skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NATO explicitly added plans to offer membership to Ukraine and Georgia at the Bucharest summit,

That's the complete opposite of what happened. The key outcome of the Bucharest summit is that Ukraine and Georgia were explicitly denied Membership Action Plans, which would have been the crucial step needed to move their application forward. Instead they got kicked downstairs to "aspirational" status, which they both complained loudly and bitterly about. This was very, very big news at the time.

So no, Ukraine was not "absolutely moving toward membership" as of that date. They might be moving in a different direction now, but if so that's a result of the invasion, not the 2008 summit.
I think calling it a conspiracy theory is a bit of a stretch. I could be wrong. I agree that's how it should be. But I don't get the impression there are lot of fans of Google in the Prize Committee. Either way, it's not something that matters too much. Just a thought.
Targeted Intel OneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out Spec Submissions
Reasonable advice. However it's worth keeping in mind that HDMI supports Ethernet passthru so it too can be used to connect out.
Does that mean that computer scientists who do neural network research should be considered physicists? Do physics journals accept submissions on neural networks research under the same justification?
Well, come on, not that far apart.

When I see someone trying this hard to be smart I just hear "REEEEEEEEE" or "Well actually......"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

You want to engage in a debate involving cited sources? What's good for the goose is good for the gander - write a response with a citation or two that rebuts a key point. Otherwise, asking for sources in online arguments is borderline trolling.
You seem be under the delusional understanding that a contract, if agreed to, must be legal and enforceable.
interestingly bq.co.uk redirects to diy.com though that doesn't mean they own it
All things are transient; All things will end. At least this isn't ending with the island being abandoned by humans and the cats trained to depend on them being abandoned to starve.
Congrats to the laureates! Maybe a Computing prize should be created though, like Nobel did not create the "nobel prize of economy".Though you could argue that Computing is Math? What are computer scientists usually awarded with?

edit: s/rewarded/awarded
Sincerely, I don't like a shadow cast over the Turing and Gödel prizes. These awards have long honored groundbreaking achievements in computing and logic.
i mean, france does purex, japan too, soon us too. fast reactors are slowly rolling out in some countries like india, china, russia, even eu has some projects in mind
Bringing permission based emailing rules to Gmail
Some systems are still using EBCDIC.
> Technically, the duck-rabbit figure is an ambiguous (or reversible, or bistable) figure, not an illusion

> From a constructivist point of view, many illusions illustrate the role of unconscious inferences in perception, while the ambiguous figures illustrate the role of expectations, world-knowledge, and the direction of attention (Long & Toppino, 2004).

In my opinion the ambiguous figure is also a form of illusion.

The given distinction isn't really valid because our expectations and knowledge are also part of that same unconscious interference that our brain does.

One is just a lower-order mechanism and the other a higher order mechanism.

But both of those interference happen in the chain of operations between the light hitting our eyeballs and when we consciously 'perceive' it in our minds eye.
How difficult it is to self host? Is backend (the mesh) also open source?
So is it Kotlin?
Apple's Solution to Translating Gendered Languages
MobileLLM: Optimizing Subbillion Parameter Language Models for OnDevice UseCases
Of curse that's true.

That's your goal as a service provider, not as a consumer.
No|Low code solutions often generates hard to maintain code so you essentially find yourself locked to the platform and version you started with.
Military Liaison Missions
Not AFAIK and with websites that make AI easier and easier it will be exceedingly more difficult to enforce such things. I think the site and it's services or products would have to be designed to incentivize one-person to one-account meaning that having more accounts would be a loss of benefits and just adding friction, effort and wasted time. Or conversely staying on one account and making more purchases and more customer reviews from that account means more discounts and benefits, maybe even some type of automated voting influence over what products and/or services get discounts that week meaning the site favors the real accounts that use the site the most.
Show HN: KaibanJS – JavaScript Framework for Building Multi-Agent Systems
Hey HN,

A couple of friends and I spent the last three months working on KaibanJS, an open-source framework for building AI multi-agent systems.

Honestly, we’re not 100% sure it’s fully ready for launch. But we’d love to get your feedback on it.

The idea came from us trying to find a native JS solution for working with AI agents, and we couldn’t find anything that really fit well with the JS ecosystem… stuff like React, Next, State management, etc. So, we decided to build it ourselves.

Because KaibanJS runs in the browser, we also built a cool UI—a Kanban board, kinda like Trello, that lets you visualize your agents as they work. It's much better than having to look at AI agent logs in the console ;)

KaibanJS is designed to make working with agents easier for JS devs, without dealing with all the low-level stuff, but it’s flexible enough to handle more complex setups if needed. (We even use LangChain behind the scenes for some of the orchestration.)

