skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a legit hypothesis!

Speaking as a scientist, I'd love to see a round 2 of this work to see how much things are the same vs different. The premise for the work was doing more serious sociological methods could help understand tough phenomena here & suggest new solutions, so bringing in longitudinal analyses would be fascinating.

FWIW, if I remember right:

- Languages like Java, C++, .NET were the most popular. Maybe iOS/Android apps too?

- Buzz around then were Scala + Java (big data), Haskell, Elm, D, and the beginnings of Rust.

- TypeScript was already a year or two in as well. But population-wise, probably still niche.

- That was probably also some of the heaviest Node

Nowadays, we also see heavy rises in dynamic languages:

- Professional data scientists using Python & R. I think Python has become the #1 language for new folks?

- Go looks like a statically typed language... until you compare it to modern C++, D, Rust, etc

So I wouldn't be surprised to see a shift.. but then again, not at all obvious how much, and especially controlling for selection bias..
Pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t work against authoritarians. Getting away with hypocrisy is a demonstration of their power.
Internet Explorer: Targeted Representation Learning on the Open Web
Generate font combinations with deep learning
https://github.com/Jack000/fontjoy
You can't be "rabidly apolitical" and be anti-abortion and claim the government has been "censoring the right via tech platforms when it goes against their narratives," both of which are explicitly right-wing political positions.
Which only tells you that the issues with TSA are not politicized (in general). Which is a good thing.

So any government should work on improving the process if enough people are complaining and there are objective improvements to be made.

We don't have to think about which party to vote for to ensure eg. the government cares about improving lives of their citizens: they should all do that!
> Hard disagree, it's exceptionally obvious - the hands aren't just a little off, they're anatomically incorrect.

It really isn't. It's fine you tried to play Catch the Differences after knowing what to look at. That's not what people do with photos running in contests.
In my personal experience anyone that claims they have anything to do with Mensa should be avoided. It's nothing but a pay some money per year club for bragging rights to claim you're superior to other human beings.
> But what has the amount being borrowed to do with being a reserve currency? The amount leant for foreign exchange reserves (by other countries) is a small percentage of the total

Where did I mention foreign exchange reserves? I just said the US had an easier time borrowing money. That includes from other countries, institutions, and individuals.

Think about it like this: The US can say: “Hey world, I’m borrowing money at X%”. Regardless of what X is, the US will be able to borrow large amounts of money. Some of the borrowers will be foreign governments, some will private citizens, some will be institutional investors. It doesn’t really matter. There will be huge appetite for the debt regardless of yield.

Now, Portugal is free to say “Hey world, I’m borrowing money at X/2%”. That’s totally within Portugal’s rights. But they’re going to have a very difficult time borrowing any substantial amount of money. Maybe they’re ok with that. Maybe they don’t need to borrow much. But if they did want to borrow a lot they’d need to pay a premium on top of what the US was paying to borrow.

Now you’ll probably respond with something like “The BoE and ECB rates are lower than the Fed’s” and that’s true. And the reason is because there is a complicated relationship between demand for dollars and bonds, the amount the US wants to borrow, domestic monetary policy, and the opportunity cost between holding other currencies other than the US dollar. The point is that being the reserve currency allows the US to borrow more for cheaper than it otherwise would be able to. That doesn’t mean the US has the highest debt or the absolute lowest interest rate. It just means, had the US not been the reserve currency, they would have paid more for borrowing the amount of money they borrowed.
My only helpful use of chatGPT was "How do I shrink this video and make a thumbnail using ffmpeg..." with some specifics. Definitely flags in there I'd never think of.
Solar, wind, battery and cures for cancer had significant incremental improvement for the last 20 or so years. What kind of claims wrt to these technologies don’t you think panned out?
Bad take alert. I have just over thirty years of my own photos (scans too) and a lifetime of my parents photos to go through.

