skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We introduce ExaLogLog (ELL), which is based on a recently proposed generalization of earlier data structures such as HLL, EHLL,
and PCSA [17]. However, the geometric distribution of the update
values is replaced by a distribution for which it is easier to map
a 64-bit hash value to a corresponding random value. When optimally configured, ELL achieves a MVP of 3.67 as theoretically
predicted and experimentally confirmed. Compared to HLL with
6-bit registers, ELL supports the same operating range up to the
exa-scale, but requires 43% less space.

Sounds promising! I love the HyperLogLog idea and it's good to see improvements to it.
That’s people’s objection to “woke” views on ethnicity:

You’ve returned to the world of racial essentialism, the most debunked form of racism, where you argue nonsense about what kinds of buildings people should make based on their ancestry. No matter how you dress it up in the language of civil rights, the racialized views promoted by the institutional left (eg, academia, media, and government) are built upon that racism — which we see articulated in your quote.

But if you touch grass, you’d know people consistently build with the best technology available to them — and have throughout history.
Might be best to disclose that you seem to be the lead developer of BlenderDMX ;-)
My 9th grade social studies teacher had me fix his computer instead of taking the class final ("You already earned an A+ in my class, help me get the gradebook working so we can all go home").
Have a look at Post's correspondence problem for even crazier universal models of computation. Or at Fractran.

Simplified for Post's correspondence problem, you have a set of playing cards with text written on the front and back. (You can make copies of cards in your set.)

The question is, can you arrange your cards in such a way, that they spell out the same total text on the front and back?

As an example your cards might be: [1] (a, baa), [2] (ab, aa), and [3] (bba, bb). One solution would be (3, 2, 3, 1) which spells out bbaabbbaa on both sides.

Figuring out whether a set of cards has a solution is Turing complete.
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-smartphones-sharks-scientists-...
>carry a phone all day, stare at millions of micro led lights all day

The link between those and cancer is tenuous at best.
There's some great resources online, such as https://www.youtube.com/@IfcArchitect
Find out what you're complaining about before getting race-baited into hating someone. The context of his statement might have made it perfectly reasonable. This article is obviously trying to paint everyone and their dog as a racist so don't trust it to be open about the context.
When 3 months of one gig pay for your whole year of expenses - yes its better.
Data in W3 is designed as poorly as FTP, relies on third-party for consistence and transfer. And we used it a lot for bullshit content we thought we paid upfront (by buying hardware and access to a network).

W3 will always be the perfect medium for an ad publisher (given the role of publishers in a capitalist nation) who may or may not give away for free a platform for evaluation and a delivery network.
What's Google Chrome's Screen AI?
I don't want any fancy AI features from my web browser yet I've recently discovered a huge library/extension in my Google Chrome's profile directory:

$ du -hs screen_ai
255M screen_ai

which contains libchromescreenai.so weighing 263,110,752 bytes.

What is it? Is it possible to disable it for good? I can imagine Google will now regularly push its updates which I do not want either.
While NIMBYs of all different types (boomers, degrowters wining about "affordability", 'ecologists' and people talking about "character of the area" about some parking lot waste everybody's time) glad to see someone is actually doing stuff
I think the quote is from a white man called Gordon Price.

Full quote to assist you.

"In 2022, Gordon Price, a prominent Vancouver urban planner and a former city councillor, told Gitxsan reporter Angela Sterritt, “When you’re building 30, 40-storey high rises out of concrete, there’s a big gap between that and an Indigenous way of building."

"White man" can be used in that form when the white man appears to be telling a different culture what they can or cannot do or be.
Latest LLM models tested against a simple question
Not sure, are you comparing the costs of technology 50 years ago with the costs of today's technology? That's not a very valid comparison, to say the least. Not only technology as a whole evolved a lot to give you waaay more bang for the buck, but also everything done today is built on the shoulders of the giant investments made at the start of the space age. So please, let's not bring unfounded arguments for the sake of ideology.
If you don't want theorizing, is there anything meaningful to post? Is that a way of saying the story shouldn't have been submitted at all?
I stand by my point, if half of the population can be ideologically "switched"/manipulated by a smartphone app then the original ideology (I would assume liberal-democracy in the case of US) wasn't that heavily implanted to begin with.

