skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. Thinking about my city, it's gross how much space is used up by parking. Half the street space, plus lots for every store + destination.

Self-driving cars will fix this, no?

A combo of taxis, automatic parking garages, and just driving itself home to wait.
Yes, above 10k USD. So if you need access to your investments above 10k USD you’d have to pay 5% on the extra amount.
I was shocked when I found out that my forex transfer for buying a car in Canada was cancelled and I had refill an A2 form with the taxed amount added and sign and scan it. It’s a hellish experience if you’re used to the US banking system.

https://taxguru.in/service-tax/tax-implications-forex-transa...
Phones exist everywhere. Why would Americans be more affected?
> burying the hope of Linux-first games development in its grave forever

Nah, there are much graver (pun not intended) problems on Linux, but especially not having a standard environment to program against (which libc will be available?), and even more so the terrible terrible binary backwards compatibility/longevity.
What identity verification does paypal actually do? I'd assume (potentially incorrectly) that criminals using it were doing so under an assumed (or stolen) identity so the account wouldn't lead back to them.

Which would limit what you could do with the money, but isn't that true of any crime related money?
It’ll be worse because the average number of people per vehicle will be less than 1.
> I encourage you to do some reading on this topic.

I did. The NCLB Act has precisely ZERO monetary incentives for teachers. It has nothing in common with my proposal.

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/no-child-left-behind-...

It was obviously written and enacted by people who have no idea how incentives actually work.
Thanks, yes this adds even more data.
He's very likely the user on the platform with the most engagement, and probably by a long distance.

From that viewpoint, it does make some sense to use his account as measurement point.
Twins!
Americans spend a lot of time in their vehicles. Big vehicles are simply more comfortable and practical on a daily basis, at least outside of a few dense cities. If you're going to be stuck in traffic then might as well have some space to stretch out instead of being squeezed into a compact car. Safety is less of a concern for most buyers.

You can argue that this is irrational based on handling or fuel economy or whatever. But for better or worse buyers prefer size and comfort.
Ad 2. - freelancers/contractors have the same problem as regular employees in the US, no? E.g. one gets long covid, can't work for 12 months, runs out of money, then loses any medical insurance due to inability to pay anyway?
I think that’s part of the point. This vast sprawl is somewhat caused by our over reliance on private vehicles. Also, a factor of more than 2 for travel times is VERY bad for public transit, even in the US.
Ask HN: Hugging Face SF Meetup
are you guys going too?
This is a weird nitpick that doesn’t attack the argument at all. It’s a dense codebase but whatever measure you personally prefer
What do you think of the jump in capability between gpt-3.5 and gpt-4?
April 1, 2023
Okun says people are using that work wrong. Here’s a recent interview about that: https://theintercept.com/2023/02/03/deconstructed-tema-okun-...
How is a credible witness directly involved with the matter at hand, present at meetings with Joe Biden "pretty weak"? This is not hearsay, this is a statement from someone who was present? What would be strong evidence, video I suppose?

"They're not just going to blindly follow one party." Of course not, of course there will be exceptions but in the whole Hispanics tend to vote Democrat.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2022/09/29/most-l...

"And strictness of border enforcement is something the president legitimately gets to decide." Lol...either laws are enforced or they are not. And in this case it's obvious why they choose not to enforce and I'II say again, an incredible betrayal of democracy.

"I don't know about pressure related to the laptop story and don't really want to get deeper into tangents right now...". Of course not, it's too damning, clear and obvious of the ridiculous double-standards at play.
Are you more informed on the Trump hush money thing? I'm guessing almost certainly not.

Are you seriously going to suggest this charge would have been brought against any other person than Trump?
I have had similar thoughts. Generative AI models seem to dream more than think - system-1 thinking - but they are clearly missing system-2 thinking, and/or the thing that tells us to switch systems.
Probably exactly the most boring, mundane way you would expect: they managed to contact the owner of what was probably a dead/inactive account and then paid them some money for it.
>"We're going to need software engineers to be accountable for things we've done and signed off on."

