skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's still not a safe assumption, I don't think it's understood enough to know if the poor performance isn't just a fundamental limitation of some kind. You can already see models taking alternative approaches as they hit diminishing returns on the transformer innovation that triggered the massive improvement. I am just a punter onlooking though, no expert.
Even if they don't own war machinery stocks themselves in many states they need war to keep running the war industries and employment up as without high employment numbers it's hard to get reelected.
If either design is too strong, then over could just use thinner bricks.

However, as the article indicates, the straight wall would not be as stable as the wavy wall. It needs buttresses to prevent toppling. That's the key advantage of the wavy design.
Implementing Fast Barriers for a Shared-Memory Cluster of 1024 RISC-V Cores
Facts about Americans and Twitter as it rebrands to X
"Something for everyone" is stretching it when they have one vegan entree: The Impossible Burger. The closest second option, if it even counts as a separate option, is the "Skinny" Impossible Burger, which comes with mayo that can be removed.

Nothing else is close to vegan, unless you're into ordering Chicken Lettuce Wraps without Chicken.
In rich countries two-thirds of the cost of bus service is labor. When labor is cheap compared to capital it's more feasible to have a larger fleet of drivers and buses to keep wait times low. (Cheap labor also means it's feasible to have more diesel mechanics to keep fixing buses well past the 12 year service life benchmark the USA uses). Building a rail system is extremely expensive as they can't offload the cost of cars to customers, and can't reuse an existing right of way. But once built the capacity is unmatched and you only need one driver per train which can have multiple cars each holding 200 people versus one driver per bus (40 riders)

In Anglophone countries governments provide in kind subsidies to automobile users in the form of toll-free highways, mandated parking at every building, and general revenue tax dollars to pay for road costs not covered by fuel taxes or registration fees. Because buses are the cheapest and slowest option the clientele is self-selected as low income. This creates a vicious cycle downward. Greyhound ended service in Canada.
I had the privilege of playing on one of the largest mechanical pipe organs in the world and no sound system comes close to the kind of raw power that thing put out in the low register. Just unbelievable, to the point that you start wondering if it can damage the building itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_xrOKMr-7k for a quick tour

'backstage' it is even more impressive, the size of those pipes is just amazing.

The organ is all mechanical so the force on the keys is many times larger than on a piano. The regular organist said she loses significant weight when practicing a new piece (and that's with the 'pneumatic assist' the organ has, which is kind of like powersteering for Organs...).
Yes we can. Cars and traffic won't get better with self driving cars... Other options with larger amounts of travellers at once needs to be looked at.....
These data suggest controling IAV infections in humans working with swine can minimise spillover into pigs

So something as simple as vaccination and biosecurity which of course will be shouted down as an externality cost by piggeries, could save potentially billions if not trillions of lost production, herd culling and of course human lives.

Do we pay farmers/farm-workers enough to cover this cost/benefit? no, we don't. There is probably zero incentive in any sector outside of the EU and barely there, to do this. It's going to take legislation and given China's herd and the cost focus and risk of zoonotic infection, I think its unlikely it will happen at scale until after a catastrophic herd loss. "just like the last time"

(yes, vegetarians have another proposal...)
> Given that office spaces are concentrated in downtown areas,

There's a lot of commercial sprawl far from downtown cores. Sure, big glossy companies like to splash for nice views and central locations, but a great number of office workers are in suburbs, working for businesses that you've never heard of.
There are a number of ways to wrap native code libraries as a managed library. I did it once (packaged an Obj-C library as a .NET DLL for a Xamarin app) back in 2018 but had lots of help from a teammate who knew that dance far better than me and I forgot all of the details. I googled and found at least four different blogs posts showing how to do it.

I know that's not an answer but if you're feeling adventurous you might be able to help the project.
https://www.fsrmagazine.com/slideshows/26-casual-chains-earn...

