skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it wasn't humboldt's expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt#Spanish... which had nothing to do with the decades-earlier meter-measuring expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Geodesic_Mission_to_the... (except for being inspired by it) and the contemporary calculations of the paris meridian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre#M%C3%A8tr...
Who is saying that it's a question they think about?
How did we end up with the year starting in January? If you've got eight months and they're often named like that - e.g. "oct" for the 8th month - and you decide to add a couple for the time you're not counting during winter, wouldn't you add them at the end and say the year still starts in March? Or is that exactly what they did and we changed the end-of-year point layer (the article doesn't say)? If so, why did we change it?
Seems like you could have a separate shell organization that built this functionality by looking at existing drivers, and just provide the patch to the kernel.
I would be okay if they gave it the Peripheral treatment, which is to say it doesn't need to be 100% like the book. It would be better if Case's ono-sendai rig was something a little more modern than the original vision of essentially an Atari ST. It would be hilarious as hell if Wintermute started hallucinating like a GPT. The vision of Chiba City has been done a million times over; what if, instead of trying to just remake the street scenes of Blade Runner, we got something completely different? I'd be okay with that.
Some or most of that will require a warrant to access. This ad information can just be purchased, no judge sign-off required.
He came out of retirement for this job, so the market certainly knew that his retirement was possible (although maybe not imminent).

These sorts of transitions take time, when you're the CEO of a $75B public company you typically don't up and quit because you see some bad news on the horizon. Especially not when you have such a stellar reputation and are already a billionaire. Slootman didn't need this job.

Snowflake also missed on guidance.
Isn't it better to actually consider their arguments than dismissing them for being just who they are? Many of these people are extremely skilled in philosophy and ethics

Although their arguments often are based on religious grounds that you may dismiss, you may also find that similar principles can be derived from humanistic traditions alone.
Yep, that's actually all mentioned in the article :)
Since, say France, has no software patents, can that work be done in France and released thereafter? ( thinking of VLC example now )
Saying that some channels are not censored thus no censorship happens is obviously wrong.
Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones
Well, no. The Wii U is one of the two notable examples where Nintendo did sell the hardware at a loss. This isn’t speculation. Iwata said this in shareholders calls.
( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20095125)

The Wii was a breakout success in a demographic the market had never previously reached. It is def unrealistic to expect the Wii U to have recaptured that market but it was done about as poorly as possible.

I’m not saying the Wii U was a failure in totality but it did not live up to expectations for both Nintendo as a corporation or for many consumers. It’s okay to recognize this, Nintendo themselves did.
Historia Civilis is pure gold for history enjoyers.
This line made me think about a future where people have and use these kinds of things. It would mean that I could no longer really engage in conversations with people without vetting them first to know if they're doing this sort of thing.

I'm not sure how to navigate such a world.
Elon Musk Claims the New Tesla Roadster Hits 60 MPH in Less Than One Second
TBF, if it's injured, it will probably either die in a matter of hours from its injuries or be taken down as easy prey by a predator. If it survives a day, it's probably going to live.

But yes, I get your point.
Ah, that's why I don't see articles from there anymore - they stopped publishing! Sad.
I don’t think newspapers know either. Many keep switching back and forth.
Is there a reason a RPi or whatever with a cheap USB HDMI capture card isn't a good option? I guess there might be a minor quality loss but it should do what you want.
https://archive.ph/lBCJh
Step 1: Have an interest for it. It sounds like you might!

Once you know you want to, I think YouTube is a really fantastic resource. Also an active community on reddit (r/flightsim, r/MicrosoftFLightSim etc).

I recommend Microsoft Flight Simulator for most people just because it visually looks the best. People will say other sims have better flight dynamics but I'd argue that doesn't matter for 99.9% of people.

You need a pretty good PC to run MSFS though. There's also an Xbox version but it is less extensible. For example, you can't do VATSIM on Xbox.
It'd almost have to be. The Sprawl novels were a product of the 1980s; the fragments of backstory we're given imply that the Cold War continued for decades longer than it actually did (and went "hot" at least once in a nuclear exchange over Germany), and that Japan became the world's dominant superpower rather than the US. It'd be exceptionally difficult to remove these elements from the story and rebase it on the world's actual history without losing a lot of the flavor of the story.
While reading your comment I was reminded of the much touted key capabilities of the Video Toaster (late 80s), it's character generator and chromakey, used to do exactly that: overlaying text on video, for a fraction of the cost of what professional video production cost. And now, 30+ years later, we still don't have an accessible way to do that using modern video tech/protocols, but now it's about rent seeking and licencing rather than technical capability.
The main irony I find is that '80s cyberpunk envisioned net tech to be the province of outlaws and daredevil dreamers, with the antagonist corporate giants often being shadowy faceless monoliths resembling Japanese zaibatsu or IBM or Ma Bell, but the present moment is dominated by very consumer-friendly-presenting, bubbly-UX FAANGs. Instead of outright cold and imposing Tyrell Corporation pyramid dystopia you have cheeky customer service chatbot landing page dystopia. Definitely not the tone that Neuromancer was invoking, though I suppose by the time post-cyberpunk came about with Stephenson's works, the portrayal of the megacorps got more customer-facing.
I was also taught this.

