skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent a lot of time thinking about fast pathfinding in order to speed up my Scala Quoridor AI*[0], and here are some tips/tricks I've learned:

- MPAA (multipath adaptive A*) is great if you need to re-search the same area multiple times as obstacles are introduced. It allows you to feed in the results of previous searches in order to speed up pathfinding.

- JPS (jump point search) looks very appealing in theory because it allows you to significantly reduce the number of "nodes" considered, but I found that the increased overhead in identifying jump points meant it didn't provide a speedup. There might be a way to marry the ideas of MPAA and JPS, but it is very easy to conceptually shoot yourself in the foot with minor conceptual details when getting creative with the algorithms. (As a contrived example, using a ">" when you needed a ">=" might mean you are no longer guaranteed to output the real shortest path in certain situations)

- Instead of using a proper heap for storing open nodes, consider using a bucketed priority queue if your max priority value is a relatively low integer. This means there's an underlying array indexed by priority, which makes push'ing and pop'ing quite fast.

[0] Quoridor takes place on a 9x9 grid, and repeated pathfinding is essential in order to determine how close a player is to their goal, and more broadly whether the goal is even reachable. (In order to even determine the valid moves from a given position, all moves must be checked to see if they make a goal unreachable). I plan to release this within the next few months, including at least 3 decision making "engines": mtdf (a min-max variant), MCTS (parallel with some tricks), and a hybrid involving catboost.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. You can use some other forge and keep an up-to-date github repository as a read-only front.
You can buy led light blocking stickers on amazon

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=led+light+blocking+stickers
take a file which you can duplicate for free

hash it with the blockchain, which costs you $

now it's attached to your wallet

now you can trade them by transfering to someone else's wallet for a fee of your choosing

it's a way to create artificial scarcity
2 million views in about 5 hours. Wow.
I'm saying it should be measured to see, before proposing changes. I'd love to learn that a majority of DMCA notices are individual artists taking down legitimate infringement. Somehow I highly doubt that's the case.
Going to the symphony is similarly “competence porn.” It does nothing for your musical skills, but it’s a joy.

There is nothing wrong with entertainment for entertainment’s sake.
I'd imagine that if they host one religions books, many more religions will come out of the wood work and demand their books also be included, leading the site to be largely religious texts.
I agree with that, I think UDL uses the necessary amount of math to communicate the ideas correctly. That is obviously a good thing. What it does not do is pretend to be presenting a mathematical theory of deep learning. Basically UDL is exactly how I think current textbooks should be presented.
Scout II, factory option.
Besides AJAX, IE introduced CSS and IFRAMEs too as far as I remember.
Yes, it's easier for mathematicians, because a lot of background knowledge and intuition is encoded in mathematical conventions (eg "C(R)" for continuous functions on the reals etc...). Note that this is probably a book for mathematicians.
That works. I use labelmaker tape because I love labelmakers, and already have various colors of tape anyway. (White for most, black for more discrete labeling on black electronics, colors for color-coding things like employer-owned WFH equipment, and for rare warning labels for certain IT purposes.)
You know you've made it as a cultural symbol when you are being parodied : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-IEVMwBEfo
It's not just the raw numbers, it's the ratio between old and young that is absolutely essential which you're not including.

Say we're below replacement rate and the first "halving" has occurred. The replacement rate now no longer is 2.1 (as it currently is), it would be perhaps 3-4. Which won't happen, so then it becomes 5. Which won't happen so then it becomes 6. And so on.

Once the serious decline sets in, it cannot be stopped.
https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-5-8gb/
Holy crap no. Take a look at the amount of sodium in Better than Bouillon. Way more than any other type of stock like product. You can get the rip-off box stock with no sodium added in all three flavors.
Colorization might be interesting in court. If original colorization was actual manually painting animation cells, and 2023 colorization is applying the right parameters to Stable Diffusion, then maybe the manual effort is protected whereas mechanical is not.
Speaking of git, for mega monorepro performance, we're gonna need synthetic FSes and SCM-integrated synthetic checkouts. Sapling (was hg in the past but was forked and reworked extensively) will be able to do this if EdenFS will ever be released, but Git will need something similar. This will require a system agent running with a caching overlay fs that can grab and cache bits on-the-fly. Yes, it's slightly slower than having contents already, but there is no way to checkout a 600+ GiB repo on a laptop with a 512 GiB SSD.
This is immaterial considering EV ramp rate and overall fleet turnover trajectory. Public transportation is also non existent in most of the US. Agree with your mass transit points where density and planning allows (bus lanes, fast busses, even free bus rides). Importantly, an EV rideshare fleet should be considered where using bus routes is inefficient to due low density. Congestion charges are also likely helpful where there is high density (Manhattan, Chicago Loop, parts of they Bay Area, Washington state, Philadelphia, Washington DC, etc).

