skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe? Having worked in way too many teams that were convinced we had to aim at some crazy tech because someone else saw "50% increase in throughput" on some tech stack; I am happy to be the one saying to keep perspective.

Though, I will note that you picked a framing with absolute timing here. That is the root criticism here. If the headline would be "team saved 2ms off 28ms startup routine," it would still be neat and worth talking about. Would probably not have impressed as many folks, though. After all, if they save 1% off training time on a standard ML workload, that is way way bigger. Heck, .07% is probably more time.

I'm reminded of a fun discussion from a gamedev, I think it was Jonathan Blow, on how they thought they were smarter than the ID folks because they found that they were not using hashes on some asset storage. He mused that whether or not he was smarter was not at all relevant to that, as it just didn't matter. And you could even make some argument that not building the extra stuff to make sure the faster way worked was the wiser choice.
True Crime modeled LA 1:1 although the game didn’t do that much with it.

Also, GTA V doesn’t model LA 1:1 but holy fuck it’s practically LA.
“Were I to recommend, say, a rice cooker, that must not imply I obtained it for free, or that 100 lb. sacks of rice were being dropped at my door. I mention this because I may be compelled to recommend a rice cooker in the very near future, in defense of my Who's Who entry, which claims I can cook almost anything in a rice cooker.”

Speaking of: https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-pot-and-how-to-us...
Drugs acting on GLP-1 (ozempic), GIP, and glucagon receptors are largely shown to help hearts and cardiovascular health specifically (and independently of weight loss). They also improve lipid profiles (HDL/LDL), and have a multitude of other benefits.

Whether they, for example, increase the rate of glial brain cancer ... they really haven't been out long enough to know.
I found David Deutsch’s Beginning of Infinity worldview changing.
The internet used to feel so human most of the time back in mid-90's because there was somehow an awareness that the person you where talking to was a human in a way we've lost.

Those where the days you could email a webmaster and get a response, when you hung around with like minded people in self-organised communities around a thing that interested them - like reddit without the massive negativity and astroturfing.

The modern internet (or web really) has lost much of that flavour, there are a few places that still maintain it with anonymity - HN is one, specific subreddits, the IRC server I've hung around forever, I've friends on there going back more than 15 years, we where all early 20's computer geeks, now a lot of them are married with kids or have kids on the way - I know a tonne of details about them personally and sometimes don't know their real name.

I do see some echoes of that world in some modern platforms (discord for specific games (in my case Arma) captures some of it).
Yes, I think it’s quite a delightful example. Small enough that it’s quite realistic to be able to read it, understand it, and add to it.
Bizarrely enough, the pressure doesn't always go in that direction.
> Was that the same Patriot system that the US acknowledged was hit recently?

It was so lightly damaged from debris that it didn’t even need to be taken out of the country to be repaired.

> Must be it has arisen from the grave. Especially after the US banned the use of Patriots in Ukraine after that attack.

This literally hasnt happened.
Even if something like an Alcubierre drive were possible, I wouldn't be surprised if there turned out to be some kind of catch that still limited you to the speed of light.
Without multidimensional array slicing or operator overloading it seems like Typescript could never be anywhere near as ergonomic as Python for ML, despite its other advantages.
There's a good chance you don't want the finaliser in the object; finding finalisers to run would require reading heap memory, when sweeping otherwise just touches side tables (IIUC for the bitmap allocator Go uses).
This is light years beyond any coding ability I have and was deeply enjoyable to read.
Example of a rare amulet that self-referentially acts as an HTML site: https://twitter.com/zencephalon/status/1442862206501023746?s...
I’ve gone to Vegas a half dozen times for business and conferences. It’s one of the worst places I can imagine. No plants, no walking. Everything is big and loud and obnoxious and expensive.

I can’t imagine ever wanting to live there. In fact anyplace I would want to live is basically the binary opposite of Vegas in every way.
It's always full and losing lots of money? Still may not be a true loss overall if it is just subsidized for the positive externalities on congestion etc.
But if someone microwaved fish in one it might be a violation of international law.
Fair. I still feel fine pushing back on this. The amount of other resources getting wasted to support this sort of workload is kind of easy to imagine.

