skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again only because the denominator changed

> Meanwhile the solar you're touting for China is still at <5% and so is the nuclear, compared to 18% for the latter in the US.

I'm not sure if it is ignorance here, or deliberate straw-manning, but clearly you're comparing a developed nation with a developing nation with a massive population. To be fair, it's on it's last phase of catch up with developed nations, with some provinces 'medium' on the HDI vs some that are 'very high'[0], but in comparison the US[1] the HDI is uniformly 'very high'[1].

> Coal is a disaster and there is no excuse for building more of it rather than replacing what already exists.

Given my assertion above, this translates into: 'China's people must have a lower quality of life (with the attendant health/educational outcomes etc.), until renewable energy catches up'. If the situation was reversed, how might you feel to be on the receiving end of that argument? Anyway, to counter China could do an Elon Musk and say they is doing more for the environment than any other country by manufacturing so much cheap solar panels (which go to sunny places like North Africa, Australia, US)[2], batteries, and EVs... in spite of burning hydrocarbons en-masse in other endeavors, e.g., "There's no excuse in starting a whole space industry that's increasing emissions via inarguably carbon-positive fuel in this warming climate, even though they kickstarted EV industry" vs "There's no excuse for China making coal fired plants, even though they supply solar panels that generate 100s of GWs (soon TWs) of power in other countries"). And maybe one day, Musk will use carbon capture to make his fuel carbon-neutral, and with China switching to renewables and nuclear at a rapid clip in spite of their large and developing population they will catch up too.

Once again, I'm done here, feel free to have the last word.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisio...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/44y90h/annual_suns...
It is likey just anecdota from bad colleges/bad students. I went to a normal german university, did not complete on my own terms, but I surely learned there a lot. Even though the university intentionally did not hold my hand teaching me programming. I had to do that mostly on my own. But they gave the theoretical foundation of all the important concepts about IT. Algorithms, data structure, information theory, math, .. things I did not often see at the time any direct benefit "to get shit done". But it payed off.
Ask HN: What has worked for you to address burn out?
It’s a great platform for emulating anything up to the original playstation
A decades-long art forgery scheme
Wasn't the Klingons some reminiscence of Mongols in the original encounter? They had like cliché Mongol beards, and were classic Star Trek "human"-aliens with like 12 toes or something they never showed anyways.
Thanks, I appreciate that! For you personally, are you thinking more code-focused, what-can-I-do-with-this, or more theory, what-is-a-qubit/quantum-gate kind of stuff?
millenials get screwed again
This is the route I would usually prefer. However I was very happy I experimented with Bevy though just to see how powerful the type system and dependency injection ( https://promethia-27.github.io/dependency_injection_like_bev... ) in Rust can be.

It opened my eyes to a new style of game development and a new way to think about dependency injection and types.

I have always thought that a majority of the hardest software engineering problems relate in some way to gaming and when I see solutions like this it makes me think I am right.

Thanks tho!
I'll def be checking that out.
I work on computational phylogenetics. A practical problem is that while we have decent models of many things, gene transfer, hybridization, etc., practical methods tend to focus on the simpler models. I recall that a popular reason why phylogenetic trees are AFAIK more popular than phylogenetic networks (despite networks being more powerful) is because simpler models lead to more effective algorithms that do well under the oversimplified-but-probably-good-enough models. Complicated models are much more intractable (well, simple models usually lead to NP-hard problems. Complicated models are... even more hairy).

Also theory is much easier understood on simpler models. Just like big O notation abstracts over many things, simple models are much easier to reason about. There is a time and place for considering the memory hierarchy, how floating point division is really not the same level of speed as integer addition, but inferring the canine phylogeny under some easy-to-reason-about model of evolution is much simpler (both theoretically and practically), especially if you have already gathered data for five or six years and people are getting tired of no results.
yes thats it
With Oxford comma: "We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin." [three distinct items in the list]

Without Oxford comma: "We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin."[two named items in the list]

Reading with or without the pause is natural either way. And massively changes the meaning of the sentence.
Most users, like 90% or more have tabs that all fit visibly in the horizontal space. Look it up. Mozilla's telemetry is public. 5 or 6 tabs fit just fine and in a sidebar are hugely wasteful of pixels. You think everyone browses just like you so you can't imagine why the browser is shaped for people not like you but your browsing habits are in the ultra-minority. Take a look at the telemetry before making silly posts like this.
I'd make it a bit broader--OK, you have significant open source contributions on GitHub. So long as it's not OK you have a degree frm $X and have 5 years of experience with $Y so where's your GitHub?
I do not but if you have a STEM club at a local school or a nearby university with a mechanical engineering program they would be able to tell you (assuming one exists).
I'd write that using a colon instead of the first comma, thus:

