skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but most of what you wrote here is wrong.

First, Japan doesn't have any (operational) trains going 250mph. The Tokaido shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka has a top speed of 300kph, which is 186mph. The Tohoku line in north Japan reaches 320kph (200mph) according to Wikipedia, and this seems to be the fastest in the country (I haven't ridden that one myself, but I have ridden the Tokaido multipel times and verified its speed with a GPS speedometer app.). The new maglev Chuo shinkansen, when it's open for service in 10 years, will go 505kph (314mph). China does have some maglev train currently; I can't be bothered to look up its max speed, but it's a short line that just goes to that city's airport. It's not a long-distance train line, really more of a demo.

America has at least 2 trains that go over 100mph: the Acela, which runs from DC to Boston (not NYC), and the Northeast Regional, which runs on the same route on the same tracks. The Northeast Regional hits a max speed of 125mph, and the Acela hits 150mph. The catch is, these trains only hit their max speeds for somewhat brief durations on certain parts of the line (mainly between Philly and Newark NJ), so their average speeds are actually rather lousy because in other places they have to slow down a lot because the track sucks, the tunnels are a century old, there's a cargo train in the way, etc. If the US built an all-new track (with new tunnels where needed) between DC and Boston, they could use the exact same trains they use now and have much, much faster average speeds, but they really don't want to do that.

Finally, there is a definition in the US for "high speed rail", and the Acela meets that definition because its max speed is pretty high. (Of course, the definition completely ignores average speed.)
UIKit has a few frustrating details, but overall it stands tall above the competition.

For a long time the main downside was that you had to deal with Objective C, which is a turnoff for some people.

Swift solved all this, and writing UIKit in Swift is mostly a joy. Sadly now SwiftUI is the new shiny thing, and it’s a major downgrade in most dimensions save for a few.

A cross platform framework that reuses UIKit conventions and supports all modern languages (C++/Rust/Go/Python/Nim) would be the dream.
BERT was not large (it was under a billion parameters). And it wasn't an autoregressive language model like GPT
I was indeed talking about these old ones.
Super computers are in 95% cases government funded and I recommend that you check in conditions for tenders and how government has check on certain condition in buying. That isn't a normal business partner who only looks at performance, there are many more other criteria in the descision making.

Or let me ask you directly, can you name me one enterprise which would buy a super computer and wait 5+ years for it and fund the development of HW for it which doesn't exist yet? At the same time when the competition can deliver a super computer within the year with an existing product?

No sane CEO would have done Frontier or El Capitan. Such things work only with government funding where the government decides to wait and fund an alternative. But AMD is indeed a bit lucky that it happened or otherwise they wouldn't been forced to push the Instinct line.

In the commercial world, things work differently. There is always a TCO calculation. But one critical aspect since the 90s is SW. No matter how good the HW is, the opportunity costs in SW could force enterprises to use the inferior HW due to SW deployment. If vision computing SW in industry is supporting and optimized for CUDA or even runs only with CUDA then any competition has a very hard time penetrating that market. They first have to invest a lot of money to make their products equally appealing.

AMD makes a huge mistake and is by far not paranoid enough to see it. For 2 decades, AMD and Intel have been in a nice spot with PC and HPC computing requiring x86. It basically to this date has guaranteed a steady demand. But in that timeframe mobile computing has been lost to ARM. ML/AI doesn't require x86 as Nvidia demonstrates by combining their ARM CPUs into the mix but also ARM themselves want more and more of the PC and HPC computing cake. And MS is eager to help with OS for ARM solutions.

What that means is that if some day x86 isn't as dominant anymore and ARM becomes equally good then AMD/Intel will suddenly have more competition in CPUs and might even offer non-x86 solutions as well. Their position will therefore drop into yet another commodity CPU offering.

In the AI accelerator space we will witness something similiar. Nvidia has created a platform and earns tons of money with it by combining and optimizing SW+HW. Big Tech is great at SW but not yeat at HW. So the only logical thing to do is getting better at HW. All large Tech companies are working on their own accelerators and they will build their platform around it to compete with Nvidia and locking in customers all the same way. The primary losers in all of this will be HW only vendors without a platform, hoping that Big Tech will support them on their platforms. Amazon and Google have already shown today that they have no intention to support anything besides their platform and Nvidia (which they only must due to customer demand).
The model is good. Environment -> Perception -> Planning/Imagining -> Acting -> Learning from feedback.