If you ignore the tiny chain at #1, look at the gap between CCF and their #2 competitor in sales per location. I think at some point I read that CCF was second only to Apple Store in revenue per square foot (I think in prime real estate corridors, excluding luxury or some similar criteria, it was a while ago).

Edit: first watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myRFzVmH1tg . Best way to analogize it is that CCF is the Katie Ledecky of casual chain restaurants. Because people who write about business and tech don’t really go to casual chain restaurants, nobody appreciates their accomplishments like they do Costco or In-n-Out.
On HN, it is either your product is crap or a room-temperature-superconductor-like.

There is nothing in between. 600k per month? Is that enough to live in SF?

Edit: I forgot the moat. Without moat, it doesn't matter if you make a trillion dollar a month, your product would still be crap.
I’m sure my numbers are out of date now too
Just to keep us all up to date, he’s now linked a figure from the recently discovered third paper and returned to breathless excitement.
If you're just using it for quick scripting, which is where startup time mostly matters, and you only use the stdlib and no external gems, you can use --disable-gems and it starts in half the time as python for me.
UDP Multicast relies on constantly throwing out the entire state of your system in order to be reliable, whereas with TCP you only need to throw out changes. This is fine in finance because the state is changing constantly anyway so you might as well just continually throw out the multicast traffic.

Message queuing is a more complicated system, but it allows you to push the bulk of your work out to the distributed network instead of concentrating it on the producer.
You needed to store the state of the entire level, like what enemies are alive, what treasures have been collected, etc. and that turns into a non trivial amount of stuff to store in RAM (only about 2kb on the NES!) for large and complex levels. You can't store that stuff in ROM since it's changing as the player progresses. A PC at the time could guarantee 640k or more of RAM alone.
I recommend this book; it is practical, and sensible. And unlike most business books, it is concise.
Interesting, I hadn't ever really contemplated the science behind making ice-cream. Definitely food for thought ;)
I found an article: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200728005330/en/Sta...

They're investing in teams and knowledge management. Sounds like they're going after the Enterprise.
Who said anything about "unsecured and unlocked"? I don't think you can easily secure a gun in a vehicle when the vehicle can be stolen.

Also, it is not the case that "having a firearm unsecured and unlocked inside a vehicle is a crime" where I live.
I wanted to add but my morning poop time was over so never had a chance to write this.

If you have two capacitors, say C1 and C2, and say their capacitance is both C.

Say C1 is charged up to 2V. The energy stored in that cap is 1/2 CV^2 = 2C.

Say C2 is not charged up.

The charge on C1 is Q = CV = 2C. The charge on C2 is 0.

Say suddenly you connect C1 to C2 via a lossless wire.

The charge on C1 and C2 must be equal before and after the connection since charge cannot be destroyed.

After the connection, the voltage on both caps will be equal, and the charge on them will therefore be equal.

Charge on each cap is 1C; voltage is therefore Q/C = V, V = 1V on both caps..

Now let's look at the energy on either cap. 1/2 CV^2 = 0.5C.

The combined energy on both caps are 1C. Where'd the energy go? We just said we connected the capacitors with a lossless wire, so it can't be dissipated there, and capacitors by definition cannot dissipate power.

The answer is that lossless wires cannot exist, and if you do the math more carefully, this time with real resistance and take the limit as R->0, you will see that the power-time integral of the wire (dissipated energy) will approach 1C.

The same argument can be made for integrated circuits; as your resistance drops, more and more of the portion of loss will be dissipated in the "other" sources of loss.

edit: superconductors are lossy at AC (but not as much as regular conductors get lossy at AC), and the capacitor connection is an AC phenomena so even with superconductors there will be a teeny loss even with superconducting wires. The rest of the loss will happen in other ways (EM radiation, dielectric loss, loss from capacitor resistance, etc)
Apache tomcat starts to break down
Crypto almost always could have solved anything.
Mine is https://www.nishantjha.org

I recently started a consulting company as well: https://www.nitro.bio
Where do you see that the chart is adjusted for inflation? The prices match up with my memory of nominal prices, especially the spike in 2008.

