skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article leaves so many unanswered questions, starting with the elephant in the room: how accurate is it? (Or how accurate do they expect it to be?)

I found the answer here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock#Accuracy

It turns out that the current state of the art is 10^-15. Which immediately raises the second question: how do they measure this? 10^-15 is an error of roughly a nanosecond a year. GR causes that kind of time difference between your head and your feet when you stand up.

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/09/nist-clock-exp...

I haven't done the math, but I'm guessing that just standing next to a 10^-15 clock would have noticeable effects due to the effects of your gravitational field.

Also: why does thorium-229 in particular have such a low-energy atomic transition? That seems kind of random.

Mind-boggling stuff.
could not agree with you more.
If the world was free of second order effects, Judith Collin’s would be a great politician. Unfortunately throughout my life and having listened to her speak in person more than once, she’s came across as someone not intelligent enough to manage the responsibilities she gets herself into.
I get the impression that every team and division of Microsoft is in a constant short-sighted fight to exploit and degrade the "commons" between them. (UX design, keyboard shortcuts, favored placement for adoption, etc.)
Any chance it could have a region filter?
From TFA:

> Summer 2017: We and Elon agreed that a for-profit was the next step for OpenAI to advance the mission

So basically Elon had the same idea as Sam Altman.
you might as well say that it proves time-travel is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_vector_formalism
I added that to the text at the top. Thanks!
Anecdatally, I have two reading modes - full comprehension and skimming. In full comprehension I read and subvocalize each word, often slowing down, pausing, or even re-reading to make sure the meaning sinks in. In skim mode I look at phrases, sometimes whole sentences or even simple paragraphs, and move to the next chunk before consciously comprehending the previous one. Skimming effectiveness highly depends on my alertness level and works best with fiction or other media with low information density. For fiction books I can generally recount the plot and events pretty well.
In 2024 the word "Hacker" means someone who begs rich VC companies for money...

This is sadly not the correct site to find advice on doing naughty things with computers.
> is not on X anymore

Or never was on X :)

Edit: funny enough, the only HN user that registered for my city has X as a social profile. Guess I'll never know more.

Edit 2: tbh why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing?
Maybe because magical thinking, based entirely on early childhood brainwashing and cultural conditioning and peer-pressure, has no place here.
This is a certain kind of Catholicism.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04984

> Our findings demonstrate that frontier models now possess capabilities for basic in-context scheming [covertly pursuing misaligned goals], making the potential of AI agents to engage in scheming behavior a concrete rather than theoretical concern.
I wonder how a powerpoint can be converted to markdown
...at least you can't lose money in comedy :(
I know a popular golang repo, link below ;)
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Prices dont go down by themselves. You need someone to select cheaper options and reject more expensive ones.

If there is nobody to say no to $1 million dollar aspirin, that is how much you pay.

Money is finite, so that means people dont get care. Care is always rationed.
Removing Some 'A' from AI: Embodied Cultured Networks (2004)
SCCS roach motel
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42357273, which ended up on the front page, even though this one was posted first (sorry!)
Is there a reason why the loop and map don't result in the exact same code?

It looks like the code does exactly the same thing and something the optimizer could catch. Is is because of potential side effects? If not, maybe there is a ticket to open somewhere, if it isn't done already.
Super impressive project, especially for what seems to be your first embedded project. I haven't played with microPython/uOTA so this was an interesting read.

Since you mentioned the water meter Flume, I wanted to shamelessly plug my open source water meter that I'm currently developing. It also uses the ESP32 so I thought you might be interested.

Main page. https://y-drip.com/

Docs: https://y-drip.com/docs/site/v0.4/
Extracting a library from a real world project is one of my favorite parts of software.

I'm sure the march of LLMs will continue eating into this pie, and that's a good thing (most of it is a distraction from the real work), but I love polishing a library on my laptop in a cafe. It's like working on a painting or something.
Cool! I totally could have used this earlier this year... can't remember what for...

Interesting choice to publish from the storyteller "monorepo." Is that because it evolved in situ, and you've no impetus to incur the overhead of extraction?
But gpt-4o can already answer your question for a fraction of the price and time:

To determine which of the items could be used to make an actual fire, we need to analyze the definitions provided:

1. *Glaarg*: A wooden item.

2. *Bliirg*: A non-wooden item.

3. *Neerg*: A non-existent thing.

4. *Eeerg*: A thing that actually exists.

Now, let's look at the specific terms:

- *Bipk*: A glaarg (wooden item) that is also a neerg (non-existent thing). Since it is non-existent, it cannot be used to make a fire.

- *Vokp*: A glaarg (wooden item) that is also an eeerg (existent thing). Since it is a wooden item that exists, it can be used to make a fire.

