skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you attempt to take the phones, you will be ripped to pieces while phone-people video the event and upload the results along with insulting memes. Your broken bones will be found slightly deeper than the thick layer of charred bones and odd rectangular objects which, in 100,000 years, will puzzle the scientists of the newly emerged species rattus erectus who will dominate what is left of this planet.
No? The complaint was that they had to use a third party or community one, as though those people are doing by some kind of magic unavailable to them; they for some reason don't want to use those (maybe they're not suitable for particular use case, I don't know) and it's somehow terraform's fault that they haven't then written their own. It is possible, so I just don't understand what the complaint is.
The evidence would suggest that it is that hard for an majority of the human population, within the current western social context, food environment etc.

I say that as someone who has lost significant weight and kept it off for a number of years. But it was not as simple as "put down the fork". I basically have to calorie count every morsel. If I left it to my own mind or just told myself to "put down the fork" I'd be fat again in no time. My mind fundamentally doesn't seem to know when I have eaten enough food.
As a North African, I instinctively understand and firmly believe everything mentioned in this article about sleeping is true.

From my perspective, the way I see your comment is this: give me scientific evidence that walking is beneficial to my health.

We lose our identity when we disconnect from Nature. I even read a post recently here in HN where it was said that "Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants": https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/human-gut-bacteria-t...

That's where we are.
Apple's AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
changing the volume of the sound under high CPU load will also move the balance one side.

I often have to re-center the balance, it's driving me nuts.
Ah that makes more sense indeed.

I've, incidentally, been to the desk once. It was in pretty bad shape at that point (perhaps it's been replaced since) and had the worst smell I've ever come across.

Alpine is a great little town, though. I often tell my wife that I'd love to move there, maybe in retirement. It's got a "quick" connection to Big Bend and Marfa, and because of the isolation, you don't really need to worry about it becoming overrun.
All the ones that restrict freedom without good reason
By mixing it up with classical encryption algorithms. The implementations don’t use pure post quantum cryptography, see SSH.
Same cpu, not bothered to replace until maybe these days
yeah the hypocrisy is staggering, every website has some idiotic pop-up asking me if i want to login with google. both ms and google should stop. and apple as well, it also begged me to use safari, using random notifications.
As all post-quantum crypto is relatively new there is still the risk of it being broken in the future. This is why we combine the new algorithms with classical ones in an hybrid approach so that the encryption stays at least as secure as it is now.
The difference is those who still waited on the major update ("almost 6 months") would still be able to jump on some 13.x.y security fix on short notice, without breaking their JVM, whereas people already on 14.x who can't work without JVM are cut off for the time being.
It is not just the price of the VR headset. Quest 3 is £400+. I need a good PC for the headshet as well. This is likely £700+ (likely closer to £1000+)

Yes, without sounding like a big shot, can affort to splash this type of money. However, just because I can does not mean I should. I have a family and spending money needs discussion with the Mrs (as she does to me)

Also, it is finding a place to put it in the home especially with a toddler.

I have to prioritise, as there are other things in tech to be enthusiastic about. There are atleast 4 other things as well as wanting to dive into VR. Thing is, the other things I have access now.
I'd love to try it out, but where can I get the scene files?
lol, Java has been broken for some time and I’m convinced Apple do this intentionally
Not to defend MacOS, but Windows is the no. 1 of incosistent UIs - by large. If you want a consistent UI, choose Linux.
Current SOTA open source is I believe SUPIR (Example - https://replicate.com/p/okgiybdbnlcpu23suvqq6lufze), but it needs a lot of VRAM, or you can run it through replicate, or here's the repo (https://github.com/Fanghua-Yu/SUPIR)
I only learned about vector after I had setup a new fluent-bit pipeline, and have to say there's a lot of stuff that looks interesting in vector and wish I had time to play with it earlier. Might still do it when I have some downtime, it looks very interesting and capable, could be fun to try on a new project.
>There is very little you can safely do in a signal handler

You can actually do pretty much anything you want, it's just the C library that uses a lot of global state and internal memory allocations, which messes things up. The core syscall API and any reentrant code you write yourself are not affected.

>The memory state that a program receiving a SIGSEGV in is often undefined/garbage

That may be true for arbitrary segfaults caused by bugs, but the JIT has 100% control over what instructions to emit, it is not restricted by ABIs or platform-specific issues, so there is no problem to use SEGV as a signaling mechanism.
Plug-ins that use PACE / iLok protection. The irony is that the cracked versions probably are still working.
They're also incredibly active compared to any "civilised" people. There's a lot of evidence that sedentary lifestyles are bad for bodies.

Presumably they're also, on average, younger than "civilised" peoples. Life expectancy for an Amazonian Tribe was just 53 years. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/how-to-eat-like-an-amazo...

