skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a tiny house in NY and my water/heat/stove is propane. Get it filled by a service that I pay in advance to lock in a price for a year and save. Two big tanks sitting outside on a pad. The poor truck driver has to climb down a hill with the hose since my driveway can't handle his truck, but it's manageable.
EnCodec: State-of-the-art deep learning based audio codec
I got it quoted. Basically would be around $50k CAN for heated floors (it's a big house). Ducted mini split heat pump (2 units to handle the house size) was $60k. Central hybrid gas-heat pump was $30k.

I put in heated electric floors in the bathrooms (about $1k each).

Byrant has a humidifier (https://www.bryant.com/en/us/products/humidifiers/) that integrates with the system. It also has integral HRV. As well as an air purifier: https://www.bryant.com/en/us/products/air-purifiers/dgapa/

It's not a bad compromise for our climate. Currently living in a home I designed that has mini splits everywhere and I really dont like them. Not enough air circulation and it's really hard to balance given a well insulated house on mildly cool days which is very common here.

I intend to always keep the fan going to circulate the air in order to clean (we have allergies) and humidify.
> Wow, I had no idea "diskless infrastructure" was even a thing.

OVPN[1] (Swedish jurisdiction) have been diskless[2] since day one, and this has been tested and proven in court[3]:

"To summarize the verdict, the Rights Alliance and their security experts have not been able prove any weaknesses in OVPN's systems that could mean that logs are stored. OVPN therefore wins the information injunction as our statements and evidence regarding our no log VPN policy have not been disproven. The movie companies also need to pay OVPN's legal fees which amounts to 108 000 SEK (roughly $12300 at current exchange rate)."

[1]https://www.ovpn.com
[2]https://www.ovpn.com/en/security
[3]https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/ovpn-wins-court-order
Businesses have been run from the confines of prisons, so I think the analog is all of the employees at the corporation must live and work from jail for the next 30 days.
I was really looking forward to thunderbolt accessoires, until I saw the prices. An external bay for a GPU (just a piece of junk metal!!) was over $400 when I was looking at it.

At this point I don't need it, and I prefer USB, because I don't like the idea of hot swapping something directly on the PCI bus
There's no reason you couldn't use this "next button" idea to get work done quickly and then go hang out.
The clear implication is that you should buy one because it can do that for you, too. Sales would be far less likely if they showed the clips of it crashing or stalling.
Correct. And most people back then were just using `pip install -r requirements.txt`, including different files for dev/test/prod as needed.

I worked at one company that used buildout back then, which seemed relatively rare, but buildout was more flexible and allowed you to do things like installing system packages or running your own scripts. We used it to pull down config files that weren't checked into the repo but still wanted to be shared, helping setup the local developer environment, and a few other things.
> In my view, none of those things make the video staged...

"Staged" might not be the correct term, but it was certainly misleading.

It's about equivalent to saying you made an algorithm that can identify the breed of dog in a picture, but then only showing it correctly identifying golden retrievers.

They over-fitted the AI for the specific route they took.
You’re missing the even broader context. The article is explicitly discussing “happiness” and why the author isn’t happy despite being “successful” by traditional measures.

Further, some of the issue is with the imprecise definition of “happy”. The modern use of the term can be used interchangeably. What causes someone to be hedonically happy may make them eudaimonically unhappy. So IMO it’s completely warranted to have further discussion to either define the definition or bring into question if someone is chasing the right goal for them. Saying what is tantamount to “I’m not willing to discuss this” facilitates none of that.
> The engineers identified a “golden path,” a specific set of demo actions that Jobs could perform in a specific order that afforded them the best chance of the phone making it through the presentation without a glitch

A glitching IoS is mildly annoying, a glitching autopilot kills you.
There's also the issue that people from tropical countries are used to a variety of fruit we simply don't have. There are various things that are either rare in the US or completely absent because they can't survive being shipped. Even subtropical--my wife loves dragon fruit but is unwilling to pay through the nose for the very inferior stuff in the market here.

While I do not have a taste for tropical fruit there are the bananas we encountered in Africa that ruined me. Since encountering those I have pretty much zero interest in US bananas, what we had there can't be bought in the US because they don't ship well.
This answers my question - In recent years I have used MacOS with 3 different external displays, and have never had a problem. Their resolution was always QHD.

