skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maze vs. labyrinth was way more interesting

The article says the Minotaur myth’s labyrinth was “obviously a maze”, but I doubt it.

In the myth, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread (a clew) on the advice of Daedalus, the creator of the labyrinth [1]. And “Theseus followed Daedalus' instructions given to Ariadne: go forwards, always down, and never left or right” [3] "till he found the Minotaur asleep in the inmost recess" [2].

Getting a "clew" instead of a map from the labyrinth's creator makes me think it's likely symbolic... or that Daedalus expected Theseus to do a DFS search? Plus the “clew” wasn't strictly needed, since reversing those instructions for finding the Minotaur would've got him out again.

That makes me think the Minotaur was trapped in a proper single-path labyrinth.

Of course it’s just interpretation, and some think differently [4], which makes this way more interesting!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus#Theseus_and_the_Minota...

[2]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...

[3]: https://www.hellenic.org.au/post/theseus-and-the-minotaur-th...

[4]: Like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth#cite_ref-5 . But note the book it cites, from my reading of it, actually says something more nuanced and subject to interpretation.
Better get to work then or ask ourselves why that is… and like really ask like think at least one step below the surface.
Why "good luck?" I'm an avid biker (the manually powered type, mostly, but sometimes also snowmobiles), and most 1-20 (I guess?) degree turns that I make do not involve turning my front wheel at all (in the sense that: I don't move my hands consciously).

Now, for wider turns, you do need to turn your front, but even then, it's usually in the opposite direction!

Anyway, on snow mobiles, you really don't want to need your steering handles, as they don't control a wheel, but skis! And staying on the trail mostly involves reducing speed and, well, leaning. By the time you really need your steering handles, or your brakes, you're really already in trouble...
I don't even use bog-standard symbol-level autocomplete. I don't want video game shit happening in my FOV when I'm trying to write code. A big part of it is what you mention: the jarring context shift between typing the thing and checking to see if the completion of the thing is correct.

There is evidence that ADHD sufferers are more distracted by such "helpful" IDE features. But I think we're going to just have to retrain our brains to accommodate them because we'd be leaving productivity on the table otherwise.
Delta for free in the regular App Store everywhere but the EU where we have to download a paid app store to install it, so it begins.
I mean, this is a bit subtle. With a fixed front fork, it's very difficult to get a bike to lean. It's just the case that with a free front fork, shifting balance may be enough to get the wheel to counter steer, which can initiate a deeper lean.

Having said that, it's 100% the case that a 2 wheeled bike with rounded tires in a lean will turn. Just consider that the circumference of the tire shortens as you approach the edge, it must travel a shorter distance per revolution. so without sliding, it clearly needs to turn.

In-fact, at speed, the lean of a bike is the primary factor that contributes to the turn.
Good riddance to these ideologues. It's a shame that the announcement shows no trace of remorse for the crimes they inspired (e.g. at FTX) or the lives that have been ruined by the cults to which they lent academic legitimacy. Instead, their demise is chalked up to some bland moaning about "administrative headwinds".

Realistically, we're probably only looking at a brief respite before they regroup under some other benevolent-sounding name. Be on the lookout for their next incarnation, and let's hope that Oxford won't repeat the mistake of allowing them to evangelize under the seal of a great university.

(Edit in response to causal's question below):

They legitimized longtermism and pseudo-rational AI panic, which transformed much of EA into an apocalyptic sect, with all the high-demand group dynamics that come with it. Their research created an air of urgency and expediency which, among other bad outcomes, inspired the devoted EAs at FTX to justify their crimes to themselves. These crimes resulted in privation and a few suicides for their innocent depositors. To this day, there are EAs who rationalize these crimes against their outgroup as not that bad, considering that the "Future of Humanity" is at stake.

You can look at the movement and find plenty of other negative effects of this urgency and expediency, but for me personally, the FTX crimes are what woke me up to the true nature of these hazardous ideas.
Seriously. People have ended up dead from calling the police about things far less likely to cause concern/confusion than "I have dead human parts in my bathroom"
and everytime they do, they ARE closer to being correct
Let's not forget that nowadays each pointers takes 8 bytes (64 bits) instead of 4 bytes like it was the case on 32 bits systems most of us grew up using, and often have the numbers for in mind. Executables are bigger because of that, and so are their stack and heap (probably not twice as big but probably not too far from that!).
I don't know about inappropriate, but if I got a chatGPT response like that, I'd absolutely take it in the same way as that salesperson did. At best, it would come off as insincere. At worst, as a sign of disrespect.
Luxo Jr got jacked.
Yes. Devs who don't know sales are obviously not their demographic, they'll be speaking to layers of other biz dev people before they even get to the execs, and each one knows exactly how to extract concessions and discounts, and the opposing salesperson knows exactly how much of a discount they can give. In this way, it is much more of an efficient market than most devs think.

