skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your accusation of racism confuses criticizing immutable characteristics with analyzing societal choices. This is a fundamental logical error. :-)

If we discuss German society role in enabling the Third Reich, it is not racism against Germans. If we analyze Japanese society's role in WWII atrocities and unit 731, it is not racist against Japanese people.

These discussions led to positive cultural changes precisely because they focused on changeable behaviors, not ethnicity.

Your Syria comparison actually proves my point. Syrians demonstrated massive resistance to their government - millions chose exile, fought back, or actively protested. In contrast, we see 80%+ support for the war in Russia, limited internal resistance relative to population size, and widespread diaspora support.

The "racist" counterargument appears to be a rhetorical device on your part to shut down legitimate discussion of societal responsibility. It's particularly telling that instead of addressing the evidence (documented support for rapes, patterns of behavior, cultural acceptance of authoritarianism), you jump to accusations of racism.

Each society must face its choices. Germany did. Japan did. Many others have. This isn't about inherent characteristics - it's about changeable behaviors and cultural patterns that enable specific outcomes.

As a final example: In the USA a majority of the actual voters, just a few week ago, elected as president an individual convicted of rape in civil procedure, convicted of business fraud in a court by a jury of it's peers, that refused to rent to people of color, mocked a disabled reporter, simulated oral sex with a microphone in front of children, and tried 44 times to remove a law that protected health care patients with pre-existing conditions.

Do you say these millions do not have any collective responsibility on their decisions, on what was a free election? :-)
Casual players don’t make illegal moves so often that you have to assign them a random move after 10 goes.
Why do you think that? InstructGPT was predominantly trained as a next-token predictor on whatever soup of data OpenAI curated at the time. The alignment signal (both RL part and the supervised prompt/answer pairs) are a tiny bit of the gradient.
When looking at the pre-1914 world, it's amazing how much they tried to introduce (propagate?) artificial total orders: if you have a bishop and a baron over for dinner, who gets served first, that sort of thing.
I feel like you could add “do not capture en passant unless it is the only possible move” to the test without changing what it’s trying to prove—if anything, some small permutation like this might even make it a stronger test of “reasoning capability.” (Personally I’m unconvinced of the utility of this test in the first place, but I think it can be reasonably steelmanned.)
> Compare that to, like, lexical scoping or parametric polymorphism, which most languages just have by default at this point. They’re almost mathematical facts.

FWIW emacs lisp (in)famously still defaults to dynamic scoping -- there's been a proposal to change that default earlier this month but interestingly, there's still pushback. See e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-11/msg00...
I've seen someone on this site comment to the effect that if they could use a tool like dall-e to generate a picture of "their dog" that looked better than a photo they could take themselves, they would happily take it over a photo.

The future is going to become difficult for people who find value in creative activities, beyond just a raw audio/visual/textual signal at the output. I think most people who really care about a creative medium would say there's some kind of value in the process and the human intentionality that creates works, both for the creator who engages in it and the audience who is aware of it.

In my opinion most AI creative tools don't actually benefit serious creators, they just provide a competitive edge for companies to sell new products and enable more dilettantes to enter the scene and flood us with mediocrity
We were there before nasty viruses spread. We stopped funding them in July 2020, meaning we were funding it before lockdowns started and just as China was being affected. You truly need to work on your reading comprehension skills before attempting to suggest anyone has errors in anything.
I made a suggestion that they may have trained the model to be good at chess to see if it helped with general intelligence, just as training with math and code seems to improve other aspects of logical thinking. Because, after all, OpenAI has a lot of experience with game playing AI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42145215
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Only OpenAI knows for sure, but so many non-tech people I know use ChatGPT for a sounding board for whatever. "My boyfriend sent me this text, how should I respond?" or "Teach me about investing." There are a bunch of people I know that don't use ChatGPT, I'm just surprised at the uptake by people who I didn't think would have as use for it have found it very useful.
The us goes to war if someone sneezes.
Manganese Nodule
Cardo is a major manufacturer of bluetooth headsets which integrate into motorcycle helmets[1].

Since they are in the audio space as well, I hope they won't take issue with the name of this project.

[1] https://cardosystems.com/
That remains to be seen.

