skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can actually see that in many of those cases all of those short belts/rollers are actually funneling different major sub-assemblies together. Because you have lines coming together the conveyer/rollers provide a bunch of benefits:

a) It's a short term buffer. While the lines are going to balanced pretty well, it's still super useful to have a small buffer.

b) Lets you spread out the lines a bit, giving you more flexibility with the design and layout of your lines. This is probably one reason why they don't try to pack the lines closer so that you can just hand off.

c) Having people shuffling the parts around is just inefficient. You don't want to hire a person just to shuffle the parts over such a small distance. You don't want to interrupt the last guy on the line's job with such a task. You could try to minimize the cost of runners by batching up your work before moving them (and having your runner rotate through different things to haul), but now you introducing probably more buffer than you want, and also potential latency spikes into your process.
The War on Gravity must now commence!
if you have the CD why are you repaying? you literally already have the file on a physical medium that can be backed up and copied to whatever device you want
I think the difference here is that the first few comments are referring to PCs, i.e. "Personal Computers". Everybody has a story of wildly expensive equipment that their employer purchased. Or worse, spending tens of millions on something like a data warehouse or ERP system and then limiting compensation for the individuals tasked with extracting value from those systems to $90-120,000. But now we're way off topic...
I really wish I had the capacity & skills to take on some hobbyist eye tracking efforts. I think a huge amount of work could be done by looking, or looking with some modifiers.

At some point I need to start doing some machine learning stuff. I'm intimidated to get started, and it feels like there's better tooling emerging. Also, I don't want to go Nvidia so it feels like I'm starting out in Hard mode. But some day I need to pick something like Keras and do some basic ML image processing or what not with my Radeon rx580, if it can.
I wonder how efficient a modern x86-64 CPU could be — on a scale from “CISC” to “single-purpose ASIC” — if you could compile and load microcode directly into cache lines, pre-baking all of this just-in-time silicon allocation decision-making into a static microcode loop, so that the frontend can shut off entirely.

(Presumably doing this would only be possible in the context of a single-threaded uninterruptible unikernel workload with system-management-mode functions disabled — but I’m sure a lot of “one powerful single-core SoC”-type embedded systems would be happy to make that trade off!)
Many of the big tech companies were founded by college dropouts, who became billionaires.
Thanks! and on the other hand I'll note that since:

1) my comment actually did capture your attention
2) I did notice it (courtesy of HN Replies)

The current state isn't working too poorly. and sure beats the pants off any other option i know of ;)

So please keep up the awesome work.
It doesn't make sense when the major health problem in the US is obesity.

Always these childish and clueless economic takes on this board.
A crappy minimum-not-viable-yet Flutter database and state manager
It's far from usable yet, and probably won't be usable in a few months. We are still undergoing a major refactor of the APIs. However, we decided to face our fears of releasing it to the wild. Let us know if you find this to be interesting!
When you think you're done, proofread the slides from a realistic distance through somewhat foggy or out-of-focus lenses.

Prepare for this to turn out to be half way through the project. You just thought you were done :(

In addition, you can also turn down the brightness if you are auditioning the slides on a computer monitor, in order to simulate projectors having a low light output.

Have way more slides than you need, and pick only the best, way in advance. Keep surplus slides filed away handily in case of more detailed future presentations, or if you are well organized some of them can be used for ad-hoc Q & A sessions.

Any text or images that fail readability from the back of the room because it's too small or too difficult to perceive detail, might as well be dramatically condensed into a larger font, or left off altogether. If a lot needs to be said on a particular slide, speak it out loud clearly and simply, after adequate rehearsal.

Always carry spare long HDMI cables, the ones from the AV contractor are often badly worn out, I like to bring one brand new in the package.

You may also benefit if you start out so the native resolution of your slide template is the exact same as the projector the AV contractor will be supplying to the event. These are not usually very high resolution, and business projectors have been pretty well standardized at lower resolution than entertainment projectors, neither one as high as many computer monitors these days. There may also be a difference in the resolution of projectors used in different sized rooms, with the bigger rooms having the higher-dollar equipment. If you can't get the exact info in advance from the AV contractor beforehand, see if there is any contractor or AV rental group that knows about this and can inform you of what you are likely to be encountering in the local area.

Also make sure your battery can last as long as the presentation in case that stage wiring fails too.

Be bold whether you have a microphone or not, you need to be loud enough to be heard, so it really works to always pretend there is no mic and have strong enunciation. If there is a mic and it's too loud then, turn it down or move away from it, don't hold back instead. Given the same material, holding back is just not as engaging. It can also be good to look at a different audience member, or at least in a different direction toward the audience, while talking about each different slide, and then look away from them to the screen to draw their attention to it. It's possible to have a quite technical presentation without a pointer this way if you plan for it.

