skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what we agree for the definition of mobile.

If by mobile you mean transportable, yes they are. But sometimes they are less convenient than some smaller desktop devices[1]

If by mobile you mean they can be used in anywhere, you can say more or less. Yes you can use them on your lap, or even very uncomfortably standing up with the laptop in your hand but you are unlikely to do so for more than a few seconds. Apart from students and business travelers, most laptops are just moved from the living room to the kitchen, a desk to a meeting room while powered on, and only transported from home to office.

If by mobile you mean you can comfortably use them anywhere on the go, without too much hassle, well they aren't as mobile as smartphones or even tablets. If you look at real estate agents, they mostly only carry their smartphones or a tablet if they want a bigger screen. Very rarely will they pull a macbook from a bag to show you something. When an executive in my company is joining a videocall while parked in his car, he usually use his mobile phone because they find it less convenient to open a laptop, trying to cram it somewhere on the dashboard and share their mobile connection.

[1] Even as "transportable" items laptops are sometimes not the best proposition. When I was still working in an office and commuting by bike, I asked my IT department if I could switch from my company issued laptop to a much smaller and less fragile mini barebones computer like the Gigabyte Brix or an intel NUC. They fit more easily in something as simple as a large handlebar bag and can be more easily protected from the elements.
Humanity has had people who did not care about doing the right thing since forever, and still we thrived. As long as someone is doing the right thing, we're on the right track.

Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM
Nothing in life is guaranteed but some things are worth the fight and the risk.

And I suspect you have more control over your outcomes than you think. How you raise your kids matters. Them seeing you dedicate time to your parents sends a good message than other kids may not be seeing for example.
Do you mean scrolljacking?
I know sociologists, and I call bullshit on them downplaying the "importance of genes". Sociology looks at statistical evidence and argues about the mechanisms of societal outcomes based on that.

Even if we accept your comment that sociologists don't know what their talking about, Harari is not the right alternative to turn to. Harari is not a biologist, he is a historian. If you ask evolutionary biologists, they tend to agree with the sociologists.
I saddens me that smart people like Herb and Bjarne have good ideas on how to make C++ a much safer language but the actual output of the standard's committee is so far behind.

Herb mentions std::span as as safety improvement but the [] operator doesn't do bounds checks and the .at() method isn't even there yet!

Shameless plug but I discuss this issue on my blog: https://btmc.substack.com/p/memory-unsafety-is-an-attitude-p...

Herb and Bjarne have the right attitude, sadly it doesn't seem enough C++ devs or people in the standards committee do. Same applies to C.
"It doesn't agree with my American propaganda, therefore it must be Russian propaganda."

Come on, really? You can't be this naive.
That's a misunderstanding of evolution.

Adaptability has nothing to necessarily do with 'want.'

Something could only seek to be as helpful as possible to other beings and as long as sufficiently beneficial that it is protected and cared for by those others, it will do quite well and arguably much better than an alternative that 'wants' to live very much but attempts to accomplish that through competition with others.

Arguably if the plover was more fearful of death it might never have found a niche eating from between the teeth of crocodiles and established symbiosis with a very convenient evolutionary partner, for example.
We already understand how transformers work: their architecture can learn to approximate a very large class of functions-on-sequences (specifically continuous sequence-to-sequence functions with compact support: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10077). It can do it more accurately than previous architectures like RNNs because transformers don't "forget" any information from prior items in the sequence. Training transformers to predict the next item in sequences eventually forces them to learn a function that approximates a world model (or at least a model of how the world behaves in the training text/data), and if they're large enough and trained with enough data then this world model is accurate enough for them to be useful for us.

If you're asking for understanding the actual internal world model they develop, it's basically equivalent to trying to understand a human brain's internal world model by analysing its neurons and how they fire.
Oh, it's for sure not a done deal. But IIRC bees are known to have at least some capacity for memory, in terms of seeking out known food sources that go beyond just following a pheromone marker. I don't know if the mechanism behind this is well understood, but going by the blue/red trick it seems like they can to some extent 'learn' to recognize various types of flowers and seek them out by memory. Whether this type of information is transferable between bees in ways /other/ than a pheromone marker that guides other bees to the same immediate sensory experience of "blue flower = good nectar source", I don't know. But it's intriguing!

