skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this shame angle is offensive. My 80 year mom, who was strongly against drugs, died an addict because the pharm industry got her hooked on pain killers. Because of shame, her kids didn’t even know until she was an addict until she was almost dead.
Bloom filter support to leveldb by Sanjay Ghemawat
I'm originally from that area and remember being absolutely captivated by the caves when I was younger. My father had a friend that was a spelunker that helped build walkway bridges in these systems before they opened. That was the first real example that I remember of knowing someone that had a cool job, that wasn't just construction, and was a concrete example that you really might be able to do jobs that you wanted to do.
Huh, I actually thought it was already possible to hide the mark of shame. They certainly promised it a while back; didn’t realise it hadn’t happened.
Look terrible? Didn't we have this debate a couple of decades ago about separation of semantics and presentation? Sorry, I should have let it slide.
Right now we don’t have any system that has the correct sort of “information dynamics.”

There is no specification available for sentience/intelligence. So people who want to believe an LLM is sentient can jump to any conclusion they want and they wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. But they’re not right either.

I think it’s highly reductionist to compare an LLM to an intelligent, sentient being and claim it’s basically the same thing. We know how model training works, how transformers work, and we know what the expected results are. Not so for consciousness, sentience, or intelligence. Scientists have been making breakthroughs in our understanding of these phenomena but it’s still incomplete.

LLM’s are useful for one thing. They’re algorithms that run on a machine to perform work for us.
If it continues I'll buy with discount an aircraft carrier with entire personnel.
"People don't get sick from temperature changes."

But you were used to it from being raised in such a climate. Those who are not (or lived in air conditioned houses all the time) can get serious trouble adopting.

Edit: I know people who like walking bare foot, but cannot really, because they had floor heating all the time as a child. So now they get sick really fast, if their feet gets a little bit cold. I had no floor heating and I can walk barefeet in the snow (for some time. And today I like floor heating in the bathroom). My point is, be conscious how you raise your kids and live yourself. Don't make it too comfortable ..

Edit2: you can train it even in the shower: switch from cold to hot a couple of times, as intense as you can manage with conscious breathing. That helps me, if I don't overdo it.
The high-level scale is from A to D, and each grade above D is further split into three (C, CC, CCC etc.) with an additional +/- modifier at each step except AAA.

That makes 25 grades above D if I’m not mistaken.
The human brain also triggers on soft features.

It's a combination.
I bet it's fatigue from the endless <new shiny thing> hype. It's easy to fall into a routine of dismissing everything that claims to be new and interesting.
It's a hacker tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM
I wish every ballot had for every office or position, the option to choose no confidence in any of the ballot choices. Then we could not only see who got the most votes we could see how many people have no confidence in any of the options or candidates. And hopefully if too large of a portion chose no confidence then we get a redo in a month with different candidates. Or something like that.
Wouldn't a simple explanation of line drawings be that segmentation of images into shapes is an important part of vision, using whatever information is available? The reason it would be somewhat invariant across color and lighting is that those change so much. (eg. we can see by moonlight or faint illumination, when color signal is absent)

In some cases, simple segmentation fails (like with the shadowed face in the article), and you have to rely on other features.
I got 16/16 with www.yahoo.com, 15/15 with google.com, 22/25 with gekk.info. Using mtr I got 26/27 after 120 packets (1 with 50% packet loss, 4 with 95% packet loss, and only 1 with 100% loss)
I’ll be direct: no amount of money will buy back my time. I would like to take power from the state as well, not just corporations, so moving the goalpost to the state is a different target rather than a nullifier. I know what money is, but who has most of it in their hands and what do they value? Get it.

As for your third point, time that doesn’t serve capital doesnt equal laziness and enjoyment of the spoils of previous generations. Rather it could increase the likelihood of a new renaissancelike period, for culture and reason. Tech and economy is alright but it doesn’t stop with a day less in the office, those four days become more creative and productive from the extra rest alone. I work much harder and effectively on my own projects, and detest the bureaucracy in state and capital. More time and freedom means more of what humans are supposed to be, not stagnation. There’s a reason our society is based on debt, it forces people to do what they rather wouldnt have.
Rumble about nothing
Hopefully, the beginning of the end for personalized advertising. Given a simple choice, I can't imagine anyone really preferring it.

I know US businesses think they can't live without it --- but history proves otherwise.

From a user perspective, personalized ads are abusive, exploitive and just kinda irritating and dumb.

Just because my browsing history shows I was looking to buy a new car months ago, why am I still being bombarded with car ads on unrelated web sites long after making a purchase?

