skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Standard for who? That's awful model that probably shouldn't be legal. They're already getting a free loan for a service that gets cheaper to provide over time.

At most, tokens should expire after years of inactivity and multiple warnings to reset the timer.
I think Lecun doesn't like the term AGI.
I think even more than public speaking is just seeking a therapist. People get in over their head but its by their own doing. The stakes are never as high as you have built them up in your head. People want you to pass.
LLMs never took off until they combined them with RL via RLHF. RLHF was discovered in their RL research on game playing. GPT3 was out for quite a while with much lower impact than the chatgpt release and finished training in like december 2019 I read somewhere, released mid 2020. There were later better checkpoints, but it still didn't have much impact except for code completion.

With just a raw language model instructions and chat didn't work to near the same degree.

Both elements are important and they were early in both. Illya's first email here talks about needing progress on language:

2016

Musk: Frankly, what surprises me is that the AI community is taking this long to figure out concepts. It doesn’t sound super hard. High-level linking of a large number of deep nets sounds like the right approach or at least a key part of the right approach.

Illya: It is not the case that once we solve “concepts,” we get AI. Other problems that will have to be solved include unsupervised learning, transfer learning, and lifetime learning. We’re also doing pretty badly with language right now.
It seems most are expressing sadness and condolences to the family and friends around what is clearly a great loss of both an outstanding talent and a uniquely principled and courageous person.

There will always be a few tacky remarks in any Internet forum but those have all found their way to the bottom.

RIP.
Nothing in particular, but, like, there was just a NIST competition that produced SHA3, and "vetted" Blake2, and this wasn't submitted to it. It's not like there's a test suite to which you can just submit a cryptographic hash to validate it. You actually have to convince a bunch of mathematicians to do studies of your hash, right?

I'm not trying to pick on you, it's just that this keeps coming up with constructions like PCG. There's a cryptographic literature, and then a side-hustle of people building stuff like this. We used to have a sci.crypt discourse about it, but now I worry that HN has lost the antibodies.
| my eyes make saccades and groups of words come piling into my brain

That's similar to a tactic speed readers: looking at spaces between words instead of the words themselves, which allows your brain to pull in multiple words at once. There's a pile of approaches and not all are useful, but that one is. Another I've found is quieting my inner voice.

Without doing any practice or any other speed reading methods, just doing those two things boosted my wpm to 500+ at 100% comprehension when I was younger. I was a good reader to begin with but not a particularly fast one. I stuck with those methods because they're effortless and I didn't want to lose comprehension by pushing faster.

And importantly most of what I read is fiction, and a faster speed feels as though it would ruin the feeling of stories that are more ponderous. I prefer the speed of the thoughts on the page to feel like they're real time with the characters thinking them.
Finally we’ve found the best use for LLMs
The shady business practices of McKinsey and Purdue are responsible for getting a lot of people dependent on opioids, but the overdose deaths skyrocketed once doctors were forced to cut patients off of their prescriptions and into the fentanyl-ridden black market due to pressure from DEA. Drug War propaganda has convinced us that addiction is as bad as death, but personally, I would rather live a long, happy and productive life dependent on cheap, legal opioids, like William Stewart Halsted, than die as a casualty of the War on Drugs.
Can that role be automated? Some sort of community vote on a text proposal from the system, along with rsvp, reminders, etc? people may have more skin in the game if they voted on a time/place.

Automate place and tine selection: under eight in the community? Beer hall with 4+ stars that don’t need reservations. 1:1? Coffee shop. Etc. send over some date time location tuples, hold a vote, maybe do a runoff, whatever.

I know that if I got a flash meetup invite to a coffee shop along with instructions on how to meet people (to the left of the door at 10am sharp) I might actually make time. Worst case I drink coffee, which I was planning on doing anyway.

