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I had to check the calendar just in case it was April 1st, but this seems real.

According to this news article, 800k neurons, $35k price tag, ~30W consumption: https://newatlas.com/brain/cortical-bioengineered-intelligen...
What's your conclusion on this then? That it should be completely off the table because of these edge cases? I think finding these problems and patching them out as they're discovered could work. Giving the whole thing up would be like banning all airplanes after the first plane crash. The aviation industry instead put in thorough and rigorous checks to prevent future incidents (which sadly has degraded somewhat recently, but I digress). I think the same could be applied here.
I think the thing that will kill C++ will be what kills any programming language: ease of use by developers. People will always put security second to productivity and if it becomes apparent that problems typically reserved for C++ are easier to solve in rust, then people will leave rust for C++. If C++ is still the best way to do things like game engine development and work with specific APIs (i.e, most native windows code), then C++ will continue to exist.
It only deceives.
I use China in this context to mean the Chinese state which given their system is interchangeable with the CCP. So you can subv in CCP in my statement or even Xi if you want since he is unequivocally running things.

In the case of Ukraine, Russia's (read: the russian government which is synonymous with Putin who dictator in all but name) motivation is somewhat similar. But they don't see Ukraine as a rebellious province. They see it as a vassal state as they do all of the other former SSRs and members of the Warsaw pact. Putin and his nationalist group have a very old world view of things and a very specific concept of what their rightful sphere of influence is and what exactly it means to control it. This isn't even unique to them. After securing power, the Bolsheviks quickly attempted to bring former Russian imperial possessions back under their control. That included Ukraine, Poland and Finland. Poland and Finland were able to secure their independence, Ukraine was less fortunate. For all the talk of anti imperialism, they were just as imperial as their predecessors. So this is just russians being russians and an inability for their world view to evolve past the 19th century.
I don't know if what you say about Musk is true, but I want to thank you for sharing that quote by and that video of Warren Buffett. I had seen that quote before, but not the video. Both are insightful. I found the video more powerful.
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As has the US with all of their aid.

Yet, the US is the one that is forever chided for being negligent to the terms of the agreement.
I was using HP Apollo systems with the Aegis OS in the early 90s, and they basically shared one filesystem across their token-ring network. Plug in two or more systems, login to one of them, and each other system's files would be under //othersystem.

I don't recall whether there were any security-minded limits you could put on what was shared, but for a team that was meant to share everything, it was pretty handy.
Not a big fan of C++, but I find this rhetoric dangerous.

"We need to burn the government down and restart from scratch"

"This needs to die"

"..."

If you don't benefit from it, don't use it. But don't vandalise it, please.
Of course they can defeat Russia, if they’re tenacious enough. Just look at Afghanistan (against both Russia and USA). If the costs ends up being too high, eventually the attacker loses the will to continue the fight.

Russia is running out of equipment. What they have left is in an increasingly bad state. Ukraine’s recent strategy of targeting refineries is working fairly well.

Ukraine now has domestic laser weapons for taking down Russian drones.
Might be an experiment to determine if some of the flagging is automated. I wouldn’t discount that possibility.

If this remains in the front page, I suppose whoever deployed such a tool will quickly adapt. Distribution of flag requests over time might prove interesting.
Look up CPLDC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_...

This is how big operations handle clearances today, complete with integration into the FMS. The pilot simply reviews the clearance and accepts it.
I mean on one hand we can do better but on the other, last I checked there's not been a time where citizens were hauled off to prison in the US for disparaging capitalism. Closest we came was the red scare in the 50s and that was tame in comparison to what Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Castro and Ho Chi Minh and (do I need to keep going?) put their subjects through.
Author here. I originally wrote the code for this project as part of my commercial webapp project (FixMyDocuments.com), but I was so intellectually stimulated by the creation of this code, and so excited by the new design possibilities it opened up for me when it comes to working with LLMs, that I thought it would be a shame to have it "locked up" inside my app (which not many people are using in any case!).

So to bring this interesting piece of software to a wider audience and to better justify the amount of effort I expended in making it, I decided to turn it into a completely standalone, open-source project. It's all a single Python code file for simplicity (although it's not at all simple or short at ~4,500 lines!).

