skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your concern with accommodating intraocular lenses? Something that works with your particular vision issues? I live in a relatively rural region, and the eye care center that has them as an option is one of the big TV advertisers.
Very good! I believe you.

Unfortunately I feel like it would be irresponsible to transition our stack to working with J because of available competence and relearning.

I can see it being used in research though.
I seriously wish the switch did something like this (and not just the OLED version, which I bought). I'd love to play Zelda with a better frame-rate.
You have no idea how little that narrows it down, there's an Intel and an AMD variant.
What does this 97 percent mean? That in 97 percent of cases it correctly identifies ALS? That in 97 percent of cases it correctly identifies absence of ALS?

The latter would be problematic, since ALS is fairly rare.
Even for like basic Rust programs it ties itself into countless borrow checker issues and cannot get out of it, both the OpenAI as well as Sonnet (Anthropic).

It doesn't really get logic still, but it does small edits well when the code is very clear.

I think this will always remain a problem. Because it can never shut up, it keeps making stuff up and "hallucinate" (works normally, just incorrectly) to dig itself further and further into a hole.

Autocomplete on steroids is what peak AI will look like till the time we can crack consciousness and AGI (which the modern versions are nothing even close to).
As a fellow uptime monitoring vendor I couldn't figure out what this does - an explainer paragraph would do wonders
I recently got the rulebook for a Wizard of Oz TTRPG. It re-uses the D20 system, but everything else about it (including all the spells, races, monsters, etc) are new.
I'm curious how well a o1-like model thinks, given minutes instead of seconds and the temperature set relatively high.
And this has been thing for good long while. One could even argue that some previous titles that played well with art style in their limitations look better than some later one. And this is even when doing "realistic" games. Games have looked good enough for many years now.

I really feel that we are still often lacking in other areas, or not enough care is put in there or lot of work and effort is being misdirected for various reasons...
Another too big to fail handout by the US government.
This on top of all the too big to fail money for them
to prove once again that they dont know how to build
modern fabs. (Unless Taiwan does most of the work)
I assume that by "ChatGPT embeddings" you mean OpenAI embedding models. In that case, "burning" and "freezing" are not opposite at all, with a cosine similarity of 0.46 (running on text-embedding-large-3 with 1024 dimensions). "Perfectly opposite" embeddings would have a similarity of -1.

It's a common mistake people make, thinking that words that have the opposite meaning will have opposite embeddings. Instead, words with opposite meanings have a lot in common, e.g. both "burning" and "freezing" are related to temperature, physics, they're both english words, they're both words that can be a verb, a noun and an adjective (not that many such words), they're both spelled correctly, etc. All these features end up being a part of the embedding.
One tactic might be to go on a public forum and claim you offloaded it while still holding it.
The power will also go towards artistic visual effects and more headroom for physics/gameplay, not just realism.
Back in my day it was all 6510 assembly, written by engineers, hackers and hobbyists.
Reminds me of the long-dead uptime-project.net

On their leaderboard there was an NT4.0 machine with several years of uptime. People accused the owner of having manipulated the reporting tool, but the owner said it was just being used as a secondary DNS server internally at a company, and scheduled to be replaced as soon as the hardware fails. I don't know whether that happened before the site shut down unfortunately.
Does it take a fixed long time or a long random potentially-infinite time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_effect
The egg contains mRNA or protein created by the mother that affects the child's phentotype.

It's unclear how much those non-genomic components affect organismal phenotypes; presumably, there is some minimal collection of factors that would suffice to allow us to construct an artificial egg cell that is viable for reproduction.
Great post and important ideas.

I was surprised by the set-up of the problem. Perhaps just my bias as a neuroscientist, but I take the disunity as the baseline state in the sensory/perceptual side, and the partial and graded unity of consciousness as icing on the cake. The metaphor of driving while thinking is apt. We simply do not have enough bandwidth to bind more than a few streams and only do so when it really matters. And if it really matters deeply to survival it again gets shifted in striatum. brainstem snd cerebellum—as habit or instinct. Consciousness is mere icing on the cake.

Minsky’s Society of Minds comes to mind(s).

Where unity is crucial in only in motor output—-when I reach and grasp (or talk or type) this thing I call me needs a unified pattern of activations and relaxations of muscles.
This unity for and of action is required to sustain life (Maturana’s autopoiesis). But the integration of many streams of sensory-motor input can (must) occur disjointly. Fetching memory is again disjoint.

