skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, not all Jews are white. Contrary to this ridiculous chart.
That's not what is meant by coherence, what is required in a quantum computer is for multiple qbits to maintain states coherent to each other. Current quantum computers operate in the milikelvin range for a reason, despite superconductors working at 1000x higher temperatures.
I don't have kids but watching my friends go through that was obnoxious. I remember a comment from someone in the vaccine industry. He said the number of vaccines that don't cause problems for adults but causes problems when given to children is zero. Worse the initial trials for children underdosed the vaccine.

I think the mistake being made was the FDA and vaccine companies trying to placate lunatics.
Actually no. ISO-9660 is one of ma t standards issued by THE ISO.
This is a South Korean breakthrough
Distribution of 1500+ SAT Scores

White 0.381106

Black/African American 0.0544724

Hispanic/Latino 0.111558

Asian/Asian American 0.414271

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.00100503

American Indian/Alaska Native 0.00261307

Two or More Races 0.0349749

Sources:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_226.10.a...

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-percentile-r...
I would never support Epic as Sweeney is openly hostile towards Linux.
> the career implications for rushing something out that is later found lacking is not great.

On a tangent, this idea of reputation keeps on coming up in this whole discussion and I am burdened by it in a way I don't fully understand. The way people have talked, if this LK-99 doesn't work out, then it is almost as if those who published this did something _morally_ wrong. Well, morally wrong is not quite true, but the way people talk about it tanking their reputation it feels like such a strong statement. Is there some way we can focus on the science and not get bogged down in the very human reputational part of this whole thing? It's almost as if a good chunk of the scientific community don't care about the benefits the science brings but the reputational benefits.
With zero resistance actually
As long as the people with the weapons act rationally. Which might be an anomaly.
M1 Max here

looking forward to the M3. just for the RAM at this point, for me nothing changes between 64gb - 128gb (aside from recent LLMs) but 128gb+ opens up additional applications for me,

aside from that I think incremental improvements in GPU and other special purpose processors will be intriguing in conjunction with the RAM boosts

I have a hunch that 2024 or 2025 chipsets will give more RAM to the neural engine for very fast AI output. Will we still be using "tokens per second" by then? Who knows. But I think there will be OS level inclusion of models by then and Apple machines will have a consumer level chipset leaps ahead of others, in mobile and laptop form factors.
Not sure that AI chat bots are actually reasoning in any basic way, so much as they are filtering out noise and presenting an output that might satisfy the input, but it's often quite wrong. It's still more of a parlor trick than it is intelligence or reason.
yeah, it's totally useless.... unless of course, you have only one image of the thing you're trying to model. and getting a second image will take millions of dollars or another trip around the earth from orbit.

lmao are you for real?
To get to the other side...
Does

class TodoView(UnicornView):

create a model?

class UnicornView(TemplateView)

and

from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

Is this Django magic a Flasker doesn't get?
If it's a room temperature superconductor there's probably 10% US GDP available annually to figure out the manufacturing considerations.
Rockets landing themselves back on Earth was looked at as really weird for quite a while.
I never said they shouldn't be able to do it; I said it's a bad idea to do it.

To put it in your terms: I'm happy for you to be allowed to drive a rat rod (hello, fellow old? I haven't heard that term in a looong time), but clearly a car with likely no crumple zones, air bags, antilock brakes, etc., etc. is less safe than a modern sedan.
Maybe not so many mice will develop their peculiar breed's brand of Alzheimer's. It is hard to believe there can be more than 10M of those at any time. Their entire lineage could disappear in a year without continuous support, and then no mice would suffer it.
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I do agree with you (especially in this case). Just adding a bit of useful background color.

I suspect this is going to get worse, and maybe there’s some value in shouting into the ether that some people did try to explain in good faith, before it got worse. Dunno what that value might be, but maybe it’s there.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1685088625187495936.html

The most immediate and interesting are improvements to generators (35%) and SQUIDS.
Right, then he could just pardon himself.

