skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To decarbonise DRI, producers can add carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to catch the emitted CO2. Or, if they have an external heating source, they can use pure hydrogen instead of coal, a process called HDRI – this is the decarbonising steel technology that has probably received the most investment up to now. Alternatively, there are two types of electrolysis technologies. In aqueous electrolysis (AE), as used by Electra, iron ore is submerged in acid and zapped with electricity, making the oxygen bubble off. In molten oxide electrolysis (MOE), electrodes are placed in powdered iron ore and a high current is run through it until it melts, and the oxygen comes off.

All of these processes require an intense amount of energy either directly or indirectly. Where is all this energy to come from if right now it comes from coal/fuel?
That's interesting. 300 engineers isn't what I would consider small in my startup experience. That's 3x larger than the current engineering organization I would in.
Negotiating individually for a pay increase is also adversarial. More money for me means less money for my employer, our interests are in direct contradiction.
What's the license? Couldn't find this in the article.
Hard to beat two clicks on the mode button, then one click on start button to start the last timer I used. Just an uncustomizable appliance, which is nice when I don’t want to fiddle with something much.
My understanding is that this is software using neural networks that can be trained to emulate any kind of guitar amplifier.

For a few decades now it has become popular to use software or electronics to emulate classic guitar amplifiers rather than having to own all the various large and expensive (and generally tube-based) guitar amplifiers of yore.

I believe this YouTube video is showing you how to use it:

https://www.youtube.com/live/KHIORngbzJE?feature=share&t=673

Another: https://youtu.be/PjgrYB-EPbE

This guy compares an actual amp with ToneX (a commercial amp modeler) and NAM:

https://youtu.be/aXSnQzF-liE?t=802
Can your client use the `binary_parameters` param?

e.g. https://blog.bullgare.com/2019/06/pgbouncer-and-prepared-sta...

Elixir's Ecto can (and that Go example) so if you use Elixir (or Go) you can use prepared statements with PgBouncer (or Supavisor!) in transaction mode.
I had realization that shipping is one of the easiest industries to decarbonify. Even if wind doesn’t work out, ships are perfect candidate for hydrogen. Ships have lots of space which means can carry pressure vessel or cryogenic storage.
I don’t feel that this is a bad thing. Not being able to speak and understand each other’s languages just helps increase conflict due to less empathy. While there are cons to less spoken languages, overall the world would be better off with less spoken languages.
My high school in a not-wealthy part of Alabama had a dozen of them in their chemistry lab 15 years ago. Can't be that expensive...
The only bit I know about softbank is its acquisition of one of the last /8 delegations to a single entity in the immediate pre rundown days of IPv4. It was an exceptionally asute move in terms of asset value.

Good point about immolation/alienation. If he'd burnt the cash it would have been a reprise of the KLF performance art piece but this time, for full orchestra.
There's huge advantages to combining together for studios and publishers because then they can demand better terms from Valve/Epic/Sony/Microsoft/Apple/Google, if they are not already working for one of the above.
Creativity, authenticity, 'being yourself', weirdness...these things that are held up as virtues, or things to aspire too, or desirable, are all beset by major survivorship bias. We only see the examples of weird or authetic people who have good ideas or are successful and immortalized by pop culture--people like Nicola Tesla or Andy Warhol--not the weirdoes who fell through the cracks...were too weird for public's tastes or just plain wrong (flat earthers come to mind). The unimaginative approach to life works best, maybe because that is what gives most consistent results for most people.
The fact that people on Internet forums can be smug is entirely independent to whether or not following the CICO principle is effective.

In other words, when you say "CICO doesn't actually help people perform the calorie deficit part" that's observably false. We can observe that tracking calories has helped a non-zero number of people achieve calorie deficit.

