skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How far can a stack of n identical blocks be made to hang over the edge of a table? The question has a long history and the answer was widely believed to be of order logn. Recently, Paterson and Zwick constructed n-block stacks with overhangs of order n^1/3 , exponentially better than previously thought possible. We show here that order n^1/3 is indeed best possible, resolving the long-standing overhang problem up to a constant factor."

(from intro)
Figures they'll do it during the height of summer, now try it in winter.
> but it just wasn't necessary IMO

AOP makes Java style logging incredibly convenient. That was not only its main selling point, but also it's one single benefit that people managed to identify during the few years it was hyped.

IMO, Java style logging is bad by itself. But surely, AOP does make Java style logging much more convenient.
Well! This is an interesting wrinkle in the Reddit drama.
The original model was as a long-form instagram live stream which I understand nobody did but I was being experimental. Basically a single shot, single take show on alternative platforms. The portrait format was to accommodate that media expectation.

I made dozens of them ... they failed to gain traction. A few are over 100 views a couple years later (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3byGVjPq468) but I have still failed to crack the world of social media. It's not zero ... that's nice I guess.

I'm planning to do a reboot sometime soon. I took a couple weeklong trips around the country to some research libraries in the past year or so, but I'd like to execute differently to try to be more effective. This was my third show run attempt.

I think I may need a new foil for my host. The guy I did the shows with is a longtime TV comedy writer (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1104065/) but he's not exactly a second city graduate.
> because the original strain was unnatural, later strains would be less problematic as the virus reverted to its true (less problematic) nature

Is it possible for someone to speed up this process in a lab somewhere, like South Africa, and release the less problematic version to the public to achieve the herd immunity quicker?
I'm surprised that I was surprised Musk just goes ahead with unsafe unpermitted monkey patches to his building just like the slumlords in my nowhere town.
A little conflicted on this one - shouldnt the solution be not sending waste to africa and picking up the mess we left behind? And isn't it problematic to set up an economy based on the availability of illegally dumped electronics? Not in a moral sense but a practical one. And as I understand it most e waste reclamation is taxing work that exposes you to various nasty things, either picking for salvage or extracting metals.

I think those are really just quibbles though. In the first place that org has boots on the ground and I'm just some rando on a different continent, easy for me to spout off about problems when I'm not involved and trying to fix a problem. In the second place much of the focus in that article was about a repair program for the solar lights they are introducing to rural communities, which is phenomenal, and does qualify as recycling e waste.

Maybe I'm laboring under a different idea of what constitutes electronics waste? I don't think of most of it as being repairable, perhaps I'm just wrong about that.
there is also second mover advantage, where they just need to copy-cat the best part of nvidia's ML stack and dont waste time figuring out what works/what doesn't work.

they will get users simply because they will be alternative to nvidia. Add good pricing strategy and it can be immediate success
Yes, it's ostensibly still for defense purposes in China
Node.js should be way slower, given that JS is an interpreted language and the others aren't.
> When cards are cloned, it's exceptionally easy for a bank to determine which merchant is compromised by looking for common denominators.

Is it actually? My bank calls me to ask which transactions were mine and which ones werent, thus requiring outside feedback
A bit different. The GPS restriction was to prevent GPS on a device moving over 400 mph (I think that's roughly the speed?), and to limit accuracy to within a few meters rather than a few centimeters. The restrictions were intended to prevent the use of civilian GPS systems in precision missiles.

Not a lot of civilian uses require anywhere near that speed or accuracy.

It's a lot harder to justify grossly inaccurate geographic data as not hurting civilian uses.
There's a sort of beautiful irony in the fact that freedesktop.org is one of the few domains that properly implements the spec.
> Also even in CA where NC's are in theory non-enforceable, I know multiple people whose new employers did not want to test the water with very litigious firms and had people sit out the full NC.

It's a known effect that not working can take a physical toll on some people (i.e. the mortality effect of retirement - https://www.nber.org/bah/2018no1/mortality-effects-retiremen... ). I'm sure no one would ever do it, but I wonder if an employee would win if they sued both the old and new employer as co-conspirators to violate California's non-compete prohibition, citing the not-working health toll as their standing to sue.
Yup. The premise is that you can have your work self "severed" from your home self.

This means that you've essentially become two different people. It's really good if you're into that sort of dark sci fi stuff.
As someone who hasn't used Porter, it would be awesome if you could follow up this oh-so-snarky response with some actual concrete information?

