skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, not in a way that you don't already accept for general relativity and quantum mechanics, and not for any metaphysical reasons.

But did you know that GR predicts we can build a sub light star drive that shields passengers from acceleration, just by using laser beams to hold together a Jupiter sized shell of matter. The matter shell could be accelerated at 100 Gs by massive star scaled lasers. But so long as it respects certain warp equations and energy conditions, the passengers would feel no acceleration.

That's possible with just physical matter, but GR also predicts negative energy. That allows us to theoretically build things like portals to far away portions of space, just by spinning a ring of matter and zapping it with negative energy.

The weird possibilities only seem to multiply if you add quantum states to the mix, and the potential for a larger quantum universe. Think of that a giving us many extra toe holds into the kind of spacetime fuckery that GM enables. Plus new kinds, like the idea that different realities or nonlocal regions of space could share quantum variables and allow universal travel and communication that way. Which is just amazing , and also terrifying because of the possibility of encountering very strange and dangerous places!

The strange part is not that there is some outer spacetime view where things are static and crystalline. It's that the bulk crystalline structure seems weirdly malleable and reconfigurable by subjective agents, and likely inhabited by other minds that live in portions of that crystal that are alien, and maybe even fundamentally dangerous to us. That makes these hyper determinist models a real mind trip! Okay, the structure is determined. But why is it determined in such a way that it causes such weird and disruptive potential experiences for subjective beings? And how would we cope if the structure let us build hyper technologies to, eg, contact aliens, travel to other universes, or change the laws of space and time?
Not since python 2.5 if I recall correctly. Python has had unlimited size integers for a long time now.
A purpose of a religious text is to control people. They do that through well-known ways. It says “blah-blah, but look at this fallacy you aren’t aware of, so believe in god”, at different zoom levels. Every one of these is trivially deconstructible cause their main target was uneducated masses which had no scrutiny. Those who had it were religiously “educated” and accounted for. Religions that didn’t do that didn’t survive. That’s the framework of understanding. This thing wasn’t written by “god”, it’s a work of a few scammers, sadly the biggest in our history.
> The de facto standard API for games on computers, DirectX, will never receive a port.

Apple did just that with the Game Porting Toolkit.

> If you think Vulkan support for games is insignificant, look at Metal support.

Pretty much all iOS games run on top of Metal.
It's assumed the input is an int. If not you can do len(str(int(x))) to make sure it is which strips leading zeroes off in the process.
I believe https://xkcd.com/538/ is the comic you're looking for.
Even if you're not in it, the house is full of your possessions. I'm not seeing how this is comparable to properties that have been actually empty for decades.
If it is broke, and you can't fix it, then it's a loaded footgun and should be removed.
What you have described is, in fact, a mode of perpetuating ideology. If what you awere saying were accurate, it would absolve all capitalistic endeavors of reinforcing ideology, even the essential ideology of capitalism inherent in those endeavors.

That’s not how this works. “The medium is the message,” as Marshall McLuhan would say.

A woman may never consider buying power tools because of the imagery of the propaganda surrounding power tools. Or the salesman may undermine, intimidate, or otherwise obstruct her attempts to purchase one. But regardless your point falls apart because the ideology of capitalism underlying the power tools on the shelf subsumes the ideology of the advertising.

That subsumption, however, does not in any way contraindicate those ideologies present in the advertisement’s framing. It only demonstrates that money is more important than the other ideologies being peddled.
Apple rejected v2 of my app for blind sailors as "Spam"
I develop an app called VISCompass (https://github.com/mattclarkdotnet/viscompass2) - it's a very niche item designed to help visually impaired people sail boats. It's used by a small but keen community, and they've ben helping develop a new version for the past year.

So today I submit that new version to the App Store and it gets rejected as spam! I literally have 2 apps, the previous version and this version. The new version is a new app because we don't want to force any updates on people - visually impaired users really hate forced updates as voice navigation relies a lot on memory.

obviously I've appealed, but the level of care shown by Apple here is pitiful. It's a free app with no in-app sales, there's nothing in it for me, it's all for the benefit of the disabled community and... "Spam".
Consider the worst case scenario and that, without regulations, it would be EVEN worse.
> Most people don't do anything worth privacy protecting.

Except for people whose employer does not approve of their politics, or whose family does not approve of their religion, or whose community does not approve of their sexuality, or whistleblowers, or journalists, or people who support causes the government disapproves of, or........

That covers an awful lot of people.

Pretty much anyone living in, or with any links to anyone living in an authoritarian state too.
The problem is we don't know how many of those other lines of evidence are also fraudulent.

