skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's unfounded speculation that goes against the explicit statements made by the IRS. Knee-jerk cynicism is not a replacement for facts.
Thanks! I'm still going through the tutorial, but this looks neat! I love ATC games.

There are some other fun ones out there, like ATC-Manager-2 (https://github.com/sempostma/atc-manager-2) and BSD's atc (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atc). On Android, I've had fun memories playing Endless ATC and Unmatched Air Traffic Control. One thing I've noticed about these ATC games is that they tend to be more radar-based than ground-based. I kinda made an attempt to create a ground-based ATC last year - https://github.com/pncnmnp/roger.

Also, tangentially, a few months back, I was browsing my local bookstore when I came across a poster on "Navitrainer" - this was a flight simulator from the forties - https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/navitrainer.html - fascinating stuff!
I was drawn to Gemini Pro because it had function/tool calling... but it works terribly. (I haven't tried Gemini Ultra yet; unclear if it's available by API?)

Anyway, probably best that they didn't release support that doesn't work.
I agree with this. My default approach to board games is basically to maximize victory points early. This usually works; when 4 people are playing a new game for the first time, I usually win. This doesn't really work when people know how to play the game specifically, though.

I think this algorithm is better than many other algorithms that people come up with, however.

(As an aside, when I play a card game I sort my cards with a merge sort instead of an insertion sort. People said you would never use these algorithms in real life, but you can if you want to!)
the lego one was well received I think.
I am from Austria and yes I am free to send my kid to any public school in the country that will have them. I've even had times in my own childhood where I lived in one state, went to school in another and then switched schools twice within a month because I just didn't like the first one I switched to.

I've never heard that we have significant overcrowding issues or somesuch - if anywhere then probably in Vienna, but that's just general capital city capacity woes.
Well, we could allocate each American the US Standard Car and the US Standard Breakfast Meal and they can wear the US Standard Clothing, but there are societies that tried that and there are societies that have done what the US has done and our poor people are better than their 75th percentile, so I think having different incomes and charging more for more services is okay.
I moved from AppEngine hosting to self-hosting (on a Pi). The server was expensive to run on AppEngine and effectively free to run at home. The CPU barely ticks up, even when running a load test.
Maybe it is the effort and mindset that make the difference and not the outcome.
Is the model more efficient than Stockfish? I think Stockfish runs on regular CPU computer and I'd guess this " 270M parameter transformer model" requires a GPU but I can't find any reference to efficiency in the paper.

Also found in the paper: "While our largest model achieves very good performance, it does not completely close the gap to Stockfish 16". It's actually inferior but they still think it's an interesting exercise. But that's the thing, it's primarily an exercise like calculating pi to a billion decimal points or overclocking a gaming laptop.
Sure does. I have no problem with using android, but as long as I have to do family tech support, I'll stick to iPhones.
Yup, that's it, thanks! My list of English-speaking countries just wasn't exhaustive and were the first I noticed with a higher density than the rest on first glance.
So the US has a system of higher-speed expressways we call Interstates. They all have numbers.

The southernmost east-west Interstate is called 10 ("I-10"), and runs from Jacksonville, FL (which is on the Atlantic Ocean) to Los Angeles, CA (which is, obviously, on the Pacific).

These highways have frequent, standardized signs on them from time to time to tell you how far away upcoming cities, towns, or even roads are in miles. Just inside the eastern border of Texas, on the westbound side, there's a highway sign that I'm pretty sure just exists as a flex or brag.

It says something like -- and my numbers may be slightly off, but they're roughly correct at least:

Beaumont 18

El Paso 857

The gist is "one place in this state, on this road, straight ahead, is 20 minutes away; another place in this state, on this road, straight ahead, is MOST OF A THOUSAND MILES AWAY."

