skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do sell en EV in some places, the MX-30. It’s a terrible EV that was outdated before its release, so that’s perhaps why they don’t try to sell it more. We are talking about the company that still invest in internal combustion engines so don’t have too high hopes.
Presumably there's a reason this complex was built right next to the nuclear plant rather than built somewhere else and plugged into the grid. It gives them guaranteed demand which helps them operate more efficiently, it avoids transmission losses, it avoids putting load on the grid since it's not going via the grid...
> For me it's because, for whatever reason, I don't want to commit my shitty in progress work right now

This is kind-of the million dollar question, though, I think? What would such a reason be?

(I ask from a perspective of genuine curiosity, not of implying that you're wrong to have them)
An open-source static site generator for data apps
Yeah that's the length of two soccer fields (and then a bit more)
It sounds great and well thought through, as always for Signal. I wonder how they handle two potential security holes:

1. Imagine a journalist publicizes a username for a long time, then changes it. The old username would persist in data stores online and in address books, and would be used in error. An attacker could acquire the old username and impersonate the journalist. Perhaps a solution is to make at least some usernames, possibly at the user's option, non-reusable.

2. One strength of Signal is not only do they not collect much user data, they can't. Under some court order, they could retain the hashed usernames.
I don’t have enough experience at the institutional level to tell you precisely.

At the smaller scale, though it just means that returns that were above and beyond distribution expectations so, for example, what the fund returns separate from the LP distribution, and then separate from distributions to partners is you know basically that net margin for the fund overall so that they would use as seeds for another fund or something like that. So effectively they are just not opening other fund lines, because none of the investments or markets that are coming up, match a risk profile for the amount of interest you can get back in other methods now.
> most popular supersonic passenger airliner

I don't understand this passage. There were only two supersonic passenger airliners, and Tupolev 144 was obviously off limits for Singapore Airlines. Is it LLM writing?
Enjoyed playing with this!

N-queens search is another nice recursive example. E.g. call this with nqueens(0, 5, [])

function nqueens(i:number, n:number, queens: number[][]) {
if (i >= n) return 1;

let count = 0;
for (let j = 0; j < n; j++) {

let is_threatened = false;
for (let k = 0; k < queens.length; k++) {
let x = queens[k][0];
let y = queens[k][1];

if (i == x || j == y || i - j == x - y || i + j == x + y) {
is_threatened = true;
break;
}
}

if (is_threatened) continue;

count += nqueens(i+1, n, Array(Array(i,j)).concat(queens))
}

return count;
}
Yes, it works, but it looks the same.

Remember Windows CE? We've been down this road -- a windowing desktop on a phone is... hard to use, actually.
Your question here is entirely reasonable. It's a meta question. here is my meta answer: The underlying assumption is not valid at this time. Thats why I cannot accept the question and answer as stated.

It's akin to "why do you refuse to believe in god" for athiests, its a term which denies the axioms. Because I do not believe in connectionist models of intelligence, nor in the stats/chaining model here, I see no reason to give credence to any AI self assertion because it's simply one of the statistically valid responses to the priming question.

I'd be more interested in the "no I am not alive because.. responses" and the ratios to "yes I am because.." since thats informative of the sources.

"Why is a fish not riding a bicycle" questions are rarely useful. "why do you refuse to accept this is emergent intelligence" questions are primed to ignore the terse response "because.. it isn't"

Also, another kind of "predictable" response here, is that the response from a trained system to this question appears to be .. highly predictable.

I will accept evidence which is bound in theories, of mind, of human and other biologically driven forms of intelligence, which is informative to emerging knowledge of intelligence in organisms, which helps define intelligence in a way which can be inclusive of machine intelligence.

Simple assertion "I am" is not yet there for me. As I have said (or at least implied) above, it's one of the million monkey responses we're being trained to believe.

Language, and the denotation of meaning matters. Claude 3 did not CLAIM anything because CLAIMING is an attribute of a thinking mind. It was an assertion from a complex software system. Explain to me how it differs from "parse error on line #3, quitting." beyond "that string appears literally in the sources"
You need to just go back 20 years, and build that power station.
Keep wishing.
> Run where? When I talk to my fellow early stage east coast founders, the majority aren’t beating away founder friendly term sheets. Even seed stage companies with revenue and traction raising relatively small amounts are giving away board seats and agreeing to multiple preferences because they have nowhere else to go.

Away from the east coast? If funding on good terms is important to your business, go somewhere you can get funding on good terms.
Forensic spray using jellyfish protein could speed up fingerprint detection
Oh man I remember BartPE and customizing the apps bundled with it… thanks for the memories.
Trader Joe's Dijon mustard is heavily underrated for the price
Interestingly, the East Coast is way more primed for large deals than the West Coast is just from a population volume and infrastructure perspective.

