skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For it to stop, either the mass market must be convinced to make purchasing decisions based on it, or the activities must be made financially unviable by force of law.

In the end, these are kind of the same thing; because the laws are made by the people the mass market elects. The second can sometimes advance in a direction people don't "care" about, but they can't long go strongly against them.

e.g. the EU could require all smart TVs be sold with a switch that puts them in "dumb mode" and it would probably work for them, but if they straight banned smart TVs that'd get overturned quite quickly by the people.
Lol $20 won't buy you a turkey sandwich these days
WebGPU is much more portable than CUDA.
> There are only 20 Billion Neurons in the Neocortex. GPT-3 has 175 Billion.

No, parameters are loosely analogous to synapses (they are weights on the connections between neurons) not neurons, and the neocortex is not the whole of the brain. There are about 140 trillion synapses in the neocortex, 600 trillion in the brain. And neural connections may not explain the brain's capacity, as mutual interaction with other body systems is involved.

> GPT-4 scores 130 on IQ tests.

Methodological issues (or simply methodological unclarity) with the reports of GPT-4 test results aside, IQ tests do not directly test general intelligence, even under the assumption that g is the same thing as general intelligence. They are a proxy which works for testing that in humans, because in humans the capacities directly tested by them correlate with g. We have no idea what IQ testing results of LLMs, even conducted appropriately, mean, if anything.

> They are absolutely in the realm of the power of human brains.

No, to steal from Pulp Fiction, an LLM and a human brain “ain’t even the same f###ing thing. […] Ain’t no f###ing ballpark neither. […] It ain’t the same league. It ain’t even the same f###ing sport.”
From Matlab to Python with ChatGPT: Lessons from porting a light-field framework
I live in Europe and prefer the train. Less pollution, more legroom, can take a nap, read a book, etc.
Shortcuts involve trade offs. You can learn to write your own UI efficiently or you can operate within the limitations of some tool. Which one of those takes you less time is only the result of practice and confidence.
My poor man's sous vide is filling a really big pot with water and heating it up to a specific temperature. There's so much volume it doesn't cool down significantly by the food during cooking time. I put my piece of meat in a regular plastic bag and sink it down keeping the ends above water held secure by the lid.
Correct. Although I am incredibly tempted to order a full sized shitty commercial one from China and hack on it.

All that goes on there is an evaporating tray of water and wet bulb temperature sensors (finicky to measure accurately). Imagine an environment similar to a dishwasher or rather, a sauna, where you play not just with the temperature but also the humidity by controlling the steam bath.

The Chinese commercial ones I am referring to use a fill valve with a float (not dissimilar to a toilet tank) to replenish the water from the evaporating tray found at the bottom of the oven. So might get away with an analog circuit.. I digress..

Instead of keeping your food in a plastic bag and recirculating the water through a heating element to keep the temperature you are just constantly boiling water and releasing steam so the entire oven cavity settles at an exact temperature AND humidity level. Hope I didn't bungle that explanation too much.

Anyway GM probably has super fancy home ovens of this nature for $10,000 a premium home gamer version of the sort of thing restaurants/fancy-hotels use. The pros simply front load food trays into them like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cfll7tUcuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJb9cYXo-4g

The Anova thing is basically a tiny toy version of that.
The mechanism is different because it doesn't use a vacuum, but it's similar to sous vide in its effect.
For what is worth, I agree all those things are emergent (how else would they come to be?), but also felt it was non sequitur and was put off by the assertion it was "too hot to handle."

I think GP was objecting less to the substance of what you said than that it's non sequitur-ness, if I had to guess they viewed it at disrespectful because the original commenter had put a lot of effort into creating a thread on a certain topic and they perceived you were hijacking it to talk about something tangential. The connection between these topics may be clearer to you than it is to us.

