skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychology is supposedly that science, although it is still a bit wooly here and there. That's how chemistry was in its infancy as well. There may also be real phenomena that those working in that field don't yet consider to be valid for investigation as well. Another point to make is that scientists need to take proper safety precautions, lest they end up like Marie Curie, who was poisoned by what she was studying.
There’s no immediately obvious reason that you should be able to come up with a diff correction to apply to recreate loseless that is more efficient than traditional compressors. In essence you’re still stuck with the idea that you have a compression dictionary and trying to build a more efficient dictionary. It’s not clear there’s a link between that and intelligence.
Being ruby you can monkey patch block to add an additional t to every nested block’s `it`

(This is terrible please don’t)
Me and I, and Nazis, and USSR could claim anything. But we are discussing factual events and hopefully trying to come to objective conclusions. There's multiple evidence that Nazis goals were extermination and enslavement, but I am not aware of any that would indicate USSR wanted people in Ukrainian SSR to die from starvation.
> most people aren't pedants

They should come visit HackerNews once in a while :D
Pooping Before You Exercise Has an Effect on Performance
You write a comment on Hacker News — but what you've written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you.
Asking characteristics about the result cause performance to drop because it's essentially asking the model to model itself implicitly/explicitly.

Also the more "factoids" / clauses needed to answer accurately are inversely proportional to the "correctness" of the final answer (on average, when prompt-fuzzed).

This is all because the more complicated/entropic the prompt/expected answer, the less total/accumulative attention has been spent on it.

>What is the second character of the result of the prompt "What is the name of the president of the U.S. during the most fatal terror attack on U.S. soil?"
Millennial gamers had a collective quarter-life crisis a few years back that manifested itself in form of memes where anyone who whined about modern games being bad was called an out of touch "30 year old boomer". Then as retaliation the whiners started calling anyone who defended modern games as "zoomers", which gave the generation Z a fancy new nickname.
This article is "being that guy" and I love it. I assume you are referring to solar day?
Space isn't a limited resource, but prestige points are deliberatly limited, as a proxy for the publications' competition for attention. We can appreciate the irony, while considering the outcome reasonable - after all, the results weren't kept out of the literature. They just got published with a label that more or less puts them lower in the search ranking for the next mathematician who looks up the topic.
Apple Broke a 13-Year Hardware Streak in 2024
What does it do, mark all blocks as discarded then run a TRIM?
Bedridden people are not just eye-brain systems.
In subfields of physics, and I suspect math, the submitter is never anonymous. These people talk at conferences, have a list of previous works, etc., and fields are highly specialized. So the reviewer knows with 50-95% certainty who he is reviewing.
You never needed a publisher; before the Internet you could write up your findings and mail them to relevant people in your field. Quite a lot of scientists did this, actually.

What publication in a journal gives you is context, social proof, and structured placement in public archives like libraries. This remains true in the age of the Internet.
How did Apple "win"? They have always been a fraction of the market share of desktop/laptop computers, and they are only popular on mobile in the US, worldwide Android is dominant with 72% of the market. If you mean money===success, then sure, they have money, but do you compare their money to all the companies making PCs and all the companies making Android phones in the world combined? Apple fans have 1 single company to choose from, but PC/Android fans have hundreds of options - I can get a PC or Android in hundreds of form factors, whatever I need but Apple only sells what Apple makes. Sounds to me like PC/Android fans are the real "winners".

>Apple won only after windows gave average home users a horrific bsod/virus/reboot hell of an existence for about 20 years.

This hasn't been a thing for a very long time. I hear about as much about the spinning beach ball of death as I do BSOD. Apple is by no means perfect, or did you forget "you're holding it wrong".
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I interpreted this more as his friend wouldn’t be respected as much by the HN crowd because he’s an entrepreneur with a sustainable lifestyle business, not one that is based on hot cutting-edge tech, breaking new ground, or having the possibility of a 9-10 digit exit. (note: been working in startups most of my career, no options were ever worth a cent so I take it all with a grain of salt and don’t judge)

It’s also similar to working for a boring shipping company vs working at FAANG. You could be doing an identical job at both, but one is perceived by some to have a special cachet.
The high standards of those academic journals sound incredible in this day and age when media is full of misinformation and irrelevant information.