State gas taxes do change often. For example, Washington’s gas taxes went up at least $0.50 since Jan 1 (and it is variable based on the price carbon credits get auctioned at).

https://ecology.wa.gov/blog/february-2022/the-climate-commit...
If an outhouse was nearby in the past, there was a pretty big hole associated with it which may still be around. Might not be pleasant to discover by accident...
Well https://www.val-lang.dev/ has an example

> Enough, show me some code!

> Okay, okay. Here’s a simple program:

subscript longer_of(_ a: inout String, _ b: inout String): String {
if b.count() > a.count() { yield &b } else { yield &a }
}

fun emphasize(_ z: inout String, strength: Int = 1) {
z.append(repeat_element("!", count: strength)))
}

public fun main() {
var (x, y) = ("Hi", "World")
emphasize(&longer_of[&x, &y])
print("${x} ${y}") // "Hi World!"
}

> This program declares two character strings, appends an exclamation mark to the longest, and prints them both after the mutation. No pointers or references are used (& in Val does not mean “address of”—it simply marks a mutation), and no unnecessary allocation occurs. The result of longer_of is a projection of the longer argument, so the mutation of z by emphasize occurs directly on the value of y. The value is neither copied, nor moved, and yet it is not being passed by reference to emphasize. The body of emphasize owns z in exactly the same way as it owns strength, which is passed by value: z is an independent value that can only be touched by emphasize.

> To better understand, notice that longer_of is not a function; it’s a subscript. A subscript does not return a value, it projects one, granting the caller temporary read and/or write access to it.

Now that's interesting. Subscripts seem to be the novel feature of this lang, they are described here https://tour.val-lang.dev/subscripts
Mozilla were the 2008 Pioneer Awards winner, along with CEO Mitchell Baker: <https://web.archive.org/web/20100407220831/https://www.eff.o...>

Full list of past winners: <https://www.eff.org/awards/past-winners>
You download it before you leave.
Their argument is just the next gen of climate change deniers.

We've gone from "there's no problem" to "ok maybe there's a problem but we can't do anything." Next step is "maybe we could have done something but the worst effects are already locked in so it's not worth the pain now."

The goal is always the same: do absolutely nothing
> Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has said that Storm-0558, a China-based hacking outfit that conducts espionage on behalf of that country’s government, exploited them starting on May 15. Microsoft drove out the attackers on June 16 after a customer tipped off company researchers of the intrusion. By then, Storm-0558 had breached accounts belonging to 25 organizations.

Looks like it was a couple of months ago.
I too have a child with Ushers (1F). We told him at age 10, though obviously it didn't really register until some years later. Please feel free to reach out to me.
Thank you for that video. I would have assumed TCF was a Sysco-food-reheating-service masquerading as a slightly expensive mid-range restaurant. I have a new respect for it, though don't understand how they present themselves.
Still, overcrowding of individuals in one space, no natural light, often very unsanitary environment, many sick, fed excessive amounts of antibiotics just to keep them alive, sharing space with wildlife, like bats and rats ... too many problems there imho
We call such a system “secure against the chosen cryptanalyst.”
I think history will remember Alexandra Elbakyan as one of the most important figures of this century. She's very low-profile, but the work she's doing is of fundamental importance to humanity. Locking (usually publicly-funded) scientific knowledge behind obscenely-expensive paywalls is repugnant and should be criminal.
> If only there were a way to prevent zoonotic diseases originating from our animal agriculture ...

This seems impossible, other than having them not exist.
I like horribly calorific much more than horrifically caloric.
when an "adversarial" lab (as in, competing with the original lab) tries to replicate and succeeds, you can be pretty damn sure it's legit.
It depends on your policy. In my case, no. But it think multiple incidents will raise it. Also, they’ll drop you if you’re too unlucky.
How to design analytics features in your GraphQL schema
"Supplement with gas" implies dual fuel heating. Supplement either with less loss or more use of direct electric heating at higher cost surely?

