skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firmware problems don't have to be severe enough to put human lives at risk to be a real problem. There are tons of examples of bad firmware leading to broken power or thermal management leading to crippled performance or battery life or excessive fan noise. WiFi NICs have subsumed large parts of the network driver stack and in doing so have made it impossible to implement effective QoS, leaving users stuck with stupid radio behaviors that hurt the performance of every device operating on the same channel.

None of what I'm proposing would lead to a bios update every month, except in the initial period of fixing the worst of the manufacturer's mistakes. "Firmware" as I'm using it would still be trying to present a stable interface to the rest of the system and not inherently be a moving target of constant feature creep in addition to the bug fixes.
I would personally prefer this beautiful piece of hand-crafted artistry not be infected with generative AI crap.
Anecdotally but sort of related - we've been using google lighthouse and tools like it to try and optimize our site performance and it was always suggested to use "next gen image formats" but we had the same problem where at the time none of the suggested formats really seemed to have good support.
The proximity to water cools the the panels which increases their efficiency, there's a lot of sq ft available, and the government already owns the land. It also decreases the amount of water lost to evaporation, and the amount of weeds/plant growth around the canals since there's less sunlight for them.
IMO they shouldn't. Personally I'd like for patenting a new physical invention to require a physical object to accompany it that embodies what is being patented.
Used this prompt

Could you describe the image as thoroughly as possible? Please include the content, any noteworthy symbology, techniques or styles, what kind of media, guess at the artist or identify any attribution, then attempt to describe the theme or idea it represents?

Got this

The image is a painting of a child running down a dirt road with a kite in hand. The child is wearing a yellow shirt and blue shorts. The background is a mix of urban and rural elements, with buildings and trees in the background and a field of grass in the foreground. The style of the painting is a mix of realism and abstraction, with a focus on the child and the kite. The artist may be attempting to convey a sense of freedom and playfulness, with the child running with the kite representing the joy and wonder of childhood.

The medium used is oil paint on canvas. The artist may have used brushes and other tools to create the different textures and effects in the painting. The artist may have also used underpainting to establish the composition and values before adding the final layers of color and detail.

It is difficult to identify the artist without more information, but the style and technique of the painting suggest that it may be the work of an artist who is skilled in realism and abstraction, and who is interested in exploring themes of childhood and playfulness.
Prevent evaporation sounds like a good idea, but it seems like the payback for that alone must not be much, or else they would have been covered a long time ago (with non-solar-generating materials)?

I'm not saying it doesn't make sense in conjunction with power generation, but that it's probably much less of a benefit.
India temperatures hit 40°C as heatwave continues
I'll often work some time on nights and weekends and take the appropriate comp time off in the following days.

Eg. "work 2 hours tonight, come in 2 hours late tomorrow morning."

People rarely ask me to work off-hours, it's more a "I should do this (update|configuration change|thing) tonight during off-hours."
When I think of these canals, I think of large swaths of reflective white concrete. I wonder if bifacial panels would be a good choice?
But you can patent your formulation in a way that will encompass many other formulations that might be distinct from your preferred implementing formulation... this is a basic tenet of patent law.
I think you're pasting this here without regard for context.
In this case there's a desire to cover the canals anyway for evaporation reasons. There's a reason you see a lot of solar covered parking: once you're already building the structure to support a cover, it doesn't drive up the structure cost that much to make it racking for solar panels. So this kind of thing can produce a real cost savings, by installing solar in situations where the supporting structure is desirable for independent reasons.
They didn't train it on the entire internet tho, only a small amount (in comparison to entire internet). Still plenty they could do.
How Much Time and Energy Do We Waste Toggling Between Applications? (2022)
Honestly, with any vendor not named AWS, it's incredibly difficult to parse their actual "cloud" revenue. I believe Microsoft bundles in their Office 365 revenue just as Google does Docs. IBM stuffs in all sorts of seemingly unrelated stuff to make their numbers sound bigger. It's actually difficult to compare apples-to-apples because of all the gamesmanship.
Ask HN: How does SF have both record office vacancy and a “Housing Shortage”?
I can make a similar argument regarding Jehova's witnesses.
This may be a Myspace moment for Google. The competition is now better.

There's another huge issue. Google is an ad business. That meshes well with search, and not so well with question answering system on mobile. What's ChatGPT supposed to say? "But first, this word from our sponsor?".

A big change in the ecosystem is coming. These next generation systems are being set up as walled gardens. Bing FAQ: "You’ll need to use the Microsoft Edge browser and sign in with your Microsoft account to access all the capabilities of the new Bing." Google is talking about limiting the number of users of their chat system, which implies they are tying usage to login.

