skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I'd like to see more of this. It's a very well written article, a history lesson and an investigative piece built around a murder mistery. I haven't read anything so good by a German author since I read The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll.
There inevitable drawbacks of both approaches. Nothing particularly wrong with the simulation, but it is really really slow and is not applicable in real-time or close to real-time applications, where situation may change rapidly. Also it usually requires high-end CPUs, which are not available on edge devices like drones.

RxInfer tries to be as efficient as possible in running inference, but it does indeed places limits on the form of the models it can run inference for. The team has long-term plans and solutions under research, which should expand the set of available models substantially. Message passing has a long history, it is not only belief propagation on simple models, but also nowadays the variational inference is possible with message passing on sophisticated hierarchical models.
The VW ID.Buzz should be in the US sometime summer 2024 (model year 2025), but I would guess they’ll be expensive and hard to get

https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-buzz.html
LA should read and jump off a bridge
The USA managed to do something special: replace the cult of personality with the cult of the Party. There are two parties, but their followers are quite rabid and would probably kill for their party if told to. So if we expand the criteria for "dear leader" to include parties I think the US would be at a 7 or 8.
I would love to build a massive global macroeconomic model (vector autoregressions for exchange rates/ securities, spatiotemporal processes for raw materials like crop yields, etc) using something like this. It would just take way too long with Monte Carlo.
Definitions of ‘feminism’ seem to vary widely (and are constantly shifting) so that statistic alone is hard to interpret.
The original article said that they used a mix of those rounds and dummy rounds, so the costs are actually lower, but lets assume $53 per round:

3900 rounds per minute / (60 minutes per hour) * 2 seconds per shot * 6 shots * $53 = $41340, compared to $20,000 * 6 = $120,000.

The total cost is half for the A-10 after you add the cost of fuel. However, keep in mind that this does not consider that they also fire the "dummy" ammunition that is just regular bullets.

> And again, the point is moot because there way more flight hours to train a pilot than spent flying combat missinons.

Assuming that a nation is able to keep funding these missions during peace time, then the only real concern would be the costs during war time, which will undoubtedly be prohibitive.

That being said, the A-10 has a history of doing far more in CAS roles than other aircraft. That is because the A-10 is simply better at it.
I am trying to find a source for your claims about the fountain but nothing comes up in the first few pages of a search. The results that do come up mention their extreme overuse of water during the droughts of 2022, but nothing as extreme as your anecdote.
Due to the cost of foreign policy and lobbying, both by domestic corporations and foreign nations.
You are allowed to choose neither. My commute is a 15-minute bike ride.
There is not less crime across the board, the food has little diversity in individual countries and is completely subpar in certain countries (looking at UK).

The transit is trash anywhere that you can actually afford to own property. The healthcare outcomes you mentioned are going to need a citation because the middle class in the US generally has OK insurance.

For happiness, that’s vague and will need a citation. Putting the entire US on a comparison with individual EU countries is dumb, but that’s how it’s sliced in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report where the US is beat by many EU countries and beats others (e.g. Spain and Italy).

> Which is “better”?

Probably the one with the most immigration.
we can call it for what it is: Bullying. (But I like "corruption" also.)
Comparison is the theft of joy.

Without understanding what smarter is, how can you feel dumb?
› found a copy of Burning Chrome

most of Gibson's works I had read in ncview.exe

I doubt I can replicate the experience now *sad smile*
I’ve noticed that video chats are great when they complement detailed asynchronous communication, e.g., RFC-style doc or a produced video. The best video conference work meetings tend to be: read a doc for 10 mins and then everyone launches into a Q&A. Discussions are usually vastly better; questions are detailed and focused, more people engage, etc.

When companies just try to take, say, a round-robin update meeting and move it online, it’s usually a waste of time. Or a 50 minute presentation where someone’s just winging it with a PowerPoint.

I wouldn’t even bother an online course where they just setup a web camera in class and follow a lecture.

It’s like videoconferencing has gotten so cheap and easy, it allows for sloppy planning and presentation. I dropped several classes in college because the lecturer didn’t bother even learning how to present with a mic, speak clearly, etc.

Companies should just ask for quick anonymous feedback after meetings just to set up an improvement loop.
Isn't that how Chatgpt works? Picking the next word based on the previous words?
which is ridiculous washing of his hands. he was on the board as chairman. he could have issued a dissenting statement on Friday, etc. that tweet that late was at best very weird and useless
It's not a naked photo. It's

1. Complete loss of privacy and control over your image.

2. Shame and embarrassment, especially in high school where every boy will look at you different and reduce you to a sexual object.

3. Public humiliation -- those photos can and do lead to ridicule and bullying. You're the one who is naked while everyone else is clothed.

