skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seems like it wouldn't be that hard to have a lifeguard spot someone with a laser and then a drone drop a life jacket on that spot. They could just use the laser until the drone has the coordinates of the reflection and then start swimming while the drone flys ahead and drops a life jacket at least somewhat close.

if that doesn't pan out then pivot and sell the tech to the military replacing life jacket with a grenade of some sort.
Nobody is ever going to break up ASML. Apple is, in the grand scheme of things much less important. Much less.
I like the idea to start with the most efficient specie but other animals/vegetable we eat are in fact already very bred out for efficiency. So much that some very efficient ranchs choose to slaughter babies caws at birth because they are “milk bred” male or “meat bred” female and not economically viable.
Using the term "robot", which gives the impression of some kind of automation here, is the disconnect here I think. In the end the operator is probably just using a remote from the beach side.

Looking at the actual demonstration of it, it makes some sense to me. Maybe not not at $12k plus some kind of support contract with it, but it makes some sense.

A couple of things to think about:

One big part about trying to save someone in the water, especially water where you can't stand in, is "throw, don't go". That person out there will likely pull you under and drown you, even if they don't mean to. This makes it so the thing you "throw" has a hell of a lot more range.

That thing ripped through the water pretty quick to get to the person drowning. A lifeguard wouldn't be that fast to get out there. Having them quickly ready to toss in and have a lifeguard in a tower with good visibility get out there to a swimmer that just needs a stable float and help coming back in. Getting to a person struggling in the water before they go under is very important especially in water that isn't very clear.

With how fast it was going, I bet it would also do well to help pull someone in that's struggling to fight a current, something a lifeguard would also have a hard time (sometimes nearly impossible) doing.
hence the need for an all-all-all-all-all powerful general garbage collector
Also recommend the Kalevala if you are curious about such things. It's very interesting.
Been using this for about a year and it is awesome! allows a lot more control than fancy zones.
https://www.ft.com/content/175d212b-0a93-48f5-b68c-2a58bd098...

That's why EDF wants money from the british tax payer for the construction of nuclear power plant?

EDF also wants higher electricity prices, the French government doesn't:

https://www.ft.com/content/eaee5a3d-ba76-40ba-8300-082f58657...

"
In particular, a looming overhaul of the way nuclear power prices are regulated in France has created fractures as EDF seeks higher prices to bring in much-needed capital, while the state wants to contain energy costs for households and businesses as much as possible, the people added.

“For Rémont, electricity prices need to be sufficiently high so that the group can invest, and the government needs to have prices that are acceptable to consumers,” another person said.

At its core, the debate around EDF is an existential one — whether its executives can and should run the group as a normal company despite it being state-owned.
"
Yes please! I always show a "published" date, but also a "last updated" date for my evergreen posts.
I think AI has a place in this world. As does virtual reality, the previous hype. The problem with these hypes is, the overstressed business types that think it is the key to the future for everything. Almost nothing is the next internet. And in a year or so when they don't see their 2000% payoff, they will consider it a flop, which will also harm the genuine efforts that were made and usecases where the tech does add value. It's the overexpectations that hurt it.

The problem starts happening when you shoehorn it into a bunch of shit for the sake of it, where it adds no value and often even degrades it. Like what everyone is now doing with AI. Especially Microsoft.

It's great for some stuff, like making summaries. It's not GenAI and if we try to use it as such (as Nadella is doing) the bubble will burst sooner rather than later and that's bad for the tech community as a whole. I find the journey super interesting however from a personal tech interest point of view and I love playing with it locally. But I'm not blind to its glaring limitations and I don't care whether it makes money or not, I'm just into it for the tech. It's the money boys that keep blowing good stuff up.
Nothing I said, nothing whatsoever was meant to imply kids should not learn to count or acquire the times tables, and learn the fundamentals of mathematics we call arithmetic on the streets.

Nothing.
> But hey, at least it's all technically grammatically correct. Most of the time.

