skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this reduces the compute required, but still uses 8 bits per value, so it does not reduce the memory requirements required to run inference, so it doesn’t particularly make the models more accessible for inference. Is this storage method suitable for training? That could potentially be an interesting application.
Sorry but I've added a lot of features each day, and I think HN welcomes the duplicate URL with content & functioning changes.
Maybe this technique can be used for training then since that is a lot more compute intensive?
Somehow we always had lots of books around and I got great books as gifts. And a library card. And gift cards for bookstores. All of these were terrific, and recommendations tended to be spot on.

I wonder if reading is harder to get into now because of the many distracting forms of digital media. Those seem to have replaced recreational reading for me, and I'm not really happy about primarily reading for work rather than for fun.
What would happen if you replaced Google with a perfect functional equivalent? Well, nothing.

You don't happen to know where one could find these magical perfectly compatible and functional drop in replacements, do you?
Yes, good example. They already got a Nobel prize, one of the quickest in history.

This is the kind of physics we might need more of.
Actually there’s an explicit formula for Finonacci(x) that involves phi. I think you can use generating functions to derive it.

(But your overall point still stands.)
Oh I'm sure people still use El Torito today! I remember having to go through that to boot my hobby OS.

Admittedly that was some years ago, but you can still find fresh Github issues of lost souls who still use bootable ISOs
Perhaps the reason why people aren't following you with a plastic bag is exactly because it is worthless? Sounds to me like if it wasn't, someone would have been following you. 23andme didn't follow anyone around — people sent it to them — and that doesn't make the data valuable all of a sudden.
For mutating object storage aws followed minio .

You can see it in the minio repo and issues .
For smaller games, there's some charm in not making a game engine, and not using one either, but just writing the game, sure this falls apart easily, if you find yourself needing something you're not able/willing to make from scratch, but a lot of very entertaining stuff can be made by just programming the game rather than trying to create an elegant api for your engine, or trying to learn and wrangle an exisiting engine into submission.
That is not me on the inflatable pool toy. That is my ex girlfriend's ex. Sorry for not making that more clear. There is a small caption underneath each image.

Also, I really want to stress that an AI should not claim that this theory is true, it should only be _able_ to find this theory.
I'm also sure that fp8 is small enough that multiplication can really be done in a much simpler circuit than larger fp formats. Even smaller formats like fp4 would be able to just use a lookup table, and that makes them more like sort-of-standardized quantization schemes.
No(t yet), i've focused on the traditional desktop Widgets toolkit. There are other existing QML/Go bindings you might be interested in.

Qt Widgets has a lot of benefits over QML. It is native compiled code whereas QML is interpreted; the native compiler (qmlsc) is proprietary and only available for commercial licensees. If you are happy with a large runtime for an interpreted UI then I'd suggest looking at web technology (e.g. Wails) to enjoy the broader ecosystem effects.
Didn't some of the early GPT work come out of Google?
I wonder if your list approaches AI at some point!

The Nobel committee seems to think so
I think Windows does the same
The gatekeeping and manipulation going on in formal scientific publishing is notorious, but that is not the issue here.

The fundamental algorithm of advancing physical science has always been: a set of "principles" or proto-concepts, a set of matching mathematical tools (that dont even need to be very rigorous), using these tools to explain a slice of reality (experimental outcomes) and, finally, predicting unknown behaviors that can be sought, can be confirmed (and celebrated).

Sometimes even just a purely equivalent mathematical representation is fine, as it may give handles for calculations and thinking.

But whatever the program with digi-physics is, it doesnt follow these age-old patterns that establish validity and usefulness intrinsically and not because some gatekeepers say so.

The primary utility seems to be to enhance the prestige and toolkit of computational physics, which is fine, but totally not justifying the universality claims.
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I personally wouldn’t recommend ISOs for PXE booting longer. It requires loading the entire disc into memory first which is going to be slower than purpose built netboot images.

These days I tend to just run a local mirror of NetBoot.xyz for personal use. Not needed to use PXE booting professionally for around 10 years but I’m sure others out there might still be using it.

I do agree with you that universally retiring ISO is a bit dramatic. However I do think their usefulness is greatly diminished these days.
I’m pretty skeptical of anything claiming to be a zero cost abstraction…
Google invented the ability to put an animated Gif inside a spreadsheet cell.
I once rode a bus from Boston to NYC in the middle of a winter storm at night. The bus got lost and the trip ended up taking close to 7 hours. These buses had TVs for showing video tapes, and so partway through, the driver decided to show “The Ring”. Let me tell you, an involuntary horror movie screening in the middle of a blizzard is quite a memorable experience.
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you might want to actually read my comment. the details matter.
Not really, modern philosophy attempts to present valid arguments based on a few axioms. You can then decide for yourself if you assume these axioms yourself, in which case you also have to accept the conclusion of the argument.
I assume you're basically referring to this quote from the article?

