skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I like to call out people for using "hallucinate" for this kind of behavior too (for language models, at least, it might actually be appropriate for visual models ?)-

> One way I've found to get LLMs to frequently hallucinate is to ask the difference between two concepts that are actually the same

-this only confirms my belief that "bulshitting" is an appropriate term to use for this behavior : doesn't exactly the same thing happen with (not savvy enough) human students ?

You call it "anthropomorphizing", and "not having a model of the world", but isn't it more like forcing a model of the world on the student / language model by the way that you frame the question ?

(Interestingly, there might be a parallel here with the article : with the language model not being a real student, but a statistical average over all students, including being "with one breast and one testicle".)
The classic, train your mind to believe anything you want, use it to improve your life, try believing some really cooky stuff, woah you actually believe it, no shit, you descend into crazier and crazier stuff.

I’m currently leaning towards believing that learning intense focus through meditation + setting intentions for yourself in that state is genuinely useful, just like rituals are (saying “yes” to your partner in front of friends and family it changes you). But the border between it and “I’m a trans dimensional shaman in psychiatric A&E” is a bit to thin for my liking.
In that thread, replying to a suggestion to use typedefs, Kroah-Hartman states:

> Heh, no, typedefs don't help anything, there's a reason we don't use them in the Linux kernel whenever possible.

This surprises me, can someone explain that remark and elaborate on the reason it alludes to?
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The first image is clearly a sundog but what about the drawing on Wikipedia article about the 1561 Nuremberg phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over...

It really look like space battle
Obviously any mission that goes beyond LEO that does not aeorbrake at the destination, because that means you're expending an upper stage with aerodynamic surfaces for no reason.

Also anything that does a direct TLI or TMI, because you will have to stop for in-orbit refuelling.
The fun thing with DL is that you don't have to optimize stuff with complicated math. You just train it, and it will generate solutions. Maybe not the perfect solutions, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Me too! I find myself saying 'that was on HN a while ago' very often, actually.
I finally found an simple implementation of cdecl in K&R2

Perhaps you should've started learning C with K&R. ;-)
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You don't get your own external IP with the phone, it's shared, like NAT.
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As a C programmer, declarations in Go appeared "backwards" to me when I first saw them.

IMO the Go syntax is a vast improvement as it's much simpler and avoids the clockwise/spiral issue: https://appliedgo.com/blog/go-declaration-syntax
My wish for the new year is to have a body so jacked and ripped that when I commit a crime the media posts my shirtless pictures everywhere and everyone goes "wow".
It's unfortunate that so many people never read K&R.

A very small yet readable book, written by the original authors of C, that very clearly covers the language and even presents a C program to parse the declarations.
Does anyone use an Apple Watch LTE to substitute their iPhone for daily use?
Yeah, the laptop is in reserve mode, as in it's a spare that I can use if I need it. What will likely happen though is I'll find someone to donate the laptop to, and when that times comes I'll buy the hinge kit because I wouldn't wish this annoyance upon anyone.

The hinge issue is egregiously bad, and I don't know how Framework could even ship these laptops in the first place without first addressing it.
- "If you want to put 1 small-sat in orbit, you don't use Starship, you use a Rocket Lab Electron. It's MUCH cheaper."

I don't buy this. I think small startups like that can't get the economies of scale that would let them compete on price, for any payload. So long as they are targeting low-value niche markets like one-off smallsats, they won't have the revenue to support that.

At what Rocket Labs is currently charging, $7.5 million [0], it's within the realm of possibility you could even launch an entire reusable Starship with a one-cubesat payload for less than that. (The target figure Musk uses is $2 million/launch; take that with the appropriate bucket of salt).

How many tens of billions of R&D have gone into SpaceX, and how many launches are they able to amortize that cost over? How many decades have they invested in their manufacturing processes? Do their competitors' engines roll off factory assembly lines?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron
I worked at a place with great culture, where everyone on a team would have a say on decisions or could start and drive new initiatives that would get an ear from the team, TO A FAULT, and still people would turn around and ask for the promotion. At times this would be for money, but at times where it wasn't, I guess it was for the status. Maybe, now I think about it, it may not be for the status within the organization in question, but rather for the status with friends or, you know, on LinkedIn!
There is some loss for them here, Take2 has invested a lot of money into getting a mobile games porting company to port the game to phones and then back to PC as a "re-release". Fans just fixing the original game so it runs on their platform of choice and running that rather than buying the much inferior remasters will hurt their bottom line and make their bad investments even worse.

