skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent comment refers Double Descent in Human Learning [1, 2] which references the Deep Double Descent phenomenon in Large models [3].

The gist of double descent is that there exists a phenomenon where a _large_ model appears to over-fit as we expected from traditional ML, but then the val loss starts decreasing. The general consensus is that the model switches from memorization mode to interpolation mode which enables generalization.

In essence, the large number of parameters initially fit directly to the data, but then smooth out.

The reason we can continue improving the model is the fact that over-parameterized models always have a descent direction, simply due to the dimensionality of the model.

The paper that the post references, shows that by trading parameters with more training steps, we can have small models that exhibit similar if not identical behaviour.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35683754

[2] https://chris-said.io/2023/04/21/double-descent-in-human-lea...

[3] https://openai.com/research/deep-double-descent
I have not found an answer on does it support dealing with containers on remote side, let's assume it does and pass this part.

One day I was not familiar with VSCode and I became familiar and many others as well. Just not Emacs. Assuming you are right and technically Emacs has all bells and whistles, it must be something else that not promoting it for being wide used.

And you skipped the part about VScode tunnels all along.
This is interesting. I had a dive into all this since I initially posted, and it seems this iMessage phenomena is a U.S.A. thing. iMessage is mostly unused in Europe, iPhone or not.

I don't care much for Whatsapp myself and prefer Signal, but I eventually gave up because life's too short for crusades.

Reading up on the iMessage adoption in the U.S.A. is like reading alternative-history fiction in Europe :P
> Font shaping performance increased by 5-15% compared to the C++ version.

Personally, I wouldn't link it directly to rust, but to rewriting. When you develop something, you usually can't account for all future changes that affect performance, design, LOC, robustness, and so on. But with rewrite, you take them all into account. So there is a big chance that rewrite will be superior in many areas. It will probably have the same effect as if they had rewritten it in C++ again.
>This is way before all the LLM and Generator models, but it was such a fun project.

That means something more sophisticated has to exist today and should be commercially available. Can anyone explain to what extent companies use this stuff in their interaction with customers, and how successful is it? (Somehow I still see AI still as one-off things people do for fun or AI being used to hype up rather mundane software.)
I have a Sony MZ-R700, still working perfectly. I haven't made real use of it in the last 20 years, but back then it was one of my most important/used piece of "everyday tech".
Imagine a cyclist who exists on a diet of beans, beer and dairy. Perhaps slightly lower CO2 emissions but vastly more methane and various mercaptans :D
Best price requirements should be straight up illegal IMO.
Phoniebox is a great project, based on mpd and Mopidy. Hopefully Spotify playback will be fully supported again soon.
I just don't know if it is a Udemy strategy or strategy from individual tutors.
See https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx
I can wholeheartedly recommend two Yuzefovich's books about Ungern, a fascinating read - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-mirrors-on-leonid-yu...
Thanks! And, done :-)
That seems to be the wrong way around. We're constrained by the availability of GPUs because those are the processors of choice for this kind of solution. If we had a better one we'd be using it!
Parinfer is also amazing but easier to get started with.
You can, but it's not really endorsed by Apple. As such, some folks don't even know about that. Personally, I like to use SwiftKey.

//Edit: Would really like to know for what I got down voted for?
> What exactly do you offer / sell / solve?

It's a SaaS + IoT + Plant Biology knowledge baked into one package. We are figuring things out on the fly as well (here's a link to one of the products https://www.hexafarms.com/main/hexaos). The aim is that the entire operations should be reduced to manual labor of handling the plants (and our software will inform you about that as well). Vertical indoor farming has been always close to my heart but at this point we address the wider space of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) in general.

> How are you different from “VC-backed vertical indoor farming companies”?

Yikes! We are also going to be VC-backed soon. Went through Techstars recently. Hopefully, I'd have the humility to accept and not makes claims that go against the fundamental principles of physics, biology, and economics. Sorry but this is the best answer I could give.
The Crypto shoehorn means I will never use Brave the browser, I'm just not interested in supporting the idea that every tiny action can be monetised. I use and support Fixefox for browsing.

Now I have no problem with their search engine if it is good. Alternatives are definitely needed. If they start pushing their token through it or weighing results based on the token in some way I might think again.
This is FUD.

Microsoft doesn't "get a hold of" Rust by using Rust, any more than you get a hold of it by writing Rust programs.

With C++ they had their own compiler implementation, which obviously diverged. This is common for independent code bases. Whereas with Rust they're contributing positively to the main compiler implementation. Just one example - see all of Ryan Levick's (@rylev) contributions to Rust. Not just with code, or with tutorials, but in regular unglamorous work like running weekly compiler performance meetings.

