skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet hypothesis on the flip to glaciation is that the Northern Ferrel Cell collapses [1], allowing the merger of the Polar and Hadley cells. One result of that would be polar air flowing down all the way to the equator over the entire northern hemisphere. Another effect would be prolonged exposure of rising equatorial air to the upper atmosphere (close to space) which would cool it on the way to the pole. Once the north is snow covered this pattern might become very stable for 100K years until some other tipping point is reached (say low ocean levels). IANA climate researcher, so this is just wild speculation on my part and may have no basis in reality ;-) But this smoothing of the jet stream seems like it could be a precursor to the evening out of flows I imagine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_circulation
Even this random one seems weird and out of touch:

https://www.insider.com/jfk-grandson-jack-schlossberg-viral-...
mine redirects to the german one. US IP and English browser and OS.
I'm seeing this a lot. It's a great example of how the older non-FAANG large companies are going to just keep making it harder to actually be effective. Good oppurtunity for startups who are competing with them though as the AI tools get better and these companies can't or won't adopt them.
It took me a bit to warm up to them, but now I find myself relying on them to more quickly spot errors, so yes it ends up faster. Somewhat counterintuitively, I find the ligature characters easier to process at a glance and see if there's a problem or not (I suspect its something along the lines of my brain looks at "<=" as two separate characters, one after the other, and has to process each in serial then combine them into the concept of "less than or equal to", whereas the ≤ is a single character that goes straight to the "less than or equal to" concept in the same way its easier to remember the number "six hundred ninety-three" than "six, nine, three". I also find it way easier to spot the "≡" vs the "===" in JS land, which surprised me but here I am.

I wouldn't say its harder to go back, but it does make me do a double take. Overall I would say the effect is quite minor and I'm just fine without the ligatures, but given the option I would enable / prefer them.
Who is going to pay $75/mo for a vacuum when they can get a shark robot vacuum for a one time payment of $500? It sounds like the Juicero of floor cleaning. Apparently VC's haven't learned their lesson yet.
> we wouldn't feel bad for a lion eating a gazelle

Most people probably do feel bad. Presumably you'd also feel bad if a lion attacked and ate a human even though it was just doing what you purport to be "required".

Where it goes south is when people cherry pick the behavior of animals to justify their own actions.
I moved back to Poland from Italy in 2019 just to be blasted with a 36°C heatwave.

I didn't think Italian weather would follow me here.

Anyway I'm thinking about installing solar panels totalling 800W (maximum allowed without additional permits) on my balcony next season and powering a small AC unit off of that - I suppose it's fair, considering it will be running using renewable energy and only when it's actually needed.
The colleges will just respond in the same way that the insurance companies did, by jacking up prices. Raising the amount they're charging for premiums / tuition allows them to still maintain or grow their total overhead amount, even at a lower rate.
reminder that that "leak" was by a twitter grifter that accessed and reposted wholesale without attribution the contents of a paid newsletter and had the gall to chargeback the credit card. dont encourage him or link to him.
> university leadership that's choosing to make large capital expenditures

SUNY Binghamton recently received a private donation of $60 million, with a rule from the person donating it had to be spent on a new baseball stadium. Do you think the university leadership should have declined the offer?
Stanford President Resigns After Report Finds Flaws in His Research
Can you link to the study?

I'd be curious about how success is defined here. Career is a pretty narrow lens to define it by so I'd hope for something more expansive.

Many of the benefits of having friends in high places are outside of traditional career ladder. The expedited (insert annoying process here), the vacation you're invited on, the unintentional influence you have on some big thing because you happen to be an ear to the decider, etc etc.
It was removed because it was being gamed from the outset. The workable alternative would be a 'Social Credit' system where some domains can be blocked if enough of the 'right people' want them blocked.

Google running a social credit system may have unintended consequences though.
Void is like Arch before Arch started pissing me off.

I use Void, btw.
Name 5 phenomena that are worldwide by this definition. I suspect that the set of things that are worldwide might be so tiny as to be useless to converse about.
I mean, these aren't just any access of the DOM, they're specifically selectors on the DOM (with a few stepping into children and then running selectors on them). So that does narrow the original claim significantly.

I also see five orders of magnitude between the fastest and slowest operations there (`document.getElementById("canvas")` vs `document.getElementsByAttribute("href")`) on my machine, so it's not clear what you're disagreeing with my comment about.

