skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They caused an energy market crisis in California, which isn't quite the same as causing the energy crisis.
I 100% agree, I think the functional features that have been added across all the popular languages (map, reduce, fold etc.) has been a positive. Nothing demonstrates it better (imo) than purrr in R: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/purrr.pdf

I also think there is some merit to “high syntactical density” clearly if you can see the entire code in one place instead of having to navigate through many files or sections that’s beneficial. (Heavily discussed in the last big HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38981639)

I also think JQ has proven the merit of tacit functional languages in that you can concisely write arbitrary transforms/queries on json that can be more expressive than SQL (many SQL engines have added JSONPath anyway). And I also think postfix is great for processing pipelines.

But I am not totally convinced in the approach of APL/J/Q/KDB for the combination of terse style + prefix + tacit because it makes the code so difficult to read. I think if you took an approach similar to JQ where instead of relying on symbols operators were just human readable words it would be easier to get us half way there to trying out the verb, adverbs etc. approach of the APL family. The problem with making it human readable text is that you lose the conciseness which is part of the draw of the APL family as they want to have a high syntax density and analogous code to mathematical expressions.
> and the company is only now starting to turn the wheel

How is it starting to turn the wheel?
It's not the same. Instruction manuals were unambiguous. (SimLife's was really fun from what I remember.) You got one and it said everything it needed to.

D&D (and many other TTRPGs) have become too Judaic for my liking. You can read the Torah cover to cover, but like any religion you'll inevitably be told you don't actually "understand" it unless you also buy and read the Talmud and all these journals and attended these seminars. Literally "Rules Lawyering: The Game." All these add-ons revising canon and adding some crappy fanfic or art just feel like cheap cash grabs. It's just not good enough for what it costs.

Nintendo never sold you add-ons for the instruction manual expanded universe. Subscribing to Nintendo Power might net you cheat codes or a poster or something--bonus content--but they were never integral to understanding the games.
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254156
ASML made a $230 Lego kit version of its $380M semiconductor tool
TSMC handles AMD chips and NVidia chips. Why do you think Intel needs a special fab _for_ GPUs? It's the same lithography process.
Those rare metals are not gone, they are inside the discarded phones to be mined again.
currently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42288312
So much wasted time.

He even ran a study internally (with Markov), but, as the AlphaChip authors describe:

In 2022, it was reviewed by an independent committee at Google, which determined that “the claims and conclusions in the draft are not scientifically backed by the experiments” [33] and “as the [AlphaChip] results on their original datasets were independently reproduced, this brought the [Markov et al.] RL results into question” [33]. We provided the committee with one-line scripts that generated significantly better RL results than those reported in Markov et al., outperforming their “stronger” simulated annealing baseline. We still do not know how Markov and his collaborators produced the numbers in their paper.
(https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10053)
The comparison in that paper was very much not fair to Google's method. Google's original published comparison to simulated annealing is not fair to simulated annealing methods. That is, unfortunately, part of the game of publication when you want to publish a marginal result.

It is possible that the pre-training step may overfit to a particular class of chips or may fail to converge given a general sample of chip designs. That would make the pre-training step unable to be used in the setting of a commercial EDA tool. The people who do know this are the people at EDA companies who are smart and not arrogant and who benchmarked this stuff before deciding not to adopt it.

If you want to make a good-faith assumption (that IMO is unwarranted given the rest of the paper), the people trying to replicate Google's paper may have done a pre-training step that failed to converge, and then didn't report it. That failure to converge could be due to ineptitude, but it could be due to data quality, too.
That might be true if we lived in a true meritocracy, but we don't. Struggling with interpersonal relationships and communication is a major hindrance.
For 1-gram of material, that's a lot, now that we just shattered 1.5ºC global temperate gain, especially for something pointless.
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Look, we live in a capitalist world. (Most of us)

Companies have a need to make money, for better or worse, that’s how it is. Companies like Apple have to balance the economic viability of maintaining developers on software - for them to keep being updated - with keeping users happy.

Modern smartphones are not analogous to gas cookers. They’re about 100 times more complex, with third party, hardware, software, security and economic interplay.