While I do know of some people who refuse to accept any form of fundamental relativism or uncertainty, I honestly think they're pretty rare, and it's unnecessarily confrontational to start a conversation asserting your views are "too hot to handle". It's sort of like asserting that some people are too dumb to agree with you - it's getting off on the wrong foot, and more likely to incite an argument than a discussion.
Inflation adjusted, I'd be seriously curious how much you paid for that flight. My general understanding is that a ton of the "flying used to be nice" anecdotes are because in the 90s and before, almost everyone was flying at a cost/service level that's essentially what first class is now.

So, yes, everything sucks more now, but it's also far more affordable, and part of how it became more affordable was that the mid to late 90s brought the first wave of budget airlines like Airtran that lowered service and legroom and the like but made it cheaper.

There's a common refrain about a lot of things - air travel and the internet most of all, that amount to "this thing was better when it was a luxury service for only the rich."
But not all goods.

If you need something to eat in an airport, there’s a bunch of snack options you can bring in. It’s not a movie theater. I’ve brought in Nuts, sandwiches, home baked bread wrapped in tinfoil. TSA just doesn’t want you bringing in the liquids. Am I going to get a warm meal with a drink on the side? No. Will I be full? Yes. Will is save $15. Yes. Will it take some planning and prep work? Yes.
Huge installations in very sunny places are cheaper because they benefit from economies of scale. Rooftops and lamp posts(!) are the most expensive type of solar installation.
Google has been getting a lot better.

They let you change collection settings and delete your data.

It’s a lot better than most companies do.
It's not really fair to make an assertion that one asset will outperform another without giving a measure of confidence.

I'm not asking that our advisor take leverage, but merely asking whether she/he has, to gauge confidence in the investment thesis.
And biology and ...
This is just Google up to their old tricks again. They used to have an internal practice to add company lawyers to emails in order to try and make them privileged and undiscoverable: https://archive.is/1Bwgs

I don't know what the aftermath of the DoJ action mentioned in the link was, but I hope they were sanctioned in some way for it, just like I hope they get sanctioned for what they're trying to do here.
you can just click the scroll wheel
My 5 year old like question - does it have pictures ? I like printed pixel art
Sous vide translates literally to “under vacuum” as it involves cooking food in plastic bags that are vacuum sealed and cooked in water baths at precise temperatures. The technique, however, is much more useful for the temperature control elements than the vacuum. The reverse sear method mimics the temperature control element of the technique, but is just done in an oven, so it’s very much not under a vacuum.
Security at the individual gate is also done at Kuala Lumpur, Doha, and some others. I prefer the usual arrangement of a centralised security check. This stack exchange answer does a good job listing some of the advantages and disadvantages of security at the gate:

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/34818/why-is-secu...
I came to the same conclusion.
You can this series of blog posts by one of the key people involved in FFmpeg: https://codecs.multimedia.cx/category/cempeg/ffhistory/

This was discussed here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34555465
You’re still swimming in people (especially since they fired all staff after Covid and haven’t rehired but usage has returned to normal)

You still have to deal with security theatre.

You’re still treated as cattle.

You’re still at the mercy of delays, bumps, last minute gate changes.

You still have to deal with a puny amount of luggage.

You still have to pay for every little thing (lounge access to relax, drinks/food inflight, the privilege of taking checked in luggage)

You’re till siting in a tiny aluminum tube with your knees under your chin for hours on end, preferably with a kid kicking the back of your flimsy seat the whole way.

You still have to waste copious amounts of time going to and from the airport.

You still get your luggage lost/delayed/damaged and having to deal with overworked + underpaid people to try and get compensated.

I could go on. I hate the miserable experience of flying and it seems like airports + carriers are always innovating to find ways to make it even worse.
Seriously. It's hard enough for me to find stuff in my company's Slack instance, never mind if everything auto-deleted after 24 hours or 30 days.
Additions to language always confront syntax expectations. Some people can see through syntax to semantic intent, alas I am not one and the utility of a syntactic form goes (to me at least) beyond expressiveness to comprehension: if your syntax confuses then how can anyone comprehend?

