skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypertokens define a spreadsheet-esque label-based referential coding environment. HTs can be used in any LLM context to create arbitrary operations as will be shown in the paper. Current expected release is later this month.
That does nothing to address Credentialing and Authorization issues.
There are some existing attempts such as RASP iric
While I understand that people have their problems with universities tuition and loans ..etc. The problem is here is that funding for basic and applied science on all front is being cut. It does provide a lot of jobs and supports a lot of universities operations too. Universities build labs which does provide infrastructure (buildings and other facilities) and NSF, NIH and DOE provide funds to use these facilities to pursue research. So these agencies have dependency on universities to provide these research facilities and manage hiring and compliance with rules.

Now there are many problems with current system which need to be addressed. But you don't solve the cancer in the cells by killing cells and thus killing patient. But you use targeted approach to the problem. This needs some modifications to the rules and deep changes in laws that will require further study and discussion. This is of course not going to happen currently.

Now some people argue that the budget is a problem and debt and deficit is more important. But again lets talk data. The whole NSF and NIH budget is less than $60B dollars in 2024 which amounts to a little bit less than 1% of the total budget. If you compare it with other Items in the budget percentage wise you will get (DoD - 7.5%), (Medicare - 6.7%), (Social Security - 4.6%), (Medicaid - 10%),(National Debt Interest - 15%). So even cutting it all will not achieve any significant improvement while create a lot of problems. There are a significant part of economy and jobs are supported by these money. The return on investment is positive in most cases and you are leading in innovation and most of scientific frontier. One can argue that these two items are very cheap to maintain you dominance than another couple of air craft carriers (and their operation costs).

If you tried and achieved any reduction in the big items in the federal budget you will be saving something near the total budget of NIH and NSF. But again for some reason a lot of focus on these programs while less focus on big items for some reason.
Know when to rest, not to quit. Thank you for your service.
Sorry, but I find this incredibly distracting and unpleasant to me. Yanks my focus every time I scroll. Any site using it is an instant back button for me.
You owe @dang your kingdom :)
I like it, quickly tried to scroll back looking for the moonwalk, lol
No, we struggle with consensus about which expert-level humans are better than others at art.
a surprising number of academic pdfs do not have the Title element set in the dictionary. seems like a jobs for "ai".
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> Rubber doesn't age well.

This morning I replaced the rubber grip on my manual coffer grinder. By my math I'd ground about 40 kg of coffee by hand over 4 years, and the grip had gotten to the point where it just spun around the body of the grinder unless held very tightly.

I assume I could extend the lifespan by wearing gloves when I grind coffee to keep my hand oils off the rubber, but the replacement was only $5.
This aesthetic is unpleasant to me in a way I cannot put my finger on. It bothers me the same way Star Trek does.
"People should not do the thing!"

"Sir it's your job to make sure everyone doesn't get measles."

"People should do the thing!"

I do wonder if it is current events, or if it much has just being granted power... people are surprisingly willing to do a job that has bestowed on them.

The biggest rebel will quickly become the most strict hall monitor and so on.

Having said all that, I'm worried about this administration's ability to suddenly turn on a dime in situations where you simply can't turn on a dime and do any good.
smart investors do not buy p/e ratio of 1,000,000 with 69-years-in-the-making “robo”taxis (which will now apparently be driven bu humans…)
> most environmentalists detest the tall buildings

I've seen it both ways. Some environmentalists hate single family homes and see suburban sprawl as the enemy. They'd rather have everyone packed into dense urban environments where anything a person will ever need in life is just a 15 minute walk/bike ride away from where they live eliminating the need for cars and leaving more land untainted by human interference. They'd be happy to do away with the inefficiencies of getting products, utilities, healthcare, and other resources to rural homes and communities spread out all over the place as well.
Summon Elisabeth Bik! (I want to know what she thinks)
Dividing by the square root of two with each iteration isn't any weirder than how Knuth does software versions.
Afaik Weitek VGA core was licensed from Unisys

"Weitek Oral History Panel " https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

>Roach: ... we did make some efforts to get a VGA core. We actually licensed it from Unisys, who had it
internally, so they didn't mind licensing it to a merchant chip vendor, and we did that, and I think Barry
deserves credit for doing the best he could to make something out of all of this, and he gave it kind of one
more generation, one and a half generations, but the fundamental approach was still, coming from a high
cost core, trying to go down, whereas the other guys had it much better figured out from low cost to
coming up.

