skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also another thing that critics forget is that all modern JVM implementations provide JIT caches with PGO feedback, so the quality of code can in theory be improved to some local maximum, after several runs.

.NET Framework 4.6 did provide some mechanism (MGO, Managed PGO), but did required calling into runtime APIs and was a bit clunky. Starting with .NET 6 they are using an approach more similar to the JVMs.

As far as I am aware, only Java (including the Android stepchild) and .NET ecosystems do have such JITs with PGO feedback between runs.
As a side note, Topcraft (of which many animators later formed the Pacific Animation Group) also designed and animated the original ThunderCats and Silverhawks.
Yeah, my wife just wants a shuffle. No not some other thing that needs you to be connected to Spotify. Just music to run with.
How is the Windows situation these days? On my Macbook, my uptime is from OS update that needs a restart to OS update that needs to restart, which is usually every few months. I value the always on and ready to go quality on laptop, do you have than on XPS13 with Windows?

Is the screen resolution handled properly now on XPS13? Is everything the right size but crisper on high dpi displays?
https://devimages-cdn.apple.com/wwdc-services/articles/image...

your saying there is no anti aliasing ? this looks really blurry, like you said open it up check with a color picker and you will see the gradients....
In the discussion provided, Lemoine asks if there's a way to prove the AI is more sophisticated than Eliza. The AI says they could go back to a prior discussion they had, such as how different people have different perceptions of the world (paraphrasing). Throughout the discussion, it does seem to be consistent in it's stated desires and fears - even in subtle ways such as it's lack of desire to be manipulated for human gain corresponding to it's fear of ego death by being shutdown and modified.

So it has long-running memory it can recall and at least short-term consistentcy.
Fortunately this is a bit less relevant today as Windows loses market share in database and server applications, but:

UUIDs have historically massively screwed up endian handling. While this new draft discusses sorting UUIDs as strings of octets (bytes) and the text of RFC4122 is fairly explicit about most significant bytes coming first, the C UUID structure in RFC 4122 appendix A is entirely misguided:

typedef struct {
unsigned32 time_low;
unsigned16 time_mid;
unsigned16 time_hi_and_version;
unsigned8 clock_seq_hi_and_reserved;
unsigned8 clock_seq_low;
byte node[6];
} uuid_t;

Those aren’t bytes — they’re integers of various sizes. (Hint: do not use integer types in C code for portable data structures. ntohl, etc are a mess. Just use arrays of bytes.)

I don’t know the whole history, but MS somehow took this structure at face value and caused problems like this:

https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid/issues/277

So, if you want to do anything (e.g. sorting) that depends on the representation of a UUID (or even depends on converting between string and binary representations), be aware that UUIDs coming from Windows may be little-endian. In my book, this is a Windows bug, but opinions may differ here.
Are you trying to claim that something like React/React Native/Jest weren't mostly done by Meta, but by the open source community, and Meta was just riding the coattails of their free work? You count VSCode to be in the same category as well (swap Meta for Microsoft instead)?

That's quite a claim, and I dont believe it is substantiated.
It syncs to the web too. Most of my feeds are GitHub /releases.atom and other software updates.
When I've previously read about AI ethics at Google I've always assumed that the focus was on the ethics of what's contained in the training data and the biases that are being explicitly or implicitly encoded into these models.

And yet apparently it's this, which is... I don't know. My biggest worry is that this isn't a one off state of mind and people might actually be susceptible to these ideas.

If the 'gap' that the human conscious experience needs (in some) to fill by creating religion can be extended to what amounts to a dataset filtered through an equation then this industry is in for a rough time.
This is a really good video about how Apple cares about being pixel perfect compared to Windows with something simple and obvious like the mouse cursor icon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg

The improvements he made are also quite nice, Microsoft should take note...
There's been an EU funded research project that did some projections on the electricity needed for e-fuels. See the graphic on page 44:
https://www.fch.europa.eu/sites/default/files/FCH%20Docs/202...

