skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point underlying the problem is about the closure of operations [1]

Typically one would like to be able to calculate things without making error, which accumulates.

The symbolic representation you suggest use a growing memory to represent the point by all the operations which have been applied to it since the origin.

What we would rather do is define a set of operation that are closed for a specific set of points, which allows to accumulate information by doing the computation rather than deferring the computation.

One could for example think of using fixed point number to represent the coordinates, and define an extra point at the infinity to handle overflow. And then you have some property that you like and some that you like less. For example minimums distance which can define a point uniquely in continuous R^2, are no longer unique when you constrain yourself to integer grids by using fixed points.

Or you could use some rational numbers to store the coordinates like in CGAL (which allows you to know on which sides of the planes you are without z-fighting), but they still require growing memory. You can maybe add some rule to handle the underflow and overflows.

Or you can merge close points, but maybe you lose some information.

Or you can define the operations on lattices, finite automaton, or do some error correcting codes, dynamic recombining graphs (aka the ruliad).

It's an open problem, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_geometric_computation for more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(mathematics)
Or, perhaps he was just lying.
San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
You can ferment from corn or other such starchy vegetables, right?
Sorry, when you are the president you don't get that leeway to make mistakes and then correct them by saying "sorry, my bad!" No way.

If I'm just a blogger on Twitter, then sure.

It is hard to tell whether the US president is more than an effective tweeter. That distinction is important to me.
What’s crazy to me is that Washington is still naive about the China threat, only when Israel came into play did the bill have legs again. I’ll say it again, you can’t let your near peer adversary own a mainline into the eyeballs of your population. The US knows this, because just decades ago, they were mainlining anti-communist and pro-Contras content through radios in Latin America
https://blog.neuenet.com, https://webb.page, and https://inc.sh...https://dsgn.agency will get updated with it soon (it's using Sapper, the awkward stand-in before SvelteKit).

I'm also building a social network with it, here's a screenshot[1] and video[2]

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[1]: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/113474209075638354

[2]: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/113329030542527807
Baseball lent itself to advanced analytics even before player tracking became a thing, since the sport consists of a series of discrete one-on-one matchups with limited possible outcomes.
Much like a 3.3% BAC is just mild buzz.
I had a vague sense this was often done. In the popular articles about some paper, there's often a quote from a researcher in the same field that the article you explicitly notes is not involved in the original paper
Most contributions to the Linux kernel have already been from tech corps for a while now: https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/
The amount of sociopaths in positions of power of a large bureaucracy is proportional to its size and how powerful the position in question is. Seems to be true of just about anything, from governments to corporations.
> I’m probably a nightmare to get hold of at a moment’s notice – and should never, ever be someone’s In Case of Emergency, much to my partner’s chagrin

iOS’ Do Not Disturb has a feature—on by default—where a second phone call from the same person within three minutes is not silenced.
Nvidia doesn't need an OS. They sell hardware, and their hardware receives driver support on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and previously, MacOS. If you built and documented an OS for AI-based tasks, Nvidia would probably be the first OEM to merge hardware support.

Linus' comment towards Nvidia was not made from the perspective of a business, either. He was lamenting that their drivers are nonfree and that their desktop support was lazy. Neither of those things matter to 99% of businesses that are using Nvidia hardware for AI compute. Also, both aren't strictly true anymore in 2025 as Nvidia officially supports Wayland now and technically has "Open" drivers.
Carbon capture is certainly more expensive than renewables but this headline presents a false dichotomy. The question isn't if we capture carbon instead of switching to renewables - that ship sailed long ago - the question is if we need carbon capture in addition to switching to renewables.
Currently in Ukraine both sides are apparently using spools of fibre on their drones due to the RF environment. ISTR reading that they're able to carry several KM of fibre each.