Reducing it to “My fridge worked for 20 years why doesn’t my iPhone?” is just a stupid argument. Your phone is not a banana.
The rulebook is the blueprint for gameplay as the designer intended. The more complex the rules are, the worse job the designer did.

That said, some people love to figure out complex rules, and that can be a part of the game experience.
Didn't the US government just give Intel $7b on the condition they don't spin off the foundry business?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intels-7-86-billion-subsidy-0...
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I think you’re right. What LISP really brought to the party was a very simple token structure. This made it pretty easy to express manipulations of that structure and hence create whatever macros you like.

This is instantly useful to the compiler writer because most of “LISP” is built upon more basic primitives. The disadvantage is the Jeff Goldblum “You scientists” meme.
Biology is messy and imperfect, and generally not suited to dogmatic and other normative claims - but that is also covered in the article, which mentions how Crick was on the lookout for exceptions.

I would guess that, in the ordinary cases of cell division, the replication of methylation is, on balance, desirable, and that it probably requires an additional mechanism beyond minimal DNA base-sequence replication. In that case, its near-absence specifically within gamete production seems likely to be significant.
The cases where methylation persists through generations should not be ignored, and neither should the existence of a mechanism that apparently exists to prevent (or at least constrain) it (or a mechanism to
> Relative to existing fabrics such as hemp, silk has at least in other contexts been of value militarily because of its relative strength to weight ratio

Silk's just easier in general. Unlike vegetable fibers, silk can be reeled to yarn/thread directly. With cotton (or wool), there are about 4-6 other processes before you can even get to spinning. Hemp's worse still, I think there's a retting process in there like with linen.

Or perhaps, it's more true that the labor-intensive portions are up front... you're feeding the dumb little worms up to 4 times a day early on, transferring them off of the eaten leaves (so as to avoid disease), and this only lightens up to twice a day later in the lifecycle. And this isn't tapping out a little pinch of food like for a goldfish bowl, they'll often do 10,000 worms at a time just to have some modest quantity of fiber (perhaps enough for 5 or 6 yards of fabric). This ends up being like 60+ lbs of mulberry leaves there at the end.

All told though, I'd much rather raise the worms than sit there for six months trying to card cotton by hand.
> they have to accept being told 'no'

They can always hire another engineer. They only accept it, some times, because they won't find a certified engineer that says "yes", and because they doing it themselves is a crime.

That equates to a huge amount of government intervention on the lives of everybody. And even then, fails way more often than expected.

Now, we are talking about a case where criminal justice failed to uphold the defendants rights to a fair trial. Most probably because of corruption. Do we really want to bring that huge amount of government intervention into this context?
Beyond underappreciated, it's essentially being ignored. As far as what is publicly available anyway. I think the explanation for this partially or wholly lies in the goals and values of the people that research these systems vs the goals and values of natural brains. Generally speaking, AI researchers are trying to leverage existing hardware and tooling to demonstrate performance increases on a set of benchmarks. AI founders are trying to apply the research into products to attract investors. Established tech companies are trying to make money. None of these goals and values are anything like what natural brains are trying to do: survive.

If AI researchers, founders and tech companies thought artificial consciousness was the fastest path to any of those goals, they'd put resources into that. But they probably think it's an intractable problem, so it gets passed over for things that are likely to have a real payoff in the short term.
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I think a lot of the problems with game _rulebooks_ are actually problems with the game _design_.

Once you start getting into _dozens of pages_ to explain the rules, there's no amount of re-organization or quality technical writing that can fix that.

Some people like really crunchy rulesets with lots of rules, and that's fine, but games like that are never going to have an easy teaching or learning experience.

Probably my favorite board game rulebook wasn't a rulebook at all:

Fog of Love has a playable tutorial, where all the cards are setup in a particular order with game rules printed on cards that you draw when you need them. You don't even really need to open the rule book to get through the first game, and it's actually a fairly complex game. The rulebook itself after that is mostly for reference.
Why are doctors wary of wearables?
Transparency and competition seem to work better than certifications and credentials.

