skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have Trojan AGMs that are well over 20 years old in my Golf Cart. They've had well over 2,000 charges and are still pushing nearly 90% capacity. No swelling, no leakage, nothing.

My grandfather's old flood-chargeable lead-acid golf cart batteries were double that age, or more, and had an easy 10K deep cycles on them when he passed. That cart went two rounds of 18 holes, plus fishing at the water traps afterwards, daily. He would change the fluid in them monthly.

Typical unsealed lead acid batteries can be maintained to last a long time. We used those to power an old warehouse with a solar array for a natural living commune in Memphis for over a decade. I can't tell you exactly how long they lasted as I had moved away from there while after that tenth year. Now once the plates have totally sulfated over, yes you aren't getting power unless you strip the sulfates away to reveal the plates again, but until then, acid refreshes work just fine, and you're looking at about 15 years before needing to replace the batteries due to sulfur coating if you only bother doing acid refreshes. You can get far longer if you know how to remove the sulfur off the lead plates.

The days of sub-1000 cycle deep-cycle lead-acid batteries have long gone. All it takes is knowing how to maintain them. Nobody seems to do that any longer. Most of these were made with maintenance cycles in mind. (Not AGMs, obviously, they're totally-sealed.)
Thanks for this. His lecture on SSA was the best explanation I've found of SSA vs alternatives that I've found (building up a motivation for why you'd want to use SSA which is lacking in other explanations I've found) - and unfortunately, I'd lost track of where I'd seen it. Was looking for it again recently not having much luck (not on YouTube) And now here it is.
I am the same, the advice of "learn SQL" is still very important. Most ORMs have the escape hatch of just mapping results of a straight SQL query to an expected structure (thinking of typed languages like C#/Java here). 95% of the time I can just use the ORM to make simple queries in a easy to maintain way for your application. For the 5% of queries that are either complex or can't be easily represented via your ORM of choice, declare the expected type response and use that escape hatch to write your performant SQL.

I've been on projects where the team has re-invented an ORM organically, and I've never seen it go well. Likewise with projects that are ORM 'purest', bending themselves over backwards to use an ORM for a query that can't easily be represented by whatever query syntax it has.

This is why I still think 'lite' weight ORMs are the best of both worlds since they usually have a pretty good experience for common/easy queries but then when things get tricky, it is best to just use SQL and map to an app language data structure for the results. I mostly use OrmLite [0] in dotnet and have found it has a balance that done well by me for years (note I now work at ServiceStack who built OrmLite).

[0] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/ormlite-apis#query-exa...
I used Acquire.com
This is where the absolute dominance of US / UK in the information tech and media can be a negative; it is fantastic for propagandising others but you also end up propagandising yourself
To be honest, this has very little to do with fishing practices. It's more about the temperature of the ocean.

There are some folks who think by catch (a very destructive externality from ocean floor trawling) has an impact on this fishery but unfortunately that's more of a guess. The science certainly shows that the temperature anomaly literally preempts reproduction. So heat waves eviscerated an entire generation, perhaps multiple generations.

So can you affect the temperature of the ocean? Not anymore than you can stop global warming. Even if you did everything to become carbon negative, it's gonna be getting warmer before it gets back to normal temperatures.

But stopping eating seafood would be a good start. Lowering demand for them means that they have a chance of surviving through to a time when climate change could be reigned in, maybe in several decades.
As I'm aware neither had put out any such tools for 45 years
Farther down the coast ocean acidification is also affecting the Dungeness crab: https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2581/...

Not great.
You are wasting your time only. They have special partnership with ESPs and they don't consider your "spam" signal as meaningfull. Same applies to emails from most banks, Facebook emails, Ebay emails, etc.
A bunch of possibly clever, technically adept people hang out here even if they work for a bank or something equally dull. Some small percentage of them have a latest idea and also decide to explore pursuing it. Where to go?

Everyone here knows YC is one place. What else have you got? Anyone got a list? How do you find out about the people involved, like on a scale of x to y how shonky are they? etc.

I would guess taking over the slashdot space with some incremental improvement to that formula has created one hell of a pipeline that competitors struggle to match. Hence paying @dang full time here and whatever other costs there are associated.
When interest rates go up, the mark-to-market price of older, lower-rate bonds goes down since you can get higher coupons (better interest rates) by buying newer bonds.

If you "Hold to Maturity" (HTM), it won't matter -- you'll eventually reclaim the entire par value of the bond. But if you all of a sudden start selling them, you're going to realize massive losses. So when you buy the bond, you better be really sure you can HTM, or you'll eat your shirt.

Here's the kicker: SVB bought at the "top" -- at a time where rates could only increase (zero percent rates), at all-time high home prices (MBSs), all while The Fed indicated that they'll keep raising rates until the economy cries 'uncle' and the yield curves were inverting.

