skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Settlers of Catan is still a fine game, but can be tedious when you have to wait for other players to take long turns

One house rule we use that dramatically speeds up the game is open-hand resources. No more asking "Does anybody have...?" incessantly. Just look around and get ready for your trade. The bulk of game time is actually just trading.

We also remove the bandit and rolling an 7 is an automatic free resource for the roller and a re-roll. This helps unblock a lot of players in the beginning who are just sitting around waiting forever for a brick or similar.

With these changes games are easily 2x or 3x faster.
So is it running on the phone or not?
We have a decent chunk of layout and paint implemented in an HTML renderer I'm working on (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz), which is targeting the "electron" use case (but with a rust scripting interface rather than a JS one).

The implementation is currently very immature and there are a lot of bugs and missing features (I only got a first cut of inline layout working yesterday (but we already have flexbox and grid implemented)), but we're already seeing pretty decent results on a bunch of real-world web pages and hope to be at the point where we can render most of the web (excl. JS) in the next 6 - 12 months.

There are some screenshots on the PR for the inline layout branch https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz/pull/63
Yeah, I can definitely understand that it's probably far faster (and cheaper, and reliable) to transfer the data in the shop with a USB cable in both directions.

In fact, it's probably fastest to have a small bank of hard drives that you can physically pull from the vehicle and swap out for a fresh one. You could probably pack a few hundred TB of storage into a unit that could fit in a briefcase and have it loaded with fresh map data and lots of room for logs.
I'm surprised this hasn't got much traction on HN.

Maybe worth a repost?
Exactly. As a former founder who dealt with hospitalization and thousands of dollars a year in medical bills on the sh!t insurance startups can afford, I too would rather have 500K now than 50M later. There's also a good chance I could turn 500K into 5M-20M in 10 years with reasonably low risk investments.

Plus, setting 100K aside for medical bills and even throwing the 400K into Bitcoin is a far less risky investment than me NOT being in a FAANG and accumulating 401K money which is absolutely critical if you want to keep up with the rising cost of life through retirement. When everyone else who joined Google or Meta out of college and now has a 10 million net worth at 40, that defines the cost of living in the area, and that's the bar you have to keep up with if you want to still live here at 40, 50, 60. Chipotle will cost $50 in a few years. A 1 bedroom apartment will cost $5000 in a few years. UberEats was $15 when it started, already costs $50 for lunch in my area, and at this rate, it will be $200 in a few years. Because those people can afford it, so greedy owners and greedy landlords will up their prices, so I will have to pay not just my $5000 rent, but also the Chipotle worker's rent, and the Chipotle franchise's rent, in order for their prices to stay profitable. The cost of living in the bay has tracked the S&P500, not the CPI. YOU will be priced out if you didn't have liquidity at a younger age to throw into some investments.

I'm at a large company right now. Being compensated enough to be able to afford life in the bay area now, having enough income to afford a mold-free modern apartment in a place where I don't need to worry about getting mugged, and hedge the risks of all the crap that's going on in the world was a big part of my reason to join one. If I had enough saved to "feel safe", I would absolutely be doing a startup again.
Just wanted to add that I appreciate the answer nonetheless. Let me know if there's someplace we can connect, I'm mostly on LinkedIn (see profile).
It's too bad this new law doesn't mirror the European Digital Markets Act. Then users would be prompted to choose their browser instead of having it selected for them.
Pearl clutching parents leading to PR disasters?
Depends on the time of Analytics. Quantitative analytics yes, but qualitative analytics also work with a smaller sample size.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution:

> For device displays such as phones, tablets, monitors and televisions, the use of the term display resolution as defined above is a misnomer, though common. The term display resolution is usually used to mean pixel dimensions, the maximum number of pixels in each dimension (e.g. 1920 × 1080), which does not tell anything about the pixel density of the display on which the image is actually formed: resolution properly refers to the pixel density, the number of pixels per unit distance or area, not the total number of pixels. In digital measurement, the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch (PPI).
I hope your corporations all get taken down by persistent threats created by your own cruel policies, if you think any of that is justifiable.

