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Dating apps seemed like they got about a decade that anyone took them seriously at all. Maybe 15 years if I'm being generous.

Before that, we went out and met people in meat space. Often at bars, because as bad as that was, it still beat the dating apps of the day.

I think at this point people are getting paralyzed by an overabundance of choice in many cases, and the illusion of the possibility of infinite pickiness (coupled with the ability to pick out flaws before you ever encounter redeeming qualities in a person).

When you look at human history, for most of it, marriages were arranged. Then for the last few centuries, they were arrived at by "love" (aka, raging hormonal passions, and the occasional chemically altered decision making). Now, people are making this match making thing about finding the perfect person. May as well make it about finding a martian for how successful that's likely to be, by anyone who bothers to take a second to look at it.

Humans are messy. Two humans are messier than one. Relationships aren't about perfectly compatible people, they're about learning to work together despite the fact that you're going to have reason to clash on a regular, if not constant basis. And if that prospect is too exhausting, then yea, people should expect to be alone more. If THAT prospect is unacceptable, perhaps consider rebalancing your life to make room for basic human intimacy. There's no such thing as mustering 150% of your available resources.
I was adult years old when I realized all those big walls of gibberish I saw in my youth was intended to be elaborate graphics, but my computer had the wrong charset to show them.
Some form of success, yes. “Full Self-Driving”? No.

The abuse of language is inexcusable and Tesla should be penalized for the lies.
Automotive radars struggle to detect objects which are not moving relative to the ground in the range direction. Such detections must be filtered aggressively to avoid false positives from stationary objects such as metal signs near or above the road.

At the point where it crossed the road the train was moving sideways relative to the car. In the range direction it was close to stationary relative to the ground (and the crossing arm was entirely stationary, of course). So I think radar would be unlikely to save this case. If the radar was looking to the side, so it could see the train cars approaching at high speed and predict that they would enter the road, then maybe. But this seems like it would also potentially have a lot of false positives e.g. at overpasses. Perhaps for that reason, I believe automotive radars like the ones Teslas used to have generally only point toward the front. And if the train had been stopped in the crossing, as they sometimes are, the radar would be unhelpful no matter where it was pointed.
Even if it's c++ to c++, the goal of scripting at the end of the day is quick iteration. What is "quick iteration" for scripting will depend on the scriptor.

This article is clearly targeted at engineers rolling their own engine, so that audience may find it beneficial keep everything in one language if they are already comfortable with it. As long as the core engine doesn't need to re-compile every little change, it's a win.
> I get their probabilistic approach, but I don't see it passing the regulators.

Maybe we whould apply such an approach to the question: `Should Elon Musk be in jail` ?

And, as with FSD, since a single bug can cause death, I think we should roll a thousand time, and throw him in jail should a single 'yes' appear.
Flashing light means you have to stop according to the official rules (at least where I am from). That’s because trains can go much faster than what people think and can hit you out of nowhere.
Ah yeah, I have installed RISC-V with a oneliner in WSL. So it's not too far off on Windows, but I mostly program on Linux these days. You can also build on a Linux VM and share it to Windows, but what kind of iteration loop is that?

I don't know. Perhaps clang-cl could be used on Windows? It depends on how much of a run-time environment one wants.
> Good luck getting the personal phone number of an EU Commissioner. You can't vote for who decides things in the EU. You can vote for MEPs but they don't decide things.

Replace "EU commissioner" with "government minister" and you've just described the UK, where we also don't elect the people who decide things (the cabinet).
Humans can't handle fog or snow either.
Combo washer/dryers are pretty common, especially among families. Our Panasonic works great, electricity cost is negligible. It's a heat-pump model, so it quite efficient and doesn't need venting.
Sometimes you can't even update. I have an iPad that is perfectly fine for browsing. We use it mainly for TV purposes. It doesn't get any updates anymore.

Now, some streaming services do not work anymore, because the website doesn't work. Why? There is no real technical reason for this. For some streaming services I have a collection of the real streaming URL. That still works fine. The problem is not the streaming itself, it's the website to choose the right stream.
AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for Astronomy
Abstract:

This work presents AstroPT, an autoregressive pretrained transformer developed with astronomical use-cases in mind. The AstroPT models presented here have been pretrained on 8.6 million 512 × 512 pixel grz-band galaxy postage stamp observations from the DESI Legacy Survey DR8. We train a selection of foundation models of increasing size from 1 million to 2.1 billion parameters, and find that AstroPT follows a similar saturating log-log scaling law to textual models. We also find that the models' performances on downstream tasks as measured by linear probing improves with model size up to the model parameter saturation point. We believe that collaborative community development paves the best route towards realising an open source `Large Observation Model' -- a model trained on data taken from the observational sciences at the scale seen in natural language processing. To this end, we release the source code, weights, and dataset for AstroPT under the MIT license, and invite potential collaborators to join us in collectively building and researching these models.
They're visible to me all the time, along with the floaters, retinal noise and afterimages from saccades (sure, my visual cortex blocks out the actual moving of the eyes, but my retinas still retain the afterimage from before the saccade, yours does to, if you start paying attention).

