skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the examples you're citing are all of the US government attempting to influence media through incentives and quid-pro-quo arrangements, i.e. exactly the same way every other organization in our society attempts to do so, precisely because it is not able to exercise any sort of direct political power over the media in the way that China does.

I'm sure this legislation will be almost immediately overturned by the courts. It has severe first amendment and fifth amendment problems, along with possibly being an illegal bill of attainder.
Part of the tension with building masonry on top of grid is that they work in fundamentally different ways.

Grid you place everything in the grid first (e.g. an item goes in col:2,row:3), then size the grid.
Masonry ideally you want to size the tracks first, then place items in those tracks.

The first Firefox implementation (and the spec at that stage) basically said you don't consider any masonry items for sizing tracks (except for the first row, and some other rules - its complex). This meant that it is trivial to create items that overflow their tracks.

The specification at the moment asks to place every item in every possible track. This has quadratic performance O(N_tracks * N_items) in the worst (and somewhat common case). Quadratic performance is bad[1] and we don't really have this in other layout algorithms.

With nesting introduced the performance goes (sub-)exponential, which is really poor, even if you have a fast CPU.

One may argue that these cases aren't common, but folks always test the boundaries with layout modes in CSS - so things need to be fast by default.

Note: In grid items size themselves differently depending on what tracks you place them in, which is why you need to place in every possible position.

Masonry potentially needs a different algorithm for sizing tracks to mitigate these problems, (the blog post doesn't go into these issues in sufficient detail). There may have been a version of grid sizing which didn't have item positional dependence but that ship has sailed.

[1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/on2-again-now-i...
All the adulation and covers devoted to Sam Bankman-Fried come to mind.
We have competition. Families move to regions where they see better school outcomes.
> then the statistical models get better

Maybe. The statistical models are definitely better at natural language processing now, but they still fail on analytical tasks.

Of course, human brains are statistical models, so there's an existence proof that a sufficiently large statistical model is, well, sufficient. But that doesn't mean that you couldn't do better with an intelligently designed co-processor. Even humans do better with a pocket calculator, or even a sheet of paper, than they do with their unaided brains.
Vote in a replacement to the person you complained to, and tell the newspaper that this person is not doing their job. These people are highly motivated to resolve complaints and have people in their offices dedicated to handling them. How do I know? I've dealt with them. If everyone else also knew how to use their government, I wouldn't have had to be the one making the complaints because the problems would have already been resolved.
I feel exactly the same, but I think we’re very much in the minority with that perspective compared to most consumers, so they could still sell like gangbusters.

And on that note I can’t wait to see Meta’s answer to Neuralink!
Thank you, fascinating creatures
Even if all that is correct, 300 miles a day or so could eat up a $40k difference really fast (gas alone could be $60 a day, or $15k a year - so even baking in the cost of electricity you could save the difference in only a few years).
Personally, I have more trust in open source software than anything the vendor puts on their devices. But very often either the vendor software is only allowed to run, or you have to disable secure boot to run your own software, weakening your security.

So I would like to have a process where the actual end-user and owner of the device is the root of trust, and then transfer that trust to the vendor software or to their own software if they so choose, instead of having the manufacture, vendor or some agency be the root of trust. Of course, it can come with a sensible setup, where the vendor is already trusted, but that trust should always be revokable.

There should also be a way to remove or transfer the ownership to another person, if the device is sold.

IIUC, OpenTitan is implementing this: https://opentitan.org/book/doc/security/specs/index.html

pKVM goes in a different direction, where software that is run, does not trust the host system, which IMO is not very nice. Trust is something that goes both ways and need to be earned, if I put trust in a software and install it on my system, then I assume that the software also trusts me. If the software doesn't trust me, why should I trust it?

If there is no trust between us, then it should not run on my system but on someone elses and let me communicate with it via a well-defined API we can both trust.
This feels like a thing where Apple needs to be very clear on who their early adopters are. The only situation I could see myself wanting this is if I was on a plane/train for several hours a day and needed to work or just wanted a good place for entertainment.

Seems like they haven’t really pinned that crowd down though and not being able to have multiple virtual monitors is a sales killer imo.
> investment-induced loyalty

Would generally refer to this as a sunk cost dilemma
You sound like a real Crazy One™®©
This is a repeat of the HoloLens, which I'm sure is a repeat of other failures, but I lack the historical context.
The only companies that can be considered to have changed humanity are the various European East Indian Companies. Apple is not even close to that ballpark.
What about computer viruses?
Quora and LinkedIn are also heavily overrun with AI garbage. Quora does it flat out, and LinkedIn launched Pulse to farm millions of AI generated topics and then invite its users to contribute.

LinkedIn is now one of the top results for topics like metaphysics, quantum physics, etc.

