skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram offers a powerful platform but the default client is so weird. I'd very much prefer interacting with a website instead.
For example, every bit of the UI is so aggressively animated, emoji, stickers, full-screen effects, it's a pain to look at. Meanwhile the iPad client still can't properly handle the hardware keyboard or even switching to another app and back (the input field gets stuck floating mid-screen).
> and even Intel admitted that ray tracing is just "brute forcing" the complex optical physics of a scene

Modern ray traced games are much less "brute force" than what they were doing back in 2008. The use clever techniques and algorithms like temporal denoising and radiance caching to achieve high quality ray tracing effects with a tiny number of secondary rays per pixel (The budget is often under one ray per pixel).

It's not really fair to call it "brute force" at all, just a different set of clever algorithms.
There was sand falling on livestreamers within minutes of launch. They're definitely going to have to get the debris issue fixed, to say nothing of the former pad itself.
> What is irrelevant is trying to dismiss transformers as intelligent, or like the brain,

Well there is a very very very big thing that makes it relevant, which would be the fact that we have no fucking clue on how our brain actually works.

Wild claims, as always, no sources, as always
> And you'll almost never meet ICs again, so why are you bothering to 'leaving on good terms'. Its a fantasy. Grab names and emails on the way out, though, might be handy.

If you only want to be an IC forever sure who cares?

If you want to found a company/lead teams, those people are the network you’ll bring to your next gig. Why fuck them over?
Surely we see a difference between a company attempting to bring space travel to the masses and a platform designed to show ads.
It looks too small for the US market but I think can dominate in most other markets.
When you take into account how price of solar and batteries is still falling every year it will be interesting to see how the world changes when ice cars are incompettive in all categories.
I think you have this exactly right.

Sundar is like Neville Chamberlain. Maybe ok during peacetime. But now Google is at war, and needs a Churchill.
I disagree. The entire tech sector had one of the strongest labor positions in the country for the last decade. It was short sighted not to unionize. Now, layoffs are widespread, compensation is way down, while all the profits go to shareholders. This applies to Google and many other profitable tech companies.
Software engineering is also snake-oil.

Yes, software can be engineered, but that's not what the vast majority of so-called software engineers are actually doing at their jobs. The title mostly exists to inflate the importance of a programmer with years of experience under their belt. In reality, most of them couldn't explain to you what engineering itself is, and their job primarily consists of duct-taping and building features expediently. It's like taking a carpenter whose job is to crank out barely adequate sheds for a shed company and calling them an architect.

Don't even get me started on "computer science."

Prompt engineering is a legitimate area of study, and is obviously a practice demanded by LLMs, but you gotta just ignore the "engineering" part. It's the same skill as being a good communicator. Take a room full of "software engineers", tell them "build me an app that will let me sell gadgets", and they'll do their best to build one, but chances are it won't do what you want unless you communicate with greater specificity. It's hilarious how many people think LLMs suck just because they don't do the right thing given a single shitty sentence.
Increasing groundwater will lead to much less wildfire, because trees can bring up groundwater up to hydrate the landscape. There are many ways communities can work to recharge groundwater in their area.
When the CEO and CFO sign off on the financial statements, they assume an extraordinary amount of risk. If there is fraud occurring in the financial reporting of their company, they will be severely disciplined. I suggest reading up on Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302[0] and the Enron[1] and WorldCom[2] accounting scandals. Sarbanes-Oxley was issued as a response to the aforementioned scandals and lays out the bulk of the risk that a CEO and other executives take on.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/7241

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCom_scandal
If you go back a “bit”, there is LUCA (last universal common ancestor).
> All I can do is decide whether to accept the new sense, or just avoid the taste altogether.

I've accepted that my sense of smell will never fully recover (been about 1.5 years now). It's not as bad as when I first got it, where things smelled really weird and chemically/burnt, some things are closer to what they used to be, but overall my sense of smell is greatly muted from what it used to be. Kinda sad since I used to think I had a pretty "refined" palate :)
Enlightenment's terminology is pretty snappy if you don't want to give up too many of the fancier term features.
That's a very misplaced worry. People, even children, hell, even parrots, apes and some monkeys, have the ability to discern what's on a screen from reality.
There are multiple reasons, but the single biggest reason is: Apple

A customer that is willing and able to ramp to huge volume a small size chip (important for good yield), and even willing to ramp with relatively low yield (due to high iPhone margins).

Time to volume production is generally gated by yield for foundries, and Apple provides an intermediate target with the small mobile chips.
For those who have not used VictoriaMetrics, it is a high performance time series database that can drop-in replace Prometheus. We host ClickHouse at our company but use VictoriaMetrics for long term storage of prometheus metrics across tenants. It's fast, solid, and super economical to run.

