skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had strongly pronounced visual snow since I was a little kid.. Remember asking my parents "what is the thing you see when you close your eyes?"
They were confused, "black?" yeah, but.. I know the color back, like, a piece of black paper on the table in a well-lit room, I understand that it's this near ideal smooth surface that reflect very little light of no particular color.. But the thing when you've been in bed for a few minutes in darkness, and the "tv static" blobs start moving around and pulsating ?

They never really understood what I was talking about.. I talked to others, and most people report no such experience.. I was convinced (and still is) that everyone has this, and it's more about.. how well attuned they are to it, how aware they are of it.. Like with the floaters.. As I'm writing this, I sit in a dark room with my monitor, and around the white text box is a hundred little "cells" jotting around in the snow.. I don't believe for a second this is uncommon, I think the less part is becoming aware of it.

It's hard to "unsee", when you've recognized the face on the crab, it will always be there to some degree. When you've become aware of a sound, you can't unlearn it.

Back to childhood, as a kid, I was at the ear doc a few times, trying to find out what the thing was I heard.. It was not tinnitus (that came later) but, in the end they concluded it was the flow of blood in my ear.. Something everyone hears, but many people don't notice.

When I was a kid, I would blink my eyes when looking at high contrast scenes, and as my eyes were closed, play with the afterimages, eventually learning to refresh them by slightly changing the force with which my eyes were held shut.. Eventually I noticed how the light became momentarily brighter when going outside from inside a dark house.. I found that thing in my head, that thing that made it become brighter and darker, and played around with it, eventually showing my friends at school that one can change the size of their pupils by thinking about it, just like one can wiggle their ear or move their scalp.

I'm not discounting the experience, but rather, I question if this is really damage to the brain, or rather, a stimulation that caused them to notice what is already there.
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Bing crawler does in my limited experience seem pretty picky... It doesn't even seem to be able to follow HTTP->HTTPS 308 redirects on one of my sites (it has successfully indexed another) - it makes requests to http:// for my site, gets a 308 redirect to https://, and then does nothing with that, other than robots.txt requests.
A thing to think about is: Do we in fact need top-down government mandates to do this? People with gas cars have range anxiety, too, and you need to be strategic about placement of gas stations to ensure that they don't get stuck in a place where they can't charge. And yet... this turns out to be a problem that largely solved itself without a centralizing authority, because "people want to buy gas/electricity for their car, and they want to buy it more in certain places, and there is money to be made by serving that demand" is where the market does well.

Market failures are real, the need for regulation is real (there are, quite sensibly, piles of regulations around how you can store the tanks of toxic chemicals needed to fuel a legacy gas car, and there will be regulations around EV charging as well), but in terms of making sure EV charging places exist where needed, this is probably a place where just "get out of the way, and don't let zoning regulations block necessary construction" gets you 90%+ of the way to where you need to be.
+10 for having some lorazepam handy
Have you ever been to Virginia? Have you compared it to the American southwest for sunshine?
Releasing heat into the air is the entire point of the building furnace. For the heat to get lost, it would have to leave the building.

There's a more obvious argument that leaking steam into the streets is a waste of heat, but that still depends on your goals. You might like having warmer streets.
I don't think you're wrong. Digg did not understand the core features that users valued. They assumed users would stick around through every monetization abuse they threw at them. Users put up with the "power user" bullshit (paid influencers and astroturfing) because the comments tied to those submissions could be worthwhile.

I think digg's fundamental problem was they viewed their user base like a passive audience. It turned out their users were in fact their main attraction. When they ruined the experience for users they left and digg was left with zero value.
> But somehow we have decided that small computers (aka phones) must only have 1 port.

Because, you guessed it, they are small. And any port you add requires a not insignificant amount of space
Yes. But that lead is dwindling, and soon opening to CCS cars as well. That’s my point.

Tesla needs to start building something new again, or improving their cars in meaningful ways, or their lead will dwindle.

And the cybertruck ain’t it. (I have a reservation for one, but there are better options now)
> No other generation in history has had such an opportunity.

I'm a milllenial that learned how to code at 14 using the internet. To be fair to your point about "free" I did use pirated software and a few pirated video courses
Encrypted binary format is perfectly human readable. It's not my fault you weren't born a savant. Anyone claiming otherwise hasn't seen white noise. /cj
Well, YouTube Kids?
> But meddling in Africa will surely be made public at one point or another.

The french has most of africa on lockdown in that regard
I don't remember Stability claiming in any public forum that they solely developed Stable Diffusion. In fact the first stable diffusion model on Hugging Face is under CompVis Org.

They had an issue with Runway with a model takedown or something but I think that was sorted out later on.

