skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the sea floor plates that are being created in the mid ocean ridges cool the magnetic orientation is recorded in the alignment of particles in the newly frozen rock.

We can see alternating bands of polarity in the rock that show what the orientation was over geological time. The bands that spread outward from the ridges are separated by millions of years and provide a clear picture of sea floor spreading, and continental drift.
like bird tweets and cuckoo koo's
So what is the alternative to park your money?
Rubles, Yuan, Rupees.....?
So don't invade and annex your neighbors if you want your assets to be safe. Quite frankly I am not sure if that is a net positive or negative in the long run.
I don't have a deep dive, but I can confirm youtube has made things worse. I came across a copy of 『the TV show』 that I downloaded in 2009. 720p, H.264, 2460kbps. Looking again a couple weeks ago, it was 720p, VP9, 1300kbps. VP9 is more efficient but at half the bitrate it looks much worse.

Poking more, there's an AV1 version that's a little less bad at about the same bitrate, but it's still significantly worse than the old encode. There's also a new version of H.264 that's 2/3 the size of the old one. It's about as bad as the VP9 version but the artifacts focus on different parts of the image.

You'd think after 15 years of storage prices dropping, bandwidth prices cratering, and screens getting bigger, youtube might decide to maintain bitrates and let new codecs increase the quality of videos. Or split the difference between quality and savings. But nah, worse.
Just to share a perspective. Doing business in Japan often requires a certain level of trust. Showing that you (the presenter) have something to count on is thus important.
With Windows 8, Microsoft thought that tablets and touchscreens were the future, and Metro was designed for those. Tablets being the future of computing meant they made the new experience the default. Turns out keyboards and mice are still vastly more popular a decade later.
Rain in the city means snow in the mountains
"It's only a matter of time" means nothing. It was only a matter of time in Cesar's age before we got supercomputers and planes.

Tesla is near the bottom of the pack on self-driving tech, with no real hopes of going beyond the level 2 self-driving of FSD, which is objectively worse than just driving yourself. There are already multiple companies with either actual self-driving fleets (e.g. Waymo) or limited use cases of full autonomy with company liability (Mercedes), and many others with working prototypes for one or the other, or even beyond.

Tesla is living in their marketing bubble of "FSD robotaxis next year now", where they have been living since 2018 or earlier, while the rest of the pack barely even sees them in the rear view mirror.
I'm not sure what you mean here? The presence of the world's biggest collection of novel sarbecoviruses in Wuhan doesn't decrease P(Wuhan|natural), but it does increase P(Wuhan|research-related). So it absolutely should change your estimate of P(research-related|Wuhan) in the obvious way, unless your prior for a research-related pandemic is zero. I don't see how that prior could be zero, since the 1977 flu pandemic already killed ~700k people and is uncontroversially accepted to be of research-related origin.

The arguments today are much more sophisticated, though. The debate that you linked relied heavily on Pekar's "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2". It took those conclusions at face value, apparently since nobody on the other side had the mathematical skills to go deeper.

But not only is their fundamental approach questionable (why would you trust a model that complex with no opportunity to validate it?), but their implementation was filled with careless mistakes:

https://pubpeer.com/publications/3FB983CC74C0A93394568A37316...

https://gillesdemaneuf.medium.com/backstage-story-the-oct-20...

They partially addressed this in their erratum, but made minimal changes to the language of their conclusions despite the Bayes factors changing by factor of ~10.
I work in a company that has principals and fellows. Here's what you are missing:

* Overwhelming majority of programming companies don't have anything like that.

* Overwhelming majority of programmers, even if they work in a company who has that will never become principals or fellows simply because there's no official process of becoming one. It's usually a gift from your management. You don't take a test, nobody's going to count your commits or measure your programming output in any other way and say "whoa, this guy now qualifies for this title!"