That's why they were risky.
What do you mean with "it blew up"? It sounds kind of negative, but from the next sentence it sounds positive. I'm confused.
Yes haha, I made a post on Twitter about the sale and it ended up being super popular, so I think someone found my blog post and posted it here
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a program called Seafood Watch that publishes consumer guides. I used to carry around a business-card sized version. Now they have versions for different US regions and one for sushi...

https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/download-consum...
Here is where it's documented:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...

> Mozilla has appointed a CA Certificate module owner and peers to evaluate new CA requests on our behalf and to make decisions regarding all matters relating to CA certificates included in our root store.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Activities?#CA_Certificates

> Further, Mozilla has appointed a Mozilla CA Certificate Policy module owner and peers to maintain this policy. The policy will only be changed after public consultation with the Mozilla community, in order to ensure that all views are taken into account.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Activities#Mozilla_CA_Certi...

Ben and Kathleen are either the current module owner, or peer. So there are two people who can have the role, with one making the decision at the time. I imaging there is a process to replace one or both of them, but I'm not really interested in doing the research.

If I do a Google search for "Mozilla CA policy owner", the first result is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...

It would be interesting to know what Google searches you ran, and the results you received.
If you do a whois lookup you can report that to their registrar as well.
It's good to see efforts at adaptation. This is an important aspect of dealing with climate change. There's simply no preventative measures that can be implemented at this point. So if we can get Alaskans and the fishing industry in general to adapt to the new realities and transition them to industries more productive to conservation and carbon drawdown that will be a huge win.
I'd guess that if they get a lot of reports, they will generally pay closer attention to that entity.

The consumer commission in Australia openly notes that there are lots of individual cases with which they can't assist, but still request reports regardless. Helps them keep a finger on the pulse.
Does https://pynecone.io/docs/database/overview use a SQLLite database on the front end (ie a cross compiled version in the browser) or on the server?
Building normal software like everyone else - just with a different mindset. Java doesn't have to be Spring or bloatware.

Before the recent generics everyone wrote Golang like Java without boxing and don't complain so why not :).
Or eat more farmed seafood, or seafood that we have high confidence can be safely harvested, per the link I posted above.
> Are you staring aghast at the latest cluster of immigrants in this country, are you fretting that they're breeding like rabbits? That generation of children will be the people your kids grow up with, go to school with, date, and marry. It may take a while, but eventually, your line will merge with theirs. Presuming you propagate at all, your genes are destined to disperse into that great living pool of humanity. Get used to it.

This is so bigoted.
Fifteen years ago I remember my last employer saying in a division meeting that they had "reallocated a number of roles to the mobility pool". A round of confused "what's that then" from more or less all present forced them to be less euphemistic.
The Russians armed separatists and criminals to oppose the democratically elected government of Ukraine installed in 2019 via election not via the conflict in 2014. Ukraine's lawful resistance to criminals attempting to set up their own fiefdom on Ukrainian lands with Russian guns is thin justification for the subsequent invasion.

To put it blandly it doesn't matter whether you think Bush win over Gore was legitimate. Biden was legitimately elected and Washington state has no right to form its own nation. If the Canadians funneled tanks, guns, and soldiers to such folks we would certainly shoot people to stop such a takeover. Such shootings wouldn't provide legitimate cause for the forces of flannel to make a fast break for DC to overturn our entire government.
It seems like it should be doable to write something that generically diffs tables.
Fragile Capitalists
My understanding was that you need to hold the dial at a certain angle to get an optimal arc into the center pocket... much like the skill shot on pinball machines with a physical plunger.
Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation 3ed [pdf]
venv is part of the standard library from Python 3. It's not in Python 2.
Not to be too big picky, but why are the first few photos showing the heat pump with a perspective that implies a small dimensions, as if it were some portable boombox. Also, why do the photos look indoors?

What do you think of thermoacoustic heat pumps?
I don't use BTC but buyvm.net accepts crypto through coinpayments, whatever that is.

prgmr.net (now tornadovps) accepts payment by check or money order, https://tornadovps.com/documentation/make-payment

I had trouble getting a CC payment to work with another small VPS host, and they let me pay in cash (literal currency through international mail), but maybe that doesn't count since I was an existing customer they were familiar with, not a new sign-up. But if you're trying to run stuff on VPS's and you don't have any existing hosting relationships and you're trying to pay with BTC, that sounds odd.
It'll eventually get broad use, sure, but this is more about playing for time. The issue is the very uneven progress between capabilities and safety.

I don't want only government to use them because I trust the government but because I know the government to be sclerotic and uninnovative.

If only governments use them, they'll progress a lot more slowly.
> There is no way this number can sound remotely sustainable to anyone, right?

