skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also highly recommend at least the first few of the Chemical Hunger series as well: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/tag/a-chemical-hunger/

While not without it’s problems (which is to be expected considering the impossibly complex subject matter), It does a fantastic job detailing how the obesity epidemic is not some kind of oversimplified moral sin issue where we all suddenly became gluttonous (“just eat less!”) and slothful (“just do more”).

The major thing I find lacking is the omission of just how much the many different types of fatty and amino acids also act as major chemical signals that ultimately[0] affect whether your body tries to burn energy “wastefully” for heat, or tries to store it. The articles leans toward environmental chemicals as being the primary effectors subtly acting on our metabolism, but the very food we eat is itself a massive load of chemicals with complex effects that we can’t ignore.

[0] The next time someone wanting to feel clever and smug about it says “calories in, calories out” or “muh thermodynamics”, send them this: http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1
My attention span is making me re-read your comment to decipher whether I agree or disagree.
Jury is still out on this one :)

Anyways, over a decade back, I was watching a recording of a musical artist from either the 70s or 80s, and was surprised at the quality of the presentation (audio, music, harmony within the team) and was thinking on the same lines - good vs good enough, and how this team working in the 70s made musical magic.

I think the constraints those days made the masters really practice practice practice so that they could be great at the spur of the moment. A lot of people today may be more expert in synthesizing music so they can take a second's worth of snippet here, 5 seconds of snippets there, and eventually make something good, but it is all editing and they may not be able to do that live, but the old timey greats had to perform live, and for that they had to be great.

I am not saying no one does live music nowadays, quite the contrary, just saying that a lot of great music comes from people who never do live music, and that is because they can afford the luxury of 'editing' (which is kinda similar to divided attention span). Similarly, for the baker once the bread has gone bad there is nothing they can do but to start over, and that would be the incentive to get everything right.
We also have new battery technologies (suitable for grid style storage).

Such as Vanadium Redox flow batteries;

There was a big push for local salt reactors for cities or neighborhoods, but Vanadium Redox flow batteries could be a local solution to level demand from Solar/Wind -- or more simply, to balance load during the day; ie run ACs off of liquid batteries that charged last night.
Casey Muratori's Computer Enhance: https://www.computerenhance.com/
There was a list of vulnerabilities in this comment up top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849914
Compute power can directly influence developer hours. Developers/researchers spend a lot of time twiddling their thumbs waiting for a simulation/calculation to finish and plots to render. It directly costs time, and it also messes with your focus and progress in general.
They have twice as many transistors, but they don't have twice as many cells.
You already get flagged as hazardous and uncool for not using https, even on a perfectly-static site.

Some of us called that out as a slippery slope leading to ubiquitous gatekeeping, but we were shouted down in the name of (as usual) "security."
> grow switch grass, harvest it and burn it to harvest the flu gas co2

Idk if you burn it. Digest it, maybe, into a fuel or whatnot. My point is biomass is a more-familiar industrial input than whatever comes out of direct-air capture .
There’s no reason why China should be leading the U.S. in transitioning to green, it just shows that it can be done. Lots of European countries did it too.
Intel horse creek, sadly won't include the vector isa, just RV64GBC.
Yes. Also, test it.
The granddaddy of mainframes, System/360, was never in 19" racks. IBM first introduced the use of 19" racks in their midrange lines. What we currently call IBM z didn't adopt standard racks until the 21st century.
With fuel an F-35 is like 40000 pounds so a 30 pound AI computer would be less than one-tenth of a percent weight increase. Even if it's several computers for some reason, the amount of fuel on board is probably going to make vastly more difference.
Here in Santa Fe (and urbanized NM in general), you're seeing this not in big box parking lots (yet), but in public building parking lots (including schools).

It is freakin' awesome. I imagine the 2nd graders at school around here, growing up with the idea that you can make electricity from sunlight just as second nature to them as the internet is to all of us freaks here on HN.
HTTPS has a lot to do with that. let's encrypt is free, but requires things common users dont have, such as control of a domain, as it is if google can see your stored certificates it could exclude you from a site based on "sites you hang around with"
Maybe the government should stop subsidising fossil fuels, just a thought.
Your place is not gonna glide unpowered for an hour.
What company had 10k developers on a mainframe?
Both of which are in the middle of England which would have involved shipping shellfish to England before the invention of refrigeration. Oceanic travel on the fastest steam powered passenger vessels of the time maxed out at 13 knots or approximately 15 mph. Cargo ships are going to be slower many will be using sail so closer to 6 knots. Dublin to to Liverpool is about 191 miles by sea. So 31 hours away just counting transit how long are these warm clams good for?
Looking at the IBM's tech from the sixties is somehow weirdly depressing: it's unbelievable how much of the architectural stuff they've invented already by the 1970.
Instruction-tuning can encourage hallucinations
I'm pretty sure you don't need to invoke that chain of reasoning. Helping out the UK was quite unpopular in the US and Churchill got quite frustrated with Roosevelt about the latter's hesitancy to provide assistance as a result. That the editor of a popular magazine might honestly share that take is unsurprising.