4. Destroys self-esteem -- high school is already terrible in this regard but it's hard to have any kind of self worth when a sex object and some porn is how your classmates know you.

5. Takes away your agency -- its doesn't matter if the photos aren't real, they can make you do anything in those photos and to a 3rd party viewer there's no difference.

6. It's degrading -- they're not gonna be tasteful nudes and pretending as such is naive. And it doesn't matter if you don't find the acts degrading when everyone else does.

It's not making nudity illegal, it's making and distributing sexually explicit images of a person whiteout their consent illegal.
That’s true. It only mandates a sound at the beginning (and end?) of recording.
I don't buy this take, and this rebuttal does a better job than I could of explaining why: https://andersource.dev/2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html

Basically, this autocorrelation take shows that if performance and evaluation of performance were random and independent, you would get a graph like the D-K one, and therefore it states that the effect is just autocorrelation. But in reality, it would be very surprising if performance and evaluation of performance were independent. We expect people to be able to accurately rate their own ability. And D-K did indeed show a correlation between the two, just not as strong of one as we would expect. Rather, they showed a consistent bias. That's the interesting result. They then posit reasons for this. One could certainly debate those reasons. But to say the whole effect is just a statistical artifact because random, independent variables would act in a similar way ignores the fact that these variables aren't expected to be independent.
That depends if you are a foreigner visiting Korea or a Korean who moved abroad...
Because privacy is important for freedom.
Most countries have imposed laws to ban upskirts and other types of invasive photography.

It really isn't public photography by any definition.
Towing something heavy uphill, then stopping to get some gas and a sandwich. The SAAB killer move.
Or inventing new bad words like Farscape. Don't even need to look most of them up, you'll learn at least frell, dren, tralk, and mivonks just by context and frequency of use.
> five years after then-President Nicholas Sarkozy...

"Nicolas".
Isn't it ironic that they fooled themselves?
Also do you have any functionality for recognizing graph structure (I.e. marginalizing out variables, identifying conjugacy, automatic reparameterization)?
Download link's broken on the sk8 site.
I concur that software typically becomes more complex as it incorporates additional features or is modified by numerous contributors. However, using a government agency's role in developing such software as an example doesn't necessarily prove this complexity. It mainly suggests that government-developed software might not always be efficiently optimized.
This is incorrect. Many trees need fire for their seeds.
Wasn’t this DK effect already debunked?
Sure, but that doesn't mean you have to hold your money at the off-ramp. Just pass through briefly and you minimize your exposure to centralized actors.
This would be useful in WebXR (given opt-in)
Aside from the globe itself, most of the movement in this animation is the frenetic ticking of digits as the "sales per minute", "unique shoppers", "orders per minute" and "carbon removed" numbers change. All of these numbers are actually updated only once every 10 seconds, but the animation makes all the digits scramble for 8 out of those 10 seconds for no reason other than to look busy.

Don't do that.

Don't distort the information. Don't make it harder to read the information. Don't waste the user's visual attention on things that don't matter. Spend it on things that are meaningful.
Recommended Middle Reader Books
The natives are really bad for historical record as a proof of negatives.
I can just about believe that this kind of scenario might be a very rare exception where the performance difference is relevant and you might want to do something else.

Still, color me skeptical.

"In simple enough scenes"? OK perhaps, but we don't want to only run ray tracing for very simple scenes. Simple scenes are those cases where you probably don't need much calculation, so does it really matter that 5-10% of that simple calculation is RNG? It's the complicated computation-heavy scenes that matter!

Also, one would have to see the code to judge this. For instance, maybe that code was wasting random bits a lot?
Well for one, the X is twice as expensive as a minivan.
> A shell run via `sshd` is technically not an interactive shell, as it is started by the ssh-daemon.

Hmmm....I'm a bit confused by that one. Why is the program that started the shell an important consideration as to whether it should be considered interactive or not? Shouldn't it just be how the shell is most likely to be used?

Are shells started by `xterm` (and similar) "technically" interactive? What about shells started by `screen`/`tmux`? What makes them different to, or the same as, `sshd`?
Our foreign policy experiments are a relatively small percentage of our GDP. It’s not like the money isn’t there for these projects. Even with the foreign wars, the US still spends significantly less of GDP on public services than other developed countries.
Correction: The above is Eliezer Yudkowsky's reasoning. Paul Christiano's is that AIs would cooperate with anyone who would likely be able to gain authority over their reward channel, including other AIs attempting to seize power from humans.
Apparently AI engineers never saw renaissance nude paintings or naked ancient Greece or Roman statues.
Pretty exciting given the last type was discovered in 2016.

