skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I’ve used Arq Backup[1] for several years now, and I’ve successfully restored at least twice after my MacBook died. It also encrypts the data before it leaves your computer, and supports tons of (cloud) storage solutions — I use Google Cloud Storagge and spend about a dollar per month on storage costs with hourly backups.

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com/
What the comment above described is not fraud, though. It's much closer to a Ponzi scheme.
You realize water is distilled right? "Drink-able water" is different from "One item is below safe drinking thresholds".

Drinking salty sea water is generally not recommended.
When Communists destroyed the institution of marriage
Isn’t it possible that there was a period before the Big Bang, and then for some reason the universe became hot everywhere?

In other words, the idea that the observable universe could be the size of an apple has its own contradictions. An apple is a definite size, and can fit only a certain number of atoms. However the expansion of the universe doesn’t seem to be creating more atoms; it’s only moving them around. Therefore all apples would’ve been the same size they were today, just packed more closely together. Hence “the size of an apple” seems to lose all meaning.

This contradiction seems to clear itself up if one allows for a “before the big bang”, since there’s no need to say that everything was compressed to a single small volume.
Worth noting that coal plants release radioactive air without making the news. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Source for claim that South Korea releases more than Japan?
Regardless of source, it's same thing if what govt/IAEA checked is correct.
I’m not 100% on this but the way I understood this is by analogy to the 2D surface of the Earth. The surface of the Earth is finite yet has no reachable edge. The universe is the same in 3D. Like if the Earth grew then there would be more land but still no more or less “edge” of the world, and the same could hold for the universe. That said I think this is one theory rather than accepted fact?
My point is that PCs already had perfectly standards for cheap peripheral communication, so there was less pressure to upgrade to USB. I remember the "PC2000" slogan that aimed at having USB-only PCs by 2000, it probably took 3-4 extra years.
It is but rather than normal cars, Americans prefer driving large pick-up trucks that are like being hit by a brick wall

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/AtTPZlAj9QVkg7ZtJ6q9Vk9c...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/suvs-truck...
Thanks for building Windmill. I spin up a test instance and was blown away by the well-designed-ness.

I'm looking to investigate using Windmill as a website builder for some small internal system. Few questions:
- Is it possible to setup custom path for flows (to hack it into a REST API)
- How can we go and make authenticated flow
Yes, and yet that is a symptom of the problem, not a root cause. You'll find the same issue in big budget movies these days. Huge marketing budget, huge special effects budget, etc.

But the contents and script writing is terrible, or at best mediocre. The ultimate root cause is the fact that the money invested in a single movie is too high, and thus the studio/production company cannot have it fail. So they do everything in their power to make it succeed (financially), even if it goes against an artistic vision.
There is also no air inside and nobody's actually blowing. It's an analogy.
I fully agree with you (and IMO it's just as bad with Slack which people love to use in corporate contexts), see my comment here[0].

I think you may have misread my earlier comment, it says "Discourse" (as in the forum software[1]), not Discord.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37245220

[1]: https://discourse.org
Yeah, I’ve never heard of that either. AFAIK, Apple offered Xerox to buy some stock pre-IPO, but I have never seen anyone mentioning royalties. The whole paragraph is dubious without sources.
Good to know, core component of the company still uses it every build pulling all dependencies from internet.

Gonna be a hilarious ride when it breaks.
Abacus always seemed to me like a 'we got a lot of VC money with inflated claims now we gotta show we do everything' company. I don't really understand what they do, they seem to offer everything but I don't see anyone talking about using their offerings in the real-world. Ever. The only time I see mentions of the company are when I am targeted with ads or promoted posts of the founder.
So then....what is absolute time? This would imply our own clock on earth is moving much slower relative to a static inertial frame of reference, right? given the speed with which the milky way is hurtling through space? doesn't that mean we're experiencing a dramatically slowed down version of "true time" or "base time"?

And then also, does the velocity have to be constant in some direction? i mean what if you're moving back and forth one inch at the speed of light, would time still be slowed for you? what if you're moving back and forth one micron?
On the flip side, I often wonder if the current AI revolution would have stalled if not for the mature and abundant supply of high powered graphics cards that just happen to also be great for ML.

The gamers paved the way!
I still can't grasp how he thought he'd get away with humiliating Putin. Handshake and it's water under the bridge? Surprisingly naive.
The universe isn’t thought to be infinite in that sense- it’s finite but unbounded. There is a finite amount of space that did, we think, originate from an infinitesimal point.

Imagine getting in a spaceship and setting off in a direction, close to the speed of light- if you travelled for long enough you’d arrive back where you started. Like someone walking on the surface of the earth.

