skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We didn't have a choice. We were building to a strong spec and sending a unit to trade shows.
“Rich Dad Poor Dad”. The most impactful book I have ever read. It completely changed how I handle my personal finances and think about money. It also made me deeply understand why high earning rich people go broke all the time.
I'm very much looking forward to how collections like this influence the second generation AI models, which will include data like this and tend to rank it highly on alt-text/clip embedding alignment.
Whether or not the first amendment applies to PACs is highly contentious. For instance, I don't think people have a constitutional right to form corporations, so I'm all for limiting the political speech of PACs. Just as I'm ok with limiting things people can do with their car via licensing.
> TBH I would expect a senior developer to just be faster reading the code.

That specific code? Sure. Real world code that’s gotten more convoluted over a decade of maintenance?

I have a dozen pages of notes I’ve taken on the apparent behavior of a single function, all of its call sites, all of the known possible kinds of states it might encounter, all of the categories of implications those states might carry and the kinds of downstream effects its return value might have. It’s not even a particularly large function as far as those go. The notes aren’t even complete, if I had to guess they’re 1/3 there. To be complete they’ll span not just several modules but cross package and language boundaries and even repo migrations. Not because the function itself is that complex (although it’s much more complex than I’d prefer), but because the universe of its inputs and usage is enormous and the history which produced it is long and just as convoluted. And, importantly, because the space of very similar behaviors and functions I’ve discovered has grown each time I peel a layer of the onion off.

Now when I go back to work, given I get to continue untangling this thing, having a tool which helps even explain this universe would be a godsend for actually acting on it in a reasonably safe way. Especially if it does so with consistent language. I could literally shove it into a database and query it, or do all kinds of other analysis. I can’t do that if I’m spending all of my energy trying to just describe the thing in my own words with incomplete understanding. I mean, I can. The documentation I’m describing literally began with me wrapping up the previous day’s notes with “humans built this, a human can understand it, model the damn thing”. But on what timeline? And is it a good use of my time to do it when a machine could probably do it more quickly and hopefully just as reliably at scale?

I’d be happy to share the evidence if my instinct proves out.
Is there a good summary of how AlphaFold has made a difference in the few years since it has been released. I was quite excited to hear their success in 2020, so I am curious to see where have we got to in 2 years and what is in the horizon.
You might want to read the book "Schiit happened" about the Schiit Audio startup

We don't see a lot of real innovation from small companies because of proprietary audio and video formats.

in schiit's case they do most things via rca audio or usb/pcm + a dac

in other cases, there are lots of wired headphones/iem via a 1/4" or 3.5mm audio jack, but basically none via lightning.
Fiber optic would have higher latency vs. copper. Not sure how much of a difference that would make on a bus but I would assume the timing is pretty tight.
According to the Steam Hardware Survey (which you can view for yourself at <https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...>), the RTX 3090 makes up less than 0.48% of all video cards in use by gamers. The 450W power figure is for the new RTX 4090, which will no doubt take a while to reach even that level.

It might be nice to have more information than that, but it honestly doesn’t seem like a huge problem. Your fridge probably costs you more over a year than even a 4090. See also air conditioning.
Actually, the government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people. That precludes lying to the people, even if it's "definitely justified because this is a special case and reasons." https://www.palladiummag.com//2021/07/15/the-myth-of-panic/
Why not both?

Many folks on here have hobbies that just are not public-transit friendly, e.g. windsurfing for me. However, I would love it if I didn't have to drive between my urban area and an adjacent one because of the dearth of public transit options (besides the even worse option of teensy flights).
Rust is so simple and elegant.
> Especially since it demonstrably has zero impact on infection or likelihood of communication.

How about hospitalization and death rates, the outcomes we actually care about?
This is why Rust will eventually become the next C++ - it's becoming just as bloated with type theory, a cumbersome syntax, and will eventually ignite a begrudging dislike by the people that have to find a subset of the language to make sense of just to write simple programs. Everything about this language is overcomplicated by language enthusiasts.

The best thing for Rust over the next few years is for it to fall to the wayside while saner approaches like Hare and safer C syntaxes take center stage.
There used to be so called PIO motherboards from China. These were slightly larger than ITX and the PCIe connector was 90 degrees rotated so the video card was planar with the motherboard. https://imgur.com/a/ve1T0dE

And if we are to reform our computer chassis anyways, we could move the PSU to straddle the motherboard and the video card and even have the VRM inside. High amperage "comb" connectors exist and VRM daughtercard motherboards existed https://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/13-131-... Change the form factor so two 120mm fans fit, one in front, one in the back.

So you would have three 120mm front-to-back tunnels: one for the video card, one for the PSU, one for the CPU.
It's hyperbolic but there is value in its core - ecosystem collapse would bring us close. And the point below is not unreasonable - our collective response to 1.5 vs 4.5 degrees warming will not be linear. Mass migration, resulting fascism, resource wars and mismanagement, evaporation and starvation could finish those who remain.

