skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this should be _easier_ than producing a realistic image from scratch

Think of this in terms of constraints. An image from scratch has self consistency constraints (this part of the image has to be consistent with that part) and it may have semantic constraints (if it has to match a prompt). An animation also has the self consistency constraints, but also has to be consistent with other entire images! The fact that the images are close in some semantic space helps, but all the tiny details become so important to get precisely correct in a new way.

Like, if a model has some weird gap where it knows how to make an arm at 45 degrees and 60 degrees, but not 47, then that's fine for from-scratch generation. It'll just make one like it knows how (or more precisely, like it models as naturally likely). Same with any other weird quirks of what it thinks is good (naturally likely): It can just adjust to something that still matches the semantics but fits into the model's quirks. No such luck when now you need to get details like "47 degrees" correct. It's just a little harder without some training or modeling insight into how an arm at 45 degrees and 47 degrees are really "basically the same" (or just that much more data, so that you lose the weird bumps in the likelihood).

I wouldn't be surprised if "just that much more data" ends up being the answer, given the volume of video data on the internet, and the wide applicability of video generation (and hence intense research in the area).
You know coca is the plant that we get cocaine from, right? The Incas ate it because of the effects of the cocaine. I think it’s a little crazy to suggest that people switch from sugar to cocaine for health reasons
I, really, wouldn't mind installing most of my software from Microsoft maintained repositories. The kinds of things that drive me nuts are when these are the ONLY place you can get things and you can't just add other repos like you can on any Linux setup. Managing distro variations doesn't really come into why I like to use centralized repositories.

If winget had appeared a decade or two earlier it might have replaced the need for every Windows app to ship an auto-updater.
We can probably cut this back and forth short just by linking to ProtonDB [0] and AreWeAntiCheatYet [1].

[0] https://ProtonDB.com

[1] https://AreWeAntiCheatYet.com

The Steam top 1000 games:

Rating System: ProtonDB Medals

29% Platinum

47% Gold

11% Silver

3% Bronze

4% Borked

In aggregate:

76% P+G (Games you can just play)

86% P+G+S (Games you can play with minor tweaks)

Anticheat:

154 Supported (45%)

39 Running (12%)

3 Planned (1%)

118 Broken (35%)

25 Denied (7%)
Playstation, GameCube, Wii, and Sega Emulator for iPhone Coming to App Store
Not sure how the article doesn't include this quote from British evolutionary biologist and geneticist J.B.S. Haldane: "If a god or divine being had created all living organisms on Earth, then that creator must have an inordinate fondness for beetles."
Assuming it happened as described, the likely reason is that their apps have been blocked/censored for years (i.e., they don't work) thanks to the Chinese Government.
Soyjack pointing -> 1,000s of years "RED/BLUE normal compromise".
Operating the restaurant at the current size might not provide enough revenue to pay for the expansion costs (more rent, renovation of the space, etc.).
The Windows Registry Adventure #1: Introduction and research results
I'm not implying anything of the sort. My point is that an unsupported assertion should not be treated as a well-supported truth. All we know right now is what a single person believes.

I am not questioning what Ibraheem believes. I'm saying that statements of fact require support.
I haven't read this new edition, but the previous ones are pretty decent for the why's and hows.

If you want to work on your "hairy c++ application" you'll benefit from understanding how "modern c++" it is (and what your toolchain supports).

Meyer's effective books are good with two caveats: first, they are really meant to improve practice for people who are already working in the language (e.g. don't do it that way, and here's why). Second, the older ones are now dated and some advice need updating to work with newer language spec.

If 3rd edition of this one lives up to previous, it should be a pretty good read but as others have mentioned the "Tour of C++" book is a good entry.
> I now have the feeling that all the info we need to live a healthy life is out there and that good health is slowly becoming a choice

While not incorrect, that's an interesting framing as your great-grandparents and most of their lineage already had all the needed info too. Cultures can't really survive hundreds or thousands of years without sorting out a reliable way for their members to thrive well enough, a knowledge that gets gradually and continuously encoded in their food traditions.

Our modern culture may be gaining insight into how to squeeze a little more wellness out of late life, or take a little more specific control when edge cases need attention, but those gains came on the tails of a dramatic disruption of cultural knowledge that was already there and already encoded in communities' daily intuitive eating practice.

We have finer and more evidenced ideas now, but it's going to take many generations to convert that from the intellectual, explicit knowledge we have now into a widespread practice that people no longer need to invest attention in.
I do not understand what your current research thesis, and it's validity, has to do with your employability. You will be employed to solve the problems that the organization have. These will generally be much more varied than can be addressed by any one piece of research. Your research work will almost in all cases be evaluated as proof that you are able to do challenging things, and that this indicates that you are capable of doing the work that they have. The work is rarely evaluated directly for its applicability.
Please consider some people might not enjoy working in that arrangement.

