skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hans Boehm (of garbage collector fame) describes how they improved the Android calculator to do the Right Thing instead of just giving the floating point answers.

In case you prefer a video, this paper was discussed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub86BRzqndA and that's how I discovered it.
> I think it's a succinct word that does the job at explaining what the goal here is.

Sure. If the goal is intelligence then LLMs fail. LLMs do not currently have the same intelligence as humans.

If a human being in front of me were to answer my question like an LLM does, I would think they are an overly confident parrot.

Not saying LLMs are bad, they are an incredible tool. Just not intelligence. Words matter.
That it's irrelevant outside of the server space and has terrible hardware support. FreeBSD folks themselves use Macs.

Don't get me wrong, I very much like FreeBSD, but I believe a liberal licence on critical infrastructure like an OS is detrimental. Of course, FreeBSD folks will argue the opposite.
Seems o3-mini implements the 'boids' algorithm for flocking (likely due to its prevalence online), but I find that here it doesn't really fit.

Indeed in boids each element has a constant (or minimum) velocity, s.t. the sheep never stop 'running'. I find the Claude flocking behaviour looks more natural, for sheep.
Another fun fact: useless buildings were commissioned as a form of charity to the starving poor under the guise of gainful employment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conolly%27s_Folly

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/irelands-famine-follie...

Blindboy did an interesting podcast on this:

https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/pineapplefolly
There was popular & bipartisan foreign aid and immigration bill that was ready to pass, but Trump demanded the GOP vote against their own bill so that he got to be the deal maker. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-b...
I think this is the real answer. They will probably still collect everything.

(they're gonna be sitting pretty in life + 75 years)
This reminds me of Vladimir Lenin's claim that an important socialist principle is "He who does not work shall not eat" [0].

Just let the people eat dudes.

Also Russell's party during the famine was the Whigs. O'Toole gets that wrong, referring to them as "The Liberals."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_does_not_work,_neither_...
There's nothing in the C standard that enforces the observed -O0 behaviour. Your compiler might change tomorrow.
Let's step back for a moment and think about this example:

Do I, a highly technical person, want a machine that has been made in to an appliance, where I have very little control over what's going on in the background, where I have to trust one of the largest companies on the planet to Do The Right Thing™?

Well, I know I don't want to run an OS like Windows where the end user is treated with contempt and distain, where the price of the license means nothing because I'm still treated as someone who doesn't know enough to even choose my own browser, where third party programs have more control over my own machine than I do, unless I happen to have a lot of specialized knowledge and plenty of time to circumvent these biases.

But let's compare the Apple appliance to an open source OS running on an Intel CPU. Now I have an OS that gives me more freedom to do what I want and need, that has only documentation and technical issues as roadblocks, not intentional design. Better, yes? But now I'm also required to trust a company that has a literal hardware back door built in to it, that comes from a company that acts like they have no real understanding of security but might just be playing dumb, that has lied to users many times over years, that has knowingly chosen speed and marketing numbers over security time and time again.

Now add the fact that we need to trust binary blobs for wifi chipsets, some ethernet chips, GPUs, et cetera. Not great, if we want to both control our machine and trust it.

So, really, would I want to run an open OS on top of a janky CPU with lowest common denominator hardware, where each part might have issues, possibly security issues, or would I want an appliance?

I wish there were more options... AMD is better than Intel, but not sufficiently. They have less of a history of lying, of manipulation of marketing information, et cetera, but they still have that hardware back door. People are working on open source firmware for wifi chips, et cetera. ARM is nice, but ARM laptops and desktops still come at a premium.

So do I see the appeal of an appliance that has incredible performance, battery life, the best exploitation of the hardware on the planet, excellent quality and security? I do, particularly when all aspects of that appliance are in the hands of a company that makes their insane profits from being "premium". So long as their profits depend on being premium, I will trust them, because my trust needs align with their profit desires. When that stops, my trust stops.

Would it be nice if I could run my own choice of OS on it? It would. But sometimes we need a device that gets things done, and in many instances, an appliance is better than the alternatives.

Can I still run pretty much what I want on this appliance, aside from my OS of choice? Yes, I can. So unless I'm interfacing directly with hardware, these appliances mean less work for me.

That's not to say your case isn't valid, but it's easy to see a case for most people having appliances.
> This is the consequence of all the forces of physics being gauge invariant: absolute values don't exist—only differences matter

there's something about this quote that i really like, going to have to use it out of context on people
The torque engine (at least tribes 2) was wild what it was capable of on dial up. 32 or 64 players was okay compared to 8 on quake 2 depending on your latency and connection speed.
The Evolution of the Color Pink
As a quant who went back and took the PhD economics classes, I can tell you that macroeconomists are not experts. The number that predicted the Great Financial Crisis is a handful. They study these things, but they know little.

