skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does happen like that, lot's of departments within big companies have R&D focus with time dedicated to development/discovery. The problem is that the output is captured. If it doesn't end up in a product, the general public will never know
NixOS and Guix System offer a far lighter and more reproducible approach, who also not push many running images build by unknown on the internet direct in production, full of outdated deps, wasting in the meantime storage and cpu resources...
I don't work in this area, but think about all of the variables that go into warhead maintenance. Your single supercomputer simulation can show that the warhead should work as-designed, but what will happen after the Plutonium pit has been sitting for a decade, slowly decaying? Will satisfactory implosion still happen if storage conditions slightly change the performance of the conventional explosives?

Since modern warheads are all fusion-type warheads, there's also the fusion stage to consider with even more highly classified top-secret sauce. It appears that the conditions for fusion are triggered by radiation pressure, and that likely makes things even more complicated. Now, you need not just a successful supercritical fission event, but one of the right shape(?), timing, and interaction with other secret-sauce materials that might have their own degradation curves.

So, rather than simulate one design, now you need to simulate hundreds to thousands to explore the full decay-over-time space. Getting the answer wrong means either very expensive premature warhead refurbishments or a nuclear stockpile that wouldn't work properly.
My point isn’t necessarily elevenlabs being good or bad, it’s the difference between its text to voice and voice to voice generations. The latter is incredibly expressive and just shows how much is lacking in our ability to encode inflection in text.
Note all mentions of FLOPS in this thread refer to FP64 (double precision), unlike more popular “AI OPS”, which are typically INT8, specified for modern GPUs.
Wow, who let that get built in the first place? Hmmm, of all the places to put a server.
My point was more so that you can upgrade 20 year old devices to Linux 6.X! You're correct though.
Not a user of Chrome OS, but DEX (R.I.P) and the main difference is multiple apps in their windows at once, so you can chat, watch a video and write an email at the same time just as you'd do on a desktop.
My family had a Beeb with 128KB of RAM. I thought XTs were awful. Sure, they had more RAM, but for our use cases (games and word processing), it wasn't really necessary. I even learnt Pascal on it.

Things definitely changed with 386s and Windows.
No. The event horizon is just an imaginary point where the escape velocity equals the speed of light. As you get closer to the singularity, the escape velocity increases further. So you could imagine every shell of a sphere inside the horizon as another horizon. If you sit somewhere between the event horizon and the singularity (technically impossible since not even going at the speed of light could prevent you from falling down further), only lightrays that were emitted outside of your "horizon" can reach you.
1. Open Messages
2. Open any conversation
3. Type "This is going to hurt"
4. Now, in one "tap anywhere," place the cursor after the word "is"

Spoiler -- the cursor will be before the word "going," after the space. It's possible to select after "is" -- for example, you can select after "going" if you're careful (I'd say you have to tap around the "n")

Of course I know about the long tap -- as I said, I've been doing roughly that since at least the deep press days. Open Safari, go to a typically long Amazon URL, and try to get to the end of the URL to edit something. Depending on the URL length, it requires:

1. Tap quickly so the whole URL isn't selected (otherwise you'll drag it)

Then multiple cycles of:

1. Long tap
2. Drag to the right
3. Reach the end of the screen, but not the URL
4. Back to (1)

The spacebar is the same as the long tap. It's better than nothing, but not sufficient.

And adding a keyboard doesn't fix the fundamental issue that Apple hasn't thought deeply about this.

Swipe-typing is a blessing and a curse. Think about what you have to do if:

1. You want to add an "s" to pluralize something
2. You just need to change the last letter or two
3. You want to add any other character right after the word besides the limited set Apple has deemed worthy of special treatment

And that is:

1. Type space
2. Type backspace
3. Type the actual thing you want to type

That's three actions to do one thing. And that doesn't even begin to cover how swipe typing handles alternatives: backspace and do it over? Really? How about automatically popping up alternatives for selection (and then dismissing if the user keeps swiping)?

I'm happy for you that you're happy. I'm not. Apple: hire me and I'll make this better. :-)
Snapshot Testing for the Masses
I agree with the other comments. On the cloud, the VM is still the golden standard for strong (hardware-level isolation): if you deploy a container in the cloud, you can almost be sure there's a VM underneath. Given this, what we tried to do in that paper, in the LF Unikraft project (www.unikraft), and on kraft.cloud, is ensure that each VM only has the thinnest possible layer between the application and the hypervisor underneath -- strong isolation and hopefully max efficiency. We do use Dockerfiles to have users specify the app/filesystem, but then we transparently convert them to unikernels (specialized VMs) at deploy time.
Strange. It shouldn't alert you unless the AirTags aren't connected to their own phones - do they leave their phones behind when going for a walk?
NeXT acquiring Apple for less than one Steve Jobs (receiving about $400 million as change) was nothing short of brilliant. They got their great OS, attached it to their own bespoke hardware, focused the product line, and now they pretty much rule the world.
> how should countries stay socialist?

