skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half of those are things that parents should learn them

I think the goal is to help boost the kids whose parents don't know some of the basics, like budgeting, balancing a checkbook, buying an appliance, typing, etc... The people who aren't doing well in modern society lack these skills, and teaching their kids is an opportunity to boost them out of potential poverty.
That’s less possible now in the era of longer commutes unless you have flexible hours. For example, I’m married to a teacher. I have to do the morning drop off because there is no flexibility in the schedules at either school. That means the earliest I can reliably be in the office is 9:15 (e-bike), 9:30 (transit) or 9:45 (car).

Since our son’s school day ends at 3:15, that also means that the only options are aftercare or me picking him up and resuming work after she gets home. When there are things like staff meetings that runs even later.

The reason this worked in the past was that women did not work full-time, or at all, and the entire system was set up around the idea that there is a “free” adult available to handle everything except instruction. Unfortunately, since wages for anyone below upper middle-class have been stagnant for roughly half a century most families now depend on both parents working to avoid falling further behind.
Also, while I love Rust and I'm a big fan of the language, please stop saying "it's made with Rust!". Really, it's only annoying and irrelevant to the quality of a project and it might even be counterproductive. Who cares what language is used for a software as long as it works great ;)

This holds in general, not only for this project in particular.
Externally funded research also come with many compliance, reporting, and other requirements [1]. Administrative staff are the ones who handle these responsibilities. If funding agencies want fewer administrators, require less oversight.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/p...
Primarily because AI, artificial as it is does not want. People want. This doesn’t preclude programming something to do so, however it’s relatively long indirect link to any of the boogieman scenarios people like to anthropomorphize ideas into. The other scenario - people having a very powerful tool and imposing their will against everyone else is something that already happens and AI provides a natural step.
Hi, I'm the author. Usually, I provide links to the new terms mentioned in the article so that interested people can click and learn more. I have changed the link color from blue to dark gray. Would it help? Or are there just too many links in general?
shorter roger penrose (tl/dw or tl/hi):

1.
assume consciousness is not computable. therefore computing machines cannot be conscious.

2. Corollary: assume intelligence requires consciousness. therefore computing machines cannot be AI
Couldn't clippy do that for you?
Was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets right all along?
Respectfully, who cares? Humanity needs electricity, and "cost" is an entirely made-up thing. "Sorry, it was too expensive to save civilization" is going to be the most obnoxious epitaph for Homo sapiens...
100% agree. there have been posts here investigating Mozilla's budget - they have clearly squandered the money they received from Google.
Yeah, I couldn't believe it at first.

If you're going to add imperative programming to CSS, just do it already. Hacking in conditionals in this way feels like a bad joke.
I appreciate the post and will definitely try that, thank you!
Seconding GMAT. It's a distant third in the space in terms of adoption (behind FreeFlyer which is itself (anecdotally) far behind STK) but as a GN&C contractor I've used GMAT over FF and STK for a few jobs.

Particularly when it comes to code generation it has, IMO, a big advantage over FF and especially over STK. It's relatively lightweight, at least in my experience it's much faster to spawn and destroy instances than FreeFlyer, and it's pretty simple to write code to leverage GMAT to do interesting things.

Two things I've used GMAT for that would have taken longer in FF or STK are generating thousands of randomized ephemerides with keplerian parameters distributed in a set range, and automating a Monte Carlo-esque analysis focusing on error magnitude permutations by generating GMAT code from templates and collating into a single script file.

Not to mention it's free; STK and FF are very much not.

I'm on a first name basis with a chunk of the GMAT development team, though it's been a minute and I don't know how they're faring given recent political changes - they were out of Goddard which was having issues even before this January.

I don't know how often they accept code from the public, but I know they appreciate bug reports.

Anyways I guess I just wanted to go on about GMAT a little. It's a really cool tool and it's awesome that it's free. I wish it had more industry adoption.
I know! I played some multiplayer (against bots) not long ago and I don't remember it from the first time around, but there were no blood decals. I wonder if Gearbox just developed one low-violence version that they could sell in all markets.
Are these all IT companies? Mazda and Marantz certainly don't seem like they're IT companies.
On one level, yes you’re right. Computing weights and propagating values through an ANN is well defined and very algorithmic.

On the level where the learning is done and knowledge is represented in these networks there is no evidence anyone really understands how it works.

I suspect maybe at that level you can think of it as an algorithm with unreliable outputs. I don’t know what that idea gains over thinking it’s not algorithmic and just a heuristic approximation.
This whole discussion seems a bit confused. 50TW is the amount that does reach the surface naturally as far as I can see. The amount that escapes.

