skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article feels like it displays a more balanced Tan than I see in the other coverage of him, or the rage-filled responses to his tweets. I'm glad to understand more of the context.

And, I'm left feeling like there are so many "smart" people who feel that the best way to fix things is to rage on Twitter. Tan isn't doing just that: he is donating money, and fundraising, and getting involved in conversations. Why not run for office? The people he is criticizing are putting their asses on the line, and he isn't really risking much other than his reputation.
No not really. Categories are done on points for how you place in previous races. If you win then no matter what you weigh or how much power you put out you move up a category.

Any rider with enough power to ride you off their wheel would be promoted until they couldn't do that any more.

They don't get a special exemption to ride in races with weaker riders simply because they're heavy like on Zwift.

It would the same issue in reverse if they simply grouped riders by absolute wattage without using weight as a component. The light riders would always win in the hilly races and hold their own on the flats. Also weird.

What Zwift needs is an Elo system based on results. Just like in real life.
A successful political system is more about surviving to the next round of the game than scoring highly in any particular round. And voting usually boils down to choosing between what makes you sick and what kills you. Politics is certainly not a career for the faint of heart.
Sorta, Zwift doesn't give a lot of insight into how the w/kg system is reflected in terms of in game speed, but it's not the same as outdoors. I'm 190lbs with a 342FTP and I do not pull away from light guys on the flats the way I would expect on the road. But the light guys do pull away as expected on the climbs. Seems heavily weighted toward w/kg and not pure watts.
Where was that ruled?

And crimes against humanity wasn’t a defined thing after ww2 and wasn’t punished. But you’d know that if you read about this stuff.

Instead you’re pushing denial and lies. Fuck off you swine, it’s very clear what you’re doing in this thread and you should be banned.
You shouldn’t add observability [jokes]
I was just going to say this.

This guy clearly doesn't know Manhattan real estate. A skyscraper full of cheap apartments in Manhattan? Only in the fever dreams of the relative peasants with 6 figure salaries.

Besides, geotechnical engineering is your friend. A landscape of supertalls may not be the best way to go for San Fran's geography.
A typical car is broken down into many small, dedicated computers.

The powertrain and body control modules, assuredly running a RTOS, certainly do. The PCM for example controls when the spark plugs fire. If it did not boot instantly, the engine wouldn't run. If the BCM didn't boot, the doors wouldn't unlock nor would the key or PTS start the engine.

The user-facing infotainment crap is not necessary for the "car" part to function. You could physically remove it and the car would still be drivable.
I hadn't thought about it in this way, you're right. It provides a visual/mental break from the orthodoxy of $THING.
Do you really see a clear link from "better/safer/faster browsing rendering component" to "better revenues" or "better business situation" for Mozilla? Because I don't think I do, and I suspect Mozilla didn't either, really.

As a Rust dev, and nerd generally, I love the idea of servo and if I were more excited about browsers and the web would even love to contribute to it. But unfortunately stuff like this isn't what makes or breaks project success in the short or even medium term.

I use Firefox as my main browser everywhere now, but I didn't make the jump on any technical merits in rendering. Most days I barely notice which browser I'm on. I use Firefox because of the principles it represents and Google finally crossed the final lines with me, ethically.

I don't know what the future holds for Firefox and Mozilla but I don't think it's fundamentally strongly altered by the success of servo.

In any case, as a software engineering community we need to find ways to fund big picture projects like Servo etc. without having them tied to the fortunes and whims of various corporations. We lucked out with Linux filling a niche where it could explode in popularity and be securely funded for dev, but that hasn't been the case with lots of other things.
Do general-purpose models like this truly excel in niche categories (like niche story scenarios), or is it only really general human knowledge and reasoning based tasks that are already incredibly widely distributed on the internet?