That’s a hard question, I don’t think there are any examples of long-lasting socialist societies of substantial size that have stayed particularly true to the purported ideology.

If we think about social democracy instead, I believe you’d have to cultivate those values in the population, if they’re not there already, as well as a high level of social trust.
Not necessarily. If self-driving cars "aren't ready" and then you redefine what ready is, you've absolutely got your thumb on the scale of measuring progress.
Was just playing around a little and found a bug. In the following position it won't let me play F8. https://maxm-staticchess.web.val.run/rnb1kbnr/pp2P1pp/3p4/q1...
Is it telling that my 2018 iPad Pro gets significantly more use than my ThinkPad P1? iPadOS is a joy to use compared to Fedora 40 and Windows 11 Pro.
These days this is true from top to bottom, desktop, servers, ... Even in gaming, the 7800X3D is cheaper than the 14700K, it is also more performant and yet uses roughly 20% less power at idle and the gap only grows at full charge.

AMD's current architecture is very power responsible, and Intel has more or less used watt overfeeding to catch back in performance.
Mission ended with Bits Outside Original Mechanism
I'm not sure if I missed a bit here, but I have some colleagues doing research on unikernels for HPC and the point is that this unikernel is running directly on the hardware or hypervisor and not inside another VM. The unikernel is effectively a minimal VM and the network stack is one of the things they struggle the most with due to sheer effort.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's the same thing : more watt usage, more heat, more throttling.
If America doesn't create it, China will.
This is one of my favourite games. The puzzles are suitably mind bending with unique mechanics.

There are a few mechanics that I didn't feel were fairly introduced, you had to sort of guess the first time you encountered them (in a few cases it wasn't even obvious there was a new mechanic available) but that minor flaw didn't take away from the cleverness, intrigue and beauty of the game.
See: https://gluegroups.com/

I don't like the "wrapped LLM for business" angle. It just seems like an unnecessary intermediary/middleman layer when (1) any member of any team can just query GPT-4 directly, and (2) you can easily upload documents and logs to GPT-4 and even directly to ChatGPT. These are features that you don't necessarily want to have "always on" and in public.

In fairness, I suppose there could be a good implementation of the concept. But it would have to bring something substantial to the table that ChatGPT doesn't, and it's not clear that Glue does this.
You are absolutely correct, and the creators of Docker did mention that was the core reason. Unfortunately your comment comes 10 years too late for many.
Then making a boot disk using 4DOS to manage the whole lot of it. As each game had its own idea of what being 'setup' looked like with different other TSRs (mouse, cd, etc).
No issue for me "my device was wiped just before the trip, I have a homeserver for my needs" with a large 258 teeth smile showing an old 3310.
Your pricing page has a mistake in the Free tier. The number 1 which is supposed to be a superscript is instead shown as HTML markup (<sup>1</sup>).
I find that aviation rarely comes up in discussions around decarbonisation, and that's probably because of the difficulty of even plausibly claiming we have a path to accomplishing it.

It's interesting to ponder what a world would look like where there just aren't aeroplanes.
What are the main issues with it's assessment of the discussed page?
Android has tried to move in that direction as well, but at least they still offer you the option to create virtual home/back/multitask buttons at the bottom screen instead of gestures.

I've tried using Apples devices ever since they dropped the home button, but it always kinda ends up being way more fiddly than it has any right to be. Very often you just accidentally end up closing apps because of the hanging scroll gesture, which on non-gesture devices (read: configured Android and old iOS) just meant "scroll when needed" but on iOS/gesture controlled Android means "close the app". Especially annoying when reading large amounts of text.

Gesture control over buttons is one of those ideas that's neat but should never have been made the only option on iOS.
I would guess the majority are high touch sales people reaching out to companies to advertise on the site, or managing their accounts
You can also link the book - book + sample chapter is own work you can showhn.
The real threat is AI arguing/competing with itself and wasting 90% of world's power.
A lot of these are non-AI problems. People trying to defraud the elderly need to be taken out back and shot, that’s not an AI issue.
The sigmoid is true in humans too. You can get 80% of the way to being sort of good at a thing in a couple of weeks, but then you hit the plateau. In a lot of fields confidently knowing and applying this has made people local jack of all trades experts... the person that often knows how to solve the problem. But Jack is no longer needed so much. ChatJack got`s your back. Better to be a the person who knows one thing in excruciating detail and depth, and never ever let anyone watch you work or train on your output.
He should go for the big bucks and slap one on the iPhones.

full disclosure: I typed that on an iPhone made in China and dreamed up in California
Yeah, but honestly at the same time we’ve got useful models with no self awareness. Aside from the exhausting corpo-speak, we’ve got no reason to want anything other than something convenient for us.
40 Year old computer plays 30 year old game
Is it any good at win16? The other free ones I have used are kind of lacking. I have a win16 game I have been meaning to decompile nicely.
Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents
One of my favorite artists using a plotter is Licia He - using python to control brush to apply watercolor.

