skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
multiple layers of gatekeeping, both corporate and individual. It’s understated in the article but present: hard battle to get access to configuration. After that experience there’s uncertainty if the battle to change the default is worth the investors level of effort.
If you click and drag near the text under the clapperboard, you can see a frame from the film, which might help you guess the answer.
ROCm contains a AMD's version of a translation layer for CUDA (though I've read people saying that it has some restrictions to get around Nvidia's language, not sure what. Maybe it has to be precompiled.)

But ROCm has a DIFFERENT trick. It has it's own language that can be translated into CUDA or for other targets. If you use THAT language instead of CUDA you can get the effect of CUDA on Nvidia without the source being IN CUDA and you compile that language for AMD or INTEL.
Pretty cool how Linux has snuck in to so many places (Android, Chrome OS, Windows Subsystem for Linux, MacOS) even without being the OS directly.
Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center
It is an interesting thing to think about, I have friends that use Windows that are shocked that I willingly chose to get an external trackpad when I use my Mac as desktop.

Even more interesting is when I see my partner try to do something on my Mac using a trackpad, he seems... apprehensive? Like he is so afraid of doing the wrong thing and for me this trackpad has never done something I didn't want it to do. Like without even thinking about it while I was re-reading this comment, I had fingers just resting on my trackpad.

It has to be a combination of software and hardware. Likely shared software and hardware.

Like is wrist detection on the trackpad the same as the wrist detection on an iPad?

I believe that the 3D Touch tech that was once in the iPhone is the same tech that is in the track pad and the Apple Watch.

We saw them use the same (or similar) tech on the iPhone home button when they removed the physical button.

Is the multitouch functionality of the trackpad the same technology as in iPhones and iPads?

I am genuinely curious about some of these because they feel like the same technology from the outside looking in and it would explain a lot about why it works as well as it does.

And yeah on the ROI, I mean they sell a $130 external trackpad... that I had zero qualms about buying. Because when using my MacBook Pro as a laptop I heavily rely on gestures. Those gestures only work if the trackpad is as perfect as it can be. But those gestures is also software.
Important note: companies can’t just build fake app stores for their own apps, but must allow other developers to publish apps on them. So unless someone builds a place for sketchy apps and they all pass the notarization process and don’t break any agreement, it’s highly unlikely
90% of the work of building real world applications is imo fixing and adding features, i.e. maintenance. I see it rarely considered when talking about "english as code". How does this work in a more complicated application with multiple "pages" and "features"? One conversation per feature? How do you make changes to those when requirements change? If you just go back and change parts of the conversation, how do you make sure the final product still covers all the existing use-cases?

The example is outputting (afaict, skimmed most of it) effectively 15 lines of code. In terms of features, the equivalent of a single button on an ops dashboard page.

That's just not maintainable. Sure, you can write one-off, throwaway "code" this way but there's no way you could build (and maintain) a business this way, at least imo.

You'd need to "regenerate" chunks of your business logic from changed requirements, hoping they'd remain about the same. Thus why I think you'd converge on Math or Legal Code, precise and hopefully reproducible output when slightly tweaked.
They can't be wrong in the way that LLMs can be, which is the exact reason that using them for this comparison falls apart - but yes if we're splitting hairs they can be wrong in the same way that javascript is wrong when you ask it to add two floats together.
How would the cars (And heavy duty vehicles) being all electric/hydrogen not solve the smog problem?
Imo the far greater potential is in the oceans. There are vast stretches of barren wasteland with low oxygen and low nutrients in the oceans. We could deliver those ingredients for life artifically.
Prevention is one way to censor. Prohibition is another. Suppression is a third. In this case it is suppression by economic means. There are degrees of everything, including censorship. Google withdrawing ads because they don't want to be associated with a publication is a different thing than Google sending dictates on exactly what is allowed to be said for continued business.

Is Google breaking any laws? Probably not. Are they practicing censorship? Yes, they are.
Love the idea and execution. The spinning record was fun and gave me something to watch while racking my brain. Have you considered adding an “I have no idea” button? I ended up just typing random movies, but having the UI guide the user in some way when they honestly can’t think of a likely movie would be thoughtful.
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> I think the reason is that "a good trackpad" as well as "a good keyboard" is not something that can be measured.

