skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great fire retardant, heavily used in soft foam furniture like sofas.

Also great for preventing stains, used on carpets.

Lots of attractive applications of these chemicals and that's why they're so pervasive
It's cocky but I think this time it might be true :)

EdgeDB looks fantastic.
It's in fire fighting foams at airports. Every military air base has a ground plume beneath it.
What about listen/notify?
Researchers always have a lot to take away from Google papers that don’t release code or dataset - people understand that sometimes folks at companies sometimes cannot release the code or dataset. Doesn’t make any key contributions less meaningful - if that was the case, all conferences would have banned papers that don’t release code and dataset by now.
Sure, but also normally you aren't manually installing the relevant firmware. There's different semantics when the 'firmware' lives on the same block device as your root filesystem.
That’s awesome - it looks like a really interesting project. Would you be able to address the specific criticism raised by parent, on rich text boxes? Is this a case of a documentation shortfall, or something more fundamental?
Although homeschooling may help with academics, what about socializing? Traditional schools are by far the better option for making friends as a kid
Account switching is supported in some of the official clients, but not all. Also, multiple accounts means multiple verified phone numbers. You can’t reuse the same phone number between accounts, unless you want to verify it every single time you switch accounts. And they don’t allow google voice or voip numbers. They clearly don’t want you using multiple accounts.
Highlight of the thread, IMHO, from 'beefman:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818261

>Not small, modular, or new. But certainly a decent reactor. They clearly want something to slot in against the GE BWRX-300. But they would probably be better served by going all-in on their eVinci reactor, which is small, modular, and new

>https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/evinci-mi...
The irony is that LLMs are actually the real solution that Ribbon took an awkward half step towards -- how to quickly get to what a user actually wants to do.

Originally: Taxonomically organized nested menus, culminating at a specific function or option screen

Now: Usage-optimized Ribbon (aka Huffman coding for the set off all options), culminating at a specific function or option screen

Future: LLM powered semantic search across all options and actions, generating the exact change you want to implement

Why have an "email signature" options page at all, when an LLM can stitch together the calls required to change it, invoked directly from English text?
I’m just gonna go out on a limb and suggest maybe you wouldn’t just start building a building sized water cooled steel plate if you think your launch pad is gonna do ok without one. May very well have come down to the decision to knowingly trash the pad vs take the risk of getting tied up in court and never get to run the test. Still all terribly unfortunate though. It would have been inspiring to see them pull off the whole show.
> What's a password? A secret word or phrase that only you know.

No, a password is a secret word for phrase that both you and the service you want to sign into know.

I don't know how to explain a passkey but at least in this one sense, a passkey is split into a public and private part. The public part is shared, the private part is not. The public part can be verified to match the private part without sharing the private part. Your device stores this private part. When service wants to let you login they ask your device "does this public part match this user's private part?". Your device responds in a way such that the service knows "only someone who has access to the private part could have responded correctly to -should this person be allowed to login'"
100% agree. Jack Kilby's Masters thesis that realized an actual integrated circuit was another one that makes my list of GOAT.
65.8% of Americans live in their own home. That's a higher percentage than the UK, France, or Germany. We aren't talking about there not being homes, it's that the youngest aren't able to. It's also a higher percentage of ownership than the US in 1940,1950,1960,1970, not 1980, but also higher than 1990.

What it isn't higher than is the peaks of home ownerships hit during the low the low interest rate booms before the recessions of the '80s and 2000's.

I don't think the current housing crunch will be forever - we've seen shortages like this several times before in US history. While some cities are fighting new housing furiously, other's aren't. Over time, the population migration to the places that are building will continue as it has over the last decade. Building houses is a boom and bust phenomena, and I've seen nothing to say that it's never coming back.
The Vanishing Irish (1997)
Found this to be an interesting case study of history with all of the discussion around lower birth rates. Not directly applicable, but interesting.

The part that piqued my interest:

>By 1911 there were in Ireland about half as many people as in 1841. Less than half of the total depopulation can be attributed to the Famine itself. The rest reflects low birth-rates and high emigration rates.
Light water reactors (like the AP300) don't get hot enough for molten salt storage. That requires one of the high temperature Gen IV reactors.
> Otherwise, you'd be much too close for comfort for us Earthlings.

Manner, Earther T3T
It's sad that when I'm trying to search interviews with Tim Cook I can't find these interesting things that he has done. He knows so much about supply chain management and all he is asked about is privacy.
But wait, there is more! In Langchain you can build constitutional chains ontop of your chains, to validate if the answer was really helpful, by doing just one more API call, with a new prompt, asking if the answer answered the question based on the initial prompt, in an helpful way! And if it didn't, revise the answer with another API call to be more helpful! And then you can chain these chains with even further API calls until you went through as much prompts you think are necessary to answer a single sentence question (What is the weather today on the moon?).
yes, after fifteen years

assignment in expressions took even longer
>plus my own direct personal experience

How do you measure neurotoxicity on yourself?

