skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing. Someone ran similar setup with a thinkpad workstation with deadscreen in studio, they fucked up screen replacement but ended up just using bottom chasis hooked up to a externaml monitor for the rest of school.
The current trend in LLMs is synthetic data and inference-time reasoning. They're past data sources.

The new problem is this only works when you can verify the answers.
> For emotion, my weakly-held belief is that this is what motivates us and tells us what the concept of "good" even is — i.e. it doesn't give us reasoning beyond being a motivation to learn to reason.

I've found I work differently. Some technical problems like architecture can only be solved by aligning my emotions with the problem, then my primal brains find a good solution that matches my emotional wants.

But when my emotions doesn't care about the problem my intuition stops working to solve it, and then I can't find any solution.

Why would emotions be needed to solve problems? Because without emotions your can't navigate a complex solution space to find a good solution, its impossible. Meaning if we want an AI to make good architecture for example, we would need to make the AI have feelings about architecture such as what setups are good in different situation etc. Without those feelings the AI wouldn't be able to solve the problem well.

Then after you have came up with a solution using emotions you can then verify it using logic, but you wouldn't have came up with that solution in the first place without using your emotions. Hence emotions are probably needed for truly intelligent reasoning, as otherwise you can't properly guide yourself through complex solution spaces.

You could code something that fills the same role and call it something different than emotions, but if it works the same way and fills the same functions its still emotions.

(Using this definition then AlphaGo uses emotions to prune board states to check, stuff like that, it doesn't know those states are best to check, its just a feeling it has)
Cool! I’ve added it to my blog directory and search engine https://minifeed.net/blogs/df1XlG
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Visualization of Huygens probe descent to Titan's surface
" This movie, built with data collected during the European Space Agency's Huygens probe on Jan. 14, 2005, shows the operation of the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera during its descent and after touchdown. The camera was funded by NASA.

The almost four-hour-long operation of the camera is shown in less than five minutes. That's 40 times the actual speed up to landing and 100 times the actual speed thereafter.

The first part of the movie shows how Titan looked to the camera as it acquired more and more images during the probe's descent. Each image has a small field of view, and dozens of images were made into mosaics of the whole scene. "

I like how clear this visualization is despite being packed with data. Once you start paying attention to the different parameters, you'll find yourself restarting the 5 minutes video to watch some other property.
I definitely have a big interest in this (It sounds like it'd be the more advanced-bits mainly (I've worked in VFX for 23 years)) but was a bit disheartened to learn that it was a paid service.

I also searched the 'try it for free' version and the word 'aliasing' only seemed-to-be-mentioned once!? I would've thought that the arch-enemy of computer graphics (at least the raster-display kind) might have gotten more of a mention!?

It also seemed odd to not really talk about 'filtering' and (at least from a brief investigation) it doesn't seem to really concern itself much with pixels at all! Maybe that's why there's a section titled "Rendering is Very Hard"?) Edit: I read-on from there a bit and this turns out to be about algorithmic complexity side of the rendering equation and not that it's hard to talk about pixels! fair enough! this document still seems more about CG in-the-abstract than the practical to me!

At least 'smootherstep()' got a mention, although what about 'smootheststep()'!? (easier to read if u split the words up: "smoothest step" example here: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltSfWV)
Same reaction - I just scrolled down past the meanderings to see what happened.
> Using an author’s tools, or ethnicity, or sociowhatever as a proxy for quality

For me the rejection of it doesn't even depend on there being any author involved with it, it could just be running free so to speak.

And language is very close to the ability to think and to even see the world around us. To just poison that well nilly-willy because "it's hard" is not a great argument. It's hard because it matters, and that's why learning language and improving one's usage of it is rewarding.

Personally I view machine translation that happens in a process of communication, as part of an ongoing process between people or in a group (mathematicians) that involves feedback and clarification etc. as very different than using LLM to create static "content". We have been using DeepL and Google Translate long before any of this hype, and it was fine.

You asked, what if the writer isn't a native speaker of my language, but how would they even know my language? They only do in personal communication, in which case see above; and otherwise, I don't want to read it. That is, people should write in languages they know, because that's the only ones they can proofread. That's the only way they can make sure it's actually what they think it is. And others who are good at translating (be it software or a person) can translate it when needed. There is no need to destroy the original words and just have the translation, at least I have no need for that.

> If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

-- George Orwell

Yes, this is correlated with privilege. Life is still not fair. Which we fix or at least improve by making a fairer world where everybody has access to education and medicine, not by pretending you can just fake the process by having something that statistically could have been an outcome of the process, had it taken place.