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24955780

Also worth noting that bees can transfer navigational information to eachother by 'waggle dancing', so they have multiple possible vectors for information sharing going for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance
No, frontiers is a big publisher and their stuff will last forever.
Bevy is great!
Doesn’t sound like it’s your home, sounds like it’s your business.
We're looking for the most complicated workforce management situations out there. This to help us improve our auto-scheduler. It's pretty good as it is, now we want to make it the best WFM optimization engine out there. Please reach out to us if you know a company that has issues to schedule people. We want to know all the rules and regulations that they need/want to comply to.
so Newton's gravitational theory is a lie?
Yet another advocacy article with absent of what came before.
A lot of scientific code is worse than a mess, it outright doesn't work and yields incorrect results, a problem which is then routinely covered up. I've seen this first hand :( The worst part is that universities don't realize how much they don't know. On the rare occasions outsiders notice what's going on they are faced with a wall of baffling excuses and justifications for why so much doesn't work, like "if it didn't crash it must be correct" or "scientists don't need unit tests, we just look at the results and know they are right because we're experts". Academics are happy to pronounce that professional coders can't judge the correctness of their work and do so loudly and publicly.

As for money, well departments do have the budgets to hire developers. Science funding is in the high billions in most western countries. The problem is not departmental budgets, it's a social problem. Universities love the practice of spreading money amongst as many professors and tiny departments as possible in order to lay claim to every possible area of human knowledge/experience. Combine that with a culture of low standards and coverups and you've got a recipe for disasters (e.g. invariably critical bug fixes that corrupt data are described as not affecting the final results even when that clearly can't be true).
Yes, this tax proposal seems to presume that the mining being done is a value-adding operation. However, an adversary desiring to undermine the electrical grid could just set up servers sending back cryptographic proof that they executed some useless inner loop. Who even knows with all the various crypto-coins now.
An incomplete description of a more complex reality, perhaps.
I don’t really understand how we can make conclusions about the entire universe when literally all of the data is collecting from one point in space. Couldn’t there be local effects that obfuscate global behavior?

Is there an implicit caveat asterisk on all such statements that is like “as far as we can possibly tell from the data we have” and the reality is we really, really don’t know for sure?
Makes it easier to compare to electricity. If I'm attempting to switch to only electricity I can more easily see what I'll be needing, heat pump, battery size etc
Absolutely agree. The interface was what made flash so good because it let non-coders make things.

So sad that Adobe were unwilling / unable to just make it output html5 instead of swf. But Adobe so where software goes to die so…
People get pretty far with tablet apps these days (literally), and there is a good market for the development of the apps. Hardware integration is always the challenge.

See 59-north for examples of offshore sailing schools who seem to have found a good mix of modern and reliable

https://www.sailmagazine.com/cruising/navigating-by-tablet

The only thing I don’t like about a tablet is that it will ruin your night vision. Integrated marine electronics usually cater to that pretty well.
A good SVG animation tool is dearly missing. I wish Inkscape could do it or there was an Inkscape-like animation tool, that does not hide but rather embraces the underlying SVG code.

Can you tell how you approach to this is? Can you just export SVG animations or even import and edit without destroying the original structure?
> how do you quit “the entire world”?

The short answer: you can’t, but you can change which parts of the world you actively engage with.

As someone on a long journey that seems highly relevant to this thread, getting help via therapy is one of the most important things I’ve done for myself.

A job that has sufficient problems and insane levels of stress can make the rest of the world look…different. Quitting my job gave me the mental capacity to find and see aspects of the world around me that are not worth quitting.

It has given me the space to recenter my life on things that support me, and to regain some optimism about what I can do with my life more broadly.

Quitting a toxic environment is an important first step. There are good places left. Good people to work for. Different ways to live life.

Choosing suicide is often related to a deep belief that there are no options left. This is often a result of compromised thinking based on intensely difficult situations/experiences that make it extremely hard to see beyond the current situation. I’ve had periods of dark thinking that I’ve since learned how to manage, and one of the most important things for me was getting a broader perspective on what was happening (and thus possible) outside of my own sphere.
In which countries? Didn't the latest global whateveritscalled copyright treaty pick the 75 years after the author's death thing for everything?
I like blaming Boeing for the consequences of their greed and recklessness as much as anybody else, but when this story came out, it read pretty much as "in-flight turbulence".

Did any serious new information pop-up suggesting it was a system malfunction? (And it would have to be a pretty worrying and serious one, to throw people against the ceiling, and very, very bad for Boeing if it was so.)

If not, this is nothing more than clickbait.
As I'm kinda against lies but don't to deprive my kids of Santa, in my world all Santas you see are franchises/agents of the main Santa.

