skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar climate here, although days it gets below -10f / -23c are uncommon. Most winter days in a climate like this you could heat with a modern/high tech heat pump, but:

- It's probably going to be more expensive than heating with natural gas if you're in the northern US - at least as things are today.

- A modern/high tech heat pump capable of heating when the outdoor temp is < 10f / -12c is likely going to be quite a bit more expensive than a standard AC unit - making it even more difficult to justify financially

- A natural gas furnace can keep you warm (and keep your pipes from freezing/bursting) even if there's a power outage. It doesn't take much of a generator to run a furnace/blower fan.. but good luck staying warm with ONLY a heat pump in those circumstances.

The one thing that can really help improve the financials of getting a heat pump is if you intend to install solar power at some point in the future. Depending on your power company, you may be able to generate enough credit in summer with excess generation to pay for heat the entire winter. I'd still go with a heat pump AND gas furnace for backup though.
https://blog.reiterate.app
Reiterate is an app I wrote to help guide esports players through the process of self-improvement. The blog covers app releases, musing on self-improvement in general, and technical details about the app's code and the servers that run the backend.
Heat pumps are expensive to operate, and a nightmare to fix. There is a big movement to build whole subdivisions without using natural gas at all, electric ranges and heat pumps. I don't know why it upsets me so much but it does.
> That’s a really convoluted way to say they rinse them off in clean water.

It's more than rinsing them off. Oysters are filter feeders. They need to spend enough time in clean water to pump out any contaminants. It's an FDA regulated process:

https://www.fda.gov/food/federalstate-food-programs/national...

> Anyway, seafood comes from the ocean. I don’t see why they would be worse than other oysters.

It depends on the cleanliness of the water. These oysters are raised in a lagoon surrounded by the city of Carlsbad:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carlsbad+Aquafarm/@33.1419...

I imagine that lagoon is subject to runoff and not nearly as clean as oysters harvested in open waters.
Symbiosis: Code that makes money for humans gets improved by those humans.
By what metric, and how would it be different than antitrust enforcement?

E.g. a product that is clearly better can legally capture 100% market share. Only leveraging that market power is illegal.

I genuinely think a rule along the lines of "anything with 30%+ market share is scrutinized as having monopolistic network effect advantage" would have net positive outcomes on competition.
> I wish we had an alternative that doesn't do as much damage.

We do; it's called GHB.
> According to the British maritime security firm Ambrey, the tanker was told via radio to stop by the Iranians. When the tanker didn’t comply, the Iranians opened fire.

What would happen if a ship refused to comply with a radio order to stop issued by the USN/USCG, while traveling just off the coast of the US?

Would it be fired upon? Boarded? Would either action be legal, or illegal under international law?
Just by reading and reviewing other peoples code and seeing it was pretty similar to my own, or how I would have done it.
<3 Classic HN reader here, I skimmed, went to comments, and then went to pricing :P
You seem to imply that building nuclear takes forever. This is wrong.
Is it though? What of the e.g. choice of prompt, guidance scale, maybe a specification of a pose, etc.?

Or, is the distinction you are making based on there being an image before the model is used?
A couple months back we added an ability for Deno to run projects authored for Node.js directly.

Eg. if you have a Vite app (or any other app really) with "package.json" and some "scripts" defined there, just try running "deno task <script_name>". Deno will automatically pick up "package.json" and try its best to run the that script.

It's not fully done, but in our testing we got a lot of non-trivial projects running that way. If something doesn't work in your case, I would greatly appreciate a bug report to help us fix this.

As for the written guide - there's not a single one at the moment - it's something we'll be looking into in the coming months.
Look at YouTube for “Tofu Dreg” to see the results of rushed Chinese construction projects.
California Innocence Project Embraces AI
> Copyrighted materials are either licensed specifically for a human or it's implied that a human will use them to learn.

I don't think that's a part of copyright law at all. Maybe in the future, not today. Which makes sense, since these laws precede AI by a long time.
https://fractalco.re

I post various ungodly designs and rants from various things. Open and willing for suggestions to further my bastardization of a Kubernetes cluster.
As another comment points out, what about "preparation" time?

I guess the timelines depend on when you start the clock.

Does anyone have a credible example of going fast, and where it really was a "zero to one" kind of process?
For "legitimate" (the kind that's not a scam, just annoying) they are regulated that it wouldn't be legal in many jurisdictions. (at least in B2C context -- maybe it a bit lax in B2B, considering Google's already using some form of bot to confirm business hours for Google Maps listing.)

Scammers in other hand already employ illegal robocalling tactic, and I can see some may opt to use systems like that if the price is right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornication

Though I should point out that some dictionaries will list the "just another word for sex" definition either as a colloquialism or a secondary definition.