The poorest and most vulnerable people will suffer the most in a world where money and bandwidth alone can buy you what people think, what they see, what drowns out any human voice trying to reach other humans. This is what billionaires clamor for, not the average person, at all.
At this point, it's a function of how many thinking tokens can a model generate. (when it comes to o1 and r1). o3 is likely going to be superior because they used the training data generated from o1 (amongst other things). o1-pro has a longer "thinking" token length, so it comes out as better. Same goes with o1 and API where you can control the thinking length. I have not seen the implementation for r1 api as such, but if they provide that option, the output could be even better.
> is it's historically inaccurate.

Not at all. It's the 4th Amendment. It's particularly clear on this point. Perhaps "historically inaccurate" is not the phrase you meant to use. You might also notice that the CIA itself believes these activities were and are illegal. See "Project HTLINGUAL."

> Cops have been pilfering through suspects' things with no reason since the dawn of our republic.

They get warrants first or they are, in fact, committing a crime. It is, admittedly, a difficult crime to prosecute, but further evidence against your phrasing is that this is in fact a crime that does get charged.

> Landowners, on the other hand, could stand their ground.

Owning land is not at all a distinction. "Persons, Houses, Papers and Effects" are. That land is not a part of this enumerated list is actually a particular point in the enforcement of this law and creates a "plainly visible" standard that is applied by courts.

> The better argument is we have advanced enough that this should be illegal.

It's illegal. Full stop. Vagaries of enforcement are not material to this point.
Interestingly enough, the French do it the other way around, and start counting from the final year (they also start at 0 so it's offset by one).

That's arguably a better system since you can keep adding earlier and earlier years (mandatory school starting age has drifted from 11 to 6 to 3 over the years) while keeping everything consistent.

Unfortunately they messed it up in 1959 by renaming 12th to 7th and giving matching names to the new 13th/14th.
My grandmother said the same thing about the end of the Second World War as a young German and wouldn’t elaborate.
The brain has this nice thing of removing traumatizing memories so that it can move on. Asking people about these things is not a good idea. Just let them recount the tales if they want.
I doubt there would be a AGI disaster so soon and most probably it would be commercial end of the source company.
That applies equally to most people having been through war and becoming refugees. I know a couple of people who fled from Afghanistan, and that wasn't exactly a cakewalk. Like "my brother was forced to enroll in the talibans and got killed, so they ordered my father to provide another fighter, so he decided to make me escape to Iran instead at age 13, from where I walked / hitchhiked to Sweden in 2 years"
china has it and is still destabilizing. Such systemd can work if its a panopticon of all on all, but they do not work if centralized and in service to a few.
My boundaries are absolutely only about me. Using spell check is one thing, but if you outright can't write without using an LLM prompt then no, I don't want to read it thinking a person wrote it. If that doesn't catch on, I'd sooner move to a whitelist approach or stop reading altogether than be forced to read it.
My big annoyance with all the LLM talk on HN is that the majority of things discussed simply amount to being glorified HttpClient wrappers yet advertised or talked about as it is this big advancement that everyone should be excited about.

Then you have people that drank the LLM kool-aid and their hyper-inflated expectations and how they will all be met within the year.

I am starting to simply ignore such threads altogether.
Handheld fatigue.
Iceberg has the hdfs catalog, which also relies only on dirs and files.

That said, a catalog (which Delta also can have) helps a lot to keep things tidy. For example, I can write a dataset with Spark, transform it with dbt and a query engine (such as Trino) and consume the resulting dataset with any client that supports Iceberg. If I use a catalog, all happens without having to register the dataset location in each of these components.
After soviets left there was high risk of basically civil war.

That happened for example in Romania in 1989, somehow it did not happen in Poland.
A hack was not the cause of the 2003 blackout.
There are not just startups that become unicorns and startups that fold.

Investors' worst nightmare is if you just make enough money to keep going, but you don't grow ("lifestyle business" as they use it is a derogatory term).

That's because they prefer a sudden death where they can write down the investment and deduct their loss from taxes than an investment where they never see any money again.

And then there are "acquisitions" that are really "acui-hires" dressed up as acquisitions to get the people (more common) or to buy an asset in a limited shell package (less common) after things did/may have (but people were to tempted to take the offer) or did not pan/panned out. Some people consider anything <$50m as a "failure", because that's roughly the sum that many corporations can spend without calling the bigshots for a board meeting to decide.
Lobby for WFOE BYD in US first. Sell 50% of X China to a PRC JV who handles content filtering and censorship. Done.
Something close to what we saw in the early days of the war when it nearly happened: huge numbers of Ukranians streaming across the European borders.

