skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loneliness is a problem, but a problem with very unique and complex causes in every individual. Providing a configurable artificial companion to "solve" the problem is perverse to me. I have been pained by loneliness many times in my life and it's not a feeling that is "solved," it requires reorientation of direction and is a part of a journey, and will certainly rear its head more than once.

I also think the notion the Overton window will shift on this matter because online dating had that moment is a misinformed parallel. The best analogue for AI companions IMHO is using drugs to cope with reality. Most will agree doing so is detrimental, and even the most liberally minded people who want all drugs decriminalised can probably agree substance abuse is not a solution.
There's also the problem that "mindfulness" is itself obfuscated to mean something specific about autonomy, individual power, and personal freedom. This is a problem because it assumes attention occurs within a fixed cultural and economic framework as an individual commodity that can be traded. It's very transactional.

The practice of attention beyond what the mindfulness movement has co-opted includes attention to the ethical and ontological structure underlying our experiences. It is subversive in the sense that deep attention requires questioning assumptions. That's something the purveyors of distractions would prefer to discourage.
Because they don't at close to the necessary scale. This site shows a projected July load profile for ERCOT (Texas) in 2035:

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

Note that Storage contributes for about four hours and at its peak comprises less than 7% of the total load serving capacity in the state.

I'm not saying batteries don't exist and aren't useful, but the scale is very small at the moment. Too small to be a comprehensive way to balance out the low load factors of Wind and solar. (Which are also a useful but incomplete component of the overall electrical portfolio.)
I wish Firefox would use PR_SCHED_CORE to reduce the likelihood of such leakage...
It was in the comments, I can't find it now dangit, but it was a person talking about thier experience writing a game engine, I wanna say it was in Zig (maybe Rust) but it was about a certain game from when they were young and this game made them want to be a programmer and make games.

Then the person that had made that game long ago responded in the comments, so the (author? OP?) original commenter went on to thank that person in an authentic way and describe to that person how their game had inspired them to become a programmer.

It was really neat to read.
Even if we went 100% renewable today we would still be consuming vastly more resources than the earth can handle. The priority should be reducing needless and wasteful consumption. That means getting people out of cars and onto bikes or public transit. That means eliminating land use regulations that create inefficient sprawl.

Of course that won't be the priority for the government though, because there aren't any special interests that can benefit from that. Politicians don't really care about the environment. Don't trust them to spend money fixing the environment.
They exist and are finite in cycles.
I hadn't seen that Feynman quote before, but I discovered then when reading Donna Harraway's books (Cyborg Manifesto, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse, Primate Visions).

The criticism was """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""""
I used to fly a couple times/week for work and one I time I could see our runway out of my passenger window as we were landing, and we were heading directly for it. I just thought it was very windy, but I'm now learning that maybe Vin Diesel was at the helm that day. Very good explanation, thank you.
Utility/grid scale solar isn't just corporate welfare, it's old thinking regarding centralized production.

The electrical industry fears becoming a mere 'backup' or network instead of generation and supply. Or people disconnecting from the grid entirely, destroying economic viability of the infrastructure. They're pushing laws in various states that make a structure uninhabitable if it doesn't have a grid connection.

The only reason most people need to still be connected to the grid are low solar days and peak usage that the panels alone can't supply.

In 10 years you'll probably be able to have an iron flow battery in your basement or backyard that is completely harmless and can meet peak needs, like running an induction stove or a heat pump.

At that point, why do you need a grid connection? You don't.
I don't know if it counts as meditation but a couple times a day I make some tea, turn on some of the sleep music often found on youtube and spotify, turn on several red/NIR light clusters around a recliner, lean back and zone out. Sometimes my mind is blank and sometimes I have these weird almost day-dream like moments. I'm probably being programmed by Youtube to be their sleeper cell.
I came to say that too. In fact, that's the main reason I judge the story to be bullshit.

Conflating the US with 'The World' is a very American thing, that is idiosyncratic and not an attitude found elsewhere in the world.

(Example: "World Series Baseball" is played in the US almost exclusively, with just a slight nod to Canada.)
Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It might not go through. But remember whether it goes through or not isn't the important thing. The fact that Google wants it to is what matters.
Another contestant in this realm is Bright[1]. It runs entirely on the server and doesn't increase bundle size as seen here[2]. Regarding parsing speed tree-sitter is without a doubt performant since it is written in Rust, but I don't have any problems "parsing on every keystroke" with a setup containing Marked[3], highlight.js[4] and a sanitizer. I did however experience performance issues with other Markdown parser libraries than Marked.