If you want to learn more here's a webinar I did with Roman Kavronenko at VictoriaMetrics that compares it with ClickHouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCrdp8hIhJM

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity.
This is pretty normal and how certain economic policies have worked, for example, deregulation of the banks allowed banking companies and their employees to get insanely rich while eventually causing the 2007 recession.
Tangentially related to this is when I installed a patio in my yard two summers ago. Okay, let me explain:

I had a sugar maple about 3 feet away from where I had to dig the foundation for the patio. An arborist said that it’s a bit close but the maple is strong and it should recover fine.

I cut out a bunch of roots and within a month the exact sections of the canopy corresponding to the roots I cut went brown.

It was incredible to me how the roots relate directly to the canopy. I always kinda thought it was one big circulatory system, where everything supports everything. I expected the whole tree to struggle a bit.

Next season the tree was fully recovered.

The neurological system seems to work the same way? It’s a directed graph where one root supports a very specific set of branches? I guess the circulatory system is like that too if you separate the two sets. Nature doesn’t really like cyclic graphs, does it?
Maybe it’s nothing but I expected to see some wire frames of the meshes as a way to see the mesh quality.
Ubuntu Lunar Lobster now also uses BTRFS instead of ZFS by default with the new Flutter-based installer. It's also the suggested FS for Arch and Gentoo.
Except RAID6 which is the one I want. From your link:

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid5...

Also, reading stuff like "mostly OK" in a file system doesn't inspire confidence.
I never used any of its advanced feature, and it makes managing volumes unnecessarily difficult
I bailed after 20.04 and have been a happy Pop_OS (Ubuntu minus all the snaps out of the box), Fedora and Arch user ever since. Definitely try Pop as it's the most direct move from Ubuntu--really the only diff you'll notice is a different default system theme and background picture.
Had to refresh the page more than a couple times as I was not able to scroll passed the first “video” only to realize I have to keep scrolling to get to the article.
I genuinely thought the website is broken
Yeah the particular one I was looking at was 912810SP4, a 30 year treasury with a 1.375% coupon. It was issued in August 2020 at a price of $99.24 for $100 of par, and it now trades just under $59.
Couple of different answers to these questions:

a) whales don't tend to go where volcanos are. Whales dive to find food, and their food sources aren't near the seabed. I think the deepest diving whale species are sperm whales, and they go after squid, which are not typically found near volcanos.

b) it's not a question of matching frequency with the whales, it's a question of noise emissions and the amount of energy you're putting into the water. Modern active sonar systems are incredibly energy intensive, and the technology to modify the waveform and limit the power of the waveform to match something biologic doesn't really exist, and would have to justify all the added complexity

c) USN and US geological survey charts are really really good, and regularly updated, to the point where "It wasn't on the charts!" is a claim met with extreme skepticism. 9 times out of 10 some sort of navigation or systemic error was involved.
Money isn't everything. Time is. For someone currently earning $225,000 this would save them a thousand years of hard work. A thousand years.

You don't have to think money is everything to understand how earning $225 million in a short time will help you with all the things you do care about, whether it's retiring early, spending time with kids, supporting charity, pursuing hobbies, doing independent research, or taking care of aging parents.
Anacardiaceae
Software engineering is definitely a thing. There are numerous ways to code robustly and to prove the software will do what it's supposed to. They're much used in mission-critical applications where failure is a Very Bad Thing.

But most developers do none of these things, and many developers don't even know they exist.

But prompt engineering is just search++. You might save some time if you know a little about the underlying technology, and there's an element of creativity which is unusual for search.

But it's still not rocket surgery.
Needing expensive parts or being forced to replace a Chromebook early means it’s no longer cheap.

US schools have spent over a billion dollars on Chromebook's, it’s a significant expenditure that isn’t lasting as long as expected.
Found a chinese map here: https://moon.bao.ac.cn/Mars/index/index.html

From the looks of it, it might be Tianwen-1 MoRIC (100m/px) data. But I'm not sure, I always have difficulty navigating non-NASA data sources.

I don't think the higher resolution HiRIC (up to 2.5m/px) data is publicly available. I don't also know what sort of coverage they have for it.

But in general it's not just having the data, stitching a global mosaic is a non-trivial effort. Afaik the Murray Lab mosaic took several years of work to make.

There is also HRSC from ESA that has been imaging Mars with fairly good resolution/coverage.

And finally also UAE Hope mission has produced global map, but I haven't been able to find their full-resolution data. https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/latest-news/science-and-techno...
That's incorrect. You're confusing totally separate issues by examining specific pieces of software with product specific bugs. This isn't a valid way to examine the issue: by this metric, spaces aren't supported on unix because many programs choke on them.