Muscle and joint issues are a symptom of aging. If nobody's making it to 60, then aging really isn't the same issue.
It's an issue for plugins 'protected' by the iLok DRM system. It's probably not macOS, but incorrect code that accidentally worked in the past. Seems similar to the JVM situation.
Here are my 2¢:
Leverage platforms that offer mock technical interviews (e.g., Pramp, Interviewing.io, probably there are others too). This approach lets you simulate the interview experience in a risk-free environment, getting you accustomed to the format and the pressure. It’s crucial to receive feedback, and these platforms pair you with industry professionals who can provide just that. This method is effective because it targets your interview skills directly, allows for rapid iteration based on feedback, and builds your confidence in a more controlled setting than actual interviews.

Aside from just technical skills, these mock interviews can help you articulate your thought process clearly, which is often as important as the solutions themselves in ML roles. Remember, it’s not just about getting the right answer, but also showing how you approach problems.

A side note based on a pattern I've observed so far: candidates who practice like this tend to perform better not just in technical assessments but also in explaining their past projects and teamwork experiences, which are equally critical parts of the interview process.

Hope this helps. Dive in, get that feedback, and refine your approach. Good luck!
Integrating physics simulations like that is very inefficient and inaccurate, as it does not conserve momentum.

I get it, it was a toy, but if you're really interested look up adaptive step symplectic integrators.
Thought the popping was a Rosetta 2 bug as I had only noticed it running x86 software on m2 pro.

Your explanation makes a lot more sense as x86 is probably the only time I’m pushing the cpu usage high enough.

The popping is darn annoying
And? Those are still significantly slower than this chip on the benchmarks they can run.

Why do you need to pull in Apple so badly into this?

This bloviating is really getting tiring here - this is the most expensive, most highend chip that people put into gaming machines and their worstations. People who really want the maxiumum power no matter the cost or heat.

If you utter "laptop", "M", "ARM" in this context you're not the target market for this chip. That's OK. Not everything needs to be a medium powered laptop chip for browsing.
A first NN based image compression standard is currently being developed by JPEG.
More information can be found here: https://jpeg.org/jpegai/documentation.html

Best overview you can probably get from “JPEG AI Overview Slides”
Exactly. I paid a small amount extra for hydrophobic coating 15 years ago, and basically have never bothered to wash the bodywork since then, and only now are a couple of rust problems starting to emerge. Unless you bought a white car, as foolish a project as wearing white trousers, the everyday dust isn't very visible. I find myself manually washing the windows much more often, though, since there cleanliness actually matters.
The moment they reach the peddles, I will.
This is false, it's a mix, other houses sell vicuna sweaters, in fact you can buy them from unknown sources, even the raw material itself and have someone knit it for you, it is extremely expensive however you acquire it.

The house adds value to the material, as with any high-end producer like Brunello, Zegna, and the next one to pop-off Rubinacci (watch this space).
Which conflates "contribution to society" with "economic value."
Duplicate of another story on the front page,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39742058 ("Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows")
Appreciate the feedback. This is something I am doing. Just figured the VR experience can add a little more to that.
Why do you even bother running Windows with this crap going on ?
I wish I'd read "Is Maths Real" first before commenting here! Oh well...anyone with more insights? Sometimes I feel once the principles/axioms are laid out, a giant puzzle is untangled within that logical system, and I wonder how much is really practical math vs academic sandbox?

E.g. this quote "You need a new idea, a good definition, a statement that you think you’ll be able to exploit. Only then can your work start."

Why is such an idea necessary in the first place, is the context missing here?

"By learning about the objects, by manipulating them and using them in mathematical arguments, they ultimately become your friend."
100% -- My daughter is approaching an age I would like to do that with her!
All that stuff lands on LG/AA thanks to those who have subscriptions, i.e. libraries
Or like the Google of today, where I get "Sign in with Google" pop-ups on every other web site I visit.

The whole tech industry is nothing but nag nag nag nag nag. Is that really the best strategy "the smartest people in the room" can come up with? Imitate a five-year-old?
no, most of the work i do is local, but it's fairly easy stuff, some statistical software, excel, word, browser. And my browser is not suffering that much, perhaps because i have 8GB of ram, and i visit simple websites. Using an adblocker is fundamental tho.
Shaped Like Information
play on a large map with lots of civilizations, doesn't take long.

add multiplayer into the mix for an even worse experience.
Windows aint that bad? But then, I'm occasionally reminded that if you don't have a corporate IT dept. jealously vetting every update, and instead use the shivers Super Happy Consumer Pachinko Edition Windows, things are very different.
Docker on MacOS runs through a Linux VM. Native containerization on MacOS is so badly supported many container runtimes don't even try. E.g. Podman on MacOS also runs through a Linux VM.
1. You're assuming they're not paying other types of taxes.

