skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pirating is easier than buying CD then ripping MP3 just to listen.

Really? I've never thought so. Perhaps if you consider buying the CD as a major burden, which I don't get.

Put CD in computer. Rip at your choice of bitrate. Listen.

vs.

Download pirating software. Search for song. Download song. Verify it's not a trojan for an executable or zip bomb, etc. Verify you got the full songs. Verify you got the actual songs you were looking for. Verify that it's not a low quality rip. Listen.

Anyway, that's my opinion on this matter.
We’re not talking about whether you should use them at work; we’re talking about whether it makes sense to have an evaluation where you don’t use them. Closed-book exams are similar. There’s no real-world situation where you wouldn’t be allowed to refer to whatever materials you like, but the evaluation uses somewhat unnatural circumstances to gauge how well you’ve assimilated the material in a limited amount of time and with a consistent process that’s fair for everyone.
Asking as a Plus user: Why can't I toggle them separately?
2500m mean elevation is a misleading application of mean. There's a prominent high point right in the middle. There's a broad area < 1000m far enough inland. Agreed that it still requires a wonderful input of energy.
As pure text, I've had success using the following code to be copied in the developer tools:

output = ""; document.querySelectorAll("main .flex-1.overflow-hidden .group").forEach(el => output = output + el.textContent); output;
> In the study, E coli carrying a resistance gene, called MCR-1, were exposed to AMPs known to play important roles in innate immunity in chickens, pigs, and humans.

If the same kinds of AMPs appear across mammals and birds, breaking the monoculture (by e.g. raising animals of different breeds and species etc) but still using this class of antibiotics would still seem likely to cause the immune resistance problem. I'm not advocating for the monoculture-based practices, but I don't see how it's related to this specific mechanism.
I find the same thing when a compiler's fast and has good error messages. I can type vaguely what I want, and then the errors teach me the language syntax. (When there are small, clear examples, I can learn a lot from that as well. I really like Python IDLE.)

It sounds like most of the benefit you got from ChatGPT lines up with deficits in your tooling. It's interesting that a language model set to "predict" can make up for that deficit for such a wide variety of languages! (Though it's no good for niche or more-than-slightly technical scenarios, like Vulkan programming; past a certain point, you need the actual tools to exist.)
I think you just described the show "Travelers"
Fair enough. I imagine a simple (but O(cycles) space, not O(1)) way to do this is to still tortoise-and-hare, and on detecting a cycle, break the link behind you (by recording it in a table) and continue the BFS. If O(cycles) = O(n) this isn't terribly interesting compared to other approaches, but if O(cycles) < O(n) it might be helpful.
super trivial actually. Just tokenize the document using Llama index and pass the vectorization instead.
The JPL plan doesn't actually puncture the magma chambers.
> Qualcomm chips are used also in Apple smartphones

The main SoC definitely isn’t, Apple design their own SoCs, are you talking about some other chip?
The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis
The biggest players are Google / Facebook, which are not charging for their core product.

You have Microsoft selling software, but I am not sure it is the default anymore.
Joining the Venture Climate Alliance
> adtech lead to an infusion of capital into the internet, which led to many wonderful things for society.

Source? Instant global communication is valuable enough by itself to attract massive investments and interest. I highly doubt technological advancements from adtech was in any way shape or form required for that.
Enjoy your VOCs people.
As I understand it, it's also the CPU manufacturers, motherboard suppliers, and system integrators. Intel and AMD are not consistently supporting S3, and some motherboards (iirc) toggle it off even when the chip purports to support it. System integrators may also leave the BIOS setting for S3 off even when supported.

As for why? As many know from the history of Linux support for sleep, it's not always been great. Every device in the system has to support it, and there's a risk of corrupting state when execution resumes. It's much easier to keep the system running in a lower power mode. That's true of all of the device drivers and firmware on the system too.

