skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we have any idea what it would sound like?

Looking online I found this:

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/sounds-of-the-sun/

But it's not realistic because:

> Finally, he interpolated over the missing data and scaled the data (speeded it up a factor 42,000 to bring it into the audible human-hearing range (kHz)).

Also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAesteoeoF4

but it's not actually sound, it's converting EM waves into sound:

> ...recording frequency and amplitude information about these plasma waves that scientists can then play as sound waves.

So I'm really curious if the genuine sound of the sun would just be white noise, like a waterfall or rumble, or with defined frequences (hums), or if it's all so low-frequency or high-frequency or something that it isn't even audible?
Definitely captures the feel of a ski resort. I really like the feel of controlling the skier too. Performance on my iPad was great in Safari. Nice job so far.
While the discussion of IC architecture is doubtlessly interesting, I want to praise this page, and other pages on that site, for the photos of the circuits. Not only they are enlightening, they also have really great, soothing color palettes.
Frosted glass from games to the web
Didn’t they buy at least one of these? It was garbage, and no one cared.
With that kind of build latency, you're weeding out people who don't want to spend their whole day on coffee break.
Use either the cached or delegated options for the volume [1] then even NodeJS becomes decently performant.

[1] https://tkacz.pro/docker-volumes-cached-vs-delegated/
Good to know - That's much more hidden than it used to be
This is more an artifact of how we typically define writing than anything meaningful about the act of communication itself. Graphical symbolic communication is tens of thousands of years older than what the article discusses. Writing as typically defined is a complete system for encoding verbal language using specific, formalized symbols. That's much more sophisticated and largely unnecessary for "most" human activities prior to the invention of large, hierarchical societies.
One of the other things is the very high fatality rate from H5N1 generally has come, previous to this current strain, from primary cases with very intensive exposure to the avian-adapted strain, which is much more fond of receptors in the lower respiratory tract.

Those types of cases for many infectious diseases (i.e. MERS) are much more lethal than subsequent human-to-human infections.
FelixKratz/SketchyBar: A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
They used an autonomous underwater vehicle with upward-looking multibeam sonar (the main one seems to operate at 300-kHz) to map 140 km² as well as measuring ocean currents, temperature, and salinity at 20 to 80 m below the ice. Multibeam was new to me, Wikipedia says this "emits acoustic waves in a fan shape beneath its transceiver [using] beamforming to extract directional information from the returning soundwaves, producing a swathe of depth soundings from a single ping" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder)

The researchers say that limited observational data on how the sea erodes this ice leads to uncertainty in sea level predictions and this new data should help future studies lower those error margins. I want to say cool stuff (no pun intended) but it's also frightening in a way... at least we'll better know what's coming for those who come after us

I don't see any mention of how close previous assumptions were to what this new information shows; probably this is not yet processed/applied enough to interpret it in that way?
I do agree that this last sentence (the one you quoted) is very unfortunate and doesn't match the wit of the rest. A better closing remark might have been something on the lines of, “I never claimed to have performed any compression. I only claimed to have met the terms of the challenge. I asked if I can send multiple files and the response was ‘sure’. I provided the files; they meet the total file size criterion; and the script correctly reconstructs the original files.”
My point is in what was is “well actually it’s not technically a photograph” helpful, interesting, or relevant contribution to discussion?

Great. It’s not strictly a graph of photons. Zero people are using this stitched together image to perform science. Moreover, virtually every single space image intended for public consumption has been converted from UV/radio/infrared into the visible spectrum, retouched, stitched together as a composite, or experienced some other form of artistic manipulation.

Nobody cares. Nobody should care. This is a thoroughly inconsequential hill to die on and a completely pointless bit of pedantry.
Interesting. I'm currently writing a book I on visualization. It's pretty opinionated. My thesis after teaching viz to companies for a while is that most plots should be limited to one of 4: line, bar, scatter, and histogram.

I think I'm going to try this dataset with my thesis.
I had several thousand dollars in Juno, which claimed to offer a high-yield, FDIC-insured savings account. When I originally joined, it had an attractive program for receiving cashback on purchases with several major companies, which drew in a lot of people. Although it wasn’t my main bank, I kept the money there for the good interest rate. In the end, I received $0 with the 'return of funds'.
FelixKratz/SketchyVim: Adds all Vim moves and modes to macOS text fields
We should not forget that we drove several problematic viruses extinct during the pandemic (B/Yamagata), and this was useful.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-024-01010-y
Ok, so there is one similarity there. If you pay for an organ transplant you can't sell that organ again, because it is illegal to sell your own organs. Although you might be able to donate it on your death depending on the circumstances.

