skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is more sensitive noise. I did not say it was impossible though to design radar with a higher noise floor in mind. Like the main reason this is problem is not really Boeing's or Airbus's fault. It's only now the FAA went wait a minute when they could have been looking at this years ago since the FCC did announce this quite a bit ago now. The allocation here in the US is closer than to other countries so spurious emissions from 5G equipment and higher order harmonics could possibly be larger issue.
We have various integer types, and e.g. a 0.32 or 0.16 fixed point representation is trivial on top of integer types; and is also the only efficient uniform representation on [0, 1) (which is probably more valuable than [0, 1]).
It is possible to shave the remaining 252MB as well by using webassembly, a webview wrapper from a service like Red Goose, and an intrinsic css framework like Toucaan.

[1] https://github.com/Toucaan/toucaan
It's already garbage.

This will be better personalized garbage.

As the saying goes, "one person's trash is another person's gold."

Increased personalization of content at effectively infinite scales is a future I think most people really aren't wrapping their heads around.

There will be both good and bad applications of it, but when it finally crosses the threshold, it's going to hit like a tsunami.

The Internet built the infrastructure for 1:1 content, but there's simply never been the capacity for building out the creative.

When you are watching a TV show that's being written and rendered live specifically for you, incorporating your social media data to develop relevant topics and story arcs, and pulse rate and eye tracking to gauge and adapt for interest/emotional connection -- traditional content simply isn't going to hold a candle.

To me, that show is almost certainly going to be trash. But to you, it will be gold.

The components for that future are arriving faster than I ever thought they would, and while it is still a ways off, it's increasingly an inevitable result.

Your comment reminds me of people pointing out the uncanny valley years ago in claiming that computers would never create realistic looking humans. Just last week was research that not only can't people tell AI generated people apart from real ones, but they find the AI generated ones more trustworthy.

There's a huge difference between the beginning of implementation of a technology advance and its half-life.
"I remember back in my days kids were not always at the phone, we were in the fields playing in tazavesh"

I'm not sure I agree with the author anyway, I actually love MMORPG but the feeling of the map of WoW never got me, I think the best one is Ultima Online, in terms of happiness of exploration feeling, but among the modern ones, I think I also prefer the ESO scenarios
Where did you get 40%?
The assertion was that the brain behaved differently in non-survivable situations than in bad but survivable ones.
AMD is now worth more than rival Intel
It looks like the explosive force of the Poké balls is actually spreading embers from the fire. And as they fly through the air the dusty / gaseous suppressant will be blown off, and the hard core of the solid glowing ember will continue flying to a new landing spot where it can spread the fire anew. Oops.
>...unless the radar bandpass filters are from the 1960's ...

Were filters particularly bad in the '60s? If you claim to have run the numbers you will have to reveal your assumptions.
>> That's something you do after you did ask politely

Not necessarily. With famous people you won't get a polite note or phonecall. Your first and only contact will probably be their lawyer/agent who will stamp out a standard threatening letter. The actual flesh-and-blood person might not even know that the letter is being sent as the attorney/agent has power to initiate actions. Same too for huge corporations. Open up "Mickey Mouse Land" and your first contact from Disney will be a very scary demand letter delivered by a man in a very nice suit.
Github? That's a nonstarter
That's now how these organizations are structured in any state I'm aware of. The state DoT has state wide jurisdiction, and provides the majority of funding for anything that gets done. City planning only handles much more local issues such as residential streets. What I described above is in fact part of a protracted conflict between the state and city levels.
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> To get that full cache usage, you are still going to be using 32-bit integers wherever possible, but that means 3/4 of your pipeline goes to waste for most calculations.

I thought we were in an era of Dark Silicon where we are power/thermal constrained and it’s great to have lots of different special purpose parts of the die as long as you can turn them off when you’re not using them.
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Yann LeCun on a vision to make AI systems learn and reason like humans
I wonder what conditions need to be improved in order to make faculty positions more attractive?

0% or negative overhead?

No teaching?

Longer Sabbaticals?

Fewer admin duties?

Be left alone to do research?
This post is full of interesting new ideas. I'd love to see these implemented in a mainstream Linux distro (or Windows/Mac), but the backward compatibility considerations are a huge impediment. Literally all the software in the past 4 decades (at least) has used directory and file based file systems.

One way to encourage usage and let developers find advantages of the new system could be to offer this as an alternative file system that can be used in parallel with existing ones. That would also uncover bugs/problems in the new system which could be fixed.

PS: I do think the name "didget" could be improved. It is not as natural to write or speak as "file".
Somewhat echoing on kanetw/David's comments:

But yeah, there aren't many options that I'm aware of, even in Windows. This frankly astonishes me. Of course we're biased, and think that Linux is a better OS than Windows, but it seems like Microsoft is missing a major opportunity by not focusing harder on consumer VR computing.

