skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea where Sudan is. I don't know anyone from Sudan either. It isn't an economically important country either for the rest of the world... as such unfortunately people just don't care.
I'm sure the author would have more details on the ambiguity. Are the walkers marching soldiers? Is the rider a courier who changes to fresh horses at waystations? It's not clear :)
That's just not true. https://wgpu.rs/

I'm literally writing native code running on linux with winit and wgpu right now.
Hi! We either use Yocto recipes for 'regular' embedded (meta-imx and meta-browser are good starting points) but we also apply nxp-specific patches on top of Chromium from Debian and use the usual standard tooling like `sbuild` to run it inside the containers (renting out AWS arm64 instances in this case, because building Chromium requires a metric ton of cores and memory. Cross-building is quite challenging, so I wouldn't recommend that).
It's interesting how we saw the drone combat unit coming years before the invasion of Ukraine. I remember seeing drone police units at protests before the pandemic here in Sweden. So I should have been able to predict that any modern combat would follow suit, but I was still surprised by the revelation of a drone combat unit in the Ukrainian army.
The fact that it managed the flip and landing burn means the fuel tanks (i.e. most of the fuselage) must have suffered no burn-through, despite what happened to the front flap. They've obviously got some redesign needed on the thermal protection around the flap hinges, but broadly, the thermal protection system and aerodynamic control during reentry seem to have worked well enough. It's finally starting to feel like Starship could actually work!
Relay horses
Such exciting updates, opening grant possibilities to the translation services.
> Assuming that scaling up compute is all that's needed seems wildly incorrect to me.

This is literally the strategy that people like Elon Musk are pursuing in their quest for AGI before the end of the decade. It is how he plans to have full self driving solved by August 8 so he can start selling Robotaxi accounts.
This is exactly what I'm referring to in the root comment.

#1) The China claims are straight up lies. I'm a Zionist, I was willing to believe it, then I googled it.

#2) "our human rights abuses aren't relevant because there's others" isn't convincing

#3) the implication that other human rights abuses aren't policed is another google-able lie

#4) we got slapped on the wrist by the world for being an offender, thus we are a victim, is obviously fallacious in a way that is alarming to anyone who isn't prioritizing self-soothing, instead of prioritizing Zionism

#5) the Golan Heights stuff is really rank. It's not about "preventing voting" it's about turning territory that isn't Israel's into Israel's, a huge, massive, problem and violation of international law for many, many, many years
Reposting my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584237 :

> AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

The largest GPT-2 model had 1.5 billion parameters (each a connection weight between two artificial neurons). By some estimates, GPT-4 has on the order of 1 trillion parameters, or around three orders of magnitude (10^3) larger.[a] Another jump of three orders of magnitude would require a model with on the order of 1000 trillion = 1 quadrillion parameters.

It's far from certain that such scaling is possible over the next three years, and also whether existing model architectures, e.g., Transformers, can continue to improve qualitatively at similar rates as in the recent past, because there is some evidence they're hitting diminishing returns. Prominent experts like Yann LeCun think we will need new ideas and breakthroughs, i.e., new kinds of AI models not yet invented, the timing of which cannot be predicted in advance, by definition.[b]

The OP's "forecast" all but ignores these challenges.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4

[b] https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1d5b57b/lecun_...
I don't know that it's true that moving a lot means you work with more people. I'm at my current company 10 years. From being here 10 years I now know tons of people who came here for 2 years and left. Not to mention all the relationships with people still here.
Oh, I like the fake Spaces approach.

I have considered trying that by minimizing windows, but would never get around to it.

Tiling is doomed to sadness on macOS, because of lack of APIs. But this is probably the most performant approach.

Have used yabai, but only for moving windows and focus-follows-mouse. Not for tiling. Because flaky (not yabai’s fault).

Thanks nikitabobko.

Looking forward to trying it as soon as I figure out how to mod alt-tab to ignore all the windows (from every fake workspace) in the corner.