SMT solvers such as Z3 and CVC5 tend to be good at theory solving (the T in SMT) but not so good at handling quantification. OTOH, the ATPs (= automatic theorem provers) used in 'hammers, like E, Spass, Vampire, have the opposite strengths and weaknesses: they are good at handling quantification, but not so good at theory solving. Moreover, all widely used ATPs tend to be for first-order classical logic, while Lean is based on higher-orders constructive logic. So there is still a gap to be bridged.

It is great to see that people work on this problem.
Sadly, my new gym assigns keys in numerical locker order. The Google Reviews are full of lamentations about it. However, the gym is right next door to my new place, so I am inclined to overlook these and other shortcomings.

Logistically, it makes sense for them, as it presumably cuts down on maintenance and cleaning. But it is super-annoying to squeeze past several other sweaty folk when there are two entire locker corridors empty and adjacent.
The problem is that the llm don’t learn to play moves from a position, the internet archives contain only game records. They might be building something to represent position internationally but it will not be automatically activated with an encoded chess position.
The Soviet scientist who survived a particle accelerator beam through his head
And if it's still too cold, start mining bitcoin?

https://heatbit.com/
That you were able to use Python to define and train the network in so few lines of code, with no prior knowledge and a 2-day deadline, sounds fairly successful to me.

I think a hackathon will inevitably favor quick copy-pasting, gluing APIs together, and utilizing tools you're familiar with - as opposed to being a good place for beginners to build an understanding of the fundamentals.
'Vanity Fair' Faces Major Backlash over Cormac McCarthy Story
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Original article published November 20, 2024:

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https://archive.ph/yQXhL
> This is streaming dual 4k video streams from the cloud. The windows protocols don’t really matter here.

Compression was never an issue. Just look at youtube.
Yes, he did seem impressed. I decided awhile ago that I'm only dating software nerds.
Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using Peg
It's like Britain or any part of Europe being colonised by the Romans. They left and things fell apart. Who in Europe developed by being left alone?

Nevertheless wherever the Romans stayed longer, so did bits of their way of doing things. We're typing in their alphabet, using many of their words. Our legal systems embed many ideas from the Roman one (I read this but cannot say how true it is). I do know that in my pink bit of Africa our legal system is based on Roman-Dutch law.

We basically believe in educating, building public infrastructure, accountancy, paying tax, a degree of organisation as the Romans seem to have done and we've tried and failed, just as they did, to have democratic government of a sort.

And all of this happened via a 2nd party - the British (and some Dutch).

The problem is that a change in culture and attitudes takes generations and a few generations ago people in my part of the world were wearing animal skins (an exaggeration obviously) but for many the rural life really is only a generation ago.

Now significant numbers of people read and write, work in offices or industry. There's no way that would have happened this fast without modern medicine and agriculture and to a lesser degree the ability to build cities with clean water and sewage. That's because the population would not have been able to grow like it has. Droughts would have wiped people out - without the dams, grain stores and imports-by rail that happened as a result of the creation of these things by people from an alternate culture.

Whats happening now is that because the values of that alternate are only embedded in a small part of the host culture, it's difficult maintain them and therefore things fall apart.

There's a core knowledge/culture about civilisation that didn't come ultimately from the British but really from the Romans and through them from the Greeks and maybe through them from others. It's a multilayered fruit with each previous civilisation adding something. To develop it has probably taken 1000s of years. Nobody has done it totally on their own.
Is there a relationship between this and delegation? Delegation feels to me that it's essentially a "named instance/impl".
Also: Valentines Day. I always figure that must have an effect.
Courts in Buenos Aires are using ChatGPT to draft rulings
All of these things did have their day in court in Epic vs Apple. Apple won on most counts but lost on the anti-steering provisions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple
In the case of my new gym (see my earlier reply above), far as I can tell, they are just saving money on modernization. There are similar other penny-pinching measures there, such as treadmills which apparently offer TV and Netflix, etc., but have no channels, no connectivity and no ability to cast over Bluetooth from your phone.

I asked them about the latter issue, and they said that it might get fixed next year; but there are years-old Google Reviews of the gym citing this promise!
> So, if hello world is not trivial

Note that the nontrivial C program I showed above was not "hello world". Emitting output is yet more complicated still.

> you can easily generate e.g web assembly from your own lang input without linker

IIRC some things that generate wasm generate object files (e.g. C translation units). Those wasm objects require a linker to resolve symbol references to create the executable.

