skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be done by varying current, from a slide in this 'webinar': https://youtu.be/MI5EJk8cPwQ?t=238

That's not hugely surprising given that (I believe) LEDs have always shifted spectrum-wise a bit with drive current (well, mostly junction temperature, which can be a function of drive current.)

I guess that means they're strictly on/off devices, which seems furthered by this video from someone stopping by their booth:

https://youtu.be/f0c10q2S_PQ?t=107

You can clearly see some pretty shit dithering, so I guess they haven't figured out how to do PWM based brightness (or worse, PWM isn't possible at all?)

I guess that explains the odd fixation on pixel density that is easily 10x what your average high-dpi cell phone display has (if you consider each color to be its own pixel, ie ~250dpi x 3)

It seems like the challenge will be finding applications for something with no brightness control etc. Without that, it's useless even for a HUD display type widget.

In the meantime, if they made 5050-sized LEDs, they would probably print money...which would certainly be a good way to further development on developing brightness control.
When I see the word "evolving" used as a verb, I'm suspicious -- corporate language often used to soften something with vagueness.

But after reading this announcement, the substance is actually both meaningful and practical. Props to ASF's leaders.
> ask to see their certificate and (if you're being particularly diligent) contact the school to verify it.

Certificates are ~useless in tech. I've encountered way too many candidates who have a bunch of certificates but don't actually understand anything they're supposedly certified in. They just memorized enough to pass the exam.

> Maybe it's possible to graduate from college with a CS degree without being able to solve fizzbuzz? So you need to check they can program despite their qualifications? IDK though.

Yes. It's astonishing how many CS grads simply don't understand programming.
Not really any paradigm shift since the introduction of Tensor Cores in NVIDIA archs. Anything Ampere or Lovelace, will do to teach yourself CUDA up to the crazy optimization techniques and the worst libraries that warp the mind. You'll only miss on HBM which allows you to cheat on memory bandwidth, amount of VRAM (teach yourself on smaller models...), double precision perf and double precision tensor cores (go for an A30 then and not sure they'll keep them - either the x30 bin, or DP tensor cores - ever since "DGEMM on Integer Matrix Multiplication Unit" - https://arxiv.org/html/2306.11975v4 ). FP4, DPX, TMA, GPUDirect are nice but you must be pretty far out already for them to be mandatory...
Isn't that specific case just a matter of not having enough data _explicitly_ stating the reverse? Seems as if they are indeed stochastic parrots from that perspective.
Looks like just another Instagram clone.
Russia hasnt taken a single large city since the start of the war. They are struggling to even keep the front intact (which is why Putin now begs for peace). They wont suddenly blast through all of Ukraine and invade a new country just over a night. But sure never hurts to be prepared.
The syntax has improved quite substantially since 2016 for pattern matching at C#'s end, and it's very easy to model ADTs with records (and the experience of using them even before that was decent with methods accepting lambdas).

Today, you write it in a similar way you would write a match in Rust.
This project is an emulator that is able to run NetBSD (and Ultrix, and Linux, and potentially others)!
I recall Micheal Levin bringing up microtubules as well. Looks like the consciousness guys are on a similar thread. Seems like a fascinating place to investigate for the coming years
I appear to have crashed the server with "tic 999", sorry guys!
The Development of Erlang by Joe Armstrong (pdf) - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/258948.258967
I think that part of the reason for my thinking is that I've recently been playing around with USD (Universal Scene Description). It is currently mostly based on files, but I find the underlying representation - of layers of atomic properties being composed together in a massive tree - to be very elegant, and it can be managed in a database without any files or blobs anywhere.

As another example: in the early web, behind every url was a file (with an actual file extension), but then we abstracted them into resources, and I feel that this coincided with an evolution of the field.

The concept of a file or blob will probably still be useful in some capacity for decades to come, but I wouldn't want it to hinder us from realizing better abstractions.
> I recently got my ham license for fun and boy is it fucking boring. It’s just a bunch of old dudes talking about where they are driving to and gate keeping the spectrum through repeater systems that you need to pay to be a member of or else you might get a stern finger wagging.

my experience, too. I did EW in the military and it was interesting-ish. decided to, a couple years back, get the license and play around, see if I could connect with some of the local Elmers -- and it was laaaaaaame.

by comparison, other meetup groups like for drones, linux, or other nerdy-as-hell topics was still pretty lively. I went to some LUGs in Australia that were a straight-up blast, Linux trivia night in bars, etc.

but ham was a snoozefest, and outside of doing some illegal-ass shit that the FCC would absolutely hammer me for, I can't think of anything cool to do with the license.
a 100% drop in hash rate would do it!
Tenstorrent Launches Next-Gen Wormhole-Based Developer Kits and Workstations
Ask your provider to add Ketamine to the knock-out mix... if you were to wake up (again?), you literally wouldn't care about anything happening to your meatbag.
Doesn't seem to be working, the chat is frozen and I can't type anything.
Lol, I was thinking in terms of the disease or the Internet slang, but you're right of course.
Java frolicks in opaqueness.
It's curious that clicking on the links doesn't take you to a /page.html but rather just /page. Is that due to Cloudflare routing?
This actually has a lot of potential I think. It reminds me of https://bit.dev (obviously without most of the main features). But the core is there - the idea that components should be organized in a way that makes them easily reusable.