* You are confused between being good at what you do and a title HR puts on your paycheck. To make you understand this better: say, if you are a surgeon, then bettering yourself as a surgeon is very likely to make you more valuable in the eyes of your employer, and, subsequently, put more money into your bank account. If you better yourself as a programmer, in most likelihood you will end up disappointed you wasted all this time for nothing. You will have problems getting a job, since often you'll be overqualified for what's on the offer. On top of this, a title you earned with one employer doesn't translate into an equivalent title at a different employer. Employers use these "principal" or "fellow" titles to justify paying you a bit more, so that they don't have to deal with hiring a replacement for you. If you switch jobs, the new employer has no incentive to hire you at the same level of "pretend seniority".

In other words you are confused between added pay that you accumulate as long as you keep working for the same employer, no matter the quality of your output, with the pay you get for being good at what you do. Usually, in many professions, people become better the longer they spend in their field. In programming this is less so.
Almost a decade ago I used to be a hyped up HS graduate fully spoon-fed the AI hype bubble (after 2012, the first "deep" learning breakthroughs for image classification started hyping the game up). I studied at a top 5 university for CS and specialised in deep learning. Three years ago I finished, rejected a (some would call "prestigious") PhD offer and was thoroughly let down by how "stupid" AI is.

For the last 2-ish years, companies found a way to throw supercomputers on a preprocessed internet dictionary dataset and the media gulped it up like nothing, because on the surface it looks shiny and fancy, but when you peek it open, it's utterly stupid and flawed, with very limited uses for actual products.

Anything that requires any amount of precision, accountability, reproducibility?

Yeah, good luck trusting a system that inherently just learns statistics out of data and will thus fundamentally always have an unacceptable margin of error. Imagine using a function that gives you several different answers for the same input, in analytical applications that need a single correct answer. I don't know anyone in SWE that uses AI for more than as a glorified autocomplete which needs to be proof-read and corrected more often than not to the point of oftentimes being contraproductive.

Tldr; it is exactly zero surprising that FSD doesn't work, and it will not work with the current underlying basis (deep learning). The irony is, that people with power to allocate billions of dollars have no technical understanding and just trust the obviously fake marketing slides. Right, Devin?
Django SQLite Production Config
The first two don’t negate a vps option.

3. People greatly over estimate the amount of work it takes to setup a vps, especially with a OS deployment service like Coolify and the like. Takes less than an hour. You act like it’s a full time job when unless you’re app has completely blown up, it’s set once and forget.
There two types of GPU acceleration: acceleration by a hardware codec bolted on a GPU, and actual GPU computational acceleration. the latter is not widely used but probably is not n gonna have any difference in terms of quality, and provides only modest acceleration.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pl/dictionary/english/less-...

What's your opinion on Cambridge's entry of "less and less"? More interestingly, what's the purpose of grammar policiing? If enough people use an expression, it becomes language. It's weird how people claim some type of superiority just because they subscribe to a certain phrase.
>I know the chances are low but what’s the ROI on sending this stuff out without being remotely prepared for contact.

In response to the alien threat, this council of nations has chosen to activate the XCOM project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvbF7bG7lk
Honestly stop and go is where I most want ACC / follow mode.

Regular cruise works fine on highways, and my experience with adaptive is that it makes passing more difficult as it slowed down way too early (though other implementations might be better), plus the focus of smooth / comfortable slowdowns means it can be hard to realise if you’re watching the road and your surroundings, at which point you’re quite a ways below speed for the passing lane and need to accelerate back up.

Also doesn’t deal well with passing trucks for lack of anticipation.
Philips Tableaux with 13-inch E Ink Display Launched at InfoComm 2024
Conversely, I'd worry about the impartiality of any Tesla review that didn't prominently disclaim that yes, they are aware Musk is acting like a loon recently.
Show HN: Yesterday's Domains levels up expired domain finding platform
It took me a long time to realize that, in the field of math, people come up with abstractions in the same way you might think of an abstraction in software engineering.

I was confused as a kid. Why create imaginary numbers? What is the point of matrixes?

