skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. Four years ago the MacBook M1 Pro was able to compile WebKit nearly as fast as the Mac Pro, and nearly twice as fast as the Intel-based MacBook Pro, and still had 91% battery versus 24% in the Intel-based MacBook Pro. Incredible.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...
In philosophy this piece is also known for containing towards the end an influential early statement of the primary-secondary quality distinction (roughly, the view that qualities like color, odor, taste, hot/cold, sound ('secondary qualities' as Locke later calls them) are subjective in some important sense in which qualities like shape, size, motion, ('primary qualities') are not):

> Now I say that whenever I conceive any material or corporeal substance, I immediately feel the need to think of it as bounded, and as having this or that shape; as being large or small in relation to other things, and in some specific place at any given time; as being in motion or at rest ... But that it must be white or red, bitter or sweet, noisy or silent, and of sweet or foul odor, my mind does not feel compelled to bring in as necessary accompaniments. Without the senses as our guides, reason or imagination unaided would probably never arrive at qualities like these. Hence I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on are no more than mere names so far as the object in which we place them is concerned, and that they reside only in the consciousness.
Perplexity was a cult in the first place.
I was also confused until I read the abstract. This is the FINITE Monkeys Theorem.

>Here, we consider the Finite Monkeys Theorem and look at the probability of a given string being typed by one of a finite number of monkeys within a finite time allocation consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe.

I misread finite as infinite multiple times.
Same. But I don't conflate Koolaid with arithmetic.
The Ride "Superman, The Escape" at six flags magic mountain in california is a Linear Induction Motor driven ride that pushes the ride car using electromagnets. At both ends of the track are some serious magnets that if something fails will stop the car that has a metal fin the electromagets act on in a fail-safe way using that principle. I'm not privy to the exact details, but knew some of the designers. This was built in the mid-90s. You can see the one end in this picture. https://rcdb.com/140.htm#p=264
I've seen it in testing with a power off e-stop and the car just comes to a rather sudden halt, and they have to get it out with a winch slowly. Pretty good safe solution, though not a feature of normal ride operation.
Candles and incense also kill birds. I think they are also sensitive to air fresheners. Too bad most birds can’t smell very well.
2^0 is 1. The game doubles the number each time, so starting with two 1s would make a 2. It's weird to start with two 2s making a 4.
Terrible popular websites waste your CPU and energy
Just a little experiment I did to test the inefficiency of websites. When looking into this, I found that most people measured website efficiency mainly based on the amount of network requests or just general subjective slowness. I wanted to see what the objective results were when isolating a website and observing CPU usage directly.
Chinese auto makers dont get any more subsidies than american auto makers get. Domestic sales get tax subsidies but international ones do not, same as US.
Canary in an kitchen with an overheated Teflon pan.

(1) https://www.buffalobirdnerd.com/storage/app/media/Teflon.pdf
A few decades ago everyone learned C/C+ in school. Then might take an interest in gui programming, later read a book on what makes good ui. Over a decade or three, quite doable.
I know there are large multiplayer shooters that have or are going to be moving off of Linux soon. Anecdotally, the percentage of linux users running cheat software is significant, north of 50% in some cases.

Ultimately, I sympathize with game developers trying to create a good, _consistent_ experience for players across multiplayer titles. The reason players accept anticheat software in large mp games is because the alternative is worse.
A fossilized snapshot will only get them so far, and sites are increasingly opting to block AI-related crawlers. Apparently about a quarter of the top 1000 sites already block GPTBot: https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking

I guess they could be using Bing as their search backend, which would mostly get around the blocking issue (except for searching Reddit which blocks Bingbot now).
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
Neutrinos predominantly work via the weak interaction, don't they?
Take the UAE for example, who are experts at large scale energy projects, they have constructed and commissioned 4 nuclear reactors, on time, on budget.

