skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think it is more subtle than that. Straight out lying back fires easily it is more of spinning the story, i.e, on January 6 did we have an insurrection or protest? You have to push the agenda of your side so you have to try to re-define words. What is the definition of insurrection and protest? Those definitions need to be twisted so it is more subtle. Another example is "I did not have sexual relationships with that women. Oh I thought oral isn't a sexual relationship, so I didn't lie"
So how do they find the river outlet into the ocean? There surely is some bird compass thing involved. I am only half joking when I write that Venus guides them.

That nature works at all is astonishing.
That's fine—same with CPUs, right? But if I do something that's slow on _my_ CPU, at least there's tooling that will show me!

I know that the reason is a lot of technical complexity (plus little standardization between vendors), but I think the end goal should be to make GPU programming more accessible.
Would an optional "Hashable" class interface be a good way to reduce the classes (and objects) that need to have a hash? Or is having a hash an unavoidable primitive feature?

Also, would an optional "Lockable" class interface be a good way to drastically reduce the classes (and objects) that need to maintain lock information?

I am religiously averse to unused but implemented "Positive-Cost Abstractions". I dream of a root class with no methods except "new", and instance methods delete() and isSelf(x).

Even "Polymorphism" could be an opt-in interface. Subclasses of non-polymorphic classes would inherit functionality (yay, reusability), but not be a subtype of their root class.

(With commutativity between subclassing & the polymorphic interface. I.e. If A is a non-polymorphic class, and Ap is a polymorphic version of class A, then all subclasses of Ap and all polymorphic subclasses of A, would be subtypes of Ap.)
The difference between things you'd say like "it's true that..." and "the market will associate..." basically is the definition of a scam.
>which means that optimizing a function to make it faster is a breaking change (what if suddenly one of your queues clears too fast and triggers a deadlock??), despite the fact that 99.99999999% of your users would probably appreciate having code that runs faster for no effort on their part.

I agree with your point, but that's poor example because you can't rely on function's speed reliably and easily.

Timing differs between hw, OS, OS updates, whatever.

Meanwhile it is trivial and easy to rely on error messages.
In liquids the speed of sound is related to the density, I would have thought similar for air but I see your point. Very insightful!
MUT-8694: An NPM and PyPI Malicious Campaign Targeting Windows Users
> a large Atlantic salmon meta-population

I don't think this finding is necessarily relevant here, because Atlantic salmon are totally different. Pacific salmon always die right after spawning. Atlantic salmon return to the ocean after spawning, and will often spawn multiple times.
Recently I asked 4o to ‘try again’ when it failed to respond fully, it started telling me about some song called Try Again. It seems to lose context a lot in the conversations now.
How to make the most of this script: ( At least what has helped me in getting high quality code in one go)

Step 1 : Start the script with a simple prompt like "Create an expense management tool" and it will set up the whole project with relevant functional requirements doc, technical implementation doc, database setup, backend code and frontend code. It will even install all the dependencies and place the code in relevant folder

Step 2: Open generated code folder in cursor, ask it to read all the files and then start making changes. Works like a charm mostly :P.
Low Confidence Drives Feedback-Seeking, Boosts Learning Outcomes
I guess this is exactly the problem that this investment would solve.
Yes! I've run out of ways to tell MY parents not to get toys for my kids for Christmas/birthdays. I can ask directly for no physical things; I can suggest tickets to shows or evens, memberships to museums or zoos, etc; I can point out every time they come over that there's not enough space for the things we already have; I can tell them what sorts of clothes the kids could use instead. They're still going to get each kid a "showstopper" (toy workbench, Big Wheel, something physically large) plus several cheap plastic trinkets... plus the clothes.

And that's just my parents. I can politely talk to them about not getting physical things for my kids, but then there's all of the extended family that loves to get them big, cheap plastic stuff, too. I know they're trying to be generous and don't really understand the fallout, but I'm starting to reconsider the whole "it's the thought that counts" idea.

I need to do a better job of helping the kids periodically go through and give stuff away, but 1) try explaining to a 3-year-old why giving away your toys is a good thing, and 2) the influx of new things always seems to outstrip the rate at which I can find time to get rid of stuff.
Nonsense. The concept of MAD had been discussed in the literature for nearly a century before the invention of nuclear weapons.
You might consider that other people have also spent hundreds of hours with it, and have seen it correctly solve tasks that cannot be explained by regurgitating something from the training set.

I'm not saying that your observations aren't correct, but this is not a binary. It is entirely possible that the tasks you observe the models on are exactly the kind where they tend to regurgitate. But that doesn't mean that it is all they can do.

Ultimately, the question is whether there is a "there" there at all. Even if 9 times out of 10, the model regurgitates, but that one other time it can actually reason, that means that it is capable of reasoning in principle.
Say a fan of ReiserFS, without 'knowledge or opinion of Hans' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115276

In general, I've noticed that people like to kick the people with least power or privilege, which often means women are targeted as they tend to have the least power and privilege.