I will put back the perspective that they were not hunting for 2ms increases. They were originally chopping off at seconds on startup. The progress they made is laudable. And how they found it and acted on it is great.
Don't forget work social events that extend beyond those 40 hours. Seems like there's more of them each year.
I think an important piece of having that “higher satisfaction” is having the other folks you work with in the office with you. I think ultimately we will end up with remote companies and in-person companies. Both approaches work great. But the in-between not so much.
maybe if the universe actually has more dimensions than the three we can perceive.

"surpassing the speed of light" in 3D, but done in 4-5D is just a matter of traveling a lot less "space", hence you actually didn't need to surpass the speed of light, but you travelled "faster than light", by travelling across the 4th-5th dimension.

Travelling like that could be just like walking 100 yards in the 5th dimension, but in 3D you travelled 100 light years in a matter of minutes (of walking).
Okay, but this is FreeBSD. All they have to do is import whatever code into src and use it.
There is also watch, a Linux command.

Had blogged about it here, along with a Python program inspired by it, that I wrote:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linu...
That only happens on first load, how is that equivalent to Javascript?
GlitchTip: An open source, Sentry API compatible error tracking platform
I went through a phase where I (as a layman) consumed a lot of quantum physics YouTube content. My favorite people to listen to were Brian Greene, Roger Penrose and Leonard Susskind. If there is a video of one of them speaking for more than an hour, I've probably watched it. I also watched some videos with Michio Kaku, including one where he was on a panel with Penrose, and I got major "huckster" vibes from him. It felt like he was trying to sell me something. Maybe that's an unfair interpretation. But it seemed really obvious, especially when contrasted with the others.
If you want a remote browser capable of running on a server (with the client, browser UI in a regular web page) check out BrowserBox: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro
Intel is going to lose because it ditched Ring 1 and 2, sure.
The story behind this: “how long do you think until they find this?”

-somebody who accepted a bet
.grift, .ransom, .dumdum, .silly,
.vapor, .badonk, .sweat, .human, .fecal, .power, .scam, .scumbag, .cleaner, .verb, .noun, .adj, .crack, .crazy, .money, .broke, .baseball, . cricket, .food, .lol, .abuse ... the possibilities are endless!
did the weight stay off? Do you notice tolerance
That's not true at all. Tons of places outside the USA love cars and have a car centered transportation system. If anything it's a European biais to assume otherwise
What they will see is “geeze, if we try to sell diapers Amazon will crush us”
> A user wouldn't be able to know what they were saying yes too, unless they could understand and approve each individual API call or operation done by the plugin.

I don't understand this.

The suggestion I had was basically:

User types "Summarize this webpage http://somesite".

ChatGPT pops open a dialog "The language model would like to invoke the 'fetch webpage' plugin: Allow/Abort"

After you allow that, with the injection shown here, there would be another dialog: "The language model would like to invoke the 'Zappier' plugin: Allow/Abort".

Surely OpenAI knows what plugin is being called and can do that, right? Surely that would stop this attack since your original prompt, "summarize a webpage", shouldn't need to invoke a second plugin

This certainly doesn't help with the case where you say "Summarize example.com and email it to me" since you couldn't distinguish between "Send email (good)" and "Send email (spam, due to injection)", but for the attack in this post, it seems like it'd suffice.
It gives generic programming. C++ templates aren't the only possible implementation.
If you really need to track visitors the best way is through nginx log files.

All other tracking methods is an invasion of privacy.
I used to use Python heavily and favor JS now for these reasons. Portability is huge. I think JS is going to eat Python's lunch.
I wonder if Intel could open up x86s ISA. They need to transition to Foundry and there is no going back. Might as well open up x86s.
> you have to look at the screen and place your finger.