Any current cosmologists can correct me, but I believe the consensus is that the shape of the universe is a hyper-spheroid, I.e a 4D sphere.
It’s because CPUs tend to be fundamentally limited in the ways they can efficiently utilize transistors to scale performance, by things like cache latency, reorder depth, branch prediction, etc. While gpus have always been god’s strongest soldier for putting transistors on silicon scalably. They were the perfect machine for a world where transistors per dollar doubled every 18 months.

On the other hand now that it’s stopped, so has raw performance scaling. There was a few generations of cleanup, but you can’t squeeze blood from a stone forever. Maxwell arguably cut too far and pascal had to start adding functionality back. Gpus are like e-cores, large powerful cores mean you get fewer of them and that often works out to a lower PPA. There aren’t many opportunities for cool tricks and the model doesn’t favor using lots of area. The coding is written for extreme parallelism already, so, that’s not a problem, it’s inherent to the platform.

Transistor per $ growth hasn’t completely stopped but it’s certainly nowhere near what it was 10 years ago, even if you factor in things like packaging/stacking the total wafer area still runs up a big bill that offset most of the density gains. And that’s what we’ve been seeing over the last 10 years in gpus too. 4070 is about the same area and cutdown as GTX 1070 but wafers cost like 8x as much.

What you have to do in this operating regime is find ways to get more performance per transistor - and that’s exactly what Jensen made a big bet on 5 years ago with dlss. 7% more transistors that with DLSS 2.5 give 30% speedup at native quality and 50-70% speedup at iso-quality with FSR2 Quality mode.

That’s what the future looks like - rewriting your applications to take advantage of new accelerators that provide large speedups. And the rewriting is very minimal for any application that uses TAAU already. It sucks but if cost/transistor is not going to come down you have to get more out of the transistors you have. Work smarter not harder.
These facts won't convince people who believe in homeopathy, of which there are plenty. Of course there shouldn't be a controversy, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that there is, considering the amount of anti-scientific sentiments in the general population.
FreeBSD on Firecracker : Experiences porting FreeBSD to run on the Firecracker
I regret to tell you the ODWAC is made up of unqualified morons preying on your fears then.

The ocean's average radioactivity is 12Bq/L, and there's a _lot_ of water. A single banana is 20Bq already.

Dump a few million litres of 10000Bq/L water in the ocean over a few years, and the average radioactivity goes to... Still 12Bq/L
Show HN: Email you insights about web pages
I made an email service that send you insights about web pages on your requests.
I use it a lot personally. But do others think it is helpful for their reading experiences as well?
Could someone provide some context? I can understand the py scripts, but is confused by these very long Jupyter notebooks.
Tritium does not become concentrated, that's why it's hard to collect and many countries drop it to ocean.
Looking to rent out, or fully booked for the next year and looking to buy more GPUs?
"most accepted theory of physics is that the universe started from a single point": This is not true. The most accepted theory is that the universe was extremely dense, but it is not accepted that it was literally a "point" of zero volume. Our laws of physics are thought to break down beyond a certain density of matter, so we don't have any reliable predictions about it. The "dense" universe could still have been infinite even back then. Just super dense and infinite in all directions - and now all of it has expanded and it's still infinite (a bigger infinity?).
What's a dirty weekend?
One in four tech professionals are ready to leave their jobs, survey reveals
It's not that, but still very cool!
So sad that many Japanese saw it as a micro management and blamed him
What matters is what the consumers, and developers of the platform see when using it in legal ways, not the hacker route.
So this is a fit Icelandic, adult, woman: https://generated.photos/human-generator/64e6ff848448b800095...

Radiation levels??
>For instance, a computer in Afrikaans is a rekenaar

In German it's Rechner, meaning the same.
Is there an experiment which leads us to believe that the universe wraps around? I’d be very interested in any details supporting this idea.
> cleaner air, cleaner waters

How much? Of what?
Looks like it needs to speak to a daemon running on the storage server?

Would be cool if it could just use e.g. S3 for storage.
And yet Alexander's team built literal third world housing using these patterns and not villas or mansions.
It seems this is built on LLAMA. Did meta change the license to make it open source now? It still seems to be showing otherwise in the repo.

