skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
makes sense. did you have in mind something like makecode[0], something else, or wishing for something that hadn't been invented yet?

[0] https://makecode.adafruit.com/
When have the smartest and hardest workers ever been the richest?
There are other ways to burn resources.

We could, for example, release a lot of carbon dioxide and then capture it again.
Super Mario Galaxy 1 was part of the 'Mario 3D All stars' pack for Switch.
It's hard to take a case for illegal copying serious if you start with incorrect examples.

I'm convinced that as long as people want those games they will be made available eventually, but probably not on the timeline you want. I think some kind of 'continued availability' provision in copyright law would be more realistic than an appeal to resort to piracy.
From his description,

>"You can watch the incredibly popular lecture series "Personality and Its Transformations", "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief", as well as his "The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories" lectures for free."

I won't pretend I ever watched more than a few minutes of any of this stuff, but isn't it a bunch of inane rambling about finding deep psychological meaning or universal truths in fairy tails? Nonsense along the lines of "Slimey the worm from sesame street represents the dragon, the great primordial evil which the warrior, the eternal hero, must slay to conqueror his fears..."

It's the kind of analysis that right/conservative people with 'pragmatic/common sense' self-perceived alignments would usually mock college professors for, except in Peterson's case it gets lapped up because he mixes it in with things like "communism is bad because it murdered millions of people" and "If you're feeling depressed you should try not living like a slob"
It's through my therapist. It uses this book:

https://www.guilford.com/books/DBT-Skills-Training-Manual/Ma...

I guess you can find a cheaper version online.

What I like about it is that it asks you to wonder if the way you do things is effective at getting you what you want. And then it shows you many skills that you can simply memorize at first that help you navigate situations either in your mind or with others.

For me, this also has been coupled with the acceptance and commitment therapy book "the happiness trap". And it's really changing my life for the better.

It's not that I have a bad life. I have a great job, a beautiful gf, a nice flat, etc. It's more that these skills help my internal experience. It is teaching me how to cope with reality in a healthy way. Because there's not anything really bad about my life. It's all this dumb internal struggle that would all be much better if I simply put it aside and went for a ride on my bicycle.
It says gpt3.5-turbo has 20B parameters, which I believe. But it says gpt3.5 (text-davinci-003) has 175B parameters, which I also believe.
I'm not faulting the selfish position, simply pointing out the game is rigged for everyone except outliers (like yourself or the ultra wealthy). These are just facts, not feelings, when you review the data about who has sufficient cashflow for inflows into investments during accumulation phases as well as their current and potential future investment exposure to these asset classes.

Congrats on the luck (no snark, honestly). But let us not extrapolate luck and personal anecdotes to solutions for systems. "In God We Trust, all others must bring data", working backwards from first principles, etc.
More like geohashing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohashing

https://geohashing.site/

https://xkcd.com/426/
It’s in a proto-sharada script, which it seems can be dated to earlier than 5th century.

There’s no consensus on dating of the Bakhshali manuscript however: https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fc-2018-06
I'm not following your reasoning

Regardless of whether and how much private equity is affecting growth in prices of stocks for public companies, the S&P in which people's 401ks are invested has grown a lot, and will probably continue to

Low balances in 401k's are therefore due to insufficient contributions and not insufficient growth in S&P prices
> i am hearing is that the PE uses more capital, but produces a cheaper, more efficient service.

You have to understand what "more efficient" means. It really means "it's shit and only getting worse, but isn't bad enough to abandon the service entirely". It starts with a corresponding price drop, and you either get a race to the bottom, or the competition gives up early, at which point the quality continues to go down the drain, but the price stays the same, as the provider pockets the difference.
> This suggests to me that the ad people have some influence on the decisions the Chrome team makes, but the two teams clearly have very different goals in mind.

Yes, they have different goals, but you're downplaying the amount of influence from ads that this incident suggests—when the org was forced to choose between keeping a feature that was shown to serve users or scrapping it to make the ads team happy, they scrapped it.

In the end it matters very little what the Chrome team would prefer if the corporation consistently overrules them.
Our focus was on latency. The reason we were able to cut it down was due to the fact that eBPF-based automatic instrumentation separates the recording from the processing.
Is this common in python to declare local variables as fake parameters? The downside is obvious: it clutters the function interface with red herrings. What is the upside?
The problem is the PE company comes in and buys basically every vet clinic or nursing home in a city, undercutting the independents. Once the independents retire, shut down, or eventually sell, then the enshittification happens.

This has been a major problem in smaller communities where there is essentially no choice in services anymore.
Shining a light in the dark: Measuring global internet shutdowns
How Google and academic researchers track, measure and share data on internet shutdowns around the world.
This is a tool you might like

https://mirinae.io/
Generative AI Sparks Talk of Profit, Not Fun from Tech Companies
On iPhone, I'm using Google Photo as my primary photo backup.

