skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a completely different level compared to Wii.

The amount of sensors we have on controllers now means, it can pick your slight wrist movements for top spin, side spin and more accurately measure bat speed. The physics engine on these games are so close to being realistic.

Now, let's compare it to IRL and since I played college level cricket, I'll tell you the difference.
When I practiced as an amateur, I was able to face at the most 25-30 pitches per day. Of them, only 1 or 2 were what I can remotely call "quality" pitches and I'd have to spend 3 hours per day.

In the Metaverse, in 3 hours, I'd have faced 750 quality pitches including 95mph pitches (The highest I ever faced in IRL was 70mph) including extremely difficult curve balls, deception etc.

All this for a marginal cost of $0 and the physics and simulation will only get better
Chrome 124.0.6367.61 causes crash with V15 Angular material basic mat-select
Notwithstanding that you're conflating "helping with homework" with teaching them from nearly the ground-up, there's no evidence that broadly middle-class parents have always helped kids with their homework.

My parent's generation was not well educated and did not help, nor do I know anyone else who's parents helped them. They often did not even graduate, so they could go work.
Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments, now 'reviewing and adjusting' headset strategy
Most benchmarks are wrong. I doubt this is correct. Final should have been the default in the lang I think though.

There are tons of these suggestions. Like always using sealed in C# or never use private in Java.
A nice sentiment...but obviously you have no future in Fortune 10 corporate management.
Also raises 62.7mn at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu Tan.
I think you have a typo in your comment. You said that it’s 5x cheaper for ICE, but I think you meant electric
Honestly I think a lot of the Rust zealotry is because the tools are amazing.

If it was just rustc on it's own I doubt it would have people chest-thumping like they do.

I say this, as a lover of Rust: precisely because of Cargo, rustup and the crate system.
You just haven't found your App yet.
And that penguin's name ... Johnathan Livingston Seagull.
They talk about building “a new city” like it’s going to be Dubai but really it’s going to be more like Celebration, Florida.
Heh -- "if you need more than one line of APL you do not fully understand your problem".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041500

People have done similar things in all kinds of languages by now:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/3434/shortest-game-of-life
I would read this book, binge this netflix series, or season-ticket this play. Please make it so. :)
> They didn't realise because they hadn't written a test.

If someone hates future developers so much that they wouldn't write a test, why would they suddenly take care to write proper types? I've worked with those kind of people before. The reality is that they won't define any specific types either, relying on `any` (or whatever the language's equivalent is) to minimize the social footprint.

> They asked me to check if it fixed my issue

I get you work with an asshole who hates other developers, but why would they need to ask if it solves your issue when they can just run the tests you wrote to assert the issue you discovered? Well, okay, being an asshole they maybe just wanted to see what meaningless busywork they could force you to do, but then why didn't you at least run your tests rather than spending minutes hunting up and down for something that your test would have found instantly? Something doesn't quite add up here.

> when an IDE with static types would have told them their mistake instantly.

And most likely even an IDE with type inference, a la the original article. Did you even apply a type checker when faced with this problem? It would be quite ironic if you didn't.

> when an IDE with static types would have told them their mistake instantly.

As would the test, at least for any developers who don't have an intense hatred for other developers.
It feels good to see the webkit team actually doing good, publicly visible work again

When I was cutting my teeth in web design, the early webkit blog and safari releases were always inspirational. The rate at which they pushed out new features in the mid 00s was astonishing
And their repo: https://github.com/Profluent-AI/OpenCRISPR
Homeschooling is rare. The 2 homeschooled children I know we're absolutely brilliant, incredibly successful adults, and also very religious. Outside of a small area of biology, Creationism vs Evolution just isn't important to lifelong success or eusocial behaviour.

Unsurprising, I don't know any religious separatists who live on their family compound locked away from the larger world.
I suspect that certain classes of books (technical books being one of them) have much more predictable markets (and so if you polled tech writers, you'd find many who earn out their advance but not much beyond).
> Let's create one web framework that will be perfect for everyone!

That's simply impossible to do.

Every framework, like every other engineered thing, consists of tradeoffs. Some good things are sacrificed so that other good things can be better.

But no set of tradeoffs is ever ideal for everyone or every situation. That's exactly why we have multiple frameworks/languages/OSes/etc. Each represents a different set of tradeoffs, and different ones are best for different situations.
It precludes setting up a competing SaaS using the code.
As far as I can tell - and I could be wrong having spent about five minutes reading the thread - the shim DLL basically swaps out a public key used by the applications key verification system for a different one so the keygen can create a valid licence key.

