skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You're welcome to amend the Constitution and there's a prescribed process for doing so.
A Closer Look at Deployment Strategies in Development
Discovering this site was one of the better things the internet has given me. Happy new year!
Why I deleted Instagram, it was already a big enough waste of time looking at people's content, I just can't bring myself to look at AI generated content for hours on end.
what "powerful capabilities of Rust" does this utilise?
This is such a common thing to misunderstand that I'm going to respond to my own message to give an explanation, because many of the links I've found make sense once you know the lingo etc but might not before then.

Say you go into a bar and just by chance there is a football[1] match on television between Denmark and France. You see a bunch of fans of each country and you think "Hey, the Danes look taller than the French". You want to find out whether this is true in general, so to test this hypothesis you persuade them during a lull in the match to line up and get measured. As luck would have it there are exactly n people from each country.

H_0 (the null hypothesis) is that the two population means are the same. That is, that Danish people have the same average height as French people.

H_1 (the alternative hypothesis) is that Danish people are taller on average than French people (ie the population mean is larger).

So you take the average height and see that the Danes in this bar are say 5cm taller on average than the French people in this bar.

The p-value is how likely it would be to select a random sample of n people from each of two populations (one from Danes, one from French people) with an average height of the Danes in the sample being at least 5cm larger than the French if the actual average height of the underlying populations you sampled from (all Danes and all French people) were the same.

How you use a p-value is typically if it is smaller than some threshold called a critical value you "reject the null hypothesis" at some significance level. So in this case if the p-value was small enough you conclude that the population means are unlikely to be the same.

Actually calculating the p-value is going to depend a bit on the distribution etc but that's what a p-value is. As you can see it's not just a probability.

[1]soccer if you're from the US
Been here since 2010, worked at multiple YC companies. Shout out to @dang, he has done a great job keeping the community healthy.
A friend and I want to make a small amount of nitroglycerin in chemistry class in HS. The teacher was all for it, but it got bumped all the way to the superintendent who shot it down.

Boo.
It’s depressing how far Google seems to have fallen since then.
- Build a ray-tracer
- Build a game from ray-tracer
- Finish Nand2Tetris
- Commit to LLM free days/weeks/months
- Read more
A sufficiently advanced bullshit is indistinguishable from magic, apparently
In US PST, Happy New Year!
My goals for the new year:

1) Make at least 2k dollars this year from Tech jobs.

2) Learn React Native and ASP.Net Core and be job ready in them. I'm already really good with Django, Express JS and Svelte, I want to expand.

3) Read more books and more news articles. I only read two books in 2024. I used to aim for 24, but I'm aiming for 12 this year. Watch more movies and TV shows. Just be me again.

I wanted to add working out and gaining muscle mass, but honestly I'm not that motivated in that area.
From the article, what they are calling an anomaly
may be an ancient and mostly fixed area of the earths magnetic field that is 3 times weaker than the highest strength areas.And its mostly over the south atlantic, so not of concern to humans, but it is damaging to satelites in LEO.
Yes, that is sensible.

While India has a moral claim to these artifacts, it will take another decade or two of growth before there is adequate bureaucratic bandwidth to provision the necessary infra needed to maintain them at home. Until then, the status quo works.
The pricing is completely prohibitive. It’s a shame, looks cool but I’m not gonna bother with a pricing model that’s clearly telling me to go look elsewhere as a solo dev
> Overall I think the concept is really nice and I am glad that I supported the company. However, I think that making conventional laptops more repairable is good enough. Full modularity is a cool concept but it does seem to have a lot of drawbacks. Give me the ability to easily change the hard drive, the RAM, the battery, the keyboard/trackpad and that is sufficient for me. Maybe the screen.

I doubt that changing the mobo / cpu is something done very frequently, so I could accept it to be a bit more involved (as in require multiple screws instead of just pulling it out or similar).

For that, something like an HP EliteBook would be good enough. The laptops are fairly OK if you don't insist on good quality screens. They're easily serviceable for the most common parts (the battery is held in place with screws, the ssd and ram are removable, the screen hinges are screwed in, but are metal and quite robust).

I don't know how easy it is to find spare parts for these actual laptops, but my point is that this could maybe be a better compromise than the full-modular framework. Of course, HP has to change the models every year to look new, but a dedicated manufacturer wouldn't have to.
Both are unsafe, just zig is usually safer than rust.