What gets lost here is the goal of removing gas entirely. If you stop at reduction, sure your logic makes sense. But it implies a gas economy at scale with fugitive emissions, reticulation (bottled or piped) production and pollution consequences.
Demon Core: How the Third Nuclear Bomb Killed American Scientists (2018)
It’s worth noting there are different kinds of containers out there, and Docker is just one “ecosystem”. Docker on Windows and macOS runs in a VM, which is kind of a bummer because it means you can’t really allocate all your RAM for containers. By default Docker likes to max out at half the system RAM, which of course you can change post-install, but I feel like there’s a trade off or disadvantage in such a scenario vs Docker (or LXC or podman or something else) running on Linux.

It might be that the RAM is reserved up-front on Windows and macOS but not on Linux? I’m not sure.
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-politics-software-critici...
You're onto something ;)
I imagine that regenerative braking has a role here too. When you're going downhill the battery can recharge itself to some extent.
I still don’t know why Google has gvisor and AWS has firecracker. Isn’t the firecracker approach strictly better than Google’s approach?
I don't think they are nearly as good. Mario Bros 3 apparently inspired Keen, but Keen was always very slow-paced, because of the one-hit death system. You also needed to defeat enemies with a gun, which was less risky and fun than jumping on the head of enemies like in Mario. Ammo was also limited, which again rewarded slow and careful and boring gameplay. The slower gameplay did fit the few puzzles, but those also weren't too great. I didn't play Keen 6, but I assume it's about the same as 4 and 5.
See the earlier comment, the large Japanese private railways are real estate and hospitality companies with a train side business. Each has built their own little fiefdom, but they play nice enough (thru trains, tourist passes, and regional transit payment cars) to make all the effort not worthwhile.

Although during WWII and for some years after all the lines to the south and southwest of Tokyo were under Tokyu Railways (then known as Dai Tokyu, or "Big Tokyu).
Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents
You may ask Bob Collins, who have done some work for them in the past.[0]

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@Bcollinsmn@mstdn.social/1107704697811...
Fine tuning seems to me to be dangerously close to a new snake oil of AI these days.

The narrative goes, "look how awesome ChatGPT is, imagine how good it would be trained on just your company's documents".

Which 1000% misses the point. ChatGPT is because (a) it is trained on almost nothing short of the entire corpus of human language ever created. At > 1 trillion parameters, it can have ~1000 parameters for every human on the planet. Let that sink in. And then (b) because it has been subjected to an unknown but likely massive amount of human reinforcement feedback.

The idea that you can meaningfully impact the output of the model towards factual accuracy or logical correctness just by doing a small amount of fully automated training using a tiny corpus of company documents is seductive, but super far from robustly demonstrated as far as I'm aware. Yet this is the pitch being sold very often.
Love using Google Collab as your onboarding doc.
are you sure? there's a lot of "normal" cars that are full EPAS. Like the Prius.

I know stuff like the MR2 is like that, but I'm guessing that's because the engine is in the wrong place to have normal power steering.
> The “serve everything” food chain

The appeal is that if you have a large group of people, everyone can find something they likes.
Anyone taking bets on how long it takes for headline news to surface where this feature led to the discovery of some dangerous stalkers?
> Wyden went on to say some blame also falls on the Biden administration. In 2021 Biden issued an executive order that created a Cyber Safety Review Board and tasked it, among other things, with studying the SolarWinds attack. The SolarWinds review never took place.

Microsoft messed up and their key was stolen, wtf does the solarwinds hack have to do with this?
It's funny that the article is a list of predictions that the author got wrong followed by a new prediction. I'm willing to bet they'll be wrong about this one as well.

I'll note that just because websites ended up needing SEO it doesn't mean creating websites was a mistake. Early on in internet history there were two important fights: the first was about whether we needed websites at all. One view held that the _internet_ was valuable but websites were a novelty. Applications on your computer that you install would leverage your internet connection to transmit data. The second view held that you'd eventually only have a single application on your computer: your web browser (essentially every computer would be a chromebook). Obviously we ended up much closer to view 2 but it's not hard to imagine a world where view 1 won - just look at the way people install apps on phones.

