skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, a better way of putting it may be, pixels are samples at points, rather than representing actual point samples. Meaning, while they are sampled at a specific location, these are not actual values, as this would require ideal sensor technology that will probably never be achieved. So we have to account for all kinds of diffusion, reflection, sensor surfaces, shapes of optical channels, fall-off thereof, etc – and may wonder (probably to no definitive end) at what shape and to what extent to model them best.

Edit: Moreover, even when it comes to simply filling an area, things aren't that simple. E.g., when this was written (1995), this was still the era of CRTs, and CRTs are analog devices with analog response. A sole pixel may never reach full phosphor activation, while a stretch of them will, and there are also signal flanks.

If we wanted to represent a scanline information as

0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.5 0.5

we may have to actually write for a true representation (letting go of the idea of full phosphor activation),

0.0 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.0 0.4

So, for this specific purpose, not every pixel is the same, but rather relies on context…
Deleting facebook, instagram, and snapchat and all the dating apps was one of the best decisions of my life hands down. And I still got friends and I can still meet people, "social media" is a lie, the only thing the internet should be used for is sharing information and debate. The Internet used to be a place to watch weird fetish porn and discuss your interests with others from across the world, now all these corporations have come in and used that basic, narcissistic desire for attention to extract vast profits and fundamentally alter social life for their own benefit.
Left as an exercise for the inquisitive reader :)
Did my best to match the colors

https://imgur.com/HubwY1d
you must also have really good commenting habits. I've rarely seen this at work, let alone for a passion project
Exactly. That exact statement encouraged me to subscribe. This change is disappointing.
The trouble here is not FBI at all.

This purchase is just a proof that privacy protections given by US law are totally ineffective.

As soon as the data is on the open market, no GDPR, and no US law protects the customer, since public prosecution is not interested in blatant violation of privacy here.

This is also the main reason why EU continuously threatens US with withdrawing _safe harbor_ provisions.

As soon as the data enters US, the open market assures it will be widely available contrary to all regulations.
For stability control systems already in older cars and for lane keeping systems now in newer cars. If you want to have servo control over the steering (if even just for automatic parking), you're going to need a position sensor for feedback of the current position.
Why would an AI enslave humans? It'll just kill them and build something more useful to it.
It is very black and white situation when it comes to Russia attacking Ukraine. Unless of course, if you have been mislead by Russian propaganda, you may have more blurred vision about this.
I wonder whether the Raspberry Pi organization now has enough clout to push for more-open hardware at doable price points.

Or maybe some other vendor comes in (possibly with something RISC-V-based, and at least using only open source drivers, if not an open hardware GPU). They could do upstream Debian or a fork of Raspian on it, and to most users operate the same as a RasPi, only more open. (Maybe compatibility problems would be mostly due to people using closed software on a RasPi, perhaps without realizing it.)
Same. I haven't used Kagi that much yet. But one of the reasons of subscribing was to opt in to the then-current terms.
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GarlicGPT – we hallucinate so you don't have to
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> Often "I want to say controversial things" is a way to say "I want to say hateful things". The tolerance for hate speech is decreasing and hopefully will decrease further, which is great. If that applies to your situation (and I'm not saying it does), I suggest you question your narrative a bit more

I agree with this sentiment. I also think that it's good that tolerance for hate speech is on a rapid decline.

However, there's this recent trend that anytime someone doesn't like a topic, they claim it's hate speech
and equally hypersensitive people[1] flock to crate a hate mob.

I've seen a children's book author trying to start a conversation about incredibly nuanced topics be accused of hate speech, and called a "vile hateful person", sent death threats (which is somehow acceptable and encouraged??), and attempts to cancel them. Everything they said was perversely twisted to the point it was outright lies, etc. Which is just trading one form of hate and intolerance for another, IMO. (Aside: I'm very close to the topic in question and was appalled and ashamed of my community's reaction)

Seems like we keep yo-yoing from one hate trend to the other.

It's ironic how much self awareness we lack collectively as a species, considering we prides ourselves on our heightened self awareness amongst other creatures we share the planet with.

People suck.

[1]: I'm not trying to offend. Some people just haven't learned adequate coping skills in childhood. That's a bit endemic lately due to rapid lifestyle changes that are happening for the past few generations... and parenting quality took a major hit in that process. However, people need to learn coping skills; we can't expect everyone else to cope for us instead.
One of the big reasons I paid for Kagi was to support alternatives to Google.

Aside from that, it was also a good search engine worth paying for.
Why I don't feel any surprise at all?
The term anthropocene is not an exaggeration. We are changing everything on a planetary scale: light pollution, sound levels, chemical and gas abundances etc.

People think that if something is not immediately fatal its somehow ok. That the tragedy of our reptile brain wiring.

