skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't there some older billionaires-in-bunkers story that had them musing about using shock collars or something and the opportunity for survival to maintain control over the guards?

Edit: Here it is: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

> ...Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

> This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

> The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

Personally, I think there needs to be a citizen mapping project to document the precise location of these billionaire bunkers, to make sure the quantity of looters in an apocalypse will overwhelm any guard force.
Driving from San José California to Los Angeles with 20 or 30 minute recharging stops every two hours works great for me. I get to walk around, stretch, maybe do some shopping if the charging station is at a shopping center. Yes, it adds time to the trip, but (at least for me) it’s a lot less stressful.
Like how car ads at bargain prices require the vin to be shown on the ad. There really may only be one car at that price but at least this way you know it’s not completely fake.
"Impossible" Puzzle Solved After 243 Years Using Quantum Entanglement
How x86_64 Addresses Memory (2020)
RIP Prof Wirth

Side note: can we get a better tag on this to show it's a PDF file? I think the source is reputable but I always freak out when a url goes to a pdf.
> watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising!

Guy called Fat Dino on Youtube actually does that. His videos are pretty entertaining: https://youtube.com/@FatDino?si=4r2wKj63ohClIXxD
i'm a bit confused as to what exactly this is; a low-level, messaging system? what are the implications of it and the comparison of competitors? I'm obviously missing something. Could someone elaborate?
That isn't my interpretation, nor did I ever make that statement. That IS infact a valid definition of copyright infringement. The source material is copyrighted and you're making a literal copy of it via photocopier. I don't know how you twisted the logic on that to conclude that would not be infringement.

However, it does also depend what you do with the photocopies, merely photocopying a book and keeping it privately is on par with copying a music CD as a backup. The infringement occurs when you're reusing it as your own, such as selling, publishing, or broadcasting the copyrighted material.

What I stated is that generated art such as images/music/photos that are by a non human cannot be copyrighted. A photocopier isn't generating anything, it's a copy, it's replication and it isn't generating a new thing.

My personal opinion is that AI generated artwork should be treated as equal to fanart when generating copyright influenced material.
I'm not sure scanning backwards this helps. Running in reverse you still need to look for a newline scanning over an UTF-8 string which might plausibly contain a newline byte.

I'm no UTF-8 guru, but I think you might be possible to do this sort of a springboard for skipping over multi-byte codepoints, since as far as I understand the upper bits of the first byte encodes the length:

byte utfByte1 = (byte) (val & 0xF0);

if (utfByte1 == (byte) 0xF0) { // 4 byte codepoint
// ignore 3
}
else if (utfByte1 == (byte) 0xE0) { // 3 byte codepoint
// ignore 2
}
else if (utfByte1 == (byte) 0xC0) { // 2 byte codepoint
// ignore 1
}
I'm surprised about the selection of monoio. AFAIK it requires the usage of the nightly compiler which I've found to not be a great choice when maintaining a project.
Can anyone tell me if this is a realistic thing to worry about when thinking about state surveillance, i.e. van the US use this to track phones in other countries?

Edit: I know very little about 5G and satellite tech, but love to learn more
The results will be "bad", which you have acknowledged as a possibility. Why do it then?

LLMs trained "merely" on just either wikipedia or reddit are probably going to be very limited in capability since there's not enough well rounded data (esp. for wikipedia). Of course you'll find differences. Reddit is going to contain more profanity, at the very least, so the reddit-trained LLM is going to swear and use slang more. Besides generating gibberish and comparing the gibberish doesn't seem to be any point with the exercise, unless that's a project you really want to do.

Without knowing how IB scores students' research papers I wouldn't be able to comment on whether this is feasible to get reasonable grades, but as I said, unless you really want to do it and somehow measure the reddit model understanding slang better and swearing more readily, I personally don't see a point in doing so given that the results will likely, as you mentioned, be somewhat "bad".

The thing about bleeding edge research on LLMs is that nobody really knows what will happen unless you actually try it out.

FWIW you generally don't have to do much proper "programming" to train models these days. There are many projects on github with code to train SoTA models (which in turn are just hundreds or low-thousands lines of code). The main difficulty is getting the hardware, the OS and the dependencies to work correctly, getting high quality training data (which you don't have to for your project), and tuning the hyperparameters (if you're concerned with performance).

