skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>PRC invests in carriers
>showing 'W(h)e(e) too

Basically.

Would not discount prestige and desire to dick measure when every other large power has them. Technically on paper, carrier still good for projecting against non peer powers.

But looking at numbers, I would say relative to PRC ship building capabilities, they're not really investing in carriers. Adoption very slow: 2.5 carriers (with 60 J15s) in 15+ years with PRC's ship building is unserious. 2.5 (not 3) because Liaoning hull was rebuilt Varyag from UKR/USSR. For reference US was launching a carrier every year/other year post WW2, with comparable/larger displacement. Even considering PLAN starting from 0 for carrier ops, they're not waterhosing resources/bodies at problem, i.e. they were spamming submarines/subsurface fleet despite tech gap being even larger. IMO overall carrier investment pretty minimal/conservative, enough to build up institutions, training etc to test waters. Still slowly prototyping fc31/j35 and kj600 when already churning out 100+ J20s per year. Not saying they're not aiming for many more carriers groups eventually, but so far not urgently expanding when they could be laying down 2 per year. Nor are they zerg rushing big replenishment fleet to sustain operation outside theatre.

IMO, apart from glamour shots and training platform, I don't think anyone in PLAN seriously expects their carriers to survive vs US in full spectrum war. Or much of the surface fleet, but need grey hulls to navy stuff during peacetime, hence have many of them. I think gamble is making sure PLA has ability to ensure no USN surface ships survives either, which breaks US expeditionary model, meanwhile PRC likely will retain stupendous industrial capacity to rebuild fleet after war. And if they can sink USN with land based long range strikes, whose going to mess with PRC shipping in the interim.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/oj9bcx6vu...
Yeah, I thought of that game when writing that sentence. Thanks for the recommendation; I've never heard of "War for the Overworld", I'll check it out!

EDIT: I initially mistyped Overworld as Overlord, revealing that I played way too much StarCraft as a kid.
And like all deep learning forecasting models thus far, it makes for a nice paper but is not worth anyone using for a real problem. Much slower than the classical methods it fails to beat.
Wow, if he's a McLaren fan, i guess going for looks over practicality is not surprising! (I'm joking, but not really).
Can markdown store CRDT data?
> Baselessly calling every greening and sustainability effort “greenwashing”, especially when there’s practically no thought put into what the alternative might be

Baseless? The foundation of this accusation is rock solid. Offloading the exact same computation to another person so your energy numbers look better is not a greening or sustainability effort.

Fake green should always be called greenwashing.

You don't need to suggest an improvement to call out something that is completely fake. The faker doesn't get to demand a "conversation".

You've seen a bunch of people be incorrectly dismissive and decided that dismissiveness is automatically wrong. It's not.

For an extreme example, imagine a company installs a "pollution-preventing boulder" at their HQ. It's very valid to call that greenwashing and walk away. Don't let them get PR for nothing. If they were actually trying, and made a mistake, suggest a fix. But you can't fix fake.
Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing – Scientific American
Subscene Is Closing
"pretty damn good"

So... what percentage of the time? If you made an AI to pilot an airplane, how would you verify its edge conditions, you know, like plummeting out of the sky because it thought it had to nosedive?

Because these AIs are black box neural networks, how do you know they are predicting things correctly for things that aren't in the training dataset?

AI has so many weasel words.
I think Cmkr fails to state its value proposition by focusing on how it works.

Any system like CMake that wraps boatloads of complexity is going to have unexpected interactions and inscrutable failures.

The question for any developer who doesn't want to become a build system guru is whether they can take a happy path far from any gotcha's.

That's when people start defining conventions to solve classes of problems: follow this template to do X, and you'll be fine.

The value of Cmkr lies in being about to define those conventions and happy paths. I should be able to inspect their templates, and if one fits, I'm good to go.

Even nicer would the ability to retrofit my build to a known-working template.

But Cmkr only presents the "beginners" template repo as an aside, and says nothing about whether these templates are tested for various projects on various systems.

By not explicitly identifying the problem it's trying to solve, Cmkr seems to have bumped up against a solution accidentally, and doesn't give me confidence. I believe that could be easily remedied.
It's $833 a month.
> As Shell explained, the autonomous weapon system will "scan and detect targets... [locking] on [to] drones, people, [and] vehicles." As it features man-in-the-loop fire control, it will alert the operator once a target has been identified, letting the human decide whether to engage or not.

Insane. Just a press of a button to make it fully autonomous.
Only Ben-Gvir can be accused of having neo-Kahanist tendencies, the rest are "merely" right wing.

Though that certain other major cabinet figure you're not mentioning (Smotrich) avoids the explicit affiliation and more obvious rhetoric -- his actions clearly resonate with the Kahanist agenda.

