skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is quite a colossal piece of equipment – so large, in fact, that it requires 13 truck-sized containers and 250 crates just to transport it. And once assembled, the machine is 3 stories tall, which has required Intel to build a new (and taller) fab expansion just to house it. It is estimated that each of these High-NA EUV scanners comes with a hefty price tag, likely in the range between $300 million and $400 million."

Just wondering how small a machine doing -somewhat- similar job could be made (in theory, at least) if throughput or cost/IC produced was not a major concern.

Along the lines of what a dude named Sam Zeloof has done in his garage. But with significant funding/research to miniaturize, streamline & cheapen the equipment involved.

Yeah, if you want to mass-produce billion+ transistor cpu's at a few nm. node @ competitive cost/cpu, talk to ASML.

But what if say, ~100k..10M transistors would do the job, only a few IC's are needed, and the machine were allowed weeks to fabricate it? How small and/or cheap could you go, if process & equipment for that were thoroughly optimized?
Is a free service something that has customers and non-customers?

If I acquire an iPhone second hand, I’ve potentially never given Apple a dime and I’m allowed to use iMessage for free with no ads as much as I want.

Just a thought exercise.
I think bioplastic is a much, much better way to solve this than zero waste. We tried to do zero waste and the personal lifestyle overhead expense was near impossible. Have switched most things in the house to bioplastic, way better.
It is not, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Experimental_studies
Hey just a thought:

16 years is a long time, many of those shell dashboard sources are probably lost.

It'd be interesting to upload them somewhere as a "historical museum" of sorts.
> these lights will signal to human drivers and pedestrians that this vehicle can be bullied with impunity, and with no risk of angry retaliation. Human drivers will cut in front of them mercilessly. Pedestrians will step onto the road in front of them.

The risk of angry retaliation is identical to what we have already. The driver of this car can just take manual control at any time and react as they would in a non-AV.

If what you're claiming is true, the behaviors you're describing would already be common with traditional cars.
Someone just needs to make an open central hub for segments and leaderboards per activity type.

Then you need a way to block and nuke toxic segments and submitters, a voting system perhaps.

Detecting segments during an activity is tricky and I've been meaning to investigate it further perhaps via ChatGPT explainer but I know it involves lat/lon bounding boxes, detecting the start/end points within those points.

I vaguely remember Strava has some kind of patent on segments though.
This is going to vary wildly by game experience; many board game veterans learn shorthands for mechanics, and learn rule-learning as its own meta-skill, picking up even complicated games in 10 minutes.

That said, there are countless games where it's not unusual to budget an hour or more for "the teach". A great one I played recently is "Hegemony": a game that simulates political economy and class struggle, where one player is The State, and the others are economic classes (Working, Middle, Capitalist). Each player has their own rules, mechanics, and goals, each requiring a unique full-sized rules reference.

I tend to treat the first play of every new game as a "sacrificial round": I expect to do poorly, but I'll grok the game by the end. But I've found some need at least two sacrificial rounds: one just to get the mechanics, terms, symbology, and flow; and then another to internalize strategy and actually play well.

So yeah, this is all going to vary based on on one's experience level and definitions. I certainly don't begrudge anyone who doesn't want to spend a whole afternoon basically just to learn a game; as opposed to a game like "Photosynthesis", which might have seem intimidating to an inexperienced player, but after ten minutes they've internalized both the rules and the strategy.
I think you can get pentagons and hexagons for the 2 major styles of magnet tile, but they’re rarer.
Yeah, it's good advice if you're CEO, if you're not you better have nothing to lose and be willing to leave the job even if you think you are a good diplomat. I think your last sentence is often the only play, do just exactly what you need to do to appear to be all in and a model supporter of the "initiative" without putting any real effort in to it. But it's also a skill to know when you can, and when you can't change a course of action. Sometimes something silly is happening that no one cares about and you can just change it by speaking up and taking ownership of it.
> how is it possible for a phone to have LiDAR

Just like you can have a 50MP camera sensor in the phone: it works? Sure. Is it sufficient to capture the Moon (heh) or something 50-100 meters from you? Not at the quality and performance of professional equipment.

Sure, you can have a matrix of iPhone LIDARs but whould they works at sufficient speed, accuracy, at +40C, at -35?
Well how about in your neighborhood? In front of your house? Or your kids school’s neighborhood?

Just trying to understand what you can actually do.
You can actually just buy the fruits and vegetables without putting them in a plastic bag. It gets some weird looks, but it's perfectly fine most places.