And, yes, hesitancy to get involved could shade into Germany's not that bad fairly easily by way of justification.
Sure, that makes sense. Does that likely mean there were other flights with even less fuel that had to land ahead of this plane, or how do they triage that situation? It seems like a failure to triage properly if one plane has to glide, but maybe I'm naive about how close all of the other planes are to gliding.
My mother payed two different astrologers to predict my future.

She reported two mutually exclusive predictions.

She did not see what that implied.

She has a graduate degree in statistics.

Woo is a mindkiller.

Astrologers are grifting charlatans.
The tradeoffs:

1. we already have a grid

2. the US southwest is where the sun is. insolation per unit of area is crazy high compared to elsewhere, meaning you need less panels per unit of generating capacity.
Permaculture people would probably argue about the higher productivity of permaculture systems (which theoretically have a better shot at maintaining/mimicking natural ecosystems) versus standard monoculture farming. The problem is that permaculture outputs don't fit neatly into the existing industrialized food supply chain.

In theory we could produce more food and fuel while preserving diverse ecosystems, but it would require refactoring our entire conception of what we eat, how it is produced & preserved, distributed, etc...
Yum! doesn’t own Burger King. They own Taco Bell, KFC and others.
MANGA compensation (~$180K) is far outside the median income for a single income household in the US (~$70K).
> do not think they can be mandatory here in the USA.

I sure hope not, but there's been quite a lot of things that have been on the "could never happen here" list that have in fact happened. I have no faith that eliminating cash is inconceivable.
My town built a solar install on undeveloped land adjacent to the airport. That's lower impact than desert and cheaper than smaller installs would have been. I'm sure there's lots of situations like that, even in areas denser than the rural Midwest.
All sorts of special interests could benefit from that.
TECS by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262140874/
As mentioned in the OP's blog post, checkout https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama-recipes.git. specifically files in ft_datasets directory.

I am able to finetune meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf on a 3090 using instructions from quickstart.ipynb.
SpaceX teases another application for Starship
Geothermal is great, where it’s available. According to the article you linked it’s still quite expensive, but coming down in price rapidly.
Conscious spending could help out both camps. Spenders tend to spend too much on things that don't matter to them, and savers spend too little on things that matter to them.

The problem is conscious spending requires more initial setup that a lot of people don't want to do. They don't want to look at their bills and tally up the monthly total, automating that to be paid first, and then looking at their savings/investing/donation goals and taxes/limitations and dedicating certain amounts next per month. That's all too much initial work for them, but once you're on the other side it's glorious. I see how much is in my spending account, and spend it freely if whatever it is matters to me more than just the thrill of spending.

So many are just not honest with themselves and what actually matters to them. They have a huge house not because it makes them happy but because it's what they feel pressured to have. But this is a trick, remaining in this state winds up burning you out so much faster because you are not nourishing what your soul wants. What they actually would rather be doing is travelling the world, and yet they only put aside 1% monthly to a travel fund, and 70% goes to a home they don't care about. They wind up never travelling because they distract themselves with irrelevant things, get burned out at their job, feel like moving cities, etc. It happens all the time!

To make this clear, this isn't about downsizing. If a big home does matter to you, that should obviously take a much larger portion of your monthly bills. But you can't make these decisions without going through that above work honestly.
Wow, thanks for that -- that's an excellent slide deck.
After bopping an asteroid 3 years ago, NASA will finally see the results
It’s interesting. It looks like if you’re trying to improve the accuracy/perplexity of the model and using fp32 it doesn’t make a difference , but if you want to quantize it/make it compressible a modified soft max makes a huge difference ( this is what I understand from the Qualcomm paper). Different goals, different findings ?
We sometimes get the unholy trinity of crows vs magpies vs parakeets. Cacophony doesn't even come close when they're proper riled up.
Implementations usually replace replace the 1 in the denominator with exp(-max(x)) for this reason.
1500km from those deserts doesn't even begin to reach most major population centers. It needs to get much further than that to be impactful on the bulk of the population.
> I don't recall the details exactly, but I don't think it ever did very much.