Time has the quality of making the ordinary extraordinary and the race to purge one thing to make way for another can be passed on as a task to the next generation.
Thanks for the correction, kvark!
> Wayback is a tool that supports running as a command-line tool and docker container, purpose to snapshot webpage to time capsules.
>
> Supported Golang version: See .github/workflows/testing.yml

The summary is hilarious! I still have not the slightest idea what it does, why I should care, or what it's good for. What are "time capsules", and what does "snapshot" mean in this context?
The OP is about Google in court right now.
This is not true : eggs in Europe have an expiration date of 28 days (without fridge) and there’s still a fair safety margin.

My lack of organisation gave me several times the opportunity to try eggs stores eggs longer than that - maybe 50days - and never had a problem. The only outdated egg I can remember (they are easy to notice by smell !) was “fresh”, strait from the shop, probably small cracks in the shell…
This guy's site is hilarious. 20+ testimonials about how great he is - all from 2022 onwards.

Pre-2022 his books seem to be non-AI related. One of them is "Best: A practical guide to living your best life" and another is a book for gifted toddlers.

An older description of him says "Dr Alan D. Thompson is a world expert in the fields of child prodigies, high performance, and personal development. "

Now he is a "world expert in artificial intelligence (AI)".

Looking forward to see his next world expertise.
Even if you want to get best score overall, Chinchilla laws still apply. Any model is trained on finite amount of compute, and there is optimal (in a sense of minimal loss) model size for this amount of compute. So difference between 1 and 2 is only amount of compute basically.

As for inference if you want just bound from above possible model size, then just take largest model you can allow and train for as long as possible. There is no evidence (yet) that we can hit the ceiling with this one.
They actually reimplemented the code to load the model. But it’s not clear if the weights of the model are free to use or not
What Walmart’s pullback from Chicago says about Corporate America’s limits
The complaint was about foreseeable, future litigation.
Off topic. Did anyone use GPT to answer questions about datasheets of electronic components and how well did it work?
In the UK and Europe, the “best before” date printed on eggs is 28 days from when it was laid. This assumes room temperature storage. Refrigeration can extend storage life beyond this date.
The entire discography is great. I really like his final stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FesS3D-7o1g
Like entiries with like goals will conduct themselve similarly. The market defines what it will bear. They don't need to collude.
The fastest math typesetting library for the web
Culture often grows with technological advancement. For example, electronics gave us rap music (from samplers), techno, 3D animation, video games. All of those brought in a lot of fresh and new ideas to the table for a couple decades until it stagnated.
I’m hopeful that the coming A.I revolution will lead to the next stage of culture.
Exploratory Programming with AI
I'm fairly certain "recycling" in this case means extracting the gold plating from the circuit boards and maybe the aluminium from the case. I think they're starting to do the batteries as well, but I'm not sure it's happening yet. Certainly all the epoxy and fibre glass and most of the minerals inside the components are unsalvagable. Most of what was a magical machine is going to be toxic garbage forever, and not on a human, but a geological timescale.
Explicitly writing down the crimes your peers/bosses are committing (and normalize doing so) is a way to blow the whistle with less hassle.
It can be fooled, and genuine data can sometimes not follow Benford’s law for a variety of reasons, but it’s a good tool in the toolbox for quick examinations. There is another technique (which I can’t find a write-up of, unfortunately) that’s similarly cheap to apply (although limited to cruder fraud than Benford’s law testing can detect): you can calculate backwards from a given percentage to see if it’s actually possible to get that percentage with the number of data points, test subjects, etc. If you have 71 observations and a reported rate of 57%, the test immediately tells you that’s been faked: it’s possible to get 56.3% with 40/71 or 57.7% with 41/71. Neither rounds to 57%. Even tests this crude will detect fraudulent papers, gut level of sophistication of fraud is surprisingly low.
You actually only have 10ml of mayo but it isn't in a 100ml container. You will need to throw out the sandwich.

Next time consider bringing all liquid condiments in separate 100ml containers and applying them to your sandwich after security theater.
Basic queueing theory says 100% load is not possible with any sort of variance in the arrival rate or service rate.

