skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing a registration problem.

If all of the layers were guaranteed to be orthographic with no twisting, shearing, scaling, squishing, with a consistent origin... Then yeah, there's a huge number of ways to just render that data.

But if you physically slice layers first, and scan them second, there are all manner of physical processes that can make normal image stacking fail miserably.
Mystery solved! The answer to your OP is that the reason anyone can trust ChatGPT for code is that they use a much better model than the one you're using! GPT-3.5 is ancient and way behind GPT-4. In fact, there are now tens of organisations who have developed model classes way ahead of GPT-3.5.
What about the video makes you think it was CG?
I liked that their new hardware is repairable. They seem focused on making their entire product work offline too.
we are nowhere near whole human brain volume EM. the next major milestone in the field is a whole mouse brain in the next 5-10 years, which is possible but ambitious
Same here. I have a hobby that on any RPC framework I encounter, I file a Github issue "did you think of TCP_NODELAY or can this framework do only 20 calls per second?".

So far, it's found a bug every single time.

Some examples: https://cloud-haskell.atlassian.net/browse/DP-108 or https://github.com/agentm/curryer/issues/3

I disagree on the "not a good / bad option" though.

It's a kernel-side heuristic for "magically fixing" badly behaved applications.

As the article states, no sensible application does 1-byte network write() syscalls. Software that does that should be fixed.

It makes sense only in the case when you are the kernel sysadmin and somehow cannot fix the software that runs on the machine, maybe for team-political reasons. I claim that's pretty rare.

For all other cases, it makes sane software extra complicated: You need to explicitly opt-out of odd magic that makes poorly-written software have slightly more throughput, and that makes correctly-written software have huge, surprising latency.

John Nagle says here and in linked threads that Delayed Acks are even worse. I agree. But the Send/Send/Receive receive pattern that Nagle's Algorithm degrades is a totally valid and common use case, including anything that does pipelined RPC over TCP.

Both Delayed Acks and Nagle's Algorithm should be opt-in, in my opinion. It should be called TCP_DELAY, which you can opt-into if you can't be asked to implement basic userspace buffering.

People shouldn't /need/ to know about these. Make the default case be the unsurprising one.
9to5Google pointed out that the Apple ad is a near exact copy of this LG ad from 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUAQ2i5Tfo

The (accidental?) plagiarism of the ad is nearly as bad as the vibe.
Per multiple sources, including the team currently maintaining the Protobuf toolchain within Google, proto3 was largely designed by Rob Pike. Of course the Protobuf wire format is quite a bit older, but some aspects of proto3 and Go's shared semantics (like implicit zero values) do seem to have come from the same mind.
Where are young children getting surgery?
Exactly. Sadly, people who elect authoritarian governments will get the attendant speech laws.
The term "observable universe" is depressing enough for me.
lack of punctuation isn't used to avoid accountability.

my comment was clearly hyperbole.
A lot of office memos had short forms, and things such as IOU were common general use. IOU has to be up there for letter=word sound. Always loved that one.

In terms of generations, I remember lots of short forms on BBSes, initialisms like wtf were used on radio during WWII, it's a long history.

I suspect every written language used them. I seem to recall Roman latin use having some.

Saving writing with ink pot and feather quill, probably motivated better than keyboard presses.

edit: Wow! Just read the article, and saw this:

K.G. for "no go" (as if spelled "know go")

Pre-widescale internet, I watched a movie from the 1950s I think, maybe 30s.

They were discussing something, two male actors, black and white movie, and one purposed something. The other responded "that's cage-y".

At the time, and in context, it seemed like the "word" meant just "constricted" or some such. The guy was disgusted when he said it, and his body language and vertical cutting motion with his hand, indicated "no".

Yet I was confused enough, that when a dictionary didn't help, I stored it away. What an incredible pleasure to have an answer now, 30 years later.

Anyhow, it seems this was still popular enough to be in a 30s to 50s era movie.
Yes, heritability is a population statistic for specific traits. I don't think anyone is arguing that individuals have heritability, just like individuals can't be "diverse".

> Knowing how much a trait varies, or fails to vary, with genes tells you nothing about whether its inherited.

I am not sure what this is trying to convey. Because I think there's clear cases where stuff is inheritable, and clear cases where stuff isn't, and that's a very meaningful distinction to make from a sociological perspective.