Why not? How many fish are born every minute?
A two party system has got to hurt when you don’t like either choice.
It seems that most of those concerns are not alleviated by using GitHub or GitLab SaaS: "figure out the software you want to use" (you still have to choose the platform), "figure out authentication" (you still have to link your SSO with the platform), "continuous integration systems (...) or production servers that pull from your Git repos, you're going to need to figure out how to connect all of this to the Git server" (you still have to do this), "Git version compatibility" (still a concern, unless you only write code from a browser).

What a weird list.
This is where everyone has to pretend this has nothing to do with immigration. It must be social media or maybe we don’t pay teachers enough…
Optional.of(null) throws a NullPointerException ;)

Optional.ofNullable(null) == Optional.empty()
Why not just create Z-Combinator for these folks? Seems like it might have been a better choice.
If one party could use LLMs to reliably dominate others, the alignment problem would be basically solved. Right now, one of the biggest corporations of the planet cannot get LLMs to reliably avoid telling people to commit suicide despite months (years?) of actively trying.
Join the club. Some of us are still trying to get over the ever expanding scope of the term, AI.
Or we could just have a Fed Bank, where the dollars act like cash because they are cash... Upshot: No more middleman.
Check this out:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/issues/169

Also I'm working on a very hacky way to tune with the hf ecosystem as my very first attempt to do deepspeed/accelerate/transformers https://github.com/lxe/llama-tune
What?
As in, could you explain....
https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A163655.PDF

^ Actual court ruling which is linked in the article itself.

I find the article's headline misleading. The court ruled that a proposition that was passed by voters in California which classified these drivers as contractors was mostly constitutional and would be allowed to have the effect of law, noting that California's legislative branch was free to change the law if they had the requisite votes to do so.

It wasn't the court, but California voters, which decided these workers are contractors. The court simply ruled that this is something voters are allowed to decide (and that lawmakers can change if they so choose).
Jacobin at least is honest and unapologetic: https://jacobin.com/about
I really need to finish my YouTube video on this...

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So, the answer is you don't need a lot to get big impact.

Let's take some NICs like the Intel XL710-QDA1. These are about $250 used. This is a 40Gbps NIC using just PCIe 3.0 x8. I used DACs to drop power consumption through the floor, and to reduce latency. All of this is presented via ISCSI, and with jumbo frames to eke out a few extra percent throughput. If you're using passive DACs, figure 4W of power per port for the NIC, plus another 1.2W at the switch (assuming four SFP+ fan-out), for one end of that connection. You could also just direct connect between the server and the client.

At this point, you can basically shove older prosumer (say 980 Pro) PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe sustained transfer over the network. Granted, if you're outside of that STR use case, you'll fundamentally be limited by IOPS. Figure for every 40Gbps, you can throw up to 1,200,000 4K IOPS worth of data over the wire.

If you hit the IOPS cap, increase your link speed. A PCIe 4.0 x16 card can handle two 100GbE ports just fine. Note that as you increase IOPS, you'll eventually hit your operating system's IO scheduler limits somewhere in the 10M-15M IOPS range.

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The question then is actually keeping the NIC fed if you're going over the network. If you're local, it's at least much easier.

First you likely have data buffered in memory for reads. So RAM will cover you there. For writes, you probably want a FUSE pass-through filesystem on NVMe in front of your real backing store (if it's disk, and you're not pure NVMe), or alternatively a writeback cache. The idea here is that pass-through filesystem is basically a storage tier that sits in front of another volume (or volumes) in an entirely transparent manner, so it still appears as if you're writing to a volume that might just be a RAID with a large amount of disks, but instead it's being written to the (presumably mirrored or striped+mirrored) NVMe first to move it to the final destination later. Alternatively, you could also double it as additional read cache, if you don't need to use is all as a write cache too.

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That's basically what I've done. I have QSFP+ NICs in the storage server and my HEDT (10GbE, 2.5GbE and 1GbE in the rest of the lab hosts), a mirrored NVMe cache/ingest tier, and a boatload of 16TB HDDs in ZFS across two ZFS volumes behind it. This is further backed by 128GB of ECC memory for ZFS ARC, and all powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750GE that maxes out at just under 39W. The whole system, with the NIC, HBA, two 2TB NVMe drives, eight 16TB HDDs, SATA DOM, 128GB ECC, 8-core 35W TDP CPU, and onboard BMC idles at about 43W, and loads that can primarily hit the cache, sits in the 60-65W range, with an absolute system peak under 140W. These figures can be confirmed by a metered PDU.

This gives me ~80TiB of usable redundant storage, with native prosumer PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe performance, over the network... with an idle of 42-43W that bumps up to 60-65W for most work.
Beware the dreaded leaves on the line..
Months starts looking more plausible when considering that we have no idea what experiments DM/OA have running internally. I think it's unlikely, but not off the table.
> It might be incredibly important to you, but not to others, and there's probably another showstopper bug for someone else that isn't important for you in return.

