skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to make a guess, I would say that this change was made for reasons totally unrelated to performance.

First, modern GPUs are capable of handling millions of triangles with ease. Games are almost never vertex bound. They are usually pixel bound or bound by locking. In other words, too many or too costly of pixel operations are in use or there is some poor coordination between the CPU and GPU where the CPU gets stuck waiting for the GPU or the GPU is underutilized at certain times and then over burdened other times.

Adding two maps adds two texture fetches and possibly some blending calculations. It's very hard to weigh the comparable impact because different situations have a huge impact on which code gets executed.

For a model with many triangles, the word case scenario is seeing the side of the model with the most faces. This will cause the most triangles to pass the winding test, occlusion tests, frustum tests, etc. This will be relatively the same regardless of how close the coin is to the camera.

For the normal mapped test, the worst case scenario is when the coin fills the view regardless of its orientation. This is because the triangles will then be rasterizied across the entire screen resulting in a coin material calculation and therefore the additional fetches for every pixel of the screen.

Also, when it comes to quality, normal maps have a tendency to break down at views of high angular incidence. This is because though the lighting behaves as expected, it becomes clear that parts of the model aren't sticking up and occluding the coin. This means such maps are a poor solution for things like walls on long hallways where the view is expected to be almost perpendicular to the wall surfaces most of the time.

There is a solution called Parallax Occlusion Mapping. Though it is expensive and I don't see it in a lot of games.
Channels 12+ are perfectly valid for WiFi use in some jurisdictions. In fact, they're useful exactly because they mostly transmit outside the range of normal WiFi channels.

802.11n works perfectly fine with channels 1+5+9+13, letting the guard bands intersect. The 1/6/11 set common to the USA leaves plenty of guard space to prevent overlaps, but wastes bandwidth in jurisdictions where channel 12 and 13 are disallowed.
Also: Amplitude (the Endless Series, Humankind), mihoyou (Genshin Impact), Developer Digital (Fall Guys, ironically published by Epic Games), Paradox (Cities: Skyline), Kerbal Space Program.
> But that's exactly why this is so interesting. You take a set of people with extremely similar genetics but somehow have very different reactions.

Or it's based on a hundred different other things than when they first tried peanut butter.
Back when I blogged it was mostly "I did a thing, I want to put notes about the thing somewhere, might as well make a blog post out of it". And it came handy a bunch of times.

Why not personal notes but a blog ? Coz I can link it to co-worker
https://archive.ph/MaS4X
I wanted it to be fun and actually complete games. I started with this, with a few minor tweaks: https://github.com/Tmate6/Lichess_ChatGPT_ChatBot/blob/main/...

This approach sends along the list of legal moves in the prompt if it attempts an illegal move. That seems to work well at getting playable moves.
No I definitely have, it’s just so rare I can’t remember when I last did it. I do remember playing one in a blitz tournament 20 years ago! But if this is the first game they played, or if it happens in 1/10 matches, that’s wild
> Any ideas?

Not really. They're more lethal and will kill thousands of people in the US.
Oh sweet, more man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
I always thought of autism as a remnant of our past as primates

An example with orangutans

https://intertheory.org/postmodern-autism.htm
There are still ways to improve safety, mostly by just slowing traffic down. These cars kill at any speed, but they are significantly less likely to if traveling at say 30km/h.

Narrow lanes, reduce visibility, add complexity and turns. Traffic will naturally slow down with drivers paying more attention. It's been demonstrated that the easier you make a road to drive on, the more people speed and play with their phones.
Show HN: Writing my masters thesis in public
I think many people recognize that when society comes to rely on things with very high capital requirements, such that only a very few of these things might exist and compete with each other, there is a duty of responsible stewardship for those that manage them.

In this case, people are imagining that ChatGPT will be one of a handful of extremely capable AI platforms that completely overhaul society and that the few operators of those platforms will make choices very differently than a democratic polity might, thereby subverting democratic society.

I don’t know if that’s going to happen, but that’s the worry.

The scope and consequences of the right to “do what you want with your product” is different at scale, especially for very impactful things.
It doesn't make sense to call the same option multiple things for such a small number of use cases; you really want the last thing, but someone might not know that in _many_ circumstances it could be against the law to use it, hence the prefix to document that.

Edit: ALSO, in case it wasn't clear... E.G. wifi_regulations=USA or wifi_regulations=CDN or wifi_regulations=GBR or some other set of country codes / match in the table of known regulations. A longer string that manually specifies allowed frequencies in some way might also work.
This sounds like the cutest possible man-made horror.

I'm putting these little guys in my D&D game.
My first introduction to him was when one uncontacted tribe or anothers' language refuted something he thought was fundamental to humans.