On my machine, Chrome is slower by an order of magnitude on the first three tests, but is approximately the same (slightly faster or slower) on the rest. And I'll still assert these microbenchmarks aren't testing anything meaningful. Millions of calls to `document.getElementById("canvas")` in a loop is almost certainly just hitting a cache, which is fine but also reveals little about how it will affect execution of actual scripts (is the querySelector even a bottleneck in a particular piece of code? how big is the cache vs the actual uses before a `document.getElementById("canvas")` comes back around again? etc)
Show HN: CLI for testing and evaluating LLM prompts and outputs
Hi HN,

This project has grown a lot recently and figure it's worth another submission. I use this tool for several LLM-based use cases that have over 100k DAU. It works pretty simply:

1) Create a list of test cases

2) Set up assertions for metrics/guardrails you care about, such as outputting only JSON or not saying "As an AI language model"

3) Run tests as you make changes. Integrate with CI if desired.

This makes LLM model and prompt selection easier because it reduces the process to something we're all familiar with: developing against test cases. You can iterate with confidence and avoid regressions.

There are a bunch of startups popping up in this space, but I think it's important to have something that is local (private), on the command line (easy to use in the development loop), and open-source.
Very obviously? Can you elaborate?
No it's not just ads at all. SEO drives traffic. There are many ways to monetize such traffic, and ads are just one.

A lot of SEO is driven by local business owners who hire SEO people with dubious track records that make big promises. They invariably clutter up their websites with 10,000 articles along the lines of "best plumber in dallas".

It's funny you mention ads though. One reason that it's so hard to find an SEO person that's actually worth anything is that if they were really good at what they did, they could just throw up their own websites with ads and make a much better living that way than selling SEO services. They don't of course, which should tell you something about how good they really are.
on the other hand, I find GoodReads super intuitive. Moved to storygraph and I find the UX there kinda bad. Hard to find stuff
I pretty much entirely see this content from "moderate" / "centrist" liberal pundits, not "right wing bloggers".

Indeed, it seems to me more so that there is a "horseshoe" with respect to this, where both further left- and right-wing folks both favor more restrictive planning / zoning, for different reasons. On the left, it seems to be related to a skepticism of anything being less regulated having a general stench of laissez-faire capitalism, and on the right it seems to be more about local control over planning being the mechanism for keeping undesirables elsewhere.

And the more "centrist" people I follow on the right just don't seem interested in this topic at all, for whatever reason.
Instruction fine tuning improves performance on many tasks that are not in the fine tuning dataset. See e.g. table 14 in the instructGPT paper.
This essay is pretty dense, but the language is plain and the arguments straightforward.

I'm going to have to think about the assumptions (which are fairly plainly laid out), claims, and conclusions, but on the whole the essay seems to be highly nutritious "food for thought".

One comment I have is that there is a (stated, but rather tangentially) assumption that one "good" human goal (or rather, a precondition to ideally allocate effort among all goods) is to be (or become) a "fully rational agent" without subjecting that axiom (as well as others) to the same sort of tradeoffs among goods. Some infusion of the concept of "bounded rationality" from game theory (and it's close cognates in evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics, etc.), might be helpful here (which actually strengthens the argument being made by implication in the latter part of the essay that moral philosophy as currently practiced is woefully uninformed by other fields of endeavor, and consequently suffers from large-scale epistemic closure).

"Full" (or as game theory would have it, "optimal" or "unbounded") rationality is often prohibitively expensive (in energy, space, or time), especially in any environment where agents (or cooperating groups of such) are contending for resources as well as their capacity to allocate them well.
For consoles outside my editor, I tend to like Cascadia/Caskaydia Code a lot. There's a Nerd font enhanced version you can use with starship.rs even. YMMV though.
EOF being -1 means that if (*ptr == EOF) can never fire if *ptr can only take on the values 0..255 [i.e., char is unsigned] as opposed to -128..127 [i.e., char is signed]. Whether or not char is signed or unsigned is implementation-defined.
I can confirm that it's true on RTX 4080 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
If someone harassed you or a loved one for wearing a mask, that person is an asshole. If someone harassed you or a loved one for not wearing a mask, that person is also an asshole (caveat outside hospitals or care homes for vulnerable people).
Your counterexample is not valid. There are reasons why a "floating bridge" would not be easy to make, but the fact that all the vertebrates with jaws that exist today have no more than four paired limbs is just a historical accident and only small changes in their body plan would be necessary to make one with six paired limbs or even with much more.

In some vertebrates, i.e. amphibians, it is very easy to generate supernumerary limbs without any genetic engineering, but just by manipulating the embryos.

Due to defects in the development of the embryo, birds or mammals and even humans are sometimes born with polymelia, i.e. with extra legs, and some of them succeed to have a relatively normal life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymelia

The purpose of predictable genetic engineering would be to ensure the development of a body precisely into a form optimized for a certain purpose. Obtaining random monstrous forms is easy even today, by using various mutagen agents and/or embryo manipulations.
If Nvidia ever wants to see their GPUs on next generation PlayStation consoles, an updated FreeBSD display driver is a good stating point.
Since they are trained on all kinds of Internet content, might be a little tricky to manage paying >1B people
It’s naive to think schools don’t have a system in place for this: separating piles into buckets of test score, ordering by grade, marking a certain number from each bucket as worth another look, then ordering by essay, marking a certain from each group, and repeat on any other metric.