Oh, a BigTech company is evil, with CO2 demands that will kill the planet, support for genocide, and developing mass surveillance to improve their bottom line? Not a problem! Look at all the cool tech toys they have!

Someone develops cool tech toys but has horrible personal opinions? Keep him around as the Chief GNUissance and invite him to all the conferences because he didn't do anything except express opinions, but pounce on her whenever people mention her toys, because of her opinions.
This article undermines itself a bit by introducing an optimistic concurrency primitive that it calls "fence tokens", aka content hashes, data versions or etags which are all the same concept.

Distributed locking, like all pessimistic concurrency, has a place but it comes with serious scaling concerns depending on how granular the scope of the locks are. Lock lived locks suffer from blocking other writers from large chunks of time, destroying latency. Very fine-grained locks eventually become dominated by networking overhead since the lock requires two to three trips to the database for each logical write/update.

Conversely, optimistic concurrency under high contention can lead to excessive waste from clients needing to retry operations because of conflicts.

The only way to win is reduce the scope of your writes/updates to avoid the contention as much as possible.
"Invitations" for government officials are pretty much invitations in name only.

Many of the emails of Assad and his government have been leaked and show in great detail how various governments interact with each other. And how Assad ran his country by forwarding NYT articles...
I had one of those when I was maybe 8. Got some enjoyment out of it, and then a couple years later I got RadioShack's Electronic Learning Lab, which was much more advanced. After receiving and opening it, I was actually in tears (IIRC) because it looked so complicated and I didn't even know how to get a wire into the breadboard.

That ELL gave me probably 100s of hours of fun and learning over the next 5 years.
Most of them use Bing's indexes on the backend and some competition does not mean that Google doesn't have monopoly power over the market. Firefox exists but Chrome still has a much larger share of the market.
that is a good question. we've seen folks from the Biden/Harris admin resign over military aid to Israel, and it appears the admin indeed was in violation of US law when said aid was given. could they face criminal charges for complicity? i find it hard to believe they had no idea what was going on.

another question i have regards the future: it appears the US is working on even more aid for Israel, see Bernie's latest attempt to prevent that. now that leadership in Israel has warrants out for them, will the US aid continue? certainly would be a bad look to continue aiding Israel at this point i reckon.

what an absolute tragic mess all around. i'm ashamed of our complicity, and sadly will not be surprised one bit if we continue giving them aid despite it all.
What beefs me with Netflix that none of top100 non-english movies are on it. Yes it’s tiring to pick be picking trash.
> Whereas the LLM makes "moves" that clearly indicate no ability to play chess: moving pieces to squares well outside their legal moveset, moving pieces that aren't on the board, etc.

Do you have any evidence of that? TFA doesn't talk about the nature of these errors.
If you want to make the argument that there are structure impediments to men becoming vets, I'm receptive.
You see, this is what America loses when we send people to work for the government. Real talent.
The vast majority of possible explanations for anything are wrong, so "correct unless disproven" is not a sensible default. Your evidence that it's right is ... ?
Because the same way you do not want a human interlocutor to speak out of its dreams, uttering the first ideas that come to mind unvetted, and you want him to instead have thought hard and long and properly and diligently and well, equally you'll want the same from an automation.
So a 3x increase over 50 years for left-handedness.

By comparison there's been a 40-50x increase in gender clinic patients in just 11 years from ~100 patients in 2011 to 5000 patients in 2022: https://segm.org/images/280UK_22.svg
I read Anthropic as eluding to the Anthropic Principle as well as the doomsday argument and related memeplex[0] mixed with human-centric or about humans. Lovely naming IMHO.

[0]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec17.html
Engagement bait. Maybe that’s why people keep posting that stupid email from Steve Jobs to other tech CEOs where they illegally conspire not to recruit from each other. If I remember correctly they got fined $400M for their trouble. Not a great lesson to emulate.
Hopefully the Snake river is next.
All these dams on the Klamath river did have fish ladders where the salmon could go upstream and spawn. Removing the dams just increased the number of fish swimming upstream. Some of the fish ladders had glass walls and people could watch the fish going up & down the ladder.
This is an old (and unpopular) countermeasure for simple string timing attacks, but that's not what this article is talking about and that countermeasure isn't reasonable in most of the cases Kettle is talking about.
Pulse jet, maybe?
Pagination tokens are essentially a streaming API.

Pagination by LIMIT/OFFSET and "page numbers" is a false promise that the data never changes.
You just don't know enough about the foundations the article is building off of to follow it. What I do in such a case, is forget about the article at hand, and make a list of things that I don't understand and then try and learn about them all individually. It's okay to just bounce off of a technical article and use it as motivation to learn more about the subject from other sources.

