skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how that relates to my using it as an example of a fast compiler. For that matter, my suggested approach doesn't need to to release source code, just some kind of programming language code. You could minify it, pre-optimise it, or do any number of things that would mean it isn't source code but instead becomes derived code (as I said in my original comment). Distributing textual code is not the same as being open source. I'm really just saying you should distribute something that isn't a platform specific blob with a fixed binary interface. You could, for instance, use LLVM IR code to achieve this, which is little more than a kind of portable assembly. LLVM can apply heavy optimisations to this code on the developer's machine, then take only the last step of code generation on the user's machine.
Put another way, impossible to program if you wanted to. These are highly abstract concepts that only manifest at the highest level of cognition. The governance module would need to be programmed at that same level using those tokens, but that doesn't seem to be how things are shaping up to work. Instead we start with low level programming that learns and builds up concepts on top.

Essentially you would need some sort of independent adversarial sidecar mind that monitors the robot's actions at a high level. And that just kicks the can down the road a bit.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
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> actually buy on merit and cost.

While remembering that when you wanted to use what you purchased to defend your ally in Ukraine your supplier prohibited you. Lets see how much merit there is in any US purchase with that in the background...
Perhaps PlantUML isn't as new and interesting as Mermaid, but each time I try a side-by-side comparison, the results are always better in PlantUML than Mermaid. I'll admit that the Mermaid syntax is a lot easier to understand, but the PlantUML syntax is a lot more powerful. I especially like the new Activity diagrams in PlantUML with the conditionals and looping syntax.
They might not have inventory (aka next day availability), but ~2 week availability means that they aren't production constrained and have already satisfied extraordinary demand for the new Model Y and are back to ordinary demand. When they were production constrained, delivery estimates were much longer than 2 weeks.
isn't the whole issue that they have no good way of knowing how many to make until launch? you don't want to wind up like Atari burying copies of ET in the desert
I am hoping they keep lots of their work open source. This is especially the case since hardware would be too expensive for competition to pull off, but it would be interesting to see how they circumvented some problems
I think what publishers need to do is retain reviewers (possibly on part-time basis); many retired scientists can benefit from those opportunities and it is a way to keep senior scientists engaged in their fields. For most submitted papers, there is no need for the reviewer to be sub-specialized in the paper's field (most reviews done by the sub specialists are actually done by their postdocs and grad students) and the hiring process (and subsequent evaluation) is ought to be more effective and speedier than randomly contacting people to beg for reviews. Until the review process is taken more seriously by publishers and journal editors, the quality of published science continues to deteriorate.
One nice side effect of Signal's importance for governmental/military use is that it helps keep it free for civilian use. They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure.

I once heard a great anecdote to that effect, and to my embarrassment I can't recall the details to repeat here.

(And yes, I understand that there are limits on what is appropriate to share with civilian hardware on a civilian network, but the truth stands that part of the reason there's not a push to breach encryption in the US like there is in the UK is because Signal is relied upon even by the government when they need a private channel on civilian hardware.)
IMO, most SPAs are bloated. MPAs are cleaner and more forgiving.

The only reason to still stick to an SPA instead of an MPA is that the app is so bloated you want the user to only have to load it once.

And people say "lazy loading!" but by the time you've implemented lazy loading in a SPA, you could have just used an MPA to keep things modular and memory efficient.

SPAs became popular at a time when companies thought everyone was going to move to progressive web apps. Then the bloated frameworks came along, PWA interest has faded, and here we are.

The above are all my opinions, apologize in advance if they come off as speaking objectively.
Ugh... I can't stand cloudy weather! A "nice day" means no clouds! I just can't be around people who think clouds are nice. If they like that weather so much, why don't they move somewhere where it's cloudy all the time! /s
The status quo appears to involve handing over your account password to your chosen client. That's worse than this.
> (chances are people will downvote without comment or scream "ThAtS nOt TrUe")

> (Love how HN proved my comment as correct)

Please don't do this here. It's against the site guidelines (see the bottom: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), which guarantees downvotes, and then the combination of help-help-I'm-being-repressed and I-told-you-so is annoying to pretty much everyone.

As for "left leaning", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 (Feb 2021). The specific examples are old now but there is an endless fresh supply from each tap.
This is a G move, without a doubt the best way I've heard of this being done.
>Saying I'm pretending is the same thing as saying that I'm lying. But it doesn't really matter either way. Your claims about what's in my head are mistaken. You are, of course, free to think anything you like.

Correct, I think you're lying. But that's an extreme way to put it. You're more humble bragging.