Other coalition members seem to be "out there" on the Kahanist spectrum. Meet Orik Strook (aka Minister of Settlements and National Missions), for example:

In 2007, Strook's son Zvi was convicted of abusing a Palestinian boy and killing a young goat, and spent thirty months in an Israeli prison as a result. In response to the ruling, Strook stated that, "Unlike the Court, who preferred to believe the Arab witnesses, we are sure of Zvi's innocence, and are hurting from the success of his haters and would assist him to deal with the difficult sentence imposed on him".

You've also got Zvi Sukkot:

In 2012, [Sukkot] was expelled from the West Bank under suspicion that he was part of a group of 12 that had planned and carried out violent attacks against Palestinians and their property. ... On 6 July 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of engaging in "price tagging". ... At the onset of the Huwara rampage, Sukkot tweeted that "Huwara's killers' nest needs to be taken care of", and posted a picture of himself among a group of settlers gathering at Tapuach Junction, to the immediate south of Huwara.

Finally, it's important to note that the vast majority of the folks who helped the Nazis do their dirty work throughout Europe were not members of their local Nazi parties (or if so, only on paper and sometimes under duress). By and large, they were "merely" right-wing or apolitical.

Looks like a duck, talks like a duck ...
Epic vs. Apple judge thinks Apple's being shady about buttons and links
Very interesting. Are you generating a jpg and then converting it somehow to svg? Or is the AI model creating SVG directly?
Let's make a minute of silence for... Oh.. what are we making a minute of silence for?
In my mind, Albini holds a plain speaking American slot besides Hunter
S. Thompson, for the similarity of these remarks:

"I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe
sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit." - Steve Albini

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long
plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die
like dogs. There's also a negative side.". - Hunter S Thompson

When you're good, and you know it, not because people tell you or
shower you with praise, but because it comes from love, from the
heart, then you know there's nobody whose ass you have to kiss.

Steve Albini was an exceptionally competent and emotionally generous
person who spoke about the industry as the wide-eyed boy saw the
Emperor's "New Clothes". Not bitter or superior or excoriating, just
casually pointing out the truth; that it's a stinking corrupt pile of
shit that deserves to die. Wish there were more Steve Albinis in the
tech world, confident going their own way and not sucking up to
big-tech pedlars of digital dross.

Time for some Pixies...

Sad loss. RIP.
That makes sense, ergotamine is a strong vascoconstrictor so that's why it works, it's constrictive effects would offset the dilative effects of the caffeine.
The thing I'm most confused about is I thought xkcd was one guy named Randall's webcomic, but this post makes it sound like there are several people involved in creating the comics. Is that the case? Does Randall still draw them or is it like a company with a whole creative team now?
The second amendment only applies to the United States -- it's totally normal to have one set of rights for citizens and another set for the government itself.
We gave each ball different physical properties. Yellow balls are light and have lots of air drag. Green balls are massive. Red balls are very bouncy. This allows physical sorters to be designed.
That says nothing about what Apple does with data.
Genuine curiosity - what would be your motivation to use Java over C# here aside from familiarity (which is perfectly understandable)? The latter takes heavy focus on making sure to provide features like structs and pointers with little to no friction, you can even AOT compile it and statically link SDL2 into a single executable.

In improbable case you may want to try it out, then all it needs is

- SDK from https://dot.net/download (or package manager of your choice if you are on Linux e.g. `sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-8.0`, !do not! use Homebrew if you are on macOS however, use .pkg installer)

- C# extension for VS Code (DevKit is not needed)

- SDL2 abstraction: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET (there are all sorts of alternate bindings depending on your preferences)
There are some clues in their body language. they appear to be straining. And the pedal movement looks a little jerky, as if the load is changing dynamically in relation to the effective flywheel/inertia of the system. Spinning a higher speeds with less torque is supposedly less tiring. So they might want to gear this down a bit and include a larger flywheel/inertia. Very impressive device tho. Maybe a hybrid approach with a solar panel for charging on the beach...
Do you plan to open source it? I will love to extend it.
I had similar ideas about non linear UI.
It sounds like maybe your parquet file has no partitioning. Apart from the iterating over row groups like someone else suggested, I suspect there is no better solution than downloading the whole thing to your computer, partitioning it in a sane way, and uploading it again. It's only 15 GB so it should be fine even on an old laptop.