In the Earth itself there is some enormous amount, far far larger, with more energy being generated as well from radioactive decay

So it's not like some sort of oil situation where in 250 years we'll be at Peak Mantle, i.e. "The planet has spent millions of years generating this heat and we're draining it at an unsustainable rate!"
Not just an AI-generated image. A hideous AI-generated image.

There's low-effort, and then there's nearly-no-effort, and 100% I assume that the text of the article is equally garbage.
While I agree that reading the errata absolutely should be on the "mandatory TODO before you start" list for any project (esp with new/unfamiliar hardware), one should be equally aware that manufacturers aren't always transparent about the defects in their products, sometimes failing to note that entire subsystems, frankly, don't work.
How do you do a negation without doing an addition? Can you do better than -x = ~x + 1?
You can simulate a black hole on a mainframe, but that doesn't mean the math is going to escape and eat your solar system.

We don't know if consciousness is computable, because we don't know what consciousness is.

There are suggestions it isn't even local, never mind Turing-computable.
It's apparently publicists "pitching" stories to 'relevant' reporters and 'influencers'/YouTubers.

I recently saw a xeet, from a columnist, complaining about irrelevant PR pitches; it gives some insight into how they work. See: https://x.com/dhume/status/1892994787734602001
I think the author confuses a general strategy of brown nosing or trend watching to get ahead versus the popular opinions themselves causing the problem.

> the Biden years were the first Millennial presidency: inauthentic, bureaucratic, neurotic, seduced by jargon and theory, indifferent to the needs of those outside their own caste.

As opposed to now in 2025?

> Moreover, the Right shows signs of creating its own, reciprocal patronage and virtue economy, stocked with influencers and thought-leaders who similarly produce little more than anger at their now dethroned Left-wing counterparts. That ought to be abhorred as much as its progressive forebear.

Okay, but then how does that support the thesis that it's a "Millennial" thing if it's still happening 10-20 years later?
Apparently it's currently around half of each (primordial heat vs. radioactive decay).
GUI is absolutely easier for merge conflicts. I use the one that comes on jetbrain ides which is awesome.

This isn't even opinion. It's fact. Anyone who has experience regularly(keyword) using both CLI and GUI for merge conflicts will side with me on this by an overwhelming majority such that I might as well call this fact.
> “Future” values only become defined (“present” in your sense) at compile-time, but may occur before that at runtime. Note that this mostly presumes a language with separate compilation, [...]

Separate compilation is a technical implementation detail that shouldn't have an impact on semantics. Especially since LTO (link time optimisation) is becoming more and more common; 'thin' LTO is essentially free in Rust at least in terms of extra build time. LTO blurs the lines between separate compilation units.

On the flip side, Rust can use multiple codegen units even for the same crate, thus introducing separate compilation where a naive approach, like in classic C, would only use a single one.
The fundamental result of Gödel's theorem is that logical completeness and logical consistency are complimentary; if a logical system has consistent rules then it will contain statements that are unprovable by the rules but true nonetheless, so it is incomplete. Alternately, if there is a proof available for all true statements via the rules then the rules used are inconsistent.

I think this means that "AGI" is limited as we are. If we build a machine that proves all true statements then it must use inconsistent rules, implying it is not a machine we can understand in the usual sense. OTOH, if it is using consistent rules (that do not contain contradiction) then it cannot prove all true statements so it ia not generally intelligent, but we can understand how it works.

I agree with Dr. Penrose about the misnomer of "artificial Intelligence". We ought to be calling the current batch of intelligence technologies "algabreic intelligence" and admiting that we seek "geometric intelligence" and have no idea how to get there.
Obsolete.

You can observe the evolution of multipliers in the MIPS line, which I've been studying, and happen to know.

The R3000A had the same Radix-8 (aka 3-bit per cycle) integer multiplier in 1989.

The R4000 had two Radix-8 multipliers in 1991. One for integer, one for floating point.

The R4400 was an upgraded R4000 in 1992. The integer multiplier was kept at Radix-8, but the FPU was upgraded to a Radix-256 design (aka 8-bits per cycle).

In parallel, MIPS spent a lot of time creating a low power design for the target market of "Windows NT laptops". The result was the R4200, released in 1993. MIPS published quite a bit of information about the various power saving optimisations [1], [2]. Instead of seperate integer and floating point data paths, they created a unified data path that did both, allowing them to use the same Radix-8 multiplier for everything. They even unified the multiplier unit into the main adder, rather than using a seperate adder like earlier designs.

In 1995, MIPS released the R4300i, (aka the CPU found in the Nintendo 64). It was an evolution of the r4200, keeping the unified float/integer datapath. But it gained the Radix-256 multiplier from the R4400 design, so both integer and float instructions complete at 8-bits per cycle.

