skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visually, appealing and striking. As an ad, underwhelming. The voiceover was swallowed up by the soundtrack and by the time the source, ChatGPT, had been revealed, the ad was over. Frankly, not an ad that will be the hot topic of Monday morning watercooler conversation.

There are cultural rules to SB ads. You can be striking or funny. Most ads miss.
It is not funny but completely insulting to the customer.

The people selling those consoles should feel ashamed about this. It shows complete lack of care for the customer.

Any emulator can load those cartridges near instantaneous. This does not show lack of optimization but lack of complete care. It probably boots up the whole operating system or something similarly insane.

This is plastic rubbish preying on nostalgia. They can't even get the basic function of playing the games right.

You will have a better time just playing the games on a cheap laptop. It is one of the easiest systems to emulate anyway.
I've commented [0] on some of the hidden features (changing foreground and background colors with <letter/number> and <shift + letter/number> respectively) but also to note is there's some nice ascii art in the raw source (though the main bit is cut out by HN filters): view-source:https://jacksonpollock.org

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/ /::| /__/\ / /:/ /__/\ / /::\ / /::\
/ /:|:| \__\:\ / /:/ \ \:\ / /:/\:\ /__/:/\:\
/ /:/|:|__ / /::\ / /:/ \__\:\ / /:/ \:\ _\_ \:\ \:\
/__/:/_|::::\ __/ /:/\/ /__/:/ / /::\ /__/:/ \__\:\ /__/\ \:\ \:\
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/ /:/ \ \::/ \ \:\ / /:/__\/ \ \:\ /:/ \ \:\_\:\
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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987887
Your list of "already uncovered" fraud seems more like a list of RW hot-buttons: Clintons - check. Transgender - check. Various lame-stream media - check. Covid bats - check. Muslims - check. Incest movies - check. I'm just surprised they haven't turned up the payments for the NASA movie studio where they faked the moon landings.

But not a single administrator skimming off their department's budgets, which I would imagine is 90% of government fraud.

Also no-one is shooting the messenger. Mainly they are complaining that completely unauthorised people are rooting through all government data with no oversight. No matter what your politics, the president should have got these people vetted and followed the carefully designed processes to keep this data safe. If you're not seriously concerned that one day your tax info is going to turn up in an unsecured AWS bucket, then I can offer you a unique video of out-takes of Neil Armstrong falling off the LEM ladder for just $5,000.
Oops. Fixed the title.
I don't think they are aiming to be lighting things up at night, just twilight. It's a day extender.
> a wide variety of languages as diverse as English, French, and Russian

As a linguist this makes me despair. These are all Indo-European languages, and not very exotic ones at that. It's like "as diverse as white, off-white, ivory, and bone." There are so many languages which would stretch your brain more.

I loved Latin back in the day, and Greek, but if you want exotic Indo-European languages, try Welsh or Old Irish. And if you want really exotic languages, leave Indo-European altogether. If you want to stick to Europe, try Basque, Finnish, or Hungarian. If you're willing to stretch your legs, try Seneca or Yindjibarndi. Swahili isn't too difficult, but it's very, very different from Latin. Hell, try Mandarin, though non-alphabetic writing systems kill my interest. Too much work on what I regard as a side point. If you want to make your brain explode (and who doesn't?), look into the Khoisan languages. Go here and listen to the speech sample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju%C7%80%CA%BChoan_language

Amazing.
Definitely not paranoia. Near constant respiratory infections are par for the course with grade school aged children. You typically don’t call or visit the pediatrician unless things are especially bad or unusual.
i think it's very predictable

In early-stage research (prior to 2022 iirc), we discovered that covid19 could severely damage the human immune system, leading to increased susceptibility to other infectious diseases

we just did nothing abt it, for our economic
It's always been less of a big deal than it used to be -- at least on "big" GPUs -- but the article isn't really about avoiding branches.
The code presented is already branchless.
The people giving out the advice seem to think they are avoiding branches as optimisation but their understanding of what branching code is is apparently based on if they can see some sort of conditional construct.
Any chance of implementing a backend "merge items" feature that redirects dupes to the canonical item?
I would have to agree. About the only Atari games that are actually fun are Missile Command and Space Invaders, and then not for very long.
I don't give a rat's ass about whether or not AI reasoning is "real" or a "mimicry". I care if machines are going to displace my economic value as a human-based general intelligence.

If a synthetic "mimicry" can displace human thinking, we've got serious problems, regardless of whether or not you believe that it's "real".
Maybe you can write this up with charts? Or at least put your data up publicly?
This seems like trying to offer help predicting the future or investing in companies, which is a different kind of help from how to coexist with these models, how to use them to do useful things, what their pitfalls are, etc.
Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors
I made this app to write books chapter by chapter, while taking & browsing through temporary notes for each chapter.

