skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one don't want to start counting everything I lose interest in as a "failure", that would be too depressing. I actually think this is a feature not a flaw. You have very few attention tokens and should be aggressive in getting them back.

I think this is very different from the "finishing" decision. That should focus on scope and iterations, while attempting to account for effort vs. reward and avoiding things like sunk cost influences.

Combine both and you've got "pragmatic grit": the ability to get valuable shit done.
Ask HN: Do you love strategy games? If so, why?
Interesting creative people are currently creating interesting output _without_ generative AI.

These tools are fascinating, though I can't help but feel that the main benefactor after all is said and done will be venture capitalists and tech/entertainment execs.
Right, dados are one of the things that baffle a lot of European woodworkers, myself included. Not that they don't seem useful; just a little on the iffy side of safety.
If Bash is used as the SHELL for make[0], then it might be possible with the ${parameter@Q} parameter expansion[1]?

I would still rather resort to python's shlex.quote[2] on the python side of things tbh.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/589276/how-can-i-use-bas...

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.... (at the end of the chapter)

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html#shlex.quote
My opinion ;-)

That's what HN is for
Sorry for adding fuel to the fire, but that's not an ad hominem. He's criticizing what you did, rather than what you are.
And that's why we must conclude that there must be a ten-foot tall man, so it can have non-brown hair, so that the liar indeed lied.
it is pretty scary. they just need to hold things together for a while longer. hopefully it works out.
1. it is not true that (for all hats h in {liar's hats}, h is green)

2. by the negation rule, there exists a hat h in {liar's hats}, such that it is not true that h is green.

3. there exists a hat in {liar's hats}

This is really basic first order logic guys.

"For all x in {}, P(x)" is always trivially true without regard for P.

Similarly, "there exists an x in {}, P(x)" is always trivially false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth
Maybe I’m not able to articulate my thought well enough.

Taking an existing image and reversing the process to get the tokens that led to it then redoing that doesn’t seem the same as inserting token to get a precise novel image.

Especially since, as you said, we’d lose some details, it suggests that not all images can be perfectly described and recreated.

I suppose I’ll need to play around with some of those techniques.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363727
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Production will only change things there if both tasks are carried out as part of the same service, charged as one. Otherwise, there will still be two outputs that nullify each other but both cause GDP to increase. But even then, if you charge someone for a service to dig and fill in holes, that there is no tangible product at the end does not mean there isn't an output that has a price, and that so increases GDP, just the same as, say, performing a dance does not leave a tangible product at the end, but the service still has a price and a value, and paying for it still increases GDP.

With respect to the opportunity cost, the point is not being able to quantity it, but that whether or not the task is productive, because it takes time, it has a cost.
Yeah, there were a few words early on that struck me as "This is a non-native English speaker" sort of translation issues, which don't bother me in technical writing like this. But when they started doing INB/OUTB examples as memory addressed instructions, vs copying into a register... I get the point being made, but also, that's not a translation error. Don't use the "This is an actual instruction" font if you're not quoting actual instructions that exist on the hardware. "inb 0x8, 0xFF" is not a valid x86 instruction, not even close.

Anyway, I'd also like to see some of their source, or hardware diagrams, but... it'll come out eventually, I suppose.

Proper IOMMU configuration and assigning anything with DMA to a disposable service VM still solves a lot, though at least these attacks require physical access. So far. I'm sure someone, at some point, will release a SD Express card with awful enough firmware that you can pivot through it for a software-only attack on this sort of system.
Errors and Exceptions: Is there a third option?
Investing in appearance makes us better contributors to society
Pi 5 is a great everyday desktop and development machine.

Some websites are going to perform really badly, like a lot of news websites with lots of ads, but those tend to perform bad on my gaming PC, too, and I just think if a website performs bad on a Pi 5 it's really just not worth visiting.
It's https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/, a tool which I implemented and used for many years in my projects. It's inspired by Netmanage Ecco and implements features which can also be found in Ted Nelson's Xanadu or in Ivar Jacobson's Objectory.
This is like saying "I got kicked off a plane so I bought a Civic and bolted a wing on the back". Cloud front is doing all the heavy lifting and you're not really getting data center level reliability.
How to analyze MCP server usage
Since MCP Servers are installed locally, it can be a bit painful to log and analyze usage of MCP Servers you built. My coworker built a utility to capture remote logging events from our MCP Server, could be extended to any MCP Server. Free to use, easy to set up. It uses Tinybird to capture events + generate Prometheus endpoints for Grafana, Datadog, etc.
By amounts so small as to be effectively zero even over the span of centuries. The article admits that tidal forces from the moon slow earth's spin by orders of magnitude more.