If you were to add a preview functionality of each component, this would already look A LOT like the Bit platform.

Personally, I've been trying to figure out a way to create a component library where my components are easily shareable and importable, but haven't yet come to a real solution. Bit is a good one but I am not yet ready to pay per component after my 20 free components are used up.

I think this would be actually extremely useful to me personally if you added these two things:

- component live preview (perhaps with mock props/data?)

- a way to store the components in the cloud so that they can be important into any project, where the source of truth is in this cloud platform

In the future, you could add things like:

- component-level testing

- AI features

- version control and PR reviews

- CI integrations / other integrations
However, you would have more flexibility to do tricks sub-pixel to improve resolution?
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
Not a philosopher, but IMHO yes. But so is the scientific method.
Not really, MoE is trained all at once and the 'experts' don't have pre-defined specializations. They end up being more like "punctuation expert" and "pronoun expert" than "math expert" and "french expert"
In this video we show how to display elements conditionally based on state. This is the same as React state used to show/hide elements in JSX. This allows you to control when and how certain content appears to users based on specific criteria. It may be based on URL routes, global events like resize, component props or a simple button click. This is a fundamental technique in building web apps.
An educated guess then, maybe even a good one!

What happens if it's only 80% sure? Do you get a high-res John Quincy Adams or an admission that it can't identify the image content? If I feed it a low-res picture of Michael Faraday or Henry Clay, will I receive the finely sculpted jowls of John Quincy Adams in return?
Prison in your country sounds quite pleasant!
If all that AI could do was to turn less than structured data into structured data, it would still be the biggest deal in computation since the transistor.
I fail to understand what's wrong with the name "Apache". Is/Was he a dictator/mass murderer or something?
I'd love to do more local / device networking, but I feel that's basically a solved problem. I can plug zigbee modules in all day and make serial packets bounce anywhere.

Hackers are sparse geographically. It's not like my friend down the street would plug in his radio and we'd share packets. And if we did, why not use the internet?

HAM has been a bit of a letdown to me, too. I had higher / hackier hopes for it.
they couldn't care less about the war. they always had to his their money either from ru itself or their host state's irs. sanctions or not make they buy Bitcoin so they can sell it for usd with minimal hassle.

nothing of this is news because of the war. and before btc it was money purchase of real state.
Until some special operation happens or some other one off event.

At the same time, yes, I wouldn't worry for theft or robberies.
Same here.

And I just boycott the games that don't work or use those invasive components.

At one point, it makes sense to really vote with one's wallet.
> how remote California is. Pretty much everyone else is at least three time zones away

Remote from what? California is one of the most populous states. Just within the same time zone there are tens of millions of people.
Found a pretty good article at the Guardian. Chino seems to be having the beef.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/gavi....
This is not the same Google anymore...
This was posted in October 2020. Maybe the poster posted it in response, but it appears they've had this policy for a while.
The idea that using a symbol across cultures is a misappropriation is an extension of the ideology that cultures should not mix. It's the thinking that everyone would be better of if each person stayed in their culture barrier - and you know which kind of thinking that is, from which political side on the spectrum. It's sad that an organisation like this feels the need to give legitimacy to that anti-multicultural ideology.
> proof that it's intentional is that Yamanaka factors work

Not really. Multicellular life is messy. Neglect and bad intent, so far as nature can have intention, are difficult to distinguish.
A key performance attraction of Scryer Prolog is its space efficiency for representing lists of characters, yielding a 24 times (!) more compact representation than a naive implementation would.

With Scryer Prolog and other recent systems that implement this representation, such as Trealla Prolog, we can easily process many GBs of text with DCGs, arguably realizing the full potential of the originally intended use case of Prolog for the first time. Trealla Prolog goes even further already, and allows overhead-free processing of files, using the system-call mmap(2) to virtually map files to memory, delegating the mapping to the operating system instead of the Prolog system.

The linked benchmarks do not test these aspects at all, and in addition use a version of Scryer Prolog that was completely outdated already at the time the benchmarks were made: The benchmarks use Scryer Prolog v0.8.127, which was tagged in August 2020, more than 3 years (!) before the benchmarks were posted. The linked benchmarks thus ignore more than 3 years of development of a system that was at that time 7 years old. Newer versions of Scryer Prolog perform much better due to many improvements that have since been applied. More than 1700 commits were applied between these dates.

