skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the wrong predictions about climate change that the media has forgotten? I assume you're referring to mainstream media stuff, not fringe predictions.

Also I'm curious -- you seem to accept the planet is warming. Are you denying that CO2 from fossil fuels is the principal cause, or you accept that but just think it's pointless to do anything about it?

Or are you denying warming and/or the increase in atmospheric CO2 entirely?
It just shows the tension in improving efficiency. You can use the gain to do the same thing with lower cost. Or you can spend the same, and get more.

For most people, it seem we are psychologically disposed to use the improvement for more.
search results page isn't even responsive. Because I am using vertical tabs I need to scroll sideways..
Even very expensive linear supplies will have Vpp of a few millivolts or microvolts "ripple". Vpp is voltage peak to peak, which you wouldn't expect on a DC device, but there you go.

i didn't read the article and i don't know the expertise of the author, but depending on the type of antenna you use, you may have to choke literally every wire in the "shack", KB/mouse, power, speakers, ethernet, etc. Although, funny enough, this is for the inverse case - the radio messing with the computer!

I wonder if an RF choke (AKA a 1:1 Current Balun) directly attached to the UHF port on the back of the radio would help in this circumstance - the feedline is probably coupling with the USB cable!
The fingerprint sensors on the 6 and newer are terrible and massive downgrades in every way from previous models. Is there any indication that the 8 is moving to ultrasonic as rumored?
Are there some examples(prompts) that Falcon 180B is performing better than Llama 70B?
The solution is so obvious!

1. Lift plane up real high with helicopters
2. Start up engines
3. Detach
4. Either fly home or ride to Valhalla

/s
I like the idea of putting the exercises in and seeing muscle coverage, that's really cool!

The biggest hurdle for weightlifting for me is the data entry. I usually just have a set routine I go through, and recording weight and achieved reps is what I need to do. I tried the generate feature here, and was presented with a very complex interface that I wasn't sure would streamline my weightlifting experience. I don't feel like I struggle with determining how much weight to lift each time; I just keep it simple: similar weight as last time but maybe increase by a single increment on the last few sets.
I won't be moving off of the Pixel 5a until the hardware breaks. Fingerprint sensor on the back and the camera notch all the way to the left are so good. With the case on the phone, my finger naturally lands on the sensor when I pick it up and it unlocks lightning fast. I don't understand why we can't have fingerprint sensors on the back anymore :-(
where can one buy a bag of ferrites?
I recommend the paper: Do Artifacts Have Politics. You can find it for free online if you search the title. It’s a classic HCI paper. Even if you disagree with everything I write, it’s worth reading.

The paper asks the question (that you asserted). Essentially: divorced from creator or user intent, can an artifact (or technology) influence how it is used (its politics)?

They make very compelling arguments that, yes, the mere existence of a technology (regardless of how people chose to use it) shapes and influences us.

So while you might be technically correct, that it’s up to the individual: the larger system (and by extension the technology) does in fact influence us.

It’s like the saying that the law applies equally because it prohibits both paupers and princes from stealing bread. It’s technically true, but it (intentionally, to prove a point) misses the point: that the system is set up so no prince would need to steal bread.

In Code 2.0 (Laurence Lessig, creator of the Creative Commons) makes a point to say that a variety of things influence our behavior: markets, norms, laws, and architecture.

New technology falls under “architecture” in this categorization. Technology will exert itself on your behavior and give you new choices, but those choices cannot be divorced from the other legs: laws, norms, and markets.
That also runs on Linux.
Well, this has been claimed often, namely by some of the people who have developed statistical language models [1] but it's really not obvious how that should work. Where would a language model find the world model? Where would it store it? And why would it even need it?

Obviously I don't know how the human linguistic ability works but it's clear that for us, text, words, language, isn't carrying around with it a representation of the entire world. So where would a language model find it in its training text?

For example if I say "I sat by the sea today", there's no representation of the sea in the word "sea", rather, the representation is inside my head and yours, and the word "sea" is only used to point to that representation [2]. Why would it ever be possible to derive the representation just from the pointer? Like I say, it's really not obvious and I don't think anyone has given a convincing explanation - it's usually words all the way down when people try. In any case, it seems that humans had most of the capabilities conferred by a world model (which we share with other animals) before we had language (which we do not - share with other animals), so it seems likely that a world model must be developed first, before linguistic ability can be built on top of it. But that's a conjecture, of course.

I guess maybe, in principle, it should be possible to treat all of human cognition as some kind of hidden (latent) variable and then train a model to represent it only from its expression in text, but we don't really have any kind of modelling technique with that power. That would be a truly omnipotent model. So powerful, indeed, that it wouldn't need to do that in the first place- it would already be a kind of machine god.

