skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing beginner ray-tracing experiments evokes not-so-fond memories of my own first experiences with ray-tracing (and 3D rendering of any kind). Around 1987 I tried a brand new ray tracing program called Sculpt 3D on my Commodore Amiga 1000 (7Mhz 68000 / 512K RAM). I'd been lured into buying the software (for $99 IIRC) when I saw a looping ray-traced animation called The Juggler at a local user group meeting (http://www.etwright.org/cghist/juggler.html). This despite the salesman at the computer shop warning me, "Yeah, so... 3D is really hard and slow."

With no knowledge, experience or clue I enthusiastically raced home to boot up the diskette and dive into what I naively imagined would be a journey toward making my own Tron-like images. I cracked open the manual and pretty quickly figured out how to create a new scene, add a sphere to it and apply what promised to be a shiny chrome texture to the sphere. Of course without rendering it all I could see on the screen was a wireframe. So I anxiously clicked the magic Render button and the screen went black.

I knew the results wouldn't be instant so I went and made a sandwich for lunch. Upon returning to check in on my masterpiece, the screen was still completely black. I went and watched a TV show. Still nothing on the screen yet. I went out and did some errands. Still nothing but black. After dinner, I checked back and finally saw the "Render Complete!" message. But the screen was still completely black.

I went to bed demoralized. The next day I stopped back by the computer store to seek some advice (or, at least some sympathy). Being a Sunday there were several users hanging around talking and playing games. The assembled brain trust was stumped until one guy asked, "Did you add a light to the scene?" Doh!

Suffice to say, I produced no images worth saving (or remembering) in those early days :-). The one positive from my newbie experience was that years later I was involved in software product management, marketing and design, including a few 90s 3D renderers. I ensured that every one of them either included a default light in a new blank scene or warned the user if they clicked Render with no lights in the scene.
In this instance they're talking about implementing network protocols, such as HTTP, where one end is the client and the other end of the connection is the server.

It's confusing because the Swift language also has the concept of "protocols" which are basically the equivalent of Java and C#'s interfaces if you're familiar with those languages.
Its no surprise that an economist cherry picked and used anecdote to support their writing. It's one of the least rigorous fields out there whose practitioners are primarily used to green light whatever policy a politician deems fashionable or appropriate
At first I read that as `schatsterm` and thought it was cute, but then I looked it up to double check and it's still cool!

But now I know that the word I thought it was is actually a `bijnaam`. Your language is fun and I have been enjoying learning it over the last couple of years. :)
iTerm2 allows multiple sessions in the same window and lets you tile them however you want.
> we allow mass migration of people with no money and no skills

You don't? There's no visa for that category.
The Economic Origins of Government
Damn Interesting feels like the last vestige of the golden age of the Internet. While simultaneously being the best podcast still going today.
I have no confidence that auto/carplay of today will work with whatever phone I have in 12 years. Car makers want to ship their cars and forget about them. They hate warranty work. Tesla does software updates but the others don't want to (they do but only when they must or if they can charge for them - the maps on my 12 year old car are way out of date because like most car buyers I won't pay to update them). I'm not even sure that phones in 12 years will have communications (usb, bluetooth, wifi) compatible with the infotainment system in today's new cars. I am sure I will not be using today's phone as 5g towers will be shutting down.
Gen AI model to help multipurpose robots learn new movements and tasks
RG Cube now available for $160 and up (Android game console with square screen)
So you are saying that e.g. a large mammal lifespan of 70 years is sufficient to generate as many good random mutations as needed to grow a new leg over 10,000 generations if necessary? Where is the evidence of a fast algorithm requiring so few selections to come up with a complex new organ? How is that not blind faith? Not sure who is the dumb one here...
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Or just go straight to plowing the carbon into farm fields, where it would restore topsoil quality for growing, and water retention.
The Citroen Ami is technically not a passenger car, but a 'quadricycle'. That's why it gets away with less tech.

The Renault Zoe has been discontinued, replaced by the Renault 5 e, which has ADAS and lots of other electric features.

Starting with model year 2023, the Kia Soul also has all the tech required by law: https://thebrakereport.com/kia-enhances-adas-for-2023-soul
It also has Car Play now.
And its actual practical power output and CO2 absording properties. Also with anything biological like this we want to know how long it lasts and what sort of maintenance is required, sounds like we have to dump a lot of algae somewhere since its growing.
This basically means that Netflix and other streamers are going to increase their prices.
The AUC is the local competent authority.
Good for you. But I'm talking about Europe, not the US.

And most don't have (and can't afford) Teslas here. Maybe in Norway and Switzerland, but not all Europe is like that.

