skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And as I said in my original comment they are probably not even able to extract the board state very well,

They do measure and report on this, both in summary in the blog post and in more detail in the paper.

> otherwise they would depict some kind of direct representation of the state

If you can perfectly accurately extract the state the result would be pretty boring to show right? It'd just be a picture of a board state and next to it the same board state with "these are the same".

> Note also that the board state is not directly encoded in the neural network: they train another neural network to find weights to approximate the board state if given the internal weights of the Othello network.

If you can extract them, they are encoded in the activations. That's pretty much by definition surely.

> It's a bit of fishing for the answer you want.

How so?

Given a sequence of moves, they can accurately identify which state most of the positions of the board are in just by looking at the network. In order for that to work, the network must be turning a sequence of moves into some representation of a current board state. Assume for the moment they can accurately identify them do you agree with that conclusion?
> I believe the strategies that helped tip the balance was salami-slicing to just abolish trade rather then total abolition while arguing that continued trade would lead to slave rebellions as had been seen in French colonies thus it needed to be stopped not just out of moral necessity but national interest too.

Y'see, I count that as "the bare minimum done because they were forced to not because they wanted to".

Knowing that if you don't, it's going to be expensive is part of "being forced to". Getting around to it only when there's overwhelming pressure in one direction rather than 50%+1 is "dragging your feet".

The margin of what passed is on the one hand, the fact that it was only peaceameal — as demonstrated by literally all the other years on that list — is the other side of that coin.
There’s a great essay by Lydia Davis which appeared in the Paris Review in 2014 (I really should have a better citation, but oh well), which talks about the challenges of translation. To a certain extent, even if you’re writing something original, you’re still writing a translation in terms of trying to find a way to express the idea in your mind within the limitations of the words available to you.
The cat picture really shows the "noisy detail" problem with AI art. There's a lot going on on the area directly above the cat with a crown, as well as on the armrests and the upper areas of the wall background. But it's all random noise, which makes it both exhausting and distracting. A human artist would probably either make those areas less detailed, or give a more consistent pattern. Both would let those parts fade into the background, which would help draw our focus to the cats and the person.

There's other, more general issues too. The front paw on the big cat on the left is twisting unnaturally. The cat on the right with the pendant thing looks like it only has one front paw. The throne looks more like a canopy bed then a throne, with the curtains and the weird top area. The woman's face is oddly de-emphasized, despite being near the center of the piece.

Most of these things are subtle, and can be hard to articulate if you aren't looking closely. But the picture reeks of AI art, and it doesn't surprise me that the author was able to identify it as such right away.
Right. But their genes do.

You assume: hit the dam > died.
YouTube Shorts' Dream Screen feature can now generate AI video backgrounds
All diodes are photodiodes, one has to be esp careful of glass encapsulated diodes. I have had that bite me before.
what? how do you measure deaths per kWh for solar power and get anything above background noise?
This is how sea turtles do it, too, and why sea turtle release has to happen on the beach despite the higher risk of predators.

They get sand up their nose and calibrate based on the magnetism of the iron, iirc
> While I'm still eager to see where Quantum Computing leads

Agreed. Although I'm no expert in this domain, I've been watching it a long time as a hopeful fan. Recently I've been increasing my (currently small) estimated probability that quantum computing may not ever (or at least not in my lifetime), become a commercially viable replacement for SOTA classical computing to solve valuable real-world problems.

I wish I knew enough to have a detailed argument but I don't. It's more of a concern triggered by reading media reports that seem to just assume "sure it's hard, but there's no doubt we'll get there eventually."

While I agree quantum algorithms can solve valuable real-world problems in theory, it's pretty clear there are still a lot of unknown unknowns in getting all the way to "commercially viable replacement solving valuable real-world problems." It seems at least possible we may still discover some fundamental limit(s) preventing us from engineering a solution that's reliable enough and cost-effective enough to reach commercial viability at scale. I'd actually be interested in hearing counter-arguments that we now know enough to be reasonably confident it's mostly just "really hard engineering" left to solve.
I thought it was for the money
With these types of trick questions, it is always interesting what is an acceptable trick and what is not. The question did not specify whole numbers as it does not specify a random selection, but one is in bounds and the other not.
For long chats, I suggest exporting any artifacts, asking Claude to summarize the chat and put the artifacts and summarization in a project. There's no need to stuff Claude's context windows, especially if you tend to ask a lot of explanation-type questions like I do.