When I was a child I started noticing these effects, and I probably concentrated on them more than the other kids, I must have somehow taught my brain not to apply whatever filtering it is that allows many people to simply ignore them.

I spent a lot of time trying to see the darkness and hear the silence, and for this I suppose I was rewarded with a heightened awareness of what's actually coming from my eyes, and the constant hiss from my ears (not tinnitus, that came later and is different) along with the sound of my pulse.
If it's not a joke/excuse as another comment mentioned, it might be connected to how some people sneeze when they are exposed to sunlight. Maybe it started like that for him, and then became associated with taking the hat off enough to trigger it inside as well.
agi achieved in worldsim
I spent a lot of time on those benchmarks. I think my conclusion is just that because WASM isn't a register-machine architecture, you basically have to implement a register allocator to be really fast. wasmtime uses a complex allocator to great success. wasm3 has done it too, but it's just a basic one and it won't be able to compete with GCC or Clang. I could be wrong here, but what else is there? During my testing, it was never in question if libriscv was faster.

I used my usual benchmarks: STREAM (memory) and CoreMark (CPU).
To sample a analog signal in digital you always have to filter it. Otherwise you would a lot of aliasing because of the Nyqst thing.
>“The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe” - There’s no way an LLM is going to get anywhere near understanding this. The true nature of the universe is unlikely to be captured in language.

I disagree. The day is coming when some *BIG* problem is solved by AI just because someone jokingly asks about it.
I had kind of the same path but with GitKraken and Sublime Merge but I kept Sublime Merge around as it ease complex interactions too.

I have only praise for Sublime Merge.
My partner, mocking: “they found heaven!”
Or take the train. Or the bus. It's not self-driving, but you're still not driving.
Motorola's 68000 Series – A History in 10 Computers: 1977-1985
Control Program for Microcomputers
watch the video, a person can easily see the train, gate and lights before they disengage. Also a person would have heard the crossing noises, and the train horn.
Yeah, I can confirm that the iteration speed is fast. I consider the scripting portion a solved problem right now, having used it so long. Gamedev is so many other things though, and practically every corner of the engine has to have convenience functionality in order to reduce the overall workload. It's rough for gamedevs right now, I feel like.
Too bad the photo isn't better, this antique deserves proper documentation.
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I’m not so sure about those lawsuits. With the current system (as the laws are today) there is very little standing against operators who wrongly ban you. You might get lucky and sue them for defamation if they do something outrageous like call you a thief in front of people. But they probably won’t. It is just so much easier to call you asside and trespass you from the store quietly without giving you a reason, or only giving a very general one. And then you don’t have any standing to sue them.

And if we are already proposing new laws to provide standing to sue why would we not also mandate some procedure so people can work out these edge cases among themselves?
I came to a similar realization recently. I wanted a music player I could put in my seven year olds room for calming music and sleep stories. Something basic like the iPod shuffle was what I had in mind, but in 2024 I'd need to buy an iPhone or iPad if I went with Apple. Not having a screen was a key feature. I eventually bought a half dozen $2 iPod shuffle knock-off on eBay (there's several options in this price range). I needed to buy a microSD card separately though. So far they have worked great.
Thanks for sharing your insight, appreciated! Also your final remark.
That’s a workaround at best

I also think this is perhaps the top issue i have with Meets. The current UX does not consider the fact people share screen most of the time. having ability to go full screen to get 1 to 1 scale with some essential floating menus. Even more recent years when remote teams are the new normal.
You need sync to mitigate phase issues because the mics are in different positions on the room.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419760 (flagged for unclear reasons tho)
What I like most, and isn't available in most UIs, is the ease of selecting individual lines you want to commit. Allows you to make very clean isolated commits most of the times.
rye's website is down.
Driving with an error-prone automated system in such conditions while knowing the system already failed once at the exact same spot before is absolutely reckless, in my opinion. Marketing doesn't absolve you from using your brain. I really don't care about Tesla BTW and I don't like their cars either, I just find it weird that one wouldn't see any fault with the driver here...
Gelification of the starches should happen at around 80C (although a bit slower); you can literally turn off the heating after it reached the boiling point, put the lid on the pot, and it will cook (but it should take ~1/2 minutes extra). In what sense is "just above the boiling point" the "ideal temperature"?

