skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but we know it’s possible in practice as we carry one of these with us and it works on almost no energy, so it gives the inspiration at least to try to get a little bit closer. There is a very large gap…
What's the minimum material density necessary for a collapse such as this? Is it possible to have a planet with a core of solid oxygen, for example?
Building a Dagger Module to standardize the CI pipeline of Go projects
I remember IO2 Heliodisplay from around 2007. Now their site seems to be dead.

> This holographic-style display works by projecting a 2D image onto a cloud of microscopic droplets (probably water, although this isn't confirmed)

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/io2-launches-%E2%...
Shouldn't the free market drive companies with these type of leaders down ? They should become swamped by the faster more agile competitors?

But sadly, it seems the inertia keeps some pretty ignorant organizations functioning for decades.
Musk's SpaceX is quick to build in Texas, slow to pay its bills
The iPad Pro is pulling double duty as both a professional workstation and a CEO laptop.

Tim Cook has bragged about being able to do most of his work on an iPad, and I believe him, because executives spend most of their time reading and replying to e-mail. The iPad does that well because it inherited the Mail app from iPhones, which was already pretty good and just needed to be blown up to a larger size. And iPads make your organization look futuristic, at least to all the other executives you're talking to.

The only reason why people are complaining about iPadOS' limitations is because Apple made the mistake of making it useful for creative professionals. They wanted to ship the Apple Pencil and wound up making it an iPad accessory rather than its own thing. So now people who want to draw with the Pencil - which is an amazing drawing experience - are saddled with the limitations of an iPad.
> the most efficient way to make money in SV is to make the tools for enabling totalitarianism

Any specificity to this example that doesn’t apply to any game-changing technology?
There are other advantages of linked lists over vectors besides those that you've listed.
When building an alternative implementation of a language you're a bit hamstrung by the name. You could come up with something completely novel, but no one is ever going to discover or use your software. So, it's quite common to integrate the language name into your software name somewhere. The next question then is how to differentiate. Oftentimes the underlying framework is really the selling point. JRuby is Ruby on Java. TruffleRuby is Ruby on Truffle+Graal. It's easy for people to quickly identify and understand the difference. Instead of calling it TruffleRuby, I suppose we could call it PartialEvaluationRuby or SuperFastRuby, but those naming conventions have their own flaws.

Do you have a suggested naming convention to follow? There's a rich history of alternative language implementations following the convention you dislike, but I think those involved would be open to an alternative.
Why not just install one on the outside window sill?
Sample size was 149 students, difference in test results was 0.46σ with a P<0.001

This is an absurdly large effect for a social-science result, so I too would like to see this replicated. Leaving half a standard-deviation of results on the table would be an extreme failure of pedagogy.

In addition, the study mentions that a typical lecture for students was semi-interactive, so it would be nice to see the AL method compared with the existing one (rather than a completely passive control), presuming that the semi-interactive classes are more palatable to the students, it might be a good "sweet spot"
Would it be ethical in a situation like this to hide all the technical improvements and just show the increased speed of client facing delivery?

Seems like everyone would be happier.
As a starting position, sure.

But if you have a later board state, with two rooks on one side: how do you know which one is still eligible to castle?
Ironic that ads are what Google uses to pay Mozilla so you(we) can use Firefox.
The thermodynamic "limit" is pretty small compared to any other waste in a system (from Wikipedia):

> At room temperature, the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.018 eV (2.9×10^−21 J). Modern computers use about a billion times as much energy per operation.
This is absolutely correct, the text selecting/editing behavior on iOS 17 is unbearable.
I remember reading a review or watching a video where someone said this is the type of problem that if Steve Jobs was still around would not exist after one or two minor updates, and I agree.

Its as if there aren’t real people at Apple actually using and testing what they release (although I know that’s not the case)
For now my work around is long pressing the spacebar to get the cursor to where you want. :(
If they just turn into another Google then what was the point?
Honestly as a CTO: if you can fire the CTO without it being a disaster the CTO is a terrible CTO.
I know, I just didn't bother to do it for that piece since I actually wanted to film the jumping around of the arm as a demo for friends. I do it for other pieces I actually want to optimize using vpype.
Care to elaborate? Are you a rage farmer, or trying to mitigate them?
The amount of comma splicing, (parentheses for extra points) -- and em dashes for good measure! that this post has makes it entirely unreadable.
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You're right of course, but this represents a huge shift in the way we think about our computers now, and speaking only for myself I don't think I like it.

It used to be that when you bought a computer, it was yours. It did your bidding, nobody elses. Security features it had were about keeping other people out, not keeping you out of your own device.

