skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me that seems a lot different than the scenario that the parent poster is presenting where the majority of people stay in their small town and never experience any of these things.

I can definitely get on board for the idea that humanity needs to work together to manage our cultural resources so that everyone can benefit. I can't get on board with the idea that the majority of people should live empty lives in order to preserve things for a lucky few.
The self-driving cars have arrived just in time for the work from home revolution.
you do realize what you are saying right? and how dumb of suggestion it is or were your teachers growing up robot automatons who were not people?

and you do realize that marriage and relationships ARE part of education? history english etc. at what age do kids learn about what a husbands or wife is and what is marriage? because that is the same age they should learn about same sex relationships.

> I don't care who their partner is, neither does my child

lots of people do. lots of parents want their kids to not be exposed to the fact same sex couples exist, hence the don't say gay bill. and afterwards schools pulling all library books because the mere mention of a same sex couple in one is enough for them to be sued under the bill.

you are correct no one will go to jail. but school districts can be sued, which means they will not hire gay teachers because of the simple risk one parent gets upset and racks up a legal bill for them

THAT is why its so bad, how is that so difficult to understand for you?
US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices”
Pardon? I don't see how I'm doing any of those things.

I'm suggesting that, if we don't have new evidence to bring to bare on the issue, we should probably take the word of the person who was there in the room, who studied and developed proficiency in this specialty, and developed experience communicating with Koko in particular.

I definitely didn't suggest Koko was incapable of experiencing humiliation. I'm sure something like what you're describing could happen, but the researchers who have the skills I outlined and were physically present (thus able to see body language and able to ask followup questions) are in a better position to evaluate that then we are.

If I said anything to unintentionally imply these things, I am always interested in feedback about how my writing could be clearer.
How did you get an esim without a network connection?
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Do you also not allow loops, because they are the devil’s lettuce?

Metaprogramming is just a higher level of abstraction that lets you express things that would otherwise be tedious or repetitive. It’s not that different than using a loop to avoid having to write the same thing over and over again. Avoiding it at all costs is dogmatic and kind of silly.
to this day i still havent had the kind of gaming experience I had as a teen in a LAN cafe playing Left 4 Dead with my buddies in the early 2000s. Was shocked to come to America and find that they're not a thing in the US. y'all missed out. There's something tribal and guttural about hooting and hollering over every victory and loss and taunting and screen sniping your friends IRL.
I just don't see what problem eSIM solves aside from the "must be thinner/more seamless" non-problem.

I suppose there might be some corner-cases-- super-travelers, spammers, certain types of devs and network engineers, where being able to have a thick stack of emulated SIM cards and toggling between them would be valuable, but I'm pretty sure they sold devices to do that with physical cards back in the day.

What I do see is a bunch of interesting new failure modes, and the ability for the carrier to get in between me and changing devices. They're going to want to turn "Put in the little pin and pop out the card" into something that involves paying $30 for the generation of a QR code.
Hi, one of the authors here.

> In a zero-replication no-leader-election (or all-in-one-node) scenario what is min latency observed?

We saw sub-millisecond latency in this case (typically double-digit microseconds).
Esim is yet another way the big monopolies (tech and telecom) are taking more and more control away from the paying customer. The situation is very similar to when Apple and later others removed the headphone jack from phones.

No customer would be happy with the change. Some might be ambivalent, others annoyed. But they still did it just so Apple could build a billion dollar ear pods market.

Physical SIMs provide way too much power to the customer. They can change phones and numbers without involving the carrier or phone manufacturer. It's only logical that this last vestige of control be taken away too.
On the other hand: https://xkcd.com/1314/

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I don't have that disease but my retinas are progressively tearing and will probably flake off well before I die. As someone with a seeming inability to internally visualize things (aphantasia) and a terrible sense of direction I'm really dreading trying to navigate (or do anything) when I go blind.

I'm firmly in the denial camp and I justify it to myself by looking at all the amazing retinal repair, replacement, and implant studies in restoring vision in mice. The most promising are the implants that release a small molecule that can cause the internerons that remain to become light sensitive and fire. In the experimental mice this somewhat restores their behavior on navigation tasks. Of course I've been reading about these mouse studies for 20 years and so far going blind still means you remain blind.
I phrased it poorly - from an engineering standpoint, the amount of power a superconducting power line can carry is effectively limitless for practical purposes, in relation to the amount of material required. But yes, of course -- as I did say, eventually enough current flows that the magnetism induced breaks down the superconducting effect.

> what are the benefits? 0% loss, vs, maybe 10%?

