skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moment I saw Figures 3 and 4, I knew this paper would not be useful for me at all. The author of the paper is likely a visual thinker type of person, whereas I am certainly not. The boxes, colors, shading, etc. on those figures would/does easily overwhelm me.

I find simply writing an outline, section titles and introductory paragraphs, and iterating over and over much more suitable to get started with writing a paper.
The Moen Flo valve does more than that! Every night it will shutoff your water and observe the pressure. If the pressure drops when the valve is off it will alert you of a leak. They're a bit costly at ~400 bucks, but water damage is so expensive it's worth it. I have one and it's great.

Insurance companies will give you a small discount if you have one installed as well.
> Either way the C++ dependency management situation even makes the Python dependency management situation look good by comparison.

Is there a better way than “script the compilation of all dependencies and share the result” for any big project that has to support Windows? I’m interested in alternatives.
The [possibly bogus] recent news were about a thing called Q* ("Q star"). I think the branding is just a coincidence, where it stands for "Question".
It's probably best to ignore most of the stuff Elon Musk promises. And just wait what Tesla actually delivers.

What Elon does is just producing free advertisement. Overpromising and not being able to deliver is pure gold for news outlets. Tesla gets hundrets of Cybertruck pictures in the news for free, every day. Without paying for advertisement.
> food chain or energy negotiations

The UK along with Norway export gas to EU during summer which is stored for use in winter.
UK does not have expensive gas/electricity because of Brexit, it is because of Ukraine war. The rest of EU is just as bad or worse when it comes to energy prices. The economy in Germany is worse than UK this year. The latest data regarding budget deficit from France is just as bad as UK.

Not sure what food chain issues, the UK needs cheap labour to work the fields, UK people won't accept that work, so cheap labour is brought over from Asia for seasonal work. The new young generation Polish/Eastern Europe people are no longer are interested in such work either.
> Keeping the jank of X11 around was never long-term viable

Ha, it’s like saying “keeping the jank of win32, directx, GDI was never long-term viable” as your one and only argument for the inevitable success of Windows RT.

Fools, the lot of you GUI hipsters.
>> Humans are insanely social creatures and if someone is very lonely would an AI be enough to objectively make their life better?

> Probably, but the ease of using this would probably lure people in that are otherwise able to form social connections and it will inevitably replace at least some of their human connections. I assume you'd agree that the latter case is not good and my presumption is that the latter case vastly outnumbers the former, so this is probably not a good thing in the long run.

Exactly, and I think that's a case of a general social/psychological problem that technology has been relentlessly hammering.

People evolved to need certain things that unavoidably require work that's not always easy. However, the modern-day technologist's impulse to provide easy but imperfect substitutes ultimately makes people worse off, because it removes the motivating factors that push them to do what they really need to do, leading more and more people to get stuck in pathological states as the chose technology's easy dead-ends.
All good points.

I guess PE is better for steady-state businesses like utilities. But even with PEG, $NVDA is quite high - I get 16, but I much prefer this to be below 1.

None of this means they're not a good buy, just that it would've been really fantastic to already be an owner.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231128172659/https://www.econo...

https://archive.ph/RdtTX
Can someone explain like I am five, what is "passive aggression" ?
Meamwhile I think the law should garantee a customer can speak to someone at a company who has enough power to take action on the entire customer account.

At least in France we passed a law that says that if you subscribed to a service online, you can unsubscribed online too (no idea if we're first, or last).
People who don’t have purchasing power don’t move the needle. Inconvenient truth. They get dragged along by other factors.

Tesla built out their >$1B global supercharger network and manufacturing base on luxury vehicle sales (S, X), for example (until they could spin up 3, Y, and utility scale storage manufacturing). And their profit margin is still higher than legacy auto.

TLDR Sell to people with money and who aren’t price sensitive, pour that cashflow into spinning up a flywheel. Fighting reality will lead to disappointment, ignore feelings and operate according to the data. Go where the money is. Buyers with only opinions are not worth chasing.
Brain Imaging Redefined: NexGen 7T MRI Achieves 10x Better Resolution
I think this is a case of equality feeling like oppression for the oppressor.