Again, it wasn't an attack. Even if I say you're lying it's not an attack either. I'm just stating what I'm thinking.
Thank you for that. Helps a lot!
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So you’re not willing to share anything?

Just anecdotes and platitudes?

Not even some reasoning?

Also note that I chose my words carefully when I said “Nothing I’ve seen indicates that is possible right now.”

I used “right now” to not rule out future possibilities.
> They keep forgetting where pieces are

The vast majority of human chess players need to look at the board to know where the pieces are. Only a few people can know where all the pieces are if you just give them a list of moves. Have you tried evaluations where you give the LLM a representation of the board state at every move, as most human players would have, and which all chess engines track?
> Then it shifted in the last ten or fifteen years. When social media started having friends of friends, the tribalism kicked in. It was explained very well in a talk between Maria Ressa and Jon Stewart.

Also by Jon Stewart on Crossfire in 2004: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=310s

The critique about what passes for debate is as apt today as it was then.
When I left microsoft, I kept everything EXCEPT data bearing devices. I got the sense they REALLY didn't want to have to collect the laptops either, but the VPs were forced to by compliance.
Not Gentoo. The system I'm suggesting is one where you replace the linker with one which accepts a platform agnostic assembly code with similar semantics to C, and perhaps some additional tools for stack traversal to allow the implementation of garbage collected languages and exceptions. Compiling would be fast because the code you distribute would have already had optimisations applied to it in a pre-compilation step. It would also be automatic in the same way the present linker system is automatic.
So, something I’m thinking about here is that the 9p vision has always seemed really cool to me: expose all the resources in the network in a unified way that enables the whole network to be used as if it was a single computer. But, since this is a protocol-oriented vision of computing, it enables arbitrary implementers of the protocol to participate “natively”, even if they aren’t actually plan9 systems.
As a resident of NJ that commutes into Manhattan, and works with many NYC dwelling colleagues, I feel NJ mentally does not exist for most NYCers.

If I tell them about something in NJ, they look at me as if I’m talking about Alabama.

Miami or Los Angeles is mentally closer to them than Jersey City.
Yes, because the comments are offtopic and against the site guidelines (see the bottom of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

"I the noble freethinker, standing bravely against the mob" comments are boring and repetitive, and therefore always off topic.
Because people would have rather had those fixes and stayed with their party and not had the explosive figure of DT.

The democrats were SO BAD that many people couldn't stand the extreme leftists policies that even DT was worth voting for.

If they had gone more moderate, ditched both Biden and Kamala, we would have a president Newsom right now. Also, as it turns out, Newsom's teen son is a huge Charlie Kirk fan - which has been influencing Newsom.
Ugh. Every few decades some new MTA honcho decides to switch to a schematic map, and it's either shot down before launch or lasts a few years before people realize you can't actually find your way to any real-world aboveground location on it unless you already know the nearest station. Maybe now that everyone can get transit directions on their phone it doesn't matter anymore and can just be a pretty decoration.
> A polite well worded post that disagrees with the mainstream will indeed still exist, but it will be moderated to unreadably transparent and hidden by default. It’s not a great experience.

Speaking from personal experience only: I have mostly not observed "polite, well-worded posts disagreeing with the mainstream" get downvoted to oblivion, unless some other factor also applies, such as that they're also things that seem likely to lead to a rehashed old-as-the-hills disagreement with no new information that will not on balance change any minds.

If you post (by way of example only, please observe the use-mention distinction here) a polite version of "ads are good and adblockers are stealing", and get a massive pile of downvotes, I think that's a reasonable signal that the community isn't interested in seeing iteration 47,902 of that argument, and has no expectation that anything new will come out of that argument. If you have something new to say on that topic that is likely to lead into new and interesting arguments, at this point you would need to signpost that heavily, prefacing it with some equivalent of "Please note that I'm aware this is an age-old argument, but I think I have a new point to make that is worth considering", and then actually make a new point, at which point I think you're less likely to get downvoted to oblivion.

Personally, I don't downvote "mere" disagreement. I downvote (among other things) what seems to me to be uninteresting or thoughtless or insufficiently diligent disagreement, or factually incorrect information, or anything that seems like a discussion that spawned from it will not be interesting.

Now, that said, another factor here is that some people posting on political topics in particular believe they're making "polite well-worded posts disagreeing with the mainstream", and others do not share that belief and flag it to oblivion. For example, posts expressing bigotry mostly get flagged, no matter how surface-level "polite" they are.
Crazy that this is possible at such a giant like Verizon. But it seems to happen more often than before.
1. Yes. Even the public website is open source. The license is AGPLv3: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse

2. Yes.
Discord's ongoing enshittification may create a market opportunity for alternatives in the near future. I'd like to think that Matrix could be a beneficiary of that, but the common-case UX needs to be polished damn well when the time comes if they want to capitalize.
If you don't trust your matrix client, why use it at all?