TLDR: Mass transit, lower speed limits, and traffic calming in urban (and suburban, where reasonable) areas. Electrification for middle of nowhere.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/electric-vehicles-EVs-new-c...

https://www.atlasevhub.com/weekly-digest/one-million-evs-sol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

https://vividmaps.com/public-transportation-in-the-united-st...

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/public-t...
Right, which is why I'm a fan of removing SIM cards and fuses. Wonder if it's possible to remove "black box" logging systems without rendering the car in question inoperable.

My guess is that even if it is possible now, it won't be for much longer.

Freedom, privacy, and full ownership/control are three concepts that are becoming increasingly foreign to young people, it's quite sad.
For about author question "who will be Open-source software stewards?"

That's easy. From juridical point, all software without liable owner except mentioned science/arts, will be prohibited in all businesses working at restricted markets.

For listed above, could add (cellular) communication companies, energy (electric or gas) companies, water pipes, and other infrastructure critical, medical, emergency services.

And from Democratic experience, ANYBODY could become steward, just need to claim responsibility and may be conduct some bureaucracy procedures to prove ability to be liable.

From this my conclusion, if NOBODY will claim to be steward for some software, it will automatically become prohibited for mentioned businesses.
We do offer azw3 files for all of our books. https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle...
If you don't have math you're going to hoodwink yourself into thinking you can get to AGI by scale alone.

There are very smart people who think we can get to AGI by scale alone - they call that the "the scaling hypothesis", in fact. I think they're wrong but I thought they knew a fair amount of math.

What math would you use to describe the limitations of deep learning? My impression is there aren't any exact theorems that describe either it's limits or it's behavior/possibilities, there are just suggestive theorems and constructions combined with heuristics.
Thank you so much for the work you and the whole team, and the contributing community, do! I've read a bunch of classics thanks to your editions, and have donated in the past. This post is a reminder for me to do so again!
Intense Chess Photographs
That sounds quite logical, and almost like there must be some equipment working that way.
A raised plexiglass shelf/cover, perhaps?
Very cool!

How are you getting/using ibdb data? I thought the API was locked down (?)
Alerts for new job postings at target companies
This. If it looks like my change is blowing up in prod at 4 AM, and I didn’t write down what I was trying to do, you are absolutely entitled to wake me up and demand an explanation.
> being undesirable to the vast majority of people they're sexually attracted to.

There was an episode of the radio show This American Life that ran the numbers on finding someone compatible in a large city.

It’s time to face facts.

The vast majority of us are undesirable to the vast majority of people we're sexually attracted to…by the numbers…
Public transportation is public in the same sense as a pub. The service is available to anyone willing to pay, without any membership or other special requirements. Some systems are fully government-run, some have a public authority and private operators, and some are for-profit companies that make their money in real estate.
And a lot of patience was needed for browsing the web back then.
Kind of depends on broad the answer is.

In isolation, sure, battery chemistry might've gone a little further. But I suspect it would've plateaued sooner without the sophisticated battery management systems that modern integrated circuits enabled.

When taken in scope of events of the 20th century like the World Wars? Countries that had adopted electric would've found themselves at a decisive disadvantage against countries that chose oil. The gas piston engine enabled advances in aviation and blue water ships. I have my doubts electric adopting countries would've survived against those advantages.
Scale registration cost by vehicle weight and size. Could similarly scale speeding tickets.
The question in your example seems odd to me. It can be interpreted as either 2 OR 3 unique branches depending on how you read it.

There is either base branch A whose current head is commit #2 / branch B with head of commit #3.

OR

Commit #1 is branch “default” commit #2 is branch “A” with parent as commit #1 and commit is branch “B” with parent also as commit #1

Consider your same example with forking instead of branching, how would the issue be resolved?
It prevents archival, reproduction, and examination of interesting legacy works before they and their contemporary supporting materials disappear.
33 years ago, I went online and sent an email to ARJ’s author Robert K. Jung over a BITNET-Internet gateway on a 3270 terminal connected to an IBM 4341. Robert was very friendly, and had replied to all my emails. ARJ was a very promising and feature rich compression software until PKZIP 2.x came out and basically devoured the archiver market.
> It’s so incredibly frustrating going 20 or 25mph on a road where most drivers could easily safely drive over double that.

It's the minority of drivers that should worry you. Speed limits and road safety aren't only for the ideal conditions and safest drivers. And they aren't just for what drivers feel safe doing but what everyone else is safe with.

