skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundamentally different goals.

HDMI world wants DRM because other than Kim Dotcom (who is highly problematic for other reasons) no one has dared to stand up to the MAFIAA goons.

Computing world wants DisplayPort and a hassle-free, high quality experience. DRM breaks that.
Ancient humans causing extinctions and environmental change is at odds with the image of "indigenous societies are perfect environmental stewards", which has been popularized for various reasons.
How long (and how) did they preserve the meat back then?
These people would have died anyway. We haven't reached immortality. It is mostly a scheduling problem.

Also first responders at the TT and irish road races like the flying doctors [1] are also mostly big fans of the sport and I would say you would be silly to call Isle of Man your home if you can't stand the TT or Manx GP. And you are totally free to take your vacations during those events if finding a crashed bike and a corpse on your lawn is an issue to you.

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2016/april/mcn-plus---dr...
https://www.carthrottle.com/news/why-flying-dr-john-hinds-wa...
https://youtu.be/FdRM0KGGSAk?feature=shared
Group B absolutely had a cars problem, 3 of the 4 accidents mentioned were not crowd related, there was literally no close witness (only a video from far away) to Toivonen and Cresta's accident.

The Lancias were some of the worst offenders to the cars issue, but not the only one: many drivers complained that the cars had gotten way too powerful to be safe in Corsica.

And safety equipment was lacking and not consistently applied, for instance fuel tank skid plates were usually left off on asphalt tracks like corsica, which is likely how Toivonen's lancia instantly caught fire when it went off the road.
Right. It could be but it could not be. Your paramedic knowledge makes sense and you’ve rightly stated that the assassination theory is a possibility.
Org-mode. Emacs Org mode has tables with formulas, being able to make use of many programming languages. By default Calc (I believe GNU Calc) and Elisp. However using sbe you can make it use code blocks written in any language that you have support for using org-babel. For example I have time tracking spreadsheets using source blocks of GNU Guile code for time calculation.

Of course you can put that under version control easily, since it is just a text document.
I think that's a simplification.
If you need long runs, place a pair of SDI media converters in between. Spec is IIRC 100m for coax cable runs, longer if you run fiber.
He’s not been tried yet, though.
To put it frankly, not at this scale.

I don't know what you think nearly 4B visits per month is (and top ten in worldwide traffic) that "a small group of active users" can generate. 300M active users a week is not a small group and you do not get there without general public awareness.
Google's $1B bet on Africa's digital future
Because of the way you did your quote, we’ve switched from talking about the TA’s to the teachers themselves. This is sort of different, the teaching assistants don’t really have teaching goals and they usually aren’t part of the decision making process for picking what gets taught, at least where I’ve been.

Anyway, as far as “learn the tools they want to teach the students how to use” goes, I dunno, hard to say. I wouldn’t be that surprised to hear that some department head got the wrong-headed idea that students needed to learn more practical tools and skills, shit rolled downhill, and some professor got stuck with the job.

Usually professors aren’t expert tool users after all, they are there for theory stuff. Hopefully nobody is expecting to become a vscode expert by listening to some professor who uses eMacs or vim like a proper grey-beard.
Yeah, exactly. A human can learning vastly more about, say, math from a much smaller quantity of text. I doubt we're anywhere close to exhausting the knowledge extraction potential from web data.
Thinkpads will usually have multiple DisplayPorts (some as alt-mode on USB-C), and 1 HDMI for use with roach-motel-quality conference room setups.
It's more like an aggro soylent of programming languages. It's functionally equivalent to other food intake products, but it will only ever have one flavor, and if you complain about it, they just tell you to drink more soylent because soylent is the One True Solution.