Did I mention auditioning your material and a full dress rehearsal?

You decide how much you like being the star of the show up on stage without any rehearsal.
I see from comments I'm far from the only one using AI to summarise videos before deciding whether to watch them.

Reminds of the meme "why spend 10 minutes doing something when you can spend a week automating it". i.e. "why spend an hour watching a talk when you can spend 5 hours summarising it with AI and debating the summary's accuracy".

This sounds silly but potential gains from learning AI summarisation tooling/flows are large, hence why it warrants discussion. Learning how to summarise effectively might save hours per week and improve decisions about which sources deserve our limited time/attention.
Try more prompts, both models could not even answer the "Sally has 3 brothers" question; really disappointing.
Currently graphics processors work well for training. Language processors (LPUs) excel at inference.
Ask HN: Are web front ends especially glitchy these days?
It goes back much further than that. GP linked to the Wikipedia article on universals. During the late middle ages there was a furious debate about whether species (taking the term in its very broad philosophical sense) could be said to exist, or whether all categorization was done by human beings applying labels. To me, it seems one of the most fundamental questions in all philosophy.
They're all x86 so don't despair.

Plus they haven't made a good exclusive since Bloodborne. No Xbox exclusives afaik.

Don't worry, gaming peaked a long time ago. There's a huge backlog of great games that are better than their remakes like XCOM. Aside from graphics, I'd say AAA gameplay has even regressed in many ways. Indie games do their own thing and run on PC.
No disrespect, but having / performing hobbies doesn't fall under "being productive" for me. You're just spending time randomly however you see fit (and seem to be happy with the outcome). Which is a nice thing, but probably the exact opposite of what is discussed here.

Sure, if you wander around, you can see nice places. But planning a trip, because you want to see specific sights, is something different. Both are nice ways, depending on what you want from life.
This used to be the case, but at some point in the last few years Reddit started suggesting usernames like that to new human users. It'll generate stuff like "Fine_Ad6357", "Unhappy-Benefit8521", and "SuccessfulShape2454".

I believe they started doing this because Reddit got really popular and all the normal usernames were eventually taken. I wouldn't be surprised if they implemented this after noticing that a significant number of signup attempts were aborted due to multiple attempted usernames already being taken.
Super cool project. The siren song of binary input is strong: https://youtu.be/hansx2Bzxa0
also Lua in Erlang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703949
Very neat use of existing HTML. One thing this highlighted for me is that the MDN docs on the target attribute are incomplete, because I was recently reading them and while they mention that you can target iframes, they didn't actually describe how to do so.

I was reading the docs because I had some thoughts on my own htmx-like take. You've used some of the same attributes I was going to use but slightly differently than how I was going to approach it. Some good food for thought!
Anyone know what dang's plans are for post retirement moderation of hackernews?
Hi, I was learning about inverse kinematics in robot manipulators and using Mujoco to practice it, so I created a write-up about my experience implementing using Python from a Article that I found.
Wouldn't that support the idea that most energy consumption is in decoding? If you're getting 2x, 4x, 8x ect as much value computation per instruction and yet only a 30% increase in power then clearly most the power is not used by computing the values.
I know a technique that's more appropriate than sharding for the sheer majority of cases: personal computing running libre software. Most of the times there are such embarrassingly parallelizable workloads is because something got needlessly centralized.
Transactions Tracking in Mulesoft
CorrelationID for the Win! It is native in Mulesoft but I believe it should be native and Out of the box in any language/framework.
Many editors have tools that show language functions and their parameters as you type, so you don't have to subject yourself to that tedium if you don't want.
AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More Stuff" for Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement
I've heard an idea that, often times, a snapping fragile bone causes a person to fall, as opposed to the fall causing the bone to break. That bone just broke down under baseline static loads.
If I recall, he used that invention in several stories. They're quite enjoyable. Sheffield, as a writer with a hard science background, came up with some very interesting ideas, such as The Sturm Invocation, and the entire Proteus series was very well-considered. Sometimes I get a taste for the diamond-hard sf and he scratches that itch. Hal Clement, too, if you're into that; Half Life is probably the best novel where the concept of the scientific method itself is at the forefront.
GE? If you mean General Electric I'm confused because they've been around like 130+ years
> In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we're at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public/private key crypto means that it's entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable

Pirates will always find a way, the Nintendo Switch had all the countermeasures you mentioned, the latest revisions also have a patched bootloader but someone figured out that they could still boot a custom firmware via power fault injection on the SoC.
You don't even have to envision this next scenario: Matchgroup owns 45 different dating apps. Does your logic still apply?

