skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cousins are my greatest lens into human interaction.

Both directly in terms of my cousin network, which is huge, and in terms of how I observe other people relating to their cousins.

Let's start with me. My paternal grandfather had nearly 20 kids with two different women. Those kids then got scattered all over the world, and thus the grandchildren as well. My other grandfather had five and adopted another, and the same thing happened to them, war spread them all over.

So I have two cousin networks that are massive and spread all over. I'm able to compare things like the French and Danish education systems by getting a first-hand impression. I can ask a Bay Area doctor how his experience is, or a Toronto accountant. I can compare humor across the Atlantic. Growing up, I could see cousins starting to date and get married, having kids. The younger ones are still observing, but are young enough to give an insight into what kids are like nowadays.

In terms of studying people, it's hard to get better access.

The emotional angle from the article is right, too. Cousins occupy this nice middle between seeing you all the time like your siblings, and not having to care about you, like strangers. When your parents die, the cousins are sad. But they are also not falling apart and are able to help out. They know common stories like what your grandparents did, how your parents met, and so on. But you also don't have to do much to maintain this, like you might with certain friends. With a large enough network you don't even need to talk to any particular cousin to get all the stories about them, whichever cousin is passing through will tell you news from his part of the network and you give them yours.

In terms of other people, what is most striking to me is where on the near-far scale different cultures seem to put the cousins. Some societies seem to see cousins as basically friends: a relationship that's nice if it's good but if things so sour, no big deal. Others will think of cousins as basically siblings who live in another house: your aunt and uncle can tell you off just like your parents and nobody bats an eye. It seems to be common that birth/wedding/death news goes to all cousins though, regardless of what distance your society places on the cousin relation, and regardless of whether things have soured.
Lasers can't radiate heat, as a laser beam has no entropy. Ditto for coherent radio waves.
>>> The problem is that "normal" people are much more "morally flexible" and thus share an implicit understanding of what rules are important (i.e. actual rules) and which ones you're supposed to say you follow but aren't expected to.

This is exactly what I was referring to. We agree.
I heard a similar version years ago as “blame someone, blame something, take the blame”.
That's not exactly a new form of system failure.
Generally speaking, Apple has maintained rigid control over apps and have banned everything you mentioned.

If EU app stores fill up with pornography and terrorism apps, you can imagine their move will be decried as a debacle and used by Apple to demonstrate how the EU failed by forcing them to open up
node has good libraries like yargs.
They will ship hardware (a new iphone for example) that has a co-processor and flash storage dedicated to the Apple model (which many are calling Apple GPT). They aren't going to make it easy to run your own model. That's completely against their style
I said that Beeper saw a business opportunity to make money. This is without question. You're posing a false dichotomy that therefore I'm somehow sainting Apple or something, which simply isn't true: Apple absolutely is out to make money (humorously a couple of days ago I called Apple one of the greediest companies -- in a bad way -- ever, and my comment was flagged which...rofl), and absolutely no one doubts that. No one is claiming that Apple are the white knights in this or any other situation.
Mass produced DRAM of the Soviet Union
What an ass. But here's a link to a
Q&A on the DNA study https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine...
Well there is the plan to add a third runway to Heathrow. 1.5 miles of runway for $20B.
This is why cars do not scale: by the time traffic slows down there are 5-6 times more cars in the lane than it can safely handle. So by the time people are asking for "one more lane" they really mean 6 times as many lanes, a regular 4 lane highway needs 20 more lanes!

Moral: support public transit.
How would you pay for the very expensive work of developing an entire operating system without a revenue stream…? This is such a weird take. Obviously they don’t do it as a charity.
Oof, the dependency tree on this.

It uses diff-gaussian-rasterization from the original gaussian splatting implementation (which, is a linked submodule on the git, so if you are trying to git clone that dependency remember to use --recursive to actually download it).

But that is written in mostly pure CUDA.

That part is just used to display the resulting gaussian splatt'd model, and there have been other cross-platform implementations to render splats – there was even that web demo a few weeks ago, that was using WebGL [0] – and if that was used as a display output in place of the original implementation there is no reason people couldn't use this on non-Nvidia hardware, I think.

edit: also device=cuda is hardcoded in the torch portions of the training code (sigh!). This doesn't have to be the case. pytorch could push this onto mps (metal) probably just fine.

[0] https://github.com/antimatter15/splat?tab=readme-ov-file
Digital signage is getting a lot of smart features too, it's just a bit behind the consumer and hospitality markets.
I think then arXiv would have to deal with mantaining the tech stack and providing the presumably much higher server capacity to serve the more varied web pages that would result, so it seems like a tall order. arXiv already has an experimental integration with Papers with Code [0], which I guess provides similar results for the reader, though the authors have to figure out their own web hosting.

