skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yes you're right, it's a neutron generator. They don't claim to ever achieving break even, or even power surplus. No fusion startup will ever do in my view. Combining that neutron generator with active material, now we're talking. That's a sub critical ultra compact hybrid reactor, which becomes super critical by pressing a button. And sub critical again with another press. That's the future and the reason why some folks at NASA want to get hold of one for their future space mission
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (1996)
It isn't a silver bullet in that it can just "make software" but it is changing the entire dynamic.

You can't do point sampling to figure out where things are going. We have to look at the slope. People see a paper come out, look at the results and say, "this fails for x, y and z. doesn't work", that is now how scientific research works. This is why two minute papers has the tag line, "hold on to your papers ... two papers down the line ..."

Copy and paste the whole thread into a SOTA model and have meta me explain it.
I wish those sorts of people would realize that they are showing their whole ass when they act like that. Only the deeply insecure mask their ignorance with arrogance. We can hear your thoughts and feel your motivations.
>But I think it's inappropriate to claim that models like R1 are "good at deductive or inductive reasoning" when that is demonstrably not true, they are incapable of even the simplest "out-of-distribution" deductive reasoning:

That's not actually what your link says. The tweet says that it solves the simple problem (that they originally designed to foil base LLMs) so they had to invent harder problems until they found one it could not reliably solve.
>Who Does That Server Serve?

What does that server serve is something I wish people kept better track of. Ops people are used to focusing on whatever "big iron" their companies consider as the server for the services they sell, but then people forget "client-server" as a model: There are name servers, web servers, mail servers (SMTPd and POPd and IMAPd), file servers and display servers, etc.

Please people, don't lose sight of this: one box can run all these servers, and if you actually want to be full stack, your box should run all of them. Sure, at scale you need a NOC and multiple web servers pretending to be one web server, etc, but if we lose "server ubiquity" it makes the problem of walled garden solutions so much worse.

at its heart, this is a problem of protocols. Protocols need to be open, creating a space where both clients and servers can flourish. Keeping servers in the raised floor server room is Larry Ellison and Bill Gates dream, but it's our nightmare. With open protocols, it doesn't matter if a particular server is open or closed source, because you will always have a choice. This is the philosophy that created the explosion of the internet. Don't let it die.
Do you know propaganda when you see it?
How about an independent,
certified,
audit?
A stunt like tariffs. Make it worth my while to keep it.
Government backed racism, also known as DEI consulting.
If you ever get the opportunity, have a chicken perch on your finger.

First thing you'll notice is much lighter they are than they look.

Second thing you'll notice is how hot their feet are.

A tangible lesson in the importance of surface area vs volume wrt mechanical, thermo, aero systems.
Does Price Tower count?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Tower
They definitely knew something was up. There were active roundups of victims and a staunch public policy of ghettos etc.
I mean, probably it shouldn't, but I'm worried about thin wires in a basket concentrating the force from the eggs getting jostled. Fair point about leaching, though.
Or perhaps like calling Paul Ehrlich, the pre-eminent expert on Malthusian theory, a dabbler in ecology.
I’m sure we can do better here.

In my experience our customers are more worried about having the service stop when they hit the limit of a tier than they are about being charged a few more dollars.
Discussion (595 points, 2 days ago, 544 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938125
Saying things like that in real life would get you socked in the face. "Edge-lord" is just the Gen-Z equivalent of the more traditional "boys will be boys"-to-psychopath pipeline.
It looks great. But it's missing one critical feature of "fast-food" apps like TikTok: the content is not easily digestible. Which is understandable, because scientific papers are dense.

Maybe a good idea would be to parse the abstract through an LLM to make it more understandable (maybe caching the results so it's not expensive)? Maybe also using some standard style, like starting with a couple of "dumbed-down" sentences of the article for the non-expert, and progressively explaining better.
Susceptibility to Online Misinformation
Once I read this sentence in the video and saw 5 seconds of it, I instantly knew it to be true:

"Our research hypotheses [are] that robots should not only move to fulfill functional purposes and constraints, but also move 'elegantly', using movements to express its internal states to humans during interaction."

It intantly clicked as an obvious design trait — it's robot body language.
> Electric cars actually came before gas cars

They essentially both came about at the same time. They were both being actively developed during much of the 19th century, with the first real marketable versions of each coming in the later half of the 1880's.
Just wait. Trump will “sue” (ask for a bribe) them for something and VC and hedge funds will “settle the lawsuit” (pay the bribe) like Meta, Disney (ABC News), Paramount Global (CBS News) and TWC/Discovery (CNN News).

Increasing the SALT exemption I’m all for, I would much rather the Blue states get more tax revenue at the expense of red states. They wanted Trump, they got him.

And I’m saying that as someone who moved to state tax free state
WM_TIMER has a flaw the author is not aware of. It is a low priority event that yields to pretty much all other events in the message loop.