In fact, you can use forward slashes across the entire file API on Windows. That's the point.
The point is that it shouldn't have to be binary like this. Why can't there be less pointless parts changes and thus more parts availability?
Maybe a leader in 14nm developments...
LLMs are very quirky. They need the correct context to produce something good and it’s often surprising what that needed context is. OP just play around with midjourney and you’ll soon realize that it is a very real thing
Planned obsolescence sounds about right
Good for you. But please don't generalize it for every one. Lack of water intake does multiply the hardship many folds. Especially now, when Ramzan(or Ramadan) falling in summer in the northern hemisphere.

Know people who have had strokes or break the fast due to extreme hardship. Domestic helps who are Muslims, or people doing physical labor, simply can't observe it. Its one of the hardest fasts there is, and restraint from drinking water is the main reason.
The latter, not the former. The former is extraction, not prediction.

A lot of factors go into predicting the post-acute care route that results in the best outcome. You are correct that it would be possible to create features using an LLM, but that is a very difficult problem
compared to simply treating the problem as a sequence classification.
From my experience working there, killing a cute toy project like this takes some breaking change in a dependency plus nobody willing to spend a few hours every now and then to maintain it. Both of these are basically luck of the draw, so it’s not surprising to have stuff like this stick around for this long.
Oh man I love that, I'll see if I can somehow incorporate that into this or do both.

How would you go about finding these new startups?
Will we run out of ML data? Evidence from projecting dataset size trends (2022)
Call this a hot take, but it seems news media are painting a disingenuous picture with this incident, casting it in the light of a failure when it clearly was not one; the goal was only to get the rocket to clear the launch pad, as stated in the video.

The article even states (a few paragraphs down) how Musk said not blowing up the launch pad would be a win, and quotes industry experts on how the launch signified good progress. Yet even so, the title and attempted takeaway is FAILURE, ROCKET EXPLODES MINUTES AFTER LAUNCH.

You can even identity little attempts to cast further dispersion around the positive news, to throw the lemmings off the scent: small business owner's windows broke gasp; RICH people are already booking tickets (see, this isn't for you, average Joe, you're excluded); A little girl CRIED on seeing the launch, etc etc.

This is not journalism; this is maybe 40% news and 60% propaganda. Disgusting how blatant it is, and how so many (ostensibly) intelligent people fall for it.
Oh great idea, both inbound and outbound would work on there.

Tysm!
Interesting choice. I'd think that as the context is "As many of today’s (2023+) coders do not have a formal CS/SE education" and the goal is education, a more popular language like Javascript or Python (or, heck, even PHP[1] /s) would be used, instead.

I've taken a look at Go, and while it does seem pretty approachable, it's definitely not nearly as common as Python/JS, and it's always significantly harder for me to learn a new concept when the examples are also in a language I'm unfamiliar with. Maybe that's just me, though.

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...
You obviously do not believe in self control. I don't know in which culture eyeing your neighbor's wife is OK.
They just don't offer the same user experience as deb packages did. Firefox has always been a deb and it was fine. Now, it's a snap, it has issues with external devices like smartcard readers and so, and I remember it telling you to close it before X days so it could update, but closing the browser made no difference (I eventually moved to the Firefox tarball to forget about all those issues so I'm not really sure how you were supposed to solve it). So, for me, it didn't offer any advantages over the deb package, but brought new headaches. Also, I don't really like much this new concept of packing all the application dependencies instead of working with shared libs.

And I'm not the one that criticizes Canonical just for seeking its own solutions, in fact, I liked things like Unity and Upstart. But for me, snaps came to solve a non-problem.
> Guests never tell that they been given oat milk

And everyone clapped!

Come off it.

I love oat milk (and think almond milk suuuuuucks). I haven’t had dairy milk in nearly 8 years at home.

But it doesn’t taste the same, doesn’t have the same mouthfeel, and can’t be cooked with in the same way.

They’re literally entirely unique things. Pretending otherwise is just as stupid as religion.
It's cheapest and healthiest to go to unprocessed vegan food and yet vegan replacements that usually have a premium over meat and dairy are also up, while their incremental production costs are probably less than meat/dairy.

This implies that meat/dairy have neither the top of the market nor the bottom. If more and more people are willing to pay that premium then I'm not sure what would come back and why once the costs of processed vegan food no longer includes early R&D and risk premiums.
I’ll never understand this attitude. “America sucks because you have to repay loans.”
I've been using Twitter so far, I'm looking for some more ideas honestly.
It’s interesting that it doesn’t seem to actually say that anywhere.
you underestimate the power of the dark side
But things like MIPI cameras don't work in any Linux other than ChromeOS. The open source partisans are still faffing around with their obsolete APIs, while ChromeOS discards the political aspect and just ships Intel's blob. That's why machines like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 are not on the ChromeOS Flex certified models list, and their webcams don't work in any other distro either, but there are tons of Chromebooks with MIPI cameras.
Is this a joke? Medical data should stay the hell away from gpt servers
i had many friends who were very vocal about btrfs. most of them lost their data at one point, with btrfs, due to data corruption.
SpaceX is obviously willing to take risks, but yoloing the pad damage situation is surprising. They've had engine damage from flying pad before. If they had lost enough engines at T0 and the rocket had fallen back on the pad, there would have been an unholy conflagration. And Lord knows how long it would have taken to get another launch license.
We tried this for a while and stopped because it seemed like a dead end.