Big, steaming, juicy nothingburger
I think a great example of the android decisions is (or was) “which wallet do I use?” I had a Samsung phone, and used google chrome as it synced with my pc. Except google pay didn’t work with the Samsung phone, so I had to use Samsung wallet (and let’s not mention the fact I had a Fitbit watch which required Fitbit pay, even though they were owned by google at the time). So I ended up with three separate apps which had their own intricacies. Since I swapped to iOS, I have a wallet and that’s that.
But they never expand on that in the article. They just drop the Xeon reference there, and carry on as though they'd never said a thing about a Xeon.

I agree, that's probably what they're referring to, but it was neither needed to make the points they were trying to make, nor expanded into something to further strengthen the points made.
This looks like it's a "real" CLI instead of a curses thing (TUI?). That's really exciting for me. I strongly prefer tools that can be composed as a standard shell pipeline.

Edit: That is indeed exactly what this is. It's wonderful :)
Debunking the UnitedHealthcare Assassination Myths [video]
The only way a percentage match means anything here, is that the facial recognition software returns a probability distribution of representing the likelihood that the person identified is each member of the set. I'm sure that 97.3% is actually low for most matches, since she had extensive plastic surgery.
Was thinking about installing Lineage but haven't done it yet. How do you make sure you can still run banking apps?
This almost certainly won’t work. Feel free to feed any of the hundreds of existing film scripts and test how coherent the models can be. My guess is not at all
To be fair, 10^44 is more than 10^35.
I wrote up the approach I used at https://clace.io/blog/errors/, started a discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370488 since it could apply outside of Starlark also
I use `adb shell` very often on my Android phone. What are your use cases for SSH where adb does not suffice?

Not arguing, just curious.
training an ai model is essentially searching for parameters that can make a function really accurate at making predictions. in the case of LLMs, they predict text.
I wrote "quite easy to define" and they are, esp. in comparison to date/time. JSON messing it up notwithstanding.
> Birthrates have fallen below replacement

for some populations.. see K and N ecosystem adaptation for an analogy
Bought a mid range Samsung A55 and it does everything I want.

But then I have a gaming PC and a big television at home.
Creativity and Competition: The Beatles (2006) [pdf]
Yes, this two real numbers question suffers from hidden conditions as the original version of Monty Hall problem does, but even more explicitly.

We can't have an uniform distribution over all real numbers, so it's quite pointless to discuss if looking into the envelope gives any new information, cause we don't even know the distribution yet.
Friends' posts are a tiny fraction of what you see on FB nowadays.
I’ve seen more bugs in software rather than hardware, I’ll tell you that.
The people you may need to protect yourself from, might be the people writing and enforcing the laws. What you need, is a deterrent from people abusing systems.
oh, and the output videos that are generated are 5sec clips at 554x960px. this is on a single A6000
I agree; as someone who was _very_ into gaming at different periods of my life. Both gaming and travelling struck me as things young adults do to pass the time when they don’t have the privilege and responsibility of a family.

I understand procrastination for sure, but the idea that someone would avoid having kids to do the above is absolutely bizarre to me.
Boulanger and Lazzarini "The Audio Programming Book" - great if you
want to start working straight away in C

Boulanger - "The Csound Book" (another classic language I still use today)

Greenbaum and Barzel - "Audio Anecdotes". A fascinating series of 3
volumes with all sorts of wisdom on FX design, studio systems and
composition

Wilson, Cottle and Collins - "The Supercollider Book". In the style of
The Csound Book, but with SC.

Loy - "Musicmathics". A rare and much under-rated two volume set on
the equations behind audio DSP

Bilbao - "Numerical Sound Synthesis". A hard but rewarding journey to
understanding audio physics as linear diff systems and implementing
them efficiently in C, Goes well with Perry Cook's stuff.

Benson - "Music a mathematical offering" Very unusual book that
analyses many subjects in music physics. Equations but no code.

Miranda "Computer Sound Design". More about music synthesis than
"sound design" imho, but has some interesting fringe methods like
cellular autonoma and genetic algorithms.
There is also the need to understand a build and to navigate a build system. Try e.g. to understand how the Chromium build works, and which options are enabled in which case. I even built a tool (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/GnTools) to analyze it (and some other large GN projects) but even so reached the limits of a dynamic specification language pretty quickly. This won't happen in BUSY.
This forum is full of engineers and they talk about 18A (I myself am only a software engineer but who took hardware design classes waay back in college, so can understand 60% what they're are saying but am no expert).

https://semiwiki.com/forum/index.php?threads/intel-18a-too-g...

