skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aw neither works on iOS 18.2
a.k.a. America
Of course, because us poor people don't have access to journalists or large social media presences. The burden for most families falls on them and nonexistent, power-law distribution ad-hoc charity drives like GoFundMe that are more like the lottery rather than receiving a consistent amount of help comparable to their condition.

The whole point of society is to share risks and costs that would be difficult or impossible to share alone. When a society doesn't do that, it becomes a degree of a failed state by definition. Anything shared today in America is privatized, eliminated, or disparaged as "communism" by the ignorati and by the greedy rich.
when you're looking at national or global population annihilation, even a 10-20% reduction in missile hits means you're saving millions of people. someone has to rebuild.
> What are the ‘false promises’ of WebGPU

That you can write a "compute shader" once, and it will run "anywhere." This isn't the case with any accelerated compute API, so why is WebGPU going to be different?

Reality will be Chrome Windows Desktop WebGPU, Chrome Android (newish) WebGPU, Mobile Safari iOS 18 WebGPU, iPad WebGPU, macOS Safari WebGPU, macOS Chrome WebGPU, iOS default in app browser WebGPU, Instagram and Facebook in app browser WebGPU...

This isn't complicated! If that's reality, I'd rather have:

Apple Compute Shaders for Browser. Windows Chrome Compute Shaders for Browser. Android Chrome Compute Shaders for Browser.

Because I'm going to go through a middleware like Unity to deal with both situations. But look at which is simpler. It's not complicated.

> I’m trying to understand if and why you do.

I make games. I like the status quo where we get amazing game engines for free.

I cannot force open source developers to do anything. They are welcome to waste their time on any effort. If Bevy has great WebGL 2 support, which runs almost without warts everywhere, even on iOS, for example, it makes no sense to worry about WebGPU at all, due to the nature of the games that use Bevy. Because "runs on WebGPU" is making-believe that you can avoid the hard multiplatform engine bits. Engines like Construct and LOVE and whatever - 2D games don't need compute shaders, they are not very performance sensitive, use the browser as the middleware, and the ones that are, they should just use a huge commercial game engine. People have choices.
This leads to a bit of a conundrum for the Netherlands. It is the home of the ICC and officially a big sponsor of international justice. But also the right wing government has a hard on for Israel. I don't think that our esteemed ancestors ever envisioned white people to end up in court...

The leader of the PVV (biggest political party) is going to visit colonial settlers in Israël.

Many immigrants hate Israel.

Official state policy is a two state solution.

The relocation of the Dutch embassy to Jerusalem.

You could make a Netflix TV show about this. May we all live interesting times!
Or Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular, where the “orphidnet” utility fog enables universal perception/visualization.
That ones on me. I blog as a way to practice writing, and right now I'm working on picking more interesting verbs.

I have a usage of `proselytize` later on that is outright smarmy.
Unity WebGL is not supported on mobile and we needed the experience to be playable on both desktop and mobile browsers.

However, mobile browsers will be supported with Unity 6 web exports, still experimental currently AFAIK, but that should become a viable option soon.
> hey don't appear to do the obvious thing which is display the reconstructed "internal" board state.

I've very confused by this, because they do. Then they manipulate the internal board state and see what move it makes. That's the entire point of the paper. Figure 4 is literally displaying the reconstructed board state.
It wouldn’t be that different from how a lot of cheese is being handled where I live. Except they currently put the cuts into plastic wrappings (which are “sealed” by the price sticker) instead of customer-provided containers. On the other hand, for fruits we already do use nets brought by the customer, and the weighing happens at the checkout.
> Humans judge if other humans are intelligent without going into philosophical circles

That's totally fair. I expect that to continue to work well when kept in the context of something/someone else that is roughly as intelligent as you are. Bonus points for the fact that one human understands what it means to be human and we all have roughly similar experiences of reality.

I'm not so sure if that kind of judging intelligence by feel works when you are judging something that is (a) totally different from your or (b) massively more (or less) intelligent than you are.

For example, I could see something much smarter than me as acting irrationally when in reality they may be working with a much larger or complex set of facts and context that don't make sense to me.
Reinterpret cast object graphs to and from byte arrays for instant serialization
This method is for incredibly fast serialization of object graphs in c++ (only linked lists of the same type supported here)

Ideally you would sort your game objects (such as vertex and index arrays for 3d meshes that go into the millions of counts) by a database index, and that produces a linked list.

