skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this was true, we'd have more mobile computing platforms.

If you think smartphone customers and server customers are evaluating hardware based on the same criteria, then why isn't Apple the leading datacenter hardware OEM?

> Large enterprises publish in Apple's AppStore.

Yeah? Where's my Pro Tools download on the App Store? Where's my Cinema4D download? Can I get Bitwig Studio from there? Hell, is iTerm2 or Hammerspoon even available there?

Large enterprises very explicitly don't publish on the MacOS App Store because it is a purely raw deal. If you're developing a cross-platform app (which most large enterprises do), then you've already solved all the problems the App Store offers to help with. It's a burdonsome tax for anyone that's not a helpless indie, and even the indies lack the negotiating power that makes the App Store profitable for certain enterprises.
> Battery and AI tech is quite likely to be the missing piece robotics lacked in the past.

Cheap semiconductors as well.

Fabricating a chip on a 28nm and 48nm process is extremely commodified nowadays. These are the same processes used to fabricate an Nvidia Tesla or an i7 or Xeon barely a decade ago, so the raw compute power available at extremely commodified prices is insane.

Just about every regional power has the ability to fabricate an Intel i7 or Nvidia Tesla equivalent nowadays.

And most regional powers have 3-7 year plans to build domestic 14nm fabrication capacity as well now. A number of firms like Taiwan's PSMC have made a killing selling the end-to-end IP and workflow for fabrication.
The “back” misspelling is also in OP’s quote so I included it.
I would say that a rule is "cheating" iff it is implied by another rule for any arbitrary N.
I would argue that you do not need AI in the sense of ML to pass this specific CAPTCHA as it stands (move forward, move back then shoot until solved). If it was extended to all DOOM levels and you started at a completely random position of a level, I bet there is a high chance you would still not need any ML to beat it... You would at best have to implement an AI (in the sense of game development, not ML) algorithm...

Ofc all of this is going to be necessary IF it actually cannot be trivially circumvented... How does the FE prove to the backend that you actually killed the monsters?
Thanks for the info! Actually I mainly tested this on my laptop.
Disagree. The AI we have is very useful for specific things. The pushback you see is not so much denying the milestones that have been surpassed, but rather the milestones that enthusiasts claim are near. And for good reason! Every time and in every field we’ve extrapolated an exponential-looking curve ad infinitum, it’s turned out to be S-shaped, and life goes on.

> We had a threshold for intelligence.

We’ve had many. Computers have surpassed several barriers considered to require intelligence such as arithmetic, guided search like chess computers, etc etc. the Turing test was a good benchmark because of how foreign and strange it was. It’s somewhat true we’re moving the goalposts. But the reason is not stubbornness, but rather that we can’t properly define and subcategorize what reason and intelligence really is. The difficulty to measure something does not mean it doesn’t exist or isn’t important.

Feel free to call it intelligence. But the limitations are staggering, given the advantages LLMs have over humans. They have been trained on all written knowledge that no human could ever come close to. And they still have not come up with anything conceptually novel, such as a new idea or theorem that is genuinely useful. Many people suspect that pattern matching is not the only thing required for intelligent independent thought. Whatever that is!
Yeah, pistol starting this particular level is...unkind. At least start with a shotgun.
Suprised Smithsonian does not provide more context on him in that link - here is a better write-up - "the fall of a prophet".
https://quillette.com/2018/12/21/solzhenitsyn-the-fall-of-a-...
To be frank I don’t have much of an opinion on either side. Just sharing how it’s used. I have heard of very few issues with people buying these historically and most/all of these require putting your name on a list.

