skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tough question since we still don't understand the brain well enough to know what degree of fidelity of copying it is necessary to achieve the same/similar functionality.

What is the computational equivalent of a biological neuron? How much of the detailed chemistry is really relevant to it's operation (doing useful computation), or can we just use the ANN model of synapses as weights, and the neuron itself as a summation device plus a non-linearity?

Maybe we can functionally model the human brain at a much coarser, more efficient, level than individual neurons - at cortical mini/macro column level perhaps, or as an abstract architecture not directly related to nature's messy implementation?
Not quite; piracy of the paid DLC is one thing, but modding is to add songs (which should be read as, entire Beatsaber custom-made tracks) that otherwise are not available through any other avenues.
I agree with Moravec. As he points out a bit later on:

> Only on the outside, where they can be appreciated as a whole, will the impression of intelligence emerge. A human brain, too, does not exhibit the intelligence under a neurobiologist's microscope that it does participating in a lively conversation.

We only have fuzzy definitions of "intelligence", not any essential, unambiguous things we can point to at a minute level, like a specific arrangement of certain atoms.

Put another way, we've used the term "intelligent" to refer to people (or not) because we found it useful to describe a complex bundle of traits in a simple way. But now that we're training LLMs to do things that used to be assumed to be exclusively the capacity of humans, the term is getting stretched and twisted and losing some of its usefulness.

Maybe it would be more useful to subdivide the term a bit by referring to "human intelligence" versus "LLM intelligence". And when some new developments in AI seem like they're different from "LLM intelligence", we can call them by whatever distinguishes them, like "Q* intelligence", for example.
As long as the right cartels are able to skim value, I could see this being successful regardless. Cartels are businesses at the end of the day- and they won't totally destroy an industry as long as it's making them money long term. The problems occur when smaller groups start fighting over access to the resources.
Streaming is scrubbing the soundtracks from your favorite shows
I think “digital nomad” tends to refer to remote workers (often working with companies based in their home country) who travel around, “economic migrant” refers to workers moving to a country where there are better job opportunities, specifically to find work at a company based in that country. Less to do with skin tone.
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You don’t have to sign in to use an iPhone or Android phone, though you to have to sign in to use their app stores. Presumably with the advent of DMA though you can avoid creating an Apple ID or Google account if using a 3rd party store (though probably you’ll need some other account for that store, that’s how it always goes…).

Fe: gaming - yes, this is why Apple had separate IDs for gaming center.. and I think Microsoft does this too for Xbox vs Microsoft account?
Inside X's latest, desperate attempt to beguile advertisers
If "cool" people insist on only wearing Ray Bans that will keep VR fun. It will keep VRChat safe for furries, kemonomini and animekin.
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This is a bit Haskell oriented, but the "Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" by SPJ is one of my all time favorite books.

https://simon.peytonjones.org/slpj-book-1987/

These compilers were pulling heroic data structure optimization stunts in 1985, that no modern production compiler for major compiled languages can replicate in 2024.
Is there even anything that would make sense? A lot of the older enhancements were because of the limited compute ability of older consoles, or adding sensors like the already mentioned gyro sensors and light sensors in GBA games. The Switch is already more powerful than anything you could reasonably add in a cart, and probably already has any sensors you'd reasonably add too. If there's anything else that could be done, that'd be interesting to find out.
I'm sure that's all well and good for the plants. But for the rest of this, it's very concerning. I'm not looking forward to living in a greenhouse Earth. By the time we are unable to ignore the problem it will be WAY too late.
Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'
> These scenarios may not matter to you, but they matter to a lot of folks today and even more tomorrow.

is it really true? Counting 10s MB sounds like irrelevant to both today and tomorrow when servers with 100GBs are very affordable.
This is kinda cool, what do you think the usecases could be compared to say something like pushing to Github or Gitlab? (considering you don't hate proprietary Git hosting platforms)
The Ballad of Ray Suzuki
what a sad hill to die on
Meditation is nearly impossible while caffeine is still in my body… Maybe coffee caused the sacrifice of religion for more technology
The controversy is stills that don't appear in the movie. For example, Chicago burning, but Chicago isn't in the movie.

Doesn't seem to be about AI, so much as the changing face of movie marketing. kinda. if you squint hard.
Will Bay Area schools' switch to equity grading help or harm students?
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It would result in a situation where nobody could depend on the expansion module, if they wanted their game to have the largest possible market.

It would also cause a lot of confusion, where clueless older relatives would buy games for kids, not realize that an accessory was required (or have no idea if the kid actually had that accessory), and then the game wouldn't run.

