skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also believed miasma (bad smells) spread disease. They weren't a million miles away from the idea of airborne pathogens, but they were obviously incorrect about sweet smells having protective properties.

That said, I've wondered if the flowers thing selected in favour of people with hayfever - if you're producing more mucus and expelling it, that might lower your exposure. I've never seen a study on it, though.
Once phones got relatively big (i.e. 'phablet' ceased to exist as a concept because that size was just 'phone' now) I switched to using a 7/8" tablet with my SIM in it as my primary portable device (Nexus 7 and now Galaxy Tab A6).

Means I have to carry it in my jacket pocket or a side pocket on my combats but the bigger phones weren't comfortable in my trousers' top pocket anyway so for me at least the trade-off is well worth it.
It is more like geo-fly-tipping. Engineering implies we are being thoughtful about it (which is more true in the reduction case than the dumping case).
try switching your dns resolver, as mentioned in thread
Mathologer is my favorite
> "car park" sound to my ear like "ca pack"

Why not "ka pak" or "ca pac"?
I'm not native English speaker. Pronunciation is still mystery for me. Is it like in Dutch or Norwegian that two consonants are enclosing short vowel while one consonant makes long vowel?

And I'm ashamed to admit that I still do not know what is difference between "c" and "k" in English language.
> feature overload

XQuartz with xterm is one possibility. XQuartz helps with bringing up a GUI from a Docker container. Sure, `xhost +localhost`, but minimalism is only a .pkg install away.

> remapping possibilities

> remove many conflicting shortcuts

I think the plain xterm does not have many shortcuts built in, but could be wrong.
Most documentation sites along with the stackoverflow sites and the venerable wikipedia are among the top most boosted. Only if someone brought search to books, wouldn't that be wonderful?
We are in an emergency, look at those graphs ?

Imo governments know this , just not yet sure what to do yet.
Yeah. In curated transformers [1] we are seeing completely deterministic output across multiple popular transformer architectures on a single GPU (there can be variance between GPUs due to different kernels). Of course, it completely depends on what ops and implementations you are using. But most transformers do not use ops that are typically non-deterministic to be fast (like scatter-add).

One non-determinism we see with a temperature of 0 is that once you have quantized weights, many predicted pieces will have the same probability, including multiple pieces with the highest probability. And then the sampler (if you are not using a greedy decoder) will sample from those pieces. So, generation is non-deterministic with a temperature of 0.

In other words, a temperature of 0 is a poor man’s greedy decoding. (It is totally possible that OpenAI’s implementation switches to a greedy decoder with a temperature of 0).

[1] https://github.com/explosion/curated-transformers
It's because they're industrializing, have higher population growth, and are primarily building coal power plants to keep up with it.
The risk of introducing new bugs while fixing old ones should not be underestimated. Software development is a delicate process, and even seemingly minor bug fixes can have unintended consequences. Striking a balance between bug fixing and feature development is crucial to maintain a stable and reliable codebase.
Reminds me a bit of the 1% rule: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
I like the suggestions about a more descriptive name, like "multi-project", that I believe describe the thing more clearly. This would probably also remove some of the confusion betweeen the words monorepo and monolith.

Also, I don't see anything bad with an organization having more than one "monorepo" for grouping a number of related projects - an example would be different monorepos for different programming languages. This would probably mean that the organization is a "polyrepo" one (or maybe multi-project).

The Polylith Architecture support these kind of scenarios: one monorepo for all code, or a number of multi-project repos within an organization. There's also tooling support for this architecture, currently for Clojure and Python.

I'm the maintainer of the Python tooling, that is a combination of two Poetry plugins - one with the name "multi-project plugin". Here's the docs for the Python tool: https://davidvujic.github.io/python-polylith-docs/
Personally I'd go as high as I could afford in this order:
4090 > 3090 > 4080 > 4070 TI > 4070 > 3080 TI > 3080

I have no idea how the 4060 TI 16GB performs

Models change from week to week, so just aim for the basics (VRAM, Tensor cores (generation!), and memory bandwidth).
[video] Fully levitating LK-99 sample claimed replicated
Translation of caption on top right:
LK-99 Verification
Material diamagnetism verification

