skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one questioning the deep fake of the voice?
Absolutely they could. All the entries so far can do even better with more RAM. That PAQ entries have command line flags to do this. That's already known in fact.

What this is looking for is fundamental improvements, not "i brute forced a known way to win this competition".
Deforesting land is unnecessary at this point. The main use of large tracts of rural land is agriculture, but the world has enough agricultural land to feed everyone already.

This would be a significant concern if agriculture was still a large proportion of the world economy, but it's ~4%. They can do something in the other 96%.
This reminds me of the funniest scene in the movie Idiocracy, where he loses track of which cable goes in the mouth vs ear vs butt. A laugh a day keeps the doctor away, enjoy :-)

https://youtu.be/zop3VG_K9HU?si=k8LDptGhvQDxtsTB
Well a lot of people go there on business.
I love the old G4 aluminum macbooks, but man, aluminum was a bad choice for the hinges. You won't find one in 2023 that isn't broken off. Sort of like how you can't find certain models of beige PowerPC Macs that haven't had their outer plastic crumble to dust.
Is there a chance for a HN starter upper to "fix" some of this (or at least a service to tell you what to do), or is it just too spaghetti like? Not from the US so haven't experienced it.
I reminded about that recruiter who made 190k and claimed to do nothing.
How do they work exactly?
“in Fall 2023” my goodness this post is from the future!!!
Amen, amen, amen. IMO "Hang up, look up, call back" should basically be the only thing that security training focuses on, and it should be culturally ingrained: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/when-in-doubt-hang-up-lo...
I'm not sure if these ARC scores here are fully comparable to those in scaling, but if they are: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

TigerResearch/tigerbot-70b-chat: ARC (76.79)

Still below 3.5 and like most top entries no clear training objectives, which usually means they were fine-tuned on the benchmark itself.

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ARC is easily the most important benchmark right now for widespread adoption of LLMs by laypeople: it's literal grade school multiple choice, created to the bar of an 8th grader.

When you sit people down in front of an LLM and have them interact with it: ARC has by far the closest correlation of how "generally smart" the model will feel.
If you have an electric car then the whole article gets thrown out the window. An electric car battery is significantly larger than what you would need for an average house, so just have a battery that can also feed back into the house and you're done.
> Solar deployment is now running at about $500 billion per year, which means that about 0.5% of global GDP is being spent on solar deployment. This figure is up an improbable 43% Y/Y

What a mind boggling relative and absolute increase.
Apple is the most gamed stock out there. It always tanks before their events, and it always recovers after. You can bet against that cycle if you like and you might even "win" short term, but long term you aren't going to keep winning that bet.
Alright I guess I was wrong.
So effectively beef is the key driver of tropical deforestation.
This isn't a matter of 3D vs 2D, just of graphical quality in general. The comment you're replying to mentions only 3D games, they just happen to be low-poly rather than attempt photorealism.
I think there are some reasonable ways to avoid the schema brittleness that people are concerned about with this.

Firstly, acknowledge that in this model your schema IS your API. Don't include anything in the database that is being replicated that isn't considered to be documented, tested and stable.

With that in place, API changes become the same as changes to a JSON API or similar: you can only make backwards-compatible changes, like adding new columns or adding new tables.

If you do need to make a backwards incompatible change there are ways to patch over it. Ship a brand new table with the new design, and include a SQL view that matches the name of the old table and exposes a compatible subset of it.
How do you know it's compressed? Someone who can recite one of these probably knows interpretations, back stories, related information that help them memorize it. The "storage" required to the recital may be larger than the text itself, it we can even think in those terms.
> I think you're saying "if you're headed to a place with an airport, you'd fly there directly, otherwise the train makes sense".

It's not quite as simple as has an airport or not - Nuremburg and Stuttgart do have airports - but major intercontinental airport or not. Airports are and should be set up with their "catchment area" in mind (bearing in mind what neighbouring airports exist), and their transport connections set up to support that.