For eg. consider skin color and accent. The former is fully inheritable, the latter is completely uninhabitable.

A Scottish kid raised by Africa foster parents in Nigeria will still look like his biological parents and have their skin complexion, while he will sound entirely like how people sound in Nigeria.

One would be an idiot for trying to force him to have darker skin, or to have a Scottish accent, because we understand that one is genetically controlled, and the other is socially / culturally controlled.

Now in these cases it was as absolute as you can get with these things. But can we not imagine that there's an aspect of genetic influence on many other aspects that can also be somewhat affected culturally?

I don't care what we call it, but can we at least agree that this distinction can exist and might be sociologically salient?
Where do the evaluations come from? The idea that Stockfish isn't benefiting hugely from Google having created and advertised AlphaZero is preposterous, can we please just stop?
I already explained what I mean, your lack of understanding is your problem, and it is funny giving me an advice while you are admitting now that you wasn't sure what I was asking. And it is none of your business what I do next time.
There is a long poll, https://tembo-io.github.io/pgmq/api/sql/functions/#read_with...

We have been talking about a push using Postgres 'notify', or even via an http, but we don't have a solid design for it yet.
"i came up with the term 'protobuf', and go was not what i had in mind" -rob pike
This is the kind of amazing news I come here for. And the kind of hard science real life tech that makes lives truly better. Love it. Thanks hacker news!
Can we all agree to just call it X-Twitter? Clear & concise.
But most people doing research at private companies have a PhD at the very least, if not experience in academia, do they not?
Agreed. Another thing along the same path is expect. Needs to be disabled in many cloud services.
It's hard work to NOT have the damn vDSO invade your address space. Only kludge part of Linux, well, apart from Nagle's, dlopen, and that weird zero copy kernel patch that mmap'd -each- socket recv(!) for a while.
Design by promo.
Try posting some CSAM somewhere and declaring that no government can censor it, and see how that goes, and who you find yourself allied with and who you find yourself alienated from as a result.

Censorship resistance is a nice principle that I agree should carry a lot of weight in a lot of situations, but it isn't everything.
> You could harness AI to give every child a superhuman intelligence as a tutor

I don't disagree with the overall point you're making, but there is currently absolutely no reason to believe this is true.
SQS API compatibility?
The difference here is India demanded the tweets be blocked in India. I don't agree with that, but they are enforcing Indian laws for Indian citizens within India.

The Australian government is demanding tweets be blocked for Australians everywhere, including Australian's using VPNs or Australians overseas - effectively claiming that Australian law has jurisdiction globally, and turning this into a global censorship demand.

Thats why the EFF has stepped in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/twitter-india-la...
"1984" was edgy in a cool way, but that's not the type of edginess I'm evoking. Most '90s video game commercials that were edgy did so in a puerile, juvenile way as befitting the target audience. And not just video game ads, there was definitely a big "xtreme" trend as well.

The Apple ad taps into that xtreme vibe by embracing destructive energy to depict a physical contrast. Which is visually attention-grabbing, but it puts the focus on the act of destruction, and reduction, and people who like the destroyed objects feel miffed.

"1984" I'd say was edgy in a rebellious way as you point out, which I'd argue gives it more substance. The sledgehammer hitting the screen isn't even the focus, it's the climax to a sequence that carries more of a meaningful message than "wow look how much functionality we fit into this thin shell."
They also know Australia isn't petty enough to ban Twitter over a video. Now India on the other hand? They absolutely are that petty because they're profitable as hell and they know it, so they can get what they want.
English has all manner of ways around the fact that we abandoned plural "you" around 1600 or so. Y'all, yinz, you-all, you guys. I grew up in the South, so it's "y'all" for me, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with "thou/thee" for singular and "you/ye" for plural second person. It just was victim to the euphemization treadmill until it fell out of common usage, so we had to reinvent it.
Ultimately it becomes so cheap we'll be able to put workers up there to assemble and maintain the telescopes, just like on Earth. We might see telescopes in telescope farms near a small station for the workers. It might even be possible to send workers out to the Sun-Earth L2 point to maintain telescopes there.
Seriously? US has no consiquences for data-breach. MSFT & Dell are doing this, why Tictok need to be sold then?
RAS 'syndrome' is just an example of redundancy in language, which is often actually useful for communication. There's no reason to insist on avoiding it.
Artificial thinking doesn't require an artificial brain.
As our own walking system, compared to our car's locomotion system.

