skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having looked at some Gateway configs, I wouldn't say simplify. It looks painfully verbose, but at least more things should be possible without resorting to hacky annotations for everything.
And autocomplete! The new iOS 17 completion stuff is neat but nothing compared to what state-of-the-art LLMs can do today.
Can you explain that reason?

Decision trees are called 'trees' for, more or less, the same reason.

ie., the diagrammed shape of a decision tree looks a little like the branches of a real one.

likewise, in the 50s where diagramming the earliest networks they were aiming to immitate a similar real-world structure.

Better that they had called them 'Variable Activation Networks' or some such, and none of this superstition would have started
Done that. While it was fun, the next time, I want a compensation. In money or leisure time. No free willy anymore, I realized 15y later.

In the end, no one will thank you and a thank you is expected at least.
In a change from the normal refrain of 'there's an XKCD about that' - in this case there is an Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) about it: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pi-2?ref=refind

For those unwilling to click-through, it essentially posits an alternate history where infinite series were explored by mathematicians before geometry, so rather than being surprised that the 'circle constant' is found in many infinite series, we would instead be surprised that the 'infinite series constant' is found in the geometry of a circle.
A good example of that is how the Axiom of choice impacts the measure/probability theory.

It imply the existence of some sets that cannot be Lebesgue measured (which is an generalization of width, volume, etc for arbitrary sets, also generalization of probability for arbitrary sets)... but it's not possible to present a single example of those non measurable sets, only prove that they exist.

And it's possible to construct an alternative theory with the axiom of determinacy, then any subset of R is measurable.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_measure
where is the go port for pdp-11/v6 kernel?
>It could have even been done entirely by a third party which may not even still be in business.

That's not really a good basis for defending closed drivers.

Yes it happens, but it is a scenario we should be trying to avoid.
The mesh shader issue isn't a Moore's law raw performance issue. It's an issue with the hardware not supporting specific graphic pipelines. The software fallback is slower than dedicated hardware. Like how AES-NI on a CPU is many times faster at doing AES. That's why the parent comment likens it to newer GPUs' hardware raytracing features.

"Caliber of GPU" is not just performance, but also features. The Xbox Series supports mesh shader (and PS5 with their equivalent). Nvidia 10-series and AMD RDNA1 GPUs and older do not. This youtube video compared two GPUs released around the same time, one with less performance but mesh shader support and one with more performance but no mesh shader support: https://youtu.be/UiduP4Y7RSw
It might be surprising to one to find a garbage collected language being used for an operating system or something like it
Blighty's a weird ol' place.

About a decade ago I was living across the river from Greenwich (the important one). I'd wander the area frequently as it has some lovely old buildings bracketed by large green lawns - the area makes frequent appearances in films, especially the Queen's House Colonnade.

Outside the National Maritime Museum (free access) on a grassy area about 200m x 100m, with precious few people around, I set up my aging DSLR on top a feeble little tripod - I think to experiment with some ND filters either to reduce the skyline contrast, or run some longer shots to try to remove people.

Perhaps five minutes in some lass rushes over and insists this isn't allowed.

She couldn't explain why, precisely, it wasn't allowed - just that it very definitely wasn't.

I was free, I suppose, to move about 30 metres away - to stand on the footpath and compose a very similar shot through the wrought iron fence.
NSF invests $26.7M in building prototype open knowledge network
You are correct. “Pillow of doom” is sometimes used to refer to bulging/swollen batteries. There is subreddit named “SpicyPillows” that’s centered around the same concept. I assume it’s due to the pillow shape a swollen battery takes.
I cannot agree enough with Karl here. What is the brain? An organic system with deep roots in the organic body, with deep causal connections with its environment.

There's little sense in ignoring the whole basic mode of operation, physics, chemistry and biology of the brain in order to analogise it to another system without any of those properties.

This, at best, provides a set of inspirations for engineers -- it does nothing for science.
Come on, it's a spectrum. I don't expect everything to build up a careful chain of trust and verification. But I think we can still do better than what the current education ecosystem provides. You're taking the most extreme perspective to a pretty reasonable claim.

Figuring out how to prove everything myself is impractical because I'm not an expert in every subfield. I think experts in various fields can write shortcuts and simple experiments which prove a lot of knowledge. It doesn't have to be perfect.
Is it illegal though? Who owns it?

General principle of the internet seems to be people can host what they like till someone who has legal ownership of it tells them to take it down at that point they're expected to take it down and keep it off their service unless added by the owner.

That's what google is sticking to because frankly any other method would be a nightmare.

The old tv episodes might have muddy/unclear ownership and so things continue to coast along until someone exercises their right of ownership.
Goes against Microsoft's "green" push doesn't it? How many usable controllers in landfill now as a result of this?
> To me, there's currently no alternative to going onto YouTube

Vimeo, Rumble, DailyMotion, Facebook Video and self-hosting all still exist you know. There are plenty of alternatives.
I'm going to guess that management of the site has been contracted out to the private sector, and somebody at this management company has put the signs up without really understanding that this may not be technically right.