Also, linked in the docs, JankyBorders. Nice.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos
https://github.com/FelixKratz/JankyBorders
Local hosting/processing is a good thought, but it only helps in limited circumstances, because partners you haven't separated from yet are likely to have physical access to your devices.

It's one of the big criticisms of Microsoft Recall: the database is locally generated and encrypted at rest, but practically, any user in the same home with device access can probably access it, and bypass any efforts you've made to delete your browsing history or messages.

Remember that abusers are often controlling and suspicious, so disabling Recall, denying them access to your devices, or changing your passwords is enough to set them off because you appear to be hiding something (maybe making plans to leave or report them).

Plausible deniability can be an important feature for activists and regular people alike. You can't always predict when a relationship goes south like this, or get out of it as soon as it does, or afford and hide a burner phone.

One of my friends remarks (edit) that tech companies should have a social worker and a public defender on staff for threat modeling these things.
So if you buy a fixer upper, one that would be unfit for renting to people. You can't spend your weekends and holidays working on it for a few months to get it into better condition without being called immoral? Sorry that my lack of funds and desire to better myself offends you, but that's a crazy take.
The FDA approves new modalities that do things “in their own way” all of the time!

Yescarta, Kymriah, the mRNA vaccines, the approved VHH, scVF and “mimetics” in the article. Here’s a whole page of cell/gene therapies, many of these were produced “in their own way” or in ways that didn’t exist at all 10 years ago. https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/cellular-gene-t...

Warp speed did accelerate review of COVID vaccines, but it didn’t change trial design nor manufacturing requirements - I’m not sure that supports your argument. I have seen the FDA be quite receptive to innovative trial design - baysean protocols, conditional endpoints, genetic diagnostics in inclusion criteria, etc

If you think there is a whole wave of innovation being held back by the FDA - can you point to examples of drugs it rejected or innovations happening in any other country that should be happening here?

Lots of stem cell “medicine” is happening in Korea where the requirements on cellular medicine are more lax… none of that is translating to effective medicine here afaik.

As you say, biology is hard and messy! And it is the job of the FDA to prevent five 20 year olds in a garage from injecting desperate cancer patients with some hacked together MVP. We’re agreed on that.

But I just don’t see any evidence of a giant pool of untapped innovation at the preclinical level that the FDA is blocking.
For me it feels like they went from an "innovate or die" mindset to a "don't rock the boat and let the money flow" mindset.

For the longest time they chased "thinner, lighter" only to have people complain that the products are too thin and would rather they had more battery. They made a big song and dance about dropping all that, did so for a bit and then went straight back to it with the ipads now. While we're at it, it's worth mentioning Vision Pro which is also fundamentally something no one asked for.

The reality is that their products are no longer built for their users, they're building for the shareholders. Built to make line go up which I think is going to be their slow death.
I swear, big tech runs on the value system of domestic abusers:

* I want to know everything about you and who you talk to (privacy violations)

* I can change deals unilaterally and do whatever I want without your say-so (disrespecting user agency)

* You can't leave me (vendor lock-in)
I still firmly believe a large portion of alzheimer cases are due to candida or other forms of gut dysbiosis, leading to the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier. Candida then enters the brain and the glial cells break down the candida producing amyloid plaques. But the root cause is from the gut.
works, but slow
Is she still alive? I can recommend interviewing her about the past and recording it. There may come a time where you will be glad to have those recordings. Or your children/grandchildren. Also, given the right prompting, you may learn things about her that you have never seen before.
An interesting and sad comparison. Time will show.
Can we stop pissing and moaning about notarization? macOS isn’t Linux and this isn’t 1994. Given the cybersecurity threats of the world today, signing by a central authority makes some amount of sense for apps on consumer OSes.
For what it's worth, I don't think there's a lot of value in these. I hate the MacOS environment as much as anyone, but all the attempts to create tiling managers have resulted in strange unusable quirky behavior.