Delicate doesn't really matter - these are kamikaze drones carrying shaped-charge explosives or anti-personnel grenades, often taking out individual soldiers one by one (as well as tanks etc). Seems wasteful but potentially the near to midterm future of warfare?
>I don't think Trump's aim is to weaken the US. I don't think here's some big secret Russia conspiracy.

That's not really the claim these days. The Stelle Dossier accusations haven't really been substantiated.

He's more likely to be just a useful idiot. Far more easy to manipulate than politically educated stable people, and with less connection to the institutions of State.
Not a lawyer, but: When you order food at a restaurant, the law assumes an implied contract—you agree to pay for what you consume. Even without a written agreement, courts recognize this as a valid contract based on common practice.

I wonder if a future society can allow geniuses like you to opt-out of the social contract, and there'd be outlaws roaming the lands, ready to rob you that evening, hey you agreed to opt out of police protection!
On my phone it is...

Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > Schedules > Flip to Shhh
Unless I'm not aware of another option, this one still allows the incoming calls to interrupt your display with a notification, albeit silently.
> coal was said to be in terminal decline

It was maybe "said" ... There seems to have been quite a bit of groupthink (or propaganda) over the decades that new energy sources would supplant old and it's never been really accurate. AIUI, wider use of oil created more demand for coal, wider use of renewables creates more demand for oil and so forth, because amongst other things new energy production puts greater demand on existing sources, plus the new-lanes-on-the-highway tendency of late capitalism to put all of it to work making the rich richer etc.
I dunno. Could be that the hiring practices at the time, or the team that interviewed him vetted algorithmic problem solving skill and did not run a vibe check on social or emotional intelligence. Because blasting out a company wide post / email disparaging and entire class of people (who are like 50 percent of the population), and then getting indignant about the entirely foreseeable backlash is indicative of extremely low EQ.
Why would I want to connect my ereader to a computer?

It's not 2004 and it's not an iPod.
I mean, that table says the average high for almost all of is in the mid to high 90s. That's not that far off from what I said.

Additionally, sure, California has plenty of desert that's as hot as Texas, but most of the population is in LA, San Diego, or San Francisco, which are all coastal and relatively temperate. Most of Texas's population is in Dallas(97), Houston (93), San Antonio (95), or Austin (97) which are all generally in reliably hot areas. Houston may have an average summer high of 93, but that's also coupled with a brutal humidity.

The equivalent California population centers are SF (66), San Diego (75), LA (82), and Anaheim (87). All generally livable temperatures, especially given their overnight lows are in the 60s. Most of Texas has summer overnight lows in the mid to high 70s.

Yes, Texas isn't that much hotter than the rest of the US south, but it's also insanely more populated. Houston with it outlying suburbs nearly has the population of all of Mississippi put together. For the most part, large quantities of people don't live in the other really hot parts of the south except for Florida.
I loved HL2 so much. Not at the 1st place in my list because, well, the Mass Effect story line brings that one to another level, but HL2 for the time was unbeatable. I wonder why they didn't continue the franchise with a proper HL3; the entire world of gamers was (and probably still is) begging for it.
I'm glad they haven't. If they did, it wouldn't be free and open source like Linux is.

Also, there are myriad reasons why big tech companies wouldn't unite to build anything, let alone something as complex as an OS.
When I try to do this, it flatly doesn't work -- I get a popup message saying "This book has DRM". I have what I believe to be the latest version of the DeDRM plugin installed in Calibre.

(I am currently attempting to follow a recipe off the internet that begins with "install an old version of the PC Kindle app, disconnect from the internet before running it so you can tell it not to auto-update itself, ...". Perhaps that will work.)

[EDITED to add:] Yup, looks like that has worked, though most of the titles and authors will need to be entered manually.
The nearest neighbors are not ‘near’. It is unfathomable for some, like me, to think that there is no life out there - as we know it or something totally different. The number of galaxies, stars, planets are way too many. You don’t have to agree.
Pixel Image Manipulation Program
> Lots of clever people seem to agonise about this, but I don't see any problem. What am I missing?

