skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As-is, I wouldn't consider participating, because doing so would require a lot of boring manual work from me. The reason why we have good AI models for some games is that they are easy and fast to evaluate. So you can just let your AI-in-training play 100*1000 rounds of the game to establish a base policy scoring.

For this competition, however, it appears that the gym environment is not available. So to get started, I would need to build my own Bomberman clone while trying to mimic your graphics style... I'll pass on that. The headline on the blog post says "open Bomberland arena" but I couldn't find any way to actually download it. I do like the idea of having an always-on AI competition running online, but that type of competitive AI play is usually only helpful after hundreds of GPU hours of offline training.

So that would be my one big suggestion to you, joooyzee: Put a small TensorFlow / PyTorch script on GitHub that just runs the Bomberman environment with random inputs.

Once I have such a script, I can then quite easily drop in my reinforcement learning research and get started with the actual AI.
isn't this the dozenth time they done this?
I think what you say is true, but it seems to imply that this article is saying little more than "this phone camera is uniquely great, because look how pretty these few pictures are." In fact, the content of the article is more about this photographer's experience with this phone camera, and specifics about how he uses it versus how he might use alternative cameras.
Coastal foraging? Why can't they just fish? There are lots of fish in those northern reaches today, I assume there would have been even more back then. And fish doesn't necessarily have to be cooked, so no requirement to stop to make fires.
> Our review was based on one specific formulation of a claim we saw frequently appearing amidst record-setting wildfires on the US West Coast: “Forest fires are caused by poor management. Not by climate change.” We relied on comments supplied by three scientists for a previous appearance of this exact claim by Michael Shellenberger—who was also the guest Stossel interviewed in his video. The scientists explained that this claim is misleading

They re definitely in defensive mode with regards to this. It's funny to see the liability being thrown around like a hot potato. Stossel says it's facebook's, FB says it's the fact-checker's, the fact checkers say it's the scientists'. Yeah something smells bad when such things happen

Possible he could sue facebook in countries that have stronger libel laws?
I was responding to the comment that metabolism is a “black box” that we can’t possibly understand, but metabolic syndrome is a good example of how we do understand metabolism including the exceptions.

Metabolic syndrome is a severe exception, though. It’s not something that happens to average people eating normal amounts of calories.

There are always exceptions in disease states, but those exceptions are invoked far too frequently in conversations about typical people on normal (not chronically hyper caloric or extremely sugar heavy) diets.
Here are things I ran into.

`wrangler login` doesn't work if I'm not already logged in to CloudFlare website. If I have to login first, it doesn't do whatever necessary redirect it should do so most of the time I have to run `wrangler login` twice.

`wrangler dev` is slow.

`wrangler dev` requires root domain. https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler/issues/1529

I also feel that the interaction between DNS settings and workers is under-documented, probably because it crosses responsibility of two different teams.

For example, it took me way too long to figure out that if I have a workers-only website for foo.bar.org, I have to put dummy DNS entry for foo.bar.org

Frankly, despite reading wrangler docs multiple times, I don't think I fully understand the interactions between what's in the DNS, what's in the workers route and further more if you add pages to the mix.

Docs should explicitly spell out DNS / routes setup for most common scenarios like: 1) workers-only site (no proxying to any other server) 2) workers in front of a proxied website

Workers should be seamlessly integrated with pages i.e. pages should just automatically recognize and use workers-site/ directory on deploy.

I don't think setting up pages automatically configures DNS settings for its domain, which it obviously should (might be mis-remembering).
I once got rear-ended by a young-ish driver. She was respectful, admitted fault, apologized. Then, the police showed up. At first they were decent, just doing their jobs. Then, almost instantly, their tone changed. Same thing - told me they smelled marijuana (I never smoked weed in my life). Then it turned into an inquisition: "You told me you're going home, which is south, but why are you headed north right now?" "I'm going to my parents' home, which is north of here." "Sounds like you're story keeps changing." One cop said something like, "Are you a mama's boy? Gotta go see mommy?", which was weird, but that's how the tone was now.

Anyway, as I was getting hammered with questions and accusations, I noticed the young-ish driver getting into the back of the second police car. Then, they drove away. I thought they found drugs or something.

Turns out the young-ish driver was the daughter of the chief of police. I spent the next month or so getting harassed by a local prosecutor (the cops smelled marijuana! back in the early-90s, weed was a big crime.). He said the police were "investigating" and he was deciding whether or not to bring the case. Furthermore, my own insurance agent told me I should probably drop my claim because the young-ish driver's insurance company would fight it ("it's complicated because it was dark at the time."), and it would just take a long time so it probably wasn't worth it.

