skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obsession with being lighter definitely has diminishing returns. At some point another few ounces doesn't make any difference in a real, practical sense. I think have just started to associate "lightness" == "better" despite there being no actual benefit past a certain threshold.
New York pauses permits for the most polluting crypto mining
Shift-click is a great idea.

I also like the idea of right-clicking to rotate the other way (so click always rotates one way, right-click the opposite)

I ignored the ideal clicks thing and really enjoyed slowly revealing today's picture of the lounging cat. Very relaxing indeed!
Close but no cigar... It replaces one inequality (bias against those the officials at the top don't like, in favor of those they do) with another one (Bias against those the officials at the bottom don't like, in favor of those they do)

In practice it creates more freedom, because users have no choice in their top authorities (I'd have to move to another state or country if I don't like the laws) but often have a lot of choice in bottom level authorities (if the guy at the DMV is mean I can go to a different location)

I'm not saying it's strictly good, but it's much more complex. IF you are someone who truly believes the top level policy is good and perfect and has no problems, then yes, any kind of bottom level control.

But if your are someone who is harmed by the top level policies, you now have an escape hatch by which a public servant can help you overcome this.

For example once in NY I tried to register a car I had bought out of state and one DMV worker told me I could not because the previous owner was named Johnathan Smith but had signed his name as John Smith. Ridiculous, but it's possible they were following the letter of the law and an automated system would have said the same.

I simply went to a different DMV where a different worker took a more favorable interpretation. If it had been a piece of software making this comparison I would have been screwed.
The two examples you picked are of incredibly and unusually useful advances in science. I have a friend in grad school who told me he deliberately didn't want to work on anything useful!

If you want to steelman the GP's argument, you should compare the web app with e.g. some niche in pure math. There the trade off between novelty/interest and usefulness to people today is more clear.

I think the two are incomparable and both useful, but it's disingenuous to strawman the GP as saying web apps are more useful than relativity.
Thanks for the compliment!

I wanted to go more into pinning, but this post was already extremely long (and many people have already complained about how long it is). So everything you said is very on-point, just covered by "the details are beyond the scope of this blog post." Would you mind putting this extra information as a comment on the article itself, so other readers in the future can have access?
Thanks for taking the time to your thoughts in such clear and lengthy terms. This article seems more about drama than scientific merit.

> Second, what’s the endgame here? What’s LeCun’s ideal?

This section I think is particularly exemplary - regardless of your take here, I think it’s pretty ridiculous and uncharitable to interpret “criticism of science is immoral” from LeCun’s quoted statements.
It's not "they can, provided they feel like it". It's they can, if Westminster agrees to it. That detail is quite pertinent to this [similar] ruling
Even if this is true (which for some reason I doubt, probably bias), my handwriting is so atrocious and inefficient I doubt I would ever act on this knowledge.
In my view, the only wrong opinions on where to rank this are "at the very top" and "at the very bottom or not at all". We will only know the correct answer in hindsight, so the sensible position is to just start funding some legitimate AI safety research.
Infinite web site is interesting!
It's customary western MSM wank, if only PRC imported superior mRNA narrative.

mNRA data from HK/SKR/TW/SG extrapolated to PRC population = still millions of deaths and more from collapsed underdeveloped medical system. Post delta/omicron all vaccines are basically only good for preventing severe cases, instead of stopping prevention, for which PRC + boosters works as well as mRNA with benefits like no cold chain requirements and PRC controlled supply chains. The TLDR is there are no effective vaccines that "ends" covid by stopping transmission like originally promised. Vax only allows "living with covid"... except for the millions that can't. They die.

Reality is PRC resorts to draconian lock downs because it's superior to any vax out there, and - this is key - she has the state capacity to. Everyone else ended up "living with covid" because they had no choice. Looking like PRC can't sustain for much longer.
There are also private roads without speed limits.
Most commonly the elderly and mentally disabled. Occasionally they have a retirement or come into a windfall, it's just a matter of statistics until the door-to-door guy finds them and parts them of it before the next guy does or before someone responsible takes control of their finances.
It is a one-time $2000 upgrade on my car. Dunno about others, but the subscription being a "for the life of the vehicle" purchase seems like the lousy part of this deal.
“In the beginning I hinted at expecting the porting process to go somewhat smoothly (which I’m sure I won’t regret later). The reason for this is that I have two systems in my game that will hopefully be immensely helpful in this endeavor:

- The game records the inputs (HID, loaded files, network, …) of a play-session into a file and replay them later. When replaying, feeding recorded input into the deterministic game loop leads to the exact same state, down to the bit.

