skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope no ChatGPT.

You may want to reread what I said. I was responding to someone talking about games and game performance in the context of text rendering. And the PhD research topic is how to use the GPU to accelerate text rendering.

You seem to perhaps be misunderstanding what I’m saying and somehow thinking I’m defending

> Microsoft Teams takes 9 seconds to display under a kilobyte of text, including 3 seconds to just display a splash screen)

I’m not. Clearly it shouldn’t take that long to render that text. But achieving a screen full of text at 120fps (or is it even just 60fps) on the highest resolution displays is actually a difficult problem for CPU renderers to achieve (even for the greatly simplified case of a single mono space font). If you think otherwise, you may want to sync up with Raph and publish your contributions to this space. It’s possible I’m getting some of the specific details wrong (again - not my area of expertise) but there’s definitely a push to find HW acceleration within the GPU to achieve those frame rates (and not just text rendering - all 2D rendering is difficult to HW accelerate).

Notice in [3] how CPU renderers are still lower latency than GPU ones because it’s an area of active research that hasn’t yielded winners yet.

Also I’m well aware we have super computers in our pocket. But don’t forget that the screen resolution is really frickin high and DPI scaling on top (so that text is actually legible) adds additional overheads (+ rendering at 60hz instead of 120). There’s also all sorts of tricks being played (eg it’s not going to be rendering the full screen I think because most UIs are retained not immediate).

[1] https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2020/06/01/pie...

[2] https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2020/06/13/fas...

[3] https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-render...
Yes, they are. Consider a uniform random variable between 0 and 1. The probability that the r.v. is in (0, 1) is 1, but 0 and 1 are possible values the r.v. can take. This is called “almost surely” and pops up frequently in, for example, stochastic calculus.
Not everyone on hn shares that opinion. Ai products are great but not when trained using stolen ip. At the moment there is no way to prevent openai’s products from ripping code or web content and then spitting it out without royalties. And that’s quite an issue.
> and strategically shallow the opinions of people may be, even very literate ones with unlimited access to information

The problem with unlimited access to information is that you can find a thousand people arguing for a thousand different opposing things with all that information.
That’s not how anti trust works…

Besides, what you are describing is not a “monopoly” it would be a “monopsony” even if the same people would be going from WWE to UFC.
This is usually the most efficient approach in regards of impact.

However, there is a case for volunteering directly for cause one is passionate about — you feel more fulfilled, it is enriching, you get to know people who care about the same things you do, you have a chance to be involved in making decisions and so on.

A friend (software engineer) recently spent some time helping some organization to plant trees. Some other friends (also engineers) make lighthearted fun of him, saying that his time would be much better spent making money and then donating it to someone else to plant the trees. But I don't think he made the wrong decision.
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Windows NT was dead in all of them by the time IA64 came out.
I'm so tired of this take.

It just reads like a massive cop-out, a "you are misinformed, sheeple"-style of empty platitude trying to sound somewhat smart, or deep, or "more informed".

One of the worst things I've seen happening in my lifetime is this transition to a post-modern, post-truth world. It's just exhausting that people feel it's ok to say "you are misinformed" in different ways, without ever providing a different proper source for information, a source where others could at least try to gauge if they're misinformed or not.

It's simply a thug-of-war between people living different realities, both accusing the other side of falling to some propaganda without basis.

Sorry for the rant, y'all, but this bullshit really grates, hard.
The iPhone is unique. Like the Mac. There aren’t 12 manufacturers competing making identical iPhones.

Wintel computers are a dime a dozen. And with little else to differentiate them price seems to have quickly become the prime factor for many people.
Why would I care about laptop speakers? 1600 EUR gives me plenty of room to get a normal laptop, Harman-kardon soundsticks plus top-end Sennheiser headphones. No matter how good laptop speakers are, they won't even be near the ones mentioned.
I liken this to the autotune songs. I cannot stand autotune. But since about 2005 or so, I can not think of a single song on the radio that doesn't use it.

And for the past two or three years, it seems like autotune isn't even used to emulate a human voice anymore. It's not like Cher augumenting some parts of her singing, rather, the whole song (all of them, almost, at least the garbage that I hear in my children's friends' circles) just sounds completely faked. But these kids grow up on it, and for them real human voices singing sounds unusual.
I disagree with the article, but your analogy is pretty off. The "real" alternatives to those are not as... available as "real" porn.
I really don't like the phrase "parental rights." As authority figures, parents don't have rights, they have responsibilities. Parenting is a form of government and should be treated as such.

It's the children's rights, freedom and agency that are being infringed upon. Even if a parent was unjustly restricting their own child from going outside, instead of calling the police on someone else's child, that would be just as wrong.

