skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don’t see why anyone would rush employ it in their work, let alone book a trip to a Meta-hosted hypefest for it.

These are very different propositions.

You probably already use various code automation tools in your work. At the lower end, Copilot is exactly that, just a bit smarter.

You write "const [getFoo, set" and it autocompletes "Foo] = useState(". Who wouldn't want that?

It's entirely within your control how far you stray into adopting code that you don't thoroughly understand or haven't thoroughly vetted.
> There is no difference in the app

There are tons of difference. Wexin has more adware/spyware, no CallKit on iOS, local payments.

There's even a chat firewall between wexin and wechat.
They used to have it but XcodeGhost ruins it for everyone.
Meanwhile AP News is being hung out to dry because they are continuing to use the commonly accepted name. "Free speech" indeed.
That’s the point. Many modern IDEs are in fact capable of downloading their own copy off some source and praising it.
To be a real emergency, it would have to also happen when you were planning on braking very soon. At least with my driving patterns most of the time I'm driving I'd be able to safely coast to the shoulder. The failure would have to coincide with a stoplight turning red or something. Hmmm, even the horn wouldn't be working without electrical power...
Jailed by whom? Trump controls the executive branch.
If you look at the math it's not even that complicated. Basic statistical inference and information theory.

Seems like the difficult part is doing that effectively while avoiding IP issues -- patents on software and math have entrenched Qualcomm's dominance.

Imagine if all of the IP for ML or AI were held by a single company that got the regulating body (ITU/3GPP) to require their use. Makes a mockery of FRAND terms.
Just like Melon Husk.
I don’t understand how this refutes physicalism. Only my eyes are hooked up to my brain. If you duplicate the whole system there would be a duplicate that would begin experiencing its own version of reality.
Apple sells how few Mac Pros a year and still sells them? They could ship another couple skus. One of the largest tech companies on the face of the earth and you are telling me they can't ship a cellphone.
Nothing new since the last one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085117 ?
As much as "changing" the name is stupid, Google isn't here to pick battles between countries.

Quick check shows that google.com.mx shows it always as "Gulfo de Mexico". That's all that matters.
Isn't it fairly common to have different things named differently depending on where you're at in the world?

I'm assuming that Google didn't change it for how it shows in Mexico, so why do they care so much about what another country calls it? It's stupid for it to be renamed, don't get me wrong, but the outrage about it seems like it's because it came from Trump.
Which unelected bureaucrats do you consider to have the power and leeway to make policy according to their personal goals, such that making them follow the President rather than the courts' interpretation of the law is the better option?
Google displays different names for contested places in different polities. Of course it should show Mexico its preferred "Gulf of Mexico." It can still show US users the current US name.
The harassment of AP and Reuters should offend anyone that has relied on their reporting before. On most topics they are the only publications I can trust to publish fast and impartial news these days.
> That's concerning. If we rely on MAD for survival, we shouldn't signal weakness or unpreparedness with our nuclear arsenal.

Live public demos are a signal of strength, not of weakness. The only way you can know the demo is real is if it fails at least occasionally.
I have such mixed feelings about the TI-99/4A.

It was our family computer. We rented games for it, and that was fun. I learned BASIC. I tried to create things with it, as advertised, and sort of only semi-succeeded repeatedly.

My parents saw that I was running into the limits of the system, and got me both the Extended Basic and Terminal Emulator II cartridges. I dug into Extended Basic, and was able to write "games" with actual sprites that could be manipulated! There they were, flying around, those sprites. That being said, these games always ended up being quite bad, and there wasn't a clear path for them to being much better. We were part of a users group, and the Extended Basic games others were making were perhaps more refined but also honestly not much better.

At the same time, Atarisoft were releasing epic cartridges for the TI. A strangely OK Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man, as good or better than on the other home computers. It was clear there was no path at all from whatever was going on with the Extended Basic cartridge to whatever magic voodoo allowed for the TI ports of these arcade games. (To be honest, I still don't really understand it, other than something to do with... GROM? Assembly?)

On the other hand, Terminal Emulator II, which my parents bought me so I could fool around with the TI's speech synthesizer, taught me about the need to connect to online services via a modem. I asked my parents about getting a modem, and they were like... "no".

My pre-teen brain was like "I need to buy myself a modem as soon as I can!"

I bought a 1200 baud modem out of Computer Shopper for mere dollars when I was 16. It changed my life. I got on boards, and then the Internet, before most - and probably you. I learned networking and architecture. No regrets.

But I still have no idea whatsoever how those TI programmers bridged the gap between my horrifically bad Extended Basic programs, where I felt I had maxed out the capabilities of the computer, and the magnificent games and arcade ports available via cartridge. It sort of haunts me. What even?
> How did we go from energy consumed to human time?

