skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of people will rip on this and it is pretty insane, but I am disappointed that it turns out that the guy was a fraud. I think living in a world where billionaires actually did things like try to buy island nations, create insane scientific experiments, and generally try to top one another for the best caricature of a Bond supervillain instead of the standard fare of buying sports teams, yachts, politicians, and art collections would be a much more interesting one to live in.
> A judgment of fair payment is up to the employee and the employer not the nation as a whole.

Only true when it's two people of similar wealth and circumstances bargaining over how much one will pay for the other's labor.

If you just cringed over how much less leverage the employer would have in that scenario—yeah, exactly.
I like making Kichdi once in a while and Basmati is awful for this dish. I have discovered the japanese Sushi rice takes my khichdi so much more wonderful. It is not good for the waistline but it is an indulgence for whenever I get sick.
Evolution has also produced fatal cancer in infants, among other miserable horrors. The existence of a property in evolved creatures does not imply that it is adaptive.
> However, if the cause of the protein imbalances is something people can take steps to prevent, then doing so would logically have a greater than zero chance of mitigating dementia risk.

Or correcting the protein imbalance could interfere with an important feedback loop that we don't yet understand, which could possibly make the situation worse. Or maybe the protein imbalances are involved in counteracting the issue that causes dementia, and that's why they're elevated.

This is a common theme in biological systems. A good example would be cortisol, which has become known as the "stress hormone". Many people assume that lowering cortisol must therefore be a good thing, but if you were to indiscriminately lower cortisol during periods of stress you'd end up in a far worse condition than you were before. Cortisol is part of your body's reaction to stress and part of the system that responds to it, so artificially lowering it can interfere with your stress response process.
Replying to my own post:

Funny how everyone is pointing out all these inventions were by immigrants in the US.

And that’s the point. The US takes the best of the world and reaps the rewards of their work. And also makes those people wealthy in the process. Everyone wins except for the countries that lost those genuiuses.

And despite my pro US stance, I’m actually from Eastern Europe, and my country lost a lot of talent to the US.
it's working for me :) i've been using primo for the last week to make my blog, and i feel more productive, and i've learned a lot. the forum is cool too. answers to a couple questions i had were already there. thank you for making primo.
I rented an electric vehicle (Polestar 2) last time I was in the UK: it was really a tale in two acts ...

I was staying at a hotel that had six or eight charging points in the car park and it was generally very convenient to do a quick charge to 80% and reasonably priced.

Hertz wanted it back with 80% charge or they'd bill us, and finding an appropriate charger near Heathrow was ridiculous. We tried six different locations: the first one was in a hotel, it had only one charger which was occupied with no sign of the driver. Two were in the car parks of office buildings to which we had no access. One was at a Tesla delivery center and didn't have public access. One was at a gas station where all five of the charge points were unserviceable. The last one was at a single-purpose electric car charging station where there was a considerable queue.

In the end, we had to drop it off with low charge and bite the bullet otherwise we were going to miss our flight.
I always wondered what the queueing situation is at chargers since most locations aren't physically set up for it. You'd be really annoyed if you were waiting nearby for ages for a free charger then someone else swooped in. Or they were waiting too but you weren't aware so now you're both mad. The chargers should have ticketing built in.
I'll only actually worry when Thailand bans hom mali rice exports.
I agree! That's why Primo generates static HTML & CSS & only includes [vanilla] JS when its necessary to hydrate any interactive components. All using the Svelte compiler under the hood.
The idea is that if you violate the terms of the license to develop your own model, you lose your rights under the license and are creating an infringing derivative work. If I clone a GPL'd work and ship a derivative work under a commercial license, downstream users can't just integrate the derivative work into a product without abiding by the GPL terms and say "well we're downstream relative to the party who actually copied the GPL'd work, so the GPL terms don't apply to us".
English is a Schelling point for scientific and technical information. It's kind of fitting, since the language evolved over centuries as a way for Anglo-Saxons, Norse, and French to communicate as these various groups came to and conquered the British Isles. English is a trade pidgin... with an army and navy.

In continental Europe, they often use English as a handshaking language. I once saw a German talkshow host interview a Norwegian singer, and they spoke in English until he could ascertain that she knew enough German to conduct the interview in German.
The article says "almost all of this technical thing is in English and that's bad".

I'm saying "no it's good"
$30/hr isn't a living wage? Jobs like this are precisely the high-paying hard-labor stuff that is going by the wayside in the name of equity. The exact type of job I used to pull myself out of my situation and bootstrap my tech career.