And, of course, current copyright law doesn't care about good will, it's there to protect the interests of the copyright industry, although the AI industry seems to get away with blatant copyright infringement as long as the copied contents are passed through a model as an intermediary step.

As far as I can tell, Rockstar doesn't really care all that much, it's the suits at the top of the publishing chain that do the legal threats.
Are you arguing in good faith? What are you based on to say $100mil is vaporware? Most commercial flights (i.e. non-Starlink) are priced starting at $70 millions - [0], increased from $60m previously. That’s not for the press, although government customers such as NASA often pay much more. SpaceX is very dominant at this point that they’d be foolish to charge under cost.

And then there are Starlink launches. They made money on it on 2024, according to Shotwell, so launch cost must be way lower than external price.

[0] - https://www.spacex.com/media/Capabilities&Services.pdf
wish there were pictures for this, new years must’ve been crazy if you celebrated with that guy
They hide structures very easily, allowing programmers to accidentally put them on the stack or use them as parameters in functions where they shouldn't be doing so. By forcing "struct" on the name, it makes it more obvious as to what you are doing.
Lots of no-name or DIY drones use flight controller running a BetaFlight [1] firmware, which is open source and quite hackable. If you want low-level real-time programmatic control (like manipulating servos, lights or camera), that is most likely the easiest way. There is also ArduPilot [2] firmware, which is focused more on the high-level control (like managing GPS waypoints and autonomous takeoff/landing).

In both cases you can piggyback your control signals using standard radio or use serial port via dedicated wireless bridge.

[1] https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight

[2] https://ardupilot.org/
The Magic of Metalinguistic Programming
> WebGPU and web games are said to be catching up to native-level performance, and some argue they’re already there.

I can’t agree with that, sorry. I’m developing 3D games for the web, and the limitations are asset size, memory size, and CPU/GPU constraints feel like developing games with 2001-era resources. The web isn’t there yet, and I’m not sure it will be anytime soon. There are some impressive apps leveraging the web’s fast distribution, but 3D games are harder in that regard. You can create content-rich, visually appealing 3D games, but then you severely limit your audience. I’m considering moving to native game development because the web’s limitations are daunting.
What's a systems programmer?
Traditionally, in most any conflict, both sides claim to be defenders. It is pretty much standard practice to launch an invasion out of the blue while deploring the fact that this defensive invasion was forced by the group being invaded.

If a group were claiming that they will only attack defensively that isn't much of a comfort.
In example #2 it skips arbitrary "tokens": the first right parenthesis is visited, but its matching left parenthesis is skipped.
Factories don’t mind if the robot costs $4,000,000 or even $40,000,000 I really don’t think people understand how much an industrial robots from the likes of KUKA cost…
It would be so funny if Gemini shorted Google and made a huge profit
>If we are to believe the published numbers, New Glenn can lift 50 imperial tons to LEO

Well 45 tons, but this is in a reusable configuration.

>Starship Block III will hoist 200 tons

This is definitely not a reusable configuration. Maybe 150 tons if they are lucky.

>Falcon Heavy will lift 50-60 depending on how re-usable you want your launch to be.

60 tons for Falcon Heavy means zero reuse, that is a fully expendable launch. Falcon heavy also hasn't carried payloads heavier than 18 tons so far. So this number is something you can whip out to pretend that New Glenn sucks and yet completely miss the mark.
Not sure why would they do that as the re3 engine require a copy of the game to run.
Everything the article describes just feels so arbitrary, almost cargo cultish. You get a pay raise if you're visible and you make the company money? That does make sense, why the job title dances? Why couldn't the author just write an article about how to be a good, impactful developer? Why did it have to be "how to go from $meaningless_job_title to $meaningless_job_title2"?

