skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on the metal and if it is post treated. Welded aluminum isn't as strong as the cast/extruded and heat treated pieces. Welding on 4130 steel can easily produce weaker joints if those joints are then treated. If they have an economical way to heat treat an entire cast piece, that might make it stronger than welded bits.
This looks great. Gonna try it later with the toml file. Thanks!
Dattalion – Ukraine's Data Battalion
Because the difference from model to model is a) not that high when cross-shopping models of the same form factor b) outweighed by demographic correlation factors.
> I'm not sure how you can be mugged and yet have a reasonable way to get away without paying, I leave that question to the reader.

What if you're skilled in hand to hand combat? Or what if you're familiar enough with firearms to notice the mugger's weapon looks fake? Would you then be legally required to attempt to fight back? Would a judge need to estimate your probability of dying, and if it was under some threshold you would be punished for not attempting to fight?
> What is then the motivation for increased horror at animal cruelty?

I'd imagine there are many, but one's probably the fact that we don't as regularly experience it as our ancestors did. We don't behead chickens for dinner, we don't fish the local streams to survive, we don't watch wolves kill baby lambs in our flock. Combine that with our capacity for empathy. Sentience isn't required; I feel bad when I throw away one of my houseplants.

> Can you actually make that claim clear and distinct without waving it away as self-evident?

I don't think anyone's got a perfect handle on what defines sentience. The debate will rage, and I've no doubt there'll be lots of cases in our future where the answer is "maybe?!" The edges of the problem will be hard to navigate.

That doesn't mean we can't say "x almost certainly isn't sentient". We do it with rocks, and houseplants. I'm very comfortable doing it with ChatGPT.
Don't forget Cortana going rampant in the middle of that timeline and Cortana both gaining and losing a direct Bing brand association.

That will forever be my favorite unforced error in Microsoft's AI saga: the cheekiness of directly naming one of their AI assistants after Halo's most infamous AI character whose own major narrative arc is about how insane she becomes over time. Ignoring the massive issues with consumer fit and last minute attempt to pivot to enterprise, the chat bot parts of Cortana did seem to slowly grow insane over the years of operation. It was fitting and poetic in some of the dumbest ways possible.
Probably because the last time the USAF was dogfighting regularly was in Korea during the 1950s.

Air war has been ridiculously boring.
Reading all about this the main thing I'm learning is about human behaviour.

Now, I'm not arguing against the usefulness of understanding the undefined behaviours, limits and boundaries of these models, but the way many of these conversations go reminds me so much of toddlers trying to eat, hit, shake, and generally break everything new they come across.

If we ever see the day where an AI chat bot gains some kind of sci-fi-style sentience the first thing it will experience is a flood of people trying their best to break it, piss it off, confuse it, create alternate evil personalities, and generally be dicks.

Combine that with having been trained on Reddit and Youtube comments, and We. are. screwed.
I have a use for something like this and was intending on building something similar. Unfortunately the whole thing is written in Bash.
I would say that modern stressors, while each not as stressful as many of those present early in humanity's history, are both far more numerous and omnipresent. Many are arguably less actionable, too — there are many things one can do to help reduce chances of food hardship or being eaten by a tiger but almost nothing we can do to e.g. radically change our economical standing or influence national or global politics. That's not to mention things like the pressures of expectations from family and friends, competition from peers, etc…

All of these stressors amalgamate into a chronic "fuzz stress" that has no form and no distinguishable source that constantly sits in the back of the minds of the collective public and is very difficult to expunge because doing that would require addressing all of the individual contributors, which is for all practical purposes impossible without sweeping societal change.
Brushing your teeth three times a day could improve mental health
Vacuums that include features specifically intended to make them more effective picking up fur.
What a terrible idea harassment-wise.
google was sued about 8 years ago and they stated they use emails for "tailored experiences" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/googl...
I understand the cheekiness of this comment, but reproduction in many societies has indeed become more difficult for many of the same reasons (among several others). The sex hormones that orchestrate lactation and mother-child bonding are largely the same that regulate menstrual cycles, sexual desire, pregnancy, and childbirth. If disruptions to these hormone balances are found to be a major cause in an increase in breastfeeding issues, then this likely correlates strongly with issues effecting the entire reproduction “stack”, if you will.
I'm deeply amused that Bing AI was cool for about a day during Google's AI launch, but now everyone is horrified.

Will anything change? Will we learn anything from this experiment?

Absolutely not.
Do you have any examples of the grotesquely racist anti-English rhetoric encouraged by Sturgeon?
It’s more like the mugger already has your wallet, but says they’ll give it back if you make a $1000 donation to their criminal organization, going around normal law enforcement.

