skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> now the null pointer is required to be canonical

Yikes! This particular oddity seems annoying but sort of harmless in x86 real mode, but not necessarily in protected mode. Imagine code that wants to load a pointer into a register: it loads the offset into an ordinary register and the selector portion into a segment register. It’s permissible to load the 0 (null) selector, but loading garbage will fault immediately. So, if you allow non canonical NULL, then knowing that a pointer is either valid or NULL does not allow you to hoist a segment load above a condition that might mean you never actually dereference the pointer.

(I have plenty of experience with low-level OS code in all kinds of nasty x86 modes but, thankfully, not so much experience writing ordinary C code targeting protected mode. It sometimes boggles my mind that anyone ever got decent performance with anything involving far data pointers. Segment loads are slow, and there are not a lot of segment registers to go around.)
That's kind of like asking if spacetime is quantized or not. We have bits of evidence in both directions. For example, the entropy of a 2D (conventional) Event Horizon, is identical to the number of planc-length (square) units of area on the EH sphere, and so that's a definitely quantity/number, for any given Black Hole mass. You could interpret that as saying the EH is broken up into "pixels" sort of, which a kind of quantized view of spacetime if our universe is indeed a big Event Horizon.
That power should answer to truth, I mean.

Or that truth should speak to power.

Brain failing due to hunger
> Down to the point of unwanted veering towards road dividers and other vehicles.

Our 2024 Kia does this every 10-20 miles on average. You don't even have to enable lane assist. It also randomly decides to weaken the regenerative braking, or switch out of single pedal mode.

If you disable enough of the safety features it stops doing these things, but, for instance, that means you can't have blind spot detection that works when you're going over 5mph and a working steering column at the same time.
I've read the article, and the theory is incredibly dubious and most likely false:

"There is some overlap in the wavelengths of light to which the three types of cones (L for long-wave, M for medium-wave, and S for short-wave light) respond, so it is more efficient for the visual system (from a perspective of dynamic range) to record differences between the responses of cones, rather than each type of cone's individual response."

That's a ridiculous argument.

"That is, either red or green is perceived and never greenish-red: Even though yellow is a mixture of red and green in the RGB color theory, the eye does not perceive it as such."

Say what? Yellow is both a real physical wavelength, or a perception of red and green light mixed.

"In 1970, Solomon and Corbit expanded Hurvich and Jameson's general neurological opponent process model to explain emotion, drug addiction, and work motivation."

Bullshit detector bell ringing...

"A 2023 opinion essay of Conway, Malik-Moraleda, and Gibson claimed to "review the psychological and physiological evidence for Opponent-Colors Theory" and bluntly stated "the theory is wrong"."

Finally some sensible people. Their article is pretty good: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10527909/
Interesting I never heard of ED meds of that nature described like more addictive drugs where "you take one freebie and you're coming back for more." Why don't people get them OTC instead of on the black market? Are you from a place where they're more illicit?
Western POWs. Eastern front was a whole other thing.
Is there still slow video RAM on machines with unified memory, like Apple Silicon Macs?
I recall a thread from a few years ago where people were saying that zig had better LSO support than Odin and saying that Odin should prioritize that more.

I recall gingerBill saying that he’d rather work on the language than adoption. Which is a fine position to have.

Never did I say he was morally against LSPs or anything, just that he has strong opinions on prioritizing its development vs the language itself.

Please don’t put words in my mouth. I’m trying to be very clear.

The Odin lsp I found (ols) is not official and not made by gingerBill. Which, again, is fine. It’s good that the community took up the burden of making an LSP.
Google has Android, Chrome OS, Youtube, Search, Search Ads, Display Ads, Drive and products, Cloud, etc... So divide by all, and each product has much less engs.
When has it been otherwise? See also: Hunter Biden.
Isn't that just "intelligent"?
> While Linux has its merits, it’s not the flawless paradise that some people claim.