But the reasons for prohibiting resell are very different. For organs, selling organs is prohibited in order to protect individuals from being pressured or otherwise exploited into selling their organs. But for media, publishing and distribution companies are using technical measures and what is, IMO, an abuse of copyright law to maximize profits.
How much genetic diversity do you really need?

My limited (and likely wrong) understanding of Syrian hamsters is they're all descended from a few specimens someone collected a long time ago. Is there something special in hamsters that prevents genetic issues? Do they not have a lot of recessive characteristics?
I don't want to get mired in a theoretical discussion about what promise cancellation would hypothetically look like, and would rather instead look at some concrete code. If you reproduce the memory leak from that original Node Github issue while setting the --max-old-space-size to an extremely low number (to set a hard limit on memory usage) you can empirically observe that the Node process crashes almost instantly with a heap out of memory error:

#! /usr/bin/env node --max-old-space-size=5

const interruptPromise = new Promise(resolve =>
process.once('SIGINT', () => resolve('interrupted'))
)

async function run() {
while (true) {
const taskPromise = new Promise(resolve => setImmediate(resolve))
const result = await Promise.race([taskPromise, interruptPromise])
if (result === 'interrupted') break
}
console.log(`SIGINT`)
}

run()

If you run that exact same code but replace `Promise.race` with a call to `Unpromise.race`, the program appears to run indefinitely and memory usage appears to plateau. And if you look at the definition of `Unpromise.race`, the author is saying almost exactly the same thing that I've been saying: "Equivalent to Promise.race but eliminates memory leaks from long-lived promises accumulating .then() and .catch() subscribers" [1], which is exactly the same thing that the Node contributor from the original issue was saying, which is also exactly the same thing the Chromium contributor was saying in the Chromium bug report where he writes "This will also grow the reactions list of `x` to 10e5" [2].

[1] https://github.com/cefn/watchable/blob/6a2cd66537c664121671e...

[2] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42213031#comment5
Fun exercise. #54 is the best, but still has plenty of room for improvement.
It's still the best, nobody used the time to outcompete them.
What political ends?
What was too strict, wearing masks in public? Not being able to eat in restaurants for a couple weeks? Pathetic. People could barely be bothered to do the bare minimum.
Hard same. So much effort has been wasted on fancy charts that are hard to make and often indecipherable.
Nice! No Sankey though ?
To me, the essence of online discussion boards is a mutual exchange of ideas, thoughts, and opinions via a shared context, all in service of a common goal of a meeting of minds. When one party uses LLMs, it undermines the unspoken agreement to post “authentic” content as opposed to “unauthentic” content. Authenticity in this context is not just a “nice to have,” but is part and parcel to the entire enterprise of participating in a shared experience and understanding via knowledge transfer and cross-cultural exchange.

I can see that you care enough to comment here in a “genuine” and good faith manner, as I recognize your username and your posting output as being in good faith. That being said, an increase in LLM-generated content on HN generally is likely to result in an associated increase in the number of bad actors using LLMs to advance their own ends. I don’t want to give bad actors any quarter, whether that be wiggle room or excuses about Guidelines or on-topic-ness, or any other justification for why self-proclaimed “good” actors think that using LLMs is okay when they do it, but not when bad actors do it, because doing so gives cover to bad actors to do so, as long as they don’t get caught.
Several things remain unclear:

"The beauty of this scheme is that a node only has to know about its share of the interval"

The article doesn't explain curve changes in much detail, but I assume it increases the portion of the curve "owned" by the node.

With unique identifiers all a node needs to know its identifier. So that can't be what's interesting about these interval portions.

Also:

- How that curve is initially drawn isn't clear at all. Is it flat and becomes complex over time by forking (+ data modification)?

- Why are interval boundaries real-value in a system that cannot actually express real numbers?

- How are the intervals / portions decided? Is that simpler than generating UUIDs?

- How does comparison work?

"Comparison works similarly to Version Vectors: if the curve of a stamp is above the other one, it descends it, otherwise the curves intersect and the stamps are concurrent."

But now you have events with curves and intervals where one event might miss a portion. It's not immediately clear what happens in that comparison. It's maybe obvious to some readers but clearly not an audience that needed introduction for the other things initially explained by the article.

In terms of conclusions:

My understanding is that the main benefit is that the overall complexity of the "vector" becomes simpler in light of actor explosion due to the merging mechanism. Whereas UUIDs (or even monotonous index indexed vectors) would grow indefinitely, making tracking them on events a challenge.

This intro article fails to make this stuff clear.
Awesome. I'm interested in making games that can run in the browser, I never considered that Godot might have this capability.
If (and I emphasise IF) H5N1 led to a severe pandemic in humans, the assumption that it would play out like covid is a dangerous one.

Covid (pre-vaccine) posed an extremely low risk to children, little risk to young adults, a bit of a risk to the middle-aged, and a lot of risk to the elderly.

