skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love my MiSTer, and I don't regret buying it, but I'd be lying if I said it was "worth" it; software emulators for every system that the MiSTer runs already exist and have gotten very good.

I bought my MiSTer mostly as a "how neat is that?" purchase. I think it's kind of cool to not only be able to run the games, but have a direct recreation of the hardware to do it. I wish I could regale you with tales of lower latency and how it has made me better at Donkey Kong Country, but I feel like most of the differences I see are probably placebo, especially since I just plug it into an LCD TV, not some fancy low-latency OLED or a period-accurate CRT.

If your goal is to play SNES games, you're likely to have a comparable (or even better) experience downloading Higan or something, but even if it's placebo, something about it feels more accurate to me.

Plus FPGAs are just cool.
This is a really bad faith interpretation of what he's saying. I think a more reasonable interpretation is that he's claiming the 2020 election was rigged (a claim he's made many times already), which in turn means he was able to run again for 2024.
To see a benefit from generational garbage collection, you need a lot of mature data in the heap of your test case. If there's not a big difference between a full traversal and a partial traversal, the benefit won't be realized.

I suspect it's a huge win in most modern manage application settings, because application images are huge with a lot of cruft in them. If your algorithm is churning away allocating lots of temporary objects, and it's sitting in the middle of a behemoth image, generational GC is a big win.

In dynamic languages, the functions themselves are objects that can be garbage collected and the function bindings have to be traversed in a full GC. It functions rarely change. Quickly recede into the mature generation.

You can investigate generational vs simple mark-and-sweep with my TXR Lisp. At compile time you can configurate to disable generational GC. This is not being regularly tested but I did check it for regressions fairly recently.

It is not a copying collector. Objects stay where they are. The nursery is just a global array of pointers. There are two other arrays that help with the old pointing to young mutation. Resetting these arrays costs almost nothing: we just set their fill indices to zero. You can easily tune their sizes and there's a configuration for a small memory which changes several defaults at the same time.
What algorithm are you using for SRS?

Anki recently updated to include (the much better) FSRS4.5 algorithm alongside their usual (and still default) SM-2.
You can't have the borrow checker without bringing the rest of SPARK with it as far as I'm aware, so this comes with the requirement that you prove the your program contains no other runtime errors.
This year has been a first hand education in the benefits / efficacy of vaccines for my child. Like the differences in outcomes are so stark that the effect of vaccination is obvious to even a young child.

I have also heard anecdotes of very bad flu / respiratory illness on other continents from some of my coworkers.
USAID was the most resistant to an audit which is why they’re getting scrutinized early. Trump literally said today on an interview aired before the superbowl that a department of defense audit is coming up and he expects it to turn up billions to hundreds of billions in waste.
96% of us are already given ~5k a month for 40hr/week of work.

If UBI is just printed, then sure there would be economic problems; but I think the idea is you redistribute it via taxation.
I thought it was a cisco ad until the very end
I looked at the source blog post and decided it was pretty shoddy. I kind of agree that a reasonable person would doubt the veracity of this post, not just for the reasons loeg mentioned, but because the presented "evidence" is a single cherry-pick from data with lots of inherent variance.

I think it's valid criticism to say that you should have taken a closer look before submitting, and concluded that it was too junky for HN. In which case the flagging is appropriate.
Yeah that was my first thought, don’t sully the name of Gordon Moore with this.

This sounds more like an insight into how things are working at open ai than anything else. And I’m not sure if deep seek and others are going to follow his nice rules.

More generally, transistors are a technical phenomenon…they are either smaller (and work) or don’t. The thing I really don’t feel enough folks appreciate about AGI is it’s a social phenomenon - not in the making of it but in the pragmatic reality of it.

To a sufficient number of folks the current version is AGI, I see students every day trust it more than themselves. To bosses it also might be, if it’s more intelligent than you average employee than that’s sufficiently general intelligence to replace them. So far, I’ve really tried but don’t beyond generating the most basic outline I have yet to find a model that helps with my work, so it’s not intelligent for me.

