skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NB: I'm not a scientist, so could be wrong.

The 2% here isn't the full thing, it's of the "highly variable genes." So if the "boilerplate" is 90% (for example) then the 2% mentioned is of that final 10%, or 0.2% of the total.

I used 90% as a simpler example, but the reality is the "boilerplate" between Neanderthals and modern humans here is closer to 98-99%, which puts that 2% at around 0.0004% to 0.0002% of the total genome.
>John Carmack, Guido, Rich Hickey, Donald Knuth wanted a job, they would first have to leet code like everyone else

I think it's funny that you listed people who develop game engines, programming languages, and write algorithm and data structures textbooks.

Literally the people who could do the LeetCode algorithms and data structures problems in their sleep because it's actually relevant for their job.
After my iPhone dropped into a pool last month I commandeered and wiped a Google Pixel 4a I had used as a work phone in the past. Oopsidoopsie, it went out of support last month and no longer has guaranteed security updates.

This phone was released in 2020. Mine is barely used. I was a bit WTF when I found out.

From an older article I found off Internet, Google justifying this policy:

"""

In response to an email asking Google why it stopped supporting the Pixel 3, a Googles spokesperson said, “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.”

"""

Mine is still usable because you still get app updates and it's not like it stops just working but it's a bit uncomfortable to use out-of-security-updates phone. Waiting until the new iPhones get out next week.

Why can't companies support their products for a longer time. I've heard the best way to reduce e-waste is to keep using the stuff you have as long as possible.
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There are very few 32 hour a week jobs with a high hourly salary as far as I know
Maybe Garmin or Fitbit if you need only specific features or really want that battery life.

Edit: Forgot Google bought Fitbit, but I still would bet Fitbit outlasts the Pixel Watch.
If the king has moved, you can just mark both rooks as castling unavailable.
$93m is approximately 172 minutes worth of revenue for Google.
What precisely has been gifted to the public domain? As I understand it, Willingham was the writer, not the graphic artist, so the words are his to give away but the finished comic book product is not - is that right?
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I have wondered if the very big models trained on a Big Pile of Everything can be used to curate smaller, higher quality data sets that lead to high performing models with smaller parameter counts. Not only are smaller models easier to distribute and faster at inference time, but it offers a licensing escape hatch if future copyright law changes or court rulings make it hard to publicly offer models trained on non-permissively licensed material.

1) Train an initial big model on everything you can get, yielding a capable but tainted-in-some-jurisdictions model. Keep that model private.

2) Use the big tainted model to narrow or distill the source data. One way is by identifying the document subset that can be used freely (old public domain works, user generated content uploaded to your own service that users already assented to your own company's ToS on, government documents, things with unrestricted Creative Commons licensing...) The other way is by using it to build "just the facts" distillations from restrictively licensed material.

3) Train an untainted model using just the factual distillations and/or the permissively licensed material.
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A position, as stored in FEN notation, also includes side-to-move.
No you don't. If the king moves, you update both rooks to be unavailable for castling.
Such a platform should be a co-op owned by all the users, designed for the public good. It really is almost like a piece of infrastructure.

But AWS is a business, and businesses are there to make money. They are there to extract as much money as possible from users. I doubt they'll ever do a big change like Unity, but I bet they end up with a slow boil of raising prices.
Well, till you need to get 2 burgers instead of one to feel full...
For little problems where you can just download the entire database every time and do read-only work, never underestimate the value of keeping it simple! I really like SQLite for this because it has the portability of a .Json or .csv file but it’s more ready to interact with as a database.
The iPad Pro used a separate USB controller which adds cost, space, power making it a no go on the phones. The A17 is the first A series with integrated USB3 controller.
Now try building a chess site to store millions of games with hundreds of millions of game states to search over. It's nice that you can very cheaply fit a board into a fixed size column on a database and store the entire game history into around a kilobyte.

You'd write a wrapper to extract our the dense form to something with a nice interface.
Man this seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d be into… if my family and friends would use it too.

The biggest problem with social apps is getting buy-in from everybody else. Everyone needs to sign up for a new account, install a new app, pay attention to a new thing, think in a new paradigm. And since I’m the one who suggests it, I’m the one that plays support when they inevitably lose their password, or can’t figure out how to shorten links to share, can’t figure out how to host images or link to specific content or specific places in content…

Which is why everybody still begrudgingly uses Facebook I suppose.
Since you're on the theme of technicalities I have a slightly different technical question: How could his work ever be released, practically speaking?

Can he release it? No, according to his contract (per the OP blog post) he can only publish it through DC.

