skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one of our reasons for launching products early and often is to give society and the technology time to co-evolve

Is this really true? O3 (not mini) is still being held for ""safety testing"", and Sora was announced so far before release.
What is so interesting to me is that the reasoning traces for these often have the correct answer, but the model fails to realize it.

Problem 3 ("Dry Eye"), R1: "Wait, maybe "cubitus valgus" – no, too long. Wait, three letters each. Let me think again. Maybe "hay fever" is two words but not three letters each. Maybe "dry eye"? "Dry" and "eye" – both three letters. "Dry eye" is a condition. Do they rhyme? "Dry" (d-rye) and "eye" (i) – no, they don't rhyme. "Eye" is pronounced like "i", while "dry" is "d-rye". Not the same ending."

Problem 8 ("Foot nose"), R1: "Wait, if the seventh letter is changed to next letter, maybe the original word is "footnot" (but that's not a word). Alternatively, maybe "foot" + "note", but "note" isn't a body part."
Enabling experiences with AI that will drive people sharing content with each other, communicating online, and which can be utilized in AR/VR, where they have a lead position. In-house AI improvements have also helped ad placement and ad generation for clients

People who think Meta's main business focus is Facebook and Instagram don't pay attention.
You will find major performance improvements by using `include` with your indexes. For instance, on something trivial like counting votes on a blog post:

create table post_vote (
post_id bigint not null references posts (id),
user_id bigint not null references users (id),
amount smallint not null,

primary key (post_id, user_id) include (amount)
);

select sum(amount) from post_vote where post_id = :'post_id';

Upvotes are 1, downvotes are -1. This will be a nearly instantaneous index-only scan summing the amount values.
Oooh. An appeal to a hypothetical consensus to justify transphobic opinions. Absolutely fascinating to see modern fascism at play.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Pixar does not have a monopoly on attention to detail. They're flush with cash and their leadership has decent taste.

There are so many creators putting in intense work, and doing it on low budgets. You can't claim these folks don't have attention to detail. Check out A24, low and mid and low budget films, or independent films and you'll see a wide assortment of highly meticulous storytellers.

Pixar, on the other hand, isn't low or mid budget:

Toy Story - $30 Million

A Bug’s Life - $120 Million

Toy Story 2 - $90 Million

Monsters, Inc. - $115 Million

Finding Nemo - $94 Million

The Incredibles - $92 Million

Cars - $120 Million

Ratatouille - $150 Million

WALL-E - $180 Million

Up - $175 Million

Toy Story 3 - $200 Million

Cars 2 - $200 Million

Brave - $185 Million

Monsters University - $200 Million

Inside Out - $175 Million

The Good Dinosaur - $200 Million

Finding Dory - $200 Million

Cars 3 - $175 Million

Coco - $175 Million

Incredibles 2 - $200 Million

Toy Story 4 - $200 Million

Onward - $175 Million

Soul - $150 Million

Luca - Unknown but probably around $150 Million

Turning Red - $175 Million

Lightyear - $200 Million

For that amount of money, they had better pay attention to detail.

Miyazaki is doing way more with much less.

Voices of a Distant Star was one person -- Shinkai. That's the kind of thing we'll see more and more of. Small creators reaching audiences and building studios. Gooseworx, psychicpebbles, Vivienne Medrano. That's the algorithm of tomorrow.

AI, as a tool, makes this more possible. One of the first people to do it successfully was Joel Haver, and he's just the first of many to come.
Seems safe to assume that the DOGE kids probably scored copies of the data they had access to even if that access was or will be revoked, especially considering that some of them have a history of data theft as mentioned in the article.
Wait until you hear about "RevOps".

