skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pads are about 2/3 worn on the rear (very small pads) and 1/2 worn on the front. Of course, they'll eventually need changing, but regen braking takes a large amount of the deceleration energy.

Wheel bearings on modern cars are incredibly long-lived. I don't think I've changed one in over 30 years on our family cars.
It is beyond ridiculous at this point, and serves to make people not take archeology seriously anymore. Where's the shame in admitting they don't know what an object was for?

And a coffee maker is not for ritual use, it is for making coffee.
To be fair: Merkel (so conservatives and liberals) made the decision in 2011 after Fukushima in a move to align with popular sentiment.
I remember reading about fractal-based image compression in the 1990’s. IIRC, there was some product out there that used it (I vaguely remember product ads with a paint can in them) but I don’t think it ever took off.

I wonder if coupling an AI to help find self-similar portions of the image could revive this idea?
I agree about your notion of there being lots of important moments in history, and Schmidhuber's contributions are not small by any means. Yet, 1990 was not the year when Deep Learning took off.
Every time I hear about something ancient being discovered that has writing on it, I immediately ask What does it say?! I realize it may take a lot of time and effort to decipher these things, but I think we have a pretty good handle on most Maya writing.
They might offer a small block of metadata indicating which parts of the API the change uses in its current incarnation. Would fit in nicely with the details about which platforms it can run on.
TPM (technical product manager) maybe?
Launching process programmatically: system vs. CreateProcess vs. ShellExecute
>> That's the beauty of autoregressive training, the model is rewarded for capturing and utilizing explanatory relations because they have an outsized effect on prediction.

That sentence should be decorated with the word "allegedly", or perhaps "conjecture"! In practical terms, I believe you are pointing out that language models of the GPT family are trained on a context surrounding, not just preceding, a predicted token. That's right (and it gets fudged in discussions about predicting the next token in a sequence), but we could already do that with skip-gram models, and with context-sensitive grammars, and dependency grammars, many years ago, and I don't remember anyone saying those were specially capable of capturing explanatory relations [1]. Although for grammars the claim could be made, since they are generally based on explanatory models of human language (but not because of context-sensitivity).

Anyway, I thought you were arguing that explanations are arbitrary, "explanatory posits", and wouldn't that mean that an explanation doesn't improve prediction? This is not to catch you in contradiction, I'm genuinely unsure about this myself. My understanding is that explanatory hypotheses improve predictions in the long run [2], but that's not to say that a predictive model will improve given explanations, rather explanatory models eventually replace strictly predictive models.

Are you saying that including explanations in training data can improve prediction? That would make sense, but this is very hard to do when training a predictive model on text. In that case, the explanations are at best hidden variables and language models are just not the right kind of model to model hidden variables.

Sorry, writing too much today. And I got work to do. So I won't bitch about "in-context learning" (what we used to call sampling from a model back in the day, three years ago before the GPT-3 paper :).

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[1] My Master's thesis was a bunch of language models trained on Howard Philips Lovecraft's complete works, and separately on a corpus of Magic: the Gathering cards. One of those models was a probabilistic Context-Free Grammar, and despite its context-freedom, and because it was a Definite Clause Grammar, I could sample from it with input strings like "The X in the darkness with the Y in the Z of the S" and it would dutifully fill-in the blanks with tokens that maximised the probability of the sentence. So even my puny PCFG could represent bi-directional context, after a fashion. Yet I wouldn't ever accuse it of being explanatory. Although I would say it was quite mad, given the corpus.

[2] I mention in another comment my favourite example of the theory of epicylces compared to Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
You forgot Canada (23 active MLB players) and the Jays!

Also there’s plenty of Mexican (33) born MLB players and a professional Mexican league.

Anyways I don’t know why that guy was so dismissive of baseball, I don’t care about baseball at all but this stuff is pretty common knowledge. Sounds like he plays a lot of video games.
And multivariable calculus is the intro to that.
East Asian Age Reckoning
If you take a preexisting name you get some search traffic for free, though I doubt that's what's happening here.
Yep I did the same (I worked at BHP the Aussie industrial multinational, and funnily ended up at DEC in '97 and still work there via HPE). Initially I was doing the regular downloads to a SGI workstation and writing the floppy images out on I think on a DOS PC. Eventually I was able to repurpose an unused 386 at work to become my Linux server at work.
Especially since Valve already has anti-cheat malware. The reality is that the only way to combat cheating is to stream it to the client but as we've seen with Stadia, it's just not quite there yet. Instead, they turn your machine into an internet-cafe appliance and prevent you from undoing it. To find cheaters, simply look at stats and behavior. You don't need to lock down a PC. You need to lock down your logs server-side.