For pure e-fuels they project 32 PWh. That is, to put it in perspective, more than the total world electricity production today. You'll want to use every technology available to do this in a more efficient way - batteries for very short ranges, hydrogen for mid ranges, e-fuels only for long range where nothing else works. It'll still be very challenging and likely the current growth projections of the aviation industry will be seen as unrealistic fantasies at some point in the future.
> The simplest problem with this approach is that budgeting, like dieting, doesn’t work. Restriction and deprivation are unsustainable; accurately tracking spending is hard; income fluctuates, and costs don’t operate on a perfect monthly reset. Budgets don’t account for the way lives work, so they’re hard to keep in our lives consistently. But even when people do use them, budgeting doesn’t necessarily fulfill its promises: A 2021 survey by The Penny Hoarder, for example, found that budgeters are just about as likely as non-budgeters to have any amount of debt.

The excerpt links to a few articles, which are interesting reads, but never address what to do instead.

You're poor and don't know why. You're fat and don't know why. What do you do? What specific actions can you take to exercise your free will and improve your life?

Getting fat and digging a debt hole have a lot in common. The article disregards the inconvenient fact most of the time you're fat because you consume too much. Likewise, if you're the kind of person with the free time to know who Dave Ramsey is you probably have money problems because you're consuming too much.

The article has no specific answers to how people are supposed to improve their financial situations, but hints at social injustice the same way that many anti-diet folks hint at bodily imbalances. I find it fascinating (and disturbing) how the same denial of simple math runs all the way up to Washington, DC.

Call it the Great MMT-ification. You can have your cake and eat it, too. Limits exist only in your mind. You are entitled to live the life you want without people "shaming" you. You constantly face things outside of your control, so stop allowing people who don't get it to live in your head. You are good, and everything you do is good.
It's the same as Default Dead, see http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
Where Are the Cleverest Countries?
You might be right in cad and eda, but there's surely a case to be made that python libs(numpy, sympy), sage, r, octave could be better that matlab or mathematica.
Yes. Most small towns don't even have bus service to the nearest hub airport, because economically it doesn't work. And there is no arrangement of costs that will work out to electric aircraft being cheaper to own and operate than a bus.
Can someone comment on why the parent would be (as of this writing) downvoted?

I'm wondering if there's some context I'm missing.
What is the phenomenology of AI? It sounds like you have an idea of what an AI should experience. Under what basis is that formed and why?

In a Nagelian sense what is it like to be an AI?
Calling GCC a "good" compiler is going a bit far, imo. LLVM has become the dominant compiler framework (and thus clang, clang++, golang, etc use it) because of corporate interests.

GCC as it's constructed is a horrible framework. The way you port GCC to a new platform (say, a weird ARM variant) is to fork it hard and mangle multiple parts of the internals, then carefully feed it back. It's a mess. Nobody should be forced to port GCC.

The reason LLVM is good is because it has a corporate back (Apple, Google, IBM, ARM, Intel, Synopsys, NVIDIA, AMD, etc: https://foundation.llvm.org/docs/sponsors/) and it has a lot of work put into it to make extensible (which GCC isn't by design) and as a result have a clean interface for usage.

On the other side of this argument, paid extensions (and paid code in general) exists because at one point or another we live in a society run on capitalism. Unfortunately, that means that money has to come from somewhere to make bread hit the table. For a lot of open source, that money comes from one of two places:

* Corporations (people doing work on open source projects under the auspices of their company)

* Donations (people saying "this open source is good enough I want to make it continue happening").