Depends. I find that on the Tesla screen, the buttons are large enough that I can often use it without looking, or using peripheral vision alone. Probably something to do with Fitts Law, the size of touch targets, etc.

A bit similar to gen z kids typing on their phone without looking.

I do prefer the old (~2017) Audi system of having a scroll wheel for CarPlay instead of a touch screen.
Screening technology can boost IVF live birth rate, Chinese study finds
Don't most apps charge Apple folks more? I thought this was more universal. They like being parted with their money -- they pay the Apple tax.
Song of the cell is quite good, as are his other books. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is an excellent intro to paleontology. The Story of Earth is an excellent introduction to Geology.
Why fight evolution?
GPUs are about 100 times faster than CPUs for any type of single-precision floating point math operation. The catch is that you have to do roughly similar math operations on 10k+ items in parallel before the parallelism and memory bandwidth advantages of the GPU outweigh the latency and single-threaded performance advantages of the CPU. Of course this is achievable in graphics applications with millions of triangles and millions of pixels, and in machine learning applications with millions or billions of neurons.

IMO almost any application that is bottlenecked by CPU performance can be recast to use GPUs effectively. But it's rarely done because GPUs aren't nearly as standardized as CPUs and the developer tools are much worse, so it's a lot of effort for a faster but much less portable outcome.
For now, and only because bezos allows it.
Is it? Maybe it's an error, or maybe there's more water in ice pack, glaciers, snow, underground, or even in the ocean.

Like, it's unclear if there's a problem here or not.
In my opinion the most impactful thing you can do is write high-quality Linux apps. To be frank, if you try to fix some of the major issues with Linux (such as listed on that itvision.altervista.org page), you will have to fight a sort of bureaucracy where people won't accept a solution because it doesn't reach some absurd degree of elegance and configurability. You need a high degree of discipline to stay motivated while rewriting your code and proposing it multiple times. However, if you write your own app, you don't have to answer to anyone. Your focus is quite a bit simpler, just make a UI that users fall in love with.
Methinks the burden of proof lies on the person making the claim. The dogmatic aspect enters the picture when questions are fobbed off with non-answers. Do note that the discussion is _not_ about personal preferences, but about "best practices".
You ship it as a dry/lypohilized powder, both semaglutide and tirzepatide survives long China->Europe shipping in the summer just fine, with customs delays. The testing I've seen showed 99.965% purity of semaglutide after 22 days in shipping from China to Poland during April. Tirzepatide shows 99.064% purity after 58 days of shipping in October-November. These didn't start out at 100.00% purity either, so they likely experienced absolutely minimal degradation in shipment.

You reconstitute it with Bacteriostatic Water which is available without a prescription in the USA and contains 0.9% benzyl alcohol to inhibit bacterial growth.

If you're particularly concerned you buy a 0.22 micrometer PVDF "syringe filter" and pump it through that to another, fresh/sealed sterile vial which you can get for like $2.00 from a medical supply company (the syringe, filter, and vials are gamma-irradiated to destroy any remnants of RNA/DNA). That size filtration will filter out any lifeforms (fungal, bacterial, viral) while allowing the peptide/drug itself to pass through. So you get a guaranteed sterile solution out of the filter.
Good job, nice to see it works on reducing alcohol consumption too. I do not need this drug but it's nice knowing the option exists it need be. It gives hope to others too.
You are correct - and that is indeed the expectation.
How dangerous is it to have a new $1k/month bill you need to pay forever?

So far there is no indication insurance companies are going to pay for 100 million Americans going on Ozempic who aren't diabetic...

Anecdotally, another danger is people confusing less eating with a healthy diet. I know someone on Ozempic...eats less but what is eaten is the same old junk...
So, instead is suppressing the desire to eat, how about inventing a drug that blocks the absorption or breakdown of carbohydrates in the gut? Or maybe control the gut biome so that growth of bacteria that breaks down high calorie food is minimized.