It is wasting my time and bandwidth and the advertiser's money.
It's about the US playing silly political games on a regular schedule. Which you can solve by minting coins, because minting coins generates income without needing approval from congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
The US government has a history - a long, storied and very visible history - of moving armies around killing people for stupid reasons. Partly because of special interest lobbying by the military industrial complex, partly because they are oblivious to the destruction and it is convenient to them politically. Afghanistan alone was multiple trillions of dollars. The cost in lives was higher than that.

That type of reality denying - which goes beyond any one politician and highlights the rot of the entire apparatus is much more concerning than Trump. That is how the majority of politicians behave.

And, hot take, Trump probably would have pushed against starting those wars if that recording they're trying to convict him with [0] is any evidence. There is a pretty good chance that is why the entrenched players are so keen to get rid of him in fact. The powers in Washington clearly have no problem with liars because a lot of them keep happily plugging away.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPyua_6ht9Y
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/july-2023-is-hott...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heat_waves

We have been recording weather for a lot longer than 2003.
Not sure why people are banging against css. Its just fundamental separation of content logic from content representation which is best practice (see e.g grammar of graphics)

I think people are just burning out from the oppresive tech environment, the endless hypes, the lack of a feel-good factor. All these negatively experienced developmemts are taking their toll. This forces people into all sorts of extreme corners, like the gemini protocol or css-less sites.
Why would the electrons spread evenly?

They move over to the other side and back and forth resulting in an oscillator.

That causes all your energy being radiated into the surrounding via radio waves.

That is how your microwave oven works but instead of a superconductor it uses a magnetron with free flowing electrons.
That narrative is insane. It is one thing to produce shoddy research. Even good senior researchers sometimes just have a paper that... doesn't work out well, with a late found flaw in the methods that can't be fully mitigated or uninteresting findings, and then they'd rather still try to publish it than shelve months of work. That's not good, but almost unavoidable in the current academic environment.

The accusations here are very different: Producing fake data is fraudulent, of course the papers need to be retracted, and people involved and in the know need to be punished. The quote from the article describes well something that seems to be a growing group of people within academia:

> It's possible "these people don't care and never cared about the science," Michael Sanders, a professor of public policy at King's College London, said. "They talk about science, and they talk about experiments, and they sort of wrap themselves in the fabric of the scientific method — just as a way of selling stuff."
There is, click the _:00 button, and zoom in to see the blue/teal seconds hand.
It seems like both Americans and non-Americans overestimate the importance of the US dollar being the dominant reserve currency and petroleum trade currency in the world.

I would say the S&P500 and the long-term economic productivity it represents is a far more important economic asset of the US than their currency. Many European pension funds would have little to show for if they didn't hold trillions in US stocks.
If you turn the complexity curve of debloating and custom Windows ROMs about 90 degrees, it's the same as the backwards bend Windows users are doing to avoid jumping to something easier like Linux Mint.
>The only thing I can imagine to go wrong here, is when a user has their browser set in US-en but when they are not aware of that. Which seems... weird;

Legacy Edge used to look at keyboard locale and ignore the actual region settings. I have no idea why chromium uses MM/DD on my machine when Firefox does DD/MM. Back when $COMPANY used HTML date widgets we got a small but constant stream of complaints which we tried to triangulate (that's how I know about the Legacy Edge behaviour), but we never understood most cases.

Autodetection has been broken on a tail edge of cases for a long long time, and nobody in browser space seems to have any interest in fixing this - or worse, allowing the server to set the correct date style. The only practical fix is JS datetime widgets.

>or at least not a problem a web-dev should solve.

I think 'a not-insignificant amount of people constantly enters the wrong dates and eventually bothers support and writes bad reviews, plz fix this' is a good business cases and is something web-dev should try to handle.

>> Lets you enter nonexistent dates like 31/2

>server-side validation is needed anyway.

True, but it's a better user experience to disallow this also on client. If we only let the server do validation, why do we even bother with the SPA and the sixty-thousand one-line npm packages?
Ask HN: Who is using small OS LLMs in production?
It is not clear whether relatively small open source LLMs in production or not, for instance replit code 3b, llama 2 7b, codegen,... What are the motivations for using those models over prompted GPT api ?
>...backup plan of just minting a billion dollar coin

That'd get you nowhere. You mean trillion. A crazy amount of money.
Debatable if it’ll go down by a significant amount. Still have electric cars being infeasible from a price and charging standpoint for much of America (and our electric grid can’t come anywhere close to handling a sizable percent of people changing to electric)

Batteries are getting better, but energy density is still superior with oil

Oil used for many manufacturing processes and items. I’m all for switching from plastic to glass, but the world loves plastic

Speaking of the world, developing nations still rely on coal, never the less moving to electric cars

I’d like to think we would make progress in medium term, but given the geopolitical instability, if a major world war breaks out (if it hasn’t already), I think we’d be stuck in time with oil-to-electric progress unless there’s some national security reason to go away from it.

