skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What astounds me is the sheer arrogance of it. The assumption that only humans can be imbued with consciousness, because of... what, exactly? Self-reflection and the rejection of the scientific method?
Thanks to Google blocking WebGL compute shaders adoption.

We could have had them three years ago.
Because people misunderstand what archaeologists mean when they say "ritual."

Every morning, the first thing I do after getting up is go to the bathroom. That is a ritual. Watching the football game every week--ritual. Making your cup of coffee in the morning--ritual.

The disconnect is that most people understand "ritual" to have a religious or supernatural component, which none of the examples I've given have. Archaeologists do not understand "ritual" to need this component either. Also note that it is easier to identify the commonality of an object and its associated context than it is to identify what the object is and much, much easier than identifying why it is used.

In the context of the Mesoamerican ball game, there is abundant evidence that it is a 1200-year-old version of the NFL, although the biggest difference from modern sportsball is that the players seem to be poorly paid (if at all) from their teams and are more heavily reliant on their sponsorship income.
Interesting. I remember when the speedup of chat-gpt happened, the API prices dropped by around 10x, so I'd imagine there were some tricks of making them run faster.

If they still haven't implemented these, it would be positively surprising (to me) to see the model run at similar speeds as chatgpt now. It'd be a great achievement if they really packed such performance on similar architecture (say by just training longer)
You either have the games or you don't. You can't have it both ways.

With the prices of hard drives these days, anyone that truly cares about this stuff can save up and back up game installers. You don't need a fully fledged NAS server with four drive bays loaded to the brim if all you're going to do is occasionally sync the installers with GOG.

Hard drive prices are around a cent per gigabyte these days. With today's absurd game sizes, that's a $20 "keep it after the cloud service shuts down" surcharge. Not great, but not impossible to overcome either.

Nobody backs up their installers because it's much easier to just rely on cloud providers keeping around your game installers forever. That doesn't mean it can't be done if you actually care.
Guess that's why he wanted 6 months.
GM had decades to make a high quality in-car entertainment system on par with Teslas and failed. CarPlay and Android Auto was supposed to save us from that.
Indeed, this is obvious retaliation for the NPR thing.
I have a far simpler question that I wish to understand -- why does a pin prick hurt ?

I can understand that nerve endings respond to the stimulus. I understand that it can be transmitted across synapses by way of ionic exchanges to finds it way into the brain (or spinal cord) where it results in firing a bunch of neurons there as well. All in all a series of small scale chemical changes. But why does those result in a feeling of pain ?
https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable

Looks like the project has been archived.
The more of this features in the browsers - the sooner the stranglehold of the app stores could be broken
> That is exactly what Rust does

Cool, that's good to know (I've not used Rust (yet))

> There's nothing implicit about Option, it's literally the concrete return type of the function

For context, I was referring to this paragraph in the article regarding `.then`:

> I’m not a huge fan of the implicit introduction of the Option type. In a language like Rust, implicitly introducing Option is barely acceptable: Option is already a priveleged type, and ‘accidentally’ assigning such an optional if-expression to a variable will likely cause a type mismatch error, caught by the compiler.

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> Rust does not have lazy arguments, arguments are always eagerly evaluated.

I thought as much, since it would be a glaring omission if Rust did have this feature but didn't use it for the argument of '.then' ;)

It also makes sense given Rust's goals of low-level, high-performance, substructural-typing, etc.: if extra wrapping/unwrapping is needed, better to make it explicit (and enforced by the types), rather than have the compiler slowing things down without warning.

Also, to be clear: the Scala version is actually pass-by-name, rather than lazy; e.g. the following function will evaluate its argument twice!

def double(x: => Int): Int = x + x
If you are even tangentially interested in the Apollo program, or by extension Apollo 13, I can strongly recommend the book "Apollo 13", formerly sold as "Lost Moon", by Jim Lovell and Jeff Kluger.

The book briefly outlines Lovells early life and career as a test pilot up to the Gemini and Apollo programs, and the Apollo 8 mission before spending the bulk of the book recounting Apollo 13.

Even on the earlier missions and programs, the book is full of interesting tidbits, anecdotes and explanations. Particularly with Apollo 13 it is IMO quite gripping to read about the myriad of issues that came up and how they were discussed and dissected on the ground to systematically come up with a viable solution.

From the movie adaptation, I guess one of the more commonly know issues was the LiOH CO2 scrubber, where the CSM canisters didn't fit into the LEM. While apparently a lot less dramatic in real life, there were tons of other issues that the movie glossed over, from accidentally loosing navigation data while moving over from one computer to the other, the two course correction burns that were needed, exploding lead-acid batteries on the LEM, etc...