Is this faster-than-light-like impossible daydream or is there any plausible path to it?
In order to have meaningful agency I'd imagine you'd need to have your basic needs met before you move on. So, be born wealthy and you can have all the agency you like in the US. Everyone else gets the illusion of agency.
Is that the 24 hour average? I literally have photos on my phone from Thursday morning showing AQI 142 and a Tokyo map soaked in pink and red. I snapped them to send to my wife, who was planning to take the kids to the park. It was also obvious to anyone with a functioning noise on their face. Not sure what to tell you.
Most people live by the ocean or on major lakes and rivers. This data doesn't show any of that changing.
terminator but with the m night shyamalan twist.

it just wanted to save the planet.

from us.
Vacuously false. Do you think "eat well and exercise regularly" is some kind of magic switch? One day you are 120lbs overweight but then you eat well and exercise for a week and star in a film?
There's other mnemonics too, "I work 9-5 at the 7/11" and the observation that Jan 3 (normal) and Jan 4 (leap) can be remembered as, "3 times out of 4, it's January 3rd; the 4th, it's Jan 4th"

Silly mnemonics but it's something. The design about even number days all landing on March 0 / last day of Feb is a good and simple one. I don't know what Weekle is innovating -- instead of using an established system of mnemonics and calculations, he just presents his own table with no comments. Maybe his inspiration was to say, "hey guys, I made my own date calculation system" to impress people who don't know about Doomsday?
They're allegedly including the non-free stuff automatically now, but the better solution is to avoid that hardware whenever possible. Proprietary drivers tend to have more bugs because the public can't fix them, and even if they're supported now, you're at the vendor's mercy for when it stops working regardless of what Debian or Ubuntu includes.
I would rather leave the tech industry than ever use the macOS GUI for work again, to be honest.
See, the binpacking that this implies for lambda instances is insane to me. Certainly sounds impressive and great, and they may even pull it off. And, certainly, for the Lambda team, this at least sounds like it makes sense. I'll even root for them to hope it works out.

It just reminds me of several failed attempts to move to JVM based technologies to replace perl, because "just think of the benefits if we get JVM startup so that each request is its own JVM?" They even had papers showing resource advantages that you would gain. Turned out, many times, that competing against how cheap perl processes were was not something you wanted to do. At least, not if you wanted to succeed.
Kaku is certainly a far smarter person than I am, so I don't say this as someone who thinks he knows better.

But he's also made a career of talking about whatever random interesting/popular/flavor of the month topic there is in science, and over the years, and as someone who has a hobbyist level understanding of many of those subjects, it has seemed to me that he has a tendency for taking whatever the more "interesting" stance is on any particular subject, as long as it's even remotely defensible based on the body of evidence. Couple that with finding the same sort of condescending attitude you mention, and I've gone out of my way to listen to/read material from other sources.

A good example is the recent stuff over the JWST, age of the universe, larger galaxies than we expected, etc. For those that haven't kept up, basically, the JWST has been looking at some very old galaxies - some of the oldest we've been able to view. And we have a lot of computer models about how big galaxies should be early on in the universe, with these galaxies falling outside of what those models predicted. This has lead to a lot of sensationalist news about this imagery from the JWST disproving the big bang, and Kaku has joined in on this. But when you dig deeper, you find out that the disparity isn't huge... and even more damning to that narrative is that our more modern models done with significantly more compute power and able to have significantly more precision have shown these galaxies to be within the expected range. It's basically only a story if you ignore the past 6-7 years of work in this area.

I think it's a perfectly rational way for him to approach things - it's his interview appearances, books, etc. paying his bills, so I don't think he's wrong for doing this - just not my cup of tea.
Yeah I don’t entirely buy that.

I can type on my phone while without looking at it. Not much different from typing without looking at a keyboard.
Back in the 1980s, my compiler (Datalight C) won file I/O benchmark after benchmark, year after year.

My trick was stupid simple. The usual file I/O buffer size was 512 bytes, I made it 16K.
You can switch between the point and comma decimal separators by turning the calculator off, holding down the "." key, turning it back on, then releasing the "." key.
Also when you eat on it you are punished by heating up even more.
Ir they'd move to Instagram Reels / YouTube Shorts, which are equal products except for the user base.

