skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Eldan and Li observed hints that networks with fewer layers but more neurons per layer were better at answering questions that required factual knowledge; conversely, networks with more layers and fewer neurons per layer were better at keeping track of characters and plot points from earlier in the story."

That is a very interesting result! This may point to the idea that the notion of time itself (as history/historical knowledge of the state of the system at an earlier point in its evaluation/evolution/computations) being more "present" (or pronounced, "relative to results", "apparent in results") in neural networks which are deep (many layers) rather than wide (more neurons per layer).

Which, if true and widely confirmed to be so by other researchers -- would be an interesting discovery indeed!

Also, if true (and it's a big 'if'!), this may help researchers in other areas better understand the relationship between time and information better (i.e., Leonard Susskind, ER=EPR, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER_%3D_EPR , https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=leonard+susskin... )
a sensory deficit chamber isn't literally depriving people of any stimulus.
If you're aiming for perfection, sure.

Two stroke engine parts don't have a massive legally protected cult following like guns, nor are they high-cost many-times-repeated consumables like drugs. They're closer to antiques - some will collect them, most won't bother if they're not available.

Ban it and you'll stop major places from selling it, and minor places from widely advertising they have it. You won't stop anyone dead-set on continuing to do so, but you will stop most people because the cost will be higher and it'll be much harder to find.
When in doubt fall back on ol' reliable:
The military industrial complex.
Power is the only guarantee.
Downwind wouldn't work, you'd just be a very fancy leaf moving with the breeze with no control. It's really the differential between the wind and the water (not so much the keel) that allows the sail to exert a force on the vehicle. Once you're going downwind at the speed of the wind with no reference to the water, you might as well be in still air.
The beauty inside American factories
> If the default ISO already included non-free drivers, why would you have to separately enable the non-free repos to get firmware?

I'm not 100% sure about this but I believe it may enable it for you automatically if non-free firmware was used during the install. I mentioned it just in case.

> My Debian 12 install didn't come with proprietary Nvidia drivers

The primary problem of the previous non-free driver policy is the lack of network drivers which make it impossible to install nor download the drivers even if you somehow managed to install the OS. This is now resolved.

It's not a big deal if the ISO doesn't include every non-free driver out there as long as you can manually install it after the fact.
Why is the choice between "libertarianism" and communism/urbanism/collectivism.

Maybe some people don't want their immediate way of life dictated by those around them and would prefer some agency and freedom in their daily lives while still wanting to help others.

We need a way to help people without those doing the helping/net taxpayers having their way of lives destroyed. (a guy with a SFH not having a 300 room apartment build right next to him, a guy wanting to drive his personal vehicle not having 75% of his roads redirected for bus/bike lanes and can only drive his even numbered license plate on tu/thur) etc. I don't see this happening, so until then, complete opposition.
Speaking as a layman here.

I do know which one is safer, as to gain access to blood you have to gain access to a vein, likely by inserting a small tube made of [something] inside the vein, expect it to never break down and enter the bloodstream, become compromised, or be hit with an impact and tear the vein open to create internal bleeding. Then you also have to have a system to get rid of the waste blood (everything but the small amount of oxygen you want) all entirely within a closed system implanted into the arm, thigh, etc.
You must be using the most extreme and uncharitable definition of "libertarian" imaginable, because nobody I know that calls themselves libertarian thinks they are 100% independent. The very notion is just absurd. This strikes me as the same vein as people saying "nobody is a communist, because everybody believes their toothbrush is their private property"
Couldn’t you have on die memory and then have a swap using traditional memory rather than the SSD?
And even if they did not need to be renewed they would still be medication...
I cannot help but wonder what would happen if we released these chemicals at the norther coast of the Sahara while also planting scrub brush, grass, and trees there.
>"How do I buy a sandwich when no one wants to sell me one for $1?

Easy, you learn how to make your own sandwich. buy bulk and you amortize the cost to less than $1/sandwich

Of course, technical expertise isn't as easy as putting condiments between bread. Guess you gotta pay your labor if you're not willing to do it yourself.
> This stat is in no way a bad thing.

It could indicate a lack of preventative measures or excessively unhealthy lifestyles.
> I’m also in the “I’ve never wished my terminal were faster” camp.

In the long long ago, I remember having to limit my terminal scrollback to avoid things getting laggy. That hasn’t been the case for a long time, because terminals started taking performance seriously.

