skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for a dither to use in applications or games, the ones offered in this Oculus blog post (meant for use in realtime to improve image quality in VR) may fit the bill:
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/tech-note-shader-snippets-...

By varying the dither pattern each frame they are basically doing the equivalent of the hardware FRC in monitors to give you an extra fake 9th bit (for 8-bit rendering) of precision - as long as the framerate is high enough, the dithering becomes nearly invisible. Not that it's super visible to begin with. I'm personally using Dither17.
Doubt so. Many employees dont know even how to write VBA macros even though they use Excel for decade (I have bosses superb at Excel and PPT use but just not at VBA macros level). IT is harder than you think most employees arent that smart to be able to self learn IT stuff because it has real brain burner technical stuff. DEI lacks any technical competencies. Mostly just aggregates of opinions bundled as "scientific research" in social studies faculties around worldwide unis. You should use other examples. Information security is clearly not good example to illustrate your point.
A vast majority of recipes are just inaccurate when it comes to timing.

My favorite technique to caramelize onion is to do it in a convection oven. Just take a batch, add a tiny bit of oil (not olive) to coat it without dripping too much excess oil on the pan. It will just dry out otherwise)... Season it with some salt & pepper and stick it in the oven cold and turn the heat on... ~170C (if your oven runs cooler, you can turn this up to ~180C). Toss every ~20-25 minutes, and it should be nicely caramelized in about an hour and half, or a little longer - just pull it out when you're satisfied with the level of browning.

Bonus: add a touch of brown sugar (1/2-1 tsp / 2-3 medium-large onions) for an extra kick of sweetness about halfway through the cooking time (sometimes, this is cheating).

I like it because there's no open flame or hot stove to deal with, and it leaves me free to do other things.
I generally agree, in other languages it suffices to just tell juniors "don't use floating point if you can avoid it". And integer types are less messy to reason with (just need to learn the 32-bit and 64-bit ranges).

But in your specific case (of JS/TS), _all_ the normal numeric variables are in IEEE 754 floating point...
I hate having to street park my RV in densely packed urban cities /s
I agree on the temperature thing, but also there are some flavor compounds that are fat soluble and not water soluble.
What’s worse is that CS is a transport simulator that’s heavily biased towards cars; to the point where every new game starts off with a giant unsightly freeway in the middle of your town.

I hope CS2 is more agnostic on transport mode. It would be nice to be able to create genuinely car-free cities in the game.
> You have a good point but software that exists with no one to sell it is more valuable than salesman with nothing to sell.

I would argue that software that exists with no one to sell it is actually MUCH less valuable than a salesman with nothing to sell, because someone has poured countless hours of blood, sweat and tears into that code, and without a salesperson that developer will receive a terrible return on their investment.

A salesperson with nothing to sell on the other hand is simply a salesperson looking for a job. They have not expended the hours creating a product that will never sell.
ooooooh thanks for this, i "collect" video game OSTs, will have to check this one out
This is exactly what keeps me on this site, and Twitter as well. Sometimes there are long spells of nothing interesting and I start to wonder why I'm even checking, but then something pops up and browsing HN becomes positive in my head again for awhile.
But what about... there are infinite but what abouts.

Why not get the next model of minivan up? Perhaps it didn't justify the cost. Why not get a 2nd hand one? Or one from a different manufacturer? Perhaps the cost was affording the best one deems within the means. That extends to eating out when there vs a packed lunch or picnic, things to bring.

There's always costs, options. Where, and to whom, you're normalised to allocate or offload it to.
It's so annoying that the vocal commenters on here assume that every engineer agrees with them that working from home is preferable to having an office. Nothing against other people working from home but please keep in mind that people's can differ greatly from your own.
> They have known for a long time that text completion is what is called 'AI-complete' meaning that if you have full AGI then it can do human level text completion and if you have human level text completion then it can do full AGI.

First, who is "they"?

Second, categorizing "text completion" as being "AI-complete" is nonsensical if the definition[0] of "AI-complete" is agreed upon as being:

In the field of artificial intelligence, the most
difficult problems are informally known as AI-complete
or AI-hard, implying that the difficulty of these
computational problems, assuming intelligence is
computational, is equivalent to that of solving the
central artificial intelligence problem—making computers
as intelligent as people, or strong AI.[1] To call a
problem AI-complete reflects an attitude that it would
not be solved by a simple specific algorithm.

Third, "text completion" has been a feature of messaging applications for years and has thus far not qualified as being an AGI.

Fourth, equating a predictive statistical model to "the computers brains got so big that they are now conscious like you and me" is not based in fact nor science.

LLM's have no provable consciousness. They do have utility in generating relevant tokens based on input tokens known to their training data set however.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete
Saw a show the other day that added a bit of baking soda to caramelize them in a fraction of the time. I tried it a few days ago and it worked.