It’s a clown show.
Bacteria took over the planet. We are merely a host. We aren’t even long term habitants of all the continents much less the ocean. Meanwhile bacteria have colonized even the air currents on earth.
It's not an English LLM, but a "protein" language model, where tokens represent amino acids or nucleotides. Learning a transformer language model on such data simply learns a distribution over sequences of tokens. It's a fine approach conceptually that in many ways is the "right" way or most elegant method, and not a stretch at all.
It was _kind of_ a historical accident, in the sense that if we ran history over again, it wouldn't be too surprising to see an alternate-history "Conway's Life" with a rule like "B36/S23" (HighLife) instead of "B3/S23". (Conway did really like the replicator and bomber and a few other fun things that HighLife has that Life doesn't.)

On the other hand, Conway had some very specific criteria for the rule he was looking for. "B3/S23" is about as simple a set of rules as you can find for a range-1 Moore-neighborhood outer totalistic cellular automaton on a square grid.

So unless Conway's eye had happened to get caught by some slightly more complicated rule before he and his team happened on B3/S23, he'd be quite likely to settle on "B3/S23" all over again. It's one of the few candidates for the simplest rule that does obviously interesting things and seems likely to allow for computational universality. I mean, there are untold numbers of equally promising rules in larger rulespaces like the "isotropic non-totalistic" rules

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Isotropic_non-totalistic_rule

... but most of those have rulestrings like "B2ci3ai4c8/S02ae3eijkq4iz5ar6i7e":
it's just not anywhere near as simple to describe the rules, as it is for Life.

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If we meet up with an alien civilization some day, it would be extremely amusing if we happened to show them some Life patterns and they said (in so many words) "Hey! You know about Pnurflpeef's Game of Life?!?" Not a likely scenario, by any means, but not quite impossible either.
I assume they use google search at least once after fall in quality and noticed it . Or maybe they got google search founder edition for Them.
Edit : Does any one have email/twitter of larry/brin ? If you have can you try emailing them . Or is it public ? Gonna try emailing them
But afaik Lavender is an Israeli internal tool, not Google developed. I'm not arguing for Google or Israel here, just that people passionate about this aren't straightforward either.
Surprised Amazon hasn't implemented this.
What's funny is that Spring Boot powers some of the World's largest enterprises and applications.
If you never had the right to have people find your website, you are not getting robbed. You can only get robbed of things you have some right to.
How many Starships would it take to go and bring Voyager 1 back to earth?

If each ship was used like an expendable stage, and we were willing to use 100 ships, how long would it take to catch up to Voyager, stop, and return to earth?
>changed humanity forever

Yeah for the worse.
Maybe for the price point, but Occulus has sold like 10x as many quests. There are a lot of people who like VR for gaming, exercise and chat.

I think the Vision is too expensive and has too little software support.
Purely speculation of course, but based on what they've been up to since letting go of the reigns of Google: because squeezing every possible drop of revenue out of the product helps fund the things they're now more interested in engaging in (self-driving, longevity, etc.)

The cynical assumption would be that they're just sitting on the extremely vast hoards of money and greedy for more. The (slightly) less cynical assumption is that their interest in Search nowadays is as a piggy bank for projects they consider more important.

Worth noting though the latter has long been the going assumption internally at Google: Search was the cash cow that funded Google's expeditions in finding the Next Big Thing. This plan has been complicated by the appearance that Google seems to not be terribly good at the kind of product execution that would lead them to the Next Big Thing.
Waiting for it to go on sale where I live
Have you dumped your feed list anywhere?
Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Problem self-rectified. He died this afternoon :(
Be thankful he even remembers the password needed to download apps, which for some reason is not simply the device's passcode.
En**ifiers obviously do their best to penetrate any successful company. Is it a terrible surprise?

Shareholders probably want it - up to the point where the whole thing goes "poof" - then of course they don't want it.
I agree. Fuzzy searches are a bane of my existence. Like trying to search amazon for any specific detail about a product. All you get are basically the same promoted crap from a non-specific search. I just want my results.
Don't weep too many tears. These are the same publishers that market e-books at their physical copy prices, like their movie and music counterparts.

> it's quite hard to find books I actually like and that are worth spending money on

I bet there are people stuck deep in every one of these organizations trying to get e-books priced down as a way to do more market discovery, and thus more blockbusters statistically. However these ideas are blocked by upper management when they uniformly lambast lost imaginary revenue.
What is perfect timing? A dichotomy
If human brains are statistical models, why are human brains so bad at statistics?

Edt: btw, same for probabilistic inference, same for logical inference, and same for any other thing anyone's tried as the one true path to AI since the 1950's. Humans have consistently proven bad at everything computers are good at, and that tells us nothing about why humans are good at anything (if, indeed, we are). Let's not assume too much about brains until we find the blueprint, eh?
> nor can they refuse to repair a product solely for economic reasons

I do wonder how that's going to work out in practice. Especially with today's highly integrated electronics, there's a lot of stuff which is technically not impossible to repair, but in practice not viable due to the level of skills required and the hours it'd take to do.

