skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Prisma when they moved from using GraphQL as a schema language to their own version. I'm honestly not sure why companies are using GraphQL as a schema rather than a query language at all.
Obligatory reminder that ‘carbon footprint’ as a term invented by BP after the gulf oil spill

https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...
I don't think you've properly understood the process. They free the carbon from the limestone, but capture it. They then use the resulting material to capture more carbon. Then they repeat the process. The first batch that was in the limestone originally is obviously of no benefit, but succeeding cycles are using carbon pulled from the air.
Borrowing the value didn't work for this case, but forget the reasoning at the moment. This is a struct that may or may not be used in threaded code. Code is highly polymorphic and involves a few traits

Using Arc everywhere solves it, but dumb and inefficient for non threaded use cases. Maybe compiler optimizes this though, who knows. Semantically it's wrong though.

Honestly forget the specifics enough at this point to discuss so I'll drop it haha.

Was just curious whether somebody else was tracking this, or there was a known workaround. I think it's something the language will eventually support. I saw other threads on rustlang asking for the same thing, and best I saw was some sort of enum style hack representing the boxed types to emulate it
Actually, since the pandemic, many public schools have cracked down and made it increasingly difficult to volunteer due to liability.

It's a whole seperate beast from public schooling when I was growing up nowadays.
Another commenter said that the difference between truth and propaganda is what you believe the truth is.

- Would I like food to generally be healthier and contain less processed sugars? Yes. Do I think that the government should regulate food to be that way? Not necessarily. I won't claim something ridiculous like "regulating food is a violation of the nth amendment!", but I'm generally skeptical of government regulation without a clear and compelling case for why it's necessary. While the obesity epidemic is a serious issue, I'm not convinced that regulating food is the way to solve it. I guess my skepticism towards regulation comes at least partially from cultural influence, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong.

- You can absolutely experience freedom without a car, but the ability a car gives you to just drive anywhere (where there's a road) is unmatched.

- Customary/metric interop is the real issue, but the thing is most Americans don't interact with the metric system at all. Thus, for most people switching to metric is a lot of work (you gotta replace rulers and tape measures and learn to think in km and km/hr) for zero gain. We really should have just gone all in metric in the 1800s, at this point we're stuck with customary units :(

- I've never heard someone describe paid sick leave as communist, but it doesn't surprise me that people do. Totally agree on this one
Perps always think and feel they "should" be acquitted on the basis of denial.

Nobody else does, though.

(Sorry for being pedantic, I strongly agree with what seems to be your core assertion)

Edit: @mcpackieh: Good point.
Top US Spies Meet with Privacy Experts over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’
> What's the legal basis of doing this?

I mentioned this in another reply, but I was imprecise with my language here. I meant that regulators could decide it's not OK for Google to have both a dominant ad network and a dominant browser. Discontinuing Chrome would be one remedy here, but there are also other remedies, such as spinning off Chrome development to a separate company.

As for the legal basis for doing that, I'm not as familiar with UK or EU law as I am with US law, but this was in response to the linked UK ruling by the CMA, where I was expressing my awe at how much effort they were going to in order to try to balance competing interests. I don't think regulators are dumb or lazy, but the report very clearly identifies that the core of the problem is that Google has both a dominant ad network and a dominant browser, but they still went through a lot of trouble to try to find a workable solution.

As for US law, Judge Jackson did rule that Microsoft should be split into two separate companies, one for the OS, and the other for apps, but was overruled on appeal. However, that appeal was muddied by other issues as well, and the case never came before the Supreme Court.

You're right about the US congress, but Europe does seem more eager to go after big tech companies.
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/sigh
So you’re stuck choosing a single CPU or having to write send and sync everywhere. There’s a lot of use cases where you would want a thread-per-core model like Glommio to take advantage of multiple cores while still being able to write code like it’s a single thread.

> I have used Rust async extensively, and it works great. I consider Rust's Future system to be superior to JS Promises.