- *Jokp*: A bliirg (non-wooden item) that is also an eeerg (existent thing). While it exists, it is non-wooden, so it may not be suitable for making a fire depending on its material.

- *Fhup*: A bliirg (non-wooden item) that is also a neerg (non-existent thing). Since it is non-existent, it cannot be used to make a fire.

Based on this analysis, the only item that can be used to make an actual fire is a *vokp*, as it is a wooden item that exists.
I made one big mistake with that introduction when it was recorded on to the video tape for playback at the conference: I didn't realize how much people were going to laugh at the end and went straight into my presentation. I got to hear the laughter because the conference was live streamed using RealPlayer.
I first heard it on the All-In podcast, but I do see many articles/blogs about it as well. Quick note though, I mistyped CPU (and rapidly caught and fixed, but not fast enough!) when I meant GPU.

[1]: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-plea...
Am I crazy, or is 45 seconds a really long time? My current cheapish grinder does 18g in ~25 seconds. If anything I would expect/want a better grinder to grind faster. Is the slow grind rate intentional?
I'm smiling because I let my baby daughter play with my computer and type random gibberish for a while, then created a "blog" of her work.

This has the same vibe.
Another one in Rjukan, Norway: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-bu... (2017)
> One of these days if AGI ever does actually come about, we might very well have to go to war with them.

And the same conditions of material wealth that dictate traditional warfare will not be changed by the ChatGPT for Warlords subscription. This entire conversation is silly and predicated on beliefs that cannot be substantiated or delineated logically. You (and the rest of the AI preppers) are no different than the pious wasting their lives in fear awaiting the promised rapture.

Life goes on. One day I might have to fistfight that super-dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic but I don't spend much time worrying about it in a relative sense.
That seems outrageous. Do they make any claims about how many watts or lumens they can deliver, and to what area?
I've seen enough examples of an LLM misinterpreting a column or row - resulting in returning the incorrect answer to a question because it was off by one in one of the directions - that I'm nervous about trusting them for this.

JSON objects are different - there the key/value relationship is closer in the set of tokens which usually makes it more reliable.
How so?

Philosophy helped me to think critically and find edge cases. Psych taught me about different parts of the brain and their functions. Soci taught me my professor was a giant fraud and the entire discipline was a 'solution' looking for a problem.
Then I can glance at words in succession at 900+ wpm.
I was waiting for the reply, but I realized that you might not be able to send one or edit your comment anymore, so here is one from me to give you opportunity to do so. I’m really curious what you found about GWASes or the state of debate around them 10 years ago.
Other rules for command line tools:

1. Don’t assume a terminal type. Look at `TERM` and use termcap/terminfo or a library built atop them for anything beyond line-oriented plain text output, or least assume a plain teletype unless you specifically recognize the user’s terminal type.

2. Don’t assume the presence of a terminal at all. Check `isatty()` before doing anything fancy, and be sure to work without a terminal so your tool can be used in pipelines and called by other programs via `exec()`.

3. Follow the common conventions in your arguments and output structure. For example, if your tool takes an open-ended set of arguments, support specifying a response file with `@path/to/file` to avoid argument limits. If your tool supports record-oriented output, support a `-0` argument to `NUL`-separate the output for use with `xargs` in pipelines.

4. Use the standard `<sysexits.h>` exit codes. They exist for a reason and they make use of your tool within pipelines and programs more straightforward because they make it easier to trace why a failure occurred.

5. Include both in-binary `--help`/usage information and a man page. Often a user will just need a quick refresher on argument syntax, which is what the built-in help text is for; the man page should be a comprehensive reference with examples. It should *never* defer to a web page or GNU `info`—it’s fine if those exist too and are pointed out, but they should not be the primary user reference.

Lots of Linux-oriented tools have one or more of these failure modes, and behave poorly on real terminals that aren’t VT100 derivatives or are awkward to use in anything but an interactive setting.
> biggest GPU compute cluster in the world right now

This is wildly untrue, and most in industry know that. Unfortunately you won't have a source just like I won't, but just wanted to voice that you're way off here.
Why the mixup of a well functioning democracy and a direct democracy?
> Now that Elon is competing, and involved with the government, he’ll be under a lot more scrutiny.

That's the cutest fucking thing I've heard this year. In what world is anyone going to scrutinize Elon Musk? He's the right-hand man of the most powerful person in the world. The time for scrutiny was 8 years ago.
If you think this is an "entry level" setup, you're in too deep!
> each board member has a deep understanding of technology, at least a basic understanding of AI and strong & sensible morals.

> Put increasing effort into the safety/control problem

... and we are working to get defense contracts which is used to kill human beings in other countries, or fund organizations who kill humans
This site would benefit from a comparison with other static site generators.