Haskell dies in syntax.
Sorry, this was meant to be a semi-sarcastic reference to the paper by Northeastern. They use "Reflexion" in the title. It's a paper about how these systems improve their responses by simply allowing their outputs to be 'reflected upon' by the system. For instance, they are able to improve something like ~60% to ~87% by simply allowing the 'reflection' upon what was just output.
I’ve found that when I don’t state things as fact on here that I don’t end up getting as much ire, but sometimes I just know what I do is true and am too lazy to explain it in my glee in seeing it manifest.

Time will tell, but as of now there are still no killer uses for crypto, other than hustling others.
On the one hand, this is somewhat true, but on the other hand, there are lots of efficiencies you can get without trading resiliency, and the author sets up a few false dichotomies here.

The author mentions JSON vs struct serialization as an example, but flatbuffers and protobufs (or any binary protocol format that builds in an ID and a version number) give you the same resiliency benefits mentioned here. You don't have to go all the way to raw structs to gain efficiency over using JSON. Only the last tiny bit of efficiency (the gap between a struct and a flatbuffer) actually comes at a meaningful resiliency cost.

The same goes for single-threaded vs multi-threaded services and single-machine vs horizontal scaling. With some thought, you can do all of these things and create highly-scalable systems very efficiently - not quite as efficiently as a single thread, but a lot more efficiently than the standard "web backend" thing of creating 1000 microservices using 10 different databases and 50 caching layers for that single task. That efficiency is available at no cost to resiliency.

The common thread of "web" solutions like microservices and JSON is that they help you save developer time. That is orthogonal to the efficiency vs resiliency tradeoff.
Nvenc vs. QSV: Who Has the Best Hardware AV1 Encoder?
Using SSIMULACRA2, I've compared Intel's QuickSync Video to Nvidia's NVENC encoder across Linux & Windows. They compete against other dedicated encoding hardware for different codecs across different GPUs, including an Intel iGPU.
250km is at least 40kWh. To get that in 15h maximum sun you need at least 2.7kW of panels. Naturally you don't have 15h of peak output, so 4.5kW of panels sounds about right.
They can't, line continuation is broken in pdf, so the most basic consumer operation like copy&paste a few paragraphs of text is broken since pdf is anything but a simple format
No advanced stuff like automaton required
They’ve made a lot of promises over the years and never committed enough resources to deliver on most of them. They have made progress, no denying that, but it’s been slow. They have had to refocus several times over the years due to the moving hardware landscape and just how slow the project is going. There’s a history of failure to deliver on promises and so they need to start meeting expectations in order to build some trust in the project management.
In many circumstances "Can we talk off the record" is conspiracy (to commit future crime)
This is so anecdotal it hurts.
That's pure speculation, isn't it?

Russia didn't make a rational decision: we know that Putin hid the plan from most of his subordinates, ignored concerns presented by the rest, and the system withheld important facts from him likewise. He made a huge gamble with his "3-day special operation".

Also, the nuclear plants would have provided only a partial backup for the Russian gas, as electricity from the plants couldn't replace the direct use of gas in German houses and industry anyway.
Prioritize visually with a value/effort board
I wanted to share a free tool that I built for better value/effort prioritisation to help everyone with discovering influencers. You can find a YouTube video of it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOLsemUKSE0

Please share feedback on what others think can be improved!
Average is probably not too useful here because there are outliers who drive a lot. Median would be more interesting.
How do you know they actually honor your requests? What about any of your data that's gone into training one of their ML models? You can't just delete the effects of training data from your model weights.
So many of these cars will sit in junkyards over this flawed tech era in just a few years... Just one change to phone connectors can cause sudden obsolescence of nav and other major components used in so many cars.