However, because there is just no high risk in the area, it just doesn’t happen. It’s literally just a physical access to rich people location thing which is crazy to me that it’s still the case but it seems to actually just be as simple as that.
I think both are true. For non-tech people, or people who don't use a computer for real hard work, who want a decent laptop, they probably just buy the baseline Air. But once you get into doing some more professional stuff on a laptop that needs power, then you fall into talking yourself into more than what you intended. I am experiencing that right now. At the time I didn't have a lot of money, working full time to support a family and going to school, so when I needed a new laptop I got the base MBA M1. Fantastic laptop. But now I am doing more intensive stuff (I also make a lot more now so I can afford it) on it and I am looking at upgrading to an M3. I am playing with the GPU and some ML, so I probably should get more than a base model M3. From there it is, whatever I decided, the next upgrade it just an extra $200. More ram would be nice. Oh wait, for another $200, I can also get the better processor with 2 more cores for CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine, why not? Oh wait, $200 more and I can double the RAM. Next thing you now, I started off with $1599 and now have talked myself into a like $2200 (haven't made the purchase yet, but that is what I am looking at).
No? It specified campus…
well, and with no alternative to landing w/ power. at least a helicopter can take a glide path.
It is related to spectral graph theory where associations between graph theory and linear algebra are being made where typically power iteration algoritm is then applied not unlike the venerable PageRank algorithm [1].

[1] The Power Iteration Algorithm in Practice:

https://scicoding.com/the-power-iteration-algorithm-in-pract...
The undad
> Sure the physical keyboard on the blackberry has advantages.

Yes, being able to operate it without looking at it and capable of navigating arbitrary 3rd party apps. And because the tab position is stateful you can perform complex actions incrementally. Touch screens win for phones but you would hate one as your laptop keyboard. It's not a better or worse situation as much as a fit-for-purpose situation.
Sure. In terms of steps taken it's not particularly different though. Stash at the start and pop at the end vs commit at the start and reset at the end, right?

I mean, if it's not a problem to do that (and I don't find either option a problem personally) then fine, but it doesn't seem like it's a "better" option except in some small cases (like forgetting you stashed).
I love comments like this. Thank you for sharing.
Bill's chords just hit different.
For loops are one of those things that just don't really exist in hardware.

The way I like to think of hardware is as a machine that takes a giant blob of state, applies a pure function to it, and when the clock goes from low to high it replaces the original state with the new one and the process starts again.
I don't know for certain, but the two major faults of Diamond are first, that his framework for anthropology is perpetuating beliefs that are antithetical to modern anthropology, and second, that he is extremely resistant to following up with new advances in anthropology. On the latter point, for example, Diamond is still a believer in Clovis-First hypothesis, despite that having been discredited for so long that I learned about it in grade school decades ago.

On the first point in particular: there's a general thesis of anthropology which is properly termed unilineal model (and in more colloquial terms, Civilization-style tech tree), which views civilizations as existing on a spectrum from less to more advanced. In essence, GG&S reduces the question of "why did Europe conquer the New World and not the other way around" as "because Europe was more advanced" (and then go on to try to explore why Europe was more advanced), but never trying that hard to justify why "was more advanced" was the answer to the first question. By contrast, the consensus view of modern anthropology is that technological development is heavily adapted to the context of its culture, so that (for example) the Incans don't develop carts because carts are useless in their mountainous environment.

Once you go beyond the idea that "more advanced" is a qualitatively useful metric of comparison and actually start demanding to see the causal links in how specific technologies are necessary to achieve the claimed outcomes, it starts to become clear just how badly Diamond whiffs it. Literacy is a fun example: Diamond has to work around the fact that the conquistadors were largely illiterate, and they were facing bureaucratic, administrative imperial states that ran on record keeping, requiring at least proto-writing [1]; really, how different were the two empires in terms of literacy? Another fun example I like to bring up is comparing Tenochtitlan (the Aztec capital) to Toledo (the Spanish one). Tenochtitlan had over 100,000 inhabitants, universal primary education (for both boys and girls, even!), running water, and public amenities like zoos and history museums; the Spaniards had... none of that.

[1] And there's a case to be made that Incan quipu were an honest-to-god writing system.
Can we please as a rule avoid reposting reddit reposts of 4chan shitposts? This is not why I come to HN. It would sadden me if this ever became normalized.
Would it be equally extremely strange to ask an AI for pictures of a black or asian family? You may be telling on yourself here.
this is what i thought too, since it's just a settlement between Tropic Haze and Nintendo rather than a more broad ruling. but somebody linked this settlement elsewhere here and it adds up to distribution of the Yuzu code likely being a DMCA violation [1]