The HoloLens was an amazing (early/experimental) product that was years ahead of its time. Rather than developing it (and other VR/AR computers) into consumer ready products, they seemed to have spent a bunch of time netting government VR contracts, and now focusing on Metaverse/social networking/gaming (like everyone else).
People like freedom and lack of censorship until it's a political opinion they don't like, like poetry.
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Share_A... :

> The Web Share API allows a site to share text, links, files, and other content to user-selected share targets, utilizing the sharing mechanisms of the underlying operating system. These share targets typically include the system clipboard, email, contacts or messaging applications, and Bluetooth or WiFi channels

> Note: This API should not be confused with the Web Share Target API, which allows a website to specify itself as a share target

W3C Web Share Target API: https://w3c.github.io/web-share-target/ :

> This specification defines an API that allows websites to declare themselves as web share targets, which can receive shared content from either the Web Share API, or system events (e.g., shares from native apps).

W3C Web Share API: https://w3c.github.io/web-share/ :

> This specification defines an API for sharing text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the user's choice.
Filtering in vector similarity search is seemingly simple but actually a stubborn issue that is hard to tackle. Is there any efficient solution to apply filtering to vector similarity search?
Property rights are human rights.

Suppose I dropped by, tossed you out of your house into the street, and took possession of everything you had.

You'd certainly feel your human rights were violated.
That's not what I was asking.

The education I need is on how people know that something in Autopilot saves X lives at the cost of Y lives. What, in the physical world, does that? Where does the premise of a tradeoff come from?
Thank you so much for your support! We feel an immense responsibility to deliver on our promise over the course of the year, and look forward to updating you on our progress through our weekly updates.
GPT-J is self-hosted open-source analog of GPT-3: how to run in Docker
> For example, hardware sprites allowed for bitmaps that were composed in real time for display rather than blitted to the framebuffer.

You can do all these things with compositing, though. A "sprite" is just a very limited hardware surface where compositing happens at scanout, and some modern GPU's have those too.
>as it turns out there was an awful lot of stuff to do ha ha

oh god do I know that feel
Only if they have your prints to begin with.
Parents separated from baby as Hong Kong clings to zero-Covid
> compilation time is even worse than c++

That's highly dependent. C++ is pretty bad and I've seen quite a few codebases where the C++ is way worse than the equivalent of Rust.

> there are hidden allocations EVERYWHERE that you can't even control

That's simply not true. It's also a highly ironic statement given the tendency of C++ to have all manner of allocations all over the place (example--look at how many people implement their own String instead of using the STL one).

You can control the allocations in Rust, but you do have to do so explicitly. Agreed, this is more like C than C++.

> stop trying to push that narrative, it makes rust look bad

Yeah, I kind of agree with this in the game space.

There are a LOT of things that Rust does poorly within the gaming space.

Being able to efficiently transmute between equivalent types of memory (array of 4 bytes, an RGBA packed struct, and a uint32_t, for example) without losing performance is something Rust is really bad at.

Packed structs are poor. There really isn't a good set of idioms for GUIs. ECS seems like a bit of a hack to get around the inability to transmute types efficiently. etc.

Oddly, one space that Rust is gaining traction in the gaming space is the network communication layer. People are simply tired of debugging buffer overruns and have decided that they'd much rather have something different. And, since Rust can compile down to a library, it can be linked into the rest of your game and not interfere with your pipeline.

> just take a nap and move on, you are delusional

Hey! You don't need to be delusional to take a nap. You can like naps just fine without being delusional.
And yet our justice system doesn't seem to try to stop them.
> university overhead 53%, so that leaves $250K.

At many universities large capital expenditures over some threshold ($5K for my institution) have no overhead. Also a lot of that money is supposed to go toward supporting students and that money is well spent.
This person conflates file and file system in some ways that reveal him to be a rank amateur. This is a textbook example of chesterton's fence.
Yes! I tried this exact usecase using sqlite-utils as a python lib.

I basically made a python script that open each of the json file and insert it into a sqlite inmemory db using sqlite-utils insert.

Then you have a regular sqlite db (in memory) that you can work it!
> business casual dress

for a tech company, and a porn company? that's completely absurd.
Nah, it's like healthy Western US forests need regular fires, but people moved into the woods, built flammable homes, and demanded all fires be stopped. Now we want to restart taking care of forests but they whine their house will burn. If avionics don't stick to their band, they are at fault.
China, Hong Kong SAR

Coronavirus Cases:
75,248
Deaths:
385
Recovered:
13,232
200KLOC for IRC client? Where does the majority of code come from?
Turning ON the lights in your home Internet
I went to a grant writing workshop sponsored by the university. When I got there the entire thing, and I mean entire thing, was about buttering up the grant review officers, how to network with people at the agencies, how to work your way into being their friends, and so forth.