While I agree that these metrics can be subjective at times, I believe there are some fairly well-established features that dictate whether something is, objectively, a good product. In the case of a trackpad, gestures such as pinch to zoom are arguably an essential (for me at least), as well as stepless scrolling, configurable pointer acceleration configuration, and a reasonable size.

In the case of a keyboard, sure -- that's a whole other kettle of fish. I quite like the one on my Dell XPS, but I'm sure some others wouldn't.

However, I think you've downplayed how much a keyboard matters here: for me, it makes or breaks a laptop (or a USB keyboard, of course). When the laptop is on, I'm spending a good 70% of my time using the keyboard. Therefore, I would argue it is one of the most important things to get right.

I've come across good keyboards, bad ones, and ones that are just OK -- as an example, the more sponge-like ones on Logitech media keyboards do not make a good experience. In my experience, you have to try a keyboard to know whether you like it, but you can filter out plain terrible ones from other online reviewers' experiences.
Lambda Calculus in K
Ubuntu LTS has point releases that come with additional hardware enablement. Is it still an issue with 22.04.4, or was it issue with the original, now two years old 22.04 release?
Interestingly, St Louis was founded by French fur traders and grew into a city by the arrival of all the French that were expelled from Illinois when France ceded territory to the UK at the end of the Seven Year’s War (the Treaty of Paris prohibited Europeans from living in the Illinois Country).
Those work just fine, install Termux and apt install more or less whatever you want. You won't find them in the play store (and I have no idea whether Termux is there since I don't use the play store, using F-Droid instead) but that is only to be expected, they're not Android apps after all.
I typically wait to install iOS updates, but downloaded this one immediately because of this feature. I listen to podcasts but have to stop when I'm eating because of the noise that chewing makes. Now I can read along and then pick up the audio when I'm done munching. Text searchability is also awesome. I wonder if I'll ever be able to search for a particular word across episodes of a particular podcast — this would be super helpful for finding bits days/weeks later.
Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet
The author did a great job using images to convey the various concerns each piece of code in the API is responsible for. Also super great detail in the writing. Nice work!

This feels like a technical-first article that also happens to generate goodwill for the product, as opposed to a marketing-first technical article that serves up the bare minimum of insights.
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wow that’s a really huge feature! VP9 is pretty good.
> Why does this seem like such a hard problem to solve for everyone that isn’t Apple, when Apple seemingly solved the Trackpad over a decade ago?

The circle of enshittification, plain and simple.

Windows itself is the worst culprit, given that it took until (IIRC!) Windows 10 to arrive at a sensible gesture API and before that it was a hit-and-miss involving custom drivers for every model and barely any unification for gestures.

That in turn led to software for Windows never even utilizing the benefit of multitouch, and so in turn hardware manufacturers weren't pushed either because why invest effort when it's useless anyway?

On top of that, hardware build quality sucks on everything Windows. It's almost exclusively really small (i.e. half a cigarette pack) touchpads, recessed 2mm or more into the hardware, and full plastic that stains after less than half a year of moderate usage. In contrast, MacBooks ship with touchpads literally larger than the hands of someone who has worked in construction, and they're made out of glass that is nearly flush with the casing, so no dirt or anything even has a chance of accumulating.

(I don't even care about Linux at that point, where the hot mess of display drivers, window managers, UI frameworks and whatnot makes the complexity of "getting it right" even worse)
Aren't graphs already represented through matrices?
Because it's Mobile World Congress.
Mathematica is a commercial product: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated...
Congrats! The game is quite hard because there might be multiple correct solutions, but only one gets accepted. But I understand that this is a limitation of the game, maybe adding something like "Correct, but we're looking for something else" would be nice.

Two suggestion for improvements:

- Add a skip button. If I don't have a clue which film it might be, I need to write some nonsense answer to get a clue, a skip button would be nicer.
- Play the song immediately when I click the play button. I was wondering why it doesn't start, even though I clicked the Play button!

Sidenote: I spoiled myself because Imagus showed me the movie pictures in the archive ;) Not your fault of course, but I found it funny
oh heck yeah! This flew under my radar. Excited to check this out, thanks for sharing.
LLMs produce useful work right now, it doesn't need a hype train to keep going.