I’m aware of the benchmarks but they don’t matter outside of places like HN. intelligence is and, likely, will always be social before it is technical and that makes these laws..not useful?
Nah, he has a PhD from Concordia’s individualized program, supervised by professors from both Theological Studies and Information System Engineering. But it’s true that he’s not coming at this from a cybersecurity perspective, he’s an extremism researcher.

I wouldn’t rely on him to evaluate how good someone is at exploits and so on. I do respect his research skills and his ability to evaluate weird cult manifestos.
There is a more standard controller: https://atari.com/products/cx78-gamepad

They released this in the 80s with the 7800, and they make it for the Atari 7800+, including a wireless version
The core problem is uneven power distribution. Shaving off some percentages of corp revenue will not compensate enough for the rapidly growing power concentrations.

Giving everyone ability to run open source AGI night do a bit of difference but if the big corps can run 1000x more of it the power differential will keep growing.

There's maybe an opportunity to make (A)I crowdsourced and find better ways to make our shared brain power and GPU power more powerful than the cognitive power of data centres.
In true HN style, many have used this as an opportunity to shill their own blogs. They can't even imagine not being selfish. "If you are not doing it to Get Mine, what's the point?"
Anyone can submit entries to Urban Dictionary.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

The doge boys are in-group, so they are protected, and the law will not be brought to bear against them. Simple as that.
I would say that diversity isn't something that's easy to reenforce, but I do think it will occur as a natural consequence of optimizing for shorter chains of thought according to a wide variety of problems. Of course, the nature of the data may lead it to do brute force, but that can be fixed with clever fine tuning.
That does actually seem like a fair interpretation. Thank you.
I find it quite interesting that roaming is available at all, even if just for a limited time period. As far as I understand, satellite operators need a local license to offer any kind of service in a country's territory (and I believe even in its airspace).

For older systems, especially those with relatively large beam sizes, there's an argument to be made that provider-side regional limitations are technically infeasible, but that obviously does not apply to Starlink.
It is not too late, but you have to enable showdead to see flagged/dead/banned posts (note: banned posts also get the [dead] tag). Unfortunately that comes with seeing some actually despicable posts.

I'm not sure I'd recommend showdead, but there are sometimes reasoned or informative posts that get flagged due to hyperbolic statements. Probably worth trying it out just to be aware of how the sausage is made.
well, I think that's not necessary, Google have a lot of good technology.
Hmm, godbolt is showing branches in the vulkan output:

return x>0.923880?vec2(s.x,0.0):
x>0.382683?s*sqrt(0.5):
vec2(0.0,s.y);

turns into

%24 = OpLoad %float %x
%27 = OpFOrdGreaterThan %bool %24 %float_0_923879981
OpSelectionMerge %30 None
OpBranchConditional %27 %29 %35
%29 = OpLabel
%31 = OpAccessChain %_ptr_Function_float %s %uint_0
%32 = OpLoad %float %31
%34 = OpCompositeConstruct %v2float %32 %float_0
OpStore %28 %34
OpBranch %30
%35 = OpLabel
%36 = OpLoad %float %x
%38 = OpFOrdGreaterThan %bool %36 %float_0_382683009
OpSelectionMerge %41 None
OpBranchConditional %38 %40 %45
%40 = OpLabel
%42 = OpLoad %v2float %s
%44 = OpVectorTimesScalar %v2float %42 %float_0_707106769
OpStore %39 %44
OpBranch %41
%45 = OpLabel
%47 = OpAccessChain %_ptr_Function_float %s %uint_1
%48 = OpLoad %float %47
%49 = OpCompositeConstruct %v2float %float_0 %48
OpStore %39 %49
OpBranch %41
%41 = OpLabel
%50 = OpLoad %v2float %39
OpStore %28 %50
OpBranch %30
%30 = OpLabel
%51 = OpLoad %v2float %28
OpReturnValue %51

https://godbolt.org/z/aqob7YfWq
You're telling me 200 ALLEGED adult professionals are involved in a scheme where some 19 year old cybercriminal has access to classified nuclear weapons systems as if that's any indication of a better situation than critics allege and you think you've got sober and thoughtful take to offer on this situation, do you?
Publishing Pirate Site-Blocking Orders Is a Good Start but It's Not Transparency
Yes you have.