I believe it's true that crossing Texas on I-10 constitutes about 1/3 of the distance across the US -- like, it's about 1/3 from Jacksonville to the border, about 1/3 across Texas, and about 1/3 from El Paso in the west to LA.
There's a highway sign on Interstate 10 just inside the TX/LA border, and I'm pretty sure it just exists as a flex.
I do, yes, but I use archival grade DVDs for it, like these: https://www.verbatim.com/subcat/optical-media/dvd/archival-g...
Yes! Because of SecureBoot apparently
so I always thought that but weirdly a bunch of countries are just on the US exchange system. It's still billed as an international call but for example Bermuda is just 441. The American in me chuckles a bit at the idea of the UK's monarchs needing to dial 1 first to call their own territory
You can say the same thing about RNNs. Technically nothing is turing complete without infinite scratch space.
If we are running 3 trillion in deficit spending a year, and at current rate we likely will never pay down the deficit,

Why do we still need to tax the working poor?
My point, my only point, is that it is NOT about ideology. There is NO ideology about climate change, anymore than there is ideology about lightning, it just is. I was making no proclamation, I was just asserting that if people are lucky enough to be able to buy EVs, they would do so not because of ideology, but because they are in a position to do the right thing for everyone (as far as we can tell).

Of course many people don't have the luxury of making decisions that would help everyone - though if they lived in a fairer society, where wealth more nearly went to those that toil to create it, then maybe they could (now that is ideology!).
Care to give an example? A disk read is comparatively slow to compute/memory but it’s still in the tens or hundreds of microseconds if I recall correctly and memory is hundreds of nanoseconds. I am convinced latency issues are a remnant of how we build abstractions into software stacks and not a fault of the hardware.
ggml is also VC backed, so that has nothing to do with it.
Meta: Why are there multiple political / social commentary posts on every page of HN now? Was it always like this, or is it worse now? If you want to read social/political "news", well, literally every other media source in existence can provide those stories for you. Why on Hacker News? It'll just be a comment thread of political arguing.
> Most JavaCard platforms have no support for IP networking, which would make it an unlikely source of DDoS

I'm not claiming that you could use a smart card for DDoS (the idea seems absurd, but somebody is probably going to prove me wrong one of these days), merely that if some version of Java runs on a smartcard, I don't find it that unimaginable for a toothbrush to have a good enough chip to run Java, perhaps with enough resources for a TCP / IP stack. Something equivalent in performance to an old, WAP-capable phone that also ran Java ME, perhaps.
DotSlash: Simplified executable deployment
Thank you, I had heard the term before but it wasn't coming to mind.
That's relatively uncommon in the US, except for food and other perishables. Although often they text. But the people I know who order food and silence their phone normally are glued to the tracking page in the app anyway.
No one said more rights; that they should have all the rights of a single citizen is contentious enough. What if, for example, we grant freedom of speech to this entity, and we take freedom of speech to include the funding of political parties, causes, or candidates? (That's how things are at present in the United States.)
Used to use DVDs, switched to Blu-Ray, mostly I’d back up to a USB drive or the cloud today.

I still burn a lot of CDs but these are music, not the usual PCM encoding, but with a DTS 5.1 soundtrack. I put them in my Sony 300 disc changer that is hooked up to my home theatre through an optical cable and often they sound great. The CD blanks are getting harder to find, I can get them at Staples but Best Buy doesn’t have them and Amazon takes too long to ship.

I still watch plenty of DVDs.
Wish someone pay me to build stuff like this, such a cool project to work to
> That's a valid concern that I hadn't thought of, but we don't generally ban other unnecessary head gear in cars for that reason (sunglasses?), and it would apply just as much to passengers.

There is a lot less mass/material to a pair of sunglasses than there is to a VR headset, though.

I would think its also worth mentioning the restricted peripheral vision you'll have when wearing a headset, too.
That eliminates a huge class of genuinely useful use cases for email.

Part of the usefulness is that you can write and receive to addresses without prior permission.

I've had wonderful conversations with authors, academics, politicians and other strangers around the world thanks to the permissive ability of email.
Biden will not be charged over top secret documents
Sounds doable. Give it a year or two.
Why can't AI shopping chatbots just tell me the right price?
Let me fix it for you. It must say: All fish species have sex.

