skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Meta-learning models, or models that learn to learn, have been a long-desired target for their ability to quickly solve new tasks.
Traditional meta-learning methods can require expensive inner and outer loops, thus there is demand for algorithms that discover strong learners without explicitly searching for them. ...
We argue that population-based evolutionary systems with non-static fitness landscapes naturally bias towards high-evolvability genomes, and therefore optimize for populations with strong learning ability.
We demonstrate this claim with a simple evolutionary algorithm, Population-Based Meta Learning (PBML), that consistently discovers genomes which display higher rates of improvement over generations, and can rapidly adapt to solve sparse fitness and robotic control tasks."
Adding Feature Flags, for Dummies
Figure out the amount of money you’re willing to spend on this and then give it to a deserving cause who can actually do something useful with it.

Hardly anybody alive today wants their grandparent’s vacation slides. You thinking A) that you’re going to have great-great-great grandchildren and B) that they’re going to want pictures you took 200 years ago?
I do miss subpixel antialiasing on large screens that are 4K or lower.

It annoys me that Apple picks a non-integer scaled resolution by default, but HiDPI 2x looks great on a MacBook Pro and on 27" 5K and 32" 6K. If only there were more, and more affordable, monitors in those two spaces...
I'd take "FDA proven" to be shorthand for "proven to FDA's satisfaction".
> The original Hyperloop paper had a lot of gaps.

That's because it wasn't intended to be a solution, it was intended to kill the high speed rail in California.

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990
What about garbage collection, waste water, and electricity wiring? All of which are inefficient in a sparsely populated area.
There are enough solid systems (such as keycloak) that implement standard mechanisms (such as OAuth2 or OIDC) that using a service that continually has issues (as noted by the gp) should be justified, not assumed (having an SSO system should not be conflated with a specific provider).
OIDC seemed complicated to me for a while. What helped the most was: 1) focusing on understanding why all the song and dance is necessary from a security perspective. Start with [0]. 2) Realizing you can ignore pretty much everything except the OAuth2 spec and the core OIDC spec until you need it.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-secur...
Probably because other platforms are doing it? iOS, MacOS (afaik?), Android (on some phones you can install unofficial OS images but they'd lack the official seal of "secure", although hacks are available).

It's still a disgusting act of "fuck the planet and its inhabitants" if Microsoft stops offering an OS for computers without TPM. Why not do it like Android, sure some apps that will mandate security (like banking or Netflix 4K) won't be able to run, but better than dragging us to +3°C even faster.

Obviously there's a chicken and egg problem there... if MS's "insecure" platform remains viable, banks, Netflix, etc won't dare release "Secure Windows only" software and exclude a large userbase from their market, and so their apps will remain "insecure"...
Ever heard of parallel construction?
China issues draft rules for online game management
And isn't it interesting how the other half of the discussion was dominated by discussion of a specific fitness membership?

I think these companies have gotten wise to the Streisand effect and no longer try to block discussion, they just very carefully make sure that a very active *offtopic* discussion dominates so people are distracted.
Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
> It’s the only way to get an encrypted message into a user’s iMessage inbox

True.

> and iMessage is, unchangeably, the only possible default messaging app on an iPhone—the only one you can use from Contacts and so on.

You kind of lost me here.

The Messages app is the default app on iPhone that handles both SMS/MMS and the iMessage protocol. So it goes without saying that it’s the only way to get get an encrypted message into a user’s “iMessage” inbox.

But it’s not the only one you can use from the Contacts app, nor is the only one you can use with Siri or the only one that pops up in the share sheet or the only one that you can use with CarPlay or the only one that you can receive notifications from or the only one that can ring your phone (if you want to count FaceTime as part of iMessage), etc, etc.

The Messages app, which supports iMessage, is the only app that can receive SMS/MMS via the cellular network. That’s pretty much the only limitation.

Other than that, there’s pretty much complete feature parity with iMessage in terms of native access, available should the third party messaging service want to implement it (and many do).

Take WhatsApp for example. WhatsApp will show up as an option in under contacts[0], WhatsApp message notifications will be read by Siri if you wear AirPods, use Siri to send messages and even set which default messaging app to use[1], have WhatsApp pop up as a suggestion in share sheets[2], and so on.

0: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46422640/how-iphone-cont... this was 6 years ago, it’s now much more sleeker and you can set a default messaging service, but I couldn’t be bothered to upload a screenshot

1: https://i0.wp.com/9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/202...

2: https://wabetainfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/WA13_Share...
Thanks for the question. We consciously decided to make our engine more opinionated compared to other modular alternatives, because we want to be extremely fast at developing 2D multiplayer games. For example, I made a simple MMORPG in 2 hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVsxkALR5U).