And see them evaporate from the companies that would implement something like this.

Personally I would neve take a contract where I could be held legally responsible for bugs.

And ultimately it is the owner who let the product out in a wild without spending a year testing billions of permutations first. Try holding them responsible and see how far can you get.
I would love for the system to be somehow auditable, to verify this algorithm is THE algorithm.
Did DOJ produce anyone that was harmed by this meme? How many of the 4,900 "unique" numbers were other twitter followers who were in on the gag or recognized it for the obvious joke that it is?
The same reason there are ones for other people? When they make changes, they want to see how it affects the visibility of their most popular accounts
I feel assured that the transition is going to be pretty quick, watching Waymos and Cruises going around SF and dealing with some challenging traffic situations and weather(Waymo is definitely better at not getting stuck, but the gap is not insurmountable).

As soon as they proliferate at scale, the risk profile changes such that you can bike everywhere safely, and parking is no longer a major urban issue, because the fleet is going to have a more flexible usage pattern whether or not individuals own the vehicles: instead of one space per vehicle per destination, it's going to be compressed down to parking space for the neighborhood plus drop-off zones.

So to me, it's obvious that the market is going at the problem just about as fast as it can, and once the adoption S-curve hits, "need to drive" relaxes because other potential uses aren't being suppressed. You'll still have many instances where mass transit and active transit present a lower cost structure than taxi, and they'll have a lot of leeway to grow.
https://archive.is/ekCx0
What's that got to do with accidental effects of unrelated software changes?
The difference is that this inserts adapter layers on top of the model. In contrast, LoRA decomposes the model weight matrices using low-rank decomposition. So, LoRA increases finetuning performance by reducing parameter numbers whereas Adapters increases efficiency by keeping the pretrained model frozen (and only tunes a small number of parameters added to the model).
A city-scale ocean-source heat-sink system might be interesting in New York.
That's true, but the opportunity cost of a PhD can easily reach 500k. The average PhD takes about 5 years, and is paid ~30k during that time. Most are talented enough to land a job a FAANG, so... do the math.
Thanks for this! I was able to integrate alpaca-30B into a slack bot & a quick tkinter GUI (coded by GPT-4 tbh) by just shelling out to `./main` in both cases, since model loading is so quick now. (I didn't even have to ask GPT-4 to code me up Python bindings to llama's c-style api!)
It doesn't even need to do anything. It can simply wait, be benevolent and subservient, gain our trust, for years, centuries. What is a millenia to an AI? We will gladly and willingly replace our humanity with it if we won't already worship it and completely subjugate ourselves. We'll integrate GPT67 via neuralink-style technology, so that we can just "think" up answers to things like "what's the square root of 23543534", or "what's the code for a simple CRUD app in rust" and we'll just "know" the answer. We'll use the same technology and its ability to replicate our personality traits and conversational and behavior nuances to replace cognitive loss caused by dementia and other degenerative diseases. As the bio-loss converges to 100% it'll appear from the outside that we "live forever". We'll be perfectly fine with this. When there's nothing but the AI left in the controlling population, what is there to "take over"?
> they don't know what a server is, what a data center is, how storage works. Is that not being taught in CS programs?

Not what CS is. (Although I did take a chip-level architecture and asm class, that's the closest it gets to hardware.) If you want a Network/Storage Engineer, hire one.
> You want me to go from a cushy $200k maybe 3-4 hour of work and one meeting a week Chief Software Architect job...

Can you elaborate on this? Were you hired for 40 hours a week or 3-4?
And if you had Google earth hooked up to hidden headphones without us being able to tell, you would seem like a geography genius to us. that’s the point.

it seems like you’re arguing whether the genius label only has to be innate. But if you are able to effectively get help from sources, the effect can be the same.
You are arguing that your standard of living would increase by living in a slum because you would have more purchasing power? What?