But relying more on our grid seems to be more of a national security risk, given it’s weakly protected. And the US has been (still is?) a net exporter of oil. Worst case we ramp up production if the Saudi’s/OPEC do something crazy.

I’m still young, but I see a constant cycle of XYZ tech being promoted, promised, investors jump in, then it evaporates for 5-10 years and we slowly get the actual promises (sometimes). There’s a famous graph for this somewhere.
> Easy. There are days where I feel like staying home and drinking beer / eating junk food / playing computer games.

Wait, is that your definition of mental illness?
It appears that the development and the consequent publication was driven by vanity, that is the researchers really really wanted to claim the glory for their invention.

Why I say this? The events of publishing, retracting and re-publishing the original paper happen over drama among the people involved with the discovery.

It also appears that that the development wasn't a smooth sail as would a conspiracy may theorists like to describe technological innovations. They had hard dime finding funding and people who believe in them, so having this great epiphany in 1999 then working with the governments to develop it is not a realistic scenario at all. Instead, they grinded for 2 decades and finally got something good enough to show for. Even then, their discovery is still under heavy scrutiny and it might turn out to be a dud(Although, at this point I would bet that they are onto something real).

Here is a thread on the history of the development of the substance: https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685641634892128256
This product would be a fantastic honeypot for front running researcher interest in particular investments.

I don't see anything in your privacy policy that gives me comfort my (even anonymized) interest in a particular firm isn't feeding your own signals.

Even if your policy promised it, I'd want to see technical controls implemented, since incentive to leverage information on searching would be so high.
> because the transistor is of no use to anyone until people made microprocessors with it

What? That's not true at all. Discrete transistors are absolutely useful in a massive range of analog electronics. Open up any electronic device from the 1970s, and you're likely to find transistors — and unlikely to find microprocessors.
I don't remember which one I have used in the past, if it was this one or not. (I think it is but not 100% sure)

But this really is not for someone who does not really understand Windows. I ended up having a ton of issues gaming on my computer after this and it took a few tries to get it right.

Personally if you don't mind the less than legal options, I highly recommend Windows 10 LTS. I use it on my Steam Deck and it has been amazing. Since it is an official build from Microsoft I have not had any compatibility issues and when something is missing I can easily install it.

Been debating on moving my primary computer over but I have not wanted to go through reinstalling everything.

Side note, a debloated or LTS version of Windows runs great on my steam deck and I find that I sometimes get better performance than for the same game running under Steam OS. So tools like this can really optimize your setup if you are trying to squeeze as much performance out of your machine as possible.
Somehow, despite doing nothing except make it worse for decades, this problem has gotten worse. I for one am shocked by this clearly, repeatedly predicted outcome.
I don't think people realize how CSS3 and HTML5 will do everything they need. And also that no one actually enjoys using a SPA.
Once they release the same steam OS that's on the steam deck for the PC, I'm going and not looking back.

Windows has turned into a horrendous flurry of advertisements, internet-based searching you can't turn off, and all kinds of default opt-in telemetry and privacy violations. Microsoft is not to be trusted.
> Why has it become such a big talking point in the US?

Because one of the two dominant political parties has adopted a strategy for the past several decades of trying to cripple governmental programs by reducing their income or otherwise increasing their outflows (see: USPS), and the national debt is a convenient scapegoat for them to make their point about "see, we're spending too much!"
The difference is that Republicans are pro debt ceiling only when they’re not in power, but happy to take trillions more debt when they are.

Democrats don’t suddenly pass anti-abortion bills when they have the House.
To be honest, it’s not about Trump.

It’s about the lying. For too long we have accepted that everyone lies in politics but when someone comes and carpet bombs the nation with lies and seems pleased with himself rather than ashamed, it’s time to put an end to the practice.

Politicians must be held accountable to some standard or else we cannot still pretend to have a democracy.
If that were true they would be consistent about the debt ceiling while there were republican presidents in office. That’s what “bad faith” means.
The analogy of a library vs a bookstore to explain the distinction between push and pull query engines is quite effective. It really simplifies a complex topic and make it more relatable.
I have to pound mucinex to not get a sinus infection every damn season change.
> How much of the heat a CPU expells is inevitable?

There's a lower theoretical limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

> Could (non-reversible) calculations be done without creating any heat?

Thermodynamics says no.
Demographics are going to prevent paying back the debt eventually. The line will stop going up and our kids aren't going to be willing to pay for our wars.
If you like Anki and GUIs you might also like Mochi [0]. It supports markdown, media, latex, etc. (and HTML if you really want to use it)

[0] https://mochi.cards/
Watching movies on Chinese movie sites also gives you these comments.