The anecdote about the highly reputable journal rejecting the second of a 2-part paper which (presumably) would have been accepted as a 1-part paper is telling.
Windows 11 and WSL manages this well . For those developing linux apps & containers using VS Code, you'll find the Windows 11 experience to be very good. You can code against WSL which offers the more popular distros, or use HyperV to run your own custom VMs.
This looks like something that patricia trees would be good for.

Then again, Eytzinger looks like binary heaps.
> regarded by many as the world’s greatest living mathematician.

Oh?

Perelman comes to mind (as the only person who has been eligible to claim one of the Millennium prizes), although he is no longer actively practicing math AFAIK. Of Abel prize winners, Wiles proved Fermat's last theorem, and Szemeredi has a number of number-theoretic and combinatorial contributions.

Recently deceased (past ~10 years) include figures such as John Nash, Grothendieck, and Conway.

Tao is definitely one of the most well-known mathematicians, and he's still got several more decades of accomplishments ahead of him, but I don't know that he rises to "greatest living mathematician" at this point.

That said, I do appreciate that he indicates that even his papers get rejected from time to time.
If by outrageously high you mean standard expectations from a generation ago I'd be more inclined to agree. I expect to get a minimum of 15 years of service out of a major appliance and really they should last indefinitely with repair and maintenance being a viable option. I expect tools to be made well from the correct materials, properly heat treated where applicable, and for them to withstand at least a decade of borderline abuse, generations under nominal household workloads. I expect any item of furniture I purchase to permanently resolve whatever issue that item of furniture resolves. I shouldn't have to replace a bookshelf in my lifetime.

The thing is all of these expectations have been casually met with retail goods within living memory. Dude says nobody cares about quality, I'd counter with there are a few generations rattling around that haven't encountered it often enough in life to come to expect it.
Interesting, I hadn’t really thought about using, or knew, it could handle that type of authentication. That’s good to know
QBASIC.EXE: Am I a joke to you?
I think I recall reading about this concept in a magazine article written by Teller. He was describing a trick performed on a talk show (maybe Letterman?) that included releasing cockroaches. He described all the research and testing they did to find a type of cockroach that would move at the correct speed (not too fast or too slow). I think about this when I read about how tricks are done. Like when a girl is instantly teleported from a box on the stage to the upper balcony of a theater. It just never occurs to the average person that the magician would go through the trouble of hiring and paying twin (or even triplet) girls just to pull off that one trick in an act.
I'm not even that confident about obesity being a risk factor. Obesity rates in hospitalizations were often a little lower than the population rates (implying a slight protective effect instead of a risk factor), and almost all the reporting on it either compared "obese" to "overweight and obese" to massively inflate the apparent risk, or shared the obesity rate with no comparison.

Even assuming it was, it would only have been a fraction of a fraction of the risk from age.
Ooof. Also god I miss n-gate.
Rejoining Academia
They got an optimal result in that case, isn't that nice.
Maybe Bitwarden would be the better alternative, as its OSS?

https://github.com/bitwarden
Where I live we require a license for barbering and cosmetology. Apparently there are illegal haircuts. I have never heard of the hair police but I'm sure that people complain about it in fora.
I think this article treat result as the resaon, company didn't incentivize the "Glue work" is not purely they don't want to and also "They don't know how to do that".

Ask ourselves, calculate one's efficiency is already hard, how to calculate one's effectiveness on other's efficiency. Just like author said.