I don't know why the article seems desparately trying to show Stability in bad light while they have in fact funded a lot of AI model development and helped release it with permissive licence
Someone else in the comments said it; learning a human language should be approached the same way as learning how to construct anything else. Learn how everything supports each other and why. Then it will click in your brain because your brain actually understands why things are the way they are, and how to use them.

For example

French "je." Okay, sounds and looks nothing like "I." Maybe a bit if you force it. "je(i)?"

But both come from Latin. So what's the connection?

Well, French "je" is descended from Latin "ego." Which means "I."

ego-eo-jo-je

So now your brain knows that. You don't have to consciously recall the direct translation or use a mnemonic anymore. You actually understand how French works.
Postgres uses multi version concurrency control. The amount of garbage kept around to ensure each transaction can be handled independently is roughly proportional to the length of the transaction multiplied by how much work is happening with any transaction overlap. That's potentially a problem with queues implemented in Postgres because the for-all-intents-and-purposes-dead rows being tracked by MVCC slow down each piece of work on the queue, increasing transaction times, and circularly causing a runaway scenario at lower thresholds than you might expect.

The comment about deployment pipelines was just that some shops explicitly load test with a multiple of prod-like data to find that sort of issue before prod. Doing so for a non-negligible amount of time is important though to catch qualitative shifts in the RDBMS behavior as it approaches a steady or runaway state as a result of any software change.
Do you have any examples you could point to? Most of their public comments on the topic of this thread look like this, noting the accuracy of predictions:

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1597660277188677632

https://www.science.org/content/article/even-50-year-old-cli...

Based on what little details you gave, I’m assuming you’re referring to the “hot models” paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01192-2

If so, the key point is that neither the IPCC nor NASA GISS reports are affected because they weight the models based on their accuracy predicting the past. This looks like the normal scientific process at work: ¼ of models are overly sensitive to CO2, careful validation caught it, and the major reports don’t have that problem because that review process worked. We also know that this is an increasing challenge human efforts do have a significant impact and if emissions go down that’ll be used by critics as proof that earlier predictions were wrong.

From a policy perspective, it’s also worth noting that there’s no credible reason to think warming will halt or reverse. At this point we have roughly half a century of models accurately predicting that we will have a big problem unless we stop polluting and we know the costs of the unavoidable warming are already measured in trillions. Trying to reduce error bars is always good but at this point it’s clear that acting seriously now will save many lives and enormous sums of money compared to letting the fossil fuel companies continue to encourage more rounds of “debate” on whether the problem is real.
Psychedelic drugs have an exponential effect as dosage increases, that's one issue. Complete dissociation from reality due to overloading of the visual perception receptors (the 5-HT2A serotonin receptors involved in translating the optic nerve signals to the brain's map of reality) is not entirely unlike a blackout drunk except that the motor nerves are relatively unaffected, so you can have people running around with no conception of their surroundings (leading to all kinds of unfortunate effects, like falling off cliffs etc.).

Culturally, people raised in a 'more is better' consumer mentality are most at risk for this, or if they don't know what kind of dosage they're dealing with. One thing about the original post here is that they state they know the amount of LSD they took in terms of ug, but how would they? Also, how would they know the purity? Is it possible that some unreacted side product of a low-quality LSD synthesis damaged their visual nervous system, perhaps, leading to long-term effects, or was it due to a kind of neuronal rewiring process?

Bottom line: these drugs need attention from full-scale carefully managed scientific investigation, which has mostly been banned since the 1960s.
This is what’s hard about it - personal experiences vary. We need an outside entity somehow keeping track of uptime and availability of chargers, and the infrastructure bill will hopefully help with that.
This has been the case for the past one or two years already. Every app category is completely filled with scams, crappy clones, and brainless mass-produced 'puzzle games' [1].

Just yesterday I was searching for a 3D modelling app, and roughly 80% of the results were this type of game, while the apps I wanted were far down the list (and came with a $14,99/month subscription).

The store has become a complete shit show, and the curation that used to justify the walled garden is nowhere to be found. We get the worst of both worlds.

[1] if you can even call them 'games'. They are usually a set of static illustrations, a cheap backstory loosely related to the topic, some drag-and-drop puzzles, and little glimpses of child abuse, violence and sex, being promoted for a 12+ age range.
> Has anyone done more detailed numbers..

This is usually under "C&I" (commercial and industrial), as opposed to rooftop or utility scale.

Try Lazard LCoE report, NREL Solar reports, IRENA renewables, or use google.
> Psychedelic trips with mushrooms and with LSD are very similar, often you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.

