skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm now realizing that I'm an elitist of a kind because when I say cooking I mean something totally different from "making something to eat" and more akin to dinner service. And that's what most of Alton's recipes are aimed at, not desperation dinners.

And when you're doing this kind of thing for family dinner you and up using shortcuts like bagged premixed salad, bottled dressing, rolls from the bakery, premade desserts, jarred sauces and gravies which all hide the real time it takes to put something like that together by outsourcing it. I think the miracle of modern logistics being so normal makes people forget how much of home cooking is shortcuts that weren't always available and were marketed toward homemakers who labored over a hot stove and needed a break.
I think few insurers can actually do any of that, let alone a new one when the question is larger calamities. They all have to buy from reinsurers which have a lower limit of what they would charge that may be considerably lower than what they are able to charge given how few reinsurers can play with large risks.

For the consumer insurer its more like looking at a commission and guessing whether it will go up again as other market participants decide what to do.
I actually almost made it a C-- (https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/download/ppdp.pdf) compiler, but IIRC the `goto`s made me go with the regular C subset instead.
>If banks believed there was a serious risk of sea levels rising they would put a discount instead of a premium on waterfront property

Banks aren't the ones setting prices on properties. And no one should base anything on the actions of banks because financial institutions generally know to basically sell off the risk as soon as possible (although that can come back to bite them as it did with the subprime thing, where they sold it off, but then many of them made bets on those risks). Their window of exposure is generally extremely small, and they'll keep dancing as long as the music keeps playing.

Further markets are irrational, and always have been. Even if you are absolutely certain that Miami is going to be devastated by climate change, for instance, you might still buy an overpriced oceanfront mansion because you know that you'll be able to find either a sucker or someone with the same assessment when the time comes.
The typical modern gaming PC uses a lot more power than the original xbox. Yes maybe it's more efficient because it's doing "more", but in the end it's one person playing a game.
It'd take their uninsured home getting destroyed when they don't have any money for a replacement. That's usually how market mechanisms work: you can no longer do something when you run out of money for it.

(Also, I'm not convinced that the vast majority of houses in California and Florida are economically uninsurable. There's a wide variety in actual climate risk: houses in the middle of an urban area don't realistically have much more risk from wildfires than they do from an ordinary house fire, while houses in Central Florida are, as another commenter mentioned, much less vulnerable to hurricanes than houses on the coast. As I mentioned to another commenter, the rational response to everyone leaving an area, if it's not actually economically unviable, is to start your own insurance company and fill the void they left. There may be a business opportunity for startup insurers with better risk models than the insurers that are leaving the area.)
I tune the bias on the output stage (another 2N3094) - the goal is to get ~50% 1/0 when sampling - note that there's a software time domain filter in there as well - we're measuring after that.

If you're making small runs buying a reel that doesn't work is a risk, I've already made the decision to switch to using a zener for the next production run
This is sad news. I talked with him a few times on CIX (www.CIX.co.uk) back in the Before Times. A truly brilliant man, who more than once helped to prove that Microsoft lied and attempted to cheat other companies, notably Digital Research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
None of those houses should be rebuilt, of course. Cities need to retreat from their interface with combustible lands, and keep a large cleared buffer around built-up areas. Sprawling out onto parched hillsides isn't a good idea and I fully approve of insurers dropping those policies.

Some of your other statements are exaggerated. You say a third of Santa Rosa burned in 2017 but it was more like 3% of the dwellings in that city. The Census states that Santa Rosa has gained net dwellings in the last 5 and 10 years, so Santa Rosa is not another Paradise.
AFAIK re-warming it up and then gradually decreasing it again ought to work fine. Have you seen any research showing that it doesn't?
"worthy of a giant lawsuit"

Wow, that's a bold claim. Unless vscode and other products are improperly using GPL-licensed or not following license requirements otherwise -- which I am not aware of -- Microsoft is doing nothing wrong here, just like countless other commercial companies that release proprietary software based on open source projects.
Can you list some of these extensions? (and what compositors support them, of course)
Yes, the assumption seems to be that any energy extracted is in addition to the friction with the ocean floor and continental plates, as those will continue to exist.
A single GPU with a batch size of 1 can serve many users, higher batch sizes can serve many dozens, pool a few and you can serve a sizable userbase.

It may not be super profitable, but its not untenable either.
> A day-one surprise when I started full-time at LWN in 2007 was that Emacs was closely intertwined with the site operations (article editing, in particular).