The leftmost sidebar is the list of chapters. The sidebar to the right of that is the list of editors in the current chapter.

The UI & UX are a bit weird, but they have a basic logic to them.
In the end, all the leaders can offer is Bread and Circuses.
He cites same journalist Krebs that has no cybersecurity background. Even Marc-André Argentino himself is a master of arts in theology and not a real cybersecurity specialist.
They can negotiate any price they want at any point. That means pre-deductible price can stay high, but afterwards the provider pay is low and the insurer profits are high. The accounting has enough slack in the way billing's done that it can be achieved in many ways. That change has no benefit at all for the insured (unless you assume the insurer cares about them...)
In this context, "activating" is speech which elicits gut-reaction. Whereas "interesting" is speech which stimulates thoughtfulness.
The sentiment is "words like nazi are not helping the conversation". In fact, they may be actively hurting the point you are trying to get across.
> we only have months to years of experience with the mistakes that LLM's and other AI's make.

The mistakes are also very much model dependent. That you have build a system which improves the accuracy of one models output give you no confidence that it will work on even the next generation of the same model.
Yes. I know of two people who had breakthrough infections. I had a mild breakthrough myself. Got the brain fog and fatigue but was thankfully spared the fever, cough, and sore throat.
I wouldn’t assume it’s being used, though.
Integrity means not being moved by the appearance, demands, or actions of others from a course of ethical/moral behavior. It isn't as common as it used to be, and was especially prevalent amongst the Greatest Generation.
The election is our nation's most sacred element. If it turns out that the party in power manipulated the results at all then, yes, there will be pitchforks.
Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all
You need only look at the threads that HN has hosted about this to see that "pro-Trump" is a strong overstatement. The community is divided, just like the society at large is divided (or societies, since many countries are represented here).

Given what we know about the demographics of HN—for example, users here are probably more likely to be college-educated, many come from outside the U.S., and so on—the community here is probably less pro-Trump than the general U.S. population is, but that still leaves a great many users on both sides of that issue.

Of course I understand that any level of pro-$X can be disturbing if $X itself is disturbing enough. But that's more of a qualitative experience than a quantitative one. I've called it the "shock experience" in the past and wrote about it here, if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.
Well, those are some highly disturbing social dynamics... (nothing new I guess, just superchaged by the latest technics ?)
https://archive.ph/PPrgQ
Said the turkey to the farmer
I figured it out--<Shift + color-letter> changes the background color!

Shift+w = white background

Shift+9 = dark gray background

Shift+d = black background

Also I found out the color letters aren't limited to "rgbyo", there's a color for nearly every letter.

d = black

w = white

u = umber (nice brown)

i = teal

p = cream

s = salmon

l = slightly muted yellow

Check the code at view-source:https://jacksonpollock.org/js/myScript.js for more!

"m" brings up some info about the person who made this, Miltos Manetas. Thank you Miltos!
>I find it strange that neither activists nor politicians nor journalists cared about that enough to make it a continuous news cycle

No not strange, because Elon etc. will cause more damage to their corrupt careers than other security breaches.
So is "The Com" an actual distinct concept that exists outside of security blogs, or is it more or less the same as "the scene" is used in other communities—just a generic term for all the unaffiliated people who happen to participate in a particular (in this case nefarious) hobby?

The way Krebs uses this first makes it sound like The Com is the name of a specific gang, but when I dig into the details the definition gets really fuzzy and starts to read like it literally just means "English speaking cybercriminals".

If it's the latter, I'm not sure why we need a name for it.
Just imagine a textbook that gives you the understanding you need to score high in math competitions…and it describes less than 1,000 problems. This in itself is a major discovery in metacognition.
Or, take ALA which is just omega-3 and nothing else.
One of the most frustrating parts of that podcast is that they often just read the headlines of news events and react, making it clear that they haven't bothered to read any level of detail about the event.

I'll also give honorable mentions to some of their most outrageous takes:

1. Friedberg predicting that NYT and CNN would be replaced by blockchain based news reporting.

2. Chamath predicting the Ukraine/Russia tensions were just blustering prior to a deal being signed.

3. Sacks promoting the story that claimed Biden ordered the Navy to blow up the Nordstream pipeline.
Agree; I'm seeing the same people that don't unit test or define types using ai to program, and ... even though Ai (CoPilot) can write 90% of the happy path and setup mocks... It's still too much for the developer (and exec team) that doesn't care to do.
> The reason security clearances are so important...puts the entire American system in pretty serious danger.

