skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they still have to yield to car traffic except at pedestrian crossings without a semaphore or at the Walk signal.

This isn't true. Car traffic must yield to pedestrians. Pedestrians don't always have the right of way, but you (hopefully obviously) can't just arbitrarily mow them down.

The only time this would matter is if you hit someone and it went to court. Thus in practice, you have to yield to pedestrians whenever you can reasonably do so. It's actually written into NY law (section 1146: "Due Care").
Is there any way to only allow chrome extensions to update with permission? It seems like any extension on the store could become malicious overnight, automatically, for millions of users.
I get what you are saying but, the same way ad targeting can be used to "serve me more interesting ads" and "surveillance" can be used to find missing children and sex trafficing victims, it isn't being used that way across the board.
I've always thought Valorant looked like crap because the players don't cast shadows. Just found out the other day that it's because other player model positions aren't sent to the client until the server determines they are visible to reduce cheating. This would cause shadows to appear and disappear as the player model was loaded and unloaded so you would never see a shadow unless you could also see the body of the player.
I'm bumping from a still-excellent M1 MAX / 64GB to M4 MAX / 128GB, mostly for local GenAI. It gives me some other uplift and also enables me to sell this system while it's still attractive. I'm able to exhaust local 7B models fairly easily on it.
At some point there should be an upgrade to the M2 Ultra. It might be an M4 Ultra, it might be this year or next year. It might even be after the M5 comes out. Or it could be skipped in favour of the M5 Ultra. If anyone here knows they are definitely under NDA.
For a good "before I studied the art, loops were just loops; while I was studying the art, loops were no longer loops; after I studied the art, loops were again loops" paper, I like:

AIM-443: Lambda: The Ultimate Goto (1977)

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5753/AIM-443....

Lagniappe: https://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net
When I was looking none of that helped at all. People in my network would refer me to all kinds of jobs posted online but basically once submitted you'd still be ghosted. I'm not even sure those were real jobs because to this day they have the same listing posted.
I really wish it had some way to connect USB storage directly.
Japan does something similar in the context of things that close after midnight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Japa...

FWIW, the English-speaking world used to switch years on March 25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750#...

Neither of these are technically things that tzdb can even talk about. They're concerned with civil time, not calendars or other "reckoning" problems.
Glitching for N00bs: A journey to coax out chips' inner secrets (2014) [video]
> In another the same young woman again uses it to lie about reading an email from a college, to her face

If only he'd let Apple Intelligence proof-read his blog post.
Cast iron is the best. The hardest part of cast iron is all of the nonsense people believe about cast iron, leading them to think it's inconvenient and, worse, that gets them to actively make cast iron problematic.
The thing that gets me about modern warranties on appliances is how weasely they'll market their warranties. I've got GE clothes washer and dryer proudly proclaiming their 10 year warranty. It's a 10 year warranty on the motor and the drum (IIRC). Not on the motor inverter unit, which had a one-year warranty. Guess which part is likely to fail? Guess what that GE service tech is going to recommend you do after he prices out several hundred dollars of parts he thinks he might need because he's too lazy to actually diagnose the issue?

An LG dishwasher with a similar 10 year warranty on the pumps and what not in the dishwasher. Awesome, great. The display panel has failing LEDs. Is that under that warranty? Nope. Who cares about the pump not technically failing if one can't know what mode the dishwasher is in?

If they're going to stick a sticker on the face advertising their warranty on an appliance it should cover the whole appliance. Not just a small handful of parts that should practically never fail under regular use while all the surrounding stuff has a nearly useless warranty.

I'm so salty about warranties and support these days I usually try and do every possible thing I can do to fix the problem myself before obviously voiding a warranty before I ever bother calling their support. So worthless most of the time.
For a lot of people this isn't possible. You won't find a liveable home in my country for under 600k.
Speak for youself.