The recursive binding of consciousness—our inner narrative that is probably driven by cycles of cortico-thalamic-cortical recursions—-only needs somewhat clear unity or binding at stages close to motor commitment. (But one wonders then about James Joyce when writing Finnigan’s Wake—-how many threads were output in parallel using a serial format?)
I coded this proof of concept to show how easy it is to have AI mingled with a regular Python code. I didn't know it's considered a terrible idea xd
This should be a lesson for everyone. Code quality doesn't matter, language doesn't matter, it only matters if people want your product. If you would look at the code quality of the most successful WordPress plugins you would be... uh, amazed? Compared to them WordPress' code quality is top notch. Yet, they probably bring in million/month from subscriptions. If you're curious see WpAllImport
Anyone here that can comment on the new snapdragon X support?
There's an important point to consider that might align with the author. Maybe you shouldn't "work work work, retire".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7307664/

"Early retirement was not associated with a higher risk of mortality. On-time retirement was associated with a higher risk of mortality, which might reflect the healthy worker effect."

(but it also says "It is important to consider information on prior health and demographics when studying the association between retirement and mortality to avoid biased findings.")

I kind of suspect it might be imagination and realistic planning.

You should imagine retirement early and if you can't afford it, try to mentally do it. and then transition while staying happy and healthy.

If you work work work, then "retire", you might just jump into the laz-y-boy at retirement, become comfortable, less active and adopt unhealthy habits.
Run local models in your digital audio workstation (open source vst)
Some of it (judging from myself) might be that companies have been pouring resources into graphics for 20 years and the benefit to me, as a gamer, has been modest. Sure, escaping PS1 graphics was good. Better graphics make it possible to recognized smaller features of the screen and interact with them. And, up to a point, better graphics help you imagine the gameworld.

But it's gone way overboard. I've looked at what raytracing can do. In an intellectual way it's impressive. But it doesn't really improve the experience of playing most games, which is driven by writing and gameplay.

And the latest video cards from NVIDIA just reinforced that feeling, as does the PS5 Pro price.

I think they've lost the plot, at least in terms of my interests.
> how could I say something without first knowing what I was going to say?

Maybe it’s just me, but it is not that uncommon for me to start to say something that I thought was clear in my head, only to realize that it was not. It happens even more when I write, and especially when I write programs.
I thought the entire eighth and ninth console generations were unnecessary, with the possible exception of the Switch. I eventually knuckled under and bought a PS4 so I could play Final Fantasy and Rez Infinite, but I haven't gotten into the ninth-gen stuff yet, several years into the console cycle.
Forwarding services exist, if you’re determined to get a unit.

Or here, with some markup: https://www.japantrendshop.com/vixion01-autofocus-eyewear-p-...
The problem with "money laundering" is that its theory and its operation are the inverse of one another.

The theory is supposed to be that you make it illegal to conceal the source of money that is the proceeds of a crime, so you can prosecute criminals for money laundering even if you couldn't prove the original crime. Which, to begin with, is pretty sus. Basically an attempt to end run around the government satisfying its burden of proof for the underlying crime.

But that also doesn't work. The criminals just set up a legitimate business as a front, claim the money came from there and the only way to prove otherwise is to uncover the original crime. So in practice money laundering is overwhelmingly charged in one of two cases.

One, they already proved the original crime and tack on a money laundering charge which is pointlessly redundant because those criminals were already caught. Two, you get some innocent people who -- unlike career criminals -- don't understand how money laundering laws work, so even though they were doing nothing wrong, they do something which is technically money laundering (because the rules criminalize innocuous and common behavior), or trigger the false positive AI nonsense, and then get charged with money laundering or booted out of the banking system.

Meanwhile large criminal organizations know how to make their transactions look like innocent transactions and then the government yells at banks for not catching them, even though the banks have no real way to do that because the criminal organizations made their transactions look like innocent transactions.

This is a dumb law that does more harm than good. Just get rid of it and charge the criminals with their actual crimes.
It does look like a lengthen truck head though.
Looks like a reasonable intuition guide with a couple of caveats. This intuition only works for gaussian or may be a few other distributions, not for a general p(x). Then the EV rows in the tables are not actual EV quantities, only the total is an EV, that can confuse somebody. Overall I think, the point could have been carried better with a few nice charts showing the p(x), f(p(x)) and the E.
While I often do like "falsehoods <....> believe about <...>" format it doesn't always fit in well (and if placed alone without explanation often can at most help you to know where you have knowledge gaps but not which).

A common problem are points which aren't really falsehoods, but where people frequently take false conclusions from it.

E.g. if you ask if TCP is reliable, especially in a non CS paper context, the answer is yes. That is iff you take a reasonable definition of reliable (which doesn't expect literally impossible things) and a reasonable interpretation of mostly. And just listing it as a falsehood fails to point out that there are two potential issues with your understanding while making creating the risk of someone with expertise in that sub-field of IT potentially thinking TCP is quite unreliable when it isn't. I mean the most common usage of the word reliable is a gradient with its meaning in a yes/no question being a short form of "reliable _enough_". Furthermore for most use-cases the "unreliable" aspect of TCP isn't even the main relevant misunderstanding people can have with "TCP is mostly reliable" (through for some use case it is)

The main troublesome misinterpretation is what mostly means. I.e. if you would give it a regious definition it would be "if sampling typical devices used in typical situations across some target audience then for most target audiences (weighted by audience relevance) most of the sampled devices will in a sufficient large long term moving average be reliable enough" or something like that.