It wasn't until later I realized that these representations were designed. If you make up this thing called an imaginary number, these calculations become easier. If you write linear equations like a matrix, it's a lot easier to reason about than writing out the full thing.

It sounds obvious but nobody ever told me this!

Just me?
“To that extent” in this context means that the remainder of the contract stays valid. The interpretation you state is not only incorrect, it would be toothless to introduce it because people could simply work around it by adding that clause and arguing that it constitutes a sufficient exception under the law.

As for why the “to the extent” phrasing exists, consider an example: an employment contract consists of two clauses, A: that prevents the employee from disclosing confidential customer data to third parties, and B: a non-compete clause (which does come under the same provision mentioned by grandparent). If the employer ever sues an employee for violation of A, they shouldn’t be allowed to argue that they aren’t subject to it because of clause B.
That’s not how betting works. How much would you really bet, your own real money? For example, I’m totally ready to take the bet at merely 1:1000 odds. In 30 years, let’s say, I’d owe you a $100 if a probe hasn’t broken V1’s distance record, and you’d owe me a hundred grand if we have. In today’s dollars. Should be a no-brainer if you really think it’s impossible.
While it sounds impressive from a technical point of view it doesn’t say anything about how much better it is or if it is now truly full self driving.
Road infrastructure is crazy expensive and even if you are willing to rebuild it for the autonomous cars instead of building a mass transit, you will have either segregated roads for autonomous cars(which is essentially individualistic mass transit) or you will have mixed car infrastructure.

The US has a road network of 7 million km and apparently it costs about 1 million to 45 million[0] to build 1 km of road, depending on the nature of the infrastructure. Obviously the higher end is for large roads built in city centres but even at the lower end of the cost spectrum its crazy expensive.

IMHO doesn't make sense to rebuild the infrastructure for autonomous cars. If you re going to rebuild the infrastructure you can be better of to built continent wide mass transit. At least you won't need parking lots.

[0] https://compassinternational.net/order-magnitude-road-highwa...
Driving with FSD in mid to moderate traffic is more stressful. Usually drop fsd to AP.

Driving with FSD on empty roads is very enjoyable and whenever it decides to do something you can recover/correct with no stress.

Driving in poor conditions with FSD feels safer, it sees better than me in the dark and rain for sure.

Driving with fsd in heavy traffic about the same as driving a car yourself, this where I usually drop back to AP.

Is driving my tesla easier or harder than another vehicle? It’s much much easier than driving my ICE suv. But from a pure FSD perspective, if the car didn’t have AP I believe my opinion would not be the same.
I see! That’s really cool, I’m quite curious about more about this. Any neat technical things you can share, or is it mostly just business challenges?
And please keep in mind that this is pretty much in the optimal settings for FSD: great weather, huge streets, everything is as "car friendly" as it gets. I'd like to see FSD navigating an old Italian city, there's just no way. Even in car-friendly Germany you very often have streets with side-parking, which are too narrow to fit two cars, you need to communicate with oncoming cars, for instance by waving or flashing your headlights, swerve into free spaces on the side to let other cars go through, watch out for cyclists overtaking you from both sides, etc. And this is not even mentioning the weather... So this robotaxi thing might eventually work in some US cities, but pretty much nowhere else.
I’m not sure either about the legal trouble, but I’d also recommend https://www.iowasource.com/2020/12/02/eden-ahbez/ for some anecdotes.
If you're a safety person like me, I cannot recommend a cruiser enough. It's relaxing, still fast enough to be fun, and having a nice lady passenger is one of the great joys in life.
"It is better to be silent and be thought a sociopathic fascist, than to speak and remove all doubt!" -- Mark Twain
I don't know the name of a single other car company's CEO. If they are in the news or a topic of conversation among friends for a questionable or objectionable reason, I will evaluate them. Terrible people can be unknown for long periods of time, but it's not worth my time to investigate everyone just to be fair to Musk and his fans.
OneAPI started as Data Parallel C++, and is SYSCL with special Intel sauce on top.
Has he ever cried wolf?
> Our Linux devops engineer, who had not used Sentry before, set up a self-hosted Sentry in a day.

