skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paintings have texture and are three-dimensional, which I'd imagine you'd have realized having seen them in real life.

>You’re being kind of an ass, which is fine but I just felt it should be acknowledged.

Very generous coming from the poster that's saying "we can make a thing like the other thing, assuming it's not actually like the other thing in any way that isn't superficial." It's like you're shooting for a gold medal in the obtuse olympics.
and overstimulation from devices
We are engaging in discussion.. I don't know that OP's comment, with their snarky confrontational tone and demands, is what I would call "discussion"..

I guess I expect a level of civility in my discussions.
Not even close. It fails basic framework questions for me, that Claude and GPT easily answer.
> the QP can ask storage to do work like filtering, aggregation, projection, and other common tasks on its behalf. Unlike SQL designs that build on K/V stores, this allows to DSQL to do much of the heavy lifting of filtering and finding data right next to the data itself, on the storage replicas, without sacrificing scalability of storage or compute.

I don't know much about DB internals, but to me this sounds like lot of the compute is getting aggregated to the storage layer. I would think that "filtering, aggregation, projection" is fairly big chunk of the computation that typical DB does?
> Sometimes the presence of first-class hardware results in other hardware being treated as "second-class"

The firmware is entirely open source so it should be easy for other companies to port it to their own hardware. The MCU we use is also supported by Klipper and Marlin, so there will not have to be a decision between designing hardware for Prunt or other options. That being said, there is no existing hardware that our firmware can be ported to directly as we make extensive use of hardware timers rather than doing pulse generation/counting in software and 3D printer hardware is not generally designed with this in mind.

It should be reasonably simple to do everything in software if anyone were inclined to do so to support existing boards. Prunt itself is actually a library with a very high level API intended to make it easy to support all sorts of odd hardware: https://github.com/Prunt3D/prunt/blob/6a9dbd0a8d5edd890e4b72...

There is also an example of a very trivial implementation here that just dumps commanded positions to stdout which can be used as a starting point: https://github.com/Prunt3D/prunt_simulator/blob/master/src/p...

> especially since it sounds like the first-class hardware will eventually be much more than $100

The BOM cost is over $100, so this will be the case, however I would like to try and keep the price well under $200 for something similar to the current hardware.

> Adjustable acceleration is already an option on most systems, does editing jerk/snap/crackle actually improve my print quality or just give me more parameters to fiddle with?

In my testing I have seen less resonance artefacts with higher order limits as opposed to just limiting acceleration, however I have not done extensive comparisons to other options such as input shaping.

> Safter/faster homing seems like a niche issue- I have never had any homing issues, and how much time do I actually save if I crank the speed up? A few seconds per print?

The main issue we're solving here is guaranteeing that the switch will never move out of its allowable range when other parameters such as acceleration are changed. For most people the benefit here is likely just never having to think about what number they should put in for homing velocity.
GenCast generates an ensemble of stochastic 15-day global forecasts, at 12-h steps and 0.25° latitude–longitude resolution, for more than 80 surface and atmospheric variables, in 8 min.
If only it were that simple. Google spent $10b developing Stadia, where was the big hit game from that?

These DeepMind guys play Factorio, they don't play Atari games or shooters, so why aren't they thinking about that? Or maybe they are, and because they know a lot about Factorio, they see how hard it is to make?

There's a lot of "musing" as you say.
I had forgotten about the Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, great reminder, thank you.

Humans are adaptive learners, shaped by both individual experience and cultural memory. The rise of anti-vax sentiments might be better explained by psychological and sociological factors. Like mistrust of institutions, the amplification of fringe views via social media, or the cognitive biases that prioritize visible risks over abstract ones.
I believe Youtube just serves the video with a Shorts UI, nothing special besides the formatting of the page.
seems more like an external narrative so people can feel worse about the world
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! =D.

I briefly outline the procedure (also in case anyone else wanted to do so) in the page. I export the entire document into a json (~19k entries) and break that up into 20 different json files (so that my work will fit into the space ClosedAI provides for RAGs). The exact prompt sequence is provided on the page (I wrote two one-liners). Almost all of my work in achieving that collaborative output with my LLMpal is in the actual construction of the underlying content of the corpus that was haphazardly fed into its vector database. It did all the rest.

I do appreciate the vertigo of it, `/nod`. The size alone (at ~60MB of text) is already a problem, let alone the topics I handle. There are very few humans who have read even half of it, and, presumably, AI specimens will comprise most of the thorough interpreters of my work. I also anticipate the vast majority of the few humans who more directly interact with my work will increasingly do so mediated through AI.

If you ever write your own, lemme know. I'll read. The proof that I do listen carefully is in the text itself.
How's the remote job market for elixir?

