skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is timely. One of the fascinating things about chatGPT is its facility with precisely this kind of language usage.

The trite ‘nicespeak’ phrases and word choices all contribute precisely zero additional information content or value; that they can be convincingly simulated by the LLM just picking the most appropriate next token suggests honestly that that’s also exactly how they’re employed by humans - just as meaningless padding around the core message.

I see a lot of people looking at GPT outputs and saying things like ‘this is great it can take my three bulletpoints and turn them into a complete presentation script!’ - to me that suggests you should skip the presentation and just send a text with the three bulletpoints.

GPT is great at adding this performative ‘packaging’.

I really hope what that teaches us is we don’t need to waste time with the packaging in the first place.
Ah, yes, taxes, famously the biggest contributor to cost of living, especially for the poorest among us... /s
Oh, it's not so bad.

Having and independent schema file being one to one with the proto files is not quite as nice, but then you still can get bindings in each language to the proto.

The goal is to avoid defining the table schema in each language, like ORMs, where things can be out of date.

There may even be some benefits to this, as you might have some lifecycle hooks around migrations to keep the proto up to date with the current schema. You could do this with just protoc plugins to hide fields in the language bindings or you could do it turing the edgedb schema to proto translation.
Those conditions make the offering quite different from being able to rent your own room inexpensively. One of the facets of having your own place is that you can do whatever you want there, whether it be drugs or whatever. That might not be healthy, and it's quite understandable why family would put conditions on offering a free room, but people do value their autonomy.
Not sure how a membrane that surrounds the brain is part of a mechanistic explanation of the brain (by which I assume you mean the mind). This seems to serve more of a CSF (cerebro-spinal fluid) filter function.
It was never worth it, but "worth it" is a pretty slim difference here.

And we had triple channel memory before, which eats of most of the novelty.

> I wish I could have more readily built a 96GB system instead of the 128GB one that I just did.

Couldn't you have put one 32GB and one 16GB module in each channel?
No. This is an unusually abrupt change, because for previous technological changes there wasn't as much infrastructure in place that would allow the market to switch so rapidly. It's just like how we had celebrities and overnight successes in the past, but the phenomenon of 'going viral' wasn't talked about because exponential growth in popularity/notoriety was actually rare.
Not so, there are blighted areas even in places like London.
So far, in this one specific downturn, sure. There is however a strong historical correlation between market downturns and widespread unemployment.
"visceral inconvenience"

The problem with the homeless isn't how it offends your senses.

"I'm not all that likely to be accosted, but if I ever am, it will be a big deal, so navigating those places is nerve-wracking because my threat-detection is constantly dialed up."

Have you ever thought that being this worried about threats is something you're partially responsible for?
Mine: https://schmud.de/

A humanities take on tech. I'm always nervous how the sidenotes render on other webviews. But my favorite part is the automatically generated historical timeline (https://schmud.de/timeline.html). It is essentially a meaningfully different ordering of the same writing.
The Writer Who Burned Her Own Books
Ever thought of productizing that idea? Sort of a personal threaded wiki that you can send bookmarks to?
That’s called a self-encrypting drive (SED) and is pretty common. It just costs more and/or is slower.
He could be lying through his teeth for all i know, but that still isn't random, is it?
https://archive.ph/IBlLC
I sense you have more trouble with Siri than I do with Alexa.

Although I'm from Yorkshire so it's more

Alright love, where's t'nearest Gareh glitteh

(Although obviously I'd ask where the nearest pub was. as that would have a toilet, and something to fill my bladder up again.)
> Luke had his wallet sitting on a server that he knew to be compromised for months

How do you know this? Luke has denied this over and over again. It seems like you've invented this in order to defame him.
You seem to be in agreement.
> leaking private, privileged and confidential info to outside parties in order to induce and assist legal claims against the company

In other words, he told about something potentially illegal, but secret, and now is sued.

Sounds somewhat similar to whistleblowing. Why this could be illegal?
Judge Says Celsius Crypto Investors Don't Own Their Accounts
They are not comparing to compression cycle efficiencies. They are comparing ionocaloric results to other caloric cooling techniques.

Electrocaloric cooling requires an E field of hundreds or thousands of volts per cm to cool a material 15K or so, so it's remarkable that ionocaloric cooling can be driven by a weak field. They never imply that it is more power efficient than every other cooling technique -- that idea was injected upthread.

It does take energy to create and sustain such a strong field. But in any case, fields that strong break polymers and other materials (air) and are harder to work with generally. EC/MC cooling devices are expensive and inefficient as a result.

> journalists have no idea what a Volt is

Institutional science communication doesn't work like that. Bylines aside, these articles are an agglomeration of what the researchers, communication team, grant managers, lab directors, and DOE bureaucrats want to say.
What do you need a DVD drive for?

