skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a toughie. I like the Marshall McLuhan quote “We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future” [1] [2] but I also bemoan what I call the "ahistoric turn", the tendency I perceive that people today aren't interested in the past at all. I can point to many old obscure books that were quite prophetic [3] [4] and lines of research such as neuro-symbolics in the 1990s that went from science fiction to obvious. In the late 1960s, before the CMOS transistor was established as the universal computing element there was a lot of interest in neuromorphic computing and speculation about the "intelligence explosion" that was fresh, not the dogmatic and narrow-minded dogma of the Yudkowsky cult.

Lines of argument that have long gone out of favor are likely to come back [5] as much as some concerns will be reversed [6] and one book that spoke to the zeitgeist of the 1970s is accepted in Japan as an interpretation of the Tokugawa period [7]

One of the ways to deal with rapid social change is to extend your reach to the widest range of cultures and history.

(Funny I was talking the other day to a coworker from a previous job who started programming on 370 mainframes in the 1970s and was telling me how he built a test harness for fly-by-wire control systems for military aircraft based on a cluster of 80386 PCs in the later 1980s.)

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/618118-we-look-at-the-prese...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Forward-Through-Rearview-Mirror-Refle...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Information-Machines-Their-Impact-Med...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_of_Narcissism
See also FadeCandy by Micah:

https://scanlime.org/2013/11/fadecandy-easier-tastier-and-mo...

> Firmware that uses unique dithering and color correction algorithms to raise the bar for quality while getting out of the way of your creativity.
Oh this bring back memories. As during communist era, there were no extra money or even stores where to buy. So we copied casettes. First load game then save on blank cassete. This worked for almost all games, but one. That one instead of waiting for run or save command, started game immediately. So only way to copy was using double decker. But most of double deckers were shitty. Adding so much noise, that copy didn’t work. I remember visiting one friend that has high quality deck, that was able to make a workable copy.
I started using LMAX Disruptor for some projects. One quirk with Disruptor is that the queue size always has to be an exponent of two.

I wanted to make sure that I always have at least enough room for any size and I didn't want to manually compute, so I wrote this:

var actualSize = Double.valueOf(Math.pow(2, Math.ceil(Math.log(approxSize) / Math.log(2)))).intValue();

A bit much for a single line, but just using some basic log rules in order to the correct exponent. I learned all this in high school, but some of my coworkers thought I was using this amazing, arcane bit of math that had never been seen before. I guess they never use log outside of Big-O notation.
This could turn into a telecommunications infrastructure-disrupting story if it continues for long.
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-903...
You could argue that they are avenging him in doing exactly what he did, or worse, and not being punished for it. They are establishing precedent.
You can also self host via ollama assuming you got proper GPU. Running it on CPU can take minutes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353240
James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86
The process uses wet sand. It's not hazardous.
I'm surprised to see only one comment here addressing the issue of Chinese AI companies just flatly ignoring US copyright and IP laws/norms. I wonder if there is a viable path where we can facilitate some sort of economic remuneration for people who write and create visual art while not giving up the game to Chinese companies.

This seems to be a thorny dilemma.
It's this kind of stuff that makes the learning process actually feel fun.

These outcomes are interesting, they feel diverse. The level of experience you can craft with just a little bit of time and patience is insane.

Watching along in the background as people make things, as this was made, it's unique to say the least. It's taught me a lot and opened up so many doors on a creative level.

Simply fascinating in every way.
Can anyone explain what that is that I am looking at?
XML makes sense in this case because the project files already use XML and the build tools are already optimized for it.
Its one of the reasons why I am a market based socialist.

The essentials of living should be state owned, and provided as inexpensively or freely as part of being here. And when that doesn't completely work, significant controls be put in place to prevent undue capitalization/financial ideation.

The next tier should be a middle ground of intermediate importance, that companies can fulfill, but with modest controls to allow suitable profit and growth.

The final tier is the new and not-required level. This is the new stuff, the crazy tech. Low/no laws, let everyone in this realm go crazy and experiment. The skies the limit.

But water? This is beyond the pale. And revolutions have gone on for this before.
no need for teleportation. just climb the walls. the castle is not protected, and has no pots of oil or flaming arrows yet.
Interesting definition. I would have said what it's sold for doesn't matter at all when we're taking about whether it's fit for some arbitrary purpose.

I want to probe your definition a bit. Let's say a factory makes gears. All the broken ones get recycled. After all quality checks have been done, some of the passing gears are pulled off the line and redirected to the gift shop to be sold as paperweights.

1. Are unsold gears in the factory storeroom fit for purpose as gears?

2. Are unsold gears in the gift shop fit for purpose as gears?

2a. If yes, do they lose that fit at the moment of sale?