Sure, but it’s a major headache compared to Java VirtualThreads or goroutines
what does "workshopping" mean here?
How it looks now is not irrelevant. It is how I decide what to use. If things change in the future I will react to it then.
The best short to medium term grid storage battery is pumped storage. 90% efficiency. Price per MWh of about 1/3 of the cheapest lithium battery. Largest one is 350GWh. The geography to build these things is extremely common - there's very little shortage of up.

The best long term grid storage is probably still electrolyzed hydrogen pumped into a cavern underground. ~50% round trip efficiency but very high energy density at relatively low cost.
His supervisor was given a $20k bonus with a performance review that specifically cited that "Don Sanders is no longer working for BNSF." Insane that there are no criminal penalties for this nonsense, just penny fines absorbed by the company.
Yes, coffee really does help--and fails to keep me up at night if I drink it late. Thanks for the tip about doctors being hesitant--we'll see what happens with my primary care.

I suppose I'm the same as you in the aspect that I'm "successful" but many definitions, and I'm not struggling to the point where my life is falling apart, but there is often unresolved anxiety related to things that demand my focus.

I love finding this out, and learning more about it. Thanks for your input.
Ask HN: What tools are you using for load tests?
Which specific tools do you rely on for load testing? Any less-known ones that have proven invaluable?

Do you prefer CLI or GUI?

Are you using paid tools? If so, is the ROI evident?

Is it integrated into your CI or otherwise run automatically?

How closely do your load tests mimic real user behaviour?

Are there any emerging technologies you're exploring for load testing?

I'm beginning the process of load test architecture/planning at my company and would love to hear your thoughts.
Yes, you are correct, I was being flippant.

But I think the greater point still stands. In order to call the model itself a copyright violation you would have to say it is "substantially similar" to thousands of original works. Then in order to make it illegal you would have to say it wasn't "transformative enough" to be considered fair use.

I can't come up with an argument for either one of those points that holds any water at all.
And it's still massively more of a deal for spectators then academic sport in, say, the UK.

I spent a term as an exchange student at the Catholic University of America, a smallish university with a completely unexceptional D3 football programme staffed with actual students. And they got two thousand people to their football games! Much of the campus! Alumni! People who lived in Brookland and fancied some live sport!

I mean, I knew how seriously people take high school football too. But even really good UK university sport can play to an audience of the players supportive romantic partners only. A different (and quite refreshing) world.
Paper in question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07287.pdf. Apparently won the Euro Privacy and Privacy best paper. It publishes and draw attention to what in industry has been "known" lore about SPF and ARC vulnerabilities. Kudos to the authors.
Synthetic kerosene was the hint. You can make carbon neutral kerosene in the same way as biofuel, it doesn't add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere since the carbon it contains was captured from the atmosphere. Not a perfect solution as it doesn't solve the impact of contrails and there is the problem of how to generate so much biofuel, but it is a valid way to decarbonize flying.
Doodle: Pure Kotlin UI Framework for the Web and Desktop
re: "Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention,"

Well, yeah. But frankly, it's the least of my worries (personal). My BS detector is sensitive enough that I don't get sucked into these type of pointless distractions.

My problem is consuming things that are generally higher-quality, not misleading, are relatively interesting, etc. but are *for me* - at least for the foreseeable future - completely useless. I have to catch myself with, "Mark, you're not prepping for Jeopardy" or "Cocktail party fodder is cool, but you're not going to any cocktail parties anytime soon" and then try to move on to something useful. More and more that seems to be silence and my own thoughts.

It's not easy. Often it's simple and easy to turn on some media source and be a passive consumer. "Don't make it think" but to a fault.
They backtracked, and are now offering some severance, but did not specify how much.
The site is from 2015.
My team does ML for a Big Tech co. Considering how much we spend on hardware, and multiplied by all the teams doing ML in the company, we are easily spending millions a day training AI just on business as usual. This seems reasonable for any big tech.