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[1] e.g. I believe Tomáš Mikolov, one of the creators of word2vec, has claimed something like that but I'm not sure if I have a source for my own claim; more recently Ilya Sutskever, of OpenAI, has said words to that effect- I have a link somewhere I think, if you are curious.

[2] That's obvious because the word "sea" doesn't mean anything to someone who doesn't know English, but they'll probably have a word for the sea in their language, so they'll have the concept, without needing a specific word for it.
I dunno. The guy that's freebasing copium sounds more convincing. Sorry.
I think the lease thing is more to avoid dealing with any maintenance issues as well as the wear and tear on a less than new car. It’s not to get the newest tech or style all the time AFAIK.
I started electronics as a youngster with the Dick Smith's "Fun Way into Electronics" sets which were really great. They came with a board you could screw into to link components, etc and general introduction to everything involved.

Internet archive has the books themselves archived: https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...
Can their salaries, and productivity, be compared with Finland though?

My point was, Finland is doing several different things, most of which may now be done cheaper elsewhere.
A Critical Examination of the Ethics of AI-Mediated Peer Review
Assembly is not bytecode! V8 already has bytecode for the web. WASM is meant to run faster and more efficient computations.
Couldn't you seamlessly replace one number domain with another to keep the precision up?

E.g. remap: 1e-7 to 9e-7, to numbers 1 to 9?
If you violently displace entire peoples from their land and food supply, and then they die "nonviolently" of poverty/disease a short time later, you are still to blame. That's clearly ethnic cleansing, even if it may fall short of genocide.
> > A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant.

> Minor point: Unless that act is criminalized or mad illegal or otherwise inaccessible.

Who is trying to make condoms illegal?
I feel it's a decade since I was excited about a new phone. Now I just copy over my settings and app, and act a bit disgruntled for a week that things are slightly different.
I don't put my phone in a case and don't understand why people do. Dropping your phone is a rare event, not a serious risk.
I think you're getting constant feedback on it because that's the way almost all versions of Poker are played.

Aces _can_ be low in the case of an A-1-2-3-4 straight, but they can almost always be high as well, and almost always beat K.

Having aces always be low/never be high is super uncommon (it may not even exist in Poker, but I can't say for certain).
Show HN: Open-Sourced Launchpad(NextJs+ReactJS)
Hey friends,
Product Hunt seems to turn into a place where best marketing wins, not the best product.

Also nobody knows how do they count the votes.
We've built open source clone of Product Hunt just for dev tools.

You can use the code to launch any kind of launchpad yourself too.

Let me know if you need help setting it up
Hit my up on twitter @johnrushx
Pretty detailed and creative write-up, but my first thought was “how would it have worked with a 20000mAh battery ?” - admittedly a cludge, but could be much simpler..
This has been going on before crypto. Between 2007-2015 some very wealthy Russians laundered more than €200 billion from Russia to tax havens around the world using Danske Bank's branch in Estonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s...
And you blame Apple instead of the 87% of the market that can’t come up with better ideas and set “trends”? Including little companies like Google and Samsung?

It really seems to infuriate geeks that normal people don’t have their same priorities.

Out of the literally dozens of Android manufacturers, if that was something people wanted, wouldn’t someone make it?
> Honestly the most appealing thing for me is the seven years of software support

Yup. I've been clinging to my Pixel 4, but it hasn't gotten security updates in a year, which I'm not particularly comfortable with (been lucky so far, knock on wood). I might pick up the Pixel 8 (not Pro, god that thing is huge) mainly due to the support lifetime. And it does seem like their non-Pro releases are actually decreasing in physical size for the past few years. Still a couple/few mm larger than the Pixel 4, but that's doable, I think.
From reading the next sentences, I doubt the officer did anything beyond adjust the direction to keep it more stationary by the oppositional force of their vehicle.

Given adequate highways, rotaries and traffic going faster, one can drive indefinitely without breaking, so while there's always a question of whether a notable incident is a stunt of some sort by someone who actually knew how to stop, etc, I don't see anything unlikely about the outcome.
An improved camera can't be something applied in software, a faster chip can't be applied in software. So by your own standard every version is warranted.
So, that's not what I meant then. That kill switch as listed above works by releasing the current that holds a relay that keeps the mains power connected, break the loop and it will take a lot of doing to get it back up again. There is no 'logic' involved, no electronics and there are no semiconductor bits & pieces in a typical e-stop chain (at least: there wasn't when I was working on stuff like that), just a plain electromechanical device. The only way in which it could theoretically malfunction is if the contactors of the mains relay had fused.
we used the on-demand debugger when creating our sdk extended by lombok and found it very helpful. we also built an IDE plugin that lets you call a Java function directly, without having to expose an http end point, check us here: unlogged.io

Disclaimer: I am the founder at unlogged.
Except the kind of people "saving time" writing in a dynamic language will skip the step of writing tests as well since it can be viewed as lost time.
I disagree that it is reasonable to expect students to follow your suggested process. The instructor is being ridiculous here.