[Edit]

In theory all profits could be split amongst the owner and the workers, without any leftover profits. Like pirates and their captain split a bounty.
They’re far worse than the alternative of using reusable containers. Single serving containers should be replaced with reusable containers filled from fountains in public places or from concentrate in something like a sodastream. Coca Coka would prefer we talk about the benefits of recycling so it doesn’t affect their business practices.
OTOH, has there really been any actually culturally significant video games released in recent years?

I enjoyed for example the Uncharted games a lot. But I don’t think anything significant will have been lost if future generations of people don’t get to play the Uncharted games, no matter how much I enjoyed them myself.

Whereas, things like Pong, and Pac-Man and the first Super Mario games and the Pokémon Red and Blue and Yellow games feel much more important for me, and of course the original Doom, all of these are important on a whole other level. And thankfully they are all sure to be able to be preserved at least in some form.
I'm the author of the GPT-2 work. This is a nice post, thanks for making it more available. :)

Li et al[1] and I independently derived this technique last spring, and also someone else independently derived it last fall. Something is in the air.

Regarding your footnote 2 re capabilities: I considered these kinds of uses before releasing the technique. Ultimately, practically successful real-world alignment techniques will let you do new things (which is generally good IMO). The technique so far seems to be delivering the new things I was hoping for.

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=aLLuYpn83y
> Edit: Text selection is also broken.

Or disabled?
More firepower, fewer frigates: Australia's $11B navy upgrade revealed
I also started with Vue and switched to React for work but still miss the simplicity of Vue. Sadly, it didn't take off as React.
> That said I'm surprised that we can't tell men and women apart from the brain.

According to the article, we can.
Related recent discussion and article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243885

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414826-dance-mat-style...
Are Your a Creator or a Consumer?
> and debating the summary's accuracy

Perhaps consider simply reading the description for an accurate summary.

From the description:

> Abstract: In this talk I’ll highlight several exciting trends in the field of AI and machine learning. Through a combination of improved algorithms and major efficiency improvements in ML-specialized hardware, we are now able to build much more capable, general purpose machine learning systems than ever before. As one example of this, I’ll give an overview of the Gemini family of multimodal models and their capabilities. These new models and approaches have dramatic implications for applying ML to many problems in the world, and I’ll highlight some of these applications in science, engineering, and health. This talk will present work done by many people at Google.
Curiously, almost all of this video is mostly covered by computer architectures lit in the late 90's early 00's. At the time, I recall Tom Knight had done most of the analysis in this video, but I don't know if he ever published it. It was extrapolating into the distant future.

To answer your questions:

- Spatial processors are an insanely good fit for async logic

- Matrix of processing engines are a moderately good fit -- definitely could be done, but I have no clue if it'd be a good idea.

In SP, especially in an ASIC, each computation can start as soon as the previous one finishes. If you have a 4-bit layer, and 8-bit layer, and a 32-bit layer, those will take different amounts of time to run. Individual computations can take different amounts of time too (e.g. an ADD with a lot of carries versus one with just a few). In an SP, a compute will take as much time as it needs, and no more.

Footnote: Personally, I think there are a lot of good ideas in 80's era and earlier processors for the design of individual compute units which have been forgotten. The basic move in architectures up through 2005 was optimizing serial computation speed at the cost of power and die size (Netburst went up to 3.8GHz two decades ago). With much simpler old-school compute units, we can have *many* more of them than a modern multiply unit. Critically, they could be positioned closer to the data, so there would be less data moving around. Especially the early pipelined / scalar / RISC cores seem very relevant. As a point of reference, a 4090 has 16k CUDA cores running at just north of 2GHz. It has the same number of transistors as 32,000 SA-110 processors (running at 200MHz on a 350 nanometer process in 1994).

TL;DR: I'm getting old and either nostalgic or grumpy. Dunno which.
Tech the Heck? – CloudTruth
Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches
You assume a lot, wrongly.

Artists don't have a choice. If the only viable marketplace is ripping off sellers, and sellers chose to remain there because it's the only viable marketplace, and the sellers gotta hear their buyer defending the owners of the only viable marketplace ripping them off, they're not gonna keep selling and you're not gonna keep getting new music.

This race to defend the most evil of corporations, ripping people off right and left, is rampant on HN over the last 5 years. It's like all the hacker turned into lackeys or something. What a shame. The first 10 years of this site the people here had backbones but now they're mostly just bootlickers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family they are the real heroes, not someone starting the sentence with "i love me", and continuing accordingly.
Most all the mid size vans look alike here in the states. I guess that's why I think the H Van looks so appealing. We own a Chrysler Pacifica to haul the grands around in and it's a fantastic car.

