skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that the models of how parts connect in biology are mostly descriptive.

However, try to use only words to describe how a circuit works that powers a radio, then use those words as a “model” to predict how a radio would work: you’ll end up with vague hand wavy text that poor quantitative and qualitative predictions.

One solution is to use the language of differential equations to explicitly describe in simple but precise language how parts are connected. Although not quantitative in their predictions, at least this “systems” approach makes qualitatively interesting predictions (eg limit cycles, fixed points, bistability).
Perhaps, but look at the entire people. California is losing people; Texas is gaining them. And it's not just California that has a net outflow to red states; New York and Illinois are also seeing an outflow.
This costs $35 and doesn't enlarge your iPhone: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000402875449.html or this is $7 and is easier to type than Clicks: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000982236230.html
Not any more; in any case, here's a link to the comment in question:

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/18ysttu/_/kgltqrg/
Not in India
I realize meritocracy is more an aspiration than a reality, but the frequency of these disastrous cases of tone-deaf CEO messaging really give the impression that the inversion is most common.
The article even calls management's decisions "necessary or right" because they might lose their jobs. But you know what hit me hardest in that article? That the top highlight (a few minutes ago at least) was this sentence

> In the end, it would have been less expensive for McDonnell Douglas if they had just fixed the planes.

Again a fixation on money. As if that isn't the root cause.
For what its worth I'm genuinely sorry that this happened to you.
I remember when the term "woke" used to refer to taking too many psychedelic mushrooms and having a "transcendent experience"

How far we have fallen
> so long as their car has a license plate (which is also not reliably enforced in the US).

What? If any cop sees you without a plate you’re getting pulled over immediately.
Niche Online Tournaments
Clippy Returned (As an Unnecessary "AI")
The big difference between adding the first `== true` to `if (x)` and adding more is that for a bare `x` you need more context to know whether the expression inside the `if` is of boolean type or something that will implicitly be casted to boolean. With `x == true` you know just looking at the `if` statement that it is a boolean expression. Adding more `== true` does not make it more explicit.
Running OmniOS via UTM on Apple Silicon
A Journey Through Font Rendering
In part, but not all of it.
Even then, they still fixed the tubes on all their planes. Seems only right, doesn't it?
oh hey, i didn't know gcc shipped with the save-restore millicode and an option to use it, that's cool!

with .syntax unified you have a fairly friendly push/pop multiple syntax, whether you're using thumb or not

agreed about the instruction encoding complexity over rv32i and about halfwords and signed bytes. the arm7 datasheet includes example sequences for, among other things, loading halfwords, division, and an lfsr, but that kind of detour is exactly the kind of thing that adds potentially unintentional difficulty to classwork

rv32i also has more instructions than armv3 because it has shift instructions, while armv3 has optional shifts or rotates in most instructions, which certainly isn't a reduction in complexity with respect to risc-v

maybe you could make a base32 word dumper using 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv? won't help much with the standard risc-v instruction encoding... and once you're swizzling split immediate fields around, you might as well write a disassembler

an octal-friendly rv32c custom encoding might be more achievable. this is vaguely related to graham smecher's "minimax" implementation of risc-v, where the hardware only implements the two-operand compressed instruction set plus a few extra instructions, and uncompressed instructions trap to microcode. or millicode, i guess
> John Glenn was 77.

He was in exceptionally good health.

> I don't think space tourism becoming an eighth of total tourism is insane. I'd guess the fraction of tourism dollars that are spent on travel reached by plane is a lot higher, maybe about a third or half.

The cost of a plane ticket is typically less than, say, a quarter of the total spending on a holiday (including hotel, food, attractions, souvenirs). Also, people go to certain destinations to spend time there, they don't go for the plane ride - which is all space tourism can be.

Just think about the number of civilian airports in the world, and compare to the number of locations where rockets can be launched from. There'll be more money to make in taking people to see the rocket launches than in actually putting tourists on rockets, I can guarantee that.