In the end, I submitted the insurance claim, received peanuts (not even enough to fix my car) and dropped State Farm. I didn't care too much because I knew I was leaving town (Modesto, CA). And I've never gone back.
The new scrubber sounds like it's not using the old zeolite bed system but one based on molecular sieves. But you're otherwise right that they're not really turning that CO2 into anything on the regular beyond the limited ISRU experiment(s).
Translation from Xooglese: in January 2023 we are getting rid of pesky @gorhill's extensions that dare to interfere with our ad revenue stream.
I use it every day on Windows 10. It takes about 30 seconds to go to full hibernate and 30 seconds to restore. My laptop has 32GB of RAM.
The PinePhone seema like the closest we've got at the moment, I'm hopeful for it!

Software seems to be progressing quickly enough, and it seems like it may be a reasonable choice soonish for those who can live without iOS/Android.
This seems to get awfully close to making disagreement actionable.

If I claimed "xondono's understanding of the law is incorrect", should that be a cause of action?
Hmm, that headline seems a little disingenuous to me as I fail to see the sneakiness just because Musk didn't tweet about it (that's what TFA implies, anyway).

But whatever, at least when the car runs into an emergency vehicle at night it won't be going as fast as previously.
I've got a Surface Pro 4. It was great for the first year or so, when I was using it as a tablet on the couch for browsing, reading, and as a digital scratchpad.

I then got an iPad via a ridiculously good deal from Comcast (128 GB 6th generation (which was the latest generation at the time) for $120. The iPad took over most browsing, reading, and scratchpad duties, with the SP4 just getting occasional use when I needed something more general than the iPad.

What I noticed when the SP4 went from daily use to weekly or so is that the battery would always be low when I went to use it. Charge it up fully and shut it down...and a week later it needs charging again.

I believe that is because shut down is really some kind of sleep or hibernate. I've tried disabling all of those, and fast start. I've tried shutting down from the start menu, with and without the modifiers that are supposed to make it really shut down. I've tried command line commands that are supposed to really shut it down. I've tried shutting down from the BIOS.

But no matter what I do it consumes significant power while off. If I leave it on the charger so that it will be ready when I need it, it seems to charge to full, then stop charging until the battery drains a bit, and then repeats that cycles.

The result is after a couple years of sporadic use, the battery was degraded enough that now just using it for light browsing I'm lucky if I get 30 minutes of battery time. So now it is pretty much relegated to only being usable when hooked to external power.

I'm never buying another Surface product. And I'm not buying any Windows laptops or tablets unless there is some reasonable way to definitely turn them all the way off and have them stay that way.
I'm not sure about the Suez, but is the reason why there are almost 0 cables running on the African continent and instead there being several cables laid around the coast.
> It isn't like the Sioux or the Navajo have been in their current location all that long. It's all so tiresome.

Are there particular reasons that you use the Sioux or the Navajo in this? Is this a general claim that "no populations stay in a particular location for more than X years", or something more specific?
> My understanding is that, in the US at least, "securities" is a broad category that applies to any financial asset or product that isn't regulated under other rules

This is incorrect. Many financial assets are not securities, tether being a particularly good example.
PiDuce is a distributed implementation of pi-like process calculi
What’s “permanent”? Give it a couple years and see. “Cancelled” means some people “cancel” you, very likely to be a passionate froth that gets forgotten. We’ll see how durable current cancellation is.

Politically Incorrect remains cancelled.
> Where does he go?

1906. Typhoid probably got him.
Permissions Pep Talk for Devs Working on Authorization
> Deep-learning models are overparameterized, which is to say they have more parameters than there are data points available for training.

Is this true for all deep learning models?
It is interesting to see how people seem to intuitively experience joy from changing their environment, in particular when it seems to not serve any direct use.
I have an XPS 9500 and it sleeps+wakes, as expected, with S3.
While there is a BIOS hack to supposedly do that on an XPS 9500/9510, I've yet to see anyone get it to work. I am typing this comment on a 9500 that is mostly great with Linux. Its battery life is subpar though. I'm limited to S2 Idle or deep sleep.
My XPS 13 on Ubuntu while sleping randomly turns on in my backpack and tries to melt a hole/burns the battery to 0. So I think at least SOME of it might be hardware related.
I have this issue with my Surface Book 2, everything is MS so there's no real excuse.

Didn't notice it in the first couple years of ownership, not sure if it was because my usage patterns changed or some not-so-helpful update that made it worse, but it's really absurd that I can't predict what will happen when I close the laptop.

I did something to disable network activity from interrupting standby, which reduced the issues a bit but not consistently.
As repairable? Easy, get a fairphone (https://shop.fairphone.com/en/).