What is missing from this picture is the social aspect. No agent got too smart alone, it's always an iterative "search and learn" process, distributed over many agents. Even AlphaZero had evolutionary selection and extensive self play against its variants.

Basically we can think of culture as compressed prior experience, or compressed search.
Breaking transatlantic sailing record by more than a day (2016)
Yes, it has more problems than immigration, the same way UK's housing problems aren't just due to immigration.

However, immigration has massively exacerbated and accelerated all of the problems above since COVID.
Even more desirable is a dev who you can simply ask to make a score box and they deliver some think that meets or exceeds your expectations without further information.
> Why do you want to work for an indie game studio and not EA?

That’s actually a different question than “Why do you want to work for us?”

I think if your purpose is to investigate suitability (is this a good fit for the candidate and for us), then there are better questions to ask which are directly about suitability.

For example, “This our work environment. How do you feel about that?”

So, more of a give and take approach. You still have the opportunity to judge the candidate’s responses, but you’ve given them something to work off of.
And that's service right there - they tried to distribute the most compatible malicious kernel exploits for you, but sometimes you need a bespoke compilation for your system -- and these guys step up and make sure you get one!

That's customer service, I think a lot of (all of) our trillion dollar overlords could do a thing or to and learn about providing reliable service.
Yet another result of incentives in academia being misaligned.
No it's actually 2-3k+ usd. I had done some cursory considering of it over the past few months because it seems like a potentially reasonable solution to a real problem I struggle with.

But yeah part of it is like, it's really weird. If you asked me how much consistently better sleep would be worth, the answer is how much do you want?

But phrase that as "Bed as a service" and my reflex is "you're kidding, righr?"
I currently see two international keyboard issues:

- French Keyboard and Backend SDL2 - Several keys are not checkable with IsKeyDown

- Wrong ImGuiKey keydown indexes reported from Win32 backend for some keys when using UK keyboard with UK keyboard layout

There are also 2 issues with IME:

- Marked Text / SDL_TEXTEDITING Event / IME Composition support

- Backspace handling by text widget in default Windows IME environment.
Lines of code are essentially doing the same thing as boxes and arrows. It's just a different representation of the same idea. You can see pretty direct translations in programming languages like Scratch, Unreal Blueprints, and Godot 3's visual scripting. As well as logical implementations in tools like Davinci Resolve Fusion.

I think most programmers find this logic easier to type out than to "draw" in a graph, but it's conceptually the same thing.
I am getting blocked. What is "TFA"?
"in an all-stock deal"

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/boeing-agrees-deal-buy...
Perhaps more important, someone is going through MC and simplifying it. Decent chance that's a net reduction in bugs as well.
If it’s weak, I’d expect a standard distribution to detect it by itself and inform the user.

Only revealing itself to a defender who looks for it sounds like it’ll be working as intended in almost all cases.
The idea of "agency" I have in mind is simply the option to take action at any point in time.

I think the contradiction you see is that the model would have to form a completion to the external input it receives. I'm suggesting that the model would have many inputs: one would be the typical input stream, just as LLMs see, but another would be its own internal recent vectors, akin to a recent stream of thought. A "mode" is not built in to the model; at each token point, it can output whatever vector it wants, and one choice is to output the special "<listening>" token, which means it's not talking. So the "mode" idea is a hoped-for emergent behavior.

Some more details on using two input streams:

All of the input vectors (internal + external), taken together, are available to work with. It may help to think in terms of the typical transformer architecture, where tokens mostly become a set of vectors, and the original order of the words are attached as positional information. In other words, transformers don't really see a list of words, but a set of vectors, and the position info of each token becomes a tag attached to each vector.

So it's not so hard to merge together two input streams. They can become one big set of vectors, still tagged with position information, but now also tagged as either "internal" or "external" for the source.
How We Shower and Do Laundry at -71°C (-95°F) in Yakutia, Siberia [video]
A problem looking for a problem to solve is how I like to think of it
If that is the same as the macbook air's of that year, than good luck to ya. The chipsets of that year are a horrible mess. Even in macos is it was finicky with a 1+ year bug that wifi would not come up automatically if your macbook went to sleep with bluetooth on.
Falsehoods Software Developers Believe About Event-Driven Systems
Definitely. I tried gemma2:27B model with phrases like "translate the following sentence to language X" and it even failed to understand the task and spat out completely irrelevant things, like math formulas.

OTOH, smaller model did it perfectly.
I have a Model 100 that I regularly use for writing purposes ... its kind of cute to have it wired up to a raspberryPi for whenever some server work needs to be done, too ..