I wonder if it has something to do with this, from the article:

> On Sosigenes' advice, Caesar added another two never-before-seen months to the year 46BC, one of 33 days and one 34, to bring the calendar in line with the Sun. The additions made the year the longest in history at 445 days long, with 15 months.

The two additional months were a one-time-only thing for that year, but I can see wires getting crossed and having that be a thing that was repeated for a while.

July and August were never added, though, simply renamed.
> The fact that you have a real grocery store a drive away probably indicates that there's enough volume at that location to keep prices low.

I'm not sure if I'd consider this the same situation. I'm not in a low volume area, I'm in one of the the densest neighborhoods in the city and unfortunately as nice as a 20 minute drive sounds to some that's absolutely abhorrent when you live downtown in an area like this. Most of my neighbors and friends don't own cars so that's an hour one way bus ride. I only drive my car to go to the pharmacy once a month and that's a 30 minute 4 mile one -way drive. Gotta sign my name for my adhd meds every month for 30 years straight no matter how difficult to get them it is.

Kroger is buying all of these ancient derelict looking grocery stores that have been here for ages. I don't know the last time I saw a grocery store get built in my entire life, and especially not the 4 years I've been in Denver where the (metro) populations gone from (according to google) 2,656,000 to 2,963,000 since 2016.

Of course like you've said well, I really have no idea what goes into the logistics of where or why to put a grocery store so maybe it really just is that low volume to them.

I'm in the "Harlem of the West" neighborhood which is a food desert more by design by 1950s anti-civil rights planners than corporate profits unfortunately, although it may not be that reason any longer.

Not saying that you don't know any of this it's just a topic I'm pretty passionate about and that a lot of people are less familiar with, so maybe some HN'ers will be interested. I wasn't aware of food deserts and how difficult they make peoples lives until I experienced living in one.

There are really great coops that build therapy/education centers with farms that always need donations of time or farm work if anyone is looking for something to volunteer on.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=96ae7380...

https://www.cpr.org/show-episode/food-deserts-what-are-they-...

And THIS! From our wonderful Kyle Clark, Supermarket merger could cause damage in food deserts -- There's a huge potential that these mergers will just cause them to close stores.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle...
That's not what a golden parachute is. That is a compensation package meant to protect executives when terminated for things that aren't necessarily performance-related. This guy was hired to take this company public. He did this and now he's leaving. I get from your tone that you disapprove of this but I am sure you just don't understand the conditions of his departure, right?
It tends to not be a pitch dark in the forrest, you can see huge objects like a deer and roughly navigate in general.
There are times where I feel the community here sways between the drive to have this outcome, and just pure nerdery for its own sake.
> That's great, but have you actually seen those artifacts ever?

No, I use HDMI 2.1 without DSC.

Otherwise though, yes I have very good vision and work with images professionally. I do spot artifacts when they are there.

I get it that not everyone needs perfect images. I mean, people watching YouTube certainly won't be able to tell if there is an additional artifact on top of the low bitrate video they're watching.
the best way to handle nulls is with Option / Maybe types. that is, without null at all

unfortunately they were not invented at the time sql was created
Maybe giving the creators more rein and budget, because they’re a cash-rich underdog. Netflix isn’t that now.
NZ Nationwide petrol station outages after leap year glitch
Fastest Camera Drone vs F1 Car [video]
Beyond the beep and saving sleep: optimizing the On-Call experience
What if _someone_ makes an unofficial patch with HDMI 2.1 support? You could at least compile your own damn kernel with the damn thing supported.
They actually use a relu to represent the model weights. But I'm not convinced that this can't be avoided. We do gradient boosted decision tree training without this trick.
I think I've lost the plot here. Let's play it back:

1. Me: Macs also have the same "Fn on the far left" layout as ThinkPads and Macs/ThinkPads have basically won in the tech space.

2. You: Macs have a better design here - they use the more convenient thumb for Ctrl functions, so fn on the far left is not relevant

3. Me: Nah in the terminal where I spend 90% of my time Ctrl is Ctrl.

4. You: Unless you rebind it to make your experience 100% consistent

5. Me: If we're saying rebinding is an acceptable solution then what does it matter what order the keys are in?

6. You: The amount of rebinding still differs due to Alt, defaults unfortunately matter even if you change them.

Like, sure I guess rebinding 4 keys is more work than rebinding 3. I was just confused (5) because you said that the Mac's design is better (2) but then you seemed to abandon that argument by saying you can just rebind keys (4). Your response at (6) seems irrelevant; why is Alt (a key not on the Mac keyboard; do you mean Option?) germane?