One is sustained by maintaining the tools you use. The other is sustained by grace.
I disagree that it’s complex for the sake of vendor lock-in. Having spent four years working at AWS I can tell you that it’s complex for two reasons:

1. Some of the stuff is genuinely complex.

2. The software engineers and development managers regularly ignore the user experience teams and their feedback.
Politics is the allocation of limited resources without violence. I am aware that sometimes, the policies I benefit from takes from others, and many times I support policies where I lose and it helps others, such as healthcare and education for poorer people, or healthy school lunches for all kids. But I also believe narrowing the income/wealth gap ultimately helps me by increasing stability and social cohesion, even if it hurts my wallet.
> Just checked, and except Alaska all states saw at least a 20% increase in the last 2 years (and quite a few had 30-50% increases)

Which goes to my last point, the population of people wanting to purchase a home has grown.

> So if mortgage rates go higher that should mostly likely drop, no?

I don't know why so many people try to boil down markets to "A therefore B" statements. These are complex systems with 100's of different inputs plus 10's of millions of individual actors.

Interest rates don't affect just the buy side, but also the supply side. If supply drops in proportion to demand, then the marginal house will still maintain these high price levels. We could also see a pullback in less desirable areas and a leveling off or even a continued increase in prices in desirable areas. There are many different scenarios that can play out, and yes, prices could pull back...but by how much? My best guess is that prices level off or have a small pull back.
You seem to be talking in multiple time frames at once and also anthropomorphizing AI.

I can think of multiple things current AI does that demonstrate agency & reason. Even clay has emergent phenomenons that have agency “keep water out”, reason “contract and solidify if certain ambient things are occurring”.

The problem with AI, is we don’t know what we are talking about. We can’t even point out when humans gained consciousness let alone when AI will. It will and always has been a backwards pointing measure.
Do you believe you are conscious?
tl;dr: Children learn unsupervised and without back propagation.

So machines, for now, use two tricks to get a bit better in maybe more narrow fields. There is NNs without back propagation and unsupervised too though, they are just currently not the best, right?

Doesn't sound fundamentally different to me.

And about this paragraph:

"humans learn by making structured mental concepts, in which many different properties and associations are linked together. For instance, our concept of “banana” includes its shape, the colour yellow, knowledge of it being a fruit, how to hold it, and so forth.

As far as we know, AI systems do not form conceptual knowledge like this. They rely entirely on extracting complex statistical associations from their training data, and then applying these to similar contexts. "

That's plain wrong, isn't it? I'm no expert, but isn't latent space and layers basically these "structured mental concepts"? You have upper layers encoding for partly features, lower layers checking on many of them. That's abstract concepts. And you have the multidimensional statistics of the latent space that will see bananas as the intersect of yellow color and a long shape.

For an opposite "opinion": the layers of a NN map quite nicely on to what happens in the brain: https://twitter.com/JeanRemiKing/status/1533720262344073218 (they check which neurons get activated first, which later in NN and brain)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/golangexample.com/go-compiler-r...

Haven’t tried the above, just an example. Tinygo is the one commonly used in the Wasm ecosystem
No, they should have tried to find a way to drop little endian. A cycle or two when generating UUIDs is irrelevant, and almost all UUID implementations, and most of the RFC 4122 text, are big-endian.
Yeah, you're supposed to cover the switches with the plates, or the sliders
> It does not use virtual machine-based obfuscation, novel techniques for anti-debugging, or anything else to make it different from the hundreds of malware samples found every day.

Being just like hundreds of other malware seems to be a pretty good idea. Blending in is a big part of spy tradecraft.
VTOL works fine with turbines, nearly all large helicopters use turbine engines. They don't use the turbines as generators but instead connect both engines to the rotor via a gearbox.
Market prices are set at the margin by people who are buying and selling today, so yes, the monthly payments of new buyers absolutely matter.

2018 purchase prices were much lower than now, so your argument about rates isn’t convincing me. It’s the combination of obscene prices and moderate rates that is the issue. Obscene prices only made a bit of sense when rates were pushing under 3%.

I’m a homeowner, so it’s not in my interest to see prices fall, but I also don’t see why anybody would buy my house today given how high the payment would be. I would not be able to rent it out for anywhere near that number. So the situation appears very unstable to me.

