skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuclear strong force has been measured using colision of very fast protons and (anti)protons. When they colide fast enough, the interaction is from a quark in one of them with a quark in the other, and that siplifies the calculations.

(Inside a proton or neutron, there is like a soup of virtual quarks and gluons, and that makes any calculation more difficult.)

There are many mistakes in the article. Let's pick one:

> It is that the nucleons of a nucleus link together through spin pairing into chains involving modules of the form -neutron-proton-proton-neutron- or equivalently proton-neutron-neutron-proton-. These chains can close forming rings.

> The first one consists of two protons and two neutrons in a closed chain module of the form -n-p-p-n- (or, equivalently -p-n-n-p-). This is equivalent to an alpha particle (He 4 nucleus). Thus such chain modules can be appropriately called alpha modules.

This is in contradiction with a lot of quantum mechanic results. Inside a nucleus the protons and the neutrons don't have a position. You only have a wavefunction that gives a probability didtribution to find it. It's very similar to the "clouds of probabilities" associated with the orbitals of the electrons but much smaller. Some nice graphics https://www.google.com/search?q=electron+orbitals&udm=2

In particular, in a alpha particle the 4 objects are not in a ring (like in the article) or in a grape (like in the usual graphic). They are all distributed in a small spherical cloud that looks like a 1S of the electrons.
Llama3 is very keen to be nice. I kind of wonder if that's due to better results on the chatbot arena (probably not, just a conspiracy theory I like). But with enough context available, you can definitely tweak the response in many ways. Give an example or two, tell it to be an emotionally detached HAL, you'll get what you want.
MPEG 5 EVC Baseline, arguably the improved / refined version of H.264, actually compress better while having the same complexity, Both in terms of mental model and computational cost.

Somewhat unfortunate that never became anything.
> One of the problems with Bash is that it insists on doing bash-y things even when you tell it to act like sh.

Its behaviour is a common behaviour of all sh, not just Bash.
I personally use Amcrest, with the home router blocking internet access, and AI done via Frigate and a Google Coral chip.
Tractors use jake brakes and they have service lives near a million miles. The best maxim is "proper maintenance is the cheapest part of them all."
Even cheaper: https://mashable.com/article/cotsco-disaster-kit
Such a good reply. Even if somehow you avoid even creeping bit of AI (I'm trying as hard as I can), you will inevitably live amongst others that don't have the same information literacy or skepticism as some of us. And while using a chat bot might be personally innocent, any such users are absolutely feeding and training the beast and enabling OpenAI's next oversteps.
The BMJ Christmas edition is a bit of humour. It's making fun of how everything needs to be a randomized controlled trial and observational evidence is considered inferior ignoring all common sense.

I would have linked the older version of this joke study: https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
Researchers Uncover NPM Registry Vulnerability to Cache Poisoning and DoS
Anyone who stumbles into your SHAllenge ought to know that JS isn't going to be really competitive, so I think you're good. A warning might encourage them to delve a little deeper. I like that it makes it very accessible.

I assume anyone with knowledge about GPU hashing and the will would be able to steal the top spot very quickly. Assuming seletskiy isn't already that guy. I don't have a good grasp on the compute difference between 8-9 0s and 10 0s in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm glad someone noticed my rare zinger here :)

The Boeing documentaries I've seen have all been great. It really shows the issues with the Jack Welch model of business that only cares about short term quarterly profits. My father used to complain that every new CEO at his company would first fire a bunch of people to make stock go up even knowing the long term implications would be disastrous. He used to say you could train a monkey to press a button and do that. In the case of Boeing, they used to have an engineering culture that prized innovation and safety. Now they don't even know how to make planes anymore from scratch. All they seem to be capable of is modifying existing designs that are now practically ancient. In my eyes it's like having to do a 5000 mile car race and using a bunch of NOS at the beginning. You get ahead of everyone and then blow out the engine and everyone ends up getting way ahead (ok, I don't know much about cars). It's just overly short term thinking.
> You don't want to go through enterprise sales cycles when you are just starting your company.

There's definitely a gradient here. If you are good at juggling sales cycles, you can close "small enterprise" deals. And if you have a good programming layer, instead of going through a full dev process for each thing, you get "integrators" working on things.

The advantage here: once the design is done, you're writing a handful of 10-line scripts. You can have a design meeting, have a person sit down for an hour, and ship out a thing that closes a deal. And the design can be done for _just_ the company's needs instead of a full flow. You can charge an "integration fee" to the customer in this case as well.

A programming layer lets you remove a huge level of tension that comes with B2B sales: juggling specific client needs with your product needs.
Discussion on the research [0] (33 points, 6 days ago, 12 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619344
I have no idea why people are downvoting you. Are they assuming “untempered” is an insult (it’s not, it’s called just intonation), or is the parent post wrong?
Discussion (30 points, 6 hours ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684560
Did this guy just literally ask an AI chatbot for insight on SpaceX's classified military plans?