Realistically 70% is a good starting point for a max continuous load - then tune it. You might end up a bit lower or higher
This is based on buying the eggs at the production day though. Usually they sit in the store for a good while.
related: https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-0...
A Mulching Proposal (2019)
The fact that there are terrible dictators does not invalidate the point that there are non-terrible dictators.

I think the GP's point was that even with "good" dictators, the problems come up when succession needs to happen, which is why "dictatorships" don't scale.

Democracy has a built-in mechanism to stop any bad thing from happening in a change of government, while ensuring that change happens often (at least in a good one).
ChatGPT works well until it doesn't. When ChatGPT fails and generates some garbage it will do so in very convincingly sounding manner, and the learner may not have the right tools yet to recognize that.
If you think Turley knowledgeable, here is a clarifying thread => https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/164440828374100379...

It's sad to see everyone going all Winston Smith here, but these are our degenerate times.
Frankly most of the problem could be fixed by screening what you put into long term storage. If photo looks bad now it won't look any better in 10 years!
Indeed, when I saw the headline, I thought this was going to be commenting on the various supply chain crashes triggered by the pandemic's sudden changes, after decades of cleverly squeezing slack out of shipping, ports, warehouses, and logistics coordination.
The thing is that, with RHEL and a good-enough contract, from a management perspective you can yell at them until it gets fixed. Everywhere else, you're on your own.
Only 3 matches of the word "local" in the README and they don't seem to refer to any self-hosting whatsoever.

What does this tool do exactly? Send URLs to remote services for them to do snapshots?

That README is a classic case of a filter bubble syndrome. People, it can't physically hurt you to add 1-2 sentences saying what exactly does your tool do!
What? Why? It seems like a perfectly legitimate question.

I'd like to know, too... for the record.
um, never since it violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics
But it's NAS setup he already had and paid the cost for, both in money and knowledge, then time spent migrating.

Ready-made NAS (vs DIYng something via freenas or bare linux route) is also very little setup
The people in question are the people who create the policy.
> What strikes me today is that EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT FLYING SUCKS. Airports are just part of the problem.

And yet people keep flying. As long as the price is low enough there are enough customers who will endure the pain.

Things will change when more people stop flying.
Sega Nears Deal (Of $1B) for ‘Angry Birds’ Mobile Game Maker
Next level of the game is to invent the certifications in collaboration with regulators and then sell software that is certified.
A 'Science of Reading' Revolt Takes on the Education Establishment
No expert by any means, but SQUIDs[1] rely on superconductivity to detect tiny magnetic fields. One use is for recording neuron activity[2], so perhaps room-temperature superconductors could allow for a portable setup.

This article[3] goes into some of the advantages of a less restrictive setup, but the laser-pumped sensors they rely on still require a lot of additional hardware.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography

[3]: https://hebergement.universite-paris-saclay.fr/supraconducti...
Art has just been obliterated. The sheer amount of stolen content has put the very artists that made it out of their jobs. Open source devs are next. The only ones that will survive will be those where data is scarce and as such cant be used for much “training”. Unless regulation to enforce licensing terms is implemented people will be out of a job in 1-2 years.
That just means you get a 4TB SSD instead of a 2TB SSD. Hardly a reason to be concerned.
Not sure about their videos but I could not achieve the same quality at a limited bandwidth using NVENC vs x264. x264 quality was clearly superior. One does not have to do any pixel-peeping to notice.
Here is an idea: have "forever" directory and "for 3 years" directory. Stuff lands in "for 3 years" directory by default and gets removed automatically.

"Forever" is only for stuff you personally think it's exceptionally well made.
https://archive.vn/Y1PIz
It also stores locally. One of the last bullet points is

> Supports storing archived files to disk for offline use
How do tech companies make money?
This sounds like ‘we had problem with devices talking to each other so we blocked that, and then services that require devices to talk to each other didn’t work!’
Disclosure: I work at Ockam.