Having done both about a dozen times, this is not my experience or the experience that others have shared. Even a large dose of mushrooms only has subtle visual effects, while LSD makes the world look like a van Gogh painting.
Isn't this exactly the kind of response that the blog author is calling out? I have a friend who had no history of mental illness or prescribed medications and had an absolutely horrific trip that left him very unsettled for a good few months. The issue is that responses like this deflect onto other possible causes rather than accepting that sometimes people who could never have known differently can have truly dreadful experiences. I say this as someone who has had universally positive and very meaningful experiences with psychedelics, including LSD.
> the purchase of these tools is a top-down affair

This is absolutely it. Pager Duty don't sell on-call tools to engineers, they sell the idea of having an on-call rota to CTOs, the tools are an implementation detail.

Bottom up engineering tools take more time to start with, but almost always cost less in the long run, contribute to a good engineering culture, and build a sense of ownership.
I think it's an overreaction to fear mongering stories about psychedelics that are much less common now than a decade or two ago. But it would be crazy to dismiss the danger in taking psychedelics or to bill them as being suitable for everyone, I agree. An underground and recreational drug culture is prone to dismissing risk and ill equipped to create safe and supportive environments, or to respond to medical/psychological emergencies. And that's kinda the better case scenario, there are also cults that abuse psychedelics and it's incredibly harmful.

Hopefully over the next few decades this stuff can be decriminalized and can move towards more therapeutic environments. I believe that in the right circumstances they can improve/save lives.
Does MS give/sell crawl data to OpenAI?
I've been in my Tesla on a 2hr road trip with a planned stop at a supercharger along the way. A message popped up on the screen of my Tesla that there was a power outage at the supercharger I had planned to use - I was seamlessly rerouted to a different supercharger. Not an ideal situation, but very well handled by Tesla.
FWIW, the Lucid and Ioniq navs also take stall availability into account.
> Similar way of thinking that I know of was Valve and Steam, where Steam users needed to Greenlit a game before it came to the Steam store.

Not the same at all. You can install whatever you want on the Steam Deck.

I'd fine with Apple just curating their App Store; I am not fine with them deciding what software I can run on "my" device.
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> What's your ideal authentication solution?

Client side TLS certificates used in combination with username/password. Had browser vendors improved the UX experience in generating CSRs and storing certificates, then it could have been a viable option. The nice thing about this is that it's application level protocol agnostic. It could even be used for SMTP and IMAP connections instead of just being limited to HTTP like webauthn.
I personally use Fennec with uBlock on mobile.
Outside I see robots on the road, robots on the sidewalks, and robots in the sky.

A robot brought my drink order at lunch yesterday.

At the local grocer a robot mopped the floor as another checked the stock.
This comparison doesn’t really work for me. The pain I felt was more like the worst heartbreak imaginable, but magnified 100 fold, then spread across infinite time and space, all while having the knowledge that this pain was my eternal state and would NEVER end.

This isn’t to discount the immense pain people feel from heartbreak or losing a loved one. Just that the human mind seems to have an incredibly large capacity for suffering, moreso than we’re aware even during the most painful moments of our lives.
5% based on fictional evaluation, but $150 of the last $300 mil raised. Certainly enough to influence marketing and positioning.
I've had a tesla for over a year, I exclusively charge at superchargers, and I've waited for a stall at a charger a total of one time.
The money Apple makes from mobile games alone can fund a profoundly more expensive app review process.
> That it’s absurd how much suffering the human mind is capable of experiencing.

Not only that, but the different "qualities" of pain one can experience. I never believed that grief would feel the way it felt when I first experienced it, and I was completely ignorant of it, until I went through it (I thought I understood grief through empathy, but I was wrong). How many subjective experiences are we ignorant of?
> Seems like an OS problem that they can manage to break the quit option in the app menu.

Not really. The same phenomenon can prevent you from losing unsaved changes to a document.

Many useful features can become misfeatures when employed by a malicious developer.
I think wikipedia is the jewel of the internet, but that's just grumpy old me.
Article starts out decently with describing why we shouldn’t expect normal distributions everywhere.

Becomes weaker as it treats Pareto distributions/ power laws as a metaphor and never explains when one or the other is more appropriate.

Adds confusion when we are supposed to “make bold decisions in the tail” while the examples are to focus on “head of distribution” problems.

Lost me when they characterised their decision as health insurer to offer gym access and other health programs as one of those “bold tail decisions” when this is aimed at all policy holders, not only the 20% who drive 80% of the cost.
> Has anyone done more detailed numbers on costing of roof mounted installation vs just putting utility scale solar on the ground?

You're far cheaper on the ground, for a variety of reasons (at least in most areas). A good ground mount install should be able to come in around $1/W, and you'll have a hard time getting roof mount below closer to $1.50 or $2/W installed, and if you get $2/W, you're getting a great deal.

If you're doing the work yourself, ground mount for around $1/W is doable (including the frames), but roof mount I've not been able to get below about $1.25/W, and that's hard - $1.50/W is more typical.