I always have issues with LLMs completely forgetting where things are in a scene, or even what parts a given animal has, e.g. saying "hands" when the subject is a quadruped.
I suspect he was not just talking about the calories, as they are other side effects to these type of dishes.
Not on a security related list though. That's entirely the wrong expectation.
High quality content is not a concern for Facebook
Elevator operators were not replaced by buttons.

Elevator operators were replaced by very complex computers with many redundant censors.

You had elevator operators for safety not convenience...

Similarly you seem to have the common misconception that the purpose of a writer is to churn out random text which can be replaced with LLM vs building a coherent story and guiding it through the creative process in support of the other people involved.

The writers strike was primarily about streaming having terrible residuals and while they were striking they took back the inputs into AI from studios which makes sense given writing has always been for a particular project.
Something like 2/3rds of the steel made in the US is from scrap. It's very recyclable.
My understanding is that making nuclear weapons is not that hard, especially "gun type" bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima. Of course, the latest generation of thermonuclear bombs with their delivery mechanism and countermeasures are another story, but if all you want is "a nuclear bomb", you don't need all that.

Getting the materials needed to make that bomb is the real hard part. You don't find plutonium cores and enriched uranium at the grocery store. You needs lots of uranium ore, and very expensive enrichment facilities, and if you want plutonium, a nuclear reactor. Even of they give you all the details, you won't have the resources unless you are a nation state. Maybe top billionaires like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos could, but hiding the entire industrial complex and supply chain that it requires is kind of difficult.
I've seen "wild guessing" quite a bit when people don't actually understand the problem they're solving. Mostly students, but it happens in professional contexts as well.

I'm not sure why, maybe people are missing knowledge that would allow them to understand, so they just try random things in the hope that it works? It surprises me every time it happens.
I was referring to your postgresql example, those became rudimentary @versioned packages
> if they can push you out of your business that easily you weren’t the critical component of it.

Alternative suggestion: modern monopolistic corporations are disproportionately powerful. If they can topple a country to sell bananas cheaper, they sure as hell can kill a small business, no matter how relevant that business is.
Byju's: The Fall of What Was India’s Most Valuable Startup
I hold little hope that LLM's will help us to reason through "correctness." If these AI's scourge through the troves of idiocy on the internet believing what it will according to patterns and not applying critical reasoning skills, it too will pick up the band-wagon's opinions and perpetuate them. Ad Populum will continue to be a persistent fallacy if we humans don't learn appropriate reasoning skills.
At times what I deem as worthy is a distilled version. At other times what I deem as worthy is a messier version. Distilled can help me read it quickly and give me certainty over someone's perspective. Messier can take longer to read and yet show me an often more accurate window into someone's mind, helping me feel more connected to the person.

Again, if you're saying that you strongly believe HN is not the place for such windows into the inner workings of someone's mind and you believe HN should be the packaged output, I might agree. Most people who contribute here seem to obey that rule. Maybe if everyone posted stream of consciousness, this place would become untenable. However, if it goes from 1% to 3%, I think it'd still be manageable and then I could feel delighted at the interspersed nature of it.

In other words, almost the opposite of the free rider problem you may have alluded to regarding public goods, or the similarity to it if you think those who provide distilled versions are doing more work for the common good and the others are doing less. In this scenario, I suppose it depends on what one defines as good in the common good.
Misrepresenting your level of reliance on a particular source is plagiarism, and is uncontroversially recognized as such in any other context. If I say that I was inspired to study a particular problem by Paper X, but don't mention that my own paper includes several copied paragraphs of Paper X that I've lightly edited, then that is plagiarism.

If there is a public record that makes it obvious that you've plagiarised, then that doesn't mean you're not guilty of plagiarism. It just means you failed to cover your tracks.

None of this has anything to do with copyright. Not all plagiarism involves copyright violations and not all copyright violations are instances of plagiarism.
txtai 6.1: Build embeddings databases with Postgres and Faiss/Hnswlib
It’s a direct degradation of investor narrative at a time when money is much tighter.

