skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't most old game like that? Mostly because scrolling was hard back in the days.

The Oxyd games including Esprit and the FOSS version Enigma

The Atari ST game Thriller N.T. and maybe also Shocker and Shocker 2 but not sure on those as I didn't play them in a long time sadly.

Head over Heels

And probably many more, and more popular games, do that, but for some reason my mind comes up with those only.

And maybe even Zork counts? You only "see" (get a description of) one room at a time.
It is relevant as most migrations in Eurasia for centuries were not of replacement but of assimilation kind.
Is Mojo trying to solve this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwTjZvy8vw
Ahhh I heard there was controversy for some launches. I'm very glad I'm wrong, I think RTGs are so awesome and the closest we have to sci Fi energy generation in space.
There is a confusion between hallucination and lack of information. RAGs work by finding the top N answers given some query, and then, based on this information, the underlying model tries to make up some text. This is unreasonable, and it will only work out of the box for the most straightforward use cases - i.e., chatting with a single document, but there are limitations.

So, I am not surprised that Copilot cannot answer information that is readily available in the right place. It is also unlikely that one can find that document, among many others, on the first try unless one is quoting a specific phrase.

The fundamental architecture needs to change. Copilot needs to act more like an agent - i.e., perform multi-step research to find this information and do it fast.
Yeah if I had a cent for every 'revolutionary' thing some random guy on internet writes about (who is definitely not impartial due to extremely limited and guarded early access to it, I mean come on, we're adults here who understand cash flows, incentives and modern advertising).

These kind of articles should be ignored for actual facts till after release when people with no skin in the game actually review it. Or shell out 3500 dollars and be a beta tester.
HPC admin here.

ROCm, which is AMD's equivalent of CUDA. The thing is you don't have to directly interface with CUDA or ROCm. Once the framework you want to use supports these, you're done.

AMD is consistently getting used on the TOP500 machines, and this gives them insane amounts of money to improve ROCm. CUDA has an ecosystem and hardware moat, but not because they're vastly superior, but because AMD both prioritized processors first, and NVIDIA played dirty (OpenCL support and performance shenanigans, anyone?).

This moat is bound to be eaten away by both Intel and AMD, and compute will be commoditized. NVIDIA foresaw this and bought Mellanox and wanted ARM to be a complete black box, but it didn't work out.

Ethernet consortium woke up and got agitated by the fact that only ultra-low latency fabric provider is not independent anymore, so they're started to build alternatives to Infiniband ecosystem.

Interesting times are ahead.

Also there's OneAPI, but I'm not very knowledgeable about it. It's a superAPI which can target many compute platforms, like OpenCL, but takes a different approach. It compiles to platform native artifacts (CUDA/ROCm/Intel/x86/custom, etc.) IIRC.
I personally think that having worked in both environments, the biggest issue is companies missing that triage function for bugs, etc. from people who can turn a customer reported bug into a step by step guide for reproducing things.

When I worked in the simulation space we used to get models sent in by customers where a convergence problem or crash would occur in 12 hours of running on a 128 core machine. Those were impossible as a developer to work with in debug mode which made the runtime even longer, so they needed someone to identify the cause of the problem and distill it down to a much smaller model where the bug could be replicated. The QA team in that were really application engineers and were subject matter experts, and they were absolutely invaluable.
Oct Based Eye Scans Offer Non-Invasive Monitoring of Kidney Disease
> It baffles me that this standardization that's been a blessing on x64 is impossible to achieve with ARM.

Intel only sold CPUs at one point. They needed compatibility with all sorts of hardware. ARM manufacturers, on the other hand, sell SOCs, so they don't want any sort of compatibility.
> (1) What's the value add of the LLM here? Does it substantially reduce the number of evaluations necessary to converge? If so, how?