Devs' reaction to all this is honestly the same as when a non-technical exec tells a dev why they "can't just get it done in a day, it shouldn't be that hard right?" People have their own competencies and are usually blind to others'.
Acquire a copy of windows long term service contract? LTSC is pretty stable and debloated.
Unfortunately we've demonstrated a willingness and ability to throw the 4th amendment out the window (see the Patriot Act) if you can reference a scary enough boogeyman.

Normally the Supreme Court as an institution works to keep the other branches in check, but it feels like we're in a new phase of the judicial branch, nowadays, at least from a 4th Amendment perspective.
And posting that to robot tiktok
My take is that this happens because the industry at large, especially web, does not treat engineers as proper engineers, and instead makes engineers do all sorts of other work. This leads to the type of engineering work that accumulates a lot of damage relatively quickly and needs to be rewritten over and over again.

The ideal engineering solution, even for UIs, should be something that is abstracted properly, written only once, and then accumulates new features without any friction whatsoever. The new features rest on top of the platform seamlessly, giving users more options with no downsides.

A good UI, imho, is one that users can configure, it only adds new things and never take out existing features, and is robust, reliable and responsive. This is a serious technical challenge and most organizations are not setup in a way to solve this problem properly without the solution deteriorating and needing a rewrite... and yes in part it's because on the business side there is no perceptin that this is actually needed and so it is deemed easier to just rewrite and build something new every time.
Fair point, however. . .

Jesse had been out of wrestling for years before running for mayor of Brooklyn Park. You have to remember this was back in the late 80,s early 90's when there wasn't any internet or social media. I remember reading an article about him resolving some issue the voters brought to him thinking, "I had no idea the guy was still living in the state, let alone running a city as their mayor."

I will give you he did use his radio show to air his grievances and tell stories about his wrestling years and being a frogman (the precursors to the SEALs) so that did bring him back into the public spotlight. He ironically had always dabbled in politics, and even appeared on Howard Stern saying he was going to run for president with gulp Donald Trump who made a guest appearance with him talking about it when he was governor.

So you're right, by the time he ran for governor, he was back to being very well known and leveraged that to a degree where he had to give up his radio show in order to run for governor.
"Not everything worthwhile can be measured, and not everything that can be measured is worthwhile."
Checking it out...thank you so much
This is completely ignoring the contents of the ruling. I can only imagine deliberately so.
Yeah that head design doesn’t help things
People get invested in their work. And there are a lot of software people who make their work part of their identity, and so when they are accused of doing bad work they take is as a personal attack.
> all they have to show is CGI images

They do have 3d printed ~1/5 scale models, with fancy decals and all! Besides its Electric, why do you hate dolphins?
This looks pretty good.
Likewise, here. He's one of the most genuine and authentic folks out there, and the community is simply awesome.

It's not a "get rich quick" scheme by any stretch of imagination, because they teach how to grow your wealth slowly over time, in opposition to those who prefer to invest in uncertain stocks or go to a VC-backed startup.
Right?

This is exactly what I have been worried about and people tried to explain to tell me that, no this doesn't remove choice from me as a user.

When in fact it does, if I was in the EU (and if the US does something similar, likely here) if I wanted to download this I would have to use their store. The choice is being made for me by the developer.

It didn't take long to already have an example of this happening and bigger companies will likely follow suit.

So how exactly does this benefit users again and isn't all about appeasing developers?
It sounds similar to the faang employee buses in SF.

If the company provides cheap food it undercuts the local competition and the town as a whole suffers. Making the tax punitive like this would make the "price" of a subsidized company canteen very high. Either the employer would have to pay to subsidize and pay the employees more (so pay twice) or the policy would be unpopular. Or it's Sweden and everyone is fine with it because Sweden.
I think using an LLM to generate an initial draft is fine. Releasing what an LLM wrote without heavily modifying it is suspect.
The part I'm confused at is it doesn't seem that they are doomed, and end up being very successful companies. But I think this is likely due to lack of competition.

I recently did an internship at one of these big companies, doing ML. I'm a researcher but had a production role. Coming in everything was really weird to me from how they setup their machines to training and evaluation. I brought up that the way they were measuring their performance was wrong and could tell they overfit their data. They didn't believe me. But then it came to be affecting my role. So I fixed it, showed them, and then they were like "oh thanks, but we're moving on to transformers now." Main part of what I did is actually make their model robust and actually work on their customer data! (I constantly hear that "industry is better because we have customers so it has to work" but I'm waiting to see things work like promised...) Of course, their transformer model took way more to train and had all the same problems, but were hidden a few levels deeper due to them dramatically scaling data and model size.