Now, mostly IMHO thanks to Apple, the idea has really shifted. The owner of the device is a "threat" just like anybody else is. The device protects itself against unauthorized actions from the owner, and it does what the mother company wants it to do, regardless of the owner's desires. If the owner is trying to stalk somebody, then that's a better outcome than having the stalker enabled, but we don't get to pick and choose which things the device follows it's owners desires or the mother company's. If the mother company wants you using their chosen DNS servers, or exfiltrating user data for analytics, or showing you ads (Amazon especially), that's what will happen. Now that we've made it acceptable for companies to behave like this, they are going to (ab)use it to the max. I think this is a tragedy of the commons personally. People optimizing for individual use cases at the expense of the collective, leading to disastrous results for the collective.
> how about we: pull in a whole new dependency ('imbl') that attempts to optimize for the general case using complex trees (???????????????)

To me this is a self answering question.
Because it drives engagement.
the Katamari game series plays on this idea of creating themed planets by rolling up everyday objects on Earth
Even staying within digital, GPUs are not totally designed for AI learning or inference. But the more important problem right now is standardization.
The CO2 footprint of training GPT-3, 502 tons (est.), is approximately the carbon output of the air travel industry every 5 seconds. Anyone who writes about the carbon footprint of machine learning is being paid to mislead you.
I can't compare, but I like Disney World Space Mountain out of a sense of nostalgia. Some of the rides are sort of neat time capsules.
I wonder why we limit measurement and optimization to animals when examples of it have been observed in plants.

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

> When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap prepares to close, snapping shut only if a second contact occurs within approximately twenty seconds of the first strike.

> ...

> The mechanism is so highly specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli, such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched in succession within 20 seconds of each other or one hair touched twice in rapid succession, whereupon the lobes of the trap will snap shut, typically in about one-tenth of a second.

> ...

> Most plants accumulate starch by day, then metabolize it at a fixed rate during night time. However, if the onset of darkness is unusually early, Arabidopsis thaliana reduces its use of starch by an amount that effectively requires division. wever, there are alternative explanations, such as feedback control by sensing the amount of soluble sugars left. As of 2015, open questions remain.
Here you go: https://a.co/d/3zuBvyW

Looks like its unavailable for me right now, but there are others you can try.

For white paper, this has worked very well for me: https://a.co/d/9qoDwML
Wild. a family member of mine has paranoid schizophrenia and if something isn't where she thinks it should be she immediately jumps to "it was stolen." Even if the glasses are on her head or the phone is literally in her hand, she'll declare it was stolen and get upset.

It makes me wonder if she lived in one of those places earlier in her life (before I knew her) and might be more justified than it seems... ?
So the only problem you have with buying him out is that

1) He said it, so you don't like the messenger despite that being the accurate path

2) and no money

you’re conflating both of those with the idea of “rewarding” him more

tough luck

the other side of this is who cares that he’s a shareholder. Its 5%. just ignore him, remove his title, and have someone else do the work. he remains a 5% shareholder and everyone else continues on.

he has literally no power and doesnt prevent you or anyone else investing money into this company except your own pride
pretty sure it's what zbiotics do
Related: https://forum.aux.computer/t/the-register-article-about-aux/...
What is X in this equation? The bullshit factor?
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And there's been many takes on it I think.

I recall seeing one for L.A., back in 1980ish.
> We stop growing not only when we stop learning, but when we stop creating.

This is generic enough to leave open to debate what we should create.

It waves off the impact on the future to create.

It’s cute and poetic but as usual ignores externalities as our taught economic models inherently rely on ignoring externalities. You are refusing to engage in such discussion because we don’t socially normalize an obligation to do so.

Why must we create what we currently create?

Can you not create new skill and awareness any other way? Are you that unimaginative you must simulate the galactic differential manifold inside a machine as you cannot imagine it and draw it for yourself? At the cost of what for the species over the next decades for us?

And I say for us as you cannot guarantee there’s Lindy effects measured in centuries from the outputs of the work. It’s not unreasonable to find all this high minded talk near equivalent to hearsay and religious belief in the potential for forever growth and expansion.