OTOH ML models seldom "do" much of anything on their own, it needs integration work to make it matter.
I think from the lens the author is looking at, this is undeniably true. It isn't the complete picture but the folks working on embedded Rust should take it to heart.
Well, the first thing you need to know is that, as the title of the submission clearly states, this is about touchpads. Not keyboards. So, y'know, pointing out that the down arrow isn't super relevant isn't exactly coming out of nowhere.

But assuming that their version of smooth scrolling does, in fact, work the same as Apple's, it's not even a matter of "it smoothly animates scrolling down by one line;" it's that you can scroll by individual pixels, rather than by lines, using the touchpad. I suspect that a certain amount of work also has to go into ensuring that the scroll animation is both smooth and well-synced with the user's finger motion on the touchpad, but I've never done work that low-level, so I'll have to defer to anyone with better expertise there.
I love story in spite of the article above.

Speech synthesis also was attempted as modeling of human biology: computer modeling of throats, vocal cords, how the air is going through mouth.

In the end computational power also won. No need of all of that.
Neat that it's to the point - but some information would be welcome. Where is the date stored, for one. Future pricing?
oh my! well spotted haha. Thank you
The ratio of light speed to the area of the universe is so stupidly small that I'm convinced our simulation is determining how low the speed of light can get before interstellar travel is outright impossible.
This fad of using an AI-generated image as the tacky doormat of an otherwise interesting blog post is making me pissed off /uncaffeinated
Sure. But the fundamental problem seem to be for the political gaist to be "defence friendly" while also not war mongering. The same few collegues I have that don't trust the politicians, the gov, collective endouvers etc with anything seem hell bent to project "we" want to die for them. It is beyond insane. If people want to lie in a trench led by Ursula ... well. Have fun.
Interesting. I had a problem a few months ago with DNS not resolving Meta servers on my Starlink internet connection, but I was able to use the UI and the apps nonetheless, just couldn't open the store or update firmware.

Seems like they really did change something in the latest firmwares.
I clicked "hide these widgets" from the three dot dropdown menu on your animations and now I can't figure out how to bring them back. heh.

Great post btw!
So, critically, the missing data type is still missing. TFA talks about an input specification, but actually highlights that the lack of a fixed representation for graphs is a strength, because the "computer" can optimize the representation and algorithms on the fly using something like query optimization.

So it's not that the graph datatype already exists, it's that, just like the referenced article posits, there is no good representation. And rather than lament and gnash teeth, we use a neato programming / query language to turn that into a strength.
How does diversity in the work environment being a plus somehow equate to wealth distribution?

This quite frankly does not address anything I wrote at all.
Yea, I am not sure I will continue to use them but they are really fun to generate. That reminds me I should probably add a disclaimer there
The Oregon Trail Game
The "your username/password is wrong" message came in a timely manner. So someone transformed "some unforeseen error" into a clear but wrong error message.

And this caused a lot of extra trouble on top of the incident.
Magic mouse only has only one button, like all Apple mice. It relies on touch detection to fake multiple button support.
>Assuming that is true (I'm not buying Wikipedia as a source)

The sources are on the Wikipedia page itself.

> This kind of undermines your comment, IMHO; it's a cliche of white racial solidarity and a race competition

Why is it a race competition to point out when white people are at a disadvantage, but justice to point out when black people are at a disadvantage? It seems you have biases of your own.

>Among successful people in Britain, clearly white males have great advantages

That isn't so obvious to me. A vast portion of successful people in London, especially in the finance sector, are not white British. In fact, as a London-based tech worker, I have become completely accustomed to not seeing white British people in high places.
Tried it out a bit this evening and I must say that I’m astounded. I asked it to summarise some news articles in a list with 5 bullet points and it did an amazing job. I’m sure GPT4 is better, but this is more than good enough and leagues ahead of the other models I’ve tried locally. Thanks again for the tip!
This list really isn't all that insightful. I was hoping for some nuanced discussions, but it's a lot of "well, no shit"s.
Agreed. Driving a car doesn't induce anything close to obesity and diabetes. Right about it being the most dangerous activity though. I am trying to get into rally racing now.
while not as fun as "in Chrome," I can this second run quite a few Android apps in ChromeOS on my Pixelbook. They are a UI abomination, but it does give me "local" access to 1Password and a few other things which would be annoying as PWAs
I doubt librarians would agree. Libraries are a lot older than books. "Access to knowledge" has always been their goal.

