skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been known for decades that the Earth's core (which is mostly iron and nickel, as opposed to the mantle which is made of silicates) has a liquid outer layer and a solid inner layer. This is apparent because seismic shear waves can propagate through the inner layer but not the outer layer, which is diagnostic of the medium being liquid and not solid. (The shear or S-waves get to the inner core because when a seismic pressure wave, which can travel through liquid, hits the inner-core-outer-core boundary, some of the energy is converted into shear waves. Jofer please correct me if this is inaccurate.)

This article states that the inner core has two different concentric zones that have very different crystalline properties. In particular, the inner sanctum is anisotropic with respect to seismic wave propagation, and the outer sheath of the inner core is much more isotropic. This suggest that they have different geologic histories--the innermost core's crystallographic anisotropy may have resulted from an event early in Earth's history that deformed the crystals, much as mountain building events deform the crystals in Earth's crust and upper mantle. Then, the younger outer sheath of the inner core cooled and crystallized around the older inner bit later on, after the deforming event transpired.
It’s perfectly normal to trust your peers in a collaborative setting regardless of the profession.

The issue is rather that this is only a largely collaborative one. Which makes the thing kind of worse, because you can _often_ get away with simply trusting everyone and there are economic and practical pressures to do so.
And yet there are still no publicly available models that could actually compete with ChatGPT.

I'm not even talking about RLHF (although data like that is also a huge moat) - just simple things like larger context sizes.

There are still plenty of AI advantages to be had if you go just a little bit outside of what is currently possible with off the shelf models.
Mario Kart 64, SMB3, 2-player Metal Warriors.
Thank you - I was very interested!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

They were sued again. Apple Computer won the case.
Keeping plasma going and actually having fusion are two different things. This is an important step to be sure but the Wendelstein is very much an experimental reactor. It's not meant to be something that will ever make large amounts of electricity.

Also note that the Wendelstein 7-X project started planning in 1980 and assembly took from 2005 until 2014. A US reactor experiment (the NCSX) was cancelled in 2009 because they couldn't get the required mechanical precision even in a lab setting. Even if we manage to solve the remaining technical challenges to sustained fusion in only five years (ie WAY ahead of the experimental schedule), building a power plant sized version would definitely take a decade or two including all the planning and actual construction.

More budget will probably help speed up the timeline somewhat but probably not that much. If you truly had 1/10th of the military budget to spend you could probably get a much bigger bang for your buck if you spend it on solar panels, batteries and on shoring up coastal defences/stormwater systems/building insulation/etc etc etc. The boring stuff, rather than the "silver bullet" projects like fusion power plants.
No, it doesn't make sense. You use a browser to view and interact with a website (which is what the competition is about). So why would Github being browser-centric be a ding against Github when the competition is browser-centric?
Say that to ?const ?async. If the keyword generics group doesn't accept that they're wrong they've killed Rust.
Not surprising; that's been the common wisdom for quite some time now.
Been happening since the beginning of time with publishing. There are stories written about authors meeting with execs who want to basically completely rewrite things.

It isn't like you can't publish your book. Some publishers just decided to implement this workflow. I think it's pretty dumb but it definitely isn't anything new.
I was referring to the “ref counting is garbage collection”. You do however seem to know your ways around a GC, so it seems we’ll just have to disagree on the ref counting == GC part. (And yes, GC rocks, but seriously bloats the memory requirements)
The Fight to Save Armenia's Soviet Space Telescope
Does the athenosphere produce surface lava?
This is the smoking gun, imo. It doesn’t matter if it’s accomplished via software, AI, or anything else—a blatant attempt to coordinate and coerce landlords into a given pricing regime is the definition of price fixing.

I suspect there’s a lot of other price coordination schemes going on under the surface of our society just like this. The pandemic gave them cover, but the coordinated effort to raise prices destroys the efficient market hypothesis as does the gargantuan nature (and influence) of single actors within industries.

There is no future for capitalism without harsh enforcement and trust-busting on this front.
Erlang is still in very much in active use for parts of Packet Core 5G. Other parts of Packet Core are C++ and C.
The only thing I can think of that makes any sense to me is that people like us found the technology itself presented in the book extremely compelling and wanted to have it. So much so that the purposes the technologies were put to in the book, and the social ramifications, were ignored and forgotten.
> All these layoffs we’re seeing were planned well over six months ago

Source? Most of the layoffs I've seen have been poorly planned and hastily implemented.
Why do you consider that "Price-fixing that is not done via consolidation is ultimately unstable from game theory point of view." + "there is a very strong incentive to defect" would imply that this is not price fixing?

Quoting FTC, price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels; Generally, the antitrust laws require that each company establish prices and other competitive terms on its own, without agreeing with a competitor.