Many schools, selective or not, actually do this whole process — multiple times, with each admissions agent doing a separate order of criteria, to ensure everyone’s application gets read at least twice. The idea being that those with the most “let’s give them another look” across the board are the most notable. Then from that shortlist the debates comparing each applicant, usually sorted by geographic proximity to each other, begin (at Harvard, if you’re from Texas you’re not really competing against New Yorkers for a spot, you’re competing against other Texans for the XX number of Texan spots they usually admit a year).

I did a short stint as a student worker in the admissions office of a very selective college in California (<5% admission rate, but not one many could name off the top of their head), and this is more or less how it worked
We don't have support for this yet. Would you say you think this should be a free feature?
Same here. Fira Code, then JetBrains Mono. JB Mono is very under appreciated, although it’s maybe just a matter of taste.
I just don't run into many cases where I'm not immediately awaiting a task, so instead of littering the code base with async await and their return types all the way up, there could be a lighweight version that free's the thread up when waiting on a blocking call (I'm assuming the main reason we want to use async in C# is to free the thread up to do other tasks).

NotAPromiseObject ReadCsv(FileFile file){
string content = waitfor File.ReadAsync(file)
...
Is MIT still worth the price of admission? I would certainly say so and they don't do legacy, and I would trust the Princeton/Harvard line on a resume a lot more if it was guaranteed they didn't get in because of non-academic reasons (like parents, sports, etc.)
haha. All good.

Here's the comment if you're curious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
The “provably” in my comment is meant to indicate that people would actually be afraid of falsely claiming donations which are really payments to increase m chances of their kids’ admission, since they could be proven guilty of tax evasion.
Underrated point. Weird to see how in HN, the bastion of self-taught hackers, autodidact polymaths, and people who think secondary education is a waste of time and money, try to argue in favor of the entrenched credentialist power of universities.
How the heck would that even work...

In C#, they implement Await/Async by converting the function into a Class, just like when you use 'yield return'. Control flow is all over the place.

Zig is so strict about "no hidden control flow" that you can't even have destructors (code which runs when a variable goes out of scope)
Yeah, I probably agree, I was just trying to clarify because it took me a little bit to figure out why he thought Mandarin was the most widely spoken language.
> the skill becomes functionally useless once you enter the workforce.

This is laughably false and makes me think you've either never participated in organized athletics or have never had a job. The most important trait for success in the workforce is grit. The same is true for athletics at the highest level. Yes, some of the athletes made it on genetics alone but the vast majority had to work incredibly hard to become a college athlete. Being a successful athlete translates very well into the workforce.
Is gmail.com not DNS resolving?
mail.google.com is totally fine

EDIT: www.gmail.com is also fine
If you use Kitty or Wezterm, you don't need patched fonts.

For Kitty, just install the Symbols Nerd Font (it's a fontset that contains only nerd symbols).

For Wezterm, you don't need to do anything, the glyphs are already built in.
I don't think the system CAN accept a refund.

We were virtualizing 150 computers into a VM environment and I asked what was going to happen to the hardware replacement budget for the machines that were virtualized. I got a lot of Hem and Hawing and they said something like 'we can throw it at workstations or training or something.'
At this point in the conversation, I am struck with the realization that there are distinct conceptions of 'violent criminal' in the minds of the authors of each post in the preceding exchange.

Unless that notion is synchronized, perhaps by talking about a specific individual known/knowable to all parties, the conversation can not serve as a vehicle for communication any longer.
Seems simple enough to get someone that vain to cough up an annuity to pay for maintenance and some admins for that building, “we’d hate for your building to wind up like poor Jefferson Hall, we can’t even afford to pressure wash it every 5 years.”
There seems to be a real golden opportunity here that neither google or apple have jumped on yet. And perhaps its much harder than I imagine as it needs a large context window.

But you don't need to beat chat-gpt 4. A chat-gpt 3.5 esque model that has access to your todo list and calendar that I can talk to like siri would make the tool 10x more useful overnight.

If it even had access to your last 50 emails I could imagine saying something like.

- remind me to respond to that email from bob tomorrow.

- Draft me 3 responses that are kind, but indicate clearly that we can't go forward with his request.

This could even happen in the background, and I'm happy to pay a bit extra for the compute, it could be "premium siri"
> by replacing or augmenting your home's heating system with a two-way heat pump (aka AC), you can actually increase your home's energy efficiency.

Only if you would otherwise heat your home using electricity anyway (or if that electricity is produced using low-emission methods).

If it’s produced using gas plants, co-generation is likely still more efficient, for example – but these will hopefully also be phased out at some point.
It had a last gasp since 2013:

> But jai alai, the world's fastest-moving ball sport, fell off in the 1990s and didn't get a boost until 2018, when Florida banned greyhound racing and casinos needed a parimutuel activity (in which all bets are pooled) to continue offering slots and table games. [May 19, 2021]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/314...

