skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, sorry, I view code creation as easier than other things.

Then we will get nowhere, as it's trivially easy to stump even above averagely intelligent people with problems revolving around reasoning about code.

To me you've then set the bar at a level the vast majority of people can't meet and that's utterly absurd.

And code is just formalised language.
Sorry, should have clarified. The lens in particular that made me rethink everything else I had was a 70-200mm f/2.8L. Zooms in particular often suffer from sharpness and chromatic aberration issues compared to a prime due to the larger number of optics. This lens did not. I’m sure a comparable prime stuck next to it would still show it up, but coming from kit zoom lenses, it was quite a shocking difference.

The static aperture also helps tremendously of course, yes - nice bokeh with a tight zoom means you can easily get candid portraits that look great from anywhere in the room.
Returning to the office is 'wildly more expensive' today than in 2019
Imagine the tattoos
From Treasury Vault to the Manhattan Project (2011)
So weird. Malabaric is Tamil in this book, which makes no sense. Malayalam with Tamil tinge was more common in southern Kerala but even there the Malayalam would be distinct from Tamil.
There are important differences between how humans and LLM's think though - one stark difference is that LLM's can almost always "realize" when they are hallucinating, and recover without aversion. Humans on the other hand often simply cannot recover (on some topics, never), and even hallucinate even more strongly when they are notified of the problem.

I will be surprised if we are not studying this phenomenon within 5 years.
This was written at a time when the borders were closed to most of the outside world, so perhaps that is why.
It's only a matter of time until they publish a "newly discovered work" of a famous author that's just an AI forgery. Hasn't it happened yet?
https://xkcd.com/2347/ had been true for many years before, and has been true for many years since it was published.

Sometimes the "Don't fix it if it ain't broken" principle is interpreted as "don't support it until breaks", and leads to nasty surprises.
When I read this through 25 years ago I learned more about networking than I think I knew in total up until that point, and that was nearing the end of an A level (English further education) Computing course. It's a really comprehensive guide that laid it out exactly the way I needed it for me to absorb it. I still recommend it to people that might be new to network programming as the sockets API really doesn't change that much whether you're using C or Python or some other language.
You can configure the Linux network stack to include packet loss and latency using tc.

Not sure about other os.

https://www.pico.net/kb/how-can-i-simulate-delayed-and-dropp...
Well, except that log (as well as almost every other format : "gamma" refers to the exponent of a power function !) is the opposite of raw : raw is focused on fidelity to the number of photons, log and others on fidelity to how the (human) eye reacts to these photons :

https://prolost.com/blog/rawvslog/
That is great analogy.

It does seem like a lot of arguments on AI, are people watching a robot walk, and then arguing what 'walking' is, 'that isn't real walking', 'human walking is different'.

Anyway, I think the reason there is such push back, and arguing against AI that it isn't really 'thinking', 'reasoning', 'conscious'. Is from the more religiosity side, that believe humans must be special, they are unique. If Humans are no longer unique, then their entire world view falls apart. There is a lot of cross pollination today between AI and Neuroscience. If we can pick apart the human, and figure out how it works, turn a human into an engineering problem, then were is god?

And, a subjective opinion, I think a lot of people arguing against AI 'thinking' are also people that haven't done a lot of self reflection on their own thinking processes. They are still more 'reacting', and not noticing how their own thoughts arise.
Drinking and obesity
Replication someone else's reasoning isn't reasoning. Otherwise, a book would "reason".

And, yes, most humans fail to reason properly a lot of the time. Any simple probability puzzle shows that.
+1 for GNS3. I used it to mimic my home network (MikroTik gear) and test out VLAN configs. Great tool, quick to learn, easy to use, works flawlessly on Linux!
There is no reason you should be exposed to volatile compounds from a normal parked rental truck. I would have asked for another truck or avoided U-Haul altogether.
I suppose a modern gas or oil burner doesn't need one. But this sort of solar based heater as well as ground-source heat pumps typically would need it. They are not very expensive however, as they are just heat-insulated tanks of water. Of course space requirements and such might rule out adding one in many cases.
That really doesn't look half as good as Spacedrive or any other one of the hundreds of browser based UIs we see thrown around. Just ok.
Cost of living is lower, no state income tax. What were the perceived negatives?
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."

Schopenhauer
How did Facebook facilitate a genocide? Did they provide material support? Did they make an editorial decision to stoke genocidal messages? It doesn't appear any of that is the case. It appears Facebook was used as a tool of communication by people who wanted to commit a genocide. These people also used Android and Windows (and countless other products), which technically also could censor speech in their products. Why aren't you saying they should be put on trial too?