The only way space tourism might catch a break is if a space plane is ever actually successfully designed. That gets rid of many of the problems of rockets. But even then, it's a once in a lifetime experience, not something people would do every year like actual tourism.
Do you know how politically complex it is to build a single high speed rail line? In one country? Its so mind blowing complex politically, its almost unfathomable. And even then often it only results in an upgrade of an existing line, rather then a new line.

Building a whole new infrastructure from the ground up, would not only be absurdly expensive, it would also be absurdly impractical and take literally 50 years if it would ever happen.

Yes, Japan is correct that sometimes, more separation is a good thing if your network can be simpler.

But at the same time you can't just reverse that and then conclude that 'lets make everything as different as possible' and believe that's somehow going to turn into an efficient system.

We can not just simply ignore 200 years of train history and evolution each countries system has. I'm all for learning from Japan, but we also can't and shouldn't just copy Japan.
Feels like en- is just there to keep things respectable and printable. I drop the pretense and use shiffitification in person.
Yeah, no. GOP today has very little semblance to GOP of Reagan times (although the seeds of the present insanity have been sown then, and even earlier - Trumpism is a perfectly logical end result of Birchers, "moral majority" etc). And there's nothing "golden age" about Florida today; certainly not when it comes to quality of governance.
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Well his response to this:

"They tried their best. They called me every name in the book. They cut off my health insurance. They deleted all of my fucking stories, which like, what the fuck? And then they still lost. People keep asking, ‘Is it going to be weird going back?’ I’m like, yeah, for them.”"

I rather think it will be super weird for everyone.

Also the original joke, that was likely the one triggering the firing, was about his workplace:

“I work at one of these places that’s so woke it’s kinda racist,” the joke reads in part. “Like this lady asked my boss, she’s like ‘Yo, does Jad consider himself a person of color?’ because she was making a list of us. Fucking hell? Sick, alright. I get to be in this lady’s brown dude Pokédex.”
it doesn't really need to be; don't bother
1) You are right wasp, and similar beings dont have much choice, whatever they do they are mistly dictated by nature and they have to act accordingly. That is why there is no karma for them. They cannot create any karma or 'sin' BUT they can suffer the reactions of the bad karma they have done in past life (in a species when they actually had the intelligence to differentiate between right and wrong).

A crude example: A man torturing a caterpillar for fun, may have to take birth in a life of caterpillar and endure the same pain, either by a human or different species.

Karma does not negate biology, karma is a law which acts on 'subtler' platform than gross law of biology. pleaseure and suffering decided according to law of karma is manifested by biology(through chance and probabilities)!

Thanks for such wonderful questions, am open to more.
Impressive results. I sort of wish this didn't have the Java dependency as I usually don't have it installed (I guess I'd run it from a Docker container).
I've definitely played against some children who would respawn pieces. Human level AI clearly.
Great tool, love the calendar picker to check the DST overlap weeks.

I use also timeanddate.com. It suggests acceptable time slots and can be saved in favs with selected cities, i.e.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...
Seems to me like this would actually be much more likely to double their chances of being vulnerable, in that a break in either algorithm would lead to a weakness in their system.

I'd need to see some extraordinary evidence for that claim.
Do you really need this many screens? 1 Back bench passenger has 1.5 screens?
Writing a key comparison function is not a problem. The problem is that Map does not have any way to use such a thing; it always compares using a predefined equality algorithm that is by-reference for all aggregate data types.
Most people don't even use ad blockers today. Hoping that people (especially the people who are vulnerable to such misinformation and actually need it) personally configure a propaganda filter AI is wildly optimistic.
> Lacking access to an Android or iOS device basically excludes you from modern life.

No, but it does free you from some of the most noxious and time-wasting aspects of modern life.
Yeah, I'm really wary of the "when done properly, it's effective" rhetoric. It's like "we know this isn't effective, but that's because nobody does it properly". Well if it's impossible to do properly, how is it effective?
> I am pretty sure a bunch of matrix multiplications can't intuit anything.