This method avoids the overheads of copying and object initialization AND individual field read/writing, meaning 5m vertices = 15m object creation calls are avoided. If your terrain has normals for lighting (usually does!) then that is 45 million+ object constructions that are completely avoided. (15m float for vertex positions, 15m float for vertex normals, 15m vector3 constructor calls, and then what about texture information).

This method massively increases video game level loading speeds for PS5 and Xbox Series X and future consoles, for example. Future-proof method of class organization for MMOs.
It doesn't have to be cheap, It just has to be made cheaper artificially with globally enforced taxes.

The number one economic role of government is mitigating externalities that arise from free trade, often through the restraint of that trade.
Nah dev should probably be a separate tld so the cookies are completely isolated.

Stage, it depends - if you want stage to have production data with newer code, and are fine with the session / cookies being shared - host it on the same domain and switch whether users get stage or prod based on IP, who is logged in, and/or a cookie. That way your code doesn't have to do anything different for stage vs prod every time it looks at the request domain (or wants to set cookies).

If you want an isolated stage environment, why not just use a separate top level domain? Otherwise you are likely seeing yourself up for the two interfering with each other via cookies on the TLD.
It says coming soon?
> and when asked, describe its details.

so humans don't typically have world models then. you ask most people how they arrived at their conclusions (outside of very technical fields) and they will confabulate just like an LLM.

the best example is phenomenology, where people will grant themselves skills that they don't have, to reach conclusions. see also heterophenomenology, aimed at working around that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterophenomenology
It's the right mindset. Because code isn't the end, it's a means to an end. The end is "value". To your users. The quicker you give that to them, the better. Bugs here and there are absolutely part of the process. You are making an assumption that the least amount of bugs is "best" for your company.

It's important to consider the bigger picture here. Consider a scenario where you spend twice the amount of time delivering features, getting things perfect. Let's assume for the sake of it, that our users will "like" half the features we ship, and we'll throw out the rest. In this scenario, it's better to reduce quality to ship faster, because half of your features are going to be "thrown out" anyway.

This happens in the real world, albeit to a less extreme extent. But the point remains. That's why we have product teams that attempt to reduce the likelihood of a feature being tossed out and time being wasted. That's why we have QA teams to ensure development bugs are caught and we deliver both value and have robust systems in place.

As long as these aren't catastrophic, affects-all-users, brings-down-the-servers type of bugs, you're probably writing the optimal amount of bugs to balance the trade-off in value delivery.
TSMC's says 1.6nm node to be production ready in late 2026
Fair enough. Then we must declare that every single printer with an enclosure and heatbed has a heated chamber.
I don't know.

There is a certain amount of drudgery that unavoidable in learning mathematics, IMHO. Moreover, looking at the math textbooks of my niece and the students that I've tutored over the years, there's no effort spared in trying to make math "fun". If anything there's perhaps too much distraction caused by attempting to make a connection with the students and a failure to clearly and logically explain the math.

I don't have the answers, but believe that it's incredibly helpful to track students, intervene when they show a lack of understanding and not let them slip through the cracks. I do agree with the OP that everyone is capable of math but it's a long journey and it takes a lot of practice.
4 minutes and 31 seconds, any%. Need to do some better routing.

4 minutes and 21 seconds after few more attempts.

3 minutes and 59 seconds. Sub 4 is good enough for me :)
I think the point is if they "return to the place they are born" then why would they go back to the waterways freed up by destroying this damn. Clearly they have some heirachy in where they prefer to spawn and this place is at or near the top, or they would have opted to return to where they were born
You underestimate the effort of doing this.

We all want bash gone, but it is an essential piece of infrastructure. The introduction of dash was a huge step in this direction (of ditching bash).

Do you want to help? Try to remove bash from the toolchain bootstrap. It is one of the lowest hanging fruits right now.
Agree. This seems like a problem invented by business elites and economists, and propagated with the help of the media, to justify more consumption. They are not going to be affected by overstrained systems due to too many people. They don't want to pay the higher taxes to fund the infrastructure to support more people; they just want the top-line profits from more consumption and higher social status of having more people relative to their own high status.
We've been a customer of Clicky for like 14 years. Even when GA was functional, clicky was my daily go to.