Frankfurt is the main intercontinental airport for a region with several mid-sized cities, and its transport links are set up to support that. The London airport system is already the busiest in the world, so transport links are - rightly - focused on spreading people through London rather than long-distance services to other places. (E.g. elsewhere in the thread you mentioned Bath - but Canary Wharf, one of the places Heathrow was recently connected to by Crossrail, employs more people than the entire population of Bath).
Port forwarding allows you to host content with the VPN provider’s IP address showing. Some people were hosting very illegal content, serving malware, or running scams. This resulted in hosting providers cancelling Mullvad’s accounts, police inquiries, or those IP addresses being banned for all their customers.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-f...

Like Tor when you provide a front for other people to hide, you get associated with their dirty laundry.
From what I hear, most of the rich world is now re-foresting.
I'm not sure I have seen many large plug-in hybrids on UK roads
Marvel visual effects artists unanimously vote to unionize
A new generation, you know, in their 60s or something!
> For example, unless I'm very much mistaken, the illustration of the initial object is backwards: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrate...

You are right. (Curiously, the picture of the terminal object is correct, so they didn't just switch them!)
Are you a medical scientist, and have you carried out studies on vaccine and mask effectivity?

Curious because you seem really confident so I guess maybe you're an expert in the area?
IATSE announcement: https://iatse.net/marvel-studios-vfx-workers-unanimously-vot...
Since I have seen a number of recommendations for sinus rinse in this thread but haven't (yet) noticed this specifically mentioned: It is important to use sterile water if you are using water for the rinse. Water directly from the tap apparently may not be safe for that purpose (there was a case earlier this year where a person died from a brain eating bacteria - they were apparently infected from using unboiled tap water for a sinus rinse.)

https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/N_R/Nasal-irrigatio...
https://www.everydayhealth.com/lung-respiratory/too-many-peo...
Absolute in the UK
There is also the bit about the phishers deep-faking an employee's voice. Yeah, right. That happened. /sarcasm
If Solar provides up to 90% of CA’s peak capacity, why is electricity here so monstrously expensive? Shouldn’t it be nearly the lowest cost because there is no need to pay for fuel?
Wow, I assumed Palm Oil plantations were the biggest culprit from recent news reports.
This is basically how Firebase is designed and it drives me nuts. I've freelanced with several teams, primarily comprised of front-end devs, who decided to use Firebase for their product. When they first told me they query the database directly from both their website and their mobile app, I immediately was like "so...what happens if you need to change the structure of the database"?

Crickets.
Restoration of an IMSAI 8080
A generalist is better for starting a company because they can just get all the parts moving themselves, or pick up wherever the slack is. A specialist can get a specific and better paid job at a bigger company.

As a generalist you risk never getting anything off the ground, and being useless to people hiring because what they want is the specialist.

As a specialist you risk your specialization becoming obsolete, leaving you with nothing. You also risk picking an oversaturated specialization, or one that leaves you in a dead end role that pays less and less over time.

I think the job market for software developers is so much different now than it was, say, 8 years ago, that I'd probably advocate for becoming a specialist over a generalist. Getting your first job and making those initial connections will help you immensely in your career. But it's a tough call, both paths are very difficult and either way can work out if you're very persistent. And whichever path you choose is more likely to introduce you to like-minded people
Is that true? I’ve got a heat pump water heater that’s 400% efficient versus direct heating would be somewhere less than 100%, no?
Sounds like a great idea, but Japanese sizes are smaller than Western sizes. When I lived there they almost ever had anything in XL even in Japanese sizes and there was never anything remotely big enough for this gaijin.
That is a very reasonable question, and in this context we might reasonably say that "this [individual] outcome is due to chance" means the same thing as "the null hypothesis we stated in our introduction is platonically correct".

But I don't really see the relevance to this discussion?