Remember when Michael Flynn was National Security Advisor? The guy had secret meetings with Russian spies and gave a talk at GRU headquarters. In the first administration there were obvious spies from our adversaries working in top government positions, and the same seems to be true of this administration.

Also remember when Trump gave away nuclear secrets? Or when Russian sources "disappeared" after Trump outed them? Or when the CIA reported dozens of spies being killed, arrested, or compromised?

These randos getting access to so much data aren't a separate threat. They're part of the same threat presented by the administration as a whole.
If there is even a 1% chance irreparable damage is being done to 350 million Americans, chances should not be taken
> Rouch said that “the whole space is learning” but emphasized that “authenticity really matters.”

The dissonance is just wild.

> “This is a celebration of human creativity and an extension of human creativity,” Rouch says, addressing the decision not to use AI-generated content in the final product.

The mental gymnastics! Our product changes everything, except this ad, because we know that people hate inauthenticity in communication.
The report in question, which is a complete mess, is https://e-janco.com/career/employmentdata.html
> remember that our usual constant known as time is part of a varying field in GR

...and so you have to pick an appropriate underlying vector field you call time to cancel this out and get back the invariant, throwing a wrench into calculations... as a reply to the post you linked points out. At the end of the day, you haven't demonstrated that it preserves the invariant so much as you've changed the question to find another conserved quantity and called that energy instead. This lines up with my broad observation that we're out of runway for the 20th century's symmetry-reliant problem solving and hence have to be increasingly clever with setups to apply generalizations of them.

I definitely learned something new today, though. To boot, these pseudotensors are tamer than I thought they'd be - I expected calculational hacks with no formal analogues explored only in old papers, but sections on jet bundles is something I'd expect in a differential geometry text. Maybe we'll see progress along these lines in the next couple decades.
Yup. It's gross. Ever see the documentary about fish lice and food pellets?
It's a fair bit of engineering to design an interface to the original ROMs that can map them into the memory space of whatever modern hardware they're using. It's much easier to design an interface that allows you to bit-bang the data out of the ROM and snarf it into RAM. The loading game screen might've been the only way to keep costs below a certain threshold.

And I have a 2600+. Games usually take ~2-3s to load on it.
I hope the new models will be trained with better words to continue the thought process. Right now it seems like "wait", "but", "let me think again", etc. are the main ones, which seem to encourage self-doubt too much. They need some good balance instead.
I do too. The crazy thing is that LtU stopped being updated frequently at a time when there was (what seemed to be) a sort of renaissance in PL research
ARM is less likely to give such a license out as cheaply in future, give how hard they tried to prevent other buy attempts.
I seem to remember my old Commodore 64 being fully booted and READY at its BASIC REPL in about a second. Shorter than it took for the CRT to warm up. A computer from 40 years ago. How we have fallen!
Even more confusing: "We mixed the fermenting agent with sorghum flour to keep the traditional color and aroma of sorghum, the traditional fermenting agent of banana wine"

So they developed a yeast to replace the sorghum as the fermenting agent, and then mix sorghum in. What has been gained? Does yeast make for a more controlled fermentation making regulation easier? Or just easier to industrialize?

I suspect that using sorghum for fermentation really means using whatever wild yeast happened to be on the sorghum, and the results too variable to regulate for commercial sale or export.
I consider a floating point RNG in a shader that is seeded for reproducibility to be a bad idea.
I asked why Trump likes numbers 4 and 7.
Apparently, this is forbidden topic!
Google is insane.
I think what the posts above you are trying to say, and not doing a great job because of the emphasis on rhetoric, is the actions being taken are hypocritical.

The argument from the DOGE side is that entrenched interests are operating opaque systems and gating access to the information needed to identify inefficiencies. It's not a bad argument because it's no secret that you end up with waste in big companies or government programs and everyone should want to improve efficiency.

However, it's a bad faith argument because the public's being told they're being disenfranchised by a lack of transparency at the same time they're being told to accept a solution that has no transparency or oversight.

When you have tech billionaires with a lifelong goal of controlling payments since starting PayPal in the 90s, is it unreasonable to be skeptical of their motivations when they've managed to gain access to the government's payment system? Aren't these the same people sucking up our private information and telling us if we've got nothing to hide we've got nothing to fear? Why do they need to operate in the shadows?
I mean he's already demonstrated that beating a cop with a flagpole falls in the category of things he'll pardon, so I'm not really sure what is and isn't in scope now.
I think of the context as short-term memory. If there were a way to update the weights based on the context, such that the outcomes of future queries would be influenced, things would get interesting in a hurry.
Maybe there's a way to reduce the dataset for a LLM to learn to reason down to the smallest possible set and then apply the vast knowledge of humankind on top of that?