Literally just revoke the credentials. If you want to be extra, don't be surprised if you find your company source repos on the dark web, for Justice and Profit.
Humans+AI isn't more productive once AI is smarter than humans. Humans in the loop would only slow things down, like a toddler in command of an adult.
Yeah. Founding engineers are drinking the koolaid narrative from the founders. I know I have been in the past.
> outsourcing the creation of a bedtime story for your child is just bad parenting. While I don’t have kids myself, I absolutely agree. It’s not just your job to be creative, inventive, and silly with your child. It’s a chance to do a little improv and giggle about your cleverness together.

Maybe it's not too bad communication to use templates when creating emails intended to be read by humans, but to have those autogenerated emails to say things like "thank you" or "sorry" in any form certainly is.
13,000 seems surprisingly small, all things considered. Seems like the sort of task where you could automate it with a small LLM instance and process millions of books easily. Then extract all of the key strings and have a set of tens of thousands of ways to describe time which can be searched for as fixed-string matches, and might be of interest in its own right. (How do mentioned times change over history? Do they get more precise? Do books take place at wider ranges of the day?)
It won’t be along until the ads come back. I did the same thing. The ads always come back. Ended up returning it.
Also calling it anti-leftist is just poor framing, paramilitar organizations have very close ties with the right-wing politicians here.
if i heard an AI ballad about heartbreak or a punk anthem about injustice, my response would be "what the fuck do you know about it?"

some music can be passively listened to and is built with consumption in mind (e.g., background music in games or restaurants).

other music has a message and (as pretentious as this sounds) is about communication and connection between the artist and listener.
The options were likely 10k when he was issued them at hiring. When leaving the company, he would need to purchase those options (likely within 90 days if it's a shitty policy). Then, the real kicker is that he would have to pay taxes on the on-paper gains between the 10k and the current valuation. So lets say the company was worth half of what it was at IPO, he would now own 2.5m of stock, owe taxes on 2.49m of income, and have to pay that off with early engineer salary and no liquidity on his equity.
Makes me think of a quote my high school friend loved so much: "Eat shit - millions of flies can't possibly be wrong!".
"To receive an alpha access code. 1. Join our Discord, 2. Follow us on Twitter, 3. Retweet our alpha announcement post on Twitter. Players who get into Alpha will get a limited-edition treasure chest with..." Nope. Nope nope nope.
It seems like this can’t run all models, and needs custom ones trained from scratch: “ We introduce two new models: TurboSparse-Mistral-7B and TurboSparse-Mixtral-47B. These models are sparsified versions of Mistral and Mixtral […]. Notbly, our models are trained with just 150B tokens within just 0.1M dollars”.

It remains to be seen how good these custom models are.
I wanted to write a sane version of this function, and it looks exactly like this.
I've driven around a lot of dogs sleeping in the street in Mexico. Everybody else does too, claro que si. Now imagine a child. No one is going to threaten that child.

Assholes exist everywhere in the world but I would walk across an ungoverned street intersection in Mexico sooner than cross your average 2+lanes each fully lighted intersection in the US.

Edit: and so I now add, that that's what it means to bump around with your neighbors, near daily. Humans seem to need the street life of a busy neighborhood with pedestrian traffic toward the local suppliers of the banal things of daily life, before they retain the idea of the sanctity of humans when they are thinking more abstractly.

The contradiction of course is WW1 and WW2, which happened in countries all adhering more or less to these characteristics.

So I dunno. Maybe we're all fucked in the end, and I at least will indulge my family in the residual beauty before the inevitable next societal upheaval.
It's a mostly USA policy.

It exists in other countries too, but is far less strong.
> I question how many people are even aware the G is supposed to stand for Graphics anymore.