Anyway, as I said before, it's IMO a good read and I can strongly recommend the book.
It doesn’t make sense - and when they get the data they are going to have to revert it.

I will literally not buy a car without CarPlay. I am sure I am not alone.
Are you thinking of Genuine Fractals?

I got super into the concept of fractal compression when I was young, and then became pretty disillusioned at how primitive the techniques turned out to be. IIRC it wasn’t much more than “divide the image into, say 16x16 blocks, then search for 8x8 blocks which are similar to a 50% scaled version of a large block, and store the delta”. Young me was hoping for some cool math, but it was more like brute force motion compensation within a single image.
Why? My goal is to get the full wear out of all four and change them all at once.

Rotating them around the halfway mark (at ~5 years in my case) accomplishes that. Anything else seems like more work than benefit to me.
For structured data this is valid, but the power of deep learning is for unstructured data where the embeddings and features need to be learned from raw data
Curious, was this a hobby or did you work for the government tonic inspection bureau?
The people who trusted and enabled Charlie Javice or Elizabeth Holmes are guilty, too. Trusting someone just because their story sounds good without due diligence is wrong, and unfair to people who do real work.
Sure thing, if you're building something complex, you have to deal with complexity, there is no way around it, low-code doesn't change it.

But I've seen lots of non-coding professionals who spend hours every week just looking up some info on various websites just to copy some text/number/address from a well-structured page and paste it into a spreadsheet. Could this be automated? Absolutely! Do they want to learn how to write a program, handle errors, manage the deployment of their scripts? Absolutely not.

Low Code has its place, and there are no conceptual downsides to starting with a low-code solution and then hiring software engineers to flesh it out and handle all the special cases. All we need is a low-code platform built around some real programming language that you can put into git, review, debug locally etc — with a no-coder-friendly interface built on top of it. This part is missing, and that's what causes people to dislike the low-coding in general.
Its bad enough out there that the general public thinks the smell of hexane is what olive oil is supposed to smell like. Like you open a container of hexane in the chemistry lab and people say it smells like cooking oil. Um... not supposed to, no.

Kind of like how younger people think tomatoes and strawberries are supposed to be flavorless and odorless.
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You are clearly well-meaning, but your suggestions indicate a lack of familiarity with the mindset and behaviors of people that become chronically involved with the criminal justice system.

You are not going to teach a mindless drunk driver by indicating to them, via a state-employed official, that "someone cares about them". You're not going to convince a teenager that hurting people is wrong by having them speak to a social worker with a caseload. Children learn their moral systems from years of active and passive indoctrination into their parents' and peers' culture. If you want to reorient someone's moral compass by instilling values that no one ever taught them, and are not present in the culture in which they live outside of prison, you're going to need something a hell of a lot more potent than regular appointments with a therapist.

> Crimes are sometimes a symptom of other things, not the cause.

Chronic criminality is the result of moral systems that are calibrated and reinforced by violent and uncivilized cultures. This goes doubly for "rich" criminals, who display their immoral behavior through war and the stock market. Reforming a petty criminal or a serial abuser is as difficult as reforming a corporate executive taking kickbacks. They don't see a problem with it.
At least Edge does offer additional browser features for OS integration and extended developer tools.
>I don't know how much better AI can do in practice.

Coming soon, you show AI the script and the poster of the movie you want to compress, and then it just makes shit up on the fly when you hit play. There is no compression! The movie will be unique to each viewer as the algo will take a seed from each playback device and create the music, images, dialog all on the fly.

A 2 hour movie in <1MB of storage
It sounds like you've given up completely on what a car infotainment could be because car companies suck at software so bad.

I had an old GMC Canyon through college, and the only thing it had was Aux. After college i bought a model 3 when they first came out and I absolutely love the infotainment system. I love that I can play witcher 3 on my Tesla. My bluetooth always connects. I can unlock my car with my app and it never fails me.
You might be able to do something along those lines, but I know of no font / vector 2D renderer that does so. There is a lot of literature[1] on this, so I suspect if doing things similar to subdivision surfaces were viable for font rendering, it would have been explored by now.

[1]: https://2d.graphics/book/gpu_rendering.html
Funny, I find the milk left after the cream has separated to just be kind of... watery and not flavorful. Because the fat is gone.

That's why I said homogenized -- I drink whole milk for both the flavor and the nutrition.

Also I'm in the US so I'm talking about store-bought milk you buy refrigerated and with an expiration date 10 days out. It's still quite "fresh".

Not UHT milk sold in much of the world that keeps for months unopened at room temperature. Which doesn't have the same flavor at all, although there has been some advancement there depending on the brand.

But of course, let me be clear -- at the end of the day there's no arguing with childhood memories. :) What's most valuable is the whole family experience!
Valve's insane corporate structure means its strategic moves are plain as day. They initially went on OSX because it made sense to leave no room for a competing game market to start on Mac and move to Windows.