I've also read some people get around rate limits using the API through OpenRouter, and I'm sure you could hook a document store around that easily, but the Claude UI is low-friction
That is an interesting project. I would like to take that to the next level, where translation is the easy part. It's converting old handwritten letters, journals, and texts with now archaic cursive, into text. We have fascinating material from before WWII, in various languages - but trying to decipher it accurately, is a challenge. As the older generations died off, it is hard to find anyone to read that text.
Not exactly. Peter Turchi came up with the analogy of mapmaking for narrative which really goes a long way to making sense of this since in both it’s about being able to find a sensible way to connect the details in a usable way.
I didn't say it can't retrospect. What it can't do is retrospect as a human mind, it can only read the intepretation a human mind has of its retrospection, and the human mind can't fully explain what its way of thinking is. So it doesn't have a useful model of the human mind, that it would need for the strategy. And strategy is a whole complex feature, that would use overlapping models for the ambiguity.
Even when things weren't consistent, they were 'readable' and you could understand what a control was offering.

I wonder if our current state is a consequence of the 'iteration' of skeuomorphism, where a few decades ago computer UI controls were representations of what people would have been familiar with before - physical buttons on machines or concepts like files in folders, more recently the feedback loop is abstract controls being the input for the next iteration. How many objects in the world that you use in a week give a good template to inspire designers?
Worse even than this: there are no distributions.

What we mean by x ~ p(x), y ~ p(y|x) is not x -> y st. x = f(y)

Reality itself has no probability distributions. Reality follows a causal model, where a causal relation is given in terms of necessity and possibility.

Eg., there is no such thing as Photo ~ P(Photo|PhotoOfCat) to be learned, only (All Causes) -> PhotoOfCat. Thus the setup of ML as y = f(x) is incorrect, there is no `f` which satisfies this formula (in almost all cases).

Consider the LLM case: reality has no P("The War in Ukraine"| TheWarIn2022) -- either the speaker meant TheWarIn2022, or they didnt. There's no sense in which reality has it that the utterance is intrinsically ambiguous (necessarily, for communication to be possible, pragmatics+semantics has to be able to fully resolve meaning).

So what are LLMs learning? Just an implied empirical distribution which is "smoothed over" the data just enough that it "hangs on to it, without repeating it" -- and this is vital, since if it were to try to generalise in the scientific sense, it would cease to be meaningful, since no algorithm which computes P(y|x) in this manner could capture the necessary relata that fully resolves meaning. Any system capable of modelling meaning would be probabilistic only in the sense of having a prior over such causal models: P("TheWarInUkraine"|TheWarIn2022, CausalModel) = 1, but P(CausalModel) < 1

So it's always undefined what it means to "generalise" wrt to an empirical distribution -- there aren't any.

When we say scientific theories generalise, we mean their posited necessary causal relations are maintained across irrelevant interventions. Eg., newton's theory of gravity generalises in that each term (F, M, m, r) is a valid measure of some property, and it remains a valid measure across a very large number of environments.

It fails to generalise for extreme values of M, m, etc.

In the ML sense, all intra-distributional generalisation fails for trivial permutations of any causal property, eg., m+dm -- because this induces an entirely new distribution. The "generalisation error" depends on what m+dm does within our model, but regardless, generalisation fails.

Scientific theories do not fail to generalise in this way, irrelevant causal interventions make no difference to the explanatory adequacy (or predictive power) of the theory.
> Detecting valid medical advice is not. The two are not even remotely comparable.

Uh? Where exactly did I signal my support for LLM's giving medical advice?
MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX
Vacuum clamping would get tricky when the surface you’re trying to slurp onto is also the thing you’re actively cutting holes in, right?
The only one I can think of is simulating physical systems, especially quantum ones.

Google's supremacy claim didn't impress me; besides being a computationally uninteresting problem, it really just motivated the supercomputer people to improve their algorithms.

To really establish this field as a viable going concern probably needs somebody to do "something" with quantum that is experimentally verifiable but not computable classically, and is a useful computation.
i have the impression that in china gift giving for birthdays is less common (in general most gifts are red envelopes with money anyways). as a consequence there is no expectation for kids to bring a gift when they attend a party.

as a parent i would make that explicit, in order to be inclusive, i would ask/demand that no presents be brought to the party. any friends or family who do want to give a present should do that in private before or after the party, and all present are also to be opened after the party when the guests are gone.

that avoids a number of problems. the birthday kid can focus on the party and the guests instead of being focused on the presents. any disappointment about the "wrong" presents is hidden from the giver. givers won't be embarrassed or judged in front of the party if their present is somehow inferior to others. or givers can't brag about their cool present, and also the kids can't show off what cool stuff they got. really wrong presents can be ignored, returned, passed on without any fuss....
Intimately Personalized Software at Scale
It's the same reason why you can't use pictures of people in public or their quotes or tweets for commercial reasons without permission: there's a general concept of human dignity and privacy that includes people's thoughts, words, and appearances/etc as belonging to them. It's not greedy to want respect for basic human autonomy.