> How do you do it on Windows where it's the same combo from the start?

Pretty much the same way the Mac does it [0]: let Ctrl-C mean "cancel" and use some other key combo for copy (you guessed it).

But, again overall rebinding is an imperfect solution. A lot of things don't know you rebound your keys, there can be weird clashes, etc.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/ctrl-c-and...
Yes, there are new reporting requirement effective Jan 1 2024 in the US that entities that do business here have beneficiaries registered https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/30/2022-21...
> As guest in current browsers acting as hosts, for the zero-install ubiquity of the Web.

That sounds promising, except I don't see how the affordance of URLs could be duplicated in that context without introducing competing janky proxies—e.g. https://new-web.com/[insert-new-url-type-here] Or were you thinking that installable PWAs would obviate that?

I wonder if a wasm app framework ("a new way to build web apps without HTML/CSS/JS") would be viable, as it could work seamlessly with existing URLs and people could host apps built in it anywhere.

If that gains traction, introduce a new, "cleaner" build target (sans HTML/CSS/JS linking) and a "faster, more lightweight" client for built apps. Have it use a new URL scheme to match - maybe wasm://. Web-targeted wasm app builds could even check if the URL scheme is available, and switch to it at runtime if it is. Kind of like how web apps sometimes open the ios app if it's installed.

From there, expand into a platform for competing frameworks to target...
Free “Alt” weeklies have been a thing pre-internet, but maybe some landlord’s thinking was that someone paying $1 for a newspaper was a better tenant (true or not).
Shōgun just came out and is getting unanimous rave reviews. What don't you like about it?
Dynamics-Guided Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulator Design
And I can't help but notice that your sexist framing does nothing but distract from a factual discussion.
Minor issue: if you go into the water and then try to drive out, the car disappears behind a layer, e.g., https://imgur.com/a/UrUyNef. I can't seem to get out of it.
Is there any scope for indie builders?
It's actually a REALLY great resource. I highly recommend anyone to at least skim it.

They do a wonderful job breaking down the entire industry into easily understood pieces and connect everything together.

I consider it essential reading for anyone getting into the industry.
Most displays that are marketed as a "TV" instead of a "monitor" are exclusively HDMI. This is why many TVs from ~2020 don't have any 4K@120 input, despite actually displaying at 4K@120 (from the internal GPU that does frame interpolation), because HDMI 2.0 is limited to 4K@60.
Or what? The article doesn't say.
Apple doesn't as desperately need a big stable of first-party content. They've other revenue streams, they're not losing a bunch of third-party content, and I suspect most of their subs come in via Apple One (Apple Music, iCloud, etc.) package deals rather than direct.
I believe last I read about it, some drugs are formed as crystals, and being in 0g (or free fall if your pedantic) meant the formed crystals were much bigger or easier to actually form, can't remember which, the specific drug is related to HIV medications
Having just finished The Three Body Problem series, I am having similar feelings about Netflix's treatment of it.
These models will are compatible with llama.cpp out of the box, we (GigaML - https://gigaml.com) are planning to train a small model (3-4B, 1-bit, opensource) with the latest stack-v2 dataset released today. Let me know if anyone is interested in collaborating with us.
And on top of all this, there are tidal forces to consider. I asked an astrophysicist relative how much a point on the Earth at its equator might rise and fall with every rotation, and he reckoned a few meters at least IIRC.
If you look at the rich history of nuclear near-misses through the cold war, I don't think there's any reason to feel secure in the idea that nuclear deterrence ensures peace. What it does do, is ensures that the consequences of war will be catastrophic, likely civilization-ending.

Which, you know, is the dice we're going to be rolling from now on. Maybe we'll survive the next century, then maybe the next, but in the long term? Humans just don't have that good judgement.
Can smells improve your athletic performance?
Okay wait, can I train my own llm yet?
No routing, no fast lines that cut across the chip, which cut way down on latency, but make FPGAs harder to build, and especially hard to compile to once you want to use them.

All that routing hardware, and the special function units featured in many FPGAs are something you have to optimize the usage of, and route to. You end up with using solvers, simulated annealing, etc... instead of a straight compile to binary expressions, and mapping to the grid.

Latency minimization is the key to getting a design to run fast in an FPGA. In a BitGrid, you know the clock speed, you know the latency by just counting the steps in the graph. BitGrid performance is determined by how many answers/second you can get from a given chip. If you had a 1 Ghz rack of BitGrid chips that could run GPT-4, with a latency of 1 mSec per token, you'd think that was horrible, but you could run a million such streams in parallel.
Yes, it does.

