skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think starfield missed the mark for me as it breaks the ethos of see that mountain and go there planet side. I don't mind instanced planets but the loading land masses around the ship for expiration is sad when it could have been seamless. However, what No Man's sky doesn't do is item persistence across the entire universe. This has implications for the 10 sandwiches that just put in a toilet on one planet. Those sandwiches will still be there after exploring 30 more planets. This leads me to believe why it might be such a CPU heavy game.
I've come across your plugins recently - your spectral vocoder looks unreal. Kudos to you for doing something different :) I wish you the best!
A Writer Attends the Frankfurt Book Fair
They are also incentivized to prevent housing construction and oppose any policies which would decrease their rental income.
My favorite example of big LMUL is matmul. You can do an entire gemm microkernel in like 8 instructions with LMUL=4 by using an 7x4 kernel. You have 32 that turn into 8 registers with LMUL=4, 7 of which end up storing your C values, 1 stores your A values and you put the B values in scalar registers. Thus your entire kernel ends up being 1 4 wide vector load load and 7 4x wide FMA instructions.
The advertising Boom is doing with United claims they will be able to fly SFO-NRT and LAX-SYD [1]. But the Great Circle Mapper says SFO-NRT is 4453nm, and LAX-SYD is 6507nm.

The maximum range of the Boom Overture is 4250nm [2].

So is there going to be enough NYC-Europe supersonic demand for to make a Boom Overture 2.0 viable? The current state of transatlantic flights is pretty good with lie-flat seats and fast Wi-Fi.

[1] https://boomsupersonic.com/united
[2] https://boomsupersonic.com/overture
The career path document is to try and make the process look objective and save the company from lawsuits. In reality it encourages bsing overly complicated solutions, and promotions are limited by things like budget rather than some objective criteria. The whole notion of this career ladder is pure nonsense, but like a religion to many people.
From everything I've read, it seems that Starfield is a generation or three behind that on NMS.
Watch youtube videos of alternative travellers visiting that city, free walking tours, https://www.atlasobscura.com/
I think the point is that it's on Twitter.

Sending an email directly may be welcome. Commenting on PR (if open source) is also probably welcome in most circumstances.

It's the difference between pointing at an ESL speaker and saying they talk funny in a group social situation, versus pulling them aside and letting them know they're using some words wrong.

Some people are OK with being publicly called out, but more people will feel like they're being given constructive feedback rather than publicly called out if you talk to them directly
Oh whow. Thanks for pointing that out.
I am so confused, "Ultimate hacking keyboard" implies for me that you're a hardcore vim user.
How can this have been developed without an ESC key?
what's the link between sbf and effectivealtruism.org?
Have you checked the cost of a prebuilt 64 core EPYC machine (not just the chip) recently?

Sure, it's 4 times the performance, but it's also going to be several times the price.

Even a prebuilt 7950X (16 core) machine costs more than the Pioneer, at leas the ones I've found on the net.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386474>

Again: I have sources. You?

I'm reading this as you don't.
Hey they were just about to improve the world in ways nobody has ever dreamed of
Except you couldn’t come up with those measurements just by looking at a chair, and someone listing to your series of precise measurements is unlikely to understand what the object actually looks like. So it failed the basic goal of communicating the shape of something you’re looking at. Where the suggestion is whales might utilize similar bits of their brain that decode echolocation sounds into 3D images to similarly decode spoken sounds into 3D images.

Beyond that there’s a complex predefined encoding between human words and sounds and sounds back to words. There isn’t for your “series of precise measurements” so a dozen young English speakers at the same high school might all come up with wildly different schemes.

A subtle example of this is how is error correction mechanisms are automatically used. You can understand someone talking though some surprisingly serious distortions and missing content. Even written languages include quite a bit of redundancy. Remove every forth letter from a sentence and it’s generally surprisingly understandable. “I lo_e to _alk _y do_ in t_e mo_nin_.”