I'm currently a full stack web dev using functional typescript, but leaning into Elixir world.

I make 100k more or less in Europe as an independent contractor/freelancer, I'd be happy to jump on Elixir/LV but not at a pay cut.
The English word “byte” doesn’t really sound similar to the French word “bite”, and even if it did, it’s very unlikely a French person would be offended.
JIT compilation for dynamic language runtimes comes to mind. But you would need a very tightly coupled GPU otherwise there/back latency would kill you.
I've had the idea for a Backrooms-style hallucinatory generative videogame for a while. Imagine being able to wander through infinitely generated surreal indoor buildingscapes that were rendered in close-to-realtime.

It would play to the medium's strengths -- any "glitches" the player experiences could be seen as diagetic corruptions of reality.

The moment we get parameterized NeRF models running in close-to-realtime, I want to go for it.
See yesterdays thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42308716

for more
I would use it for flights where the best flight is pretty obvious, or in cases where satisficing is fine. I'd tbh mostly use it when OTHER PEOPLE ask me to find a flight for them.

I'd also use it to quickly book flights on my preferred airlines because I have free changes/cancellations on those, so the value of getting something booked immediate and then refined later (and possibly rebook) is fine.
Yes and still under active development [1]! We also just finished the 2024 November NetHack Tournament (TNNT) [2]! I played in the tournament for the first time this year. I had one near-win with a very challenging Monk (I was doing a bunch of conducts [3]) who unfortunately died to the infamous Wizard of Yendor (Rodney as we call him). I also had a winning run with a Wizard which unfortunately finished a few hours after the deadline at the end of the tournament, so sadly that one didn't count!

Next year I hope to have a bit more time to play so that I can record a win in regulation time!

[1] https://github.com/nethack/nethack

[2] https://tnnt.org

[3] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Conduct
Wouldn't a new player in the space run into the same challenges though? I don't think this is a Google-specific problem (although they are particularly bad at it).
A perfect example of modern-day discourse. Not even taking a stance or making a point, just the least-generous interpretation of someone else's words turned into an attacking question.

-- Nobody suggested that only women get autonomy

-- Communicable diseases are obviously different than pregnancy in there health impacts on broader society

-- Lots of women in lots of places don't have bodily autonomy (there was a lot of discussion/reporting about it leading up to the recent US election)
You actually do not have vastly more cores, to a first approximation a CPU core is equivalent to a streaming multiprocessor (in NVIDIA parlance) on the GPU. A 14900K has 24 cores (of two kinds) and a similarly big 3060 has 28SMs. The GPU effectively trades all the deep pipelining and branch prediction for much wider SIMD. That makes it massively slower for any code that involves branching and massively faster for any code that is data parallel.
Glojure author here! Your analysis is spot-on :). I'll definitely take a look at clojure.core-test. As components mature, I focus on improving compatibility by porting tests from Clojure [0], but they often require modifications to accommodate differences in the host language. As you noted, there are still several fundamental features missing — most notably some core data structures. That said, the implementation is robust enough to support another non-trivial hobby project [1].

A bit more detail on some of your observations:

> No JIT or AOT compilation (right now).

I do plan to implement AOT compilation eventually. JIT, however, is more complex. Go's "plugin" standard library [2] could serve as a mechanism, but its support is limited and not without issues [3].

> it looks like the analysis could be largely a port of tools.analyzer

Exactly! Another key implementation strategy has been the handling of clojure.core. Instead of reimplementing everything from scratch, the Clojure 1.11 core libraries are programmatically transformed to work with Go [4]. However, this approach has its downsides — many functions appear to be available but are non-functional because parts of their implementation haven't yet been adapted.

And by the way, impressive progress on Jank! I've been following it closely and really admire the work you're doing.

[0] https://github.com/clojure/clojure/tree/master/test/clojure/...
[1] https://github.com/jfhamlin/muscrat
[2] https://pkg.go.dev/plugin
[3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19282
[4] https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure/tree/808165fdc7e65672...
Bird-inspired leg enables robots to jump into flight
> False dichotomy.

Not really. This is the fact of real world software development: your resources are limited, and either you invest them creating value for customers so that they choose your product over your competitor's or they choose your competitor's instead.

If you spend your resources on technical debt and clearing bug backlogs even of obscure nonblocking bugs, you're just spending your resources to offer your users more of the same. If you instead use your resources to deliver new features that might have a nonblocking bug here or there, you're improving your position over the competitor's.