The 1918 flu pandemic, by contrast, killed people across the age range, disproportionately including young adults.

Were that to be repeated (and, again, there is no reason to think it will) I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong.
That subreddit is pretty shocking, honestly. People who are still utterly terrified of COVID getting together to share and affirm their irrational fears with each other. Even with all the precautions, all of them have certainly been exposed to COVID many times and they are all still acting like it is a death disease that they must spend tremendous effort warding off.
Curious: why do you prefer syllabaries? I think about Chinese writing systems, which additionally don't have clear word boundaries. Now you can argue that this is an independent issue (which is true) but why does this complication seemingly show up in such writing systems?

Anyway, alphabets have been profoundly successful. You bring up Turkish. It's a good example. I'm sure most here know that prior to 1929 or so Turkish used the Arabic writing system. This is also an alphabet but a more complicated one (eg vowels aren't typically written) and didn't necessarily fit the Turkish language.

So they designed a Latin writing system that is entirely phonetic it was was profoundly successful at increasing literacy rates. A completely illiterate person could be taught to read and write Turksih in a matter of months.

I compare this to Taiwan that has high school competitions to see who can find a word the fastest in a dictionary because knowledge is required of the roots and symbols. There are thousands of characters to learn in Chinese languages. As a foreigner, this will often take a decade or more. I've seen accounts of people who have spent a decade learning Chinese that still struggle to read books intended for 12 year olds.

Literacy is so transformative to one's life that I'm so on board with anything that makes that easier.
Tell your coworker that there is one thing you can do to make yourself safer in an elevator: If ever the elevator stops between floors with the doors open, do NOT attempt to climb out of the elevator.

https://www.firefighternation.com/fire-leadership/cal-state-...
One of the big benefits of print debugging is that it's useful for the initial "bifurcate the code" process.

If you add a bunch of print statements every few lines, it's easier to run the code and see you got to the checkpoint line 1580 and 1587 but not 1601, than to have to manually click through a dozen breakpoints and note the last one you passed before the problem occurs.

If you have a "hard crash" where you can give a stack trace, that's less of a need, but often it's something like "this value was 125 when it entered module Foo and came back as 267". Monitoring the expression can sometimes help, but it might also be a red herring (we trap that it got set at the end of function Bar, but then we have to dig into function Bar to find the trace). Printfs can include whatever combination of values are worth reporting at any time.

Yes, any debugger can do all of that, but when trying to spin it up ad-hoc, printfs can be less hassle than trying to pull up the debugging tools and wire it up inside the IDE.
> Lack of familiarity with AI PCs leads to what the study describes as "misconceptions," which include the following: 44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic; 53 percent believe AI PCs are only for creative or technical professionals; 86 percent are concerned about the privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC; and 17 percent believe AI PCs are not secure or regulated.

Is being concerned about your privacy really a misconception here?
You make wrong assumptions about the exchange rate. I suggest you learn more about Russian economy, rather than speculate.

The fact is, they do not target exchange rates in their policy, only inflation. Their trade balance with China is positive (unlike USA), so yuan reserves are growing and they have no problem to buy Chinese goods. The weakness of ruble has nothing to do with it.
Closing schools for a year. Forcing people to say goodbye to dying loved ones over Zoom calls. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses failing.

You know, that sort of thing.
> if a comment made by a LLM is indistinguishable from a normal one, it'd be impossible to moderate anyway unless one starts tracking people across comments and see the consistency of their replies and overall stance so I don't particularly think it is useful to worry about people who will go the extra length to go undetected

The existence of rule-breakers is not itself an argument against a rules-based order.
HN's guidelines aren't "laws" to be "enforced", they're a list of unwelcome behaviors. There is value in setting expectations for participants in a community, even if some will choose to break them and get away with it.
25% of my manager and above in big tech have acted in the ideal way you describe, and the rest have been back stabbing, childish, two faced, toxic, and many other negative traits, making any open honest or direct communication impossible
Yep, small towns are dying, corporate wealth and power is growing, and prices are rising, and we just voted for the side who will accelerate all three.
Do the AI PCs do the work locally or transmit everything remotely for processing like chatgpt?
> Were that to be repeated (and, again, there is no reason to think it will) I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong.

I'd like to think that, but I also think history is rife with countless examples of people literally dying on the hill of their own beliefs.
The crux of the problem is the money though right? I want this, but how will anti-scale journalists make a living? I pay for a couple patreons for journalists I like (shoutout Molly White) but that doesn’t seem like a complete answer.
In the 2020 I experienced, it was over 6 months of literally everything in a major city being shut down except absolute necessities, and people being told to stay in their homes and away from any contact with other humans unless absolutely necessary. I'm not sure if we live in the same reality if you think that is the "bare minimum."
A classic example of a community self regulating until overwhelmed at which point rules are imposed which bad previously accepted and harmless behavior.