I don't understand how people can say things like this when universal approximation is an easy thing to prove. You could reproduce Magnus Carlsen's exact chess-playing stochastic process with a bunch of matrix multiplications and nonlinear activations, up to arbitrarily small error.
On the contrary, clearly there's some intellectually stimulating comments here. I just spent some time reading posts that argued with each other, deeply considering the points that each made.

Can you expand on what you mean by the American culture wars?
> Perhaps when China stops their massive human rights abuses

How do you figure it's not empty propaganda and that it's actually more massive compared to the US "well that's just life" incidents?

Because it's definitely propaganda (even if not an empty one). It's no coincidence that it ramped up when China became an economic competitor to the US. Even the "Uyghurs camps" narrative surged in media just right along with ICE detention camps scandal. And given how muslims were treated by the US after 9/11, there is definitely zero moral high-ground.

Cracking down on dissidents? Capitol riots challenge was failed miserably and was hardly handled any differently than what gets so criticized in "authoritarian" countries.

> cannot hold a candle to what the U.S.A achieves on the world stage.

Jokes about participating in wars all over the planet aside, what did the US actually achieve on the WORLD stage? Not it's influence on European neighborhood and the small corner of North Atlantics, but the WORLD. Cuz IMO, the world is totally burning right now.

It's really hard to figure out what you're implying specifically when you talk in slogans and manifestos, instead of like a normal down to earth person. But I can't shake the feeling that you kinda treat the rest of the world as ochlos to American demos, with an inherent supremacism similar to how 20 century commies went about their global revolution that no one had asked them for.
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And its really ICE. German S-Bahn are freaking awesome.
As this drama prominently shows: Carts is tying it's darndest not to be just a "cap table company"
Microsoft pulled that branch bullshit to deflect from the flak it got for wanting to keep ICE as a customer from its employees.

Ever since then Ive kind of considered renaming master to main to be a symbol not of one's sensitivity to "problematic language" but of trying to be "woke" while refusing to boycott concentration camps.
Exploring x86-64 Instruction Encoding
Ask HN: Is there a Google Form like solution for Dropbox?
I have a few instances where I would like to store data, like a gas meter reading or my weight, on my phone and have the data saved on dropbox (csv?). I found one very pricey solution.

Does anyone know of a simple solution?
I used a Hisense eink phone with refresh rate just not servicable enough to want to fuckaroundistis on the phone. Wish eink on back like Yota form factor amde it.
Afaik his small bot reaches 1300 and gpt-3.5-instruct reaches 1800. We have no idea how much and on what kind of PGNs the Openai model was trained. I heard a rumor that they specifically trained on games up to 1800 before but no idea.
The H100 is orders of magnitude too expensive for 99% of people who wants to do AI inference.
Wouldn’t the opposite be better? I’m not sure you could take advantage of the vast majority of files in the zip files being unchanged if you kept compressed archives.
I used to regularly use these at the Uni of Leeds in the Roger Stevens lecture theatre building. Never saw an accident. Freshers were told that they turned upside down when going over the top but in fact they just slid sideways to the next shaft (we used to ride over the top sometimes to beat a queue going down) but they could apparently jam if too many people tried it so it was frowned upon by the porters.
Why Sam Altman Was Fired as CEO of OpenAI/GPT (The Gritty Details)
I think you are right, but it would be nice to have some more data and possibly insights. Perhaps fewer direct consequences, but a possibility for changing course for the better? Even a little bit?
My taxes are kind of complicated. I'm happy to do them. It's a little walk down memory road of the past year. Most people do 1040-EZ, and the "EZ" stands for "easy" because it takes 5 seconds to do. Turbotax is one of the best pieces of software I have used. I don't understand the issue.
Every so often, I encounter someone saying that about some topic while also being wrong.

