skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the best of my knowledge, none of the competing theories for integration have singularities in them. It is difficult to know what a "singularity" would look like in a universe that doesn't seem to have 0-dimensional mathematical points in it.

It isn't that surprising that continuous theories have singularities in them. Reality doesn't seem to be continuous in the sense that real numbers are. It is unknown if Navier-Stokes can develop singularities in finite time, but in the real universe it won't matter because they won't lead to singularities in the real universe because it is ultimately just an approximation. "Interesting things" may happen around whatever those conditions are but nothing will be accelerated to infinite speed in the real universe. It is another theory that is a real-number-based continuous approximation made useful by the fact that real numbers are easier to do math with than physical quantities, but the real universe does not have plain real numbers in it. (This is subtly different than the controversial statement that it isn't made out of real numbers at all. But it does not have "plain" real numbers. You certainly can not expect to pull out a microscope and peer at the universe at a scale of 10^-10000 meters and see a universe that behaves exactly the same, just at a smaller scale. Our universe is definitely not scale-invariant.)

I think this is likely to be a rather accurate metaphor.

To be honest, I don't see a lot of positive reason to assume that the singularities are going to be "real". I think physicists initial reactions to the idea were correct and remain correct. I think the reasons why people think otherwise are emotional rather than logical. They've gotten attached to all the stories around black holes and all the science fiction and all the crazy ideas (parallel universes! white holes! wormholes!) and a general sense of "woo" that I for one do not find very appealing, and what people are reacting to is the loss of that, not the idea that the universe probably won't have any infinitely dense points... when the universe doesn't seem to have any points in it in the first place.

(To forstall another common rabbit trail, I don't think the universe is continuous... but that doesn't mean I automatically think it must be discrete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433917 )
Blender is incredible, harfbuzz equally so, pretty much all modern browsers do the impossible so they need to be included as well.
> Was the FBI spying (and more) on civil rights leaders part of their powers as federal law enforcement officers executing their duties?....Surely we should defer to them as they're the experts in their field right?

It's a fantasy to think that this will mean state spying powers will be reduced.

> absent a specific law from congress telling them they couldn't, who is to argue that they were unreasonable?

The courts are! They always have been, even under Chevron. If at any point a judge thought that the FBI, ATF, DEA, NSA, or <insert three letter agency here> interpreted the law unreasonably, or extended their authority beyond what was allowed that judge had the power under Chevron to impose the court's own interpretation of the law on that agency.

The Chevron defense said that if the court agreed that an agency had an interpretation of an ambiguous law which was reasonable and permissible the court couldn't impose a more narrow standard on them. Because it's been overturned it now doesn't matter if the court thinks that what the agency was doing was reasonable and permissible, the court can inject it's own interpretation anyway.

Chevron prevented the court from forcing the most narrow interpretation of the law on a federal agency in cases where the court couldn't justify doing it. That's it. Now that protection is gone and I promise that it's not going to make you more free or better off. It means that any and all of the rights and protections you have today thanks to federal agencies are at risk of going away as soon as a case goes in front of an activist judge
How about looking internatinally for equivalence? Since China lifted the one-child policy and now even encourage more children, birthrates have gone down.

Or historical equivalence when David Ricardo, in response to Malthusian population doom disaster predictions pointed out that increasing rents causes smaller families.

I feel this time it's different isn't reason itself.
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I'm entirely content on relying on sci-fi energy production for a few thousand years from now.

This might sound like the same attitude that put us in our present climate crisis, but that was on the order of decades to centuries. Thousands of years include such unbelievable potential of technological development that there seems no point in trying to predict the actual challenges we'll face.
I was likely in the same group, we only got through the first chapter or so before it devolved into what graphical library we'd be using...

...so shall we port it to Guile Scheme then?!?
What a circle jerk. I guess there aren’t successful people with any humility. But seriously, he just used his own podcast to feature himself!
Think bigger. You're NovoNordisk. FDA says ozempic is safe for use. A local California court bans it because they say it hasn't been properly tested and endangers Californians. Billion dollar market, wiped off the map. Now New York is following path. You can try to fight it but either way you've suffered incredible repetitional damage: FUD (fear uncertainty and denial) is now forevermore "the drug that California banned for being unsafe."

Or, imagine a texas court banning COVID vaccines.

These are not hypotheticals, these are real court cases that could now swing against agencies.

Whatever your opinion on specific factual matters, everyone should be concerned about widespread disorder.
Well I think there's quite a difference between what you originally said ("with no room for interpretation") and what you now say ("don't actually mean anything and can be interpreted wildly").