If we're forced to live a completely different lifestyle it may be tantamount to the extinction of modern humanity.
> Humane cities are a matter of choice

The choice to have founded your city a thousand years before the invention of the automobile, maybe.

Many European cities that were rebuilt after destruction during WW2 were built in a more automobile-centric manner, because people enjoy cars.

Honestly, I would like to see someone start a new city in the US around the concept of walkability. There's so much empty land in this country, and with remote jobs there's less of a need to place a city next to existing employment centers. It would be an interesting experiment, if nothing else.
Again, not adjusted for age
So 15 A x 120 V is 1800 W. The problem is even in a dedicated circuit you can’t use that continuously, it’s considered dangerous.

For continuous draw you’re limited to 80% of the line’s rating (in the US). People who have looked into EV charging have certainly run into this fact.

So the computer (and sound/monitor/etc) have to stay under ~1400 watts if it’s on a dedicated circuit.

1/3rd of that for just the GPU I’d pretty crazy. I honestly wouldn’t have thought GPUs could get this high.

Also, I remember my computers being hot in a small room long ago. A lot of the space heaters on Amazon are rated either 750 or 1500 W.

I don’t think I wanna be near a computer that hot.
There's a huge difference between saying, "LGBT people are people," and "LBGT people should be shunned out of existence." Words have meanings.
Yeah its probably a half rose coloured glasses and half the era and implementation of deskphone.

I had an pre-voip Avaya phone with 24 speed dials - for each contact it had a red/green LED next to the speed dial button that showed if they were busy. If it was green you could just press it and call. It had a proper headset port so no ghetto lifter :)

Teams has available status also, but I find its pretty much useless as people either fake their status to avoid being hassled, or its synced to their outlook calendar that has so much junk in it that they show as busy all day.

Roaming around wasn't much of an issue either, I just had forward to cell phone if it wasn't answered after a certain number of rings.

We also had integration with windows so tel: links and dialling from contacts worked as expected.

In the end I've learnt to live with teams, I made a small "chat" script that uses a teams url [0] to open a chat with a person from the command line vs hunting through the awful laggy ui, another AHK script to make a global mute hotkey based on a library I found on github, and another script I wrote to fix the audio device.

[0] https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=xxxx
>What happened to Kiwi Farms was that no-one wanted to do business with them from a risk-management and just general good-moral-fiber basis.

While it's a somewhat different example and a bit reductive, I find this XKCD[0] to be relevant to the issues with Kiwi Farms.

I run several websites on my physical hardware and through the internet links for which I pay. I don't want (and won't allow) any speech on my private property that I don't wish to host or amplify.

If the government (as Florida's appears to wish to do) tries to tell me what content I must (or must not) publish (assuming it's protected speech under the First Amendment), not only won't I comply, I will scream bloody murder -- as it's a direct violation of the First Amendment -- because the government is involved.

What is it that strips other non-governmental entities of those same rights? Absolutely nothing.

Do I like much of the nastiness, trolling and disinformation that's out there? Nope. Which is another good reason (I abandoned the big "social media" companies nearly a decade ago because I objected to their business models) not to use the big "social media" players.

And whether you agree or disagree with those who do use such platforms, it's their choice to use them or not. Just as it's those (and every) platforms' right to host or not host any particular speech/expression.

I don't understand why technical folks don't understand this. If the government can force you to host speech you don't want to host on your own private property, then property rights are irrelevant.

As for the whole "common carrier" thing in relation to the big "social media" platforms, they don't have exclusive access to rights-of-way (e.g., last mile conduit for wired internet access, ownership of the cell towers, etc.). Setting up your own site is simple and cheap/free.

You have the right to free expression. You do not have a right to an audience.

If the big "social media" platforms (and/or platforms like Cloudflare, AWS, etc.) pull a 1357[0] on you, you do have recourse. Do it yourself. This isn't a complicated thing to understand, IMHO.

I'll say it again because I want to make it clear: I abandoned all the big "Social Media" platforms nearly a decade ago and find their practices and business models to be deeply offensive. What's more, I don't use Cloudflare or AWS or any other similar platforms.

So no, I'm not defending those corporations. At all. Rather, I'm defending the ideals of free expression.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1357/
> But here we are 2.5 years later and a ton of people still believe Covid is the modern Black Plague

I live in the Bay Area which was the epicenter for "covid caution". I have not worn a mask in months. We have not had anything resembling a lock down in well over a year. The fact that you are being obtuse about the current state of affairs to support your partisan narrative is all I need to know about your motivations.
> if you complain about this loudly enough well, maybe you have an unlucky "accident"

Lynchings are never this circumspect.
Liberty of association is 1A protected.
they all involve fairly large groups of people lambasting and berating people who don't subscribe to the same journals et ideas as one or more of them.