It usually doesn't look as good, but it's not like distractingly bad.
Then there is really no reason not to put these warnings. People can make their own decisions if it matters to them or not. It would be worth it even if the results were not significant. Any amount of people becoming more informed in their decision making is worth it.
Roe v Wade, pretty much by definition, did not affect babies. Roe v Wade also did not preclude a ban on abortion after a certain time period, which is broadly popular and desired by the american populace, including most people that the american right calls "radical".
Firefox supports proxy via unix domain socket and tor daemon supports unix sockets too, so you can setup torbrowser in a VM/container without any network access to add additional safety against leaks. The sole communication channel to the tor daemon via unix socket(s). For vm, use virtfs/9p to share between the daemon and browser, for container just bind mount it. To allow torbrowser to control the tor daemon, you can use socat as a proxy over an additional unix socket since tor's control port does not directly support using a unix socket.

The whonix project has good info on the environment variables you will need to set to get the torbrowser to play nice with an external tor daemon, so you do not need to resort to tor over tor which will make your traffic stand out.

https://github.com/Whonix/anon-ws-disable-stacked-tor/blob/m...

IMO, torbrowser, on platforms that support it, should separate daemon and browser by default, with browser in a separate network namespace with no network interfaces.

But, if zero day in tordaemon, and your adversary is US gov't or other well resourced organization, it is probably still game over. Not to mention NSA scale traffic analysis that Schneier seems to be suggesting as a possibility here, which can only be defended against by only using Internet access that can never be tracked back to you. For downloading bookwares off libgen, the above mitigation is probably sufficient, though, if not a bit overkill.
I think one key difference between tobacco and alcohol is that tobacco doesn't really have a 'safe' level of usage: every cigarette is bad for you.

However (from my understanding, could be wrong) alcohol isn't bad for you until your BAC exceeds a certain concentration, so 1-2 drinks is benign, but the 3rd one starts doing damage and damage increases in a dose dependent manner.

Most fruit juices and breads contain small amounts of ethanol - and I don't think there is any suggestion that those quantities could have significant deleterious effects.

I think it makes sense to have a different regulatory regime and societal perception for drugs that can have theoretically 'safe' recreational usage. Would love if there were biomarkers of alcohol doing damage that could be measured with a urine test strip or something like that at home: would acetaldehyde in urine be a good proxy of how much damage alcohol has done to the body?

Regardless, warning labels make a lot of sense - the way many people use alcohol is carcinogenic, and drinkers should be aware of that risk.
Whatever good things Tesla has done in the past doesn't give it a pass on the bad things it's done.

It may have cracked open the market for electric cars, but now it's recklessly playing with people lives. If for this and other reasons it goes out of business that's perfectly fine. Other companies will produce breakthroughs and Tesla doesn't matter is the greater scheme of progress.
Great feedback! I'll push a change to add that.
Does Microsoft have an exclusive agreement with OpenAI to not have it available on other clouds 3rd party marketplace (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc)?

I wouldn't be surprised given the investment, but was curious.
Martin Fowlers diagram on the cost of presumptive features / YAGNI. It nicely breaks down the costs, whether it’s the right feature or not!

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html (Scroll a bit).
This is so clever. Love it. Would love a version that just runs locally without sending things to the cloud.
Running a command like git blame on a file you plan to modify and running git show on the sha1 value can help you find relevant commits.
> I imagine a lot of the performance of the M1 and thereafter is a direct result of moving the memory closer to the die

I'm not sure why this Apple marketing point gets repeated so often. The M2 has the same memory support as current Intel chips: 128-bit LPDDR5 6400. Mounting the memory on the same package as the CPU might have some engineering advantages compared to socketed RAM, but it doesnt make the (industry standard) memory any faster.
Thanks for sharing!

Not sure I understood what you connect to Evernote with Zapier to track vitamin D usage and mood (or was Zapier only relevant for the weather and the others are manual?). Also, if it's ok to ask- what's the ephemeral value in tracking these?
> After reading Edward Snowden's autobiography (Permanent Record, great read), I feel like Tor, end-to-end encryption and similar solutions/products are basically a dagger through the heart of intelligence services. As such, I find it hard to believe that they knowingly gave the public such tools. And if they did, it sure as hell backfired on them.

I have heard it somewhere but using Tor or end-to-end is like using armoured car to transport money between park bench and cardboard box. If someone wants you compromised, you will get compromised, it only matters how many resources they are willing to throw at you. And for average person, it's not a lot. So best way is to blend in. And using Tor, end-to-end, VPN(full of people with something to hide, it would be stupid not to infiltrate or honeypot) will make you stand out, you might even peek someone's curiosity. Not a very healthy way to operate on the Internet...
So great to hear! What kind of extension are you building?
Don’t forget daily live performances by whatever band’s music is in the background of the ads! Otherwise it could possibly be construed as false advertising, after all.
> You cannot describe a procedure that collects a representative sample without introducing bias. What does representative mean? Who decides what it means? Who gets to set the parameters of over vs under sampling?

