skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unbounded streams, but with watermarks (which right now seem fixed length?):

https://doc.arroyo.dev/concepts#watermarks

Also works based on fixed, pre-built pipelines. This is all very much in the style of most stream processing platforms today but I hope we’ll continue to move closer as an industry to having our cake and eating it: ingest everything in real-time, while serving any query (with joins) over the full dataset (either incrementally or ad-hoc).
> Apple built it's own little parallel gaming stack world that works really well on their hardware

I think saying "its own parallel gaming stack" probably gives them too much credit [1]. Yes - they put in significant effort, but their gaming stack is neither "parallel" to the rest of the world, nor "their own" in any real sense. They seem to have adapted the open source efforts of Codeweavers, Valve, Wine and the broader Linux community put in Proton and achieving Windows games compatibility on Linux with Vulkan. Adapting that for Metal is no small feat [2] but an investment a giant like Apple can easily make without much risks. Don't forget that Wine has always been developed for Linux and macOS (and the BSDs) in parallel too - it was right there for the taking.

[1]: I'm assuming this is a quote sourced from someone who just isn't aware of all the effort being made at the Linux side of thing in the last five years.

[2]: At a technical level Metal and Vulkan are actually similar enough, but there's just a lot of surface to cover and edge cases to get right.
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Personally, I appreciate this effort, not for AAA games, because I never bought a MacBook expecting it to be able to...but for much more casual or lower poly games that are available on Steam for Windows users only, because it's too hard to port. There's tons of sub-AAA games that could easily be ported and enjoyed on a modern M1/M2 Mac.
I think most of the bugs are in the drives themselves - doing things like claiming data is flushed when it is not.

However, btrfs is a very fragile filesystem and any inconsistencies caused by the drive bugs tend to lead to it breaking and refusing to mount, whereas on other filesystems you'll just get a warning in dmesg.

It doesn't help that btrfs developers refuse to work around drive bugs.
From my understanding the curriculum will still contain both evolution and the periodic table but in other class years. Not sure why the media are jumping from reducing the amount the two topics are being taught to it being a decision based on promoting Christianity, but it seems to be part of the wider left-wing mantra of "fighting Islamophobia". The children will be taught the topics before they graduate high school nevertheless.
In theory, yes.

In practice, I'm not so sure. I have yet to meet a developer who reviewed another developer's project, and said

> Definitely, whoever wrote this code is 100% not braindead.

Academic code is written for a purpose - I'm afraid if code review became mandatory, there would be fewer papers submitted in fear of negative criticism due to a memory leak that eats up all memory if the program is running for 3 weeks (even though it finishes after 4 minutes).

On the other hand, most probably reviewer would come from the same science area as the submitter, with similar level of coding knowledge. Not sure if they would be any significant help regarding the code quality. They would do the same.

With that said, I would require making the code part of the paper, regardless how garbage it is.
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> Isn't the uncopyrightable nature of AI generated artwork a potential issue here?

For some uses of stock art, probably not (nonexclusive use is common and cheaper), for others yes, if AI art is not copyrightable (an opinion of the Registrar of Copyrights that it is not if the only input from the human claimant to the finished work is a text prompt is perhaps being grossly overread the way some people seem to think it is settled law that imagery generated through the use of an “AI” tool is categorically uncopyrightable.)
The title from the article, which IMHO didn't convey the full message, is -

‘He made sure that she got nothing’: The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova
That's a fine skeptical attitude, but to put it into practice you'd have to be familiar with the relevant scholarship, read the paper, independently verify its arguments and claims, and come to an informed conclusion. You'd also have to be familiar with the standards of evidence used in the relevant fields, which aren't the same as the standards of evidence used in the hard sciences—they can't be because it's largely impossible to carry out experiments and there is a paucity of available evidence.

It's mostly abduction—the best explanation for the available evidence—which wouldn't fly in the hard sciences, but it's all that's available to archeologists and ancient historians. If your heuristic is "hard proof or bullshit," you'll inevitably reject everything that comes out of these fields. (also, history isn't any sort of science, soft or otherwise; it's a branch of the humanities).
I'm a fan of VR/AR but found Apple's reveal video to be profoundly sad. There's a sense of isolation running through the whole thing. The immediate connection many people made was to Black Mirror.