I mean, if it can reason about and process the data as it ingests it?
And famously was given the boot for pursuing dumb technical decisions too.
> might...

So you haven't found any insights regarding this?
Yes because it isn't an arbitrary distinction. My good old TI-83 can do calculations that I can't even do in my head but unlike me it isn't reasoning about them, that's actually why it's able to do them so fast, and it has some pretty big implications about what it can't do.

If you want to understand where a systems limitations are you need to understand not just what it does but how it does it, I feel like we need to start teaching classes on Behaviorism again.
You think voting and taxation is gonna work if Altman and co. achieves and monopolizes AGI? They can have autonomous soldiers and weapons while precisely controlling information intake of approximately everyone. You only need be diplomatic when the power imbalance isn’t too huge.

I assume in that case they will pay everyone a small allowance so that people aren’t too much of a nuisance and resistance is limited. As predicted by sci-fi.
Here's my take on an LLM based shell helper for command suggestions and more: https://github.com/scottyeager/Pal

It features an integration with the abbreviation feature in fish and zsh (via plugin) to expand the suggestions for editing, if needed, and execution.

There's stdin support, which can be used to pipe in error messages, for example. I've thought about something like your tmux setup to capture and pass some history to the model, but in practice redirecting stderr handles most of the potential use case.
The llm is able to see the gorilla when shown the image in the same way you would show a human an image.

Imagine if you gave someone the raw data and told them to write code to graph the output but on to a screen they couldn't see. They would not be able to tell you it's a gorilla until you turn the monitor around and show them.

Humans are still better at seeing the image, sure (for now), but the llm is a tool with certain features and abilities. You can't make up a scenario that is misusing the tool and then pretend that it doesn't work - especially when it seems you want it to use it without applying your own brain power to the process

And to be clear, I'm open to criticism of llms and exploration of their limitations - but I'm tired of hearing complaints that amount to PEBKAC.
Flashcarts don't work unless you devote the entire flash to a single ROM (some of them can do this). This is because the console snarfs the entire contents of the ROM into RAM first, rather than mapping the ROM directly into the CPU's memory space like the original consoles did. So the bank-switching tricks that flashcarts use to provide multiple ROM options on original hardware don't work on these. This is also why the 2600+'s pack-in multicart has a janky, DIP-switch solution to select a game.

Many large carts (8K and larger) also don't work, at least not without the firmware knowing how to bankswitch to read the whole ROM, so a fw update may be required.
You tell it what you want it to prove. Or the tooling surrounding it does.

The tooling surrounding it might want to prove that "this main function never invokes undefined behavior", or something more local like "for all possible inputs to the public interface to this module, no undefined behavior is invoked".

Or you might want to specify constraints by hand. For examples, you might do that by writing normal tests except you can use magical variables that take on any value [1], or you might do that by annotating functions with contracts that they obey [2]. Or at a simpler level you might just annotate functions that should never panic.

Ultimately once you can prove things about your code, it's a tool in the toolbox for querying how your code works. You can use that to write correct code from the start, or to debug incorrect code, or various other things. The problem is that right now the state of the art (non-ai) can't reason about very complex code without a lot of human help - making it a fairly impractical tool. I think AI might mange to fix that.

[1] This is how kani works in rust, here's an example: https://github.com/model-checking/verify-rust-std/pull/112/f...

[2] Creusot takes this route, here's an example https://github.com/sarsko/CreuSAT/blob/master/CreuSAT/src/so...
Which department/agency maintains the database of who-has-which-clearance?
One thing I found out that's a bit infuriating is committee the the sets national code standards has effectively banned R290 (propane) monoblock heat pumps. No residential indoor or outdoor heat pumps with more than 144 grams of propane. You can have a 20lb tank of propane on the BBQ you store in your garage in winter. Trust us this has nothing to do with the representatives of the companies that manufacture refrigerant on the committee.

It's infuriating because a R290 monoblock air to water heat pump is something you could install yourself. And R290 is really cheap and environmentally friendly.
and yet they sell them like hot cakes. so either the customers don't care, or the customers don't even notice. younger players that are used to waiting for loading probably don't notice at all. only older people might even remember, but the younger kids won't believe them because the olds memory is probably not right.
If you answer stackoverflowy kinds of questions people will read it :).
Let’s be clear about the “auditors” who are “not trying to terminate congressionally mandated programs”.

> USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886098373251301427?mx=2

> Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which reorganized U.S. foreign assistance programs and mandated the creation of an agency to administer economic aid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Int...