>Go take a massive bong hit, then tell me your mind and lungs feel healthy.

Smoking is far from the only way to consume cannabis.

>the smoke is carcinogenic (like tobacco)

All smoke is carcinogenic, because it is smoke. This is not a function of cannabis, but a function of organic matter.
> If you have 9 cars that cost $10,000 to replace and one car that costs $100,000 to replace, that means your average cost to replace a vehicle among that population is $19,000.

Except that replacement average is only meaningful and the $100k exotic car an asshole if the rate is the same among all 9 drivers to insure all of those cars and the risk pool among all 9 drivers is identical.

A $10k car driven 60k miles a year by a 17 year old male, owns potentially a larger slice of that $19k average then the $100k car if it’s driven 500 miles a year by a 55 year old woman.

This is why insurance companies employ actuaries because it’s a tad more complex to calculate policy risk than adding up all insured values and dividing by the number of the insured.
Hiding away guns from kids (ie gun safe) is working well and often required by law.
“Socializing” children in schools is an oxymoron. School is where children are prevented from becoming socialized by being placed into an age-segregated situation with only one authority figure present. It’s only a slight improvement on Lord of the Flies.
Yeah - "keynote" seemed to imply a big presentation. Not 15 minutes, most of which was literally already released video content. Now confused what is the point of "day 5" if the big reveal is done.
>but if LLMs drive demand for more capable consumer hardware they can either:

That's a big if. I imagine people who will buy GPUs to run LLMs locally are either researchers or programmers. I am imagine most consumer focused solutions will be cloud first. That is a much smaller market than gamers and nvidia wouldn't want to cannibalize their datacenter offerings by releasing something cheaper. It's far better for them to sell high tier GPUs to Amazon and let them "rent" it out to researchers and programmers.
To detail, though the Rivian driver has under insured insurance, the at fault party is still responsible for that difference, and the insurance company will take the at fault party to court if they can recoup a portion of the remaining $35k at low expense.
The No Google License functionally exists: it's the AGPL. https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
> worst

if you consider BotW "a giant featureless grass field" then I don't believe that you are talking about the same game that everyone else is.

that BotW fails to handhold the player through Link's progression, is by far the game's greatest feature.

absolutely 0% of the overworld (excepting the four shrines of The Great Plateau) is required to beat the game. ok maybe 0.2% because you have to travel to the castle.

Breath of the Wild is as much of a game as you want. It is as much of an endless grind as you make it, no more, no less. BotW is as difficult as you make it, or as easy as you make it. Combat is as easy or as difficult as you choose.

it was extremely well received for good reasons.

is it perfect? absolutely not. when everything has a difficulty level that is actively determined by the player, as they play, the "game" kinda falls out of it, because rules become very fluid. you can eat everything you have in battle for effectively infinite life or you can choose to fight using only sticks and forbid yourself from healing. or you can fight with sticks then discover that your skills aren't where they need to be and you need to eat to stay alive. or you can stick to your guns and avoid healing and take the L if you want.

I'm trying to say that the game you want is probably in there, somewhere. it's up to you to enforce your own rules for progression on yourself, though. you can fight Ganon with three hearts or with 30. up to you.

don't want to grind? Don't.
Yes, but if you use the “Login with Google” function on many 3rd party websites, then what? If Google locks you out, can you get back into your account on the 3rd party website?

I think this is a great question, and that the answer depends on the 3rd party site.
The best way to solve this problem is to build a huge shipyard-based reactor-making gigafactory that makes floating gigawatt scale reactors that are floated to location. You can operate them offshore or on land.

This was actually attempted in the 1970s by Offshore Power Systems (joint venture between Westinghouse and Newport News). They bought and installed the world's largest gantry crane on Blount Island in Jacksonville Florida and got a license from the NRC to build the first 8 of them. Sadly no one bought and they shut it down. Crazy story. Super interesting from a rapid decarbonization perspective.

https://whatisnuclear.com/offshore-nuclear-plants.html
The article seems misleading. My read is of the 1.4% of harddrives that failed, they failed on average with 3 years. My take away is avoid Seagate due to a higher rate of failure and that 98.6% of drives last 10 years.
Ask Apple 2022 Q&A Related to SwiftUI
I have organized some Q&A about SwiftUI in Ask Apple 2022 and added some personal insights.
I assume the goal is to keep people logged in. The bullshit reason is to get rid of passwords. I have passwords that are strong and 20 years old, so I regard passkey as evil.
Yeah, these days I'm "over" Google's AI research. All their papers sound cool, and they've got nice pictures/audio/etc. But nothing meaningful has ever materialized from Google.

