skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you just have to look at the individual decisions he's made. For me, I keep going back to the time he made the Twitter employees literally print out their source code. (Not send a link to github repo, he made them physically print them out.) That is not something a competent leader would have asked for.
My guess is that they need to be cut using EDM (slow) and need expensive CMM machines to make sure the resulting die shapes match the tolerance.
I know you're probably referring to OEM hand crimping tools that cost on the order of 500€/$, but even decent quality non-OEM tools (e.g. Engineer PAD-11) aren't exactly cheap. Though, I hear IWISS ones are usable if you're on a budget.
Yep, these is where I lost interest.
A friend of mine broke up with her fiance, who is ex-law enforcement. He accused her of domestic violence (threatening him with a gun), which got her fired from her security guard position. She had a nightmare with the courts and dawdling prosecution, so she was in limbo for about a year.

I really think judicial systems need to be far more careful about enabling harassers. Speeding up the process would help, as would covering the legal costs of those found innocent.
If you were to ask Usenet at the time, they would chiefly cite the eternal September (which you do mention in your article), although, clearly, it kept going for longer than that. Perhaps the eternal September is just one of the contributing factors to losing control of its shared culture and values?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
By first party I assume they mean using psql and postgres's own tooling.
Superconductivity was first observed in solid mercury at a temperature of 4.19 Kelvin in 1911, not long after liquid helium was first produced in 1908.

The 1980's discoveries were of the first "high temperature" superconductors (where "high temperature" means "above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen").

Liquid nitrogen is much easier to deal with than liquid helium.
> When I was growing up

How many people were on this rock then? Was it anywhere near 8 billion people as it is now, or was it a fraction of the number?

> it's definitely more expensive and involved to even temporarily switch

The price of meat and healthy whole foods in the US is heavily distorted by lobying [0] and by subsidies ($38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, but only 0.04 percent of that (i.e., $17 million) each year to subsidize fruits and vegetables) [1].

[0] https://fortune.com/2023/07/21/why-healthy-food-so-expensive...

[1] https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/CopyofFINALSavi...
Fair enough. I should have written 'controlled fusion'. But you're 100% right.
I'm glad you've come out and said you're ignorant. You've demonstrated it everywhere in this thread.
If that's all you're going for, you don't need timeliness, comprehensiveness, accuracy, accessibility, performance, and durability.
Tell us more. Who is we?
That might be bit better from a security perspective but modularity and code reuse are good things and npm makes them easy

I guess it’s a tradeoff
Good job. I'd like to see more. Does the world crumble, or does the human spirit falter?

Slice of sci-fi life pie is fun, but I always wonder why is this story being told? Is it a cautionary tale, or something that seems obscene to those of us who do not have eyes to see the beauty in it?

Is its' heartbeat electric or robotic?
A personal website?
The general design of users, processes, files, etc.

It's obviously not that well-defined since it's implicitly 'not Unix', so can diverge. Just anything that's subjectively similar to that OS design.
For comparison, the El Niño / La Niña cycle, a/k/a the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) drives patterns of drought and excessive precipitation and severe storm activity across the Pacific basin, including Australia, Japan, and North & South America, with effects being felt into the Gulf of Mexico and by some accounts, Europe. Those result from shifts in sea-surface temperatures of about 0.5 °C / 1 °F.

AMOC is part of a tremendous thermal-energy circulation system from the tropics to the arctic within the Atlantic Ocean, and tying to global ocean circulation patterns. Specific impacts are difficult to identify, but could well be hotter tropics (and likely: stronger and more frequent hurricanes and extreme storms), colder North Atlantic (including a loss of the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream on Northern European climates, hence potentially far colder and more severe winters). There are also likely impacts on marine life, agriculture, general wildlife patterns (plant and animal), amongst others. Regional sea-level rise is another possible impact (through thermal expansion if I understand correctly).

Effectively: a predictable and beneficial pattern to which human and nonhuman life and existence has evolved over many thousands of years, if not longer, may be on the verge of complete disruption. That's an event without precedent for on the order of 10,000 years (since the end of the last major glaciation period).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o>

More on prospective impacts of an AMOC collapse:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...>

<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1181-8>

<http://phys.org/news/2016-01-greenland-ice-sheet-affect-glob...>
If the goal is to pick “future leaders”, Yale succeeded as far as admissions are concerned. I think it’s unreasonable to expect that an institution can predict what decisions a teenager will make in their 60’s.
It says completed projects only stay on the map for one year.
Not sure about this for larger teams, but for very early stage teams I agree.

Seeing people using a hard-to-build feature a couple times a day, then more, until eventually you have to mute notifications to focus on work is a great way A/ to feel the progress, and B/ notice trends you can't pick out in averages.

