skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big question seems to be whether par with professional programmers is a matter of increasing training set and flop size, or whether different model or multi-model architectures are required.

It does look like we've entered an era where programmers who don't use AI assistants will be disadvantaged, and that this era has an expiration date.
Prometheus TSDB (Part 1): The Head Block
Perceptions of primary and secondary relationships in polyamory
I've never had trouble remembering, but after reading this comment I'm afraid I might start :(

(joking)
I didn’t see this article make any mention of the most common criticism of this notion, which is that you’re comparing the films of the past which have stood the test of time and are widely considered among the greatest films ever made with just any old blockbuster film released today. The same thing comes up all the time with pop music. If you really want to do this analysis you should have some mechanism of selecting historical films randomly instead of just considering the masterpieces that you remember off the top of your head.
Thanks! The only people I've really connected with are other voting theory nerds. There's a voting theory mailing list where a lot of academics hang out. Some of them are leaders in the field like Forest Simmons and some others I haven't interacted with as much. Maybe once I have more to show I could reach out to wider audiences

The electoral methods are sourced from various places. When I get the new site up and running I want to have a spec source for each of the methods' implementations since some of the names can be confusing. A lot of the methods were found on the electowiki[0] which is run by the same people who do the mailing list. Many others I just found from reading articles, publications, textbooks,[1] and even wikipedia. I've kept a list of ones I wanna implement so I've just been slowly working through them. But there's a strong bias towards simple to implement ones so far. The much-loved (by voting theorists) ones won't be implemented for a while until I figure out how to do things more efficiently

[0] https://electowiki.org/

[1] https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-mathematics-of-ele...
Which car manufacturer uses LIDAR in production vehicles? What they usually do is use radar. As Tesla did in the past. This is less likely to do phantom braking, but on the other side is bad at detecting stationary obstacles (remember all the complaints about Autopilot hitting stopped cars?)
Not necessarily.

GPUs are outstandingly good at uniform branches. Only divergent branches are GPUs bad at.
Sounds like we need to bring back web rings.
What other suggestions do you have besides changes to the case statements?
That's cool, I've never heard of HalloApp but just downloaded! Bar the chat function, how are you finding it?
> They could ask for a leave of absence or reduced workload in the form of temporary consulting.

These are good options. I didn't think about them.
I'd rather use a few ESP8266... at $3 bucks each, they include WiFi... and support micropython.
> Classic movies from the 80s like Alien, The Thing, My Neighbor Totoro, etc. look so much better to me than the latest blockbuster Marvel movie.

You chose three films that are widely considered to be among the greatest films of all time in their genre.
It’s an interesting observation but why would the union have any impact on the use of CGI ? I never read that before.
> But that won't translate into ratings so don't hold your breath waiting for it.

I don't think it's mechanically possible. Average cable news show is 5 minutes of <insert subject> and then cut for commercial. It's also common for "panels" of people to be involved so that's 5 minutes for multiple people to talk over each other trying to get their point of view across. It's madness.

So it's no wonder long format Podcasts and YouTube shows are gaining popularity. I think there is a huge market for people wanting to passively hear more information. And this can be on any topic, not just politics and the crisis of the week.

The ratings are dropping, the clicks are slowing, legacy media (including Ars that pivoted from tech to politics like Gizmodo) are annoyed at competition and are lashing out.
CGI just adds way too much. Now that it's so (relatively) inexpensive for even modest productions, films can rely on spectacle to cater to the lowest common denominator, which is apparently far more lucrative than making actual art.

