skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the number of people that seem ignorant of the circumstances here is astounding. He's given classified briefings to Congress on a subject matter he was tasked with investigating (UAPs). The fact that people seem so quick to dismiss that as "some people joked and he didn't get it" is kind of wild. That would require a "Weekend at Bernie's" level of ignorance at more official levels than I'd be willing to entertain of the bat.
Antimatter uses memes to educate students
Or maybe they sent out billions of self-replicating probes that have no value except in the data they transmit, so they don't care if they crash.
I don't agree with this line of reasoning.
I would not expect a random commercial company to decide to do this on their own.
I would expect the population and politicians of a country to realise this is what needs to be done, and to put into law public-funded initiatives to work towards these goals.
In the non-US country where I live, we already do this with sustainable energy sources and vehicle types. We tax usage of fossil-fuel vehicles, and give subsidies on using 'clean-energy' vehicles. We execute policies on windmill farms and solar panel areas.
We also publicly finance e.g. the common shared road network of asphalt, without having an owning commercial company directly profiting off our road network.
The only reason I can see this would break,
is to the extent public government law turns into a lobbying nightmare, where all law-making is reduced to paid-for-by-lobbyist initiatives. Outside the US, that is not where we are yet (though I am aware of the risk - money and power perpetually will corrupt).
I don't see the problem as mainly a billionare-problem ('this is not a problem for billionaires.')
Instead, I see the problem with countries that disagree on these policies - country A spending 100s of billions to fix climate issues,
at the same time country B ignores it all and behaves like, well, the US and Russia.

So if
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth bringing it back around to politics (I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have anything to say about it), but cancel culture has shown that people still love to gather 'round for a good old fashioned sacrifice.
Reminds me of dreaming.
So now they are propping up an ecosystem on which open computing will always be a second rank citizen at best. I wonder if they are all happy about it in retrospect, wine got patches, DXVK gets to be a brick in the wall of Apple's garden (if Valve can't distribute it, it's useless to them in the grand scheme of things, normal people want a one click install).

Monetarily good for the devs who ended up on Apple payroll, another nail in the coffin for competition and open computing at the same time.
No need to wait for that, running it through valgrind will surely uncover some UBs (but do note that even if it didn’t uncover anything, it doesn’t prove their absence, only that this particular run through the state space didn’t encounter any valgrind looks for).
We recently migrated to Poetry [1] for dependency management and so far it's been a breath of fresh air - it feels like what Python deps should've always been!

You can even have dependency groups, to separate main/dev dependencies for instance. It also brings env management, and plays very nicely with Docker if you use containers.

[1] https://python-poetry.org
Science? That would be my first guess unless there's reason to suspect otherwise. The underlying paper was published in an academic journal with at least some history, so that speaks for the authors intend.

The fact that there's a press release about it stems from the need for marketing on the university side and it's correct to be skeptical, but I can't see any indication that they misrepresent the papers findings.
Why do you imagine yourself more competent than those "buffoons" who work in the Pentagon?

You believe they see some crap, jump to the conclusion it was "alien spaceships" and go on record declaring to have "working craft"?

I wonder who is who here.
I obviously did not mean "unified memory" in that sense. In that sense even Apple I in 1976 had "unified memory" [1] [2]. The sense in which I meant it, following the spirit of the above paper/thesis, which no one seems to have read because they were too quick to jump on the bashing bandwagon, was unified memory performing "stream computing", e.g. an Apple Silicon chip running a local large language model. And if you get to run Vicuna 13B or something else on an Intel Tiger Lake or similar, more power to you, and to us if you make it open source.

[1] "The display section contains its own memory, leaving all of RAM for user programs", http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/apple.applei.197...

[2] "Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLCtjJzHVI
Many much cheaper 3 year old PCs would handle this fine
And there are some great retopo algorithms coming out in the last few years that could automate this, my favorite being one that uses physics simulator to disperse a net across the model surface. I would imagine there are even AI driven ones.
The party Die Linke has a complicated history. Its biggest success came on the tail end of the merger with the WASG, which was a left-wing party that split off the SPD following many members' disappointment with the SPD/Green coalition government under Schroeder. A lot of its strongholds are owed more to the candidates themselves than the party, which has provided a certain stability while also giving those candidates a disproportionate level of influence in an otherwise supposedly democratic platform (more democratic than other parties, at least).

