skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still kind of an absurdist comedy that no one wants to pay for expert opinions, but they _do_ want to pay for a realistic-sounding, 80% correct version of an expert opinion.
They’re even less capable. Lots of basic consumer software, like email and word processors is less functional than the corresponding applications 25 years ago.
What do you mean they just ripped a chunk out of bakersfield a couple years ago for a highway? Also its easy to say no new highways when you take a random dirt road probably laid by the spanish out in the countryside, call it a state highway already, then then turn it into a six lane cement dragon while saying “see we didn't build a new billion dollar highway”.
> There is absolutely ZERO reason why a modern operating system or some rudimentary site with 10K users should not be blazing fast.

This just isn’t true: optimizing for speed is always a trade-off and, when an application is fast enough, it can be wasteful to focus on speed rather than other factors
I replied to a sibling with a few of my ad-hoc tasks.

I’d likewise be grateful if you’d lend me an example or two that should be on my little ad-hoc task set.
You can stuff that in your pipe and smoke it!
back in 2022 Twitter was Twitter and "X something something" had a very different expectation of meaning, by default

thanks Elon
Well, trees have roots in competing norse mythologies. And dictionaries might be seen as elitist in societies with high illiteracy rates.
That's really interesting to me. I've been using both through my Kagi subscription, but I always find myself favoring the quality of Opus. I generally use GPT 4o if I don't want to wait for a slow response from Opus, and I use Opus when I want the highest quality.
There are a many ways how to recover a signal from the noise. This means that the sidechannel from the string comparison looks irrelevant, but given enough samples there is an information in that. And well, somehow getting rid of the noise is the idea behind essentially any side-channel attack.

For context: the GPS signal that your phone fixes to is something like -120dB under the noise floor, there is a way to recover that.
Interestingly I was just watching talk from Nick Lane, presented at the Royal Institution about mitochondria and respiration. What is amazing to me is that respiration isn’t just burning glucose to make ATP, it also makes many other essential building blocks needed for health cells.

https://youtu.be/vBiIDwBOqQA
Why is it that modern commentators don't read history?

If the Stalingrad disaster (for both the Wehrmacht and the Soviets) teaches us anything, it's that urban warfare is a no-win campaign.

The main lessons of that Stalingrad battle are twofold:

a) Urban warfare is very high-cost in terms of forces required and is extremely attritional.

b) NEVER bomb a city that you plan on capturing. It only gives the defenders lots of cover and you can't move your armour around easily.

Note that the Russians have only used small forces in the Kharkiv 'battle' so far. That signifies that they do not intend to take Kharkiv because they can't take Kharkiv with forces as small as that. So the 'strategic failure' is a non-starter.

On the other hand, those smaller forces can definitely pin down Ukrainian forces that could be more useful on the front-lines elsewhwere. And that's a 'tactical win' for the Russians.

Not in the Ukraine, but lesson (b) above shows that Israeli/Western armies haven't been paying attention. The Israelis have bombed Gaza to rubble and then sent in the men on the ground. So the Hamas men repeated what happened in Stalingrad, they let the Israeli men and tanks in, then ambush them from damaged buildings.

The bomb-rubble means the Israeli tanks are forced into narrow 'killing zones' where they get picked off by Hamas men firing from behind broken walls. Countless Hamas videos show this in a grim repeat of the Soviets ambushing Wehrmacht tanks.
The gap between Java and [C++,Rust,Obj-C,Zig?,D?] is approximately equivalent to 5-8 years of CPU hardware improvements these days.

Software engineer time is still often the primary cost metric, but Java didn't ever get actually fast - things like constant pointer chasing and poor cache utilization still hurt it significantly in "regular" code. So, too, does the complete lack of compile time optimizations and limited JIT thoroughness & comprehensiveness.
I think at this point if it hadn't been invented yet and someone desantis didn't like invented fire he'd ban it.
I meant that the music that's publicized today is the music that's made today. So if even with this handicap, older music is as popular as the new, one explanation could be that it was intrinsically catchier.

The graphic that I saw:

https://x.com/antonello/status/1781197022910947492

To be clear: I'm not arguing that it was better, just more memorable, uplifting or touching. Actually, in ye olden times, "commercial music" was a synonym of bad and "quality music" was expected to be minoritary.
If there's just a measurable delay then it's usually tolerable. I _hate_ when the broken JS causing that delay also skips characters if you type too fast, has a setting to wipe the form "on-load" (after you've half filled it out because the site is too slow), or otherwise mangles legitimate text input.
A lot is complete already like over 100 stations. Only got started about 30 years ago too so they are building at light speed compared to the rest of the country.
I think some of us see the past through distorted lenses.

Anything, from booting the computer to any random application is much faster in my Win 11 than on my old Win 2000 (with good hardware for the time).

I still remember the hourglass on the icon when opening so many applications (let alone together..).
Not an exec, just on the board, which isn't the same
The first photo of the activists gathered shows not one but two of them scrolling on their phones during their meeting -- phones powered by data centers.

Seems ironic.

