skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds terrible. Surface completely altered the windows hardware landscape, and its was a joy to use. This is a remarkably poor outcome.
I don't remember the details and searches aren't turning up anything, but I remember somebody managed to camp on public streets without being bothered for a surprisingly long time by building a tent that looked like a car with a cover on it. I think this was a bit of performance art rather than being done out of necessity, the point being that people just think of that space as being for cars and don't really question it.
What would be the service in that?

Let people keep their works exclusive if they so wish.

We don't publish the formula for Coca Cola, but somehow an author (or his estate) has less entitlement to his own work, than an a flavour technician at Coca Cola.

Stop cheating the rules. It makes me not want to write, not want to work.

The strongest desire I have for an authoritarian leadership is to keep sticky hands and brazen heads off works, that took a lifetime to make.

People say we don't need the wrath of god, but we also don't need the double standard of "secrets for me, openness for thee".
HH 211: Jets from a Forming Star
Elo is just a rating point. There are a lot of details, but the main point is that it tries to predict probability of winning. If a player has a rating 200 elo higher than you, they should win about 75% of the time. When you win, your elo goes up, and the other player's elo goes down. Bigger initial differences result in bigger changes, blahblah, lot of details.

it also helps rank the players because not every player just plays every other player, so you can't just have #1, #2, #3, etc. But you might consider the player with the highest elo the de-facto #1 player. But they haven't actually played every other player.

So it also only works on a fixed pool or player base. So, you can't directly compare ratings from different organizations, etc. It doesn't actually measure a player's skill, it works closer to a stack ranking of a particular pool of players. A lot of people seem to think it measures "skill" directly in some way, but it doesn't do that in any direct way at all.
>but in that case why have this transfer of tax money at all?

To save some towns, I presume. Some places are probably worth saving; other places, not so much.

>But those towns were already doing fine!

Were they? They can probably use a little boost to help fund their schools or other infrastructure, to keep the towns worth living in for people.

>so it's really just the towns that produce something people want to buy

Sure, but why should a town that doesn't produce anything useful get any funding at all? Just because people lived in a place in the distant past doesn't mean people need to keep living there now. If it were really such a desirable place to live, people would be living there now, and there would be a functioning society, not just a bunch of stubborn elderly people waiting to die after all their kids and grandkids have moved to greener pastures.
Does your aunt or f-i-l really need to know? I know older nerds who only use a smartphone for texts and voice calls, and who can't be bothered wasting time on social media. So far (anyway) "essential" apps like banking ones and government ones and "remotely check your home security cameras/solar panel output/etc" ones seem to be paralleled on the Web and accessible through a browser.
$11 seems fine to me for a two cheeseburger meal today.
Not a lawyer but most countries have the idea of secondary or contributory infringement where if you compel, induce or cause someone else to infringe copyright you have committed an offence. It's probably very hard to prove.
> Sometimes when I hear discussions like this, I can't help but think back to several places I've lived or stayed where using a car was not possible.

Example?

Us in New York are going by fine taking the train or biking, and if we really need a car we call a cab or an Uber, and that we have to pay extra makes us really think if we need that car or is that just us being lazy.

I won't ever understand the joy of punting that bill of your joyrides to the next generation, I guess.
For those that don’t know, “loving Vincent “,it’s a movie done with paintings. It’s kind of spectacular and amazing. I remember and older movie called “Vincent and Theo”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_&_Theo

Theo being Van Gogh brother who would send him money and who corresponded with letters very frequently.

The Rodin museum in Paris had a couple of VanGoghs which I was instantly drawn to. They fly a little under the radar as they’re not sculptures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_Rodin
I wonder why the board always seems to think they are the most important and therefore highly paid people within the company.

So interesting how that works.
In my building, there are 40 units... and 6 parking places in the basement. Most of the city is this way. Street side parking is the only way to go. TBH I prefer trees and grass over parking lots. I would not change it.
> We now have a distributed crawler that runs on our volunteers' machines! If you have Firefox you can help out by installing our extension.

This is a very interesting idea that other search engines have tried before. Actually, the Brave search engine is built over Cliqz[6] that implemented this same idea but *without* the user's consent.

Copy pasting from an old comment I made about this "human web" crawler idea:

Both PeARS[1] and Cliqz[2] tried to do that. Both got direct support from Mozilla[3][4] but it looks like neither really kicked off.

PeARS was meant to be installed voluntarily by users who would then choose to share their indexes only to those they personally trusted, so the idea is very privacy conscious but also very hard to scale.

Cliqz, on the other hand, apparently tried to work around that issue by having their add-on bundled by default in some Firefox installations[5] which was obviously very controversial because of its privacy and user consent implications.

I still think the idea has potential, though, even if it's in a more limited scope.

