skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s never a cloudy day across all land mass…

But then again, how does that relate to your previous points:

> you know solar still works even through clouds right?

> So you could say 60% efficiency on a typical overcast day.

We were talking about the impact of clouds on a particular spot, and now you're telling me that you're counting the average across landmass because it's never cloudy everywhere in the world…

I suppose it means you retract your previous statements about solar panels working well even in the presence of clouds?
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Part of the cost is that it comes with about 24 game season where 2 of them are released each week. These are original games and not pirated games from either Nintendo or Sony consoles

The build quality is also better than the random junk that you’ll find on eBay, ali express,or Amazon. Plenty of people have cracked cheap screens on their ambernic portables
Yeah, i think that neural networks learn because they can represent if/else relation (via step function (activation)) and that makes them learn good heuristics at least.
I wonder if someone can prove that NN can generate arbitrary programs because as we know 2 layer NNs can approxomate any calculation. Given some state and how easy is to create turing complete machine i think they already might have it.

I speculate that the trick is that these programs sometimes dont evaluate in time when response is short. That’s why LLMs should be given way to adjust output and something like stop signal. Adjusting output can be done using DiffusER approach but not sure how to handle stop signal. I guess we could try to add fake input tokens for silience/thinking.
Twitter deleting likes from Musk critical post
Is Twitter actively deleting likes, or is this some problem with the platform not being able to scale?
Friends that combine pleasure and utility are so few in a lifetime we established cultural norm to mark them with rings and loudly announce the pairing to the entirety of the town one resides, or smth.
I can see a little resemblance in bringing up something that didn't need to come up, but a competitor raising prices is pretty relevant.

And that meme didn't really take off until it was about all kind of bad events, arguing that actually they were good things, and that's clearly not what's happening here.
Historically illiterate nonsense.
No, I didn't!

Before I came across that image (and the paper Linearized Transformers are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers) I very much did not understand transformers. I had spent at least 20 hours with Attention Is All You Need, and probably another dozen hours with https://e2eml.school/transformers.html and wasn't getting much of anywhere. I have no ML/AI background; just a typical undergraduate-CS-level familiarity with neural networks -- the basic stuff that hasn't changed since the 1990s. I do have some experience with linear algebra, but that isn't the hard part of any of this.

Frankly, most people who publish in this field go out of their way to obfuscate the key insights. Mediocre physicists (but not the truly brilliant ones) do the same thing. It's very annoying.
Kind of reminds me of that "Bro, I stole your code" - "It's not my code" meme.
I had no idea that Grml was still around. Thank you for bringing it back to my mind.
You actually made me check, both Bitcoin and Ethereum are holding up remarkably well after the interest rate increases.

Can anyone that follows cryptocurrencies confirm something? I have a suspicion than 99% of smaller cryptocurrencies have been wiped out, though.
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Google confirms the Pixel 8 series will get 7 years of spare parts
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Firstly, it's accurate. Secondly, no community should be beyond criticism, guidelines or not. Thirdly, I'll extrapolate on the comment because it hits hard for me.

I've seen a lot of dystopian capitalist thinking and reasoning on here over the years, particularly recently with self driving vehicles and ML regulation. A large proportion of users wish to get away with what the hell they like at whatever cost to society that may have as long as they get their VC funding. This peaked recently in a discussion about acceptable deaths in self driving vehicles, the comments of which made me seriously worry about my fellow citizens.

The article here is a peek into a scenario which has been proven to occur when that mindset is acceptable and normalised. I can see a VC backing a second source market of unregulated aircraft parts and the justification of the corners cut because quite frankly a lot of people have no idea what they are doing and don't care about the consequences as long as the cargo cult has good marketing.

This is backed up by some of the comments on this thread being a shit show. Perhaps the guidelines should regulate opinion a little better rather than comment brevity. Or HN ends up like X.