So I think advertising speed is more of a table stakes situation than a competitive advantage. I want to see that a new terminal emulator is thinking about speed because if they’re not, I can probably rule them out as an option immediately.
You aren't healed if you need to remain on that diet to keep the T2 away. You still need to actively treat your condition. So remission seems like a reasonable thing to say about it.
I worked on the Dart team at around that time. After integrating Dart into Chrome was cancelled, the team got moved from Chrome to Ads, because Ads was migrating all their websites from GWT to Dart. This isn't something anyone outside Google cares about, but it meant that it was consistently staffed as they looked for other big customers.

Also, the ads codebase is enormous, so there are plenty of technical challenges from getting language infrastructure to scale to their needs. (Consider getting a language server for an IDE to scale up as a codebase grows, or making the language tools generate efficient JavaScript that's not unreasonably slow to download, or loading and displaying large tables in the browser.)

I have no idea whether Flutter generates revenue directly. I'd guess not, but internal usage of Flutter is likely enough to justify having a team devoted to maintaining and improving it.
If aviation fuel was taxed at 100%, the ticket prices would only go up 20%. This alone would not make trains significantly more competitive.

Generally speaking, though, it doesn’t make sense to compare subsidies and taxes individually. Both planes and trains are already heavily subsidized, and if you removed all subsidies and taxes, I suspect planes would win handily.
That number says nothing.

I could imagine, for example, medications prescribed to improve health that today would not even be considered a problem. Maybe to correct various imbalances resulting from individual genetics?

Or that some medication readily available today becomes prescription over time.

Or that people become more aware / better tested of their health problems as time progresses and start taking medication earlier, before their problems become acute issues.

Anyway... why I think it is true is because of couple really sad factors:

* People seeking comfort and less able to exercise discipline. For example, even bikes which were supposed to be healthy option today mostly have little motors built into them...

* Disinformation. People seek shortcuts and there is a huge industry that exploits it that nobody really attempts to deal with. For example, dieting has been shown to not work (on its own) and yet any obese person is bombarded with information about dieting but not really any useful recipes how to deal with their problem. It does not help that most health professionals do not really know how to deal with obesity, either (for example, claiming that dietary fat is responsible for it when the opposite is true (dietary fat is necessary to help losing weight)).

* Education and popular culture pushing the idea that being fat is somehow OK (no, it is not healthy and should never be accepted as a good example). People with obesity pick up on any shred of support and tend to ignore any information that will conflict with it.

* Medical establishment continuing to only deal with symptoms, not causes of problems. People should seriously understand that sugar is far more dangerous and insidious than tobacco. Or that bad dietary habits is what is causing most of our health problems (including most types of cancer, heart disease, etc.) The issue here is that treating a disease is much, much, much more expensive that it would cost to prevent it (for example educate people, ensure healthy food available, provide guidelines, do medical checkups regularly, etc.)
How is that trivial? Even one task done a few times a week taking half an hour less is at least a 2% increase in productivity (assuming these tasks are work related and a 40 hour work week). "A lot" of such tasks would easily add up to 10%+.
Productivity and GDP, which the stock market is a better proxy for, do not rise 7% a year.
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Cool, but how are we going to get there?
They made that decision (to distribute applications with a specific type of licences) long ago. Nothing to do with terraform in particular.
I sold a ReVox B77 analog tape recorder in mint condition for roughly the same amount as the price of a MiniDisc recorder, stereo microphone, and a bunch of discs. I was never happier. The B77 was the cadillac of ATR's at the time, but it was massive, the tapes cost an arm and a leg, and the recordings still had to be transferred to a digital format in order to do anything with them. As a result, I rarely used it.

The only annoyance was that I couldn't transfer recordings to my PC in a digital format -- thanks to copyright protection -- though I obviously owned the rights to my own recordings.

Later, the MD recorder gave way to a digital recorder with memory cards and a USB port.

But like everybody else, I loved the form factor and cleverness of the MD machine.
When GitHub was the new kid on the block, it's competition was largely Google code and source forge.

Google code was svn and git. Source forge was the same, but also had CVS.
can someone help a noob like me understand where i would use something like this? is this a way to get faster json parsing?
But neither is it an impediment to maintaining your friendship.
There's also Debugger Adapter Protocol iirc.
There's nothing artificial or imaginary about the extra costs of using a CPU socket with a 512-bit memory bus rather than a 128-bit bus. Bigger sockets and more memory slots make motherboards significantly more expensive, and the wider memory controller and faster interconnects makes a CPU more expensive and power-hungry. Those costs affect the whole platform, including entry-level systems that don't have enough memory to populate all those channels and ones that don't run workloads which would benefit from the extra bandwidth.
Maybe if you’re starting from no priors, but actually we’re starting from the prior of 2,000 years of religion-driven apartheid (arguably mandated, but happy to concede this point), and ~50% of Indian-Americans still subscribe to the system that’s responsible for that apartheid (even if they might disagree with the apartheid itself).