What you describe here sounds a lot like what we’ve been building at Ockam: https://github.com/build-trust/ockam
It is! Still it’s part of Eastern Europe, by some definitions. See the Wikipedia page for Eastern Europe. All in all it’s a useless moniker these days for most purposes.
Cannot answer your historical question, but maybe I noticed something relevant today.

I went out this morning with a couple of dozen Japanese to do a dragon dance (Ryūjin) around the local village. Exactly like this one[1] from 8 years ago.

80% of the dancers were wearing tabi. I figured out why. Upon re-entering the community centre from where festivities are organised, tabi-wearers could just wipe their feet and enter. The rest of us had to hold that dragon while simultaneously removing shoes and stacking them.

Socially, tabi are the only acceptable in-and-out shoes/socks I have seen here.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLQbSXFUY8
Batch computing and the coming age of AI systems
I guess that's one way of looking at it. You still want to remember the important things though. Memories are funny in that they can be highly contextual. So a picture you took in Copenhagen, however bad/amateur the actual picture can be a hook for all the great times you had in Copenhagen.

It's one of the interesting side-effects of being a digital nomad. When you're in one place and doing the same thing every day it tends to get compressed and discarded. When you're constantly changing things and experiencing friction you don't drop into that 'automatic' mode in the same way. I feel like I'm constantly being challenged.
I was discussing this with my my wife this morning, she had a good phrase for what's happening - "The homogenization of culture".

I think she's right, the algorithmic curation of how we consume media has replaced the self and community curation of before. That "algorithm" has become the homogenising agent. I fear how AI based generative media may continue or even amplify this effect.

Imagine a future where the algorithm doesn't just recommend media based on what you consume, but generates completely unique media for you.
That doesn't say much. There is also one with Celine Dion... If there is one thing I'm grateful for after moving back to NL it is that I no longer have to endure Celine Dion 3 times every hour wherever there is a radio playing.
One comment 3 minutes ago and it starts the same way as mine but I am not so sure. I think underlying demographic trends (which at the moment almost seem like immutable laws) will change our culture irreversibly. What is it going to be like when global human population is below replacement rate?

I cannot imagine the psychology of such a society.
I remember FANG representing pure internet companies which why Apple and Microsoft were left out. FANG represented the 4 no brainers of internet services. I guess it was a way to differentiate between the first internet bust hype and the internet companies with that are really working.
> It's good to raise awareness but it's not recent news. [...]

> Child labor in the… [...]

Have you read the article?

To me –pardon my subjectivity and don't take this as a personal attack please – this sounds like it can can be paraphrased with "I don't care".

The article paints a pretty strong picture not only of child labor and slavery but also of the environmental devastation and violence around the harvesting of raw materials in all these countries.

It also mentions electric vehicles, which have batteries that make iPhone batteries seem like a drop in the ocean in size comparison, and are celebrated as green progress.

> How should the typical westerner deal with these facts?

Maybe not buy unneeded batteries and advocate for honest regulation and a stop to reckless growth based on slave labour and environmental destruction?

Maybe stop pretending that capitalism would represent liberty and freedom, when it is built on destruction, unsustainability and slave labor?

For some reason, people can read such an article and claim that they know anything about reasonable environmental policy a couple of hours later, minutes even.

Sorry for the rant, but it makes me sick to follow debate about these topics.

Writing this from a device containing the same minerals that the article is about, duh.

> Hold the corps to account, vote with your wallet, demand that they reinvest profits in education and betterment and development of these geographic areas.

This is a poltical issue on a global scale. As long as it is allowed to reap profit from exploitation, outsource slave labor and environmental destruction and call this "free market", nothing will change.

