skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there’s no reason why you wouldn’t be able to place drugs and guns in the trunk of the car and send it along its way to the buyer’s location

Right, but then the LEO needs to establish probable cause to search the vehicle. They can't just pop the trunk because they feel like it.

One of the ways they normally establish probable cause to search is by alleging that the driver appears impaired, or by getting the driver's consent, neither of which they can do with a self-driving car. Even the classic "I smell weed" allegation might not pass muster anymore, given California's legalization of marijuana use and the fact that it does not impair the operation of the vehicle, as it might if a human driver is high.
> Our experiments across four LLMs and two MLLMs demonstrate Gemini's competitive commonsense reasoning capabilities.

I couldn't glean from the post; does anyone know what the test suite is?

I notice failure in common sense reasoning quite often in Bard and ChatGPT and while I haven't done a systematic analysis of the categories of mistakes, some patterns I've seen include: lack of self-reflection, not noticing internal inconsistency in output, lack of awareness of what would be "common" common sense, etc.
You’ve described commercial animation and illustration, which certainly takes skill and perhaps talents one is born with.

I’m talking about art! Creation without deadlines, without the money men to distort the underlying creative act based on commercial and financial needs, etc.

I realize that technology puts creative people out of work but it doesn’t stop creative people from making art.

Have people been complaining about the decline of music studios as a laptop, a single microphone and a bedroom have become sufficient to create radio-ready pop music?

Almost every studio engineer and record producer that I know have had to find new careers. Some have even given up on art. My brother, after 30+ years of engineering and producing both indie and major label recording artists is now primarily engaged in creating large-scale public pieces that combine sound producing sculptural works with the ambient sounds of the surrounding environment and subsisting entirely off of grant money and the dole!
The video is not meant as video. It's a shield and the taking of the content is how the shield works. It both protects from and reflects the world.

It's not a retreat from the world but a mediation.
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One thing about learning algorithms from scratch is you learn how to measure code in terms of various resource costs (cpu, men, I/O). Being able to understand the cost of a given code block is very valuable.
sure. you can start the ride from the waymo app without being inside the car, same as Uber package delivery. might need to buckle the seat belt for it.
Sounds like a fun project. Curious though: most of the drawbacks to using C and difficulties with developing an OS are around debugging.

I assume that the switch to Rust eliminated a certain class of memory error but is debugging still a pain? Or is there less of it than before the switch making debugging more tolerable?
Does github frequently break repositories like this?
There are two levels of organization - channels and threads, so it's not too bad to browse if reasonably setup. It also gives you an inbox with all of your unread threads, so that you can catch up quickly; and, you can mark a thread unread if you want to punt on it after reading.
There's always 1 person anecdotes. Monohar the body builder and early Mr. Universe winner lived to 104. Continuing to lift to the very end. I'd wager he was the most mobile centenarian ever too.
> And likely waymo will look for baggage only trips and report them.

It’s just as likely, perhaps even more so, that they’ll eventually embrace and advertise baggage-only trips. Because money. You can use services today (similar to food delivery) to have a random person send a random package, it’s perfectly plausible that’ll eventually use the same automated systems.
Counterpoint: Imagine this line of inquiry that the west has given up on lands China the breakthrough of the century? Given the way the US and EU are conspiring to withhold key chip fab tech, it would be absolutely hilarious if China covertly discovered room temperature superconductivity and the government withholds it as a domestic advantage; blowing away AWS and Microsoft's compute offering with something orders of magnitudes faster and reverse the tech playing field.
You know, this might be a classic case of "Your Incentives Are Not The Same As Media Companies'"

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-incentives-are-not-the...
>rising inequality

Inequality has been pretty stable over the last couple of decades:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/872472/gini-index-of-the...
That's kinda the point - owners of devices should be in control of software their devices are running. Or they are not owners.
> I also do a bit of aerobic exercices (cardio). But excessive cardio is counterproductive, leading to loss of muscle mass and potential joint issues.