In addition, I wrote the a blog post about the design considerations that went into it and the various engineering challenges I had to solve to get it to work which you can read here:

https://fixmydocuments.com/blog/04_making_of_the_mindmap_gen...

Although the basic idea of the project isn't that complicated, it took me many, many tries before I could even get it to reliably run on a complex input document without it devolving into an endlessly growing mess (or just stopping early).

There was a lot of trial and error to get the heuristics right, and then I kept having to add more functionality to solve problems that arose (such as redundant entries, or confabulated content not in the original source document).

Anyway, I hope you find it as interesting to read about as I did to make it!
Its an imperfect analogy but I'm trying to illustrate an idea in a more relatable way. If you pick at the details it will fall apart.
I've struggled to get both to do anything useful. that said Claude code is consistent and doesn't error a lot
heh. same.
Also an e-bike in the snow or pouring rain is miserable if it even works at all. There are some situations where they're great, but cars are just a lot more flexible. One vehicle that does everything.
The way I understood it: Cobbling a program together by simply prompting AI assistants over and over, blindly using the generated code, and repeating until it barely approaches satisfying the requirements. Not worrying about things like correctness, proper design, code cleanliness, understandability, performance, code size, security, data protection, maintainability, or even bugs unless they catastrophically stop the user from running the program.

I really hope this doesn't actually catch on in "real" engineering, beside as a meme joke.
Tricycles are statically stable, as long as you're on level ground. They're unstable on canted ground, like driveways, cambered roads. Also dynamically unstable taking corners.

Bycicles are dynamically stable, since they can lean in corners or stay upright on tilted surfaces, as long as you're moving.

That's a reason old-fashioned tricycles aren't popular.
Your velomobile might be an exception.
The long range PHEVs china has been building would also be ideal for Canada. Plenty of daily range even in winter and no range or infrastructure anxiety when you need more distance.
The willingness to pay is a bit surprising to me (64$ for a streamed conference that will get posted for free afterwards seems high). Doesn't seem like organizer spent anything on advertising - might be useful in the future.
Nice!

You could also count LLM tokens, too- that’d be helpful.

Note: The Pro threw me off, because Pro typically means “paid SaaS.”
I've only used larger, higher power ones that are meant to stay in one place. Even with those, all the "point it at a wall and it looks like a TV" marketing is fiction. They don't look good without projector screens unless you're in a dark environment.
Nothing in that leak shows that the US chooses members of the Ukrainian government, only that they work with them. All of them were democratically elected, just like Zelensky. Next you're going to tell me that Yatsenyuk grew a beard and joined a Chechen gang in the 90s and cite the DNC leaks as proof. https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-yatsenyuk-chechnya-russia-...
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> recommend having your forearm angled between 90-120°

That's what I said ("your forearm should be generally be about horizontal (or a little bit downwards is OK too)"). Never upward.

> which if it's > 90°, an front angulation doesn't make sense at all.

If you want a 10° downwards angle on the keyboard relative to your forearm and your forearm is 5° upwards, then your keyboard still needs 5° downward relative to your desk. If your desk is so high that your forearms are angled up 20° from the horizontal, then something is extremely wrong with your chair/desk height.

And your first link supports exactly what I wrote:

> The natural position of your hands with respect to the relative vertical position at the wrist is along the plane or below it (i.e. you want the tips of your fingers to be at the same height as your wrist or preferably slightly lower). When your hand rises above this plane (making the hand signal for 'STOP'), this is called dorsiflexion or wrist extension. This greatly reduces blood flow through the wrist and can quickly cause pain, fatigue and numbness. Most keyboards have a 'foot' located at the back of the keyboard which is not desirable as it creates a positively inclined keyboarding surface. Many articulating arms offer the option of a negative inclination, which will make the entire work surface slope away from you, ensuring that your hands are not 'bent' upward at the wrist.

And I don't know why you've added another link about sideways mouse slant. That has nothing to do with up-down keyboard/arm angle. If there's some relevant sentence in it, please quote it, because I can find nothing relevant in the publicly available text.