The US politicians should look into why that is so, why is that suddenly the US population so easy to "manipulate" away from an ideology it has strongly believed in for more than 200 years, but I guess that would reflect poorly on said politicians (because they're part of the problem).
So the whole argument/protest is based on SXSW having “ ties to weapons manufacturers supplying Israel” but they don’t provide a single source or evidence for it?
> What about Google Sheets?
> This project actually started on Google Sheets but the full 124M model was too big and switched to Excel. I’m still exploring ways to make this work in Google Sheets but it is unlikely to fit into a single file as it can with Excel.

I wonder if it would work in https://rowzero.io/home ?
They should pay you for your static web site, you are providing content! /s
I’m guessing a UK coroner is not the same as the US coroner. Seems odd to have to give your treasure to the dead body investigators.
> This just makes my original question more pressing: What are the NNs good for if the result will be normal computer programs? (Just created with astronomical overhead!)

You know how expensive it is to pay humans to write 'normal' computer programs? In terms of both dollars and CO2.
If Kant wrote his philosophy in this friendly prose he'd be an even greater philosopher now, most importantly he would be actually read by philosophers and students.
Reverse engineering a car key fob signal
Or just self-host, Mediawiki is pretty easy to setup, even for a large wiki.

I hear the folks running the Baldur’s Gate 3 wiki are doing so with a server that costs less than $20 a month and they’re hitting serious traffic numbers.
I think you need to provide some links with context because the article makes a compelling case that people are trying to block an indigenous group from exercising their agency.
Back when there were no computers
>The video I posted has a detailed explanation by someone vastly more qualified than either of us.

I care far less about what "someone vastly more qualified than either of us" has to say than whatever the current scientific/academic consensus is.
i don't know anything about optical computing, but a 2-bit wide one instruction machine can 100% run Doom. if it is turing complete it can run anything and SUBLEQ is turing complete

or what are you referring to?
> you will have people relying on every single version of your API

If you put the API version into the access token, you can bump people upwards when they refresh / restart, then delete the old API when the token expiry comes around.

> Second, this micro-versioning may cause compatibility issues.

If you control the FE deployment, this isn't a problem. If you don't want to sync up the FE/BE deployments -- say it's an iOS app and you don't want to do an app store push every time you deploy to BE) -- you could use a backend-for-frontend layer or WAF which proxies to the correct backend version (based on the access token version ^ as up there.)
Developing Safety Critical Systems is nothing like developing "ordinary" systems. The stakes are so much higher that absolute rigour at every step is demanded and enforced. This is why "Software Engineering Process" methodologies were invented and enforced using "Formal Methods". When this rigour is lost you have catastrophic system failure like in the "current-day" Boeing company.

> Never mind that this idea of an offshore team diligently implementing the spec to the letter hand-waves away the software engineering, as if it’s a mere implementation detail not intimately connected to the system delivering the desired safety and performance characteristics.

If the "offshore" team does not have the requisite Domain Expertise (which seems to be the case here), then it is Boeing's job to provide rigorous specifications and more importantly have safety checks/verification/tests/etc. in place to guarantee "correctness to spec." Problems in the specifications itself are the responsibility of the Boeing Design/Engineering team.
Was Encarta ever released online? I only remember the CD-ROM version.
I see!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#/media/File:Binaryvdecima...
What a strange study... They seem to just count the number of videos on certain hashtags. The huge discrepancy would require a very large fraction (but not all) of videos under certain hashtags to be banned/removed entirely. That would be immediately obvious when just uploading videos under that hashtags (which they don't do)

They simply dismiss the alternate explanation .. that it's a demographic difference or a time difference. Uygher stuff was a hot topic before Tiktok became popular. And people that are super pumped about that issue and are posting about Chinese political issues probably are I'm guessing not the kind of people to be using Tiktok. Those are just wild guesses.. but there are a lot of ways to explain the difference observed here.