Of course then you might as well do all the processing you're interested in while the file is on your local disk, since it is probably much faster than the cloud service disk.
Broken Promises: The Nix Governance Discussions
I think the issue is this is more like Joseph Smith taking bits he had memorized from the King James Bible and including them close to verbatim in the Book of Mormon. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Book_of_Mormon#K...)
' purest silicon' could lead to first million-qubit quantum computing chips
*Nintendo lawyers
Even with perfect cache locality, a linked list will be significantly slower to traverse than an array because of worse pipelining and parallelization. Partially unrolled lists can help, but at the cost of additional complexity.

Of course not all container accesses require traversal.
non-paywalled -
https://archive.ph/R7s7J
I’ve seen the movie a few times and no part of it is confusing. The movie and the story it tells is coherent and, I dare say, pretty obvious. It’s unfortunate that you were not able to follow it, both because of your obvious dissatisfaction and because now you’re making a lot of bad posts.
You're kidding yourself if you don't think that mechanical, structural or any other engineers don't do the same thing. They do.

I worked for one of the UKs leading architecture / construction firms writing software and also am an amature mechanic.

You'd be amazed at how many gasket types, nuts, bolts, fasteners, unfasters, glues, concretes, bonding agents and so on ... all invented for edge preferences and most of which could be used interchangably.

Also standards? Hah. They're an absolute shitshow in any engineering effort.

I mean ... even just units of measure. C'mon.
I think your arguments against AI being better at creating routes reduce to:

1. You don’t like what that would mean about the destiny for humanity.

2. A human making it makes it inherently better.

3. If it’s lower quality, it’s lower quality.

I get why this would lead to strong beliefs. But these arguments aren’t very convincing.
Thank you, now I really have to try Obsidian...
The Fundamental Principles of the Universe: A Theory of Everything
Holy shit.

What is apparent when you learn to try to swim is that the largest muscles in our body are rendered hugely irrelevant. I don't have exact number, but I'd guess at least 95% of potential power output of our running-optimized evolutionary muscular-skeletal design is wasted in swimming.

Maybe Phelps and others can beat that with decades of training from an early age, body shape advantages, long feet, and superior flexibility, but I'd guess they buy just 10% more advantage in power-> speed conversion from the legs.

Other examples are how much faster you can swim with flippers. I would actually like to see good swimmers who train to use full scuba flippers vs good swimmers with this bike contraption.

This is hilariously efficient compared to that.
I saw yours! We do inevitably bias for tiles with some content in them, since otherwise the viewing experience would be quite boring. :)
they will, indirectly tho, training their new model using syntethic data from gpt-4
>I don’t know anyone who’s jumping up and down on the plunger or doing anything more than pressing it slowly.

Also my reaction the first time someone tried to tell me to plunge slower.

>Have to imagine the coarseness/evenness of your grind is a 10x bigger factor in that regard

100%. Plunge speed makes a minor difference at most, and only then when you have a suitably coarse and even grind.

If you want to play with the concept I think the best way is to prep a press, but instead of plunging the filter into the coffee before pouring, press it only to the top of the liquid and pour, allowing gravity to pull coffee through the filter. Pour a small cup like this, then press the rest of the way and pour another cup.
This question on Graphic Design StackExchange is very informative: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/142622/pri...
Pretty sure it was this one, describing the properties of the "transparent glass" printing method:

https://www.cnckitchen.com/blog/transparent-fdm-3d-prints-ar...

So higher than normal flow, high temp, slow feed rate, and very little cooling showed remarkable strength along layer lines, up to 93% of horizontally printed specimens.
Neural Interpellation
Oh neat! Thanks for the reply to clarify that - I like having different properties as a concept added to the machine!
There's a much easier route: consciousness is not included in the discussion...what a coincidence.
Obit from the Quietus, via a subsequent HN submission:

<https://thequietus.com/articles/34129-steve-albini-dies>
> I owned a MacBook Pro with the dreaded butterfly keyboard. It was shit.

Yea, the butterfly was utter shit. And they fucked up the touchbar by not just putting it on TOP of the existing F-keys.

But the rest of the laptop was still well machined :D
Can you share details of the technology stack used to build the tool?
Noob here. Can one make the following deduction:

In transformer based architectures, where one typically uses variation of attention mechanism to model interactions, even if one does not consider the autoregressive assumption of the domain's "nodes"(amino acids, words, image patches), if the number of final states that nodes take eventually can be permuted only in a finite way(i.e. they have sparse interactions between them), then these architectures are efficient way of modeling such domains.

In plain english the final state of words in a sentence and amino acids in a protein have only so many ways they can be arranged and transformers do a good job of modeling it.

Also can one assume this won't do well for domains where there is, say, sensitivity to initial conditions, like chaotic systems like wheather where the # final states just explodes?
>If you don't consider every US company to be a direct arm of the US government but do for China then it's because your feeling about China than your feelings about social media manipulation.

