skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the opposite of a theoretical application, and it's not a hype piece. It's more like an experimental confirmation of a theoretical result mixed with an engineering progress report.

They show that a certain milestone was achieved (error rate below the threshold), show experimentally that this milestone implies what theorists predicted, talk about how this milestone was achieved, and characterize the sources of error that could hinder further scaling.

They certainly tested how it scales up to the scale that they can build. A major part of the paper is how it scales.

>> "Our results present device performance that, if scaled, could realize the operational requirements of large scale fault-tolerant quantum algorithms."

> Google forgot to test if it scales I guess?

Remember that quantum computers are still being built. The paper is the equivalent of

> We tested the scaling by comparing how our algorithm runs on a chromebook, a server rack, and google's largest supercomputing cluster and found it scales well.

The sentence you tried to interpret was, continuing this analogy, the equivalent of

>Google's largest supercomputing cluster is not large enough for us, we are currently building an even bigger supercomputing cluster, and when we finish, our algorithm should (to the best of our knowledge) continue along this good scaling law.
I recently had occasion to go back and use the Microsoft Office 97 suite in a VM (because... reasons). It occurred to me that this entire generation of computer users has probably never encountered anything that works like the multiple-document interface that was so prevalent in the 90s. It just sorta "went away" and I haven't seen anything quite like it in some time.

Whether MDI was good or not, eh, probably not. But I never would've expected that (of all things) to trigger nostalgia for me.
suffering can reflect virtue if it's a reaction to guilt, it just shows that people have capacity for moral self reflection
I remember. We took a deep breath and said "here we go again"... ...I finally released that breath, but it hurt. The Dumb! So much dumb....
Last time I checked Runescape switched to a native client, too. And even in the browser back in the day it used to run absolutely terribly, so I hope we're not trying to replicate that experience.
From the article:

So maybe some people hate AI because they have an artist's eye for small inadequacies and it drives them crazy.

This is it 100%.

When somebody draws something (in an active fashion), there is a significantly higher level of concentration and thought put towards the final output.

By its very nature, GenAI is mostly using an inadequately descriptive medium (e.g. text) which a user then must WAIT until an output that roughly matches your vision "pops" out. Can you get around this? Not entirely, though you can help mitigate this through inpainting, photobashing, layering, controlnets, loras, etc.

However, want to wager a guess what 99% of the AI art slop that people throw up all over the internet doesn't use? ANY OF THAT.

A conventional artist has an internal visualization that they are constantly mentally referring to as they put brush to canvas - and it shows in the finer details.

It's the same danger that LLMs have as coding assistants. You are no longer in the driver's seat - instead you're taking a significantly more passive approach to coding. You're a reviewer with a passivity that may lead to subtle errors later down the line.

And if you need any more proof, here's a GenAI image attached to _Karpathy_'s (one of the founding members of openAI) twitter post on founding an education AI lab:

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1813263734707790301
That might or might not make sense depending on what df1 and df2 contain.

But what are you saying, that typing wrong things you might get wrong results? Yes, coding is like that.

What's your point, make a point.
All the “Amazon classics” have audible included which can make it go quickly. The dinner table conversation with a host which had consumption was quite amusing. Agree on darkness.
Looks like you found a new Umeshism [0]. "If you don't lose a few lives to lab accidents, you are not progressing fast enough".

[0]: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=40
This article attempts to bite off a lot! I'm going to condense it down to one small part.

The Dark Forest experience that's causing "mass migrations" on the Internet is that, if you venture out into social media carelessly, you're entering an aggressive and frequently unpleasant space which is close to the opposite of "fun" for the average person. Here follows a laundry list here of things which you might expect to encounter in an unpleasant online space, most of which have a kind of tabloid quality: scams, nonstop sales pitches, porn, extreme violence, celebrity worship, ideological extremism, racism, sexism, etc. And more (that list is not exhaustive).

So people find that signing up for the average generic platform that welcomes everybody is a bad experience, and migrate to more niche ones. That's been the path I've followed too, all the way here.
We've already seen Javascript cryptocurrency miners, so when WebGPU starts actually being used I suspect we'll see their use rise to new heights. It's a matter of time until some website starts offering WebGPU crypto mining as an alternative to their paywall.
> If the number of dead were an issue

is quite a thing to say...

We could discuss lack of protests for those countries at length and conclude it's wrong - but how does that change what I said, or what is happening in your country? It's a rather weak deflection...

If you're open to being self-inquisitive, notice that I have not taken any side, and have clearly said that it's no different for the other side - so I'm not attacking your identity or country, or you - yet you replied by deflection / offense.