Edit: No mention of it being open source in the linked article. Maybe the title here is just wrong? @dang
And yet we have so many people who want them to go back to making cars like that...
https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/100521833.pdf
ventilation is one of the top priorities when we are shopping for place to live in. if the place has <10% hole area in the walls compared to the floor area, then we'd skip it. actually, i'd like it to be around 30% but then there will be nothing left in the market.
indeed i was answering TeeMassive’s comment, and not to the main topic. In this case, the goal of writing a PhD in a (all but) dead language, it's to keep it alive, not to be inclusive.

i really don't know what's the social makeup of Welsh speakers (if any); but i understand it's a very niche thing, and not really useful for inclusivity of science; but again: it's not something i was arguing. i was talking about "real" languages with a base of active speakers.

overall, for sure keeping a language alive is a good endeavor on its own, and that was the PhD's goal.

>> If we trace the origins of the languages currently spoken in the UK, it's much more correct to say that all of the original languages were pushed out by foreign influence from the continent.

ahaha, no. welsh it has been killed "recently" by internal policies, about education etc. not because the Normans influence or whatever.
It definitely won't be true when you're emulating an x86 OS, regardless of other power saving features.
RAM was much cheaper 7 years ago than 5 years ago. There was another DRAM cartel action and prices tripled in less than 6 months back in 2017.
Linux kernel is only an implementation detail, doing so would prevent a future Zirkon migration.
Thanks for the info! That would explain why I spend so much time fighting dependency errors when I upgrade something ML related ...
La Hague, not The Hague ( Dutch city )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
But if it was dense and infinite in all directions, why do so many people use language like “it was the size of an apple”? This is the interesting contradiction. An apple is only a certain number of atoms, far fewer than the 10^80 we have today.
This isn't drinking water, though. This is the concentration in water that is going to be discharged into the ocean and rapidly diluted even further (1 - 2 Bq/L within a few km of where it's being discharged, and difficult to distinguish from background levels in the ocean beyond that [1]).

And as the article notes, there are active Nuclear power plants in France and China (and South Korea [2]) that discharge even more tritium per year than is planned at Fukushima. Should people also be cautious about eating seafood from those regions as well?

[1] https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissi...

[2] https://www.kns.org/files/pre_paper/17/173%EC%86%A1%EA%B7%9C...
Ask HN: What's the easiest hosted Firecracker SaaS?
Looks like there's a lot of innovation in this area. What's the best platform for running Firecracker? Spinning up images on demand, persisting storage, etc. Is Fly.io still the way to go?
If I shit in the ocean, does the ocean become highly potent and poisonous because its highly diluted shit?
The fact that there exist consistent structured phenomena, instead of everything being pure noise, is actually creepy.
You have to compare two clocks.

Another example of time dilation is this: take two really precise clocks, carry one up a mountain and back, and compare it to the clock that stayed at sea level. The one at sea level will have run slower and be behind compared to the other clock because it spend some time in a place where gravity was less.

Here is a guy that did exactly that in 2005 on a tour using his van. He even took his kids: http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_of_radioactive_water...

Annual release of tritium:

2020: South Korea Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant and others Total: 365tbq or 1,022mg

The total amount currently stored at Fukushima is around 860tbq, intended to be released over the course of 30 years.

So divide by 30 and that is around ~28tbq a year.

Either way, the halflife of tritium is around 14years, and it's everywhere in the ocean. This is actually a nothing burger.
Have you got other hives within 5km? Other hives/overstocking seem a major source of varroa.
Easy: there is no absolute time.
Or at the tier below FAANG- I did one afternoon of interviews at Adobe and got an offer a few days later.
“AI” isn't omnipotent. It's janky
I agree with you, for what it’s worth. I don’t think it would be a disadvantage for them to open source GPT-4. They’re the ones with the hardware.
This is a very compelling theory - but it has no evidence for it. Searches for "repeats" in the CMB (where light traveled all the way around and repeated) have not found anything.
If someone had told me while I was writing up that I should translate my thesis into another language I think my brain would have exploded
Proton uses wine and has revolutuonised video games industry. Most major games now run on Linux because of proton. Steam deck is runs on proton
Inversely, I’m flabbergasted that some people still have trust in institutions like journalism. I can’t count the times I knew about a subject, then read it in the newspapers and it was true.

The scientific article that is not quoted in the article may say “…therefore we can’t conclude that XYZ” and all your colleagues are persuaded of XYZ because the AP or Reuteurs or AFP dépèche said “Scientists conclude on XYZ.” Anything, from police arrestation reasons to diplomatic stories, is rehashed into something unrecognizable from the truth.

Did you know that “Man sues $1m from McDonalds for a coffee served too hot” was false?
It's not because A ==> B that B ==> A. A Ponzi scheme is a fraud but a frauds doesn't necessarily imply a Ponzi scheme. That's is not just semantic, it's a logic falacy.
How are you giving the Oa?

