skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Local solar installer in the Raleigh, NC area: https://8msolar.com. I don't think they service anywhere outside of central NC. I was trying to be a bit generic on the region but turns out mid-atlantic (by most definitions) technically stops at Virginia, my mistake.
Perhaps. I think there are other reasons to avoid VLAs. I've heard the code generated for them kinda sucks.

But IMO a compiler should generate extra benign reads on a large stack allocation. You mention avoiding VLAs in the kernel, but even user mode code has this problem.

Certainly a browser JITing random JS from the internet should be able to work around such a problem.
Maybe this is more of a general ML question but I faced it when transformers became popular. Do you know of a project-based tutorial that talks more about neural net architecture, hyperparameters selection and debugging? Something that walks through getting poor results and make explicit the reasoning for tweaking?

When I try to use transformers or any AI thing on a toy problem I come up with, it never works. And there's this blackbox of training that's hard to debug into. Yes, for the available resources, if you pick the exact problem, the exact NN architecture and exact hyperparameters, it all works out. But surely they didn't get that on the first try. So what's the tweaking process?
Now when can we get the same through Threadripper? I'd love to use my desktop as both my main gaming rig as well as my productivity rig.
We're all Ferengi now...
I don't have extensive experience with Go, but for the bit that I was maintaining a production Go service, I had a Go version update break things at least once.
For anyone curious, There is an alternative formulation of GR (which is consistent with GR[0]) that drops the assumption that the speed of light is consistent:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APS..NWS.C1024R/abstra...

[0] except the math is harder. I hear that there are some strange nonlocal effects that also appear, if someone is interested, it might provide an avenue for reconciling GR with QM which also has nonlocal effects (Einstein GR does not have nonlocality iirc)

Last I checked tangherlini is alive and able to maybe teach someone a thing of two.
It seems that the focus is on sandboxing file system access. This is great if you already know that “stateful disk access” is the only thing the command does!

It would be interesting to think about how/whether to extend this to stateful network access. What would happen if I used try on a command that does something like create a GitHub pull request? Right now I believe the pull request gets created regardless of whether I commit the file system changes at the end. Some alternatives:

1. Block all network access, because the tool can’t reliably reason about what could be happening.

2. Block all network access, except accesses that look like HTTP GET requests (and maybe HEAD/OPTIONS requests).

3. Attempt to build some sort of request replay mechanism, so that if a command’s results aren’t committed, but the command is ~immediately re-run with slightly different options, HTTP responses for requests identical to those from the previous attempt are re-used without making the request a second time.

Obviously all three have downsides in terms of how useful/complex/brittle they make the command. But maybe worth pondering at the least.
China went into WWII as a pre-industrial barely post-feudal society in the middle of a civil war.
What goes in the client number field?
I am a non-practicing lawyer who has moved on to other things and even still, I would never draft a software license because it wasn't remotely my field.

Either you need someone who can take the time to learn all of the ins and outs and knows how to apply it, including the international ones, or you can find someone who knows that stuff by heart.
Yes, the thing that it refers to constituting is the US government. It is a tech spec for the government.

There is a lot of discussion about the amendments to the US Constitution, but the original US Constitution doesn't even say anything about rights. The amendments are implemented as limitations of the powers of the government.

All of the other legal rights that the US congress grants are just called "laws". For instance, the legal right to be free from racial segregation at a public business is not in the Constitution, it is part of the legal code, alongside other laws that the people (and businesses) have to follow.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k

Title: Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
Just like them, you don't get to choose.

You're now forced to deal with coming mpanies you never entered in an agreement with.

What a great system.
So all bad things are right wing, and solely right wing? It's impossible for a left wing idea to be bad?
GPT 3.5 can't write code either, it just doesn't admit it this straight /s
me trying to figure out how to undo my ping to google.com
A couple of telegram channels have helped for me, especially liveukraine_media
Looks great. Is this also coming to vscode? Also, the answer might be an obvious 'no', given a lack of features compared to vscode, but is it coming to pycharm?
For god’s sake, ignore rules for writing. Except the ones that end up making you money.
—Mark Twain

There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.
—W. Somerset Maugham
This is awesome! I wonder if using the same techinque you could even even create a pseudo package manager. Once a pkg is installed via 'try', it keeps track of its filea ans remove or update such a pkg.
Only to the extent that the scores are perfect.
Reddit threatened protesting moderators: Subreddits ‘cannot remain closed’
The company hasn’t disclosed its pricing model, and the aircraft’s limited routes and capacity—one pilot and one passenger—might curb broad use initially.