At this point I'm waiting for someone to start flogging "CodeOps".
Two pink squiggles is better than the hundred listed in the OP link?
In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
If you respond better to EPA (many do), you need fish (ideally Krill) oil.
The necessity of time symmetry for energy conservation can be a little overstated. As long as the laws are holonomic, there will be a conserved quantity corresponding to the motion. You can call that quantity the energy. It won't be conserved if you jump forwards in time without allowing the state to change, but that can't ever happen, so is it really an issue?
> "AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits"

Like... a calculator? or Python?
> Here are recommended naming practices:

Recommended by whom, based on what?

Everything in this article seems to be blogspam, with zero links, sources, or rationales for the decisions provided.
There were no 25 year olds taking over in that movie.
Surface stable fractal dither on Playdate
C# is not in the same realm as C/C++/Rust. Sorry. It is in a distinctly separate and non-overlapping box: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Only the whiskers are touching, and the same applies to several other languages too. Yes, the median is impressively low… for anything other than those three. And it is still separate.

C# has impressive performance, but it is categorically separate from those three languages, and it is disingenuous to claim otherwise without some extremely strong evidence to support that claim.

My interpretation is supported not just by the Benchmarks Game, but by all evidence I’ve ever seen up to this point, and I have never once seen anyone make claim that about C# until now… because C# just isn’t in the same league.

> Ref structs (which really are just structs that can hold 'ref T' pointers)

No…? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

A ref struct can hold a lot more than that. The uniquely defining characteristic of a ref struct is that the compiler guarantees it will not leave the stack, ever. A ref struct can contain a wide variety of different values, not just ref T, but yes, it can also contain other ref T fields.
The issue of the generational hypothesis is interesting. Of course if a benchmark doesn't exhibit "generational" behaviour then it won't be a good test of a generational collector. But taken too far, that creates a bias: you are selecting benchmarks that fit what you know a generational collector is good at.

The question then is: are real world programs as generational as we think? This might depend on whether we assume are are using a generational collector. If you assume shortlived object allocation is ~free then you will produce software conforming to the generational hypothesis but that is not good evidence that the generational hypothesis is true.

It is a bit like saying "caches are important because of locality of reference" and exhibiting as evidence code optimised to make good use of caches.

We have to be careful that we are not just measuring things designed around themselves.
Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of using a 3DO emulator (Opera) and running the CPU Bach ROM. :)

And here is an interesting patent that Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs filed for their work on C.P.U. Bach: System for real-time music composition and synthesis
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
Well, that's the thing for me: I can't see a subject or a discussion. Just a few random rants. People's memories get triggered and they start discussing. Kind of like discussing what's the message of an art piece.
Never thought I would say this but thank you Intel
I don't follow this logic, I would in fact expect the executive branch to be auditing the executive branch. What congressionally mandated program was terminated?

No spin is required, the people voted for this. Unfortunately one side wasn't able to convince the people that they didn't need this. That's where we are. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You make adjustments and move on.
Wow, can't even see the Overton window from here.
I've seen MAGA supporters hyperventilating about "money laundering" and "fraud," but they almost never give any examples of said laundering and fraud. When they do give supposed examples, they're usually fake (e.g., birth control for Gaza, not that that would even be fraudulent in any way, if it had been true).

If you look at the federal budget, the vast majority of it is spent on a few big-ticket items (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the military). The programs Musk is attacking are a tiny part of the federal budget, and are already transparent, for the most part. You can go look up who is getting what grant from which agency. But it's all peanuts to start with.
The next fifty years are going to be quite interesting.
Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]
"Deep Blue Insight" is the most unique new security ecology in 2024
Worn Out by an Extrovert? You Can Go 'Gray.'
AI has to be the solution to everything to justify the kind of investments going into it right now.

