skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Iraq general, WMD were moved to Syria about 6 month prior to invasion, then Syrian government used them against rebels.

HANNITY: So he had them.

SADA: Yes.

HANNITY: Where were they? And were they moved and where?

SADA: Well, up to the year 2002, 2002, in summer, they were in Iraq. And after that, when Saddam realized that the inspectors are coming on the first of November and the Americans are coming, so he took the advantage of a natural disaster happened in Syria, a dam was broken. So he — he announced to the world that he is going to make an air bridge...

HANNITY: You know for a fact he moved these weapons to Syria?

SADA: Yes.

HANNITY: How do you know that?

SADA: I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria.

BECKEL: How did he move them, general? How were they moved?

SADA: They were moved by air and by ground, 56 sorties by jumbo, 747, and 27 were moved, after they were converted to cargo aircraft, they were moved to Syria.
Yep, I found that combination to be better when it comes to lag, stability and quality as well.

Especially now that they added a 4:4:4 chroma subsampling option which fixes things like text edges in some cases.
I just wish they had a proper local protocol that didn't involve some dev account thing that might or might not expire and need manual fussing...
If you've forced OpenAI to pay Kenyans as much as Americans, then OpenAI simply would stop hiring Kenyans. Beware of the unintended consequences of your ideological narrative.
Yes, the three major open table formats are all quite similar.

When AWS launched S3 Tables last month I wrote a blog post with my first impressions: https://meltware.com/2024/12/04/s3-tables

There may be more in depth comparisons available by now but it’s at least a good starting point for understanding how S3 Tables integrates with Iceberg.
I'd be more interested to see the stats over time. I get the sense that YC used to be a lot more selective in a time gone by
New doesn't mean good, but watching something new to you has a plus value.

Even if you just like old movies, there are tonnes of great old movies. Don't you want to watch more than one?

Experiencing something for the first time just isn't the same.
Apple isn’t a luxury brand in the normal sense, it’s odd that people think this because they’re more expensive. They’re not the technical equivalent of Prada or Rolex etc. Apple’s ecosystem cohesion and still unmatched UX (still flawed) is a real value-add that normal luxury brands don’t have.
does it include going to subway station ("total time of travel")
Apologies, for some reason I was convinced you could get a proper modal using the popover api but you're right, it's not a proper modal.
IMO the deep think button works wonders.
At least according to the OCHA you're right . Though there's also a dashboard which shows around 7k for the entire Israel Palestine conflict since 2008. Maybe it got confused by the conflicting info on OCHA's website.

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties
You guys have testers???
I agree, it's totally mad and if anything is getting more centralised.
Excellent. I taught myself regex with a similar website tutorial. Well done and thanks.
well said. the more you know, the more you know what you don't know.

take all knowledge of known things and imagine its a circle, the radius is touching known unknowns.

as known grows, the radius expands and touches more unknowns.

i don't think that will ever end.

I wonder if this might cause the perception coined by 'idiocracy', that people keep being 'dumber'. actually they know relatively the same but its better understood that its really not a lot thats known?
There's not an equivalence between post-Cold War Democratic and Republican administrations manipulating intelligence. My evidence is the Iraq War and Valerie Plame.
Announced days after new administration...what a coincidence!
> I guess in this situation the knight against two bishops keeps the draw.

Yes, though - I think I can say without exaggeration - no human on earth can tell you exactly which positions the knight can hold out against the bishops for the required 50 moves.

So it's a strange problem: a perceptive beginner can find the right move through a process of elimination, but even a super-GM can't be certain it's good enough, or defend it accurately against a computer. I don't see anything about that that makes it a particularly good test of an LLM.
I remember reading a paper that showed that giving models even a a few filler tokens before requiring a single phrase/word/number answer significantly increasee accuracy. This is probably similar.
Yeah imagine progress without the planck quote "science progresses one funeral at a time"
I use Claude a lot for writin my reports (HPC consultant at the moment), I’m convinced it raises the quality (conciseness, grammar). But man am I annoyed when I start reading something online that looks like it will have information I need and 2 paragraphs in you have this moment: tf am I reading?? Just plain wrong or worse: some text that seems to delay sharing the critical piece of info it looks like it will contain, sometimes indefinitely it feels like. It happens more and more.
> But they do not seek emotional support, they seek advice on how to overcome that frustration.

Totally not. They seek validation and venting. Men in general don't like being given advice, rarely seek it and when they do, they are explicit a put seeking it.
It’s only considered typical in informal online communities basically
I've never been clear on why we should care about AT protocol. It's a VC funded effort which should immediately be suspicious for anyone wanting to build federated platforms.
I use NixOS on all my machines. NixOS relies heavily on systemd by design. NixOS would be a lot harder to implement without systemd. With Nix(OS) we can just dump systemd unit files on disk, reload and move on.

