skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The percentage change in resolution you ran the games at was also absolutely mind blowing too.

For the most part we went from running the game at 320x200 or 320x240 to 640x480 in that first round of acceleration. I think in terms of % change it is a bigger leap than anything we've really had since, or certainly after 1920x1080.

So you suddenly had super smooth graphics, much better looking translucency and effects, and the # of pixels quadupled or more and you could just see everything so much more clearly.
Google Analytics is the TikTok of software development
Before the proliferation of Uber Eats, Doordash, GrubHub, etc, most of the places I've lived had 2 choices for delivered food: pizza and Chinese.

It has absolutely massively expanded the kinds of food I can get delivered living in a suburban bordering on rural area. It might be a different experience in cities where the population size made delivery reasonable for many restaurants to offer on their own.
3D DAWs: Enter the Next Dimension of Music Production
Here is a research paper on the possible future innovations of 3D Digital Audio Workstation software - like my project Audiocube!
Swallowing the Poison Pills: Insights from Vulnerability Disparity Among LLMs
I had some results last week that I felt were really good - on a very tricky problem, using AI (Claude 3.7) helped me churn through 4 or 5 approaches that didn't work, and eventually, working in tandem, "we" found an approach that would. Then the AI helped write a basic implementation of the good approach which I was able to use as a reference for my own "real" implementation.

No, the AI would not have solved the problem without me in the loop, but it sped up the cycle of iteration and made something that might have taken me 2 weeks take just a few days.

It would be pretty tough to convince me that's not spectacularly useful.
A Bedtime Story Website
Looks like twitter.com doesn't even resolve now. Throws a Cloudflare error.
Playstation was in development and was released in japan almost a year before 3dfx released their first card. It's reasonable to draw that someone could have had experience working on the playstation graphics system prior to moving over and creating 3dfx. The fact they were building a prototype system for Sega as well means they were likely involved in that space before. SGI also licensed the CPU to sony for the playstation and back then the CPU would have done most of the graphics workload for the playstation - similar to an APU today with even less segregation between gpu and cpu.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

very good background on the founders up to and at the creation of 3dfx... some really interesting stuff in there.
I think the title promises something that an otherwise well-written, enjoyable piece doesn't deliver. At no point does the author say or really allude to what her father's emails (specifically) taught her about the craft of writing.

A better title would communicate that the content is anecdotal, rather than instructive. Something like "How My Father's Emails Unknowingly Made Me A Writer".
The countries that allowed things like Starlink to be built also had regulations to protect democracy from the power of money, such as media ownership rules, campaign finance laws and high marginal income taxes. Those have all been swept aside.
thanks. i was worried about job security for a nanosecond.
Self-improvement (in the "hard takeoff" sense) is hardly a given, and hostile self-replication is nothing special in the software realm (see: worms.)

Any technically competent human knows the foolproof strategy for malware removal - pull the plug, scour the platter clean, and restore from backup. What makes an out-of-control pile of matrix math any different from WannaCry?

AI doom scenarios seem scary, but most are premised on the idea that we can create an uncontainable, undefeatable "god in a box." I reject such premises. The whole idea is silly - Skynet Claude or whatever is not going to last very long once I start taking an axe to the nearest power pole.
Vegans can actually inadvertently stumble into this: a lot of tofu scramble recipes call for 2tbsp of nutritional yeast, and the bottles sold by e.g Braggs in America are heavily fortified.

Then it’s also used in cheese sauces, etc - to the point where it’s somewhat of a meme to just add it whenever you want umami. Then many vegans already take a B multi to handle B12.

Point of all this being that this particular diet can lead to overdosing on B6 without realizing it. Once I got myself a non fortified Nutritional Yeast for baking/cooking, I noticed changes in myself for the better.

Obligatory “I am not a doctor and YMMV”
You can progress by just putting something heavy on the spacebar.
His rallies are basically A/B testing of policy ideas. It's how he gets feedback from his base. It works for him because Sr Republican advisors aren't well aligned with the typical Trump voter.
Ontario Raises Electricity Price by 25% for Minnesota, Michigan and New York
yes thats what i thought after the post. haha.
Historically ships at sea could determine latitude through sun-sighting or stars, but longitude was impossible because they did not have a clock which was accurate enough

I doubt they're navigating using the sun an stars, but if the airspeed indicator is accurate, and you know you're heading, all you need is an accurate clock to determine absolute position since the last known good position.
https://archive.today/b2F0m
Hell, half (but only half...) the reason I try to get MacBooks anywhere I work is because they're usually not quite as shitted up with broken surveillance software eating half the company's potential productivity, as the Windows ones.
That's true, but I don't use all 13,000 bangs. It would be impossible for me to remember that many anyway. I should have said "the bangs that I actively use" instead of most of them.