Meaning if a user is busy jerking off a mouse which is causing WM_MOUSEMOVE events, the WM_TIMER will never fire at the expected time.

There is a hack to peek the next event specifically looking for WM_TIMER, on every other event call, which would trigger it on the queue.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191108-00/?p=10...
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Either projects start shipping FIPS enabled or companies have to rebuild and repackage projects with FIPS enabled.

With OpenSSL installed system wide you can turn on a flag and the library will force it into FIPS mode internally, with Go unless you build your binaries to link against OpenSSL like this Microsoft Go release seems to be doing you don't get that instant on system wide.
hey I've something to say, this reply I'm making is not related to the parent. i'm kind of disappointed you "tried" colider by looking at the syntax. Not mad just sad, makes sense that I didn't add build instructions when your video was recorded.

thx.
The end of infinity: Droste factory closes
Title refers to "Droste Effect" see wikipedia.
Probably "Grok", trained on typical Twitter content.
That's pretty interesting stuff. From the article it doesn't sound like anyone is doing a lab test to determine the lower bound for light intensity. Any reason not to? I mean, take a batch of this algae and shine 2x the theoretical minimum light intensity for photosynthesis on it. And another batch of algae with 1.5x, and 1.0x, and 0.8x, and 0.5x, etc.. And see which batches of algae die off? Devil is in the details, I guess?
You say this like we didn't just have massive outrage at hard medical science because the reality was that, yes, you should be made to get the damn vaccine.

The american public, beyond all else, hates being told they are wrong.

They are rarely right. So how do you square that circle?
This argument is so bizarre to me.

There is no evidence whatsoever to support that humans create "new, spontaneous thoughts" in any materially, qualitatively different way than an AI. In other words: As a Turing-computable function over the current state. It may be that current AI's can't, but the notion that there is some fundamental barrier is a hypothesis with no evidence to support it.

> Even if you give GenAI unlimited time, it will not develop its own writing/drawing/painting style or come up with a novel idea, because strictly by how it works it can only create „new” work by interpolating its dataset

If you know of any mechanism whereby humans can do anything qualitatively different, then you'd have the basis for a Nobel Prize-winning discovery. We know of no mechanism that could allow humans to exceed the Turing computability that AI models are limited to.

We don't even know how to formalize what it would mean to "come up with a novel idea" in the sense you appear to mean, as presumably, something purely random would not satisfy you, yet something purely Turing computable would also not do, but we don't know of any computable functions that are not Turing computable.
> Since the Snowden disclosures we know that the US engages in mass surveillance of EU users by scooping up personal data from US Big Tech

Meanwhile, Germans pay with cash and credit cards are very unpopular because the German government sniffs every single transaction.

Europeans think they are pro freedom, but their idea of freedom begins by getting the government over them 24/7.
Gaming is also interesting because you have another tactic of removing reasons why people walk away. It’s practically cliche to observe how toxic many gaming communities are, and the companies also have a reputation for poor pay and work-life balance which is going to deter a lot of people who didn’t spend their tween/teen years cultivating a self-identity as a member of that community. I would bet that improving working conditions would attract more women along with men who have a different balance of life priorities.

If I had a magic wand, I’d add support for parents: that’s expensive and difficult for everyone, and studies show it disproportionately impacts women so you could make your staffing more balanced in a way which benefits everyone fairly.
Which would make sense, considering how recent the network access agreements were.
Similar one I wrote a while ago using Pupetteer for the IoT low power display purposes. Neat trick is that it learns the refresh interval, so that it takes a snapshot just before it's requested :) https://github.com/SmilyOrg/website-image-proxy
If the name is not descriptive enough, I put it in the test's docstring. Still, it sometimes is not enough.

I like languages where the test infrastructure lets you put an arbitrary string as the test name (e.g. F#, Elisp, Racket, etc). This way, you don't spend time thinking up a weird name for the test. You simply write a string that describes what you're testing, and what is expected. It's OK if that string is a few paragraphs long.
I Built a Crowdsourced Site to Track Public WiFi Speeds
As a remote worker, I always find it frustrating that there wasn't a site that lists public WiFi speeds — so I built one.
I wonder if you develop an ML model that uses brightness and color reduction cues in the video in order to estimate depth in lieu of a dive computer. I suspect cameras auto-exposure or underwater modes may nullify this.
Maybe I'm misreading. It sounds like you're stepping the user up a pricing tier - e.g. going from 50 a month to 100 and then charging at the better rate.

I would also worry about a bug on my end that fires off lots of screenshots. I would expect a quota or limit to protect me from that.
> The difference is that it is never about policy with MAGA voters. It’s about Trump.

This is why there's an effort to centralize power in the executive at a blistering pace, so the opposition can be permanently defeated even without Trump.