So in terms of technical feasibility, yeah, but I am kind of concerned that the most likely main result would be reddit's knowledge of internet slang and swearing over wikipedia, which doesn't seem to mesh well with a high school project :D
It's been amazing learning about this. From "The Little Typer" book to Computerphile's videos on dependent (and homotopy, somewhat related?) type theory, to discovering Lean for interactive (math) proof construction, the history of it all dating back to Bertrand Russel trying to explain math from first principles, just wow. So lucky to live in a world where this is true.
One person I rarely hear mentioned did similar work: Per Brinch Hansen. He built OS’s with Concurrent Pascal and Edison. His papers are below for those curious:

http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/
That's definitely a part of it. I still think that the skills involved in getting ideal output from an LLM isn't that different from communicating tasks to human beings, and that people are worse at that form of communication than they realize.

I'm a software engineer, so I work with people who focus on efficiently communicating data between systems, but interpersonal communication is still a recurring issue that leads to problems festering. I'm not saying I'm a brilliant communicator, but that it's common for people to underestimate how much base information there needs to be for someone else to understand the nature of a task, and to overestimate the knowledge of other engineers.

Outside of engineering, people seem to default to believing that, if something is "intelligent", said thing should understand one's individual desire in succinct and broken English. If an AI gets things wrong then it's stupid and useless, even though we don't actually apply that same rigor to human beings. Getting facts wrong may be a fundamental aspect of intelligence, and the common view of intelligence may be incorrect and counterproductive.

In essence, AI highlights our own flaws.
Thank you! Yes, users are able to import assets right now. What do you mean by characters specifically, spritesheets?
What about the tiny predators of bacteria and virus sorts, and of course genetic aberrations with cancers? Tiny predators are the apex we generally are vulnerable in light of.
Doomberg: All Crises Lead to the Great Reset [video]
It also introduces delays. And if you're doing anything more complex than holding down the scroll button, the illusion of "either we’re rendering in-between frames or not" can disappear, because of frames on either side of the move that prove the speed is not consistent between smooth and non-smooth.
There are lots of risks, and those are not at all the largest ones. The entire world relies on international agricultural trade and it's never been better fed.

One reason is that the resources are much greater - if one place has a bad year, another can have a good year. Also, each location can produce what it does best, what its land, capital, skills, and infrastructure best support. Then other locations do what they do best, and we get the most economical, the best of everything.

Economic nationalism is, among other things, a ruse by some businesses to monopolize markets (not having competition) and get subsidized by the public.
My 2019 Santa Fe has needed oil changes and 0 other maintenance in 5 years/50k miles.

I do the oil changes myself in about 30 minutes and they cost me about $30 using synthetic oil(costco) and OEM filter. So, I have spent $300 in 5 years on maintenance. Still original tires.

The people claiming expensive maintenance on ICE cars DID NOT follow what manufacturer recommends but the dealer, who have an incentive to offer extra services.
Expats don't count, their wealth is still originating from rich countries
Enterprise's guidelines is

Bumper Damage IS: Dent/scratch larger than 6” (size of the damage evaluator), or hole/tear of any size

Exterior Body Damage (Non-Bumper) IS: dent/scratch larger than 2” circle, or hole/tear of any size

Glass Damage IS: Any ‘Star’/crack

I suspect companies like Europcar, Hertz etc would be similar.
Life at Both Ends of the Barrel: An NSA Targeting Retrospective [video]
There's a section on XKCD 980's chart for that - https://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-2004&y=-6294&z=6

While it's a bit dated, you can see the parts with the cost difference and the "if gas was this much".

You can see some things like the Honda Insight (hybrid) has a slightly lower 5 year cost of ownership than the Honda Fit (ICE).

It would be curious to do an update of that part of the chart for current models.
Could auto filter those via internet. Archive?
That's not what the article says, and you shouldn't post iflscience articles anyway, they are pop-junk on the edge of pseudoscience.

Here's the real paper, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
which solves the different problem that the one euler did.
PoE is around 15w at 48v, PoE+ is 30w, and PoE++ is 60 or 100w
It's strange there's three different fruits called a pawpaw. The Pawpaw/Carica papaya (called Papaya in North America), the Mountain Pawpaw/Vasconcellea pubescens, and the American Pawpaw/Asimina triloba (which this article is about).

It would seem you probably don't see these in Germany.
Yes, they unironically are 15 minute cities. A typical suburbanite will never have to spend more than 15 minutes traveling for a routine errand.

Just because you don’t like how they do it doesn’t mean that they don’t do it.
To complete the story here, the app doesn't work because dependencies have changed in the meantime, so everything is tracked on multiple giant spreadsheets.
EVs are still solidly in the "luxury" category; they're specifically being sold to folks who are not paying attention to the price at the pump in the first place. So I don't understand why "they save you money" is even a selling point at all right now.

Once you see folks replacing their beat-up 1992 Honda Civic with EVs then you'll know that "they save you money" is actually a thing.
You must mean you "want them to survive".

