skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cold is far from the only thing that makes Mars inhospitable. Also where are you going to get the electricity for heating on that scale? Assuming you're talking about the whole planet. If you're just talking about heating habitats, it really is approximately as easy to cool as to heat.
> I noticed one major change - there was a marked difference in the number of younger folks drinking Liquid Death as a social signifier that they were on something else (mushrooms, mdma, lsd, weed, etc).

So, they told you? You surveyed a statistically significant sample? Otherwise I can't see how this is anything other than speculation or projection.

I recently gave up drinking, and while I am starting to introduce mushrooms into my life, I would very happily be drinking an over-priced Liquid Death at a concert over a, undoubtedly equally or more over-priced beer.
If a model has been trained on a diverse dataset and doesn't suffer from overfitting then that's pretty much impossible.
IFunc relocations are how glibc dynamically chooses the best memcpy routine to use at runtime based on the CPU.

see https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/glibc-2.31/sysdeps/x86_...
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> marital aids

Vibrators. Hitachi is also known for their powerful, corded vibrators (it's not a dirty word): the Magic Wand.

Calling these 'marital aids' in 2023 seems a little outdated. Vibrators are devices used for sexual stimulation, which obviously makes them extremely useful for solo masturbation as well, in addition to being a sex toy someone can use on another person.
Literally in their FAQ

https://discord.com/privacy

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I think some of the "bussiness languages" of MS often feature such translations. You suddenly have different quotes if you use another locale.

I had to bugfix something here and I almost went crazy. Don't remember the language, it was just a rather simple formula in some arcane tool. Didn't want to believe it...
He's not advocating injecting smoke or ash into the atmosphere.
Today's AI has taught us that everything people show us they think is unique, isn't really. Everything comes from somewhere, including the things that add up to what we call creativity.
I will probably save a link to this discussion to check in on you in 5 years.
LLM and text-to-image models already show empirically that creativity is computable, of course, as the AI effect[1] says, if a machine did it, then it's just predicting the next word or rearranging pixels (which doesn't really make sense), if a human did it, then it's intelligence or creativity.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
We will need a lot of energy to power AI access for everyone.

At least this will produce lots of heat not to mention other unwanted byproducts of energy generation
> why should I believe it's even possible to create an AGI that can do that?

Because if you really dig into it, most of the top scientists that either founded the field Oradell currently working on it believe it is not only possible but close.

Now reverse and ask yourself: why shouldn't I believe ? Do you have more expertise knowledge of some insight than them?
Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse
"The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation."

Archive link: https://archive.is/NUvxg
First of all, we're discussing stock photography, not art. Second of all, Turing's arguments for why the Turing machine is a decent model of the brain seem pretty hard to bet against, and the Turing machine underlies all computation.
It is very unfortunate the way that we see repeated claims here either implying or directly stating there is something revolutionary, besides the power (and matching price) without any acknowledgement of the existing space.

a focus on the living room experience with a high end movie theater experience running, again, off existing content. Genius move

Cool. Tell NReal and BigScreen that, they and others have already done it on Quest and other platforms. Nothing new here.

Without Steam, most existing VR platforms would be completely pointless. So far VR is for games and most of those are published on Steam.

Tell that to the many Quest users who have delighted in the wireless experience and superb exercise apps and other new vistas opened up to them in their existing platform, including remote working via services like Immersed. The latter can absolutely be boosted with the new specs the Vision Pro is bringing.

Look, this is a bold move by Apple, and I applaud it; I think it could give a welcome boost to the industry but please can we stop with the nonsense about them creating something that wasn't already there, or at least elaborate what it brings and improves with reference to the prior art.

That information - which I don't doubt is there, this is an exciting product - will be genuinely useful.
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I dont think they wanted VR - they wanted AR.
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> I'd love to think that alien contact is possible, but as I attempt to learn more and more about physics, travel approaching the speed of light, the mechanics that transformed us from a basic life form to a life form with a consciousness, it just seem incredibly unlikely sadly.

With all the absurdly crazy complexity that has arisen in our universe, and the tiny primate brain you were born with, and the mere 10k years of civilization in our multi-billion year old universe which may be one of a near infinitude stretching back for eternity, you've figured out with high likelihood what is and is not possible. Right.
A typical sub drifts by only a few tens of meters per day - obviously this builds up . The point of the BEC gravity map is to reduce this inaccuracy an order of magnitude, thereby extending the subsurface range of the subs.
That's mostly because they make a finished end-user product, which nobody else does (except OpenAI and DALL-E, but they are mostly focused on language processing right now).

