skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, autonomous tools are not as successful as ones that are built to postulate about and get confirmation of the user’s intent. I think there’s a lot of promise for agents that are built to be controlled by skilled operators.

Autonomy is just more sexy, but in my opinion, it’s a poor design direction for a lot of applications.
In the absence of any other information about an applicant whatsoever, DNA evidence can give you strong likelihoods and useful correlations for many possible outcomes.

If I was to take this to the logical end, you can bar any bananas, lizards, dogs, or other non humans by simply looking at their DNA and having no other applicant specific information.

To bring this back to the more mundane, even the BBC is covering whether genes impact your likelihood to have certain hobbies. We are not going to discover that genes impact our lives LESS as we dig into the human genome more. To proclaim by personal fiat that people will never figure out how to productively (and for personal/corporate gain) filter by DNA is simply wrong.

This is similar to the idea that criminals with 20 previous felonies can be given any punishment besides life in prison or death. It is really super easy to predict the future of any such criminal let loose. A 90% chance of a 21st felony and yet another ruined or ended life.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230509-how-genetics-det...
Personally, I write the simplest subset of C++ I possibly can at all times. Loops, variables, classes and the STL library when useful.

The more advanced features you use, the easier it is to make subtle mistakes, confuse someone who hasn't seen that feature before, or just make everyone working on the software wary of ever touching it.
Well no. If you create a machine that produces output indistinguishable from the output of things we "know" can "reason" aka "humans". Then I would call that reasoning.

If the output has a low probability of occuring by random chance then it must be reason.

>For example, if you prove that the reasoning is somehow embedded as a spatial in-network set of dimensions rather than in-time, wouldn't that be literally equivalent to "it just knows the patterns"? What would that term substitution actually achieve?

I mean, this is a method many humans use to reason themselves.
Pre-check is a wild concept to me. I've been flying for 20 years and y'all are going to pretend you don't have me in your system, like I'm some unknown entity? It's a grift. If you can do pre-check to verify someone isn't a terrorist you can also let people through on good behavior after two decades. Call it a 20 year post-check. Just stop the madness.
The comments here are disturbingly similar to reddit. Is HN broken or what?
I always called it OSTEN for the same reason
This is not true. Tesla recently released new Model Y [0], and there's a gap in sales because of that transition. The old Model Y was the best selling car of any kind in 2024 globally.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ6e4-1uuGA
The "cookie farm for profit" point is worth elaborating on. From the original paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911 :

> More concretely, the current average value life-time of a cookie is €2.52 or $2.7 [58]. Given that there have been at least 329 billion reCAPTCHAv2 sessions, which created tracking cookies, that would put the estimated value of those cookies at $888 billion dollars.

The cited paper is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016781162... - but it doesn't deal with CAPTCHAs, just with the general economics of third-party cookies.

In practice, many of these cookies will have already been placed by other Google services on the site in question, with how ubiquitous Google's ad and analytics products are. And it's unclear whether Google uses the _GRECAPTCHA cookies for purposes other than the CAPTCHA itself (in the places where this isn't regulated).

But reCAPTCHA does gives Google an ability to have scripts running that fundamentally can't be ad-blocked without breaking site functionality, and it's an effective foot in the door if Google ever wanted to use it more broadly. It's absolutely something to be aware of.
David Reich, one of the principal authors of the study in question, wrote a book a few years back titled "Who We Are and How We Got Here", which I quite liked (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2605841954). It predates some of this research, obviously, but it does have a chapter on the Indo-European origin question, along with chapters on a lot of other interesting paleo-DNA research.
Yep as the other commenter said, millions of janky cars.

Nissan sold 3.4 million cars in 2023.

Tesla sold 1.81 million that year.

China, who are the big fish in the EV pond, sold 30 million cars in 2023. 4.9 million went overseas.

The Chinese plan? Build your existing car for cheaper and with an EV option.

