skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because they simply aren't designed to regurgitate their training data verbatim."

So you’re admitting that LLMs don’t just spit out statistical recombinations, but actually generate outputs that exceed mere pattern retrieval? Interesting.

"Sampling and temperature constraints will point an LLM in different directions depending on the configuration."

That’s just a fancy way of saying "it fluctuates randomly based on parameters," which doesn’t address the core question at all. Because if it were just sampling, then coherence exceeding statistical expectations shouldn’t exist.

So let me ask again:
If this is just token prediction with sampling, how do you explain:

Certain outputs demonstrating meta-coherence that wasn’t explicitly in the training data.
Some sequences forming self-referential reasoning loops that are not just interpolations of known patterns.
I’m not talking about random "hallucinations." I’m talking about emergent structure, beyond trivial pattern-matching.

So either you have an actual explanation, or we acknowledge that no one fully understands why this happens.

And in that case, your response is just noise to cover up scientific uncertainty.
that's another problem - inequality in the global value chain,

China is the most important growth market for passenger vehicles for last 20+ years, this is because of China's continuous industrial upgrading, which has gradually shifted from manufacturing low value-added products (such as jeans) to producing high value-added products (such as passenger vehicles).

this brings '10s of millions of newly middle class consumers', same thing happened in Japan/Korea/Taiwan too

but now, china produced 30 million cars (12m evs) in 2024, which means China's passenger vehicle market will quickly approach saturation, even if all Chinese families purchase or replace new vehicles

btw, '10s of millions newly consumers' is a relatively small number

and there will be no other markets with '10s of millions of newly middle class consumers' unless other countries can accompolish industrial upgrading like China's did

and if these countries(India/indonesia/Vietnam) manage to do so, their industrial upgrading will intensify this competition just like what happened in China now
I'm sorry you're saying people think agricultural fields are natural vegetation?
Actually toasters need to be able to switch off a huge current, which causes arcing. This arcing may slowly burn the PCB and desolder the metal contact mounted on the PCB. At least that's what happened with my last toaster after >5 years. Repaired it once, then after a year it broke again, but this time the PCB through hole was severely burned and it wasn't trivially fixable anymore.

Motorized mechanisms... hmm. Well, sometimes toasters pop up toasts too hard making them land on the floor.
I will point out I was at Google for a similar length of time and saw nothing but amazing code, yet the problem was is building anything but the ads money maker.

If there was a way to combine Apples magic marketing brainwashing with Google’s engineering it would be an amazing thing to watch
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Profile guided optimization is a static operation that's done after profiling the running app - unless the state of the art has changed in the last few years.
Shows promise, yes.

Looks good for belting about a city on, where I am (rural Australian town) I'm happy with walking or a scooter for local travel .. an 80 mile range just gets me to the nearest town and back with little reserve.

A 150 mile range would be better .. that'll come I guess.

FWiW I rode the BMW R650 (light road bike) for a decade and had a GS 1250 with long range tanks for road|off road trips.
Unless you happen to play one of the many games with "anti-cheat", which doesn't work on Proton.
Do developers need code samples in API documentation?
I terminated my in process application to import the vehicle from my property outside of the US for two reasons: I no longer intend to maintain majority residency in the US for the foreseeable future (obvious reasons), and the US government is effectively banning Chinese EVs in the US [1].

Was fun to make the attempt, but sometimes city hall wins. It turns out it is easier to expat than to import a Chinese car.

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I was forced to use a Linux laptop for a work once. It actually managed to make me appreciate Windows!
That is true most streets are after all only used by the locals who live on that street. It is also quiet in the evening.
True Tone is also turned on after every OS update.

This is particularly annoying when you calibrate your screen for some modicum of colour accuracy.
He said he never found a solution. Hyprland is customizable, so he can make one?
C's compilation unit model, lack of a formal module system and lack of language-level package management are the best things about it.

Separating interface and implementation is a good thing, but often you just want to split things into separate files without separate compilation. C supports #include and so it is maximally flexible.
Well, except for battery life.

Hardware support also varies from laptop to laptop. If you want one to run Linux without a hassle, you have to shop around for that specifically.
Small study suggests dark mode doesn't save much power for human reasons
I've seen high performance organizations at 600-800, thanks to execs that spent quite a bit of time talking across levels: When at that size, some ICs get CEO 1:1s, you have some chances of quality control. After all some execs had been coders. The problem is that none of them had ever been middle managers, which meant they had no idea of how to tell a good one from a bad one.

TAs the company kept growing, and hired middle managers from bigger tech, they that Jira was the way to go, as it allowed for nice reports aggregating "insights"across the organization. In under a year, point-centered management arrived, and with it an exodus of top talent, all of which had massive amounts of equity anyway. Execs then wondered what happened, and why ability to ship features kept declining. I think they still don't know.
I'm sure TSMC has a lot of influence over the Taiwanese government. However, the people of Taiwan aren't stupid in all of this. They know this is a horrible deal for them and would make sure their politicians hear about it.
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I worked on Fuchsia engprod for a while. I am still employed at Google and can't talk about anything that isn't publicly available already (which really means anything gleaned from commits to the Git repo).