2. That's what states are for.
I think the main difference is using your own products to promote vs hijacking a competitor product to promote your own.

The first one might be annoying, the latter is basically malware.
While I don't support that, that argument only works if your insurance is truly a nonprofit. If profit is involved, they can increase your primes even without people stealing simply for the sake of profit.
Do you realise how big the PC gaming sector is these days? High performing desktop chips are not for the hardcore DIY enthusiast market anymore. There are now millions of gamers buying of the shelf PCs with the highest spec components as standard.
Pachinko Edition
If this were true then Macs would be flying of the shelves since they are a viable alternative.

In reality most people don’t even know they have a choice.
I read the abstract, intro and conclusion (paper reviewers often read less!). I'd say if anything the paper supports my assessment, particularly this bit:

> for all practical purposes, “a calorie is a calorie” when it comes to body fat and energy expenditure differences between controlled isocaloric diets varying in the ratio of carbohydrate to fat

So, calories in calories out. All you have to do is not ingest them. And if you do, who made that choice? The rest of the paper seems to be talking about factors such as "the obesogenic environment" which completely factor out the agency of the individual. It's like saying it's not your fault that you are an alcoholic or gambling addict because supermarkets sell alcohol and there are bookies just around the corner.

I understand what you mean by "who cares". I get that these drugs are a net positive good because they greatly reduce harm with minimal effort. That's great, but it's ultimately like administering narcan to an opioid addict. No one argues narcan is bad (it's proven and effective at preventing OD deaths), but also no one argues it is a solution to the addiction (you cant shoot up as much as you want and take narcan if things go unwell). Obesity of course is not as destructive (to a single individual) as an opioid addiction, but the fact that you regain the weight as soon as you stop taking ozempic etc shows that it's a bandaid.
Linux can be consistent if you reject all but applications built in your desktops toolkit of choice. Which means you're missing out on a lot of applications.
While my personal preference is Firefox, i also have work to do, and most work sites will work perfectly with WebKit, and not so great with the Mozilla engine, so at my work PC i effectively had the choice between Chrome or Edge.

I ended up going with Edge with the reasoning that both Chrome and Edge probably report a boatload of telemetry back to the mothership, as well as Windows 11, so there was no reason to share that telemetry with both Microsoft and Google if i could just share with one.

On the plus side of things, Edge to me feels better. It's actually not half bad (privacy issues aside that exists in both Chrome and Edge).
This disables use of all signal handlers, which means Java apps will also e.g. fail to quit cleanly in response to issuing SIGQUIT, or hitting ^C at the terminal. Better than "no workaround whatsoever" but far from ideal!
With all due respect, you sound like someone with little to no experience with the topic at hand.

Having set up a state of the art labs in 2011 and 2015 and having what you’re imagining is the required education, I can assure you there’s nothing myself or anyone else can do with 20k today that’s even in the same arena as the former.

And if you’re basing this solely on marketing claims for nanopore… I was a beta tester.
>I'm skeptical that there's anything especially unhealthy about sitting at a desk even for long periods of time. What's more plausible to me is that back pain comes from having a weak back

I figure few habits will give you a weaker back than sitting at a desk for longer periods of time.
This is the kind of thing that puts me off the most about those complicated copy protection schemes.

They always rely on kernel extensions, undocumented functionality and hiding a lot of stuff in your hard drive, in locations that are often in your (and Apple's) interest to protect, or even to routinely clean.

I also remember some scandal a couple decades ago with some plugin scanning your /etc/hosts file for their domains. I'm pretty sure there's more egregious stuff going on.

I swore off iLok about a decade ago when I had to go into a studio and couldn't get the goddamn thing to authorise anything and had to spend a few hours in support. On my local machine I could just buy stuff then immediately pirate it for stability, but on a studio that was not possible.

I'm ok with other people using, but I'm tired of those software makers treating my computer as if it was their playground.
> what is the government's justification for taxing the value of land I own outright?

Well, where I live (which is not in the USA) value-based land taxes go to the municipality and the school board. They pay for municipal services I benefit from: fire, police, EMTs, road maintenance, waste collection and processing, recreational facilities like a park, a library, and a swimming pool. Also schools, but that gets more complicated since some funding for education also comes from a higher level of government which collects income taxes.

Now mind, I live of 25 ha of swampland. But I get excellent value for my land-value-based land taxes.
Life expectancy of 53 does not usually mean nobody makes it to 60. In the early 1900s[1], life expectancy at birth in England was 53, but at the same time, as long as you survived until you were 20, your life expectancy had increased to over 60. If you lived to 50, you could expect to become 70.

https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Life-expectancy-...