I believe that there's an inverse correlation between ease-of-use and level-of-customization. We chose the former to address the gap between casual game devs and multiplayer games which are known to be difficult to build.
I would think any competent software engineer would refuse to write code that could cripple their own nation's civilian transport because of their boss's greed, and thus the company had someone do it who was idiotic enough to try.
> And why not use Firefox (or Safari/WebKit) already?

Mozilla these days seems more happy at pumping out tech-woke messages rather than being privacy first. Hell, they’ve refused to add an adblocker to their iOS browser for years now.

3rd party WebKit browsers are more rare, thus less well-developed.

I’ve settled on using Brave.
Literally anything can make "a number" of people claim to be uncomfortable, especially when it involves an examination of discrimination that favors them. I missed nothing, and I award you an F for your non-rebuttal "rebuttal" of what Damore wrote.
> And one thing is certain; talking to people is never as difficult as the feeling of loneliness when you want to say something and there is no one to listen

Man did this hit hard.
Whatever you do, always have your dev/test environment identical to production.

Have a load balancer or replication in prod? You must have the same when you test.

Otherwise, you will have a bad time m'kay.

And don't get me started about removing fk constraint, anybody doing that on purpose is either very, very smart, either very, very ignorant/inexperienced.
there's always dynamic dns, too
Its performance shines in larger scales. It’s designed for politeness to individual domains, but scales out well for very wide crawls of many domains. It’s pretty much endlessly configurable, but not the easiest to learn.
> they'd know better

Yes, how much of an hassle it is to wade through 90% of crap and fake reviews when shopping for an insignificant mechanical widget or software app in some unfamiliar topic.

Do not want.
Curious to see how well it will work. Does anybody here know a robust and not crazy computationally expensive solution to extract tables from fairly clean PDF files (especially non-english)?
Major Major Lesson learned in the trenches.

Business offices cut their chilled water supply back to minimums (or nothing) over holiday weekends & breaks.

If you're running a server closet, even if you have a dedicated Liebert HVAC, when the chilled water cuts.. you will overheat.

I learned this over the course of three consecutive Thanksgivings.
The snake doesn’t get longer as it eats like in the game
It may be less efficient, but not necessarily more expensive. With current costs in my location, it's nearly a wash for me to generate my own electricity with a propane generator vs pay the electric company.
Hmm, im sorry it came across that way, that wasn't my intention. For the record I'm not personally on social media, so this wasn't meant to reflect a specific case or issue.

Rather I was trying to convey a sense that people are generally more angry about things that don't matter, while not discussing things that do matter

I make no judgements on "what is right" here, rather on the concept of some topics being "off limits".

Yes, I do find it hard to engage with issues as important as to what some actor tweeted (to get attention) when, for example, kids are scared to go to school because of school shootings. I went to school at a time and place where actual bombs were a thing, but I never felt the way kids feel today.

I wouldn't say I feel angry about this. I'm not being shot at etc. And I don't feel like the truth is bring suppressed- it's not like the actual ills of our society are a secret. I guess it's more a sense that we're fighting about the wrong things. And perhaps it suits some that we continue to do so.
To anyone who works with vacuum systems, there is no "full vacuum", it's always some level of partial vacuum. The challenges are very similar, just the incredible amount of energy that would be required to pump down and maintain that partial vacuum such a huge volume would be slightly less massive.
They have lions in zoos and circus for decades, just saying
> Does it matter if an Apple device user (having bought a device and paid Apple for access to iMessage servers) subsequently makes software that mimics this Apple device's interaction with the servers but runs this software on his Android device?

If explicitly forbidden in the terms of service? Yes. The ToS act as your contract with Apple to make use of the service. Violation of the terms of service terminates your access to the service. If you want to stand up your own mimic'd Apple servers then you're free to do that, but you are not free, again, to change the rules set forth by Apple to use Apple's services. I don't understand why you keep returning to this question.

> Should websites then also be allowed to dictate that your browser should not run an ad-blocker, should accept (and persist!) cookies and not run a VPN?

All sorts of websites have all sorts of requirements to use them off certain VPNs, without ad-blockers, and with cookies. Tons of websites simply stop functioning if some or any of those conditions are true for your browser.

> I'm sure websites would indeed love that

They do.

> but I think we'd both agree this would be a very sad day for the internet if this became law?

What do you mean become law? The ability for an online service to not provide functionality if you do not concede to their requirements is so benign as to be barely worthy of note. Apple included! Apple has been "excluding" Android from iMessage since 2011!

> I think the control stops at the protocol. Apple is welcome to change their proprietary, undocumented protocol as they see fit, but people should also be free to reverse-engineer and implement clients for it.

I mean, you are! They did! And then Apple found them, and made changes to their protocol that bricked what they made. That is the most likely outcome for this and any subsequent adventures along the same path.