I would even dare to say that a few even have better sex than us.
Is the success metric installation or use?

Most people don't know you can install a PWA but there's still aspects of PWAs (like offline mode, etc.) that are beneficial and invisible to the user.
Yes, thank you! A lot of people took my comment the wrong way.
And this is the reason that modern languages tend towards the incomprehensible.
Unflavored water.
A lot of decision in chess would be like "this square would be nice for that piece, how can I get there ?" and then analyze what your opponent can do to prevent you to do that, or what counterplay that gives him. So what you are doing makes a lot of sense.
Because they can't fight back... the rich have the means to just make it disappear.
1. Read the abstract

2. Read the last paragraph of the intro

3. Read the first paragraph of the conclusion

4. Read any diagrams or figures

5. Inspect the citations

6. If all else fails, read the paper itself
It's Isaac Asimov's fault. I think he was just confused. Never assume malice when ignorance/incompetence will suffice and all
I hope the cyclist will recover completely to enjoy those millions $$$ of compensation.
So to clarify, you have an LLC in vegas owned by a holding LLC in Wyoming? Is that only for anonymity?
> Pakistan’s top brass is anti-India

The top brass tried to negotiate a normalization of relations with India in 2019 at the behest of the UAE and Saudi.

It was supposed to be a legacy making policy of the former Chief of Army Staff Bajwa [0] but was scuttled by Imran Khan [1]

There is a bit of Qatar+Turkiye versus Saudi+UAE intrigue in this as well, as Imran Khan leaned pro-Qatar and helped them bypass the Saudi+UAE lead blockade on Qatar [2], which was a no-no for Saudi and the UAE.

Imran Khan had a decent domestic policy, but his foreign policy was basically pissing everyone off - from Saudi to UAE to India to the USA - and was what lead to his demise.

[0] - https://tribune.com.pk/story/2417903/gen-bajwas-india-peace-...

[1] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/imran-...

[2] - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2018-06-...
> You can potentially use it as a distraction, or you can use it responsibly, just like anything else.

I lack the imagination for a responsible use case that isn't already covered by existing technology, and outweighs the risks related to a visual dependency strapped to your head running on battery.

Any suggestions? Otherwise, current assumption is that it's a case of wanting to make a point of owning something novel.
There's too many paper
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I think we may see society settling on feeling comfortable with their doctor using an AI, but not being an AI.
User: Which is heavier, two pounds of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Gemini: Neither! They both weigh the same, which is two pounds. The key is in the wording of the question. You're comparing equal amounts of two different materials (two pounds of feathers vs. one pound of bricks). As long as the quantity is the same, the weight (force exerted by gravity) will always be the same regardless of the material.

This is a classic trick question that plays on the different densities of feathers and bricks. While bricks are much denser than feathers, meaning they pack more mass into a smaller space, the question specifies the weight by quantity, not volume. So, both two pounds of feathers and one pound of bricks experience the same gravitational pull and therefore weigh the same.
> Me being dense again: Why is this a necessary use case? It seems pointlessly complicated when taking the thing off is easy or just make calls audio only. What will the Persona ever add?

How old are you?

I distinctly remember the first time my brother and I had a video chat with our parents on the other side of the world who we hadn't seen for a few years, and our sister on yet another continent. We were all sitting on couches, and we kept remarking it felt like we were in the same room, and it was amazing. Truly "the future". Like back to the future 2 (I saw that video-call scene at the movies, it was right after intermission).

Our family video call was ~2005, Skype. I'd had video calls before, but they were always glitchy and slow and made the call worse.

I've never used a VR/AR headset, but I suspect in just a few years this feature alone will be extremely compelling. Maybe those with immediate family scattered around the globe feel it the most.
Multi-account containers are a feature I use tirelessly. Standardized add-ons are great too, so people can release one add-on and hit multiple browsers. I also really like Firefox sync for sending bookmarks/tabs between devices. Firefox is also extremely fast nwadays, and comparatively easy on system memory.