How would you have known if the trick actually reduces the outliers in the weights? Even if the transformer quality does not improve overall, having less outliers as a result is very beneficial for more accurate quantization of the data
Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast
Because UK was already mentioned and I said Europe, which contains the UK (EU does not)

Parent said:

> Australia, UK and the US every day...
By continuous I also meant analog. No digital system is continuous at the lowest level of computation.
Du wünschst shakin' das bootie, ja?
If evolution isn't producing cancer in infants, what is?

Your debate approach of declaring my position to be the opposite of what I say is no fun. I'm not going to continue.
He's not just destroying it - he's burning it to the ground then salting the earth.
> It’s not about me, it’s about the network I’m embedded in.
Phew, I found some breadcrumbs on this, I was afraid it was lost in the ether of stuff I've read and thought "huh, that's interesting and compelling" and then forgot the source of.

So here's an article[0] Matt Yglesias wrote for Vox in 2014 about prizes to incentivize pharmaceutical research, rather than patents. I don't think this is where I first read about this (because I wasn't reading Vox in 2014), but I think either he or Ezra Klein talking about it on a podcast may be where I first came across it. Here's the summary of the idea from there:

> A large cash prize creates an incentive to innovate just as much as a patent does, but offers several important advantages.

It's very possible that this is really only relevant to scientific endeavors that pop out patents, rather than anything that is currently grant-funded. But I generally like this idea of big incentives to find an answer to something, rather than micro-managing the funding allocated to different proposed avenues of research toward an answer. I hate that all the PIs I know spend over half their time writing proposals, when they could just be researching.

Here are a couple deeper links to economists writing about it (from that article)[1][2].

[0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/9/5788630/4-radical-ideas-for-pro...
[1]: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/me...
[2]: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/prizes--not-pat...
> At that point, why do you need a grid connection? You don't.

I have a 6.7kW ground mount array. It generates 3x our needs in summer, 0.33 of our winter needs (we heat with air-source heat pumps). We'd need a battery as big as our house to deal with that.
I presume that in the desert environments cool shade is a positive thing. Panels will cover only a small fraction of the land anyway.

Even if it's not ideal, we have urgent big problems to solve, and comfort of lizards and thumbleweed is low on the list.
>Nah, scientific papers are supposed to be precise and technical.

They're also, more often than not, tedious, badly explained, error prone, oft-skipped, and hardly ever read carefully, even during peer review for the paper that contains them. That's how mistakes stay unnoticed for decades in influential papers with tons of citations.

In essense, a paper's tone and languge is often more formality, academic tradition, ritual, and padding for publication purposes, than serving a real purpose.
The price of a good is almost always higher than the price of the energy invested (usually significantly). Solar panels are used for generating energy. Therefore, if a solar panel is profitable to buy and operate, then it almost certainly generates more energy than it cost to produce.

Solar panels are profitable and are one of the cheapest marginal sources of power in many places. Therefore, solar panels are almost certainly net positive.

Synthetic fuel generation is probably not in the current environment. Storage is not a major problem yet at the current power generation mix. It may become competitive if storage becomes a problem, or if solar drops in price by 66% or more.
Extension in this context basically just means new registers/instructions that didn't exist on a 386. Even floating point support on x86 is technically an extension. SSE (which adds the xmm registers) has existed on all x86 CPUs made by Intel in the last 20+ years, and the ymm registers/instructions are part of AVX2 which has existed on all x86 CPUs made by Intel in the last 10+ years.
Well, I think this move by google will divide the chromium project in 2 versions: one with and one without this "feature".
If I’m still working at 10pm, there’s a good chance it’s gibberish due to falling asleep at the keyboard and drool, or me waking up really fast as my face hits it.

Even in an outage or emergency, I’m probably bored, exhausted and useless before then. Assuming I started at my standard 8am, of course.
My interests are in local inference, so a service like Amazon Polly doesn't fit my needs.

I haven't tried anything so far that I actually liked so my answer to "what's the best quality I have found?" is none.

The reverse though, OpenAI's Whisper for speech to text has been amazing, far exceeding my expectations.

Having just looked again I found a list at huggingface that I will be poking through in my spare time soon.

https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-speech&so...
> Is someone here who understands the nitty bitty details of AVX-512/AVX10 and could tell me what is included which current latest gen AMD processors do not support?

Half-precision floating-point for sure.
The part about the margins always annoys me. They are comparing final cost to cost of goods + labor to manufacture, but there are other components than that. There is the cost of stores, of store staff to sell you the bag. The executives salaries who do not make the bags themselves.