I suspect a far greater many are injured from fireworks.
BFG9000, here I come!
Nope, handwriting is not AI generated. But can totally understand your second point. Thought it would be an interesting alternative.
Sorry, I thought the whole point of this thread was that models can’t handle problems when they are “slightly varied”. Mottes and baileys all over the place today.
When the Minister of Everything Ran Out of Patience
From my experience,
Sturgeon's law applies to books too.
If works needs to be done on site, why not move the company to India

It’s cheaper to transport Indian services than transport Indian goods.
That's a Christian thing, isn't it? Baptismal certificates are very important.
> Someone always says "ChatGPT can't do this!", but then when someone actually runs the example, chatGPT gets it right

I mean, if I had OpenAI’s resources I’d have a team tasked with monitoring social to debug trending fuck-ups. (Before that: add compute time to frequently-asked novel queries.)
Impressive work. Connecting with Nvidia's move to make robotics there next focus, is there need to have powerful compute local to the robot? Cloud latency would seem to be fine for the speed of these robotic arms.
You're right. While I wasn't very explicit about this (because algorithmica and the linked paper spend plenty of words on it already), the code snippet for Eytzinger does indeed do both the prefetching and the formula.

In fact, I'm pretty sure a similar formula could be made to work for higher branching factors, although it would surely be slower. (Probably it depends on the number of times 17 divides the final index it so, which is not great, but with B=15 it would be the number of factors of 16 which is easy again.)
The more annoying issue with not storing everything in the final layer is that we have to keep a running-answer for each query as we go down the tree, which I suspect will add measurable runtime overhead. But maybe that's a tradeoff one is willing to make to avoid the 6.25% overhead.
Some real gems in there:

Dr. Dangerous: Secrets of the Temple of Xol'Tan https://hoogames2017.itch.io/dr-dangerous Beautiful and runs on naked Amiga 500.

Dungeonette https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=5069 Stock Amiga 1200.

Roguecraft https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/roguecraft Any Amiga with 2MB of ram.
> just asked o1-mini (not 4o mini) 5 times in a row (new chats obviously) and it got it right every time

Could you try playing with the exact numbers and/or substances?
I mean, it would, wouldn't it? Theodore Sturgeon wrote a bunch of books, and I've always assumed his "Revelation" was initially delivered in that context.
solution:

- make it mandatory for H1-B visa holders who came to the US directly (i.e., didn't go to college here) to leave the US within 5 years.

- enforce equal pay: "if you hire an H1-B, you should pay them the same amount as you would a domestic worker."

- allow H1-B visa holders to move between jobs; don't tie it to one company.

- Obviously, put a cap on #H1-B approvals per year and make sure this number doesn't exceed the number who are leaving (see #1).
I usually encrypt with LUKS and then delete the headers (and then physically destroy the disk). Don’t remember where I read about it, but been doing that for a while.
I liked Helix for a bit until I really gave neovim a fair chance. The main reason I considered Helix is because nvim's LSP support wasn't very beginner-friendly. It's pretty much stable now and I know enough to set it up manually without Mason.

On top of that, Helix's formatter kept adding a newline to all my PHP files. There was no way to turn it off at the time.
i think we are venturing into pedantic territory - the point of my comment is that the full derivation is a little harder than just E=mc^2 dimensional analysis
If I am the technical interviewer and your CV looks better than mine, I might not want you to be hired on the chance it means I’m caught up in the next layoff round instead of you.

In theory.
Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of BBS Doors! Excellent tui!
This is all sort of silly IMO. The equation, like basically all equations, needs context. What’s E? What’s m? If E is the total energy of the system and m is the mass (inertial or gravitational? how far past 1905 do you want to go?), then there isn’t a correction. If m is rest mass and E is total energy, then I would call it flat-out wrong, not merely approximate. After all, a decent theory really ought to reproduce Newtonian mechanics under some conditions beyond completely at rest.

