skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you want your social life recorded anywhere? I love that my social life isn't recorded.
Some context was given here: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/04/12/trademark-...

This isn't "The Rust Foundation went and Did It". AFAIK it's more like "The Project has wanted to change the trademark policy for a while (My understanding is "It's currently completely legally ambiguous despite seemingly being permissive, so it's A Problem"), and one of the explicit reasons the Rust Foundation was created was to deal with the Trademark Problem. The Project (Or at least, project leadership) were very involved in drafting the current draft policy". If project members are finding issues with the policy (And not just bugs/gotchas like "We didn't realize this would ban X crates, we're gonna fix that ASAP", but with some of the explicit goals of the Policy like what it says of commercial activities in general), then that's just showing how the current structure of The Rust Project is far from ideal. And that's generally widely known.
No they aren't this is such a lie. Residential water use is only a tiny fraction of agricultural and industrial water waste.
So what it's saying is that it's an area of space where sounds become incoherent due to interference from other sounds or reflections. So i'm assuming it affects the quality of audio recordings and the he is suggesting methods for minimizing its impact, such as using directional microphones or adjusting the distance between the microphone and the sound source. The post also touches on the importance of considering the circle of confusion in the design of recording spaces and in the placement of speakers for live events.

Audio engineers often use techniques such as microphone placement, reverberation, and equalization to control this circle of confusion and create the desired effect. For example, using a close-miking technique with a directional microphone can create a small circle of confusion and a sense of intimacy, while using a distant-miking technique with an omni-directional microphone can create a larger circle of confusion and a more spacious sound.
This is kind of a short list and very narrow in scope I find?

I would have expected more sophistication
> i can look at the flames

Samsung and other nice induction units have a visual indicator that while a bit silly from some perspectives, replaces looking at the flames.

https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+induction+flame+indi...
Users don't use protocols they use websites. Or more specifically, apps.
I’ve had a theory that LLMs are going to increase the prevalence of “shadow it”. Aka slightly technical business users using gpt to create their own apps to handle business processes. These apps will then lead to large increases in security incidents where company data gets leaked or hacked or whatever because the apps will just be random unreviewed code.
It's interesting, because some of this memory management behavior is still visible now. You can tell which apps are light on resources by how many hours/days they manage to remain in memory without being killed, and it's not unusual to see memory hog apps kill each other in multitasking.
>Richard Stallman is a bit out there, to put it gently.

You're not wrong, but HN lionizes this guy so much that the few things he got right are worth leveraging for rhetorical effect.

>Focusing on AI as the thing to fix for people losing jobs is just stupid. The thing to fix is the unjust society with no safety net that you guys have created in the USA.

The USA absolutely does need a working social safety net, but other countries are not guaranteed to be better. The original article was talking about China, so I must mention that China's welfare program is arguably worse. For example, they don't have internal freedom of movement. In China, when you lose your job, you have to go back to the town you were born in.

But regardless of that, I think you missed why I was talking about transfers of wealth. The problem is that if we restrict AI to a technological priesthood of a few companies, the size or strength of the safety net won't matter. AI companies will be big enough to do to the world economy what Samsung did to South Korea. Tax the robots to give welfare to the structurally unemployed? Sure, that's fine, until OpenAI gets tired of paying confiscatory taxes on GPT-12 and starts overthrowing governments[0].

The underlying problem is economic centralization. Countries that get all their revenue from one thing (e.g. petrochemicals and fossil fuels) either turn into dictatorships or are overthrown by them. This is because economic enfranchisement - i.e. having a large labor force that is paid and educated well - is a backstop for democracy and against dictatorship. Currently, the ownership model that Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are pursuing is extremely centralized, with everyone just calling into their servers and paying them in order to make the magic happen. The model weights are trade secret, and increasingly so is the training methodology and model architecture. These are not benevolent companies creating the future, these are dictators that haven't realized the extent of their power yet.

Sure, yes, artists won't be replaced long term. But they will have new bosses, worse than the old ones: the companies that own the AI they need to operate effectively. Sort of like how every artist needs to pay a troll toll to Adobe, or to Amazon, or to Apple today. Modern tech companies operate as quasi-governments, without any of the democratic accountability or constitutional protections that actual governments can provide. I see no reason why AI - general, superintelligent, or otherwise - will be any different. It'll just be worse. Unless we have distributed ownership of the underlying software and models to ensure that structural unemployment does not turn into economic disenfranchisement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
It was only a few months ago that eliminating gas stoves was a whacky right wing conspiracy theory. Now it's getting rolled out and the narrative shifts to "yes it's true and it's a good thing."
Everything is carcinogenic, especially all the delicious things.
> it's really sad that there seems to be a concerted political effort to take it away.