Note that e.g. M-W does not list this secondary definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fornication
https://smcleod.net

I used to blog about the challenges of running high throughput / latency sensitive workloads on a shoestring budget at non-profits, these days it's mostly code snippets and me whining about enterprise culture ;')
For the curious, I have done some experiments on working memory and programming: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06305

> Program tracing, or mentally simulating a program on concrete inputs, is an important part of general program comprehension. Programs involve many kinds of virtual state that must be held in memory, such as variable/value pairs and a call stack. In this work, we examine the influence of short-term working memory (WM) on a person's ability to remember program state during tracing. [...]
Thanks for your helpful response.
Well looks like the browser market is due for some fresh blood and disruption. Good thing Ladybird got huge donations recently.
I used it almost daily, coming from tilix, it's great but I have some weird bug with ohmyzsh and split panels
How Do Password Managers Work?
+1 for spelling "plug-ins" correctly.
Yea I was using the new SGE to test out some keywords and saw my website (https://removemymugshot.org/free-mugshot-removal/) quoted pretty much verbatim in the answer it gave. Granted it did cite me as a source.

Google has been scraping Wikipedia and displaying that in SERPs for a while though.
Some individuals serving in the public sector might want to "control your thoughts" with this new scary technology, but I think that's FUD and you're much more likely to encounter the private sector trying to control your thoughts.

They are not mutually exclusive. However, there is significant precedent for government interest in controlling population narratives. We have agencies that exist for that purpose alone.

Additionally, Twitter Files just recently got another personal interpretation from the court which has now just blocked the government from such previous actions.
Amazon and apple’s numbers are inflated by retail and warehouse staff significantly, who are effectively political non actors as far as this dynamic goes
https://earth.hoyd.net

Blogs about simple curiosities regarding text, math and coding. Also some additional posts about christianity, space and command line too.
Nevertheless, there's something amazing about being able to release the first version of something so world-changing so quickly.
Isn’t this just 2 tables with one hidden at a time?
I'd argue any licensing of IP is unethical. I'd use the word "conditional"
Better yet: With plug-ins, GPT-4 posts GitHub issue without being instructed to
Run a daemon with the right userid to do the writing, and have it make a pipe device for each user to write lines into.

I don't know how much effort is meant to be put into securing this from impersonation, but info can be pulled out of /proc/ if the permissions are set up right.
printing on unix in my experience is quite painless compared to windows for example, in my experience

it just works :p
If you're drawing water from a bay and not putting all that water back in, then the salinity of the bay must depend on the rate it mixes with the outside ocean, since you're removing water from the system.

I assume that in practice the amount of water taken by a desal plan is tiny and most bays have high tidal inflow and outflow, but it's obvious that more than just dilution should be considered.
Free Blink of the Day
End-to-end efficiency calculations are tricky and depend on a lot of variables.
Have you ever asked them if they are running into problems, and if yes which ones?

It probably all starts right there.
This is dishonest: toxicity, dosage are fundamental properties.

You can't just wave a word at it like dilution and think you're solving an engineering problem.

If you got 1 gallon out of sea water, what do you think you need to dilute it to be safe? Typically, it's 99%∆.
https://btmiller.com

A blog about how to take shortcuts in tech as well as the broader sense of life. Because not everything has to always be so stupid :)
Insightful. Have we been attacking the problem the wrong way? Gene editing is another field, in the future perhaps we'll see edits to the kidneys to save water.
Back in the early COVID days, an airplane with PPE landed in Prague. Responsible agency has been short handed so the staff of national budget oversight agency came to help in what was a prime example of violation of budgeting discipline and just unloaded the airplane.

I could not stop laughing about that for days. Other ministries were literally excusing themselves since "they were not allocated funds to deal with the pandemic and had other matters to addend to" and "doing job of another organization would be a violation of budget discipline". And then the literal guys responsible for auditing them for such violations just broke the rules and did the right and necessary thing.

In the end, it boils down to a simple rule. If you live in a society where rules outweight the public good and you can get into trouble for doing the right thing the "wrong way", progress grinds to a halt.
It's made by practical money and people who don't want to consume local resources.
https://gyani.net
> the debris was the product of 23 cubic kilometers of rock, making it the largest rockslide identified in the Himalayas.

Could such an event have had a global effect? How much dust would have been released into the upper atmosphere? Since this happened not so long ago (the article speaks of around 1200 AD), could we still identify traces of it elsewhere?
Physicists rediscover a theory to solve a mystery of how glass damping sound
NYT article on arrest of possible author of Program Think
https://substr.net - I should post more often just to keep practicing writing, or for a personal record of stuff I learn.

My most viewed posts:

- https://substr.net/2020/09/30/generating-and-displaying-a-qr... - how to generate a QR code in Unreal engine

- https://substr.net/2022/07/18/replacing-webpack-with-vite/ - experience switching from webpack to vite

- https://substr.net/2020/04/30/video-games-in-arabic/ - about finding games to play in Arabic
Might I suggest adding some other mark as well to indicate it was an addition to the title. When I read it, I first assumed the original source had the question mark.