IMO, when people get excited about E=mc^2, it’s in contexts like noticing that atoms have rest masses that are generally somewhat below the mass of a proton or neutron times the number of protons and neutrons in the atom, and that the mass difference is the binding energy of the nucleus, and you can do nuclear reactions and convert between mass and energy! And then E=mc^2 is apparently exactly true, or at least true to an excellent degree, even though the energies involved are extremely large and Newtonian mechanics can’t even come close to accounting for what’s going on.
Hah, I knew at the beginning of the second sentence that it’s AI-generated.
+1 to antimemetics. I don't usually enjoy sci-fi, but this one captured my attention. You can read it online too: https://qntm.org/scp
Intelligence is debateble without even bringing ai into it. Nobody agrees on whether humans have intelligence. Well, smart people agree but those people also agree we have or will soon have agi or something negligibly different from it.
> old-school chording of Alt

Damn I completely forgot it was a thing even, wow. And yet it was for like 7 years of my gaming experience
It isn't at all, and having lived in countries on both sides of the coin, I can tell you that people are getting a worse product in return, without the local job creation. I've written more about it here [1]. A trivial example is Google Maps. I've gone a bit more in-depth on that example here [2]. In a nutshell, you get much less enshittification, far better customer support (humans instead of ML models), and all the other things that used to be completely normal but were slowly boiled away while getting people used to it in the name of shareholder returns.

For clarity, I took the discussion as being about software, as physical goods (including hardware) are an entirely different beast which my points don't necessarily apply to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42538601

[2]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286046
In the 1890's the Dutch transported thousands of Chinese workers to Rotterdam to break a union strike of dock workers. Some things never change.
So, there is this meme going around in Mexico about a previous president who in an interview said "we will land in about 1 minute, no, less about 5"

Does this proves he is not an intelligent being?

Is he stupid?

This he had a lapse? Would we judge his intelligence for that?
The problem is that his arsenal is hardly any more dangerous than driving a 6,500 lb truck into a crowd during a celebration.

The people who want to harm our country don't seem to have any difficulty doing it.
Well, they are doing BigCorpStuff not Science
give me a query and i’ll ask it, but also i don’t want to burn through all of my o1mini allocation and have to use the pay-as-you-go API.
If the app is added to the home screen, then it is exempted from having it's data wiped after 7 days without usage.

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#intelligent-tracking...

And good docs on storage quotas on different browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API...

I think there's also benefits of using persistent storage
Man, that would be a fascinating experiment. Would it be able to predict who wins and when? Would it be able to predict the Cold War?
I believe this is just a case of OpenAI's naming scheme being weird and confusing.

The default model I see on chatgpt.com is GPT 4o-mini, which is not o1-mini.

OpenAI describes GPT 4o-mini as "Our fast, affordable small model for focused tasks" and o1/o1-mini as "Reasoning models that excel at complex, multi-step tasks".
It seems to me like they busted an eccentric collector.

Men love this kind of stuff. If TNT was legal to own there would probably be a collector for it.
Yes, that's exactly what the problem with flash storage is. A single pass of overwriting all nominal storage is pretty close to wiping the entire disk - the spare blocks are limited in number - but with SSDs there's just no easy way to know what may be left behind on eventual bad blocks that have been replaced by spares. So-called "hybrid" HDDs that are fronted by a small SSD to give the impression of faster writes are subject to these complications as well.
Assuming this is going to save someone 10ns per query in the end and I spent 150h on coding and writing this up, we only(?) need around 10^14 queries to make it worth it!

But yes, as new technologies stack up, we achieve exponential growth in throughput in the end, which usually enables new science :)
Here's my list for 2024:

* Wisdom’s Workshop (2016) by James Axtell is a history of the American research university from Medieval times to the present.

* The Principles of Science (1874) by William Stanley Jevons (of economics fame) is a wide-ranging treatment of logic and philosophy of science that’s bursting with ideas.

* Ballyhoo! (2024) by Jon Langmead is a history of professional wrestling and combat sports from its outlaw roots in the late nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century.

* A Discourse on Political Economy (1824) by John Ramsay McCulloch is the first history of economic thought from the era of the classical economists.

Check it out in more detail here: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2024/
Also, $ clarifies that the line is indeed a shell command.