And as far as things like Halloween, it's not hard to get kids onboard with various projects and let them come up with solutions to things. "Less processed candy" wouldn't be a bad thing in our society. Though quite a bit of candy is a waxed paper wrap.
Yeah the constant re-signing is the real problem. Who's got the time or energy? Why they didn't design for SSO is weird.
Until someone makes it and it is superconductive as confirmed by neutral third parties I will continue to be doubtful. Words and simulations are cheap here, and the proof is what matters.
Maybe 7 feels like 40 when you're 13.
>All of this has happened before, many times over.

Sounds good on paper, but the nature of modern day life is far different than it was when other revolutions occurred.

Yes, revolutions in tech are just that - they up-end the old way of life, the dust settles and a new way of living emerges.

This is so basically obvious that its not worth mentioning.

What is worth more than mentioning, but truly paying attention to, aside from Thomas' analogy to a neighboring mcdonalds, which is an actually insanely lazy look at this matter - especially coming from one who is a security expert, is that the level of "entanglement" into our daily life with massive core-AI systems, such as the capabilities of GPT-'N' has, cannot be understated.

When cars overtook horses, we could weaponize cars by putting guns on them and calling them tanks. But once you put a gun on a car and call it a tank, it can only shoot at one target at a time.

With AI, when it provides the substrate upon which you will interface with the information relationship you have the rest of global reality, can be easily weaponized, not just against you, but anyone and anything interfacing with it, its important to know who, or at least what incentives, truly owns, or at least is the lens through which one interfaces with whatever information that system provides.

SO, aside from 'doom-and-gloom' -- its really important to really understand as much as possible, and rather than Thomas' just throwing up his hands (which again is bizarre from a security guy just saying he doesnt care who runs the black box, is weird) - I want to know how whatever that system is (openAI/whatever dominant AI) and who made it such and what agency I still retain in my digital life.

--

@Unity:

Entanglement of big business and government in our lives was and will always be - what big-core-AI provides both business and governments (which now there is vanishingly thin membranes between the two these days) complete solvent for any friction for said entanglement.

AI's capabilities for extracting indivulaized-insights-AT-SCALE is what AI provides to both, with zero recourse from the individuals. That is the "alignment" problem that Aza and Tristan are pushing back against.

Also- I do not "worship" or "idolize" SA, and especially Thiel - I am terrified of them. That's why I said that they may attempt to appear as a Carnegie, but are actually a Rockefeller (Carnegie attempted to wash his reputation with endowments - Rockefeller was just an evil oil-carpet-bagging C*Sucker and an evil person (he is the reason we have "fossil fuels" as manufactured scarcity for profit)

I have no idea why you think I idolize any of this - I am fully, and even further, into the Raskin-Harris camp... alignment regulation is going to get trampled - and to be honest, I have serious questions about SAs motives...

I'd bet he's already got a team working on the plans for his bunker/lair, and taking notes from the Zucks and Thiels on best design resources.
I never said, nor implied it was. But a spade is a spade. Mr. Assange is being persecuted solely for an act of journalism. Even if the west is "nicer" about how they maintain authority and control, it is still authoritarian. Though, I wouldn't call solitary confinement for five years in Britain's harshest prison "nice".

Besides, once you are arguing shades of grey you've at least admitted something is at least starting to rot at the core. I prefer my government to be pure of any authoritarianism. I will not tolerate authoritarianism lite any more than I would tolerate something like North Korea.
Do all employees at YouTube have access to this kind of info?
The end of Windows 10 support could turn 240M PCs into e-waste
Very cool. You might be interested in AssemblyScript, if you haven't heard of them before. They did something very similar: https://www.assemblyscript.org/
Hmm, I see, thanks. This sounds pretty everyday to me, but I guess that's probably just because we already do this. Things like "you're saying <x>" and "OK, summarize my points back to me so I know we're aligned".
Making Messages+iMessage the default on their platform whilst also prohibiting competitor apps to serve as the SMS/MMS/RCS client feels like anti-trust to me. Especially as their market share among some demographics approaches 90%.
I think someone is deliberately (?) confusing standards and interoperability with service and capacity to suit their argument.

If interoperability is standardized - I can run my own servers.
When did I say it didn’t go way beyond business communication? That’s largely my point: this is a basic human skill in the modern world that I would think existing for 20-30 years would give you plenty of experience in navigating stories told by others as well as using your own narratives to steer outcomes.
Points simplified:

- Most people reading "fatality" assume that it means a person died. This was not true of the incident. Repeatedly using the word "fatality" here is intentionally misleading. I have not heard the word "fatality" used in accident reporting to describe the death of an animal before.

