skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I think if I'm reading it right, it means there's 1x NVDEC chips. Each chip is capable of handling multiple encodings / decodings, as each of the transcodings list means concurrent streams of NVDEC -> NVENC.
Thanks a lot for posting this. I agree that many of the points still hold, and as a (small business) author of educational software, reinforce my ideas about what that software should look like, especially concerning open-endedness and "capable of doing senseless things if asked".

I do think that the arguments about violent games either seem a bit dated or simply don't hold at all beyond operant conditioning. Especially in Europe, children or adults are hardly in the position that such 'reptilian brain' conditioning matters.
For some people there is no percieved differnce, some would think employer is trying to save on taxes, while for some (many?) there is a real percieved difference as being seen a member of family rather than a disposable hired hand.

For an analogy, one can be given money instead of being invited to a social gathering. One might feel offended, while other may feel happier.
Apologies if I'm not following entirely. I don't actually see where we disagree here. It sounds like we are both saying that speculation is undesirable, and that an LVT would decrease the reward and incentive of speculating. I suppose I do slightly disagree with the following though:

> At any rate, the argument is that such speculators would otherwise build something useful there, but had decided not to because then they'd be paying more property taxes....I don't buy it

Its very well researched that tax rates impact property values - so there are certainly marginal developers who are crunching the cost-benefit analyses here who would be swayed by the changes in the ROI(keep in mind, many of these developers are heavily loaded up with debt due to high land prices - meaning that banks need to manage their own risk and limit the amount of capital these developers can access). Even small changes in land/improvement tax rates have been shown to have an impact - a well-known change in boundaries in Denmark in 2007 provided excellent evidence of this[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201108135554/https://dors.dk/f...
Found Mark Rippetoe's account.

If anyone is interested in learning about weight lifting, Starting Strength (by Mark Rippetoe) is a GREAT book to start with!
Every so often, I end up selling my laptop to diminish the convenience of my computer usage. Usually, I end up eventually reneging and buying a new (used) one.
> Those things arguably did reduce intelligence.

Citation needed. They may have reduced the competency level in certain skills (e.g. writing in cursive), but I doubt that those effects carry over to "reducing intelligence".

People in developed societies *aren't* becoming dumber over the centuries. We get better at dealing with problems we frequently encounter, and worse at dealing with problems we rarely encounter. Is this a problem? I don't know.
Real. I am a long term Linux user (first downloaded Slackware over a 2400 baud modem - you can ask your grandparents what that is) and in principle I would like to do what you have done, basically do a “100% Richard Stallman” but my productivity is higher when using specific tools on macOS/iPadOS/iOS.

I fight back a bit by leaving my iPhone at home unless I want to take pictures. Instead my Apple Watch is my main driver when I am out in the world. It is fairly unobtrusive, in spite of the mountain of distributed tech behind it.

BTW, I don’t think you sound extreme at all. After reading good books like Privacy is Power and The Surveillance Capitalism, you approach sounds real to me.
LVT ignores that there are other resources that may be hoarded. In particular, companies can hire all the employees with the skills necessary to build a competitor and have them do busy work to avoid having to innovate or compete on the merits of their products.

This is essentially the same thing as buying up land and leaving it fallow, but with human resources instead of land. In some ways this is worse, as society has already invested in training those workers.
Are we violating TOS by using this?
Clipped bicycle pedals give you opportunities for pulling and IMHO semi-qualify as "bodyweight fitness".

It does require a bicycle (and shoes/straps), but a bike isn't usually considered gym equipment, and it's heavily involved with your body weight.
The only athletes I can think of that don’t do a lot of weightlifting (in the general sense) are endurance runners and even then it’s on a case by case basis.

I worked for the Blackzillians and American Top Team UFC teams and I can assure GP that they absolutely do a lot of weightlifting. They don’t worry about routines because that’s what their coaches are for. They track their fighters and automatically adjust the training program when they stall.
I've been daydreaming about a new Android launcher to make doom scrolling less immediate and attractive. It'll give quick and immediate access to "tool" apps. Maps, calculator, bank, etc, and access to direct messaging(for me, chatting with people isn't a negative like other social media). But then it'll have a "I need to distraction" button or something. This will first suggest working on a task from a to-do list. Then it can offer some educational tidbit/language practice/etc to be your distraction. If you absolutely must access the doom scrolling apps, it'll put it behind a 30 second timer and be configurable to limit total time and such.
As the author of said second class add-in, let me just guess that your most popular feature request was adding the "Import from xlsx" functionality...which describes the whole issue: it's always Excel + something, never something instead of Excel.
Two other pieces of software that operate in this space that are worth checking out: Meld Studio https://www.meldstudio.co/ and Camera Graph https://apps.apple.com/us/app/camera-graph-edit-live-video/i... Camera Graph is more feature complete but costs $99 as of this writing for the full feature set. Meld Studio is free at the moment, but is still in development for macOS and Windows, and seems far less refined overall.
OP here (of this blog post, not the original game). The naive way is what I expected too, and described as the Euler method in the post.