To be a bit hyperbolic, it's thought-crime - controlling narrative and therefore policies and ideas. I understand that there's roughly countably infinite information available from sources online and offline. Open discussion should be encouraged, and bad actors should be warned, given a timeout, or perma-banned, depending on the severity and incident count. It is possible that a lot of people are unable to cope with any exposure to dissent or hate (or "climate denial" or...)

mastodon/GNU Social et al have a lot of really disturbing imagery and outright harmful or hateful speech - i can only assume that people are giggling behind their screens and servers. I just maintain both an individual and domain blacklist, my fediverse server just won't accept connections from the domains, and i won't ever see replies/posts from individual blocks.

If i wanted to allow other people on to my fediverse instance, you bet i'd really ratchet down on the censorship, to ensure that new users aren't bombarded with the sorts of things discussed in both of the HN threads. The timeline does move quickly, though, and if i got booted off my hosting provider over something that appeared on one of my subdomains related to fediverse, i'd be fairly upset, too.
> smart contracts don't work and are broken

This absolute statement is asserting that ALL smart contracts don't work. There is overwhelming evidence of some smart contracts working just fine, and of course a lot of smart contracts also have problems. It is wild to just drop all of the nuance of such a complicated issue. What new technology has been flawless without any failures along the way?
Walkable does not imply high density. I've lived in areas that are suburban + townhouses that are totally walkable.

Were there some 5 over 1s in the commercial areas? Sure. Is that high density? Hardly.
I had literally nothing to do with Fly.io's switch from Javascript to Firecracker. Happened months and months before I joined.
Paul Graham is an independent consultant specializing in Lisp
When we're looking at video content, the audio processing for stereo is a tiny fraction of the bandwidth and power. Tripling that effort barely makes a difference.

In terms of petroleum infrastructure, it's like slightly adjusting the ratios at the refinery.
After staying in SV for close to 2 decades and evaluating various other places to move to, I have ultimately chosen to remain in SV for the following reasons:

1. Decent weather - no snow, wind, storms. This is changing recently with wildfires, so may not last for long.

2. Density of tech talent - no matter what niche tech you are interested in, you will always find techies interested in that niche in SF - San Jose - Oakland triangle.

3. Job opportunities - there are actually 4 subfactors here. One is cultural - if your current gig fails for whatever reason, no one will look down upon you. Second - a new job can be found very soon, since you can compete with remote-first jobs with the added advantage of having exclusive access to companies insisting on RTO. Third - you have a variety of opportunities available, from pre-seed stage startups to behemoths. Fourth - if you are married to a non-techie like me, your partner can also find a new job relatively easily if they have to, compared to a lot of cheaper places where there were no non-tech lucrative jobs available. This was actually a surprising bottleneck for us when evaluating different places.

4. Immigration friendly - as a non-white immigrant, SFBA is a very welcoming place. That is not an exclusive advantage since any big city can compete on that front these days, but it also rules out a lot of cheaper places for us where it will be hard to integrate socially.

5. Non-competes - seriously, this is one of the biggest advantage of California for employees. I do not want additional constraints on my job mobility.
I get that. I'm saying the medium.en model specifically seems to have some weird edges to its behavior that is not present in the models up or down the scale from it, or similarly (the plain 'medium' model).

It's the only one that seems to be occasionally spitting out significant chunks of training data versus something that resembles the audio.
Hmm, weird. I've gained roughly 50 lbs over the course of the pandemic. I've been working from home and often work from the couch, bed, or the dining table. I originally attributed my weight gain to the lack of commute, and I'm sure that's part of it. But when I sit at a proper work desk I do something similar to "soleus pushups" as part of my thinking process. Maybe I should start doing these again.
That “magic backpressure” is solved in the real world with simple sensors, shutting down part of the manufacturing line is a relatively common occurrence (maintenance, safety stop, etc) and doesn’t cause the entire system to collapse.
> We really need the equivalent of jail time for companies.

I would love this, but there are so many irritating practical problems with it that I'd prefer we expand the cases where we can "pierce the corporate veil"; we should absolutely shield people from personal liability from good-faith failures when we work for a company, but when we see fraud, wage theft, and so on, we should be a great deal more willing to chase personal liability for decision-makers.

Something that's driven a big change in safety culture in New Zealand was allowing certain types of health and safety prosecutions to proceed against individuals, so that (for example) a site manager who decides that start-of-day hazard briefings on a building site are a waste of 15 minutes can be fined or even imprisoned if someone ends up hurt as a result.
You didn't answer the question, so I can't even figure out what you think is misdirection. You're just being a jerk to me now. Congrats.
TransferWise, now just Wise works awesome too.
The authors complain that graduate programs at elite universities rely on standardized tests as a key contributor of racial bias. I am surprised by this. I suspect this is a misapplication of the racial bias studies that relate in high school (and lower) standardized tests.