And also so more readable, ie. maintainable
A big part of me believes the only extra safety they give is they drive much slower. This in itself might be the solution for human deaths on the road.
Maybe, even thought I told Claude that it's for my history project. Claude was more interested asking what project it was.
Tbh it probably is cheaper for them to test that it powers up ... There would be nothing worse than building a laptop to find it was an RMA deal.... I would expect that the social media backlash could kill the product...
'Grand Theft Auto VI' set to break records despite gaming slowdown
I don't agree. You know recently I read this post critiquing my article saying how I have so many followers and it's probably because of my clickbait titles. No, that's just who I am. I don't think popularity changes writers that much. Humans tend to write about the same things over and over. So when you initially follow someone it feels new but after a while it gets predictable. Plus there's probably a bit of nostalgia in there too.
Why shouldn’t they be able to do this?

DNNs implicitly learn a type theory, which they then reason in. Even though the code itself is new, it’s expressible in the learned theory — so the DNN can operate on it.
It's not irrational if you keep in mind that Bench had done a hard and sudden shutdown 3 days earlier.
Happy New Year, all! Here's to a happy, healthy, and productive 2025. I hope you all achieve great things in the year to come!
Don't they? The megregores mentioned seem to have taken over the entire world...
My goal for 2025 is to finally start making enough money from software development that dwarfs my normal salary from work. I hate it here.
Because the agenda is not transitioning the current fleet to EV, it is making private transport a privilege of the top percent in the process.

Personally, I am not sure yet whether I like this or not. I can see good arguments for and against.

I wish it would be an honest open policy instead of the current vice grip of on the one hand passing aggressive phase out timelines of ICE through regulation, and on the other doing nothing to prepare a grid for mass EV adoption.

I can see why it wouldn't pass a democratic vote, but I also think chances of this passing under the covers are fairly slim as any time one of their roadmapped phases comes near they usually have to postpone them to appease the public.
One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj
- Finish Hack emulator in C
- Ray-tracer in C
- Game in C
- Learn C#

- Less/no LLM usage
- Finish books
- Pick up more papers

- Hack something
The main issue is the battery life isn’t competitive
Here are my issues with IDEs. Perhaps you can win me over.

#1. If I decide to migrate from 20 years in the shell with vim & friends, I only want to have to do so once for at least another 20 years and I don't want to use different IDEs for each language I use. I regularly do embedded work in C & aarch64|x86_64 assembly and write applications in both Java & Python. (Yes, I write Java in vim.) I've recently started working with hardware design in Verilog as well.

#2. I prefer to learn the tools I use very deeply, but I learned all of the ones I use now when I had all of the time in the world for yak shaving: high school and university. I have available to me now only a small fraction of the time which was available to me then, so the path to mastery should not be very steep.

#3. Intuitive keyboard navigation of the entire interface is a must. Jumping back and forth to using the mouse feels incredibly uncomfortable to me. It breaks my train of thought just like having an itch which comes right back after having just been scratched would.

#4. The IDE should not rely on an internet connection as I often develop on completely airgapped LANs.
I think there should probably a a rule adjacent to #34: if it exists, there’s a conspiracy theory about it.

In this case, I would imagine it’s: school shooting happens. Politicians use it to push for gun control. Therefore politicians made it happen, so they could use it.

Both sides of the political aisle do this, and plenty of people do it about less political things as well. It’s honestly my least favorite part of the public discourse right now.
I have a Framework 13 (12th Gen). I have no complaints about the hardware quality.
I love the replace everything concept. I rarely do that though, my ports are always the same - 2x usb-c, 1x usb-a, nic (bulky I remove that one for traveling and replace it with another usb-c).

Having said all that, I would not buy another one right now. The software side of things is just not up to what I expect. They still have not figured out lvfs for this notebook; the last bios update I could install was a manual EFI installer (which is beta at this point it in time I guess, only really "production" ready update is windows based installer). Also the bios I have is now a year old, and there only has been one non-beta bios upgrade in the whole lifetime of this model (~2.5 years). So the software side of things is just miserable... At this point in time I guess the next machine will be something with coreboot+lvfs and regular, timely updates (still taking suggestions ...). I guess I would be willing to give a framework+coreboot situation another try in a couple of years. The main reason for buying this is reusablilty once I decide to move on to the next hardware generation.
What are you planning to learn in 2025?
Inspired by similar topics in previous years, what is it that the HN crowd planning on learning in 2025 ?
But strangely have a lot of time to post here
>Our prime minister and most citizens love to brag about "ancient culture" and "proud history"

Yes. I think so too.