> Staff promotions only happen at a company that has staff roles

Does this mean that the companies who don't have staff roles are fundamentally incapable of delivering software of the same quality as the ones who do? Doesn't this actually show how arbitrary job titles are?
Given that robot-as-a-service removes the biggest barriers for companies not buying robots, why aren't we seeing a huge growth in "employed" robots?
If you need a program to help you read C programs, that suggests a serious flaw in C.
You have to be 1/3 down the page to see any of this in the code examples. By that point, you would already have seen a number of examples that are valid C code and it is reasonable to expect the rest to be. At least, that was my experience.
I don't how many are interested in preserving or knowing about indian history. Some of them might open up skeletons which might make some sections uncomfortable. Its like let bygones be bygones.
The Information claimed today that ByteDance is renting GPUs in the cloud, although ByteDance denies it (well, they call it "inaccurate" which is not exactly a strong rebuttal).

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
So saying true things is bad now?
That's not a reason not to use typedefs at all.
Nice summary thankyou.
Yes actually I think you're right.
I agree that consistently shipping "impactful" work is vital for getting to staff. And "impactful" changes from company to company.
Or maybe solve a small sha2(sha2()) leading zeroes challenge, taking ~1 second of computer time. Normal users won't notice, and bots will earn you Bitcoins :)
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Human Curation over Algorithmic Recommendations
I'm pretty sure most people, developers especially, have had magical, life-changing experiences with LLMs. I think the problem is that they can't cant do these things reliably.

I get this sentiment from a lot of AI startups, that they have a product which can do amazing things, but due to its failure modes makes it almost useless as, to use an analogy from self-driving cars, the users have to still constantly pay attention to the road: you don't get a ride from Baltimore to New York where you can do whatever you please, you get a ride where you're constantly babysitting an autonomous vehicle, bored out of your mind, forced to monitor the road conditions and surrounding vehicles, lest the car make a mistake costing you your life.

To take the analogy farther, after experimenting with not using LLM tools, I feel that the main difference between the two modes of work is similar to driving a car and being driven by an autonomous care: you exert less mental effort, not, you get to your destination faster.

Another point of the analogy are things like Waymo. They really can do a great job of driving autonomously. But, they require a legible system of roads and weather conditions. There are LLM systems too that when given a legible system to work in can do a near perfect job.
my personal view is not relevant here, that is the exact reason why I didn't even mention it in my initial reply. I was just pointing out an obvious trend in LLM here.
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Valid point but what about the reality? Imagine typical Evil Maid attack but within a workplace, as a cleaning staff. Game over.
This could have been a direct result of the caste system, wherein the deep study of literature was only allowed for Brahmins - not even the kings and nobility. The sentence itself shows the why the oral tradition failed to capture accurate records. From "The beautiful tree" by dharampal -> "in which it had been assumed that education of any sort in India, till very recent decades, was mostly limited to the twice-born amongst the Hindus, and amongst the Muslims to those from the ruling elite.

The actual situation which is revealed was different, if not quite contrary, for at least amongst the Hindus. It was the groups termed Shudras, and the castes considered below them who predominated in the thousands of the then still-existing schools in practically each of these areas."
You do not need it. But is a clear and handy way to present the logic/algorithm, if you are learning C anyway.

I would even say, that if C allows for a clear description of the procedure, clearer as plain text, it indicates how good and expressive C is…
$100m might be correct though. Elon Musk himself has said that just the hardware for each Starship test flight has cost $100 million. This doesn't count all the hardware that hasn't flown so in practice each test flight was even more expensive than this, but there is no reason to argue that Starship will cost more than $200 million for an expendable launch and maybe a quarter of that assuming reuse via booster catch.
8) the sum of 2024 + 1 also
Here's to new beginnings in 2025
https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExeGlzenc3eHdkZHh...
Sure, making money with games is hard and I guess you have to have ads unless you strike it big. I just wish mobile gaming went a different way, but that's not the world we live in.

