skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While their pursuits are dangerous, they took great care in their craft and respected the mountains and the art. This guy just seems like a reckless fool, pursuing likes on Instagram out of some stubborn unwilligness to deal with his depression head on

Bluntly, if you are willing to justify Honnold's behaviour but not Howell's, I think you're just rationalizing. At least Howell didn't have a kid.
> only serves as a way to name a computation

that is what a rust closure assigned to a variable does right. Why does a derived signal need a new name?
IIRC, Fuji came out with Fujichrome, which was a super saturated color palette, and a lot of photographers stated liking it and using it. So, Kodak had to respond with their own super saturated color film, which they called Kodachrome.

Kodak had been known for having super accurate colors in their film (outside of the whole issue around not handling well for darker colored skin), but they were losing a lot of business to the flashier Fujichrome, hence the need to respond with their own version.

On top of that, colors shift in old film, so what may have been a more natural palette may become more garish over time, although I would normally expect the reverse to be the case.
True, adds to the idea that the missile attack was a ruse. Everything was prepared in advance.
Around 10 years ago I experimented with this to try to create a geographical hierarchy of articles in a wiki.

It was, in a nutshell, not great: there's a fundamental contradiction between wikis, which are very loosely structured and edited by humans who do all sorts of wacky unpredictable shit, and hierarchies, which need to be carefully pruned and maintained.

So this use case didn't work, and I think it's telling that (AFAIK) not a single Wikimedia project has adopted it.
It is basically a composite material. Carbon fibers bonded with resin compound.
The fibers need resin to keep them all together and create a non pours barrier for the fluid contained. The fibers are in tension under the application of internal radial pressure. without the fibers, the resin, having brittle properties cannot handles the tensile hoop stress.
That is interesting! I could see that make learning it easier since it's closer to addition if you carry instead of borrow. Though one advantage I see to the borrow is, since you're modifying the minuend, you have room to write the modified value of the digit directly above itself.
Another surface-level examination that doesn't answer the question in the headline.

Houses are mortgages, which are financial products. Nowhere in the article does the author examine the mechanics of origination and servicing. To understand the prices of real estate, there must be a deep examination of how the paper is made, sold, and resold (typically as mortgage-backed securities). The builders and the entire ecosystem around houses exist to support that process. While more mixed-use and better zoning would be somewhat helpful, the influences of NIMBY are near-zero with regards to pricing compared to the financial models used by mortgage originators.
I think Azure OpenAI service is growing at 1000% per quarter according to last earnings call
Well, great way to cancel your bonus is to attack another country with that incompetent military.
"Shared with you by a Times subscriber"

The "Gifter" is a Times subscriber. Subscribers can gift 10 articles a month to non-subscribers.
Chronos 33B is SOTA for storytelling, from what I have personally seen.

Its probably even better merged with an instruct model.
That score doesn't follow you your whole life. There are some files in many countries that list failures to pay off debts, but their access is extremely controlled and subject to verification.

My "credit score" exists for 30 minutes while my bank gets my proof of income and ID, and that's it. In the same way, my landlord does not get access to any of these files, because it's none of his business. It is illegal to keep track of individuals like this. In the US, this incentivizes keeping individuals in poverty, and its ease of access means that it is easy for any predatory lending institution to explicitly target people with low credit scores. It creates de facto castes.
Definitely admiring how he finds motivation to keep creating value. He has excellent discipline. Many will still not know who he is or what he created.
They did? I still use the API 1.1 and it works fine for retrieving timelines and posting which is all I need to do.
Well, the thing is people who supported this raid are not exactly the same as those who support the war. I would understand if they were the same.
Show HN: Never make a manual report for engineering metrics again
The End of Tribal People Try [video]
They don't seem to say how large their model is?

Comparing themselves to LLaMa 65b seems like a bit of a tell ... it was explicitly released as a small foundational model to allow others to train and improve it. If they couldn't beat that despite more parameters / training / data then they would be effectively going backwards.

They do say they trained using "thousands of H100 GPUs" which is a lot more than LLaMa 65b required.
Usually its the most credentialed I'm least interested in listening to, especially when the value of those credentials are dependant upon the future looking a particular way.
This may be an exercise in webpage design, a portfolio or a site-in-progress. Didn't check it all but some pages may be just simple placeholders to be filled in the future.
Some of these comments are absolutely wild. It should go without saying that Alan Turing made an enormous impact on computing...but it looks like it needs to be said.

Nobody is trying to argue that Turing is the *only* important figure in computing. The fact that he is celebrated doesn't negate the impact of anybody else.