When I champiom the voices of victims I do so because their voices are already quietened. The voices of champions are still by far the loudest even if we do go out of our ways more than ever to include others.
> It is absolutely incompatible with the rule of law that workers can selectively fail to perform government services for someone they don't like, and not be disciplined. This is not a labor rights issue, it is an issue of the government's sovereignty and ability to fulfill its duties.

Whose law? Yours?

This is compatible with the rule of law in Nordic countries, including my own. PostNord is a private company.

EDIT: PostNord is public, not private and is jointly owned by Sweden and Denmark.

This is what labor fighting back looks like. United. That US labor rights were disemboweled by the Taft-Harley Act means everything to the Nordic countries who are using their rights as labor to organize and say now's enough.

The US will always remain a lopsided democracy so long as workers cannot stop the machine en masse.

I talk a lot of shit on the European model but this is something I am happy to join my fellow sisters and brothers in labor protesting. Musk's attacks on unions stops here.
How so? Sorry I’m not as aware of race or racism as much I am of caste and casteism.
> There were a lot of people with disposable income that want to help the environment

Most Tesla owners I know (and I know a lot), do not care about the environment more than the average non-owner who drive similarly priced vehicles.

I think the Venn diagram converges more on: people who have a lot of disposable income, but also who want to drive something modern and still be smart with their money (fuel and maintenance costs).
Only things written in Rust I know are rewrites of decades old C applications or rewrites of js tooling. What "new generation" of games, browsers, editors, CAD applications, etc. are written in Rust? Is Rust used in aerospace, automotive, healthcare, instrumentation or finance industries? What is glamorous in Rust that hasn't been done in other languages?
We do in fact know that whatever makes the brains tick, it must be something 1) simple enough for the extremely dumb, brute-force optimizer that is evolution to stumble on it, 2) incrementally improvable by the same mechanism, and 3) conferring some kind of advantage at every step. Those are requirements for some feature to evolve.
Sorry this was a totally different thing, as an example to how Nordic labour movements may well be different to other parts of the world.

Security workers at Helsinki airport walked out because they are not happy with the current elected government in Finland, not due to actions of their employer. This is a political protest and it is allowed.
Interesting article. It's not just a US vs European thing, however. According to this comparison document linked in the Wikipedia article [https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/gurn/00275.pdf] (dated 2007 so things may have changed), some countries in Europe also ban solidarity action:

"Solidarity action – supporting other workers in their primary action – is by now, in many countries, considered legal under certain conditions, exceptions being Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the UK. In Germany and Italy the situation with regard to the rules governing solidarity action is quite complex. In Spain its legality has to be established on a case-by-case basis"
AWS does a lot of enterprise business but I’d also think about it as setting the upper bounds: you probably don’t need millions of transactions per second but if you’re a startup needing, say, thousands it’s nice knowing that you don’t need to fundamentally rearchitect for a while even if you become popular. The pain of hitting the limits of a single database write node can be high because you need to make substantial changes to what is by definition a busy system, but you have an incentive not to make the big changes until you need them since they make everything else more work. This gives you the option of effectively never needing to do that, which is going to be popular with anyone anticipating lots of growth if it delivers as advertised.
> We should strive to solve both problems, keeping an open internet

I recently looked at HTTP/3 proposals. TLS is required, but you can't use a self-signed certificate: without the CA root it will not connect, and the specifications for HTTP/3 says this should be the default.

This is horrible. It's using security and performance as good excuses to remove features, like how in practice, chrome changes result in extra hurdles for ad blockers.

In my perfect world, the identity problem (is this website really mybank.com?) would be handled at the DNS level (DNSSEC!), and for a new HTTP format based on UDP (great idea!) it would be the http CLIENTS that would each create their own keys and give public keys to the servers.