> "It is unlikely that these gaps can be closed until the end of the decade."

I actually worked out my own BFR plan over the couple years of teasers we had leading up to the 2016 IAC presentation. It was based on a 3-part vehicle a bit like Soyuz (separate hab and capsule) of 15m diameter for the launcher and 12m diameter for the upper stage, payload, and capsule, which seemed to offer more options than a 2-part vehicle.

Musk makes some very optimistic plans, some of them clearly without doing the math, and each numerically extraordinary aspect renders the other numerically extraordinary aspects more difficult to believe. Even if you can class 80 or 90% of his ideas as "Audacious but feasible", there are frequent areas where he gets ahead of himself and projects unlikely extremes that become numerical impossibilities in conjunction with each other.

What is clear is that you can launch a colony on Mars based around Starship-like vehicles, but the number of launches per human Mars resident to sustain and switch them out is large ("100 colonists per launch vehicle" is wildly overshooting; Keeping 100 colonists alive for a return mission will require hundreds of Starship-sized launches, some of them years in advance), the risks are large, and that the missions are at minimum conjunction-class (a 3 year round trip) rather than opposition class. A colony that attempts to grow until it approaches self sufficiency demands lots and lots of automation, an expansive ISRU, mining, and agricultural industry, and a population of maybe ~10^4 people; Getting there is going to demand literally 10^5 to 10^6 launches, decades of work, and 10^4 to 10^5 reusable launch vehicles in play for decades.

But it's got to start somewhere; Hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit like "Flags and footprints" and "We can save some cost by using a once-in-a-decade Venus orbital assist" and "We can fit a manned Mars program into a 20 billion dollar NASA budget in theory" does not colonize other planets at all.
Oracle continues to sell Sun SPARC based hardware as the best platform for Oracle database. Also Oracle wanted to own Java.
I am curious about how would the general public be made aware of another Carrington-class storm. NOAA rated May 2024 storm as G5, which is the highest rating for a geomagnetic storm regarding its effect on the public.
Best in terms of compression efficiency. Although x266 has been delayed by 6 months and counting.

But it is currently being used in India and China already. So its usage is much bigger than a lot of people would imagine.
Searching "giga-goose" before June 3rd brings up basically nothing, someone last year called this species a "gigantic goose" and a bunch of unrelated things. I wonder where the nickname came from, and how important it was towards getting this article published.

Also I wonder if there's a move away from "mega" towards "giga" as mega anything seems kinda small. I can't see "tera" ever being a thing, I can't think of an independent connection to some other word meaning large.
Good for you. But I agree with the "survivorship bias" story. I wanna hear from the person who didn't recover physically and developed the emotional, mental and spiritual strength to still enjoy life. Life sometimes doesn't get better from the outside looking in.
We here for you
I sort of doubt that she was actually feeling calm. Adrenaline could potentially create such a feeling because of the mental concentration coming from it, but it's extremely hard to believe a novice parachuter, who seemed to make several mistakes, remained "calm" during an event in which her breaking her back was about the best outcome she could hope for.

> Even as Hatmaker spiralled towards the ground, she says the thought she might die never crossed her mind. At most, she thought she might break a leg – jeopardising her plans to climb to Mount Everest Base Camp three days later, a trip that had been a goal of hers for a couple of years.

This seems completely illogical and naive. I mean, really? I'd be worried about dying, breaking my leg, or breaking my back falling off my roof, much less from 13,000 feet.
How would search + LLMs work together in practice?

How about using search to derive facts from ontological models, and then writing out the discovered facts in English. Then train the LLM on those English statements. Currently LLMs are trained on texts found on the internet mostly (only?). But information on the internet is often false and unreliable.

If instead we would have logically sound statements by the billions derived from ontological world-models then that might improve the performance of LLMs significantly.

Is something like this what the article or others are proposing? Give the LLM the facts, and the derived facts. Prioritize texts and statements we know and trust to be true. And even though we can't write out too many true statements ourselves, a system that generated them by the billions by inference could.
i’m not sure if i like contextual search. a profile of me is ripe for exploitation and sale
This vs the and motor vehicle needing quotes are debatable. The last sentence doesn’t need a comma but probably should be reworded for clarity.

Seems about as difficult to parse as typical highly technical writing.
I don't understand people taking unnecessary, potentially terminal risks just for the adrenaline. Like parachuting or bungee jumping. Maybe they have some endocrine deficit and try to overcompensate? Can't they get it in another, more earthly way (no pun intended)?

Like I have an acquaintance (ex-workmate) who lived in a house next to the aerodrome, not since very long. There's frequent parachuting and so far already several guys have free-fallen near to his location. Eventually he sold the house and moved.