Now contrast that to rust, where rust is more "We know you like python, but did you know python and rust taste even better together?"
Copy error on my part. It should be [1]

[1] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14193123/Drones-new...
Paying means giving the entity delivering the service what they want for it. Not "giving something". If I steal your car, and leave a $100 bill, it's definitely still stealing.
SMS is one part of the story, group messaging is the other one.
> Can you hook up a USB C display to a iPhone or Android phone directly yet?

iPhone: yes.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105099#:~:text=USB-C%20displ...
hilarious that the “protocol” has the word Port in it. Could it be any more confusing? especially when something named “DisplayPort” is working via a USB-C port.

what a mess. it’s like a parody skit…imagine how a layman would interpret all this.
> Genuinely, why?

> ... this seems like a technology that raises the floor not the ceiling of what is possible.

The root cause reason for this project existing is to show that GPU programming is not synonymous with CUDA (or the other offloading languages).

It's nominally to help people run existing code on GPUs. Disregarding that use case, it shows that GPUs can actually do things like fprintf or open sockets. This is obvious to the implementation but seems largely missed by application developers. Lots of people think GPUs can only do floating point math.

Especially on an APU, where the GPU units and the CPU cores can hammer on the same memory, it is a travesty to persist with the "offloading to accelerator" model. Raw C++ isn't an especially sensible language to program GPUs in but it's workable and I think it's better than CUDA.
The small(ish) town I grew up in started using cameras a dozen or more years ago.

They get used with computer vision to control and coordinate traffic lights (sometimes with the help of inductive loops in the pavement, and sometimes without).

In this particular case: They don't record anything, and their ISM 900MHz backhauls don't have enough bandwidth for centralized video anyway.

(Sources: Background in RF, and I used to hang out with the city employee who took care of this system along with most other things relating to traffic lights there.)
As the US Air Force once demonstrated, there is no such thing as the average man.

On average coffee is good, but you are not the average man.
Why would a random small business owner have opinions about DisplayPort vs HDMI...? I do not think that is a very useful benchmark for evaluating technology standards, and it is kind of a conversation killer to use it to avoid engaging with specific technical points people are bringing up in reply to you. This is a technical discussion forum, after all.
He's working on letting the blind see and stuff like evs and communications. (https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/elon-musk-s-neuralink-de...)
We get lots of these in the Bay of Biscay for some reason. Not really warm waters, it's the North-is Atlantic. I guess it's mild in summer, that's when we get them.
It's nice not having to recompile all your software because of a CVE impacting libc, or any other fundamental component of the system.
Who the hell can compute a number from this? All probabilities on this case are made with a gut.

Why don’t you tell me the probability instead of demanding one from me? You’re the one making a claim that professional judgment makes the probability so solid that it’s basically a suicide. So tell me about your computation.

What gets me is the level of stupid you have to be to not even consider the other side. Like if a person literally tells you he’s not going to suicide and if he does it’s an assassination then he suicides and your first instinct is to only trust what the professionals say well… I can’t help you.
This comes up every time this sort of thing is discussed on HN. Sustained 1 g acceleration takes a staggering amount of fuel, and carrying enough to slow down again makes it even worse.
Got a refurbished X200 with 8 GB RAM and a CPU that has only 2 cores. Can develop software using it just fine. Can even watch YouTube videos in acceptable quality just fine. Can do all things ordinary people do just fine, all applications I need opened at the same time just fine. It all depends on ones software choices. If MacOS cannot cope with less than 16GB RAM, then that is a defect in itself.
who's "we"?
Interesting, I don't think I've seen VGA anywhere outside retro setups or places that were setup once long ago and left like that. I think many people don't even know there was such a thing as VGA these days if they work in office.

That said, HDMI 1.0 being DVI-D in different connector means conversion to VGA is very easy, as DVI-D stream is essentially VGA data minus DAC step (including vsync blanking and overscan).
I am surprised there isn't.
There’s an interesting middle-ground worth mentioning: a 2-in-1 connector https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Rego-Electronics/845-00... that can take both HDMI and DisplayPort cables, which could be a neat solution for devices juggling both standards.