I think what's more important for anyone looking to lose weight is understanding that most people will at some point gain that weight back. To me, it's important for people on the quest to lose weight to understand that gaining weight back isn't a a personal failure, it's expected and statistically likely. The only failure you can make is not trying again.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-people-diet-lose-weig...
I disagree completely. I'm seeing a common thread among all of these neo-progressive efforts. They defy reality and have a feeling of insidiousness to them. They are hurting the people that they purport to want to help, and they are all destroying the communities that implement them.

SF is a perfect example, because there has been decades of left wing politics in charge and there's no Republican boogeyman to blame. And it's been nothing but failure and failure, and things are getting worse and worse.

Education is the thing that really makes me the most angry, because the fact that 50% of Black and Brown students are "graduating" from high school barely able to read [1] is 100% the fault of the progressives. They claim to care about equity, yet all they are producing is generations of students unable to compete in the real world. Lowell is/was a top 100 high school in the US, and the progressives gutted the admissions because too many Asians got in, so they changed it to a lottery system. All that did was admit kids who were unprepared and flunked classes. The number of flunks classes tripled in a single year after merit-based admissions was cut [2].

All of these things are related. The progressive policies since the 60s have produced fantastic policies that are important for freedom. Gays and trans deserve the right to live in safety and be treated like everyone else. Drug addicts should not be criminalized, they are addicts that need help. Mental health problems should not be stigmatized. Racism against any group should never be tolerated. Lower-income neighborhoods need to be lifted up, and yes at the expense of richer neighborhoods.

But the policies we are seeing these days go too far and are damaging the people that they purport to help.

[1] https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-c...
[2] https://www.yahoo.com/video/top-sf-high-school-sees-19230360...
[Lee from Vercel] Max reached out to me today (Sunday) after this experience, and I worked with him this evening get to a resolution for his site on the Vercel free tier.

I'm really sorry we weren't able to get to a resolution faster. I've concluded it's not an issue with the Vercel Edge Network based on the reproduction he provided and pushed documentation and example updates (see below). I know Max spent a lot of time on this with back and forth, so I just want to say again how much I appreciate the feedback and helpfulness by providing a reproduction.

Here are the full details from the investigation:

- Beginning Context: Vercel supports Astro applications (including support for static pages, server-rendered pages, and caching the results of those pages). Further, it supports caching the responses of "API Endpoints" with Astro. It does this by using an adapter[1] that transforms the output of Astro into the Vercel Build Output API[2]. Basically, Astro apps should "just work" when you deploy.

- The article states that to update SWR `cache-control` headers you need to use the `headers` property of `vercel.json`[3]. This is for changing the headers of static assets, not Vercel Function responses (Serverless or Edge Functions). Instead, you would want to set the headers on the response itself. This code depends on the framework. For Astro, it's `Astro.response.headers.set()`[4]. This correctly sets the response SWR headers.

- Vercel's Edge Network does respect `stale-while-revalidate`, which you can validate here[5] on the example I created based on this investigation. This example is with `s-maxage=10, stale-while-revalidate`. Vercel's Edge strips `s-maxage` and `stale-while-revalidate` from the response. To understand if it's a cache HIT/MISS/STALE, you need to look at `x-vercel-cache`. I appreciate Max's feedback here the docs could be better—I've updated the Vercel docs now to make this more clear[6].

- I've started a conversation with the Astro team to see how we can better document and educate on this behavior. In the meantime, I updated the official Vercel + Astro example to demonstrate using SWR caching headers based on this feedback[7].

- The reproduction provided by Max[8] does not show the reported issue. I was not able to reproduce, which is the same result that our support team saw. It sounds like there were some opportunities for better communication here from our team and I apologize for that. I will chat with them. Free customer or not, I want to help folks have the best experience possible on Vercel. If Max (or anyone else) can reproduce this, I am happy to continue investigating.

[1]: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/integrations-guide/vercel...

[2]: https://vercel.com/docs/build-output-api/v3

[3]: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/projects/project-configurat...

[4]: https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/api-reference/#astrore...