[1]: https://bright.codehike.org/

[2]: https://aihelperbot.com/test-suite

[3]: https://github.com/markedjs/marked

[4]: https://highlightjs.org/
No, this is very wrong. You always need to be asking this, because you want to be using the most effective approach towards your goals, and price signals are irreplaceable tool to determine the effectiveness.
> solve the problem of environmental regulations blocking it

Or, like, come up with solutions to the environmental externalities posed by blanketing anything with solar panels.
Yes.
Some experiences need friction. For example I do not automate any bills. Each of them are paid manually (with a few exceptions like subscription services)

I want to see, feel, know and understand what is happening behind the curtain when it comes to my hard earned assets.
Sure, emergent properties can arise as parameters increase. Everyone knows that. That’s a much less specific claim than to say that the benefit of modifying softmax can only arise as an emergent property after N parameters, and therefore the benefit can only be evaluated on models above a certain size. To my understanding the author of TFA isn’t suggesting the same issue as the one in your linked paper.
I guarantee 99% of iphone users dont know 50% of iphone features. You have drunk far too many apple marketing paragraphs.
"But our engines might...oh yeah carry on"
> (they said it's measured by keyboard usage).

Which is not well-correlated to being productive.
A yield will simply return a generator object, which contains information about the next value to use, and how to continue the function execution. That's why you need to use functions that yield things inside loops or list(...).

If you run it from different threads I guess it will be the same as calling the function multiple times, it will return a new started-from-the-top generator.

def sum():
yield 1
yield 2
print(repr(sum()))
print(next(sum()))
print(next(sum()))

Prints

<generator object sum at 0x7fc6f14823c0>
1
1
> They want to get home safely to their families the same as you do.

Except when they don't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34506004

When anything well-operated deviates from the norm, people are going to question / panic, and rightly so.
Texas has very roughly as much coast line as florida. Daily heating cycle of the land creates a pretty good heat pump to blow wind onshore in the afternoon . In Corpus Christi and Galveston they call it the 1:30 at 1:30pm which indicates the wind direction clocking that way in the early afternoon. Couple that with very low land value best served by feeding cows on it, makes Texas a great wind producer, and higher than average sunny days makes solar very easy.
> you do realize that most of the world doesnt live in cities, and therefore has has to own a car

You do realize that most of the people in the world do not own cars and it would be an ecological disaster if they transitioned to owning them.
At 45 degrees north solar also nicely correlates with air conditioning needs.
SUN used to say The Network is the Computer...that always reminds me of what is called "cloud" the last 10+ years.
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> We also need to stop asking if it is profitable to save humanity

Profitability approximates economic sustainability.

If this fuel costs $100/gallon, it's cheaper and thus more sustainable to aggressively subsidize EVs before synthesising fuel. If, on the other hand, it costs $6/gallon, funding its production with a tax on fossil fuels makes sense.

Rejecting reality "to save humanity" is a false economy.
All well and good, until the number of websites that refuse to work without attestation starts inexorably creeping upwards, year after year.
All SOTA generative models are built on Google Brain’s research.
They cannot be measured distinctly when one is a proxy for the other.
My Father recently passed of Cancer. Now I find my self looking for records of him. We made no videos, I regret that. I found a voice message on my phone that I've safe to remember his voice.

A blog like Jake's is a gift to those he leaves behind. A small record of his thoughts. I'm sure they will treasure this.
I am an electrical engineer that designs control systems for renewable power production for a living.

Curious what makes you think that the overhead and inefficiencies inherent to a million small solar installs is somehow better than a single managed facility benefiting from economy of scale both for maintenance and design.

Additionally, curious how you plan to address the problem of adding additional generation to existing way overloaded distribution systems to accomplish this. If this massive hypothetical solar install is all non-grid tied then fine, I guess, but you're losing a substantial amount of the power that's made that way.

Distribution systems don't come for free and have many of the same problems as 'last mile' internet. Not terribly complex but expensive en masse, particularly in areas that are not densely populated (which is a lot of the US).

