skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh you misunderstand. When you query the LLM for the second iteration of the loop just do it regardless. Say something generic, ask it to reanalyze the answer more carefully. Ask it to compare it with existing known data and check for logical consistency. You can do this EVEN if you don't know whether or not the answer is wrong.

Because the input is generic you can make this automated. When a user makes a query create a feedback loop and feed that back into the neural network multiple times with additional input requests to re-analyze analyze the query and resulting output more carefully. You can do this until you exhaust all input nodes and it "forgets" what you talked about previously.
It builds on the Peace War, and I'd read that first. (But also, both books are fairly short, much smaller than Fire Upon the Deep.)
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
The refigerator in the NYC scene has a very slick specular lighting effect based on the angle you're viewing it from, and if you go "into" the fridge you can see it's actually generating a whole 3d scene with blurry grey and white colors that turn out to precisely mimic the effects of the light from the windows bouncing off the metal, and you can look "out" from the fridge into the rest of the room. Same as the full-length mirror in the bedroom in the same scene—there's a whole virtual "mirror room" that's been built out behind the mirror to give the illusion of depth as you look through it. Very cool and unique consequence of the technology
It runs impressively well on my 2yo s21fe.
It was super impressive how it streamed in more images as I explored the space. The tv reflections in the Berlin demo were super impressive.

My one note is that it look a really long time to load all the images - the scene wouldn't render until all ~40 initial images loaded. Would it be possible to start partially rendering as the images arrive, or do you need to wait for all of them before you can do the first big render?
I live on an implicitly ad free island in the Pacific. You might figure out where but I'm being vague for privacy. In any case, I don't believe there is any law against e.g. billboards here, but there definitely aren't any. I really appreciate it. When I've driven in e.g. California I feel so depressed seeing all the billboards.
I'm the author or the WASM (+wazero) based github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3.
Happy to field questions.

W.r.t. benchmark results.

wazero's current compiler is somewhat naive, which may explain a large performance delta in CPU bound tests. A new compiler is in the works [1].

OTOH it seems interesting that in the (IO bound?) large test I'm doing better than modernc. I wonder why.

I'll dig deeper into the results.

[1]: https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero/pull/1869
Interesting. You’d need about a billion files to store all possible 6 character file names assuming you limited yourself to latin alphanumeric characters. How big are these USB drives?
I agree that some billboards are real road hazards. But if you are stuck at a light or in a massive traffic I'd rather you look at them than your phone.

SF is actually the example I had in mind because they do a good job of keeping them away from the scenic areas - but the whole downtown core is already such a dump that I really don't mind the advertisements.

I think you are also discounting how weird SF ads are - as a visitor they are actually unique and interesting to me. One of the fun things about visiting different cities is seeing how unique the cultures are, and ads actually give you a good window into this.
Anyone contemplating Snowball or Snowmobile needs to be aware that they always charge the per-GB price for data egress, on top of the hardware rental and shipping.
I really don't understand how they came up with the _exact_ same image. This goes against my previous understanding of how these technologies work, and would appear to lend credence to the "they just regurgitate training material" argument.
I've got an overactive filter as well, and I think it's because of a similar conditioning around "99% of incoming signal is worthless to me".

I'm often wondering what the speed limit is here because I missed the sign.

I still notice pretty sunsets though.
> The adjectives you used are the opposite of mass market. Thus mass-market advertising doesn't work, so those businesses don't spend money in those channels.

I know why they don't advertise on billboards. My point is that billboards are not the life support of local business suggested by the comment I was responding to, because the local businesses that give a city character and community generally don't use billboards.

> For example: insurance, lawyers and RE agents - they need to build "trust" through name recognition so when you do decide to make that purchase/call, you call them first.

...Right. So in other words, the billboard is mostly deception, and it's probably not bringing value to the public.
Agreed. I'd take it even further, framing it as more of a 3-way venn intersection of design/ux + engineering + product. I have lots of related experience and many more thoughts to share, if others are interested....
But he's the FCC? They are both the executive branch.
Related is libmill, which has been around for awhile and is was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699829

libmill supports a bunch of stuff like sockets, timers, files, etc.
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Oh, yeah, that’s worse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny
134-Year-Old Photo Is the Oldest to Ever Be Developed
A bit ironic you linked to Amazon no?
I realize your intention is to provide good feedback and you obviously know a lot, but if you could shift the pH slightly away from acidic, that would be better. Keep in mind that criticisms like this have a tendency to land 10x harder than you intended.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I've had some success with pyinstaller but recently have been getting inconsistent results with an application I've written that uses pyside6. It was working for a while but all of a sudden the pyinstaller exe is giving an error that doesn't happen when I run the same code using python.