Directly. Energy is consumed by humans over time.

That time may be spent on doing tasks. Spending that time doing task increases energy consumption over baseline (though humans have substantial energy storage, so, for tasks shorter than couple hours, the cost is usually paid after such tasks).

> The caloric needs of a human are minuscule compared to the electricity converted to waste heat to train and operate an LLM.

The costs of operating: not really, and that's the whole point of comparison. Sure, humans are energy-efficient in some aspects - but the brains can only do so much. There's plenty of work that LLMs do faster and better than humans, so much better that no human can match them. And speed means more tasks, so energy use per task is lower.

Also, if you're talking about cost of operating LLMs in general - i.e. keeping them running and doing arbitrary work, you really need to compare it against costs of keeping a human alive and available to do the work. So it's not just food, but also hygiene - including e.g. delivering water, heating water for laundry and showers, etc. - and similar consumables.

As for training costs, that must be a joke. Do you know how much it costs to train a human? Energy or otherwise? As a parent of three kids I'll tell you: a lot.

If you include the energy a human uses from birth to ~18, and then energy used while they're trained for whatever jobs you want to compare against AI, then the comparison gets even worse for humans.
I never worked on radio modems, but I've worked on wireline modems: the issue is not the math or the standard algorithms, it's making it interoperable with everything that's existing out there and all environment conditions while working around bugs of other implementations.

It is a ridiculous amount of work and if you're new to the business, it takes a long time just to be build the lab test suite. And you need to support not just the latest and greatest protocols but also legacy ones. The operators have their own say and test labs as well and they all have slightly different setups and requirements.

> And even CPUs (esp state of art) have to worry about radio effects, as in avoiding internally and across chipset.

Radio effect are rarely an issue with regular chips. Crosstalk within a chip only happens between wires that are within hundreds of nanometers separated from each other.
Right, on its face this is simply more of the "drain the swamp" rhetoric from his first term. The way the EO is written sounds "fine" to my high school civics ears: there's three branches of government, one is the executive branch, and ostensibly the president is the head of that branch.

The motivation of the EO was clearly articulated all throughout the campaign that, as you say, even within the executive branch there's a large swath of career bureaucrats who kind of do their own thing. And so if the people vote for something else, there's kind of a limit to what any new administration can actually accomplish. Arguably, this is by design and provides valuable stability, but I think you have to at least acknowledge that it's there, and people aren't crazy for noticing it and trying to change that if the career bureaucrats aren't actually on their side.

I thought Trump was laughably ineffective his first time around. I chalked it up to all the Russia Manchurian Candidate stuff and Trump's constant flailing and hiring and firing of staff. But I'm wondering now how much of it really was this large bureaucracy in the executive branch not really moving in step with the new administration, which is interesting to me. I think there was a JD Vance interview (maybe with Ross Douthat in NYTimes?) where he says people throw around "constitutional crisis" a lot, but that he felt we were already in one because Trump was asking the generals stuff about troops in Afghanistan and they weren't answering.

I know people here are primed to read the worst into everything, and there's some seriously apocalyptic predictions in this discussion. But my first impression is that the EO reads fairly mundanely and is meant to sound like it's addressing the "hostile bureaucracy" situation that folks on the right have been talking about for years. I guess we'll see in a couple years, how it all plays out. I wish people predicted stuff more and then looked back to calibrate themselves based on the results.
I just wish there'd be a modern phone with the same form factor as the 2013 Moto X.
Actually I see that the Jelly Max is extremely close in size to the 2013 Moto X. Maybe it will be my future phone.
The person I was replying to was implying that they were fraud.

But uh, you don't think Musk was implying that? He decided to make an announcement that there were lots of super old accounts without any implication beyond their mere existence in a completely inactive state?

And I'm not going to ignore blatant implications to accept "oh he didn't say it".
The Source engine powers more than just Team Fortress 2 so of course they'd be separate.

There might be some Team Fortress 2-specific stuff in the engine (certainly the GoldSource engine tweaks a couple of things based on which game is running) but I doubt it - the Source engine relies a lot more on expecting game code to implement a bunch of interfaces.
Not nearly close enough to when they are receiving data, especially video.

When actively receiving data, a cellular modem will use significantly more power than when idle, with the exact amount depending on factors like network strength, data rate, and the specific modem technology, but typically ranging from several hundred milliwatts to a few watts
I just think if you've spent time in Europe and you've spent time in the United States the difference is very striking, but fair. Probably overgeneralizing a bit.
> rank file and employees of these agencies must now rely on the sole interpretation of the law by either the president or the AG instead of themselves. These _were_ independent agencies who handled their own interpretation of the law

At first glance, it seems like it's a positive thing for all members of the executive branch adhere to the same interpretation of the law. It's the definition of "arbitrary and capricious" if one executive agency interprets the same law differently than another. As others have commented, the president or AG's interpretation is still open to judicial review.
Sometimes, meaning (which is heavily connected to the way people feel) is all that makes people survive. Ask Viktor Frankl.
> In fact you don't even know n and can still convert it to a closed form at compile time.