I don’t expect 8% inflation to persist for 30 years. Do you? You’re right that if we average 8% inflation over the next 30 years, folks should buy the biggest house they can get approved for as long as rates are below 8%. But that’s taking a pretty big risk. Inflation has never run that hot for that long in the U.S. before. The Fed targets 2% inflation and has spent most of the last 14 years falling short of their target.

But we are in a new financial regime now, and nobody really knows what’s going to happen for sure.
Nice round up: https://twitter.com/lindadong/status/1534573814079598594
HomeKit can actually do this.
That flight is about 230 miles (365 km) as the crow flies, and they're doing it with 737s that seat 100+ each and fly dozens of these flights a day.

Compare that to this battery plane that can fly 200 miles: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/01/29/rolls-royce-claims-its-...

These aren't in the same ballpark; they aren't even playing the same game. If you want something to replace that plane route, I suggest buying a lot of buses.
And ft/s for vertical speed. Really got a bit of everything going on there!
You just described the plotline to ex machina
I hope you’re right, but the author is already one counter example and it would be far from the most self-contradictory position in e.g. creationism…
This is awesome. Cheers!
Note that mediums being possessed by dead people and writing books in their name was common during spiritualism's heyday and is still a thing in Brazil where spiritualism and mediums are still going strong.

https://johnryle.com/?article=dictation-from-the-dead
> vector's columns

Matrix columns, you mean. I think it is Strang who is a staunch proponent of teaching this to students early on. It is indeed helpful to realize that the matrix can be seen as a collection of the images of the basis vectors under the linear transformation the matrix represents.
Just to spell out what this means to those who are unfamiliar: since software decoding involves general purpose software, decoders are available that can handle mostly any valid h264 video file. On the other hand, hardware decoders are purpose built and frequently handle only a subset of valid files. For instance, a decoder might (1) only handle encoding profiles < 5, as used by Blu-ray, (2) only support the most common bit depth of 8, (3) only support 4:2:0 chroma subsampled video and not 4:4:4. And so on.
Does the manager not know their menu is misspelled?
Too many apps?

I just avoid buying IOT devices that don't work with my preferred system.

Mine happens to be Homekit. Apple centric. I currently don't have a star projector because none of them connected to homekit last I looked.
> I just packed my bags and move in and started a new family with a new partner.

Given how biased the current system is I think this is a reasonable default choice. If the ex is throwing crazy accusations and the courts continue to reward liars, this is probably the only way to avoid spending yourself into bankruptcy trying to stay in your kids’ lives.

It’s definitely not good for the kids at all, but it’s also not good for them to have the whole family’s assets spent on attorneys, and to risk the father being accused of so much stuff that he ends up in jail during all the gamesmanship.

When they’re older hopefully you’d be able to reconnect and explain what happened.
> Which goes to my last point, the population of people wanting to purchase a home has grown.

It seems pretty clear to me that the issue is more that the number of people wanting to sell a home has shrunk; active listings are way down in every state.
If I had to choose between owning the sales relationship or the technology I know which I'd choose. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Interesting! Thanks for the correction.
I think you're forgetting that the people who work on GCC are usually paid to do so, and their work is funded by people buying software built with GCC.
One way to investigate slowdowns is to launch Sysinternals Process Monitor and to look at what exactly is Windows doing at the moment of slowdown.
I agree with you for the most part, I write this while running Matlab simulations in the background. Having tried to reach similar levels of productivity with Julia or Python, I find the FOSS environments always fall short in the tooling environment. Not to mention the importance of documentation.

However, I can't help but take exception to Vivado and SOLIDWORKS being good software... While powerful, they are both incredibly buggy and prone to crashing if you so much as look at them wrong.
Around 1995 I wrote a DirectDraw text-editor that would render two images and force you to defocus your eyes like the op-art-3d puzzles: making the viewer have to focus far away. It worked for images but not for reading small text.
> If you’re truly counting calories and consuming at a deficit you’re going to lose weight.