Microsoft is also a platinum sponsor to the Rust foundation. The foundation uses this money to directly sponsor folks working on the language and library authors.
This is super cool. Love it.
In your styles:

> pre { overflow-x: scroll; }

`overflow: scroll` is very poorly named, and practically never the right tool. You want `overflow: auto` instead, which only renders scrollbars if they’re needed.

(Long ago, there were two potentially valid scenarios for it: for avoiding reflow when changing the document’s length, and for unbreaking viewport units so that 100vw includes the viewport’s vertical scrollbar. The former was only exceedingly rarely useful, and can be achieved better now on all but Safari with the scrollbar-gutter property. The latter only Firefox ever implemented, and no one else wanted to, so they eventually removed it from the spec and from Firefox, so now viewport units are just stupidly broken by design. I myself have not found a single place I wanted to use `overflow: scroll` or where it would have been reasonable in the past decade. Stylesheet linters should include a default rule that complains about `overflow: scroll` because it’s so temptingly-named but so thoroughly not what you want.)
I think you're taking the word "literally" too literally.
If it's in memory you must live with the fact that it might be gone at any moment though.
You can read the terms of service and privacy agreement for that "free account" to find out.

In general, the Hotel would not be offering a rewards program if it did not benefit them more than it cost. At the very least they are going to use your "free account" to try to get you to use that Hotel (chain) more.
My wife has her work schedule in a mobile web app, but the app is really bad. Turns out the app is just a wrapper around a web site.

So I made a KVM instance which does one thing - login automatically, start Firefox, login with Selenium, then uses some kind of other Python desktop control contraption to press CTRL-S, tab-tab, save the web page to the Downloads folder.

Then, the python program proceeds to parse the HTML (with BeautifulSoup), extract the schedule times from how they are showed in some <div> or other (super weird ugly text format). Checks for changes over time and emails her what has changed. (So she gets a notice when her schedule changes and she doesn't have to periodically check in with the app.)

Finally converts the schedule to calendar format and publishes on a web site so the schedule can also be seen in the phone calendar.
Yes, you are right. I'm blending the issues here. But see, I'm a EU citizen living in Berlin and naturally I've come to Milan for work and vacation, expecting to use ChatGPT. And frankly, I find it unacceptable that the Italian Garante took the initiative here and outright banned it.

POLITICO reports:

> The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.

> The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the popular artificial intelligence tool, from processing the data of Italian users. The order is temporary until the company respects the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba...
I was already burning audio CDs with my Atari Falcon 030 before 1997 IIRC.
Awesome.
Congratulations from a fellow Swiss (and panorama photo dabbler).
Going by that logic, no technological progress would take place at all.
Clubhouse is literally just software that artificially limited things to be popular by:
1. Limited users
2. Limited to iPhones.
3. Having no history or recording of conversations.
Where did you see people vilifying cars at the time of your post ?
I don't think it is so much about rewriting old code, rather new code is written in Rust.
My C++ is incredibly rusty. Don't all major compilers provide an `asm` declaration? It seems that would have been handy in order to overcome Clang's unwillingness to use CMOV.
That's cool! What library/software did you get the instance to email?
Yeah, some others also had the impression that it got worse over time in some aspects. I wonder whether this was some kind of tradeoff with other abilities. Or perhaps they rewrote the code, which had unintended side effects.
Oh boy that slope sure seems slippery doesn't it?

You know that reasoning can be applied to literally any removal right? There's _tons_ of stuff that it would be pretty reasonable to remove (and I'm sure you'd agree that things like CP shouldn't be on there etc.). There's also plenty of stuff that they would likely _have_ to remove if the state told them to (I don't have direct evidence of this happening, so take it as a hypothetical), while this isn't necessarily a _good_ thing, it's also not a slippery slope.

I'd also like to highlight the thing where you implied that Russian state propaganda is just an opinion or a theory (and therefore just as valid as any other innocuous opinion or theory), which is at best intellectually dishonest.
I have a very basic "content repository" that started out as an RSS reader and now has pocket/instapaper like link saving, notetaking and basic GPT integrations (summary for rss entries/saved links + chatgpt like interface since it's now blocked in italy and it sounded fun to reimplement it).

It's been fun having a project where i can just throw in stuff i want to learn (started out as a go + go templates app, then turned into go backend + vue frontend from scratch, now go + vue with vuetify) and where i can just implement features i want (pocket import for saved links, gpt stuff, linking between notes and saved links/rss entries, ...) that are extremely specific to my use case and thus hard to find in anything else.
Minor nitpick; the title might be better as Upward Farms closes ten years after starting their vertical farm business.

As it stands the title reads a little as though Upward Farms was the OG progenitor of vertical farms, whereas, from the article:

> The company started out in 2013 as Edenworks before transitioning to Seed & Roe and then Upward Farms.

As prior art in the vertical farm game though, consider verticalfarms.com.au [1] in Queensland Australia that started out back in 2009.

