skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the extra performance is entirely due to being more aggressive about switching to higher power modes, not due to efficiency improvements.
> So far I've only read the introduction and it doesn't obviously involve any advanced mathematics that I'm unfamiliar with so I could perhaps attempt an implementation.

This is a bad sign for the paper. The prior cases of solving big foundational problems I'm aware of all introduce substantial new math. So much so that the actual problem is something of an afterthought. Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem is substantial.

It's not impossible that this is legitimate, but... it seems unlikely that P=NP has evaded proof for so long if the solution were straightforward. There are also a LOT of plausible-but-flawed proofs -- it's not unsolved for a lack of trying.
Lifetime appointments, dysfunctional congress means that any novel, meaningful political developments are going to come from a corrupt, partisan court that won't be held accountable. Exciting stuff.
They should pay someone to create a good modern tutorial/book how to develop real commercial applications, not just include code of trivial examples.

I'm using C++ Builder in my day job and the documentation is sparse, with very few examples and most recent books are from the early 2000's.
As sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinking
It's very presumptuous for you to be telling me what _I_ admire. I get to make that choice.

I admire feats of engineering. I've toured facilities that pump carbon out of the ground, I've toured facilities that capture carbon and pump it into the ground. They're both impressive in their own right, and it's the same skillsets and technologies required to build both.
Problem #1 is that touchscreens are difficult to operate in applications where you're supposed to keep your eyes on the road.

Problem #2, which makes Problem #1 ten times worse, when when you get crap like Tesla does where the UI changes every month. They don't have any genuine functionality improvements to make, so they just move buttons around and hide or eliminate buttons "in preparation to make the car driverless". I never use Autopilot, much less Partial-Self-Driving. Give me back my UI from five years ago.
The direction Europe is heading is one that holds Facebook and other parasitic vampires with deserved contempt.

The reason people cheer news like this is because similar to tobacco companies, Facebook has entirely lost any credibility for existing. It would be unnatural to do anything but help expedite its demise.

My only complaint is Europeans didn't go far enough.
I believe all of these are either dead or almost dead:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2023/01/04/square...

https://decrypt.co/121872/ubisoft-rabbids-nfts-sandbox

https://vanguard-x.com/blockchain/nfts-are-coming-to-youtube...
I've always strangely found Oil Derricks to be aesthetically pleasing for some reason.

Maybe it's just because of There Will Be Blood.
The other body with the power to investigate, and to punish if they find wrongdoing, is Congress.

Only someone who was confident in his faction's ability to control Congress forever would hamstring the Supreme Court. Corruption might just be the price (whether or not it is too high) that one pays to make certain that there are some speed bumps in the way of the House and Senate if they ever got too far out of whack.
You can land on Phobos just fine, and unlike on Deimos there's no danger of accidentally jumping off into space (Phobos escape velocity is about 41 km/h). All the 'sphere of influence' stuff means is that orbits are too perturbed by unevenness in the Martian gravitational field and can't stay stable.

Deimos is much smaller, but because it's further from Mars there is a region right above the surface (below 700 meters or so) where you could have stable prograde orbits.
> The only reason I can think of is psychological

I am not opposed to IPv6 in any way, but I'm also delaying changing my home network to IPv6 for as long as possible.

It's not from fear of change or not wanting to learn new things at all (I know IPv6 as well as I know IPv4). It's just that making that change is a whole lot of work, and IPv6 doesn't bring any benefit to me that I care about. I'll put in that effort when the situation changes and I get some benefit from it.
I think that is our problem, we have a hard time imagining how the energy could be distributed across the garment.

You could sell me on Non-Newtonian-Kevlar though: Pliant to a slow crease, rock-hard with a sudden strike.