Here's a page about it:
https://www.onions-usa.org/onionista/faster-caramelized-onio...
> There's a very particular pain you get when you know you had something and you lost it; or worse, you know you threw it away.

CONSOLATION GROOK

Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.

--Piet Hein
https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~thorn/grooks.html
Page 28.

That is wild, almost like film credits
It is extremely important in these situations to distinguish between talk and action. So far you have a bunch of people talking about walking out, which is very different from doing it.
Avoidant personality disorder is your friend. Mute the noise in your life or it may mute you. Break the chemical cycle of a classically conditioned digital mouse trap and create something truly useful but most importantly fun.
I googled and found they created the site with one years experience, or around three years at the moment. Take from that what you will.
> in what way ?

For example, this router has a GPS antenna. https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/RUTX11_GPS

Which of course means it can forward the NMEA data to a TCP server, and also cache it, and also log it to a file, and you can configure this all per-sentence type, and you can enable an HTTPS server to provide it, and it supports multiple AVL protocols for vehicle location tracking, and it has a rules engine, and a geofencing system, and it can trigger GPIO pin signals. I'm pretty sure it has an RTCM client as well but I can't find it mentioned on the wiki right now.

All of which is awesome if you want to use it as an integration point within a larger system, like I want to, assuming that those features actually work. I do not know either way.

These routers tend to be implemented with A proprietary GUI and a few proprietary daemons on top of OpenWRT and a bunch of bundled open source daemons. The Teltonica appears to be the same. This can work well but it gives me the heebie jeebies.

> How's CLI?

It's an OpenWRT shell, basically. Presumably they have commands to interact with whatever configuration system the GUI is using but I haven't checked.
My goal this year: to understand what this is about :-)
I think you can make it happen with a small amount of onions, but you have to watch it like a hawk, stir constantly, and add a small amount of water whenever it starts to go too far.
The easy solution that should've been implemented is to let you "ride out" your last cartridge.
Maybe from a far it seems that it is a meritocracy but there are documented examples of people falling through the cracks.

Eg Douglas Prasher did nobel prize winning work but couldn’t stay in academia.

Virginijus Siksnys did nobel prize work but never got the nobel prize.

The list goes on at the nobel prize level, so just consider the people who fall through the cracks for first class work, but not nobel prize level.
Currency notes get aged out and withdrawn from circulation all the time.

The 2000 rupee notes were a stop gap measure to mitigate the fallout from the I'll conceived and badly executed demonetization exercise from 2016. No new 2000 rupee notes have been issued in years and aged notes are all being withdrawn now. They remain legal tender and the exchange limits are meant to avoid overburdening bank branches like what happened during demonetization.

This is a boring, routine exercise. People are projecting their wishful fantasies onto it. In this very thread, there are people claiming it will reduce corruption, promote digital payments and hit the electoral prospects of opposition parties. None of them make even a lick of sense.
I would note he’s not claiming to be a teacher or a dean or claiming anything other than:

Khemarato Bhikkhu (Chief Librarian)

I’d note also he’s not written anything of his own “teaching” but instead provides a curated set of texts.

I think the wise thing to do in these situations is to carefully review what you’re going to criticize publicly to be certain your accusations are merited.

As a lay student of Buddhism for the past 30 years I find these resources well selected and presented and find no cause to diminish the contribution towards informal dharma education.

I also have never been a huge fan of the implicit and explicit hierarchy of the sangha. Buddha detailed how a huge range of students became enlightened and began teaching, including students who were otherwise very dumb but immediately grasped his teachings and became profoundly influential teachers. IMO, the entrenchment of status and hierarchy impedes the practice and shows a system of institutionalized attachments. In my practice I’ve found wisdom in anyone who has wisdom that helps me understand what distracts me from nonthinking and non attachment to self and unacceptance of what is. The sangha deserve the respect they earn by pursuing the path and being the keepers and teachers of the buddhas teachings. But I sometimes think that respect translates into deviation from those same teachings in the sangha itself (not withstanding the luxury cars and wives and things you see outside forest).
Everyone always forgets SimCity Societies, it wasn't perfect but it was fun
It's all relative isn't it? To some 250k+ is a dream salary. To others it's just a start.
This is not a uniform distribution:

const randIntRange = (i, j, engine = defaultEngine) => {
const min = Math.ceil(i)
const max = Math.floor(j)

return Math.floor(engine() * (max - min + 1)) + min
}

If you assume engine() outputs, say, 64 bits of entropy, any number range that is not an even factor of 2^64 will exhibit intermittent bias where the numbers are rounded.

