skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why they still are in research and not widely available.
I'm not a fan and block ads but doesn't it make sense to advertise people something they are likely to want?

I've seen it work fairly well on facebook with them popping up holiday suggestions that match fairly well with what users tend to book.

I've also had the awful version where I bought an oven and then for quite a while after all ads were for ovens. Which of course I had no interest in having just bought one. I don't know how long that went on for as I blocked them all.

I wouldn't mind the ad industry recommending me cheap and competent lawyers near me as I'm haveing issues with the expensive incompetent ones but that seems beyond the realms of possibility.
Something happened to video content creation
$ /etc/init.d/initwar start
Starting initwar (via systemd)

Sad sysadmin noises
C Isn't a Hangover; Rust Isn't a Hangover Cure
I recommend actually reading the CRA[1] the requirements for non-critical software are easy to follow.
If your product does not fall into the categories described in Annex III you are making non-critical software.

The requirements are described in Annex IV, V and VI. You must do a conformity assessment and provide a declaration of conformity. For non-critical software you can do the assessment yourself see the first five points in Annex VI. The only thing that maybe requires a bit of effort is that you must write some technical documentation including a cybersecurity risk assessment. For critical software the process is more involved because it requires certification by a "notified body".

If a startup in the EU fails because they have to write a bit of documentation once in a while they deserve to fail. Also if a startup wants to create security relevant software I expect that they follow some security standard and the CRA makes sure of that.
None of these requirements are something only a billion dollar company can do.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
I agree. Python is not consistent, probably because features kept being added. Ruby is a little younger though, so its creator could use lessons learned from its predecessors.
Claude 3 beats Google Translate
The Complicated History of the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' (2022)
The demos should be motivating the feature. A bad demo is destructive to that effort. This is a very bad demo.
I lost a bunch of times on level 7 and then was sent back to level 1. Is there a way to avoid redoing completed levels?
They (like other Indian heritage liquor producers) don't export abroad.

There is large enough demand for heritage liquors in India that there isn't much of an interest in dealing with customs.

Most Indian liquor abroad is exported by a couple specific conglomerates (Radico Khaitan, Mohan Meakin) that fell out of favor after 2013-14 because they were close with the Samajwadi Party, and thus pivoted abroad as they faced issues domestically. The liquor business is VERY dirty in India.
By 2019, typescript was for some time dominant over flow and had won the js ecosystem, so either the author was naive to this or isn't quite portraying the story well.. I think it should be fine for the author to say they had personal preference over something like flow and so you developed tools to their own preference
Yeah there was a PR big and legal campaign in the 20's from the auto industry to promulgate the idea of jaywalking and take the streets from the people.
I'd agree until few months ago, but now my wife's dad lucidity is degrading pretty quickly.

Until few years ago he was a proficient digital photographer with advanced Photoshop knowledge. He was definitely tech literate and also have used Apple gears its infancy (the first guy in town to own an iPhone).

But now he forgets his passcode, or the fact that he can just use his thumb to unlock the phone. He keeps deleting his bank app and then goes to the nearby computer store shop to get it back. He also saved a scammer number claiming to be his daughter with a new phone (well, actually asked a friend to save it because he forgot how to do it).

Because we live abroad it's quite hard to check on him and his device to make sure he's safe and have been wondering myself how to best deal with the situation.
Yes tired, drunk or raging people do stupid shit.

But the goal is not exactly to have autonomous driving at their level ...
How does that differ from just setting the images to be inline-blocks? Was it justified?
Assuming that `pmset sleepnow` puts laptop to standby, why exactly do you want it to happen in 3, 15, or 600 minutes? And every day?
Why are they conducting experimental research on public roads in densely populated cities?
The product they made isn't the best VR device and they weren't aiming for it, so they had to distance themselves from VR naming. The best form-factor for VR is the Bigscreen Beyond IMO.
Apple moved off skeuomorphism in 2013. I agree there haven’t been big changes since then except maybe the deep press.
I’m a web programmer and I find it comprehensible. Sure there are times I need to go to the docs but vast majority of the time I can work with it just fine. I’d agree that it probably is incomprehensible to many visual designers but unfortunately so is code in general. CSS is complex, especially these days, but I feel like those who don’t work with the web every day simply don’t get to experience it often enough to know that it does make sense within its domain.