The party Die Linke also does not explicitly tie itself to a single leftist ideology. You'll find anarchists, Marxists-Leninists and Trotskyists, both radical social progressives campaigning for ongoing civil rights issues and social conservatives worrying about alienating reactionaries. This creates a lot of potential for "democratic discourse" or "in-fighting" (depending on which bias you prefer). It has also allowed the party to receive "protest votes", although those are now more associated with the far-right (and regionally right-wing extremist) AfD.
I'm not in either of those groups you described, thankfully not in the latter! Maybe it's just due to me being a techy.

Nonetheless, the move you described, even if short lived, shows that the effects aren't as dire as one may imagine.
>And the more the framework does, the earlier the fight begins.

assuming that the more the framework does also means the less the framework allows you to do yourself. which is a pretty reasonable assumption of course.
As far as I know, the gulags never went away[1]. The secret police's status, by its very nature, is unknown.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/europe/2013/10/19/slave-labour-and...
Desire for power, authority, importance, respect, I'd imagine.
And printers defaulting to ‘letter’ sized paper (rather than A4) no matter where in the world you seem to be!
>I'm not sure - Apple's marketing claimed that the M1 was beating top end PC parts. This isn't even close.

Your statement is quite misinformed.

First, this is the M1. Not M1 Pro. Not M1 Max. The M1 is almost 3 years old.

Second, this is being translated from DX12 to Metal and also x86 to ARM64. Yes, both the CPU and GPU layers are being translated.

Third, Apple claimed that the M1 Max was the most powerful GPU on laptops. It was probably true depending on what benchmarks.

Finally, this is Cyberpunk 2077 running in Ultra settings. It's the most demanding PC game ever.
I'm pretty sure this is related to those balloons they shot down. They we're UAPs officially. They're too embarrassed to admit that they we're just hobbyist balloons, and thus they want to keep it under wraps. Meanwhile, someone extrapolates it into alien spacecraft.

On the other hand, I think that it's in the realm of possibilities that there are some AI-controlled Von Neumann probes on Earth, sleeping in the bottom of the ocean, and checking on us from time to time. It's not unlikely that there's a point in time where they think we're ready to know the truth and they reveal themselves and their knowledge.
Forcibly move people to the other end of the inland colonies. There they won't fraternize with the remaining locals, chances are they they will identify more with the colonizers than with the indigenous. Imperialism 101.
Could it all be research for the new vr headset?
No, again. The SEC has told them the law, then they keep ignoring that and saying "no what is the law we want," to which the SEC say "I don't know"

Do you think, perhaps, that the SEC not providing answers is just allowing more time (rope) for the crypto co's to hang themselves with?
Got praised on one sub for reporting a bot and banned from another for it (throwing around baseless accusations!!).

Some mods have a hair trigger on that ban hammer.
Since produce is often bred for looks and size, they might jave the same amount but lower percentages of nutrients than older varieties bred for taste/hardness.
UFOs are not a US only phenomenon, certainly not a US military only phenomenon. Major events have happened (or been claimed to have happened) in many other countries, including several of the most famous events (Redlesham, Westall, Ariel). There are plenty of reasons to doubt UFOs are real/interesting, but that's just not a valid criticism.
Well it pretty much goes without saying that we don't know what we don't know. But we could actually be getting close to learning everything there is to know about the laws of physics. Finishing them up in the next century or two doesn't seem like a big stretch.
They can weaponize it against Valve. Helping displace steam for relatively little effort bumped it up in priority.
NHS data[0] agrees that young people are drinking less. I'm surprised about how much more 55+ years old drink.

[0] https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta...
In the new Mac pro..
> based on what we know about physics, we will never interact with them

It's probably too an obvious question to ask but seeing how knowledge is continually expanded can that claim really be made with known unknowns and unknown unknows and all that? Or are we really at the edge of all knowledge of astro/physics?
Tangential, but we tend to bring up the placebo effect pretty quickly in medical discussions about what works and doesn't but actually a lot of what people say is the result of placebo is just not even placebo but "natural" resorption, that is your body doing the work.
Placebo is measurable, it's whether taking a "fake" cure is better than "natural" resorption. For some affections, the effect is surprisingly important for others quite negligible.
I don't see where he is claiming little green men. Is he claiming that?
I'm not sure binares were too big of an issue - most server simply didn't carry groups that allowed binaries.

The spam issue was the real deal breaker imho - you either had a fully moderated group, or you had a fully unmoderated one with spam left and right.

Also, for me it was social media - web groups, however lacking the interface was, had more variety in their subjects.
Apple Game Porting Toolkit 1.0
All 32-bit ARM opcodes had predication, but when ARM went 64-bit, they wanted to recover the encoding space for 32 instead of 16 registers, and removed predication from most instructions. When they did this, they looked at all the 32-bit ARM binaries they could find, and counted which instructions were actually used with predicates, and added the top 5 of those as separate instructions.
Proving that we can't reliably simulate human brains only requires a single example of a signal emanating from anywhere in any brain that can not be traced to a cause via known physics.

