skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Native Americans had writing... many indigenous American cultures, such as the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Zapotec, and Toltec, developed writing systems. Other native peoples to the north—mainly Algonquians—had organized pictographing, a common precursor of writing.

People of South America were also the first humans ever to practice metallurgy. Indigenous Americans mastered smelting, soldering, annealing, electroplating, sintering, alloying, low-wax casting, and many other metallurgical techniques independent of any Old World influences. They invented metallurgy a full 3,000k+ years before anyone in the old world ever did (~1200BC in Europe)

Also farming. I mean let's face it, Europeans were probably some of the worst farmers to ever rely on farming. Europe was basically going from one famine to another up until the Native Americans gave them the potato. In addition to the potato (which saved millions of European lives) they also gave them: beans, corn, peanuts, quinoa, potatoes, tomatoes, lima beans, cassava, coke, amaranth, sweet potatoes, peppers (in addition to a ton more that are mostly grown locally still)

I think you should at least do some basic reading before making such sweeping and uninformed generalizations about an entire continent
Are symmetrical connections common? I hadn't seen that offered until they knocked on my door lol.

Was trenching expensive? Here they used the city's utility poles. They covered the neighborhood in a couple hours.
Hacking a Donkey Kong arcade machine to play as Pauline instead of Mario (2013)
The OS runs on hardware, what do you think is below the OS you're running?

Even excluding VMs, there are a lot of OSes running in a modern computer. Some chips have their own. BIOSes and Secure Enclave, networking chips, and probably a dozen more.
I’m not a lawyer but in my experience it’s common advice given by professionals to non-immigrants in the US that they should avoid all remote employment without American work authorization.

I was employed in the US on an L-1 visa, and my wife had an L-2 which allowed her to apply for an SSN and work authorization. The advice given by Deloitte was that she should put her existing remote foreign job on hold while waiting to receive the SSN.

When I later switched to an O-1, her work authorization ended (for some reason, O-3 spouses don’t get to work like L-2 spouses do). Another immigration specialist advised us that she should not get paid abroad while on the O-3.
Hachi – Natural language search for videos and images
Ha — I was thinking the same. I am not involved, unfortunately. I studied political science at Johns Hopkins during the time RBC came out though and always thought it would make a great canvas for a deeper exploration of, broadly defined, strategy; deeper than you’re conventional polsci game theory allows. But it stayed a hunch, or an intuition…
2023 is when the empires strike back
Last one don't even need macros https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/dependent-drop-down-list...

I guess my point is alot of people outside of software development the goto for low/no code is excel
I've got a bunch of these around, either multi-booting diskless (Devuan/Debian/Windows), more than enough for browsing, video calls and light development. Spec is E8400's at 3GHz/4Gb RAM, 1G ethernet, display port and decent sound ('lspci' shows wall-to-wall Intel parts). In USFF ('USDT') format they're great little systems for the price (on ebay they go for less than the cost of the Windows licence they come with, and if they're from a pro-recycler the licence often isn't even locked to the hardware).

Edit: Oh, and being HP they are pretty much clip together, no screwdrivers needed.
Ah birds and the evolution of grasses would be good adds, thanks. I only include entries that are meaningful to me which happens to be biased towards botany. I'd highly recommend anyone else keep their own lists though. Really gratifying to watch it grow over time
Both speaker and speech recognition are done in the article using huggingface.

Is there anything as good ready to use on-prem for the diarization (speaker recognition)?

I've heard good things about whisper(.cpp) for speech recognition and vosk used to be king of that hill...
Strong and Weak Link Problems and the Value of Peer Review
It matters if the 100 lives are suddenly 200 lives when you sum them up. It matters for decision making. It matters for questions like "should I rather do it myself or start a foundation to convince as many other people as possible to do it".
But I feel like in this context, we're discussing both.
Regarding all the arguments about ever-increasing browser complexity and the resulting inefficiency:

Why is nobody asking the reverse question: How to make operating systems more like browsers??