We’re excited to hear what you think, and any feedback would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance
It’s sadly a bit more of a proof of concept than a hackable project. The docker build in the readme did work last time I tried, and there is a demo site at https://jprendes.github.io/emception/, but I’ve failed to modify it in the past to do other things

There is a fork at https://github.com/emception/emception that is trying to make it more production ready, but it looks like that may have stalled
I was one! For, heck, I think six years I picked up Nicotine 'thanks' to vaping. It hit several boxes - appetite suppressant, stimulant, tasty.

At the time I was having to put in a lot of long shifts. It helped until it didn't. Patches work great, strongly recommended.
> As much as I would like macOS on iPads, running macOS applications on an iPad without the Magic Keyboard would suck.

The ability to run macOS on an iPad with a keyboard and mouse (and perhaps even a second screen), and run ipad OS when you're away from those things would be pretty great.

The hardware is already capable of this.
> Why would those companies CEOs want to hurt their golden package before exiting the industry?

Due to a sense of decency and humanity and a realisation they have more than they could ever spend and could be happy working to leave the world better than they found it?

Wow, I’m sorry, just got woozy there for a moment, must be all the fumes. Nice dream, though.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Debian. No systemd, no issue :p
Einstein received the Nobel prize in 1921, but your point is still correct.
I did, and I hope you will promote that fact a bit more overtly, because its kind of important for some .. especially in Europe ..
Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can't say no to Google's surveillance
... Japan: no real nuclear 'restart', less and less fossil fuel, more and more renewables: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
Yes, but for his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and more broadly, for his lifetime as an author.

(Admittedly, even more broadly, the prize was the Nobel Committee wanting to acknowledge his leadership in WW2, but still.)
What if the next breakthrough is complex and not directly accessible from our current state of math/physics thought?

I see no reasons to expect steady progress. Nobody knows how long it would take to prove Riemann hypothesis, for example.
According to Wikipedia, problems with broadcasting rights meant it wasn't really repeated after the original 1980's broadcasts.

As an aside, it's hardly surprising our American cousins haven't heard of Terrahawks. I doubt the tongue in cheek humour (typified by 'robot ball' Sergeant Major Zero) would translate well!
macOS Crash with `UnixDatagram`
That's how it works in my state. The right before left thing is just the tie breaker.
Lol I almost choked laughing at this lmaoo
Interesting notion, I notice the same with image models, less stylistic more blandness on the latest generation. Only MJ seems to have style as a feature.
Ok, so under what logic does ML become physics?
What happens to the mesh if this doesn't work out as a commercial enterprise and the company behind it goes away? Practically speaking how much of it is running on your computer's today?
You are absolutely correct, the current wording causes confusion as to where the speed-up happens. Over the weekend I'll add a note and link to this thread, thanks for pointing that out.
Ideally you can only retry error codes where it is guaranteed that no backend logic has executed yet.
This prevents retry amplification.
It also has the benefit that you can retry all types of RPCs, including non-idempotent ones.
One example is if the server reports that it is overloaded and can't serve requests right now (loadshedding).

Without retry amplification you can do retries ASAP, which has much better latency. No exponential backoff required.

Retrying deadline exceeded errors seems dangerous. You are amplifying the most expensive requests, so even if you only retry 20% of all RPCs, you could still 10x server load.
Ideally you can start loadshedding before the server grinds to a halt (which we can retry without risk of amplification).
Having longer RPC deadlines helps the server process the backlog without timeouts.
That said, deadline handling is a complex topic and YMMV depending on the service in question.
Another javascript framework… Do we really need more of these?
No, it is called a losers fundraising
The X32 ABI is not the same as the 32-bit mode used to run "i686" binaries on x86_64 (that would be the i386 ABI).
How do you use it then? A Roku is more secure?
Bob Dylan is the Boomer poet laureate.
Hack on Self: The Alt-Tab Annihilator
Einstein received the Nobel prize:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/
Just wait till you hear what they built with all the things we learned about atoms and energy in the 30s and 40s!
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768144
I would argue that the first measurements of exoplanets' existence is definitely physics. This was a leap in our understanding of the makeup of the universe.
Just because those countries could not realistically engage in a war with the US, seeing as they lack the necessary technology. Obviously, if you shoot fish in a barrel you're not starting a war with the fish, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're doing much to advance peace with the fish.
Adding some funk to an old Vtech toy
This is unlikely to ever happen, because Nobel explicitly excluded mathematics from the list of prizes in his will. There are plenty of awards and prizes for every field imaginable, not everything has to be a Nobel prize to be worthy of recognition.
but for multi-agent systems, and AI in general Javascript options are pretty limited. And finding one that integrates easily with react, next, node, handles state management, etc? that's been tricky
Good on you for trying to contact local e-waste! I feel most people (incl my uncle) just toss and forget
If you abstract away enough, you will always get to "X is less than ideal".

