skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think if a vehicle hits a pedestrian, that metal choice will make a difference? Wouldn't speed be a more important factor?

There are aluminum vehicles that weigh more, it's really momentum rather than gross weight
UPD: bug with temperature fixed in master
> I'd be overjoyed by an electric minivan.

https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-buzz.html
I agree. Though...

Does begging/imploring to stay the same really work in the end?
Holding babies hostage and torturing them is a human rights violation.

It's beyond shocking that there is even a discussion about using the internet in Gaza. Using cellphones to post your atrocities on TikTok, eh?
Israel should bring it back to the Stone Age at least until the war is over.
The point of the rule is to be extremely limiting. There are billions and billions of stars, and it's becoming clear that a lot of them are orbited by planets.

Given that there aren't obvious alien visitors or even communications reaching us regularly, it seems to be a needle in a haystack situation.
Other games that released in 1998:

- Ocarina of Time

- Final Fantasy VII

- Baldur's Gate

- Starcraft

- Metal Gear Solid

- Resident Evil 2

- Pokemon Yellow

If only it was as competitive as 2023, in which some of the top games were:

- A Zelda game

- A Final Fantasy game

- A Resident Evil remake

- A Baldur's Gate game
Comparing using Youtube to smoking is why I can never take these conversations seriously.
You can publish blogs on the atlantic?
World leaders seek $25B levy on oil states' revenues to pay for climate damage
Horizontal drilling with a closed loop system sounds a lot like Eavor's system (https://www.eavor.com/). Eavor was a hot company here in Alberta a while ago but I haven't heard anything since.
'It's amazing': scientists analyse 4.6B-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid
DMC DeLorean had stainless steel body panels. Guess they wanted to imitate that look.
> We can't bring back stillborn children or passed away loved ones, obviously

Well, some of the AI work being done is specifically to do that in some form... (which I know also alarms many folks). Saving their voice, their chat histories, and turning that into a product. Even here I'm not convinced it can't be helpful depending on how it's done. But some of these situations get trickier and tricker and what I think we really need is research.
World Appears on Track to Triple Renewable Power by 2030
3.5MW isn't even enough to power a single room in a data center. They frequently consume 5MW+, each!

But you've gotta start somewhere, I suppose.
A note on why people tend to sleep on the right.

People likely sleep on the side that causes least muscular tension in their body.

People tend to have a pelvis that is turned slightly to the left (something referred to as the "left aic, right bc pattern") this due to a combination of factors stemming from internal asymmetry, like the liver giving support to the diaphragm on one side, which effects how we use our muscles to breathe. With time many of our movement patterns become slightly asymmetric to make breathing more efficient.

This asymmetry is likely the main contributing factor in the dominance of right side sleeping.
That, and being in paper form alone brings a great deal of value. The medium is the message, after all, and magazines in electronic form do not substitute adequately for printed magazines in many, many ways.

Electronic form brings unique advantages, of course, but also removes advantages of printed form. It's a trade-off. That trade-off works very well for certain types of publications, and works terribly for others. I argue that magazines is one of the things it works terribly for.
Microwave radiation levels the playing field.
More bizarre to me still is the fact laundry rooms are built without a drain at the lowest point of the floor. That's in fact a feature I would desire in every room of a custom home.
There was always a tension between some sort of common market trade organization and a European superstate—which the UK never fully bought into in important aspects anyway.
Why not make body panels out of bare aluminum instead of PITA stainless? The look would be similar, it would be lighter, and cheaper/easier to repair.
That happens to games all the time. This is one very unique grudge to hold. I'd be happy that Alyx happened at all. Valve could never live up to expectations for Episode 3 / Half Life 3 anyway.
> The board never received any formal communication about Q*
Techno optimism, and optimism in general, is alive and well in America. I'm always struck by how optimistic Americans are compared to Europeans. Chinese are also very optimistic. I think it largely comes down to the trajectory of the economy.
Competition is always good. That said, Keras is a tough sell. I think the ML framework market, particularly for gen AI is moving either away from abstraction to lower level frameworks (ggml or custom, etc) or consolidating around HF. It would be cool to see Keras emerge as a meaningful HF transformers competitor, but I'm not sure what it would take to get there. As it is, I don't see a big incentive to use it, or for people getting started to learn it (especially to the exclusion of the underlying frameworks) which is too bad.
That's not the point I was trying to make and it probably was a bad idea to engage with it at all.

An AI girlfriend might be a slight step up, it doesn't really matter. The situation is still far from great either way. In the end, that engineer would be far better of if he could find a real relationship.
Cost to extract and re-create what planet earth creates from biology from which benefits and is essential for humanity isn't achievable in space. You can get rare metals and materials but the insects and organic materials essential for life aren't out there in any reasonable way .. unless you know of a planet that has those ecosystem services.
How is it resistant to ocean air? Salt is the kryptonite of stainless. Salt quickly causes corrosion in stainless steel...
I suspect we might need a little bit of the pesky «logistics» thing between us and the stars.
I did not expect anything interesting, but this is actually cool.

