skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, as long as we're talking in ratios instead of absolute amounts. The difference between "a pinch of baking powder" vs "5 grams of baking powder" is about a factor of 20. I think the main differences between baking and other cooking are that: 1) There are often very large ratios of certain ingredients in baking which -- except for spices -- is not generally the case in other cooking; 2) You can often taste the food in an intermediate stage when cooking, and adjust the ratios -- e.g. for spices -- which is not generally as useful when baking.

Of course using a scale is a good way to keep the ratios from getting too out of wack, and I usually do it too when baking and almost never when cooking.
As I said, there is no research.

But there is also much anecdotal evidence it helps.
The title is a little bit misleading, Fugaku stills exists phisically. This project is about being able to replicate the software environment used in Fugaku on AWS.
When I used G-Hub, I could also save to the mouse. I not longer use Windows, but there is also a Linux native program to configure Logitech gaming mouses, Piper. https://github.com/libratbag/piper
Do those factors also affect how much volume you need?
I quite like it.

There was going to be an uncanny valley regardless, and BD clearly decided to lean into it.
When I saw 'Sydney 2052' for a split second I felt like I was in a sci-fi movie :D
Also the new swimsuits inspired by penguin feathers.
I think that holds true for all good hardware companies, I can't think of a single one that couples it with good software? I suppose some people would argue Apple (I don't agree, love the hardware though) and the further you stray from computers and 'big tech' the worse it gets.

I have a lovely Marantz AVR that has a mediocre onboard menu/settings system (for a start, this is a 4k receiver, maybe we could get the graphics in 1920x1080 at least? The Sony I had for a decade or so prior was the same, just stepped down in both expectation and reality according to age) and a mobile app apparently by a first year intern. Correction, about 5 mobile apps, read the tables in the descriptions for which one you need for your model number, they're all called approximately the same thing. It's one of very few in my 'so bad I just gave up and uninstalled it' category - I even have and use one from some AGIXH type 'brand' thermometer that's fixed to a bizarre resolution/ratio, needs a pull to refresh every time you open it, and refuses to remember that you want your degrees centigrade; just for some perspective on what I'll put up with.
I wish there was something like a second hand store where you can just drop your stuff for 10% of its price on eBay.

I don't want to deal with anything. Not wait for someone to pick it up. Not wrap it in a parcel and bring it to the post office. Not sign up for some service. Nothing. Just drop my stuff, get a little bit of money and am done with it.
Most RPi style single-board computers (SBC) are passively cooled. Some perform better with a heatsink, some heatsinks come with a fan, but (for most use cases) it's not really needed.

Passive cooling went away during the 80s/90s homecomputer -> PC transition. But modern tech has brought it back - provided you choose form factor & performance expectations appropriately (even though modern SBCs are crazy fast compared to Amiga or Atari ST era machines).
What's the point - this has been done dozens of times in various industries?
Cyc was an interesting project - you might consider it as the ultimate scaling experiment in expert systems. There seemed to be two ideas being explored - could you give an expert system "common sense" by laboriously hand-entering in the rules for things we, and babies, learn by everyday experience, and could you make it generally intelligent by scaling it up and making the ruleset comprehensive enough.

Ultimately it failed, although people's opinions may differ. The company is still around, but from what people who've worked there have said, it seems as if the original goal is all but abandoned (although Lenat might have disagreed, and seemed eternally optimistic, at least in public). It seems they survive on private contracts for custom systems premised on the power of Cyc being brought to bear, when in reality these projects could be accomplished in simpler ways.

I can't help but see somewhat of a parallel between Cyc - an expert system scaling experiment, and today's LLMs - a language model scaling experiment. It seems that at heart LLMs are also rule-based expert systems of sorts, but with the massive convenience factor of learning the rules from data rather than needing to have the rules hand-entered. They both have/had the same promise of "scale it up and it'll achieve AGI", and "add more rules/data and it'll have common sense" and stop being brittle (having dumb failure modes, based on missing knowledge/experience).

While the underlying world model and reasoning power of LLMs might be compared to an expert system like Cyc, they do of course also have the critical ability to input and output language as a way to interface to this underlying capability (as well as perhaps fool us a bit with the ability to regurgitate human-derived surface forms of language). I wonder what Cyc would feel like in terms of intelligence and reasoning power if one somehow added an equally powerful natural language interface to it?