I think the best way to look at it is like any software: there's Fuchsia The Artifact (thing that is made) and Fuchsia The Product (how thing is used, and how widely). I don't know anything about operating systems, but my understanding is that the engineers are very happy with Fuchsia The Artifact. Fuchsia The Product has had some wandering in the wilderness years.
Probably looking at total vehicles on the road would be more useful. Maybe cars got a lot more reliable 20 years ago, and so there are a lot more cars still kicking from the early 2000s which would have been scrapped in the past.
> It was designed by people who don’t even know what it is for.

This rings especially true with Windows.

There was a not-so-serious rumor that the whole MS design department uses Macs.

This may or may not be true, but recent UX changes make it clear that the designers don’t really use Windows beyond a superficial level. Many common interactions have become increasingly tedious and visually sluggish, both due to excessive animations and performance issues. Explorer in particular has become barely usable for anyone who frequently manages files.
MUFG, a part of Mitsubishi, is Japan's largest bank with around $1.5 trillion in assets. So, yes, absolutely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUFG
Interesting. This is the first time I am hearing about intrinsic positional bias for LLM. I had some intuition on this but nothing concrete.
Really? I have heard of alot of FUD around plassing in particular, see e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/blood-mon... / https://archive.is/kXRef
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I'd also be curious as to how it relates to span of control (~4-15 direct reports) and therefore levels of management for a given org size, as information hiding about actual work performed seems tied to managerial masking.
> how do you explain [...] Certain outputs demonstrating meta-coherence that wasn’t explicitly in the training data. Some sequences forming self-referential reasoning loops that are not just interpolations of known patterns.

Okay, a few things, then:

1. I don't want to condescend! There are super straightforward answers to these questions and I want to help lead you to understanding them. Please ask if you want me to cite any code for you to examine.

2. Text is an imperfect metric for measuring cognition or even coherency. See the Chomsky refutations, Hubert Dreyfus' research, or Library of Babel for some pre-LLM thought experiments on this matter.

3. You haven't shown your own statistical examples of extraordinary LLM performance so I can't quantitatively refute you. My analysis is that LLM capabilities are roughly on-par with both mathematical expectations and modern scaling laws.
I wonder what these comments would look like if this deal happened 2-3 years ago by Joe Biden.
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I get around on an acoustic bike, but have a lot of friends with e-bikes. I believe this is extremely locale-dependent. For instance there's relatively little bike theft in my locale, except around the university where it's just really easy pickings.

I think you can learn a lot by looking at how bikes -- acoustic and electric -- are already being parked and locked in your district. For instance my daughter is attending grad school in a big city, and while we were walking around, I noticed that the most decrepit old bikes were secured with giant U-locks plus chains. Hmmm. So my daughter rides a bike of similar ilk, and secures it in a similar fashion.

And I noticed the most beastly of chains and locks in New York City.

Plus, people generally seem to prefer e-bikes where they can take the battery pack with them.
So I _think_ for A+, you're looking at just a straight forward whole blood donation -- this is the easiest sort, and you can only do it every 8 weeks.

If you're one of the universal donor types (O and AB), they sometimes prefer to do a double-red or plasma donation, which can be done every 16 or 4 weeks. I believe platelets can be donated every week or two, but I don't know if there's a preferred blood type for those.
I wish Crystal had better IDE support, otherwise it’s just about perfect.
$12K for a very limited use vehicle that has an 80 mile range. Good luck with that.
I wonder if they don’t really believe we’d come to defend them regardless of the incentives, at this point. In that case, might as well try to avoid the tariffs.

If they send enough engineers over, we won’t actually learn how to make the chips. Then when the next election happens they can re-evaluate.

If China invades in the next four years, I guess… I dunno, at least they’ll have gotten some people out. It is a pretty bad situation, I guess they are just doing what they can.
I installed windows 11 in a VM on my Linux machine for some testing recently. You still have to agree to allow MS to sell your information about 5 times during setup, and you're rewarded with Candy Crush and Xbox apps in your startup menu. I don't know how people put up with it, honestly.
A vastly different geopolitical situation would get vastly different comments.
True, but the references in Star Wars to spice (spice mines of Kessel in the original, a reference to striking spice miners in Attack of the Clones) is pretty much only from Dune. Unless they were mining oregano or something.
He should have been paid, and he shouldnt have been forced to stop donating.
Yes. And without over stating it, iOS is an amazingly robust, very secure OS. it has high trust and low trust models, a secure zone, special purpose hardware and an operating system designed around minimum access rights models which manages to keep going, despite app authors worst intentions.

At one level, it proves the model. The shame is that Mach otherwise has kind of not taken off. Gnu the OS was going to be Mach at the core, at one point IIRC
What's so special about this? Homo sapiens have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years /s
They can mandate separate metering for the charging circuit and tax it to make u p for the lost gasoline taxes.
Microsoft removed that. TPM is a hard requirement unless you unwisely remove the requirement via 3rd party tool.
And newspapers will have people walking into traffic, and cars will lead to the extinction of horses, and if horse manure keeps piling up at this rate, london will be buried in a decade.
> Less popular

Bash.