It doesn't matter if we're in a monopoly situation, it doesn't matter if the agreement is effective or if many participants defect - if some participants agree to coordinate prices, that is prohibited and punishable.
Great! Get it to walk and you've got a duck! Arm the duck drone and you're well on the way to a goose drone!
He was also a raging anti-semite. Like, to the levels of proudly proclaiming "I have become anti-Semitic."

It shouldn't be terribly surprising that an old British guy was a bigot, nor that some of that bigotry crept into his works.

I'm not sure why this instance of censorship feels particularly egregious, though. It's ultimately for children, and we censor content for kids all the time. We do it with movies and TV shows and music, and I don't see much rage directed toward that practice.

Is it because it's a book? Is it because it's a medium that hasn't really been censored like this before? Is it because it was done posthumously? Is it the specific content being censored?

Something feels different about this one. Maybe it's just the fear that what was once sacred is now fair game for defilement, or the sinking realization that the dam is now broken and this will become the new norm.
But you still have to plug in. Solar panels on a car will not make enough energy to run the vast majority of cars even if parked always in the sun.

And for the few it could, you're using it so little what's the point of even having it?
In the training tools covered in the article it mentioned that it was difficult (as in, you had to contact a support rep) to set a price other than the one recommended by RealPage. By making it difficult to manually set prices, the tendency towards defection is mitigated.
StarlingX 8: The cloud for edge computing gets a major upgrade
I can understand the need, especially with kids books, to update them to keep parents willing to buy them. I own some of the original Hardy Boys books, and I won't be reading them to my kids. On the other hand, the Little House on the Prairie books contain things that go against modern sensibilities but I would prefer to keep unchanged due to the historical nature of the books.

I don't know what the right balance is, but it seems the recent Dahl changes missed the mark.
Should you trust media bias charts?
I believe I was switching between Arch and OpenSUSE at the time, and I didn't note down specific issues, I seem to recall problems with kwin dying... maybe something to do with multihead? If I'm not mistaken I was still using a PC with a Radeon HD 7770 GPU at the time (for all the Catalyst issues I've had, still one of my favourite pieces of computer hardware I've ever owned), so it could have been iffy interactions between moving parts. I do seem to recall a period when I got many, many panics (or oopses, I dunno, screen went black and nothing reacted to anything), I think that was around the same time.

Forgive the vagueness, but I don't believe in memories and haven't kept a journal. Still, as completely unreliable and untrustworthy human memory is I am inclined to believe I had issues with Plasma 5 during the transition period.
So that means we're going to start phasing it out?
Yes Wendelstein 7-X is not intended to produce fusion, it's an experiment to evaluate the stellarator concept.
The .NET ecosystem has this [1], so far adoption has been low. Similar to HTTPS until LetsEncrypt, we need something that’s more convenient if we want developer adoption.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-n...
> I think Google just had an "oh shit" moment as it dawned onto everyone that we now (almost) have the technology to build personal assistants that actually work, and this could be the new tech that disrupts Google's business.

The bigger problem for Google is that we've got AI which can produce millions of times more shitty blog articles to flood the internet with, that their SEO algorithms can't keep up with in order to surface anything actually relevant to humans.

Also the problem for all social media and reddit as it becomes easier to write bots that you can't casually distinguish from humans (given how many humans on reddit read like bots that are desperate for attention).
Thank you, I couldn’t remember the name of it.
>The problem is that google is already stealing my data.

My data is worth much more to me than the cost of a YT sub.
I just commented elsewhere about this, but look into the allowed occupant load; bathroom capacity is a factor where I am.
Is polywell dead? So little news.
It looks like I have to change the name before uploading to AUR :/
Microsoft and OpenAI, Google losing $100bn from a bad demo, layoffs, cost cutting pressure to innovate again... I feel the days of full openness in AI research from corporations are over.
anyone have hints for level 23?
“So far voters are not a fan.”

While I’m always uncomfortable with violent rhetoric, the very public antipathy around “rent-seeking parasites” does give me hope that in the future, fewer voters will see themselves as “temporarily embarrassed landlords”.
Ridiculous!
What is the next? A revised version of Mein Kampf?
You are both going around my very simple argument that these mind-blowingly huge piles of money poured into crypto scams, don't undermine the undeniable reality of crypto that is not a scam.

Yes, people pouring their savings in tulips, fake railroad companies, and beanie babies is absurd. Does it follow that tulips, railroad companies, and baby plushies are scams and criminal in nature? The grifters and their victims moved on, and the underlying objects of speculation seem to exist and do their respective jobs just fine now.