> A full implementation of the NumPy API. Not something "NumPy-like" — just literally the NumPy API, with the same functions and the same arguments.

I suppose it's like https://cupy.dev/
Heh. Answering intra-galactic zone transfer requests might be a good solution to the "dark forest" problem.
https://twitter.com/DriveTeslaca/status/1724304381938679915?...
My understanding is that the original collaboration between Microsoft and IBM was around certain parts of OS/2, not the whole system, so it is plausible that Microsoft worked simultaneously on OS/2 and NT as the book describes. Note that NT is heavily based on the work previously done at Digital on VMS (by people from the same team), so there are some pre-existing foundations there, at least in terms of design principles and ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 provides a recap of the history but I cannot find details on exactly who did what in that page. And my memory from what I read in the book is fuzzy at this point...
The details are still unclear but some alarming trends like a centralized EU-wide database without a right of patients to object; will presumably weaken trust in the healthcare systems throughout Europe -- the same systems that are already under a big pressure for other reasons.
Stainless is extremely prone to rust when exposed to salt (i.e. near an ocean, or worse, on salted roads in the winter time.)
A disagreement between parents, differing opinions on the patient's stated wishes, and one parent being disruptive to the point of police action is absolutely a complex family scenario. I'm not sure how you could possibly describe it otherwise.

From the sounds of things (the bit from a Dr. Burnett is fairly damning), it sounds like the hospital broke the law in how they handled it.
Are you referring to Chollet? He does come off as arrogant at times.

I had some hopes when Keras dropped the other backends and just became part of TensorFlow 2.0, for which I had high hopes too, but I think it just made it worse. I've lost all interest, and getting increasingly disillusioned by TensorFlow for each day.
"Keras 3 is a full rewrite of Keras" and "It's also a battle-tested framework"

In case of a full rewrite how can we talk about battle-tested? I can understand the API is, but not the implementation.
I don't know why this gets downvoted so much. It seems like a good newbie question.
The US really needs an anti-nazi law similar to germany. If we can't kill them outright, lock them up. I fully support outlawing nazis, and any other groups that support mass genocide of fellow citizens and armed insurrection/civil war (outlaw as in outside the law's protection).
That's already a thing: https://www.livingcarbon.com/post/photosynthesis-enhanced-tr...

Basically though, more carbon needs to go into the ground than the air. AA (in this specific instance) is pushing carbon in the right direction.
Really?? Huh. I don't even have one at home. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be on my top 100 list.
The funny thing to me was that Jesus was only like 17 or so when he did this, if memory serves. It always seemed to me like a tantrum thrown by a teenager getting praised for being an asshat. Prior to that, he was a dick to his stepdad by essentially telling him "you're not my real dad". And these were the events canonized, so what other kinds of things were left out that these were the ones that were selected as the high notes?
Goat Simulator is not a good or deep game, but I definitely got my $3 or whatever I paid out of it. It’s just mindless fun.
The body panels are evidently actually bulletproof https://electrek.co/2023/10/20/tesla-shot-tommy-gun-cybertru...
I wouldn't describe that as "maliciously attacked PyTorch"
How to Build a Better Social Network
This is less compelling when the "Constitutional limits" are made up.
You certainly have a very important point and I don't have a good answer to it. Currently, I see a world where we do have a lot of loneliness and I think things like this can help. To me, this is the symptom and not the disease. I would rather focus on fixing the issues in our world that cause this loneliness than spend time trying to stop these AI companions. I'm not going to pretend I'm certain my thoughts are correct here.
If they had the decency to release some good documentation for NXP's devices, I'm sure nobody would mind the hack.

I guess we figured out how one nation-state got transparency from NXP.
That is the Malthusian take. The Club of Rome famously announced in "Limits to Growth" that we were going to run out of resources, and it caused great anxiety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome

They were totally wrong on every point. All of their predictions failed. It's because technology constantly adapts. If some resource is low, alternatives are found. Productivity increases. Price signals tell entrepreneurs what to work on and produce more of. We will never run out of anything.

Regarding CO2, it pains me greatly that people actually think a few degrees change in temperature will destroy the earth. The earth has been much warmer and much colder. Mesopotamia used to be paradise, now it's a desert. Regions change. Humans adapt. This is no reason to do something extreme, or live with existential grief.