Not a single thing about the writing process, or how to frame your ideas, or anything like that.

I know that's not how grants are always awarded, but as a junior faculty member it's hard to know what to make of that, when a university-sponsored workshop is structured around those issues.

It's difficult for me to wrap my head around this all most of the time, to convey to an outsider what bothers me so much about the whole thing, or to even articulate it to myself. I can make comparisons to certain things (Theranos, cryptocurrencies, or economic bubbles) but it's very abstract and fuzzy and imperfect. So much of it seems empty to me, or false.
I have a home-brewed eBike here in Sydney, where the rules limit you to 200W (or 250W if it's pure pedal assist without a throttle).

Mine will pull almost 750W going uphill on a freshly charged battery.

It has a very prominent "200W" label on the outside of the battery holder.

If I rode it like an asshole, doing 45kmh on sidewalks, I doubt my "200W" label would do me any good. But I've had it eyeballed by police when they're doing their semi-regular "fine everybody without a helmet or a working bell" crackdowns on CBD commuters and have stopped me to check my bell works, and never had the power questioned.
Keep in mind that many researchers are given a huge startup package at the beginning of their career to jumpstart a research agenda. They also don't pay for any rent for lab space, electricity, and other campus resources. All of those expenses are basically paid for by the overhead tax. It's the lifeblood of any academic research institution.
The cool trick is that some of the direct costs are for things that the university didn't pay for.

Consider the building. Some rich people donate enough to pay for its construction. The university didn't pay anything. Moreover, that's a tax-deduction for them, so the Feds are effectively paying for part of it.

Now some sponsored research is to take place in that building. You guessed it, the university charges rent to the research grant. Remember that the university didn't pay for the building....
> In actual use by the USPS, which includes extensive stop-and-go driving for residential delivery, average fuel economy is about 10 miles per US gallon (24 L/100 km).[10]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV

30MPG is a pipe dream for these vehicles. Going electric would save a lot more than 16%.
I really think this is what Gabe did with Valve. To this day they are a privately owned company. It may not be the best place to work, but I do know they get paid well.
Well EverQuest was openly hostile to players. The game was full of pointless timesinks, artificially and inorganically too difficult, and progression was way too slow and frustrating. When wow came out it was a breath of fresh air. Ultima was super dated by then, enthusiasts mostly played on custom servers
Faculty positions are already some of the most coveted and competitive jobs on the planet
If your app is too fast you should also make sure to add a sleep() to it so the customer knows that its 'working.' I read a humorous story about a contractor who did that to satisfy a customers complaint that it was too fast.
Do you have "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use" toggled on?
There is some interest in safety-critical Rust:
https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/

But it's going to take a lot of time and work.
iTerm2 has a setting to use GPU and it makes it consume tons of CPU. Turning it off has no apparent adverse effect.
A few hours ago, the government revoked the act. So while there are many things that could have been done to extend / abuse it, they don't seem likely to happen.
can you tell me a little bit more about what's tedious about it and/or the higher-layer problem you're trying to solve?

edit: feel free to email me as well at alan at ngrok dot com
Maybe Apple wants you to use up all your space with fat Apps so you have to upgrade to a bigger iPhone. ;-)
(Tim, if you’re reading this, I’m just kidding. Please don’t delete my iCloud account.)
Some areas were also just unfinished. The stories/quest-lines just simply ended. For example Dustwallow Marsh suddenly ends, and while you do go back that for one of the first raids (Ony) it is largely disconnected from the zone itself.

WoW Classic had this stuff in spades. Areas that were masterpieces (Tanaris, WPL, EPL, Human/Dwarf starting, et al) and areas (and ideas) seriously neglected or forgotten. Most of the content added in patches was fairly high quality though, they just seemingly focused their attention on that end-game instead or revamping since "most players have levelled passed that."
I am old enough to remember the talk of Microsoft Cairo (successor to Chicago aka Windows 95) and the Object File System which would do a lot of this.

If Microsoft at the heyday of its monopoly power could not pull off something like this, I don’t see it becoming widespread now.
I guess I'm just looking for some evidence to support the decision to use GPU. Show some framerate benchmarks, some CPU usage comparisons, etc.
> Would you like to be able to enjoy a beer with your coworkers or not?

Not a job requirement for adults.

Open-minded professionalism and civility should trump only working with frat buddies.
For reference, Linus Tech Tips/the rest of their channels get 18% of their revenue from YT AdSense versus 32% from their direct merch sales. That's a pretty big deal since their direct "pay to watch videos" offering on Floatplane is only 4%.

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486918784401088515?s=2...
I'd strongly suggest having a public demo day somewhere, with a note dropped on HN and maybe a couple of other target-rich environments. Even just camping outside of Coupa with a couple of headsets for a workday will get a couple hundred people to see the unit, and I suspect that you'll get better conversion for that effort than most other things you could attempt.

