skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't found Japanese grammar to be particularly complex either...at least compared to English or French. It is different. The 80/20 Japanese Book was a great help, as was "English Grammar for Students of Japanese" (the title is confusing, but it really is for learning Japanese, not English).

You can get a sample of 80/20 here:

https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/

Pronunciation also isn't that hard (Kanto dialect, at least) compared to, say, French. The writing system is definitely the hardest part for me.
Needs to have some visual feedback of the orientation. Also the ball is too heavy & slow. And as someone else said the perspective is wrong.
I just got a FSD trial of 12.3.4 on my Model Y. It's better than I expected, but still feels far from something that can fully autonomously drive. Freeway driving works really well and has for years. Street driving is hit and miss. So much that I basically turn it off unless I'm driving a known good path. It handles intersections, street lights, and stop signs just fine. It goes around cars blocking the road, waiting first for a clear path in oncoming traffic.

On the bad side, it brakes REALLY hard a lot and accelerates REALLY hard off of stop signs.

It often freaks out when pedestrians are near the side of the road. My car came to a rapid full stop because some bikers were standing looking at their phones about 6 feet from a crosswalk. Besides being jarring and annoying, it pissed off and scared the person behind me. The car wouldn't have moved if I didn't disengage FSD.

It drove right towards a very low curb that suddenly appears in the roadway by my house. It's an old curb that sits maybe only 3 inches high but would definitely feel like a slam and maybe damage the tire if we hit it. I'm guessing it doesn't look enough like a normal curb to FSD

There are a bunch of small experiences just like these. I disengage nearly every trip and often at least twice.
China is now capable of producing world class tech in any consumer industry. They even lead the world by a long way in some (eg camera drones)
The requires it for sizing the columns (the step before placing the items into the columns).
Not what you see, or hear, on porn
How much leverage though?
I do wonder if he's doomed FSD/robotaxi by being stubborn about lidar. The self-driving problem is unlike most other ML problems due to its mission critical nature. Having 2 modalities that can be cross-checked will reduce edge case hallucations that cause crashes. Like, instead of probability p that you don't see the truck in the middle of the road, you reduce it to nearly p^2. This non-linear reduction in faults that comes with cross-checking modalities is not intuitive. I never bought Musk's justification: "Lidar is not how humans do it". Why would we intentionally handicap ourselves to the tools available to biological evolution?

Seeing how hard it's been for Cruise and Waymo, who use lidar, and only operate in a small area, I am not expecting a functioning Tesla robotaxi that regulators will allow on the road anytime soon.
> People will buy nice electric cars that aren't riddled with quality issues.

Anecdata: my father bought a VW ID.4 1 year after I got my M3 (2019). The MY wasn't available yet. VW ID.4 has been at the garage 3-4 times/year for various (mostly software) issues. Same with my mother's Peugeot e-208. My M3 got the latest software update the next day after an imperfect firmware update made autopilot sometimes unavailable, all done with the technicians via the Tesla app.

You can choose between amazing efficiency and software, and perhaps a 1mm-off panel on 1 out 1000 vehicles, or perfect esthetics but horrible software.

Teslas are still not perfect, and a stronger QA would definitely make for a better image, I agree. Still, Tesla has made a lot of progress, you don't find as many people complaining about QC/panel issues anymore on reddit. But competitors still have a ton of catching up to do.
Polarization Spectrogram of Bivariate Signals
Being mostly into technical books and textbooks, I WOULD BUY BOOKS if the publishers didn't goddamn charge $300 for an undergrad textbook.

I have no love for textbook publishers AND authors. They could all crash and burn for all I care.

The best real analysis textbook I've seen recently by Jay Cummings sells on Amazon for $16. So it is possible to (self)publish books that people can and would buy. Granted that the author probably doesn't live on this book's income, it points out that more affordable solutions can at least exist.
They'll be in good company with In-N-Out.
Someone can still be responsible for decisions made in a system with poor incentives.
Ada goes beyond memory safety.
I think the debate in the social and political sphere has already turned to this broader implication, but obviously for the legal challenge, X will solely be debating whether it should apply globally or not.
Fast current-induced skyrmion motion in synthetic antiferromagnets
i worked on ranking during singhal's tenure, and it was definitely refreshing to see a "no black box ML ranking" stance.
Quaternion-based knowledge graph neural network for social recommendation
How does health insurance coverage work during the garden leave period?
If the difference between $200 and $2000 prototypes is material to you, you probably shouldn't be doing hardware.

Hardware has an enormous set of things that cost money to surmount. Packaging, testing, certifications, etc. If chunks of $2K matter, you're never getting over the next hurdles.

