skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It drives me crazy personally, I think Arcs abandoned this for good reason. Root has a major rules sprawl issue IMO. Many rules are spread throughout the cards, the "Learning to Play" guide, the "Law of Root", the player mats, etc. I don't actually think you can really learn the game unless you have the board and player mats right in front of you. Wehrle's predilection for thematic names with clearer/plainer synonyms I think makes this hard as well.

People who praise the game by saying "the board teaches you how to play" are technically correct, but I think this glosses over how difficult it is to internalize turn structure before sitting down to play the game.

That being said, it's not the worst game I've ever had to learn. That dubious distinction probably belongs to Wehrle's John Company (scowling at you "Events In India" rules).
That works great, except for that genre of board games in which everyone is playing by a different set of rules: "Player 1, you're the cat, and you're trying to get mice and avoid water. Player 2, you're the fish; you're trying to get water and avoid cats.. Player 3, you're the dog, and you're trying to get cats and avoid newspapers, etc...."
It's funny; as I've been working on Haven[1], one of my guiding lights is what Facebook _could have been_[2]. To that end the opening section is really inspiring. This is describing a world where digital tools enhance your friendships. I think that's still possible and still a worthwhile goal--I just don't think it can be done by an entity with a corporate incentive structure. Those incentives will always tend towards enshittification[3].

[1]: https://havenweb.org

[2]: https://havenweb.org/2022/11/02/facebook-lie.html

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#
Limiting the influence of Facebook to the US doesn't seem necessary.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
Please. Ring-bind them.
No, NaNoGenMo's been running since 2013.
Fun! I think there's an interesting hidden puzzle in the first sentence:

> 101 starship captains, bored with life in the Federation, decide to arrange their starships in a line, equally spaced, and let them fall straight into an enormous spherically symmetrical black hole—one right after the other.

Does this problem have a globally consistent solution? In the curved spacetime around the blackhole, can everyone agree on what equal spacing means?
There is another angle at power efficiency: my work laptop is so bad, moderate load makes the fan spin and higher load creates a very annoying noise due to the cooling needs. All these while performance is far from stellar (compared to my desktop).
It’s ok if you ignore it. I don’t mind.

Your claim is LLMs can’t reason.

And you say you don’t have to explain why LLMs output novel and correct answers. Well I asked for this because the fact that LLMs output correct and novel answers disproves your point. I disproved your point. Think about it. You think I introduced some orthogonal topic but I didn’t. I stated a condition that the LLM meets that disproves your claim.

So if there exists a prompt and answer pair such that the answer is so novel the probability of it being a correlation or random chance is extraordinarily low then your point is trivially wrong right?

Because if the answer wasn’t arrived by some correlative coincidence which you seem to be claiming then the only other possible way is reasoning.

Again such question and answer pairs actually exist for LLMs. They can be trivially generated like my shared link above which it talks about the entire topic of this sub thread without training data to support it.

Humans fail at reasoning all the time yet we don’t say humans can’t reason. So to keep consistency for the criterion we use for humans. If the LLM reasoned it means it can reason even if it clearly gives the wrong answer sometimes.

Additionally you likely claim all humans can reason. What’s your criterion for that? When you look at a human sometimes it outputs correct and novel answers that are not part of its training data (experiences).

It’s literally the same logic but you subconsciously move the goal posts to be much much higher for an LLM. In fact under this higher criterion all mentally retarded humans and babies can’t reason at all.
I've backed most of GeekClub's previous KickStarter campaigns and received everything I had put money towards including an extra set of kits for one of the campaigns for some reason. The kits are generally pretty good although the instructions are less great in my opinion. From what I can tell in the comment sections, a lot of the people the complain about not getting items are people that never filled out the surveys with their shipping information. Of course, with it being KickStarter, buyer beware is always the rule.
Maybe I've misunderstood pvg upthread but I assumed "'homebrew' has come to connote scrappy and hip" was about IT/tech because it doesn't have that connotation in the actual context of beer, at least to my knowledge.
Is there a version I can read without the pictures? Just the manifesto?

I’d like to know how big this “book” is actually?
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>While true, at one time within the memory of people alive today, that underclass in this country could afford homes with their paycheck from widely available unskilled work

The underclass? Or the WHITE MALE underclass?
If I built a teleporter that killed passengers and bystanders as often as cars, it would be banned in weeks. 43 thousand people a year. Oh yeah, step into this booth, only 120 people died today! It's great!
There's a fancy terminal emulator written in Rust that uses GPU acceleration. I mean, it is emulating a needlepoint printer...
It is "up to but not including".
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> Would you consider NYC as a candidate for a new national park?