Thank you.
Man, I miss this so much, really wish they could have made the jump to 64-bit.
"The Com" isn't a specific group of people despite what people say.

It's just what people who investigate call these crime communities because it easier to just have a general name for all of them then to name each and every one of them because their are literally hundreds of them and members move between them so a single member of "The Com" can be part of many communities within "Com"
You don't have a monopoley on humor, you know.
It's one more textbook, not one textbook.

I'm not knocking the work. They report large improvements using relatively little data. That's good. But let's be clear that this is further training of a good sized LLM that has read far, far more than any human that ever lived
already.
Do you know how clearance works? It doesn't mean that you suddenly have access to every secret in existence.
Actually yes, I think I originally used the word 'triggered' years ago, but it was too...activating, so I switched to 'activated'.

> This seems to stand opposed to people who reply because they have something interesting to say.

Or something interested to say. Interested people say interesting things.
We don't know OpenAI's actual cost, but presumably Sam does know.
My blog offers nothing new - https://lazydevstories.com/

But I still write. I want to read or research some topics myself and consolidate all my readings in a blog post, clarifies few things for me.

1. It tells me structurally what I understood

2. It creates a structure in my mind for that topic that stays a long time

3. Gives me a place to go back when I want to

4. Sometimes explaining a concept is hard and I would like to write and with some pictures it could mean reader understands my depth of knowledge, and it also clarifies my gap in my knowledge.

5. simply writing is a joy.
I'm sure they're somewhere, but a quick scroll down doesn't seem to indicate this at all. Most of the posts I'm seeing have been people talking about why they blog, I'm not seeing self-aggrandizing.
We're all the same I think.
FYI: This guy already has a Wiki page. You can find it deep in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coristine
That's literally my point—someone submitted that definition, 150+ people agreed with it, and no one submitted an alternate of any sort.

I would tend to expect that if OP is right that there's more nuance to Coms and it's not primarily about crime, there would be at least one alternate definition, because, as you note, anyone can make a definition there, and it's emphatically not a site dominated by the HN bubble.

That there is no alternate says that the crime-centric understanding of Coms is the primary one on at least one other site that doesn't match OP's stereotype.
And gullible enough not to realize how disposable they are to prevent their leaders from getting in trouble.
At least Saint Helena recently got a submarine cable. I wonder if part of that deal was exclusivity for the operator(s) funding it (hopefully for a limited time).

It would obviously better to make that happen without government restrictions on individual usage, but I can see how recouping a significant private investment for a few thousand people is harder than Starlink just providing services using the satellites that are overflying all of Earth anyway, whether they get used in a given region or not.
> If you tried to use it you would probably be extremely frustrated.

I actually tried and it was surprisingly pleasant. Ada has also grown since the 80's, the last standard is from 2022.

Now, there're still some warts in the spec that I think are holding Ada back, but better UTF-8 support, simpler IO primitives (this could be a library) and a new profile without erroneous execution (i.e. memory safety without Spark) would fix most of them.
> inter-continental power transmission cables

That's like saying "what we need is to improve mass public transit" -- no Vulture Capitalist would bite at that!

You have to pitch a solo-vehicle-in-a-tunnel or some such crazy idea, so that everybody knows you're a "visionary".
If this is the case why aren’t we seeing large influxes of women into software? If it’s substantially easier I’d expect us to see people taking advantage of that.
>There’s two lies we tell ourselves: If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurricane. If nobody reads it, it’s a waste of time.

I never told these to myself. I have been running a blog before it was called blog.

My primary goal was and continues to be as a reference to things I wanted to learn, explore, clarify, digest, break down, track, and so on. The public part is a simple side effect that historically, it was cumbersome to have synchronized devices and such for records or logs. A public "blog" where I am the only one with read/write is a simple way to solve this problem.

It is more of a journal to myself of "to dos" and "here i am in this project" so I can come back to it six months (or years) later and can restart it.

> Blogging forces clarity. It makes you structure your thoughts, sharpen your perspective.

