skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s some confusion here.

> This makes the assumption that the universe is continuous instead of discrete. Quantum physics is all about discreteness.

This is irrelevant. The discussion is within the framework of classical Newtonian dynamics. The discrete-ness of the universe has no effect whatsoever, because the moment we say we’re using classical mechanics, we assume a flat Euclidean continuous spacetime. The argument is made in these terms, and in can be proven or disproven in this framework.

> Newton himself suspected light was discrete, what he named "corpuscles".

This has absolutely nothing to do with whether spacetime itself is quantised or not. You can have a concept of point particles in a continuous space, that’s not a problem.

> In a continuous universe non-determinism, randomness, is not needed. In the provided example I would expect no action to take place

That is a good intuition.

> or acknowledge that a continuous universe infers an infinite resolution of information for physical systems.

However, this is not. Even in a continuous universe (and, until proven otherwise, our understanding is that ours is), infinite “information” is not really a thing.
A common option for that purpose is Zig. WASI is just one of the many targets it can compile C code to, out of the box: `zig cc -target wasm32-wasi`. No need to install yet another LLVM copy.

Zig produces more optimized code, because it optimizes the libc like the rest of the application. So you can enable additional WebAssembly features according to the target runtime, for example `zig cc -target wasm32-wasi -mcpu=baseline+bulk_memory+simd128`.

And you get automatic caching for free.
Indeed. But if further investigation reveals the situation to be what it appears to be, this would follow a long list of similar occurrences, the likes of César Lattes and Jocelyn Bell.
This really shouldn’t be tagged a dupe. It’s someone’s impressions of Bram. Give us the space to mourn and reflect.
> but when you're not at the top of the Wanted it's going to be very hard to get to the top of Loved.

Loved is based on people who use it. Wanted based on wanting to use it. They are separate.
Love that book, but it's fantasy. It's a cool idea that is impossible to rule out without literally going to every part of the universe and doing experiments there. But that's impossible, so it's unfalsifiable. In fact, you could make the same claim about Earth. We aren't going to do every experiment at every place on and in Earth.
Just normal web things
2000 Seconds with Welwitschia Mirabilis
Burr grinder
I live in a GDPR country and I don't really see the problem with HN's approach. They own the information you typed into their website, you own the privacy of your name. Why should they delete information you gave them, rather than just help you anonymise it?
> and your games are guaranteed to work

PC games "not working" hasn't been an issue since maybe the early 2000s.

Everything has been standardized for decades. Unless you've got really old hardware that doesn't support Direct3D 12, stuff just works.
“More people use email than fax”

“No, that’s wrong, there are more fax messages sent than emails sent from email.com”

Like, the whole _point_ of the thing is that it is not just one site. That is why it was made in the first place.
> What many aren't capable of is accepting the conclusion that we all have to change the way we live and quite possibly even the way we organize society in order to mitigate the irreperable problems our way of living has already caused.

This seems like a euphemism for "a lot of people 'have' to die" - when phrased that way it becomes obvious the reason that many will search for active measures to take to try to prevent that.
IMO, the issues are much milder on HN than I have seen elsewhere.
The writing has been on the wall for a while (none of the Disney+ originals have a physical release) and it's a shame. With the majority of Disney's works staying in copyright until after I'm dead, this will grant total control (and knowledge) of how, when, and where I can watch their films. A copyright period longer than the typical human lifetime combined with streaming removing the protections of the first-sale doctrine means that there will be no legal way to watch without Disney knowing you are watching.
> It’s not a mapping of words. It’s a mapping of character sequences.

This is plainly wrong if you read the word2vec paper.
Oh, some of these images will engrave nicely on my laser.
WebAssembly doesn't make unsafe languages safe: https://00f.net/2018/11/25/webassembly-doesnt-make-unsafe-la...
Anecdotal, but as a family, of all the streaming/TV services we have been subscribed to [0] Disney Plus is the one we by far get the most value from, closely followed by the larger Apple One subscription.

I am not at all surprised to hear they are going all in on Plus.

0: Currently Disney, Apple TV (via One), Netflix, Prime, and we just last week canceled all Sky UK. Had Paramount for a couple of months when there was something we wanted, will resubscribe when it's back. We are downgrading to Netflix basic as it's only the kids that watch it most of the year (there are no ads on the kids account), and will upgrade for the month when one of the two shows we watch are new.
> If you set velocity = velocity = 0, then the ball staying at the top is a valid solution, AND the ball rolling down the hill (in any direction) is also a valid solution.

Yes, that is exactly right. Not only in any direction, but beginning at any time.