No such effort exists. The effort is to educate the public about the health risks of indoor combustion cooking and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with natural gas appliances.

If you are referring to the ban on natural gas in new housing in some areas, the vast majority of existing housing in those areas still has natural gas.
Lots of people who can't be bothered to learn programming are excited about doing things without having to learn programming.
> personally I prefer actual people having GPUs

I think Nvidia/etc missed some serious PR by not giving out tickets to buy cards via gaming and hardware sites, to be rewarded with more tickets if those cards ended up being used for gaming. However, I think it's unrealistic and unhelpful to call prices "scalping" when there are conflicting markets for a product.

> a Nazi walks into a bar and isn't kicked out

A bar is a private entity with a target clientele and limited availability. It makes sense that the patrons can be and should be curated.

> ideological toxicity was freely allowed to spread.

Now we're talking about NFTs, literally DeFi. How would you make NFTs that would allow for pro-Tibet messages, etc, and not also allow any other text/image that people want?

The correct filter is in which markets list it, and which customers buy it. It's like a disgusting book - it doesn't invalidate the very concept of libraries.
Can ChatGPT Be a Doctor?
Easiest way to do that wok style cooking is outside. Otherwise it's many thousands of dollars for the range and the hood.
Yep. You can use flymake or flycheck for that in combination with eglot or lsp-mode.

See https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot#diagnostics
Yeah, it can help with some things, but if you ask it to, say, convert a python app to Go, even with plenty of context it will give you hints without full implementation.

I suppose they favored concise answers in the fine tunning process and reused the model to train the 32k.

Things that I have been doing: paste full table DDL with entities and other classes involved and asking for some refactoring of a class. Also that and some stacktraces. It definitely helps, but the price (at least on azure) make me think twice before using.

Also azure playground is awful.
A little CO2 isn't harmful at all. Are you thinking of CO?
I don't see an explicit rule, but this feels pretty close to an inappropriately clickbaitey title. "Here's why..." it sounds like buzzfeed
One thing that bums me about the whole air quality conversation is that as much as we talk about the gas stovetops, no one seems to bother about the other things that contribute to poor indoor quality:

1. Gas ovens
2. What you’re cooking. Frying chicken on an induction stovetop is probably going to do more damage to the air quality than gas stoves with industrial exhausts (I have the latter)
3. House layout. This one possibly bothers me the most. There are so many houses with poorly designed ventilation. Replacing stovetops is not going to significantly improve air quality. My open kitchen with really good exhausts are going to have much better air quality with a gas stove than most houses with an electric one.
4. Other household items. Hundreds of other products like cleaning agents still will continue to pollute indoor air with carcinogens but no one will ban them.
Think you're really overestimating the justice system. Even if, in theory, the nsa could cross reference dozens of different systems in different jurisdictions and track you down, they won't.
This.

Hiring committee's job is to take the interview feedback and provide a "Hire" or "No Hire" decision. 99% of the time this is done entirely based on the interviewers' feedback without any further interaction, but occasionally the hiring committee will reach out to ask clarifying questions or provide feedback on the report. Sometimes that feedback is along the lines of "this question is more complex than the candidate's target level" and sometimes it's "hey, that question has been widely posted as a 'Google interview question', so people are studying it specifically; you need to stop asking it." Good interviewers will proactively ask for feedback from hiring committees so that they can provide a better signal.

Also, it's worth pointing out that there is no "one" hiring committee. Many people are in the pool for that task (it counts as a "citizenship contribution" during perf) and you meet for a few hours once every few weeks and grind through a stack of feedback. That's why he asked multiple times; he effectively asked committees made up of different sets of people.
I think induction is great for like 90% of use cases. But there are a few techniques that involve sustaining heat while moving the pan that it’s not very good at. One classic use case is using a wok.
Fair enough. Do you think it's easier to add some vent fans or retrofit a building gas->electric in every flat? It's not as easy as it's made out to be. Buildings were designed with sufficient electric service given the utilities available at the time. Buildings with gas have undersized electrics. In other words the service (transformer etc.) is likely inadequate. A massive retrofit from gas to electric cookers would be insanely expensive.
Remote work don't help in finding partners those days.
I run into this a lot and I find it hard to justify to reviewers why I decided to keep seemingly similar logic/functions separate rather than combining them. I usually don't have anything better than a "gut feeling" or "professional experience" that although they might seem to be the same they're either actually very slightly conceptually different, or that I feel that they're likely to diverge in the future even if they might be similar now.