Proving that we can reliably simulate human brains requires showing that nowhere in any human brains does such signals ever emanate. We can get close if we one day have the capacity to run a simulated brain for long enough to show it appears to function like a human, but when the counter hypothesises a violation of known physics that may well be intermittent and extremely limited, we can't realistically absolutely prove its absence.

As such, the former is tractable if such signals can occur, the latter is not, and so I think my comparison of it elsewhere to a claim of Russell's proverbial orbiting teapot is reasonable - people will always be able to claim that there is some so far unobserved difference, and given it postulates highly localised violations of known physics and this seems like an absolutely extraordinary claim, the burden must be theirs.
I do not think it has anything to do with C++. If you are using language that is strongly typed and compiled upfront and have defined some MYTYPE that is used in thousands of files all those need to be recompiled should you change the definition of MYTYPE.
Yeah probably. My main point was mostly that it’s a bit of an overstatement to describe investment in gaming on Mac as something we all want.
Airalo app allows me to buy an eSIM for Japan in the comfort of my home. Starting at $5 for 1GB and 1 week.
Indeed, before we had FS UUIDs the kernel would simply mount partitions at random, there being no other possible way to distinguish one filesystem from another. It was a wild time.
This attitude is why sooner or later everyone ends up with legal requirements for disabled people.
> render a reactive statically rendered website

Regular old react without server components has been able to do this long before Svelte existed with SSR
> Jonathan Grey is a generational officer of the United States Intelligence Community with a Top-Secret Clearance who currently works for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), where the analysis of UAP has been his focus. Previously he had experience serving Private Aerospace and Department of Defense Special Directive Task Forces.

A career like this won't protect you from belief or developing an mental illness. Hope he is fine.
I don't dispute that, but we have both multiple written sources about the practice and the Tophet of Carthage is an actually existing cemetery containing both young children and animals. So while there is no definite evidence in one way or the other, I would argue it's not outlandish to assume that the written history is to be trusted here.
So you're telling me, some random game developer was more competent than the US military guys who literally are hired for such analysis?

I suppose, having coded some "parallax effect" is sufficient in your book?
I am not 100% convinced this will perform as good on every armv8 implementation. Have you tried this on first gen v8 cores such as A53?

I think that is the reason GCC will not use it, although it may if you set the target CPU with -mcpu=
Can it also be used for missile guidance, in case of GPS denial?
How does stability lead to a wave? We can see wobble in stars to know they are getting tugged by planets. Are you expecting similar with gravity?

I'm not a physicist nor astronomer. I wouldn't expect any gravity waves as I'd expect the star system to have a center of mass that stays in roughly the same space.
They tried that, they are/were giving away tracts of Siberia for free to anybody willing to live on that land, but I doubt there were many takers.
This whole thing would have been much better if they’d positioned it as a work and personal entertainment machine, similar to a bunch of monitors with a Mac mini, and replacing iPads or single-viewer TVs.

By trying to show interactions with other people, it’s just highlights a weird isolation - what it’s not pointing it out is that the advantage for people like me who work in a private home office where I’m already isolated - this just helps me work there better. I don’t have to cram my small table with monitors any more, and when I do watch a movie or show there I can do it on a giant screen.

Even the cameras could have been highlighted much better, either by photographing a complex machine, or an art collaboration across countries.
They're not arguing for the general case. In this case the negation, "just" requires showing a single computation done by a brain which provably can't be simulated by a universal turing machine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214530
The goal with Metal was making sure they own IOS, and now their new AR platform. Macs are selling well regardless. They are just a nice to have.

I think they are keeping an evil eye on asahi linux. As soon as that becomes viable, they'll act to keep people on OSX. Their worst nightmare would be steam actively moving to support proton on mac and doing things outside the apple store. Asahi linux would be the pre-cursor to that happening.
How Can Science Be More Creative?
Really weird how political this is. UFOs are totally real but space lasers are funny, yet the evidence for both is basically the same grainy video. General AI as a strong problem, indeed.
Free-Lunch Explainability for DL Architectures
The GPU in the M series chips is pretty good and if your software is optimized, it can run great. They also have great battery life even when playing games. Unfortunately, Apple has ignored game developers for a long time and even now they don't permit redistribution of the game porting toolkit
Mount it on a UUV?
Nope, it's pretty firm. The design isn't as good as the Psion 5, but it's OK. I mainly place it on my lap on something like a book, or preferably, on a desk or tabletop. Then I can type on it at about 60 WPM, which is about 3/4 of my speed on a full-sized keyboard such as my preferred IBM Model M.