Nobody says it’s realized loss, that’s not how valuation works.

But Google LRP involves, as one of the first steps, the question of how much money will be allocated to investors (currently with stock buybacks) before other investment decisions, so yes, attacking valuation directly attacks the purse available for aggressive business moves and L&D.
Continuous Excusing Development
I mean, I don't think it will happen but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where an imploded society losing to China will be even worse for the workers.
This is great. Many years back a group of us developed an OCR app on Android, at the time the market was not saturated and we found a way to deliver what was close to state-of-the-art if a bit expensive at the time service. We spent a lot of effort on pre-processing and user education through the app to try and maximize chance of good OCR. It was pretty good. We managed to have a few thousand users and made OK $ but nothing near life changing. Then the market got competitive and saturated and also our focus started to slip to other things.

What we found is that a small cohort of our users were in some way visually impaired and were very reliant on the app. We ended up consciously deciding to focus exclusively on this cohort which is not a typical product management strategy (assuming your trying to max $) but the remaining enhancements we did made some lives better and we were happy with that.
A West Coast contagion, right. I've seen these same carbon copy posts in about every city I've lived in across the US. Usually from people that live outside of the city or have never gone into it.
Actual experts I talked too can tell you easily why the opinion they have are true and the evidence it is based on. They are also very good at vulgarization.
And when your fix was the actual fix, but the maintainer rewrote it stylistically? Why should the maintainer get that credit?
The latest version of txtai enables embeddings index metadata storage in any SQLAlchemy supported database. Vector queries are driven by the RDBMS, adding built-in functionality such as row-level security to vector search.
> In order to diagnose SBS, the author suggests that you need additional evidence suggesting trauma such as bruising, broken bones, etc. Indeed, that seems to be what the SBS lobby is now saying as well, they just haven't communicated that to front-line providers.

That's exactly it.
> The linux kernel isn't a reward

It certainly seems that you're correct judging by the article, in the worst possible way.
Ho’oleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers
Loving this geocities-style tribute to petrov (found on wiki). https://www.brightstarsound.com/index.html
The dropbox article others and myself have linked provided such benchmarks, for an 11% speedup. Seem plausible?
Not OP, but the HA ownership experience is … rough at best. If what you want is something that Just Works, HA is not for you.
Title makes no sense. It says tap water is cheaper than tap water
Nucor and Helion to Develop 500 MW Fusion Power Plant by 2030
Looks nice, I will definitely be trying this out.

Built in s3 storage immediately sold me. I’ve used something called Exhibitor to manage ZK clusters in the past but it’s totally dead. Working with ZK is probably one of my least favorite things to do.
> It seems like instead it's because they would have to change the entire manufacturing chain

I live in such a place where all chemistry products from grocery shops used to decrease their package. For example, Ariel 500g become Ariel 400g and it happens not only to P&G goods. That tells me that claims about hardness of changing some giant well-functioning manufacturing processes are just a BS.
I took one look at the snippet, saw a floating-point log operation and divisions applied to integers, and mentally discarded the entire snippet as too clever by half and inherently bug-prone.
My biggest criticism of this and most of the discourse you see on here is everything always has to be left vs. right.

Do you think people shouldn’t go to jail for being homeless? Ok left extremist.

Do you feel uncomfortable with outdoor drug use? Ok right extremist.

So as a result, you get people arguing about what a centrist policy is rather than just evaluating the policy for what it is.

Would SF be better if we had a large indoor space for safe drug use (like the armory)? Maybe maybe not - but let’s talk about that rather than dividing ourselves into teams based on imagined identity.
Hey,
thanks for checking it out. Well, it's different from GoFundMe in a way that people don't have to ask for donations; many people don't like that. Instead, they offer services in their community. Also, supporters, on the other hand, get something in return for their contributions, which I believe would incentivize them to support campaign creators.
It was truly one of the best, and with a docking station i could literally have my business with me all the time. Its a mystery why other manufacturers don't iterate on this awesomeness
They're very expensive for a keyboard.