[0] https://info.arxiv.org/labs/showcase.html#arxiv-links-to-cod...
Do they drive when the roads have a layer of packed on snow obscuring the markings and edges? Or do they just drive when the roads are clear and marked?
To be fair, Beeper Mini operates entirely on your device, the optional cloud component is there because there's literally no other way. It's like an e-mail client, or an FTP or SSH client, or a browser. Are those considered bad now?

> Plenty of places will suspend your account if discovered you have done this.

Plenty of services base their business on restricted interoperability and suspend your account not because of security but because they'd miss out on all the "engagement" they get from the official client. This has nothing to do with security.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/donor-basics/tools-for-givi... How's this look?
Are you interested in self-driving car being better than drivers who aren't you? Even if you are the best driver on the road, your safety will be greatly improved by removing drunk, drowsy, and distracted drivers.

> The cars need to be as good as the best drivers out there.

They're getting there. Self-driving vehicles already have huge advantages in sensors, attention, and reaction time. Progress on reasoning is improving steadily.
The funny thing is phenyl ephedrine is actually very effective - when given IV, or directly applied to mucus membranes. Which this OTC drugs will never be used for.

So it is an effective drug, overall. Just not when used this way.

So good luck nailing whichever bureaucrat approved this.
Is Microsoft's sub claim unstable?

I think you might have misunderstood the point. Miscellaneous claims like email/preferred_username shouldn't be used to identify 3rd party logins. Apart from not necessarily being unique, they're also vulnerable to change. Changing your email shouldn't make you lose access to all your accounts. The point of the sub claim is that it's it's unique and stable.
"indefinite detention" as well, meaning the duration is not defined, but it's "infinite detention".

However, the article was definitely updated at some point, as others in the thread have pointed out. I read it earlier today and it did state life in detention.

That is certainly not helping the discussion out, unfortunately.
Anne and Joe Argue About the Child-Killing Murder Robot
Actually it is physics and the market https://www.statista.com/statistics/220174/total-us-electric... a huge percentage of us electrical power is from natural gas. Natural gas to electricity to heat is a lot less efficient.
Even more reason to look them up.

Soviet standing in red square handing out blank pieces of paper.

Police come, and tell him to stop distributing protest flyers.

Protestors: Protest? they're blank paper!

Police: Comrade, everyone knows what's wrong.

I might have messed it up a little, but, you get the gist.
Waste from solar? Just handle it like you'll be handling the much larger volumes of ordinary waste from all industrial activity. It's not like solar is creating some distinctly different category of waste like nuclear does.
Wild Pigeon Chase
If there's been innovation on the fundamental problem, sure. We haven't really improved vacuum pumps that much, nor can we really fix the whole "one high-caliber bullet could implode the entire tunnel" problem yet.
Huh?

Waymo is doing a level 4 rollout to specific areas where they are confident they can operate them safely. This study shows they are doing a good job with that. People in these markets get access to safer transportation once they can scale. Indeed, the majority of the US population lives in areas that are roughly comparable in driving complexity to either SF for Pheonix.

The real question is if these safety rates can be maintained while reducing the operational costs to the point where this can be scaled.
Thanks! I've got a lot more planned for it too. If anyone has any feedback that doesn't make sense to share here, or if you're a researcher who is open to some questions about how you currently follow arXiv papers, drop me a note at matt@emergentmind.com.
There is no paging in iOS. At least paging in the Linux sense. Your apps memory will get evicted when you switch to another app if the system needs it.
I'm not clear on what precisely the Neural Engine can do, but Apple has put plenty of resources into improving their GPUs, which can definitely do compute well (see eg, MacWhisper).
I recommend you to talk to an IP attorney. USPTO TM search is currently down, so I can’t check if DocuSeal a successfully registered trademark. I would be surprised if DocuSign won’t raise opposition to registration.

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion
Or increase childcare funding ???
My dad is a physician and as far back as I can remember, he said it was worthless.
FYI that app is 3.3 GB on iOS, not your typical app size
Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed
Heh, by your argument a full fledged desktop OS doesn't need to support keyboards because hey, a lot of desktop systems don't have keyboards (touchscreen kioks), doesn't need to support sound (not everyone wants it), doesn't need to support mouse input, doesn't need to support ethernet, doesn't need to support displays (headless mode).

I mean, this line of reasoning is ridiculous. Proper full fledge OSes support the main use cases, not the lowest common denominator.
13 GB a lot? What year is it? 1995? If Apple or Google wanted to add 1 TB to their phones, it wouldn’t cost them anywhere near what they charge us to add 256 GB.

A copy of GTA V takes like 100 GB.
Humane Ingenuity: Style and Personality
Oh man, good luck with that one. I’ve never had someone super into horoscopes that would stop being super into them, no matter how much you proved they were bullshit.