Florida lawmakers then tried to really kill it:

> State lawmakers recently eliminated a measure requiring casinos to host several pari-mutuel betting sports, including jai alai and harness racing. [Dec. 10, 2021]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/goodbye-jai-alai-players...

But it lives on as Battle Court Jai Alai at Magic City Casino in Miami:

https://www.usbets.com/jai-alai-battle-court-season-2-begins...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/battle-court-spring...
Interesting. Did you edit the font yourself? How?
"Atari XE/XL" as in "Atari 8-bit". The XEs/XLs were way more popular in Poland than the 400s/800s.
Sigh. The way they wrote that is indeed misleading. What a shame.
Surprise! Surprise! AI's a copy-and-paste machine.
They actually did have it as an experimental feature for a little while, maybe 10 years ago. [0]

If I recall correctly, it was made available in response to another big wave of criticism directed towards Google about "Content Farms". It has been interesting to see the difference in response between the "Content Farm" debacle and what we are dealing with currently.

[0] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-m...
This is something I’ve been confused about. In common discourse, it seems that “heat pump” has positive associations with efficiency while “A/C” is associated with gluttony and waste. Aren’t they the same device? Why the difference?
Large part of the value of LLMs is how good they are. Large part of the value of various chat apps are how many already have them installed. The quality of responses is definitely important for LLMs, otherwise the FOSS ones would have eaten OpenAIs lunch already, which doesn't seem to have happened, at least not yet. The FOSS ones are still trying to catch up with GPT3.5, which compared to GPT4 doesn't even come close.
> One might say meritocracy might lead to technological advances leading to economies of scale, but the solution to an increasing income/wealth gap would not be getting rid of meritocracy, but rather redistributing some of the wealth so as to provide a floor for quality of life and quality of opportunities (I would hope).

Yep, that's pretty much what I was trying to say, so my apologies if I wasn't clear. I think the "quality of opportunities" is also a very important point - I made the argument elsewhere that there is no reason for many of the top schools to have such small class sizes in the first place. There is no reason with their huge endowments that they couldn't increase their class sizes and still only admit highly qualified applicants. That's still a meritocracy, but just ensures the "winners" are not arbitrarily selected by making the cutoff so high that you're making random decisions about who to admit (e.g. all ten of these folks had perfect SAT scores but we'll let this guy in because he had a "better personality").
From the FAQ:

--

What are the goals and mission of Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC)?

Deliver a complete architecture that optimizes Ethernet for high performance AI and HPC networking, exceeding the performance of today’s specialized technologies. UEC specifically focuses on functionality, performance, TCO, and developer and end-user friendliness, while minimizing changes to only those required and maintaining Ethernet interoperability.

Additional goals:

* Improved bandwidth, latency, tail latency, and scale, matching tomorrow’s workloads and compute architectures.

* Backwards compatibility to widely-deployed APIs and definition of new APIs that are better optimized to future workloads and compute architectures.

--

Basically going after Infiniband (IB). While Ethernet and IB seem to have equal roughly number of system in the Top 500 (Category > Interconnect Family):

* https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/

The majority of the Top 100 and 200 seem to have IB:

* https://thelinuxcluster.com/2021/07/08/a-relook-at-infiniban...

* https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/07/07/the-eternal-battle-b...

Once you get to the slower (older?) systems Ethernet starts being the majority.
See also the massive grade inflation at these schools
Another case of this:

> You've heard of the golden rule, haven't you? Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
I think you got downvotes because it sounded like a conspiracy theory, when actually I think you were just trying to say that the idea was to get people vaccinated before they came in contact with the real disease to ease the symptoms, or even give immunity.
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> Balkonkraftwerk

Balkonkraftwerk = Balcony Power Plant

Thank you Germany for your language.
I just can’t see the PRC and the CCP in its current form sticking around long enough. Between their demographic collapse and pushback on globalization amongst some of the largest nations and economic zones who trade with China (not the mention China imports most of its food), we will see the CCP take an even firmer grasp just before it either collapses or disintegrates. We will likely see the largest cities revert to self-governance and then we will have a better understanding of the geopolitical landscape in which we will all operate in. If Hong Kong‘s economic and political influence positions it to self-govern once again, perhaps taking much of Guangdong with it, we may see more respect for global IP protections.
You seem to be mostly arguing that all the building blocks are in place and you can assemble your own LEGO.

Which is exactly what I started disliking lately. I want async Rust more opinionated with much more huge red arrows pointing in the right directions for cases A, B and C, and links to docs and even 3rd party crates for cases from D to Z.
Also of note: the previous record that's being shattered was last year.
Code sober, debug drunk