It's frankly shoddy work though that it works so poorly that the order in which one unplugs their laptop and closes the screen affects whether it correctly enters S0ix. I can't believe issues like that have made it out of QA on laptops over and over again, resulting in laptops overheating and reaching 0% charge. The Linus Tech Tips video here goes into the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
Tangent, but there is a running joke amongst sports car enthusiast circles.

A: "Woe is me! They discontinued <insert sports car here> in favor of more SUVs!"
B: "Because no one bought <insert sports car here>!"
A: "But I would have! In five years, used!"

For now, I think those that want an EV, are in fact, buying (or leasing) them new though.
tl;dr: Theoretically, probably yes; practically, probably no.
Thanks for the explanation. In engineering circles (to use an apt word) complex numbers only assist in performing rotation, eg, calculating things such as angle changes or phase changes etc. It sounds to me that it's the same in quantum mechanics.

That is while at higher levels they allow modelling of things such as probability and state, the way they are fundamentally enabling this is also just the same thing - a shorthand trick that permits fast calculations of rotational characteristics.

I'm not sure that they're able to do anything else. A wave is a particle as I understand it, or rather, they are like views into the same thing. But waves have identical characteristics in terms of what is tracked to enable calculations with them.

Eg there's amplitude phase and frequency. Maybe they all have probabilities or are otherwise dynamic, but that's what there at the base level. The complex plane then just takes the role of enabling easier calculation and tracking of state changes.

A wave is a wave whether it is a sine wave on a scope, a wave of pressure through a solid or gas, a light wave, or the path of a particle when viewed as a wave. Or, I'm misunderstanding and there are actually two, or more types of complex numbers.
The satellites would be in geostationary, with phased-array transmitters, focused by a reference signal from the ground target. They actually could be repointed to various receivers. The ground stations would be relatively cheap so it wouldn't be all that important to maximize their utilization.

(Source: The Case for Space Solar Power)
I'm not even using Windows, but MS has ruined it for us all. S0 works reasonably well on my ThinkPad X13 G2 with Ubuntu, meaning it goes to "sleep" and wakes up without problems and last a couple days to a week. But is this what I want? I don't need some always-connected bs, thank you! I can wait 5 seconds for my laptop to wakeup and then check for new mail. Seriously, MS, do something.

Edit: Or is Intel to blame here? I don't know.

Edit2: Or maybe Lenovo or all 3? Didn't this work in the past pretty flawlessly

Last edit: ok, ranting about this actually made me look for solutions again (I did when I first got the notebook. Couldn't find anything). As it turns out you supposedly can (Cannot test rn) switch to Linux Sleep (s3) in the BIOS. If this turns out to be true, I take everything back.
If you follow the instructions on the page and refresh, it'll let you install the beta version of this person's app.
I think it was highly deadly ?
Yeah, but do they index those URLs and include them in search results?

(My experience over 20+ years: no, they don't.)
What gets me is that ZModem-Resume had effective continuation of failed transfers _decades_ before HTTP got it right. The early days of the web drove me bonkers, having to start over with a long file that failed in the middle.
Ask HN: Absolute Safest Investment for Inheritance
Im getting ~$800k after taxes from my grandparents will. I want the safest possible way to invest this money, something I can just leave alone and not manage and without any risk involved, no matter how small the interest rate is.

Is a CD ladder pretty much the default way to go for this, or is there anything better?
I like them personally, or at least don't dislike them. I don't have the issues others talk about because I can just put airpods on
Yep people who think the US was once some stable well run country need a good history lesson. This comes from an immigrant to the US happy to grow old here.
Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity
Three failed commercial landers now. Are the moon Nazis shooting them down on approach? /s
I've barely forgiven him for explaining genetic algorithms and acting like they have any relevance to contemporary ML research.

The footnote video was an alright explanation of backprop. If that were part of the main video that would have been reasonable.

