skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I want global illumination? Yes, absolutely. Will it make games substantially better? Only marginally. The core experience will still be the gameplay.

Still, the visual spectacle of what some of these products can create is a fantastic experience in itself. It can enhance immersion in a drastic way, and especially for story heavy games, that can act as a direct multiplier on an already good story and structure. Bad games will still never go past being just a tech demo.
> not a lot of difference in capability

Ahh yes, I remember fondly the days in the 90's I spent watching porn on my beeper as a teenager. Good times.
No problem leaning a bike in motion without turning the front wheel, all you have to do is shift your balance. It won't turn though, just go straight while leaning left or right.
I think the next thing you run into is height.

Sailboats are much taller than fossil fuel cargo ships of the same size. A lot of harbors have bridges in their path.
The min-cut problem was in fact the last problem for Advent of Code 2023 [0]. Many algorithms were too big-brained for me, but I was able to find "A Simple Min-Cut Algorithm" [1] which was relatively easy to understand. It uses maximum adjacency search [2] to traverse the graph in descending order of the number of incident edges from each vertex to all previously visited vertices, possibly factoring in their weights; the last two visited vertices are then merged, and the cut separating the last vertex visited from the rest of the graph is stored.

The process repeats until all but two vertices have been merged; the smallest cut found in each iteration, by sum of weights of edges that need to be severed to separate the last vertex from the rest of the graph, induces a min-cut for the entire graph; since vertices have been merged together you will need to map from edges incident to the merged vertex back to edges incident to all vertices "contained" in that merged vertex.

The advantage of implementing maximum adjacency search is that it can also be used to traverse and count components of the resulting cut graph to verify it has indeed been partitioned in two.

Something like that anyway. It's been a little while.

[0] https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/25

[1] https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~ac/Teach/CS105-Winter05/Handou...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/313559.313872
Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)
Here's a project I've been working on for the last few months.

It's a new (I think) algorithm, that allows to adjust smoothly - and in real time - how many calculations you'd like to do during inference of an LLM model.

It seems that it's possible to do just 20-25% of weight multiplications instead of all of them, and still get good inference results.

I implemented it to run on M1/M2/M3 GPU. The mmul approximation itself can be pushed to run 2x fast before the quality of output collapses.

The inference speed is just a bit faster than Llama.cpp's, because the rest of implementation could be better, but with a better development I think it can be a new method to speed up inference - in addition to quantization.

You could call it ad-hoc model distillation :)

You can change the speed / accuracy of a model at will, in real time.

Oh, and as a side effect, the data format allows to also choose how much of the model you want to load into the memory. You can decide to skip say 10-20-40% of the least important weights.

It's implemented for Mistral, it was also tested slightly on Mixtral and Llama. It's for FP16 for now, but Q8 is in the works.

The algorithm is described here, and the implementation is open source.

https://kolinko.github.io/effort/

I know these are bold claims, but I hope they survive the scrutiny :)
He was probably an HSP, which by some estimates is 15% of the population. HSP plus high IQ makes up a lot of people you would label “scary smart”.
And the execs won’t really worry about "how hard the salesmen can screw them", they know the rules of the game and understand that negotiations are negotiations. It’s a negotiator’s job to try to get a good deal, and that works both ways.
Yep, I find that Copilot etc. respond very well to pseudocode comments, so much so that I can write a comment about a particularly gnarly bunch of syntax I'd otherwise need to write, and (even in a language I use every day) it takes me out of flow less to have Copilot write that for me. Because Copilot knows how to match brackets, can think of descriptive names for temporary variables, all those things that I don't want to have to worry about. I can keep my eye on how the interactions work together, the temporal flow of data through the application, things like that.

If the price of this is sometimes needing to learn to ignore the gray text before I write that pseudocode comment, well... it's no worse than Clippy, and we all survived that era fine!
As far as I know `footGunA` can only be a static method and cannot leak `this`.

This is perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned.
Like I said, it's a quick test, not a benchmark. The original question was about getting at least one of out 10 right (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robots-to...). Feel free to run them yourself, takes 5 minutes.
activate the Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-con...
We do not agree, direction of causation is a matter of personal interpretation. And I'm not the only one who believes a reversal of order could be justified, Scott Aaronson's essay The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine^ goes into far more detail on the matter than I could hope to here. It's long but thorough - I highly recommend it if you have the time.

To overly simplify it: imagine a piece of quantum state is not observed at any point between the universal T0 and TNow. Further, imagine a decision made at TNow is effectively a measurement of that state. There is absolutely 0 way to say that the state was "in" that configuration "before" your measurement, it is 100% equally valid to say that your decision "caused" the state to assume that value, which would be interpreted as your choice causing a propagation backwards in time to the initial configuration. (The essay goes into more details around "No Hidden State" objections to this interpretation.)