Why would you put a pilot in the aircraft? He's not actually controlling the balance of the rotors, so why can't he be remote? If computer control fails the thing is cratering regardless of what the pilot does. Putting him in it is just wasting energy for no reason. "The pilot is less likely to run into something if he'd die along with the passenger" is that it?
For me, on the same track, I'd have to go with Busta's verse when he's all "cuz it doesn't matter cuz I'm gonna da da da da"

(I jest. I just really like that song's beat & Busta's verse in terms of sheer speed & enunciation & crispness in staying on beat.)
Yeah, I rather doubt he is using a public Telegram channel to coordinate his troops.
Russia, and Putin specifically, has to do something about this. Prigozhin can't be allowed to go free after this - he directly challenged state authority in really unambiguous terms. He took control of Rostov, he was openly marching towards Moscow.

"Where is the Russian Air Force," is a common question in the Ukrainian conflict. They've mostly been lobbing standoff weapons from inside Russia to avoid losses to AA, as they lack the SEAD capability to operate safely closer. Given the supposed shoot downs of helicopters, I can see not wanting to risk getting closer. Plus all they're probably down to dumb bombs, making it quite hard to hit much accurately at a distance.
>... trying to understand how the billions of weights in ChatGPT interact with each other.

Isn't that just a computational problem? In theory, couldn't every expression and result be debug.print and followed? Indeed, in theory couldn't a second chatGPT process follow the debug.print process of the first chatGPT process and then explain to humans how the result of the first process was derived?
I agree that deaths of tourists on Everest no longer get much coverage but I think that has much to do with the typical suddenness of thier deaths.

If an American thrill seeker was lost on Everest or slowly suffocating at the summit in a timeline that allowed news coverage it would be a bing thing.

I dont know the realities of climbing but it would not surprise me to find that tourists in distress get air lifted out of basecamp 1 while Nepalis don't.
Time to resurrect the zeppelin, of course with better safety measures.
> There are no "PC' police or HR nazis here.

I'm guessing this is not an insignificant part of it.
I installed a few outlets last year which claimed to offer USB-PD at 18 watts. They were certainly more expensive than any other kind of receptacle, but not so much that I remember what I spent on them.

I don't think anyone would switch the wall voltage altogether; not in one generation, at least. But a majority of the devices we plug into AC outlets these days convert that power to DC before doing anything with it, and a majority of those devices do so using USB; so one could imagine that a house which had solar panels and batteries could also have DC power wiring and dedicated USB-PD receptacles, skipping the inverter and all the rectifiers.
He's really doing the Instagram thing and then whining about it.
According to ChatGPT 4, US-based cloud providers are not necessarily legally required to inform or disclose sharing your data with or selling your data to the US government.
By he said this: “ Ministry of Defence deceived the public; deceived the president”

In other words, he is saying that poor Putin was deceived but these evil people from Ministry of Defence.
And who should direct the movie... Oliver Stone (natural choice) or someone like James Cameron? The latter due to the Nordstream pipeline scenes.
Maybe the pilot is collateral to prove to the customer that the company has some stake in the thing not crashing.
Aside from a handful of rare genetic issues and unlucky coin tosses, none of those are likely with a healthy lifestyle.

We do have a frailty problem in old people, but pushing that back is more or less what "longevity" research is trying to do.
Hype Cycles
Readable and fun, but extremely useful:

• Lapsing into a Comma, Bill Walsh (RIP)

• The 10% Solution, Ken Rand (for editing down wordy text)

• Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale

• Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner

More resource-like and grammar-heavy:

• Words Into Type, Marjorie E. Skillin (hard-core grammar rules, great section on redundancies)

• Chicago Manual of Style (in general, the core style of book and magazine writing)

• Associated Press Stylebook (in general, the core style of newspaper writing)

• Garner's Modern English Usage, Bryan A. Garner

• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage

• Dictionary of American Idioms, Maxine Tull Makkai

Not about writing, but hilarious and snobby and awesome -- great airplane reading:

• The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Charles Harrington Elster
I think (not an expert though) that a multicopter like this is fundamentally less efficient than a helicopter. It has to do with the surface of the rotary wing (many small props cover less surface than a single big one).

I know that's not answering the question about the car (btw electric or not doesn't fundamentally change the energy question, except that electric cars like Tesla tend to be heavy, I would say), but still I find it interesting.
I like your first thought. That seems realistically possible.

I'm not sure your second is realistic. I don't think there's any scenario where at least one of Putin and Prigozhin don't die. If Prigozhin "settles", he will be shortly assassinated. (Watch out for windows!) Putin might be able to quietly retire, but I think the odds are against that one, too.
"Prigozhin didn't get the support he expected from the military, so he was was motivated to settle, but had enough support to threaten Moscow, so Putin was motivated to settle. Outcomes - a hardliner in charge of the Russian military, Putin quietly retires in a year or two, hands over reigns without the violence"

Mostly agree, except to the conclusion. I do not think Putin is ready to hand over the power and he rather rules till he dies (one way or the other).