Try walking onto a roofing crew these days and see how that goes. Jobs like this simply are almost nonexistent now for most demographics.
Considering how biased their own product is, I don't want them to have anything to do with "governance" of AI either.
Good point. Doesn't really matter for my rubbish Pong game but I have proper converter/scaler on order.
> A judgment of fair payment is up to the employee and the employer not the nation as a whole.

It's fascinating seeing an entire generation forget why labour unions came to exist in the first place...
What about compiled binaries? If I write my own original source code (and thus automatically own the copyright to it), and compile it to binary, is the binary not protected to?
> Exxon’s vision is that eventually these pipelines will ferry CO2 captured from industrial point sources like cement and steel plants, and potentially from natural gas power plants, and transport it to underground rock formations or old oil wells where it could be buried (Denbury also owns a number of large sites for carbon sequestration).

Color me skeptical. The article offers no supporting evidence that this is Exxon's "vision", and then hits us with this:

> For now, Denbury’s pipeline network isn’t really low carbon, but instead will function as an extension of Exxon’s normal oil business. Today the CO2 carried in the pipelines is used for “enhanced oil recovery,” a process in which it is injected into oil wells to push out the last few drops.

Sounds like they made the acquisition for their current fossil fuel business, not a bet that "carbon will be the new oil."

And as a cherry on top:

> The company plans to double the size of its liquefied natural gas business by 2030, an executive said this week, with a focus on buyers in Asia.
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Do you run it on 4 cores simultaneously as the author did?
Except for the part when it shatters and ends up in your food.

I had a situation where (and thankfully nobody was hurt) I had cooked a stew and the enameled coating from the pot I was using had popped off a 2cm x 2cm area section into the stew at sometime during the cooking process. We didn't detect it until we had served half the food.
> All customers must be able to pay with cards or contactless devices ...

I find that directive/rule/law very very very nice. I wish more were like that. I don't see why I'd need to have a phone with me and even less why I'd need to install any app on it.

> (at present, some charging networks require subscriptions or app downloads).

Makes me happy to know they'll either comply or GTFO.
In the 90s I had internet at home at a time when almost all of my friends (school children) didn't even have a computer. Trying to explain the internet to someone who doesn't have a computer is still one of the most alien experiences of my life.
Einops, Retrospective of 5 Years
Exactly! Not to speak of sticky headers, scroll hijacking, unreadable fonts, animated hero images, the list is almost endless.
One advantage of agile sprints that was pitched to me when the company I worked for was converting from 6 week cycles down to 2 week cycles was the power of this firewall and priority system. Customer Support giving you a hard time on this feature? Point them to the card and say it's in the next sprint.

How I feel now about that firewall now? I'm looking for a company that has a competent technical dictatorship in command.
An even easier solution is to get rid of these artificial and rather arbitrary distinctions and thresholds that have been imposed by government over the years.

As we can see here, all they do is introduce economic distortions that in turn cause various problems for both the employees and the employers.

Instead of doing productive work, the employees and employers waste far too many resources working around or trying to cope with these unnecessary bureaucratic impediments.

Even if such regulations may have been introduced under the guise of helping workers, they've instead created a situation where workers are worse off in new ways.
Just last harvest states like Telangana had a glut of rice with no buyers. And now we have this. The whole procurement and storage chain is hopelessly mismanaged in India.
First, you can guard against it. Just periodically re-run the infra code in the "dry-run" mode (from a CI/CD system) and scream if you see any differences.

Second, this is still fine. Don't make changes outside of the IAC control. And if you do make them, retro-fix the IAC files until there is no diff with the actual state.

Third, IAC should have an option to ignore some changes.

> Also, dynamically creating state creates all sorts of concurrency issues, which is another nice thing about stored state, you can put a lock on it.

In my experience, this is not a big issue in practice. Production deployments should be done through some kind of CI/CD, and it naturally serializes builds.

However, nothing stops you from adding locking without doing the full state management.
I don't see why the term "open source" needs to evolve when "source available" is available. Or in this case, "weights available under a license with few restrictions."
By that logic, if you convert a copyrighted song or movie from one codec to another, then that would not be copyrightable because it is the output of a machine.
As someone else pointed out, it would be far far less than 21%, since labour is not the only cost of production. A 21% increase in labour costs doesn’t mean total costs go up by 21%.

> Literally still more than some other jobs, and meanwhile by this math you're getting paid while you're asleep or drinking with your friends.

This is big “a pizza party is good compensation for overtime” energy, my guy. If you’re AT work you’re working.
Yes, so the transportation of food is a small portion of the greenhouse emissions involved with producing that food.