Anyone would have a good solution to backup iPhone/iOS files/photos to any cloud (s3, blazer, nas, etc..), NAS, or computer that just work?
> Apple should know better than to use its weight to tear the flesh off of small players in new markets

...but that's where the profits are. Apple, like Walmart and big-hair rock bands back in the day, thrive by throwing its weight around and taking advantage of small-time suppliers (or groupies) who'd do anything to get a shot at the bug leagues - including shouldering disproportionate risks for an illusory union used to string them along.
7k-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia
The rk3588 and rk3588s both support hardware H264/HEVC encoding @ 8k30fps, as well as hardware HEVC/VP9 decoding @ 8k60fps, H264 decoding @ 8k30fps, AV1 decoding @ 4k60fps.
I think geohash droid was based on this comic:
https://xkcd.com/426/
Last time I tried to encode a video from H.264 to HEVC (hw-accelerated) on Linux it was such a pain to get to work that I eventually gave up and simply accepted the performance hit. I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna recompile ffmpeg so that it works on my machine. Considering that most RPi-users probably use a Linux-based OS this is IMHO a sensible decision.
>Also, disturbingly, its “board manager” seemed to be offering to “install” board support, suggesting it would download “stuff” from the internet and run it. That wouldn’t be acceptable for my main laptop.

I have some bad news about what apt does...
"requirements that the most advanced A.I. products be tested to assure they cannot be used to produce weapons"

In the information age, AI is the weapon. This can even apply to things like weaponizing economics. In my opinion ths information/propaganda/intelligence gathering and economic impacts are much greater than any traditional weapon systems.
> despite maximum contributions

The people with insufficient 401k balances aren't making the max. They're doing the minimum, starting too late, or selecting the most conservative investments such as bond funds (NAVs have collapsed) or cash. Many plans don't have good low cost index funds, so people are forced into actively managed funds some of which are complete garbage in terms of fees and returns.

Workers living paycheck to paycheck (61% of the population, see https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/31/61percent-of-americans-live-...) means that contributions aren't realistic for millions of people.

Further, a lot of people don't understand how they work, and never contribute, even if they could. Even with matching contributions. Or, they don't trust them after the 2008 collapse or a vague suspicion that the system is rigged against them. This is what I hear from my spouse; many of her colleagues won't touch the solid 401k investments offered by their employer.

Some employers have made changes that makes it easier to get started, but many never will, assuming (wrongly) that social security is their retirement solution.

Your predictions about older workers working longer is correct. You can see it now, seniors working at grocery stores into their 70s and even older.
VC isn't a panacea and doesn't operate in a vacuum. If you raise the cost of going public and staying public, then that makes VC funding or going private more attractive. The VC funding may come with terms that are not expected by public company investors.

But VC-backed companies is only one part of the private equity trend.

The other part that is discussed is small owner-operated or partnership firms getting bought up by bigger ones. Here again, if the government increases regulations, then that tends to fall more strongly on small businesses than bigger businesses.
I've always assumed that's the version of toss being used here
Resolving a year-long ClickHouse lock contention
Tools for me, but not thee.
>I have learned a lot about this in the zoo with my daughter. Adults become extremely uncomfortable when the children find the human-like behavior of apes funny. Adults just want to go away.

Can you provide an example? I don't disagree, I just don't know if you're talking about bullying or what.
The rk3588 and rk3588s (i.e. orange pi 5) both support hardware H264/HEVC encoding @ 8k30fps, as well as hardware HEVC/VP9 decoding @ 8k60fps, H264 decoding @ 8k30fps, AV1 decoding @ 4k60fps.
Are you sure you're looking at the same article linked from this post? I'm seeing "October 30, 2023" at the top and "Monday, October 30, 2023" at the end.
> We evaluate CodeFusion on the task of natural language to code generation for Bash, Python, and Microsoft Excel conditional formatting (CF) rules.

Microsoft Excel conditional formatting, really? The future we want is one in which that abomination has died out, not one in which it is thriving.
And how long were each of these stops? How frequently did you stop? Were they never occupied? It's one thing to take a leisurely road trip with lots of time for sightseeing, no rush to get anywhere. It's a whole different experience, for example, when you land in some city to go to someone's wedding or a national park and you're stuck at a charger for an hour or more and end up late to your destination, or maybe you make it initially but don't have the range to get back. There are a million potential problems and just because YOU once did a long chill road trip where you weren't watching the clock or had to be somewhere at a specific time, hardly makes the problem "moot."

And when the rental car springs a surprise EV on you, you don't get to pick the brand.
I was downvoted 35 days ago, for daring to state that deepfakes will lead to AI being regulated.