"Ignore fields coming from the API if you don’t need them. Keep only those that you use."

IMO this addresses only one part of the problem, namely "sanitize your inputs".
But if you follow this, and therefore end up with a dict whose keys are known and always the same, using something "struct-like" (dataclasses, attrs, pydantic, ...) is just SO much more ergonomic :)
Maps arent nearly as problematic in clojure because data is immutable by default on top of the functional paradigm where your program is basically a big composition of functions and the language is built around using maps. In Python I largely agree with the author. In clojure I love my maps.

Here is Rich Hickey with an extreme counter example although I would argue he's really demonstrating against getters and setters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc
Many airlines have had generally available models of tablets (such as iPads) to hand out on their aircraft lacking screens. eg. Hawaiian Airlines when they still had 767s.
> convert [dicts] immediately to data structures providing semantics [...] You can simplify your work by employing a library that makes “better classes” for you

Python seems to have many different kinds of "better classes" - the article mentions `dataclass` and `TypedDict`, and AFAIK there are also two different kinds of named tuple (`collections.namedtuple` and `Typing.NamedTuple`).

What are the advantages of these "better classes" over traditional classes? How would you choose which of the four (or more?) kinds to use?
Sadly, because of two medium hair cats (and carpets), all the robots I’ve had required brush maintenance after every single run, ruining that “coming to a freshly vacuumed house” feeling. Maybe someone knows a robot vacuum that somehow solved it and doesn’t need daily maintenance for pet hair?
Intel has been developing a new graphics driver stack for Xe, which will officially support SR-IOV from Xe2 onward, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-New-Xe-Linux-Driver. It makes sense to focus Intel resources on the new hardware and driver architecture, but thanks to OSS, the existing stable driver can also be improved by community contributions.
This does not explain the flow of time nor the direction of how consciousness perceives it. A low entropy is just a low probability state. Such state in the past is just as unlikely as in future as physical models are time-reversible.

Moreover, there is no evolution in physical models. The universe is just 4-dimensional thing. Surely time in physics is different from space as we can predict across time based on on the condition in 3-d space-like surface, while if one make a slice in the 4-d universe with 2 space dimensions and one time-dimension, predicting across the remaining space dimension is impossible.

But that does not explain why our perception flows from one space-like slice to another and in particular direction. Surely some of the slices are less common (low entropy) then others (high entropy), but there is no movement or evolution.

A good analogy is a rod with a color gradient from white on one end and black on another with white turning into black quickly so most of the rod is black. We can arbitrary call the white side first and even say that the color evolves from white to black. Then as the white side is a low probability as a randomly selected slice of the rod will be black, we can even say that the color evolves from a low probability to high probability stare. But this is arbitrary as in reality color does not evolve and there is just the single colored rod.
Yeah. @OP Maybe EEVBlog's forum or a relevant PCB design subreddit would have better hope at finding a PCB designer in this way? Otherwise, UpWork works really well, as I've hired 2-3 PCB designers off of UpWork so far.
So it means both order and order.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/order

1. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

[…]

5. (countable) A command.

[…]
Dicts are great when the data is uniform and dynamic, like an address book mapping names to contact info. You never assume that a key must be in there. Lookups can always fail. That's normal for this kind of use-case.

When the data is not uniform (different keys point to differently-typed values), and not as dynamic (maybe your data model evolves over time, but certain functions always expect certain keys to be present), a dict is like a cancer. Sure, it's simple at first, but wait until the same dict gets passed around to a hundred different functions instead of properly-typed parameters. I just quit my job tech at a company that shall remain nameless, partially because the gigantic Ruby codebase I was working on had a highly advanced form of this cancer, and at that point it was impossible to remove. You were never sure if the dict you're supplying to some function had all the necessary keys for the function it would eventually invoke 50 layers down the call stack. But, changing every single call-site would involve such a major refactor that everybody just kept defining their functions to accept these opaque mega-dicts. So many bugs resulted because of this. That was far from the only problem with that codebase, but it was a major recurring theme.

I learned this lesson the hard way.
In AS3, I made a sound/music engine on top of their excellent sound API, then tacked on other things like simple graphics and then controls, so I accidentally made a game engine out of a sound/synth project.