Just mandate open source if using public money.
wasd isn't accessible for those of us who have the unfortunate disability of not using a qwerty keyboard. If your project isn't a competitve FPS, arrows are fine.
One of the biggest problem of maths education is that they are taught by people who dislike it. They think of maths as eating bitter medicine or training of a complex, rigid skill. The way maths is taught by them is clumsy and authoritarian, and this makes the students either passive or rebellious.

On a side note, recently the government of Manitoba in Canada removed requirement for maths teachers to take university maths courses. This is being pushed strongly by the education departments of university, which shows how much these maths teachers hate maths.
By the end of 2024 Kenya is still best "safe" option to buy beans from unknown roastery. In my opinion of course.
What problem do you have with companies requesting developers know more than one language? If they want a master in multiple then they are fools. But a web developer for example will need proficiency in a few.
> This basically shows over 50% of the neural net is gibberish! The reason being is that the objective function simply does not include it.

This is a mischaracterization of sparsity. Performance did drop, so the weights are not gibberish. Training vs pruning, you can't train into the final state, you can only prune there.
What is holding Intel back, there?

Engineering chops?

AMD and nVidia already patented too much of the good stuff?

Too much existing code optimized for AMD and nVidia quirks?
Models are really great at making stuff up though. And video models already have very good consistency over thousands of frames. It seems like larger worlds shouldn't be a huge hurdle. I wonder why they launched without that, as this doesn't seem much better than previous work.
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Typical documents include my short term goals, my long term goals, my marketing ideas, my coding ideas, …

For each doc I defined how often I want to read it (every 14 days, every month, …)

Once i read it, I update the latest read date

The app then calculates which doc I should read next

Keeps me of the doomscroll
I think you’re confusing a NASA base with inhabitation. Inhabitation means geometric structures, lights, and disturbance of the immediate environment.

What conversation do you think you’re in? You going to put cemeteries on the moon without people living there? How would that make sense just from the rocket equation?
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I see low code tools are suitable for power users (citizen developer) and less for programmers (pro developer).

Like a farmer hacking together some stuff for their needs instead of waiting for official solution.

Power users automate their way to gain efficiency when programmers are busy doing their stuff.
Seems this way. Gigantic model, hit the jackpot, prune the nonsense. It doesn't seem like smaller models are enough tickets.
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Indeed.

BI was founded by convicted fraudster Henry Blodget and owned by the lowest of the low EU publishing houses Axel Springer. I give this publication zero merit.
> While true, at one time within the memory of people alive today, that underclass in this country could afford homes with their paycheck from widely available unskilled work

That was a temporary blip because the underclass had been temporarily exported to a bombed-out Europe that was unable to meet its production needs, giving the US a huge market and very little manufacturing competition. Then came the Nixon shock, stagflation, and Reagan.
Those two terms are related but definitely are never interchangeable. Market share is the portion of new sales a company is getting. Install base is the portion of existing in-use products that were from that company. Install base is essentially market share integrated over time, less systems that are discarded or otherwise taken out of service. If market share never changes, install base will approach the same proportions but it's a lagging indicator.
But how far do you have to scale LLMs to get to a conscious system? Would it even be practical?
Who maintains the mandated dependencies? Who performs certification?

What prevents regulatory capture?
Is there a python equivalent?
It would have needed to be way back in single-cellular prehistory to be compatible with known history. They still wouldn't be the same phylum.

Never mind that xenomorphs aren't even carbon-based.
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Is it an act of hatred to say that humans shouldn't expend huge amounts of effort and energy to try to populate Mars so that humans can escape the very human act of polluting the Earth? When this human pollution kills millions a year and plenty of other organisms? Is it a celebration of humanity to continue buying chocolate or clothing or rugs, even if they are clearly the result of exploited or downright slave labor?

Or is it just that you suppose that we, as humans who have privilege and comfort, deserve to continue and expand those qualities? You "personally" want to see lights from the moon? You think Mars "desperately" needs habitation? I'm not sure how you're any less self-important about this topic than your opposition.