With current lines, yes, rarely over 10% in practice. But what might be built without that barrier? There are many tens of gigawatts of undeveloped hydroelectric power in northern Canada, but that power has to be brought over some 5000 kilometres to New York or Chicago or Toronto. That can't currently be done. The losses are too high.

America's primary solar power generating regions in the future, likewise, appear to be far from the major cities.

> Again for energy storage, what's the energy density? How much does it cost, if it's even possible to configure for that use? It sounds like you expect to power a car from an AA-sized cell - not happening IMHO.

Yes, it's already used, real-world actual applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

The energy density is too low for anything like domestic use. It will probably be most useful at grid scale. The economics may not work out.

> Again, IMHO, not happening, except maybe for a few specialized switching applications.

Switching at just under 1 THz has been demonstrated recently. Anyway, I agree. I already said as much -- "a rather unlikely prospect".

C'mon. I'm just excited about superconductors. They're cool! Except hopefully not anymore! I don't believe anything I said was factually wrong. Your primary gripe seems to be that I'm not sufficiently pessimistic about the likelihood of some of the possibilities. So -- room temperature superconductors are probably not real. And everything I spoke of must be understood as conjecture and hypothetical, with large and unknown variables, regarding things like the practical cost and material workability of the room temperature superconductors, which may not even be possible. Better?
The chatbot should never pop up on its own. At most, there should be a "talk to our chatbot" button so the user can choose to activate it.
Oh man, I love the Louvre. You could spend days there and not see everything.

I spent most of a day there and there were very few people in most of the exhibits, which was really nice. I got to take my time to enjoy the pieces I got to see.

I did stop by the Mona Lisa just to say I'd been there, and the crowd around it was really stupid. There are dozens, if not hundreds of much more interesting paintings in the same room and the hallway beyond.

I didn't note the name of the painting, but hanging directly opposite the Mona Lisa was a gigantic painting, probably ten feet high and twenty across. Absolutely full of exquisite details. Not a single person paid it any attention.

I genuinely don't get it.
No 3rd party application should be able to manipulate firewall rules. Hiding configuration details leads to mistakes.
New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border
Bad Definitions of “Democracy” and “Accountability” Shade into Totalitarianism
Congrats on open sourcing this, but I am curious if anyone here has ever had an actual scale issue that required changing from some "slower" queuing system (like RabbitMQ, Kestrel, Kafka, etc) where you actually needed to change queuing systems?

Maybe I'm old school but 99% of the use cases I've worked with in my 20 year career could scale with using a MySQL database table acting as a queue and some scripts querying the table and doing work. I have worked with maybe a dozen queuing technogies (including super expensive cloud Amazon SQS) and unless your app needs sub second latency on processing messages at greater than 5k per second I just don't see why using these sophisticated systems have benefits?

Hope this comment doesn't come across cynical or dismissive. I love seeing new tech like this come out and I am not saying that there aren't use cases I am sure there (maybe HFT?) but curious if anyone has case studies to share of legit queue systems that couldn't scale.
Related:

Graphite – open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675530 - March 2022 (18 comments)
This is a much better idea than the STOCK Act. It’s much less risky to separation of powers to have a bright line rule banning stock trading than to have prosecutions of members of the legislative branch by the machinery of the executive branch involving nebulous insider trading allegations.
What shouldn’t be surprising?

The Tuna lawsuit appears to be ending without any similar evidence to the chicken story you’re linking to.
r/eeeeeeeeeee
That's why it's nonsense: there is no limit to when a "worrying" problem becomes "alarming" or global "warming" becomes "boiling", it's just language designed to induce fear with no link to anything tangible. Calling climate change an "emergency" does nothing to help, it merely stokes pointless political discussions over what adjectives are best.

I think the opposite about climate claims being 'real.' The majority of climate claims I see are merely conjecture that often turns out to be exaggerations. We definitely see real effects, but nothing near the catastrophes most activists predict or attribute.

Listening to this debate [0] really opened my eyes. Take for example the claim that "Climate change will cause worse storms and infrastructure damage." Most of the increasing damage from storms is from humans building in environments like flood plains, a minor part of that effect is from climate.

Or take the claim that "Climate change will cause food shortages." Some models predict warming poles will increase available farmland! [1]

I'm not saying that the current situation is good, but I think the downsides are overblown and the accuracy of the models used for these predictions are overstated. The amount of resources redirected to climate change are huge, so I reject the idea that we are doing very little.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gk9gIpGvSE
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
This is actually quite common with physical SIMs aimed at travellers or those where multi-country or multi-network support is required.

A company will partner with a carrier in country X that has roaming agreements with carriers all over the world.
This is a fantastic point on ownership that those “placing” it on others can often miss.