As LLMs continue to evolve, they are not just being scaled up, but also new functionality such as short term memory being added, so perhaps going beyond expert system in that regard, although there is/was also more to Cyc that just the massive knowledge base - a multitude of inference engines as well. Still, I can't help but wonder if the progress of LLMs won't also peter out, unless there are some fairly fundamental changes/additions to their pre-trained transformer basis. Are we just replicating the scaling experiment of Cyc, just with a fancy natural language interface?
I believe the technical term is 'foreshadowing'.
Earlier discussions were all flagged...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072295

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072892

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40074333
> The design itself is also a little more humanoid. Similar to bipedal robots like Tesla’s Optimus, the new Atlas now has longer limbs, a straighter back, and a distinct “head” that can swivel around as needed.

Must suck to always have your cutting edge tech compared with one of Elon's toys.
Western economies depend on outsourcing to China and taking full advantage of their corruption and lack of labor rights and regulations. Talk about "tactics" and rules is simply hypocrisy when the West has no problem using autocratic regimes to undermine their own principles for the sake of their own self interest.
They are just showing off the new articulation capabilities.
While your comment on the bureaucracy of the EU is reasonable and realistic, the comment on the use (or lack of it) of most science has very little to do with Europe.

I've spent literal years implementing the newest natural language processing papers in practice and over 90% of them cannot be replicated or are replicable but the results are fabrications (generally statistical lies or other types of misrepresentation). The text of the paper is almost never in line with the actual numbers and the numbers are not in line with reality.

Perhaps ironically I did feel like I was right to leave the academic world. I wouldn't like to professionally wade through the intellectual equivalent of shit for decades on end. A few years were more than enough.
Current? Hmm, Postgres is the best answer here, but I do have a fair amount of sqlite when there's only 1 write process. Lets also admit to the python pickled flat files lol.
> in humans

Nails are a much older "invention of evolution" than humans: so we have to investigate there...

> how do nails and hairs manage to grow only in one direction

Like all things evolution: nails that grow backwards to not have an advantage (prolly a disadvantage), where nails that grow forwards have an advantage (climbing, clawing, scratching).
How much bigger is CERN than other circular accelerators?

How big would a "AI CERN" server farm need to be relative to the biggest ones in the world?
What you should know about FIPS as a developer
Nature officially becomes a musician, earning royalties for environmental causes
Just curious, when you say you made it, you mean from scratch with flour & water? What's your recipe?
TIL! Thank you for sharing - love me my chemistry after all...

For those who are curious: it fends off harmful EM radiation

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1997/hm2.html#:~:text=A%20th....
Open-source: Chrome extension to automatically scrape website tables/lists
> The efforts should focus not only on physical and life sciences, but also on humanities and social sciences

:)

> and they should ensure that AI systems are aligned with “European values”, the scientific advisors say.

:(
> The Quake engine was iirc the first "real" 3D engine.

There were many 3D engines before Quake. You had a bunch of Micropose combat flight sims, a ton of 3d driving games, even Elite on the BBC micro.

Hell, I'd written some 3D graphics on the Atari ST before Quake.

Quake was the first 3D texture mapped, dynamically lit, first person shooter...maybe...depending on your definition. It was certainly one of the first to have that ran at frame rates around 30fps.

As others have said, Descent was also around the same time too.
With the viable markets you wouldn't need nearly so much investment. People can make money from this; they'll invest.
Main discussion is here:

"An electric new era for Atlas"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064105

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I use Shortcat all the time which relies heavily on the accessibility tree.

Screen readers / accessibility tools don't use the semantic web. The semantic web doesn't exist, it refers to the Tim Berners-Lee vision of documents being XML or RDF data structures with schemas, transformed into pixels using stylesheets and XSL:T. It never happened for various reasons.
Who can compete in this new AI world with big tech
If you don’t join big tech for AI jobs what hope do you have as a researcher or AI hobbyist for the future?
Common things are common, so going through common things first doesn't strike me as wrong. If someone suffers from something really exotic then I'd argue that is what specialists are for.

The 10 minute window is more an external/financial constraint, I'd say.
Speaking of anomalous geology, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this evening, I was reading about survey grade compasses, and they are balanced to account for magnetic dip, the closer you get to the poles the more dip you have. And the manufacturer helpfully provided a map to help you pick the best dip correction. Looking at the credited source(the world magnetic model) for a bit greater resolution... And, what the heck is that in the south Atlantic ocean.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/Miller...