In any case.. just mildly muting topics is pretty benign.. I was expecting promoting conspiracy theories or bots posting AI generated videos. The stuff the Russians (and I think Chinese as well?) botfarms do on Facebook is way crazier
Automating FreeBSD Installations on Any Redfish-Compatible Server [video]
Wow. I'm impressed that you were crazy enough to come back and post this detailed review that no one else will ever read.

> and no motion blur which makes them sharper any time you view a moving image (yep I'm aware that you people don't understand this)

I understand they have motion blur. That wasn't my original point.

CRT made me sick. I was forced to use them for years and they fucked my eyesight. LCD resolved that issue.

Absolute zero fucks given to all of your points here. I have to use monitors for work and need something that doesn't torture my eyeballs. CRT is hell if I need to stare at it all day.

> You're a fucking dumbass.

No amount of autistic screeching bullshit will ever convince me to go back to using a CRT for daily work. Cheers.
Or "delete all your comments" as a user message on a forum.
"He cited the involvement of Raytheon and BAE Systems, two of the companies involved in this year’s SXSW festival.

“These defense contractors make the weapons that the IDF uses to bomb Gaza. The IDF has now killed at least one in every 75 inhabitants of Gaza, [and] I refuse to be complicit in that,” Williams said. “I don’t believe that a music festival should include profiteers of war – I believe that art is a tool to create a better world and has no place alongside warmongers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/06/sxsw-musicians...
It a signaling device to tell the world that you're innovating and/or not falling behind.

Insert the buzzword in your pitch deck, marketing materials, or job posts and you'll see an ROI increase.

Gotta ride the wave, especially to survive or thrive during this tech rut.
You're being downvoted because of statements like "Who the fuck are you, white man"

What if you said (in a different setting, where it would technically make sense): "Who the fuck are you, eskimo?"

I bet you wouldn't, because you've been programmed by woke media.
So I'm downvoted for over-hyping?

You went from:

Start:

"we’ve got to strangle this meme. ML/AI moves forward in unpredictable fits and starts, it doesn’t follow e.g. Moore’s law in exponential formulation."

At End:

"Who the fuck thinks this isn’t a dystopian horror movie outcome in an already hyper fragile world?"

Isn't that hype? By the end of the post you are doubling down on the over-hyped meme's.
I agree LVT is at least worth trying. There seems to be something about simple solutions that makes people distrust them.

We are more likely to get a 10000-page micro-managing land use policy with a whole new agency that can never hope to be as efficient as a single flat tax and free market.
So hypothetically, if they ask you with a checkbox whether your funds are legitimate, and only process transactions that say they are, would that absolve them of liability?

I can't imagine anybody reads private messages on such a service or could be expected to, with any significant volume.
The other intact one is Hamina in eastern Finland. We sailed there last summer, was worth the visit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamina
Powerful generative capabilities aren't always as useful as you might think. There's two major issues:

1. Verification - You can verify one particular part of the configuration space but verifying the full generic component is something else entirely. As far as I'm aware there's no new HDL which seriously tries to address this point.

2. Implementation - If you're generating something sufficiently advanced you likely want different micro-architecture for different configurations to reach the most optimum design (in terms of power, timing and area). As an example, take a CPU, a single, dual and triple issue core will need to be designed in very different ways. You could aim to build something which can generate all of these wrapped up as a nice CPU module with an 'IssueWidth' parameter but that's going to be harder than just writing separate 1, 2 and 3 issue width CPUs.

Certainly for more mechanical things like interconnects, interrupt controllers, pin multiplexers etc yes it can work well. However building those things in System Verilog is often done with separate generator programs anyway and overall doesn't consume much of the total project engineering time, it's just tedious work.