The microeconomists know a bunch and have some powerful mathematical tools. I have some confidence in those studying trade and cities. But comparing and measuring countries is messy and hard.

And I totally agree we should lure other countries’ brains here. The return on investment for a STEM degree is about 3 times the stock market index and we should get as much as we can.
And? She violated the terms of her visa. That's illegal. She was detained at the border because of this.

I agree that 10 days in lockup feel excessive for this, but I honestly, as someone who has traveled and crossed many borders, I have a hard time finding sympathy. I wouldn't expect to be treated well at many, many border crossings if I was found to have broken the law while I was in country.

It sure would be nice if the USG scolded her and told her to get back to court in 14 days for her immigration trial, but that's a laughable misread of the current government's position on immigration. And Trump has been ringing that bell loudly for a decade now. Immigrants arriving on a tourist visa and simply staying forever is the most common form of illegal immigration and this is exactly how I would expect the Trump administration to treat someone in her position.
Are his bumper stickers still available? Could be a rush on . . .

Yes, right here, right now, you can obtain image files in a variety of resolutions and/or the master PostScript source code for The One, The Original, The Prophetic (July 1990), The Authentic “Evil Empires: One down, one to go…” bumper sticker, anticipating the obsolescence of railroad era continental-scale empires in the information age.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/evilempire/
It encourages developers to not worry about understanding the code they write. At least now, there's someone around (typically) who can figure things out.

But as more developers rely on AI and their skills atrophy, if entire products are being built with AI, eventually no one will exist who can fix the software when it breaks. Not only that, but anything that requires knowledge outside the training of the AI will be impossible (or at best, extremely difficult/costly) to implement.
Ah, that makes sense. Your answers are really well researched, it raises the standard of the forum. Thanks!
After reading a few paragraphs, i started reading only the first line of each paragraph!
Court is not the only way. How many people do you know who got thrown in jail for a minor speeding offense? The system is plainly capable of distinguishing between “needs to go to jail until they can see a judge” and “can go home” cases. This one is just silly, though: it’s “must go home” combined with “can’t leave.”

You can have a system that treats people humanely. We choose not to.
I’m assuming you meant “user
replaceable”, because that’s really the key thing to understand here. Almost every phone had those, but most of them switched over half a decade. There was a long period where consumers had tons of options with removable batteries, and the market unequivocally rejected them. It’s always a mistake to assume that people drop hundreds of dollars on worse products based on nebulous claims about marketing, so clearly the average phone buyer thought that they were buying a better product. Why?

Removable batteries were useful in two situations: before a phone could last all day, swapping batteries was handy for people who spent a lot of time away from chargers … but most people don’t need that very often, if at all. The other situation is a few years in, when the battery life is starting to be noticeably worse. For that to be a big deal, it has to happen before you want to buy a new phone for other reasons. This is a valid complaint but you only experience it every few years and can fix it by spending the equivalent of a month of phone service and waiting roughly the amount of time it takes you to get lunch.

Now, what did we gain? Using a sealed battery made phones far more durable – people used to joke about dropping their phone and having the battery fly out! – and especially made it easier to make them dust and waterproof. It also made them cheaper, smaller, lighter, and sturdier.

So basically the average buyer gave up benefits they rarely used in exchange for things they noticed literally every time they picked up the phone. The day the iPhone came out, the entire market re-evaluated what they wanted in a phone and almost everyone decided that they didn’t make 18 hour flights with no charging often enough to give up that solid, luxury feel. Just as Google’s software developers made a crash project to copy the iOS UI, the hardware designers saw the lines around the block at Apple Stores and correctly concluded that nobody minded the drawbacks of a sealed battery.
As a physicist, I always found it funny that in ML people renamed 'the angle between vectors' into something as fancy-feeling as 'cosine similarity'.
Zen, LibreWolf, and Waterfox are privacy minded Firefox forks.
I have never heard anyone think this way: “The main mistake people usually make is thinking Newton or Einstein were just scaled-up good students, that a genius comes to life when you linearly extrapolate a top-10% student.

The reason such people are widely lauded as geniuses is precisely because people can’t envision smart students producing paradigm-shifting work as they did.

Yes, people may be talking about AI performance as genius-level but any comparison to these minds is just for marketing purposes.
Could a Minecraft-like game run on a 3dfx card? Or is it out of question performance wise?
There are areas of similarly low crime in the US, depending on how you go about drawing lines on your map. Probably it is a mistake to treat any country as a single unit in such an analysis.
I got one on the kickstarter, for my wife.

She was in a coma. Unlike the movies, you don't usually just "wake up" from a coma. She'll never recover, and she used to love to walk in the park rather than be wheeled around it. Now she can again.

