skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for India, but having seen the effect of telecom in multiple Asian and African countries, I think you underestimate how incompetent/corrupt the government can be.

Waiting years to get a phone line was the norm for most people I knew there. I've known several folks where the wait list for getting a land line was over a decade - and we're not talking some remote rural village. If we project how long it would take to get the country connected at the pace they were going vs the progress private companies made with cell phones, it is several orders of magnitude. The number of people in the former category who would have died before having a chance at merely having a phone is in the millions.
This is mindblowing, to be honest, even if it makes perfect sense that it should be possible to do, the result is quite impressive.

It's basically a headline reader with some fluff, but it does a great job at that and there are whole teams of real humans providing such podcasts today, so that's saying something.

It can get weird or even a little broken though. See timestamp 09:50 of the Feb 23 2022 episode:

Laura: So, we're gonna talk about an article called Generic Dynamic Array in 60 lines of C that can be found on gist.github.com.

Zod: Alright, shall we read the article?

Laura (voice 2, almost a different voice): Sure, let me share it here.

Laura (voice 1): "Laura reads the article." <this is verbatim in the podcast>

Laura (voice 1): OK, so that was the article. What do you think about it?

Zod: I think it's interesting that you can define a generic dynamic array in such a small amount of code...
UX leaves a lot to be desired, is the least I can say about it if I can’t call that downright horrible. This being not a native app screams in your face, I mean it shows.

But then the other apps that I find useable have their own unique challenges — Bear is completely subscription based - for my level of usage, that doesn’t make sense.

UpNote - is unapologetically not ee2e. That’s just unacceptable. UX wise it’s really good though and it’s cross platform.

FSNotes - has miles to go in design and also stability. I used to recommend this a lot earlier, but after buying the app and using it for quite sometime I realised, it just doesn’t cut it. Not even close to being in the league of top native note taking apps.

So I am stuck with SimpleNote (if course no ee2e; it’s my legacy note app, looking to move away) and Bear (I don’t think I’m willing to pay subscription fees monthly/yearly forever for my non heavy-duty note taking).
Is this amenable to merging from thousands in one go or do you have to train -> merge -> train -> merge to not overwrite each other's trainings?
Austinite here. We have one of those "efficient" power grids. Works great. /s
This is why I keep reading these threads, looking for something I can wrap my head around.

I started looking at Kaitai Struct not too long ago. I purposely started with a pretty simple format, but I think I'm not smart enough to figure out the input format. Also, I'm pretty sure I hate YAML.

I tried building Poke just last week, having resolved to try it since 1.0, but hit problems with the Boehm GC on my old Mac, and then what looks like Readline problems on my new Mac. I haven't given up, but I'm off to a slow start.

Hachoir, mentioned in another comment, looks promising, although the input looks suspiciously similar to a program I'd write myself.
I am assuming account-specific endpoints, which on reflection isn’t guaranteed, but is I think reasonable to expect. On a shared endpoint, 401 would be reasonable, but on a dedicated endpoint I maintain it’s unreasonable and incorrect.

401 is only permitted if an Authorization header is missing or insufficient, and the server “MUST send a WWW-Authenticate header field containing at least one challenge applicable to the target resource” (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#name-401-unauthorized). Presuming an account-specific status page endpoint, this cannot be satisfied; nothing the client can send will work, therefore it’s far more reasonably treated as a server error than a client error: the server has been instructed not to service these requests. “Service Unavailable” is clearly suitable. (Refusing the connection would also be reasonable, and have certain technical advantages for machine use.)
‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by foreign adversary, US intelligence says
> it's 100% called victim blaming when you apply it to women

Yes, but only by some people. Many, maybe most, women would consider "don't walk down dark alleys at night alone" to be common sense. I suspect the subset of people who call that "victim blaming" only seem like a majority because that view happens to be popular with media personalities and Twitter loudmouths.

I'd also point out that it matters when the advice is given. There's a difference between "don't walk down any dark alleys alone tonight" and "this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't walked down that dark alley alone".

In any case, getting offended by good advice just because some other people get offended by good advice doesn't make sense.
The article is light on details. This is aneutronic fusion, right? Hydrogen ions and boron?
Is it something that can get corrected, by passing a ballot measure that makes it much profitable. Like for example, limit towing and surcharge or service fee pricing?
Kotaku Re-Review: There Is No Fixing CDPR's Cyberpunk 2077
Aren't we supposed to "do things that don't scale"?
Are there any of these voice models that I can run locally?
Of the seven intelligence agencies that undertook the investigation, five determined that “available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents”, according to an unclassified version of the report released on Wednesday by the House intelligence committee. Those five agencies deemed foreign adversary involvement “very unlikely”. One considered it “unlikely” and one declined to state a conclusion.