From the end user's PoV (consider someone who isn't computer savvy) what are the actual objective differences in usability, between the OS and browser?

--

• OS: Apps have their own windows and menu bars.

• Browser: Multiple apps run in a single window, and have no menu bar.

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• OS: Need to download and "install" apps before you can use them.

• Browser: Just type the app's "name".

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• OS: Need to make sure apps are compatible with your OS and hardware. Need to keep apps updated. Need to delete apps when out of local storage space.

• Browser: Nope.

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• Browser: Lets you share links with people to show them exactly what you're seeing in an app (YouTube, HN, Reddit)

• OS: Nope.

--

SO. Instead of constantly reinventing the wheels that have been perfected by operating systems for centuries, and then machete'ing through the resulting struggles of power and politics between the OS and browser,

WHY NOT REMOVE THOSE HURDLES FROM THE OS?
The "-( 21 S 22 )-" thing is a speaker in the handset. The button is above that, labeled "VAR.".

Probably the main reason why essentially the entire electronics is in the handset and why it is somewhat complex is that it does not use carbon microphone, but the microphone is actually the exactly same part as the speaker, used as an dynamic microphone (with the required amplification being done by the hybrid module).
It at least rules out wall hacks and certain classes of aimbots.
Like how I want a dumb TV with the system of my choice hooked up behind it. You can't trust the TV manufacturer to keep the OS up-to-date, and with TV prices always going down it's inevitable they'll cut corners to increase their profit margins.
The Yucatán Peninsula has limestone shelves, as the entire area was a sea floor in primordial times. Holes in these shelves that provide access to an enormous aquifer are called cenote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote
Its the other way around;
it was very unpopular, which is why the Green party formed in the first place.
> Placebo effect is not effective in 100% of cases

There is no medicine that is effective in 100% of cases.

Chemotherapy does not 100% fix your cancer.

Covid vaccine does not 100% mean you won’t die from covid.

Antibiotics is not 100% either. There are resistant bacteria.

But you are correct that doctor’s advice is optional. No doctor can force pills down your throat or force you to do surgery, even if it means you will die tomorrow. You still have a choice to just do nothing and die
As someone who has used only white soap for decades, so quite ignorant, could you provide a name?
> Don't get me wrong - I love the feature and use it a lot, but I find the syntax awkward and honestly just... strange (though I've not researched it and have no idea of the reasoning behind it).

I'm pretty sure the syntax was just reused from hstore (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/hstore.html), for familiarity and simplicity. hstore predates json by 4-5 years.

It might also have made expressions easier to parse, as it doesn't conflict with normal identifier access.
I don't think the use of the word 'idiot' was great by itself, it should have been 'arrogant idiot'

"This is a classic case of Scientism (The opinion that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.)"

He more or less claims that consciousness is outside the realm of human understanding, but also then mentions the millennia of study by scholars about consciousness has found the real truth about consciousness.
That sounds an awful lot like some things Karl Marx told us 150 years ago.
I don't know how you got an endorsement of money laundering out of my post. I was amused by the snafu, nothing more.
90% of what problems?

I guarantee that 90% of the things I want to do have nothing to do with a table lookup.
I have an 11-inch 2012 MBA, and I run Catalina on it (officially).

It still works fine. I use it to run Zoom, test out low-end Web stuff, and various apps and utilities that I want to work back there.

One day, it will go belly-up. It will have had a long, productive life.

But ... come on ... I have an eleven-year-old computer that is still getting OS updates from Apple.

Not too shabby.
That's the theory behind, the execution is hard.

Meanwhile, unlike moon-landings - we're constantly doing web browsers:

there was IE, there was Edge, there is Firefox, there is Chromium and its forks.

There are smaller browsers with less resources than Google.

Yet, we are not trying to figure out how to make web browser possible.

We know how to do it, we are doing it for decades.

It's just hard due to reasons - money, effort required, moving target, backward compatibility, and probably many other.