* What is the "unwittingly massive" level of complexity that they took on? Sure, k8s is complicated, but isn't the promise of this platform that it abstracts away all of that complexity? After all, AWS is very complex but we don't say that Heroku users are unwittingly taking on huge amounts of complexity, do we?

* Why the assumption that "little research was done if they chose EKS"? Perhaps the company is already using AWS for other stuff? Doesn't the promise of a managed platform mean that you don't actually have to deal with EKS or GKE directly?

* Your alternative platform suggestions don't really take into account their stated reason(s) for switching off Heroku - optimizing for scaling and lack of devops knowledge. Fly.io or Render are awesome but I wouldn't choose them for a rapidly growing company as they're essentially straight replacements for Heroku. I'm a big fan of ECS but it certainly requires some devops know-how - you better be comfortable setting up the entire AWS networking stack or want to commit energy to learning. I don't know the right answer here but it seems very use case dependent.
It's interesting to think about this form of computation (LLM + function call) in terms of circuitry. It is still unclear to me however, if the sequential form of reasoning imposed by a sequence of chat messages is the right model here. LLM decoding and also more high-level "reasoning algorithms" like tree of thought are not that linear.

Ever since we started working on LMQL, the overarching vision all along was to get to a form of language model programming, where LLM calls are just the smallest primitive of the "text computer" you are running on. It will be interesting to see what kind of patterns emerge, now that the smallest primitive becomes more robust and reliable, at least in terms of the interface.
It was remarkably easy to simply take a database dump
and clone the server

Huh? I'm not following. That helps the admin(s) and nobody else.

The other 99.99% of users are in functionally the same predicament as Reddit users: they have zero control over the data.

Theoretically a forum admin could make those dumps publicly available, I guess? I'm sure that has happened once or twice, but I've never heard of anybody doing that.
> Alright, if you’ve got this far I’m sure you’ve realised that the whole project is something of a joke.

I was there after the first paragraph.

I'm even surprised this monstrosity can pull off 1KHz.

Glad this is satire and I hope this will be read properly by the hordes of young devs wasting their youth energy and lifeblood on building everything cloud/react/js because it's supposedly hip.
If you don't provide an API for your content, but you're happy to render some HTML containing the content when I browse to your website, then if I want the content, I will get the content. No API is necessary. I will happily waste your resources scraping HTML if it's necessary to get the content I want, so it's in your best interest to provide it via an API, which is ultimately just a more efficient interface to the same data you're already providing me for free.
One thing the Nazis did, but not uniquely to them, was paint dehumanizing pictures of their enemies.
It's much less impressive when you add:

- with symptoms associated with common seasonal illness

Not saying it wasn't COVID-19. Just saying that claiming it was is a bit of a stretch.
City of Santa Monica was having to do the same thing to keep homeless from piling up around the library for Internet access. The Library became the hub for all homeless in the region for the wifi alone. Seeing as they run a data center in the basement I had to access working there, it was always an adventure to visit.
I had surgery under general anesthesia for the first time in my life a year or two back, and it was very enlightening.

Specifically, most people who have general anesthesia talk about how strangely different it was from sleeping.

It was virtually identical to what my sleep has been like most of my life. I went out then I came back.

I was groggy longer than usual waking up, but that was about the only difference.

I almost never remember dreams, historically. I lay down, go out in < 5 minutes, then get up when something wakes me.

That seems to be a rare experience, so I figure outta worth mentioning.

Also interesting is that I've been taking atomoxetine for the past few months, and one of the effects has been that I don't sleep nearly as deeply and now remember dreams regularly. My nights are much longer and I don't like it.
Every day I start to believe more and more that people won't stop with homelessness until every homeless person is dead.

"Emergency housing is a drain on taxpayer dollars."
"Job placement is taking jobs away from locals."
"Soup kitchens are another drain on taxpayer money."
"Homeless services are a waste of money."

It makes me sick how people can act when it comes to the homeless population when so many of us are just 1 bad month away from being homeless ourselves.
Non-compete (and non-association) clauses aren't government regulation, it's agreements you make when accepting the job. Your first amendment rights aren't infringed by work dress codes either. You aren't at risk of criminal penalty, just whatever civil penalty is specified in the contract.

Not that that means they're necessarily okay, it's just unrelated.
If your forum's moderation is a fraction of a percent more tolerant towards a group of people who generally aren't tolerated, you will end up with the entire group on your forum, oftentimes in numbers exceeding those of your original community. If you want a couple examples from the recent past, do you remember how a lot of communities made rules against posting stuff about My Little Pony (at one point, 4chan, a site that will normally allow anything, had to create a site-wide rule about it), or the way some subreddits became alt-right hubs over the course of a few weeks after someone found out the moderators would let them post stuff about it? The effect of this is to force everyone into a posture of equal hostility, even if they do not themselves care one way or the other.