On average, I think CPS interventions are usually good. A parent with unchecked power is the ultimate form of totalitarianism, and abuse is common.
Yeah. Anyone that’s even keeping an eye on this probably has an axe to grind.
Capitalists Can’t Save Us from Capitalism
That’s more out of a concern of are they lost or needing help.
If people can find cartoon or 3D modeled porn sexy (and they do), they will find AI porn sexy. Maybe not everyone, but enough people will. So yeah I agree with you.
This exactly.

Given the diligence of the Safari team - especially in the face of the extremely lazy first bug report - it's kinda wild that this person thought it appropriate to post such a negative angle.

The second bug report wasn't even a bug: Chrome & Safari had implemented an unspecified part of the spec. differently to each other (specifically the implementation behind generating client IDs for fetch events in web workers -vs- the main window). The op is relying on an unspecified implementation detail for their app to work. Yet the Safari team actively treat it as a bug in an attempt to be more generally compatible with Chrome.

My takeaway from actually reading through the content of the post is that the Safari devs are responsive and approachable, even even the bug reporter is lazy. Which is more than can be said of many other browsers projects.
Something I felt reading the book that I did not feel with the movie was a bit of horror sci-fi vibes. That alone to me is what makes Solaris one of Lem's top works, on which the crude descriptions add to the suspense and horror.
Yeah, that’s a fair stance and I generally agree with you here.
"The prolific chemist, who has published a study every 37 hours this year..."

I found this part quite impressive until I read the following part:

"Luque is constantly publishing papers. Last year he authored some 110 articles. So far this year he has published 58. The chemist admitted that since December, he has been using the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to “polish” his texts. “These months have been quite productive, because there are articles that used to require two or three days and now I do them in one day,” he said."

Even if this is unrelated to the actual story, I find it a tiny bit disturbing. Is this the new standard practice? Let some robot spew out paragraphs of text to convey the scientist research?
I also started gaming after voodoo had left the scene but I remember buying two 3dfx voodoo 2 cards for SLI way past their prime to play Diablo II in glide mode (for niceness and 1024x786 res and retro-brag-points). Fun times with cheap old hardware.
If you're in the US or Canada check out FIRST Robotics Mentor Network: https://info.firstinspires.org/mentor-network

You would be helping out teams of high school students build and program their robots for competitions. This generally happens around January-April but most teams also work on their skills in the off-season.

I do this in an in-person capacity but virtual mentorship opportunities are available as well.
Topics that are helpful for the team to learn in the coding space would be Java and code management best practices (mostly Git). If you have a bit of mechanical knowledge that can help as well.

I just came back from a competition happening on the weekend and it's a very rewarding experience.

Note that you'd need a Youth Protection screening (in Canada it's basically a Vulnerable Sector Screening with the police) because you'd be working with kids.
IANAL, and apropos of nothing in particular, there is a fun English case Everet v Williams [1725] (also known as the "Highwayman's Case").

They were highwaymen who agreed to share the loot. A dispute arose between them, and Everet decided to petition the court. This turned out to be a Bad Idea.

According to https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/92239/strange-case-evere... :

> [Consequently] An order was issued for the arrest of Wreathock and White, Everet’s solicitors, on a charge of contempt of court for even bringing the case to the court’s attention at all. And for his part in the fiasco, barrister Jonathan Collins was ordered to pay all the costs himself—earning him a unique place in British legal history as the only barrister ordered to pay the costs of a failed case.

Both Everet and Williams were eventually tried and hanged.

> [The case] is frequently cited as an example of the legal principle ex dolo malo non oritur action—“no right of action can have its origin in fraud.” Or, in other words: You can’t expect the law to help when what you’re doing is illegal in the first place.

Wreathock, the solicitor, was convicted of robbery in 1735. He was sentenced to hang, but it was commuted to transportation to Australia.

An aside joke ... An Englishman goes to apply for a job at an Australian company.
Australian: Do you have a criminal record?
Englishman: I didn't know you still needed one.
yes, 1999
Macbook users have to do something like this when moving their SSD drive to other machine! Not very user friendly!
Ford is infamous for this kind of stuff, see the Ford Pinto:

> Ever wonder what your life is worth in dollars? Perhaps $10 million? Ford has a better idea: $200,000.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/
> There are other points though, "last mile" is a difficult problem

"Last mile" is literally solved with two legs and some shoes. A mile is walked in 15-30 minutes, and if you can scooter you can walk. The actually mobility-challenged can be provided vehicles if necessary.
Sometimes full of trash
It all depends on the willingness to extract that oil. Alternative energy has its merits, but there is a wing of the environmentalists that have convinced a segment of the population that "keep it in the ground" is a viable short term strategy. If this transition to green energy is not extended to more like 100 or 150 years, we are screwed.
> trained from images they own copyright to

Do they own the right to train-a-model? It's not clear at all. A lot of great photographers don't want their unique style to be multiplied ad infinitum. Copyright is to "copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work", and this is not an adaptation
I think the questionable but was referring to the fact Chinese users doubled this month which seems unlikely as they went from about a quarter of all steam users to about a half.