Your own link says that the first reactor was originally scheduled to start supplying electricity in 2017 but actually entered operation in 2020. It also says "As of 22 March 2018, the project's total cost was refined to $24.4 billion to complete. However, by April 9, 2020, Power Technology reported that the project cost was $32 billion."

3 years late and 30% over budget is OK by nuclear project standards, considering much greater delays and budget blowouts in recent US/EU projects. But it's not on time and on budget.
> an ML system operating only on text strings (a human-to-human communication medium), without access to the world the text describes, or even a human mind with which to interpret the words, is as those in the cave. This is not in principle an impossible task, but neither is it an easy one, and one wouldn't expect mere hill-climbing to solve it

Blind people can literally not picture red. They can describe red, with likely even more articulateness than most, but have never seen it themselves. They infer it's properties from other contexts, and communicated a description that would match a non-blind person. But they can see it.

I would link to the Robert Miles video, but it is just blatant.

It has read every physics book, and can infer the Newtonian laws even if it didn't.

Micheal Crichton's Timeline, "the time machine drifts, sure. It returns. Just like a plate will remain on a table, even when you are not looking at it."

It also knows Timeline is a book, time machines are fictional, and that Micheal Crichton is the best author.

These are all just words, maybe with probability weights.

> I'm not confident those four words actually mean anything. I...The computer waxes lyrical ... mere technobabble. Any perceived meaning exists only in your mind... people will see different meanings because the meaning isn't there.

Meaning only means something to people, which you are. That is axiomatically correct, but not very productive, as self-references are good but countering proofs.

The whole "what is the purpose to life?" is a similar loaded question; only humans have purpose, as it is entirely in their little noggins, no more present materially then the flesh they inhabit.

Science cannot answer "Why?", only "How?"; "Why?" is a question of intention, which would be to anthropomorphize, which only Humans do.

The computers can infer, and imply, then reply.
Why do you trust gidmkhealthnerd, a psuedonym who likely knows nothing about it and offers nothing but a personal opinion, over the post of someone who studied it and gathered actual experimental evidence?
1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023)
I would say recently launched cybersecurity companies
Not really, you just have to convince them they are.

Sometimes you're desperate for a job and they have you over a barrel, but there's no reason they need to know that.
Dan White shot the mayor and a supervisor in cold blood and confessed everything to the cops. They managed to stop him from spilling out his premeditation on tape by interrupting him as his confession was getting rolling and the DA failed to win the easiest conviction of his career. The cops then went on a spree of beating people gratuitously in the Castro.

Cops aren't there to enforce the law without fear or favor. They routinely engage in petty corruption and complain when they have to be professional when on duty.
Right. Protected uses are protected because they were necessary. The Weird Al track that comes to mind which could be protected (but does not need the protection because Al always secures permission for these works) is "Smells Like Nirvana" because that specifically needs to use Nirvana's track "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because it's a (well meant, like a comedy roast) critique of Nirvana and their song. "It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss / With all these marbles in my mouth" is about Nirvana and about Smells Like Teen Spirit.

If you replace Smells Like Teen Spirit with Cliff Richards' "Saviours Day" it does not work, Cliff is not going to confuse and annoy your parents, his utterances aren't incomprehensible, and so on. The choice of song is necessary, which would justify protection.
The money is to fund development and gets spent in short order. No one should give CIG money that they wouldn't just throw away.
ChatGPT rolls out of web search
Not necessarily. Your prompt could include instructions to gather information from your emails and address book to tell your friend about all the relevant contacts you know in the shoe industry.
Hah, OpenAI is becoming an ads business too. So much for something new, same old funding model for every centralized platform on the web.
Transformers Are Efficient Compilers, Provably
One influences the other. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
> anyone can fly

...

> The full price of the Airhart Sling pre-tax is $500,000 with availability predicted for January of 2026 <https://www.airhartaero.com/contact#:~:text=full%20price>

(nod) I'll check my couch cushions

Also, the full-res version of the cabin photo may interest this audience https://observer.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/unna...
Anyone can compete as long as they have a functional URL and web page. Doesn’t make them good competition, and doesn’t mean users will use it.