I think they're insanely distracting, and they only get worse the better I get at understanding them. But then again, people disagree on whether you should talk during movies, too. If it's a bad movie, sometimes the user commentary is better.
> it’s not “every couple of years”

"Since 1960, Congress has raised, extended, or revised the debt limit 78 separate times, of which 49 were under Republican presidents and 29 were under Democratic presidents, according to the Department of Treasury. In each of those instances, Congress took action on the debt limit before the nation defaulted."[0]

> Democrats must stop compromising with people that blatantly do not operate in good faith.

I wouldn't want any politician (regardless of party allegiance) to agree on any spending if there is not also an agreement on how to finance such spending.

If companies or individuals were to run their own finances like politicians run government finances, they'd go bankrupt and/or land in jail pretty quickly. Why should our elected representatives (yes, all of them!) not have to worry about this stuff?

[0] https://time.com/6281003/debt-ceiling-history/
No, then they tell you about all the not-working AAA-games they boycott and why that somehow hinders them of using Linux, which they by the way already tried in 1995 and it didn't work out back then so why should it now?
> That's not what they said, this has to be a bad faith interpretation. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) for example has lack of shame as one of its defining traits.

Read the thread. You're commenting on discussions you're ignorant and oblivious about. You're in a thread where GP talks about mentally unwell people who "defecate on streets" and you're now trying to pass it off as mere narcisists?
Also mining - Florida has a majority of the phosphate mining operations of the USA.
The Very Bad Wizards podcast talked a little about this case in a recent episode (https://verybadwizards.com/episode/episode-263-free-yoel - main topic is also interesting, about a professor not getting hired for what seem like not-great reasons). The podcast notes include a link to the Data Colada post about the Gino fraud: http://datacolada.org/109
It's a simple google search away [0].
There was a heatwave like 2 weeks ago.

[0] https://www-huffingtonpost-fr.translate.goog/france/article/...
Wall Street Reaped Ruble Fortune on Clients Fleeing from Russia
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Lol "apple arcade", The subscription that gives you a bunch of bad mobile games?
If it's OK to just use acronyms that are already really just their own thing, I expect the next lot of technologies to come from these guys to be USA, USSR, NASA, NORAD, FBI, CIA, LOL, WTF, MILF and SNAFU.
As a child in the 80s UK - a gourd was the commonly used word for all squashes - and gourds were pretty rare to find in a shop. If you saw a gourd it was often an ornamental dried gourd that someone would have as a gift from the states. 'Squash' was a real Americanism, and wasn't wildly used in the people I knew until the late 90s. I remember my bother working as a farm hand an bring some squashes home with hi to eat, and him having to explain them as gourdes to family/neighbours who were interested in how 'ugly' they looked.

Pumpkins were always the orange, large and round ones - and back in the 80s we still carved turnips or swedes in the North of England, as pumpkins were too expensive.
Big supermoon is up to something again!
They're not make-believe. Plenty of insurance companies and pension funds can only invest in AAA-rated investments. Will their policies change to accommodate downgrades? Possibly. But there's a very real risk of lessened demand for treasuries.
I fail to see how that is different from our current President. I'm surprised when Biden actually says something truthful.

He's still telling people that his son Beau died in a combat tour in Iraq, when he died from cancer in a hospital in the US.
Could be, water vapor is more potent than CO2 apparently.
> Technological solutions are far more realistic

This could easily be solved by removing animal ag subsidies and with taxing of negative externalities.

That's one law, the market (= higher prices) will take care of the rest.

> people in the developing world are consuming more meat as their incomes rise

I'm aware :) However, that made sense when there were 1 B of humans, not when our needs overshoot the environmental capacity of our environment. If everyone ate like we westerners do (and they will want to, when we still do) then we'd need something like 4-5 earths to sustain everyone.

> mass-deployment of nuclear power plants and vertical farms requires only that

Sure, but that means a lot of resources (oil, for example) and further destruction of the environment (mining, built-up areas), and a large timescale.

Abolishment of animal ag subsidies is a piece of paper and few signatures.
I've been using Steam longer than HoloISO and I also used Nvidia 15+ years ago but I much prefer the updated interface, and Valve have no time to code around Nvidia's bullshit so the there are hard crashes.

I switched to AMD after the RX480 and haven't looked back. That was 8 years ago, so there hasn't been a good reason to use NVIDIA for a long time.

It's fine if you want to use Mint, but it doesn't make Nvidia a good person here.
The budget is already approved, the debt limit has nothing to do with it, it's just a cudgel with which one party bludgeons the other. It serves no other purpose.
How is this related to civics?