- The game hashes game state at various points during execution and saves these hashes to a different file. When replaying, the contents of this file can be used to check that the execution of the replayed session exactly matches the original execution.”
It's not rocket science. My mother is pretty tech illiterate but she's never gotten any viruses after I hosed the Win Defender off her laptop. She literally just checks her mail, streams netflix and visits a handful of news websites. Lots of users are like this. They can get by fine just with an adblocker and an occasional scan to be sure. Scanning the disk constantly is just ridiculous.
Current curation rules:

https://ooh.directory/about/

- Every blog must have an RSS or Atom feed.

- Newsletters aren't included. Some sites are a blog and a newsletter, with identical content, but only those which mainly seem like a blog are included.

- Only blogs updated within the past year or so are added.

- Tumblrs are only included if they’re either focused on a specific topic or feature original content.

- Link blogs are only included if they include original commentary about each link.

- No blogs promoting hate speech, denial of climate change, anti-vax ideas, etc.
December seen as earliest date for OL3 restart
The contention was that the gamers who care about privacy and ads have moved on from Windows, I am saying this is not true. Even if you care about privacy and ads you might care more about actually being able to play certain games.
To me, the current subscription model seems like you are trading the "joy" of paying extra money for the reward of greater engine wear. Maybe the increased performance is worth it for some, but the economics doesn't make sense.
I wish AI was overhyped, sadly it is not. If it was overhyped, we would have more time to solve the alignment problem.
Same here. But I always associated it with stress.
I studied machine learning at NYU, and from interacting with Yann LeCun, I can say he’s actually a nice guy. Yes, his tweet is grumpy. I still feel as if the implication that Galactica should have been taken down was the worse thing happening here.

I read the MIT Technology Review article, and I was asking myself “what is an example of Galactica making a mistake?” The article could easily have quoted a specific prompt, but doesn’t. It says the model makes mistakes in terms of understanding what’s real/correct or not, but the only concrete example I see in the article is that the model will write about the history of bears in space with the implication that it’s making things up (and I believe the model does make such mistakes). I don’t think it’s a good article because it’s heavy on quoting people who don’t like the work and light on concrete details.

Does the imperfection of a language model really mean the model should not exist? This seems to be what some critics are aiming for.
Probably. It's not just the tactile impact of pen on paper, there is likely to also be a memory effect triggered by paging through a notebook to get to the latest blank page.

E-ink tablets, like a word processor, always starts with a blank page.
Worked for a large, national US cinema chain not long ago. Was tasked with automating the on/off of the projection bulbs for the entire circuit based on individual auditorium ticket sales. Collaborated with one other guy to turn off the bulb in an auditorium if ticket sales were zero 15 minutes into the show and strike the bulb if a ticket was sold during the show. This small piece of software saved the company electricity and bulb replacement costs in the millions $$ per year. As a cog in the machine, I did not see any of that savings in my paycheck.
With the tires on that car it's at least that already
Absolutely. I love to write since I got in to fountain pens. It forced me to change my grip for the better, motivated me to practice spencerian, and appreciate quality paper. Writing is now very personal and delightful. I take what I write more seriously and thoughtfully, which causes me to retain it far better.
I think you're mixing efficiency with effectiveness. It may be more efficient to store your valuables in a breadbasket, but more effective to store them in a safety deposit box, if you measure effectiveness by "keeping everything in one place, free from the view of strangers". In this case, the extra effort aids (so it is claimed, I believe it but am no expert) on later retrieval, not in efficient intake.
I have no insight into the natural sciences, but I've spent a couple of years in computer science academia. With that in mind:

> None of it would be possible without academia though. Industry just applies academic research.

Meh, that vastly oversells academic research. Very little of academic research in computer science is actually used in the industry. It's not that the industry is ignorant, but rather that the majority of academic work is useless: They create artificial problems [1] and solve them in shoddy ways, with hand-picked benchmark results, and frequently without even publishing the source code.

It's probably not surprising, given that the typical incentive is to get a PhD. So you need a "problem" that can reliably be solved in 3-5 years and which allows you to produce 5-10 conference papers with your name on it.

[1] I'm not talking about theoretical fields – my comment is purely about supposedly practical research.
Watching movies on a tablet is terrible, though. All methods for propping the device up so you can watch the movie are inferior to the way a laptop screen props itself up via hinges and a base.
Well, possibly :) That will drive salaries down a bit, by the same forces that drove them up, but certainly enables massive quality of life increases.
Thanks so much! That article was the original (anti-)inspiration for this post. It is so condescending: "Moves are so simple if you pretend you don't understand what they're for and why they're preferable to copies, and also ignore the name."
Why correlations between genes and intelligence are meaningless
This seems like an awesome way of writing faster interpreters – i.e. not in assembly, but in C++ snippets you stitch together with a tool.

