skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Moravec's Paradox is often misapplied when considering LLMs vs. robotics. It's true that formal reasoning over unambiguous problem representations is easy and computationally cheap. Lisp machines were already doing this sort of thing in the '70s. But the kind of commonsense reasoning over ambiguous natural language that LLMs can do is not easy or computationally cheap. Many early AI researchers thought it would be — that it would just require a bit of elaboration on the formal reasoning stuff — but this was totally wrong.

So, it doesn't make sense to say that what LLMs do is Moravec-easy, and therefore can't be extrapolated to predict near-term progress on Moravec-hard problems like robotics. What LLMs do is, in fact, Moravec-hard. And we should expect that if we've got enough compute to make major progress on one Moravec-hard problem, there's a good chance we're closing in on having enough to make major progress on others.
Kinda wild. Wasn't expecting that at all. Also, when I questioned it, it denied knowing (very gas-lighty!):

https://imgur.com/mpZ3xaW
DD is the Oracle/SAP of o11y. Scumbags that kill innovation.
- "Experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/35018520 .. https://www.impactlab.com/2024/10/13/photons-defy-time-new-q... ; Rubidium

- "Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation" (2000) https://www.nature.com/articles/35018520 ; Cesium
Sexism is '(sex) Can't do x'. That's combated by successful examples being common.

Bias of applicants is solved by making the job worth for all to do, not just from the positives but by removing the negatives.
This is pretty spot-on. Whether they’re aware of it or not, most white liberals are motivated not by a desire to lift nonwhites up but rather by a desire to push “white trash” down.
> They were the only "very senior" programmers...

Don't forget nodejs.
I integrated Quickwit into our o11y platform. It was great tech with lots of promise, and now it's dead. Yet another reason to never do business with Datahog.
The quotes are from the article's title.
I feel this narrative about less experienced developers probably made sense to you back then, but it might be time to update it!
Point taken that VB was a programming ghetto. But the actual seniors were fighting the language to call Win32, writing MTS servers, and etc, they 'got' all that stuff.

I did some VBS ASP back in the day (not VB), and the language was more just annoying, at least partially due to the BASIC legacy stuff. Like it didn't even have a hashmap, you had to import something from Internet Explorer.
Delphi, maybe, sure. But starting a new project with vb6 is just weird unless it's the only language someone is familiar with. It's a dead end, even on the only platform where it makes sense to use it.
Amazing! Tiny bit of feedback, it might help to add to the article that there's 1 difference to spot in impossible mode (the other two difficulties say there's 3 and 8 diffs respectively, which is useful to know when attempting).
What's "normal"? I don't start dreaming as I fall asleep. Well I might, but I don't remember. I either have "racing mind" and can't actually get to sleep or I ... just fall asleep.

On the other end though I sometimes wake up in a state where I sort of seem to know I'm awake but not really awake yet. I guess that's still dreaming. Sometimes I try to control the dream but it often fails because I actually move my real body and I wake up and I have that "daaang, I wanted to keep dreaming" sensation. But then it's too late.

However, as hard as I try, I can't remember more than the fact that I was in that state even just hours later, never mind now. Except for very few times. Like I still have one specific split second memory of a nightmare I had when I was a kid (like 30 years ago) and woke up from it. But I can't remember anything but some sort of vague "brown paper lunch box head monster" thing.
I now always stay around in the movie theater to see who the sysadmins were that worked on the film, for solidarity reasons. :-) Pretty much all the movies these days have them, which I would have never imagined would be the case back in the '80s when I started this career path.
They do have a spiky edition tho, too, so maybe that's something
Discussion (10 points, 14 hours ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655580
TaoClock – Elegant Full Screen Clock with AI Generated Backgrounds
TaoClock emerged from my journey in AI art creation. After months of exploring and refining prompts, I accumulated a collection of artworks that captured a unique blend of serenity and beauty. Rather than keeping these pieces private, I wanted to share them in a meaningful way - as dynamic backgrounds for a minimalist clock that everyone could enjoy.
I recall that some of the developer commentary for either Portal or Portal 2 mentioned that they began level-development by using a special version of the namesake non-euclidean Portals to connect different chambers and hallways that were being developed in parallel. [Per distinct loading-screen level.] Then, later in development, they ran a tool to stitch together all that geometry in a more-normal way, and they only had one case of impossible-overlap, which continued to use the non-euclidean link.