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[1]: Not counting the years of the Spanish flu!
Unrelated but why Bing knows about GPT 4.5 Turbo?

https://www.bing.com/search?&iOS=1&auth=1&referrerig=E8B41E8...
I would argue I’m possibly the only conscious being by virtue of having the subjective experience of being conscious. While i can’t rule out that some other beings also possess this subjective experience, it would be a stretch for me to grant it to everyone a priori.

That said, i suspect my own subjective experience of consciousness may be an illusion. After all, my mind certainly cannot exist outside of my head, and i know that someone or something skillfully tampering with my brain can alter my perception including that subjective experience.

On what basis do you claim that every human (with reasonable exceptions) is a conscious being?
Or he worked tirelessly on this for 9 months, and had no free time for anything else. But many things came of it for him, and it had an impact (it’s still being quoted now.)
Indeed, take the "we care about your privacy/cookie" nags - the industry collectively decided it's still better for their bottom line to put these on every site, every time you visit in the hopes that you'd get fed up or click the wrong button.
Hodge theory is both beautiful and extremely powerful; it was used in ingenious ways by another prominent mathematician, the Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, to study the deformations of flat surfaces. These smooth surfaces, not obviously connected to algebraic geometry, were found woven into a tapestry of rich algebraic structures by work of Eskin, Mirzakhani and Wright.

The Hodge conjecture has a similar philosophy: you define certain data in terms of "harmonic analysis" on the geometric object, and the conjecture says that they all correspond to the algebraic data out of which the object can be rebuilt.
If it was engineer the estimate would have a lower bound, not an upper.
TL;DR: This model is based on two assumptions:

1) The forces of nature decrease over cosmic time

2) Light is losing energy when it travels a long distance
Lol, that's ridiculous. You can't have a city that's full of biotech labs and nothing else. But, according to your logic, that's what would happen. You're not "preserving" anything. You're encouraging every last square meter of ground to be strip mined for whatever "value" one can get out of it.
You wouldn't be able to skip the 5 char/4 byte requirement, you'd just be able to strip 0x00 bytes from the end. That actually complicates things, since you then need to specify in the spec whether handling that is a requirement for a conforming parser/reader.
Name one site, that works "not so great" with Firefox.
That's not quite the fault of the font. It's the fault of the author who decided to use very small pixels. The sample images are unreadable as presented, but they're a lot more readable magnified 300%. You have to achieve a certain size before it's possible to see anything, but you don't need much detail.

However, given that the size is required anyway, there's no downside to using more detail. This font could be useful for a display with enormous pixels, but it's useless otherwise.
They are targeting users that did not install Chrome themselves.

It's not uncommon for one technical person to "support" several non-technical relatives and friends.

These are the targets, they are aplenty and MS wants them.
To the size of their core, sure. But a collision happens way before the atom cores are close to eachother, as you already mentioned. Therefore it does not compare as an analogue.

Additionally, the densities of the systems are also very different (not in absolute terms of course)
E.g. any photo editing stuff from DxO
Is it written/enforceable somewhere?
Imagine being an engineer working at Boeing right now.

That is a hell of a stank on your resume.
Because of PC gaming crowd - marketing of the bigger plays to them - nobody cares or understand IPC or power efficiency.

Apple had it easier with the switch to ARM - they use vague metrics like over 2 times faster without actually getting into benchmarking or technical details like the PC crowd does.
Yep. These sorts of thing can’t possibly go wrong. Maybe next we can take out those pesky sparrows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
Readability is an interesting claim. You obviously can't read base36 encoded data with this (like a sha1 hash) or even a randomly generated password because the glyphs don't map uniquely to characters. So the claim is not so much about ASCII but about English. It talks about some individual words being difficult but I suspect even those would be fine with sufficient context, like being in a paragraph. With even more context it's surprising how bad writing can be before it truly breaks down, for example your doctor's handwriting is OK as long as you know they're writing about medicine.

Makes me wonder whether some languages are better at this than others. French, for example, contains some redundancy in its grammar as you have to write pronouns and write the conjugated verb. Spanish gets rid of the redundant pronoun. So is French trading longer sentences for better readability? I wonder what natural language can have the shittiest font?
>Why does everyone these days hate consumer choice and market diversity so much?

A lot of people got into CPU topics because Apple created their M1s and they think that ARM is some unparallelled thing that every1 must adopt and that Apple's design goals are most important (other market segments are irrelevant)
That's honestly quite tragic as we don't evolve anywhere fast enough to not be hit by global depression as the digital solitude clashes with the innate human needs of real socialization.