The issue is that “AI search” has been a hot topic for a while now. Google (the default everywhere) just rolled out their version to billions of users. Perplexity has been iterating and acquiring customers for a while. Obviously OpenAI has great potential and brand recognition, but are enough people still interested in switching that haven’t yet?
Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm (2019)
Muscle memory or something like it hardly seems a step towards AGI. Or towards solving any difficult problems.
Don't have a reference on the top of my head, but the main idea is as follows:

The definition of MGF of a random variable with PDF f(x) is

E[e^{sX}] = int_{-inf}^{inf} f(x) e^{sx} dx

The definition of Laplace Transform of a signal f(t) is

F(s) = int _{-inf}^{inf} f(t) e^{-st} dt

Hence MGF is 'flipped' Laplace transform

Now for we know that the MGF of sum independent RVs is the product of their MGFs. So if we take the inverse Laplace transform, the density of the sum is convolution of the individual densities.

Similarly, if we take derivative in frequency domain, that is same as multiplying in time domain: So M'_X(s) is the 'flipped Laplace transform' of x f(x) and its value at s=0 is the 'DC-gain' of the signal.

And so on... the properties are all immediate consequence of the definition of MGF and since the definition is essentially the same as that of a Laplace transform , there is an equivalent property in signals and systems as well.
I'm booting your OS in a stealthy hypervisor and operating my cheat logic from there.
I think your insecurity about your race plan is from lack of confidence in your ability to run the full 26.2 miles at a given sub-3 hour pace.

Looking at your Strava workouts, your long runs were at a much slower than marathon pace, and very few of those runs were over 16 miles.

If you want to run the full 26.2 mile marathon at, say, 6:45/mile pace, then you should be able to run 22 or 20 miles, averaging 6:45/mile.

You can start at a shorter distance, say 12-16mi at a slower pace, and work up to 20mi+ at or close to race pace.

You can play around with planning a race plan with these race simulation workouts, i.e. all miles at race pace or half distance at race pace+5secs, last half at race pace-5secs, etc.

Also check into marathon training plans for ideas of how to progress and schedule workouts until race day.
How long until advertisements are subtly introduced? I didn’t notice any specific brand of limoncello recommended in their demo.
Perplexity is a really terrible name for a product and that alone will hold it back from being a real competitor.
Asked it to generate code for a library that was released in the past year - GPT-4 couldn't do it and this one just did it flawlessly. I am super impressed.
You forgot to precede your entire post with ‘Provided you live on the equator,’ which Kenya is.

If you live on the 45th parallel like I do, it isn’t logical at all since the length of a day is constantly shifting.
Layoffs are a fact of life with businesses. It sucks. I'm sure these CEOs do not enjoy doing it, but someone has it in their job description (i.e. the responsibility) to make those kinds of decisions.

You may have it in your job description the responsibility to do performance reviews on your reports. Those reviews can make or break a career. If you do them honestly and with the consideration they deserve, you should not be expected to personally bear the consequences of giving someone a deserved poor review.

It's too bad we don't live in a perfect world where everyone has a job and is never at risk of losing it. But if wishes where horses.....
The goal of these cost cutting initiatives is not an absolute reduction in cost, but a relative one. They needed to show an improvement in operating margin, ie % of revenue spent on engineers.

If your engineers become 20% more efficient then your margins are better and your problem is solved. (Indeed if you have tech that can make any engineer 20% more efficient then you are back in the game of hiring as many as you can find, as long as each added engineer brings in enough additional revenue.)
If it's better than Bing or Google in presenting the relevant result in a condensed way, it's still a win for the users.
It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that Perplexity wasn't the product I needed. I'm not sure this is either, but we'll try it out just the same.
Are they popular because they are the best, or because they are entertaining ?