The findings were first reported by the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/01/...
You might be interested in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URMQ0d286hY .

Oulu is at least as cold as Chicago and has twice as much snowfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulu#Climate vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago#Climate . I'm not saying that _you_ would wish to cycle in December but making it practicable for many is a choice, as Oulu shows.
How does this interact with the huge contract with Oshkosh a couple years ago to replace the LLV?
Depending on the impact velocity, it would be ~10-30 times the energy of the Tunguska meteor, or ~3-10 times the energy of the Tsar Bomba.

Anyone within one or two hundred miles of the impact site would have an incredibly bad day, but it's not civilization-ending.

The Chelyabinsk meteor, FYI, weighed ~12M KG.
Is a "ply" a unit I'm not familiar with? Or does it just refer to a single layer. (Honestly not sure and curious)
A foal can stand shortly after birth. It doesn’t learn that from its environment. Say we train a quadruped AI, then what is our training simulating if not evolutionary development? It’s no different for an AGI and whatever analogue it ultimately has for our evolutionarily derived neocortex.
heh, if you send Double Asteroid Redirection Test into google it gives an easter egg unlike any I've seen before... it's cool, but weird.
Echo chambers and personalization are two different things.
To get more money.bthey will have a big revenue loss from dropping lightning for an open standard cable otherwise.
Developing Open Source Is a Political Act
Right. This is either huge, Nobel Prize / multi-billion dollar industry huge, or a gross exaggeration of a lab result. Which?
It's like Ansible but with a proper language, declarative instead of imperative config, a lot less leaky and brittle, a huge amount of pre-made packages and config, and can manage the entire OS. Not really the same class as Ansible actually. I used Ansible at first and it felt super hacky and broke all the time. Nix is light years ahead in reliability and power.

Don't know anything about Terraform.
Are you using flakes? AFAIK `command-not-found` does not work with them. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171054 and https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-isnt-there-an-official-bui...

`nix-index` is a flake-compatible alternative: https://github.com/bennofs/nix-index
Good question and it’s an interesting rabbit hole to dive into. Chinese steel exports to Australia are a rounding error. Australia has a relatively small population.

https://legacy.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/exports-china....

Australia doesn’t have much in the way of domestic manufacturing need for steel, so there’s little internal base demand to support production. Australian labour costs more, so as a steel producer it would have trouble competing with China on export markets.

The US and Japan do have domestic steel production, but they both have steel hungry manufacturing sectors, and anyway they specialise in high quality specialist steel products. Those take expensive specialist facilities and highly skilled workers, but there’s no real way for Australia to develop such specialist facilities and skills from scratch.
Yeah, the fetch should be cacheable, I was personally mostly trying to avoid repeating parse+transform work on the fetch results.

(I'm neither the author of the blog, or active in the linked issue/project, I just found the blog by googling for the error message I got independently.)
(2019) ?
Okay but I meant generating results, not training. If you're running Stable Diffusion, the weights are given, but it's not going to run on a random PC.
The author mentions that Chollet's ARC tasks contain 200 unreleased "hidden" problems. This set off a light bulb for me: hidden problems are going to be increasingly important for benchmarking AI meaningfully. With RLHF, ChatGPT is memorizing the answer to every problem thrown at it. Eventually it may become impossible to test with any public question bank.

We are going to go through a period of fooling ourselves, as we always do, then we're going to hit a wall where models are preforming perfectly on benchmarks while still clearly lacking in genuine intelligence. And then we are going to need to test with a concern for security as serious as that used for the gaokao or SAT. Benchmarking will be a paid service performed under highly controlled conditions.
John Harrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison

Master mechanical engineer right there. I feel like it’s extra credit if you have to build the things you designed yourself.
I think the question is how much more cost does it take to move the code from python to C/C++/Rust/whatever? That's a human problem until ChatGPT can solve that problem for you.
Maybe it's too basic, but GD Quest is working on "Learn GDScript from zero" which runs in a browser.

https://github.com/GDQuest/learn-gdscript
I don’t remember there being any promise or commitment to go carbon neutral by 2000, the Kyoto Protocol for carbon emissions reductions wasn’t signed until 1997 and didn’t even go into full effect until 2005, with the first commitment level starting in 2008, but that level wasn’t full carbon neutrality.
It doesn't sound great, could it be simple miscommunication? It does sound like they made an enemy that day.
HN is something else though, you post anything criticizing Google or Apple in the past year and the first answer is always some weird mental gymnastics trying to tell you how the decision is for the good of the consumer instead of driven by money, it's like watching really naive kids argue...

