skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that MorphoSource is precisely the type of scientific resource that will be lost if Trump, Elon, and the DOGE-ies have their way.

This has been jointly funded by NSF and the investigators home institution (Duke).

Scientific databases, like this, but also many model organism genome databases have already been at risk because maintaining and curating high quality data is often seen as "not sexy enough". Many such resources are being forced to consider subscription models (e.g. [1]) to "keep the lights on". Ironically such resources are in fact critical for modern, high impact science.

This is only going to get worse as the Trumpists and DOGE-ies continue to kneecap NIH, NSF, and other critical parts of our infrastructure.

[1] https://veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/static-content/subscript...
This is such a wonderful book.

This book is open access, https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio... both the Python and the Racket versions.

If you are the kinda nerd that has nerd book club with friends, this is book is perfect for it.
Text generation and search are the drivers for some trillions of dollars worth of economic activity around the world.
None of my comments say I’m demanding perfection. That’s a fallacy to reduce my position to absurdism, so it can be easily dismissed.

LLMs have not improved my productivity. When I have tried to use them, they have been a net negative. There are many other people who report a similar experience.
Humans are uniquely powerful in the history of life, which is almost functionally indistinguishable from "uniquely corrupting" in this context. I don't know if that's exactly a defense, but it's at least an understandable mistake.
this statement is just patently wrong, and even those are still significant value. LLMs have been significantly impacting software engineering and software prototyping.
No it’s not. I live there and my kids go to school there. I do see many coyotes in our area. Some tagged. Some not. It’s definitely a worry of mine.

Edit: I have friends whose dogs were torn apart by packs of coyotes. It’s common in our area. I really do fear that this will cause incidents.
Would you mind elaborating on how LLMs have not delivered any significant value outside of text generation and search?
"We're making the mother of all omelettes here, can't fret over every egg!"
This page kept changing to a new article as I tried to read it. Very frustrating.
yeah but that's just the benefits being overstated, not a downside that I can see?

and it it led to less required human hunting of elk or deer without any other effects I think that would still be beneficial in the future.
That's pretty sweet the argparser

It's kind of nice to be able to access all native libraries. I usually use ruby, but having something compiled and strict is super nice. Shellscripting it one big minefield.

Compiling is a simple step ofc. But it's nice to only have the scriptfile and it's nice to not have your directory cluttered with binaries. I'll see if I can post it tomorrow. It's very small anyway
If the client connects to the database directly, how is access control or cheating handled?

UPDATE players SET gold = gold + 500 WHERE id = 12345;
Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising. More of a truism than a license to all the things.
.NET does pretty well as far as WASM support goes, unlike Go which is abysmal :)

https://bootsharp.com/guide/llvm / https://github.com/elringus/bootsharp
With this and penis pills we’re right on track for Idiocracy.
This is a really good example. It is more like branch prediction than standard data/instruction caching.

I wonder if you could do Spectre type vulnerabilities in python. You would need some way to leak micro-architectural state, so without being particularly clever maybe python code could only be used as a gadget or something.
Yes, you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click. Only volumes are not currently supported when doing this.
You can find most other residential candidate returns at https://www.taxnotes.com/presidential-tax-returns

The current Vice-President hasn’t released any. The former President only has some posted due to successful subpoena.
Bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr, even if they violate state law
Opening an animal crossing next to a school in an area where there are many coyotes is a lot different than fingers pinched by doors. But if you’re making the argument that this animal crossing is so important than the occasional child being killed by animals is as trivial as fingers being pinched by doors, I know all I need to know about you.
No, treating some letter sequences like fi and ffi so that the letters stick together in a certain way is not "by this measure".

> who stops a font from displaying A as B

It's noticeable; a B consistently occurs everywhere there is an A, wherever that font is used. You can't perpetrate an easter egg whereby a certain A is replaced.

We could prepare a page where every glyph appears, and detect substitutions via OCR.

With text replacement, we could look for a particular sentence, and change a word in it, without playing any games with glyphs at all. It will be undetectable in a document in which the target sentence doesn't occur.

Anyway, we can't think about not using fonts. Fonts are necessary for rendering text.

Fonts that substitute arbitrary text are not necessary. Just because I need fonts doesn't mean I need term-rewriting fonts.

We don't have to accept one threat just because there is some inevitable minor threat. That's the Package Deal informal fallacy, or something along those lines.
Oh. Is the blinking working?
Also, ReverbMachine does this sort of thing regularly for all different artists. They have covered Daft Punk's albums pretty thoroughly:

https://reverbmachine.com/blog/how-kavinsky-created-nightcal...
https://reverbmachine.com/blog/daft-punk-homework-synth-soun...
https://reverbmachine.com/blog/daft-punk-discovery-synth-sou...

