant depth architectures.
You could argue the second amendment has gotten us here.
I think you're misrepresenting the study. It builds upon previous work that examines the computation power of the transformer architecture from a circuit-complexity perspective. Previous work showed that the class of problems that a "naive" Transformer architecture could compute was within TC0 [1, 2] and as a consequence it was fundamentally impossible for transformers to solve certain classes of mathematical problems. This study actually provides a more realistic bound of AC0 (by analyzing the finite-precision case) which rules out even more problems, including such 'simple' ones as modular parity.

We also had previous work that hinted that part of the reason why chain-of-thought works from a theoretical perspective is that it literally allows the model to perform types of computations it could not under the more limited setting (in the same way jumping from FSMs to pushdown automata allows you to solve new types of problems) [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35609652
[2] https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/02/why-cant-li...
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15408
I don't think there's anything about YC inherently misaligned with the next startup era — in fact, they're adapting their model accordingly, hedging their bets + investing in harder tech with higher capex and longer feedback loops. It's gonna take a while to see the new strategy play out, much longer than before in fact. That said, agreed with the general point that the model is changing and the old playbook is not working anymore. I published 5000 words last month that try to analyze this trend within an economics framework: https://giansegato.com/essays/dawn-new-startup-era
Agreed. Team velocity is a poison number. But entirely necessary in order to provide a data-driven approach to converting story points into time predictions (with appropriate disclaimer of risk) that people outside the team need. Data driven! How could that possibly be a bad thing?

Maybe best to just treat it as a classified secret that nobody actually needs to know. People inside the team just need to know that their stories are arranged in correct order of priority. People outside the team actually do need time axes on their burndown chart. But they don't need to actually know the toxic voodoo that was performed to produce the conversion.

:-P

But actually seriously. Nobody needs to know that number.
I agree with the sentiment that it’s a lack of discernment. Mindless consumption of mediocre music starves great talent of the sunlight it deserves.
It’s still perfectly possible to run whatever you like on Mac via virtualisation, which Apple have tried to make easy with a reasonably decent API
There is no doubt that this dystopian view deserves immediate condemnation, but that doesn't meant that there wasn't one possible good idea in there. Don't watch people, just watch the watchmen:

"Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."
Creators of Tailscale think differently: https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux

Having tried similar things myself, I concur. One way to add a bit of sanity is to mandate running dnsmasq which has reasonable control interfaces, but it's overkill.
> [..] something architecturally similar to the mac arm systems would be a reasonable alternative.

It's called the Nintendo Switch, and its the second best selling console of all time.
There are at least 3 things better about JS over JavaScript.
> I do wonder what you actually mean by this.

Spoke to an old friend on the phone recently, for the first time in 10 years or so. Within a few minutes of the conversation, he had used phrases like "As a father..." and "I cannot stand by while..."

It was as if he were speaking to an audience, rather than to me. I was glad when the call ended.
A friend told that at the trading company he worked at, traders set up distinct sounds for alerts.

I was hoping someone with a more direct source would comment in the thread but a quick Cmd-F doesn’t turn up anything!
I agree about one person or organisation too much power, and fear the potential for abuse, but the problem in the Iran example are the theocratic laws, not really the tools that help enforce them. Good behaviour is already defined by each nation's legislation.
On macOS, when I run a long script I add at the end:

say done
That will never happen. There’ve been any number of transparency rules that somehow never make it into production. Look how hard it is today to get a copy of encounter recordings from many agencies.
Amazon _always_ engages in "house always wins" games with ambiguity. They want it both ways
There's more fiction on the Internet than there is in print.
Well they could just look at how many other countries do it... I know, Americans hate to look outside their own borders for examples on anything.

There's no public transit in many places because Americans don't want it and don't support it, and refuse to build densely enough to make public transit economically viable in the first place. You can't have a good transit system when everyone lives far apart from each other in spread-out subdivisions.
It's not really hard or risky (in the sense that we don't know how to do it -- there is regulatory and political risk though). It just needs a lot of money.
Can Multi-Modal LLMs "See" Images? A Deep Dive with ASCII Art
There is an extraordinary _amount_ of writing for sure. Too verbose for me.
The battery life is what got me off. I don't have good charging habits, and nothing was worse than not being able to use your activity tracker for your workout because you forgot to charge it. I got a Garmin and I hardly ever have to think about it now.

Having to plan your day around when to charge your Apple Watch doesn't sound like a good experience to me.
Isn’t this just an effect of high interest rates?
Prerecorded doesn't work. You're watching a 2 hour long ad, and you feel like you are. It was stilted, the presenters sounded borderline AI-generated, and the small bits of humor still had me feeling like the joke was on me, and that I was a sucker for tuning in.