Sam’s a savvy businessman so he obviously understands that and goes few steps further. He promises exponential returns and addresses any regulatory and societal concerns. This piece is strategically crafted, not for us, but for investors.
Yuk Hui: The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics [pdf]
I think that "LLMs can never X" is just always false.
The link between headache disorders and suicide–a 25-year Danish cohort study
It doesn't have any default anything. You can mark constants as immutable in TS and yes you can write currying style functions if you want that. JS supports all programming styles.
OP is likely referring to people who call LLMs "stochastic parrots" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot), and by "doomers" (not boomers) they likely mean AI safetyists like Eliezer Yudkowsky or Pause AI (https://pauseai.info/).
Some ORMs will use a "camelCaseNameInQuotes", in which case PostgreSQL will preserve the case (as will other databases), and manual querying will require quotes everywhere.

Alternatively, you can use camelCase without quotes in your SQL, and ignore the fact that Postgres will lowercase it.
https://www.aiva.ai generates MIDI and provides editing UI.
Also a lot of consequences of musks actions will appear only decades later and they will claim they have nothing to do with it.
A Steam Deck Plugin to Apply Framegen
Given that Google is mentioned "out of the blue", that «also» seems to indicate that what was mistaken is '«vocal»': [You can have vocal synthesis given music as an input, and] Google has also presented models capable of _music_ synthesis [given vocals as an input], such as googlesingsong
OPM has had major leaks. I think it’s safe to assume most federal IT leaks like a sieve.
Pretty much how I approach this as well. My about page reads:

This website is place where I put some random notes.

It mostly serves to remind my future self of how I configured or solved things in the past, though it may occasionally be useful to others as well.
SF-86 Section 13A Employment Activities

>For this employment have any of the following happened to you in the last seven (7) years?

>Fired, quit after being told you would be fired, left by mutual agreement following charges or allegations of misconduct, left by mutual agreement following notice of unsatisfactory performance.

>Provide the reason for being fired.

https://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf
I think the fact that we keep hearing about DOGE grey-area accessing of computer systems run by the US government and not about whatever else the Trump administration is currently doing is pretty good evidence that HN maintains a bias towards stories of interest to hackers. Like it or not, I think most of the hackers here are also US citizens.
> I don't follow this logic, I would in fact expect the executive branch to be auditing the executive branch.

This is nonsense. It's like the police investigating themselves and finding no wrongdoing. You have a separate oversight organization do the audit because of conflict of interest and corruption.
The other day I watched Gemini reasoning go in circles for ~30 seconds trying to determine if 9.11 was greater than 9.9.

----

"Realize a direct comparison of tenths is not enough: Wait, this is not right. In 9.9, the tenths digit is 9. In 9.11, the tenths digit is 1. This initial comparison is incorrectly stated. Let's re-examine.

Re-examine tenths place comparison (correctly): In 9.9, the tenths digit is 9. In 9.11, the tenths digit is 1. Wait again! This is still incorrect. I'm misreading the digits. Let's slow down.

Re-examine the numbers digit by digit from left to right, after the decimal:

9.9: 9 in the tenths place, nothing explicitly written in the hundredths place (we can think of it as 0 in the hundredths place, so 9.90).

9.11: 1 in the tenths place, 1 in the hundredths place.

Compare tenths places: In 9.9 (or 9.90), the tenths digit is 9. In 9.11, the tenths digit is 1. Wait... something is still wrong with my comparison logic. I'm getting confused. Let's re-read the numbers again.

Correctly read and compare tenths digits:

9.9 - Tenths digit is 9.

9.11 - Tenths digit is 1. This is still wrong! I am consistently misreading the numbers. Let's go back to the start."