1. you have to prove monotonicity to make the inference you're implying is "pretty clear". recall that "prove" really does mean prove in compilers

2. even if you did prove motonicity, it's the simplest category of loop body behavior. recall control flow.

> without actually running the loop n times

this is not possible without an oracle because PSPACE \subseteq EXPTIME

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPACE#Relation_among_other_cl...
This is simplistic. China famously ended the COVID lockdown after protests broke out. Would you call that a democracy?
My honest advice to you is to get a meeting with a business litigation attorney and see if you have any cause of action against Stripe. Everyone's tolerance for suing a multi-billion-dollar company is different, but $41k is above "definitely don't" for a lot of people.

There are so many Stripe horror stories it's a wonder they still have a business. The support is borderline hostile to anyone unfortunate enough to have to interact with them.
Show HN: Aries – US Regulators approve the first open-source brokerage
Hey! My name is Reda, and I run a small company (aries.com) we’re working on a complete development engine for finance and capital markets. You no longer need to spend millions on market data, licensing, and infra to run a consumer fintech MVP.

Large banks and institutions can afford to pay past regulatory & infra barriers but in our time interviewing developers and entrepreneurs we found that not only does Fintech have one of the highest startup failure rates but most of those failures can boil down to regulation, data fees, and infra hurdles that fintech entrepreneurs need to jump over. We’re designed to do all of the leg work so that builders can focus on building and getting to market from day one.

The easiest parallel to draw is what Unreal or Unity did for the video game industry. Our goal is to make it so that consumer innovation in fintech has an uptick.

To show off the power of our engine product we built two products which we will open source soon. The first is Aries Infinite which is an infinite canvas product for trading and the second is a low latency mobile trading app for US capital markets.

Today we announced that we received US regulatory approval:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1892293763277693145

https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1892280491111293355

https://x.com/Aries/status/1892281286301020671
Personal sites ARE getting more difficult to find, more than ever, but there's thousands of them around.

It's why I upkeep a list of current webrings - https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm , a list of personal web directories - https://brisray.com/web/indiedirs.htm - and "alternative" search engines that can find them - https://brisray.com/web/altsearch.htm
A case study in the need for teaching of and leading for engineering ethics.
> We (UK) long gave up our nuclear sovereignty, we've relied entirely upon warheads we rent from the US since the 90s, since 1970 if you consider our Polaris subs and WE177 bombs to have been the same deal - we claimed to have autonomy over the warheads, but it's questionable.

I think you got it backwards - the warheads are still British-made, they're stuck on top of US missiles.
>That process seems extremely error prone on anything but most basic protocols...

Worse is better.

Moreover, we really mostly need to make it work on http, that's enough to say "you can watch YouTube", but also deficient enough to stimulate ipv6 transition.

>given how many people here for example don't run their ISPs DNS..

Those people usually know how to deal with ipv6.

>Just seems massively complex and very resource intensive process.

No more complex than hanging in limbo for 30 years .
Actually Americans are the first to invent everything, including food.
Basically, a whole lot like the ColecoVision, Sega SG-1000, or MSX, but without the Z80?
You can embed Notion in the latest Obsidian version （update Web viewer）
They are also shittier, but that's not the direct consequence of automation - that's a consequence of the market optimizing away quality over time as much as it possibly can. Happens with or without automation.

It's also often impossible to get high-quality goods at any price (or at least cheaper than it would take to contract a factory to make a small batch of a custom product, and then pay for QA, which I guess is possible... if you're a billionaire), and it's impossible for most people to even verify they're getting quality for price - both of these are, again, consequences of how competition works over time in the market economy, and happen with or without automation.
Checkmate: The Triumph of Technocracy
There are good and bad parts to the CHIPS Act.

Spending $174 billion on bureaucrats to pretend they're innovating is one of the bad parts.

Anyways, we were talking about tariffs. If the subject is "orange man bad" we should move that elsewhere.
Is this something the CFPB could help with (if they were still functional)?
Asking Jordan and EGYPT to take Palestinian immigrants is the same thing as sending them to the gas chamber?
What is going on with this article? No where listed is going to be cold at all in the 10 day forecasts, and even the links to other stories about weather are wildly incorrect.

