skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you talking about Americans?

Trains are an optimisation for where there's enough utility to cope with the massive overhead they impose. That's how they're more efficient: they are only built where there's so much demand that it's worth putting a train there. They aren't general-purpose, and they need a lot of top-down control to make happen. They aren't like roads, where you can run a bus service, ride a bike, or hop in a car and go.
This is factually correct.

https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/states-move...

#4 is Pennsylvania and #5 is Massachusetts.

Most moved to are Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.
>I have never read or heard anything that suggests either found it terribly useful

Allegedly, Mozart transcribed Allegri's Miserere after hearing it performed once in the Vatican: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/guides/mozart-all....

Perhaps apocryphal, but sounds pretty useful to me.
Why are you talking about Americans?

Trains are an optimisation for where there's enough utility to cope with the massive overhead they impose. That's how they're more efficient: they are only built where there's so much demand that it's worth putting a train there. They aren't general-purpose, and they need a lot of top-down control to make happen. They aren't like roads, where you can run a private bus service, ride a bike, or hop in a car and go.
I guess you just discovered the difference between a GCP Zone and an AWS Availability Zone.

By definition, AWS availability zones do not share fault domains, other than a geographic region up to hundreds of miles wide. Even for services used by multiple AZs, such as transit to the Internet and other regions, there are two transit centers operating in separate fault domains.

In contrast, many GCP Zones share the same physical datacenter. What they are actually providing you are simply different racks, rows of racks, or rooms in a single physical facility. Caveat emptor.
Caprover comes close to this. You can pack your app into a zip file and upload it with a special file or choose pre-packaged apps.
This is more hype than performance.

When I worked on a hybrid-power multirotor drone about eight years ago, I was checking out Wankel engines for their power-weight ratio, and also came across this Liquid Piston crew. They were supposedly ready to ship Real Soon Now. But worse, their power-weight just didn't compare to Wankel options available then.

Liquid Piston still do not compare on their headline power-weight ratios. They make a lot of claims about 25 HP (18.6kW) and light weight, but don't actually mention the weight, which is down in their spec sheet - 21.2kg dry [0], which is about 0.877kW/kg.

By comparison, just a quick search of small Wankels turns up these:

-- AIE model 225CS outputting 40 bhp / 30kW weighing 10kg = 3.0 kW/kg[1]

-- AIE model 80S outputting 15 bhp / 11.2kW weighing 5kg = 2.24 kW/kg [2]

-- Sorrel Hiperlight Wankel outputting 75 hp / 56 kW weighing 52kg (fully wet with all electric start, reduction drive, and exhaust system, etc. = 1.07 kW/kg [3]

-- Crighton CR700W motorcycle engine puts out 220 hp / 164 kW weighing 43kg = 3.8 kW/kg. [4]

-- Small Nitto NR20-EP puts out 2.24kW / ~3hp weighing 1.466 kg = 1.53 kW/kg. [5]

In short, this is a lot of marketing hype for low pefrofrmance, and they've been working on it since 2003 according to their website.

The sole advantage this engine might have is running on a broader range of fuels including JP-8, but I've seen Wankels setup for a wide fuel range also. If I had a funded task to develop a high power-weight engine, I'd start with the Wankel design, not this one. It is already WAAAY ahead, and there's still a lot of performance left on the table.

[0] https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f6086e9bbbabd41a20f2984/642...

[1] https://www.aieuk.com/225cs-40bhp-wankel-rotary-engine/

[2] https://www.aieuk.com/80s-15bhp-wankel-rotary-engine/

[3] http://www.ultralightnews.com/sunfun99/hiperlight.html

[4] https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/dual-rotary-crighton-cr700w...

[5] https://barnardmicrosystems.com/UAV/engines/wankel.html
> Social media communities really ought to observe a [...] rule

Oh honey....
The uploader has not made that video available in my country. I wonder if they’re worried about stricter libel laws
no, its not about vanity

taller people are taken more seriously, make more money, are rated more attractive, have more success

fact is, making your kid taller is one of the better things you could do for it to improve odds of success

also every time i hear something like this i have to wonder how well it is controlled... maybe if you correct for body fat percent it becomes lesser. or maybe being tall means u eat more so take in more total bad stuff, but eating a good diet makes this unimportant?
in my experience you get good food at train stations when it comes from regular chains or franchises because they provide the same products and quality as in their other shops.
> In September 2019 this must have been a GAN face.

Well, yes,¹ but actually no. StyleGAN1's public release was February 2019, and it's capable of far more than just faces.

> Three years ago there was nothing remotely as impressive as modern GPT style

I predicted that! Albeit, not publicly, so I can't proveit.