Good ole days of AS3, still ahead of their time.

Really wish there was an AS3 WASM or something
I think I read the article s bit differently. The headline is a bit click-bate, but in the article they never state that the format has to die in general, but that this distribution has killed it of, with explanations on why that is.
Just because something won’t affect people doesn’t mean they can’t be allowed to think it’s morally wrong.
In general, the ISO9660 format is great for distributing disk images
for this reason: it's a mature, international, cross-platform standard.

ISO 9660 is a standard, yes. But what's actually standardized by ISO 9660 is exceptionally limited. Filenames are limited to 8.3 with a quite small character set literally just A-Z, 0-9, _, and a single dot. There are competing long file name standards, Microsoft's uses big endian UTF-16 as is tradition. The RockRidge extensions define support for POSIX semantics, unsure how well supported the POSIX permissions are.

MacOS can indeed mount supported ISO 9660 images from the Finder. One of the big advantage of ISO 9660 (and I assume UDF) is that the superblock does not conflict with the HFS superblock so you do both with relative ease. The other big one is that ISO 9660 is quite simple to implement compared to the alternatives.
Blackberry was primarily a corporate vendor, their phones were geared for email and Exchange server support, not end users, and their corporate users presumably weren't surfing the internet on their phones regularly. By the time of the iPhone, these features were available to the consumer market as well and it was no longer a unique advantage for them.
Any more details besides one tweet and some manual machine from the 1800s?
The thing is that the economics are poor. Why? Because additional processing step of these materials in recycling plant produces worse quality materials that need purifying again if used for production. Except copper of course.

And there should be two viewpoints: one is the cheapest way of getting the raw materials for production of other things. And the second is the clean way of getting rid of tons of electronics waste. Think about shelves of 17” first generation LCDs. Still not broken, but just outdated. The second one imho justifies the higher costs of materials. But if someone will pay let’s say 5% more for a television that was produced from recycled material… I don’t know. I see everywhere around greenwashing and I would not trust this anymore.
You could interpret this the other way - Why has Jeff Dean been snubbed by the Nobel committee? Why hasn't Larry Page gotten a Nobel for inventing the search technology that half the planet now depends on? I don't know what category to put that one in, but there's some important results in lightspeed-limited communications in "The Datacenter as a Computer" that would be worth extending the Physics category for.
The main rationale is definitely the license. The existing bindings for Qt Widgets (therecipe/qt and kitech/qt.go) are LGPL. That's just really difficult to use in Go where static linking is the default behaviour.

The other bindings have some strange behaviours when I checked them closely.

- therecipe/qt: The design of the "qtbox" runtime for therecipe/qt, introduced before the maintainer went MIA. Now that we know the Jia Tan xz story, it's my hope that MIQT can be a "nothing up my sleeve" binding with a clear source code supply chain, with no prebuilt binaries.

- kitech/qt.go: The rationale for their version was to focus on compilation speed, but with GOCACHE this is no longer really a problem. It also seems to be unmaintained.
If we don't want insurance prices to be tied to customers' health condition, let's make a law against that. I don't know how it is in the US, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're already using the results of bloods tests etc for pricing?

Creating a virus to target another country sounds like sci-fi at the best case, or a conspiracy theory[0] at the worst case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
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> It requires loading the entire disc into memory first which is going to be slower than purpose built netboot images.

I'm not sure it does require loading the entire image. Servers (Dell/HP) that allow remote mounting iso images will use HTTP-Range requests to be able to 'seek' the disk. I _thought_ (but honestly don't remember) iPXE was capable of range requests too.
Maybe we do experience everything at once, but then have to process it in a time-like manner to make any sense of it.

Like everything else that we "experience", maybe the perception that reaches our consciousness has nothing to do with what's actually out there.

There are no purple photons.
One of the pendulums in business strategy is whether companies should be smaller so they can be more nimble and pursue their own destines or larger so the can be more protected from market demands and can capitalize on "synergies" with other business units.

In practice, investors usually discount larger companies for efficiency reasons. You can see this with acquisition announcements where the acquirer usually goes down in price. The synergies often fail to pay off because there aren't actually many synergies between making microwaves and running a TV network, and the sprawling empire turns into mostly independent fiefdoms.
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Reminds how back in USSR you had to register typewriters - each country has its own fears. I wonder though what is so special about pill press - as far as i see any press, manual or mechanized, can be used to press pills. Does it mean that all presses should be registered?