Would surely be nice to see a re-invented M100 out there. ClockworkPi came close, but it was disappointingly diminutive ..
And even if for some reason it does occur more often, a message queue is a common, and rather simple solution for this.
I love programming in Java!
Sure, and I’m the same way as you, but I’m talking about the vast middle which are neither exciting nor offensive.
Put meat in bag, put bag in water, receive protein?

A turkey might be hard by size, but sous vide is basically the easy-bake of cooking, takes no effort or creativity during the cook and you can only really impact it before and after.
I like this sentiment. Unfortunately we are in the minority, in software development at least for sure. The whole field shifted in the past 20 years, and now definitely more people are here only for the money. And it seems to me that this definitely affected negatively code quality and developer freedom.
RSS is my main interface to the web
It does seem insane. But the support engineer having local network access after remoting in without the customers willing consent also seems insane. Its obviously there so they can fix these devices, but shortcuts made for engineers are such a common security risk.

Ideally you would have a backdoor on the device thats open only to the local network. User runs an app on their PC, provides willing consent for someone to complete a support task by providing an OTC to the engineer. App goes and discovers the device, and hosts the session for the engineer. If the user cant perform such a task they can probably buy a device with one button on it that will, or pay for a callout or return.
hmm, yeah, well I sorted by salary, proximity and my skills and uhm, yeah, your company came up. Oh, sorry, I mean I really believe in your product and my grandma and I have been using it for 15 years and I want to make a change in the world and Forketyfork Inc. works on exactly that.
Now that we've established that you need money, and have five companies in front of you that will give you money, surely there are some other reasons why you'd pick any one of those particular companies to work at, no?

Why assume the candidate has five companies willing to hire? What if the candidate has been searching for a job for the past year and, through a run of bad luck, hasn’t had an interview until now?

“Why do you want to work for us?”

“Because you’re willing to give me a job.”
Exactly this.

Qt is amazing, so if your requirements are so strict in terms of space and you know/like Qt, investing in the license, or make the product open source, shouldn't be an issue here.
>In those cases, understanding the bussiness tends to be far more important than understanding the user experience.

Never understood the take that internal systems need a good UX because they very much do. Having been a consumer of ass-backwards designed software components, bad UX (apis, functions, other stuff) will inevitably propagate through the product and will rear their ugly head somewhere. Not to speak about "friction" and development velocity and so on.

Why yes, implementing this feature will cost you something like 2 hours. Not implementing it will either cost someone 4 hours to do it themselves or two hours over and over again to code around the lack of it. Please don't waste other people's time.
Use a neural network to detect numbers? (Well, this runs on a slightly more capable MCU, though)

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/machine-learning-mn...
Yeah, you can find them in all kinds of low-cost remote controls:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/9838991700773145118.file-1700...
Interesting to see the evolution of Visual programming across many tools. We are working on something similar[0] for low-code/no-code devs focusing on creation of APIs, backend tasks, and AI workflows.

[0] https://buildship.com
The real question is if you’re bullish or bearish on the chicken stock
Author here: I'm grateful for the comments; thanks especially for interesting references.

Context for the article: I'm working on an ambitious long-term project to write a book about consciousness from a scientific and analytic (versus, say, a meditation-oriented) perspective. I didn't write this fact in the article, but what I'd love to happen is that I meet people with a similar optimistic perspective, and to learn and improve my communication skills via follow-up conversations.

If anyone is interested in chatting more about the topic of the article, please do email me. My email is in my HN profile. Thanks!
I'm no expert but who in the right mind agrees to getting paid in Boeing stocks?
I think turso in memory replicas might work here. They have some code to capture pg cdc to do that.

Likewise using something like pglite to run a pure pg in memory replica would be very cool
Not as stable as avidemux, though avidemux is already quite buggy.
Parkinson's disease-associated SNP4 is correlated (r2=0.95) with variants that are associated with HLA-DQA2 expression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/3118#:~:text=HLA%2DDQA2%20....
Ther is no such thing like "generative art". Art cannot be generated by definition.
Best line of the post:

> And as it is with these types of bugs, finding the root cause is not trivial, but the fix almost always is.
The point is that you want the candidate to muster up some fake enthusiasm, because not being able to muster up that fake enthusiasm would be a red flag.

Sure, most of us are able to find something to say about the company, but I don’t think it correlates at all with competence or professionalism. I suspect rather that bullshitters do particularly well with this question, whereas competent technical people may struggle.
>the last thing you'd want is a servant for your coding problems.