- It runs in the cloud with more VRAM available than on consumer machines, so it's able to use more parameters and custom layers. This makes it more coherent.

- It's finetuned on a large RLHF dataset, which they have from the users voting for bot-generated images in their massively popular Discord server.

- It includes a decent share of custom processing and manual tuning (system prompts, custom layers trained on god knows what etc)

Their closest contender, Stability AI, is currently busy training SDXL, their new model, on a RLHF dataset they are collecting on their much smaller Discord channel. So Midjourney is SOTA for text-to-image.

There's DeepFloyd IF which is large enough and includes a 11B LLM for natural language understanding, so it has much less issues understanding complex prompts such as "koi fish doing a handstand on a longboard rolling down the slope of a moon crater". But it's not a finished product (no complex pipelines, no RLHF), and the license is restrictive.

That said, Midjourney's strengths are also its weaknesses. Midjourney is good for the text-to-image, but not much else, and image generation is much more than just text-to-image. MJ gives great results off the bat, but struggles with unusual requests, complex compositions with multiple objects, and can't use various elaborate trickery available in the much smaller Stable Diffusion (which is mediocre by default but has powerful higher-order guidance and training, and is also much better at complex things). Midjourney is also censored - you can't have Joe Biden eating a slice of porcupine.
Oh, that was always you. Didn't notice. You seem to be quite angry about it.
They could be von Neumann probes having travelled for a long time. Even without FTL travel, von Neumann probes could colonize an entire galaxy in reasonable time (a few million years). Even just a single successful civilization somewhere in the milky way or even a neighboring galaxy could've accomplished that
What is it that gives you problems? The first example mainly uses a method chaining style of programming which might throw you off?
Or maybe the use of lambdas?
The first example seems quite readable to me. Also no heavy usage of generics or heavy type sorcery which would be more confusing.
The second example also isn't visually assaulting. The struct definitions have macro annotations but doing this in any kind of language would lead to more verbose code.
I think the main problem might be if you are familiar with functional languages which lean heavier on data flow and lambdas.
Nope. The Game Porting Toolkit itself contains a large `D3DMetal` framework that directly translates Direct3D calls into Metal. The Homebrew repo is only part of the toolkit. To actually use it, you have to move the Direct3D -> Metal translation layer into installed Homebrew prefix. From Apple's README:

The graphics bridge libraries need to be placed inside your Wine prefix in order to finalize your game evaluation environment. These instructions assume you have mounted the Game Porting Toolkit at /Volumes/Game Porting Toolkit-1.0.
• Copy the Game Porting Toolkit library directory into Wine’s library directory.

ditto /Volumes/Game\ Porting\ Toolkit-1.0/lib/ `brew --prefix game-porting-toolkit`/lib/

They literally made a new Direct3D implementation on top of Metal.
IATA should mandate that all airlines shall never allow passengers on-board with citizenships who would be subject to kidnapping by local authorities in countries a flight overflies or could divert to. The liabilities involved are too great to the carriers and to the passengers. This doesn't mean ban every flight across country X, but it means carriers must assure their passengers' safety in every contingency.

I hope to the knock on wood that all deck crews precalculate alternates for a 1 engine glide as part of the preflight briefing. Equipment breaks, so contingencies plans have to be made for expediting parts and maintenance personnel, replacement equipment, another flight crew rotation if needed, and accommodations for passengers and crew. It's preparedness and a logistics game once the SHTF.

The worst case would be equipment that isn't field repairable, i.e., beyond field diagnosis and repair. The 777 is certified for EDTO/ETOPS-330 (5.5 hr of 1E operation) and a 1ETO if the departing runway were long enough. This is probably not something you want to do with passengers, but as a ferry run to the nearest capable repair facility.

The longest flight in the world is SQ23/SQ24 SIN-JFK via an Airbus A350-900ULR with a flight time of about 19.5 hrs, with EDTO/ETOPS-370. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flights_23_...
I envy his drive and ambition. I can't force myself to finish writing a simple alarm clock app for android, never mind pathing the literal road to the future of Open Source AI.

Would someone else have taken his place had he not been around? Maybe, but I'm insanely happy that he is around.

The amount of hours I've sunk into LLM's is crazy, and it's mostly thanks to his work that I can both run and download models in meaningful timeframes.

And yes, I have tested llama.cpp on my android and it works 100% on termux. (Your biggest enemy here will be Android process reaper when you hit the memory cap)
A few devs have tried to work on this in their time. I've been working for the last year or so with Aux.app. It's an Electron app that syncs DAW projects from Ableton, Logic, FL Studio and 20+ other DAWs and lets you keep track of the latest version with collaborators, upload stems to leave detailed comments and chat. I just put the Mac app live on PH, take a look.
I thought this was interesting, although of course I agree with many commenters' take that the lack of reference to the "old-school" ARM where everything was conditional is odd.

