skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree this is unlikely to be true, but I keep in mind what we know now and what we knew 1 million years ago. The energy to run a PC would seem obscene to people even thousands of years ago (let alone what a PC is and what it can do). Pull someone from earlier in this timeline and see what they think of airplanes.

2.6 million years ago: Stone tools

1.7 million years ago: Controlled fire

5,000 - 3,000 BC: Writing

3,000 BC: The wheel

1543: Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric model of the solar system

1687: Newton publishes "Principia Mathematica"

1915: Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.

1969: Apollo 11 mission successfully lands the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon.
Vega-Lite – A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
For the uninitiated, what is the advantage of using Elixir for machine learning?
I guess people adapt quickly.
These are all valid questions, and commonly raised concerns, about the Overture Project.
It's almost like there's a... mass campaign against science and facts! Perhaps spearheaded by the very corporations that benefit from oil and gas extraction! And orchestrated by politicians who are given vast amounts of money from these companies to tell their party members not to worry, that those who believe in all this are damn dirty liars and to continue to spend spend spend!
It's the percentage of alcohol in your system (Blood Alcohol Content) that makes you drunk, not the raw amount.

If you're drinking 30-50 units of water for every unit of alcohol, all that alcohol is going to be very diluted and have little effect on your BAC. There's probably a threshold beyond which you'll just piss it all out before the your BAC ever reaches a meaningful number.
>You'd need to define that something special, else you sound really racist.

...I think that says more about you than me.
I didn’t filter your link because it was a blog, I filtered it because it was an obvious pitch for a product the authors sell.

Do you really not understand the issues there? Incredible.
In climate change policy, perfect is the enemy of good.
It's far, far too late for this. The W3C is already irrelevant, not that it ever mattered much.

The internet is made by big companies. Not standards bodies. The WHATWG has the actual living standards, and Google, Apple, Cloudflare and Amazon make the actual software. Nobody cares about the W3C. And Mozilla is long past dead.
Has the scheduling meeting been approved and budgeted via all the proper channels?
Ready the short story True Names by Vernor Vinge. My favorite short story .

https://ia801004.us.archive.org/0/items/truenamesvingevernor...

His later book A Deepness in the Sky also revolves around the same ideas.
>The subset of people who don't want things to change are running which OS exactly?

All of them? Hell I hate it when things change in a way that forces me to give them attention now rather than when I have time. Nothing worse than doing an update and having to rework my flow, scripts, and code just to be productive again. Let me choose when I update my tools, don't force it on me just because your UI team found an even more complicated and torturous way to make simple things ugly and hard - I have my own work to do.
You can adjust the time where it says "Maximum trip duration".
> I learned a bit about how not to run a company.

I don't get it. Please someone explain this line to me.
On the contrary, all metrics show that VC activity is at the lowest, personnal experience tell me that right now new funding is very hard to come by.
I like various music from the past 100 years or so, not just from when I was young, and agree quality of current pop is pretty low compared to that time period.
Also use robots.txt to block Google if you can afford to. I've blocked them (and everyone else) from everything but my homepage.
M2 growth relative to the growth of size of the economy is basically the same as inflation, in the Milton Friedman Chicago school.

So if M2 growth and the S&P 500 are similar, that means that the S&P 500 is fairly well correlated with the size of the economy. Quelle surprise!
Here is the question and answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ7Dw-739VY&t=7626s

Grusch states they have "biologics" that are "non-human" based on people he talked to
1. You can pair normal atx PSUs for the motherboard/CPU and server PSUs for the GPUs using breakout boards.

2. You can power limit GPUs down to 250W and barely lose any performance depending on your use case, highly recommend it. So any PSU that can provide those is good.

3. HP 1200w power supplies are both plenty and cheap on ebay, even though they are rated at 1200w, because they are so cheap, you're better of just running them at ~500w and buy multiple of it instead of overheating a single one. A nice benefit of running them at lower wattages is the very loud tiny fan doesn't have to spin as hard and create a ton of noise.

4. Not needed, but having a single cable might be convenient, they are pretty expensive though.

5. You don't need to do anything special here, except if you add too many GPUs, the motherboard might have issues booting because the 75w per gpu draw is too much, but usually those motherboards will have an extra GPU power cable (like the ROMED8-2T) and some risers let you hook up the power cable directly to them so PCIe is only used for data transfer.