Suppose you nail down a null hypothesis, define a similarity metric for data, run an experiment, and get some data. The p-value you calculate theoretically tells you this:

If the above-mentioned hypothesis is true, then X% of all data looks like your data

It doesn't tell you this:

If you have data that looks like your data, then there is an X% chance that the above-mentioned hypothesis is true

Those are two unrelated claims; one is not informative -- at all -- as to the other. The direction of implication is reversed between them.

Imagine that you're considering three hypotheses. You collect your data and make this calculation:

1. Hypothesis A says that data looks like what I collected 20% of the time.

2. Hypothesis B says that data looks like what I collected 45% of the time.

3. Hypothesis C says that data looks like what I collected 100% of the time.

Based only on this information, what are the odds that hypothesis A is correct? What are the odds that hypothesis C is correct? What are the odds that none of the three is correct?
They might get it back. But they had, and lost, the grant already.
But, by definition, all of humanity that is not GP will call them that, so.. Calling them not USB-C is pedantic to the point of extreme silliness.
I brought this up in a comment in another thread. I found this page because I wanted to see whether it was feasible to monitor nutrient concentration in an aeroponic solution. Typically the solution circulates between the tank and the root box, so the concentration in nutriments will decrease gradually. Near-IR isn't enough to figure out these details I believe (I'm not a scientist), but it is enough to get a fingerprint of the nutrition "equilibrium". These solutions are probably the most technical aspect of aeroponics, so I wanted to use commercial solutions bundled as three bottles you're supposed to mix in various proportions. I think that if you explore the concentrations space using such a spectrometer you may be able to train a model to interpolate the concentrations from spectrographs measured in "production".

Anyway I think this is best to address the shortcomings of circulating the solution, for instance use a tiny tank, circulate for a few hours/days, refill, dosing as you go. A spectrometer would be still be cool in order to get real-time concentration diffenrential for each solution component. Identifying individual chemical species could be accomplished I think using far-IR spectroscopy with a model trained on data measured using more expansive spectrometry techniques.

I haven't grown anything yet, I want to build a sap flow sensor first.

https://edaphic.com.au/products/sap-flow-sensors/

https://dynamax.com/products/transpiration-sap-flow/dynagage...
Exactly. It still works well if you're authentic. I'll be creating a more modern page soon for cold traffic (just features/direct).

The people who get that page have just purchased my book Antinet Zettelkasten. It's an upsell essentially.

People don't subscribe to the newsletter because they want the newsletter; they subscribe because they want the free gifts. And they stick around through another special mechanism I don't even advertise on the backend. Again, subtleties.
Looks like they’re going for $140 on Swappa, so that’s essentially $110 for the USB-C upgrade and fresh batteries.
It very much is reported in a national database.

https://help.eaglesoa.com/29/en-n-eagle/Pharmacy/Pseudoephed...

Anecdotally, I usually by psuedophredrine at CVS. I bought some in Orlando and tried to buy more at a completely unrelated store in Puerto Rico and was denied.
> It's better to define a function as a set of pairs, then you don't need to use anything else not introduced yet.

If you're looking towards category theory, it may arguably be better to think in terms of abstract arrows as much as possible, so as not to get confused by non-"concrete" categories where there's no obvious "function semantics" for morphisms.
Your comment is far more worse, lol. His comment actually supports gp's suggestion, just in a different angle.

It looks like LLM's are like compression algorithms with strengths and weaknesses in different things.

Losslessness doesnt always equate to usefulness. But yea, maybe a different competition for this.
Little known fact: VA mortgages are assumable for other veterans.

A US veteran that purchased in the low-interest rate environment has a significant advantage as a seller in today's market.
Interesting that it's like the inverse of block printing. Never thought about that.
You don't even need a screwdriver for that screw, I think you can turn it with your fingernail.
> Sorry, who are these people that don't have a GPU

Literally millions of people. Especially circa early 2000's when this started.

> GPU that literally everyone has access to?