In terms of physical accuracy, especially when you get near the surface, the mass does change significantly if you have a high rate of fuel burn. But in terms of how challenging/fun it would be, and what strategies you use as a player, I doubt it would make much difference. In fact, there are other lunar lander simulations in the BASIC computer games book, I think one of them does use the naive approach.

If 10 seconds is too long, you could still leave that as the turn in the UI, but internally break each turn into a bunch of smaller time steps, e.g. 10 time steps of 1 second each. Actually, the existing game does that in certain places, which is why his physics simulation takes in an arbitrary time S rather than always the full 10 seconds.
I think the point is that a regular body weight routine is harder than using weights. If you're sedentary, doing a push-up is like starting out with bench presses that are more than half your bodyweight, finding an inclined surface to do push-ups against is not always possible, and using your knees can be painful, whereas if you're in a gym you can go bench press the 20kg bar or lighter dumbbells and know exactly how much weight you're using each session. Doing a chin-up on a tree in the park means you can't grab an assisted pull up band or use a machine to help you, so you're stuck trying to scramble up the tree with your feet + use bad sideways technique then lower yourself down slowly, which is risking injury.

These concerns are especially relevant for the elderly.
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People are still posting on their own websites and the independent open web is still alive and doing fine.
NonScalarFilter: An Alternative to Noise in ANNs
And now that your time and resources are freed up from working with data analysts, presumably you will shift that towards software engineers who can deliver new value to your customers.

If not, your competition will.
"...we may witness shameless intrusion into the privacy of well-known people according to the slogan “Everyone is entitled to know everything.” But this is a false slogan of a false era; far greater in value is the forfeited right of people not to know, not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life has no need for this excessive and burdening flow of information."

- Solzhenitsyn
> If you expand the time frame to 10-20 years

This feels like a lot of "20 years away" type predictions. There needs to be some sort of step change in the technology, and perhaps more than one or on more than one front to make this possible but its far enough away that 20 years feels like a safe bet.

When people say this about LLM based AIs, I wonder how they imagine text prediction making those step changes. Is your thinking that text prediction is generalization enough that doing more of it better, faster, and on scaled hardware is sufficient to hit a tipping point?
As Twitter and Reddit were going user-hostile past the point of no return last year I fought it for a while with actions like these. But eventually giving up and ditching them completely was unavoidable and, in hindsight, freeing.
These articles never tell you how it gets on your system, which is a piece of information that should always be supplied.

But on Linux, I would have to guess it is a rootkit, where someone needs to install it or it is buried in some obscure package.

On Windows, well there are hundreds of ways :)
This is totally not a space I understand. But it seems like there are possible threats to NVIDIA, such as

(1) MLIR, ROCm, or some other tooling that reduces CUDA's moat,

(2) AMD attracting investment to go after NVIDA

(3) ARM-based GPUs or accelerators gaining traction among cloud companies that have huge fleets of AI devices and also have the money to devote to custom chips

Can anyone who understands the industry explain why those threats (or similar ones) aren't a major issue for NVIDIA?
Accident and Emergency (no room)
Addiction to scrolling
would be funny if I didn't need to do that to know that first sanctions came in 2014, or do I?
Never, Sometimes, Always
> When you say not "worth" expliciting... worth it to whom?

To the to-do list - it is (normally) not worth it to the one who should spend the time writing that metrics. It would also then become potentially heavy if those metrics become "red-tape", obligatory bureaucratic process, which consumed time and resources without returning benefits.

> And the handwave is always the same as the one you're trotting out now: 'if you need everything to be spelled out, you're probably not smart enough'

Err... Noo? It was not what I meant. But, following your example, if somebody could not discriminate after "Please pass me a pen" that which picks an adequate and that who invests time in finding an out-of-context "perfect", and after "Please design our flagship" that which attempts to polish an enviable craft and that who lazily cuts the effort at a potato-head, then there would be a problem of smarts.

> But do you see how ... the bosses will

Yes I see that we require common sense in the whole of active society.