Most people aren't aware, because the industry never called attention to the morphng definition of GPU.

At that, CPUs aren't Central (for large-scale array-oriented computing workloads) anymore either. (They still are for enterprise or web workloads. Or, they're "Central" in terms of coordinating GPUs and moving data around. But no longer "Central" in terms of "does most of the computing".)
You're suggesting that it's somehow made in a way that's more conscious of externalities or wealth inequalities than cheaper competitors, a suggestion that I think is unwarranted.
It's not a "tech" book, as if it were a 2008 book on how to use a specific version of Access. It's on programming practices. Most good programming books from 20 or 30 years ago are still relevant today. Instead of acting smug with your jackie chan meme(?) you could just ask next time. I hate these one line "zingers" people drop like this is twitter.
No, his re-arc code does not enable generating more tasks, it merely allows to generate more examples for the already existing training tasks. Also, it can't generate task-solving programs either, it's author merely also provided a solution program for each generator program to verify the validity of the generated examples.
Ex ante it's hard to tell what's shitty and what isn't. Remember some VCs also got fooled by it!
The speed improvement is only for models that don't entirely fit in memory, i.e. memory-starved llama.cpp degenerates to ~20x slower.

However, this scheme does reduce memory usage by 40%, meaning it allows models that are 67% bigger. It's a quality improvement, not a performance one.

> For models that fit entirely within the memory, PowerInfer-2 can achieve approximately a 40% reduction in memory usage while maintaining inference speeds comparable to llama.cpp and MLC-LLM.
I use self-hosted https://fider.io

For other data collections, I use form within the analytics platform, something like [0], where I store metadata attached to a user session.

[0]: https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/useful-examples/feedback-form...
Intentions.

The first is a conscious decision, the second is not.
Processes can't have children either, since, being a bunch of arithmetic, they lack genitalia. You can't kill them, because they aren't alive. They can't even sleep(1), another biological process fast arithmetic has no use for.

When will the false advertising end?!?
I don't even really use it for that. I have a kitchen timer on my microwave and another one on the oven. Both are easy to set. I can see if they're running and how much time is left.
This was behind a flag since last year. Sadly no immersive-ar still, which means no passthrough when in WebXR app.
I mean it is only as long as the parent needs to cook for.
You've possibly misinterpreted what I said. To gesture vaguely some more, it's not necessarily about what's fastest, but rather what involves the least human intervention. Wish I could be more clear.
I was part of the Mozilla team that kickstarted the WebVR spec that predates WebXR. I’ve been also maintaining A-Frame (Framework to develop Web based AR/VR experiences) for more than 8 years. This announcement makes me so happy. It’s been a decade long effort.
I disagree, I think the Constitution is a suicide pact. And I wouldn't trust anyone to define what's a "dog whistle."
Raccoon Tycoon is great for 2-5 and I can’t recommend it enough.
Wonder how that would mix with these real-time rules then. The blog post claims they can finish a "six-player Cities and Knights game in about 45 minutes". I doubt that would be 2x to 3x faster. But it might speed things up to take only half an hour.
It's funny that we used to laugh about pirate websites having those kinds of ads, but the difference now is just that it's "ok" videos instead of banners drawn using MSPaint.
* Race for the Galaxy
* Roll for the Galaxy
* Azul
Maybe they meant the university
Over 100 successful ejections per year? That's wild! That sounds like an awful lot of hull losses. And how many people weren't saved?

What's the risk calculus look like for a plane with an ejection seat vs. a plane without one? War obviously has one risk profile, but military vehicles and their operation differ wildly from day to day commercial operation.
AR mode will come. Rendering directly on the frame buffer with video pass through is not yet available on native either. It makes sense that Apple wants to keep platform consistency.
Part of vacuum up the talent strategy that made it more expensive to launch any competition.