I really hate this timeline.
Half of the insurance companies have pulled out of his state and he's spending tens of millions of hurricane relief funds to sue Disney and Budweiser while the Gulf of Mexico is 100 degrees.
How about the other side, where the FDA allows things like Singulair/Montelukast to remain in the market despite plenty of evidence of widespread harm?

It's a destructive drug, and anyone given it without a medical background (and some with one!) would never guess the degree of side-effects it offers, because of the innocuous feelings toward the class of drug that it is.
You mean that's now how everyone else programs? Obviously you do fuzz testing and static analysis and possibly some sort of theorem prover verification so you don't get too embarrassed.
yeah, the ceo matches up
With probability 1 as time goes to infinity.
mRNA vaccines would be on my list. I don't know if we'd consider that basic or more combinatorial tech.
To allow political ads I would guess.
That breaks, however, once there is more than 1 customer device on the network. Since "multiple devices" case is super common, I don't think this is something to be concerned about for general public.. "hey, you broke by ipad, whatever checkbox you unchecked, check it back"
In Austria there are illegal.
> but the tech doesn't look that developed

It could be that they found something incredible by chance and they’re at the limits of their personal capability to further understand and refine. The fact that they’ve known about this for over 20 years suggests maybe. It’s not a bad thing if they are, they’ve already taken one of the biggest leaps. New teams with fresh eyes and varied backgrounds will look at the problem space and undoubtedly see room for refinement.
Yeah I have no desire to defend the FDA here but summarizing this as “I care about the dying while this government agency is only concerned with politics” does a massive disservice to the argument. It is political will that is responsible for the existence of the FDA and we live in a time of massive epistemological crisis specifically in the subset of the population of the US that votes. That and some subset are ideologically bent on dismantling regulatory bodies in general. Ignoring this reality probably jeopardizes any potential benefit of the FDA
Thank you. Will have a think.

Question - does dark theme and light theme both have the contrast issue?
Please don’t spread historical revisionism, the Soviets were perfectly fine with Nazism until it has turned against them. They teamed up with Nazi Germany to invade Poland together and even held talks to formally join the Axis, ffs.

And if it weren’t for the monumental material support in form of the US-provided lend-lease arrangement, the Nazis would’ve conquered the Soviet Union and carried out a genocide that’d have dwarfed the Holocaust.
Ok cool, so basically pipe is the max number of requests that were in flight at one time. Nice.
The animal analogue of Alzheimer's has been very, very thoroughly demonstrated to be an entire failure for predicting the effect of interventions. Still, studying that failed analogue (to the wholesale exclusion of attention to the actual disease in humans) has been a good career path for an entire generation of biochemists. One wonders what they could pivot to when it is finally abandoned; and what would need to happen before that could be achieved. As it is, those biochemists directly control $2B in grants to themselves, and show little appetite for change.
And what he saying, and you weren’t listening to is it all your testing equipment is introducing resistance.

You can mesaure current by electrical fields, but have the same issues as before. Your testing equipment and your very tiny sample sizes.
Hear me out: superconducting railgun for launching multi-ton payloads to supply a lunar colony without rockets
Nice! I’m guessing CPG type companies using it for product photos and such in particular
Merchants sure as hell have very little choice to participate in the Visa/Mastercard payment networks since so many of their paying customers are cash-free these days.

It’s not a tax on the end consumer. It’s a tax on businesses.
Ugh fuck the FDA.
Religious devotion to beauty.

Liturgy is beauty. Christians will affirm that the sacred liturgy is the most beautiful thing on earth.

Scripture is beautiful on all possible levels.

In fact, I think there is a cliché about judging books.
You are also one brain. I look at the results from other scientists in the exact same way you do. Just because I don’t build my own climate models doesn’t mean my opinion is incorrect. I build models as a job, so I have a decent understanding of what to look for in a good model.