So with those priors, I simply cannot put much weight in “people accused of being discriminatory are worried they will be accused of being discriminatory.”

That argument can be leveled against any civil rights action.
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Drugs is a solved problem in most Asian countries that are much poorer than Portugal.
If any French people happen to come across this thread, I recommend visiting the Observatoire des Baronnies Provençales. I went there this summer and really loved the experience. We observed various astronomical elements (the sun, planets, galaxies, stars, etc.) from 2pm to 2am. We used different instruments, from a large dome telescope to smaller ones, as well as a connected telescope for taking pictures—the eVscope, an amazing piece of hardware and software—and infrared binoculars. We also did other activities, like identifying an exoplanet with the astrophysicist in residence. Highly recommended for amateur astronomers.
Places like these are unfortunately quite uncommon in France.
Latency doesn't bother me too much, but throughput can really matter if I'm running a particularly verbose command. Often program speed is limited by how fast the terminal is able to clear the stdout pipe. This is especially true when running commands inside emacs "build" window (which is running who-knows-how-many regexs). If it's more than ~10,000 lines long then an instant command can be slowed down to more than 10 seconds.
T1 kills you with 50% chance in 2 years, without insulin. With hypertension, you can leave 10+ years. Not nearly comparable.
especially in a dusty woodshop
State would make a lot of sense.
Yes we did, to stop transmission. Without needing to change the definition of vaccine during that period.
No-one cares about Ukraine in the West. The current help the US provide to Ukraine is painless and in fact the US are benefiting from the war on a number of front (of course that's the actual reason for the support).

If the situation in Taiwan was painful in the West because of the economic impacy then Western public opinions would tire long before the Chinese do because, again, this would be nothing to them while for Chinese it would be a national cause.

Here in the UK many people are already unhappy that we're paying so much, including on our energy bills, for Ukraine. The situation in Europe is not painless and that puts a strain on public opinion.

This has nothing to do with democracies vs autocracies.

One thing that many get wrong about China is that reunification is not what the CCP wants to achieve it is what the Chinese people want to achieve. And the US do not want that no matter whose in charge in Beijing because their aim is to weaken China.

And again, none of that would trigger WWIII.
or birth control
There are probably multiple layers of feedback loops going on, who knows how things will pan out. There's a sufficiently large enough pool of investors out there that will buy broad ETFs like SCHB, SPY, VT, VTI, etc., on any dip or just continue to DCA a little of every paycheck into those just due to its history. The US is geographically isolated from potential threats for the most part unlike Europe and Japan, is relatively self-sufficient, super diversified and lots of international exposure, and no country has as much clout on the international stage as the US for the time being so I think it makes sense the US continues to do much better. Sometimes you have trends like emerging markets, cryptos, etc., but broad US stock market seems like the default choice for high returns so long as there is capital to be allocated.

Interest rates are the thing I think could change things, but who knows. If you can get a guaranteed 5% return that's pretty nice, but it's possible we just slide into being a more corrupt/untrustworthy country for investments or baby boomers suddenly taking a disproportionate amount of money out of the market as they retire, etc.,.
There was a time when it was clear to everyone that MiniDisc failed, but when alternative technology had not caught up for some of the applications. We hunted portable MiniDisc recorders on EBay for our student radio station, since some Sony models had perfect A/D for microphone INs. I would have payed 10x for the equipment, but most of the times we got them for 50 euros...
I don't, not the slightest amount, and I still don't try to convince the IRS that my sole source of income is 'a gift'. (not counting the pathetically small YouTube revenue)

It doesn't ACT like 'a gift', it acts like a paycheck. If a guy gets paid by a car dealership because he's the owner's kid without having to do anything, the IRS doesn't care whether he has to work for real but it very much cares whether he pays his taxes on his income.
I think it's just kind of a lot to think about. Glass half full: medication improves quality of life. Glass half empty: Quality of life is dropping such that more prescription medication is necessary to maintain an average quality of life.
Don’t know about the watch, but the new iPhone supports this feature as a built-in action.
A combination of luck, some skill and tax fraud.
Shrug

I would not be able to write such stuff with a straight face. Every human should be able to say the same. At best you’re saying he completely lost himself to hubris and was taking baby steps to approach something vaguely typical.
Two reasons: First, it's a lot of wiring which makes everything more expensive, complicated, power hungry, etc. Mobile SoCs (and Apple's chips) sidestep this issue by packaging the memory with the CPU so distances are short and the issues are avoided. Second, increasing memory bandwidth wouldn't be that much of a performance win because as you point out there isn't that much parallelism and normal software would benefit much more from lower latency than higher bandwidth. Together that means a many-slots design would cost a lot but not be proportionally faster.