Sure. that is one way to say why I have a log on the web. Has noting to two initial points.

And, this is why it is

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
https://rodyne.com/?p=1588
For me, the possibility that someone might stumble across what I've written keeps me honest. My blog forces me to be clearer and more organized then when I'm writing personal notes.
I had the same thought as you -- glad to see I'm not the only one.
I read UHH over 30 years ago and learned a lot about UNIX. Very useful.
Not only that, but that same Republican controlled congress has seemed more than happy to throw their hands up and let Trump stomp all over their authority. I guess because it hurts the Democrats more than them right now.
I spent 10 minutes or so playing around with this and it is impressive. I've also built a couple of small side projects around language learning out of frustration with Duolingo.

I'm around a C1 level in French and am just starting to learn Polish. The audio pronunciations are a great feature here and (at least in French, where I can judge it) the accents are quite good. I can see this being quite useful for my Polish work for learning some of the basics.
In Similarweb's list of top websites chatgpt.com is now at no 6 above x/twitter and yahoo

US iPhone apps the top two are deepseek and chatgpt

That doesn't really say people have stopped using LLMs

https://x.com/Similarweb/status/1888599585582370832
In context, retail pricing is very meaningful. The next sentence is "lower prices lead to much more use". That is, price elasticity of demand is large, and here price is retail price.
Whatever was broken in 2008 (and a lot was broken in 2008) regarding how people win or lose in the markets, it's nothing compared to if the markets are simply no longer actually following accounting rules.

https://www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-2096750/3790568619352-go...

What is money if there's someone out there just "number go up" people's accounts?
Give a fuck about what you’re doing. You get paid a lot of money to write quality software. No engineer’s default mode should ever be “I don’t care I just want the end result”. We’re talking about pressing some keys on a keyboard. Do you want other engineering professions to take similar attitudes? Want to trust your life on some machine or structure designed by someone who just threw some prompts into an LLM and skimmed the results briefly before submitting to production?

Don’t rot your brain on this AI autocomplete stuff, learn how to apply AI to do things that were previously impossible or unfeasible, not as a way to just save time or do things cheaper as so many are tempted to.
Won't there be more jobs for people maintaining and servicing the data centers? Amongst all the other AI infrastructure?
Sardine. Most underrated fish ever.

Almost as good as salmon re: Omega-3, but low mercury content.
> I find these quite interesting and I would be very surprised if these were not the actual common way of writing in cursive learned in school?

With the version I learned in the US in the late 90s, mostly not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian#/media/File:D'Neal...

The "z" in particular with the crossbar wasn't a thing for any version of writing I learned, and they're missing the leading/trailing tails for most of their versions of the lowercase letters. Even in printing - I learned to write an "l" as a vertical line with a tail to the right, so it's different from 1 or I without a cursive loop.

Funny enough in "digits" section: "Put a loop on the 2 so it doesn’t look like a z" - The looped version is identical to a cursive uppercase "Q".
This is what happens with too much globalization. Commercial aviation is flying cans of viruses.
Hmm, it looks like the underlying SASS does have 64-bit integer instructions now, but only with the 12.0 capability level in the recent Blackwell processors. Older versions emulate it via chained 32-bit instructions. Take this example kernel:

__global__ void add(uint64_t *res, uint64_t x) {
*res = x + 0x12345;
}

Compiled with -arch=sm_120, I get the SASS:

/*0000*/ LDC R1, c[0x0][0x37c] ?trans8;
/*0010*/ LDC.64 R2, c[0x0][0x388] &wr=0x0 ?trans1;
/*0020*/ LDCU.64 UR4, c[0x0][0x358] &wr=0x1 ?trans7;
/*0030*/ LDC.64 R4, c[0x0][0x380] &wr=0x1 ?trans1;
/*0040*/ IADD.64 R2, R2, 0x12345 &req={0} ?WAIT6_END_GROUP;
/*0050*/ STG.E.64 desc[UR4][R4.64], R2 &req={1} ?trans1;
/*0060*/ EXIT ?trans5;
/*0070*/ BRA 0x70;