I think lawmakers strive to write laws that are precise enough that they can't be interpreted wildly, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect lawmakers to craft laws that have no room for interpretation.
I've always wanted a force-sensitive keyboard; the harder you hit a key, the more urgently it handles it. Auto-bolded text? Priority of a CLI command proportional to how hard you hit return?
It's more clear if you use the word vest and divest rather than delegation. Congress cannot divest its own legislative powers, nor can it vest them in another branch.
Why are we fighting each other now? It's largely cultural and religious motivations, if we worked together as a planet we could get some really interesting things done.
CrowdStrike bug maxes out 100% of CPU, requires Windows reboots
First world problems.

Failed state immigrants will kindly remind you that what you really need is a Backup Country, you just don't know it yet.
Weird that this is the top-rated comment, as it's directly contradicted by the heat maps in the article, which show increases in CAT all over the globe, in many places that are not routes between Europe and South Asia.

(Also consider that the principal question the article tries to answer is not "are there more CAT incidents?" but simply "is there more CAT?")

I glanced at a few current (as of today) routes, e.g. CDG->SIN[0], which don't fly anywhere near the areas of heavy CAT noted by the heat maps. Hell, let's take a look at the flight mentioned, the LHR-SIN SQ321[1], where a passenger died in may (though, as the article notes, it was later determined not to be CAT): that one doesn't fly through any high-CAT areas (and in fact does fly through Russian airspace).

> giving them less options to avoid weather conditions

The entire characterization of CAT is that it is unavoidable because the cause often doesn't have all that much to do with weather conditions, and even when it does, you don't get (enough) advance warning.

[0] https://www.flightstats.com/v2/flight-tracker/SQ/335?year=20...

[1] https://www.flightstats.com/v2/flight-tracker/SQ/321?year=20...
Do we actually think AGI will be used for public good or will it be used to further enrich the 1%?
startups have a much higher variance, and a good product is a good product even if it doesn't grow into the next X (pun? no no.)
With methane as an input, I worry that this will be hard to scale up to the point of no more fossil fuels. Can we get that much methane from biomass?
Bacteria found to produce proteins that act like antifreeze
This Explaining Computers[0] video, covering a different board with the same SoC (BPi-F3), shows the ecosystem is surprisingly farther along than you give it credit for.

This whole process of bootstrapping RISC-V ecosystem did not start yesterday; it's been going for several years now.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGryhBnkV0
TED talks became the Picotop of millennial intellectualism
Reddit is a really great way right now, due to the boost to Reddits rankings on Google you can find old Reddit threads that still allow comments in the top 5 on Google with very high traffic keywords.
I'd think bones from a couple hundred or thousand or ten-thousand years ago would provide a okay trail.
Goodness me. I wrote a simple 2D flying game using potentiometers for steering and shape tables to draw the little airplanes. It was indeed very slow, but still fun.
But .... it sounds like it was was? The original MIT SLIP version (yes SLIP not LISP) had a framework for embedding dynamic modules - so could do an early version of "learning." It feels like it was indeed more a framework for testing out different kinds of chatbot logic - maybe a meta-chatbot?

The famous DOCTOR script was just one example to demonstrate the tools's capabilities, and not the main point of ELIZA.

[Edit: the paper suggests the DOCTOR script is "ELIZA" not ELIZA, i.e. the limited version that became popular, not the full version that was built)
I've always chosen not to install the "preview" updates, and always been a little surprised that Microsoft offers them at all. Isn't that what beta testing is for?

I guess this justifies my decision.
One question - how are you able to generate links to the commits, by hash?
Reproducibility is one of the things we got with containers and k8s (and before that, 12-factor apps). I run k3s on my laptop with a minified stack, which is good enough to mimic nearly any behavior on prod.

Cloud-specific saas (like proprietary databases and AWS lambda) are awful for this though, and we avoid them where possible. Our S3 code was a bug farm until I discovered minio. Now we’re stuck with Snowflake because scale and speed, but the fact that I can’t iterate fast locally has caused me to lose days of my life that I’ll never get back. Hoping I can hack something together with duckdb when I get time.
If you staying in someone's house you generally have to follow their rules. Unless said rules are... over the top. Is attendance and - at least token - participation in religious activity considered over the top? What if it was a case of starvation instead of (or in addition to) the homelessness?
A region of space time matter/light/information can exit but you can’t send anything to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole
They did do that, every agency exists with a mandate.