I knew the ML research community had been overly focused on benchmarks but didn't realize how much worse it was in production environments. It just seems that metric hacking is the explicitly stated goal here. But I can't trust anyone to make ML models that themselves are metric hackers. The part that got me though is that I've always been told by industry people that if I added value to the company and made products better that the work (and thus I) would be valued. I did in an uncontestable manner, and I did not in an uncontestable way. I just thought we could make cool products AND make money at the same time. Didn't realize there was far more weight to the latter than the former. I know, I'm naive.
An 84% drop in specific nutrient uptake seems non-trivial, and the proposed method of action seems simple (enzymes catalyze).

If you care about it, it's worth mentioning.

Especially since the proposed fix is simple: eat high PPO foods (which themselves may be beneficial) at different times than foods heavy in nutrients they impact.
https://archive.ph/Y5ntn
If you're not feeling the increasing dissatisfaction and worsening conditions that a lot of research reports, that's great for you, but I wouldn't call it nonsense.
Trollfish : a chess engine that prioritizes draws
https://web.archive.org/web/20240417093737/https://www.techn...
People always conceptualize business deals as win-lose: one side got the better of the other and someone was ripped off.

In reality, good business is all about win-win or win-win-win.

The blueberry producer won. The person who did the ad won. And the consumer won, because blueberries are healthier for you than like 90% of other food choices.

There's no practical difference between being 'manipulated' and showing you a reasonable argument for adopting a healthier diet.
> turns that I make do not involve turning my front wheel at all (in the sense that: I don't move my hands consciously).

In all likelihood you are doing it unconsciously, generally, as one goes to initiate, say a right-hand turn, as you begin to lean right, you also apply a slight additional pressure to the right handle bar, which steers the wheel to the left, this initiates counter-steer which leans the bike to the right. With a stable bike, and a fixed front fork, it would be exceedingly difficult to initiate a lean significant enough to navigate most roads at the speed that we do.
Do android and iOS stores have undisclosed fee structures for high revenue or high usage apps? I was under the impression that the fees were at least transparent, even if they do represent monopolistic rent seeking.
As we enter an era of wide scale robotic deployment, we need to think long and hard about what the maintenance bottleneck will look like. We need to advocate now for reliable and open upgrades, replacement parts, service documentation, and diagnostics.

Right to repair will be even more important for this technology than autos or general computing.
The leaning is the primary factor when it comes to turning a bike. It's why forks are angled forward, instead of straight down. You can even turn while keeping the handlebars straight, just by leaning.
Taking a gravity and then performing an impossible physical modification so you can make conjectures on the model is nonsense.

You can't take an model, apply an impossible scenario and then claim the model is invalid because it can't account for this scenario that you admit is impossible.
Well, for one, many areas now require "qualified majority vote" instead of unanimous decision.

Few key countries (Germany, France and Italy) got their voting weights in both the Council of Ministers and the European Council increased at the expense of everyone else (witch Germany's voting power doubling).

European Central Bank got official recognition.

European Court of Justice got its jurisdiction expanded.
Yes I'm running a local web server with a totally client side app :)
No but there's also no guarantee that anyone you pay a salary to will continue to do a good job, in both cases it's a judgement call of whether the risk is worth it. I personally think anyone earning that much is obscene, and that Musk isn't useful to Tesla any more, but my opinion doesn't disprove their judgement that it's worth paying him.
Nothing to do with this, quite the opposite.
Spare me your petty questions! They spring from a brain too meager to comprehend my reality. Now taste my power!
> There was tremendous pressure on students to be ready for a college degree.

Yes, I lived it. I felt the pressure too. I even remember having to endure a phone call with an adult family friend who was practically crying because I wasn't going to college. That was painfully uncomfortable, and illustrative of just how stupid it was getting.

But I can also do math... Facts and logic supersede any attempts to pull at heartstrings.

Perhaps the bigger question is: Why are we accepting students into college if they can't do basic math? College should not be a replacement for a failed elementary school experience, surely?

> if you weren't going to college or going into a vocational program, you were going into the military.

I'm not sure this stands up. The majority of people in that cohort did not attend college during that time. Nor did the equivalent cohort before and not today either. You seem to be living in a bubble.

Yeah, maybe a small group of people were banished from their parents wings and would have otherwise been left the streets if they weren't able to secure student loans to cover the cost of rent, but this can't be any meaningful chunk of the population. Especially when you consider that college students, statistically, come from the wealthiest families.

Furthermore, the recovery from that economic decline is considered to have taken only two years from crash to full recovery. One wouldn't have needed to rack up that much debt at a budget school before they were able to get back on their feet.

> There are no rewards to having a large chunk of your population so indebted that they don't engage in the life milestones that allow the economy to grow for the next 20 years.