I think it is this, There is a large(very large) density structure in the mantle in that general area and it appears to drive weak van allen fields in the south atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly
Kleinanzeigen is not a thing in Austria?
Post mentions the downside of this: you have to deal with _people_. I don’t necessarily feel comfortable with strangers coming to my house, and don’t really have time or energy to coordinate meeting people. I see value in this idea over marketplace.
Yes. Or to go even older, this is a rehash of consignment stores/estate sales/liquidation centers, but with the internet involved.
Real landlines are a rarity these days, most stuff is VoIP. In any case, I was talking about getting an emergency call to the person wearing a pager (as in the case of doctors or other on call people), not the reliability of calling 911/999/112/whatever. Any mobile device is going to be more useful than a landline in that situation because the doctor could easily be out at the shops or having lunch. Pagers were invented for that particular scenario.
'Gospel' means you don't have evidence for something or can't prove it practically, meaning it relies on story/word of mouth, which is why it's generally associated with religion and not science (or should not be anyways).
Russia is a minor player compared to China, a distraction that was welcomed by China with open arms as it helps divide and weaken the West. I understand that Russia has a much bigger impact on Europe than on the US, but strategically speaking, China is the only one actually capable of influencing the world to embrace despotism and collectivism at the expense of freedom.
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My 8mo pregnant wife and 4yo daughter just walked away completely unscathed from a 40mph T-bone collision where the other driver blew a stop sign. Their car was hit so hard it spun around twice. The impact was directly into the driver side, where they were both sitting. By the time I got there barely 5 minutes later my daughter was sitting and joking with the police on scene.

Found out later the VW Atlas essentially has armor plating in the side, which spread the side impact out from the door into the frame. Didn’t know that when we bought it, but we sure bought another one quick.
> Seems like it turned out to be optimal to stick to two

You can't conclude that. Evolution is noisy and random.

Besides, birds are not unambiguously the most optimized flying vertebrates around.
Some regulation would help - like forbidding charging station to requiring apps or any form of payment that's not available without internet connection or external equipment.
> The many scientists trained with this funding; many of them will end up in the US, and maybe of them will end up in European companies, but not in any position that would make them use any of their acquired skills.

This is (my simplified version of) Zimbabwe's problem[0]. They heavily invested in education, which is fantastic, but there was no economy to absorb their talents into, so the educated youth left for South Africa and onwards.

As James Carville would say on this topic: "It's the economy, stupid."
This is always such a weird flex. There are so many things I use my smartphone for, 99.9% of which is NOT being a short leash for anyone to communicate with me. I can't remember the last time I had a conversation on my phone.

Spotify/Audible/etc in my car. Google maps/Apple maps. When I go camping I have overlanding/camping/blm apps that are constantly updated with openings, etc. Weather apps so I know to put the top of my jeep/car on to not get rained in. Uber/Lyft of which I use multiple times a week. Bank apps. Investment apps. Checking the news/hockey/whatever when I'm out and about. Looking up facts my friends and I argue over while knocking back beers. Checking to see if anyone has stolen/broken into my car. Launching my botvac. Controlling my AC from anywhere. Plex..

Everyone survived without them, sure, but everyone survived without computers for a long time and now they've given us massive convenience.

It's far more a computer in my pocket than a telephone.
Not OP, but ‘collabos’ was a slang word for ’traitor’, describing French nationals who collaborated with the German military occupiers of France during World War 2 (a synonym for ‘quisling’).

Source:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/collabo#French

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/collaborateur#
This is one of those areas where anecdotes can be quite valuable, because there seems to be no real downside risk to a piercing aside from the money spent and possible infection, but if there's even a .01% chance it could stop debilitating chronic pain, then sure, you might make a valid decision to try it even though there isn't a study supporting it.
I think it would do us some good to worry as much about the workforce implications of these tools at least as much as we worry about things like AGI/Skynet.

Four years ago UBI was being widely discussed. Now as we get closer to needing it, discussion has all but disappeared.

IMO, the biggest challenge going forward is not technological, but instead it's convincing powerful, very dogmatic individuals, that what is essentially redistribution of wealth is a necessary thing.
> evolution doesn’t ‘invent’ anything

Really? I think it kind of does invent. Trial and error. Back propagation. Mutation. Some randomness at conception. Sure it's a personification, but not a bad one.
Pawn shops exist and will give you about that percentage for your stuff.
Oh man that was my desktop for about 3 years.

Had an already fairly obsolete dual Pentium 3 Dell precision workstation which was spray painted black because it had gone embarrassingly yellow and looked like someone had peed up it.

Edit: looked it up, Precision 420. Matrox, ECC, dual P3, SCSI disks. Felt like royalty owning that.
oh god is AI-native now a thing? Cloud-native was bad enough
Half of the control panel dialogues are from ancient windows versions, the other half is recent stuff that gets changed every second update. Bonus point: The online documentation has very detailed instructions for some UI that does not get shipped anymore.
You can order it online and have it delivered.

https://www.amazon.com/matzah/s?k=matzah
> where I'm left on my own to implement everything instead of using existing tools.