I didn't grow up playing Nintendo games. I didn't even know anybody growing up with a Nintendo. I think the first (and only, prior to the Switch) Nintendo experience was buying a Gameboy Advance to play Mario Kart (briefly).

I bought a Switch solely to play Breath of the Wild.

I regret nothing.

You seem to rail against "majority think". I've encountered this many times. There are a lot of people who take the contrarian view basically because it's the contrarian view. That's actually worse than the alleged "majority think" because these people think their contrarianism is somehow virtuous.

There was really no reason for you to reply to my comment. It added nothing. All you really said was "I don't like BotW" and "I don't like Nintendo". Ok, that's fine. But you couched it in language like "overrated", like that's some objective standard. It's just your opinion.

You may want to examine why you're so hostile and quick to present your opinion as fact. For your sake.
Abstract is so imprecise as to mean nothing to me. Not gonna pay $10 to probably see them fail to adequately define and quantify "hostility".
There's a bottom of the barrel, dollar store brand under the Betty Crocker name brand in Canada - all black plastic cooking utensils, cheapest you can get in all varieties.

Every time I go over to mom's place it's so shocking to see these utensils being used for high heat applications they were never meant to be used for.

Flipping burgers in a pan, moving fries on a baking sheet - the ends of them are all warped and disfigured, bits carved out of them from scraping something and a piece of plastic chips off and ends up in the food.

Same with the pots and pans, she's been using the same teflon coated set for the better part of a decade and to her it doesn't matter that there's a spiral from the stovetop element burned into the inside of the pot where the teflon's overheated and chipped off.

I've tried buying her new pots and pans, utentils, etc. and educating her about how much plastic and teflon she has (and by extension I have) been eating over the years but it's in one ear and out the other.

We really need to stop making plastic cooking utentils. I've moved mostly to glass or metal bowls for storing, microwaving, baking foods - silicone for utensils (which I've heard is still somewhat risky even though it's inert?)

Microplastics are the leaded gasoline of my generation it seems like.
Property tax alone is around $13K/yr for me. Insurance is another couple grand. Only after that comes wear and tear and maintenance items.
It's not just the weight - Air is also fanless (and still runs cold).

And yes, with enough RAM, it is a surprisingly good dev laptop.
As a veteran jaywalker, let me propose that you avoid crossing at junctions, where crossings are usually located, ideally cross at one leg, especially good if it’s a one way street.

Less traffic, fewer inputs/outputs to keep under observations.
the smartest person I ever knew was my first manager, would talk about SmartOS a lot, didn't even know about Solaris at the time so it was like magic to me
Basically any good SSD manufacturer is fine, but I've found that the enclosure controller support is flaky with Sonoma. Drives that appear instantly in Linux sometimes take ages to enumerate in OSX, and only since upgrading to Sonoma. Stick with APFS if you're only using it for Mac stuff.

I have 2-4TB drives from Samsung, WD and Kingston. All work fine and are ridiculously fast. My favourite enclosure is from DockCase for the diagnostic screen.
My Modern CSS Reset
I don't understand, this sort of inference is not an issue for an LLM. Have you tried?
AGI means what it says on the tin: Artificial General Intelligence. As opposed to narrow AI, which most pre-transformer AI research was, that can only do specific categories of tasks. ChatGPT is a general-purpose NLP interface to a model which is able to be solve any category of problem that can be expressed through human language, which as far as we know is full generality.

What you are getting confused about is that there is a segment of people that have purposefully confused / conflated ASI (artificial SUPER intelligence) with AGI, due to their own beliefs about the hard-takeoff potential of AGI. This notably includes the founders of OpenAI and Anthropic, and early backers of OpenAI prior to the release of ChatGPT. Through their success they've set the narrative about AGI, but they are doing so by co-opting and redefining a term that has a quarter century of history behind it.