_________

Edit: Found it:

> [...] When we started the project making any big structural change in a level or the order of levels would lead to hours or even days of busy work trying to reconnect things and make sure they lined up again. If we ever wanted to ship something the size of Portal with the finely tuned balance we desired then we needed a way to be able to make big changes to the layout of the game without paying the cost of making everything line up again. We needed a way to bend space. We needed to think with portals. Using portals to connect different areas in the world we could make any type of impossible space work out. You could look through a hallway into the next room but the hallway might be on the other side of the map and the room you are looking into might be in a completely different orientation. We could seamlessly insert an elevator, a huge expansive vista, a room that was bigger on the inside than the outside, or even create an infinite fall by connecting a shaft back into itself. Soon every connection between any space was a portal. We would even switch them on the fly. Even a simple door worked like the cartoons - just a facade painted on a wall that seamlessly opened somewhere else entirely. Once the game settled down we were able to finalize our path and remove all of the world portals. There's only one impossible space left in the whole game - see if you can figure out where it is.

-- "World Portals". Portal 2 developer commentary
AI doesn't connect you to communities like search engines do. Ask AI a question and it gives you an answer, no interaction with other people. Ask a search engine and it may bring up a forum with someone asking a similar question. Then maybe you join the discussion.

AI will bring about a lonelier online world.
Not to belabor a service frequently suggested here, but have you ever tried https://kagi.com/? I find it much more reliable.
i swear i got it to do it once for the nearest mcdonalds,and it knew my location i didnt even have to tell it. havent been able to get it to do it since.
they shouldn't, but my point was everyone is a hypocrite here, because secretly we know that protectionism is necessary, and it works - despite proclamations that companies in a capitalist model embrace competition and employees want meritocracy.
Sounds like he is fighting against a lawfare and censorship group with his own lawyers. I'm not sure how else he would counter them?
I don’t know the picture in every state, but in CA schools still receive 31% of their funding from local taxes. That’s still quite a bit. Then there’s other sources of funding like the school PTA which does things like fund school supplies.
> That is like claiming there should be no global Internet or no global trade.

There is no such thing as a global internet. The internet is just a bunch of separate networks. Of course this being "hacker news" you wouldn't know what the internet is.

There is no such thing as global trade. There are a bunch of trade relations between regions and countries.

> People like to interact with one another, for various reasons: business, science, mere curiosity.

People like to interact with their own for the most part.

> Having the globe split into several mutually non-communicating regions would be weird,

Where did I say this? It's amazing how people are so stupid that they think you need english for people to communicate with each other. Do you think japanese and chinese people didn't communicate each other before english? Or russians and germans without english?

> And in absence of hard barriers in North Korean style, one dominant way of communication is likely to emerge.

No. The historical norm is major regional languages. Not one dominant language enforced on the world primarily through military supremacy.
There’s also the factor that Zuck is becoming personal friends with Joe Rogan (according to Joe, they text each other memes and shit talk people) and Dana is Joe Rogan’s best friend.
Does it not work with glasses?
You can pull YouTube transcripts directly with a tool like this: https://youtubetranscript.com/

This can be done programmatically with YouTube Transcript API [0]

But you may get IP blocked if you do it a lot so you can use a Tor proxy [1].

Afterwards, you can just cmd/ctrl+f through it or throw it at an LLM.

[0] https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api

[1] https://github.com/rinvii/yt-transcript
Squid game reminded me a lot more of Liar game (the many variants) than a battle royale, though no one dies in the latter.

I especially like the “minority rule” game.
- "Exact Quantum Electrodynamics of Radiative Photonic Environments" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13... .. "New theory reveals the shape of a single photon"
- "All-optical complex field imaging using diffractive processors" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-024-01482-6 .. "New imager acquires amplitude and phase information without digital processing" (2024) https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2024-05-imager-am...

- "Bridging coherence optics and classical mechanics: A generic light polarization-entanglement complementary relation" (2023) https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev... :

> More surprisingly, through the barycentric coordinate system, optical polarization, entanglement, and their identity relation are shown to be quantitatively associated with the mechanical concepts of center of mass and moment of inertia via the Huygens-Steiner theorem for rigid body rotation. The obtained result bridges coherence wave optics and classical mechanics through the two theories of Huygens.
There's a background assumption in this debate that society has a moral requirement to increase the representation of those who are underrepresented. I've never seen this assumption justified.

What if it is actually fine for Asians to be under-represented in the NBA, and over-represented in software engineering?
Bernie
> Maybe they shouldn't be investments, but they are, and you can't expect people to ignore this.

exactly. Anything that cost time and effort to create is an investment. To have homes not be an investment is to say it's not going to take time nor effort to make.