A lot of non-supercharger infra here is non-existent or slow charging meaning long distance trips are gonna be much longer and less predictable, hence why those who rent cars for long distance trips never rent EVs.

>and the charging network isn't _that_ bad, is it?

You've never interacted with non-supercharger chargers have you? Like broken ones with issues, or crap payment systems that don't work. It's the kind of things giving people major anxiety.
> the actual injury and fatality rate is really low due to well trained crews and measured responses by air controllers.

It’s the crew and ATC staff, definitely, but also

- the amazingly well engineered airplanes (despite recent Boeing hiccups - just goes to demonstrate the high standards) with many redundancies;

- the archaic, but robust ATC system; and

- last but not least the excellent safety culture, which investigates problems thoroughly to the root, but without blaming individuals.
> without interpolation … It's kind of like playing a modern console exclusive.

Ouch. It’s sad to see console gaming no longer be the place to go for highly tuned software.
What are some examples of diverse content?
Blackbox: Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion
This is referring to IBT Media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBT_Media), whose CEO currently owns 50% of Newsweek.

They've also started heavily encouraging their reporters to use generative AI, so maybe that line was written by GPT.

> In service of more stories, and faster stories, Newsweek’s AI policy addendum gives staffers the greenlight to use generative AI in “writing, research, editing, and other core journalism functions,” as long as journalists are involved in each step of the process. The original version of Newsweek’s policy stated that using AI for “core journalism functions” required touch points with “three or more journalists” during production. A review of the page on the Wayback Machine shows that line was removed sometime after March 2.

- https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/inside-newsweek-ai-experim...
From the science we do on spider silk, who knows...we could one day see a Spider(Portiid)-derived hull cladding to fit around the lumber!
They should, especially any open source tooling directed at Swift. I don't understand why they're so slow at some things. Hell, make an open source foundation, I'm sure there's loads of tax write offs, I know Apple loves to save on taxes.
Are you a high school English teacher?
Beautiful. I need a device like this, but with the famous memento mori calendar (https://memento-mori-calendar.netlify.app/), maybe with a bigger screen.

But the aesthetic and the e-ink screen is really nice.

Although, $200 for a clock is probably more than what I would spend. I understand e-ink are not cheap unfortunatly.
Quite cool, were you involved personally?

Would be glad to learn more!
Even if they did, I'd still object to requiring useful products to be turned into e-waste.
Anti-privacy can mean "we accidentally leaked that you visited facebook.com on Nov 15" or "we allowed your employer to see that you're actively job hunting."

I mean technically the same term is OK to use for both, but it does feel like it's burying the lede.
Before I even get into Python vs Scheme vs Others, programming for fun is out of the window when deadlines, agile, story points are involved.
Yeah 0. None other than land transfer tax which is very little. And if anybody suggested putting in a sane G7 standard tax policy around this, the baby boomers would come rip their head off and parade it around on a pitchfork.

Non-primary residence of course gets fully taxed.
One other comment on HN highlights why some of the anger is not completley unjust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40669333

Though I wont be surprised if the majority of the hate was people who didn't understand the change.
you do, if you have sanctuary cities and entire states openly claiming they will not arrest people who break immigration law, it reduces the ability of USA to actually pass policies to take in more skilled immigrants who'll be a net benefit to America as a whole.
Where can I short Canada?
It's quite memorable in VR as well! If you get the chance I highly recommend playing HL Alyx with a valve index setup.

It was on par with my first playthrough of the original HL so many years ago.
One is tempted to think that local news, "diverse content" (however that's defined) would be something Canadians would pay for willingly and without need for yet another enforced subsidy from the government, but apparently not, they just want what they think is good.
I'm not aware of a B-52 being crashed in a barrel roll, but this did make me think of the 1994 Fairchild crash[0] that was caused by a pilot who was known as dangerous due to excessive self confidence. In this case he banked too tightly at low level causing a stall into the ground. The whole crash was caught on camera[1], which is indelibly burnt into my memory.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_...

[1] - https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-bud-holland-the...
I’ll take that
The post you flagged makes a comment about WIFI on alarm clocks, and the potential for misuse. Isn't it an opportunity to talk about the pros and cons of mandatory WIFI on alarm clocks?

Looking at the Author clock, they do have an option to update the device manually, which is nice, so it can operate without needing WIFI.