Tradeoffs are different for server boards (many cores in the CPU) and on platforms with integrated GPUs (becoming more common) so none of this is static. I suspect in-package RAM will become more common even for platforms that still have a couple channels of slotted memory, that would create a pool of faster memory available for graphics etc while still leaving room for more if you need to have a lot of Chrome tabs open or whatever.
Which is fine for someone to have as a perspective, I just think that philosophy is far too limiting for a universal VC system and misses the point of what many people use VC for.

It's not so much "the people who are designing Fossil are bad at designing it" as much as it is "I disagree with their starting premises and their goals for the thing they're building." If someone comes to me and asks why they would want to use Git over Fossil, the primary thing I would point at is:

> This is how accounting and legal systems work. You never erase - you only add corrections.

I just personally think that can be in many situations an unhelpful way to think about what a VC is at a fundamental level; I don't think a VC is inherently an accountability system or a legal system, and I think that having that rigidity can get in the way of certain workflows. Again, opinion me, I know you're quite happy with Fossil for SQLite, and that's great and I'm sure it works great. It's not like it's bad to have opinionated tools, I just think that it gets in the way of treating Fossil as something I would recommend as a general Git replacement for everyone.

It comes down to: is the ability to rewrite "history" (which is not even really history at all in Git, it's just a collection of ordered changes) a feature or a problem? Fossil thinks it's a problem, I think it's a feature. Fossil looks at repository history like a historical record, I look at repository "history" as purely an organizational tool for checkpointing/documentation.
This app turns an iPad into a portable HDMI Monitor.

It requires an iPad with a USB-C port running iPadOS 17 and a USB-C Capture Card. (List of cheap options included on the site).
It's because they're only trying to prove a single thing:

At scale, perpetually buying into a stock across a period beats mass buying into a stock at any one point in a period where future results are unknown.

That's it. That's all they're proving.
Good point. It chimes well with the fleeting realisation that "we're all one" you get from psychedelics
As a kid I had an idea for a pill that would do that. I had no idea how it would work if course, but I thought one day in the future we could have a pill that you took that detected issues with the body and produced the needed drugs to fix it, so nobody needs to take a bunch of pills or the wrong pills. I'll have to read it.
> The shoe thing is an American peculiarity

Possibly thanks to the shoe bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
I think you're going to find that a lot of these are actually drugs like statins and metformin, which _are_ "strictly needed to survive" in the sense that the main thing they're doing is preventing early death.

People hear "prescription modifications" and think of things like SSRIs, allergy meds, opioids, etc., but the vast majority of the top 10 medications taken in the US[0] are statins, diabetes drugs, blood pressure medications - things which prolong life.

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/most-common-medica...
Could it be similar to the return to office effect some people are noticing. After a year or more of working from home quietly, many who return to a noisy office are struggling to focus and are wondering how they ever got work done in the past!
Not in a file explorer, sadly.

However, I was going to make a browser UI from the start. I could implement a branch and file explorer in that UI, which would allow you to do the same thing.

Would that be good enough or not? I'd love to know because I want to build this tool for humans first.
Is this a modern wood stove or insert? I recently bought one for a new home we're building, and from my research they're incredibly efficient these days. Not installed yet so we will see, I suppose.
I am no scientist but I know radon is bad, and it comes from underground.

Underground water can contain radon, and it is an issue when it comes to wells and houses. Trees can suck that radon and when you burn wood a radon meter shows an increase.
> I'm guessing they receive a high volume of support requests and are understaffed.

No, the reason is that there's no penalty for the behavior you just witnessed, so it's more profitable to stonewall victims in hopes they go away, and only refund when the authority actually forces them to, which only happens in a small percentage of cases where the fraud victim actually escalates their complaint to the relevant authority.

Imagine if shoplifting by the common man was treated the same way - you can shoplift all you want and the worst-case scenario is that you'll have to give the goods back if the police actually catches you.
You pay extra to sleep 10 hours on a train versus 2 hours by plane at half the cost?
The presenter is hilarious! I've rarely seen an engineer with such charisma.
There's nothing magic about it. Sufficiently high combustion temperature reduces particulates.