Edited to add: For anyone who's doubting Turing's impact on computing, or anyone who thinks that it's a modern phenomenon, Kleene's 1971 textbook [1] makes it pretty clear that he had an important impact.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/BubliothecaMathematicaStephenCol...
Does the word 'good' have a different meaning in the US? Your car manufacturers barely manage to compete in the segment protected by the chicken tax tariff... Some do a decent job in luxury EVs.
>GPT4 is really good at code

for popular languages, though for JS it most of the time outputs obsolete syntax and code.

Today i tried to do a bit of scripting with my son in Garrys Mod, it uses Expression 2 for a Wiremod module. GPT hallucinated a lot of functions and the worst part it switched almost each time from e2 to lua.

It is good at solving homeworks for students, or solving popular problems in popular languages and libraries though it might give you an ugly solution and ugly code, it is probably trained on bad code too and it did not learn to prefer good code over bad code.
Great ideas but a huge shit-mess. IIRC it’s a lightly-edited compilation of his SCP writings? I enjoyed Ra and Fine Structure much more.
Not sure where I heard this but it’s apparently a common trope that many of the politicians and leaders that treat The Economist as close to holy writ are often horrified to learn that most the staff is actually a bunch of very precocious 20-somethings that are good at research and writing in an authoritative tone.

Actually, now that I think of it, not so different from LLMs…

(Full disclosure, I’ve been a subscriber for a couple of decades)
That is indeed the general idea. That's why they're called "concepts", they're meant to be things, or categories of things, that we perceive. But "concept" also has a technical sense, of the assumed representation in machine learning.

That is, in machine learning a concept is represented as a set of instances. Inside the human mind, who knows.
I don't think "real" supercomputers intentionally waste space, so I'd expect that there is not much potential for shrinking using COTS parts. (i.e. more COTS-like supercomputers are racks full of compact servers, sometimes stuffed with GPUs, sometimes more towards as many CPU sockets as possible)
It definitely looks like they succeeded in that.
I would have agreed with you until last year. Now, thanks to the Ukraine war, we see massive price increases for food in egypt and the middle east. For a lot of people there, food became economically way more unavailable. The interesting part about this is that usually it's the war zones where the famine happens because it's virtually impossible to bring food there. But in this instance, the war was in the producer country.
Electrification happened ~100 years ago. In 100 years it seems likely a combination of photovoltaic and storage will have rendered the grid largely moot.

The electric utilities might be a natural monopoly today, but moving to nationalize it is addressing yesterday's concerns. If we're spending political capital to nationalize natural monopolies the electric utilities would be very far down my list of priorities.
Another option (which I'm partial to) is something like "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Not everyone is on top of who's part of the mercenary company and some people could just see this as "a change", so they would offer some support.

Not making a statement of "how things really are" here, just saying that sometimes an explanation might be "jeez, finally there's some change, maybe something will happen out of this" and not "let me go support these genocidal mercenaries".
> The reporting by traditional media had a lot of „not independently confirmed“ details. This was very strange, given that everything was happening in a densely populated area - Rostov, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Tula are big cities, M4 is an important highway with a lot of traffic.

Think about how many videos exist of generic Russian troops and tanks moving on the M4 and around the Ministry of Defense building in Rostov just on Twitter alone. Most of the time the only way to differentiate Wagner from regular troops is a little patch on their arms.

It’s very hard to verify the date a video was taken, even when there’s several of them online. Deception is always a concern and it takes time to gather enough experts to cross verify facts and find trustworthy sources on the ground.

This whole incident was actually quite accessible this time around - a lot less fog of war than usual. Google Maps showed blockages on the M4 and Prigozhin sent out audio messages via official channels.
Lukashenka is a wily operator and has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for 20 years. The offer is exile for Prigozhin personally, not an open invitation for everybody in Wagner to come to Belarus.
That's good. The various possible climatic endings have way too much range for me.
yes - i'm not a programmer but i need to translate business rules for my contractors to build. it helps us 'meet in the middle' when discussing abstract things.
That doesn't answer the question. Will more people clicking the link help the person that shared the link somehow?
Not really. Wagner units haven’t actually performed that well. Better than the clown car assault on Kyiv, but no remarkable successes. The bravado around Bakhmut is not compelling. At the end of the day they have the same shitty equipment and that’s hard to overcome. Human wave tactics and leveling cities with artillery can work for urban warfare. It wouldn’t work for actual defensive lines.
Many software enterprises are similar to cattle farms: they follow seasonal cycles when at first the farmer feeds his cows and lets them multiply, creating a false impression that the farmer cares about the cows, followed by the harvest phase when the farmer beefs up the cows with steroids and sells them for as much as he can, revealing his true intent. The next year the cycle repeats. And, of course, there is a whole paper industry of gamblers on top of that where people make bets on the farm's profits, sell virtual cows that can be materialised on demand at a certain price and time, and even sell virtual average cows, known as cow indexes. The most recent developments are ear badges that track the cows movements and communicate over radio, and automated farmers that use the trackers to manage cows as inhumanely as possible in order to maximize profits.
as duskwuff said, wikipedia projects are a very open scope, that'd be hard to model. So I really wonder if there are any complex (but not as-complex-as-wikipedia) expamples people had success with.
Is Liberalism Worth Saving? An Exchange
I'm with you there. You can sell a condo to collect your $600k or whatever in equity, go buy a normal house in a normal city, and retire on $40k a year between that and your other savings.