I've also spent 1 hour setting up a Kubernetes cluster on a set of desktops I had lying around. This does not mean Kubernetes is simple or easy.
This looks the same as in Vale? I like this technique, and Vale tries to go further with index elision to remove the memory and checking overhead.
https://verdagon.dev/grimoire/grimoire
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2030.
I'm surprised the spreadsheet never got turned into a bit more of a programming environment.

You end up with these giant spaghetti formulas with no easy way to decompose them into smaller functions.

Spreadsheets could have been a gateway drug to learning programming.
Been to Chitwan, absolutely lovely place… if you see an elephant there, you’re lucky. Whatever you do, don’t get close to it. If it’s a male elephant, really don’t get close to it. If it’s a lone male elephant in musth, really really don’t get close to it. If you do get close to it, it’s you that’s gone mad / rogue, not the elephant.
Let's follow up on then in 10 years, after kids started getting really into the "bully everyone who deviates from the mean" phase
My 2 cents: you should offer a limited free plan so people can see if it's worth it.
Is that the old FSD stack that, starting with 2018, has been "ready for fully autonomous driving where you can take a nap by this time next year", according to the CEO of the company?

Why are people still hopeful for Tesla FSD when other companies are so, so far ahead already?
I did see multiple doctors multiple times and did a bunch of procedures. It still hurts.
It's not clear that a bunch of cascaded rectified linear functions will every generalize to near 100%. The error floor is at a dangerous level regardless of training. AGI is needed to tackle the final 1%>
Once things like this mattered (as in the days when components had to have second sources of supply). It seems to me (at least part) why consideration of these matters has slackened in recent decades is because there are many more things to process and to analyze them has become much more complicated.

Even the most conscientious bureaucrat would be overloaded and unable to cope. Perhaps the only sensible way around this is to introduce high-level (broad) laws that require both corporations and their senior executives to act responsibly and to accept full responsibility for the quality of their products.

As I suggested in my other post, if laws made it much easier for senior company executives to face criminal charges with regard to negligence, hiding faults from customers, etc. then they'd act more responsibly out of fear (these days they're too cocky that nothing will happen to them when things go awry and or their products go belly-up).

A possible downside could be that fewer companies would tender for such contracts. That said, I reckon that situation would only be temporary until the message got through and sunk in. Also, such laws could easily be tailored to excuse those who made genuine mistakes, etc.
What format and URL scheme is that? I've never seen this before in 39 years on the Internet.
All this just sounds like what a proper engineering team should be doing anyway.
OpenCL has been obsolete for years, as Intel, AMD and Google never provided a proper development experience with good drivers.

The fact that OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.0 rebranded, as acknwoledgement of OpenCL 2.0 adoption failure, doesn't help either.
> metallic hydrogen, which forms a lattice

Metal hydrogen is a liquid though, it doesn’t form a crystalline structure like an actual metal.
I thought it was well known that YouTube cut bitrates during the pandemic? In any case, I think you're quite right, I only watch YouTube in 720p and some videos seem comparable to stuff I downloaded from Kazaa back in the day. It's ok, though. I don't pay for YouTube and I think it's good for them to offer higher quality options for a charge rather than hound every single viewer for payment.
Seems likely that the substring gives a hint to the optimizer/executor about the size of the field, otherwise it could be whatever the max varchar size is.