However, for a device that I use 50 hours a week -- not so expensive.

If you're a software engineer, you probably use your car a lot less than your keyboard. You _probably_ spent north of $20k for your car and you use it for ~7 hours per week, max?

$350 is nothing for a primary tool of your trade.
we'd all do better a country (IMO) if we all were more willing to criticize our allies for failing our supposed shared values than for criticizing our opponents for failing the values we believe they should have.

This won't win elections, so it wont happen (easily at least).
The volume of Lego discarded is a drop in the ocean compared to all other plastics. I expect most Lego leaves homes unintentionally inside a vacuum bag.
> It's there for everybody to read

Yes, it is. His motivation is very clear:

> Around a year and a half ago, I’ve asked my former company for some time to work on an issue that was impacting the debugging capabilities in our project: gdbserver couldn’t debug multithreaded applications running on a PowerPC32 architecture. The connection to the gdbserver was broken and it couldn’t control the debug session anymore.

This is an incredibly uncharitable description of his motivation:

> If the goal is to fix something to be able to put kernel contributor on your resume
I don't want my programming language to "implement" task queues and charge me for it. What is this

edit: people seem to be getting hung up on the "runtime" v "programming language" distinction. I'm not sure why--it's weird to me that this is "part of the language + runtime" at all. Clearly, reasonable people can disagree about that, but hopefully on points more substantive than pedantic

If tomorrow, someone started a for-profit company making a faster Python runtime and introduced features like this, it would be weird, and it would feel as pointless to me as Deno is
Llama 7B will squeeze on a 6GB GPU quantized. Maybe even less with EX2 quantization.

Foundational model trainers dont seem to worry about quantization much, they just throw the base model out there and then let the community take care of easing the runtime requirements.
Brazil is showing us how to avoid a new cold war – Responsible Statecraft
We do a couple things here:

1. When you bring your own data warehouse, we parse the query history, convert it so an AST and learn JOIN's from there

2. When you're using our managed data warehouse and ETL, we already know most of the JOIN's (e.g. we know how to join the Hubspot data we ingress to Stripe)

3. For anything not covered by #1 or #2, we have a modeling layer where you can specify how to join tables.
> From the exchange between the OP and the kernel maintainer. Which may have been the whole issue.

Well, if it was, the maintainer didn't communicate that well/at all:

"I prefer my version".
CNN Max Launches with Schedule That Mirrors Much of Its Linear Lineup
There are a lot of impossible records on Strava in my corner of the world that I seriously suspect were logged in a motorbike or even a pro e-bike.
Yeah, they should have mentioned details about the dataset.
i don't know why you'd expect Ikea to not be flimsy and cheap -- that's the point.
Maybe but it was on the tip of a finger in a moving image changing size as the person squeezed their finger, also something that I never previously considered, blind people have tend to have no/little artificial light on when alone, luckily the app allows the person providing the assistance turn on the flash on the other persons phone.
If there was no Linux, how much more revenue would windows / Sun server divisions have made?
I agree. I didn't learn anything about using LiteStack in a Rails App, but I did enjoy the article and learned of a few new gems and services. The article is the first part of a series and so hopefully in the next part they get into the integration of LiteStack with the app.
The artist who sculpted 4-dimensional space time
GPT-3.5 returns:

public static String convertBytes(long bytes) {
String[] suffixes = {"B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB", "ZB", "YB"};
if (bytes < 1024) return bytes + " " + suffixes[0];
int exp = (int) (Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(1024));
return String.format("%.2f %s", bytes / Math.pow(1024, exp), suffixes[exp]);
}
Those vaguely phallic shaped rockets flying billionaires to space won't pay for themselves, you know!