Example for A:
Just yesterday our CTO wrote in a feature-specific channel:
> This page is now unreadable due to volume of usage pings! Go team!!

Example for B:
Intuitively noticing whether your tool, that has say 6 DAUs on a team, is being used once by all 6 people, or in 3 pairing sessions, or something in between.
Yes could run an analysis for this, but at an early stage co it's easier to just notice.

We became June users at our pre-launch co a few months ago, and the feature 0xferruccio mentioned is part of what sold me initially.

Not sure how long it'll remain useful but loving it for now.
The problem is that in fact there are no preconditions; the function can be called unconditionally using any value as an argument. It throws for some values, and any change in which ones is a visible change.

Programmers will make code dependent on anything that is visible in an API, even if the specification tells them not to, an ISO standard tells them not to and even if their mother tells them not to.

Here, the spec may even be saying: if you call this function with a non-string, it throws an exception.
I didnt see https://invoiceninja.com/ get mentioned yet, but it is my favorite software solution in this space. You can self host it or pay them for hosting. PDF generation and alot more
Copper bullets date back to the 80s, they're not a new development. Copper bullets have higher penetration despite having less mass, which makes them better against armored targets, and NATO still held on to lead for so long just because it's cheaper.
>There no money in tools: The Dutch company ASML would like to talk to you.

"You made a general argument. Here's a single counter-example, on a very tiny niche, compared to thousands of examples in your favor, making much more money in other areas of IT".
I agree that a lot of the AI risk pundits are either people with no real AI experience (or very outdated, resting-on-their-laurels experience) or if they do know AI, they probably know little about the complexities of running actual large scale, business or mission critical systems.

However, in their defense, the real question is whether those types of problems are something this new class of AI could potentially excel at. I've been an AI skeptic for decades, having had real world industry experience trying to get it to solve problems, and this is the first technological advance that has actually surprised me with its capabilities.

AI Risk still doesn't rank above many current, pressing global problems for me personally, but it also doesn't seem ridiculous anymore.
I admittedly pulled the numbers out of thin air, and things I thought I’d seen before.

Had a second to sit down, and I _way_ overestimated my counts.

Per NPM there are 2,480,373 packages. According to Whitesource [1] there are an average of 12.3 versions per package. This gives us a total of 30,508,587.9 archives to scan. At a cost of $1B to scan that means each package would cost $33.959…

There’s no way that’s reality. That seems like several orders of magnitude too high.

1. https://threatpost.com/malicious-npm-packages-web-apps/17813...
Does this actually matter? Who is out there, in the wild, creating file paths that use incredibly cursed random sequences of bytes? Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see the need to accommodate people who do stupid things to see what breaks.
An interesting revelation I had was realizing that culturally speaking all Boomers were conservative, they just picked different things to be conservative about.

Maybe that’s just an attribute of old people maybe not, I haven’t seen enough generations up close to have an opinion yet. We’ll see how my generation (Gen X) does I guess.
Frictionless until you need to do standard stuff like a stored procedure or a view.
But the question is, who and what is going to be allowed to connect to the corpweb.

Running an adblocker? Sorry. Using a non-Chromium based browser? Nuh-uh. Running an old machine with no TPM? Sucks to be you. Running a Linux distribution? Tough luck.

Sure, you can have fun with your free decentralized web. But at the end of the day even tinkerers have to log into their gov website to pay their taxes.
Unfortunately "boring and basic and just works" is not a very accurate description of Alpine Linux. If you never want to use anything which doesn't support musl then it's a very pleasant and reliable distro, but not using glibc does make it relatively exotic for a linux distro and there is quite a bit of software that will have problems.
Although individual Chromebooks are pretty low-powered, having a 2 core Celeron or equivalent and ~4GB of RAM, they consume relatively little power and could possibly serve as the backbone of some compute clusters.

In fact, power/performance of most Chromebooks is pretty competitive compared to a Raspberry Pi, and you can find a lot of Chromebooks priced less than a equivalent SBC like the RPi. Being x86-64, Chromebooks also are able to run a lot more software without the emulation that ARM processors require.
You are vastly overestimating the danger involved in this.
Followup:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-fo...

https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-kazzelbach

What an effing bastard...
I've thought about that, but may only reach so far ...
We don't typically use multi-user systems, actually - I'm pretty sure Logan meant our personal hardware. For example, we run an i5-12400F at 5.2GHz and run a fairly customized Windows 11 Enterprise, both of which would become impossible if our BIOS and operating system were too much more locked down.

I mean, our motherboard has an external clock generator almost entirely dedicated to pointing and laughing at CPUs with a "locked multiplier". (It's also used for PCIe 5.0)

-Emily (see HN profile for details)
Translation to US terms: current supreme court should have a veto on next candidates to supreme court. It should be able to cancel any law or government decision, even constitutional amendments. Anything but that is not a democracy.
(Yes, Yuval thinks you’re stupid.)
Maybe? Could also be that latency is visible in the map without major impact on throughput.