Looks like I have 32 keywords bookmarked like that, around 20 of which I use regularly. The search url's are quite stable, I don't remember ever having to update one. But I'm sure it will happen occasionally.
Don't they build these Macs just-in-time? The bandwidth doesn't change with the RAM, so surely it couldn't have been that hard to just... use higher capacity RAM modules?
My understanding is you just flood the spectrum at the frequency that GPS is operating at

GPS signals are weak since they come from far away
Kevin Murphy racing to rename his Probabilistic Machine Learning series.
The idea of untangling AI generated typescript spaghetti fills me with dread.

It’s as bad as untangling the last guy’s typescript spaghetti. He quit, so I can’t ask him about it either.
There's not much point looking at last names, because they change for every generation. There aren't any "family names" as such.
If you ever received unspoofed data, and have a somewhat accurate local clock (rubidium is fairly cheap), you can detect the spoofing.
I sold my used 3DFX Voodoo 5500 with original box in 2015 for about 290EUR. It is probably in a collector's shelf now.
No. The studies are attempting to understand the effects of a specific human medical intervention called "gender-affirming hormone therapy" using mice as an analog. GAHT is an umbrella of treatments that includes more than just cross-sex hormones (e.g. transwomen often take testosterone blockers in addition to estrogen) so its a very reasonable use of 'gender' in context.
> how long would it take you to code that diff?

My scrum/agile coach says, by parallelizing prompts, a single developer can babysit multiple changes in the same time slice. By having a sequence of prompts ready before hand, a single developer can pipeline those one after the other. With an IDE that helps schedule such work, a single developer can effectively hyper-thread their developmental workflow. If the developer is epoll'ing at 10x the hertz... that's another force multiplier. Of course context switches & side-channels are of concern, but a voice over my shoulder tells me that as long as memory safety is guaranteed, everything should turn up alrigd3adb33f.
Top Bluetooth chip security flaw could put a billion devices at risk worldwide
Yes, but also no.

Some of the capabilities, sure -- you're never going to be able to use them if you don't have the things it needs to talk to.

The lack of those things don't turn it into a brick. It's still a highly capable fifth gen LO fighter/bomber without them.
Speaking as a former undergraduate and then graduate research scientist at a top 3 biomedical engineering program in the United States, I can tell you, students spend an unseemly amount of time on figures. The professor of one of the labs I worked in said an aesthetic figure can be the difference between getting into Nature or not. His collaborator on that paper happened to be a well-known professor who had papers published in Nature a handful of times. That was, apparently, one of his secrets.
USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug 'resistant to everything we have'
The US debt is out of control in large part from Trump himself. He cut taxes without cutting expenses. He needs to either put the taxes back, or cut something real (medicare, social security, military). And thats just to stop the bleeding.

But based on his current trajectory, hell continue his pennywise strategy and just like last time, will raise the debt more than his predecessor.
In my experience, companies associated with George Church generate a lot of press but fail to deliver on their core promises.
>I sold my used 3DFX Voodoo 5500 with original box in 2015 for about 290EUR.

Bruh. That's like selling your bitcoins in 2009 for two pizzas.
Yes, that’s the one I meant. One thing that annoyed me with Foreman is that sometimes it doesn’t terminate all processes when one of them crashes. Since I switched to Overmind/Hivemind I never had that problem again.
Civo.io have had both for many years and for Katapult.io these are coming in April. Both are british companies, if you need referring feel free to shout.
The article does a poor job explaining, but seems to imply that they are working on replacing GPS altogether with a local system that relies on an atomic clock and quantum engineering. From what I can find, there are many approaches to this, including quantum gravimetry, quantum accelerometers, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_sensor
I don't think LLMs need to be able to genuinely fulfill the duties of a job to replace the human. Think call center workers and insurance reviewers where the point is to meet metrics without regard for the quality of the work performed. The main thing separating those jobs from say, HR (or even programmers) is how much the company cares about the quality of the work. It's not hard to imagine a situation where misguided people try to replace large numbers of federal employees with LLMs, as an entirely hypothetical example.
When did we have an “authoritarian left” government threatening to revoke visas and permanent residencies over wrongthink?
USAid didn't even exist before 1961 - I dread to imagine what it must have been like to live in America in those dark days before nineteen sixty-one.

I'm guessing you are not black?
What's excessively locked down on MacBooks?

There are some security features that (for good reason) get in the way of e.g. dtrace, but I'm not aware of any of those that you can't turn off.