2b. If no, do they regain that fit if the factory has production issues and brings a crate back from the gift shop to sell as gears?
Welp yeah cancelling that test drive now. Want no part in that bs.
Maybe 5y
Burbclaves coming next: https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-leg...
I was wondering what you would use to find function callers—happy to see k-CFA employed!

I wasn’t able to get too deep in your article; have you looked at demand-CFA for making some analysis cheaper?

How is analysis going for higher-order functions?
Notation for writing log has always bugged me. Like I feel like it should be more like <10>^<527> which would be the log base 10 of 527. That's not it, but something. The current notation just doesn't feel quite right.
Eigenvalues are a topic in linear algebra. They're coefficients you can put in front of some matrices or vectors that change their magnitude.

Linear Algebra was the most useful and fun math class I took in college. Highly recommended if you ever wanna do gamedev. It's more approachable than you probably think.

For me, when people start talking about differential equations, specifically the symbols you'll see in a wikipedia article about Navier Stokes equations, I'm just a business-rule caveman with a little linear algebra zug zug.
It works for five hours or so on battery. But I mostly watch movies on it while plugged in.
Screens vs. Literature Is a False Dichotomy
Because their policies, behavior, etc., likely wouldn’t be 100% identical.
Have you got any substance to that? So far the only copyright violation I've seen in the LLM world is Meta. (I'm not pretending they are alone though, and yes I expect Chinese companies to do that as well)
As it is, this is a bullshit document, which I'm sure their lobbyists know; OSTP is authorized to "serve as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major policies, plans, and programs of the Federal Government," and has no statutory authority to regulate anything, let alone preempt state law. In the absence of any explicit Congressional legislation to serve to federally preempt state regulation of AI, there's nothing the White House can do. (In fact, other than export controls and a couple of Defense Production Act wishlist items, everything in their "proposal" is out of the Executive's hands and the ambit of Congress.)
IIRC the complexity of k-CFA is exponential in k, which is not great. There’s another version called m-CFA; I don’t remember exactly what it does differently, but it doesn’t blow up exponentially
Yes that's the point of editorial journalism, to give you another perspective. You're the one acting as if you've been forced to accept their opinion verbatim which you haven't, and deciding it's not journalism, which it demonstrably is.
Thank you! Not yet, but we have an issue about it https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm/issues/2
Underlying this perspective is the assumption that this is a uni-lineal race, and the end of that race must be arrived at first, and what lies at the end of that race is in the common good. There is no evidence for any of this.
I would wonder if they were using more of a plasma-mass-spectrometer and maybe a chromatograph was not involved.
owning a copy and learning the information is not the same. you can learn 2+2=4 from a book, but you no longer need that book to get that answer. each year in school, I was issued a book for class, learned from it, returned the book. I did not return the learning.

musicians can read the sheet music and memorize how to play it, and no longer need the music. they still have the information.
adjacent perhaps but I am looking forward to this book https://nostarch.com/game-boy-coding-adventure
I checked again with O_DIRECT and now I stand corrected. I didn't know that O_DIRECT could make such a huge difference. Thanks!
I would recommend checking a reasonable game engine load time:

https://www.babylonjs.com/games/

The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks.

Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
context is everything… I compare generalist vs. “specialize in something” similar to using diversification while investing (index funds) vs. stacking your chips into few things.

no WEALTHY person is all that diversified (e.g. warren buffet) but of you course there are plenty RICH people who are. specialization is high risk, high reward (e.g. have a dear friend making insane money as cobol coder for decades now who couldn’t write a hello world program in any other language) while generalist is safer route but won’t get you wealthy, just rich (which isn’t too bad :) )
Unrestricted immigration was the norm for a very long time and due process remained intact.

The Constitution says persons are owed due process, in two amendments. Due process isn't limited to only citizens.

I will point out it's a white American man, a rapist and a felon, and vile insurrectionist, along with his corrupt cadre, who are opposing due process. They are abducting people without charges in the night, scurrying them away to a different jurisdiction quickly, while actively slowing justice by inhibiting right to counsel. It's hallmark authoritarianism.
https://archive.today/HYlw5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reason

https://web.archive.org/web/20250120202352/https://safetycom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KND5py-z8yI
I'm not an expert, but I think an enterprise NVMe will have some sort of power loss protection so it can afford to fsync to ram/caches as they will be written down in a power loss.
Consumer NVMe drives afaik lack this so fsync will force the file to be written.
Welcome to the internet; where the only way to prevent it (considering 40% of internet traffic is automated) is to use DRM, with accessibility tools provided by client-side AI; or to create national internets with strong firewalls only allowing access to countries we have treaties with. That’s the future at this rate, and it sucks. (The status quo also sucks.)
Cory Doctorow fighting the good fight. Check out Homeland series if you haven't.
Why were you considering another Wrangler? They don’t have a good reputation for reliability.
i really don't understand this argument. at which point is it violating copyright versus an intelligence learning and making content the same way as humans?

it was living cells, but they worked as transistors, would it be ok?

it was whole-brain emulation on silicon transistors, would it be ok?

it was a generative AI similar to what we have today, but 100x more sentient and self aware, is that ok?

if you locked a human in a room with nothing but tolkien books for 20 years, then asked them to write a fantasy novel, is that ok?