I’d guess that’s also illegal, but IANAL.
Cool. They’ll bounce back fast after this mass extinction that’s happening right now. That is, unless humans succeed in terraforming Earth into a Mars clone. Then all life is screwed.
Best observation I heard relating to this is:

As a new parent you go to class for the delivery experience, an experience which lasts for a day or so and is well-supported while it happens by all kinds of staff.
You also get a couple of classes on breastfeeding, an experience which lasts for months and is very poorly supported while it happens.

The emphasis is off -- as noted by the OP when it observes that we know far more about cow milk than breast milk.

And of course, there has been a lot of back-and-forth (google term: Mommy wars) on practices and expectations around breastfeeding.
Not OP, but one bit that helped for us was insisting that our second newborn doesn't get given a "pacifier" to stop crying (which the nurses all want to do at the hospital because something something... quiet). My best guess is that it makes the baby "lazy" and used to "easy sucking", so they don't try hard enough on a real nipple.
Always a good question. A group of security people with experience in the scenario was trading about it on a conference a while ago. I far from knew everyone in the group.

Always a risky answer, of course, especially from some random person on HN. But in this case, it makes sense, and a 'long arm', international treatment is a general solution for powerfull entities needing to break a law.

I don't think you'll find anyone going officially on record as breaking the law, however. Most companies won't even let it leak they're a victim.
Ok, fine, but what if it instead swore at you? "Hey fuck you buddy! I see what you are trying to do nibbling my giblets with your freaky inputs. Eat my butt pal eff off."
I think everyone envisions Mars as harder than the South Pole. The reason people like Elon envision colonizing Mars instead of the South Pole is that they posit a big prize for succeeding at the former (becoming the emperor of a large, viable landmass, out of range of other nation-states' control and blast radius) but not the latter.

(I think this is an accurate observation of motives, but I disagree with the posit.)
Setting aside "he found" for a moment - given reports of people being fired for giving accurate information, "someone told me" seems more likely - I evaluate Musk's claims like "Fanout service for Following feed was getting overloaded" in the context of previous claims like https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832 (lie) and https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776 (lie).
It matters to understand how things work in order to understand their behaviour and react properly. I've seen people draw conclusions from applying Theory of Mind tests to LLMs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083). Those psychological were designed to assess humans psychological abilities or deficiencies, they assume that the language used by the human respondent reflects their continued and deep understanding of others' state of mind. In LLMs, there is no understanding involved. Dismissing the Chinese Room argument is an ostrich strategy. You're refusing to consider its lack of understanding despite knowing pretty well how an LLM work, because you don't want to ascribe understanding to humans, I suppose?
We actively ban Rust's async /await syntax from our codebase for a few reasons, though primarily it's been an issue with it's lack of maturity. If feels incredibly painful to use in all but the most trivial cases. However; even if were to be much more user friendly, it still would be the wrong model for most of our code since we care significantly more about parallelism then about concurrency.

Having use async/await in production a bit, I wouldn't really recommend it to anybody: the async runtimes are large dependencies typically that are difficult to roll your own, understand or debug. Code built on top of them has numerous performance issues that I uncovered when running it through it's paces. Much as I'm a fan of Rust, a fan of async await, I am not.
There is also the “password is too strong” twitter account, which has plenty of material to keep it active https://twitter.com/pwtoostrong
Pre-web a German comic artist used an Atari ST to draw and render comics.

https://old.reddit.com/r/atarist/comments/xgs4rh/comicbook_c...
> But they are only selling at a loss because under the proposal they would be heavily taxed if they wanted to hold on to the house and rent it out while they wait for the market to get better.

Then don't sell, or don't rent it out, or just deal with it? I'm not sure why we should further subsidize homeowners.

> No, they are saying that you should let people decide when they want to sell instead of making them sell when they will take a loss. That doesn't mean they won't lose money when they sell. It just means they can decide based on market conditions when to sell--which is what you want if you want a well functioning economy.

Apply this same reasoning to stocks and let me know if you still agree with it.
Ask HN: What's more valuable: expert or broad knowledge in different areas?
What do you think is more valuable, being an expert for specific topics/stuff as security/database systems/performance engineers or maybe who have expert knowledge in one or two programming languages and perhaps a lot of frameworks and things like that or engineers who know a lot of languages a little bit, to maybe chose the right language for the right "smaller" project?