Basically: take the initiative?
Wouldnt need a bash script, phd advisor probablu gave you the password to everything already. Use the code they gave you into their office. Log into that laptop on their desk and use the gui to parse the history and see for yourself. If they catch you they probably wouldn’t even care.
> as seen with existing cold temperature superconductors which a room temperature one could certainly replace and become a commercial success in doing so.

High temperature superconductors are only seeing commercial use in the last few years (after their discovery in the 80s) due to issues like poor ductility.
> to the cloud to locally

Requires payment for backup of any meaningful size.

> locally to your own storage

I don't own a mac. I own Linux. How do I backup iOS to my device? How do I restore it?
Requested of who?
I don't think we need to wait around for people to ask us to start calling their country what they call it.
The state government has too much power to define what a mother can or can't do. It doesn't deserve such power. Using it correctly or not is a whole other consideration.
How's it understandable?
It's not. I'm explaining that you might have faulty hardware or potentially some software that does not love hdmi losing signal. I have a primary monitor hooked up via tb->dp and a secondary plugged into the hdmi port. When I stop working and swap to my personal computer I often shut off the secondary monitor all together and then change the input of my primary monitor. It is not kernel panicing.
"…sorts of systems that would fail in this way."

Hum. Unfortunately, most don't seem to agree with you. I think I've received more downvotes to this post than any previous one.

Shame they don't say why.
Your life doesn't belong to you. You need to reread the Phaedo.
First rule of archeology: if you don’t know what it’s for, it’s probably religious reasons.
What if it was all three at nearly the same time?
I am well aware of the colonoscopy rules. I struggle with them when patients who would not meet the standard are scheduled with us because they are employees of the hospital and it will not pay for care outside the system. It is one of the many factors that goes into the hospital’s subsidy to my group. Most of these are too ill to be done in a non-hospital facility - though most do fine and go home, there are some we have to admit overnight for observation.

It is almost universal that hospitals pay from their fees for part of the anesthesia services because the direct reimbursement we get is so low.

You can get one at 45, no questions asked, or you can claim you had a bloody stool.

As far as pain, that’s hard to measure. Procedures that are done under sedation or anesthesia in the US are done in other countries with little or nothing. I had all of my wisdom teeth extracted and all of my dental fillings done under local anesthesia only. It was fine. I don’t need gas, I don’t need sedatives.
You cannot be productive with the default configuration. You’re just telling it to yourself, but it really sucks.
I question the sanity of anyone who takes a good hard look at the world around them and isn't a little bit of an anarchist.
Lighting conditions seem to check out:

https://shademap.app/@46.05225,8.19394,11.38803z,17341770702...
First, I’m not saying that it’s obscure to be dismissive but simply recognizing that the number of people who need to have picosecond precision is not a significant factor in global IPv6 adoption.

Second, while it’s certainly true that having to buffer packets to calculate the checksum is more expensive that doesn’t mean that the best option is to ignore concerns about data integrity which was a far more frequent source of problems. If they hadn’t developed an encapsulation mechanism, using an alternate protocol like UDP-Lite would avoid the issue and anyone needing extremely high-precision already has to have tight enough control over their network to deploy it since they’d need to avoid having random middleboxes interfering with timing.
In my experience (which is a lot), like 80% of having a successful gathering is: Picking a date, Finding a location, Letting people know, Keeping it consistent.

I've been involved in organizing well over a thousand geek meetings, either as the primary organizer or on the "steering committee". You're probably right, most people don't want to be responsible for organizing it. But, at the end of the day, someone has to find a place and pick a date and let people know. You don't even have to go crazy with any of those, you could pick a coffee shop or restaurant, unless you get real popular.
I am not sure I get your question right, but there is no canvas. You just switch to the graphics mode (just as it was done in the likes of QBasic) and draw stuff using the graphics functions.

Here is a screen grab of a poor attempt at implementing the old paratrooper game

https://vimeo.com/835347764
Even worse, now some apps are not allowing screenshots. That's bullshit, it's my phone, I should be able to screenshot whatever the hell I want.
>LONG LIVE THE STACK OVERFLOW!