I find it interesting that there seems to be such a big cultural divide on the topic.
One of these days I will find time to write more about model inference optimizations without going through distillation / quantization. Case in point: switching llama.cpp from custom kernel to cublas's GEMM implementation reduces speed from 70tok/s to 49tok/s (RTX 6000 Ada, Mistral-7B, FP16).
on tech forums like cscareers its common for job seekers to post data visualizations of their search and compare them to their prior search

the changing practices whether there were more ghosts or rejections doesn't tell you why

so that is the limitation, as we cant fit data to match a conclusion, we have to just react to data
In Europe, Trains Are Full, and More Are on the Way
We have a bunch of trending projects that you can already clone from (see https://play.rosebud.ai/home "trending"), and this was in closed beta, so once we open the app to more users there will be a lot of projects to give new creators projects to start from immediately.

You can already kind of export the code because we show most of the game code. However what we're aiming to do is to make it easier to build in platform without worrying about deployment. Also we are aiming to bring an audience to play your games immediately via the Rosebud platform so you don't have to share elsewhere.
Right now, House Republicans are trying to pin Hunter and Joe Biden with the same allegation. Is this intended to deflect from that?
I don't believe kitchenaid mixers were $20 "shortly after release" and I can't find any information around that. If you have sources, I'd love to see them, otherwise I do not believe that.

For vacuums, any quality vacuum will claim it will last for 20 years. When I bought my entry level Miele for 1/10 the price of what my grandparents paid for their vacuum, they proudly promoted that the motor in it would last over 20 years.

The thing about a 30 year old vacuum is that it likely went to a repair shop (or was self-repaired) a half dozen times over that 30 years and became a "Vacuum of Theseus" where very few components may truly have been original. You can still do this today with any medium or high end vacuum. You don't have to buy a $150 Shark Crap, you can buy a quality repairable brand and keep it 20+ years, and you'll pay 1/10 or 1/5 what your grandparents paid. You don't have to buy a $2000 vacuum like they did.

My Miele is 5 years old and has needed zero repair and still operates fantastically with basically no wear. While I doubt the entire thing will make it to 20, Miele continues to sell the design and parts and I don't doubt I can repair it in 5 or 10 years when the first part breaks.
The next step toward phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome [starts today]
An orbital Stingray? Great idea. Technically it might work although it would be detectable.
Note: the bandwidth is around 7Mbs per "beam" and the "beams" are 40-100km in radius, so very large. This isn't a replacement for traditional cell service, but specifically designed for emergency service in remote areas. This service will work with all phone equipped with LTE (4G).

Sources:

- https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1742396904619581642

- https://twitter.com/TMFAssociates/status/1742430541574791566
If they were more widely available they'd certainly be used more. There's no shortage of rhubarb in supermarkets when it's in season, and gooseberries can be used in a lot of the same dishes (crumbles, fools, stewed etc). However gooseberries can also be used for lots of berry dishes. There's definitely a market.
Ehhh. Don’t like it.

Let’s be clear. Unreal is used to make games. Roblox is used to make Roblox games. Those are completely different. It sounds like what you want is to be a big platform that collects rent from people who make games. But people who make their own games aren’t going to want to be in your sandbox like Roblox if that’s what you’re hoping for. What you’re proposing making is cool. It’s dev tools. I would like some dedicated tooling to generative AI art assets. That is a business on its own. Not a very big moat but it’s a useful service.

But all of this tooling to generate art and stuff is not relevant to the service of being a game platform. The cool thing about Roblox and Fortnite is that you’re just sprinkling some creative sugar over Roblox and Fortnite which people already liked.

Let’s assume you knock it out of the park on everything your page shows. it feels like you’re an asset store that, rather than charging reasonable prices for those possibly custom made assets, wants a % of game revenue as a royalty? It might feel viable because you’re targeting people who as a matter of skill and expertise absolutely cannot execute without this, but I’m not seeing this happen much successfully.

So… yeah. Tl;dr Figure out if you’re Roblox, unreal, or an assets store.
#1 only happens if you have #2.
I guess I should have expected that wezterm was 3 steps ahead of this 2 years ago.
What you, I, and everybody else here hates and is responding to here is the design choices of major corporations who are larger than many governments and have the ability and incentive to push and use an anodyne and inoffensively bland style that fits in anywhere in the world of the modern global economy. The awards are part of the same system, trying to give legitimacy to itself.

That said - the International Style, which started over a hundred years ago at this point (back when style "movements" were still a thing) was actually a universalist project, trying to argue FOR the ideal architecture whose express purpose was that it COULD BE plopped down anywhere.