Right, so free up mortgage debt, then. It's not great either, but I think we can at least agree that we want people to keep on having homes. We don't want people to continue to waste their time in college. If you perversely send the message that it's okay to waste that time because someone else will pay for it, people will keep on doing it. Bad actions need consequences.

> You're angry at the wrong people.

No, the problem is clearly those who didn't do the math. Even after I warned them[1]! This outcome was painfully obvious even in the 90s. But, okay, explain to me why my sacrifice in skipping out on the fun of college in order to build wealth should come with even more sacrifice so that those who chose fun get to keep on having fun? When is my time to have fun? Why do you want to punish me for doing the 'right' thing?

[1] I'm not famous, so fair enough that doesn't go so far, but it was also talked about quite a bit in the mainstream media by the time the turn of the century came around. I was hardly the only person able to do the math. Some people just didn't want to listen, or thought they knew better.
Around 2012 XFCE would use around 448MB. That's more than a decade ago.
> Some schools, like Cornell University and MIT, have created colleges of computing which allows students to remain hyper-focused on the field of computer science without having to take courses outside of these colleges

Is that actually true at MIT? As far as I can tell from their website undergraduate students of computing at MIT are still subject to MIT's General Institute Requirements [1]. That includes a Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement [2].

The HASS requirement includes both a breadth requirement (at least one class from each of arts, humanities, and social sciences) and a depth requirement (3 or 4 classes from one particular field in one of those categories). Here's a list of the fields you can use for the depth requirement [3].

[1] https://registrar.mit.edu/registration-academics/academic-re...

[2] https://registrar.mit.edu/registration-academics/academic-re...

[3] https://registrar.mit.edu/registration-academics/academic-re...
Presumably to encourage people to subscribe to the AltStore, which doesn't feel like a very classy move. (Update below – it might be because of Apple's CTF.)

This is in addition to a somewhat dubious licensing clause on the Delta GitHub repo that violates the GPL, under which most of the emulator cores it uses are licensed: https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta/issues/296

On the other hand, due to how Apple's EU "compliance" is implemented (opting into the new business terms is all-or-nothing per legal entity, not per account), I believe it might be impossible for the developer to now publish any apps in the EU App Store without paying the CTF anyway, so it does all go back to Apple's malicious compliance in the end.
No, I hate to disagree so unequivocally, but you pretty much never pivot your front wheel on a bike to turn!

I have a cargo bike with a lockable front wheel, and even if I forget to unlock that, I can still drive, even though it's unpleasant.

That unpleasantness mostly comes from being unable to turn my front wheel in the opposite direction before leaning in to the actual turn direction, though.

This is on a manually powered bike, though, so maybe things are different on a motor bike? But I sort-of doubt it, since the physics are the same...
> due to lack of competition.

So let's compete! What are they selling? What prevents competitors from springing up?
Emad said it will be the same as before on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1c6awnl/co...
Because... the developer didn't swallow Apple's fee for you?

Your decision is to pay Apple's fee that they claim is fair, or not use the app. I don't really see how we can shake our fists at the developers and publishers for not sponsoring the distribution of their FOSS app. It's very clearly the Unity-esque installation fee that is the problem here.
[a random internet opinion]

If the salesperson provided negative feedback by email instead of in realtime with their voice, ChatGPT is not particularly rude.

Email is case-making via putting-it-in-writing. ChatGPT is a reasonable means of adding to the written record.

And to be clear, the salesperson is case-making. That's why they escalated to you. It's primadrama not teamwork. Good luck.
I think it's real, but any good texture artist would include scuffs and scratches on the model.
Whose fault is it that it has to be a paid app store? Blame Apple for their ridiculous policies that essentially require it.
Gecko Robotics built a $600M company from a college project
It wasn't until the two-ways that I even kind of wanted one. I remember being at the mall with a group of kids and one of the girls got paged by her mom and we had to go around to find a pay phone for her to check in and I recall thinking 'well that's stupid, I just check in when I get somewhere and when I leave, she's just carrying an annoying reminder to go find a payphone'

Once kids started sending little messages with them, I wanted one. Then they had fun colors and transparent cases. Luckily my nokia brick phone was just a few years away, half a life-time then, but just a few years in hindsight. ;)

None of my friends at that time were drug dealers, but they liked to joke they were because of the stigma.
Obama opposed Proposition 8 [1]. I'm not sure about Hilary, but Bill also opposed it [2]. So no, Eich's position was not the same. His position was that special legislation needed to be passed to take away rights from LGBTQ Californians.

Proposition 8 was very obviously a controversial issue at the time.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Obama-opposes-proposed-b...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20081104193633/http:/www.noonpro...
Totally agree! We're currently quite early in the transition, and the tech is not ready to stand on it's own, but the future is bright!