I wouldn't discount those mediocre (or even outright bad) at the game, but moving huge audiences...
Software development isn't a code-production activity, it's a knowledge-acquisition activity. It involves refactoring and deleting code too. I guess the AI isn't helping with that?
All non-stick frying pans die within a year or so. We recently took the plunge and invested in a stainless steel one. Yes, it takes some (very little) time to adjust your cooking style, but that thing comes with a lifetime guarantee and you don't have to worry about accidentally scratching the surface. Win-win.
I have no opinion of him. I never met him, know almost nothing about him, and as far as I know he's never had a material impact on me or the people/things I care about.
They got $40 in a quarter. That's pretty insane. Loss of 4.4 is around 10%. Not all that bad.
I think I saw on HN a while ago someone suggesting that Valve could make a "clean kernel" build that anti cheats could whitelist for Linux/Proton games.
Can it find obscure sites like marginalia does or personal blogs posted in hn or it's just another bing + ai summarizer ?
> Anyone can compete as long as they have a sufficiently robust crawl dataset as a foundation, no?

There's some sticking power/network-effect/sticky-defaults effects, too, though.

It's _trivial_ to do a google search from anywhere on an android device with at most a tap or two. You can probably get close if a 3rd party has a well integrated native app but that'll require work on the user's behalf to make it the default (where possible).

Same goes for the default search engine for browsers/operating systems ... etc.

I will absolutely be firing off queries to google and GPTSearch in parallel and doing a quick comparison between the two. I am especially curious to see how well queries like "I need the PCI-e 4 10-gig SFP+ card that is best supported / most popular with the /r/homelab community" goes. Google struggles to do anything other than link to forums where people are already asking similar questions.
Certainly, countermeasures against crawler blocking will be a necessary component of effective search corpus aggregation in the go forward. Otherwise, search will balkanize around who will pay the most for access to public content. Common Crawl is ~10PB, this is not insurmountable.

Edit: I understand there is a freerider/economic issue here, unsure how to solve that as the balance between search engine/gen AI systems and content stores/providers becomes more adversarial.
https://chatgpt.com/?hints=search (handy link to it)
It's clear as to where Perplexity is eventually is going, and it will likely get acquired by Amazon. Here's why: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121821
I hope very quickly. The sooner they start competing with Google for ads the better.
It’s misleading because “harmful” in this context usually means to humans not to birds.
"Introducing" without actually just linking the search page.

That's not an introduction, that's a teaser trailer.

If they want this to be a viable search it needs to be available quickly, and anonymously from something quick to type in.

Google would have been annoying as shit if you had to go to google.com/search , let alone then log in.
Activeloop (YC S18) seeks Python back end engineers to build a database for AI
Is there any indication they're willing to improve on google in terms of e.g. excluding commercial results? If not it's not clear how this improves anything. Google has been excellent at semantic search for a long time; the issue has been the lack of controls to filter out the SEO bullshit and to remove the AI stuff from the top and the right of the results. It's been way too easy to game search with sufficient funding for well over a decade now and the AI-generated crap is a long way from production-ready (in terms of quality; obviously it generates something).
I have learned to seriously question my instincts on when something is too late as there are many niches to fill and this is likely a building block for broader functionality.

That being said, for all the talk about how bad google has become, I still prefer it to an unbroken bing.
ChomeOS baguette – Linux crostini directly with KVM instead of lxd
Decoupling design from engineering
OpenAI has ads? I thought it was mostly a freemium business model.
Laws don't need to be absolutely enforceable to still work. You probably will not go to jail for running that stop sign at the end of your street (but please don't run it).
Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
Wait just 20% thats a low number damn.
You said a lot and i was expecting...idk, 50%?

If Ada was used in domains where rust is used, like desktop applications, servers, high perf stuff, it would also do unsafe stuff you could never verify using spark.

But instead it is used in microcontrollers with runtimes provided by adacore and other vendors. Can you fully know if those pieces of code are 100% verified and safe? the free ones are not. atleast the free x86 one.