And it's clear that Tim and co. don't understand Jobs's pacing and narrative structure whatsoever. It felt amateurish, even worse than previous pre-recorded keynotes. Jobs used superlatives, but he didn't use them like that. He also didn't scream, Tim.

It's funny. In early 2022, the Apple blogosphere loudly wondered when Apple would go back to "real" keynotes, since Covid was dying down. But Apple was already batting away antitrust concerns, devs were pissed, and WWDC was coming up. I'm convinced that Apple was worried about unenthusiastic crowds, laughter, or even a couple of boos, and decided to delay the return some more. I guess they never got that confidence back.
Unsurprisingly, this is one of the most divisive threads I've seen on HN in a long time. Angry people left and right (working on their couch in their underwear no doubt) pettily downvoting every post they disagree with. Chill out, everyone.
Why don't we start with some in his house and office?
Generally, literature on the computational power of the SAME neural architecture can differ on their conclusions based on their premises. Assuming finite precision will give a more restrictive result, and assuming arbitrary precision can give you Turing completeness.

From a quick skim this seems like it's making finite precision assumptions? Which doesn't actually tighten previous bounds, it just makes different starting assumptions.

Am author of [1].
> "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said

He's not even trying to frame it as "the weight of crime will be lifted from the people so they can prosper". It's "citizens will be on their best behavior". I've got a suspicion that he envisions a separate world for himself that does not involve such monitoring.
Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash
Well if you wanted a whole deep dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ZCzhoeQMg&t=828s

But I can distill it down to

1. social media coalescing to maybe 5-7 different sites in the country, which all have a similar "minimalist" feel, based on non-controversial UX designs and trend chasing (TikTok being the current trend).

2. search engines (so, Google and Bing) steering people towards SEO optimized slop over the proper quality blogs/websites. You're incenivized to clickbait to get attention. you need to dig real deep to find the gold these days, and the pile is only getting deeper.

3. Monetization forcing more and more ads for companies to survive, if at all. Some sites went the paywall route instead, but news these days is very hard to monetize for the mainstream (again, social media will deliver it)

4. few/no personalization. The Myspace era shifting towards the Facebook era really killed this idea of having a real, unique brand and identity (due to #1).

5. Social media became both lonlier and more hostile, somehow. You don't really make "friends" on the internet the same way you may have been able to in the 2000's where you just find some MMO or chatroom and bond with others. But at the same time, everything is so loud. People aren't talking to each other on insagram/tiktok/twitter, they are at best talking about themselves as a brand (so, advertising themselves. Or maybe literally advertising on behalf of a company), or talking at other people about whatever little drama of the day/week is going on. When's the last time you had a proper conversation with a rando on Twitter?

The internet is vast though, so you can indeed still find the fun. But you are becoming an excavator day by day to do so. And if you're into any more niche hobbies, I wish you the best of luck in finding others these days (the coalescing of groups to reddit and FB is a whole other rant).
Right, the model YC used in 2007 won’t work now which is why they don’t do it anymore.
Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science
Another good video about Mecanum Wheels, by Jeremy Fielding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlsCUzCCc-k
I am from far enough back in time (started with 1st edition and then went to 2nd - and had almost all of the codexes, even though I only played a single faction/army) I would buy codexes (army books) for all the armies, because I liked the art and the lore.

The 2nd edition box set was about ~£35 in 1993, adjusted for inflation that would be ~£73 now - which then when converted into CAD is well...alot more than what I just paid for 10th edition (about $80 CAD+tax). So - it's a good deal - and I am sure that there is overlap amongst friends during edition changeover.

5-year cycle would be a happy medium, but "that's just like my opinion man"...
While I appreciate the article, I think the author misses the main point of the lies about the Haitians. They aren't saying it because they think it's true, they're saying it because they can't call them the n word, and this is their way of signaling they want to. This claim didn't start out of some misunderstanding, it's trash gutter racism and it's being spread by racists to signal their allegiance to their world view.
Ah my bad, great catch! I've updated my comment accordingly.
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> We have mathematically proven that transformers can solve any problem

We should require that you've passed an algorithms and a thermodynamics class before you can post.
Just guessing but probably more something like Amazon striking a deal with Intel while they're desperate.
I would really really like a VSCode extension that went "bing" when a build finishes. I think that would seriously boost my productivity.
Fail to see the relevance but here is another one; Are Muslim Attitudes Tuned For Economic Progress? by Dr. Jamshed Uppal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zaQgIEJ4s