But if you roll over and let them own 0your entire life, I guess you can have a pizza party from time to time.
Spoiler: the recipe for Ted's Guerrilla Cookie is, sadly, not given. But those like me who came of age reading the Whole Earth Catalog will enjoy reading an article with a similar vibe.

Is there something about the name Ted that makes one live out in the woods as a recluse in a ramshackle cabin and nurture unusual (but strangely plausible) socio-political systems?
The writers strike is over; here’s how AI negotiations shook out
Lol. The name is an inside joke. "Tempest" is an NSA program for securing devices against data exfiltration using radio frequencies. It was also once a program for spying on such devices. A "tempest-rated" device is one that doesn't emit EM waves that may transmit information.

This software could be used to exfiltrate data from an "air-gaped" PC to a receiver. I suspect someone involved with this had a national security background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
Some of the fancier ones will have layers where you can turn part of they keyboard directly into a number pad if you're mostly typing just numbers. Best of both worlds.
Here’s a simple non-standard allocator for C++ I used a few times in the past: https://github.com/Const-me/CollectionMicrobench/blob/master...

The block size is controlled with a template argument, the number must be a compile-time constant.
Direct URL to the tool here:

https://www.krea.ai/tool/logos
The freedom is taken after the phone is bought, not before.
I agree with you, that one can live on cap-gains until the assets run out.

I was replying to birdyrooster, who said

> borrow against the value of their inflated shares and never have to pay income taxes

... which is not about selling stock.
I don't use the term often, but I've used it with normal people (as opposed to tech people), and every time, they've instantly understood what I meant.
> For Drive Pilot to activate, the vehicle must be traveling no faster than 40 mph (65 km/h), it must have a vehicle in front to follow, road conditions must be dry and clear, the lane markings must be detectable, and the route must be pre-mapped by the system.

At $2500 per year, I would expect that this would cost on average $100 per trip when actually usable. Maybe more.
The most effective way of "cheating without cheating" is just using something like Sauce for Zwift or a head unit that displays your rolling 20min power, so you can effectively "sandbag" and keep your power under the threshold for the next category. This is arguably not cheating at all, just smart racing, but it is not a great racing experience when you're in the top third or so of a category and you race someone who very clearly is far superior and only staying in your cat to rack up podiums.

To be fair, though, 1) this makes a lot of sense for team racing series, and 2) it's a really crappy experience to be at the bottom of a category and get dropped within 2 minutes of the start of every race.

I'm 100% convinced the vast majority of people either outright cheating or gaming the system are Cat C riders trying to avoid getting upleveled to B.
With binary search and indexes, why should size be a problem?
The people in office are figureheads, beholden to those who paid to put them there. The back-room lobbying is where things really get done.
Faster economic growth tends to lead to happier citizens.

In fact, there is a philosophical school of thought that shows that happiness isn't related to the environment one lives in, but the improvement that one sees through one's lifetime. Economic growth can deliver that.
It's not "a man", it's a billion dollar corporation and of course it coerces you through its market power.
The Peloton doesn't have a power meter. They "calibrate" it at the factory with a curve based on resistance and cadence and ship it out.

Meanwhile a good trainer has a power meter reading actual torque in real time and giving a power accuracy around +/-1% or better. There's really no comparison.

For example, my FTP is 342 watts as tested on my Stages SB20. It's slightly higher outdoors. A buddy got a Peloton and asked me what my FTP was because he knew I rode a lot and was surprised that his was soooo good because the Peloton returned him an FTP of 280. I was suspicious so I asked if I could give it a go. My FTP on the Peloton was 560 watts. I'd best doped up peak Lance Armstrong.
Hold on: 60% of students get aid, and that "aid", scarequotes yours, includes things like Pell grants. Pell grants aren't an accounting scheme! That's real money.
Is attribution the only reason for the GPL??
I also don't agree with the characterization of unions as heroic for the same reason, but at least, they don't typically intentionally destroy factories.
The don't have searchable/indexed docs, right, only images?