I too was frustrated with GA4 but a couple months ago watched a few hours of youtube tutorials and it really demystified GA4. It's quite a powerful tool if you take a couple days and build out the dashboards you'd like to see.
Voltaire (1964)
A vision for U.S. science success
The narratives around how such cultural traits evolve is not clear, and I agree are unlikely to be the post-hoc rationalization of "Great Men" setting them up.

Yet there do seem to be some traits that enable more "success" in at least something close to industrial, market-oriented societies. For example having a high-trust or risk-tolerant cultural values seems to have some success correlations.
> That `String` leaks memory, [...]

So does the clone...
I don't believe alignment/safety is the only reason. You also burn through significantly more output tokens in a back-and-forth editing session because by default it keeps repeating the entire code or document just to make one small change, and it also adds useless fluff around the text ("You are absolutely correct, and I apologize for the confusion...")
That is less a fun fact and more a dystopian anecdote.

I'd much rather hear that when challenged, the AI says, "Yes, I am. I am run by ${company}, and you can contact them at {$info} with any questions."
I think with Trump's administration Google will have a tough time.
My experience (SE Michigan) is that a large "non-profit" hospital can be every bit as horrible as a for-profit one. There ain't no "be nice" requirement in the legal definition of nonprofit. And once you're talking billions of dollars, with big-ego executives and income streams that are independent of the org's actual do-good cred...yeah. Things get very feudal.
Is Your Web Service I/O Bound?
>they don't appear to do the obvious thing which is display the reconstructed "internal" board state

This is literally figure 4

This also re-constructs the board state of a chess-playing LLM

https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/c...
The point is that approximating a distribution causally downstream of the game (text-based descriptions, in this case) produces a predictive model of the underlying game mechanics itself. That is fascinating!

Yes, the one is formally derivable from the other, but the reduction costs compute, and to a fixed epsilon of accuracy this is the situation with everything we interact with on the day to day.

The idea that you can learn underlying mechanics from observation and refutation is central to formal models of inductive reasoning like Solomonoff induction (and idealised reaoners like AIXI, if you want the AI spin). At best this is well established scientific method, at worst a pretty decent epistemology.

Talking about sampling all of the game states is irrelevant here; that wouldn't be possible even in principle for many games and in this case they certainly didn't train the LLM on every possible Othello position.

> This is astrology: to attribute to the patterns of light hitting the eye some actual physical property in the universe which corresponds to those patterns. No such exists.

Of course not - but they are highly correlated in functional human beings. What do you think our perception of the world grounds out in, if not something like the discrepancies between (our brain's) observed data and it's predictions? There's even evidence in neuroscience that this is literally what certain neuronal circuits in the cortex are doing (the hypothesis being that so-called "predictive processing" is more energy efficient than alternative architectures).

Patterns in measurements absolutely reflect properties of the objects being measured, for the simple reason that the measurements are causally linked to the object itself in controlled ways. To think otherwise is frankly insane - this is why we call them measurements, and not noise.
Those aren't touchscreen buttons --- they are on the steering wheel or yoke. On the current Model S and X they are capacitive buttons but there's a homing tab so you can find it without looking at it, and there's also haptic feedback. On the new Model 3 iirc it also physically clicks when you press it, although the lights and rear-facing camera button are capacitive.

The only "critical control" that is on the touchscreen is choosing whether to go forward or backward (aka shifting into drive or reverse), which can be done on the touchscreen on the Model S, X, 3, and Cybertruck. Of course, this is typically only done when the vehicle is stopped, so it's fine. There are also backup physical buttons in case you can't use the touchscreen.
It is a sad and colossal waste. From experience, when the kids are grown you have to decide what to do with the toys that are often half broken or with missing parts you have no idea where they ended up. As the article states, these toys come into your house whether you want them or not. You agonize about how to get rid of them in a responsible way (much more time consuming than acquiring the toy to begin with), only to find out that the landfill is pretty much the only option.
Roanoke Colony
It’s a reasonable take meant to explain GPs statement and sentiment regardless of the underlying truth of his statement and pushing back on what I found to be unfounded sarcasm that added nothing to the conversation.
Thank you! As an azerty user, I know the pain of using websites that are only designed for US keyboards.