These are things that have improved in the last decade. I also like the fact that FF isn't owned by an Ad company that pushes binaries supposedly built from an open-source project controlled by an Ad company.
They should try to implement some kind of resolute agent in that case. Might be hard to do if it needs to be "not technically search" though.
The founder of "Trader Joe's" Joe Coulombe, wrote a memoir. One of the better business books you'll read:

https://www.harpercollinsleadership.com/9781400225422/becomi...
It took Europe a pretty long time to produce a thinker who would restate the pantheistic ideas that the Upanishads described vividly before the birth of Christ. I wonder if Spinoza had any exposure to Hindu thought.
That’s really nice to know. I’m not sure whether my situation would qualify under that rule, thought. I do appreciate you sharing that detail. Carve-out for a primary residence would be nice but in that circumstance, it still seems like someone over at the government knows where I live, which is suboptimal.

That being left aside, I am concerned about home intrusions much more than I am with economic equity for all _and_ I don’t think this measure will be a particularly effective control on the latter.
> and it hasn't let me down yet.

It's let me down a ton. Deliveries, contractors, maintenance people, doctor's offices with a last minute appointment available, and so forth. Fortunately never for a true emergency, but that's also something to keep in mind as well.

There are lots of things that people simply don't leave a voice mail or text because if they can't contact you immediately, there's no point. Or if the contractor can't get you on the phone, they'll just move onto the next home and skip work on yours that day or that whole week.

So it's not win/win. It's very much win/lose.
The word sacrifice doesn't appear, but TFA makes much of what Spinoza
thought was worth trading for speaking truth.

Excommunication, being "cursed" (cancelled). He boldly rejected all
traditional religious identities which he felt "no longer had any real
meaning, anyway". He turned down an offer to "become a professor at
the University of Heidelberg, on the ground that holding an official
position would expose him to even more attacks"

In a sense, if truth is your guide, the more you lose, the more you
gain, and Spinoza lived that right to the edge of poverty and
non-existence that would have actually killed (starved) him.

Which takes it back to that line near the start of the TFA:

"Offending the wrong people, even for a moment, can blow up the
career of anyone from a Y.A. novelist to an Ivy League president"

What is a "career" (other than path that is out of ones control)?

Paradoxically perhaps, those happy with the simplicity and
independence of saying "fuck careers" have the greatest platform to
speak truth from. Extant wealth, power, and notoriety are the gag of
silence.

But I see a world filled with more and more young people who have not,
and have no hope of ever having a "career". That fills me with vast
hope that truth is on the march again.
It's possible that OpenPOWER has no advantages today, but I remain curious how we got here; my understanding is that POWER and SPARC both had open source versions before RISC-V was created, so why didn't those get picked up but RISC-V did?
Yes. Why not?

Because corporations are persons with constitutional rights under US law, if there is a slippery slope this is not where it starts.

Animal rights are one of two important philosophical movements from the second half of the 20th century. Copy-left is the other (and the easier one).
The money obtained from making criminals pay could fund tax cuts for everyone who was, previously, shouldering the whole burden of society alone.
I paid for Netscape. I bought it as a boxed product at Fry's in Palo Alto, CA.
They focused on collecting because they were selling the collectibles.

Music is a very emotional and impactful art form. Sometimes we confuse the art with the business. They are very different.
Opening a new browser tab and forgetting what I was going to do in that tab is a very frequent phenomenon for me.
That was my assumption, too, but the website shows 110 days since the last cat 5 but 114 days since the last cat 2, and they're not the same event.

More than that: the last cat 5 is "Otis" while the last cat 2 is "Tammy". AFAIK they are named in alphabetical order?

Something seems fishy in this dataset.
That's more of a marketing problem than a technical problem. If there is indeed a novel use case with a good demo example that's not present in OpenAI's API, then people will use it. And if it's really novel, OpenAI will copy it into their API and thus the problem is no longer an issue.