I really like his history/geography videos but anything technical leave a lot to be desired. And don't get me started on Humans Need Not Apply.
One is better keeping heavy processing away from the database. Your application layer can scale almost indefinitely, and the main bottleneck for a random system is usually the database.

As a rule, processing cost should give you a default bias into moving anything away from the database. Multiple sources, the need for temporary storage, and the existence of concerns that don't deal directly with your data should bias you more towards moving your code away from the database.

On the other hand, data consolidation and enforcing non-local (to a record) rules should bias you towards moving your code into the database. If a lot of those happen, moving it there may even reduce the load of your database.

Any one sided advice here is guaranteed to be wrong.
I'm not sure I see strong value in this?
... how?!
> How anybody could believe taking that component out from the rest of the defense system, and breed pathogen resistance against it in isolation, could be anything but begging for calamity is beyond me. It boggles the mind that this has been permitted to go on, but particularly unexpected it is not at all, sadly.

Every irreplaceable natural resource (in this case, human immunity) is somebody's profit waiting to be taken, unless stopped.
Analyzing Open AI's Whisper ASR Accuracy: WERs Across Languages and Model Sizes
Totally aware that this isn't a fully formal definition of deep learning, but one interesting takeaway for me is realizing that in a way, corporations with their formal and informal reporting structures are structured in a way similar to neural networks too.

It seems like these sort of structures just regularly arise to help regulate the flow of information through a system.
I enjoy your mom's movies, so I favor this outcome
Kona and even the Ioniq5/EV6/G60 are probably closer to being hatchbacks than SUVs.

But purists will still chide you that they are SUVs (or specifically, CUVs, which they still consider evil).
> In tweets reviewed by NBC News, the accused adult identified as a “map” — a common online abbreviation for “minor-attracted person.”

I'm both amused and horrified at how open people are about this stuff.

No longer do we have to divine intent from lists of ambiguous red flags, they'll just outright broadcast their proclivities without fear of consequence. I also love the "I'm mentally 13" nonsense from people old enough to know better.

There was a bone-chilling moment when my (very young) kids were playing with toys together and when asked what they were doing, they responded with "role-playing."

I keep seeing reports that online enticement cases sharply increased thanks to COVID. Can't say I'm surprised. Somewhere along the way, [something] got kids to normalize the very verbiage the groomers use to steer online conversations in sexual directions. They can't see it coming.

I don't even try to teach mine to look for warning signs anymore and just tell them to assume everyone on the internet is Philip Garrido escaped from prison.
Mind that this about none of these. It is about what images mean to us, how we are accustomed to read them, and how this may be thus invalidated, or, even worse, how these simulacra may produce a false vector pointing towards us, including any notion of change or variety, as they are universally deemed to (pre)serve a narrative of how we became what. No clocks involved. (As for the public image, as opposed to historians and their curated interpretation, think of them more as a talisman for reality than a record of reality, it just happens so that these aspects currently/still tend to overlap.)

PS: I'm pretty sure, at least Shane Balkowitsch, as someone producing in the ancient process of wet plates, is quite aware of the aspects of the image as a produced image, produced by certain processes, under certain circumstances of production, as an opus operatum bearing all the marks – and what goes with this. What does it mean to extend this lineage to modern captures, to incorporate modern imagery into this ancestry? Surely, there's an intend and some understanding. What does it mean, if the image isn't anymore an opus operatum in the traditional sense, but just a generated one, generated by an imperative prompt, if its depiction isn't the trace of a real subject (as in likeness), but extracted from a compressed semantic field built from a biased aspect of assorted imagery and controlled by a REL instance trained to select pleasing images? What does this mean to us, when the photo loses its quality as an index? Or, worse, if we still pretend that there should be such an index, just because we're accustomed to this – and the texture feels like it?
First Republic Bank's Q1 Earnings with AI Chat
First Republic Bank's stock dropped 43% today after its Q1 earnings report came out.