It's a valid concern. My old smart alarm clock would automatically activate bluetooth every time the alarm sounded, and try to connect to the companion app on my phone. It did this even if I didn't use the app, no way to stop it. I suspect the makers of the clock desperately wanted telemetry, and what better way than to ping their app every morning.
vLLM inference of Mixtral in fp16 is a real workload. I guess the details are there because of the different inference engine used. You need the most similar compute tasks to be ran but the compute kernels can't be the same as in the end they need to be ran by a different hardware.
For every [highly paid and incentivized] engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 [part-time volunteer loosely-organized] engineers who hate ads

I wish the ad/adblocking balance were as lopsided as you describe, but there are a lot of things working in ads favor (encryption, locked hardware, force of law, etc.)
"the question is how it scales" and which mega corp is going to buy and bury the tech.

But seriously... stuff like this ("ZOMG MIRACLE BATTERY! MIRACLE SOLUTION! ZOMG!) seem to disappear because it takes years to turn an idea into a demo... and longer to get a demo to market and to scale.

We are surrounded by stuff that followed that route but I hope stuff like this actually makes it to market.
Previous discussion (27 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381966
> Biodegradable plastics only biodegrade in specific environments and under certain conditions, often generated in industrial composting facilities.

https://scientificadvice.eu/wp-content/uploads/SAM_Summary-F...
There are some, but they're really crappy: https://movilidad.coradir.com.ar/tito/
Keepass XC has served me well for nearly 15 years, and will continue to do so.
Canada is much more immigration-friendly than the US. It also has a program to green-light and fast-track immigration for all H1B holders in the US, though for calendar year 2024 the cap of 10k visas has already been reached. But my understanding is that there's a pretty significant population of skilled workers that were planning on settling in the US permanently (or semi-permanently), and have instead relocated to Canada because of immigration difficulties related to the greencard backlog.

Europe is also an option, though it's not as pro-immigration as Canada (and has lower salaries as well).
I'm curious. If you do opt-in, what does it send to OpenAI? Everything you type, including passwords, tokens, pasted keys, internal IP addresses etc?
She is not alone. Even antirez spends an incredible amount of time these days just to make the transition smoother on his displays: https://x.com/antirez/status/1768741226159730750
A bunch of us didn't install the update that included GPT integration. From the release notes, it appears that it was enough of a dip in updates to prompt corrective actions from the developers
I'm not sure I follow you on the energy topic? If anything, the "progressive" shutdown of the nukes was a rather questionable move.

In general, I think there's a relatively healthy balance, albeit, with a fair bit of animosity between the sides.

The thing about "outdated technologies" is - they work. It's really easy to see in the software world, where I will choose a battle-tested technology any day, over the new flashy thing that everybody's buzzing about that is in theory or with many iterations will be great. So why would other industries be different? Surely there will be a drag from people whose wealth depends on the technology/approach being used, but that's just how it works. If I put a lot of effort into developing a thing, I will defend the thing as much as I can, and it's the job of the newcomers to push me over with big enough arguments.
You dont lose lift in a barrel roll, you merely change the direction that lift is being generated.
You can short the Kraft Dinner manufacturer and invest in New England maple syrup futures.
Low Latency CPU Based Educational Value Classifier with Generic Educational Val
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What better way to drive the point home, to demonstrate that corporate claims of safety and oversight are empty lies and fundamentally futile, than to take a SOTA OSS LLM and break it open, shortly after its release, using a simple method that likely generalizes to all generative models, language or otherwise?
It's quite understandable, imho. Immigration is being allowed precisely for cheap labor, especially when citizens are not prepared to go through the extra hardship - for example, I remember reading that the fatalities when the bridge fell in Baltimore around 1 am, were all immigrants, all on duty at that hour.

For specialized labor, there is always a question of possible espionage and back-channel tech transfer. This is not so much perhaps for India as opposed to other technological rivals, but it may be one of the considerations in the immigration policy being counterintuitive.
Accurate. I'm surprised there aren't more adblockers pre-emptively working on layers closer to our senses like the framebuffer or HDMI and aux cord passthroughs
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> You were arguing the second, I'm a counterexample.

I still don't think you are. Since we agree that you memorized numbers and how they are sequential, and that counting is moving "up" in the sequence, addition as counting is still memorizing a procedure based on this, not just memorizing a name: to add any two numbers, count down on one as you count up on the other until the first number number reaches zero, and the number that counted up is the sum. I'm curious how you think you learned addition without memorizing this procedure (or one equivalent to it).

Then you memorized the procedure for multiplication: given any two numbers, count down on one and add the other to itself until the counted down number reaches one. This is still a procedure that you memorized under the label "multiplication".