Can some other entity release it? They'd need a copy of it. But are there any copies that are actually 100% his work? If you alter a public domain work, I don't think that altered work is public domain. It's not like the GPL. I'd imagine the altered work belongs to the alter-er. Surely DC had some slight nuance, a watermark, a logo, etc on whatever copies they released. Could they file a suit against somebody who scans and re-releases an old release?

Maybe a old friend has a manuscript somewhere...
I don't see a problem. It's a tiny amount of text and not intrusive in any way.
> No they don't, Microsoft didn't do this training and got nailed for bundling internet explorer with windows.

you are saying that regulators can't see through this then giving an example of them seeing through it.
Determination and hard work are necessary to succeed in business. But they aren't sufficient. You also need a healthy amount of luck.
The concept of an AI companion with a persistent memory is intriguing and addresses a gap in the current landscape of conversational agents. Summarizing and merging messages to create a "lossy" memory, akin to a human's, adds a layer of realism that could make interactions with Albert more engaging and meaningful over time.

The "Magic Button" feature sounds fun as well, I'll be sure to give it a spin!
Mark Changizi had an interesting insight on how some illusions work [1].

What we see is a reconstruction by the brain interpolated from our sensors. The idea of Mark is that the image is not only an interpolation of the present, but actually also an extrapolation of what the image will be in the next tenth of a second. For tasks such as catching a ball, this would allow us to compensate for the delay of the signal between our brain and our muscles.

Based on this idea, he wrote a classification of many illusions [2].

[1]: https://www.livescience.com/4950-key-optical-illusions-disco...

[2]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1080/03640210802...
I personally really like this, because 95% of the time when I turn off my Bluetooth what I’m really wanting to do is put it on pause. The times when I want to turn it off completely, I also want to turn off everything else (Wi-Fi etc.) so airplane mode (which does not time out) works great.
I tried that instant AI translation tool
to be more specific a snapshot of the board
So what?

If Threads gains traction in the other parts, of course they will launch it EU wide.

The EU is often a too big market to be ignored, see Apple and USB C for example.
They caved and released the iPhone 15 with that connector now for the whole world.
Companies wanting to do business will need to adapt.

I dont think Tiktok will close up shop here to be honest.
> but there are UWB trackers from Tile and Samsung as well.

I think the problem is that these trackers get a lot of their benefits from network effects. I own a bunch of Tiles, and I find them really useful, but if I lose my luggage somewhere I'll only get a ping if they happen to be in range of another phone that also has the Tile app.

Meanwhile, with AirTags, given the prevalence of iPhones in the US, you're much likely to be in range of someone with an iPhone at most times.
yes, I know. my whole point is that regulators aren't stupid and can see straight through naive corporate efforts to hide what is actually happening.
The example is failing at decompression for me, and I suspect it's because of this:

> That data comes as a zipfile, which gunzip will decompress.

Doesn't gunzip expect gzip files, as opposed to ZIP (i.e. .zip) files?

On Linux I get further (apparently Linux gunzip is more tolerant of the format error than the macOS default one), but there, I then run into:

> Error: no such column: Date
“At the time of Ukraine’s request last year, Musk wasn’t getting any US funding for Starlink’s operations in Ukraine” https://archive.ph/ctNVZ
I've thought about this quite a bit. I think one fair approach would be to have a 2 tiered copyright release, where there's still a pretty long time before a work lapses into the public domain, but before that, a relatively short amount of time after the release of the work (say, 10-15 years) the original owner loses the power to dictate who uses their work. Basically, between that point and the public domain lapse, anyone would have the option to accept a default contract of paying the creator some standardized % royalties. The creator would still have the option to accept explicit contracts with weaker terms, for example waiving the royalties for projects they want to give away.
From date of manufacture how many months before it is installed and hooked into the grid?

Last I heard, the interconnect queue was already behind schedule.
The state of an individual chess piece can be stored in 6 bits. 3 bits for the X coordinate, 3 bits for the Y coordinate.

A captured piece can use the same coordinates as the King, which would indicate that it's captured.

For promoted pieces, you can use 3 bits per promoted piece type (Bishop, Rook, Knight, Queen) to indicate how many exist. For the case of 8 promoted pawns, you'd need one more bit to indicate that all pawns have been promoted and to treat a 7 as an 8.

You need 1 bit to indicate who's turn it is. You need 1 bit per player to indicate if castling is still possible, and 1 bit to indicate if the last pawn move was two squares.

What gets tricky is tracking for the draw rules.

There's '50 moves with no pawn or capture', '3 move repetition', '5 move repetition', '75 moves with no capture or pawn move'. 50 or 75 are simple enough to count, but tracking identical boards from a previous state would be hard to do with limited bits.

So then we have:

6 bits for piece coordinates of 32 pieces (192 bits)

13 bits for pawn promotion status for each player (26 bits)

1 bit per player for castling allowed (2 bits)

1 bit for whose turn

1 bit for en-passant possible

7 bits for move counter with no pawn movement or captures

That works out to 29 bytes.

