skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rob Wilson, over at Hidden Assumptions, has been arguing for what a model with varying gravity would explain. He's a mathematician, but fun to read about physics. https://robwilson1.wordpress.com/
I have a PHEV and when I turn on the heat as I'm pulling out of my garage, the range is cut by 30%. This has nothing to do with drag since I'm backing out at 2 MPH. It's just about the HVAC system, which uses a lot of power. I typically just use the seat warmer, but when my kids are in the backseat I have to run the heat as well.
I have a library with similar api but in python: https://github.com/zby/LLMEasyTools. Even the names match.
It is unclear to what extent the ANSI control codes are implemented. The README mentions SGR and the 24-bit color extensions in the nonstandard semicolon syntax. What about cursor movements? Backspace? Overstriking?

Which "ANSI" did you use as reference?
They thought of this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper
Cardinal Sins? Conspicuous Consumption, Cardinal Status and Inequality
Makes sense, as long as the force creating the vibration is acting on both the extruder and the bed so they don't move relative to one another it shouldn't really matter.
i live in dallas, about 10 years ago there was a small tornado skipping up and down about 3 miles north of me (they typically move SW to NE). I got in the car to "chase" it and made it to the end of my street. It was so ominous looking I turned around and went back home.
Response to Google's Keras-PyTorch Benchmarks
When in doubt, math it out:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Yep. All these tech giants are taking the labour that people provided to the world in good faith in what I've seen described as a gift economy, and trying to lock it up.
On the internet for the longest time people were providing their knowledge and fruits of labour for free, anticipating reciprocity (which on average they got). They stopped when reciprocity stopped. Platforms would monetize their efforts, control the distribution and often remove the reference to the creator.

These AI systems are being build on top of all the collective effort and resulting knowledge of the entire humanity. We can pretend they are just another private enterprise or we can acknowledge that they are something more than that.

And it's not just the productivity we could achieve with democratizing these systems. There's another danger. When big companies buy up all this intellectual property, what better choice would they have than to lock it up? At least until recently you could argue that IP rights owners were as entities incentivized to proliferate this knowledge, now the opposite is happening.
Thanks! There’s a series of books I really like, The Theoretical Minimum[1], that also takes that kind of approach but for teaching physics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theoretical_Minimum
It took a bit more than 1990, for PC 16 bit sound card, Super VGA screens, with Windows 3.1 to be widely adopted for the PC to out perform the Amiga, specially in European price points.

My first PC was acquired in 1992, and still only had a lousy beeper, on a 386SX.
Apple lays off more than 600 Bay Area employees
Thanks for this comment, very much appreciated.
Someone here once linked to this story: https://archive.ph/PrGLB
They've pitched the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement many times, segmented only by the fact that they'd prefer you buy one of everything. They built their own framework to run the same apps across all three devices.

More to the point in a discussion about cars, they mostly share the same hardware as well. None of them have a suspension, or a motor, or wheels, or....
First step is realizing you're in a statespace of low utility gradient. Colloquially put, everything's meh.

Second step is to examine the separable components of said statespace. Is one increasing while another decreases? You're about to make a big life decision! Are they all meh? Well fuck.

Uh I mean, decompose them further and repeat. Eventually you'll find a meta level where the components of the meh are divergent vectors that sum to zero, and there's your buried n-lemma.

If everything's truly flat and boring for long enough, eventually you'll dig down to causal bedrock where the quantum noise will create signals for you whether you want them or not. Doesn't matter, because at this point, does anything? So just do the thing, you have nothing to lose.
This is another good find. We haven't yet implemented the `!=` operator (or most of the binary operators).

Incidentally, you will notice that Xr0 rejects the program as is, which is correct (because of the double free).
It can, however, accept code like the following:

void
foo(int a, int b)
{
int *p;
p = malloc(1);
if (a) {
if (!b) {
free(p);
}
}
if (b) {
free(p);
}
if (!a) {
if (!b) {
free(p);
}
}
}

I say "can" because we only have this working on a development branch [0], and there are still some issues we're resolving on this, hopefully by next week.