And of course it is far from over, because whoever wins, it ain't people who have much respect for human rights or lifes.

But I cannot imagine both being alive in russia.
Ask HN: Why Python?
I am not looking to be controversial. It is something I have been genuinely thinking for sometime.

I don't understand the need for Python as a general-purpose programming language. How are organizations using Python at scale? I understand that it is a good scripting language but other than does it offer anything substantial compared to other general-purpose languages like - Node, Go, C# or even Java? These languages can also be used at scale without worrying about the low-level details, however, I cannot say the same for Python.

Apart from AI / ML, where Python is heavily used by interfacing with C/C++/CUDA libraries is there any place where Python stands out on its own without merely acts as a frontend to other languages?

Am I missing something here?
That's just how traffic works in many countries. "Jaywalking" is the normal behavior, especially when streets are filled with traffic. You slowly wade through traffic in a straight line, so drivers can anticipate where you are and let you through safely. While in other countries, it is generally expected to follow the traffic rules. People exploit that to drive faster and/or less carefully, therefore crossing the street like in Vietnam might get you killed in more "orderly" countries. Violating red lights is not taught to children because they don't necessarily appreciate the dangers involved[0]. The correct way to do it is to evaluate all risks, erring on the side of safety, and only then override your instinct to follow the rules.

[0]: I often notice that children are quite unobservant of their surroundings and behave as if they are alone in the world.
Then why we have ip addresses in the first place . Let's just have In place of IP address.
And then everything become centralized
wouldn't you recover the energy back while landing in same sense with car breaks that recharges the battery
That's about the MPG of a hummer, so it's at least the same order of magnitude of cars.
That's a great read, thanks for linking it. The twist at the end is kind of funny because it makes you think, "do I really get it"?

I guess sometimes words just aren't enough, you need actual experience. Which I guess if we're taking legal stuff, that's where case law comes in, right?
1. As the other comment mentions, this is a Belgian company

2. Following the common argument in USA/China/TikTok debates, won't EU citizens be safer with their private data in the US than in the EU, far away from their own governments?
It wouldn't help Putin to win.
It only helps to keep his face and spirit up in case he loses.
No, there are aviation laws that require a human pilot to be present.
Prigozhin was deeply concerned with getting personally marginalized as his private army gets further incorporated into the MoD due to their operational significance. This was evident from his rhetoric around Wagner contract negotiations.

So this was his way of saying "I'm powerful, I'm in control, I matter". It was always about him and feeling tossed aside by powerful officials like Shoigu and Gerasimov, who need his army but don't care about Prigozhin. It had nothing to do with policy difference, it was just a pure demonstration of raw power.

I would be surprised if Shoigu or Gerasimov get pushed out as a result, I think it is more likely that Prigozhin got guarantees about his own future within the military establishment, something of an "honorary general".
> is a derivative work of the original works used for training

No it's not. No judge in the US has ruled training to be automatically infringement.

> Therefore, the resulting model should abide by all the license requirements

Or it could just be ignored because it is not infringement.

> which by definition, only covers human produced material

You've conflated 2 things. It could be the case that the new work created by the AI does not have copyright protections.

But that is completely unrelated to if training on other works is infringement. Which no judge has said it is.
> you're getting paid $900K a year but you're also investing $600K a year in OpenAI

It might sound simple, but I've never viewed startup equity like that; thanks for the slightly different perspective.
Kind of. Both the Ferengi and Borg episodes in Enterprise were careful not to name them, so in-universe it could be explained away as having never been connected. Same as how the Borg first contact was officially in TNG, but humans and Borg had interacted years earlier (the Hansens went seeking them out before TNG due to rumours) and time travel shenanigans in the First Contact movie.

Also the Enterprise Ferengi were pirates/raiders, very different from later depictions, which would make it more difficult to connect them later.
Interesting. How does it handle if a modified file has another change between the run and the confirmation? Understanding this case is really my only reservation to try this out.
4. Attempt to intercept network requests, so you can prompt the user with whether they want to continue running the command, or abort the connection.
From the game's rules:

> You might know of some rule in your jurisdiction which overrides local rules, and allows certain classes of vehicles. Please disregard these rules; the park isn't necessarily in your jurisdiction. [...] please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed).

You:

> obviously police and ambulances (and fire trucks) doing their jobs don't have to follow the sign

Even having read your reply it is not obvious to me what you answered. Did you answer yes, the police etc. are violating the rule only adding a note for us tha, or did you answer no, thinking that this doesn't count as a violation?