Also reminds how back then, when i was relatively new to the US, veterinary giving me a syringe instructed me to put it into a pocket to make sure it isn't visible. I was perplexed to say the least - hide plastic syringe from view in a country where i had heard you can walk openly on the street with semi-automatic version of Kalashnikov :)
Kind of meta question:

local engine = EngineFactory.new()

I expect that a new instance of a factory class is a factory, not an engine. To get an engine, just create a new instance of an engine class.

Examples of what I expect:

local engine = Engine.new()

or a more convoluted

local factory = EngineFactory.new()
local engine = factory:build_engine()
Isn't uppercase for ß just ß - i.e. it's its own uppercase character?
Whatever dude, I actually do still use CDs but it's not like I care about your distro anyways so go ahead.

ISO-9660 is good at the thing it was designed for, which is a read-only media. If it was made for USB sticks it would have indirect-blocks so that files could be trivially expanded.

It's not clear what the author thinks it the "death" of ISO-9660 would entail. It's not like it's the subject of constant development or is mandatory for anything other than optical discs. Perhaps he thinks he can influence a sudden and widespread removal of ISO-9660 modules from OSes, FUSE, and archive utilities?

Also not sure what's so difficult about it, I thought for the USB-stick case all you do is dd it onto the dev-node and you're good to go? IDK, maybe I'm wrong here, like I said I prefer using CD-R discs on the very rare occasions that I need to install a new linux distro because the alternative is backing up my entire USB stick so I can overwrite it with a new FS and then restore it from backup. And also I always have stacks and stacks of CD-Rs on hand because they're cheap as fuck and I need them for an old video game console which is the subject of my primary hobby.
It is a bit unfair to Wasmer, because it incur in the (presumed) overhead of `wasmer run ...`, but I could not figure out if the actual clang binary is directly available after it is downloaded the first time.
Nice, thanks. All the other Qt bindings seem abandoned. https://github.com/kitech/qt.go is interesting though, it uses a huge wrapper, and then FFI calls. Now we can use libffi with purego (there is already a library) so in theory such a method can be used for CGo-free Qt bindings.
If you're a gamer, you should try Cyberpunk2077 :D Currently playing it, at over 200 hours, and it really feels like a scarily accurate, techno-dystopian version of our world.
A lot of Google's features when integrated and leading to ads and other Google properties they are justified, but if you were to forbid cooperation between the divisions, they may be shut down or diminished, as on their own they would need to be subsidized considerably and the 3rd party alternatives for ads would take most of the profits probably leading to negative cash flow without decreasing the level of service or charging fees.
Im curious about how this relates to deterministic time and the lack of free will.

>Our minds are “big”, in the sense that they span many individual branches of history. And they’re computationally bounded so they can’t perceive the details of all those branches, but only certain aggregated features. And in a first approximation what then emerges is in effect a single aggregated thread of history.

Does this allow free will?
It is precisely the large impact on GDP that poses a threat to the host nation. When companies like Novo Nordisk are such a huge part of the economy, they can exert disproportionate influence on society itself.

Our economy is absolutely benefiting from Novo Nordisk's size right now, but if/when their demand weakens or they're out-competed, we're going to end up with a lot of unemployed biotechnicians and massive roads to Kalundborg which will need to be maintained.
Hilariously shortsighted. Breaking up Standard Oil created wildly competitive industries and launched Rockefeller's wealth into the stratosphere. Big Tech is a rent-seeking middleman that chokes the life out of innovation.
Wolfram's theories are still largely pseudoscientific, in that way they look a lot like string theory, minus the public funding the latter received.

Neither theory is really falsifiable : if new experiments are made that contradict the theory, it can just be adjusted to fit the new observations. As a consequence, those theories are unable to make any kind of prediction about our reality, which makes them pretty much useless. No wonder this "research" was never published in any physics journal.
I have been on flights recently where the in-flight entertainment is delivered over in-flight wifi. I also chose to watch videos I had previously downloaded on a streaming service. Phones and tablets are already replacing these screens for some.
The thing that makes markets work is the struggle. A Darwinian survival of the fittest in a way. Once the struggle is over and only one contestant remains, the results are generally dystopian.

Also I believe that even when working optimally the Darwinian mechanism can't solve certain problems. Some things need to be dealt with by a group of motivated people working for other goals than profit.

Markets gave us compuserve and facebook while CERN gave us the open web, for example.
What on Earth... you do realize that antitrust regulation was the only reason we got Unix in the first place, right?