And obviously, many of these posters are like me and have a bias towards Intel succeeding. Still, it sounds like 18A seems like it's on track in terms of the technologies (at least for now)
On the matter of institutions: IRCAM is the paradigmatic example of composer / technologist role demarcation, but I would question whether this extreme position "is still maintained by all institutions" -- it certainly was not at my alma mater and I doubt at UCSD either. As you say, Max (coincidentally a product of Miller Puckette and IRCAM) and it's more recent ilk have empowered composers to independently build their own instruments and this practice has been ongoing within the academy for at least 35 years now.
I was able to find a similar public domain image in all of 5 seconds, so neither faster nor cheaper in this case.

In fact, it's not hard to imagine people using AI tools even if they're slower, more expensive, and yield worse quality results in the long run.

"When all you have is a hammer...".
taking this seriously is a midwit trap
The main reason I chose Gnus instead of mu4e or notmuch is that I did not want to sync all my mailboxes to local disk. What is perhaps not so well known is that IMAP provides its own server-side search engine. Searching mail with Gnus search queries [1] works really well, and I do not have to manage any overhead to get my mail synchronized, indexed, etc. In other words, everything I need for email is built into Emacs (or outsourced to the IMAP server) - no extra packages/software required.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Sea...
Pretty amazing. Scale consistency is an issue looking at the scene examples, but for one-off or background assets, pretty neat!
The quantum performance thing is real, but that the random circuit sampling problem they are tabling as the benchmark here is for a quantum circuit.

So really what is being claimed is that classical computers can't easily simulate quantum ones. But is that really surprising?

What would be surprising would be that kind of speedup vs classical on some kind of general optimization algorithm. I don't think that is what they are claiming though, even if it does kind of seem like it's being presented that way.
Can anyone comment on how this chip is built? What does the hardware look like?
Perl and Raku are grouped together today primarily for historical reasons. Yes, Raku started as Perl 6 and is certainly a Perl-inspired language, but the rename happened precisely because it is so different.

Regarding regexes, Raku introduces a whole new syntax, makes whitespace non-meaningful by default, and allows regexes to be named and then composed/reused. Those three changes, along with helpful modules like Grammar::Tracer, make reading and writing regexes a totally different experience. It's still going to look like noise at first, of course, but even then the syntax parallels normal code far better than PCREs, so you're more likely to make a correct guess about what something means.
As they say explicitly in the article, this is like criticizing the first rocket to reach the edge of space for not getting anywhere useful.
LLMs aren’t AGI
This started from a discussion thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368065. Created a new topic since this could apply more generally outside of Starlark
"to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards"

Or, "this safety stuff is harder than we thought, we're just going to call 'tag you're it' on society"

Or,

-Oppenheimer : speaking "man, this nuclear safety stuff is hard, I'm just going to put it all out there and let society explore developing norms and safeguards".

-Society : Bombs Japan

-Oppenheimer : "No, not like that, oops".
TBH, this feels like some kind of psychotic break. He just kind of stops posting out of nowhere. On twitter there are some attempts from others to reach him that seem concerned for his wellbeing: https://x.com/DanielleFong/status/1866211089660477490
Flashbacks to when they were cagey about releasing the GPT models because they could so easily be used for spam, and then just pretended not to see all the spam their model was making when they did release it.

If you happen to notice a Twitter spam bot claiming to be "an AI language model created by OpenAI", know that we have conducted an investigation and concluded that no you didn't. Mission accomplished!
>You don't have full control over AI-generated images though,

So the AI just publishes stuff on my behalf now?

No, comrade.
instead of going through and making more and more edits, I finally figured out what the problem is here - there are at least two logics being used here - one set theory, in which case for vacuous truth I guess it's true that all the hats are green if you have an empty set, and the other linguistic logic.

In many forms of linguistic logic you need to have an existent hat to have the property green, therefore if you do not have any hats you have no green hats. Which is my preferred method of dealing with this.

And obviously there are other forms of logic, as
https://iep.utm.edu/liar-paradox/#SH3c

Is the column that was linked more likely to be interested in linguistic logic games or formal mathematical logic games? I'm guessing the second, in which case I guess it's true we can conclude A - but I inherently dislike vacuous truths when applied to logic, especially language like this where the normal argument that the second parameter "Green" is never evaluated because we do not have the first "A hat" in the empty set seems suspect to me because we know what Green is separate from a hat, we just need to know if there is a hat we can assign Green to.
Was gonna say that me breathing influences how the earth spins. It all just matters on how sensitive your measurement device is. And the article says nothing about that, at least it didn’t before I gave up.
I think the real question is this: Is chatgpt "just copying" the content in its training set? What constitutes plagerism, exactly?