My predictions claimed it would have certain limitations, which GPT-3 (and, later, GPT-4) exhibit. I can show that those still exist, but few people on Hacker News seem to understand when I try to communicate that.²

> or text to image models.

Artbreeder (then called Ganbreeder) existed in early 2020, and it didn't take me by surprise when it came out. It parameterises the output of the model by mapping sliders to regions of the latent space; quite an obvious thing to do, if you want to try getting fine-grained control over the output. (A 2015 paper built on this technique: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576)

I was using spaCy back in 2017–2018-time. It represents sentences as vectors, that you can do stuff like cosine similarity on.

If I'd been more interested in the field back then, I could have put two and two together, and realised you could train a net on labelled images (with supervised learning) to map a spaCy model's space to StyleGAN's, which would be a text-to-image model. It was very much imaginable back before April of 2020; a wealthy non-researcher hobbyist could've made one, using off-the-shelf tools.

If I were better at literature searches, I could probably find you an example of someone who'd done that, or something like it!

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¹: That file was, because that's what I was playing with in September. I do have some earlier ones, of landscapes; they're in a different folder.

²: See e.g. here: they tell me GPT-4 can translate more than just explicitly-specified meaning, and the "evidence" doesn't even manage that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35530316 (They also think translating the title of a game is the same as translating the game, for some reason; that confusion was probably my fault.)
Did you know that almost 40% of NYC's electricity grid is powered by natural gas? Another 30% from nuclear and ~20% from hydroelectric. Since nuclear and hydroelectric can't be immediately stepped up, what do you think is going to be increased to generate power for all these new electrical appliances that will be drawing power from the grid?

The heat transfer and energy loss of electrical appliances generally makes them less efficient than natural gas appliances, thus actually increasing the amount of natural gas that will need to be burned to accommodate this policy. This is literally going to increase the amount of natural gas that needs to be burned to maintain existing cooking patterns.

This policy and ones like it are why people can't take environmentalists seriously.
I meant "special" in terms of uniqueness of ability to reason and perhaps have sentience and sapience. If there were life on other planets, it might be wholly new and also be very interesting, but that doesn't necessarily mean that life on Earth is somehow more special than life on another planet. So too with this regarding AI in the future.
"You can summarize many types of web content, including:

Text web pages, articles, and forum threads
PDF documents
PowerPoint documents (.pptx)
Audio files (mp3/wav)
YouTube URLs"...

It doesn't actually state video, do you know if it's summarizing the actual YouTube video, or the subtitles?

Whilst they may seem the same, I can see the former being able to be refined over time based on e.g. in scene visual context
Tell my old job not me lol
Maybe, but why is this important?
It sounds magic to you because you are unskilled. Like people using the mouse for the first time. The things he talks about are very basic, very easy.
I can tell chord qualities fine. But I'd never be as good as someone with good relative pitch. For example, music majors have classes in sight singing: this is where the professor plays a note, say, a C, and tells everyone it's a C, then proceeds to play a sequence of chords and people learn to write down the chords based on relative position. But I and another student with perfect pitch would ace the class by just writing down the chords based on what they actually were. This went on until he started playing, say, a C and then telling everyone it's an F#. Then he'd play a sequence of chords relative to C and everybody would write them down relative to F#. Everyone except for us two, who were totally hosed.

When I went to my parent's church, the organist would spot me and then immediately transpose the organ down a half step. Nobody noticed in the entire room except for me -- I couldn't sing any hymns because the notes didn't match what was on the sheet. It was his private prank just between us two, and he knew that I was the only other person in the room who knew what he had done to me.
> Compared with Earth, for example, the Moon has reduced gravity, very little atmosphere and lots of dust.

But no weather. Weather is an enormous risk factor for Earth landings.
That was a difficult movie to watch. It was filled with so much excitement and jitter. The periodic breaks into history did little to suppress the anxiety.
Meta jumps years ahead with lifelike Avatars
This list cements the idea that without massive budgets Rails becomes a challenge once you reach a certain point. The argument against Rails isn't that it can't scale, but that doing so requires a certain level of complexity that is untenable for certain sizes and types of teams.

Shopify has built massive tooling (https://shopify.engineering/shopify-made-patterns-in-our-rai...). Github was stuck on an old version of Rails for years due to the amount of customization they had done. (It was actually a big deal when they finally were able to run on the latest version: https://github.blog/2018-09-28-upgrading-github-from-rails-3...)
Jazz. Jazz is all about transposition.
Starship is intended to span uses ranging from putting huge amounts of stuff, like 40,000 Starlink satellites, each weighing 5X what the first gen satellites weigh, into orbit, and it will go to the Moon and it will ship supplies and people for a Mars colony.