It was worth it. To me and to her.
I enjoy working with CSS immensely. It takes some thought to get things right from the beginning, but I find it's always clear what can be done to improve it.

With modern features like CSS nesting, anyway; just a few years ago when IE support and whatnot was more relevant it was a different story. Now you can just throw everything into a flexbox.
I wiped my drive a few times before realizing dropbox didn't back my wallet up. I shrugged it off losing 30 bitcoins worth maybe at best 3 cents each at the time. Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.
Every time the Machines Become Self-Aware and Murderous a dozer is going to show up eventually.

It just takes a while since they top out around 8 mph.

Case in point: Shake Hands with Danger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26fTGBEi9E
Even still, if we assume that the fed is a wash, that suggests that half of the remainder is domestic. I don't think that the orange idiot would start nuking the US. Oh god, I really hope that he's not quite that stupid.
Pay is proportional to power, not output, not skill.

Pay being proportional to power is a profound truth to grasp, it has many implications, many of which are negative for engineers and society as a whole.
The Haskell version deals with both laziness and also detects overflow.

Your C++ example has a lot more code than the C example, I'm not sure why you'd expect it to produce the same output?
They love open source so much they'll push you towards it
The one that Claude created was a legitimately fun game! If it implemented boids similar to o3-mini, it would be even better. Slap some sprites on it and put it on steam!
Yeah, I had large corporations in mind.
The scarier option is that this ain't subservience, he's doing this because he likes enough of what's happening that he wants it to continue.

This could all be the world's shittiest up jumped RTO, creating world misery to make everyone desperate for any jobs at all. Let a couple hundred million people starve and suffer, destroy prosperity, bring everything down a couple notches, and watch how the world wraps itself around this new axis of power.

Maybe he too salutes what's happening, believes in the chainsaw.
I'd have water resistance which benefits me A LOT, over user-replaceable battery that I never needed on any device I owned my entire life.
I share some of your frustrations. I don't like what the current administration is doing. I would much rather the US gave plenty of support to Ukraine to allow them to finish the fight.

But it is a core of my system of thinking to give people the benefit of the doubt. Do I think Trump might be a Russian asset? He might be, and he certainly behaves like one. But it is also possible he is not. A lot of what Trump does can also be explained without the assumption that he is a Russian asset. The only assumption is that he really believes in the slogan "Make America Great Again" (even if that means, "and the allies be damned"). In any case, it's very unlikely he's surrounded only by Russian assets.

If you look at Trump this way, you see that the media has seriously exaggerated lots of his moves. The "rare earth deal", where supposedly the US is squeezing Ukraine out of 500 billion dollars, is nothing like that. Once you learn about one such exaggeration, you are on the lookout. And to me the "kill switch" thins seems like quite an exaggeration too.

Your view might differ. It's ok.

What is less ok is to use a tone that this forum considers to not be conducive to a healthy exchange of ideas. See for example [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not even mentioned? E.g. the great man-made famine of 1935 in the USSR is mentioned in the school history course in Russia. Post-Soviet, admittedly, but still closer in time by a century. To say nothing of the US school programs mentioning quite a bit of bad things that have been done by the Americans during the last couple of centuries.
> Tesla is still up compared to where it was a year ago.

$TSLA was $222 on 2020-12-29. Since Tesla does not pay a dividend, one could have made a lot more money investing in Treasuries over that time.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/history/?period1=160678...
Did you mean decades?
That gives me ideas.

I think a lot of the reason linux isn't used for lots of things is that you have to basically be a sysadmin to set up some things.

for example, setting up a local LLM.

I wonder what you would call getting a "remote" AI to help set up a local AI?

Something like but not exactly emancipation or emigration or ...
That's a property of a particular compiler, not of the C language (at least as described in the standard).
Yeah, I am not saying its bad in all applications, just that people who use CSS these days rarely really know CSS (who can know it all?), which isn't really any different from the past on a general level. Yet, I think we should push our peers to view the entirety of CSS as meaningful and worthy of attention.
In the US there are large regional differences in what is taught, especially when it comes to history topics. So some of the difference might be that your state had a more comprehensive approach to history than the commenters' states.

But yes, most people have a really bad memory of what's taught in school (and that probably isn't entirely their fault, the system clearly doesn't lead to sticky knowledge).
Don't worry they do it to citizens too. On one occasion CBP told me they would not let me enter the country. On another they imprisoned me for ~12 hours, on another they asked me if I work in the US and tried to demand ever more intrusive questions about it.