This is a huge change to the business model. It's going to be about owning the customer relationship, not serving ads.
The video is ok for the spreadsheet-like comparison, but it claims that all batteries have "memory". Also claims that depth of discharge doesn't matter to lead acid (what happened to sulfation?).

One good point that was made is that lead acid starts to behave terribly after losing 20% of its capacity, to the point that they fail outright and can no longer hold a charge. Lithium can usually keep working way longer than that, just with a reduced runtime.

Those cycle life numbers look great, but lead acid batteries in practical applications tend not to last the lifespan advertised on brochures. We can gauge that by how confident the manufacturers are:

* The Trojan SIND 06 610 has a 2 year warranty.

* The NSB100FT - 3 years.

* The Battleborn BB10012: 10 years

The Trojan battery weights a whopping 220lbs and holds 600amp hours. It's not even in the same category as the other two. You need a minimum of two as they output 6v. The price for the amount of storage they provide is pretty good though.

> Lead-acid age by cycle count more than elapsed time, so you could have a battery last well longer than 10 years if you treat it well.

Have you ever seen a lead acid battery last this long? Was it able to hold a meaningful amount of charge?

Lead acid batteries may be cheaper but they are unlikely to survive for as long as claimed.

That said - if you want a battery backup that you basically never use, there is a chance that you'll get a good return on investment on deep cycle lead acid (specifically those industrial ones) – if they don't fail for whatever reason and are properly maintained. For the same amount of money you can buy a ridiculous amount of storage for a real emergency.

Good point about the recycle rate. Lithium is theoretically just as recyclable as lead acid, but the logistics are not there yet (but how will that look like in 10 years?).
We have some kind of k8s cluster that's just locked into a state where we can't delete it because of some wacky dependencies that no one at the company understands (it was set up by others). So at some point we'll reach out to amazon to have them wipe it.

It's kind of a messy product.
What do we mean when we say the internet is reading our minds?
Delete Your Dev Environment Regularly
It doesn't have to be the exact implementation though. It can be many implementations that your invention enables...
Why would you bother using an "officially supported" way of downloading the weights if they aren't copyrightable anyway?
Can they survive atomic bomb strikes? That would make me worried.
Thank you! Yes, a number of fantastic foldable e-bikes featured at CES this year were pretty interesting too.
Testing Sync at Dropbox (2020)
Related reading: https://dynomight.net/scaling/

In short it seems like virtually all of the improvement in future AI models will come from better algorithms, with bigger and better data a distant second, and more parameters a distant third.

Of course, this claim is itself internally inconsistent in that it assumes that new algorithms won't alter the returns to scale from more data or parameters. Maybe a more precise set of claims would be (1) we're relatively close to the fundamental limits of transformers, i.e., we won't see another GPT-2-to-GPT-4-level jump with current algorithms; (2) almost all of the incremental improvements to transformers will require bigger or better-quality data (but won't necessarily require more parameters); and (3) all of this is specific to current models and goes out the window as soon as a non-transformer-based generative model approaches GPT-4 performance using a similar or lesser amount of compute.
So there's not really a $20 bill on the ground, Mr. Economist? :-) There was no payback because the water kept flowing regardless. But past performance is no indication of future performance, and that realization is starting to dawn on at least a few folks.
Because bonds change value when interest rates change.

You buy a bond paying 3%, bond yields go up to 4% and you want to sell your bond, it will be less than the face value you bought it for. This isn't an issue if you want to keep it to maturity. But that's what SVB (and others) did and that creates its own problems.

If you're buying bonds, you're either parking money for a long time or you're betting on interest rates going down.
It’s also a play on the BFG from Doom, aka Big Fucking Gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_(weapon)
Avoid double negatives. You don’t want users to uncheck a “Disabled” or “Don’t use data source ‘Foo’” checkbox.
If you wanna watch a beefy Windows machine fall apart, run this under WSL. Even relatively modest Docker workloads completely destroy vmmem.exe (or vmmemWSL.exe, depending on your WSL version).
I've enjoyed using it for very small automation tasks. For instance, it helped me write scripts to take all my audiobooks with poor recording quality, split them into 59-minute chunks, and upload them to Adobe's free audio enhancement site to vastly improve the listening experience.
I'm a Wozniak without a Jobs.

Great engineering is maybe 10% of creating a successful startup.
I'm curious what would it look like if we could expand the size of an atom by a billion times, preserving all its quantum properties.
Video.