Notably you can tell how healthy a community is when someone signs up a throwaway account to make a comment reminding people of the rules.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37775459
Well yeah, in Australia cats are an invasive species and a danger to local wildlife, so the situation is a bit different than in other parts of the world.
But the bet was customers would buy Xeons with an FPGA block that would "do magic". What magic it would do and how you'd program it in a sane way was never specified in great detail. In any case for those that really want this it turns out you can put the FPGA on the end of a regular PCIe link and get all the same benefits.

Edit: By the way there is some niche research of the FPGA in core (which don't work if the FPGA is over PCIe). This paper describes a way to rearrange memory using a programmable FPGA-based memory controller to optimize database table accesses: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14349.pdf
> Why the moon, and what does that have to do with regular photovoltaic efficiency?

Presumably to produce energy at night and avoid the need for storage. Seems like a moonshot, though.
Godot and Unreal aren't really competing in a lot of areas. No one's going to make movies using Godot any time soon, for example. Unreal's rendering is just so far ahead of the pack.
Cicero, DeepMind's new AI can beat us at Diplomacy
LLMs answer what unfoundly self-convinend people answer when you ask them for diretion on the street.
Convincing, not necessarily correct.
They are trained on the “data highway“ mostly. A highway full of that type of people, so that behaviour was to be expected.
Call me evil however you want. But they could kill 1000x the amount of monkeys if the outcome is severly disabled humans regaining their life in some capacity. Worse is being done to animals for less useful things.
I’m convinced you don’t understand my words. Is English your second language?

136km is less than 16000km soo all the panels would fit there. That was my point????

The Australian one is spaced out because they have so much land they don’t care. So I still don’t get your point.

I think you are the one off by orders of magnitude, because you are confusing panel capacity with generation. Just to double check that, do you agree a single 400w panel generates conservatively 1800w/day ?

Yes we have installed enough panels to power the whole world many times over. But they aren’t connected… again that is my point.

There are HVDC cables in use all over the place. That tech is very much process out. Do you get what a 3GW line can do? It can deliver 72GWh in a day.

EDIT
I’ve realised rather belatedly you are just a troll. Apologise for the overfeed.
This could be something really interesting if it could create those kinds of time efficiencies for our business. Definitely worth checking into. Thanks.
this comment has to be satire?

Blender is 1000 times closer to intended usecases
But we aren't speaking for the entirety of Milano, were talking about that neighborhood

And your defence for that neighborhood seems to be "hey look the other neighborhood on it's side is not that bad"

So, yaeah.
Not apologizing or justifying the event with the monkeys, I've had to put down animals that have broken their hind legs, damaged intestines and been gnawed at by local dingo (or wild dog) populations. I _could_ have kept that sheep or cow alive, but the quality of life would be so low that it wouldn't be cruelty. There is a certain point where the compassionate thing is to terminate the life.

I imagine some researcher was in the very same position, they may not have been the cause, and they could save the animal but at that point its not going to have any life that isn't all torture for every day of the rest of its life.

I kind of envy people who have never had to make these kinds of choices. The fact that it was this bad from a lab procedure makes the situation even more saddening.
I'm surprised that HN is pretty much a single voice against Neuralink. How many chickens do you think it is ok to sacrifice to potentially help some paraplegic humans? How many monkeys? Is sacrificing a human life worth it? I mean surely depends on the probabilities involved, whether or not we can find some other path which is better at minimizing sufferring etc.

These are difficult questions, so I'm surprised people so quickly jump to an answer. And why focus on Neuralink. Here I found some animals usage report [1]. I'm too lazy to analyze it properly, but eyeballing it I don't think Neuralink datapoint is even meaningful. In 2017 75,000 monkeys were used in research [2]. It does not say for how many of these pain was minimized as [1] does, but ugh.. can somebody present a good case why Neuralink specifically is worth focusing on when discussing this issue? I'd also be happy to listen to good arguments for not experimenting on them at all, since it's not at all obvious to me. I've read Mama's last hug [3] and I understand why we may not want to, but at the same time, the trolley.