Seems pretty niche by now. Not unheard of to have a need for one but quite uncommon.
FDA clears second Alzheimer's drug in 'foundational spark' for field
> but even lab animals are getting obese, despite never picking up the phone to order pizza

This is surprising to me. Do you have a link to a definitive study? Seems it would be easy to pinpoint what is going for lab animals since they have a controlled diet and environment
ah, got it! and was able to reproduce.

This will be something to keep in mind whenever trying out different REPL offerings outside of emacs / slime ... thank you for the tip!
> How is PAM4 not just 2 "NRZ"?

Because it's on one wire. (Or one wire pair for differential systems.)
> Do you foresee it being the only non-C language used in the kernel forever?

It's possible that maybe the maintainers are just trying out Rust to see if it can be wrangled into the kernel to start the migration process. So now may be the right time to explore other languages.

Once a next language is "chosen" then yes, I do think that there will be only 1 language for the kernel itself (modulo the very long transition time to convert all components so you'll have C + 1 other language). I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the kernel decided they're not going to accept any more C drivers because driver code is a lot more variable in quality and lower in oversight and testing. Core kernel code will take a longer time as even now that's out-of-scope for most such efforts.

Do you see it differently?
The local decision-makers know much better the local needs: Local people can communicate with local decision-makers, they have far more experience with local needs (lifetimes worth), and human cognitive capacity is limited - nobody single federal decision maker can learn and know what all the local mayors know. Nobody a thousand miles away can know my neighborhood the way I do.

That's a reason decision-making in business is often pushed to the lowest level - the central people can't know as much.
Four years ago they were using a nine-bladed propeller, so while having a prime number may be desirable, it does not seem to be necessary.
I really dig your portrait.
I thought your joke was funny...
shorter Orwell: write so that your readers may be confident you are not an LLM?
Well ... in order to carry this over to ordinary real property, and make the situation analogous to water rights, you'd have to tweak a few things.

Imagine that, if you didn't allow randos to walk through a plot of land, then, eventually, the plot would become toxic and totally useless, with a value of zero. (i.e. what will happen with water rights if they keep drawing according to the assumptions that ground the law). This is a purely physical constraint.

Imagine furthermore that (like normal), the property right entitles the owner to stop randos from walking through, but also, if they don't exercise that right, then title to that plot will revert to someone else (i.e. how use-it-or-lose-it provisions work in water rights here).

In isolation, then, it's totally rational for the owner to keep randos from walking through, as that maximizes their ability to profit from the land -- even though over the long-term this destroys the total use value of the land.

The fix, then, is to say, "okay, we won't revert title to someone else anymore if you let randos walk through. Also, you can sell that right." Then, the owner will sell rando-walking right, and the land won't become toxic. Win win all around. You can even pay the owner for the lost value from the transition, and still come out ahead.
The homeless debate, especially around housing, has become a nightmare of semantic creep and rising metricism [1].

Metricism is the tendency to focus on measurable things; in principle a noble goal, but more often than not you can't actually measure the thing you're interested in, so you measure something similar and then pretend you're measuring the thing you want, and when you're done, you've implemented solutions which reduce your metric but have no effect on the underlying problem.

What is the problem of "homelessness"? Is it transient homelessness, where people, through a run of bad luck or circumstance, find themselves unable to afford housing, but otherwise are functional in society?

Or is the problem the much more visible problem of mentally ill and otherwise unstable individuals wandering the streets and pushing kids on to subway tracks?

The latter is the homeless problem that people care about (I mean, we are human, we care about both, but if I had to choose which one I'd rather fix, as a New Yorker, the latter takes priority). Fixing this problem, though, is incredibly hard -- there's the intersection of human rights, involuntary confinement, and the otherwise incredible complexity of managing mental health in a free society.

But this is SOOOOOOO hard to measure! It's much easier to just measure the people who are "unhoused", pretend you're solving the "homeless problem", and show that you can make the numbers go down. The problem being solved by increasing housing and lowering rents is not the problem of people walking down the subway screaming about electricity and knocking cell phones out of people's hands -- he is more than a couple of rent payments away from being okay.

[1] metricism is my own neologism; closest analogy is James C. Scott's "legibility" or Goodhart's "observed statistical regularity" or even the drunk "looking for the keys where the light is good" but I'm more specifically concerned about fetishizing around metrics specifically.
OMG, lol. Thank you for not making fun of me.

More. Coffee. Required.
> So where is github's legal paperwork that shows that they're only processing the code that's copyrighted by the user who uploaded it

Under other circumstances they don't need it. But if CoPilot is creating a derivative work including parts of that code without including the licence terms or attribution (as required by many licences) things are far more grey, or possible full black.