It would be less risky than a breach of trust down the CA authority, as the traffic would not be decryptable.
I don't think ML is driving consumer GPU prices, although I could be wrong. They are selling 3080s and below primarily for gaming. Maybe an argument could be made for the 3090/4090, but even then that is extreme solo enthusiast territory.

It's clearly the higher end chips that are bringing in the AI revenue.
Great! He’s part of a union and they provide for his benefits. And he’s a good reliable worker (which in massive demand in the industry rn), so if he gives his boss enough notice he’ll allow pretty much anything wrt time off.
Noticed that as well - odd choice, but maybe it's just to limit the Preview. Better than Microsoft's 300 seat minimum for MS365 Copilot ;)
Maybe next time, try saying "It doesn't do what I personally need a truck for" rather than "It's not really a truck" if you think it fits the definition of a truck but doesn't do what you personally need a truck for.
My numbers come from a study published in Nature in 2022:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00862-3

The Argonne model relied on in the article you linked is quite dated at this point and has its limitations (which are acknowledged by the authors of it themselves).
> that tends to be through permitting and courts, which makes it more predictable and easier to appeal

Talk to a developer some time. Approvals are opaque and personal and rarely subject to judicial review. I'd prefer that to change. But to argue it's unprecedented or an affront to the rule of law would be ridiculous.

> USPS doing something like this is inconceivable

PostNord is technically a private company. (It's state owned.) This is more like the MPAA refusing to rate a movie, or giving a film a rating the producer doesn't like.
“People expect trucks to be able to haul, tow and have a certain amount of bed space.”

Oh how I wish that were true. Most pickups are just vanity items now. Americans who drive pickups don’t care about the environment, they want something big and flashy with more power.
I haven't carefully read the relevant part of the spec, but I imagine that pointers have to be modeled as not subject to tearing, otherwise safety guarantees would completely fall apart.

The flip side of this is that adding "fat pointers" safely to Java would be very difficult. Fat pointers are widely used in languages such as Go, Rust, and Swift to represent both slices (pointer + length) and various forms of dynamic dispatch (pointer + vtable). In Rust, this is safe because data races are forbidden, enforced by the type system. I consider Go and Rust to be "safe-ish" in that data races can happen, and can violate safety. Apparently this hasn't led to huge problems in Go. Thus, the roadmap for Carbon[1] targets a comparable level of safety, not trying to prevent data races, but aiming for memory safety in single threaded contexts.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTJ9omXOQ0
while probably true NN was wildly crashy anyway.
I don’t even like the term “normie” because, honestly, that blinds us into a perspective that we are superior to the perspectives of most people; when there isn’t any actual guarantee of that superiority.
To be fair, I think there's a significant difference between giving up agency to AI and hoping to become their pets like many e/acc's seem to do.
> sure, you can have the semantics debate if you want

Helpful rule: Don't start a semantics debate and then complain that people are having a semantics debate with you.
Its not embarrassing for Sweden at all. Its how their labor market is organized. It's working exactly like it should.
It's not pedantic. You were wrong. You said "it's not a truck" when you meant "It doesn't fit my needs". Those are not subtle distinctions. Language is often murky and meaning can shift over time and across different areas. This is not one of those times.
Show HN: JungleGym and TreeVoyager – OSS Data and Tool for Autonomous Web Agents
We are very excited to introduce JungleGym, our new open-source launch featuring datasets and tools for developing autonomous web agents, by Marco Mascorro and Matt Bornstein.

Addressing the challenge of benchmarking and testing AI agents, JungleGym aims to facilitate builders in this domain.

Project overview: https://junglegym.ai/

Live demo: https://junglegym.ai/TreeVoyager%20(LLM%20DOM%20Parser)

GitHub: https://github.com/a16z-infra/JungleGym

Datasets included: Mind2Web (Zhou et al.), WebArena (Shuyanzhxyc, Frankxu2004, _Hao_Zhu et al.), and AgentInstruct (Zeng et al.). These datasets allow for comprehensive testing of agents against established ground truths, accessible via the JungleGym API.