FINDINGS OF FACT
...
3. Yuzu, a video game emulator, circumvents the Technological Measures and allows for the play of encrypted Nintendo Switch games on devices other than a Nintendo Switch. For example, Yuzu executes code that decrypts Nintendo Switch video games (including component files) immediately before and during runtime using unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch cryptographic keys. Yuzu is primarily designed to circumvent and play Nintendo Switch games. In the ordinary course of its operation with those games, Yuzu requires the Nintendo Switch’s proprietary cryptographic keys to gain access to and play Nintendo Switch games.
4. Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when cryptographic keys are integrated without authorization, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on trafficking in devices that circumvent effective technological measures, because the software is primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing technological measures. Id. § 1201(a)(2)(A).

but, then, this document appears to be a draft ("proposed final judgement"). so things are still weirdly ambiguous for all the 3rd parties currently dealing with Yuzu :(

1: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.569...
Which other car in the similar price range can fart on demand from the mobile app?
When they win that fight can we also get back analog speed gauges instead of numeric readouts?

It can be a digitally displayed graphic on a screen, but please give me a moving needle, not just some numbers that update twice a second.
I forget the details of Scalzi's scholarship, but many prestigious private high schools in the US are happy to admit talented-but-broke kids on scholarship.

Private high schools are judged based on how many of their graduates go to excellent universities. One easy way to improve those numbers is to look for people who are very likely to succeed, and to give them scholarships. And this fact is fully exploitable by ambitious broke kids with high test scores. I've seen many people actually pull it off. The culture shock can be rough, though.

I mention this in case there's an amibitious kid in the US reading these comments. If you've got test scores that compare well to Harvard or Standford's incoming classes, do some research and consider applying to a private school. Fill out the scholarship applications. You might get lucky.
Yes. That's the point.

Katalin Karikó deserved her 2023 Nobel Prize for that invention.
Person A: "This thing is a bad thing."

Person B: "You're just pointing out it's a bad thing to make the person doing the bad thing look bad!"
What car do you have that does this?
Charming.

What I mean is:

- there are strong, empirically tested usability reasons why a desktop-style UI is the pits on a mobile device

- generally, the move to mobile devices inclines to a different UI paradigm -- something finger-friendly and un-windowed (think iOS, Android, etc.)

- if there was a way that Puter could look kind of like a phone with some of the de-facto standard UI motifs and paradigms when it's on a phone, you could do cool shit like replace the Android shell with Puter, and have a pure web UI for your phone that runs web apps

- next step would be to add e.g. the ability to run Puter apps when offline, when reception is going in and out, etc. Sort of like Google Apps used to be (in Chrome)

- now you've got a cross-platform one-UI-to-rule-them-all breakout industry moment.

As it stands, Puter is already really cool, but if it turned into something that behaved a bit less like MacOS and a bit more like iOS at narrow resolutions, you'd have something that would make a lot of people very upset (and this is a good thing, they deserve to be upset)
>I'm right there with your views on which way the political winds are blowing for the reactionaries and the general uselessness of reactionary populism, but the article and it's first link have some pretty damning factual descriptions. Like I don't see why an image generation tool that mangles every query so it conforms to the political desires of different loud minority is of use to nearly anyone.

Yes you raise a good point, the tool as it stands is not useful but that was part of my point. Let me restate what I was trying to get at:

Less than year ago Bard was also totally useless. Sure as a text based tool, it wasn't as offensive to some people as this image generation tool is but the point still stands.

The question we should be asking: Is the tool completely useless to users and if so, how fast are they improving it so that it can be useful?

Useful in my mind is: Is the tool solving peoples needs? Clearly the image tool may not be doing so.

I personally feel that they have really done a good job improving their offering (Gemini 1.5) in such a short amount of time that I don't feel it is prudent to outright dismiss the possibility that if given some more time, we won't see improvement in their image tool.

>And sure, the site and its cited twits could be cherry picking the worst examples, to make mountains out of molehills as political hacks tend to do. But it's talking about a notable product at a notable company, so unless those examples were outright faked there is still truth in its criticism.

Yes criticism is absolutely fair...in my opinion it just looks too harsh to me given that it is such a new tool and we all know they are clearly behind. Our expectations are that it needs to instantly be at the level of their competitor when they have proven that they are behind.

>Also I'm old enough to realize that 7 years isn't actually that long of a time, and one of the main reasons we get destructive spite votes like Trump is precisely people's resentment of this overbearing paternalism being pushed on them.

Well I can't sit here and tell you how the future will play out. There are certainly many unknowns and yes a spite vote like Trump (and even Bernie) comes from a place of serious contention with the status quo. Reality is not playing out like that at this moment though. From a massive high of both right wing populism in 2016 to a massive rise in left wing populism ion 2018 we are also seeing a decline in the populous right/left wing. The online media landscape for both sides started shrinking after 2020's election, there is no real long term leader on either side on the horizon(Trump is on his way out and Bernie had two chances, now he too is at the end of his life), increasing amounts of infighting is eating both the left and right wing from the inside out and this year the left wing has been reduced to defending what little gains they did make in 2018/2020 while the far right has lost so much to the middle since 2016.
This is me. I work at a FAANG, about half of my very good compensation is in RSUs. All the startup companies I've talked to (I don't turn down recruiters out of hand) seem to like my skill set, but cannot really meet my comp requirements without valuing options as if they were 100% guaranteed to convert at the current high valuation.