[1] https://github.com/PeARSearch/PeARS-orchard

[2] https://cliqz.com/en/whycliqz/human-web

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/06/22/mozilla-gives-3...

[4] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/08/23/mozilla-makes-s...

[5] https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whi...

[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_e...
Id appreciate a screenshot instead of youtube link, I dont want to bring this plague on me as well.
The wifi router sees you (a bit like a mini radar), but someone outside your premises would still have to hack the router? Or do ISPs already have that access?

Also curious to know how far wifi routers 'see'? If it's more than a few meters there could be more potential surveillance by wifi router than by cctv!
South Africa’s great white sharks are changing locations
He published them in newspapers. They weren't secrets.

Trade secret laws and copyright laws are different things.
Agreed, the audio tour was great.
You could ask the same question about the inventor of the telephone because it wasn't Bell.
My point is that if you hold incinerating civilians (and friendly troops) to be a bad thing, then the A-10 is a strange platform to idealize.
I rewired my brain in six weeks
What are some examples of such car-free places?
I think OP's point is that this isn't a deterministic system for a given query. The feature flags set for the particular user (are you in the verbatim or no-verbatim branch of today's AB test), and the timestamp are also inputs.
I thought they made that up in that Person Of Interest[1] Episode, seems like they were just ahead of the curve on tech

1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/
Look up TR-069. Always use your ISP-supplied router in bridge/modem mode only.
The Red Sprite and the Tree
I have a tampermonkey script that hides all watched videos from recommendations. First I tried to mark all those I watched "not interested because I watched it", and hoped the "we will tune your recommendations" would actually tune them. Instead it just kept falling in, so I had to find other solution.

At least marking videos "not interested" worked till now, but I just cant anymore.
It's like they want to push me away.
My own sense of Wheatfield with Crows is that it is what Van Gogh experienced when he looked at it. It is a painting of how his emotions colored his visual perception. For me it is the closest I have come to knowing what it is like to see the world through another person's eyes.

But no matter what you make of it, or how you try to understand it, that painting is to me simply the best.

I had Van Gogh experience at the Musee D'Orsay. I walked into a room and ahead of me was the Church at Auvers and Dr. Gachet. The two of them together was just overwhelming. One would be stunning but there were two. OMG.
It’s an AI Camera that creates fake photos of you posing without a photoshoot partner
For most people, it's not really binary.

For instance, when I lived in Italy, we did have one car for our family of four. We used it to go see the in-laws and stay late at dinner when there were no public transit options to get home.

But we took the tram downtown with our small kids.

And I rode my bike to work often.

And my wife and I would go out on dates riding our bikes.

And I'd walk our kids to school.

And if we wanted to go hiking out in the hills, we'd drive.

So it wasn't so much about a zero-car lifestyle as a 'right tool for the job'.
New York is the epitome and antithesis of the US simultaneously.

Them being popular in NY is not at all surprising.
Probably made out of special radar absorbing shit and requires specialized to make sure it is uniform (or not) in its application.

I used a really thin ceramic based paint coating and it was really difficult to apply in a uniform manner. I can’t imagine how hard getting stealth coating onto a fighter jet is.
Per-business lots are incredibly inefficient. They have to optimize for peak demand or lose sales during crucial peak seasons - when was thr last time you saw a Walmart parking lot full?

They make it more difficult to visit multiple stops in one trip. Instead of parking downtown, going to an appointment and grabbing lunch I have to move my car in between those trips, generating more emissions and waste.
Yeah, I moved to Tokyo from suburban US. It's great here. Far more convenient than living in America.

What kind of crappy places did you live where having a car wasn't possible, yet there was no decent public transit?

Furthermore, living in the built-up suburbs of a large metro in the US, not much was within a 10 minute drive. Sure, the grocery store was, and some shitty chain restaurants, but that's about it. Everything else was much longer because of traffic.
Cool man!

edit: pun unintended
The problem is that the term available is overloaded. In CAP “(A)vailable” specifically means you can keep making db updates as long as you can talk to any db node (e.g. you and a db node have split off the internet together). In every other distributed systems context “available” means the system doesn’t stop working overall when failures happen. These are very different usages and it confuses a lot of people.
Canada has a history of sheltering Khalistani terrorists.
=================================

Canada repeating the same mistake - In 1982 India had urged Canada when
@JustinTrudeau's father Pierre Trudeau was PM, to hand over Babbar Khalsa terrorist Talwinder Parmar but Trudeau Sr didnt.

In 1985 Khalistani terrorists placed a bomb inside Air India plane Kanishka.
329 people were killed in mid air explosion.