As far as I can tell, this Radix-256 multiplier doesn't use any fancy tricks. It's just an array of eight 64-bit wide carry-save adders, feeding into a regular carry-lookahead adder.

In 1996, MIPS released the R10000. Transistors are now cheap enough that they could implement a full 52-bit adder for their floating point data path, allowing them to issue one double precision multiplication every cycle (though it's pipelined with a 2 cycle latency). I assumes it's just 52 stacked adders, though seems like they probably need to be doing something fancier with carries by the time it's that big.

Most modern CPUs have ended up at the same point. Massive pipelined arrays of adders that can execute one 64-bit multiplication every cycle, with a 3 cycle latency.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nll5MWlG7q4
[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/282948/
Perhaps, but "we can make a viable geothermal plant, as long as it's in Iceland" doesn't really help with widespread deployment.
bean counters like Prabakhar Raghavan
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Ah yes, good catch. That's what the `state` parameter is about, right? But I'll weasel out and say that lack of a content type (being a GET) is one of the built-in types too ;)
While I think this particular idea is bad, Google is following the W3C process for proposing new features. This is what browser vendors are supposed to do: develop the feature, document it so other vendors can implement/compete it, see if there's enough early-adopter developer interest to bother standardizing.
You’re right that there has been huge advancements but there’s still a pretty brutal economic cost with it. I generally use the Tesla Megapacks as an easy example because prices and specs are easy to find on Wikipedia (and my local utility is testing them, so it’s relevant to me).

A Megapack 2XL can output ~2MW and has a capacity of ~4MWh for $1.39M.

A GE BWRX-300 is rated for 300MW and an 18-24 month refueling cycle and allegedly costs ~$1B.

You can build 150x Megapacks for $208M to match that 300MW output, but there is only enough energy stored to provide that output for two hours. If you want to provide 12 hours capacity (to run through the night), you need 900 units at a cost of $1.25B. That’s just for the storage though, you still need the source of electricity to charge the packs, overprovisioned to deal with the capacity factor issues that solar and wind have.

Will the nuclear plant go over budget? Almost certainly. Will it then provide a long-term baseline source of power? Also yes.

I’m pro-renewables and pro-storage, but there’s a mix needed here. Even with storage tech, there needs to be something else that can just sit there and run and produce reliable and controllable power output long-term.
> The advice on that page also specifies to not make the value semantically meaningful, which I take to mean to never set it to that value explicitly.

I've taken to coding my C enums with the first value being "Invalid", indicating it is never intended to be created. If one is encountered, it's a bug.
It might have been a smarter move by the US back in the day to extend USAID and collective forming business support to poor south american farmers rather than have the CIA indirectly fund cartels to run drugs into poor US communities in order to distance themselves from supplying arms to overthrow other governments.

Today that horse is dead and well beaten .. but maybe guns will solve things this time 'round.
PU is definitely known for degrading like this over time.

LDPE foam exists, but I think it wasn't common yet at that time.
> also recommended banning the possession, distribution and publication of other degrading, violent or misogynistic pornography

Degrading and misogynistic ... this seems like it would be open to some very extreme swings in interpretation.

While I might not like some of these things, this just seems like what would be an absurd use of government, and just be a waste of inexplicable enforcement / injustice and so on... and for what? Someone was hurt by this? Nope...
No, I'm assuming they will seed invest into startups based on technologies they license.
And so do the collective people who worked on the competing SaaS have all of those skills as well to use to their advantage.

Just say you've worked at Google, Microsoft, Intel, etc, 300 years of collective experience.

S4 Capital famously won contracts away from WPP even though WPP had a long standing reputation and marketing prowess.
Yes, but what about Deep Research?
> Yes, but you'll always have that. An average person working for the government, be that as an employee or as an official, will optimize their work load and try to do the minimum amount required.

Except that is not really my observation of someone that dealt with the public sector extensively in multiple different countries.

More often than not I dealt with people that were really trying to do a good job and were helpful to an extent.

Yes, there are lazy people that just want to coast (as if those don't exist in the private sector) and there is a level of corruption (also let's pretend that there's no corruption in the private sector). But that is definitely not the majority, especially in countries that more or less work.

> That's individually much less of a problem than that greedy CEO you envision, but it adds up in large numbers and becomes a problem if not corrected

Again, I disagree. The profit seeking and inherent greet of the any corporation creates a fundamental adversarial condition that is unsolvable. What is good for a corporation tends to almost always be bad for the general public. And there is no incentive to place constraints on the greed of corporations besides government regulations.

> Massively oversimplified: that's why the Soviets had to build walls to make it hard for their people to leave and murder those who tried. You can ignore human nature, but human nature won't ignore you.

