skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like TX is doing more to push for energy independence than any other single organization in the country. the grid incompetence, and governments unwillingness to resolve, is the best driver for household battery and solar I can this of.

I don't live in TX, but if I didn't have 1day battery storage, coupled with solar capability to charge that battery to full in a single day, with a generator as backup, every ounce of effort would be going to that.
Some CPUs have attempted to do this, but the cost is enormous.

Conditional branches are very frequent, so a modern CPU that has much more than one hundred instructions in flight might have ten or twenty branches past which it executes instructions speculatively.

So it will not have two sides executed in parallel, but each side will be split in two at the next branch, then again at the next branch. The number of branches that must be executed speculatively in parallel grows exponentially, together with the ratio between executed instructions that must be discarded and useful instructions whose results are retained after the conditions of the branches are resolved.

So such a CPU would have a huge power consumption due to doing mostly useless work, which would reduce its performance much more than what is lost during branch mispredictions when only one side is executed.

For unpredictable branches, all modern CPUs offer conditional move or conditional select instructions, where both sides of a conditional expression are executed and then the result for the true condition is selected.
It’s basic reading comprehension, your original text clearly calls her out on hating capitalism yet depending on it according your own definition of capitalism.

I’m happy to be called a jerk by someone who is clearly dishonest and gaslights

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
AFAIK users have the option of signing up for the fixed rate plan or the variable rate plans when they sign up with their provider. That's why not everyone got hit with the multi-thousand dollar bills during 2021, they had benefitted from the lower pricing in general but were hung out to dry during these spikes.
Texas is massive, bigger than many countries and bigger than several nearby states put together. Most forms of geographic and other kinds of risk could be smoothed over with sheer scale. We have massive energy production resources including not just oil and natural gas, but way more than our fair share of nuclear, wind, and solar. Most likely we'd be helping other states much more often than they help us. The TX grid is a mess due to sheer mismanagement and poor regulation, not so much being disconnected from our neighbors. It's maddening how little it would take to do better, like just better weatherizing the nuke plants and the gas pipes feeding natural gas generation so it doesn't go down when there's a worse than average freeze.
All review sites can be purchased, it doesn't matter what it is. Any platform where there is an up or down vote by Internet users is almost certainly, if not mostly, disingenuous. No review site should be trusted.
> If so, what's the barrier to building this infrastructure?

Tons of money, and time?

Texas grid is over 100GW, they're saying they have a 7% increase in demand? So figure like 5-10GW?

They just spent $10 billion on 10GW of new power plants, and those take 5-10 years to come online. (And the estimate is it'll overrun to $18 billion)
I stand corrected. The Jungle is not only about amen, but then it is the only genre so much infused with the amen. You are right that people back in the day sampled various afro/funk stuff to get nice loops. But from what I've heard (I can name man y more than these here in your post), the most extreme jungle examples actually have some amen in it.

So my point is - the musical genre most defined by amen is jungle music, and how an amen can be used/abused was shown through jungle. hope this works for u.
The thing about the contract law is that it is adjudicated by humans who are enthusiastic about shooting down BS attempts to wiggle out of binding terms.
https://archive.ph/TIImL
Wouldn't the word responsibility be more accurate here for what you are trying to describe?

own·er·ship

the act, state, or right of possessing something.

re·spon·si·bil·i·ty

the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone.

Part of me that's pushing back here is my manipulative language detector going off.
You’re ignoring the safer futures that were choked off by allowing developers to totally ignore safety and security.

People are smart, they would have figured out really solid mechanisms that gave you great software that’s actually safe. Look at any of the fields that deserve to use the word engineering for examples.
If you have no actual ability to make choices at all (including what you do, how you do it, what choices you make, etc.), then yes you have no ownership except for your turning the crank and how well you do it.

Which is still a thing. It’s rarely that tightly constrained however.

If it is, then time to bail. It’s burn out city.
I usually don't reach for new command line tools, but ripgrep is one where I feel stupid for not using it sooner.

Even VS Code uses it for its search beneath the hood.
Sunk cost only works under the assumption that in office work adds zero or negative value for the company. Clearly corporate leaders don’t believe that.
are you implying there’s been zero construction on the grid to increase supply _for three years?_
The alternative is actual ownership.
At least they don't generally require constant attention though. You can generally check in once every hour or so and it won't be the worse for wear. Definitely not as attention-hungry as a smartphone thankfully ;)

(and, at least these things don't come with the microtransaction / gacha elements that you see so often in mobile games...)
Many more people have a talent and inclination for writing movie reviews than the number of movies coming out, and with the internet there is little barrier to entry anymore, so that outcome isn’t surprising.
This is incredibly awesome. When Oracle started to talk about Javascript in the database (around 2016), with GraalVM and MLE, it was clear for me that the goal was not to deploy stored procedures in Javascript but, at some point have the JS function called in the application and transparently run close to data. They will probably go there but that will take time.