I did peek at the deegen tool a bit, and it seems quite large? https://github.com/luajit-remake/luajit-remake/tree/master/d...

I would be interested in an overview of all the analysis it has to do, which as I understand is basically “automated Mike Pall”

FWIW I think this is the hand-written equivalent with LuaJIT’s dynasm tool: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/v2.1/src/vm_x64.dasc (just under 5000 lines)

Also there are several of these files with no apparent sharing, as you would get with deegen:

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/v2.1/src/vm_x86.dasc

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/v2.1/src/vm_ppc.dasc
Ada solved all those problems decades ago, it did not fly.

C++ ran on rockets to the space, Rust has not yet. I don't even know any major projects or products are done with Rust for the last 16 years.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".
1670 FIDE :D I wish...
Very similar conclusions to what I got to.

Just a couple of days ago I watched this video on YT - Designing Tide by Yoshua Wuyrts [1] and I really loved everything about tide.

On the other hand, it seems that this guy was (is) sponsored by Microsoft for working on these things, which is a red flag. Not that I am against something sponsored by them, but having a framework maintained by pretty much a one person-team at Microsoft seems like it could end any time if some manager decides there is no budget for "Rust web research" anymore.

But I have also asked myself - how mature is tide now, and how much development does it really need? I can't answer, since I have used it only very little, over the last days. I am curious if somebody else, more in the know, would explain.

So the question really is - Could tide, as it is now, be considered mature enough such that it does not matter who maintains it (if even)? If so, then it might be the perfect framework. Anything extra could be developed as additional packages on top of it. Plus, it could always go through a revival (somebody else forking it and continuing to add features)?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJA4QCjmxk
I've gone very recently through a rewrite from Rocket to Axum and very much love it so far.

The initial motivation was the need for web socket support, which Rocket doesn't have (yet). But I love how simple it is, and also that it does not want to be the entry point of the application. (I like an http server that's a library that can be embedded at any place in the application.) Another great thing is the examples/ directory in the Axum repository.

I had to use the latest version from GitHub though to get some of the features I needed, but maybe that's not the case anymore.
I don't really get the complaints about Rimworld's difficulty. There is a variety of difficulty settings, which can even be adjusted during the game. There is also the option to turn off Mechanoids and/or Bugs.

There's no shame in adjusting the settings of a single-player game to your own liking.
Another very positive comment here with a few grips. I love the way you used shadowing and color to create a board with a lot of depth. Interacting with the board is very very nice.

My only major grip with it is the color scheme. As is often the case, you seem to want to add your own 'flavor' to the UI by having this almost post-apocalyptic color vibe... and as usually happens, it makes it more difficult to distinguish for people accustomed to the standard high contrast board.

Another grip, the click to move that is standard would be very nice to implement. Dragging to move as the only option is an oversight.
I'd pay a flat fee for faster acceleration, but not a recurring fee.
Yes, modern kit is more important than rifles, agree. That said I would not hold it as a general rule that conscripts and professional armies necessarily would have quality difference if the equipment is the same.

Finland has a pretty good conscript army even according to the professional Nato troops who train with them, so I would not discount effectiveness of conscript armies out of hand. Of course, it's the quality of training that matters, and that may be harder to institute on a national scale unless there is a long continous tradition of doing that.

Also to my understanding current Ukrainian army is holding it's own with a mostly conscript force (unless I'm mistaken) against a professional army (yes, on paper...).
Nobody is forcing you to plug a smart TV into Internet and no smart TV has the capability to talk to 5G free/marketing channels yet.
As a native English speaker, that seems a profoundly odd request but that is what you asked for.

And you now have me wondering how open-ended calendar requests are actually implemented given that they can't literally have entries out to infinity. (I assume they go out some finite period and some background process periodically re-populates future entries.)
I think you're identifying some of the right problems here. All voice assistants are based on turn-taking, and when the VoiceAI hits one of those failure points and just comes back with "I didn't get that" it leaves the user in a frustrating state trying to debug what's wrong.

I work at SoundHound where we've been worried about these issues. (I'm going to plug our recent work...) Our new approach is to do natural language understanding in real-time instead of at the utterance (turn) taking level. That way we can give the user constant feedback in real-time. In the case of a screen that means the user sees right away that they are understood, and if not, a better hint of what went wrong. For example a likely mistake is an ASR mistranscription for a word or two.

We still need to prove this is a better paradigm for VoiceAI in products that people can try for themselves, and are working towards that goal. I hope that voice interfaces that were clunky with turn-taking will finally be more naturally usable with real-time NLU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLYH1qHfq8
Why would you assume good intent for an obvious money grab? When people obviously behave in bad faith we have an ethical obligation to call them out.
Mercedes is behaving badly. Don’t apologize for them.
To help future readers, would you mind rephrasing the title for clarity? I found it quite impenetrable.