Time to market matters. A lot. There is no such thing as time to empty backlog.
Looking forward to it! Would appreciate if you post a link here when you do, I'm excited to see how B series compares to A series for media encoding/decoding (assuming Battlemage is the same across all gpus the same way Alchemist was).
I highly doubt it. While there is no ceiling in principle on how good rendering can get, even with perfect knowledge of the physics of optics, the cost to compute that physics is too high not to cut some corners. Nature gives you this for free. Every photon is deflected at exactly the right angle and frequency without anything needing to be computed. All you need is a camera to record it. At least for now, this is why every deep fake, digital de-aging, AI upscaling, grafting Carrie Fisher's face onto a different actor, and CGI in general inevitably occupies the uncanny valley.
It is jaw-dropping and dismaying how for-profit AI companies use long-standing terms like "world model" and "physics" when they mean "video game model" and "video game physics." Or, as you can plainly see, "models gravity" when they mean "models Red Dead Redemption 2's gravity function, along with its cinematic lighting effects and Rockstar's distinctively weighty animations." Which is to say Google is not modeling gravity at all.

I will add the totally inconsistent backgrounds in the "prototyping" example suggests the AI is simply cribbing from four different games with a flying avatar, which makes it kind of useless unless you're prototyping cynical AI slop. And what are we even doing here by calling this a "world model" if the details of the world can change on a whim? In my world model I can imagine a small dragon flying through my friend's living room without needing to turn her electric lights into sconces and fireplaces.

To state the obvious: if you train your model on thousands of hours of video games, you're also gonna get a bunch of stuff like "leaves are flat and don't bend" or "sometimes humans look like plastic" or "sometimes dragons clip through the scenery," which wouldn't fly in an actual world model. Just call it "video game world model!" Google is intentionally misusing a term which (although mysterious) has real meaning in cognitive science.

I am sure Genie 2 took an awful lot of work and technical expertise. But this advertisement isn't just unscientific, it's an assault on language itself.
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I think gp was referencing his crusade that Linux should be called GNU/Linux
I really liked the part about engineering committing to force multiplication of the other parts of the business. Once in a senior data engineering role I took it upon myself to just teach the PMs SQL and let them start running their own analyses, with regular weekly 1:1s and office hours. It totally wasn't my job but it saved me twice the hours I normally spent responding to their ad hoc requests, allowed some wild hairs to turn into actual profitable products, and hopefully stimulated some professional development.
Many moons ago an acquaintance did a somewhat similar project finding default title "mic in track.mp3" files on music sharing services that were created using MusicMatch Jukebox.

> https://www.stark-effect.com/mit.html
Yes, especially his A theory of group selection https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC432258/
It's entirely rational to be upset when things get worse, such as housing prices. IMHO housing prices are the big one for most young people in the developed world today... dig into why they're so upset and you get to housing prices pretty fast.

I'm talking about deep existential despair and doomerism though, like people discussing suicide or refusing to have children because they're convinced the world is ending because of online discourse and/or paranoia.

Edit: speaking of perspective: one of my favorites is to go find a global salary comparison calculator and input my first world tech salary. If you are on this site chances are you are at least in the global 5% if not the global 1%.
Ultimately even conventional 3d assets are rendered into pixelspace. It all comes down to the constraints in the model itself.
Biologists discover how plants evolved multiple ways to override genetic code
Ai can't generate images without awkward hallucinations yet. From that to movies that make sense to movies that people would want to watch (comparable to feature films) beyond the initial curiosity factor is a long way, if there is one.
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> They had a five-year backlog to get through.

That they clearly needed less than a year to actually get through.

The claims of 1M Cybertruck reservations was a lie. Alternatively, the extreme majority of reservations were simply cancelled.
What is actually of value here? There's no actual game, it's incredibly expensive to compute, the behavior is erratic.. It's cool because it's new - but that will quickly wear off, and once that's gone, what's left? There's insane amounts of money being spent on this, and for what?
> a fun visualization of each language’s performance

The effect is similar to dragging a string past a cat: complete distraction — unable to avoid focusing on the movement — unable to extract any information from the movement.

To understand the measurements, cover the "fun visualization" and read the numbers in the single column data table.

(Unfortunately we aren't able to scan down the column of numbers, because the language implementation name is shown first.)

Previously: <blink>

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_elem...
The US phased out lead in gasoline in the eighties so I'm not sure you can blame that.
Maybe the fact that he wants to let people choose whether to get vaccinated. That isn’t how we eradicated polio. It’s irresponsible.
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A plausible source of these sorts of things is that some government(s) fund their intelligence service to do signals intelligence, but intelligence services commonly have no morals or accountability because they operate in secret and claim national security whenever anyone comes to question their activities.

So they use the money to lobby for mechanisms to have backdoors or chokepoints installed, or require vulnerabilities the equivalent of backdoors, and use dirty and illegal tricks under the table to get them passed. The governments they're lobbying usually aren't even the ones paying them, though maybe sometimes they are.