But in general... how can the water get "too hot" or "above the boiling point"? It will reach ~100 degrees, that's the boiling point (atmospheric pressure aside) and it will... just stop there? Technically salty water will have a slightly different boiling point, but it's not different enough to matter.
FTC chair: AI models could violate antitrust laws
The emergency braking doesn't even always activate properly btw.
Show HN: I made a gift recommendation app
It uses brainjs and user input to provide choices and then finally a recommendation result.
China made so many solar panels its own grid can't support all the energy
Ask HN: Have you also started recently receiving Signal spam?
For the first time ever I've started receiving spam on Signal over the past couple of weeks. Not floods, but messages here and there which I report and block. Could this be to do with Signal's new username feature,[1] or could it just be that Signal has become mainstream enough that Spammers have invested in it?

Damn spam, Signal used to be a haven from it.

[1] https://www.signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
A car in the back also, if you brake, you very much take the risk of getting hit by the car in the back because these idiots are pushing in your ass :/
i love the textured background , just needs some work-in-progress.gif
Ore Energy unveils battery based on only iron, water and air
The “moral hazard” argument is completely bullshit as usual, there's no moral hazard if there's consequences besides the damage, and it's always the case when doing something illegal (there's a fine, or jail time for instance).

But insurances' business is about finding reasons not to pay, so it's not surprising at all…
I believe it to be more common in the EU to have dangly bits (metal fencing?) that hangs from the barrier to the floor. when the barrier lifts up they 'fold' vertical. This presents a proper barrier (that stops kids, cyclists, pedestrians from getting under the barrier when deployed), the 'struts' are painted red and white so they're very visible.
*can't speak for absolutely everywhere, but my ride to work there are two sets of tracks I pass that have barriers that are designed to stop the stupid. Oh, I guess self-driving vehicles, too, now.
You're right! I actually did try to integrate a compiler, but I quickly realized that it wasn't worth it for me, personally. Iterating on the script is very quick right now. It's mostly a matter of compiler flags and ccache, believe it or not. And I can use mold for linking RISC-V!
> This person knew the system had malfunctioned at the same spot before, yet they choose to enable it again

they roll out new versions regularly, that's a valid excuse to try it again on a new version at "something it failed at previously". Funny how everyone assumes OTA updates will always fix problems, and never create more.
While I got a nice grade in my Computer Graphics intro course back in the day - I have not done any CG since. I have a dumb question:

Why is it better render small cubes, then to render triangles (or polygons)? I mean, a cube is, eventually, 6 squares, or 12 triangles, in a certain formation, right? So is the entire benefit captured by this 1/12 ratio? Or is there a deeper motivation for this pseudo-rasterization?
Very good take. CSS is at a point of complexity now where you can't really blame anyone for not knowing everything you can do with it or every new feature that's been adopted in the last couple years, especially for full-stackers like me. I know a lot, including more than enough to get my job done, and though I will still learn new things now and then (I didn't know container queries existed before this article and now that I do I may use them in the future), I'm not in a hurry to learn every new bleeding-edge feature which are probably just going to cause compatibility issues for some non-insignificant number of my clients' browsers (or my clients' clients' browsers) anyway.

Also, as someone who started doing web dev professionally nearly 20 years ago where if it didn't work in IE 6 then you just couldn't use it at all, I just instinctually don't even bother with new (as in 3-4 years old) CSS or JS features most of the time. It's pretty deeply ingrained in me and I suspect many other devs who were around in that time. That said, 5-year-old CSS and JS specs at this point are pretty damn good and you can do a whole lot of cool stuff with them, so this is not nearly as painful now as it was back then.

Good enough is good enough.
Implausible results in human nutrition research
The end of Computing Science? (2000) [pdf]
Oh lovely, RIAA mingling in among the good guys...

This may well be the only taint on Johansson's case.
Plausible deniability because it works.
As for the fishermen in that boat.. yeah.. totally innocent fishermen, and on that very spot they hit a 'school' of that one fish they were looking for, so they are fishing this 'school' and nothing else sinister going on keep walking (omitting commas on purpose)
RPKI stops jack shit thats why ASPA was invented it just needs to be implemented
I am not pro russian but you've got a point. The amount of hacking attributed, should we believe, to North Korea is beyond belief: we're supposed to to believe that a country which cannot properly Photoshop a picture (to make believe they've got military hoovercrafts!) and where there are still people eating roots, and where they're best computing feat is to change Red Hat Linux's background wallpaper is...

