skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't have as big of an issue with this policy of not refunding the chargeback fee if payment processors actually followed their own policies, a fair and thorough review of the submitted documentation (we've lost chargebacks where we were able to supply complete evidence that somebody loved their purchase and thanked us for the service), and actually requiring people to follow the terms of their payment account (requiring people doing chargebacks to contact a merchant for help first if they're unhappy with anything, whereas we've lost chargebacks where people never contacted us or responded and used the chargeback as a "get shit for free card")
> The Outer Wilds (not worlds) is another one that I think rivals Obra Dinn, and is more accessible. It might be the best narrative-focused puzzle game ever made.

If only I could play it again for the first time. There's really nothing quite like it.

By the way, it's just Outer Wilds, no "The". Still easily confused with The Outer Worlds, though.
Pixels always being perfect squares is of course not true but the square model is still a lot closer than the point samples on a grid model - that is, each pixel models the average color over an area. Cameras work that way because sampling light at a point would get you no signal (if you could sample a point, which you can't) and display's work that way because you can't physically emit light from a single point. In most cases that area is squarish or at least as much as the technology allows (e.g. subpixels and bayer pattern are used because you can't have the colors cover the same are, at least not without creating bigger issues).

So yes, if you know the details of your display or sensor then you can use a better model to eek out more signal. But if you don't, the little squares model is close enough.
Phew! I was getting worried there.
It's too much of a generic question to be answered right. Do you need global availability? Do you need high speed downloads? Are you worried about bandwidth costs? etc.

We use S3 + Cloudfront for documents that we want to be quickly accessed by our customers. We use SFTP for our internal docs when we don't care that much about availability and speed.
> RAM fills up quickly and SD storage is just too slow for this kind of usage.

You make it sound like using a RPi limits you to only SD storage which is not accurate.
I’d look though at systems like CLIP and Stable Diffusion that are able to map between the language domain and images, as well as music, speech, etc. “Riding a bike” can be seen as a sequence modeling problem too because it is a matter of firing muscle fibers in a certain way and it is a research area to make language-controlled robots that do just that.
no sign-up required!

Yeah, you just need to install their native software on your system.

Having to make an account is annoying. Having to install native software is a no-go for me.
Swedish datacenter operator wants to go nuclear
Vimium is very interesting. I was probably inevitable that somebody made something like this. Maybe a bit of too steep learning curve for what am I trying to achieve.

I have already tried you.com but honestly the results were underwhelming. The suggestions of the results page were not very good. I was trying that while doing some Python. I guess other languages might be even worse.
This OT debate just shows that using analogy as argument is cul-de-sac.
> Is Google _______ getting abandoned

Yes.
And now Lassiter is making stuff again?! I watched Luck with my kid, thought it a bit odd and went to see who was involved, and wait what? I feel annoyed I gave even one increment to the watch count of his work.

It seems like the kids film industry is even more toxic than the normal film industry, which is impressive. Was that your experience?
I just spent 3 hours calling around every damn pediatrician in Ireland to have somebody, ANYBODY check my 3 year old daughter who hasn't grown in 5 months and is under the 1st percentile in height now. I am happy to pay them a lot of money to do so.

There IS No healthcare in this dump of a country. I am looking at flying to Barcelona to have her seen, and moving out of this dysfunction as soon as possible while I'm at it.

In Europe you don't go bankrupt on healthcare because you just die.

Yeah, yeah, anecdata, but right now I'm liking the "I get an appointment quickly and pay lots of money but that's OK because I earn lots of money" model more and more.
> I am reminded of an odd controller for one of the consoles in what I think was generation 1 or 2, which consisted of two parts that you could rotate opposite each other.

I knew what you were talking about but couldn't think of the name either. Google was failing me, but thankfully ChatGPT got it first guess - Magnavox Odyssey
How the world looked in 1914, at the peak of colonialism
I tried to go through the "Room-temperature superconductivity — or not?" paper related to the "[We] proved basically mathematically that the raw data are not measured in the laboratory; they are fabricated" comment. I'll admit, the paper is well over my head. Long time no college science classes.

I'm curious about the methods used to determine that the data was fabricated though. Would someone mathier than me help answer this: Was the fabrication of data determined through a mathmatical analysis of the actual data numbers ala Benford's Law? Or was this determined more through a scientific analysis of the experiment that determined that the numbers weren't possible?
I find the morality point being interesting because it is a big deal in the Abrahamic religions that the original sin of discovering the difference between right and wrong is what made us human.
>humans learn from a relatively tiny number of interactions with other humans

but those interactions are infinitely complex and contain an enormous amount of data
At least in the US, this will only be true before a company goes public. After that point, the shares will all be freely salable and have the same value (except for a small premium for supervoting shares which some founders may retain).
I am not against air travel. I am against people claiming that the reason I am cramped, is to help the environment.