This is exacerbated by the fact that any amenities designed to service the homeless (like a wi-fi tower out in a field where an encampment wouldn't bother anyone) would amount to officially recognizing the existence of the buildings erected there. I do not think the city could handle the contradiction of forcing one type of resident to go through an elaborate permitting process to build a shed, but allowing another resident to erect a temporary home in an officially recognized location. They are stuck turning a blind eye to it.

If you combine the two effects, you end up with the case they have now, where small-scale amenities will be overwhelmed, while large-scale amenities or directly intentioned actions are impossible because they would violate the fiction that none of this is happening. I know it sound hard to believe - that within the eyes of the system there are no homeless encampments: but just to offer one piece of evidence in support of it, I am not aware of any fire inspections going on in the tent villages.
In NYC the DHS intakes and beds 60,000 homeless people _every single night_.

To say that there aren't solutions in place is incorrect. At least in NYC, the folks you see sleeping on sidewalks have broadly chosen that position over a bed in a shelter. It's a point of pride for many New Yorkers that if you're homeless and willing to get clean, the city will provide a bed for you every night.

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/pdf/dashboard/FYTD2...
"No porn for you" Probably some dumbass in the department that came up with this agenda. Okay, what is that going to solve? Maybe, just maybe come up with a plan to help these folks instead of kicking them down even further. I love it when politicians flex with "We are the greatest country on earth" STFU. You are not. Take care of your people.
> What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit.

One might quibble about blogs being Reddit when Tumblr and Medium and Substack exist, or forums being Reddit when Facebook groups exist, but that would be missing the point. Whether the number is one or a dozen, or even several dozen, it's not like the thousands upon thousands of independent sites that used to exist. While openness and distributed ownership/control are not the same thing, it seems like it's hard for the former to survive without the latter.

That's why so many people are looking to the fediverse and its imitators to replace the falling monoliths. There are problems there as well, both technical and social, but at least there's hope that they can grow into solutions without being assassinated by a single rich psycho. All it takes is for people to stop thought-experimenting on yet another rich-guy-owned monolith and start actually hacking toward a permanent and public solution.
Generalist with primarily full-stack experience but also embedded development, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Looking for the next interesting challenge. Would consider part-time work.

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>The Loire River is the longest river in France at 625 miles. As of early 2023, global warming clobbered the river, some areas completely dry with flow rate down to 1/20th of normal. Significantly, some of the country’s nuclear power plants depend upon the river for cooling purposes. Global warming is threatening France’s nuclear power system. So far, forced shutdowns have only occurred in the summer, but France’s Court of Auditors warned that such events are likely to become 3-to-4 times more frequent unless global warming somehow subsides, yet France’s environmental chief thinks 4°C is on the horizon.
They're repairing many LED lights.
A more fundamental question - why are LED lamp units failing way ahead of schedule? Usually it's the power supply. Power supplies fail for known reasons. Usually, either overheating, bad capacitors, or bad solder joints. It's not rocket science. This ought to be fixable.

Whatever happened to those PhD theses I used to see from China on how to build LED lamp power supplies without electrolytic capacitors?
> considering the vilification of anyone (including the president at the time) for saying things that were in this vein

It's very weird that you frame this as if the vilification including the President was an indicator of it being unreasonable, when the actual situation was that the President himself was one of the main drivers of why this topic couldn't be discussed rationally. Once the conversation is hijacked by a hollow suit blowhard, the only way to get back to rationality is to soundly reject the broken clock, disregarding that it might coincidentally be correct.
Layoffs and AI Are Changing Tech’s Once-Invincible Job Market
Well it's a thinly veiled ad... and you can't really easily get digital copies - which somehow feels weird/wrong for space stuff. You typically can get that in full resolution directly from NASA.

Is the web interface representative of the final quality?

Just looking at an example: https://www.apolloremastered.com/shop/p/as15-82-11056-to-110...