As a side note, I'm partly ruined by having a father who has worked in VFX and CGI animation and dabbling in those fields myself. While CGI has improved in my lifetime, I can't help but see areas where big budget FX are obviously flawed and find it very distracting. As an example for some reason, studios believe that fully CGI animals must be animated with exaggerated motion and gestures that most animals aren't making at any given time; this leads to CGI creatures that, to me, are not believable. Animal animation also tends to be overly smooth and floaty. Of course these are often true for animated humanoids as well, but animals should be easier. I sucked ass at character animation, but my less-bad animations were the ones involving animals. Animals tend to only be doing one thing at a time, so it's really not that hard to work off reference material. This also isn't to say that animals should be portrayed 100% realistically in film; my point is that the physicality of CGI animals has barely improved, and it ruins the experience.

But maybe I'm the only one? Sometimes CGI animals in films are so badly animated that it's hard for me to believe that even the average person doesn't lose some of their immersion when watching a movie.

Now that I think of it, perhaps animals aren't used as extensively with mo-cap because of animal rights issues? I dunno... whatever the cause, there's something that I don't think is being done right most of the time.
I don't think your strategy works in the context of stable coin investing.
Yeah...Then we get to the debugging part.:-)
Your position is not falsifiable. How long has to go on, with the prophecy not coming true for you to admit you are wrong?

As in give me a date. On that exact day, I can come back to you when the prophecy did not come true, and see if you are willing to admit that you were wrong, or if you will just come up with another excuse for why the prophecy is delayed.

Do you see the problem here? No matter what you say, if you give me a day for when the prophecy is going to happen, you can just make up an excuse later.

That's the issue with conspiracy theories. They are not falsifiable.
>Let me offer a comparable conspiracy theory. If you go back in filmmaking prior to somewhere around 2000, give or take a decade depending on the title and genre, almost all films look so much realer.

Shall we call the idea that the films that look realer are better realism? At any rate there was no argument as to why looking realer makes a film better, it seems to just be assumed.
I won’t touch GCP, even after they gave us 2k credits. Their customer service reps have “well that’s just too bad” on the tip of their tongue. AWS is #1 for good reason
Me and a friend have been working on this small framework that wraps esbuild (https://esbuild.github.io/), it adds a few javascript tags like <Router> and <Head>, then pre-renders pages with headless chrome and spits out a high performance webserver that can forward traffic to another website.

It's built so that you can do "start": "concurrently 'greenjs start -upstream-addr :8000' 'rails dev'" or equivalent for another web framework
Not even closely. You couldn't make the Matrix without CGI and the CGI in something like Foundation looks so absolutely gorgeous that I wouldn't mind if I could just fly around in the world and gape at it.

No matter how much I love TOS almost all the aliens were just a guy in a fursuit and all the rocks are shiny...

Now of course you can make terrible movies and try to cover it up with CGI, but back in the day they just made terrible movies and tried to cover it up with boobs, guns and explosions. Not really that I mind either.
On a second thought, are you sure Infinity Fabric would be that slow? I would expect it to be compared to L3 bandwidth not RAM. Plus, the article you gave suggests 40 GB/s P2P IFOP with slower 2.6 GHz RAM. I can't find the right diagram , but as I remember, this CPU had 8 chiplets, still allowing for much more bandwidth, depending on the topology.
Spanner gets both correctness and low latency from tight synchronization. They do COMMIT_WAIT, meaning wait for the max clock skew to pass. But the max clock skew without TrueTime will be around 500ms (which it impractical to wait out). So, the 7ms is lower latency, but 500ms is impractical (more so than just calling it higher latency). And any other technique to drop latency (without HLC) will violate correctness.

Disclosure: co-founder/CTO of YugabyteDB project
See https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/clearing-th...
Being your selves: identity R&D on the pseudonymous internet
The mystery of Canada’s indigenous mass graves
> with the hope that more people will feel comfortable getting the benefits of better search in Workspace without having to opt-into search history being tracked for all Google services

This is at best extremely disingenuous and at worst could be illegal in the GDPR countries. Par for the course for Google though. The only good move here would be to have everyone who had opted out of search history set to off by default for this new setting as well. Otherwise you're actively violating the privacy and wishes of users based on their previously stated preferences. Shame.
Heroku offers seamless integration with a bunch of services with free tiers, like logging, error monitoring etc.

