skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the videos posted by Practical Engineering, but I found this one unsatisfying. Both distillation and reverse osmosis are energy expensive, but this doesn't answer whether this is because these are poor techniques or because desalinating water is fundamentally+physically difficult.

Are there thermodynamic limits to how efficiently water can be desalinated?

Doesn't this feel like a problem where a Carnot-like argument can be made?
Broot looks really nice. I love the tree-like output - `tree` is one of my favorite tools. Interactive tree is a great idea, makes me wish I had perhaps started there instead.
It's not about the events significance. It's about the complete censoring of all information related to it.
I used it today for the first time, and with each individual chat you can choose whether to enable it or disable it. You can also disable even the option in settings (its actually off by default). So while there may still be security concerns, its all opt-in and you can really control which chats are exposed.
ZipPy: Detect AI-generated text quickly via compression ratios
It’s only probably the most famous sunglasses brand in human history
D4 isn't very good either though.
thanks for your comment! Several things could be mention, but the most relevant I would say, no timeouts!
> The exact same dynamic exists for on-prem services.

With on-prem, you can choose to defer deploying that significant (and therefore higher risk) change when it's crunch time for your business. That can reduce regression impact considerably.
Baloney. That'll just be a larger Australia, where 90-odd percent of the population live in a coastal fringe.

What makes you think humans will still be around in 250 million years, anyway? They'll be long gone.
is a movie quote.

see also "reactionaries"
Thanks! This does look like a similar tool, and as you said, I love seeing what others have done for inspiration for new features to tools I'm working on. Thanks again.
this was already tried, the general public didnt receive it gracefully.

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-was-assaulted-for-wearing-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-woman-says-she-wa...

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/bizarre-google-glass-stories/

https://www.cnet.com/culture/journalist-i-was-assaulted-on-s...

these glasses probably need a panic mode.
Yet Biden is trying to run on how good the economy is. (No, I don't support Trump and I don't vote republican, not that in my state this would matter, but that doesn't mean any side is beyond criticism).

Salaries are falling. My academic salary has not kept up with inflation at all; we're all way behind. Childcare is obscenely expensive. Mortgage rates are through the roof and owning a house is beyond hope for many young people now.

Things are rough out there. I fear that people will give up democracy by voting for Trump just because the economy is so bad for many people.
If you need a Zookeeper drop-in replacement then I suppose there’s limited options, but many of the same needs could be met by etcd.
I prefer a reboot of TFC[0].

I wish FF[1] had fared better, but it was too late, especially with TF2 coming as an official title.

There is TF2C[2], but I have yet to try that one. Interestingly, it's still going strong with relatively recent content updates[3]. I'll give it a try, but at first pass, the gameplay appears to deviate too far towards TF2 and away from TFC.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_Classic
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Forever
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2_Classic
3: https://tf2classic.com/
Isn’t that kinda what stock options are?
And you can't scan eyeballs while it's charging.
> it's still your responsibility.

it's not, in the sense of social darwinian competition.

If i stand to lose money, or have to sacrifice something in order to be "moral" when my "competitor" doesn't and thus gain an advantage towards me, i cannot be moral.

That's why my rule is: if it's not illegal, it's moral.
I'd say it's more akin to pensions.
I would consider $150k/yr in a MCOL area comfortably middle class - what single-income households used to have much more regularly. You can afford kids, a house, a car, a couple low-cost family vacations each year, and maybe put some money aside for savings.

That is now pretty much the median salary for a bunch of high earners.
Are you talking about OS installer? Cause this is application installer. You likely used an installer today but didn't notice it.

The model on Windows is that you ran installer program that installed the application. Installers had to do a lot more stuff than drop the application in the right place like change registry entries or write files in other place. InstallShield wrote the installation engine and build tool.