Hardware isn't software. It isn't cheap.
Using an adblocker for a search engine establishes an adversarial relationship. Why should I have to do that? Why can I not just turn off ads? Of course, we both know the answer to that. Google makes less money then. But this same motivation is affecting everything they do. If Google had their way, they'd put ads in front of your eyeballs even though you don't want it. I'd rather use a search engine that doesn't start from an adversarial position.
Look at those pictures. Pretty obvious that they came from DALL-E.

Just like most of the text came from ChatGPT.

Blown away by how many people here are complimenting this awful project as if any real thought or effort went into it. It's just AI blogspam.
This is awesome! Makes me wanna play Monkey Ball!
Getting the tools and skills to do PCB assembly and SMD rework seems like a no-brainer (indeed I'd say essential!) if you're aiming to do serious work with building hardware. Not something I've done myself but soldering an LGA-12 doesn't look too hard with appropriate tools.
also on https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13017
That's the motivation behind this rule. About one in six food outlets were demanding non-compete terms in employment, to prevent their employees from quitting to work for higher-paying outlets.[1] (Not McD and Burger King; mostly the smaller ones.)

[1] https://thecounter.org/biden-targeting-non-compete-agreement...
you are like a third right-

First, no its not about tax dollars, you're right. It's about the US actively participating. Its something we have the power to easily stop doing. If what's happening in Palestine is comparable to the Uyghurs you're conceding that there are human rights problems.

As for antisemitism is Europe, I can't say. You might be right there. But in the US, most of it as far as I can tell is being horrified at pictures and videos of what's happening and feeling responsible. A lot of people hate what happened in the global war on terror and this is very comparable. I won't say that there is Nobody in it for antisemitic reasons here but I think that's a terrible awful reason, I disavow any antisemitism, and i believe that the vast majority of US people in the movement aren't.

The fight vs solution thing, I'm a little baffled by. Yeah the point of blocking the golden gate bridge is to show that things aren't stable in the status quo, that's how protests work. But it sounds like you're saying that getting a reaction is the entire goal and that's uncharitable and untrue
Before that we could try giving Ukraine weapons on par with the Russians and not getting them to fight with one hand behind their backs re hitting Russia. F16s and ATACMs could have been given ages ago.
How small is "too small" here? I'm by no means an expert at soldering but with some patience I can hand solder down to 0603 components, and I know people who can go much smaller than that (right down to the sort of thing where if you sneeze finding the components you just scattered around is like finding a specific grain of sand on the floor). You can get practice boards for next to nothing online if you don't want to risk damaging high value components.
> The browser is dead,

Yea. Nah!

That obit is a bit premature
Also edge bundling can help. See the papers by Benjamin Bach et al.

https://aviz.fr/~bbach/confluentgraphs/
Based on how hackable their infra is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkcVzNyj5sI
Don't forget their creation of Our failed border security protocols they helped design during the Obama administration. A McKinsey principal once bragged to me about being responsible for "kids in cages"

If half their work wasn't scrubbed from the internet or known publicly at all you'd be able to ctrl + F on their wikipedia page, type CIA and your screen would light up like a Christmas tree.
Haha! That's awesome!!
Lina Khan, AI, and China.

Apple+ is like MSNBC: they only want incrementalist pseudo-agitators rather than those who speak truth to power. (MSNBC has a history of firing hosts who Washington king makers or Comcast executives disapprove of.)
Personally I think it was obvious that LLMs were going to be useful for protein modelling since the previous generation used HMMs very successfully. Pfam (a library of HMMs for classifying proteins into preexisting known families) is one of the most important resources we have because of the power of HMMs to model sequential language.

I suspect we will need to move from sequential modelling to graphical modelling to level-up again, though.
In OCaml the integer operations are implemented using LEA instructions, and the floats are boxed. The language is not really suitable for numerical code...
Well LLMs are claimed to be good at math too, and yet they can't count. Same point with the long contexts. And our actual use case (insurance) does need it to do both.

My hope from this article is to help non-AI experts figure out when they need to design around a flaw versus believe what's marketed.
> You can see this in AI. Every story from an AI engineer that ran away from Google is the same. They didn't run away for the money, they ran away because they were getting scared into compliance.

Can you elaborate?
It isn't clear Tesla ever had quality. His management persona was in place day one and has very consistently made decisions that negatively affect quality, much less the real challenge of building a car company from scratch. Teslas have pretty consistently ranked low on quality rankings.
Vapnik: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring13/cos511... https://engineering.columbia.edu/files/engineering/vapnik.pd... https://www.learningtheory.org/learning-has-just-started-an-... https://nautil.us/teaching-me-softly-234576/

The main paper: https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/exploration/act...

It sounds kinda crazy (is there really that much far transfer?), but you know, I think it would work... He just needed to use LLMs instead: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668#deepmind
The most recent success:

>YouTube TV has piloted past a new milestone: The internet pay-TV service now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant. That means YouTube TV, available only in the U.S. starting at $72.99 per month, is far and away the biggest internet-streaming subscription TV service in the country.