Have you seen our zoning and construction codes? It might actually be simpler to erect a structure in a national park.
The butter bot is definitely one of their top tier jokes; the defiant slamming down the butter afterwards speaks to my soul
If they don't call this the Computer Says No Act, I'd say there was a missed opportunity.
Manuals served another purpose in the 1980s: pirates rarely copied the manual with the game and so someone who bought the real game could learn how to play it while the pirates had a large collection of games that were no fun because without the manual they spent a lot of time trying different buttons just to see what worked - often they never did figure out the secret moves and so the game wasn't even winnable even though they could make progress and it seemed like they just needed to get better.
Ah yes those struggling "content creators" at HBO
If you can't know the order of your static class init routines' execution, you can't create some kinds of software systems, where such information must be known beforehand. Failing that we have to contrive our own init workflow launched from a single point of entry, instead of using something intrinsic for the guarantees we need. What that means is that this advanced feature of the programming environment should be avoided in certain cases, making it useless and (IMO) to be avoided.

I was asking about programming environments that facilitate certain kinds of clean init semantics.

Like a clock. Or something that is operationally clocklike, deterministic, like we should design and implement our software to be in terms of reliability.
Could you have some sort of tee, so instead of dedicating a channel you multiplexed a second extra-audible signal (outside the audible range) onto the same channel? Or perhaps send a really low frequency signal over the cable sheath??

Just spitballing.
Covid House Subcommittee Final Report
I work in video games and I think it is still sometimes a problem to use computers that are not based on x86 processors, both in the tool chains and software /engines. People here say that Intel has lost out on consoles and laptops, but in gaming that is because of x86 compatible AMD chips. Apple laptops were good for gaming when they had x86 and could duel boot. I see bugs people report on games made for Macs with x86 that don't work quite right with an Mx chip (though not a huge number).

A friend who worked in film post production was telling me about similar rare but annoying problems with Mx Apple computers. I feel like their are verticals where people will favor x86 chips for a while yet.

I am not as close to this as I was when I actually programmed games (oh so long ago!) so I wonder if this is just the point of view of a person who has lost touch with trends in tech.
Or if you want to peek ahead like a kid who's bound for the Naughty list, you can use dev tools and add the 'will-open' class to any of those <button> elements :)
Intel's Xe2 GPU architecture works well as an efficient iGPU and has market fit there. The problem is taking it the other way to discrete high end and data center rather than the opposite as NVidia has done with GPUs and AMD with CPUs. Using the low power consumer target to experiment on architecture and new nodes that then scales to the high end has been Intel's strategy ("efficiency" cores) is logical from a foundry perspective for monolithic chips. But Intel has failed to execute in the new AI data center investment reality. Where are the GPUs from Gaudi 3? Pat: "Putting AI into all the chips, not just ones in the cloud, might be more important in the long run" maybe, but failing to win where the money is at now is a huge barrier to surviving in that long run.
bro came back on an alt account to respam their own shitty rant lol
I tried this out on an iPhone 15 Pro.

Some notes:

- Opening in portrait mode, the Window Controls title bar is obscured by the Dynamic Island. I cannot move this window without going to landscape orientation.

- The "Open Folder" button on the Files window doesn't work. File access is never requested.

- The App Tools window looks funky in landscape mode. The tab bar is only 50% filled, vertically.

- Windows appear in inconvenient locations, offscreen, partially obscured, or have strange sizing. I found myself rotating between portrait and landscape mode frequently just to do basic UI interactions.

- Global Search completely obscures other windows, and its title bar is offscreen. This breaks the app. I have to force-close to get it back into a working state.

You should probably pull iPhone support until this is tested more thoroughly. I imagine similar issues occur on iPad. Not to be harsh, but it's literally unusable on iPhone in its current state.
No, we're talking about images of things, photons emitted by everything that has fallen in before, before they crossed the horizon.
We use gVisor! It's an open-source application security sandbox spun off from Google. We work with the gVisor team to get the features we need (notably GPUs / CUDA support) and also help test gVisor upstream https://gvisor.dev/users/

It's also used by Google Kubernetes Engine, OpenAI, and Cloudflare among others to run untrusted code.
> This would allow applications to create and save a query plan from a query string, and reuse it with subsequent queries.