The mitigation known as Shadow Stack might have something to say here.
Why would you give it to anyone? That’s not how a dead man’s switch works.
Punching down is clealrly a sign of things regressing. The Cantillon effect is what separates the rich and those aren't. Trickle down economics doesn't work. Imagine telling those barely middle and poor Americans you're still doing better than Thais or South Africans. It doesn't help.
I don't know about calling them community leaders; someone has to find a place to have the meeting and let people know about it. That can be done without the entire meeting conforming to their personality. But at the end of the day, someone has to do some legwork or it just ain't gonna happen.
Capabilities (as implemented in e.g. seL4) is the way to go.
I'm waiting with bated breath for the day I can run Linux with full hardware acceleration on a MBP or laptop of equivalent quality.

Everywhere I look in the tech world there is so much potential for incredible products just out of reach because of bad software forced on us by anti-competitive practices.

Apple. You're the richest company on Earth. For the love of god, let me use my "pro" device to do professional work.

I am overseas right now and am quite literally typing this from an AMD mini PC with my MBP set up as a second monitor I interact with via a network based mouse/keyboard sharing application. It really hurts the promise of portability if I need to carry a second computer with me because my MBP is _nerfed by software_ to prevent me from using it for everything I do.
McKinsey is a deeply unethical company that has skirted meaningful accountability over the last few decades. I highly recommend reading When McKinsey Comes To Town [1] - it really opened my eyes to how hypocritical and self-serving the culture is at the firm.

Maybe a small aside..but it’s very interesting how we as a society took very little learnings from the Crack epidemic during the early years of the Opioid Crisis. It is frustrating how people would rather bury their heads into the sand and reaffirm existing biases vs interrogating the contributing factors.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634029/when-mckinse...
There could also be a distant relationship with the Brahmi script / family [1]

Some characters have similarities. The Brahmi 𑀕 may be related to the <Gimel> 𐤂
character in the tablet. Other characters like the "tha" (the O with a dot in the middle), the (, the O, the ) and some others also appear to have common traits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script
>All that’s true, but you can still identify them trivially. There are common physical traits that form a family resemblance.

That's exactly what I implied by my above comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42383753 ), which means the same as this part of yours: (i.e. you can still identify them trivially. There are common physical traits that form a family resemblance.).

But mine was referring to the differences between Indians on the one hand, and East Asians (and some others) on the other hand.

Here, the ”East Asians” includes Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Koreans, among others, and the "some others" also includes Tibetans, Nepalese, Bhutanese and Sikkimese, and Burmese, and people of the North Eastern states of India, such as Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, and Tripura.

All of these above people can easily be distinguished from (the rest of) Indians by their narrow eyes.

I don't know what is so difficult to understand about this. Nor is it discriminatory. It is simply stating obvious facts, that anyone can visually ascertain for themselves.

It is the people who behave in a discriminatory way towards anyone, based on where they come from, or their ethnicity, who are the real racists, not those who talk in an innocuous way about distinguishing visual characteristics of various categories of people.

>Yeah, I’m not buying that race is a uniquely American construction. It’s probably the place where discussing race has the least social tolerance.

(

>American

Say the word right, dude. USian, not American. :)

)

Discussing race may have the least social tolerance in USA (or not), but when it comes to actual behaviour, i.e. racism?

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States

What a huge amount of racism there is there, from the origin of the country until today. George Floyd, anyone (as just one example, as late as 2020)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd

And I do not mean to single out the USA. There is plenty of racism in Europe and Asia too. I have myself experienced it in both places, and have heard of plenty of anecdotes about it from people whom I trust.
It's not that trivial if we really insist on all the details. Let's assume x > 0 throughout. We can take sqrt(x) < x as a freebie.