I thought that stochastic (random) gradient descent and LLM were converging much quicker than genetic programming. Definitely much quicker than random search.
I have no idea how to use this website, but if anyone wants to read up on pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
But after enough time passes, lots of people do get interested in their ancestors. That's why DNA ancestry services are a big business - people get curious about where their unknown farther relatives came from. I guess there's just less mystery about people you actually knew.
I’ve found that ChatGTP’s usefulness for Elixir improved dramatically after the updates around dev day.

I’d say it’s still uniquely good with Python, but I find it roughly as useful with Elixir as it is with some other very popular languages.
> Instead each bank has to code "savings account" in COBOL

At most banks nowadays, basic banking functions such as saving accounts are provided by off-the-shelf software, not written from scratch.

That's not to say that nothing gets written from scratch, but it is generally adding code to support the more exotic product offerings, integrations with other systems, institution-specific business rules and processes, etc - any off the shelf banking system is going to have basic bread-and-butter stuff like support for savings accounts already included.

This is true even for COBOL-based banking systems. Historically, many banks used CSC Hogan (now DXC Hogan)-and while many have moved away from it, some are still on it. Hogan runs on IBM mainframes (z/OS), and is written in COBOL and CICS. Basic stuff like savings accounts is supported by the vendor-provided COBOL code, but Hogan sites often end up writing their own custom COBOL code to support their own unique requirements.

> I surprised banks don't have a domain-specific language (DSL) to describe their businesses.

There is a long history of 4GL's being used in banking, going back decades. In prior decades, many of these 4GLs worked by generating COBOL code. Some of them were general-purpose, and used across many industries; others were exclusively used in banking. But, even those exclusively used in banking, rarely (to my knowledge) contained domain-specific banking features, and as such I'm not sure they really count as DSLs.

To give a specific example, FIS Global's core banking platform, Profile, is written in MUMPS (actually the open-source variant GT.M). Due to how horrid MUMPS is as a language, they created their own higher-level object-oriented language which compiles to MUMPS, called PSL (Profile Scripting Language), and gradually rewrote their banking platform in it. An old version of PSL was open-sourced over 10 years ago on Sourceforge, if anyone wants to look at it. [0] I don't think PSL itself has anything really banking-specific in it per se, but as is inevitable with a language developed to support a single application, the boundary between the language and the application is a little blurry, and you'll find a lot of banking-specific stuff in the open source release (possibly included by accident), especially inside the binary GT.M database dump it ships with.

I think the areas in which truly domain-specific languages are strongest in finance - such as modelling financial contracts - are generally the furthest away from the COBOL legacy.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/pip/files/PIP/V0.2/ see also more easily digestible (somewhat improved) Git mirror at https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DBMS/YDBPIP/
What do you mean when you say "discovery of the unconscious"? Depending how you define it such an idea was explored since antiquity.
I live in Kauai, a few miles from him. I know people who have worked at his property too.

Right now on the North Shore there is Mark Zuckerberg, tons of wealthy people moving in, AND a giant mega resort called the 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay all putting strain on the economy and ecology.

I am still carrying through with my vision of a better world. It started back in 2010 when this account was created. I was laughed at then for wanting to take on Facebook. I never quit and kept learning this whole time. I am close to Mount Doom now, Ring is still in tact. I am a little beat up after the Maui fires and that I had to relocate to here but I'm still going.
> What is a Program?

A program is a set of rules for converting input into output.

A program doesn’t need input or output though right?… it’s just a series of logical instructions that are executed
I remember being blown away by this. Unhygienic templating and lack of template and serialization boundaries has been such a consistent disaster in our field for so many decades that it is hard to believe we are still dealing with this kind of design error in relatively new technology.

My feeling is we will probably all look back at the over-use of text based DSLs and configuration languages as a giant mistake. Not just with respect to K8s, but IaC, CI/CD config and the rest of the DevOps YAML/config language mess. In retrospect, it has been a case of simplistic instead of simple. "Declarative" config languages are hello world optimized, and what looked great at the beginning of the S-curve is starting to look pretty damn bad.
My first jobs in the late 80s/early 90s were COBOL programming. At my second one I finally convinced the management to put me onto the tools team who wrote the code generators for the '4GL'.