They don't. (Money is a barrier to access).

> Why would you spend 100 hours on an "i7"

Because it's what they had/have.

This a competition to move understanding forward, not to see who has the biggest budget.
That is more plausible. But the embellishment about the phisher knowing the layout of the office etc makes me think it was just straight up an inside job, with the employee willingly handing over the OTP and trying to cover their tracks.
>>they're worried about next months rent, etc.

If you are actually worried about next month's rent, then going mostly vegetarian is FAR cheaper than eating beef

Plus, only 12% of the people eat 50% of the beef in the US. That is a group of 50-65 year-old men. Change their habits to match the normal population (or let them age out) and 50% of the problem disappears.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2023-08-mere-americans-nation-beef-sig...
Have they? I'll have to try now, or really.. I haven't worried in a long while, so it's probably had it a long time now.
So where would Satoshi Nakamoto sit in the scheme of things considering the total value of crypto currency?
This is caused by the cost of solar declining 89% in the last decade [1]. Batteries are next [2]. Which leads us to solar and batteries powering the world [3]. Extrapolate exponential growth of generation and storage, not linear. There is >1TW of generation and hundreds of GWs of renewables and storage (respectively) in aggregate across all US grid operator queues, for example [4]. Similar story in China [5].

(obvs we have a long way to go, just need to push the pedal to the floor; enough sunlight falls on the Earth in 2 minutes to power humanity for a year [6], and space is not a concern [7] [8])

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435387 ("Solar and batteries are going to win, and our thinking needs to adjust")

[4] https://www.pv-tech.org/nearly-1tw-of-renewables-in-us-inter... ("Nearly 1TW of renewables in US interconnection queues as wait times continue to grow)

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-sol... ("China is set to double its capacity and produce 1,200 gigawatts of energy through wind and solar power by 2025, reaching its 2030 goal five years ahead of time; ...as of the first quarter of the year, China’s utility-scale solar capacity has reached 228GW, more than that of the rest of the world combined.")

[6] https://www.ku.ac.ae/two-minutes-of-sun-enough-to-power-a-ye...

[7] https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/77565 ("Land and Ocean Areas to Support a 100% Renewable Energy, Zero-Emissions, Regenerative Global Economy")

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492062 ("Declining populations free up ag land for solar in densely populated countries")
https://help.eaglesoa.com/29/en-n-eagle/Pharmacy/Pseudoephed...
Yeah we had a huge movement in the Netherlands called "stopumts" (umts = 3g)

Now those same people are complaining if they only have a 3G connection because they're out of 4g range :)

5g isn't really a thing in the Netherlands yet because of some deal with Inmarsat that has a base station there and is worried about interference.
Musk is an authoritarian at heart. His natural instinct is to make excuses for authoritarian regimes.
> I'd say the Yoneda lemma should be in there. It's hard to explain without going through all the definitions but very broadly speaking it gives a precise way to characterize a object by its relations to other objects.

To add a bit to that, Yoneda's lemma says that you know everything about an object if you know the ways that it can be mapped to other objects. The "co-Yoneda's lemma", while often less useful in practice (in my practice, anyway), is maybe easier to understand in this intuitive way: you know everything about an object if you know the ways that other objects can be mapped to it, which I have heard phrased as something like "you can learn everything about an object by probing it with other objects."
Not exactly what you asked for, but I would recommend watching the showreels if you just want to see some highlighted project demos:

https://godotengine.org/showcase/
This. Phenylephrine works great as a decongestant nasal spray, and it's not as addictive as oxymetazoline. (It doesn't last as long either, but that doesn't bother me.)
> A direct solar-powered washing machine or dishwasher can be fully charged and switched on in the evening.

... so- putting the batteries in individual appliances? That feels like a bad idea
1. How much "area under the curve" comes from _up to_ 90% of _peak capacity_. If it read "50% of annual consumption", I might be more inclined to ask your same question.