In the face of the 24-fold reduction of memory use that the above-mentioned efficient string representation enables, small factors of difference in speed between different systems are in my opinion barely worth mentioning at all in any direction.

And yes, in addition to this great space efficiency, the strong ISO conformance of Scryer Prolog is also a major attraction especially when using it in highly regulated areas. For example, here is a recently envisaged application of Scryer Prolog in the context of machine protection systems (MPS) of giant particle accelerators, where adherence to industry standards is of great importance for warranty reasons among others:

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/2441

As another example, a medical application of Scryer Prolog, in the highly regulated domain of oncology trial design:

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/2332

Here is an overview of syntactic ISO conformance of different Prolog systems:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/conformi...
The Chapo Traphouse podcast touched on the Erie Canal in Episode 557 "The Inebriated Past 10: Mormons, pt. 1", especially as the backdrop for the story of Joseph Smith and the creation, of course, of the Mormon church. It's a rousing tale told well beginning around 15 minutes in. The general thrust is that the burst of economic activity that both motivated the creation of and was in part sustained by the Erie Canal extended a tentacle of capitalistic social dislocation which, in part, was a factor in religious revival movements in upstate New York like the Mormons.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of any of this, of course. It could be just some guy yelling on the internet. I just thought it was interesting.

https://youtu.be/-cMs2BYo9nY?si=1AC8CidLpifN3Mno
Yess!! THANK YOU! For all these years, I couldn't find it. I appreciate this so much, thank you :)
Accrescent hype is comically overdone.
So would the perfect GitHub/GitLab competitor be a 20 person team of highly paid engineers ( 400K USD straight cash comp) with outsourced marketing and HR ?

I actually think most companies, particularly when VCs are pumping them full of capital, overhire.

I guess this is to signal to the market we're doing cool things...
Olin Shivers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382531
When the Press Turns Its Back on Press Freedom
The paper links to their code:

https://github.com/muslehal/xLSTMTime

And their data, which includes daily exchange rates:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nuMUIADOc1BNN-uDO2N7...
Thank you for the pointers! On your third bullet, when you say "versus channels" are you also saying "don't use channels at all" or are you saying "when using chats, use @everyone but don't do that in channels"?
The GH profile in their about is completely different, and it isn't listed in the contributors, so I'm guessing no.

https://github.com/pythops
For sure, there is still incentive for bookies to start with a price that is close to the ending price. And if you base your picks on a 'late' line then that is probably more likely to be a 'correct' line.
This is so cool!

It reminds me a bit of one my favorite debugging techniques: Running an individual test with coverage reporting enabled, and then clicking around the HTML coverage report to see exactly what code path the test followed, without needing to use either print statements or a specialized debugger.

Very helpful for answering questions of the form "Why does this test not exercise the code I thought it did?".
In The Development of Erlang Joe Armstrong says "We concluded that we would like something like Prolog with added facilities for concurrency and improved error handling".

See pdf linked here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998632
If you want to remove the semantics of table elements, you could set a role="presentation" attribute on all table-related tags. I'm wondering what HTML semantics enthusiasts will say about this. ;-)
From a security perspective, this is a good idea. People intuitively trust Google links. URL shorteners hide what you're clicking on. Sometimes even informed people click on links.
My motivation for building this was seeing that there is still a significant cost and high barrier to entry to deploy smart contracts on a blockchain and build a decentralised applications.

The evidence of this challenge is that many web3 organisations are using centralised tools like Google Forms and Notion.

The solution I’ve worked on is to build a smart contract with enough flexibility that it can pretty much be used for any project. The frontend currently gives you 2 options akin to Google Forms or Reddit. Any React dev can fork the frontend and create a decentralised app without any blockchain knowledge.
Steps to biological immortality would look exactly like these.
Same here... not gonna switch tools every 6 months for such a small benefit. I like that it downloads its own interpreters though, makes it easy to start a project.
Also for some reference:

Gemma 2 27B scored: 75.2 in MMLU

LLama 3 70B scored: 79.5 in MMLU

Haiku scored: 75.2 in MMLU

GPT 3.5 scored: 70.0 in MMLU

Based on pricing I see in openrouter.ai across different providers this seems like the cheapest model for this kind of performance.

ref:
[0] https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/de8ba9b01c9ab7cbabf5c33b80b7bb...