This sounds like non-news to me. Maybe a fluff piece for Apple?
>but considering where Siri is

Siri is honestly so bad, I don't use it. Every time I try to schedule a meeting it tries to incorporate it in the calendar and looks for a contact. If I say "put meet with Mike on my calendar for 2 PM on Wednesday" it'll come back with "I can't find Mike on your contacts." Unless that's changed. Then when you ask it a question its 50/50 if it answers or just gives you useless "this is what I found on the web."

I've started using the ChatGPT app with Siri and it feels like how it should. Only problem is it can't do the scheduling or other useful things.
Looks great!

Without judgment I must ask, what made you decide to target metaverse specifically? Is it more of a fun challenge, or do you see it having a bright/popular future?
2014, https://archive.ph/RQolM
I wonder if it's the same mechanics as Zen Buddhism but from the western angle.

When do we do our best thinking? When we're not.
It's possible to have multiple levels. Most places in California have both City and County levels of government. San Francisco is weird in that it is a combined City and County.

The logical outcome would seemingly be to have one metropolitan county covering the whole Bay Area with responsibility for transport and other shared concerns then have the various cities (which are effectively boroughs) underneath that. Who knows, maybe they could organise integrated fares across the patchwork of different transport systems!
Thanks!

Yes, I think Rivet, langflow, and flowise all came to the idea of visual programming for LLMs in parallel. I like to think it's a good sign that visual programming is a powerful paradigm here :)

I do think Rivet hits a pretty different use-case. Beyond being in the TypeScript ecosystem, Rivet's remote debugging and embedability are pretty unique, and super critical!
Thanks for the input. Parsing what is a negative consequence of this compared to a negative consequence of other things (e.g. lack of support systems at work, inefficient delegation, etc) will be tough and a good exercise to go thru.
>It's even amazing that mRNA vaccines actually made it to the market, and if it hadn't been for the pandemic, there's a good chance that it would be another 15 years before they do, and this mRNA vaccination tech has been brewing since the 90s, I think?

Have they made it to market? It's been like 4 years and there are no other ones to be found outside of trials. This is kind of strange because we were told this is so much easier, safer and faster than other technologies. If the US wasn't accepting for whatever weird reason, then you'd think they'd pop up in lots of other countries. But doesn't seem like that is happening.
I bought little wooden boxes with a hinged lid, stained them in a lovely walnut color, put ReSpeaker 2.0 USB mic arrays under round speaker grilles on top of the lids, two 3w/8ohm speakers into the sides of the box, and a RasPi4 with a WM8960 sound card / speaker driver on the inside.

The boards are raised off the wood surfaces by PCB spacers (I embedded M2.5 threaded sockets into the wood) and I bought speaker grilles that bulge out a little at edge of the cylinder, so that the 4-mic array would remain fully exposed also laterally. I covered the side speakers and the mic array speaker grille with acoustic textile.

The onboard code is written in very pedestrian Python and uses porcupine and the OpenAI APIs.

It roughly works like this:

1. Capture audio frames and run overlapping frames by porcupine to perform hot word detection (overlapping avoids the problem of the hotword falling inbetween frames, at a cost to latency)

2. Once the hot word has been detected, buffer all audio frames into a command buffer until silence is detected as a stop (detecting "silence" is a bit involved, taking noise levels into account, and a few other tricks, more below)

3. The command buffer is sent to Whisper for transcription

4. GPT-4 is prompted with a system message steering it's behavior, the user command transcription and a JSON print out of the state of all devices (e.g. lights and Sonos speakers) in the home, grouped by rooms

5. Following the system message, GPT-4 replies with a JSON structure of changes it would like to make to the device state, omitting unchanged bits from the original

6. Add the sensor event and memory system described above

There's a few other tricks. To improve the audio capture, I take note of spatially where the hot word is detected (i.e. which mic in the array gets the best signal) and then capture the rest & perform the silence detection with a corresponding bias.