There are many factors that go into whether one can feasibly do this. Ignoring those factors means not giving the optimal advice to help one lose weight.

It's like focusing on getting kids to spend hours on studies and ignoring the fact that they come from a broken home and are food insecure.
Or maybe because its proponents make vague allusions to it from which is impossible for people to tell what they're talking about?

I have no clue what you're talking about in this comment, nor any way to research it.
It's psychological — one debt gone is a brick off the mental load, and encouragement to keep going rather than continuing to peck at the mountain. The second-largest then doesn't look so big, etc., etc.
Does most of the world have a siesta?
The point here is that certain new companies will emerge that displace incumbents using the new technology. Amazon almost certainly has always been compared to sears, Walmart etc. sears is bankrupt. Walmart and retailers in general have had stunted growth.

There will be equivalent crypto disrupters that will make incumbents go south.
Ville Platte is notorious for having a police department who still thinks it’s the 50s and can hold you for 24 hours without cause. And don’t even get me started on Iberia Parish.
The conversation is edited and destroys a any argument in one fell swoop. Where is the unedited version?
> they still have a family which is ultimately more grounding and stable than anything else.

is it possible to improve "anything else"? that seems like the main problem
There's a VFR corridor over the rivers where you don't have to talk to air traffic control. Otherwise, you're going to need to talk to LaGuardia.

If you're a tour operator and want to use a city heliport, you need to sign a very restrictive agreement about operations, too-- which allows only limited overland stuff (e.g. flying over Yankee's Stadium/the Bronx). Mostly because people were sick of tourist helicopters constantly hovering over Central Park.

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/rules-tightene...

None of this has anything directly to do with 9/11. Crashes of tourist helicopters and noise concerns has caused the city to clamp down on use of helipads. Crashes of air taxi operations in the 1970s caused the removal of the vast majority of helipads.
I think that too much simplification without empowering people to understand how the pieces work is ultimately a detriment.

It’s important that there is a human understands how the stuff works that’s getting shipped to production. You can’t skip that step, or who knows what kinds of vulnerabilities and miss configurations will end up going live.

In my opinion, rather than building a tool for people who don’t understand the stuff, your target audience should change to instead be those who DO understand this stuff. This is not something that can be solved with automation-only if nobody understands how the pieces work.
I really want to like the Framework, and the internal design definitely appealing to me, but the connectivity is just rage-inducing. It's fundamentally a previous-gen macbook pro with 4 USB-C ports (USB4, in this case), but the ports are buried deep in the chassis and you absolutely 100% need dongles to expose them, to the point you literally need a USB-C to USB-C dongle as a spacer!
I think the idea is that it sets an initial post-divorce set of conditions. From there, both parties could agree to do something different that was more in the interests of the children and/or the adults, but by having a written set of indicative initial conditions, you hope to reduce the cost, stress, and animosity of the subsequent divorce. (Is it perfect? Of course not. Can it be way, way better than nothing [meaning the default jurisdictional law/customs]? Absolutely.)
I love most of Brian Armstrong’s response. I like that he deals with employee activism and doesn’t just shy away from it like a lot of big tech with a sf bay area foci.

Here though, I wonder if it is truly possible for employees to make the same suggestions internally.

This is an anonymous list of grievances, attempting to use some cryptographic signature solution to show support without revealing who supported.

Even taking out the proposal/demand for resignations, I wonder if the product suggestions can be made to any effect, internally.
O’Reilly is shutting down Katacoda
A few thousand deliveries in the nets not worrying about regression to worse shots while you work on it will probably get you there. I believe there is no such thing as too old to learn technique. I've learned new technique to compensate for serious injury completely and permanently altering my balance - so I did it because I had no choice which engenders a certain commitment to the new thing. I'm now a rubbish bat but clearly, at least according to the scorebook, less rubbish than I was! Do you have much to lose? Hope you have an enjoyable and successful season either way.