> If individual employees are willing to lift their local team to 80% or 90% efficiency by burning their time on glue work, companies will take that free value

They take it for granted without really calculating the benefit. That is part of the reason why a small, gifted, and high-efficiency startup can operate and take over these giant company.

It all depends on what you want to achieve
There is for sure a difference between things in language, and things in fact. Cool project.
> Possibly linked to what happened in NOLA, given that both vehicles were rented on the same app.

I don't see how the same rental service being involved would make for a strong connection, unless it's the same renter/driver returned from the dead.
No I agree. I always want a belt and suspenders with my data validations
I am really glad we got the chance for this discussion and that it didn’t devolve into flaming or bad faith discussion; and i also share your sentiments RE brain rot, but for me this tech is cool yet weirdly primitive hence my excitement (I’m a 90s baby so I was “new” to the internet around the time AOL was in decline and this is the first time i feel early to something). I bet you there are ways to steer people away from their stupor using these - you know how a lie travels faster than the truth? What if these things can help equalise that?

Btw, I apologise again if I came across as blunt or rude in our exchange, upon reflection, I think you were actually right about me being somewhat emotionally invested in this (albeit due to that sliver of hope that they can be used for good). Peace be with you
Fit Mindset
The subject has been debated ad nauseam by everyone like Descartes, Hume, Kant, and so on. If there were no one around to state 1 + 1 = 2, there would be no such statement. Hence, it does rely on at least 1 person's experience. Yours in fact, since everyone else could be an illusion.
tl;dr

They use content that has been previously output by ChatGPT, and many public datasets include ChatGPT outputs. Deepseek may also have private datasets generated by ChatGPT as well.

A prime example of how AI may have no moat, generate a frontier model and soon everyone will use it to upgrade theirs.
85kHz bandwidth must be a typo for >$700, right?
I guess what is it you're trying to imply? Because I find it EXTREMELY unlikely the FBI agents in question don't know what qualifies as an SBR vs. a pistol. Furthermore, even if he does have a naked buffer tube, if the gun was registered as a rifle at the time of purchase, it is a rifle. You cannot "convert" a rifle lower to a pistol if it was defined as a rifle when you bought it.

It also seems EXCEEDINGLY unlikely the FBI would make a giant press release before anyone verified if the rifle in question was actually violating any laws. There would be almost nothing to gain, and a LOT of egg on everyone's face if the guy walks because nobody at the FBI knew the difference between an SBR and an AR pistol.
I'm guessing that you have newRPL. Have you tried putting DB48/DB50n firmware on it? That does have graphics (and RPL). I haven't had time to get familiar with mine, so I can't comment further on capability.
Which one and in which direction did you rethink?

Your comment made me curious so I looked at his posts and he has a one about leaving academia because he wasn't happy in 2022, and a more recent one about rejoining it some months ago.

https://austinhenley.com/blog/leavingacademia.html

https://austinhenley.com/blog/rejoiningacademia.html
Thanks for the post! I noticed an uptick in referrals from YC for a little while just from this.

- Adam, Founder of Hardcover
Nah. Borrow your grandfather's 50 year old screwdriver after having been afflicted by a set from <insert big box hardware store here> and tell me more about how quality isn't an intrinsic property.
... This is a login page.

I assume that's an accidental wrong URL, rather than a really strange clickbait way of trying to get people to sign up.
What is quality
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAfUOfSY-S0&t=685s&pp=2AGtBZAC...

Please learn
And I thought it would be python?

Scientific stuff (scipy) and now all the ML stuff too
With the possible exception of art, all work is glue work. If you believe your work isn't glue work, you're indulging hubris.
This is also true during exercise
Crowd Supply page says 56MHz bandwidth which seems much more in line with my expectations.
I resent the explicit statement that as a non-leading contributor, its not in my best interest to invest in the team's success since I won't be personally rewarded.

maybe not, but if there's anything I can do to spend my time on a functional projects that are getting real things done instead of punching the clock with people who dont care and already know that its failed, I will choose to do that. I dont care if that helps someone in some way that perhaps they dont deserve.
The question of whether there is a national drink seems to me to be entirely different than the question you asked the LLM "Prompt: In the Netherlands, in terms of drinks, is there a particular spirit that represents the country?"