You can try to convince them by showing concrete benefits (for them or the company).

Some people won't have the personality for that or be neurodivergent enough that there is no way this will work for them.
It's reasonable to presume that a long-term implication of inculcating a "never talk to strangers" mentality into young children is the gradual decline of social trust, potentially leading to the collapse of civil society generally.

I think a t least some of the intense polarization, "culture war" acrimony, paranoia, and institutional dysfunction we're seeing today is attributable to the coming of age of people who were raised this way.
This (DuckDuckGo AI Chat) is currently separate from search results, and in any case we plan to offer settings to turn off any AI search integrations, similarly for how we do for instant answers and ads.
Have you tried thinking of the reasons? I can think of several:

* There's probably a small chance it actually would get fixed, and therefore a decent probability that reporting it would be a waste of their time.

* They needed a solution sooner than reporting it and waiting for fix to maybe eventually appear. Once the workaround was in place there was no need for a fix.

* Sometimes the people running projects you use can be hostile, which makes reporting stuff very unappealing and even stressful. Much better to avoid interacting with them if at all possible.

* They didn't know who to report it to, or how to report it.

* They simply didn't have time to report it.
And ruff has a bunch of the pyupgrade rules included, which has made it easy for me to start catching things like using List instead of list in py3.10+.
Yeah, to be fair I’m assuming tcp both on the iperf side (which I always use it for) and the alternative ntttcp tool does have TCP in the name although it appears they have UDP support as well(?)

I know UDP and QUIC comes with a ton of novel bottlenecks throughout the stack (even down to the NICs, no?), and at the very least tons of knobs, which warrants more custom tooling and keeping up with the latest in terms of OS/platform support. I can totally see how iperf isn’t suited for that.

Still, it’s a pretty strong and different message that Microsoft is sending on an official channel, which is unfortunate if it indeed is the case that iperf works just fine on windows with pretty standard flags (note that even on typical Linux recv buffers are constrained to ~6MiB so -P is standard for WAN saturation tests).

(Also good to see your relentless attention to engineering details as always. We used to work together some years back)
We've actually burned nearly enough carbon to double the atmospheric CO2 levels, but other sinks (eg, the acidifying oceans) have taken up enough that only about half stayed in the atmosphere.
Absolutely! Why? Because it's your ass that's on the line should any of your "self-motivated" deviations cause financial harm, injury, or death, and you are going to be held responsible for those damages.

No one with any brains wants to be "that" guy.

That's why we have "cookie cutter" houses and even office buildings. All the kinks have been legitimately worked out and they can just crank them out. Bespoke construction? Cost overrun city. Now you know why.
> The trip distances follow a power law

I'm sure they do. We disagree about whether the long tail should be handled by 1) buying a car which can handle it at the cost of the other 99% of the time, or 2) plane, train, renting a car, or extending your existing driving breaks to recahrge.

> the Teslas trapped in the road with no batteries this winter

As the stories themselves pointed out back then, many of the new owners did not know that preconditioning was something they had to do before being able to charge. That alone greatly exacerbated the problem.
Happened to be reading a book called "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us"

Nestle is one of the major players in the book. So this news is probably not a surprise for people around the food industry.

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/08129...
Precisely, I agree. There is nothing to suggest that it was the car wash that bricked the car. It likely would have failed without the car wash. It's pure speculation on the writers part, but it's a nice salacious headline that strikes me as pure laziness
We don't need a cockamamie time travel theory like this to explain why electrons all share certain properties like mass.

The entities of which there is only one instance are the fundamental constants. There is only one speed of light in vacuum, one Planck's constant and so on.

The properties of the electron arise due to some behavior of the underlying electric field, governed by equations, which contain fundamental constants.

The equations and constants explain why identical phenomena occur in locations separated by time and space.

The existence and pervasiveness of the constants is a mystery, to be sure. But constants are not particles; we don't need to postulate that they travel forwards and backwards through time. They exist across time and space, to be sure.
> Because even God can't skip ahead in those calculations just because its 'deterministic'. Something actually has to do the work to do the "determining".

I think you haven't internallized what "omniscient" actually means. Your statement is probably true about non-omniscient beings but I don't see how you can make that assertion about an omniscient state. More likely I suspect that you just don't believe omniscience is possible. There has been a LOT of theological discussion of this topic, most of which I am not familiar with.

I do believe in something like "omniscience", but base it in the ubiquity of math, not the omnipotence of an alleged creator. Mathematical structure exists independent of the human mind. When we calculate the result of a calculation or prove a new theorom, we are not creating something new, but uncovering pre-existing structure. This is why such truths can be independently discovered and verified. I think this mathematic structure is the fundemental nature of reality. Every possible variation of every possible simulation exists without needing any specifc "reality" to be running that simulation inside it. (Though, for every finite simulation, there would be infinite other finite simulations that contain it.)
> Apple has a choice just like Google: leave China.

