skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10+ years ago it was okay. Today, not so much. And while the registry "cleaning" might never have been "useful", I did use it on a "why not" basis and didn't have an issue, ever. Also noticed no positive effects.

But either way, the Microsoft that makes random hardware demands for Windows 11 to turn computers into landfill isn't what I would take recommendations from. Or much anyone else, either. Just by using Revo Uninstaller I am just constantly amazed at how much stuff software leaves around in the registry and on disk. I recently uninstalled Keybase because I wasn't really using it but noticed it had accumulated 200MB of log files (for nothing, for running in the background basically), and after uninstalling it, RU found an additional 400+ MB of leftover files. And that just rubs me the wrong way, and even if it doesn't measurably slow down the use of the system, just having all sorts of orphaned and 100% useless data checked for changes every time a backup runs is reason enough for me to get rid of it.

FWIW, my system doesn't seem to get slower over time, and I do attribute that to caring too much about and fiddling with things I'm not supposed to care about. I don't recommend it to others -- if you know enough and care enough to do it, you're doing it already -- but you can pry that from my cold, dead hands.
> Do you think in providing those things, men then become entitled to sex or attention?

You seem to have skipped the take the risk of being rejected part of that comment when reading.
Reread your article. There’s no evidence that “brush your teeth and you’ll be fine”. There’s no good evidence that flossing is effective because there are nearly no large randomized controlled studies of flossing. Nearly all of the studies rely on self reporting.

Flossing isn’t some kind of conspiracy. Dentists make no money off it. Many dental associations and government agencies outside of the US recommended it. Dental hygienist can frequently tell when you don’t floss because flossing reduces bleeding gums.

Bleeding gums are correlated with all kinds of poor health outcomes.

Furthermore The proposed mechanism of action for improving gum health is plausible and reasonable. We know that food stuck between teeth leads to gum inflammation—it is very reasonable that removing that food is beneficial.

There is no conclusive peer reviewed evidence that wiping your ass is beneficial either.
Reminds me of Seinfeld's "Yay NYC" tweet written in the Hamptons
A story as old as time. I’m am however increasingly tired of this glorification of sex work, it’s low skill low value work, end of story.
Replace Windows with the words “popular operating system” otherwise you’re not making claims with any good faith.
This is the letter: https://futureofliff.org/

I wonder if the website is named after "The Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff
My solution to that is to punt on the actual bit blitting pixel pushing stuff. :-) I still want my high dpi fonts and I’m willing to cheat a little to get them onto the monitor. And given that we are all probably using a modern monitor with multiple powerful processors on board I can pretend that the SBC I use as a video card is just part of the monitor.
maybe because the monarchs were quite ugly. If you're an artist you are more interested in beauty than money (and I don't mean necessarily physical appearance)
Well from your low karma, I know you're a troll.
Do you know why that EV registration tax was passed?
https://www.reddit.com/r/LOLHackerNews/comments/15k8c49/this...
I have to admit I'm a bit tired and don't know where you're going with this. They're not saying that making the first move entitles one to sex; they're saying the standards are higher for men.

I do think that there are a lot of men who feel bitter that they'll never have sex with a woman, but I don't think anything in mainstream society condones such feelings. It's more of a subculture of lonely men turning misogynistic.
I've always liked the Alexander piano; an 18 foot long piano.

https://www.alexanderpiano.nz/page/the-alexander-piano
Buying a home is an asset. It's not something that you directly consume. You can sell it or borrow against it.

Something being more expensive due to taxes doesn't affect PPP because that money is being used for government services.
Windows 8+ seems to last a lot longer between termite infestations make the place unstable.
My understanding is that the NIF was primarily to explore weapons research in the guise of fusion research.

We could use some nuclear miracles to help out with decarbonizing and it seems like we'd be better served investing in something that could possibly become viable (especially with the recent superconductor news).
So it doesn't exist? At least, if it did exist, one would think there would be some video. Certainly searching for "ravenchord" on YT nets a lot of unrelated things, including a piano simulator app named "Raven Chord".
They buy them from street markets, which are _significantly_ cheaper than supermarkets for some reason.