Best of luck to you and your project.
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If you're going to adjust willy-nilly on which loop of the spiral a given element appears, then it's not much of a rule, isn't it? I mean, why not write this?

+----------------------------+
| +-----------------------+ |
| | +------------------+ | |
| | | +-------------+ | | |
| | | | +--------+ | | | |
| | | | | +--+ | | | | |
| | | | | ^ | | | | | |
int ¦ ¦ * * ¦ VAR ¦ [1] ¦ [2][3] ¦
^ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | +-----+ | | | | |
| | | | +----------+ | | | |
| | | +---------------+ | | |
| | ---------------------+ | |
| +-------------------------+ |
+-------------------------------+
Search for:

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Get rid of all ads.
They do indeed have an internal relation - they all add up to 2025.

Obviously all the formula will be equivalent to each other. They are, by construction, all restatements of each other.
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> as the only safe way to make that work would be to do `aio_suspend()` or busy wait and you might as well just use a synchronous read() function in that case.

Wait but read() wouldn't allow overlapping operations. Whereas if you suspend or busy wait you can do that for multiple operations executing concurrently.

Also if the buffer is from a caller frame then you could also return safely no?
I've recently developed a very simple game for the ZX Spectrum in a week and within 2 weeks it was downloaded almost 200 times on itch.io. Despite being an extremely low effort attempt I got some feedback and even a review on Youtube.

Now I can't help but wonder what sort of feedback I'll get if I put in a decent effort. I'm pretty sure it's going to be worth it, since at least for me it was already a very pleasant surprise to have people enjoying my simple game.
I find this description way better: http://unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html
> Commit to LLM free days/weeks/months

Interesting. First time I have heard it posited, the concept of "AI-free(dom/ness)" ...

PS. "AI abstinence", in a sense ...
And "Less space than a Nomad"
> > Staff promotions only happen at a company that has staff roles

It’s also not true? I was the first “Staff” engineer at my previous company. I think it was just a retention tactic since I was somewhat important to a few major projects at the time. Now I’m a Sr Engineer with less responsibility again and I love it
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Saying true things has always been bad when done with bad intentions.

Implying that "coordinating through encrypted apps" is a property of "far-right ideologies" is a clear attempt to smear the usage of encrypted apps, assuming that the reader already has a negative association with "far-right ideologies".
It’s hard to say when we’re still looking for a first real household robot. But a car-priced (60k?) housekeeper bot will be very popular.

And those duties can be achieved with today’s mechanics — they just need good control, which is now seeing ferocious progress
Yeah I totally forgot, the screen was unbearably glossy. I got a photodon anti-glare display protector and that solved the issue. Huge quality of life improvement. The glossiness of the screen is criminal.
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Does it phone home? I don't care about scanning my files. I do care about details of my private data leaving my device.
You don't need to use icloud to use a Mac.
Not in sales which is what matters.

It isn't like today where you can port a game pretty quickly. The architectures were hugely different.
>> there is little to no value in giving them access to the content

If you are an online shop, for example, isn't it beneficial that ChatGPT can recommend your products? Especially given that people now often consult ChatGPT instead of searching at Google?
> There is still Gemini free tier which is ofc basically impossible to beat

Is it free free? The last time I checked there was a daily request limit, still generous but limiting for some use cases. Isn't it still the case?
I think everyone is missing the real reason for this. From TFA:

> requires fewer workers

what TFA didn't say, and which I'm sure is also true, is that the workers can also be less skilled.

I found it fascinating that interior walls are also concrete, and wifi signals are blocked. I betcha cellular doesn't fare too well either, and not easily fixed with multiple access points.
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Ideally you have both. But yes it’s pretty pointless to try to improve the way engineers work without leaderships buy-in
West is making a mistake again. They should not allow export of GPU and publish information on ML. Instead it would be wiser to become a monopoly and sell only AI services. If other countries learn how to do AI, nobody will need expensive Western services anymore.

Given that there are expectations that AI will be able to replace humans and increase manufacturing productivity, it should be well guarded unless you want your foreign competitors to increase the productivity too.

The wise strategy is to sell goods or services but never to sell tools that can be used to produce them, like industrial machines and robots.