There is a reason we spend a lot of money on transmission. Spending a lot of money on distribution helps a very small part of your network. Spending a lot of money on transmission helps a huge part of your network.
I can see AI being used to make scientific papers more approachable like this.
This is a fool’s opinion. Spend some time reading what people diagnosed with ADHD say about their disorder. Medication merely makes them able to keep up some of the time.
Hasn't AMD proven multiple times that a double pumped packed-SIMD implementation works well enough? Just the permute operations need a full width data path to get reasonable latencies. Intel already overplayed their hand with AVX-512 when they still had a stronger position. Let's hope they fail to hold back the field with their misguided attempts to increase their margin no matter the cost (even to their own bottom line).
The cases where your locked device is absolutely necessary will approach 100%.
Typical!

So you have zero evidence (aka much stronger true believer) of what you say working and you want to restructure the world based on fairy tales spun by the likes of David Graeber?

See ya.
> "Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS" which is the undisputed gold standard in mathematical typography.

It is? Do you have any supporting evidence for this claim?

I just had a look at a bunch of recent articles, and I would very much dispute it. I saw nothing extraordinary, and found the fonts they used rather ugly (though of course that is highly subjective). The use of bold face to highlight theorem/definition/etc. numbers is IMHO very questionable. The boldface letters you praise stick out like a sore thumb, feeling as if they were being emphasized and highlighted when they clearly are not meant to be.
FWIW the state is California.
From vodafone.co.uk:

Samsung Galaxy A14 5G - £15 per month + £9 upfront
£563 in total (3yrs no inflation)
Apple iPhone 11 - £32 per month + £19 upfront
£1191 in total (3yrs no inflation)

The iPhone 11 is being sold for £480 on Amazon - I'm struggling to see where the heavy discount is.
One of the related papers I stumbled across, while not the SHARD paper, does go into a fair amount of detail about SHARD and the problem they were trying to address. One bit of verbiage here might be illuminating:

The new SHARD) (System for Highly Available Replicated Data) system under development at Computer Corporation of America (CCA) is designed to address the problems described above. It provides highly available distributed data processing in the face of communication failures (including network partitions). It does not guarantee serializability, nor does it preserve integrity constraints, but it does guarantee many practical and interesting properties of the database.

The reader is referred to [SBKJ for a detailed description of the architecture of the SHARI) system. Briefly the main ideas are as follows. The network consists of a collection of nodes, each of which has a copy of the complete database. (Full replication is a simplifying assumption we have used for our initial prototype, many of our ideas seem extendible to the case of partial replication, but this extension remains to be made.) Replication allows transactions to be processed locally, thus reducing communication costs and delays, and providing high availability.

So it sounds to me like their main concern was availability through replication, and not so much horizontal scalability (which seems to be more the "point" of modern day "sharding"). Yet I would probably claim that there is enough conceptual overlap to say that SHARD does relate to the modern use of sharding in some sense. Although it's hard to be sure without that original paper.
Is syntax highlighting considered difficult? A regex loop that outputs HTML to a pre is a few lines of vanilla JS.
> That means getting people out of cars and onto bikes or public transit. That means eliminating land use regulations that create inefficient sprawl

This is a generational project. We don't have time for it. That doesn't mean we can't do both. But we can't only make the long-term massive-upheaval play. While suggested with good intentions, it's the sort of thing a fossil-fuel lobbyist will latch onto as a stalling tactic.
I don't know. The majority of households that I'm familiar with have always been dual-income. Being able to live on a single income became something only the wealthy could afford (in my part of the US, anyway) decades ago.
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Where did the 71 come from? The US inch was 2.54000508 cm and the UK inch was 2.5399977, until the Johansson's blocks convinced everyone to use the industrial inch of exactly 2.54 cm - what is now called the "international inch" (1ft = 0.3048 meters).

A nautical mile corresponds to 2.9229 cm. A survey foot is not much different than an international inch. I hope there's some oddity of history I'm missing!
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Is the pro tier where you manage clients legal?

Quite sure you *cannot* give financial advice and manage anything in Europe this would be illegal.
so Thread based based pool will have same instance of generator, while Process based pool with have unique instance of generator?
> There are 3 countries in the world not using the metric system.

The US uses metric for many, many things. Frequently side-by-side with imperial equivalents. AFAIK it's also the official position of the USG that metric is prefered.

> The non-metric system is difficult to use because it's using 12 based units with a 10 based numbering system.

