skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can summon enough power to not need or want a galaxy worth of Dyson swarms, then either (1) they are powerful enough to not need or care to hide, or (2) they're hiding because there is something out there that makes a galaxy's worth of Nicoll-Dyson beams seem trivial and insignificant as a weapon.

For reference, a K3 civilisation worth of Nicoll-Dyson beams can gravitationally unbind[0] 10^9 Earthlike planets in just under 26 days.

[0] https://youtu.be/7g77WN6obk4
Show HN: Wordbots, an online card game in which players make their own cards
The article isn't doom and gloom at all, it just predicts what will happen, not that it is bad. It sounds rather positive.
Many of the SPARCstations we had at work around that time had a 200MB hard drive. So yeah, it kind of was a lot.

So we stuck a build of X11 on our servers and mounted it over NFS. It started up a bit slower, but you generally only started an X session once a day (or for some people, once a month), so it was OK.
I read the article, you're refusing to see the forest through the trees.
Sorry to hear that. Any advice for other readers that find themselves in that predicament?
I might be wrong there, thanks for the call out.
Hey,

Do you opensource the code for your projects? If you do can you please link me to it.

I am particularly interested in your alltoplinks project. Been wanting to build something like that out of my newsletters for quite sometime now.

I use the alltoplinks a lot. Thanks for it.
Our club has few professional pilots and iirc their more or less shared opinion was that boeing fucked up, but the expectation was that pilots training should have prevented the crashes. Regardless of Airbus, Boeing expectation still is that pilots can fly with minimum automation, and if something is wrong / odd they know how to disable it all, take full control, gain altitude and figure things out.
Not wanting to derail the thread, but could be the best place to ask this:

What are you using local LLM's for?

So far, I've been only able to come up with:

- Aid in coding (which always ends up in chatGPT)

- Summarizing short articles

- whisper-ai + langchain + ffmpeg allows for some great video summarization (especially with non-english LORA's for us non-natives)

- generating stable diffusion prompts
Surgeon General: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. It’s Time to Fix That
Skylab: The Space Station That Fell on Australia
Induction tops are orders of magnitude superior to coil-based stovetops, and are viable and possibly superior replacements for gas tops despite the cookware limitations and other issues; when their control schemes mature (no capacitive touch) and prices come down to the point of attainability for the unwashed masses they will be welcomed.

But, coil-based electric tops are an embarassment for anyone that sells them, installs them, and "uses" them.
Not what I see in Stockholm where this has been a thing for quite awhile already. We just don't throw that much stuff on the ground at all anymore.
If there were already ship engines produced at scale that were the same cost drop in replacements and could be used with zero-extra training by existing personnel, and were just as efficient, safe, etc. then I would of course want future ships to be 0 emissions.

Meanwhile, shipboard nuclear reactors have radioactive material. They can be cut open, so the radioactive material can be taken out. It can then be distributed throughout NYC by a terrorist with conventional explosives, killing millions.
Ask HN: Is "At which age did you start coding?” a good data point for hiring?
Was talking to someone I trust who told me this is a question that gives a solid data point on a candidate developer's hire-ability, with two qualifiers:
1/ Asked from young-ish developers, so the expected answer is always less than 18.
2/ Asked in addition to coding/system-design questions.

Has anyone seen a study or even an anecdote on correlation between success of a developer if they started coding earlier (say 11yr), rather than later (say 15yr or 16yr) in their youth?
its in the linked paper.
Every time I see these numbers about how much Meta is losing per year on VR - 6 billion, 10 billion, etc. - I look up the valuation of Roblox.

Answer: about 20 billion.

They should’ve just acquired Roblox - for the price of WhatsApp! - and gotten unquestioned ownership of the leading young gamer audience, and a fully functioning “Metaverse” (if you want call it that), in one fell swoop.

It sounds like they’ve already spent more than this for nothing tangible in return. Such a missed opportunity.
Elon is now trying the classic trick that big universities do: mix the rich and the notable in a way that the former can claim to be the latter.