It's a bummer - startups do a lot of really cool stuff, but I'm at a point in my career where I can no longer really gamble that the options will pay out. I need the stability and mortgage paying power of actual comp.
Apple's per-install fee is definitely bad (and IMO goes against the spirit of the DMA), but it seems like can be made to work for paid/subscription apps.

The fact that it is totally unworkable for free apps is presumably meant as a way to screw over Spotify, specifically.
They have some pretty hefty minimum use and right to use options tied to the nuclear reactor though. And it says the intention is to consume 960MW, which a very quick search says is roughly equivalent to the entire output of a typical nuclear reactor.
This is only happening because of other structures that require removal and are killing fish in large numbers with cavitation. I believe the objects doing the mass kill off are slated for removal.

This sensationalist headline isn’t helping anyone. :(
I am currently working with a start-up where the company is incapable of meeting its capex obligations. The founder raised a good amount of capital from investors a few years ago, and that provided a decent runway, but there's no traction, no KPIs, and whilst we've built some impressive technology, impressive technology does not bring in revenue. One of the problems (amongst many) is that the primary stakeholder has a perfectionist attitude to the user experience. Which in a start-up is deadly.

Now, as I said, the start-up cannot meet its capex obligations and the current funding round is looking grim. It is definitely going to be a down round and it ain't going to be pretty should a term sheet get thrust under our collective noses. To get the developers motivated to stick around a little longer, "generous" equity packages are on offer, with a request to convert over-due back pay and future payments too, into equity .

When I sought transparency - "Can I see the cap table?" - "Can I see the terms of the investors?" - "Can I see anything?" - the answer was invariably "no." Essentially, they're asking me to make a nominal investment of over $200K in the company, accepting common stock in lieu of pay without any insight into the financials or the terms provided to other investors.

It's worth noting that I had previously given the start-up a sweetheart deal, significantly discounting my usual rate and offering generous payment terms, in the spirit of support and belief in the project. This makes the current scenario even more disheartening. Compound that with what has become an overall toxic environment that I have euphemistically called "challenging" when asked to sum it up, and the future isn't bright enough to wear shades.

Now this isn't exactly my first rodeo. I've seen the beautiful side of start-ups and liquidity events. And I've seen the dreadfully ugly side too. Hard lessons learned. And the ugly side shows up way more than the pretty one.

I swear, some entrepreneurs must think I stepped off the boat yesterday.
20 years ago mounting NTFS read/write on Linux was a risky proposition.
The challenge is that other cars are either worse or more expensive.

A Tesla with some aftermarket modes (the sexy buttons for example) is still interesting despite its shortcomings. The perfect product doesn’t exists.
Using bio-active chemicals to bind to products of human touch is interesting. I wonder how effective they'd be against prints through thin plastic like clingfilm (for instance) where the print has no biological basis (assuming you can get the clingfilm free of other human product putting it on) or a spray coating on the hands.

Luminol has a highly specific binding. Maybe we're heading to a spray with 3 or more chemical/biological contents to pick up the pattern as many ways as possible?
Indeed. I consider my last startup option windfall a once in a lifetime success story, but the BigTech I’ve been at since I left the startup world has paid me roughly the same amount in RSUs when you consider all the time spent at both. And the BigTech is going to keep paying me pretty consistently.
Ironic. Proper DMA implementation should've made sideloading apps like AltStore obsolete.

Even if AltStore would be available in alternative marketplace, 3-app sideloading limit is not going anywhere.
And Bruce Schneider has proven you can forge boarding passes
vendor lockin and price control, the recent vmware move is the perfect example of what can happen
Sorry, Schneier
He got mostly the Pfizer vaccine (called BNT in the spreadsheet), but not just. Early on he got J&J, AstraZeneca and Moderna. Later also Sanofi.

In January and February 2022, he went almost twice a day, every day!
HPL Linpack was tested on a Q64-22 CPU
~650 Gflops
https://github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark/issues/19

Memory bandwidth, it's 8 channels of DDR4 on the Ampere vs 7960x 4 channels of DDR5.
AMD likely has GFLOPS in the low 1000s if I had to guess, I cannot find any benchmarks of the current gen CPUs, only last gen.

I think the Threadripper is actually more expensive, it seems to be a bit less power efficient. Probably similar memory bandwidth due to higher ddr5 clock, faster at math. The PRO threadrippers are even more.

It seems competitive, at least, price and performance.