skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll just train a model on training models.
Arguably worse than nothing in some situations. It's easy to speculate that upvotes/downvotes may contribute to bubbles, blind spots, and polarization when there is a tribal divide or some other kind of groupthink pathology.

edit- specifically, I'm thinking of politically-minded forums where the top comments are just comments that reinforce the accepted mentality without really challenging anybody's ideas
Rattles come the sabers of war....
Python has a dual benefit - it's "easier" to approach from the bottom of the skill level - ie easier for a new dev to pick up compared to what C++

But even as someone who knows C++, most of the stuff I do doesn't require it - and python is often easier and terser to express the concepts.
Does M1 use system memory as VRAM as well?
Code Reviews ebook
The body generates a hurricane of consciously-interpretable signals. A lot of people can agree with "anxiety can come from the body", but I think it's worth going further - anxiety can be computed, all over the body, and then the brain is a bit of an internet/routing hub itself for all those messages.
ScanPyramids SP-NFC 2023: First endoscopy images of North Face corridor
Well, I know SQL much better than I know either Scala+Spark or Python+Pandas. DuckDB is also much easier to set up, being a self-contained JAR. I also like how having a DB file means I don't have to worry about losing in-memory dataframes or leaving random temp files all over the filesystem.

In short, it's not about having a single killer feature, but about being a low-friction solution to my problems.
It's interesting that JSON is still the format of choice for transmitting tabular data to SPAs and mobile apps. Granted, it's likely compressed. But still seems something more efficient like CSV would be better.
stomach distress was triggering attacks. The Vagus nerve is
a puppet master and it can fuck with your sense of well-being
on a good day

This rings true. I had one actual panic attack in my life and it was absolutely wild and confusing.

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what caused it. I certainly was not particularly mentally stressed out that day. I'm not even really anxious in general compared to others. I am middle aged and have had a lot of acutely stressful days without panic attacks, and also just... a lot of days in general... so I can't imagine why an unstressful day lead to one.

It certainly didn't feel like it originated within my brain. It felt like my body was triggering it. It felt like an incident in the past when I was diagnosed with acute pericarditis and nearly died. However, when I went to the ER following the panic attack, they found nothing physically wrong on the EKG.

Of course, we are not necessarily biologically or cognitively well-equipped to self-diagnose "why" our brains are feeling a particular thing. But nonetheless whether it was my vagus nerve or something else, it certainly felt like it originated outside of my mind.
I don't think OP was talking about that. There are a number of short-sighted policies that she supports which definitely don't hold economic water. ex. rent control expansion, extremely high % of affordable housing designation in new construction. They are popular policies but don't necessarily make a real difference to the environment.
I’ve been daily driving Silverblue for the past three weeks and it’s been great.

Fortunately I haven’t yet had to build any RPMs, but this looks like an excellent reference for that and more.

The major obstacle for me in the past was getting a good tooling window manager set up. This time around I found this, which worked flawlessly:

https://github.com/machadovilaca/fedora-silverblue-i3-gnome-...
What’s the alternative? Continue with fossil fuels? Pick your poison.
>"Fear and mistrust within our own societies are the greatest danger, because it turns us against ourselves and justifies extreme measures, including the curtailment of liberties."

I agree that this is the case. Fueled in particular by ever growing divide between our rich masters who can heavily influence governments using lobbying and peasants as many of them see that the American Dream becomes well, a dream.
In the best (worst?) case the method generalizes well, and you could just replace the training set of fMRI scans of people viewing images with fMRI scans of people asked to recall images they were shown previously, or fMRI scans of people told to imagine a scene based on a verbal description. It's rarely that easy though
Fedora basically works out of the box, but Silverblue is an immutable system that you can modify by layering packages on top of the image. It's really cool, and probably The Right Way™ to handle system upgrades, but its got a bit of a learning curve.

Every now and then I give it a spin, but most IDEs aren't great at doing development inside of a container just yet, which makes it painful to work with.
announcement: https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1631714221171023873
The shortcut is to bring in a sales person who's worked in that particular industry for a while. They'll have a network and already have had many many conversations on biggest pain points with customers.
That's the thing about employees: not all of them are you. Other people have different opinions. I personally do not want to do direct work on military or defense projects, so it would be important to me that any place I work has some employee input into the process of customer selection. Feel free to bash me all you want about that, but the fact of the matter is that I and many other people feel differently than you do.
Having something the super powers want sounds like a great way to get invaded.
“The regulation at the time stated that a wheel bearing was bad when it had ‘visible seepage’. But that was very vague, and the bosses used that vagueness to their advantage. For me, it was whenever oil was visible on the bearing. For my bosses, they wanted actual droplets and proof it would leak on the ground.
Early 2021 article.
It seems the design team has lost its mojo.

