skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The experience is absolutely not a waste, don't get me wrong. What I'm calling a waste are the time and resources spent undoing and redoing everything.

It's all cute if this just happens during our childhood years, where most actions hold no real consequence. It's when this extends into the real world with very real consequences that it gets really wasteful.
Recruitment has become alike online dating. You all think you're so smart yet the matching mechanisms every time end up with the same pathological hopeless frustration. Watch the chaos burn, hop into the downward spiral.
Tbh I think Android Auto is better. Both mine and their statements are just conjecture.
If you find mox interesting, you may also enjoy this interactive mox code review with Jonathan on his Boldly Go channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6pGvbGXo38.
I have used https://mailinabox.email/ for about 1.5 years. Installation was dead simple, and no technical problems after.
Keynote on Mac fixes many of these complaints, I find it great for diagramming where presentation needs to be very crisp.

Agree with others that Mermaid and PlantUML are very useful, but sometimes you need high degrees of visual customization that they don’t give.
> The good thing about being a Russian is that you can only blame yourself for this fate.

Majority of Russians actually do this, that's why they try to drown their sorrows in vodka
I look at it from a general system theory point of view first and foremost as that's a level of abstraction higher than both humans and machines, yet you can find clear sets of definitions that describe all of these things. They go so far as to include knowledge, understanding and degrees thereof. I've started working my way through "On Purposeful Systems" as I've been finding most people's definitions far too hand wavy to be useful in thinking about the topic. That's been quite interesting.

One thing that stands in my mind from having read that is that the structural properties of the system matter in terms of its possible function, and I'm referring to the exact structure that includes the model trained on the non-gibberish text and treating that as the specific system I'm referring to. It seems when you say ChatGPT you're referring to the entire functional class of objects that implement the transformer architecture, which I'm not.

After thinking about it for a while the second thing I would note is that you're focused only on it's intrinsic function of predicting the next token, which as you say it always performs that function regardless of the training data, and I agree with that. Where we differ, I think, is I'm considering the specific structure which includes the model trained on non-gibberish data as an instrument (not a human!) that we use for it's extrinsic functions. Normally an individual or system's extrinsic functions are so narrow they're a lot easier to define, and we've never interacted with a system until now that the extrinsic function is like "understand what I say and reply accordingly". Think about it from the perspective of would you use or have any utility for GibberishGPT? No, same way I wouldn't read a book of pure gibberish.
What is fair? For people that can save most of their money, VAT is a neglible proportion of their income. Poor people which spend all of their money (and more!) will pay a lot of VAT proportional to their income.

The first person might pay more in absolute terms, but that doesn't sound fair to me.
Everything I know about Sam suggests to me he’s never been in this for the money. He just thinks chip fabbing is fun.

I think he’s got enough of a twitter following that he might be able to attract a crew who has the same recreational attitude towards semiconductor fabrication.
Could someone please explain why they can't just hire equipment from a university lab if all they want to make are small batches using old processes? Aren't there lots of commercial-use programs for university equipment? For example In Bradford, UK, there is(was years when I was there) a whole building full of startups taking advantage of the university in the medical field. For anyone that thinks universities support only cutting edge research let me say one startup I did some work for there was testing anti-acne drugs on cell cultures. Definitely not cutting edge stuff.

On the electronics side there is another org nearby (Electronics Yorkshire) where you can hire really expensive inspection equipment (like 3d xray machines etc) by the hour. This is not their core business, but it is a very useful service for startups in aero-space electronics for example. I can't imagine there are no equivalent organisations and university programs in US.
I use a Kobo eBook reader and an iPhone X.

My iPhone can go super dim, to the point that it's hard to see in a dark room. I use no special features.

Also, Kobo's eBook readers can go very very dim, and can be comfortably read in a zero light room. The max brightness I use is 29%-31%, dependent on lighting. My reader has a fixed light, but newer ones also adjust light temperature automagically, and much more comfortable to read (got one as a present for my dad).
> On top of that, until yesterday they actually (accidentally) ran Jekyll during CI as well because it is hosted on GitHub pages: ...

That's just the commit where they added `.nojekyll` at Reddit's suggestion. (Unless I'm not seeing something on mobile.)

More context + the offending run is here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/117rw3d/was_just_di...
I'll be glad to pillage your stagnant empire meanwhile :)
Andreas Spiess just uploaded a video on how to use 433 Mhz sensors with an inexpensive LoRA board:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gdXR1uklaY
WebGPU doesn't necessarily mean "in the browser" though

Rust game engines are using it as a library for native games
I think you’re being too charitable to Google. This is the company that released Duplex, Orkut, and about 100 other not-a-products.

Google is quiet because they can’t figure out how to release something that is 1) useful, and 2) not fatal to their core business.