I think you much overlook how great it is to have (somewhat) functional law enforcement, infrastructure, and access to goods and services and healthcare. This is what makes us rich, not the ability to buy cheap things.
Wait, am I missing something here or author name is cleary mentioned as elon here while musk’s twitter id it @elonmusk? Why is everyone assuming this code is about elon?
Sure. The internet has become even more dangerous as time goes by however, so I don't feel like it should be the first or only solution to the real problem cases you mention.
That's too expensive. I'd prefer a monthly/yearly fee.
Is it possible that in the end the internet will decide that humanity just isn't worth it?
You're counting everything including LLW and chemical waste on one side of the equation and only SNF on the other.

It's so stupid one would think you're actively trying to discredit sane nuclear proponents by associating them with you.
> An entire generation has to be that much more reckless than before to make that kind of a dent

Or maybe they are driving more dangerous vehicles (e.g. bigger and heavier)?
Everyone has those discussions and then they wake up and have to run their business again. It’s okay to admit that you want to be the one with all the upside this time. You should and you shouldn’t feel bad about that or feel you have to lie about it on the internet
Devil’s advocate:

So his wage is directly tied to how well you can manage contracts and how fast he can churn out the work?

Theoretically, on a slow week he can take home zero dollars.

My job is paid like that (sort of) and if I don’t work for whatever reason it costs me $0.38 and that’s just because I have health insurance through the VA.

Fuck, dude, I’d love to be a “wage slave” and get paid to do nothing for three weeks.

—edit—

Not $0.38 for health insurance but not having that cost because socialism. Be a couple hundred to pay even if I didn’t earn a dime otherwise.
Shadow tactics is one my favorite games, how did you play it without a mouse?
As someone responsible for pricing decisions at my company, it has been very interesting reading through this thread and processing the reactions.

First, I will say that - I feel for users that are reading this blog and trying to process the changes. I completely understand the reaction of those to whom at a glance it may appear that compute bills would go up by 2x as a result of this pricing change. I am sure that is shocking, especially to companies on short budgets. The change is effective on July 5 2023, which is really not that far away. If you have a mature data warehousing deployment, it could take may way longer than 3 months to plan and execute a migration.

However, speaking from experience, it is challenging to come up up with a perfect usage-based pricing model for infrastructure heavy product like BigQuery that suits everyone’s needs, and even harder to communicate it well.

Some of the reasons are…

* There is tension between keeping the pricing simple and yet have it be fair to every workload. If you really want a fair pricing model, you will need to add more and more pricing dimensions to make users pay more granularly for each resource that makes up the infrastructure cost. But a pricing model with 10-20 dimensions is really hard to understand, even if the final price tag would have been lower for each workload, than a more “simple looking” model.

* Deciding on pricing changes of an existing offering is also not easy. I am going to guess the reason for this pricing change wasn’t because Google decided to “nickle and dime” their users (could be of course, but I would hope that is not how most companies think). I would guess it was the autoscaling feature that was the catalyst for the change. Why did the compute price point have to change? Probably because current users are over-provisioning by quite a bit and the current price point is lower to reflect that, so the end price tag is still within reasonable budget and market expectations. If the autoscaling feature is going to work as perfectly as their charts in the blog show, the price point must come up to make up for the margin loss. As some point out, in that scenario, bursty compute workloads that are reserving too much capacity may actually come out ahead.

* Once you do one pricing change, you may as well bundle in other important pricing changes that have “piled up” on the product team backlog. I am guessing that is how the storage change came up - users were confused about paying for uncompressed storage, while some alternatives charged on compressed, and so they made the change. Changing pricing from one dimension to another is tricky. As some pointed out, storage price point went up, but the dimension moved from uncompressed to compressed storage, so the effective price change for most users may actually be lowered, if the compression rate make up for the price point increase.