And Elon wants it fast. That means anything that would require tearing down and replacing the launch mount is off the table. So, next up is the water cooled steel wedge. You are right that relative to space explorations budgets, a flame trench and a deluge system are small potatoes. But it feels like they are tangled up in sunk costs and a desire to find the fastest solutions.
Why is preserving the reputation of a broken system more important than pointing out its flaws?

Let's say you bought 30 Surface Duos for your company, and 10 of them had broken hinges out of the box. Should no one document that or complain, lest Microsoft pull back from making dual-screen tablets? Who would be helped by that?

On the other hand, some people would take one of the working machines and stress-test the hinge, to find out why it was breaking, and perhaps take pictures and warn others and the company about its weaknesses. Assuming that everyone already knows these things break easily, it's useful to know how they break and what happens next. Just like on GitHub issues, if users assume everyone else is running into the same problem and don't give detailed bug reports, it's impossible to know how widespread a problem is.
I don’t buy the climate argument. However, banning gas appliances comes from the same place as banning lead paint. Gas appliances are a major source of indoor pollution. Gas heating leaks pollution inside the home, especially as furnaces age.

Plus, many residents don’t own their own property. This helps protect renters.
A serverless GPU means a GPU on a server right?
Citation needed ^
Maybe there are just some great German devs and you’re using a lot of their software?
Eh, could be either really
There's the talk command on Unix. We used to do a 'who' to find out who're on the system and 'talk' to them.
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This has to be the most misinformed counterargument of all time. The brain certainly doesn't use maths as it is not a binary system. Information is approximated and estimated. Do some reading on chemically mediated graded responses and how neurotransmitters actually function within a synapse.

Scientific research also suggests there are quantum processes involved that we don't yet grasp, ergo a hypothetical AGI likely won't emerge without using quantum physics.
California is not typical and their situation is largely self-inflicted. In many other parts of the US it is still very cheap.
> early indications suggest that this week’s ispace failure could have been caused by the lander running out of propellant just before it touched down

I practiced a lot with the Lunar Lander game in the 1970s. The trick is to let it fall until the last second, then hit the thrusters full blast to hit 0V as it hits the surface.

Burn too soon, and you run out of propellant and crash.
That’s more of a culture thing. Your company chose to enforce more granular permissions. Perhaps there are good reasons behind it, e.g. code for different clients being under different contracts and NDAs.
> essentially every regional train

it's not, which is one of the complains

there is a small number of RE trains which have contracts as if they are long distant trains and are operated by "DB Fernverkehr" (which normally operates IC,ICE trains) but are labeled as RE not IC/ICE..

but this will be fixed over time as the contracts a renewed, either by including the ticket or renaming the train as appropriate (the cases I'm aware of might be fixed in just a few month)

current exceptions I'm aware of are RE17, RE28, RE56 all stations on their line are also included in other lines and their where added as during rush hour parts of the exiting lines where just too over crowded

the problem is there is currently no sane way to check for what RE lines are special cases, but then AFIK this problems will likely be fixed very soon one way or another
Where in the world would that not be the case?
Yea you got me, I have to seek out his tweets because they never get posted to HN

You might want to glance away from the mirror from time to time, there's a whole world out there
The biggest effect would be the negative one from manufacturing and replacing all those stoves. Gas stoves are a molecule in a drop in a bucket of climate change.
> You would not go to the concert to hear hi-fi speakers playing pre-recorded or generated music, although with your eyes closed you won't hear a difference.

What do you think EDM concerts are? They're all prerecorded, the DJ most of the time doesn't actually do anything up there on the stand. And yet people go to these concerts, because it's about the music itself, not who makes it.

> What if I tell you that this page ,including all our comments, is entirely created by LLMs?

So what? If it's good content, it's good content. I've had debates with ChatGPT on a variety of issues and sometimes it brings up a good points that I hadn't considered before on the topic, so if HN were entirely AI driven, it doesn't really matter either. Hell, solipsism is entirely built on the notion that no one besides oneself is real, this would simply be an extension of that concept.
I do know of it, but that isn't super relevant. In true commenter form I had not read the article :D

I had assumed they were using "truck" in the US sense (e.g. a ute or pickup) rather than big rigs, because wtf would you want to force trucks to use bigger and less efficient engines, instead of oversized utes which are the bigger environmental hazard.
Going to 0 carbon is not free, otherwise every country would be doing it.
Related: the great and timeless talk called "Simplicity Matters" by Rich Hickey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

(By the way, any talk by Rich Hickey is worth watching)
It is not only particulate matter but gaseous combustion products that are the problem, and gas stoves are used for a LOT more than only searing protein, starting with heating tea water.

