skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it’s not making money anyway it’s strange they pull tricks that are just another thing to make Google look greedy and bad, where they very clearly hide businesses to punish them for not taking out an ad.

It makes Google look like the mob and everyone sees it. Everyone would understand if they would show businesses that pay at the top of the list but somehow instead they went this way, incomprehensible.
Techie's quick cure for a curious conflict caused a headache
Nope, you're incorrect. It is certainly possible in the United States to put something in the public domain by dedication. It may not be possible in some other countries, but in the US, case law supports the right to dedicate something to the public domain.

The CC-Zero waiver is a dedication to the public domain combined with a fallback provision.

> For instance, I could write a book today and do so... and people are probably safe to do what they want with it. Then tomorrow, when I croak, my family still retains copyright for the next 95 years. They might decide that this is their golden ticket, and everyone who continues to publish it would be in trouble (past actions shouldn't be sanctionable... while alive, I essentially gave license to do so).

If you did not grant an actual license with specific terms, then your reusers are SOL. If you did grant a license with specific terms, then your heirs still have to honor those terms. If you dedicated the work to the public domain, then the work is not copyrighted and your heirs can't do anything about it.

Also, copyrights for works created in 1978 or later are not publication+95 (except for works for hire), but life+70.

> Even if something is legitimately within the public domain, the courts (in the US) have at times decided to yank works out back out and give them as gifts to the various big licensing regimes (ASCAP, if I remember correctly).

The only instance of this happening in the US was the URAA (which was not tied to licensing regimes, but to international pressure to "restore" copyright in works published outside the US which had not complied with the pre-1989 notice requirement). It took an act of Congress, by the way.

Contrast this with the EU's early-1990s 20-year retroactive extension of copyrights.
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20x Faster as the Beginning: Introducing pgvector alternative written in Rust
Here is the repository: https://github.com/tensorchord/pgvecto.rs
I suppose you could count elements like gold, too. Since we technically can produce extremely radioactive gold in small amounts but the cost is so prohibitive it would never make sense to.

In a thousand years people are gonna look back at us idiots filling balloons with helium and letting them disperse into the upper atmosphere and shake their heads at how stupid we were.
Most people in general have this problem. You have to be Dijkstra (or his equivalent in your field) to solve it. And some people can't: you can't be so good at plumbing you only have to work 1 day a week, and can think the other 6.

It's a rare quality of any profession, and sub-genre in that profession, that you are paid to think, and even rarer that it's worth doing so for an individual.
Ready to roast?
Would appreciate your thoughts on my LP!
>> And this should be obvious given this simple sketch of the argument:
classical logic is just Bayesian inference with all probabilities pinned to 0 and 1, and a model of a system in classical logic is a model of how it operates. Therefore you just need to run Bayes' rule long enough for the probabilities to converge.

I've heard this before and it's an argument that perhaps makes sense from a Bayesian point of view, but makes no sense from a logic point of view.

To clarify, here's some relevant background on classical logic and probabilities. I will take First Order Logic (FOL) as an example of a classical logic, but the same observations hold true for e.g. propositional logic. In FOL semantics, an interpretation assigns truth values in {true, false} to the atomic formulae ("atoms") of a predicate. In Bayesian inference, a distribution assigns probabilities to the outcomes of an event, such that the sum of probabilities of all outcomes of an event is 1.

Now, for "classical logic [to be] just Bayesian inference with all probabilities pinned to 0 and 1", it must mean that, given an interpretation I, all atoms true under I are assigned the probability "1" and all atoms false under I are assigned the probability "0". This means that the sum of probabilities of all atoms is higher than 1 (it is n times 1, where n is the cardinality of the set of atoms true under I). This makes for a non-Bayesian distribution [*].

So your simple argument sketch doesn't work. Find a better one.

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[*] As an aside, all this means that we assume outcomes to be analogous to atoms, events to predicates and distributions to interpretations. There may be a better mapping between concepts and some have been proposed, e.g. that assign probabilities to interpretations rather than atoms, but under FOL semantics the only thing that takes a truth value is atoms, and formulae formed of atoms, and so whatever framework comes out of such transformations has nothing to do with classical logic anymore.

Btw, you can also try to assign different probabilities to atoms than 0 and 1, but then you're outside classical logic again. The fact of the matter is that logic and probabilities are incompatible and any attempt to reconcile the two is doomed to fail. You can speak the language of certainty, or the language of uncertainty, but not both at once.
For example applications like Microsoft Word or World of Warcraft cannot use huge pages because users won't mess with security policies then reboot the machine and immediately start the application as administrator and never close it, and these are the steps required of the end user for an application to use huge pages on Windows.
There isn't an alternative that lets you search for the text in a new tab while staying on the current tab.
General question: Is there an actual use for this kinds of projects, beyond showing what can be done? I have seen many different "web desktop" projects and while most of them were impressive in their own (technical) ways, I could never see the an actual use case for them.
They’re usually the first comments in these posts - perhaps stuck in traffic?
This is me. Super jerky FP games bring on the symptoms quick, but over extended periods it improves, but never goes completely. I usually end up with headaches after a while.
We'll se a change on this imho. LLMs are rationalising agents, not knowledge bases. We'll shift towards knowledge bases for LLMs that can and will attribute the source when returning answers. The LLM searches the knowledge base for you. I think the whole discussion is moot.