[5]: https://astro.vercel.app/ssr-with-swr-caching

[6]: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/edge-network/caching#server

[7]: https://github.com/vercel/vercel/pull/9778

[8]: https://github.com/maxcountryman/astro-trpc-example
What do you mean by "analogised"? That's literally what's happening, at least in a classical sense, right? Brownian noise, etc? I suppose it's not quite that on a quantum level though, it's closer to nuclear physics.
Most older Unix command-line utilities.
I suppose everybody sees it differently, but in my case I'd say no visible change as my team hasn't been directly impacted so far and we don't talk much about this situation.

But I can tell that some people are worried and I suspect people work more. Nobody wants to get laid off in that context, and it's better to have good performance, even if it's not the only criteria.

There's also less money to spend, less traveling, no more interviewing, no headcount.

One question is when is it going to stop? how many rounds of layoffs before things stabilize? will it ever be like "before" considering there's not much room for growth.
> coordinating appointments

Asynchronous scheduling of disparate resources to converge on one or more solutions given gradually stricter constraints.

> planning a trip

Resolving workflow dependencies to a single, favored sequence of actions.

Both these primitives sound similar, graph-like. And maybe we could apply them to a wide variety of problems.
Hmmm, and is it a normal part of an average person life to ever have taken drugs or got addicted?

If so that still counts as a failure, nobody should be allowed to ever take these drugs in their lifetime.
> Most of remotejobs.org is already hosted on a VPS and so in my case I'll move the web pieces there with a CDN like Cloudflare in front of it.

You probably don’t even need a CDN at all.
This part is flat out wrong:

“ Researchers from UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, and UC San Diego open sourced Vicuna, a fine-tuned version of LLama that matches GPT-4 performance.”

They used gpt 4 to evaluate answers between GPT-3 and Vicuna.

Also, if the weights are from llama, it’s not open source since it’s based on a leak and only allowed for non commercial use.
I have spent a while struggling with Vercel and unexpected caching behaviour, specifically in regards to Nextjs 12 returning "Static props not found" errors in situations where that seems like it should be impossible according to the docs.

The lack of other voices on the internet with the same issues led me to believe that I was going insane. Now I'm starting to think going back to a good old VPS might not be such a bad idea.
Well you are comparing 165B and 1000B parameter models to 30B and 60B parameter models. That is about 3 to 33x larger, not an apples to apples comparison.
A video about installing it in VMWare or KVM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2u9HK6KNE
There should be a model trained only on what's publicly reachable through the great firewall.

Then that should square off against a model trained on everything..
FYI, cheap = $15.99 US + shipping.
$388 in Sushi. Just a $20 Tip: The Brutal Math of Uber Eats and DoorDash
> the reactor in Belarus was built in 8 years

That’s slower than average [1]. Striking, considering how much where you build influences timelines as much as who’s building. (I doubt Minsk subjects Rosatom to community input, labor requirements or environmental reviews.)

[1] https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/nuclear-construction-ti...
Personally, I love how approachable Vercel is and for most small things I've used Vercel for, it has been an absolute delight.

My issue with using Vercel for "real workloads" is the pricing though. 100GB of Bandwidth for $40 is a blocker.

I love how easy the experience is to throw up an app and test it in the real world, the dashboard is great, build times are excellent, but I can't see myself paying that high of a premium.
It's also an order of magnitude larger in parameter count...
tex and metafont will be set to versions pi and e respectively when knuth dies, and those will be their final versions
A multi-layer neural net is not limited to vague statistical combinations.

You can represent XOR in a neural network. A NAND. If you can represent NAND. You can represent arbitrary logic. Across billions of weights and across nearly a hundred layers of possible decision points. Meaning can be spread across the neurons in ways that allow each to be part of many many different representations. This is only in GPT-3. GPT-4 and soon 5 no doubt exceed these considerably.