They've invested massively on Linux and have attacked the problem from two angles in the last ten years because they need to diversify. They can't single-handedly rely on Microsoft for their continued existence. Hence the VR headsets, the Steam Machines, and now the Steam Deck.

They've put zero effort on macOS on Apple Silicon because they would gain nothing strategically, and the percentage of Mac users using Steam is small. The hardcore gamer on a Mac does not exist. We have consoles.
My Tesla's lack of Android Auto is one of its biggest drawbacks. Even for navigation it is bad, as I'm forced to use the inferior Tesla map app (which unlike say Waze can't compute directions considering carpool lanes). You also end up with a lack of synchronized directions history to your phone.

IMO, the only upside to the customer is avoiding plugging a phone in. The phone experience is otherwise generally better across the board.

(On a latter note, I consider the Tesla UI good for a car, but bad overall. Climate app also generally sucks).
You need to know the local rules. If you enter the USA with a tourist visa or visa waiver (like ESTA), and tell the immigration officer that this is what you’ll be doing in the country, you’ll most likely be sent back. Foreigners need work authorization in the US to earn any kind of income — no matter if it’s paid abroad — unless the work is within the narrow categories of permitted activities under a business visa.
Arkansas Makes It Illegal for Minors to Use Social Media Without Parent Consent
We know about that. Very early versions of Tailscale tried to use it. It's not enough, though. A number of things in Apple's APIs are 90% of what we need.
Fine. Oblate spheroidal cloud with a Lakitu in it*

There’s many abstractions. None of them are right. They’re useful for different things. You cannot reject the simpler ones because you have adopted a still wrong but more complex one.
> Semico. engineering is current "rocket science" of 70s.

Even rocket science is just Newtonian physics, for the most part.
How to build your own Raspberry Pi watch
that a nice project, hope you will gather enough resources to make for other language if wikipedias.
I would be very different if browsers were tools to view documents though. I am not saying that browsers don't have a purpose. I just question that browsers should answer the question about what their scope is with a loud "yes!"
No keyboard. Maybe with modern dictation we can figure something out
Machine Learning Curriculum at Founders and Coders
I'm quitting Meta to teach this full time
> Prediction: Hacks will flood spotify, youtube, and social sites with terrible cheap shoddy songs titled as if they are made by actual artists and the platforms will dish out royalties meant for authentic artists to total frauds. Real musicians may possibly abandon mega-music platforms altogether, and implement more secure (direct sales) platforms on their own web sites...

I don't think that would work, if a song is detectable enough to give the artist royalties for a song, it's detectable enough to see that it's copyrighted music. IMHO I think music piracy is essentially dead, because the music industry has finally learned and made a compelling product. With services like Spotify and Apple Music, pirating music is just not worth it anymore. Why bother when for $10/month you could listen to all the music to your hearts content.

Universal asking steaming companies to not use their label's music on training is just stupid because all they are doing is shooting the artists in the foot. Most AI in music is recommendation engines, do you not want your artists to be discovered? The streaming services are not stealing your music you idiot [UMG], they are trying to make you more money by directing people to music they like.
As I wrote in first post, low code is still a code. And there will be some office worker who will have enough time to pile up a massive project which is not documented, nobody knows how it works, the worker is gone, but half of office is dependent on it.
I really don't understand why you think this, every large tech company is piling billions into AI projects now they've seen what ChatGPT can do, OpenAI is absolutely killing it, dozens of engineers from Google's AI teams have left over the last few years to do start ups and there's literally dozens of start ups in the AI space getting funded. Not to mention all the incumbents who are now jealously guarding their training data, there's no free lunch on training sets. This is probably the most difficult industry to compete in right now, not the easiest.
I'm down to share a room, my email is in my profile.
To clarify my point, especially in politics there is a good chance that the post with the highest score might not even have support from a majority of people who voted (it could be 45+/15=/40-, so 45% support), might not even be voted on by a majority of the people who see it (10% of views vote, so that's 4.5% of viewers support), might not even be viewed by a majority of users (10% of all users view the post, so 0.45% of all users support), and a majority of electors are not users of your app (generously 10% market penetration is now 0.045% of electors support). I'm not sure decision makers would take these numbers seriously until you get huge market share and huge engagement/participation. I would suggest starting in much smaller markets where you can increase those percentages dramatically, and then expand from there.
It sounds like you would like to build a product and start a company. Maybe you should try that.
This is a really poor generalization. Does anyone really think every company is a snowflake with a truly unique set of business processes? Of course not.