How ridiculous. The language you use is not memory safe btw. unchecked_deallocation can be easily used without any pragmas iirc. You need to enable spark_mode which will restrict you to an even smaller subset! You cannot even safely write a doubly linked list in it![you can with great pain in rust] [with less pain in Frama-C] [never tried ats]
Lodge cast iron pans are like $20 and will outlast your grandchildren. You can get a set of them for < $100. Carbon steel are more expensive, but are easier to handle and I think are worth investing in at least one for daily use. They'll also last generations.
Programming an ARM chip with a 3D printed dock and pogo pins
Is it mentioned on that page? Didn't see it.
A blog on programming the next version of the MidiCard Plus controller using a 3D printed dock, an Amtel-ICE and pogo pins
Could OpenAI make it impossible for startups to try to build AI search engines by signing all these paid agreements with publishers?
They aren’t very toxic to humans either.
AFAIK OpenAI currently respects robots.txt, so we'll have to see if they change that policy out of desperation at some point.
I wish Tim Cook would reply with “more than half of all iMessages are created with autocomplete”
In case you ever want to run Windows XP at 1MHz, of course. [1]

(/s, of course, but you get the idea – more control.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FxHyofXglI&pp=ygUQd2luZG93c...
you could buy oil in glass bottles. also if buying larger quantities it comes in some type of metal container.
This is pretty much what I've found with Copilot as well. It's like a slightly smarter autocomplete in most cases. Copilot tends toward being a little eager sometimes, but it's easy enough to just ignore the suggestions when it starts going down a weird path.
hey, if you just wanna hate a language and feel superior, you are free to. But the things you are saying are stupid.
I made one very similar it's basically a wrapper around duckduckgo https://foxacid.ai
Fair enough.

Still a guy who operated multiple luxury hotel and golf course properties that would laugh a working man out the front door if he asked for an affordable room.
Gart Solutions
You'd end up pretty awful at games if you treated getting killed by something that has no counterplay the same as getting killed by something that does...

A person who's good enough to know where you are for in-game reasons is something you supposed to learn to respond to: They aren't cheating so they're using heuristics and information that you're supposed to learn to counter play.

A person who has omniscience at the press of a button does not play similarly at all. Often times that's how they're even caught: since they're not bound by any sort of in game heuristics no counterplays work against them.

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In some games that even makes cheaters a liability when they're on your team. With any ranked game mode "soft cheating" will result in them climbing to a rank where non-cheaters have all sorts of great heuristics on how to play that they lack. So without ragehacking they're actually at a disadvantage and either need to get increasingly bold with cheats or lose.

In some games that's transformed into another way cheaters ruin modern competitive games: intentionally de-ranking so they'll play against less mechanically sound players who are easier to cheat against.
It's not like ChatGPT (or ChatGTP as half of people call it) is much better.
I mean, until there is an alternative in the space that has a (good), free, anonymous ai web search then I think we can probably assume you are confusing what you want with what is "viable"
Wooden cooking tools can harbour bacteria.
Haha, hi again!

Awesome! Would love to hear your thoughts. Any progress on your AI client? I'm intrigued by the so many bindings to Qt. Recently, I got excited about a Mojo binding[1].

[1] https://github.com/rectalogic/mojo-qt
How would the prompt get injected while praising? You need some sort injecting technique that seems missing. It seems like you might be better off short cutting the question instead of injecting. Thoughts?
For sure it's not for production. At least not for stuff that's critical. MS also doesn't recommend using it for live VHDX.

The partition/NTFS volume is 512GB. It currently stores 1.3 TB of "dedupped" data and has about 200GB free. Dedup runs asynchronously in the background and as a job during off hours.

It's a typo, yes. Thanks.
It's available today for Plus users at chatgpt.com.
> If it's better than Bing or Google in presenting the relevant result in a condensed way

This doesn't matter if the results are user-hostile, as both search engines are.