Our use case was/is a text-to-sql bot that would provide domain-specific output. Our domain is very complex so any sort of off-the-shelf AI SQL helper is a joke to us at best. My thinking goes something like "If your schema is so simple that you don't need to think about FTing the model, why do you need its help writing SQL in the first place? Your answers are probably on google somewhere."

The perspective we have now is that the LLM is a probabilistic text transformation engine that must always be contextualized by some external means. Clearly, if we could just include all of our context & it fits & it's cheap, we should just do this. But, the reason anyone is thinking about FT in the first place is because you can't fit the whole damn business in the prompt (or because it's too expensive to do it at scale).

The approach we are looking into now is a classification front end that attempts to discover the relevant business context being referred to by the user's initial prompt. Once we detect our classes, we look up the boilerplate text and incorporate it into the final prompt.

So, instead of trying to align the Jupiter-scale model to your business needs, leave it alone and build a smaller adapter layer that can work with any unmodified LLM.
>“These high costs may make schools reconsider Chromebooks as a cost-saving strategy,” the report reads.

Efficiency always has a cost, whether that's quality, reliability, sustainability, externalized waste, or whatever. Either you're honest about those costs and acknowledge that the bill will come due later, or you're living in magic land.
No, like a lawyer or policy maker would.
I wonder how many of these are the Arm-based Chromebooks? Do those have similar problems with software updates to Android devices, because they're at the mercy of SoC vendors to provide updated drivers?
At Enron and Worldcom the CEOs were committing fraud. They brought that in themselves. It wasn't a "risk" they assumed. This is a bit of a ridiculous statement.
To be precise about the "now": Fedora switched to btrfs by default a couple of years ago. OpenSUSE has been using btrfs by default for at least a decade.
He picked a metaphor with many possible interpretations : )

My main take away is something like "gravity" is ~ death / extensional pain of life & the "rainbow" is the beauty that exists/we make under that
> The PIRG report squares with the drum I’ve been banging in reviews of “eco” laptops for years: the most eco-friendly gadgets, by far, are gadgets that last.

Surprising absolutely no one but the people who are eternally shocked to learn that free lunches don’t exist. Which is extra ironic considering schools provide lunches that are “free” to the student but are also gross and cost someone else money.
No, this has everything to do with nuclear(and energy politics in general). Since at least the 80s, nuclear power has carried a huge political risk in Northern Europe including Germany. Reactors have been shut down prematurely - instead coal and oil power plants have been kept operational.
Quite unfortunate, but I’m not surprised sub-$200 don’t last terribly long. Especially with the kind of treatment they’re likely to get from school kids.

Even if they’re just as hard to repair, a more expensive and more ruggedized model might have been a better choice. If such a thing exists, which I kind of doubt.
You anti-work guys are again showing your ignorance. A large chunk of techie compensation is in stock.
"I bought a $200 computer, gave it to children and I can't believe it didn't last very long." duh
Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
zfs is way simpler to manage than btrfs.

also, there does not seem to be a proper guide to btrfs. only random of bits and bytes here and there.

zfs on the other hand is very well documented.
> You appear to have a bias (...)

Nutritionists everywhere point out the fact that diets which exclude whole food groups don't guarantee an adequate supply of some key nutrients, and in some cases require taking supplements to avoid suffering from health issues.

And you refer to that fact as "bias", to try to dismiss it?
If we play a game of monopoly and I get collect $200 for the first 20 rounds when I pass go and you get to collect $20 and I bought up 90% of the property. Then the rules change and now our kids are going to play both get to collect $200 but they get to keep what we gave them. And if your kid is lucky he/she may even win one out of 100 games. The doesn't mean the game isn't still rigged against your kid.

We can argue about whether we should fix the rigged game or how to fix it but don't act like it's not rigged because we "fixed" the rules.
Engineering = Applied Physics.

Software Engineering = Applied Math.

Both are about modelling, so you have a good idea if a solution works before you build it.

If you're gluing stuff together and hoping it's not going to fall apart too often you're not doing either.
No, America sucks because you have to take a huge loan in the first place in order to study.
> I think letting go of dreams is extremely important for success.

Can you explain more?
It’s not a durable skill. A year after learning to give perfect prompts for your favourite ai, the mode will get updated and you’ll have to learn it all again
That's useful, thank you for sharing your experiences.
Not different if their argument for standing is that they can’t get customers.