For example in this article, I got completely stuck on how the Exp and Log functions he's talking about relate to the usual definitions of those functions, so now I'm going down that rabbit hole.
I found some existing mpv scripts:

https://github.com/oltodosel/mpv-scripts/blob/master/show_ch... display chapter names as OSD

https://gitlab.com/lvml/mpv-plugin-excerpt press 'i' and 'o' for in/out points, then 'x' to make a new (auto-named) file.

https://github.com/shinchiro/mpv-createchapter press 'shift-c' to mark chapters; export as xml file.

https://github.com/mar04/chapters_for_mpv mark chapter times, input titles, save as txt file

By having an LLM name the chapters, I meant having whisper do speechrec on the chapter and then asking an LM to summarize the content into a name up to k chars.
> it's all a rolling release without any name or number, so you cannot snapshot I'm certain version

A git commit SHA is a number that identifies a version of the code.
You would be correct to be amazed if someone was arguing:

"Look! It made mistakes, therefore it's definitely not reasoning!"

That's certainly not what I'm saying, anyway. I was responding to the argument actually being made by many here, which is:

"Look! It plays pretty poorly, but not totally crap, and it wasn't trained for playing just-above-poor chess, therefore, it understands chess and definitely is reasoning!"

I find this - and much of the surrounding discussion - to be quite an amazing display of people's biases, myself. People want to believe LLMs are reasoning, and so we're treated to these merry-go-round "investigations".
This is one reason closed models suck. You can't tell if the bad responses are due to something you are doing, or if the company you are paying to generate the responses is cutting corners and looking for efficiencies, eg by reducing the number of bits. It is a black box.
HackerRank's Next Generation of Hiring
Does the relay durably store data from the PDSes it crawls? I thought it just aggregates and distributes data from the PDSes it is actively connected to.

Edit: I now see via https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/backfill that this is the case. I'm surprised that the docs don't mention it more clearly that relays store the full contents of the attached PDSes, but maybe I'm just not up to speed on learning how this works.
MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in UK summer riots
> This experience, currently in preview, has been in the works for nearly two years, designed to bring everything you love into one seamless interface—from your personal media collection to on-demand content, along with improved ways to discover and connect with it all.

Good grief, the enshitification continues unabated. I don't want to "discover and connect with it all", I just want to stream video from my NAS.
I take them to be asking why jitter on the return path doesn't confound the results, regardless of the trick used to ensure they arrive concurrently (and cancel out the jitter on the ingress path). The responses to single-packet H2 attacks are not themselves single packets.
I can only assume you were down-voted for calling bloat like arrays useful.
Well I guess it will need to me renamed :)
Nah, the only thing I believe will turn out inaccurate here is IPv6.
I think it doesn't.

The art included in there is not of a bad quality, and they do link to the details of the artists including other art they had made which is also good.

But it does not really help with this article, either. They do not seem to be made specifically for this article; they show things which do not have much to do with it (this is not a criticism of the art or of the article, but of the way that the art is included in this article). It seems unnecessary to me to add such things into this article (it just takes up more space).
US cars are notorious for their track widths, more so than in volume in "those obese Americans and stupid pickups" sense. It probably grant cars high speed stability to take full advantage of American freeway network, but it also gives a major market disadvantage to American car exports.

Tesla Model S is wider than Mercedes G-Class, a literal military transport. That's something.
Fairly certain Proton has cooperated with government investigations
Inaccurate info exists everywhere. StackOverflow contains inaccurate, outdated, incomplete info. Caveat Emptor wherever you are.

LLMs are like a knife. It is a tool that can hurt you if you misuse it, but it also has the capability to save LOTS to time if you use it well.
1400 sq ft is a large terraced house in London and will cost over 1m GBP (so about 1.4m USD).

Yeah, 1400 as "small" is very US oriented :). But having grown up in the US, I really miss the space of the houses.
New Jless(8) FreeBSD Jails List/Manage Tool
How to create a one-button action game using the AI chatbot Claude
The formula is generic; my weights are for measuring engagement.

(And, yes, I am very scared by the future downvotes.)
Replace the word with one of your own choice if that will help us get to the part where you have a point to make?

I think we are discussing whether LLMs can emulate chess playing machines, regardless of whether they are actually literally composed of a flock of stochastic parrots..
Apollo Explorer
Amazon does have an oligopoly over utility computing along with ms and Google. They run like 60% of the internet on AWS.

Tesla obviously does not have a monopoly on cars or even electric vehicles.

You can believe whatever you like but it's simple economics that big tech companies have monopoly power over their markets. Denying that is pretty baffling but this is Hackernews so I'm not sure what I expected.
By definition, sure. But one always needs some effect which changes some electrical property. We can't just hook up an ADC (analog digital converter) to thin air and hope for the best.