> YouTubers upload about 720,000 hours of fresh video content per day. Over 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube per minute in 2020, which equals 30,000 new video uploads per hour. Between 2014 and 2020, the number of video hours uploaded grew by about 40%.
Hmm, don't think that applies all the time. Herznet is way cheaper than AWS, and in most cases, I don't know why companies won't use it instead of AWS. The only reason people use it from what I know is that helps them with the next job, because everyone is using AWS. Kinda feels like ms and oracle in the 90's.
An amusing thought I've had recently is whether LLMs are in the same league as the millions of monkeys at the keyboard, struggling to reproduce one of the complete works of William Shakespeare.

But I think not, since monkeys probably don't "improve" noticeably with time or input.
Why do you need a credit card statement for taxes? Business expenses?
In a dynamically typed language, that's what comments are for. Since you didn't need types specified in the first place, why would you have trouble interacting with it? Comprehensibility and correctness are just as important as performance.
Very cool idea, and sleek execution!
This post is double great and I will never forgive Amazon for canceling that show.

For those that don't know this is from a show called Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series)

Scene: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-F-IHvF5OCA
I mean, yeah, they have uses. I just struggle to find them. Something else usually wins out. Height-constrained layouts are usually a decent bet, tantalum shines if aluminum can't fit!

They do leak pretty badly though. I think it's better than other electrolytics, but it's still not great. Of course, they do tend to do better than spec... until they don't. It's been a while since I've done micropower stuff though, so what do I know.
> I kept reading news about Google's AI programs

Technology is not a product. A product that uses technology to solve a number of clearly defined real problems is a product. When Google was saying AI this AI that, I had yet to see any product.
You are wrong on many points and right on many.

- Apple Pay, Google Pay and Stripe Link will remember your CC details - so no need to fill them in again and again. This is as smooth as can be.

- Micropayments are expensive. Forget about it. Creators need to come together under common umbrellas to get paid. That's what traditional publications were in the end. If people could put their egos aside a little, they could start making some good bundles.

- You are dead wrong on accounting. Nobody has to make formal invoices for all their subscribers.

- It's easy to accept SEPA payments and many other payment forms without credit cards through Stripe. Those germans who don't have credit cards have debit cards and they work the same.
The key issue is that all my existing equipment is 230v. I would have to rebuy everything.

If you need an inverter anyway for hvac, you have added complexity and no gains.
Although not mentioned, I’m using 230v ikea fixtures with 12v led e27 bulbs wired to 12 volt, as you mentioned. Is indeed quite efficient, no inverter running.
I worry that the hardware requirements are only going to accelerate the cloud-OS integration. Imagine a PC that's entirely unusable offline.
3d printables with an s.
when you say 3d printable X it means you can print the X.
Perhaps call it "hidden", and then also have a view option to see or not see hidden records?

"enabled" and "disabled" are vague sounding names that don't give any hint as to what selecting them will do.
Which do you use instead?
I did also interpret the title the same way!

I had images of a 3D printed version of Google's original server/storage assembly:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...
If people take their money elsewhere, the banks can borrow from the fed, just at a higher rate. So in theory, they should be willing to increase their rate up to whatever the fed-rate is, minus some margin for the risk of dealing with lower sums of deposits.

There's a direct correlation between advertising spend and interest yields on deposit accounts, which is somewhat interesting. It seems like the optimal business model is to focus more on customer acquisition than customer retention, because these products are very sticky. Churn rate for deposit accounts is like 8%, which is crazy given the rate variance.
AWS Application Composer[0], Brainboard[1] and Cloudmaker[2] are a 1:1 mapping tool between a visual representation and an infra-as-code representation. They're more similar to Scratch[3]. You still need to know what to place to get an outcome you're interested in - If you want to set up a globally low latency static web site, or connect an RDS to a Lambda, you still need to figure out CloudFront, custom domains, VPCs, RDS Proxy, draw it all in, etc. And if you were to change RDS into DynamoDB, you'll have to manually undo/reshape the diagram/topology/IaC because some elements no longer make sense or are needed

InfraCopilot is more akin to Wolfram Alpha, in the sense that it has an intelligence/understanding of architecture. You can use high level design to describe your intent and requirements/constraints, and it will deterministically implement it (this isn't LLMs or ChatGPT). When you attempt low level changes, it will validate that they maintain correctness, because it has an understanding of impacts.

When you reshape elements, it has the understanding of follow-on effects, and how to propagate them into the rest of the architecture, all while staying valid.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/application-composer/

[1] https://www.brainboard.co/

[2] https://cloudmaker.ai/

[3] https://scratch.mit.edu/
Off topic: these cookie warnings have made iOSs touch and hold quick view useless. The alert usually takes over full size of the quick view window!
Not trusting authority figures tends to be extremely laborious, give little benefit, and gets you socially marked as an oddball.