6. It's not the outlet, it's the circuit that matters. And keep in mind that whatever power wattage you set on the GPU, you need to account for ac/dc loss, so you need to add an additional ~10-15% to the usage.

If you power limit it to 250W, each additional GPU is essentially an extra ~280W or so. If you plan on having like 8 GPUs or more and you plan to run them 24/7, you're better off just calling a local colocation center and run it there, since they have much cheaper electricity cost, it comes out cheaper for you and you have all the benefits of being in a datacenter.
A customizable form letter would be nice to have, if anyone wants to jump on that. I'm not a great writer in that respect.
So it looks like they will be collecting PII (user_ipaddress) and they will also link these events to an account (account_uuid) and you just have to trust their "de-identification pipeline".

Will be interesting to see if they roll this out in the EU (especially with the "Share analytics" box being checked by default).
Where did this quote come from? I was sure I'd read something similar but when I google it I get nonsense articles.
Lioness. But actually a boar.
Read the author's bio. Do you think it was made in good faith?
It's called "Conversation View" and it DOES exist! It's just disabled by default. You can find it in: Settings -> All Settings -> General.
yes, unfortunately :(

did you know that the weight adapter happens on demand, on inference, in the LoRA forward pass function?

leaky, leaky, leaky

GGML will save us, surely
> I’m just curious

- Some people are committed to open source.

- Some people want to play with/learn/modify the technology, not just use it instrumentally.

- Some people want to play with these models without the surveillance that comes with renting them on OPC.

I'm sure there are other reasons I'm not thinking of, but I'm in the middle of that particular Venn diagram.
> offers an alternative that... solves absolutely none of these problems.

Here is how 1sub solves or remedies the problems with the mentioned methods:

- Pay to download or for other services: With 1sub it will be more worth it because you don't just get access to that software or that service, you get access to the software and services of all developers who participate in this system.

- Accepting donations: While 1sub keeps some of the voluntary aspect of donations, you also get something for your money.

> folks can still pirate it

Yes, the point of this is not to make it impossible to do anything without a subscription. It just makes the difference in convenience between subscribing and not subscribing bigger since there are more things that you get or don't get depending on whether you subscribe.

> this effort sounds like some naive newbie took 5 seconds to think about

Interestingly I have thought about this for many years and no idea I have had before or any solution I have seen has felt as good as this one because they always fail in that the user doesn't have enough reason to pay. The main objective of this solution is to give the user more reason to pay.
In software you can make an excellent product and still fail, sadly.
> That is true, but the principle of speech is violated by everyday individuals with no power who espouse such values.

The same is true of anything else. People demand their privacy and then look through their partner's phone etc.

> We just tend to ignore or think it is irrelevant when nobody holds power.

"Nobody holds power over others" is an impossible perfection but getting closer to it is a primary goal of a good society.

> Yes, Elon and X can never be taken seriously on free speech without a pivot towards decentralization. What is happening with X is precisely the opposite. The "everything" app only provides opportunity for more control which will result in less freedom inevitably.

"Everything app" is some kind of marketing BS. Is the same app supposed to protect your anonymity and do your taxes? Hold your medical records and implement opaque buggy video game anti-cheat systems? That is either a farce or a dystopia.

But in practice he probably just means they're going to add some Tesla integration or cryptocurrency thing to Twitter and then people can take it or leave it.
According to another comment, someone tried disabling Font and Cosmetic Filtering on uBlock and it worked for them?
Non publicly available that I am aware of, aside from what the Navy released years ago. From what I understand, a big reason for not releasing footage is sensor data that is embedded in the images/videos that if released, would significantly help non-friendly nations to better understand some of our military capabilities.
I try not to succumb to doomerism, but recent climate news has just gone from bad, to worse, to grim, to 'ah well, glad I didn't have kids and I'm dead in the 2060's'.

The IPCC has traditionally been conservative, but all of their low rcp outcomes depend upon direct carbon capture, a technology we haven't really figured out yet, deployed to a wider extent than we've done with anything.

I'm not saying DAC research isn't promising, but a lot of folks are just shrugging their shoulders and assuming that everything is going to turn out fine. It's not. At this rate, it basically boils down to dealing with global warming or dealing with the effects of stratospheric sulfide injection. Neither are going to be pretty and honestly either could have effects so dire it ends human civilization as we know and love it today.
The OS under your software is not static. MacOS programs from 10 years ago rarely execute successfully. Windows programs from 20 years ago might. Linux programs from 5 years ago mostly don't unless you have access to source code (and a certain willingness to patch it yourself).
You don't need attributes for alignment anymore in a post-C11 world. It's much more advisable to use alignas and avoid vendor specific ifdef soup.
I'm going to assume that Ranga Dias is having a very bad week.