Happened right before I had to go to the hospital (where I currently am) so I haven't had a chance to dig into it. But if this works reliably I'd be happy to switch.
I thought modern speculative cpu’s had way more registers than you can normally access. Why does it reserve these registers for speculative execution instead of exposing them to the program if it needs them?
I feel like in 90% of Starlinks use cases it is only the best option because they are the most motivated to succeed. Running traditional wired service is the more practical and permanent solution but the telecoms have made far to much money by taking money then not delivering.
I honestly thought that’s what this was. I’m sure they will fund them especially since the a16z games seems to have sunk a lot of money in crypto junk so they need to do the “AI-pivot”. At least an engine could be a viable business
reasonable defaults within a very limited scope vs a proper design system
Does Proxmox have a free version available, or is it only available for purchase?

Asking because although their website says its OSS it's super unclear what to download for homelab use.

If they're seriously wanting people to pay $$$ even to run it on old homelab gear, that's not going to work (for me). ;)
Something like Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org/)
> SLS for example was estimated to cost $1.5B

I wish it was; lol. The initial estimate was $18B [1]. I suspect you saw the $1.5B number for some sub-component of SLS. That's another common problem with government projects. The media will read some government report that says a new railroad will cost $1B and then report that the entire project will cost $1B while the report only talked about track cost and not about land acquisition, even environmental studies, or etc.

That said, yes SLS is over ($23B) the $18B budget and not done.

I do wish NASA would move closer to how DARPA does things where you payout a reward to companies that achieve some milestone. Somewhat close to what the FCC did here except the FCC is giving the money ahead of milestone. But there are pros and cons to this as government contracting is a pia so when you get into the situation of a single competitor it gets awkward.

Contractors not meeting their bids is a problem though. At the personal/corporate/government level I don't think people account for enough the fact that the contractor might not uphold their side of the bargin. Similar to how many people choose the cheapest insurance and then :surprise-pickachu-face: all their claims get denied.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System#Funding
I hope you are right but am skeptical. Only because older and wealthier people are very consistent voters - and "don't raise taxes on ordinary homeowners" seems to be very popular as a populist message as well, even among people who are likely to never own a home.
Wow. Some questions:

Take for instance the fulllivingroom demo. (I prefer fps mode.)

1) How many images are input?

2) How long does it take to compute these models?

3) How long does it take to prepare these models for this browser, with all levels, etc?

4) Have you tried this in VR yet?
or ask most of the people managers to become ICs and start actually doing something technical
a16z doesn't know anything about video games, basically. A bunch of stuff widely used isn't on this map at all and instead there are buzzword startups on the map that will never be used to ship a video game to customers.
We’ve had companies with astronomical market caps and the wealthiest government in the world for a long time, both with the capability of laying fiber and none doing so. Space tech bro is actually solving it not just for rural areas but much of world.

What I’m saying is, feel free to step in if you can, but the market has spoken and the market is not interested in solving the problem your way.
I miss the Dash-8, overall I liked them better than the ancient Embraers that always come to my local airport.
Basically what ended up replacing Alef in Plan 9.

https://9p.io/magic/man2html/2/thread
Hyperscalers have long been doing infrastructure-wide profiling (or "Google-Wide Profiling" as the first whitepaper on the topic calls it [1]). This tech allows Google to reduce infra-resource usage by multiple percentage points per quarter.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/google-wide-profiling-a-continu...
Grab it while it's still up... https://linksawakeningdxhd.itch.io/links-awakening-dx-hd
Based on some experience (designer and developer), here’s some thoughts I currently have about them:

- high-level idea is usually understood, although mixed with design tooling
- practical usage rarely straightforward
- most of the activities are surface level and trivial
- required effort to maintain and develop often underestimated
- maturity level rarely reaches the potential
- ”component” is not an easy concept, especially in multi-product setting
- too often design driven, when implementation driven would make more sense
- generates meetings on many meta-dimensions
- not necessarily rewarding exercise for the maintainer due to various organisational and political challenges
- does not actually help on design-to-development e2e flow as much as advertised
- even with all the work put in, does not guarantee good product
What are their pronouns?
> and we tax the landlord 15% the value on the home, could he find a family to pay $13k/month in rent (covering the tax)?

At that rate they'd sell. That would lower purchase home prices. But there is plenty of primary residential demand, so not by much. Unless that family has $100k+ for a down payment (and good credit, and a long-term outlook towards staying in the area, and all their paperwork in order), they're not in the running to buy it.