It’s not unreasonable to assume this just conviction to economic memes you memorized wrapped in overly reductive poetry to obfuscate.
It's still unclear to me that using QM to simulate protein folding or enzymatic activity is a worthwhile endeavor. Even highly approximate QM methods don't seem significantly better than classical force fields for recapitulating folding dynamics, and the actual amount of computational effort required would be astronomical. I would recommend against it simply because we know of better, more economical methods, to get at solutions we need.
This is common in Russian texts but I haven't found any other signs of that suppose.
I noticed a weird bug where sometimes the game will auto-move for a player. In particular, this seems to happen when one queen captures a piece, and the opposing side has the ability to capture that queen with their queen, the game automatically makes the 'queen takes queen' capture.
I don't think making CPU issue (likely bogus) pre-fetches for every field in the cache line that's marked as a pointer is really that good idea. At best, you save couple of cycles because the fetches are started a one or two instructions earlier before the actual load instruction for "loading the linked pointer" is issued. At worst, you keep thrashing your cache loading data you're not going to read, delaying fetching the data you will read.
> iOS makes arbitrary judgements about the word boundary it thinks I'm aiming at and is about 50% wrong.

For me it's closer to 100% of the time because it is incapable of letting you tap one word over, you have to tap far away then where you want, because it simply will NOT listen when you tap to a neighboring word, it will move the cursor right back to the word it's on.
Yes, I understand that. There’s no magic. You have to sell in volume to break even. The fixed costs must be included in the calculation

Someone has an HN post if you’d like to discuss

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357306
It is when it's countering other anecdata. If anyone has actual data then by all means show it and that will trump the anecdata, but without that, anecdata is all we have.
Yes, this seems to be the way. Fire him, get him away from day to day operations asap. He's already off the board, so that should satisfy your investor right? Does he need to own 0% of the company to put anything more into it?
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Here’s a take nobody asked for, this costs a little less than 2 Real Dolls[1].

1. No way am I linking that.
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We could just nuke the marketing and advertising industry. Without them no one would be craving 90% of the garbage they crave.
> Multiple studies have found statistical patterns that can be modeled through mathematical functions.

For conditions that don't generalize. If it would be a "mathematical law", spaced repetition would not work, because the retention time would be that of the last presentation. So, we've got some exception. Interference, reinforcement and generalization are another known influences.

Psychology doesn't have a good model of how memory works, whereas there are fairly detailed approximations to model the behavior of e.g. gases. So it isn't mathematics, and it doesn't approach the standards of physics.

And that's also part of what's wrong with cogsci. It has held physics too long as the standard to emulate.
> In the future, people who take the gel could reduce the harmful and intoxicating effects of alcohol.

I understand harm reduction but what is the point of reducing the intoxicating effects of alcohol? What's the point?
Many of these products and features were quite literally available. Proper voice inflection isn't that new either, it's cool, but not really going to/hasn't changed my life.

Lack of wonder? No, I think it's very cool. But you have to differentiate what is going to fundamentally change our lives and the world and something that isn't going to. GPT/LLM/AI will fundamentally change my life over time, the features shown today, 70% of them won't. They will replace existing products and make things more streamlined, but not going to really going to shift the world.
AppleTV has multi-user support but it’s not NEARLY good enough. I would really appreciate more capability there. I want cleaner boundaries around the standard and child experiences, as well as more individualization.

Mostly I’m annoyed that all the individual streaming apps have profiles, but they don’t have any link to the Apple ID you’re using. If I’m the active user on the AppleTV, I should see the apps I care about and my profile in those apps.

TL;DR stop letting my family ruin my recommendations.
Do you have autism or ADHD? This is actually a really contentious issue. Tons of people with the condition are happy to let others be themselves, but want to be cured.

With ADHD, it's actually a little crazy to me that people consider it "harmless". There's a ton of tangible ways that it hurts relationships and goals. I can't even make dinner and tidy house; doesn't matter how much time I have.

I will say the medicine made me a little more robotic and took a bite out of my personality; but this was a small nibble compared to not being able to do almost anything comfortably, and the consequences of that.

It's really damaging to your personality to not be able to conversate with people and understand each other. It's really damaging to your personality to not be able to practice your hobbies with friends. I really don't feel like my "true" self, and see others able to effortlessly be that person.
Hey Benesch, is Materialize used by TimescaleDB to create Materialized View? I noticed a similar approach.
Here is the overview:

Certain steel and aluminum products will increase from 0–7.5% to 25% in 2024.

Semiconductors will increase from 25% to 50% by 2025. Because of ramping legacy production node capacity in China.

EVs will increase from 25% to 100% in 2024. That's huge!

Lithium-ion EV batteries and battery parts: 7.5%% -> 25% in 2024.
Lithium-ion non-EV batteries: 7.5% -> 25% in 2026.

Natural graphite and permanent magnets: 0% -> 25% in 2026.
Certain other critical minerals: 0% -> 25% in 2024.

Solar cells (whether or not assembled into modules): 25% -> 50% in 2024.

