skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> User upgradability if the Company Folds or Sunsets the product.

This isn't something which a company can meaningfully guarantee to consumers. Even if it's technically possible for users to install their own software on a device - for that matter, even if the company goes out of their way to support it by releasing documentation and source code - there simply isn't interest from developers to build and maintain custom software for those devices. And the same goes for devices which depend on online services - those services cost money to run, and the number of users capable and willing to run their own is miniscule.
there were:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/washington-pipe-bomb...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/oath-keeper-brought-explosi...
Indeed. Some of the most interesting stories on HN never make it past the initial filter. I've seen great posts slip by in obscurity only to get hundreds of votes and hit the front page weeks or months later. There's a lot indeterminism in what makes it to the front page(s) and what doesn't.
He was pointing out the hypocrisy in "trust the science" buzzwords used during the pandemic. Science is based on skepticism, not "trust", and being a skeptic back then was somehow considered censorship-worthy.

edit: because i'm being rate-limited for some reason (thanks mods), i'm refering to stuff like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210402002315/https://www.msnbc...

> And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data.

Hey, the media, the CDC, "the science" says that if you're vaccinated, you're safe, you won't infect your immunocompromised grandma, you won't get sick, you won't spread covid. I mean... don't be a skeptic, "trust" them.

Or you can say "even if you're vaccinated, you'll still get covid and still infect grandma", and be censored from most platforms" (back then).
Not sure, I don't see an issue with using Vulkan directly, but I think WebRender developers did plan to use wgpu at some point.
This is the housing theory of everything
That sure reads like a personal opinion and not a fact. I think the passion of your response is the problem pointed out in the article as well as the general problem of freedom of speech. Everyone thinks they know where the "obvious" line is.
My friend, with the app above you can take 6 VCOs, have them modulate each other and understand how the FM(phase) synthesis on a DX7 works. Instead of guessing. Explore why certain ratios produce bell like tones etc.

One of may favorite digital synths is the TX-81z. 4op FM. One of the first digital synths where the operators weren’t restricted to sine waves. (DX7 had 6op FM)

If you just look at the specs. And even play with the values you won’t understand why one synth could obtain sounds the other couldn’t.

That “source” is usually the synthesis method.(usually the complicated part outside of anything that’s not a traditional VCO)

If you have a filter, the resonance imparts a particular sound as well.

Digitone is 4op fm as the source then that’s funneled through a pretty standard east coast architecture.
It still works, you can click on something non-focusable like the background or hit Esc and still get the "first page" thing. Like a touch interface.

Funny that's already so intuitive for how touch interfaces works, I guess it would take maybe a week to change but forever to decide what specifically precisely should be done, so if it's not something epoch-defining, world-changing and comparable to search itself, then maybe just leave it, lest you make a mistake that half the customers likes.
The so-called dead cat bounce is oft seen in a decline.
By "lately" you mean...
> with very little way to find and eliminate them.

The best Smalltalk these days is GlamorousToolkit: https://gtoolkit.com/

It has a sort of git in it, so you can easily "rollback" your image to previous states. So going back and forth in history is trivial.
perfect, just perfect!
I don’t think the built-in browser SpeechSynthesis allows this, though it does allow for increasing the rate of speech. Maybe it’d work well to try to dynamically match the tap rate and the speaking rate.

For speed tappers who don’t need the number to be announced, I made it possible to mute the announcements.
Probably has changed since then, but I remember the RN docs telling me to use Expo. I was wondering the whole time, do people actually use Expo or no. And why is it uploading my code to some website? Soon I had a clear answer; I had to "eject" from Expo to do a prod build or just add any native components. Not a good first impression.

That said, RN was a win in the long run. It was a lot less baffling than the notorious Xcode/Swift/ObjC/UIKit ecosystem I'd used for years.
"ORACLE: (n, abbr, nonstd.) One Rich Asshole called Larry Ellison."
A lot of places end up selecting for their own brand of crazy because of that.

The people who think, "this is fine" tend to fit in better. From a team stability perspective that's fine? But echo chambers eventually eat themselves and new perspective can lead to new features or bug fixes.
Small Nvidia's $3k Digits supercomputer looks in person
> Which also incorrectly assumes there is someone else's words to even draw from.

The claim in question is that there is a prevalence of hyper-mobility among programmers.

That can only be backed by data. Data gathered from a large number of people. Even if we suppose that the claim is the result of a solo research effort --- one person did all the data gathering and analysis --- and that that solo researcher is the very person making the comment on hacker news, there are still other words that can be referenced. They are not another person's words, but that same researcher's words hosted elsewhere, giving interesting details about the research!!!

The comment, whether we believe it or not, simply contains insufficient detail to someone interested.