All their work is amazing. Perhaps I will post all of these here as posts individually? Someone should...
Here's a fun example of that kind of "I've updated my statements but not assessed any of my underlying lack of understanding" - it's a bad look on any kind of scientist.

https://x.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1507047932226375688
They might be flying too close to the sun on this one. A lot of the IRS' "inefficiency" is intentional, so it can be abused by moneyed interests to evade tax without anyone noticing.

Fixing those inefficiencies would bring this problem to light and force them to deal with it. While it's not past the current administration to formally legalize it, it's still "stirring shit" for no good reason and worse than leaving things as-is where the evasion falls through the cracks.
You're right and I'm sorry I didn't catch it before the edit timer expired. I made another mistake - 100k terawatts is .1 exawatts.
Batching and throttling. If you’re doing work with a loose deadline don’t make it outcompete work with a tight deadline. That’s a self-DOS. Make the batch no more than 1/10th to 1/8th of the overall traffic and things go more smoothly.
> Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising

Except information left alone doesn’t become free, it degrades. It takes energy to preserve it in an accessible form. That, in turn, tends towards making it very much not free.
TokamakUI

And https://skip.tools
I don’t know if we should actually deploy geoengineering. My fear is that we will soon reach a point where we’re pretty certain that we’re headed towards a major tipping point, and even aggressive GHG reductions won’t be enough. (It’s possible that the findings in TFA are the literal representation of that realization.) We need a hail-Mary option at that point and we might need it in a hurry.

BTW I am actually cautiously optimistic about the GHG reduction piece. We’re way past where we should be at this stage, but rapid decarbonization now looks like it will be at least technically possible. Most global emissions are in China and Asia, and China is actually deploying the technology we need to eliminate those emissions. The US shouldn’t be screwing around the way it is, but I’m hopeful that what’s happening with renewable technology costs in Asia will eventually be more meaningful than any short term political interference that’s limited to the US. (This is very much a lemonade-out-of-lemons opinion, but the alternative is to be very depressed.)
> there is no probabilistic link between the words of a text and the gist of the content

How could that possibly be true?

There’s obviously a link between “[original content] is summarized as [summarized”content]
Same complaint. Also, not to poke fun at us too hard but there's probably less sports fans here than the average population :)

Really like the idea though.
> Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power.

"We destroyed the economy for a generation, but at least we stopped people from making us put pronouns in our bio."
It's a silly argument IMO. There are so many mosquito species we don't care about, and so many other small insects that provide similar food, that eliminating the handful of species that literally kill humans would barely cause a blip in the food chain.
Andy Keep - Writing a Nanopass Compiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7FE3J-U5Q

https://github.com/akeep/scheme-to-c
I wouldn't call pattern matching intelligence, I would call it something closer to "trainability" or "educatable" but not intelligence. You can train a person to do a task without understanding why they have to do it like that, but when confronted with a new never-before-seen situation they have to understand the physical laws of the universe to find a solution.

Ask ChatGPT to answer something that no one on the internet has done before and it will struggle to come up with a solution.
I suspect that your puerile mockery will come to a swift end when you discover you signed some contract that you read on the screen, but whose wording was altered by the printer.
> HN would be talking about how great it is

If it were happening two years ago it would have used dummy data. USDS wasn’t known for committing crimes the way almost everyone at DOGE has.
Neat puzzle.

My first wrong answer was an international spelling issue. It would be nice if it accepted then silently corrected based on equivalent international spellings, but I can also understand why it doesn't, sometimes it might be more crucial to the solution.
Why am I imagining this being used for really serverless iot infrastructure?

Like imagine that you wanted to deploy something on a lot of huge devices, well by using something like this open source and really limited but (with it just works), you can actually have pcb providers build it and ship it in their warehouse / wherever and just provide it energy and ethernet and now you can probably ssh into it / even create some sort of Vercel-like UI on top of it(Coolify/Dokploy? though we would need to slim down docker a lot for Dokploy? )

and when the work is done , they would actually scrape the metal /pcb and / reuse it again...

I am not sure if such metal /pcb recycling makes sense...

If anyone technical can respond to this, it would be great.

This can also be done with risc-v as well. I am not sure but I was thinking of creating a very dead simple company (my brain and its weird thoughts... , also Don't copy me or if you do, then hire me xD) which just can take a device like old phones and then just root them using AI? / manual or maybe not even root it? IDK...,

Basically then providing them internet access and energy (Not a traditional warehouse) because you actually only pay for the one time fees and afterwards all the fees that you pay, they are of the real costs bore by the company operating it / no middle man profits.