Ship-to-shore cranes: 0% -> 25% in 2024.

Syringes and needles: 0% -> 50% in 2024.

Certain personal protective equipment (PPE), including certain respirators and face masks: 0–7.5% -> 25% in 2024.

Rubber medical and surgical gloves: 7.5% -> 25% in 2026.
AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media
Beyond blueprints: DoD's commercial space strategy leaves industry wanting more
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I mean, it was trained on public internet discourse, probably a bunch of youtube videos, and some legally-grey (thanks copyright) textbooks.

Your field sounds like "There are dozens of us! Dozens!" - who probably all chat at small conferences or correspond through email or academic publication.

Perhaps if it had at its disposal the academic papers, some of the foundational historic documents of record, your emails, textbooks, etc - in a RAG system, or if it had been included in the training corpus it could impress you about this incredibly niche topic.

That said, because it's an ~LLM - its whole thing is generating plausible tokens. I don't know how much work has been put in on an agent level (around or in the primary model) to evaluate confidence on those tokens and hedge the responses accordingly. I doubt it has an explicit notion like some people do of 'hey, this piece of information (<set of coordinates in high dimensional vector space>) [factoid about late ancient egypt] is knowable/falsifiable - and falls under the domain of specialist knowledge: my immense commonsense knowledge might be overconfident given the prevalence of misconceptions in common discourse and I should discount my token probabilities accordingly'

It reflects its training. If there are a lot of public misconceptions, it will have them. Just like most people who are not <expert in arcane academic subtopic>.
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There’s a reason for the 102.5% tariff

https://apnews.com/article/china-byd-auto-seagull-auto-ev-ca...
Show HN: Julep: A platform to manage memories, knowledge and tools for LLM apps
Hi all!
We've built our fair share of LLM apps, everything from Shopify agents to real-time clones of "Samantha" from "Her". We started facing a lot of annoyances & issues repetitively with building functional apps.

So we sifted through 97K posts from the OpenAI Community to confirm and find people with similar problems (& we did). It turns out that there are a handful of low-level problems that everybody who is building an AI app that works well needs to solve:
statefulness to manage conversations
interaction interface between multiple agents and multiple users.
robust document search
dynamic tool calling from different apps
swapping out different LLMs/models while preserving state,

And that's exactly what we ended up making Julep to be.

We built this as a prototype to solve our problems, and now we want to lower the barrier for someone to create functional and production-ready LLM apps.

For more advanced stuff; We're also working on a task specification that defines a task execution framework for LLMs using a YAML format. It includes task triggers, available tools, debugging options, input and output schemas, and workflows. The main workflow is the entry point, with conditional transitions, error handling, and mapping operations for parallel processing.

We want to make a Supabase-like backend for AI apps with a great DX. So if you're interested in this stuff or want a platform that you can make design decisions for, specifically for yourself, please submit PRs, become a maintainer, or join the Discord to check out cool examples we're building!
There is a really nice surviving water clock from the early Imperial era in China that was discovered in the 1970s [1]. The Imperial bureaucracy was sophisticated enough at this point that official timekeeping equipment like this was carefully tracked. The water clock has an inscription that details where it was made (Qianzhang), when it was made (27 BC), and how heavy it is 32 "Jin").

There is a text written a few decades after this water clock was made that provides enough detail to approximately reconstruct how astronomers used it for their measurements. In essence they would calibrate the water clock against the motion of the Sun so that they could correspond some volume of water to a 24 hour period. Then they would measure the amount of water that flowed from the transit of one star to another to figure out the separation of those stars in right ascension. The measurements were sophisticated enough that they apparently took into account factors like humidity and temperature when using the water clock.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/150024l/the_z...
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>> the disconsolate artist focused on discovering a process of rapid long distance communication.

Very small point, but there were fast means of communication prior to Morse. His invention certainly democratized such communication, but a semaphore system was speeding government messages across France decades before the telegraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
Ford trims EV battery orders as losses swell to over $100k per electric car
Thanks! Was surprisingly hard to find something that looked good on Amazon. I'm thinking it has to be matte for the full effect. Probably worth checking out an art supply store.
This and castling strike me as the kind of rules where a King like Henry VIII was losing and decided to castle for the first time ever and his opponent was too scared to say anything to stop it.
I think you're spot on
> Linked lists are taught as fundamental data structures in programming courses, but they are more commonly encountered in tech interviews than in real-world projects.

I beg to disagree.

In kernels, drivers, and embedded systems they are very common.
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For now it is read-only, but soon will be write-supported too. You can feed data via Kafka