It does seem a lot of new HDLs focus on eradicating the annoyances and tedium you get developing with System Verilog but increase the difficulties you get in point 1 and 2 which are the actual hard bits that take up the bulk of the time.

Early days for Veryl but it's taking a different direction for most (i.e. just building a more sane System Verilog) I shall be watching with interest!
I mean.. thats the whole job for the manager? Through performance reviews and keeping track of the work their team is doing. If the senior is actually "unblocking projects" then it should be apparent.

Project not making progress => senior gets involved => project making progress. Or senior gets involved and some architecture decision gets changed to alleviate some risk.

If the senior is doing this but its a visibility problem, then it may suck but they also need to self-advocate if the manager isn't proactively keeping track of their team(like they are supposed to be getting paid to).
Not at all, those tools barely help if you need to deal with encrypted data or any kind of complex domain, also it can't handle very well distributed systems tradeoffs.

I believe it can probably do CRUD well, but before AI there were already no-code tools that could handle such cases. I personally don't see any big win.

Even Github Copilot is kinda useless, it offers too many bad suggestions before showing the right one, sometimes I just disable it.

It can be useful when learning a new prog language though. I actually wish that those AI tools would be better...
It would be nice if we could design a legal system (heck, any system!) that couldn't be abused by those with lots of money and lawyers to silence those with less money & lawyers, regardless of validity or legality of a claim.
Not nearly as hilarious as the idea that lead is more harmful at levels <5 mcg/dL than it is in the 10-20 mcg/dL range. But that's the only way to explain the available data while attributing the observed correlation to Pb neurotoxicity. And indeed, it's the mainstream view among lead-IQ researchers.

Back when lead levels were mostly in the 10-20 mcg/dL range, the observed correlations with IQ were typically around 3-5 IQ points per standard deviation of lead exposure. Now that lead levels are an order of magnitude or two lower, the observed correlation is still... 3-5 IQ points per standard deviation of exposure. Blood levels of other environmental toxins have also been correlated with IQ. These studies typically come in around... wait for it... 3-5 IQ points per standard deviation of exposure.

The common-sense explanation, in my opinion, is that developmentally delayed children eat more dust and dirt.
You can make it work under pressure and/or add salt.
That's a them problem. AGPL is clearly open source.
From https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40810109 and https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/33...

Add Screen AI service for accessibility annotations.

To improve the accessibility tree based on visual data, a snapshot of
the screen is sent to a local machine learning library. The library will
provide annotations for the snapshot and the annotations will be used
to update the accessibility tree.
This CL adds a Screen AI sand-boxed service to load the library, and
general infrastructure to pass the images from renderer to the library
and getting back and applying the annotations.
The actual details on how the annotations are processed and used will be
added in subsequent CLs.

See more in go/chrome-screen-ai.

This change is behind kScreenAI flag and disabled by default.

I still have no clue. Annotations for screenshots?
An Interview with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan About Surviving Covid and Building Moats
NetBSD 10.0 RC6
> May I ask why there are NNs in your project at all? Just to heat up the planet [...]

> Also: Do you know about the (already 40 year old!) project Cyc?

Has Cyc accomplished anything so far? Or is it just to heat up the planet? The Wikipedia page makes it sounds pretty hopeless:

> Typical pieces of knowledge represented in the Cyc knowledge base are "Every tree is a plant" and "Plants die eventually". When asked whether trees die, the inference engine can draw the obvious conclusion and answer the question correctly.