It's like the need to be a contrarian has gone full circle and now most HN is so contrarian they adopted child like naivety to be different from us sheeps who think maybe a publicly traded company's decision are based on profits and not tooth fairy like goodness.
Rolepad - https://rolepad.com, helping job seekers manage their search process. Emails and spreadsheets can quickly get overwhelming and there aren't really many tools out there for folks that want to manage their own pipelines. Companies have applicant tracking systems, this is similar but for the other side.

At the moment working on functionality to easily ingest email communications with recruiters/companies so that it can truly be a system of record (without needing to give access to your inbox or any of that).
Forest fires have nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with changed and/or insufficient forest management policies.

You want less forest fires? Fucking remove all the overgrown underbrush and older trees that have overstayed their welcome. The Native American Indians of the area would be happy to tell you this, something that worked for millenia before westerners came along, said "MUH CUTE TREEZ", and refused to take care of the environment.

Places like Yosemite National Park even refuse to put out naturally occuring forest fires anymore, because guess what: You need periodic forest fires to avoid disasterous forest fires.
Growing up where?

Australia? (big country) .. Western Desert (kind of specific) .. Redfern (very urban) .. etc.

Can you roughly indicate on a map?

There's a lot of different language groups and cultures, a lot of religuous beliefs, and a broad spread of skills both old and new.

https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high...

( FWiW I grew up in the Kimberley not far from the Mungalalu Truscott Airbase and am currently on Ballardong land )
Historically, I’d round up and put the leftover change into the tip jar. But with digital payments I routinely skip if it’s someone just bagging a pastry I chose from a case. Of course, if they’re giving me an extra level of service - I’ll tip.
Good luck actually getting a c7g.
I believe this is the 10% of the trucks from that contract that were to be EV
Apparently they already had a discount card program but it may have been hard to access. The new program automatically applies for Medicare and many commercial insurance.

They are also reducing the list price of generic insulin lispro, Humalog, and Humulin insulin and mixtures, but they'll still be pretty expensive at list price.

But most interesting to me, they're introducing an insulin glargine-aglr pen at 5 pk for $92 list price. Basaglar (Lilly's own glargine) is $326. Lantus is around $500. The glargine-aglr is supposed to be bioequivalent in humans, we'll have to see from experience if that's true for cats.
I wonder if Google is today's Xerox and all the research happening at Google is equivalent to stuff PARC did in 80s
Surprised I'm not already being asked to pronounce words to prove I'm human on every website I visit
Sorry, I forget that I have to explain when I'm being sarcastic on Hacker News. The actual number of clear clusters I found was zero, maybe 2. The four groups I colored on the chart seem to follow the cleavages just as well as the ones shown originally, but they don't map to our culture's understanding of race at all. If we lived in a culture that believed that Europeans and Indigenous Alaskans were part of the same race, they could support that idea using that chart.

Perhaps more dimensions would reveal five or so clear clusters that correspond exactly to the races listed in the US census, but I suspect what it would actually reveal is that population genetics is really complicated and has lots of counter-intuitive cases that defy most people's naive expectations.
Thanks for posting that, that was fun
Fossil fuel companies donated $700M to US universities over 10 years
I think animation is a bigger problem. If you have 2D artwork then creating reasonable 3D models off of that is something that you can reasonably learn to do. But animating that model is much harder (or learning to).
There is not some force of nature that makes 1 thread per core "real". On pointer-chasing workloads a hyperthread is as real as anything. HT is basically another way to exploit instruction-level parallelism that your compiler left on the table. You gotta pick what suits your program.
Raising tolls won’t get you any votes, so there’s always a temptation to collect less revenue than is needed.
Read up on their new ev sale requirements or the dealers lose our access to EVs. They are trying but limited by state laws. And I'm no fan, I don't want to ever buy a car from a dealer again. The state laws block Tesla and rivian sales in some states.
I totally dont understand the point of the ruler part...i mean i guess its handy that random things have scales on them.
Someone once said that python + numpy is probably going to be faster than writing it using basic C++, since numpy is using highly tuned libraries underneath.

I don't know for certain this is the case, but I'd like to see some benchmarks about it.
or nuclear weapons. or pfas.
Sucks that they are not 90% EV. EVs are perfect for mail delivery, with frequent stops.
Protein Project – Analysis of well-known protein supplements in India
One advice I've heard is to learn about the different types of therapist and focus on finding one whose method (and there are a lot!) clicks with you. It's very possible all of those 14 providers used methods that didn't work for you.
My local sewage district is the best run municipal agency in the entire county.