Will companies be forced to spend $10.000 to repair a $25 gadget? Is a full refund or a replacement product still an option? If there's a lab anywhere on Earth which is able to do it, does refusing to hire them count as "economic reasons"?

> or because it was previously repaired by someone else

Similarly, I wonder how this works out. What if the previous repair was a complete bodge job which did more harm than good? Are they expected to clean up someone else's mess?

These rules probably make sense if you only repair by replacing off-the-shelf sub-assemblies, but that's not the kind of repair which matters these days. If it's possible to skirt the rules by refusing board-level repairs, what's stopping companies from intentionally creating completely monolithic designs?
How do you know whether or not "there are no large smalltalk projects" (whether or not there have been large Smalltalk projects)?

Seems like we need do no more than assert: Yes there are!

~

But it's more interesting to look at how a real Smalltalk project worked:

"A very large Smalltalk application was developed at Cargill to support the operation of grain elevators and the associated commodity trading activities. The Smalltalk client application has 385 windows and over 5,000 classes. About 2,000 classes in this application interacted with an early (circa 1993) data access framework. The framework dynamically performed a mapping of object attributes to data table columns.

Analysis showed that although dynamic look up consumed 40% of the client execution time, it was unnecessary.

A new data layer interface was developed that required the business class to provide the object attribute to column mapping in an explicitly coded method. Testing showed that this interface was orders of magnitude faster. The issue was how to change the 2,100 business class users of the data layer.

A large application under development cannot freeze code while a transformation of an interface is constructed and tested. We had to construct and test the transformations in a parallel branch of the code repository from the main development stream. When the transformation was fully tested, then it was applied to the main code stream in a single operation.

Less than 35 bugs were found in the 17,100 changes. All of the bugs were quickly resolved in a three-week period.

If the changes were done manually we estimate that it would have taken 8,500 hours, compared with 235 hours to develop the transformation rules.

The task was completed in 3% of the expected time by using Rewrite Rules. This is an improvement by a factor of 36."

from “Transformation of an application data layer” Will Loew-Blosser OOPSLA 2002

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=604258
Right? Apple is a blink in human technological process. People credit them with the invention of small-form-factor and HCI. They are not.
Sometimes I joke it was me - ex. my first year was the first year with no holiday gift. I'm really grateful I got there when I did, it was just enough to give me a year or two of enough of old Google that I can look back on it fondly.

I did peer counselling for a year or two, before leaving, and still follow along on Blind, and it was utterly depressing to hear from someone who joined the last couple years/post-COVID. 100% just another job now, besides the comp., and given the 1.5 years of constant firings and attendant self-interested behavior, you're forced to recognize this very quickly.
I found a really cool way to do this with svelte and css grid a few months ago, based on a blog post I can't seem to find now. A full masonry layout too, not just columns, but each element can have dynamic height and width. The thing that made it click for me was that you don't have to make the grid rows and grid columns 1:1 with the full width/height of each element. Making 10px or 20px rows and columns and then using a svelte component for each image that chose a number of columns and rows based on the image aspect ratio. I'll see if I can make the repo public today.

Edit: reading further, I think my approach was basically the same as theirs near the end of the post!
I'd feel bad, but then I thought that Raghavan probably has a PR service, and this is a fair counterbalance to that.

PR needs short-sellers too.
Whatever kind of desktop is used, Chrome Remote Desktop is the most reliable way I've seen of connecting to deal with stuff. Better than Teamviewer too.
Yeah I'd love to have metrics around that -- wish this data was public
What could possibly go wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

Radiation and high energy particles left in orbit destroyed one third of all satellites at the time after the next few months as they passed through that cloud.

DOH
The problem I express relates to the issues people mention about libraries: if a defined concept is used, one has to be sure the definition is correct (i.e., that the right thing has been proved).

Wilshaw's formalization is not vulnerable to this objection, though libraries were used. What is proved is that a certain defined concept satisfies a certain suite of formulas of first order logic. If there is a predicate satisfying that suite of formulas, NF is consistent.
Chicken-and-egg problem. There won't be VR games that take full advantage of the AVP unless there's enough of a market for them.

Given how badly the PSVR 2 flopped, it may be too risky for game devs currently.
I think a lot of organizations think that security is about going through the motions, or something that you can bolt on after the fact, but it's really a state of mind that needs to exist from the beginning.
Sure, but compared to what? I don't know what you would call the bias of "imaginging bad stuff happening in the future, and for some reason the bad stuff is inevitable regardless of planet, lifeform, etc."
Even if you’re not charging the fleet, you can power the warehouse.

