skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm amazed it was so close all that time and hackers didnt turn it on back then. 20 years ago the internet was just coming into its own as a collaboration platform for large anonymous groups. I remember hackers set up a public website where you could annotate blocks of the PSP firmware as you reverse engineered it.

I remember the cat and mouse game with sony on the swaploit and eventually hacked firmare being released. I remember when the first psp dev kit was released on linux. I had a macbook but tried it bc it was just a huge shell script. Imagine my glee when, after 5 minutes of chunking spinning rust. I was able to compile code for the PSP! Then I remember the first time someone figured out how to send graphics commanda to its gpu and also how to change the cpu speed between 111/222/333 MHz.

I remember the first euro-style demo I saw by Alonetrio, which I modified to create PSPKick. Then came the first Atari 2600 emu and then then the first C64 emu. The spirit of collaboration was lively, jovial, fraternal, and celebratory!
It wasn't like that when it first came out, from my experiments with it when it was first released.
All Next.js features work when self-hosting, including APIs and image optimization: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploy...
Because taking a side is more important to them than reaching as wide an audience as possible. Not making any value judgment here, but that's the situation.
Anyone who has dabbled in KSP [1] knows that all it takes for lift-off is sufficient engine power and fuel storage plus enough struts to keep it all together until reaching orbit. If at first you don't succeed, add more engines and struts. If you don't succeed at all at least you'll have a spectacular explosion.

[1] https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
thanks. TIL abt HasShortCode.
I'm not "embracing" it, it's just what Beato said. He could lie, just like you did. The result is clearly not guaranteed, it can be coincidence, it can be a lucky gene in DNA or something else. I didn't see a paper that would study two control groups of children, one exposed to classic music, one not. All we know is children in families that speak tonal languages have it more.

> No one said anything about drilling sine waves besides you

Hey, maybe you forgot, somebody trained their kids not long ago, doing this lol.

Nevertheless, my initial point was that for now it's close to magic. Some, 1 in 10000, people are blessed to have this additional sense (at least for the first 40-ish years of their life), and others are not. It's a subjective perception of the thing indeed. If that doesn't awe you – well, ok, it doesn't hurt anybody. After all, every beautiful sunset is just you rotated away from a ball of plasma.
Roman salute isn't a great communication since Rome.
Certainly when I saw FNV-1 and FNV-1a called out separately I assumed we're going to see a point made about an early period in hashing and then in a paragraph or two we'll get "real" options.
it's clearly explained in their pinned tweet and linked article https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,31499226,wychodzimy-z-x-do-zobac...

"We have been maturing to decide to leave X for a long time. We’ve watched the growing stake in fake, throud major accounts that are increasingly shaking the narrative on this platform. We have seen that X not only does not fight, but even promotes hate and disinformation posts."
I want to have fine-grained and full control over memory management.

Can rust generate usefull machine code without a runtime and having to break one leg like C?
This pretty much describes most of mainstream media and news pre-AI as well.
AI's coming industrialization of coding – how teams need to rethink hiring
See this is the groundbreaking research NIH should be funding with taxpayer dollars instead of gain of function research in Wuhan.
> I don't think PSP games were capable of this.

They were. You could play Tekken against a friend without him having to own the game. It was great.

But in general not many games did this. Since even Tekken had pretty high load times, I suspect that the much higher graphical fidelity of the PSP made most games just too big for this to work well.
The BFS systems do have the proper security according to a very recently filed affidavit from a career IT manager with direct knowledge of those systems. There was reporting earlier that Marko Elez had been using personal devices to connect to Treasury systems. In testimony the manager wrote that his access was exclusively by means of a special issue BFS laptop with DLP software and “enhanced” monitoring. But he also noted that Elez was given far broader access than even auditors were typically granted. And that testimony didn’t ameliorate other concerns.

And of course that’s just BFS.

I’m not at all disagreeing with you though. The lack of adults in the room, the apparent lack of proper background checking, the fact that the kids DOGE has running around have no real experience, it’s all alarming.

And no one seems interested in talking about it. The legal world is on fire right now. The lawyers that keep the country running in accordance with the laws are sounding the alarm and no one seems interested in answering and it’s $&)@-/; embarrassing as a country.
> One cannot just declare something is public domain.

Of course you can. Lots of people do this. There are whole websites that collect and distribute public domain photos, music, artwork, etc.

I'm actually very curious now what led you to the line of thinking that it isn't possible?
Chaotic dynamics aren't necessarily non-deterministic. Chaos is about small changes to initial conditions causing large changes in the future, but the exact same initial conditions can still deterministically lead to the exact same future state.