You ask me to "please take your time to read" -- I suggest you take the time to re-read your own first link. It makes clear there is no situation where a keyboard angled upwards (the back of the keyboard elevated) is good ergonomics -- exactly what I said.
I guess that's true, but we're straying from the point of discussion I think.
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Glad to see another post on Fabien's blog!
A Stream Deck is a bit overkill I think, but macro keypads are cheap enough that I'm also not sure why I'd opt for this product over one of those.
I love to see that my small shareware utility[1] that I uploaded to Simtel in 1997 still appears in the depths of Internet. Whenever I encounter an archive like that, I find comfort in searching for it, and seeing it "doing okay" in its own universe. :)

I lost the latest source code to that tool due to a lost backup, but the binaries keep on living.

[1] https://github.com/ssg/wolverine
I mean, the whole issue would be avoided of America did not voted for sociopath president who was doing bad business whole his life. Trump was literally loosing money he inherited again and again and again whole his life.

And I mean, not because he would be following laws while criminals got ahead. No, he was a fraudster who still managed to loose money.
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I don't really see the issue even though I politically disagree with a lot of what elon is doing - specifically regarding h1b visa policies.

It's hard work - the way you incentivize hard working people is with... money.

If they weren't being paid well, the same cohort complaining would cry nepotism because "they can only do this work because their parents are footing the bill". Which ironically, is what most capital hill staffers resort to since $30k doesn't go very far in DC.
For some reason the name seems to trigger people? I don't really get the hysteria.
FWIW, "successor" is not really n + 1: you've got that the other way around.

Successor simply "is" (it's a relation that satisfies a number of conditions), and summation is defined in terms of successor function.

My point is that you can really define everything in terms of these primitive definitions, which means that there won't be any single use of a non-2 digit for any function, or you'll be going with a set of arbitrary allowances.

But the whole point should be: what are those arbitrary constraints that make the game fun? And once you clear that bar, it's ok to open up the next one (this does not make them non-arbitrary though).

Basically, I am saying your take at those arbitrary decisions is not a very fun one ;-)
There is just a lot of inertia. Rust fanboys completely ignore the fact that C++ is a lot more mature.

I have seen so much "the codebase is a disgrace, I bet we can rewrite everything in Rust in a couple weeks". Never materialised. Maybe starting with some humility would have helped, I don't know.

Willing to burn down everything in order to use the new shiny tool is a junior move. Rust is sometimes a better fit, C++ is sometimes a better fit. With time, Rust (or I think more Rust + other modern languages) may replace C++ almost everywhere. No need to get violent about it.
One step closer to mammoths or to tribbles?
ref:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
Ok, I think I see your point. However, I still deeply believe MAiD option is a must-have for a healthcare system to be humane.
Economists have predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions. -- Paul Samuelson

They've been pretty insistent over the last 5 years that a recession was coming any time now. It took a solidly competent administration to prevent the seemingly inevitable. We now have a new administration.
He fled because literally half of kyiv was protesting. He was going to get impeached because he spent 15 years being pro EU and then reneged.

He ordered the berkut to shoot protesters so he might have been charged with crimes for that.
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This was announced yesterday so I'm kinda surprised it hasn't been submitted to HN yet: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1896675400916566357
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It does but it also generalizes extremely well
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I would expect a true logical fallacy detector to take any natural text and spit out "unsupported assumption, unsupported assumption" over and over and over.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark or fulmination? We're really trying for something else here.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
If a manager doesn't have any better way to judge if their employees are working than to check seat attendance then that manager is useless.
There is no "away from population centres" in central europe
> Hallucinations are present, but usually they’re pretty minor (screwing up gender, years).

And if all hospitals were doing was having doctors treat patients, this would be ok. But healthcare is fueled by these "minor" details and this will result in delays in payment and reimbursent, trouble with patient identification, corruption of clinical coding, etc.
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> If you posted that challenge to an intelligent person from 20,00 years ago, they would just stare at you blankly.

Depending on how you pose it. If I give you a long enough series of ordered cards, you'll on some basic level begin to understand the spatiotemporal dynamics of them. You'll get the intuition that there's a stack of heads scanning the input, moving forward each turn, either growing the mark, falling back, or aborting. If not constrained by using matrices, I can draw you a state diagram, which would have much clearer immediate metaphors than colored squares.