Once Ukraine surrendered there would then be a question of whether to allow "free Ukranian" forces to operate from inside NATO, or arrest them. Would there be a series of escalating incidents towards a direct NATO-Russia war?
Very good summary, but the problem is, like most things, it is impossible to 100% rule out the lab theory. It is always possible to look at one of these evidences and say "yeah, but ...". And given how politicized this question is, people are just going to believe what they want to believe. I am quite pessimistic about this, that people will remain rational.
I read worryingly little (no?) counter to the sentiment expressed by the lyrics as part of your message and the comments here. And the implication that people in other countries wouldn't spend $10MM of government funds to save a family instead of watching them ditch in the water is ridiculous.

- "The World" has jumped in to help Americans often. It's just that USA, due to their advantageous geographical position, never being bombed to bits, and having economic and military absolute supremacy, hasn't often been in a position of need where other countries can help out significantly.

- An example of where the world has helped significantly: Post 9/11 wars

- A recent example of when the world has helped: Californian wild fires

- And separately from that, of those "five thousand times" where the USA has helped other people in trouble, I guarantee a lot of those actually had considerable benefits for USA, meaning it wasn't a charity thing but the USA got something they wanted out of it, as well. Which is fine but let's not kid ourselves about those motives.

Just opening Wikipedia on the San Francisco earthquake, under the heading "Relief" it gives some indication of the international support given:

> During the first few days after news of the disaster reached the rest of the world, relief efforts reached over $5,000,000, equivalent to $169,560,000 in 2023. London raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Individual citizens and businesses donated large sums of money for the relief effort: Standard Oil and Andrew Carnegie each gave $100,000; the Dominion of Canada made a special appropriation of $100,000; and even the Bank of Canada in Ottawa gave $25,000.

And if we're allowed to go back as far as the San Francisco earthquake to "judge" the world, maybe we can extend that just a little further towards independence, where France provided significant support to the fledgling nation.

"The Americans", is frankly, ridiculous, and anyone subscribing to the sentiments within betrays the same (and wrong) isolationist understanding of the world as they ironically indeed blame others to have.
> the boundaries of the original private railway companies (GWR, LNER, LMS, SR)

Minor point, though maybe less minor in context of the original post. They are not the original private railway companies. They are the companies created in the 1920s by the London government as it forced railway companies together after it had took them under state control during ww1.

The original private railway companies were originally primarily northern companies, some of who eventually developed mainlines to the rich south eastern markets.
The entire talk is great! Highly recommended.
There you go: https://github.com/aarroyoc/postgresql-prolog
The UK is a poor country with a money laundering capital tacked-on.
That’s not what a lifestyle business is. Unless your lifestyle is eating ramen
I've hidden the sidebar because I did not like the push-to-the-left it causes when going from certain pages to others. Am I breaking accessibility features for some?
True. I think there is some posturing involved in the 500b number as well.

Either that or its an excuse for everyone involved to inflate the prices.

Hopefully the datacenters are useful for other stuff as well. But also I saw a FT report that it's going to be exclusive to openai?

Also as I understand it these types of deals are usually all done with speculative assets. And many think the current AI investments are a bubble waiting to pop.

So it will still remain true that if jack falls down and breaks his crown, jill will be tumbling after.
Yup!, that is interesting, makes you think!
So why does the acretion disk form at all? as a singularity should have be perfectly uniform gravitationaly. So the laws change @ the boundry
and what we percieve as spin in a black hole, may
be an effect caused by the integration of a singularitys gravity with 3 dimensional space.
Under the event horison is the naked singularity, where something else, entirely, is happening.
But yes, the lack of handedness to the disk points to something not quite playing by the rules. And that there is evidence of some turbulence, shear?, at the event horison, speaks to some possible "leakage" from the black hole, or it could just be a natural phenominon of a singularity and 3D space existing at the same time and place.
And the link to frame dragging, desribes, what is called shear in fluids, which takes us all the way back to is light a fluid, particle,wave,field, or what arguments, good fun.
Very different, as friendly land is not so far away and no water in between.

Look for fall of Kabul, if you are looking for dramatic scenes.
Get a large enough population and you'll be able to get volunteers for any conceivable experiment.
Try installing OpenBSD then. Even though the installer runs in text mode, it holds your hand thru a standard setup, all the way to a graphical login. The basic X11 desktop is a part of the base system (as opposed to packages/ports).

The installer also supports a bunch of advanced features, like scripting an automated install. OpenBSD is also some of the cleanest and simplest code I've ever read.
That would be the best case outcome for some, and even that is a horribly bad outcome. But the vast majority of people would get DDOSed, scammed, misled by politicians and political actors etc. The erosion of trust just by humans being intellectually dishonest and tribal is already bearing really dark fruit.. covering the globe in LLM slop on top of that will predictably make it much worse.
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Nothing stops them from selling you back their share at close to zero if they really want to right it off.
Then either you edit the results as suggested in TFA or those comments are in fact not yours. Grammatically correct or otherwise.
I would say it doesn't but it is actively working on it

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/52054
Ottoman harem emoji is valid Unicode now.
So I'm not the only who wonders about the hyperbole emanating from Friston et al! Some more morsels:

- The CEO is an "International Bestselling Author" [1].