What that mainly means:

- even if it's mostly reliable there will be devices for which it is reliable unreliable and anything in between

- similar even if it's mostly reliable for a device that isn't necessary all the time

- nor do we do statements about the patterns when the mostly doesn't apply, i.e. for a device TCP might be mostly reliable except every Sunday 3am for 30s, would still be mostly

- there are use-cases where unreliability is much more common

- there are audiences for which unreliability is much more common

etc.

Similar for point 5,6 about TCP packages, they are definitively a thing and there is no falsehood there. The falsehood is in believing you can reliable control them, that your OS or some middle ware isn't messing with them (e.g. splitting/combining/rewriting). So in some situations it's best to pretend there are non, but in some other situations you have to care and this might differ for different parts of the same protocol. So point 5 and 6 make sense, but don't point in a helpful direction.

to be clear doesn't mean lists are bad, or this list being particular bad, but I which they had more references/details even if short and compact and more clearly separate things too
Please no. 30fps will actually give me eye strain after awhile. 60 FPS at least, please.

And no, 24fps film is not comparable to 30fps, because the film captures a smear of time, whereas computers/consoles do not.
Creating, modifying and hosting Maps in Ruby on Rails: A rough Guide
> Describing the part is different from describing how to make the part. The same part might be sent to 3D printing for a non-functional fit prototype, sent to a prototyping machine shop to make 5 or so units on basic CNC machines that require 3 set-ups to complete it, and after a few design iterations scaled to production on a multi-spindle Swiss-style lathe that drops finished parts into the basket all night long, lights-out.

I think you might have a point here, but I'm going to push back on the idea that these three parts are the "same part" because they'll all have wildly different mechanical properties, dimensions, and dimensional consistency. They are not all necessarily interchangeable (although they could be, we'd have to integration-test them in an assembly to find out!).

My point is the "abstract part" isn't really a thing, and the real life characteristics of each concrete part are inextricable from the way it's made and what it's made of. I wonder if it would be helpful to force me, the designer, to think about it that way from the start?

3D printing is an odd case that tbh I hadn't really thought of. The things I make are all subtractively manufactured (except for welds which are addictive only in a degenerate sense), and I have no experience with 3D printing.
You actually choose the default for your console which well behaved games will start and will let you override.
The switch (especially the pre-OLED) does not have better input latency than a kinda modern OLED TV.

The problem is that we're compounding latencies that would be ok if it was just 1. Controllers? Bluetooth instead of a cable. Monitor? OLED instead of CRT. Audio? Maybe also wireless.

All together creates a sluggishness you can feel but can't pinpoint.
Really? Cause if you read history, dynasty builders are not distinguished by some moral superiority. That is just not how it ever worked.

It is power struggle. You build and keep it by playing power well and pripritizing power. It does not mean you cant have other values as well, but this is deciding factor.
The thymus is amazing... I ignored it for a long time then saw an amazing seminar. The thymus plays an important role in training the immune system: it expresses cells similar to cells all over the body, and then "educates" T-cells to avoid attacking those. Failures of the thymus often lead to autoimmune disorders.
The Harsh Realities of US Legal Immigration
Drugs, child porn and terrorism can be used as universal arguments
to "go to war", censorship, massive spending, etc etc.
and people will not ask for evidence or at least any
actual verifiable evidence.

I mean if you doubt the claims then you are advocating for spreading
child pornography.
Ray tracing still looks gorgeous in games that aren't aiming to produce realism. See Ratchet and Clank and the Doom mod.
I recently played God of War on PS5 when visiting a friend, what I noticed was that it was feeling really slow/sluggish, you press a button to punch someone and the whole character animation feels like it take 2-3 seconds. I also think, that in most of the games I've seen, the running animation still looks really stupid, especially in games that try to look realistic, it doesn't bother me that much in games like Zelda. But these days I mostly play round based JRPGs on my switch, so I really don't care that much about graphics or framerates. :)
Maybe you have jist shifted what you allow yourself to see as coercive and manipulative in the process of accepting sales techniques.
This is really great. I just used it to do some whiteboarding on a zoom call and it was event a lot more user friendly than miro.
It would be nice if OSs defaulted numeric keypad / * and - to Unicode ÷, ×, −. I never use them even when I do use the digits. That would solve the more glaring typewriter legacies. Then you'd just have the apostrophe/single-quote as the last remaining unification.
> it did sound a little bit like he was trying actively to bait his mark into producing fraudulent misrepresentations

Being a whistleblower only works well if you uncover a scheme that the target already has deployed to victimize other people (or the government). Entrapment isn't an effective tactic.
No, alas no material to refer to, other than my own experiences at several places in the food chain.