Here’s a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpHizpZSPQ showing a PC with this connector in action.

Maybe not a game-changer, but it’s an interesting idea to reduce port clutter without forcing a winner in the format war just yet.
This! And optical waveguides are big, and they need to be spaced apart to avoid interference. Speed of light is limiting for such large circuits to be fast.

Nothing beats CMOS transistors in density.
From your reaction I guess you were expecting a talk about a NeurIPS 2024 paper.

This is a different situation. There's the "NeurIPS 2024 Test of Time Paper Awards" where they award a historical paper. In this case, a paper from 2014 was awarded and his talk is about that and why it passed the test of time.

https://blog.neurips.cc/2024/11/27/announcing-the-neurips-20...

The title chosen for the HN submission leaves out that important context. So that's why you are disappointed now.
The UK and Canada are the perfect example of trying to run healthcare minimizing costs.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/
In Vienna there's Hundertwasserhaus and other distinct examples of public housing. It proves doing it differently is possible and the uniformity complaint does have some merit.
That just means the adversary will need to spend two dollars[0] and an extra 15 minutes replacing the flash IC, rather than reprogramming the existing device.

[0] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/winbond-electroni...
Or vice versa you can store the energy of 1.5 little boy atomic bombs into a handy gram of antimatter ...
Telegram moving in this direction very fast. At this moment, telegram is used as news, blogs, file transfer app, chat etc. Recently added miniapps with real payments integration, "stars" as internal currency
I understand the oil analogy, but not your leap. What lake is getting boiled?
There is no valid argument for CO2 removal. No matter how you slice it, emissions reductions are more cost effective than removal. If we wreck our economy in the process of trying to prevent global warning then the net effects will be even worse.
File search is only one piece of the massive puzzle that is SharePoint. A very important one, though!
You put “can’t” in quotes, so I guess you are quoting somebody, but I don’t see where the quote is from, so I’m not sure what they actually meant.

But I suspect they are using “can’t” informally. Like: You can’t run a drag race in reverse. Ok, you technically could, but it would be a silly thing to do.
It's worth it because it matters to simple cases of normal user needing a converter dongle. Passive USB-C DP-altmode to DP cable are easy to acquire, cheap, and work fine.

USB-C -> HDMI is usually expensive because nearly nobody uses HDMI as alt-mode outside few old devices so you end up with frustrated users who try to buy cheaper converter and find out it does not work.
Probably because people can focus on 3 - 4 things at a time.
You're leaving out the cost of getting caught with risk factored in.

Also, if targeting small individuals, it's rarely one individual that's the issue, but a whole group. When Stalin or Hitler started systematically exterminating millions of people, it was essentially done algorithmically. The costs became very low for them to target whole groups of people.

I suspect that once you have the power of life or death over individuals, you automatically hold such power over large groups. Because you need a corrupt structure and once the structure is corrupt to that extent there is no clear line between 1 person and 1 million persons.

Also I suspect only one or a handful of individuals can have such power because otherwise such crimes can be used as a bait and trap by political opponents. Without absolute power, the risk of getting caught and prosecuted always exists.
The usage of the payment feature in Brazil is very, very low. I never heard about anyone using it. The Central Bank launched a national payment system (Pix) at the same time whatsapp wanted to launch their solution so they made Meta wait a few more months to get authorization. Now everybody uses Pix.
NYC government is peculiar, in that its size and scope is like a US state, but it also subsumes the functions of US cities and counties. The closest comparison in the US is probably LA County.

Thinking about it in terms of technology — during the pandemic the schools bought a million iPads. They also run a giant hospital system, the largest police and fire departments in the country, etc.

The net result is administration of a vast, sprawling (both horizontal and vertical) bureaucracy is complex, and the cogs in the wheel of that bureaucracy are simultaneously in your face and detached from reality. So you have a group of attorneys who see a threat in people posing in front of a camera.
I'll give my take:

* Before the current renaissance of neural networks (pre ~2014ish), it was unclear that scaling would work. That is, simple algorithms on lots of data. The last decade has pretty much addressed that critique and it's clear that scaling does work to a large extent, and spectacularly so.