SAIC\GWM sold 4.6 million cars in 2023. And their EV Ute is shockingly awesome compared to the Cybertruck.
What modern jetliners are you referring to? the 787 has a sweep back of 32 degrees and a 707 had a sweep back of 35 degrees so not really that much difference. The 737 has a sweep back of 25 degrees and it first flew in the 1960s.
The answer is as old as time: abolish usury, punish speculation & reward labor.
TypeScript HKT
“They’re cheering for you,” she said with a smile.
“But I could never have done it,” [Milo] objected, “without everyone else’s help.”
“That may be true,” said Reason gravely, “but you had the courage to try;
and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
“That’s why,” said King Azaz, “there was one very important thing about your quest
that we couldn’t discuss until you returned.”
“I remember,” said Milo eagerly. “Tell me now.”
“It was impossible,” said the king, looking at the Mathemagician.
“Completely impossible,” said the Mathemagician, looking at the king.
“Do you mean … ,” said the bug, who suddenly felt a bit faint.
“Yes, indeed,” they repeated together, “but if we’d told you then, you might not have gone …
and, as you’ve discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”

- The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
Coups and crypto. Awesome.
You'll have to drop a bit of rigor here.

I ask the question, what is 2 * 2, which is an obviously loaded question that's pattern matched to death.

The LLM can answer "4" or "The answer is 4" of "looks like the answer is 4"

All valid answers but all the same. We count all 3 of those answers as just 4 out of the set of numbers. But we have to use our own language faculties to cut through the noise of the language itself.
Me too, but I wanted to :)
A Billionaire's Biggest Regret: Letting an Old Love Slip Away
Here's an example. I'm interested in obscure conlangs like Volapük. I can feed a LLM (which had no idea what Volapük was), a English-language grammar of Volapük and suddenly it can translate to and from the language. That couldn't work with a chess program. I couldn't give it a rule book of Shogi and have it play that.
I'm sorry, but why should we believe you? Do you have any evidence of your claim at all?

Without evidence, yoh are normalizing what has been a shocking and unconstitutional approach to auditing that has very little resemblance to how actual auditing is done.

Perhaps the hostility comes from the combination of unconstitutionality, unaccountability, unelected nature of Mr. Musk, and your "trust me, i know a guy" claims.
> The MUD community was a fun early introduction to open source.

They still are these days. There's plenty around, and there's even more MUD-likes (GUI) that are open-source and played/developed by hundreds & thousands.
> abolish usury, punish speculation & reward labor

Red herring. Reality is some people in our society don’t have supersubsistence economic value. Historically, we let them starve. Now we have a chance to do differently.

OP describes unemployment. Not leverage. Not gambling. And not being ripped off on their pay. Just not having a job they can be paid for (where they are).
I don’t see why the fork is strictly necessary, one could also just write it out to a temporary file. That would have the advantage it might be easier to debug if the copyover failed for some reason.

Other options (some of which the article briefly alludes to) include POSIX shm_open, Linux memfd_create, Linux O_TMPFILE. So long as you get either an FD or a filesystem path, which can then be passed over the exec in either argv or envp

If you use a custom memory allocator with its own heap, you could then store that heap in a shared memory segment and then remap it after the exec. I guess the risk is the memory layout may have changed so you can’t remap it at the same address, in which case you either crash or have some code which rewrites all the pointers in the heap (potentially very painful to do reliably…) Or you could just not allow raw pointers in the objects in that custom heap, requiring them all to be offsets from the heap start
I had the experience once of TSA finding numerous "things" in my luggage, looking at them and clearly knowing what they were, giving me a "you shouldn't have done that" look, putting them back, and letting me go.
Slow news day Bloomberg? Seriously, if you're investing in ANYTHING, and don't understand the prospectus or won't hire people to understand it for you, you're a fool.

They can charge whatever they want on these "pass-throughs".