I'm so happy to see this idea in Open Source with PostgreSQL! The best of both worlds: defined the business logic in the app but run it close to data for performance.
Water is a common word across Germanic languages.

It also appears to be a very old word as I saw a documentary about the Hittites and the interviewee stated that they may have migrated from Europe.
Wrong. You can go to a lot of fundraisers by members of Congress for only $50. And they will absolutely listen and treat you like you are the most important person on earth.
I don't think the two use cases are mutually exclusive. You can have that keyboard driven muscle-memory workflow, while keeping things discoverable for users who haven't committed everything to memory.
Here's the key idea.

You give DSPy (1) your free-form code with declarative calls to LMs, (2) a few inputs [labels optional], and (3) some validation metric [e.g., sanity checks].

It simulates your code on the inputs. When there's an LM call, it will make one or more simple zero-shot calls that respect your declarative signature. Think of this like a more general form of "function calling" if you will. It's just trying out things to see what passes your validation logic, but it's a highly-constrained search process.

The constraints enforced by the signature (per LM call) and the validation metric allow the compiler [with some metaprogramming tricks] to gather "good" and "bad" examples of execution for every step in which your code calls an LM. Even if you have no labels for it, because you're just exploring different pipelines. (Who has time to label each step?)

For now, we throw away the bad examples. The good examples become potential demonstrations. The compiler can now do an optimization process to find the best combination of these automatically bootstrapped demonstrations in the prompts. Maybe the best on average, maybe (in principle) the predicted best for a specific input. There's no magic here, it's just optimizing your metric.

The same bootstrapping logic lends itself (with more internal metaprogramming tricks, which you don't need to worry about) to finetuning models for your LM calls, instead of prompting.

In practice, this works really well because even tiny LMs can do powerful things when they see a few well-selected examples.
right? I know of a twitch stream that streams fish tanks and has mods so my mind immediately went to it somehow being related to that lol
> ...the only thing I am afraid of is the chainsaw. That thing can do significant damage even slightest mistake when being used...

After you carefully read the instructions, wear 9-layer wraparound chaps, cut-retardant shirt, forestry helmet, and chainsaw gloves, and you pay attention like as if you are on a gun range, you will have reasonably mitigated the risks. Most accidents happen when people grow complacent and don't take what they are doing seriously; even with all the PPE you can still screw up in a serious way if you aren't careful, deliberate and paying attention. I encourage anyone who is scared of chainsaws to read the literature. Even occasional users can make it a safe activity with some diligence.
This is a common refrain. So much so that when we changed the release artifact names in 1.7 we broke scripts and docker recipes that would download jq from the github releases 'latest' URIs! (This is fixed now.)
A lot of states are looking into large battery facilities specifically for frequency regulations.
My apologies for the ambiguity; I assumed it would be clear from context. The article at the link, https://saturncloud.io/blog/what-is-the-random-seed-on-svm-s..., is incorrect. Whoever wrote it seems to have confused support vector machines with neural networks.

For the D-Wave paper, I'm not sure it's fair that they are comparing an ensemble with a single classifier. I think it would be more fair if they compared their ensemble with a bagging ensemble of linear SVMs which each use the Nystroem kernel approximation [0] and which are each trained using stochastic sub-gradient descent [1].

[0] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ke...

[1] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/sgd.html#classificat...
I share your concerns. When I work for your company, I don't want to sign some employment contract that says you own ALL IP I create during the period I am employed by you (and for a couple of years after if it's somehow related). And yet, basically every employment contract I've received (over 20 so far) always included such a term at first. Some folks don't care, but when I was contracting I had side projects (that became businesses that I am protecting with CLAs today!), and if I had signed those contracts, those company's would have owned my IP. Or...at least, they would have had a chance to sue me. I wanted peace of mind, so I negotiated, or declined.

I know what you mean with CLAs. They're very grabby. Not nice. Grabby aliens.

I wish it were different, and what you're saying is a nice idea, but if you're building or your company is building for profit (as we are), as well as for open then you can run into issues when accepting contribs from non employees.

The trouble is when a big customer wants to license or an investor wants to invest, they want to understand their risks, and that includes consideration of risks coming from ambiguous code ownership--or clear but problematic ownership: such as ownership that may interfere with whatever corporate license is being negotiated.