In my twisted mind we should probably be experimenting on humans more [4]. If after psychological evaluation somebody gives they full consent, moving science forward can be some way to live a meaningful life, if you think monkeys are very much like humans then with humans we can at least clearly communicate and better minimize suffering.

1. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalwelfare/SA_O...

2. https://www.science.org/content/article/record-number-monkey...

3. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/45894068

4. I'm sure Nazi Germany surely fires for some after such statement as it does for me, but they did not minimize suffering. We should. We should just allow people to take risk if they want to. We allow skydiving and trying to climb Mount Everest. Why not allow to take it with benefit to other humans.
The exact same problem exists with the channel that you acquire the public key you trust from. You’re still fundamentally trusting HTTPS to the package provider - you’re just trusting it at a different point.
I don't think a severe price hike would make that much sense for games.

The current setup of not paying anything until your product makes $1M (gross revenue) and then 5% is obviously way too generous and will get corrected. I could see 100k and 7%. But changing the licence model entirely to an ongoing, per seat model would create a barrier to entry. The indie/hobbyist segment is very large, and a lot of these people end up working on UE for someone else if their own project fails. Lots of UE devs on the market is what Epic wants. If you charge the indies/hobbyists, you will not get more money, these are tiny companies or individuals operating on close to zero budget.
Google translate said "will be required to". Therefore "Able to" in the headline here might mean "has legislative force to enable it" to "make it so"

What it doesn't mean is they have some magic pixie dust to detect VPN traffic irrespective of how it presents on the wire. It's still down to ACLs, BGP filtering and deep packet inspection. That's costly, and demands continual tuning.

One imagines it will get complicated and be a heuristic of whack a mole against patterns detected in flows, endpoint IPs and the cost of silicon and software.
The Complete BeautifulSoup Cheatsheet with Examples
But not with these cells? Not getting it :( Or why does (any) storage thing become only interesting then?
I would recommend to add something like "include x word in your application" somewhere in the text, so that only people paying attention will catch it. I have seen some job sites even offer this natively.
Apple considered buying Microsoft’s Bing to battle Google
Indeed it seems like replacing "hallucinate" with "confabulate" would improve understanding of the phenomenon in english, but it could cause a problem in Romance languages.

Indeed, the Latin verb "confabulor has the meaning of "discuss, converse" [0], not specifically "inventing things", and Romance languages already have words derived in sound and meaning from this classic Latin sense. For instance French already has "confabuler" meaning "speak familiarly with someone" [1]. Thus in Romance languages, this proposed usage of "confabulate" imported from the psychiatric word could be understood poorly due to preexisting similar-sounding words that do not include the notion of "making things up".

Just proposing thoughts here, not advocating for a final decision. Maybe it's still good to adopt this wording!

[0] : https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/confabulor#Latin
[1] : https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9C3479
Do you think people with IQ below 80 are not intelligent?
The Most Underrated Keynote I've Ever Seen
I worked in one, and currently work in another, company that makes such tracking tools and I can say that we keep track of a lot of things, from tobacco to the screws that hold the turbine blades. Everything is tracked.
My man you're completely off base here. No one is programming anything into neural networks and we have no idea how models like GPT-4 work at a high level.

The whole point of neural networks is that we don't know shit and we don't know shit about how to distill the mechanics of some very real, very important processes so we figured out a way to make the machine figure this out on its own.
Heck even crossing the street to get there was an unpleasant experience.
Regulation is there to make sure you don't do things that damage society or hurt people. If someone stomps on you, you're probably doing things to damage society or hurt people. Stop doing that.
This may be a bit forced, but you missed a golden opportunity to capitalize the "A" in that sentiment and accerate my reaction.
Except that's always said when something bad for Bitcoin happens. The analogue here would be to say "this is actallg good for Unreal", as it's definitely good for Godot that a competitor started charging.
Is it sold on Steam? On Itch/EGS? Any of the consoles? It's very easy to figure this out.
While not actually speeding things up, I wonder if it's possible to run a very small autocomplete model to guess what the next sentence ahead of time from the LLM on the client side. To at least keep the perceived latency low.