Junior devs rush usually rush to combine things like that together, especially because combining like code is such an knee jerk thing to point out in reviews, and they don't have the experience to push back against it (or to even see where to push back). In the future the combined code then gets ugly when requirements slightly shift and the code that was combined should no longer be combined, but it's never split back up, it's usually just made complex.
Opening a window isn't enough, for me. I need a powerful fan, too.
> Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ?

Lots of places.

See for example the number of times (5) secret documents have been leaked by players of War Thunder to try to settle internet arguments[1].

[1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/video-game...
I guess, but I see this all as connected. The person (Michelle Tandler, if you’re wondering) wasn't calling for lynching because she knew she’d get clicks. She was doing it because she thinks police are breaking the social contract: she’s a wealthy white woman, cops exist to make her feel comfortable by violently subjugating poor Black and brown people, and they’re not doing it enough for her.

So yes, vigilante justice is bad, mobs are bad. But crime is also a social construct. We literally decide what is and is not illegal - aka what is and is not “vigilante justice” — and I don’t think it’s necessarily worse to find yourself in the crosshairs of an angry mob than the crosshairs of a cabal of bloodthirsty tech execs aiming the state’s monopoly on violence at you.
There is a standard. It's an acoustically treated room with monitors that produce a reasonably flat frequency response from 20Hz to 20kHz.

That's the reference.

Some items - microphones particularly - deviate from that because they can be chosen to deliberately colour the sound. But the reference itself isn't news. It's been a thing since at least the 1950s. The only difference now is that the standard is a lot more achievable and affordable than it used to be.

I doubt there's a single pro or semi-pro producer or engineer who isn't aware of this.

All but the very noobiest noobs understand that mixes need to "translate" to a variety of different speaker systems, from cheap earbuds, to car stereos, to high-end hifi.

Making a mix that does that needs good monitors, or at the very least the kind of skills and trained ear that can make a good mix on budget equipment. (Which is certainly possible, but harder to do.)

At the mid/high end it's just not an issue.

If you don't like the EQ on something, understand it's there because someone wanted it that way. It's very unlikely to be because because someone couldn't hear what they were doing.
Light a candle then
Time remains of value even when abundant. The logic that is valid for resources is valid for the instance of resource which is time.
I feel they should also be required to provide all details on the people who uploaded them
I've been to several county council meetings as well as committee meetings for different interest groups in my locale. I know it looks like they don't get anything done but it's actually REALLY complicated because literally everyone is a stakeholder. The councilors that I've seen are not bad people and they don't try to lie.

You're painting with a really broad brush if you think all politicians do nothing.
You must really work out.
what about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano-Narrows_Bridge
Scalable Next.js Architecture Boilerplate
For the context of a restaurant they absolutely use indoor gas grills.

Cast iron is a good use case for an induction. But if you are trying to cook something delicate where you need really precise on/off temperature control (like a hollandaise sauce) it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to get it right with an induction top (for a pan to work on induction it needs to retain a lot of heat).

A wok stir fry is another example - a thin metal pan that you need to work the crap out of is a really bad time on electric.
I'd be very interested to read that blog post. Besides your tips for maximum performance, I'm curious about the minimum you have to do to get a significant improvement. I can easily imagine someone basically using it to poll for readiness like epoll and being disappointed. But if that's enough to benefit, I'd be surprised and intrigued. More likely you need to actually use it to enqueue the op, but folks have struggled with ownership. Is doing that in a not quite optimal way (extra copies on the user side) enough? Or do you need to optimize those away? Do you need to do the buffer pooling and or multishot stuff?
The predictable result of that will be for the requests to be ignored and the enforcement system will work even more poorly.

A solution which might actually improve enforcement would be to have someone filter the requests that come into Consent-O-Matic and forward them to the authorities in a monthly digest. Quality reports from a human who actually put effort into making them will get more traction than automated, low-quality reports. Make it easier to enforce the law, not harder.
That's true, but the hardcore wok users I've seen just use big gas jets anyway so I'm not sure a regular gas stove gets hot enough for proper technique.
Are you implying a Pepe dressed as a clown is "hate speech"...?

Incredible.