Here's the report and an AI to let you ask questions, to learn more about what happened. An example:

Q: What was First Republic Bank's big problems this quarter?

A: First Republic Bank had unprecedented deposit outflows due to the closure of other banks in March 2023. As a result, the bank had to leverage its high-quality loan and securities portfolios to secure additional liquidity, restructure its balance sheet, and reduce its expenses and short-term borrowings (Page 2).
Seems so.

I also wonder to what degree the study was actually suppressed. I mean, it sounds pretty scandalous to say it was suppressed, but also a non-result is not super interesting. Maybe they just didn’t trumped it.
Sure, but we evolved and now we know better.

Except with the current state of affairs, we know it's the wrong thing to do but still keep doing it in favor of profits.

It makes no sense to compare how things were ages ago (even quite recently, in fact) to where we are now. This kind of dismissal is low effort and deflects the real issue because nobody wants to admit just how bad it is.

For a very recent example, it became public Exxon knew the harm they would be doing to the planet through fossil fuels and they couldn't care less. Gotta increase that shareholder value.
Did they have L/S-band telemetry right up until the last seconds?
There's a kind of reverse money making thing going on with ChatGPT that I haven't seen articulated.

Never ever forget that every time you use chatGPT, you are making chatGPT smarter.

Right now, chatGPT is not priced for how much value it provides to you; it's priced based on how much value you provide to them. Because every time you use it, you are providing high-quality human feedback to the model.

It has already read the entire internet. So where does it get more content? For that, it needs you to use it. So why isn't it free? Better yet, why aren't they paying you?

Having you pay has several advantages:

I) By paying for it, you prove to openAI that the data you provide is more valuable, simply by the fact that you are willing to pay. Sort of like the counter-intuitive fact that if you pay to avoid ads, you are a much juicier target to advertisers. Not paying is valuable -- you're still a human after all -- but paying is even more valuable, because the people who pay provide qualitatively different data. They provide the type of data that has economic value. You can tell, because they pay! So this helps you improve your model far more than just giving it away for free, because you can treat human feedback from paying customers differently than human feedback from non-payers.

II) By paying for it, there is a paper trail that allows openAI to audit their customers. For spam or malicious use purposes. This helps OpenAI fulfill their safety mission.

III) By paying for it, you offset their inference costs.

I is HUGE. It's more important than II (which is, itself, more significant than III). For any AI company, their competitive advantage lies in the dataset. What is the dataset for a chat model? The humans who use it!

Engineering is important, and what OpenAI has shipped is obviously impressive. But it's not like nobody is capable of making an LLM inference frontend. The model? They may have some tricks that they're doing, but at this point, everyone knows how to make a GPT (bard, llama, ...)

Feedback is THE advantage that OpenAI has over everyone else. Feedback is THE advantage that MidJourney has over StableDiffusion. Feedback is THE most important differentiator for any company in this space. Those who have high quality human feedback (paying users) will win. What's the best way to get high-quality feedback? Make people pay.
24 ads and other trackers from The Verge attempted to load on that page alone; usually much more if those are allowed to succeed.

That said, I disabled that creator follow nonsense the moment it landed. Not because of the URL tracking, but because it is stupid.
> Why exactly?

Because when the megacorporations were just corporations the web was young.

Now the web is old, and what was interesting and novel at the small scale is tedious and taxing at the large scale.

It's much the same as how it's now a death march to write a new standards-compliant browser, or how you can't really found a new country unless you want to start a bloody war or carve a chunk out of Antarctica.

Sometimes, the rules have changed by the time new things come along.
> The issue is that this is not what’s going to annoy you as an Ocaml beginner.

Sure, but tbf, the post is about what annoys the author, not what would annoy beginners. As you say, the author is not a beginner, and so their problems wouldn't be beginner problems.
I don't understand why you are suggesting Airbnb isn't "fair" demand on the housing stock.