An important lemma we need is that if f(x) is continuous on [a,b] and f'(x) > 0 on (a,b), then f(a) < f(b). For this, we need to write out the mean value thoerem, which needs Rolle's theorem, which needs the extreme value theorem, which gets into the definition of the real numbers. As well as all the fun epsilon–delta arguments for the limit manipulations, of course.

x/exp(sqrt(4x+3)) < x thankfully follows trivially from exp(sqrt(4x+3)) > 1 = exp(0). Since sqrt(4x+3) > 0, we just need to show that exp(z) is increasing. For this, we can treat the exponential as the anti-logarithm (since that's how my high school textbook did it), then show that log(z) is increasing, which follows from log'(z) = 1/z > 0 and our lemma.

For log(x^2+1) < x, we'll want to use our lemma on f(z) = z - log(z^2+1) to show that f(x) > f(0) = 0. Here, f'(z) = 1 - 2x/(x^2+1), for which we need the chain rule and the power rule (or a specialized epsilon–delta argument). Since x^2+1 > 0, f'(z) > 0 is implied by (x^2+1) - 2x > 0, which luckily factors into the trivial (x-1)^2 > 0. So ultimately, we break the lemma up into (0,1) and (1,x) to avoid trouble with the stationary point.

The trouble with problems like these is the whole foundation that the obvious lemmas have to be built upon. "Just look at the graph, of course it's increasing" isn't a rigorous proof. Of course, if you want to do this seriously, then you go and build that foundation, and on top of that you probably define some helpful lemmas for the ladder of asymptotic growth rates. But all of the steps must be written out at some point or another.
I read the technical description of this and the whole work seems like magic. Antenna design, extremely low-power passive networks, etc. On top of that, it can tap into network signal bursts as a communication medium.

It feels like a project sent from the future.

I've always been curious what energy harvesting systems are capable of.

Also, what is the third type of energy harvesting besides light and 2.4GHz? I couldn't figure out what that might be.
It’s not a PR stunt at all. If there is any PR benefit, it is totally incidental and not at all planned.

The reality is that a core part of how the company’a product works is broken with the latest version. That means that customers of tools like Super Duper (and presumably also Carbon Copy Cloner) who rely on the tools for bootable backups need to potentially hold off on upgrading to 15.2. Considering that this is a tool a lot of Mac admins use, this is a thing you want to let people know about, if for no other reason than to reduce or try to anticipate support loads.

And unfortunately, filing Radars often doesn’t solve these sorts of issues. And the customer is always going to blame the third-party. So it is incumbent on the third-party to let people know the issue while at the same time, hopefully apply pressure through negative publicity to get the problem fixed.

Phil Schiller (Apple’s head of marketing and the App Store) once said that “running to the press” doesn’t work, but it absolutely does. And especially when it comes to changes that might be bugs (but could also be signs of feature removals), getting public sentiment on your side is often the only recourse third-party devs have.

Yes, that ensuing discussion could be PR as a side effect, but no respected third-party devs (certainly not ones as longstanding as the Super Duper folks) are using this as a marketing opportunity.

They just want their business to not suffer because of a bug they can’t control or fix.
corporate puffery?
Some cities already have this kind of community which is pretty active so people don't see the point of signing up to this. For example, I'm in Tokyo we have an almost monthly HN meetup, HN Tokyo [1].

[1]: https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/
> Mpemba effect, phase transitions

And whether that matters for imaging of an accretion disc

> From "Exploring Quantum Mpemba Effects" (2024) https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/10 :

> Similar processes, in which a system relaxes to equilibrium more quickly if it is initially further away from equilibrium, are being intensely explored in the microscopic world. Now three research teams provide distinct perspectives on quantum versions of Mpemba-like effects, emphasizing the impact of strong interparticle correlations, minuscule quantum fluctuations, and initial conditions on these relaxation processes [3–5]. The teams’ findings advance quantum thermodynamics