As a side note, the stigma on the mini-van is unwarranted, they are very utilitarian and, unless the snow is too deep(8 inches or higher), gets around better than my truck.
Business intelligence isn’t really applicable on the database level with guids..way too many abstraction layers down.
I mean this as earnestly as possible: remember that pain and don't buy a PS5, or a PS6, or
[...] Don't build any more emotional relationships with products built by rentiers that refuse to respect your ability to enjoy the perpetuity of your license (and god forbid even considering actually owning anything). Take on an allotment and breed a new hybrid chili pepper, or brew some beer and share it with your neighbors. Beat Galaga for the 11,000th time. Whatever it takes. To hell with Huxley's Brave New World-- a better one is possible if we force it to exist by refusing to continue enabling the system enslaving us.
For "functions that return false", use thecodingmachine/safe which wraps those nasty builtins with ones that throw exceptions. PHP's gotten a lot better lately, but it's always going to need library fixes like that for its awful legacy builtins.
After many years of drinking coffee (1-2 mugs a day), I had to quit because of high blood pressure. I switched to decaf and I found one I even liked. I was served full coffee at Starbucks instead of decaf couple times, so I figured ok, no more drinking coffee I don’t make myself. The one day I got a new batch delivered from Peet’s and… it wasn’t decaf either. This was the breaking point for me and I quit coffee of any kind.

It took me nearly a year before I started waking up feeling ok and not foggy.

I had never had issues sleeping before. Anxiety hasn’t changed either. But when I read about people writing that they felt great first or second day after quitting, I know it’s a total horse shit. First week or two were absolutely awful.

I have not noticed anything really positive or negative after quitting. Except of the blood pressure that is easier to manage. I still hope I get to go back to coffee one day again lol.
> The people on the right at that time (UK 1966) didn't hang as they were of an effectively protected capitalist caste with no regulation to hold them to account.

Which people are you referring to? Since the National Coal Board was running the mine, I wouldn't have expected capitalists to be to blame, and the Labour party were in power at the time of the disaster. I'm not very familiar with this, so may be missing something.
See, now you just sound like Christopher Walken.
But that’s not even a negative result. They say roughly half the experiments are positive and the other half negative. IOW we do not have _any_ research outcome here. And that’s even assuming these results are reproducible, which half the time they aren’t.
Not guessing at what the original author intended, but the formula `floor(x + 0.5)` does not currently round to the nearest integer for all floating point values. If 0.5 is just outside the bits of the mantissa, there will be an intermediate rounding before doing the `floor`.

One such value is 0.49999999999999994, another is 4503599627370497.0
Hello from maintaining ASP3.0 "apps".
I believe that what you are looking for is Hyperdrive. Global connection pooling and query caching.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/configuration/h...
Nintendo (or rather Nvidia) was behind the curve on fault injection counter-measures, Sony and Microsoft did their homework and it's never been achieved on their last two generations of systems as far as I know. Microsoft openly talked about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

Seriously, console security is getting really good. The Switch had some major hardware blunders between the bootloader bug and fault injection, but the developer of the main Switch CFW project is on record that their custom microkernel is absolutely bulletproof and he expects there will never be another software exploit. If Switch 2 gets the hardware right, there's no way in.

https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1486787208333774848

https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1327721899862888448

The Playstation is the weakest of the bunch, since they run FreeBSD on bare metal there's a large attack surface and a lot of eyes on the code. The Xbox uses some variant of NT but each application gets its own Hyper-V virtualized NT instance, so to jailbreak you need to escape Hyper-V, which is easier said than done and has a $250,000 bug bounty so MS would probably be the first to be informed.
The premise there is also that the other earth developed in exactl synchronism until they discovered each other which is much less realistic :)
PS3, PS4, Xbox, PSP, DS, vita, switch and maybe PS5 all have hacks.

Phones came out and killed homebrew. Now the developers developed cool super compatible stuff without needing you to hack the hardware plus games became stagnant on consoles. The PSP when I bought it was known as a boring rehash console with nothing but re-releases but the hardware made it worth it.
Based on the massively positive response both inside and out of the gaming community… I’m gonna say Baldur’s Gate 3

Seriously, it’s converting people I never in 100 years would have expected to become gamers.
Wrappers around GPT wrappers, naturally.
> “These models worked really well because we successfully separated brain patterns between sexes,” Menon said. “That tells me that overlooking sex differences in brain organization could lead us to miss key factors underlying neuropsychiatric disorders.”

Although never demonstrated, it's always been most intuitive to me that sex-related brain differences underlie gender dysphoria. I would feel exceptionally relieved and vindicated to finally have some objective, falsifiable observation to point at that suggests the reality of dysphoria.
Not quite, in Firefox the downloads popover and downloads window are totally separate from each other with different UIs that can both be open simultaneously. In Safari the window and popup are one in the same, with the user being able to choose how to present it.