Fair enough, I had to configure the things I wanted "manually" (e.g. lid, inactivity timeout, brightness, ...) but then I was happy with the flexibility and control.

But I understand your point.
Yes, but unless you fear state funding crowding out public funding, having some state sponsored research doesn't strike me as wrong (could be more basic science, different directions, etc.) - even if there is great investment market.
I commented to this effect on a previous post: I find that the old Atlas leaned much more into the uncanny valley because it was sort of human-like in its movement. This one has some horror movie robot vibes going, but not the uncanny valley effect (not for me anyway).
Haven't they changed their Name to NERDS recently? ;)

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-change-name-70th-anniv...
You can do this on macOS. However, you need to hold Cmd+Ctrl.

defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true
I often feel as if the brain is deliberately culling memories around psychotic episodes as a means for survival/optimisation.

Either that or the memories are treated no differently by the brain. Because one remembers the time as being so significant it seems disproportionate for it to be forgotten. But this could just be what happens to all memories.
The ECHR needs saving from itself
They are (or were) called consignment stores and most of them would be knowledgeable in their area to give you quick cash.

If it’s valuable, you could pawn it.

Most people just drop it on GoodWill.
Any updates on how she’s been going?
Linus Torvalds says yes to Tabs
Giving it away for free is a nightmare because you get time wasters - better to charge even a nominal amount which will weed out people who feign interest because they're FOMO for something that is free.

You can always decide not to charge the person when they turn up

EDIT - to tell a story about time-wasters: I once bought a 2nd hand digital piano on Carousell (like Craigslist/Gumtree). The seller was being super assy to me, essentially actively hostile.

For reasons I decided to persist and it turns out this seller had the only model of this piano in Singapore and so people were using him as a free showroom then ordering it online. He was so fed up of this he was convinced I would also be a time-waster
Since it's free, people probably don't think they are missing out as they can get that "free" at some point later on. You take things more seriously when you pay for them.
>Dont fuck around with VS code.
>VS code is just too incomplete and too easy to experiment with odd ui and plugins.

Why are you saying this ? VS code was built with a client/server architecture so that it can support live collaboration from the ground up, which will probably solve the monitor resolution mismatch problem you mentioned. As for the odd ui and plugins, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Patisserie requires exact proportions.

The example you gave isn't related to patisserie.

My best crêpe recipe I have gives eggs in grams - not in numbers of whole eggs. The remainder turns into a small portion of scrambled eggs or omelette.

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-recettes-du-monde/article/2018/07...

See also the "Bayesian cookies":
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig
lol how does something like this get only 50ish votes but some hallucinating video slop generator from some of the other competitors gets thousands?
Almost certainly as we don't have the same fear of our own bodies this side of the Atlantic, e.g. spinning advert cube near my apartment has "Dildo King" on one face.
Dragonflies are pretty much the best flyers among the insects, and they have four wings. Maybe not directly comparable, but still.
Ah the relentless enshittification pressure. Logitech is the new HP
So what happens when tiktok doesn't get sold or doesn't close? Do app stores keep offering it? Does the website remain accessible? Do people keep going to work at the office?

> Sell yourself or else

What is the "or else"?
Tangentially related

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Opera...

The LionsOS name is a direct callback to the John Lions Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, an Australian computer scientist and somewhat nomadic Professor.

Trustworthy, as seen in the post link, also hails from New South Wales.
'Turtle Tank' Appears in Ukraine
Many years ago I read an article (which I can't seem to find) that had the following key points:

- Very smart guy

- Had some kind of blood circulatory issue so reduced oxygen to the brain

- BUT was a very active cyclist so has very good cardio

- due to both of the above, he was getting enough O2 to be functional but effectively had a lower IQ

- circulatory issue was eventually identified and then corrected

His comments (paraphrased):

"Being less smart was kind of a blessing. Instead of getting frustrated when things weren't working when there were obvious solutions, my attitude changed to just accepting things.

As soon as my circulatory issues where resolved, I went right back to being frustrated."
You're right that they're not the same, but the author also effectively (and perhaps inadvertently) shows why not being Turing complete cannot possibly have any effect whatsoever on the difficulty of analysing what a program does (which is the implied purpose of declaring that a language isn't Turing complete). After all, suppose Java and Python changed tomorrow so that a program panics whenever a loop exceeds some large constant number of iterations. Such a change will immediately make all of programs in those languages decidable without having any effect on their behaviour. Clearly, this zero-impact change will not make those programs easier to analyse.