I welcome everyone who reduces his/her participation in the global exploitation of poverty and the environment, but without political action it is all smoke and mirrors.
That's a lot of "maybe someday" type of wishful thinking. What will actually happen is the game will go poof and you will be left with nothing.
Ask HN: Do you agree with Peter Thiel's opinion that innovation has slowed down?
1) Era of Stagnation https://rootsofprogress.org/technological-stagnation#:~:text=Thiel%2C%20along%20with%20economists%20such,round%20number%2C%20since%20about%201970

2)https://mindmatters.ai/2021/10/peter-thiel-says-forget-the-hype-big-tech-is-slowing-down/

3) Weinstein says that R&D labs and Research Universities hire mostly want cheap labour in the form of Phd and Postdocs (mostly foreigners who can be exploited based on their Visa status).
https://youtu.be/nM9f0W2KD5s

I take the opinion of Peter Thiel seriously because he is the member of powerful Beilderberg group.Clearly elites are not happy.
And you need NFTs for either of those why? I could export a character with items from Baldurs Gate decades ago.
No.

1. I don't think the notice is necessary. I said as much in my comment. I understand why the person decided to include it. Understanding why someone did a thing is not the same as saying everyone should do the thing.

2. Endorsing something that's backed by the Russian state is different from endorsing something done by some random Russian individual. This was the main point of my comment, but I must have communicated it poorly.
> Company executives envision the car as an entertainment center, with gaming, social media, video conferencing, music, and other third-party apps. Schäfer touted partnerships with Universal Music as well as myNFT, the latter of which will allow customers to create and display their own private art galleries inside their vehicles.

This article, its celebratory tone, the company's focus on software, and particularly paragraph scares me. A car is not an entertainment center, nor is it a 'supercomputer', it is a transportation medium, and the drive for profits should not let anyone lose focus of that fact.

While it would be easy to assume that people can avoid 'bad ideas' like this, it is not the case with large chunks of steel travelling at speed, where a mistake can easily affect others who had nothing to do with the poor decision.
Not familiar with the details in this case, but it makes total sense to me that an "off the record" chat doesn't need to be preserved, even by a court order to keep all records. Let's assume there is a chat app that is officially designed to be off-the-record, and everyone who uses it assumes it is off-the-record. Let's assume technology-wise, there are indeed no records kept, everything is ephemeral. Should the court order then apply to those chats? I don't think so, just as a court order doesn't apply to a live conversation which isn't recorded. Now assume that the programmer of the app made an error, and accidentally records are kept for 24 hours. Should the court order now apply to those records? Doesn't seem to be a clear-cut case to me.
I'm failing to see how this relates, whatsoever, to the discussion at hand.

I don't mean any offense toward you.

Just having an incredibly hard time making any sense of what you wrote.
Yeah, I'm still using a 2009 ThinkPad with Debian Linux as my main workstation, and it handles numerous Firefox and Chromium tabs just fine. (I do upgrade the GPU in a server frequently, however.)

> Unfortunately, a couple months ago I realized my MBP was struggling to manage even a single Chrome tab

Probably the author is doing something much more computationally intensive than I am. And also running software from a company that wants to sell frequent hardware upgrades.
The BB date is printed on every egg and egg carton. Just subtract 28 days to work out how long it’s been in storage/transit.
The cloud price includes powering the drives 24/7 while your price includes powering them for zero hours a day
Electromagnetic control of liquid crystals is from 1927 (and original research on the chemistry/material side being from 1888) .. things did take a long time to evolve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9edericksz_transition
How Fast Is Eliud Kipchoge? You’ll Fall Down When You Find Out
Ah, I see it now, thanks. IMO it should be put front and center and be at the start of the project's description.
You’re describing energy market price (LBMP) dynamics. LCOE isn’t a price, it’s an cost estimate for the lifetime of an “power plant”.

LCOE is an input to deciding whether to build a new power plant in a market. The market’s LBMP is another input. Super simplified, if the market’s average LBMP is lower than LCOE for the plant, the plant shouldn’t be built…
https://archive.md/VtDEp
Yeah, sure. But the stuff once you get it usually lasts like a week or two, which is my point. If you keep it outside of the fridge that is.