Many of these services no longer offer free tiers apart from their heroku-specific integrations.

For tiny startup this makes a difference.

Does Render offer anything like this?
Eh, old man yells at (CGI) cloud.
Yes exactly. This is just another essay about this that misses the forest for the trees about this stuff unfortunately. Not only does this have negative aesthetic side effects, it is produced by what is widely reported as an overworked, underpaid labor force.

The rhetorical lengths some people go through to avoid talking about the actual, material reasons for these things. We are in general much more interested in just lamenting society, instead of complaining.
Counterpoint, CGI allows you to tell stories that would look like total shit without them. Maybe compare apples to apples and look at the 1980's dune vs the new one.
I think the main issue that universities face is time. There is only so much time in each semester and, as we all know, building and improving on a database is a lifelong task.
Wow, Windy Maps is _beautiful_. Yes, goes to show that OSMAnd has lots of warts but it's extremely featureful.

With OSMAnd you have to make a significant investment in UI customization. It won't really get prettier but it will start to fit you better than anything else.
I think a lot of what people are complaining about is that the third act of a lot of big movies is just "...and then they all have a big fight". I've never heard anybody complain about the extensive VFX in The Wolf of Wall Street[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocfRVAH9yU
This isn't true. Look anyone can do this!
>boglehead-style

What does this mean?
You don’t understand or you don’t agree?

The sentence and the security environment in the region are well documented and covered in the security posture reviews routinely covered by official press.

What specifically is your argument?
Because the Bay Area is the best and most concentrated English-speaking tech network on the planet. There is nowhere that comes remotely close, except for the Internet itself (full-remote-work).

Friend wants to build in-person company, so remote-work is off the table.
Anyone have success with remote cameras? Services like Arlo and Ring seem straight up awful but also rolling my own seems like more effort and headache than it's worth.
Moon falls just outside your "last decade or so" but would have been the exception that proves the rule. Deeply moving and intriguing sci-fi, all practical effects. I heard somewhere they used some models that were originally made for a Red Dwarf movie.
I had a Model 3 and the phantom breaking is horrible. Yes my VW ID.4 sometimes shows an orange line indicating I am too close to something, but it does not slam on the brakes.

Teslas have this issue way too often.
That's what people do. They remember the good and forget the bad. In 10-20 years people will look back and remember the "good" CGI movies from today and forget all the shitty ones that came out along side them. Rinse and repeat.
After reading all that, I can't help but feel that when movies first came out, there were plenty of people complaining about how live theatre plays were obviously better and everything is getting worse.

The article even admits that CG is a lot better today than it was a while back.

Yes, they make mistakes and things could be better. But that's because nobody is perfect and everyone is making it up as they go along. When nobody has done it before, it's impossible to copy them.

Personally, I love today's movie and their CG, especially when I can't even tell it was CG. It used to be incredibly obvious that it was CG. And it used to be incredibly obvious that puppets were puppets. Everything gets better as people do it more.
These days lot of 2D animation look is achieved via 3D/CGI tools.
If legal offering for a market with half a billion people is not worth it for them, then by all means they can and probably should pull their criminal enterprise out of Europe. That just creates an opportunity for Europeans to say good riddance and perhaps start something new and worthwhile that isn't funded by exploitation.
Why do I feel like there is a correlation here between TFA and Tesla's problems getting FSD to be fully autonomous.
I'd also suggest to everyone looking into HA to take the time to learn Node-RED. After running HA for a year and a half, but only ever creating basic integrations, NR has really unlocked the power of HA for me. Part of it is the tutorials for NR explained the internal data model of HA in a way that I finally get it. Plus just ergonomically, I find NR MUCH easier to deal with than HA's native automation UI.
Are you saying that the lack of redundancy is as a "major advantage to vision-only?" Because integrating those redundant systems (sensor fusion) is hard?