In the decade(s) since I kinda think "Chomsky was wrong" is pretty much the only reason people bring him up.
Right, not over administrative action, just that despite there being lots of people who liked it, the majority usually wants this content.
Just installed. Memories!
Tracking the fake GitHub star market
A better slogan would be "Stop Waiting. Start Creating." because it's a clever nod to the Beckett play, and how abysmal using Unity is.
You can implement an SSD controller in an FPGA. That's how all the early server SSDs were implemented. I think my Fusion ioScale was one of them.

It's just an enormous amount of effort. This already looks like a huge amount of engineering to do for what must be a very niche product.
And ViperGPT will take said knife and make the muffin division fair when there there are an odd number of muffins by slicing either a muffin or a boy in half
Note to future self: I feel like this is the beginning of AI truly making the world a different place.

Today is Mar 18th 2023.
The EU has quotas on just about eveything in agriculture. The vegans need not worry. They remind me of the anti nuclear hippies who got us into this mess of being dependent on Russian gas while getting paid by the oil industry.
I missed that detail from the system card pdf. That was beyond stupid. There’s a marginal chance it’s already secretly replicated out of their environment.
a ride share driver’s contract is for a length of time too. the time it takes to go from point a to point b
Submitted a question in Firefox support forum, and there seems some bugs blocking it from running smoothly: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1408328
There's a reddit post that pointed out how much of an outlier your personality has to be to be someone that actively posts online. These online discussions are almost never worth the effort and don't really represent average people.
“check sales data” implies the model is fed sales data right? I would think that info requires some protections. How does Microsoft ensure that the model doesn’t hallucinate another companies sales data effectively creating a leak?
Most current cancer treatment methods we have are basically sledgehammers with loads of collateral damage - it’s not surprising the preference is to leave it if it’s benign.
We could take these vehicles off the road.

That’s a political non-starter in the U.S. You’d have better luck taking away personal firearms.
I wouldn't describe 4chan as karmaless. While the site bemoans the idea of upvotes (updoots), they'll also be the first to tell you how much they crave replies (which they call "you"s). We can see how much this affects the forum, with many people posting content, not because they think it is the best thing to post, but because they think it will get a reaction.
> The FAA raised a huge stink recently because they weren’t ready for 5G rollout and were worried that the altimeter radar would give false readings on approach to landing.

If the FAA didn't do its job and certified altimeters that shouldn't have been, as the 5G rollout was announced and previsible, maybe they should start working instead of complaining that others help them do their job?

Also, if all it takes to mess with altimeters is a rogue 5G cell, the right approach is to harden the altimeters, instead of hoping no 5G cell ever will be misconfigured or pushed wrong configuation parameters by a enemy country or ransomware hacker group.
Obviously he took his own advice when it comes to bringing OpenAI to the market!
Companies will have their own homegrown models trained on doc and data corpus stacks and fine tuned facets served by MS0AI GPTX and other cloud shoggoth gigacorps. Company A’s model will talk to company B’s model and they’ll figure out all of the above and complete the job in the time it takes you to blink and take a sip of your coffee. Bureaucratic grind lag and lossy communication fuzz may be some of the first casualties of the next few years, and I can scarcely begin to predict any further out than that.
>Cultures where infants are fed on the same broad spectrum of foods that adults eat have MUCH lower incidence of allergies.

Most mammalian wild animals (and humans until 100 years or so ago) drink their mothers milk up until they're able to eat regular food and then from that point on eat whatever adults of their species eat. They don't go through 5 different levels of Gerber before eating real food.
Cute Authoritarianism
It looks to me that because society places more value on STEM, a lot of people in STEM (especially that T, as you can see on this site) end up acting like "gift and talented" children and sprinting away with it. With gifted and talented, the charade falls away by college; not so with Big Tech.

There's a sadistic glee in proclaiming people nothing more than biological machines and acting like a scolding parent whenever any emotion is brought up in any form. I always smile whenever I see comments from one of these types of people explaining how fulfilling they find their lives. Sure, buddy. :)
The video points to this article ("Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride") that was discussed a little while ago:

> But during those 40 years, pickups have changed significantly. They’ve become bigger, heavier and more tricked out, and they’ve transformed from workhorse vehicles to family cruisers.

* https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35046151

The top-selling vehicle in 2022 was the Ford F-150; top selling vehicle in 1982 was Ford Escort: I'm having a hard time believing that people's hauling needs have changed in the intervening decades to rationally justify the sales figures.
Sounds a bit like a solution in search of a problem.

There's no reason you can't use a 64-bit value in a 32-bit system. Much simpler to
access the 64-bit value as two 32-bit words than propose a whole new confusing and ambiguous system.