Is your argument that Facebook as a whole is specifically engineered to incite tribal violence, and so should be banned on the same basis as radar scanners? Because in that case I think you have an argument to make which isn't completely incoherent.
Should the majority of us continue to bear the risks of memory unsafe code because of a small minority that uses exotic architectures or doesn't want to install a new compiler?
what a pun
Because of resume-padding minority (i hope) of security researchers, that aim to hang new pair of antlers over their fireplace at any cost, this is automatically primed to blow up.

sec-bro: i have comed upon dark web that your softwere disply passw if press F5 enough. it is criticl and being activly exploted. please bounty

you have no time to test, debug, or anything, really (it is a holiday) so the attending security gnome simply fwd this to devs and cc upper gnome, that fwd it to authorities.

authorities: we issue massive security risk warning!

imagine the level of competence and common sense needed at all stages of this chain to avoid these kinds of herd runs.
I pay (voluntarily) for social media in the form of sending regular donations to a certain Mastodon instance.

What I expect in return: Reasonable moderation, i.e. don’t allow nazis, basically.

I also “expect” (wish for) reasonable uptime, and in practice it works very well in that regard too.
> HS2 is a good example. Spending that much while not maintaining the (unreliable ) existing lines is pointless.

I don't believe there ever was a solid business case for HS2, but Adonis gave it the green light and no-one since was brave enough to pull the plug.

"The project itself goes back to 1982, when a group of managers from the nationalised British Rail visited the new TGV railway in France. They returned boggle-eyed at the sight of a train racing at 270kmph (150mph) down its own track, crossing France, from Paris to Lyon, in two hours. Among the visitors was a 35-year-old civil engineer, Jim Steer. He was captivated by speed and, as he told me recently, dismayed by the conviction of his colleagues that “in Britain we would never be allowed to do it”. As with Concorde, Steer understood that the idea of speed could arouse politicians and open purse strings to projects that might otherwise get nowhere. It was speed that had persuaded such prestige-sensitive governments as Japan and France to build new railways.

Steer was to be one of three men – the others were a rail-obsessed peer and a chancellor of the exchequer – who kept the dream of high-speed rail alive over the next three decades. Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave. A natural buccaneer, he proved adept at winning consultancy contracts anywhere there was a glimmer of interest in fast trains. “Jim was like a terrier,” a contemporary told me. “His name popped up at the foot of reports, inquiries and surveys, wherever the words high-speed rail occurred.”"

"It is the most extravagant infrastructure project in British history – but
nobody can say why we need it. How did HS2 ever get so far?"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/hs2-the-zomb...

"The controversial campaign to build a high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham was dealt a blow on Tuesday when an independent report questioned the business case for the £32bn scheme."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/21/business-case-hs2...

"In 2010, when a high-speed rail line from London to the north – HS2 – was proposed by the outgoing Labour government, I wrote an article arguing that the numbers didn’t add up. The environmental benefits had been inflated by a series of blatant accounting tricks and concocted figures. What the government called the “business case” for the scheme was in fact a cost-benefit analysis, in which the supposed economic benefits had been amplified by outright assaults on common sense. The case for HS2 always was a baggage train of bullshit."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/28/hs2-fi...
I mean he promotes anti-semitic things himself.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/09/elon-musk-an...

So it is doubtful he is going to try to stop any hate speech.
Great idea in theory until you want to change the presentation and now have to recompile 3̵7̵8̵4̵3̵1̵0̵5 (37843314) items :)
Maybe similar to the (alleged) reason cakemixes require you to add an egg: it makes it feel more like you baked it yourself if you have to do more than just add water and put it in the oven.

Maybe users feel like they ‘touched up’ their photo if they tap the magic wand button.
N = 1, but I’ve been taking 1700mg of metformin (in two split doses of 850mg) for five years.

I was able to get the prescription from my doctor by presenting evidence and the rationale and design for the TAME trial.

He was comfortable with this due to the strong safety history of the drug. Insurance covers it (though it’s very cheap anyway) and I pay nothing out of pocket. I live in Canada and also have private insurance through work.

I had some gastrointestinal issues initially, but they weren’t serious, and my body adapted fairly quickly as they want away. I tried taking metformin while doing an 18:6 intermittent fast and gastrointestinal symptoms returned, so I won’t be doing that again.

There is some debate about the benefits and risks of metformin, but so far I haven’t experienced negative side effects of concern to me. I’ve had various tests over the past five years—blood, urine, body composition, etc.

As for the TAME trial, while there have been positive developments, I’m now doubtful it will ever actually run. I have a prediction market on Manifold right now that shows a 25% chance it will be listed on clinicaltrials.gov by the end of the year.