It seems you are depicting a reality in which the judgement from management can be subjective. As if (no detraction from the actual situation meant implied) people accused Greg Davies to give unfair subjective marks at Taskmaster. The solution to such problem would probably not be algorithmic until good AGI, because sophistication of judgement is needed and Expert Systems in the '80s failed in being recognized as useful.
I really liked Hunt, Gather, Parent.
Myelination in the brain may be key to 'learning' opioid addiction
Don't squats have the same thing? (Weighted squats of course, not the instagram variety)
When you said generally desirable, I assumed you meant to the general public and society at large. Absent some other very convincing information, the price of a plot of land is going to be the best analogue for how much society values that land.

Obviously the private land owner (in general) would prefer that the cost of owning land was as near zero as possible so that they could use it how they saw fit, regardless of the opportunity cost to society. And that's how it spirals into the mess we have today.
thanks for mentioning, that makes me super happy to hear!
Except for idioms like "I've got a guy" where you just mean you've got someone in mind. And that's where I was coming from with "silicon guy" or "hardware guy", "software guy" etc. Just as generic terms for your goto person in those fields, no gender implied.
Is this a problem of teachers lacking teaching skills? We're not getting rid of word processing, spellchecking, phones, calculators, etc. It's up to the teacher (or rather the collective of educators as a whole) to come up with ways of incorporating these tools or working around the challenges they present.

A teacher might be successful in banning some technology from their classroom, but they'll fail at banning it from the lives of their students, or from the world at large.

I have a friend who's an English teacher. She has her students write papers with ChatGPT at home, and has them critique those papers in the classroom. Seems like a much more constructive attitude than saying "AI is making children dumb as fuck" on Reddit.
> The consortium aims to develop guidelines, tools, libraries, and language subsets to meet industrial and legal requirements for safety-critical systems.

> Moreover, the initiative seeks to incorporate lessons learned from years of development in the open source ecosystem to make Rust a valuable component of safety toolkits across various industries and severity levels

Resources and opportunities for a safety critical Rust initiative:

- "The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set to Land in Linux 6.8" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677600

- awesome-safety-critical > Software safety standards: https://awesome-safety-critical.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#so...

- rust smart pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563857 ; LLVM signed pointers for pointer authentication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307180

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563857 :

> - Secure Rust Guidelines > Memory management, > Checklist > Memory management: https://anssi-fr.github.io/rust-guide/05_memory.html

Rust OS projects to safety critical with the forthcoming new guidelines: Redox, Cosmic, MotorOS, Maestro, Aerugo

- "MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907876: "Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38852360#38857185 ; redox-os, cosmic-de , Motūrus OS; MotorOS

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861799 : > COSMIC DE (Rust-based) supports rust-windowing/winit apps, which compile to a <canvas> tag in WASM.

> winit: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

- "Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245897

- "The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743393

From a previous Ctrl-F rust,; "Rust in the Linux kernel" (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35783214 :

- > Is this the source for the rust port of the Android binder kernel module?: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/...

> This guide with unsafe rust that calls into the C, and then with next gen much safer rust right next to it would be a helpful resource too.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744433 ... From "Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28709239 :

>>>>> Which universities teach formal methods?

/?hnlog "TLA" and "side channel"
Counterpoint: Good things are good and bad things are bad. It doesn't matter the mechanism. Legalizing slavery is still bad even if it's illegal. Legalizing pot is still good even if it's illegal. When you make rules that restrict both good and bad people, it tends to be bad, because the good people feel restricted by the rules while the bad people tend to just ignore them.
kinda nearby "Reality has a surprising amount of detail": http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
For single parents, this is the choice between working or not working.
My main problem is that smartphones are geared way too much towards consuming content and not enough towards producing content (except for pictures and videos and short twitter-like comments, i.e. easily consumable crap).

For coding, 3d modeling, writing books, composing music, etc, it's really not that great.

When I was in junior high I got one of those TI-Calculators, like 10 years before the iPhone first came out. Yes I had games installed on it, but it also had a programming environment (TI-BASIC) that let me make games directly on the device. And so I did, at any opportunity, even in the middle of classes where it didn't make sense to have a calculator out. I made action games, RPG games, text-based fighting games, etc.

So by the time I got to college, I already well understood the basics of programming and could make fairly complicated programs.

Same with the computers we had, I learned Q-Basic on them and HTML and was making games and webpages on there as well.

But these phones and tablets try really hard to make it so we just consume content all day long instead of producing content. I tried coding and writing stories on these devices (even with a keyboard attachment) and the experience just isn't that great, I just end up back on the desktop/laptop.