> also the rice cooker you mention can provide most of your calories for zero hassle

Yes, but there aren't many micronutrients in rice. Sure, I'd probably not die, but it's not a great existence.

Back when I lived in the UK, I just ate Huel everyday, and it made me realize that I was probably malnourished in someway. I had so much more energy and less brain fog (which I wasn't even aware of, since it was just normal). I'm pretty sure if I just ate rice everyday, I'd feel like shit again in a month or two.
Man there are digital pianos that have an entire keyboard and hammer assembly right out of a acoustic piano but the hammers strike a force sensor instead of strings. Definitely more on the ridiculous side of things but the fact there's a market for it means people do really care for the authentic tactile feeling of a piano especially if that's what they've trained on for decades.
For my example, I'm using a laptop CPU, and the 13B chat version.
https://archive.is/GOQbC
I'm not sure exactly how it's formatted (and may differ between GPT/LLAMA/others), but when an LLM "remembers" your chat history, it's actually getting all of the previous prompts and its responses as its input prepended to your next prompt.

Something like:

System: You are a helpful assistant.

User: What is the country with the largest population?

Assistant: India.

User: Ok, what is the next largest?

Assistant: China.

User: How about the next largest?

Assistant: United States.

User: And the next?

Assistant:

and the model outputs

Indonesia.

But you can't just put your history in a single prompt because it would be formatted differently. If you're using a model like ChatGPT, there may be a way to copy the conversation. Otherwise, you can definitely edit the conversation (including AI responses) in the API. See https://platform.openai.com/playground for easy access, there's probably a command-line tool or alternative frontend which you can give your API key to make it easier.
I totally get that. I had to check what my muscle memory would do in that situation. (Apparently) I select text, right-click, and then choose "search for <selected phrase>" from the context menu.
Isn't (at least part of) the point of surge pricing to bring more drivers out onto the road? Or was that just a lie.
> Some engineer who commonly talks infrastructure is just making all of this up because he's bored on HN this weekend.

Well, it is the internet after all.
Somewhat interesting as a model, completely irrelevant as a guiding principle in real life (imo)...
The LLM has no memory. What you actually feed it is the entire conversation (truncated up to its input limit) every time you respond.

But you are bound to the interface, especially if you are not running a local LLM like Llama.

Different models have different prompting syntax.
So much he said she said is the UK better than us with healthcare or not?!
> They always start so serious, full of world problem solving proclamations in present tense ("this solves / this will replace / enabling " etc) and only by mid way do you realize there's nothing there there :-/

For a second there I thought you were talking about the SV startup scene. "We're making the world a better place by..."
For sure, I'm not saying any browser should change this behavior. C-x M-c M-butterfly and all that.
In his latest youtube video I spotted him using the inflatable Nortik Cityraft.

https://youtu.be/f7QxZnSWzN0
Most of the complaints I read in this conversation have been about people NOT getting referred for scans when they've reported discomfort!
I hope he found someone doing the way back, that must have been a horrible time.
I notice that you submitted a link to encourage deflating the tires of large vehicles.

> Our aim is to make it impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world’s urban areas. To do that, we need people everywhere deflating 4x4 tyres, week-in, week-out.

absolutely unhinged activities.
So half the complaint here is that Java doesn't let you use the 80-bit x87 floating-point type. Well, actually it does--if you don't add `strictfp` to your method declarations, Java is allowed to compute intermediate results of float and double computations in higher precision, and this was retrofitted because it's actually somewhat difficult to get the x87 floating-point unit to actually do single- or double-precision (as opposed to extended-precision) arithmetic. But you don't actually want to use the 80-bit type; it's slower in practice, and it has some extra wonkiness over other IEEE 754 types that it's really not worth it. And on 64-bit x86, everyone just uses SSE for floating-point units and thus you don't need to worry about x87 unless you explicitly opt into its insanity.