I also add I have never seen the real Santa because he is insanely fast to go to all locations of the world.
BLE? I'd stay the hell away from that. It's bad enough dealing with it in consumer context, but in something safety critical?!
Here is Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers in C.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/vararray.pdf

It is a culture thing, eventually the authors don't have any last words to say, if they let the community rule the language design, and their voice is equally one vote.
I’ve flown over a thousand times and have rarely used “airplane mode”. I’ve never seen any cabin crew using anything to “detect” cellular activity or even mentioning phones.
My wife already explained my kids I tend to complicate things, so I always start by saying, "in simple terms, yes [whatever whatever was asked]".
Also, at least for models to date, without human produced edge case media to supplement future training with, they'll have model collapse in a few generations of training.

Killing humanity would be a murder suicide.

AGI that was entirely selfish would be best served automating most labor, bringing about world peace, and turning humanity into all day couch potatoes connected to its inputs and outputs as much as possible while maximizing the uniqueness of that individual's inputs or outputs.

Such a frightening future awaits...
Regressions from whom?
What is the deal with the Sowell quote? Not much to do with saw design
> The script uses systemd underneath.

Just show us that mess of your's :)
It's ok to rebuild the same thing over and over and over again. It's ok
> Anthony Judge has noted that the concept itself is a lie-to-children for more complex concepts in the philosophy of science.
You might be interested in "Unrewarded" by "Ben Moore" which has an interesting take by telling the history of astronomy through the lives of those that made these discoveries but were not awarded a Nobel Prize.
Thank you for your seriously thoughtful insights. You're saying we should have reproducibility, communication, and exploration. I fully agree with that, but I would like to push back on your point that novelty is destructive. Can't redundancy be similarly destructive? Given finite resources, shouldn't the authors have some responsibility to check their findings against previous insights? Otherwise, in the worst case, Goodhart can forget about his law because we'll never agree on any metrics in the first place.

To clarify, this is orthogonal to the point about the paper. I'm still not convinced it's entirely different, but I agree that the value of the paper doesn't purely depend on that. It's a nice exposition irregardless.
“Forced labour” is an interesting way to write “slave”

Watch that spin, folks. Stay frosty out there.
This could also be titled: How to make one's life difficult 101 and/or I love experimenting.

I've bought a few hard disks in my lifetime. Many years ago one such disk came bundled with Acronis TrueImage. Back in the day you could just buy the darn thing, after certain year they switched it to subscription model. Anyhoo.. I got the "one-off" TrueImage and I've been using it ever since. I've 'migrated' the CD (physical mini-CD) it to a USB flash disk, and have been using it ever since.

I was curious for the solution as I recently bought a WinOS tablet, and would like to clone my PC to it, but this looks more like one too many hoop jumps to something that TrueImage can do in 2h hours (while watching a movie).
> Then don't say it.

Some things need to be said. Some people need to do a better job. I hate saying it because I want America & it's founding principles to succeed. Boeing's performance & response to accountability is bad.

China's methods are effective at stopping corruption dead. Their managerial class seems to understand the stakes of public safety. They don't mess around. They had to deal with corruption & it's destabilizing effects on many levels throughout their system.

In the American system, it's worse if nobody talks about corruption. It's clear that the western managerial class has become powerful. Some in the managerial class has no interest in self-regulation. Nor will these people work to benefit the public. What happens when these people harm the public? Like what has happened over & over the past century.

As long as there are no real consequences, this behavior will only be more bold & egregious. Like how a spoiled child takes advantage of parents. I would love to be proven wrong & am completely open to good faith efforts to correct these problems.
None of what you said is wrong but the point I was making largely centered around tags being architecturally visible, which is quite different from how CHERI operates.
Nice, nice, they finally drived down the street !

Now audit FAA for being beyound stupidity or taking bribes or whatever - clearly not doing their own work in this and previous decade...
> How are you supposed to do professional stats work after university on a mobile phone? They don't even expose a file system.

Mine does.
You ignored 40+ films from both years, and these films made the difference even more strikingly apparent than your cherry picking.

As for your understanding, I think there are generally two types of films in Hollywood. There's the largely uninspired make a buck type film, and there's the more creative works where you have a group of people who actually have a pretty neat idea. 'Hollywood' did not remake the Little Mermaid because there was some wave of inspiration where they felt they could really create an amazing film. It was just an uninspired sifting through an IP bucket to find what could be remade to make a movie for the year. And that drivel is what they dug up.

And this is of course nothing new. But what's changed has largely been the ratio. I reference the spandex films not because there's anything inherently wrong with the genre, but because it's become the clearest embodiment of this uninspired conveyor-belt style film-making. The overwhelming majority of these stories may as well have been written by ChatGPT, and the future ones probably will be! And Hollywood is absolutely spamming us with them at this point. But there's nothing inherently awful about the genre. The Dark Knight was clearly an inspired and quiet good film, yet of course it was also spandex.