> It's about Apple bending to China government for money.

I just think your implication that Google is a more moral actor than Apple is wrong.

Google left China due to cyber attacks and the risk of ongoing cyber attacks.

Google leadership wants to return to China and is happy to "bend to the China government". But Google employees are unhappy about this and are slowing the return.
That October 7th?

For basically the entire rest of world at this point - that day is now unfortunately much more strongly identified with the start of the genocidal campaign begun by the IDF (apparently with logistical support from Google) almost immediately thereafter. Which has unfortunately dwarfed the atrocities committed by Hamas on that day in both scope and intent.

Flag all you want. I am simply pointing out the fact that the net result of Israel's response to events of that day has been to create an enduring public relations disaster for itself (which will take decades to recover from), and to serve as a platform for an equally robust and enduring recruiting campaign for Hamas.

This is very obviously why people are saying "criticism has intensified since October 7th". Not because the criticisms are tied to the events of the day, as such.
Buy & Kill

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wave-of-acquisitions-...
Consciousness Explained [1] absolutely filled me with wonder during my university days.

[1]: https://www.amazon.ca/Consciousness-Explained-Daniel-C-Denne...
Cutting out sugar made such an improvement to my life that now whenever I see food companies trying to sell us shit and say it’s healthy I get inordinately angry with them.
At same clock frequency 6502 is quite a bit faster.
I remember reading studies about how parents diet had an impact on their kids through epigenetics.
The pad can get wedged under a sill in front of the pedal, making the car accelerate even when you release the pedal. This could kill people.
The problem I have with dark matter is the name. If I understand it correctly, its existence cannot be predicted. We observe strange results, so we explain it by inventing some strange new concept of mass that's otherwise non interactive.

For example, the dark matter might be mass gathering of otherwise non reactionary particles like neutrons, it could be wrinkles in spacetime that have a similar effect as massive normal matter bodies have, or they could be advanced civilizations that learned how to hide their star systems from the rest of the universe.

We simply don't know. I suppose we had to name it somehow, but the name just sounds wrong. It might not be matter at all. It is also not dark, it's non-reactive.

Why did they not rather choose something like spacetime wrinkles?
Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype
Yeah but we’re getting t shirts.
I don't believe I misunderstand anything. This would be an interesting case study. It is very convenient to blame an employee "going rogue" for a dangerous issue like this. The design wasn't even changed. They just used a lubricant (soap?) to slide it on.

This overall points out the immaturity in Tesla's manufacturing process if changes like this can happen and then occur or affect every vehicle of a particular type produced, does it not? Overall, it still seems like a "below the line" change. These can still be quite impactful (see: memory corruption bugs leading to compromise and functional exploits). But it is still more akin to a bug or production flaw than a design flaw.
I still stand by the fact that quitting sugar was the hardest addiction I’ve ever had to overcome - more so than even nicotine. I had to chew doublebubble sugar gum to ween myself off the dependance. Best choice I’ve ever made.
I started because I became interested in graphics and audio programming. Audio plugin development in particular is completely dominated by C++.
Yea many things point to it having been mass hysteria and people too stupid to shift their cars in neutral if the throttle really did fail.
Most websites these days use Crimeflare or equivalent already anyways which is a MITM proxy, so you're still not safe there either.
> This still has the best SOCKS5 proxy abilities, even over normal Firefox

Could you please elaborate a bit on what exactly do you mean by that?

E.g. in Firefox one can do the following:

- Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels in Putty connection options.

- Add a dynamic tunnel there.

- Start the session.

- Then enter 127.0.0.1 and the chosen port as a SOCKS v5 proxy in Firefox options.

Congratulations! A poor man's VPN is ready.

An extension like FoxyProxy can be added for further convenience.

What can be done in SeaMonkey on top of that?
The (public) debate is not about the science, and hasn't been for a while. It's maneuvering to avoid getting stuck with the check.
SelfControl for MacOS - let's you set a domain blocklist and a time limit. It's pretty tamper proof too, surviving reboots, etc. Really helps me buckle down when I'm resistant to getting work done!
Way to Regulate Social Media Has Been Staring Us Right in the Face
And the history of that filtering even predates digital lines, due to frequency multiplexing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-carrier
Can you give an indication of what "next iteration" means in terms of timeline (even just ballpark)?
Technology Carbon Standard
The video in thread says park also overrides the accelerator.
I really wish we could talk about new kinds of hardware without the comparison to the human brain. SNN models capture some characteristics of biological neurons ... but those attributes aren't at all specific to humans.