So want the details on this.
This is an implementation of GPT using the pytorch library. It is not meant to be the shortest implementation of a trainable GPT, however it is very clean code. Pytorch does a lot of the heavy lifting, especially when it comes to training on multiple GPU. This implementation only works with data distributed parallel training, so one could not train models of the size of GPT-4 with it out of the box.
A subsidy for building houses in areas where they are likely to be struck by natural disasters (flooding in Florida, earthquakes in California) does not strike me as sensible.
You're exactly right. This makes for a small, memory-efficient compiler. But this entails a lot of compromises that we're not willing to put up with anymore, because there's no longer a reason to.
We've changed to that first link from https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13418. Thanks!

Edit: recent and related:

Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342215 - Aug 2023 (27 comments)
Apple Maos was only relevant in the Bay Area when they launched. They had no meaningful details elsewhere; they didn’t have most street, told you the Louvre was open on Tuesdays and closed the weekend… “embarrassing” would not cover it.

They gradually increased the radius to bring hood and well documented in most of California, then some of the US coastline. I’m not sure where they are now, but I’d be surprised if they had basic things like public transport information, Nike lanes where I am. It’s never been a priority for Apple to serve an international audience.
I’ve got a huge PC at home that i log into from a an iPad with RDP. It’s like to say but I didn’t have to wait for Apple to tell me I could do it. For that matter it seems to be a well kept secret that you can use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse with an iPad instead of buying some expensive special purpose keyboard and case. It does seem though that there is some limit on how many bluetooth devices you can connect because it does get unreliable when I attach all that and use headphones and use WiFi.
The optimisation is (absent a bug in the compiler) valid, unless you've written UB in there somewhere. The _reason_ to try not to volatile something is that optimisation is quite a powerful one; if the compiler can prove something written to memory can't have changed since it was written, then it doesn't need to load it from memory if it's later used. Hits to memory can be quite slow, so this optimisation entirely removing the hit can make a big difference if the code is performance sensitive.
Suppose some villain had an eventual need to be able to understand whales (or dolphins) communications, but has several years solve the problem. I'm talking about the kind of villain who does not care if what and how they do this is ethical so all that matters to them is whether or not it works.

Think someone like the High Evolutionary as portrayed in the third Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but limited to present day Earth technology and knowledge.

Suppose that villain took several human babies, gave them hearing aids or cochlear implants that pitch shift and compress whale/dolphin sounds down to where humans can hear them, and raised them in a mixed human/whale environment so that from their first weeks they were seeing whales and hearing while speech as much they were seeing humans and hearing human speech.

Would some of those human babies end up learning to understand whale the same way babies raised in bilingual extended families often end up learning both languages?
That's unfortunate you would disregard the presentation at the first slide based on how it's worded. Regardless of how one may feel about the issue of men in women's sports, it's an interesting walk through a wide selection of research on this topic, all of it appropriately cited, by an academic who has himself published many papers in the field of sports science.
Since advertising seems to be destroying The Internet (Google search is not as good, ad support incentivizes surveillance capitalism), am I alone in thinking this is bad?
Well, I set the 500 line budget up front, and that was really as much as I could fit with reasonable formatting. I'll be excited to see your 500 line C compiler supporting all those features once it's done ;-)
+1, his website on Windows internals is incredible. A great legacy to leave to the world: something that has helped and will continue to help thousands of people
I didn't link to it because you can't unsee Ballmer and unhear his voice cracks.
Dilemna of the Broke Audiophile
> A tweet is not a direct message, it's a broadcast message.

> Without a centralized 3rd party mapping names to public keys

Sharing in person doesn't work for broadcasting

Other channels require falling back to some non-decentralized system.

Again, it's the oracle problem. You can't say it's not true, that's like saying "1+1=2" is not true.
I'm largely taught outside the academic world. so I sympathize with your position.

however, the engineering culture which took the time to tell me about all these cool things and let me grow into being an expert in them seems to be largely gone.
Skeptic here. I don't deny that the climate is changing. It always has been. However the notion that all of this is based on human activity is not something I subscribe to. Climate change and the green initiatives have become a sort of religion which and a great way for certain people in power to drive their own business interests.

There have been extreme weather cycles in the past and in some areas we had a period of calm for a number of years. In addition to that we had a period of cheap money and other factors that lead to development in areas that have a much higher likelihood of having a natural disaster destroy it over longer periods of time. Government natural disaster assistance for damage to these areas made it worse because there was not incentive to NOT develop homes in areas prone to issues or to take necessary precautions to adequately construct homes to be able to sustain the forces of a disaster.

Now that we are in a cycle where there are more events, the actuarials are looking at the tables and determining that the risk it too high to insure based on current trends. Climate change is just the current in vogue cause so the insurance companies can use it for PR cover. "It's not our fault we can no longer insure your house.....climate change!"
Thanks w-m, glad you find Overleaf useful :) I can't quite believe it's been ten years since we started out -- time certainly does fly by.