[1] https://blog.google/technology/developers/google-gemma-2/
The hashtag idea is a nice trick. Would definitely be nice to have a local archive.
that's what nvidia told everyone in mar 23... but there's a reason why h800 were included last minute on the embargo in oct 23.
Sure, but that’s assuming you need a higher rate than is already used for brightness. That’s a question I think can only be determined experimentally by putting real human eyes on it, although I think you could do the experiment with traditional RGB LEDs. But the other question is whether the wavelength tuning can be changed at the same rate as intensity.
I should have said "simple" instead of "easy." It isn't easy. But if it's all in our genes, that's a finite search space. In reality, the search space is indeterminetedly bounded, possibly unbounded. It's hard not because it's elusive, but because it's complex.
Now imagine an LLM trained on LLM web content. We call that an AIslop-squared.
What made it take so long? Seems like this should have been a relatively simple app to build.
regarding 1, they have a strong understanding of the tasks/queries their users are performing and they are pruning the model accordingly. It's like playing jenga but with neurons.
Dark mode's bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia accessibility
Based on PyLLMs benchmark. [1]

Slightly better than Haiku and slightly slower. Much cheaper.

OpenAIProvider('gpt-4o-mini') Total Cost: 0.00385 | Aggregated speed: 105.72 tok/sec | Accuracy: 51.85%

AnthropicProvider('claude-3-haiku-20240307') Total Cost: 0.00735 | Aggregated speed: 117.53 tok/sec | Accuracy: 48.15%

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/pyllms
It’s called adaptive control theory [0] and has already been in use for decades in robotics, aviation, and so on. Whether you want to start calling solving constraint equations “self-awareness” is another story.

The short description: you have an initial idea of the state (an estimate) and you take sensory input (literally from sensors like thermometers, cameras, potentiometers, etc.) and solve constraint equations that both refine the estimate of the system as well as tell the system what to do to achieve some objective. The objective could be something like prevention of an inverted pendulum attached to an electric motor from falling over.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_control
Distance decreases the intensity of exposure. I'm not trying to achieve complete avoidance, just a decrease of risk.

To those who down-voted (actually or even as a psychological reaction) my original comment: consider for a moment that while this might be a fringe opinion, it is not without some evidence.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/01/health-risks-of-cell-ph...

If you think rats getting cancer from radiation is not relevant evidence, that's your personal opinion, not the most scientifically validated hypothesis.
You would certainly notice if your genitals were absorbing enough energy via RF emissions to pose any kind of hazard. You would probably notice long before that threshold.
At least you're honest about it being a hit piece and not a journalistic endeavor, but you should at least feel a little shame about your own shitty behavior.
True-ish. But:

- You're free to keep track of how each person ended up on the list

- Your supply of "random volunteers" for life-long medical testing may be limited

- The costs/benefits of being a health busybody or hypochondriac, in the context of a wide variety of diseases and maladies, is itself worth study

- At the "I run a country" level, ensuring long-term political support for good healthcare is as important as ensuring that your current healthcare system is good.
Reminds me of the time I went to the supermarket with some other graduate students, including a Japanese girl, and she was shocked that I bought a cantaloupe.
Documentation severely lacking. I wanted to know whether this does streaming or only batch, as well as examples for integrating with Android apps.
How Sticky Is It Outside?
I'm not really going to try to resolve the definition except to say that no part of New York is in Ohio.
2024 Industrial iF Design Award Winners
It probably was identified as a service that doesn't bring them enough or no money/benefit at all.
In theory, Prolog is the king of languages. Simultaneously a logical formalism, and (with a resolution system) a language for computation, AND the ultimate meta-programming language as its homoiconic but only goals are evaluated (there is no eager/lazy evaluation fuss - a term is just a term), and goals can only succeed (and have any consequence) if there is already a matching clause.

In practice, there are some very performant and maintained implementations with small but helpful communities.

Also in practice. With all of this power, it's clear that anything could be done (well) in Prolog, but it's not always clear what that way might be. DCGs are an example of a beautiful, elegant, simple, powerful way of building parsers (or state machines) that was not immediately evident to the Prolog community for some time. The perpetual conundrum as a user will be "I could do it this way, but there are certainly better ways of doing this, and I have many avenues I could explore, and I don't know which might be fruitful in what timeline".
Absolutely I once had an issue with kernel/user-space driver version mismatch in Ubuntu, trivial to fix and the kernel logs tell you what's wrong. But yeah I get that most users don't read their kernel logs and it shouldn't be an expectation to do so for normal users of linux. The experiences are just very different, it's why the car mechanic analogy fits so well.

I think it also got so much better over time, I've been using Linux since debian woody (22 years ago) the stuff you had to deal with back then heavily skews my perspective on what users today see as unacceptable brokenness in the Nvidia driver.
Also seems important to ask why these patterns became so common and the related question of why companies are so much more willing to violate people's dignity nowadays just to get an edge on the competition. Was it the rise of the MBA?
It’s rather hard to move from acquaintance to friend. I have people that I’ve played board games with weekly for years, but I wouldn’t say we are friends. I would certainly never engage in “deep chats” with any of them.