skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the taskbar changes remain most upsetting to me. I've used a right hand task bar since Windows XP, so it's constant, weird upset every time I'm on a Windows 11 machine and can't put it back "where it is supposed to be".

It is alleged that one of the reasons to lock the taskbar to the bottom was to make it feel more like the Mac OS X Dock, but the Dock has allowed you to move it to either of the sides (but not the top, I don't think? Because of the weird old Menu bar?) for a long time. If Microsoft is trying to badly copy cat the Mac, I'm half wondering if it is time to invest in a "real" Mac.

> AI? I subscribe to ChatGPT and use it frequently. But I want it to stay in it's own sandbox, not be spread all over the OS. Unless they make some extremely innovative and useful app for it, keep it there; I don't want the hit it'll take on the CPU, memory, or my attention.

I'm something of a skeptic about AI, but the upcoming AI changes in Windows 11 don't currently scare me. Windows Copilot is just the new, more boring name for Cortana. Same keyboard shortcut. Same button location. Newer, uglier icon. Many of the old features, plus some new LLM features. Way less of it runs on your physical hardware than Cortana did (Microsoft can't ship a full LLM model with Windows, that would be a massive number of GBs that people would yell about if they tried), so most of the "hit" on CPU/memory is in the "Cloud". I can't speak to how much hit it'll take on your attention, though.
"Europeans have coexisted within the same political structures for many generations" No, most didn't. Europe wasn't peaceful for a very long time.
I love your attitude. I hope you know that there are tons of people in older generations who also agree with removing nanny regulations.
Well, I think that celebrity vs husband is not a good analog for human vs generated. I also think that in this case, origin has broader connotations than provenance, in that it includes context. What if the celebrity chef was your wife's brother? What if you had a degenerative neurological disease? What if it was the dish you cooked for her on your second date? Anything can seem very cut and dried if you impose artificial restrictions and examine it in a vacuum. And, because you can't easily define and quantify things like context, the engineering and tech worlds tend disregard them because they don't really factor into the engineering equation... and that's why designers exist.
Was steve jobs ever on the record discussing unions? With his reputation, I'd imagine the enmity has been a part of apple's culture for decades, but I have never worked there to know.
What is an example of something that isn't abstractable?
But what is the point? Finding the optimal movements that are needed to complete a climb is not useful if you are not strong enough to execute it.
What specifically does "human identity" mean?
That's not the model with the 1024 bit bus.

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/M2-Ultra...
This sounds a lot like my dream setup, We've been slowly building something along those lines. I've linked a video at the bottom that shows how we did something similar with an Obsidian plugin. Hit me up if you're interested in more details, we'd be happy to get an alpha user who gets it.

We've mostly had trouble explaining to ppl what exactly it is that we're building, which is fine, since we're mostly building for us, but still it seems like something like this would be the killer app for LLMs

Obsidian Canvas UI demo -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tDIXoXRziA

Also linking out Obsidian plugin repo in case someone wants to dive deeper into what we're about -> https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/obsidian-client
No One Knows What Universities Are For
There is MASSIVE investment in achieving room temps.

The dendrite formation and other things are of course problematic. What I think is going to happen is that solid state battery techs will be applied.

For example, I think they DO have a successfully cycling high-capacity room temp sodium sulfur chem ... they just need to use graphene.

And the joke about graphene is that it can do anything EXCEPT get out of the lab/commercialize.
Why are there no cats in the current machine??
The models are learning an encoding based on evolutionary related and known structures. We should be able to derive fundamental properties from those encodings eventually. Or at least our biophysical programmed models should map into that encoding. That might be a reasonable approach to look at the folding energy landscape.
Even then, you still need ABI consistency between compilers if you want to link together codebases written in different languages (e.g. C and Rust).

In practice this almost always 'just works' because most cross-language calls simply don't use the kinds of complicated types discussed in the blog post. They tend to stick to simple integer and pointer types, where ABI consistency is usually a given.

Though you can still get into trouble when passing function pointers, especially when combined with some modern control-flow integrity systems.
Exactly, so for example, I think the use of this model is in cases where you want user count to have some pattern around timing. And be alerted if it has spike.