That is, you have to argue to unrealistic extremes of building taking a day to get the imagination for an empty map. Latency is a fact of all delivery. How much is the question. Combined with realistic build times, it may be this is the optimal map?

Realistically, extra latency will have some advantages in many cases.
thanks sm yeah i should've added some clarification here in the comments
Not talking about Meta's X, talking about Microsoft's X
> If I can write "foo".contains('o') [..] but then you pretend you don't have strings, [..] C has strings

By your logic, couldn't I pretend then to have strings insomuch as C when "foo".contains('o') can be transpiled by my lang as

strchr("foo", 'o') != NULL
Some terms don't age well. "Deep" neural networks used to mean "more than one layer". Ie. 5 emulated neurons or more. What makes Language Models large, originally, was meant a model that emulates behavior that before needed to be programmed in explicitly, as size increased. The first time this was observed and described, it was in GPT-2, with 1.5B parameters.

You can do this on current mobile devices with current technology (ie. 4-bit quantization).
That's the whole point of "innocent until proven guilty" and it should be taken much more seriously as a concept.
Sorry, but this is entirely incorrect.

First, terms - brass is not used to "jacket" a bullet. Brass is used as the case material for the cartridge. Steel, and nickel plated steel are some times also used here. "Jacketing" (as in, Full Metal Jacket) refers to the material that wraps around the exterior of the projectile. As far as I'm aware, the material used here is almost always copper, or a copper alloy (cupronickel).

The US standard bullet is the M855. It's a lead core with a soft soft steel penetrator at the tip, that's jacketed with copper.

There's an advanced version of the M855, the M855A1, which is an entirely steel slug, jacketed with copper. This bullet has better terminal performance at longer ranges, and slightly better armour piercing capabilities.

The US army standard training round is the M193. It is a lead bullet jacketed with copper. Interestingly, it in many ways has better terminal performance than the M855 because this is the bullet the M16 and M4 rifles were designed around, and the M855 only exists because of NATO politics.

There are no bullets in the US inventory, to my knowledge, that use a copper core. Copper is simply far too expensive to be used at that scale, and, as you pointed out, reduces the weight of the projectile which has negative effects on terminal performance.

"Why are bullets jacketed in copper" you might be wondering here - when rifle cartridges were invented, they still used black powder, and all bullets were lead. When smokeless powder was invented, it became possible to have more explosive power per unit of volume. However, this had two negative effects - one, the lead projectile would either disintegrate, or became entirely inaccurate, at the speeds it was accelerated to. Second, the force of the bullet against the rifling of the barrel was rubbing away metal from the bullet, leaving lead deposits which fouled the gun and made it inaccurate. All steel bullets solved this problem, but increase the wear on the barrel. The solution was to coat (jacket) each bullet in a thin layer of copper, which was stiff enough to withstand the force of friction in air, while also softer than the steel barrel and reduced wear and tear on the rifles
Chromebook Cluster: low-power, cost effective, extensible [2022]
No more or less toxic than the powders used to hand mix oil paints. Just buy a fume hood off ebay.
Sankey is a good alternative that is much more readable
I'd maybe make the analogy that it's like the first ORM. Sure, you could write your own DB queries, but it just does what you want, and it's usually right.

Were ORMs the second coming? Meh. But it's arguable that they're still immensely powerful and useful and the way people write apps that interface with an RDBMS is permanently changed forevermore.
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I'm not sure what to make of this. Just thought others might find it interesting (or laughable) or maybe have more context.

First reaction is that it's ridiculous to make this an npm package and it looks like a caricature of criticism against dependency overload. But I saw that it's a package by sindresorhus and as far as I can tell he has a very positive reputation in the open-source community. However he has many, many npm packages like this. I don't think it's supposed to be ironic.

The best steelman I can make is that it's a made by a well-known maintainer and probably has enough eyeballs on it that any changes to file format extensions will be picked up pretty quickly. But that's a pretty week justification for this.
>Well said. I know there's money in tools because I've been making money making and selling tools for a long time

Couldn't a succesful actor say the same? "I know there's money in acting, because I've been making money acting for a long time".

And yet we'd instantly understand that doesn't refute the sense the statement was meant, and that acting isn't really the field you wanna pursue if you want to make money".