The father wearing the headset and recording his children play around him really hit that note. From the children's perspective, instead of their father's face they see a pair of black goggles and rather than their father's eyes they see a digital facsimile.
> The US Military released rather intriguing, yet unexplained videos of objects outmaneuvering our top jets.

Those videos show no such thing. All the stuff about outmanoeuvring is a fantastic narration.

Videos show only dots which can be (and were) explained as a bird from above, plane from behind and glitchy camera mount with a bit of optical artifacts on top. Which is infinitely more plausible than aliens from another star or another dimension.

> but who are any of us to say what is possible or what is not?

I feel like learning physics increased my ability to tell possible from impossible things tremendously. Second factor is learning as much as you can about scams and liers.

With those two foundations you should have a solid capacity to appreciate reality
There would only be a need for that with ubiquitous literacy. The Roman system may well have been close enough to universally accessible and offer delivery throughout their territory for Roman citizens who were literate.
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> but writing it off as 'he didn't see anything' seems like an incorrect position to hold.

Why incorrect? He specifically says he didn't see anything.
My dream is to become a fully wired in cyborg. I thought many hackers felt the same but I guess not.
Or make an iPhone that can take spatial pictures.
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DXVK does not support DirectX 12, and does only half of the job, missing the CPU instruction translations.
Is Vulkan the default API for any platform except a subset of the newest Android devices?

By default, pretty much every gaming platform has it's own proprietary graphics tech.

we've got Metal on Macs and iOS, DirectX on Windows and XBox, and Gnmx on Playstation.
AMD should clone Cuda.

It may be hard but no reason why it can’t be done.

Except AMD doesn’t seem very good at doing software.

Thought maybe an open source effort could do it.
This is about DirectX 12. How's the support for d3d9 through dxvk like for end users?
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Google won that in the end. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.
It mostly boils down to the used game engine: Civ 5 is written in a custom engine (LORE), where you can choose which platforms to support. Other engines might make it easy (Unity), hard (Unreal), or impossible (Frostbite) to support Linux and Mac natively.

Platform support is of course an argument when choosing an engine.
No, I need nvidia for ML
Are you sure?

Building and programming all these machines, training and adjusting the models vs brain power.

Don't forget it not about doing the same amount of work like today because it was limited by the amount of teachers for instance.

Now it's limited by computing and energy power.

We won't just do the same work faster but more work in the same time.
This is total speculation on my part, but I do wonder why Apple have suddenly got this out the door to developers right at the same moment their headset is announced. They’ve never seemed very interested in this section of the games market before.

I wonder if this could be the first building block of allowing existing modern 3D games to play in some kind of new semi immersive way inside. I’m imagining playing an FPS on a huge wrap around screen with some adjustable depth perception. That could potentially open up a huge market.
> Zinc * Selenium * Sodium

I would be hesitant with taking mineral content seriously in produce. Plants obviously don't make minerals so mineral content is mostly a factor of soil quality and characteristics. Yes different plants have different propensities to take up different minerals, but we've seen an overall decrease in mineral content across the board since at least 1940:

> All elements except P declined in concentrations between 1940 and 2019 - the greatest overall reductions during this 80-year period were Na (52%), Fe (50%), Cu (49%) and Mg (10%); water content increased (1%)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34651542/
A fifth? ... You mean like the $100 iPhone they're about to release?!
This is why AI is an oxy moron in terms of our own intelligence is implemented via the biology of our brain re-using sensor cell signals in a new way.

An example, our geo-spatial sensory signals are re-used to organize memories and that then serves to act as emphasis filter.

Or in short words our intelligence is not from neurons but from re-using our sensor cell signal circuits in new ways.
Thing is, the drive itself typically is in a much better position to protect against bitrot.