[0]: https://github.com/xr0-org/xr0/tree/fix/nested-branching
The shockwaves travel further. The 2011 earthquake was in Virginia and everyone felt it on the eastern seaboard. It was only 2.4 M too. Still.
Roku's idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell
If you give something away when it's worthless, don't come back for more when it's discovered to be worth more.

Users of these sites have had license agreements and privacy policies for a long time, and freely gave away their content just because free web hosting was worth it. Why would they be entitled to anything more now that this content have found new value?
I can see this. It will get rid of a lot of bs jobs. But, it will also create a lot of new jobs as well.
CMake does not fare better either!
Not OP, but if you save the article as a text or some other easily indexable format, it'll pop out when searching locally for relevant keywords. Intentionally going back to the exact article? Rarely.
Chilean reaction to an earthquake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MW1HiuqpM
The issue here is that the malware developer may have hid other malware in xz's codebase. This one specifically was targeted at deb and rpm distros
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
Spinning, whirling fish in south Florida prompt emergency response
Accelerating Moe Model Inference with Locality-Aware Kernel Design
email grab at the end tho
Try Ollama or LM Studio. Mixtral and its finetunes work perfectly for me on my RTX3090 with offloading.
Goodness! Please expand!
1,000's of new yorkers would rather be homeless, even in freezing winter, than go to a crowded, dangerous regular shelter. "Fifty people died in the mental health shelters during a recent four-year period, records show. About half of those deaths occurred after suspected drug overdoses...Eight people staying in the shelters killed themselves. More than 1,400 fights broke out during the same span, with more than half of those resulting in “serious injury.”
...It’s extremely dangerous and deadly,” she said. “You would be terrified to go to sleep, let alone use the restroom.”...20 to a room...2018 to 2021 and found that more than 7,400 serious incidents (deaths, injuries, assaults)" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/nyregion/nyc-subway-shovi...

The worst that ever happened to non-violent me was being poisoned with a painful, nauseating antipsychotic. That caused me to be more depressed and the psych wards are boring in america compared to countries that have computers or at least FM radios. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ufnii4xlirvvnhlwegorf/quackLa...
Arguably, the original trilogy was simply dungeons and dragons in space. Wizards, rogues, and knights in space.

But, it you look at the sci-fi/fantasy at the time, nothing really compares to what Star wars did. There's a reason it's pretty much the only widely known sci-fi films from the last 70s early 80s.

At least, not in film.
I wish we were in the Star Trek universe, so this was "AI will free humanity to pursue science and art without economic concerns" instead of "AI will make everyone poor and subjugate."
This, and sooo many other shortcomings, begins to explain why a submission extolling Go's error handling is already flagged.

Go, and it's error handling (and for that matter it ludicrously verbose failure to bubble up errors) is a steaming pile of shit.
If you think the person who will tell you the truth here is the type of person who always sleeps well at night, then you’re a fool.

The people who always sleep well at night will just tell you the comfortable lie while stabbing you in the back, or other you into being the bad guy and them the good guy no matter what.

The reality is, bad things sometimes happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. And sometimes people do smart things that don’t work, and dumb things that do.

Sometimes, because it is what needs to happen. Othertimes, just because someone thought it was. Or by chance.

And at the end of the day, someone has to make that call or break that tie, or the world stops.

And as nice as that would be sometimes, it rarely is possible.

Often, the better alternative (long term) for everyone is ripping off the band-aid sooner rather than later. But, sometimes, people won’t let you.

If you’re lucky, they’ll take ownership for their part and do what they can to make sure it’s as clean as possible, eh?
#FuckThat
Time: https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/physics/space-and-time2
It just illustrates how people in the NE think about natural disasters. Basically any big natural event is weather-related.