> I'm also not a fan of how Apple controls devices and the market of software after the device has changed owner.

What's this about?
Easier, because you don't have to search for a phone number.
Show HN: Llama-8B Teaches Itself Baby Steps to Deep Research Using RL
I've been tinkering with getting Llama-8B to bootstrap its own research skills through self-play. The model generates questions about documents, searches for answers, and then learns from its own successes/failures through RL (hacked up Unsloth's GRPO code). Started with just 23% accuracy on Apollo 13 mission report questions and hit 53% after less than an hour of training. Everything runs locally using open-source models. It's cool to see the model go from completely botching search queries to iteratively researching to get the right answer.
I heard about it for the first time, an embedable graph database Kuzu and even better the WASM mix and LLM.
I wouldn't call them random as some of the ideas he introduces were planned for a while now, it's just he introduces them in a very vague manner. For example the Gaza plan was already familiar to his team: https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-man-with-the-plan-dc-prof-...

I think he introduces these ideas without fully fleshing them either because 1) he's testing the waters to see the public response, and to start a conversation; 2) he may not have all the details anyway and he starts with the first step.
It's not fascinating; it's an endless source of trouble. We only do it because we don't have sequencers that produce extremely long (chromosome length) high quality reads, especially in sequences that contain a lot of repetition. This has been a source of errors and ambiguity for as long as we've used shotgun.
It looks like things are going very well.

https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-upda...
Do you mean constipated?
And how reliable are those legal requirements? One has to be very naive to believe that the law is some sort of ironclad constant of the universe. For someone with money, the law is simply an equation. It can be bypassed, molded or broken - the only balance is the money, the payoff. Did the law stop HSBC from laundering cartel money? Did the law stop Wirecard? When enough money is involved, people just look at it as a risk/reward or cost/payoff.

I'm optimistic about this effort. I have no doubts about their current intentions. But I'm not so naive as to believe that just because something is illegal right now, that this is some sort of bulletproof barrier against shenanigans in the future. So many companies have made promises like this, and so many of them amounted to nothing in the end. I'd simply rather believe them by their word than have to rely on these kinds of paper thin guarantees.
What Went Wrong at Saudi Arabia's Futuristic Metropolis (Neom) in the Desert
Biggest problem for me with the Air is the lack of HDMI – connecting to a projector or other large display via a dongle being too unreliable for my needs. Much as I loved them, I have a Pro now.
It’s an amazing article. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg - there are many more. This has to be the work of a madman (meant in the best possible way).
Build an LLM on a corpus with all documents containing mathematical ideas removed. Not a single one about numbers, geometry, etc. Now figure out how to get it to tell you what the shortest path between two points in space is.
But you don't submit that rough draft with the 110% conviction that it's correct, which is what an LLM will do when it hallucinates.

It won't say "I think it should look something like this but I might be wrong," it'll say "simple! here is how you do it."

Hence hallucination and not error. It thinks it's right.
What is she using now?
I guess this really shows my age because I can't find any reason for this to exist. Do people really feel "pressured" to be on their phone? What kind of terrible dystopia do these people live in? Why do you give a flying f** about what people on the bus that you'll never see again think that you should be doing? I feel so much pitty for anyone feeling this. It's not a healthy mindset.
The diamond-based quantum IMUs are a completely different appliance and a different application (dead reckoning).
Show HN: Law and Order SVU – The RPG
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is the longest running prime time live action series in television history. Over the years I've probably seen about a billion hours of this show.

I'm a musician. During the pandemic lockdown, I started sampling dialogue and background music from the show, thinking I could maybe make some funny songs out of it. As this SVU album started coming together, I wondered how on earth I would be able to convince people to listen to it.

At some point it hit me: people would probably play "SVU The RPG," and these songs could be the soundtrack. All I had to do was figure out how to make a video game.

This project incorporated a lot of the fun extracurricular skills I've been working on over the years: RPG Maker, front end web development, Photoshop, Final Cut, Logic, Ableton, writing, old man yelling at cloud, and of course: making fun of SVU.

The show is a multi-million dollar cop propaganda sex crime exploitation soap opera that takes itself dead seriously. The game is crass, and not for everyone, but it might be for you. Have a good time, and as they used to say in the arcades, "winners don't use drugs."
Nothing like eating a disc to the face while you are lagging in mid-air on a dialup connection. <3
https://archive.is/PtjrV
Summer is early – and India's economy is not ready for it
Still blows my mind that it was just a flash in the pan. At the time it felt that 3dfx was certainly going to be a dominant force in computing for years. And although they lingered a bit, the whole event was barely over 2 years.
I create buildings from mushroom components
So frustrated with finding remote jobs
I'm an Indonesian working here and currently looking for a new remote job. The job market, especially for remote roles, is quite limited, and even when I find one, the salary expectations often don't match. So now, I'm applying to companies overseas. But man, most of the remote positions I find online aren’t truly "work from anywhere" they require you to be in a specific timezone or at least within overlapping hours.