I've never heard anyone claim that Linux is a flawless paradise for developers. Nothing is, including Linux. Everything has its benefits and drawbacks.

What I have heard people claim (and is my own experience) is that developing for Linux is less frustrating than Windows.

> other operating systems like macOS or Windows offer more intuitive experiences.

What's "intuitive" is what you're used to. For instance, I find that MacOS is the exact opposite of intuitive. That's not a fault with MacOS, but a reflection of the fact that I'm not used to it and as a result it's difficult to figure out how to do things.

The same is true for Windows if you aren't used to that, and Linux if you aren't used to that, etc.
Reminder that implied models are not actual models. Models have failed to materialize repeatedly and vanished without further mention. I assume no one is trying to be misleading but, at this point, maybe overly optimistic.
Relatedly, I start to think more and more the AI is great for mediocre stuff. If you just need to do the 1000th website, it can do that. Do you want to build a new framework? Then there will probably be less many useful suggestions. (Still not useless though. I do like it a lot for refactoring while building xrcf.)

EDIT: One reason that lead me to think it's better for mediocre stuff was seeing the Sora model generate videos. Yes it can create semi-novel stuff through combinations of existing stuff, but it can't stick to a coherent "vision" throughout the video. It's not like a movie by a great director like Tarantino where every detail is right and all details point to the same vision. Instead, Sora is just flailing around. I see the same in software. Sometimes the suggestions go towards one style and the next moment into another. I guess AI currently is just way lower in their context length. Tarantino has been refining his style for 30 years now. And always he has been tuning his model towards his vision. AI in comparison seems to always just take everything and turn it into one mediocre blob. It's not useless but currently good to keep in mind I think. That you can only use it to generate mediocre stuff.
The question then is not about the CEO but the people working in that dog adoption agency, is their work unethical?
All these cited claims seem political and extreme to me. I can't find a non-political example where the judgement this extreme.

Depp v Herd defamation was around $10m.
Show HN: DailyTown – An alternative to the algorithmic feed
Hi HN, there is something that's been bugging me for some time. I choose to follow specific people on social media because I want to see their posts but at the end of the day, an ever-changing algorithm decides what I see. I get the feeling of being pushed into things rather than pulling in the things I want.

The solution I came up with is a new social media format to stay up to date: a chronological, continuous queue for each person you follow where it continues from where you left off. This means that as a creator, you get a direct channel to your followers, and as a follower, you can stay in touch with specific people, ideas, and interests on your own terms without letting some algorithm get in the way.

If you're reading this, I think you'll enjoy following @hn500 that lets you follow all HN posts that reach 500 points, or any of the following accounts: @hn, @hn20, @hn50, @hn100, @hn150, @hn200, @hn250, and @hn300.

I'd love hear what you think!
could be the latter. i lost clear vision gradually until not being able to read the tv was an in your face moment of clarity.
Why didn't they ever upgrade ISDN to ADSL speeds and beyond, or designed an ISDN-over-PON? Was it cost reasons?
I think what old movies left out was how much litter was on streets and sidewalks, so slipping on a peel may actually have been more common
As a Chief Revenue Officer I've scaled two companies now - one from $3M and 5 FTE's to $6.5M and 12 FTEs, the other being from 70 FTEs and $70M in revenue to 1400 FTEs and $2B in revenue. Both were hard, but the hyperscale of the second example was insane. The effort was in scaling hiring and trying to get the best people possible and also not letting the processes and systems break that we built to handle that scaling. I tell people all the time, compressing your pipeline and expanding throughput of it at the same time is the where the things break and at highest risk. Intense doesn't really describe the effort accurately. During this timeline (12 months or so from 70 FTE to 1400 FTE) I didn't sleep much, worked 12-15 hour days, and strained my family and relationships. It was also super fun and a blast.