As a numerical analyst, Kahan is pretty obsessed with use-as-much-precision-as-you-can. But there's a useful rule of thumb: you need about twice the amount of working precision as your final result. Since double precision has a 53-bit mantissa (~16 decimal digits), that means if you need only 8 or fewer decimal digits, you're completely fine with double precision. And furthermore, the experiences I've had with many programmers suggest that getting bit-equivalent results from different machines is a higher priority than squeezing the best possible numerics out of your hardware. HPC does tend to care about the latter a lot more, but that's also an area where the solution is almost always to just use your system's advanced math libraries (e.g., MKL for dense linear algebra).
That part is not an exaggeration. We don't have unlimited data plans for mobile AFAIK. Anecdotally, I pay around 90$ for somewhere between 6 or 10 GB per month, and I pay extra for long distance calls. I pay through the nose for international calls (sometimes when I have to make 20-60 minutes' worth of calls to the US my monthly bill goes up to 150$). An internet connection at home (fiber op) costs 120$/month for 1.5 gbps.

But it's hard to see how that relates to "running the country".
Okay, I got around to trying this out, and that's cool. Thanks for explaining this.
Zoom and others may be a major source of chaos due to mirror swapping and recording video streams.
Pity he didn't address functionality such as the width of the keys -- the standard size is too wide for most female hands and many men.
Maybe many Americans should have influence over the roadmap of a space agency?
I love to hate all these companies, but no, they don't control the media. I would challenge that disclaimer.
I'm in the US and landline was dogshit compared to modern discord/whatsapp/whatever.

Maybe it's cause old phone mics sucked but it wasn't great.
Engineering, not scientific.

High Sales = A large number of people can attest to the engineered good or service being of high enough quality that they will exchange hard earned money for the ability to use it.

Peer Review = Some folks who derive self-worth from citations ask you to add a citation to their work and you do it because you'll probably need to ask them for the same some time later.
Migratory Beekeeping in U.S. Farming
I would never blame it ON the skin color. That would make zero sense.i don't get more prone to murder when I get a tan. But you can't say it's just from being poor. Poor Eastern Europeans don't murder each other for a pain of shoes. Something is going on in the culture of the African American community. I'm not sure what happened in the last 50+ years, but home ownership and marriage rates are WAY down in the African American community compared to 50 years ago and it's causing a lot of problems.

Edit: I can't even believe you said I blamed it on skin color. I talked about what the group is doing, not what is making the group do it. Amazing people miss this
Consider..the dismiss.
> Just ran Llama-2 (without a GPU) and it gave me coherent responses in 3 minutes (which is extremely fast for no GPU). How does this work?

It should be much faster with llama.cpp. My old-ish laptop CPU (AMD 4900HS) can ingest a big prompt reasonably quickly and then stream text fast enough to (slowly) read.

If you have any kind of dGPU, even a small laptop one, prompt ingestion is dramatically faster.

Try the latest Kobold release: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

But to answer your question, the GGML CPU implementation is very good, and actually generating the response is somewhat serial, and more RAM speed bound than compute bound.
Even if true the CS students would still be ahead earnings wise. /source I went into physics/materials
Because models are trained and validated on real data. Given a training set of crimes and corresponding surveillance footage, arrestee info is a (not noisy) label for “who is the guy in the movie.”
If various scans were more readily available, quick and cheap, I wonder how far these guesswork scenarios would be improved? Rather than having to get a referral and separate appointment and waiting period for bloodwork or colonoscopy or whatever else.
I thought the same thing when looking at the ocean the other day. I found it very unrealistic that it was still moving about after all this time.
MTA's issues aren't really funding issues, it's just not done very well in comparison to other large cities. For example, for legacy reasons MTA cars can't be automated like the cars in subways in most other places that have them, so you end up with a lot more humans being in the loop, which results in more delays due to human fallibility. It's a very old system that has been largely reluctant to upgrade and is falling behind the rest of the world in many ways (admittedly no where else in the US though).
Is weight tax the same of different for electric and internal combustion cars?
> Tech, is the best part of the city...