I occasionally can't remember where a character is, but I tell myself it's where it would be on a Psion and 20th century muscle memory kicks in and I just hit that combo.
Linus' rants were usually directed at high-ranking maintainers who really should have known better than to accept those.
> That's not because they don't submit to the store, it's because some rejects them.

Citation needed.
For a Western country the UK is actually doing alright - closer in median age to North America than Central Europe, and probably has the strongest migration prospects of non-colonial Western countries.
This is hilariously brilliant. Thank you for almost killing a fellow engineer through laughter.
There’s been backlash to being on phones all day. iOS even guilt trips you every week with stats. It even guilt trips you for being too sedentary. If anyone is going to guilt trip you for doing too much of something, probably apple.
I’m not sure you’re using the word “addicted” properly. It’s a tool that is used sparsely. It’s on my main tv because the only way to moderate is manually. This actually makes us watch it way less.

My problem with YT isn’t the ads. It’s the recommendation engine that shows bad stuff. If I remove a specific channel, there are many more to take its place.

It’s just not a very good product for kids as there is poor moderation.
A few years ago, after my grandparents died, I went to their apartment and took around 2000 photos to run them through OpenMVG and OpenMVS and make a 3D model to remember it forever.

This looks way better, I hope one day I have the hardware to be able to run it...
Handwriting Synthesis with RNNs
Marketing, development, translates, legal team, hr, hiring.
In the movie interstellar were they using gravitational communication to write the book? Can someone enlighten me?
Llama.cpp: Roadmap June 2023
> that's actually what I want

Why protect your battery's ability to hold a full charge over a longer lifespan if your battery is constantly throttled to a partial charge anyway?
How dou you suppose your own competence to be sufficient to judge his claims "must be wrong" and on top of it attest this guy some "mental illness"?
Swift on the server is really quite well supported now. Frameworks like Vapor work fully, there's a thriving ecosystem. And above all, Apple clearly wants this to work. Apple aren't deploying macOS servers for their backend services.
Every day another submission about these goggles nobody seems to like. I'm just annoyed by all that unwarranted attention. Just because it's Apple.
> and my only thought is, did they really have access to so much more credible evidence that all historians before 2014 didn't?

It was really only after the 1970s that academia pushed the no child sacrifice in Carthage narrative. If it’s the modern humanities department that you have a problem with, then the child sacrifice denial is an innovation created by that system to begin with.
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Looks like it, given that Russians army started kidnap Ukrainian children by the thousands from the very beginning of the invasion. These children are then adopted by families deep in Russia, and gradually turned into Russians.
It was a union on paper. Much less than US is a union of states.

Individual republics had a carefully measured dose of national identity in school curricula, local TV and journals.

The economy was centrally planned and managed from Moscow.
That is on an M1 laptop. No dedicated GPU, not even an M1 Max. Just plain M1. Of course, it's not running super fast on Ultra settings, but imagine how slow it would be on a comparable Intel laptop with onboard graphics eating through your battery. Especially considering it only costs $1,299, which is not a lot for this kind of performance. And then it's not even an x86 CPU, for which Cyberpunk was developed. So yes, it's fantastic.
> you’d have to question the independence

The Greeks had no issue describing the bizarre Etruscan custom of no exposing “excess” female infants and treating the more or less equally to boys.

Killing infants or even young children was really not a big deal in the ancient word. Viewing it as some act of extreme evil is mainly a Christian thing…
When people discuss Apple efforts in gaming, they tend to forget that this company owns second largest in the world, after Android, game platform. And with Vision, they could easily become the largest VR gaming platform in the world, even though this might not be the immediate focus upon release — but iPhone didn't have any games on release either.

Mentioning partnership with Unity in Vision announcement presentation is very significant. It is the most used game engine in the world (especially if you count by game installations) which dominates mobile market, and it has been developing VR/AR capabilities for many years now, even though it arguably doesn't have the same AAA graphics as Unreal.
Interesting - is there a reference for this?
The market has suddenly (and conveniniently) been opened up to users of the second largest computer manufacturer. It would be foolish for any developer to neglect the opportunity to capitalise on this market, and they should be scrambling to port their products across in a fit state.

Remember that this isn't a toolkit aimed at users and hackers, it's a developer toolkit.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good - things are only going to get better.
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