To clarify, my goal was to, as a well-intentioned fellow HN dweller, point out that your theoretical justification for actions of Israeli military is not taking into account glaring parts of reality, and it might be good to re-evaluate solely from the perspective of improving one's critical thinking and objectivity.
That tool itself might be worth publishing. I've noticed some cofounders (Supabase's kiwicopple comes to mind) that are very on top of HN comments and I am not sure if they're literally reading all the HN comments or doing that in some automated, "notify me when someone talks about Supabase" kind of way. Could be very valuable to notify when even a related discussion happens!
Priming for starters https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...
Winamp 3 definitely had a more modern skin system compared to the sliced BMP files in 2.x skins.
From my vacation this year, it was evident that Dublin is full of people in abject poverty. An outskirt like Malahide was more like Mt Vernon WA or 80s Avila Beach CA. This stems from IRE acting as the lowest resistance path to travel/migrate into the EU, which the UK et al, are not too keen on.
Most probably the author knows this but there are some photos and information here [1]. His grandfather is a member of "The Righteous Among the Nations" [2].

[1] https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/sietsma.html

[2] https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous.html
Yep, that's why you see AI art a lot as generic blog hero/banner images.
Your very first sentence is simply wrong, I don't know what more there is to say other than that you clearly don't understand what Gödel's results are about (hint: they're called "incompleteness theorems", not "contradiction theorems"). Maybe read a textbook? I could recommend several good ones.

The other sentences basically fall in the category of "not even wrong", i.e. basically nonsensical.
Feature request: bake in Google traffic volume data.

Google traffic represents a much wider sample of the world/audience compared to Reddit which represents a very narrow audience in comparison.
I am American, ex-military, and I don’t own a gun. I also have not touched a gun in 30 years.

With regards to the second Amendment, you have to remember the US was founded in a rebellion against what it considered a tyranny. The American mythos is encapsulated by John Locke’s social contract theory. Government exists to serve the people and when it does not, the people should overthrow the government by force if necessary.

With that said, there are a lot of good ole boys who can’t put two sentences together and shouldn’t be owning any weapon.

I have shot pistols, rifles etc. The AR-15/M-16 is by far the easiest weapon to shoot. It is incredibly accurate and becoming proficient takes only a few days. Even so , in a war, small arms don’t do much. I would rather tell my FAC to call down an air strike or fire support from the nearest tank or artillery.
https://livebench.ai/ does that, the latest gpt4o underperforms previous versions significantly
Hell, I'm more interested in how this guy consistently takes 2-4 weeks of vacation per year. Maybe it really is typical in Europe.
Americans have one cognitive bias
Oh, they built them- and they tested them- by launching them at the moon. Even put three guys on top of that ..
> Not replacing a human.

Obviously not, but that is tangential to this discussion, I think. A hammer might be a useful tool in certain situations, and surely it does not replace a human (but it might make a human in those situations more productive, compared to a human without a hammer).

> generating new ideas

Is brainstorming not an instance of generating new ideas? I would strongly argue so. And whether the LLM does "understand" (or whatever ill-defined, ill-measurable concept one wants to use here) anything about the ideas if produces, and how they might be novel - that is not important either.

If we assume that Tao is adequately assessing the situation and truthfully reporting his findings, then LLMs can, at the current state, at least occasionally be useful in generating new ideas, at least in mathematics.
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Oh my, I really jumped to a conclusion. And what fantastic news to hear. Thank you!
I'm not sure which part in the chain is responsible, but the Kagi Assistant got extremely testy with me when (a) I was using Claude for its engine (hold that thought) and (b) I asked the Assistant how much it changed its approach when I changed to ChatGPT, etc. (Kagi Assistant can access different models, but I have no idea how it works.) The Assistant insisted, indignantly, that it was completely separate from Claude. It refused to describe how it used the various engines.

I politely explained that the Assistant interface allowed selecting from these engines and it became apologetic and said it couldn't give me more information but understood why I was asking.

Peculiar, but, when using Claude, entirely convincing.
It's not a major part of the paper, but Google tested a neural network decoder (which had the highest accuracy), and some of their other decoders used priors that were found using reinforcement learning (again for greater accuracy).
If data is right and it pretty much is that ~80% of US population is for some sort of a gun control, then passing Constitutional Amendment would be a breeze.

If majority of these 80% of people were single-issue voters and this was THE thing they cared about, it would take few election cycles but eventually this issue would carry enough clout that things would get done... of course it never will be though...
While I do understand your point, there's a difference between being irresponsible and being willfully murderous. Personally, having grown up among orthodox christians, I've seen too many cases of self-righteous people lapsing and committing bad things and then finding comfort in their religiousness. "Be afraid of believers, they have gods that forgive their sins" - that kind of thing.
gear selector, all climate controls including defrost, interior lights, fog lights, door locks, etc...