I’ve done it with paper strips - they aren’t ideal over winter as they hold moisture at a damp time, but I did have quite good results.
The tantrum over 970 has gotten even sillier since Microsoft used exactly this same bus structure (with fast/slow segments) on the Xbox series X and S.

That’s a product designed and manufactured by AMD, eight?
> Per calculations upthread, the energy cost of DAC isn't that huge

All I’ve seen so far are speculations based on a small prototype in Iceland that is still very expensive and has access to free energy. I’ve had to add up the costs that you list myself (you are not giving any numbers), and it ends up being a prohibitively expensive gallon of fuel—an order of magnitude more expensive than it is now. How is that reasonable when most states would lose their head with a 10% increase?

My concern is that most of the time, the math goes: “Let’s assume electricity is free, and people somehow still want to drive an ICE.” and conclude with, “We just have to continue subsidizing a pathologically dangerous pollution by 90%.” hoping to capitalize on the heads of states fear of a revolution.

I can see why that looks tempting to people who refuse to admit that we must shift away from fossil fuels and latch on to plans to paint their industrial assets as renewable. Still, it ends up being an inefficient Rube-Goldberg machine, where adding solar panels on the roof of wherever you need energy works. I’m all for failing convincingly, but you must admit when it’s not working.

I’ve heard that mining equipment was too large and could never be electrified… Those converted the fastest (custom engines, high torque, regenerative power, far away from fuel supply but sunny/windy location) and with glee (lower maintenance when technicians have to fly in by helicopter). Prototype boats and airplanes can work “indefinitely” because solar panels can generate enough energy for them to work 24/7.

I’ve yet to hear about a single industrial process that needs carbon-chain fuel to work.
Based on the article and my guesses, here's how they measured time on the past.

When we look at things far away from us, we're seeing their state in the past. Quasars that are 10 billion light years away took 10 billion years for their light to reach us, so right now we are seeing their images 10 billion years ago.

Quasar is bright light powered by gas spiraling at a high velocity into a black hole. When things revolving around a black hole, the light given out varies. The light of the gas spinning behind the black hole is blocked and the light is shown again when the gas spinning on the side of the black hole facing us. When we're looking at it, it kind of blinks periodically in constant rate. The blinking rate can serve as clock ticks.

The people of the paper figure out a way to compute the blinking rate of the quasars statistically. They look at hundreds of quasars at 12 billion light years away, i.e. looking at their state 12 billion years ago. Compute their blinking rate from twenty years of telescope observation. Compare that to the quasars close to us. They found that the far away quasars blink 5 times slower, i.e. they're blinking 5 times slower 12 billion years ago. The universe is about 13.7 billion years old, so the conclusion is that time ran slower at the early age. It actually fits the prediction from Einstein's general relativity.
1. The precedent (so far) is scraping is legal if the scraped data is publicly available[A].

2. I guess the best approach depends on what data you're scraping. Some data it's fine to first convert to plain text, then scrape scrape that.

For structured data like tables and HTML, you're better off using the structure of the HTML itself.

I suppose you could design a framework that covers all the common tasks, then feed the framework parameters for each site.

It's not just handling different sites: the same site will change over time, and there will be oddities between pages/items on the same site.

[A]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Amusingly, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton made a ChatGPT-authored cocktail recipe on "Hard Fork" a while back: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/podcasts/hard-fork-ai-poi....

I think the review was basically, "I’ve had worse cocktails. I’ll be honest."

So...meh?
Musk calls for Cybertruck Quality to be better than 'Lego And Soda Cans'
I mean, there’s plenty of evidence for the Big Bang, and if that’s the case then the most likely shape that falls out of the maths is a hypersphere, like inflating a balloon as others have said.
You need to add the "DIR" var in run.sh or it fails if you run outside of the src dir:

SRC_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"

python3.10 "$SRC_DIR/whisperer.py" $@

Also did you solve the python app icon from bouncing all the time?
Serves me right for wanting to properly translate my own language, forgetting some other countries have the same names. Thanks.
Check if your phone has dropped to 2G. It is rare to find a location which only has 2G coverage but when it happens while voice/sms works OK data speed drops to almost zero.
Llama 2 is open source-ish. Weights are freely available and can be commercially used, but only if you have less than 700m users and agree to some "don't do naughty things" terms.
Can you recommend sources to find out more about this?
Using bing chat, you always just check the source of its answer if it's crucial. Saves time searching.
It's a windup toy robot, resembling something like a retro vintage version of the robot emoji, and I assume the legs march the robot around after being wound up