Whole panel is depressing to read. They had two strong products, x86 copro and SUN design win copro. Rest was losing money or not selling well. As soon as SUN moved on company started having serious problems. They were convinced Weitek was in high end graphics, but every Weitek P9000/9100 benchmark I can find puts them in the middle of common PC vendor pack losing to much cheaper chips/cards. 5186/5286 vga cores performed pretty terribly (8bit video ram access when combined with P9000?), and so did the one integrated into P9100 delivering half the performance of low end Trident PCI (not liking Doom 8bit writes pattern?). Stupid marketing gimmicks, feng shui, wasting money on bad calls like speech recognition and chasing high margin products in a market racing to commoditize everything. It looks like they might have lost best people early on with Edmund Sun starting C-Cube going into video acceleration, sold for >$2 Billion in 2000, and Chi-Shin Wang 8x8 doing conferencing and still holding on with ~2000 employees and almost a $1B revenue.
> Nowhere else in science is a mathematical model of something considered physically identical and interchangeable with the entity being modelled

you can make the argument that everything in science is a mathematical model... if you measure a basketball arcing through the sky, you are not actually privy to any existential sensing of the ball, you are proxying the essence of the basketball using photons, and even collecting those photons is not really "collecting those photons", etc.
This sort of project reminds me of the old internet. I love it.
The history of business is that companies rise to dominance, are characterized as having unstoppable monopolies, and then they fall. The US business history is full of examples. Like IBM. Walmart. RCA. GE. Cisco Systems. Intel. Ford. AT&T.

The only way dominance can be sustained is by using the government to throttle the competition.
Unless I’m missing something, I don’t really see the point of putting the functions in the struct instance since it doesn’t seem like you need to use any form of polymorphism/function overriding.

If you have normal, non-virtual instance methods you are better off making it a normal function with some class centric naming pattern, e.g. JSON_Parse(JSON* self, const char* json).

If you want to emulate virtual functions from C++ you are better off storing a single pointer to a statically allocated vtable of function pointers (1 instance per class), that way your instance structs are smaller at the cost of an extra indirection per virtual call. You could also go the Rust route and use a large pointer type (pointer to object + pointer to vtable) for polymorphic objects that avoids a longer dependency chain at the cost of larger object pointers.
It's more likely so these could be used with a pick and place machine. They're obviously lytics if you look at the ends. I don't know why everything has to be a conspiracy these days.
It seems you misunderstood the design of the multiplier described in the article.

The Pentium multiplier isn't 3 bits per cycles, it's one full multiplication per cycle (though pipelined over multiple cycles).

The part that's 3 bits is the Booth multiplier trick of multiplying 3-bit digits instead of 1-bit digits, but they're all multiplied in parallel.

As such, I suspect (but don't know) that this trick or some variant of it is used even today.
Line-item veto eludes presidents (2012)
My favorite bit of alternate history computer interface standards is UPAMD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Power_Adapter_for_Mo...) - essentially what USB-C/USB-PD ended up being but using CAN for communication and a pogo-pin-based connector.
I heard him thank Blender in the first few sentences and had to Google it to see if he was talking about THAT Blender!

I remember doing all the tutorials when I was younger and considering game dev.
> Arguably this whole thing wouldn't happen if these apps were distributed and updated via the OSX app store. If that's the future you want, it's largely already here.

I don't understand this point.

The core of this issue is an insecure updating mechanism for desktop apps. You can argue for security sake, users may opt to only use the official Apple app store or the official Microsoft store. In this case instead of having a random startup manage the update process, you have a couple of multibillion dollar companies.

I'm trying to figure out what exactly you want to happen here. Would you essentially make it a legal to distribute software without a permit ? Would distributing certain software require a permit ?
I would not be opposed to the Federal Reserve buying VTI and distributing the dividends as UBI.
Of course I care. Human-written code was written for a purpose, with a set of constraints in mind, and other related code will have been written for the same or a complementary purpose and set of constraints. There is intention in the code. It is predictable in a certain way, and divergences from the expected are either because I don't fully understand something about the context or requirements, or because there's a damn good reason. It is worthwhile to dig further until I do understand, since it will very probably have repercussions elsewhere and elsewhen.

For AI code, that's a waste of time. The generated code will be based on an arbitrary patchwork of purposes and constraints, glued together well enough to function. I'm not saying it lacks purpose or constraints, it's just that those are inherited from random sources. The parts flow together with robotic but not human concern for consistency. It may incorporate brilliant solutions, but trying to infer intent or style or design philosophy is about as useful as doing handwriting analysis on a ransom note made from pasted-together newspaper clippings.

Both sorts of code have value. AI code may be well-commented. It may use features effectively that a human might have missed. Just don't try to anthropomorphize an AI coder or a lawnmower, you'll end up inventing an intent that doesn't exist.
Startups and large established companies are very different breeds.
There was a time when capital knew its place though.

I humbly suggest we start to think about how we all can get back to that time. It’s come to rule the roost over all other concerns and we are not seeing the bright future we deserve as humanity in part but not solely, due to this fact.