The title says "Monthly accidents. Last month two skydiving learners fell during a jump with the parachute. This Sunday another 23 years old parachutist ended in the hospital": https://ziardecluj.ro/dezmir-luna-si-accidentul-un-parasutis...

I recommend motorcycling, not necessarily riding it, just being nearby a location frequently transited by extremely loud exhaust bikes should be enough to raise your blood pressure. And if being on the receiving end of the assholes doesn't do the trick, become one: buy a Japanese "race" motorcycle with brutally loud exhaust and circle the neighbourhood all day enjoying making people's lives miserable. If confronted, play the victim switcheroo: lament how bikers are at risk of being hit by negligent car drivers and the demented cry "wee wee" is just a necessary protection measure to make sure they notice you.

(BTW the part about motorcycles is satire, if you don't get it. My dislike for them is real, though. So the adrenaline spike when they pass nearby).
Draw a line on the screen from top to bottom. You interpreted "rotate away" as turning it around this axis, which is the same axis you used for the 90-degree clockwise turn. You end up with the screen right-side-up, just facing away from you. It's the same thing I intuitively did.

Now draw a line on the screen from left to right. "Rotate away" by turning the phone around this new axis - so the top of the phone moves away from you, and the bottom of the phone moves closer to you. You end up with the screen upside-down, and also facing away from you.
MOSIS has been around since the early '80's. In the past, I made experimental image sensor using the service.

https://themosisservice.com/
Yeah that’s neither what they did nor how the first amendment works. The first amendment places restrictions on what the government can do not what private entities can and cannot restrict.
Oh yeah, and I doubt it would even get to the point of fooling anyone enough to give it any type of control over humans. It might be damaging in other ways, it will definitely convince a lot of people of some very incorrect things.
Just need Bruckheimer + Bay and/or Emmerich to make a couple of disaster movies about the concept to incept it into the public's mind. Hopefully that will then provide NOAA the popular support to do what they need to do.
I believe he is talking about black swan event like an asteroid impact. Not the current problems with climate change. It's more about there being another branch of humanity that's thriving than for people to "escape".
Nevermind the security and ethical issues.

The implementation will be a slog, annoying, and distract from something that Microsoft ought to care about: creating a delightful, snappy experience.

Why isn’t recall a piece of software instead of an operating system integration?

Can apps spawn apps? Like, if you want chrome session recalled- open recall, then open chrome from there?

Why does every new feature need to enshitificate the operating system? Isn’t that an indication that the operating system doesn’t give app developers enough expressive power to create tools that they must go up the hierarchy and reach for OS modification?
Telling someone they’re wrong or that they disagree with someone, even if they are a part of the government while doing so, is not removing someone’s freedom of speech.

Government, and those in it, also have a right to speech.
what’s that output from and how can i understand it? i’m happy to rtfm - just want a pointer. thanks!
> Have you heard of the most expensive toaster? It’s a Mitsubishi toaster that can cook your toast just right.

That's my point. It does that without a language model. Not only is perfect toast a solved problem, but slathering on a layer of LLM bullshit isn't going to make it more affordable than the Mitsubishi.
> done properly

I don't tell anyone to deadlift unless I'm there coaching them. Even then, I'm not good enough. You should get a qualified trainer if you want to deadlift, and you should make damn sure your doing everything else right first, sleeping, stretching, eating right, etc.

The % of people who are gonna benefit from walking up to a bar and doing a deadlift right now in the West is probably something like 10%.

You think it's not a big deal until you start meeting people who seriously injured themselves..some of them have been working out for years, some just getting started.
Roughly what proportion of the ARPU on social media comes from expat Indians/ OCIs vs Indian-resident users? Ditto for Pakistan and Bangladesh?
I believe that deplorable paucity of RCT evidence was first noted in 2003, in "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/

I'm glad to see that's finally been addressed! Though for the counterpoint, also see "Most medical practices are not parachutes: a citation analysis of practices felt by biomedical authors to be analogous to parachutes"

https://www.cmajopen.ca/content/cmajo/6/1/E31.full.pdf
I know the published stats show it to be relatively safe, but it’s poorly regulated and not clear if all accidents are reported:

“28 people died from skydiving near Lodi. How does the Parachute Center stay in business?”

https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article282562433....
I had an 'l' for '1' error half a century ago in FORTRAN code, keyed in by me on punch cards. The line printer printout of my code distinguished the two symbols, but the ribbon was old and the distinction was nearly--not entirely--obliterated in print.
I am not saying this as veiled criticism. I am asking this so I can understand what you said better because my sleep is terrible. When you say no electronics entirely, do you mean after dusk or something? Because obviously you wrote this post.
The scene maybe, but outside of the scene and into general uploads I'd say it's more like 80% h265.
Also part of 40. (In Google Maps, you can click on a building to get its address.) Actually, for me today the ‘40’ renders on the west part.
>You likely won't be doing anything on it that requires 16 GB.