> As long as the client perfectly mimics the official one (including proving any eventual purchase, using an Apple ID associated with an Apple purchase or the serial number of an Apple device the user purchased) there should be no legal/moral reason it should be rejected.

Because it's their platform and their right to reject it and I'm not going to rehash this point again.
Same experience here. PoS terminals at counter service restaurants asking for tips has made me a lot more comfortable not tipping. I still restaurant servers, food delivery, and for certain services (e.g. hair stylists), but everywhere else I got over myself and started tipping 0%.
Love reading updates from marginalia. Always good technical posts of a DIY solution with good balance between efficient and good enough.
Frank Herbert isn't the only person allowed to gerundize a word. :-)
My coworker highlighted just one single project that gets deployed as one unit. I have a second hobby project I work on at home of which I also take ownership. He is building a monolith, I am not? Even though we are working on the exact same project?

Um. Okay. So, just so I am clear, the advice here can be rephrased as: "Save a matter of life or death, don't have hobbies"?
> No, Cruise shared a few months ago that operating costs per mile is still higher than a car with a paid driver.

The page you link to says a) it (the entire operation?) is bleeding money, and b) it's operating costs are reducing, and c) quote efficiency improvements helping reduce the costs of simulation and machine learning used to test and improve AV performance.

I can't see where it explicitly says it's operating costs alone that exceed they call the magic threshold of $1/mile (which is presume is what a car + driver costs). And given they mention (c) above it seems unlikely they meant it was just operating costs.

That aside, they go onto say quote Operating costs per mile for Cruise autonomous vehicles or AVs has fallen by an average 15 percent monthly over the first half of 2023. That's an extraordinary rate for costs to fall. If indeed operating costs exceed that of a human driver it wouldn't have remained that way for long, had they continued.
I don’t think tattletales were a recent invention. The purpose of the constitution was to prevent government overreach, because it is a document that sets government rules.

The reason other things aren’t in it isn’t because they aren’t or weren’t issues. It’s because they were out of scope for the purpose of that document.
The white paper at the very least wasn't. It contradicts itself in multiple places and it seems the author has some misunderstandings around basic physics.
There's no reason for it to advance - we have good alternatives, and there's no benefit that this kind of system brings that is worth the massive extra cost (which mostly can't be solved - it's the massive amount of material required for the vacuum chamber and the massive amount of energy required to pump down and maintain the pressure. High-speed rail would be extremely cheap in comparison).
This might be on purpose if they’re merely trying to make the third party maintenance company look unreliable.
This is a great example of a parser mismatch vulnerability. :-) https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2022/04/11/what-is-parser-m...
If Trump and his running dogs didn't summon the rioters, who did?

And what if evidence existed that Antifa or BLM agitators were responsible, as Republicans tried desperately to propagate as soon as it became clear the coup was a failure? [1]

Would that change your opinion that the people responsible for January 6 are experiencing premature judgment and unfair punishment?

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/politics/antifa-conspi...
The heroes also wrote heroically bad date checking code.
A public space is not "showing up at your door"
Corporate profiteers were expanding the steel industry throughout the late 19th and early 20th century. What changed in the 20th century is labor law that gave unions a monopoly over their employer's bargaining options. It predictably led to rent extraction, declining performance and unsustainable collective bargaining agreements.
Unfortunately, our interview system is working exactly as designed for the people with control over it.
From the context I assumed these are the things I knew as “non-functional requirements”. Basically, random stuff which doesn’t have specific associated use cases. Depending on the project, they might specify environment, setup and deployment, throughput and latency, system requirements, security, reliability, compliance, etc.
What bottom is there to get to?

It’s due to calibration data.

If the parts match up it uses the available calibration data, if not it ignores calibration data and reverts to uncalibrated state.
Perhaps a global or regional coalition of commercial fishing associations interested in protecting their market. Speaking for myself, I can confirm that I've reduced my intake of ocean-sourced seafood over the last decade precisely because of the increasing prevalence of micro-plastics in the food chain (which seems to be a far greater problem for ocean-sourced food than land-sourced food).
> first stage is building the game

Yeah :) Definitely better to make it slow but ship it. Then make it fast later.
> Does it matter if an Apple device user (having bought a device and paid Apple for access to iMessage servers) subsequently makes software that mimics this Apple device's interaction with the servers but runs this software on his Android device?

From what I got from this news cycle, if this was the case and beeper mini just made you use your apple device's "hardware token" this would never have been an issue and apple would not have locked down their use.

The thing Apple blocked was hundreds to thousands of users using the same "hardware token" which means beeper mini, probably rightfully for UX reasons, didn't want Apple customers doing this but it would also gate a feature to only Apple device owners.