Both SSD's and spinning metal drives have ECC bits stored with the data, and the drive can detect when the data was read easily or required lots of error correction applied. And then based on that they can make the optimal call of how often to read data to see it it is 'nearly rotted' and needs a rewrite.

The filesystem has no knowledge of any of that, so has to do dumb periodic scans.
So does whether words should be automatically capitalized in titles and in I say in the C locale they should not be.
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> 1x person working at 5x efficiency putting 1-4 people out of work

Or the whole industries are getting 5x more productive.
I don't know if you are joking, but it is for many. Bar the wired part. Why not wireless?
Acushully...

There is a very specific problem - the simulation speed problem - that is in the way.

For games RL agents can be trained by running billions of adversarial simulations. Set up a battle between two agents and reward the one that wins, try variations and repeat, and repeat, and repeat. The trick is to manage the search process so as to not waste time on strategy branches that won't get anywhere, but the idea is very simple.

Unfortunately for things like real world conflict the simulations aren't that representative of what really happens, they are also really really really really complex and slow, and so finding wining strategies is a bit hard.
Yes, we do that. Well, the CDN does the caching -- but we still get a 99.99% hit rate.

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> Cook knows millions of users are worried about their privacy in a world where almost every tech company — that scrum again! — wants to sell your personal data. Apple has no need to sell your data; its percentage is in selling you expensive devices.

Yeah, no. Apple is an ad company now[1]. Their stance on personal data is not very different from Google i.e, your data is safe as long as it's with us. Which is just about as ridiculous a claim you can make when it comes to privacy. In the end, their interests lie in cornering the market for advertising to people who have purchased Apple devices.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-is-an-ad-company-now
Given that I notice the same phenomenon in Sweden where school shootings are rarer than hen's teeth I do not think that this is true. Parents - or maybe I should say 'mothers' - want to be able to get hold of their offspring to tell them to come home in time/tell them to water the horses when they walk by the field/tell them they will collect them at the station/etc. The assumption that people are supposed to be reachable wherever they are really has permeated through society. I for one am glad that I was not assumed to be reachable when I cycled to and from school, paddled my inflatable boat over the river to the next village at 12yo, cycled through the Netherlands at 15yo and more. Not only did this add to the sense of freedom - being all by myself in that boat or cycling past places unknown to me without the risk of that stupid phone starting to blare at any moment - but it also helped in 'growing up' since I had to make decisions on my own without being able to call for help and advice at any moment. I was free, children nowadays are tethered - the opposite of what The Waterboys sing about in This is the Sea [1]:

once you were tethered
now you are free
that was the river
this is the sea

This has turned into:

now they are tethered,
once they were free

If you have children - I do - allow them the freedom you had yourself or the freedom you would have liked to have.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx--j1F5Ppg
I was too slow…
I don't care much for it being open source or not, it's just a shame Apple is making attempts to limit its use cases through licensing [1]. It's on brand for Apple and totally expected, but still sad. It's not going to stop a bunch of homebrew efforts springing up around it, but it will likely be enough to stop third party app stores like Steam from opening up a huge game library on the Mac in a straightforward way like what happened with Proton.

[1] The license is probably actually meaningless in a lot of jurisdictions, but it still has a chilling effect for commercial parties using it. That's probably exactly what Apple intends.
Yes, that along with the last sentence. It sounds like what you are ‘supposed’ to say when this type of revelation is made because we’ve heard it many times before in movies and books over the decades.
Depends in what language you are developing. Tool support is being added everywhere. Here's Chrome WebAssembly support described: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-114/#wasm
>- Something whimsical to inspire developers. Give me files represented as physical blocks that I can pile, or a task manager that shows processes as plants around me. Close apps by scrunching their screen like paper. A globe with my geotagged pictures.

I respect Apple for not doing this. These are demos that are kind of fun for 20 minutes but you would never want to actually use a device like this: https://youtu.be/z4FGzE4endQ?t=59
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Historically, when a resource becomes cheaper, its demand increases. AI, as a type of software, can, like software, make human labor more productive. I.e. it's output become cheaper.

Efficiency gains don't create unemployment, they create economic growth.