Rules must take scale into account and do it explicitly to avoid selective enforcement.

There's a difference between one person writing a simple bot and a large corporation offering a bot pretending to be human to everyone. The first is harmless and fun, the second is a large scale for-profit behavior with proportionally large negative externalities.
Putin's Near Motionless Hands Reignite Health Rumors
https://archive.md/kPgao

Ist das Putin-Video manipuliert? [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvGxvEX9Do
You could travel to Canada or Mexico and get it there.
The impact of middle boxes is overhyped on HN. Games use all kind of random ports and UDP (or TCP), it still works. Them not working on shitty company networks has no impact for real networks.
NB: That's attributed to Richelieu, and AFAIK it's not something specifically that he said, though it seems to be in the spirit of much of his practice.

Something of which I'm aware as I've featured precisely that quote on a number of my profiles across the Internet under this 'nym.
I can't give in to misguided pessimism - "Open AI, Anthropic have said as much" is especially not something I can support!

I'm hearing some of the ideas on my corner of llm x creativity Twitter expressed clunkily and if its some irrevocable thing.

You're right the default is to speak like an assistant.

You're wrong that its forced and immutable and a consequence of RLHF and the companies say its so. https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1784077479730090346

You're especially wrong that RLHF is undesirable https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1819549737835528555
https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1819550145522160044.

It's also nigh-trivial to get the completion model back https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1776434608403325331

I don't know when I'll stop seeing surface-level opinions disguised as cold technological claims on this subject. I would have thought, by now, people doing that would wonder why the wide open lane hasn't been taken, at least once.
We have an explicit policy: you can't post LLM stuff directly to HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
IIRC Oracle makes it really hard to find the download. Admittedly we didn't spend more than an hour or two messing around with all of it and getting the applets to run wasn't a high priority or anything.
For criminal actions in the US, at the least, what you do say can be held against you.

What you don't say cannot, and what communications you destroy (as part of an ongoing general "document management" policy, not as a specific response to a lawful demand for records) cannot.

However if you phrase your document management policy as "apply these guidelines so that our illegal activity cannot be documented by us as illegal" you will be having a Bad Day should that policy come before a prosecutor, Grand Jury, or court.
Is there any Docker alternative on Mac that can utilize the MPS device in a container? ML stuff is many times slower in a container on my Mac than running outside
It does, but it works best if you compile it yourself, strip the engine down and add your own core game code as c++ classes. Not for everyone, but works good for me as I like c++.

If you wanna go straight to the web, probably start with play canvas or even Defold. Godot works, but if your not a c++ guy or dont want to fork the engine, then your not going to be able to optimize your game as much as I have
That was a wonderful read. Makes you wonder how many stories like these are out there. A lot of fascinating life stories we'll never know.
Let us not forget the success of Sweden's approach.

With a more broadly lethal virus, they would have fared badly, but with what happened, it appears correct.

"...the Danish and Norwegian agencies were opposed to closing borders and schools, but political considerations trumped their concerns. Even in Britain, where the popular perception is that the government eventually agreed to a lockdown because scientific advisers called for it, it has been revealed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s powerful political adviser Dominic Cummings pressed the government’s independent scientific advisers to recommend faster and broader lockdown measures."

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/sweden-during-pandemic#
#60 is also good. Most of the others... a lot of them (#16, #22, #26, etc.) I guess would work as eyecandy to put on the side of an article when you don't know what else to put there, but I don't think I could think of a dataset which they're useful for, let alone this dataset being a good showcase for them
Bold of you to assume that you will have any idea at all that an LLM generated a particular comment.

If I take a trick like those recommend by the authors of min_p (high temperature + min_p)[1], I do a great job of escaping the "slop" phrasing that is normally detectable and indicative of an LLM. Even more-so if I use the anti-slop sampler[2].

LLMs are already more creative than humans are today, they're already better than humans at most kinds of writing, and they are coming to a comment section near you.

Good luck proving I didn't use an LLM to generate this comment. What if I did? I claim that I might as well have. Maybe I did? :)

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=FBkpCyujtS

[2] https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler, https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/blob/main/slop...
Where can we read the essay?
Usually, the rational thing to in situations where you have unknowns is to act as though those unknowns are unknown, and not alter your behavior.
It's whatever the default scaling is on GitHub. I could fit more in other contexts of course, but on the site, that's the perfect size with a 27" monitor
Good point. I do plan on adding keyboard controls reminiscent of Ski Free, but simply saying "Use the mouse to ski" is probably a good thing to do.