As long as you’re using less electricity from the grid overall per day, you’ll save money in the long run.
not from a jedi
Both Android and iOS, but especially iOS, have made large accessibility regressions by switching to a frequently gesture based interface where all sorts of quite similar swipes do different things changing the screen context and revealing hidden modes. For use by people with e.g. Parkinson's disease this is catastrophic. Voice commands can somewhat compensate, but I think we're all familiar with the many ways in which voice commands can fail to perform even simple requests, and also how sensitive the voice assistants are to changes in both speed and volume of received speech. While iOS does have some good accessibility settings, they are not comprehensive, and overall usability has in some big ways declined substantially, even while more and more tasks have to be done online.
A bad transmission design can really leave a mark, particularly when the company using it tries to sweep it under the rug. Talk to owners of vehicles with Ford's "Powershift" dual-clutch automatic transmission and you'll hear nothing but horror stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_PowerShift_transmission
They're not fluff pieces. They're ads. Bought and paid for.
Cost (and style… and comfort… and…) aside, I can’t see spatial computing taking off until co-located experiences become well refined.

For instance, can a small group of people play a table top game together where half are in the room, half are remote, and the experience feels quite fluid.
Arab states declaring war on Israel is widely documented part of history. You post does not include supporting arguments for any alternative explanation.

Meanwhile, the arabs that stayed in Israel during that war make up 20% of the population and interestingly enjoy more rights than any arab country.
"Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units (vs. market consensus of 700–800k units or more)"
Yeah I can't imagine why something that cost $3500 that was heavy and required an external battery pack that had almost no reason to exist would sell poorly.

VR is cool but it's not "$3500 for a toy" cool, at least not for me and I think not for most people.
Well hopefully it's trained on genetic DNA sequences and not Reddit threads. If so, it should do pretty well predicting the next sequence given previous sequences. There are probably all sorts of undiscovered patterns.
Meh, the boring answer is that it's probably common, but interstellar detection and signalling is very hard, and interstellar travel is impossible with the materials available in a single star system.
In my anecdotal experience I've found it to be not uncommon in work trucks used for commercial duty over 200k miles. Not sure about in the delivery van space.

It's a different level of wear and tear than a normal commuter passenger vehicle.

I think the bigger savings on a delivery van would be brakes. In constant stop-start driving using the motor for regenerative braking is both an efficiency saver and reduces wear and tear on the mechanical brakes.
Simple Multimodal LLM from Scratch
It Introduced Ozempic to the World. Now It Must Remake Itself
True, I guess what I meant is that we didn't blow ourselves up during the Cold War. For something to be a Fermi Paradox solution it has to explain the _complete_ lack of life we see. Something being hard or requiring luck isn't enough due to the vastness of space. It would still occur countless times even if rare
NextNav petitions FCC for new spectrum band (902-928 MHz)
Tao Te Ching as Translated by an LLM
Tones in non tonal languages do this, which can make tonal languages very difficult because instinctively you aren't used to tones being used for in-band communication.
This thing makes me want to more than anything before.

But, not at that price.
Speaking of AI ruining Google search,

https://bsky.app/profile/dahosek.bsky.social/post/3kqm25jwsf...
I think GP's assessment that Chinese is semantically clean and regular might not be completely correct, rather it's quite close to his primary that friction is much reduced compared to Japanese, or many others for that matter. It's very well known that Chinese grammar is super close to English for whatever reasons.
TikTok's Crackdown on Ozempic Influencers Threatens Weight-Loss Drug
While not as egregious as Japanese where characters can have 15+ readings, the number of exceptions certainly are not few. Below is a link to the official table of words with multiple pronunciations in standard Mandarin.

https://zh.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%99%AE%E9%80%9A%E8%AF%9D...
This is amazing. devX matter a lot for adoption. I keep hearing about Ada a lot but the learning experience were difficult when I tried it.
My Chevy cavalier died due to a transmission issue at around 125k miles. The Schuylkill expressway in rush hour didn't help. Very clonky shifts near the end and it would stall out when trying to find the right gear.
Yeah i used GPT-4 instead and it worked perfectly every single time
Actually, from the Wikipedia article, it's specifically the "terms of venery"
Sure, but different from what the masonry design is meant to facilitate (check the linked demos). It's very useful esp. for a photo gallery kind of sites.
Interesting. If an L3 hit takes 15 ns, then based on your argument a hypothetical CPU with only one core (and hence no fabric) would be better off without L3, since a DRAM read can be performed in just 10 ns.
Is that an entire book or any part of any book? Does it count audiobooks? I know a lot of people who claim to "read" a lot of books, but they actually are listening to audiobooks.
Curious what this will mean for ZWave (908.42 MHz in USA & Canda) and other electronics that still operate in this band?