skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool of XTX. They are a solid company with very smart people.

But wouldn't a model capable of doing this be currently worth hundreds of millions? A billion?
I hope this becomes available on GovCloud, that would be a game changer for remote workers working with CUI data. For a small business, I wonder if a completely managed, GovCloud based IT infrastructure might make it easier and cheaper to achieve CMMC compliance.
Not in the US - plates stay with the owner (or get returned to the local DMV) when a car is sold.

Sounds like Sweden is the opposite - plates move with the car. Which sort of makes more sense to me.

Except most of the cars I've owned have come from out-of-state, so I'd need new plates anyways (plates are issued at the state level, not national in the US).
I agree that pure mathematicians might not care about applications. That is simply not their job.

But successful applications of the real numbers are everywhere present in physics, engineering, statistics, and the other natural sciences. The funny thing is that many of those applications don't care either if real numbers represent an aspect of reality. They are a well-enough approximation, and that makes them work.
I checked trust piolt Fresha seems to be doing well and no such complaint. I think the start is we shouldn't jump to conclusions

>We've written to fresha.com's technical support as a show of good faith but we fully expect any reply to instruct her to create an account whose terms of service entail giving up to 20% of her income to fresha.com

I mean you don't know that yet,it could just be an honest mistake on their part. No need to overreact right away
Iirc it does exactly that and all local in your browser.

It is very good for a quick check if this-and-that (web)app is stupid or if your whole browser audio setup is borked.
> But I do think there might be an economic argument in favour of at least some advertising to bring awareness of new market entrants, and especially of new categories of product/service.

That's the standard argument made: Consumers learn about new products through advertising.

In fact, this is not what happens. At least I've virtually never seen it. The most effective ways to learn about new products are things like trade journals (including ones like Hacker News), blogs, etc. In those contexts, writers select for products which are interesting or which work well.

To the contrary, advertising strongly favors entrenched players with money:

- If Microsoft builds a SaaS, you build a better SaaS, but you have $50k to advertise, and Microsoft has $500M, there will be a gap in consumer perception, in favor of the inferior player.

- If I know, from advertising, that no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft, and Microsoft has additional generic brand recognition, you're at an even greater disadvantage.

In practice, advertising almost always favors entrenched players over new market entrants. Perhaps there's an exception to new market entrants from big players, but that's not nearly enough to justify the economic cost.
One pretty neat Emacs trick is to bind mouse click events to toggle multiple cursors. Here's for example how to use Ctrl+Mouse_Click with evil-mc (vanilla Emacs equivalent is mc/toggle-cursor-on-click)

(with-eval-after-load 'evil-mc
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<down-mouse-1>") 'evil-mc-toggle-cursor-on-click))

You would just click, click, click while holding Ctrl and then you can edit a bunch of things simultaneously.
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/

Nothing showing on service status currently
ironically, if i'm not mistaken, github.dev requires being logged in
"Currently, domains can be submitted without verification."
Well this thing about fingers, etc in drawings. Lets put it this way - for us mere mortals the generative images look very much okay. To artists and people who actually draw something, well ... they very often spot inconsistencies in the whole production, including how fingers, arms, overall body posture, etc is presented. So it is exactly what we can expect - good enough on average, but actually a mediocre result of commonality. Thing is the wide audience chews in mediocrity all the time, and nobody seems to have been able to change this for ages...
In Emacs specifically..

A large part of the emphasis of "keep your hands on the keyboard" is aimed at beginners. Well, at least in the case of Vim bindings. Learning such keybindings has a steep cost; while learning them, it's always going to be more practical to just use a mouse. But, once you learn them, then it's often quicker.

For keyboard-driven programs, I'd say a (well-configured) Emacs is the gold standard.

OP makes the suggestion that using the "strokes" package functionality will have some advantages over keyboard binding. -- If it works for the user, sure. But, I'd worry about stroke recognition.. and it doesn't seem to me that memorizing a mouse stroke is going to be easier than memorising some key sequence.

In Emacs, if there's some command I want to run, I'll invoke the "execute-command" with "SPC-:", find the command, then look at the keybinding next to that so I can rehearse using the keybinding.
Real-world implementation of FMs and LLMs: bioengineering
We are happy to introduce a new series of interviews that highlights the real-world implementation of Foundation Models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs). We start with an absolutely fascinating topic that can bring so many changes into our world: Bioengineering. In this insightful conversation with Barry Canton, CTO and co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, we discussed the evolution of synthetic biology, the integration of AI and GenAI in their R&D, and the future of bioengineering. Let's see what it takes to create a model that 'speaks DNA'.