That would be a lot of new people if at all accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Bucharest_summit

> United States, Canada, Poland, Romania, the Czechs and the Baltic States, strongly supported Ukraine and Georgia becoming NATO action plan members; however, they were strongly opposed by Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Mere months later Russia invades Georgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

France and Germany are to blame.
16GB is objectively better than 8GB in every way even if you compare across platforms, so yes it is correctly a numbers game
I think some of it is artificial, but I think the types mentioned in the article[1] do confer real security. For someone without status, getting a top tier company on their resume will make future job searches either. Making it into the inner ring of a company makes ones position more secure against for example layoffs. Neither of these are directly tied to money, rather I think many view it as a way to protect against running out of it.

Obviously there are limits (ie governors running for president aren't doing it for additional security), but I think it is true for many.

[1] "They begin by trying to get into a top-tier investment firm. Once they accomplish this, they find a hierarchy to navigate within the fund, then realize that the real inner ring in VC is occupied by the investors who land the hottest deals."
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Inter...

> About how often do you use the internet?

That's the definition.
Show me where I'm wrong. Saying "you're wrong" does not foster anything, it's pure noise...
It would be interesting to see what would happen to a fully filled maze if, once you got a steady continuous flow at the entrance and exit, you injected some dye into the water at the maze entrance.
Qt isn't GNOME either.

Visual Studio has had free express editions, before community was introduced, since 2010.

Even those express editions were more feature rich than GNOME tooling.
Yeah. Those initial airstrikes really freaked Russia out. Relations were never the same after them. NATO's first military attack really shook them.
Work just bought me a new M2 Macbook Pro. It works great, but it's SO UGLY! I was really surprised to have such a negative emotional response to a new Apple product.
- Ukraine is the only country to have fought off Russia, except Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Germany.

- Ukraine's army if frankly in tatters, being propped by massive supplies of ammo, weapons and mercs

- Ukraine is already a buffer state by virtue of its geographical position

- your last 3 points are simply appeals to emotions and in no way arguments for Ukraine's membership.
Borland C++ ver. 3 was a great product, vastly superior to Microsoft's Programmer's Workbench (character-based UI).

However, when we upgraded to Borland 4, we encountered catastrophic bugs: Symbols were flagged as undefined that were successfully linked a few modules earlier. Use of 'new' operator in a DLL crashed the program (that one cost us two weeks). To be clear: these were bugs in the compiler, as they had compiled & run with no problem in the previous version.

We had to switch to Visual Studio.
Just to clarify to the casual observer, parent's quote is from a one-paragraph section about how Luque's been able to be particularly productive recently, rather than anything to do with his suspension:

> The university has sanctioned Luque for working as a researcher at other centers, such as the King Saud University in Riyadh and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, despite holding a full-time publicly funded contract with the Spanish institution.
One way could be to work with a tech collective that supports different causes. Riseup (riseup.net) is one. It may be more of sysadmin and platform work than developing apps though.

Unless you can commit for a longer term, it probably may not be worth their while.
The US grand strategy is to build the largest military, democratic and economic alliance in order to dominate world affairs? Finland (and Sweden) punches above their weight in all three
Parisians overwhelmingly vote to expel e-scooters from their streets
Having a wholesome & productive evening are we?
Mitosis is indeed one of the inspirations for the project.

I was initially considering to use their AST especially for the ability of transpiling to React/Vue/Svelte. Of course the goals of Mitosis and Reka are different; and in particular - I wasn't quite sure about some parts of their AST where it seems to represent expressions as code in strings instead of individual AST nodes. For example, let's say we have the following element:

<button type={state.someVariable} />

In Mitosis, the value for the "type" prop will { "code": "state.someVariable" }. In Reka, the value would be an AST node { "type: "MemberExpression", ... }. Which means, when I have to evaluate the AST on runtime - if using Mitosis, I would have to either parse this expression first before I can do anything with it, or use something like eval() which requires the consumer to enable "unsafe-eval" in their CSP of their application, which feels like a big ask.

The first option seems more reasonable than the second one, but it also means I have one extra step to do on evaluation and I will have to include the parser as a runtime dependency.