This is exactly the kind of procedure that I initially described. Someone taught you a correct procedure for achieving some goal and gave you a name for it, and "learning math" consists of memorizing such correct procedures (valid moves in the game of math if you will). These moves get progressively more sophisticated as the math gets more advanced, but it's the same basic process.

They "make sense" to you, and you call it "understanding", because they are built on a deep foundation that ultimately grounds out in counting, but it's still memorizing procedures up and down the stack. You're just memorizing the "minimum" needed to reproduce everything else, and compression
is understanding [1].

The "variation in outcomes" that an OP discussed is simply because many valid moves are possible in any given situation, just like in chess, and if you "understand" when a move is valid vs. not (eg. you remember it), then you have an advantage over someone who just memorized specific shortcuts, which I suspect is what you are thinking I mean by memorization.

[1] https://philpapers.org/rec/WILUAC-2
The Complete Robot has a lot of stuff about this and it is interesting. The person above I would argue is flat wrong about the three laws.

Asimov wrote his robot short stories in which the three laws played a primary role at a time when robot as Frankenstein's monster was the norm. His short stories attempted to create a more positive optimistic note about how humans and robots could collaborate. The three laws were a way to make it crystal clear that robots could not hurt us, by rule. And the fun was then imagining all the unexpected ways that psychologically that might play out. But in the short stories the robots never actually hurt anyone although they often caused a lot of frustration and fear.

If anything the three laws seemed to show the inate fear of humans to the unknown. The laws were completely impossible to circumvent and people knew this ... And yet they remained staunchly opposed to having robots on earth. Completely illogical.

Anyways, looking at the way LLMs are playing out it seems to me Asimov was wrong. It is quite the opposite. Humans seem to have no fear of robots hurting them, and as a matter of fact seem to get frustrated when a robot isn't allowed to cave their head in with their super human strength when asked (metaphorically).
> Electric cars inherently have much less of a maintenance burden because there are way fewer moving parts in a motor versus an engine.

A modern ICE outlasts the rest of the car. You might replace the alternator or water pump, but those are made by third parties not the OEM. You will replace the oil, but again, the OEM doesn't make that.

The dealers make a lot of money on after sales, but (except Tesla) those are independent third parties. The manufacture doesn't get much after sales.

OEM parts do sell for more than third party. And so there is money in OEM parts, but after 5 years most people are buying replacement parts from the third party (the OEM doesn't make those parts - they are buying from a third party and putting a markup on them). Sometimes people will buy OEM parts instead of a third party as OEM tends to give much higher quality vs random third party.
I'm sure there are some companies that realise security (or rather the critical lack of some important aspect of it) can impact profits, but that depends a lot on who their customers are too. Ultimately, if the customers who pay for a vendor's products and services don't value it, then the vendors won't value it either, short of any regulatory or legal requirements that might compel them otherwise. However, given that many large organizations (including governments) are Microsoft customers, it's strange to see in this case. Maybe there's a kind of "it can't happen to us" or "nobody will find out about it" arrogance going on, but they must now be seeing that the reputational damage is likely to have negative impacts, including hurting future profits, down the road.
Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests
By sessions you mean tabs? The default one can do that too.
Yes it's just another tax on Canadian customers to fund the CBC et al and whatever diverse content means.
Don’t forget Angles.
A scientific mission to save the sharks
This post is giving me the same energy as[1]. I'm usually not so blunt about callouts, but this just seems blatant.

[1] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/78030000/...
Zoe is very popular in France and is being discontinued because it's replaced by the new Alpine A290, that was announced 2 hours ago.

Edit: Correction, it's the most popular electric car un Europe.

> by the end of 2020, the Zoe ranked as the all-time best selling plug-in car in Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe#Sales_and_markets
How do these examples you list support the idea that memory somehow involves quantum mechanics?
>I hope that we use this opportunity to improve public transit in Europe a lot more than it already is done.

And I hope for all wars and world famine to end and all employers to let me WFH so I won't need a car and to raise my salary by at least inflation every year. The thing is we rarely get what we wish for, and in the EU countries I've been it's not really improving at the rate needed for people to give up on cars. The reality is the public transportation infra develops much slower than the demand shifts on the ground, hence why cars will always be with us.
Do you think all previous wealth will simply be 'reset' in some way, come the AI rapture?
China has become a scientific superpower
> No country without a basic civic sense can (in the immediate few years) have the R&D capabilities you speak of in a meaningful fashion.

LOL. Pray tell… Are you going to elaborate on your theory of technology development, or are you just bloviating your biases?
> What do these companies do about browsers?

Many things, browsers are pretty configurable via group policy. One possibility is to force browsers to go through a proxy that inspects all traffic, for example.