> all of your sensor systems need to notice a danger...before you can react

I'd be really surprised if they implemented it this way. I thought the whole pitch behind lidar was that if vision doesn't see the person walking in front of you, lidar can still see the moving person shaped thing and you can still act.
> and RIP The Spaceape

I really feel this loss in many ways. I've yet to find anyone that can match his prophetic lyrics, ominous voice, and Jamaican patois (combined with Kode9s and The Bug's music). Although I find all of the Spaceape material indefatigable to listen to. Self titled "Spaceape", Backwards, Kingston, etc.

So young... Very sad indeed :(
There's really no need for an 11 in the code. I'd say that makes the code worse, not better.
> as you move up the levels of abstraction, you need fewer people to do the same amount of work

Yes, but the total amount of work (and surrounding complexity) also increases with it. Just look at the evolution of the software industry over the last few decades.
Not sure if it is caused by CGI or me becoming older, but I noticed the following: in the past I would see a movie landscape (let’s say a new planet in a Sci-Fi movie, or adventurers discovering a lost place) and would feel crushed by emotions due to the beauty/darkness/emptiness of it and it’s massive size.

I cannot feel anything like this anymore, I just think “oh, cool CGI”, and that’s it, no emotions whatsoever. And that kind of ruins a lot of movies I would have previously enjoyed.
In my experience, its very much not a minority POV. Almost no one I talk to thinks its a coincidence that a novel coronavirus with unique characteristics just so happened to pop up in a city with the only BSL-4 laboratory in hundreds of miles which works specifically with bat coronaviruses.

I don't think anyone reputable is saying that anything was intentionally released, but I think its quite obvious at this point that something was accidentally released and the CCP is very focused on covering it up to save face.
Earthstar: Sync stuff you care about with people you know
Hi Dad. Dad here. Here's _general_ guidelines for being a competent Dad:

Remember SOS:

S = Self-awareness. You need a sense of your own insecurities, biases and an awareness of your feelings.

O = Objectivity. With that self-awareness hopefully comes objectivity. The ability to look at the world from your child's perspective and not in a manner governed by your own ambitions, dreams, fears and hopes.

S = Selflessness. This can be the grueling part. Sacrificing other priorities (sleep, work, wind down time, personal interests) to support your child in their interests, with their difficulties, and often to expose them to different activities and ideas so they can identify what is right for them.

My kids are older now, but I still run down this list frequently in my mind as a way of ensuring I am preparing the kids for life in age appropriate and healthy ways.
Those "indigenous societies" - or, to use Rousseau's term, "noble savages" - simply lacked the technology to enslave more than their direct neighbours or they would have put the Spaniards (et al) to shame. Have a look at the history of ... well, more or less any "indigenous society" which is in close contact with others and you'll discover they are, after all, just as human and with that just as belligerent as the rest of us.

In other words, Rousseau was wrong, the savages have the same vices and the same virtues as we have. Wake up from your dream of the perfect past which came to an end when the evil white man came to conquer and welcome to the real world. Read some real history instead of Howard Zinn and Nikole Hannah-Jones, have a look into the different forms of slavery as practised by those "indigenous societies", read up on the Aztec's own claim of sacrificing 40.000 people over a 4-day period for the re-consecratino of the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan or the 50.000 to 200.000 (historians quibble over the actual number) who were sacrificed every year. Heading into the temple complex your eyes would be drawn to the steep double staircase on the Grand Templo Mayor. A trail of blood leads to the impressive top of the temple, a flat working area where the captives or the occasional volunteers were brought to be sacrificed where most of the city could see. Most of the temple-top sacrifices involved cutting through the abdomen and diaphragm to rip out a still-beating heart. Not to paint them with a black brush, just to realise those "indigenous societies" were just as "guilty" of "sin" as all others.

Wake up.
Exactly.