Kind of like a "Costco" (oh I had forgotten name of Costco and I had to search target alternatives xD) where they actually are there to help you save money but for you to use their services you gotta have a card.
Satellite Internet Is About to Lift Off
I don't usually make these comments, but between the references to Dr. Dre and Napoleon Dynamite gifs, this article feels like it was written in 2012...
This reminds me a lot of NYT strands, in the sense that it’s “multiple themed rounds of classic word game format X” In the strands example, the base word game is a word search in which they break the rules a bit to make it harder. Here it’s a simple word unscrambling. Makes me wonder what other games you could make by following this “themed rounds of X” format.
The warp model in GPUs is great at hiding the DRAM latency. The GPU isn't idly waiting for DRAM.

All threads that need a memory access are in a hardware queue, and data coming from the DRAM immediately dequeues a thread and runs the work until the next memory access. So you compute at the full throughput of your RAM. Thread scheduling done in software can't have such granularity and low overhead, and hyperthreading has too few threads to hide the latency (2 vs 768).
Sometimes seeing something that resembles reasoning doesn't really make it reasoning.

What makes it "seem to get better" and what keeps throwing people like lecun off is the training bias, the prompts, the tooling and the billions spent cherry picking information to train on.

What LLMs do best is language generation which leads to, but is not intelligence. If you want someone who was right all along, maybe try Wittgenstein.
Thanks for using it, there will be many more features to make it even more production ready and stable in the future.
Based on the description, it’s because you don’t get raw SQL access; they say the game logic is embedded directly into the database and you interact with it through stored procedures. All the rules are enforced there instead of whatever API endpoint you would normally use.
I do agree that in the end the most productive approach will be a mix. Humans with AI support. My fear is on the possibility that learning to program always with AI support, will limit the quality of learning. Only time will tell.
The hardest part of writing a compiler is designing a language. In my opinion, most compiler courses seem too fixated on the implementation details. The fact that this course targets x86 already misses the mark for me. Computers are very fast, there is no reason to start with a language that translates to asm. This is incidental complexity that distracts from language design.
LMFAO?
I grew up with "easy" languages. Pascal, VB, C, C++, Java, C#. And frankly I'm getting real sick of them.

I'm porting Dijkstra's algorithm over to C# at the moment, and in the last several hours here's the two most clownish things that have happened:

1) I have:

if (node is null) {
..
}

My IDE is telling me "Expression is always false according to nullable reference types' annotations". Nevertheless it enters that section every time.

2) I have:

SortedSet<int> nums = [];
Console.Out.WriteLine(nums.Min);

You know what this prints?

0

The minimal element of a set which has no elements is 0.

Yes, every language has its warts, and anecdotes like this aren't going to change anyone's mind. I only wrote these up because they're hitting me right now in one of those languages that companies use "because anyone can learn them". I like harder languages better than easy languages, because they're easy.
We are currently investigating and planning something for scaling, so stay tuned, it may happen soon.
It corresponds to a way more than one branch at instruction level. The branch prediction AFAIK does not care based on what are you branching, it just assumes branches will go in similar sequences as they did last time. If the Python 'if' is never taken, the instruction-level predictor will learn that after the comparison operation, there is an 'if' operation and then another array access operation. If the Python 'if' is unpredictable unpredictable, CPU predictor can't be sure which opcode are we processing after 'if', so there will be penalty.
Let's admit, the single reason to 'bring back' the Mammoth is, it's cool and a tremendous publicity scheme for ecological efforts. That alone, may be reason enough.

Don't encourage them. Before we know it they will bring back dinosaurs ... some quote about "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Exactly, that is the one million dollar question.
That seems very likely. The benchmark should probably use a range that is guaranteed to be outside of the cached smallint range.
You don't believe in the ghost in the machine, do you?
I don't see the contradiction between "stochastic parrot" and "strong summarisation abilities".

Where I'm skeptical of LLM skepticism is that people use the term "stochastic parrot" disparagingly, as if they're not impressed. LLMs are stochastic parrots in the sense that they probabilistically guess sequences of things, but isn't it interesting how far that takes you already? I'd never have guessed. Fundamentally I question the intellectual honesty of anyone who pretends they're not surprised by this.
I am interested to use this for implementing a communication platform like matrix or IRC.

Apparently the license only allows you to run one production instance though.
What was the issue you had with Redis?
I've experienced making this mistake myself.

The UK has Private Eye magazine. Because of their habit of making the front page a picture captioned with a joke[0], I assumed that's all they were for the first 15 years of me knowing the magazine existed.