Windows moved to model of .msi packages with .exe wrapped. InstallShield turned into an .msi build tool. Macos has .pkg installer for things that can install .app. Linux has .dpkg or .rpm. All of them have the installer pre-installed.
I'd like to understand how asian and pacific islanders are mixed up in one "group'". Is the person grouping ethnicities together judging by squinty eyes, or what? All these "ethnicities" stats are worthless, give us place of birth or nothing, it's 2023.
What exactly is a lifestyle magazine? I'm curious. Like that cereal site, it's just a bunch of unsorted pictures. What kind of lifestyle is it supposed to represent? Is it kinda like a Flickr for the analog world?
That open-source shortcut seems like a simple chat bot to have conversations with. I wanted COPILOT to be something more than that, but still to be able to use it for simple questions. It actually works like an AI agent so I would give it my goal, or a task, and using the tools provided, it will run autonomously until it completes it. After that, I can still ask follow-up questions or provide feedback, so it will continue to run until I receive a convenient answer. Integrating OpenAI's function-calling feature into an Apple Shortcut is something that I have never seen elsewhere. And just that leads to limitless possibilities of integrations and capabilities. As I said from the beginning, it was such a crazy idea, but I loved it and put all my effort into it. :)
They already are. Engineer gets paid $200k so the company can make $20M. Sound fair right?
This statement is ridiculous. $200k/yr goes very far, especially in the Midwest.
Many modes and maps are missing, so this is more of a forced downgrade, especially for those who were playing them since 2012
Looks like Jerry is a called upon witness the first week of October if my understanding of the docs is correct.
It’s like 2-3x median household income in most midwestern cities (let alone out in the sticks).
After reading the site I'm still not sure what this does. Can you walk me through a few use cases?
See you cyberspace cowboy...
It's difficult to imagine how that would be calculated and verified for internal systems, which are far more common than public facing, revenue generating systems.
The “original” and by far most common format for quantization is GPTQ.

AWQ support is spreading more, which is nice.
> So if I take a photo of a pretty sunset, release it under MIT license, you'd say it's "not open source" unless I give you the sun and the atmosphere themselves?

Phorographs are not source code, are not computer code at all, and do not have a close analog to source code. Calling them “open source” is, at best, a poor and distant metaphor in any case, and so they aren't a useful model for discussing what open source means for software.

There's a very reasonable argument that model weights are an IL or object-code like artifact with training data and training source code together as the source code.

That doesn't change that the MIT license is an open source license, but when what you release under that license isn’t the whole source aoplicable to the model, but just inference and maybe training code but not the data needed to produce the weights, and final weights, then it is fair to question whether as a whole the model is open source.
terrible headline. it implies an incorrect assumption of how inflation works.

to say that it "bites" subtly implies that inflation may be targeted at this or that specific profession. but inflation works across the board, all of money is affected.

at least with money as it works now, when there is still cash, it's not possible to target professions; but I have no doubt that some future techno-currency scheme could be made that could serve as currency AND change its value depending on who is holding it.
There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”
Very interesting idea. How would this work? Would your name on any software give you residuals? How would your % be calculated - based on LOC? (ridiculous) but if not that then how? Would be granular down to the feature? sprint?
Pretty sure these are just the US Census categories, which is the most consistently used grouping of people in the United States.

There are meaningful ethnic disparities between say, Black and White Americans; and those are the categories because national origin is a lot harder to measure, particularly for the descendants of people enslaved before any of the countries of modern Africa existed.
My plan is to just leave the US for somewhere with a real social safety net at some point. I don't believe the US can turn things around at this point, there's just too much "tech debt" so to speak.
What? Is this for someone living in downtown Chicago and supporting a family? $200k a year even for a single earner should go pretty far, especially if you have a house (which is very attainable in the Midwest on a $200k salary).
Honestly I don't see this conversation going much differently if Chrome was it's own company. Like Apple and Mozilla, Chrome would get paid based on how many queries it sent to Google, then they do a launch that reduces queries and their revenue arm would say "whoa whoa whoa are you sure this benefit is worth this level of revenue hit?"
Red/Blue politics aside, I'm fairly certain the inflationary issues you're seeing today can be root caused to loose fiscal policy from the Trump era. Biden inherited those issues and can be held accountable to fixing them, but not causing them.
Yes bad for the eyes. I can use it at night without having to use blue blocking goggles, and not interfere with my sleep quality.
Usually the problem with Desal is not the energy, it's the fact that there just isn't enough coastline. California could cover every inch of coastline in Desal plants and not have enough fresh water.

If they could build platforms in the ocean with some way to get the water to land, maybe this could work, but the Western US is screwed unless we can find other ways to save water, even if this tech were totally free.
It does sound fair, the engineer also gets paid $200k if the product ends up going nowhere, so he doesn't bear the risk. The company also provides lots of things to enable that "20M" to be generated that the engineer doesn't provide, such as sales, distribution, etc etc etc etc.
Probably better to go the route of pensions.
More like emissions are being moved to other countries so the US and EU can claim their emissions are dropping like a rock. When a US company moves production out of the US to China, suddenly the emissions become China's problem.
You want to see the source code of the transformer that created the compiled llm model, the dictionary corresponding to token values, etc. Instead, you got the weights and binary.

I don't know what's going on in this discussion thread, as to whether you are being gaslit or engaging with people who shouldn't comment.
Someone posted the hourly wages and salaries offered for working at what I believe is a large truck stop chain. They post this information freely to attract applicants.

I look at it a lot and try to up my confidence in asking for more compensation.
It is not the norm everywhere and, in any case, we should push back. It gives me no joy to walk past video surveillance cameras. They stick out like sore thumbs to me and make me feel treated like a potential criminal.