The industry, just like post-return-management-clawbacks in the Tiger era (see Mallaby's "More Money Than God" https://amzn.com/dp/B003SNJZ3Y ) can get away with this precisely ONCE before "normalization" (as much as it's ever normalized) kicks in and these practices obviated.
I am not 100% sure nor did I downvote, but it doesn't look like a counter-argument at all.

> Due to how SIMD works, it's quite likely both paths of the conditional statement get executed, so its a wash

It's not just quite likely, it's what IQ is showing in the disassembly. For a ternary op like this one with trivial expressions on each side, the GPU evals both and then masks the result given the result of the condition.

> a step function doesnt change this, but that means the code is already in the correct form to replace it with smoothstep, which means you can interpolate between the two variations, which does look good.

A smoothstep does smooth interpolation of two values. It seems unrelated to the issue in the post. step() relates to the ternary op in the sense that both can be used to express conditionals. The post explains why you wouldn't necessarily want to use step() vs ternary op. smoothstep is related to step in some sense, but not in a way that relates to the article? i.e., going from step() to smoothstep() will entirely change the semantics of the program precisely because of the 'smooth' part.
The qualifications for VP are the same as the qualifications for President, Musk isn't eligible. For now.
And at least at the stated valuation. They've valued it at $40 billion but if they decline larger offers it is hard to sustain the low valuation.
> Most users and use cases will be counterproductive with a dynamic UI.

Pro: The GUI dynamically adjusts.

Con: There's no consistent mental model for you to learn, when you need to use something it's not there, and the stuff which is there might not do what you expect.
That's a great recommendation. IMHO, the single most important factor is having a good supervisor. A professor that has placed a significant proportion of his students at tenure-track jobs indicates that the research group is probably healthy and supervision is good, with high quality publications and support.

The opposite, postdocs that never publish and get stuck or leave academia one after the other tends to signal dysfunctionality and is a big red flag. If you dig deeper, those groups are usually broken in a number of different ways and it's critical to stay away. A bad supervisor can ruin the prospects of a great student.
> There isn't an oil rig near me. I don't even know where those are. Trades don't pay as much as people claim

Move. You’re describing a local disequilibrium.

(We need subsidised economic mobility vouchers for citizens in America.)
MUDs were the most enjoyable social networks I ever experienced, and the least harmful to society.
Which one, Aardwolf?
Tastes differ, certainly.

Have you read any of Chesterton’s novels, e.g. The Man Who Was Thursday?
I disagree. I understand that Musk invested in OpenAI under the understanding that ChatGPT would remain open source. He has expressed dissatisfaction with the direction OpenAI has taken ChatGPT and wants to return it to its original charitable mission. He paid millions of dollars for something that OpenAI didn't deliver, so I can understand him wanting to bring the project back inline with the vision he paid for.

I view Musk's decision here as a good thing that will benefit the world.
No, we don't use cheques. We use checks. Much better.
The crypto scene’s blindness to their oh-so-convenient alignment with the ultra-rich is mind boggling. Particularly given their conspiratorial bent. (I’m wealthy. I’d become much more so with a crypto currency system. I’d also be able to amplify that edge against anyone who depends on their labour to live.)
Maybe the vscode extension is just an npm package? I also couldn’t find the link to npm in the article.
You said you worked sales right? In order to validate your idea you need to write a list of every flower shop in town and visit in person. 90% will be too busy but the remaining will drop priceless info.

Sounds like your main problem is not going after a specific problem that people have expressed, not that you think would work.
Historically, we (i don't know who you are) provided both solidarity & charity.
I feel like the featured articles are good if that's what you want. The archives go back like 20 years.
I would argue the CalPERs does not know the return of its private equity investments because private equity is a recent phenomenon and one that locks up funds for 4-7 years, and I would predict that its realized returns will be disappointing. The financial literature is a crapshoot filled with selection bias that I wouldn't consult for anything. Rather, I will rely on my personal experience which is: private equity is a racket.
https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/

It originated (more than 20 years ago) as a fork of SWReality, which is itself a fork of SMAUG, which comes from DIKU, and so on and so on.