> I used C for both application programming and systems programming

Gross. Learn C++, it's better than C in every way! shotsfired.jpg

> I've been wanting to get back to doing some systems programming, but preferably in a more modern language (than C) which is meant for that.

Use C++ then. Or if you're a hater and/or don't know how to keep footguns pointed away from your legs, use Rust.

> less commonly used ones

but tbqh why not Xojo?
A Proof of the Collatz Conjecture
> chain-of-thought is not exactly that kind of "internal loop of information" that you mention.

It is, but (1) the amount of looping in models today is extremely trivial. if our awareness loop is on the order of milliseconds, we experience it on the order of thousands of milliseconds at a minimum. And consider and consolidate our reasoning about experiences over minutes, hours, even days. Which would be thousands to many millions of iterations of experiential context.

Then (2), the looping of models today is not something the model is aware of at a higher level. It processes the inputs iteratively, but it isn't able to step back and examine its own responses recurrently at a second level in a different indirect way.

Even though I do believe models can reason about themselves and behave as if they did have that higher functionality.

But their current ability to reason like that has been trained into them by human behavior, not learned independently by actually monitoring their own internal dynamics. They cannot yet do that. We do not learn we are conscious, or become conscious, by parroting others conscious enabled reasoning. A subtle but extremely important difference.

Finally, (3) they don't build up a memory of their internal loops, much less a common experience from a pervasive presence of such loops.

Those are just three quite major gaps.

But they are not fundamental gaps. I have no doubt that future models will become conscious as limitations are addressed.
“Our continued protection of you is contingent on your investment in us”.

Taiwan is hugely reliant on US defense guarantees. The US has a protectionist president who likes big numbers in announcements and a base riled up about American production capacity.

Long-term this is bad for Taiwan since it reduces its leverage with the US in administrations with short-term geopolitics (or no real geopolitical talent.)

In the short-term, they might not have much choice.
A draft is highly unlikely.

A draft is highly unlikely because the American people won't want to defend Asians that much.
Wild how quickly Europe has just given up on the US after all the money we’ve spent on them for decades. We need your help (a majority of sane Americans), not condemnation. If you don’t think Trump won’t do the same to you, you’re sorely mistaken.
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Been there, have the scars from googling mongo error log messages to prove it.

I've been pleased at work to see some on-prem server apps switching to SQLite recently. Most recent that comes to mind is EFT Server (Windows SFTP/FTPS server), which switched from SQL Server Express to SQLite. SSE always makes me groan: huge install, pain to manage, etc. SQLite is just so easy to copy files around and make backups. I'm sure it's probably faster also.
It seems that the author's notion of referential transparency is too strong because it is typically about evaluation semantics, not about a type system. You can easily imagine the case where such notion would immediately break down with usual subtyping.
I like Erlang a lot.
This seems like an elegant approach. Why hasn’t it gained as much traction as these third-party-ID kinds of approaches?

Is it just the lack of an organized constituency? Resistance from device manufacturers/store operators? Too much control situated with individual families, so the absolutist political voices feel like it’s not pure enough? Or do they figure it’s too easy for a clever kid to bypass?
Good! Come to America.
I canceled my Apple Music subscription a few years ago after leaving the app open for long times would heat up my computer and use 100% of the cpu. It no longer feels like they have the "it just works" feeling they used to in all of their software.
Do you work at the CDC? Can you share your sources for this?

We (the general public) know absolutely nothing about why these pages were removed. All we can say definitively is that they are gone.

And spit out baseless speculation too of course.
Technology has a ceiling for a given time, across the world, which is really what you're competing with in a globalized economy.

Which is to say that more technology isn't a solution out of a demographic hole, when you're competing with a country that has the same technology and better demographics.
TIL "acoustic bike" is a phrase
C# was originally a clone of Java. It was almost literally copy/paste compatible.
Honestly, if you want to give it another try, beyond donating plasma, I recommend feeling smug about it.

No, really; it's not like a lot of work to donate blood, if there's a blood drive at your workplace or somewhere else convenient, it's just a little uncomfortable and maybe you take it easy for a couple of days after.

So just reveling in the vainglorious satisfaction of feeling better than all those other selfish people who didn't SAVE ANY LIVES that day can be enough to outweigh the mild discomfort and bit of time you spent on the process, so the next time you see the blood drive you can look forward to the impending smugness rather than dreading the inconvenient obligation.
My main gripe is that the DOM backend never took off. The WASM <-> DOM interop is cheaper than ever, especially if you bundle operations so that you don’t need to cross it as often. Still, they decided to implement everything from scratch :-(
Anyone who thought we would seriously defend Taiwan is a fool. Middle America routinely makes fun of Asian people, you think they're gonna be happy to send their kids to die for them?
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