Or customers.

It's not. It is to help airline profits.
‘It’s a Pressure Cooker’: Inside the Chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter
But; "If the trial goes well, we plan to roll it out to all DuckDuckGo search users soon."
Thanks for explaining. I had no idea the issue was so simple.
So, AI continues to infect more things I use. That's unfortunate.
I read some year ago that this kind of thing applies to New York as well, that was in the context of an open-world Spider-Man game featuring NY skylines.
Very cool that Greg Egan did some work on this! He is the author of Permutation City.
now live in a hyper-sexualized mainstream advertising culture

I don't know. I feel that advertising is a lot less sexualized now, compared to the 80s and 90s when I was growing up in Scandinavia and the UK.
Can’t you encode on the fly to h264? Ages ago I did this on an imx6 to get the lowest possible power consumption. It was interesting to learn that you save a ton of power if you can get raw data to the VPU for compression before it goes into ram. Then whatever gets moved around in memory after is drastically smaller.
China protests over Dutch plan to cut chip access
... , as Netherlands moves to join US curbs on Chinese hi-tech
A cup of water operates at 10,000,000x the pressure of the crt tube and doesn't explode.
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I may have spoken too soon, although it seems the government is aware of how ridiculous it would be to not have the line terminate in central London from the start, so as yet it's all just rumours.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/09/hs2-costs-so...
That sounds like the opposite of an apocalypse
Invest in your tools.

It's not like this is for team chat in an MMORPG. It's a radio station.
of EasyCrypt, or cryptography in general. I can confirm the latter, but not the former.
Back in the day I added a D25 female connector to the side of my C64, wired up a 3.5 octave keyboard (which I built for the 'Formant' [1] synthesizer I made while in high school) with a diode matrix [2]. Made some programs to make it easy to access SID 'patches' and voila, I had a 3-voice polyphonic synthesizer. It surely beat the way I used the C64 before that, the thing lying on the stage as if it were an effect pedal with me playing some pre-programmed notes with my toes. I still have the stuff around somewhere, the keyboard looks quite snazzy in its triangular Meranti multiplex housing with the shoulder strap. I could play it on stage but could of course not move far from the machine since the cable was only 3 m long...

[1] https://sdiy.info/wiki/Elektor_Formant

[2] which I more or less 'invented' myself after I found out I could not play chords without adding diodes since a single key press would light up a whole column of keys... it was only later I found out this is the canonical way to do this.
Blake Lemoine was the dude claiming Google’s LLM had a soul and got fired and all sorts of press attention.

It’s not a straw man. Blake was an outlier but also very much on the inside and not just some random wonk. There are plenty of people who are being led to believe that LLMs are much more than fancy statistics.
Wasting money and time on the AI integration was a huge mistake. If I want ChatGPT to hallucinate a page for me, I can cut-and-paste it myself.
It seems like it's meant to be an extra feature and not a replacement for search. This is a good thing and will help DDG reduce dependence on Bing. Of course, maybe dependence on Wikipedia is not so good if you care about accuracy.
Show HN: Remember when to plant things in your garden
Kubernetes is a tool that makes portability between clouds easier - and it was released by a challenger brand in cloud.
nice! And I probably could give it a try to the premium version, however I've a question, do newsletter owners accept to have their emails included in the directory? or did you get the information through publicly available data?
It's important for our campaigns to know how to approach each potential publisher
Tell HN: Amusing Substitutions for Class Keyword
In the Kubernetes Python client code it's called "klass":

https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/blob/1a0cb469528e6b2bdeb3eb2c06945f1c22303dfd/kubernetes/client/api_client.py#L266

and in Apache ecosystem it's called clazz:

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aapache+clazz&type=code

Just thought it was amusing and wanted to share
I don't think that Google, Apple or Microsoft employees are not payed. And the quality of those products just isn't there.

I mean, my employer paid 500 euros for an Iphone which maybe costs 50 euros to be produced. From those 450 euros is an Apple engineer not able to test the smalest phone with bigger fonts and to implement proper hyphenation on menu items ?
Original report: https://flashpoint.io/blog/bitwarden-password-pilfering/
It's surprising that they jump immediately from the problem description into shader details.

IME the main theme with achieving high performance not just in games, and not just in rendering, is to avoid frequent 'context switches' and instead queue/batch a lot of work (e.g. all rendering commands for one frame) and then submit all this work at once "to the other side" in a single call. This is not just how modern 3D APIs work, but is the same basic idea in 'miracle APIs' like io_uring

This takes care of the 'throughput problem', but it can easily lead to a 'latency problem' (if the work to be done needs to travel through several such queues which are 'pipelined' together).
Ironically, emails and essays seem to be out more error prone than mathematical proofs...

1.
Proofs are intended to be correct. The vast majority of computer programs are intended to be practical, and are far far larger than the largest math proofs. Where correctness matters, computer programs have fewer bugs.