One of the things I did was write a COBOL pre-processor (in C) to allow re-use of code and variables so the variables looked like locals rather than globals.
Summary: The transparency of ocular media offers a unique opportunity for direct visualisation of the microvascular circulation, and recent advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have enabled high-resolution identification of specific retinal cell layers, as well as deeper structures such as the choroid, in a way only previously possible histologically.

In a study published in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43125-1), the researchers investigated the potential of OCT in a series of prospective studies of patients with pre-dialysis CKD (including those with a kidney transplant), patients with kidney failure undergoing kidney transplantation, living kidney donors, and healthy volunteers, involving almost 300 participants overall.
In an ideal gas, speed of sound depends on the temperature and molar mass, but not density as the density terms cancel out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas#Speed_of_sound

It's hot, so the speed of sound is high.
Only in the West is valuing (and wanting to protect) your own culture now seen as extremist and hateful. For everyone else and pretty much all of human history it is and was the norm.
I see this issue with JavaScript too, sometimes.
> Anybody have insights into the advantages and disadvantages from both sides from that perspective

Yes. Having a lot of cash buys you exclusivity for TSMC 3nm and then for TSMC 2nm.
This happened in October? And there's no videos on the page?
You could do sparse deep learning with much, much larger models with these CPUs. As paradoxical as it might sound, sparse deep learning gets more compute bound as you add more cores.
The idea is lovely and really appealing — I think the main reason it hasn’t gone that way is because this technology is inherently about leverage and scale. Write code once, run it a million times for little marginal cost. All structural forces seem to be working against this. Maybe when we’re all out of a job replaced by AI it will be more feasible??
> So seems it'll only run in Linux, as it's a requirement to have Ubuntu WSL running beforehand.

Yes, it'll only run in Linux, but only when that Linux is also running inside Windows.
Botticelli is an open-source .NET Core framework for building your own universal bots integrated with databases, queue brokers, speech engines and AI engines (such as Gpt-j and ChatGPT).
There are several reasons to choose Botticelli:
- cross-platform
- reliable
- easy to use
- easy to deploy(docker support)
- easy to integrate with databases
- easy to integrate with AI solutions (Botticelli.AI)
- easy to integrate with speech synthesizers (Botticelli.Talks)
- easy to integrate with queue brokers for highload systems (Botticelli.Bus)
- easy to schedule (Botticelli.Scheduler)

Website: http://botticellibots.com/

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/botticelli_bots

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I mentioned the Mars rovers as well.
I've never died in a car, but I experienced awful negative externalities with public transportation all the time (back when I used it). You're comparing a 95% occurrence to a <1% occurrence.
I feel dumb, but I don't get their response or why it's hilarious. It's just wrong?
Global coal supply likely peaked in 2023 and then to decline
"Discord’s Counter-Extremism analysts proactively detected, removed, and reported this user to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, which is what led to the user’s arrest." (from the liked article)

So I would hazard a guess at keyword matching algorithms. No need for a LLM. But automated most likey.
You might have missed it, because this article somehow failed to mention it, but half this chip is TSMC's silicon.

Going forward, Intel is going to be TSMC's second biggest 3nm customer. They're not using TSMC N3 here but it shows their commitment (to temporarily giving up on their own process).
Are you saying Schmidhuber should also get credit for smartphones?
Yeah, I’ve come round to this because the base case is a zero mana activated ability that you never stop activating. That ought to give you a loss on time the moment your opponent calls a judge and you refuse to stop. More complex loops where you nevertheless choose to continue and can’t make a convincing case you’re progressing should be the same. The recent ruling just short circuits that discussion for one specific combo so I suppose I’m fine. For online play we have clocks and they should fix MTGO’s stack depth.