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Oh man I thought I was making that up, but it's a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Armor The future is now!
Why do you need a replacement for Feedly? I’m posting this comment from it right now.
Observable Plot: The JavaScript Library for Exploratory Data Visualization
Il Primo Re uses archaic latin for all dialogue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_King:_Birth_of_an_Em...
Congrats to the Pinecone team!
There are also similar datalog immutable databases with fully open source codebases out there too like https://www.xtdb.com/ or https://datahike.io/
No no, tech people talking about tech people talking about movies are the worst.
Do we know what size these structures really are?
Fabric: The easiest way to crowdfund onchain
> It could have been a nice solution for cross-platform open source apps, boosting its adoption.

I don't think anything "as proprietary as delphi" could be a "nice solution for cross-platform open source apps".
Mosh is closer to tmux than to ssh.
If only we had some sort of national leader saying "Made in America" is good...
Apple Working on 'Special Version' of iPadOS 17 for Larger iPads
I don't believe scholars said any of that.

ISIS wanted to recreate the Caliphate, and shocking, violent videos were one of the most effective methods of recruiting young, belligerent, impressionable males. Martyrdom, beheadings, and violent Jihad were things long before ISIS, and they simply put on the mantle.

to put it another way, you only saw the violent propaganda, since it was in the interest of the US Gov, Israel, Turkey, et al, to make sure the world saw how brutal they were. You didn't watch the hundreds of hours of non-violent propaganda or theology, such as the recruiting videos aimed at young Islamic women.
T-Mobile keeps sending me texts trying to get me to sign up for their 5G home internet. They're offering 50 Mbps down for $60/month. Xfinity gives me 200 megs down for the same price and lower latency, and when you're losing to Comcast, that's not a good sign.
> My take-away - multi-path teaching doesn't work in the typical American classroom (25+ students per class, all the same age, but vastly different skills).

Well yeah, do something badly and it won't work. Each student deserves teacher time even if they get further on that time. Instead they generally try to teach the slowest students more as if they'll ever catch up.

> My son didn't have anything quite so obviously awful. [...] In gifted classes, he excelled.

Well yes, that's small-class tutoring and we know it's almost the ideal. The trick is to replicate that in normal classes, by teaching to the people who will benefit while the others work on exercises, etc.

> It might work in a more controlled environment, where the classes are smaller and the range of skill isn't quite to broad.

My contention is the opposite, that you want a range of skills from newb to expert, and ideally across ages.

You were surely closer to the 6th grade advanced students than the bulk of the 7th grade students who were just getting by. And you may not have been far enough ahead of the 7ths in age and bearing as well as math, and thus not as helpful in teaching as older students would be. Student teachers are a very big part of one-room schools and I think the teaching itself provides invaluable skills in childcare and providing instruction to near peers.
You’re thinking about AI from a Dropbox customer POV.

What if it’s more about using customer data to Dropbox’s advantage? Combined with the telemetry you can’t turn off, they can mine the shit out of users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35724939#35726399
In examples from the physical world, I think one could conceivably claim that there are some underlying basic rule(s) that we haven't discovered yet, which would explain the "emergent" behavior.

However if you take a look at cellular automata, which are artificial and thus completely defined, it's much clearer that complex "emergent" behavior really can result from nothing but very simple rules.
The smallest transistor is bounded by the atomic radius; a recent paper boasts 0.34nm for a graphene transistor. Scaling that up, to borrow a phrase from quantum computing, is "just an engineering problem." But for now we can only produce things on the atomic scale a handful of atoms at a time, and making a trillion-transistor processor would take somewhere between thousands and billions of years with today's tech.
It's a much less contentious part of the article.
And I suppose many didn't read that far.
Citizens probably don't care about Facebook as such. American companies aren't very much liked in most of the EU by the citizens, so politically it is not a suicide to get rid of them.

Does Facebook provide a lot of value? I would argue it does provide some value, but doesn't add much above things like WhatsApp which are relatively primitive by themselves.
> There are virtually no new applications enabled IMO with 5G speeds vs LTE speeds/latency, assuming they are both not congested. 100mbit/sec LTE with 20-30ms latency is fine for nearly everything; gigabit with 5ms latency on 5G doesn't really change much, at least for the next few years.