You can already do this. They’re called prepared queries. The application sends the query once, and asks the DB to create a prepared query, and every time the application wants to reuse it, it just needs to pass the query parameters. The DB reuses the already existing prepared query, and often the query plan is reused as well. But that depends on the exact DB implementation.

You also can’t just reuse the same query plan over and over again. The whole point of the query planning process is to optimise the query plan to current state of the data on disk. As that data is appended to and updated, the optimal query plan may change.

It’s also possible for applications to know exactly what types a query is going to return. That information is already returned by the database as part of the query response, it has to be for the client to correctly deserialise the returned data. Most DB uses a binary protocol for most of their clients (but also support a pure text based protocol), and deserialisation the binary response requires information about the response types.

I think you’re drastically underestimating just how complex and magical the inside of a real SQL database is. They represent literally decades of engineering and research into the best ways of storing and querying databases. If anything close to what you’re suggesting was a good idea, someone would have tried it.
Definitely don't read the most recent one, Translation Space. It's some very bad "I like you but I don't know how to say it!" YA-vein tropes and the climactic scene is, essentially, people walking around a circular hallway a couple times.

It was so bad it caused me to re-read the original three, and I realized that only the first was one was any good.
OP didn’t make a statement about the facts on the ground, but the culture and myths of the time. (If you think the villainy myths we tell ourselves today are more grounded in truth, they’re not. We’re always in a narrative. And there is nothing wrong with collective narratives.)
Oh, and fun fact: an Apollo moon mission racked up nearly 3 million passenger miles per flight and did not suffer a single fatality. Even if the astronauts on Apollo 13 had not survived, and the whole program cancelled right then and there, by fatalities-per-passenger-mile a Saturn V to the moon would still be far "safer" than driving, which averages one death every quarter of a million miles.

I think this demonstrates two important flaws with the "passenger miles" concept: 1, miles are not always fungible between modes of transport. 2, intuitively we care more about the risk per trip, rather than the risk per mile.
A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
Static IPs for allowlists need to die already. Its 2024, come on, surely we can do better than this
Putin approves record defense spending – a third of Russia's budget
That rather speaks against it being a microbiome - it could just be incidental contamination the body is in the process of cleaning up. To be a microbiome I would expect to a diverse, well-adapted quorum of species that find some type of symbioses.

Absent that evidence, well biology is probability - something is always happening somewhere just by chance and statistics, but it doesn't make it a feature.
I've been that friend who was invited over to play with hosts that were really good and knew all the obscure rules. Not very fun when you discover your strategy fails because of some rule you didn't know of that they waited until you were committed to point it out.
It's Never Too Late to Learn an Instrument
Me and my kids are still trying to figure out how to scale it up. We thought we had the right sort of mulberries... first batch starved. Then we tried Samia instead of Bombyx, but every single package would arrive damaged and empty. We've got mulberry seeds going, and we're getting some cuttings for this spring. Even then, you need something like 250+ cocoons for an ounce of silk, so we're not expecting much at first.
next generation would improve based on previous one

hopefully, ideally
The article (if I'm reading it right) is placing the blame on how the government of Kenya restricts its coffee market (e.g. only allowing a small number of export licenses). It's about internal laws. The government of Kenya has the agency to change these.
Web 2.0-era peak hubris. A decade later, its hard to decide if this looks delusional or prophetic - they did change societies, but probably not in the ways they ostensibly wanted to be recognized for changing.
It was designed so that it could be launched from the US into a polar orbit, capture a soviet spy satellite, and land back to the US on the next orbit. This is why it has those enormous and heavy wings.

The shuttle-derived vehicles made a lot more sense. The shuttle could be used to ferry crew and modules for building space stations, but those two goals would be better served by two different types of spacecraft. It could return large objects from space and that was the one role where its unique abilities would shine, but that was never done.

NASA could have made continuous improvements to the heat shields, engines and other expendables to make flights cheaper, but never had the budget for it.
A Memory Called Empire was so good! Seems like nobody has heard of it.
I am not in any urgent need of help, I still have a few thousand dollars in savings, but I am out of work for more than a year and those savings won't last much longer. When I do run out, I'll have to move back to my home country that I left 20 years ago where I can get financial aid if not a local job.

The reason I don't want to do that is because my children did not grow up there and don't speak the local language well enough to go to school there without taking language classes first.