"The U.S. President: a racist and a misogynist." (Donald Trump)
I guess the younger generation grew up with unmoddable consoles, so the concept is less known nowadays. The older audience immediately knows that it's for. You can run free homebrew apps, games, and if you really wanted, with a little more code, run pirated copies of retail games, and cheats. If you had a PS1 or Xbox, you got it modchipped by some classmate, everyone did in the 2000s, it was rampant, at least at my school. I still remember bunnie, who was famous online for first hacking the xbox. Hardmods required some soldering, Softmods just required a particular game and flashdrive. This new one just requires a memory card. They didn't fully softmod it for legal reasons but they did the hard part. Since it's such an old console, it's really just a novelty that they found another method.
He's not asking Thomas to rule a certain way, so not bribery. Oliver isn't in court nor dodging a subpoena to be in court, so a contempt charge doesn't apply.

Of course the real reason for the offer is because Thomas has shown himself to be ethically compromised, refusing to recuse himself even when the case materially involves his wife and taking gifts (actual bribes) from a billionaire without either disclosing them or refusing himself from cases where that billionaire's interests are before the court.

Since asking nicely to follow judicial norms hasn't worked, just paying the guy to go away doesn't seem out of the question.
The Best Code Is Pseudocode
Look at Mozilla telemetry and you'll see most people have a few tabs open, and overwhelmingly most people's tabs all fit in the horizontal bar with no scrolling. People with more tabs than that are a low single digit percentage.
DNA base pair counts vary between species, so some edit distance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance) would be better.

You’d have to solve the problem that chromosome counts vary, too, though (in animals from 1 for the male jack jumper ant to over 500 in the Atlas blue butterfly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_by_chromosom...)
This is some bitter truth, hence the downvotes.
Is this really news?
How fast is this and how big is the decoder/encoder? The model weights are not accessible.

From the description, it looks like it's only being tested with 128x128 frames, which implies that the speed is very low.
In Germany lopsided contracts clauses that surrender all rights are void. GDPR also gives you the right to recall all your data, so you should be able to delete your account and all your data.
If they're selling it at cost or at a loss (I don't know if they are) as a value-add to the PS5 then they wouldn't want people buying it just to play emulators.
Didn't watch it. Also hate it.
Is this useful for training as well as running a model. Or is this approach specifically for running an already-trained model faster?
How do you downvote on hn?
Cave Johnson, we're done here
>The overwhelming majority of people who are eligible for routine CT scans for lung cancer don't ever get them!

Surely there are tradeoffs here, because CT scans use ionizing radiation.

Have CT scans gotten much more efficient (regarding radiation dose) in recent years?
"The Oxford, Comma, and the Internet (2013)"
If I do then it'll get gobbled up by fake AI and I won't make up one every time ignorant people who can't open an AI textbook demand one from me.

Apropos: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/289

You could use that comics to generate a few of these questions.
You need to have a certain amount of karma points to see the downvote arrow. I think 500 so you're almost there.
This is one of the most accomplished people in software development talking to a class of CS students. It’s not entertainment.

Have we reached a point where lecturers need to post “hot takes” on Twitter as a prerequisite to keeping people’s attention?
There was another, different incident reported in 2022 spanning 3 years, and a data breach in 2019.

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/home-security-ca...
Depends on the nature of the jailbreak, some of them are unpatchable if they attack the system early enough in the boot flow. Those are much less common than they used to be though, the Switch is obviously a notable example of a permanent jailbreak but it's been some time since Sony or Microsoft made a blunder like that.

OTOH who knows how much of the Portal was actually designed by Sony, since it's running Android rather than SIEs usual FreeBSD it might have been outsourced or derived from some generic ODM design.
I find the Ctrl+Shift+H history History Manager window to be the best in the browser game after a couple of decades of use.
> I am a heavy user of a proprietary one-handed keyboard system. Recent maintenance issues and the lack of user serviceability have turned my attention to creating a more reliable solution.

Oh no! That's so sad to hear.

I was overjoyed when the new BT model came out; I was finally going to get to do the thing & get good at this. A couple years latter I actually made an effort to really learn it & get a little competent. For whatever reason (allegedly more coder friendly) I almost immediately adopted TabSpace layout & printed up a half dozen key map graphics so one would always be at hand.

It was a fun time but I never committed hard enough. I'm also just shocked how effective & capable I am at writing on a touchscreen. I'd tried some more code-oriented keyboards for coding, and this was a while ago but they lacked most of the intelligence/helpfulness of a mainstream touch-keyboard & weren't something I could hard adopt. In the meantime, the mainstream touch-keyboards forever annoy me; I really wish long presses could offer a lot more options but we seem forever consigned to be flipping between screens to get a special character or two.