My guess is that the maligned commenter I replied to is of the other school of thought, that they want to retire in the same house in the same town
Prisoners provided a decent chunk of recruitment for Ukrainian forces at the beginning of the war as well. Regardless of country, prison population represents a group, already familiar with weapons, violence, and audacity to use them, which can be reliably sourced for fighting or advancing other interests that require extreme measures. Even if Wagner is dissolved, its remnants will control the criminal underworld of Russia and will be a punitive instrument for any dissent.
Except the top comments aren’t doing that. They’re all saying it’s a flawed contrived example and despite that the actual results show most people agree. And not only that, the questions get ranked by decreasing agreement which shows that it’s pretty easy to make a cut off if put up to vote.

Are bitcoins allowed in the park or beanie babies since people consider them investment vehicles? Are pill capsules allowed in the park as they are vehicles for medicine? Are brains allowed in the park because they are vehicles for consciousness?

All the example shows is that rules need definitions or they need juries. And why is subjectivity even bad? It’s impossible to do anything without some degree of it. It’s also impossible not to have rules, like there are hundreds of unstated ones going on all the time and no one including the author is objecting to them. They aren’t objecting to the rule against DNS attacks or a thousand other examples.
The guild wars 2 wiki makes great use of it imo
see also

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping
Is there hard evidence for the wet market theory?

To be honest I find it much more plausible that the wet market theory is a coverup for an accidental lab leak from WIV. No hard evidence for it exists because of obstruction by the CCP. To be honest, we'll probably never know exactly what happened for certain.
I think he was going to be killed as head of Wagner and replaced.

It looks like he's not getting killed for now.

Perhaps the reason was surprisingly simple: He didn't want to die
> That if you can’t find enough of the peace and mindfulness you need with a rope on, you’ll never find enough of it without it.

An amazing piece of wisdom to take from the article.
A fun experiment is to take a 4k video and convert it to 144p, and then use an AI upscale back to 4k. The result is quite odd, but still very much recognizable of the original video, but with a lot of artifacts and hallucinations.

In some ways it is very transformative. We can easily identify the original from the new work, and the new work will have features and aspects which the original don't. From a fair use perspective the big question is if we want commercial competition between them. I suspect the answer would be no.

We could see courts decide that particular outputs are infringing. This was the defense used by the piratebay founders. There were Linux distros on the website, and users had the choice over what they downloaded. I would expect many more lawsuits if the courts came to that decision.
'Utters insensitive statements' is clearly the domain of humans, checking on my threads and I realise what an ass I sound like, I didn't mean to be so combative with it. Apologies.
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All I was saying is that this pattern of platforms becoming worse in the name of profit is a real problem worth talking about - but that the term used just makes me want to tune out of the discussion.

I’m not saying we should feel bad for these firms engaging in these practices.
Yes, I don't think Prigozhin had any sudden realization that there was a gap in his plan. My guess is that he was in some way out maneuvered. I don't mean that purely in a military sense of maneuvering troops/resources etc. From the long history of brutal internal struggles and backstabbing, my shot in the dark guess is that he was counting on support from key individuals in power and it either never materialized or was withdrawn.

I think it's also possible that it was never a legitimate attempt on his part. He may never have expected it to succeed, but it would cause enough problems that it forced Russian leadership to back away and be willing to cut a deal that lets Prigozhin keep his life (for now) in exile. He'd been incrementally pushing things for months for a variety of reasons (real anger over lack of material support? Pure power play? Who knows). But unlike critical journalists, oligarchs and political enemies that have been assassinated over the years, Prigozhin had an army to use as leverage. Though I still won't be surprised if he's the next person to fall out a window or die from a novel poisoning method.
But I can have my cake and eat it, too! I'll find the one who is stupid enough to do these things, but smart enough to build my industry-disrupting product!
every github branch has an rss feed too!
Austria has this sort of problem when it comes to forests and cyclists. You might want to read a longer article in German about this https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000134804355/als-oesterrei... but the gist of it is:
The law until 1975 didn't allow anyone (that's everyone in Austria) to enter forests (which in comparison belong to only a few people, besides the state).