^ https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159
Have you ever thought about just asking the owner for it in exchange for paying for a replacement tile and the labor expenses? Maybe they'd be up for it. Seems better than just hoping you notice their plans to renovate in time, or that it doesn't get shattered/damaged.
Lambda School issued Truth in Lending Act violation
> it's standard to be presented a contract that heavily favors the party that wrote the first draft.

It's standard for contract negotiators to be sleazy people that you don't want to have any contact with. Some times that's not even an indication that your counterpart is dishonest.

But still, that's quite a bad marker. Ignore it at your peril.
I mean, bikes are weird though right? They actually have multiple modes of steering. You're right, the standard mode is to lean the bike which causes the steering, however you generally counter turn the wheel to initiate the lean. Most bikes are much too stable to lean purely with weight alone.

Secondly, at lower speeds and higher turning radius' bikes do in-fact steer with the front wheel, counter to their lean. Often encountered while navigating a parking-lot for example. I imagine an All-terrain bike is more likely to be needing to operate more often in this envelope however, so am also a bit confused on how it's anticipated to work.
It's already there (everywhere except in the EU, apparently)!
You can try Msty as well. I am the author.

https://msty.app
No more monkey business: Thai city's macaques to be put in enclosures
I think people who kneecap their graphics settings to eek out the last few millis of latency are the vast minority.
I was just planning to do a show HN on this and you were ahead!

The author here, open for comments :)
I had the fortune of owning a Dell P1110 (rebranded Sony Trinitron CPD-E500) many years ago, bought quite cheaply at a surplus auction while in college. 21", flat glass, and weighed in right at 70lbs. Lugged it to a few LAN parties here and there.

It wasn't until OLED monitors came around that I finally felt like flat panel displays had really caught up.
You'd be surprised, even for the paste half of the equation, how many go out of their way to make a completely custom input to do it better™ that fails to support obvious things by happenstance. See the topic's article about looking for number keycodes instead of processing text input as an example.
> Why would it be skewed?

Well you tell me my fingers aren't straight and aligning a number pad to straight lines is worse than skewed.

> Why do you insist a worse way is better just because you personally don't care?

I didn't say I didn't care. In my personal experiences it's worse. I've had laptops that had it, and it never felt good. Plus it was only on that one laptop, not my keyboard at school or work, not the keyboard at a friend's house, not the keyboard on my desktop, etc.

> This topic is about website input forms, what OS configuration do you need to visit a website?

So a keyboard layer that isn't labeled on your keyboard and is on some sites and not others and not on most other apps you use. Clearly the optimal way for the site to support as input, I'm sure it'll get lots of adoption in random two factor input code boxes. I'll definitely commit this pattern to muscle memory for the random site I encounter supporting this.
Your conflation of responding "yes it is," when someone claims something is not racist when it clearly is with "that's racist, cancel them!" seems disingenuous. As disingenuous as conflating it to "Allahu Akbar; death to infidels". Correctly identifying a statement as racist when someone else said it wasn't is about as polar opposite as you can get to "death to infidels!" Do you see them as equivalent?
> all negotiations start with a ridiculous wish-list offer

That's what "professional negotiators" do. Normal people start with a reasonable offer, and are only open to other reasonable revisions.
That’s the magic. I’m not sure why so many fight this simple, reliable approach.
You sound young. We went through this already with the patriot act. Nothing is going to change and voting doesn't work.

The only solution is a tree of liberty pruning.
What does it even mean for a number to exist? In math we are happy if the things we talk about are well defined.

Numbers are just mathematical objects which satisfy a few interesting properties that lead to very rich structures we can study. Some of those structures map onto concepts in nature, which makes them actually useful.

Instead of real and imaginary or complex we could have chosen entitirely different adjectives. They're completely arbitrary. They don't matter.
It's not uncommon to build using human remains or on top of the human remains. Quite a few plague pits got uncovered in London in recent years by developers wanting to build on whatever scrape of land they can find. Developers are required to allow some time for researchers to go through the site before they are free to then pour concrete over them and erect their towers.
Copy Pasta Machine
In the late 1990s, my dad attended night classes with other adult learners to earn his MBA. Everywhere he went during those years, my dad had a beeper clipped to his belt for an on-call hospital rotation. During his first week of class, my dad's beeper loudly went off during the middle of the lecture. As my dad scrambled out of the lecture hall to call the number on the little screen, the professor accurately guessed: "You're a doctor, aren't you?"
Prohibitory Order (USPS)
Couldn't Twitter do that once?
Really? I can’t find it on the US store currently
In that case the question is why did they use hydraulics in the first place.
This package also has a high risk of being voided in a few years. The core argument at the moment was that Musk's power and influence on the board was too strong which allows him to set his own pay to whatever level he wants to do. And this situation hasn't changed. Half of its members are the one when it agreed on the controversial 2018 pay package. New members are not that different as well. Elon still effectively has a full control on the board and this will be questioned.
So it is somewhat like a classic random forest or maybe bagging, where you're trying to stop overfitting, but you're also trying to train that top layer to know who could be the "experts" given the current inputs so that you're minimising the number of multiple MLP sublayers called during inference?
It doesn't matter if it is illegal or not if they don't enforce the rules for themselves.