Read further at https://www.turingpost.com/p/barrycanton-gingko
Because it does not generate very interesting models and becomes extremely and intractably difficulty really fast.

You could write your problem as a discrete system and often that is kind of it. People have tried for a long time and the solution methods to the problems are almost impossible or too expensive.
This has gotta be one of my favorite parts of HN, it's an odd glimpse into how men view the world.

You've got it backwards. In both cases what makes it harassment is continuing to push when it's unwanted. Why you seem to see a difference in results based on attractiveness is because your average guy can't take a hint no matter how attractive they are. So "success" becomes literally stochastic because guys never back off (and bonus take being unresponsive, ignoring them, or outright telling them no as "playing hard to get") so it only works when coincidentally the feeling of attraction is mutual which is sorta related to conventional physical attractiveness but not as 1-1 as it's made out here. 95% of the time I don't want even the hot guy approaching me and even 1/20 feels high.

I kinda wish it worked like Brazilian steakhouse rules where I could wear something that signaled, "open to being hit on by strangers."
Looking forward to Wikipedia building these models of their corpus and hosting them alongside the content. They could even offer as a mutable torrent cryptographically signed [1] (or rsync if you want to go old school).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513547
My guess would be that men aren't selective as women.
Therefore, for the handful of men that most women find generally attractive the effect is a lot easier to measure.

Yes men can have unrealistic standards at times but if you ever go to your local strip club and see the low attractiveness of your average striper you will notice men can be a lot more "accepting".
I don't see why a specific rule applying to certain flights would be the answer. Presumably a carbon tax would tax all flights, but ones abroad would require more carbon which means they would be taxed more. Given that carbon consumption is correlated with higher wealth/income, it seems like a fairly progressive tax too.
Maybe you can try NomadBSD[0]:

> NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD®. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD®'s hardware compatibility.

Though I am not sure when/if it will be rebased to this new release of FreeBSD.

[0] https://www.nomadbsd.org/
Github could require captcha for non-logged in users, I suppose.
I think this could work really well.

LLMs on mobile phones can be surprisingly capable. I've been having fun trying out this one on my iPhone: https://llm.mlc.ai/#ios

Getting that to work with a local copy of Wikipedia - where it can essentially run a "search_wikipedia(...)" function any time it needs extra information - would definitely be feasible, using this pattern: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern#user...

I think it would need to use regular text search though - you could try calculating embedding vectors for the whole of Wikipedia but even with a small embedding model I doubt you could fit those on the device, they'd take up too much space.
I know how they can be constructed. But mathematical ideas don’t exist in a vacuum — they’re supposed to reflect some intuition or describe some (possibly very abstract) reality. My worry came from an inability to reconcile the theory with any such intuition.

You can very fruitfully study the real numbers as has been done for centuries; that’s not up for debate.
VS Code Ctrl-Shift-P, yes.

And I'd want the results to drop down not to climb up.
IF RFID was useful for other purposes it would be worth the small cost (scale can bring RFID costs down - it would cost more than bar codes, but potentially can bring enough logistical benefits that overall it is cheaper). However so far the logistical benefits can't be realized because you can't be 100% sure you read all the tags in a room.
I can't believe anyone would do a study about this for two reasons.

First, well, duh. Don't need a study to tell you this.

Second, was this done for someone to explain why they're not successful? A lot of people want to justify a lack of effort because the chips are stacked against them. All any of us are supposed to do though is be the best version of ourselves we can be.

There will always be someone smarter, taller, better looking. Who cares? Do your best.
I sense you are a techno-optimist.
Reddit devs are probably the least competent of any modern social media platform. Any talent goes to an actual site, leaving the typical "redditors" () to work for reddit.

Naturally, this leads pretty much any technical project to be doomed from inception.
"But landlords cannot just take or misplace my stuff, especially if I pay rent and have some rights."

They sure can. Years ago I had a shitty landlord clear an apartment I'd moved 95% of my belongings from but before the term of my lease had ended. Now you may have some legal recourse, but the cost/time associated with litigating a matter like that tends to outweigh the remedy.
> In one of my papers, I actually assumed that two features in material have to be minimum epsilon distance away to show that the method convergences in a reasonable amount of computational effort. (where epsilon is arbitrarily small) So, I did break the continuum barrier to do some useful physics ones.

Forgive me for asking the obvious question, but isn't that… just "atoms"?

(And now I remember my excitement when I first got to play with satellite data and python, did a Fourier transform to see if there was any temporal pattern to the environment, and was disappointed to realise I'd just rediscovered "winter and summer" in quite possibly the most ridiculous way possible).
In the alt text, but it is DALL-E.
I am still skeptical that users are correctly describing the behavior of a multi-party synced filesystem, or that Drive for Windows is bug-free. You seem to think it's a flaw on the backend but I think there are many other possible causes.
You got a glib answer from another guy, but I like the question. It's kind of like you're saying: how much information can I store in a particle? And should there be a limit?