When the 2011 Virginia quake happened, I was somewhere in the Boston area sitting in my parked car, and at first I thought it was a strong wind rocking my car side-to-side. It took a few seconds for me to realize the shaking wasn't a "weather thing"
Discord's Loot Box video drops from 1.4B views to 2.8M views
Show HN: LintDB: a vector database for late interaction retrieval
We're building LintDB to productionize late interaction retrieval.

If you're not familiar with late interaction, here's the colBERTv2 paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01488.pdf

We built LintDB because we had a hard time getting the retrieval performance we wanted in our RAG application. colBERT calculates a document's score based on the maximum similarity across multiple vectors per document, and this was more successful for our task. The only problem was that traditional vector databases didn't support it.

Vespa supports this type of indexing, actually. But the learning curve was high and I was concerned about how we'd operationalize it.

Some of the features of LintDB:
- Embeddable. You can import LintDB as a Python package and get started immediately.

- Bit level compression. We fully support PLAID and compressing token embeddings into bits. 128 dimension vectors can compress down to 16 bytes.

- Built on top of rocksDB for fast on-disk access. This also lets us take advantage of merging rocksdb indices. Index your data across multiple machines and merge them together for serving.

- Multi-tenant support.

We're seeing new research on bitvector searching and late interaction, and we want to be the first ones to support it. Our roadmap also includes adding explainability to the results, which is possible thanks to late interaction.

repo: https://github.com/DeployQL/LintDB

documentation: https://deployql.github.io/LintDB/
I think he did an AMA on Reddit a few weeks ago and is now living in Europe.

If my memory is correct it slightly complicates the hikikomori claim, but whatever.
From retrogaming talks from former Commodore engineers, the issues were more political and management than technical alone.
So, printing a counterfeit banknote is basically "proof of work" in this case!
This article is mostly about Jedi Knight, yet Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game is mentioned. (uses d6's with +1,+2 pips, effect scales, and rerolling successes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Roleplaying_Gam...

Having played, it's perhaps one of the best written role playing book series ever made. There are so many expanded universe supplements its ridiculous. Tramp freighters rarely even written about, with full stat blocks, and aftermarket parts. "How many turbolasers does a star destroyer have?" 'Was that an Imperial I, Imperial II, Valiant, Interdictor, Eclipse, Terminus, Executor, Resurgent, Venator, ...'

From the Wiki: "Lucasfilm considered the West End Games' Star Wars sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the Thrawn trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games Star Wars books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within."

If you happen to enjoy roleplaying, and never tried them, they're at least worth looking at. Lots of ideas. (also 35 yrs old, so mostly available, if rare) The art's mostly of a b/w storyboard type. Yet, that's kind of nice as, movies, and quickly gives a sense of scale about a bunch of different SW ideas. https://dk.pinterest.com/pin/396598310951842250/ (has a lot of illustration examples)
Having worked longtime for a minicomputer company--which actually survived longer than most mostly because of some storage innovations along with some high-end Unix initiatives--it's really hard. You can't really kick a huge existing business to the curb. Or otherwise say we're going to largely start over.

Kodak was not actually in a position to be big in digital. And, of course, the digital camera manufacturers mostly got eclipsed by smartphones anyway a decade or so later.
I cannot speak for California, but in PNW there is even less “surprising, sudden weather thingies.”

Rain is not pouring, unlike on east coast (speaking from my expeirences in both NYC and Atlanta), it is just drizzling at a very low rate. It doesnt thunderstorm. I’ve heard thunder iirc only 2-3 times in my 7 years living there. No tornados or tsunamis. No massive blizzards out of nowhere. I felt this earthquake in NYC today myself, and I remember having a similarly strong eathquake in Seattle only a couple of times.