Full of top-notch hacker infiltrating all the western world's infra?

Please. Just fucking please.
> is absolutely reckless, in my opinion

Yeah, also drunk driving, typing on your phone, etc. It’s almost like we can’t just trust our fellow humans, especially not on whether some automated black-box technology that not even its creators can reason about, is safe. That would be the job of governments and regulators.
Well, depending on the wavelength used and the MFP of the scattering elements (rain, fog droplets in this case) they do degrade a bit, but it'd be very unlikely to have a huge effect under 300 m.
The Latest Windows PCs Remember Everything
Different kind of compression than you are probably thinking about.

It's a compression-attached connector, like a CPU socket, instead of an edge connector like DIMM.

CAMM was made necessary because SO-DIMM could no longer support the kind of signaling that next-gen memory needs. CAMM allows both for much cleaner signal paths, and for more signals.

It's coming to desktops too because there is no sensible reason to have a separate desktop memory standard. The split between DIMM and SO-DIMM only exists because SO-DIMM is worse, and DIMM is usable on both servers and desktops. CAMM2 is better than DIMM, and servers have mostly moved to different, incompatible memory types anyway.
IMO the big tools are convinent enough to use. But the rampup time to really understand how the engine ticks is dreadful, because documentation drops off a cliff once you want to do more than animate a few dozen actors in a level (and tbf, sometimes that is indeed enough to ship).

The other half of the problem is asset production time. But no game engine is really solving that problem. As you'll discover in that domain, the art community is a lot more protective of their techniques and pipelines than programming. Even more so if looking for game ready asset production. Same issue, different cause.
you raise a very important point: the tooling around CSS is nothing like we have everywhere else. you can get class completion with Tailwind or CSS Modules (which I prefer), but even basic stuff like CSS Variables or SASS mixins are a black hole
LPCAMM2 takes less actual space on the board than 4 dimm slots, which is what it will be replacing. Mainly because wiring it is simpler and it can be closer to the CPU socket.
Fog (small water droplets suspended in air) is transparent to light but it can reflect it if
the wavelength of light is smaller than the water droplet diameter. Since there are so many droplets it scatters light making lidar useless.

The usual diameter of fog droplets is in the micrometer range, but is highly variable.

So microwave/milimeterwave lidar could theoretically work.
Granted, but what about this would suggest that code or math should necessarily activate the language center?
Header-Only State Machine Library in less than 100 lines of C++
Not even a down payment on the fine?
Aka strict rpf which none of the Tier1 does
This kind of thing has happened repeatedly, but kinda misses the point.

Stalkerware is designed and built as a tool of abuse. The people who create it are looking to profit off that abuse.

More effort should be devoted to prosecuting these bottom-feeders.
That's what trawling is . . . it is completely normally for a trawler to go back and forth like that.
Thanks, I'll check it out, it's a fascinating topic and can probably teach us how we can make AI think (or how it does think).
You must learn the terminology to properly understand it, but after that it's smooth sailing

This promise never held to me. I know the terminology and “how”, but it never got clear in my mind how to express day to day things which aren’t clone/add/commit/push. It’s just bad unmemorable ui that is both cumbersome to use and reason about.

I do have trouble remembering things but not like this with any other tool. For example, with ffmpeg and magick I could make them work without a manual. With git I can only damage things irrepairably.
The sibling comments to this are truthful, we wouldn't be vegetarians but I think we would be eating more vegetables. When I was vegetarian in my youth I visited my grandparents in the country and asked them about killing animals themselves. They did have relationships with their animals and didn't enjoy doing it but its what they did. I think if you ask modern animal farmers today they would say they do not enjoy killing their animals. My ancestors did say that they ate more preserved (salted) meat and vegetables more but they had more meat in later times. The animals they raised were for occasional or special times not daily consumption.

This is reflected by a thousand years or so for most of the West with significant parts the calendar where there was abstinence from meat which for many now people would consider impossible. At most we would be periodic vegetarians, omnivores with the balance towards the vegetarian.
Doesn't matter as a tool of domestic abuse, as the attacker almost certainly has local access to the device concerned.

The howls of outrage when Microsoft announced this are such that they may well have gotten the message on this one. But somebody else lower-profile will have the same bright idea.
I wouldn't recommend Land of Lisp for beginners. It assumes a lot of basic Lisp knowledge and diverges from a lot of convention. If you're just starting out on your Lisp journey I'd recommend Touretzky Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, which the author has a PDF of online for free.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/