skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is just a conversation about what "fundamentally differently" means then.

Obviously the brain isn't running an exact implementation of the attention paper, and your point about how the brain is more malleable than our current llms is a great point, but that just proves they aren't the same. I fully expect that future architectures will be more malleable, if you think that such hypothetical future architectures will be fundamentally different from the current ones then we agree..
>With a certain (class of) people, their MO is to try a lot of things, break a lot of things, and learn from what they broke.<

...you mean particle physicists
Not sure about GenAI, but Logic Pro has the ability to add a Session Drummer which can be set to track a given bass stem and produce passable drums for a song.
State of Utopia master plan – AI-owned and -operated sovereign state
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If you only care about money then there’s no difference between a few hundred million and anything above that. What can you not do with money with a few hundred million? Not much.

The people who get to be billionaires are motivated differently to normal people. They are more like feudal kings.
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Art: Anonymous Region Transformer
Or isn't there one really?

For instance:

> 45-year-olds aren’t discovered, they’re uncovered, like toxic waste, or a political scandal, or the murderer at the end of an Agatha Christie book. My god, that 45-year-old was lurking among us this entire time!

One way to read that is as criticism of people who think that way. It certainly seems like a complaint: the author is complaining this attitude is unfair. But whose attitude is it? Is this really the prevailing way of thinking about 45-year-olds? Or is the author just pushing paranoia to the readers?
A temporary header that forwards the next X requests to the main write database is a possible solution. Requires a bit more ooomfph to handle the traffic and probably isn’t good for a write heavy app, but for a generally read heavy CRUD app, it’s a decent compromise.
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Absolutely buy a sports car, regardless of age, if that's something you're into. It won't fix anything structurally wrong with your life but you're definitely allowed to have fun.
Ryuho Okawa
TMSC to Announce $100B Investment with Trump
Yes and no.

When something is easy and available, and you've already paid for it, then you actually do it. This is why all the advertisement funded services are doing so well, and I think this kind of thing is a good way to match it.

Once people get used it, they might even demand special features, only that they in practice pay for it as a package that also contains an internet connection, rather than paying for it specifically.
Going from PhD, not even PostDoc with zero industry experience, to being Head of Department at SAP without connections is unlikely.
What is the alternative to com?
They design AirPods and its cases to break on impact. They make it so slippery that it would be a stretch not to say that they designed it felicitate fatal falls. And after all this, they used glue to glue it in such a way that it comes off if it didn’t fall. Then they just ask you to buy a new case — yes, they don’t glue or do such lowly repairs. They have the gall to explicitly say that it would be repairable by glue but they won’t do that. Not to mention batteries which are designed for obsoletion. Cases and parts are made perfectly irreparable. And that’s just AirPods case!!!!

Premium hardware my foot! They are lucky to be in a convenient duopoly.
what do you do when you're all out?
hi, American here. i didn't reject this worldview - a portion of eligible voters rejected it.

maybe their principles are more important to them than "current climate" and a profit motive? if you don't care for it, don't hire them - i'm sure they wouldn't want to work with you anyway as your values seem completely incompatible.
PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc
Yeah, was also thinking is Kaspersky pro-Putin or in exile? Might have read something at some point, but have forgotten.
> You can always cast your way around nominal typing, even with enums. So you can do:
> doSomethingBar('No' as Bar);

I think you can avoid that by not export type `Bar`. I think Bar then acts as an abstract type.

On the other hand with, the branded version, even if you do not avoid exporting the type, even with when branded the object type, you can still get one enum masquerading as another by using the same name. See below where the original Foo is in enums.ts:

import { Foo as Foo2, doSomething } from './enums'

// And now, this will work:
doSomething(Foo2.two);
// But this will error:
doSomething('2');
// this is also an error since the type is not exported
doSomething('2' as Foo2);

type Enum<T> = {
[K in keyof T]: T[K] & {__brand: T};
}

const _Foo = {
one: '1',
two: '2',
three: '3'
} as const;
export const Foo = _Foo as Enum<typeof _Foo>;
type ValueOf<X> = X[keyof X];
type Foo = ValueOf<typeof Foo>;

// no type error
doSomething(Foo.two);

I thought enums was the only way to get truly unique types in typescript, but I would be happy to be wrong here.
> Many C-derived languages are full of symbol soup.

C is not full of symbol soup though.

It is more full of symbol soup than Pascal or Modula 2, and back in the day when C was taking over other such languages, there were lots of complaints about C's syntax being like "line noise" and whatnot.