Is this some weird AI hallucination, a reported in the UK having no idea what’s going on, fake news for clickbait, or are we all just living in a fever dream?
I can't help but feel like it has taken a nosedive as well. Modern homes are sealed and don't recirculate much outdoor air. As a result you have all this modern american living plastic material constantly offgassing. your fleece shedding microplastic particulate into the air that you then breath, eat, burn over the stove and inhale the fumes. You can't even do anything about it. Get rid of all the plastic you want in your life and the water supply is what is contaminated next. Your neighbors dryer exhaust and their fleece polluting your air. Restaurants. The food suppliers. Move a thousand miles away to the tip of the mountaintop upstream of everything conceivable, and you are liable to be bombarded with it carried via updrafts from around the world along with the rest of the usual pollution.

We can't even slow down the consumerism. Everyone's job around the world is someway tied into this rampant production of cheap plastic goods to replace cheap plastic goods from yesterweek. You try and nip it in the bud everyone is liable to lose their job and everything might very well collapse because of how we chose to stack this deck of cards on this planet.
They have figured it out, the client is paying for it.
> In France if they'd raise the price of baguettes by 10%...

That was an unexpectedly good turnaround vs the first statement. Damn, I was not expecting to have such a hard laugh.

You should also add "social" media to your picture. I think that has ravaged whatever was left of social cohesion over here.
it doesn't seem to support variable length for input and output, does it?

The paper seems to use EOS padding to create fixed length input/output.

so is there a maximum output length?
I mean scented markers are a thing (or are they gone now because they’re “too toxic”?) so scented (or flavored) printer toner doesn’t seem too far fetched

and yes I am one of those people who enjoyed the smell of freshly laser printed pages
It's not just about doing something better but about the balance between the pros and the cons. The problem with LLMs are hallucinations. If cars just somehow made you drive the wrong way with the frequency that LLMs send one down the wrong path with compelling sounding nonsense, then I suspect we'd still be riding horses nowadays.
There’s a video of the sequel add-on game.

https://youtu.be/wBmRcrFDnZY
Ask HN: Can we have a open platform to pay credits for web posts at one place
I can't read a webpage without ads killing the reading experience. Can't we build either open integration or consortium of sorts where we pay credits in just one platform to be redeemed across the web, instead of managing 100000s subscription. It can be credits system. Pay credits share can go to the respective sites as with the user consumption with the site. We can reload the credits anytime. Or we can go the subscription route, credits would make more sense.

Let's discuss why this is a very bad idea.
I was about to call this "Gulf of America" fiasco the stupidest f---ing thing, but then I remembered everything else that's been going on...
They sense other bone tissue and grow together I guess. Same for severed nerves, up to a point.
Not, it's the other way round.

If an isp already has full ipv6 deployment, accommodating for ipv4 is easy.

The biggest issue is, surprisingly, not ISPs, but service providers.
Hmm, I only half agree with your statement on success being a effective way to gauge a mate's value. Yes, success indicates some level of ability, but is in no way a true measure. For instance, a person who has gained his fortune mainly by inheritance and little work of their own is not nearly skilled as a person who has done it nearly all themselves. Or, often someone is in the right place at the right time, but they themselves are fairly average (maybe they joined a randmom startup and was always a junior member of the company, but still became super wealthy because the company IPO'd and they happened to have a decent number of shares).

I'd agree though on average it does indicate some greater chance at being more skilled, but for me at least, success doesn't directly gauge a mate's value. Like many things, it is a lot of factors that all need to be considered together.
This would drive me nuts to write as a Scala dev, but I can see merit to the philosophy. Go basically lowers the ceiling to raise the floor. Meanwhile Scala can let you glimpse the heavens but has no problem showing you the deepest, darkest pits of hell.
USDS Engineering Director Resigns: 'This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve'
Political threats over names on Google Maps are nothing new. Google has dealt with this issue over and over worldwide. Sometimes the solution is to show different names to people in different countries. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what eventually happens here.
There is a balance in process vs. efficiency.

The idea that anyone removing any processes is only doing it to insert corruption isn't a valid argument against efficiency
In Canada, I see the "new" name along with Gulf of Mexico. Seems like a weird take. Every sovereign island should start naming it a different way, I'd like to see if Google would display 27 names for the same Gulf...
Lol, indeed! That was a given with the Nokia.
Serious governments don't ask Egypt and Jordan to do that because both nations have already made their stance clear on the matter.

For as long as Israel refuses to take Gazan health or survival seriously, I wouldn't hesitate to call this a modern Holocaust.
At least the butter bot has some utility to someone.
Singapore is probably the world's only extant benevolent dictatorship, with two out of four prime ministers being father and son. It remains to be seen how stable it will be in the coming generations.
Anybody with interest in the video chip, the TMS9918A, might like the Pico 9918 project, a drop-in replacement that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico.
How much money does Google make in Mexico?
Yup. Using energy is not unethical on its own. And even with the climate crisis, if anything history tells us about how humanity works (which is not something that's going to change any time soon), the best way out of the crisis involves using even more energy.