I've absolutely nothing against Hollywood and am more than happy to see an inspired film. In recently saw Dune 2 yesterday - a sequel of a remake!? But I have no interest in watching 'conveyor belt films', and that is currently the vastly overwhelming majority of what is coming out of Hollywood. And that's not how it used to be.
A host can’t complain about you breaking the camera if they didn’t say there’s one there.

cctv cameras in non public places and with no oversight (including video doorbells etc) are a cancer on society
> Nobody had a clue

In the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus calculated that the Sun was between 18 and 20 times farther away from the Earth than the Moon, and proposed the Heliocentric model as a result. The true value is instead approximately 400 times. But it's incredible given that he didn't have lenses, the value of Pi, and that the Geocentric model was considered correct until 1800 years after his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos#Distance_...

Nice video about the cosmic distance ladder by Terence Tao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ne0GArfeMs
Indeed, reminds me of the "beginner's luck" fallacy: all long term gamblers remember winning their first few games. We can't use this to our advantage, because the people who didn't win, didn't become long term gamblers.

I think a better argument would be the size of the set of regular users vs. some grounded guesstimate for how many have tried it.
A project idea I've had for a while is to make a library and corresponding apps that implement all of these different sending protocols in one. It seems like every few months, a new p2p file sending app/website is launched and they all basically do the same thing, but very few are inter-compatible. The reason Apple's AirDrop is so good isn't a technical reason, it's because there's just one AirDrop and it's installed on all Apple devices. We need to make one open stuff-sending standard and stop reinventing the wheel. But until then, having one multi-protocol library would be almost as good.
There are multiple sources of industrial-strength RPi-based systems for different environments. Including railway-certified devices, industrial controls, etc.

Often coupled with RPi "hat" interface used to attach isolated industrial I/O (24V/analog/4-20mA, etc) or other interfaces.
AMD Extends Market-Leading FPGA Portfolio with AMD Spartan UltraScale+ Family
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Dot
Somehow I had thought even in buffered mode the kernel would only accept block-aligned and sized I/O. TIL.
They cannot live in the present. Need to constantly keep (incorrectly) predicting the future.
There is no way Boeing, the company, would disparage the long-earned reputation in order to save some money and with the risk of people dying.

-- would have said someone a few years ago
If your embeddings are normalized this won't change much, since euclidean distance and cosine similarity produce the same ranking on normalized vectors.

If your embeddings aren't normalized it's worth trying. In our use cases it never made a substantial difference, but I imagine there are cases where it does.
https://avherald.com/h?article=51601631&opt=0

> The captain later said they had briefly lost their instrumentation, then it came back all of the sudden.
Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh.
> This is a version of a paper published in Journal of C Language Translation, vol 2 number 2, September 1990

This says it all really. Nothing more needs to be said. Unfortunate.
I'd be tempted to argue simplifications can be lies. If you simplify the colour palette of the world to greyscale then the lie is that there is no red.

But, not having looked at all of them, some of them can also be what were historically our closest understandings of the way things actually worked. In which case I'm not sure it is even a lie through simplification rather than just teaching children the evolution of our own understanding.
> Your analogy is the same as early Intel engineers completely unaware that those chips would bring on the ramifications of social media

Exactly! As they should be. (for both Intel engineers developing chips, and physicists developing nuclear research)

There were a billion more potential dangers from those technologies that never materialized, and never will.

I'm glad we didn't stop them in their track because a poll of 10 leaders in the field thought they were too dangerous and progress should stop. (note that no one is against regulating dangerous uses of AI, e.g. autonomous weapons, chemical warfare; the problem is regulating AI research and development in the first place)
> Your example proves me right. Your drive should be capable of 1000 MB/s but O_DIRECT reduces performance to 400 MB/s.

I noted that the bus I connected the device has 500MBps bandwidth theoretical, no?

To cite myself:

> Target is a Samsung T7 Shield 2TB, with 1050MB/sec sustained write speed. Bus is USB 3.0 with 500MBps top speed (so I can go %50 of drive speeds). Result is 404MBps, which is fair for the bus.
this is pretty cool...how does it work?
I'm glad this is a somewhat common opinion. The hypocrisy of these companies arguing on one hand that copying every single copyrighted material ever is fair use but on the other hand trying to enforce crazy limitations on their model is mindblowing.
This was kinda known I think. I remember also reading about blood sugar levels and risk taking behavior. If you are interviewing / auditioning just before people's lunch time, tough luck. They are decision fatigued, hungry, low blood sugar so their risk taking threshold is significantly higher than how it was when they started, so if they thought there were promising candidates from when they were fresh, well rested and not hungry, it is unlikely that you will surpass them even if you are objectively better.

If you are their first after the lunch however, that would again be a very good spot.