To me the overall discussion, but especially the disagreement about emergency services and bicycles proves the point of the original article.
I won't say that Turing is overrated, but I will say that Flowers is very, very underrated.

I find it astounding that Flowers wasn't even fully compensated for the personal expense he took to buy the bits to make Colossus.

Bill Tutte also deserves a mention.
Assuming what you say is true ("50% of team members in mature organizations are a net negative on team performance, we should get rid of them and pay more the top talent"), what I gather from your comments is that you think the problem lies in incompetent management in mature organizations -- it is a miracle that all those companies are still alive and somehow making money -- or their inability for political or reputational reasons (let's conveniently forget the very large layoffs that have occurred in the last year), to lay off incompetent people (who hired those hundreds or thousands of incompetent people, given the notoriously difficult interview process of top tech companies? ).

Personally, from my life in tech, I do not feel that OpenAI has done a great job (and rather frankly, work that has been supported by both "press" and popular sentiment, because who doesn't like the heroic effort of a group of smart people facing poor odds against the Goliaths?) because management in Google or Meta cannot recognize who is writing great code.

Think about the problem of "hallucinations" with GPT. After all, it was considered a minor hiccup on the road to the AGI, a path opened by a team of mavericks. But if Google, had it been first to market, had delivered such a product, the press would have gone from "oh, that's funny, it will get better with time" to a more worrying "Google is destroying humanity with those hallucinations."

It is much easier to be innovative when you are small, hungry, with little to lose and much to gain, rather than when you are worried about your current salary or equity or reputation. It's not just a matter of paying top talent more and getting rid of more average people; I'm sure there are enough brilliant, highly paid people who have enough capital to build small, high-IQ teams in any of the major technology companies to get to GPT-like models before OpenAI. But incentives, reputation, the nature of public companies play a role in being slower, less innovative, less risk-taking.
I guess they're now saying North Korea is a right wing dictatorship. The revisionism is something else.
>drink a little

Absolutely not. That one study you're thinking about is confounded by having a social life, which is indeed healthy. Drinking alcohol is horrible for health.
That won't help Putin, though (probably). He's probably fatally weakened by all this, as the Kaiser didn't remain in power past the end of WWI. What it will do is provide nationalistic fodder for the next nationalistic firebrand in 20 years.
Seems like Putin and Prigozhin were working together to effect a change in military leadership.
Likewise, and have had many people refer to it as well (including managers!)
> I would not call "sudo zypper in opi && opi codecs" a pain :)

I would; that's 2 extra commands that install an additional (unofficial? OBS is like the AUR or PPAs) repo and then install stuff from it, and you have to know to run them at all. Like, it's good that it's in the wiki, but compare the process for a new user:

OpenSuse:

1. Open firefox, go to youtube or whatever.

2. Get error message about unsupported format.

3. Do a web search on that error.

4. Hopefully stumble across https://en.opensuse.org/Codecs and thence https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_r...

5. Run the needed 2 commands to install codecs

Debian:

1. Open firefox, go to youtube or whatever.

(There is no step 2)
There are videos online of a cyclist pedaling a craft with enough energy to lift off the ground. Mind you, it was a purpose built craft in a very staged environment with an Olympic level cyclist, but you can still use that as a baseline for how much energy you need to lift a human aloft.
You are implying that being an enemy of the US causes food shortages, rather than their own failed governmental policies.

That implication is pretty dubious. I'm sure sanctions (and whatever else the US does to its enemies) don't help. But the root of the problem is poor governance, which causes major problems, and often results in poor relations with the US due to humanitarian concerns.

The flaw in socialism/communism is that it requires huge amounts of government power, and that is always abused. There may be economic problems with socialism/communism too, but we never get to see it because the concentrated power causes a political meltdown too fast.
Interesting. It’s like nixOS but for individual fs changes. I’ll have to give this a try.

off topic: Theranos CEO that was recently convicted really ruined Star Wars quotes for me

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/the-most-bizarre-moments-from...
Looks like fun and games until someone puts their hand through prop.

Will this be any better than helicopter from noise point of view? Or safety?
That still makes Putin weak, when he, who was raised by the KGB, is not able to get acurate information. (He does have internet btw. and he speaks more than russian.)
For instance, last time I checked them out (in MSVC) it was perfectly fine to expose an un-exported type via an exported function. Apparently this is by design.

In Rust, such a thing is an error.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
"The end justifies the means"? Come on.
Airships never really went away, but "hydrogen go bang" is hardly their only problem sadly.
For those wanting a link:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
Props for this. We need a good, popular, open source anki for sure.
> Prigozhin was threatened with a tactical nuke, decided it wasn't worth it.

I have trouble believing there was a credible threat of nukes. Nuking your own territory is an unambiguous way to signal you've completely lost control of everything.