You're better off just sucking it up and using the native UI until you get sufficiently familiar with it that it rarely gets in your way too much. Meanwhile keep lobbying your employer (assuming that you are being forced into this by your job) to support Linux for development workstations.
My point is device manufacturers will just add Thread radios in their shitty spy devices and they will gain network access via Apple connected devices whether we like it or not.

That's what Amazon Sidewalk was designed to do. Your Alexa devices that already have network access would just gracefully allow other sidewalk devices network access too.
Ah nevermind then, probably just a synonym for emulation.
> Pretty much, why do you think columbus set off? And he didn't even know if he'd actually find anything.

hahahah

Columbus set of because he wanted money, wealth for the crown. not because he was explorer.

Columbus, Vasco Da Gama, Cortez et al were not dreamers but entrepreneurs.

>> Landing and then what you plan a flag and die?

Nobody (within reasonable definition of nobody) wants to go to Everest to die on top. Nobody wants to dive to Marianas trench to get crush to death.

Who would go to Mars without a way back?
it seems like it's back
We need a radical recalibration/rethink of what research is and how it should be done in the 21st century.

There are way too many gatekeepers, far too little creativity and a lot of manufactured noise.
Good answer, the european space program is just a spinoff of the french ICBM program nothing else; it also explains the reluctance of other countries to finance it, like anything approaching the french military industry, because you know french are imperialistic, I known, I'm french \s.
Their other maps are sick too. Is there a term for these types of visualizations, where some data is visualized in a "non-standard" way in the context of the data?
Also when we see a benefit to humans being on another planet, then spend a few missions before sending the mass of robots, prefab materials and equipment so there's habitats ready or nearly ready so we're not confined to whatever we have on one spaceship
No, why would they enforce the rules against themselves?
Das Keyboard Model S Professional Wired Mechanical Keyboard

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008PFDUW2

It was the only mechanical keyboard I could find that fit the following requirements:

* no fancy RGB lights
* full 101+ keyboard - meaning it has a numpad on the right
What was the tool?
100%. I like this way of describing the effect:

A large enough change in scale manifests as a change in kind.

As a topical example, SpaceX is trying to reduce launch costs by 20x with Starship, which just had its 4th test flight this morning. Some don't see the point: there's not nearly enough demand to launch thousands of tons into orbit per year. But 20x is a lot cheaper, so they're banking on induced demand expanding the kinds of projects that send things to space.
I actually thought about including a “non-destructive” qualifier… ;)
The firmware patch is wild. I carefully positioned a sign post so the sign was in my blind spot, and was amazed that I saw the full post clearly without the sign on it, just as if it had been photoshopped out. It is truly crazy how much our brains process the images we see, yet we assume we are looking directly at a representation of reality.
Author here. Yeah, I know. That's why I put it in quotes. Also, I rushed this post out; I didn't intend to see it here.
Hopefully this means all of the sugar alcohols will get taken off the market. Nothing makes for a worse long road trip than accidentally buying a drink that contains that garbage at the beginning.
When I was in Amsterdam it seemed most people had cheap beater bikes for that very reason. If someone had a nicer bike they’d bring it into their flat.
What's the justification for rifling through someone's pockets because they were in a yelling match though? That seems like a 4th amendment violation. Not quite stop-and-frisk, but should any slightly abnormal behavior give justification for a search?

I guess that ship sailed a long time ago given that NYC is still doing stop and frisk, even after it was deemed unconstitutional
Target tried to enter the Canadian market and lost $5.4 billion. Yes it's not a grocer but the idea is similar: Canada is a hard country for foreign companies to enter. The countries is filled with failed foreign entrances: cellular, grocer, clothing brands.
I have been trying this for a few months now. I3 is quite perfect and Aerospace is a nice try, but it’s very far from i3; it’s quite flaky. I guess this is because Mac OS X doesn’t actually allow full control like Unix WMs do?