Google’s entire empire is built on users having to run multiple searches and click through multiple links to find anything. Any kind of summarization/knowledge system that reduces wasted user time is necessarily bad news for Google.

Google’s research here is admirable. Their lack of productization (remember, they also claim to be years ahead) is a symptom of business mistakes coming home to roost.
>Unlocking financial opportunity
Lmao, MBAs. If you don't want to spend so much money on writing software then FORK ANDROID. Or, you know, make a super dumb entertainment unit that requires a phone, AA/CP support and then you're done!

Can't wait to see all of the super dangerous vulns that come out of this over the next wee while.
‘My kids are being poisoned’: How aviators escaped America’s war on lead
The Varangian guard is so interesting and could have been something out of a book or movie. A Roman emperor having an elite squad of viking warriors to protect them!
So they encouraged the sale of 2000 dangerous weapons (https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/atf_investigation_01_1112...), which were then used in hundreds of crime scenes, didn’t make any major arrests, then turned around and said “Look how terrible these weapons are. Someone needs to restrict their use”. That’s pretty damning…
I like the sound of this. The last time I set up my own email server, it was a nightmare.
Probability 101, the intuition behind martingales and solving problems with them
"That predicts nothing" is very far from the truth! It predicts almost everything we have ever observed experimentally!
The study also didn't use a typical eBook reader - it used an iPad - set (as you say) to a high brightness level.
Multi-decadal anti-natalist campaign might have permanently shifted the culture against having kids. Be interesting to see whether Republic of Korea can change this; interestingly DPRK is outpacing the south on fertility and may end up demographic winners of the Korean conflict
Do you visit gay sex clubs? I do, and I would say that it is far from true that people feel they can be as reckless as they want. Rather, they are generally risk-aware, but within a context where the risk tradeoffs are completely different to the AIDS awareness climate of the late 80s and 90s.

For example, there is a distinction between low risk activity such as oral sex and higher risk activity such as anal. The latter will often involve a brief discussion of risk: condom use, PrEP, status, so that both participants are on the same page.
I was there, period. If by year 2001 you didn't have a CD drive to play Unreal (1998), Deus Ex (2000) or Max Payne (2001), your PC was seriously outdated junk and no company would take your PC seriously even for office work.

In 1999, yes, maybe a 486 with Windows 95 could be barely usable, but most basic software required a Pentium with MMX because of multimedia and optimisations. That's it. We already were in the Pentium II era, not owning a K6 or Pentium MMX
would outclass you in a breeze for any serious task.

AMD and VIA CPU's were really cheap and by 1999 having a machine with a Pentium MMX-like specs with a CDROM was the norm because of that.

And OFC by 1999 DOS was pretty much dead and everyone switched to Windows 95 at least.

Yes, there were people and nerds like me in 2004 totally being able to use FreeBSD/Linux under a 486 with 16MB of RAM to play downscaled MP3's, nethack and surf the web with Lynx. But for sure we weren't the target of commercial software vendors.

By the year 2001, the minimal computer specs skyrocketed for everyone since 1997.
That's a really good point. If your userbase is feels listened to (which is admittedly easier in B2B than B2C) then these decisions become much easier.
> Can GPT-3 explain my past and predict my future?

Sure. The planets can tell you the future, and so can cards and coffee dregs. Why wouldn't GPT-3 be able to do that?
Regarding that video, stuttering on a travelling content made me tick. Video has a lot of duplicate frames, not in a perfect ratio of the encoded 60Hz.

• Check https://global-uploads.webflow.com/63e51fd138280b42988eb5e6/... in VLC, pause the video then press the "e" key to advance frame by frame.

• Open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_BaT3LDwo8, advance with the "." (dot) key.
I find my kindle paperwhite at 4 or 5 brightness is perfect, and seems to almost get me more tired than not reading. It is very dim.
> This peak also corresponds to the “clear blue sky” peak in normal daylight, amazingly enough!

This is my favourite fact from this write up and makes so much sense. Overall though the article now has me anxious about my screens etc.
Your project is prettier than most commercial sites I've seen, and prettier than anything I've built after nearly two decades in the industry.

I noticed the more prominent "Purchase" color on the upsell plan. That either means you went above and beyond on your design research, or have better instincts than many founders.

Good work! Keep it up and you'll really go places.
Well, we tend to assume that the keyboard layout we know from the PCs in the 90s is the only correct one, but these things were always changing and adapting to the needs. Looking at the average modern computer user, I understand why a contemporary MacBook keyboard looks the way it does. That being said, it's disappointing that every other laptop keyboard looks just the same. Modern tech always converges to a single design, there is no market to create something, unless you can really sell millions of it.
Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models
> alleging the police and the local judge had violated Title 42

Judges gonna make judgements - that's their job. It's in the nature of judgements that they're not right or wrong. But in this case, the judge didn't even make the judgement; it was made by a jury.