For one thing, one AI “detector” will not necessarily return the same result as another.
> These very high end spec phones are running pretty hot.

This was actually a widespread software issue, triggered by some apps. I've seen it happening in a last year iPhone 14 running Instagram.

So I would say that it is an iOS 17 issue, more than a hardware issue.
That's just not how Software is done in this century, like it or not. Please update your software regularly.
> After all, if you can’t buy it, you’re not depriving the creator of revenue.

Once the copyright for most media stopped being owned by artists and started being owned by corporations there was a lot of value in keeping artistic works locked up by copyright and legally inaccessible to the pubic.

Mostly, it means that companies don't have to worry about old things competing for the time/attention of the people they want spending money on their new things. It also lets them amass huge catalogues of out of print media that can be sold or traded.

It's just one more way that our modern copyright system has been corrupted to work against its original goals, all so that corporations with vast fortunes can get even richer by robbing us of our own culture.
Why does anyone spend 1k on a phone..
No, but that has the disadvantage of being C compiled into Go, then being compiled into native executable.

I'm actually surprised by how readable this came out; props to the Go->C compiler author. But you can guess that pushing this sort of thing through the Go compiler is going to cause some slowdowns due to sheer paradigm mismatch: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/blob/master/lib/sqlite_lin...
The problem is that if a Canadian wishes to make a podcast the biggest platforms may be closed to them because of onerous regulation they've opted out of.

That's bad.
You may need to be more specific than that.

Svante Paabo, director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, won the Nobel Prize last year. He's also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. But I don't think that's what you mean.

Louise Glück was an adjunct professor in the Yale English Department when she was awarded her Nobel Prize. https://news.yale.edu/2020/10/08/louise-gluck-awarded-2020-n...
"vote with your wallet" is a common expression in American English. Your correction is misplaced.
There are a lot of ways to translate, for example using people who actually have the job of translating languages. There are places that will connect you to one. There are many ways to do this, and theyre not "type it in and burn the energy of 100 suns to get a wrong but confident result"
https://blog.desmos.com/articles/beta-3d-release/
Thank you for the shout-out Frank!
I assume the plan is to become more efficient over time to the point of being profitable. This is a very common pattern even in software. Basically they are dumping product using VC money.
> Is there any high-level description of the downstream changes in ferrocene:

The list of relevant changes to the compiler is the empty set. We wanted to certify the compiler without forking it or restricting the supported language features.

We do build and test some targets to a higher tier level than upstream rust and do have support for custom proprietary targets which the rust project will never support (1), but that makes for a tiny change set. (Measured in literally tens of lines).

Most of Ferrocene is the LTS support and the qualification documentation, both of which upstream has no interest in providing. The documentation also describes our QA process and unless you’ll adopt our procedures, you’ll have to adjust the documentation and then re-certify.

(1) to a large extend because the rust project cannot sign an NDA and support proprietary hardware in its CI.
Doesn’t change the fact that Google’s supported lifetime was shit
The Samsung Galaxy S5 from 2014 had a removable battery, headphone jack, a microSD card slot, and was IP67 dust/water resistant. We lost removable batteries because it was an easy way to make devices obsolete.

IMO smartphones peaked around that era, and we've only seen incremental improvements and enshittification ever since. I used to be excited about every new device, but these days all manufacturers are grasping at straws trying to differentiate their rectangular slabs from the competition. AI is the latest gimmick in this trend.
Btw such move instructions I visualize here with the amazing rerun.io https://sebosp.github.io/swarmy/public/0.5.1/2023-GSL-S1-RO1...
Aren't the best sanction-busting tools the Russians have things named "Rupee" and "Yuan"? Possibly even "gold".

The situation isn't clear yet, but it looks like the biggest problems with sanctions is that China is an advanced manufacturer that isn't part of NATO. Everyone outside of NATO seems to be calm enough about the war.
I tend to agree - search, and particularly search-for-humans, is really a team sport - meaning, very rarely do you have a single search algo operating in isolation. You have multiple passes, you filter results through business logic.

Having said that, I think pgvector has a chance for less scale-intense needs - embedding as a column in your existing DB and a join away from your other models is where you want search.

I don’t get why you’d want to bolt RBAC onto these new vector dbs, unless it’s because they’ve caused this problem in the first place…
> When was the last time you changed your mail id?

In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.
Vespa was the internal code name for the project going back to 2005ish, vertical search platform.
Sorry - I can clarify a little. If it complies with regulations, Apple is definitely not at fault.

I was just replying to the above comment which could read “a little noise from a single device isn’t a big deal.”