Now that problem with this law (Forstgesetz 1975) is in § 33 (3) where it says "befahren" (drive) which is a very general word when the parliamentary discussion about the law in 1975 clearly meant motor vehicles and even lists them in the discussion but not in the law. A few years later mountainbiking became a thing and the owners of forests insist that the law includes mountain bikers. Fast forward to 2023 and the law still needs fixing...
Have you never heard of the Intel C compiler's cripple AMD function?

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6
I love this.

I’ve been making games as a hobby, but I’m terrible at graphics. I finally found personal success when I went for retro, low res stuff. It’s a lot easier to fake it (but arguably much harder to really nail the aesthetic.)
That’s a pretty low bar, the comparison is to Twitter.
> I'm not sure it's a reasonable thing to be asked to promise

If that was their response, I'd have no issue with it. I dislike the "technically I can but won't" answer followed by silence. It shows an attempt to deceive.
From what I've heard (personal hearsay, got no independent sources), some excavators were sent to ruin highways.

Edit: here's a link but this is not on the main highway. Unsure of the scale of this "operation" and if this was ordered from top brass or local initiative.

https://meduza.io/news/2023/06/24/v-lipetskoy-oblasti-gde-na...
Hollywood is a city. If you mean movies, every production is different and has its own budget. They don't have a captive audience, people have to choose to watch a movie for entertainment and then choose a specific movie.

I don't know what you mean by 'much lesser' quality but hundreds of millions in CG were put into just the biggest movies of the summer. Avatar 2 alone was an enormous feat. No one at any point in the process is capable of making something spectacular, then deciding to just make something that looks mediocre instead. The only place that happens is cartoons for kids.
Bad comparison for lotss of reasons, but... the average temps in summer in hill country are only a few degrees higher than in Napa. That said, I love muscadine, which thrives in texas. MD20/20 may have made that a near impossible marketing play lol
> For those that are well versed in type theory, what is the neatest solution to this in language design, if there is one at all?

Row-polymorphism instead of structural subtyping.

The idea is that instead of treating `Record<,>` as parameterized by two ordinary types, you parameterize it with a single type-level collection of key-value pairs, and then write functions which are generic over parts of that collection. So the equivalent of a typescript function that works fine over open records would look something like this `<Rest>(obj: { SomeRow, Rest }) => { SomeRow, Rest }`, whereas `(obj: { SomeRow }) => { SomeRow }` says you can't have any extra entries and `<Rest>(obj: { SomeRow, Rest }) => { SomeRow }` says you can have extra entries but they're getting thrown out.

This also lets you reuse machinery between records and sums more easily, since sums are also realizations of rows.

Purescript and OCaml have good row type support. You can also sort of hack it together in typescript if you're very very careful, but I wouldn't recommend it.
One disadvantage of Carbon fiber/composite material is that the surface can get electrically charged and cause an arc. It could be that inside the Titan there was an electric short circuit (DC short circuit can produce enough energy) and a Flash fire originated in which flames engulfed the entire capsule rapidly, consumed all the oxygen, decapacitated all the crew. due to the heat generated and the negative pressure created inside, resulted in an implosion of the vessel.
> Wagner demonstrated themselves as the most competent russist units

That seems to be a low bar; they spent nine months taking a town of 70k in a separatist province. Kyiv is a... different target, and I fully expect the Belarussian border is well fortified now.
Yeah if aliens for some reason wanted an invasion of the US homeland by zombie mindcontrolling the army of one other country (and had some way to negate nukes) their best chance wouldn't be China or the EU but Canada and Mexico, just because of the developed land transport infrastructure between the countries
"Howell’s belayer let go of the brake strand of the rope, a careless mistake."

As a climber, I really dislike how this phrasing minimises the belayer's error. It's a sure sign of improper belaying technique. Bad belaying is life-threatening and quite common, and it makes me angry (having witnessed several such accidents). A belayer who actually knows how to belay never, ever, takes off their brake hand unless the rope is tied off.

It's a bit like saying "the driver ran the red light going 20 miles per hour over the speed limit and hit a pedestrian, a careless mistake"
Agree. Strange that it reached front page. Maybe it is enough to mention Buffett and Berkshire for people to upvote
Process for accountability is what's required.
It’s weird that I barely see any comments like that. most people seem to be simply saying the game is silly because it’s so contrived and gives no definition of vehicle.
The "good news" (though I don't think it's good) is that an average person is having zero children.

I suspect a generation out, we will be super grateful for those who had many, not those who had none.

Or more like, we'll probably completely forget about those who had none - as history has with those who've made that decision in the past.
For a while my replacement was “use google, add ‘reddit’ at the end.” Not sure how much longer that will work given even just this limited blackout impacted how effective that was lol