It's a similar reason to how when you are an employee of a software company, the company owns all rights to your contributions. One risk is you turn around later and want: attribution or ownership or decision making power, in a way that interferes with the company's or its customers interests. And when you don't get it, you sue. This is the sort of risk that CLAs are trying to protect against (same as those "we own everything you do when you work for us clauses" in contracts).

This stuff is not easy to figure out, and I had no idea at first. It took me 4 years to even settle on a license for my projects! Yes, I even tried writing my own because I was unsatisfied with the protections of the licenses I knew, and ignorant of other options, including, you guessed it, CLAs. The cacophony of insults for trying to use custom licenses was deafening. I had wandered into the Roman arena during a dog fight--and all the dogs had rabies. And spike collars! And lasers.

I agree none of this is ideal. I wish it were different, but I have not seen a solution for this beyond CLA so far. At a certain stage of growth, I want to pay everybody for every contribution. To me that seems completely fair, but the specifics of how that is figured out will have to be something for the future when we get there! :)
On Reviews

Find reviewers who agree with your tastes, and who like the things you enjoy. Follow them. Ignore the metacritic-like sites.

This is especially useful for games. Which is why it boggles my mind when people get upset at reviewers. Reviewers are not reviewing for everyone. Rather, they are reviewing for their readers. It's okay to disagree. It just means this persons tastes are different for yours.

The problem is people forgot how to use reviewers, and instead, just see them as weapons in a the game of "highest metacritic score."

It's silly.

Find the reviewers you agree with most of the time. Find several, listen to all of them, and make your judgement from that. Ignore the masses.
An easy cut-off point to avoid axing Free Software is to limit to commercial activity: you want to sell software for money? You are liable. Your software depends on some library? Then you’re liable for this library too… unless you can have someone else accept liability, and trace that in the SBOM.

Concrete example: I wrote a cryptographic library, which I give away for free. No guarantee, no liability, if I make a mistake the only thing you can take away is my reputation. But what if you want to use my library, and don’t want to be liable for it? There are two alternatives: you can approach me and pay me for me to accept liability… or you can approach a reputable audit company, and have them accept liability for a given version.

Legislate like that, and I’ll still be able to contribute potentially critical code for free.
Not the GP, but I guess that there isn't much of a predictive power of good or bad news that comes out of a company towards the movement of its stock price.

Obviously the company and its stock price are not "completely" separate, but what a company does in the short, medium, and long terms may not even account for half of the short, medium, and long-term changes in its stock price.
I forsee they'll make all those libraries and tools free for hobbyists - and maybe even 'less than free' - ie. "We'll send you a free dev board if you download the IDE!".

But if anyone tries to ship arduino code in a commercial product, they'll want royalties.

Or if any microcontroller maker wants to be supported by the ecosystem, they'll also want royalties.

And the royalty levels will be low because there are competing ecosystems of tools - but across such a huge market of embedded commercial electronics, I think they'll still do very well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16bynin/falcon_... has some more data like sample answers with various level of quantizations

and https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Falcon-180B-Chat-GGUF if you want to try
> it’d actually make more sense for power companies to buy people homes in other states

No, because of scale. A large factory is one entity to deal with. Moving just one out of state is possible, but meaningless as even though houses are significant overall you need to deal with many houses before an actual difference is made, while if you can deal with a factory you can make a large difference for the same amount of effort.

A factory/hospital is also easier because they probably have a backup plan. if there is any possibility that the power will go out they are likely to have made backup plans. You are overall cheaper than their backup plans, but you can probably make them a deal where they run their backup plan instead of connecting to you. Since they already have the generator it isn't a problem for them to use their generator on your busy days, and so a small discount makes it easy to work with the factory than a home owner who is probably thinking about friends and family they are moving away from.

The power company has a list of who these deals are with and the priority order. I know of one factory with a coal boiler from the 1800s, and a generator from then 1920s - the whole is very inefficient and takes a full day to start up, but the power company makes it worth while to keep everything operational because every 5 years they can power it on and supply the whole town (at 5x the normal cost of power from the plants they run all the time). Meanwhile there is a store near my parents that is running their generator every hot day - a modern diesel generator when sized properly is not a lot more expensive than grid power so the store doesn't need a big incentive to use it instead of grid power.

Of course all of the above is for exceptions. Where I live now we have built far more wind than needed most of the time, and as a result 80% of our power is renewable. There are very few days when backups are even needed.
I have used both Arduino boards and our own hardware layer with AVR toolchains. The main USP of Arduino was a good community (people like and easy-to-follow instructions. The target market of Arduino did not want to look inside the IDE. That is the reason they scored over PIC etc. because they never even talked registers.