All art is built on learning from previous art. I don't understand the logic of it being a computer so suddenly now it's wrong and bad. I also don't understand general support of intellectual property when it overwhelmingly benefits the mega wealthy and stifles creative endeavors like nothing else. You art isn't less valuable just because a computer makes something similar, in the same way it's not less valuable if another human copies your style and makes new art in your style.
https://mathcenter.oxford.emory.edu/site/math108/logs/

Some people have suggested the "triangle of power".
A slingshot tank! Did you like the fireworks?
The way I would describe it is: "How do you like applying to new jobs and doing interviews? Now imagine that being half your job."
It’s easier on desktop if you stick with slingshots and make your window fairly narrow
Didn't try error diffusion, but I had good results with Bayer for the ZX Spectrum Raytracer [0]. Bayer only ever looks at the pixel it's considering, doesn't do math beyond comparing a value to its threshold, it was surprisingly easy to implement, and looks nice. A great choice for ridiculously underpowered devices :)

https://gabrielgambetta.com/zx-raytracer.html#fourth-iterati...
This would be awesome - let's make finance responsible for infrastructure! That way they can at the same time save a lot of money, and be accountable (pun intended) for the impact they make by "saving" money.
> it requires cooperation from the existing package (fair),

That is a technical reason. I think it's a good one, you may disagree. I think it's fair to start out this way and then eventually move into the alternative system once it's proven itself out.

> but also notes that "Diversions would work"

I've never even heard of Diversions, so I can't comment on that.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Then the whole thing makes a lot more sense - though I'd say the outlook also becomes more optimistic.

I thought the rhetoric sounded somewhat like the AGI/accelerationist folks who postulate some sort of eventual "godlike" AI whose thought processes are somehow fundamentally inaccessible to humans. So if you had a proof that was only understandable to this sort if AIs, then mathematics as a discipline of understanding would be over for good.

But this sounds like it would at least theoretically let you tackle the proof? Like, it's imaginable that some AI generates a proof that is several TB (or EB) in size but still validates - which would of course be impossible to understand for human readers in the way you can understand a paper. But then "understanding" that proof would probably become a field of research of its own, sort of like the "BERTology" papers that try to understand the semantics of specific hidden states in BERT (or similar approaches for GPTs).

So I'd see an incomprehensible AI-generated proof not as the end of research in some conjecture, but more as a sort of guidance: Unlike before, you now know that the treasure chest exist and you even have its coordinates, you just don't have the route to that location. The task then becomes about figuring out that route.
I still find DCGs very useful. I have a small side project that uses DCGs to let me document data sources a system uses in plain English. Useful for doing impact analysis and data lineage.
This is basically "allow us to steal others' IP". It's hard not to treat Altman like a common thief.
It's nice to interpret someone's post in good faith, then he doesn't have to defend something he never said.
OpenAI lobbied for restrictive rules, and now they want an "out" but only for themselves. Absolute naked regulatory capture.
I've noticed with "retro"-looking games like Stardew Valley, people will say they look like 80s games. No, they look like 90s games (at worst). People forget how primitive the graphics were at 320x200x16. They were great at the time, and people did some ingenious stuff to get the most out of those systems, but they couldn't display anything like what's called retro today.
Neat workaround! We only started working with GCP Local SSDs in 2024 and can report we haven't experienced read or write failures due to bad sectors in any of our testing.

That said, we're running a redundant system in which MySQL semi-sync replication ensures every write is durable to two machines, each in a different availability zone, before that write's acknowledged to the client. And our Kubernetes operator plus Vitess' vtorc process are working together to aggressively detect and replace failed or even suspicious replicas.

In GCP we find the best results on n2d-highmem machines. In AWS, though, we run on pretty much all the latest-generation types with instance storage.
I missed the part where we throw away rational logic skills

Have you never been to a public library and read a book while sitting there without checking it out? Clearly, age is a factor here, and us olds are confused by this lack of understanding of how libraries function. I did my entire term paper without ever checking out books from the library. I just showed up with my stack of blank index cards, then left with the necessary info written on them. Did an entire project on tracking stocks by visiting the library and viewing all of the papers for the days in one sitting rather than being schmuck and tracking it daily. Took me about an hour in one day. No library card required.