... I am us citizen presenting with us passport, look and talk extremely white with no foreign accent.
How is a hike "invigorating", if you need mechanical assist to do it? You don't have to climb a mountain. You can have a walk in the local park.
As I read through it, it all felt like it was designed to give the kids the feeling that they were doing the same things mom & dad do on their phones.
My point is that it’s a low level of illegality that does not deserve a week or two in jail. We have the concept of proportionate punishment. You don’t go to jail for jaywalking. You do go to jail for grand theft. The legislature has decided that most immigration offenses are more like jaywalking. Such offenses should not result in being locked up for days.

If you have a hard time finding sympathy for someone who made a mistake that harmed nobody, was told they have to leave, and then was locked up for a week and a half and not allowed to leave, I suggest you work on that because it really should not be difficult.
> but if that's how US generally deals with people waiting for their court dates, it's what it is.

Historically, (as in: during periods where Trump is not president) it is not.
They really do it by dying. Or, by accepting tax into their life and alienating capital gains but with a declaration.

It varies by culture. Persians I know say they used to agglomerate housing around a courtyard and as family died off, the seniors moved up in rank in the housing chain. It has its downsides, but it's not a bad model.

The boomers are starting to die. I am the tail end, I won't be amongst the last. We know it's coming, we are planning for it. There will be a transfer of wealth but it won't be glorious, and if we try to extend our end-of-life it will eat into it, which is why it pays (hah) to do an advanced health directive and be clear about what you want and expect.

Truly, the one tried and true method, is dying. Anything else is usually complicated by circumstances and taxmen. Not that dying is without complications or taxation.
It's a tough market right now everywhere. In Canada, it has always been difficult, there is not much opportunity. Unless you know someone, you're going to have a tough time. Just apply for everything and hope something hits.....good luck...
Where were all those upset taxpayers when iraq and afghanistan happened? Or were those examples of super successful wars?

But to your point, as a random European resident, it's not upsetting that the US is pulling back, it's upsetting that it's pulling back with so little regard for anything else. If this was the only thing, fine, i wouldn't agree but it's your call, but look at all the other stuff happening at the same time in your foreign policy and ask yourself why all those "wasteful" things existed in the first place.
Yes, some might.

And other, far more wise people, might realize that appeasement of bullies throughout history has resulted in some of our very worst wars and the most horrific atrocities that humanity has ever committed. Weakness invites conflict and destruction from the bullies of the world, and when it comes to war, the bullies gain materials and conscripts when they are allowed to conquer.

(I think we are very much on the same page, thank you for the comment.)
> Giving someone from an European country better treatment than someone from South America? Sounds like racism/white privilege to me.

No, the proposal is to treat all such cases equivalently, regardless of national origin.

That means no more prison/orange jump suit/inacessibility for Europeans or people from South America who screw up their visa conditions.
It’s an online board. You share your thoughts and challenge them against others responses, and learn more as a result. Is there a minimum requirement of corporate structure expertise required to comment?
Yes, 'a += 1' can have undefined behaviour in C when you use signed integers. (And perhaps also with floats? I don't remember.)

Your original comment didn't specify that you want to talk about unsigned integers only.
I think there are several serious issues with such a claim. However I'll limit myself to pointing out that at absolute minimum you'd need to define "problem" and "working".

For example, I'd observe that organized crime pretty much everywhere in the world possesses weapons. The extent to which they resort to them varies of course, but it seems unreasonable to blindly dismiss that as being due entirely to regulation.
Ask HN: How do you build your personal brand as a Contractor/Consultant
Hello HN,

I would love to see your personal branding sites, and I’m also curious about how you build your personal brand as an independent consultant to attract more clients. Do you focus on blogging, or is it just about having a professional-looking website?
> ...I would sure as hell prefer prison over myself and hundreds of other people falling from 40,000 feet.

On the one hand, that would be ideal.

On the other hand, that appears to be a NOTAM restricting access to an active war zone. It is truly tragic, and should be avoided whenever reasonably possible, but sometimes civilians who enter war zones get killed.

So, (just so you know) the "they flew into an active war zone" bit is probably the reason why your point is being brushed aside. Restricted airspace is restricted airspace. Unless you're on the unrestricted craft list, you simply don't enter it.
Thanks. I should also note that my kids learned about those things in school.
A component for merit. A component for seniority. A component of base pay for time and duties which have to be done. A component for study. Sure. But we all know this is a mask for attempts to both alienate some staff, and cut costs. It may not come in the door that way, but it's where you drive to long term.

"no, we won't keep basic pay CPI adjusted. the new normal is you sit on below CPI rises, and the good guys get more. so be a good guy, which includes not making waves"
Do you know that mixed race marriage did not gain majority support in the USA until 1995? Sometimes it is right to not give a fuck about what "a huge swath of the US population thinks".

And in this case, it's not about "special priviledges", it's about the ridiculousness of this process being applied to anyone in her circumstances.