Can same be said about semico? Do we know what needs to be done to reach "state of the art" for year 2033?

Do semico competitors know their roads to match its competitors capabilities 10 years from now? I dont think so.
Steam can do with some competition but all their competition is terrible. Chrome's competitors at least work similarly and well enough. Google would have a browser monopoly if all of their competition were as laggy and featureless as Steam's main competitors are.

GOG comes closest to being good but I find their launcher to be quite buggy and slow. Origin, uPlay, Epic Games, those are all terrible in comparison to Steam. The Steam UI is far from amazing, but it's leagues ahead of the competition in terms of usability in my experience.

If you don't like Steam, you can buy your games elsewhere. GOG and Epic exist and together they have most games that aren't Steam exclusives. Xbox Game Pass has some pretty good deals on games too (which includes some PC titles). There are thousands of games to be played without ever having to download Steam if you choose to.
> 1,056,964,610. There are 4,294,967,296 possible 32-bit words, so about a quarter of them are in the interval [0,1]. Isn’t that interesting? Of all the float-pointing point numbers your computer can represent, a quarter of them lie in [0,1]. By extension, half of the floating-point numbers are in the interval [-1,1].
hostgator - use php.
Thanks for sharing, that's interesting angle that I did not consider. So essentially the argument goes that more "surface area" == more vulnerabilities? While that makes perfect sense, don't you feel like the pressure for more feature comes from somewhere? By analogy, dynamic languages like JS/Python make the job of people writing the compiler much, much harder. But, on the whole and despite all their flaws, it is true that they increased productivity by a lot.
With early computers they were made from people who enjoyed exploring the possibilities for people who liked that, combined with the fact that software, especially general purpose software was limited. Niche products for niche markets. Except from playing games there was little to do. If you wanted to use it for anything else you'd have to program your software yourself.

In the nineties computers hot Excel and similar, which took over basic tasks and people built their databases for their hobby or business, there ledgers, ... on top of that.

Today there is special software for most of those things and computers are mass market products, made by companies which want the user's to consume media (via iTunes, or YouTube ads etc.) and approachable for everybody. The product managers fear that just seeing a glimpse of a programmable interface drives people away and reduces the media consumption.
6 years (and all the money) seems a decent trade off for strategic autonomy, and cutting a foot off Google-on-iPhone.

I.e. why lock down permissions if Google would get location data from every phone through Google Maps anyway.

Furthermore, it decreases the value of Google Maps by depriving them of traffic data (something that really only works at scale when the maps user base is "most people").
Compete on quality, certainly not on price or speed.
Some argue that metaphor is more fundamental to science than math.
Statistics, right? It is not "one" measurement?
For 32 bit floats, you can skip the math and just test all of them. LLVM will vectorise and unroll this nicely.

fn main() {
let start = std::time::Instant::now();
let total = (0..=u32::MAX)
.filter(|&x| {
let f = f32::from_bits(x);
0. <= f && f <= 1.
})
.count();
println!("total {total} in {:?}", start.elapsed());
}

total 1065353218 in 1.364751583s

Edit: Apparently if you move the sum to its own function it runs in 500ms. A bit temperamental.

Edit 2: it's the size of the sum accumulator that makes it slow. The version above is like `.fold(0usize, |a, _| a + 1)`. When I moved it to another function, I cast the return value to u32, so LLVM saw basically `.fold(0u32, |a, _| a + 1)` and could use u32 throughout. Godbolt says the usize version ends up with floats in xmm* registers on x86, which fit 4 32-bit floats, but the u32 version ends up with floats in ymm* registers (8 32-bit floats) and similar half-as-wide behaviour on ARM.
Looks interesting, but always a hard pass for me when I see CLI tools written in interpreted languages.
I think it's not that far fetched to assume Russia had big influence in shaping the anti nuclear narrative and "building relationships" with key politicians.
Looking back to 2009, have the predictions played out? Have the businesses that were started in the ebb of the previous recession been more successful than those started in flush years?
Thanks, I'll look more into it. This is an area of active debate and research. Estimates have gone as far back as 7 Ma (e.g. this 2002 NYTimes article[0] says 5-7 Ma). Even the origins of Homo sapiens gets pushed around every other year (e.g. [1]).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/science/when-humans-becam...