We are paying a lot extra for this tech that has a very limited shelf life. Simpler is becoming much better than new at the fastest rate ever. I really don't need my car to be cutting edge any more, because that requires too many damn monthly subscription payments.
> a party failed to take reasonable steps to preserve it

There is nothing reasonable about turning an existing system that was never designed to keep chats at all, to do on a whim, where would cause irreparable damage to the common offering both internally and externally.

Once is a pass, but 24 hours is not nearly an established window that a medium can/should be made arbitrarily compliant. It would be a large precedent.
Yes you have to go back through security afterwards, the canteen isn’t airside.
Protected class in the civil rights sense, no. In the second amendment sense, it very much is.
Interesting metaphor. Usually, one doesn't buy into a poker game with one's entire bankroll, so pushing all in is relatively insignificant.
Yes, they apply to future records while the hold is in effect.
What about CPU BBQ?

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=zAEXuONMJCQ
Private companies are even worse in following long term goals especially if those goals become unprofitable.

Private companies can also go bust or be bought up by competitors only to be shutdown.
I recently nuked about 10TB of data and decommissioned my Unraid server. I do have a disk on a shelf with the contents of that data If I do need something from it I can dig it out, but it is there to rot.
Hmm.. some bits of this don't ring true to my understanding... for example:

"There are a lot of reasons that you don't want to coopt your database's role management to manage your app's users as well.

It doesn't scale. Postgres isn't designed to have thousands of roles"

While the general assertion that you don't want the database role management system to be conflated with your app's is certainly the common practice, the assertion that the database not scaling with many roles doesn't seem to be well supported. As a counterpoint to this part of the arguement:

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/creating-1-million-us...

"The bottom line is really that PostgreSQL can easily handle a million users without any problems."

The Cybertec conclusion is more in line with what I'd expect. Database roles are really just data and if PostgreSQL can't handle a few tables with thousands of records (or millions).... you've got more scalability problems than role scalability to be worried about.

Maybe the author is conflating the well known scalability issues with the number of concurrent connections to PostgreSQL with the number of defined roles.
Seems like the energy bill would be more expensive in the long run compared to getting a cheap sound vide accessory.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643988/p

"Higher emotional instability was associated with both definitions of chronic fatigue and was confounded by shared genetics."

Of course, this theory is very unpopular with sufferers of ME such as yourself.
For what it's worth, I think the connection is, once you surrender "is", you accept a world that is stranger and fuzzier than may be comfortable - a world where the question, "what is an electron?" may actually not have an answer.
Exhaust manifold possum isn’t unheard of.
I’ve heard stories of people saying things like “at our (highest) levels, we only talk face to face, and then as little as possible.”

It wasn’t about regulation, but protectionism. If you want to do business with us, you need to hire people to deal with us - people we approve of, or no access.

This was in an unregulated industry, with strong protectionist instincts (Hollywoods movie industry).

Couldn’t these sorts of “in person only” rules also be a protectionist gatekeeping technique?
Seinfeld uncovered this many years ago. The huge airport, airline complex is just a scam to sell you the tuna sandwich:

https://youtu.be/kxGzClxVx9Q
You don't have to do subpixel AA. It's arguably worse on modern high DPI displays because of the color fringing that wouldn't be present with grayscale AA.
Not sure, got a link to the Reddit comment/thread?
> You're not going to enjoy a movie more just because you're shovelling puffy sweetened carbs into your face

I beg to differ. It definitely is a part of the experience for me.
That link isn't in English. Is it supposed to be understandable by general HN readers?
> An airplane flight is practically a high-tech bus trip.

I think that mindset is mistaken, and explains many of the misconceptions around the dentist that was dragged of a United plane a while ago. However, that this mindset can persist shows just how amazingly successful aviation safety and security efforts have been over the past decades.

> Airport security probably is useless, otherwise there'd be an analogue for public transport.