But you wouldn't want this model for file upload storage usage which only increases, where you would put alerts based on max values and not patterns/periodic values.
El Salvador is training ground for the digital id/$/€; i wouldn't be surprised if it was done for that specific reason, to test infrastructure/prove a point
If you think about it you’re basically describing engineer number one at a startup.
> slightly more than 1 percent of all scientific articles published globally last year—may have used an LLM, according to Gray’s analysis,

that doesn't sound like a "thorough infiltration". What's the breakdown between reputable journals and shitjournals?
I'm interested in how they measure accuracy of binding site identification and binding pose prediction. This was missing for the hitherto widely-used binding pose prediction tool Autodock Vina (and in silico binding pose tools in general). Despite the time I invested in learning & exercising that tool, I avoided using it for published research because I could not credibly cite its general-use accuracy. Is / will Alphafold 3 be citeable in the sense of "I have run Alphafold on this particular target of interest and this array of ligands, and have found these poses of X kJ/mol binding energy, and this is known to an accuracy of Y% because of Alphafold 3's training set results cited below'
Im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot – mystery
My point one level up in the comments here, was not really that the system is broken, but more like asking how you can run these companies (google and that other part run by the deepmind founder, who I bet already has more money than he can ever spend) and still sleep well knowing you're the rich capitalist a-hole commercializing life-science work that your parent company has allocated maybe one part in a million of their R&D budget into creating.

It's not like Google is ever going to make billions on this anyway, the alphafold algorithms are not super advanced and you don't require the datasets of gpt4 to train them so others will hopefully catch up.. though I'm also pretty sure it requires GPU-hours beyond what a typical non-profit academia outfit has available unfortunately.. :/
> All that effort just for showing 'W(h)e(e) too!' ?

Maybe having a few carriers gives them useful capability? Cruise missiles are pretty binary - you can't exactly fly the flag with them, and even shooting one past some target as a warning would be read as declaration of war. Having a mobile airfield you can park near someone else's water gives more flexibility in applying pressure without shooting.
I think you probably need to re-read what I wrote. I'm not against AI at all-- I use it all the time. I just don't think it's going to be qualitatively better than human creative output because how something was made matters to people. I also think the tech world thinks they're a lot better at judging creative output than they are.
> I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was beginning to write a filesystem

But it uses nodejs normal fs adapter to talk to the filesystem (or forwards to a GCP bucket). This is no more a filesystem than WebDAV is, which is already standardized and widely supported for the same usecase as JSFS.

> Obviously, other operating systems can run web applications, but this operating system runs them natively.

But does it really? In the proposed model could I run a browser on JS/OS?

The proposal seems to be some combination of a wrapper around nodejs fs module (or the standard GCP storage client), a wrapper around nodejs vm module to eval code, and a arduino sketch that reads/writes GPIO.

Either my reading comprehension is bad or there is not much here.
Show HN: Explore Tor relays on a world map over time
Hey HN,

Together with a friend from university, I build a world map to show the distribution of public Tor relays. The historical state of the network can be viewed for any day between October 2007 and today:
https://tormap.org/

We look up the current geolocation of IP addresses collected from the official Tor project archives: https://metrics.torproject.org/collector.html

Over time, the project has grown to support more features such as extensive filtering, searching, visualisation of different groupings, and looking up details of individual relays.

Source code for both the frontend and backend is also available here:
https://github.com/TorMap/tormap

We hope you find our little web app useful and would love to hear your feedback.

Cheers,
Julius
Absolutely not. jlink is used to distribute applications (it includes your code, the Java libs you use, i.e. their jars, and the trimmed-down JVM with the modules you're using so that your distribution is not so big - typically around 30MB).

Java libraries are still obtained from Maven repositories via Maven/Gradle/Ant/Bazel/etc.
Well, the court case hasn’t happened yet, but I would imagine that OpenAI’s attorneys would much rather be dealing with a complaint that ‘my client was able, by repeatedly rephrasing his question and concealing his intent through lying, to persuade your AI to assist him in committing this crime’ than ‘my client asked for your AI to help him commit a crime and it willingly went along with it’.
> the new young master is able to explain their work and processes to the satisfaction of the old masters

Yes, but it's one level deep -
in general they wouldn't be able to explain their work to their master's master (note "science advances one funeral at a time").
Backward Walking Is the Best Workout You're Not Doing
Also lax enough for the hilarious mismanagement of the situation by "the experts". At least anti-vaxxers have an excuse.
mega! the sky upper right almost reaches the Heights.
I don't understand. You're assuming that a 4-day week is all or nothing, but that's obviously not true. Plenty of places already do it while plenty don't. Some places do a 7 day work week.
Calling C is easy. But how do you call C++? Shiboken has a language that let's you express ownership properties on C++ data structures/methods/functions. It's tailored to generating Python FFI bindings though. It would be so nice if there were a cross-platform language to do this.
This is an important aspect that's being ignored IMO.

For a lot of problems, currently you either don't have an an analytical solution and the alternative is a brute force-ish numerical approach. As a result the computational cost of simulating things enough times to be able to detect behavior that can inform theories/models (potentially yielding a good analytical result) is not viable.