- https://twitter.com/Licia_He

- https://www.instagram.com/blahblahpaperblah/

- https://www.eyesofpanda.com/

She has 20+ Q&A about how she does it: https://www.eyesofpanda.com/project/plotter_painting_q_a/ and she intends to open source her code someday too I think
Fortnite's revenue is more than 5 billion annually. This fine corresponds to about 2 hours loss of revenue.
I just noticed StackOverflow jobs is now "powered" by Indeed. And it is unfortunately pretty useless. It is sad because the original SO Jobs had so much potential.
That's a neat trick. It seems to only work to extend the selection to the right? Meaning:

1. Long-tap with your right thumb, drag the cursor to the end of a sentence
2. Tap with your left thumb (to the left of your right thumb) and drag to the left to select the sentence -- nothing happens
3. Drag your right thumb to the right to make sure you understand what's happening and you're doing it right -- the selection extends, yay!
4. Again try dragging your left thumb -- nothing happens.

How could Apple's human interaction people let this ship?!
Yet it doesn't even come close to a fraction of the adoption scale of containers, no matter how good it is. Ecosystems matter more than individual quality.
You’re describing me. If it were up to me, the iPad would be even simpler than it is now.
Populations of particles have, on average, rates of decay which we call a "half life". Though the speed at which a single particle decays is entirely random and impossible to predict from any known principle or physical property, studying these aggregate rates empirically is still useful for science.

You're splitting hairs (quite aggressively) over what is essentially semantics. And the worst part is, you're wrong about the semantics.

I'd advise you to remember the adage that, all models are wrong (whether we're talking about physics or psychology). But some models are -useful-.
No, the Regulation (in this case) is the predatory practice, which is destroying companies. There's a reason the EU doesn't have many successful companies.

DMA is the problem, it's not "that hotels are allowed to provide cheaper prices themselves". DMA does not regulate (or provide) that "hotels are allowed to provide cheaper prices themselves" because hotels were always allowed to do this.

Even I admit that DMA has a couple good things, but it is overwhelmed by the bad. DMA goes way, way too far and it causes destruction.

EU policies are extremely overbearing, arrogant and totalitarian. This is destroying business.
This. It's super painful and time-confusing restoring all apps ... even with proper backups.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/6233/f29-retaliator/

https://youtu.be/SukxKJDRy28?t=94
From what I understand, TRISO is more about reactor safety than proliferation. A proliferating entity could easily ground up the particles and chemically leech the useful fissile material, they need to do enrichment anyway which is orders of magnitude more difficult.

A good anti-proliferation design are traveling wave U238 fast breeders. They are filled with depleted uranium and breed plutonium 239, but, due to the long residence time in the reactor, the isotopic vector is heavily polluted with things like Pu240 which spontaneous fissions reducing the yield, Pu238 which generates massive heat etc. This reactor grade plutonium is completely worthless as a bomb material and would require reprocessing that is even more difficult then enrichment of natural Uranium.

Alas, none of the TWR proposals (CANDLE, Terrapower etc.) ever made it into production.
How do you test a regex to be 100% sure it's valid? I don't think it's possible.
Ooh, this is a neat trick, thanks!
Having a glioma myself (though way less severe than his type), this is exciting news. Brain tumors are often written off as "well, you're done for" and not much progress has been made on the treatment front. Though, the type I have was only discovered in the last 20 years and was lumped (heh) in with others before. Genetic sequencing and gene therapy, wow.
I don't think you understand how much gardeners, the nursery industry, and farmers rely on this data. We know things aren't the way they used to be. That's why you're starting to see so many "green thumb" people getting more vocal about climate change. They have first-hand experience with what's going on that isn't easy to dismiss with a hand-wave.
On p.4 you argue that for integers a, b, c and n:

(a + b − c)^n = (c − a)(c − b)g_1(n)

=> a + b − c = [(c − a)(c − b)g_1(n)]^(1/n)

=> g_1(n) | a + b - c

This doesn't follow as it stands. For example, if a=b=3 and c=n=2, then g_1(n)=16 whereas a + b - c = 4.
>Millennials basically invented modern, every day, gallows humor

lmao what.... they absolutely didn't

this is why no one should take anyone on this site seriously about anything, confidentally incorrect, easily conned into the next VC funded marketing project
> This is no different to saying a person with a gun murdered someone rather than attributing the murder to the gun.

And “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”¹ is a bad argument created by the people who benefit from the proliferation of guns, so it’s very weird that you’re using that as if it were a valid argument. It isn’t. It’s baffling anyone still has to make this point: easy access and availability of guns makes them more likely to be used. A gun which does not exist is a gun which cannot be used by a person to murder another.