The only correct way to do this is to do rejection sampling: generate an integer x with log2(max - min) bits and if x >= max - min retry until you do:

function randBelow(n) {
const nbits = Math.ceil(Math.log2(n));
while (true) {
const x = getRandBits(nbits);
if (x < n) { return x; }
}
}

function randIntHalfOpenRange(min, max) {
return min + randBelow(max - min);
}

function randIntRange(min, max) {
return randIntHalfOpenRange(min, max + 1);
}

The primitive you want for building distributions on is not to generate a floating point number between 0.0 and 1.0, but to generate an integer of at most x bits.
Ask HN: Does anyone have resources for DB project and development setup?
Hello all,

I am setting up everything for a new project I will be working on with a few other people. I have experience with IAC, and setting up the developer experience and stack, but DB setup is a blindspot for me. I am leaning towards a SQL DB (likely postgres) as I have had bad experiences with NOSQL DBs in the past, and I think we'll deploy our dev and prod DB using a managed DB from Digital Ocean.

My questions are mainly:

1. What are the best practices regarding local development using SQL databases? I don't really know how to ask this better, but my experience has only ever been developing on existing systems.

2. What are current best practices to interact with DBs? I see a lot of ORM slander but I don't even know alternatives I could possibly suggest.

3. What are best practices for team database management? Obviously git workflows exist for most code, but I have no idea what I should do re. migrations etc.

4. Do you have any resources to suggest regarding deploying database infra. This one is less important because I think it will become fairly self explanitory once I read up on 1-3, but it would still be nice.

Any help would be much appreciated and I can elaborate more if needed. Thank you all in advance and sorry if these are fairly basic questions!
It is a shame on US law enforcement. It is an example of how corrupt or bad the system is. There are so many petty crimes law enforecement don't bother to give a shit but when it comes to accessing knowledge (legal or illegal) ,they come in full force. It is just ridiculous on how much priority and impotance they put in these things compared to other crimes. It is because they are corrupted by the influence of the industries or money. Democracy at it's worst.
The federal government could just acquire textbooks by eminent domain.
Wow! I mean it's good to know that he has only a few yrs of experience but to say that take his website with a grain of salt is definitely not the most Buddhist way.
I’m curious how files like this comply with things like GDPR. For people who deleted their Reddit account, do individual user names show up in these files?
> is she wrong on any specific physics?

She's not wrong about any of the empirical content of physics (so far as we know), but neither are the people she criticizes. It's a philosophical conflict.
Most physicists are at least weakly inclined towards scientific realism, whereas Hossenfelder is a radical instrumentalist - and doesn't seem to think any other view is even worth engaging with.
TLDR: please donate A100s to make this happen

Most of the focus is in the 1-14B range. Due to constraints of the dataset sizes (chinchilla law), and GPUs available

Community demand is also mostly in this range as there is a strong desire to optimise and run on local GPU. So more focus is in this range.

Not representing blink directly here - but if anyone wants to see a 30B / 65B model. Reach out to contribute the GPUs required to make it happen

The code is already there, just need someone to run it,

Ps: I too am personally interested in how it will perform at ~60B, which I believe will be to be optimal model size for higher level of thoughts (this number is based on intuition not research)
The idea is going into the right direction but i would also love to see a skyrocketing price for a second car per household.
So if i need a car and my wife as well, i would encourage to make the second car around four times as expensive. Also I don't like the weight and size that much cause a functional vehicle like a minivan or pickups or vans used for work reasons shouldn't be punished.
A combination out of HP, weight and a functionality factor (roomy family friendly cars and pure or mainly used working vehicles vs big luxury SUVs or small overpowered sports cars) would be a adequate calculation.
Also motorbikes would need an adjustment in that level. Nobody can tell me they need a 120hs motorbike for a proper commute. They are just noise pollution.
Not sure if any studies were done, but you need go no further than the folks who invented it, Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies, whose Medallion Fund returned 66% over 30 years. The fact that they closed the fund to everyone but employees soon after they realized how good their algorithms were says a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
basically airflow graphs, eh?
It would be lovely if some of the folks downvoting this could explain precisely why it is that I should accept my FAANG salary as "enough" while tech billionaires apparently shouldn't, rather than just trying to make this post disappear. It's a perfectly reasonable question -- the ownership class has never considered (and will never consider) any amount of money to be "enough," so why on earth should any of the rest of us?
it's in the top10 sites worldwide, it's ridiculously naive to assume it's just servers and a few BGP dudes.
> One thing I'm keen to understand is: how well does attention hold across huge context sizes, with respect to the usual transformer models, and also these proposed RNN models?

We won't know before we've tried it. Reasoning by analogy with humans is not useful. In a year we'll have tried lots of things and can give a much better answer.
Under the Wagner Act you can't be fired for concerted collective action in the workplace, if the goal of such action is to improve working conditions. That is a much broader protection than for just strikes (which are pretty narrowly defined).