* Much of the current neural network models and research are geared towards "one-shot" algorithms, doing pattern matching and giving an immediate result. Contrast this with search which needs to do inference time compute or search.

* The exponential increase in power means that neural network models are quickly sponging up as much data as they can find and we're quickly running into the limits of science, art and other data that humans have created in the last 5k years or so.

* Sutskever points out, as an analogy, nature has created a better model for humans (the brain to mass ratio for animals) with hominids finding more efficient compute than other animals, even ones with much larger brains and neuron count.

* Sutskever is advocating for better models, presumably focusing on inference time computer more.

In some sense, we're coming a bit full circle where people who were advocating for pure scaling (simple algorithms + lots of data) for learning are now advocating for better algorithms, presumably with a focus on inference time compute (read: search).

I agree that it's a little opaque, especially for people who haven't been paying attention to past and current research, but this message seems pretty clear to me.

Noam Brown had a talk recently titled "Parables on the Power of Planning in AI" [0] which addresses this point more head on.

I will also point out that the scaling hypothesis is closely related to "The Bitter Lesson" by Rich Sutton [1]. Most people focus on the "learning" aspect of scaling but "The Bitter Lesson" very clearly articulates learning and search as the methods most amenable to compute. From Sutton:

"""

...

Search and learning are the two most important classes of techniques for utilizing massive amounts of computation in AI research.

...

"""

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=eaAonE58sLU

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
I'd say not even the highest end displays. I'm using HDMI 2.1 on my RTX 4080 because it has more bandwidth than the DisplayPort 1.4 ports on this graphic card.

It's a similar port selection on even the highest end monitors: 40 Gigabit/s HDMI 2.1, or 26 Gigabit DP1.4. I'm unable to find a single DP2.0 monitor.
Some 2004 highlights for the nostalgic:

- MySpace was surging, Facebook was launched.

- Iraq counterinsurgency. Eventually Iraq fared better than Syria, while Afghanistan fared worse. No one in 2004 would have guessed this.

- WoW was released.

- Paris Hilton, Russell Brand, The Da Vinci Code, The Wardrobe Malfunction. Maybe not a year for culture.
The linked tool does not give any suggestions without choosing a subdomain, but if you average the DX suggestions for each domain the top result is javascript. I don't know many sane people who would argue javascript has a better DX than python.

> Other languages provide drastically increased speed and correctness with comparable dx.

Like what?

IMO javascript has both terrible DX and performance and should be avoided unless you are doing front end.

Go quite a bit of boilerplate and initial setup to get going. It also requires you to think about pointer, pass by value vs reference, etc.

You can get someone who is brand new to programming writing simple Python scripts in less than an hour.
I wish there was a better way to protect my own data from being digested by AI programs. I know the internet is supposed to be 'open', but if I had known that AI would come along and "digest" all the data on it, I would have done things differently. Already I've stopped uploading many things that I would have otherwise uploaded and moved to different, closed platforms for sharing stuff.
Yes, they exist elsewhere. Check out Grab (southeast Asia), Line (Japan, Taiwan), Kakao (Korea), Gojek (Indonesia), PayTm (India) or any number of everything-apps.
> Lots of people think GPUs can only do floating point math.

IIRC, every Raspberry Pi is brought up by the GPU setting up the system before the CPU is brought out of reset and the bootloader looks for the OS.

> it is a travesty to persist with the "offloading to accelerator" model.

Operating systems would need to support heterogeneous processors running programs with different ISAs accessing the same pools of memory. I'd LOVE to see that. It'd be extremely convenient to have first-class processes running on the GPU MIMD cores.