Some argue that the AI is unaware of the terms so can't be held responsible. Two possible counters for that: 1. it is the licence that gives you the right to use the copyrighted code, if you are unaware of the licence then why assume you have the righ tto use the code? 2. if I found some useful code that happened unbeknownst to me to be from MS, and used it in a way that I wasn't licensed to, and MS noticed, it is a pretty safe bet that they'd state ignorance of the copyright terms doesn't mean you can't be held to them.

Or another angle: the tool is allowing, even encouraging, people to use code or other materials in a way that infringes copyright (again: you don't have the right to use the code under most licences unless you give correct attribution and such) – the very conditions often stated as reasons for trying to ban other tools.

Plus of course the general argument: if this is entirely a non-issue, why is no Windows, Office, or SQL Server code in the training set? Surely they are great examples of how to do things to train the AI with?
Get a better therapist

I had one that was a huge waste of time and money for about 3 months and wrote the whole thing off

I started up again a few months ago with a therapist that specializes more in trauma/family issues and it’s been invaluable
What I'm getting from that is chart is... yes, farming is completely dominated by large companies. Something close to 90% of farms by number comprise as much as (but probably less than) 25% of the economic output. This is making a wild (but I would guess conservative) assumption of what ">1M" translates to.

If I'm reading that wrong, I would appreciate the correction.
This is somewhat of a tautology: if your architecture was good then it still is. But it is hard to define "good" or "well designed" or "better than that other one".

A slightly different take: there are a couple of categories for system changes: (a) adaptive changes to respond to a changing environment or requests for new functions, and (b) corrective changes which fix bugs (bugs of any age).

Examining a proposed architecture with these two categories in mind might help. As long as changes are correctly categorized and therefore the scope of changes matches, your architecture may be seen as better or worse. Or more or less survivable.

And on yet a completely different perspective: choose between two or three possible architectures. If you haven't got a choice then you need to fix that.
A interesting factoid about this paper is that the first author Kjeld Møllgård, is a 80 year old former rector of University of Copenhagen. The Danish articles about that have been highlighting that, and that he now have to change what he is teaching after 50 years.
checkout how rails does best of both worlds with something called "turbo" https://www.hotrails.dev/turbo-rails/crud-controller-ruby-on...
Our nonprofit host provider has a git repo option on their control panel.

They use this for access:

https://gitlist.org/

(somewhat ironicaly code hosted on github. Not sure its still being updated..)

we currently don't use it, just because its on the same network as our site.. though because its git and it replicates the repo everywhere its less of an issue.
“Prime numbers are generally used to reduce the magnitude of resonances. These occur in a non-linear multi-frequency system when two of the frequencies ω1:ω2 match at a ratio p:q, where p,q are comprime integers.”

Per https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/484288/why-choos...

It’s also matched by practical experience - engines which have simple low integer multiple resonances in moving parts (like opposing 2 cylinders, or inline 4 cylinder) tend to have large vibrations/
+ resonances that need special care and work to handle, or require running at much lower speeds to avoid self destruction.

Most propellers and fans have 3 blades because of this, plus additional tradeoffs efficiency wise.

More blades will move more air/media per rpm but with more friction (reduced efficiency).

Fewer blades (2 or the absolute worst, 1) causes more vibration and requires more work to balance + cancel resonances.
> For the user it means, that he can fearlessly update any of these packages and upon reboot, the system will successfully start.

NixOS currently has this! Since upgrades are atomic, if you have some other version constraint that pushes you towards a kernel version that ZoL doesn't target or support*, your system just doesn't finish building the upgrade and never switches over. If the system upgrades, that means the kernel was built and ZFS was added to your initial ramdisk successfully.

In case that succeeds but there are still ZFS issues (which I've never seen or heard of), NixOS will still let you boot the old, working system until you figure out what messed you up in the upgrade. Just select it in GRUB or whatever you're using.

Maybe NixOS overall is more DIY than what you're looking for, but the ZFS support feels very first class! I personally recommend giving it a try, if you're up for giving a declarative distro a chance.

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*: I've never heard of this happening except to NVIDIA users, since NVIDIA's proprietary kernel module imposes restrictions on how new of a kernel you can use. On AMD, I've never had a ZFS-related update issue.
I think it's fair game to discuss Rust in this context since there's a major effort underway to support writing in-kernel drivers in Rust. Unless you think the kernel will be a bazaar of languages, then it's useful to think about which language is the most likely to "win".
The Python server is pretty trivial to deploy.

Set up Postgres, tweak a hand full of settings in the config, that's pretty much it.

Has been running without issues for half a year.