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-neural-networks-solve-the...
I don't think it really matters. Tidyverse is fine for datasets of size 2 * (1...20?) . Data table buys you maybe 21..23? Then you're off to spark for 24+ anyway. So you'd only be covering a pretty narrow slice of the space.
Tesla’s strategy to fuel EV sales? Keep cutting prices
I googled ^D and didn't find any other meaning other than ctrl-D?

Some places said a D is short for Dick, but I don't see why that would be especially offensive to abuse victims because it seems to be used in a flirtatious way, not an abusive way.
I now have a preferred strap that I attach to whatever watch I get, expecting built-in strap to fail long before the watch.
So you're basically conflating "drug" = "molecule".

I see the point better now, but I still think the distinction is misguided. In a clinical context, dosage is more accurate, that's true, but this is not a distinction to be made between "pure molecule" and "herbs" in any other context.

For example if you use a scale for mushrooms, which under this idionsycratic distinction would be more of a "herb" than a "drug" (the drug counterpart being the psilocybin molecule), then dosage would likely be more accurate than a tab of LSD, because you really have no way of knowing how much LSD is in there.

In other words yes, the natural variance and additional components within "natural" drugs exists, but it is not inherent that this variance is significantly more than that of what you can get with synthetic drugs, specially if you consider that there's likely less hands between a person growing a plant/mushroom, and a chemist making something fairly difficult such as LSD.

This is not nitpicking, rather elaborating on the context, and trying to illustrate that the distinction you are making is only really applicable to comparing a clinical to a non-clinical setting, and it's not something inherent to the origin of the molecules.
The cheapest 160x160+ screen that can be bought off-the-shelf and has touch integrated. At least the cheapest I found. Also available on aliexpress for $12 and free shipping :)

If you find a cheaper one, please let me know. I'll thank you.
For someone looking at switching to Vercel for frontend deployment, this is a bit scary.

Granted, CloudFront isn't terribly hard to use. It's nice to have all resources in one place, however, it's probably worth sticking to the more mature products for things like content delivery.
In a nutshell, because an application won't be able to do anything evil. We're already halfway there on mobile devices. An Android app cannot access system files or files of other apps, period. "Run as admin" doesn't exist. It can't access shared files like camera photos or documents without explicit user permission.

This is mostly accomplished using SELinux, which is an afterthought slapped onto the original OS architecture.

There are exploits that defeat these walls, but it's getting harder. Walls built from the hardware level up will be almost impenetrable and might require finding an error in the chips' microcircuit designs.
AI Reflections
Big 4 is a multiway confidence trick at this point, scamming employees, clients and governments all at once.
Googlers I've talked to feel that OpenAI was irresponsible by not instituting enough safeguards, and testing it enough before releasing it.
Can Warner Bros Discovery Win Back Hollywood?
Late to this, but in the spirit of C.A.R. Hoare’s Turing Award acceptance speech, I’d say that we’ve peeled back layer after layer of robes and discovered that the clothes have no emperor.

https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/courses/COP4610/hoare.pdf
RPG?
I was going to comment on the same thing then got lost in all the Easter Egg references...

Yes, this was my interpretation as well (or close to it)! There was no way a 15yr old was looking for Backup Software for his Atari (did this even exist?? I was a 10yr old in 1980 and the thought of backup software never crossed my mind).

This kid wanted Atari to release more peripherals and games and such to "back it up". That is, to SUPPORT and SUSTAIN the growth of the gaming system.
It's not a law, it's math. Anything that comes out of pretax income is a bigger incentive (dollar-wise) for those who have a higher tax rate.
You're right that it doesn't match the hype, but the idea that it doesn't have any use outside of war zones is just demonstrably false.
If anyone needs a CDN, please use BunnyCDN. I have tried almost every other major CDN and it just blows everything else out of the water.

Regarding Vercel, they do have quite poor support so it doesn't feel rock solid and dependable. They are a great start though, but then ideally you should just switch to bare metal on Hetzner or something when you are earning serious money from your business.
Yes for many years, and I have many other friends that do so too. Just recently left to work even harder at a small place and I got promoted past sr eng.