This comes up in tech as well. The cost to manufacture, say, a CPU, is very low compared to how it is sold. But you are paying for a lot of R&D that guided the CPU design. How are these things factored in? I'm sure that there is a word for this factoring in of R&D, mgmt, and other costs, but I don't know what the term is to start learning more. Does anyone else know?
Click bait makes money. Unless some special magic is going on with a publication they'll all use click bait titles.
On the coasts, I think that's viable.

It's not viable where water is a valuable resource.
Well once you have the grass you could just ferment it into ethanol... An option that has been available to us this entire time...
Do you know of handy testing steps? I suppose I could ask ChatGPT, but if someone has a validated "here, this is how you do it" I have a 3090 that I can do it on, but I'm not keen to debug anything here.
Generally CHERI tracks things for 16-byte regions
Modulithic Architecture
ChatGPT has been great for my mental health
Neural Networks and Deep Learning, a free online book. http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
> In a prime example of hacker humor of the time, a T-shirt featuring one of the early appearances of Puffy the blowfish that would become the project mascot touted the Blowfish password hashing algorithm which remains the default on OpenBSD both with the picture caption "So long and thanks for all the passwords" just below Puffy on the front, along with the full source code of the blowfish function on the back.

Where do I get this t-shirt?
You'll note that I didn't say we should use batteries for everything :) I think synthetic fuels are a great idea and I look forward to watching how the whole competitive landscape plays out between those and hydrogen-based solutions and (maybe??) really small nuclear.
They should definitely read whatever interests them so when they want to acquire useful knowledge (like what to do when the obvious brake cable fix doesn’t work), they have access to tons and tons of written material on that topic.

It’s odd how you’re acting like you’re making an argument against the general imperative to read books, but your examples are people being requested to read specific books which may or may not be useful and/or interesting to the reader.
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The second heading in the TFA is "It’s All About Outliers"
These finance apps bore the heck out of me. Seems like they all do the same thing. When to retire based on sufficient money. It's not hard to know you shouldn't overspend in life. Then you just need to figure out when you want to stop working. Not about money but about when you're over it.
As is the case whenever you type it in, yes
Of these, number 1 is probably the most doubtful. The EU, however boring that line of thinking is, is still quite bureaucratic, and it's doubtful that measures to control this, might not be a priority of bureaucrats. After all, the regs I mention later are in the name of "less e-waste" (which is good, but besides the point). So something like "control web DRM" might not be as blatant and easily solved (your point No.3).

For number 2, the EU's new regulations above more easily replacable batteries, mandatory USB-C ports and such, in my eyes prove -- though not doubtlessly -- that they do care about walled gardens in tech.

Number 3 though, again, as I've alluded to before, doubtful. But possible in my eyes. Urgency is another thing you've mentioned, and -- let's say it again -- bureaucrats are not particularly known for solving a problem in the right time.

NB: don't misenterpret my use of 'bureaucrat[ic]' as a negative comment, it is just a fact, however boring.
>Haraway's work has been criticized for being "methodologically vague"[39] and using noticeably opaque language that is "sometimes concealing in an apparently deliberate way

So you're saying that "Her work is basically handwaving and bullshitting".
That works for things like E85, but does not for airplane fuel or diesel or natural gas or...

The density of ethanol is the issue, no?
Again, this is missing the point.

Good speech is often considered offensive to some, so we must tolerate offensive speech in the name of free speech.

Offensive speech is not automatically good speech and offensive speech in and of itself isn't automatically worthy of broadcast.
> That notification you got about the "20 minutes worth of fuel left" meant before they were forced to divert to the alternate.

I believe you but this is yet another reason why it was inappropriate for the pilot to mention this to passengers. Nearly everyone around me was visibly distressed as we "idled" to Pittsburgh.

> The flight may have been scary to the passengers, and people may not have wanted to get back on, but I'm sure it was quite routine to the people up front.

Maybe for the pilot/copilot but the flight attendants' facial expressions when I got off the plane did not suggest to me that this was routine.
I believe the author is missing some data sources (bus lines?). There are areas I know are reachable within 30 minutes from downtown Berkeley that do not appear on the map.
It probably depends on your location

E.g. gliding is really big in Germany where it gained popularity especially after WWII.

It's fairly cheap and usually organised as hobby clubs instead of commercial schools.

For example a club in my area offers young people, ages 15-25, flying lessons until their first solo for a flat fee of 400€.

Many people who are interested in aviation use this to get their first piloting experiences while still in school. Some then take the next step of becoming commercial pilots.

Motorised flight on the other hand is much more expensive and (on a private level) done by people who, usually, already have a (well paying) job.