I'm super excited to hear of Twiddler / one handed users in the wild. That's crazy awesome that you build your own! That it only takes 8 keys is a feat!
It's funny to learn there's a term for this. It reminds me of something that happened in our church parking lot a couple of years ago. Someone (presumably a neighbourhood kid) had drawn a big black phallus on the nice white-ish concrete path. It was there for a few weeks, so I decided to get some turpentine and a scrubbing brush and clean it off. However, I scrubbed it so well that after I'd finished there was big white phallus (much whiter than the surrounding path). The white phallus remains to this day, though it is fading.
> It doesn't, because there is no explanation for how it determines the difference

I don’t think an explanation is required for this.

I should be able to state that two species have a different lifespan based on a difference in mean age of death - without needing to provide any specific biological mechanism in my study.

Substitute that mean for a linear regression / neural network and the species lifespan for some vector of brain organisation to get the results in the article.
Some of the examples in the Wikipedia article are authorized. Maybe you consider authorized (reverse) graffiti to be a (reverse) graffiti aesthetic on a mural though.
I think that just means it’s for people that really want it?

John doe and his friends will never have a need to have their fart jokes generated at this speed, and are more interested in low costs.

But we’d recently been doing call center operations and being able to quickly figure out what someone said was a major issue. You kind of don’t want your system to wait for a second before responding each time. I can imagine it making sense if it reduces the latency to 10ms there as well. Though you might still run up against the ‘good enough’ factor.

I guess few people want to spend millions to go from 1000ms to 10ms, but when they do they really want it.
I actually think the opposite is the case. let is nice, but javascript has no typing whatsoever. The PHP type system isn't perfect (with a lack of generics being the biggest pain point), but in javascript you just have to annotate and pray (or use typescript and compile it back to javascript, hoping people interface with your code correctly). And PHP has a dedicated string concatenation operator, which has helped it avoid horrors like '2' + 2 = 22 that javascript has to offer. Javascript will just straight up let you add properties to any object on purpose or by accident, which is useful for polyfills but also fucking horrible for bug avoidance and an invitation for less restrained individuals to make true abominations.
Feel free to share some legal precedence where this situation has fared poorly for someone who "overheard it at a bar".

It'd also be a good time to watch you lose all that money on your hokey-pokey assumption.
I just see this as a ploy to "de-value" certain jobs. If somebody with a degree applies they will happily hire them over somebody without one. As a bonus (for the company) they will say during salary negotiation something along the lines of "This is an entry level job not requiring a degree, the most we can pay is X."
The oceans are huge.

When you are not overfishing and destroying the ground with bad trawling, where is the problem?

(But yes, it is a problem, that both is done)

The oceans warming is a separate problem.

And I like fish as well as chicken as well as beef. But I don't have to eat it every day.
Do you have any theory of why Reddit was banned? To prevent some "astroturfing" blackbox algorithm to flag the site?
I have a job that restarts my Windows PC every night at 4AM. I've found that it is much more performant and stable since I started doing that
rhapsodic: Your comment also says [dead] and not [flagged].
Are there any solutions for getting these maps working on mobile platforms? I would like an SDK I can use on iOS and Android.
> if your tasks complete much faster, you are likely to use less power, even if you are using more energy per unit of time.

isn't this another formulation of the race-to-idle thinking?
The chaotic nature of these images, full of local minimas, makes me intuitively think that genetic algorithm approaches to optmizing hyper parameter searching are better suited than regression-based ones.
Can you provide specific details of why it was not good and what critical details did it miss?
Yep. Linters help. And are lighter than other templates engines (eg Blade, Twig) and give me static analysis.
It's 14.8 billion big gulps. I think that's about 44 big gulps for each resident of the United States.
> It makes me wonder if there's any way to re-create that signal without forcing people to incur 6 figures in debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy.

Lawmakers can create a law which say that educational debt above Y dollars can be discarged in bankruptcy. Of course anything like that will have second and further order effects too.
Try playing a video game. So stop working for a while and just play a game. I stopped working and started playing Diablo IV. The idea was to get to level 100.
My reasoning was this I wanted to remember what it felt like spending a long time doing something I enjoyed.
It is repetitive like coding can be but I enjoyed it. Got to 100. Then did a few more characters and then wanted to get back to work.
Most likely “black hat SEO”
I agree that it still owns a massive chunk of the backend market. 20-something years in, and it's still difficult to shake.

However, I would take the numbers on the site you linked with a big grain of salt. Detecting which backend technology powers a site without direct evidence is nearly impossible. PHP may be high up the list since it and its associated stack leak the most metadata.
I did enjoy this cat and mouse game when I got my first PSP. That was quite a few years ago.
From OP: “She lives with her two children, a cat and a dog.”