> Most of Cyc's knowledge, outside math, is only true by default. For example, Cyc knows that as a default parents love their children, when you're made happy you smile, taking your first step is a big accomplishment, when someone you love has a big accomplishment that makes you happy, and only adults have children. When asked whether a picture captioned "Someone watching his daughter take her first step" contains a smiling adult person, Cyc can logically infer that the answer is Yes, and "show its work" by presenting the step-by-step logical argument using those five pieces of knowledge from its knowledge base.
You may want to read up on the history of printing in East Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing_in_East_As...
Since the article use TLAs and does not explain what it's about, I guess it's not for me.
It works in Swedish too, it's a conjugated version of "ond" meaning evil, "Den onde" means "The evil one".
There is one example in the repo:

https://github.com/obsidianmd/jsoncanvas/blob/main/sample.ca...
Nice as they are, you can't really appreciate them except in aerial view.
My dad had it 14 years ago. It’s been in remission and to my knowledge there’s no accidents and I don’t think he had many issues from the start.
CAD modeling in Blender is only possible with geometry nodes.

I did some projects using geometry nodes. It is a nice step towards CAD modeling because it is fully parametric.

CAD models are mathematical models and thus infinit accurate. Solid models are not. But sometimes they are good enough. I create a lot of models in Blender for 3D printing.
That would ultimately mean lesser litigation and lawyers. Sounds like a very commie thing to say.
> You’ve returned to the world of racial essentialism, the most debunked form of racism, where you argue nonsense about what kinds of buildings people should make based on their ancestry. No matter how you dress it up in the language of civil rights, the racialized views promoted by the institutional left (eg, academia, media, and government) are built upon that racism — which we see articulated in your quote.

If anything, the person you're replying to rejected this kind of crap, they argue (like the article) that it should be the right of the Indigenous Nations to determine on their own what they want to build on their own land.
Israel does a lot worthy of condemnation, much of which is not justified by Hamas's actions.

However it is important to recognise the support Hamas recieves from the civilian Palestinian population. Hamas isn't supported by the majority of Gazan citizens, however their actions on Oct 7 are.

> Seventy-two percent of respondents said they believed the Hamas decision to launch the cross-border rampage in southern Israel was "correct" given its outcome so far, while 22% said it was "incorrect". The remainder were undecided or gave no answer.

> Fifty-two percent of Gazans and 85% of West Bank respondents - or 72% of Palestinian respondents overall - voiced satisfaction with the role of Hamas in the war. Only 11% of Palestinian voiced satisfaction with PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palesti...

Of course some of this can likely be explained by fear of reprisal when speaking against Hamas, however the desire to perpetuate war against the Israeli people is commonplace in Palestine.
Have you ever tried to edit on Wikipedia? It’s one of the most toxic places on the Internet. I’m partially to blame for that, btw, as I started the admin’s noticeboard.
Are you sure? The manufacture of phones and computers and all the technology required for them demands our destructive and polluting infrastructure. To make these devices, mining and pollution is necessary (even if it is exported), so in my mind, eletronic devices is still an indirect cause. Just like a person is still responsible for pulling the trigger even if the bullet kills.
DESCRIPTION='ScreenAI is a binary to provide AI based models to improve
assistive technologies. The binary is written in C++ and is currently used by
ReadAnything and PdfOcr services on Chrome OS.'

from https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/_/chromium/chromiumos...
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240314091547/https://www.astra...
You are a smart person I think if you are worrying about this. I suggest finding a different job completely that does not involve technology. From observing many colleagues including ones that have had breakdowns, I think there is no healthy workspace in tech, only people that seem healthy because there are a few exceptional resistant ones.
Actually, Medium—the app, at least—does have an option under "Display settings" that lets you switch between two font sizes that are almost imperceptibly different...
Wikipedia displaced traditional encyclopedias. The number of encyclopedias produced in Finnish fell from ~10 to 1 in the last two decades, that one being fiwiki. The same is true for many languages. What once was a normal thing middle-class families kept in a vitrine is now something old-fashioned and rare. There are no physical copies being printed nor online versions accessible and actively edited. There were online versions, but they were too costly to operate and shut down due to being outcompeted by Wikipedia. There is only fiwiki.
It needs to be on the blotchein! What, too soon?