I'm super, super interested in this type of product, but it's about 4x outside of my casual toy budget. Based on experience with other VR and AR headsets I'm not comfortable putting down the money until I see the optics myself.
Hire would certainly be a no go, but partnership/volunteer work could be viable. However that also would not meet the criteria of the grant.
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> The CAREER Award is a special 5-year grant that can only be applied for 3 times by an individual researcher in the first 6ish years of their career. It is deemed "prestigious" and at many schools it effectively means you'll get tenure.

> I was offered the award, but I declined it. Then I resigned from my faculty position and joined industry.

OK, we all want to hear more about this right? OP spent a lot of time preparing an application for a very prestigious academic-career-making grant, succeeded in getting it... and then quit!
> I knew (or believed) that aside from some actually conscientious and dedicated people, most everyone was making up perfunctory or fictitious plans for how they would satisfy this requirement if they got the grant.

> And the NSF would not be checking on whether people actually did those things, or take back the money if they weren't fulfilled, so basically (I felt at the time) it was incentivizing people to lie about their intentions. I didn't feel good about making up such stories. So I guess I lost out to those who were willing.

On what are you basing these assertions? As part of an NSF funded research project with an outreach component, we definitely had to deliver on it and I had to write about it in our annual reviews. If we had failed to deliver on our promises in a perfunctory of fictitious way, we definitely would have been in jeopardy of having our funding pulled.

The NSF doesn't have to take back money because they don't give you all of the money up front. They can refuse to give you the rest of your funding, and then good luck on your next NSF grant proposal.
The character animation was also significantly better than what was typical at the time even in, say, an AAA FPS, which helped immersion. The travel system by flight both helped hide loading delays and provided an opportunity to show off the environment from a different vantage point, a kind of pre-programmed vista showcase.

Edit: occurs to me these flights were basically the equivalent of HL1's rail ride intro sequence, integrated into the game and in great numbers.
Amusingly to me, this is what drove me to TypeScript. “Don’t do that” be damned, I’ll get my useful errors from the compiler.
For me what made it interesting (in early vanilla at least) was the mystery. More specifically, a lot of the areas just weren’t used for anything, and some were completely empty (Silithus, Deadwind Pass)

You actually wanted to explore these places just because. It made the world feel more compelling. Later expansions, the areas compressed and every inch was covered in quest crap.
Thoughts on Landing Pages as Validation?
In the past, many startups validated their business by throwing a simple landing page online. I’m talking about 2006-2017. To me it seems that nowadays this would in most instances not work. With the amount of websites existing and Google results dominance I feel that a landing page alone wouldn’t validate much.

For example Flexport. Founder put up a landing page with I believe some Google Adwords and had great results.

What do you think?
It's time to wrestle control over files away from users. /S
I think a lot of rebellious sentiment in this thread comes from a position of privilege. If you've ever interacted with cops when they have their kid gloves off, you know. You don't fuck with them. You do what they say. Because unless you have your own verifiable proof of whats going on, it will always be their word over yours. And even with your proof... even that isn't enough for the courts sometimes.

If you want to improve your odds get a dash cam that records the road and yourself, with audio. Have the cop on video, and preferably some way to upload video footage so they can't just confiscate your SD card when their bodycams 'fail' as they violate your rights.
Your average car commutes at somewhere between 22 and 24 mph.

Even if we assume non-stop 8 hours of driving (which it obviously isn't for mail delivery), that's only ~185 miles of range in the absolute worst case scenario.

Well within the range of a modern EV.
Is that not good development?
While I generally agree, some software punches through, eg. mIRC. Although there is this super easy-to-find 50% discount page that's been up for at least 9 years now: https://www.mirc.com/register.php?coupon=MIRC-SWV0-MNKL
I'm not sure whether it was due to changes in the algorithm, but at some point the logged-out front page that most people see became easily 50% outrage porn - a picture of a truck parking in two parking spaces, shaky video of someone being racist in public, most recently message conversations from horrible bosses.

When someone eventually makes an account and delves into the more niche subreddits, that's the culture that they're expecting and as more do it, it starts to change the culture of the niche subreddits as well.

Ironically the secret to reddit's success was that it was just left alone with very few changes for so long. The front page was already a dumpster fire at that stage, but a dumpster fire mostly contained to the top 20 subreddits. Now that it's more clever about pulling in posts from more niche subreddits that are doing well, or based on geolocation, it pulls people into the subreddits more which accelerates the Eternal September effect.
https://www.superbad.com/

is a 20 year old web art thing.

you have to click around.
still works for the most part:
I like the lotus page

https://www.superbad.com/1/lotus/index.html

the old memepool.com site was great.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050531235511/http://www.memepo...