Translation of subtitles:
Perfect diamagnetic crystals appear in a new batch of materials released from the furnace
For this batch of sintering, the team leader optimized the process and added some other compounds
The specific technical content will not be announced until the document is sorted out
I read 16k H100’s for their datacenter in Texas
Yeah. Search for class, open official docs, read very short description. And still have absolutely zero idea is where this class is used, and how it should be created, and what alternatives.
Even then, raw pork requires 100% carcass inspections or sashimi-like freezing to reliably prevent the parasite infections.
Yes: first the changes, then the publishing
You may be interested in heat-recovery ventilation (recuperation). For example, you can buy this one from Ukraine: https://prana.ua/en/products/prana150ee/ (not affiliated with them, just bough one similar unit for my own house).
So can we build things like this anymore? I am lucky if my cell phone lasts more than a year. I have a feeling that even if today's hardware manages to last 50 years, all knowledge of how to talk to it will be long lost. I am sure some of the code/firmware will be proprietary and then contractor will go out of business and that is that.
The thing that is galling is that we already have the technology to live sustainably if people do change their lifestyles.
This is the plot of Larry Niven's 'World Out Of Time'.
That video is for 6.2. 6.4 drivers are much better. And in general, since Intel don't have proprietary drivers for Linux, they'll very soon have far better driver support than both Nvidia and AMD on Linux.
most games back in the day had to have a self-host option for lan gaming w/o internet access. this usually also works with global ip addresses
At a ratio of 10:1. This is bullshit framing designed to refocus people on human competition (which everyone gets trained for from school), just don’t look over at the robots who never sleep, never get worse, rapidly expand their capabilities, don’t need vacation, etc. Once people understand the robots will never stop replacing them, shit will get much more real.

Proof is in the earnings calls - see IBM dangling firing 30% of backoffice because of AI and begging shareholders to stick around for the payoff.
I've seen LLM reviews that totally nail it. 2 hours, if space contrained to 5 shirts, 1 hours if space is not a constraint.

Things do seem to be improving quickly, but if the inputs are largely human written content I do wonder if it's feasible to be much better than humans.
> the Earth is not something you can reboot to the last working state once you harebrained patch implodes.

There are methods of geoengineering that you can stop doing at any point, at which point they stop having an effect.

The one proposed in this twitter thread, marine cloud brightening by spraying seawater in the air, is one of those.
Quite similar is Darwin and Wallace presenting their evolutionary theories together. Darwin had been working on his for much longer, but spurred by the possibility of losing priority, he presented Origin of Species as a book rather than waiting for formal review + journal publication.
I am curious about what post-LLM SEO is going to look like.

> The semantic web has failed and what replaced it was Google spending a crap ton of money writing a variety of heuristics equipped with best-of-breed-at-the-time AI behind it.

Arguably, there were insufficient incentives to fully adopt semantic HTML, if your goal was just to have the most relevant parts of your content indexed well enough to get ranked.

> As AI improves, it improves its ability to extract information from any ol' slop, and if "any ol' slop" is enough, it's all the effort people are going to put out.

If the goalpost shifts from “getting ranked” to “enabling LLMs to maximally extract the nuance and texture of your content”, perhaps there will be greater incentive to use elements like <details> or <progress>. Websites which do so, will have more influence over the outputs of LLMs.

Feels like the difference between being loud enough to be heard vs. being clear enough to be understood.
> adopt nuclear

Not possible in the timescales required.

> carbon capture technologies

Don’t exist.

> geoengineering strategies

Unproven and potentially catastrophic.
Oh, I see you're embracing a rather unconventional perspective on science and academia. While it's true that social media platforms like Twitter have provided new avenues for scientific discussions and collaboration, it's essential to consider the potential downsides of context switching and chasing after every shiny new experiment.

Research and replication are crucial components of the scientific process. Context switching too frequently can indeed lead to wasted time, as researchers may not have the opportunity to delve deeply into a particular topic and build upon existing knowledge. Replication is essential for validating findings and ensuring the reliability of scientific claims.

While some interesting discussions may occur on Twitter, it's important not to dismiss academia entirely. Academic institutions provide an environment conducive to rigorous research, peer review, and collaboration, which are fundamental aspects of advancing scientific knowledge.
I can see a certain kind of absolute beginner enjoying w3schools more than MDN, it’s a little less intimidating.

When you’re first learning a subject you often want simple lies more than complicated truths.
Why does your cell phone break after just a year?
I'm curious, if you're mostly looking for a wikipedia page, why aren't you using wikipedia's search feature?
The solution is that Bob isn’t 10 miles away because the town is more dense. And carrying an umbrella to the tram or train stop 3 blocks away is easy
Assuming centaur-dominance in the economy rather than pure-AI dominance, I can easily believe that we can work just as hard to produce 16x as much stuff — that's the income disparity between normal Americans and the recent job posting for $900k in Netflix, implying normal people can be motivated by it, implying there's stuff to care about buying with it.