Perhaps you can take a representative (i.e. random and statistically significant enough) sample of the population and ask them their opinion about certain (especially controversial) pieces of your training data, then adjust your training data to weigh more heavily or less heavily based on these evaluations.

That's just one idea that occurred to me from the top of my head, but I'm sure there are research scientists who can devise a better method than what I just came up with in 30 seconds.

> Let's say that white nationalism is a tiny fraction of ideas online. Significantly less than 0.1%. Now, you randomly sample the internet and do not collect this idea into your training set. Do you adjust your approach to make sure it's represented (because as reprehensible as it is, it is the reality of online discourse in some places?)

Sure. Otherwise you're in for a dangerous (and perhaps immoral) slippery slope. But it should be represented only as much as it is significant. Obviously you should not train your AI to weigh these ideas as much as others that are more prevalent. If it's only a tiny minority of the population that have such opinions, that should be reflected in the data (so that there is proportionally less data to account for these ideas).

One would think that a sufficiently intelligent AI would not end up being a white nationalist, though (I'm not talking about current LLM technology, but perhaps some future version of it that is capable of something akin to self-reflection or deep thought).

> I genuinely believe that it's all going to be biased -- there are no unbiased news or media outlets -- and the sooner you recognize everything is biased, the sooner you can move on to building the tools to recognize and understand that bias.

News and media outlets are biased, yes, of course. The content from these sources is not generated from the population in general.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to generate an unbiased sample of data (at least, up to a certain margin of error, depending on effort expended).
The pain many people experience with using external hard drives and Apple photos is photos building that index and those thumbnails. Huge amounts of io that apparently need to be rebuilt constantly [1]. Probably also happens on SSDs, but you can’t tell because you can’t hear.

1. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251365140 And many, many like it.
Can I ask what they are? And are they devices with removable cables where you could move some to a native USB-C cable instead of adapting?
IME you don't use an ERV alone. You'd use it _with_ a Heat Pump. The ERV is all about transferring heat from one airstream to another. It's _not_ a device that manages indoor temperatures though, just recovers some of the latent energy in the air. In the process it's also managing humidity mainly as a by-product. The humidification properties of the ERV allow you to run the Heat Pump in a more efficient manner. I have an HVAC geek friend who explained the whole process, but essentially (in non physics/fluid dynamics[?] terminology), if the Heat Pump doesn't need to dehumidify air it can operate more efficiently.
Whereas, middle and South America did have a tradition of alcohol in Pre-Columbian times. However, alcohol was often exclusively reserved for those who had attained extreme old age.
Amazingly, the above story happened in the UK, the UK's health system is failing totally, the NHS has under-invested in mental health services on a massive scale for decades (for example, all the gambling addiction clinics in the UK were funded by gambling companies until 2020), and this happens and people immediately round on...Twitter?

It is genuinely very confusing that a mental health problem has turned into tech regulation. Particularly when mental health treatment is so obviously lacking (and part of the reason why no-one asks the question about the NHS is due to lobbying, the NHS has the most powerful lobbying group in British politics).

Btw, just anecdotally, the people pushing for this are (imo) the worst people in British politics. Bill Cash, all the Brexit hardliners (who, btw, were regarded as too incompetent and mad by the people who can the Vote Leave campaign). These people sit in safe seats, there is no risk from deselection, and they just sit there and come up mad ideas year after year (the person above who points out that British politicians tend towards authoritarianism are correct...this is being led by the furthest right portion of the Tories).
For many years the secret code to launch nuclear missiles was for a long time 00000000 https://sgs.princeton.edu/00000000 Now they claim they changed it, but be sure that if the president is dead the military have some workaround to launch the misiles.
I don't know if it actually makes business sense to do it like Netflix. All the money spend on making a show is basically OpEx rather than CapEx -- each show keeps the lights on for another month of subscriptions, but nobody a year down the line is going to subscribe to watch all the old cancelled shows

If the point was to build up their own backlog of tv shows people watch, they aren't making much progress on that goal
I feel like I’d like a like vs like comparison here. It’s unsurprising that there’s more QA than at the cheapest penny pinching end of the android market, but how does this compare to the various flagship models?
A better comparison might be "I think Elon's greatest accomplishment was convincing people he was Tesla and not Edison."
Taking a long road trip with multiple people in a subcompact "penalty box" car the size of a Honda Fit is kind of a miserable experience regardless of what kind of motor it uses. People mostly only do that when they have no other options.
This is Illustrator, not photoshop, so it's vector. It doesn't really lag, the bounding box moves smoothly, but the preview is absent. To get preview you need gpu acceleration[1], which is either absent on arm macs or turned off here for some reason.