Also Australian based stackedfarm.com [2] is building out and expanding in size ATM with future plans so there's still life left in the domain.

[1] https://verticalfarms.com.au/about-us

[1a] http://player.vimeo.com/video/273235965

[2] https://stackedfarm.com/
A simple script that tallies up my cycling mileage based on Garmin activites, and makes me a reminder on my Google calendar when it's time to re-wax my chain.

Scheduling the script to reliably run via Task Scheduler (Windows) was was its own project!
"because the stress contribution of a human walking on it is basically zero."

If that would be the case, armys would still march on bridges. But they don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
Python has a built-in SMTP client, which I connected to my regular email account. So the emails are "coming from me".
Around 6.3V was a standard voltage for vacuum tube heater pins (the part that emitted free electrons via thermal emission inside the tube to be available for the electrical fields to accelerate).

My guess would be that historically 6.3V supplies made forvacumee tubes where commonly available when transistor based electronics where created so it made sense to utilize them. Works quite nicely for the typical 5V circuits as a "rough" input voltage to be feed through a LDO regulator, for example. And so it just stuck.
I downvote anyone complaining about downvotes.
I made a flashcard site with spaced repetition for learning Japanese (I moved to Japan few years ago). I love the idea behind Anki, but both the interface and having to take decision while trying to memorize were a drag on me, so I made the flashcards for a simple "did I know it or not?".

I attribute around half of the Japanese I still know to repeating cards incessantly one after another for months, few years ago:

https://core.cards/
That's a pretty typical design for power supplies. Transformers output depends on the mains input. Where I am this is nominally 230V, but in reality ranges from 235-245V. So they often use a linear regulator to obtain the required voltage, but these need to drop from a higher voltage so they choose a range that would require the least dissipation.
For crypto, isn't assembly used to help prevent timing attacks? I don't know if that can be done in pure Rust.
Do you use fish as well to balance the system or you do it directly using the right chemicals?
Small error in that sample script:

let elem = document.createElement("img");
console.log(el.tagName); // el is not defined
This is nothing new. The game N was an exe and I worked out through trial and error that if you ran the exe through a compressed file format like zip, it bypassed the school’s antivirus. That was in about 2005!
> I mean, is it just a beautiful gadget to play with antique tech that is not used anymore ?

Antique?

Three separate providers have handed me access cards which turned out to be MIFARE Classic 1K in the last month.
That’s actually some very cool hacking together! Love it.
That sounds like it would have indeed been a nice way to run a group. I like that you pretended not to know their names when first introduced.

I remember going to an arduino hack group once. When I went to introduce myself to the organiser he cut me off mid-sentence with a flat "I know who you are Lio" and a unblinking stare.

Now, in tech circle we often have people that are a bit "rough" when it comes to human interaction so I make allowances.

I think what he meant was I recognise you from Twitter or something. As far as I know we get along fine and I've had absolutely no issues with him before or after.

All the same, it freaked me the fuck out at the time. :D
I wrote a live video/audio marker creator with OpenAI's Whisper.

A Stream Deck XL button runs a Python script that creates a timestamp for ongoing video and audio recordings which I use for live stream and podcast chapters while I'm streaming or recording.

Different buttons on the Stream Deck create markers with different labels, e.g., Introduction, Break, Marker, etc.

But as it's hard to name markers for every section and you have to go back to the recordings to infer what each section was about, I added a dynamic marker script that trims audio around a marker with ffmpeg, locally transcribes it with Whisper, and appends the transcript to the marker, so I can easily guess what the marker title should be without having to scroll and watch the video.
This calculation doesn't quite work because the human's food emissions also come from stuff like transport in that supply chain.

The basic grow food -> (feed to animal ->) eat food cycle is CO2 neutral by itself. You can feed a human in a carbon-neutral way.
Yep, that’s correct. I misspoke (should have said “not due to rest mass”). You can think of this by analogy with the Coulomb Hamiltonian—it is the sum of a kinetic term and an electromagnetic potential term. With the nucleus, it’s similar except the potential term corresponds to the strong force and is even much higher than the kinetic term as you say.
The videos make sense to me because they are scientifically solid but in mostly layman's terms. I have a genetic disorder and a child with the same disorder and a child who is a carrier and I know a fair amount about such things but can't always follow the medicalese, etc.

But I could readily follow the process he described of inserting the gene into a virus delivery mechanism (viruses being RNA -- ribonucleic acid -- and genes being DNA, aka 2 RNA) and how it impacted the cells lining the gut and this made the whole idea of gene therapy much more approachable for me personally and less scary.

People with CF routinely volunteer for medical experiments out of desperation and I respect their right to do that while simultaneously worrying about the real motives of the experimenters and how much to trust them. CF is a dread disease with a short life expectancy and I worry about such people being viewed like human lab rats and how that could go really bad places.

So I have enough background knowledge I don't feel his videos are a scam and I'm encouraged because many people with CF don't tolerate dairy very well. So even addressing lactose intolerance in people with CF would be life enhancing for many of them.
And for anyone who hasn't seen the trailer for Barbie yet, go find it on youtube. It's... weird.
> "When President Obama was elected, the market crashed". This is called ambiguous because "the claim implies a causal relationship".

You really don't think its ambiguous?

The abstract says that they want to "anticipate misunderstanding". Knowing that people have difficulty understanding "correlation is not causation", you'd expect that people would misunderstand a statement like this. If your goal is clear communication, statements like this should be avoided. It's ambiguous in practice.

People intentionally exploit this by putting two unrelated facts together to trick people into believing a third thing. Identifying those misleading statements is helpful.

Separately, is that statement even true?

The election was Nov 4th, Obama was elected on the 4th and McCain gave his concessions speech on the 5th before markets opened making it clear Obama had won. On the 5th SP500 was slightly up. SP500 was down 20%+ later in the month, but I'm not sure that was "when he was elected". The market was also crashing since September. Claiming the market crashed at the election feels off.
1 Just write it for yourself and don’t care if it is impressive. The internet is large and there are enough people who will appreciate the way you describe it. Practice will help you find your voice. Experience will show you what kind of posts people enjoy, search for etc.

2 Don’t be too hard on yourself. Especially don’t link page views and likes to your self image. Those show what content “they” appreciate, but says nothing about you personally.

3 Think about what you want with the blog. Fame? Positioning yourself? Giving back to all the people who give free advice on the internet?
I think it might be an American thing - at least the polarization part.

Over here in Poland some of my friends and relatives switched to scooters(125cc typically) when fuel prices spiked and are largely happy with the result - especially this one guy who used to daily a Nissan Pathfinder. Of course this becomes difficult in winter and inclement weather conditions, but I also see fewer cyclists then.

People need to realize that even the Dutch generally have cars and drive. It all works because they thought and fought hard to get to this point.
yup. I think it's past time we rounded up a bunch of classicists and just made them go sailing so they stop worrying about this.
> The light should switch on when it is dark and I go into a room and should switch off when none is in the room.

What if you don't want to disturb someone sleeping? Do you sleep with the lights on? Do you watch movies with the lights on?

Do you need the same amount of light to have dinner and to fix something?
He's a bullshitter (cf hyperloop) and a fraud (cf SolarCity fake solar panels).

His initial plan for hyperloop is a ~200yo design[1], only he enhanced it by putting "a air-hockey table" (his words) inside an evacuated tube. How stupid can one be?

He assembled an audience on a film studio set with mansions to show off non-existent solar shingles. He's well known to have been promising fully self-driving cars as well as flying rockets to the Moon and Mars year after year after year, always adding he was "confident" to accomplish that by "this_year + n" where n < 6 for "1/x th of the current market price" where x is typically 10 or 100.

[1](https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperloop-is-hyper-old): ""Lord how this world improves as we grow older," reads the caption for a panel in the "March of Intellect," part of a series of colored etchings published between 1825 and 1829. The artist, William Heath (1794–1840), shows many futuristic contraptions, including a four-wheeled steam-powered horse called Velocity, a suspension bridge from Cape Town to Bengal, a gun-carrying platform lifted by four balloons, and a giant winged flying fish conveying convicts from England to New South Wales, in Australia. But the main object is a massive, seamless metallic tube taking travelers from East London's Greenwich Hill to Bengal, courtesy of the Grand Vacuum Tube Company."
Yes! The biggest existential risk to society is not that AI will wipe us down. It's that humans will stop finding each other interesting.
Prisma Memory Leakage
Project Midori was really good read, a lot of good stuff came from it

https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
> We found that vertical farming is almost infinitely complex

It breaks the laws of physics, which a smart child can work out.

Sure you can make food for the rich, but do the rich care enough to pay for the vertical-farming surcharge. Is it the type of signaling they pay for?

The 26 story Chinese pig farm however works because they haven't filled their universities with imposters who can't do science and fatting animals vertically using energy harvested from horizontal farms is not insane.
It's a different way of expressing queries. The smallest example I can think of is a simple navigation, like this:

Find: ?friend-name, given: ?person

[[?person :person/friends ?friend]
[?friend :person/name ?friend-name]]

Given a person, get a set of the names of that person's friends.

Incidentally, all variables (prefixed with ? by convention, not requirement) are valid inputs or outputs from the query. So for the same query, you could give `?friend-name` and extract `?person`, to get the IDs of the people who are friends with a person of a particular name. This just requires a change in the inputs and outputs, not in the query itself.

The format is [ID field value]. If `value` happens to be an ID, you can navigate by it.

There's a lot more to it than this, of course.