The car's engine, transmission and wheels, require no muscles or nerves
https://go.dev/blog/gob
Peak Coal - Probably, very likely, more or less about right now.

Global coal supply likely peaked in 2023 and then to decline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652273

Can't say for sure until another few years have passed, nonetheless every country in the world has coal on hold or in decline save for India and China.

China is the largest producer of renewable technology and energy (?), India is building out the worlds largest solat array farm (albeit "only" good for 16 million households).
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Mexico City, a city of 22M, is running out of water
Mind the Shift: Answering Common Questions About OpenTofu
The hardest part is not the cable, or even the installation thereof, it's finding a contiguous right-of-way you can install it on, or having to fuss around with thousands of land owners who want their cut for the rights.

This is why most cables are laid alongside train tracks, not unlike telegram wires of years past. You negotiate with a handful of entities and can get permission relatively easily.

Of course, this presumes there's tracks, which is less and less likely as they keep getting ripped out.

If there's anything modern infrastructure build needs, it's more right-of-way access where you can provision dark fibre without getting mired in the legal issues.
Apple: We're so environmentally friendly!

Also Apple: We still use these fancy boxes that are a pain in the ass to recycle and will more than likely just end up in the trash anyway. They can't be reused for literally anything else because of their size, shape, and way they're glued together. Also, the materials aren't eco-friendly. But who cares because we stopped giving away power bricks and wrap the cables in paper instead of plastic! So Eco Friendly!

Also Apple: Let's take this pile of useful nice stuff, some of which has collector value, and smash it all to make a commercial.

Also they really need to get out of their own ass here. The iPad isn't a piano. The iPad isn't a guitar. You cannot replace any of those musical instruments with an iPad. You can't paint on canvas with an iPad, so destroying paint is silly.

I won't go with "sensitive" here. I see it as tasteless waste. That commercial is tacky AF. What are they trying to market the iPad to? "Fuck your feelings" types that just bought a new cybertruck and have more money than brains?
You WILL accept The One Right Way to write code and serialize data! -rob pike

Do wake me when they get around to adding the 'high performance' lang part though. Wild how all this ecosystem junk originates from a few early Googlers' fear of learning beautiful C.
The deaf community is incredibly proud. I have a lot of respect for that. But at the same time, I don't understand it. I'm extremely visually impaired, and I've never seen the same "It's not a disability!" sentiment mirrored in the blind community. Does anyone have any insight why this might be?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dell-warns-of...
Are you implying that there'd be no controversy if people were able to swap parts of their bodies with others'?
Are you suggesting the emoji squeeze toy conveniently rolled perfectly to the edge of the hydraulic press at exactly the right moment and then its eyes uniformly popped out? A perfectly uniform explosion of dust actually burst out the press? Seems doubtful.
Really interesting to consider that this might be one of the few incidents that Shintoists, or at least "cultural Shintoists," have gotten offended at a western production.

Makes me wonder if this is why Apple went out of their way to apologize for the ad. I think if this ad just had non-culturally-specific backlash, they would've simply moved on. But because this impacted a specific market's sensibilities, maybe they felt the need to do a public mea culpa.
Oh look, Google is shipping their org chart again.

> What problems are Editions solving?
>
> In short, nothing really (for end users). The introduction of Editions
> is the result of major Google-internal refactoring of how protoc and its
> plugin architecture implements and observes feature checks when generating
> code. This isn’t intended to force breaking changes to existing projects,
> nor is it designed to impact any of the existing encodings.
>
> It should be a boring change that gives plugin maintainers finer-grained
> control over how future versions of their Protobuf runtimes behave,
> improvements are made, and new features are introduced. Having said that,
> it’s impossible to ignore the explosion of verbosity that Editions has
> introduced to the project as a side-effect of this level of available control.

According to Google themselves, this change "solves no user problems" and introduces "an explosion of verbosity."
A million stands the Australian government could have taken on the global stage and this is the one that they choose. I feel so embarrassed these days and I didn't even vote for these people (nor the Coalition might I add).
Recently took a waymo in Phoenix. Its was pretty smooth.