I'd say few new consumer applications (other than replacing home internet). In commercial applications like TV production being being able to pack 10x as much data into a connection at lower latency is interesting and enables some things that previously required complex/unreliable cellular bonding or wildly expensive satellite connections.
Lacking in quality.
I think it contributes to a renewed sense of purpose and dedication that comes from knowing you are responsible for other people and a desire to show them a positive role model.
If they were entirely transparent about what they transmitted yet didn’t stick to that, then that would be bad.

Similarly, they might have an opt out but not honor it (in the case of Dropbox it wouldn’t be noticeable)

So all those things aside, the interesting discussion is the discussion that assumes they are honest when they say they don’t store any PII in telemetry. That means, for example that the IP isn’t stored.

“Telemetry” as a term means nothing about what’s stored which is why I try to be specific and talk about “anonymous usage statistics and crash reports” or similar. Telemetry without PII tends to be exactly that.
I’m surprised that Kölsch is top-fermenting as I (a Dutch beer noob) would describe Kölsch as “like a regular lager, but then really nice and in a long drink glass”.

Love it, I’m all confused
You don't get it. People trained, educated, fall for scams all the time. People in pen testing who know they will get hit also fall. There is a case for a moat or external protection.
Yep :) That’s a great thread, thank you!
Like I said in my top comment, it's a profiler. I need to consume logs from distributed applications (on possibly tens of thousands of nodes) and render them in as coherent a fashion as possible.

Going to 3d rendering via OpenGL / WebGL was one of the options I considered. But honestly, this is a boatload of complexity. Why do I need to pick up a full 3D rendering library just to draw rectangles on the screen? Plus, consider: the slot viewer (where the rectangles are shown) still needs to draw some UI components (e.g., on hoverover). I still need that UI integration there, even if it's not as performance-sensitive. So I end up needing something along the lines of egui anyway.

I definitely understand that not all UI libraries are going to be optimized for this. But I was surprised that it wasn't easy to e.g. get a high-performance canvas dropped into libraries that specifically advertised themselves as high-performance.
The fact that Dropbox likely is going to stop constantly messing with their core offerings.
Why couldn't this have been done through market competition? Is there no tractor manufacturer who could step up and advertise their lower TCO with their open repair policy? And if not, and if the demand was so strong, why wouldn't a new company have sprung up to compete on that basis?
> Well, as the child of immigrants, I anecdotally see that much of the success comes from a continuity and sense of belonging from family, values, religion, etc

Isn't this what most people would call culture?
The mass of the earth dictates the acceleration of the individual masses towards the earth. However the acceleration of the earth itself towards the masses are dependent on how much mass is falling towards the earth. When more mass is falling to the earth, the earth accelerates towards the masses faster. So the thought experiment is flawed because with only one 1 kg weight falling towards earth, the gap between the weight closes slower than when there are three 1 kg weights spaced 1 m apart and dropped simultaneously.
> But I'm not convinced there is such a big market for all of this yet.

If there is any market for VR, it will be cheap entertainment headsets. They are the only successful market that has been tapped with VR.

The Quest has sold upwards of 10 million units (nearing 20 million by some estimates), while commodity VR like PSVR and SteamVR has continued pushing forward where commercial headsets failed. Everyone who isn't competing directly with Meta is just building another Hololens.
Happy for them, has been a very smooth developer experience using Pinecone and I think there is more than meets the eye with the combined keyword+vector search and handling of filtering. It's not going to solve all problems, but it's a well scoped solution at a good time.
The key to attracting a Dropbox is to follow Rule 1 or Rule 2:

Rule 1: Be an enterprise account that uses the "Call us for a quote" option, and does not complain about feature changes or removals