So your ad hock scheme could work if everything was perfect and someone write it all down, and then say turned those measurements into a sketch, but it’s all quite useless day to day. Thus people default to using general classifications and pointing at stuff.
Yeah, that was my first thought. By now 3D printing technology has improved so much, that surely no-one would dare to let anything going to customers look like that.
It has been deprecated for a long time but still available in Chromium. It is being removed in Chromium 119 at the end of next month.

See the aside about SQLite WASM on this blog post.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/deprecating-web-sql/
It really is this simple most of the time, but I have not yet been fortunate enough to land a manager who understands this. So burnout and on to the next job it is every few years.
It has never before occured to me that any human might have this ability, so maybe not painfully obvious.
> If you are correct, then those newspaper businesses will now enjoy an economic upturn, since Google and Meta no longer allow links to them on their platforms.

How does that follow? My position is that Google and meta have monopolised the audience. If links to news are no longer published then obviously the traffic is going to go down.

> But I think we'll see it hurt the Canadian businesses instead.

Obviously - that’s exactly why they’re doing it.
A hardware noise generator was cost reduced off of a keno device and a guy working in the Nevada Gaming lab noticed that when the device was reset it would start over in the same spot in the RNG sequence. He kept this discovery to himself and didn't reject the new hardware and firmware like he was supposed to.

He got caught because the first time he and his accomplice tested their rig out in Atlantic city they hit an astronomical odds jackpot (something like 14 of of 15 numbers).
There's a balance to be had - and frankly most code has a finite lifetime and developers often put too much priority on making it cleaner than it needs to be. The technical debt metaphor is a good one; a PM should understand that when code isn't clean it increases the cost of making changes to that code, and sometimes that's a price you want to pay and sometimes you don't.
In the book he recommends against in cases of muscle wasting (cachexia), yes.
I don't.

but I think the things you want to look for, if you start from scratch, are
1. evil mode https://evil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#installa...
2. the leader key https://github.com/noctuid/evil-guide#leader-key

these are random search results that may or may not be authoritative, but they should be a good start.
I interviewed with Apple a long long time ago and they mentioned the sabbatical program as a benefit. Do they still offer that?
TicTacs, for example, are pure sugar, but the serving size is (claimed to be, at least) a single one, which conveniently weighs 0.49g.
Author has published similar vague articles

https://www.inc-aus.com/kelly-main/apple-secretly-looks-for-...

https://www.inc-aus.com/kelly-main/apple-uses-rule-of-3-es-t...
The killer who got into Harvard (1995)
Ranked: Most Popular U.S. Undergraduate Degrees (2011‒2021)
Molecular Communication
Previously discussed 5 days ago over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320304
I'm more curious about what time you go to bed at night？

My current job requires me to get up at 7am. I usually go to bed at 12pm but always feel sleep deprived.
Wouldn’t this be the same for regenerative brakes? The amount you get back is negligible in the grand scheme but they put them on every EV/Hybrid anyway.

The individual may be minimal but the overall cumulative benefit may be worth it.
> In Which I Find Out that the Attorney for Comcast Actually Does Have a Sense of Humor

I think the work by this attorney really did a lot to take the blame off of Comcast, which is probably why the author felt fine not suing at the end.
SBF used effective altruism as cover for his fraud. People in the movement swallowed his bs. Like everyone else...
Yeah that's a great point. If bundling IE with Windows was an anti trust issue back in the 90s, I don't understand how totally locking down your ecosystem on mobile can possibly be allowed.

That doesn't require new regulations, though. Just need to enforce the existing law.
Using a library is cheating. Any one with enough knowledge can create their own programming language in two weekends using parser combinators.
Holy moly blast from the past. I remember reading this on slashdot. Let's not all visit the site at the same time lest it get slashdotted!
Some of the comments there are really digging the facts that the device has a kickstand and that the right controller can be turned into a mouse… I’m glad you can but you can easily plug a USB mouse in and get a better experience. The real goal here is a HANDHELD gaming experience, and the Steam Deck, with gyro etc., is still king of that arena, it seems to me.
CalyxOS and F-Droid
I'm a member of the general public and it's done that lots of times for me.