Rust takes it to a whole new level though.
What? COM is what made Windows great. Without it, it'll be just another shitty OS with a shitty DE, and you may as well just use Linux by that point.
What's wrong with buying a sports car? They're awesome!
Ask HN: How do you get app/software ideas?
Hi! I’ve been trying to find ideas to build that would actually be useful to people, but I’ve been finding it very difficult. Ive tried to take the approach of solving personal problems, but the apps never catch on. Does anyone here have a good methodology for finding software ideas that there is likely a real market for?
Do you imagine he never worked hard? Who is lacking imagination here?
At a previous job there was a huge incident because the order of events was changed, one was arriving a couple minutes before now and it completely broke a considerable amount of downstream consumers.
Has a section for results that seems to just define what results are. Other than mirroring what other software is doing, how do we know any of these concepts are viable in the long term?
Pencils.
Reading the title, I assumed James' donation was a one-time thing and scientists had sequenced something in his blood which was later used for the babies he'd saved, but no, he gave blood almost 1200 times in his life. Absolutely incredible. He was 81 the last time he donated blood.

>According to Lifeblood, 17% of Australian women who become pregnant end up needing anti-D injections — and most of the country's supply comes from a pool of less than 200 regular plasma donors.

This was the most shocking part of this article though. I've never heard of "anti-D" but it sounds incredibly needed and that's a very small supply.
Imagine the horror of not being shown ads at all
What are you going to work on? (March 2025)
Tom Lehrer: "It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years!"
> Java has something allegedly similar with Project Valhalla, but my observation indicates they completely misunderstand the problem and their solution is worthless.

Hahah spicy take, I'd be interested to hear more. It definitely might not bode well that they opened the "Generics Reification" talk at JVMLS 2024 with "we have no answers, only problems."
The problem with most modern pencils that I've found is that the leads are ever-so-slightly off-center, so a sharpened pencil will often have a piece of wood very near the tip. From the pictures (I've never used one myself) in this article, these pencils are made to an excellent standard and the sharpened pencils look amazing.

I'm far from a wood pencil connoisseur; I generally prefer mechanical pencils (specifically Pentel Sharp; the P205 is a beast), but in buying pencils for my kids I've found this to be a consistently annoying issue.
I find this topic difficult to reason about because I'm not intimately familiar with DBs at scale.

That being said: my understanding is we're always going to have something that needs to maintain its own state that's global, and you're naming that problem as well.

For example, let's say we partition users based on the first letter of their email addresses.

This works great for most user-specific queries (e.g., fetching a user profile).

But what happens when someone registers a new account?

At that point, we must ensure the email is globally unique.

A purely partitioned approach won't help here—we'll need some kind of global database or service maintaining a single source of truth for email uniqueness checks.

(then it gets complicated, because of the simple level at which I can understand and communicate about it. Why not just partition based on the first letter of an email? Well, yes, then we just have to deal with emails changing. Maybe a better example is session tokens, because they don't come with an email. But we could require that, or do some bespoke thing...there's security concerns there but they seem overrated...but to your point, you end up adding a ton of complexity just so you can fit a square peg in a round hole)
Ah interesting to hear about COM - interested where you heard or if you have other approaches for computer use!

Yea, we're considering a .exe that people could download
You can't use non_exhaustive and Other. If you have an Other then it's exhaustive. This design is wrong.
Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s said that technology and culture are moving so fast that we are "driving by looking in the rear view mirror"

Nothing says "I am slow on the draw" to me than "all of a sudden I'm worried about getting ripped off by Open AI" as the open source and web economies have long been recognized as exploitative

(1) This guy http://www.seobook.com/blog has been talking about how the Google economy has been rigged since at least 2010, and I can say that I've lived it.

(2) This cartoon https://xkcd.com/2347/ illustrates the hard time open source has sustaining itself. Open-source doesn't need to fund all the value-subtracting vultures that you need to sell enterprise software, but it struggles to scrape together just a few bucks for people who are capable of doing work on a shoestring.

(3) Open source licenses have been getting tougher for database products in particular because hosting a database like mysql is a great business for the likes of AWS or Azure which doesn't need to send a penny back to the creators and the GPL's copyleft doesn't do anything about it.

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I'd say also as a creative person everything I'm exposed to becomes part of my work, particularly when I am receptive and "on the make"; I think of the video for Groove Armada's Superstylin' [1] which is all about a person seeing everything in the environment and finding inspiration and using their talents to make other people's talents even greater. Don't laugh but my son and I got a lot of out the anime 2-5 d Seduction [2] because it is all about people of different generations, under pressure, figuring out how to blend their talents to compete and cooperate. So much of what I consume nourishes me, becomes part of me, and becomes part of what I create, not any different from a LLM.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kE0pxRkMtQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5_Dimensional_Seduction
To say that Alex Jones’ misdeed is that he simply falsely claimed the school shooting was staged is an understatement to the point of bad faith.

To people wondering why damages are high and maybe even be on par with a “wrongful death”: since time immemorial it is known in human culture that there can, in fact, be things worse than death.
I don't understand, what did the cashews do? They're pretty soft, no?
imo, your last phrase, excerpted below:

>(in other words, I can't prove the correctness ... without referencing the original paper).

agrees with what I said in my previous comment:

>if you don't understand it fully, how can you say .... that it will work?