I have no idea where this “west coast and its sudden weather thingies” take comes from (again, I cannot speak for California), but it runs counter to everything I’ve personally experienced.
Out of curiosity, why are Plex's monetization efforts silly? Sure, the freemium model is less than ideal compared to OSS, but I gladly paid for a lifetime subscription to Plex Pass 4 years ago and haven't regretted it at all since.
I think it's a near impossible situation - the status quo is literally something that should not exist given the new market realities. Pivoting is pretty much asking a company to commit seppuku - asking the layers of leadership to basically replace themselves and quit in many cases. Which is pretty much what happens anyway.
Compatibilism and AI Free Will, Crime and Punishment
I was explaining the same to my wife. I think the last one was in D.C. and it felt the room was spinning slightly. Today was quite a different experience and truly scary for a moment as it started to ramp up and seemed like it wouldn't stop getting more intense.
> The IDF, Shabak, Aman, and Mossad have all deteriorated severely since the 2000s

Absolutely true. Never forget that the vicious attacks by Hamas were never leaked to the Israelis. The supposed spookiest spooks in the whole wide world didn't know about an attack being planned within their own borders.
Show, don't tell. I predict five years from now this article won't have aged well ;).
I believe nVidia was started with a lot of SGI's core technology ; not "I have a good idea and I can't do it here" and more like "let me just take this stuff I doubt anyone will notice". I think SGI sued but didn't really pursue the matter because they didn't really see nVidia as a threat. I think Jensen was pivotal in this "technology transfer".

Regarding computing cycles, boom/bust, I recently re-read Soul of New Machine and was struck by how much the world has NOT changed. Sure we're not talking about micro/mini-computers and writing micro-coded assembly but the whole "the market is pivoting and we need to ride this wave" and "work like a dog to meet some almost unobtainum goal" seems to still underpin being an engineer in "tech" today.
Similar article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942122
This does not include ssl support? How much does this limit the number of irc nets that you can connect to?
> the speed stat is actually comprised of 4 different stats that have different values depending on the terrain: Ground, Air, Water, and Anti-Gravity

Weirdly, this has a huge impact on the game, and it's also not mentioned anywhere. To find it out, you have to go to mariowiki and look up the part statistics. The kart that looks like a boat has great water statistics. That makes sense, but without even documenting that water speed exists, it's mostly just an in-joke by the developers. Why did they do this?
They also don't bother to provide enough packaging to prevent the contents from being damaged in transit. It's absurd.

> I remember when they put "frustration free packaging" on the agenda in a time when that was never talked about.

But this isn't accurate at all; evil packaging was a topic of discussion before Amazon came out with "frustration free packaging". I remember buying something at Fry's and, knowing I would barely be able to open it, asking at checkout if they could open it for me. And they refused!

Here you can see some packaging criticism published several years before Amazon's effort: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/09/30/those-goddamn-...

From the commentary:

> When you buy a peripheral anymore, you might as well just get a jigsaw before you leave the mall. We don't lock up our prisoners this well. Why our gamepads and so forth must be hermetically sealed is beyond me - have they done something wrong? Is it for their own protection? If they don't want me to have the controller, and that's fine, maybe a better plan would be to keep it out of the store in the first place.

> Or, and this is a theory with some factual weight, perhaps the people that make these products stoke such a furnace of contempt for the consumer that good sense never enters the equation.
In general we can handle most common visa/sponsorship situations.
Why does the north get more total eclipses? [video]
Off by 0.35% in your morning coffee, no problem.

Off from your intended vector by 0.35% when you're moving at 6500 m/s, and you're veering off course by 22 meters every second.
phones are computers after all... they just try to limit their features for some reason.
Not a whole lot of substance on that page, but the video shows that you first have to write a program before it will do anything. It too just looks like another compiler (and execution environment). An advanced compiler, to be sure, but there is no sign of it doing the job of the software engineer.
>95% of people used to work in agriculture. The machines took the AG jobs, and we're on net far better off.
I’ll definitely be trying out more of LFortran in the future.