Thus if there is a delay, you still get the stream of text coming at a steady rate, but you may have to backtrack and correct for mispredictions.
Okay, you are evil. These are sentient beings, and the cold calculus here is the very nature of the banality of evil.
Opening the Camera app on iPhone is one of the most demanding tasks it can possibly do. Doing it and doing it fast means powering up the image sensor and its supporting hardware (ISP, ML hardware, etc.) and immediately terminating all non-essential tasks on the device so it can dedicate it to this.

If you don’t believe me, there are paths hardcoded in the kernel (I’m not joking: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapple-oss-distributions%2...) to very quickly reclaim memory for Camera to launch.
I'm nearly 30 and only got a credit card like a year ago. Before then, I used a debit card for everything and never had a problem with it. Granted I'm in the UK where debit cards are way more common, but I use plenty of online American tech services.
SoftBank’s Son Tells Japan: Adopt AI or Get Left Behind Again
There's No Such Thing as “Implicitly Atomic”
i’m genuinely curious about how you feel about killing insects in the name of academia and science. the same?
I feel your pain, but the accidental clipboard overwrite can be mitigated by using a clipboard manager. Every GNU/Linux DE installs one by default and you can access it via tray app or pressing Meta+v.

Turns out MS Windows has one, too, since Windows 10. Here you press the Windows Logo Key + v.
I believe we will build a functional net energy gain fusion reactor probably in the next decade if things go well (I’m rooting for SPARC), but we will still need to build an actual power plant (designed for long life, serviceability, improve efficiency based on what was learned before) and that will take a while. And then we need to build lots of them. And they will be very expensive.

Probably fusion power will not be cheaper than renewables inside of 50 years, because fusion power plants will simply be very expensive.

In the next 20 years we need to decarbonize as much as possible. Fusion sadly won’t have much of an impact for that.

But in 30 years when todays new renewables are at the end of their service life, we have an opportunity to replace them with fusion. That said, renewables will be that much cheaper in 30 years. I think for a while fusion will make the most sense for large industrial manufacturing operations that necessarily require large constant amounts of power.
My biggest takeaway from this article is the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) security framework: https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-verifier
That, and tracking goes all the way to the original manufacturer.

To make an undetectable forgery would require faking all documentation right up to the original manufacturer.
Same card, different stations, different limits.
I spent way too much time trying to make use of it with Halide and was not successful. Are you saying that this is now possible? I am the developer an app which would greatly benefit from it.
An alternative front end for Haskell?
Could this be used to create a nuclear power generator without moving parts? Some radioactive material in the center, some coating to absorb the radiation, and a shell of these cells to generate electricity.
Could it be a generic "vote curve" like Reddit does?

Seems unlikely since it tops out fairly quickly, but it still could be a "topical" soft like cap without specific manual targeting.
Nobody is unfortunately wrong. I know a few real life stories about young boys murdering cats in all sorts of weird and horrifying ways. Some kids are unbelievably cruel.
Cool patch in the top left. And non-disparagingly I found this charmingly old school in the bottom right: Regular website maintenance is scheduled for
Thursdays from 3-5pm Eastern Time, during
which time the website may be unavailable.
Those are the time people. There's also the Earth Rotation Service.[1] They track what the planet is doing. The Earth Orientation Center, in Frankfurt, Germany, tracks where the poles are pointed and the rotation speed. These are the people behind leap seconds.