What we do know is that finding academic fraud is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's way too easy even for totally unfunded volunteers. The situation in science right now is reminiscent of the situation in computer security circa 1999. Back then there were so many easily exploited RCE vulns in foundational infrastructure that "hacked by teenagers" became a TV trope. Almost anyone could sit down and find a way to hack into a network without much effort. Vendors engaged in a lot of screaming and denial, sometimes even attacking the people who found exploits for them.

But, the industry changed. White hats became widespread, companies hired those ex-teenage hackers in their thousands. They put every employee through trainings. Then when that wasn't enough they started paying out millions in bug bounties, buying sandboxing companies (like Google did for Chrome) and more. Companies did this because bad security was hurting their reputations and in a competitive market that is an exploitable weakness. It was a form of self defense.

Academic science is excluded from market mechanisms by legal fiat, supposedly on the basis that this will yield better research outcomes. What it's actually done is shield universities from any need to make hard changes. Their reputation is tanking but they just don't seem to care and why should they? They'll get grants from the NIH anyway because they're all as bad as each other, and nobody in politics is talking about a total defunding of the sector yet.

Unfortunately even if the grants were cut off tomorrow they probably would still find it hard to change. It's becoming apparent that if a culture tolerates fraud for decades then eventually the leadership of these institutions are people who got there through fraud. How are universities or journals going to reform when the people who run them know full well they can't crack down on fraud without exposing their own career to audit risk?
The input "01" fails all the other solutions as well. You can't divide or take the log of a string.
Maybe it's not about the things we have, but about the hope we have. You run away, you change, you survive things because you have hope in a better future. You even work to make a better future for your kids. You have hope. What hope have those people today?
While I agree with the general sentiment, I think the problem in this specific case is lack of job security in the US. In most European countries getting fired for something like this would never fly.
Related discussion on Reddit[0].

0. https://old.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1d936eb/presumably_t...
People attribute great leadership to Satya, but to me it seems to be about be willing to fight with regulators, and funnily enough the regulators haven't been working so much recently.

Just have a look at the size that Google, Microsoft, Meta others have got, not because they have a outstanding product (like Cuda), but because they can use their dominant market position to buy smaller businesses and monetize their products as part of a bundle (Whatsapp, Activision Blizzard acquisition and the list goes on). Or just build a new product and shove it to their customers, like with MS Teams/Threads.

The US government seems to have actually aided those US companies to keep doing their monopolist practices, with many other countries around the world fighting against them alone, like Europe.

The situation is so bad right now, that Europe itself is now distancing itself from US to potentially also fight even harder against those companies, which bring barely any jobs to Europe, but have market share in the 90s and beyond.

I'm pretty certain that companies in Europe could build its own Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, their own android fork etc. They don't do it because for a long time Europe has been a US pseudo-vassal.
I think we're very far removed from the context behind the safety reasoning with GPT2. An uncensored model capable of spewing a torrent of deceptive and completely believable information was quite unheard of at the time. It would be problematic for such a technology to be released out of nowhere.

The later iterations are heavily censored so the public was provided a bit of a transition period before things got too chaotic.

I'm sure there were many other reasons the authors themselves weren't aware of at the time such as the inundation of AI content skewing further training quality.

Of course this is a roundabout explanation, there's always more detail that can be added and I'd rather be objective. There's always a financial motive for companies too so take that into consideration. The hype definitely played into their marketing.
str(x) converts the argument to a string. Since the argument is an integer, there won't be any leading zeroes. More problematic are negative values though.
That's why this scheme requires land tax, not property tax.
No, Russia certainly did not "had a military-industrial complex, in the modern sense of the word" back then because back then, labour was not a commodity (that's the main innovation of the capitalism, after all). The Demidovs' manufakturs in the Ural mountains were using state-provided serfs as the workers. Industrialization, in the modern sense of the world, hasn't happen in Russia until the very late of the XIX century.
I remember reading a sci-fi story - kind of an echo of ender’s fame - where that was the precise setting, smart kids being raised to compete against other nations in what were essentially hyper-realistic RTS games as a proxy for actual wars. I don’t remember if it had the same twist as ender’s game, but maybe it did? Man I should try to dig that up again.
https://archive.ph/cQzaB
As far as I‘m aware, Time Machine is a local backup which means the data never even reaches Apple‘s servers.

Additionally, you can and should encrypt your data which Apple allows to do using FileVault.