Also, it took me actually writing a chess game to learn about en passant capturing, the 50 moves without capturing or pawn move forced draw, and the 3 state repetition forced draw.
i've known a number of established experts in different fields, and they all had controversial opinions. sometimes not in the fields they were recognized in, but somewhere
Eink phones might be a good option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZROIjvbICA
I hope that the 2024 word of the year has a more can-do attitude. Awareness doesn’t automatically lead to problem solving. Problem solving does. Maybe the 2024 word can be something like nichization. In which more and more people and organisations solve a niche problem in a superb way. It would be a direct counter to enshittification because large organizations are usually not flexible enough to fix very specific problems.
The apples-to-apples comparison would be comparing an LLM with Leela with search turned off (only using a single board state)

According to figure 6b [0] removing MCTS reduces Elo by about 40%, scaling 1800 Elo by 5/3 gives us 3000 Elo which would be superhuman but not as good as e.g. LeelaZero.

[0]: https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/model/alphago/2...
High Bandwidth Memory Can Make CPUs the Desired Platform for AI and HPC (2022)
1) not defending anything, just explaining what I know.
2) never heard of Swinburne. Natural evil is force for maturation and ALSO to uphold the principle of justice among all living beings.
3) No evil can harm a living being if he has not already bad stock of karma with him. And also God does not interfere with anyone's free will. If we are living with others then some laws will have to be followed.

Now you will ask that how did evil actually generate because in beginning there was no bad karma. The thing is that even the intention of harming someone and attempts can generate bad karma. Our mindset towardds others must be good.

4) Nah, in eastern philosophy even beginners know this, yeah but in east also very less people actually know about themselves!

5) Yes we have free will. If given two paths with one path we know as thousand times better than other path, Still by our free will we can choose the bad one.
6) Free will is necessary for love i.e. relationship with ourselves and God. Love is morality harming any sentinent being is not.
6) God is capable of evil but he/she(whatever) does not do it.
Also Java and Kotlin.
When I profile the (excruciatingly slow) demo website

(EDIT: WARNING that link crashes Firefox on my phone)

https://superdash.flutter.dev/

it sure looks like there are parts of the Dart VM in the call stack. Maybe I should have said Dart runtime?

But anyway, the dart example app stutters on my Android phone and the website stutters on my quad-core laptop with a mobile 3080. And it's basically just tappy chicken, so a simple 2D side scroller.
Can't edit my post, yeah you're right.

I quoted some one verbatim who works at Airbus who said Airbus Australia was exclusively supporting Defences helicopter fleet. I must have misunderstood what they said and Qantas/Jetstar are flying Airbus but are being supported by another party.

My mistake.
Tech minimalists and hipsters. The website itself is shockingly heavy, though, with hi res images resized down to thumbnails. Yuck.
You are right caterpillar, and similar beings dont have much choice, whatever they do they are mistly dictated by nature and they have to act accordingly. That is why there is no karma for them. They cannot create any karma or 'sin' BUT they can suffer the reactions of the bad karma they have done in past life (in a species when they actually had the intelligence to differentiate between right and wrong).

A crude example: A man torturing a caterpillar for fun, may have to take birth in a life of caterpillar and endure the same pain, either by a human or different species.

Thanks for the good question, am open to more.
Are non-functional requirements all there is these days? Instead of “developers, developers, developers”, is the new mantra “plumbing, plumbing, plumbing, (and infrastructure)”?
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I’m not sure where’s the surprise, they’ve been saying this was their plan from the beginning, from their initial fundraise
> I can't say I ever felt that diversity itself was the problem, or the solution for anything.

Tolerance (within decent limits) is the goal I guess. I like tolerance societies/people. Monocultures cause intolerance IME. Diversity brings tolerance. Again IME.

> It doesn't say a single word about why society should strive to be diverse.