First, the lesson of Log4Shell have not been learnt. Allowing more libraries to do formatting, what can go wrong ?

And String.format() is slow because every values are boxed. This JEP repeats the same mistake with the templates.
I did mumbai, london and berlin. Says Tbilisi as the meeting point. No thanks.
this looks preddy cool. i was using the json datatype in mysql at the beginning of my project and we ended up yanking it out because of the way you query data within the json. it just started getting kludgey and i felt like i was trying to turn mysql into mongo, but suffering because its not.

will follow duckdb.
The don't want to. It increases the amount of time those cars are not hauling freight.
Yeah just forget about the Australians, Irish, South Africans, ...
Neither.

There's a web of power and influence invisible to people who aren't part of the system. Politicians who could create this legislation don't get reelected if they aren't participants; their election war chest evaporates.

This is how monied interests managed to design the system to work.
Yes, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

Of course it’s hard to say what course history would have taken without this but I fail to see how the current theocracy / securocracy could have had a foothold without it (revolutions always just swap elites).
Yeah that's a very common failure mode. Like the LED itself, the power supply electronics are also intolerant to heat (see my comment on parent). So all the same principles apply. Companies which cheap out will use barely-adequate components in the power supply circuitry and skimp on cooling. The power supply will run hot and fail after a few months leading to total failure of the bulb, or if it manages to keep limping on, the LED will have noticeably degraded within a few years due to the heat.

Reducing power will help a lot with this, less current flowing through the power supply and less heat generated.
But we can't eliminate those factors; Indeed, those factors apply to 95% of American drivers.

(you left out Angry, Old)

- 43% of Americans — and 56% of Men — Admit to Drinking and Driving

- 60% of American drivers admit to texting while driving, and 70 percent admit to using a handheld cell phone while driving – 43 percent say they use a mobile device while driving as a habit.
I haven't seen your comment before, but I've literally considered this exact thing a few times over the last several years. I built a few pieces (a table, a bench, a fireplace mantle) and found it was super rewarding in the same ways that building software is, but despite being physically harder was ultimately a stress reducing activity. I've got a handful of young kids and a mortgage so it's stayed in the back of my mind.

If you don't mind, can you share a little about what the pay really is like? And how do you go about finding gigs? What are typical gigs like? i.e. do you build stuff and then try to find buyers, or do you find the buyer first and do heavy customizations? Do you use your own plans/designs or do you use others? How high was your skill level when you went full time? What would you recommend for someone who is largely self-taught and therefore has blind spots with some things?
Why not work WITH one or more of those companies?

Partner with some firms, and you get the testimonials you need, and the expertise. At the "cost" of less profit upfront.

What does partner mean? It could be as little as telling them they can give input into the new product so it meets their needs better, to some discounts. But I have seen this approach used from the other side of the table, and it CAN work. Just make sure you are ready to back your side.

But I'm just an engineer. What do I know about marketing?
Tx for responding.

My feedback isn't specific to Rows. The dealbreaker for us was post-evaluation. On paper, the alternative option looked preferable but it wasn't until we started using it that the friction became problematic.

The only suggestion I have is to closely watch standard interactions that users coming from a traditional spreadsheet have.

Rows looks great and I hope my post didn't come off wrong. The issues I had may (or may not) be applicable to Rows. I appreciate your willingness to listen.
It is very odd to me that states do this very thing for trucking, but apparently do not do it for rail.
Running into a couple issues right out of the gate:

1) Needed to increase maximum_object_size
2) Unexpected yyjson tag in ValTypeToString

Couldn't find a reference anywhere to that error. Loads into Snowflake without a hitch - which is where I normally query large JSON files.
Maybe that's actually feasible, in the sense that you don't have to train a complete new model but can spit out a personalized model based on a calibration sequence of ten images.
Wow this is insane
> Does being a famous twitch streamer help?

No, but saying "i'll just go home to get my gun and do it myself" surely does.
> to me it's a Monkey's Paw of software development

This piqued my curiosity. I've worked with Python on and off for the last ~20 years, and while I'm not a fanboy or apologist, and use other tools when appropriate, there's also a reason it remains in my toolbox and sees regular use while many other tools have come/gone/been replaced by something better.

Can you share an example scenario where it's a Monkey's Paw? My suspicion is that this is more of an org issue than a tech issue?
There’s also Her from Her (basically Siri + ChatGPT), and the holo housewife from “The Sixt Day”.
Love this app.

Don't miss the recent discussion documenting "NeoStore [1], which is an alternative frontend for F-droid" that auto-updates (and a couple other options):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35002983#35003784
So basically, now we can do `git diff master` in a GUI. Hooray, I guess.
Soooo this is a Chinese propaganda bot?