The core mistake started with Bostrom, although to his credit he is very careful to distinguish ASI from AGI. But he argued that once you had AGI (the ability to apply intelligence to solving any problem) you would rapidly get ASI through a process of rapid iterative design. Yudkowsky took those ideas a step further in his FOOM debate with Robin Hanson in 2008, in which he argued that the AGI -> ASI transition would be short, measured in months, weeks, days, or even mere hours. In 2022, six months prior to the release of ChatGPT, Yudkowsky has a public meltdown in which he asserted there is no time left and we're all going to die, after having been privately shown an early version of ChatGPT.

It's almost two years since the release of ChatGPT, which is absolutely AGI by the definition of the people who coined the term and have run the AGI Conference series for ~25 years, or by the definition of Bostrom or Yudkowsky for that matter. ChatGP is general intelligence, and it is artificial. Two years of AGI, yet we are still here and there is no ASI in sight. Yudkowsky was wrong.

Yet OpenAI, which was founded by a bunch of Yudkowsky acolytes, is still out there saying that "AGI" will bring about the singularity, because that was the core assumption underlying their founding and the reason for the investments they've received. They can get away with this without changing their message because they've subtly redefined "AGI" to mean ASI, and are hoping you don't notice the slight of hand.
In many cases it can actually be inversely proportional to performance, since the one factor they can count in black and white is how much the person costs. Laying off someone making a TC of $500K probably feels like you're saving the company a lot of money, but its also possible the reason they were making that much is because they were more than twice as productive/valuable as the person making $250K. But salary and benefits are easy to quantify, and performance is not.
Is that also true by population?
Since we deal with error/auth codes we figured it could work -- you don't think so :)
It looks like lately a lot of progress have been made in audio generation / audio understanding (everything related to speech, I mean).

Is this related to LLM, or is this a completely different branch of AI, and is it just a coincidence? I am curious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
If you grew up with even the slightest feeling of financial insecurity, dipping in to savings can already feel like the end of the world.

I can't imagine living with only 6 months of savings. There's no guarantee that I could find another job in 6 months, and unexpected expenses (medical, car trouble, housing repairs) can easily wipe out a month of savings anyway. In fact, given that a layoff means likely also an economic downturn, finding a job at the same salary within 6 months seems highly unlikely.

I have probably 3 years of no-risk savings at this point, have managed to reduce my living expenses to the point where I could work a 40-hour minimum wage job and still pay for my expenses, and have multiple back-up careers, and I'm only now starting to feel that taking money out of savings is an acceptable risk. That took years of frugal living on a high tech salary. People in their first few years at a tech job or with families will probably never achieve that.
Given that they also compare it to an M1 in the same aside, I'd say you're wrong.

> Up to 23.8x faster basecalling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Core i9, and up to 1.8x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro.
No that's an accurate TCO calculation.
It's interesting that on this topic, the inventor of the PC also seems to be caught in that supposed "Apple reality distortion field" and can't confirm the "price gouging" that you're trying to convince yourself Apple practices.

https://www.cio.com/article/236396/ibm-says-macs-save-up-to-...
114-year-old woman is now believed to be oldest living person in North America
Show HN: Pg_mooncake – Delta/Iceberg columnstore tables in Postgres
Hello HN, one of the founders of Mooncake Labs here.

Today, we are launching pg_mooncake, an extension that brings columnstore tables with DuckDB execution to Postgres. Expect analytical performance akin to DuckDB on Parquet (clickbench results to come soon).
You can run transactional updates, deletes, inserts on these tables, and they're written as Delta Lake tables (and soon Iceberg) to your object store (S3, etc.).
pg_mooncake is live on Neon today. Let us know what you think. It'll be coming to Supabase shortly, and other Postgres providers in the future.

Why another postgres analytics extension?

We actually leverage pg_duckdb and DuckDB as our execution engine — this is how we were able to ship the extension in just 60 days. We wrote about this with the DuckDB team: https://motherduck.com/blog/pg-mooncake-columnstore/

pg_mooncake shines in two scenarios:

1. Up-to-date analytics in Postgres

- This is where having a table semantics, and not just exporting files is key.