OTOH, 12 divides evenly by both 4 and 3, which are common divisions.
All 3 founders worked remotely at larger companies during the pandemic and when we started the company in late '21 we knew we wanted to be hybrid, so it was made top down from the start. For a small team, I personally think there are culture and productivity benefits for being in person. I think other companies have shown remote is absolutely viable for small and large companies, but to your point, there has to be a lot of intention around it. I don't buy into the dogmatic views of hybrid vs remote: I think it's more about understanding what's right for you and the company, and as a leader making the culture, policy, and practices work for what you want. For me and Dopt, hybrid has been a dream :)
A couple details worth noting:

- `repr` often outputs valid source code that evaluates to the object, including in the post's example: running `datetime.datetime(2023, 7, 20, 15, 30, 0, 123456)` would give you a `datetime.datetime` object equivalent to `today`.

- Using `_` for throwaway variables is merely a convention and not built into the language in any way (unlike in Haskell, say).
Is it really "useless" if I didn't even know about llama? And look, now I have 3 more links to dive into.

This is the opposite of useless.
NextJS does however offer an experimental Rust implementation for parsing MDX which makes it a lot faster and less buggy to use than setting it yourself with various Rehype and Remark plugins. Using Rust parser with Bright[1] (if you don't need other plugins like table of contents or Github Flavoured Markdown) is a potent setup.

[1]: https://bright.codehike.org/
> Is this production ready?

It's been worked on for several years AFAICT. It's only very recently that it got a public release, but it was built specifically for use in Hyperfiddle, the company of Dustin Getz (also the same person who developed Electric Clojure).

I am not sure what is a good way to determine whether something is production ready, but I know its developers have been dogfooding it for a while now. The only real problem I see is lack of other companies adopting it leading to nobody else wanting to try adopting it. The other big problem is that it's hard selling people Clojure either because it is a niche language or the parentheses scares people away.*

* Note I use Clojure in my day job. I do not think either of these two points are a valid excuse to not use Clojure, but they are the most common excuses I see.
My biggest case against utiliy-scale solar is that it (can) displace important natural ecosystems. Whereas home or commercial solar nearly always is just displacing rooftops, or parking lot covers.
Yes, threat models are probably going to be vastly different in a post-scarcity society (and we’re not only talking money/natural resources scarcity).

If you know of a workable way to achieve that, please do share it!
Water without salt is less dense so that column of water would have less pressure at depth and would be pushed up.
No. And its a huge waste of energy. E-fuels are more likely a fairy tale you tell people so they won't buy electric cars.

Where I live, the fossil gas industry has been running ads promoting green hydrogen, and of course fossil gas as a clean "bridge technology" to H2. So just keep running that gas heating system, cuz it'll switchover to H2, for sure, at some decade in the future.
LessWrong is obviously not a cult, the allegations are nonsense. Well established researchers post there (e.g. Paul Christiano) and some even work or worked for OpenAI or DeepMind (e.g. Richard Ngo).

It's rather that the cited source "RationalWiki" is a highly politically biased source which routinely attacks anything which is in any way associated with the rationalism community, or which engages with things that are deemed unacceptable by its far-left authors (such as intelligence research). They have in the past attacked highly respected bloggers such as Scott Aaronson and Scott Alexander.
Old proverb in Business: "Never, ever turn away a paying customer."

Quickest way to go broke.

You know all those "Exclusive" clubs? I've never seen one yet that didn't run into trouble to get enough 'bums on seats'.
And the writers were already compensated for their work.
This is fantastic, smooth and really very polished. It clearly covers a lot of stuff and you’ve really got a lot covered so great work. I’ve not sat down and tried to fill out all my details as I’m worried I’ll lose all my details and have to start again. But this kind of stuff I find really interesting and most online are really bad/basic.

Main concerns are around price tbh (I’m a cheap bastard) and I think $14 a month is steep for something I’d use loads one evening and then probably use once every quarter after that.

I think the persistent storage is the key thing to make someone want to pay and the way it’s presented feels wrong to me. If I revisit the site you basically say ‘hey I’ve got all your data stored, sign up to premium and you can have it back without entering it all’ to me that comes across a bit of a ransom. I think that’s fine I’d say a couple of days/weeks have passed. But I think if you Accidentally closed the tab or it timed out it might put people off.

I think the real money maker here is likely financial planners who can pay a large fee and share/use it with their clients over zoom or whatever. Or perhaps some kind of insights/ yearly/monthly forecast summaries for a fee.

All in all amazing job, I hope it’s a great success.
what about natural habitats ? how are we going to maintain them
While I understand "board" vs "bike", I don't actually understand the "onewheel" vs "skateboard" thing.

An electric skateboard or scooter just seems completely superior on almost all axes.