In terms of current-time coding, the only time that second hi-order word would be used is when the lo-order word overflows, and on initialisation of the 64-bit variable. And if needs must, it could even be a compiled-in value, seeing it will only change once in every 68 years.
Their people pop up in every hiring thread on HN, it isn't just warent and it isn't the first time.
Paywalled, but... are there pictures of mice with little antlers? I would really like to see that.
PostgreSQL Logical Replication Explained
It’s an artifact of the camera https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/21446/what-happ...
> It was Office 2013.

I use 2010 for a reason: the wine platinum level of compatibility.

Just follow the install guides to throttle the installer IO and you'll have something wonderful, either in WSL or baremetal linux.
There's also an old NES game called Spelunker.
Which should make the "solution" obvious to the regulators.

To license them as a "passenger car", they have to also meet passenger car safety, emissions, and fuel economy standards. If they don't meet those standards (that were in effect as of their build date) then they can't be licensed as a "passenger car".
So it seems like if we reverse time, we reverse entropy and that as time approaches 0, we would effectively be reversing the big bang and instead have the big collapse.

Another thought experiment that comes to mind is compressed gas in a cylinder. When we open the valve, the gas in the cylinder comes out. In reverse time, the gas would go back into the cannister and the valve would close after the gas went back in. Very low probability of that happening in forward time, though not not 0.

Though it seems weird, because why does the gas go into the cylinder? Because further into reverse-time, something sucked it all out (in forward-time, this machine is the compressor that put the gas in the cylider.) This hurts my brain!
"a fundamental shift from the extremely punitive American system"

How is he going to deal with the powerful people who are profiting off these slavery camps?
How long did you actively avoid peanut products for your son though?
The peanut allergy hysteria narrative says that I can't eat peanuts on a plane or in a classroom with somebody who's allergic because the mere odor of peanuts might kill them. If there is any shred of truth to that narrative (which I seriously doubt), then perhaps trace peanut dust in a home from adults eating crunchy peanut-based snacks is enough early exposure to inhibit an allergic reaction.
This month, confessionsoftheprofessions.com, turned 10 years old. It has helped me understand SEO and building other websites. It has made the equivalent of a few hundred bucks a year or averages out to paying for itself. It also helped spark the idea for a book I wrote you can find at mylifeasawomanproject.com (project interviewing hundreds of women around the world during covid-19). It's put me in touch from people all over the world. And of course, it has made me a better writer.
Recently, I came across the Feynman-Wheeler handshake[1-ish], which lead to the Transactional Interpretation[2] of quantum mechanics, which lead to the Afshar experiment[3]

I've come to conclude that all of these are consistent, but that they are a metaphorical truth, in that you shouldn't interpret them as literal truth.

Gun safety advocates teach "All Guns are Loaded", another metaphorical truth. If you behave as if it were true, you will generally live longer, and be safer.

The math underlying quantum mechanics has all sorts of non-intuitive interpretations, and is often used as a gateway to woo-woo theories. I'm allergic to woo, and thus treating all of this as a metaphorical truth works best for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afshar_experiment
Everyone thinks, you probably think too. And many times both people are right, it will just mean different tradeoffs later on

I wouldn't derive malice, some people have a lot of opinions, and they might clash with others, and some times it is too much

But like everything else life does not stop, so you just have to set a cutoff date and move forward. Say you took note of all the comments and scheduled a review next year

In general I think those people are valuable, even if annoying sometimes, but the project will always benefit. Better than coworkers that don't care
Private car insurance companies are pretty sophisticated, so they certainly know if a certain vehicle is causing higher claims and will price accordingly.

But, IMHO, the legal minimum liability insurance policy is way too low. A serious car accident could easily cause millions in personal injury damage. Most US states require only ~$50k personal injury coverage.
oh yea i think i have some family on wegovy ( or maybe mounjaro now ), hadn't realized that it was approved for obesity.

What i don't understand is that you are saying these are "preventative treatments for obesity" . aren't preventative treatements given before the condition even comes into picture, these drugs are after you get obese so not sure how they are preventative.

Doesn't weight just come back instantly once you stop these drugs. Hard time accepting that solution is putting 200million americans on this drug for rest of their lives.

"Cardiometabolic improvements seen from week 0 to week 68 with semaglutide reverted towards baseline at week 120 for most variables."

https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.147...
I feel like a lot of people are taking a very emotional stance on this.

Everything I learned about coding I learned through new mediums (software/internet) myself, no human in the loop. Just a bit of a generalization.
It largely depends, but in general normal maps are faster to render. GPUs can parallelize that type of task better than rendering triangles.
I think that one thing to keep in mind is that we are only capable of observing the passage of time along one vector because our perception relies upon entropic biological processes.

We cannot observe in any subset of possible universes where entropy is not present or is working backwards-Ergo those possibilities are wholly out of our direct perception.