They will try to shiv you though if you keep trying.
I find it very difficult to believe that Apple is going to incorporate AI hardware into their device and then open it up to everyone freely. That would be very off brand. Even in the browser space Apple famously forced all competing browsers to use Apple Webkit as their engine. They certainly have history around lockdown and lock-in.
Nice! That's the kind of research that's needed. Obscured roads with emergent lanes.
How's the FPGA market at the moment? Has Altera been able to keep up with Xilinx (or vice versa) under Intel ownership?
Oh, I'm aware. Cisco will most likely fuck this up somehow. But this story will inspire other small companies to invest in contributing to the open source supply chain which is good for all of us.
But... It wasn't simple. No other app has been able to create the bridge they created. We all saw their initial trending HW post and the impressive technical breakdown.

If it were simple many others would have done this by now.
Perhaps I don't have a static view of my beliefs at all? You really don't know much about my beliefs. I'm just saying I don't like stratechery's and I don't see why that's threatening to you.

And yeah of course it's not up to me, that's why I'm griping in a comment section.
As long as it keeps working on my Windows 10 machine for the forseeable future, this doesn't bother me too much. I supposed I'll eventually upgrade to Windows 11 and we'll see if Windows MR works at that point.
Anyone who publishes a book with a marketing budget is a NYT bestseller. It means nothing.
No idea, never used it. I would check the readme.
1) The costs are heavily front-loaded. This makes the opportunity cost enormous.

2) I think we paid about $10k per birth, total. That’s not nothing.

3) Health insurance goes up. Kids are cheap but it’s still a couple thousands more per year. Plus hundreds to low-thousands per year in other healthcare spending per year (averaged—we’ve had $5k years and $1k years)

4) … Except having kids is a reverse lottery ticket for each one, and the healthcare & related costs could end up being “most of your money, forever”, if you’re unlucky.

5) Childcare costs are either $500-$thousands per kid per month (unless you’ve got relatives who are cool doing that all the time) or the entirety of one parent’s foregone compensation for the same span (five to six figures a year for most folks)

6) Housing. Unless you can’t afford it, you’re gonna find it very hard to settle for cheap housing in a bad school district. The premium in our area for a good vs. mediocre (not even the awful, horribly dangerous ones!) district is about 35-40% for a similar house. That’s… a fuckton of money, and the difference is likely to be 100% financed for folks around having-kids ages.

Everything else is basically negligible compared to healthcare, daycare, and housing, or can be made very cheap with minimal sacrifice.

Child related expenses were often over 50% of everything leaving our bank account, for months on end, when our kids were younger.
Also who is paying for all this? iMessage is not a free service
I recently took a Waymo test ride (round trip, two separate segments) in Los Angeles.

It was extremely uneventful - in a good way - while navigating urban traffic, road construction, unprotected left turns, etc., and felt (subjectivity alert!) a lot safer than many of the rideshare drivers I've ridden with over the past 8 years in LA.

I would definitely do it again and would feel safe putting a family member in one.
I disagree. Some people will drunk drive no matter the legal consequences, or in my case, I once rear-ended someone because I was drowsy but kept driving because I wanted to get home (fortunately no one was hurt, and yes, the accident was completely my fault). The comparison should be against the general population of human drivers because that's the reality on the road.
One of my relatives is a high level Barefoot employee who was integrated into Intel leadership after the acquisition. I was told that it was killed because of worries about internal competition with Intel IPUs. It still seems like a ridiculously foolish idea, considering how much money Intel spent acquiring Barefoot. Not that the founders and CEO care, they got their money!

The whole thing definitely seems symptomatic of Intel's extreme caution. I wonder why they didn't apply the same caution when buying Barefoot. Intel obviously didn't have a great idea on how to leverage them.

This is all in stark contrast to AMD buying Pensando, a company that my SO works for. It makes sense for AMD to acquire Pensando to expand their data center offerings and compete directly with Intel. I think AMD made a smart buy.
They don't exactly require Plaid, they can also use a debit card or ACH. You have to email support for the privilege though.

I had tried Plaid at first, but quickly switched when I found out that they would watch your bank balance and disable your Privacy account if it went below $50. They would require you to prove a balance of at least $50 in order to enable the account again. Fortunately, both of the other methods don't really care, and as long as you disconnect Plaid while your balance happens to be over $50, your account will stay enabled.
London chess prodigy, 8, wins title at European championships
As I understand it, this SSID feature does not require location services permissions.
I doubt it, we live in a world where screen resolutions are touted in multiples of "K" and cameras are sold by number of megapixels.

Tech jargon is the worst.
With all the drama surrounding this, isn't the actual root of the problem that most US Apple users just can't be bothered to simply install another messaging app?
Contrarian take, but tons of truck traffic on interstate highways makes driving far more fun (as long as there isn't road maintenance or undue stoppage).

