skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"On February 29, 1980 (enough of a rarity in itself), E.J. Kollar and C. Fisher reported an ingenious technique for coaxing chickens to reveal some surprising genetic flexibility retained from a distant past."

-- Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Two pages of technical explanation follow, but they got chicken embryo tissue to produce teeth.
> this CDC order seems contrary to Trump’s recent Executive Order

Freedom of speech and the First Amendment generally apply to the government imposing penalties on private citizens, e.g. through criminal law.

The CDC is the government. The government as an employer regularly imposes speech restrictions on government employees and always has, e.g. if you're a public school teacher and you want to teach students to believe that vaccines cause autism, they can tell you not to do that and fire you if you don't. You can imagine the trouble if that wasn't the case.
No doubt people have already died here
I chose death and never looked back. Favorite replacement has been Diatomic, currently looking into Rama.
> They were predicted to end the software engineering profession for almost four years already

ChatGPT was launched on November 30 2022. Two years and two months ago. The fact that in such a short timeframe you're talking about missed predictions is absurd, but telling of the accelerated timeframe in which we're living. The fact is that currently AI and LLMs are going through a phase of explosive improvement, to the point we can expect enormous improvements in capabilities every six months or so.
There is truth to what you wrote but a major difference is that this is mainly about scientific results now and no matter how it plays out it will mean major damage to science and evidence based research that will take decades to fix. We will lose all the people on the brink of distrusting science.
They did often use better refrigerant back in the day, but it is refrigerant we don't use now because it is either highly poisonous or hell on the ozone layer. The compressor itself wasn't often all that efficient mechanically, but the good refrigerant helps make up for it, but also there is only so much to gain out of compressor efficiency. The biggest problem with old fridges is they were insulated like absolute garbage. Not only is the insulation often super thin, but the steel shell on the inside was rarely separated from the steel shell on the outside leading to a lot of heat transfer. So even with it closed they ran constantly almost like you did have the door open all the time.

You also have to consider its cooling capacity, you only need a little bit of cooling 95% of the time, but when you put fresh groceries in it or water in the fridge, until those are cooled down they are heating up everything else in the fridge and so stuff will spoil faster/easier. Some older fridges might take a long time to cool everything down if you put in more than a single item at a time.

But really, most fridge breakdowns are not because of a compressor failure or anything major, 99% of the time it is some simple electronic component. A simple bad capacitor can prevent your fridge compressor from kicking in. Or a thermocouple could go bad and not tell it to turn on when it should. Both of those parts cost like $2 to produce, but of course they choose more proprietary designs and configurations to make a generic fix more difficult which lets them markup the parts on prices. Which has the side effect of convincing more people to just buy new because they don't know if the 1500% marked up proprietary part was the only part near failure, and they don't have the knowledge or confidence to start tinkering on their refrigerator before they lose all their potential savings on spoiled food, or use an appliance repairman who will add on $200+ onto the inflated parts prices because they don't want the liability taken upon themselves if they were not using direct replacement parts.
There’s a certain irony in hearing someone describe an LLM as a "stochastic parrot" for the ten-thousandth time when the only reason they’re doing so is that they’ve seen a sufficient number of other people using the exact same term (so now it's in their proverbial training data).
Do we still play pretend that the law and constitution mean something ? Once a country goes bananas all things are possible
> That's sort of the crux of the issue: what constitutes exposing a pointer?

A lot of the people who subscribe to "optimization 3 is clearly wrong" make the argument that the answer is... everything is always exposed, whether it be (uintptr_t)0x42, some valid stack pointer, or anywhere else for that matter. This certainly tracks with the model that many C (and systems programmers, more generally) expect the language semantics to represent.

It disables a lot of optimizations to make these assumptions, but the argument generally is that many of those optimizations were likely extremely tenuous in the first place and have potentially dubious benefits outside of contrived benchmarks. This also was the point of the "restrict" and "register" keywords to tell the compiler "hey you can assume these things don't alias with each other" or "hey use registers for this variable", etc.

It's clear that a demand for this type of language semantics exists, as most large projects you can probably think of have flags that disable a lot of the alias assumptions (everything from Linux to Firefox to Clang (in some cases) to Chrome, etc) and some compilers (such as MSVC) don't bother with many of the alias assumptions in the first place (which affects anything built with those compilers).
"'Severance' creator has whole series mapped out: 'There's a plan for where it's all going'"

https://torontosun.com/entertainment/television/severance-cr...

We'll see how that goes.
Isn't Hetchy just 20% of the grid?

The vehicle is 20% zero emissions. The cookies are 20% zero fat.

No one is going to make clean energy when they can make money lying about it instead.

We don't accept this absurdity in any other industry.
The issue is the rampant inequality in the US. The below median American does not have it that well, even if they work their assets off.
I spent six months working full-time developing Rune, an open-source music player and management software that offers a modern experience with a beautiful, Zune-inspired interface design.