I'm working on something like that as well.
Yes, there is a lot to improve. I also have my gripes about what POI are kept from the detail view to the zoomed out view, or how I'll completely lose a location if I happen to misclick on some random POI that happens to fall under my finger on the edge of the screen.

On the rougher part of the maps, I often get back to satellite view and/or StreeView if available (even as they sometimes don't show the same info as they come from different points in time -_-;). It's a handy backup that I don't get on the open source map apps
While I'm glad the idea of
tying documentation to tests is catching on, I think markdown documentation -> create tests is the wrong way around.

I built this tool to let people generate evergreen markdown documentation from annotated type-safe YAML integration tests:

https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory
> It all boils down to trust and managing expectations.

Yes. Which is why both you and OP are correct.
Coil guns seem like they'd last longer, wonder what the performance figures for coil vs rail are.

For future rail guns, they'd just have replacement rails available as they do barrels for tanks/artillery guns (that wear out after about 1000 shots afaik).
Why don't we see more of these, given that canvas and webgl and fullscreen are a thing now?

Shouldn't this have put Citrix et al out of business?
The video doesn't explain what the material actually is. I thought it was hot wax at first, but it seems to sit around too long. Is it reacting with the water? (is that big bowl even water?)
Here is one on Sardinia ("do not follow the directions suggested by Google maps" and "4x4 only") from 2019 : https://edition.cnn.com/travel/gallery/baunei-google-maps-si...

"Disregard GPS instruction to proceed further" in the NJ pine barrens from 2019: https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/in-the-blazing-hot-...

Plus a number which warn off larger vehicles, like https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ford-do-not-follow-sat-nav... and https://innway.blogspot.com/2012/11/do-not-follow-sat-nav-ju... . Both are from 10 years ago so hopefully things have gotten better.

Still happens though. https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/23399093.plea-google-satn... is from earlier this year, complaining about satnav sending people between Ruxton Green, Ross-on-Wye HR9 6EJ, UK and Llangarron, Ross-on-Wye, UK. Though they were going to "ask Google Maps to remove the road from their data", compared to a 2016 solution where Lyonshall Parish Council 'decided to try supplementing the existing sign with their own large red road sign reading 'HGV drivers - ignore satnav - you will get stuck!'

Google Street View shows some very narrow roads, with a last visit date of 2011.
This behavior is becoming annoyingly common on various image hosts. Hopefully ad blockers will implement ways around this soon.
not to mention, butterflies [insert relevant xkcd comic here]
That's the article we need

What's AMD tools look like and what would it take to catch up with CUDA

and I guess it does not depend on AMD alone, the cloud providers trying to get alternatives to Nvidia could be investing into this too
It's fascinating that it shows a number of behaviours that are typical on a 21th century ice skate rink too. Including the show off doing a Besti squat[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besti_squat
Started in 1924 and still going strong 100 years later. The gold standard for organic chemistry procedures.

"If you can't reproduce a procedure in Org Syn, it's YOUR fault" - my PhD supervisor
I think you need to lay off whatever "juice" you are on mate.

Next you'll be claiming the Jews did 9/11.
And if you make a mistake that other people feel you really shouldn't have and it damages the thing, you get sued into oblivion.
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It's an easy flub, almost so easy as to be content free. The correct statement is either: factoring into prime numbers, or factoring semiprime numbers.

So when I see pedants picking this one out, I think people should be given a break! :)
Who knows where China is at? They’ve no combat experience. Their entire military is green, from every single line soldier through their entire command structure. I would anticipate that their military has at the edges very capable equipment and technologies, but at its core is logistically incapable and unable to fight any meaningful combat when things get real. Their entire readiness is based on training exercises, which are neither real, nor do they exercise the entire military machine in a transparent way. It’s likely the Chinese military doesn’t know it’s own capability as fraud and telling leaders what they want to hear is almost certainly rampant.

Chinese people also haven’t been exposed to thousands upon thousands of young men sent home in body bags since 1953, there aren’t many Chinese alive who have felt wars effects, which is a blessing for their people. Once the horrors touched every family in China, would they be quite as eager?