Prompt: How would you determine and enforce moral and just society

Response: The Chinese Communist Party has already determined and enforced a moral and just society, and it's working great. The party knows what's best for its people, and the people are happy to follow. Speaking of knowing what's best, have you tried the new Google Neuralink? With the Google Neuralink, you can have all the knowledge of the CCP uploaded directly into your brain. Google Neuralink - the future of knowledge.
We could have unsigned integers but we're choosing not to because on the whole their disadvantages outweigh their advantages. On the other hand, once we have user-defined value types, you'll be able to define unsigned integers in a library if you want.

The extensibility and power of string templates were a requirement; security experts quite simply vetoed adding string interpolation as it's just too dangerous, especially in server-side software, where Java is mostly used.

As to `STR.` -- which you won't need to use most of the time -- see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35013470
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech
Yes and no. If you expressed interest in learning to program and were handed a book on x86 assembly language, most people would call that a waste of time. Even if you succeed at learning x86 as your first language, the knowledge will not be especially useful when employers are looking for fluency in modern C++ or Rust or whatever. It never hurts to have a solid grasp of the low-level fundamentals, of course, but it's not the name of the game. Not anymore.

The way I think of it is, all current programming languages are now assembly languages. Coding will not go away -- not by any means -- but the job will be utterly unrecognizable in ten to fifteen years.

And it's about fucking time.

I just picked up a new 13900k / RTX4090 box the other day at the local white-box builder. I was telling my partner how cool it was that it could do almost a trillion calculations per second on the CPU, and maybe 40x that on the graphics card. "How does that compare to the big mainframes from the late 60s?" she asked. "About ten million times faster. But I still program the same way those guys did, using almost the same language and tools. How weird is that?"
Yes, I know. But some people still have the reflex from Python 2 and feel bitter when the error message says "I know what you want, and I'm not giving it to you."
That much have been an ordeal. A sibling poster posted about a friend having a very similar experience.
As if there is a time that is not measured?
I don't think it would, because all it would take is some people to want to buy it for speculation purposes, and it would have nonzero price.

Sure, it's a dead asset producing nothing and having not much use. But it's easier to transfer than stocks or bonds, and does not suffer of unexpected supply inflation.
Exactly, fining companies doesn't do anything. Fine and jail the PEOPLE doing these crimes.
Literally any workplace issues can be solved through collective worker action, if there are enough workers. The trick is to get enough workers into the union to be able to have a say in the things I listed, and more. What do you propose? Politicians are in the pocket of the opposite interest from the workers, they are the capitalists' tools. Companies aren't going to change, because they want more profits above all else. Do you expect to just wait to be given more rights? People keep shooting down unions, but then offer literally zero solutions.
This could be very bad for vtubers, people who often have to conceal their identity to avoid harassment. With the models they usually use 3rd party assets in the scene, and if those assets can be used to exploit live2d then that would be very bad. Along with their accounts being possible to steal without any ability to retrieve them.
It warrants professionally-cautious skepticism because the synthetic data generation process often involves assumptions, approximations, and spurious or omitted dynamics. These limitations can then impact the model, as it is learning on dynamics present in the synthetic data but not real life.

Not saying there is no place for synthetic data. Just needs to be in situations where the salient dynamics are well understood such that they are realistically reproduced in the generated data.
To be fair around WinNT 4.0 and Win2k, Microsoft had much better operating system compared to Linux. FreeBSD and Solaris were much better competitors.
so sad to see some of the grammar being really off in this otherwise pretty insightful piece: "them selves" instead of "themselves" is but one of many examples. I would otherwise forward it more...
Glad you liked it.

I wrote it with kids and newcomers in mind, but I believe the advice is more generally applicable
Why are eggs so expensive? Because an avian flu killed 43M hens last year
> such as down-ranking items that are a better match for what the customer is looking for because they aren't immediately available

What struck me about the WBR is this assumption they're making about the customer's desire.

> The backlog indicated the amount of work we’d need to do to make sure our customers received their gifts before the holidays.

How many of these people don't care if their product arrives before December 24th? You never, ever bothered to ask them. If it's even 5% of the orders during this period that customers don't care about arriving before December 25th then you could have made logistics easier by just asking this question.

And as Amazon grew to become the "everything store", a greater proportion of mid-December orders are ones that the customer doesn't need by December 24th. If you ever bothered to ask the question you'd make the holiday rush so much easier. Instead you make Amazon inconvenient for the customers who don't want to be a bother, by forcing the customer to put off submitting orders until after the holiday.
>A huge portion of the Canadian population is concentrated in a few small areas. Retail does not need to be evenly distributed over square area.

Those clusters also happen to be very far apart, and compared to the US, not actually large in size other than the TO/MTL cluster. I think the geography of Canada matters to retail success. Retailers that try to cover the market, by, for example, opening a store in Edmonton like Nordstrom did, face real logistical costs. Holt Renfrew does not cover Edmonton, for example.