It is definitely up to regulators to decide what is acceptable, and up to Apple to meet those regulations. It’s still a little unclear from the OP whether or not the spurious emissions meet transmission requirements, but it definitely a good place to do further lab tests for compliance.
Isn't domain knowledge lost when we don't regularly build and release things?

Isn't this why we're struggling to build nuclear in some countries because they weren't building it regularly, and now it's difficult to scale, let alone build new ones?

I understand that it's wasteful, but maybe it's necessary to sustain itself? Especially from a feedback perspective from consumers?
I actually updated my post about the same time you wrote this response; I was just considering free-space path loss, which is not where most of the loss is in typical ham scenarios. Most of the 5W in the case you described is getting lost in a terrible compromise antenna, then due to line of sight effects (assuming that the user is not standing on a hill or something) and multipath.
I mean ... if you think about it, attention changes the effective weights of a model.

I am fairly certain that if you try, you can show that for any particular sequence of tokens of length N, the N-1 tokens induce a residual FFNN that results in exactly the same distribution over the next tokens given just the Nth.
All my notifications are turned off except voice calls (including on whatsapp and telegram) because I want to be woken up if there's a family emergency.

Though how I am able to use the phone this way is not cool at all. I realized a long time ago that I am checking the phone all the time anyway and there's no way I would miss anything.
I work in HPC infra, so I know some stuff about how these network are trained, but more from a technical perspective, i.e. stuff like "how to set up MPI for a cluster of X nodes" or how to configure GPU drivers. I know basic stuff about how models are trained from another perspective too -- since I work with researchers, and my wife being an RSE who usually works with healthcare related research I'm also exposed to a lot of side effects of using neural network styled AI in practice.

I don't claim to have a good knowledge of the ins and outs of the particular trend of the day though. I wouldn't be able to tell what the difference is between "deep learning" and "reinforcement learning", not with any authority or confidence. I did take two courses on AI though, long before the neural-network approach was a thing. I.e. my AI learning experience was focused on search algorithms, building knowledge bases etc.

So, here, based on my experience of practical applications of LLMs, I can comment on things you wrote:

> Plus there is a ton of work to now combine LLMs with their excellent language abilities to more formal systems based on rules

Tons of publications doesn't mean this is a solved problem. As it stands now, there's a serious doubt this is a problem that can be solved. I have not seen any real system working in the world of medicine which would use LLMs for anything that can be encoded as rules. If anything, I've heard a lot about failures to implement anything remotely similar to this (which happened outside of academic medicine, or somehow slept through the cracks). I.e. chatbots suggesting suicide to people in distress, or suggesting to cut on carbs to young women struggling with anorexia and so on.

> the ability to handle language, that previous approaches were all extremely bad at

Well, now it's my turn to point fingers. You probably don't know much about previous approaches, and don't understand the problem well. It's true that since the term AI was coined substantial efforts went into understanding natural languages. But what came out of this work is a disillusionment, the understanding that natural languages suck at encoding knowledge and as such are a bad tool for building ontologies, or call them knowledge bases. So, it wasn't because older methods failed to parse language well. It was because we realized that there's no point in being good at it. It's a cute gimmick, if you can do it, and can be useful in harmless situations, like enabling rich interactions between NPCs and PCs in video games. But, if your goal is to understand how to make good decisions, it's more of an obstacle really.

Like I said previously, but you seem to have ignored: yes, neural networks are useful, but not in the way a lot of people understand intelligence, or, at least, they fail to address the central and the critical questions about intelligence. Compounded by dishonest advertisement of their abilities and armies of low-quality practitioners this approach has a tendency to alienate people who are interested in more fundamental questions about the nature of intelligence.
> While it would have been ideal to get all the data in MARC & as many other formats as possible, I wonder how true this is worldwide - many libraries don't use MARC or have a digital catalog at all. Maybe there are some ways the data could be processed that make it easier to integrate into such places, but of course local needs/desires will vary widely.

Indeed, MARC is not universal (and for that matter, it wouldn't surprise me if at this point the majority of records in Worldcat were _not_ derived from MARC sources), and there are certainly non-MARC library catalog platforms out there. That said, as the growth of Koha shows, for better or worse MARC has become a close to a global baseline for a lot of libraries.
os for containers need to be small. eg Alpine Linux: the tiny os underneath a ton of docker containers has been downloaded > 1 billion times. But the website for miniOS seems to have design in mind which is at odds with this use case. Alpine's website is bland and unexciting - which appeals to me ;).
Exactly. Divergence is immediate and you wasted your high waiting for something to happen, only to discover that replay was generated by another game version. There was no youtube at the time and downloading replays was the only option and the good players weren't exactly thrilled to share them.
There are several options from Amazon, try searching for "Clip-on Ferrite Ring".