I got curious about how RISC-V handles this, but only curious enough to find [1] and not dig any further. That answer is from a year ago, so perhaps there have been changes.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72341794/28169
You can buy lots of things with bitcoin. Why would the goods need to be on-chain?
There are fungi that only barely kill their insect host and then use mind control to drive their bodies around to eventually reproduce.

So there is precedence for this scenario.
I think AI is going to make (and is actively making) warfare absolutely horrible - autonomous 'weapons' are very nearly here and all signs point to the fact that unlike nukes or fighter jets, they're going to be dirt cheap, based on technology available to the average consumer.

This means that high-end capabilities (even class-leading) will be available to private individuals (think the DJI copters of the Ukranians) and or they will be available to actual, professional militaries at absolutely marginal cost (the Orlans ( the Nikon and plastic containing-drone) or Shaheds (the moped-motored Iranian suicide drone)), that can be produced by the millions, as they rely on our conventional factory infrastructure.

Even more scary, terror attacks might not even require ANY bespoke hardware - experience has showed that car attacks are easily as deadly as gun attacks. Imagine someone exploiting a self-driving Tesla, turning hundreds of thousands of cars on the road into destructive weapons.

There is a horrible trend in the world that started before the rise of AI - the blurring of the definition of war - I'd say this phenomenon started with the rise of drone strikes on foreign soil - though others might put this even earlier. Its the fact that a country can engage in acts of war without being at war removes almost all dampers on attacking sovereign nations. The final one - that of plausible deniability is finally going to go away - at least when the US sent a Hellfire missile your way, it sent the world a message that you pissed them off badly enough that they'll willing to openly admit to and committing the resources to droning you. A non-descript quadcopter, carrying a grenade and programmed with face recognition software is going to be the assassination weapon of tomorrow.
Ok, but that's the least pertinent part of what they said. It seems you're busy arguing at different FPS -- a person takes endless stills ... that's still relatively low skilled?
Whereas rapey James Bond got to open the London olympics, the pile of "me too" complaints he has racked up would dwarf those of even the keenest of movie producers.
The big big downside of gravity waves is that they have no dipole radiators - with electric charge you have + and - and that allows very efficient propagation. For gravity there is only one charge ,and this allows only quadrupole radiation - making it extremely awful for transmission.
How many people are around?
>a focus on the living room experience with a high end movie theater experience

One of my biggest impressions watching Apple's trailer was that this paints a big target on televisions and home theater hardware in general.

If the experience is executed well, it would be much cheaper (yes, really) and easier and simpler to just get Apple's VR goggle instead of a TV and peripherals that will infuriate you.

Clearly we live in interesting times.
A QR code on a yoghurt that I bought couple of months ago came with some interstitial ad due to an unpaid fee. It made me double check the yoghurt's expiration date.
It's specced the way it is to deliver the best in class, best possible content experience without compromises in initially small volumes. Neither of those things is an accident. Scaling up manufacturing is hard and expensive. Much easier to create a lot of hype for an expensive device that is going to be so popular that they won't be able to satisfy demand. So, they'll make lots of them and sell out in no time. The ebay value of these things is going to be insane.

By the way, this is a similar price point to the magic leap and holo lens devices. This just seems to be what it takes for a state of the art AR/MR experience.

And it's not like there is a shortage of very wealthy people buying things like Teslas, ipad pros, fully specced out iphones, that carry thousands of dollars worth of equipment. For those people 3500$ is just the right level of premium and exclusivity. Like it or not, Apple is very good at separating people like that from their cash. There are millions of them and most of them are already loyal customers. There is no need for a lower price point and there absolutely is no need to compromise on quality.

The goal isn't to make you happy but to make you crave something you can't afford yet. So, when the time comes you'll be spending a bit more than is comfortable for you. That's what Apple does. They leave the low margin scraps to others.
I'd argue it's the opposite. We use much more energy now doing all of these tasks AI could be doing.
VisionOS uses old school UI like blocks and doesn't do anything new in terms of just reusing design paradigms from ipadOS/macOS. It makes sense why people would think of it just as a computer they strap to their face.

Half of their marketing was about how it's a essentially a macbook that you strap to your face...
The while loop in the third paragraph is easier to read in assembly than in the original C++, which either says something about how well chosen the instruction set is, or about how bad some of C++ is.
> The burden of proof is on you to provide the source that human creativity can be computed mathematically.