Besides that, "member of the general public" isn't part of Oxford's definitions. If the "magic" commenter above is a professional quantum physicist, that doesn't invalidate their feelings about this. If you're more jaded, that doesn't make your own feelings more valid or authoritative.

In any case, this is getting a bit tedious and silly.
It's making me actually cook, which by default ia making me a better cook, because I don't cook. I watch Ethan Chlebowski on youtube. However, the comments thread here is full of so many ideas that I'm going to check them out when I get a chance. Thanks everyone for commenting!
IEEE Recommended Practice for Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Framework
I wonder if this is L4S. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/testing_an...
The Correct Way to Do Sentence Spacing (2020)
It depends. I've known people who were arguably the world experts in things no one really cared about any longer (e.g. legacy computer architecture performance optimizations)--and certainly weren't willing to pay to optimize.

There are also boring business software systems that hang around a long time.
The tl;dr seems to be it’s a big deal if you need game console like performance in your browser. Want to mock up designs there? You need WASM.

But if your answer is “I’m building a SaaS, I don’t need incredible cutting edge performance” - it seems less necessary.
I'm reminded of the woman who got her labia melted from McDonald's coffee being unsafely hot, hotter than anyone would reasonably serve coffee, and who was mocked for years and years as "ooh coffee is hot what else is new".

Maybe McDonald's didn't sponsor the mockery but it's one of my favorite conspiracy theories cause I'm sure them and their related companies benefited from the mockery.
I'm a casual emacs user for 30 years. Decided to give prelude a try after reading this... 2 minutes in: ""<down> keybinding is discouraged! Use <C-n> instead."

Ok, well, then. Time to uninstall.
> Microsoft uses DRM in their extensions to prevent them from running with non-proprietary builds

I did not know this and this is enough for me to steer clear of extensions by Microsoft (and potentially VSCode).
Possibilities if you don't ask for what you want vs. if you do
Unless the goal is just to fulfil an obligation and get the hell out.
Sahara space rock 4.5B years old upends assumptions about the early solar system
I’ve been doing unsexy IT stuff as a volunteer, for decades.

I’m still at it.

Seems to work for me (and thousands of others, around the world).
> Based on the average pace of world energy consumption over the last 50 years, if we were to extract the rotational energy just to supply 1% of the world's energy consumption, the rotation of the Earth would lock to the Moon in about 1000 years.

This is bananas. I stopped right there and closed it. I see somewhere else in this thread that they tried to do that by extrapolating an exponential growth curve through an outlier (the industrial revolution!) for a thousand years. Maybe that explains it.

But... that's not an error. That's just bananas. Absolutely insane.

Some quick googling, FWIW, gives the earth's rotational kinetic energy as a quite plausible 2.1e29 J (though a little of this will not be extractable tidally, as the earth will lock to the moon at a few percent of rotation speed), and the total world energy consumption as 22.8 TWh/year. So the back of my envelope says that at current consumption we have a hair over... two trillion years.
>I don't think most powermods really revolted

Well, at least a substantial minority did.

>I am very worried about the "hobbyist mods". And yea, they weren't talked about for the same reason you don't talk about stuff you expect is "the ideal". If a mod is kind, has clear rules, and is even a domain expert in some cases, what is there to talk about?

Actually, this raises a good point. The hobbyist mods who were yeeted were probably disproportionately likely to be the sort of intemperate, authoritarian mods that given Reddit mods a bad name. Additionally, these mods are probably the most likely to see the easing of their authoritarian policies as tantamount to opening the doors to hatred, spam, misinformation, etc. Can their judgment really be trusted?
TFA showed the prototypes and hid the image of the final product in the tweet
Musk blames Anti-Defamation League for 10-50% of X revenue loss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism#Approaches He is mentioned here (in "Donation"), FWIW.
It seems fairly tame to me, as far as historical injustices go.
My reply had no judgement against you or your choice of friends. Only that the friend was committing literal fraud to make their money.