-Feb 6, 2024
People get pretty riled up about the likes of Haskell, Elm, and OCaml. Rust brings some of the virtues of functional into procedural code/average developer hands, and out of "monads are just a monoid in the category of endofunctors."

At the end of day, people are afraid of functional languages. It doesn't matter how amazing they are if almost everyone is too scared to use them.
Oh please. This sort of blind “Israel is not POSSIBLY incapable of committing the same atrocities every other State is capable of committing” is a uniquely American brand of anti-anti-Semitism. Considering the actual merits and factors of a situation instead of simplifying everything to “yeah, but Jewish people have had a hard time” is exactly the sort of easily consumable useless drivel that doesn’t belong here.
"[this] results open an important path toward the realization of logic and memory devices based on the fast manipulation of skyrmions in tracks."
Not even remotely the same legal theory; the theory there is that the courts should be able to review regulations the agencies make for e.g. if there were less burdensome ways to accomplish the same goal even when the regulations themselves are "reasonable"
Totally agree on the overall prognosis of Google - I am (also?) one of said engineers! Here’s a recent update from a tiny corner of the company: the rank and file is still incredibly smart and generally well-intentioned, but are following hollow simulacrums of the original culture - all-hands, dogfooding, internal feedback, and ground-up engineering priorities are all maintained in form, but they are now rendered completely functionless. I am personally convinced that the company is — or was, before ChatGPT really took off - focused on immediate short term stock value above all else. After all, if you were looking down the barrel of multiple federal and EU antritrust suits and dwindling public support for the utility you own and operate, you might do the same…

I guess I’m standing up for the simple idea that terribly inefficient organizations can prevail when they’re the incumbents, at least for significant periods if not forever. We can’t be complacent and assume they’ll fall on their own, esp when AGI threatens social calcification on an unheard of scale.
Yes, but I experience again and again people completely in denial about this. Often they view China as the producer of low cost and low quality products flooding global markets, which certainly is true, but at the same time Chinese companies have actually learned how to produce high quality products, that can actually compete with western offerings.
I thought the idea of the Rabbit R1 was cool. I have a strong feeling this will end up like the Humane Pin, which is sad. I'm glad companies are trying something different.

I'd love to be able to use my phone hands free without having to look at it, and interface with ChatGPT/Claude/whatever but I am not sure if it's possible? Siri works very poorly and is unreliable. I'd like to be able to use an LLM as a personal assistant. Set timers, call people, message people, but also be able to ask questions like the voice chat function in the ChatGPT app. Maybe one day!
You're right, I stand corrected. I guess I've been hearing too much Italian lately
It a shame that the Lego Mindstorms (LM) has been discontinued and no longer available.

Is there anything equivalent to LM especially any open source alternatives?
Drug companies measure themselves, not by number of lives saved or patients helped, but by profit or its close-cousin EPS. And, in this and many cases, money is actually a poor proxy for anything but money.

It's called "capitalism". That's what's definitional here. Profit (return on capital/money) and profit-growth are recognized as ultimate end goals. So, of course we measure it and clearly pursue it for its own sake. VCs aren't interested in raw unit production if those units can't be sold at a profit. And, in simple terms, the company can't yield ROI to the investor if it is unprofitable. That's why we measure money instead of unit production. It's not because money is "a convenient proxy, something-something Industrial Revolution".

But, all of this is self-evident, so makes for boring discussion. What's interesting is considering how this emphasis on money distorts and underserves society.
Emotion can cause chickens to get red in the face
https://www.tesla.com/support/connectivity
> Rust is just a native compiler that creates slow programs and complains a lot.

Good morning Troll

I'll give you "complains a lot."
> I know of nowhere to submit this patch.

How about the folks listed as "Authors":

* http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

> Why the heck is everyone using libpng?

What is the alternative(s)?
> I think it's outrageous that my government seems to think they have the right to censor, worldwide, anything that originates from Australia.

Really it's the US Government who thinks they have the right, have a look at who our eSafety commissioner is and where she's worked before
I usually add before:2019 to google search queries to remove a lot of LLM generated articles.
I don't really get the controversy around the so-called Great Replacement Theory.

Europeans have factually ceased to be a majority in the US in the younger generations, and given that humans do die of old age this will surely follow through to the population overall. The demographic trends are driven by factors that factually could be influenced by government policy if there was a will to do so.

If someone is unhappy about this, it's certainly reasonable to disagree with them or to call them a racist or whatever. But the way people talk about this "theory", it's like they think it isn't really happening and that people who do think it's happening are delusional.

Can someone explain this to me?
Without knowing exactly what you are working on, here are a few ideas:

1. Figure out if you can do fewer slow iterations. What's driving the need for a full PCBA run for each iteration? Might be able to split out to rigid assembly and flex for example.