But like you say, any corporation worth its salt can find ways to get rid of problem employees without violating the letter of the law even when it's not already planning big layoffs.
“Thank you for smoking” is a great one about marketing and the lobby industry it. Definitely a movie that engineers should watch to learn how selling (dishonestly) works.
For those of us like myself who are terribly naive, why wouldn't that just cause all of the atoms to be torn apart?

Unless the sphere were infinitely far away, only the center point would be in balance, and everything else would be immediately sucked to the edge of the sphere. If the sphere's radius was infinite, that might explain the expansion of the universe itself, but not the presence of infinite density within the universe itself.
The easiest way to comply with GDPR is not to be in Europe.
If you are familiar with how transformer network works

There is RWKV in 150 lines to help understand all the nitty gritty

https://github.com/BlinkDL/ChatRWKV/blob/main/RWKV_in_150_li...
SMEs?
Right, all those Indians who get their news from the Financial Times.

This is a boring, routine exercise. But the reporting around it has been breathless.
That was my problem with the game as well. You don’t really have all that much freedom and there isn’t that much emergent behaviour. You just replay the same road builder scenario where the only interesting part is designing intersections.

I’d love to see a city builder game with an extremely powerful policy builder feature. Let me design new rules and see how the city responds. For example, let me implement congestion charges on roads, even if it’s just a text input with its own DSL like you have with minecraft command blocks. Then you could really break out of what the developers designed and start actually doing simulations.
> let d = (y / 17n) >> (17n * x + y % 17n);

> return d % 2n == 1n;

TIL(JavaScript): A BigInt is created by appending n to the end of an integer literal — 17n — or by calling the function BigInt().

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I don’t know… I think talking from a point of authority with a year or twos experience is very HN-ish of the OP, and if someone’s dedicating their life to a spiritual journey then they are going to rightfully want to make sure people know a ‘university’ is possibly wrong on those topics. Could have been said with more tact for sure
Imagine a city builder where you can't convincingly recreate the rebuilding of Tokyo after WWII

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> stop catering to the snowflakes of the world

Those snowflakes include Apple, Google and non-US governments who aren't interested in the "anything goes" version of free speech.

So if Reddit cares about having a mobile app or operating at all then they need moderation.

Or lest we forget Reddit's good old days of doxxing, child porn, snuff porn, drug dealing etc.
>I don't know what you want for an example. I gave you several links to smga policy and detailed discussion of the legal complications

You've asserted that California is taking away rights without due process. I'm looking for examples of that.

You also said

"The start of the whole issue was that many Central Valley Farms and counties raised bonds to put in aqueducts and entered into purchase agreements with the state of California. The California legislature then passed environmental regulation and stopped providing the water. In many instances this water was already paid for, or the state decided that farmers must continue to pay while the state doesn't hold up their side of the contract."

which I'd love to learn more about if it actually happened, but Google has nothing.

>Did you read them and do you have questions? I

It's not my job to make your case for you. If you feel like those links have relevant information, pull it out and make a case.

>If you're a fundamental position is that legally established property rights don't matter and are revocable without compensation, I don't know that we will be able to find common ground and share information.

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. I can't help but feel that you don't have any supports for your assertion and are therefore grasping at straws to put words in my mouth.

>For some of these people, it would have been kinder if the state simply showed up and shot them.

The state doesn't exist to prop up whatever business they want to run. It's very obvious that your viewpoint on this situation is informed solely by the complaints of people who want to continue to be subsidized by the state at the expense of everyone else.

If you don't have an actual case to make, I don't see any point in moving forward. I've already heard the Ag industry's made up grievances.
AMD Zen Memory Latency/Bandwidth Considerations
At a certain point in Cities Skylines you stop having any real challenge to make money or to keep your city running, so it becomes pretty much a sandbox. You can make the city look pretty much however you like instead of being bound by the needs of the city. In effect, you can just paint whatever kind of city you like onto the terrain. There's still a little challenge to deal with transportation but its fairly trivial to solve when you have effectively unlimited money in the game.
Funny that you mention two cars that no longer are sold in the states. Honda fits and regular VW golfs are not for sale anymore.
https://twitter.com/boborado/status/1659608452849897472

You might find that thread interesting, they're taking submissions for potential partnership with LambdaLabs a cloud compute company that has a few hundred H100s laying around. They have an open form and their cofounder is currently doing the rounds having meetings and this may be a good candidate.

I'm not associated with them at all, just interested in the space and things going on.
Even researchers and professionals appreciate a sample or two.
The ability to import a SimCity 2000 map in to SimCopter was amazing for the time, imo. I remember flying around cities I had worked really hard on thinking how the cross over between the two games was really cool.
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