This is actually done in a distributed fashion over the network, so if two of the AI speakers hear the same command, only one of them will end up processing it.

They end up making mainly HTTP calls to APIs that already exist around my house. I have a second RasPi in my LED shelf (another old project, https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht/) that doubles as a Philips Hue bridge with a zigbee dongle. That's what the DIY AI speakers interact with when making changes to the lighting.

I will say: Depending on the user command and the weather in the cloud, it's pretty slow. I've tried my best to optimize the client side for perceived user latency, but there's no way around the GPT-4 API just being pretty slow, even if it's amazingly low-friction and reliable otherwise. And 3.5-turbo just doesn't cut it for what I'm trying to do.

I'd like to get all of this out of the cloud entirely. I predict the next generation of my home NAS will have a GPU in it and try to run things like fine-tuned llama2 for the home.
I've gotten pretty good at ignoring/blocking trolls over the years.

FB has become a favorite place for old geezers to crap on each other.

About 5 years ago I started whittling down my "Friends List" to less than 100 because so many started ignoring/stopped caring about truth and facts and started getting so belligerent that keeping them around because a sort of self abuse.

I don't regret that all because things haven't gotten better since.
All of those purchases and deductions put you outside of the 42-48% that the parent is referencing.
Of course the unintended side effects will dominate. That won't stop those in power from trying things that increase their ego.

The best part about this kind of meddling is that it feels good now. It gets votes now, but the pain is only felt in the future so others feel that pain.

It's a win-win-win.
That's a huge assumption on your end, that people like the results of ads more than they do not want to be tracked.
Thank you! I've never heard of him.
A letter from our CEO: Changes to Polywork
It loves giving me 100 of someone. I'm wondering if there are sticker pack-like images in it's training set.

And then, yes, the background removal takes away half of these and leaves smoke.
This seems like rounding error and a nothing-burger story given

- size of apple

- size of apple r&d

- size of near future opportunity and value that might be gained
> Perps always think and feel they "should" be acquitted on the basis of denial.

Isn't that tautological? Innocent people, not being perpetrators, think and feel they "should" be acquitted on the basis of their innocence, not on the basis of denial. It's only on the basis of denial if they actually did the thing.
Streaming data to S3 is surprisingly hard
Didn't Rogers have two outages last year? I only really remember the one you mentioned, but I seem to recall cell service being down another day as well. My spouse and I use different cell providers (Bell and Rogers) to avoid a single point of failure.
I definitely liked it a lot more than Jira back in the day.
Ignoring is easy if you have something important to focus your attention on. The ignoring just happens automatically.

Like, given 1000 things, if you focus on 1 you automatically ignore 999.

But if you don't have something to focus your attention on then its gets tricky.

This is where "habitually focused" people have an advantage.

(otoh, being habitually focused can be bad too. You might ignore the 999 so long that you forget it's there.)
If it was real constexpr it would be useful, e.g. concatenation is commonly desired and requires awkward workarounds currently.
File your own not using the pre-filled forms as you do today? While it won't for some doesn't mean it can't be the default option for many
They deleted the post [1], does anyone have a screenshot?
"Just quit testing, and the numbers go down" will forever be my meme like response to these kinds of idiotic situations. It's right up there with "You're holding it wrong".
I think the definition on Wikipedia is correct, otherwise a "drop-in" replacement is no different than any other replacement, making it a meaningless term.

> [Drop-in replacement] refers to the ability to replace one hardware or software component with another one without any other code or configuration changes being required and resulting in no negative impacts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop-in_replacement
> "screw it just disable ipv6 everywhere"

Troubleshooting step #1. Sad (reasonable, but sad).
we dont do it often. When I do I use this tool. https://k6.io/docs/ it suits my needs and easy to work with
'Communist' is just a slur these days, bandied about by folks with often no clear idea what it means.
> Tell your relative they're doing really good work, but a little change to their website might do wonders.