I’m still not convinced uncontrollable loops should be forcibly avoided. That seems unnatural and I’m not really against draws per se. I guess I’d just feel very angry in chess if I were forced to play a worse move and lose when a repetition leading to a draw was available.
I very recently have been accepted as the moderator of an abandoned, moderated group.

As such, I needed to find a Usenet provider who would accept posting into moderated groups, from a moderator.

I originally contacted Eternal September, and Wolfgang informed me my account had been configured to allow such posting, but it does not work ("account not authorized") and now he does not respond to email.

I then contacted four commercial providers, all of whom did not know about moderated groups, and either failed to respond in a timely manner (a week) or failed to grasp the concept of moderated groups;

1. Giganews

2. Tweaknews

3. Eweka

4. Usenetserver

Giganews first line support did not know about moderated news-groups. I explained, and once the support staffer understood, a support ticket was created. Giganews claim a few hours response time. When asked about this, they then say up to three days. After seven days, I cancelled the support ticket.

Tweakness, Eweka and Usenetserver I think are in fact the same company. I could be completely wrong, but they all use the same support software, have the same options in the drop down lists on their sites, and so on.

All did not know about moderated news-groups, and all were unable to grasp the concept, and all then went into that failure mode, where support is giving the wrong answers to questions, not paying attention to what is written, not reading the history of communication, and so finally going into a loop which consisted of them telling me "you need an account to post" (where they meant posting normally - not as a moderator), which they had said before, and which I had replied to before (explaining again about moderated news-groups, to which they explained Usenet is not moderated and anyone can post, etc, etc, etc).

After two weeks, I gave up with them.
Like SMS, which is the default right now unless both users are iPhone users?
Well, Denmark is not the whole of Europe.

In Switzerland, free texts to non-Swiss numbers is expensive/rather uncommon. Instant Messaging is free to anyone the the world. Thus, SMS are dead (except for 2FA).
While the article acknowledges that another way to look at computers/machines is to call them "incorruptible", it sticks to "ruthless" and "oppression" throughout.

Instead, I'd use a different, neutral term like someone used for nature here: they are indifferent to our emotions.

But that's about right: so are shovels, or meteorites, waterfalls, or a rock falling off a cliff. The main difference is that most of those inert objects act in accordance with natural forces, whereas machines have some unnatural movement (like sideways with train doors).

The other difference is that we have introduced many more of such inert objects "acting" into our environment, but we have been doing that long before we could build sophisticated machines and computers (ceilings did fall, statues and bridges collapsed, animals killed and hurt their stewards...).

As such, I would vehemently disagree: prescribing any moral direction to objects can only confuse and introduce FUD (has been done throughout history). With machines, we actually have an ability to choose the behaviour (adding sensors to train doors is pretty simple).

The fact that we don't is purely our choice, the same way we teach our kids by letting them fall, get a bad grade or experience anything negative — not because we don't love them. Do you feel like delaying a train of 1000 people because you are slightly late is ok? Would you go and thank everyone or apologize to anyone affected on the train — if you were not ruthless, you would, right?

I don't really believe the above, I am simply showing how easy it is to turn this on its head.
Home town! Nice to see the candle arch btw :-D
For once Google is doing the right thing.
yeah I heard about lib like XState; just not sure what values it actually provides for a team to decide to use it in a real-world app
I can't recall a strike ever preventing me from getting to work in my car?
>Any issues we would describe in general terms to the development team -- we didn't want them to figure out our testcases

I’m sorry but this is just lol. Did the devs play back by creating bugs and seeing if your team could find them?
It's on Godot website features page.
If it hasn't got your name on it, then it's not a contract and that's what they're trying to enforce. "The Legal Occupier" sounds like a pub to me, so I bin every letter wrongly addressed to my house with that name. TV licensing letters are also the only ones sent with windows on the envelope allowing you to read the threats inside, kind of defeating the point of an envelope. I'm not interested in TV but there's also zero chance I'm ever going to give money to a corporation who pays Gary Lineker thirty grand a week to talk about football for half an hour on a Saturday.
I hate that. Postgres is weirdly expensive when cloud managed and this pricing adds to that.
International Energy Agency Global Coal Report December 2023 (released Friday 15th December 2023)

Global coal production is forecast to have risen by 1.8% in 2023, with continued growth in India, China and Indonesia more than offsetting declines in the United States and the European Union.

