skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't it fair to characterize the cmos/fet switching losses as resistance to moving the charges around?

Not really. It makes more sense to think about it as filling and emptying capacitors. You are charging the gate capacitance up to the supply voltage, then dumping that charge to discharge the gate to 0 again. The energy of each capacitance that gets charged and dumped is CV^2/2, which happens for each logic transition.

> I realize it we can't move charges around for free, but in some fantasy superconducting-fet logic circuit, wouldn't the power consumption be reduced?

If there was no resistance when distributing charge, it would help a bit, but not enough to change the clock frequency by more than 20%, assuming that the fantasy superconducting-fet had normal leakage and gate capacitance.
I think there will always be some element of non-determinism with model output, regardless of how explicitly you define your rules.

I think regarding: "Make sure to use real numbers, not fractions."

It would be simple using Guidance to create some kind of validation function, which guidance would invoke after it gets the response from the model. In this case you would check if the number is a real number or not. And if not, the model would invoke again with a different seed.

Assuming the model gives a real number, as expected, ~90% of the time, you would only see retries very infrequently, and you could be pretty confident that your output will match what you expect.

(again, I'm not associated with this project, I've only scratched the surface playing with it locally, so this is just speculation)
US law as written does not permit this. Copyright restricts reproduction and the production of derivative work except for the reasons listed in fair use. Personal use isn't among those reasons (setting the US apart from like 20 other countries).

It's just de facto legal because of the difficulty of detecting those instances and the presumably nil return in litigating them.
My understanding is http/2 is out of scope. The purpose is to have functional http to implement the package manager. I would expect a high performance http client/server to be a third party library, not std lib.
ARM delisted in 2016 because they were bought by SoftBank and became private company. The fact they (and the others listing in US) are not going to EU tells you a lot, they view it lower than London.

Helmand/Afghanistan was an insurgency war. IEDs, bombs under the road, shoot and scoot. The Taliban would run rather than take on NATO troops head-on. The US also failed, doesn't mean the US cannot handle a conventional war because of Afghanistan.
Each of LFortran, fpm, and stdlib deserve a HN front-page story :)
Yes, and even if you have a high-end alpha detector, ingested radioactive material cannot be detected externally if it's only emitting alpha. One would need to take a blood sample or something like that and do more complicated tests.
In many European countries petrol prices at the pump are about 70% tax.
This has not been my experience with Kubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. I have occasionally (like maybe once every six months?) had an issue that seemed likely to be Plasma-related, and was fixed by a reboot. And there was an issue with Plasma Search where if I let it search "Recent Files", it would hang the whole UI if I did a search that (I guess) was a match for some recent files. (Worked around that by unchecking "Recent files" in the list of things that Plasma Search searches...) So I mean not 100% issue-free, but nothing like what you describe. And certainly compares quite favorably to other Linux DEs I've tried (Gnome, Mate, XFCE, LXQt).
Partisans are in a tough spot. Taking and holding prisoners is generally... impractical.
Even though it's not great but I understand why this maybe the direction SciPy maintainers want to go in. They have limited capacity and I think focusing on a single language makes sense especially if there are way more developers in that language, C.

One way to solve this would be of course, to have more people from the Fortran community being part of the SciPy community. But I don't know how big the Fortran community really is to be able to do that.
> They’re not making it worse, they’re monetizing it in a way that’s palatable by those that can’t afford to pay.

If it were so palatable I don't think there'd be such a fuss about it (which there clearly is). Most people don't like ads at all.[1]

1. https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-repor...
The length of the copyright term is one of the things that I think is egregiously wrong and needs fixing. It's ridiculously long.

So yes, I agree -- copyright law as it exists now is harmful and needs changing. But that doesn't mean that the concept of copyright is a bad one.
"But that's good cause they were nazis [shrug]" - The internet 2023

Same story will happen with the current war in East Europe. There are no nuances anymore. You are either with us or against us. Everything is black and white (sometimes literally too)
The reason this feels non-obvious is that people like to think that they're choosing a variable number of small slices of a big datacenter, scaling up and down hour-by-hour or minute-by-minute to get maximum efficiency.

Really, though, you're generating enormous overhead while turning on and off small slices of a 128-core monster with a terabyte of RAM.
Does your AC include a negative ion generator for cleaning the air? I wonder if that could be affecting it?
Firefox lets you set "strict tracking protection". The settings page warns you that "some sites may break". Some sites whine about this, usually using "Admiral" to check for cookie blocking. Most of those aren't worth visiting anyway.

There's also Privacy Badger, from the EFF. This turned up that the "Who wants to be tracked" site is using "plausible.io" to track visitors.
> Allow me to put stuff onto the phone. Via USB. Like every other god damn device in the world.
* Allow me to take stuff off my phone. Via USB. Like very other freakin' device in the world.