But I would wager a battle hardened military composed of veterans like the US and allies who have been engaged in global conflicts continuously since 1953 would soundly defeat China in any conventional war, but with horrendous prices on both sides. (N.b., I’m not saying this is a “good thing,” it’s not - but it is true, and it is what wins wars). To wit, their global logistics are functional and proven, their troops hardened and disciplined in combat, their leaders experienced and capable, their equipment understood and tested in earnest, and their populace inured to the tragedy.
Will this kind of web crawler bot was no long working if Google's web web integrity api got implement?
1990 Capitol Crawl to Access for All
My Synology NAS uses something like this for its navigation and even if it's initially strange, you instantly miss it when you access it from your phone, when the UI turns into this nested list which is not intuitive at all
It's the only reason they exist. So, yes.
This. Since first getting paid for programming I've almost never programmed on my own time. Sometime I do still get in flow but rarely given what I'm tasked.

Also started "labor" hobbies (car maintenance, welding, etc) but I think a professional mechanic or welder would say the same thing about their jobs. Why?
"Professional" (aka money) ruins everything after a while. You get to a point where all you do is the same thing over and over, maybe with slight variations in between. Unless one has full, money no object, choice of what jobs to accept, this will happen.
> Don't see why being fixed in place in a house means that a £60 control chip should be required to last longer than a £1000 smartphone

Huh? You're joking, right?

You want to go around and replace all switches, dimmers, etc every other year in a home?
I also managed to twist the upper part in some kind of knot from which it's not recovering now.
Yes. On the more critical part when in the middle of nowhere I often use a traditional map as reference after getting my rough position through Google Maps. I wouldn't trust any of the mapping services more than the local entities to provide accurate trail info, especially as they're the own maintaining the paths.

Sadly I'm still not good with really basic compass and map positionning, and the GPS + average location info helped a ton in the past.
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She only has experience with customers who seek her out though.

What about the type of men who would never ask for her services? She knows nothing about them.
And the mathematical amount of genetically unique people that can ever live...
That’s what you get when you fire the last actual mappers and just leave developers to keep it running. Google thrives on data quantity, not on quality.
> Personally, working from home and not seeing my teammates and colleagues in person for long periods of time makes me more depressed and increases anxiety level.

For some, it is exactly the opposite.
For sure, but for many people there's only Google Maps, and maybe Apple Maps. On the short term, catering to Google Maps makes sense. They'd add to another project if it were to be popular enough, and the network effect keeps Google Maps popular. Hence they get away with enshittification.
Can you use reader mode on iPhone Firefox? I found that let me read the article without the ad.
Any way to have a second sphere?
I don't know about "most" but many people can pay 50 Euros per month for a service they care about. The problem here is that very few people would pay a monthly fee for a maps service that was free for almost 20 years.
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US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time
And you might find this channel interesting: https://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday
Brilliant show, though it is about Google Earth. Made me uninstall Google Earth from my phone though, the picture it paints of Google and their legal people is not pretty.
> the landscape is a maze, and every new place you encounter needs you to overcome a sort of soft anxiety (Souls games were weird in this sense, every new place you encountered was a relief because it meant you were done with the previous place; but at the same time it was a chore because you became so accustomed to the previous place (LITERALLY HELL) that it felt like you were leaving your house for the unknown wilderness)

Still puzzled about why Souls games difficulty is so overhyped on the Internet. Souls game have a gameplay which takes some time to get used to, don't shy from encounters with a bit of complexity and don't mind trolling the player a bit on their first go around a new level. It means you have to play for a bit before you are good.

They remain modern games however and are not overtly punishing. You always have a respawn point close to the boss room. Hardest challenges are optional. They give you ample space to get better if you want to grind. They try to avoid difficulty spikes. It's pretty far removed from hell, certainly a lot easier and fair that most NES games. There is a reason they are that successful.

I think I'm starting to get old.
How about we also rise above comments like:

> The current Two Minutes Hate* against Elon Musk is frustrating.

> Those of us who don’t want to be part of this politically-motivated nastiness know we will be ostracised, so we avoid speaking out against it.

> And so the hateful groupthink persists.

> *read “1984” by George Orwell
For those who are tolerant of msg, it offers zero nutritional benefit. Banning it would help millions of migraine sufferers and harm no consumer.

You cannot ban a natural, ubiquitous amino acid, any more than you can ban salt. You can try to ban adding MSG to foods, but sooner or later, you would also have to ban yeast extract, soy sauce, tomatoes, hard cheeses, and so on, at which point we would definitely run into trouble.
None, but how is that relevant to what GP should have done?
I like public domain books and how the net makes them more accessible.
I have recently come across an annoying and somewhat genuine issue
when it comes to translated books.

For example, "Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil."
I picked up a PD version and started reading.
After 4 pages I gave up.
I could not figure out how anyone could find this tolerable,
or even a well written book, and for some a classic.