However, this easy was slapped together in the most unprofessional ways imaginable. IIRC, the SD card code used to have C++ virtual functions when a rock solid library from Chan was available. It was not easy built on a solid core that provided a gradual path to professional setups. It was do-it-and-happy-when-it-works kind of setup.

So I am not sure what direction can they take it in with funding. There is a limit on where easy can take you in the Embedded world, especially if you are looking for reliability and performance.
You could certainly make an argument that zoning needs to be "power neutral": can't zone any houses or businesses without zoning an equivalent power plant. Very SimCity.
You need to double the hardware... which fair enough modern CPUs are super scalar so they already do that. The issue is that there are a lot of branches in the code, the CPU would need to keep a lot of redundant hardware. All that extra hardware comes with increased power usage and consequently heat dissipation. On top of that modern branch predictors are pretty amazing, so you would need to get a lot of benefit to make this worth it...

So the trade is, you can get slightly better latency due to misprediction masking by executing both branches at the cost of massively decreased throughput (b.c. you are using extra hardware to execute branches of the same thread vs different threads), increased power and heat dissipation, and increased cost due to additional hardware. Note that cost, power, and usage are generally the constraints you want to satisfy, so you will generally get a significantly slower CPU that probably has worse latency due to lower clocks, less cache, and whatever other tradeoffs you need to make to fit into the power/heat/cost budget.
They're not just storing the albedo, they're optimizing spherical harmonics to represent the color in an anisotropic way, that's why tey're calling it a radiance field. Radiance fields capture both light intensity (including color) and direction. They explain in the paper that it's very difficult to estimate good normals from the sparse point cloud they're starting with (or rather, that's taken as a given and produced as an earlier step using colmap) and that the gaussians doesn't use normals. You could probably make a point cloud from the gaussians and then use one of the existing techniques to estimate their normals, as a first attempt.

Remember that it's a bit tricky to talk about depth when the gaussians have both a position (mean value) and a size (covariance). The bicycle spokes are made up of long thin splats, what value do you assign to one of those? That's why I think you would have to sample new points from them as a first step.

https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
Is there an LLM based chatbot that works well without being fine-tuned on RLHF?
Ha I was going to say, isn’t SoftBank like the Jim Cramer of pre-IPO equities? I’d be more likely to bail out of something they wanted to buy.
> so its conservative approach of only acquiring the lock if there's no contention is completely thwarted.

How is contention on the standbys communicated back to the writer? I'm confused about how the writer is interrupted mid-cycle if only the readers are experiencing lock contention.
HMRC can do the most unrestricted spy on the British population, and there is a lot of data sharing between all the different parts of the state, ie HMRC, Police, NHS etc etc.

Any employee of the state can spy on you and the press also do a fair bit of spying on the population.

Its a national past time when thinking of curtain twitchers and neighbourhood watch schemes.
Show HN: Let people share what they are paying in rent to others
I built https://www.howmuchrent.com in the last couple of weeks, a gentle way for people to see what Irish people are paying in rent. Would love to hear any feedback.

Inspired by https://medium.com/@hughfitzgerald/rents-charged-by-landlord...: Rents charged by landlords should be made public. More transparency can only benefit all renters.

Since I was a young teenager staring into Lego sets and science books, I wanted to create new things and/or solve problems I had, in the hope others had the same problems. Built while job hunting for the next company to join(Contact me with any ideas).
The Hunt for the Ideal Bánh Mì
New Vulnerabilities in Ivanti EPM
Pretty amazing that in such a short span of time we went from people being amazed how powerful GPT3.5 was upon its release to people being able to run something equivalently powerful locally.
You're telling me that the huge disparity between Audience and Critics reviews on RT isn't because the unenlightened masses are to stupid to realize what a cinematic masterpiece <insert preferred culture war movie> was?

Well color me shocked, absolutely shocked.
https://archive.ph/NFctJ
I don't think they bother to do this comparison, because after all you can drive other people's cars too. That counts towards your driving record with the insurance company, but wouldn't reflect in your cars odometer.
Where are you posting? That is the reference
> You are proposing that people just ignore a contract that they don’t like

Not even close. In fact, even if somehow there was a misinterpretation earlier, I just got finished explicitly clarifying that this is not the case – literally stating "I am not proposing anything." The only possible way you can still hold onto this is if you haven't read the comments. Read the comments first.
When I first got a dot UK address a lot of forms refused to accept it, demanding that I use org.uk or co.uk instead.

It was really annoying, luckily it doesn't happen as much anymore.
Not yet anyway. While batteries are interesting, they do start on fire once in a while. We think with correct engineering that risk can be mitigated, but we shouldn't roll things out too fast just in case it really can't.