I would expect that strong undergraduate candidates to elite programs (e.g. 3.9+ GPA with letters of recommendation from professors) would not have statistically different GRE/LSAT/MCAT scores based on race. Has anyone studied high GPA students' GRE scores for racial bias?
So why stop at social media? Why shouldn’t the state control every website that allows comments including advocacy groups, religious groups etc?
By this criticism, are we to understand that you're against all fines collected by the government? Everything from parking tickets to penalties paid for crimes, misdemeanors, felonies by citizens etc? If that's the case, that seems like a very fringe perspective, consistent only with "all taxation is theft" flavored libertarianism.

EU is a democratically accountable institution, in theory (and also in practice) voters are able to affect the way these fines are used, and how they're collected. Yes, these fines are not going to be redistributed into EU citizens' pockets, but they will be used in ways that will benefit EU citizens one way or another.
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You know that we took our cities and ripped them apart to install stroads and highways, right? That the historical model of American cities was train based, spreading radially out from a port with folks riding trains into work? And we threw that away in favor of cats relatively recently?

We can choose to upzone and convert large road corridors into rail plus some road and convert some roads to bus rapid transit and some to bikes.

It's an eminently solvable problem and one that has been solved over and over again in the modern era.
It's not finger snapping, it's incremental changes like this:

https://cayimby.org/california-yimby-statement-on-governor-s...
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> No, the study proves that bias, in this one case, demonstrates the Pareto Principle which is a purely numerical thing.

This is a category error. The study nicely demonstrates the 80/20 rule, which itself is purely numerical, but the subjects, the academics, are real people, not numbers, nor is the demonstrated bias purely mathematical, it actually exists. The bias is real irregardless of demonstrating the Pareto Principle. The land ownership that Pareto originally demonstrated as following an 80/20 rule is not numerical, i.e. owning land is not numerical; it is land tenure.

> Alignment to bias is essential to mobility anywhere that bias prevails irrespective of prestige.

This is question begging, assuming the conclusion, aka petitio principii.

> Prestige is the effect not the cause. The rest of your comment is built upon that cause/effect confusion.

And this is a straw man and contradictory to your original statements. Unravelling your OP, it was your claim that prestige was the cause of something:

>> Prestige... is generally the most common cause of...

You write beautifully, your prose flows exceptionally smoothly, a talent I wish I had. I'm honestly envious. But the underlying argument is at times contradictory and wholly fallacious.
And whats the fuel required to haul 30 000 gallon trains of water up 5000 meters ? I estimate 170L per train car just to go up the hill. So about 2500 l just to go up the hill.

Or for every ton of lithium requires two tons of diesel just to replace the water. I assumed 100% thermal efficiency, so probably double that.

And where is the water coming from? You need fresh water, adding salt to brine just adds salt to the area.

And now you still have to make a battery out of the stuff
I've noticed a great increase in the /r/fuckcars sentiments (probably can be traced back to some popular YouTubers or something) - setting "cars vs public transit" as the fight is only going to result in public transit losing, and hard.

Cars are just too insanely cheap and convenient at what they do.
How small are we talking?

I really like the Mini ITX form factor and have multiple PCs that fit on IKEA shelves.

I prefer shorter/smaller GPUs. Better airflow. Easier at build time too.

My EVGA RTX 3050 is about the right balance.
I bounced hard from Factorio because it feels like work so... sure, it makes sense.
> Should we have GPU VRAM slots alongside CPU RAM slots? Is that even possible?

I chuckled a little at this because I used to wonder the same thing until I had to actually bring up a GDDR6 interface. Basically the reason GDDR6 is able to run so much faster is because we assume that everything is soldered down, and not socketed/slotted.

Back when I worked for a GPU company, I occasionally had conversations with co-workers about how ridiculous it was that we put a giant heavy heatsink CPU, and a low profile cooler on the GPU, which in today's day and age produces way more heat! I'm of the opinion that we make mini ATX shaped graphics cards so that you bolt them behind your motherboard (though you would need a different case that had standoffs in both directions.)
Social networks should put up warning signs and only accept 18+ users, just like cigarettes.
Is it like a multi-protocol Kong? Is it like a very simple but high-throughout Zapier or n8n?
The problem is that they don't understand the practical ways it can be used. Even tech savvy people don’t yet get it. Even my CEO, a kind of technical person, did not understand the full potential until I explained some use cases.

In one scenario, I took the slow running long MySQL query and rewrote that with Codex in 2 mins.

But I think people have started to realize the potential now.

Pitch: My app https://Elephas.app brings GPT-3 and Codex to all applications in MacOS. Many business professionals are using it.