skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overwatch before that too.

Its surprising how on one hand a huge effort is put into World of Warcraft running smoothly on macOS (they always implement all the new Metal features with every expansion and it was the first native Apple Silicon game) but completely abandoned macOS for new titles.
If you don't want old people starving to death, you need enough young people producing enough excess wealth to feed them.
Undersea mountains have gravity signatures very similar to overland mountains, even though the latter are significantly closer to space?
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So, you need to spend $3k to get playable framerates, which are possible with a 3060 laptop, maybe even a 3050ti, as they can do 1080p, this just seems to be 900p.
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But claiming it definitely isn't is just as absurd as claiming it definitely is. Maybe even more so.
It's not dead reckoning, it's continually fixing to a map.
No, you won’t many cheaper 3 year old laptops running Cyperpunk 2077 on Ultra this well… name one.
Arctic could be ice-free a decade earlier than thought
I wouldn't take it even if they payed me. In a country that does the things it does, even if you could stomach living there, I'm sure if you built something worthwhile there it would certainly be taken from you.
I'm pretty convinced space aliens send the cosmic rays down that cause the bizarre runtime bugs in my software. I have never found a more amenable or rational explanation.
I’m not sure you can call the political and economic response to the annexation of Crimea and the shooting down of a civilian craft a shrug.
> Launch a strategic nuke, no. Nobody expects that. But we're talking about tactical ones. The smaller ones that can be dropped from a plane or installed in a short range missile.

Even with a tactical nuke we are talking about the end of the Russian federation, if anything would invite a physical kinetic response it would be a nuke, tactical or not.
Browsers are a special category. They are a runtime for remote code which has to be sandboxed correctly and as such crucial for security and the promise of privacy Apple makes. I don't trust Apple absolutely, but they seem to be committed to privacy and have the correct incentives to fix things on iOS.
Besides, browsers seems to become 'the OS' and grab all available memory for all the stuff you've got open. Now imagine having two or more of those things open on an iPhone with 4Gb memory.
I worked with the Y-MP models in the 1990s, and no I was not alive in 1964, although I'm not sure how we got there :-)
This seems to be mainly a wrapper around the OpenAI API From the repo they want to integrate Open Source LLMs in the future too.

I feel lately - GPT-4 is superb in performance, but locked up. Using a weaker model feels better because I can just spin up a server and run it on my own. Recent Twitter/Reddit changes remind that relying on others can be a bad thing.
For most applications, packaging all the data and submitting it to OpenAI won't be feasible due to the limited token window size.

I think the most common design pattern nowadays goes like this:

1. Chunk all your data (e.g. per paragraph of content)

2. Generate an embedding for each chunk

3. Index embeddings in a vector database

4. When a query comes in, find chunks relevant to the query (based on embeddings similarity) and ONLY send the relevant chunks + query to a LLM to formulate the answer

Quickly glancing through the repository from this post, I can see that it also follows this pattern. It uses OpenAI's embedding API for 2. and Pinecone DB for 3.
Nothing a tweak to the parameters (retirement age, pension value net of taxes on pensions) can't fix. Pension "rights" are not immutable physical constants.

Counter-intuitively, in democratic systems, lot of young people means pensioners become a smaller proportion of the electorate: so the cake is notionally bigger but the slice pensioners can claim might end up proportionally smaller due to weakened bargaining power.
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You need more than people to field an effective army. You need to equip them and lead them in an effective way. To go back almost 100 years, Mussolini in Italy used to boast to have 8 million bayonets [1]. We know the results.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n10/edward-luttwak/not-u...
I have nothing against the agency. I know people who used to work for them, and they are alright once you see their soul and not how they operate. But, I also know that you have to offer something more than loyalty to be trusted in groups such as those. Drug traffickers will ask for the names of your kids, the NSA already has that and requires more(is my understanding anyways). me personally, I've given enough in my life, if my word isn't enough, then I have no interest in the asymmetric business relationship. IE if you need my life, then keep your secrets, I'll keep mine, and off we go in our separate directions.

Also, not super interested in barbed wire lunches, being used for psychological experiments, armed guards behind me while I write if statements, etc. Not my thing, but I know some people are fine with the trade.
You could say the same about Vulkan though (outside Android, Vulkan is mainly used to run D3D games on Linux via dxvk).

The D3D APIs are by far the most popular for PC games, so it makes a lot more sense to support D3D. Also, Vulkan on Mac is already supported "well enough" via MoltenVk.
Let's use a magnetometer as an example. Inertial navigation system (INS) is just using the magnetometer as a compass, so errors in bearing accumulate over time. Instead, if you built a map of magnetic field strength, the slight spatial variation of field strength would let you precisely localize on the map.