Other part, buying out any promising startups and letting them rot on the sidelines of the main business.
Try playing around with getting GPT-4 to discuss creative solutions to real unsolved problems you are personally an expert on, or created yourself. That video looks like just standard internet ragebait to me.

I find it pretty annoying when people say you are just being manipulated by hype if you are impressed by LLMs, when I was a serious skeptic, thought GPT-3 was useless, and only changed my opinion by directly experimenting with GPT-4 on my own- by getting it to discuss and solve problems in my area of expertise as an academic researcher.
I mean it's not by the Sqlite authors. That like opposing someone "monetizing" any open source library by using it?
>Aiming to come online in 2030.

That is a funny way to type 2080....
Do you all not think that companies should charge prices that maximize their profits (in the long run)? Typically, companies are trying to predict the price elasticity curve that yields the most profit via # units sold * price. That said, if you overcharge, that could be bad for the brand, turning off users in the short and longer term.

Another product like this for me is the Manta Sleep Pro Mask. It’s $80, but the best I’ve found, so I buy it anyways. I’m mildly annoyed and also feel like they’re taking advantage of me on price and will switch as soon as there’s an alternative at least as good for less…but when that happens, they’ll probably lower their price, which is what typically happens as sectors and products mature due to competition.

Profit maximization curves are interesting, and I think explain things like how convenience stores exist with much lower volume compared to grocery stores. Eg XYZ food costs 90 cents and the grocery store sells it for $1, yielding profit of 10% whereas a convenience store sells it for $1.50, just a 50% increase in price for the consumer (for the convenience), but the profit is 6x that for the grocery store, so they only need to sell approx 1/6 to make the same profit.

In the case of the author clock. If COGS is $50, profit is $150ish. If they sold for $100, they’d have to sell 3x as many to make the same profit. Given that it’s a niche product for readers (smaller population and typically more educated and wealthier), I think they care less about the price. Doesn’t seem that unreasonable to me.
The Yeggman
WebXR!!!
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/312804/pendulum is real-time worker-placement. It's pretty good and fun, as long as you can trust everyone not to cheat (even by accident), and if you get sand timers that don't quietly stick when you're not looking at them. Warning: The rulebook suggests learning the mechanics via a turn-based "non-real-time" variant which my wife and I actually found more confusing than just jumping right into the sand-timer-based full game. My advice is to jump right in.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31481/galaxy-trucker is of course fantastic. But more than 50% of the game is not real-time and, as in several Vlaada Chvatil games (e.g. Dungeon Lords), you have to enjoy kind of watching the game play itself for a while.

Of course there are also many party games involving a real-time deadline, such as https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/219215/werewords and https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/134352/two-rooms-and-a-b... .
Ah nice. Thanks for the extra info. I’m weirdly fascinated by the inner workings of Postgres.
If you've installed Flameshot using homebrew on MacOS, this will do a similar thing:

/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/flameshot/12.1.0/flameshot.app/Contents/MacOS/flameshot gui -s -r | tesseract - - | (text=$(cat) && osascript -e "display dialog \"$text\" with title \"OCR Result\" buttons {\"OK\"} default button \"OK\"")
I find the "pg connections take a lot of memory" to be mostly a myth. The number floating around is 10 - 20MB per connection but it looks it's more like 2MB per connection https://blog.anarazel.de/2020/10/07/measuring-the-memory-ove...
So would Apple have to allow browsers other than Safari to exist on iOS?
Once AIs are significantly smarter than humans, working humans become a problem, like "working" toddlers would be a problem today. They are useless at best and worse than useless at worst. There will be no economic incentive to pay humans to work.
New theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling
I hate the 7 because it just adds too much randomness to a strategy game.
Ocaml makes me wonder if we really do need the trade off. It’s a fairly advanced language, and compiles super fast. I wonder why it’s such an outlier among advanced languages?
Eink is bad for anything that changes often; the flicker of the screen refresh would be distracting.