It'll be interesting to see. For my part, the most embarrassing thing is watching people fall over themselves claiming they didn't pay for their checkmark.

But it is quite clear that among the set of people who cared about blue checks, they're no longer valuable.
Powell Got Punk’d by Putin's Puppets. Could the Economy Get Him Next?
Interesting, I never thought that I’d get downvoted for stating a fact here
Kids 2-6 learn all kinds of things. Why not music?
Actual title: “Why scientists are making fake Moon dust”
Android is notorious for blocking usbc video out
Right. The alternative is to engineer in the solution at the same time you engineer the innovation, so that there's no problem in the first place.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Do we gain much by requiring innovators of the future to spend their innovation power on solutions to the side-effects of past innovations, instead of brand new innovations?
Then that's on you.

When 90% of users are on the newest version within a couple weeks, that's not "bleeding edge". It's mainstream.

You're also opening yourself up to security vulnerabilities as you browse.

If you turn off auto update, it's up to you to accept the consequences of both security risks and of sites breaking.
I did this for several years before but it was a constant maintenance burden because as third party services were integrated or removed over time. Eventually as AWS and third-party CDN usage grew routing by subnet was just not feasible.
Fine, xapata! Yes, if you suddenly find yourself with a shitload of money, and you have friends who can't pay their bills every month, they have $0.00 in the bank, literally can't afford to ever eat out, and a $20 meal would be a grand expense and a momentous occasion for them... yes, go ahead and offer to pay for those friends every time.
IMO it's more even in a induction stove than in a gas stove. But maybe that is due to the more expensive frying pan I had to buy.
> In EU you can get to a lot of destinations for much less than 100€.

There's a lot of cheap destinations for domestic US flights, too. And the average length of a flight in the US is longer, obviously.
> a new type certificate which would then require all pilots flying it to certify on that type in addition to additional flight testing and manufacturing certifications

Boeing blamed the crashes on the lack of pilot training.

> “The crew’s inadequate actions … played a role in the chain of events that led to the accident, in particular during the first phase of the flight, before the first MCAS activation,” the BEA wrote. Both agencies suggest that Ethiopian Airlines *failed to ensure its pilots were adequately trained* in the measures that Boeing recommended to counter an erroneous MCAS activation after the first MAX crash.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/final...
The build you'd use for development, to run unit tests and validate merge requests, is the as-instrumented-as-possible build.
Or, civilizations have become so advanced they mastered higher dimensional movement and are now occupying positions in time and space that we cannot see, and no matter where we hide they can always see us without being detected.
I guess while Python interprets this branchless code it still can do some branching? Or am I missing something here?
The backgrounds is a boy's dead from a moldy place he and his family had to live in:
https://propertyindustryeye.com/coroner-describes-toddlers-d....
Are we looking at the definition of what "success" would be for a civilization? Could civilizations use localized, smaller scale nuclear reactors & highly efficient battery or grid storage?
Was it really Microsoft that killed Windows phone? Or was it simply just too late. By the time it was really available I'm not sure there was actually a chance for a third platform to survive.
That's solvable, just add proper stereo pass-through cameras to turn the VR headset into an AR headset. The Lenovo Mirage Solo[1] had that four years ago, due to the death of the whole Daydream platform it didn't see much use outside of YoutubeVR, but there it works great. You just hit a button and you can see the world around you while watching Youtube.

Quest2 has been adding similar functionality over the last year, though the image quality of the pass-through still leaves a lot to be desired, but that can be fixed in future headsets.

Depths sensors will also make they way into headsets sooner or later and allow much more flexible integration between real world and virtual objects. Hololens could do that years ago, but the VR space still needs to do some catch up.