I’m not trying to promote the market (the main benefit to me is more market participants hopefully means better forecasting), but if anyone’s interested, it’s here: https://manifold.markets/SimonSmith/will-the-targeting-aging...
injector antilag systems were around in the 80s, they are very hard on the turbos and manifolds however.
Looks like that project was named in 2005, well before the widespread understanding of tracking cookies or cryptomining.
Intuition for Cryptography
A main advantage of trees is that keys are ordered. Data structures in this post are not. In this case, an open addressing hash table will be smaller and times faster. If rehashing is a concern, a standard AVL or red-black tree is still the preferred choice.
Open source S3 bucket scanner for secrets and assets
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
– Edsger W. Dijkstra

I often see this quote used seemingly as an argument against AI.

But it's just playing with words.

Yeah, lets say that what a submarine does is 'swimming', it beats the hell out of a human swimming.

So how is that a comfort?
As always, Buffett said it best, "By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investor can actually out-perform most investment professionals."

More here: https://monevator.com/warren-buffett-passive-investing
you can manually set the optimizations (and order of optimizations) you want. -O3 ist just a predefined set of optimizations.
> The transfer functions in your (rec.709) color space is non-linear indeed. However, the pixel values you store are in a linear relationship with each other. The difference between values 20 and 21 are the same as the difference between values 120 and 121, assuming an 8bit signal. I.e., the information is the same for all pixels.

Difference on what scale? ... because (hint hint) it's not number of photons that hit the sensor. Nor is it photons emitted from the display.

The truth is, it's a linear measure of the voltage which drives the electron beam of a CRT. Not a very useful measure anymore, but we've encoded this response curve into all of our images and, now, this is proving to be a mistake.

Working with images would be so much easier if we stored values that represent linear light (i.e. proportional to photons entering/leaving a device) with no device curves baked in. Log formats do this, but because the order of magnitude of light is more important than the absolute value, it takes the log of the value. It's a more efficient use of bits in the storage / transmission.
Tom also builds military grade subwoofers.

He had a hand the design of the BassTech 7 servo drive subs as well. Their not being made anymore as I think they went out of business 20 years ago or so. All the reports I've read about those indicated that those subs were a pinnacle of rock concert audio technology and were devastatingly loud, lol.

Once BassTech folded, he worked with an online forum known as the Live Audio Board (LAB) to open source the design and replace the servo based driver with a conventional voice coil and cone driver.

The resultant design became known as the LAB Sub. A friend of mine built 12 of these beasts ~ 45x45x22 inches and let me tell you, they were amazing performers, that you could build yourself for around $500 (at the time).

Mr. Danley truly is a treasure to audio engineering and loudspeaker design.
You do get flooding and at least residual hurricanes in New England. e.g. [1] Depends where your house is of course. Some properties are probably pretty well-situated; others much less so.

Just about a month ago the city next door to me in MA got a freak foot of rain which caused some serious flooding. I had to pump water out of my basement for the first time in years.

Very few places are immune to at least local natural disasters of various types and some of those, like the Vegas area have their own long-term issues.

[1] https://www.weather.gov/media/btv/events/1927Flood.pdf
For myself at least there is less mental load shooting film compared to digital. I am not taking multiple shots of the same thing generally and I don't develop the film myself. Historically the two things I did not like about digital was too many photos to review and having to work on each photo at home. There is something about not having the choice of which shot to pick and how to adjust the colors that is nice.

I have been interested in some of the micro 4/3 cameras that have prebuilt filters in them but I think film for me is king if I have a camera.
Often translations suck (one often can't machine translate because context is needed), so I'd say more than often people prefer the English language apps even though the rest of their OS is in a native language.
* generated audio that would summarize what had happened since last I logged in. Perhaps more details on family and close friends, and less on acquaintances.

* maybe along same lines, a dashboard with summarized text version of updates. Updates that we should respond to. Etc.

* automatic muting or removal of political, religious, news posts. Basically, anything that is not personal, just don’t show it.

* everyone is verified. No bots or scammers should be able to get through. If everybody is paying then maybe easy to keep scammers and bots out.
Formalised stuff might favor probabilistic approaches - that was my point.

Anyway, I think "intelligence" and "reasoning" or not always the same to start with.

Why is setting bar high absurd? It is the same way I demand my pocket calculator to be so much better than humans at calculating things.
That doesn't matter for the client through. As long as the data can come in a single small file, for example the <3KB HTML file for the tab I'm writing this on, what the server is doing doesn't matter.
Does 'tc' fit your need? its a simple solution to that sort of need:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc.8.html
Show HN: Netflix for AI-Generated Videos
Applying significant force or effort to achieve a narrow definition of success will have unhappy consequences. Understand the entire system before rushing toward a solution.
No, you misunderstood what parents are for.