If ChatGPT is reproducing content verbatim from its training set, then I think the claim its violating copyright holds a lot of water. (And I think there was a NYT lawsuit claiming such - and I wish them well).

But if chatgpt learns from 100 recipes for bechamel sauce, and synthesizes them into its own, totally original description, then I don't see how what its doing is any different from what the authors of those recipe books & websites are doing. If anything, its probably synthesizing a lot more sources than any recipe author. If the only common factor between chatgpt's output and any specific source is the (public domain) recipe itself then that seems ethically in the clear to me.

I can't see a justification to criminalise what chatgpt is doing with recipes, without casting so wide a net as to open recipe authors up for persecution in the same way.

Scraping a website isn't illegal. When humans do it, we call it browsing the web.
Galaxy Collision Simulation

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10687
I still don't get the point (presumably due to being in the set of "people like me") – could you please elaborate?

And I don't get what DNS has to do with any of this; this is a registrar/legal dispute, not a nameserver/technical one.
I want to be able to easily read and understand configuration without having to pop it into a converter. The YAML I encounter in the wild is ~80% pure block style, ~20% mixed (within a single file, mostly block style with some flow style). And I just find the block style hard to read, I have to either spend significant mental effort trying to understand where the objects vs. arrays are, or I have to pop it into a converter (to either JSON or flow style) to understand. Whereas JSON/JSON5, it’s immediately clear without any mental overhead.
How long until this can derive a private key from its public key in the cryptocurrency space? Is this an existential threat to crypto?
Yeah, that is why some outsiders say this is more like an 8 year strategy, it takes time to convert customers.

IMHO, if you have a great product and a market with significant demand, seems like eventually the customers will come - and it seems like this is possible if Intel can retain manufacturing leadership for a few years and build out a better ecosystem to support external chip development by foundry customers, but this of course take time.
If you are okay with a single universe coming to existence out of nothing you should be able to handle parallel universes as well just fine.

We have evidence for this universe though.
> They don't even understand the question. So, of course, they are going to suck at answering them.

I agree, but would also say that you should be capable of learning to understand those questions. For example, If you can't speak English, you'll be bad at reading books in English. If you were never taught math, you'll be bad at math. Similarly, If you never learned to reason you'll be bad at solving logic puzzles. It's almost tautological.

However, if a person is incapable of learning to do one of those things, despite the majority of the world being fully capable of doing it, they probably have a cognitive deficit.

> And ultimately that is all IQ testing measures.. your ability to take tests.

I disagree. I think it measures how well you've learned to reason, though I do agree that reasoning is a learned skill for most people.
I disagree. Even without exactness, adding any reasonable constraints is impossible. Ask it to generate a realistic circuit diagram or chess board or any other thing where precision matters. Good luck going back and forth getting it right.

These are situations with relatively simple logical constraints, but an infinite number of valid solutions.

Keep in mind that we are not requiring any particular configuration of circuit diagram, just any diagram that makes sense. There are an infinite number of valid ones.
Original Interviews with Technology CEOs
When I saw the backpack and the gun I thought "so he's a guy that likes luxury gadgets and lifestyle items with neat functionality... software engineer?"

If he had gone to a decent coffee shop and not Starbucks I'd have been convinced
As someone who just put a map on my website, I find this press release completely unreadable. Not a single of word of it makes sense to me, and I assume that it means a massive price hike.
Yep. 3d printing and local models should be 2nd amendment starting points in 2024.
Interesting. Using a regular language has some advantages, but also many disadvantages. One of the intentions of BUSY was - similar to e.g. Meson - to avoid a fully Turing complete language, because then people start to implement complex things, thus leaving the declarative character of a build specification, which again makes the build more difficult to understand and maintain.
Your follow-up post is helpful and appreciated!

Re the original analysis, my own opinion is that the outcome is only surprising when the critical detail, highlighting how the two are different, is omitted. It seems very unsurprising if it is rephrased to include that detail: "DuckDB, executed multi-threaded + parallelized, is 2.5x faster than wc, single-threaded, even though in doing so, DuckDB used 9.3x more CPU".

In fact, to me, the only thing that seems surprising about that is how poorly DuckDB does compared to WC-- 9x more CPU for only 2.5x more improvement.

But an interesting analysis regardless of the takeaways-- thank you
China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House
Update: Turns out GP simply replied to the wrong thread, so it was just a typical case of "downvoting takes less effort than pointing out a mistake", I suppose.