After that one-time transfer of housing stock from landlords to residents, you'd be back in the same situation: more demand than supply. Moreover, this would be something one could anticipate. So if Santa Cruz passed this law, I would help my parents pull together the cash to move there. Because once the supply surge is absorbed, you're likely to make money on the return to business as usual.
Show HN: Tiny Code Christmas - 12 days of demoscene effects
Hi everyone,

I'm one of the organisers of Tiny Code Christmas, an event designed to help people take their first steps in demoscene sizecoding with a Lua based fantasy console, either TIC-80 or PICO-8.

There are new videos and challenges released every day from the 11th to the 22nd of December where you can learn classic demoscene effects and techniques as used in Byte Jams, Byte Battles, and Tiny Intros. You can join any time, there's no leaderboard and just a small bit of friendly competition if you want to take part in some code-golf.

The videos make very few assumptions beyond basic programming skill, but if you're already a decent programmer there's plenty of extra challenges to keep you interested, people are taking part using all kinds of weird and wonderful languages and platforms.

If you took part last year, there are new TCC Extra challenges. We also have a great Discord and Mastodon community and you can find those links on the website.

The main hope for TCC is to get more people interested in sizecoding and the demoscene. There is a good overview here on the Getting Started page: https://tcc.lovebyte.party/day0/
> that's just the header

You're providing a ton of code style feedback. That's fair, code style is important, I'm not saying you shouldn't. But surely when providing style feedback in public you could take a friendlier tone :(
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It's not a double standard, it's arguing two possible ways his claim could work. I'm showing that his claim doesn't work in either interpretation.
You can definitely do this with the open source version. Many transcription implementations use it to maintain context between the max-30-second chunks Whisper natively supports.
And the f35 is honestly legit when it's all said and done. There's a reason why it's sold so well, and it's only getting better.
Here's a direct link to the article with Dragon Sector answers to Newag's statement:

https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/hakerzy-odpowiadaja...

Fasten your seatbeats, it seems there's a lot more details this time. For instance, the say they have a before/after Newag service diff of the firmware, and there are interesting changes there.

If that's true, then the "rogue hackers" must be sprinkled inside Newag :).
Oh, come on, these kinds of false analogies don't help to elucidate, only to confuse.

There is a universe of difference between something like ParkShuttle (its own right of way, using magnets in the road to detect position) and modern autonomous vehicles. Saying modern autonomous vehicles have environmental constraints is valid, saying that makes then no different than a "people mover on wheels" is not.
There are game engine startups out there but I suspect veterans are going to stay far away from a16z money because they look clueless.

An industry vet I know recently complained to me specifically about a16z, unprompted, after seeing some of their PR like this. He recently raised 8 figures for his games startup.
From present values? I think the answer for "society" is definitively yes, because present values exclude all but top, idk, 5% earners from homeownership in urban and suburban areas. It's extra pronounced in CA because of prop 13, but we face this problem all around the country.

It would be a not-minor hiccup for the segment of retirees and near-retirees who depend on rental cash flow for their retirement. They could sell their 2nd and 3rd properties for reduced values, buy an annuity, and live an appropriately downscaled lifestyle.

IDK, my main goal is to restore our communities with 70+% residential homeownership. I think the emergent socioeconomic & cultural effects of communities where the majority of people are long-term committed to their locale are more valuable to society than the effects of rent-seeking.
I invite you to go live in Santa Cruz for a year and let me know how close to Silicon Valley it is. We're not talking about Palo Alto or Saratoga here... you aren't in commuting distance to any jobs. You're going to wait in traffic for minimum 1.5 hours on mountain roads each way to get to/from work. If it rains or if there's a single car accident then your commute easily doubles. And that's if you work in San Jose... forget it if you're any further up the bay.
Is this related to University of Austin?

https://www.uaustin.org/
I can totally see not wanting ads in historic areas, but on their website you can see them protesting billboards in industrial sections and freeway underpasses and the like.
Yeah, I think everyone knows that Nvidia is doing a cracker job. But it is good to just be specific about these benchmarks because numbers get thrown around and it turns out people are testing different things. The other thing is that Apple is extracting this performance on a laptop, at ~1/8 the power draw of the desktop Nvidia card.

In any event, it’s super cool to see such huge leaps just in the past year on how easy it is to run this stuff locally. Certainly looking very promising.
It's possible OpenAI doesn't get any money; and they just provide whatever "AI service" is being requested of them, and returns the results to Dropbox.

And, well, if OpenAI just happens to gain access to a trove of data by providing the service... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>> You can sell ads without targeting.

> You can, but that's not really what Google is selling anymore.

Wrong again. Google's thing is search ads. Those target keywords, not user data. User data is a side-gig for Google, mostly thru youtube, maps, and gmail.
> If you're not a logged in user, it only plays a preview of the tune, which of course does not count towards plays for artists.