People should be able to repair their belongings. We shouldn't need a law for each type of belonging.
I would further emphasize - locally uniform branches.
Mostly the cores within the same warp should be well synchronized.
The worst day ever for Smart Launcher
Live footage of an event actually happening is “misinformation” from their perspective.
For all his massive faults, I think Trump demonstrated that trying to appease people rather than having a strong point of view is a losing game. I live in a red state, so I've talked to quite a few Trump voters, and the one thing I've noticed is that a lot of them really sharply disagreed with a lot of his policies, but they liked that he didn't back down or equivocate. I'm not saying this with any love for Trump of course, but I think he demonstrated how modern campaigns tend to be pretty badly run.
What is the best alternative to google maps on my iphone that doesn't sell/store my location data?
"As you listen to that gentle creaking, or that low-tone burbling, what you feel at that moment is the deep satisfaction that comes from witnessing Being, in all its irreducible and incomputable eddies and swirls. Your eyes are satiated. There’s probably a German word for it, and if not, there should be."

Anyone know the German word for this? There's gotta be one, right? Something to express the zeitgeist of CGI-laden current day cinema?
Really? The little xenomorph skittering off after it burst out from the chest literally made me laugh out loud with how silly it looked, it was so incredibly stiff and fake.
You can see it happening already.

Solutions are posted, and they're wrong.

But the CoPilot user can't see the code is wrong.
> The "problem" is that as you move up the levels of abstraction, you need fewer people to do the same amount of work.

This will lower the entry barrier to developing software so more people will go into the field. Before you needed to know a programming language, now you will just have a dialogue with a language model.

> I've always felt that programmers would be the first class of knowledge workers to be put out of work by automation.

We've been automating our work for 70 years, and look how many programmers are employed now. The more we automate, the more capable our field becomes and more applications pop up.
Even selecting randomly wouldn't be good enough: there are much more movies made nowdays. But if you look at only movies rated 8+ on IMDB, it's the same amount.
Never heard of this before, but it does look very useful.
Or if it's get rebranded to "clean gas" as US Masters did with coal.
This is an unfortunate story. These folks had been working on Smart Launcher 6, a major update, for over a year. It was quite well received on release and worked well... for about a week.

Some developer (let's call them Greg) had intentionally put a "kill switch" into the app for alpha testing purposes. You see, Greg was worried that some testers might keep a buggy alpha version on their phones, or even leak the build. Greg's idea was that exactly 30 days after the build date, the alpha will stop working and tell the user to download an official release. Greg submitted this code about a year ago and never dreamed it would stay in for the public release.

On January 30th, the kill switch activated for every Smart Launcher 6 user. The app stopped working and told users to download an update from the Play Store. But this was not a coordinated thing. There was no update.

I should explain what this app is. It's a launcher app, meaning it replaces the entire home screen and app menu on the phone. When the kill switch activated around 4 PM, people suddenly couldn't get to their home screen or launch any apps. Their phone just kept sending them to the Play Store and was practically unusable. The one thing they could do was uninstall the app, and of course they did.
I think this article would be better titled "Who cares about plagiarism in science publishing"? It gets off on the wrong foot by starting with an anecdote about Bob Dylan, when that really has nothing to do with the rest of the article. Music and science can produce very different arguments about why you should care/not care (e.g. the argument that plagiarism allows bad actors to get ahead in academia and then pollute science makes no sense with respect to folk music). Yet another case with its own set of arguments would be plagiarism in a school setting.
Good points.

But a large part of the problem is that Google can't be bothered to follow their own rules:

Again and again I catch them ignoring my doublequotes and verbatim options.

There aren't any conflicting incentives around that, are there?

Either you respect user queries or you don't.

Also, look at it another way:

Kagi manages to do this while building on Google! It is in another league, just like Google used to be.

Even nano scale Marginalia (1 guy, 1 tower pc, 4 drives) manages to respect my queries.
It's a major milestone. When a computer became as good at chess as an average human player, it was only a step removed from beating Kasparov.