In practice most microphones measure the displacement of microscopic membranes, which are deformed by the air pressure.
The next question then becomes how to measure microscopic movements of a tiny membrane.
Turns out the membrane forms part of a capacitor and the electrical characteristics of capacitors depend on their geometry.
Google Cloud revenue up 35% thanks to AI products [1,4,5]. Azure sales by a similar amount (but only 12% was AI products [2]. AWS is up too [3].

In so glad your point was that it’s not a scam, and there are billions of dollars in real sales occurring at a variety of companies. It’s amazing what publicly traded companies disclose if we only bother to read it. I’m glad we’re all not in the contrarian bubble where we have to hate anything with hype.

1. https://technologymagazine.com/articles/how-ai-surged-google...

2. https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/30/microsofts-ai-bet-pays-o...

3. https://www.ciodive.com/news/AWS-cloud-revenue-growth-AI-dem...

4. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-parent-alphabet-be...

5. https://fortune.com/2024/10/29/google-q3-earnings-alphabet-s...
There are a few types of toys that my wife and I are still ok with getting and Lego is one of them. She's started using the phrase "more really is more" to describe the category. Basically, it's systems where you build something and the more you have, the more things you can do: Lego, Brio, Magna-Tiles, Hot Wheels track, etc. Even things like Pokemon cards (if your kid actually plays the game) can fall into this. You do have to be careful not to end up with too many of these systems, especially really similar ones.

We're also still ok with getting books. We have a few too many for our shelf space, but at their current ages, our kids are aging out of books about as quickly as they receive new ones. I just need to do a better job of giving away the old ones more regularly.
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve
I’ve moved a little while ago and kids loved going to garage to look in random boxes for toys
In my experience*, for coding, Sonnet is miles above any model by OpenAI, as well as Gemini. They're all far from perfect, but Sonnet actually "gets" what you're asking, and tries to help when it fails, while the others wander around and often produce dismal code.

* Said experience is mostly via OpenRouter, so it may not reflect the absolute latest developments of the models. But there at least, the difference is huge.
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What is it you’re trying to get out of reading these types of articles? In my experience, it’s hard to really retain info unless I’m actively working on a related problem, so reading something like this out of the blue is mostly just entertainment (and a way to check existing knowledge).
This argument would hold up if LMs were large enough to hold a look-up table of all possible valid inputs that they can correctly respond to. They're not.
Reminds me of Intellectual Venture's Optical Fence developed to track and kill mosquitoes with short laser pulses.

As a side-effect of the precision needed to spatially locate the mosquitoes, they could detect different wing beat frequencies that allowed target discrimination by sex and species.
Tesla Has Highest Rate Of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands
In The Culture series books, there's a concept of "smart dust". Basically dust sized surveillance drones that they cover planets with, that lets them see and hear everything that's going on.
I agree that Google has an obligation to keep search results high quality but they're failing at that while also screwing over legitimate businesses.
“Other videos show the protesters chanting "Long live the Intifada" and trying to break down doors.”

“On the street outside, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters sang chants. A masked pro-Palestinian protester was filmed shouting “The final solution is coming your way, the final solution. You know what the final solution is?” at a dozen pro-Israel protesters.”
Incredibly cool! Also, I had no idea how early I was to Netlify. I guessed something closer to 1 million, but apparently I was one of the first 5,000.
From the creator of 1D pac-man “Paku Paku”:

https://abagames.itch.io/paku-paku
Once you can roam between servers without being punished for it, you can change UXes at whim.

Anything else from this list is relatively easily solvable by putting some care and effort. This one not only needs a considerate forward-thinking design; it also has to fight against tech debt across many existing implementations. It's the main thing that actually tangibly holds the platform's design back.

Also, a decentralized social network can't really go down. The only reason going down is a potential problem for many fediverse users is because of 5.1. Being able to export your data and perform a Move is better than nothing, but it's still just a half-measure when you can't reconstruct the relations between interactions in any meaningful way and isn't actually much better than, say, exporting your tweets from Twitter.

With Mastodon as it is right now, I can't move my account to a self-hosted instance without either losing data or relying on continued existence of my old instance, and even then the UX of browsing my older content will be subpar in most clients. I'm still locked in.
GoMLX: ML in Go Without Python
When used via OpenRouter (or the like?) the costs are ridiculously low and you have immediate access to 200+ models that you can compare seamlessly.
Currently the relay stores the entire history. That’s why people are saying that it’s a centralization point that’s unlikely to be able to be hosted by others as the network grows.

That said the team is aware of this and has ideas for how more limited subsets could work. That’s more important as time goes on, so this is yet another one of those prioritization related issues where improvements will happen, but it’s also good to know about the current state of things too.
News2Break: Convert a Google News story to NotebookLM podcast with custom voices