Steps up from that are plausible, but less certain. Do we all want personal pleasure yachts? Flights on a Dragon capsule or a Starship?

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But there are too many paths the future might yet take for me to be confident of anything much.

If the AI are always narrow, but can be made superhuman for any given skill in 6 months, that has one set of issues; if they are fully human-like general but we never make them more than IQ 85 (plus access to whatever narrow AI exist by then that actual humans also use), that's a different set of issues; and that's just off the top of my head.
Yeah people generally gloss over the bit where automation doesn't have to be anywhere close to 100% effective to cause massive disruption (unless we drastically modify our economy which seems incredibly unlikely to happen in any proactive soften-the-landing way).

The unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression was "only" about 25%. If 3 people doing the work of 4 is already a huge problem, 1 person doing the work of 50 or 100 is massive.

The obvious and oft-repeated response to this would be to point out how automation has been going on for many decades (arguably centuries) and so far people have just evolved into different jobs, which is true, but it seems like a risky bet to me to assume that trend will continue if/when a non-task-specific automation technology has the potential to very quickly cut wide and deep across an awful lot of the job sectors that currently have reasonably desirable jobs.

The speed of disruption, I think, is likely to matter quite a lot.
As far as I can remember they would have to buy AMD, VIA or IBM to get a X86 licence. That's just the beginning though as many later patents are also important, but they would likely also be already licensed by these companies (like AMD64 for one). If they could even use the license after a take over.... I don't know.
Someone has been reading Iain Banks.
The claim is stronger: That N% of jobs are useless and everyone including the workers knows it, but cannot acknowledge it.
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The degree of confidence in our abstractions of reality is usually a visible process: You are able to explain things you can measure with increasing accuracy, you can predict and verify the unfolding of what-if scenarios etc.

One thing that we should not refrain from is applying 10x, 100x, 1000x the brainpower to understand objectively (as in: not captured by short-term interests) what sustainable biospheres look like and how things can go wrong.

The capacity and orientation of the scientific apparatus (universities, research centers etc) is a WIP that has been shaped by momentous historical events (WWII in particular) and societal choices. I think the sustainability transition is of far greater importance but it has not yet had a visible impact. There are a few new fields (e.g. industrial ecology) but its a slow process.
if the majority of the industry laugh at open source initiatives this is the only future possible
Trying to understand the incoming tech backlash [video]
Working Title (2015)
I still think Intel has a real opportunity to be the go-to second card for encoding/streaming and therefore get in to a lot of households.

If they could throw some forwards compatibility in (maybe an FPGA?) so that users could do future real-time encoding of h266 or av3? That would be an easy sell.
Came here looking for this comment. It seems that Kent's re-discovering (re-inventing?) event sourcing…?
I remember Kermit as thing I didn't have to use because of z-modem. I had a comprehension problem and never got kermt working but z-modem I could.
I would have upvoted you if it weren't for your second sentence.

It surely is important to note that `The study was supported by Procter & Gamble.`
Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?
OK I had someone with keratoconus to test it. I think it is good now.
Who is archiving the archive?
Yeah but I've never seen an objective review of the OS by anybody. Everyone's too busy kissing his schizophrenic ass. They're afraid of being dogpiled for telling the truth. I want the truth.

Is the OS impressive or not? It looks like CRAP to me. Nobody seriously uses it yet everyone says it's awesome.

I'm sick of people LYING for this guy because he's dead - just tell the truth you scum society. It BLOWS, doesn't it?
> This should not be some VC funded endeavor.

How would it be VC funded? Where would the return on investment hypothetically come from? If you could produce localised effects while being able to turn them on or off then maybe you could charge for it as a service, but is that at all realistic?
Yes it can be worth it. It might actually be preferable in a lot of cases. Just keep in mind you might be running a different kind of business than you expected if you’re a technical person who want’s to build something technical. It’s quite likely tech will be less important/table stakes and you’ll be pushing harder on sales and marketing and innovating there instead.
Is this a Rubio quote?
You're kinda proving my point. Instead of facing reality as that would mean changes to your lifestyle, you want to keep on going as if nothing is happening and just hope technology will save us.
It’s actually also an example of cache invalidation being difficult if you think about it…
yeah unfortunately if some people are click-baity it makes it where basically everyone has to be if they want to maximize their views/revenue on YouTube.
I use warp to serve my projects and configure nginx as a reverse proxy. There might be a bit of overhead with this setup, but I like how simple it is.
It seems increasingly to be a more general issue that if you don’t have more then 8 GB of VRAM you just don’t get console level (or above) image quality. Current gen consoles have 16 GB of unified RAM, and end up effectively assigning more than half of that to the GPU side of things (I know, it’s a bit more complex than a simple split between “CPU” and “GPU” pools in reality). Which can be a problem, at least of you want to lord it over console owning plebs with your several times more expensive battlestation. Although you might get “better framerate, worse textures” type trade offs.
I started on the JVM in '97 at University. Damn I'm old.