I'm not really sure what you mean when you say "humanity", because it sure doesn't seem like the same kind of "humanity" that MLK Jr. described. I'm sure there are plenty of people you could speak for. Don't presume that's everyone worth considering.
> Software needs to be transparent, a human expert worker needs to be able to verify the result a software generates within reasonable time.

This is becoming more and more important as the AI industry is pushing non-deterministic computing further and further. There will be court cases where the full automated decision chain will be called into question, and a default assumption of "well, we don't have any logs so we should assume the software did the right thing" terrifies me.
January 18, 2022 - "Intel CEO says AMD is in the rearview mirror and 'never again will they be in the windshield'"

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-ceo-says-amd-is-in-the-rearvie...
May be it is just me. But over the past 3-4 years I have actually felt there is an increasingly large chance of getting / making a 3rd computing platform on Desktop and Smartphone other than Windows / Mac or Android / iOS.

Mostly because features for both PC and Smartphone platform have been stable and there hasn't been much change in the past years. 95% of my usage on Mac is on web browser. Then 4% is on Whatsapp, and 1% is Calculator, Finder and Media Player.

For Smartphone it is somewhat the same. No longer are the days people continue to look for new Apps for something. For Camera shots or other small tools or games. Most are now integrated into the OS.
I listened to the GraphicAudio adaptation of the series and couldn't keep it down. It's genuinely great!

The Murderbot series is specifically the kind of literature that's meant for serialized A/V adaptation in my opinion; but just as a novel of course it won't compete with the kinds of Gibson, Stephenson, Egan or even Weir.
So, companies like the free market when it suits them, but want regional monopolies (without providing any value) when it benefits the consumer. Interesting.
I can't help but feel that instead of a blog post, this should've been a bug report for the rendering engine or the browser, or maybe an email to the spec committee? It's neat to have a way to work around this issue, but to me this looks like a pretty clear bug with the way the blur is implemented.
Pat was seemed to understand the criticality of fabrication process lead in today's day and age. Hence his push and decision to invest in IFS, plus to win over the government funding to sustain the effort.

In short, a bad or subpar chip design/architecture can be masked by having the chip fabricated on a leading edge node but not the inverse. Hence everyone is vying for capacity on TSMC's newest nodes - especially Apple in trying to secure all capacity for themselves.
I re-write rules for myself for games where I need a better teaching "script". For example, the Keyper rulebook was terrible, but the rules themselves were not. I wrote myself a summary so I could re-teach the game if needed.

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/269820/keyper-quick-rules...

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/212516/keyper

And Smartphone, Inc, because the rulebook was bad for looking things up quickly:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2979178/some-rules-notes-i-...
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The main message I take from this story is that a decent quorum of consumers want Apple to offer a smaller phone in each generation. The OP seems not to have minded having to upgrade eventually, just not to a “virtual tablet.” I’ve heard others express the same desire.
Maybe the pop culture obsession is new, but the snarky, reluctant protagonist is something I have seen enough to be kind of tired of. Off the top of my head, Murderbot also reminds me of the protagonist of Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City which I recently read.

If you enjoyed Murderbot, take that as a recommendation, although it is less sci-fi and more historical fiction.
I'm starting to get the feeling that this MicroStrategy thing is becoming so big that it could have serious fallout. If it gets into the indices especially.
It's also worth noting that in the film, it's depicted as a blistering agent as well—just for gruesome effect.

By Michael Bay logic, injecting atropine also prevents one's skin from falling off.
Have you ever seen the Google Lightfields demo? They have a rig they concocted to essentially capture a "volume" of video to allow for the stereoscopic effect in VR AND which then cleverly presents a different combination of the footage it captured based on your precise head position, so it makes up for these distortions. I found it absolutely breathtaking... first time seeing VR for a space that actually made me feel like I was in it. This was A LONG time ago and I suspected I'd be seeing a lot more of that content, but I was... very wrong, it seems.

Your point is completely correct. Even Apple's awesome new stereoscopic 3D short film for the AVP immediately loses what it could be its total awesomeness from this basic fact. The perspective being perfectly fixed will never quite be there to fool our brains so used to dealing with these micro-movements.
Murderbot frequently blends into the crowd as a dude though, that's a recurring theme in the series.