Rule 2: Don't break Rule 1
It’s still nothing like what we saw from say 2000-2010. I’m not sure exactly where the diminishing returns are given how much more powerful hardware is relative to a decade ago, been graphics development really has been disappointing. Maybe the explanation has a lot to do with training programmers on certain platforms that become outdated, or games with long development cycles being unable to take advantage of the tech that actually exists when they release.
I think 'ethnicity' is a complicated term, since it's a catchall for all sorts of identities we can't quite assign to something easier to parse. In the example of the Australian Indigenous, that identity is a Venn diagram of overlapping ideas about lineage, culture, language, and tribal affiliation. Any one or more of those attributes could be potentially disrupted and yet maintain Indigenous identity and acceptance by the larger community - perhaps precariously.

A counter example would be the American designation of 'Latino' as an ethnicity, independent of race, language, and culture, and based entirely on national origin.
I would—or, at least, I'd seed a whole lot longer—if there were a way to let me keep seeding after I normalize the file naming and structure. As it is, I have to render most downloads un-seedable in order to actually use them.
This is awesome. I only wish the author haden't waited years after scrapping! Many books I've loved have been released in the past couple years
I'm surprised the auto's, esp. Tesla, haven't figured out that all these software driven 'features' can/should be microtransaction. Normally, I hate those, but in this case it makes sense. Basically, I'm VERY likely to just buy a weekend block of time/access to the Performance Upgrade on my Model 3 when a buddy is in town and I want to show off. Or even an impulse buy at a light after having some BMW M guy needing a smackdown lines up next to me. If I can buy this access for a reasonable price, I'd do it, and they'd make money off me / people like me that wouldn't otherwise pay the extra money for that feature.

Same with 'FSD', which setting aside it's actual self-driving, I would be more willing to pay for that package for a few weeks / month when the family is doing a road trip and having it for highway use is handy.

I wouldn't pay up front for either of those feature, I just don't think they're worth the price, or would be used frequently enough to warrant the expense. I don't need FSD that often, and I don't need to blast off the line a second quicker every time I drive the car, but once in a while? Sure, if the price is right.
Find something on the map that you know you like. Now look around it to see similar (i.e. if you like this, you're likely to like that) books.
We understand it now, 2 + 2 = 5

In all seriousness, changing language to fit some weird political philosophy and then berating others for not going along is as dangerous as it is outrageous.

Constructs in your head are not real. When you die, they are gone forever. Yet, when they dig up your body 1,000 years from now as some sort of archeological dig, they will study your skeleton and determine your biological sex with certainty.

You (or anyone) is free to think whatever you want about yourself or others - but you are not free to force others to think like you, particularly when your thoughts are irrational and not grounded in reality or scientific fact.

And people make fun of the flat-earthers for denying reality and objective facts...
As a customer, I don’t care much what their strategy is as long as my file storage keeps working. I do care if the company that I’m using for file storage is going to start treating that as a ‘legacy’ business while they chase something unrelated in an attempt to expand their market, none of which helps me. Also, the hint that a service like this is even considering reading my stored data and training AI on that would be a huge red flag. Sounds like executives chasing investors at the expense of customers again.
sneak's law: users can not and will not securely manage ( = {generate, backup, authenticate} ) key material.

Any system that expects users to preserve keys is going to fail.
Two years ago, it was Dropbox thinking that people really needed a word processor, so they built "Dropbox Paper"
> tons of people ride the subway who can afford to pay 2-5x as much

Tons of people check out books from the public library when they could easily afford spending $1 per book.

Tons of people send their kids to public schools when they could easily afford paying $1,000 per year. And we know people will spend $30,000/year to send those kids to private school.

Tons of people will use public parks when they could easily afford a $1 entrance fee. And people will pay for private parks, like Gramercy Park in NYC.

People value public libraries, and public schools, and public parks. (And a lot of people value the right to vote, even though they pay nothing for it.)