Unless you use it to translate or feed it languages other than English. It's mostly crap.
> The best that can be said is that drugs which affect the brain help some people with diagnosed mental illness

emphasis on "some": https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/01/10/antidepr...
Competition laws
Should we sanitize history of the nazis? How about Rome?

Be less precious. The world is a brutal place and the lessons of that should NEVER be forgotten.
Write the worst Java you possibly can
Write deliberately bad/misleading Java.

We all know what good Java looks like.
Write an implementation of a simple method making it as least understandable as possible while still passing the tests.

A few ideas are: deliberately incorrectly named variables/fields/classes, threads, casts/conversions, overly complicated/unnecessary code, arrays of objects as parameters/return types, etc
63 years of active duty service (1918 - 1982).

Zero naval reactor accidents.

Finally forced to retire after refusing to agree to pay General Dynamics Electric Boat $634 million for mistakes they made in submarine construction.

... yeah, what an asshole.
Let me save you an hour:

Micropython, not real python, on an aliexpress LT716 smartwatch with an el-cheap-o 24MHz TC32 SoC (512KB flash + 16KB of RAM, BLE hardware).
ANS requires 1 bit per symbol if the ratio is 1:1, you can confirm this here: https://kedartatwawadi.github.io/post--ANS/
Why does your ntpd have a json dependency?
What happens if your phone dies? Now you have to go to a counter to get help. That won’t happen with printed tickets.
There are lots of very well established tiling window managers for linux, there likely would be no advantage in porting a windows one to linux, and it may even be somewhat of a fools errand given the specifics of what its doing; you may as well write one from scratch.

i3 is a very widely used tiling manager on linux
Taking the steps multiple times (practicing) will make it fast and trustful.

Guessing may get you a part of the way if you're very good at it, but repeatability is what really hammers it into you. It also gets you out of trouble when for any reason your guessing instinct is not at full steam (when tired or otherwise incapacitated, anxious, etc) since you can usually relatively quickly rely on the steps you have drilled for.
Good points but they have the fabs.

That's why my bets are on them.

Everyone is reliant on ASML and unlikely to change.

Intel has fabs and is too big to fail, the us government won't let it happen.

I'm making a safe bet on the long term, not a speculative one based on a technology that will or won't be worth that valuation.
I doubt that fairy tails in particular could be isolated from the whole culture of insulating children, and it was never, as far as I can tell, a sudden change. You can watch kids movies from the 80s and see a significant difference in the things which children were being exposed to compared to new releases. The change is gradual and has been ongoing for a long time.
I’m thinking maybe the five volumes of Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold et al would fit this bill. Haven’t read it myself but it seems very interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_Cuisine
Tool's Ænema is now playing in my head.
I think there is a fundamental difference between taping music and using it to create a generative "AI". Artists benefit when their music is more widely distributed (even at a loss) as it provides a larger audience for their merchandise and concerts (which helps them make money). In contrast, a generative AI model gives absolutely nothing back to the artist, and it never will. If artists aren't properly compensated for their work, at some point they will be unable to afford to produce new content. Personally, I want to support the artists that create things I like. Moreove, I think supporting artists is the ethical thing to do in this situation.
According to Apple's CFO [1] it's more like 7%, at least for the app-store, but it's hard to see how that wouldn't correlate to overall profits just as it does elsewhere. The regions are ... creatively named.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/more_on_the_eus_market_mi...
In Germany this was part of the physics curriculum.

It made sense since order-of-magnitude estimations constantly come up naturally in all fields of physics, whether you are asking "is this plausibly possible", "what kind of instrument do I need for this measurement" (and later "can we even measure this in this setup") or "are the results of my experiment plausible". There's a reason we joke that to the physicist g=10 and pi=3.