We can change that, but it means drawing the line. And I mean all of us
More marquee!
No, it's like plumber complaining about filling tax return forms. In the middle of joining pipes. (And I will bother belaboring your analogy. For the benefit of others reading it.)

As you say, it is not unique to git. Bug trackers, system updates etc. also can "disrupt flow" and take a lot of attention away from the main work. But git is unique in the insidious way that it springs such hard problems on unsuspecting developers that are busy *actually working*
isn't opera just chrome now? that would obviously let them keep up
Long overdue, in my opinion. I grew up desperately looking forward to wood, metal, and automotive shop classes to compliment my computer electives; by the time I reached High School, all but wood shop had been replaced by more weight rooms for the football team to use.

Primary education should always include basic skills in craftsmanship, inclusive of at least shop class and cooking/home economics. Hopefully this marks a more general rebound of these long-neglected skillsets.
Good idea. I'll make him do that soon
Posting this because I remember this controversy when then-president Clinton invoked the "line-item veto" to selectively void portions of bills sent for his signature before they were enacted into law. Quote from tfa:

"From now on, presidents will be able to say 'no' to wasteful spending or tax loopholes, even as they say 'yes' to vital legislation," he said at the time. "Special interests will not be able to play the old game of slipping a provision into a massive bill in the hope that no one will notice."
...
Supreme Court decision or no, presidents continue to fight for the authority they say can save the nation billions of dollars. (Clinton's first use of the line-item veto alone saved $625 million, as CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reported at the time.)

This was a huge controversy at the time and ultimately was ruled as overstepping the boundaries and the separation of the legislative and executive branches. The idea that this was a controversy seems awfully quaint today.
what would you change about it
I gotta make scroll buddy do the moonwalk next :D
It's not quite what you're asking for, but Jujutsu+Git is still a much better dev experience than Git alone and is completely compatible with those sites.

I use Jujutsu for 100% of my version control at my day job, where all of our repos are in Bitbucket and all my coworkers are using Git. AFAIK most of my coworkers don't even know I'm doing anything different, other than those who I've "evangelized" so far :)

...I think my PRs have gotten noticeably cleaner and easier to review, though!
Psychologically, “better” is not referenced to the objective things they have, but the relative things they have. So humans drawn to status-driven wealth will always want more relative wealth.
> This enormous acceleration of progress is increasingly unnoticed due to even faster increases in software bloat

Can't resist to throw in this quote (from one of Wirth's students I think):

"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster."
I've seen another gui waaay back before git was popular. Perforce actually handled merge conflicts with a GUI just as good. I think it's still just as good, though almost no one uses it.
>Biology researchers aren't reverse engineering the binary outputs of qPCR machines

While this is beside your point, outputs from qPCR machines are often reasonably interpretable. I've seen one model that's XML, and one that's JSON, both as files in an overall data file that's just a ZIP, and I have seen intermediate files that are just plain text. In both cases, these are processed on the machine from raw images, which are a standard TIFFs, though they are usually not stored.

I am similarly left confused about the motivation of this project, however. If I recall correctly, commercial offerings of cryptographic signatures for qPCR machines already exist, running on the machines. Also, while they immediately dismiss the idea of modifying the machine, or even using different software, those are both important considerations. Many modern qPCR machines have computers running full operating systems in them (the QuantStudio machines run Android, for example, and have their core control running internally in Python); these can extremely insecure. All the work they have done would do nothing to protect against a modified machine, and contrary to what they suggest, I have found that modifying machines, and writing interface software as an alternative to the manufacturer's, can be quite easy. qPCR machines are not actually very complicated instruments, especially from a firmware perspective. In putting tamper-evident seals on the machines they perhaps don't realize how open lab equipment can be: I've seen almost intentional unauthenticated privileged remote code execution, for example.

And, as you note: it's very unclear what type of behavior this is even trying to defend against. Research malpractice is both rare, and can take place at very many points in the process. This seems like it is defending against a particularly unlikely point. I think fraud would more likely take place either in setup, or in data processing.

And finally: this locks down machines to be only usable in very specific ways. That is reasonable in diagnostic and clinical settings. But research is often not about doing the exact same thing that has already been done. It often involves new uses for equipment, and new experimental methods. Most of my use of qPCR machines, for examplee, would be impossible in their setup, as I'm using them in ways the manufacturer's software doesn't support, and the data coming out has nothing to do with qPCR, and so can't be processed in a normal way. At some level, research equipment cannot be heavily constrained, as that is contrary to the very point of research.

(For context: I maintain an open source package to control QuantStudio machines, primarily intended for using them for non-qPCR purposes.)
The uncertainty is frustrating, but it seems there is, occasionally, the will to do the needful. I’ll take it if it saves lives.
Maybe a raindrop? Anyone else cheer for raindrop races as a kid on long drives?