> it will run fine

...on a wasm virtual machine. IIRC Java doesn't have anything like a traditional linker either.

> Aint the same viable for x86?

I mean, you can do anything you want inventing a new compiler that does much more than traditional compilers. But consider perhaps that there's a lot of value in the status quo that you might appreciate more if you were more familiar with the design of a toolchain.

It's not that linkers are an absolute drop-dead necessity, it's that having one allows you to have distinct assembler and compiler functions that are much simpler to design by focusing on one kind of transformation.
I have operated a nuclear reactor. There is nothing in common with this tragic experiment. We have strict procedures that are rigidly followed, and are at all times far, far away from fissile material. We don’t suffer bravado.
> Can you elaborate on the difference?

They’ll fail in different ways than something that thinks (and doesn’t have some kind of major disease of the brain going on) and often smack in the middle of appearing to think.
People die with less heat. But clearly not everyone, and it is not true that:

> no one can use any object in such a climate, because they'd die.

By the way, I know you can survive that heat because I did. No air conditioner. It was excruciating and I don’t wish it upon anyone. Well, maybe on climate change deniers, it would probably do them some good to suffer through it to believe the science. They probably wouldn’t but at least they wouldn’t be able to move to make it worse, either.
What are the potential risks and ethical implications of a security guard adopting a heuristic that dismisses all noises as harmless, given the improbability of robberies?
In Tetris, you are supposed to have a "bag" of five tetrominos that are drawn from in random order. You can see the tetromino falling down and which one is coming next, and you know the one after that must be one of the remaining three that haven't been drawn yet (assuming there are any). If all five have been drawn, then the bag is reshuffled. This mechanic is what constrains the randomness to something that you can reason about to design openers or other strategies, which is also why Tetris can theoretically be played forever.
How about explicitly declaring orphan trait implementations as public (or not) and explicitly importing them (or not). Trait implementations are resolved at the point where a concrete type becomes generic, and the set of available traits can depend on that context.

This isn't exactly trivial, but it avoids coherence problems.
The current model of "equity" as in Title IX is currently defined based on difference in outcome implying structural/systemic discrimination. There is now a difference in outcome going the other way. Thus, one must conclude systemic discrimination the other direction by the same rules.

This difference in outcome was the only hard evidence that justified creation of programs that give women an advantage, such as women-only mentorship programs, scholarships, and career counseling.
Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal
Pro cameras do not do this to any degree.

Edit: by default.
No favoured reference on my part, but Kragen's played around with this before, so he might have some ideas...
Hence the Cosmopolitan Libc layer that's kinda essential to the APEs described in the article. That's where all the magic is to make the same code work on a variety of operating systems.

There's even a handy table to express syscall compatibility across all of Cosmopolitan's targets - https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/functions.html
Low level performance is underselling the issues. Blob storage is not infinitely scalable. That means it’s just not the same thing as s3.
It seems messy and even the author of TFA is unconvinced.

How does a mixin compare to role or interface in languages that do not have multiple inheritance?
Your general point stands, of course. One can only code against a tiny subset of features. Windows has now finally gotten "real" named pipes, though. (Since Windows 8 or whenever, can't remember exactly when.)
At least it makes it easy to see the difference between std / official packages (not prefixed) and others.
That's exactly what Recall is: offline and fully customizable, but HN/Reddit went mad over it.
Maybe if I read this article, it will fix it!
Then say "no one has demonstrated that LLMs can reason" instead of "LLMs can't reason, they're just token predictors". At least that would be intellectually honest.
I had an interviewee say this was his career goal. We did not extend an offer.
Why is it bizarre? Google has near-monopoly market share in search and in ads and Apple is the only thing standing between them and a monopoly on the browser. Furthermore, they've demonstrated anti-competitive behavior in all three markets.

The only market where Apple has a monopoly is the marketplace that they created for themselves, and a high profile case already tried and failed to use that definition of the market to argue antitrust. The DOJ is trying again anyway, but it made perfect sense for them to wait until Epic vs Apple was decided before starting work—why waste time on something that could be moot by the time they finish?
We could just copy the Dutch road design manual, flip it for the UK and be done with it. This is basically perfect.
I wonder, why did you chose The Security guard problem for this?
Yes, Cython
Any chance this could get open-sourced? This seems like a great example of a lot of stuff for which there are few tutorials currently.
Not open source, and not enterprise free license so it is a No.
This kind of thing -- that humans can do today with current technology -- is why if an ET intelligence that could travel interstellar distances wanted to observe us we would never know unless they wanted us to know.