Watch for three things: ignoring the courts, snuffing out the influence of non-party sources of authority (the press, academic institutions), and centralization of police power. I don't think they're going to wait past April before they do all three.
Hacking an old Sea Shepherd seagoing ship back to life, videos
Not my videos, just recommending here, good watch. Not really IT, just a lot of stuck valves and old school marine engineering. Creaking sounds when they try to bosh the stuck parts back open. More videos on same topics on the channel, worth watching. Newest one deals with electical systems.
I'm sure it's not jusy because of their price.

Most of their latest shows are just bad and not original et all.
If it makes it stand out from all the other puzzle books, then it's great marketing, isn't it?
> It's very unfortunate that this stuff like efficiency and technology integration is now associated so closely with neo-Nazis.

I don't think “efficiency and technology integration” is. I think DOGE is because its being done by neo-Nazis and in support of a blatantly fascist administration and doing things that look a lot more like ideological censorship and corrupt self-dealing than efficiency and technical integration, including specifically targeting things in government that actually did efficiency and technical integration.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvergate_Bank
With the leaders of misinformation in charge in the US ... Misinformation will be the status quo in the foreseeable future.
Most projects that compile against OpenSSL can be forced into FIPS mode by setting a flag that the OpenSSL library uses to force enable FIPS mode when it is loaded.

Golang projects however don't compile against OpenSSL instead using the internal cryptography. In many cases rebuilding and repackaging a Golang based tool is a no-no since now you are accepting ownership of it in an audit, when instead you want to point to an upstream vendor, or source code is not available.

So in many cases in production while the system itself is in FIPS mode (Linux kernel), and applications using system crypto libraries (OpenSSL primarily) are in FIPS mode, Go binaries are not in FIPS mode and may end up using algorithms that are explicitly disallowed by the FIPS standards.
Local organic free-range eggs still selling for $5/dozen here at the local grocery store. Shelves stocked with non-local eggs are all empty.
> suburbia is supposedly better for kids even though they have nothing to do and rely on their parents to be driven to every activity.

That's a USofAian "suburb" .. not a well designed suburb.

There are many types of "dense", ranging from all skyscrapers, through (say) dense row housing with much open space, to big single house blocks everywhere (arguably the worst form).

Elsewhere in the world suburbs are surrounded by green belts and have embedded parks, footpaths and cycleways, shops, etc that are reachable without cars.
> We believe that these concepts can have the same impact on artificial intelligence

Where the concept is the exploitation of thousands of volunteers while repackaging their work. (I know that RedHat sponsors some people, sometimes to the detriment of projects, but a lot of it is not sponsored, especially when RedHat established itself.)
You could also call this "defending against anti-american expansion". Which seems like a thing foreign adversaries would love for the US to stop doing, if only they had a few folks on the inside to help them...
Colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia
If you found this interesting, you should also checkout the Sidekick Notepad from CGP Grey / Cortex [1]. CGP Grey has talked about this before in earlier videos [2] but recently updated a video discussing new designs [3]. The idea of 'Paper Apps' and the 'Sidekick' seem to be in a similar vein.

[1] https://cottonbureau.com/p/XT9MRF/journal/sidekick-notepad

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwpe8r50_o

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk4lBV5wgGM
Turing completeness makes it a different problem.
>, but if that's going to alienate me, I'm not going to join that Discord server.

Of course! Your preference is understandable but it just means the owner/admin can't make everybody happy. Your rejection of Discord because the admin chose it must be weighed against the following factors:

(1) you also can't join an IRC chat that doesn't exist because the owner/admin has no interest in the extra work of setting up an IRC node. E.g. the open source code project maintainer has no interest (or wants to spend money) on provisioning a server to run IRC software. The money problem & hosting provisioning problem is solved by the owner/admin just using Discord.

(2) there are other users that prefer Discord because they already have the login for other purposes (gaming, art, etc). Millions of users already have the Discord app on their phone. No need for users to hunt down an IRC client. The owner/admin doesn't want to alienate them.

So to make users like ivanmontillam more happy, it requires making the owner/admin and the other users less happy because they don't want to use IRC. That's the tradeoff.
Didn't the Lenovo Legion Go already have this joycon-as-mouse feature a couple of years ago? It was talked about widely in the press, e.g. https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-computers/the-len...
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People
And current government is running to the right, which IMO is terribly short-sighted strategy.
Probably meant to use "Infinity" instead of "Infiniti"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infiniti

...whose parent company Nissan, is incidentally is also having financial troubles.
The other day I fed a complicated engineering doc for an architectural proposal at work into R1. I incorporated a few great suggestions into my work. Then my work got reviewed very positively by a large team of senior/staff+ engineers (most with experience at FAANG; ie credibly solid engineers). R1 was really useful! Sorry you don’t like it but I think it’s unfair to say it sucks at reasoning.
Mm maybe running a local LLM for doing it would be a great idea, I'll try to do that and if it doesn't work well, I'll consider doing it with an API.
Paywall'd content.