2. Run more experiments in parallel. If you have multiple ideas or variations to test, design them all and fabricate them all. Flex antenna? Make like 30 parametric variations.

If design then becomes the bottleneck, then automate that next.
I got several morale game overs (one of them from a 12 year old bully, that didn't feel good) before I realized there's a button to take Magnesium to restore the lost sanity. So I feel you, but I pressed on and it's a quite rewarding gaming experience
It's also a good lesson for the new AI cycle we're in now. Often inserting ML subsystems into your broader system just makes it go from "deterministically but fixably bad" to "mysteriously and unfixably bad".
> That's a bit of an unusual way of looking at iPhones.

This is the kind of comment that becomes a downvote magnet. An unusual look is the point.

I don't think it's true that there's some frontend-web-developer-graphic-design-nerd-sense-of-UX superiority to iPhones compared to Android phones. That's what this is about. There's a bunch of observations written here by non-elderly people trying to reason about why iPhones work better for the elderly than Android phones or whatever. Man, just get them a cable TV subscription and pay for it, because that's what they really want: free TV. That's what everyone wants.

It's only in this country that iPhones have such high market share. The fact is, Android or iPhone, the end user is mostly using it to consume the same garbage - mindless freakshow television in TikTok and YouTube.

Mostly couldn't be more true of a generalization either. The sum of the time spent on consuming linear video content on phones is probably like, 90-99% of the time spent on the devices. Even accounting for people playing long session video games in Asia, because children are overall a small part of the population, and adults are for the most part not playing games.

All of these hard, true facts about how utterly narrow an average user's usage of phones attacks sacrosanct magical thoughts in HN readers' heads regarding the diversity of the experiences people are having on computers. They think it's this wondrous world of diverse meaning. There's some truth to that. It may be you and I are having wondrous diverse meaningful experiences. But the average person is scrolling TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.

People who disagree and downvote: at the end of the day, how do you know? I mean, have you ever seen the engagement statistics for Apple Photos? For a banking app? Making phone calls? No! But there are countless surveys, all pointing to ridiculous numbers of hours spent in TikTok. 90m a day on average for Americans. That means 1 in 5 people may be spending 180m too! Who do you know spends 90m a day taking photos, banking, making calls? It's far more rare. You can look at the engagement for Google Maps and Spotify, which may be the only non-social media, non-TV apps with high engagement, but it would be intellectually dishonest to count Google Maps - you're using your car for navigation with an appliance, not your phone - and Spotify is an aberration, although still passive mindless consumption, a better more affordable UX compared to radio. If you could watch TV while driving a car, people would, and that would be it for radio and Spotify.

So of course a phone can converge a bunch of other activities. But it doesn't mean that I'm wrong. I know they have a bunch of functionality. The question is, does it matter? No. The average person wants freakshow TV. I'm not the first or the last person to say this. It has never been so stark though.
Lots of great album art possible for them.
But what if you resize the browser or turn the screen on your iPad.

Would you really want that to trigger an entirely new set of SQL statements ?
Exciting!

But: "Error: Your browser does not support WebGPU"

Sigh
It's also an interesting thing as a car company. Other existing car companies make dozens of models across regions and are able to rev them constantly, including entire refreshes. Tesla can barely manage the three models and a meme that they currently have, one of the models being over a decade old.
LOL. Watch I/O on May 14 for the debut of AndroidXR on the Samsung VR headset with a faster Qualcomm SoC than the one in the Quest 3.
Lga12 with soldermask stencils and a hotplate doesn't work? Should be doable for prototype quality. Might want a computer controlled pick and place with a suction arm/microscope but it's definitely feasible. Look up some of the gpu repair guys for inspiration, they often do some insane bga parts (nand chips) by hand.
Movim 0.24: A federated, open-source web-based social OMEMO E2EE XMPP client
Would you mind sharing a few sites, I’m interested. Thx.
I think the commenter was being sarcastic via the "Removing turn signal stalks and adding a yoke with no progressive steering is engineering at its absolute finest" remark.
I don't think that makes any sense. Many of the objects make little sound (how loud is a q-tip hitting the ground, exactly?), you wouldn't watch the falling object if you were expecting to flush out prey elsewhere - nor, for that matter, have I ever seen hiding animals scared out by a falling sound. (Whenever my cat has caught a mouse or other animal and it successfully hid in a crack or between the wall or under the refrigerator, it has been quite difficult to extricate the animal.)
To me the question is, why would you put source code on github if you're not going to make it uncompressed? What's the point of using a source code hosting website if your payload is a link to an upload site? Pastebin sites have been around for years.
It's a great game, I just started it a few months ago. It takes me a lot of mental energy to sit down and get started when I've been on a break. More than most games.
The problem there is that nobody wrote that article, someone did write this one. You should ask yourself why that is.
Got ideas? I’m interested.