There was an event and several road closures. It managed to reroute using an alternative path.

Some times the waymo was cheaper than uber and at other times was twice as expensive.
Read the article again, the Tweets in question were blocked everywhere in response to a legal demand, and to my knowledge no explanation was ever given. They appeared to be blocked using the mechanism that is normally used to enforce country-specific block requests, but in that case the country was set to "Worldwide".
It's worth looking back at 50 years of fossil fuel producers going into overdrive on casting FUD on harmful effects of CO2 since it was first raised at the UN in the 1970s.
https://archive.md/0xnAH

The page header seems a bit messed up, but the entire story seems to be there.
I'm absolutely out of the loop as a Gen Xer without kids... but my wife and I text each other "k" a lot. It doesn't have to be an insult. Context above all.

The finest slang of this generation - is it even current anymore? - is "yeet". A word that you can know the meaning of purely from context. We never had anything that rad (heh, heh) back in the 80s.
I think you give people too much credit. Simple greed did that to America, it was cheap, dirty work, then more complex work, then high tech work, now coding and the last piece to fall will be r&d because of a simple rug pull.

Apple releases M4 and tsmc rips it off tomorrow. All done on the their (americas) dime because we outsourced the means of production.

As far as this… you got morons quitting their jobs over crap like omg the oil industry is using our cloud. Meanwhile the biggest death machine on the planet e.g. the US government literally has two private azure offerings fully services by Microsoft with dedicated staff, but that’s not sexy, I can’t quit over that and post it in my socials, because that would be unpatriotic. But Microsoft not being green enough for me to work there is a stand that I can brag about.
As an Australian I was disappointed with the attempt to censor the world - mainly because of the reasoning.

Commish: Ban seeing this video in Australia!

X: OK

Commish: Oh no, VPNs exist! Australians might use them. We'll have to go Super Saiyan then!

This is dumb. I dislike but can understand the motivations for implementing basic protections for the innocent. I understand people don't want innocent kids to stumble over this video and they ask for the government to nanny them. I'd argue this isn't the way but still - I get it.

But once you are at the point of using a VPN you have deliberately sidestepped "protections" and thus have "asked for it".

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
My ideal pen price point is about $20. That’s where I can get good ones I enjoy using (Lamy Safari etc.) that I’ll keep track of. It also wouldn’t ruin my day to lose one.
Hadn't heard of it before - the fact that it has multiple compilation targets is super interesting - thanks!
One good thing about this specific case is that it only persists in the cells exposed to it. New cells and reproduction are unaffected, which helps with the ethics surrounding gene therapy.
Chips and Cheese State of the Union
> where anyone rich and savvy enough to engage with the gatekeeping process gets extra rights

this is not an accident because nothing is ever an accident.

And does it even fail to meet our goals? The same people will also be more able to prevent the pet from creating a nuisance on the landlord and everone else.
My problem with the “peak population” hypothesis is that all of the non-breeders will eliminate themselves from the gene pool soon. All of us that have kids for whatever reason chose to reproduce despite the abundance of modern society. Also the groups that have many kids (the Amish have 7 children on average, and you also have Mormons and Orthodox Jews) will expand exponentially.
You can get 30 kW (EG4-LifePower4) for $9000. Depending on your handyman skills, you can assemble most of the system yourself and have an electrician check it over, tie it into your electrical service, and sign off on the project.

If I were doing solar and batteries today, I would not try to feed any power to the grid except as part of a virtual power plant that pays me peak rates.
And if you have 4 cores, and 3 of them are blocked by IO, now you only have 1 core to answer requests. What happens if this core also stops in an IO? Your service stops.

That can NEVER happen in the Erlang Virtual Machine (the BEAM), because of the preemptive scheduler. This is only one of 100s of examples why the BEAM is the right choice for web systems where real-time can be soft real-time.
Is AI the filter that makes advanced technical civs rare in the universe?
Although the article mentions Artificial Intelligence, their paper[1] never actually mentions that term, and instead talks about their machine learning techniques. AFAIK, ML for things like cell-segmentation are a solved problem [2].

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.29.446289v4....
[2] https://www.ilastik.org/
Very neat, thanks - probably this is just enough beyond my abilities that it'd probably be me bricking my PO rather than accomplishing anything useful :-)
Sorry, what does this have to do with what I said?