I don't mean to imply their cause may not be righteous just because of this -- it's OK to feel the internet is nice, but that it's OK for it to a bit slow, as it would be if the nearest DC is far away. Just pointing out that by their own behavior they at least admit they consider this infrastructure to have public utility, and now the argument is merely about details of whose backyard it should be in
The entire network so far is only about 30 years old
Why was he on the board in the first place?
Things were pretty slow in the Windows 95 era too. It’s easy to look back on that era with rose tinted glasses but even back then people were constantly moaning that software bloat outpaced computer specifications.

After more than 3 decades of writing software, I can confidently say that computer specifications are a lot like a persons house or flat. The more space you have, the more ways you find to fill that space. And the less space you have, the more ways you find to optimise for that space.
kindle app? amazon has read.amazon.com for the Lienix
Can you lead me to some background on this? I'd love to look at some of the routes and law behind it.
On the other hand, in a world of slightly non-responsive software, something that does respond instantly has a subconscious psychological impact on us and builds affinity.
Care and use of hand tools, pliers, and screwdrivers – WW2 training film [video]
The first image shows a rook traveling a path different from the one shown in the arrows though? Why would the definition of forward be different for a pawn vs rook?
Buses and trains are more space efficient than cars because

1. People can stand in them, increasing vehicle density and

2. A smaller proportion of the vehicle is dedicated to the engine, fuel tank, etc.

There’s also bicycles, e-bikes and such which have higher density as well. Most American trips are not actually that far.
People complaining about Rust evangelism is about as much of a trope as the Rust evangelism.

Though I would rather spend my days listening to people talk about what they love rather than what they hate, so your response is more tiresome than the person you're replying to.
Judging by the above it's 1 out of 9 - not a great rate.
no, it won't. you need js
It’s likewise my experience that on e.g. TTFT is higher on Anthropic’s API.

But it’s not by a ton, and it could be just less hyper-scale network infrastructure.

I don’t recall what Anthropic has raised but IIRC it wasn’t “peer with everyone” levels.
Humanity is driving itself into the ground in a wheel of greed and ignorance.

The core value humanity needs right now is a significant change in culture where opposition to normalization and mainstream is promoted, and nonsense is actively fought against.

Even Hackernews is slighly more mainstream than I would prefer with wordy nonsensical articles constantly showing up.

And I don't know what to do about it, nobody does. All the good content is extremely hard to find. It took me years to realize the Indie Web existed and even it is slightly tilted to the mainstream.

Humans just don't care about the stuff that matters. It was all figured out many years ago, but is now burried behind mountains of "innovations."
weee wooo weee wooo here comes the tone police!

(if only real cops could get that kind of response time/clearance rate!)

like that’s just a shitty argument yourself, you lost the argument on the facts so you’re complaining about how the presentation. Lazy argumentation, it’s a way to attack the messenger(‘s presentation) instead of addressing the argument.

It’s the highbrow version of “minor spelling mistake!!!!”.
In what way are magnetic patterns unsubstantial? You can read information from them, which is really what we’re trying to do here, isn’t it?

Is the goal to have it be readable to the naked, nominally working human eye? If so then I’d wager you could use magnetic paper as storage if you were a particularly persistent driver developer.
This is the shortest, clearest explanation I've yet seen of object safety. Thanks.
The definitions of these terms are certainly not fixed or universally agreed-upon, but on the spectrum from VR to MR to AR, the Vision Pro is definitely not at the AR end of things, and is very much not the class of device that the term "AR glasses" refers to.

The problems that "AR glasses" have with operating outside in full daylight are inherent to a class of devices that does not include the Vision Pro. To the extent that the Vision Pro works better outdoors than whatever "AR glasses" OP had in mind, it's because the Vision Pro is a fundamentally different kind of device with wildly different tradeoffs and design goals.
>> Does no one remember why expert systems fell apart?

There were many reasons. One of them was the "Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck", but that was not about the cost of paying experts, rather the cost of creating and maintaining a potentially very large knowledge base (i.e. one big mother of a database of production rules). Also, the fact that many experts' knowledge is tacit and not easily formalisable.

Modern machine learning began in the 1980's as an effort to overcome the Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck. Accordingly many early machine learning approaches were designed to learn production rules for expert systems. Decision trees, one of the staple classifiers in data science, come from that era; you can tell, because decision trees are a symbolic, logic-based "model".

There were other problems with expert systems, e.g. their infamous "brittleness". But modern, statistical machine learning systems, are also criticised for "brittleness" too.

There were also purely political reasons and nothing to do with science or technology considerations. Then there was the 5th Generation Computer Project, and the AI winter, and then there were no more expert systems.

The journal of Expert Systems with Applications is still alive and well, on the other hand, although it mostly publishes on machine learning and neural nets these days. With an occasionally cool article, like one about Wolf Colony Optimisation I spotted recently. Too tired to look for links now, sorry.
guys im interested in developing for Apple Vision Pro, what are some gotchas, are you seeing success, what have you put on the store?
Landing a Job Is All About Who You Know (Again)
As far as passthrough permissions, I don't think either platform lets you near the feed. Vision OS has their nonimmersive 3d widget mode which goes further and only gives you input when your widget is being interacted with. I assume Meta will go a similar route there.