In fact I follows many scientists who do all the things you mention and who agree with me. Some even think climate change might be good overall! Most skeptics think that it is real and that it is bad, but that it is not something worth panicking about.

As I said before, I’m always open to learning more. What predictions frighten you the most? You mention ocean acidification, when do scientists predict that this problem will become existential?
An L5 self driving car is decades away. The needle hasn't moved on that one.

Nothing we have currently moves closer to that. Just doing more of the same of the current models will not get you there.
I wouldn't go hiking in a "sneaker" as your typical sneaker didn't have the proper sole nor is it likely to be water resistant. I do wear hiking shoes, that are low ankle like a sneaker. But they have good sturdy non slip soles. And are fairly water resistant.
The patent system sort of is the bounty for inventions. If you discover something new, you get first dibs at making money off if.
Version 0.11.0 of Zig programming language released
We do end up doing a GPT based rewrite. The initial description is really valuable too though, and we want to keep that throughout the workflow. It's kind of similar to a spelling correction or query intent system. If it's high confidence you can override their query, but ideally you use the original one too.
> Its incredible that "Services" brings as much revenue as Mac, iPad and wearables/accessories combined.

That's not the story the numbers are telling:

23 YTD 22 YTD Change
====== ====== ======
Mac 21,743 28,669 -24.2%
iPad + 21,857 + 22,118 -1.2%
Wearables + 30,523 + 31,591 -3.4%
-------- -------- ------
74,123 82,378 -10.0%
Services / 62,886 / 58,941 +6.7%
======== ======== ======
+17.9% +39.8%

Even with Mac sales getting smashed hard YTD, Services would still need to generate ~18% more to be comparable in revenue; $11.2 billion delta is not insignificant, even with games buried in footnotes[1; p. 37] being played like:

>> Services net sales also include amortization of the deferred value of services bundled in the sales price of certain products.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193220...
Democratization of the free internet, a more informed populace through free education, a generation of coders and computer adepts, robust journalism and investigation, a space that incentivizes knowledge rather than capital or status, society about the exchange of important ideas rather than flippant goods, ad infinitum
I quit Steam, some years ago.

I found their customer support appalling.

I lost everything, including the games I used to have on CD but which had migrated to Steam.

To quote Akbar : "it's a trap!"
Efficiency of food production
Always more expensive on AWS: $0.005/hr =~ $3.60/mo

We pay $0.55/mo (€0.50) on Hetzner.
The description included with that image conflicts with your account:

> An example of color enhancement using LAB colorspace in Photoshop (CIELAB D50). Left side is enhanced, right side is not. Enhancement is "overdone" to show the effect better.

And per the original upload the “enhancement” demonstrated is linear compression of the a* and b* channels—

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/f/f3/...

—the effect a divergence from the likeness of life at least as I’ve experienced it.
Show HN: Modulating and amplifying signals with (electro)magnets
As a counter point, nearly all the good senior engineer with experience in elixir i know have all accepted non elixir jobs in the past few years and are still in them.

Every time they go on the market for an elixir one, they cannot find good jobs and the few good one reject them.

As I regularly point out, i have hired whole elixir teams in 2 months multiple time in the past. If you cannot find us, the problem is that your hiring process and work practices are pushing us out. Not that we do not exist.
GPU will be faster if you can fit the data in VRAM. If not, using CPU and system RAM works fine but is slower. It's even possible to load layers from disk, but this is very very slow.

Full precision for most models is 16 bits. That means two bytes per parameter. This is a rule of thumb and there's other overheard, but generally, you can load a 7B model in ~14GB of VRAM or system RAM at full precision. But usually, to improve speed and memory usage, precision is reduced after training. Loading a model at 8-bit precision means you can fit a 13B model in ~13GB of (V)RAM. You can go even lower, with 4 bits being common and 3 or 2 bits available for the most popular large models.