The easiest way to see this is described at the end: imagine the ball is initially in motion and the initial conditions are precisely those that bring it precisely to rest at the apex of the dome at some time T. (Making this possible is the reason the dome has to be a specific shape. Not all shapes allow this.) The time-reversal of this motion is the ball beginning to move in some arbitrary direction at some arbitrary time.
No, the profits are not in the volume. See the profitability vs. volume of iOS vs. Android. Ultimately, Nvidia charges a lot of mid-range cards because they don't have any competition. If Nvidia did have competition, they could lower the price of their midrange cards to stifle Intel while still profiting on the high end.
We need a privacy bill of rights.

Until then, based on how it’s going, the EU will lead on this for the foreseeable future so let’s hope they nail it.

American intelligence agencies are complaining and lobbying hard about even the possibility of restriction in buying unlimited amounts of warrantless location tracking data on all their citizens at the moment as if it’s their God given right and without a thought to the monstrosity that could create… so… yea.
I wouldn't say mediocre, it's...

-Relatively secure

-Game changing integration with my other Apple products (NOBODY else does this)

-Stays out of my way for the most part

-Runs important commercial software like Office365 natively

-UNIX shell right out of the box

-Homebrew is a decent package manager and easy to install

-Emacs key binds for text entry fields across the entire OS

-It's a little thing, but the animations and sounds make it kind of fun to use

It's a bit inflexible, and the UNIX layer could use some love and modernization, I'll give you that, but once you learn to work within the paradigm, I think it's actually a really good OS.

Oh, and you definitely need to install something like Rectangle to get window snapping, I can't go without that after using it on Windows and Linux, but that's easy enough to fix.
Anecdotally nothing has killed me yet, so clearly it can’t be a full 100%.
Learning Vim was one of the most important steps in my life in the journey to escaping Windows and learning Linux/UNIX. I still use Vim every day as my primary text editor and it’s the first thing I install on a new Mac.

RIP Bram, I have made a donation to ICCF Holland in memoriam.
> Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it,

The original tumblr post linked to this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%E2%80%93Lindel%C3%B6f_t...
The initial conditions here are _not_ sufficient to pin to a unique solution.

> anything acting on it would violate other principles of classical mechanics

What other principles of classical mechanics does it violate though? I think that's the point of the exercise. To reflect on part of our mathematical modeling would prevent this.
Presumably the liquidated assets would go to the shareholders.
Thank you, Bram!
Weird sleight of hand. You can obviously lower the market rate by increasing supply.

Subsidies on the other hand increase the market rate, below which, correct, you will not get much construction.
They're stacked to increase the field density.
Which means Disney will know I'm not watching their films at all. Their loss, I guess.
Does this satisfy you?

Me: give me a random character sequence that is not a pronounceable word

ChatGPT: Sure, here's a random character sequence that is not a pronounceable word:
"Jkplqxzv"
> That's a pretty bold claim... even though I think it may look like this is the case, I very much doubt you would be found correct if a proper study was ever made to find out.

I don't think it's that bold.

I have a related but slightly different take: more motivated and smarter developers are more inclined to use unusual or new tooling. As a result, the new tooling's userbase is almost entirely composed of people not minding the hard path, and steep learning curve.

Even wrote a blog post about it (https://www.lelanthran.com - read the post about the average developer effect).
+1 for having the balls to reveal where you bank on a public website with "hacker" in the name
You could I think at one time actually have argued it for blogs; there’s a reason people used to call it the blogosphere, and social-network-esque mechanics (eg linkbacks, which likely inspired quote tweets) were commonly used at one time.
Why? They'll plaster 4k all over it, and 95% of people are happy. The next 4% will consume no matter what. So why bother for that small percentage that cares?

(numbers are made up, but I bet 1% is high, most people eat what is in front of them)
I turned off Love and Thunder when genderflipped Thor turned her hammer into a swarm of guided missiles.
Ah, I see. But the new notes in India are fine then. It doesn't help you, I understand-- my condolences.
...... I really can't tell if you're trolling now or not.
I'm very far left, and was in South Africa when this chant was coined (more than a decade ago I think). It is completely pro-violence. As for Musk's commentary: even a broken clock is correct twice a day - although I still wish he would shut the fuck up, he emigrated _during_ apartheid.

The issue about farm killings is extremely complex. On the one hand you can understand the anger towards the white farmer, but on the other hand more murder and dispossession is not the answer to murder and dispossession: https://www.accord.org.za/ajcr-issues/farm-attacks-or-white-.... Either way, it's real and Malema is encouraging it.

Malema is extremely separatist and xenophobic, or racist if you use the modern definition of the term. "Kill the boer" is definitely fighting words, and "western" commentators do not have the lived experience to add valuable perspective to the issue. The race situation in America is not the same as the race situation in South Africa (the race situation is all over the spectrum in Africa, let alone inconsistent with western problems).
What became Denver CPUs were originally targeting x86.
> Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it, there is one possible trajectory.