Crypto is doing its job just fine of being a trustless and permissionless way of transferring value. It doesn't care if grifters hype, pump, and dump its tokens. The few actual decentralized networks in existence just keep running and securing their immutable ledgers. The few actual peer-to-peer researchers and developers keep improving them.
I will say it again Microsoft broke the law and lost. The case was more complicated than a simple sound bite which is why you’re confused.

People get away with breaking the law constantly, you can do 57 mph in a 55 every day for 60 years and never get a ticket. Shipping Windows with a copy of IE was like doing 57, nominally illegal but not something they would have gotten in much trouble over. But like a speeder they pushed even further and got slapped down over it.

Intel has had an X86 monopoly at various points. Doing something when they aren’t a monopoly can be legal when doing the exact same thing as a monopoly is illegal. Whether they currently qualify as a monopoly is debatable, but you don’t need a 100% market share to be considered a monopoly. AMD having a 20% market share is right at the edge of where Intel would be considered a monopoly but Intel has a great deal of market power.
I think what's so shocking is these books are already so damn simple—they weren't considered challenging to their target age group even 20 years ago—but they're still too complex for 'em. It's like if there are two clauses they can't keep the first one in their head long enough to make sense of the whole thing, and god forbid you need to track an idea across multiple sentences.

I have a suspicion that the trend dates back much earlier (60s? 70s?), and owes to de-emphasizing poetry in English classes, since reading poetry requires heavy tracking of complex context over long stretches of text, making even fairly-complex prose mostly seem easy by comparison. This may just be a continuation of that trend—kids' lit gradually getting simpler in response to declining literacy that is itself due to shifts in curriculum focus, causing an ongoing, further decline.
An unhardened system allows the first attacker the maximum benefit. A hardened system reduces incentive for the first and every follow on attacker.

Good things can come from bad things. That doesn't make the bad things not bad.
Predictive models in emergency medicine and their missing data strategies:Review
You can create a plasma in your microwave, that doesn't mean there is fusion.
What's behind China's new online gaming restrictions for kids?
The fact that the artist had nothing in mind makes a lot of sense when looking at the paintings. They appear as meaningless noise, and the only thing it evokes in me is disinterest. Knowing that the mind of the artist was intentionally devoid of emotional or rational content during their creation validates that response. In other words, this is a human doing their best impression of procedurally generated art with a computer. Maybe nice to look at, but ultimately meaningless.
I think this has been well established for years. I remember seeing some studies circa 2008 showing that more energy in the form of diesel and fossil fuel derived fertilizer went into corn ethanol than you get out in usable fuel. It has always been an agricultural subsidy.
I didn't mean to imply it is AI generated, but rather I'm starting to recognize the style, that I thought was bad AI, in banal human writing.
Anecdote: When I was a kid in the ’90s in Germany, I once went to a mega store to buy a NES game on discount. My final choice was between Defender of the Crown and, if I remember correctly, Wizards & Warriors 3, and I picked Defender based on the box art. Bad choice. In all my childhood years, I was never able to figure out how to play this game well.
The approval wouldn't be from RealPage, it would be from that employee's supervisor.

Essentially, one can configure RealPage (and RealPage seems to make this suggestion) to use their auto-price tool by default and require management approvals if employees want to set the price to something else.

If I'm buying a Playstation at Walmart, chances are the person at the checkout counter can't change the price directly and give me a discount. They probably can call over a manager who could approve a price change because they can see I'm a really cool person who should get $50 off this Playstation.
At least on the Code Golf Stack Exchange, I see a lot of people using esolangs for golfing (two random examples: Jelly [1] and O5AB1E [2]). I expect that it could be a line or two shorter at least with a change of language. As I recall some of the golfing langs also have pretty sophisticated compression techniques for strings, although they might be optimized for dictionary words. Careful distinction: they are all optimizing for bytes used, not characters used.

I don't want to neglect your shameless plug, but I struggle enough to find a solution to some of the puzzles I wrote (hence the undo), so finding the shortest path is a little daunting.

[1] https://github.com/DennisMitchell/jellylanguage

[2] https://github.com/Adriandmen/05AB1E
This seems promising…

I was actually thinking about zig on one of these, but I assume xtensa LLVM must make that easier too.
Is splitting Signal and SMS into different apps a deal breaker for you? The post seemed to describe SMS messages defaulting to a preset application of the user's choosing on Android.
Indeed. Even viewed that way, it's about aging and disability rather than death.

Still, I think they're missing the point of ABBA's catalog. It's about being alive despite the pain. This song celebrates youth, and doesn't want its subject to know about hardship. The divorce songs have an uplifting groove to get you through the hard parts of life.

It does show a bit more to ABBA than just disco shallowness. But it doesn't have to be about goth depression to be deep.
It's not so much that there are edits, but in the case of the Oompa-Loompas, Dahl made his own edits, after being convinced of the need to do it by the NAACP.