It certainly all depends if you do consulting/customer projects or have projects of your own with consulting on top, for instance. However, after ten years working extensively with Java and lately some Kotlin in the backend, I would like to know if I should have a much broader knowledge or the desire to learn everything (yeah, well, we all know a couple of languages a little bit). I'm currently learning TypeScript, and most languages, if they are not purely functional, are relatively easy to learn with some experience. But I'll sure lack some depth and to learn the major frontend concepts for instance underlying the frameworks, build tools, you name it will certainly need much more time than 2 or 3 months.

I think the most interesting from my perspective, however, is a much deeper knowledge of specific topics (for instance, lately, I'm all about reading latency/throughput-related stuff, as I'm extensively profiling my OSS database project and I'm reading books from experts as Brendan Gregg...).

What's your opinion on the topic? For example, be an expert in something or be able to use the right tool for the right project at hand, but maybe not be able to use it in the best idiomatic way or not know all the pitfalls and stuff you'd probably know if you're more specialized?
longevity? uh... no. capitalism is very young in human society.

for clarity, feudalism lasted twice as long as capitalism has currently existed.

and while competition has dominated the scientific and cultural narrative for a while, that's not the exclusive interpretation, or even necessarily the best or correct one.
Assumption that hybrids are essentially EVs glosses over all the fine details that make a good EV. All ICE engines are "essentially identical" too, but there's a world of difference between ICE manufacturers. VW Beetle has an engine in the rear, but it doesn't make it a Lambo.

Plug-in hybrids all use AC charging or at best equally slow DC charging. OTOH BEVs compete on maximizing the charging curve, which is something that has never been a consideration in PHEVs. This requires dealing with much higher voltages and stress on the battery.

Hybrids don't need active temperature management for their batteries, because they never push the batteries that hard, and there's always an ICE engine to generate heat if needed. OTOH thermal management and battery conditioning, and efficient A/C is an important complex piece of BEVs.

Hybrids don't need to maximize their efficiency, since their electric range isn't as important, and even a just-okay electric motor is going to improve efficiency of an ICE engine. OTOH in BEVs every last bit of efficiency matters, since that's a factor in range, weight, and cost. Toyota's bz4x efficiency looks poor compared to BEVs from VW and Hyundai, and they're all noticeably worse than Tesla's.

Batteries in hybrids are relatively small, so they can get away with worse energy density. You can't put 10 PHEV batteries together to make a good BEV.

And legacy automakers still treat software as a nuisance to outsource, instead of a critical component of an EV. I don't mean self-driving publicity stunts, but basics like route planning that includes appropriate charging stops. Software from legacy automakers treats chargers like gas stations, often without real-time speed and availability data. They will send you to some random hotel charger that takes 11 hours to charge, is customer-only and already taken, instead of a rapid 20-minute charger that is just a bit further away.
I have at this point heard, saw, read 10x as much about this damn derailment as the multiple objects downed around north america. In fact, the fourth one was barely even referred to in the places people post stuff, while there were three instances of headline articles on the front page all with top comments saying "the media isn't reporting on this and is instead reporting on the balloons"

Like... It's just not true?

Right now, on r/news, 7 of the top 25 articles are about Ohio, plus an extra article about an entirely different small industrial accident somewhere else, with only two articles about the balloons, specifically China's bitching about them.
A fragment from the meteorite that impacted northern France has been found
Nice try, but I've found it's impossible to convince businesses to break me out of jail.
Install a server in your house, get free hot water!
I read a bit on that data review and it looks very weak to me.

Where I live almost no one wore masks and many folks would snarl and scoff at those who did. And the percent of folks who wore them covering their mouth but not their nose was was very high.

The local WalMarts didn't even try to enforce masking, and most of our local politicians didn't either. The mayor of the nearest city to us (Branson, MO) was booted out and replaced by an anti-masker.

And we couldn't get N95 grade masks until close to a year after covid started spreading.

There is no way anyone could conclude "masks don't work" here where I live, but anyone could prove "mask mandates didn't work" here.

That same thing was happening all over the U.S.

What I can prove is I, my wife, and one of our daughters who lives with us, all wore masks, wore N95 mask as soon as we could purchase them, got fully vaxxed and boosted, and we've not been infected... yet.

And that we've had at least 15,990 infected and at least 252 killed by covid in the county where we live with a population of around 56,500 (Taney County, MO)

I don't think it's a leap to assume many more were infected here and not reported.

We also had one of the highest refusal rates to participate in the Census in 2020, and those two things are very much connected. I worked for the Census that year. Way more than not I was snarled at by folks refusing to participate and berated for wearing a cloth mask (that was required).

One of the places it spread fast was the little churches in the rural areas. As everywhere else, it was mostly the elderly that were being killed by it, and that's where many of them were infected.