It’s a pleasure to see that your choice seems to have benefited you and your conscience in the end.
I moved a mile away from my old house and had to switch cable providers. I preferred the old one, but apparently I crossed the boundary.
Hi Jean. Am I right to assume Open-Remote-WSL does not work on Windows 10?

EDIT: Nevermind, it works! :) Just needed to follow the instructions in the README. And also make sure I had curl or wget installed in WSL.
>I don't understand why NYT is making those claims about Starfield.

They were likely compensated to do so.

See: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
> data you've only seen once

Is this still true given that they're upsampling in the pretraining dataset? I don't recall any details on how and to what extent they did this in the Llama2 paper but presumably some fraction of those 2T training tokens is repeated data.

MetaAI hasn't been as averse to repeated tokens as other groups, they trained the now forgotten about Galactica for multiple epochs with good results.

> The validation curves would be considerably more convincing.

What are they validating on? I was under the impression they weren't splitting the pretraining corpus.
You know, I've had similar thoughts about the Hertz debacle where people were thrown in jail for having rented cars and used them as agreed. I don't think if I made a phone call to the local police department and told them so-and-so stole my car they'd throw them in jail without asking any questions (at least I hope not). Why is Hertz any different?
I feel like this story could be titled “In Which a Smart Person Overestimates Their Competency With The Legal System”

Always get a lawyer.
Great example, such a cool game. They did a great job of gamifying the mechanic with progression and story too
> First, words aren’t really related to sound.

No, but they are related to a naturally occurring medium of language, of which there are only two notable ones: the human voice, and signing. Written languages are simply codified representations of these forms of natural language. (Note: Sign languages are distinct unrelated languages from the local spoken languages with their own grammar and everything, not just signed representations of them.)

By using written language, you are merely encoding a representation of a spoken phrase into a graphical representation. This is what truly makes writing separate from other commonplace but more abstract symbols, such as arrows, crosses, checkmarks, bathroom/restaurant/exit indicators, warning signs, etc, which convey an idea quite effectively but do not have a clear reliable decoding into natural language (i.e. if you ask 100 people to explain what they indicate, you won't be given the exact same sentence 100 times).
Why do you want to wean yourself off them?
I’ve never seen that behaviour in the wild and i’ve seen over hundred teams adopting agile.
How do later editions of SICP differ? I have no idea which I used.
I don't think many people deliberately choose to get into something boring, it's usually because the job requires it. Then suddenly you become an expert and don't find it boring anymore, because at that point you see the inner layers and the opportunities. So the better advice is to get into a field (in this case politics) you find interesting and keep an open mind.
Okay but now I want one.
Early ancestral bottleneck could've spelled the end for modern humans
One pet peeve of mine is ice cream being measured by volume. Similar dairy products, such as yogurt, sour cream, and cottage cheese all go by weight. The problem is that cheap ice cream is full of air. The volume is irrelevant unless you know what percentage of that volume is air.

Another is food packaging listing the calories by serving size, which is a completely arbitrary amount. So if I want to know how many calories I just consumed, I first have to do arithmetic to figure out how many calories are in the full package, and then do another calculation based on how much I ate.

Neither of these things are illegal, however. They are cheap tricks intended to make it harder to figure out wtf it is you're actually buying and eating.
Or go back to 1984, when the original Elite had 2000+ planets -- running on a 48K machine!
Sure, there are workarounds for the problem, some of which work reliably. In the grand scheme they're not even onerous, just annoying.
Next step is a similar experiment lasting several months, so we should get an answer to one of your questions before too long. If it keeps a pig alive for that long then that seems like a good sign.