I am writing this in Linux, while looking at a Dell monitor connected through DisplayPort, and my loudspeakers are connected to an audio output of the monitor.
Adobe previews new generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
https://archive.ph/Yxaey
One interesting thing that I learned when I visited the Minnesota Wolf Center (20 years ago, but still...) was that their wolves were fed only from roadkill collected in a 100 mile radius.
> I mean I like the Space Rastafarians, but I'm not sure they're essential.

It'd be a shame to lose one of the best stealth puns I've ever seen in literature.
I don't know if the ~$20 HDMI USB capture cards work on a raspberry pi, but connecting one to a pi or laptop and capturing the signal to a v4l stream, overlaying in software and then outputting on built-in HDMI out might work?
I am not startled at all. Dense vector representations are pretty silly, they can’t really be the road to knowledge representation.
Totally fair point. I think VATSIM shines in IFR yet MSFS arguably shines at lower altitudes / in a more VFR way where you can sort of do whatever you want (i.e. don't have to fly an assigned heading or route).

I think flying VFR in an unrealistic way (ignoring airspace, altitude restrictions etc.) is plenty fun.

But, if you want to fly "realistic" VFR you could consider PilotEdge. It's like vatsim but more heavy on GA and commonly used by real life student pilots that want to practice procedures and ATC comms as close as possible to real life.

Just sharing in case you're interested :)
I mean just look at laser beams in sci-fi :)
I had not heard of this, and I find it interesting and compelling.

But I do not get the comparison to heavy metal. Heavy metal, as I understand it is defined by dissonance, instrumental virtuosity, and overdriven amps. Musically, it seems almost like the complete opposite of sacred harp. What's the connection?
>I am already terrified they'll give it a 'Foundation' treatment.

What does your heart tell you?
yea the whole Foundation thing makes me nervous about this!
I used Zig (not MicroZig, just rolled my own HAL) for the bootloader and firmware on a soft RISC-V SOC + custom peripherals recently and had somewhat mixed, though positive feelings about it.

On the positive side:

- As a 'safer c', getting things up and running was a breeze, writing code largely felt intuitive.

- The additions to C (slices/iterators, enhanced structs, arbitrarily sized integers) are excellent

- It produces fairly small firmware images (useful when stuffing a boot rom in logic/EBRAM)

- Easier (than C IMO) to get up and running with formatted IO vs retargeting libc

- Comptime is neat, and you can build some decent low-cost abstractions with it (ex: I built a comptime heavy write-through cache for key-value storage that required very little overhead and largely self-generated based on a simple struct)

- I really enjoy the use of structs for function+data organization. It maps well to hardware instances, giving you an 'object' like feeling without OOP ick.

On the negative side:

- The compiler is still a seriously moving target. Upgrading sometimes meant rather large refactors.

- Documentation is somewhat poor IMO.

- As a long time user of Nim (including on really lean embedded targets), compared to hygienic macros, comptime falls way short.

- The lack of first class interfaces/traits/typeclasses is not my favorite. The currently suggested alternatives are so un-ergonomic I'd almost call them hostile.

All-in-all, I'm excited to see where Zig ends up. After nearly 20 years writing embedded code I'm really (really really really) tired of C. The embedded systems community really needs to embrace better tools.
You’re conflating two separate issues.

One is App Store distribution. The per install license thing is bullshit but it might comply with the law. Keep in mind the DMA was written to privilege companies like Spotify, not to give you a property right to install whatever you want on your own device.

The other issue, which deals with a different DMA rule, is that Apple can’t privilege WebKit over other rendering engines. That means PWAs have to be able to run in any rendering engine installed.

To make that work, they’d have to build out APIs to allow third party rendering engines to do all that WebKit does to render PWAs. Or they could disable PWAs altogether and then nothing is privileged.

Seems like a case study in unintended consequences. If the EU has consulted with anyone who understands technology, this could have been explained beforehand. Or maybe it was. Either way, the WebKit issue might be lazy compliance but it doesn’t strike me as malicious.
So what did a rogue-like used to mean?
One of the best (history) creators on the platform in my opinion! His recent video on the history of work was also quite interesting.
Building a DIY Surgical Robot [video]
> First, "slow-thinking" is really just a different way of expressing your thinking and you should begin by leaning into it rather than leaning away. Take time, allow yourself to pause to collect your thoughts. People often interpret quietness (not filler) as intelligence and maturity (because usually it is). Alternatively not answering is also valid.

From experience, it doesn't work, especially in a group setting. People usually end up trying to guess what you want to say, or add on to what they said, or move on, or something.
But they very rarely just wait patiently for me to think things through.
You know that a fast food CEO is spending far too much time in the C-suite (or on Wall Street), vs. around actual customers, when he says something like ...
I don't know about quality but I guess a Raspberry Pi, HDMI Capture Card and OBS would do the trick and are within that price range.