In robotics parlance, this is the difference between dead reckoning versus SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).
> This whole thing would have been much better if they’d positioned it as a work and personal entertainment machine

Honestly most of the presentation had this exact vibe for me. That the Vision Pro is directly positioned as a device for deep immersion, like movies, gaming, and engrossing work. The two exceptions I remember were those moments where a person plopped their Vision Pro on to take a 3D moment of their children and the one where a person answered a FaceTime call with the Vision Pro while packing their suitcase. I don't see those moments happening in reality with this sort of device.
> Apple learned its lesson with Siri- no one uses it

Is this true? I think Siri is very much used. I use it every day, but for basic stuff like setting alarms and reminders or turning on lights. I rarely use it for open ended questions.

I think it’s just because it’s hard to see usage numbers as Apple doesn’t publish queries per day (and they don’t even know because of the way Siri works). If I set 500 alarms a day, only I know that. You’d have to run an old fashioned survey to ask people their habits.

So I suspect the lesson Apple learned is that Siri is much used and they are doing more “edge AI” that’s used but doesn’t have telemetry.

Back in 2020, Siri was used at least 25 billion times a day. [0]

[0] https://voicebot.ai/2020/06/22/apple-still-in-holding-patter...
“ Yael Garten, director, Siri data science and engineering said that Siri was used for 25 billion requests each month. If you assume that there are about one billion iPhone users and they represent the majority of Siri usage, then you are talking about an average use of 25 times per month. That would represent almost daily use. However, at least half of iPhone users don’t use Siri at all so it may be more accurate to say that Siri users are averaging about two times daily. Siri may not win many plaudits for its capabilities but that is apparently not undermining widespread use.“
Couldn't it also be used to detect submarines as well then? Given they're quite big.
because windows is a frustrating brittle operating system that doesn't do what i want it to do
Sounds like OP has a barrier beneath their planter box and doesn't want to grow plants in the native soil for whatever reason.
> Indian diaspora groups - e.g. Canada/Europe/Australia etc... were and are much more Islamophobic than in the US.

That’s a strong claim do you have any proof to back it up?
> The reason we always write out Unicode data using fwrite rather than fprintf/printf or similar is because on Microsoft Windows, the default assumption of input strings is that they have a locale encoding. ... even if I put UTF-8 data into fprintf("%s", (const char*)u8" meow ");, it can assume that the data I put in is not UTF-8 but, in fact, ISO 8859-1 or Mac Cyrillic or GBK

I had no clue!

I'm just a happy little Python developer for Unix, and I think I'll stay that way.
I think the Donbas has been a sight of conflict since 2014. I think the shrug lasted until the second invasion of 2021.
OJ Simpson was innocent too according to the court

In reality he just benefited from the macro and micro political climate around the case in order to get away with it.

Same as Musk
Then you go to WebGPU, I expect.
> could anyone have imagined walking into a living room 30 years ago [0] and seeing everyone hunched over a phone? Or 80 years ago and seeing everyone around a television?

True, but is it so different to be hunched over a phone than hunched over a book. You can still just look up and be present. With a headset, well… there isn’t such a parallel.

Maybe the Sony Walkman is a better comparison because finally you could go out in the world buffered from it.
13 inch ultra lights? I very much doubt that. You are basically relegated to igpus. I could see Ryzen 7840u beating the M1. But 3 years ago the best there was was the Ryzen 5800u.
Right, and most of the footage of Russians being miserable that we are familiar with is from after the introduction of “shock therapy” (ie during the ruthless, sudden introduction of capitalism).

This is always a hard topic to discuss with those not exposed to any life in former Warsaw pact countries. Because there’s a chance they’ll ignore what you say about the day-to-day life of your average person there (and how it was largely ok if often a bit poorer than much of the west), and assume you’re trying to say “communism and everything that came with it was perfect”.
I remember reading an analysis of a script written during the wars of Carthage with Rome which had this incredible meaning: "Stop adopting slave children to sacrifice them so that we have a favorable outcome, it needs to be your actual children".

Most if not all Mediterranean civilizations practiced child sacrifice, for Minoans the keywords for those with access to scientific papers is "The Southern House of Knossos" and ofcourse the 14 youths being sent each year to the Minotaur

Most Ministries of culture of the respective countries have not financed further research to this arguably interesting topic
Greeks and Romans had almost bo qualms about infanticide though. It was no less acceptable than abortion is nowadays.