You need to use iTunes. There’s a file transfer tab somewhere. Or wait, it’s Finder now. They took the syncing out of iTunes.
It’s also not called iTunes anymore I just realized.
Ok, I’m old. :p
Distance doesn't matter for a fatigue perspective. Light intensity and time are big factors, though.

Focusing on a short distance for a long period of time has been associated with myopia (though I'm not sure if they've established a causal link).

I didn't really answer your question. Sorry. No I'm not aware.
This isn't applicable to Spain however, thanks to what is known as the Iberian Exception. Since gas for Spain and Portugal comes from northern Africa, and in practice is priced differently. You will see that Spain's energy prices are often far lower than in, say, France.

So I wonder about the grandparent's claims here. I see that the average price per kwh in Spain is about 13 cents right now, which is basically the same price that I see in Missouri, one of the US' cheapest states for electricity. So unless I am missing something, it's a pretty similar situation.
I would say the cyberdeck has finally arried...
Container Query Units and Fluid Typography
> Leakage should happen all the same

Modern processors are very careful about this, and actively turn off the supply voltage to large parts of the die to prevent extra leakage current. The funny-but-appropriate name for this is "dark silicon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon
> "3.6 roentgen per hour, not great, not terrible" meme

Quote from HBO's Chernobyl, the dramatisization of Anatoly Dyatlov: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anatoly-dyatlov

A more balanced view of him: https://www.rbth.com/history/330525-anatoly-dyatlov-chernoby... and https://www.history.com/news/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-7-pe...

Aside: all of us, even the most competent engineers, can deny what is happening or make bad calls during an emergency, especially where everything is unknown during the initial stages. It takes very good training to teach us to make better emergency decisions - e.g. firefighter's training, and some military. Beware of selection bias in repeated deadly situations.
"thus not open ocean" is my hypothesis as well. Otherwise there's Sri Lanka, Cuba, the Canaries, and whole bunch of other islands settled before the Norse.
Probably for HTTP Pipelining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining
Read what I said again.

Step 1 is a lookup by symbol. You're ignoring the vast majority of the logic.

There are hints about what I'm talking about in this conversation about invokespecial: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13764238/why-invokespeci...

This trickiness is not called out in the bytecode specification, but in the JVM spec. They get a little closer to the mark here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se9/html/jvms-6.ht...

"Is Java Statically Typed or Dynamically Typed?" is basically an interview gotcha question. Most people should answer the former, but if you are hiring people to create a JVM or a language that translates to the JVM, you're looking for a much longer answer that circles around gradations of the latter, because the compiler is strongly typed but the JVM has weaker type guarantees that are sorted out at first invocation, and which look like variance (predating most literature on contra and covariance, I might add). Prior to invokedynamic people used this and other facts to trick the JVM into doing things that are illegal in Java. The Hotspot people learned a whole lot about how the JVM actually functions from interactions with these sorts of people.
I think the difference is that the cost of faking my family is extremely high, but the cost of spewing comments on the internet went to basically 0.

I think it is pretty widely accepted that corporations and governments already conduct astroturfing, but those operations were limited in that you had to open an office somewhere and pay people hourly to write propaganda. Now you only need an API key.

I'd be really surprised if there are not conversations happening right now at Facebook and its competitors about injecting generated comments into people's feeds to increase engagement.
Lower graphics tech, more advanced controller tech. It's not a single dimension.
It's my perception of this social justice stuff that it infects everything, because it's somehow become a magic wand that give people power over others. The whole point in this example is that resources from what is ostensibly an computer science research institute is working on fringe left political issues. It wouldn't be ok if they studied "intelligent design" or whatever the current far right is up to either, but politics has managed to infiltrate research so we're all forced to deal with cuture war stuff instead of working on computer science.
You will always be limited by network throughput. Sure that wire is getting bigger but so is your data
I think the open source community has failed screen reader users. You cannot use Linux with a desktop environment without major accessibility issues layered throughout. It’s particularly frustrating when bug reports are ignored for years and are never fixed at all. This is why I continue to prefer windows or macOS over linux.

Stuff like Jupyter notebooks are also not accessible, making it a little bit harder for visually impaired people in stem
Here it is:

https://www.pastery.net/ymxvaf/
Isn't VAT the best way to ensure tax is collected?

Somebody can just not pay Sales tax and so the government doesn't collect it. But with VAT the seller is incentive to report so they can recover the VAT they paid.

i.e. McDonalds buys 10 burgers and pays 1$ in VAT to their supplier.
then McDonalds sells those 10 (now cooked) burgers and can recover 1$ in VAT from the government while the consumers ultimately pay >1$ in VAT for the 10 burgers.
Unfortunately, the internet is getting more and more balkanized. What people see in one country is becoming completely different from what people see in another country, and often things are completely inaccessible between countries. Not to mention that even within countries it's becoming impossible to see the same things as someone else.
but of this keeps trending (more future bans) it will nudge more people to sideload to get around stupid middlemen who get in their way

countries who engage in these bans have conditioned many non-tech people to learn to use vpns and other tools

"sideloading" is the norm on desktop too, btw, and always has been
Does a package manager not benefit from high-performance parallel HTTP (for downloading a bunch of little files)?
Allow me to side step: in these high prices times, people should investigate one-meal-a-day or caloric restriction. Save money and restore your health at the same time. Spend the free time doing family hike, singing in a choir, playing chess or crafting.
Sigh. Another iOS only launch.
The whole premise of this article hinges on the idea that LLMs have fundamental limitations that they clearly don’t have if you’ve looked at lots of gpt4 examples. For example, it can do scientific thinking if you specifically ask it to, and it can reason about totally new situations outside of the training data based on generalizable models of reality it creates to predict training data. If you are certain these limitations must exist based on how LLMs are made, rather than observed capability, it is critical to reevaluate those assumptions.

Moreover, what she defines as scientific thinking is an outdated notion that is no longer widely adopted by scientific researchers, in favor of a more holistic Bayesian process: use intuition to think of something new try, try it, and then update your beliefs with the new data. This is actually more similar to how human brains and LLMs operated before the concept of a scientific method.
So it's both ubiquitous and a terse DSL for managing and coordinating programs. Yeah I agree. Also if you're on Windows it's nice that PowerShell is always preinstalled and serves the same purpose.
What about doom?
> If they shared the safety data with everyone then I’d be more ok with it. I wish I could ask Apple/Google maps to route me “safely”.

This sounds like a wonderfully non-controversial idea that could save many lives. I'd absolutely use this feature.

I know there are many people that work for Apple & Google on this site - if you needed a nudge, this is it.
Not aware. But I was once examined by an eye doctor after having been exposed to a quite intensive amount of light. He said that during eye surgery they used very powerful light. So I think the bar is quite high, in comparison to AR glasses
This is actually one of my favorite examples of cherry-picking statistics to support a false statement. "There's about a 7% chance I won't die because, of all humans who have ever lived, only about 93% have died." Of course, this ignores the entire concept of "life expectancy" but such is the nature of cherry-picking statistics to support a false statement.
Can someone chime in if local runtimes are likely to come soon? Can 10B params or so contain all the compressed contents of the internet?
I wish the PNW would get some love, we have very little going in terms of Amusement parks (the biggest one is in Idaho, you've probably never heard of it). Eastern Oregon has plenty of land...I can dream anyways.
My first job out of college used TCL in 1992, and I made a decent sized application with it. It was neat, but ultimately weird and kind of unwieldy, and definitely fraught with peril! In 1995, I left the job behind, thinking I'd never see TCL again.

Fast-forward to 2011 and I found myself in a new job where I was pointed at their middleware to do some enhancement, only to find myself in a TCL application yet again! Hopefully that was the last I'll have to deal with it professionally, although it is kind of a nifty language.
* every substantive line
Very true. I'm Argentinean but have been living abroad for a very long time. Early on my career, I did freelance work, and indeed got paid in Bitcoins.
Microsoft Store is precisely what I expected it to be: what likely started as an effort by some in the company to reproduce the utility of a package manager, but in the end sabotaged by the perverse incentives of capitalism.

The Cathedral cannot emulate a Bazaar.
But that's the top marginal rate filing single. A California tax payer earning $677,272 pays 49.3 percent on each additional dollar but 43.9% is the effective rate on whole income. This is a very high single earner income.

A married couple with this income pays only 37.5% and doesn't max out until going over 1,359 million, at which point they pay the 43,9 effective.

You have to be a truly massive earner to hit 50% effective in CA.
I am on like 4 different Slacks that explicitly have the "Chatham House Rule", and have attended numerous professional events that have opened with a recitation of the "Chatham House Rule". I would go so far as to say that the Chatham House Rule is a general norm of private (as opposed to public) discussions; it's usually the expectation.

Moreover: the Chatham House Rule is a relaxation of the secrecy expectations of private conversations. The Rule explicitly allows you to relate things you learn in the meeting to other people; it simply demands that you not attribute those statements. This is far less restrictive than every business negotiation, which all operate under boilerplate NDA terms.

There might well be some other reason why the Bilderberg Meeting is problematic, but operating under the Chatham House Rule is not one of them.

One way to get an appreciation for this stuff is to join a public commission of some sort. Here in Illinois, all public bodies operate under Open Meetings Act rules, which are so onerous that, after being involved for a very short time, you can immediately see why extragovernmental bodies like chambers of commerce and economic development corporations are so popular.
The partisans were executed if captured. Turnabout is fair play.
What evidence is there that Epstein was a financier, other than that the press keeps dutifully repeating the claim? The few reporters who tried to look into it weren't able to find any traders or brokers who knew of Epstein or had done any business with him.
French news recently reported 26% of people skipping meals and not feeling fed.

Mind boggling system failure when you can have smartphones for 100bucks but not enough income to pay bills and food regularly.
It's all fun and games until the AI completely hallucinates the answer, while making it sound completely pausible and correct.
Yet there are emergent behaviours from these LLMs that are both surprising and not immediately understood. [1][2][3] Everyone has theories, of course, but still pretty "magic" considering these behaviours weren't theorised in papers prior to observation.

1 - https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence
2 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682.pdf
3 - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-e...
Relevant autodocs:

Server: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#A;std:http.Ser...

Client: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#A;std:http.Cli...
And thats why women generally make less. Losing 5-11 (or more) years of experience really puts you behind a man that didn't (stereotypes w/e) stop working to raise a kid(s) until they could go to school.
> gleefully dance on the grave of artists of all people

I suspect this might be like the folks who put down windows administrators.

I think it's sort of like "windows has a gui, anyone could do that", which might mean they're not special like me.
Well it's commerce in the sense of 'look at me I'm so great at art-ing.' You're sharing them for social rather than fiscal capital. If you anonymously mailed them out and kept your mouth shut I doubt any resources would be spent to track you down, or (if they were) that you would lose in court.
This is already the case on most (not all) Android phones with USB-C video out. However, Google has not provided a desktop interface, so OEMs have had to create their own. Currently, Samsung, Motorola, Huawei and LG (RIP) offer desktop UIs when the phone is hooked up to a monitor.
I am not thrilled about seeing this kind of link on the front page of HN, because it reminds me of what happened to r/JoeRogan over the past few years.

A long time ago, r/JoeRogan was a fun place, where you could make fun of Joe Rogan and some of his boneheaded guests. You could talk about DMT, Aliens, Bigfoot conspiracies, and Graham Hancock's theories about lost ancient civilizations.

Then culture-war memes started to appear in the subreddit, and gradually took over. It turned into a complete shitshow, where people from "the right" and "the left" just dump links to articles that are guaranteed to "pwn the libs" or anger the fascists. All of those are just tiresome right vs left flamewars. Now r/JoeRogan is so thoroughly dominated by this crap that it's been ruined.

Coming back to the Disney/Florida article, how is it relevant other than just bringing a bit of this battle of the culture war to HN? Regardless of how you may feel about Ron Desantis or Disney or who is right or wrong, is it useful to debate this in one more place?
"Why does Inheritance have first-class syntax support in an OOP language like Java ("extends") whereas Composition usually needs to be "engineered" using some more complex patterns, e.g. DI?"

I think the main reason is that DI is seen as an orthogonal concept by language designers, so you'd need new two first-class features in a language.

If you do composition without injection (e.g.: by having new ChildObject() in the constructor), you don't really require that many more lines of code compared to inheritance.

class Car {
private Engine engine;

public Car() {
engine = new Engine();
}

public void drive() {
engine.start();
System.out.println("Driving...");
engine.stop();
}
}

Of course it's much less flexible and less testable than composition + injection, but not that inflexible when compared to inheritance. And first-class support for only that would make the feature a bit useless without DI...
They’ve honored their other one-time purchases, Pixelmator for about 15 years now.
Apollo just auto-redirects to the app for me. Maybe it’s an issue with the official Reddit app or a config value somewhere?
tldr:

- Quality on task: For every task we tried, ChatGPT is still stronger than Vicuna on the task itself. MPT performed poorly on almost all tasks (perhaps we are using it wrong?), while Vicuna was often close to ChatGPT (sometimes very close, sometimes much worse as in the last example task above).

- Ease of use: It is much more painful to get ChatGPT to follow a specified output format, and thus it is harder to use it inside a program (without a human in the loop). Further, we always have to write regex parsers for the output (as opposed to Vicuna, where parsing a prompt with clear syntax is trivial).

- Efficiency: having the model locally means we can solve tasks in a single LLM run (guidance keeps the LLM state while the program is executing), which is faster and cheaper. This is particularly true when any substeps involve calling other APIs or functions (like search, terminal, etc), which always requires a new call to the OpenAI API. guidance also accelerates generation by not having the model generate the output structure tokens, which sometimes makes a big difference.
The MacBook, specifically, is not a rocket ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_MacBook

The Kaby Lake m3 with 8 GB is the version I have. It is utterly and completely schooled by my 2013 MBP. The MacBook runs the latest version of macOS, unlike the MBP.

I also have some PowerMacs that “run just fine”, but it’s been a while since they’ve gotten a software update.