GPT4all has the least setup friction but also a pretty limited interface. Last I checked though, if you're on Windows, it will not run on GPU. Building and installing llama.cpp from source is quite painless and has more options. Installing text-generation-webui has a lot more options in exchange for a few more steps in the install. Those are the top 3 I would recommend for ease of use.

Edit: all above numbers are for inference. For training numbers, https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/perf_train_gpu_one is pretty approachable. tl;dr most commonly 8 bytes per parameter, but optimizations are possible with tradeoffs in complexity and accuracy.
Yes yes everyone here gets that. The question is why would emulation on a modern OS lead to dropped inputs.
Not an expert in the area, but being passingly familiar with other major advancements and the timelines it's taken them to move from discovery to day to day use.

Let's say we got a massive wave of independent replication of superconductivity tomorrow - at least enough to convince Big Money to move in, and it all ends up being For Real.

The next steps are figuring out the other properties of the material, with a big one being 'how ductile is it', how to produce it in large enough quantities to be useful, if the underlying mechanisms here can be applied to other compositions that allow us to make RTAPS with better properties, etc.

Depending on those results determines the range of applications it is suitable for out of the box, how much we can make at what cost, etc. We've got minimal details to go on there. It's a ceramic, so it's probably not super ductile, but we have some experience in making those be useful via making them into a tape, a la YBCO. Can we do the same thing here? Who knows!

There's a timeline where all of these questions end up favorable and 10 years from now we see RTAPS in all sorts of day to day applications - we might find out that with one small trick we end up with big pure samples of LK99 with easy production methods. There's a world where all these answers aren't favorable, and it takes 10 years for it to show up in specialized applications (which are still huge for science and humanity!), and trickles bit by bit to more use cases over another few decades.

I would guess that a decade-ish is really the earliest window for significant impact to humanity - we're probably going to spend the next year at minimum figuring out what all the deal is with LK99, and then it'll take a few years to even really start making cool experimental stuff in labs, and then you have to actually productize things using it, etc.
If you enjoy this style of writing with its pithy observations then I can recommend J.P. Donleavy's "The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners":

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unexpurgated-Code-Complete-Survival...

I read this on a train and the tears were dripping off my face whilst trying to control my laughter. I got plenty of funny looks.

Donleavy's "The Ginger Man" is also well worth a read.
Interesting article. For collections, I can see myself using these instead of static initialiser blocks. And TIL about the holder idiom. [1]

But for the love of Glob I wish web page authors would cease their contrast brinkmanship. Most of the text is barely discernible from the background.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization-on-demand_holde...
I’ll be checking out the free version.

1. Proton Pass does not have password sharing right now. That makes even the initial limited time discounted pricing ($1 or €1 a month) higher than Bitwarden, where the latter allows password sharing even on a free account (though it’s limited) and in a less-than-$1-a-month premium plan.

2. The Proton Pass apps are native apps [1], which should be better (over time) than Bitwarden’s non-native apps on mobile. Proton Pass does not have a desktop app though and relies only on browser extensions. Bitwarden has an Electron-based desktop app that is slow and doesn't have standard OS keyboard shortcuts support.

3. No predefined types (like WiFi passwords, software licenses, etc.). Bitwarden has been working on this for more than five years [2] and it still doesn’t have it. It's eternally "on the roadmap".

4. Server code of Proton Pass is not (yet?) open source. So alternative implementations, like Vaultwarden in the case of Bitwarden, may be more difficult and more prone to having bugs with newer client versions.

I think if the price is lowered with an annual plan, password sharing implemented and the server code is open sourced, this could be serious competition for Bitwarden.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36787553

[2]: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/additional-item-types-pre-...
I was given a children's hand missal as a First Holy Communion gift. It is bound in black faux leather, it is illustrated in color, and it is inscribed with the dates of my Sacraments, including space for future Matrimony, Religious Consecration, or Holy Orders.