It's not a good look to try and get a judge convicted for doing his job.
isn't the point that they want to innovate on the equipment?
You can run it on either now (for example, MochiDiffusion allows you to pick https://github.com/godly-devotion/MochiDiffusion#compute-uni...). Anecdotally, the GPU seems to be faster for an M1 Max or up GPU, the ANE is a touch faster on anything smaller, and more power efficient in general.
Which looks and feels like Facebook.
Taxes is an expense that covers services provided by the government.
There are few human endeavours that aren’t team efforts. Even if we aren’t collaborating day to day, we still stand on the shoulders of giants all the time.
> The rule is "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files ... are NOT permitted." and goes on to mention an inexhaustive list of examples which names Github among others.

> That is abundantly clear you cannot use Github.

This would be like calling someone ignorant and arrogant because they were browsing hackernews at school and a clueless administrator thought it was a criminal website.
Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch
Diet certainly has some basic things that are agreed upon, like caloric intake affects weight gain/loss, and it's healthier to eat vegetables and fruit than meats and grains. Sure, there's a lot of argument about the specific or how beneficial some of these things are, but it's not as bleak as you make it out to be.
You present 3 independent Choices, but surely these are stages.

1. Can you do X with existing tooling?

If not

2. Can you add a tool to your set to do X?

If not

3. Get a new tool set.

2 should also serve as testing to show the utility and iron out the links of things that make it to 3. Jumping straight to 3 likely means you end up with an ill thought out solution that soon needs another 3.
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They should have went in the winter? Who wants the dark winters up here...
> “Is it the light, or is it the mental activity from the screen?” This study attempts to answer...

If that was the aim of the study, then it could be reasonable to max brightness vs paper to distinguish between light/brain activity.
Yea, I've got a 220 still going strong after a turbulent start, used to randomly reboot but they fixed the BIOS and it's been gtg since. New battery and new keyboard... all good.
For what it's worth, as far as I understand, you actually need to activate the Zoom Controller to get the menu mentioned above.
PicoGPT: An unnecessarily tiny implementation of GPT-2 in NumPy
Judging from [1], Sam Zeloof's plan might include using electron beam lithography, which scans an electron beam over a wafer surface, instead of normal photolithography. This can get high resolution (10nm) comparable with EUV, and could theoretically be built out of a hacked scanning electron microscope. Photolithography is the step that limits fabrication size, so e-beam litho allows cheap transistors comparable with state-of-the-art.

The main problem is e-beam litho is extremely slow. It might take ~1 day to do a single photolithography step for a 1x1cm chip, whereas an EUV machine can pattern a 300mm diameter silicon wafer in < 1 minute. (The next problem is making everything reliable. Billions of transistors (a modern CPU) needs a failure rate per transistor of better than 1e-9.)

Maybe that's enough for extremely-low-volume production?

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/szeloof/status/154993704406717235...
Smoking Hot Binary Search in Zig
There’s two settings you can use in tandem to get an OLED iPhone brightness even lower than that.

First is the zoom trick you’ve already described, then you can use the “reduce white point” display accessibility setting to apply even more darkening.

With minimum display brightness, low-light zoom mode and white point reduction set to 100%, the display gets very very dim. If you do this in normal lighting conditions, the display is basically impossible to see.
I couldn't afford to buy myself the t25, always wondered if it was worth the money. sounds like it was!
Could this device be used to measure lactate as well? That would be immensly valuable to athletes.
If the goal of human life is to pass on genes to the next generation, modern developed societies are failing pretty hard.
These days even most software companies ain't known for good software :D

There's very few quality software products these days. And that's usually just a temporary state before eventually a product gets messed with :(
> yet since 2010 the humanity lost this wondrous know-how

more like its cheaper
That's right! He should be free to work on the problems that are most pressing in his field, as he sees them, because he's the expert.
Well if your view is the barriers to entry to standard CMOS technology are far too high and it's possible to do things more cheaply and openly, (e.g. using cheap equipment source from China as per Zeloof: https://mobile.twitter.com/szeloof/status/154993704406717235...) then you might conclude some custom tooling to be a key part of the puzzle to help tie everything together you can get off the shelf (or in-time replace off the shelf tooling to get a neater solution).

I mention skywater 130nm not because of the MPW program but because it's an open PDK, you can just download it and go use it, without needing to pay anything or sign any legal agreements. Maybe Atomic would go the same way?
I grew up with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5yyr5VX08
Of course you don’t actually have to be in compliance. You only have to pretend to be in compliance. Maybe they’d have a chance if they argued that they used Github, instead of GitHub, which must clearly be a different website.
Canada has a quarterly “VAT” rebate (technically GST and PST, or HST depending on your province) scheme for lower incomes.