Despite them also being famous for facing a lot of legal threats (and cases) for libel[1], it wasn't until the mid 2010s that I realised they're also known for in-depth investigative journalism into under-reported scandals and cover-ups.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=private+eye+front+page&t=osx&iar=i...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15279371
Use meaningful names in your code examples
I assume in this context "low crime" doesn't refer to shoplifting, but to gang violence, murders, kidnappings, and shootings. If you fear about your life daily, you will probably be more willing to accept extreme measures than someone living in a relative comfort and safety.
This is all true, and I'd also add that LeCun has the classic pundit problem of making his opposition to another group too much of his identity, to the detriment of his thinking. So much of his persona and ego is tied up in being a foil to both Silicon Valley hype-peddlers and AI doomers that he's more interested in dunking on them than being correct. Not that those two groups are always right either, but when you're more interested in getting owns on Twitter than having correct thinking, your predictions will always suffer for it.

That's why I'm not too impressed even when he has changed his mind: he has admitted to individual mistakes, but not to the systemic issues which produced them, which makes for a safe bet that there will be more mistakes in the future.
I wonder what the accessibility implications are.
America is a massive consumer, so it will likely impact other countries, too.

I've been seeing your perspective a lot lately online - that this will somehow cancel income tax. Where is that coming from? I haven't heard a single thing about that from the administration. Where is the basis?
I personally have greatly benefitted from LLM's helping me reason about problems and make progress on many diverse issues across professional, recreational and mental health difficulties. I think that asking whether it's just "text generation and search" rather than something that transcends it is as meaningful as asking whether an airplane really "flies" or just "applies thrust and generates lift".
Couple of minor bugs, one of which is arguably not a bug:
1. When you play a game for the first time it invites you to make an account. When you make an account, it seems to forget that you played that particular game already.
2. By manipulating the URL you can play games from the future.
This is where Rust makes a massive difference. I can change iter() to par_iter() and have it work flawlessly on the first try.
> over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day

i'd definitely rewrite it myself, but it's also a correct way to specify that there are no days of the week, year, or whatever (solar cycle) in which the terawattage is below 170k. Not very intermittent, is it!
A new UI is being planned and developed as we speak, so the UI/UX will improve a lot. PHP has nothing to do with this.
Sierra's early catalog was basically a large collection of dead-man-walking situations. A key item for the endgame of Space Quest 1 stops being available 5 minutes into the game. Kings Quest II has a bridge that can breaks down every time you cross it, and you must do the right thing on every single crossing, as one superfluous crossing alone will end the game. Even as far as 1991 they were still making games where you could put yourself in an unwinnable scenario by missing an item hours before, sometimes in what you thought was a non-interactive cutscene!

Very few modern adventure games bring any of that back.
That was it! I was busy looking for a word rather than an acronym
Yeah. My understanding is the design of type inference is flawed and requires exponential complexity to resolve and it’s not fixable without breaking change.

Why this is not a top priority before literally anything else?
From what I've heard, female doctors can be surprisingly unsympathetic to female issues. Especially something like endometriosis. "I get menstrual pain, it's no big deal".
Who, pray tell, publishes the Salvadorian crime rates? Dragnet arresting young men will reduce crime in any country, but that sure is worse than the disease because while that action of arresting innocents is not "illegal" from the regime's perspective, it should be. So "crime" has gone up, and perpetrated by the state against citizens.
There was an episode on the Developer Voices podcast about this some time ago.

https://overcast.fm/+ABBSPFBjze0
The pandemic showed me that people just hunger for authoritarianism, especially when it’s used against a group they view as bad for society
I wish you good luck. Man I don't know what I can do.

I can't Uber because I only have one car.

I can't onlyfan because I'm not a nude female.

I can't twitch because there are already millions out there.

I don't know what I can do. Seriously.
Quick UI suggestion: Let users playing on desktop type the letters.
I 100% agree with you, but the Fed is independent and they only have a few levers to pull.

They don't make policy and they go out of their way to not comment on policy. They say they are apolitical (though of course they are 100% pro-establishment).

If the entire government was working together, yeah, sure, your theory holds. But that isn't how things work.
I really wanted Coolify to work, as I like the idea behind it. I gave it a go some time ago, and I ended up spending the entire evening battling issues like the proxy not running, with no helpful UI feedback whatsoever.

So I came to the conclusion that if I have to dig through abstractions built by someone else, only to find out that in the end I have to manually restart the underlying containers anyway, I might as well stick to using Docker directly.

And truth be told, it’s not even that difficult to handle it all yourself. And it’s definitely very educational. It gives me a nice feeling of being in control and knowing my server. And on top of that it’s fun too.