Don't you understand?

Indeed, it's as if you came from space to dictate alien discourse protocols to humans.
All the big campuses here like JPL and the Getty are built for this (it’s more or less standard now for insuring anything high value). They have landscaping designed to slow down fires, dedicated water systems, and firebreaks all around the buildings. The civilian evacuation order is because the area south of the fire is densely built up with single family homes without much in the way of defenses and JPL has to comply with that.

Thankfully the wind has died down significantly from last night, so we’re in a better shape, but there are still high wind warnings till 6pm and the fires are 0% contained.
The Use of Inmate Firefighters and Its Injustices
I'm not sure.
I can tell you that the port was done by a third party that needed to transpile the java code first to C# and then to C++.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETkH_QvXkAAD2N7?format=png
>While people often choose “diet” or “light” products to lose weight, research studies suggest that artificial sweeteners may contribute to weight gain.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2892765/

Again… things that are counterintuitive are exactly the purview of good science. The human body is an absurdly complex multi-variate system that is confounding even in the areas we pretend to understand.

The interaction of the neurologist of taste on biological processes may be affecting the hunger responses, thus weight gain.

This shit is not simple, and the simplistic models we use to explain these processes are exactly the type on ultimately wrong knowledge that Karl Popper rails against.

Again, I definitely think Lustig claims debatable things overconfidently, but he’s no crank.
This seems like way too complex an explanation when a much simpler alternative is possible.

Most people are simply not that virtuous, because by definition the vast majority of the population has to have mediocre virtues or be in that ballpark range.

So ‘radical transparency’ reveals as much negative as positive, on average.
Hey thanks for the quick feedback, I'm updating the UX atm and you can hit me up on twitter: https://x.com/jolerapidee
The Torture of an Unphilosophical Life
It seems like it's harder to be a billionaire if you're not an immoral opportunist...
That would be hard to do with Google intentionally sandbagging things like YouTube (I'm thinking about them using a nonstandard version of web components, plus a super slow shim for Firefox, instead of using the standardized version that Chrome also supported).
I guess I meant in a "personal finance" sense.

I can visualize a few million dollars as about an order of magnitude more than I'm worth now. If someone gifted me a million dollars, I have a reasonably good idea of how I'd spend it. I'd pay off the house, pay off the credit cards, maybe move somewhere that isn't the cesspool of NYC, and invest the rest into a low-risk index fund. Boring, easy-to-digest stuff.

If someone gave me a billion dollars, I have absolutely no idea how the hell I'd spend it. It wouldn't be radically different than someone giving me a trillion dollars, at least not at first; they're basically infinite quantities of money to me. It seems almost trite to just dump it all into a Vanguard account.
The "Costlier Tobaccos" tag line looks strange now. Products which want to show sophistication no longer promote the fact that they are more expensive.
> I can tell you from personal and numerous other examples that this is false

You think if you got hit by a bus tomorrow your employer would go out of business?
And you know that you'll come back in five years and nothing will have changed, except five new services that do half of what the vision required, most systems still depend on what was originally there, the team has tripled in size and most of them are just there to maintain the workarounds of the half-implemented systems, latency, cost, storage, and bug count are all way up, and no new functionality has been built that the original cron job couldn't have handled.
> You don't need a conversation to cause havoc.

Sure, but my point was different: let's say one of your teacher answered the spoofed email from the principal, you wouldn't be able to (properly) answer that email since you wouldn't receive it. So, in the case of an email exchange between two people, one can't claim his/her emails were spoofed, as the spoofer wouldn't be able to answer the other party's emails in a precise and on topic way. This is without even considering that, bh default, most email clients include the previous messages inside a reply. Meaning that the spoofer would somehow be able to know the other party's reply exactly word by word.
No Eve alive today claims to be the original. Eve ate from the tree and surely (eventually) died.

Edit: the supposition in Genesis is if they hadn't ever eaten, they'd be alive today.
Yep, 3 separate fires. The first in West LA blew up late yesterday afternoon and blew through a bunch of residential areas by the looks of it. From watching Flight Radar, it seems to be getting most of the air resources, although that could just be because wind conditions are favorable on that fire today. The second fire near Pasadena started yesterday as well, but really blew up overnight. The third fire up North I think started overnight.

There's been a huge amount of wind throughout So Cal today and yesterday that is driving the rapid spread of these fires.
Things aren't going back normal after four years. There won't be normal elections in four years. I hope I'm wrong.
I stopped playing a lot of games post-2010/2014 or so.

Lots of games that are fine on Intel Integrated graphics out there.
Meta-Influencers and Automation as Wedge
I’m sorry :( I get it. It’s how I feel about DAWs.
Not to mention the astroinertial guidance system on ICBM nuclear missiles.