(irrelevant parts from our original comments above, replaced with ... , without loss of meaning to my argument.)

both those quoted fragments, yours and mine, mean basically the same thing, i.e. that both you and the GP don't know whether it will work.

it's not that one cannot use some piece of code without knowing whether it works; everybody does that all the time, from algorithm books for example, as you said.
I can understand trying to cut red tape, but this law was intended to fight the money laundering schemes the cartels used to fund their operations. The administration is threatening war with other countries under the guise of illegal drugs, but will roll over if it means they can't cheat on taxes anymore.

It's not like they are rolling back the incredibly expensive and privacy invading "Know-Your-Customer" rules across banking as a whole.
what is Music doing to you? Other than being slow to launch I really don't have any issue. I have made multiple lists and use it daily to listen to music. I don't recall it crashing in recent memory or not doing what I expect? Tbf, I currate my own music and lists and don't use the streaming a lot. Occasionally I use the station feature I guess, and it's passable. I'm certainly no power user though.
Done Asking and Forgetting? (Chatty vs. Tabular AI Interaction)
Hi I sent you a linkedin request as I think we have common interest that I would love to chat about! Are you seeking a new opportunity? It sounds like your employed at Zillow based on what you said above? Thanks! -Mark
There's work in that area, it's sometimes called "accompaniment generation."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12662

https://fastsag.github.io/
Yeah it's not perfect on iOS but better than maintaining your own stack. Basically it creates a VPN to localhost then proxies the DNS and traffic over that. It only modifies the DNS using a blocklist and passes your normal traffic straight through.

Works well. Even the crappiest nasty sites won't get through it.
I don't quite get it. It seems that what this does is put the burden on reporting of this information back onto banks, not that this information will not be collected. Further it is my understanding that the reporting was to identify the up to four people who had controlling interests in companies with more than 20 employees and 5 million in sales. the intention being to reduce money laundering and terrorism.

Name the four largest shareholders? This honestly does not seem like any kind of burden to me. If it is, I have way more burden reporting short vs long term capital gains or hell even renewing my passport.
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PICs are the core mechanism of monomorphization in the VMs that do it
It’s intellectual property laundering. A company selling a button that launders the blood sweat and tears of generations of artists is not the same as a person being inspired and dedicating themselves to mastery.

Humans create value. AI consumes and commoditizes that value, stealing it from the people and selling it back to their customers.

It’s unethical and will be detrimental in the long run. All profit should be distributed to all artists in the training set.
China and GDPR is not a thing. China is building a social credit scoring system which is the very thing that GDPR wants to stop from ever being built (see Facebook, Stasi, Securitat in Romania, etc).

India.. don't get me started. There is no law in that land. Hasn't been one. Will not be one for the next thousand years. Let's not be graphic, let's just say that "caste system", "women's right" and leave it at that. GDPR requires rule of just (as from Justice) law. Caste system and rule of law are conflicting terms.
For the .NET JIT, at least, speculation on types seems beneficial even if we're only right maybe 30% of the time.

See eg https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core...

(where this is presented as a puzzle)....
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Interning is a very common name. "String lookup table" would be too broad, it would mean anything that associates a string with a key.
It took me about a year to move to my own domain, but it was a great opportunity to clean up 20 years worth of unused accounts, so a net positive I think.

I’ve kept my @gmail address as a backup, though I only check it about once a week now. Plus, I’m free to use it for any new random accounts I don't really care.
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Not really. We need polluting energy sources to be charged for their pollution, ie stop using the atmosphere and land as a free sewer, which in turn will put renewables on an equal footing.

Though even without that, solar, wind, and batteries are already cheaper.
Show HN: Bad ALIENS, 5yo and dad build a game in 8h with AI
My 5yo and I paused reading bedtime stories for the last week to try and build our own game, heavily using AI. This is what we came up with: BAD ALIENS

Took ~ 8h of work, and we recorded the music without AI! It also has a debug mode (?debug=true, check it out!)
Designing Dammit Sans: A Hack Week Typeface
If you have don't care about the price, there's always FinalMouse. Their mice are carbon fiber, with PTFE feet. I forget if the wheel has any, I'd have to check once I'm home.
Reading this article and then through the comments here, the overall argument I'm hearing here is that we should let the AI write the code and we should focus on reviewing it and testing it. We should work towards becoming good at specify a problem, and then validating the solution

Should we even be asking AI to write code? Shouldn't we just be building and training AI to solve these problems without writing any code at all? Replace every app with some focused, trained, and validated AI. Want to find the cheapest flights? Who cares what algorithm the AI uses to find them, just let it do that. Want to track your calorie intake, process payroll every two weeks, do your taxes, drive your car, keep airplanes from crashing into each other, encrypt your communications, predict the weather? Don't ask AI to clumsily write code to do these things. Just tell it to do them!

Isn't that the real promise of AI?