You're absolutely correct. Fortunately, my relative is aware. Unfortunately, she's tried to tell them, and they don't believe her.

It annoys her so much.
Hacker news is proprietary too
That was the point of their post. Apple isn’t collecting that data. They collect very little data for the little advertising they do. Once they start collecting more invasive things like Meta and Google do then sure, avoid them.
Wild. From the article:

> Malaria had become a common treatment for syphilis between the 1920s and 1940s. This was because the Austrian scientist Julius Wagner-Jauregg had discovered ‘fever therapy’: that patients could be cleared of advanced syphilis if they experienced persistently high fevers, such as those caused by malaria.

We used malaria to treat syphilis.
I'm from the C# world and am working through learning Rust... in C# we've largely moved away from using inheritance. Not sure that it's a good thing but "best practise" results in serialisation being implemented differently (serialisers which use attributes, or for more advanced teams serialisation wired in at compile time targeted by attributes - advantage here being that the state doesn't have to be public).
I might be a bit ignorant towards the topic but so far everything I've seen about TPM has no actual benefits for the home user. For cloud, sure, there are benefits.

It seems like it's a sunken cost fallacy that big tech spent a lot of money on and they are trying to get it back by convincing average Joe that a TPM is good for your PC.
I suspect that number would go way up by just providing a way to declare your dependents.

Right now, for the vast majority of the population, especially those who don't just pay an accountant, their taxes consist of a "Where's Waldo" copy-and-paste adventure combining information from their W-2s and 1099s onto a handful of other forms, then adding up like 3 numbers. If that describes your tax filing experience, a pre-filled form would be perfect. Any omitted details are more likely to be in the government's favor than your own.
Yeah, he is a Google hire. But I am confused as I (mis)remember he left Apple on WFH issue.
I've never understood how "carbon footprint" can reasonably be assessed. What gets counted? The fuel used to power the diggers that mine the materials to make an iPhone? The salaries paid to employees to take vacations to Fiji?
I hate it when people ignore the truth.

We need a website called "truth.com" just to make it really clear what the truth is.
1st hand anecdote: fasting one day per week has noticeably reduced any late-night cravings or my endless appetite for chocolate.

The experience of going through one whole day with only water/tea/coffee, feeling a hole in your stomach by early afternoon and seeing the hunger subside by bed time and lasting until the next afternoon also "demonstrate the disconnect between the desire and the need for food".
I use constexpr char[] for string literal constants just because it's a little more compatible. Some things can't take string_view.
I certainly will! But it's a long road with many unanswered questions:

Can a MCTS with enough compute time beat a human consistently enough? Can MCTS reliably exploit super efficient combos? How can I optimize MCTS Strategies for stronger and stronger players? Can you use Machine learning to optimize further? How do you encode a TCG for a neural net? How do I deal with a potentially infinite play field (MTG can generate token cards). Can genetic deck building find the best decks? If not, are there other options? ...

My ultimate goal here is to create a better Magic. Fixing all the Gameplay issues from having grown over decades, creating a much more streamlined ruleset, a much broader stable meta, etc. etc. But yeah, right now i'm in the "thinking a lot about this" phase.
NVIDIA introduces TensorRT-LLM for accelerating LLM inference on H100/A100 GPUs
From the linked article:
"TensorRT-LLM consists of the TensorRT deep learning compiler and includes optimized kernels, pre- and post-processing steps, and multi-GPU/multi-node communication primitives for groundbreaking performance on NVIDIA GPUs. It enables developers to experiment with new LLMs, offering peak performance and quick customization capabilities, without requiring deep knowledge of C++ or NVIDIA CUDA.

TensorRT-LLM improves ease of use and extensibility through an open-source modular Python API for defining, optimizing, and executing new architectures and enhancements as LLMs evolve, and can be customized easily."