Food is less than ideal, war is less than ideal, death is less than ideal, HN is less than ideal.

Are you satisfied with this sort of Twitter-like posting and thinking? I am not.

Pixels are basically free and we should strive to post more than one-sentence snarks. For one-sentence snarks and drive-by dismissals, Reddit is the ideal territory.
It's not about energy density but availability. If a nation cannot buy uranium (scarce resources, embargo...) it loses at least temporarily its nuclear infrastructure (and gasps for energy).

This is not a real concern for renewables.

> Nuclear is capturing strong and weak forces

Other (way more practical and determinant) parameters are less enticing. For example: it 'burns' uranium and produces dangerous waste.
AI Prompts as the Operating System for Your Business
the economics prize is not 'official', it was established by the Swedish National Bank in honor to Alfred Nobel.
Then again, its just mathturbation, but standalone and it can pretend to have a theory of everything, so fits well into the field.
> There are no closed-ecosystem alternatives!!

Any Android phone is closed-ecosystem if you don’t enable sideloading.

> However there are thousands of alternatives to Apple.

Nice! So you have plenty of choice if you don’t like where it goes with Apple.

> It is don’t like don’t buy, as literally NO ONE NOR ANY SITUATION FORCES YOU TO BUY AN iPhone. You need a PHONE, not an iPhone.

That’s correct, so there’s no issue with someone enforcing Apple to make changes, because you can always switch to something else?

> Also in what world does Apple have half the market?

In a world called US, Canada and good chunk of Europe.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...
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In the old days, you’d get a knighthood or a peerage for such achievements.

But honestly, I’d still prefer cash.
> So what's your plan when the fraction keeps shrinking?

What fraction? How would it shrink?

I don’t think that humans, as a species, are becoming non intelligent en masse. In fact, I think that we are, by default, intelligent.

That’s where our opinions seem to irreconcilably differ.

> you will be faced with the fact that there's nothing magical about intelligence.

I dont think there’s anything “magical” about anything. I just don’t think that a statistical model can achieve intelligence as we think of it with regards to humans.

You may see the recent trend of text generation models as new intelligent machines, but I’ve been studying and working these kinds of statistical models for about a decade (since 2016) and have seen these opinions spouted only to quiet down once the logarithmic improvement curve is reached. I don’t see any reason why these LLMs wouldn’t follow the same pattern.

> This is simple interpolation

Interpolation of what? You’re assuming that the goalpost will always shift, but in reality we just don’t have a generally agreed upon definition all.
Either way, any definition of intelligence that rules out the majority of humanity is an incorrect definition off the bat, as pretty much all humans are intelligence.

There exists some accurate definition of intelligent such that almost any human satisfies it, but statistical models do not.
I’m sure if I studied the philosophy of intelligent I could put one into words, but I’m ill equipped to do so.

> If you can't project that far forward, I question whether you meet any meaningful definition of "intelligent" right now.

Are you just trying to be mean, or do you actually believe that people who disagree with you are not intelligent?

We’ll see in 5 years that this intelligence hype will fade just like that last 2 AI booms.

This isn’t at all to say that we will never make a machine with intelligence that rivals humans, just that I don’t think the statistical model route will get us there… and it hasn’t.
Rust (the language) is rolling off the Volvo assembly (not the language) line
SSR is effectively long polling with a standardised format and is browser native.

Also writing a client ontop of an existing HTML client is very very easy so even when not on web it's east to implement...
Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice
Multi agent systems in javascript? javascript is the last thing I’d use for anything serious like AI
I consume many audiobooks and I usually love an audiobook narrator to the point they are a value add itself or I hate the way they speak and I literally can't read the book. The former is very rare though and the later much more common.

The ability to change voices to one that suites a person's taste is hardly a race to the bottom. It is a HUGE value add.

I am sure lamplighters were not happy about the light bulb either.

c'est la vie.

Breaking the audible monopoly sounds like a nice side effect too.
Yes, I completely agree that the law shouldn't pick favorites.

To clarify: the creators of the majority of online content haven't consented to their content being used to build AI models for any company or organization. For US-based "creators", that includes both domestic companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and foreign companies like ByteDance.
Vectorize debuts agentic RAG platform for real time enterprise data
Honestly it feels a bit weird with a Nobel laureate in physics who probably knows a lot less physics than even I* do… Makes me cringe a bit to be honest.

Also makes me sad when I think about all the physicists and engineers who have made the chips that can train multi-billion parameter neural networks possible. I mean the so-called “bitter lesson” of AI is basically “don’t bet against the physicists at ASML et al”. No prize for them?