Not paying for this. Please use some archive website if you are sharing selome article.
> cough-Lex Friedman-cough

Oh please elaborate!
You said, "Teamviewer", twice, should one be, "RustDesk"?
Looping over a canvas's framebuffer is a similar experience, just obviously a lot less performant. You also get easy access to the rest of your code's state/memory compared to a GPU shader, which can't have its own persistent state and needs variables explicitly allocated and passed into it.
> That's a USofAian "suburb" .

Better to just say 'American', FYI. It's much clearer and the ambiguity you are trying to avoid doesn't exist.
Cool! In using sth similar on my site to generate screenshots of tweets (for privacy purposes):

https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/xitterpng-privacy-friendly-...
Is there going to be a way to turn FIPS on as a requirement without having compiled the binary against the FIPS-140 module?

Even now it has been a lot of trouble trying to get vendors to provide us a way to rebuild/repackage their Golang binaries using the FIPS-140 support from RHEL, and if it is still the case that they need to build one-offs, teams will still need to rebuild/repackage a lot of Golang tools just to be FIPS compliant because it's not as simple as setting a flag like it is for OpenSSL.
Yes. Java, Python.
Another lacking feature is printing.
Wow, that thread is something else.

So genuine question: is Musk actually addicted to drugs? Or a frequent user? I keep seeing that around, but I don't know if it's more a joke/meme or serious?

My theory is that after he bought Twitter he no longer had to abide by the rules (since he owns the thing), and combined with his wealth basically no one ever says "no Elon, you can't do that" or "you idiot, that's fucking mental". Also he has tons of people cheering him on (also in that thread). This is not helping keeping him grounded.
Also found out a friend tore a ligament in her knee while skiing, got an MRI showing the tear, prayed, got another MRI showing the tear gone. Doc can't explain, and this has nothing to do with her susceptibility.
>Insiders know but don't talk too much about it.

Insiders right fucking here are insisting they have not experienced that.

Which insiders are right?

Guess what, it's both! America is 350 million people. Most things have been experienced by someone. That does not allow you to generalize usefully.

Meanwhile the women and non-white insiders are still experiencing straight up racism and sexual harassment and sexism so....
This is correct. There is no "you get access to everything" kind of clearance. That includes the President. Congress has the power to get access to anything, but even then there is a tight process limited to a handful of congresspeople.

A core part of this sort of security is compartmentalization. A person who has "top secret" level clearance has it for specific subject matter. Their clearance is worthless if they're outside those boundaries.
> Blue state governors can be leaned on extremely hard and most will have to give in if their Federal dollars are on the line.

This is especially true if the courts roll over and reverse the Impoundment Act, which is exactly what the Project 2025 author and OMB nominee is pushing for. The president would be able to bankrupt any State, any entity that relies on federal funding, regardless of the wishes of Congress.

And arguably they could just do it: ignore any court judgment, and watch Congress do nothing. We know he won't ever be impeached and removed, so it's sort of a foregone conclusion that impoundment power can be seized at any time.
cm/inch:inch ? ok, not what you meant, but it jumped out at me
Trump did clearance by fiat for a number of officials who he knew could not pass traditional clearance processes; as President he has that power though President’s generally use the process that has been established rather than doing it ad hoc both because they realize that they are fallible so having proper vetting is substantively good, and because they want to avoid the appearance of personal favoritism/corruption (Trump, very clearly, shares neither of those concerns.)
Totally agree. I wrote a few Play apps way back when and really enjoyed it. I was so excited about the future of the framework and how it would beat out Java for web apps, and steal folks away from the Rails ecosystem.

And then it just…stopped. Not sure what happened there honestly.
The name is a reference to the Dr. Seuss book "Bartholomew and the Oobleck", published in 1949. I remember reading it as a child, probably around the same time I mixed up a batch of the non-newtonian cornstarch mixture, though I can't remember whether the name had become associated with the substance at that time or whether we called it something else. In any case, I think it is likely that the current use of "oobleck" predates the existence of YouTube.
I have the base with some vegetables that last two weeks like tofu cabbage carrots and onion celery like mirepoix and in separate containers the stuff that deteriorate if in stock like broccoli/mushrooms/spinach/other greens/veggies and add in the separated stuff to the base in a smaller pot along with ginger/garlic/sesame oil. This way I can buy and cook several things in bulk and use them as needed over a week or so, adding them to the base.
Awesome, that’s a handy link. I made a PR to Nim’s standard libraries async to use that (or a similar flag) MacOS. It massively improved latency, great for UIs.

I created an issue for another async system showing them how to do it. They closed the issue saying “MacOS doesn’t support that”. I reckon people don’t know how to actually research these things if it’s not 1-click away.