[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/7/15745714/nat...
All sounds pretty low code to me, bro. shrug
How to Neutralize the Biggest Threat to Your Online Security (You)
Bathing inside a cenote is an out of this world experience
SVB bailout for everyone except affordable housing projects
In the late 1980s, when I traveled a lot for work, I thought of airports as similar to the debtors' prisons depicted by Dickens: it was unpleasant, it was sort of your fault you were there, and you could purchase comforts, but at inordinate prices.
Show HN: IPython-GPT, a Jupyter/IPython Interface to Chat GPT
I pay 85/mo for 1.5m dpwn amd maybe 300k up. Dsl, less than an hour from a majlr american city. Broadband beyond suburbs is still a dream. I miss online gaming.
https://archive.is/xltpH
Show HN: We built BingAI alternative for Chrome
So they exempt platforms with deep pockets ? So much for the "I like small business" meme politicians love to bring up.
In addition to just taking all privileges way from the process, like Chrome does, there's also Sandboxie [1] and the official Windows Sandbox [2]

1: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...

2b: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
So is the goal to prevent a new social media platform from gaining traction under the guise of "think of the children"?
That was what I wanted to raise, SM doesn’t have an allowance for Dark Matter, and also doesn’t not have an explanation for the matter anti matter asymmetry so the article was quite confusing.
(op here)

> the rainforest was reduced to small refuges separated by grassland

This is the school of thought I've read about the most and my understanding. I never meant to imply that the entire rainforest didn't exist 2k years ago. Sorry for any confusion
The issue isn't having a monopoly (which Steam doesn't) but rather doing anti-competitive things to maintain the monopoly.

Having a good product that people want and prefer to buy isn't anti-competitive. Establishing exclusive contracts with publishers and preventing something from being sold somewhere else for less is anti-competitive.

I don't find it reasonable to claim that Steam is a monopoly in the PC gaming space (there might be an argument for it if one were to try to limit it to "games distribution platforms that run on Linux"). And even assuming that they did have a monopoly, they aren't using anti-competitive techniques to maintain it.
The Honda Financial website is Chrome-only.

https://honda.americanhondafinance.com
I agree it's totally perplexing. GM doesn't have a moat, all of their vehicles have competition.

Could this just be a bluff/negotiation tactic or something?

It seems so perplexing to remove these features, rather than giving the option for Android auto and car play along with their own android platform. If their own system has better native functionality, people will see this as a selling point. If not, they're free to ignore it.

Cars are not TVs. It's a major purchase that somebody will be using for years, so people will pay attention to this kind of detail. Surely they know this?
Eliot is my favorite writer alongside Tolstoy. She was the first person to translate Spinoza to English and her intellectual prowess is so enormous and evident it bleeds out of every page of Middlemarch. She is the only author I’ve encountered who successfully blended philosophy and literature.

A slight aside, I must say I am exhausted by the focus on her appearance in biographies of Eliot. They simply care too much about it
Compute on WebGPU is gonna be interesting- "crowd sourced" model training.
This is what I call "Bayesian software" - it will get you quickly to 70% of what you want but getting 100% of what you want is a game of diminishing returns. For some companies 70% solutions are ok and it's a tradeoff in terms of functionality vs cost which everyone has to make.

The reality is that a lot of software engineering is moving into the 'low code' space even if they don't call it that. This is part of a general strategy to sell B2B services (like cloud platforms or cloud tools) where engineers aren't really developing solutions from scratch as much as they are configuring tools provided to them via a B2B sale. Is this software engineering? I guess it's debatable but it's clearly not 'applied science'.