So if beeper mini had actually just used your Apple device's "hardware token" and only offered the feature to Apple device owners then likely all this never happens and Apple devices owners would in fact have the benefit.
Second that. Anyone interested in studying web crawler tech should definitely take a look at Heritrix. I had used it extensively when it was still in 2.x. They got so many things right about writing well-behaved and fault tolerant crawlers. Plus the code is very modular, and extensible, if you know some Java. The other popular option then was Apache Nutch, but it had too much hadoop baggage.
High speed rail is often built along viaducts too - and it's expensive. There's no way it's cheaper to build a vacuum chamber on pylons than some rails...
I’m always in favor of more open-source models, and especially multimodal ones. I feel that the end goal for these models will be multimodal so it’s important that open-source don’t just focus on text based llms.

Thank you for your efforts!
If this story constitutes failure, I think the issue was expectations. Sounds like a decent execution of something that can have real value. It can take years to build sustainable brand and get traction even after you've passed MVP, though.

Rather than shutting it down, why not let it live on? In maintenance mode or otherwise. HMU if hosting costs are an issue.
Yeah that was their Nurofen brand.

"We can charge twice as much if we put it in a pink packet and say it's for period pain".

Very deceptive.
My Samsung also does that, though I wouldn't say it works very well.
> The PISA assessment by the OECD demonstrates that only 13.5% of American students age 15 were able to distinguish fact from opinion in reading tests.

What's the distribution among public and home schooling?

Also what is the rate for adults?
> I'm trying to clear the junk in my lungs with an expectorant, why am I supressing the coughs that are needed?

Because you need sleep too. And if a cough isn’t productive, having more of them doesn’t help, it only hurts.

The ideal case is to have a minimal number of coughs that are productive.
Another issue is the opposite situation, where the library reads from the object multiple times, expecting the value to be stable, but the caller might change the value in between, either from the properties using getters or from the library being async. The library has to make a full deep copy to ensure that it's completely stable regardless of the caller's actions. Just freezing the input object would be confusing to the caller and still vulnerable to property getters.
FreeBasic
A modern gas turbine is around 50% efficient, give or take 10%. A modern heat pump has a COP of around 4, so burning gas to make electricity to run a heat pump is more efficient than burning gas to make heat.
It's not a problem unique to AI researchers, it's about everything, if not now then ten years from now.

This is hidden metrics when you're getting a home loan, your insurance premiums, your success in dating sites, college admissions, whether somebody would hire you to do a dj gig at a nightclub, everything.

It's all recursive bullshit games, and you won't know which ones so you're just gonna run on as many treadmills as you can, all at once, while fully knowing some of them aren't even worth anything - just not which ones.
It’s not incomplete though. It has all the components you need to fully build a full-featured functioning web application fast.

I’ve shipped products with this kit without having to change much code because it’s very well-made.

Don’t take it from me - take it from the tens of thousands of devs who also use it.

The commenter above didn’t even look deeply into the actual offering. Catalyst is just one tiny (new) subset of the large number of things offered by the entire package.
Very much so. Balenciaga is in on the joke, so to speak. Their stuff makes fun of the industry they're in while being right in the middle of it. (For example, hit up your favorite search engine for "Balenciaga ikea bag".)
Just don't try this is the developing world if you enjoy your health and belongings. In resort areas of Mexico, you will experience unforeseen, subtle unpleasantness and inconveniences if you don't tip what's expected.
i dont have any degraded experience of "google services on firefox"; sounds quite false. Of course i dont have my browser feeding into google 24/7 like folks do with chrome now (but even that "feature" is still relatively new).

People switched when google (having the site everybody went to daily) started advertising on the home page "use our browser" - must be nice; and in the start it seemed like a tool for users to use to harvest data; unlike today where chrome is the tool that the data-collectors use to harvest people
My experience was that it was incredibly accessible. I easily set up a web server on my home internet connection because my line was synchronous and static IPs were easily available.
Losing your privilege feels like oppression

In this case, it's explicit privilege in hiring, promotions, and legal mandates for reporting in layoffs.

Seems like he's pushing for equality
So, a few iOS versions back, Apple changed “Music.app” into “Apple Music.app”, and everyone that opened it got a pop-up to try their new fancy pants streaming service.

That instantly unlocked a big previously-unaddressed portion of the US music streaming market, likely apprehensive or lay-people. It’s what made Apple Music viable and rocketed up its market share.

The pop-up did not include an option to try Spotify (or Tidal or Deezer) instead.

With a couple hundred million iOS users out there in the US.. yeah. Not okay.

The only reason Apple was able to do this because they own half of an extremely quintessential market. Monopoly (well, duopoly) behavior pur sang.
Yeah but think of all that juicy license cash for Microsoft!
Fusion reactors, zero knowledge proofs, machine learning
A structured note-taking app for personal use