Perhaps "...Apple's Find My app..." would make it clearer what the post is about.

And, while you're at it, also the body of the message ("I have find my enabled...")

Thanks!
Well, they abstain because it is wrong, immoral, and illegal. As this article [1] notes, even leaked material from the DNI which contemplates industrial espionage does not contain any evidence of it.

The US IC being a horrible monster may well fit your world view. But we must not allow ourselves to confuse what we think should be easy to prove with what we actually can prove. And I don’t even mean “prove” in some strict, legal sense. I just mean prove in the sense of providing evidence with the same ease that you provide speculation. If you could point to cases of US industrial espionage in Snowden’s leaks, that would be a good start.

1 - https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use...
You don’t revoke the finger, you revoke the machine that wasn’t able to detect the fake.
Ah, the usual thing.

I can feel more focused and with increased alertness by fasting, avoiding sugar and taking plenty of stimulants.

Now what does this do to the suprarenal glands on the long term? What about TSH?

No one cares about that it seems. We feel "good", so it must be good.
Image Capture.app, which is built in to macOS, is very no-nonsense and works great.
For some users and use cases, they are.
> Like, I don't quite believe the claim because I'm defensively rational, but I feel a certain dizziness and confusion (thinking to myself, "could this actually be true?") until I come back to my senses. The more outlandish and impassioned the speech, the stronger the effect.

I always like to ask myself: "what are they trying to get me to do?". Whether it's a habit, voting pattern, product, etc. Then I ask myself: "is it useful? who does it benefit?"

Whether it's true or not, idrc. what's more important (at least to me) is what it does and who it benefits

(also in this case to avoid any ethical conundrums, something is useful if it makes $, beneficial to X party if it makes them $)
Those two titles are good examples of when click-bait is stretched to the point of complete inaccuracy.
If Apple was satisfied with the money they were making, they wouldn't be Apple. They'd be another irrelevant consumer technology company. It is only due to that ruthless mindset that they have gotten where they are today.
Grid and Flex serve different purposes for layout. Also Grid has many of the same keywords as flex, but is more complex. I wouldn't call it more intuitive.
I understand your perspective though I disagree with some of the observations, but I still don't see why any of this should convince us to switch strategies for Java given the following two facts: no other strategy has proven to work better, and claims about added productivity/correctness could not be established. So this all comes down to you liking different things, but that some developers want the opposite of others is a given. No matter what we do, there will be people trying to get us to do the opposite. So even coming to this with a blank slate and knowing nothing about programming, it would be irrational for us to change our strategy.

> This is deductive reasoning from a single datum

I don't think that's true, but even if it were, we don't need evidence to support us not changing our strategy; we need evidence to convince us that we should.

> especially in the same industry Java rules most strongly today (business programs) - have been rather complex: COBOL, PL/I, C++

I disagree. C was still more popular than C++ in the nineties, and compared to the average of the time, COBOL was simpler than C#. But even that doesn't matter. Teachers are telling us that if we increase the pace, even more of them would switch to teaching Python.

> It's not like stackful coroutines are a new kind of tecnology we had to sit and wait for years to research properly.

It's not as simple as that. Implementing user-mode threads is drastically more difficult than async/await (and requires deep compiler backend and runtime changes). Doing them competitively efficiently also requires a good GC. The .NET team said that they weren't sure that adding user-mode threads in a compatible way is possible in a large existing ecosystem, and they have some bigger challenges than Java (such as pointers into the stack). Languages that target LLVM have additional challenges. The idea is very well known, but good implementations are much harder than async/await, especially in established languages.
If you have macOS you don't need either, just plug your iPhone open up "/Applications/Image Capture.app" and it will show your photos. You can select and drag and drop to a disk and delete them all from this app.
I back it up, I promise. I don't think it's overstated, except in that perhaps "considered harmful" is ... considered so harmful that there's no appropriate use anymore. But C++ move semantics are quite problematic, and I explain why.
It is c++, then it is a definitive no-no. That's why I wrote my own in plain and simple C.
Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge for solar energy?
What do you think is the biggest problem with solar energy?

How can this problem be solved with our existing knowledge and resources?

I am excited to hear what you think and want to have a good discussion with smart people.

Thank you!
Twitter is just a guy now
Hard to get much out of this since the language is not available to everyone.
Intermittent fasting has been life changing.

Only eating between 5-9 pm means a deep sleep from digestion of 2500 calories. Also, skipping lunch prevents the post lunch tiredness which would reduce my physical activity so I can more easily stay on my feet at least 12 hours a day.