- This was not an at-fault accident. It was not possible to avoid hitting the dog. Talking a lot about this incident doesn't provide very much information about Waymo's safety. (Of course, humans get in accidents that would be impossible for them to avoid, too-- all else being equal such accidents should be included on both sides of the analysis).

- The analysis didn't include this incident, because Waymo made a very rational choice to calculate using no-safety-driver miles and incidents. This isn't malice; it doesn't change the numbers much (because incidents and miles both go up when you include safety driver miles) and the numbers are higher quality and less confounded without including safety driver miles.
Never having heard of the hanger trick before (Though I have seen them used, just never gave it any thought), is there a reason for cedar specifically, or is that just one of those economics+keep-it-simple = it works, don't fix it norms that have stood the test of time?
Where in this article does it make that claim?
I thought Prospect (2018) did a great job of picking up on that and running with it. Amazing movie, if you haven't seen it.
That’s a really good point. I wonder if they have an estimate of the percentage of YouTube videos that are unlisted.
You've never heard of GitLab? I also listen to a lot of podcasts and Retool/ShipBob ads are probably 2% of my total lifetime listening time
If I were in OpenAI, I’d wonder if this hack works. We already have millions if not billions of archived chats between GPT-4 and users. Also possibly a thumbs up and thumbs down accompanying them. Once these chats reach a large number, I’d try training a new language model only on these chats. It’s very likely you’d get a GPT-4 capable language model that is not trained on no copyrighted data (but might be trained on second hand copyrighted data since it’s dataset contains completions from a model trained on copyrighted data). Wonder how you’ll change the law to account for this?
You're subject to the laws of any country you set foot in. And extradition is one of the laws.
Lots of companies have been forced to do provide free services to non-customers; consider almost any industry classified as a 'utility'. The question here is 'are message platforms a thing that should be classified and regulated as if it were a utility?'

For me, the answer is clearly no; there are plenty of communication platforms that can be used freely with interoperability (e.g. email). And, as you note, there are lots of interoperable options.
My reaction was exactly the same as yours. Blogs like these usually have an assumed audience, I think, which is probably why there aren't any A/B picture comparisons. On a related note, I recently watched Dances with Wolves and was amazed at how authentic it felt despite not being in 4k and all the modern jazz.
If you're looking into a .wasm file I wrote an interactive viewer called weave[1].

Here is a demo with some Rust output:
https://evmar.github.io/weave/?wasm/rust.wasm
be sure to click on 'code' to dive into individual functions.

[1] https://github.com/evmar/weave
It might already prevented another 10M tickets evaded from happening.

OK from one point obviously the cost is too high but that’s a separate story.
> Figgener fears the public also became too focused on villainizing straws, rather than looking at plastic production itself as the problem.

The information to draw this extremely obvious conclusion was publicly available at the time, and plenty of people were pointing it out. The problem is that saying "stop using plastic straws and shopping bags and you will be a good person" is such an easy thing to tell people who are motivated by guilt that the fact that it's completely ineffective is just not relevant to the conversation.
> 10. Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

A beautiful thought and I would add that Shakespeare only wrote in english, developing his ability in that beautiful if messy language further and further, rather then trying all sorts of different languages to gain different perspectives on writing.
Can someone define the term “MLLM”?
Caning people is way more humane than letting them rot in prison for decades on end, as is done in the "civilized" U.S. And no one can deny that it's pragmatically effective. The main problem if anything is that it's too cheap and effective, which is bad since you're sometimes going to beat up some folks who will later turn out to be innocent. You want criminal punishment to be costly to the authorities that are going to impose it.
Wonderful open standard SMS is, we should keep using it forever

> Silent SMS

> In 2010 Germany, almost half a million "silent SMS" messages were sent by the federal police, customs and the secret service "Verfassungsschutz" (offices for protection of the constitution).[83][84] These silent messages, also known as "silent TMS", "stealth SMS", "stealth ping" or "Short Message Type 0",[85] are used to locate a person and thus to create a complete movement profile. They do not show up on a display, nor trigger any acoustical signal when received. Their primary purpose was to deliver special services of the network operator to any cell phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Vulnerabilities

Let's not forget the messages sit unencrypted on your providers servers until they can be delivered. During such times, anyone with access who cares to look, can look, and it's very often looked at, if not always
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Ask HN: Favorite Academic Papers of 2023?
What were your favorite academic papers you read this year? Doesnt necessary have to be in the field, but just an all-round favorite. Bonus points if you have any opinion on the most impactful paper of the year too.
Running the largest workload I’ve ever personally launched (4,200 nodes, 144 cores each, 16,000 simultaneous jobs with a mix of one 1,000 node cpu job, 1 AI selection service on one node, about 3,200 nodes worth of 4-core cpu input pre-processing jobs and 4 GPU jobs per node co-located with all the CPU stuff) at 2am the day of the deadline for something about 50 of us had been working on for most of a year, realizing something was set wrong in the launcher. It was our last chance for a full run, we couldn’t start it over or try again, and it was going to fail because of a single runtime value.