Even mildly zoomed in the image looks quite crummy and blurry. Fine for a postcard, but not to hang on you wall

It's also a bit weird that some dude manages to somehow get semi-exclusive access to photos made by the US gov't and can then charge hundreds of pounds for them
Ambitious technologists: why move fast and break things leads to lower ambitions
true orourboros comes when it's undetectable which level of the turtle you're on.
Well, this will die quickly. It would be nice to see people rally around something like this for mobile phone APIs though.
So, instead of finding ways to help the less fortunate and reduce homelessness, it was seen as better to find ways to get the problem to go elsewhere. As if turning off the WiFi means the homelessness problem will just disappear too.
IIRC, The IRS has a specific 20 point test and many states expand on it. Being responsible for your own costs and the "relative" flexibility in that, you can start and end deliveries whenever, wherever, however you want. It gets murky if say, you require them to be on during certain times and threaten them with termination if the don't.

In theory, you can deduct the fuel and repair costs since you are running your own business so you only get taxed on the profit.
Google maps is also terrible at showing _only_ relevant info. I searched for “coffee” in a small area earlier today (small because I wanted to walk); it zoomed out to a much larger area and showed me coffee shops along with taquerias, oil change shops, banks, etc. both in the results pane and scattered all over the map. It was such a mess as to be unusable.
I think YAML actually uses more tokens than JSON without indents, especially with deep data. For example "," being a single token makes JSON quite compact.

You can compare JSON and YAML on https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
> Same way Heroku breached a social contract when they got rid of their free tier: if you offer something like that for more than a decade, people will reasonably expect it to continue and will be angry with you if you pull the rug on them.

That's not a social contract, it's the definition of entitlement. By no interpretation is it reasonable to expect anybody to offer a free service indefinitely. Thinking otherwise is just a form of social parasitism that strips the host of its own agency, because they were dumb enough to make a handshake agreement decades ago.

Like decrying your favorite band for "selling out" and evolving with the times. You'd rather they only make music a diminishing fanbase wants, until they starve?

Even child support agreements can be renegotiated every 3 years and last up to 21 years at most if your ex's attorney is particularly conniving. You likely renegotiate your own salary every 1-3 years as well. Reddit stuck to their end of the agreement for 17 years (already impressive for anything in tech!), it's now untenable, but fuck them for not going insolvent.

Only the generations raised with the internet seem to have the expectation that if you offer anything for free, you're expected to continue doing so forever even if it kills you.
Yeah, I'm waiting for the next article: "a nocode implementation of a PS3 emulator, how we pulled off implementing the GPU, running at 10 second per pixel".
Abacus: Firefly III Mobile Client
Firefly III is a free and open source personal finance manager (https://www.firefly-iii.org).

I created a mobile application to use it!
You can test it with the demo: https://demo.firefly-iii.org/.
Precisely this. I don't care to speculate, read, or give a single care in the world about this. I think the hope for stopping GoF research is about as high a chance as the world "putting a pause" on AI. And this thread is littered with all of the usual conspiracy head-nods.

I think we should know more about the origins of COVID but I haven't seen a single discussion of this that doesn't immediately dove-tail into various other conspiracies or whistles.

And I'm not making excuses for anyone or saying the CDC/Trump/Biden are blameless and innocent, but I kinda don't know what the point of these conversations are at this point.
Some of the new web-oriented ones look a lot better. Streamlit, nicegui, gradio, etc.
> The second is a non-compete clause that is a function of your deferred compensation.

Over the decades, I've learned that deferred compensation is such a double-edged sword that I no longer take it into consideration at all when I'm considering a job.

My primary compensation has to be satisfactory assuming I'll never get a dime beyond that. If I end up getting deferred income, gravy! But if I don't, I'm still fairly compensated -- so no loss.
> "you can now trivially make GPT4 decide whether to call itself again, or to proceed to the next stage."

Does this mean the GPT-4 API is now publicly available, or is there still a waitlist? If there's a waitlist and you literally are not allowed to use it no matter how much you are willing to pay then it seems like it's hard to call that trivial.
I haven't looked at where Ben Hu's lab is, but epidemiological distance in urban areas doesn't necessarily follow map distance. In particular, proximity to a shared subway or bus line can be more important than physical proximity, since many commuters will put up with longer travel times if they can tune out, and a packed rush hour subway car is a great place for the spread of airborne infectious diseases. (In US cities one might consider two homes epidemiologically close despite a 10 mile separation if their children take the same school bus.)
- if the only reason you're using v4 over v3.5 is to generate JSON, you can now use this API and downgrade for faster and cheaper API calls.
- malicious user input may break your json (by asking GPT to include comments around the JSON, as another user suggested); this may or may not be an issue (e. g. if one user can influence other users' experience)
Bad day for reddit.