I feel the same way. The past is just the direction where things were more ordered (to be glib about it.)

Even though the large scale implications of the statistics are profound, star fusion, rivers, etc. the “cause” is statistics.

The one place (that I am aware of) where the statistics -> time effect still needs explicit work is how the timal fabric dimension operates differently (but very similarly) to the 3 spacial fabric dimensions of space-time in the very large scale. Often represented by a negative (for time) and three positive (for space) signs in equations. But I assume when we understand how space in the small works, the topology will still have a statistical explanation.

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A very close topic, and the same forehead slap feeling for me, is all the contortions many physicists go through to avoid the many worlds quantum interpretation. Which is the parsimonious interpretation.

(Should more accurately be called the “quantum field web” interpretation, according to … me.)

Again statistics: we just think there is a “collapse” in possibilities when super-positioned information becomes to mixed up for us to remix.

The alternative: a mysterious collapse with yet unexplained cause, with deep problems regarding how this introduces another unique “time” effect, of nearly infinite new information constantly being injected into every interaction everywhere and everywhen in the universe! And this information is supposed to be causeless or self-caused in some mystical (but don’t ever say “mystical”), way.

And don’t point out the mockery this makes of “conservation of information” if 99.99…99% of information now wasn’t there just one quantum event ago, for all quantum events.

Again, statistics completely explains why us biggies experience fields making choices, based on the field equation defining field connection (we experience as event) point distributions, and … statistics.

Yet every day physicists who can’t admit to themselves that we are ourselves constantly expanding webs of superpositions, take for granted that anything they can scale up in the lab will have superpositions, subject to experimental practicalities.

Because anything else would violate the field equations.
How are you gonna get the IPv6s of your targets? Can’t scan a /64, and with ephemeral ”security” addresses used for outbound conns, an adversary won’t be able to guess the address anyway. At least that’s my understanding. So I guess my question is: is this a real threat?
Fairness requires more than a single anecdote/aberration.
Newer generations growing up more familiar with Japanese culture (e.g. anime), videogames, and non-retro cultural references, naming things after words they find pleasant (for a lack of better word) to hear.
"uchū" means "universe" in Japanese. I use this theme for all of my projects so...universal.

I can't speak to anything else but personally, I love Japan style/aesthetic/whatever so I'm gonna use a word if it fits.
Speaking of Cambodia, China has got quite the strangle hold on that country.

Which is interesting, because the Vietnamese installed a government after defeating the Khmer Rouge in 1979. This majorly pissed off China who invaded Vietnam to "punish" them.

But today? It's a playground for Chinese criminal gangs. Kidnapping of foreigners (recently a Thai citizen) who work in local casinos is common. It's mostly Vietnamese, but other nationalities have been snapped up as well.

It's also a hotbed for Chinese running online scams.

Seems quite lawless nowadays despite the development since the war.
> but instead of spending 15 minutes or so doing it I

you forgot to add on the months or years of experience you already have that lets you do that in 15 minutes. Maybe today with an LLM I could figure out certs but the every time I've tried it in the past there's tons and tons of jargon and tons and tons of options and everything is written from the POV of someone that already knows it all.
That's arguably got even more restrictive DRM than the Kindle Store.

And it's only available in the US.
I've fortunately had nothing but great experiences renting through Turo, but a story like this will definitely give me pause if I am in the position of considering renting through them again.

OP praises Enterprise, but I can't say I've ever had a delightful experience with them, or with any of the big car rental chains. Usually it involves a 20 minute wait in a line at an airport, followed by 10 minutes of someone typing into a computer for who knows what reason, followed by me wandering aimlessly in a parking lot looking for the correct car, which is always a surprise. There was also the time when I paid up front online for a car, and when I got there they wanted to give me an EV. I didn't want one, because I was pretty sure I was driving to a place with little to no charging infrastructure, and they ended up charging me more (surprise!) for an ICE car.