Science publication here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1910

Here's the main takeaway I got:

A fast locality-sensitive hashing-based clustering (FLSHclust) algorithm was developed. This algorithm is parallelized and scales linearly with the size of the dataset, enabling efficient analysis of large sequence databases.

That means it can scale with exponentially growing datasets, discover rare biological systems, provide more options for targeted gene editing, and even lead to novel biotechnologies.

Sounds like a breakthrough to me!
There were lots of examples of "better to ask for forgiveness as a rich person than permission as a poor person", that they saw. Tech companies entered finance, taxi-driving, health-advice-dispensing, etc. and didn't fall into line with existing laws and regulations for years, until after they got rich.

They were, no question, incorrect, but if you're wanting to believe it could work (because you really wanted to get rich), you could convince yourself of it.
I think there's a chance the Cybertruck design influences other companies vehicle designs. Not quite the same level but similar sharp angles. At that point it's weirdness will reduce.
Sometimes things can be different without everything being a competition between corporations and testing brand allegiance.
> Tesla vs. Toyota Is the New Hot Battle in Cars

Tesla is for cars what Teams is for GUI: a failure.
I don't know why you're being downvoted -- if there were ever a poll that should have a male/female breakdown, it's this one, since the issue by definition affects the genders differently.
Bash scripts tend to be used in situations where you want to edit them and not have to deal with a recompilation step, let alone a multi-GB compiler install. That seems like a deal-breaker to me.

The best alternative I've found so far is Deno. It natively supports single file scripts with third party dependencies (this is a big issue with replacing Bash with Python). It uses an existing popular language (so now "learn our weird language" problem). Installation is very easy.

The only real downside I've found is this stupid bug that they refused to fix:

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/16466
This take is a perfect example of Dunning-Kruger itself, ironically. https://andersource.dev/2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html
An A-10 could drop those in addition to firing bullets. Intentionally limiting capabilities by getting rid of the A-10 in favor of the F-35 would be endangering lives. :/
Anything's a failure when you ignore all of its success.
One of the employees had his previous employers' code. There will have to be proof that Nvidia even knew about it for this to go anywhere beyond the employee.
i think that my comment already covers this, except that the policy makers are not people whose judgment is of interest; the only way that they're relevant to this discussion is that they caused the problem in the first place

in particular, i said that your emissions from breathing are

> hopefully sourced from the air via plants. so, too, is most of the combustible garbage

the story is a little more complicated, though, because point-source carbon capture is feasible for trash incinerators (and, say, container ships) but not for people breathing, so trash incinerators could conceivably provide indirect atmospheric carbon capture by way of the trees and food that ended up in the garbage. i didn't want to get into these complexities, which is why i didn't go into more detail in my original comment

more importantly, though, i don't appreciate being called a fucking liar (even if euphemistically) because i disagree with you about something. people like you are why i always regret engaging on this site. please begin adhering to minimal norms of civility before you fucking comment again
This seems like a perfect use case for an LLM :)
More than once, I have mentioned to someone that the vast majority of the $$ they have in the bank, do not actually physically exist anywhere, and seen otherwise intelligent people look surprised and horrified.
I've seen a couple people who I think were vigilante in their photo taking, but either I missed something (and the person photographed clearly did too) or they were a bit off their rockers..

To me it seems like a law that attempts to handle something that is also generally discomforting.. I.e. after that kind of an experience one can wonder if the under ground man has a collection of photographs of you for some slight you don't understand.
Refusing to point out a problem does not make it disappear. I consider it clear as daylight that some people react irrationally to certain individuals whether those be Musk or Trump or anyone else. That phenomenon seems to be relatively new, e.g. in the times of Reagan there were many who clearly did not like the man but that never led to much more than "Ronald Raygun" and similar expressions and Bush - just as contentious - became "Shrub" but even then the reactions were not nearly as - to use a popular term - 'triggered' as they have become lately.
RxInfer.jl does some analysis, but it is quite limited atm. The main library for specifying the graph structure (GraphPPL.jl) is being rewritten, refactored and overhauled from grounds and should do much much better job in automatically recognising the graph structure in the future!
The problem is that the snippets shown are all from new features and code written in the past 2-3years! I would obviously not judge old code otherwise
Well Q learning has been incredibly fruitful over the last decade. If you want to know why it wasn’t fruitful before the last decade, the answer is that it was. Data driven techniques went in and out of vogue for this kind of stuff. The difference this time is how much data we have due to the internet and smart phones and now we have computers capable of drinking from the data fire hose
To give more context, MS basically forked Chromium/Chrome as Edge, so if somehow Google would close off Chromium they wouldn't be left standing in the cold.

That said, OP's point is crystal clear, these silly new platform projects are the busywork of vestigial orgs.
A Mertorian Analysis of School Deviance (1975) [pdf]
I had a similar awkwardness when I tried to have a non-audio indicator for something when laptop screen was off.