----

This shows steps 5 to 9. It went to step 35 before determining that 9.9 > 9.11. this was after it decided to convert to money, $9.11 vs $9.90.
One of the advantages of self-hosting is that you don't need this level of FinOps. You also don't have to live in fear of bill-mageddon.
1980 called, they want their Hungarian Notation back.
A state that can have the expected value of the energy change post measurement isn't considered to have an energy, rather an expected energy.
> After all, they went to the right school

The selection process here appears to have been the opposite of traditional credentialism
World first: Plane hooks a skydiver out of the air
> *By using the term AGI here, we aim to communicate clearly, and we do not intend to alter or interpret the definitions and processes that define our relationship with Microsoft. We fully expect to be partnered with Microsoft for the long term. This footnote seems silly, but on the other hand we know some journalists will try to get clicks by writing something silly so here we are pre-empting the silliness…

OpenAI and Microsoft signed a profoundly silly contract with vague terms about AGI! It's petty to snipe about journalists asking silly questions: they are responding to the fact that Sam Altman and Satya Nadella are not serious people, despite all their money and power.
the electrical surge at 1:09 is fantastic. The making of: https://youtu.be/l1HDN8YBLZE
Not disagreeing here but whatever question you ask, you will only get the final answer _after_ you have implemented it, almost always after several iterations.
Does OsmAND show these events in my area when I open the map? I would greatly increase participation.
I would also say, that to me dang and team is doing a good job in general. I disagree with any sentiment that this is being censored, and I applaud the openness for discussing this.
Often these are setup scripts or similar for a codebase, so you might have a readme with instructions like

1. Update the submodules by running ...
2. Install volta
3. Run `volta ...`
4. Setup a user account
5. Sync the dev database by running `...`

Now you can have that as documentation, or you can set it up as a checklist that runs the user through it and tells them what to do at each stage. Then you can swap out asking the user to do something to just doing it (e.g. 1, 3 and 5 are easy and 2 & 4 are at least less so).

> I'm in a different field (law practice) but I'd love to consider how I could apply this approach in my firm

The starting point is to consider any checklist type steps you have. Forgive me if I make up an example that sounds daft in your field but perhaps you have something like

Finalising client.

1. Ensure invoices are filed
2. Check all invoices have been paid
3. Send email to client
4. Set status of account to CLOSED on lawversionofsalesforcemaybethatsjustsalesforce

You can have this as a list of instructions. You could then change it to a checklist a person goes through and says which they've done. Then you might spot that #2 actually could just hit an API and check they've been paid. And #4 could be done too. You didn't have to automate 1 and 3, but you started with a useful thing and then incrementally removed busywork.

The approach is both really useful and also not really that big of a deal. The first step is just moving a checklist to a small program that lists the checklist. You're not automating anything. But then it makes the job of automating something in the list far smaller.
But itch.io is not a library. That exception is explicitly for "a library, archives, or museum." Even if they were technically a library, courts have already ruled that mass unlimited lending is not what they meant by 'individual play'.

I think this is pretty clearly infringing, the only issue is that the rightsholders themselves have to be the ones that bring a suit against them.
>some of which didn't require a lot of work during their tenure

>These people had a golden ticket but fell into the vat of chocolate.

What makes you think so?
No one should have to prove a negative. In fact, Musk should be the one being completely transparent about clearances, etc... Instead he's fighting transparency every step of the way. If Musk was really looking to save tax payers money, USAID would have been at the bottom of the list. The cynic in me says he went after them because they were investigating him and he didn't want any conclusions to get out.

Finally, if you want to talk about the 'why' money is being spent, that's congress's domain. If we throw the laws out now then what use are laws. If you want to talk about rising debts, then look at the tax cuts Trump wants to renew that we can't pay for.
I’m not sure whether to agree or disagree with this perspective/analogy. On the one hand, Latin declinations prepare one for a wide variety of languages as diverse as English, French, and Russian, on the other hand the Roman Republic/Empire had such a wide influence - supposedly a third of the global population at its peak - that it’s hard to extricate the path dependency from the true influence of Romance languages.

There’s so much cross pollination in programming languages that I’m not sure where to draw the line. Even trying to probably isn’t worth the effort.
>>50 at least is not "wildly" off. Somebody could retire at 50, at it would be strange to have money run out by 100

Who retires at 50? But even ignoring that, I had to check the numbers - in the UK at least, only 0.02% of people live to 100, the chances are "wildly" against all of us in that regard. Sure it might happen - I wouldn't plan for it.