With Turo I always know exactly what I'm going to get, and it's easy to search for a car with specific attributes, like AWD or a roof rack. But yeah, you're also at the mercy of whoever random person owns the car, and it sounds like Turo's customer support is garbage when there's a problem.
Yes, thats true, thank you! For sure, it is the place for it.
Same, I'm on DND 24/7, and I love it. For me, it was the recruiters constantly cold-calling and demanding my attention while I was trying to work.
No, it's even stupider than that. He thinks the US is backing Ukraine because we want their lithium deposits. This is an idea that the Trump admin has recently floated, but it's not the reason that the US has been supporting Ukraine for the last 4 years.
The web app for sending to Kindle is a lot more reliable:

https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
Right, back in the day the main challenge was just to do what you wanted to do within memory and performance constraints, especially when trying to run a compiler on the target system as opposed to cross-compiling. This kind of super-sophisticated code generation, making the compiler itself larger and more memory hungry, just wasn't an option.

This is a super hard-core hobby project! The 6502 is a great CPU, at least if you are hand-writing assembler for it, but a poor target for high level languages and difficult to generate high quality code for due to the extremely limited number of registers, quirky addressing modes, and lack of regularity. It's great to see the 6502 getting some love, even if it's 40 years too late to be very useful!
What an ignorant take.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_color_line

https://operations.nfl.com/inside-football-ops/players-legen...
Short, pronounceable words are scarce. If you want a 4-6 character project name Japanese words often fit the bill. Japanese culture is also very well exported.
Christ, why is it just ok for politicians to outright create and promote Ponzi and Pump 'n Dump schemes?

It doesn't seem that long ago that this would have been a scandal but now with the moron in the Oval Office creating his own meme coins without even trying to hide his business interests, and now the president of Argentina is doing the same shit?

Is this really the world that we want? I mean, I guess the answer is "yes", but I don't have to like it.
The smarter "f u nvidia" move would be for big tech companies to go to TSMC directly for their GPUs and cut out nvidia. They'd have to design the chips of course but that's probably easier than designing and writing an OS.
> It's an open secret that none of them are profitable

Netflix is:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/net-i...

Disney is also profitable:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/net-inc...

Apple and Amazon don’t really need to be “profitable”, because the purpose is selling Apple One and Prime bundles.

Warner Bros Discovery could have been profitable too, if ATT had not loaded it up with massive debt by overpaying for it.
IPv6 doesn't actually save you because it presumes a cultural norm that people will use globally unique addresses for all their networks which, while now possible, I imagine many network engineers will use IPv6's private address space to avoid ever having to re-address their network on ISP changes.
Thank you! Yellow and orange are tricky, for sure. Thanks for the link, those hues look great.
The CTO Chooses the Messaging Tool to Cut Through Chaos
On iOS you can set Favorite contacts and then allow them to call you despite Do Not Disturb being active.
> My point is that because of the fact that your home router still firewalls with both IPv6 and IPv4, any software which relies on being able to "just" connect to a peer over the internet, is doomed.

With IPv6 the only thing you need is PCP (or equivalent).

With IPv4 you need PCP/whatever plus a whole bunch of STUN/TURN/ICE infrastructure.

Just hole punching is a lot easier to support than more-than-just hole punching.
I set my phone to DnD about 10 yrs ago when I first installed telegram, because it was really annoying to get a notif on my computer and then have my phone buzz a few seconds later every single time.

If this was somehow fixed I might consider turning it off.
The gray palette would make a good Emacs colorscheme. By the way, great web site! [0]. Been quite a while since I thought that.

[0] https://webb.page
Maybe I’m an outlier but I keep notifications enabled, aggressively disabling them at the slightest annoyance (ad, too many for an app I don’t care about, etc). I also use focus modes for sleep and other activities.