We (myself and a lot of other awesome volunteer coders over the years) have made some pretty major modifications to the codebase. It all runs on PostgreSQL now (instead of flat text files with a custom parser), it has a built-in Lua scripting interpreter for extensions and in-game interactions, it has deep integrations to our Discord community, it has sidecar web services, and much much more...
God damn..
I'm near the top 5% of income for my age bracket and I feel the same..

Just... gahh... what is the point of this.. I feel the same way minus roomates... funny enough, I'm actually considering moving back in with housemates because living by myself is so uneventful..
I've been on the dating app hamster wheel for years..
Something is so broken here.. I'm not so sure wealth is even the answer..

I've been researching "intentional communities"
You're Wrong About Pluto [video]
> Like Homer Simpson's button pressing birdie toy? :smackshead:

This comparison is especially apt, given that one of the main use-cases for LLMs is the same kind of... well, fraud: To give the illusion that you did the work of understanding or reviewing something, but actually just (smart-)phoning it in.

In one Apple iPhone advertisement, the famous actor is asked by their agent what they think of a script. They didn't read it, so they ask the LLM-assistant to sum it up in couple sentences... and then they tell their agent it sounds good.
> we (i don't know who you are) provided both solidarity & charity

Empirically, no. Most humans facing food insecurity starved.
The good way of knowing is to look at the assembly generated by the compiler. Maybe not a completely satisfying answer given that the result is heavily vendor-dependent, but unless the high-level language exposes some way of explicitly controlling it, then assembly is what you got.

> The reason people do potentially more expensive mix/lerps is because while it might cost a tiny overhead, they are scared of making it a branch.

This is a problem, though. People shouldn't do things potentially, they should look at the actual code that is generated and executed.
So .. a superposition of states would really just be a point in time during which the state variable takes no specific value?

Or, it isn't so much that Schrodinger's famous cat is both alive and dead at the same time, as that it's neither?

The thing about the cat in the box is that, when you later open the box, it's some kind of cat that's revealed. You don't open the box to find a nice loaf of bread. I.e., seems like something must have some kind of state, in that box, when no one is looking, that retains at least the possible outcomes and precludes others.
Like the parent comment says, this is garbage. For the cybertruck it includes all fatalities (3 in a high speed crash that caught on fire, 1 in a different crash, 1 in the recent car bomb outside Trump's tower). For the pinto they only count the 27 deaths the NHTSA identified as being caused by the design flaw that led to catching fire from low speed collisions.

A meaningful comparison would say that the Pinto could catch fire as a result of a low speed collision and the cybertruck apparently does not.
Moving really is just the objectively correct answer. People can't always live in the big city, there are a number of places where you can very comfortably live for not much at all.
Terrorist hijackings were a major reason for sky marshals being put on planes. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine famously hijacked some planes and then blew them up on camera. This led directly to Nixon putting sky marshals on planes.

The whole saga only ended after the Palestinians failed to overthrow the King of Jordan in the Black September uprising, and then traded the final hostages for another terrorist whose hijacking attempt was foiled by the crew and passengers (pilot nose-dived the plane to give the crew and passengers a chance to capture the terrorists).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings
Or do both?
A pregnant Irish woman was caught with explosives in her luggage, apparently given to her by her fiancé: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair
You could use a file instead, but `pipe` is the most portable way to not leave clutter on the system if something goes wrong. If you need traffic in both directions, `socketpair` is useful (and I think portable across platforms that support networking as we know it).

Less-portable or less-reliable alternatives include `memfd`, a deleted-but-still-open tempfile, etc.