People can choose to ignore this reality, but it only hurts them financially.
Oh 2x faster and uses >70% less memory than Hugging Face + Flash Attention 2! I did a CUDA / GPU Mode talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfb_AIhDYnA Also to the PyTorch team here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwryfkydc0 and the PyTorch Conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdtKkc5jB4g
Well it could (and I agree with WalterBright that it should) have been disallowed. a[b] being implemented as an early stage rewrite rule expanding to *(a+b) is an uninteresting implementation detail. And I doubt it is even implemented that way in modern compilers anyway. It certainly can't be in C++ as a[b] and b[a] mean different things when [] is overloaded.
If you're not willing to ignore reality and saturate your life with confabulated nonsense, then I don't think you're ready for the future.
Huh? What strategic significance? Thule Air Base (now Pituffik Space Base) is mostly a radar station now. It once housed B-52 bombers for the Strategic Air Command, but those are long gone.

Control of the Northwest Passage, maybe?
Could it be caused by ESG investments?

Ignorant investors check a box to put their money towards 'ethical' investments, leading companies to create DEI marketing departments to exploit the new investment pipeline.
I think your analysis is missing some nuance.

There are countless instances throughout history of lasting change being sparked by a single moment. Sure, that moment is frequently the culmination of some period of struggle, but you have to remember that the issues that came to a head and sparked those DEI initiatives a few years ago were exactly that—the product of literally centuries of struggle. Or, perhaps more accurately, a recent phase of that struggle.

So, I believe your emphasis is on the wrong side of the equation here. That is, it's not that there is an inherent deficiency in a trending moment or ascendant party giving rise to change. It's the explicit pushback against DEI that is responsible for its unwinding. And, this effort was not successful because the party that sponsored the pushback was ascendant. Instead, part of the party's ascension was due to it making an issue of the pushback. More specifically, the blowback was part of a divisive theme, along with illegal immigration and other issues.

Progress is not a one-way street and gains are not de facto insulated against erosion. Progress (and its security) is a product of the mores and culture of a time, and these can be influenced and manipulated. So, there is really not such a thing as "lasting change", and that's what we saw here. In some ways, the blowback has taken us not just back to our pre-DEI state, but to a pre-1960s mental footing.
Looking at the number of points and comments on each (including this one), I remember something my mom (an elementary school teacher) always said: "You have to repeat something three times before people hear it."
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Lenin

Following the news feels more and more like watching a very entertaining tv show, especially with all the plot twists.
I wish they'd add a little arrow you could click.
Exactly. Replacing search with chatbots removes any opportunity to apply the media literacy I’ve spent decades learning. It gives every source the same sheen of correctness, making all information it gives essentially worthless.
ive gotten it once to tell me the closest mcdonalds im near. havent been able to get it to do it since.
Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby
I had read the GCC documentation and I did not know about the forward parameter declaration. I did know about the other stuff that is mentioned there (and in the first part).

Declarations in for loops is something that I had only ever used in macros (I had not found it useful in other circumstances), such as:

#define lpt_document() for(int lpt_document_=lpt_begin();lpt_document_;lpt_document_=(lpt_end(),0))
#define win_form(xxx) for(win_memo win_mem=win_begin_();;win_step_(&win_mem,xxx))

(The compiler will optimize out the loop and the declared variable in the use of the lpt_document macro; I had tested this.)
I remember the analogue to this in unreal engine 1, zones i believe, same concept though, good years.
The best way to tell a journalist doesn't know their subject matter: check if they're a journalist.
Is Grafana and its ecosystem no longer open source? I haven't used it in a while
The Sakura is briefly mentioned at the end of the article, a bit less expensive at $16,500 (2.6 million yen)
DEI programs are simultaneously for PR and morale. You don't want to be "that company that doesn't even have a DEI program". But also you don't want your employees being pissed off that you don't have a DEI program, because they could leave, or complain and decrease morale, which could become a PR nightmare.

But they can be more. Some companies I've worked for used their DEI programs to actively support local communities, organize volunteering efforts, collect donations. Even companies that HN might consider "Evil", I've seen have very strong and engaged DEI groups. It came down to two things: 1) they hired passionate people who took it upon themselves to organize internally and do more with the groups, and 2) they had leadership that (amazingly) gave the support needed for the group to make a positive impact.

But also, some companies I've worked for just had a 30 minute "movie lunch hour" and guest speaker and that was it. So it's obvious to me now when a DEI program is a PR dodge, and when it does real work.
Again, the state equalizes. After the 2013 funding reforms, the state gives districts gives districts with high-need students more money to make up for local funding shortfalls. The statistics I've seen (e.g. https://www.ppic.org/publication/financing-californias-publi...) indicate that this more than closes the gap.
If the time, effort, and incidental costs of procuring a state ID card is enough to render the prospect of Voter ID requirements systemically racist, classist, and exclusionary then so are Costco cards.