Without affecting any integrity checks in the target binary.
So you're telling me that this whole time people on grindr were getting screwed.
Are you referring to zoning? Because that varies widely in the US and there are many places where zoning wouldn't be a barrier to organically growing a municipality.
I don't get the impression that things have changed all that much in Catholic music publishing since this FEL Publications case. It sounds very familiar. There are still major music publishers that require parishes to destroy all books at the end of the year. Its the old story of "you don't have ownership, you have a license." This grift predates the "purchasing" digital videos on Prime and the like.

If anything there are even more requirements now. Churches must now purchase individual licenses for music sung in live-streamed liturgies or printed out in programs (through websites like www.onelicense.net).

Thankfully, liturgical music is a pretty old genre (the oldest still around), so there is a huge corpus of public-domain works.
It would not. If a system can prove (I know sufficiently rich systems can’t do this but suppose it could) its own consistency you still can't conclude it is consistent.

EDIT: I'm working under the hypothetical situation in which PA could prove its consistency. I know it can't but assuming that it could prove it's own consistency you still couldn't conclude that it was consistent since an inconsistent system can prove it's consistency.
For your own health, try to avoid TV before bed, it's not good for your sleep.

I still think that watching movies/TV should be a social experience and not akin to scrolling on social media. My neck can be a bit less comfortable for that :D
I pay for streaming 90% because my wife wants to, and 10% because it's the only way I can legally watch things in some cases. So I would say yes, in that I would rather ditch those too, but no in that they have uses I can't replace at this time.
Except the vehicles are probably in use during the daytime.
> If you think the average parent qualifies to teach all k-12 topics then you don’t understand how stupid the average person is.

No different than the average teacher. edit: I cant reply to your post directly, so I will here: there is no evidence that teachers as a group are more intelligent than the average person.
It’s ok to be done in one session

Replaying a level is boring
I think structurally it should have been third.

As it's currently structured there are three objections.

1. We couldn't do it.
2. It would have disastrous side effects.
3. It wouldn't fix the problem you're trying to solve, and it would in fact make it worse.

Objections 2&3 should be swapped, "all life on Earth would be vaporized" should really be issue #3.
I don’t think many at all are aware at the lengths that Apple goes to wrt accessibility features. It is astonishing.

There are blind people who can type faster than I (sighted) can on an iPhone.
Are you calling me an LLM?
> We all benefit from police, fire, ambulance, and roads — we all don’t benefit from free power tools

I wonder what your thoughts on government healthcare are. We'd all benefit from it, right?
Yes, it's amazing what doubling or tripling funding can do for quality of education. I'm shocked that public schools have tried this obvious solution.
I think some of the "Japanese has a ton of grammar points" is an effect of how the Japanese-as-a-second-language teaching resources label things, where a lot of what you could classify as "sentence patterns" are described and taught as "grammar". For example, the Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar lists ~に比べると as one of its grammar points, but this (meaning "compared to ~") isn't really new grammar, it's just a specific usage of particle に, a particular verb and と for if/when (in the same way "compared to X" isn't new English grammar but is a pattern of use of a particular verb).

My experience is that Japanese grammar isn't particularly complicated, it's just that it works backwards from Indo-European languages. Vocab is a pain because there's no common root of word origins to help the way there is between say English and French, but that's true for Chinese too I suppose. The writing system is kind of silly but it is what it is (and of course it doesn't matter at all for conversational fluency).
The French term "chiasse" is slang for diarrhea, so the translation to English should also use a slang term for diarrhea.

Maybe a closer translation would be "having a bad case of the runs".
The fundamental reason that hysteria was silly is that Earth is bombarded by cosmic rays that are far stronger than anything done in the LHC. The reason we built the LHC is so we can do observable repeatable experiments at high energies, not to reach energies never reached on Earth before.

The AI hysteria I'm talking about here is the "foom" hysteria, the idea that a sufficiently powerful model will start self-improving without bound and become some kind of AI super-god. That's about as wild as the LHC will make a black hole that will implode the Earth. There are fundamental reasons to believe it's impossible, such as the question of "where would the information come from to drive that runaway intelligence explosion?"

There are legitimate risks with AI, but not because AI is somehow special and magical. All technologies have risks. If you make a sharper stick, someone will stab someone with it. Someday we may make a stick so sharp it stabs the entire world (cue 50s sci-fi theremin music).

Edit: for example... I would argue that the Internet itself has X-risks. The Internet creates an environment that incentivizes an arms race for attention grabbing, and the most effective strategies usually rely on triggering negative emotions and increasing division. This could run away to the point that it drives, say, civilizational collapse or a global thermonuclear war. Does this mean it would have been right to ban the Internet or require strict licensing to place any new system online?
sounds like an incentive to make sure things only fail after 14 months, then
Repairability and longevity go together, since the easier it is to repair the cheaper it is to offer long warranties.
compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395445
And the people buying your data could be criminals
Argument for the article title: "I’m pretty sure publishers would go out of business if 50% of their books sold less than 12 copies!"
Democrats back Republican effort to double fines for protesters in California
Also of note, several of the people casually name-dropped in the letter, are not signatories. As well as several of the folks that I have seen publicly express that displeasure with even the most recent sponsorship policy.