That doesn't match my experience. Software engineering culture is full of processes to facilitate conformity, from velocity and burn down charts, to bureaucratic decision making processes and unnecessary group meetings. Every manager I've ever had has given me the impression that they want someone to mindlessly crunch through tickets without resistance.
Matching skills/techstack is actually good answer.
Thx for taking the time to write. We will look into it.
Oh google has many pages:

- https://arvr.google.com/

- https://bughunters.google.com/

- https://design.google.com/

- https://opensource.google.com/

- https://code.google.com/

- https://ai.google.com/

- https://mapsplatform.google.com/

- https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/

- https://privacy.google.com/

- https://lens.google.com/

- http://labs.google.com/

- https://jigsaw.google.com/

- https://datastudio.google.com/

- https://tagmanager.google.com/

- https://script.google.com/

There are some more scraped by me https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
Knitters may not write the program but they execute an algorithm when they knit. They are the computers, not the programmers!
ld_preload is the lazy way of doing userland rootkits. there are other ways.

For example, you can patch libc, and by patch I mean there are different ways of patching. a simply binary patch is unreliable because it'd be pinned to a specific version but you can parse the elf symbols dynamically and patch them, even when libc is updated (assuming certain critical symbols are unlikely to ever change) so it becomes reliable. a lot of "static" programs still dynamically load libc.

There is also a more aggressive but easily detectable approach, just patch every elf file on the system so that that the _start/entry always does something to prevent discovery of the malware like messing with the plt so that all function calls are proxied through rootkit code, where the rootkit filters for parameters and return values it doesn't like.

Kernel rookits are great but secure boot is also a thing, if implemented correctly it would be very difficult to beat. you don't even have to go full on rootkit, just a stealthy implant running as root via a hijacked dynamic library (doesn't have to be libc) will do. this isn't windows, it's not like there is a reliable/common way of making sure system libraries are legit (like authenticode/pe signing). The package managers make sure the correct binaries are being installed but they don't have something like sfc on windows (system file checker) that refuses to let the system boot if files are corrupt and/or restore tampered system executables.
Multivitamin does not improve longevity
Let’s review.

Here (as in the article), by imbalance, we are referring to that “between inhibitory and excitatory signals in the brain” (i.e., the imbalance “in the number of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the prefrontal cortex [that] may affect broader brain function and contribute to some of the cognitive and behavioral traits of autism.”

The interventions I am curious about are (per my question) “targeted” to “modify these synaptic structures to enhance cognitive and social functions.”
It’s puzzling to me that you would not only choose to interject the word fix, but also (even more inexplicably) to put it in quotes, as if it were my word choice rather than your own- and finally, to follow it with “It's important to use the correct terms to avoid biased frames and conclusions.” Indeed.
I completely agree. The hack-day we had at work was the most fun work day I had in the last year. Getting to spend paid working time building something cool, without being tied to any stakeholder input or organization processes was a super fun experience.
Less features, more shiny, and your reality is limited to what contracts between third parties allow.
> Aren't the consumer protection benefits greater with credit card?

Yes, consumer protection regulations (and benefits) are better on credit cards (at least in the US, I don't know about other countries).
As an infra engineer, I try to pick up companies that make make a difference. But they never ask me about my motivation. They ask why I want to change the job, not why I chose them - it would be kind of stupid in the light of the fact that normally people have several interviews with different companies when they change jobs so that question would be illogical.
It used to be also a squared code consisting of 12 digits, you could receive via SMS to 22122, but this method is deprecated or already even terminated. Has anybody tested it recently?

https://www.giga.de/tipp/briefmarke-per-sms-an-22122-erhalte...
I use a blanket which handles 95% of my cases; in my ski cabin I have a cheap electric mattress pad that handles the other 5%
So that's a hard stop for many orgs. Not everyone is supposed to see all of the org's data even if they work for it.
It's too much work to go through the paragraph; it needs automation.
It definitely is a terrible idea, but it follows naturally from the "browser is an operating system" approach the industry has been taking for quite a while.

With this, Goog gets to offload AI stuff to clients, but can (and will, I guarantee) sample the interactions, calling it "telemetry" and perhaps saying it's for "safety" as opposed to being blatant Orwellian spying.
Looks like this could save days of dev time, and remove barriers to use vector search. What types of data does it work with? Text, images, perhaps even audio?
I mean it's not like sleep number can tell when you're having sex or sleeping or anything....

Er, I mean okay, well at least they're budget friendly....

Well at least they don't have an ssh server constantly running in the background or something