Maybe:

[?]

or

*?*
We are building smart cameras for industrial automation and robotics. We are on our 3rd generation design with a 20.5TOPS Toshiba ASIC and Sony image sensors. A lot of sweat and tears have gone in the hardware and software design.

You can load AI models like YOLO, resnet, MiDAS onto it and we are working on porting some generative AI models onto it as well. We have tried to make this as easy as possible for non-devs to be able to use it:

https://docs.labforge.ca/docs/bottlenose-file-utility

We offer monocular and stereo versions. The current gen is 8MP/4K.
> I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—which I had been happy to pay—because of YouTube shorts.

Fascinating -- I've been seriously considering cancelling mine as well, for the exact same reason.

Those shorts are a thorn in my side.
New study finds an unstructured 5-minute break can help restore attention
Interesting development announced in the Netherlands last week.

We're going to create massive hydrogen infrastructure where we produce it from sea water of the North Sea and then transport it inland using a pipe system to reach a low number of mega hubs, where high energy industry will plug in. Included will be some pipes crossing the border, surely into Germany.

On top of this, our king went to Portugal to secure massive deals with Portugal. Apparently it's easier/cheaper to produce Hydrogen in the Mediterranean. Some of it will be produced there and then shipped to Rotterdam, and then fed into the pipes.

We're the gods of big infra and also very cheap, so you can be sure that this is going to work.
How about if you are under EULA, and paid $0 as advertised?
We're in agtech building mushroom growing systems for the kitchen counter. After two years of limited production active systems, we're shipping a totally passive solution that can grow a wide variety of mushroom varieties.

Systems come with everything needed, including mushroom liquid cultures and growing media. We continue to iterate the design while testing new varieties and media.

More info at https://mycelerator.com
http://alexey.shpakovsky.ru/en/

Write ("leave notes") mostly for myself, but wonder if someone else might find it useful / interesting.
Dr at the front?
>How do we ensure AI systems much smarter than humans follow human intent?

What is human intent? My intents may be very different from most humans. It seems like ClosedAI wants their system to follow the desires of some people and not others, but without describing which ones or why.
Getting anything at all done in the Seattle area is super expensive. Not sure why. The rep is wrong about the too cold bit though, even just what's in stock at Lowe's is rated to well below record lows for the region.
Hmm, Replika says they used a custom 774M model with vectordb context in 2021.

https://blog.replika.com/posts/building-a-compassionate-ai-f...

I wonder what they are using now?

Pygmalion (gpt-j 6B) and llama 7B chat finetunes really have a tendancy to fly off the rails. Higher parameter LLaMA is not as bad... But also illegal for them to use, lol.
In the Gartner hype cycle, you are now at the ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’ of this LLM hype.

It is quite clear that the AI bros and grifters have squeezed the LLM hype to the point where any serious use-cases outside of summarization have just been untrustworthy to the users and relies on triple checking the output.

Summarization has proven to be the most reliable use case and everything else is useful as a bullshit machine packaged as a snake-oil product.
https://www.gerritcodereview.com/about.html

It's a code review platform used heavily by Google.
Most reports have classified ads at at least 1/3 of total ad revenue for newspapers. Some sources show higher but none lower.
Slippery slope towards shutting off the internet entirely during protests
And if you give it permission to solve issues, expect it to create issues.
If you believe in the force is only justified in response to force principle, what force is Facebook using against Canadian broadcasters to justify being forced to pay a ransom?
I find delivery prices based on either to be weird. Delivery prices should be based on the complexity and difficulty of the delivery. If I get an iPhone delivered I don’t expect to pay a percentage of my house value or my iPhone value, likewise I expect to pay more for delivery of 10 gallons of milk than an iPhone. The price scale percentage is for restaurant service where the price of the food scales with the quality of the restaurants service. Delivery service more or less is entirely fungible and doesn’t vary in general with the price of the delivered item. The only thing I expect to vary with the cost of my house is my property taxes.
This should happen under a fairly wide range of temperatures for modern heat pumps. Quoted figures are usually in the 3-4x more efficient than resistive heating when adjusted for seasonality for air source heat pumps. Ground source are more like 5+ I think.

That's lab figures though so I guess similar to car efficiency figures.
This thing was far from "just thrown together". I don't think it's like the Space Shuttle either.
AWS egress is cheap, just not for you.

If you're a small developer you get to pay for those fat AWS profit margins. If you're a larger company doing VERY LARGE amounts of egress (where it's potentially economical for you to lease and manage your own fiber lines) you'd be shocked at just how flexible the AWS sales team can be.