It's the most beautiful book I've ever owned, although it is mass-produced (so to speak.) 40 years later, I still have it carefully preserved and accessible.
that's me! i call myself a fake network engineer because there is simply too much info to retain, my brain just won't retain things i'm not constantly doing, so i have a complete understanding of maybe 20% of things but outside of that comparing to other configs and pattern matching are my main ways of solving problems and to be fair for my job (fixing network faults) like 90% of faults i've seen before and can fix, for 10% i can't i'm lucky that i have escalation points

at the same time i do feel like pattern matching limits my growth, if i had a complete understanding of a majority of networking principals id be much higher up in my career
Ask HN: How has HN influenced your career or personal life?
I came across comments from users who say that Hacker News has been life-changing for them. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366538) It's interesting to see how this website has had such a positive impact on people's lives. I find a lot of useful and interesting stuff on HN.
I would actually welcome scooters that only work on specialized tracks. Walking safely on the sidewalk will become as easy as staying away from those tracks.
I'm looking forward to experiments with LK-99 and twistronics. What a time to be alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistronics.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2101/2101.04501.pdf
He’s openly hostile to gamers. If anyone thinks he does what he does for gamers and companies you would be a fool. He’s only trying to steal market share to line his own pockets. He can’t even compete with a quality product. Epic game store is probably the worst store to exist.
> US taxpayers should be directly paying for these studies to prove and disprove medicines

I think you are right people should pay for it? I could pay for it, but who would run the study? Are they going to be efficient? Or is it going to be a waste of money? Could EU pick this up? They are trying to be a bastion of science.
Has that ever been verified through empirical verification, or has a statistician just said don't worry about it?

Two entirely different circumstances there.
Are you disputing that Covid itself was known to cause myocarditis at an even greater rate than any vaccine was said to?

Arguably, having a ton of unvaccinated kids going to school and swapping the virus back and forth constantly and then infecting their families could have been a big contributor to how long this pandemic lasted. If you’ve ever met kids, you know school is basically a series of viral infections constantly.

Not to mention the stress it caused to the schools and childcare and thus to the families because exposure notices were so constant, forcing kids home constantly.
It means we won't lose MRIs when the earth finally runs out of helium as they require liquid helium to run the superconductors that generate the magnetic field. We're running out of helium with no way to replenish it. Helium is the only element on the periodic table which is a non-renewable resource on Earth.

So MRIs will get much cheaper, and they could end up being as cheap as taking an x-ray today.
So far this material (and pretty much all liquid nitrogen ones) can't be used to create MRI sort of fields. There's a reason they all stick with liquid helium.
> What I'm really hoping for is a real-time AI app that can (a) understand what they are saying and generate plausible time wasting responses.

...until one day the AI is convinced it's a good deal and buys you a comprehensive insurance package. :)
Linux on desktop should be up there. /s
A Stripe employee will be here momentarily to tell us all that you were selling hookers or laundering bitcoin or something.

Or the ceo will fix it and say "see how seriously we take this?"

At this point I think they deserve the Molly White treatment.
Maybe the ripped out GNU Units.

Never know, since they never distributed it.
It's been a while since I've thought about this; thanks for the refresher.
Unrelated, but yeah https://youtu.be/7DqvweTYTI0
Rentier capitalists will always do stuff like that.
> Entrepreneurial types like the denizens of Hacker News love the opportunity of a problem they’re positioned to solve, no?

HN denziens also tend to do tech support, and nothing is more triggering than "i tried nothing and am out of ideas"
Indoor plumbing in general - municipal sewer systems were a huge change (though not really new technology).
Chronic lyme is a vague term that usually refers to people who have already been treated, but continue to have symptoms, and may not test positive. It's a grabbag of stuff.
It solves a massive problem while at the same time creating another massive problem. Was my comment really that unclear?
Quite sure even the rich have to entertain their peers - be a good host, have entertaining parties, … etc.