>>$11k a month for "food travel and other things" - healthy food isn't unfortunately cheap, neither is good travel - but those other things could be even more expensive. You might want to start an enterprise, and you'll need seed money. You might support a cause, or run a non-profit, or do other things which are noble but not easily rewarding in monetary sense.

Your assertion was that you need 10M to retire in a big city, the need part is what I'm challenging. If you want to lead a rockefeller lifestyle in retirement - sure. But that won't apply to 99.9999% of population who just want to live out their life in peace and comfort. Let me put it this way - I don't know anyone who makes $11k/month in their regular working life, the idea that you'd have that during retirement is almost....absurd? Who outside of rich elites has "seed money" during retirement? I think we're thinking of completely different social groups.

So no, unless you're part of the 0.00001% you don't need 10M to retire in a big city.
Trying to regulate AI so that it is used predominantly for good and not for evil is as futile as trying to regulate steam in the early 19th century to be used for good and not for evil. It turned out steam was mainly used for good, but nothing could stop the navies of the great powers build steam powered battleships.

Nothing will stop the Chinese CCP to direct AI towards more state surveillance. Or any number of actors to use AI to create extremely lethal swarms of drones.
Except in this case they’ll probably get sweeping presidential pardons
Well he has done pretty well with that belief so far. Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink…
I mean hacker in the proper sense not in the colloquial/black hat sense.

I agree that content marketing posts are not the best but they can be interesting despite the underlying motivation for the posts being marketing instead of curiosity. Sometimes the result is interesting regardless. Removing content marketing means having to try to guess the motivations of authors which is fraught. Yeah sometimes it is obvious but not always.
Does one note have some way of adding scripted items to automate some of the steps?
I really wish to see undergraduate doing this kind of work :P
Can you prove the opposite has happened because every journalist says otherwise? The very article you are commenting on suggest the FBI did not do background checks because if so this particular person wouldn't have been approved. I'm all for having a committee that scrutinizes line items but the ends don't justify the means. Especially because there is no oversight here.
Apple acquiring Next.

Facebook acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-cant-win-in-tech-unless-y...
Handles are better pointers (2018)
Show HN: Create and Download Custom Slack Emojis
This is a great point. Life is tough because we are all competing in a game. Tweaking the rules of the game so that each basket is worth more points doesn’t make the game easier for any player.

From Henry George:

> Now, to produce wealth, two things are required: labor and land. Therefore, the effect of labor-saving improvements will be to extend the demand for land. So the primary effect of labor-saving improvements is to increase the power of labor. But the secondary effect is to extend the margin of production. And the end result is to increase rent.

> This shows that effects attributed to population are really due to technological progress. It also explains the otherwise perplexing fact that laborsaving machinery fails to benefit workers
Sounds like an urban myth to me.
the obvious might not have come to mind: pay an illustrator to do it
I guess every world leader will want a billionaire now.
> I've seen MAGA supporters hyperventilating about "money laundering" and "fraud," but they almost never give any examples of said laundering and fraud. When they do give supposed examples, they're usually fake (e.g., birth control for Gaza, not that that would even be fraudulent in any way, if it had been true).

This is the end stage of cable news like Fox and social media.
A Costly Dissonance: Putting America Last in Climate Resilience
You can't lose word boundaries and phonemes don't tell you which part of the word is emphasized.
And, escape analysis and "dynamic extent" hints can have similar effects by stack-allocating intermediate values. Also, you can design your transformations to compose before handing off to a result builder, which is how modern Clojure reduces this problem.
It is an attractive industry, but sometimes can be repulsive.
I blog from 2000 circa. I do very little advertising on my articles in gioorgi.com
I write because I need to put down my throughts on a lot of different topics and/or just to take some notes.
I hope to be able to keep my blog alive for at least 30 years, and to retain my little freedom of saying everything I want.
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