Very conservatively and in ideal conditions, at 50mph it takes at least 10m to decide to act, another 10m for your foot to get the signal, and another 30-40m to stop. NHTSA estimates between 260ft-300ft. Do you still think most drivers can safely drive in an urban/residential environment with 60-100m stopping distance?

You say "most drivers could easily safely drive", I say "most drivers dangerously overestimate their ability" and are only prepared for best case scenarios. The rules are for all those other cases. A better option would be to make the road the limiting factor and not just via a rule. Drivers feeling less safe at higher speeds would bring that in line with what other participants to traffic feel and make everyone safer.
Sci-fi works are the hardest to find cover art for as naturally there is zero public domain sci-fi themed fine art. If you can paint in a fine art style, contact me via email and let's chat.
It is a much harder problem, but it is working just fine on even low-end mobile phones with the majority of websites.
> The thing is that you'd need a way to track a user.

The page you're on already knows what comparisons you've made (otherwise how it would move forward), so this is entirely possible!

I've come up with a way to randomise it (by just picking a random element from an array of comparisons that haven't yet been made), that's the next step. I deployed it earlier, but there was a bug with it so I've had to rollback until I can look into it.
I'm more idealistic about some things than the reality, and I like to think that US law doesn't do "customer support" like a well-known FAANG. (Where it's just good business to let some fraction of a percent of people be wrongly locked out of their accounts, rather than invest in covering those edge cases.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EqualJusticeUnderLaw.jpg
This book is not aimed at practitioners but I don’t think that means it deserves to be called „actively the worst one”.

Even though the frontier of deep learning is very much empirical, there’s interesting work trying to understand why the techniques work, not only which ones do.

I’m sorry but saying proofs are not a good method for gaining understanding is ridiculous. Of course it’s not great for everyone but a book titled „Mathematical Introduction to x” is obviously for people with some mathematical training. For that kind of audience lemmas and their proof are natural way of building understanding.
to be fair, PyPy predates PyPI
> How do you ship a word filter that catches it on a generic instance, but doesn't interfere with an academic discussion of reclaimed slurs?

Right. Not to mention the Scunthorpe Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I get analysis paralysis which just prevents me from doing anything because I can't decide on the optimal thing to do.
also if the amount of EV charging stations was the same as the amount of gas stations we wouldn't have that issue as well. Early gas was bought at stores in cans most of the time, bulk pumping was just not very common.
This is a function of the road design. We know based on studies that most folks drive the speed they feel comfortable regardless of the posted speed limits. I live right across the street from a school. It’s naturally a 25mph zone. But the roads are literally as wide as a highway road with perfect sight lines and bike lanes on both sides. It’s a very straight and wide path with clear visibility for about a mile so of course cars are going to fly down that road regardless of the posted limit.

All it would take is some traffic calming measures on each side of the school zone. Chicanes or bollards which narrow the road and force people to slow down and been demonstrated to be highly effective at regulating speed. Roads should be designed for the speeds that motorists are meant to travel if safety is an actual goal.
Noteplan [1] has stuck for at least 3 years now. I like that in addition to old-school notes pages, each day has its own page. I capture notes and to-dos when I'm in meetings, and it has a separate view that will aggregate all your to-dos onto the same screen, no matter what day they appeared on. That might be available in many note-taking apps now, but when I converted to Noteplan, I couldn't find that feature anywhere. I really wanted something that combined to-dos and notes into the same software.

Note-taking apps are a really crowded space and there are die-hards in every camp. It sounds trite, but I'm convinced the best one is the one that sticks and that you actually use.

[1] https://noteplan.co/
I have used car sharing for ~10 years and its been great not owning a car. Until I got a kid. Car seats are not made for carrying around and storage I'll tell you that.

Now I have a second kid. It's a complete nail in the coffin for not owning a car. Two seats!?

Ive been a bespoken car sharing advocate until I got kids, and there are probably lots of other lives being lived where cars are a must unless every need I'm similarly unaware of are met by car sharing businesses.

Proper research into the needs will have to be done before we can do any such thing as banning private cars. But I agree with your premise. Softly.
Inevitably, like everyone who rejects PHP frameworks because "PHP is already a templating language", you just wound up reinventing the framework anyway.

I'm not complaining - It's just, there's a reason everyone goes for the existing frameworks and it isn't addiction to complexity. Raw PHP code is legendarily insecure and prone to XSS and other issues if you don't do things exactly right.