No current tesla has stalks on steering wheel, so there are areas to touch on (rotating) wheel for turn signals, wiper, high beams
Beware of Deceiving Authenticator Apps on Apple and Google Devices
I don't see why you wouldn't use the highest quality possible for both.
I disagree. I think the conditions to get a game theory style setup going are quite specific. Always "defecting" against everything (with no warning) and clearing outwards as fast as you can is probably converged upon along many paths, from many starting points, as long as the physics allows it.

Like Wikipedia says, Dark Forest is for people who are limited in tech and resources. Or have a weird sense of ethics, but ask Robin Hanson how long he thinks that would last.
A Sherman tank is something like ninety thousand pounds, for anyone unfortunate enough to have read this post.
> It's interesting because in some respects we are in the middle of a cultural and scientific Renaissance

I'm sorry to rebutt your very first assertion but we had been in a cultural and scientific Renaissance and the last 15 years have been the slow unwinding of that. We got lucky that the internet explosion overlapped with the tail end of publicly supported cultural and scientific production.

I hung out with physics majors in college, all of them smarter than us compsci chuds, and uniformly they are absolutely struggling to survive as post docs or in industry. One of my college buddies has worked at nasa for 4 different firms and has had to move to Texas, Kansas, and Maryland for these gigs and has once again landed on a project where the funding got cut and is looking for a new job. Another works in nano scale semiconducting and had to move to Finland to get project funding from the EU since the US has made basic research funding so scarce. And after several post doc roles he is leaving the field after his last grant wasn't renewed, with not an ounce of negative feedback. Just, sorry we don't have any money anymore. He's now going to go into failure analysis for a mobile phone manufacturer to pay the bills.

The woes of cultural production have also been well documented.

We are in a cultural and scientific collapse
Sure. The world would be more biodiverse, have less CO2 in the atmosphere, be less "touched" in general if you or I moved into a mud hut, or furthermore pulled out the old KMS card.

Realistically it doesn't matter what we do - we can't make the world "more untouched" than it would be if we didn't exist.

People have differing opinions on the level of modification that's reasonable to support their own life, their goals, their happiness etc.
This is why I'm baffled when people want to put this kind of stuff on their Behance/Artstation profile.

Can AI art be useful? Sure but I'd argue only in the pursuit of something else (like a cute image to help illustrate a blog article), and certainly not for art's sake.

Posing it as "ART" means that the intent is for viewers to linger upon the piece, and the vast majority of AI art just wilts under scrutiny like that.
While there aren't visibility-boosting features, don't downplay SEO on the app stores. That is, if your's is the kind of extension that people will be searching for when looking the solve their problem. The Chrome store also shows a bunch of 'related' extensions at the bottom of every listing. It can't hurt to show up there.

Also, since you don't mention it, list on the Edge Add-ons store. My user count over there is ~40% of the Chrome store number.
You might enjoy or find-use-for: https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

People have made versions for XP, 7, etc. as well.
This is a weirdly interesting distinction. Can you elaborate a little on this point? I am not sure what I think yet, but I am curious what you think could have been done differently in Iraq ( or Vietnam for that matter ).
> Do they think the government should force advertisers to buy ads on X or something?

Yes. Free market, you see.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-treasury-secretary-scott-...
And access to use anthropics models internally, where you have some guarantees and oversight that your corp and customer data aren't leaking where you don't want it to.
I said absolutely nothing about its "infallible nobility", of course.

Or even implying that sentiment.
I wonder if it could be used to "fire customers" on the customer service line.

"Say 'service' for customer service"

"service"

[TAG: complainer]

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>interesting but non-controversial non-ideological topics

this category is itself hopelessly controversial and ideologically delineated, as you have demonstrated. not to mention this is type of "stay in your lane" or argument is generally deployed by defenders of the status quo against dissenters.

>falsely posed as scientific truth, into a format that claims to be representative of science based information

but this didn't happen.

look, scientific american is a general-audience science magazine, not a journal for serious scientific inquiry. it has an editorial remit for commentary and exploration of themes and trends related or adjacent to science. you may not like the opinions or ideologies expressed in the opinion pieces they published, but they are clearly labeled opinion and in the opinion section. it is completely appropriate and dare i say non-controversial. it really seems like you just disagree with their selection of opinion pieces.
It’s impressionist. It’s not supposed to make sense in the sense that it’s an accurate reflection of reality; it’s supposed to make sense in that you can understand why the details were drawn in the way they were because someone put thought and intention into them.
Great call on expanding to other add-ons stores. I'll need to look into compatibility and find a Windows machine to test...
lol dont worry about that, I’m a regular here and I dont see that

Its just my lived experience of using node.js build systems
This is your daily reminder that Wikipedia does not deserve its reputation. I've seen how the sausage is made, and rat meat is a surprisingly frequent ingredient. And it's not just Israel-Palestine, but all kinds of stuff.