I believe we reclaim no power by recording our fellow citizens going about their daily lives. We merely augment the corpus of corporations and governments.

My beef with these smart glasses is that while they can be used to document crimes, I estimate they will typically be used for mundane purposes, while eroding the privacy of law-abiding citizens. More so than cell phones, which require you to at least hold the thing up and press a button. You will do so to document a crime, but not to mindlessly and continuously record everything you see. This changes the balance.
Your argument doesn't hold: who was the person that uploaded the document? That person is hireable as a spy.
How is others voting for someone you happen to dislike giving up on democracy?
I’m pretty sure industrial processes are one of the only areas that smart glasses have achieved any real success, and for pretty much the reasons you’re describing here.
Even more fun, Python printed --version to stderr before 3.4, then to stdout.
I mean, Musk is currently being sued by a bunch of his old employees for not paying them properly, so not sure if he’s the best example here. He also fired like 80% of his workforce at twitter/X so not sure how incentivized he actually is to “create jobs.” And arguably the changes he has made has made his product worse in the process.
stock options (outside of bigcorps) are monopoly money 99% of the time
Why is a new and cheaper desalination invention in the news every 3-4 years?
Amazon dominates the webhosting market via money made from monopolizing online commerce?

I dont think this is a form of monopoly, if the only thing the dominant position gives you is money to burn.

however, if google refused to advertise another browser in their search, and instead show chrome's ads in place of say, a firefox ad, then there's huge grounds for monopoly abuse.
But it’s only $65,000 a year to be on that list.
Chill, Special Agent Bob.
In the jets, are all parts of the HUD always visible and they train to work around them as if it weren't part of the window but rather a permanent obstruction, or does the text pop up unexpectedly while they're flying?

> Are you saying riding a motorcycle requires more concentration than flying an FA/18 Hornet?

Are you saying that building strawmen is more important than the visibility of an FA/18 Hornet?
And here I thought not many people besides my dad knew what a marlin spike was.

If I had a nickel for each time I got to use the skill of 'how to splice and/or roll eyes in wire rope' he taught me I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened three times.
There is also yodlee

https://www.yodlee.com/open-banking
//I fear that people will give up democracy by voting for Trump

I am struggling to parse that sentence. Isn't people voting for whom they want the definition of democracy. Separate from how you feel about the choice that's made.
Err... CGTN?
> CGTN is a state-run foreign-language news channel based in Beijing, China. It is one of six channels provided by China Global Television Network, owned by the Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television, under the control of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party
That's what equity is, albeit more capital friendly to R&D heavy endeavors
As someone in that cohort, the number of people that feel the same way as me is nearly non-existent. The only people that seem to share the sentiment are my parents and my older colleagues. I have an Apple Watch primarily to avoid having to take my phone out while still being able to see important notifications (I love the focus mode stuff) so I'm not some kind of anti-tech ideologue either. Most other people are not only used to phones being out and around but the vast majority have no qualms about it.
The Four Instruments of Expansion
I completely agree, I just got a used quest2 for $200 and this doesn't see any compelling reason to shell out the extra $300 yet.

Maybe someone's going to come up with a must have AR experience but as someone who mostly uses their quest for sims and gaming, I feel like my money would be better spent on upgrading my computer
No man. Look.

Take a pair of glasses. Attach sunglasses to them. Move the bows from the glasses to the sunglasses. The geometry of the glasses or frames don’t matter, it’s whether there’s enough distance from the eye.

My glasses have almost always sat proud of the frames. And there’s plenty of distance behind them. (I’ve had sunglasses that brush my eyelashes though, when I was young and they were cheap, and that bugs the hell out of me).

> If that's not enough, there's a whole industry of people designing eyewear; you really think "What if you just added the corrective part inside the tinted part?" wouldn't have been done if it were viable?

First of all, that's an Appeal to Authority, and you know where you can stick that. Two, you think I'm trying to solve a very old problem, which means you missed the point.

Putting something on your face that vastly outsizes and outcosts your glasses is a brand new problem.

Scientists get eyepieces for microscopes with prescription lenses. That's not on your face. Skiers just buy goggles with prescription lenses, which cost almost as much as VR goggles. That's basically a luxury market, not a consumer market.