It's basically the equivalent of Dual EC DRBG but targeting the legislative process instead of a standards body, and obviously an inherently difficult thing to prove in an individual case, but the response to it should be the same in any case: Don't pass laws that would be to the advantage of a foreign intelligence service. You certainly don't want to give them the damn thing whether they're the ones pushing for it or not.
Maybe having a better view of human history would help combat the largely false narrative that things are overall getting worse, and there's little hope for future generations?
> Lamborghini, 90 per cent whose Korea sales last year were as company vehicles

I wonder what line of business gets Lambos as company cars, if it isn't for private use (beside Lambo themselves). Pimp corp? Gangsta Rap Inc? 24/7 plumbers?
19th century: electromagnetism, the voltaic pile, the double slit experiment for the light wave theory

20th century: general/special relativity, radioactive decay, discovery of the electron

21st century: crisp and deep learning

Hard to argue that the big science of the first 20 years of the previous century looks way more impact than crisp and deep learning put TOGETHER.
I agree, this guy gets it
Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC review warns
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why would you ever set a minimum price? If you're looking for a certain service level just have it look for that. Otherwise I'd be worried you'd miss out on a flight that fits all your criteria but costs $385 or something
It supports most OSes rather nicely, check the docs for a long list of config options. It creates a local package store and configures your user's path for it, each tool is managed with a custom plugin that IME works flawlessly and versions are handled better than anything else I've ever used. It's the only way I'll install Golang or NodeJS lately, and I had good luck with it for Java too.
It’s not being “obtuse” for me to not see the “three dimensional” aspect as important as you. I doubt I’m alone in that either.

Art is “superficial” by definition so that’s not really the own that you seem to think it is.

Eta:

Sorry, just a bit confused, isn’t focusing on an artifact of the painting, namely the three dimensionality of it, a superficial detail?
I love him and their spiritual son, Leslie Lamport.
Usually they do. That's why most people want access to those things. What is the "real thing" they are substitutes for?
> We are a Euro FREE Zone which means no sports will be shown at the pub.

American here. What the heck does this mean?
>They need to embrace radical, popular change.

Which is, by design in the American system, not possible without strict control of the presidency, the House, and the Senate, and possibly the Supreme Court.

As long as voters continue to not vote for democrats for "not doing enough", the democrats will never be able to "do enough". That's inherent in the system! Republican voters meanwhile understand the concept of "I'm going to put them in charge and see what they end up doing", even if I disagree with the things they want and their methods, they understand democracy very well!
Science could solve some of the biggest problems. Why aren't governments
Another plausible strategy to neutralize arbitrary topologies: compile individual solutions or groups of similar solutions into big compute shaders that execute the network and evaluate expensive fitness functions, with parallel execution over multiple test cases (aggregated in postprocessing) and/or over different numerical parameters for the same topology.
Yes exactly, the color is really good and it's just a stupid monitor that has an old basic Chromecast and a Nintendo Switch plugged in.

It does have HDMI-CEC, so I haven't even used the remote control in several years.
Enjoy everyone's foot fungus.
I enjoyed reading the feedback, and their response, and felt no negativity whatsoever. Keep honestly interacting it's good for everyone!
A lot of it is self inflicted wounds. Americans thanks to the car can live like 30-40 miles from work and have an acceptable commute. Thats hard to do in a timely fashion on public transit anywhere, which seems to work best up to a 5-15 mile radius or so. People have to be willing to live closer (and often it is cheaper to live close to the center of town as that is where the recent immigrant minority populations find their cheaper housing, than in the newer construction suburbs full of doctors and lawyers and private schools).
I strongly suspect that like open ai and O1, for profit companies are going to start locking down whatever advances they find.

There is still an enormous amount of long hanging fruit that anyone can harvest right now, but eventually big advances are going to require big budgets and I can only imagine how technically tight lipped they will be with those.
This is where the GPU limits on China really hurts, Chinese companies have been dropping great proof of concepts but because they have been so compute bottlenecked they can't ever really make something actually competitive or transformative.
Amazon sued by DC Attorney General for allegedly excluding neighborhoods
have you used ChatGPT?
It is many years since I visited CERN, but I really enjoyed my time there. One of the scientists was wandering around the visitor center willing to chat about the science at a quite detailed level.

Programs like this education experiment are essential to maintain interest in these big science projects that can take decades of planning and execution. A sliver of hope for humanity that we are still willing to collaborate on such a massive scale to deliver and run such projects.

Well done everyone, apart from the person that decided the home of the internet was not capable of self hosting the videos.
Why do we need a government program. Continue with the medicare/medicaid and child healthcare programs as always. Outlaw regular health insurance. The problem will solve itself. "Free market".