In reality all sorts of impacts will accumulate only imperceptibly slowly. We might be able to do something about some of them if they have clear cut causes and some easy remedy. Like the ozon hole. But its an uncertain arms race.
That sounds like searx[0].

[0] https://docs.searxng.org/
> I could get along better with Lua if it was just a little more performant. I really miss things like true consts, macros, inlines, and other basic performance-focused features. Overall it feels very much like a good scripting extension for a core compiled system and using it to build an entire game, even at the relatively high level I'm working at, is beyond the spec.

Kinda wondering why Lua on the PlayDate seems to have performance issues in his game. Doesn't seem the game does very graphic intensive stuff.

And from my experience LÖVE [0] is quite fast as is LÖVR. I would think Lua should be able to handle much more, but perhaps the animations in the article don't tell the full story.

Perhaps the PlayDate doesn't make use of LuaJIT [1] as LÖVE does? Or perhaps the hardware of the PlayDate itself is just much slower than I would expect.

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[0]: https://love2d.org

[1]: https://luajit.org
It’s a nice ‘Edison vs Tesla’ type story - but I’m pretty skeptical that there’s any truth to it. It just doesn’t seem viable enough to bother doing, for how much of a hardware setup you’d need versus how much electricity you’d be ‘harvesting’, to the extent that it meaningfully impacts the signal range itself.

Like unless this engineer built the Russian woodpecker array
"supposed" to. That's how the "democratic" governments market themselves to be
Found it

Firefox for Android

Settings > Accessibility > Zoom on all websites
I love seeing the interplay of story and mechanics, the game started as an idea for a mechanic mostly, with a little bit of story on top. When that mechanic wasn't enough, asking questions about the story led to new mechanics.

Obra Dinn is a top five game for me. If you haven't spent a weekend binging it I can't recommend it enough.
This is the first time I have read the term “tape out”. Please clarify for non-semiconductor people, thanks.
Can't every site do this then? Seems like a good move considering just how big of a target large sites are.
Microsoft and OpenAI have different technologies they have worked on including ONNX + ONNX-RT and OpenAI is focused on Triton which is a kernel compiler being used to speed up models. Given my understanding of heavy PyTorch use it seems more likely they are utilizing that + triton versus XLA.
If we focus our efforts on colonizing space instead of trying to save this planet first, humanity will never get to colonize another planet.

Terraforming or even just permanently living self-sufficiently on Mars is many orders of magnitude harder than stopping global warming, and you see how well we are doing there.

Mars is more hostile than earth even after a long time of humans fucking it up.
I don't think so. It's definitely a starter for many people, to have the convenience of 'a Linux' which has been optimised and tested for the hardware it's being shipped on. An advanced user can choose to wipe it and apply their own. It's functionality no different from a blank drive.

That said, it's possible from some places to buy laptops without OS.
What is amazing to me is that, just like cameras have become so accessible to the masses everywhere, cheap condenser microphones that do a pretty tolerable job are now within reach of everyone who can click on Amazon for $20. And unless you're really an audio snob or someone recording for archival / professional purposes, the $700-3000 microphones that were the reference standard of the past are no longer necessary to sound pretty good. (Maybe they're an aspirational equipment just like the big DSLRs are/were).

The miracle of modern manufacturing.
No, it is persistent with denial by deletion.
Been teaching/tutoring. The pay is not great but it’s survivable. Much more flexibility with my time. I can basically just show up, though I can’t get away with coasting or not having energy when I do show up (which is actually good!). Much more freedom to pursue my interests outside of work.

Perhaps I will want to do software again in the future, but if I do, it will be something hourly, contracting perhaps. There are still things I’d like to learn/explore in software but it’s hard to find a job to do that where it doesn’t suck all my headspace (I think something in the nature of salaried jobs and promotion structures, etc are designed to not be 40 hours a week, rather all of the hours in a week, even if one can theoretically choose to maintain their “work-life balance”).
This looks great man!
> Rust has got to be the ugliest, most unfriendly programming language I've ever laid my eyes on.

No, that would be C++ or PHP.

I've written Ruby for 10 years. I can't wait for a future in which my team never needs to worry about mutated shared state. Rust is beautiful in this regard. The only languages that come close are Clojure and Haskell, but Rust accomplishes this without immutability or a bloated runtime.
Obra Dinn is a must-play. Even if you don’t like the genre, even if you don’t like the aesthetic, even if you don’t like video games, you should sit down with Obra Dinn and check it out. It’s an incredible work of art. it belongs in a museum
Find a lawyer that's willing to do that for you. Then show up to court and complete all the legal paperwork. How many do you think are going to do that? How much do you think it's going to cost?
> Doses of hormones are in the milligram range to have a biological effect.