It is much easier to kill everyone on a plane (and then some) than everyone on a bus or train, it seems to me.
If you get thick well insulated clay(?) pots the granny method is to bring them up to temp, wrap them in towels, smother em with pillows for good measure, and leave the food to cook like that for X hours. :)
this is really cool would love to see some favouriting or notifications
Say Goodbye to Tedious Blogging: Switch to Parser Arguments
I was assuming that it's option 2 (you can spin up new workers within 10 days). If you're using cloud compute this is almost always true.

If you're building an on-prem cluster, I'm assuming you either spin up cloud workers for the extra load, have extra servers that are fully powered off and can be booted in a few minutes, or just physically order and install new hardware. Amazon can ship you a computer in 2 days, so it's not inconceivable to design an on-prem infrastructure to allow significant scaling with short notice.

Option 3 is sorta always true as well, since there's always compute load at your company that's lower priority, and can be shed in an emergency (for example, your CI system).

In any case, I suspect the common pattern of scaling is that most companies grow in a smooth enough way that they can predict demand in future weeks within a couple percent, so you can just run at 98% CPU instead of 100%
You can use io.github.youruser or any other meriod of namespaces you can get for free
Consistent and excellent results don't necessarily require any tools.

If you've made the same thing a million times, you probably stopped measuring after the 10th time or so, and if you had arrived at the same exact steps without the tools through trial and error there's literally no difference in the results.
Thanks to browsers and wikis you can read code, edit it and see result in real time: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/ , http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=janus
How much of cooking is just a chase for tastier food? Up in Eastern Europe everyone is hardcore convinced overcooked meat is healthy because no bacteria plus warm food good for stomach. Tons of people still wince at medium rare steak.
A number of my friends see 0 commission and think “hey, good deal, let’s exchange here”

So yeah it works as intended. Same trick as advertising prices without taxes, tips, cleaning fees, and other mandatory fees you’ll end up paying.
Nah, too many files have disappeared completely from the Internet, no one's interested in archiving and no, archive.org doesn't get everything.
Take a look at aifiles: https://github.com/jjuliano/aifiles

Getting vicuna or alpaca for this could be the best decision for those that want to keep their data.

Could you imagine the space saving you can achieve by a system that constructs a real normalized duckdb database with zstd compression and join tables and all from your big dump of tar.xml.gz files? Automagically converting all of your media to AV1 and Opus to save space and remove any private codec reqs?
Clear collation with directory choices similar to Linux style?

https://github.com/jjuliano/aifiles seems like one of the best ideas for data organization - just needs some polishing and local-only models
Logic and reason does not exist in the cheap/convenience/self serve food world. That or a database is configured wrong.

At work, we have self-checkout kiosks for food. There is a "Triple Meat" breakfast burrito with eggs, potatoes, onions, bacon, ham, and sausage. It weighs 10 ounces. There is a "Vegetarian" breakfast burrito, with eggs, potatoes, and onions. It weighs 7 ounces.

The vegetarian one costs OVER $1 MORE than the heavier, and more ingredient meat version.

Go figure, but my personal theory is bad data, not bad thinking.
Absolutely. I always buffer my time to the airport so I can stop off somewhere like a Whole Foods and load up on some food prior to the flight. Salad bar is typically my go-to.

A. It’s less expensive

B. It tastes 100% better
The idea that the universe can be simulated on a Turing machine to a sufficient accuracy is not the same as the digital physics hypothesis, and it's currently the vastly dominant position amongst physicists.

If our current understanding of physics is accurate, then yes the universe can be sampled by a probabilistic Turing machine to any required precision. For this to be false would require a new and fundamental discovery in physics.

Wether or not that means consciousness is computable is an ontologically disconnected argument.
> Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"?

Ultimately, the courts do, but if something is possibly related you’re supposed to preserve it.

> turning the chat history off doesn't really destroy anything

IANAL but courts tend to view all written conversions the same way. Turning off chat history is viewed the same as throwing away all the mail you receive, and both are very much frowned upon when the court has specifically asked you not to. These rules are set through longstanding precedent.
True but it does seem to be a popular DIY upgrade.
Should have used IRC!