As the linked article points out, that is not true. Even for force = velocity = 0, there are solutions for which the ball starts rolling. Additionally, even adding the first law does not help, since the body has F = v = a = 0 at any time before T, and it has a > 0 only for times where it also has F > 0. So the body spontaneously starting to move is perfectly consistent with classical mechanics.

A better attack on the example is that the shape of the dome may not be possible to construct from actual matter. The math only works with a shape that has a certain type of infinite smoothness with a single bump, which is probably not possible even in principle to construct from real matter.
Not shareholders, they took a risk and lost. The customers should be made whole first. Then liquidation where those proceeds are distributed to shareholders.
> Do they share Google's incentives?

No and that's why they are offering the ability to tweak per-domain ranking per user, along with a leaderboard of most-blocked domains so people can easily find and block problematic domains.

The issue with blocking Pinterest by default is that people who use Pinterest might actually want those results, so that's not a good default.
4h each day, consistently, every day, seems like it could be considered „hard-working“, especially working on Maths.
For something with “math” in the title, this article sure has a lot of basic statistical mistakes (like, things you learn not to do in an intro course).
I am not a physicist, but the "no probabilities" problem could just be solved with a constant offset right? Or just say that whichever direction the marble rolls is the zero degree mark.

I don't see how "no cause" problem is fully true either. The system has potential energy due to the marble being places at the top of the dome, so that was the cause.
I briefly looked through the website, does the SCA have a list of "Certified" consumer-level espresso machines specifically? I was disappointed to see that they had certified home brewers for drip coffee and commercial espresso machines that cost $15k, but no espresso machines that I could afford.
Extremely creepy that we’re losing the ability to consume media without being watched and analyzed every moment we do so. I think this is more invasive than people realize, even without meta’s eye tracking on its way
Laws are only as strong as the enforcement can be.

For commercial entities the government can go for financial or operational penalties to encourage compliance, at least if they operate commercially in the country in question.

But for open-source web browsers, which might not have any commercial entities operating in the country, how could they even enforce that law?

There's nobody to punish, nobody to coerce.
I’m sure they will get over people not paying for one or two DVDs in a year and I dread paying $180 a month.
VIM is not just my favorite text editor, but my favorite piece of software of all time on all platforms. I have only ever encountered so few minor issues, and Bram fixed them all quickly. He will be sorely missed.
I saw the same video on r/publicfreakout and I didn't see a single comment laughing at the guy. Most were expressing concern. Many were saying it shouldn't have been uploaded.
Sorry Nate Hagens, I can’t recommend your stuff until you try to strongman the options to move away from oil and carbon better.
It depends which tokenisation you use. Here's the token list for GPT-4: https://incoherency.co.uk/interest/gpt4-token-list.txt

Some of them are words, some of them are not. It uses the same list even if you have read the word2vec paper. It probably doesn't even know whether you've read it.
> merely shining a light on the object would give it a nudge

so you're saying you would change the outcome by measuring the system?
I meet on average a hundred of those every year and while some of them are seriously uncool the majority is actually very impressive.
This so much. I think we all have a limited time available for what we want to do in life, so when someone asks me to do some specific thing-- I really AM too busy. I have other priorities already allocated...
One difference between espresso and coffee made with a paper filter is that there is more cholesterol in espresso. Espresso extracts more from the bean because it is done under pressure, and the paper filter collects some the cholesterol. There is some evidence of a connection between high cholesterol and Alzheimers, so you might expect espresso to be worse, but it doesn't seem that well understood. Maybe the cholesterols in coffee beans act differently.
I found this article a bit fluffy and lacking on technical substance. If we want to entertain the limits of AGI, we need to look at concepts like Solomonoff induction, which were conceived of and researched in the 1960s (and apparently mostly forgotten about since then). Given an input sequence of bits, what is the best (i.e., “oracle”) posterior distribution possible given a domain prior and the universal prior? How would a resource-limited approximation widen this posterior distribution? What are the practical limits to achieving the shortest Turing machines that reproduce the input sequence? These are interesting questions that should be looked into if we want to discuss AGI in the epistemological limit.

Also, I tend to get frustrated with predictions by “AI experts” about what a future with AGI will look like. We don’t have any world experts on AGI currently, for the simple reason that it doesn’t exist yet. We have experts (or I’d prefer to say “first movers”) on particular types of machine learning based upon neural networks, but that’s about it. A true AGI would almost be unpredictable by definition, so human attempts to forecast the future in this regard are mostly sensationalism or a projection of some kind of personal agenda (cough cough Marc Andreessen).
Living in Germany I always appreciated their privacy laws related to being filmed/photographed in public. The US should do something similar.
Wow really really sad news.