However, it'll probably take some sort of arrest/court case to get some clarity on this, so chances are it'll just be like this for years without ever being properly challenged.
Navy boats are owned by a public organization, but I don't get to borrow them for a weekend in Ibiza.
My impression, having seen many of these over the years, is that they are just that; hollow, tone-deaf, bullshit.

They're basically quotable material for the media. I don't think any ordinary person actually reads these and takes them sincerely; at least I hope not.
Cos I like beating people like you
It seems to be a bit complicated in this location -- because the "private" owner is actually a public body. I do also wonder about existing public rights of way in the area, as I don't believe property owners can restrict photography on public rights of way, unless it's violating their privacy.
Too much reductionism can be a dangerous thing. This is pretty much the Sophist argument and it is not enough to build a scientific foundation on.

No, you don't need to personally verify all facts. But you need to be able to observe several indepedent validations. Yes, somewhere you have to take someone's word for fact, but multiple independent observations is a close approximation to the perfect scientific method. Related to that is the fact that science is not a democracy, and these observations have to be weighed against how they fit in our generally accepted worldview. Theory is more than just facts.

Every little detail of science has to be questioned, just not by everyone personally. Where that limit for healthy skepticism is drawn is not something can answer logically, but we can recognize if it is completely wrong.
It’s called the self domestication hypothesis. It’s controversial tho.
Adblocker. Nice simple solution and goodbye bullshit YouTube ads.
> "users today are more tech savvy then before"

What are you basing this on? How do you operationalize "more tech savvy"?
Doesn't know what a neurologist is, knows they do shit work.
If you can let go of the backlight requirement, then the TI-89 is great value used. They go 15-30€ range. They were TI's flagship calculator at some point. Well-known, and extensively reviewed.

Many consider its TI nSPIRE successors to be flawed.

Avoid TI-83/84, despite fancy-looking backlit screen and smartphone-inspired UX, they are ultimately the successors of TI-82, the "high schooler" stripped down functionality version of the TI-85.
Yes and the TfL design standard is a real work of art: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/suppliers-and-contractors/design...
Well.... One still obtains pi for the ratio of circumference vs diameter in the limit that the diameter goes to zero.
Ansible makes mutable changes to the OS, task by task.

Nix is immutable. A new change is made entirely new, and only after the build is successful, all packages are "symlinked" to the current system.

Fedora Silverblue is based on ostree [1]. It works similarly like git, but on your root tree. But it requires you to reboot the whole system for the changes to take effect. Since Nix is just symlinked packages, you don't need to reboot the system.

More detailed explanation here [2].

[1]: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree

[2]: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-12-intro-to-immutable-...
Tripod users will find they're not welcome in a lot of places where it's otherwise ok to take photos. This isn't a British thing, I've seen it in touristy areas around the world.
AI.gov
> If something were to happen to the primary in San Francisco[0], that's it.

Makes me sad, as I'm sure many others.

I turned up the following about their Petabox (raw numbers thru Dec2021):

* Wayback Machine: 57 PetaBytes
* Books/Music/Video Collections: 42 PetaBytes
* Unique data: 99 PetaBytes

* Total used storage: 212 PetaBytes

* Local computing to process the data (800 low-end PC's)
* Co-location friendly
* now houses *about* 3 Petaboxes

Not 100% clear but I seems like each Petabox holds between 80PBs and 100PBs of data.

Also... I'm seeing locations in Amsterdam and San Francisco (see History, bottom of sourced page)...? But this could just be old/original info (2004) and everything is in SF now.

Source: https://archive.org/web/petabox.php
Meanwhile I've seen someone attach a USB hub with wheel-and-pedals, shifter and handbrake to a Steam Deck.

Given the rising competition from Valve (they have solved the hard problem of running Windows games on Linux), and Sony (the Xbox exclusive selection this generation is a joke compared to the Playstation), and Microsoft's own bone-headed decisions, I'm really bearish about the long term prospects of the Xbox brand. They'll probably rebrand as a cloud gaming service soon enough.
> Opensuse with snapshots and some repo magic, can do 99% of functionality, [...]

I doubt that.

Does Opensuse have an integrated declarative configuration management system?

How would I apply a patch to a program on Opensuse and build that program the same way as the distro-provided package was (i.e. into a rpm that I can then install)? What about changing compiler flags?

How do I get an isolated development environment going with Opensuse, i.e. one that does not pollute the list of system-wide installed packages?

How can I check if a package provided in the Opensuse repositories was not tampered with, i.e. the provided build instructions actually produce this package? Are there even build instructions for the rpm's provided?