The clause defines a list of type children, size of two, relationship: "her children". The correct punctuation character following a definition is usually : followed by object instantiation. Ideally we would flesh out the full structure to include "lives with" too.

lol etc. However we can avoid ambiguity with:

"She lives with her two children and a cat and a dog."

No need for any funkiness or whatevs. Keep it simple kids! the: "... and a <thing>" idiom can be repeated as much as you like without fiddling with commas.
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines

I honestly can't tell if you are joking.
I just pulled out my copy of Oderberg (disclaimer: I've only read about half of it, and it's the first half that doesn't discuss biology much), and can't find any mention of Maritain in the index, so it must be Gilson, which I don't have a copy of.

In any case, what Maritain says is astonishing, and I fear you've just given me another reason to be suspicious of him :-). Is he claiming that the difference between (say) a shark and a dog is merely a question of accidents?
You can't always know whether you've reached the last item in the list or whether it has just turned out that you're halfway through reading the last item, which is a compound clause. Unless, that is, serial commas are reliably present.
In the Western music scale there are mathematical reasons why there has to be some temperament, in other words some way of prioritizing some harmonies over others.
Notably they still sell retro games on PSN.

As long as retro sales exceed the cost to lock the device down you will see stuff like this. I recall one time paying for FF7 which I played on PS3/PSP. That game alone probably makes it worth it.
I mostly agree, but for most of its life, the Flash runtime was ~1MB and shared among every site. Every site needing to download a separate 38MB runtime is an insane amount of overhead.
At 1:00:18 it's claimed, "more than just publications" and that products are live for the public to use.

And they mention something that sounds cool. It's called DermAssist, it's to find similar images related to skin-diseases.

However, when checking the website, you are supposed to join a waitlist, but then it 404s.

Is the tool already shutdowned or it was never released ?
Efficiency has everything to do with it. To run your original thought experiment would likely take more computing capacity than humanity will ever produce with current silicon based processors.

It could be that we can "get there" with much rougher approximation, but that is by no means a given. If "getting there" does require a much more complex model that actually involves simulating human neurons with much more accuracy and precision, the computing power and energy needed, again based on semiconductor computers, might simply be intractable.
But still a heck of a lot more than the reused container that should be used instead. Focusing on recycling instead of reducing and reusing is a good way to let Coca Cola off the hook for continuing to sell single use beverage containers.
In addition to the other points made here, it's well-known that Apple poached a lot of engineering talent from Intel and AMD.
In principle, training is basically the same as running inference but iteratively, in practice training would use a different software stack.
The original Xbox was locked down so only code signed by Microsoft was allowed to run on it. The executables also had a flag specifying which media it was allowed to run from. This meant that you couldn't run a game from a copied disc (different media-type) or the internal hard drive (again, different media-type).

There were plenty of hacks that allowed you to circumvent this. Once you get some form of code execution on the Xbox, it's over, everything runs in Ring 0, meaning you get full access. You can use exploitable executables to maintain persistence without having to do any hardware modifications. However, all these methods relied on an initial entry through either:

A. Installing new hardware (a modchip) to run an altered version of the Microsoft Xbox kernel that doesn't perform the usual checks.

B. Transferring an altered save game to the Xbox through the memory card (internally it's just a USB drive), running the game and loading the save, which triggers an exploit

C. Booting the console (which unlocks the hard drive), waiting until the hard drive activity ceases, "hotswapping" the IDE cable to your computer, modifying the files, swapping it back and turning the console off so the drive locks again. (If the hard drive loses power, it locks itself again too, hence why the hotswap-which is not supported by the PATA standard obviously-is needed)

Now, with this, there is no more reliance on bespoke modchip hardware, aging vulnerable game discs or machines that you can still hotswap an IDE drive to. Which means that Xbox modding has gotten more reliable for the coming years. Which is good news in my book.
whatever happened to SHAKEN/STIR and why didn't that fix everything like people said it would?
Starting college and not completing it is a mixed signal as compared to never starting.

If you allowed me 1000s of trials and I could wager on each of them, I'd wager that the SAT scores of those who started were higher than the SAT scores of those who never started. In that regard, being accepted to and starting college is a positive signal.

At the same time, someone who started and dropped out might be seen as a signal that they could not conform to and complete a structured program. Or maybe they couldn't hack the collegiate level work after coasting through primary and secondary education. In that regard, someone who never attended college but taught themself programming (at least enough to pass the tech screen on 'all else equal' footing with degreed candidates) might be a better bet than someone who dropped out after two years in a comp sci program and screened the same.