It's also pretty scary that it's open sourced so more developers can use it. I cringe at having to fight root kits with every game uninstall. I'm a huge fan of games that detect cheaters in subtle ways and direct them to unintended outcomes. Like being stuck in the elevator unable to escape. Or what COD is doing with cheaters, taking away their senses and ability to see people or objectives. Kids will complain it's a bug or what not on the support forums only to expose themselves and get banned.
Yea I’m sticking to that argument.

Basically: I think it would be fine for anyone to participate in market transactions with transparency. But I don’t think there can be transparency here, or that if we really tried then almost no one would accept the transaction anyway.

So I’m thinking a ban of the transactions is the lesser evil.

We already ban e.g sale of your own organs. I’m fine with that too. Now, am I the right person to decide whether people value their kidneys like their integrity? Yes.
Hypercard could be reworked without the drag and drop, double tap or long press pops up a menu, select what you need from the menu. It would work like every other phone app and leverage the other apps which come stock, want to place a picture than double tap to get the menu, click add image and it opens your gallery app and lets you select a picture and do basic editing, click done and the image is placed. And I can think of dozens of ways to extend the hypercard idea based off what a smartphone offers.
>just means they can't write reviews

So, restricted.
I have pretty extensive experience in this domain.

Personally, I found there is a application complexity ceiling above which LabView was not viable. It is pretty great for rapid data collection and analysis, and it is well integrated with a variety of hardware. But once there is a few things going on at once the "backplane" abstraction becomes unhelpful.

So many vendors provide python libs these days, and python plotting is good enough in these that it is harder to justify LV.
Perhaps it will simply return in search of The Kirk, The Creator, and offer to purge the infestation of irrational, disorganised organic units.
The article is quite clear about nobody losing access to their games. They were blocked from write access to the review system for a while, that's it.
What are they gonna use for power?
This was not decided by the greens only. From the article:

> Yet the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 caused German sentiments to shift strongly against atomic energy once more, and Ms. Merkel abruptly reversed course. Her government passed a law to phase out Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors by the end of 2022.

Similarly in the neighbouring Austria, nuclear power is prohibited in the constitution, not by a political party.
Unfortunately popular sentiment doesn't equate to scientific fact. Nuclear power is cleaner, safer and less environmentally damaging than fossil fuels in every way. Still, since when have politicians ever let facts get in the way of campaigning for power?
Attention everyone! Spacexpanse ROD is making a big entrance into the mainstream! With more and more people investing in ROD, it's clear that its future is changing rapidly. Keep an eye out for exciting developments in the SpaceXpanse Multiverse world, and consider getting involved yourself to be part of this exciting new frontier.
This will result in 15 MT more CO2 emissions per year

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/15-millionen-tonnen-mehr-co2-...
With PL/Java you can at least debug stored procedures, because the Java Debug Wire Protocol is a protocol so you can run it over the network. There are instructions for how to attach a debugger in the PL/Java docs.

For debugging SQL remotely, I don't know what's available, if anything. Though if you only use SQL for short things, you can just run it and debug the query interactively I guess.

Most databases have tools for logging query timings and doing auditing. PGAudit is one for Postgres.
I've upvoted this because it's funny and mostly true. However, the outputs from no-code and hand rolled are not equal. It blurs the distinction between custom and off-the-shelf. With no-code representing something closer to the latter.
Proposal for a regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse |Chat Control [pdf]
Most videos are only going to be viewed a tiny number of times, often just on the devices they were taken on. It’s probably not worth spending too much effort on compressing these.

A small number of videos are going to be viewed millions of times. For these few videos it’s worth the compute to do the best possible compression.

There’s no reason the same video formats and decoding hardware can’t be used for both. The high compute version can use an ML model to figure out how to optimize the bandwidth budget across every scene while the cheap version uses some easy heuristics.
Coal, Gas and Wind
That bears no relation to the symbolic differentiation in the OP though.

Even plain old multiplication and division, and even addition and subtraction have stability and efficiency problems on floats, which don't appear in symbolic solvers.
Yeah, what’s even more hilarious: Conservatives made the decision to shut down the nuclear plants and also destroyed the German renewable sector at the same time.

But voters have a short term memory and will blame it all on the current administration.
I don't have a green laser, but I just tried shining a 365nm UV torch on the various bottles of oil in my kitchen.

My good EV olive oil in a glass bottle goes a sort of pinkish colour. With the natural colour of the oil & the way the glass reflects/refracts light, it makes it look like copper.