Their probes could be the size of sand grains, maybe even dust. Maybe not quite sophons, but not much better as far as our odds of finding anything. I suppose there would have to be something larger to receive signals from these things and send them back (because physics), but that could be hanging out somewhere we'd be unlikely to see it.

Yet another Fermi paradox answer: we are looking for big spacecraft when the universe is full of smart dust.
Building Conway's Game of Life in Transport Tycoon
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208379
What's the selling point for it though? I don't get it?
What are the potential risks and ethical considerations of a security guard relying on a heuristic that assumes all noises are harmless, given the low likelihood of robberies?
Nice I follow Cornell University research for quite while and I really love their studies
Yep, this is credential inflation in a nutshell. Don't fall through the cracks in the future, if you do then maybe you'll wind up as a neanderthal that couldn't pass college algebra.
Cyclists that RLJ are breaking the law, and police do stop them. Admittedly they won't be caught by a camera, like a car would.

Equally if something happens (e.g. pedestrian knocked down), they're still liable; not having insurance doesn't remove that.
Why do we pretend that these things don’t matter? Why should we?

Why in the norm to ignore these issues - there by perpetuating them because they face no consequences - rather than pointing them out?

Justine did write openly on the web about their prejudices and never even apologized let alone showed in anyway evolution away from fascist leaning and prejudiced politics
In law we generally prosecute those who are responsible according to the law. Not those who happen to be available so that we have someone to make pay.

Not saying that there are undoubtedly more “bad people” than just him. But that’s not how law works.
Are we talking about NN Taleb? I am curious about the twitter persona.
True that memoization makes factorial trivial, but I think that's erring on the side of skipping the computation we're meant to be benchmarking; a pre-computed array may be even faster. Numba's JIT is applicable in a wide range of scenarios, and could be used alongside memoization if needed.
The LLM can't refer to notes, it is just relying on its memory of what input tokens it had.
I always assumed it was because of Valentine's Day.
This is also a problem when reviewing changes through github-like workflows, and even more with patch-based workflows. It's probably either impossible or very difficult to fix that ever.
Love it! It's fun and simple. It would be great to have some kind of "start again" button to clear all the emoji and show new ones. Are the emoji selected randomly?
New Comic Book: La BD de L'Avent, Le Lombard Publishing
Location of Minami-Torishima is interesting - https://maps.app.goo.gl/dJe8bnbFkcYZEpPw5. It's really in the middle of nowhere, far from the Japanese home islands. It would be a shame if Japan had a neighbour with a known history of claiming tiny islands far from its mainland.

Regardless, an increase in the supply of manganese, cobalt and nickel is a cause for celebration. It makes future battery production easier and energy abundance more likely.
add a built in timer and I bet people would speed run this thing
Its available on Dragonfly
https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly

Here is the docs https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hex...
The article was published in 2021. Why do they repost this as "news" three years later?
The newtype pattern is a special case of type composition which is incredibly useful, has low complexity, and if done right almost no boilerplate overhead. It's much dumber and easier to reason about than type-acrobatics with generics, imo.
> (a) the LLM does reason through the rules and understands what moves are legal or (b) was trained on a large set of legal moves and therefore only learned to make legal moves.

How can you learn to make legal moves without understanding what moves are legal?
There's a lot of rotations and stuff in QM, yes. That you should do it with quaternions is mostly an internet thing. I have a PhD in physics, and I never encountered quaternions in any course I took, and from seeing curricula in other universities I haven't seen it there either.
Old 8 bits "family/home computers" were designed with teens and kids in mind - perhaps an influence of Alan Kay? BASIC means "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code", so it was a good fit. The Amstrad CPC 6128 also came with a Logo implementation [1], which was an educational dialect of Lisp (I still remember how its associative lists blew my mind as a kid), on a separate disc.

Also, at that time "open source" wasn't really a thing, compilers/interpreters for various languages were professional, commercial tools [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#Other_languages
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Belongingness
Perhaps more common than now, even with the resurgence from remote working, I'd say.
> Most degrees are not worth the investment.

Is that accurate “most”, and is it only when compared to trades?