Again, the encryption key never even reaches Apple‘s servers except if you use the iCloud Keychain. And even if you do and you store your key there, Apple wouldn’t have the key for your iCloud Keychain and thus couldn’t do anything with that data.
It wasn't really used. It'll likely re-appear in a future release in a better state if people want it. Bevy is still pre-1.0.
The initial state is enough. There are numerous algorithms to solve a cube from any state.
No. They've definitely been rolling out silent releases and in-between releases since GPT4.
Unfortunately those keypads aren't ADA compliant, since blind people can't use them.
MiniZinc is a high-level CP language and tool chain, not a solver. Google has been developing their suite of OR tools for 15+ years, it's not like they built something from scratch just for this
I know we would have to change a lot from how it is set up today, but here are some ideas:

- How many times has the results been reproduced by others?
- Add another layer of blindness: the person doing the lab work is not the person crunching the results. It could even be where two different groups crunch the numbers, and all groups are unknown to the others.
- Avoid p hacking with pre determined (and registered!) p values
- Register the experiment with hypothesis before the start of the experiment
- Register authors as they are added and removed, and have that history be publicly available
- All results have to be uploaded to a website before publication
- The method of calculation has to be public on a website before publication.

So a high quality paper is one where
- the experiment was logged in advance
- the history of authors is known
- there is a distinct separation of experimenter and cruncher
- the public can get the results themselves and run the same analysis to confirm (or not!) the results
- the experiment is repeated and confirmed by others. Even if the first experiment is bad or a fraud, and the second one doesn’t confirm it, a third experiment could be the tie breaker. It would be more traceable to understand if it was the lab or the cruncher that made a mistake or was committing fraud.

Overall, we have to incentivize good science.
Are you arguing that Alzheimer's research isn't basic research? That it's got so much fraud because people demand immediate practical value from it? How does that square with the fact that they've been researching it for decades, haven't found a cure or even a solid understanding of the cause, and still get funded? Surely this is an exemplar of basic research?
The real trick is the world being a better place.
That might be what you would do but I think the man is a shit and I only mention his achievements out of duty to try to be fair. If I wasn't interested in being fair I'd just say I don't care what he has done - he has been paid well for whatever it is and doesn't need any admiration from anyone.
And that applies to a rental property that is the renters only home but the landlords 200th property?
That's really my beef with languages like Python - typing is an afterthought. I literally get more safety from C than I do from Python:

def numDigits(num):
return len(str(num))

print (numDigits(1)) # Returns the correct answer
print (numDigits("1")) # Returns the correct answer
print (numDigits("01")) # Returns the incorrect answer

The "returns the wrong answer" is the problem. If the input is the wrong type, I expect there to be an error raised, not silently give me wrong answers.
Is spirit of the law ever a concern in the USA? I’m asking because it is in the EU and every US company seem to struggle with the concept if I am to judge by how they engage GDPR, DMA and similar regulations in the EU.
I am confused, how is this impressive? Isn't the premise of computers (software and hardware) to be faster than humans?
We have have known and used them for decades because they are faster?
It's a neat party trick but... What am I missing?
There's a CVE table in that article and they seem to have CVEs from a microarchitecture implementing openRISC (entirely different ISA) mixed in there somehow.
If it's completely open, local, and trustworthy, I would definitely use it as a database of my activities. To query for and find something you didn't bother saving, for example, or combine it with RAG would be incredible. Since it's screenshotting everything - passwords, sensitive information, etc. - it can in practice never be trustworthy, though.
>it's so easy to forget that you are a part of a larger whole and there is more life on Earth besides human.

Humans actually utilize quite a big chunk of the biomass.
https://github.com/chaitin/SafeLine
Link to the cited free Coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/self-determination-theory
Nope, people can definitely glance at the initial state, then solve it blindfolded, with the quickness. There are a ton of possible combinations of colours, but they always boil down to far less ‘moves’ to solve than you might guess.
My understanding is that the Recall database is basically a plaintext local sqlite DB, and the only security measure is that it is stored in a folder for which you need admin rights to access?

If so, how is that excusable for a company like Microsoft? I'd say even a weekend hackathon project would implement more security than that?
> Oh the collapse of frontiers, that Fearful catastrophic event of our time

Our current history will be defined in future history books by multiple frontier collapses and border conflicts for sure. Is happening right now.
Private mode has very little impact on what you share with the world/through the network. It's there to keep your browsing private from people you live with etc., not from anyone else.
Problematic in the real world meat space to say the least.

Assuming Alice indeed has that many brothers and sisters (possible) it's highly unlikely they all have the same pair of unique parents.

The Set {} of siblings that share at least one parent with Alice (the siblings of Alice) can easily include one brother of Alice (same father, different mother) who doesn't share a common parent with any other sibling of Alice.
The best leads we have are faked images?

I get that it is complicated but fraud in one area (images) makes the hard data extremely suspect.
By that heuristic, only astronauts should be making space suits?
Compare https://gwern.net/gan
> Metal was released in June 2014[0], and Vulkan development started a month later, in July 2014[1].
>
> You can interpret that in a few different ways

There are no two interpretations. Metal was released before Khronos even had their "kick off meeting". The official introduction of Khronos didn't happen until 2015. Vulkan 1.0 was released in 2016.