For people that live in constant anxiety about all the things politicians and the news tell you about, I recommend this book, what can it hurt giving it a read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_the_Anointed
Got me thinking whether capturing asteroids, mining them and shoting pellets with a solar powered automated facility will drive future space exploration. Seems easier than other challenges like terraforming.
I wonder what the cost is to generate 3.5MW vs other forms of energy production? Also, how would this scale, as Elon says, a prototype is easy, production scale is very hard.
`std::popcount` was added to the stl in C++20 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/popcount
Official blog post: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/goog...
Are you sure humanity is going to get there, and survive, before they run out of resources to build what's needed for such a thing here on Earth?

Also even if we do that, there's only a tiny fraction of the people on Earth that will be able to go on that journey. Most of the people born here are definitely stuck here.

There are predictions that some of these things could start happening as early as 2050 (specifically the extinction of edible seafood one), and most of what I mentioned maybe happening by 2100. Is the majority of people here still alive at that time going to be off this planet then?
No electronic component is ideal, not even wire.

There are properties like resistance, effective capacitance, impedance and reactance that would not intuitively be associated with a pure conductor, but neglecting little things like this can contribute to behavior that might raise its ugly head in unforseen ways if you are not aware.

What about back-emf in the antique world of vacuum tube audio working at hundreds of volts where you are driving what's known to be a very reactive but low-impedance load?

As the signal from the amp into the voice coil displaces the speaker cone from its resting position, the spring action of the cone surround works to return the cone to the non-energized point. Constantly, this has always happened.

But with tubes the impedance and voltage are so high that a major step-down audio output transformer was used to isolate the high voltage from the speakers as well as properly match the impedance.

No audio transformer is needed for solid state amplifiers since the transistors work at relatively safe voltages and impedance is not a big issue.

Either way as the speakers spring back, their voice coil moving on its own across the magnetic field, it generates a pulse of electricity from the speaker itself that appears at the output of the amplifier but did not actually come from the amp.

At high power and especially with square-wave type distortion often seen in musical instrument amps, this back-emf from the speakers can be stepped up to over 1000V on its reversed way back to the tubes through the "step-down" output transformer. When the tubes are only rated for a few hundred volts this is not ideal, and if the tube does not suffer internally, it can still cause a spark to jump between two adjacent pins on the tube socket. Once this happens both the tube and the socket can be ruined due to conductive carbon formation within the bakelite tube base and/or tube socket.

This may be an extreme example, but wires are not perfect conductors and circuit boards are even less perfect as insulators.
Probably, yeah
Not to continue learning to program for at least 10 years?
That's a pretty odd rumor- for one thing, stainless steel isn't used in any bullet shields or vests that I'm aware of. Kevlar, ceramic plates and layered "glass" are the go-to materials. If he wanted bullet proof, it'd be easy to line the door panels with something rated for any pistol rounds.

When metal is used, it is typically in a thick plate. Even thinner plate used for small round target practice is usually painted- stainless would be an odd choice even at the right thickness.
Fly-in communities are actually pretty common as far as aviation stuff goes. There are probably several hundred in the US.
Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave
A house is absolutely consumed in ordinary use. It is just a slow process. Paint fades over time, the roof needs repairs. It is generally seen as worthwhile to keep a house in good repair (except in Japan where they sometimes rebuild new every 20 years - I'm not sure how this works but it might be insightful to look at this exception). I've seen houses that have been abandoned (generally a farm that sold out to a larger farm and so the house isn't needed) - in just a few years the house is clearly falling apart just because of a few little maintenance issues not being taken care of.

A car need to be consumed in ordinary use. There are people still driving the car they bought new in 1968 (or whatever year), and the car looks and drives like it is less than a year old. However the amount of labor required to keep a car at this level isn't generally seen as worth it and so the average car is about 12 years old and obviously not like new at that age.
I see for "crazy cars" the sprite sheet has the same car scaled to different levels. When I was doing some scale and rotation experiments, it never occurred to me to just put precalculated ones inside the image itself like that.
Dont worry, that guest blog post actually read the research results completely wrong and its the opposite. The coils were supposedly attentuating the radiation waves, which is why your right side has a lower incidence. Furthermore, any scientist will tell you a non-powered set of unenergized coils cannot amplify anything. Amplification requires power. Bedsprings are not powered.

Snopes has a solid write up on how badly that author fucked it up. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coil-mattresses-cause-canc...
You say it like it's dumb to explore new designs because apparently we've already known for decades everything there is to know.
... uhh, sure, if you can get to the planet a resource is on, harvest it, and bring it back before we run out of it here.
It also reads a bit like an official promotion for JAX (well-deserved btw) by mentioning its advantages separately and putting it first in the list of main frameworks.
I was ambivalent about this until I got to the part where father and daughter had had previous discussions in which they agreed neither of them wanted to donate their organs, him because of his direct personal exposure to the process itself.

If the deceased patient had not wanted to donate her organs in the past, unless they had constructive proof that she had later changed her mind, it shouldn't have mattered whether either of her parents would consent to their donation.