Anyone who has worked at more than 1 company in their career can see lots of similarities for themselves starting from the onboarding process. Dig into that and you’ll find some low hanging fruit for automation with no code/low code platforms.

If you’ve completed the discovery and requirements gathering phase and try to implement a complex application with a no code/low code platform, you’re probably early in your career or this is the first time actually using no code/low code platforms for something besides a pet project. So you made a mistake and should just be more cautious in the future, not write off these platforms entirely.
Interesting - in my head then for each industry there is a space for reusable code components that tackle certain industry needs - either OSS or prop - and that are so standardised that it takes one dev one day to put them into useful action.

I think what I am saying is that good low code solutions are pre-packaged fixes to well defined common problems - and it's not that important if they are glued together with Rust or a drag and drop UI
Interesting. Do you have any more context around this? It sounds uncharacteristic of Google to do so given their usual stance on browsers being all things to all people.
I imagine it's similar to the logic behind locks on houses. Thieves still exist, but by making it harder for them, you reduce the chances of them targeting your house. You won't ever reduce that chance to zero, but you can reduce it significantly.

Similarly, I imagine the more effort you have to put in to get through anti-cheat software, the more likely you are you give up and play a different game. There'll still be some people determined enough to bypass it, but that number will be smaller than it would be otherwise.

Fwiw, I don't play these sorts of games, so I have no idea if this stuff is effective, but there's a comment somewhere in this thread saying that Valorant has fewer cheaters than other, similar games, in no small part due to their aggressive anti-cheating measures, so anecdotally it may well have an effect.
float32: 1 for exactly 1.0 (exponent=127,mantissa=0) + 127 * 2^23 for [0,1) (127 distinct exponent values (0 through 126) and any bit pattern in the mantissa; this includes +0 and denormals) + 1 for negative zero = 1065353218 = 0x3f800002 + 2, i.e. two more than the representation of 1.0, because everything up to and including that (as an unsigned integer) represents something in [0,1], plus the missing negative zero.
And some players have come a long way. One of my highlights was, when DauT won the Red Bull Wololo 3 tournament as someone who is playing the game 20+ years. And some fans are doing great stuff too, like this video that was released shortly after (DauT is back):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-SisO8ers
Using the Shipyard.rs private crate registry with Docker [rust]
No. I'm saying the claim of "millions" might not be correct.
In the same vein: in chess, all your forces are present, and have all they need. So it's more like a skirmish than a war. In particular, wars can be won or lost not only by intellectual disruptions behind the lines, like drops in morale due to propaganda, but also because of supply line issues. Brett Devereaux's ACOUP blog has a great write up on this re the Romans and the "tyranny of the wagon equation"
Yes, I agree — I did write “useless on its own” to highlight that you need to extend the SDF rendering model with a different one to handle actual user-generated text.
Both Maya and the Three and Elena of Avalor had long subplots on Aztec, Maya and Inca characters (human and god).
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Do I think there a plausible business case for subscription infotainment systems? Sure. Do I think there's a plausible business case for subscription infotainment systems that includes ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto so as to force people into buying a GM subscription? Well, no, not really.

Tesla got away with not supporting CarPlay because they were one of the very few options available if you wanted an electric car. Rivian got away with it (for now, at least) because they were your only option if you wanted a high-end electric truck. Their customers were willing to sacrifice CarPlay because they had no real choice. Yes, Tesla's UI is nice-ish. That doesn't mean Tesla drivers don't want CarPlay support. Tons of them do, and it comes up regularly on online forums.

If you look at infotainment systems like BMW's latest iDrive iterations and Mercedes-Benz's MBUX, it's quite clear that they've improved a great deal in the past few years, lack of physical buttons aside. I'd hope that GM manages to do the same. Things have gotten better and the alternative to using CarPlay is no longer living with a nightmarish hellscape of a UI put together by sadistic designers --or maybe just traumatized ones, tormented by someone who forced them to ship terrible infotainment systems for years.

Despite that, consumers still love CarPlay and/or Android Auto and expect it to be available on their cars, with limited exceptions. Most people get in their cars, connect directly to CarPlay/Android Auto, and get on with their drive. When they have to use the native infotainment system, they do so with less frustration. But how many people do you think are just using a Bluetooth connection for their phone instead of CarPlay when it's right there? The answer is likely very, very few.

GM is betting that they'll get its customers to accept not having it like Tesla and Rivian customers have to. That's a hell of a gamble when everyone else will be shipping their own expanded line of EV models at the same time and price points as GM.
>It's 2023: I'm still surprised that so many new languages/platforms still only provide only basic integer and IEEE-754 types for numerics: Rust, C#, Java, Swift and others still lack built-in, runtime-provided, nor even standard-library-provided rational types

C# has the base-10 high accuracy decimal type: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
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