Today Trudeau Jr, Instead of acknowledging presence of Anti-India extremists & terrorists in Canada, Choose to Shelter them and accuse India w/o evidence.
https://twitter.com/MeghUpdates/status/1703968941125882258
Surprised they didn't get Yoda to Force-levitate it out.
Right, I visit cities outside the US and almost no one I have met has a car or wants one.
Because Hacker News users respect paywalls and pay for content and totally would never click on the archive links that inevitably show up
I’d argue that no individual CEO has any particular value, or at least no more than an exceptional worker. What they have done instead is effectively organize as a class (Capital owners) to make companies profits accrue to themselves. This is why they also all serve in the boards of each other’s companies.
You're right, he left the OPE! Didn't know that. Looks like he was caught DUI earlier this year, lol. https://www.wdsu.com/article/nopd-launches-investigation-int...
My Experience with Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
I really want to know what 5D chess went on to make put "livable cities" and "urban planning" on the truther, red-pilled, plandemic, crowds hit list.

It is something that should be examined and critically discussed thats not what i'm talking about

I'm talking about how suddenly people who have never so much as listened to an episode of 99PI before or showen any interest are suddenly passionately saying livable cities are a way to control us.

Who benefits from the propagation of this idea? Is there just someone out there trying to bring about the end of humanity as fast as possible by making people crazy about any thing remotely sensible? Or is this just some discursive collateral damage coming from some ideological battle going on somewhere else where livable cities became one of the front lines, and the bull-shit psyops ideas leaked out every via the internet..
Seeking help to preserve WWII database on Windows 98
I am subscribed to loads of channels. Best is when after 3 days of reloading recommendations to find something nice it suggests me a video from subscribed channel (that I have notifications set to "all") from 3 days ago.

Whole 3 days it was unable to suggest me a video I told it I would want to see. Its mind boggling.

Honestly think scraping the algo alltogether and writing it from scratch could only result net positive, regardless of how broken new version would be.
Well, he died last year, so presumably he isn’t thinking any more.

But if you’re going to criticize his work (or anyone’s work, for that matter) you’ll need to put in a little more effort. Why are his buildings not good?
Yes, we should allow Orwell to keep his works private (that is, printed in newspapers for the public as he did himself) and not public (that is, in the hands of the small number of private collectors who would be interested in preserving these works).

Incredible example of doublespeak!
It was an "accident". Should have been in prison.
Tell your dad to get a surface laptop 15”. His eyes will appreciate the big 3x2 display.
This release improves memory management (automatic reclaim) and network compatibility.
Not really. Ukraine had perhaps the most comprehensive ground based air defense network in Europe apart from Russia by virtue of the sheer quantity of S300 batteries.

The problem they faced last winter was that they were finally starting to run low on missiles and that using S300 on $20,000 drones was incredibly wasteful.

The only capability they were really missing as opposed to just running short on was the anti ballistic missile capabilities.
Cheers, mate. Good offer, but not the right moment for me at this time.
> For instance, we solve nontrivial nonlinear PDEs (one HJB equation and one Black-Scholes equation) in 100,000 dimensions in 6 hours on a single GPU using SDGD with PINNs

100,000 dimensions? I thought there were like... 11 tops? https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/questions/superstring....

(edit: oops, I misunderstood the context of dimensions here. my bad. thanks)
I lived in Manhattan without a car. It was great. There was like 3 of every kind of thing within a short walk.
Cars are cages that keep you from moving through traffic jams, but they're also exo-skeletons that imbue super speed, envelope you in a bubble of condition air, and shield you from the dangers of other vehicles.
If you want a detailed argument see Chapter 2 of Pierre Gloor's "The Temporal Lobe and Limbic System" where he argues against the (unfortunately still common) paleo/archi/neocortex terminology in favor if the allo/meso/isocortex terminology in the context of describing comparative anatomy. It is out of print but the Internet Archive has it available to borrow:

https://archive.org/details/temporallobelimb0000gloo/mode/2u...

Your "isn't it true" paragraph is all incorrect (unless it is considered in a uselessly general way). For instance, Gloor notes that all mammals have an isocortex (that seems to have started in olfactory cortex). The "reptiles" that humans evolved from is just a catch all terminology for a diverse group of life and not closely related to current reptiles. He starts the chapter noting that ancestral brains are not available for direct study.
GatGPT
My opinion is that it was not an "accident", but they prepare us for the era where powerful companies will "own" our data in the name of security.

Should have been sent to prison.
The way ML people use "dimension", each free parameter is an extra dimension. A high-resolution 2D image is considered to have millions of dimensions - one for each pixel.
Well if you haven't figured it out already, all nutritional advice in the US and most other countries is not about nutrition. In the US particularly, it's about special interest and national security by way of food security.