I see this as a general trend in any craft - craftsmen get displaced by cheap industrial alternatives (like plastic chairs vs actual decent chairs made by a craftsmen). There is no argument that a handmade wood chair made by a craftsman is better, but for many consumers at the bargain store, they want cheap plastic foam-injected chairs even if they are poorly made and break. Does the argument hold that these cheap alternatives are "more expensive" in the long run? maybe. It depends on what you're doing with the chairs.

I think one serious downside to 'low code' solutions is the brain-drain on new devs. I see so many engineers that don't understand basic software architecture because they've spend their career configuring B2B tools. Overtime this model of software will cause us to loose core CS skills.
Funny, I’d heard that football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is the thug’s game played by gentlemen.
Exactly. I don't have an issue with Nintendo maintaining the exclusive ability to create new Mario games because it encourages Nintendo to ensure maintain a certain level of quality. Nintendo wants consumers to associate "Mario" with "quality", so they will only release high-quality Mario games.

We can debate whether Nintendo upholds that standard—I thought some of the Mario Party games were pretty atrocious—but at least the incentive exists.
Legal protections but not physical protections right?

The videos I showed were officers confronted by people attacking them while doing a routine patrol.

Similar to a fireman running into a fire to save people, officers have to run into a high risk situation to diffuse it. Such as a person calling 911 against an aggressor (ie, someone robbing them, assaulting them, etc.)

You are speaking for the OP, but you've expanded far beyond what they have stated.
Broodwar is still super popular and they don't do shit there either.
From what I understand not at this time but potentially in the future with different algorithms. DL training requires long sequential computations that can't be done in parallel the way folding at home could.
not sure how to feel about this law in general.

absolutely do not want me grand kids on twitter or facebook and me kids even more against it.

but not sure how state can enforce and state should enforce. feel like 1984 book.
it is now believed that the release of these bacteria over San Francisco permanently altered the microbiome of the region, leading to an epidemic of heart valve infections in hospitals and other serious infections among intravenous drug users throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Yeah, we are actually performing a lot more "experiments" with creating new chemicals and using them commercially etc. In another hundred years, people may shake their head at some of that.
Precision and accuracy are slightly different mathematical concepts, as demonstrated by this image [0]:

[0]: https://wp.stolaf.edu/it/files/2017/06/precsionvsaccuracy_cr...
No. Precision and Accuracy have very specific definitions in the world of science and engineering.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
Twitter Suspends User for Sharing Washington Post Story On Pentagon Docs Leaker
Neural nets are not generally trained through evolution ("trial and error"), but rather via error minimization, and this is how these GPT models are trained.

The basic idea is that the neural net is just a mathematical function, with lots of parameters that control how it calculates it's output, that derives an output value (or set of values) for any input.

During training, the neural net also calculates an error (aka "loss") value representing the difference between it's current (at this stage of training) output value and what it was told is the preferred output value for the current input.

The process of training is done by slowly adjusting the neural net parameters until these calculated output errors are as small as possible for as many of the training examples as possible.

The way these errors are reduced/minimized is by using the derivative (slope) of the neural network function - we want to follow the slope of the error function downhill to a place where the error value is lower, and this is done by adjusting the parameter values using partial derivatives.

The details of this downhill slope following (the "backprop" algorithm) are a bit complex, but you can visualize it as a 3-D hilly landscape where the height of the hills represents the size of the error, and the goal it to get into the lowest valley of the landscape (corresponding to the lowest error). If your current lat/long position in the landscape is (x, y) and you know the slope of the hill you are on, then you can move downhill towards the valley by moving a bit in the appropriate direction from (x,y) to (x+dx, y+dy). These x, y values represent the parameters of the network, so by continually tweaking them from (x,y) to (x+dx,y+dy) for each training sample, you are slowly moving down the error hill in the right direction towards the valley of lowest error.
> How does that work for companies or things made by multiple people?

Actually, I literally don't understand how this works. How do you determine the "author" of a work created by many thousands of people?