Have you considered that's because of music licensing? Playing music costs Spotify money

Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but this is true for anything streaming. If you stream anything beyond the preview, you have to pay the rights holder. Worse still, even previews often cost money (IIRC this is true in audiobooks). So Spotify really has no choice but only play previews for the non-logged-in users. And that's before we start with the usual problems of gaming the system, bots etc. if you count plays by non-logged in users towards artist plays.
I just found out that British Columbia also made their Auto insurance public. Basically, it's part of the DMV there... which makes a lot of sense since they obviously issue the driver and vehicle licenses. A lot of the same information is needed for all of these services, which makes each of these more efficient (and cheaper). It also allows them to ensure that all registered vehicles actually have insurance with good coverage for everyone involved.
What you think that will accomplish? We already schedule industrial loads for times of low demand from residential and commercial. Rescheduling those loads to coincide with high intermittent generation usually requires more transmission and distribution capacity.

Debating total cost depends almost entirely on the particular grid in question. For all we know, those "nuclear fans'" estimates could be spot-on but completely irrelevant to you.
Can you please let me know how your experience is? Feel free to even open an issue on the repo!
Visuals for navigation, a bigger screen that can be more easily viewed while sitting upright in the driver’s seat, and UI that’s designed for use while driving.
Tesla's recall will make it harder – not impossible – to misuse Autopilot
> should really be a bool

bool is actually #define bool _Bool. You have to include <stdbool.h> to get it. That's ugly enough not to want to use it.

I'm looking at the April 2023 draft of ISO C. Under "Relational Expressions" I see that the result of an expression like x < y isn't bool, but ... int.

Here is the exact wording, minus a footnote reference:

Each of the operators < (less than), > (greater than), <= (less than or equal to), and >= (greater than or equal to) shall yield 1 if the specified relation is true and 0 if it is false. The result has type int.

int is still the Boolean type in C, and null pointers and zeros are still falsy, relational expressions yield 0 or 1 of type int, and #define bool is just a sham for anal retentives.

> typedefs ending with _t are reserved for standards extensions

That is inaccurate. It's POSIX that reserves this namespace. Even if you're targeting POSIX, the reservation has next to no practical meaning, and can safely be ignored.

Here is why. What POSIX says is that when new type names will be introduced in the future in POSIX, they will have _t as a suffix. Well, so what? New type names in ISO C will also have _t suffixes, yet ISO C doesn't say anything about that being "reserved".

When a new identifier is introduced, it has to start and end in something.

Whenever POSIX introduces a new public identifier in the future, that identifier will either start with "a", or else with "b", or with "c" ... does that mean that we should stop using all identifiers in order not to tread on a reserved space?

When you have a language without namespaces/packages, you just live with the threat of a clash and deal with it when it happens.

Name clashes are not just with standards like ISO C and POSIX but vendor extensions and third-party code.

The mole is only a problem when it rears its head, and that's when you whack it.
Indeed, bool (or _Bool) was added in C99, hence my pointing out it not being used… it's not in C89.

It matters because the return value sense is different; an "int" return for a status-ish thing in a modern library generally means 0 for success, nonzero for error codes. "bool" is the other way around, 0 for failure-y. In this case it's a status retrieval function so it's pretty clear that it's intended as a boolean but it'd still be better to actually make it bool.
Any plans to do this in VR? I would love to try this.
Just took a look at their website, and they don't even allow people to download their "Community Edition" without first providing an email address (with some basic validation of it), first and last name, phone number, job title, and company name.

Fuck that. They can go and fuck themselves sideways instead. :(
I agree with all of this, but if the problem is too hard for the expert, why would I listen to a billionaire/CEO?
How did you develop them from zero if you were missing those basic skills?

I am a musician and I'm keenly interested in music education. I believe you when you say that you lacked some basic facilities; I think it's rare, but more common than people think that someone is genuinely tone-deaf, or can't "visualize" pitches and intervals, or can't memorize songs, or can't feel a rhythm. I always wonder if those deficiencies can be overcome. I'm really interested in your tale, if you wanted to write more privately, would you consider sending me an email? It's in my HN profile.
The President has a lot less control over independent agencies like the FCC. For example, the FCC commissioner currently attacking Biden is able to enjoy doing so from that position because Biden doesn't have the legal power to dismiss him.
I doubt anyone is suggesting "magic" and obviously when people talk about 'safety' they mean preventing crashes and escaping the VM.

What specific marketing are you talking about? Link what you're referring to.
I understand, but the original comment was saying that was worse than what was available to many. That is not true in my case.
I mean, if you're saying the locals (a population of what? a million?) should be able to compete with the best and brightest from the entire planet (9 billion?) or move, then I have to disagree.
The question isnt whether it is phenomenal. The question is if Starlink is meeting the obligations outlined in the grant, and if so, why they didn’t bother to dispute the numbers FCC showed.