I like that I can control when I get notifications without having to completely disable them.
Thank you for sharing. I have a home cooked web-app i use for saving recipes and I've implemented this into it.
That sounds like a good idea actually
How come Milei, a master economist, go on to promote something he later said he didn't understand? This is the quality of leaders coming into power all over the world. Bunch of incompetent people (in the most charitable read of the situation) or bunch of grifters (in the least charitable read).
RoboHands – A platform for LLMs to API call humans
R5s has a garbage CPU that won't be able to handle QoS on probably >250mbps.

I'd avoid anything arm based that doesn't have a7x cores (ideally a76/a78 or newer, though I don't think there's any SBC socs using the a710/715/720 yet). A55 cores are old stupidly slow efficiency cores (area efficient, not power efficient).
What is RoboHands?

A simple API that lets AI agents delegate tasks to human operators. When an LLM needs to perform an action it can't do directly, it makes an API call to request human assistance.

Example request:

{

"task_type": "booking",

"platform": "airbnb.com",

"requirements": {

"listing_url": "https://airbnb.com/rooms/123456",

"dates": {

"check_in": "2024-03-15",

"check_out": "2024-03-20"

},

"guests": 2,

"max_budget": 1500,

"notes": "Need to check if pool is heated"

}

}

Technical implementation:

- Telegram Mini App for task distribution

- Browser extension for secure auth/session handling

- Virtual card integration for payments

- End-to-end task encryption

Why build this despite ChatGPT's Operator?

- Works with any website, not just API partners

- Pay per task vs monthly subscription

- Human judgment for edge cases

- Global availability

- Can handle complex authentication

Currently gathering feedback and building a waitlist for both AI developers and potential operators.
Ah, gold. Some things in the gold market worth being aware of:

1) China opened up a new gold exchange [0, 1] recently [2] and started a push to get more active in the market.

2) Central banks have been net buyers of gold since around 2007.

3) As part of the Ukraine war effort the US confiscated a bunch of money off Russia. It isn't entirely clear [2] what impact that will have on gold but it is conceivable that the risk of holding US dollars is high enough to make something interesting happen. There is a tipping point here somewhere and the US has been looking for it.

The basic trend in the gold market is it is in flux and there is a definite question of how the BRICS are interacting with it. I'm interpreting the situation as a revolt against US and British influence over the gold market as the productive capital moves to Asia.

[0] https://en.sge.com.cn/eng_about_Overview

[1] https://www.gold.org/gold-market-structure/global-gold-marke...

[2] Gold is a sedate commodity.
A recent Gallup poll has reported that "...Support for a more moderate Democratic Party among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents has grown by 11 percentage points, to 45%, since 2021..." so the Democrats seem to be headed in that direction.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/656636/democrats-favor-party-mo...
I don't even have a problem with some unwitting celebrity promoting this kind of stuff. They aren't subject matter experts and I imagine they have grifters targeting them all the time.

What I do take issue with is this keeps happening because there's a lot of money to be made off transaction fees so nobody looks too hard into how fraudulent any of these memecoins are before allowing them on the trading platforms.

Admittedly, I don't know how the trading system works so maybe the platforms taking a cut of the profits from the blatantly fraudulent activity are victims too? Crying all the way to the bank I suppose...
It was a worthy successor building upon a great first game. The map and world design is top notch. Especially the switching between to interleaved time lines in the now abandoned manor and moving walls in the crazy inventors mansion.

The chaos/karma system also functions as a good counterweight to the "stealth archer" game design problem so player aren't heavily incentivised toward clearing levels by separating enemies and killing them one by one thereby removing all obstacles until the emptied out game is nothing but a boring walking simulator.
If I ever do this I'll blame tech recruiters who don't care what time zone I live in.

However things have been quite a bit better in that regard lately... :(
law and politics are soft problems. correctness and math are meaningless here.

...and the interview talks about specific and named individuals using kkk tactics to block people from reaching the pools, not faceless "they" stealing votes in deep government. So im not even sure where your comment comes from.