To avoid problems with failure after `exec`, it is very important to fork+exec the server first just to see if it actually starts. If you don't need the PID to remain the same you can actually just use that instance without the other fork or another exec (this still keeps the same PGID). Note that "failure after `exec`" can be fairly sharply divided into "error in C runtime (usually, library compatibility)" and "error in something `main` calls", which require very different approaches.

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Aside: I've had catastrophic failures using the "save after fork" approach (mentioned later in the article) when the child process crashed before the save completed, and the parent just kept trying to have the child save (I also managed to completely crash GDB while investigating this). It is very important for the parent to commit suicide if the child can't do its job, to minimize the amount of lost data.

The other thing I would recommend to anyone working with this kind of thing: use systemd and commit all the way; it will make your life 1000% easier than trying to reimplement it badly yourself.
There's so much focus on trying to increase income and not so much on trying to reduce expenses. Both sides of the equation work, but not equally.

I find reducing expenses is much easier. I manage to live on about 20% of my net income, and I could make more than two of me live while earning minimum wage. Since the amount of savings needed for retirement is directly related to your expenses, by reducing them you need to save even less.

Make a budget, see where you can save the most. Move to a low cost-of-living area, get rid of your car, learn to cook, and in general learn to be content on less.

Sure, we can't dream for the standard of living our parents and grandparents had anymore. But this standard was in no way realistic. It was fueled by an era of cheap energy and a booming, young population. It was never environmentally sustainable. Nor would it be even with renewable energy. We have to adjust our standards.

The tragedy for me is not on an economic level, it's on a social level. The fragmentation of ideologies, the loss of community, the loneliness, the atrophy of real life interactions. Not that I have known much of what it was like before. Yet this is also a choice we make collectively. Rebuilding community takes time but it's definitely doable. And from my experience it starts by moving aside from technology.
Great thread. Love DEC/VAX history. But as soon as I saw a pic of Robert Palmer with his hair product and 2k suits in 1990, I knew then end was near. I mean yeah Ellison at Oracle was similar at the time, but this was DEC!, not just a database engine.

I bought a rack-mount Alpha back in the early 90's running Symbolics on it. Probably all I need to say about that.
Posted earlier in the thread!
Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance
Remember when he didn't solve world hunger?

https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world...
This QR code link[1] is super annoying. The QR code is tiny and the whole page doesn't seem to honor browser zoom settings.

It also appears that both QR codes link to the App Store.

[1] https://snssdk1180.onelink.me/BAuo?wid=7458236725506475538&p...
Yes, that's what I had in mind. Wait at most 30 seconds, the code will then have rotated and the roles can be reversed.
See einstellung effect:

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/einstellung-effect
MUDs were how I really learned to code (in C) and how I fell in love with programming and online communities, almost 25 years ago now.
Good if it works for you but are you aware this is unhelpful for most of everyone else?
In Greenland, the Ice Doesn't Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes
Not really. DXIL in particular will still have branches and not care much about unrolling. You need to look at the assembly that is generated. And yes, that depends on the target hardware and compiler/driver.
Related: Am I the only one that lives in a (mid size and prosperous US city) and does not have a preferred airline company because my choice of operator depends on destination and availability rather than choosing one among many airlines for a given destination and date? The city I live in rhymes with “Charleston”.

Poorly worded question - I’m glad you guys know how to travel well together and often. The only thing I miss about my college girlfriend was when we got an overnight delay in Denver and the crazed associate told us “I don’t fucking know” when we asked about the details of our hotel she said: “I mean this sucks but it’ll be okay hahaha”

I try to perpetuate that mindset nowadays lol. End monologue
https://archive.ph/5snXj
Americans have it pretty easy compared to the rest of the world. You guys have an actual economy versus countries like Canada where our economy has been gutted and our productivity is at record lows.
Actually the QR codes should be replaced if you click "Generate" multiple times. I guess that also needs to be fixed.
O(1) lookup is bullshit that ignores the memory hierarchy.
They are more pedigree focused

But cold applying isn't in vogue anyway