Bluesky is cool now because it's a gated community of privileged connected people, not because it's inherently better than Twitter.
I've found in academia in general, when someone is condescending they are also often provably but stubbornly incorrect. I suspect this is more than correlation, since a degree of humility is needed to learn deeply about particularly hard areas.
We’ve been working on something (https://github.com/build-trust/ockam) that enables exactly this, among a whole host of other use cases. If you check out some of the code examples in the docs you’ll see how to setup a tunnel using the CLI.

For other use cases there’s also the programming libraries (only Rust atm, though I was spiking a TypeScript/Node PoC this week) which might provide more flexibility. Personally I’m excited by the idea of being able to move this kind of secure by design connectivity all the way into the application layer though.
Ha ha ha! You're too funny, man.

You know you're like a person shutting their eyes and demanding the world show itself to them. At some point you need to grow up and take responsibility: it's not our fault, if you can't see, if you're the one closing your eyes. Ha ha ha ha!

BTW separate topic - you really think religion and faith is unnatural and fringe? You realize that puts you in the global minority, right? Sort of proving my point! Ha ha ha ha! Have a good one, man! Bye! :) ;p xx ;p
https://archive.ph/fEoP7
Wasn't this just posted last week? And recently before that as well?

I remember checking it out, being disappointed about its not-great availability for MacOS, and thinking that I should learn lisp.
I'm a big fan of Carlo Rovelli's books. I don't know if loop quantum gravity is true, but if it is he provides very entertaining and understandable explanations of the ramifications if it does end up being correct. It will have interesting implications for time and human existence, and he isn't afraid to tackle the philosophical portions of it without getting preachy. The Order of Time is my favorite from him.
Reminds me of Bret Victor and hundredrabbits. If Lisp was more popular, we could use it as building block for UI (since it can describe both code data). An email client where all of your emails is a (lazy) list? A Figma-like where you can compose, filter, reduce the graphical elements? Lists are everywhere, and Lisp is built for it.
I've taken this a step further and just refuse to acknowledge your content if you post it on Twitter. Call me a revolutionary if you must - I've been doing it longer than Twitter has been around. There's no valid reason to use it, anyways.
And that drawing of the watcher at the top of the post is by yours truly :)
It definitely is difficult, thank you. It also seems to me to be of limited value unless you’re specifically trying to measure the effect of different policies. Let’s just do what we can to improve air quality everywhere. We know diesel bans work, we know EVs work, we know congestion pricing works. Let’s just do it - especially for our kids. Doesn’t seem particularly controversial to me.
What if the value is self serving? Oops, I accidentally defined politicians
Yeah, but hear me out, what if we just happen to invent a more efficient Haber process maybe it will require negative energy input! Or invent some magic super cure that will re-stabilize the declining ecosystems and restore all the things we don't like to think about, like soil health. It's going to come any day now and we should just ignore the possibility that it might not, because that would be personally inconvenient! There's no chances for another dust bowl with increasing temperatures and food demands.

You must be a communist that wants to destroy people's quality of life! You couldn't possibly just want the de-growth of wasteful production to a circular and more sustainable economy; you must just want to destroy the economy itself!! You hate poor countries maybe you should try living in one so I can keep burning 20 liters of gasoline to get to work every day. It can't be that you want to make the QoL more equal for everyone on the globe.

Plus we can just kill the majority of life on Earth, we'll just genetically modify replacements anyway, it can't be that hard, we're HUMANS and HISTORY shows us that we'll be fine from all the other times where we were at about >40% land use for agriculture and facing melting icecaps! My friend loves to ride their motorcycle without a helmet, it hasn't hurt them yet. (what do you mean "survivorship bias?") Besides everything that has spent million of years evolving into its niche will be able to adapt in the next ~100 years so as to not break the ecosystem it exists in.

/s if you couldn't tell
It looks like this system might not have 360 degree coverage. Is that a weakness?