Upgradable? Not so much, but that would be much harder for smartphones when basic things like in-screen fingerprint or front camera get adopted.
A “quality-of-life” award for a 12-lane Utah highway sums American transit
While I don’t disagree that the responses may be overlong, I think it harms your argument to criticize the format of the response rather than the content.

If we’re to have productive discourse, we must all act in good faith and look at opposing arguments with the most charitable interpretation reasonably possible, otherwise we risk arguing against an interpretation of viewpoint that others may not have or agree with.

EDIT: having looked closer at the fact check website referenced, most of the length seems to be from references to research and expert testimony. The actual rebuttal is indeed a paragraph or two at the very top of the page.

Is the presentation of the data here your primary objection?
Mistakenly read this as “World’s FIRST…”
The best part is, most of these security changes you do get reset every so often from patches, so it will revert to the "bad" behavior within 6 months.
My wi-fi password was loudly spoken often and our windows were open constantly. Honestly, if they had asked one of us for the password, I am sure we would have given it to them also (and for all I knew at the time that was how they got it: I am just saying they figured it out, not that they stole it). (It wasn't designed to be secure or anything... is yours? I do not even think I changed the password once they started using it... I just upped my cable modem plan so I wouldn't get affected by it ;P. I might have, though... this was like 15 years ago (I have been using the same wi-fi password at least since right after that, certainly?)
Longish article about the cost of training increasingly big neural nets. Worried about carbon. "Training such a model would cost US $100 billion and would produce as much carbon emissions as New York City does in a month. And if we estimate the computational burden of a 1 percent error rate, the results are considerably worse."
How Node App 10x their customer-base in 6 months – Systematic Growth Engine
not surprised at all! and it is, indeed, critical for the functioning of society. just not something that i traditionally have taken interest in.

i was hoping to see something along the lines of a dsl that improved the precision of how law is expressed in a more general sense, and perhaps tooling for collaborating, patching, managing, diffing and otherwise computerized reasoning about the law that doesn't necessarily supplant a lot of what legislators and the judiciary do, but rather increases the effectiveness with which they are able to do their jobs.
It seems likely to me that’s true because it is not an open platform.
I'm wondering if there is a way to combine optimization of model weights in a neural net with a set of heuristics limiting the search space, as a sort of rules engine/decision tree integrated within ANN backprop training. Basically pruning irrelevant and redundant features early and focusing on more informative ones.
This assumes that our processes and algorithms don't get more targeted or improve. The rate of new approach discovery is staggering. For every problem, some combination of approaches will more efficiently pre-process and understand the training data.

The article also ignores training vs running tradeoffs. Training a model once may be extremely resource intensive, but running the resulting model on millions of devices can be negligible while having huge value add.
The lack of respect for users is really shocking lately.
Jack, in the red shirt.
I feel using Windows for anything other than gaming is just going to give you more headaches than just learning to use a unix based OS. Most applications are available on multiple platforms and alternatives exist for those few applications that are not available.

In my opinion, the only reason why Windows is so prevalent in the "enterprise" world is because Microsoft provides support contracts to make it easier to adopt. Problems with your windows laptop? Send it off to Microsoft or open a business priority ticket to have them work on it for you. No need to hire an internal IT team.
> Can’t you take photos in RAW though, on iPhones at least?

Yes.

> My assumption is that would produce a file w/o the AI processing applied that you could then process yourself…

You are correct.
This is actually a different claim that one in the comment you're replying to.

Being "the first humans to migrate to the Americans" is quite different from "we didn't migrate from anywhere at all, we've been here forever".

I've never understood human cultures that use oral histories. The oral history of the US from 6 months ago is completely unreliable. Who could possibly put much stock in an oral history of several thousand years ago, and why?
For Freud to make those remarks is truly remarkable and a textbook example of megalomania and chutzpah. That man was an unscrupulous fraudster who preyed on rich patients (they were all rich at that time), a deviant with weird sexual appetites, and a charlatan[0]. Nephew Eddy didn't fall far from the tree.

Plato, whatever his faults (Aristotle is better), cannot be reasonably compared to Freud.

[0] Freud also covered his tracks: he burned his notes on more than one occasion. He drew on Weishaupt who drew from the Jesuits in Inglostadt who taught him. The Jesuits practiced a kind of examination of conscience which, of course, was for the purpose of _liberation_ from sin and vice vis-a-vis the sacrament of penance. Weishaupt turned this on its head and used it as a tool ("Seelenanalyse", from which we get the word "psychoanalysis") for exploiting these vices to control people. Enter Wilhelm Reich, second gen Freudian, who weaponized this stuff as "sexual revolution".
This was a big problem for me, until one day I sat down and cleaned my inbox. Basically moving the correct things to the correct place and now I don't face this issue.
Afresh is Hiring Scientists/Engineers to eliminate food waste
Does it still count as a number station if it isn't something intelligible to a human with just an ordinary radio?
Anybody who argues against deep learning based on energy consumption immediately fails to impress me. This article is particularly bad- claiming you need k*2 more data points to improve a model and using that to extrapolate unrealistic energy consumption targets for DL training.