To wit, there are 12 Ohio class submarines each with 20 trident missiles each carrying 12 maneuverable nuclear warheads (475 kilotons each).

The missiles are launched under water, reach Mach 18 in 2 minutes, and don’t need GPS — they use the stars to deliver their payload.

I saw a test missile launch once before. It still terrifies me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio-class_submarine
Greed, aka promoters, killed the rave scene when they started charging absurd prices and pivoting to festivals where they could command 100's of dollars for entry.
WSL1 doesn't use any virtualization. The windows kernel loads a module that implements linux-compatible syscalls, and WSL1 processes are flagged so that syscalls go to that module.
There is a time honored tradition of blaming the last person for all of your problems, or at least any they had proximity to.

Somewhat awkward if you later see them in a meeting.
Last place I worked was like that. "Just embrace the chaos" but also "your new ideas aren't welcome here"
Cheaper being a big one. Here in Australia student allowance/minimum wage has hardly increased while everything else has gotten far more expensive, young people simply can't afford to drink out/attend events.

There was also a intensive effort to kill nightclubs with lockout laws
"Top 5 contributors will each receive a $50 voucher to shop at Mozilla’s swag stores as a thank-you for your efforts."

lol
Sans the python compatiblity, rhai is pretty close to what rpython is trying to be.

https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai
Little snitch is awesome (these folks make that)

Wish it were available on ios.

(but since apple has to give permission, it isn't)
Sounds like a house party. Though I guess it could be a rave as well, just a small one. Better than squatters I guess.
My understanding is that the employees received tax deductions for charitable donations, and perhaps some of the matching funds.
It’s on the front page for me.
> we'll typically just call this f_2(x) = 3x^2,

"we" who? You're projecting infinitesimals down onto reals, and then complaining that the infinitesimals are gone. That seems like a "you" problem. You can keep the ifinitesimals if you don't want to lose then.
16/f/ca was the best 10 years of my life.
> But for now, you can presume the Netflix button on your TV remote can't be configured to point to an alternative API if Netflix goes away. :)

At least for Android TV devices, Button Mapper works for some.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutt...
For Context:

SWE-Bench (+ Verified) is the benchmark (of resolving Github Issues) that companies into Coding are chasing - Devin, Claude, OpenAI - all these!

A new leader #1 - CodeStory Midwit Agent + swe-search - has been crowed with a score of 62% on SWE-bench verified (without even using any reasoning models like OpenAI o1 or o3)

More details on their approach - https://aide.dev/blog/sota-bitter-lesson
Apparently this is visible everywhere on Earth, which is cool. (Sometimes sites don't bother saying where and it turns out to only be visible in the US - very annoying for those who live elsewhere.)

https://starwalk.space/en/news/what-is-planet-parade
It was a good call to ban the somersault jump. Delamere is right when he says that it is no more dangerous than gymnastics, but it is a risk an ordinary long jumper shouldn't have to take to be competitive.
My parents didn't get me a nintendo when I was a child. My socialization also suffered, but I ended up with a job making AAA games and they did not so I consider it a fair trade now that I'm older.
Are you under the impression that their website is hosted on-premises? This ain't the early 90s
I mean... maybe?

It says

"A playtest card is most commonly a basic land with the name of a different card written on it with a marker. Playtest cards aren't trying to be reproductions of real Magic cards; they don't have official art and they wouldn't pass even as the real thing under the most cursory glance. Fans use playtest cards to test out new deck ideas before building out a deck for real and bringing it to a sanctioned tournament. And that's perfectly fine with us. Wizards of the Coast has no desire to police playtest cards made for personal, non-commercial use, even if that usage takes place in a store."

So they say that they have no desire to police them, but define them as not using original art and not passing for the real card even briefly. Those descriptions do not apply to high-resolution original art card images printed out.
Just a heads up, the email in the post doesn't seem to be working. My email bounced.

Thanks
I remember, in the 1980s, the American Heart Association never listed tobacco as a contributor to heart disease. I'm pretty sure that the tobacco industry figured highly, in their funding sources.

These days, they are very adamant that tobacco is a big factor.

Also, I believe that a lot of stress research (the one that created the "Type A personality") was funded by the tobacco industry.
I don't actually think it's an identity thing for most people - I think it's a failure of properly determining value.

"Ah, I need a new car with AWD because once a year I drive up to the mountains to go snowboarding!" And never stop to realize that the cost of an AWD car during its lifetime is more than you would pay on snow tires or even renting a car whenever you need it.
Multiplication typically takes 3 cycles, so a total of 1+3+1=5 cycles of latency. A load from L1 takes 4-5 cycles on non-ancient x86 and Apple M1. So roughly on-par, perhaps a bit faster, at the cost of eating some ILP in the odd case that there's not still plenty left (also better if not already in-cache, though only significantly so if using that instead of the lzcnt directly as the threshold table index).
Will look into options for supporting these folks. Thank you for the level-headed and informative response.