That's all there is to it. Move on. Worry about something else.
Wow, the reasons why Redis commands API suck in Andy's video (linked in the post) are the weakest ever. It is possible to make a case against the Redis API (I would not agree of course but... it's totally legitimate), but you gotta have stronger arguments than those, particularly if you are a teacher of some kind. Especially: you need to be somewhat fluent in Redis and how developers use Redis in order to understand why so many people like it, and then elaborate what it's wrong about it (if you believe there is something wrong). The video shows a general feeling of "I don't really use / know this, but I don't like how NON-SQL it is".
I still find it hard to believe that LLM methods will lead to "true" AI. No amount of processing power or data will be sufficient without something new.
Cant find the Mac version. Cant up vote without it
Hah, same here.

1. press the back arrow to move back

2. press spacebar every second

and that's it, 30 or so seconds later the captcha is solved :-)
fail fast is about making money as a startup, embrace the grind is about improving something hard to improve. Startups rarely care about deeper aspects of quality.

Fail fast is a pretty trash idea, if you exclusively mean don't be afraid to do new things, then I'm all for it. If you're careless with the idea, as most of the people who embrace it seem to be. It means do something bad to your users.

I'm gonna steal (badly) a quote from superfastmatt here (before I go find the video and correct the quote)

> The motto of hech companies is "fail fast", the motto of companies like NASA might be "never fail", the motto of Boeing is just "fail"

I think it perfectly highlights the dichotomy between good engineering, and bad.

edit: yeah, his delivery is so much better than my atrocious attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ867EDWcls it's the very start of the video, and his entire channel is amazing and hilarious.

the real quote: Tech companies have a mantra of "fail fast, fail often", This is in contrast to an organization like NASA who could have the phrase "try not to fail", or Boeing who prefers the simpler "fail". While NASA would prefer to do things methodically making sure to check all the boxes along the way; SpaceX would rather just take an educated guess build something strap a bunch of sensors to it and see what happens. You can learn a lot very quickly the second way, I also do things this way but not because I'm trying to disrupt any paradigms it's because it's just more fun to do it that way [...]
You're right about the mistake in the figure. Will fix soon, thanks :)

And yeah, maybe I should just label all of then with throughout for consistency.
And

(20+25)^(20/(2*5))

as well.
If you care, do a final pass with zeroes.

(IMHO the very concept is obsolete in the era of SSDs & SMR.)
The Venerable Hyperlink
Or it lead to people being silent and keeping any ideas to themselves ;P
If I learned anything, it would be that LLMs' non-deterministic nature makes them great are generating output that we can argue over, but they are not a great tool. for doing actual work. I am not asking for much. In my field of work, I use Jetbrains' IDEs, which have now been "enhanced" with AI. I had to turn this feature off, because I kept having to remove code, imports randomly added by the IDE. This was distracting and wasted my time.
It uses Tauri. It would probably just work if you compiled it yourself on macOS.
Nowadays everything runs on docker anyway
My 2024 favorites:

* The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. Maybe the best book about creative process in everyday life and art I’ve read. Positive vibes and meditations. Speaking of which…

* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Timeless advice about life and death from a ruler/philosopher who seemed to have been actually good and uncorrupted by power. And speaking of that, at the top of my to-read list for 2025 sits On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder, also available in a visual graphic edition.

* Drawing on the Dominant Eye by Betty Edwards. Worthwhile, even if not as much as Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

* Not finished yet, but The Art of Game Design, A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell is eloquent and erudite so far.
6G Wireless Technology May Leverage the Human Body for RF Harvesting (2023)
> make it mandatory for H1-B visa holders who came to the US directly (i.e., didn't go to college here) to leave the US within 5 years.

This kinda already exists. H1-B is is 3 years and can be extended to 6, but after that you can only get an extension for specific reasons (such as pending naturalization actions like a green card.)

> enforce equal pay: "if you hire an H1-B, you should pay them the same amount as you would a domestic worker."

That's how it's 'supposed' to work, that said I think that's part of why we see 'junior' software engineering roles wanting a decade of experience (since the H1-B will take the lower title/pay.)

> allow H1-B visa holders to move between jobs; don't tie it to one company.

IMO this is a big one and contributes a lot to H1-Bs getting abused by employers.
Ahh right, I've been doing too much TypeScript lately. I thought a type parameter couldn't impact behavior but only typechecking but clearly in Rust (like in C++) it can. Thanks for the explanation!

Ah so splat is like a memset for the entire vector to the same value. OK makes sense, I bet that wasn't actually a Rust-ism at all, just basic SIMD lingo I didn't know. Thanks again!
As well as "Svoboda" radio, which, while not strictly a EU entity, broadcasts in Russian for decades.
Yep, this. I've actually noticed an even more sinister trend where accounts that are exactly 14 days old will automatically submit an extremely offensive or misleading story, simply to take advantage of their lack of green name. These accounts typically have no other submissions or comments, just a link to some spurious website and engagement-bait headline.
There are two key issues you have the moment as I see it.

The first is that the software engineer field in Germany has been swamped with applicants from waves of layoffs and turned it into a buyers market.

Second is the German culture itself. Germans are (generally) very static in their career paths. Chopping and changing career directions is still seen as a negative. Whilst career switching (Quereinsteiger) is becoming more common, it’s still not easy.

Careers within highly technical traditional subjects (chem, biotech, engineering) now seem to require a PhD or at least a masters by default in order to be competitive.

I would focus on the fact that you’re not really doing anything wrong. The market conditions just suck. Pull on your networks which you just have built up freelancing. It’s easier to find something ironically if you have something than when you don’t. Good luck.
"Why lower the bar?"

Because of the chance of misundertanding. Failing at acknowledging artificial general intelligence standing right next to us.

An incredible risk to take in alignment.

Perfect memory doesn't equal to perfect knowledge, nor perfect understanding of everything you can know. In fact, a human can be "intelligent" with some of his own memories and/or knowledge, and - more commmonly - a complete "fool" with most of the rest of his internal memories.

That said, is not a bit less generally intelligent for that.

Supose it exists a human with unlimited memory, it retains every information touching any sense. At some point, he/she will probably understand LOTs of stuff, but it's simple to demonstrate he/she can't be actually proficient in everything: you have read how do an eye repairment surgery, but have not received/experimented the training,hence you could have shaky hands, and you won't be able to apply the precise know-how about the surgery, even if you remember a step-by-step procedure, even knowing all possible alternatives in different/changing scenarios during the surgery, you simply can't hold well the tools to go anywhere close to success.

But you still would be generally intelligent. Way more than most humans with normal memory.

If we'd have TODAY an AI with the same parameters as the human with perfect memory, it will be most certainly closely examined and determined to be not a general artificial intelligence.
At least for the baffles: None. That's why they kept going. Presumably there are even better possibly designs, but they were not discovered because one that works was found.

I don't know about the prior WD formulations.
> The people who want to harm our country don't seem to have any difficulty doing it.

We see the examples of successful attempts at harm, most of us don't pay much attention to the failed attempts, which makes it difficult to draw conclusions about how hard it go from "attempted harm" to "actual harm".
You shouldn't interest it, and it will degrade... Still plenty other potential ways it can be bad for you...

Could cause skin irritation.. be highly acidic/basic, could react with skin oil or moisture... Or could be lawyer required CYA just in case.
At some point I was playing around with interpolation search on the human genome dataset, and it was really really terrible.
It had some very bad worst case behaviour when the input data has big plateaus and you're searching for something around the edges of the plateau. This can be fixed by only using interpolation for the first few iterations and doing binary search for as long as needed afterwards, but that kills a lot of the predictability of the current approach. So while I really like it in theory, in practice I'm not quite convinced it can be made to work efficiently.
It appears that for Elon, Making America Great Again doesn't include actual Americans.
The hyperlink was never meant to be embedded.
I usually test models using the OpenAI API which doesn't offer links the way I think you mean. If I provide some output I got from a particular model you're just going to have to take my word for it.