Do these explanations correspond to some priors in human cognition? I suppose. But I don't think you strictly need them for effective few-shot learning. My main point is that learning itself is a skill, which generalist LLMs do possess, but only as one of their competencies.
A recent estimation puts the cost of Brexit as 6% of GDP, since 2020 - because that's when the UK actually left. So over 5 full years. That's a lot. And it's not a one-off either.
I was pretty flippant and your reply makes it clear that there's a lot more going on than the apathy I was hinting at. Anybody who cares about democracy should look at those reasons very seriously to see what we can do better (polling locations, difficulty with absentee ballots, privacy issues to say the least).
In improving the lives of their people?

Yes, absolutely.
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Not my kind of keyboard style but damn this looks nice
There is currently a bill in the Texas house to ban transition for people of all ages.

Also, minors would receive hormone blockers - which are reversible and safe. ...and also still prescribed for cases such as precocious puberty.
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> Maybe the future is structured electronic messaging with the humans in the loop.

There already is: Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC).

Get an instruction, press to confirm.

At the moment, this is only used for certain types of things (clearances, frequency changes, speed assignments, etc.) along with voice ATC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_...
Because West has no means to put more pressure on Russia (they cannot even stop buying natural gas), so it has to talk nicely. US cannot demand, for example, that Russia gives them a share of their minerals and generally cannot demand anything.

Actually in hindsight the best time for negotiations was somewhere in end of 2022, but that chance is long gone.

But while West cannot demand, it still can offer (i.e. removing nuclear weapon and US forces from EU etc).
At least they’re only torching the stalls and not destroying the pad transformers; those have a 50-70 week lead time in some cases for replacement (depending on size).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad-mounted_transformer
Here is the full video: https://youtu.be/M-vQGxTFfPU?si=9dFG2LVh_qGkFNB6

Most Buffett speeches are now onlines, and most are extremely good.
Makes sense.

I have heard that laser projectors don’t need to be focused.

Is that true?
The formal name for it is diaeresis [0]. The New Yorker is famous for being a high-profile publication that enforces its usage.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
Rust genuinely will stop you, though. You can't take a Result<T> and get an Ok(T) out of it unless there's no error; if it's an Err then you can't continue as if you have a T.

It doesn't force you to do something productive with the error, but you can't act like it was what you wanted instead of an error.
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That certainly was the perspective from WW1 to pearl harbor
One could never forget SA, especially Cliff Yablonski's images of people he hates [1]. I'm honestly surprised that is still up these days.

[1] - https://www.somethingawful.com/cliff-yablonski/i-hate-you-01...
Exploitable mathematical structure arising purely from the concept of an iterated cipher is probably what Nick meant there by "an actual mathematical break". SHACAL-2 is also an iterated cipher with a relatively simple round structure.
Is there a modern SICP book? I tried to go through it once, but immediately got stuck because my math/physics was so rusty that I would have to spend more time researching the background than actually solving the CS puzzle
You know First Order Logic. It's just ordinary logic; it's the default thing people think of when they say "logic".

But it's also not very useful for human reasoning. It's good for math and logic puzzles and bad at anything else. It's bad at time, at belief, at negation. None of those things act like you expect them to.
A lot of useful specialized problems are just patterns.

It doesn't need to know the capital of Togo, metabolic pathways of the eukaryotic cell, or human psychology.

What if knowing those things distills down to a pattern that matches a pattern of your code and vice versa? There's a pattern in everything, so know everything, and be ready to pattern match.

If you just look at object oriented programming, you can easily see how knowing a lot translates to abstract concepts. There's no reason those concepts can't be translated bidirectionally.
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Thanks for your awesome articles, esp the path tracing postcard[0] :) I've had the pleasure of hanging out with Andrew Kensler at a conference dinner (EGSR 2019?), amazing guy! He scribbled a bunch of great quasi Monte Carlo notes into my notebook and even signed it on request :")

[0] https://fabiensanglard.net/revisiting_the_pathtracer/index.h...
Yes but only a little.

I think managers are often out of touch with what the team puts up with.
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