I have not found anything better though, but I will install Linux when it’s working well on Apple Silicon. Only i3 is at least for me enough reason to use Linux as Mac OS X, again imho, is terrible window manager wise.
This might come off as a surprise to some people but getting good performance with Vulkan (compared to say OpenGL) isn't trivial because:

the Vulkan driver is missing that ~20k loc of code that OpenGL driver does for you to set up the rendering pipelines, render targets etc.

This is all code that already exists in the OpenGL driver and has been optimized for +20 years by the best people in the industry.

So when you start putting together the equivalent functionality that you get out of the box with OpenGL on top of Vulkan doing it the naive way doesn't magically give you good perf, but you gotta put in some more work and then the real problems start stacking up such as making sure that you have all right fences etc synchronization primitives in place and so forth.

So only when you actually know what you're doing and you're capable of executing your rendering with good parallelism and correct synchronization can you start dreaming about the performance benefits of using Vulkan.

So for a hobbyist like myself.. I'm using OpenGL ES3 for the simplicity of it and because it's already good enough for me and I have more pressing things to matter than spend time writing those pesky Vulkan vertex descriptor descriptor descriptors ;-)

Btw this is my engine:

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator
I thought its browser support was pretty bad? https://caniuse.com/webgpu

Firefox and Safari don't support it yet. And how would you even deploy it to Steam (edit: or rather, make a desktop or mobile game with it)? Can you wrap it in a webview?

Doesn't seem mature...
QEMU has a Hypervisor[0] backend these days, called “hvf”.

https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/HVF

[0] “Hypervisor” is a “sibling” to the Virtualization framework. IMHO, the naming is incredibly confusing (:
> Some like `/dev/sda` translating to `b 8:0` are probably going to be consistent between different Linuxes.

This is well documented for Linux https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/devices....

The real issue happes when vendors get a bit too creative and don't plan on upstreaming their drivers.
> fill all available space

Couldn't we have evolved physically larger eyes to accommodate additional "visual apparatus" though?
You can watch the launch - now on replay - on TwiXXer:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
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Show HN: I built a tool to track JavaScript library usage
Do you get a laxative effect or other gastro symptoms? Sorbitol is the reason prune juice is an effective laxative.

Xylitol is usually such a small amount that it doesn't have that effect although some people are more sensitive.
This first acquisition was done pretty quickly.

In fact, I probably looked at 2 dozen of businesses until this one stood out. the founder and I got along super well which made the acquisition process a breeze.
"Don't consume chemical sweeteners" is a pretty good rule of thumb. Almost all of them have been suspected of adverse effects of one sort or another.

Of course sugar has its own issues as well.

These days I use very little additional sweetening in any of my food. It's hard to avoid though, it's added to a lot of foods (check ingredients) and even fruit such as apples and oranges has been bred to be sweeter than it naturally was 100 years ago.

Biggest difference-maker for most people is probably sweetened drinks. Avoid soft drinks (diet or regular), sweetened tea or coffee, sports drinks, and most packaged juices.
This was well after two of the most important televised musical performances of the 20th century, both on the Ed Sullivan Show- Elvis in 1956 and the Beatles in 1964. Of course, Professor Adorno probably wouldn't have regarded either of those as "music".
You can have light boosting binoculars with 1x zoom. Similarly, looking through the viewfinder of an SLR camera will show the light- gathering capability of the lens. The very best light gathering camera lenses (and binoculars) only collect 2 to 4 times more light for a given focal length compared to the human eye. Since our vision is so nonlinear in sensitivity, the 2-4x boost doesn't seem like much. The brightness theorem only says you can't "perceive an object to be brighter than it is at its surface" (my interpretation)
> You don't have to like what the opposition says but you should allow them to speak...

Then we're in a agreement that Musk's arbitrary bans (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-st... / https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...) are bad. I'm glad!
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Or we might be living in a crime free utopia.