2. Exporting Postgres Data to Iceberg/Delta Lake tables, and querying them outside of Postgres

- Run ad-hoc analytics with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars. Or data transforms and processing with Polars and Spark directly on these tables.
You don’t need to manage ad-hoc parquet files and complex pipelines.

Mooncake Labs.

We just came out of stealth today.
Mooncake is a managed Lakehouse with clean Postgres and Python experiences. Our core belief is that open table formats (Iceberg and Delta) provide a lot of flexibility, and we can ensure great DevEx on top. We will bring it to more workloads, applications, developers and agents.

Read about our beliefs: https://mooncake.dev/blog/3.

Cheers!
agreed. From pytz's docs: "the intention was to set sunset to 0:00 local time, the start of the Islamic day. In the best case caused the DST offset to change daily and worst case caused the DST offset to change each instant depending on how you interpreted the ruling"
FWIW I think that's more the core count than anything. I have a M1 Max as a personal machine and an M3 Max at work and while the M3 Max is definitely faster, it isn't world-beating.
The software stack has gotten so bad that no amount of hardware can make up for it.

The compile times for Swift, the gigabytes of RAM everything seems to eat up.

I closed all my apps and I'm at 10gb of RAM being used - I have nothing open.

Does this mean the Macbook Air 8gb model I had 10 years ago would basically be unable to just run the operating system alone?

It's disconcerting. Ozempic for terrible food and car-centric infrastructure we've created, cloud super-computing and 'AI' for coping with this frankenstein software stack.

The year of the Linux desktop is just around the corner to save the day, right? Right? :)
I agree, and if you want to have the opportunity to build such a product, then you need a computer whose specs today are what a home server would have in four years. If you want to build the future you have to live in the future. I'm proud to make stuff most people can't even run yet, because I know they'll be able to soon. That buys me time to polish their future and work out all the bugs too.
I can't eat index funds.
Fundamentally there isn't any change in the underlying physics. You're limited by the half life of the isotope, so you either choose a longer-lived isotope (which actually may be even harder post Cold War as much of the ideal isotopes were byproducts of nuclear weapons manufacturing) or launch a bigger RTG than you need so you have enough power later on in the mission.
I got into the habit of reviewing the the background of people critiquing particular policy (or advocate for one). In this case the author has very interesting participation in "Special Competitive Studies Project" which describe itself as think tank to "make recommendations to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness as artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies are reshaping our national security, economy, and society" [1]. This is a data point that might be helpful when engaging with the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Competitive_Studies_Pr...
I changed the wording to be "booting directly" to clarify that I'm not including VMs. If I have to explain why that matters I guess I can, but I am pretty sure you know.
> These are not good uses of capital

I suppose it depends on what the alternative was for that capital. Sitting in an index fund wasn't really doing anything useful for society, but providing high paying tech jobs to dropbox employees was probably very useful to society. Especially when you consider all of the downstream impacts of those employees spending.

Similarly, I would ask if society gets more good out of transferring the wealth to crypto-bro's or from it sitting in relatively low yield investment vehicles? I would wager that the crypto bro's buying lambo's acted as a better economic stimulus than non-productive interest gathering.

Now if the choice had been between investing in "good" businesses vs "bad" businesses I would agree, but I don't think it was.
Git-based editor for web-apps.. we still see promise especially with AI capabilities but fintech is a much better founder-market-fit for us.
Sure, but that's an arbitrary line. It's not wrong, depending on what you want to highlight, of course.

But if that's the criteria being used, then WW3 has not begun. That's why I said "an equally strong argument" -- neither argument is actually all that strong.
Do you heat up your pan before adding butter and/or oil? That's an important step to avoid sticking.
oh right - some one-way relationship with a corporate-or-worse software process that makes a record of all progress, with timestamps and topics.. what could go wrong?
I drove through a solar cluster in India this year. https://earth.google.com/web/@27.45264286,72.06288954,225.16... I couldn't fathom the scale when I looked at it later in Google Earth. It's a good use of the arid land where few things grow.
Promising, is there a Posix layer like Cygwin for this? But with good performance.
https://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/DeepCommo_Chapter3--14... (start at pdf page 35) might have context [1].