Norton's Dome is an example where multiple solutions exist that have the exact same initial conditions but still develop differently.
One of the challenges with proposing the rewrite of a complex codebase is that it requires the person planning and executing the rewrite to understand the requirements and the source of complexity.

I used to think that there existed some queries that would benefit just from being rewritten from first principles. And then someone rewrote them incredibly naively. That is no better than the original!
US life expectancy is like 53, they should flag any payment for anyone over that age :)
fine. they should do it legally, not fascistically
How can you not be
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant
Trump is a liar. Starting a sentence with "Trump said" means nothing.
Can you offer a few examples of the kinds of work/projects/tasks you've used ai for?
Show HN: Personalized Daily ArXiv powered by LLM judge
So the other day I was thinking about whether a reasoning LLM can learn our interest better than those machine learning personalization services, see [1]. And then I decided to built one.

You can try it here https://arxiv.ianhsiao.xyz , feedbacks are welcomed!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1iol1qd/d_...
> It IT and bad websites the problem with the government?

It is and was a pretty significant one, now less important compared to a literal seig-heiling nazi running the government.

Last time literal seig-heiling nazis ran a government, it wasn't great.
> Refactoring those pieces into easier-to-understand portions can be done

Right, but the main point still stands I think, that if you don't understand the full code, you run a risk at introducing bugs when refactoring portions of it.

Code that seemingly does nothing might in fact do something due to non-local effects, ie global variables in disguise, and other pitfalls. A "favorite" is using reflection to modify some non-local variable rather than accessing it directly, making it very difficult to find during code searches.

Sometimes these bugs can be glaring, other times they can be more subtle and only be detected once they've inflicted significant damage to customer data.
Never heard of "pickleball" until recently. Lots of article about this. Seems like a PR campaign of some sort. Is someone paying Graf to promote this game?
who wanted diplomacy?
I believe you mean RAII. Though I suppose I've seen no evidence against the notion that Rust likes the Recording Industry Association of America.

Jokes aside, I think the biggest difference between Rust and C++ lies in metaprogramming and generics. Rust macros are a trip.

Rust's sum types and traits are also much more deeply integrated into the syntax of the language than std::variant or concepts.
Everything Elon claims is unsourced and often completely wrong but his followers seem to have no problem taking it at face value
Fair enough. But it is not hard to find people who think corruption is bad regardless of who is doing it.
I don't get this. One of the worst computational problems holding back robotics is non linear model predictive control. You have 1-2 ms of time to build and solve a QP or a series of QP problems in the non linear case over a horizon of N time steps. 100% accurate MPC is inherently sequential. You must calculate the time step t_1 before t_2, because your joint positions are influenced by the control signal u_1. This means that the problem is intractable, since it needs backtracking via branch and bound.

However, since the problem is intractable, you don't actually have to solve it. What you can do instead is perform random shooting in 32 different directions, linearize and then solve 32 quadratic problems and find the minimum over those 32. That is phase one. However, a cold start from phase one sucks, so there is a second phase, where you take an initial guess and refine it. Again you do the same strategy, but this time you can use the initial guess to carefully choose search directions and solve the next batch of 32 QPs and take the minimum over them.

Now here is the thing. Even this in itself won't save you. At the extreme top end you are going to have 20k decision variables for which you're going to solve an extremely sparse linear systems of equations.

SQP is iterative QP and QP is an iterative interior point or active set algorithm, so we are two iterative algorithms deep. A linear systems of equations can be solved iteratively, so let's make it a third. It turns out, the biggest bottleneck in this nesting of sequential algorithms isn't necessarily the sequential nature. It's multiplying a giant sparse 20000x20000 matrix with a 20000 wide vector and doing this over and over and over again. That is what is fucking impossible to do in the 2 millisecond time budget you've been given, not the sequential parts.

So what does Boston Dynamics do for their impressive application of MPC? They don't even try. They just linearize the MPC and let the non sequential QP solver run as many iterations as it can until time is up, meaning that they don't even solve to optimality!

Now you might wonder why someone would want non linear MPC in the first place if it is so impractical. The reason is that MPC provides a general compute scaling solution to many problems that would require a lot of human ingenuity. It is the bitter lesson. Back when QP solvers were to slow, people used the pseudo inverse on non constrained QP problems. It's time for faster parallel hardware to make QP obsolete and let SQP take over.

Yes, parallel hardware is the key to a sequential problem.
Wasn't the inauguration after January 8? Ruling any post inauguration related shenanigans
I'm in the same situation and I agree that when we are together we do collaborate and plan better. On Zoom, people tend to set their mic on mute and very passively engage. However, once we have to actually execute, being in the office is a negative. In the office, it is impossible for me to put my head down and work for a couple hours without someone showing up at my desk with a question. On Slack, I can set dnd with a status message and flow.
I don't think this is entirely correct. I'm working for a company that does IT Consulting and so I see many Teams working on many different Projects and one thing I have learned the hard way is that Companies and Teams that think they should do it all themselves are usually smaller companies and they often have a lot of Problems with that attitude.