An apple falling on to Newton's head.

Fun to think about!
Russell Vought, sociopath
https://learngitbranching.js.org/

is my go-to recommendation
Two guys pumping a rail-car.

Someone rowing the scrollbar thumb (the longer the thumb, the more rowers).
> certainly is on quantum ones

I don’t think that’s a certainty.
Thanks for sharing everything you did. Back when I was just barely learning HTML to update my personal web sites on AOL and Geocities I found your site and that ended up putting me on a constant migration path between whatever free hosts would let me run Perl at the time just so I could have TextCounter and WWWBoard.

I learned a lot about Unix systems at a time where I only had Windows 3.1 as a result, and while I haven't knowingly touched Perl in at least 20 years I can confidently say the experience had to have been a factor in me ending up as a Linux admin.
Ooh, how novel, and we'll-executed. I imagine this might be useful in conjunction with a minimap as "terrain".

Useful, that is, in terms of getting a proprioceptive "feel" for the anatomy/topography of a document.
Mentioning AI as a feature is a turnoff for customers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41126685 Annectodally, everyone I know who is not in the industry is somewhere on the spectrum of indifference to revulsion, literally no one who is not a technologist or an investor has a positive opinion of AI.
Vote in my country is mandatory. If I don't vote, I lose lots of rights and need to pay a fine(very cheap, token value).

Are elections rigged?
"There is no choice" - clueless MBA
Thanks Matt!

I ran a forum (30k+ monthly users) last century using the WWWboard.
lemme click him to give him a little whack
Make Something Wonderful
My first two ideas to ‘innovate’ on this was; a car driving down the page, or a drag racing Christmas tree where the lights count down in ‘full tree’ style.
While I trained on Indesign for a while now I've been pretty dissatisfied with Adobe. Scribus looks like the 'main' contenter for an open source equivilent but its always been fairly clunky.

Really good to see a focus on improving the design of the app and improving the overall experience.

Delivery of Dark Mode, new icons and the rest all speaks to a new focus on design. I wouldnt be surpised if this is part of a bigger plan to make their user experience much more competetive/comparable.

Great to see as there seems to be some rising interest in switching across to open source of late.

Great to see as there seems to be a big
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> I don't think I've ever lived in or heard of an era where people were valued for being contrarian and independent.

Agreed!

The majority doesn't value contemporary contrarians, and it only values past contrarians once their ideas win over the majority.

The majority values winners, not contrarians. Although while doing so, they often give lip service to valuing contrarians, and everyone imagines they would have been early supporters.
Obviously never watched "naked and afraid".
It is one and the same thing. Essentially, "this" is what you will get paid for.
I think it's more evolution that produced intelligence. Evolution also produced capitalism. Capitalism is just one environmental variation that evolution can run in.
Old HN!
Forget the Death Star, the definitive planet-killer weapon will be a really big rock, how much have military tech advanced in these 10k years!
sure but is it enough to avoid using it though? I don't like to get screwed in business, but I don't avoid the screwdriver in my toolbox when I need one.
The bug bounty space is incredibly hostile because of the money involved.

Just about every project has a bug bounty, but you'll be hard pressed to find any online discussion about works in progress towards a reportable bug.
This kind of thing should probably be disabled if the user has prefers-reduced-motion set.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

It just needs one extra CSS rule to make the guy invisible when appropriate:

@media (prefers-reduced-motion) {
#scrollBuddy {
visibility: hidden;
}
}
maybe

git alias --global pick cherry-pick
Thanks!

I have it set as my default engine in Firefox, so instead of having the search open results in a new tab, I just open a new tab and search in that.

Could you elaborate on what behaviour you'd like to see?
“Cogito ergo cogito”?
I would make it a purple gorilla climbing up and down.
Harvesting RF ambient noise is not new. Here are some commercial products:

https://e-peas.com/product/aem30940/

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN12365.pdf

https://www.nexperia.com/products/analog-logic-ics/power-ics...

Also, crystal radios are really old.
Neither are available on AppleTV, to my knowledge.
Geothermal is mining heat stored in the crust. It can extract heat at a much higher rate than the average crustal heat flow, at least for a time.
> But the inferences of the resulting neural nets is not an algorithm

It is a self-delimiting program. It is an algorithm in the most basic sense of the definition of “partial recursive function” (total in this case) and thus all known results of computability theory and algorithmic information theory apply.

> Formal system is a collection of defined operations

Not at all.

> I don’t think you have to look at humans very hard to see that humans don’t implement any kind of formal system and are not equivalent to Turing machines.

We have zero evidence of this one way or another.

—

I’m looking for loopholes around Gödel’s theorems just as much as everyone else is, but this isn’t it.