I'm not sure there is much research done in that space. I believe IBM mainframe OSs have something like that because programmers are exposed to the various hardware assists that run as coprocessors sharing the main memory with the OS and applications.
Got it! I had misunderstood your earlier comment.
Alfred is amazing, but it's Mac only.
There's also a lot of power wasted. That extra stick of RAM will cause a hit to your battery life.
Saving Bluefin Tuna from Climate Change
Intereting question. The answer to the second part: we have much faster switching transistors (GaAs, SiGe, InP, now GaN) already but they cannot be miniaturized easily and the production technology isn't as simple as CMOS. One can build computers with them, but due to physical size and large distances it wouldn't be performing good compared to a CMOS chip. So the answer is: size matters. Large devices cannot be used for building complex fast computers.
since it is legal for said companies to pay for the adjuster’s political campaigns the chances of this adjusting are not promising…
Infectivity and Persistence of Influenza Virus in Raw Milk
That's nice; now check your guess in the Wikipedia and other sources.
There's an offensive term in UD for every vaguely pronounceable thing - that's not even spelt the same.
This 10 minute film on the accident is very well done and includes animation to demonstrate the specifics of the wreck in detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSV8nP0gZkk
Imagine how much Meta has on your overall profile from your fb photo uploads.
>Package manager and linter are the most fundamental tools to a programming language in a broader sense, second only to the reference compiler/implementation.... I'm just surprised to see a previously diverse/anarchic language community to suddenly feel like it'd welcome such stewardship.

This seems to represent a schism in the community, although not a constantly explicit one that's pointed at as the cause of conflict (like with, say, the debate over the role of Rust in the Linux kernel).

The original community is so "diverse/anarchic" - and so old - that it causes friction with that first assertion. As far as I know, the idea of a "package manager" being particular to a programming language (as opposed to the operating system) is much newer than Python itself. I was able to use Python for many years before anyone ever suggested a linter to me, either. (Granted, the original lint program for C is from the 70s, but it wasn't seen as a necessity back then - not a compulsory part of a software engineering education, and certainly not treated as fundamental. Actually, I still don't use one.) And I'm still nowhere near "original", having really started using Python in the mid 2000s.

In that frame, it's hard to get people to agree on a project manager, because they don't even agree on the concept of a "project". People write code that they never plan to share with others. People write code that they only expect to share with real-life associates, and don't have the tools to understand why it "only works on my machine" - if you don't have the mental concept of dependencies, you aren't going to be able to specify them, nor properly use a tool to manage them. People just write a few `.py` files in a directory somewhere and expect them to play nice with each other and don't understand why they're shadowing the standard library.

On the other end of the spectrum, people need to interface Python with code in C, FORTRAN and all sorts of other dinosaurs, and they still don't yet have a way to specify their dependencies properly. (Before 2018 or so, there wasn't even a clearly delineated concept of build-time vs runtime dependencies, and people would get into weird chicken-and-egg situations because of needing to run `setup.py` in order to find out what packages are required to run `setup.py`. And now they still run into those problems, because they resist the new changes because of the "useless churn" of `pyproject.toml`.) Sometimes you can hack around that because wheel contents can be anything (including compiled C libraries), but Pip still isn't going to install a custom C compiler into `/usr/bin` (or, heaven forbid, set one up on Windows). And then you have people with giant monorepos trying to figure out where to put `pyproject.toml` files to describe separate "projects" within the same superstructure and build all the separate wheels they want.
My dad, his parents and all his siblings were in the grandstands but escaped uninjured. He was 7 years old. Mltiple decades later he would become emotionnal and angry if we, as adolescents, would mention dead bodies in a very casual manner, for exemple while commenting on a video game.

I knew about this accident and them being close to be hit by some of those parts that day but it took me years to make the connection between this and how his reaction. This must have been a huge war scene.
Very interesting. What about memory? Current problems are mainly memory bottleneck related. How can one solve that in photonic chips?
Also read it backwards