They only had issues with ritualizing the process or killing older children..
See that is the disconnect. Who in tech has a household income of 400K except for the rarefied top people at a FAANG. I'm saying that is like <5% of total Tech workforce. The argument isn't between 400K and 150K, it is between 150K and 70K. There are a vast number of people in tech at <100K$. So who making 100K can retire at 50. It is possible with the right choices to live very minimally to the point where you could argue it isn't really a choice. The real misunderstanding is the number of people that think Tech=400K.
It's very similar to how TPMs work. Discoverable keys were originally called resident keys because regular keys were almost always encrypted in the key handle and sent to the RP.

If you don't trust a system to encrypt why would you trust it to generate keys with correct random or sign without leaking key data?

The encrypted private key isn't any more likely to be a weak link than the other things a token could do wrong.
Peter has such an obvious bias, and desire to sell his books. He looked positively unhinged on the Joe Rogan podcast.

The over simplification of the Ukrainian situation is unreal, it's like we all collectively forgot the last 8-9 years of open civil war.
Because he (and also his friend) were into science. And that meant dissections. But those were illegal at the time. So people did them in secret.
As far as I can tell (as not a game developer) from the introduction videos is that the game porting toolkit / Wine is designed to shorten the time it takes to get a first macOS version of your game running and to evaluate how well does it run. A (near) zero-effort rough draft of your potential macOS port.

They show that previously you'd have to take the Windows version, port the source code, port the HLSL shaders, implement graphics/audio/input/HDR and then you'd be able to get a first running version of your game that you could evaluate. And now with the Wine tool, you'd take the Windows version, run it through the Wine tool and then you'd have the first running version version of the game to evaluate. And you can then evaluate what parts of the games run good and which don't, is it utilising the GPU properly, and so on.

And if you decide that there's potential in the macOS version, you'd then start doing all of the stuff that was previously required to get the first running version.
Or more businesses and people can afford graphic design and use it to their benefit.

If ML-powered tools will continue being available and affordable (and I don't see how they won't), that effectively erases a possibility of monopolies on overlaying markets. How can small % of graphic designers capture large market share while there will be tens of thousands wannabies behind their backs?
Quality-adjusted maybe?
I sincerely hope you don't find yourself out of a medical appointment because of a lack of new young men and women learning the discipline
The backend of Skyrim (and other Bethesda games) is largely a database. Bethesda calls them .esp files, but they're relational in a way. There has been a large open undertaking to produce tooling for this, such as xedit (Pascal) and z-edit (JS).

When you open a container in the game, and it doesn't have a specified set of contents, the contents get loaded by picking randomly from a category linked to in the database. If, in one of the db tools, you follow the link from the container you can see what objects could load in it and by what likelihood. You can then follow those links through the db over to the object itself, which is also made up of db entries.

From the scripting system you can access the db for some amount of functionality. Their db doesn't contain the models or textures or strings. But it does contain the location of every tree in the game. If you wanted a mod with a dozen golden crates to go find, you would use the db system for the logic.
Oh, sure; I'm strictly talking sourcing independence (none of these are primary sources, and what _their_ source was is generally unclear). To be clear, I'm not saying Carthaginians didn't sacrifice kids, I'm saying that claims from Plato and Plutarch, _in themselves_, are not great evidence for this.
It’s a long game. In both desktop and mobile, a viable and commercially successful alternative emerged even though Apple had the edge in sophistication and innovation.

A lot of people probably don’t remember what Android looked like in 2007. Using the Android pre-release SDK next to an iPhone, you’d come to a similar conclusion as yours: how does Google release a mobile OS so behind the curve? Should they fire all their product managers?

Same story with Windows in 1986. It was difficult to see how the graceless file manager from Microsoft could compete with Apple’s holistic GUI.

Give it four years. I think Meta intends to be the Windows and Android of this third wave of UIs. Validation of the market by Apple is exactly what they’ve been waiting for.
They don't control the libraries anymore. That's why they gave to pass laws to ban books instead of doing it quietly like Thomas is.
Indeed. The bigger commercial problem with voice assistants seems to be that they aren't used in profitable ways (for the makers of the assistants), not that they aren't used.
My mom would 100% buy anything this guys says. It's a clever business idea.

Especially with all of those recent flaky gov videos people are eating up wholesale, without any concept of what it actually means to do interstellar travel while simultaneously having invisible motherships. And the only 'evidence' comes from US pilots in a particular height in the sky, never on the ground or visible in space via telescopes... Curious how that works. Just spacecraft zipping around at 30k feet all day in random directions and never going visibly above or below that.