Now I'm doing my own thing, started a newsletter, and being calm and balanced for a while. https://www.aletterfor.com/ Scaling a personal project is very rewarding as well.
Sorry, my fault. I'm one to rewatch videos a lot
Signal offers the option to scale images or not, which seems like the best option from a user perspective (maybe not from a service provider's cost perspective).
Agree with your points overall, but one of the specifically worrying things about right now is the massive downswing in the tech job market means that -- especially for those of us outside of the Bay Area -- your first recommendation: "quit" has become a lot lot harder than it was 2-3 years ago.

e.g. I work fulltime in Rust, and love it. I look at the job postings that emphasize Rust ... and 80% of them are crypto/web3 companies. I won't work for those companies because of my personal beliefs about "crypto"...

But if I were to lose my pretty decent job right now... and the bills started to pile up and my family was in financial danger... The argument becomes more difficult.
> would have to spend ridiculous amount of money to lure smart folks from Nvidia & AMD, etc.

Versus competing with TSMC and potentially ASML?
The BLAS GEMM routines I have seen use normal blocked algorithms.
idk I do this in plain ol' C++ with Qt & CMake, every commit builds for mac, windows with msvc and mingw, 15-ish linux distros / configurations, web, bsd... https://github.com/ossia/score?tab=readme-ov-file#build-stat...
> Note also that superdeterminism is unfalsifiable.

I think the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is also unfalsifiable. The annoying thing about quantum mechanics is that any one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics has deep philosophical problems. But you can't choose a better one because all of them have deep problems.
For what it's worth, the version of events that Wikipedia offers is much closer to what the commenter said than what you're saying:

Muhammad Umar told Pakistan that he would be willing to turn bin Laden over to a third country, but the US refused, demanding a direct handover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afgh...
That seems true for any attempt to continue using the IP for the same thing. Turning it into a parody of that thing might have an audience (and therefore produce ad revenue), would not seem to need Jones involved, and be something for which Global Tetrahedron seems well resourced.
Just have an oauth flow to grant permission to the store to upload movies. It would absolutely be possible to implement securely.
Some programming languages differentiate between floats and decimals. But yeah, for laypeople, a float is a decimal.
Clock ticking for Blue Origin's 2024 launch of New Glenn
You can send them in the original resolution by selecting "Document", then "Gallery". But yes, this requires some amount of knowledge.
I was thinking about the same yesterday, if there is something that can be done to tell people why it is so bad to do business on whatsapp. I don't know why so many love it other than convenience. The replies get lost and they are lazy to scroll and ask for the same information again. Many professionals like accountants want to share all confidential information on whatsapp and don't even care for sending an email. That mixed with a new style of writing short hand, 'S' for a yes and one word reply instead of an answer that requires a sentence at the least. All manners have died, just the damn text and pictures instead of a proper communication.
Can’t blame him, that monetary judgement is ridiculous and should be capped.
They need an iPod to iPhone like transition. If they can pull it off it will be incredible for the business.
Well, yeah, maybe. There's a reason that the Measurement Problem is called what it is.
Good way to explain it - yes, incentives.
This is true for all newish code bases. You need to provide the context it needs to get the problem right. It has been my experience that one or two examples with new functions or new requirements will suffice for a correction.
Transforming fusion from scientific curiosity into powerful clean energy source
All the words on the site should be explained IN A VIDEO. Every page should HAVE VIDEO ON IT.
> All of this should happen prior to replacement... it actually has to "catch up" with your existing already made working ICE that has no new cost for construction

That is precisely the sunk cost fallacy though: the principle is that continuing an endeavor simply because it already has been a cost paid shouldn't be done, unless the total continuing cost (including the eventual replacement) is less than the cost of immediate replacement (plus all continuing costs after initial replacement, including the eventual replacements of those in turn). Otherwise the principle says it is a waste of resources.

The 4 R's assume that the replacement is no better than the original at the job, which is why I described that analysis as the sunk cost fallacy. We don't have to take this assumption (personally, I prefer to bike over driving my ICE, so this analysis doesn't apply), but if we take the assumption that the EV does less environmental damage over its lifetime, then this assumed "environmental damage" function is minimized by discarding the ICE immediately, as any further use simply increases the total "environmental damage" caused by the choice of which car to use.