Also the whole fuckin' point is that none of these solutions (to people insisting you take your glasses off) work because a rounding error of people are going to carry two pair of glasses with them, and even the workaround is unwieldy. You're lost in the weeds talking about the physics of it, which aren't a problem and aren't the real problem.
Uhhh, excuse me, what? What on earth are you spending your money on? 200k/year goes quite far pretty much anywhere in the US. Yes, areas like SF or Seattle are so expensive that children are a luxury item and no house sells below 1M/year. But in nearly every other part of the country that's simply not true.
I'm going to object to the "any midwesterner" since that's not even a thing in all of Indiana, and the linked article says it's not a thing in Chicago.
this behavior when you are in hot water for...this behavior at scale, is not a helpful thing, its actually being considered obstructive, and might be sanctioned.
what if, *gasp*, people paid for chrome directly?
Fun fact: Nearly all formerly-Ottoman ethnicities are classified as "white" in the US. The average American considers "Muslim" a race, but the average Muslim is considered "white" under the United States' official designations.
You can increase monthly active numbers by making unsubscribing harder.

You can increase average time on site by just funneling people lowest common denominator garbage all day.

Pretending there is some magic metric here and Google isn’t meeting it is ridiculous. Google is very well liked by the average person!
That's because Kent State massacre is not a politically incorrect topic in the West. What happens when you ask ChatGPT about a genuinely politically incorrect topic in the West?

So at best the complaint boils down to this: China has the wrong politically incorrect topics and we have the right politically incorrect topics. And of course, once the complaint is reduced to this form, its irrelevance to the topic at hand (LLMs) is evident.
Stock options are probably a better deal. There's accounting BS with options, but FAR less than you would see with residuals.
This page was updated yesterday to remove the following text from the final section, which was added in November 2020:

In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks:

• A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks
• Strong protections against server failure
• A new preference for users to opt out of these security protections
Book publishers also don’t make much if the book doesn’t sell.

Most technology companies wouldn’t exist without developers.
I give you a work laptop, training budget, third-party technical budget, lawyers, accountants, marketing... and I don't get the IP rights?

No deal.

That aside, you're describing already available comp models with equity participation.
equivocally "Valve removes the ability to play CS:GO for mac users"
Because the guy tried to overturn the election and stage a coup when he lost. That's not very democratic.
> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away.

I'd use that regularly while working on my truck. It'd be a lot easier than stopping during every disassembly step to snap a picture with my phone.
Agreed. If I read the article too literally, I'd rewrite the headline: "never crawl out of the pit you were born in." The set "your friends" must change over your life. And it's great if you can hold on to people, and even better if you can stay a 5 minute walk away, but that's an ideal and not a realistic goal.
During the automakers book in Detroit, UAW negotiated a $191.60 weekly salary (for 40 hours work) in 1972. https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/100/victory-auto-worke...

Adjusted for inflation, that is $1407 today, or about $73.1k per year.
All ios browsers are safari reskins
Don't think iPods are anything special, they are just small computers: they have CPU, ram, storage and a battery. I'd imagine they mostly went into e-cycling just like the billions of cellphones that are scrapped. They are similar sizes to cell phones.
cooking meth, making molotov cocktails, discussing my medical history, sex

ok seriously though I had fun over the weekend chatting with Samantha on a long car ride on my MacBook. We were mostly asking about history.
Ah, for Chrome to be broken off as a separate entity and for Microsoft to acquire it would be irony-irony, iron-irony, ironnony?

A company copying the motives of another company, to profit. To then lose the item to the company they copied. A company that once had a similar item, given away for free, to assert market dominance.

I can't wait for Chredge or Edchome or whatever abomination MS cobbles together. Long live Internet Explorer X!!! We're baaaaaaaack!
If I were hypothetically at Apple, I'd use the funding from Google paying to promote search in order to exclusively fund creating a new search engine.
Equity is generally a scam - your "five thousand shares" are going to get you maybe a few hundred dollars during a liquidity event.

Stop asking for equity - ask for a higher salary. Put that extra money into an index fund and it will go FAR more than any "equity".
I can see that. The community is strong, maps and mods will return
Here comes the Trough of Disillusionment. That wasn’t supposed to be here until 6:15.
Mortality optimizes across longer time horizons than this individual moment.

If you can steal something and with very high probability not get caught then there’s seemingly a net benefit. However, if you start to steal regularly the odds you get caught are much higher than the most common probability * the number of times you steal. This is true across a wide range of unethical behavior.

Try to remember you lack perfect information and so can’t accurately judge the odds every time. Thus regularly taking low probability risks to your reputation and chances are you’re going to miss judge some of those risks.

Heuristics like this aren’t perfect, but it’s easy to underestimate how valuable a positive reputation is.
Oddly echoes Asimov's "The Feeling of Power": https://urbigenous.net/library/power.html
Of course it does, it was literally when capitalism replaced cottage industry. I'm not an American, so I didn't go to Berkley and in fact don't have a degree because I went out and got a job.

Perhaps if you'd done the same you wouldn't have such a limited view of the world?