Of course “these are just recommendations”, but we’re getting there.
What's wrong with Ebay ? It seems to be the choice for a lot of "people". /s
'The Toys “R” Us Bankruptcy and Private Equity':

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...

* https://archive.ph/OH9QF
The other even cheaper boards even had AES acceleration for years
"Living pharmacies" could mean you never forget to take your meds again
I'd certainly agree that "the modern dating scene" is dismal, but the average bar does not produce anything I would qualify as "high-quality interaction".
Any chance you may have come across something that disolves/breaks-up fibrin? In the event you went down to the granular level in your analysis and strategy.
The praise for the public market in this article is a little disingenuous. Yes it has some nice properties but it's also a mess:
1. Algorithmic trading and the rules by which the big organizations play in the market make it rough for both companies and individuals
2. Margin trading seems to be making company stoke prices way more volatile
3. Overall corporations constant need to appease the shareholders (aka maximize profits) by law causes them to act like sociopaths at times.
Is anyone working on/want to work on alternative internet tools/platforms?
Also on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/papers/2310.17680

> We evaluate CodeFusion on the task of natural language to code generation for Bash, Python, and Microsoft Excel conditional formatting (CF) rules.

Microsoft Excel conditional formatting, really? The future we want is one in which that abomination has died out, not one in which it is thriving.
It has always been my understanding that the near extermination of the American buffalo never had to do with over hunting.
Every bit of industry during that era was centered around westward expansion. The biggest deterrent to expansion was the presence of American Indians (literally in the form of attack or sabotage of the transcontinental railroad construction, or psychological discouragement of settlers).

There’s no delicate way to put it: exterminating buffalo was the safest, most cost-effective way to mitigate the American Indian threat against westward expansion.
Since American Indian tribes weren’t agriculturally equipped to sustain themselves, especially through winters, reduction of buffalo along the overland expansion routes practically guaranteed the reduction of attacks against settlers and railroad workers.

Hiring people to shoot buffalo was orders of magnitude easier and cheaper (and safer) than hiring and maintaining an army to fight Indians.

Plus a Buffalo heards natural response to threat is either to run, or form a tight circle (you could say _that_ adaptation never counted on the invention of gunpowder).

All that is to say, extinction of the buffalo was not the consequence of insatiable bloodlust for killing animals, as much as it was an objective in order to achieve unencumbered expansion and sustain the economic machine that was fueling it.
> the entire Arduino ecosystem is, to put it bluntly, a huge mess due to its scrappy nature

It's less scrappy in my experience that a lot of the tools "aimed at professionals". (I guess "aimed at professionals" in the embedded space approximately means "no documentation".) I think the fact that you don't have to spend 50% of your time fighting the tools is a big reason for the popularity of the Arduino exosystem. It's just nice to have an IDE that's not so proprietary and stuck in the 90s as to crash every ten minutes (which they try to make you use for whatever vendor lock-in or similar reasons)
Yes and no. While some of the off-the-shelf drones can do damage to military equipment right now, militaries will always adapt to the threat, just as they have for thousands of years.

The thing to always bear in mind is scale: slightly less-advanced tech, but 100x as much of it, is probably still better.

Part of me wonders if the (relatively) small scale of current military engagements is skewing the discussion. Bret Deveraux[1] mentions that WW2 saw millions of tons of explosives being dropped on London and Berlin. Even last winter, Russia didn't come close to matching the destruction of the Blitz.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
The patent system has to be reformed completely in any case. If you're an innovative company, no matter the size, you have to file as many claims as possible so that you have counter patents to throw at your opponent, which makes the problem with patents worse for everyone because of the low-quality noise. If you're a small company, you have to be really diligent in your patent search because the risk of getting sued by legitimate patent holders or patent trolls is very high, made worse by the fact that the US system allows trivial software patents. If you're any kind of inventor, you have to either file a patent and risk that China will just outright steal your invention, or you do not file a patent in the hope it will take the competition long enough to reverse engineer and bring to market.
That sounds like a procedural issue, which it doesn’t sound like this order addresses.
Errr. The current is not the future. And the article's title is *the future* of warfare.

What's also sadly funny is that everyone here is already assuming warfare is a given in the future.
Earlier on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38067314

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
The upside is that if you wanted a different "iter", "a" or "b", you could just specify it in the arguments.
For private equity to take a publicly traded company private, they've got to pay more for it than the public market values it at.

For example, in 2016 Softbank was able to buy ARM for US$32 billion, but that was only possible because the stock market priced it below US$32 billion.
Doing what's morally responsible in spite of everyone else is a losers game these days.
Fortunately, these regulations don't seem too extreme. I hope it stays at this point and doesn't escalate to regulations that severely impact the development of AI technology.