As an open-source project in a niche market, establishing a sustainable development model has been challenging. I set the price at $10, which gives users privileged access to feature requests and effectively makes them stakeholders in the project's future direction. While I acknowledge this might seem high for open-source software, the development costs and ongoing maintenance require significant resources.

So far, I've sold about 60 copies. After platform fees of roughly 40%, the revenue covers only a fraction of the development costs. Some users have criticized this as "money-grabbing," but they may not fully grasp the complexity involved in creating such software from scratch. The development process demands meticulous attention to various aspects, including accessibility features, elegant design implementation, and cross-platform integration.

Maintaining my dedication to the project while seeing modest financial returns has been challenging. There's constant pressure to add value and justify the price tag, which is leading to burnout. Finding the right balance between making the software accessible to users while ensuring sustainable development has proven to be a complex challenge.

The path of independent open-source development, while rewarding in many ways, comes with its own set of unique challenges that aren't always visible to users.

This isn't an easy path to follow.

Source code here: https://github.com/losses/rune
This is what I don't understand about these types. Wouldn't you want to spend your last years doing - not this? Like whatever you like, model trains, watching star wars, golfing.
And Jane Street isn't a classic HFT either. Speed isn't their differentiating factor (or at least wasn't in the past).
Well, that's what we have market price signal for to decide.
> It's all 48kHz (or multiples of that, for snake oil)

Oversampling can be a useful internal detail for ADCs and DACs. For example, if the digital audio stream is mathematically converted to 96 kHz with a high-quality FIR low-pass filter and then fed to a DAC, then the analog low-pass filter can have a much shallower roll-off and be more easily designed. Same goes for ADCs, where the analog filter can be simple and gentle, then digitized at 96 kHz, then downsampled digital to 48 kHz with high-quality but more computationally intensive filters. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversampling , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation , etc.)

But yes, listening to or distributing audio at anything over 48 kHz is a complete waste of resources. Monty@Xiph.Org explained very well in: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Can't currently run. But they said Trump couldn't run for a third term, and yet there is a constitutional amendment on the table to do just that. Nothing is off the table now.
Ahem. It's only "canceling" when Democrats do it. When Republicans do it, it's free speech (somehow).
Given his current health, Trump isn't going to stay in charge more than four years though. He could keep the title but would end up as impotent puppet on life support (like Bouteflika was at the end of his reign over Algeria).
No amount of showing you the mistakes in your papers works. “Women earn 52 cents on the dollar!” Same job? “Yes” No, look here.

“But there is still this argument” — No, there isn’t, it’s been studied in that other study.

You guys just always come back and cast doubt, but it’s only this: Doubt and finally, falsehoods.
In my mind, RTFM is read the fucking manual, but TFA is the fine article.

It seems to be confusing however, because it's been discussed here previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888845
Previous thread from just a few days ago (5k budget):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853287
In many countries it is the case. The dystopian behemoth corpocracy of the USA is a unique blight. Other developed capitalist economies are usually much more regulated than the US, resulting in larger emphasis on worker protection, worker rights and better anti-trust practices.
The idea is good, as far as I understand TLS however, the cert / asymmetric key is only used prove the identity/authenticity of the cert and thus the host for this session.

But the main content is not signed / checksummed with it, but rather a symmetrical session key, so one could probably manipulate this in the packet dump anyway.

I read about a Google project named SXG (Signed HTTP exchanges) that might do related stuff, albeit likely requiring the assistance of the publisher
This isn't mainly about scientific results. This is about hate and power. It didn't start here and it won't stop here. History is very clear that this will get even uglier very fast. We have a very small window left to do something to stop it, if we are lucky.
My comment got eaten by HN, but I think LLMs should be used as the glue between logic systems like prolog, with inductive, deductive and abductive reasoning being handed off to a tool. LLMs are great at pattern matching, but forcing them to reason seems like an out of envelope use.

Prolog would be how I would solve puzzles like that as well. It is like calling someone weak for using a spreadsheet or a calculator.

Abductive Commonsense Reasoning Exploiting Mutually Exclusive Explanations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14618
Note that that was published in 2014. Those days seem positively halcyon now.
In refining 3EEF2:8F2D39 (Kingsport) in 00h 03m 16s 543ms I have brought glory to the company.
Praise Kier.
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#mdrlumon #severance
lumon-industries.com
All they do is predict the next word!
Right. Training data might not encompass runs of translations exceeding this amount of characters so wouldn't be apparent for anything resembling existing training data.
What is GEO and why is no one building in it?
*GEO → Generative Engine Optimization*

When Google was started in 1998, they invented a revolutionary search algorithm that was based on backlinks. The premise was, if a lot of websites linked to your site, then it was a good and trustworthy source.