Is quantum thermodynamics modeled in the (GRMHD) magnetohydrodynamics applied?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369294#42371946
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-42371946 :

> Dark fluid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fluid :

>> Dark fluid goes beyond dark matter and dark energy in that it predicts a continuous range of attractive and repulsive qualities under various matter density cases. Indeed, special cases of various other gravitational theories are reproduced by dark fluid, e.g. inflation, quintessence, k-essence, f(R), Generalized Einstein-Aether f(K), MOND, TeVeS, BSTV, etc. Dark fluid theory also suggests new models, such as a certain f(K+R) model that suggests interesting corrections to MOND that depend on redshift and density
I was suggesting that this year's chess championship was relatively boring, and that’s OK. However there are multiple dimensions between boring and exciting and in some ways this match was very far from relatively boring. And I wouldn’t say that it is boring without the relatively qualifier, no way.

It was relatively boring on the level of the momentum shifting back and forth. That is, if you sampled the game every hour, you would find more excitement in the median on some other chess championships. That doesn't make it less impressive or the outcome less inspiring, or the story of the players. Momentum shifting a lot makes for an exciting championship. The 2018 championships between Carlsen & Caruana were much more exciting IMO, despite having a more predictable outcome also IMO.

Now, really none of these championships are boring, unless you start comparing them and introduce the term relatively boring. All the players are playing with spirit, or else they wouldn't be playing at this level. Any perceived methodicalness doesn't make some player too much like an AI.

Of course, not everyone is going to agree with me, and I accept that. I also think that it’s totally fine that Magnus Carlsen stopped participating, but another commenter thinks it’s a travesty. I agree to disagree.
Yes. The first A-series designs launched while Jobs was still alive.

That said, from what I understand, a lot of the team was hired after. So it’s certainly not an indicator one way or another about the post-Jobs talent/innovation pipeline.
> took it upon themselves to provide that functionality via a utility. That utility is apparently non-functional in 15.2.

Apple turning our devices into jail cells.

These tech titans need to be regulated. We should be able to install whatever we want on Mac, iPhone, and Android. To be able to back up whatever we want, install from web, not be forced to use app stores, not be forced to sync with the cloud, and not be forced to use first party software.
New Zealand in 30 years after killing off the social sciences: https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Orbit_City
I <3 you so much, @dang. Thank you for the reminder to stay curious.
There is confirmed news now that he killed himself
I suppose it would be: do not condone procrastination. What can be done now should be done now. What can't be done now should be scheduled for a specific time in the calendar. I found, personally, that half of my time doing anything was avoiding doing the thing. Procrastination. Usually cloaked in something that I could justify if I didn't squint too hard, such as "planning" or "research", or working at a slower than necessary pace.

Also, when I blew the window for something I had scheduled, I didn't feel bad or scold myself. I rescheduled it and then looked at what caused the issue. Often, it was that I didn't schedule enough time for the prior activity, so I would know to schedule more for similar tasks in the future.

Also, bonus strategy... delegate as much as those around you will put up with.
ones so far:

1. apps are rather slow to install, since GOS compiles JIT (just-in-time compiled code) on install for security/speed. It's a bit of a pain when I'm needing something now
2. play integrity fails, so some banks¹ don't work, and NFC payments are pretty much bricked
3. I had some weird issue setting up my galaxy watch. probably a Samsung thing but it'd download software for an hour then fail with a generic message multiple times

now writing this out, I realize a lot of these are skill issues I need to just take a couple hours and try to fix

1: my solution is just to use web apps and it works well since I end up with less apps. PWA FTW!
My first tool for Design QA
After 10 years as a product designer, I’ve experienced the frustration of endless back-and-forth with engineers, PMs, and designers—especially across time zones. That’s why I’m building a tool to cut down on meetings, streamline bug reports, and simplify UI fixes, so I can focus on what I love most: designing.

There is lots of tools that help with design and dev handoff , but almost none handle the process that is that final quality check before going live.