“Ownership carries a lot of responsibility, but it also carries a lot of trust – because to let an individual or a team own a service, you have to give them the leeway to make their own decisions about how they are going to deliver it.”
Speak English in Hong Kong Accent [video]
> No need to go through five links where the author gives you their entire fucking life story to embiggen content for SEO, just to get a recipe

Not yet, but it's comming. The publicly available i.e. "free" LLMs are all going to start embedding ads, as others on this thread have already pointed out. I see no possibility that this will not happen.
All of my subreddits seem empty or lifeless. Seems like reddit dealt itself a mortal blow and is waiting to topple.

Terrible year for tech.
Aerodynamic drag increases as a square as a function of velocity, not exponentially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)
A couple of tourist experiences left me feeling that I am the problem when I visit a popular destination nowadays. It puts a damper on the enjoyment. That and air travel.

I've found some alternatives. My family attends a week of playing folk music in a small town in the North Woods every summer. The people are the destination. I'm pretty sure we're outnumbered by the seasonal workers (lumber, construction, etc).

I'm perfectly contented to take some days off from work and knock around the countryside on my bike. Activities that require physical effort are still somewhat insulated from overcrowding. Anywhere that's more than 1/4 hour walk from the tour buses becomes a different world.
Recent video on this from PolyMatter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndqsvTIveR0
I don't mean to suggest apathy. I mean that whatever solutions we come up with need to be realistic and take into account geopolitical. The east may be building lots of nuclear and renewable but their emissions are still rising much faster than the west. I hope that changes but I don't see any reason to believe that.
> The example in this article is contrived - it was engineered to inject an outlier in every range so that the single range BRIN would perform as worst as possible. However, this article was motivated by a similar scenario we reached naturally in our systems.

I was kinda skeptical that you'd ever have so many outliers as to blow up the whole index, but I guess their scenario is plausible. Still curious what their reorder rate is.

Maybe if you wanted to make the single index work, you'd treat the table as an append log, and insert duplicate entries instead of trying to update.
Related: ICML 2023 Orals.

https://icml.cc/virtual/2023/events/oral
Related:

Three Reviews of J. Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36752501 - July 2023 (11 comments)

Three Reviews of J. Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370926 - June 2023 (1 comment)

The continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34543518 - Jan 2023 (90 comments)

Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28175870 - Aug 2021 (2 comments)

Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245979 - Oct 2019 (4 comments)

Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859854 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341074 - Sept 2014 (2 comments)
Sure, I think you’re right, it’s reasonable to expect a company to at least buy a single copy of each book (or whatever it eats) it ingests if the work could not otherwise be legally obtained for free. Or something reasonable along those lines
Any TC heads in here? Just reminds me of Jake getting Covid at a Cheesecake Factory eating nachos before seeing Tar with his brother.
Well maybe the USA shouldn't get those top level TLDs? (Eg .gov or .mil or .edu). What's wrong with them having to use a second level domain like ".us.gov"?
I'm sure they could, but it's probably not efficient at web scale, so I'd hazard "No."
So your point is that these kids are making a horrible mistake that they are too young to understand.

I'll agree that this is a potential problem and that it does happen, albeit a very small percent of the them (~ 3% in the US): https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/

The parents are not gaslighting them, because they're also painfully aware that there are people who hate and fear them for who they are, but there are also those that will love them. These are incontrovertible facts.

I understand that what they're doing is "not normal", and it's clear that you are deeply offended by how they're choosing to live their lives. But here's the thing, it's really none of our business.

You're being coached on a daily basis to hate and fear these people and to be angry enough to vote for the people who want to eliminate them. I'm not saying that in a morally condemning way, it's a simple observation of what makes the political machine work.

Do you know any trans folk? Have you ever talked to any? I have, and their stories prove you wrong that their decision on how to live their life was the correct one.
> Not that I was saying that but ok, is there one?

no, I was trying to agree with you.
Maybe SO can have like super moderators / admin employees that are summonable by paying XXX score and they can bring the hammer down on problem answers and punish the toxic moderators etc.
> Since their academic background is so relevant

If their academic background were relevant, they would have provided specific negative outcomes that may result from the usage of Llama 2, rather than a vague "the history of this company's choices does not inspire confidence".