The argument goes as such: up-front tolls change behavior to the degree of deterring people from even trying otherwise beneficial arrangements, as people are not perfectly rational. Look at the impact of NYC’s new congestion pricing. Compare your impression of Walmart shoppers to Costco shoppers. If they don’t match there are disproportionate effects at play.

It’s possible that some mildly exclusionary policies can be worthwhile and create more societal good than bad, even if they have some incidentally disproportionate demographic impact. Perhaps endless yak shaving fixated on residual disproportionality should not have been entertained by the DEI field in the first place, and was part of what undermined its reputation.
Your numbers don't contradict my message, look at the demographics of US which shows real complexity [1]. You should also take into consideration the evolution of demographics not just a single point. Last, but not least you should take into account their refugee programs [2] and how power is really distributed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/DNK/den....
This is horrific. A random company can strike you with no evidence and YouTube doesn’t even do any investigation or have any presumption of innocence or anything before potentially deleting the whole account? This seems like a very good reason to diversify away from YouTube. This article is trying to paint this in a positive light but this is as dystopian as it comes.
Yeah, exactly. This is the difference. People in tech assume that when this happens to women that it’s sexually motivated. No. It’s motivated by knowing you’re stack ranked and the best way to get ahead is by tearing others down. The industry is insanely toxic and most men just deal with it silently.
The big issues with hydrogen are volume and form factor. Hydrogen needs to be cryogenic or high pressure, and either work best with big spheroid-like tanks which don't naturally integrate into the wings where fuel is currently stored.
IANAL, but recently I've become very interested in the possibility of a legal mechanism a bit like what the GPL does for code [0], a kind of poison-pill so if anybody uses your content to train their LLM, you can slap back by making everything that LLM ever emits into almost public-domain [1]. In other words, you strike 'em where it hurts, in the monetization.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582615

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain-equivalent_licen...
I don't see any information about whether they will bring these into the US. They'd sell well here. It will be hard to make a profit on these, because you can't have much overhead.

But clearly, a less than $20k ev with ~200-220 miles, a city car, would sell very well in the us. It would open up EV ownership to more groups. Imagine what a 2 or 3 year old one would sell for? Those used ones would again open up EVs to new groups.
It only does this if you don’t ask it to supply sources and double check where you aren’t confident. It allows you to cut through 99% of the bullshit within search results and double check where necessary. Perhaps it is a new type of media literacy but I don’t think it is too far off.
The result only needs to be appealing to consumers. If hallucinated nonsense accomplishes that then job done!
Nonsense. There are only about 200 U.S. military personnel in Greenland; if it was of strategic significance there would be thousands.
- "Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628841
If you don't take them can you please forward me their resumes? It's extremely hard for me to find a candidate who isn't a 20s-30s white male named Chad.
Thanks, I got a better result with this than Anyvoice.
> Buyers in Japan can choose from three trims with prices ranging from 2,849,000 yen ($18,000) to 3,575,000 yen ($22,700).

It might be $18k normalized in USD, but locally still "$35k" product.
Semester 1 when getting a BFA in painting the prof told us to do this to help tighten composition
Design an Instrument Horn/Bore in the Browser
This is in-browser demo of the Openwind library for Python. It is designed to assist designers of musical instruments. It includes acoustic modeling, resonance detection and can even create finger charts!
Typically this is a subset of OTel that's being compared. Almost everything (aside from Datadog's proprietary stuff) is just smaller than OTel is, which is why it's often chosen for many different needs.

In my experience, it's often folks who have experience setting up metrics or log collection with something smaller (e.g., StatsD) and sometimes for purposes with less scope, who have the most frustration with OTel. All the concepts are different, carry different names, have different configs, have different quirks, etc. There's often an expectation that things will largely the same as before and that they can carry over the cursed knowledge they had from the other toolset.
Genuinely curious, which product’s quality has been sacrificed at the altar of DEI? Could you name some?
Do you know anything about Prey 2017’s “looking glass”? Do you know if it involves any special techniques?

I know nothing about this stuff, but when I saw in-game I was really impressed. You can even break the screens into shards, and the little pieces still maintain the effect when they’re lying on the floor or flying through the air.
Luc Delahaye – Death and destruction as art
I am curious how they are running the python code in the browser. But mostly it's fun trying to design tubas and french horns!
It's so rare for developers to care about performance that when you find someone who actually does, it makes quite a splash.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41883419
Somewhat isolated countries… might apply to some African nations.
Open the image in the Gimp. Duplicate layer adjust opacity then drag it sideways until they line up. Toggle layer visibility.....

Wait, why isn't there a service for this? Or is there?
US car industry and government are too in bed together to allow competition.