There are other declarative init systems that could replace systemd, but what's the point when systemd does everything?
Interesting approach. Did you state upfront that you would offer feedback on their projects in exchange for them taking the survey? Trying to think of how to best phrase that to get the right people interested.
Leeds Bradford Airport is where exactly??
Gemini models won't touch a lot of things that are remotely political in nature.
One time I tried to use GPT-4o to verify some claims I read on the internet and it was very outspoken about issues relating to alleged election fraud, to the point where it really got in the way.

I generally find it unhelpful whaen models produce boilerplate meant to couch the response in any way.
Julia Implementation of Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model D4M (2016)
Very well indeed I think. AFAIK Dragonfire is fully within the optical
spectrum. However, there's a similar project we've been working on
over here that's a beamforming MASER - that travels right through the
housing and fries the electronics.
I am not arguing for anything in this case, just pointing out how western ideology finds its way in GPT etc. Also, I didn't write anything about demanding equal pay.
Show HN: I implemented vmess protocol in Rust (for fun and profit)
I love it when people apply operations research technologies to silly things like video games.

One thing I'm missing in this article is a discussion of how useful the ILP techniques really were compared to dumber heuristics. Take the first optimal build as an example:

- We know we will need some items that give us a large boost to our stats thanks to the six-item limit.

- Nashor's tooth seems like an "obvious" choice for the above, given that it supplies 130 units of desirable stats at only 100 gold per unit.

- Once we have that, the Amplifying Tome is really only there to fill out the remaining units of one of the stats.

I guess what I'm saying is the optimal item selection has surprisingly few interactions. That seems like a solution we could get close to with far simpler methods!
>Salford

Off topic, but I just wanted to say that Joy Division is one of my fave bands of all time.
Nothing compared to the order I went through in Germany: 1, 2, 3, 4 (elementary school until here), then VI (read in Latin, sexta), V (quinta), IV (quarta), lower III (tertia), upper III, lower II (secunda), 11, 1st semester, 2nd semester, 3rd semester, 4th semester.
You are aware that computers also just use zeros and ones to enable everything that is around us?
It’s basically the line for all the AI-hype people: “all the problems are going away!”, “soon it’ll all magically make things exponentially good-er-er!”
I do think you have to have a split personality a la Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in order to be CEO of nvidia.

You can clearly see this struggle for control anytime poor Huang has to a present new GPU, the evil Jensen comes roaring out "the more you buy... More you save".
Pi SD cards seem to be extremely reliable, I have not had issues with Amazon SanDisks. Especially not if you get a bigger one than you need to spread wear more.

I've probably spammed this comment an obnoxious number of times already, but I think a lot of the problem is that IIRC HA still writes logs as they happen. Filesystems don't like small frequent writes, it makes write amplification happen.

I handle logging by buffering everything in RAM, and optionally only saving min/max/avg data, on top of only logging points that are specifically configured.

I have a script to set up /var/log as a ramdisk, along with a few other things things I've found can occasionally go wrong and write a bunch of stuff.

But I don't use HA, or have any idea how hard it would be to do this kind of thing in HA.
A D4M module for Julia:

https://github.com/achen12/D4M.jl
Is it reasonable to imagine that LLMs should be able to play chess? I feel like we're expending a whole lot of effort trying to distort a screwdriver until it looks like a spanner, and then wondering why it won't grip bolts very well.

Why should a language model be good at chess or similar numerical/analytical tasks?

In what way does language resemble chess?
Apparently it's "boids" because the version that was popular in the UK came from New Jersey!
The obscure 'quack' who helped pioneer the modern clinical trial
Sometimes science fiction is well grounded. It isn't science fiction but something like Orwell's Animal Farm is a great example - actually closer to an argument laid out in narrative form.
TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google
Blaming the victim?
Guess somebody hasn't heard of Airbus

This was written and published before Airbus' first plane was in the air, and decades before Embraer had a large passenger jet.

It also specifically states "jumbo jet." Does Embraer even have a jumbo today? The largest one listed on Wikipedia is 124 passengers, and that only came out in 2004.
Blackouts & instability can happen on isolated grids too - if not easier given less options. See the texas grid drama.

It does seem sensible to beef up resilience on large interconnects though agreed to mitigate cascading risk.
You're arguing that banks should subsidize their payment department with the profits from their investment department when safe investments like treasuries no longer yield interest. Basically, asking that banks should take ever larger risks to subsidize your bank account, simultaneously risking your bank account in the process.

That's how you get an economy in which banks are too systematically important to fail and therefore must always be bailed out, no matter what.
My social feeds are full of tech bros who keep telling people AI codes everything for them. AI obviously has some impressive coding skills, but for me it never really worked well.

So is this just an illusion they create, or is it really possible to build software with AI, at least at a mediocre level?