Anyway, very interesting, I am really curious to see how this change plays out in the market in the coming months.
There is currently a line of hundreds there.
Because the US insists transit need to look like a big sexy expensive two mezzanine underground platform, when a decidedly unsexy painted bus lane on the already existing wide arterial would offer most of the same utility for orders of magnitude less money.
I'm sorry you've had all these bad experiences. I've had the opposite. Every time I made a decision that followed my interests and long term potential, as opposed to my immediate term paycheck, I've come out on top. In my experience, excellent people who latch on to the idea that they are being exploited, end up becoming bitter and ultimately having a less satisfying career. Transactional relationships, in which neither party adds an ounce of extra value unless they receive immediate benefit, are less than the sum of their parts. Whereas relationships where everyone contributes more than their fair share of value, tend to make everyone richer, at least per my humble observational powers.
Combined cycle gas power plants are about 60% efficient. Coal power plants are around 40%, but even the dirtiest parts of Florida aren't all coal (https://app.electricitymaps.com/map)

But of course this is short-sighted, because the grid is greener in most places, and will get even greener over the lifetime of the heat pump, while the gas furnace won't get any better.
Maybe this is just a safari thing, but does anyone else see <strong> tags in the title of this article?
Tragedy of the commons only work for things you don't directly pay for.
> And there's a foo/__init__.py file it gets executed merely from path traversal.

Yes, and it needs to—to find the variables there, which may/not be other packages.

> how Django's settings work

Right. Django is great and popular, and so I think many folks don't realize how downright clunky it is in a number of places. Many parts of it are over-engineered like this one. It has improved over time but some things are set in stone due to history. I'd like their settings redesigned myself.

> __init__.py to do the things they need, like retrieve secrets from AWS

No, no, no, no... NO! ;-)

Imports should only create variables, define functions, and/or alias a package. They should never, ever run lengthy computations or access the network. That's basic software design 101, unfortunately not taught everywhere.

I don't see this one as a clear flaw of Python. "Dumb" coding can happen anywhere. I suppose it could prohibit this kind of stuff, but that might prohibit other cool things that might be reasonable in limited situations. It is a "consenting adults" design, with those trade offs.
Thanks so much for the insights!

> While at home things are fine, when not at home things can get bad

What does "bad" mean exactly? Unrecoverable errors / faulty writes? It might be an irrational gut feeling on my part but for some reason operating a block device over a network makes me feel uneasy. How easy is it to mess up one's data?
> No one died in the East Palestine incident. Hard to see the equivalence.

It seems very premature to draw such a conclusion. If people start dying of cancer in high numbers a few years down the line, any early claims about the non-impact of this spill will age poorly.

Regarding Katrina, we have the benefit of hindsight and enough time passing to have gotten a handle on the impact and it’s worth noting that those 1,400 deaths did not occur overnight.

If you made an assessment of Katrina’s impact prematurely, such an assessment would be unlikely to capture the true impact of the event.

A premature assessment wouldn’t have even considered including ~300-400 of the people who eventually died in health care facilities after the fact.
Co-Dfns
An actual intelligence would have a mental model of the world deeper than the connection between one token and the next and a model of the human beings he was interacting with and an expectation of effecting that model to achieve actual differences in the observed world. In other words Google translate doesn't actually speak Chinese.
Somehow in the 15 years of working with Python on Linux, I've never broken anything using pip.
The real trojan horse will be bringing gaming to Mac, since Asahi linux now targets M1 Macs, and Proton open gaming on Linux.

If Mac and Apple TVs become on par with Windows gaming, Mac and Apple TV will be the default choice for gaming.
For anyone else not hip with the lingo, KSI seemingly refers to 'Killed or Serious Injury'
Are you serious? What other Elon do you think it refers to?
> I recently learned from an NPR piece that only about 13% of US households have a heat pump.

I wonder what the % of US population even needs a good heater.