It's fine to do a lot of aerobic training. You almost certainly build up muscle instead of burning it; aerobic training by definition is about burning fat (not that you'll lose weight). Joint issues can be avoided by sticking to a plan that slowly increases load (e.g. < 10% distance increase per week for running) and keeping track of your heart rate (e.g. < 75% of max).
What does lifting mean here?
Of course the Supreme Court only cares about protecting their own jobs.

Let everybody else be disaffected by AI—that’s fine.

I hate this species
I don't know about webGPU, but it seems you missed the word "hardware" in "hardware programming interface", like NVMe is for non volatile memory device.
> The future of globalization is highly uncertain at this point. But one thing is certain: There is no longer support for market-driven, unbridled globalization.

So, 51 pages and not much of an actual answer.
This is less and less the case. IP protection in China has been improving for years.
This sounds like an absolute nightmare from a user perspective. The current popup-galore on Windows and macOS when running a program for the first time is already bad enough.
Gp's point is about how there are many things worth learning even if you can't immediately see how they will be useful, and not about urgency or timing. Sure you can pick up a book and learn about b-trees if you have to but you might not even know that a b-tree is what you need in a particular problem if you never learnt it in the first place. Most algorithmic problems in the wild don't present themselves cleanly with a signpost saying 'this is an X algorithm problem'
For anyone still on the fence / deluding themselves:

Moving helps joints heal: https://www.arthritis-health.com/types/joint-anatomy/how-do-....

Fitness increases IQ: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202101751.h....
I assume you would be fine with the US assets being frozen by the rest of the world for unprovoked aggression on Iraq?
To preface, I'm within a standard deviation of normal on the bell curve of human size, which usually means American products built for giants correlated with the most disposable income don't fit me. ymmv.

The Steam Deck feels better in my hands than a Nintendo Switch. Its grip is different, but as soon as you get comfortable holding it with your whole hand, including ring and pinky fingers, it feels very natural.

It was bigger than I imagined, but not too big, and it felt lighter and more balanced than expected. It's easy to pick up and hold, even one handed.

I think they did a great job on the ergonomics. The size was clearly a design decision, and while I don't tend to play games on it for more than 45 minutes at a time, I recently held it up to watch a feature length movie without as much fatigue or difficulty as trying to balance my smartphone.
1967, Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

"Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation"
What you are proposing is so terrible in practice that people have invented hundreds of programming languages to escape it. Millions of person-hours have been spent on getting away from what you say is desirable.
I wouldn’t classify it as trivia to know the big-O complexity of an algorithm or to have some idea of the worst-case behaviors you may run into (like inserting already sorted data into a binary tree). You don’t need to memorize the source code, but you should at least be able to visualize the boxes and arrows in your head.

That said, this particular book is an expensive way to line your birdcage, and it should be an O(1) decision to reject it. Shame that ORA put their name on this trash.
If China discovers this, publishes papers on it, and patents it, you can be 100% sure that the west will just ignore any patents and fabricate it themselves.
I laughed quite a bit at this
People don't actually save it, or share it, or fill it with meaning by using their phones but they think that's what doing it with their phones is doing. After the moment the content is not looked at. It's a thing to do not to be reviewed. It's recording to not record.

It's a way of participation in the world, a mediation of reality.

In some way it's a kind of play acting of what a hyper connected human should do in the moment when confronted with something unusual. A cyborg activity.

Or it's just because everyone else is doing it!
I'm the opposite, 20+ years ago I visited places with people that are long dead by now. I can barely remember their faces. I'd love to have some photos from that time.
Well, it's an Arxiv paper. Arxiv is perhaps not the best environment for clickbait headlines.
Ok, it would be alive. But I'm not sure you can compare Linux and freebsd and not see a difference in "liveliness". I don't think Linux is technically superior to freebsd, or at least wasn't for most of its life, yet Linux still gets orders of magnitude more usage/contributions/drivers etc. So it must be something else, and I think the license is a pretty good factor in this case.
I applaud them for getting things done vs just talking about it.

Personally, I find yet another monolithic kernel unix clone is not what we need, but the point here is that it's made in Rust, which itself is an experiment; It is best to not do too many experiments at once, thus cannot complain.
That some proper deep broscience I haven’t seen in years, “oxidative stress” nice!
> seems like we are on the right glide path now

In what sense? Public interest? LK-99 wasn't an incremental step toward room temp superconductivity, was it?
In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)
There are numerous counterexamples to the factors you mention.