Thus, 2023 marks another all-time high in global coal production, totalling 8 741 Mt. [...]

For the forecast period, we expect a net reduction in global coal production starting in 2024, which would mean global coal production peaking in 2023 in line with global coal demand.

Ongoing declines in the United States and the European Union are likely to be complemented by reduced production volumes in Indonesia, as Chinese demand for seaborne thermal coal is likely to decrease.

The last bastion of remarkable growth in production is India, serving the growing demand from its power sector.

Our model suggests that declines in other countries will more than offset this growth, resulting in global production of 8 394 Mt in 2026.
Google DeepMind used a large language model to discover new math
This is the Project Lyra [1], where a UK-registered not-for-profit company suggest sending a spacecraft to catch-up with ʻOumuamua object that pass thru solar system in 2017, by using orbital mechanic. Spacecraft set off at right window would speed up using gravity assist maneuver [2] around objects in the solar system and save a lot of fuel to hopefully reach 'Oumuamua in 26 years

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Lyra

[2] - https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2023/12/11/99b60d87a3679fe0-vp9.mp4
Cargo-Multivers
complete and total unfounded guess... thermal expansion?
As far as I’m aware these do encode depth information and are not just stereoscopic movies. You will get parallax by moving your head.
You’re right. What the author is doing here is philosophizing. Trying to make connections, view things from an angle, come up with your own definition. Maybe forgetting that others have already explored the space. It’s OK to do that even if you don’t impress many people.
>Apple is getting amazing performance at far lower power consumption.

They do that also for iOS. But people still buy Android devices with weaker Qualcomm CPUs. Because not every person in this world is rich enough to pay $2000 on an iPhone. For some people, even $200 is a big effort.

And there's other reasons, too. I can afford an iPhone, but I don't think it's worth that kind of money. And the camera on my current phone is better. As I love photography, having a better camera is more important to me than crunching better scores in Geekbench 6.

On the laptop side, I finally gave up and bought a Macbook Pro for movie watching and couch browsing, because I dislike having the device plugged in. But for work I still use x86 laptops and desktops. Performance is higher than on Apple devices, for lower price, it's just the consumption that is higher. And I don't care about that aspect since I always keep my work device plugged in, hooked to external displays and docking stations.
See if you can find a copy of "The Year of the Mouse" by Norman Spinrad.
Correct link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/dooms-creators-remini...
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6

tl;dr
We discover new constructions of large cap sets going beyond the best known ones, both in finite dimensional and asymptotic cases.

A cap set is a subset of Z_3^n such that no three vectors sum to zero
Maybe thermals? Idk
You might be interested in it's bigger sibling, the 40k 11ft cinema camera

https://www.lightfieldlab.com/blogposts/the-promise-of-light...

I can't find a specific link to one I've seen but there's some great videos about this truly insane bit of tech.
Based on my quick reading of TFA, an iPhone 15 Pro uses two sensors very close together for 3D, and the wide angle lens lowers the res to 1080p.

I wonder if as a kludge, we will see a 3rd party app and dual iPhone holder which then creates a single 3D video/image, allowing more human-like pupillary distance at 8k from the two main sensors.
The main thing is that it's still kicking, Ksonnet is sadly dead.

In addition to that it supports importing Helm charts, has a blessed convention for multiple environments and several native Jsonnet functions that make things a bit nicer.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/162184/what-is-t...
Good luck and thanks for everything! It is very hard to make such a big impact on millions of developers and companies around the world like you did.