I don't get the same effect with cheapo refined olive oil in a plastic bottle. I get a bit of fluorescence - the normal violet colour and much less than say a white piece of paper - but all or most of that is just from the container.
A 1-page website.
You do realize that low code solutions are actually the middle man between boss and machine here, don’t you? This is like comparing Node and Drupal and announcing that Drupal is the superior technology. Ick.
“Low code” is such a blurry definition. Is excel low code? Is a shader graph in a game engine low code or no code? Regardless of which, they’re useful.
> Just let the runtime do it and throw an exception.

Afaik there are no exceptions in rust only panics & `Result`s (and `Option` I suppose)
I sometimes wish why don't mathematical equations come with simple visual examples to help students build mental models (an example here [0]). It is difficult to parse meaning behind equations if written in terse language.

[0] Tai-Danae Bradley: "Entropy as an Operad Derivation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cAEfQQcELA
im sharing a room with another HN user. 3 ways would be even cheaper.
Likewise, I thought it was something to do with blood pressure :)
I didn't realise that there was a Tesla before Tesla.
How about computing integrals?
I regret the coming of short-format cricket. Cricket's not supposed to be a super-exciting riot of entertainment; i like that you can drop in for one day of a 5-day Test, and sit there catching some rays and reading a newspaper.

In general, I don't care much for the influence of TV on team sports. I played Rugby Union at school; Rugby League was invented to make the game more exciting for spectators, by eliminating loose rucks. For me, all these games are participant sports, and the spectators are incidental (I don't watch sports on TV).

Football (i.e. soccer) is a thug's game, played by gentlemen.

Cricket is a gentlemen's game, played by thugs.

Rugby is a game played by men with peculiar balls.
Profit motive as the only motive, combined with scale, mostly, with a side of "freedom helps bad people do bad things" variations.

ex: In many respects there is vastly more effort involved in making them general purpose computing devices. Why harm profits catering to people who want that when the crushingly vast majority don't want it, when they can't be trusted to use it (directly or indirectly) without messing something up (harming profit via support costs), and when they aren't able to prevent bad actors from misusing it and harming them (again harming profits)?

ex: Why do game developers skip story? Because 90% of the market doesn't care about it. Why do movie studios crank out films with garbage stories/plot? Because 90% of the market doesn't care about it. As long as people and therefore companies believe that generating revenue is the only thing that matters, this results.
If you can read English well enough to read the rulebook yourself, then you can play with your kids in German... this is not like D&D or something, you never really need to reference the rulebook while playing the game. There is no player's handbook. The rules are really, really light. The focus is really on storytelling.
Culturally, Mario doesn't belong to any one person or organization. The idea of ideas being property is strange and alien.
Aside: I love their writeup on Stairway to Heaven. I never realised the tempo changed.
Given the peer comment with the schematic, it does feel like there's more you can gather. It appears, for example, that there's a "push to amplify" button on the handset that's not pictured in the post...it doesn't show the other side of the handset where that button probably is.

Shown as "-( 21 S 22 )-" on the schematic, bottom left. The wedge shaped metal tab you can see on the backside of the open handset is probably the spring+contact for that switch? So the IC also appears to have an amplifier.
I cracked it in two tries.
Did you know that the Macintosh Performa 6400 was the PC to have in 1997 if you wanted the best combination of performance and high quality software?

That's what this blog post reminds me of. I loved my Macs in the 1990s, but I knew I wasn't going to have access to a fraction of the software available to Windows machines at the time. Access to a wide-range of software was the killer feature of PCs, back then.

And in the case of social media, access to as many eyeballs as possible, reach, is the killer feature. Everything else is just features that add to or subtract from accessing that reach.
We are not choosing between nuclear and fossils - we have chosen renewables.

Clarification: I'm not German. I'm talking globally and long term. What's happening right now in Germany is just a blip. The big picture:

> Clean power growth is likely to exceed electricity demand growth in 2023; this would be the first year for this to happen outside of a recession. With average growth in electricity demand and clean power, we forecast that 2023 will see a small fall in fossil generation (-47 TWh, -0.3%), with bigger falls in subsequent years as wind and solar grow further. That would mean 2022 hit “peak” emissions. A new era of falling power sector emissions is close.

https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/global-electrici...
There is some research trying to analyze and explain how and why it learns.

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/privileged-basis/index...

https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/

But I would not expect that we will really understand in detail how everything works. But do we need to? We also don't understand how the human brain works, but it is still useful.
This is one of the stupidest things any country has voluntarily done.
Yup. Definitely didn't know that. Americans sure don't get told this about the cold war. It is also omitted that mass testing of these bio weapons was done on black communities, hence the distrust of both doctors and the government. That part I learned about from the Tuskegee study, this is also really bad.
Kenya deploys first earth observation satellite into space
Not exactly complex, but you posted too quickly to have found the best solution.