Note that the same can be said about the negation: show me a proof that it can't.
Apple's goal is surely to get away from the google form factor asap, and once we're at a pair of slick glasses I don't think you'd even think twice about it.
>Don't you think that blowing the dam now was premature and pointless?

you should probably discuss it with your russian friends. Not with me. I do not wish to be part of such discussion.

I think there is no a proper time to blow the dam just like I think the whole russian aggression ‘was’ and ‘is’ pointless to begin with. On the other hand there is a lot of dumb idiots in russia who think it was a good idea to start the war against Ukraine. There are also people convinced of having certain level of intelligence and funny enough wish to help those russians in the same time. So you can talk with them and discuss when it is ‘mature’ to blow some dam.
It is legal to toss a rock, a small bush, a mosquito, or a earthworm into a fire in most places.

In those same places it is likely illegal to toss a live cat into a fire.

In this context sentience is about "should I care about how this clump of atom _feels_" and/or "it is possible to be unduly cruel to this clump of atoms".

In farming it mostly means that you cannot cause unnecessary suffering too much outside of the Overton window; not about recognizing bodily autonomy to cattle.
For real there should be a name for this sort of categorical error in thinking.
It doesn't presuppose anything other than that some people told him aliens.

I mean.. just accept it at face value. Stop reading into it.
You are correct; the Earth has experienced CO2 rise of this speed before (as far as we know). But not for millions of years, and each time would have been a mass extinction event. https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/

Just because it's happened before (millions of years ago) doesn't mean it's not serious.
Bad server performance high IOWAIT caused by HDDs with Load Cycle Count
Those of the workforce, that is a pretty typical situation. Timestamps of activity etc. .
I think my point flew over your head. The burden of proof is on you to provide the source that we can't simulate the whole universe, humans included.
This is something that cannot be proved to be true, even if it was the truth, it is possible that you can only prove it to be false, and nobody managed to do it yet.
That's why it's on you to prove it to be false. Especially since you claim that something cannot be computed with maths.
I thought you meant like a jack hammer.
Maybe there is something to do about workers owning their own means of production.
https://opensource.apple.com/source/ld64/ld64-136/doc/design...
The detectors are such precision instruments it took over 10 years of calibration until they even had the first detection. Maybe some far off comms network could use them, but I doubt anytime soon. I wonder if you could use erasure codes with them too :)
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Red October used the usual gyroscopes approach that gets more and more inaccurate as it sails. I think a key plot point is that they need to surface to take a latitude / longitude , precipitating much suspense.
If people buy the usual amount the more venues will be tempted to raise the prices, also.
I don't know if you've ever seen Serial Experiments Lain. In it the protagonist slowly descends into an underground of hackers while finding herself isolated in a room with all sorts of mid 90s aesthetic crt monitors, servers, tubes and wires. And that is more what my current office looks like as opposed to someone hanging out on a couch wearing this headset. If the user interface is to be believed you can in theory do real work with just your eyes and your voice to dictate. It got me thinking. What is really a dystopia? What if our current keyboard and mouse desktop setups, laptops, and displays are the real dystopia?
doesn't intel integrates graphics share memory?
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>Unified memory foreseen 16 years before Apple Silicon.

Honestly, it's good to get some more background information before claiming that Apple invented every innovation till sliced bread.

Microcontrollers, SoCs from various vendors, gaming consoles and Intel CPUs with integrated graphics also had unified memory since .. forever(?), or at least nearly 30 years, because it was as efficient back then as it is now for silicone and SW usage.

Apple didn't reinvent the wheel in this regard, it was already there as a low hanging fruit.
I will add an example to the README with an INSERT statement to make it more obvious what SQLPage can do.

For the header, I don't think that would be necessary. SQLPage would route queries to .sql pages to the SQL parser and queries to .prql files to the prql parser.

If you want to play around with integrating prql in sqlpage, you can have a look at https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/blob/main/src/webserver/d...
This is a short self-contained rust file, and think you would not need to change anything more to interface with a prql parser. If you want to give it a stab, feel free to make a POC and get in touch :)
Modern CPUs often keep a hundred instructions in flight, and accessing main memory once can take more time than a hundred simple instructions. Accessing main memory involves cache coherency protocol logic with neighbouring cores, and it may involve locking if the program wants a read barrier, a write barrier or any kind of volatile variable.

Instructions like CMOVBL involve only a small number of CPU registers, nothing else, and can't interact with instructions far ahead or behind them in the instruction stream, or with other cores/threads at all. Very little state. They're simple to reason about, both for the compiler authors, the CPU and the poor developer who's chasing a threading bug.