It’s also worth nothing the exact words of the person you’re responding to (emphasis mine):

> It can also murder people, and it will continue being used for that.

Being used. As in, they’re not saying that AI kills on its own, but that it’s used for it. Presumably by people. Which doesn’t contradict your point.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_don%27t_kill_people,_peop...
But Shareholder Value..
I would expect a LOT of funds to go into research all sorts of actuators, artificial muscles and any other technology that will be useful in building better robots.

If you had an ASI? I don’t think you’d need a lot of funds to go into this area anymore ? Presumably it would all be solved overnight.
It's not a bug. f8=X is illegal since white is in check from the Queen on a5.
Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles
It doesn't have to be the unspeakable, but rather can be the name of the first pet or something others just can't guess on the first time.
They are also tied to MS SQL Server, it seems. Not sure it supports the fanciest gear out there. I've only seen Infiniband in HPC settings which are overwhelmingly non-Windows.
that sounds really sad
Or you’ve been around the block long enough to recognize hype and know when your imagination may be wrong. Imagination isn’t infallible.
But if you give a very sharp knife to a toddler and say "go on, have fun" and walk off, you're probably going to face child endangerment charges at some point.
A bit of an off topic, but I think FP is a flawed concept in practical terms - it focuses on disallowing local mutation, but usually does nothing to prevent global mutation (which usually happens when the program interacts with its environment via network/OS calls etc.). The resulting programs are just as crash prone as if they were written in Java.

Why did nobody go for the actually useful sweet spot - allowing procedural/local mutation, but making the procedures themselves 'pure' and taking care to control side effects on the program scale?

This would allow for things like actually useful time travel debugging and runtime code modification while keeping the performance and familiarity of procedural languages.
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Maybe the Netties just consume more news and opinions from their favorite political idiocy, while the others have to face reality.
Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev sentenced to 64 months: report
EU Commission Designates Booking as a Gatekeeper
Back when we did the paper, Firecracker wasn't mainstream so we ended up doing a (much hackier) version of a fast VMM by modifying's Xen's VMM; but yeah, a few millis was totally feasible back then, and still now (the evolution of that paper is Unikraft, a LF OSS project at www.unikraft.org).

(Cold) boot times are determined by a chain of components, including (1) the controller (eg, k8s/Borg), (2) the VMM (Firecracker, QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor), (3) the VM's OS (e.g., Linux, Windows, etc), (4) any initialization of processes, libs, etc and finally (5) the app itself.

With Unikraft we build extremely specialized VMs (unikernels) in order to minimize the overhead of (3) and (4). On KraftCloud, which leverages Unikraft/unikernels, we additionally use a custom controller to optimize (1) and Firecracker to optimize (2). What's left is (5), the app, which hopefully the developers can optimize if needed.
So this has the downside of not being supported for Androids that don’t use Google Play services right? Like the Amazon tablets?

Still a big win overall I’m just curious what number of devices basically don’t get important upgrades due to this method. (Surely a tiny amount compared to what you’d have if you relied on device manufacturers to update the OS.)
Any post from brandur is a must read. Love the post
No it didn't. I want to rebuild my image using a different base.

Docker? One line possibly.

VM? Afternoon (unless I want to write ansible too)
Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536):

The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old software.

Their personality comes across as knowledgeable and curious, with a collaborative spirit. They are open to discussions and often contribute meaningfully to technical conversations, indicating a passion for technology and innovation [oai_citation:1,Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/).
The EU has ruined plastic water bottles
What is living like a "normal" person? Paying exorbitant premiums for health insurance for the family? Worrying about making your rent that increases 10% every year? Being one car breakdown from losing your job and the above? Have you considered that people are not selfish but perhaps anxious? That we've built a system to extract labor from people via precarity and they are responding as stressed people will? And if people live in such a state, they might see it as selfless to spare children from such an existence? That "Conceptualizing parenting as a stressor" might be a useful model to explain peoples' behavior? It's just weird to me to think that after a few hundred thousand years of being human and reproducing, we have in the span of a century become (evolved) to be too "selfish" to do so; to me it makes more sense to think in terms of environment.
Ehm... It's impressive in tech terms, but as a solder assistant, nutcracker and not so skilled cooking assistant it's a little bit overpriced..........

We can benefit much from robotics but humanoid for at current state of tech is honestly not much useful. We can benefit from cleaning robots, no need to be humanoid, we can benefit from autonomous wheelbarrows, 4-axis storage assistants and so on, sure they are far less fascinating but they are useful and they can have reasonable price tags TODAY.
That's one of my biggest fears, teachers using AI generated content without "checks" to raise / teach / test our children.
> don’t pollute

WaitGroups, Mutexes and spawning channels for things you could just ‘await’.