*TreeVoyager*: A new LLM-based DOM parser that simplifies task logic implementation for agent developers. Inspired by Tree of Thoughts (ShunyuYao12) and Minecraft Voyager (Guanzhi_Wang, DrJimFan).

This project builds on the * remarkable work * by the teams behind these datasets and incorporates feedback from agent developers like SigGravitas, DivGarg, Yohei Nakajima, and draws inspiration from projects like World of Bits (TimShi_ai).
And not to be confused with the Google Nexus Q…
This course is a bunch of presentation slides. The idea that you can learn anything from slides is rather silly. Learning from slides is almost as bad as learning from random youtube videos.
autovectorization is hit and miss. I recently wrote this which has to count the bits in a result mask of vector operations and it turns into popcnt just fine.

https://godbolt.org/z/zT9Whcnco
Musk has a bad habit of over-promising (among many other bad habits like being garbage human) but there’s nothing unreasonable about the product being delivered.

The article is a bit silly to compare this to a Ram 3500. Anytime you say something like “toughest truck out there” that’s just marketing puffery (“tough” isn’t a quantitative measure, it’s basically just an opinion), Ford says the exact same type of stuff about their “built Ford tough” F-150 that most buyers use as a glorified minivan.

Plenty of automakers have made big promises about concept vehicles.

I think there’s a cohort in the media that wants this thing to fail so badly. I certainly don’t want one, but I think it has everything that sells well in the American automotive market.
It is poorly adapted to that use case though. Either use an abstract machine that captures the essence of the algorithm better, or use a more realistic yet still simple machine (e.g. MIPS or RISC-V). MIX is a middle ground that fails on both fronts.
I cannot pass the captcha either, it keeps looping.
It’s your DNS provider. Use google’s DNS and it will work.
> Meanwhile "pirates" get everything humanity has ever created for free in the highest quality available packaged as simple DRM-free files they can do anything they want with and that they can play on any device or with a well configured mpv.

Some of the private torrent sites also serve as the most comprehensive library of any given media.
Being powerless and being a coward are very different outsets. It's not clear that you are taking that into account, and not inventing a new and rhetorically stillborn category.
Yes, there are two decisions and I am talking about postnord.

I think postnord should have to return the plates in their possession to the factory, or allow Tesla to come get them wherever they are.
It's ridiculous. I tried to find a standard cab (or extended cab at most), standard 8' bed truck, and was referred to the fleet vehicle sales at our local ford dealer. They only sell that kind to large businesses who dump the standard bed and install custom box beds or tool beds.

People want quad cabs and 4' beds, apparently. I don't get it, even slightly.
This is similar to discussing the off-road capabilities of a Range Rover. The extent of off-roading for most Range Rovers is typically just driving onto a front lawn.
Most cybertruck owners will likely show little to no concern about its towing capacity.
The swastika is associated with a group that waged a major war against many nations and committed genocide and other atrocities. Avoiding it, at least in most contexts, is just good sense these days. "Q" in "QAnon" is associated with a bunch of idiots believing nonsensical conspiracy theories. These aren't quite the same things.

Congrats on Godwin'ing the thread, though.
We know these truths to be self-evident - that all men are created equal.
that sentiment was in my main post. I even said "nor do I consider"

you're deliberately focusing on the phrasing instead of the substance of my post so you don't have to talk about my point.
Death threats = silencing.
LAPD Using Israeli Surveillance Software That Tracks Your Phone and Social Media
A different solution that runs locally is opensquat.