This to me, says a lot. I been around Nix. There are some names on that list that hurt, that will be missed, but I honestly expected worse, given the self-important tone and demands the letter contains.
Cricket Brings Hyderabad to Fair Haven
Like many things in Rust vs C/C++ comparisons, it’s about defaults: Rust has dedicated syntax and everyone uses it, in C and C++ it’s more manual and not everyone does.
The ultimate method of defeating copy-protection: re-typing.
Books not recouping their advances is definitely a thing. With a traditionally published book an author makes their money off royalties which is a few percentage points of the price of the book. The percentages are different for the various formats of the book, a hard cover has different rates than a paperback or eBook.

The advance is paid out of the author's royalties for the book. If an author is making a dollar per sale, they'll need 5,000 sales to cover a $5,000 advance before they actually see any additional money from the book. Audiobooks and foreign translations are their own kettle of fish and don't tend to count towards sales to pay down the advance. Sometimes even eBooks don't count towards "sales" to pay down the advance but that is typically older pre-eBook contracts.

If an author publishes multiple books with the same publisher each book will have its own advance and sales tracked. A new edition will often come with its own advance but have its sales tracked separately from previous editions. Sales of Book A have no effect on the royalties for Book B.

The upside for an author is an advance is a bet on the part of the publisher. So long as the author doesn't break their contract by missing a deadline or not doing the work, they don't have to pay back the publisher's advance (conditions will be in the contract). An author that has an unsuccessful book won't typically end up owing the publisher their advance even if their sales never actually manage to pay it back.

For publishers, unless the author totally screws them over, aren't really positioned to lose money on an advance. The blockbusters make them enough money to farm potential blockbusters with other authors. They have lots of ways to get rid of low demand books including just writing them down as a loss so they'll break even on the advance. They're also not going to pay out huge advances to an author with no history or no apparent demand.

Source: I know a bunch of people that have published books.
I read that line as sardonic. The author is pointing out how the economics of publishing are contrary to what we would expect, or perhaps would like.
Firefox has done a lot of work on devirtualization over the years. There is a cost.
Yeah, if you're frequently getting new music then a subscription makes sense. My music library is pretty much static. I don't like the vast majority of new music, and I've already gotten the vast majority of old music that I care about. My music purchases are something like $30 (at most, usually much less) per year, which is way cheaper than Spotify.
Bezos isn't the CEO
Public school does not teach kids to be independent thinkers.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks! I was pretty confused about the string copy and what that was doing. Normally I'd expect it to be writing a byte array. Now it all makes more sense.
Joke, but not far off.
Fair point. I think without the protests you could have some plausible deniability.

You could even claim it was for legitimate military purposes.

But after all the information that has gone around we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this software is specifically used to maximize family-deaths.

I think lots of companies love money, but the only way to defend this is if you also love death.
But not of course by reading the instructions that come with it, right?
I have a hypothesis that a lot of the people on the "left" who will stridently defend gay rights (which I'm for, being a gay man myself) are in fact the same sort of bullies that in a previous generation would have bashed gay people. That is, being on "the right side" of a debate doesn't mean one is necessarily more enlightened nor empathetic.

Next, remember that not only are there reasonable people on the right that hate/fear the import of hegemonizing cultures into their own societies, but also plenty of bullies on the right who will hate somebody for having the wrong shade of skin.

Put the two together, and you get the meme where this guy has to pick one button out of two, one of them is labelled "gay" and the other one is "Islam".

That's how we end up in the situation where "queers for Palestine" get attacked at a pro-Hamas rally.
Right, and there I would say we even agree, per my first sentence; however, I wanted to reply not to you, but to doctor_phil, who was explicitly disagreeing about speed.
Most of the US lives on the East Coast so at some point those mountains have to be crossed.

The elevation of the plateau in between the Sierra Madres is no joke; Mexico City is at 7349 ft elevation.
What's the source for all of this? It includes reportage of a bunch of conversations where there's no way this guy was present.
Modern game design would suggest it’s better to simply put a death tracker for those who want a challenge rather than impose tedium on those who just want to play the game casually

“Stop playing” is not a meaningful metric
> GraalVM is three times worse by latency during cold starts and double the RAM of Go.