I'm actually looking forward to future me being able to ride my motorcycle around a freight-train's worth of semi-automated cargo-haulers on interstates that are mostly devoid of vacationing families.
Third party app store for jail broken iOS devices
Looking for the truth in statistics is very tricky. Important to note that Cruise is extremely different from Waymo and shouldn't be used to represent self-driving as a whole.
Instagram finstas may turn into a new product called 'flipside'
Yes, without having to set up an account and log in. Like a normal webpage on a normal website.
Wow... almost 1,600 pages. What a slog. I guess my question is to the OP: What is your purpose? Fear? Conspiracy? Troll? If you want that route, then include commentary on all the other poisonous things humans consume: Copper, Selenium, Chlorine, Sodium, even Arsenic, and etc. These are all elements or compounds or salts that are needed in the human body for it to live. Flouride is a monatomic anion of fluorine, a salt if you will, no different than Chlorine and Sodium as a salt. The data is incontrovertible that "Flouride" helps the human condition more that it hurts it.
Or, again, make it easier to raise kids. Subsidize childcare, or even better, allow zoning that stimulates community development so people have free childcare in their neighbors or extended family living nearby.
These lights meaning, MANUFACTURER will be responsible in case of any issues, caused by autonomous driving vehicle.
Second reverse card: I can buy a giant bottle of Tylenol (acetaminophen/paracetamol) in any grocery store in the US, right off the shelf, using self-checkout. In Germany, I can only buy it in 10-20 tablet packets at a pharmacy, and only after asking the tech at the register for it, and will be warned not to take more than a certain number in a day.

And you’re sure as heck not getting any antibiotic stronger than a first aid cream without a prescription in Germany.
Doesn't work. I tried this with a NYTimes trial-rate subscription, to make sure it wouldn't renew at the $exorbitant rate.

Apparently there's a thing called a "force post" that the merchant can do, which blasts right through Privacy.com's veil. I didn't understand this until they explained it to me:

> From: Sigourney (Privacy)

> Jun 1, 2022, 5:21 PM EDT
> Hi, [Name]

> I've been reviewing your dispute and wanted to touch base with you to explain what happened.

> It appears that the disputed charge is a "force post" by the merchant. This happens when a merchant cannot collect funds for a transaction after repeated attempts and completes the transaction without an authorization — it's literally an unauthorized transaction that's against payment card network rules. It's a pretty sneaky move used by some merchants, and unfortunately, it's not something Privacy can block.

> We are refunding the transaction to the original funding source used for this purchase. You should see this refund reflected in your bank statement in the next 5 business days. However, please note that since this merchant uses force posts, they will continue to do this monthly until the subscription is cancelled. Please contact them to have the subscription cancelled.

> Let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

Okay, so Privacy refunded it, and I'm not clear whether they ate that cost or if they pulled some lever to claw-back the money from the NYT, but the fact that this is even possible in the first place is alarming, and it completely shattered my idea of what Privacy.com is even good for.
Good point. He was at Red Hat when he did the work, though, right?
Substack Has a Nazi Opportunity
doesn’t mean I have to accept Substack’s attempt to convince me that its branding is about the good of humanity. It’s about money. Hamish McKenzie’s apologia for Substack’s approach is full of dubious (if common) arguments. Let’s address just a few.
The tool that it's being used for this offering is this one, https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-readability, just to save a few clicks :)
Thank you for the correction! I'll remember to use the revised number in future.
A hundred years ago, you could mail order a house from the Sears catalog (they are call “craftsmen” homes).

The big problem I’ve noticed with factory built in California is that the house itself is something like 25% the price and much less than half the calendar time it takes from buying land to moving into the house.

So, you can save 10% in money and time, or go full custom.

(No, none of what I just said should be true; hopefully it’s mostly just a California problem…)
I use @wasmer/wasi for my npm package `trealla` (wasm port of a Prolog interpreter). For the most part I'm pretty happy with it, but the file size is quite large[1] (taking up around half my bundle size), and it looks like @wasmer/sdk is even larger (wasmer.sh downloads a 1.7MB gzipped wasm binary that I assume is the runtime). It's a tough sell to the frontend folks when my package is this big... currently I have my eye on jco[2] which I hope will be much lighter.

No shade intended towards the Wasmer folks, I appreciate the work they've done.

[1]: https://bundlephobia.com/package/@wasmer/wasi@1.2.2

[2]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/jco
They told this joke about A. Mikoyan who survived all Stalin's purges which made him the oldest living member of the Politburo at that time:

- Comrade Mikoyan, you forgot your umbrella!

- Don't worry, I'll walk between the raindrops.
I deserved it. :)
Ha! Thanks. You learn something new every day.