I'm looking for open source projects that were built mostly with AI, but so far I couldn't find any bigger projects that were built with AI coding tools.
Yes, code is a key training component. Open-Llama explicitly used programming data as one of seven training components. However, newer models like Llama 3.1 405B have shifted to using synthetic data instead. Code helps develop structured reasoning patterns but isn't the sole foundation - models combine it with general web text, books, etc.
What this article calls a superpower and exceptional leadership, I'd just call running a meeting. I'm hoping this really is not as rare as the article would imply, because it is a basic communication technique that seems to be quite common. If someone cannot control a meeting, that would get their career shut down pretty quickly based on what I've seen.
That would be an obvious lie, since they set up in front of cameras in the actual White House to publicly discuss it.
In my version of the multiverse, it turned out to be -
It's rather fascinating to find that in the case of M87*, the black hole and its accretion disk are counterrotating. A rotating black hole has a giant amount of angular momentum, and that has "accreted" onto it during its formation and lifetime; even if born from many mergers, and gone through billions of years of accretion, the current angular momentum / spin of M87* says that overall, what came together to form it all rotated largely in the same direction. The fact that M87*'s jet is straight also means the black hole can't have wobbled much in its (more recent) history.

So why did the accretion flip ? How often does this happen ? How big is the influence of accretion (say, at high rates / eddington limit) on the black hole's angular momentum over time ? How long can such a counterrotating condition persist ? How common are cases where, say, the jet direction of a active black hole changed massively (or even reversed), indicating a "major flip" event for the black hole's spin ?

(many questions just curious)
Interesting. It didn't censor itself when I tried, but it did warn me it is a sensitive subject in China.
Does that mean it's illegal to log the user's IP address and user-agent without getting their consent? Am I getting this right?
It's pretty much impossible not to end up with a lot of repeated spaghetti code, if you are doing anything beyond a really trivial single user app.

Even for simple stuff, like each user only having permission to see parts of the database, it's essential to have a systematic way of filtering that is composable.

I'm not a fan of ORMs and I actually like SQL and yet have been using sqlalchemy expression language (the low level part of sqlalchemy) for many many years and i wouldn't really go to SQL strings.
The list is missing stock trading platform Cera. These clowns were absolute scammers with a buggy app and zero customer support.
Musk is determined to do more damage to the Tesla brand. I don't think Tesla sales will go well in Europe this year.
Or use the available language information from the device to guess the best language (and have a picker to change)
>US did not allow any outsiders to check out Fort Detrick which means they knew it was a US engineered bioweapon. US has no credibility here.

PRC maintains covid came from outside of PRC, they have no reason to let their labs be scrutinized by outside actors just because Mike Pompeo / CIA made up antiPRC propaganda. That's want weak idiots do. Reality is PRC already waste effort entertaining WHO, until US reciprocates by openning up US biolabs for international access to entertain PRC propaganda, they nor their narrative or people that endorse them have credibility either.
For gaming, absolutely. But macOS and Apple devices aren't tailored towards that, and their mice are oddballs anyway: one button, and heavily tailored towards gestures. They're a mouse and touchpad in one. I quit using it when I got RSI. Now I use a vertical mouse (by Logitech). Now that is one of a kind (but it does not do gestures well).
Impossible to say unless you know more about its parent.
> I guess I am asking, is there anything here that a libmodem written in rust would have magically solved?

I'm not following your comment, but I think the point is simply "the lifetime of the config is in the function signature, rather than hopefully (sometimes) being in the documentation, and hopefully (sometimes) correct".
For me ai has been pretty useful. Difference is I'm not a software engineer, I just write scripts to help me do my job. If I wrote bigger applications I doubt llms could help me.
Current gen AI can spit out some very, very basic web sites (I won't even elevate to the word "app") with some handholding and poking and prodding to get it to correct its own mistakes.

There is no one out there building real, marketable production apps where AI "codes everything for them". At least not yet, but even in the future it seems infeasible because of context. I think even the most pro-AI people out there are vastly underestimating the amount of context that humans have and need to manage in order to build fully fledged software.

It is pretty great as a ridealong pair programmer though. I've been using Cursor as my IDE and can't imagine going back to a non-AI coding experience.
I think because LLMs are convincingly good at natural language tasks, humans tend to anthropomorphize them. Due to this, it often is assumed that they are good at everything humans are capable of.
I think it’s that AI unlocks the ability to code something up and test an idea for people who’re technical enough to get it working, but not really developers themselves. It’s not (yet at least) a substitute for a good dev team that knows what they’re doing.

But this is still huge, and shouldn’t be disregarded.
yes, lets ignore the holocaust, the genocide against the herero and nama and last but not least the Romani Holocaust.