The main difference is that the roof mount system requires rapid shutdown on (in NEC 2017 and later) every panel, and you're limited to 600V (though with rapid shutdown requirements, this is less relevant). For a ground mount system that's isolated away from random people (fenced area), you can run up to 1500VDC to the inverters, and this rather reduces your costs in wiring. You also don't need rapid shutdown, so you can just run strings of panels (20 or 25x 72 cell panels in series, depending on the environment).

Also, if those strings have an arc fault somewhere, you're not going to burn up much that matters for a big ground mount install. You'll cook a couple panels, and that's about it. A fire under the panels on a warehouse is a much bigger deal.

The main problem you run into with warehouses, though, is that there's just no good option for mounting. For a flat roof, they're generally built to exactly the loading requirements for the area. You don't have the spare PSF capacity for a ballasted mount, which means that assuming you've got the weight rating for the panels, you're looking at a lot of roof penetrations on a flat membrane roof to hold stuff down - and the odds of some of those leaking is basically 100%.

Plus it's a royal pain to work on roof mount systems.
(Skimmed it quickly)

>> We conclude with recommendations that professional societies in mathematics should sponsor an (international) code of ethics, institutional mission statements for mathematicians and syllabuses for incorporation into mathematics degrees.

Gotta put that subjectivity in mathematics.

Mathematics, as the purest of sciences, cannot have ethics in it. Ethics are a human invention: the laws of the universe have no ethics. They simple "are".

"Put ethics in math" is a veiled way of saying "we will regulate what math is acceptable for you to do and what not".

And since this is an oath this implies you WILL BE PUNISHED FOR BREAKING IT. No more truth, just subjectivity.

The year is 2045: you need to obtain a permission from the European Union Mathematics Ethics Comittee before you are allowed to execute a vector cross product on your CPU in your own code.

Also: medical doctors take the oats. But then the pharma drug rep comes along...
I do like the same thing. That's why I don't buy Apple things for personal use, and it doesn't even feel like a trade-off. I may agree with using blunt and stupidly heavy weapon which is gov't (in this case supragov't) against power of some monopoly. However, charger doesn't look like that case at all. I think it was picked simply because it makes a nice populist move, and not because it has significant impact on a significant number of customers.
Someone once started a Twitter feed sharing articles about new and intriguing studies -- just so they could add the two crucial missing words. "In mice."
I had a similar experience, too. I was 18, just before starting college. It took me about 15 months to start to recover with Prozac helping me create breathing space. Daily flashbacks. It took about 4-5 years for the flashbacks to stop. I stopped marjuana/cannibis during that time, tried it again 10+ years after the event, could handle it then.

LSD is dangerous, even once taken in the right environment can screw you up for life. I had a long road back, screwed up my first 3 years in college (went from top of class in high school to average, but recovery in year 4 meant i ended up back top-of-class). Still, terrible drug.
This is neat!

The nixos:latest reference is amusing. A reproducible image from a non-reproducible reference.
LEGO Group had significant financial hardships 20, 25 years ago. It’s been mostly well documented that they made many different changes in strategy and operations, and have become wildly successful.
Yes, sorry, I didn't frame it well. I meant the possibility of breaking your properly functioning state of consciousness.
Without getting into opinions this made me think of a Richard Feynman quote about abstaining from substances, along the lines of "I like how I think and didn't want to do anything to possibly change that."
To each their own and much respect for doing what works best for you.
I think in the world of ML, contributing that much compute should count as co-creation. There is a lot of code published by academia that just needs compute and data, but they don't receive it. Stability deserves credit for Doing the Thing. IP rights are another thing but that's a whole subtree of legal questions that society is barreling towards.
Ask HN: What is your set up for using LLMs for documentation question answering?
I'm considering using LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc. but wondering what others' experiences have been with the various approaches. I have a custom corpus of documentation for which I want to create a question-answer chatbot.
Depends. Are you an Apple shareholder?
Actually giving them weapons allows them to more effectively defend themselves.

It's not like Taiwan is going to do a first strike against the mainland, or invade the mainland.

Weapons would only be needed in the case of an invasion from China.

And if that happens, then they will want as many weapons as they can get.

It's not like they are turning down the weapons. They are accepting the military aid, because they want to have methods of defending themselves.
Well I guess we'll both agree to disagree about the nuances of the early years of Reddit, something neither of us know anything about. Oh well.
As a more general suggestion, macOS likely isn’t good at imitating what you previously had, try to understand the workflow they’re proposing, adapt and learn it, it generally gets second nature and pretty decent soon enough, getting to work the way you envision is not apple’s strong suit.
This seems akin to drinking a whole liter of vodka as your very first drink and concluding that no one should drink alcohol, ever.