The power of open source!
This is not convincing though that gpt4 actually understands the problem. Here's a slight variation I asked and it fails miserably.

https://chat.openai.com/share/22a9027f-a2c1-428a-94a2-8fd918...

I wonder what lends itself it answer correct in one situation but not the other? Was your question previously asked already and it recognized it whereas my question is different enough?
The intent isn't to block voice calls, but (probably) spreading of misinformation via social networks and group chat apps.

Where the definition of "misinformation" is up to the government.
I don't think it happens much with North Americans, but it's pretty common for folks from farther away (Europe, Asia) to think they could "day trip" between Texas cities, or out to Big Bend or whatever. It's just not reasonable. The distances are too far.

I have done a day trip to Austin before, for a business meeting booked on short notice, but that's 170ish miles one way. It sucked. And no, rail isn't really a usable thing.

In 30 years in Texas, I have FLOWN from Houston to Dallas more often than I've driven there.
Deno’s and Bun’s Isolates should be spawning faster than a QuickJS process, they also utilize snapshots for more optimization. QuickJS is going to be faster at startup from 0 though
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This dynamics is the underlying principle of every democracy. Only the sophistication of the civilian facade differs.

If you want to see how fast things show their true colors stop paying "your" soldiers. When it happens due to breakdown of government-nation relationship coup or military pacification of civilians is imminent.
And as well all know, an IBM AS/400 is the most common computer for serious software development in 2024.
No, it's not a one or the other thing. Phone calls don't work like web apps. Hell, most land lines aren't actually copper either , they're essentially VoIP. A phone call is not just a socket connection. Look up SS7 and PSTN. It's quite literally impossible to change any of this stuff, it's far too embedded.
So we should defund any agency that has had well-documented abuses in the past 40 years?
> Perhaps it didn't have atomics at that point? That would've killed it for that project.

That would have been PPC 601 and perhaps [entry level] 603 models. Motorola/IBM first released a single processor PPC, then they added support for multiprocessor systems which did have atomics – https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180814-00/?p=99...

Other than that, I immensely enjoyed hand writing PPC assembly – it is a very straightforward RISC design, the «rlwinm» / «rlwimi» instructions are fun – once you figure out how to use them.
Haven't one or two long-time Googlers left or gotten laid off and then written strong criticisms of Google? They don't sound like rest & vest (also should say I don't super agree w/ this term) to me, they sound like people who loved Google, were there a long time, and watched the culture decay.
What's well-documented is Republican affinity for wealthy tax cheats and opposition to good governance.
Spot-on. I've been waiting for micropayments since the days of the World Wide Web and still no joy.
John experimented with the Paleo Diet in the 2010's and did a book review of the "Paleo Diet" book by Loren Cordain. I emailed him and suggested he read a related book, "The New Evolution Diet" by Art De Vany. He immediately wrote back a friendly email and ended up reviewing that book as well. He mentioned in his email that he was only interested in the nutritional aspects of the Paleo Diet, as he had his weight control covered by his own system, the Hacker's Diet.
Even if it's "implicit" I'm not sure if that matters that much. The point is that the model doesn't explicitly search anything, it just applies the learned transformation. If the weights of the learned transformation encode a sort of precomputed search and interpolation over the dataset, from an algorithmic perspective this still isn't search (it doesn't enumerate board states or state-action transitions).

>performing some function of the similarity of the input to those previously seen.

This is indeed what transformers do. But obviously it learns some sort of interpolation/extrapolation which lets it do well on board states/games outside the training set.
I think the term hacked is a bit of a misnomer here. They got their data leaked, but they did not get hacked.
Yeah it’s wild that people getting rich off insider trading don’t want to raise taxes on themselves. How many millionaires are in the Senate and House? How many made their millions in their government position?
Install it on MacOs. Observe for yourself. This is a repeated problem mentioned in every thread. If you need help on the part about checking to see how many processes are running, let me know and I can assist. The rest are things you will observe, step by step, during the install process.
we have package managers in this day and age, lol.