skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could ask a tangential question within this topic: How's the professional side of graphics programming these days? Maybe not right this moment since nothing in tech is great, but just the vibes and changes over the last decade. I got some 8 years in gaming, but would still like to one day turn my hobbyist toy renderers I do on the side into a chance to dig into some professional grade engines.

My current vibe is that it just seems impossible, with 30 different ways a graphics programming interview can go, and positions are shifting more to Unity/Unreal engine devs over someone who can manage/maintain a shader pipeline or dig deep into optimizing buffer queues and draw calls.
I just returned to Rust after a few years, and the syntax is even more unreadable. Half of my code is just type signatures. I don't remember it being like that back in 2016 -- it seems like the convention changed and any crate you import returns the wildest types.
I think Samsung saying, hey chill, they just deformed and didn't explode, sort of misses the point. I wouldn't want a little Roman Candle going off in my ear either, which is how batteries usually fail.
You could push it to extinction: social media is putting rarest wildlife at risk
Eh. The standard library is also a gigantic dependency written entirely by volunteers.
You just described all computational tasks that don’t open with ‘first, dig up some sand and some copper ore’.
I think the interaction between both communities is exactly the reason of the current state.
He did mention tangling
Fontconfig on Linux has an option to set the subpixel layout, though currently only rgb, but, vrgb and vbgr are supported. Maybe this could be extended for OLED monitors
“Don’t have cables” is pretty much 100% of the reason why I prefer wireless headphones.

My hearing is already fucked from exposure to loud noises, so the sound quality difference doesn’t matter at all. The latency with AirPods is also rarely noticeable. And charging? Not a huge issue either tbh. I’ve to charge everything else…
You fuck around...
How do you solve this for other languages you use?
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I have tried to use Llama3-7b and 70b, for Ancient Greek and it is very bad. I will test Llama 3.2, but GPT is great at that. You might want to generate 2 or 3 GPT translations of Ancient Greek and select the best sentences from each one. Alongside with some human corrections, and it is almost unbeatable by any human alone.
Sure, it’s a ballpark, but in the context of a conversation about how many innocent people are being executed, I think the wrongful conviction rate of the entire prison population is less relevant than a ballpark rate of those wrongfully sentenced to life/death. For example, if the wrongful conviction rate for minor offenses or white collar crimes was as high as 10%, it wouldn’t necessarily indicate that 10% of people sentenced to death were also wrongfully convicted. Its very possible that juries dealing with more serious crimes and more serious punishments are more careful in their decisions or innately require a higher burden of proof to convict.

I assumed that most of the letters received by the IP are for life/death sentences or at least major crimes with multi-decade long sentences, which I think would probably have a more consistent wrongful conviction rate in the group vs. the entire prison population.

And while you’re right that the IP might only have the resources to attempt to overturn the top X% cases, one could assume that they don’t win all their cases and that the next tier of cases they don’t accept would have diminishing returns.

So I think it’s fair to treat this estimate as closer to a lower bound with some significant error bars, but I’d be surprised if the reality is 5x or 10x higher.
I wonder if, when Google was trying to make a free OS so it could ensure its services were preinstalled and nagging while avoiding being totally beholden to Apple, it realised that the big appeal to hardware manufacturers who adopted it was that it helped them enshitten things for their users?
People wear phones on their faces?
Of course he wouldn't, the whole point of Turing's essay was that talking about the "intelligence" of computer systems is meaningless, and we should be focusing on their actual capabilities instead.

His test was an example of a target that can't prove intelligence either way, but can still show a useful capability of a computer system. And he believed it wasn't as far away as it actually was.
I love the over-the-back-of-the-neck earbuds, specifically the ones from OnePlus that turn off if you use the magnet to turn them off. I don't think they are popular, so I've ordered a few for when they eventually stop getting made.
How do I view Jellyfin and SmartTube on an Apple TV?
Wireless buds also don’t pull out of my ears when the wire gets caught, or need replacing when the moving parts wear down (I’ve had my current earbuds for several years, I can’t remember ever having wired headphones that lasted more than one)

I agree we should still have the option of either more easily but I’d still be picking the wireless ones to be honest.
Wouldn't such a statement rather be written by her own lawyers and trusted advisors?

Either way, it's meaningless prose.
I'm sorry, but that feels like an incredibly poorly informed decision.

One thing is to decide to vendor everything - that's your prerogative - but it's very likely that pulling everything in also pulls in tons of stuff that you aren't using, because recursively vendoring dependencies means you are also pulling in dev-dependencies, optional dependencies (including default-off features), and so on.

For the things you do use, is it the number of crates that is the problem, or the amount of code? Because if the alternative is to develop it in-house, then...

The alternative here is to include a lot of things in the standard library that doesn't belong there, because people seem to exclude standard libraries from their auditing, which is reasonable. Why is it not just as reasonable to exclude certain widespread ecosystem crates from auditing?
Why, concretely, does this matter?