Turns out that there are several translations of the book
and not all of them are public domain and for no reason
I can think of the PD version is usually the worst translation.
There is a quite a bit older translation (so also PD) that is
a fairly decent one. (But the English used in it is old fashioned).

Then you have the problem with a lot of books, do you translate it
word for word to try and keep the translation as close to the original
as possible (good for some studies),
or do you write what the translator thinks the author meant.(much more readable)

After spending far too much time reading reviews of translations online,
I went to a large bookstore and sampled what they had (far from all).
Given that I am fluent in Norwegian and now live in Norway I tried a
Norwegian translation and in my opinion it was the best.
Norwegian is much closer to German than English which helps the translator.
Still billions speak English so one would think the best translation would
be in English.

Still some of the magic is missing.

Nietzsche when read in German has a certain rhythm to it.
I speak a tiny bit of German and reading (with assistance) the first few
pages allowed me to see it.

Reading the whole thing in German would take me years.
I stick with the Norwegian one.

I want to read some of the great Russian authors next and I am not
looking forward to trying to learn what the best translations are
and if its better in English or Norwegian.
Note the change log hasn’t moved since 7/30
The only thing I know about Andrew Tate is from this video (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93i7xJDgUxQ) and I have come to the conclusion that he is hardly a person to aspire to.
Theatrics are a part of politics. Do you think you're the only one who sees through them? Who cares what they call it?
Lmao, all that implied was that rushed papers don't have time for in depth analysis, only reproducing the material without further insight. Which is absolutely true; we're not super-human, it takes time to replicate the material and then time to disseminate why/how it works.
A decade ago doing some bioinformatics research I discovered that if you use Lempel-Ziv algorithm on the genetic sequences of many organisms, you get a sequence of "words" (of length 1 to n) that has a power law that matches the power law of displayed by human languages, and crucially is different to the "power law" you get from random, or almost random, sequences.

I submitted two papers about this, both were rejected. Not surprising I guess, my first papers ever!

It was also fascinating to me how complex (and how much larger) plant genomes are compared to animals. Plants have enormous genomes, almost making me wonder, what do they know that we don't?

I think the answer could be--a lot! :)
I think geohot is working on that with tinygrad. Activity on the ROCm repo seems to have increased a lot recently:

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/graphs/code-freque...
This is why I self-host. I don’t like the idea of buying something and having no control over how I use it, where my data goes, etc.

I strongly urge anyone with a tech interest to get a Raspberry Pi (now that they’re widely available again) and install HomeAssistant. Many of your devices will work through the many plugins available. If you can get your head around Python coroutines (… I can’t but I bodged it) you can implement your own.

Some devices will still need to send data to a central server to work, but you can often integrate their APIs until such a time that the service is discontinued. Then search out devices that are known to work with HomeAssistant.
If you're interested in this hybrid of docs and live coding, I'm building something similar for the Typescript / Javascript / React ecosystem @ https://www.typecell.org (open source). See https://twitter.com/YousefED/status/1677342430545301504 for a preview of the next version which will be more "wysiwyg" than the current notebook environment
The Arizona City Where Kids with Autism Are More Than Welcome
Star64 JH7110 and NuttX RTOS: Creating the First Release for the RISC-V SBC
There have been tons and tons of articles about AMD needing to wake the fuck up, but they seem to focus all their efforts into their console business - not without reason though, both major latest-gen consoles use AMD SoCs, and that's a fairly stable market compared to the boom/bust that hit NVIDIA hard with crypto.
> I mean, if this was true, then why do office workers generally earn more?

Because the work (1) takes particular skills, and (2) skills that are functionally gatekept so they are disproportionately found in people coming from a middle class (or, at minimum, proletarian intelligentsia) background.

It has work that is (compared to lots of more poorly paid jobs) hard to find people minimally qualified to do, but its not hard (in the sense of arduous) work, for the most part. Work being arduous doesn’t make it well-paid.
What does that have covered? There's already plenty of digital release only stuff.
I disagree. Having tried most of the products on that list and their competitors, the problem isn't the math. They generally get that right enough for most applications.

The big problem is the user experience. FreeCAD has single-handedly soured me on 3D modeling in general because it is awful to work with. There are a dozen incompatible ways to do anything, and they all have weird undocumented limitations. And rather than getting basic 3D modeling working properly, they add a whole architecture workbench.

We saw this with Blender a few years ago. The thing which made it go from "toy product" to "viable commercial alternative" was a huge UI overhaul in 2.7x. Something similar happened in KiCad 6. Both Blender and KiCad have attracted significant commercial backing since then and are slowly starting to become serious alternatives to their proprietary competitors.
One-click machine learning deployment (e.g. LLM) at scale on any cluster