- The company blog states that Friston has "successfully [decoded] the underlying mechanisms of intelligence as it functions in the brain and biological systems" [2].

But they got $10M investment from G42, an Emirati VC [3]. Note that G42 have also invested in Cerebras and OpenAI [4]. So their PR works.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-ren%C3%A9-0201902/

[2] https://www.verses.ai/blog/blogs/letter-from-the-ceo

[3] https://21624003.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/216240...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G42_(company)
From reading bits of WW2 naval history, it seems "push aircraft off the carrier in an emergency" was more doctrine than you'd expect. Because the fuel is such a fire risk.

The worst-case scenario would be not pushing the aircraft off, the Cessna attempts a landing anyway, collides, and sets the entire carrier deck ablaze. Hundreds dead and the carrier potentially lost.
for some reason it's really cumbersome to access this tech
False equivalency. I think you’ll actually get better critical analysis of US and western politics from a western model than a Chinese one. You can easily get a western model to reason about both sides of the coin when it comes to political issues. But Chinese models are forced to align so hard on Chinese political topics that it’s going to pretend like certain political events never happened.

E.g try getting them to talk in a critical way about “the trail of tears” and “tiananmen square”

It could be interesting to challenge these models on something like the rights of Hawaiian people and the possibility of Hawaii independence. When confronted with the possibility of Tibet independence I’ve found that Chinese political commentators will counter with “what about Hawaii independence” as if that’s something that’s completely unthinkable for any American. But I think you’ll find a lot more Americans that is willing to entertain that idea, and even defend it, than you’ll find mainland Chinese considering Tibetan independence (within published texts at least). So I’m sceptical about a Chinese models ability to accurately tackle the question of the rights of a minority population within an empire, in a fully consistent way.

Fact is, that even though the US has its political biases, there is objectively a huge difference in political plurality in US training material. Hell, it may even have “Xi Jinping thought” in there

And I think it’s fair to say that a model that has more plurality in its political training data will be much more capable and useful in analysing political matters.
Interesting thing in his background. Apparently his mum's parents were Hitler supporters and moved to South Africa from Canada as it was too liberal. Musk's dad talking about it: https://youtu.be/B6e1ES4MLD0?t=200
I can't think of a single thing in Gnome that is somehow better than Windows, in terms of usability for beginners.
> Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing jumbo jet

Guess somebody hasn't heard of Airbus. Or, these days, Embraer. If other countries didn't have competitive aircraft the US wouldn't feel the need for tariffs.
Yeah, I got confused by that too. Steam Deck is a handheld, right? It should fit in your pocket, right?
> if the US pays for the damage the things that have escaped its borders have caused,

Or just covid. I remember after PRC lockdown when regional countries were publishing their inbound repatriation flight test data and basically they only got very low digit covid positives, i.e. it was epidemiologically containable. At same time you have all the news of western travellers spreading covid to different countrries because they kept borders open.
Why are you so angry? I thought it was a wonderful overview. An even if not, insults are hardly necessary.
If the cia wants to prove something, they do. See the Saddam Hussein weapon of mass destruction that never actually existed.

The fact they can't prove it and have low confidence on this theory means it has absolutely zero credibility.

I see a pattern in the news these last month of warmongering, from the US to China. Maybe I'm wrong but history has shown that with the us, everytime they want to make a war they first got to brainwash their population into that for a few years and then they find any convoluted reason to get in while pretending they're merely defending them or others.
Thinking in Expressions
I think the conventional wisdom is to lean on the DB to maintain data integrity, using constraints, foreign keys, etc.; not to use it to run actual business logic.
Aha, for some reason I thought they provided full-size Llama through some bundling of multiple chips. Fair enough then, anyway long term I feel like providers running powerful open models on purpose built inference ASICs will be really awesome.
It is more like Switch. With grips like your average controller. So it is not a small device as such.
AI sure, which is good, as I'd rather not have giant companies in the US monopolizing it. If they open source it and undercut OpenAI etc all the better

GPU: nope, that would take much longer, Nvidia/ASML/TSMC is too far ahead
Unexpected I can handle. Emerging has overtones to AGI

It's like fusion. "Sustained plasma" and "more energy out than in" said time after time after time.
1. Survivorship bias
2. Countries didn't do it. Individuals did.
it looks alright -- 10 bucks is not much for a book. but there are already many great graphics books out there, and resources like inigo quilez's blog are absolutely incredible for the burgeoning graphics programmer