I did appreciate the somewhat circular loop in posting this, so thanks also for noticing! And my H/T for spotting this originally goes to my friend & colleague Alf Eaton, who reshared Lukas's tweet: https://twitter.com/lukas_blecher/status/1696101110853910716
I went ahead and built the newest version of the ROM into a .z64 (happened to have a copy of Portal on hand). Here's a magnet link for it if you just want to use it:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5FAD6DBBF02D39AA40062D7F0F498F3F341F8DB3&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce
I would love to do that offline too. Just suggest any cafe every two hours of walking, or a gas station every two hours of driving and I’ll stop there and nowhere else.
Whilst the reply from the CEO seems sound, their team promptly closed the path the plugin used to make self-hosted full-featured Sync & Publish work. "For Security" - ignoring the handful of other gaping security holes as less important I guess?

Anyway, I decided to fork and make it work with v1.4.5.
Enjoy https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment...
The Google hit China TFR 1.705 for 2023 is bogus (and 2023 isn't even over yet, which should have alerted you), it's single-sourced from macrotrends.net which is quoting an old (pre-pandemic) UN forecast; you can see from their graph their (forecasted) numbers for 2020-2 turned out totally wrong. Lots of other sites are quoting the Google and macrotrends as fact. So now the #1 Google hit on that is misinformation. (Always look for attributions and dates).

As to 2022, China did briefly drop to a TFR of 1.09, like GP said [1]; but the moving average over several years is more like 1.3. You have to put the 2022 drop in context that their very strict lockdown went into its third year, and there were two cases of pregnant women losing their babies e.g. because the hospital denied them entry for having negative Covid tests but a few hours too old [2].

[0]: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/fertility-ra...

[1]: "China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 2022- state media" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-fertility-rate-dr...

[2]: https://fortune.com/2022/01/07/china-covid-cases-miscarriage...
I noticed that too. I hope it’s not as bad as it sounds but if so, yuck.
Maybe not the language choice, but the codegen of this compiler is terrible because of the single-pass shortcuts (for example, it unconditionally loads the result of all assignment operations back to the stack just in case you want to write `a = b = 1`, even though 99% of the time that load is immediately thrown away.)
They haven't kept because of the low rates. That has now changed but it might take a decade
> To me the fact that insurers aren’t insuring natural disasters due to climate change is a good argument that it’s real.

The only thing I conclude from this is that they think this move will be profitable and that is independent from whether climate change is real.
AirBnB is banned in many cities, and that doesn't make much of a difference. Urbanization is not slowing down, and that drives up prices if not enough housing is built.

Popular Tourist Destinations tend to be places that people do not just travel but move to.

> Here's how we can tell if a speculative bubble is a bubble: everyone says it isn't a bubble

What an incredible sentence. Is a speculative bubble a kind of bubble? But then there's no need to tell whether such a speculative bubble is in fact a bubble. Anyway, we can tell if everyone says it isn't a bubble. Cars are a bubble. Lolipops are a bubble. Everyone says these things aren't bubbles, which means they must be.
Related:

Kenton's House - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002756 - May 2023 (2 comments)

Kenton's Weekend Projects: LAN-Party Optimized House - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3342044 - Dec 2011 (24 comments)
The Apple $2T Economy
Senior Engineering Leader at Inter IKEA here - correct, the 3d models have to be served to be viewed - but they are likely the lowest quality versions.

There's a pipeline to covert manufacturing-level models down to Web quality. I've been playing about with those APIs recently.

We also have a small selection of models on github.com/ikea
Even then conflating them makes no sense. Solar and wind power are both coming from an external source, the sun, which we might as well consider infinite; whereas tidal energy is not. It can be depleted.
Quality contribution to the collective knowledge of humanity by the installgentoo wiki.
It's a lot harder to fake incompetence and failure and besides why would you? It would look, as you say, even more suspicious. At the time, Soviet intelligence services were counting how many windows were lit up after hours in US government buildings chasing signs of plans for an entirely imaginary first nuclear strike. A dude landed a plane in the middle of Red Square. The Soviets fucked up just like everyone else.
I guess you could, but this is the source of the errors (actually warnings) that the article mentions. Probably best to fix the file with the provided tool (fix-qdf is distributed with qpdf) rather than get in the habit of ignoring warnings.
Buying it for libre dollars and free cents.
LLMs are GPU compute-bound. If you infer at batch_size = 1 on a model like Llama 2 7B on a "cheap" GPU like a T4 or an L4 it'll use about 100% of the compute, which means you get no benefit from batching.

The exception is the A100 GPU which does not use 100% of GPU compute and therefore you get benefit from batching, but is hella expensive.