They were right, and SEO was born. For the last 20 years everyone on the internet has been trying to optimize and rank as high as possible on Google.

In the age of AI, there’s a new type of optimization. Generative engines like Perplexity, Google AI, ChatGPT Search, and more have taken the world by storm.

Not only do these engines find/search for the highest “ranked” sources of information, but they also read through and explain it to you in english that you can understand. These generative search engines have taken the lion’s share of the search market and will soon be used more than just the traditional Google, Yahoo, Edge, etc.

What does that mean for SEO?

It will take a while to kill off incumbents, so SEO will stay around for a while longer. But more internet companies are going to want to show up in the generated responses. That’s where GEO comes in.

Internet based Companies NEED tools to help them:

1. Optimize their websites for GEO
2. Have visibility on their GEO, knowing where/how they can improve.

The gap in the market here is: no one is doing this. There’s only one company currently that I could find, which is called Try Profound. They’re basically Ahrefs for GEO.

Who’s building in this field? Is this a necessity? → are you selling painkillers or vitamins?
Yes. A mature and well-understood tool does not cease to exist nor cease to be useful simply because new tools exist.

Simply being "new" does not mean "better," except for those who merely seek novelty.
DeepSeek and Jevons Paradox: Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong
Obama was black man president that broke republican minds. They really got more extreme, refused to cooperate in any way so center "work across the aisle" politics became impossible.

And then they voted for Trump. Ta-Nehisi comment with name "trum is first white president" makes the point better then I would do.
this looks so cool and fun especially with how excited i am about this show but the lag is unreal
> A lot of the people who subscribe to "optimization 3 is clearly wrong" make the argument that the answer is... everything is always exposed

For anyone reading this, note that that's not what I'm arguing -- my argument very specifically depends on the exposure of q: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42906600
https://archive.ph/AIoRN
Traditionally it is not, but it can be, it is just doing it.
Freedom of Speech.

Democracy.

Equality.

Equity.

I used to know what these words meant, but it seems the old definitions are no longer fit for purpose.
Are you seriously trying to use a Charles Koch backed "civil rights" op as your source?

Stop eating up billionaire bullshit. They don't care about you. They will gladly use your corpse as cattle feed.
I followed 80% of what you've said, but not all of it. I'd love to read a sketch of this in code.

How would you clean up Writer in std?
The only way to think she can't speak well is if you are so racist you are unable to process smart black woman.
"Woke" is exactly the same thing as "politically correct" used to be, along with "social justice warrior" and "cultural Marxism" and a bunch of other euphemisms for "not us and therefore evil". It's been the same thing for decades. This is just the latest incarnation.

People often seem to say that this is the ultimate form of it. It's not. It continues unabated, and in a few years they'll have yet another term for the same thing.
Nice! It'd be fun to see a comparison in rust if anyone is keen. - Both code and resulting performance.
Show HN: I designed a DSL for playing multiple segments of media files
and implemented it for MP3.

The DSL "CJM" extracts and concatenates segments from multiple files.

It integrates features of CUE, M3U, and SQL,

just like:

---------

CJM Cut, Sequence

#"blk1"

some song.mp3

00:00:000 0:""

00:10:000 1:"02"

00:15:000 0:""

#"blk2"

some song inst.mp3

00:00:000 1:"01"

00:10:000 0:""

00:15:000 1:"03"

CJM SelectAll, Convert(0,1)

CJM Merge

CJM Alphabetize

CJM Playback
This story just keeps getting more and more bizarre. Reading the charges and supporting affidavits, the whole thing is reading more and more like some sort of Yorgos Lanthimos film. The rationalist connection - a literal sequel to the 2022 events (in turn a sequel to the 2019 CFAR stuff) - is already weird enough. But I can't get over the ridiculousness of the VT situation. I have spent time in that area of VT, and the charged parties must have been acting quite bizarre for the clerk to alert the police. Checking into a motel wearing all black, open carrying does NOT cut it. The phones wrapped in foil is comical, and the fact that they were surveilled over several days is interesting, especially because it reads like the FBI only became aware of their presence after the stop and shootout?

The arresting agent seems pretty interesting, a former risk adjuster who recently successfully led the case against a large inter-state fraud scheme. This may just be the plot of Fargo season 10. Looking forward to the season arc of the FBI trying to understand the "rationalist" community. The episode titled "Roko's Basilisk", with no thematically tied elements, but they manage to turn Yudkowsky into a rat.
No they weren't. There was huge focus on trans and immigration and vaccinationa. Economic is distant third.

They have continuing quest to make abortions as illegal as possible, the quest for male supremacy, the climate denial ... This was not hold your nose for economics. This was I don't care about economics, I hate others too much.

> What is the point of saying "people wanted this"? To legitimize not fighting it?