It's difficult to test this kind of thinking in a written test without turning it into something entirely different, but not everything in school has to be on a test. Typically half of our marks were made up from classroom participation.
The AI power brokers are all getting rich by hyping up the tech to the high heavens, while pooh-pooing AI ethics and safety concerns. Governments are following in lock step so as not to appear "anti-innovation".

I don't see revolution on the cards. Maybe a giant market correction once the hype wears off and pension funds figure out that throwing more H100 GPUs into the mix isn't going to make AGI happen any faster, and that there there's no real road to profitability for startups making shitty genAI chatbots, images and music.
Is the first line in the body executable?

(LAMBDA (A)
(DECLARE (SYSTEM::SOURCE-LEVEL #<EQ Hash Table{0} 81D03EFF03>))
(DECLARE (LAMBDA-NAME FOO))
(PRINT (QUOTE HEY))
(PRINT A))

If not, one would probably need to do a bit of fiddling to tear away the function from the symbol if one should feel a sudden urge to do so.

Perhaps similar to this:

: (de myfun (D)(prinl "heyo") (prinl D))
-> myfun
: myfun
-> ((D) (prinl "heyo") (prinl D))
: (mapcar '((D) (prinl "heyo") (prinl D)) '("world"))
heyo
world
-> ("world")
: (mapcar '(NIL (prinl "hey")) '(lel))
hey
-> ("hey")
: (car myfun)
-> (D)
: (cdr myfun)
-> ((prinl "heyo") (prinl D))
: (cons (car myfun) (cdr myfun))
-> ((D) (prinl "heyo") (prinl D))
: (mapcar (cons (car myfun) (cdr myfun)) '("world"))
heyo
world
-> ("world")

Mostly I use this to get at an implementation so I can test it or a portion of it against some particular value, or just to see how something works. Most builtins are implemented in assembler and their symbols only return a pointer, but for example 'doc is implemented in Picolisp:

: doc
-> ((Sym Browser) (raw T) (call (or Browser (sys "BROWSER") "w3m") (pack "file:" (and (= 47 (char (path "@"))) "//") (path (if (get Sym 'doc) (pack @ "#" Sym) "@doc/ref.html")))) (raw NIL))
: de
-> 270351
: macro
-> ("Prg" (run (fill "Prg")))

I really like the Picolisp 'match (https://software-lab.de/doc/refM.html#match ) function. What's the easiest way to do the same in Common Lisp? If it's not obvious from the examples there, it can also be used with character lists, i.e. transient symbols, i.e. strings, chopped up into a list of UTF-8 characters. It's similar to unification in logic programming, which is something Picolisp supports.
Let’s use common sense though please. What’s more important?

~90% of government revenue that has no substitute?

Or ~10% of oil imports for which there are a plethora of alternatives?
I don't think I said you did say that. It was a response, not an argument.
Archive [1]

Driving that trend is the collapse of America’s birthrate since the 2008-09 financial crisis. The number of babies born every year is down 14%, from 4.3 million in 2007 to a three-decade low of 3.7 million in 2022. Demographers don’t all agree on what’s causing this baby bust, but they don’t expect a baby boom anytime soon.

[1] - https://archive.is/3FBbr
Can they fix my Jeep? It slams on the brakes for no reason whatsoever every time I back out of my driveway. That's not helping anybody and only motivates me to disable the system.
Not if the counts are updated correctly.
But you're acting like this is an "on an iPhone" experience that's new to the world. The idea of being leased equipment from someone for contract or gig labor is not new and hasn't been new for many many decades.

So if you're complaining about the idea that companies who hire contract labor or gig work style labor can also lease out equipment necessary to do that labor, should the person choose to lease it from them, then where have you been for the past 50 60 years or more. Because no one is required to lease equipment from Uber in order to work for Uber it's just an option. There are great many professions that work like this and have for much longer than Uber has been a thing. Often times mechanics are this way. They can lease their tools through an employer-sponsored program but they have no control on whether the employer needs them to work every day and if they'll get paid in many situations. Because often times that that work is also gig work if no one needs their car fixed you can show up and not get anything. That's only one of a great many examples of jobs that are like this. When you have flexibility your employer has flexibility as well.