Edit: Article did promotions much better by removing impossible promoted piece counts.

'Castling allowed' flag could be tied to 'both rooks in their original positions'. If the pieces look like they're in their original positions, but a king or rook moved, swap the two rooks so they're not in the original position anymore.

En-passent check by swapping pawn order is neat, but pawn order could instead be used to eliminate the 'promoted' flag per pawn instead.
Bleeding Cool points out that Willingham has don't this public domain thing before with his Elementals comic book: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bill-willingham-declares-fab... (they link to this clip where Willingham says it: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7E0hDkYBOAdDIvVymTsdPoFnv4g... )

From this perspective it seems like what he is doing by declaring things public domain he is basically calling the bluff of the companies. Whether it is whoever claims to own Elementals or DC, he seems to be hoping that someone will take up his offer and take the companies to court for him.
Why would you need a tree?

You always know the location of the player in x,y,z. The world is extremely regular, first you figure out the co-ordinates of what you are hitting, then you do a direct lookup of that from the world, with like a single top-level hashtable that links to large fixed-size segments. This will be dramatically faster than any tree.
Yeah, there's a visual example here of how it helps the 'e' stay legible at low res:

https://intactile.com/projets/ameliorer-la-lisibilite-et-la-...

Without that "pixel trap" (?) the intersection (there's probably a fancy typographic term for this) would look too bulky.
Not noticing that I'm in insert mode isn't something I can remember struggling with.

There are different solutions for it:

- Obsessively press escape so you're always in normal mode

- Style the statusline so it's very colorful when you're not in normal mode

- Have the cursor be "fat" when in normal mode and "thin" when in insert mode (isn't this the default?)

Even though I've been using Vim for 15 years or so I also enter visual mode for some commands. It's quite useful, but not necessary all the time (like di" for instance).
Minor point: the FIDE rules[1] state

> Article 9: The Drawn Game

> ...

> 9.2 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by a player having the move, when the same position for at least the third time (not necessarily by a repetition of moves) [happens and a draw is claimed]

> 9.3 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by a player having the move, if: ... 9.3.2 the last 50 moves by each player have been completed without the movement of any pawn and without any capture.

> ...

> 9.6 If one or both of the following occur(s) then the game is drawn:

> 9.6.1 the same position has appeared, as in 9.2.2 at least five times.

> 9.6.2 any series of at least 75 moves have been made by each player without the movement of any pawn and without any capture. If the last move resulted in checkmate, that shall take precedence.

This means that, in order to store a full chess game-state, you also need to keep track of how many moves since the last pawn move or capture (for the 50 and 75 move rule (9.3.2 and 9.6.2 respectively)) and also what positions have previously occurred (for the 3 / 5 position repeats, (9.2 and 9.6.1 respectively)).

The maximum number of moves from any chess position is 218 according to this post[2], so each move in the history can be uniquely identified by a single byte. You only need to store the moves since the last capture (since you can't repeat an earlier position), and you _definitely_ can't have more than 112 pawn moves without a capture (because there are only 16 pawns and they can only move forward, except in the case of en-passant which requires a different pawn to move forward twice).

But that gives an upper bound of 8400 moves -- this bound is probably much higher than it needs to be though.

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[1] https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012023

[2] https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/what-chess-p...
This is assuming the use of a monotonic clock. the system wall clock may jump backwards in time. Itt also assumes that only one id can be generated per millisecond (or whatever clock resolution). In the case of multiple threads or processes on multiple cores, it becomes more likely that there will be a collision.

Timestamps don't make for a great ordering key.
Deleting data from backups (or, more often, aging out backups and deleting them wholesale) is usually a batch process. You really don't want to have to do online modification of backups... they're not really backups at that point. 45 days doesn't seem unreasonable.
No, I have no such connection. A better question is why there are so many people here who "know" the future of cars, despite having zero experience in the automotive industry? This comes off as one of those cultural fad, since people with minimal knowledge feel the need to lecture others.

My position is mostly from the direction of fact checking. People are blatantly BSing about BEVs, and talk about it with zero understanding of real automotive issues. The facts in favor of FCEVs speak for themselves. It is mainly awareness that is the problem.
In the early 90ies, we used to have pocket electronic chess games. I used to have myself one that was about the size of a pocket calculator (it actually was also a pocket calculator), which included a tiny board with tiny, tiny chess pieces. Not a strong opponent and quite slow, but good enough for casual games on the road.

I doubt you could fit that JSON file in its NVRAM. Sometimes I wonder how much sooner we could have had what smartphones offer us today if some technical choices had been made more... wisely.

But that's the endless conundrum Worse is better [1].