The question in the prompt comes off to me as a sort of qualitative determination rather than asking about pure factual information (is there an officially designated spirit). As such I don't think it can necessarily be right or wrong.

Anyway, I'm not sure what you'd expect. In terms of acquisition of knowledge, LLMs fundamentally rely on a written corpus. Their knowledge of information that is passed through casual spoken conversation is limited. Sure, as human beings, we rely a great deal on the latter. But for an LLM to lack access to that information means that it's going to miss out on cultural nuances that are not widely expressed in writing. Much in the same way that a human adult can live in a foreign country for decades, speaking their adopted language quite fluently, but if they don't have kids of their own, they might be quite ignorant of that country's nursery rhymes and children's games, simply because they were never part of their acquired vocabulary and experience.
Yeah, I would easily call the P2 chip the Amiga of Microcontrollers.

The thing is a playground, but also at the same time more effective than one might expect at first glance.

Video options are improved too. There is a color engine capable of mapping colors into color spaces. Say you want green and yellow and you want to display those on the following video signals:

Ntsc, Pal, VGA, Component Video (YCbCr), HDMI, Composite, S-video

The thing can do that, even outputting them all at the same time!

640x480 on the HDMI without tricks and refresh rate games. (24p)

Full HDTV and above on the analog component and VGA, and the usual interlaced or non for Composite. 240i 480p.

Has a CORDIC math engine able to crank out trig, powers, roots, shared among all cores. Drop arguments, pick up some 50 ish cycles later. Amazingly, it is pipelined such that all cores can do that non stop and it all gets done.

Interrupts have been changed into events, with a time being one event, pin state changes, all sorts of fun things. Three level deep priority system too.

Let see, what else...

Oh, hardware locks for managing concurrent or parallel access to common memory.

Oh, this is big:

Every pin has a "smart pin" state machine that can do stuff like trigger an interrupt when a given state criteria is met.

Each PIN can be an ADC or DAC, and the input precision is up to 12 bits with builtin filtering, or you can get the raw stream to do better of you want to.

Outputs are high quality too.

Want an on board 20Mhz scope coupled with 100Mhz complex signal generator?

The P2 does it.

I can go on and on.

Have fun!
Of course, it's definitely not impossible to write secure Rails apps, just like anything else; it's hard to know from the outside what that says about Rails in particular. For example, PHP had a lot of rough edges, but Facebook still managed to take it to the highest heights as far as websites go. I'm not arguing Rails is like PHP, but I see a commonality:

- PHP had a really good developer experience (even with the rough edges, for the time), but building robust applications on PHP could prove quite challenging. It has gotten a lot better, but there are still remnants all over from the past.

- Ruby, likewise, seems to have a really good developer experience, and indeed it seems Rails apps sometimes suffer with robustness and reliability. Not just GitLab, but also Twitter in the past, too.

I think some people may read what I'm saying and think I'm just a hater, but not really. I actually just wonder if what I see with GitLab is telling us more about GitLab, or if it's telling us more about Ruby or Rails. Is it hard to make robust Rails software?

> I think the answer to your question is the same as any large application: pay attention to your supply chain, architect your systems well, if you don’t know how to do things securely go learn before building (or learn as you go, but that has consequences typically).

This is good general advice but I am aiming more specifically. I'm wondering if anyone with more expertise could answer to what classes of issues you have to work to avoid. I know Shopify was working on gradual static typing for Ruby: is dynamic typing a problem? That sort of thing.

Of course, you can write both secure and insecure code in any programming language in many different ways, but some ecosystems make it easier and harder and I think that's more what I'm getting at.