At the moment I'm having fun developing again, but I have had experience of management as well.

Obviously my experience does not speak to all cases, and I'm fortunate that most middle managers I've dealt with are competant.

I am in the fortunate position of being able to "speak truth to power" though, and generally been able to dispassionate translate technobabble into managerspeak, and help all the layers understand each other better.

I've found that when both sides understand (as much as they able) the complex demands being encountered, more realistic expectations and demands are made (and usually achieved.)

But I've been lucky. I've had good dev teams, good middle management, and good product owners. Who have all been pulling together to make projects successful. When one group is pulling the other way, things get tougher.
That only applies to apps that allocate a ton of objects and refer to them using pointers instead of using a dynamic array with 16bit/32bit indexes
In general, I think you could show that an 'arithmetic coding' approach is optimal, if the distribution of each bit given the previous bits is known. From there, you'd just have to show that the von Neumann approach for i.i.d. bits is no worse on average.
> Every scientific discipline moves away from natural language as soon as possible.

Have you seen a scientific paper that only had mathematics?

Natural language is still necessary for scaffolding, exposition, contextualization.
It's unfortunate that the National Electrical Code doesn't exist. In fact, it is unfortunate that we can't possibly have national regulations for anything at all. If only this were possible.
Can't we record the original download timings and replicate them artificially, with some noise added for privacy? Of course, with reasonable upper latency threshold (derived from overall network performance metrics) to prevent DoS on clients.

While this won't improve load times, it can save bandwidth, improving user experience on slow connections. And most popular hand-selected library versions can get preloaded by the browser itself and listed as exceptions with zero added latency.

Also, this way the networking telemetry would gain a meaningful purpose for end users, not just developers.
Airbnb Smoothly Upgrades React (using fundamentals of A/B testing)
If you care about latencies or are on very low bandwidth or noisy connections preshared dictionaries matter a lot. By and large they generally always help but come with complexity so are often avoided in favor of a simpler approach whose compression is acceptable rather than optimal. But if there’s a clear and well implemented standard that’s widely adopted I would always choose preshared dictionaries. Likewise secure connections are hard and without TLS and other standards most people wouldn’t try unless they really needed it. But with a good standard and broad implementation it’s basically ubiquitous.
Does anyone here think this will change without a full cognitive apparatus? Aka “agents”, to use the modern term? I have my doubts, but I’m relatively uninformed about the cutting edge of pure ML itself.

Just off the top of my head, maybe a RLHF run performed by academic experts and geared towards “creative applications” could get us farther than we are? Given how much the original RLHF run cost with underpaid workers in developing countries that might be exorbitantly expensive, but it’s worth a dream. Perhaps as a governmental or NGO-driven open source initiative…

Of course, a core problem here is defining “creativity” in stringent — or in Chomsky’s words, “scientific” — terms. RLHF dodged that a bit by leaning on the intuitive capabilities of your human critics. I’m constantly opining about how LLMs solved the frame problem, but perhaps it’s better characterized as a partial solution for a relatively easy/basic environment: stories about the real world. The Abstract/Academic/Scientific Frame Problem might be another breakthrough away, yet…
The vigilantism aspect is a guilty pleasure when reading this — with the IRS being deliberately defunded to facilitate tax cheating I read about this guy and hear in my head "this is the hero we need".
And since you can't do it on a totally unrelated vehicle under different circumstances, clearly nobody else can.
XJACK was great because then you didn't need a dongle, but my users kept breaking the XJACK. Super convenient but fragile.
Funny, I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time very recently. Previously, I'd played Cloudpunk, a "cyberpunk" voxel game with significantly less overhead.

But, most of the "vibe" is impressively similar; down to the first time I visited my Cyberpunk apartment, I was like -- haven't I been here before, because it's so similar to the Cloudpunk one, despite "graphics" differences.
I 100% believe it. I had a Windows 2000 smb/file server run for over 3 years uninterrupted until there was a power outage.
Why would I send the uptime to a remote server?
RS232 Flow Control [video]
> Their main concern - latency - turned out to be a non-issue.

I'm not fortunate enough to live near a Google (or Microsoft) datacenter. So latency in cloud gaming is a very real issue. I'm glad for those who could use it lag free. I never could (and probably never can short of moving).

The middle of Montana isn't exactly a hotspot for datacenters. For good reason.
How Optimizations made Mario 64 SLOWER [video]
The explanation is right there on the page.
Yeah, they’re not useless, but I don’t really see them replacing the profession of programming.

Just another tool in the kit.
Yes, very happy Thinkpad P14s user here on EndeavourOS.