But sure, if you want, CSS is a conspiracy theory to ensure the dominance of Google.
Or people randomly playing cricket in the middle of the street.

For real. Not /s.

Not in downtown Melbourne, but a definite possibility in suburban streets.
It's fine, just run ./configure before compiling.
Arrow keys also seem to work on Firefox 126 Beta / Linux for me
It takes a lots of wisdom, humility and a pragmatic vision for a man to confess that an important enterprise he devised and worked on is not worth to continue investing on.

Do not forget you learned a lot along the path. That's something no one can take away from you.
If going to voyage take 1 or 3 compasses.
> Nearly no video games are actually improved by "increased immersion" to an extreme. Chess won't be more fun because you have to physically move digital chess pieces around a virtual board

Couldn’t disagree more. Experiences in VR are insanely immersive and this is why there’s so much love for VR.

Also, I played Catan (a board game) in VR and it was the most social experience I’ve ever had in a video game.
That time is now. I've been shipping Rust code to browsers for years...
That’s almost nine years ago. He may or may not have changed his mind.

It would help if Meta said something about that. Ideally for potential third party hardware manufacturers, they’d promise to leave the hardware market once a vibrant ecosystem exists.

Defining “vibrant” then would be hard to impossible, though. The edge cases are easy, but uninteresting. If none of the others are making money on hardware there is no vibrant system. If multiple other parties are making money, they probably wouldn’t care much whether Meta makes some money, too.

For in-between cases, where third parties make some money, Meta will have to choose between staying in the market because others don’t sell enough and Meta leaving the market so that others get more room to sell and thus become profitable.
Still no excuse for driving on the opposite lane ;-)
Maybe there should be a grid-template-masonry-direction? Just quickly surveying a couple of sites, "masonry" and "horizontal masonry" seem to be about equally common.

On the other hand horizontal masonry is constructed very differently: Flickr fits thumbnails into a row until it reaches some predefined total length, then scales everything down slightly so the total row width matches exactly (resulting in rows of different height). Deviantart does something similar, but shuffles the images for better fit so that the different row heights are barely perceptible.
Looks to be React with Three.js. No GitHub repo but source can be seen using dev tools.
Didn't work on Brave on Android, but it did work on Chrome :)

Kind of fun
I recommend we not wait that long to begin meaningful change, monarchies have a tendency to stick around until the guillotine is ready, and then many more than the monarchy fall to its impact.
There's no gravity here, so the comparison makes no sense. In walls masonry construction produces sheer lines horizontally, an axis gravity is not bearing upon. This feels like taking the metaphor just a tad too literally.
I want to say something about monolithic kernels but I’m too scared.
Nokia, that's all
VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution
It was sarcasm yes, but engineers are not paid to think. They are paid to do work (which may involve thinking) toward a given goal decided by the executives.

People are regularly faced with such situations (with both small and large stakes) and all three of those choices are taken by different people. We know that 1. happens because controversial stuff still gets made. 2. happens because we hear about it in the media. And 3. I assume happens as well. But in the end the company can always find new people that choose 1. "Do it or I'll find someone who will." is both true and powerful. If you quit you lose your livelihood and potentially could be blacklisted from the industry, and yet the bad thing still happens anyway.
You missed the word 'explicitly'.
The unicycle rider with camera was doing the same - riding the opposite lane behind Waymo
Realization of an ideal omnidirectional invisibility cloak in free space
Sorry but you did refer to yourself at the third person as "she", so how was anyone supposed to know?
Very cool game!
I am aware that reports on the topic have been submitted before.