It's also a bit disheartening to see Matrix putting all that "Log in with Google", Apple, Facebook etc so prominently on their login page. The whole idea of decentralised services was getting out of those walled gardens.
Great time to buy Switch OLED
I think companies should make web developers use a decade-old bargain-basement laptop at least once a month.

Each team member could take their turn using it so that it's already tooled up for the project they are working on.
Depending on what you're doing, I find SVG manipulation in React to come out pretty well. I've used it for overlays on scanned documents and basic charts without much issue at all.
perhaps most importantly, the ability to grin and bear it
> They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure.

Why not? It wouldn't be difficult to have a backdoor in the civilian use-case that's disabled for government use.
“This” style comments don't translate well on sites where the comments are not chronologically ordered.
Yeah it seems pretty cut and dry, that the laws is not being followed here and their could be consequences for the companies breaking it if either Trump changes his mind or a future DOJ decides to press the matter. Not clear what(edit) legal arguments/advise behind the scenes convinced google and apple to put tiktok back in their stores after they had removed it on Jan 18th.
Regarding chess, I think that's an unfair challenge without access to long-term memory. Did you try to give it a memory scratchpad, e.g. with Letta?

[0] https://www.letta.com/
> nobody in his right mind will create anything new only to be immediatly copied without anything in return

If this take is serious, I can confidently tell you: for many professional artists, it's incorrect.

I'm sure you didn't look at my profile and don't know my background, but I'm a professional bluegrass musician.

Believe me when I tell you: few of us believe that 'intellectual property' is designed to help us make a living. And we're happy to see it go. Copy my music all you want - that's half the point.

Creativity, especially in traditional arts, does not benefit from state intervention or shoehorning property concepts into our work.
Re: LLMs & diagrams - in general, diagrams and tables as info compression tool (both in the general sense as well as in the practical concrete "optimise for token / context window" sense) - e.g. today as part of request to do 'deep research' on Dwarf Fortress personality / psychology system, at a late point (preparing to relaunch with a fresh empty context window among other things) I asked GPT 4.5 to (among other diagrams) draw me a concise 'psychological data flow diagram' (I was kind of vague and was deliberately pushing for abstraction / compression) -

among (many elaborate) other things it gave me - and I liked it (NB don't trust it willy nilly w.r.t. the below of course) - (auto-indented by 2 spaces hope formatting works) =>

```

DWARVEN PSYCHE DATA FLOW
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

External Events
(Trauma, Success, Social)
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Event Processing │─── Modulated by → Personality facets
│ (Emotion generation) │─── Modulated by → Personal values
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│ Generates
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Emotional Reactions │─── Short-term emotion (Anger, Joy, Sadness)
│ (Immediate Thoughts) │
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│ Stored as
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Memory Storage │─── Short-term → Long-term memories (core)
│ (Core & transient) │─── Decay/Replacement over time
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│ Recalled as
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Memory Re-experiencing │─── Repeated emotional impacts
│ (Periodic Thoughts) │
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│ Accumulate
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Stress Level │─── Increased by negative memories
│ (Running total score) │─── Decreased by positive memories
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│ Monitored
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Stress Threshold Check │─── If threshold breached → Psychological Crisis
│ │─── Else → Coping behaviors activated
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│
│
┌─────┴─────┐
│ │
▼ ▼
┌───────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ Coping │ │ Psychological │
│Mechanisms │ │ Breakdown │
│(Needs met,│ │ (Tantrum, │
│ hardening,│ │ Depression, │
│ social) │ │ Insanity) │
└───────────┘ └─────────────────┘
│ │
│ ▼
│ ┌───────────────────┐
│ │ Personality Change│
└──────▶│ (Facet alterations│
│ via trauma, events│
└───────────────────┘

```

p.s. it chose the syntax/format itself; regardless, some time ago when asked for guidance re: how to manage sliding context window, it did suggest tables itself (user employing them for concise input - and likewise requesting tabulated/diagrammatic/schematic output).

p.p.s. (edit) many good very particular insights, if anyone's by chance interested then lmk, I'll ping once distilled interesting output is on a not-yet-extant blog (it's gonna happen finally)...
Wait, is this exact boat for sale?
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Sorry, but no, there is no good thing to come from government using Signal. With its auto-deleting messages, that makes it illegal for government employees to use, and destroys transparency.
Paid Wix sites usually have their own domain and aren't on xxxx.wix.com.