The bragging is mostly patriotism and it wouldn't be a wonder if the same patriotism made them wish they could erase or forget their own embarrassing past two centuries of history. Most of the historic records before that point were totally destroyed or lost so feeling proud of what's left and moving on is not bad but seriously not prioritizing preservation is really ignorant.
LLMs are probably the worst at programming in Lisp in my experience though
Happy New Year from the Pacific coast!
The sentence is accurate nonetheless.
Direct link to the paper:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)...
Algol 68 GCC Front-End
A late night but the most sober New Year's Eve I've had in twenty plus years. A single glass of Ruby Port in the neighbors and that was it, kind of proud of myself on that.
> Retribution (not vengeance) is a legitimate component of justice. ...

> if there is a singular summary of the last decade’s failed attempts at criminal-justice reform, it’s in ignoring the very human need for retribution in resolving injustice

Many people would agree with you, imho, but it's not a truth universally acknowledged. I don't see what good it does: is it more than some good feeling for the injured party? That seems not worth the costs and risks, including promotion of violence (in some form) as a solution to problems, rationalization of personal retribution and vengence (probably few distinguish between those terms), and possible harm to an innocent person (if the wrong person is convicted).

If retribution only benefits the injured party and not the state, and if I'm the injured one and don't want it, can I opt out of it?

I do value deterrence and being made whole, and sometimes those overlap with retribution. And I'll say this about retribution: it could make it possible for the criminal and victim to move forward, including if they know each other. The criminal has paid their debt to the victim and guilt is absolved. Insufficient payment might undermine that.
Yup. I was surprised when my cousin showed me my uncle’s TNT stash, but then explained how they cleared stumps off the family farm.

One of my rural buddies told me how he spent a summer mixing diesel and fertilizer to clear fields, approaching it like a lab experiment and keeping detailed notes.

Honestly, both sounded like a lot of fun.
Isn't that precisely the point that the GP was trying to make, about the accessibility of the article?

Edit: Eytzinger layout, Cache lines, SIMD, et cetera are independent of the particular language used in the article. They're just as valid in C, for example. I don't understand your point about them being tied to Rust.
It’s not a dupe. This is an article from a security focused source with more details.

Edit: weird, this account seems like some kind of bot posting only dupe comments
hey, at least its not unreal, where when you build it sits there compiling tens of thousands of shaders
> What is the new breakthrough in robotics that is gpu driven ? There are subsets of the overall problem that can be solved by a gpu (eg object detection) but the whole planning and control algo scheme seems to be more or less the same as it has been for the past decades

I think the "object detection" goes quite far beyond the classic "objection detection" bounding boxes etc we're used to seeing. So not just a pair of x,y coords for the bounding box for e.g. a mug of coffee in the robot's field of view, but what is the orientation of the mug? where is the handle? If the handle is obscured, can we infer where it might be based on what we understand for what a mug typically looks like and plan our gripper motion towards it (and at 120hz etc)? Is it a solid mug, or a paper cup (affects grip strength/pressure)? Etc etc. Then there is the whole thing about visually show the robot once what you are doing, and it automatically "programs" itself to repeat the tasks in a generalised way etc. Then you could probably spawn 100 startups just on hooking up a LLM to tell a robot what to do in a residential setting (make me a coffee, clear up the kitchen, take out the trash etc)

This has all been possible before of course, but could it be done "on device" in a power efficient way? I am guessing they are hoping to sell a billion or two chips + boards to be built directly into things to do so so that your next robotic vacuum or lawn mower or whatever will be able to respond to you yelling at it and not mangle your pets/small children in the process.

I eagerly await the day when I have a plug and play robot platform that can tell the difference between my young children and a fox, and attack the fox shitting/shredding something small and fluffy in the garden but ignore the kids
I've loved mine. Some issues with the heat management and fans--but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part, and finally figuring out best drivers setup have brought it roughly in line with a Dell or whatever.
Really enjoyed when I recently upgraded the memory on my tower last year, and threw the old ones on the Framework and it worked great. The expansion slots are a bit gimmicky but still surprisingly useful--when my wfh setup changed recently it was simple to change the mDP over to the other side and then never having to think about a dongle.