Not even close. This is grossly overstated unless you talk about the full amount in the organism, that is an useless measure. Hormones act locally and trigger profound irreversible consequences in really tiny doses

> Please explain me how a 50 microgram piece of plastic contains enough endocrine disruptor to have a biological effect?

Adding its effects to the rest of the microplastics.

A handbook of Endocrinology will explain it much better, with tables, graphs and images.
> If you are born unlucky geographically it seems like you should absolutely have the right to improve your lot.

You absolutely have the right to improve your lot, if by lot you mean the portion of land you were born in. I would even go as far as to say you have the duty to care for it. However, you don't have the right to take other peoples lot, their identity and society from them just because you were born unlucky and they were in your opinion born unfairly lucky. What you are advocating in practice is the destruction of all smaller ethnic groups, local traditions and cultural diversity of the world by overriding everything with unstable and internally conflicting pseudo-culture (or maybe a bit more politely worded pop-culture) and identity policies promoted by the wokeist Americans. This modern, woke American imperialism hiding behind the cover of liberty and personal freedoms is in practice almost as evil and destructive as the reactionary imperialism of Russia.
A PDF is available here: https://philarchive.org/rec/NICITC
Depends on the game, it's difficult to draw a perfect circle with non-square pixels. It was possible to achieve 320x240 though, problem was you needed more than 64Kb of memory for that and couldn't get the graphics buffer in a linear memory layout.
> while they are sampled at a specific location, these are not actual values, as this would require ideal sensor technology that will probably never be achievedwhile they are sampled at a specific location, these are not actual values, as this would require ideal sensor technology that will probably never be achieved

Indeed; hence why they're a useful abstraction

> So we have to account for all kinds of diffusion, reflection, sensor surfaces, shapes of light channels, fall-off thereof, etc – and may wonder at what shape and to what extent to model them best.

Whilst 'shapes' can give particularly simple models (like nearest-neighbour voronoi cells), that's still quite a limiting assumption. For example, models which take multiple neighbours into account, like bicubic interpolation (and pretty much everything except pixel-art editors), don't fit the concept of "shape" very well. In particular, the influence/extent of the pixels "overlap", which requires a separate notion of composition/interaction; and some areas may even have negative influence!
> the most likely way they'll do that is through selling search history/data

No? Google, the largest search engine, doesn't monetize by selling search history/data. I would hazard a guess that not a single free search engine monetizes by selling search history/data.

Selling ads is extremely and literally different from selling search history/data.
This is much broader than ONNX its closer to ONNX Runtime + ONNX but it has some important advantages. StableHLO is the IR already supported by most HW accelerators including Inferentia/Trainium and TPU.

Much of this code is not "new" in the sense that much of the OpenXLA effort has been extracting the existing XLA representations and compiler from the TensorFlow codebase so it can be more modularly used by the ecosystem (including PyTorch).

A better frame is TensorFlow exporting its stable representation that many vendors have already built around, more than a "new" standard.
Historically (and currently) there are many companies that directly or indirectly working to limit freedoms, either alone or complicit with governments. Corporations are powerful and in many places have as much power over people as governments. It can be as varied as surveillance (Cisco in China) to murdering opponents (Shell in Nigeria), to industry lobbying. Look around and you'll find many more.

The solution to the problem is to go down the EU route of reducing the rights of anyone to collect all this information and make it harder to access that which is collected. It's by no means perfect but it is the right direction.
Electricity from thin air: enzyme to extract energy from hydrogen in the air
That sounds like the field of energy harvesting [1], specifically the "ambient radiation sources" category [2].

The page is ... not short, more people have been thinking about this!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting#Ambient-radi...
If I had to compare the standard modern workplace (I've been at a few) with the building of the railroads, of course I’d prefer the standard. Sitting n AC pressing keys is better than being crushed by stones or heavy metal bars, all in scorching heat.
Sorry, I didn't mean English more than British (the distinction being a bit too subtle for me to make). It's "par for the course" I guess for a national broadcaster, but:

* That doesn't mean it's not less than ideal.

* It's something one might want to bear in mind, when listening, since it might introduce some kind of a bias to the whole thing (maybe the other comment about number of episodes about european vs african history is a good argument in that direction)
I‘ll just leave this timeless classic here - "The forgotten Employee"

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
I wonder if you could apply photogrammetry processes to this to result in a higher resolution image by shifting things around ever so slightly. Creating a point cloud and getting height data to do closer analysis would be cool, but not sure how light scattering would affect this.
Clever technical hackery can't solve the wrong design
> By sensible arguments, they are usually squares in the sense that a 10*10 pixel area will be square

My first computers were Amigas, whose display elements ("screen pixels") were rectangles, but certainly non-square ;)
ASML seems to think it is mostly political and that it will not have much of an effect.

https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2023/statement-r...