In this regard, ML models are promising.
Afaict, author already built a proof of concept.
Free-Threaded CPython
To me it doesn't look like it they were struggling with the physical exertion, but it does seem like they are struggling to properly hold on to the boat. It looks like the boat suffers from poor ergonomics, and needs some proper handles for holding on and steering.
They are more focused on query optimizations whereas we do warehouse optimizations. We are inclined towards warehouse optimizations due to it being completely hands-off.
Bosch is still going strong - I know them as making mid/high end kitchen appliances and power tools.

Philips still around too, though not the recognizable company it once was (might be doing better financially though?…)
Fortran popularity rises with numerical and scientific computing – InfoWorld
I believe his April 1st "comics" have always been coded by someone else; there's been development notes by the developer(s) like this posted after each one.
>Even then, you still need ABI consistency between compilers if you want to link together codebases written in different languages (e.g. C and Rust).

Let's talk over http, queue or other IPC-ish way
Found the script, so here it is for posterity!

#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "usage (in zsh): 'strace -f program -o logi; okular =(dot -Tpdf =($0 logi))'"
exit 0
fi
LOG=$1
echo 'digraph {'
echo 'rankdir="LR";'
sed 's/^\([0-9]*\) \(<... \)\?\(clone\|vfork\).*= \([0-9]*\)/\1 -> \4;/; t; d' "$LOG"
sed '/ENOENT/ d; s/^\([0-9]*\) execve("[^"]*\/\([^"]*\)".*/\1 [label="\1: \2"];/; t; d' "$LOG" | sort | uniq
sed '/ENOENT/ d; s/^\([0-9]*\) openat([^,]*, "\([^"]*\)", .*\(O_WRONLY\|O_RDWR\).*/\1 -> "\2"; "\2" [shape=rectangle];/; t; d' "$LOG" | sort | uniq
echo '}'

I imagine it makes a graph of executed programs along the files they created, perhaps it even works in some cases.
Makes me wonder if there might be a viable hybrid with no battery, just a supercapacitor. It wouldn't allow you to reclaim energy off hills or the like, but give the advantage hybrids have in city driving without the downside of that battery pack that will wear out in time.
For short distances Usain Bolt can run faster than most people can cycle.
I remember using Sqlite Java and not having to install sqlite on the image. Then I looked inside the Sqlite-java's jar and they just packed the sqlite binaries for the different OSs in the jar!!
Maybe I'm not super clear on the distinction, but isn't a web browser already the operating system for the web? It's the "OS" that runs web applications!
This statement is completely wrong. There are millions of engineers in the world and most of them live in countries like China, India and Russia. Very few of them use MacBooks.

The vast majority of the software engineers in big companies (that employ a lot more people than big tech and startups combined) who use Java and C# also have predominately Windows laptops (as their employers can manage Windows laptops a lot easier, have agreements with vendors like Dell to buy them with a discount, have software like AV that doesn't support MacOS, etc.).

On top of that MacBooks don't have the best screens and are not the best built. Many Windows laptops have OLED screens or 4K IPS screens. There are premium Windows laptops made out of magnesium and carbon fiber.
And that tech just got $1b in funding.
Most comics are just Randall, but there are a handful of people who contribute to the occasional more unique / interactive comics, such as the April Fools ones.
Ads, and forced conversions.

The Internet used to be mostly hobbyists and 'true believer' types who ran human scale sites and web forums, who managed small communities of the like minded that anyone could view from the side and join or shy away from if they wanted.

Now everything is trying to be a walled garden that locks users and content inside, so both the content and the users are monetized. Mostly by the platforms that try to man in the middle the town square for lack of a good free community commons.
RAFT: Sailing Llama towards better domain-specific RAG
Two youtube video IDs, should be the same thing:

/watch?v=s2b-I0Yqisc

/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk
It's hard to tell the difference with smooth motion.

With rendered frames, the stuttering makes it meaningfully harder to click on fast moving things.

> And the use case at hand is text editting!

People were being dismissive about frame rates in general, so I gave an example that wasn't test editing.

The benefit for text editing is much smaller, but also if you're text editing then you don't need significant amounts of compute power to do text at 120. One big criticism disappears. You need that power for games, which actually benefit.

I've used 4k at 30Hz before, but I switched it to 60Hz with chroma subsampling for faster things.

> As far as 4k, not sure I understand?

They're both good but not necessary, and partly situational. But you're choosing to ignore the benefits of one.

A curmudgeon should dismiss both, and most people should want both.
Given that statement, I'm not sure you're fully an adult.

Every single person living in modern society is "protectected":

- You're protected from people deciding which side of the street to drive on

- You're protected from a bank who tells you the money you depisited is "all belong to us"

- even a "market" can't exist without "protection"

Once every person has their own army of ML engineers and psychos at their disposal, then there is an oportunity for personal choice in anti-social media.

Or much simpler, the anti-social corps can be required to allow each user to configure their own feed algorithm. This would be a useful "protection".