And not the byproduct of the Beat culture, Suicide Club, the large queer community, and all the countless artists from SFAI/CCAC?

I'm just gonna assume this throwaway account is trolling. Ask any longtime resident and they'll tell you the city took a dive when Ed Lee handed out those Twitter tax breaks for Mid-Market.
> Monopolization of the ad market is not the issue here, because the specific claim is that google has monopolized the search market.

Incorrect. The Stoller article says “government argues that Google has a monopoly of general search and *search advertising*”.

The case in question (1:20-cv-03010) alleges anticompetitive behaviors in multiple interrelated markets: general search services, *search advertising, general search advertising, and general search text advertising*. The other major case (1:23-cv-00108) is about their monopolization of the digital ad market via Doubleclick/Ad Exchange/Google Ads.
I am so glad that we're out of the ZIRP era. It's my firm hope that getting funding will require most businesses to do something economically productive. My theory is that if founders mainly sell nonsense and bafflegab to investors, they lose any ability to act rationally. But if they're actually creating value and operating in reality, there's a lot less room for them to float off in clouds of rhetoric about amazing futures.
Looks truly stunning, love the idea of exposing the mechanics to the audience. I suspect it sounds like garbage compared to a concert grand.
We put a lot of effort into not using rail for freight, it stands to reason that if we actually set our minds to it we could start using it more again.

(At least, I think that the argument you’re making is about modern logistics and modern rail freight being surprisingly incompatible. But it’s hard to tell since you haven’t actually provided a rebuttal.)
Honestly these are issues introduced by C++, and avoidable by using C.
It's from 1998, for anyone who is curious. Quite ancient indeed...
Many simulations and gaming are both better off using fixed point. The range available with a 64-bit integer is staggering and precision varying with distance from an arbitrary origin is a bug, not a feature for those cases.
They also just released their app in both Apple's and Android's app store.
Ironically, Windows 10 and 11 easily have the smoothest install of any version of Windows ever.

I'm in the same camp as you are, I don't reinstall as much now as I did 20 years ago. But a lot of that is because Windows had a habit of getting really bogged down, in 2003, but these days it's pretty solid.

It's still a mystery to me why every other version of Windows is terrible.

"Good Windows:" Windows 3.11, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10

"Bad Windows:" Windows 95, Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 11

I'm ready to rollback to Windows 10, Windows 11 just features dumb "features", like a new context menu that includes Skype but doesn't include "copy" or "paste"

WHY WOULD I WANT SKYPE IN MY CONTEXT MENU??
Ada offers formal verification to remove checks, they can also be removed without formal verification but that is not a sane thing to do.
Ada feels like it is more about writing the correct intent of programmers and caring more about intent than any other thing. For example, the pre and postconditions are not always meant to be 100% verifiable, its fine for them to not be verifiable, the checks are more important than the verifiablility of them.
In USA, income taxes are not apportioned uniformly. Sales tax, property tax, and most everything else is applied uniformly based on price. I still can't believe there was a civil war about slavery, yet the government takes my work product as if I am their slave.
Worthless to anyone except a niche of obsessed collectors and eBay sellers? Sounds about right.
No, but BleachBit is: https://www.bleachbit.org/

Especially when you make your own cleaners [0][1], which you can also can selectively invoke via the command line (and of course do that via schedule / cron etc.)

[0] https://docs.bleachbit.org/cml/cleanerml.html

[1] https://github.com/bleachbit/cleanerml/tree/master
Systems don't really get slower over time because of used disk space. It used to be somewhat true when HDDs, and bad ones at that, were more common. Nowadays though what's left on your 2 TB <$70 2 GB/s SSD storage matters little so long as your drive isn't near completely out of space to the point it can't place things easily. Background apps/injections are another thing though. You can never uninstall an app for 10 years and your computer will be none the slower for it as long as you disable them from automatically starting up, loading 5 background services all the time, and having poorly written hooks into things like Explorer which constantly get loaded every time you open a file dialog.