From the article:

Based on today’s announcement, our expectation of the Dutch government’s licensing policy, and the current market situation, we do not expect these measures to have a material effect on our financial outlook that we have published for 2023 or for our longer-term scenarios as announced during our Investor Day in November last year.
For me an apology (regardless of who makes it, this is not a special standard I hold just for Elon Musk) is taking responsibility both for the action and then taking steps to help address the consequences. Pointing to how it was someone else's fault is at best a deflection, it doesn't take any responsibility nor try to adress the harm.
You dont have free healthcare. You pay for it like tech employees in the US do and you probably get worse service. At least there is a chance in the US to make generational wealth for a middle class, but no way in hell in Europe.
Would you really though?That sounds like you'd just get nickle and dimed to death. Look at what happened with streaming services. It used to just be Netflix, but now that's but one service of many. So some people pay $100/month to get all the services, other people pick and choose, others have moved back to torrenting media. I dunno about you but it seems like things were better as a viewer when it was just Netflix and Hulu. And that's just for watching movies and tv. I can't imagine what it would be like if it was for critical things like the police. Actually, wouldn't a police subscription devolve with the existence of rival police departments, and then they'd actually fight with each other instead of chasing criminals? Or they'd come by your house and demand payment for the police and unless you paid, a thief might just happen to know your house was unprotected and burgle your house? The incentives under that system seem all sorts of perverse.

Fire subscription seems like it would only be workable in a barely suburban or actually rural environment, where your house burning down won't also catch your neighbor's house on fire. Anything more dense and the whole block would go up in flames, including your house, if one of your neighbors didn't pay and the fire department didn't immediately extinguish the fire in their house.
Ah, well, I have seen people who ended up in debt to the tax aithorities because of such deals and schemes.

I would always prefer the cash and be done with it.
> Programming RJIT in Ruby is going to make this problems worse. Not only will it be hard to be more memory-efficient, you're going to increase the workload of the Ruby GC

Or it could be a win. Java went that way too.
Part of why those smart people don't rule the world is because high IQ (in humans!) correlates with social problems and mental illness.
The assumption is that this is limitation of human brains and that an AI would be less trade-off-y, and you could get one with Aaronson's understanding of quantum computers and the charisma of the greatest politician in recorded history.
And when such a nascent AI needs stuff done in the real world, I imagine it could get in on the 'scamming the elderly' game (very lucrative, I hear!) and then pay some humans to do what it wants.
> I have asked Kagi and cGPT to summarize my own post which Kagi did rather well (I don't have a screenshot), while cGPT spilled utter nonsense

> https://wojteksychut.com/pic/chatgpt_post_summarization.png

ChatGPT currently has no capability to access external sources, and its training data cuts off at the end of 2021, so there's no way for it to have ever succeeded at this task. It was essentially asked to summarize an article it has never seen, so it hallucinated the entire summary based off of the words in the URL as that is the only information the model was provided. For a more equivalent comparison you'd need to copy the text of the article into the chat input.

Of course that doesn't change the fact that it responded to your query with totally fabricated nonsense, which is a horrible failure mode that points to why it can be so hard to trust LLMs' responses, but I do believe the disclaimer popup that appears when you launch ChatGPT notes this particular limitation.
>"This week's pay, like every second paycheck so far, is going entirely toward charity and mutual aid btw."

Ah yes, before the thread ends have to make sure people on the internet know I am a GOOD person. But since I am so good and humble I will put it at the end of the thread with a casual "btw".
Yep. Just started doing circuit design as a hobby to supplement a software project of mine and yeah, pretty much this. It's a lot of fun and isn't super complex to get something working.

I think learning what common design practices like bypass caps, knowing when to apply certain formulas and when not (ohm's law / linear/non-linear components), and knowing where to find help when needed, especially for circuit review, was crucial.

Download kicad and watch a few videos and most software devs I know would figure out enough in a short amount of time.

Bonus points if you understand constraint systems because that's pretty much the entirety of CAD.
Try to optimize for free time. Work four days a week. Get a remote job where you can do some errands during the day or take a more extended lunch break, and you are now working four days 5-6 hours for six figures. Hard to beat in any other profession.
This type of thinking isn't new or limited to only tech folks. Almost everyday in family court there are parents who think they can just "kidnap" their children away during a custody divorce and ignore the family law judge. Most of the time, it doesn't end well.
TikTok begins blocking links to app store pages from creators' bios
Why do I get the feeling that the NSA decompiled the app (and reconstructed its source) and freaked out and shoved their evidence in front of decisionmakers ?
It sticks out to me. The regular mode for me when reading code is guessing. Even more rare are comprehensive comments which are actually up to date. Documenting something which never changes (like a gameboy) lends itself more to such. (Even though the code can still change, the device it emulates at least never does.)
Roads cost more in maintenance than their initial build cost