This can be seen in computers too, as newer computers are sometimes so much more power efficient then their replacement that they can very quickly save on resources by throwing out a perfectly working computer to replace it with a newer one.
Are you lifting at the moment ?
I consider the books to be canonical, honestly.
Chinese national arrested after 'drone flown over US air base'
I'm skeptical there's anyone alive who made an analog phone call over thousands of miles. Local calls yes, but even so I'm pretty old and I never made one because I had no friends on the same CO as my parents' house.
> One doesn't act right towards people because they deserve it in some cosmic sense, but because it's the moral thing to do.

Corporations are not people.
G includes MAFD extensions for non-embedded (I) applications. That's multiplication and division, atomics, single and double-precision floating point. It also includes the control/status register and a instruction-fence instruction. I think it's there to mean "the base plus the standard bits that people generally want in a processor if they're writing C for it".
"Pure rust" is not quite accurate given the rsx! macro DSL stuff
This bankruptcy was filed in Texas.

How would the corporate charter affect the fairness of how the auction was conducted?
Google's Project Astra – Exploring capabilities of a universal AI assistant
This is great news! I live near Kroger HQ and have been following the case closely Both of these companies are in the S&P 500 and have plenty of negation power with suppliers without merging. Both are profitable companies. This was not a win for consumers and I am not convinced it was even a win for the companies themselves as it required them to give up ~10% of their stores.
Comparing multicore wide AVX to CUDA is a bit of an unnecessary nuance for most folks. These make sense, but miss the forest from the trees:

- Either way, you're writing 'cuda style' fine-grained data parallel code that looks and works very different from regular multithreaded code. You are now in a different software universe.

- You now also have to think about throughput, latency hiding, etc. Nvidia has been commoditizing throughput-oriented hardware a lot better than others, and while AMD is catching up on some workloads, Nvidia is already advancing. This is where we think about bandwidth between network/disk=>compute unit. My best analogy here, when looking at things like GPU Direct Storage/Network, is CPU systems feel like a long twisty straw, while GPU paths are fat pipes. Big compute typically needs both compute + IO, and hardware specs tell you the bandwidth ceiling.

To a large extent, ideas are cross-polinating -- CPUs looking more like GPUs, and GPUs getting the flexibility of CPUs -- but either way, you're in a different universe of how code & hardware works than 1990s & early 2000s intel.
Adaptive morphing for stable flight of avian-informed drones [video]
> Totally wrong. You cannot generalize such a statement because it depends on the micro and macro weather conditions. A very stable situation makes it very easy to forecast one week and beyond. On the other hand, there can be situations where you cannot accurately predict the next 12 hours (e.g. cold air pool).

And that is exactly where these AI models will break down. They will "shine" (or fool us) with how well they predict the stable situations, and will produce utter rubbish when the high, turbulent and dynamic weather fronts make prediction difficult.

But of course, if your weather is "stable" 80% of the time, you can use those shiny examples to sell your tool, and count on user forgetfulness to get away with the 20% of nonsense predicted the rest of the time.
I've also never seen video of him inciting people. But supposedly he did? Does someone have the actual evidence?
Albertsons/Safeway was purchased by private equity [0]. They used the terms of the merger to 'cash out' - my understanding was the PE firm has already drained Albertsons' cash reserve.

Checking on the twitter, apparently they're using what cash Albertsons has left to do a share buyback, and are going to sue Kroger [1] for sabotaging the merger by not addressing the regulators' concerns.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/cerberus-...

[1] https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/newsroom/press-releases/...
This is an interesting strategy you've taken. You're basically setting a trap where you want me to specifically go after Alaskans or Arabians to prove my point.

I'm not taking the racist bait.