Also, a library card is ridiculously cheap even if you did decide to have one.
>Being able to apply statistics is like having a secret superpower.

I totally with this sentence. BUT If you ask for my opinion, merely knowing a list of statistical formulas is not very helpful. Most of the time, people don’t remember the underlying assumptions, so there is a fair chance they will use them in inappropriate situations.

I recommend watching these two YouTube videos. The presenters advocate using simulation/bootstrapping/shuffling methods instead of memorizing formulas.

Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA

John Rauser - Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dnw46eC-0o
> Design is human centered practice for solving not only functional tasks but emotional

Having worked around design and UX people for a long time, I'd say there are plenty of design people who are practical and don't talk about emotional tasks.
Looks cool! This may actually save a lot of manual dba work for myself
> The most creative part of internet ignores copyright royalties. From open source, to wikipedia, open scientific publication and even social networks, if everyone demanded royalties none of them would be possible.

Notably, in all of these cases the people involved consent to participating.
It is hard to see how a court could decide that copyright does not apply to training LLMs without completely collapsing the entire legal structure for intellectual property.

Conceptually, AI basically zeros out existing IP, and makes the AI the only IP that has any value. It is hard to imagine large rights holders and courts accepting that.

The likely outcome is that courts rule against LLM creators/providers and they eventually have to settle on licensing fees with large corporate copyright holders similar to YouTube. Unlike YouTube though, this would open up LLM companies to class action lawsuits from the general public, and so it could be a much worse outcome for them.
As a Japanese person, I can confidently say that うな重が食い逃げした sounds nonsensical to Japanese ears. The verb 食い逃げ means the subject (うな重 in this case) ate something, not the other way around. Regarding euphemism, you could instead use expressions like うな重が消えた ("うな重 vanished") or うな重が旅立った ("うな重 set off on a journey") to metaphorically describe someone eating their meal.

But... come to think of it, even a native speaker may not be in a position to deny someone's finding about interesting similarities between Japanese and English sentences and possibilities of interpretation.
Slick as silk! But too fast too quickly. Gimme some easy endorphin in the first few levels before I start struggling.
Yep. You just immediately killed all life in a volume larger than the ship, and since diffusion on volumes that large take time, created a plume of toxic water that will wander for many minutes before dissolving well enough.

Not a big deal on the ocean. And yeah, better than an oil spill.
> “Many of these algorithmic secrets, there are $100 million secrets that are a few lines of code"

I wonder how many western labs have not hesitated to implement techniques revealed openly by DeepSeek.

DeepSeek has open-sourced arguably more than 100M in value so far, from detailing their inference stack to discussing how they bypassed CUDA to use PTX[0] directly, or even open-sourcing an entire filesystem[1].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859909

[1] - https://x.com/suchenzang/status/1895437762427560236
>Safety Changes ( laws )should be introduced by regulator so this can not happen again

Well, since the US Executive Branch is gutting[0] the regulator in question, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), I wouldn't hold my breath.

As this sort of thing continues apace, I keep asking the same question: Cui Bono?[1]

[0] https://apnews.com/article/musk-trump-autonomous-selfdriving...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono%3F
Car crashes are among the five leading causes of death in America [1].

My point is that buying a newer, safer car and disabling the telemetry (in my Subaru, for instance, it requires pulling a fuse) is almost always a better choice than buying an older car. For you. For anyone you may have with you. For everyone outside.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/ss/ss7302a1.htm
Kind of a silly piece. I don't think young people take advice verbatim, obviously it is going to need some adjustment to their current situation.

And, if you read "The Mythical Man-Month," you'll be surprised how little has changed.
Explaining LLM Distillation
Okay, but why pretend starlink coverage isn't solely in the hands of elon?
That's fair. I guess when you see people champion poetry (less so lately) you hope it works as well as pip/conda despite the complexities of pytorch in particular. Finding that the community in particular simply doesn't use that library has a shock of sorts - like this package manager is great, but "your type ain't welcome".

In any case I believe uv is trying to be _the_ solution and Id be pretty surprised if your libs weren't well supported, or on the roadmap at least.
That is why it should be mandatory for companies to publish the salary range for a role.
Making copies of an original you don't own/didn't obtain legally is not fair use. Also, this type of personal copying doesn't apply to corporations making copies to be distributed among their employees (it might apply to a company making a copy for archival, though).
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43345503
>> More interesting would be the workforce participation rate of 55+ seniors. I doubt it's at "historic" highs.

Here's the graph from FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11324230.

It went down slightly when Covid hit, but is still higher than it was during the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and the first half of the 2000's.