There is a lot more that nix and NixOS can do, this is just part of what came to mind on what I would assume is mostly impossible on "traditional" distros.
From the article:
The programming language offered via the Arduino IDE is C.

This is not true, Arduino uses the C++ language.
> The last patent Jobs applied for was the dramatic glass cube for the entrance to the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York

A patent for a glass cube!

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/28/89/c3/fd8ac1d...
It isn't incompatible actually. Remote attestation exists and platforms that allow rampant ad blocking will go the same way as PC gaming did due to rampant piracy and cheating: become a second tier platform that gets some stuff late and other stuff never :(
The gov.uk web stuff is pretty good graphic design. They mostly managed to resist “flourishes” and made something functional that gives vibes of “you’re here to get something done, I won’t get in your way” while still keeping a pleasant aesthetic.
Why does Google Tensor exist if Snapdragon is better at AI?
The way I see it, Youtube feels entitled to get some of my ad viewing time. If they'd pay me 14.95 USD per month, I'd probably watch their ads. But they never made me that offer, they believe I should spend my time to increase their business revenue for free. Not only that, they've convinced tens of thousands of unemployed people to make content for them!
It's not a public place. The signs clearly say that.
> There must be an upcoming hard deadline for all Google Workspace for Education admins to reduce storage usage.

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/my-tools/googlechange... explains: "Recent changes in Google’s policies worldwide mean they will no longer be providing the University and other educational institutes with free, unlimited Google Drive storage."
For those in the US unfamiliar with Bristol UK, the drivers there are just as mercilessly aggressive as the ones near Boston MA.
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6
>Not by this definition.

Which is precisely the problem with all definitions I am drawing attention to - they are exclusionary in nature.

Sometimes creating distinctions is useful.
Sometimes erasing distinctions is even more useful.

How much physics could you do without Noether's theorem?
Except that you have fundamentally misunderstood, like so many who decide to defend big corps, the actual impact.

XIM and similar tools are grey market - they do not care for compliance, nor do they mind breaking the terms of service to work. Thats the entire fucking point. They are workarounds for people wanting to either cheat or who want to hack their device for greater freedom of input.

These people will.be unhindered by this change, because XIM has an excellent history of spoofing a controllers input to the console. The people who will really miss out are the younger or poorer people who will have cheaper 3rd party controllers or unofficial adapters. Less freedom for the user. More money for corpos.

Sometimes I wonder if this is hackernews or corponews
Could have used anywhen to freak people out.
Google has repeatedly experimented with that. It always fails because the amount advertisers subsidize your internet experience is more like on the order of hundreds or thousands of dollars per month, not ten.
They can ask you to leave, while you continue to take photos.
Biden AI executive order directs agencies to develop safety guidelines
Yet another bytecode runtime, as many others since the 1960's, and a GPU technology based on 2015's hardware capabilities, only supported currently by ChromeOS (nee Web).
They were from the old design as a placeholder.

Removed them :)
To be honest I think this IS pro-consumer. The amount of cheating from peripheral devices is ridiculous. For example triggers that make semi-automatic weapons fully automatic, or using a M&K for Halo where headshots are instant kills on Swat/Snipes game modes and the advantage is ridiculous. People have been complaining against third party controllers for years and I'd be happier playing online when I know everyone is using the same rules. Game developers have never managed to solve this, and it is killing off games for a lot of people, so if this is required to stop cheating I'm for it.

For people downvoting, you've never played a fighting game against someone with a modded controller to do frame-perfect combos with a single button press.
I think a crisis is serious if someone is contemplating suicide/self-harm whether a person providing support is or is not a professional.

I personally think if someone is in that much of a crisis one should however seek professional input… however… OP said “I don't want the 'seek professional help' etc” so I’ve kind of tried to work around that here.

I think you’re just misunderstanding what I mean. That may be because I haven’t communicated my thoughts effectively enough, or you don’t like my suggestion at all… but yet you haven’t seem to provide a good alternative either..
Your logic is based on the equivalence between prioritizing public transport and placing restrictions on cars

I can maybe see the point when talking about limited traffic zones. But the discussion here was about:
1. Reducing the need (not opportunity or freedom, need) to travel
2. Making public transport more effective

Neither of those is a restriction on cars. Nothing stops you from owning a car even though you don't need it and nothing stops you from using it even if it's inconvenient or unnecessary

I didn't see the point in answering to this comment earlier but since we're here:

> real estate is limited, so the choice between 7-lane road sprawl and walkable 1 or 2 lane streets—sometimes bus-only, sometimes shared with pedestrians, inevitably with heavy restrictions on speed and plenty of traffic lights—is binary