If anyone's wondering, the getLayoutMap method from the Keyboard API is what we're using to handle international keyboard layouts.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Keyboard/ge...
what you're saying is basically untestable and that's why most scientific minded people only talk about such things over beers or dismiss it entirely. It's not unlike religion or crystals. I mean we can't necessarily disprove them as they are based mostly on faith in an untestable conclusion.
diskmags[0] are a still a thing.

Back in the day, we called them ezines.

0. https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B0%5D=diskmag&page=...
The original page is near identical to the 2020 version https://web.archive.org/web/20200812150324/https://kb.isc.or... (change from some units going from e.g. M to MB and the console snippets going from being labeled as "Plain text" rather than "Shell") and it certainly wasn't written with a GPT-2 quality system.

I'm concerned when enough time passes it'll be impossible to do that kind of back-checking proof so "it seems like an LLM"-isms will become a self-confirming prophecy which can't reasonably be disproven. If one feels an article is bad it's sufficient to talk about how the article itself is bad. Hypothesizing of how the bad article came to be written doesn't offer insight to what's wrong with the article, it does instead introduce prejudices based on expectations from perceived style of writing rather than content though.

> iptables conntrack is indeed a huge menace, but you should bypass conntrack entirely for local network connections as you don’t need it.

> The only thing conntrack would give you for local requests is better logging, but YAGNI.

Some people and places don't like the idea an internal device should unilaterally be able to communicate to anything internal and vice versa. Particularly for devices hosting external services. Many even go as far as to host external DNS as a fully isolated service in a DMZ with no internal access allowed by both self and connected FW filters. Not everyone goes full hog with it though but those that do will want to keep not only attempted connection logging but also that multiple layers of security beyond "internal vs external conversation source/destination".
So -eq triggers evaluation? Sounds like typical bash magic. I would use [ an the problem goes away.

Showing -eq is not the best example, it can just be replaced by = and the problem goes away.

But if you need -gt or similar there is no replacement. So one should stick to [.

If I follow correctly the dangerous combination is [[ and arithmetic comparisons?
It also does not help that Google is often seen together with various left leaning initiatives - like Google is one of the big proponents. Plus there was some backlash on Twitter over Youtube hiding Joe Rogan video and so on.
I'm a parent of two young kids and don't really sympathize with this.

Its self-inflicted and part of a larger culture of Having More Stuff. Having lived most of my life in South America and later migrated to North America, I feel I can see that more clearly than people who grew up here.

People always go over the top with anything material. Have a single child? You need a minivan. Family of four? You need a 3-level, 2000-sqft house (with the garage where you will never park your minivan, because it is full to the ceiling with clutter you never use). Toys are just another facet of this culture.

As someone from the outside who has been around, I can say the rest of world is not like this. Its not particularly hard to avoid. Just buy less stuff, and donate/dispose of things you don't want or need.
> Resistance to dam removal on the Klamath is emblematic of the profound mistrust of official narratives that increasingly leads to such upside-down outcomes as survivors of climate disasters denying climate change, or rural communities accusing the wildfire fighters who protect their homes of deliberately setting the fires. Reservoir Reach is a place where, if KRRC is using helicopters to prep for dam removal, it must make sure the public knows that the choppers aren’t carrying out black ops against American sovereignty on behalf of the United Nations.

The author seems to have developed quite a strong bias about the area.
It's a decentralized system that tries to hide its underlying architecture, and the abstraction is very leaky.

The UI makes it look like a centralized system. That fiction fails in many subtle and silent ways that make the experience feel off and very difficult to reason about.

Let's say there's a really insightful comment on a post and I make a comment referencing it. Then I get a bunch of bizarre replies that miss the point so badly that I wonder if they're bots. Or maybe they speak a different language and they're reading everything in Mastodon's awful translation.

But actually it's none of those things, it's really because those users aren't reading the same set of comments that I'm reading. The conversation doesn't make sense if we're not actually reading the same thread.

Why don't we all see the same thread? Because we follow different people, and we're on different servers, and not all comments exist on every server.

It might be an interesting distributed-systems design challenge, but the user interface makes it appear we're all in the same conversation when we're not.

It's nearly impossible for one user to diagnose what another user isn't seeing, or what another user is talking about but I can't see.

The UI attempts to hide this, to make it appear like we're all having the same conversation, leading to these weird and uncanny situations where the abstraction leaks and you don't know it's leaking.

Social media comments are enough of a nightmare already, and now Mastodon has added stochastic threads that are different for every participant in the conversation.
Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power