I do. I live in the EU, and our laws arguably don't allow sharing data with US companies for that exact reason (Schrems II judgement)

It doesn't matter why TikTok does anything. They have shown they can influence their users en masse, and they're legally obligated to do it if the Chinese authorities demand it.
The less dense areas are impassable mountains or inhospitable desert
Is there any effort on creating some common open CRDT-based file format that multiple editors/tools can work with?
this is extremely funny in the context of the protracted argument up-thread about what you could reasonably be comparing the macbook air against.

like, the $359 acer shitbox probably doesn't do all the exact same thing as the MBA either, but that's actually ok and really only demonstrates the MBA is an unaffordable luxury product, basically the same as a gold-plated diamond-encrusted flip-phone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292839

Not your circus, not your clowns, but this is sort of the duality of apple: "it's all marketing and glitz, a luxury product, there's no reason to buy it, and the fact that they have a better product only PROVES it" vs "of course no PC manufacturer could possibly be expected to offer a top-notch 120hz mini-LED screen, a good keyboard, great trackpad, good speakers, and good SOC performance in a thin-n-light..."
there are any number of ways to slice and dice hosting pricing. You could make it really complicated, or simple.

At the core of it: you'll need a server, you'll need operational costs like utilities, you'll need to maintain its hardware and software. those are all your costs. The server is fixed, the rest you could project across a given month or year.

Generally, the rotation for compute is around 3 years, so divide (server_cost + operational)/36 is a monthly cost to run.

But wait! thats just for one server. But we can divide one server into virtual servers. So we get a machine with 128 cores and 64GB of RAM and 10TB of space, and now we can host many customers.

but of course, thats with no redundancy, on one server, in one location. But you could buy 2 servers and do some failover between them.

how many you can fit into a box is based on the servers and also the workload. You could setup 5000 customers on a server if every customer is very low load.

but also... power supplies die. hard drives die. networks get attacked. Customers do wild things.

That's it in a rough nutshell. Companies learn as they go, drive costs down as much as they can and drive price up as much as the market will tolerate.

This is why it can be simpler for startups to just rent compute from digitalocean or AWS, because everything that goes into actually running the servers can be expensive. Once you get to a certain size, it starts to become cheaper to self-host.

hope this helps!
Amazing work, kudos! Love the canvas, drag'n'drop and line connectors, did you use a library or made it yourself?
Looks like almost everything except microphones, touch id, and display-out through USB/Thunderbolt works.

https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
Voice AI to reduce costs and improvements on customer satisfaction
And much of the 20th century was characterized by a very similar progression - we had no clue what the actual mechanism of action was for hundreds of life saving drugs until relatively recently, and we still only have best guesses for many.

That doesn’t diminish the value that patients received in any way even though it would be more satisfying to make predictions and design something to interact in a way that exactly matches your theory.
"All models are wrong, but some are useful" -George E. P. Box

The exception DOES indicate that the model could be more accurate to cover cases, but the most important thing is whether the model is useful.

Newtonian physics may be superceded by what we know about quantum physics and relativity, but it still is very useful.

Of course, we should continue to learn and refine our models.
Russia already has the advantage of more manpower. And theres nothing Ukraine could do about it, it is just the significantly smaller country, both in terms of population and size. I think robots could provide a balance. For robots you need money and global access to parts. The collective West has more money and better access to parts. Hence, as long as the US/EU is willing to support Ukraine, robots could turn the cards into Ukraine's favor.
Now just need a way to keep your head out of the water besides turning to the sides
With bouldering, the set of moves is fairly limited and what actually prevents someone from pulling harder comes down to flexibility, core strength, and contact strength.
But I can still fire up a terminal and use all of my *nix skills to operate.

I can't do that on Windows without either wrestling with PowerShell or WSL2
The closer it gets to enabling full drug discovery, the closer it also gets to enabling bioterrorism. Taking it to the extreme, if they had the theory of everything, I don't think I'd want it to be made available to the whole world as it is today.

On a related note, I highly recommend The Talos Principle 2, which really made me think about these questions.
this is very astute, not only about deepmind but about science and humanity overall.

what CASP did was narrowly scope a hard problem, provided clear rules and metrics for evaluating participants, and offered a regular forum in which candidates can showcase skills -- they created a "game" or competition.

in doing so, they advanced the state of knowledge regarding protein structure.

how can we apply this to cancer and deepen our understanding?

specifically, what parts of cancer can we narrowly scope that are still broadly applicable to a complex heterogenous disease and evaluate with objective metrics?

[edited to stress the goal of advancing cancer knowledge, not to "gamify" cancer science but to create structures that inivte more ways to increase our understanding of cancer.]