Other than people who care about relatively obscure concerns like distro packaging, nobody is impeded in their work in any practical way by crates having a lot of transitive dependencies.
That's a complete other topic. DBOS also doesn't fit in this stack. And what has SAML to do with it?
I also find it curious if not distressing that this wasn’t pinned at #1 all day. To be clear: I’m quite sure that @dang is deeply committed to running a clean shop on moderation.

But whether something highly unlikely and slightly sensational like a finger on the scales, or the far more likely and utter banal explanation that people in vast numbers see their fates as intertwined with the status quo, the result is the same: on some deep institutional level HN is never going to hold Altman to account.

So the question becomes, what authority handles the cases the community can’t? On paper that’s regulators and legislators. Those folks ostensible and actual missions aren’t identical, and differ more with time, but they intersect at “prevent would-be autocrats being so brazen as to provoke de facto revolt”.

The public doesn’t hate Big Tech generally and its sociopath fringe specifically enough to make it a true wedge issue yet, but it’s trending that way.

I’d go so far as to say that most almost anyone breathing the Bay air isn’t capable of truly internalizing how deeply the general public loathes the modern Valley machine: it’s dramatically more than Wall St at any time.

It’s getting even trickier than usual to predict which historical social norms are still bright lines, but “profiting personally via using a charity as a vehicle for fraud” is still putting popular people in prison with bipartisan support.

And Altman isn’t popular even here. He’s feared here, but loved almost nowhere.
Ask HN: Resources about ML applied to moder physics
It's kind of a general question, but I studied physics until my master and then moved to computer science for my PhD and I would like to keep track (more or less) of the latest (or more interesting) application of ML to physics. I was thinking about this while seeing some results about ML and string theory, I did a very quick search and I found something, but I was wondering if someone here had some better info. In particular I would prefer video lectures, but I know they're harder to find than papers or books. Anyway any help is appreciated!
Aswath Damodaran did an analysis on Meta valuation. He found out that even if all the 10s of billions being invested give 0 in terms of revenue it doesn't have much impact on its stock value and in turn companies value. So, I think it would be stupid for Zuckerberg to not invest in Metaverse unless he is missing some better opportunity.
What the article calls a "vunerability" is something they found internally.

Looking at vulnerabilities that were found from attacks, it looks different. [1]
Most vulnerabilities are fixed in the first weeks or months. But ones that aren't fixed within a year hang on for a long time. About 18% of reported vulnerabilities are never fixed.

[1] https://www.tenable.com/blog/what-is-the-lifespan-of-a-vulne...
This isn’t new, but does highlight the fact that Apple often doesn’t let us have nice things. iPads do tend to be single-user devices in practice, but every time I have to help family or friends set one up I am taken aback by how much computing power they have today and how much more useful they could be.

Multi-user is just one thing, but especially galling for people on lower budgets or who want a tablet for family use.

But Apple is not alone. My Nexus 7 Android tablets (the first tablets I bought for my kids, second-hand off of eBay) supported multi-user quite well. I haven’t seen any modern Android tablets that do that (and I looked around at Android 11/12/13 tablets recently).
> It feels like most nontrivial crates would often need some unsafe

As a frequent contributor to a number of crates, this isn‘t really true. Also, most popular crates actively deny use of unsafe.
I take a totally different position than you do. If I can't think of a technical reason Google can't get data from something, I assume they do. Why do you think otherwise? Google's full of exactly the same rapacious MBA types that Facebook is, and has the exact same obligations to its shareholders. They're essentially the same business (trap users in your services to mine their data and show them ads). I honestly see very little difference.
I’ve also thought about that based on the same info, i.e. not reading the source completely.

There is a notion of a “Pollyanna mode” in schematherapy. What it means is ignoring negative facts and challenges with an outwardly positive attitude and avoiding addressing the issues themselves.

This certainly can be harmful to oneself. Another harmful thing is hating and bashing oneself for mistakes and faults and I won’t make a comparative judgement, but a healthy way is supposed to be along the lines of speaking up openly about what bothers you and thinking what can be done about it if at all.
The dependency hell issue is not directly related to Rust. The Rust language can be used without using any dependency. Have you banned javascript and python too?
Infuse app for Jellyfin. It works very well. Afraid I don’t know the other one.
> Parson, a former sheriff, has never granted clemency in a death penalty case.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/missouri-governor-st...

> Parson, a former sheriff, has been in office for 11 executions, and has never granted clemency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/parson-state-supreme-co...
A single board PC or a laptop.
Like me, you use a cheap Kodi box instead of an Apple TV.