Czechia (Czech Republic) is a strongly atheist country and doing quite well. None of the East Asian countries are Protestant or Jewish. Italy's GDP, a Catholic country, is on par with Canada's; Poland, another Catholic country, is enjoying robust growth; Ireland, also Catholic, is doing fantastic.

South Korea's growth was initiated under a military dictatorship, as was Spain's. The country with the highest GDP per capita, Monaco, is hardly democratic; Singapore was ruled by a dictator for a long time; Vietnam, a socialist republic, is on a remarkable upward trajectory.
Well but then you'd know how I'd use AI to also encompass ML as ways to achieve AI, wouldn't you? It's a subset but not "AI" in the sense of the word. It's part of AI.
What's the Point of WASM?
A much shorter, less amazing answer: it’s hard to know what you don’t know! This sort of background knowledge is exactly what big tech claims to look for in applicants, because it comes up in tiny little ways at unexpected times.
I disagree. We should aim for less. We already have too much.
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> “Judges, for example, measure the sincerity of a defendant’s allocution at sentencing,” Roberts wrote Sunday. “Nuance matters: Much can turn on a shaking hand, a quivering voice, a change of inflection, a bead of sweat, a moment’s hesitation, a fleeting break in eye contact. And most people still trust humans more than machines to perceive and draw the right inferences from these clues.”

I'm not saying machines would do better, but this really lays bare how ridiculous the justice system is.
Give the cesspit formerly known as Twitter a couple of hours and they'll be breaking out the laser eyes again, buzzword in the paper or not.
Yeah because mobile web apps feel like trash. HTML documents you can read is the good stuff.
>Is that really the life?

Yes it is! For example, a simple 96-well plate qPCR experiment can use 192 tips. It's easier with multichannel pipettes though.

So it's more like: use 200 tips in the morning, then do reading and meetings the rest of the day.
I'm not entirely sure what "reactive, oxygen species" is, but I think you're talking about free radicals, which your body is quite capable of dealing with.

If you can't deal with "reactive, oxygen species" from muscles, you can't live. Your heart is a muscle.
Software archivist discovers and uploads a primordial version of 86-DOS
Great to see research continuing on this particular path.
If you find this amazing, perhaps you should take a look at seL4, which has formal proofs of correctness, going all the way down to the generated assembly code still satisfying the requirements.

It also has a much better overall architecture, the best currently available: A third generation microkernel multiserver system.

It provides a protected (with proof of isolation) RTOS with hard realtime, proof of worst case timing as well as mixed criticality support. No other system can currently make such claims.
> the first two of which also worked on Plan 9, and the Go compilers can trace their lineage back to the Plan 9 C compilers

And Inferno/Limbo, which made up for Alef being removed from Plan 9.
I really wish depressed people were more in tune with just how profound resistance training is for your mental and emotional health. Instead it seems easy to dismiss weight lifting as some sort of bro-club occupied by oppressive toxic individuals (at least that was my passive opinion of it for years).
China has been pro-market since the 80s. But they don't view markets as fundamentally incompatible with socialism. Their approach is to utilize markets and to further open up, but to step in when the market fails. In other words: yes to markets, but use it as a tool and don't trust it blindly.

For example the recent real estate bubble pop was intentional. They've recognized for a decade that the real estate market is dysfunctional and that people shouldn't invest all their money into a rent-seeking unproductive dead-end. Instead, they want the market to redirect their money to advanced technology like advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, AI, etc. And that's happening now.
Aren’t Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan evidence against religious history aspect of your assertion?
I think being the first big buyer from these companies, thus lifting them to the upper market.
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> Personally, I find yet another monolithic kernel unix clone is not what we need

It seems highly irrelevant what you or I need. The author explicitly made the project as a learning experience, not for others. The "Why" is described in the opening paragraph, and makes the goal very clear.

And it seems like the author was highly successful, so congratulations author! Great to see people diving headfirst into very complicated parts of the stack.
Runtime checks can be disabled in Ada. They’re useful for debug builds though!
Sure, but the benefit from being even partly compatible (same structs with same names, etc -- or maybe some compatibility layer) are great as Linux' devices drivers can then be ported more easily.