I dare say it's not that difficult for a programmer to roll their own SSG with whatever is at hand.

Does it have any clever properties that naive solution wouldn't?

* Like reproducible builds or incremental/cacheable builds?

* Does it require the entire site fits in memory at build time, or can it generate terabyte-sized sites without breaking a sweat?
I think it's telling that someone who "only" orchestrated one of the most used pre-training and benchmark datasets in computer vision is seen as less accomplished than those who developed algorithms that require those datasets to work.

Yes, dataset creation and curation is less glamorous, but it's important work. I've worked with a few modelers who could stand to learn that first hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBoUHay7XBI&t=345s

one of the few youtube links on this page that is still up
I know, but they usually offer dosage ranges, since it varies greatly depending on coffee density.

In any case, it's not a "grouphead spec" as shown on the website. I know this is pedantic, but most coffee nerds are pedantic :P
As already stated, one of Rust’s explicit goals is not to have a runtime of any kind. If your program happens to require a garbage collector, and you want to write it in Rust, then you can simply depend on a garbage collector provided by a crate. No need to have it built in when 90% of programs don’t need it. And since you can just include one when you do need it, there can easily be multiple options to choose from. As engineering is all about managing tradeoffs, you want to be able to choose the crate that best matches your particular needs. A single option buried in the standard library and forced upon you may not be the best choice.

That said, most programs should not be written in Rust. They should be written in a language that, like Rust, is memory safe, but it is best if they are written in a language which makes the developers more productive than Rust does. Languages with garbage collectors built in are at the top of that list. Common Lisp, Javascript, Python, Raku, etc; there are plenty of choices. These languages are ideal for exploration and productivity. Even Java or C#, if you can stomach it. Save Rust for later when you have to squeeze every drop of performance out of your program, you’ve already written it once so that you already know exactly what you need, and you can justify the expense of the rewrite using operational savings. Optimal performance will probably happen once you can drop the garbage collection entirely, and Rust truly shines when used that way.
I can't negotiate with people who have such a deep distrust of Government that they belie that the Government will kill it's citizens if given incentives to do so, or from pure $-based miscare.

This to me feels like a very dystopian way to have a relationship with it's government, and is a uniquely american perspective amongst the developed world.

The government is a proxy for society leadership. I expect human society to protect it's humans, and most of the world with functioning government does too.

The biggest threat to Canadian prosperity today is these american ideas percolating above the border and infecting the mind of Canadians who previously believed and trusted their government and no longer does.
My father was struck with polio as a kid. Doctors told his parents he would die. He somehow survived. I would not be here otherwise. My mother remembers getting vaxxed when the vax was very new.

As one might expect, I have strong feelings about the polio vaccine. JFKj is an asshat and a charlatan. I hope his brainworm finishes the meal.
Good point, I don't know if it's strictly GPUs or also includes some other AI specific chips.

Nvidia wrote about it: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spectrum-x-ethernet-netwo...
New device produces critical fertilizer ingredient from thin air
I'm not sure this is quite what GP is fishing for.

While I haven't taken a modern SAT test, I'm pretty sure the ~verbal score covers a fair amount of comprehension and ~usage that isn't as easy to cram/prep. Since the GP is setting aside vocabulary prep as a separate phase, I think they're specifically wondering about how to build up those more nebulous skills.

(Is your hypothesis here that just running over a lot of these questions is sufficient to develop reading comprehension at a level necessary to handle novel questions at exam time? Is it that just reading enough of these questions will teach you the comprehension? Is it that these questions aren't a great proxy for comprehension in the first place and hence it's easier to game them than to develop comprehension? Some of these might tick the GP's boxes, but others probably won't.

To get really to the point: one of the GP's concerns is reading speed, and I suspect it's going to be really hard to crack 700 under pressure if you're having trouble even reading all of the questions/answers in the allotted time.)
Yes, when one group of people, a small minority of the population, controls the ability to produce food and violence, then we have a serious problem.
You're making a very good non-coherent argument, and I'd claim you're moving the goalposts, but you don't even have goalposts.
Maybe Elon is doing both, competing in the marketplace and in the courtroom. And in advising the president to regulate non-profit AI .
Artisan (YC W24) trolls San Francisco with billboard saying "stop hiring humans"
This gave me a chuckle too - such a familiar experience
> Neither of you have anything even _approaching_ AGI.

On that note, is there a term for, er... Negative hype? Inverse hype? I'm talking about where folks clutch their pearls and say: "Oh no, our product/industry might be too awesome and doom mankind with its strength and guaranteed growth and profitability!"