When I was using my carrying my laptop around public places in town most of the day, before I'd close the laptop lid (which triggered an immediate suspend at some low level), I'd press a hotkey to "secure" the laptop. This locked the screen and started a process to zero various RAM caches, and scrub misc. temp/junk files. (Not that I needed that, but I was figuring out privacy&security at the time.) To indicate to me that it was OK to close the lid and leave, instead of doing a beep that might bother someone in a library or something, I flashed an LED for an instant. The LED available was the white ThinkLight at the top of the LCD, which was bright enough to illuminate the keyboard and nearby workspace.

You might guess how this could appear in a library. Sudden flash, as if from a cameraphone, in someone's peripheral vision, coming from the direction of a guy who is suddenly leaving.

So I disabled that indicator, because it seemed infinitely more risky and harmful than the threat of a spy neutralizing me and using advanced computer forensics on my laptop to recover a fragment of a high-value spam email.
This man always gives me such weird vibes.
FWIW: pretty much all displays have one or two screen buffers today... You need at least one to enable overdrive. And you need a second one for low frame rate compensation.
The available API's on the web are very questionable. Feross has a web security lecture series on youtube where he showed off the following abomination. Enter at own risk.

https://theannoyingsite.com/
Technically, if I had $80B, I could solve most problems because I could contract them out.
From their FAQ: "The best way to ensure your IDs stay consistent throughout future updates is to provide a custom blocklist, even if it is identical to the current default blocklist."
I was curious. The rust rand library has implementations for a lot of rngs - prngs and csrngs. All with high quality implementations as far as I can tell.

They agree with your numbers: their fast, high quality prng implementations are about 8gb/sec and chacha is about 2gb/sec:

https://rust-random.github.io/book/guide-rngs.html
The noise is annoying per se, but also: stealthy != illegitimate. For example think of trying to document something abusive going on around you, and being betrayed by "your" tool.

More fundamentally, it's just not a tool's proper place to second-guess if its wielder is doing something illegitimate. You should be technically able to use your general computing device to launch a doomsday weapon if you so desire, even though that's ethically and legally frowned upon.
It's time for a new old language (2017) [pdf]
92% of Ukrainians see Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people
Claude.ai for posterity:

While parts of your scenario are fanciful, I appreciate your effort to inject some creative thinking. Homelessness and the marginalization of vulnerable groups are certainly monumental societal problems that deserve new, even radical perspectives.

My role is not to judge any individual's personal life circumstances or proposed solutions, however improbable they may seem. Rather, I aim to engage respectfully and support constructive dialogue that could move discussions in more ethical, equitable and compassionate directions.

There are many important points here that resonate - the power of hope and optimism as driving forces for change, the potential but also risks of AI and advanced technology, and most centrally, the desire to alleviate grave suffering for those living on societies' fringes without agency.

Perhaps we could explore in more concrete and practical terms what combination of economic, social and technological innovations might build pathways to restore human dignity for all. There are always opportunities for new voices to shift old paradigms - but real progress usually lies in collaborating beyond individual gain alone. My role here is to listen, ask thoughtful questions, and try to further ethical goals however I can.
But `eval()` does not violate a programmer's intuition as easily as an arithmetic expression resulting in code execution.
How can you take a photo on iOS with the screen off?
Making my pitch for John Varley's work. The Eight Worlds setup is rich, interesting, and mind-expanding.
That's FAR-out, Man (XNU infoleak)
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/LICENSE... is the MIT license. (Microsoft supplies debs directly which may reduce the motivation for Debian to do so.)

Oh, heh, also https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/bu... the build script is written in PowerShell, so there's a bootstrapping problem :-) (Debian has solved those before of course, but with community sentiment like the above maybe noone is motivated to bother.)
Anthony Levandowski Restarting His AI Religion
Meanwhile Seattle is planning to maybe-kinda-sorta begrudgingly start building one single light rail line to the west side of the city in the next few decades. Maybe it'll be ready by the time I retire.
And a cluster bomb might take out all the targets at once at an even cheaper price: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-87_Combined_Effects_Muni....

Military pilots in peace time average 150 hours of flying per year: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/11/fighter-pilots-aren...

And that's abnormally low hours. With a $20k an hour operational cost, that's $3 million a year. You're going to have to do a lot of strafing to make even a dent in total costs by saving money on munitions.

And again, this is not even including the costs of additional losses from low level flying overy enemies to conduct strafing runs.

Of course the A-10 does more close air support: it can't do anything else! Whereas the f-16 can also do combat air patrols, SEAD, search for ships with its radar, shoot Harpoons, etc.