2. Nearly every non-computerized mathematical proof is not even a proof, it is a sketch that requires a lot of hand waving and logical jumps to be interpreted. Likewise, specs have fewer bugs than concrete program, because they aren't complete.
I was able to restore my prior working Xcode 14.2 from a Time Machine backup by restoring the following locations:

/Library/Developer

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist

~/Library/Developer

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.*

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode.*

/Applications/Xcode.app

Though not 100% accurate, this forum thread was helpful: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/705846

I suspect that installing 14.3 Beta changes the configuration files in /Library and therefore causes this behavior. After restoring all the files, x86 builds work again when building for Simulator with Xcode running in Rosetta mode.

Any confirmation that this is really what happens would still be appreciated.
the former - we've gone anywhere from $0 to about $40k/month, averaging somewhere in the middle
Indeed. I would say a better criticism wouldn't be that it has no notion of truth, but that it has no ability to reason on the basis of a reinterpretation of what might or should constitute truth.

Even if you come up with a fancy prompt that asks it to "assume" certain things, it will still have to base that assumption on things that it already 'knows' to be true, as it already perceives them to be true.
Problem #1 is not ordinary tax. It's indeed about employee's stock compensation and the withholding tax that the company sends to the IRS on behalf of the employees when giving the (net) amount of shares to them. The problem is that there is no market for those shares.
With lots of major mistakes along the way.
that seems really great! Any chance that you hire backend devs only (Python, and not Kubernetes) in the near time?
That is the same playbook by which Microsoft plays this game.

MS: "IT IS OPEN FOR EVERYBODY TO TRY!"
Me: Ok, let me try it.
MS: Ahem, ok, just give us your email
Me: What? Ok, dammit, here it is.
MS: Ok, now install our browser.
Me: What?? Ok, done.
MS: Ok, now allow us to track your location.
Me: What??? No!
MS: Sorry, something went wrong.
Me: What?
MS: Sorry, something went wrong.
Me: What about the chat thing?
MS: Sorry, something went wrong.
It's unfortunate that you need a healthy dose of cynicism to make it in today's society. A free tool seemingly created solely for your convenience trips some internal alarms for me as well.
Siri is not the only or even the most important ML application for Apple, I would argue image processing and things like Face ID are.
(1)

You realise that we don't investigate human understanding by looking at input-ouptut text correspondances? (This is quite a funny claim!)

The reason we think people have the capacity to interpret sentences is their context-appropriate sensory-motor actions, reasoning, emotion, etc.

When I say, "quick! a fire!" people: panic, run, get organised, etc. There are a very very large number of highly complex environmental, interpersonal, sensory-motor, emotional, etc. etc. interactions which follow.

ChatGPT not only does not display any, but cannot. This isn't up for debate, the system has no capacity to understand text. If I say, "quick! a fire!" it will not do anything which accords with showing an understanding of that.

Worse, as a matter of fact, we know its possible to generate output as-if it did understand. So we (1) have known a mechanism whereby it can fake it; and (2) know that this mechanism is the one its using.

(2) All thinking possess intentionality which simply means its about something, and the reason we ask, say, "should i call the police?!" is because we are situated in an environment, which causes us to form mental states about that environment.

Any system which emits, "should I call the police?" without having a backing representational state of, eg., the police, care, concern, priority, the environment which requires police, etc. *Does Not Mean* this question. It cannot.

(3) The capacity to speak truthfully does not mean you speak truthfully. That capacity is simply that you can form representational states which you can introspect as being accurate or inaccurate. ChatGPT lacks that capacity.

It does not form representational (intentional) states when it generates text; each sentence is not caused by such a state.

(4) The capacity i named was "caring", pretty much all people care, it's necessary for goal-directed action.
great something else to get banned in florida.
Genocide here refers to policies of forced sterilization, forced contraception, and forced abortion, which have specifically been described as genocide by the US government among others.
At least here, they are specifically training it on just educational public sources. Seems like a respectable usage of the tech.
If they were selling you an emulator, I'd agree. But they're not advertising the capabilities of the emulator so much as telling you what to expect if you take this project on. In theory, all games should work, but emulators can be imperfect, so know what to expect.
I use egui. The library itself is agnostic but relies on backend libraries for rendering, all of which (or at least the official ones) render on the GPU.
Pressure is a differential phenomena.

You'll have to ask a smart guy what deposition, subtraction, injection, or teleportation process he's going to use to make a permanent diamond container that leverages the high compressive strength because I'm stupid.
Does OpenXLA allow automatic placement of tensors? Eg. if my GPU doesn't have enough RAM for every tensor in my model, can it decide which ones to shuffle off to system RAM, or recompute?