If she had been registered as a donor by the time of her death, sure, the question of death becomes extremely relevant. But if she had not wanted to donate her organs, her organs ought not have been donated when she died, regardless of whether that happened before or after the hospital discontinued life support.
Car Dealers Press Biden to Ease US Electric Vehicle Mandates
We trained a deep learning model to identify poverty
> I know the rugged individualists are busy launching themselves to space via their own bootstraps, but average person can become trapped in the life they live pretty easily.

True.

> Meanwhile societies that actually want to move into the future while minimizing the terrible outcomes will have programs to avoid it, such as social security so we don't have to watch grandma and grandpa die on the side of the road of old age.

You might be surprised to learn that I fully agree.

> Or in this case, some people might be able to receive help that is outside of your heterodoxy.

Which would be perfect! The question being discussed is: Is an AI chatbot really "help"? Especially when we're not talking about absolute edge cases, in which case we both agree that the answer is "yes".
Straight steel is tough AF, it doesn't crumple the way modern vehicle metal alloys do. Teslas do have those titanium frames that protect the major areas of the vehicle (passengers and battery mainly), but the rest of the car can be crushed to smithereens and you'd most likely survive.

Some parts of cars are steel, which is fine. But having the entire body of the vehicle be steel is where you lose any benefit. What's going to crumple when there are no crumple zones? Most likely your spine...
PyTorch has the nicest debugging experience. JAX is supposed to be powerful too, but I'm skeptical of its static graph which is what made TensorFlow such a chore. I'm whishful about Mojo, in theory it sounds great.
A pointless endeavour, I agree. So shall we just do away with the labels and agree that people are inscrutable entities beyond the definition of a simple label?

We are but one possible reality seeded by some or other starting inputs, with no say in the choices we make. Fated to execute instructions at the whim of some entity we can't comprehend from within the confines of dimensional space.

Regardless of how you view my preceding comments, you have to admit the dating game for single straight men is a nightmare right now.
Source: believe it or not I have a lot of straight friends and one of them literally recently got robbed by a hooker via tinder. They had a card machine and everything. So tell me what the harm is in letting those people discover more about themselves via a fancy autocorrect, at least they aren't out there getting robbed by hookers.
Sure, yet that's one tweet and his tone is pretty telling if you ask me. Disregard if you don't believe, I'm not making it up
I have noted elsewhere in the thread, but I think I was unable to express myself very clearly.

What I really meant is enforced externally on the programmer, in the form of compiler, development environment setup (from elsewhere) or other guidelines, without any free will to tune or disable them.

The layers I add are voluntary, just checks and balances I decided to add myself because I think they help me, and not enforced as part of the language or toolchain I'm forced to use.

IOW, a self-respecting developer striving to do a good job can continuously sharpen themselves iteratively, tuning their processes and fixing the problems they see as they go along their journey.

Perhaps pjmlp understood the gist of my comment, and his answer is a pretty nice hit on the head of the subject. Honestly, I'm coming from a point where programming is more of a passion which pays rather than work/job for me, hence I have an inner drive to do my best and improve continuously, and not everyone shares the same set of values or inner drive about programming, and want to be railroaded into an environment where they can do the absolute minimum to get things done.
OpenAI not exactly living up to their name lately, huh?

It's too bad they let Altman back on, in my opinion. Cutting ties with him and sticking to the original ethical mandates of OpenAI would have been the better move for all of us, by far.
At the start of the war, there were 3 million Ukrainians living in Russia, so it's not like there's a lack of Ukrainians who know the country well and consequently can probably operate successfully as spies in Russia, so I would have expected the leaders of Russian intelligence to have been deterred from this kind of action by the prospect of retaliation in kind.
This is the easiest answer. Check out the first (or second, or third) volume and skim-read it.

You'll either be interested, or return it and not feel a desire to get it again. And maybe years later you'll want to dive in.
They were not asking the parents if she was dead. She was already dead. So the "murder" accusation does not make sense.

If they do not have the two required consents for the organ transplant, then that is something else, and they should be punished for it.
I’m under the impression that we’ve been experienced like 1% of the detrimental effects of climate change and real change won’t occur until mass deaths start to actually happen. Either that or we’ll reach a point where the effects start to actually affect the rich (billionaires) in a way that causes them to start lobbying in a way that actually benefits the climate rather than doing so only for show.

But yeah, there just doesn’t seem to be enough incentive yet unfortunately. But if, say, there were mass protests world-wide there could be action from governments and companies. The problem is people just don’t care that much, but when millions are dead we might start caring.
Turns out it's not a rumor, when Musk did a drive with Jay Leno in 2021 he specifically mentions the stainless steel at being used to make the doors bullet proof [0].

0. https://youtu.be/25ZuKkbHdqM?t=167
https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... [pdf, Lazard LCOE+storage 2023]