https://github.com/atenreiro/opensquat
Ressentiment as a trope is just as old as celebration of the powerful and successful. (In fact, the two often go hand in hand; both amount to defenses of the status quo. The whole point of being a victim is that you're not among the oppressors, and conversely.) I don't think either of them is anything near an "all time high".
It is all by design. It could be so much better. It benefits the wealthy and powerful to have the system be as it is.
Someone mentioned it'd be interesting to do a study of the Dunning-Kruger effect on the Bay Area/HN yesterday and after seeing the authority people talk about Swedish unions with almost every point being incorrect, I agree. Why do people feel the need to comment on things that they just don't know? I like Lesswrong and similar forums where people preface comments with how sure they are of what they're saying - HN could do with similar.
You really went there.
Scientists dont need bibles.
Damn, that bed surely looks small
Most developers probably don't care and just want to get paid. Beyond that, I imagine you're not usually empowered to make big changes unless you're relatively senior, and even if you decide to be the kind of developer that's always striving towards self improvement your job is unlikely to reward you for your skill development. I think there's just a lot of diminishing returns.

Have you ever tried playing a competitive multiplayer game? There's people that will play games for thousands of hours without ever improving.

Sometimes I think people encounter bottlenecks and they're not sure how to overcome them.
I mean, the Cybertruck starts at $39K, so it's right in line with other trucks available on the market in the U.S. They haven't really chosen a luxury price point. They clearly intend to mass market this thing. Pick-up trucks aren't vulgar, they're simply practical and useful.
DeepMind finds AI agents are capable of social learning
Use Dependency Rejection to Beat Procrastination
would you like to reply to my points or continue to attack the phrasing of one sentence?

don't worry, I don't have the power to change definitions, you can rest at ease.
Tone matters a lot with this.

If you just sigh a "If that makes you happy" and then sulk to do whatever... that's not a positive message. Apathy, defeated, such things.

On the other hand, a sincere "If that makes you happy, let's go" is a very different thing. This is more in line with what we have at work at times - "I disagree with this plan, but it is the plan chosen by us all, so I will support it to the best of my abilities", or "I don't care either way, but you chose left, so left we go to the best of our abilities". If we can only get the right ice cream 2 hours away from here, alright? I have nothing better to do right now and if you give me a day, I have an icebox ready.
that seems like a wildly overcomplicated method of hacking a commercial organisation...
> CO2 emissions have been dropping substantially for some time

Context? You mean in the US? Or Globally? Or just per capita? My understanding is that CO2 emissions continue to increase overall.
Sure you can. You just get the rail that mounts at the front of the bed, take the front wheel off, and attach the bike to the rail by the fork.

You can also get a 4 door (crew cab) truck with a 6.5 foot bed.
Raytracing being a gimmick is highly subjective.

Creating reflections using rasterization requires shortcuts and sacrifices. And once you see them, you can't unsee them, and then you find them visually distracting.

There are basically 3 ways to create reflections without ray-tracing:

1. Double the geometry and render it in the reflection. This is rarely the approach taken because it's incredibly resource intensive. Oddly, Duke Nukem 3D back in what, 1996? did this, but that had pretty simple graphics. Genuinely not feasible for any sort of reflect surface that is curved.

2. Screen-space reflection: Just take the rendered image, invert it, and overlay it onto the reflective surface. This is probably the most common way to do it. It's fast and looks decent. The problem is that it requires the reflected image to be visible on the screen. When it's not, there's no reflection. It creates a bizarre effect when, for example, you're looking over a body of water at something in the distance, and you see the reflection in the water, but as you move the camera down, the reflection gets cut off and eventually disappears entirely.

3. Using a static image as an environment mapped texture. Apex Legends does this for shiny surfaces. It creates a great illusion of a reflection, but taking even a second to actually look at it, you'll notice that the reflection doesn't actually show what it should unless you're standing in the exact right place.

I will concede that gamers typically don't notice the issues created using methods 2 and 3, especially in a game like Apex Legends where you're moving around too much to notice.

But me? I dunno. I notice and get distracted.

EDIT: DLSS, on the other hand, is basically a crutch. It's not surprise that DLSS became a big thing at the same time RTX did. RTX requires more juice to run at full resolution than the GPU has, so they introduced DLSS to render at a low resolution and upscale it.
A recent Ken White (Popehat) essay:

“My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Up”

https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have...