The company I founded uses full stack Clojure for our product development (https://kpow.io).

We're a small team pushing through a big product roadmap at pace, love programming every day, no chance we'd have made it in Java (and I quite like Java).

Thanks Rich (and Stu, and Alex, and Fogus, and David, and..)!
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Firefox on Android only supports a handful of curated add-ons. You can apparently create your own collections or install anything with Firefox Nightly but I've not done this.
Texts from Xcode
> It's dishonest, then, for people to use the term "open source software" with a different interpretation

I disagree. You're saying that they "invented" the term, but it's a very generic term. The source is open, it's open source. I bet people were using the term before they claim they invented it.

In that context, it is very fine to use a different definition and in fact here's my definition, and I guess most people (maybe not on HN) share it: if the source is visible by the general public, it's open source.

For what you mean, I use "FLOSS".
Ooh, interest rates! Perhaps I should have used them as my example of a black swan — I'm old enough to remember when negative interest rates were "absolutely impossible and never ever going to happen".

(That said: cow brains seem to be more complex than GPT-4 and LaMDA, and the latter managed to mimic sentience well enough to convince Blake Lemoine; a cow brain wired up like even a relatively mediocre LLM would certainly… be a surprise).
So if you want to play both AAA and indie you buy both a PC and a console? How is that supposed to be cheaper than just adding a graphic card to your PC?
It would be interesting to have a collection of aromas which one purposefully uses on different occasions.

For example a tree-like aroma which you use only in the night after you've spent the day hiking, a lemon-like aroma the night after you've deep-cleaned the house, or a "fresh-air"-like aroma after you've had an extremely productive day.

So you start to "Pavlov" yourself with aromas and then if one night you want to get productive dreams you use the "fresh-air" aroma, or the tree-like aroma if you want to dream of traveling.

I wonder if this would work.
It works well enough for me, can’t say I’ve really looked back since I signed up.
Bluntly: far fewer people, sustainability built into every process, no more oil, very high cost for transportation unless it is by ship, personal transport will be very costly and you won't do it unless you really have to. Think '1850' but with transistors.
My argument is that your point isn't based in reality. How is changing my lifestyle going to fix the problem when most of my power consumption is fueled by renewables, while most of the carbon emissions over the next 50 years are going to come from India and China?

I'm not saying keep going as if nothing is happening. I'm saying the climate crisis is a real emergency, and the solution is to build more renewable energy and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Thanks to you I can now add "flamingo for Thanksgiving dinner" to my bucketlist.
The 900K salary isn't related to "producing more stuff", but is instead a way to acquire a very rare skill that would unblock their development (in their mind, obviously).

It's basically trying to ensure they get this person away from whatever place or job they happen to be currently working in. If AI was able to empower many people with this skill, they wouldn't be paying anywhere near 900K by simple offer/demand.
Brain plasticity to the rescue. There are examples of people being able to integrate completely new senses (vibrating compass belt) and controlling prosthesis with completely unrelated nerves.

But if you want to graft additional limbs to people, I highly recommend starting with baby aged humans already, their brain plasticity is unmatched. Imagine how much more fulfilment an amazon fulfilment center worker could bring with four arms! I should get Bezos on the phone.

https://www.carlosterminel.com/wearable-compass

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4196408/World-s-p...
I’ll still click on w3schools but it’s not bringing much to the table and usually I’ll end up back at MDN anyway (big respect to the MDN teams).

Given the choice I’d probably block w3schools just so I save those couple seconds a month when I click back and in to MDN.
Is it clear, or is it just random output from a large language model?
Commenting on HN has been linked to most of these symptoms yet it’s not regulated either.
What other option do you have if you want to support developers across Linux/Mac/Windows?

VMWare player? Besides it not being OSS, I didn't notice any performance benefit.

The bottleneck (for my web development needs), is around the spottiness of shared folders and JS tooling that needs to keep a watch for file changes.
What is the idea behind this? The only thing I can think of (I’m not a web developer, so might be missing something obvious) is that it would ‘stop’ third party tools from being able to automate the login flow. But if that was the case, couldn’t they just change the html/JavaScript to allow pasting again? As far as I know, blocking of pasting into forms is a fully client-side setting.