Just an example I recently came across: Working for a smaller company that uses Kubernetes and manages everything themselves with a small team. The result: They get hacked regularly and everything they run is constantly out of date because they don't have the capacity to actually manage it themselves. And it's not even cheaper in the long run because Developer Time is usually more expensive than just paying AWS to keep their EKS up to date.

To be fair, in my home lab I also run everything bare metal and keep it updated but I run everything behind a VPN connection and run a security scanner every weekend that automatically kills any service it finds > Medium Level CVE and I fix it when I get the time to do it.

As a small Team I can only fix so much and keep so much up to date before I get overwhelmed or the next customer Project gets forced upon me by Management with Priority 0, who cares about security updates.

I'd strongly suggest to use as much managed service as you can and focus your effort as a team on what makes your Software Unique. Do you really need to hire 2-3 DevOps guys just to keep everything running when GCP Cloud Run "just werks"?

Everything we do these days runs on so many levels of abstraction anyway, it's no shame to share cost of managing the lower levels of abstraction with others (using managed Service) and focus on your product instead. Unless you are large enough to pay for whole teams that deal with nothing but infrastructure to enable other teams to do Application Level Programming you are, in my limited experience, just going to shoot yourself in the foot.

And again, just to emphasize it: I like to do everything myself because for privacy reasons I use as little services that aren't under my control as possible but I would not recommend this to a customer because it's neither economical nor does it work well in my, albeit limited, experience.
There’s also the somewhat similar mtr https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
Agreed. I would add to your argument as follows.

If you stick with "21st Century C++" [1], you never have to use a pointer. At some point, there will be (say) a -W20 flag that produces a warning if you use a pointer or other potentially-unsafe idiom without marking it with a [[20th_century]] attribute.

That attribute is equivalent to Rust's unsafe keyword. At that point, the safety difference will boil down to opt-in versus opt-out. But you can already opt-in today by policing yourself.

That's quite far from the radical language difference it's made out to be.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946321
this still seems GPL. another OCR worth considering is easyOCR [0] (apache license). AFAIK there is not layout detection but they do provide bounding boxes and support many languages also detecting text on many different world objects from images (signpost, etc)

[0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
but is this costly to run? especially when user base becomes huge.
Yeah, that's an interesting question, because it sounds like a ton of data vs not enough compute, but, aside from this all being in a SAN or large storage array:

The larger Supermicro or Quanta storage servers can easily handle 36 HDD's each, or even more.

So with just 16 of those with 36x24TB disks, that meets the ~14PB capacity mark, leaving 44 remaining nodes for other compute task, load balancing, NVME clusters, etc.
After watching [Oxford Researchers Discover How to Use AI to Learn Like a Genius](https://youtu.be/TPLPpz6dD3A?si=FJJ-S6wz0PPrJuSn) a few days ago, I've been using ChatGPT in "reverse mode" a lot. I give it a excerpt of a text I'm reading and ask it to ask me questions from it at different levels of detail.

I have to say it feels like a superpower! The answers to questions that you needed to supply really stick on your memory as do the links that spontaneously form to bodies of knowledge you already know when answering deeper level questions.

I'm thinking that LLMs might actually address some of Plato's complaints against reading and writing:

> You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive. But if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words. They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever.

See [here](https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/).
To be honest, I think that The Big Players have shown that they're not much more trustworthy with security than a random third party startup.
Where do you see the upcoming support for multidim data? Link?
> Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.

My nation of birth famously took over a quarter of the planet.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move… but only by the people who actually kicked my forebears out — even my parents (1939/1943) who saw the winds of change and end of empire, were convinced The Empire had done the world a favour.

> My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.

In-group/out-group. We domesticated ourselves, and I agree we would not have become so dominant a species if we had not. But I have heard it said that psychopaths are to everyone what normal people are to the out-group. That's the kind of thing that allowed the 9/11 attackers to do what they did, or the people of the US military to respond the way they did. It's how the invasion of Vietnam happened, it's how the Irish Potato Famine happened despite Ireland exporting food at the time, it's the slave owners who quoted the bible to justify what they did, and it's the people who want to outlaw (at least) one of your previous employers.

Conflict doesn't always mean "war".
At the moment there is no way to download books neither from app nor website and not all ereaders support the installation of the app. I only found out about this by listening to a podcast the CEO recently did. Bookshop also wont refund ebook sales.
January 8?