Nice site, though.
You might be able to combine a small physical MIDI controller with a cheap phone/tablet for controlling more advanced features like envelopes.
I’ve long wondered whether peak traffic would benefit with lowered speed limits. It’s effectively the same when traffic clogs such that average speed is a crawl. Maybe setting speed lower from the get go would minimize odds of congestion multipliers like accidents and road rage.
Your original post comes across to me as way more of a typical propaganda post then the person you're replying to here. Making huge outrageous claims, all negative about a country, painting an extreme picture, all entirely opinion based without a single piece of data to back up your claims.
100, author+50, or author+70 years is absolutely absurd rent-seeking corporate greed that subsumed the protections of individual creators because of damn corporate personhood. Copyright should exist for a period of 2x "life sentence" used by Scandinavian criminal courts: 42 years. No extensions, no exceptions.
> You mean that the fornt end devs aren't actually responsible for the rendering, but the browser devs are?

Not at all. Quite the opposite, in fact. My position is that the browser is fast enough, and that any slowness is exactly the fault of the site devs. You said the browser wasn't fast enough.

Previous poster: The reality is that web is fast enough

You: No its fuckin not.
NERV Disaster Prevention
It gave me something to do while loading a page over slow-ass dialup. The worst were pages had the same color for the text and background and relied on a slow loading background image to provide the contrast to read anything.
Monogram has a 3 slider controller, plus it's modular so you can build something for your specific workflow.
My question wasn't to imply that I don't think a given technology should or shouldn't exist.

I was curious to see if anyone could name at the top of their head some practical use cases that they feel net out the potential harms of cloning and misusing someone else's voice.

There's some nice and certainly practical examples, but I don't feel any of them would net out the harms.

Perhaps there's a use case that we can't even comprehend yet that would though!
I would say UDL should be very accessible to any undergrad from a strong program.

I would not call the notation ‘dense’ rather it’s ‘abused’ notation. Once you have seen the abused notation enough times, it makes just makes sense. Aka “mathematical maturity” in the ML space.

My views on this have changed as a first year PhD in ML I got annoyed by the shorthand. Now as someone with a PhD, I get it — It’s just too cumbersome to write out what exactly you mean and you write like you’re writing for peers +\- a level.
Plans to add support for MongoDB?
> I think we can reuse some of the strategies electric cars use.

Sounds like it could be a patent minefield.
I think the past twenty or so years of technology development has mostly pointed to relentless consolidation and re-centralization.
Wrote a truetype rasterizer about 20 years ago. I took the easy way out and just simply antialised everything, didn't even try to support TrueType hinting programs.

Sure, things looked blurry, but it didn't matter much when everything would be rotated into weird angles and sizes anyways.

Bezier and implementing correct and FAST filling rules took a lot of effort.
Codeberg is also working on federating, or maybe they already do. My experience using them was quite unpleasant, though, they're very feature-incomplete.
How about an automatic transmission that can upshift to top gear even at modest speeds, and the tradeoff is that very little additional torque-on-demand is available ?
My theory is that blue lights stand out more in Amazon search results.
Technically interesting, but no thanks. Imagine a Firefox user downloading the latest LibreOffice and being greeted with the warning "Better run through Chrome", or writing a dashboard on a small embedded system, and the memory footprint goes like 20x because now you need a browser in between in place of native controls. The idea is interesting but there are so many caveats, and the industry is famous for choosing the simplest and cheapest development methods rather than the most efficient ones.
He's in a nice position in that he's diversified his content with a game show and podcast, so he can stop his main channel content and still have some income flowing. That gives him time to take a step back and re-invent himself if he chooses. I wonder if he would be doing the same thing if he only had his main channel.
Kobo, with either stock OS or KOReader (I use this, in part because the font size can be easily increased for my daughter who so far needs text larger than stock) or Plato.
EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser
> Hierarchical graphs: city-level, inter-room in building, intra-room.

Handmade? It's always annoying to me when you have a small NP-hard problem (graph partitioning is definitely a recurring one for me) and you want to just throw some box algorithm at it without having to shop around for a library that you have to learn.

I remember there was a while in college where I didn't understand why A* in an RTS would be such a hard thing... and then I watched a video or read something that pointed out that if you don't want units walking through each other then every single moving thing is constantly re-pathing around every other unit. New respect for command and conquer.
Recent and related:

Microdot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38156060 - Nov 2023 (26 comments)
Me too. It feels great to see such a clear example of building a successful business on an open source tool and ecosystem. Git is massively popular and actively used, GitHub built a huge community for discovering and interacting with open source projects, and since the acquisition, Microsoft-owned GitHub has continued improving their platform without breaking interop with the open spec.

Everybody wins.
Introduce sane driver’s license weight limits. 26k pounds on a standard license? Crazy. This is why “cars” like the electric hummer and cybertank (written like this on purpose) exist. Neither can be reliably operated in Europe.
What are dark photons, and why is CERN looking for them?