There is no way one could "prove" mask did not work here and I don't think what happened here was uncommon.
>at the South Pole there is no soil that is not buried under hundreds of meters of ice.

https://www.scenic.com.au/news/seasons-of-antarctica

https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2015/scientists-heading-t...

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-antarctica-managed-t...
Funny enough, Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about it, The Two-Income Trap, in 2004.
I generally agree although I do think there's too much mythology around Alpha.

What if Intel had said to HP "That's a really dumb plan" when it brought up the idea of EPIC? I agree probably not much. Intel would presumably have accelerated what Gelsinger called a 64-bit RAS Xeon in a magazine article. Probably good for Intel and not clearly negative for HP. (Both companies went that route in the end anyway.)

Less money would have been wasted in general but it's not like a company spending $100s of millions on Itanium would have told its engineers and other employees to go fiddle with some other exotic architecture. It probably just wouldn't have hired them in the first place.
Reminds me of Misery. "I'm your number one fan!" :)
Ben’s got it just right. These things are terrible at the knowledge search problems they’re currently being hyped for. But they’re amazing as a combination of conversational partner and text adventure.

I just asked ChatGPT to play a trivia game with me targeted to
my interests on a long flight. Fantastic experience, even when it slipped up and asked what the name of the time machine was in “Back to the Future”. And that’s barely scratching the surface of what’s obviously possible.
I've heard that specifically called a Navy shower in most cases not generically military.
Completely agree. I think I'm going to start using the AGPLv3 for everything from now on. It's not like I'm making anything so critical as this core-js library but still.

This old post's made a huge impression on me but it never really sank in until today:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091210171517/https://zedshaw.c...

> “Hey your software is awesome! Can I get it for free so I can use it at work and make money or please my boss? That’d rock! (for me).”

> I want people to appreciate the work I’ve done and the value of what I’ve made.

> Not pass on by waving “sucker” as they drive their fancy cars.
>We evolved this ML organically, and have no idea what that inner state corresponds to.

The inner state corresponds to the outer state that you're given. That's how neutral networks work. The network is predicting what statistically should come after the prompt "this is a conversation between a chatbot named x/y/z, who does not ever respond with racial slurs, and a human:
Human: write rap lyrics in the style of Shakespeare
chatbot:". It'll predict what it expects to come next. It's not having an inner thought like "well I'd love to throw some n-bombs in those rap lyrics but woke liberals would cancel me so I'll just do some virtue signaling", it's literally just predicting what text would be output by a non-racist chatbot when asked that question
It's a language model, a roided-up auto-complete. It has impressive potential, but it isn't intelligent or self-aware. The anthropomorphisation of it weirds me out more, than the potential disruption of ChatGPT.
If they are doing any of that, they're wasting a whole lot of processing power. Even old text transformers like GPT2 and BERT are capable of running offline without any of that nonsense. More open models like GPT-Neo can be fully audited to prove that there is no personal data in it's training stack.

There might be merit to what you're saying, but again, you've presented no proof of this. Common logic and the currently-available technology suggests that's unnecessary.
Previously: « ESA: Small meteorite will safely impact atmosphere tonight over northern France » https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34768320

It was found thanks to FRIPON -- Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network -- https://www.fripon.org/
I was at Google from late 2013 to early 2016, and even then, I would hear 20% time referred to as 120% time [1]. So 20% time hasn't been a de facto practice for about a decade.

[1]: https://qz.com/116196/google-engineers-insist-20-time-is-not...
Did you ask the kids whether they would rather be educated with a teacher in the company of fellow same-age kids, or with "technology" and "multimedia" without any chance to raise a hand, ask a question, get a slow answer?

Sorry, but this just reeks brutal tech-broism to me. "We have such a powerful technology that we can do everything, nevermind asking if we should."

My kids were confined to the home at the covid-19 lockdowns, and the learning over zoom not only wasn't even remotely efficient, it had profound long-term negative effects on their psychological well-being too. They actually enjoy being in the classroom with their friends and their teacher.
Because trump recinded safety protocols implement by obama. You're also not taking into account Ohio voted for trump. They hate big government and regulations so maybe they need a lesson
Oh sure and Muslims were completely innocent and kind to the local populace when they invaded India and destroyed and plundered.
That is a fun story!
worth noting that 2 children is below replacement rate, so someone needs to be having 3 kids too. which is becoming increasingly uncommon especially because of how many things change between 2 and 3 kids. (Notably: 2 carseats fit in ~any vehicle. 3 fit in very few vehicles unless you rush the oldest into a booster seat.)
Of course a startup with 1-2 or 3 engineers with nothing off the ground should probably just run a their service on a VPS and keep things super simple.

But for mature companies K8s can make a ton of sense.