Many people spend time talking about the lives that may be lost if we don't act to slow the progress of AI tech. There are just as many reasons to fear the lives lost if we do slow down the progress of AI tech (drug cures, scientific breakthroughs, etc).
they never imagined DJI hardware shooting at something no https://www.robomaster.com/en-US

and they definitely arent supplying PLA https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/us-blacklists-chinas-dji-drone...
I've seen a lot of lamentation about PE eating the world, but very few people discuss *why* PE got so huge.

PE is popular for one reason and one reason only: taxes. PE generally makes money on a trade called a leveraged buyout (LBO), where they take out a massive loan to buy a company. Because interest on debt is tax-deductible, going debt-heavy increases the take-home profits of the company (this is called a "tax shield"). Because the profits are higher, the value of the company is higher, and the PE firm makes money on their trade.

What this means in practice is that if you run your company sustainably (low debt, lots of assets). You become a target for a PE firm to attempt a hostile takeover of the company, all while claiming (defensibly, actually) to be doing whats in the best interest of the shareholders. So good companies will try to ward off these attacks by taking on lots of debt and going asset light to minimize the value gain a PE firm might have.

In short, both PE ownership and the brittle, debt-heavy nature of the American economy today can be traced to the tax advantaged nature of debt. For reasons I can't quite understand, nobody seems to be advocating for revoking this tax deduction. I can only surmise this is because everyone hates taxes.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, your take home exam is a short essay on what you think the mortgage interest tax deduction (started in 1913) did to household debt.
Andrew Ng argues against government regulation that will make it difficult for smaller companies and startups to compete against the tech giants.

I am all in favor of stronger privacy and data reuse regulation, but not AI regulation.
You're normally a lot more coherent than you have been in this thread, so… are you feeling alright? Getting enough sleep?

> The light emitted by the screen is being 'sorted' as it is scanned out, the heat air by the fan is being 'sorted' as it swirls around, etc.

This reads like either you're trolling, or that was written by an LLM, or English isn't your native language, or don't know what 'sorting' is, or you don't know what screens and fans do.

It's so fundamentally wrong I was actually tempted to get ChatGPT to respond to it, but that would be a bit mean and add little.

You're better than this. What's wrong?
Western Digital to spin off flash business
If the government increases regulations, then it tends to place a bigger burden on small businesses than big businesses for the same reasons you highlighted about overhead.
> Could we construct a neutral net from nodes with more complex behaviour?

Well there's spiking neural networks (SNN)[1], which are modeled more closely to how neurons actually work.

Main obstacle is still, as far as I know, that there's no way to train a SSN as efficiently as a "regular" neural network, which lends itself very nicely to gradient descent and similar[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313413/
This is over-hyped. Professionals who want out will overwhelmingly figure out how to save more, regardless of whether their investment returns are 5% or 9%. Most people are working for much more than a paycheck (though I believe they often fail to realize that), and stop working for far more varied reasons than achieving financial independence or a fully vested retirement plan.

Sure, this will move some people at the margins, but most people will stop working from physical or mental frailty, to move across the country to be with grandchildren, or to preserve their limited energy to do things that they find more compelling than work. To the extent that they need to, they'll find lower-cost ways to live, probably including down-sizing, living with their adult children, renting rooms, or other informal arrangements within their communities.
> How will that happen when there has been so much growth in the S&P?

If you invested in an index fund, you will get very close to the S&P 500/Russell 3000/Whilshire 5000/etc.

If you invested in an actively managed fund, then the fund manager takes their cut, but also probably tries to be 'too clever' and doesn't get as good returns as a plain index, and so you're not getting as high returns.
I got a metal box with HDMI and an ethernet ports which encodes the HDMI video + audio and serves/publishes H.264 RTMP/TS segments. My intended use case was actually working with Pi's on live streams, installing fresh systems and the like where encoding might not be available anyway.

I couldn't find the one online but it looks like there are a few out there. Side note/tangent, the Pi3 was powerful enough to transcode 720p down to lower resolutions in real time.
Hardly frustrated! Believe it or not, I do change my opinions and perspectives when I find that warranted, but my view of the world is not lazily arrived at, and to see a need to change it requires an argument I find even on reflection I can't answer.

HN is one of the most reliable sources of those that I know, and developing a thread in this way is one of the more reliable methods I know to improve my odds of eliciting one. Luckily for me, I have enough of a prickly, disputatious streak in my own nature to appreciate the process quite as much as the result.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What's to Come
Britain to push ahead with rules for cryptoassets
Also many retail investors are passive, relying on ETFs.

This means private companies take all the profits, and when there is sign of trouble, can dump their stock to the stock market, get it bundled into an ETF, and a passive retail investor will buy some through their monthly contributes to a popular ETF.