It is run by commissioners chosen by the mayors of the cities they serve and a few are chosen by the county.

They all have graduate degrees in engineering. The employees are similarly qualified.

I suspect the reason they do such a good job is that theyre insulated from the rest of government.
Apparently it's old news: https://www.creativebloq.com/news/google-dart-mission - but it was new to me!
Trivia: POV-Ray is one of the few languages that supports both color and colour as keywords. https://www.povray.org/documentation/3.7.0/r3_3.html#r3_3_1_...
No, sorry, you’re just wrong here. You can run PCA with pretty much any set of genetic samples and get a very nicely clustered graph, because that’s what PCA is for. See this PCA graph [0] on population groups present in Brazil. Should Xavante people be the sixth race in your taxonomy? They sure look distinct from other Amerindians and very distinct from the rest of the world!

(No, of course they shouldn’t. It’s just that extracting features to artificially cluster points along the most characteristic axes is what PCA is for.)

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3D_PCA_plot_of_Xavan...
When I see the word "benchmark" and don't see a methodology I get a little wary. In this case the author ran a custom benchmark from one of their projects. https://github.com/ada-url/ada/blob/main/benchmarks/wpt_benc...

To be clear I'm not questioning the benchmark's accuracy or author's bona fides, but that post was a little short for my taste.
That's because Texas diverts a large percentage of the gas tax to the school system.
The main limiter in the data center setting is licensing, interconnects, and ram.

By contract - you can’t sell 4090s in a data center. You’ll find a few shops skirting this, but nobody can get their hands on 100k 4090s without raising legal concerns.

Likewise, nvidia A100s have more than a few optimizations through nvlink which are only available on data center chips.

Lastly, per card memory matters a lot Nvidia has lead the market on the high end here.
damn, do know what will happen when we have multi modal large models ?
Yes, but would you really love a morning podcast that's

* exactly as long as your breakfast consumption time

* talks about the papers you're reading, but...

* is as shallow as a puddle and as funny as being the person who steps in one?

Because that's what this is. The synthesized discussion combines all the insight of a breakfast radio host interviewing a guest on a specialized technical topic, and the banter as engaging as a technical specialist of some kind trying to host breakfast radio.

By the way, I'm not trying to be overly critical of the developers of this experiment, which is a great illustration of where we're currently at with a bunch of technologies. But it also very starkly illustrates its current limitations.
Does anyone know the design power limit of m.2? For PCIe x4 it was 25W which, unless you had many of these in a single setup, shouldn't be hard to dissipate in the built in heatsinks of most boards.
I reread the article just to make sure I did not miss anything, and my opinions have not changed.

What are your opinions on the matter?
Same. The female voice, especially on the first sentence in the cast, is very well inflected to separate phrases and add interest. After that, it's downhill.

ps, I feel like inflection is going to be one of the harder things for an LM to pick up, given all the subtext humans can convey with it.
Good on you!

I drove the same car from age 18-29. It was 26 years-old when I sold it. Never once took it to a mechanic.

Most routine services at a mechanic are just basic oil change, checking fluids, checking tyre pressure, checking brakes. The mechanics my wife takes her car to are so lazy, they didn't bother to check her drum brakes (despite ticking it off. drum brakes are more annoying to check than disc brakes). They were nearly metal-on-metal and I just changed them myself.

You can absolutely service your car yourself. And because it's so much cheaper, you can buy the best brakes (most important), the best tyres (just as important), the best parts.

There's plenty of guides online that will tell you what to check. Keep a log book, and you can start replacing things on schedule (eg changing the belt every 50,000km) before they break.

You can still take it to a mechanic for non-trivial stuff. But once you start doing minor things, you end up doing it all :)
> 20 bikes in 1 car space

That must be a very big car, or very tiny tightly packed bikes?
I'd love to see alternative OS' on fire tablets but so far the 2019 and beyond tablets have not been unlocked or jail broken to my knowledge. All you can do is use ADB to disable and remove a few Amazon services, side load apps, etc. I would love to be proven wrong and see a full root for fire tablet 10 2019+!
Considering this comes from Japan, I'm going to lean on hot air exaggeration until demonstrated otherwise.

Not taking away from the fact this is an interesting achievement in the science of nuclear fusion, of course.
The actual journal article (Magee, et al. 2023) is Creative Commons licensed.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36655-1