Patents only cover the non obvious details to do some very specific thing. They aren’t CAD drawings with every detail specified, so you may be able to make a windshield wiper from one but it wouldn’t be a drop in replacement for a specific vehicle’s windshield wiper, in fact multiple different designs can all fall under the same patent.

The existence of multiple MP3 related patents makes it clear it’s not simply implementing a single idea. So you may be able to make a similar compression algorithm, but it wouldn’t be MP3.
> Otherwise some troll will demand data be deleted for another person.

Would that be a bad thing, though? I don’t personally value what these sites do and can’t imagine a healthy person who does. It could be better for everyone to do away with them
Compiling Composable Reactivity
Do any of those natively support mobile?
Why Node.js makes me uncomfortable
I've always programmed with php for the web and during that time I've never needed to download packages (like npm) and update them. When I needed a specific function, like sending emails, uploading files or making my application drier, I just had to look at the documentation and implement it. But with node.js it doesn't work like that, and that bothers me. If I'm wrong, please correct me
its not the running of them thats uneconomical, is the added infrastructure and component cost.
... and that is installed on billions on devices. I can imagine you quickly get very specific conditions here and there when something is deployed at that scale.
Yeah, physics, as I understand it. When the wavelength is greater than the distance between your ears directionality is lost.
On Cloud you could look at the AWS Fault Injection Simulator. This example is in the context of EKS but you could use it for EC2.

"AWS Fault Injection Simulator supports chaos engineering experiments on Amazon EKS Pods" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-fault-injection-...
Wonder if that could be?

Could there be a new wave of adding speelling errors, grammer errors, to prove you aren't GPT?
Towards a unified theory of reactive UI
Ah, right-- Django
Exactly my point in the article.
the things unrelated to the job are things they can then say are related to moral character and make you a better hire overall.

Also any prior arrest record - DUI for example - can affect your permissions to work on projects with high security clearances and thus a factor that might not be relevant to small shop would at any rate be potentially relevant to large corporations who are the ones getting government contracts that require high security clearances.
I see it available on alldaychemist.com - a site that ships from India for those with a more DIY approach to medicine. I've used them sometimes but I do wonder about the quality, though I assume they're sourcing from the same generic drug makers as everyone else. I can say that the beta blockers I've bought from them certainly have the desired effects at least.
Pretty much every land owner
Yes, obviously it should be possible to find each other, but Facebook have for instance always had a focus on connecting with a lot of people that you hardly know, just for the sake of connecting and giving some PM's really good KPI's. I don't need to follow along in my parents neighbors daughter in laws major life events, it's just noise at that point.
Privacy is probably the biggest realistic expectation for a paid service. Have correct privacy defaults. Don't make the privacy settings confusing. Don't sell user data. Don't insert or use tracking information.

I think companies + commerce can have a big role to play on some hypothetical paid social media, but there should be a clear separation between interaction with friends/family and any interaction with businesses.
AMD to acquire AI software startup as it seeks to catch up with Nvidia
I know Spanish and Portuguese have AsiHablamos[1] and Dicionário inFormal[2], respectively. I'd love to know if any other languages have their own slang dictionaries.

[1]: https://www.asihablamos.com/

[2]: https://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/
> The price doesn't seem unreasonable to me for a turnkey complete package, since I don't have the skills or tools to make this myself.

I have the skills and tools to build this myself. Based on some napkin math, materials and labor comes out to around $500 give or take. If GP knew anything at all about developing and selling physical goods, they’d know that the price is about right. Etsy charges non-trivial fees, payment processors charge fees, marketing costs money, wear and tear on tools, taxes, insurance, warranty, customer support, fraud, etc etc etc
I switched to veganism (mostly of the McDougall variety) and lost 10lbs quickly. In my case, weight loss wasn’t the goal as much as blood pressure, and a few other health benefits. My dad is also on it, and is down to his post-basic-training weight.

Within three weeks, I went from having the highest blood pressure of my adult life to having the lowest.

It’s pretty hard to gain weight on his diet. I’ve done it once before (when I was much younger and more active), and I had to eat almost 2x my normal portion sizes to maintain weight.
Yeah I write CUDA kernels for my own projects as well. There won't be a shift if someone launches something that is 10% better, but if someone launches something that is twice the performance for the same price the companies with huge GPU-bills will pay to port those kernels pretty fast.

The kernels I wrote I hand-optimized using Nsight for a specific usecase, and sure they saved me like 200% compared to pure pyTorch and it took a few days, but when your company spends $10M for a single training run, you have quite many of "my days" to spend if another HW platform would save you $5M (but you need to have the calendar time as well to spend, which is another factor in this space that moves crazily fast).

If/when the field stabilizes a bit people will start looking at that bottom line I think but right now everybody just "has" to get those H100 cards before someone else gets them I guess...