1. Traffic lights or speed bumps do not restrict cars, they restrict their convenience maybe, and they definitely restrict their ability to cause property damage and maimings around them. But you can still own and use your car, you're just not being subsidized as much by the rest of the community in doing so
2. Real estate is indeed limited. In the space you wasted for a 7 lane street plus the parking required you could have had a 2 lane street and an extra building used for apartments, offices, shops or an extra park or both. If making it mildly more uncomfortable to drive a car is a restriction on freedom on movement (your logic, not mine) then making it more expensive to have an apartment (because of reduced supply) and increasing the chance of getting injured by exposure to exhaust fumes or directly by car crashes is an infringement on the right to life itself

Obviously both of those statements are moronic. Making life better for those who don't want to own a car (or can't afford to) is not a restrictions on cars. If people decide that owning a car isn't worth it anymore for them then that's not coercion, it's showing that people were being "forced" into owning a car before when they didn't need to need it
> You didn't read the article, it's in the subtitle and the article itself... it's also in the domain name (.ac.).

> These are academic accounts on Google that are granted to students only whilst they are students of the institution. The account is ephemeral and you will lose all data within the account.

Or more accurately: So far they didn't have to care, now they do, and because they can't filter down accounts more gracefully than "if too large, delete everything" (instead of just photos and drive), they tell people how to reduce the amount of data they store in the Google account.

See https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/my-tools/googlechange...
> This shallow architecture exploits the computational capacity of cortical microcircuits and thalamo-cortical loops that are not included in typical hierarchical deep learning and predictive coding networks.

As I understand it the thalamus is basically a giant switchboard though. I see no reason to believe that it never connects the output of one cortical area to the input of another, thus doubling the effective depth of the neural network. (I haven’t read this paper though, as it was behind a paywall.)
> Why should YouTube pay extra cause you feel you had an agreement with them on how much ads there are?

Because I say so with my AdBlock. This is the reason why small guy should have power.
> Peterson has essentially monetized telling Americans what a dystopia Canada is, acting like some sort of reverse Handmaids Tale refugee

I think this hyper reductive. You can watch all his lectures, at Harvard and others, online[0]. It's hard to look objectively at his life and not call it "serious intellectual work".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanPetersonVideos/about
Why can't I just use an ad blocker? My machine, my choice of what and how I display things on it. You haven't presented any argument why people shouldn't use ad blockers. I suppose the pejorative term "entitled" is supposed to replace the actual argument?
When was the last time someone got malware from YouTube ads? Has that ever happened?
Examples? It could be I'm blind to it because I live here, but I'd like to see.
Even Schedule 2 is too strict. It is a psychoactive with way lower rate, in fact potentially negative, of abuse and addiction. The only thing to check is if there are any toxicities involved, say, to heart valves, which is common with some SSRA. (Some of which are prescription medicines.) Probably not with the small doses that are present in typically used amounts.

My take would be standard prescription medicine psychoactive in EU, schedule 3 in USA.
It's probably safer and less addictive than Prozac and less likely to be abused than Ketamine or Cannabis, owing to rapid tolerance.
Definitely safer than MDMA which has known (chronic?) neurotoxicity and heart valve complications.

But we all know these are all political, these assignments. God forbid someone allowed a naturally available antidepressant, the market would crash.
I mean… a 3 layer network is a Universal approximator… and you can very much do network distillation… it’s just that getting them wide enough to learn whatever we want them to isn’t computationally efficient. You end up with much larger matmuls which let’s say for simplicity exhibit cubic scaling in the dim. In contrast, you can stack layers and that comes much more computationally friendly because your matmuls are smaller.

Of course you then need to compensate with residuals, initialisation, normalisation, and all that, but it’s a small price to pay for scaling much much better with compute.
I love free42 as well. Mostly as a tribute to the HP42S that got me through engineering school 30 odd yrs ago. The RPN muscle memory never completely went away.
VCs don’t invest because your business has a bright future as a valuable, sustainable operation . Not anymore.

The crypto dynamics have shifted the expectations so far to cheap, quick moment they most VCs, especially the a16z kind are more about “Can I juice this business and it’s metrics enough to sell it to someone to hold the bag”.

Ironically I think the large numbers involved are basically part of that PR game - they act as proof that the business is worth it and attract attention and bagholder interest.

The crypto economy worked like that too - the NFT wash trading, the signal metrics used to sell the idea that there is value where there is none.

Probably something something wework too.
It's typical of the arrogant, borderline anti-scientific attitude of a non-negligible fraction of the HN hive mind, i.e. if it came out of academia it must be a waste of time.
But if there is a right of way, it might not matter.
Plenty of people on the Internet, as for the meaning of systems, that is your interpretation.

In the 1980's writing a compiler and linker would be considered systems as in operating systems, as it would targeting bare metal workloads, all of which available in Go today, via the way it is bootstrapped, gccgo, TinyGo and TamaGO.