I am sick of excessive benefits of the doubt constantly given to the conservatives and their voters. Of sympathetic portraits of poor then while people they harm never get that. Of them lying, knowingly throwing false accusations and then centrists or left being blamed for not being nice to then.

Yes it should be fought. But it is not true that republican voters were victims of something when eventually Musks actions harm some of them. They wanted to cause harm and will cause more harm to people not like them.
What's new in GTK, winter 2025 edition
Wondering if yt-dlp picks up the higher codec formats too.
I once got a Sprint magic box full of cockroaches (not a router but a sort of femtocell that used another tower for backhaul). Thankfully UPS threw it out in the snow and I didn't discover it for a few days so the roaches froze to death.

So yes, ISP routers and associated equip I do not recommend!
Would you like to offer a substantive critique of any of the highlighted cases?

And for what it's worth, here's a later highlighted case where FIRE defended a professor who had been told to stop teaching, and I quote, "woke shit" like gender studies at a state university.

https://www.thefire.org/cases/valdosta-state-university-prof...
Where do the funds come from? Zuckerberg? Bezos? They’re not coming from the NIH.

Do we crowd fund it? Maybe we create a system where everyone gives a percentage of their income. And we scale it progressively so as not to cause undo hardship to low earners.

Eh people won’t go for that. Let’s tax neighboring countries, say 25% of the cost of their traded goods. They won’t retaliate right? Ok go.
In the input to the final optimization, there is only one store between the place where q is allocated and the place where q is used.

That one store is clearly identified as going into p, not into q.

Therefore, it's quite reasonable to conclude that q has not been changed.

If we weren't allowed to conclude that, we would almost never be able to put stack variables into registers, and that would make even simple programs run a lot slower.

(The other point, which is another argument that it's the second optimization that should be considered incorrect, is that the program before the final optimization has a store to p[1], which is an out-of-bounds access into an array, which should be considered an error in all reasonable programming languages.)
Mini-split HVAC systems create both heated and cooled air, and send them to just the rooms they are needed, while also redistributing existing disparities of hot and cold. The latter being the most efficient HVAC mode of all.

I could imagine at some point, all our heated and cooled air, water, and ice could be one system.

For fast temperature demands, such as hot water or ice, perhaps reservoirs of chemically stored heat and cold could be built up at useful locations, for very high speed release when needed.

Completely dispense with storing hot or cold air/water, except for fridges. But provide the cool air for them, as a byproduct of being one system, avoiding the local inefficiency of both cooling air in small quantities and generating heat at the same location.

It would make it cheaper to have more fridges and ice makers around a houses, if you just had to plug them into power and an HVAC controlled "inlet/outlet".
You're right, thank you for the fix. My apologies.
I live in the Deep South. People here absolutely and unironocally believe they live in the freest country on earth. This view is widespread for a thousand miles.
Snarky comments I’m seeing here aside, this merits serious discussion. Does this affect software sales, in-app purchases, services? A lot of us with a lot hanging on the line right now.
Keywords are a bad way to judge a language.
I generally prefer working with dataframes, so this could be interesting.
The CDC instruction applies only to researchers actually employed by the CDC (read: the government).

Again, I don't like this any more than you do, but your employer generally does get to dictate what you do and say at work.
When you say keystroke data collection, do you mean that the chat app collects the messages you're typing?
If you have a LAN cable, or fiber for WAN it can be done, but with cable modems it's not always possible to use your own device. I got a device which hasn't been updated since 2019 . :(
No, because it calls out to tools which are not open source.
https://archive.ph/Dy9An

I wonder if this is also a CUDA-bypass, PTX optimization that led to the 10x performance gain by Deepseek: https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/deepseeks-latest-shocker-who-...
What this really says is that C giving one-past-the-end pointers meaningful semantics may have been a mistake. So was trying to give aliasing of writable objects meaningful semantics.
> designed as the simplest, most basic assessment of fluid intelligence possible.

This was the goal, but that doesn't say what the test itself is. Try to get a human to solve this problem without their visual cortex, they couldn't do it. Stating your goal for a thing, doesn't make the thing that goal.

AI researchers designing intelligence tests are like programmers designing their own cryptography.

How about we have people skilled in neuropsychology, psychometrics and cognitive psychology do what they are good at.
If I have to be precise with my natural languages sure, more closed on certain dimensions

Recent years efforts from these politicians make me believe we are heading towards the direction that one day it's not just certain dimensions but fully isolated.

Name one Chinese EV you can buy in U.S.

Name one U.S. EV you can buy in China

Now we want to do the same efforts for llm, not even allow to download to run locally that is specifically from China, and running llm doesn't even need Internet.

Honestly I've never heard such legislation in any other country, not even north korea or iran.

I can understand ban export, but banning import? Seriously? Even Kim Jong Un is riding with Mercedes.