Yes, but that's not a good thing; IMO they've hit the point where they're dying by papercuts. If one user in a million has a completely awful show stopper bug, the product/business will probably be fine. If one in ten users has a fairly serious bug, they're in a bad spot. Obviously they're not at either of those extremes.... but I think they're closer to the latter than the former.
I think the main reason why I dislike the pricing is that there's no way to buy seats with different premium tiers. I'm sure they've done the maths, but it's a very hard sell to just upgrade from the community edition, knowing that you'll have to now restrict the instance knowing that even a casual user (marketing, sys.engineers, mech engineers, etc) will cost the same price...when that limitation just doesn't exist if you don't pay anything at all! It's just counterintuitive.

Good luck trying to get buy in for the Ultimate tier (1200$ per year vs 300$ for the normal paid tier) when only a few users need or use the improved reporting/security featuresEven if it's not a huge cost per se, it makes most premium features a lot less attractive. And remember, you can self host Github Enterprise for a lot less than Gitlab now.

Again, I'm convinced they know how to price their product a lot better than us, but as an enduser, it's a bummer. Because Gitlab is still an amazing product, if just for their open source core alone. So I really hope they figure out a way to be sustainable.
TurboTax does this to if you ever try to leave their service.
A single company running AGI would suggest that something built by humans could control an AGI. That would actually be a great victory compared to the status quo. Then we'd just need to convince the CEO of that company or nationalize it. Right now, nothing built by humans can reliably control even the weak AI that we have.
A bank in UAE spams me with marketing emails and there's no unsubscribe link in them. The only way to unsubscribe is to send an SMS from your "registered mobile number" to a short number, so it obviously only works for UAE carriers. Problem is, my "registered mobile number" with them is from another country. I don't even have a working UAE SIM card right now.
conda exists because it can install so much more stuff than pip without hassle, including things that aren't themselves Python packages, but which Python packages need. For example, if you ever tried to build a Python module that has some native code on Windows, you might appreciate this: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/cxx-compiler.
The heritage steam community is under enormous threat because of the UK government attitude to the burning and digging of coal. Troubling times.

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/amp/more-than-150-heritage-steam-...
I live in the USA and have seen plenty of atrocious work. I currently have the best HVAC expert in the world. YMMV.
Wasn’t part of the drive to client side analytics an effort to improve data quality, in particular to differentiate bots from humans, and measure actual human analytics without getting caught by caches along the way.

If you use something like Cloudflare you can also get some of that serverside logging back.

And netlify and Vercel both have first class analytics features.
what? did you even read the article?

as for the twin experiment, he's not talking about heredity of iq, he's talking about heredity of perceived/expressed iq. there's an important difference that gets lost in the noise.
I don't see it as an implicit assumption that the teams are wrong, but a recognition that the teams have a fairly narrow goal that can easily blind them to larger implications of design decisions as they "move fast and break things".

Having some sort of outside check on that seems wise to me.
6k is what the book brought in but the author has only been paid 1.5k. And given that the author paid his friends to review it, this project seems like it's pretty close to netting zero.
Google has been having a hard time making an LLM product. It's sad to see them having this sort of ordering the burning of the ships of Zheng He moment.
>what are the known downsides that people in academia already know about?

I work in biology with some interface to wildlife managers/'end users' of our biological insights. I was hoping we could use these models as advanced chatbots so that our end users could ask biological questions from our data.

However, even the replies to the most basic biological questions in LLAMA/ChatGPT/OpenChatKit are hallucinated, even when setting temperature to 0. We simply can't trust any of these answers; the bot needs to be as truthful as humans in its replies, but none of them are so far. So what good are these models then?
Emitting Safer Rust with C2Rust
The best thing we can do is to eat less fish. There is no ethical way to fish from an overfished ocean. A distant second is to eat fish like sardines which are further down the food chain than, say, tuna.
If you are a warlike people with a history of violence against your neighbors you don't have any right to demand that your neighbors don't join in a defensive alliance for protection against you nor right to join such an alliance. Why would an alliance that virtually exists for defense against Russia give Russia a vote on whether said alliance should react to an attack by Russia.

If Russia wasn't so inclined to invade its neighbors lands, rape their women, and murder their children it wouldn't matter who joined NATO. Nothing about the mere existence of NATO obligates them to commit atrocities. They are murdering their neighbors now because it would be harder to do after they join NATO which is literally what Putin said in more polite terms. He said they must take it now lest they have to fight all of NATO for it tomorrow.

Left by the wayside is admitting that they lost the right to it in the 90s and will never regain their former empire.

You can stop apologizing for a monster any time.
What I find weird is this:

People talk about China's social credit system as some sort of dystopian nightmare.

But we have a credit system in western democracies that is run by private for profit companies, that disproportionately punishes poor people through negatively compounding outcomes.

How is that less dystopian!?