I have no reason to think it causes any more or less issues in Alaskans/Arabians a anyone else. The fact that Arabians or Alaskans did or didn't cover in public doesn't sway the outcome one way or another. There are all sorts of cultural factors that compound outcomes, and both mainstream America and Arabs have some that succeed with in spite of, others they succeed because of.
that's a tough argument given that there are already known algorithms to scale it. it's possibly QM is just broken, but it it's not, it's hard to see how error correction wouldn't work
That’s a question indeed! If you know your largest donor is baby pulping inc. is it ethical to take that money?
Leaderboards are not that useful for measuring real-life effectiveness of the models atleast in my day-today usage.

I am currently struggling to diagnose an ipv6 mis-configuration in my enormous aws cloudformation yaml code. I gave the same input to Claude Opus, Gemini and ChatGPT ( o1 and 4o).

4o was the worst. verbose and waste of my time.

Claude completely went off-tangent and began recommending fixes for ipv4 while I specifically asked for ipv6 issues

o1 made a suggestion which I tried out and it fixed it. It literally found a needle in the haystack. The solution is working well now.

Gemini made a suggestion which almost got it right but it was not a full solution.

I must clarify diagnosing network issues on AWS VPC is not my expertise and I use the LLMs to supplement my knowledge.
Would you agree that measurement is considered an interaction?
I think it's a more likely assumption that on device performance will trail off device models by a significant margin for at least the next few years - of course if magically you can make it work locally with the same level of performance it would be better.

Plus a lot of the "agentic" stuff is interaction with the outside world, connectivity is a must regardless.
+ 1 Here.

I can hardly sit through The Two Towers, extended or otherwise, without cringing constantly at nonsensical plot changes.

No, Faramir was not a moody nihilistic relativist who changes his entire outlook without any character development.

No, there was no alliance, and getting from Lothlorien to Helm's Deep in the span of a few weeks, with a full army, is physically impossible even if the army were already assembled. (This was only in the movie after a last-minute cancelled attempt to turn Arwen into a warrior; seriously.)

No, Treebeard didn't spend 2/3s of the book stalling.

No, Frodo did not offer a wringwraith the ring, even for a second. And if he did, there's no way he would've survived afterwards.

And on, and on...
You’re still focused about training :)

training doesn’t matter if inference costs are high and people don’t pay for them
Some of the issues were reported and a decision maker thought "we can get by without this". Pretty much the same reason the Challenger exploded. With a large company, there's gonna be reports about all sorts of stuff all the time, and you have to sort through the noise. They failed to do that here.

But is there any shred of doubt that no one, including the greediest most-souless bureaucrat, actually tried to make an airplane crash and kill people?

Crashing airplanes is VERY predictably bad for the stock price.
Those organizations don't have teeth, neither does the state-based PE except to regulate members. Where is the organization that regulates employers?
For the vast majority of people, not enabling notifications in a messaging app is a mistake in the sense of something they do want to do but failed to because they're bad at technology or just distracted, not in the sense of an ill-advised decision they made intentionally.
Not only is Linux desktop a moving target, but Windows simply does more. Painful, I know.

The single biggest issue is the community's bad habit of hand-waving away these issues when they're brought up. I could (and have in the past) make a long list of all the problems that plague me as a Linux desktop user, but there is a default dismissal answer to each and every one of them as to why I'm just being a big baby and it's not actually an issue. My gut tells me Microsoft is somehow behind this.

Jokes aside, free desktop needs to grow up before it can expect to be embraced with market share. Until then, people are going to keep using Windows, and people are going to keep wondering why, while dismissing Windows users' answers.
Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals
These models take an instruction, along with any contextual information, and are trained to produce valid output.

That production of output is a form of reasoning via _some_ type of logical processing. No?

Maybe better to say computational reasoning. That’s a mouthful.
I saw a news article the other day that the obesity rate decreased instead of increased last year for the first time in well over a decade.

I wonder how much GLP-1s have to do with all of that, and how much more they'll do.