Can a large tensor be split into several small ones?
I'm not even sure it was wise to use SDFs to draw some shaded rounded rectangles.
Yeah, their product is too good to cancel unfortunately. But the fact that they don't seem to care about search any more, instead focusing on AI and browser stuff, is disappointing.
I took a studio design course and the teacher remarked that it was not uncommon in the 1970s to use a "private" transmitter to play audio they were actively mixing to create optimize the sound for playing in a car. I find it very interesting, how challenging it was working with the music industry and the fact how much of the environment is taken into account.
It’s essentially one of those “Alice, Mary, And Bob could be at one of three locations” puzzles, just with more than 70 people, a much more complex set of things for the locations, and instead of simple sentences as clues you have last words and frozen movements in time as your clues.

The way the game sets up its clues is brilliant but ultimately that sort of game isn’t for everyone. You do have to figure out a lot from small bits of information.
This is interesting, but also wouldn't the texture mapping / UVs be more confusing and possibly outweigh the benefit of micro-optimisation?

The good thing about having 4 vertices is can just use a vertex position and set of texture coordinates (x,y) on each one and the texture can just be mapped exactly.
‘Revolutionary’ blue crystal resurrects hope of room temp superconductivity
You just know that somewhere in all this there's an FTP command that failed.
I built this because I always forget that even though it's freezing cold outside, I should probably start thinking about starting my tomato, pepper and other seeds indoors.

You can add your zip code and select the plants you want to grow throughout the season. The app will then remind you when you need to seed/transplant/sow everything based on your frost date.

Hopefully this helps someone else, too!
Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter
I hoped they'll go for signed distance functions for glyph rendering as well. Rendering text with shaders is fascinating.
I can imagine the paperwork to be able to officially make a statement on behalf of Apple is pretty high, even for people high up in the company.
Most mathematicians don't care about being exactly right. They only need to not see a contradiction. Since most pure math is not used for anything except more math, mistakes rarely have consequences.

A computer is only a threat, that might find a mistake that humans miss.
Unfortunately there's no 8-bit srli, and if you use the 16-bit srli, you could end up shifting a 1 into the high bit of the low 8 bits of your 16-bit word. pshufb treats a 1 in the high bit as a signal to map the input to 0 instead of using the lower 4 bits as a lookup table. So the full thing ends up being (for AVX-2):

_mm256_srli_epi16 // by 1
_mm256_and_si256 // to mask off the high bit
_mm256_shuffle_epi8 // b[a[i] & 0x0F]
_mm256_cmpeq_epi8 // a[i] ==

This is still pretty good! If you end up needing more instructions to get map your chosen bytes to 16 unique low nibbles though, some other technique may pull ahead. See here for some techniques: http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-byte-lookup.html

Note that the above article is a bit too conservative about the applicability of some of these techniques and does not end up telling you to do cmpeq(input, pshufb(constant, input)) even though this is what you want if all the bytes of interest are <128 (i.e. they are ascii characters) which is often true.
The "standard" radio on boats is the marine VHF, which is voice-only except for Digital Selective Calling (DSC).

DSC is present on "newer" / more expensive radios so it's not a guarantee that a given boat has it. It has a few message types:

- Distress calls

- "Routine call" (basically rings the other boat and asks them to switch to a chosen channel so you can then talk over voice)

- Position request

There's very poor integration between these DSC messages and the rest of marine electronics.

The other radio-based protocol is Automatic Identification System (AIS), which requires dedicated hardware (or a very expensive radio). It transmits your position, heading and speed regularly, and some biographic info (name & dimensions of the boat) from time to time. It's basically ADS-B for boats.

This is very well integrated with all marine electronics and apps. It's also what powers sites like MarineTraffic.

Main issue with both of these is that they aren't really extensible, so you can't send whatever you want over them.

Other radio tech used on boats would be Single-Sideband (SSB), but that's more in the amateur radio realm. Some boats do have a full HAM setup, but it's not that common.
No problem!

I don’t know of any other multidiscipline generative design companies, but for process plant design there is OptiPlant and PipeStream. There are a lot in the architecture space but these are mostly for high level conceptual design.

In my experience many structural engineers code and use simple parametric models. Finding a company using actual generative design algorithms is still rare but there are definitely engineering teams out there who value comp.sci skills.
That's the virtue of suckless software too: you can do it in spare time.
We might call going to Huawei for 5G a terrible mistake, but on the other hand, China was so ahead in the competition that the only realistic option would have been "no 5G for Europe". That combined with Covid-19... there were only bad choices.

Not sure how and why Nokia and Ericsson fucked up so colossally in this area, but they sure did -- and nobody else seemed to have even tried.
On the other hand, the US is essentially an oligarchy masquerading as a democratic republic, and the relationship between Big Tech (particularly the big social media silos) and three-letter agencies/the military industrial complex is disturbingly incestuous. Government having the monopoly on violence doesn't imply corporate power is benign when people are killed over their metadata.