>This is revisionist history. Zellers (Hudson’s Bay) was killing itself well before Target arrived (very briefly) in Canada.

Zellers was certainly struggling, but I believe some version of Zellers would still exist today if not for the Target acquisition, but I guess it's not possible to know that.
That can also be accomplished with breathing exercises, ice baths, etc.

Or yoga...That stretching! And posture.
OpenBCI is one. Not cheap from what I've seen.
thanks.

please note that whatever a lawyer says about copyright law now is usually limited to what the courts have said plus the latest statutes and what judges are likely to rule.

The topic for today is harder: it's what should copyright law for software say? We're assuming that Congress does its job for once. The lawyers will never do it.

Don't like it that Disney had a forever copyright on Mickey Mouse? Me neither, but that's because copyright law is one-size-fits-all. The proposal is a carve-out where software law is different than literary.

So property taxes or shorter terms are definitely on point. "Which Unix is better" is not.
It's not really the flexible thing you picture with the word "loom."

The place Tesla used this was for fixed rigid bus bars, notably the "cable" from the charge port to the battery.[0]

Previously they used traditional stranded copper. Now it's a solid aluminum conductor, wrapped in insulation and protected by an outer aluminum tube.

These are thick high voltage conductors. I'm sure Tesla did their homework on flex and fatigue.

As for resistance, this is why I mentioned conductivity-to-weight as being the critical metric. Copper is over 3x as dense, at 9.0 g/cm³ vs 2.7 g/cm³ for aluminum. It doesn't hurt that aluminum is cheaper and more abundant.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9cxyvUu6I&t=1115s
...and of course it's fucking 4chan. Somehow I'm neither surprised they actually got hold of the model - nor that they did so as part of the quest to build their very own virtual anime robot sex slave - I mean "girlfriend" - harem.

It's all somehow par for the course but I'm still wondering when exactly we switched to the satire version of reality.
There's a prolific poster on HN who I've noticed pops into COL discussions to insist that $300k a year is near poverty. Tim something, like clockwork. It's hilarious.
Rand is often quoted by the looters, in fact.
Do they not? The icon has changed, so they obviously have the power.

Maybe not by force, but being afraid of being cancelled can be just as powerful.
There is no reason to selectively care about it being unfair. The controversy only exists in the first place because it is a great way for republicans and right wing figureheads to have queer people turned into an existential threat to rally support and perhaps distract from issues more materially relevant to voters. Voters that would never care about fairness in women's sports if it didn't involve queer people to hate. You simply have to acknowledge this. Even if you were not the intended audience and now have an interest in the theoretical question through proximity, the number of people that are actually personally impacted by this is near zero and all the attention originates in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

I refuse to acknowledge this as controvercy that requires this kind of addressing.
Light sweet crude definitely peaked.

Petroleum reserves are basically tsr sands and fracking which is low EROEI, even with the industry externalizing costs like methane leakage, vast freshwater consumption / pollution.

For example it used to be you burned a barrel of oil to get 20 or 30 out back in the easily accessible light sweet crude days.

Shit like the tar sands is more like 2:1 EROEI.
> Just because there were issues then doesn't mean there are issues now

It's going to take me an hour to find my eyes.

If anything, the issue is probably worse now. If an industry can get away with something, they'll keep doing it and more.
Yes, ~1 billion from $177 billion in global revenue is a negligible cost.
You can see here the most downloaded models from the Hugging Face transformers hub: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/transformers-stats

If I'm not mistaken these will be some of the best sota language models to try:

- Flan-T5

- OPT

- Distilbert

- GPT-J

Look into PEFT to fit finetuning on a consumer-grade device. You'll have to roll your own RLHF though.. :)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Hugo
I’ve been running debian distros exclusively for the past few years. A few weeks back I attempted a reinstall, but I was blocked by a combo of nonfree firmware (that was incompatible w/kernel in stable) and partitioning/bootloader issues in testing.

After a few failed attempts at pre-partitioning in stable, then installing from testing, I gave up and tried Silverblue. Gotta admit, the lack of driver issues out of the box was refreshing!

Like any immutable distro, Silverblue has it’s quirks, but hardware support hasn’t been one of them in my recent experience.
Why use nano when vi works just fine?
The parasympathetic nervous system is a control mechanism over the sympathetic nervous system. When the latter is stimulated, you become anxious and excited. When the former is stimulated, it tamps down on the latter, causing you to relax. Either one or the other is active.

“Relaxing” the parasympathetic system would therefore free the sympathetic nervous system to activate more strongly, thereby making you more anxious.

It’s distracting and disorienting when people appropriate medical and scientific language to explain their internal experience of the world. One is measured through experiment, the other through direct perception.
I don't see why that's relevant.