Been throwing applications, almost 50 now, and its not just mindless sending CV, I checked the company, what are the products and what value I can bring to them and present it in a nicely written introduction letter. Yet, not a single interview landed, feels my 10+ years software engineering experiences are just meaningless.
Incorrect. The nodes control the miners. If miners don't mine according to the wishes of the node operator, their blocks are rejected.

This was demonstrated in the block-size wars.
> Scaling CoTs to e. g. millions of tokens or effective-indefinite-size context windows (if that even works) may or may not lead to math being solved. I expect it won't.

> (If math is solved, though, I don't know how to estimate the consequences, and it might invalidate the rest of my predictions.)

What does it mean for math to be solved in this context? Is it the idea that an AI will be able to generate any mathematical proof? To take a silly example, would we get a proof of whether P=NP from an AI that had solved math?
As others have illustrated no one sells "magnesium" pills. It is a pill of magnesium reacted with something else. The source of this varies as to whether or not the product wants to be considered as vegetarian, kosher, or otherwise.
Africa has a similar saying about the UK. When the Chinese come we get a hospital, when the UK comes we get a lecture.
Ask HN: X and Grok down since the early AM?
Anyone else seeing this? I'm on east coast, been down for me for hours.
Well yeah. Otherwise what are you suppose to just sit there awkwardly in public?
I found Gaussian Processes with the right kernel to be very powerful with even just a few data points and a very small set of parameters. I don't know if I was using it correctly tbh, but it worked out great in predicting values that I could not predict so accurately. I used it as a predictable yet non-linear process to tweak the input in a computer vision task. The proof was literally in the pudding.
European Critical Dependencies
A web hosting firm I once did business with had figured out a way to spoof the license for their (third party) control panel platform.

They gave themselves licenses for whole factors more physical servers than they ran, just in case, I guess.

I found out about it when an employee sent me a screenshot while troubleshooting an issue with me.

This was probably 15 years ago now.
These are very different stats. He was referring to unit sales of GPUs, not $ sales. The A100 is a $8000+ video card and so cards like it are going to dominate in revenue, even if their sales numbers are relatively low. For contrast the most popular card, per the Steam hardware survey, is (inexplicably - probably because of prepackaged kits) the RTX 4060, which is a $300 card.
Interesting, I don't recall posting on reddit. Perhaps, you are referring to vimgolf.com? - definitely, will do!
Newer Nikon lenses have a few motor types but if I'm not mistaken they support old mechanical (body driven) aperture and focus drive as well (the D6 and somewhat recently F6 film camera were still for sale)

Nikon has a complex ecosystem keeping generally the same mount for many decades and general support for it, where others developed a specific autofocus mount when they moved towards those systems.
> I grew up believing that our officials should strive to be role models.

This is what we tell our children until they get old enough to process the adult world. Reality is... "it's complicated, ____ (son/daughter name here)." Our leaders (at least in the US) haven't been real role models for probably centuries... reality is the whole "virtuous king" thing has been aspirational since the ancient Greeks.
> Someone who's willing to spend 3-6 months cramming interview questions is also someone who is unlikely to drop the ball.

I don't believe this at all, they're unlikely to not comply and execute arbitrary commands. Which at least in my experience is orthogonal to whether they're able to actually problem solve or build good things.
It is still the least worse option. These posts like OP is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
No worries, as a learning exercise it’s great! Save the game design for when you’re comfortable with your framework.
There are lots of examples, you've just decided not to see them. Just for a start, here's an account by Ralph Abraham of the impact of psychedelics on mathematics.
http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%23124.Maps/maps2.pd...
Interestingly, I have never had a job description that actually said "make sure they are getting the experiences they need to build a better career, hire the right people to complement the team, fight for bonuses and pay raises." Rather they say something like 'effectively lead team to do...." To effectively lead the team, IMHO, one needs to "make sure they are getting the experiences they need to build a better career, hire the right people to complement the team, fight for bonuses and pay raises." I think this is true for all managers/leaders.
> He has tons of links for the objective statements.

I stopped at this quote

> LLMs still seem as terrible at this as they'd been in the GPT-3.5 age.

This is so plainly, objectively and quantitatively wrong that I need not bother. I get hyperbole, but this isn't it. This shows a doubling-down on biases that the author has, and no amount of proof will change their mind. Not an article / source for me, then.