[1] https://www.uploadvr.com/mirage-solo-is-getting-pass-through...
2015, for anyone else wondering
It might not be a perfect cloaking device, but if it can reduce visibility to that one galaxy a few dozen megaparsecs away, perhaps it’s enough to evade the survey that the article covers?
if you claim this is sensationalized (ridiculously, too) would you care to decipher what this means:

> They’re operating about 200 ppb at lowest conc. usually we’re looking to remove from a 1 ppb

who does "they're operating" refer to in this sentence?
General non-discriminatory carbon tax. Investing heavily in nuclear.

Just 2 obvious ideas that noone is even trying.
Didn't consider smaller services hosted on AWS. Subnet routing only works well for those that have their own ASN indeed.
I recommend repeated viewing of Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. And avoiding llamas.
There are some provisos to the “Branchless” tag that are covered in the article I drew inspiration from. One of which is that a “CMOVE” is not technically a branch :)
But growing another cow is straightforward.
vi is a pretty effective byte-code for communicating what is in my brain into what is on the screen. Kind of like a protobuf for text editing.
I just checked on my phone and images are rendering fine for me—it might be because they’re high res or otherwise delayed in loading.
Jeez still gets my heart pumping - watched just 3 minutes (0:45:00 -> 0:48:00 where it does the 'cars flowing like blood through veins in a city) and the real human orchestra music just nails it.

The composition of the shots makes me ask, Why are we living this way? Good and bad outcomes, ofc, and the film makes me ask myself questions.
> I can't imagine anything being easier than plain HTML and CSS

Well you can still make websites with plain HTML and CSS today, and the layout modes (and other niceties like border-radius) that are available today so are much nicer than the ones that were available 20 years AND they work the same in every browser!

20 years ago you were cobbling together layout with tables and floats (you didn't even have `display: inline-block`). And people still wanted vaguely responsive layouts even though there weren't any media queries yet. Plus there were 3-4 major browser engines that you needed to test with, and there were often major differences in both feature support, bugs and layout between them. For example you had to deal with the fact that IE used what is now known as `box-sizing: border-box` while other browsers used `box-sizing: content-box`, and the fact that browsers didn't even parse HTML consistently you could easily end up with different node tree in different browsers.
The full version of the essay might be better but this version seems to be exploiting Calvino and relying on a great many short out of context quotes to lend credence to the authors essay. At least from what I remember of Cybernetics and Ghosts, which I remember as Calvino playing with and exploring an idea in his signature way.

An aside, Calvino's out of print and difficult to find essay collection The Written World and the Unwritten World came back into print this year.
I’ve been confused about the natural resources concerns. There have been false alarms about this in the past.

Could you give me an idea of what current concerns are? I haven’t kept up on this.
Automatically generate code/PR from an issue using AI
Good. Now go to wikipedia again and learn about Felix Sater, and you'll see that Trump was also collaborating with the CIA to make connections and business with the Russian oligarchs. The web goes deeper than you can imagine.
Do blue skies matter when you are blind from malnutrition?
You could make the argument that we really need better methods and technology for determining the health impact of what we put into our environment. The problem as I see it (as a total layman) is that the health sciences are not good at determining the effects of almost anything in the future. The best we can do is wide-scale studies that try to control for different variables (and largely fail, because the set of variables is incredibly large).

I have a feeling we aren’t going to solve this problem anytime soon, as the simulations required appear to be so large they are beyond our reach. I am optimistic that we can massively increase the data collected as time goes on, and that will increase our accuracy of studies of things that occurred in the past.
I don't agree with the race framing either, but I was replying to a comment that used it so I leaned into it.

My point is not who won and who lost, it's that the USA has basically erased the USSR's achievements through its PR campaign and framing it as a race to put people on the moon, instead of the USs effort to catch up to the way more advanced USSR.
The psychology involved in the response you're wondering about is really quite simple to understand.
lol yeah that comment is hard to decipher
thank you, i really like this comment.
Now I’m hungry too! Darn.
This is a great project thank you. I've installed the TestFlight app. FYI, right now it's saying in response to "Who was the president in 1973" that it was "Gerald Ford" which is wrong.
That entire argument rests on the wild idea that the Empire should continue to exist and get bigger. "We should have more kids because if we don't the Empire will fall" seems like a good way to convince a lot of people to stop having kids.
Can also happen on mac nowadays
well, on my understanding the output of a fusion power plant is about the same as a fission plant, but possibly cheaper and/or cleaner. that isn't much compared with the energy radiated by a star.
Jaron Lanier made an incisive point many years ago. Someone asked him what virtual reality was. "Virtual reality is where you are when you're on the telephone."