Make below X based on last year’s tax return? Here’s a quarterly cheque to offset the average individual’s sales tax.
A book tip if you're interested in rocket history "Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants" by John D. Clark https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612

>> It’s a shame that Tsiolkovsky didn’t live to see the M-1. It stands twenty-seven feet high, the diameter of the throat is thirty-two inches, and that of the nozzle exit is almost eighteen feet. At full thrust it gulps down almost 600 pounds of liquid hydrogen and a ton and a half of liquid oxygen per second. Konstantin Eduardovitch would have been impressed.
Leaded aviation gasoline exposure risk and child blood lead levels
Here in Sweden, even the road signs are frequently covered by snow. I’m sure it’s a similar situation in Canada!
>Ask yourself: would they have been disqualified if they used GitLab?

Does Gitlab generate HTML from text files of some description like Github (eg: README.md -> HTML-formatted presentation)?

If so, yes. If not, no.

Github is only named as one of many potential examples of "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files". Ergo, anything that automagically generates HTML is "NOT permitted".

>If you aren't able or willing to correct demands from people who are blatantly incompetent in a low stakes high-school competition, you're not going to have a valuable or fulfilling career.

Two problems:

1. Kids are still learning. By definition they have no idea nor standing to judge what is competent and what isn't; they flat out /don't know yet/. You need real world experience under your belt if you want to go around declaring rights and wrongs.

2. The students completely missed their mark in how to bring about their objections. They should have read the rules beforehand and brought up questions and objections with the staff before the contest began. You don't complain about this long after the fact, and going off on tangents only worsens your standing.
I've been working a few years in various SW-related roles in the broader MB ecosystem. It helps to understand those german car manufacturers are not monolithic entities, there is a confusing system of subsidiaries dealing with software, often overlapping in scope and competing over projects. Hence, a MB software engineer would often work at DFS, DMS, MBition, FreeNow or one of those shops. By design those do not adhere to corporate standards and they emulate start-ups, i.e. k8s, aws, slack, table tennis, bro culture, beer.

It's a curious setup because most of those subsidiaries ("corporate startups") are huge money sinks and produce little of value. Salary is decent/good, the offices are lavish, and the tech can be interesting. The downside: you cannot shake the feeling of being on a large playground with rich, generous but eventually indifferent parents. I'd say in germany, it's a good place for juniors to pick up some technologies and skills, quite a few former colleagues ended up at prestigious tech companies later.

Core technology like autonomous driving, Engines, CAN, etc... is developed in-house with more rigor, compliance and process, and the disregard for "software engineering" is also due to those agile software subsidiaries producing sloppy 2nd tier, unsuccessful auxiliary technology like apps, services or entertainment stuff. Unlike maybe Tesla, MB or BMW could not afford the reputational damage for selling half-broken autonomous driving.
May I suggest a science-fiction novel, The Unincorporated Man?
AoC tasks are much easier than usual Competitive Programming tasks. AoC is pretty much undergraduate class level (whereas some Competitive Programming problems ended up being turned into actual papers) and the main difficulty in tasks is in implementing the solution rather than coming up with a tricky idea. Also, in AoC time complexity doesn't matter at all - all you need is any solution. Classic Competitive Programming problems have both a memory and a time limit. Most of them have a simple brute force solution but the trick is finding an efficient algorithm.

However, I can see Google execs thinking the same and using this explanation as the reason to close the competition.
But his father did own an emerald mine. That's what the Snopes link says.
A Macbook's minimum brightness is quite bright. The thing that annoys me no end is that if you hit the "dim" button when it's at minimum brightness, it goes black - but fades out slowly and smoothly. So they're clearly capable of being dimmer, but Apple decided we're not allowed that.
PHP bug: Password_verify() always return true with some hash
I looked at about 2/3s of it and saw only 1.5 points that you could take off. It seems amazing. How are you not "convinced"? It seems like this should earn an A grade on the exam.
That sounds like a particularly bad way to do it, it's cheaper for poor people but only after they have spent the larger amount.

So if price was a barrier before, it will still be a barrier afterwards unless you can afford to loan your money out to the government for 3 months
It does state that it's an iPad (!) - see the Materials and Methods section, specifically page 1235.
Do you really believe AMLO is different?
> How would explain the enormous numbers of serious bugs, or the fact the Safari had slipped well behind Firefox

Of course it hasn't slipped

> A browser full of bugs does not lead to a good user experience and the expense it imposes on developers is enormous.

I'm one such user. I've been using Safari as my daily broswer on desktop since at least 2011, and I'm an iPhone user.

I've yet to encounter these bugs that lead to bad user experience. And no "only works in Chrome" is not a bug.
That’s so cool, I’d love read more of that if you can share.