Are you familiar with calendars or how time works?
Life in an Atmospheric Zoo
A little bit, I'm doing some public test for the time being.
Wording it that way sounds shallow.

They've decided X stands counter to their principles, and are risking a decrease in audience.

> We have matured to the decision to leave X for a long time. We observed the growing shares of false, troller accounts that are increasingly controlling the narrative on this platform. We have seen that X not only does not fight, but even promotes hate and disinformation posts.
I am sure we will reach 3 degrees, given what's going on in the world. Deniers will always come up with some arguments that this is somehow not real.
The question is at what temperature we will see cliff edge like effects, i.e. stopping of Gulf stream and the like.
Macs could boot from BIOS until circa 2017, and had no trouble booting from a FreeDOS live disc.
Thanks for spotting the typo :)
From what I read, this is not a real surprise to many Climate Scientists. Most researchers have been worried about this, but I heard due to political and institutional interference, they moderated their papers.

Now with a 2nd Term, I am sure by 2100 we will hit 4C, and my unscientific prediction is the Pollyanna one.

Young people in the US need to be out protesting for their future. First get the US to eliminate all fossil fuel subsidiaries. And then maybe add a huge tax on the use of fossil fuels. That is the only way at this point to get change to happen quick enough to prevent 3C.
If something is bad or wrong and not fixed yet, people have/need to criticize. What's so wrong about that?
Paving the Way for the Future of Sustainable Winemaking
Seems like they do
Many people have already abandoned their mental autonomy to whatever delusions they receive from whatever social network they are on.

I suppose the LLM could be worse since it will more directly promote someone's agenda. I just question how much worse it could possibly be.
The negative karma with no explanation definitely weakens the HN discussion rather than deepening the investigation of a topic.
Like trans stuff?
My mom used these arguments against pocket calculators when she taught high school math. What if the battery dies?

Now calculators are solar powered, or built into your...

What if your phone battery dies?
The deniers will admit it but then it’s because of Space lasers, Chemtrails, vaccines and weather engineering.
The key thing about this paper is the invalidity of the measures. They are essentially looking at the correlation between measures of frequency of AI usage and measures of critical thinking skills.

Yet, in the questions themselves, questions like “I always trust the output of AI” (paraphrasing) are in the measures of frequency—and questions like “I question the intentions of the information provided by AI” (which is not a reasonable question, if you use AI regularly) is in the measures of critical thinking.

Sorry I don’t have time now to share the actual text. Take a look yourself though, at the end of the paper.
Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
If I was a billionaire I'd have humans do all these types of things. I can imagine AI would be useful to give me an unbiased/non sycophantic view.
ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi [video]
From custom AI chips to innovative architectures, the battle for efficiency, speed, and dominance is on. But the real game-changer ? Inference compute is becoming more critical than ever—and one company is making serious waves. Groq is emerging as the one to watch, pushing the boundaries of AI acceleration.

Topics covered include

1⃣ Groq's architectural innovations that make them super fast

2⃣ LPU, TSP and comparing it with GPU based architecture

3⃣ Strategic moves made by Groq

4⃣ How to build using Groq’s API
they announced this on twitter on November 28th https://x.com/gazeta_wyborcza
Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?
Until the pain hits the wallet and stomach of the American middle class nothing is going to change. The ruling class and their media machine have people whipped into line and parroting back the talking points of the ultra wealthy.

It’s going to take pain of a seismic level to break the hold on the minds that of the people.
it's unfortunate to see negative posts about musk the nazi get flagged, while positive posts about musk the nazi get unflagged by mods
I'm calling for someone, anyone to take responsibility for promises made that were not kept.
How can any agreement of this sort be taken seriously in the future when it seems that some people sign it, applaud each other, then some other people are expected to abide by it without any enforcement mechanisms?
Matters of existential importance should be taken with great seriousness and not just for short term benefits to those wielding the pens.
I like the first paragraph of the README clearly stating that this is your research project instead of making a lot of grandiose claims.
It is insane that the Paris agreement requires a centered 20-year running mean of global surface temperature to define global warming thresholds.

That bureaucratic sleight of hand builds roughly a decade of delay into the system. Sclerotic by design.
The Superhuman Paradox: When Growing Slower Means Growing Bigger
"Rust memory management explained" (excluding borrowing) is TBH wild.
Without borrow checker Rust safety guarantee is nothing new
I'd say that they're more likely to want poor people to feel extremely vulnerable and utterly reliant on being employed. That makes for a very compliant and docile workforce that can be exploited extremely easily.
I feel like the difficulty was in that you couldn’t just Google magic spells to make things work, you either knew how to do things or you didn’t. DOS didn’t even have manpages IIRC