Laws without enforcement are pointless.
In my K-12 public school years, the propaganda was just a dab. The schools were well-meaning and at least tried to educate us.

These days, though, the social engineering seems front and center.
>this is a transfer of longevity from poor people to rich people.

Wealthy people can in any case already often buy kidneys and other organs if they desperately need them, and if they're famous, or influential politicians, they might even get a jump ahead for donor kidneys. At least with a legal market, buying a desperately needed organ wouldn't require that you be someone with special connections and all kinds of unique advantages. You'd just need the damn money.

The hatred towards what should be an obvious market of voluntary exchange in which people trade something so obviously theirs and personal to others who need it for obvious reasons is absurd and irrational.

The current system is disastrous and in need of aperture for experimentation. Clamping down on this because of bullshit dogmatism is disgusting. Lives are literally at stake.
Supabase also offers data (DB as a service).

I wonder if that means Supabase can solve the (separate) user storage problem[1].

[1]: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1651434348174778370.html
Nothing new under the sun

--Abraham Lincoln
Very true. As an added detail, I see it comes in waves. New CTO/CIO brings in his trusted lieutenants who then bring in their trusted people. They may excel at XYZ but at your company those skills are irrelevant. Some folks who are already on staff hitch their wagon to the new powers that be. These johnny-come-latelys are also insufferable. The game continues until the CTO/CIO is let go and another house cleaning begins. During the meantime, you wonder how any real work gets done.
> WebHardDiskPartitioner

I lol'd at that one. No one would never make such a thing... Wait would they?!?!
If you seek a foundational description of reality in physics, you are treating physics like religion.

Physics, as a natural science, deals in “if we do this then we observe that”. Note the “we”: it is inherently subjective. The models resulting from that are, similarly, a product of our minds seeking analogies and stories. Those models are useful for coming up with more experiments but are necessarily simplified maps, and if you have a map that exactly corresponds to the 100% of the territory then the map you have is A) useless, and B) impossible (so if you think you found one, you ought to think again).

At best you will never find such a foundational description of reality. At worst you will believe you’ve found one and be angered at anyone who chooses to use a different map and dares to not treat yours as gospel.
> You said: > > > Here in the UK soon they're going to start charging 10 pounds a day for residential vehicles that aren't zero pollution, commercial vehicles a day 60 pounds a day.
> > which is plainly not true.

My statement holds true as this does take place in the UK. I did clarify in a follow-up post that this takes place in certain zones in the UK. You conveniently left off about the different zones your quote from the original post. The number of these zones in the UK is increasing. People are indeed being charged per day for car is much newer than 17 years old. Legislation has passed to ban sale gasoline vehicles in the UK in 2035.

Legislation is driving EV sales which may not be representative the consumer. I don't disagree with improving our environment however it's hard to tease the effect this is having on the consumer choice with this type of legislation.
Yeah that might have been a poor word choice or projection on my part.

As I replied elsewhere, I feel I am in this quadrant and I often actively look for sympathetic people among bosses and peers to talk to about it. If there are more than ten people I have someone to talk to, but it’s never been anywhere near 75%. And one time I got a very rude awakening when I discovered several of those people were all sizzle and no sausage.
My wife's family fostered and the only thing that happens is the kids eventually get sent back to the families. Even families who have abused the kids multiple times. We don't have an answer to kids from bad families. The state can't overcome bad parents.
It was really just their number score which doesn't seem to be in-line with what the article/video said, which was probably even more damning than Marques' video.

If "I can’t think of anyone to whom I’d recommend spending the $699 for the device and the $24 monthly subscription" is a 4/10, I would hate to see the chaos that a Verge 1/10 would wreak across society.
It's not really that strange that tmux doesn't support sixels. It's quite a bit more complicated and resource-intensive than ANSI Escape Codes or ncurses.

It might be fine for local[1] multiplexing but over the network it is not as fast as even something like VNC or RDP.

[1] https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/
Of course, websites that look like they are from 2000 make people think "what is wrong with this thing?". But it is not necessary to do redesign every year. Just make website mobile adapted and update it only when UI trends change significantly (every 5-10 years) and it will not look abandoned
Here to answer questions!