I therefore don't see that your argument holds much weight.
H1B is as much of a dead-end as E2/T2 is. There is no way to convert them to a green card. You can do an AOS from any visa.

This is the reason why I would not even consider moving to the US on a non-immigrant visa. It's either green card or I'm happy in the EU.

> It's actually kind of a problem, there's a lot of people on these visas who've lived and worked here for 20+ years with no viable route to permanent residency.

That's because the INA was written in the 50s and has barely changed since, and is unlikely to change because that would require bipartisanship.
I can't comment on the parent anymore because it has been flagged.

Sure, it's not great the perks that Hunter Biden (or Chelsea Clinton) have received. But they are adults and their parents are no longer in control of them, or accountable for their actions.

And, in at least Hunter Biden's case, the Republican majority in the House is investigating him.

Whereas here, it's Clarence Thomas himself and his wife who are getting perks (along with his mother, who he doesn't control, and is thus more equivalent to Hunter Biden).

This is all crap, as you say, right, left, center, up, and down. That doesn't mean that some crap stinks worse than others. For giving to Thomas' mother, Harlan Crow is in the wrong. For accepting gifts himself, Clarence Thomas is in the wrong.
> Only someone who was confident in his faction's ability to control Congress forever would hamstring the Supreme Court

Codes of conduct don’t constrain the Court, they constrain individual judges and justices. That’s the advantage of putting the enforcement within the judiciary, versus the executive (prosecution) or legislature (impeachment).
They will likely remain on the payroll for many months. Tech company of that stature give very generous severance packages.
> . . . has become.

Are you new or something?
> I’m working on automating every manual process in my job as CEO, even though it’s painful. The investment will be worthwhile.

Not to be funny but aren't you supposed to delegate what you don't need to be spending time doing as CEO?
They lead with, "The Datomic binaries are being released under the Apache 2.0 license."

I can feel the internal open vs. closed source argument from here.
Not very long ago the average human was David and Nature was Goliath. Vast swaths of land seemed to be unbreakable by mankind, yet now the tables have turned and for many it's cringe-worthy to watch the big Humans pummeling the land with ease at a rate where the land can put up no defense
I created it for the accessible data analytics. It's nice to be able to answer certain questions about the local weather.
Not very interesting, but used VB script to make Netflix sleep timer for the active tab. (looks for the browser process, makes the windows active,sends a ctrl+W to the window to close the video player, and finally sleeps the display.

This way I can fall asleep to noise that doesn't later wake me up.
A website to see a map of the world's tides, and bidirectional predictions for individual stations (edit: worldwide too, forgot I added that). The UI/UX is... archaic, but that's just how I wanted it. It works fully offline. https://solunar.pages.dev

Most fun part was transcribing 70+ year old NOAA tide calculation mathematic/astronomic/hydrologic research papers into modern TypeScript. Approach is semi-documented here: https://github.com/JacksonKearl/solunar
Yes, replication. MySQL made it dead easy to have DB clusters in minutes.

I'd wish PostgreSQL would have as simple when it comes to replication and failover like MySQL does. It's always a pain when switching masters back and forth.
Or comic book readers and watchers of its adaptation, like the OP here I noticed: http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-c...
I think I dislike the assumption that more-real game equals better game. But I am not sure that is coming from the author or from the portrait he paints of an industry that seems almost wholly obsessed with this one end-goal.
Interesting. I wonder why our experiences are so radically different?
It's like a safe sounding number that cuts back on expenses but doesn't spook your existing employees and investors. Besides, you can always do another 15% in six months if need be. If you say, "we're laying off 70% effective immediately" it will sound like the ship is going down.
Facebook leaving = Whatsapp leaving.

Now, the real question here is why they can't just do the processing in the EU, given that they have a bunch of data centres in Ireland, Sweden and maybe elsewhere.
>reactionary

Sounds like you're engaging in bad faith. I think you should consider mindfulness and re-examining your learned biases.
That's been my experience with syncthing sadly
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