There is a high chance that the quote would disappear before you finish reading.

Even ignoring these flaws the item seems significantly overpriced.
> PFAS are a class of around 15,000 compounds that are dubbed “forever chemicals” because they don’t naturally break down, accumulating in the human body and environment.

Under this definition would lead be considered a forever chemical?
Sorry, I basically don't understand anything in your first paragraph, so I'll take your word for it.

If I absolutely needed a non-Linux OS for some work, now that Proton has freed gaming, I'd probably get a MacBook before a Windows machine these days. But if I had to support Windows, a Windows VM could also be an option. I'd need a lot on the line for me to considering installing a Windows partition ever again.
WebXR has been in Safari for Vision Pro since day one but disabled by default behind a flag. It’s the usual process that browser vendors follow to ship new APIs. In the fall it will be enabled by default for everyone.
I suppose the "up to" might only refer to the ram, and not the NVME storage, which would admittedly make more sense.
No Reddit f-u money?
I apologize. I sometimes introduce typos, especially when using autocomplete on tiny mobile keyboards. I'm sure it's just me and never happens to anybody else.

Anyway, I corrected that typo. Please, oh please, take me seriously now.
From the abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06282 :

> Notably, PowerInfer-2 is the first system to serve the TurboSparse-Mixtral-47B model with a generation rate of 11.68 tokens per second on a smartphone. For models that fit entirely within the memory, PowerInfer-2 can achieve approximately a 40% reduction in memory usage while maintaining inference speeds comparable to llama.cpp and MLC-LLM

What does this do with a 40 TOPS+ NPU/TPU?
> This was my initial mindset as someone whose background lies in untyped languages

Yes, I understand and agree regarding Rust vs dynamic languages, but to be clear my remark was already assuming type checking. I still think you need a full iteration loop even if a type checker gets you a long ways relative to a dynamic language.
Well, there's no economic incentive to pay low-skill workers minimum wage. The incentive is violence! They voted saying you gotta, and you'll be fined (I guess that's economic), imprisoned, or killed if you refuse. :p
The big differences are:

* UK requires appliances to be eco friendly - that means for most appliances they only take a quarter of the energy to do the same job. Dishwasher/washing machine/etc.

* UK housing has really high insulation requirements for new builds. Your body heat will keep it warm most of the year. They are starting to require retrofits for old buildings too.

* Widespread use of LED lighting and expensive electricity

* Smaller houses - less rooms etc.

* Tumble driers aren't widespread (big energy user).

* Electric water heating is rare (most houses use gas or oil).

* Air conditioning isn't widespread, despite the climate kinda needing it in the middle of summer.
Neither are you, during those 10 000 hours most of the time you aren't absolutely still.
The article presents a misleading analysis of renewable energy costs, which needs correction for a rational discussion on energy and decarbonization.

The LCOE measures overall production costs but overlooks availability and reliability. This is problematic for intermittent sources like solar and wind, which can't ensure continuous production. For instance, solar energy isn't feasible at night, necessitating backup sources like gas, coal, or nuclear. It's worth considering the immense lithium required for a 100% solar-powered country.

If renewables were the most cost-effective, private investors would already favor them. Yet, investments continue in gas and coal due to their reliability and continuous output, essential for economic stability.

Countries like Germany have replaced nuclear reactors with coal plants, despite their decarbonization goals, and India relies on fossil fuels for economic growth.

Misleading articles hinder decarbonization efforts. It's crucial that energy discussions are grounded in concrete data and rational analysis to advance towards a sustainable future.
Probably some years with much higher numbers due to wars that would skew the average.
This makes me wonder about AGI and super intelligences. Why would our brains be able to engineer something more intelligent than our brains?

The only room seems to be in emergence from incredible amounts of processing power and data or perhaps many brains working together can overcome the limitations of one brain.
Paper for the sparcified mixtral models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05955
That's already happening in the EU: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-b...