Tinkering for tinkering's sake can definitely be fun though and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes poking at things, and sometimes breaking them, is a great way to learn new things or even just scratch a casual itch.
If the hammer isn't mechanically coupled to the keys he could also have addressed functionality such as the width of the keys instead of just aesthetics. The standard size piano keyboard is too wide for most female hands and many men to play advanced pieces comfortably (or at all).
LLNL NIF has been pursuing grand experiment, big $$$ laser-ignited inertial confinement fusion for decades, milking US taxpayers without much to show for it. They need to scale energies by many orders of magnitude, gain in excess of 30, and rapidly repeat shots to get anything close to commercially viable. LLNL's NIF's rumored secondary aspirational purposes are giant lasers for nuclear arms research and developing a pure fusion weapon.

"A simplified economic model for inertial fusion"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.005...
> I presume your job must be much more important for the good of society than sex work.

It sure is and I think it would be hard to deny that. Everyday I go to work I generate a large amount of value for the economy, far more than I get paid for.

Sex work simply isn’t very valuable. Anyone can do it, you don’t need any intelligence or skill to make a buck via sex.
Would you be willing to link some of those papers? For my curiosity, thanks.
FWIW, I ran `/S/L/E/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/Contents/MacOS/AGDCDiagnose -a` on Catalina and Ventura and diffed it.

MacOS Ventura seem to properly sense that monitor supports DSC: "DSC Support: 1, DSC Algorithm revision: 33" , but then simply disables it anyway: "DSC Enable: 0x0".
Not a physicist, but I think temperature lives in motion of particles, let it be electrons, the nucleus, whole atoms, or otherwise. Because electrons shroud the nucleus and have much less mass, they are more prone with external interactions where they can change momentum by absorbing and releasing energy. The nucleus is not exempt from this, but takes a not more energy to change their momentum. That being said, "temperature" as we are accustomed to, is more like a statistical average of the total motion of all particles in the system.
The skateboarding and roller blade trips are quite short though, no?

Injuries per minute or per hour seems like a more apt unit to compare
Off the top of my head, more recent ish bands that never really crossed the border: The Arkells, Metric, July Talk, Broken Social Scene, Billy Talent, Tegan and Sarah, and many more. These bands sell out large music venues domestically, but can't gain much cross-border traction. They basically are able to exist because of Canadian Content laws.
Playing with 3DS Max 5 in high school was such a “portal to the future” feeling. I loved the physics and cloth sims.

But come to think of it… has anyone ever seen a cloth simulation where the cloth can be more realistically rolled up or knotted, twisted, or otherwise doing things requiring a sense of volume and mass?
This. People using FB to share information outside their lives has been a net bane to society. Unfortunately, FB profits immensely from the damage it causes.
That sounds awesome. Interesting medium for that sort of game. Good luck!
Makes one long for a Cloud version of available-since-the-1970s granular IBM mainframe job accounting controls, eh?

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=parameter-exampl...
Floats cannot be "fixed" because they are not broken. Floats are an extremely limited subset of the general rationals, and the general rationals are an extremely limited subset of the general reals.

It's theoretically impossible to compute with the general reals. Full stop.

It's theoretically possible to compute with the general rationals (Common Lisp for example lets you do so) but it's often impractical because you can easily end up running out of memory and/or time for the computation to complete.

It's practical to compute with floats because you can guarantee hard limits on memory usage and time. You just have to live with the fact that you can't represent the vast majority of real numbers and you lose associative arithmetic.

There are various other, weirder, computational number systems out there but the tradeoffs don't go away; they just move around.
Humans - the only animal species on the planet with mass teeth problems. Dentists are devil representatives.