It all comes down to 3 numbers.[2]

[1] https://www.iers.org/

[2] https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/DataProducts/tools/eop_of_today...
I filled a van with 2 rounds of $75 today. Could have squeezed in a bit more but it was already taking way too long so I left after 2 rounds.
Thanks for taking time to reply, I've learned a lot.
All right then. If we're going entry level, let's go entry level. That's the Kia Rio LX at $16450[0]. We'll select the column that says "wife not in paid labor force"[1] from the census statistics for 1950 since we're going with solo income so that's $3315.

Let's do the math:

- 2023: 16450/40480 is 40.6%

- 1950: 1386/3315 is 41.8%

Even if it were 42% to 57% that's nowhere near 2 cars comfortably then and not now. And that's not even counting that the Kia Rio is a futuristic marvel compared to the older vehicle.

This other business about the cars being more affordable seems like a total fiction.

0: https://www.kbb.com/kia/rio/

1: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1952/demographi...
As someone who has always been interested in getting into ham radio - do you have any pointers on where to start or what to avoid?
The A14 equivalent in 4 years is going to be faster than the current iPhone SE, not broken, and IMO more likely to survive the 3 years.
Imagica AI (no-code app creation) is in public beta
I think the main argument of this essay is that if you're an early stage company with no customers, it's not a bad thing to churn out features to see what sticks in the market because you don't have the luxury of customers to talk to. And that in this case, people might falsely complain that they are a "feature factory."

I feel like that's a bit different from what most people think of when they hear "feature factory." When I hear feature factory, I think of an engineering team that has zero input into the product process and just builds whatever PMs or leadership says is important.

In the case of an early startup with no customers, I think if engineering teams get no justification, aren't involved in talking with customers, they are completely within their rights to complain about feeling like a "feature factory." The right solve isn't to say "actually -- we have no customers, so shipping a bunch of stuff isn't feature factory mentality" but to actively engage the team in product discovery conversations with users.
The point of the article is that they don't communicate their professional interpretations of the data. They pick how they want people to act, and then say whatever sounds scientific that will yield that outcome. This seems to be a common pathology amongst academics. Put another way, they manipulate the public and then get upset when people stop trusting them, apparently unable to see the link between those two things.
Are you aware the the light reflected from moon to earth compare to direct sunlight is probably more than 4 or 5 order of magnitudes smaller?

This excludes any possibility for generating reasonable amounts of energy from moon light. There is a reason why it is much colder during the night.
There is a clear difference, but "extremely dramatic" is obviously hyperbole.

(I use 3.5 and 4, both in the chatgpt interface and via API.)
They can publish it as WIP/private/in-dev/not-entirely-pubic for 1 month on Itch/EGS/Steam, and then take it down after their client has seen it. Point being that it's not "very easy" to figure this out, as the individuals that want to skirt this rule will find a way that ticks the boxes but doesn't satisfy the intent.
Out of interest, if the above were proved to be true, could she theoretically bring a gender discrimination case -- even if the whole thing is a massive fraud which she was complicit to?
One of the most physical jobs I have ever taken as a student involved emptying a Warehouse full to the brim with Winnie the Pooh VHS tapes.

We had to put the things in boxes, then pallets, wrap the pallets in plastic, label them, and then someone would come with a machine and take them away. It was more than a week of dusk-to-dawn physical work, lost a lot of weight.

In my mind, turning Winnie the Pooh into an horror story makes a lot of sense.
What's your number then? How many monkeys would you trade for a person?
That is a pretty naiv assumption.
Just becomes interesting? I don't really know how to parse that. What is it if electricity can't be produced that way?

It's a total waste of time to use moonlight. It is a million times dimmer than sunlight.
Mechanical counterfeit parts absolutely make sense because the cost isn't in making a bolt a particular shape, it's in making sure all the steps in manufacture are consistent and up to standard.

Maybe most of the bolts are made of the right alloy and heat treated correctly, but you're using a crappy furnace with no temperature logging so you don't see that the furnace's temperature dips too low one morning...and you don't test as much of your runs because you cheap out on your QA staff, so you don't catch it.