Needless to say that approach has some... issues. But it has to be understood that the world they were reacting to was VASTLY different from today. Tenement slums without indoor plumbing were still a thing for example. These guys were massively egotistical, paternalistic, etc. So of course their approach was going to have certain flaws. But they were trying to do what -they thought- was in the universal good.

More recently people like Frampton argued for "critical regionalism" that tries to reconcile local character and culture with contemporary standardized building practices. Then postmodernism happened and history and local culture were allowed back in the academy (cf: Washington Library). Since deconstructivism collapsed under the weight of self-parody it's been a kind of no limits return to regionally responsive architecture.

But the awards that are being given out for that aren't the ones that get all the press. Except the Pritzker, which has really changed its tune in the past 15 years in recognizing architecture with more character and sensitivity to its culture.
especially if they are posting that salary — an awful lot of companies like to keep salaries secret and (illegally) discourage discussion. Posting a salary for Position XYZ which is higher than current employees doing XYZ is a good way to generate discontent. But dangling a fat juicy carrot to lure suckers into a fraud? ...
I wonder how many were left out
I have a similar hunch. They seem to be a distributed sensor, compute, and actuator network.
I came, I sat, I conquered. So simple, yet immediately effective. (Full disclosure: I'm a regular meditator, so it's pretty easy for me to slip into mindful awareness.)

Thank you for this!
As "someone with a Toyota hybrid": I consistently use about 1l/100km than that. (The dash keeps a "best milage" number, which is 3.8l/100km for me right now.

At some point it becomes bike shedding, but a 20% reduction (from 5l to 4l) is still impressive to me.
> It’s easy to draw conclusions as to why - school provides free day care to most parents

That's one conclusion but not the only one. Another is that COVID was never shown to be a severe risks to children (symptoms were generally mild, in great majority of cases) and being out of school would stunt their education and impact their friend relationships, mental health, and more. Parents who pushed for their kids to stay in school (whether one agrees with the argument) did so out of concern for their well-being.
It’s quite simple really, there’s a wrong group who disagrees with me, and a right one who agrees. Not sure what all the debate is about to be honest.
I suppose it depends on the length of your commute and what vehicle, but I’ve found that a standard Level 1 charger plugged into a regular outlet, if plugged in all of the time, was more than enough for daily EV commuting. Slow charging is also better for the battery. A lot of people likely don’t need a high powered charger install.
For those with EVs or considering EVs, do EV buyers buy with the intent of keeping the car and running it into the ground?

I have no problem buying a VW or Toyota and keeping it running until it gets so old that it is no longer feasible. I don't buy an EV for this because I don't think it would make it nearly as long. I might be wrong, but that is my mindset.

Going with this, I feel this limits EV buyers to those who intend to get a new car every few years.
Ever check chinesium? This is possibly from swarm technologies
Base Model 3 in inventory right now near me is $36,440, fyi. LR version is $43,190. Both not including $7500 rebate.
This is something unions and guilds were great at. They could easily collect data on how companies treated their members and communicate that effectively to all members in that industry. It left companies terrified of screwing over the workers because it killed off a massive segment of the labor pool they could draw from, especially the segment which contained the most skilled workers.
> You must mean you "want them to survive".

Yes, I noticed my typo and fixed it.
Behind a paywall, but can see this sentence:

> Painful experiences long ago convinced Barvinok that requirements to affirm any ideal are corrosive in academia.

If it's as simple as that, this feels like a poor 'slippery slope' excuse for being against them.
The US government doesn't need this to track phones in other countries.
"almost" -- don't be so naive
Your links are from 2021. :-(
The best game changer for me was going with a mechanical pencil with a wider lead, because the lead doesn't break as often.

Bic makes a 0.9mm mech that I can usually find locally. Slide on a foam gripper for a better holding experience.
Out here in the suburbs of Massachusetts, it is very common to see 3 (or more) cars in the driveways of single family homes. In my experience, it's usually because some of the cars belong to one or more of the kids who live there. And each parent usually has their own car.

Growing up, getting a car was a watershed moment for me personally. It marked a transition into a new type of independence from my parents, and also the primary motivation for getting my first job. It was liberating. Out here, it's not feasible to get anywhere, really, without a car. Before getting my own car, if I needed to get somewhere, I had to convince some adult (usually my parents or a friend's parents) to take us there.
I fully understand all this which is why I've become very sad for the future of humanity; I try to look for reasons for hope, but watching trees die in my hometown while wells failed was very hard. All I can say is that I'm increasingly happy I opted out of the idea of children long ago, because while I used to be jealous of the young for the future they would live to see, I feel exactly the opposite these days.