Representing the way information is represented during computation (via spike rate-coding or whatever), using far less power, changing the interaction between computation and memory -- all of these can be exciting and interesting without pretending that it's closely related to human brains.
JEP draft: Exception handling in switch
Just to nitpick, while commonly accepted, the idea that CO2 increase is anthropogenic is routinely disputed by climate skeptics [1].

The argument generally is that warming temperatures cause rising CO2. This in turn is a fact not disputed by climate scientists, only that it is not sufficient to explain the current rise in CO2.

[1] A pro-AGW debunking of the common argument https://skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm
My understanding is that car advertisements are to fight buyers remorse mainly. You just bought some F150 and are having second thoughts, all of a sudden you see a commercial where its going up and down various mountains.
Kagi search has something similar, and quite functional.

https://kagi.com/fastgpt
I would start with Python instead of C++, if you just want to learn a useful tool as a hobby. The official tutorial is a good starting point: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
> Do you really want Microsoft to maintain a centralized software repository from which you, yes, you, are supposed to install almost all of the software you'd like to use? Do you, really?

I'd actually love for that, yes. Just google "download VLC" - the top link does refer to VLCs official site (probably because they paid for or got donated the top spot), the second one goes to an IT newspaper, the third one to something uBlock flags as badware risk, the fourth one another newspaper, the fifth one someone offering VLC with a newsletter subscription, and finally the official page.

And that's the reality for a lot of popular Windows software. Part of that is obviously the responsibility of Google that can't even keep the top software search results free of advertising grifters (the newspapers) or malware, but the larger part is on Microsoft for not offering a centralized store for decades.

In contrast, on Ubuntu a simple `sudo apt-get install vlc` is enough, and (bar a supply chain corruption) I can be reasonably sure that I get a stable, unmodified version of VLC. Oh, and when I run a `sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc` it is gone... in contrast to a lot of Windows software with badly written uninstallers (because MSI is an utter PITA to develop against), that leaves remains everywhere across the system.
ReScript 11.1 is out Unleashing ReScript from React
Incredibly sad news. I don't have much to add but to share some of my favorite work by him, one is an essay exploring Jaynes idea of the Bicameral Mind, and another is a talk he gave on Ontology and Philosophy of Science. Always admired his ability to bridge disciplines and look at ideas from a slightly unorthodox angle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5OZ1AZ5Vk

https://www.julianjaynes.org/pdf/dennett_jaynes-software-arc...
Llama 3 70B tied with GPT-4 for first place on LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard
I really like the way this has been added to the UI. It's off to the side so I can just use DDG as God intended if I want to, but also is distinct enough that I discovered it prior to seeing it on HN. It makes it clear this is done in a DDG private way (which is one of the things I'm wary about with ChatGPT on its own) and offers multiple models/vendors in one place.

Pretty good! Thumbs up from me.
I was able to get up to 35-37 Gbps between my host-guest with a virtio NIC with the outdated iperf3.exe, which I did indeed acquire from the site mentioned in the article. That seems like plenty of perf, to me, considering the fattest link I could possibly have in my house would be ~35Gbps if I aggregated all the ports on my switch. (... and filled my Threadripper system with nothing but NICs, I guess?)

I actually get ~7 Gbps, not 10Gbps, out to my real network. I haven't dug into what the issue is but when hitting my real network the guest clearly becomes bottlenecked by CPU, so I doubt iperf3 is to blame. (The host does not have this problem despite being on the same bridge, so I'm guessing there is some host-guest optimization I'm hitting in the virtio driver in the former case.)

Now that's a low-latency, high-bandwidth link. If you're testing "high latency, high-bandwidth" as purported in the article, and that link is apparently ~40Gbps or fatter, you're probably running on a "real server" in a "real datacenter" somewhere. I can tell you I wouldn't be burning a Windows Server license just to verify my L2/L3 connectivity is configured correctly.

I am sure MS would love if I bought two licenses of their proprietary operating system just to use this proprietary network testing client, but my pockets are not infinitely deep. (As I already spent all that money on the Cisco-branded optics. /s)
A major reason they don't make the news is that many aren't that critical.

The most serious recall I had was for an electric harness that could catch fire (or cause a fire?), one of the least serious was a light (not a headlight or taillight, a light in the door that illuminated the ground and lower part of the vehicle when you opened it) would just stop working.

The former may have made the news, I don't know, the latter had no reason to. I've even had a couple (specifics forgotten) that were entirely aesthetic (interior, not exterior like issues with paint peeling, that was on a car from the 90s).
Another new round of articles about an iOS feature that Android has had for years. I was playing N64 games on an Android tablet back in 2013
>You have to implement the C version manually

There's no "manually" about it. There's only one way to implement it in C, ie eight booleans and eight uint8_ts as I described. Going from there to the further optimization of adding a `:1` to every `bool` field is a simple optimization. Reimplementing `Option` and the bitpacking of the discriminants is much more effort compared to the baseline implementation of using `Option`.