SCOTUS just decided that despite the madnates existing, being funded, and being regularly renewed, that's not good enough.

But they haven't defined how specific the mandate and laws must be. They can just, you know, keep shifting the goal posts until they get the desired result.
neovim is quite a step change from normal keyboard and mouse type editors. I agree though, I think it ultimately everyone will be a neovim chad.
The Great MEV Heist
Yazi: Fast terminal file manager written in Rust
Well they didn't say a free market. I would certainly hope for some treaties making sure everyone gets a baseline before extras get put up to bid.
Imagination Technologies has a team of developers working on open source drivers based on mesa3d stack.

But if you want support Right Now, plug an AMD video card into that PCIe slot.
> The article exists because of several recent high profile CAT incidents.

Yes, but the article doesn't claim your narrowing of the scope, that it's mostly just between Europe and Asia.
Android is open source, there are several freedom respecting distributions of it. You can even get mostly freedom respecting hardware.
No, it isn’t. And comparing ad blocking to theft of actual physical items is absolutely wild. You must realize that they’re completely different, right?

Under your reasoning, I’d just argue that ads are a blight on the web, and steal from me by deliberately and knowingly wasting my computer’s resources and attempting to serve me malware. What do we do now? Whose right not to be stolen from wins out?
A person with a better astronomy background can jump in, but I'll start by quoting a couple trusted astronomy publications. In short, a white hole is an astronomical object with the property that light cannot enter it.

From the Universe Today (at https://www.universetoday.com/122715/what-are-white-holes/ ):

"Black holes are places in the Universe where matter and energy are compacted so densely together that their escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. […] Fully describing a black hole requires a lot of fancy math, but these are real objects in our Universe. […] So then what’s a white hole?

"White holes are created when astrophysicists mathematically explore the environment around black holes, but pretend there’s no mass within the event horizon. What happens when you have a black hole singularity with no mass? […]

"Now if white holes did exist, which they probably don’t, they would behave like reverse black holes – just like the math predicts. Instead of pulling material inward, a white hole would blast material out into space like some kind of white chocolate fountain. […] One of the other implications of white hole math, is that they only theoretically exist as long as there isn’t a single speck of matter within the event horizon. As soon as single atom of hydrogen drifted into the region, the whole thing would collapse."

And from Space.com (at https://www.space.com/white-holes.html ):

"White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that function in the opposite way to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole. […]

"To a spaceship crew watching from afar, a white hole looks exactly like a black hole. It has mass. It might spin. A ring of dust and gas could gather around the event horizon — the bubble boundary separating the object from the rest of the universe. But if they kept watching, the crew might witness an event impossible for a black hole — a belch.

"Physicists describe a white hole as a black hole's "time reversal," a video of a black hole played backwards, much as a bouncing ball is the time-reversal of a falling ball. While a black hole's event horizon is a sphere of no return, a white hole's event horizon is a boundary of no admission — space-time's most exclusive club. No spacecraft will ever reach the region's edge. Objects inside a white hole can leave and interact with the outside world, but since nothing can get in, the interior is cut off from the universe's past: No outside event will ever affect the inside."
Yes. I actually wrote another top line comment about this which I deleted. Kubernetes is like someone decided to create a distributed Linux where you had to configure and learn about every part of the operating system. Linux proves it’s possible to provide simple “deep interfaces” to OS-class, hard problems.

Most people in industry have never used Borg or something like it, and so think Kubernetes is like apex technology rather than a step backwards. And to most people working directly on tech like Linux/containers/low-level infra is something they don’t even consider doing because they subconsciously think it’s off limits. So to them Kubernetes is amazing rather than riddled with fixable problems.
I suspect there's a lot more money to go around in basketball than there is in tennis.
"The size of a small city, it is the largest, most secret, most powerful, and most intrusive spy organization ever created."

Is it more intrusive than the KGB, Stasi or Chinese state security? Cite your source.

BTW, this story is from 2 months ago.
how much money tennis makes? it's fancy and sure lots of rich people like it, but it's probably nowhere near NBA money. (especially since NBA is targeting the Asian market too, with self-censorship and all.)
Mine is always terrible and the others are terrible as well.
The very fact that Max Stirner, and anything from anyone with some notion of "Anarchism" in their ideological descriptions is explicitly not something you're aware of is very telling of how the main stream academy has unjustly left Egoism and related ideas to languish in obscurity.