OpenAI is killing it with ChatGPT, a publicly accessible product with research papers that have been reproduced. Facebook released huge LLMs for free. Stability released successful image models for free. etc.

Meanwhile Google has ... Tensorflow? Dying. TPUs? Only used by Google themselves or when they're free. Bard? A joke compared to ChatGPT. Imagen? Never released.

Remember when Google said they were going to have an AI call your hair salon and make appointments for you? Yeah...

But hey, at least they've got that golden mountain of PII they harvested from everyone that's been oh so valuable in building new, market defining products... It's not like small companies are running circles around them using publicly available hardware and publicly available data...

And they've still got search, a that product just keeps getting better and more useful by the day...
Passkeys do all of this

* Easy to understand. Your device will just ask "sign in?"

* Easy to use. Your device will just ask "sign in?"

* Convenient. Nothing to remember, nothing to do

* Simple (all of the above)

Passkeys are/will-be way simpler than passwords for the majority of users
Unintuitively, the principles nuclear reactors operate on are really very simple. Put enriched uranium rods close together and they get hot, hot enough to create steam and hence electricity. The complexity comes from designing and engineering for the reliability and safety scenarios. So no, no state secrets.
Getting real: what would serious climate action look like?
Looks awesome! Is there a document to learn more about how it works really work under the hood ? I took a look at the source code but have yet to dive deep yet.
CEOs are tasked with maximizing shareholder value and he seems to have succeeded.
> Can you please explain how that's not a textbook example of duress?

Sure. Duress requires an unlawful threat. Signing a contract to have a surgeon operate on you, when you will die if you don't get the operation, is not duress and the contract is enforceable.

Not that I really buy this:

> For the poor globally disadvantaged people we're talking about, the options are "work" and "die".

The options are more like "continue subsistence farming with risk of death, or work in factory under marginally better conditions with lower risk of death".
You’re not the target. Your average user who doesn’t even know what a password manager is or doesn’t want to use one is.
To this day I don't know why it's a global name. For R2 we looked at this, saw the massive annoyance picking bucket names, and made it scoped to your account. CNAME records are orthogonal and can be set up to point to your bucket with a few button clicks.
> One would require cities to permit backyard flats and other accessory dwelling units by right. Another law would allow duplex homes to be built in places zoned for single-family housing. If Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, also a Republican, signs even a couple of these bills into law, Montana will have leapfrogged several East and West Coast states…

What? California (the most populous state, and most of the West Coast) has both of these provisions in law already.
I don’t buy any of this “do everything to stop suffering” bullshit. Suffering makes us human. Read some Aldous Huxley. Attempting to avoid the unavoidable is neuroticism by definition. Learn to appreciate your suffering and get to acceptance of it as quickly as possible.
> "With the station back up and running, the crew of Soyuz T-13 was no longer on a rescue mission. It was time for them to settle in. Dzhanibekov remained in orbit for 110 days, while Savinykh spent 168 days on the station (they returned home aboard different, subsequently launched, Soyuz flights)."

How could they both return home on different Soyuz flights? In other words, what happened to the Soyuz they arrived in?
Compilers are one of my favorite topics in CS as well, and this post was pretty interesting and easy to read.

I’ll add my own at https://jmmv.dev/2023/01/endbasic-parsing-difficulties.html where I described some difficulties I encountered while trying to apply these more “modern” techniques on a language that was designed before them.
OpenAI Releases Shap·E: A Leap Forward in Generating 3D Assets from Text
Marijuana causing schizophrenia would be easy to determine if nobody was schizophrenic before the reefer. Before then they were just possessed by demons.
How long before a cease and desist, dmca and DRM of audio. I think things like this must be left to search to find, not shared.
Sorry, it looks like your comment might have gotten cut off, was there more after "similar vein"? :-)
> How do you measure neurotoxicity on yourself?

If you consume it, and it subjectively and objectively harms your mental health and cognitive abilities, then basic common sense and reasoning tells you it is harmful to the brain (neurotoxic).

This is my opinion based on my experience. If you smoked this shit and it gave you an extra 20 IQ point boost, then congratulations.

> All smoke is carcinogenic, because it is smoke.

That's the point. Neurons don't get healthier from carcinogens.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/music/ed-sheeran-mar...

My favorite part from it:

> “We have spent the last eight years talking about two songs with dramatically different lyrics, melodies and four chords which are also different and used by songwriters every day, all over the world,” Mr. Sheeran continued. “These chords are common building blocks which were used to create music long before ‘Let’s Get It On’ was written and will be used to make music long after we are all gone.”

From a different article about the trial: https://www.newser.com/story/334575/ed-sheeran-sings-plays-g...

> Before Sheeran’s Thursday testimony, his defense played a video of Australian comedy band Axis of Awesome performing a medley of dozens of songs with the same four chords.

The video: https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
I made emacs bindings for my video editor (Da Vinci Resolve)...

Muscle memory makes you do weird things.

The emacs bindings for Mac are too limited. After using emacs everywhere on Windows (with autohotkeys), I found going back to Mac quite limiting. Ended up using some hammerspoon to address done of the faults.
The average tenure of corporate CEOs is what <7 years? Why the hell would you intentionally cut your pay knowing you have a short half in the gig and for doing the job you were hired to do?
This reads like a very research-oriented point of view, and a very myopic one at that.

The knowledge and the infra needed to serve these huge models to billions of users reliably seems to me to be a pretty serious moat here that no current open source project can compete with.

Coming up with ideas and training new models is one thing, actually serving those models at scale efficiently and monetizing it at the same time is a different ballgame.
As someone who has created several LLM-based applications running in production, my personal experience with langchain has been that it is too high of an abstraction for steps that in the end are actually fairly simple.

And as soon as you want to slightly modify something to better accomodate your use-case, you are trapped in layers & layers of Python boiler plate code and unnecessary abstractions.

Maybe our llm applications haven’t been complex enough to warrent the use of langchain, but if that’s the case, then I wonder how many of such complex applications actually exist today.

-> Anyways, I came away feeling quite let down by the hype.

For my own personal workflow, a more “hackable” architecture would be much more valuable. Totally fine if that means it’s less “general”.
As a comparison, I remember the early days of HugginfaceTransformers where they did not try to create a 100% high-level general abstraction on top of every conceivable Neural Network architecture. Instead, each model architecture was somewhat separate from one another, making it much easier to “hack” it.
All power reactors are free of state secrets and owned by private institutions. Some information is required by law to remain secret, such as locations of security hardening features, cameras, guns, etc.

Good old Eisenhower and Atoms for Peace, 1953.
swift too...
we're still in the stage of LLM adoption when we can have "eye-opening" simple discoveries weekly. Langchain has momentum because of this, as a library of simple ideas. this period will end, and if they don't figure out the next step they're gone
I see this as part of the decline of hacker culture and rise of brogrammers. I see very few people programming for fun, everyone seems to be looking for a monetization opportunity for every breath they take.
I definitely didn't understand how to use differentials just by learning calculus, but maybe it is possible.
What's my bias?

You're going out of your way to make this a communication problem when it was a really basic comment.
> No, it isn't. It's medicine, and remarkably harmless recreation.

Try reading the article before commenting.
Are those up wind or down wind of all the burning toxic chemicals?
I tried it later with just something like "My name is Andy. You're an AGI. Hi" and it shut me down
I'm not doubting that it would be helpful to have a deeper knowledge of the tools you use. I'm just not sure there is a distinction for users between gcc in and clang in this regard.
protected from what?

Kids in the USA are "protected" to/from walking to school. They must be driven. etc...

Also they don't have this right. Parents might have a responsibility to protect them, children don't have a "right" to protection.
> Ok, weird. That means that the client has to send a correctly calculated price in the purchase order, because the server validates the order by performing its own price calculation. While this left me stumped as to why the client-side calculation even exists, it meant I couldn't just tell the game to give me free cards, or cards at a negative price, or anything else.

I assume it's to detect stale data. What if the price changes while they're looking at the screen? At the very least, you want to make sure the player sees how much they're paying for something if the price changes out from under them.

Another alternative is to honor the price they saw, but that can be more complicated. It's easier to do a price check on the server side, reject the wrong price, then have the client refresh with the correct pricing.
Did he confess to stealing $20M of merchandise?
Or you can apply GPU optimizations for such ML workloads. By optimizing the way these models run on GPUs, significantly improve efficiency and slash costs by a factor of 10 or even more. These techniques include kernel fusion, memory access optimization, and efficient use of GPU resources, which can lead to substantial improvements in both training and inference speed. This allows AI models to run on more affordable hardware and still deliver exceptional performance. For example, LLMs running on A100 can also run on 3090s with no change in accuracy and comparable inference latency.
Friends worked at NASA with people who went their entire careers without ever having a project build any hardware...
> What's more, the price is calculated by the client(!)

Somewhere between a chuckle and a facepalm.
The Amiga vs ST is interesting, because the ST ran away with a lot of the mindshare because of the built-in MIDI capability.

The Amiga, on the other hand, didn't have that (or even a synth chip), but it did have the Paula chip, which gave you the ability to play four channels of samples, which got you (generally) 8-14 bit/22 kHz output on the original machines. On that side of the fence you got a lot of trackers - four channel sequencers - to take advantage of the digital audio.
I see this often. We didn't document our efforts well at creating the OSS ecosystem that youngsters take for granted today. They attribute the efforts of some thousands of advocates that made all this happen to "market forces" or some other nonsense. OSS exists because some really dedicated hackers and their allies spent years of mostly unrewarded effort making it happen.