The other important fight was whether the web should be more like broadcast or cable. One view held the web would be agnostic of your provider - you pay for access to the internet and then you can access whatever you want. The other view held that each provider would have its own unique set of websites that subscribers would get access to. If you are old enough to remember AOL keywords you might be able to see how this vision was in the works.

It seems like the author was upset the open internet (first view) won.

The author and I agree about one thing: the first time ever I feel like voice can be a first order input mechanism. I know that we've had Siri and Alexa for a while but they've been a chore to use as perfectly articulated in the author's section "Language Has Been the Logjam".

Now it seems their world view is that we'll all be writing plugins for Siri or Alexa or whatever voice platform is dominate. That sounds to me like saying "don't bother making websites or apps - just make APIs" (by the way that was another real worldview that got some traction about 15 years ago). So let me present two alternative scenarios that could play out:

First - we could end up with a proliferation of bots each bespoke. I know many different people. I wouldn't ask my friend from IT about organic chemistry and I wouldn't ask my biology professor buddy about directions around my town he's never visited. If our programs become more lifelike it's possible that same circuitry in our brains that allows us to remember people can be coopted to remember programs and they'll want each one to be distinct.

Second - maybe there will be a common voice interface but each bot will still generate its own text. Just like not every company builds a web browser but everyone still makes their own websites. Like the SEO and app stores mentioned in the article you might have to play by the rules of the platform you're on but ultimately you're still running your own LLM for your application.
Same here. 22 years experience full stack; leadership roles. Can't get an interview. Taking an ML class. I think telling some recruiters I had a baby on the way was a mistake.
Is that really your reaction to C++? These days when selecting a critical infrastructure component I'm very inclined to prefer memory-safe by default, like rust or (somewhat less so) golang. Sure, C/C++ projects that have been around and under attack for years (redis, postgres, etc) are fine but they've had those years of battle testing. For a new project I really feel a lot safer if they're built in something more failsafe.
Go vegan!
You missed a chance to learn something.
I like the commentary from the interviewee that science happens everyday and comes from empirical observations; that it’s not reserved for people in labs with white coats.
Abuse is a strong word for a situation where you earn 30x more than what you would earn back home, and the work culture is actually better even with some all-nighters.

We must either move back to our home country or avoid doing all-nighters. We have no free will to make our own decision. We are to be labeled as an abused person forever.

That is totally a sensible morality
I think Prof Francois Balloux, infectious disease epidemiologist, summarized it well [1]:

I'm not convinced there’s a villain among the PO authors, but just a series of cock-ups and poor decisions, aligned with, and fuelled by, bad incentives, eventually engulfing everyone in its wake.
It remains an embarrassing institutional failure, however we look at it.
I disagree with those who try to rationalise their content and pretend that the authors changed their mind as they followed the science (sigh).
There was never any new real evidence that could have triggered a change of opinion in that time period, anyway.
The charge that the final version of Proximal Origins in Nature Medicine does not accurately reflect the PO authors’ doubts expressed in private feels fair to me.

[1] https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/16846724873243320...
Open Source Embeddings/Text/Speech Generating Server – Text-Generator.io
unmatched, other than Golden Axe DOS port shipped a month before first Keen :-)
> “Our memory is slow, so let’s redraw only things that changed” is kind of a given nowadays.

Tangentially related: Android still doesn't get this. Turn on the screen refresh flashes in the developer menu and then look a your static screen and be amazed who often android draws even though nothing changed.
So this appears to be a successor to Flash?

Yesterday I discovered flash was used to produce Rob Zombie's Dead Girl Superstar (2001) music video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WpHViVML_4o

I remember watching it on his flash-heavy website during that era, but it never occurred to me that it was anything more than just a recording converted to a flash video.