They do say patients would still need EPO injections, since the device doesn't contain the type of cells required for that. And with sufficient funding they're still 4-5 years away from clinical trials, so they seem to agree there's a lot of work to go.
Fist off where I've voted they switched from punched cards to scanning paper ballots. It's all typically run by three middle aged women with a printed book of who's registered to vote. You just tell the first one your name and they find your entry and you sign next to it. The next one hands you a scantron sheet. You mark it up. The the third one feeds your sheets into the machine as you watch. Machine records your votes and drops the sheets into a bin in the machine. That's a system I trust and it has the positive of civic engagement. And fundamentally it's not broken.

You now also have the option of mailing in a ballot. That's easier to corrupt I'm sure. But at least it's still paper.

All the fully computerized systems seem really really sketchy to me. Especially in low trust cultures where underhanded stuff is normalized.
No but my top pet peeves are

1. Non-dairy coffee creamer usually contains milk products, so even though it's "non-dairy" it's not vegan

2. Ingredients are listed by percent, and nobody wants "sugar" as their top ingredient, so lots of products will sink it down the list by having sugar, and syrup, and honey. 3 small ingredients instead of 1 big ingredient, but you're still just eating sugar.

3. They aren't required to say which coloring / flavorings come from beaver ass or bug shells, which is completely sanitary I'm sure, but also just disgusting.

4. Gelatin isn't vegetarian. This is more non-labeling than mis-labeling. It's just weird to think candies like marshmallows and gummy bears typically have meat in them.
If I said "blue chair" then wouldn't it likely activate the visual cortex in most humans as they relate it back to an image stored in their brain from past experience?
If anyone wants to download Books3, it seems to be available here: https://thenose.cc/public/AI/EleutherAI_ThePile_v1/pile_prel...

(We noticed The Pile was recently taken offline, so we hosted it: https://thenose.cc. Apparently Books3 was also a part of The Pile, so feel free to download.)
This has been my experience.

I hated being a manager, but I didn’t trust anyone else to do it.

My style draws a great deal of contempt from the HN crowd, but it worked extremely well, for 25 years.
I thought this might be fiction because the amount of time for pirating cable seemed crazy.. However [1] there are indeed up to 6 month penalties for stealing cable. That's just ludicrous. How could copyright theft ever be anything other than a civil action? Jail time for stealing cable, that's just insane. Nobody gets hurt from stolen cable.

We really need to look long and hard at what we allow jail time for. Jail time in service of big media corporations seems just insane.

[1] https://www.tec.com/legal/cable-theft-information
Extrapolation is always a bad thing :-). That said, this guy has some interesting thoughts. Of course he misses out that if you pump the tides you can speed up the rotation of the earth and thus "renew" the lag (think moving your legs while swinging).

Similarly solar isn't renewable because at some point the Sun is going to run out of hydrogen, and if you made a dyson sphere to capture all of the Sun's energy you would wipe out life on earth.
But if you welcome it, it's not unsolicited
Switching to remote work also brought about a significant change in the types of teams I work with. In particular, I avoid larger companies, so there's fewer structured relationships between juniors and seniors.

That said, the challenge is getting over the hump of being proactive. I'm not sure if it was working in an office or the agency model of hourly billing plus time sheets, but I find people are far more likely to spin their tires and waste time until I finally convince them that they can ask me questions any time.

Perhaps there's something about working remotely that people feel the need to be more independent workers, I'm not sure. I'll initiate pair programming sessions and ad hoc design discussions to get the ball rolling, and encourage them to do the same. That tends to do the trick, though as I mentioned at the start, my day to day the past 6 years has had much less mentoring responsibilities and opportunities.
You get the "key cluster" module and put it under your left thumb, as is common in other split keyboards.
The other way of doing this is just pushing the earth a bit off its orbit. Better to do it in the other direction though to stop global warming. Let's make it 400 days instead.
Great post. I've spend a lot of time reading through the PDF specification over the last ~5 years while building DocSpring [1], and I still feel like I've barely scratched the surface. qpdf is a great tool. One of my other favorites is RUPS [2], which really lets you dig into the structure of a PDF.

[1] https://docspring.com

[2] https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups