skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve purchased this one[1] and it makes almost perfect cubes of ice that are very clear and melt evenly and slowly. In my cocktail glass it is so flat that the whiskey does not permeate the bottom. The result is a beautifully clear square in the center of my glass when looking at it from above.

Trick is to let the ice temper for a few minutes to acclimate to the room temperature before pouring your drink over it. Otherwise it will crack. Also good to spin it a few times in your glass to melt it a bit to get it perfectly flat.

[1] ClearlyFrozen High Capacity (10 x 2 Inch) Home Clear Ice Cube Tray/Ice Cube Maker https://a.co/d/2E7YcmC
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The US should offer to pay for relocation of all TSMC personnel and rebuilding of all fabs here on US soil. I'm not sure there's much of an upper limit to what this would be worth. $2B? $10B? Something like that. Of course the patriots won't want to leave - and rightly so. It's their home, and democracy is worth defending against autocracy. But the offer should be made, IMHO

EDIT: Estimate is off by 100x. I also agree that Taiwan would not like to lose the leverage TSMC gives them. I still think the offer should be made.
Live now as of 8:49 AM (PDT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ACcQxJIsg
It is not, at least in the US. Distribution is illegal; possession may or may not be prosecuted; and if you read the code and provably reuse it or make use of trade secrets you could lose a lawsuit. But if you "somehow" have access and don't do anything associated with the code, the basic act of reading it carries no penalties.
This might not be feasible depending on the size of the class. I had classes with 100-200 students.

Most problems with education are simply due to scale. The most notable one being Bloom's finding that private tutoring produced 2 standard deviations better results than classroom education.

We can kind of approximate that now with GPT :) One tutor per child!
I suggest using vast.ai instead, much cheaper than this.

"oblivus": 1x RTX A5000 for $0.84/hr
vast: 4x RTX A5000 for $1.08/hr, 1x RTX A5000 for $0.20/hr, and much better and larger selection.
Ah, yes. Good ol' trichlor.

Here's my experience with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887615
Not sure how many producers have the available long term supply to meet Apple's demand. Samsung might already have contractual obligations for their short term supply with other manufacturers so it might not quite be as straightforward as just switching overnight.
It's just like a phone call from 30 years ago, but one that requires infinitely more processing power!

And latency!
I like that theory too. Nice kitchen aids they had back then
Wow, good for them teaching software engineering, and A++++ for the Ousterhout book <https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ouste...>; I wish everyone would read it
I wrote a literature review on applying neural networks to astronomical problems -- I found that using applications really helped to iron out what is going on in the networks! Here's the link to the review https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03796
> And most devs hating on Java are using an IDE written mainly in Java (all the JetBrains ones): the irony of that one gives me the giggles.

I'm not sure why this is a salient point. There's no contradiction in hating Java and using an IDE written in Java. Lots of people hate C, too, but that doesn't make it strange that they use lots of software written in it.
A) Photography is visual art

B) What an artist produces with a rendering engine will be starkly different from that of an amateur with the same engine. Art isn’t medium or technology.
Well, the air in Dubai is much more humid than in Riyadh (this is based on personal observation).
Across the world agriculture is subsidised.. even in poorer countries, because the cost of doing agriculture is very high. Farmers are moving to other jobs, selling their farmlands etc.. this will put huge pressure on food supplies and so the govts figured that there has to be some incentive to keep people in agriculture.

Nations which don't have substantial access to food grown within their borders will place themselves at severe disadvantage when it comes to any sort of global negotiations.

Take the example of Qatar - when it was under sanction by many of the Arab countries, they could not import food.. and they were forced to get into agriculture and now agriculture thrives in Qatar even though the climate is not conducive.

https://thefarmermagazine.com.au/qatars-farmers-have-gone-fr...
And most users of MongoDB use majority write concern.

Hence my point there is no difference in defaults between MongoDB and Cassandra.
$4000 for me meant something totally different 4 years ago, than what it means today.

I used to expect to get a very used, high mileage but repairable and dependable vehicle for that amount with some effort searching.

I can remember buying before internet, you could look at local paper or dealerships but the best hope for a larger pool of searching was phone calls, printed listings, etc. When internet searching really caught on I thought it would open up a larger market and drive prices down with the extra competition. Not sure to what extent that happened but in any event prices have done anything but go down over past 10-15 years, with a massive spike in prices especially past 4 years.
Just a matter of time when car manufacturers will have to ramp up production to increase sales and prices will decrease
2 reasons:

1. He's too busy building the next generation of tech that HN commenters will be arguing about in a couple months' time.

2. I think Sam Altman (who is addressing the committee) and Ilya are pretty much on the same page on what LLMs do.
Can't you already do that with iMessage's voice delivery feature?
For a showcase of different LMQL queries and resulting model output, have a look at https://lmql.ai.

Per query, the LMQL runtime calls the underlying LM several times, to execute the complete specified (multi-part) query program.

It does not only translate to only one LM prompt, but rather a sequence of prompts, where during generation additional constraining of the LM is applied, to ensure the LM behaves according to the provided template. That's how it support control-flow and external function calls during generation, it actually executes the queries with a proper runtime and only uses LLMs on the backend.
Ilk is shorthand for similarity, nothing more. The 'personal insult' is a misunderstanding on your part.
The average price of cars is also at a record high. Historically, MSRP tended to be in the $15k-$25k range (adj for inflation). What are folks paying today?

This 2020 article compares Ford pickup MSRP by year. https://www.thedrive.com/news/34333/heres-how-much-the-ford-...
Excellent plan for driving AI research and ecosystem to every other country except the United States.

Why would you even attempt to found a company here if this comes to pass?
There are multiple risks that people talk about, the most interesting is the intelligence explosion. In that scenario we end up with a super intelligence. I don’t feel confident in my ability to asses the likelihood of that happening, but assuming it is possible, thinking through the consequences is a very interesting exercise. Imagining the capabilities of an alien super intelligence is like trying to imagine a 4th spatial dimension. It can only be approached with analogies. Can it be “switched off”. Maybe not, if it was motivated to prevent itself from being switched off. My dog seems to think she can control my behavior in various predictable ways, like sitting or putting her paw on my leg, and sometimes it works. But if I have other things I care about in that moment, things that she is completely incapable of understanding, then who is actually in control becomes very obvious.
Tested on this very website!

https://www.alcademics.com/2017/10/boiled-versus-rested-wate...

Conclusion they came to (your opinion may vary) is that it's not worth the time and energy to get e.g. 1/2" more clear ice.
Makes copy-pasting and reordering lines easier, which is quite handy.
Hours are bad and need a CDL. Nanny jobs pay better
Dr. Hipp

Off topic: would you mind sharing any info on potential timing of begin-concurrent-pnu-wal2 branch being merged into main (or consideration of forking sqlite to have a "client/server" version)?

https://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline?r=begin-concurrent-pnu-w...

(Love what you have created. Thank you so much for all the years of amazing work)
Yes, but JSON was never intended for that use case – the feature set isn't geared towards it.
As far as I can tell, increasing cad prices are mostly pegged to inflation (the last couple years excepted).
They might have lost you. But starting with "congress shouldn't regulate AI" would lose the senator.

Which one do you think is more important to convince?
"Prompts very obviously have influence on the output."

The LLM is also discrete.
I don't actually find the syntax to be so bad. It can even be pretty neat with the pattern matching.
Aside from anything else, your claim is absurd. There are huge parts of the internet dedicated to exactly that.
> you think this statement should not be made publicly but also not in private since a private statement is just a public statement yet to be leaked

I think it’s fair to discuss with people you trust. A mailing list between friends could be that. But I know of no reasonable expectation of privacy on anything referred to as a mailing list. (If you don’t know everyone on the list, it may be confidential, but it isn’t a personal conversation.)
Indeed there’s one screenshot showing ChatGPT claim it wrote the professor’s email. How embarrassing.
You can pin messages in iMessage, which turns it into a big photo. Also when you hit the search button in Photos it’ll show you big images of people’s faces if you want to see photos of a particular person (if you’ve trained your phone on those faces).

I do wish the “favorites” view in the phone app made the headshots big like iMessage, though.
Want to point out that the global economic importance of Taiwan will decrease if TSMC is able to diversify away from Taiwan in any significant manner, meaning China stands to gain significantly less economically by invading Taiwan. Most of Taiwan's importance currently seems to be directly related to their position as the primary supplier of chips for global corporations.
I think the point is that your config parser should be using yaml or toml, though in fairness neither of those existed in the early 2000s when JSON was being developed/discovered/adopted— the 800lb gorilla in that space at the time was XML.

And XML remained dominant for a long time— for example, the original Google Maps from 2005 received its server responses as XML blobs, and API v2 even exposed the relevant parsing functionality as the GXml JavaScript class. By around 2007, it was all JSONp I think, and GXml was deprecated and removed in API v3 and v4 respectively.
The Mountain Lions agree with you
I _hope_ that by average they mean median - the article doesn't really say.

As to reliability, it's not clear to me that newer (post 2010s) vehicles really are better than older ones. Certainly there's a lot of increased complexity (DSGs, CVTs, ubiquitous turbos) and certain parts are increasingly hard to obtain due to reliance on electronics.

The big difference vs. 12 years ago is that general-purpose EVs are available new. With the caveat that they certainly don't cover all use-cases, for commuting/local driving and even longer distance casual driving, they are more than viable, and if you live in a place with sane electricity prices (or produce your own), the cost savings can be massive. This past year I saved $2500 in gas costs (vs. a 30 mpg ICEV at $4.50/gal prices).
Weird take. I tell all my employees this, and they teach me a lot in return. Same goes for my relationship with my boss. Maybe it's the way you've interacted with them in the past that has jaded you? It helps to be tactful.
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I love Steve Jobs' "bicycle for the mind" metaphor, and what you describe is the best possible example of this concept. A computer that does that would enable us to do so much more.

This is the sort of AI I want; a true personal assistant, not a bullshit generator.
Move there and live for a couple of months, or, better yet, a couple of years. You can't have a "local experience" without being a local.
> Allow more new construction, lots of it

Specifically in Edinburgh, the problem is the city is a World Heritage Site. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/728/

It's an inherent problem in tourism: tourists want an "unspoiled" view, which means not building infrastructure for tourists or locals.

Building definitely is happening. See the Plan: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/25264/edinburgh-... - but of course you can't build just houses, you have to build roads and schools and waste disposal and public transport to go with them. The city has struggled with its tram project and the railways are at capacity.
I very much enjoy this type of article or videos on similar subjects. Another source that has been very entertaining / educational for me is "Practical Engineering" Youtube channel.

Looked it up and there's a great video from him about wells & aquifers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG19b06NG_w
This site has whole sections on "things that don't work" and "things that work, but not that well" based on experiments. Here's boiling water first:

https://www.alcademics.com/2017/10/boiled-versus-rested-wate...

(Works somewhat, but not well enough)
Truth. Honestly surprised they haven't downsized to commuter/sprinter vans or similar where your typical DL will do without endorsements. Would widen the applicant pool and there just aren't as many kids as there used to be.
Often people complaining about Technology X simply haven't read the docs. They're not always written, not always easy to find, and not always complete, but whatever is there, is there for a reason: it's something the developer thought you ought to know.

Being the one person who read the docs is the difference between being considered just another tech worker, and the "genius" people rely on for answers. It makes you invaluable, boosts your career, and leads to better outcomes.
> whether it's actually a problem for students to use AI to augment their education.

To augment? No, but the problem is we can't tell the difference between a student who is augmenting their education with AI, and a student who is replacing their education with AI. Hence things like in-person proctored exams, where we can say and enforce rules like "you're allowed to use ChatGPT for research, but not to write your answers for you".
I mean, if foreign actors are motivated to improve US working conditions then I'm not concerned, grateful really.

If these allegations are entirely false JPMorgan is welcome to share what information they do collect in a legally binding statement.
It does not require cleared land. It will grow under other bushes and trees and pop up right in the middle
Then why don't you list them instead of keeping them secret?
ScyllaDB is definitely on the radar. The main reason I picked Cassandra on the prototyping stage was because default Cassandra configuration gave me much better performance then ScyllaDB (I know, it is supposed to be vice versa). Another obvious reason was Cassandra's maturity and community support. If gocqlx is indeed a drop-in replacement for gocql, I can't see problems having a separate config/fork using ScyllaDB along with Cassandra.
Agreed. Places like huggingface, or even torrents are allowing a unstoppable decentralised AI race. This is like fighting media piracy. Plus other countries might outcompete you on AI now.
They are all good depending on your mood and food pairing.
My portfolio is primarily yield focused on a risk adjusted basis.

I like PINE here at 10x AFFO, far cheaper than peers like O or ADC, but with similar risk profile. CTO same story. Both around 10% earnings yield, and better positioned than peers for growth. PINE is classic retail net lease, CTO is outdoor shopping centers in the sunbelt. Growth prospects, but also fine if they stay flat and yield 10% in perpetuity

Bonds are interesting here, but would need to see wider spreads for higher quality/non-idiosyncratic ones to be compelling. I like and own MPW bonds, which pay 10%+... much safer than the equity.

Certain BDCs are a screaming deal if you assume their portfolios can weather a recession well enough. CSWC is one of my favorite more traditional middle market lenders with 13% yield and low leverage. Conservative/smart management.

RWAY is one of my favorites here… over 15% yield with room to grow. Venture debt lender, valued at around 0.7x book value. They’ve been lumped in with other Venture lenders whose portfolio quality is very poor in comparison.

Lenders can easily blow up in a severe recession if they’re mismanaged or have weak portfolios… but given the banking turmoil, the sector has sold off indiscriminately and more than priced it in for some.

PBR.A has a PE around 2-3 and pays 30% a year in dividends. Valuation is low due to political risk from new Brazilian government.

For a more speculative play, NLCP pays around 13% yield with 0 debt, and some cash on hand. They own cannabis cultivation/retail facilities. The sector is falling apart due to declining cannabis prices, but we just hit the inflection point recently where pricing is starting to rise again due to competitors dropping out, and I think the fears have more than priced in what’s to come. Not one I’d own longer term due to eventual offshoring of production.

These are my more compelling total return plays, but there are many many more that are safer and still yield far higher than AAPL.

JEPI is a great one… owns primarily defensive stocks, and pays 10%/year from options income. However average holding PE is around 22, so Im waiting for it to get knocked down into the teens before I go bigger. Same with SCHD
2) The Romans used an inclination of 1:1000. The Quattara basin is 80km from the Mediterranean and 60m lower. So it's not looking good straight away. As the water level rises, the drop will be even less.

Also, the amount of water that can evaporate from such a large area is immense, so you'd have to have a rather huge channel for the water coming in just to keep up.
Incredibly low IQ professor who doesn't know how to grade and how to use chat gpt.

All students must organize and report this behavior, he is using unauthorized and unproven tool to grade assignments
Wasn't this the game that some police officers in the US engaged in? Nothing illegal about them blasting Lady Gaga or whatever is popular while they work. But if you record the audio, you're unlikely to be able to share it anywhere without explicit permission from the rightsholders.
I drive a 12-year-old EV.

The very aged battery, which works fine for my use, is still worth as much as an entire comparable ICE economy car if I were to remove it and sell it. People use them in other projects where their energy density to cost is still reasonable.

This is the worst-performing and shortest-lived lithium car battery produced in the past decade. All the recent ones are much better.

You should examine your assumptions.
Parquet support is on the radar for sure, and I would like to have it before diving into database connector development.
> Can't you already do that with iMessage's voice delivery feature?

Voice memos? No. I would have to, at some point, speak it. If you’re referring to text-to-speech, there is a difference between having your speech read in a different voice and your own.
Unless you're a mechanic then you can make cars in the 90s last as long as the engine does.
yeah, a teacher failing a whole class is odd, but failing a whole class based on the fact that ChatGPT said it wrote it is just insane.
Which "true events" are you speaking about?
How are people using sqlite within a multi-threaded, asynchronous runtime: are you using a synchronization lock? SQLite seems to "kinda, sorta" support multi-threading, requiring special configuration and caveats. Is there a good reference?
Caucasians moving out? White Flight. Caucasians moving in? Evil Gentrification.

Nothing will make these people happy.
Perhaps there's an argument to be made about U.S. hegemony when such proposals concerning the strategic assets of another country are considered. What if we Europeans devised a plan to acquire all strategic manufacturing assets from the U.S. - including tech, military, and energy sectors - along with their personnel, and relocated them to the EU? Wouldn't the federal government likely have something to say about that?
I got really into the docs around the time of Covid and liked them a lot, but I could not shake the feeling they were meant to appeal to guys exactly like me in much that way so I am ambivalent about consuming more. The first step to not being the sucker in the room is accepting you are very much capable of being the sucker in the room. I haven't worked out step 2 yet.
Yes. This is why most dry cleaners won't accept bedding. It's considered too high-contact. (If they do accept it, they wash it with something other than TCE)

Source: a college friend of mine, years ago, who worked as a dry cleaner. After talking to her, I've never used one since.
Doing so would endanger the rest of Taiwan.

If America pays for this because of fear of Chinese bullying, what is next? If you let the Chinese know America will pay, and people can flee and the Chinese can take what is left behind, what else does America let the Chinese take over? Middle East, Africa, South America?

I don't think being a coward and running away from a bully is the right thing to do.
Or just passing the cloudy bit under hot water. Melts like a charm.
Do you think the Taiwan government would allow that?

TSMC is a key reason why anyone pays attention to that part of the world and only a fool would let that leverage slip away.

Of course US could force their hand, which would be equal to putting out an ad in NYT telling Xi to do whatever he wants to the island.
> This doesn’t sound like he’s failing the entire class.

In the email he also says "I am giving everyone in the class an X."

> X (grade not submitted): If you do not assign a grade, an “X” defined as “grade not submitted” is automatically assigned. No student can graduate with an “X” on his/her academic record.

I think the term "fails" is wrong in the title, but he is essentially blocking them from graduating at this time.
Yes, you are correct. LMQL has its own interpreter and runtime, that executes and translates your query programs into multiple LLM calls, required to satisfy your overall workload. It is inherently multi-part and automates several consecutive calls to the LLM, based on the query program and prompt template that you provide.

Re Node.js: We are actively investigating LMQL use from other languages than Python (see also https://github.com/eth-sri/lmql/issues/1). The current interpreter is quite closely tied to a Python environment, meaning to use it from Node.js, you will at least have to host a Python interpreter as a subprocess for now. We are actively looking into gRPC/inter-process communication though, hoping to improve on this a bit in the near future.
That's what I did! I learned Elixir in my spare time and then started a job that used Erlang. There's some quirks that I had to get over, but it wasn't a huge change over.
$10B isn’t even in the ballpark. We should be willing to pay $1T to fully onshore TSMC, if that were magically an option.
I hear that the CAFE standards carveouts for big vehicles was part of it. A compromise that increases bad outcomes isn't much of a compromise.
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You're at least an order of magnitude out. They have 8 fabs in Taiwan, assume $10-20B each, so at least $80-160B, probably significantly more.

Throw in the few they have in China to...