These days it's hard to tell what portion is cynical marketing ploy versus falling for their own propaganda.
Recent big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41447515
Thankfully, the story of Acousti-Kitty being run over was a poorly conceived joke.
That, I think I can agree with. It seems to me reasonable to say that the requirements for something to qualify as “scientific evidence” are stricter than to qualify as “evidence”, and that anecdotes don’t qualify as “scientific evidence”.
Very timely, thanks!

Was just yesterday working on chaining together `xlsx` and `tablemark` to accomplish this. I found `uvx markitdown my-excel.XLSX | sed 's/ NaN/ /g' my-markdown.md` to be just what I needed to get my spreadsheet into a reasonably-legible markdown table when rendered by GitLab.
Where did you see 49mm? I think from the specifications section that it's 51mm.
One of the problems I'm usually facing with this is the need to call library functions from C++ code. Especially TLS-related stuff. It doesn't matter what primitives C++ has to offer, as long as you are using library code things will break.
Measured another way, just a bit under 2 Twitters.
What do you mean by "a specific reason"?

Personally, I like meeting interesting new people for the sake of it.
This might seem like a strange example, but there was a very popular soccer coach in the 1980s. He led the Argentina national team to victory in the 1986 World Cup. His name was Carlos Bilardo, and he was an incredibly successful, world-class coach.

Later in life, when someone showed him the World Cup trophy, he started crying. He said, "I gave everything for that trophy—my family, my personal life. I forgot to live."

Sometimes, what appears to be success from the outside hides a deep obsession and significant gaps in personal care and mental health.

It’s okay not to be number one sometimes, there is a huge price to pay that not everyone sees, and nobody shows.
I will try it with some complex layout PDFs or documents with tables. These documents have real business use cases for automation — insurance, banking, etc.

Anyone here who wants to convert PDF documents or scanned images as it is preserving the layout, do try LLMWhisperer - https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/
I'd say you only read to assimilate info and not for entertainment then.
Now that a premium brand such as Apple has proved that AI is massively overhyped, maybe the press will finally wake up and call it what it is: a sometimes useful party trick. I won’t hold my breath.
An increase, but those effects are noticed with traditional atomic clocks too. The simple act of moving them between biuldings results in detectable GR effects: time dilation from acceleration as someone pushes the cart. A more accurate measure of such things could yield a functional GR-based accelerometer/gyroscope.
> This is wildly untrue, and most in industry know that. Unfortunately you won't have a source just like I won't, but just wanted to voice that you're way off here.

Sure, we probably can't know for sure who has the biggest as they try to keep that under wraps for competition purposes, but it's definitely not "wildly untrue." A simple search will show that they have if not the biggest, damn near one of the biggest. Just a quick sample:

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spectrum-x-ethernet-netwo...

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-plea...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/elon-musk-to...

https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/musks-xais-colossus-cl...
Part of a new Cicada 3031 test?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
The rules of traditional warfare will still exist, they will just be fought by advanced hyper intelligent AIs instead of humans. Hunter Miller humanoids like Optimus and drones like Anduril will replace humans in war.

War will be the same, but the rich are preparing to unleash a "new arsenal of democracy" against us in an AI takeover. We must be prepared.
It is true. [0]

[0] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spectrum-x-ethernet-netwo...
Berkeley gave up philosophy to expound the virtues of tarwater:

https://brill.com/view/journals/esm/25/2/article-p173_4.xml?... (article at https://www.pismin.com/10.1163/15733823-00252p04)

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4d89/d61ba488a87c62107ebbeb...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_water
This is cool, how did you make the voice? It's perfect for the application :)
Crowley absolutely believed in demons and angels as Christians believe in them. See the HGA, the famous “Lam”. Although they aren’t seen as mutually exclusive
Surely Meta has the biggest compute in that category, no? I wouldn't be surprised if Elon went around saying that to raise money though.
The article mentions brain plasticity, but I wonder how much of this is also genetic. Using myself as an example, I started reading novels relatively early, mostly skipping the entire YA genre. I clearly remember reading "Jaws", which is definitely not meant for children, when I was eight years old.

Does precocious reading mean the left anterior part of the temporal lobe and the Heschl's gyrus are already larger/thicker to begin with in some people? Or do they develop rapidly in response to reading as a stimulus?
Roger Ver files motion to dismiss criminal tax charges
(Could still be) illegal.

Private inurement is a thing. There are laws written explicitly to prevent this.
It is always amazing to me how many people are willing to say "wow this entire academic field is just garbage and the researchers are making some incredibly childish error" based on what seems just entirely like vibes.

Psych is getting a brunt of this because they have actually done a good thing and funded replication studies, which naturally will produce a bunch of "this fails to replicate" findings. So then you get headlines talking about the replication crisis in psych and then people who maybe took a single class in college a decade ago dismiss the entire field as bogus.

I invite such people to go speak with some CS academics for a better understanding of the mess in our own field.