This is a fantastic, well-written article by world-class climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf.
Worked for me using A/S/D/F
I wonder where that sound/song is coming from, is there a Youtube channel or similar?
Can AI Do Good?
"AI will take our jobs. AI consumes so much electricity just to generate frivolous things. AI is overhyped"... There are many urgent and legitimate concerns about AI technology, which beg the question: Can AI even do good things for Humanity?

Today, let's look at some good news about the impact of algorithms and data on humanity's well-being.
That'd almost be partial functions with extra steps. Take the Klesili category with the Maybe Monad,and you get partial functions.

Unless you are manually matching on the the Maybe, and thus observing the timeout, then that isn't the case. You'd probably also want a nondetermism effect which cannot handle unless you specifically build your timeouts to be deterministic, which I think Lean 4 does, but you can't go from partial to total with it afaik.
Or pull a YouTube/google and just eventually totally remove the option to down vote at all. “ Yeah… we’ve heard the vox populi and ehhh, gonna have to pass on that one.”
This is insightful; thanks for pointing it out: "the robots in question aren't really even taking jobs that existed prior to the ecommerce model, and the work the robots are doing used to be handled by the consumer."
that's funny, because when I watched the video I've got the impression it was dangerously roaming around the roads of San Francisco with hundreds of non-consenting people in close proximity
Nowadays I think most people (me included) would need to have "flong" explained to them - or to google it of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flong (funny that the Wikipedia article contains a reference to the Guardian hoax).
> This is why the CRTP exists.

CRTP does not exist for that. CRTP was one of the many happy accidents in template metaprogramming that happened to be discovered when doing recursive templates.

Also, you've missed the whole point. CRTP is a way to rearchitect your code to avoid dereferencing pointers to virtual members in inheritance. The whole point is that with final you do not need to pull tricks: just tell the compiler that you don't want the class to be inherited, and the compiler picks up from there and does everything for you.
One really basic & important feature of (decent) autonomous systems might be called Situation Sanity Awareness. Human drivers are (overall) extremely good at that. And a car driving for any distance on the wrong side of a double yellow line is a very obvious SSA fail.
Or is your average email client? Many of these support modern HTML with scripting and remote content disabled.
Of course it is, there is even the word "masonry" in TFA's name!
Wonder if they'll add support for `masonry-arrangement: flemish-bond;`?
Self-determination and the war in Ukraine (2022)
Probably about the time that we realize 100% safety is an impossible goal, and better-than-human safety is achievable.

I fully admit to having done things in the car far dumber and more dangerous than this when I was young. I'm not excusing the Waymo, rather I'm putting it in perspective.
Maybe a little counter-intuitive, but Fortnite emotes (essentially, animations) takes up much less memory than skins.

Generally for a modern polygonal game, you are using skeletal animation for the characters. A character consists of a polygon mesh and anywhere from dozens to hundreds of bones.

Animations consist of keyframes. Each keyframe represents just a handful of bytes for each bone (the XYZ coordinates for each end of the bone, and the rotational angle, or something like that). The animators create as many keyframes as they want, maybe 10-20 per second max. So a 5-second emote animation might contain something like 8 32-bit floats * 100 bones * 10 frames per second * 5 seconds = ~120 kilobytes of uncompressed data.

That's all you need to specify an animation. The rest is calculated on the fly at runtime and rendered to the screen at 60fps or whatever the current frame rate is. The graphics engine interpolates bone positions between your keyframes, and the player model mesh is deformed by the bones. Also, those skeletal animations can be shared between all player models.