All of these studies, changes to the food pyramid (and the food pyramid itself) and the like are designed to entrench existing food production industries at the expense of foreign dominated industries to ensure food security, particularly in the event of conflict or other fast changing global circumstance. It's viewed as a win-win by the policy setters: our buddies make money, they break us off a little, and nobody starves, even if they're not ideally healthy. A little corruption goes a long way! All it takes is a little herding of the sheep so to speak and everyone is better off than yesterday. There's conflicts of interest, there's perverse incentive, but until very recently it worked alright, developed countries virtually eliminated foodbourne illness and life threatening vitamin deficiency. Only recently has there been an issue involving pharma, healthcare in general and food production that created this very profitable obesity quagmire we find ourselves in today. But not so long ago, the approach worked out pretty well.

You're never going to get good nutritional advice from the government, or from industry insiders. You might get better than the status quo, and you might get facts, but at best you're getting carefully selected honesty and lying by omission. And unfortunately the "other side" of this is so chock full of crystal healing quacks that you're basically on your own.

My current model on this is: carbohydrates from fruits and starches, focus more on fat, then protein, in that order, and particularly animal fat and animal protein. This should cover trace minerals and fat soluble vitamins so that I don't have to think much about them and focus on macros.
> you couldn't and it wasn't

What are you talking about, millions of people do it and live without cars in cities. I did it for years in Paris and it's not a "smaller life" — the main things that are smaller are your transportation budget and stress levels.
> when was thr last time you saw a Walmart parking lot full?

Sounds like they could make them much smaller

> They make it more difficult to visit multiple stops in one trip. Instead of parking downtown, going to an appointment and grabbing lunch I have to move my car in between those trips, generating more emissions and waste.

A general, private garage is an existing possible solution to this problem.
Very nice, congrats on the launch!
Physics uses vectors, which are multi-dimensional and can represent a lot more than 11 dimensions... Machine learning typically uses feature vectors, which are basically just lists of numerical properties.
more info: https://thereload.com/gatgpt-ghost-gun-pioneer-launches-ai/
I don't know if it applies to older gen, but the team behind mlc-llm are suggesting that at least with steamdeck's APU you can go beyond the cap, hopefully it applies to other APUs:

https://blog.mlc.ai/2023/08/09/Making-AMD-GPUs-competitive-f...

Regarding the choice of device, I'm regularly in places where 24h electricity/internet is not guaranteed, so renting cloud gpus: nope, bulky gaming laptop that chews through battery in a couple of hours: nope (even though I came really close to getting one with a RTX 4090 for 2600€, but I'm done with space heaters), frame.work 13? RAM to slow...

Mobile devices with at least 64GB of lpddr5 with decent battery consumption? The choice is quite limited.
The "right" amount of QA is about the cost of fixing errors. When you manufacture a ton of ROMs for a cartridge, there's not a lot of cost effective fixes you can do when an error is found. Hopefully it's minor, because if it's a major error, you're looking at a full replacement campaign and that's going to be super spendy.

On the other hand, how much does it cost to run an update on a Steam game? There's certainly a cost, and some of the cost is reputation, which is hard to earn back, but the tradeoff of being able to get patches is the reduction in quality control because problems can be patched.
I've lived as a foreigner in a big metropole in Australia and I fell that all places that I could go where tourist traps. Simple life hacks like buying groceries for a week was impossible, the closest cheap grocery store was too much of walk and too hilly for a bike loaded with bags. I do agree that cars make the city worse for the people living there, but I am not a fan in how cities limit your lifestyle. People that live in the city are sometimes blind to this and don't understand that someone might prefer to live another life.
Fear sells
We faced that (and are facing it today) with Helm chart updates.

In our current setup it's not possible to rollout a new version of an Helm chart in dev, then in staging and finally in prod (without causing an out of sync state.

The rest is managed via values-$env.yaml, which works perfectly fine
I started evaluating Defold this past weekend and I have been very impressed.

The developer experience is very similar to Godot, especially if you work on your scripts with external editors. Everything that has to do with building and running the app is faster than Godot though.

Initial builds with Defold are very fast, it has on demand hotreload, and very small binary sizes. The small binary size makes it well suited for working on web games.

The Godot Editor is still a tad bit nicer to use, but I do like the fact that the Defold editor is written in Clojure. I imagine it makes extending it fairly quick.

The main reason I see myself sticking with Defold over Godot is because scripting is done in Lua.

The Lua ecosystem has a lot history in the game dev space making it easy to search for answers. Lua is trivial to extend and has multiple statically typed options that compile to it. Notable statically typed languages are Typescript and Haxe. Also Lua has a lot practical use in many domains outside of the Defold editor unlike GDScripts lock-in to Godot.

Defold has no where near the size of the community of Godot, but the developers seem very active on the forum and GitHub.

I need to play around with it more before I’m 100% sold. Both Godot and Defold are great looking choices for 2D.