Of course not. The Nazis of today don't openly say that they want to deport people and passivly killing them. They use words like Remigration to hide what the want: make people stateless, devoid them of basic nessesities and killing them passivly.
This test is worthless in a few weeks, it's now going into the training data. Even repeatedly posting it into LLM services (with analytics enabled) could lead to inclusion in the training data.
in my case i think its laziness, holding down shift also feels like an unnecessary distraction. it could also just be me being difficult, ive been told sometimes that i am.

ps: its the future of the internet, get in now, be a cool kid.
Europe and large parts of ASEAN already are pretty connected. Aside from connecting the three US grids next step would surely need to be connecting continents?

Quick google says it should be feasible. London to DC is about 5k km. Longest UHV DC seems to be just over 3k built in 2018 (over land) so maybe?
The key "ability" that will grow exponentially is AIs ability to convert investment dollars into silicon+electricity and then further reduce those into heat energy. Such schemes only seem wasteful to outsiders, those whose salaries are not tied to their ability to convert money into heat. A fun startup would be one that generates useful electricity from the AI investment cycle. If we put the Ai machine under a pot of water, we might then use the resulting steam to drive a turbine.
I suspect that what's actually needed is containerized integrations, if we can't get a real standard protocol that everyone uses(Is Matter going to take over?).

WebAssembly seems like it could be a reasonable possibility for making plugins that don't need constant maintenance.
great page, I discovered that my noscript/basic (x)html browser is doing more than I thought it did.
I think the colors and icons were slightly different, but 98 + Tahoma gets you most of the way there.
Live stream of links posted on Bsky
Sigh again this is where we were ending up.

> So... I'm not certain this is a development worth trusting. Maybe it really did originate from a lab! But the real goal of the constant back-and-forth over where it came from is not about finding the truth; that much seems quite obvious to me.

0. COVID-19 was mostly harmless. Even more so than Douglas Adam's books.
1. China reacted asif they'd accidentally released a bioweapon.
2. China did what it does best, shut the F up on the world stage.
3. Everyone saw China's reaction because this isn't the 1950s and the internet exists.
4. The developed nations freaked out until there was data, hence the first set of lockdowns in Europe very quickly.
5. 2-3 years later after media pantomime, sectarian politics, holier than though preaching from everyone, the WHO declared the "emergency" over.

Some countries achieved 80%+ vaccination rates, didn't see 20% die. Some only achieved 50% and didn't see 50% death rates.

We now have a serious economic tab to be paid because of the BS pushed by developed countries in a panic that might have been less dramatic had there been information available from day 1.

China _has_ hidden and or destroyed a lot of "evidence" making certain discussions mute. (Again they are good at this let's not pretend otherwise).

Western countries, who, _like china_, jumped on a "who can punch themselves hardest with policy?" approach to this unknown now want someone else to blame.

Aka because we can pin a small significance and serious fault on China being a bad neighbour. (Snooze to the sensible this isn't news, china is very private about internal policy and now even more so) We are choosing to blame them for everything to get motivation up to get them to pay the bill...

This unfortunately was clear winter of 2020 and is clear now, it's just taken 4-5yr for politics to go through it's "he said she said" cycle. And I'm not referring to the US or UK political cycles this is the slow bi-partizan we all need someone to blame rather than be introspective and realise __"We should have handled this better"__.
I always enjoy reading positive pieces about Prolog but without touching on the implications of the principles on display, this article may do more harm than good.

You would ask reasonable questions like, "for God's sake, why?". It feels like you wouldn't use Prolog for anything besides an intellectual game.

Regarding the why:

Some of those reasons include Definite Clause Grammars, Meta-Interpreters, 1st class constraint logic programming, reified conditionals, and term/goal expansion.

There are a lot of exciting modern advances with Prolog, especially Scryer Prolog.

Check out Power of Prolog and get your mind blown: https://youtube.com/@thepowerofprolog
Coding is trying to order bytes into doing arbitrary stuff that is useful because of some transient conjunction of factors in the real world.

We have developed programming languages because coding in machine language is horrible, and over the decades we've refined them into tools people can use fluently and just directly think in code when they have to make a computer system behave in a certain way.

Only someone who has never built anything of significant complexity and utility can think that putting natural language encoding between you and the bytes is a net positive.
The board is backwards and black to move. It’s annoying in that chess puzzles should always have black on top and white on bottom, and a caption of whose move it is. It’s clear in the FEN, but the image reverses it with no explanation.
I found this so-called song hosted on the “Vietnam War Song Project” YT account. Yeah, why were people against the Vietnam War? When America had planes? Ridiculous priorities.

This was not about the Vietnam war. Nor was it written by an American.
YC has probably become worse then most of the other (really bad) incubators

Started with Sam now with Garry Tan it is really going in the gutter.
> Bias is inherent in these kinds of systems.

Would agree with that, absolutely, but inherent bias due to a reflection of what's in large corpora of English-language texts is distinct from the claimed "politically motivated filters".