But a lot of kids don't spend hardly any time on computers anymore, just phone and tablets, so they're stuck with these devices they can't really learn and master too well, where everything they might want to make has to be done with a supplemental computer they might not even own, so instead they mostly just mindlessly consume garbage content.

I understand I was an outlier as a kid and most other kids weren't making games on their calculators, but if we thought of these devices more as "how can we facilitate people making their own tools on here" I still think there would be enough kids that would be naturally curious enough to learn how to do that and help create the next generation of builders.

And I don't mean just software developers making tools for this (there are already a bunch of attempts at this), Apple needs to think like this and build their devices with this in mind or else it will just have too many restrictions.

And we wouldn't have to be so obsessed with limiting children's access to these devices, since they could be spending that time making really cool things on it.
Wait a minute, why being a private equity for some healthcare institutes is bad?
I heard they tried and were denied and announced it was not going to happen.
It's because it literally targets your whole body. The weight is pulling down your arms, which itself is pulling down your back and shoulders. And since you are carrying the weight, it's putting compressive forces on your legs via gravity. Even your neck muscles will hurt if you position your head the wrong way. XD

One of my personal best gym moments is when I deadlifted about 25% more than my bodyweight, which I was not able to repeat since.
As long as we're bringing attention to things. Pull ups on a straight bar are also pretty bad. I have a bad wrist from that and it pretty much never healed.
Composite – The light and shadow platform game on the Web
The last few months, I have been building this game. It's still a prototype, so many things to do, fix and improve but I think it's testable.

https://dev.compositethegame.com

What do you think? Any feedback would be valuable. If it's shit tell me, if it's good tell me.
Green-washing is not about real scenario. It only needs the perceived story.
Burberry Street or Bond Street? Fashion Week Stunt Sows Confusion (2023)
Because she got her research team and five years, and shared the results with the world.
>But only for very technical users who want to invest the money, time and energy into running things themselves. Usually people also don't think what happens if from one day to the next they'd not be able to maintain it.

All true. It is a burden sometimes, however, I am a sysadmin by trade and the scale of our personal operation doesn’t even register compared to what I do daily. It takes a bit of planning and continual maintenance to do this, but I feel we (as in myself, you and the HN audience) are in a unique position to make the world a little better this way. My employment has lost most of its meaning in KPI's, regulation paperwork and compliance. This gives a little meaning to what I do.

>Personally I'd not want to be responsible for data my friends put into my selfhosted NextCloud instance.

We have decent backups set up and if anyone asks I'm happy to go through a personal backup strategy. I see NextCloud as a syncing service and people can use it as such, with that expectation going into it. If you keep the scale small enough you can be clear about that on a personal level.
Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics
I’ve launched apps with free trials in the past and when I allowed email, there were 100 fake emails from temporary email services for every 1 real one. Had to do more work to block those as they were eating up all the resources from paying users
> AI is exponentially improving

Not for the last two years at least. Over the last year it's been obvious that there are diminishing returns already...

We increase the computational power by a factor of ten, and see a factor of 1.5 improvement.
wait, is Your Personal Blog a new peer-reviewed scientific journal?
There's also walking which is like weightlifting for your legs. I got a dog after my dad passed away. I've been taking her with my elderly mother for 3km 50 minute walks everyday for over a year now. The exercise has helped my mother lose 20+ lbs and the conversation, sunshine and contact witn nature has helped with mood as well.
I do go to the gym to lift weights, but while it grows muscles also increases my overall appetite and body mass. Not really sure if that's a net benefit for my heart, probably not. Intuitivly Maintaining extra weight is probably not healthy for you even if it's muscle, beyond a certain point.
But walking is free and fun, and humans have been doing it a lot more for all our existence
A company willing to have employees accidentally die when they come down with a case of the whistleblows would do things to make oversight more difficult? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
There were on the order of hundreds of high school students with computer access in the US in 1969, and even fewer with computer literacy. Growing up in the Space Age probably was inspirational, but that doesn't change the fact that computers basically didn't exist to the general public at that time. Unlike now, software development wasn't a widely known career. There wasn't a CS major in the US until 1962. I think that makes it pretty notable he was a high school senior in 1969.
What is "AI"?

Definitions vary, but all definitions I have heard seem to boil down to one thing: AI is little more than a set of fancy programming languages. Which means you still always need a human to be the programmer. Nothing really can change for the white collar so long as you still have to provide instruction. That's what white collar people do.

"AGI" draws a distinction – where the machines start to be able to act as completely independent agents without needing a human to give instruction. Is this, perhaps, what you are envisioning in 10-20 years?