Edit: to the repliers-I am merely pointing out that there other possibilities than the dystopian doomer vision. I’m not speculating on probabilities. But, if I lived on the South side of Chicago, I would welcome this.
Coincidentally, this is also the future hyperloop map.
I had the pleasure of seeing Endeavour being brought out on a Crawler-transporter in 2008 from about 300 meters away on the LC 39 Observation Gantry. Its a missed bucket list item that I never got to see one launch. The visitor complex is well worth a visit.
> It's already been researched to death

Poor choice of words in this context :)
Framing the amount of water in the Earth's seas in terms of one of the seas feels a bit circular :D.
This is the 'more awesome' side of the world we need a lot more of.
Intrepid Four – Vietnam War
Its almost like insane levels of immigration will increase demand for goods
It takes some bureaucracy but if there is no other way of course you can get permission.
"Hit underscore to launch rockets, hit minus to exit"

On my keyboard, the symbol for underscore looks just the same as the symbol for minus. No idea which is underscore and which is minus.
I found it interesting that in the comparison of the largest grocery stores in the three countries (US, UK, and Canada), UK's Tesco beat out not only Canada's Loblaw, but US' Walmart as well. I know food isn't the only factor in cost of living, but typically the UK is presented as having a much higher COL than either the US or Canada, but not at least in this case.
"real" here can be shorthand for "popularly recognized", e.g. "pretty much everyone recognizes it as a useful vocation and has a general idea what it involves".

It's not to say you couldn't get paid to do it in 1955. But if in 1955 you told someone at the hair salon or the bar that you were a "programmer", you would get funny looks ≈ 100% of the time.
Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber
I have a life rule: never install Windows and Linux on the same physical drive, if you value your time.

Sooner or later, some update or random act of god will break things and you’ll waste a bunch of time putting things back together.
Dark Matter: observational, experimental and theoretical results
- Skellig Michael: monastery, circa 6th century

- St Michael's Mount: monastery, 9th century

- Mont Saint-Michel: monastery & sanctuary, 708

- Sacra di San Michele: monastery, circa 983-987

- San Michele Arcangelo: sanctuary, 490 (St. Michael, supposedly did appear here)

- Taxiarchi Michail: monastery, 18th century (the younger one)

- Stella Maris: monastery, 1185 for the latin monastery (but in fact 15th century BCE as part of Mount Carmel)

So, none of them are a proper cathedrals but monasteries and sanctuaries. With San Michele Arcangelo & Mont Saint-Michel the only two important ones as pilgrimage destinations.

For a partial map of St. Michael churches or alike see:
https://www.reseausaintmichel.eu/carte-des-sites/

The "line" could easily be "broken", if we add for example, the Castel Sant'Angelo in Roma (Mausoleum of Hadrian) or Saint-Michel de Cuxà. Both are far more prestigious than... Skellig Michael than nobody would know about if if was not on this "line".
Thank you for the compliment. I was not feeling very happy today, and that helped.
I implemented a bit of a STM32 and it was a chore and a half. I've noticed 2 things with the code base:
1. It's C but they really want C++. Qemu wrote their own class system, foreach loops, containers, etc. And because of that, when I tried to use actual cpp, compilation failed due to how many reserved keywords were used in headers and other mess.
2. As noted in other comments, copy paste and modify. It got me where I need to go. But it was a slog. Eventually I had gdb debugging my qemu build, and gdb debugging the program I was running. I could even connect in from the STM32 IDE which was nice
Of course not, I think misguided policies like the one we’re talking about lead to higher rental prices
Wait, is that the same as using WebGPU? It says outside of browsers it uses opengl and vulkan and directx.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
https://archive.is/0EdDh
The Stasi in Cold War East Germany reportedly had 1 informant for every 6.5 people, or 15% of the population informing on their neighbors. That's the kind of scale that is needed for total analogue surveillance.
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Because we're being gouged