On one end device drivers in Rust are now possible, OTOH the Meastro kernel. I wonder if there come be a day in my life that I run a non-C-kernel in prod/ on dev laptop.
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Apple is more than the retailer. Apple owns the whole mall, the fire department, the police, the chamber of commerce, and basically the whole town where most of your family and friends live.

Don't like it? Just move to the only other town there is, and write them letters and visit occasionally. If you don't like it there too, well they say there are other places if you take a long boat ride.

As to Google, despite all their many faults at least they haven't gas lit me claiming I'm holding it wrong.
I'm curious how much of this can be attributed to the Steam Deck.
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Wasn’t LK-99 a copper doped lead apatite? Is this different?
Surprising, given the Wayland/GNOME sabotage.

(I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a Dell XPS 17 yesterday. After running apt update && apt upgrade it boots into a black screen)
Not as much as you'd expect. For normal reading and browsing, only stuff behind cloudflare gives any issues (unless you're running a local proxy to handle ssl). "Webapps" obviously don't work, but for everything else it's just a maybe-uglier version of the normal internet. Dillo isn't as good at paywalls as links/elinks for some reason though.
> 4) you can’t keep the changes you needed to make to yourself so the next one after you can start at 1)

Actually you can even keep the changes. You only have to share the sources if you are publishing compiled binaries.
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I have used EmbedAI for creating a chatbot and its easy to use.
I am really relaxed about the US primacy in tech. It has all the systemic advantages and no fluke discovery would change that.

I am also quite relaxed about this preprint. As far as I am concerned the issues pointed out in this post on an actual physics forums with regards to the famous LK-99 preprint still stand with regards to this new paper:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/room-temperature-super...
Someone could release it with a relicense to GPL (and maybe LGPL if dynamically linked).
End users are very much harmed.
As agoose77 said on another comment, Github probably disabled the whole LFS (Large File Storage) for that repo
I wonder how can you effectively withhold it? If you make commercial products with it and sell them it’s going to be reverse-engineered.

It’s only viable if it’s exclusively used in military tech.
This is not an email assistant. It is a Google Mail, or Gmail, assistant.

Get it right, I’ve seen this so many times that people use proprietary web platform synonymously with email.
I'm talking about Gmail users, not Workspace users. It is hopeless for them.
But even here, this wasn't the intent this is just what happened. Nobody was like "You know what we ought to do? Make sure we cause more injuries to a person who was knocked down" they just designed this software without considering this scenario and so there's a significant improvement to make here.

Lots of causes of human accidents are systemic and repeatable, but that doesn't make them intentional. Take trips and falls for example, it's possible for a human to just get super unlucky and trip over for essentially no reason, but in most cases there are repeatable causes, we can fix those causes and reduce how often trips and falls occur, but the trips and falls were accidents, it's not helpful to pretend that's the wrong word.
A commander's lament on the loss of a historic SpaceX rocket
Thanks! My daughter works with pipettes all day long, and this is fascinating. One of her favorite aphorisms is "Don't lick the science!" and today I learned that apparently we used to lick the science.
>ignores the fundamental importance of privacy as a human right. Privacy is not about hiding wrongdoing; it is about maintaining individual autonomy, freedom of thought, and the right to a personal life unscrutinized by an overreaching state.

It's impressive how many people make this argument and then turn right around to fully support the full plethora of modern KYC and AML laws with all their dubious justifications and even more dubious applications with absolutely no sense of the double standard. One supposes that a rght to privacy, individual autonomy and a life unscrutinized by an orreaching state also should include these things applied firmly to ones financial life, at least enough that any larish transaction isn't treated as if it's potentially criminal right off the bat.
Polished, independent, no data collection, clean, feature rich, ostensibly ethical - lovely

I wonder where would I even start, if I wanted to bring rss into my personal Supabase instance. Chron job periodically triggering a serverless function that asks a website for the requested feed (just async fetch), then using some js rss parser library, then insert to supabase table? I really have no knowledge about rss other than as a consumer.