The alternative to skeletal animation is fully prebaked animations. This involves minimal interpolation and calculation at runtime. It is more memory intensive because you are calculating the position of every point on the mesh ahead of time, and then storing that data on disk. This is generally how a very complex and non-interactive animation (think: cutscenes, etc) would be animated and stored on disk. Note, this is still far less storage-intensive than storing rendered video, and you still maintain a great deal of flexibility at runtime - you can change the camera location, rendering passes, resolution, etc. That's why you don't see a lot of prerendered video cutscenes these days.
> And the worst part? they get to take a significant cut from the creator's income! Seriously?!

Yet the service which is writing this, costs $245/month + $1.99/month for each subscriber? More expensive than the alternatives.
Next time you visit put him in your IOS family and install parental controls. Then disable contact updates, remove permission to delete apps etc...
This is kind of cute, in a dystopian way.

"Waymo you're going the wrong way!" and the human uni-cyclist steers in front of Waymo, knowing that it will brake, in an attempt to force it back into the correct lane.
Human curators like to get paid, and how do you think they will get paid? Especially if they work for a 'free' site?

See: Wirecutter, a billion other 'review' sites, blogspam, etc.
Its obviously in the wrong but I do wonder if it somehow misidentified the lane it was supposed to be in as a bike lane?
> I've seen many human drivers doing equally stupid things

Just yesterday I got yelled at by an Italian police officer who was directing traffic at a busy junction (I was in a rental car). [Full disclosure: I stopped, wound my window down, we had a polite conversation, everything turned out fine...]

The key difference is that if I screw up badly enough when driving, I risk a monetary fine and/or losing my licence and/or getting sent to prison. For most human drivers these represent clear incentives not to screw up when driving.

Questions:

Have we agreed on suitable penalties when an autonomous vehicle screws up, given there isn't a single human driver to sanction?

Could the fleet get grounded?

Could the company get fined?

Could relevant executives go to prison?
> Nearly everything UX related is better in iOS

That's funny because I heard my friend say this at work yesterday when I suggested that he should gift his mother an iPhone:

"Oh my mother would have too much difficulty switching from Android to iOS. I know because I use iPhone and things that have dedicated buttons in some Android phones are gestures in iOS. Like the back button for example."
BEAM/OTP is rather different from CL:s image-based REPL experience.

You can get relatively close by putting your application into processes and keep them in a collection or registry, then when you've found an issue and changed the code in your editor you can run recompile and relaunch affected processes. You'd lose a subtree in the application, and hence in-memory storage tightly coupled to those processes, but I find it rather easy to do it this way. Often you'll put in-memory data in separate caching processes and that reduces friction in restarting processes with application logic even more.

The 'let it crash'-foundation of the BEAM system isn't exactly tailored towards trapping and recovering from errors but if you really want to you could probably implement something like that with try/rescue but I suspect it would turn out quite obtuse compared to the CL mechanics.
How India is making new roads from recycled old tires [video]
Don't conflate an advanced state of research with wide availability.
No. 2 is better than 1. You missed the point of this link.
High global food prices may see a bottom in 2024, says Oxford Economics
I assume that in this scenario we don’t want to change the behaviour (program code, source code) of the application itself.

Why is it important that the syscalls (write et al) encrypts? (Even if they do so only under the hood.) Is it not sufficient that the application writes to a place that is encrypted?

It’s probably not impossible to modify the syscalls, but I think it would be vastly easier to let the outside system handle the encryption.

“I was only able to find FUSE filesystems that can transparently encrypt files on top of a file system”

I believe the reason that you mostly found such solutions is that they are much more “cost-effective” than implementing a system that operates on the syscall level.

If you need to ensure that the application writes only to the specific mountpoint you can probably use some kind of “jail” to achieve that. Here’s a decent starting point on that: https://blog.mnus.de/2020/05/sandboxing-soldatserver-with-bu... (assuming that the application runs on Linux)
QDEL – the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
Meta Debuts Horizon OS, with Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft on Board
>a human clicked on the “overtake” button

Ok. So what are the consequences for this human operator and/or Waymo?