[1] https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
I'm now getting an idea for a dystopian cyberpunk novel about a world in which everyone is addicted to an awesome game that they think they are obsessed with that provides gift cards and credits that allow you to purchase real things, but it turns out it's all actually secretly controlled by a massive shadow government/corporation and everything everyone thinks they are doing in the "game" is actually having massive real world impacts.... Hey hollywood if your writers are still on strike HMU.
If my house value falls, broadly speaking, other ones fall. If my house value raises, broadly speaking, other ones raise.

Buying a house means, generally speaking, I can kinda "guarantee" I can afford that "quality" of house. It's like having a housing share that I can exchange for another similar house.
I am saying that only from the point of view of someone who has made and published a lot of games, in roles including developer and director, on a lot of platforms and dealt with a lot of engines. But I really hate making this about me. The outrage-driven discourse that people hitch onto to promote their shit is the worst excess of cultural materialism.

The most succinct explanation for the difference is that Unreal gets your game financed, Unity gets your game made.

> There’s still these pervasive beliefs that Unity is better for 2D or better for small teams, and it just isn’t true.

You're coming at this like a feature box checking sort of deal. There are so many bigger picture things going on with the differences between the two engines. I'm actually not saying that one person should use one or the other - they are simply made to do and make fundamentally different things. For example, if you're aspiring to make a top-ranked Steam game, it makes a lot of sense to use Unreal, because those are all multiplayer FPSes; and it also is telling you that you need a team of 10-100 people and at least an $8-$100m budget, because that's how much it costs to "enter" that space and build on Unreal. Your takeaway shouldn't be "for small teams" or whatever, because you're looking at the wrong stage in the pipeline.
I've been test driving the Helix editor (mostly because of its out-of-the-box support for a wide range of LSP servers), and it adopts the kakoune style of keybindings. Like you, my muscle memory is very strongly in the Vim camp, and is hard to change :)

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
> While Unreal engine currently does not have terms like Unity’s, there’s nothing stopping them from doing something similar. In fact if Unity manages to get away with this it seems likely they will follow suit.

I sense a lack of arguments if people make up pure speculation like that without any foundation. Also Unity's business model had a negative tendency over the last couple of years already ... with Epic having clear statements and an ethical roadmap in response. Oh, and by the way: Unreal Engine is open source. The more you know.
>You're not translating the subtitles line by line, are you?

Subtitle Edit has a built-in function that calls the GT API.
> states that regulate armed security guards have a duty to protect

Source? Duty to protect doesn’t even apply to cops in America.

> it’s basically open season for anyone to kill that person

And if they miss and hit someone else? There is no liability shield for them as there is for cops. This is why there are virtually no examples of armed security subduing a shooter. It’s randos or cops.

Maybe I’ve fallen for cops’ marketing. But when hiring for events in four states, moonlighting LEOs come with an advertised advantage of being able to pull a trigger without thinking twice.
3/4 of mine have collars with RFID tags on them to control how much food they get from the automated feeder. They didn't care for them too much at first, but they quickly learned that it was their meal ticket.

The fourth cat doesn't have one because she can't eat kibble without it causing urinary problems.
A ton of automated scraping is what it needs. Just the main UK supermarket chains would do, as it seems rather British in the choice of products even though there's no pricing actually shown.
Is it opensource tho?
> I've heard the best way to reduce e-waste is to keep using the stuff you have as long as possible.

Of course. It's always been "reduce, reuse, repair" before "recycle". But there's a reason corpos want you to focus on the least efficient way to reduce waste and ignore the others.
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The Mirai is a converted Toyota Crown, and is basically a large luxury car. The Nexo is something like 500 lbs lighter than the Y. Also, at the ranges they provide (350-400 miles), BEVs will need to weigh closer to 5000 lbs to match that.
The excuse has been driver and firmware support from the vendors. Google has extended security updates to 5 years for the newer Pixels. That's fairly decent, given that each one is only on the market for ~1 year.

Obviously the cycle has to be longer for companies that keep older phones on the market as a lower cost option.
FWIW, they've changed their policy a bit here for new devices as everything Pixel 6 and newer will have five years of guaranteed updates.
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Is there a simple standard license or licenses which allow personal and small to medium commercial use but larger companies with say more than $1B valuation need to pay?
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Yes, although

1. You'd definitely want to deduplicate positions of identical pieces for even more savings
2. That only handles the case where no pieces have been captured, and the full arithmetic coding would probably need separate "sections" of the integer range for different cases, and the number of sections is also quite high.
3. There's extra nuanced things you might want to handle in the coding, like that pawns can't be on their own back row. That is significantly harder.

It looks to me like https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking has resolved these sorts of issues, but I haven't dug into exactly how.
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