Also, just because searing protein produces bad indoor pollution, doesn't mean that any other pollution should therefore be automatically ignored. It is purely optional whether you want to use your stove to sear protein (e.g., you won't find any vegans using it for that purpose), but you don't really have an option if the only thing installed is a gas stove to heat your tea water or saute your onions...
What does UUG stand for? That's the only acronym that ChatGPT didn't give me a guess for from your comment.

The other guesses were: CDE - Common Desktop Environment, MTC - Missionary Training Center.

GPT is much better than web search for this, I'll say that. It's ability to use context is invaluable.
Its in the same repo, yes, but don't have to care about it, just as you may not care about Ci artifacts or editor config files, or gitignore files or whatever.

That info has to live somewhere, and in the same repo as the code doesn't sound that bad.
Investing so much creativity into obfuscation of meaning.
I would have taken the opportunity to ask them a few questions.

But that’s probably why they don’t come out to lecture.
Sincere quesion: what is interesting or novel about this? Is it just the scale or did I miss some subtle aspect?

This is more (or less?) the same as industry best practices, just scaled up. There is a challenge in scaling up, as there is more potential for someone to mess it up. But it's the same technique.

So what am I missing?
How does this differ from wuphf from Ryan's character on The Office?
Part of the narrative was how they would all have guns too.

It ignored the fact that most of those employees were actually customer service representatives, and you can see this year the huge increase in number of tax filers who were able to actually speak to someone from the IRS on the phone.
> Most people can distinguish good writing from that which is merely serviceable, but un-engaging

Sure, but you're talking about the current reality of AI written content, there may very well be very engaging content in the future by AI.
Have you actually tried using these tools beyond starting it up and swinging your fist in frustration?

I have thousands upon thousands of beautiful images, each one more inspiring than the other and I did nothing or very close to nothing. You are belittling this amazing tech so much it sounds like you are scared of it. What’s it to you?

Have you ever lived in a time where it was even remotely possible to go from “astronaut on horse” and get even 1 decent result, in seconds?

I can’t even.
Author here.

The more I dig into mmm.page, the more I'm loving what you've built! I can't wait to play around with it next week. The design is gorgeous so far.

Somebody is giving a talk on "Print Inspired People-Computing" at my tech conference this August. You two would probably get along pretty well!

I'd love to have you in our community, so feel free to email me at taylor@outland.sh and I'll send you a free ticket :)

[1] https://outland.sh
Lazard to cut 10% of staff to contain costs amid dealmaking chill
Does this only get rid of unused binaries? Or is the system smart enough to use the profiling infrastructure to identify dead code in general?
InfiniteFuria on using Bing AI for marriage
I suspect it’s preceded by the comment
# quick and dirty hack, please, please, please replace this before it goes to production
My guess is that this device only looks like nokia.

Nobody ever came up with using cryptography on a CAN bus?

Those hacks look like they can be replicated using arduino or RPI pico.
That was my exact feeling
It's his grandmother, not some random person from the street. Not at all ridiculous, especially with larger family sizes.

I would have loved to have that (or even thought up of that) when my grandmother began developing signs of dementia. Fortunately, her signs weren't that bad before she passed away ultimately.
The satellites can't just fall out of the sky suddenly like something hanging above your head. That's not how orbital mechanics works. ISS would have warning of any threat long in advance, plenty of time to make an avoidance maneuver or return to Earth in their lifeboat.
That's great, if that's what you want your purpose to be then go for it. Lots of people already live similarly, like hikikomori. Your comment changes nothing about the fact that a person's purpose is not driven externally by society or by the fact that one is human, it is derived entirely from oneself.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/byu.uug/

This user group was already in place by the time Linux came along, so you had the UUG doing Red Hat boxed set giveaways and such. There was a ton of excitement about Linux and not as much about Unix at that point. Then a bit more proper-Unix excitement when OS X came out.

The other ones are correct.
What can be stepped up fast is wind and solar energy.

And a heat pump is superior to gas even if the grid consists 100% out of gas.

Further, you don't build a building built for gas when have to switch to electricity in the future anyway when the grid is even cleaner.
IconShop: Text-based vector icon synthesis with autoregressive transformers
Of everything you’re aerosolizing while cooking, the combustion byproducts are almost certainly the least impactful.

Given your concerns, I wouldn’t cook using electric/induction without the fan on either.
> human-being focused development

So human-being focused a third of their human-being employees quit after the CEO wrote a blog post! https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employe...
I was referring to a steam distribution system, burning nat gas to produce steam which then powers HVAC / heating in the city.
That's not what I see daily as a non-capitalist class member using Stable Diffusion and other open AI tools.
ChatGPT powered dictionary and vocabulary book