The negative consequences of not having _any_ "protection" in anti-social networks are clear across society.

These are analagous to the damage done in the US by lack of gun protection. Guns are now the leading cause of childhood death in the US. Combine guns and 4chan/Discord and you get the rash of idiots shooting up the populace and then themseelves.
I'm curious, why would that be worth mentioning?
For the heap, JEP 454 is reasonably detailed: https://openjdk.org/jeps/454

It describes how to adopt memory from C and have C adopt memory you allocate, and gives control over how memory is allocated in an arena.

The arena has lifecycle boundaries, and allocations determine the memory space available. Java guarantees (only) that you can't use unallocated memory or memory outside the arena, and if you access via a (correct) value layout, you should be able to navigate structure correctly.

The interesting stuff is passing function pointers back and forth - look for `downcall method handles`.
He didn't really suggest a backdoor. None of his writing touched on the technical aspects of Signal, or Moxie Marlinspike (which is weird - it's like talking about Apple's history without mentioning Steve Jobs.) He doesn't discuss any scenarios by which Signal messages could be censored; I'm honestly not sure he's even used Signal.

Also, Signal's client is open-source. You can verify its security claims. It's been independently audited. I think the builds are deterministic, or at least verifiable. The server is closed-source, but the client does not trust the server. And even contact discovery etc. uses SGX enclaves and other mechanisms to keep metadata from being visible. It's what makes the accusation so risible - Signal's security and privacy are verifiably state of the art.
whats a concrete example about something I do with an AI model that I wouldn't be liable for today, but I would be after SB 1047 passes?
Fundamentally, the pre-trained model would need to learn a "world model" to predict well in distinct domains. This should be possible not regarding compute requirements and the exact architecture.

After all, the physical world (down to the subatomic level) is governed by physical laws. Ilya Sutskever from OpenAI stated that next-token prediction might be enough to learn a world model (see [1]). That would imply that a model learns a "world model" indirectly, which is even more unrealistic than learning the world model directly through pre-training on time-series data.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEUclZdj_Sc
For a MBA level, I'd say the education probably needs to involve:

- visualizing the types and size of data collected and maintained by IT systems. Data size will generally scale with the amount and complexity of systems, I think there can be good high-level measurements for MBA types about data sizes and complexity. Of course they won't measure producivity in systems dev, but from a systems maintenance perspective it could help.

- a lot of apocryphal stories about systems development and implementation

- and of course, as I alluded to, a model of the employees and their responsibilities and necessary competency in IT, and how the business relies on them. How a competent IT org isn't just maintenance on the bottom line, how Amazon leveraged good Silicon Valley talent to be a lethal marketplace weapon, and probably lots of stories of big box stores relying on good IT orgs to scale their logistics and operations beyond what was thought possible in the 80s and 90s.

That's from two minutes of me thinking about it. What modern MBA student doesn't want to know how Amazon does things? They run both a high-margin software/hardware operation and a low-margin retail operation with "good" IT (I mean, don't get me started on the workplace practices, but they scaled with good IT talent, ditto for Google).

Good IT + Good Finance should power any decent business plan to success. Really, in the modern age of cartels, the only way to disrupt the big players in a traditional market will likely be through well-applied IT that has superior scaling, cost, integration, and adaptation to the old guard players.
But I'm gonna be that guy that says "Dear You" is better. To each their own, but it's a pity that album got slagged.
Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality display with metasurface waveguides
Other industries do not require repeating the license exam. Many have continuing education or other professional development requirements. These can be expensive and time consuming but not difficult generally.

Real licenses do not expire without notice. Real license exams are more consistent, have clear pass criteria, and have higher pass rates.
From the paper:

> 7. B. N. Simon, S. Simon, F. Gori, M. Santarsiero, R. Borghi, N. Mukunda, and R. Simon, Nonquantum Entanglement Resolves a Basic Issue in Polarization Optics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023901 (2010). http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.023901

https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2467

Also from the paper:

> V. GENERALIZATION TO ARBITRARY DIMENSIONS

> The above polarization-entanglement complementary relation (8) along with its connection to the mechanical concepts of center of mass and moment of inertia can be further generalized to arbitrary dimensional tensor structures. In this case, the concept of polarization is not restricted to describe the three wave oscillation directions of the 3D space any longer. It is extended to represent all vectors of a generic vector space of arbitrary dimension
[24,47].
Given the number of times I've been kicked in the face by another person's fins while scuba diving, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone using one of these.
I would be very, very leery of storing large amounts of energy in supercapacitors. A li-ion battery pack can go into thermal runaway, but a supercapacitor inherently dumps it's energy if penetrated. Electricity moves at a respectable fraction of lightspeed, the energy dump will be *very* fast.