A better solution is to kill the unit when it drops below zero HP, not when it drops below 1.0; scaling will never move the current HP past zero in either direction. Having 0.9999994 HP instead of 1.0 HP would not cause any problems then; the unit is still one hit away from death in either case.

The best solution is probably to store the current HP as a percentage of the max, because then you never have to rescale it in the first place.
Web LLM – Vicuna (like LLaMA) locally inside the browser
Yeah vertical integration is a big part. Rogers owns the team, stadium, and TV network.
Which one is the "Super Key"? If it is the window key - that one in combination with the arrows is already mapped to tiling functions. Window+UP makes the current window take half of the screen on the upper side.
The article is not related to the title in the mathematical sense that the HN context and JSTOR URL would suggest. It's a literary history of chess (or a chess history of literature), and article not a research paper.
Lots of dirty lignite coal.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron...
How so? My understand is that a photon is a discrete packet of energy. Why can't I count those? If there is an excitation in the electromagnetic field, and then there is not, and then there is one - why are those not separate, countable photons?
Long article but worth reading.

I thought the insights in the beginning of the author ruminating on what's right were an interesting glimpse onto how a religious person thinks, though that's not the main thing of the article.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany was reopening five power plants that burn lignite, a low-rank coal. Germany’s return to lignite demonstrates, yet again, the Iron Law of Electricity, which says that people, businesses, and governments will do whatever they have to do to get the electricity they need.

Indeed, Germany’s move back to lignite is chock-full of contradictions, including one that belongs in the “you can’t make this up” column.

The Iron Law of Electricity is so powerful that the utility RWE is dismantling the Keyenberg wind project in the western part of the country to, wait for it... make more room for the expansion of the Garzweiler mine. Lignite from Garzweiler fuels the Neurath C power plant, which is one of the power plants being brought back online. A spokesperson for RWE told the Guardian newspaper that “We realize this comes across as paradoxical.”

Yes, there are paradoxes aplenty. Germany’s need to keep the lights on explains why the government is willing to ignore the fact that burning lignite to produce electricity emits more carbon dioxide than any other form of power generation.

Furthermore, burning lignite contradicts Germany’s climate goals. Under the country’s much-vaunted Energiewende (German for “energy turnaround”) Germany has pledged to slash its total greenhouse gas emissions by 95% by 2050. The cost of that pledge could total more than $500 billion by 2025 — and that figure only accounts for the investment needed to decarbonize the electricity sector. The result of all that spending is that residents of Germany are now paying some of the highest electricity prices in Europe.
Other than ensuring you have basics of on-page SEO right, it’s basically about good content.
There are tons of gimmicky material around, no need to follow that.

Let your content be so good that people want to link back to you.

Other than that, stick with the basics and read Google guidelines (as another commentator pointed out.)

Source - My experience of ranking few of my own websites in last 14-15 years.
Thanks for the post. On reading it I couldn't help but wonder if burnout might follow you to running your own company. From personal experience, it can be intensely bad for mental health after the initial excitement turns into endless hard grind to survive, grow, keep the support of investors, etc.
Don't forget that this is complety against current public sentiment in germany:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-sees-ti...
So's a compiler, and an operating system, and microcode.
Too bad the populous are idiots.
I don't know about 10x, but it has enabled me to explore new approaches much faster and write a lot of the code.

My old workflow would be to search documentation, blog posts, stack overflow and anything else that might give me a clue. Usually there isn't something that does exactly what I want and the documentation usually leaves a lot to be desired.

New workflow: please write some code using X library in Y language that does Z. Code usually mostly works. If there is anything I don't understand, I ask it to explain. It's like having an expert by my side teaching and writing for me.

Not sure it makes me 10x, but it does let me explore more things and get to an understanding a lot faster. I use some of that time saved to try out more ideas, so overall I'm not sure I'm hugely faster but what I can produce is a lot higher quality with better features.
Still coal fired plants are supposed to run until 2038
You hit it with "they shouldn't be writing software at all, they should be publishing spec". I've been wanting to roll my own board for a long time (not the hardware, the boot and os side) but haven't outside of a raspi or arduino. I'd LOVE to be able to write my own motherboard code to have a better boot experience (somewhere between Apple Mac's and uSplash Linux) that's fast to user-land.

There have been some companies that recently announced this kind of approach (at least with linux) but overall, we need our computer industry to be more open, we need more accountability of shady practices (exfiltrations!) and modern laws to allow people to protect themselves from these corporations that mean to steal our data.