For this post I really wanted to go deeper into the approach we’ve taken with flang, but I can see that LFortran is also a very strong choice here for running Fortran on Wasm.
I was similar, not really interested in graphics, just a nice programming environment. PCs had that stupid segmented address space (which was not ignorable at the programming language level), expensive tools, and crappy OSes. My Amiga 2000 had a flat address space, a nice C development environment, and multitasking actually worked. It really was ahead of its time, in combining a workstation-like environment and an affordable price.
> Is there any documentation anywhere for this?

PartyKit is open source (https://github.com/partykit/partykit/, MIT), so you could create your own back-end. The Socket.IO folks appear to have done this: https://blog.partykit.io/posts/party-io-a-socket-io-backend-...
OpenAI's Sora: How It Works, Pros and Cons for Filmmakers
A lot of companies are spending on it, so they kind of have to claim it will have business impact.
> This thread had been meant to call attention to the official announcement. I think it is clear systems should be updated out of caution. This thread has diverged from that point.

> I am going to go ahead and close the thread at this point.

It seems that discussing further mitigation steps is off topic in that thread. Unlike Debian and NixOS, Arch Linux devs don't appear to want to downgrade to 5.4 to get rid of code authored by the malicious developer.
>AI will shrink workforces within five years, say company execs... The wide-ranging poll of 2,000 executives, conducted by Swiss staffing firm Adecco Group in collaboration with research firm Oxford Economics, showed that 41% of them expect to employ fewer people because of the technology.

Isn't that the opposite of the title? ~60% of execs then don't expect this? Also, the execs don't really clarify what "fewer people" means, could be .001% fewer people.
FYI: The site keeps crashing the tab in Firefox 115.7.0esr.
Star Trek is a reflection of American society at the time.

Back in 1968 people were concerned about losing jobs to computers, just like they are today.

MCCOY: Jim, we've all seen the advances of mechanisation. After all, Daystrom did design the computers that run this ship.
KIRK: Under human control.
MCCOY: We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. When it comes to your job, that's different. And it always will be different.
KIRK: Am I afraid of losing command to a computer? Daystrom's right. I can do a lot of other things. Am I afraid of losing the prestige and the power that goes with being a starship captain? Is that why I'm fighting it? Am I that petty?
MCCOY: Jim, if you have the awareness to ask yourself that question, you don't need me to answer it for you. Why don't you ask James T. Kirk? He's a pretty honest guy.
> they've created a bespoke system of abstract beliefs

swatcoder, can you please tell me how you particularly manage to learn from your mistakes?

Some people create personal theories of how the world works, and then put their theories into action: A successful example is Charlie Munger and heres his talk explaining some of his excellent theories: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY

Some people overthink things and label things. That can be unhealthy, and Adam touches on that with his "Stroking the problem" section. But the opposite can be unhealthy too: not thinking at all and repeating over and over making the same mistakes.

> catchy names

Useful when communicating with others if it is an uncommon concept. I like to search for the perfect word or perfect catchphrase when thinking about a problem or solution because it helps my thinking.

> various example cases

How do you do it? Don't you look at specific issues you find in your own life? Examples yes? And then generalise from that?

I just don't understand what you're complaining about. The closest I can think is that you're anti-intellectual or you're a "Just do it" prosyletiser - the implication being that thinking is unnecessary and the problem.

Academic over-thinking is its own problem: is that your issue?

Like most things: we need to find the right balance. Thinking too little is bad in a different way from thinking too much.

> intellectualize and systematize and engineer things

I'm just gobsmacked at your choice of words: is systemizing and engineering bad? I define engineering as making good compromises. Maybe you could find some catchier phrases from what you are trying to say ;-). "intellectualize": is thinking good or bad?

I suspect I'm falling into the trap you mention - perhaps we both need to learn to write as well as Mastroianna!!
I still have very fond memories of endlessly dueling people online in Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast. I still feel it was the best skill based melee engine I have ever played, not sure if I ever even played the single player.

Even guns vs lightsabers was balanced, but saber dueling with matrix wall walking and other force powers was sublime.