But OP's advice still stands: don't connect your TV to the internet.
Once we discovered a handful of sustainable ones that can be farmed? Significantly. Identifying the 100th egg laying bird after you have your egg laying factory is much less interesting.
>named let

Serapeum has you covered: https://github.com/ruricolist/serapeum/blob/master/REFERENCE...
What you call bias, I call simply a representation of a training corpus. There is no broad agreement on how to quantify a bias of the model, other than try one-shot prompts like your "who is the most hated Austrian painter?".

If there was no Germany-specific data in the training corpus - it is not fair to expect LLM to know anything about Germany.

You can check a foundation model from Chinese LLM researchers, and you will most likely see Sino-centric bias just because of the training corpus + synthetic data generation was focused on their native/working language, and their goal was to create foundation model for their language.

I challenge any LLM sceptics - instead of just lazily poking holes in models - create a supposedly better model that reduces bias and lets evaluate your model with specific metrics
Totally disagree.

WP engine has made their entire business off the backs of others, and passes off their own modified version of Wordpress as Wordpress.

If they don’t want to be seen as a parasite (or a cancer) they could contribute fairly to the development as others do.

If they want to use the mark, then all they need to do is use Wordpress as published.

What’s unreasonable about that?
There’s a fairly good AppleTV Jellyfin app. It’s free.
Created encrypted room on matrix.org with my matrix.org user
Invited my account from my self-hosted homeserver.
Chat works.
I'm curious, what drama in the Rust community are you referring to?

I see some drama associated with Rust, but it's usually around people resisting its usage or adoption (the recent kerfuffle about Rust for Linux, for example), and not really that common within the community. But I could be missing something?

Zig is great, but it just isn't production ready.
If I'm not mistaken, LG uses WebOS, which dates back to the Palm Pre.
Ask him about next year's Eclectic BBQ
It's a shame that it's such a taboo analogy to use in professional situations, because I've found explaining things to friends via "the Pornhub analogy" to be the final thing that makes them 'click' when explaining similar things relating to the web.

E.g. "I don't get it, what's the difference between git and github? Well, it's the same as the difference between porn and pornhub. Oooooh I get it now."

Same here. What's the difference between the 'Social Web(™)' and the internet as a place full of social "web" spaces? Well, it's the same as the difference between the 'PornHub(™)' and the internet as a place full of porn "hubs".

Sorry, I'll let myself out.
I suppose this depends on your definition of "nontrivial", but I don't think most would, unless you count the fact that some stuff in std is implemented with unsafe under the hood. The only times I've ever needed to use unsafe Rust code in 5~ years of writing it professionally was for interfacing with a vendor-specific C library, and that was only for the wrapper around it; the rest of the code didn't need to use unsafe.
What if I want to go climb a mountain? Or go skiing? What if my family can't afford to move, or have good reasons not to move to the ideal city?

There are plenty of reasons you might want to leave somewhere even if it is quite literally perfect.
May be something like this : https://youtu.be/f5k0XY3kW0s

I would search for workshops or conferences by Sandia National Laboratories
> AI could already do their jobs better than them

If AI could already do jobs better than a human, then people would just use AIs instead of hiring people. It looks like we are getting there, slowly, but right now there are very few jobs that could be done by AIs.

I can't think of a single person that I know that has a job that could be replaced by an AI today.
Problem is not children having access to it. It is more parents outsourcing parenting to YouTube/TikTok or Meta. If parents still take responsibility on how much and where the child spends their time, it is no different than any other tech gadget. People are concerned about new tech since the time of Guttenberg.
The engineers who wrote the High C compiler must have been able to read and write english well enough to have read documentation and source code for existing compilers, and I would imagine that this book was written by the creators of the language.
>Real black holes form over time, and worldlines don’t enter them

That's not correct. It only appears that way in some forms of diagrams because of their choice of coordinate system or the way they display lines of constant time/space. But all black holes (eternal Penrose and normal ones) have worldlines entering them normally. The claim that these worldlines would suddenly stop at the horizon for no particular reason is pretty wild (but not completely new). I don't think the majority of physicists would doubt that an observer could fall inside a black hole (particularly large black holes with low tidal forces), because from their point of view there would be absolutely nothing unusual happening at the horizon.
Just one?

1Password
I don't know what Jellyfin or SmartTube is.. but I do watch videos from other sources such as Samba shares, and for that I use Infuse. The Apple TV app is really good and there's a client for macOS and iOS as well.
It deals with things that have been staged, so if you don't want to commit then don't stage it. I believe a dirty working tree is fine (and gets ignored).
I know these might have very interesting and even noble applications (think hearing-impaired people), but the last thing I would want in my life is looking even more at screens.
Well that's probably a plus for all the headphones with the battery in the stem. Never thought about it that way.
The features shipped by Anthropic in the past month are far more practical and provide clear value for builders than o1's chain of thought improvements.