When I was first starting to learn vim I thought to myself who would go through all these troubles just to write some text on an editor when there are better alternatives out there but then I slowly started to understand how it really worked and how you can slowly craft it to your liking. Now, I spend almost 90% of my time in terminal and vim and can't see myself working without it.

Thank you Bram for playing a big part of my coding life through your contributions.
More specifically, the article assumes that the only way "AI"s will ever be produced is the way that LLMs are -- by being trained off pre-existing human generated media, and existing as static objects after that. In particular, this assumes that the system doesn't subsequently modify itself based on further interactions with the real world (e.g., doing experiments, and taking note of the results).

That's assuming an awful lot, to put it mildly.
Soft bioelectronics for neurophysiological monitoring during microneurosurgery
> Python and Dart, for example, have been much more popular recently than in the past, so it's reasonable to assume that the percentage of newer code bases in those languages is higher than in, say, Java.

And yet Python is the top fifth brown language? And also the top third loved language?
They used to have outright incorrect information a long time ago. They fixed the site and are much better, but it's aimed at a non technical audience in the end.
Your arguments aren't really rational.
This would be about 90% of Reddit's front page.

Just look at /r/tinder: people just casually posting screenshots of ostensibly private conversations with the person's face & first name visible. It's frankly ridiculous.
Delayed surgeries are precisely what they mean by "lower intensity of care".
For those in the Northeast, Smith College also has several welwitschias, and they are impressive. Note the depth of the pot, to accommodate the taproot.
People who were torrenting were not buying DVDs.

Besides, tormenting and setting up a Plex server is a lot more of a hassle than just paying $15/month and being able to stream from anywhere.
This will just mean more piracy.
Love and thunder was a masterpiece
Wget and curl mostly likely don't count. Browsers are explicitly defined as applications for end-users, which wget and curl are typically not.

The idea here is to make it harder for the public to access banned websites. Tech savvy people will be able to recompile their browser from source anyways, just like they can easily work around DNS-based blocking and pretty much every blocking attempt, even the "great firewall".

It is mostly a punishment for services that don't comply with the rest of the law. By blocking it in the majority of browsers, it will drive away a lot of traffic.

Anyways, I don't expect that part of the law to pass, and if it does, it will be very unlikely to be enforced, France is a major economy, but I don't think it has the international power to do that, call me back when the entire EU or the US is on it.
Maybe they are trying to split between theater for the high quality experience and streaming for everything else.

I know I am the minority so they won't be catering to me, but I loved UHD Blu Rays and have built a fun collection of movies. The video and sound have never been better.
Most are done this way since they are outsourcrd to the cheapest bidders who "glue" multiple technologies poorly on top of each other. And then add tons of ads / tracker / analytics code.

Lots of websites dont care that their technology is terrible.
Well those are a lot of links unrelated to my question or anything you've said in this thread.

You're clearly unable to admit you're wrong. Hard to be charitable about that.
The article is asking us to consider an idealized situation
Hopefully something is in place with this official repo and we don't get a bunch of forks all over github.
RIP Bram
The problem with running such software under Wine is that they need direct access to a USB device.

Some interfaces present themselves as a serial port (USB-to-serial converter) which Wine may support, but modern Ross Tech interfaces use lower-level, direct USB communication which I don't believe Wine supports.
This has been shown to be historically true, because startup costs can be tens to hundreds of million in R&D.

The business that spends will have their workers immediately poached if they don’t have IP protecting their initial startup costs.
I have 20+ year of professional experience and the only command I know by heart is how to force add an ignored file.

Visual Studio has an excellent history browser when I need to operate on specific commits. Both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code have great basic git capabilities and amazing conflict editors to never touch the cli.
As time goes on, I find myself avoiding posts like these on purpose. I just don't find them funny or entertaining and I find the comments to generally be quite heartless and judgmental. We're collectively laughing at these people like they're caricatures. They're people like you and me, but they're treated like subhumans. I saw that post of the airport video and briefly considered watching but, honestly, I don't want to participate anymore in the collective ridicule of somebody whose personal situation I don't know and can't judge fairly.

There was a post the other day by a wife who briefly saw messages between her husband and some 16 year old. They seemed 'intimate'. All the comments condemned him as a vile pedophile. A day later, she writes that it turned out the girl was her husband's daughter. That he'd only recently found out about her.

We judge as if we're any better than these people. We're not.
It has been speculated for some time that fewer patients die when hospitals are on strike. See for example: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/slightly-blighty/201...
We all have a responsibility to be the strongest possible advocates of our own opinions
Tangential: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
A lot of this is just offloading to others and seems like fair advice for CEOs. But most people only have themselves as a labourer.
My sloppy distinction between hard sci Fi vs soft/fantasy sci Fi is how much attention is paid to artificial gravity, and how serious of a hazard the vacuum of space presents. In space at least.

Likewise with paradox in time travel stories.