1 — https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/gpu-performance-previ...
Why do kids need special protections online? How about we jail parents who don't teach their kids how to behave online?

Imagine way-too-young kids printing out their bathing suit pictures and sellotaping them to a tree with their phone number written underneath... is the city (or whoever is responsible for the trees there) guilty if some pedophille calls the number and does something bad? Or have the parents failed in educating the kid on what is good and bad, right and wrong? Replace the tree with instagram (or whatever), and you're there.

The kids will just change their birth date everywhere to something 18+, and online services will ban everyone below. The next step is mandatory government ID for registering to any service online... and everyone laughing at Sunak asking a homeless man if he's "working in business" will get police on their doors.
I have both some extremely obvious false negative (garbage content, title which is obviously spam, phishing related address) and a lot of false positive including some which hard extremely hard to understand (daily email with always the same title and from the same address - one randomly ends up in the spam folder).

At this point, I think Google is just intentionally sabotaging Gmail.
Also it makes it much easier for Apple upsell upgrades and increase their margin through market segmentation.

> There is simply no need for more than 8GB

I don't really agree. But let's say that the case. Will it still be the same in 2-4 years? Possibly not? Great Apple can just sell another mac.
Context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring
> He's clearly responsible for more innovation across multiple sectors than anyone alive.

Responsible in what sense? In the sense that he bankrolled his engineers? If that's the case then couldn't we draw the line all the way back to his father who bankrolled him?

It's hard to see Elon as a visionary these days. Most of his businesses already existed before he took the helm, including Tesla. Twitter has been a shitshow to say the least. The only remaining thing in my eyes is SpaceX, and we shouldn't fall into that trap of giving the billionaire all the credit.
The word "robot", coined in the 1920s, came from a Czech word for forced labour. Since before computers even existed, we've been asking ourselves whether we've crossed that ethical line. And so far the answer has always, correctly, been no.

We should keep asking ourselves that question, seriously and honestly. But while the answer is "no" lets keep developing.
Came to say the same thing - plus, there's a great 100 Days of SwiftUI as well, which gets nontrivial apps running pretty quickly.
Right! And emphasis on playing dumb: the GP’s argument requires the courts to not understand the difference, when they clearly do.
Well, you need to drive the extra weight around so it's gonna affect your mileage. Ultimately, what you should care about is $/miles of range
Maybe the UK can erect a great firewall to protect its citizens from the various harms of the internet. I'm sure China can offer some assistance.
raytracing weekend
My work had some classes and they were very good and informative. I'm sure a lot of the big companies ESG the meetings to death and make them harmful, though.
Wait, by any chance, did you sign in to retune.so and talked to the example chatbot and asked it to help you with your project?

(we don't have any AI agent, the chat interface is for users to create their own chatbot)

You can email me the transcript at dj[at]retune[dot]so.
out of curiosity, what OSS alternatives do you have in mind for the OpenAI/Pinecone dependencies?
The problem with that refutation is the direction it's been trending: Proportion of hospitalizations among the vaccinated has been going up while the percent of the population that is vaccinated has pretty much been stable. We're not there yet but if the trend continues then this refutation won't work at all, and we're currently posting on a study that gives one mechanism that could cause this.
Trying to optimize parsing binary interpretation is a lost cause.
The problem with pure virtual machines is they're basically meta-macrocode are mappable back to the ISA macrocode without the overhead.

JIT is the way out performance-wise while the boundaries of the VM are what provide portability and safety guarantees.
I think Apple is making a point that their GPU has 96GB of ram which no enthusiast PC Card can touch. The A100 (2020) goes to 80GB but is $15K (but also much much faster). So if you need that extra 16GB…
This is great. I've had to engineer this feature once before (updating an image status tag on Github issues), and was surprised it was so hard to find resources to solve that problem.
Agreed for laptop, but how much will power efficiency make a real difference on a Mac Mini?
‘The One’: Platonic particles and waves of history
The challenge I, and I think many others, run into with this is that there's almost never anything I "want". I spend so much time racking my brain for what to build I never start.

Having a nice curated problem put in front of me sets me off and it's easy from there.
Afaik the LFP batteries Tesla uses are from CATL, their own batteries are still NCM