This is why half the country doesn't take accusations of "hate" seriously.
Composable Moderation
I thought Canada imports wealthy people who pay taxes and buy all the houses.
Maybe more interestingly - that is the correct behaviour from the user's POV. The application that the user is currently interacting with is given more resources and background processes are throttled and killed until the user is done with their one task. Not sure what the takeaway here is - a well-behaved program deserves to be given more resources? Foreground applications should be the last ones killed?
Show HN: tictoc.health
We are trying to address some problems with Insurance Companies' efforts to comply with Transparency in Coverage.

https://tictoc.health

The Transparency in Coverage rule was issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and aims to increase price transparency and promote competition in the healthcare industry.
The rule requires payers to make clear, accessible, and accurate information about the costs of their healthcare services available to the public in a machine-readable format.
There are some problems with what the payers (aka Insurance Companies) have done.
They haven't made it very easy to get the data. We explain a little bit about how each payer makes it tricky.
Check out the site to see the details for each insurance company.
If you are interested in pulling down a whole lot of health insurance data yourself, we have collected every URL to every machine-readable-file from all of these payers.
You can download this file and pull the individual in-network rate files yourself.

We have a lot of ideas about taking this further. What do you think should happen next?
It's been a bit since I have been to a Chipotle, but at the time they used an indoor grill to char their chicken.
As 7, no (CHAR_BIT is required to be at least 8, see 5.2.4.2.1p1), but as 9, yes. Ancient machines aside, there are apparently DSPs with 16- or 32-bit machine bytes (addressable units), and people would prefer not to kludge 8-bit C bytes on top of that even if they could by fattening the pointers a bit.

Of course, the question of how the hell you are going to reconcile pervasive 8-bit storage and the C standard’s requirement that fputc|fgetc roundtrip every possible byte is still open—see the current committee chair’s grump about that[1].

[1] https://thephd.dev/conformance-should-mean-something-fputc-a...
Yeah, the unique flavor/aroma of flame grilled food comes from fats rendering and dripping down onto the hot burning coals, vaporizing, then adhering to the meat. Gas grills try to emulate this with a grate that allows the same vaporizing, but it doesn't work as well.
Not all. I think blueberries are delicious, for example.
Thanks. Yes, I figured it out :)
Letter from ‘Manhattan’ (1979)
Why not directly allow each column to be specified as “NULLS DISTINCT”?

unique (a null distinct, b)

> ORDER BY in grouped table

So that means you’re allowed to use values you haven’t grouped by and haven’t aggregated? Sounds like MySQL to me
>Certainly it is pleasing that they are not just doing Hindi, but some of these languages must be represented online by a very small corpus of text indeed. I wonder how effectively an LLM can be trained on such a small training set for any given language?

as long as it's not the main language it doesn't really matter. Besides English(92.6%), the biggest language by representation (word count) is taken up by french at 1.8%. Most of the languages GPT-3 knows are sitting at <0.2% representation.

https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...

Competence in the main language will bleed into the rest.
Solar energy got so cheap
This article's premise seems false, or not entirely true.

The production of equipment such as speakers and microphones does not depend on recorded material.

Speakers can be tested with reference signals that did not originate in a microphone recording.

Signals from microphones can be analyzed with equipment that does not involve reproduction of those signals.

Both these transducers can be characterized by objective engineering parameters, like their frequency response curves, sensitivity, impedance and whatnot.

Obviously, to feed a signal to a microphone, we need a reference source that makes actual sound, which is some kind of speaker, and likewise to measure the output of a speaker, we need a microphone.

I don't suspect that the engineers at any respectable microphone or speaker company exclusively just sit there listening to their favorite records through the equipment, or other such subjective activities.
In the vast majority of these cases, we're currently using up some of our light grey balls, while we've already drawn ten more slightly greyer balls, just sitting ready to be used. We can make batteries without cobalt. We can make energy without (significant) oil. We can grow food in towers efficiently. We'll do all of these if we need to, because they're better than just rolling over and deciding that technology just isn't worth it. Many of the balls waiting are even whiter than the ones we're currently using!

Yes, eventually we will find our hands empty for resource solutions. I do not expect it to be in my lifetime, whether it end by old age or nuclear fire.
It is, now. Their first paid chat model is what is now called 'Legacy' in the paid chat model selection pulldown. It performs noticeably better than the turbo version in all cases except for generation speed. Not vastly. But enough of a difference to make it worth mentioning.
these aren't legitimate sources, you might as well link stormfront for proof that antifa drink the blood of infants. those articles are full of insane tenuous leaps of logic so far beyond anything rational.
Maybe they can get an annuity and then call JG Wentworth.
Actually, I think gas->electric is the easier one quite frequently.

Simply because adding vent fans can be a physical impossibility because there's nowhere to vent to. There's more living space on the other side of the wall (in your building or an adjacent building) so you can't vent directly outdoors, and there's no duct so you can't vent anywhere else either.

I'm not an electrician so I can't speak to the cost of upgrading -- but it sounds like that might be required for widespread adoption of EV charging anyways. So if transformers are being upgraded nationwide anyways, then supporting electric stoves might come for free.