Trying to grow food locally with lower economies of scale may in turn result in higher emissions. In any case, it's not going to massively lower emissions.
From the article:

>Education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf said he was investigating curbs on students funded by the state-run Chinese Scholarship Council after several universities started excluding them on security grounds.

>Recipients of grants have to swear allegiance to the Communist party, return to China within two years of completing their studies and report to the Chinese embassy in the country where they study.

These scholarship requirements are a cause for concern.

(downvote if you swear allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party)
Yes I think you've put it well. If models were smaller I'd see those in the Github releases section. The model training is what I'd see in the source code and the README etc, to arrive at the 'blob'.
>> This article is from NPR, which is theoretically as left as mainstream american media gets

Not true. Mother Jones and CNN are far more left.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

>> This is biased writing.

Almost all news reporting is biased, in terms of when they emphasize and what they leave out, who they quote, etc. Truth is an onion, many layers, and if you want pure truth, be prepared to dig very very deep. News writing like this would become a research paper, which most news readers are not prepared to consume.

From the article:

>> "The addition of overtime makes our already high labor costs completely uncompetitive to Mexico and Peru," says Schreiber, citing the top two asparagus exporters to the U.S. In both countries, cutters make less in a day than Schreiber pays in an hour.

Seems like there is a bit more layers to explore.
> Insistence that Ukraine recapture Crimea and we should keep supplying weapons until they do

There are no major western leaders saying this. Ukraine is saying that they intend to recapture Crimea.

The russian play book of conquering lands and then stuffing them with ethnic russians is not a good strategy to reward. Ethnic russians can go live in Russia if they don't want to live in Ukraine.
Time to build some these with aluminum sheets!!
Any hints in the literature as to whether these protein imbalances are downstream of some other cause that is itself harmful, or harmful in themselves? (I.e. direction of causative arrow)
F1 pit crew members are highly trained athletes who specialize in fast tire changes. Many of them are recruited from other sports based on strength, speed, and agility. They often have no real experience as automotive technicians.

F1 teams do have world class mechanics but most of them aren't part of the pit crews.
It extends it, sure, and if you only keep cars a few years it will be tough to get the economics to be favorable. As someone who buys a new fun car every 18 months, I recognize it's not a good economic choice.

But my nearest neighbors buy a new Camry every 10 years, over and over, and the economics would be really great for them. Here is how the economics are working for me, using my most recent EV as an example:

I've spent 197.24 on electricity since buying it, and driven 5428 miles. 127.82 of that was home charging, and 69.42 was spent supercharging. $0.036/mile.

Local gasoline is $4.69/gal. A typical Camry hybrid gets 46 mpg overall and costs $0.101/mile.

An average modern car is expected to go approximately 200K miles before being recycled. Over that time, assuming fuel prices do not change (they will, of course, but we don't know how that will play out), the Camry will cost an additional $12940 in fueling costs.

The battery is warrantied for 8 years or 120K miles, and if it makes it that far without needing replacement then the odds are good it'll make it to the EOL of the car. Even if I had to replace it, by that point it'll cost less than how much I've saved on gasoline. Given the sheer number of Model 3s on the road right now, used battery packs 5-10 years down the road are going to be even more common (it's already easy enough to get used Model 3 packs on eBay for 5-7 grand).

I like the economic outlook for EVs, and it just gets better every year.
In downtown metros of the largest US cities, hotels do not have on-site parking or sufficient on-site parking (or free parking), though they almost always do in the suburbs. As for Europe, I think there was one time where I found a hotel that had parking. Hotels in Central and Latin America will have you use either nearby street parking or a cramped underground lot (nothing like underground car parks in the USA).

Hoping for them to offer EV charging in light of the current parking situation is almost laughable.
The earbuds seems particularly odd given that an ear canal is close to human body temperature (~36C) to begin with.
128 bits is a lot of entropy to go around, though.
> My read is that the workers want more, and the workers want 7-day schedules.

No. This is a classic instance of the X/Y problem. If they began working half the number of hours in a day for half the number of days in a week that they had been before, except bringing home the same amount of money, there would be no issue; no one would show up saying, "We want 7-day schedules".

The workers don't want 7-day schedules. They want to be paid greater than or equal to what they were making when they were working 7 days a week under the old arrangement.
Wow, can’t believe you’re getting downvoted. This is exactly the point of my original post.
Exactly. If you want portability across clouds, Terraform ain't it. The only way I know of to achieve that right now (for any reasonably complex architecture) is:

- Minimal amount of Terraform to deploy Kubernetes (which is different for each cloud provider)

- Helm (or similar) for deploying to Kubernetes

But then you have Kubernets to deal with.
> But this time it's really about to happen, right?