That CPU has 8 cores.

In practice, just doing "make -j8" would require those 16GB.

As for laptop usage, some 10h after booting my 16GB x86 laptop, KDE and chromium open with some 200 tabs (the usual), 10GB of swap are already used.

16GB is already barely cutting it, and it would be a major handicap to have any less.
A huge swath of the scientific publishing community - including several journals for which geology is only a fraction of the fields they cover - engaging in a conspiracy to is a pretty extraodinary claim.

You have not produced extraordinary evidence - or even evidence at all.

You also don't provide the motive for such a conspiracy.

The kicker: you claim the USGS is leading the charge in shutting down all prediction research, yet the only page you cite is to USGS page which includes a link to a group that engages in prediction experiments: https://www.scec.org/research/csep
The Contempt Factor is used by engines sometimes.

"The Contempt Factor reflects the estimated superiority/inferiority of the program over its opponent. The Contempt factor is assigned as draw score to avoid (early) draws against apparently weaker opponents, or to prefer draws versus stronger opponents otherwise."

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Contempt_Factor
Or even easier, instead of building new cities, revive existing cities throughout the rust belt with new housing.

Bonus, you get a lot of infrastructure, social networks, etc prebuilt for free.
I usually hear it's N avenues away if you need to walk east-west in Manhattan.
It would be slow, no?
It will be a step increase for sure, but remember (If I understand correctly) it's only iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max owners to start. Any number of other players (Google, Microsoft, Meta) could jump in with prominent image generators by the time Apple rolls out more broadly.
> Just because you can squint hard enough to only see events being emitted

If you squint hard enough you can fool yourself into thinking all metrics have the same availability requirements. It’s not the case. There are plenty of time series data metrics where arbitrarily dropping them or aggregating them would throw off your alerting entirely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339UrDjHDio
At least as far as the arguments made in March SCOTUS seemed largely skeptical of the limits some states seem to want to put on government as far as their communication with social media companies:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/03/supreme-court-seems-skept...
How many empty houses are currently in the US, either as 4th/5th homes, bad investments, being held hostage to raise local prices, etc?

Can we force those’s usage through vacancy taxes first / at the same time?
For me personally, I just have so little want to do anything like that. If it goes wrong, you go splat, and there's very little you can do about it. Is that the way you want to go, just jumping out of something? I mean, even getting injured and living is still ridiculous sounding. "How did you break your back?" "Oh, I jumped from 10,000 feet." The best case is that you get a "thrill" out of being reminded that gravity exists.

I wonder if a lot of these people have some issues that cause them to seek the adrenaline and other hormone rushes from these activities. And it's very likely many get addicted to it once they start such extreme activities.
Society is not under your control. Laying the blame at society's feet is a way for those who are suffering to abscond themselves of the burden to change their behaviour.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter who's fault it is, it just matters what you do about it.

Of course, the truth is somewhere in between, but leaning towards "take personal ownership of the problem" is probably a better default setting.
There are so many visible red flags in this one and my priors are sturdy enough that I think it's safe to call it nonsense with barely a skim. This seems like somebody that came to a spurious conclusion and then decided to write a paper justifying it by spamming statistical techniques until something fit.
If you feel that strongly, there are other non-Webkit/Blink options besides Firefox.
We need to first ask what we mean by Free Will before contemplating whether we have it or not. So we have to ask, if we have free will what is it free of? I would propose it means free from undue influence by others.

Think of some politicians claiming they stand for "freedom". Freedom from what and freedom for whom. My freedom to do anything I want, carry a machine gun for instance, interferes from the freedom others want to be free of gun violence. So when talking about freedom we have to always consider freedom for whom to do what? Similarly "free will" must be qualified by: free of what?

I think a good answer is "free from coercion by others". Now, you can coerce me to do anything, to say anything, and really to WANT anything you want me to want, by threatening my life with a gun. So, we only have free will in as far nobody is infringing on our basic freedoms.
PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python
That’s a very good point. I think in his own way Clarke made it into a bit of a joke. HAL is quoted multiple times saying no computer like him has ever made a mistake or distorted information. Perfection is impossible even in a super computer so this quote alone establishes HAL as a liar, or at the very least a hubristic fool. And the people who gave him control of the ship were foolish as well.
It's really weird that giga was used, since mega has a specific meaning in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna
The article had a great headline but I didn’t really understand it. Your Twitter post filled in the missing details.

Thank you!
Honestly, motorcycling at track days is pretty adrenaline inducing (I've never personally done it) but decently safe if the track staff take it seriously and you do too.