Corporate greed creates unemployment. McKinsey has created much pain. Are we defining Corporations as forms of AI? If not, AI (as software) causes the economy to grow and employment to increase.
I never got why the interpretation of „world“ christians choose is so narrow; why can’t it describe the galaxy, or universe? What if the genesis revolves around beings on other planets as parts of the same world?
Phones, Tablets, Laptops, TVs.
Isn't campaigning to have something banned also free speech? If they start blowing up data centres, that's a different question.
No, as the parent said it isn't. This is why you can create a map of the variations like this one: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11234
How far fetchedis the idea that facial expressions on the model could be manipulated to look negative/positive when the user is talking about something the software creators have different opinions on?
How did they call the school without phones ?
There's no need to run games at those high resolutions natively. Modern games now render only stuff like UI at the monitor's native resolution while the 3D viewport is rendered at a lower resolution and then potentially upscaled using DLSS or FSR.
The bible was initially an oral tradition but I’m pretty sure Plutarch and Plato were written down from the start.
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Parent is right. VR/AR looks amazing on a physical display in a youtube video but looks terrible through the headset.
Don't you think that Apple could tackle the performance issues in GPUs in the following years?

The core issue here, business wise, is the price tag. People of all social classes use gaming consoles and it is difficult to think Apple can be relevant in this market even if they tackle all other issues.
> It is interesting that civilizations have engaged in ritual sacrifice. The question is why?

A few thoughts:

- Sacrifice and civilization are closely related. To live in a society you have to sacrifice some autonomy, some of your (and your family's) goals and some resources. Further, to prepare for the future you have to make a sacrifice in the present. Many people even sacrifice their present selves for their future (not born yet) offspring. It is only logical (if a bit esoteric) then, to think that making a bigger sacrifice will transmute into bigger positives.

- Christianity (not that familiar with Judaism or Islam) was revolutionary because Jesus already made the ultimate sacrifice, essentially freeing everyone from the obligation.

- If one takes a sober view, the history of ritual sacrifices has not ended (and probably never will). Mao was willing to sacrifice millions to bring about Communism (read: Paradise / heaven on earth). Similarly for the Bolsheviks, Nazis, Red Khmer, Robespierre etc. They all explicitly stated in their own writing that the deaths were a worthwhile sacrifice. That is the psychopathic variant of ritual sacrifice, slaughtering a goat to Zeus looks a lot more tame and rational in comparison, no?
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Sure it uses Wine, but the Direct3D API is handled by the proprietary D3DMetal framework, which implements Direct3D on top of Metal. This is different than CodeWeaver's CrossOver approach, which uses Wine's DirectX-on-Vulkan implementation and then MoltenVK to run Vulkan on Metal.

So, it is not just Wine. It is Wine plus a large proprietary Apple Framework that has most of the Direct3D magic sauce.
I must have because the quality as said was "dimmer at the far end" but you know, tales told to small children, maybe it was electrical engineers humour?

https://bpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/sites.uoguelph.ca/dist/1/170/f... discusses the electrification of london from the 1880s. There was mixed AC and DC supply for some time. Ferranti led efforts to switch to AC and deploy a huge (for the time) AC system. The article says both that DC supply persisted into the 1950s and was uneconomic for transmission beyond about 1.5miles. Maybe that's the root of "lights getting dimmer"
Not sure why reality is so controversial, here are references for anyone who wants to know how a (standard) unlimited fido hardware token works:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/237271/where-ar...

OTOH for resident keys they usually support 50-100.
> measure small variations in the earth's gravity

This would be incorrect.

It is just a very accurate, unproven in the field, accelerometer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwKKOPd-5cU - "Royal Navy's experimental ship carries out first trial of quantum navigation system"

"The quantum accelerometer uses ultracold atoms to make highly accurate measurements. When cooled to extremely low temperatures the atoms start to display their ‘quantum’ nature, resulting in wave-like properties. As the atoms move through the sensor, an ‘optical ruler’ is formed by using a series of laser pulses. This allows the acceleration of the atoms to be precisely measured."