Also it is really hard to believe that Airbnb is a meaningful impact on housing prices outside of certain touristy locales. My suburban neighborhood has had 5+ offers on every house that has come for sale in the last year and there are no Airbnbs in the neighborhood and only two within a five mile radius.

The only real answer is to build more--not depend on the government to artificially constrict supply by regulating vacation rentals.
Also possible they are projecting forward with something beyond the first derivative.
Absolutely not. This a massive lie propped up by nihilistic ant-humanist rhetoric.

The population is going down. People aren't having enough babies for replacement. You're going to have a rude awakening when you get old and there's not enough people to take care of you, pay into the retirement system etc.
> thousands of domestic terror bombings all across the country

The memory-holing of these bombings fascinates me.
I'm also wondering if they send data to the Russian Yandex search engine as they have an agreement to have this search engine by default in some countries ?
It obviously wasn't invasion proof when the Europeans came.
This felt like A Christmas Story, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU
That's like saying you understand state-of-the-art CFD code because you can read Fortran.

There are many aspects to learning systems that we still don't have any kind of grasp on, and will take more than a little advanced math (statistics/probability theory, transport theory, topology, etc.) to understand as a community.

Dunning-Kruger is probably more common in spaces like this one, where people carry social capital for being able to "spin up quickly". But the true meta-skill of upskilling is turning unknown unknowns (UU) into known unknowns (KU), and then into known knowns (KK). It's not enough to just jump from UU to KK through osmosis by reading blog posts on a news aggregator, because there will still be a huge space of unknowns not covered by that approach.
> we have to accept that no one committing violence (either defending or attacking the capital) is morally clean in the entire situation, and that everyones argument for committing violence needs to be understood and judged

There's a certain place here where we see this the same way and are just positioning our definition of sin/moral culpability on opposite sides of this judgement. Was the sin justified by the argument, or does the justness of the argument make it not a sin?

> If the solution to killing is killing, we will never solve the problem.

This bit, though, is still fuzzy to me. My lens is a bit different in terms of "responding to the situation" a bit narrower than "solving the problem"? Possibly some residual Christianity at play, believing that "solving the problem" is incompatible with human nature.

But similarly I'm generally sympathetic to the "just following orders" claim especially when you extend it to the "I'm just a member of society, not in the chain of command at all", and so would find it hard to support a post-Civil-War action of "throw every white Southerner in jail for the rest of their lives"... even though I also think the ultimate retreat of the US federal government in the face of ongoing southern insurgency caused a LOT of future evils.
Tapping the hot plume would not penetrate the magma chamber. They would drill down and created a number of holes turned horizontally in the hot rock zone above it.
They would then drill a number of holes horizontally - which they would fracture(frack) and inject cold water - in one set and get steam from another.
The steam used in turbines and then returned. Minerals and ions would make this water very corrosive and the pipe alloys would be chosen for long life(?).
As to whether or not they can reduce volcano risk = accurate models and assessment of the existing heat flux that now makes Yellowstone bubble might give some ideal of any hope for success.
In any event, they should at least create and study these models and assess in the rate of migration of the hop spot - since it is a slowly changing steady state, it may be that removing enough heat can change when the next eruption occurs.
The actual magma may be too hot for pipes to carry water in as the metal may be so close to the melting point that they will explode from the flash steam. An intermediate heat transfer fluid could be used(such as melted sodium) to get closer to the hotter zones with a lower risk of pressure explosions.
The other aspect is what % of the heat could be extracted this way - if it is 0.1% - it might not be worthwhile.
The Icelandic ongoing work in this area is worth looking into.
> Having to operate in a world of nulls and exceptions can reduce/nullify the amazing benefits of discriminated unions.

I've been saying this about Kotlin on the JVM for ages. Using a Java dependency is an absolute last resort for me for those same reasons you mention about .NET from F#.
Yeah everybody knows that. But transmission by wire halfway around the globe would be pretty expensive, and carry geopolitical risks.