Frankly, even if it's true that it's tricky to make Rails apps secure, that wouldn't really dissuade me from still using it in some cases if it seemed like it could save me a lot of time and effort. That's pretty much exactly why I used Django to begin with; I definitely don't feel like Django was the most robust platform to write webapps in, just a very productive one (that was still decently robust in my experience, but you know, YMMV.)
Facebook marketplace or craigslist. $5k will net you something running with a solid motor and transmission. $500 will get you a project that'll eat a year or two of nights and weekends.
> [Very first sentence] I think it's a test of bona fides: where is the argument being applied?

This article seems to have been mangled in editing/reposting: It's like we jump straight into hearing the response from an interview, without knowing who is being interviewed or what the question was.

Either that, or the LLM slop is getting worse than ever.
> Rails is not dead; It's better than ever. Try using it to make something new this year.

I hope as an industry we can move away from this "___ is dead" talk. The OP shouldn't even need to say this. If something is being worked on (in any capacity) and has at least one user, it isn't "dead."

"Is it dead" is groupthink questioning that leads to great ideas being swept under the rug because they're not perceived as popular enough.

Think for yourself and use the tools that make sense to you.
Most people can't afford quality. Regardless of outcomes of pixel perfect or loudness wars, often we don't have a choice. We just have to deal with it.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game has some compared benchmarks:

Ruby+YJIT vs Python:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Ruby+YJIT vs PHP:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Ruby+YJIT vs Lua:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Thanks, I didn't originally see this. This helps a lot.
I was thinking of

>Henry VIII of England was made "King of Ireland" by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542. The conquest involved assimilating the Gaelic nobility by way of "surrender and regrant"...

a long while before the potato famine.
>How AI is

I almost read it as "How Ali is" due to speed reading and the font in the original article. :)

And now I wonder how AI would do on that same test :)

Chat, GPT!
Thank you, I'll practice on it for sure.
I like your approach.

(Implicitly) using [1] instead of [false] as a default is less typing for sure (but maybe a bit more confusing?).

Also, objects being switched on really have to be tables in my version anyway (since overriding __call for builtin types seems harsh to me), so having a tag field right in them as opposed to creating a metatable should be more efficient.

For my version I'll add a value-weak map of metatables to dedup them, should work as well.

In terms of functions, yeah, I don't think you can get rid of them, but (in the example) you can avoid (r) and (s) params if you assume that the functions lexically close over shape.
You just sound like an unreliable witness.

If your claim is that there is literally no SS7 in US and Canadian telephone networks, then that is straight-up wrong. It exists in every network that still supports 2G/3G wireless protocols and classic PSTN standards. It was replaced in 4G/5G and SIP, but that requires your operator only supports those protocols and doesn't continue to support the old protocols. If it does, it will still have SS7 signalling and will still be susceptible to attacks (though it is free to run its own security to block them).

If your claim is that you haven't seen SS7 in a decade, then sure, maybe you haven't. But given there is actual, ongoing spying, impersonation, etc., that can be demonstrated in North America in 2024, and everyone involved says "it's due to SS7", and you're out here saying it's-so-rare-you-haven't-seen-in-a-decade, then what exactly is happening? What are the hackers using then, when the experts say they're exploiting SS7, if you insist it's not there?

Why did the GSMA publish this security paper in 2019? https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/secur...

Why are they promoting a Code of Conduct for GT lessees? https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/secur...
The educational and editorial quality of papers from before 1980 or so beats just about anything published today. That is what publish or perish - impact factor - smallest publishable unit culture did.
I think I remember that as well. If you read the changelog, it goes through a good deal of edge cases behaviors that they probably ironed out in the intervening time, like captured variables with the same name and nested blocks with it parameters.
Does anyone have a subscription or can otherwise read past the heading "A flood of information"? (I can see ~2500 words but there is apparently more.)
I'm not too worried about that -- this paper is "mirrored" on hundreds of university websites since it's a common reference for graduate courses in computer security.