GraalVM & Java

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

However, that's for tiny tiny tiny programs like fannkuch-redux and n-body and … that's default settings memory use.

When the work requires memory to be allocated k-nucleotide and reverse-complement and … there's less difference between GraalVM & Java.
Aren’t there already timing attacks based on cache latency?
I agree with the rest of the post, its hard to say one way or another if octopuses believe in conspiracy theories, and the conclusion drawn seems, at best, orthogonal to the data presented.

But I disagree with what you said here:

>But do they hold beliefs that are not true about things they don't understand well? (the basic building block of a conspiracy theory)

Facilely, this is a tautology. Everyone necessarily holds untrue beliefs about things they incompletely understand. The scientific method taught to school children is a framework for identifying and removing them. Your statement is akin to "the fundamental building block of conspiracy theories is knowledge gained from empirical observation"

But less glibly, untrue beliefs held by individuals with incomplete understanding are insufficient building blocks of conspiracy theories. The issue doesn't arise from incomplete understanding, nor is it dismissed by efforts to expand understanding. You need an untrue belief, certainly, but you also need to approach that belief with a confirmation bias.
Coming from French I don't consider there is any conjugation in Japanese. The verb is the same no matter what the subject is - I, you, he/she, we, plural you, they... So in French you can multiply by 6 the number of verb ending. In Japanese you never have to care about gender and plural.

Same with German, where you have declinaisons on the articles depending on their grammatical position in the sentence (den/der/dem/etc.)

So maybe Chinese is even simpler than Japanese, but I would still rank Japanese as a language having a "simple" grammar.
Reading their blog post I wonder if an LLMs is really the best way to do this. If I got it right, they used the LLM to enumerate potential protein DNA sequences. Does that really need an LLM? Enumeration is not novel, nor are LLMs particularily good at it. If you want to computationally parallelize the search in a large enumeration space it would be much easier to simply, well, do that instead of taking a detour via a statistical parrot.

In a nutshell this sounds more like a case of "we wanted something with AI in the title".
That was a figure of speech. I didn't literally mean games (not that GOFAI performs better than NNs in those games anyway). I simply went off your own examples - Vision, Image generation, Translation etc.

>As I say in my comment above planning and scheduling, SAT, constraints, verification, theorem proving- those are still dominated by classical systems

You can use NNs for all these things. It wouldn't make a lot of sense because GOFAI would be perfect and the former would be inefficient but you certainly could which is again more than I can say for GOFAI and the domains you listed.
(background disclaimer: native English speaker; can read Japanese and French reasonably well; German somewhat less so; have also lightly studied Latin + Russian + Spanish; Chinese not at all)

Chinese sounds more like the exception than the rule.

I feel like if you're going to say "It just feels like an inefficient language for communication. Why does it have to be so complicated?" you should come for the Indo-European languages first; exoticizing Japanese as this bizarrely complex, weird language just isn't accurate.

In fact, even with the various things you listed, Japanese grammar is still relatively simple compared to most European languages, for instance. No genders, few tenses, only two irregular verbs, a word order system that's both pretty consistent (SOV) and flexible...meanwhile, a lot of what's called "grammar" in Japanese language pedagogy feels more like what European languages would call idiomatic expressions.

Even keigo, which is definitely a pain point...English, for instance, has all sorts of subtle ways of communicating tone and politeness, it's just not quite as explicit. In a way, the strict manner in which it's codified in Japanese makes those nuances somewhat easier to grasp.
Check out this thread on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/1cal0ff/comparing_c...

Short answers:

- Yes, they mark up. 24%ish.

- Markup may be different when shopping on IC directly versus Costco same day delivery (via IC).

- Coupons like 50% off orders over $xx changes that math.

- Factor in tip into the equation.
Which as we all know from our high school civics class, the debt reckoning is going to happen, and every citizen will be asked to personally pay that debt to the debt reaper, and if you can't pay it, it's off to debtor's prison with you, so you'd better be saving past your most recent paycheck, or else.

Seriously though, what does that even mean?

Per capita, we rank fairly low for national debt, which means we should be spending way more per person to maintain and improve our existing infrastructure. HSR when?
Have you seen DNA? Mistakes and dupes and hallucinations all over the place. Ever since Sherlock Crick and Doctor Watson started meddling with it.
Not just to "Israel" as a customer -- but at least part of the project has been earmarked to the IDF specifically (per documents obtained in a recent Time magazine investigation).

That's a huge distinction, especially given what we now know about Project Lavender. And in itself is ample grounds to not to meekly ask, but to demand from Google that it provide clarification as whether the tools or services it is providing will be used in such projects, and if doing so is in accord with its own stated policies.

A question to which it thus far seems hellbent on not providing anything resembling a straight answer to.