You mention the Soviet Union as an example of a government that worked against the people, ignoring plenty of good examples in different countries.

And I am not really the one ignoring human nature when you are essentially willing to surrender the public good to relentless greed. Greed only begets more greed. You would do well to remember that
Vote in superintendents with more education experience than corporate.

I'm sure there are some corporate superintendents, but I've never seen one. It is almost always a teacher's union endorsed ex-teacher who was recently a principal in the district, or a superintendent from another district in the state.
I cannot imagine using syntax that’s largely reserved across languages for array indexing for such a completely unrelated topic.
eh, its possible that weird shit is happening in physics. however, there is no evidence that this is the case. its just vibes, really.
Also described on the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wikipedia page:

"Samoa measles outbreak"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr
Who said there was no homeless? The reply was in context of major cities where one will very rarely see true urban homeless in major urban areas where well off spends there time. The migrant workers naive expats thinks are "homeless" are generally not - they have homes, they're just willing to occasionally slum it while working "abroad" - it's like saying backpackers who camp on side of road to save $$$ are homeless. They're manifestly not the same thing. Hence quotes.

Truly homeless exist, but statistically and visibly much less problem, because typical local gov very proactive/interventionist in moving them off streets... truely urban homelessness is like... not a really a social option... no right to be homeless. VS in west where homeless don't get cleaned up unless for the occassional politically motivated reasons. In PRC it's default, homeless get detected fast -> get moved into local shelter system where system ids them and tries to guilt trip family into caretaker roles -> can come with modest stipend to cover costs.
I tried to learn machining on a CNC mill. it went ok, I guess. but I ruined a lot of tools, had to do a lot of polishing passes, and didn't really understand why my tolerances were so off. things like the flycutter mystified me, and using the boring head was deeply frustrating since it didn't have a tiny little servo. aligning the vice was something I dreaded, took me a good hour for some reason. 4 jaw chuck? maybe you use that if you need to drill off center or work on square stock.

couple of decades later I only use manual machines (with power feeds and DROs), and I'm really a lot faster and more consistent.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html - Meant to link this in my original comment, too.

Average for 2000-2024 is 179 cases so this year is still below average for the century. However those numbers only go through 27 February at noon and, as I mentioned, may be revised upward for that period. So as of today, we likely have exceeded the average but we won't have official numbers until 7 March.

And I'm being very specific with my numbers to count from 2000 to present. If we go back further we get to before the disease was considered "eliminated". The average if we count from 1985 to present was 1966 cases per year. But that includes years like 1990 which had 27,808 cases and we've come nowhere close to that this century.
One can argue that the described feeling is a product of suppressed instinctive behavior. Or, in other words, a detail of a particular implementation of intelligence in a certain species of mammals.
Overwhelmingly likely to be human interference, even without "complete development of the moon's surface".

Perhaps somebody thinks it would make a good museum piece back on Earth, or some bored spacefaring teen vandals destroy it for the lulz, or religious norms will change and those in power will blow it up to show their rejection of idols of a now forbidden age.

I'd give it hundreds of years, but not thousands.
Hospitals attached to universities aren't in general "tacked on" but are a part of the educational environment. They exist not only to serve patients but to educate students.
To be fair, I muddled concepts of formal/informal systems versus completeness and consistency. I think if you start from an assumption that ANN is a formal system(not a given), you must conclude that they are necessarily inconsistent. The AI we have now hallucinates way too much to conclude any truth derived from its “reasoning.”
How is the US helping Putin?
But it does make the authors' jobs easier.
The last US Navy diesel submarine, USS Dolphin (AGSS-555), was decommissioned in 2007.

And not all Navy surface ships are nuclear or turbine powered. Many classes of US Navy surface ships are diesel-powered, including some of the newest ones. Ships with gas turbine engines typically feature diesel powerplants also.
Wow, that appears to be pure corruption. Thanks for sharing.

I wonder if there are examples of this type of thing happening in places outside the USA, like Western Europe for example.
I don't see how computation itself can be a plausible cause here. The physical representation of the computation might be the cause, but the computation itself is not substrate-independent in its possible effect. That is again my point.
I think the very concept of an abstraction is a language game, one that speaks to the old Platonic ideals of Greek philosophy - with all the good and bad that implies. This specific language game takes on a very concrete meaning to programmers that can be quantitatively analyzed by a compiler but epistemologically it’s just another abstract concept (I hate philosophical inception).
Yeah, C, C++ (and C#) aren't very good at modelling data structures.
hes a damn good mathematician. it is indeed weird to experience him not breaking down the exact points of assumption he makes on arriving at his conclusion. he is old though, so...