We see this sort of problem happen a lot with computers of the 8-bit era as well, where add-on modules would fix a lot of the issues with the base system... then be supported by almost no software for these exact reasons.
Likely a change requested from legal.
Almost exciting, if the software wasn't just this shitty hacked together proprietary android fork. It's just an app store and game launcher, there is nothing there that I would imagine a metaverse operating system to be, like interoperability between vr apps. This would have to be built from the ground up around the VR paradigm on open standards and hackable.

If the Internet started on today's proprietary app stores and nailed-shut operating systems it would've never innovated this quickly. This is what AOL/MSN desperately attempted, but it all failed (thank god).

Meta's dream of the metaverse is nothing but laughable, hold back by nothing but terrible software.
Yea, I don't really get why the 6.5 hours is particularly pertinent. The unloading time (and expense) will dominate, and any other railroads connecting a Pacific port to an Atlantic port in the Americas that are less than ~2 days transit time will be competitors.

Why does connecting directly to the US help? If you're in one ocean and just want to access the US, can't you just steam direct to a US port?
I also basically have to have a smartphone, and smartphones are entirely self contained devices.

On a scale of trust for how companies are handling my data, Apple, and to a much lesser extent, Google, are still more trustworthy than Facebook, I feel.
Staggering amounts of EVERYTHING ending up in the garbage bin...
To quote you:

Do you know how YouTube embeds work?

This site summarizes videos regardless of their status on YouTube. Don't support embeds? Tough luck, this site will summarize your work either way and there's just a little box telling you that you could watch the video on YouTube.

This site exists to take the work of others. If not, please provide a link to the YouTube channel made by the person behind stepify and all their videos.
While the majority of inflation today seems to be driven by companies increasing the profit margin, Climate change is a strong contributor to inflation of fundamental economic costs.

Food price inflation is increased by increased heat waves, droughts, and shifting northward of pests that used to be controlled by colder winters.

Property insurance inflation drives up the cost of insuring against the effects of the same disasters - directly driving home ownership costs up, as well as rentals up.

Supply disruption as inflation driver increases from events like drought and heatwaves disrupting Panama canal operations.

Building supply inflation is increased as increased hurricane and tornado intensity causes more resources to be diverted to rebuilding instead of being able to do things like build new housing stock.

Defense spending is accepted deficit spending for the public good to avoid the disruption of military actions. It's a lot like other insurance spending.

Climate change is a form of insurance spending. If we don't fix Climate change, the inflation will come one way or another, and we should decide if we want to address it in a relatively controlled way of building up our economy with common deficit spending, or if we want uncontrolled events to land and generally inflate our economic costs in poorly controllable ways.

Magical thinking is somehow believing we avoid costs by sticking our head in the sand and wishing for conditions long past.
If it does have a noticeable impact, that would be surprising, a bit like going back to the days when 'inline' was supposed to tell the compiler to inline the designated functions (no longer its main use case nowadays).
I had never heard of fosa, so I looked them up. It turns out it is usually spelled fossa, and as well as lemurs they also eat tenrecs.
> The compiler (sometimes linker) is perfectly capable of seeing that a class has no derived classes

How? The compiler doesn't see the full program.

The linker I'm less sure about. If the class isn't guaranteed to be fully private wouldn't an optimizing linker have to be conservative in case you inject a derived class?
> (1) Unlike OpenVMS/TOPS-20/LispMachines/etc, mainstream POSIX file systems lack built-in versioning (there are a small number of POSIX systems which implemented it, e.g. SCO OpenServer's HTFS, but for whatever reason more mainstream systems like Linux or *BSD never did)

Linux does have that in NILFS2, it's just that almost nobody cares to use it:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/nilfs2.ht... / https://man.archlinux.org/man/nilfs.8.en
At least in the Shuttle era, I once heard it said in a way that was something along the lines of “contracted support is basically working to rule; NASA employee components are working to solve problems.”

Referring here to contractors as the body of private sector contract organizations that had outsourcing contracts for various support roles, not the individual people. Speaking to working environment.
i think that ship sailed when smartphones became ubiquitous. given how heavily subsidized mobile devices are (especially compared to PCs), there's no incentive to produce an actually-open hardware or software platform. Google and Apple want you re-upping every 2 years and to stay locked into their ecosystems. i agree this is sad, but definitely not new
> makes people come across as radical ideologists

Indeed I think the majority of people who seem to try to push hard for CoC inclusion end up just using the maintainer's either inaction or refusal to do so as some kind of grounds to go to war against them. I've been downvoted to oblivion across several sites for saying this but I think it really warrants saying it without sugarcoating... this is exactly what a terrorist does.
Can this be self-hosted? Where's the privacy policy?
Here in the US there has been the problem of endangered sea lions eating endangered salmon below the Bonneville Dam. The salmon are easy pickings for the sea lions because they tend to collect below the dam as the migrate upriver to spawn.

https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213669/endangered-seals-eat...
RIP Twitter API: A eulogy to its research contributions
In what manner do you consider taxpayers to be non-users of public schools? If you went to a public school you're continually building on the foundation they provided. If you went to a private school you're continually surrounded by people who are as educated as the system could make them.