There are likely specialisations for text fields under 256 bytes (and more generally, all common fixed-sized subsets of variable-length fields) which are made available when substr is used. For example, these values could be stack allocated rather than read from the heap.
Or perhaps statistics is reasoning generalised? E.T. Jayne's classic on this makes the case, I'd encourage reading the first chapter - https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Science-T-Jaynes/d....
You use jax and pytorch to develop new models on an MI300x without encountering encountering random bugs? I'm shocked.
I mean, Mary Barra is a generally distasteful person, and I refuse to buy any GM product. Those two facts aren't related, but still.
So for the real idea of how things are going, we would need a graph of also the total cruise miles (for FSD enabled Teslas). But this change was definitely done in order to get more easy miles for FSD testing, not UX.

It’s also not an accident that the trial went live shortly before Q2 numbers. Eager to see how the graph looks like in the next report (or if it is omitted completely).
Forbush effect, in geophysics, an occasional decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays as observed on Earth, attributed to magnetic effects produced by solar flares, which are disturbances on the Sun

https://www.britannica.com/science/Forbush-effect
It blocks nhs.uk which is definitely not a large media brand.
Alan Bates the campaigner for the Post Office IT scandal has been knighted
It is, but it's not a widely used word either, and French are mostly fine with this kind of collision.

Given the number of words with "bit/byte" for instance there's a point they just let it go.
This actually sound very reasonable. About the only time people can agree is when there's a danger. Nothing unites people more than a common enemy (or, in this case, a phenomena).

But I think GPs point was that if it starts getting colder we go back to carelessly pumping CO2 into atmosphere, but for now we should go with the mainstream science and keep on reducing that.
I never heard about the supplementation of N-acetyl-cysteine with regards to the treatment of dry eye disease (DED). Could you elaborate on your experiences with the supplementation of NAD? I am unable to find any real useful information in the web
Something I noticed while writing is that the intro is necessary... for me, to write the rest of the document. But after it's all written then the intro material becomes unnecessary boilerplate.
There is no way to provide a public transport service from the village 9 miles away with 4,000 people to my village of 150 at 2145 on a Friday night. It would have to literally be a taxi going out and back to transport one person.
Simple Proofs with Z3Py (2019)
That's too expensive, quality of llama3 answers is way below ChatGPT 4o or Clause Opus, and consumer GPUs are not competitive with specialized chips.

Need the ability to submit queries anonymously, with disposable accounts. How about an AI add-on for a VPN service?
China, the country with one of the largest populations in the world, that produces less CO2 per capita than three quarters of Europe, including such green hearts as Germany or Finland, while still producing a quarter of the entire world's goods.
I feel like wire guard definitely does nat punching unless I misunderstand you, I've been doing this sort of thing to have my phone and desktop on the same "LAN" all the time so I can moonlight in from anywhere (among other things) and they're definitely natted.
An Ice Age doesn't lead to "mild" temperature drops. It's catastrophically cold for centuries. Civilization is unlikely to survive it, and we don't have records of any that have save the Neanderthals, who lived in small groups.
> There is 0 chance anything will catch up to it in the next 50 years, and probably for several hundred more years after that, if ever.

That is a bit pessimistic. There is this paper [1] by JPL and Nasa folks discussing the possibilites of sun-diving solar small satelites. They think that speeds of around 7 AU/year are possible. Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at 3.6 AU/year. With those speeds catching up to Voyager 1 withing 50 year would be doable. Realistically since we are not quite ready to launch it just yet it is more likely we would miss that 50 year window but I feel better about our odds in the window beyond 50 but within “several hundred years”.

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14917
You seem certain on something that is not certain. People likely traveled over water. Ancient people were very impressive.

From https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/learning-modules/ancien....

> The first people probably came to Australia from around the area that is now Timor. To get to Australia, they must have made a canoe voyage of about 90 to 150 kilometres of open water, which would have been a remarkable maritime achievement
They should teach Tesla’s “autopilot” (and its FSD upgrade) in business schools. Turns out you can sustainably push up company valuation on vapourware. You have to wonder if Tesla’s autonomous driving technology was actually ever meant to turn into a product. Or whether it is mostly a tool to justify the lofty Tesla stock price. I very much doubt that it is technologically ahead of its competitors.