(I'm assuming you're talking about in the classical case, since the article also also considers classical dynamics and the problems associated with it.)

I'm actually gonna make a note to think about this later because this reminds me a lot of Charles Bennett's work on information and entropy, and I don't think it's a bad question at all. I'm considering the idea of representing the particle's position as x = .01010111001 and then idealizing a "machine" that lets it do work by erasing one bit of information. I have to work so I can't think about this right now but it's a cool thought.

Edit: I did think about and you're right! You can extract infinite energy if you know a particle's position to perfect precision. Very interesting!

Make the particle an ideal gas in a box at temperature T. At some instant in time, measure the position of the particle to N bits precision. Now place membranes around the particle to keep it to within the precision we measured it. We can kill one bit of precision by allowing the particle to isothermally expand the membranes into a volume with half the precision that we measure (so if we measure down to 1mm precision, we let it expand into 2mm.) The amount of work we can extract is:

W = \int p dV = \int kT dV V = kT ln 2

So for N bits precision you can extract NkT ln2 units of energy. I'll leave it to someone else to comment on whether this makes a black hole or not but this is exactly in the spirit of the article!
Can anyone recommend a Google Drive backup to something like AWS S3 Glacier or other long-term storage provider? I was running BorgBase but had some financial difficulties and couldn't pay for it, plus copying 2TB of data from home at around 40Mbit/s isn't great.

Ideally something that pulls from google directly without involving my home computer would be best.
thanks! and the Sceptics SO circles back here in 2011:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135

the keyboard vs mouse controversy is an evergreen
I guess it kinda depends on the type of role playing the party is looking for. If you want to role play the survival then great, probably don’t use a rich-poor dynamic where survival is handled by coin. I tend to think most parties prefer to just get to the dungeoneering and not spend too much time haggling with the shopkeepers and in-keepers for affordable rates on amenities, though.
Well, the term "computer vision" (CV) is apparently too vague and unstable to restrict the functional scope of a still manageable library with it. Perhaps they should consider to move the parts that are now apparently beyond the scope and for which they are collecting money into a new library under a new name, rather than endlessly inflating something mature and proven.
It was in the mid-nineties and I had to hand in my weekly lab report. As my printer at home had decided to go on strike once again (as they used to do in the mid-nineties) I decided to print it in the university's library. So I went, still a quarter to the deadline, with my little 3.5 inch floppy disk. All the PCs were taken so I resorted to the only Mac.

I was a little excited, because these jewels were expensive back then, and usually always taken by someone that seemed to have more important design tasks to do than I had. Now I had the opportunity, for once.

I inserted my floppy, opened the document, sent it to the printer. All went fine until I wanted to get back my disk to rush to the lab session. No button to eject, nowhere to be found, so I asked one of my fellows sitting at a PC. He told me to drag the disk into trash bin. Yeah, right, sure I believe that! So I asked another guy, and sure he said I should throw my disk into the bin.

Now, these lab reports were important, because you needed to pass all of them to be allowed to write the test at the end of the semester and there were only two substitute dates. So I had little choice. I dragged the little disk icon over the little bin icon and let go. I already saw all my work on the disk gone but to my great surprise the disk ejected immediately and completely unharmed.

My lab report was handed over in time, it passed. The two substitute dates at the end of the semester never materialized because the prof was sick, as every year before and after - as I lerned. So, good on me to trust my fellow students but g00daxxit terrible UI!
That's not just Linux, that's a more global IP sockets thing.
Reddit knew they could wait out the blacked out sub mods, or actively force them to either resume or be replaced... and Reddit were right. It's back to business as usual, minus 3rd party apps (goodbye one-time-payment version of Narwhal, I miss you) and perhaps marginally worse content.
Off topic: how do you determine what percentage of search is coming from humans?
There are various levels of tyranny.

The county I am in (Ghana), had a spree of military dictators for over 30 years but the military didn’t go on a killing spree. Guns are available and the military had the weakest amount of influence in the countryside where many farmers had weapons.

Having the half the population armed with handguns would have been a huge restraint on the army since they wouldn’t have been able to operate safely in cities either.

While it’s true that it wouldn’t stop indiscriminate genocide committed by the government, most counties are factional and the military is made of people who have relatives in the general pop.
Memory serves you wrong. No performance impact running inside the jail as it is basically just a jail id managed by the kernel.