A key weakness of Wikipedia is selective and inconsistent enforcement of its policies (which can be pretty blatant around WP:CIVIL), often abetted by its consensus mechanism. Another core problem is "the rules of the game have become the game," (for instance, maneuvering in the reliable-sources noticeboard is done to with an eye towards pushing a particular narrative).
> The meaning of TERGIVERSATION is evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement : equivocation
Probably being pedantic, but I disagree on the order. What I understand is that "giving it no thoughts" is less bad than "doing it prematurely".

The worse is to not give it a thought IMO (usually people justify that by saying "premature optimization is the root of all evil", where actually they just couldn't be bothered to think). Writing bad code and justifying it by "I'm optimizing" is also pretty bad.

Developers should have common sense, not dogma.
> The disdain engineers have toward the "soft sciences"[sociology, psychology]

While I agree that disdain is not the right reaction, neither is misdescribing what these disciplines are. And the most important fact about them is: they are not sciences.

We do not have a science of how people work, how groups of people work, how collective action works. Dealing with people is an art. It requires applying non-repeatable human judgments to non-repeatable human situations, and doing so constantly, day after day, year after year, realizing that there is never going to be a stable state of things, there is never going to be a time when you have dealt with all the conflicts and solved all the problems and can sit back and relax.

Engineers are understandably uncomfortable with such a situation because it goes against everything we (I say "we" because I'm an engineer myself) are taught. We are taught to engineer solutions to problems, solutions that keep working, if not forever, at least for a long enough time that we aren't constantly having to manage them. A well built bridge does not require constant engineer attention once it is finished.

But there is no such thing when it comes to humans and human relationships. They do require constant attention in order to survive and flourish. But we have no science of how to do that, the way we have a science of how to build bridges. All we have is our fallible human judgment, and if we're lucky, some rules of thumb that, while they aren't science, are hopefully better than nothing. Unfortunately, I think what rules of thumb we have have been mostly ignored in the process of building systems like social media.
Well I found the exact reverse: people saying LLM are useful actually need them to be useful, so they could boast about their "prompt engineering" "skill" (i.e. typing a sentence) and "AI knowledge". I've seen a caricature of this a few hours ago on LinkedIn, from a "data guy" saying devs not using AI are gonna replaced by those who do. Yet it was very clear from his reply to comments he never wrote code and wasn't a position to give an opinion on the matter, especially one like the extreme and rude one he wrote.
Thanks, I will go have a look, much appreciated!
Phyphox is a great sensor suite app for undergrad Physics experiments, and it includes a spectrum analyzer. Also, it supports both iOS and Android.
The real irony being that they show up to work just to discover that it was a software programming position.
"Donald Trump is another incredible senior athlete, recently winning a championship against a much younger field in a tournament at his Palm Beach golf course". It's well known how he manages to achieve that...
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I think you mean Sam Altman
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Yeah that was my first thought too, "Oh great, they'll just coat it with PFAS".
Why a radial pattern and not a grid?
I've been using Kagi for the past 3 months, recently moved to the ultimate plan (assistant + search). I've highly enjoyed my experience, and I think the best analogy I can think of is switching from shopping for food at somewhere like Safeway or Walmart to a local organic grocery store. It's loads of tiny things plus a few large things that I end up seeing as benefits.

One of the things on the largest end for me that I don't see mentioned here very often, is how amazing the development team has been! It's tremendously refreshing and amazing to be using a product, encounter something not working right, write up a feedback post, and see it fixed in the next changelog. That's where the local bit of the analogy comes from. It's small, and I think that's brilliant. It makes you feel seen and heard, something that is absolutely beyond hopelessly lost when using any sort of Google product. You're a part of a paying customer base, you're not some minuscule cog in a massive conglomerate.

The pace of development is also wonderful. Getting new little features released often and watching the ongoing development with things like Kagi Map. I can only imagine this is what it was like to live during the golden age of construction and development in the US, seeing all these new buildings go up all around you.

There's also the search of course which so far has been great. I think it's power comes from the lack of ads of course but also the filtering, which makes it *your* search. Little features like appending @hn at the end of your search instead of site:news.ycombinator.com, or as mentioned by gutt3r_punk, the question mark to bring up the AI summary answer only on the queries that I want it to be on, not every single search on Google.

solid recommend