I attached gdb to the launcher, “print <var>=<value>” and detached. The run started going about 10 times faster and we got the whole thing done. Crazy, dangerous, but it worked.

Question also made me think of the last-minute change we needed to make to a database’s structure to avoid about 6 million lost user updates when all DB admins were out with no password. That was a fun one too. Not sure I should admit how we managed it.
"jumping over the default linux network stack". What are the use cases. What are typical reasons to want to do that, what are benefits and downsides? What are the alternatives.
The concept of memory address needs to make sense, first. The idea that memory is a big array of typeless bytes, and that all data exists in there somewhere. That an address is just an array index into memory, and you can use it to point to the first byte of an integer or struct or string or whatever.

I mean, it kind of makes sense but it's not obvious.
It comes down to the kind of car person you are, I think.

You're either someone who prioritizes the car they buy based on how others will perceive you (and how you will perceive yourself when driving it) or you're someone who sees a car as a means to an end.

I realized I was the latter when I bought my first car. After telling the salesperson the model I wanted, his first question was "What color do you want?" I went into a car dealership knowing the exact model/options "level" I wanted (V6, Leather, Convertible, Keyless, etc), I knew what I wanted the dealer to add (Remote Start, mostly) ... and I knew exactly what I was willing to pay given the two purchase options available to me (cash with a large incentive or 0% financing). At no point had I thought about the color. After shaking off the momentary embarrassment, I sarcastically quipped: "The cheapest color".
https://i.imgur.com/lPKGlqC.png <-- SA v.1.0
Bug story: Sorting by timestamp
It's the early 90's. A large regional Theatre wants to migrate their billing and customer contact data - all of which is held on an ancient computer the size of a desk to a shiny 286 based PC. Only the proprietary database management application frontend was available; there was no documentation, no programming tools or anything similar, the equipment was just too old (and the internet was still in its infancy, it'd be much easier today). My solution was to knock up a script on a PC that emulated the serial printer that was connected to the ancient system, wire a custom cable between them and then tell the database to run a full report. Took a day or two to run as I recall, and job's a goodun.
We're watching Apple fill the moat in.
Along with all of the other issues already mentioned, like systematic biases and such, there is another simple possibility that is definitely a factor: impulse control.

If you have good control over impulses, you like are less likely to give in to the impulses to spend money unnecessarily, and this more likely to be financially responsible and thus less likely to be poor. I'm certain plenty of spontaneous petty crime comes down to poor impulse control in the moment.
I myself know very well what the technical meaning of the term is, no thanks to your unasked for condescension. My remark was clearly about it's meaning in common usage (in the last few decades btw, not just "last year"). Also, even within the social sciences the word is clearly ill-defined and thus of limited value.

The situation might be better if the socialist propagandists had been as keen on explaining the concept as they have clearly been on maligning the term. Which is kind of informative in itself, as it was meant to be a compromise solution between laissez faire and socialism, which led to some more principled classical liberals to distance themselves from the idea.
That site is amazing. I love the animated "operations" transitions.

It's not on the same level as the above, but Wolfram Alpha has a list of the Johnson solids which shows each one unfolded into its 2D net[1].

Wolfram Alpha can also generate a 3D model[2] or list of vertices[3] for any Johnson solid using the `PolyhedronData[{"Johnson", n}]` dataset.

[1]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JohnsonSolid.html

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=PolyhedronData%5B%7B%22...

[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=PolyhedronData%5B%7B%22...
Python is ideal! You can just drop code in a file - no structure - and it runs. Then when you have code you wanna reuse just wrap it in a function and drop it at the top of your file. That get too much? Split it into a different file and import. Have cases where data + logic in functions kinda all fit together? Move them to a class. Start getting overwhelmed by all the runtime errors and stuff being slow? Learn C#, Kotlin, Java or Rust.
Many people made the same argument to Lee Kuan Yew when he was alive. His response: "Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts."[a]

[a] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/187723.Lee_Kuan_Yew