Human drivers make mistakes all the time, it’s true. But there are consequences for those mistakes. If a human drives into the opposite lane that’s a big problem, especially if they end up causing property damage or bodily injury. Why are the same standards not being applied here?
Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware
No I mean it exactly as I wrote: The Atlantic wants the attention of public links and forums yet only provide a snippet or single sentence, and archive.is/.ph (usually if not in this case) just inserting their own ads and tracking is only a tactical solution in a consumerist way of thinking rather than solving the problem of extraction of value by very few and general lack of sustainability of content production on the web, and immoral if not outright in violation of copyright law.
Trusting us plebs with universal turing machines is unacceptable. There's a config/app/saas/appliance for everything you need to need.
've been thinking that I needed one of these, but you've already made it happen. That's really great.
My Driverless Car Is Driving Me To Distraction
I think a sandbox should be sufficient.
Whoops, made the same mistake as @ignoramous :P
> a much younger Eliezer Yudkowsky cautioning that Doug Lenat should have perceived a non-zero chance of hard takeoff at the moment of its birth

Why is Yudkowsky taken seriously? This stuff is comparable to the "LHC micro black holes will destroy Earth" hysteria.

There are actual concerns around AI like deep fakes, a deluge of un-filterable spam, mass manipulation via industrial scale propaganda, mass unemployment created by widespread automation leading to civil unrest, opaque AIs making judgements that can't be evaluated properly, AI as a means of mass appropriation of work and copyright violation, concentration of power in large AI companies, etc. The crackpot "hard takeoff" hysteria only distracts from reasonable discourse about these risks and how to mitigate them.
What is the composable unix approach for layout/graphical interfaces?
The binary code at boot time spells "hello world s":

01101000 01100101
01101100 01101100
01101111 00100000
01110111 01101111
01110010 01101100
01100100 00100000
01110011
Resurrecting the first Dutch web index (2018)
There are a few more categories of people who often do stupid shit, many of which are fairly mundane and far less easy to disregard (such as: momentarily distracted / semi-permanently fiddling with their phone / dangerously incompetent).

I don't think it's unfair to point out that humans, quite often, also suck quite badly at driving.
Thanks for your insightful comment: "If you have market concentration and regulatory capture, they must be annihilated regardless of any robots or people will end up screwed and poor."
Sure, but how does it help in this specific scenario?
Thats super cheap!!! How did you manage to find a clone at that year? Does clone had similar keyboard, HDD, display, mouse?

I'm super curious, because in 1990 clones of IBM PC in my country still sells for 500-700 USD.
Why do we allow human trials of new drugs?
> incredibly easy to do with existing css

care to demonstrate? given a dynamic collection of images where you don't know the aspect ratios beforehand
Likewise, “IT Crowd” is great.

But the point about BBT is that it isn’t really a show about nerds or physics; it’s about emotional intelligence. This was a fairly groundbreaking angle for a Hollywood sitcom at the time when comparable mainstream shows were built on rather mean-spirited writing and stunted character development, like “How I Met Your Mother” and “Two and a Half Men.”
Sabotaging such a obvious dangerously vehicle could be seen as self defense?=
The LLM Scraper seems like a highly useful tool that can transform any webpage into structured data. This could be a significant advancement for data analytics and automation processes. I'm looking forward to seeing its practical applications and effectiveness.
You can run it on Android too. Not very fast though.
100% for masonry as well, couldn't care less about the approach as long as the selected one doesn't see the same fate as websql and it becomes a viable solution in a reasonable amount of time.
What I find revealing is it utter inability to reset to a safe position.

It stays in the wrong lane; is it because it can't rejoin because the lane is occupied by the unicyclist (looking at the video it does not appear to make efforts to go back) ? or because it has already forgotten the context and is now driving happily in a lane ...

It only stopped when its path is blocked ...
It's centered basically. All rows span the same width, but the heights of the rows can differ.
Panic NOT :) There is still retro computing move...
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