I prefer HN over some other news sources, which seem less concerned about presenting information to the degree the news article can vouch for. Media literacy is a two-way street and we need better reporting standards. If reading and writing is a lot like parsing, then anyone who spreads misinformation is just a parsehole.
California is a last bastion of sorts socially, because los Angeles is an extrovert magnet.

Ironically to the north, an opposite social civilization has attracted all the introverted people.

Entertainment must extrovert to gain eyeballs, but it uses the technology of the introverts to do so.

But underlying this ironic alliance is a force that cares not for the social polarity, it simply will nihilistically predate on both spheres to produce the maximal profit while eating away at the fabric of a functioning society.

The matrix really is the endgame goal: pods plugged into a VR machine. The matrix struggled with plausible explanations for why the machines kept humans in that state, and the endgame of capitalism likewise has no solution how the world would function at the end of its road.
The most marked comparison I’ve seen is between the B-25’s in Catch 22 and the aircraft in Masters of the Air. The real B-25s struggle and climb into the air on takeoff and it’s evidently real. Masters of the Air just had shot after shot of aircraft sitting dully in the sky - so eminently artificial.
I guess so I never got into making music, heard of the term but yeah cool to see.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd...
With much of California, Texas and Florida property damage is concentrated where folks built where they shouldn’t have [1]. (At times nudged on by subsidised insurance [2].)

Is that true in this case, too? (Being so close to LA, it doesn’t strike me that it could be.) If not, is my general thesis off?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1204923950/arizona-california...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218...
I’ve tried both, it’s way more efficient to set it up at camp facing the sun. I think for the future I’d rather just take it out during breaks and when setting up camp for the day.

I live 59°N, during the summer there’s plenty of time to both hike far and recharge batteries after setting up camp for the day.
Yes, but I'll just speak to the part about dancing: it is true that (a) many people find it fun and rewarding and (b) many people don't find it easy and/or natural a priori. However, given the right style, music, AND a few (or possibly many) months of deliberate practice to make it "click" in your brain, many people could move from category (b) to (a). Searching through this parameter space requires time and effort. This is a thread about EDM, and I spent some time trying to like EDM because it was cool, until I realized that it's not for me, and I have zero inclination to dance to it unless I'm on MDMA. On the other hand, swing, salsa, bachata ended up being absolutely my jam -- after months of deliberate practice, as none of these musical styles were super familiar to me at the outset.

For a lot folks, partnered dance forms are nothing short of life changing, and they tend to appeal to analytical introverts; if you haven't tried already, go sign up for your local lindy hop lessons, and keep your expectations low. There's no downside, at the very least you'll get some exercise.
If the goal is to see "whether machine can pretend to be a woman better than a man can" as you previously stated, surely the machine's goal would be to imitate a woman as well as it can? Making it "not be too good" would run contrary to the aim of determining whether machines can pretend to be a woman better than a man can.

My understanding is that you're now instead saying the goal is to see how well a machine can imitate a human male imitating a woman. This still seems inconsistent with the rest of the paper, like Turing's mention of "the part of B being taken by a man", that the example interrogator questions appear to discern intelligence opposed to gender in the machine vs human game, or that a hypothetical flipped test would involve a man imitating a machine and failing due to slowness in arithmetic.

I believe both of your proposed interpretations miss the central idea of Turing's proposal and alter it in a way that would make significance of the test/results questionable. Specifically, it's intended to be a sufficiently general arena to introduce any relevant task/test to determine intelligence (like feeding in chess positions, as in Turing's example question) - not just one oddly specific task.

While it's likely possible to make ad-hoc changes until it's consistent, the standard reading (machine imitating human) seems infinitely more plausible to me. There's plenty in the paper justifying the significance of determining whether a machine can answer questions indistinguishably from a human, yet no reasoning at all for why it would be narrowed to the very specific case of having the machine imitate one gender imitating the other gender.
What makes strong engineers strong?
Who are you trying to prove this to?
Man, things are getting really large and unwieldy with these giant GPUs we have nowadays.
"may contribute" is really far from "the same impact"

Even more so if there's a calorie restriction going on, but still so if there isn't.
This is a very impressive result. OpenAI was able to achieve 72% with o3, but that's at a very high compute cost at inference-time.

I'd be interested for Aide to release more metrics on token counts, total expenditure, etc. to better understand exactly how much test-time compute is involved here. They allude to it being a lot, but it would be nice to compare with OpenAI's o3.
https://downfor.io/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov