skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then order some sodium batteries from CATL. They're building around a TWh/yr of production

I'll believe it when I see it.

> Compare to the state of FNR reactors

Let's see how many people in this thread were talking about FNR reactors. Oh, look: only you. Compare this to discussions where people argue in good faith.
> Have you tried pentesting/security?

I haven't, but as mentioned in other comments, my passion is in investigating and fixing known bugs (not finding unknown ones).
Our world is near-limitless in bandwidth, but highly restrained in cache size and latency. 10x compression means you can keep 10x more stuff in cache.

And it doesn't matter what level you operate on, cache and latency is always relevant. Whether it's registers, L1, L2, L3, same-core NUMA RAM, cross-core, SSD, disk controller cache, disk, same-location distribution server, cross-location distribution server, tape archive backup, etc, going up a level of cache is always a lot slower regardless of bandwidth if you're doing a small read.
The author of Selenized is known in some circles for applying the same meticulous approach to make some absolutely mad cheesecake.
People conflate money and value / wealth. We can individually create things of value: food, art, services, inventions, shelter. There is no practical upper bound. Money is a medium of exchange from one to another. Having more money in the system means it’s easier to get bandwidth to transfer that data between interested parties. Without it, you are inefficiently bartering to exchange value.

Value existed long before money, and its potential for creation is not dependent on it.
You seem a good example of a victim of propaganda.
I'm perfectly fine for people that are a detriment to a society to not be let partecipate in the society.

My only gripe with the whole thing is that we shouldn't rely nor give private companies such power. That is something that provider should have deferred to judiciary, and then acted upon their direction.

There is a scale question in there to be solved, but frankly it's scary how much power comes from the oligopolization of certain aspect of the infrastructure. It's not even just internet, payment processors are so few they can literally meet in a zoom call and decide you won't do any business in half of the world.
It is kind of hard to control perceived risks to passengers without taking actual risks to them into account.
Have you considered that it might just be you live in a dangerous place? None of the women I know carry around those things and never have. If they have stories of being harassed in public places, it never came up in conversation either. But I live in a place that's quite well policed and safe. In a more dangerous city, out on the street if there's nobody around, yes you're going to be safer if you're a ripped 6'3 man than a small lady. No doubt about it. But again, to stress this, it's the other way around if you're at a managed venue of some sort like an office, a conference, etc. There it's actually the men who have to fear the women and not the other way around, although fortunately as bad incidents are very rare in both directions, we can all mostly live without fear.

With respect to hitting on women - again, please don't be tricked by others into thinking these are universal global truths. I successfully flirted with and got dates with female strangers quite a few times in the past, in all sorts of places (before I met my wife). In fact I even got picked up by a stranger myself once! So it's not only men that hit on strangers. Of course it's heavily dependent on how you do it - I definitely found it much harder to do that when I was in my early 20s. As with all men, you're just a lot more awkward and less able to read the signs at that age, as well as less successful, so much more likely to come across as undesirable ('creepy'). That's true of both genders. But it didn't stay that way.

A lot of women had big problems with #metoo and the general culture it was trying to create. My experience has been that for every woman who loudly proclaims their hatred of creepy men there are multiple others who quietly wish that a nice man would strike up a conversation and chat them up, and are sad that men have now been trained not to do it. #Metoo and the feminism that surrounds it is intensely ideological, so people who disagree often are afraid of speaking up because they know they'll be viciously attacked by the left, even if they are themselves female. If you live in a very lefty place like San Francisco, especially one with a gender imbalance (so attractive women get hit on a lot and badly), you're probably going to draw conclusions like the above. If you live somewhere a bit more normal you'll see both sides of this and realize the balance of power has been tipped so far in the direction of women now that it makes quite a lot of them unhappy. They are now expected to take risks and do the work that traditionally men would do, because the men are afraid to do so.
Is that a private repo by any chance, I get 404? Would love to take a look.
I wonder how useful it is compared to H. 265, AVI? Also what would be the comparable hardware?

A laptop can easily compress h. 265 or avi format without requiring intensive hard wire like AI.
Rosé Pine Dawn https://github.com/rose-pine/vscode

Flatwhite (available for emacs as doom-flatwhite) https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax

gruvbox-light

Nüshu https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wheredoe...

These are the soft light themes I enjoyed after Solarized Light.
Uh, that's not at all a good paraphrase.

Q: "Does [removing some sensors] make the perception problem harder, or easier?"

(note, this is literally what Lex asked, your restatement is misleading)

A: [paraphrasing] "Well more sensor diversity makes it harder to focus on the thing that I believe really moves the needle, so by narrowing the space of consideration, I think we'll get better results"

Karpathy might not be telling the truth, I don't know. But it's a much more credible pitch than you make it sound, because it's often true that you can deliver better by focusing on a smaller number of things. Engineering has always been about tradeoffs. Nobody is offering Karpathy infinite money plus infinite resources plus infinite time to do the job.

Again, I'm not saying Karpathy is honest or correct. I'm saying that the rephrasings in this comment and this thread are hilariously unfair.
Only talking about on-premises tools: Samba (if you need GPO supports for windows desktops), 389 Server, redhat directory server, openldap can work with Keycloak to provide saml2/openid authentication for individual applications.

Most emails clients support ldap for contacts with additional carddav server to sync personnal contacts accross devices, Sogo groupware works well for that , add a fairly decent webmail interface and has an outlook connector for easy configuration of microsoft desktops but if you need office 365 functionnalities, Nextcloud would be the way to go imho. It is available as a service too and is cheaper than Microsoft 365. I am not sure how an on premise Nextcloud would scale to huge companies (but enteprise offering say it scales to hundreds of millions of users) but for small businesses it is easy to set up.
Had my daughter in hospital with viral infection, 5 months old, (2020 Canada).

They couldn't use the veinfinder on her due to her vessels being so small to insert a IV.

After multiple frustrating failed attempts by the nursing staff during a change, they had to bring in NICU specialist.
Alas, the UK has the twin problems of poor building codes and lots of old housing stock that nobody puts much thought into maintaining. In the latter case, people will take single skin brick buildings and apply "vapour control" materials outside the building, thus ensuring moisture is locked into the bricks. Then they wonder why they have damp, etc.

Alas, we are a very silly country.
> We find that the expected value of reducing existential risk by a mere one billionth of one billionth of one percentage point is worth a hundred billion times as much as a billion human lives [in the present]

Good luck parsing that claim on the first try. Reducing the probability of extinction by 1/1000000000^2% is worth 1000000000 human lives? Ok so I guess you’re trying to say 1 human life is worth a billionth of a percent chance of extinction.

The author here isn’t exactly praising this perspective but has the audacity to write

> Hey, maths doesn’t lie

Which is utterly idiotic and such a misleading thing to say. This isn’t math, it’s a thick layer of hand wavey assumptions and tiny sprinkling of math to throw it together.

It’s not like we have any way of actually forming any probability distributions of outcomes for the unforseeable future outcomes so the whole thing is moot. In general however, short term prosperity is likely to compound into better outcomes more than anything.
It is hard for people today to understand the world that "Troi" surfaced in.

At the time TNG came out, mass culture was obsessed with what was called "channeling", which was taking dictation from "spirit guides" that everybody was supposed to have riding around on them.

Everybody knew people who claimed to have a spirit guide, somebody who had been a person two or twenty centuries ago, yammering fake-profound spiritual commentary on everything. Whole racks in bookstores were full of "channeled" books that today you can't even find any of at used bookstores or even thrift shops. It has all washed away, and people are embarrassed about it now.

Troi started as a sort of parody of the channelers that must have been especially thick on the ground in LA where, I guess, the writers lived. She kind of outlasted the phenomenon. That is why she never had anything to do, because what was there for a Ship's Channeler to do? They mostly talked at great length but made no sense, but she couldn't be doing that when they were getting shot at.
I mean, that's something you can say about any tool or social network at its beginning. Imagine downdetector with 5 users being considered useless forever.
Actually that's a fair point. My goal was only for simplification and not intended to malign.
You cannot use the lambdas operators combo without a preprocessor (like ttypescript) mainly because closure captures cannot be accessed from the function AST.

You will also need to use a tuntime dsl to describe the schema, and then derive both the model classes and the model types from it (just because runtime parts cannot be derived from types)

Other than that, the rest is very possible.
Funny sidetone: the largest customer of the data and imaginary the SR-71 produced was the Navy ;-)
Phlebotomy is a respectable job in my opinion, and not everyone has the hand skill for hitting veins. I’ve stopped bad nurses from chopping me up before. They can get uppity but I’ve got 10,000 more punctures and counting to my name and I’ll be damned if I let pride get in the way of competence when it comes to medicine. I’m not a know it all but there’s some real hagiography around power dynamics and treating illnesses versus coming up with a health plan.

All this to note that it is a genuine skill and if this helps, great, but don’t go helping the lowest common denominator that doesn’t deserve it. Can’t hit a vein? Give it to someone who can, immediately.
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Is there an equivalent of YC's SAFE doc for royalties, musicians and creators?
I am looking for a standard, relatively fair document that is easy to understand that can help musicians and creators manage royalties, endorsements, promotions etc.

The SAFE from YC kind of does this for funding rounds for entrepreneurs.

Some cases that I am looking at use cases for these docs would be:
1) A musician/creator having their work used in films, commercials etc
2) A creator endorsing, promoting or advertising a brand
3) A creator using a bigger channel to push their content, i.e. creator gives their work to a larger channel with distribution
4) An artist signing with a label
5) An artist performing at an event
6) An artist becoming a brand ambassador
7) A creator's residuals

I wouldn't expect all these to have one universal doc. I actually think they would be individual docs.

I think what I am looking for is a doc that highlights in simple terms all the important stuff when signing such contracts in somewhat easy to understand language. Terms would obviously be flexible and determined between parties but the doc should have all the terms that need to be addressed at the very least and have them clearly explained.

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated
In some ways I really love Star Trek. But you can see (like many things these days) that the initial paradigm has been carried through over the decades and it shows it's age and limitations.

For example, stereotyping (each "alien race" has its own predominant substantive characteristics) and glorification of the military are core parts of the structure.
Stop the mental gymnastics and tell me which part you disagree about.
Just remember folks, we will have full self driving vehicles by the end of this year!
> I'm simply pointing out that if one objects to renewables because scaling has not been demonstrated, and also advocates nuclear, then one is being a hypocrite -- because nuclear also lacks demonstration of the necessary scaling.

See, there's a difference between scaling and scaling.

It is a well-established fact that to provide the same stable production on the same scale as existing nuclear reneables need to be either vastly overprovisioned or have extremely high-capacity storage available. Possibly, the combination of both.

And yet, somehow, when we talk about scaling, it's suddenly "oh no, nuclear cannot scale to support the entire world, it's proof it cannot scale" when renewables can barely sustainably reach the existing scales.

> I don't think the argument that scaling has not been demonstrated is a strong argument, unless there is a good reason to think the scaling won't work.

I will remind you that the original comment I was replying to was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33386636

It was talking about storage solutions which are all but required for renewables. And literally none of those solutions have been proven to work at scale. Moreover, some of those solutions are at best theoretical.

But sure, do tell me how it's not a strong argument?

> limitations on particular storage technologies (say, from materials requirements) also fail, since there are many different storage technologies, some of which require no rare materials at all.

Yes. There are "many storage solutions". Go ahead and show me those that work at scale.

And literally no one was talking about the need or lack thereof of rare materials for that storage. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Indeed. He disgraced himself needlessly so many times during the pandemic. Lost a lot of votes from people who lost friends and family to COVID-19. Had he said nothing at all, he might have been re-elected.
Your comment strikes me as more applicable to itself than to the one you responded to.
Why? The other browser vendors don't ship JPEG-XL either, and all the other browser vendors are fully on board with AVIF. Why would it be in their interest to remove AVIF support?
DEBUG.EXE is part of the base system.

Essentially, from MS DOs 2.0 onwards, with DEBUG.EXE you had an “adequate” development environment. No LSP, though :)
One of those things i never knew i needed until i saw it.
I don't think it was calling out a bullshit move (and definitely not a dig)

a) Saying "I wonder when language models will do this" is a total Lex thing to say. That's what he's into.

b) Lex is almost always a softball interviewer, though one with interestingly deep knowledge. He interviews experts, and he errs on the side of respect. If you're looking for hardball, don't listen to Lex, it's not what he does. He almost never calls out bullshit, and he especially doesn't call out evasion.

Now, it's still possible that it was a panic-deployed evasion on Andrej's part, and whether or not that was his mentality, I agree that he gained nothing by it, and did not in fact reframe the question at all.
I mean the goal is more performance, especially if you can get more performance out of the same hardware. Faster setup times, faster connections, more connections, maybe faster teardown. Lower contention on saturated links. Inside of the datacenter is a controlled environment where something like that could work. Replacing TCP over the Internet at large is going to be an uphill battle. Still, if we're replacing the whole thing, then simpler code on the client and server end would be nice.
I find it incredibly frustrating that again and again, the Lagrangian gets introduced and then said it should be minimized without ever explaining the motivation behind doing so. What is the Lagrangian and why should it be minimized?

I totally get how L gets defined mathematically, how it is derived from Newton's laws (this part is typically well explained by textbooks), and why in the case of point particles, a curve that violates Newton's laws does not minimize L. But there is no understanding at all, just saying "okay, it checks out" on a math level.

It doesn't help at all that on a math level, L isn't actually minimized but its derivative set to 0, which isn't even equivalent to "minimized or maximized". Why doesn't a single textbook explain why maximizing L is also okay when they first stated "minimized"? Or why derivative=0 is sufficient? As a reader, I always get the impression that "well, of course they cannot explain that, because they don't even know why L should be minimized in the first place". It's just all formulas that are easy to verify but don't convey a single bit of understanding.

Just for comparison, I found quantum mechanics based on the Schrödinger equation and the Hamiltonian rather easy to grasp, because every piece of it has an easy-to-understand meaning, that also gets explained really well. Why is this seemingly impossible for the Lagrangian?
Okay? My point still stands and users don't want to host their own email or Mastodon instance and prefer centralised solutions when it comes to a social networking.
That is exactly why game studios prefer to target game consoles, there aren't a zillion of different ones to support.
>Asking HN: is there an open standard that actually spells out 100% of a password management protocol with highly trusted implantations on both sides?

If you don't want to go full asymmetric cryptography, there's SCRAM. It doesn't specify pepper, but pepper can be added to salt like for any salted scheme: salt=hash(pepper, stored salt);
> Tesla has nothing to throw against some serious cars like Mercedes EQS or EQS SUV.

Besides sensationalist comments, do you actually have a list of what areas the Mercedes excel that Tesla doesn't?

I can't take "serious car" seriously - like what, Tesla is kidding?
It is not a hard question to answer at all. LIDAR will make a self driving car safer, period. There is a lot of research to back this up.
See my sibling comment, but I agree with you, especially about Lex's track record, and I think the other commenters are projecting.

And you're right, reframing a question is like THE MOVE for academics, so it's completely not evidence that Andrej was making "a bullshit move" (although it's also a classic move for PR flaks, so it's possible he was making a bullshit move).
When it hit the stores, the reaction of most I know of was something like "I have a Wii already". So I think the naming was incredibly hampering.

Especially considering a lot of Wii buyers were not exactly deep gamers, but very casual customers.
Season 3 was when TOS started to go all to hell. All of the very worst episodes were in Season 3. It was almost a relief when it was cancelled.

Season 3 started right after the Apollo 11 moon landing, when people had got a hint of how difficult and terrifying space travel really was. Aliens with bumpy heads weren't inspiring anymore.
Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet
I'm not sure when it started, but the .com and .exe extensions were ignored, and the loader looked at the first two bytes to see if it was "MZ" and was an exe file.
All those accounts are now suspended or removed, one is private; what was your point again?
I would like to know! I can go back 22 years. Then, jobs were more likely to be apps running on Windows. People yelling at screen because things aren’t rendering properly (render as in pixels, not virtual doms!). No unit tests. Sourcesafe (old buggy but simple to use VCS). You could exclusively lock a file to annoy other developers and stamp the importance of your work. No scrum and much less process. 9-5 ish and no time tracking. No OKR or KPI. Do everything with Microsoft tooling. No open source tooling. Someone’s job to build an installer and get it burned to a CD (the optical storage medium). There was some automated testing but no unit test or CI/CD. Not so many “perks” like swazzy office, toys, food
supplies etc. If there was webdev it would be in ASP or ActiveX!
Just found an open-source alternative called CodeGeeX. The code is available at https://github.com/THUDM/CodeGeeX. VSCode extension at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=aminer.c.... The model weights can be applied and download.
"Ok but we can keep trading, yeah? Cool."
you got it mate!
It is worth pointing out that a more modern approach to district heating will use ground source heat pumps on-premise in people's homes, and will circulate fairly low grade heat (20C or less). Top-ups in system temperature can come from refrigerated warehouses inputting into the system, or solar photovoltaic-thermal setups that cool PV with circulating water, or just the ambient heat of the ground (10C most of the year far enough down).

See: https://www.cibsejournal.com/technical/take-it-down-low/

These networks are advantageous because the heat pumps using them can still produce enough heat even if the system temperature drops - they just do so less efficiently.
A good human driver also gauges the limits of their own experience and 'phase transitions' into a more cautious mode of driving.

Is that something the algos can do? Infer the familiarity of the situation?
Charitable of you to assume it is incompetence rather than malice :/
The weird part is not any latency numbers (TTL exceeded is not handled by a router's fast path), but hops missing.

Hops marked with "* * *" do not count as "missing" here.
Diane Greene on Scaling Products and Culture at VMware (2015) [video]
Oh, you're right, sorry. Just made it a public repo.
Relevant episode of Arthur Isaac’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/science-futurism-with-...
You’re right, I’d forgotten about that. The otoliths can detect the pull of the whole Earth, but gravity is so weak that anything smaller than a planet is undetectable.
Thank you, you're doing an amazing job!
I agree with you about the technobabble in TNG and how awful it was. But I've read enough scifi that did have reasonable scientific explanations for things like a warp drive, they just didn't want to make the effort. I'm also annoyed by characterizing it as "tiresome", I don't find reasonable explanations tiresome at all.
criminal prosecution that normally follows these kind of allegations.

That's the thing. Illegal content posted to KF is reported and removed. Even Mathew Prince couldn't show a screenshot of the "imminent threat" that got KF taken down. The illegal acts committed by people who have KF accounts aren't committed on Kiwi Farms. So the question becomes, is your website being populated largely by assholes celebrating other people being assholes a good reason to terminate its access to hosting and ISPs?

Personally I stand by my now decade-old position that ISPs should be common carriers.