[1] Sourced via https://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/VOY_library.html
Absence is also part of the content.
Agreed about the security and maintenance perspective perspective.

Does that then mean we can conclude that the agent that comes
with this product is a fully fledged endpoint security like
ESET/MCaffe etc?

I am wondering about this since a top notch free and open source
antivirus and malware program would be super useful and cheap
Safety and Liveness: Eventual Consistency Is Not Safe
> MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop, and with Apple Intelligence, it’s even better. Now, models with M2 and M3 double the starting memory to 16GB, while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop.

This is nice, and long overdue.
Yep. The times I've been hit by a car while walking it was the car rolling through stop signs, lights and turns.
To add on, my phone is 512 let alone what I want my laptop to be. Apple claims that their ssds are magically super fast as if they don't use the same technology all other high end ones do, it's just that Apple massively overcharges for them, no wonder they make so much profit.

If a user only needs 256g then fine, but it's just creating ewaste as if they sell it 2ndhand there's fewer people that will want it.
Maybe it's because for the first time in history the GOP is not a political party at all anymore but an evil CULT that even decent minded Republican Voters need to prevent from winning this time around?
In school we learn to "solve" y = x² and get x = ±√y. But they never teach that (or why) you can't solve y = x −c sin(x) and get a nice equation. That's always bugged me. Instead of learning Galois theory, I cheated and used Python's free SymPy package to search for unsolvable equations.
Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs [pdf]
Minisforum made a mini pc with oculink this last year.

I ended up 3d printing a stand for it to hold a GPU card and a power supply, using an oculink to pcie adapter I found on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-Barebone-Desktop-HDMI2-1-O...

https://www.amazon.com/chenyang-SFF-8612-SFF-8611-External-G...
I been using chatGPT since before it had a nice interface, when it was just the davinci text models
Both what you are saying and what the GP is saying can be true at the same time.
Just wait until you have to deal with child support and imputed income.

Getting fired/laid off is about the only thing that can save you.
> Curious how you're measuring this. Can you see it in Activity Monitor?

Yes, processor history in the activity monitor marks out specific cores as Performance and Efficiency.

Example: https://i.redd.it/f87yv7eoqyh91.jpg
When there might plausibly be little kids watching, I make sure I'm very obvious about checking for oncoming traffic. Repeatedly. Before & during crossing the road.

Where onlooking kiddies seem implausible, I pretty much do the same thing. Far better to be an obvious chicken than dead right.
> This means it generates audio over 40-times faster than real time.

Astounding
There were rumors that the next Mac Studio will top out at 512Gb RAM, too.

Good news for anyone who wants to run 405B LMs locally...
For sure but that would mean saving for it is even more impossible.
Eggs in hot oil in a clean, smooth preheated pan should not stick...

Consider trying carbon steel. It's lighter than cast iron and just as non-stick once it's well seasoned. It's ubiquitous in restaurant and hotel kitchens.
I had to look this up. "Safe jaywalking" is legal in California, but if you risk a collision, you can be cited.

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VC 21955. (a) Between adjacent intersections controlled by traffic control signal devices or by police officers, pedestrians shall not cross the roadway at any place except in a crosswalk.

(b)
(1) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, shall not stop a pedestrian for a violation of subdivision (a) unless a reasonably careful person would realize there is an immediate danger of a collision with a moving vehicle or other device moving exclusively by human power.

(2) This subdivision does not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for their safety.

(3) This subdivision does not relieve a driver of a vehicle from the duty of exercising due care for the safety of any pedestrian within the roadway.
Test Spotify against YouTube Music (and others) - I personally see no reason for Spotify when I have YouTube Premium, which performs with less overhead.