I have no qualms with neither Linux nor CGroups. Great technology in itself. No reason to spread FUD.
Algorithm identifies 188 new CRISPR gene-editing systems
A tangent to add to your tangent

>There is 0 reason a modern phone couldn’t be used for the rest of your life.

At some point we must reach peak tech. In the Elite: Dangerous universe, there are quite a few ships you can use, but the majority of them are designs that are hundreds of years old. They are modular spaceships, of course, so they have received upgraded technology as time has gone on, but there are some quirky little ships flying around.

Compared to phones though, we'd need to get carriers to guarantee their old networks stay functional so old cellular radios will still function. Maybe when tech advances enough we CAN have a modular phone it will be less of a concern.
But not on standard C++. And C++/CLI doesn't collect garbage of native objects.
"Mathematical objects arise from definitions, not measurements and observations."

Abstract logical frameworks are not pulled from thin air. Human brains develop such frameworks with a physical brain that receives sensory input from a physical world, and hence there is a deep connection between the physical world and the abstract logical frameworks in many ways.
Iteration is useful, but not really innovation.
640 cores ought to be enough for anyone!
How attractive someone is or becomes is not an immutable attribute. If you have a little bit of success or luck in your early life and have a decent diet, access to healthcare, decent clothes and grooming that can make an insane difference in how attractive you are at say 30. You see the opposite in people that get mixed up with hard drugs or alcohol at a young age.
My favorite database shirts
> Just like computer code, it must be transmitted precisely. if it’s
missing one letter, it won’t work.

LLMs are quite forgiving in that regard now.
The iCloud is built by a different company than Google Drive
Any number that cannot be effectively computed does not exist; there are actual hard physical limits to Numbers.
This relates to a criticism I have for woke and SJW people: Do they follow the same tendency?

Most SJW people I know tend to be critical of the idea of a beauty standard at all, which is an interesting initiative if they can actually pull it off. And I do agree that it would be nice to stop being biased towards conventionally attractive people.

Then, with that logic, we should be seeing "woke couples" who don't follow that tendency: "Conventionally attractive" people with "conventionally ugly" partners, not with the idea of having a trophy or "liking ugly people", but with the same power dynamics as a couple where both parts are equally attractive. Since both are woke, in their own eyes the idea of being ugly or pretty either shouldn't exist, or be based around some very different personal attributes (like empathy or intelligence, perhaps).

Sadly, I almost never see it happen.
Works like a charm! Ty
Well it solves it until it happens again
¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

I wasn't implying that you can't complain about it!
The EU wants to use this trust relationship to break all encryption.
I do the same thing for Drive, but with rclone (which is free as in speech and beer). rclone makes it trivial to keep a mirror on backblaze and locally, which has come in quite handy a few times.

I've elevated to rclone fanboy since I discovered crypt: https://rclone.org/crypt/
In Baldur's Gate 2 the first plot arc is basically "raise 20,000g somehow to save your sister" and as you wander the city you're asking everyone "hey... any idea how I can make some money?". I always liked that. Games where you end up inconceivably wealthy always feel stupid to me, in the same way that games where you end up invincible feel stupid.
Many antennas do this (screwdriver antennas come to mind), so I’d expect some similar ability to do this with exhaust. The only issue I can think of is turbulence from the seams of segments that extend.
Block filtering is a better alternative for grep
here in California there were zero instances of "flashing a ROM" among ordinary developers -- it was obviously illegal (maybe a reason) but also you just buy a Mac and get the rom image.. Macs were everywhere... fifty percent of the Macs in the world were in this area, by some measures at some time.

This was the nightmare of Apple from the early days and they actively pursued it. Also, intelligent people in the creative professions were inventing things.
And the simulator may have been done with simulating it all in a blink of an eye. Our perception of time is completely irrelevant.
No-Bullshit Games: iOS Games
That quote seems to be from around 1989. So the studies are 35+ years old now. And they are from Apple, which had a well optimized GUI even in their early days. It's really not that hard to see Apple-researchers having better results at their preferred tasks on their own optimized interface, at a time when everything was still quite young and unoptimized.

So I would take those quote as selection biased.
To nitpick a little further, it actually is not possible that the second player has a winning strategy. For that to be the case, P2 would need a winning path of play no matter what P1's first move is.

Suppose that P1 passes on their first move (which is a valid move). Then P2 has a winning path of play in which they put down the first stone. But P1 could have made that move and then they would be on the winning path.
"While you can technically generate your VAPID keys by yourself, it is much easier to use a generator, like vapidkeys.com, which will generate a set of keys for you."

Please don't use online tools to generate private keys. Not CSRs, not WG configs or bitcoin wallets, Nothing. Just don't.
Particle positions aren't stored by the universe as REAL but rather as DECIMAL(62, 35)