But with -arch=sm_100, the IADD.64 is broken up into a UIADD3 and a UIADD3.X (contrast with the IADD3 that a regular 32-bit addition would produce):

/*0000*/ LDC R1, c[0x0][0x37c] ;
/*0010*/ LDCU.64 UR4, c[0x0][0x388] ;
/*0020*/ LDC.64 R2, c[0x0][0x380] ;
/*0030*/ LDCU.64 UR6, c[0x0][0x358] ;
/*0040*/ UIADD3 UR4, UP0, UPT, UR4, 0x12345, URZ ;
/*0050*/ UIADD3.X UR5, UPT, UPT, URZ, UR5, URZ, UP0, !UPT ;
/*0060*/ MOV R4, UR4 ;
/*0070*/ MOV R5, UR5 ;
/*0080*/ STG.E.64 desc[UR6][R2.64], R4 ;
/*0090*/ EXIT ;
/*00a0*/ BRA 0xa0;

So if you want real 64-bit support, have fun getting your hands on a 5070! But even on sm_120, things like 64-bit × immediate 32-bit take a UIMAD.WIDE.U32 + UIMAD + UIADD3 sequence, so the support isn't all that complete.

(I've been looking into the specifics of CUDA integer arithmetic for some time now, since I've had the mad idea of doing 'horizontal' 448-bit integer arithmetic by storing one word in each thread and using the warp-shuffle instructions to send carries up and down. Given that the underlying arithmetic is all 32-bit, it doesn't make any sense to store more than 31 bits per thread. Then again, I don't know whether this mad idea makes any sense in the first place, until I implement and profile it.)
High interest rates, maybe a wealth tax, ought to do it. Cause deflation while giving UBI.
If you think these are "forums" then you have no idea what you're talking about.
Krebs lost all of its credibility serving political agendas and not understanding teenagers nowadays! They should be ashamed of their ballless attempt at a character assassination!
I will definitely be using this. However it is missing some data. For example, filtering on author: aquinas yields nothing, but see https://librivox.org/author/1199?primary_key=1199&search_cat...
A random billionaire plus a bunch of high school kids with no demonstrable expertise in finance or accounting.
Ah VC money. That'll stop those meddling Altman types.
I spent my entire life savings on lottery tickets, and one of them wins the Powerball, does that mean that I am somehow gifted in managing my money? Or would it mean I just got lucky?

Elon's stuff might be due to some kind of "skill", but that's not implied by him "betting his entire fortune" and winning.
I don't personally care how anyone holds their knife and fork - I prefer chopsticks anyway.

But yes, I do intend to be civil and thoughtful right up until my death, no matter what happens in the world.

That's how I want to live my life, and I'm glad to be part of this community which has clearly stated goals that align with mine, and a moderator team that does as good a job as I'd expect while maintaining a fairly light touch. There's almost nowhere else like this on the internet.

It's also important to state clearly that being civil and thoughtful does not equate to being passive. It does not equate to failing to take action to defend your ideals and way of life. You can be a highly active and passionate person taking strong actions everyday to guide the world (back) onto the path you believe in, and you can do so while striving to remain thoughtful and civil.
I’m curious what the new and interesting information is. I read the article when it was originally posted a few days ago. I just scanned it again and it seems the same as before. Just curious. Thanks.
You may know this, but exact duplicate submissions do get redirected to a single canonical item.

But conceptually-linked ones of course don’t.
Using it a bit more, it doesn't seem that the C1 or C2 level generated sentences are anywhere close to being C1 or C2 level. I'd be curious to understand the sentence generation process and how it is or is not attempting to generate sentences at various CEFR levels.
It makes us safe by escrowing VC money that would otherwise go into OpenAI?
> Downside being that updates to amount are more costly

PG always does a delete + create for updates. It will have no additional overhead at all
When I tell a human to analyze the data, I sure don't expect them to interpret it as "write code to graph it to a screen you can't see". You found the problem but glossed right over it.

> misusing the tool and then pretend that it doesn't work

It was told to analyze and then it did a bad job of analyzing. I don't care if an LLM expert expects this already, it's worth pointing out to everyone else. It's not PEBKAC.