The economics are not simple, and in most cases "just use the ChatGPT API" is also the most cost-effective option anyways. A smaller 1.1B model (which would likely not be compute-bound) with similar performance to a 7B model may tip the scales.
Work from office is absurdly expensive for society.

5/7 of the days, relocating an entire city worth of knowledge workers across town to a computer screen is fairly nonsensical.

You force everyone to live within a radius of economic hubs if they want job mobility, or you have to be comfortable relocating your family every N years for upward mobility in your career (or take the career hit, wait for internal promotions, and risk the company folding).

It’s socially not great. It’s economically not great. It’s environmentally not great. Working from the office is just all around not great.

Speaking personally, I live in a good community, with a good quality of life, a good school district, I can afford a good home here, and I can provide for my family. I’ve setup roots and intend to raise my kids to adulthood in this house.

I’d be surprised if anyone could afford a competitive package that would convince me to relocate my family, pulling my kids out of school, selling my home, and paying the toll of a daily commute.

The rest of my career is remote. Companies can do hybrid. They can return to office. They can do whatever they want. Unless they support full remote, I’m not part of their talent pool.

I know many people who think this way. And that number is growing.
Wouldn't necessarily be the government, it could also be the market. After a disaster came through, you'd likely have a lot of property owners that don't have the money to rebuild their property. It just becomes abandoned land with ruined houses on them, much like large swaths of Detroit or New Orleans.
Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar, or any flamewar, no matter which region or group you have a problem with. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This looks a lot like the Tiny Pascal compiler that BYTE published a listing of back in 1978.

http://www.trs-80.org/tiny-pascal/

I figured out the basics of how a compiler works by going through it line by line.
Nothing "clueless", I don't know what you are talking about. If people release/contribute to code under MIT license, they are very well aware that anyone on any projects -- open source projects, proprietary software -- can use their code as long as there is a copy of the copyright notice. Otherwise they should release it under GPL or something similar, or spend their time elsewhere. It's all clear and fair game and working as intended for decades.
more rigorous analysis available for a modest fee. Superficial AI search shows ~2800 homes destroyed completely in Santa Rosa October 2017.

ps- I recommend this site..
https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california/
There is no easy or obvious common way to check that a lossless audio file actually originated from lossless audio. Bandcamp especially is like the wild-west. To explain, an mp3 converted to a WAV is an mp3 wrapped in a WAV. Audio cannot be upscaled once processed as lossy.
Why would you build your life around low interest rates? Historical rates are a Google away. If you levered up with zero room for rising rates, you were not responsible.

What's with all the people complaining about the rates? I'm appreciating earning 5% on my savings. There are two sides to every trade.
They want that sweet sweet FTE discount and unlimited hours.
I can't buy a managed Docker Compose system from DigitalOcean, so this would be harder to get started with than managed k8s.
Homes have always been inherently a risky asset, though we've been conditioned to think they aren't
A PTSD trigger for me. Only half joking. Funny thing is, I never checked out Cling to see if it was at long last the real deal.
Real estate prices have been increasing more than any asset for decades in regions that have catastrophic depopulation. There is no shortage of housing. Abandoned houses are everywhere, I've seen them rot before my eyes through the years. Abandoned land is everywhere, I see it overgrown. Ask to purchase that abandoned property and you'll be hit with an outrageous price demanded.

Is it sound to organize your economy in a way where the mere luck of owning real estate will net you the same income as what a specialized professional has to work decades to earn?
For portable SIMD, have a look at ISPC. It allows you to write a function once, compile it for multiple instruction sets, and then automatically select the best one to use at runtime. You don't get the precision of hand-crafted SIMD, but it can grant some easy wins!
I think it's more likely that people make note of which stories get upvotes, and then farm them.
i am just picking your examples apart :-)

i think we both want the same outcome, that is well designed and useful languages, whether they are DSLs or not, and i agree that most DLSs probably aren't that. but not all general languages are getting that kind of rigor from the start either. some get it rather late after they became popular enough to have demand for fixing the problems that stem from their initial ad-hoc design. i am looking at javascript and php here in particular, but there are probably others.

DSLs, due to their nature are less likely to ever reach the level of popularity where its worth it to fix design problems. general languages on the other hand are more likely designed by people who care and without the pressure of a quick solution. (and its my understanding that javascript was a quick solution, which would kind of prove the point)

esperanto, btw, was designed with rigor.
Wow! These companies are building awesome tech!

Has demand for 3D tech like this increased since you started Voxon?
Thanks Dang! You're right that's probably the better link to use, rather than the arXiv version -- I just have a liking for PDFs, which is why I linked to the preprint :)