His major discovery, assuming it's real, is room-temp superconductivity in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride. Trouble is, anything which contains lutetium is going to be intrinsically more scarce and much more expensive than the lead-and-copper RT superconductor that was announced a few days ago. Doped lutetium crystals are also much more difficult to prepare -- and, even more troublesome, it seems they only work at 1 GPa pressure, which is absolutely non-trivial and makes them much more difficult to utilize than commonplace superconductors that can simply be cooled with LN2.

...Oh, and it might not even be real. [1]

To have a different research group discover your holy grail, as you're stuck defending yourself from misconduct allegations, must be an incredibly bad feeling.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06162-w
I love Vernor Vinge's "Deepness in the Sky", where a very diminished force of humans arrives at an alien planet during the aliens' industrial revolution. The humans decide to go into cold sleep until the aliens are advanced enough to help rebuild their ship, and they spend hundreds of years subtly manipulating the aliens' social and technological development to their benefit.

Of course, among the aliens are a small faction of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists who are constantly trying to prove the existence of the aliens and their manipulation of the planet's information systems.
It's funny (in a sad way) to read this today in the same 5 minutes I am reading about Google's DRM of the web.

Half of the reason I run adblockers everywhere is to avoid stuff like this. Google doesn't take responsibility for this if they deliver an ad that exploits a zero day on my system and ends up costing me money.

So I take responsibility by blocking them.

They're not keeping user data secure... Which is mentioned in their take-over-the-web document: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

If they can't do it now, how are they going to do it with WIE?
Netflix is technically complying with pay transparency laws by listing all of their jobs as going up to extremely high salary ranges. Here's another example: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/279107631 but you can look at their jobs page to see basically all of them are like this. Odds are they are looking for a ~300k engineer here.

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268691
In the meantime I've been getting good mileage out of Kandinsky - anyone got a good sense of how they compare?
Just because it's a common talking point doesn't make it arbitrary.

Iirc, the fed also backstopped bonds and bought some stock
The cpi is a bad metric. It does not accurately capture all the cost increases we have seen since covid.
Zoomer, born in 2002. I'd be in favour of something like this; it's important to note that the problem, 99% of the time, isn't "games." Nobody plays games. It mostly serves as a sort of "comfort-blanket" people turn to when they're anxious; distractions are generated passively, and often have a reassuring effect. Most people younger than me will acknowledge that "scrolling" is something that often has a hold on their life, and feels outside of their control. To a large extent, it's probably informed larger culture (short-form content has increased people's focus on "vibes" and "aesthetics").

Often times, the anxiety is the beginning of a cycle that inhibits learning (people turn to their devices for anxiety-relief in math class, causing them to learn less math, causing them to be more anxious about math, and suddenly there is an increase in "math anxiety" except for the small minority socialised into math from a young age)

If I had a gameboy (as some others in this thread mention) on me in middle/high school, I'd be at least engaging with something where the input informs the output, probably realise it's not worth the effort, and start paying attention to class.

It's also worth noting that social media platforms are expressly designed to not be understood; you don't actually learn anything about technology or gain an interest in computing by watching Reels; it's not like the teachers are the dumb ones and the kids are all discussing the merits of glibc vs musl on IRC or something

I understand that HN is mostly inhabited by those from a more techno-optimist era when most administrative positions were held by boomers who thought that the monitor was the computer, but this isn't that. This is qualitatively different.
With expo on android you are forced to use a 3 years old version of SQLite which is just painful. They just refuse to update it.

https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/expo-sqlite-ship-ne...
My (Boomer) parents made a bunch of serious and expensive mistakes, and my dad didn't properly start a career until he was almost 30. He had a high school diploma. He was literally raised in a barn (the girls got to sleep in the very-small house). My mom had a junior college degree but never worked for pay again after they got married.

He was upper-middle-management at a huge company when he was forced into retirement by the "professional" managers who had come in and filled everyone's work-days with meetings and had no fucking clue how any of the actual work got done. Between pension and savings, they were millionaires by then, back when that still kinda halfway meant something, so it was fine. I grew up with everydamnthing I could want, really.