(*) I have a humble masters in engineering physics, but work in ML and software.
> would have annexed Scotland if it didn't use marriage instead

Would have tried, perhaps.
Thank you! I was concerned about having a hooks-only API.
I'm annoyed that he was awarded just now, obviously as a reaction to ChatGPT and the breakthrough of LLMs. If his work is worthy, it has been worthy many years ago.

This reinforces the reduction of ML to LLMs, just like the use of the term AI.
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But Hinton was not in favor of LLMs anyway, he argued backprop is not what the brain does and that we should do better than these models. I'd say Google would be a great place for someone thinking like that.
you'll be wanting https://www.youtube.com/@century21films28
Now,it is also too late for Kohonen, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuvo_Kohonen
Speaking of dodgy things in sheds, as a heads-up Hexamine fuel tablets are now illegal to possess in the UK - so campers and model steam engine enthusiasts beware.
Which were you referring to?
Perhaps. I was just trying it on Ubuntu, and found that while I can add x32 as an architecture on dpkg, there aren't any x32 versions of libc6 and other basic libraries. The odd part is, I distinctly recall playing with x32 assembly quite recently on Ubuntu with no special configuration, but now it seems like it's no longer enabled in the kernel by default. Maybe it was disabled with 24.04.
haha, I get the skeptcism but JS is everywhere in web dev. lot of devs want to stay in the JS ecosystem.
Cauchy’s main work was under 200 years ago; and there’s been quite a lot of work since.

Again, I’m unsure that calculus existed at sufficient level 200 years ago — it didn’t appear in modern form from either Leibniz or Newton.
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> It's an offer to give WP Engine something that they're not required to be given, in exchange for WP Engine not doing something while that contract is in effect

You've interchangeably described WPEngine's consideration under the contract to be "something", "stuff", and "behavior" – this vagueness seems to be dodging the issue: what specifically, as you understand it, would WPEngine have to give up under the terms of the contract Matt presented, in exchange for usage of the trademarks?
You're mistaken. The perceptron was invented by Rosenblatt, a psychologist. This field has deep roots in neuroscience.
Do you think the Russian soldiers who shot down their own government's helicopters + command center did so on their own initiative -- or were they following Prigozhin's "chain of command"?
Apple would probably just start charging gigantic fees for apps that meet certain criteria to replace some of the lost revenue or maybe even drive higher and more consistent revenue. If I recall correctly, that’s what they did in the European Union.

I’m not very convinced that “opening up” the Apple App Store will amount to much but

I know this is a contrarian view.

Changing the accounting to decide what split multi-billion dollar company Epic gets versus multi-hundred-billion dollar Apple gets has nothing to do with innovation or competition, and this is particularly true in gaming.

In fact, it seems like these rulings are likely to have the opposite intended effect on new and innovative apps as costs to do business increase and navigating publishing across various app stores will come with their own rules, costs, and headaches all the while establishes firms who already have the resources can create their own app stores and further extract rent.

Epic charges I think 12% or 17% on their store? Maybe the costs are lower than Apple, idk, but now Epic who is your competitor dictates what you publish on their store and you get the privilege of paying them to do so.

I think we’re cutting off the head of a snake and it’s growing 10 more in response.
I actually run elections. "Spreading democracy" is what Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Condi Rice and the rest of the bipartisan neocon gang does when they bomb countries into oblivion and leave behind chaos and death.
It's really a shame. Iridium could sell best-effort hobbyist-grade service in their excess capacity, which would get the hardware into people's hands, but they don't.

Cynically I assume this is because it would be no different than their expensive service in practice, and cannibalize their premium offerings.
> Does this mean if I'd use a deep understanding of birds to design way more aerodynamic airplanes, I could get the Nobel prize in physiology/medicine?

Yes I think it does. But those planes would have to create one hell of a buzz!
You can get a large monitor with no smart tv features and just use it like a tv, however those are also starting to disappear and be replaced by “smart monitors”
I think there's some backlash against a google-able answer here.

However, from memory the list of biggest awards for CS/Math are:

Fields medal

Abel prize

Turing award

Godel award
It isn't a subsidy to Starlink, it's a subsidy to the end-users. Starlink wanted the contract, and arguably should have gotten it. Instead we've spent tons of taxpayer $$$$ and connected approximately nobody (except for the donated Starlinks used for emergency disaster relief in WNC).
>What are computer scientists usually rewarded with?

The Turing Award is considered by most to be the highest award in computer science.
I see this written a lot, and I don’t get it.

What matters for an award is that people recognise it as a prestigious accolade.

The economics prize, while not “official”, is still recognised by everyone in economics as the highest honour in the field. Who cares if it’s “official” or not?

Awards and prizes derive their value from their social recognition, which it has a solid amount of, at the very least.
That's a good point. A male identifying himself as a woman makes about as much sense as a Polish identifying as a Korean.
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