I think there's a great many jobs that have stupid conditions on employment and I wouldn't work them unless I absolutely had no other option. Uber is one of those things. People like the flexibility but flexibility can cut both ways. Often I hear Uber drivers talking about how they're their own Boss but if you're accepting work orders from someone else you're at the mercy of them for the work. This is the same thing in many salons. To work there you have to buy a seat and pay for that and pay for equipment oftentimes that is on a loan or a lease and you're your own Boss but you have a very limited control on when or if you will get customers. Which is another job that I wouldn't work unless I had no choice at all.

So this is not pushing toward a real job in any sense anymore than any of these other flexible gig work style jobs which permeate our society. So if you're against this as a whole then you should have been against it for the past 70 plus years. But if you feel this is some new Uber phenomenon you are greatly mistaken and need to learn how many of the jobs in the market work.
I just learned of the passing of Prof. Arvind. He was not only my professor, but also a warm human being who opened his home to a hungry and homesick undergraduate. I will never forget the Diwali at his home where he invited me and my friend among others from the MIT community. After the aarti, he told us stories of his graduate school days where he often longed and dreamt of pakoras from home. He then invited us to feast, and we ate well that night. Dear prof Arvind, in addition to your wisdom, it is your kindness that we will pass on to future generations.
Thanks for that feedback - I will think about how to make the parts beyond the tip of the iceberg more obvious and discoverable. Philosophically, I want the "tip" to be as uncluttered as possible but ... we'll see what I can come up with.

Theoretically, if enough people began writing in this form it would then become obvious by virtue of familiarity ...
This is a more recent happening. Some years ago, you did have to be a resident of Seattle to have an SPL card. However you could still use many library services without one.
> not guaranteed in event of supervolcanic eruption, asteroid impact, nuclear winter, and other similar events

Are these the standards we're building to, now?
I would prefer that by a lot, to be honest. At least then there's a baseline price that you can rely on.
The value of the ratio is information that needs to be transmitted. You are pretending that it’s free
People drown in swimming pools all the time.
As someone with reasonably good mental math skills (120+ score consistently on https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/, default settings), I cannot really say it helps me much in the real life, at least not on the surface. It sure is nice to be able to estimate some things accurately without having to resort to a calculator, but in no way would anything change in the way I think or conclusions I make if I had to use one, so there might be some truth to what Mr Wolfram is suggesting.
very strange, AEB is mostly standard on lot of vehicles these days. I am unsure why now they are challenging this
ps I work for an automotive OEM - one of the big 3's
People are obsessed with LLMs because they can be applied to unstructured data and produce human-like outputs, so they are applicable to vastly more processes with vastly less oversight.

The kinds of "AI" you're describing have been with us for decades, but LLMs and their ilk are a more consequential development. And if we're passing laws today, that's what they will be regulating for the most part.
Whenever you're compressing a file on your computer the frequencies are known beforehand. Agree this does not apply to noisy-channel coding, only the Shannon source coding theorem in lossless compression. Good point though I'm not sure if this would be considered an entropy encoder, as previous values do have some impact. Any more info I should look at for that?
Think it’s worth calling out that many people in tech have significant reservations about the reckless push of generative AI into just about every product — the issue is the executive class that insists on chasing hype and potential short-term stock growth over everything else.
I've read this and it's interesting for its double-take on -topian alternatives. However (SPOILER ALERT) having a computer permanently embedded in your spine/nervous system as the alternative to the panopticon isn't much of a choice. Maybe I'm simply naive/foolish to think that technology is just as easily made a yoke as it is a crutch or handicap.
> they have not.

That's a bold claim. Especially given your starting year, where religious attitudes predominated, and suicide was considered a mortal sin. It seems that quite possibly suicides might have increased since 1900, if only because it has become an organic disease instead of an express ticket to an eternity of torment. Do you have any numbers to back this up?