Follow the same life course—put in the same amount of effort, make the same sorts of mistakes—today and you'll work until you can't anymore, and be destitute when you do. And probably not have a family. Assuming you don't succumb to depression and OD on opioids in your 40s, or end up in prison.

I doubt my kids will own a home. Like, ever. And they're pretty damn bright. Unless they go full off-the-grid in the middle of nowhere or something.

The future looks pretty fucking feudal.

It's definitely worse now than it was decades back.
For a Digital version of the binder, I recommend https://docusaurus.io/ + its MermaidJS theme for quick, codeable diagrams
Venues and their increasing costs have nothing to do with production costs. Production costs refer to what it costs to actually produce a track and release it out there to the public.

Not even talking about insane amounts of good educational material available online for free these days, the capable equipment required to produce a studio-quality track fell down in price significantly, and most older equipment is still fully functional and compatible with newer offerings (thanks, MIDI and XLR). And newer equipment is still significantly cheaper than almost anything comparable from 20 years ago (if it was even available back then).

Back then, you wouldn't be able to produce anything that could compete in quality with studios from your bedroom, and not on a reasonable budget. And even if you somehow were so rich you were able to finance a pro studio in your house, and you produced a decent track, now the question is how would you even distribute it to the public and get heard.

These days? Thanks to affordability of what it takes to produce a track and the ease of getting your material released to the public, you can go from a nobody to someone with a hit track overnight. All for the price of a laptop, some decent speakers/headphones, and a midi-controller. And even that list is optional, as there are people who produce great stuff with less than this or even something entirely different.
> ... it tried to open 98 popups...

You need to install the uBlock Origin extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... (and if you know some web development, the uMatrix extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ ). Best used with Firefox or Palemoon browser. I have it on my browser and saw zero pop-ups.
You werent doodling in your book while walking in public or mid pee in the urinal. You weren’t doodling to the point you have chronic neck pain and a screwed up posture. You weren’t getting mad or depressed at what you were doodling either.
This is as bipartisan as it gets. Senator Chuck Schumer, senate majority leader, has introduced a bill that legally requires all individuals with direct knowledge of non-human technology to disclose it. Both the senate and house are pursuing parallel tracks pushing for disclosure, both of which involve republicans and democrats. You're welcome to dismiss this all as a ruse, but you do so in ignorance.
Companies are made up of humans is what he's getting at.
This is still Google's approach.
Yeah when I looked it seemed like a shitposting sub which is why I asked. :)
+1. This behavior is really confusing if you expect a particular window (typically a browser) to be on a particular workspace (I have keyboard shortcuts for the first 4 workspaces) and then it ends up off the end of the list because you happen to have been watching some content maximized.
> The road to hell is paved with good intentions

Fine. Then, when we arrive in hell because this person took us there, it should follow him all the rest of his days that he was too Pollyannish about the consequences of his own designs.
Thanks, that was a good summary, appreciate it.
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And really it's Apple you need to complain to if you were complaining. I'm sure Rewind would work exactly the same on iOS if Apple allowed it.
That's how many drums it could take from room temperature (20℃) to 100℃, but it would not be boiling yet. You need to put in more energy at 100℃ to make it boil.

To go from 1 L @ 100℃ to steam at 100 ℃ would take in additional 2.26 MJ.

A 200 L drum of room temperature water then could be used to tank 200 x (2.26 + 0.33) MJ = 518 MJ. They would only need one such drum, and one fully charged Tesla battery would be able to boil away 70% of the water.

That actually works out nicely. Assuming a standard sized 55 gallon drum when the battery runs out juice there would still be about 25 cm of water in the drum. You want enough water to remain so that the heating element stay immersed because it is often bad for them to run in air.
Yeah this, all weed stuff I mentioned
I personally find the subscription model in some ways better in terms of cognitive load - choosing between concrete things can be paralysing enough that the two most likely outcomes are failing to make a choice or choosing something and regretting it. The sense of now owning something that I spent hard earned cash on can feel a burden if money gets tight.

Subscriptions, on the other hand, match how consuming media feels to me - I spent time doing something I liked and the cost enabled that.

Looking on it from a pure economics point of view, clearly it makes more sense to buy a CD and have access to it forever from that spend. But psychologically it feels very different
Unfortunately news sources such as Fox News don't mention climate change when reporting on this. A lot of people aren't even aware of the impending climate catastrophe.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-water-topped-100-degrees-...