But they still use Wix CDNs like wixstatic.com and parastorage.com. I wonder if those are blocked too...
> They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure.

This is a strong assumption..
A government is a collection of people. While there might not exactly be warring factions in the US government, there are certainly numerous agencies and organizations that operate under varying degrees of independence.
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I disagree - it's not properly addressed, but it's nice to see it at least brought up.

Layoffs are always awful, but seeing companies talk about "changing economic realities" amongst continuing revenue and profit growth - often all time highs - is a real morale killer for those who are left behind.

Microsoft/Amazon/Alphabet/Google are trillion dollar megacorps who are insanely profitable, but they're firing people because they no longer have to pretend we care about you at all and will instead try to cater to Wall Street (who will never be happy - if I had $10000 for every quarter where a big tech corp "beat expectations" and the stock dropped anyway I'd retire). It's a hard pill to swallow and will increase bitterness and cynicism in the remaining workforce and kill any chance of your employees caring about your vision or putting in any extra effort.
Atp it's probably easier to just smash firefox/linux into a vm
I've never seen this before! Insane amounts of detail, even for inconsequential items -- see the isolated Brooklyn Navy Yard network
I have a Real ID and this if all bogus.
This might not have happened if Mullenweg hadn’t sued his competitor, then went off the deep end and hurt everyone.
TSLA stock price seems to be having a Wile E Coyote moment. Maybe because it can only be a meme stock now, I guess.

Net income dropped 70% YoY. Deliveries have dropped YoY. And the stock price is still higher than it was at this time last year.
Sorry, I reserve "moral imperative" for things that have some bearing on, you know, morals.
This is not a dupe, this is a follow up to the original story.
How does it perform on e.g. WebVoyager, WebArena, or OSWorld? These seem to be the oft-cited benchmarks when comparing computer-use agents.
It's probably easier to just run a VM directly into a window.
Matt commenting here was part of the reason he is in the mess he is in.
Seems interesting. But I think it is unnecessary for me. Cause I don't have a use case. But good luck!
We're both paid.
"Prickly ash" is an ingredient in Chinese cuisine, particularly Szechuan cooking. We buy it in quantity at Asian groceries where it's pretty inexpensive.

In the US it's known as "Szechuan peppercorn". Preparing it for use requires carefully inspecting a handful for stems and thorns (which can be quite big), pan toasting and crushing/grinding to a coarse powder.

As pointed out in the sister comment, the spice has a mild numbing effect which counters the heat of chilis. Adding a little to hot dishes makes the flavor more complex and enjoyable.

For people who like to cook it's an ingredient worth experimenting with across culinary boundaries.
Warm welcome Tom! Hope it’s an easy gig.
sounds like an employee of signal
this looks so much fun, any chance for South America?
Then what happens, if you're that type of person, after you've replaced or painted over something? Do you relax and become comfortable with what's left? Or do you move on to the next irritant, that will bug you until you've replaced or painted over that?

I saw some pictures from a house where everything was white. The walls were white, the tables and chairs were white, the pillows were white, lamps were white, etc. But I bet the owner didn't see it as everything being white, like I did. I bet that when they'd look at the same pictures, they'd see all the little details here and there that were not white, or not quite white enough. I imagine them being in a constant state of stress over the non-white blemishes.

I don't know them, I just saw the pictures, so I don't truly know how they feel, I could be just imagining things. But my gut feeling is that someone with a home like that is not at ease with themselves.
Downvoting pushes peoples comments down and greys them out, effectively silencing them. It creates echo chambers.

I reserve my downvotes for when arguments are made in bad faith, rely on logical fallacies, or present know-false information as an argument.

If someone presents an argument on something I disagree with, but it's made in good faith and is well-structured, it deserves an upvote, even if I still disagree afterwards.
Compare the subway map with a real map of New York and you'll find that it leads you to all kinds of wrong ideas about directions, distances and relative positions of things.
> You can boot a Linux kernel with an nfs root from the local machine and use headless vnc to run a browser in a vnc client window.

Not only is the VNC redirection unnecessary, so it is the entire filesystem. You could just render the vm directly to the window and boot a read only image. Plus then you don't have to deal with VNC.
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That is positively shocking. Police who are already widely known to target minorities for criminal offenses also target them for minor traffic violations.
What were the human PhDs able to do after more than 48 hours of effort? Presumably given that these are top-level PhDs, the replication success rate would be close to 100%?
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