I'd extend that to, "Virtual reality is where you are when you're not present in the here-and-now." That encompasses all forms of media, entertainment, and communication with people who aren't in the room with you. The idea that it has anything to do with goggles, 3D graphics, avatars, or Facebook is something some people made up.
Sounds cool, but how is this different from Colly: https://github.com/gocolly/colly?
He Was a Quant at Citadel. Now He Agitates for GameStop Investors
https://archive.ph/aJt2Y
It’s not a requirement for consumption taxes to driven my morality as a first order effect.

It’s entirely reasonable for law to take the moral stance that people should broadly pay for the benefits as participating in organised society, so to ensure the long term upkeep and maintenance of that organisation they derive benefits from.

At which point consumption taxes have nothing to any moral judgement about the consumption of various products, but simple calculus that the voluntary consuming those products increases the cost of running our society, and so you should pay a bit more for engaging in these activities.

But none of that is judgement on the morality of activity. I personally couldn’t give a shit what drugs you or anyone else consumes. But I don’t particularly like the idea of having pick up the bill later for an activity I didn’t participate in. So if you pay some extra taxes to cover to cost of additional healthcare, then feel free to consume whatever the hell you want.
I think GP is saying almost no normal US citizen can afford to fly his or her own aircraft, not pay to be a passenger on a commercial airline.

Even renting the smallest of single-engine aircraft as a student pilot is beyond the resources of what most people would spend (hundreds of dollars per hour) "for fun". Owning an aircraft is out of reach for all but the very wealthy.

A small airplane is no more technically sophisticated than an automobile, yet costs orders of magnitude more.
> and not a major metropolis

Probably he lived in a major metropolis. AS NYC is a major metropolis I think his anectode illustrates better.
The dot product of two d_k-dimensional vectors is a scalar. So the entire NxN matrix qk_ij is just a bunch of scalar numbers. The rows are used to create a weighted sum (i.e. a linear combination) of the d_v-dimensional vectors.
These are all examples of EU countries doing domestic, not foreign espionage (which is also despicable, by the way).

You can search all you want but there is no evidence or proof whatsoever of EU countries spying USA top government officials.

The question here is how can you call yourself an ally in good faith when you spy on your allies?
yeah agreed, its sad to me that we're 2 months after llama and "nobody" is seemingly doing any advances of fine tuning on models with more than 7B or 13B parameters.

I have 64gb RAM (not gpu just normal), I’d like to see proof of concepts that the bigger models can be fine tuned and have far more accepted results, or to know if we’re completely going the wrong direction with this
Pretty wide list of users. Is he curious how this ML tool compares to others.

OpenXLA (with already semi popular IREE Intermediate-Representation) had a pretty elegant launch recent; very understandable pieces/architecture. It'd be lovely to see similar explanation from TVM, to see a compare/contrast.

One of the wins of OpenXLA is how retargetable it is. TVM shows both AMD & Xilinx as users, presumably using their respective hardwares. How that happens with TVM would be an interesting specific point to compare on. TVM also has IR, or IRs plural? How do they compare?
So which desktop processor manufacturer other than the mentioned two do you recommend? ARM?
Nothing proves my point better than the fact that Airbus won the competition but ultimately this happened:

> The Air Force selected Boeing's KC-46 bid on 24 February 2011.