Hate to break it to you but it's already happening.
OpenAI loses its trust and safety leader
I think what is considered low level has to be qualified here. In my opinion I should be able to request virtual cores and memory the same way I do in an os. When in c I can malloc, calloc, or mmap or brk if I'm on a Linux system. If I'm doing concurrent thing in c I have to specifically request a thread then manage it. If I can do these, why can't I have a library where I can make those requests to my cloud provider from my code?

To me, low level would be individually requesting resources as I need them with abstractions that let me ignore physical vs virtual distinctions. To me, this would be fairly readable. C like code requesting then allocating memory and threads just makes sense to me and I don't really care about if they're part of a larger machine. But I also think of low level from my code's perspective not from my infrastructure's perspective.

I'm curious what you think would need to be targeted for something to be both cloud native and low level? I rarely hear people discuss this type of classification.
That's kinda what they are saying though, no? That busy weekends will set and hold the record for a few months to a year and then they will be broken again as the number of EVs is growing in the steep section of the logistics curve right now.
Please feel free to reach out directly with your concerns. I'll certainly read any email you send me.
So glad as a native Dutch speaker I'll be escaping the mind reading AI. Cherio mf'ers!
It's funny you brought up lettuce because for my thinking, head lettuce and salad greens are likely the only thing vertical farming would make sense for.

The plants themselves are compact and mostly green bags of water. The big costs are cleaning, processing, transport, and refrigeratoration. There is almost no manual labor involved.The life cycle is extremely short. The demand is extremely high.

Lettuce might be the only vegetable that vertical farming makes sense for, but it would need to be able to cover the cost of expensive light-industrial space very close to market.

Ultimately plants are solar panels and even in vertical farming it's space you are paying for. Even if you can plant 10 layers deep, youre dealing with maybe having to pay >10x per SQ ft for space in a location close enough to be relevant.
You aren't describing a property of a graph database. You're describing a property of some set of key value based systems.

The reason why you want indices is because some query patterns don't have a key to perform a look up on.
You are very actively talking about these cases, but what about the opposite? Trans kids who are kept from proper medical attention by their parents?

I don't think you're taking any kind of objective perspective, since you're arguing from anecdotes, not data. I am not interested in talking to you.
150k to 200k miles is not a lot though? Every car I've ever owned has passed those landmarks easily unless I've sold it first without being anywhere close to "end of life". In other words, if your battery only lasts that long then the battery most definitely is the limiting factor.
The headline says that, the article is different. It's saying most research studies done on the mind are done on English-speaking participants.
No. There is no benefit. None.

If a team decides to split up work into certain chunks in order to get something out the door than that is up to the team in that specific time and that specific place.

This lunacy of copy/pasting whatever worked for one group in one life and applying it to another in another life baffles me.

Get humans. After they learn to trust each other and learn how the operate together you will have a unique mix. Unique. One of a kind. Have that unique entity decide how they want to deliver value.

As soon as the unique entity changes because humans leave or join, redo from start. All bets are off.

And a manager or company should focus only on how they want progress to be reported. Progress time and rapport format.

Expecting sprints when being a a manager or executive is dumb and immature.
Oh, that'd be it then. I must have overlooked the bit where you mentioned the Silesia dataset and skipped straight to enwik9. With that corrected, I get similar results to yours.

One issue I did notice during testing is that lzav's compression ratio is fairly unimpressive (~42:1) on all-zero data. Surely it should be able to do better than that?
It doesn't need redefinition. We just need a new term for new media.
I'll take a bloated and efficient library any day.
> But "brains behind the operation" is a term of art.

Which art?
And they have to step over Apple’s corpse to accomplish that, first red flag it was a joke.
They were all going to be trashed after a few years anyway.
“capturing and burying 100% of the carbon”

What about 50%? Does the cost go up as you try to capture a larger percentage?
I am concerned about the Linux/glibc monoculture, and its effect on the broader ecosystem.

Whatever breaks on Linux/musl, is also likely to break on other operating systems.

Whatever breaks loudly elsewhere, is also quite likely silently broken on Linux/glibc.

If our default response is to double down on barely patching it enough to limp along, no wonder it keeps breaking.
There's nothing in this release that companies didn't agree to as well. Which doesn't prove that they're fundamentally motivated by what's best for humanity but does maybe indicate that it wouldn't be hard for them to just stick to PR about shorter term safety concerns if no one working there (or externally) was genuinely concerned about longer term "x-risk" etc.
Agree.

I have a mental category for these posts:

We saved some of cloud / server side cost with Rust, so you user can spend more on local desktop /cloud cost with Javascript

Sometimes cost savings can be imaginary but since Rust is cool it is all fine.