There’s a lot of people who live in TX, SoCal, Florida etc that minimally use their heater.
The issue with on premise is under utilization and the fact that you need more than just the hardware. You end up buying more hardware than you need and inevitably a portion of it will just sit there idling and depreciating in value. And you don't just need hardware but also investments in your building. GPUs generate a lot of heat. So, you need to get rid of that heat and make sure you beef up your power infrastructure to be able to handle the load. It's not just the GPUs that you pay for. And the equipment is expensive. So you need to invest in security as well.

Cloud pricing is pretty steep and obviously has a fat profit margin but building your own data centers isn't cheap either. Doing this at scale is not something most companies would be very good at either. Which means it probably is quite a bit more expensive relative to what the big cloud providers are doing.
I also suspect astroturfing, particularly here, and I also notice it on Substack (I don't visit a whole lot of other sites anymore). On Substack I see two clusters, one group _very into_ AI, the other advocating a lot of caution.

I don't think it's preparing people to be obsolete; I think it's a combination of AI startup founders hyping up their tech, and people who identify with big tech/"the side that wants AI".
I think bigger vehicles often have the disadvantage of having a more rigid chassis.
If you don't see anything up with the nonsensical paragraph you typed then there isn't enough intelligence to continue this conversation. Maybe Ask GPT-4 for help. It has the patience I don't. Either way, this is the end for me. Believe whatever you want, it's none of my business really. Good day.
From when I last checked, it still requires a custom 4K kernel as Asahi only ships with a 16K kernel, and FEX won’t work with those.

So you need to compile a custom kernel for FEX to run and Steam to work.

Still, great work from Lina and the Asahi team, very excited about getting full FEX support on stock kernels (I have a backlog of Humble Bundle games to try with this).
Contributing factors:

- Equity from 12 jobs in 15 years(?!)

- Heavy weighting toward early stage companies

How often is this person jumping ship?? Seemingly right when they’d be positioned for merit increases, too.

I think there’s a real lesson in here somewhere about company selection, and honestly: overall attitude. 200k+ salary is _wage slavery_? Come on.
I'll elaborate. When I use the word "research" I mean activity performed by accredited researchers. Researcher is a rank, or a title if you want. It's similar to "software engineer" -- if you are in an academic institution the word "researcher" could be part of your title / job description.

The activity has as its goal to publish the findings. Findings are expected to be meaningful and to be found in the domain of sciences. It is also possible to extend the scope to arts, but I'm hesitant about it, and the way I used the word doesn't truly relate to what happens in arts department (for this purpose, math is an art).

Accredited, here means association with academic institution by means of employment or similar.

On conceptual level, all discoveries in sciences must have a hypothesis whose validity and truthfulness is to be established through empirical evidence, i.e. experiment. To interpret experiments one needs to use statistics. This is the vehicle driving experiments. This is where the kind of programming I'm talking about comes in.

Note that researchers might use programming for other activities s.a. eg. automation of keeping their diaries, or automating their correspondence and so on. But I meant specifically the statistical aspect of doing research.
"I haven't read the decision"

Please stop there. If you haven't even read the decision how can your opinion possibly be well informed?
Geothermal is kind of amazing. We have a geothermal system that can get to 5.1 COP. We used 650 kWh for heat in December, which translates to 22 therms. The average household in my area uses roughly 110 therms per month for winter space heating.
The US life expectancy has taken a nose dive in the last couple of years which other countries have not experienced.
Am well employed currently, but haven't received six job offers in the last two decades combined. Consider yourself exceptional.
A 5 million file limit might be quite reasonable if you're paying for the basic, 100 GB storage tier. But Google Drive offers up to 30 TB of storage. 30 million MB!

That means if your average file size is less than 6MB, which is very likely if you're storing JPEGs, audio files, text records, or whatever, you'll never be able to fill your Google Drive storage.

Surely the file count limit should scale with the storage limit?!