The world is currently in a race to see who can make the most advanced microchips the fastest, and we're doing that because it's starting to look like whoever makes the best chips gets to call the shots.

There aren't enough people who grasp the fundamentals well enough to contribute to this effort. Education is now a critical national security concern.
What I'm saying is, is there an infrastructure solution that doesn't increase the salinity in the lake? Like can we use gravity up to the last lock, but then pump all the fresh water out back to the lake and then pump seawater into the chamber after it's empty? Or something crazy like that.
> many feel that hallmarks of stability such as homeownership and a 9-to-5 job are no longer achievable or desirable

It seems kind of odd to juxtapose those two adjectives. I mean, either something is desirable, then you might wonder whether it's achievable (or, conversely, if something is not desirable, why worry about whether it's achievable).

I suppose what they're trying to say is that there are (a) some to whom these supposed "hallmarks of stability" are not desirable; and that there are (b) others to whom they are desirable but don't feel achievable any more.

And then I wonder why that is. I mean, (a) is kind of beyond discussing - as the ancient Romans already knew "de gustibus non est disputandum", so if you don't like to own a house or have a 9-to-5 job, then that's it.

But if you are someone in this current generation and are attracted to these things, why would you feel that they aren't achievable any more? I suppose the point would be that there are less affordable houses available and less 9-to-5 jobs? But especially if you are in IT (after all, we're talking about "digital nomads" here), your salary is likely above average. So you, if anyone, should be in the market for a house. Maybe not a dream house worthy to be featured in a TV show, or one that's overlooking the lake. But you can certainly get a house.

And there are certainly enough jobs that are at least close to 9-to-5. Not everyone is burning through sprints all the time, although we all have heard of jobs like that. Mostly from people who quite them, though.
Doom didn't, since it didn't support looking up and down.
Around 2000-2005 I was in the “plug my brain into the Internet!” crowd.

Now if you gave me a magic button that could permanently un-invent the whole thing… I really might press it.
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This is bubble thinking/feeling, sure in bubbles like SF or some mega cities this can and is happening to some extent, but world as a whole keeps going and doesn't stop.

For every vocal digital nomad there are 100 folks in same industry who just settle, which can mean a lot of things, not just stereotypical US version "I must own my house or I am a complete loser" (which btw ain't true in any meaningful way and doesn't bring any form of long term satisfaction or happiness, but thats for longer discussion). Even generation ago there were generally exactly same issues for exactly same limited resources like housing, people just got a grip and worked on their goals instead of endlessly complaining how life is unfair specifically to them that they don't have fully paid mortgage by 35 and retire at 50.

I know tons and tons of young people very capable and eager to work in stable corporate environments, way more than I experienced in my days, you just have to zoom out a bit. But this mundane truth doesn't fit popular negative narrative so popular also here with these topics.

Adventures and this are not mutually exclusive, sabbaticals are often used for anything between 3-24 months. If you can't cover the scratch even in 2 years, yeah this ain't life for you (which is an important discovery of course, the sooner it happens the better, but comparably very few find nomading say after 40 as something great).

I've done my share of longer term backpacking mostly in Himalaya, but have it as a long term lifestyle? No thank you, prefer weekend adventuring and raising kids someplace more safe and stable, being close to say tropical beach ain't the most important QOL item on my list.
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One thing I've noticed about my ebike is that riding on the road is much less scary because I'm able to better keep up with traffic so car drivers get much less angry at me and aren't always jockeying to pass. I have mine unlocked to do about 26mph (42kph) and it's about as fast as I feel comfortable with on bike tires and wearing a regular bike helmet.

25kph seems like it is too slow to keep up with traffic. That's barely any faster than a regular bike.
California voters showed up in droves to prevent that exact classification change from happening, because your average voter is few IQ points away from needing help tying their shoes, and will absolutely eat up whatever lies Uber et al. will pump out.
Passport control is CBP (a part of USCIS) and doesn't really have any relation to TSA, which is security checks to go from the "unsecured" (curbside) part of the airport to the "secured" (planeside) part.

> back in london i just scan my passport

Presumably your passport is a UK passport? Generally it's much quicker for a country's nationals to enter a border than foreigners.
i love rivals on tech, hope like ios vs android
Word is that you can also disable biometric authentication with Siri
“Hey Siri, who’s phone is this?”