What, of the many open source software releases by that company in the ML/AI field "does not inspire confidence"?
Tourism is fine. There are plenty of paintings in the world, most of which rarely even see the light of day, and more being made every day. I recently went to a couple of local galleries in a place we were visiting (the Fukuhara Memorial Museum and the Hokkaido Landscape Museum) - absolutely stunning, and almost completely empty; they would absolutely have welcomed 10x the visitors they had. It's only the name brand places that have a problem.
I can "hear" HK, SG and Welsh "english" inside my head but somehow when I try to reproduce it I get the tones/intonation wrong. I can speak (not very good) scots accent from growing up there and the world can speak (not very good) american accent from TV and sometimes people can emulate a bit of John Lennon or Paul McCartney Scouse, or the Newcastle tone, or Yorkshire or Zummerzaaat. But for some reason the qualities of HK/SG/Welsh just escape me in reproduction.

We're all a bit "professor Higgins" about accent. In the UK it's true that 2 miles can separate one accent from another and I am sure its true in other places too.
Their ASR model is Conformer trained on 1.1M hours, so the result should be better than Whisper.
From their pricing page, with ~ length of a meeting, input size 15000 tokens (60 minutes audio file), output size 2000 tokens (1500 words), LeMUR default, the price estimate is $0.353, which is I think a fairly good price.
This tool can save a lot of time for a secretary, even replace them. But I think sending your meeting data is still quite risky.
> No ability to nest functions?

Correct

> Why do you need a semicolon at the end of "end"?

Per the rationale[1], "The purpose of the semicolon is to provide redundancy, which aids both reading and parser error recovery." Also, "For many people, semicolons represent the distinction between an old and crusty language and a modern one, in which case the semicolon serves a function similar to the use of Comic Sans by the OpenBSD project."

[1]: https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html#rationale-syntax
People might feel like it is too verbose, but I think it is good to have the clarity. I write C at my day job and I have no problem with the 'verbosity' if it provides clarity of what happens. What I want is the compiler to help if I ever forget who owns a particular data value and miss to clean it up. For that linear types are perfect. I also prefer their simpleness over Rust's affine types which easily gets very complicated (see the difference between theirs and your borrow checker). Linear types gives me an easy way to define basic "state machines" for how to handle the data using types and then verifies that I implemented them correctly. That is kinda all I need. Feels like a good "get shit done" language.
as long as the lag is consistent, then I can concur :)

nothing is worse though than a rhythm game that can't keep proper rhythm itself.
And used as in used it to write on, not the other thing you are thinking about.

From the column:

>I write at Landers's desk. And let me tackle the obvious follow-up question: I've never had sex on Landers's desk
You are aware that, between the unix wars, the spats with microsoft, and the general people who grew up ripping music/games off of random places, you're probably in one of the most hostile places to IP... pretty much anywhere, right?

The entire subculture that this site takes its name from is hostile to IP.

I mean, except for the start-up founders that hang around here, but this site is mostly kept up as a way for them to recruit it seems like (and maybe a way to build good will).

Edit: To be clear, I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but you could probably pick a more sympathetic argument from a strategic perspective. What you've done is kinda the equivalent to going to the Vatican and arguing that something is a threat to idol worship. You might be right, but a good chunk of your audience wants that.
https://archive.ph/S0gU3
I'd love a stroke-for-stroke reproduction, with spectrally-matched pigments.
I spent a little over a month on the road last year just winging it. It's the best.

While I agree that the big destinations are harder and harder to visit due to the crowds, there's a lot to see out there that isn't "on the map", and some of my favorite stops were the unexpected trailheads, lesser known national parks without as many facilities, and smaller state parks I encountered along the way.

With a different kind of planning (i.e. vehicle/supplies/camping gear), winging it will still be possible, but "book a trip to X major park on a whim", not so much.
If you have the time, I would be delighted to hear about your experience, especially the things about Austral that were inadequate.
Cheesecake Factory, similar to Costco, is the ultimate example of how you have to know the rules to break the rules. The entire company is fascinating because they holistically designed an entire system where every single part of it works in concert to deliver their unique experience.

Nobody can really copy them because you can’t do it unless you start from a truly ground up perspective. Others who seem superficially similar on the surface simply can’t deliver a comparable experience because of this.

Is there any good public writing going into detail about this? Lots has been written on how Costco is Costco but all my info on CCF has been from geeking out with insiders who are also passionate about system design.
My car generally exceeds its efficiency rating by around 15%.

The sort of alleged malfeasance is not normal. Edmund's claims most EVs meet or exceed their range estimates, while Tesla systematically inflates range estimates by a third.
I obviously don’t have a reason why it was so off. We regularly drive from near sac to Santa Cruz and it’s within a few percent with plenty of speeding. I commute 100 miles a day on the freeway, so maybe it knows my freeway driving habits very well.
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You mean you're implementing something like this to be used by puter.com?