Fair enough, but what in your view does a non-diverse culture bring?
Some time ago I was offered to start using hearing aid, and I must say when I tried it I felt like something opened in my brain. So now I read this article where it says wearing hearing aid might rise the risk of ending up with dementia... and I'm confused, I thought hearing aid activates brain regions not used previously. I thought it's reasonable to assume wearing hearing aid is good for your brain, it's making me sad it might be the opposite...
1) Sanatana Dharma, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism they all have the concept of karma.
2) Yes!, It has lots and lots of description and details behind karma and ourselves.
I feel like the only person who enjoyed ultima VIII on release.
Have been using pocketbase in production for a mobile app for a couple of month now and so far it was a _very_ pleasent experience. Together with the JS SDK it is now my go to backend framework for everything where I don't need specialized libraries (like ML stuff etc.)
Chess AI used to dominate by computational power but to my knowledge that is no longer true and the engines beat all but the very strongest players even when run on phone CPUs.
I expected IPv4 addresses
> and who was “she”?

The structure, probably. In gendered languages objects have a grammatical gender, and "structure" is feminine in at least French, Italian, and Spanish (they all derived from Latin "structura", which is feminine). Non-native English speakers will sometime carry over a noun's gender when writing in English.
Trains being late isn't that overrated. Its not the most important thing, but it is important. Because being late messes up the whole system. One train being late can cascade to lots of other trains being late. Causing system degridation.

There is not one single issue with the German network. Yes, the multi polarity you mentioned is one of them. But that's not the main issue, really more a feature.

One of the issues is that early on DB wanted to continue to make money with cargo, so they insisted on having cargo (and other trains) use the same lines. Rather then building new lines that nobody else uses. This choice over long term degraded to a situation where lots of high speed lines are just major upgrades of existing lines.

That leads to the network not having as much capacity as it could have had. And you have ICE trains blocking lots of the tracks for other trains, and the other way around. And even if the ICE can go, it can't go full speed because some parts aren't upgrade enough. You constantly go from a speed line, to an upgraded line, to a normal line, to a city approach.

While its great that in Germany the ICE goes to the main station, unlike in France where Paris doesn't even have a real main station. It also leads to ICE trains having to use an excessive amount of the old city network. And there are always issues there. Just last week our train was lolligaging around the approaches to Hamburg.

There is also just a general maintenance issue, personal and so on.

That all said, having traveled threw Germany a lot with the train just in the last couple months, overall, I think its amazing. But could be so much better still.
Many of these countries though, finance theirs debts and pay them back in USD, simply because the USD is still the de facto currency in global financial markets.
First Month of Nothin' but PostmarketOS
I had a specific need for my own clients that other tools didn't fix in the right way.
You are probably joking, but I think it's actually very important to look at the language we use around LLMs, in order not to get stuck in assumptions and sociological bias associated with a vocabulary usually reserved for "magical" beings, as it were.

This goes both ways by the way. I could be convinced that LLMs can achieve something the likes of intuition, but I strongly believe that it is a very different kind of intuition than we normally associate with humans/animals. Usins the same label is thus potentially confusing, and (human pride aside) might even prevent us from appreciating the full scope of what LLMs are capable of.
Tweet author here:

Apparently the poster wants to provide the context what circumstances lead to the problem and further down how to solve it.
I read such statements as being claims that "intuition" is part of consciousness etc.

It's still too strong a claim given that matrix multiplication also describes quantum mechanics and by extension chemistry and by extension biology and by extension our own brains… but I frequently encounter examples of mistaking two related concepts for synonyms, and I assume in this case it is meant to be a weaker claim about LLMs not being conscious.

Me, I think the word "intuition" is fine, just like I'd say that a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear it does produce a sound because sound is the vibration of the air instead of the qualia.
Not just a philosopher of Jainism, there were many many philosophers from different strands of eastern philosophy(Sanatana Dharma, Jainism, Buddhism) and that too with many details.