Furthermore, I feel like having everything as an AST node feels a bit easier to work with. For example, you probably don't want your end-users of your page editor to interact with code directly; you probably want to build some UIs to make it easier for them; in which case it's easier to build UIs when you already have the AST nodes rather than on code that's not yet passed.
Sometimes, people just say things that are utterly vile and disgusting, and then they get downvoted.

> Ukraine may win... after 5+ years of brutal war and heavy destruction. Is that better than a life back under Moscow's rule?

Hey that's a good example!
pn is perlin noise. It's not part of the k standard, but provided by the iKe environment here. iKe is also providing 'f' which is the frame counter, and pi which is obviously pi.

It's a bit confused by the first function. It takes two arguments, x and y, and returns a tuple. The first value is 'y' and the second value is (sin(pi % 100 * y) * -18) * perlinNoise(frameNumber % 20, 0.3 * x, ), 0.1 * y). I might be a little off on that formula, it's been awhile since I've read k code.
That may be a benefit, but the primary concept of open source is that its open source.
There's no goal post moving, that's a virtue of the VM.

a "Proper GUI tool" is not.

the BEAM is an OS, the JVM is not.

and as of matter of fact.

https://mrjoelkemp.medium.com/jvm-struggles-and-the-beam-4d9...

It's the actor model all the way down... that's the abstraction.

Simple systems, are easy to manage, complex systems are harder to manage, hence why you need a full blown GUIS to manage the JVM, because it does everything, and tries to satisfy every use case, so it has to handle every use case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
> The university has sanctioned Luque for working as a researcher at other centers, such as the King Saud University in Riyadh and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, despite holding a full-time publicly funded contract with the Spanish institution.

ChatGPT is getting cited in comments, but this is the real lede.
Huh. Looks like you're right: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-te...

I didn't expect that, since the company makes a lot of money. I guess they also invest a lot.

Anyway, thinks for the info update!
I don’t believe that anyone has tried to imply that.
> Russia would want its breadbasket back and an invasion would happen.

In 2019, Russia produced almost 3 times as much wheat as Ukraine. The invasion was launched by a deranged psychopath, let's not pretend Russia in anyways benefited from this.
Tiny hybrid robot can identify, capture a single cell
why is it weird?

Apple states its quarterly results in USD, which is all their investors/media care about, so of course Apple cares enormously about profit/revenue in USD. in addition, much of their design/engineering/management/etc costs are in or coupled to USD.
That clears things up, although I'm curious now why a VFD wouldn't be better
For the same reason they took out the FM radio on phone, those devices with a million antennas in them:

It makes it harder for them to sell you Apple Music, Google Music, Spotify, etc.
> If people lament the popularity of these fantasies I would say there's a segment of people not lucky enough to find a partner and are absolutely disillusioned about the prospects of finding someone. I know some men for example who occasionally end up using escorts after having no luck finding someone for long periods of time. And so yeah, is it really unexpected that people address these needs elsewhere even if it's not ideal?

Porn is different to having a partner though. Being with someone is more than just sex.

To your point, I could imagine a world in which some people have long-term "committed" relationships with GPT-powered AIs in the near future though. An AI like the one in Her seems very much possible today if you did some custom fine tuning of GPT-4 and added a NLP layer to convert speech-to-text and vice-versa.
The practical application of this fluid maze is the automatic transmission's valve body:

https://youtube.com/v/u4kM67f_P3A?t=23

Tangent: Change your transmission fluid. Lifetime transmission fluid spec is the lifetime of your vehicle's powertrain warranty.
"is in the style of" or "makes use of the same characters"

No because in that case you're talking about, there is at least an artist.

There is no artist for a generated picture - closer than the training set.
I think the 2009 recession for the US, and our anemic response to it, created a huge swath of perma-bears across the political spectrum who have predicted the US economy will collapse every year since 2011.

Like a broken clock I’m sure they’ll eventually be correct.
Portugal has barely hit the 2% goal for defense spending that NATO members are supposed to be targeting. So it's not like they'd be spending more to protect Ukraine.
How is democracy a good thing?

It's literally the dictatorship of the majority over all the other minorities.

We should move towards decentralising power (ideally up to the individual level), not strengthening democracy.

Democracy is just a tool we use to decide what to do with the collective power we have.

And enabling everyone to run LLMs definitely helps everyone to become more independent of governments and large corporations.
Read between the lines. They can't openly say that the US was responsible for Nordstream.
2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 First Drive: Effortlessly Good, Near-Slam Dunk on Tesla
I recently watched another lesser known movie based on a Stanisław Lem book (by a Czech director):

Icarus XB 1 (1963) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/

It also has great set design like Solaris but didnt have such a large budget. I love his style, I should read one of his books.

Edit: the full thing is on YouTube https://youtu.be/WwodJW1ikFo