Plus pragmatically speaking this sounds suspiciously like something that's "not a problem" until it is a problem. If a poorly written LLM regurgitates my name and lines from a blog post (or god forbid hallucinates a blog post by me as a citation) in some defense of Pol Pot or something that's going to be come a problem for me very quickly.

EDIT: Fridge thought: quite frankly if someone's making money off my interactions in this economy you can bet your last dollar I want my fair share of it. It's not greedy to gain value from your interactions with the world: you already do by interacting since that's a bi-lateral relationship ie it affects each party equally. It IS greedy for a third party who did not participate in the interaction to expect value from it.
Not sure I understand the article. The author specifically chose art from humans and AI that he found difficult to categorize into human or AI art.
The fact that people had a 60% success rate suggest that they are a little better in seeing the difference then he was himself?

(What am I missing? This is not like "take 50 random art objects from humans and AI", but take 50 most human like AI, and non-obvious human art from humans)
Indexing doesn't really work well if cookies are involved.
And if indexing doesn't work, then searching doesn't.

Web pages fail for me (javascript or whatever) far more often then I get a "violation access error" from my desktop programs.
For sure. I didn’t realize moving into check was an illegal move in the sense that I’ve only played casually and the opponent (or myself) points it out.
Wait until they find out how dogs have shot their owner.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-dead-after-dog-steps-hunt...
> It's kind of a pain to have to form a prompt that encapsulates enough context, but it has prevented me from hitting the Pro limit. Also, I include more questions and detail in each prompt.

i get it to provide a prompt to start the new chat. i sometimes wish there was a button for it bc it's such a big part of my workflow
I agree that the cafe had tells, just like the city street. But Gauguin also ended up in my AI bin. With the latter I feel the cropping was very infavourable.

Even though I was warned of the cropping, I didn't think the works would be cut that badly. Since I was working under the assumption that good specimens of each category would be chosen, the cut Gauguin didn't make it.

But in the end I'd convinced myself that Osny also had tells apart from the composition. So what do I know?
Yeah. The big draw was always that excise taxes on alcohol were much lower in France, but the EU guaranteed a right of individual duty-free import for personal use - so the UK couldn't make the money back on entry tariffs.

I'm very fond of British food, and there are certainly some things that are better got in our supermarkets than in France. Less than the other way round, though, and without the cheap booze to offset the cost of the trip I can't see many French people coming to the UK for good Madeira, pies, or Marmite...
So, is K/DA Ahri a one-tail 狐娘娘?
I remember when the Internet wasn't real.

You could take a screenshot, but not a photo, you couldn't have a real photo inside the computer without a scanner.

You could plug into the phone line if you had dial-up, but you didn't make calls over the Internet. If you did call someone, you had to both install Skype or something.

You could "watch TV" on the computer if you used a cable tuner, but there wasn't TV online.

Reality stayed in reality, and although the Internet has always supervened on reality, the Internet stayed inside the Internet.

Somewhere around "computer phone times" this stopped being the case.

Now politics happens on Twitter, you can order a pizza online and it's not a credit card scam, it actually arrives. You can place a call and with the right aeons it may even connect to a POTS telephone.

At some point it shifted from "The Internet is where a bunch of nerds who like The Internet talk about The Internet" to "The Internet is plugged into real life and is part of real life" to even "Real life is part of the Internet"
Maybe, as others have noted here, signal doesn't allow third party clients on their networks... That said, neither did AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ...
It seems to me like the guys walking each other on leashes in the streets, dressed in leather thongs are the people equating gay with sex. I also think the people cutting off their genitalia in the name of being trans are equating trans with genitalia.

Being marginal is fine. Everyone is marginal, we're all different after all.

And you're right, we're never going to agree on these topics. It's still fun to read differing opinions every now and then.
An opinion piece, expressing an opinion? WELL I NEVER.
Show HN: ChessGPT
I made this quite a while back - but there seems to have been some interest in playing chess with ChatGPT again https://chessgpt.atomic14.com/ You can paste you API key in, it all runs locally so should be pretty safe.
While there have been clipboard bugs, we've never used those keystrokes in the UI. However, GTK2 did have a way to let users change the menu shortcuts by hovering over the menu item and hitting a new keystroke and I suspect that's what happened here.
I feel like a lot of productivity advice comes from people who are extreme outliers when it comes to motivation and this is a prime example of that.
basically every adblock on iphone does this, usually as part of a premium paid upgrade..

iOS unfortunately does not have a way for those apps to hijack the OS level DNS... so they fake a VPN to configure thenselves as the VPN DNS server to allow then to capture all the local DNS traffic..

they do this because it is, as far as i know, their only option to do ad blocking for the whole device instead of just for safari..
The Crafting Interpreters book author is another one, at least mildly. I've not read the book fully yet, but have skimmed the first chapter or so.
The thing is, some of us are sick of hearing from an endless stream of stupid arseholes, and welcome the easy ability to filter them out. I gather this is rather annoying to the stupid arseholes (they show up, whining, from time to time, before the blocklists catch up), but, y’know, who cares?