That does not mean that causality cannot run in reverse, however, only that we cannot interact with those mechanisms in a way that would preclude our existence or observation.
> The scope and consequences of the right to “do what you want with your product” is different at scale, especially for very impactful things

I agree.

I guess I'm just confused by people acting as if Open AI's products are so fundamental now. If the day comes that they are, I'd have a totally different opinion on the sentiment.
What happens when AI models ingest the AI-generated content that will soon flood the web?
Will do! Thank you so much for the great info!
Keeping a log and history of my dealings.

Even though the traffic is very limited to my blog - which I believe is the case with 99% of personal blogs/websites - going back to the blog to write more stuff and reading through old posts are useful. It gives you an insight of how you were thinking about something else or something that you should care about but you forgot to do
Don’t know why people downvoted me, but this is exactly what I meant.

I used to be part of the LLMs-are-just-fancy-autocomplete club, but you simply cannot deny that these models somehow encode understanding and reasoning that’s improving on an almost weekly basis. Not limited to LLMs, even image generating models and others are getting spooky at an alarmingly rate.

We might still have a very long way to go in terms of nailing the right architecture, maybe even decades away, but in terms of output—I’m just blown away.
Now I just need a little sley and a tiny Santa...
Genuinely, I think you may be getting upset about the tone more than the contents. The advice is generally good (if outdated). If you follow it you will generally answer more of your own questions faster, and when you do need to ask questions they will be easier to answer because they will highlight your misunderstanding or problem.

I'm saying this as some one who answers newbie programming questions on the internet. Trying to help some one who has not put any effort into understanding is taxing.

>
Teaching is the act of understanding where your audience is in the learning process, and leading/guiding them through that journey in a kind and patient way. The truly ignorant don't know how to ask the question. Think of a child who's first learning computer programming. Think of an adult who's studying a foreign language for the first time. Think of the questions of a child who's never experienced snow.

These are all allowed - "I'm trying to learn more about <topic>, I searched for <a,b,c> and the results did not seem related, can some point me in the right direction?".
I'm planning to get it tomorrow as well! And hell I have to buy that license since I used it for free back in 2000s ^_^

EDIT: bit more words
I don’t think I said anything about possible or impossible. But their revenue is only one part of the equation. If you don’t know the other numbers, it’s not particularly useful to say here’s a big number they must be profitable.
.... they would "originate" from all the locations the gravity waves spread to and converge on the source.

Tenet has nothing to do with this- I'm just explaining it as it was covered in my many physics classes that covered the nature of the arrow of time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time) and how I interpret it in terms of what seems most likely/least unlikely.
> It's incredible how well WiFi works for the amount of power it uses.

Actually, WiFi disproves that we'd have a tragedy of the commons.

> Having a limit across the board for all mass manufactured devices prevents an escalating spiral of vendors selling 30, then 40, then 50dbm etc routers.

No, the AP and the device both have a strong interest to limit the power used: not just to limit interference with other devices inside the home, but also to increase battery life!!

> but wink wink can be patched with easily googled instructions to increase the power to work better

I just don't understand why most posters here assume the worst by default. Most people are nice and want to obey the law.

WiFi proved that very little legal oversight was necessary to make it work.

In fact, it did the opposite: by comparing the efficiency of the use of the 2.4Ghz band (noisy with microwaves etc) to the rest of the spectrum managed by the heavy hand of the FCC, any reasonable person would argue for removing regulations or more parts of the spectrum (starting maybe with the huge chunks waste on HAM radio!)
I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked well.

That led a fellow Canadian to my blog, who asked how I found a job here. My email back to him started to get pretty long, and so I turned it into an article for the blog.

That article attracted more people looking for developer jobs in Japan, so I started collecting their email addresses as I occasionally came across developer job opportunities that didn’t require Japanese.

After about a year of this, I heard a company had made a successful hire through the list, and so I started charging companies.

From there, the business organically expanded, until I was working with many of the major tech companies in Japan.

It’s now a business generating a life-changing amount of income. It wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t of started blogging with no real intent other than to share what I was learning.
Searched for an article with pics

Man made horror, not very cute, can confirm
This makes even 30 years ago seem like such simpler times. The rate in which something today can skyrocket into the zeitgeist is mindboggling.

30 years ago the biggest hype thing was stuff like actual yo-yos.
(Obligatory Simpsons bit: https://youtu.be/H-da-rJhbXI?t=53)
Google Apollo: The >$3B Game-Changer in Datacenter Networking
But they are largely on insurance companies/public healthcare systems books.

This is why vaccines are generally free out of pocket, the ROI is very positive for the insurance company.
> Would be helpful to know how long that battery can keep it backed up.

They say: It has a built-in LiPo and stores your data for up to a year.