A friend of mine has published the original link on HN before me, so I hope a double post won't be an issue :)
Indeed - the most useful (as in, most-used) models strip out darn near every calculation and boil things down to a very simple rule-of-thumb approximation.

For example, plumbers just ballpark the pressure of water due to elevation to "half a PSI per foot". Their 1/2psi "model" gets them close enough without making them use a calculator. Their 1/2psi "model" gets them close enough, with an appropriate safety factor built-in, without making them use a calculator. Even though really it's much closer to 0.433psi per foot of water column.

But really it's much closer to (((((aT+b)*T+c)*T+d)*T+e)*t+f)/(1+h*T) * g * 0.3048 * 0.453592 psi per foot of water column depending on what the temperature is and what gravity is where you are. And for further precision you'd need to integrate this equation with respect to T and gravity along the height of the water column, or use an even more precise model because the constants a through h are still doing a lot of "heavy-lifting" hiding and abstracting away other hard-to-measure physics phenomena. You'd also have to adjust for impurities in the water, as that will change the density as well at these precisions. It also only applies to water that's not moving, moving water will have a lower psi per foot due to friction.

Obviously plumbers certainly wouldn't find it useful to have to replace their "half-a-psi-per-foot" mantra with something involving an equation to determine the density of water (generally considered incompressible anyways) as a function of its temperature. The amount of situations which need the more complex models are very few and far between.

But we do still need them! A "theory of everything" would be fantastically wonderful for opening up generation and validation of new, useful, rules-of-thumb for many scientists and engineers.

T = temperature of water in C

a=-2.8054253⋅10^-10

b=1.0556302⋅10^-7

c=-4.6170461⋅10^-5

d=0.0079870401

e=16.945176

f=999.83952

g=9.81 m/s^2 (variable depending on where you are on or off the planet)

h=0.01687985
Love the 'PAL' reference - just like how many in North America were pining for the PAL video standard (initially Europe but later entire world except North America) but we were stuck with NTSC (and doubled down).
David Lee Roth explains quite reasonably it:

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

I don't blame him at all, it's a safety thing and the M&Ms are one way to see if everything is being done properly
If I has a beeper in school, I'm sure it would have been paged with 8008135...

Alphanumeric, watch out.
The policy at my school was that any "electronic device," be it a cellphone or pager, would be confiscated and held until the end of the school year. I had this happen to a (not yet modified) Radio Shack tone dialer.
> If you want web apps to have the same full range of capabilities as native apps, iOS is not the platform for you.

I think iOS users would disagree - if there was no demand for these APIs, there wouldn't be users using them in the first place and API creep wouldn't be an issue. But it seems that, for whatever reason, on iOS there is an incredible demand for like-native experiences that don't leverage Apple's first-party APIs.

Maybe, just maybe... if the native app experience was closer to Mac or Windows then users wouldn't feel the need to use their browser like a native runtime. Crazy, I know!
That's the story with all new tech. Difficult transition to a better tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.
Thanks for the information. I guess my next step is to join the right company and slowly transfer to a good position.
Is there any self hosting documentation that’s not on your discord? I’m personally not a fan of discord, and would rather read documentation on your site or GitHub where it should belong.
"Terroir" is a terrible way to metaphorize timbre. The only similarity is that they're both hard to describe. Terroir is there before the wine is made and can't really be controlled by the winemaker (except insofar as they choose where to plant or what grapes to blend). Timbre is absolutely under the control of the musician.
As a synth enthusiast I generally think of timbre in relation to "real" instruments, brass, strings, piano, etc. In the article they mention there are as many as 10 dimensions but don't actually define what those are. Timbre is something I've thought about a lot but nailing down a more general classification seems pretty challenging.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id10485246...

It is there.

According to the verge it is also identical: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24132984/delta-free-emula...

Curious why it is not available in the EU on the App Store (if it really isn't, I can't confirm)
Exactly! I could also see hydrogen for things like freight trains and cargo ships which will be tough to electrify in America (so much track and rail companies hate spending on upgrades.)

Hydrogen seems not only more dangerous, but more complex to store and deal with than typical gas. Whereas every gas station and nearly every home already has an electric connection that will have to be maintained and upgraded forever, regardless of what happens to cars. Electricity as the prime energy source for cars and devices also allows any potential future fuel type or energy source to be used for generators. That’s not possible with hydrogen, and it’s a massive downside.

We have an opportunity to (in software terms) generalize our infrastructure and separate concerns. We can make energy generation separate from energy use. That’s going to be a lot more flexible for the long-run than committing to distributing more gas around.