My librarian friends spend most of their time playing with relational databases and showing patrons how to use computers.
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Lisp/Scheme/Clojure and APL/K (2016)
There are artistic reasons why you would want to indicate white as the skin color. For example maybe you want a snow woman that fades into the snow.
I get WH40k techpriest vibes reading these posts
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> However, Knuth's text itself shows that these three tractates were not yet canonical in this period. No other Biblical book is quite satisfactory, and the meaning of the story remains unclear.

That's the Knuth, the whole Knuth and nothing but the Knuth.
Several NFL players play/have played with Type 1.
Thanks for taking the time to have a read! You and I could not agree more. I am really stoked whenever I see something working in production and folks embracing new ideas.
Augmenting Classification Datasets with Mistral Large for Deeper Reasoning
til thanks.

(And Java doesn't let you change after construction.)
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I think quite well. I've been using kagi for a couple months and I'm super happy with it, esp for programming-adjacent searches. You should give it a try! (not an investor, just a happy user).
>Snarky Puppy

I always read that name as Skinny Puppy and it happened this time too
Because first impressions matter. See the current perception of Gemini and its "woke parameters".
The fact that "Chapter 11" refers to bankruptcy is the joke in the quoted joke. Calling this joke a "poorly-understood incident from that period", referring to Warren Buffett's books as books of the Bible, and saying that "the meaning of the story remains unclear" is the joke on this satirical page, in keeping with the premise of being written in 20002 when details of the first few millennia are ancient history and neither "dollars" nor 20th/21st-century US laws are remembered.
Missouri HB 2885: the offense of contributing to social transition in school
The description of the bill in the Missouri House of Representatives is:

> Establishes the offense of contributing to social transition and requires a person to be placed on the sexual offender registry if guilty of the offense of contributing to social transition

In the bill text [1], the name of the bill is:

> An Act

> To repeal section 589.414, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the offense of contributing to social transition, with a penalty provision.

The bill applies to teachers and school counselors in relation to children [1].

The author and sponsor of the bill is Jamie Gragg. The current co-sponsors are Jeff Farnan and Brian Seitz.

[1] https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills241/hlrbill...
> No net increase in CO2.

Accelerating the "natural" cycle is bad even if there is no net increase. A massive forest fire technically doesn't cause any net increase in CO2, but releasing that much CO2 at once causes a lot of problems that wouldn't happen if the same amount were released over hundreds of years as those trees died and decayed.

I'm sure some people would argue that burning oil and gas isn't a net increase either, because all of that carbon came from the atmosphere originally. The important question is what emissions will make life worse for humanity, and what can be done to avoid them. Avoidable methane emissions cause real-world problems regardless of their source.
> 'Suberbia' has a particular definition.

Suberbia is not a word in English, reference:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suberbia
Why would race makeup be affected? We're talking about the gender gap not the race gap. Unless women in tech are more diverse race-wise than men in tech.

And, BFOQ isn't relevant here because there is qualification that is relevant - it's just that if men are getting under paid/left behind, then merely offering a low salary would be enough to attract them.
Ah, I was thinking that the WiFi or dialup connection (data, not voice) had been compromised.

Dialing in from an unsecured phone would be quite poor opsec. And tapping that phone quite a coup for the Russians.
Science - is mostly empirically verifiable

Philosophy - is backed by reasoned arguments and open to debate

Mathematics - is our construction, how can we not believe in our own invention

Religion - requires that you buy into an archaic fairy tale, with no empirical proof or reasoned argument, to the extent that you will sanction wars and oppressive gender inequality on the basis of unsubstantiated belief

...

One of these things is not like the others
This is absolutely protectionism. The EU rent-seeks from American tech while avoiding punishing any EU company. Ask any artist if Spotify is a monopoly!
I don't question any career change (done it 4 times myself) but I do find it interesting when someone moves from working with their passion (and you have to be passionate to get world-class at anything) to what is almost certainly just a paycheck gig.

I mean, he could be passionate about concrete benchtops, but what are the chances?