2. It doesn't necessarily follow that free fuel == cheaper power. I'm not at all familiar, but I imagine building, operating, and maintaining a solar plant could be expensive, perhaps even more expensive than a coal plant, for all I know.
"Skip the api" - seems to be stolen from sequin at: https://docs.sequin.io/integrations/airtable/playbooks/metab... (a few scrolls down)
I definitely would not eat lab grown meat. My own meat consumption is less than 200g per day. I eat one hamburger a month at most, as a treat. I want it to be the best hamburger from the happiest free range cow ever. I'm not going to eat some synthetic imitation, I'll just have bean stew with the occasional piece of chicken.

The way the vegan movement has weaseled its way into the discussion on climate change has been frankly horrifying to watch. As you said, people will not stop eating meat. Tell them that going vegan is the only way and they'll just say "fuck the planet" and not bother with it. Like, the worst that could happen is humanity going extinct. The Earth itself will be fine. Put that way, well, if we can't figure out how to run our farms more optimally, we should go extinct. Chickens don't contribute to atmospheric changes by themselves.
The Pro model being able to record video directly to an external USB-C stick/hard drive is such a killer feature for anyone doing content creation, and easily the biggest reason to pick the Pro over the base model. This is the first time an iPhone has ever had extendable storage like this. I’m surprised I haven’t seen it called out much everywhere.
There's a difference mainly in "strength" (transmit power). The frequencies and modulations used are not all that different.

In terms of radio energy, bluetooth is the lowest, then wifi and then cellular.
the other 10% …
It turns out it's not possible to do that. We've been trying since the 1960's.
This is correct, but there are very few people with experience with safe database modelling like this, and they may not even realize the technique exists.
No, total.

Watts are per second, Joules are total energy (watts * seconds). 4 Watts would be per-second.
Good lossy compression can be used to achieve lossless compression.

(information theory)

The more accurate the lossy compression is, the smaller the difference between the actual data (lossless) and the approximation. The smaller the difference, the fewer bits required to restore the original data.

So a naive approach is use the LLM to approximate the text (this would need to be deterministic --zero temp with a preset seed), then subtract that from the original data. Store this diff then add back to restore the original data bit-for-bit.
This is not a copy of Levenson's 2009 article. This is a copy of Levenson's 2009 book (the good parts) (as mentioned in the first sentence), that I wrote as a blog post in 2010 before returning the book to the library, and which someone else submitted to HN today probably after I mentioned it in a comment on another post about another counterfeiter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490644

The facts are the same (researched by Levenson), but the words and presentation/storytelling are different, surely?
You can see that Levenson and I chose somewhat different parts of his book to emphasize. I wouldn't have been surprised even if we had chosen the same parts, because obviously I think the ones I chose were the good parts :-)
Consider an item that costs $80 to produce that you can sell for $100, netting $20 which is a 20% profit margin.

Say your input costs go up 20%, and due to increased competition in your market segment, you can only raise your sell price by 10%. $80 times 1.2 is $96, and $100 times 1.1 is $110, netting $14 which is a 12.72% profit margin.

The price went up, but the margin went down, so you are incorrect.
Yea if you look at your bill a lot of the cost is not in generation, it’s in transmission. We’re paying for the grid mostly, upkeep and PGE/SCE profits.
Are you using Moonscript for nvim config or something else?
Agreed. Teams as an app in general is clunky AF and just not impressive in any way (other than integration into MS products if thats your kink...its not mine)
it's been discussed before here.
> You do need to take great care to make code with embedded LLM use modular and easily maintainable, and otherwise keep code bases tidy.

Sure makes sense.

> I am a fan of tools like LangChain that bring some software order to using LLMs.

Lmao. I feel like tools like LangChain that are really just very thin wrappers for the LLM APIs are quite complex for what they supposedly do for you. Lots of leaky abstractions and indirection for very little gained over just calling the APIs themselves.