Prior to 2014 there was no Vulkan, and no idea of Vulkan. Sevral companies (AMD among them) tried to peddle their own proprietary APIs as a potential future direction after OpenGL.

And yes, Khronos scrambled to have a modern API after both Microsoft and Apple ended up having one.

> Yes, it took a further two years for any kind of reasonable Vulkan support to be out there

No. It took two more years to just release version 1. And even in 2024 it's somewhat laughable to talk about "reasonable Vulkan support" when the major gaming platforms (Windows, Xbox, Playstation) don't support it (Windows supports DX natively, and Vulkan support is left to the whims of GPU vendors). The actual support for Vulkan is declining: https://carette.xyz/posts/state_of_vulkan_2024/

> I think it's a bit disingenuous to say Apple was a trailblazer with absolutely no peer here.

The trailblazer was Microsoft. What is disingenuous is to pretend that Vulkan was anywhere at the forefront or that Apple had to pay any attention to it, or that Apple is somehow in the wrong for not supporting it.

> Hell, at this point, Vulkan might have seen more general adoption than Metal has.

Of course it doesn't. Because iOS exists, supports Metal, and is a major gaming platform
Pretty much all ICs these days have builtin ESD protection which usually involves current steering diodes to supply rails.

So if you limit the input current (typically <5mA, and assuming the steered-to rail uses at least 5mA to sink it) it will survive any voltage.
(Of course if it's a low power design or the device is off this wont work that well, then you want external clamping)

I have tested 24V AC applied to an stm32f0 pin with a 10K series resistor and it survives that indefinitetly.
No language fits all use cases no matter how much you want it to be true. I'm a fan of Rust and the trend to rewrite things in Rust because usually you get something much faster, safer, and something that reflects current needs (helix, ripgrep, fd, yazi, zoxide, ...) bla bla but if you want Bevy's level of dynamicness (is that a word?), Rust might not be the language to use.
Hi, this is great as I wanted some fixed palettes for some cartoon image processing in a test project, and wasn't aware of those pastel palettes but there is a little room for improvement on the colour distance algorithm used in quantisation.

The algorithm you've used is a Euclidean sum of components https://github.com/Schrodinger-Hat/ImageGoNord-pip/blob/mast...
You may (human perception!) find better colour accuracy in using the Compuphase algorithm https://www.compuphase.com/cmetric.htm or possibly a luminance or other cielab approach.

The implementation of the former is not much more difficult, e.g. see the C version breakout box on that link, but you should find (at least for my projects where I've used it) colour quantisation is (subjectively!) substantially better.
Googler here, but not working anywhere related to optimization problems.

Google developed its solver a while ago [1] and it has been open sourced more recently. Additionally, it is also a supported solver for Minizinc [2] so you can use it with a well known tool/syntax without having to rely on the python/C++ libraries. However, those give you access to some of the solvers specific features that can help you speed up solving time.

[1] https://developers.google.com/optimization/
[2] https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.4.3/en/solvers.html#or-tools
Building algorithmic trading models. Because the reflexivity of the markets.
I don't think that's the proper interpretation. It isn't so much that you have to make everything you use, but rather, what you do make you should use.
We're talking about a 3 trillion market cap here. If it makes every academic in the world 50% more effective, that's still like nothing, and it still doesn't answer the question: where will the money come from?

A $20/month subscription to ChatGPT will fuel trillions of dollars of new value? Is every household going to start spending 1000s of dollars per year on AI like they do on Apple products? Laying off a few hundred thousand call center workers in India?
> The input "01" fails all the other solutions as well. You can't divide or take the log of a string.

The other solutions fail differently - they generates an error and stop processing.

The `len(str())` failure doesn't generate an error, and doesn't stop processing, it simply returns the wrong answer.

So, the `len` approach is wrong, the other approaches are right.
tbf, it's a constraint optimization problem
No, I acknowledge that some interference by Russia and other countries is likely but not clear, since no clear evidence has ever been publicly offered. The only public evidence of clear, systemic, long-standing and ongoing interference we have is that of Israel.
wont argue with that, but maybe he would be more comitted if he wasnt robbed?
Huh? This must have been in equity, right, given that the bands were consistent for everyone when I was there. I find it hard to believe that they changed that.
When companies can get away with it (read: they abide by all laws) why would they not? It is cheaper and money is prime directive number one. Do you actually think companies make money and have a finely tuned moral compass at the same time?

I made the parent comment exactly for this discussion. Do not assume corporations have a moral compass. They do not care and will outsource each and everything if that is cheaper than handling stuff themselves.Why is it chaeaper to pay some people to get the law on your side than actually start doing normal human moral behaviour? Why can they actually outsource responsibility at all? Strange planet we live on.