Source: participated in egress pricing negotiations with AWS for a large company and saw the real numbers.
Discussed at https://pca.st/episode/bcd322ec-ded9-417c-88d5-8aa9cf3412b5?...
HTTP/2 was standardized in two years and 16 days.

That’s fast for standards :)
Yeah, I blew it.

Still... You get the gist.
PwC tipped off Google on timing of Australian tax law
Astronomers witness energetic switch on of black hole
I guess there aren't that many valuable minerals in seawater.
For example, Fritz Haber, a German Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, tried to extract gold from seawater after WWI to pay for the war reparations... long story short, the concentration of gold in seawater is too small.

Also, the phase transition for H2O from liquid to gas requires a lot of energy and space (evaporation surface). In other words, it takes ages to evaporate all the water. Also, the larger your pond is, the more expensive it is to scoop up the salt. And then just one rainy afternoon can set you back a lot.
Most people live somewhere with vastly milder winters. Generalizing from your -40C winters is not useful.
Certain Michigan towns may need to do so...
Can you say what criteria you used to filter the thread into valid blogs?
Thank you for the ggml library, by the way. It let me play around with whisper in a sane manner. To run the CUDA torch versions, I needed to shut down X to free enough GPU memory for the medium model, and the small model might require me to quit firefox. With ggml, I can use cublas and run even the large model with a huge speedup compared to CPU only torch.
Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical
The user enabled a GitHub ChatGPT plugin and authenticated with GitHub, then was surprised and annoyed when, after he complained about an issue with a project, GPT-4 created an issue for him, using one of the commands provided by the plugin.

PEBCAK.
Lisp. Best syntax is no syntax.
It's an extreme climate that ever reaches -40.
He have this in his Twitter bio: "CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night"
for me it was (and still is, especially when i learn something new) successfully solving problems. for a novice that means breaking tasks down so that they can be solved in small steps, each step giving the feeling of success and motivating you to go on. it is frustrating to spend a week hunting a problem without making any progress. for a novice that can be crushing their confidence, especially if they get the impression that it their fault that it takes so long.

books or classes didn't do anything for me until i was able to actually apply the new things learned. (for me learning is problem oriented, i take a problem and learn how to solve it)

also as a novice i found building a project from scratch daunting, because there is so much stuff to do before you can get to have some actual functionality. i prefer either to start with something very small but with some usable functionality that doesn't take long to build, and then add features until it is completed, or take something already working, and build upon that.

when i learned lisp i took the example project that was in the book towards the end and built it into the tool i wanted.

though i think test driven development can help here too. as each passing test is a success. so write a test, pass it, continue, until you have something working.
> We see a wide variation in human intelligence.

I don't think it's really that wide, but rather that we tend to focus on the difference while ignoring the similarities.

> What are the chances that the intelligence spectrum ends just to the right of our most intelligent geniuses?

Close to zero, I would say. Human brains, even the most intelligent ones, have very significant limitations in terms of number of mental objects that can be taken into account simultaneously in a single thought process.

Artificial intelligence is likely to be at least as superior to us as we are to domestic cats and dogs, probably way beyond that withing a couple of generations.
I did too, but I didn't include the protocol, just the bare domain :/

FWIW it's https://lizmars.net
I worked on that report! (Throwaway because, well, my real name is on the second page...)

The lack of meaningful technical planning was a big part of it, and so was the contract-awarding math, but I think the most striking - and generally applicable - behind-the-scenes stories were about what happens when trust breaks down at a human level. The city's internal back and forth on approving and then un-approving a subcontractor at the beginning meant that the GC was more likely to work to the letter of the contract when things went wrong later, instead of collaborating to solve problems. The one positive thing the city eventually did to get the project moving forward, according to all the information we got, was put someone with some amount of authority on the ground to talk to people.

Rereading the report now, all of these facts are in there, but I wish we'd found a way to stress this part more. You see the same thing in every industry, whether it's individuals or teams or companies working together - the best laid plans mean nothing unless the people involved are actually interested in tackling challenges as they come up. Culture eats strategy, and all that. A culture of writing a plan and then either strictly following it or throwing a fit when it can't be followed isn't a culture that can do great work.
A non-paywalled similar article: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/pwc-australia-tipp...
https://superbowl.substack.com

Exploring the gaps between science and spirituality
Yeah, as a Kiwi, watching all the debate happening here is just super weird.

Meanwhile, I'm annoyed that heat pumps that dump the waste heat into the hot water cylinder aren't standard.
https://guilhermegarcia.dev

Coming in a little late, I've got a blog where I write about my tech findings in brazillian Portuguese. Mostly short write ups about how I research a new technology or topic (though there are some non tech related stuff here and there).
https://reidburke.com
https://mgmarlow.com

Tons of Emacs posts recently since that's been top of mind for the last six months.