- Prompt Cache, 90% savings on large system prompts for 5 mins of calls. This is amazing

- Contexual RAG, while not ground breaking idea, is important thinking and method for better vector retrieval
It sounds like a chiptune remix of "Kobito of the Shining Needle ~ Little Princess" from Touhou 14.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1yYDzvFtQ
I built a couple of desktop utilities with Godot, and they work fine on both Mac and Windows (I didn’t need to use them in Linux since they are mostly file grouping/management things). Pretty solid.

The one thing I don’t like about it is that you can’t really get the apps to look “native” in any shape or form, and that you have to roll your own widgets for a few things (which is why I went back to some of the wxWidgets stuff I have listed in https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/native)
WP Engine does about half a billion in revenue on top of WordPress and contribute back 40 hours a week, Automattic is a similar size and contributes back 3,915 hours a week. I wouldn't mind for WP Engine to go lose.
You know, I agree

And there's a lot of things that are weird or clunky

I honestly don't "get" the "no classes, just struct methods thing" and while, sure, C++ is kinda like that, but the ergonomics are weird. I'd much rather have the class/methods declaration as most languages do

Lifetimes are good but the implementation is meh. Most cases could do with a default lifetime.

Copy/borrow strictness is good to think about but in most cases we don't care? Copy should probably the default and then you borrow in special cases
Now I’m curious. Can you share some example articles please?
The parser is shockingly fast. The slow parts come after parsing, where we process all those function definitions and structure definitions, only to end up throwing 98% of them away.

A challenging architectural problem that several of us are trying to get someone nerdsniped into: inverting the dependency tree, such that you first check what symbols exist in a large crate like windows, then go to all the crates depending on it and see what they actually consume, then go back and only compile the bits needed for those symbols.

That'd be a massive improvement to compilation time, but it's a complicated change. You'd have to either do a two-pass compilation (first to get the symbol list, then again to compile the needed symbols) or leave that instance of the compiler running and feed the list of needed symbols back into it.
>Note: You do _need_ an iPad or an iPhone to accept the terms and condition to download apps.

I... don't think that's correct. I bought and set up an Apple TV less than a year ago, and I've never owned an iPhone or iPad. I don't remember having to do anything unusual to download apps.

(I did happen to have a pre-existing Apple account from back when I owned a click-wheel iPod, and I used that during set-up. Maybe that's the difference?)
Good on you, this approach will keep you employed for a looooooooong time, because someone has to write all that code then, right? ;)
The rapid advancement of technology and the increasing complexity of cyber threats require continuous innovation and adaptation in the cybersecurity world. This dynamic field necessitates security professionals to constantly develop new tools and techniques
Qwen2.5 has a 32B release, and quantised at q5_k_m it *just about" completely fills a 4090.

It's a good model, too.
He is in Russia?
Did he tried to run his own server _over vpn_?
I did encounter a lot of strange issues with network connectivity if one of nodes is in Russia (especially on non-datacenter connection).TSPU could cause a lot of issues (to protect children from terrorists -:)). First thing to check is making _relilable_ encrypted VPN and checking via it.
This isn't necessarily a language problem, though, more of a "culture" problem, I think.

I write in Clojure and I take great pains to avoid introducing dependencies. Contrary to the popular mantra, I will sometimes implement functionality instead of using a library, when the functionality is simple, or when the intersection area with the application is large (e.g. the library doesn't bring as many benefits as just using a "black box"). I will work to reduce my dependencies, and I will also carefully check if a library isn't just simple "glue code" (for example, for underlying Java functionality).

This approach can be used with any language, it just needs to be pervasive in the culture.
The blinding flash of annoyance I feel each time the wires catch on a doorhandle is probably more likely to kill me with chip damage to my heart rate than a battery explosion to be honest.
Swiftfin https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728
My takeaway from the thread is that LLM-use seems to be the manifestation of student's disinterest, dissatisfaction, and potentially poor attention spans. Comment from one student (who, from what I glean from the thread, is probably more capable than average).

There is one comment from a student in the thread. Sure they seem angry, but I also see their point:

> I have used chatgpt in literally all of my essays this semester, and got an average grade of 8-9.

> ...

> But you know why, at least in my case, I always get away with it? Because all of the work I have to do requires ZERO critical thinking from my side. In fact, it is even worse to use it sometimes. Don't you even dare to come up with your own opinions!!! Just quote someone that is already quoting someone and so and so on.

> I know most students don't give a single flick about your class and that unmotivates but damn it is the 5th year you ask for the same essay and we know you don't even read half of them. Why would I lose so much time doing something literally no one cares about.

> TL;DR: If a machine can do most college essays it's because they were mechanical jobs already.
Ugh I know, I did plenty of linear algebra, matrices and high level maths in uni and then basically lost all knowledge of it once I graduated and started in web-dev.

Time to bust out the khan academy courses I suppose.
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