For that matter, we've also noticed from time to time that there are upswings and downswings in suicide (usually explained by economics), and cultural differences. There's plenty of room for for differences in suicide rates over that time period, and it wouldn't really surprised anyone.
One not in this list that I find helpful: highlighting in code blocks.

For example, when you're showing a before and after, and want to highlight what changed. For example, I use it in the docs for: https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/progedit/

The is one of the many features supported by Racket's Scribble, which is used to generate the online and print books for the Racket ecosystem. https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ (Which I also used for API docs embedded inline in the code of various Racket packages I wrote.)
The most common cause of death during the American Civil War was disease. Not bullets, not bayonet wounds, not cannon fire.

Disease.

Imagine being the guy who discovered that washing your hands and tools meant less maternal mortality immediately after childbirth and being shunned because people had real understanding of infections or microbiology.

When you think about those fairy tales, you cannot do it properly without thinking about the context in which they were written. Children were face to face with mortality every day. Polio, measles, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, plagues, minor wounds that got infected, etc.

Kids today live in a world where if you make it to adulthood, you have a very strong likelihood that you will survive until you are no longer able to be productive.

Your mental illness "theory" makes absolutely zero sense, because virtually all mental illnesses outside of degenerative conditions present themselves during childhood. I've had ADHD since I was a child. I didn't get diagnosed until well into adulthood, because my family never sought treatment. I didn't get this "mental illness" because of a lack of proper fairy tales. I was born with it.
The issue is that Windows API is completely incompatible with Linux unfortunately! This wouldn't even be runnable under Wine.

That being said, as my siblings have mentioned, Linux has many (better) tiling managers. For instance Sway and Hyprland for Wayland or Awesome and i3 for X11!

I'd personally recommend Hyprland as the learning curve is small and the extensibility feels the greatest!
The blog post it is from provides a more complete picture.

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

My understanding of the graphs is they show April for each year.
Honestly, I have no problem with airport novel quality books, and the thing is, these tend to be competently written - clearly there's such a huge oversupply of writing talent that even throwaway books are kind of decent. I suspect even people who only manage to sell hundreds of copies have quite a bit of talent and years of practice.

The market doesn't need the flood of this AI garbage as it will make these books utterly impossible to discover and drown the low end in excrement, driving away 'guilty pleasure' readers such as me and you.
Just for precision, they laid of 60% of the bargaining unit (unionized workers), which included the entire bargaining committee.
that's putting it as politically correct as possible. It breaks peoples' trust in their ability to distinguish lies from fact. "I'm not smart enough for this but I also don't believe this or that guy." Ergo: let 'them' do what they want but I probably won't stop stressing people over it for a while, which is attention-breaking and distracting, especially since people do it all the time, at home, especially in the working class. And the stress builds up ...
> Go listen to a highway and see if you can hear the engines over the wooshing.

I regularly walk a trail ~0.5mi from a highway and the main sound I notice is from straight piped WRX-esque cars gunning it.
It's easy to see this octogonal wheel [rolling downhill] is faster than this round wheel [on a flat plain]!
I very much hope it won’t matter and he proves unelectable.

Look at his record - doctors voted him the “worst Minister for Health in Australian History” when he was in that position. Later in Home Affairs as minister there was massive grift (massive, corrupt looking contracts to dodgy companies to run detention camps) and internal staff surveys in the public service consistently rated his department as the worst managed across the whole Government…

He does not has any record of good policy or any kind of effective executive management.
Obviously, what people want is full time jobs. That's what the whole political battle over these platforms is about.
I would think that instead of offline, they would move to using the blockchain.
they are not there to make squares. good ones have virtual desktops which you can change individually with multiple monitors. you can make programs start in specific desktops.
recommended for keyboard heavy users not point and click people.
VR doesn't have anywhere near the same level of fossil fuel emissions as AI though.