I haven’t tested so be sure to try it before you need it.
That is very country specific. Here scale is 4 to 10. 4 being failure and 10 being essentially perfection. Average work being 7 with 6 below and 8 pretty good and 9 good. Scaling this to 1 to 5 would mean 1 is failure, 2 is not entirely failed, 3 average, 4 good and 5 perfection.
That's kind of moving the bar isn't it? It does not follow that a pattern of some humans and hominids in some environments possibly bulking up seasonally means that oil from seeds is unhealthy. There are so may leaps of logic here that it's meaningless.
It actually is Android, just customized for XR.
For years users have been asking for this. Why now? Well, better late then never I guess.
Awewome thx for the info. Its inspiring.
This is reminding me again of The Bitter Lesson.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
>I'm not sure if there's technical reasons for it, but it feels like nobody is taking VR development seriously.

The "technical" reason for it is very very very simple: 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, people playing Call of Duty do not want to physically move their arms around to aim, and don't want to jump around to move, and if you aren't doing those things you don't want the downsides that are inherent to a VR system, like extreme seclusion of wearing a headset, physical ability being an inherent filter, clunky UI, nausea etc.

The TWO areas where VR is useful, flight simulators and driving simulators, haven't even fully adopted VR simply because it's too much hassle.

VR is only a gimmick unless you can benefit from that extra immersion, and most things cannot.

The Wii sold gangbusters because everyone and their grandma could understand "swing remote to swing tennis racket", but you couldn't actually build a hyperaccurate tennis sim off of that because a Wiimote is NOT a tennis racket and you cannot get beyond that. VR is the same way. Everyone can experience the "Oh VR is soooo coool" gimmick but very few genres inherently benefit from what VR provides.
That's one of the many problems with cartels: they fight over control of valuable resources. Occasionally a single cartel gets a firm hold onto something and right about then, the US government swoops in to decapitate the leadership, re-initiating a war. I.e. What happened with CDS and CJNG after El Chapo's extradition to the US.

Also, if a certain skim percentage becomes acceptable loss to all parties, the cartels will want more.
If you already have LTO, can't the compiler determine this information for devirtualization purposes on its own?
Typically frames are made very light, so they won't make too much pressure on one's ears and nose. Unless someone runs a fiber to a frame, then keep the rest in a backpack or belt bag or something, I doubt it's physically possible to pack all the necessary additional hardware keeping it nearly indistinguishable from a frame without it.
Everything You Know About History Is Wrong: Part V – Food Edition
An economic migrant changes locale to find work. A digital nomad has work but conducts it from various places, not just the locale if the business.

It's not just a racist term, they're different.
Thanks,

>Until they find a better solution

I believe that the solution starts with increasing the number of buses or adding stops to existing bus lines with bigger capacity, while studying the algorithms and passenger flow involved. However, if the city council has decided to maintain costs, reducing the number of buses on weekends included, it seems unlikely that they will seek out other solutions. The city council has set a precedent that is probable to happen again.
Skills based games -- baseball, cricket, golf, tennis almost have infinite game play
Another example of evolution deleting something instead of creating something. It is bizarre how many examples that people cite demonstrating evolution are actually demonstrating devolution.
iOS can only run on Apple hardware.

Google famously made Android "open source" and allows third party manufacturers to run it.
Been a 1Password customer for 15 years. I used to like the app and service so much that at one point, I considered applying for a job at AgileBits.

Fast forward to today. Copying passwords to the clipboard has been broken on Linux for at least two years. It used to work fine.

Also, they broke their Linux desktop app so seriously that I'm stuck on a twelve-months-old version, otherwise the app window won't even come up. It used to work fine. The version I'm stuck on has known vulnerabilities.

Data entry is broken, too: typing something and then tabbing to another window randomly truncates data if I type quickly enough.

Support requests are basically being ignored. They claim they only support X11, not Wayland. It used to work fine though before they broke it.

The only thing that's keeping me subscribed to 1P is the fact that I'm locked in too deeply and I'm not aware of trustworthy alternatives.

Apart from that, I despise and loathe 1Password more than MS Office.

1Password can buy any startup it wants, a buggy mess is still a buggy mess.
Nvidia claims the H100 GPU can do >3e15 8-bit operations per second (3 billion - million instructions per second):

https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-tensor-core/nvidia-tensor...
I want to make a snarky comment about how any reasonable person would want 10x that to work for Facebook but 500 human lifetimes is still a wild amount of time for what they’ve gotten.
Or "something is wrong with my benchmark setup", which is also a possibility :)

Without a comparison of generated code, it could be anything.
I'm not sure if this is good or bad. I use an M5Stack tough for one of my products. It works ok, but I really wish M5 had some more OEM friendly options.
Is there any such solution in the VR space, even if not state-of-the-art?