We don't know if Dahl would have been convinced of the need to make any of these new edits, because he died over 30 years ago. These unknown editors peddle their changes using his name, they trade on his popularity, rather than write their own unloved, status-quo compliant stories.

We the public are so lucky that the publishers deign to keep selling his original books in addition to their Bowdlerised versions. But if they felt like it, thanks to copyright law, they could stop that at any time for the next 40 years or so. It's ludicrious!
Absolutely a pet peeve of mine.

What's wrong with (orig. pub. 1950, rev. ed. 2009) or something like that.

With Zotero, the ref manager I use, you need to know the special magic incantation to store the original date of publication (the publishing date refers to the edition you're citing) but it just looks stupid (I think) to see Nietzsche F. 1999, Untimely Meditations (or whatever) and also I'd like to sort texts by original date of publication from oldest to newest because that's interesting. You have to put a special magic code in the extra field and then your tool-chain has to preserve it and transmogrify it correctly in the doc you're making use of the citation.
Here is an objective and critical assessment of large language models and how to empirically improve the results of questions involving calculations like the lengths of strings:

https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
My natural reaction to that statement is that this is a subjective statement to say that one generation is more knowledgable than another. Those who are younger may tend to be more gung-ho, but given the lack of experience those who are younger have, more knowledgable may not be accurate. That said it might be that the perception is that a more gung-ho person is more knowledgable but perception and reality are not always the same.
I have a number of long lasting relationships that began/spent years in front of a camera. You should consider that what you're bringing to the table in these interactions might be limiting the scope of what you can get out of it.
Oh yeah not disagreeing with that, just interesting because I'd never seen anyone rig up curried functions in scheme/lisp before as it obviously isn't default behavior in a traditional lisp. I'm assuming using some sort of wrapper function or macro.
No, it's an agricultural subsidy that is important to states that appear early in presidential primaries so its pretty well locked in for now.
There are tons of things America could do for the rental and home-ownership market, but we won’t because people will scream that it’s unfair and it will hurt the upper class and existing home owners.

The government could force and pay for construction of massive numbers of condos/townhouses in/around large cities (say 20-40million). Sell them to first time home-owners for extremely cheap (say 200k) with all types of restrictions on it being owner occupied and only allowing the owner to recoup a certain % of appreciation after X numbers of years if sold (say 3% each year lived in).

I’m sure that’s problematic and a team of people smarter than me could come up with a much better system, but there are very tenable solutions with the ability to change laws/policies and a massive pocket-book.

The US used to give away large parcels of land to people just to move out west. So it’s not like there’s not precedence for helping citizens with real estate.

Nothing significant will be done in our lifetimes though, oh well.
Hm, you're right that there are digital situations where it does make sense. And that's exactly what the article is about: Does it make sense in your game? In most cases, no.
We are not limited to LLM.

And just an hour ago I asked chatgpt how to do something specific with docusaurus (Facebook static page generator) and it just told me the answer.

You know how often I explain things in my current position?

How slow some developers are? How often they forget things I told and explained them? How often they still get things wrong?

It's a slow process and doesn't scale very well at all.

If the table turns and we all teach one system instead ooohh boy.

It will make experts faster and better and potentially removes a certain amount of people in every industry faster than we can imagine.

You know the people who are adding some value but not that really but it's still better to have them than not having them?

Cloud probably got rid of plenty of basic sysadmins.

These new systems break through tasks were no one had an idea how we will break through.
I also posted this earlier with English article instead of the German video description

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34924872
Nice site. I question the design decision to require a visitor to "add a new rate" to see existing pay though. It seems to incentivize making stuff up and brings the reliability of your data into question.
The 2023 Cybersecurity Almanac [pdf]
This looks great! Does it work in a way that would make it need to be "authorized" by the organization?

Recently I wanted to use the alpine terminal email client, which does support OAuth2, but I was thwarted by a notice saying "application alpine requesting access; write to your admin to authorise". Several months later, apparently whether to add alpine or not to the list of approved software is still "being discussed". Not exactly holding my breath for it ...
VE is a SCSS substitute for those that like TypeScript instead of SCSS as a language, you can do the same stuff in either one. They even have custom utility classes too. Why I like it is it enforces a design system onto your code. In the Tailwind world the library CVA does the same thing so it's not a novel concept.
> I believe that no interpretation of an artwork can be right or wrong.

Is this true only of _this_ art? As general statement, it seems suspicious to me. If I say "Guernica celebrates nationalistic violence", isn't that wrong?
Here's a helpful analogy that represents a problem per line:

We download code

From the internet

Written by unknown individuals

That we haven't read

Which we execute

With full permissions

On our trusted devices

Where we keep our most important data
And it generally gets much worse MPG compared to regular gasoline!