PS. purchasers around the world seem to like Airbus' MRTT platforms a lot, they are probably better at the purely technical level.
notion started the .so trend didnt they?
follow up question.... why? whats 'so' short for?
I don’t think Lanier is right, regardless, virtual reality and immersive virtual world still sound like two different things.
Web devs should not punish such users, agreed. Who will pay extra on top of the hourly rate to address the needs you have? Especially when it's your problem with somebody else's software (Firefox) that would require this extra investment.
Don't have experience, but I'd guess a buyer/renter won't see a difference between grades of paint quality, but a resistive vs. induction cooktop will be very noticeable and may raise the value far beyond the price difference.
>The space is saturated with anti-EV FUD.

It's crazy out there right now - massive political pressure with tax breaks, climate anxiety marketing for EVs, mass confusion about energy supply chains and pollution whether oil or electric, a lack of clarity about battery ingredients and lifecycles from extraction to disposal.
Most of a galaxy would be lifeless. A super civilization could terraform millions of planets and moons. It could convert other matter into digital simulations.
>...worse code completion

Have you tried LSP, say like in a LunarVIM or AstroVIM setup? These are self-contained packagings so you don't have to fiddle around with plugins (though you can also achieve the same results through plugins), and as I understand it you get the same code completion and intelligence you get in VSCode.
The images aren't loading for me either
They were always uncool. At best the blue check was useful at times (“this really is the CEO of BigCo”), but people who think they have “status” on Twitter have always been the worst of it.

However, now, the conflation of paid features and the blue check makes me reticent to pay Twitter for features I want because it’s bundled with so-called status I don’t.
Nah... Mendable seems to be searching in documentation. This idea is to extract an execution model of every component in your system from the logs of that component. We can think of the prediction step as a complete separate machine model for now.

Anything else comes to mind?
Yes, but I still don't see the point of the 4.h3 novelty, which wastes a move. Ding lost that game badly.
This isn't limited to fake copies of books which are legitimately listed on Amazon, either. About a decade ago I found my doctoral thesis available for sale on Amazon -- with someone else listed as the author.
My interpretation: the paper describes a system that works for a starting concentration of 200 parts per billion, or higher. This is unrealistic because, in real world contamination scenario, you would expect to see a starting concentration of around 1 part per billion.
Wouldn't it be better to get a GPU that shares its memory with the CPU, like in the new macbooks?
Necrobrands – Digital End-Stage Capitalism
yeah, a big plus if porkbun sells it as thats where i got most other domains
https://archive.is/ugOEw
Let me guess, you're not from South America or Africa or the middle east or southeast Asia?

The US government is the most destructive force in history
A large language model; machine learning artifact.
Not all kinds of steel have strong magnetic properties. I had to buy a new pan when I moved to induction because my steel pan didn't work at all.
The Kardashev scale is most likely a misconception anyway: the factor representing capability is power density, not total energy.

It is useless to generate huge amounts of power thinly dispersed over galactic scales.

A society capable of high power densities, like direct energy-conversion fusion for starters, can realize fantastic feats, as opposed to somebody collecting sunlight over vast volumes of space, but lacking adequate portable storage.
The fact that PRISM was legal is exactly the problem, and why leaking it was needed.

It wasn't illegal, therefore going through the proper channels wouldn't have exposed it.

It is only by going through alternative/leaking means that the program could have gotten exposed to the public.
Would consume too much battery. Will probably remain in the cloud
My best guess is that the GP is referring to the concentration of PFOAs in the test setup. It is possible that a technology that is good at reducing higher concentrations of PFOAs is not good at further reducing PFOAs concentration at lower concentrations.

However, from the link to the paper in another comment (note that this is from the introduction; I don't have permission to view the full paper):

> After finding the best operating condition, the effects of solution parameters such as initial pH, DO, temperature, PFOA concentration, and electrolyte concentration in broad ranges were determined. PFOA concentration and sulfate dosage were chosen to be representative of different aqueous environments (e.g., natural waters and brine solutions).

So I'm not sure where GP gets that this 200 PPB number is the case for all of the tests.