Stirner was prophectic in calling out Hegel's and Marx's bullshit, and the way that his work triggered Marx so hard that Marx felt the need to write an entire book calling him a doo-doo head (The German Ideology) shows that he was subversive in the best way possible - he got under the skin of a thinker whose legacy is hundreds of millions of people dead. I suggest giving him a read, as he has a truly non-rationalist philosophy which is very different from any that you've read before.

Re: Deleuze being "bog standard". You think that doing tons of LSD with his homie Guattari while they wrote Anti-oedipus was "normal"? One of them even killed themselves by throwing themself out of a window (supposedly due to "chronic pain" but who the heck knows with their literal schizoanalytical ideas)
But you’re not _just_ housing them, are you? They also end up with criminal records making it harder to get secure jobs and housing in the future. Investing in building more affordable high density housing would be better for the people while costing less money for the taxpayer.
Chocolate Soylent is delicious, can recommend.
Open 3D Engine's codebase is pretty great: https://o3de.org/
Isn't that what beta testing is for?

MS stopped caring about quality long ago. Now they seem to be experimenting with how abusive they can be towards users.
They're not included when Tesla ships them illegally either: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-...

Even when they were called out on it, it took them years to respond. And this was before LLMs; even then we knew that releasing things under Open Source is mostly a good-faith social contract.

These "is it still okay to x because AI exists" questions are besides the point. If you weren't considering the worst-case scenario outcome of your actions already then maybe you should. If AI forces your hand, so be it. But you can always Open Source your code, as long as you've accepted the same risks that existed for the past 20-30 years.
Preview is a euphemism for beta testing, right?

Didn’t they fire all their in-house QA ages ago?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
Also, FOCAL used to be thing, a programming language by DEC, kind of a precursor of BASIC. (E.g., Lunar Lander was originally written in FOCAL.)
> Chevron was based on the idea that if statutory text is ambiguous the people in charge of implementing said statute were best positioned to figure out what it meant

Wouldn't it be odd if the police also acted as the judge in your criminal trial? That's the point here, to separate lawmaking and interpretive power from the enforcers. Consolidation of power is dangerous because it doesn't work.

> in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act

This ruling made clear that the Chevron doctrine was not in line with the APA,

"Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the APA requires."

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
> It uses an AI-based method involving drones to calibrate the mirrors 200 times faster compared to traditional techniques using cameras, Synhelion says. Precision is key to ensure the mirrors track the sun and efficiently reflect its light into a solar receiver at the top of a 20 m tall tower.

Naively I would assume we know where the sun is and how to calculate the angles. What are drones and AI doing?
At least it's not deleting user data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139
Looks great on my old pixel, Dolev!

Very nice
Creating investor hype. What else?
You realistically only have time for one of the following:

1. be a serious student

2. be a serious athlete

3. be a serious maker

4. be a serious business-person

My advice would be not to take any of them too seriously -- enjoy college, enjoy your sport, enjoy tinkering, make connections. Don't worry about starting a company until after college. Take advantage of your college years to learn, work on other people's projects, try out new things, and invite others to collaborate with you.

If you're brimming with ideas now, you'll have just as many in four (or six or eight) years, and you'll have gained invaluable connections and the know-how to execute on them. (But if before then a great opportunity falls into your lap to start a business with some of your fellow students or professors, don't be afraid to take a sabbatical from being a student and athlete and having a life, and dive into it for six months or a year.)
I tried Positron and it is really set up to feel like RStudio from the get go. excellent job to transition Rstudio users to Positron in the future (if that is the goal)
ACB and Jackson? I am about as well-versed in the law as any non-lawyer, and I have 10% at best of the legal knowledge of either of them. The hubris on legal matters of some of the people here is laughable. It's the equivalent of some random law student criticizing John Carmack.
Hopefully nobody reads this comment of mine, but there's something I've been drying to get off my chest.

With no evidence, I believe that there is a quantum computing algorithm for fusion. It feels like there might be some way of using quantum computers to fuse "qubits" in such a way as to generate netenergy, one particle at a time.

But of course, ancients fantasized a boat could land on the moon.
I'm not taking them now. I just try to maintain what is established. You shouldn't need to take them at all. The modern processed food diet, antibiotics, and other "toxins" cause our biome to die off. Some of the strains are not replaced by our food. There is a laundry list of strains in the high quality pills. Essentially, once you have it, you have it. Unless you fail to nourish it. It takes a while for the digestive track to rebuild itself after biome is restored. It has those cilia-like fingers that operate in a mucus layer, and those die back or recede as does the mucus layer. That takes a while to reestablish.
and Mork. Not the alien, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_(file_format)