Same for any other niche endeavor, where there are thousands more lucrative fields and niches, and much fewer succesful examples compared to other areas.
What is necessary to run 70B on CPU without quantization?
Look for "stretchtext"
Relevant comic https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
AI_WasteManagement .. INVEST INVEST!!!!!!
Any luck getting other team members to use it?
If you ask anyone who works in advertising they always say Apple has by far the "worst" targeting options. They display ads in the App Store but the data they use to track is usually not very great.
The reason it might need to be huge is because the long tail of extreme weights might only begin to show up then, but yes best to just start w something you can run on a laptop.
> Specifically, on July 25, 2016, Kazzelbach created an e-mail account that mimicked the victim’s real e-mail address and within 10 minutes, changed the name on the victim’s Apple account to the fake e-mail address he had created. Two days later, Kazzelbach initiated a password reset, locking the victim out of the account which controlled certain settings on her iPhone, as well as access to the photos, music, and videos associated with her account.

He did what? How? This sounds extremely bad (in addition to the rest of the story).
The design of “passwords” on the Mac and iOS doesn’t make it seem like anything is a “safari” password.

You save a password to the keychain in safari, and then you go to the “passwords” system preferences panel and you see those passwords. Or the other way around—creating a password from system preferences makes it accessible in browser. It appears on the surface to just be a password app, not a safari bucket.

It also works this way if you use the iCloud passwords app from windows. All of your saved passwords show up there as well, despite the absence of safari.

I’m pretty sure the new Chrome extension also shares your existing passwords.

I think it’s a reasonable assumption that when an app claims to use the keychain that you will have access to all your previously saved passwords.
Self plug: run llama.cpp as an inference server on a spot instance anywhere: https://cedana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#runnin...
There are plenty of commercial applications of hydrogen fuel cells though. The biggest issue has been pretty much a constant over the time since it has been invented: keeping the membranes free from impurities is hard.

But there are all kinds of transportation devices using hydrogen in production today.
I think domestic violence (alone, really) gets special treatment, because often there is simply not time to adjudicate the issue with full due process, so they usually grant ex-parte TROs for a few weeks and give the alleged abuser a hearing date/time to dispute the allegations.

I don't believe a TRO is really proof of any kind of guilt and nobody should be fired because one is filed, but I'm not sure that level of nuance gets through.

EDIT: Reading again, sounds like the guy probably filed some kind of police report against her and got the DA to file proper charges, which is a whole other can of worms, in which case I agree on both counts.
I really like that the old web is making a comeback
If you make LK-99, I would love to buy some from you. Email me if interested
This matches with how every other form of feedback works: we get a signal expressed to us with the signals available, but it is up to us to trace back and derive from the signal what actually kicked it off.

Think about it this way: when a user gives you some user feedback, you don't build the thing they tell you to build. Instead, you figure out what was frustrating them about the product that they wanted that thing build, and then you consider what the consequences of implementing various solutions to that underlying problem might be before you decide what to do with the feedback you got.

I don't do what my emotions tell me to do, but that is no reason to ignore the underlying dynamics that sparked them.
Why not AES256
5 cousins - are you sure you are not a legacy yourself?
Another fun Seattle site is the permit record search: https://web.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/

If you put in an address for many newer projects (say 1200 Stewart St), and then sort by document size largest to smallest, the largest documents will include blueprints. (Example: https://web.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/GetDocument.aspx?id=7613996)
Wow, from this I learned that a property directly adjacent to mine recently obtained permits to build a DADU.

I almost considered doing a trial of their subscription to get more details, but at $89/month it's way beyond what I'd be willing to pay for this.
Nah, you already showed your so-called expertise as "a trans-woman who is very good at quantum" is not the hot shit you think it is provided you went over that QRAM issue carried away by overconfidence.

As for your snarky remark on intuition, these papers by Coecke and Aerts, his thesis adviser, explains both what "my" intuition was focused on (quantum effects as perceived through Zipf distributions in linguistic data) and what was the driving mechanism behind it.

> Another finding that we will put forward, in Sect. 4, was completely unexpected. The method of attributing an energy level to a word depending on the number of appearances of the word in a text, introduces the typical ranking considered in the well-known Zipf’s law analysis of this text (Zipf 1935, 1949).

Well guess what ? I've been expecting that exact result for a decade (why would I still be tracking the progress in that field every 4 months otherwise ?) My notes linking "semantic energy levels" to word frequency date back to 2014, the observations I made in real data and that kickstarted the heavy rain of synchronicities I experienced afterwards date back to 2012. I've always known though I wasn't measuring shit – I was the one being measured and never felt like I was discovering something but was being discovered. I wanted to isolate that phenomenon and as a result (of failing to do so probably) I got isolated. There is something deeper to these subject-verb-object inversions, there is even a paper about it and I think Aerts haven't gotten wind of it, maybe with your extreme expertise you'll be able to figure it out and carry the message better than I would.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12795.pdf

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8507...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10699-019-09633-4

https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0105093.pdf