The sum of all DL training in teh world is noise compared to the other big consumers of energy in computing. That's because the main players all invested in energy-efficient architectures. DL training energy is not something to optimize if your goal is to have a measurable impact on total power consumption.
Are you possibly referring to something that isn't automatic detection of hardware features? I've been on Linux laptops for 13 years but almost always on something shipped by the vendor, and I've never had these problems of going to sleep or bad power management that I hear about from HN comments.
That's awesome. Did it change your relationship with or experience of birds?
> “Cancelled” in 2021 implies that you have been sent out to pasture permanently for whatever it is that offended the cancelling powers that be…

Not really. I mean, it is used as if it means that, but almost invariably about someone who has lost no social prominence, or in fact gained it, from the thing for which they notionally have been “cancelled”.
The level of "idle vs suspend to RAM vs Deep Hibernate (suspend to disk)" is noted by "S" levels.
European Commission Unveils Stupid Proposal to Mandate USB-C on All Cell Phones
Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
Of course they're the slowest and flakiest - they include the most sources of slowness and flakiness that you have. But, if you want to make your production fast and reliable, they're pretty good gauges if you're headed for success.
Its “Customers who bought this item also bought” list is interesting too.
Apple is all about silos.

So a security threat gets reported to this bug bounty team. They are able to reproduce and confirm. The bug is in some deep, crusty part of the kernel; the code for which isn't available to this team, because Silos.

The team who does have access to this Silo is tracked down. It gets processed into a ticket. Maybe it gets done, maybe it doesn't. Their backlog is already maxed out, as is everyone's.

The security team says "we've done all we can".

This is not a matter of "lol just hire a team". You need leadership aligned, so the manager's manager can see their task list, or open security issues, and say "what the fuck, why are you not prioritizing this".

That's not Apple. Apple is product-driven. They actually, legitimately don't care about Privacy and Security. Their manager-managers get mad when products aren't delivered on time. They may also push-back on purposeful anti-privacy decisions. Its not in their culture to push back on Security issues, or latent Privacy issues resulting from those Security issues.

"Just tear down the silos" > Working for Apple is a cult. The silos are a part of the cult; left-over from one of the worst corporate leaders of all time, Jobs. Try telling a cult member their beliefs are false.

"Grant the security team access to everything" > And, I guess, also hire the smartest humans to ever exist on the planet to be able to implement security improvements across thousands of repositories in dozens of programming languages, billions of lines of code? And, even if they could, push those changes through a drive-by review and deployment with a team on the other side of the planet you've never met? You, coming into their house, and effectively saying "y'all are incompetent, this is insecure, merge this" (jeeze ok, we'll get to it, maybe in... iOS 18)
Are cows grown specifically for leather? If the demand for leather dropped to zero, would any fewer cows be raised?
> All newer Dell laptops now use the Microsoft Modern Standby.

So let me guess: "modern" here is indicates a shitty new thing that doesn't work as well as the old thing.

...after further reading, yep:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

> On occasion, the system stays in the active mode (with the screen off) for a longer interval of time. These longer active intervals occur for a variety of reasons, for example, processing incoming email or downloading critical Windows updates. Windows components that are allowed to leave the SoC in the active power state are called activators because they are registered with the power manager as capable of blocking the transition back to the idle power mode. The durations of these activities vary widely but are controlled to extend battery life. The durations of the activities can be viewed with the built-in SleepStudy software tool or through Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)-based instrumentation.
Be careful. My Macbook Pro cooked it's display twice. Some program made it not go to sleep when I closed the lid, I put it in my backpack, and it overheated the display so much that I had yellow-brownish spots (which followed gravity over time).
No way to check if it's sleeping when the lid is closed, because reasons...
How to Read Non-Fiction
depends on the model, but most systemns I've worked with had millions to billions of parameters, and trillions of (sparsely populated) data points.
> new approach discovery

a good example is discovery of attention mechanisms/transformers replacing more cumbersome and computationally expensive RNNs and LSTMs in NLP and more recently outperforming more expensive models in computer vision.
Zeolite is a molecular sieve. That's just a fancy word for "material that selectively holds on to some types of gasses" (CO2 and H2O in the case of zeolite).

I haven't followed the new bed system though, I'd be very interested to know if it was using a different molecular sieve (and somewhat surprised if they are).