Trusting authority figures generally is easy and works out well. 'Till it doesn't. But that's an unknown ways into the future, and you'll have plenty of social acceptance & sympathy for your "perfectly reasonable" misfortune.
That's not what I said, or meant.

Both gold and crypto are poor vehicles for original commenter's need.

My comment about defi was just because you characterized the stock market as "gambling" (somewhat unfair, but certainly can be), but for somehow failed to annotate defi as an alternative that is "even more so gambling"...
> What's the point of a debate in which the speeches are completely unintelligible?

1. The speeches are intelligible. Maybe not to you. That's okay.

2. The oral presentation component still has value because it puts a hard constraint on the amount of time competitors have to formulate and execute on their strategy. It's an artificial constraint designed to train specific skills -- "thinking on your feet in the presence of a lot of information".

What's the point of competitive running, or of any team sport?

Given the highly artifical nature of the 100m dash, might as well just have each competitor run their race and mail in a video instead of having a track meet, right? What value could the competition provide?

Ultimately, these are simply highly constrained games. The rules are designed to make the game competitive, and children play the game as a way to learn and practice various skills. No one thinks that being great at competitive running or hitting a baseball will immediately translate into e.g. business acumen or excellence on the battlefield. For some reason it breaks people's minds that debate is just another competitive game.
Suffrage isn't granted based on paying taxes. Is it anywhere? Paying taxes is simply the cost of living in a society, but I don't think that paying them should grant you a voice any more than buying a company's products gives you a vote in who their CEO is. Foreign nationals pay taxes on their income, but they aren't allowed to vote. As soon as kids are old enough to buy things from stores, they are paying sales taxes, but no one's arguing that kids should vote because of it.
Ehh, at some point the automatic suggestions for lambda, athena, sagemaker, whatever is at least a little interested in getting customer lockin/stickiness.
I think what I'm most reacting to is the parenthetical "quotations", which are straw men, of course. There may be an element of truth to them, but if you're not literally quoting somebody, adopting their perspective needs to be done thoughtfully and empathetically.

I hear you that they are bring emotional, and that needs to be reflected, but just like there is truth in your post although it came of as a bit inflammatory to me, there is truth in those emotions as well. Distill that instead of dismissing it.
Also a great unlock if you do the bulk of your work in kubernetes. Amazon is certainly doing some things in their kube implementation that will make moving suck more (karpenter, some of their other integrations) in an effort to be better and thus sticky... But it's still pretty easy to go from one kube cluster to another.
The real cost in most places is in opportunity cost and lead time. e.g. you want to do a thing but you can't because you don't have the physical resources available. That can be very frustrating for people trying out things that will produce novel revenue in the org. Reducing the cost of experimentation is quite valuable in a larger organization.

For something like our HFT firm, we see high sustained utilization so we have an on-prem cluster of nodes that we run. They're faster (more powerful CPUs), have more RAM, and you can run fiber optic interconnect that's, in practice, faster than on AWS. We still use AWS extensively, though.
> Meeting my new coworkers, they structured their jobs as lottery tickets bought with their lifeblood, trading tips on managing the symptoms of work until the pearly gates of liquidity opened.

That's a true statement and a painful insight.
I like color cues. So a toggle goes green when it's on, and red when it's off. State to the user what the colors mean.
Just one footnote. Not everybody must know taxonomy and we all have different skills

Scientific names were created to be universal language. To achieve that they have a few rules that grant that everybody can communicate.

The genus is Neobuthus ("new scorpion") but the species can't be Neobuthus Factorio, is "Neobuthus factorio", the second part must be written in lower case.
RedPajama-Data: Code for preparing large datasets
By the way, why don't we switch to a 8-day week. I.e., 5 working days + 3 weekend days?

Technological progress should have made this possible by now, I suppose. More spare time for side-projects :) Let's call the 8th day "Funday".
>"the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, says further progress will not come from making models bigger. “I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant models,” he told an audience at an event held at MIT late last week. “We'll make them better in other ways.”

So to reiterate, he is not saying that the age of giant AI models is over. Current top-of-the-line AI models are giant and likely will continue to be. However, there's not point in training models you can't actually run economically. Inference costs need to stay grounded which means practical model sizes have a limit. More effort is going to go into making models efficient to run even if it comes at the expense of making them less efficient to train.
Nice. Thanks for the summary.

So ~4x the size of the Pile, any idea how it stacks up in terms of quality to other big datasets?