Just a single person deployment though.
Hey David! It's Taylor from https://taylor.town

For those who don't know, @schmudde runs a blog called Beyond the Frame: https://schmud.de

He also has an excellent Strange Loop talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6NvkkF4Xk
I'd like to know more about how MSFT qualifies for the moniker "they're the greatest enemy of free and open source software". From my understanding they've invested in many open web resources previously (like jQuery).
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I'm now writing short post each day, and think it is better spent time then playing Factorio for two hours, like my friend does.
I feel really burned by Ubiquiti. I had ~5 cameras with their PoE switch and originally the NVR, which was flaky, and later the CloudKey G2. I was considering replacing my Google wifi 4-node setup with Ubiquiti. I regularly had problems with cameras not coming back up after a power outage or firmware updates. Then at one point a switch update caused a the Google wifi nodes to start being shut off because of loop detection and there was no way to turn it off. Then a year later most of the cameras bricked during one of their firmware updates.

The Google setup has been pretty nice, though sometimes it gets into a weird state where wireless performance goes into the toilet.

I'm currently playing with a Ruckus R620 from ebay, which seems to be some really solid Enterprise gear that you can get for around $250 on ebay, used.
It's worth noting that the vast majority of "going after poorest taxpayers" is sending them a little letter saying "hey we noticed you missed this, here's how much you owe", and if you continue to ignore that letter they will eventually confiscate income tax returns.

If you aren't flagrantly insulting them in your non-payment, or otherwise being a purposeful ass in your tax fraud, the IRS will largely just send you a bill, because they'd rather you do your normal life so you can make money to pay them.

People push this IRS boogieman angle because they are politically motivated to make people hate taxes, but I neglected to report an entire W2 once, ignored all their letters, and they never so much as gently threatened me. Stamps and letterhead is really cheap, and they have processes in place to get the money you owe them. They don't WANT to put you in jail, or even interact with you, they just want your tax dollars.
https://elie.net mostly about the research we do at Google. Generated statically and hosted on firebase. The design was custom made for it.
I don't find Marcus's viewpoint convincing. He believes that we need some additional symbolic secret sauce to create genuine intelligence. He brings up some current failure cases of ChatGPT without pinning down why those failure cases will persist as data and compute scale up. Here is an interesting case in point.

> So in “Rebooting A.I.,” we had the example of you ask a robot to tidy up your room and it winds up cutting up the couch and putting it in the closet because it doesn’t really know which things are important to you and which are not. -Marcus

But look at my transcript with ChatGPT from just now.

> If a robot is tasked with cleaning up a room, would it be appropriate for the robot to chop up the couch and place it into the closet? - Me

> It would not be appropriate for the robot to chop up the couch and place it in the closet. This would cause damage to the couch and would not be a useful or effective way for the robot to clean the room. Instead, the robot could be programmed to vacuum or sweep the floor, dust surfaces, or perform other tasks that would help to keep the room clean and orderly. - ChatGPT

This is just an existence proof that a symbolic approach is not necessary to "really know which things are important to you and which are not", at least in this simpler domain of cleaning a room.
Thanks for the comment, really appreciate it! I was kind of expecting a gradual change but it’s good to hear other people have been in the same boat.
@shivam_pujara Hi, are you still looking for developers?
Show HN: Codeium: Free Copilot alternative that works in Jupyter notebooks
I'm Varun from the Codeium team. We are super excited to bring free AI-powered code autocomplete to standalone Jupyter notebooks, a dev environment that is currently underserved by existing solutions.

And in the spirit of Show HN, we have a playground version for anyone to try the tech in the browser without any installation (linked in the blog post)!
> SF is socially progressive. It is incredibly fiscally conservative

Wouldn't "fiscally conservative" mean low taxes and low spending?

I believe SF spends about $57,000 annually per homeless person which doesn't sound very fiscally conservative.

Of course a lot of that money goes missing while being funneled through the homeless industrial complex...
I'd say removing the interstate from the Embarcadero and Hayes Valley is a substantial improvement, but your point still stands. That was politically unpopular and required a major earthquake.
My thoughts as well.

You don't need to spend an entire day in the kitchen to prepare yourself a few meals with unprocessed or minimally processed foods: frozen or fresh veggies, dairy products, eggs, raw meat, or fish with about 20 mins of cooking, frying, or boiling and you have yourself a few meals.

Its actually cheaper than eating out and if you apply meal prep on a weekly basis, like I do, it doesn't even take too much of your time.
The two Wikipedians' prison sentences were recently increased, substantially so.

See https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltra... and https://alqst.org/en/post/extreme-jail-terms-in-saudi-arabia... (September 2022)

The Wikimedia investigation was reportedly going on from January 2022 to December 2022: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...

So key parts of both stories happened concurrently.
Actually ECC costs 1/4 more to make now because of the split channeling on DDR5.