On top of that a few months ago my laptop, passports, as well as money have been stolen from me, causing damage of more than $4000.

What I really need is remote work, ideally part-time, that pays about $2000-$3000 a month. I am a generalist web developer and Linux Sysadmin with many years of experience, but I am not an expert in any particular tech, and so far I had no luck with the whoishiring threads or any other job applications as I am competing against others who have more specific experience the employers are looking for. (It seems most demand is for react and go. I'd love to learn both of those to improve my employability, but I am open to work with any other languages or tools)

With some income I could afford to buy a new laptop so that I don't have to fight with the kids over theirs, and I would be able to stay where I am for now.
> Isn't this true of all matter that enters?

Not quite. He will see the light emitted by _all_ of the matter that has fallen in before him, but only in an infinitely small area.
The new business of breakups
Thank you for sharing the details!
A better approach to gravity: how we made EGM2008 faster
What are doing that is computationally intensive and are using python and a CPU with 64MB of cache for, but is under 64 MB total? How do you know you aren't losing performance by doing single operations on each array in python?
https://archive.ph/ZloWI
Looks neat! Is there a way to make it work with pandoc?
Why fly to Miami for "art week" when you can experience powerful art in everyday life, such as a message board comment that begins as a critique of capitalism and concludes with the difficulty of making friends in a society where so few people can fly to Miami for "art week"?
GNOME 3 had a hardware accelerated compositor on release in 2011.
I looked up "psychohistory" and while the definition makes sense, I don't really understand what you mean by this comment.
By Gödel's first incompleteness theorem there are true statements that cannot be proven (without adding new axioms).
I have found recommendations of (especially) genre novels from people I don't personally know to be nearly useless. The usual problem is that the work is just OK but gets talked up like it's great. Sometimes, it's outright bad.

I've got enough past actually-greats—genre and otherwise—to catch up on, I don't need 100 "OMG it's so good!" comments from a dozen sites steering me toward a newer book that turns out to be pretty damn mediocre. That's been the outcome often enough that I just have to ignore those kinds of comments, no matter how frequently-encountered and how unanswered by credible-seeming naysayers they go—those aspects, maddeningly, don't seem to correlate with them being more likely to be good advice on what to read next.

IDK what the deal is, though I suspect it's actually multiple forms of difference in judgement of fiction and expectations for how one frames a recommendation, which have different causes but the same outcome.

Like, I basically need a top-ten in-genre books and a top-ten (dealer's choice) works outside that genre in any medium from someone recommending a book, to even begin to judge if what I'm going to find on the other side of the recommendation is probably going to at least be fairly good. A bare recommendation, no matter how glowing, carries no signal. Let me know what else you think is good, and I can start to get an idea of whether we're in alignment, because otherwise there's a decent chance we very much are not.
> what Facebook _could have been_

In 2010, facebook changed. Twitter was cooler. Myspace was more money. So facebook took a page out of their platforms.

In 2012, facebook went to Washington DC.

In 2016, Washington DC went to facebook.

When did facebook change? When zuck lost control of it after sandberg came on board. When did zuck get control? When zuck changed to be in alliance with the master plan… which was take control of the world… politically. Remember zuck running for election?
Oh, now I see why Arc has been so buggy lately
Thanks for sharing. I'm interested in seeing what a global control plane might look like, seems like authentication might be tricky to get right!

Controlling our worker environment (like `net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter` sysctl) is a big help for us since it means we don't have to deal with the fullness of all possible network configurations.
100% agreed.
Also, 11:45 -> quarter TO 12 (rare)
What do we have to gain by going to mars?
Upstreaming stuff is complicated. You can't just throw your barely working driver over the wall at Linus. You have to put effort into it, and keep putting effort into it.
The objects can emit photons by themselves.

The problem is that (classically) when you cross the event horizon, the photons that you emit at just that moment will _stay_ _in_ _place_ forever.
Hacking on that level is very different from building and upgrading PCs, being able to mix and match components from a wide range of different manufacturers. You won’t or can’t build a serious NAS, Proxmox homelab, gaming PC, workstation, or GPU/compute farm from Raspberry Pis or FPGAs.

We are really lucky that such a diverse and interoperable hardware platform like the PC exists. We should not discount it, and instead appreciate how important it is, and how unlikely for such a varied and high-performance platform to emerge again, should the PC platform die.