The hardest part about FAANG is the fucking leetcode when you change jobs. IMO working at a FAANG is the most optimal place to be if you want to put on the slippers, have a good work life balance and get paid the most.
With some help by asking more questions, GPT3 can give the correct answer? Here is prompt and response:
Prompt:
A man sees PULL written in mirror writing on a glass door. There's a blind man on the other side of the door.
1 what should the man outside glass door do to open the door?
2 What should the blind man do to open the door, if man outside can tell blind man what to do

Response:

1 The man outside should push the door to open it, even though he sees the word "PULL" written in mirror writing on the glass door. This is because the mirror writing reverses the image, and the door is actually designed to be pushed open.

2 If the man outside can tell the blind man what to do, he should instruct the blind man to pull the door to open it. The blind man would not be able to see the word "PULL" written in mirror writing on the door, so he would need to be told how to open the door.

More questions can help human think, and it works for AI as well.
Decarbonising steel is a funny thing to say. Since steel is an alloy of iron and carbon it should mean turning steel into iron. Of course it is meant in a different way in the article.
> Tech has been bending over backwards for quite a while, but to no avail.

You're applying a false equivalence here. Some things are positive changes and make sense, and some are not. Grouping everything together isn't helpful.

I am male, and my first thought on reading the title was that it was juvenile to a point that I was surprised to see it as a title on HN. Hearing someone else echo that feedback is helpful and will hopefully help the author in their growth.

This is not a "bend over backwards" request, it's a dumb sexual joke on HN, and your response comes across as very condescending.
I used to agree with everything Piekniewski said in the past. And I can concede everything he said about Deep Learning right now and still point out that:

1. It appears that scaling these models will give us such high accuracies that it will solve the problem.

That’s just what I feel seeing ChatGPT and Meta’s Segment Anything
One of the biggest problems with overheads is that administrators are frequently simply unable to explain or justify them.

The vast majority of research-active universities in the US are non-profit, and so it doesn't really make sense to say that the universities is "profiting" off of overheads. Overheads are also negotiated with each funding agency, and my understanding is that the university has to prepare a fairly detailed case to support their particular number. They can't just make something up.

But overhead rates can vary fairly significantly between similar institutions. And when, as a faculty member, you start asking questions about why, you're frequently met with defensiveness, nonsense, or both. When I worked in the Northeast, I remember someone claiming that our overheads were 10+% higher than another institution due to... snow removal. (Which wasn't that effective either.)

Overheads also seem to only go up. Because of course.

Provide a reasonable justification for why you're charging me a certain amount, and how the money gets spent, and we're cool. I understand the university is a complex place and there's a lot involved in supporting what I'm doing. But when you can't provide a reasonable explanation, people start to wonder why not.
> the model weights would be a derivative work of public domain materials, and hence also forced into the public domain from a copyright perspective.

I don’t think “Public domain” means what you think it means.
It should be obvious that electrification requires producing more electricity.
Fascinating to see how the peripheral hardware resources can be used by someone smart who both knows what they are doing and thinks creatively. Very nice work.

I do hope someone takes you up on making this neat PIO LCD api into a library for others to use!
This thread reads like a laundry list of gifts, hobbies, and items I've received, played with, and been fascinated by.

To avoid recommendations I've already seen, I'll recommend balsa wood planes, a paper airplane kit, and perhaps some kind of kit to build a propeller-powered item. I forget what these are called. Whirlygig?
[Edited my original comment to include processing plants].
There is a secondary stage of processing after extraction which is highly toxic, that is the polluting part. Have a look at the huge tailings dams they set up to hold the toxic waste. These things just kick the can down the road for future generations. They also probably leak into groundwater. Lucky you don't have to drink that water.
If you'd like to see the full details, I posted an update here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35508529).
that typeface makes the tilde prefix (~) almost looks like a hyphen (-)
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