Some guy misinterpreting documents about foreign or unknown materials or objects is probably par for the course here. It's also funny/predictable aliens would be discovered exclusively in the US and withheld from Congress by black suits.
Yes. Computers in general went way down in price. Which is why Vision Pro's $3500 price tag is considered big today.
Imagine spending 17 years to find the source of interference, and it's just Kyle with his chicken tenders.
You should understand the guilt is on the recipient side (you). Here the sender (Apple) may have genuine concern about their users health or have marketing incentives to express the same concern. Probably a mix of both.
Yeah, Apple could build their own nvk-like for Metal driver at this point if they cared about any GPU other than their own. Nvk/mesa itself might enable Linux gaming on Mac pros with 3rd party cards.. one day.
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If Microsoft is this hostile and in your face with its paying users, I'm concerned about what its policies are when it comes to its own employees.

Are Microsoft employees allowed to use Firefox and Chrome internally on a daily basis or is it permitted only for UI tests?

Is there an (un)official internal policy on this? If it is not enforced then I guess they only care about it when money is involved. Not sure how I should feel in that case.
Is it really bad PR? People here do discuss it but it doesn't change anything regarding their users, they are just there to mindlessly consume. And for investors as we have seen it can come off as a good signal.

Only people working in tech mind care but do what in the big picture?
Bah, when I was young we used to DREAM about 25 FPS!

I have fond(?) memories of playing Doom on a 386 with a monochrome passive TFT screen.
> ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu.

Of course - I'm a little rusty and sometimes confuse シ (shi) and ツ (tsu) - even when obvious from context :/
Well, yes. Anything with "stats" or "inventory" looks very much like a database to me. This kind of thinking could also help avoid the risk of object-duplication bugs that occur in games which haven't been entirely rigorous about transactions.
But laptop made it possible for the executive, reporter, etc. to work on the go much better than with previous (luggables) or not at all, and the ensuing combination was the killer app.
We live in a world where adult temptations like cigarettes, guns, alcohol, and sex are rightfully not allowed at school. There's hardly a bodega in New York where you can't buy beer or cigarettes, yet I think schools (generally) do a good job of keeping them away from kids during the day.

These days, more and more do I perceive internet-connected smartphones as an adult temptation which children needn't be exposed to. Yes, they live in a world where most people have phones. They also live in a world where most people drink! It will take some time and it will be uncomfortable, but I'm of the opinion that a slow, society-wide shift away from all-day children's device usage is what's needed to stop the bleeding.
Maybe not be that remarkable if you consider that the filament is in vacuum, so not a lot of opportunities to conduct the heat. Heat is lost through radiation.

In contrast, gas or candles warm the outside air directly, release hot waste gasses, etc. Lot's of energy that gets lost.

Trying to set something on fire with a classical light bulb is tricky. With a candle, instant effect.
> That's not the type of misery I thinks of when the USSR comes up — the gulags, the secret police, the inability to leave, the propaganda, not the housing.

Those were absolutely non-issues for anyone but a small minority of people.

Movement limitation, which varied in time, is the only thing that applied to a much larger subset of people. It required quite some bureaucracy to travel.

Gonna give you an example: people that were members of the communist party enjoyed an easier time from this point of view. Everyone could join the party by the way, but it was generally unpopular. In Poland I think, e.g., despite the advantages of being a party member, at its peak only few millions were part of it.
But that's why there's a "super" in "supercomputers"!

Cray loaded a ton of static memory into their computers, then liquid-cooled the whole thing. Sure, the power requirements were through the roof, and you had a whole huge chiller system which you had to run and hope it doesn't fail. If it did fail, you really wanted to shut the machine down fast. From what I recall there was also an emergency propeller inside the back case of the Y-MP 2E, and yes propeller is a much better name for this thing than a "fan". It would delay the inevitable, although dumping those tens of kW of heat into your server room was not something you ever wanted to do.

The whole point of all this was that you could do things that you couldn't with "normal" computers. That's why those were called "supercomputers". And I'm so glad that after a hiatus of about 30 years we're getting another wave of exceptional machines, which aren't just bigger PCs.
They don’t touch GPLv3 code; they avoid GPLv2 code because it can be relicensed GPLv3. That’s why they are shipping ancient bash and switching to another shell, for instance.
It's an assertion that rests only on the assumption that the brain adheres to known physics or if it relies on unknown physics that the computational effects of those differences can be simulated or the physical effect replicated.

It'd take a truly extraordinary find that'd upend both physics and areas of logic for that assertion to be false.
(0,0) isn't null either.
Like neutrinos, secret police can't be directly observed, but their presence can be inferred by their effect on their surroundings, for instance, as mentioned, people being very careless around windows.
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Same for China. All of the amazing productivity of China is basically subsidized by the Chinese state, which really means it is subsidized by the Chinese population. Westerners get cheap products and the Chinese population pays for it and stays poor themselves. Only a fraction of the Chinese population lives at western living standards - the rest are still dirt poor.