But I plan to actually upgrade the motherboard this year, so we'll see how that goes and looking forward to reading others experiences.
Books I Loved Reading in 2024
After each punctuation mark, you could have added "to me."
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/yl9hno/best_gmail...

https://www.positional.com/blog/alternative-search-engines

https://themeisle.com/blog/gmail-alternatives/
The mentally ill having functioning health insurance to get proper treatment, support and medication could also be a solution.

I also think that your second point that paraphrases to "don't bite the hand that slaps you because it might slap harder" is not good advice.
Because shipping fast almost always beats speed/memory optimization. The only reason to even do performance optimization is if it is a constraint on the problem itself (e.g. you work in gaming or HFT).

If shipping fast means you spend an extra $1000 once per developer, guess what almost every company is going to do?
This feels like a failure to learn the bitter lesson: You're just taking the translation to concepts that the LLM is certainly already doing and trying to make it explicitly forced.
Python and Free Pascal because they are cross-platform, and most of my past development has been in Visual BASIC 6.0 for Windows.
I know, but usually a lot of these have hobbyist plans. I wouldn't mind being throttled and QoS'd behind businesses for a lower price.
The desktop UI actually worked pretty much fine on mobile, to be honest. I ran it for a while using the porting methods available from the desktop binaries to an APK. The mobile UI basically just changes the interactions from a small button on the card to a drag-bases UI, which is slightly better on mobile.
:) That's not necessary, but it would be interesting to know what trips Firefox up like that.
Supposedly the CIA was able to get remote viewing to work at significantly above chance in their experiments, but they weren't able to get it to work reliably enough to actually be useful.

And there are... downsides to messing with such forces. There was a cult called Leverage that tried to exploit magick and most of them ended up having psychotic breaks.
Cruise doesn't exist anymore (or rather shortly won't). The teams are being folded into GM to work on other things.
Easiest way to arrest somebody with a built up home is to just wait for them to leave. This guy had a day job.
Mirror without Paywall: https://archive.is/6kBWh
But I need enormous amounts of learning data and enormous amount of computing to learn new models, right? So it's kind of useless advice for most people who can't just parse github repositories and teach their new model using AST tokens. They have to use existing opensourced models or API and those happened to use text.
> While India has a moral claim to these artifacts

Does it really? It sounds like many of these books were purchased while they were still in print.

If anything shouldn't buying books/media this way be good for publishing industry in India at the time?
(Arguably, a small impact if any)
I have no problem with them working on security in the service of the user. The problem is with them claiming to do that, but instead doing the opposite.
Because it was memorized.

Hot and humid climates result in (historically)rapid decay of plant and animal based writing surfaces
> but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part,

Is there a (video-)guide on how to do that? Why was the fan replacement warranted?
While “write to the single smartest person you know who cares a lot about your topic of interest” is a good advice, if you publish what you write this approach requires a healthy-to-unhealthy degree of sociopathy that becomes less common or tenable with age, by my subjective estimation.
Got it. And since my native language is arguably one of the closest to English (Dutch), it works very well. But probably not as well for, say, Asian which has completely different grammatical constructs.
Well a fix has to be for a parent commit so future commits and future growth aren't nearly as important.
> doesn't prevent the transactions, it only makes them more expensive

This boils down to the same thing in a market economy. If the price is too high, that prevents the transaction.
Denialism is in fact Floridas legal policy towards
climate change, extending that to water polution is to be expected.
Which might just be pragmatism, in that all of the sea level rise contour maps I have seen, show
florida ,mostly just gone, with a few small islands.
Florida does rockets, retirement living, tourism,spring break, and is making money.
And what is not generaly known is that the aquifier that feeds the swamps in Florida, has its
origins in fossil water flowing from the great lakes region, and is ultimatly derived from the melting of the last ice age, and it is good clean water, so
Other than Demolition Man, what is talking to us?
That should be proven. The two approaches - predicting tokens vs predicting "sentences" - should be compared to see how much their output differ in terms of quality.

Edit2: ...and both (and their variants) be compared to other ideas such as "multi-token prediction"...

Edit: or, appropriateness of the approach should be demonstrated after acquired "transparency" of how the LLMs effectively internally work. I am not aware of studies that make the inner workings of LLMs adequately clear.

Edit3: Substantially, the architecture should be as solid as possible (and results should reflect that).
Kaczynski was arrested peacefully as far as I can find.