I was on Twitter for 17 years (admittedly, I didn’t use the account for the last two years of that), and the stupid arsehole problem just got worse, and worse, and worse… Until a little over two years ago, when the stupid arsehole-in-chief abruptly made it _dramatically_ worse. I reckon I have done my time, at this point. I do not _wish_ to hear from an endless parade of idiots. Sorry. Done with that.

There are generally two ways this argument works: “all opinions are equally valid”, or “Not all opinions are equally valid, but listening to the same invalid opinions, over and over, for decades, is in some way morally improving”. Sorry, but both of these are bullshit. Like, there is not much originality. About 50% of it is “haha, trans people are bad, what a funny joke”, just like it has been for the entirety of this _century_.
How is search a network effects business? It seems to me that each additional user would contribute less than the previous one, as opposed to Metcalfe's law (where each additional user adds more value than the last). How would paying to be a default be a network effect? Perhaps the capital cost to competing with Google is high, but if it were worth it, there are a number of firms which could afford it; it seems like it's just not worth it.
I'm being a bit pedantic here, but it is not categorically wrong. Categorically wrong doesn't just mean "very wrong" it is a specific type of being wrong, a type that this isn't.

Repetition codes are a type of error correction code. It is thus in the category of error correction codes. Even if it is not the right error correction codes, it is in the correct category, so it is not a categorical error.
That seems highly likely given Sam Friedman's extensive reputation across multiple companies as being abusive, a compulsive liar, and willing to outright do blatantly illegal things like using a celebrity's voice and then, well...lie about it.
it wouldn't. it was a joke.
The single biggest problem in software engineering (larger-scale programming) is this: Brain-to-brain transfer of technical information is hard.

Learn to get better at technical documentation. Learn how to really understand it even if it's not written all that well. And learn to write it well.
I run Track & Trace Tools[1], an extension directly targeted at the legal cannabis industry's main compliance platform Metrc.

Since it's targeted at businesses and not consumers, word of mouth has been powerful for me. I've rapidly grown in the state of Michigan thanks to a few very enthusiastic operators.

I also went on a slate of podcasts last year to talk about (read: promote) my product. Podcast hosts are always looking for guests, and most of them didn't cost me a thing.

It's also been helpful to be a Google Developer Expert for web extensions, the Chrome team interviewed me and that gave me a platform to talk about what I was working on[2].

[1] https://trackandtrace.tools

[2] https://youtu.be/8P-Sc8ZaViY?si=tLhx3LMIlNqHBvfB
The sooner the cost of plastics actually reflect their true cost to society (which is basically infinite if they cause genetic damage), the sooner we get viable replacements.
I don't think Google cares. If it works on Chromebooks and most Android phones, their job is done. On to the next API, let's make WebWiFi or WebAI.

WebGPU demos never work for me, so I personally consider the tech dead until that gets fixed. WebGL is barely stable enough to use as well, so I guess I'll just have to keep doing GPU stuff outside of the browser.
Just come on. The square root of 2 is the easiest example of an irrational number, this has been known since Ancient Greece. You can't compute distances in Euclidean spaces without the square root. "Solving equations by roots" is the bread and butter of algebra. Adjoining roots to a field is how you get Galois Theory. Several algorithms related to number theory have complexity O(sqrt(n)). And so on.

You chose an extremely poor example and now you're trying to die on that hill. Please don't die on that hill.
Had a look, at their website, it does have everything I would ask for in Management App. Does it also have Raycast support?
I did the same for a different political issue once, I just thought it was funny
I'm sick of mandatory TLS. All we did is make it harder for regular people to host their own pages, pushing them right into the hands of the big silos.
As I understand, you have to compile your code for every machine you support, then it combines them into a single executable.
Random taxi driver who happened to pass by Bagram, tortured to death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilawar_%28torture_victim%29

Another one was kidnapped because of his watch type, a Casio: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...

There was also another one who had the misfortune of sharing his name with a man accused of terrorism.

> The obvious possibility is that few were convicted because it wasn't widespread

Considering the well known and documented facts around Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, that's obvious not possible and not true.

NATO being a defensive alliance, your last point has no merit.