skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The included py_autotype.py takes forever, but nothing outputs in the qemu vm as it is running.

Keep in mind, nothing SHOULD output while it's running, until you get to the very end and there's a 'hello world' printed.

This being said, the autotype's lethargy severely irks me. But I couldn't make it go faster, as pyautogui kept tripping up. If someone finds a better way (i.e. a way that isn't my first random thought), it will be much appreciated.
I like the first person walkthrough through a supercomputer in a beautiful building
I just looked up a typical gas turbine plant. The US Energy Information Administration (what is that, PR for the DOE?) thinks that a 'typical' gas turbine plant is 600MW. The DOE says nuclear plants clock in around 1GW, but is that single reactor or a four reactor core system?

I feel like most of this is barking up the wrong tree though. If you're trying to get people to use a new power plant type, you may be looking at small cities and large towns. At which point you might be comparing your situation to how much power you can get from the nearest metropolis via high tension power lines, and how much more secure your winter power supply would be if you didn't rely on those lines working.

And a cursory search suggests those can vary from 40MW to just under 600.

So can you sell Geneseo a 50 MW reactor/solar/wind farm?
While I can imagine such a scenario, and there is a resting area with coffee and food in many datacenters... You weight the same when you get into the cage with coffee in your belly, and when you are getting out because it percolated to your bladder.
Having said that, I've seen some places where the security measures are placed due to a listed requirement, but miss the point that they have.
Finally, data is definitely THE most valuable good, but also confidential hardware, that fits in your pocket!
edit: saw a typo!
2500 fewer units, no affordable housing, but more profits for builders and higher taxes for the citizenry because utilities/roads can't be sustained. If that's the YIMBY position, they might as well just say they're funded by builders like the rest of the city council has been for 50 years, which got us where we are.

I give the YIMBYs more credit in that they actually want something good for the place they live. I talked to them at planning meetings. They just aren't always successful and don't often have the best plans.
Thanks for writing this up
Would it be reasonable to expect a comment like this to be prefaced by something like, "I have extensive knowledge of ISPs worldwide and ..."
"likely" and "eventually" are doing a lot of work for you here.
For anyone else who immediately thought, "I've gotta try that!" and hit compilation errors: there appears to be a more maintained fork at [0].

And if you're on a 64-bit system, you'll want to make sure it finds the 32-bit libc and libm binaries (see [1]). On Arch, the following worked for me:

./build/movcc -L/usr/lib32 test.c

[0]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

[1]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/issues/39
When someone has made an honest mistake, exposing that is not a source of conflict. The conflict only arises when the "mistake" wasn't honest, but rather the person was being dishonest about their goals from the start.
Honestly I dont even think humans are that good at it sometimes.

Anyway, I should get back in the kitchen. I have vegetables to chop.
it's not DNS - there's no mobile network at all.
Well.. The trees are actually turning H2O and CO2 into carbohydrates which are a lot like hydrocarbons in that they can be an energy carrier (propane/sugars/starches) or a structural material (polyethylene/cellulose/lignin)

It's been proposed that you could sequester carbon by making plastic pellets and burying them, for instance. (For that matter you can partially burn the trees to make a carbon-rich "biochar" which is one of the most powerful soil amendments known.)

People who just want to take carbon waste from an industrial process or the atmosphere and just "make it disappear" are mostly happy to concentrate the CO2 and then pump it underground and not have to do the "work" of converting low energy CO2 into some other product. From a material handling perspective you can pipe the supercritical fuel 200 miles away without loaders and dump trucks and trains and similar hassles.

I think though there is an "e-fuels" market in that someone is going to want to have fossil fuel independent chemistry: for instance the U.S. Navy would love to use nuclear electricity to make aircraft fuel on an aircraft carrier so that the carrier never needs to slow down to take on fuel. With a sufficiently high carbon tax, for instance, e-Fuels could be cheaper to end users than fossil fuels.

I think it's an interesting technology for space exploitation in that the factory of a space colony has to produce all sort of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and similar organic compounds to support biology and technology.

Some asteroids contain huge amounts of "coal" and carbonates and also water and silicates and it would need some system to turn the coal into organic chemicals (like 20 billion kg of Kapton plastic film for solar sails, sun shades, stuff like that) They would never dispose of waste CO2 because it so precious and certainly they have a system that recycles the carbon... One of those solar reactors would be perfect for always shining sun out there.
Right skills, right person, right role
Honestly surprised that none of these conversations have yet pointed out that Apple was one of the first large businesses to publicly engage in "dogfooding" with their February 1980 decision to purge all typewriters from their offices in favor of their own computers, and that this event nearly 34 years later continues the tradition of eating their own dog food quite successfully.
https://archive.ph/qeOjT
I agree it's common and not underhanded. But it's not always smart business.

Most commercial tenants are still resonsibile for maintenance, which is the primary ongoing expertise.

It can be a useful way to free up capital, but only useful if it's used to expand the business and deliver a greater return.

Too often it's used to artificially increase the share price or pay out dividend. In these cases the company commits to never ending rent payments for no actual benefit.

There are whole bunch of businesses who have bucked this MBA trend, kept their freeholds and have ended up with a more resilient business better able to weather a change of economic circumstances.
> In socialist countries, workers form the ruling class

So you're one of those people who claim that USSR wasn't a socialist let alone a communist country?
It has been instructive to experience banking in the Netherlands after living in the USA most of my life. Transferring money to any other IBAN number, even large sums? Ridiculously easy, and available immediately in the recipient’s account.

Transferring large sums between the US and my Dutch account? Wise.com makes this much simpler, but its not easy. I can use ACH transactions, but that is limited to 20k at a time. Wire transfers provide a way, but my US bank limits daily transfers initiated online to a pretty small amount (good to combat fraud, inconvenient if buying a house). I can travel to the US and initiate the transfer in person, but you may recall that travel was difficult in 2020.

I had to send a paper form, with proof of identity provided by a Dutch notary (more like a paralegal than a US notary, to a central office for the bank in the US. Maybe this is ok? It’s not like I need to do it very often.

I do hope FedNow makes the usual European experience more common in the US.
I don't have to reboot my router or modem. I just have an a script that changes the MAC and releases and renews or rather gets an IP address via DHCP. My ISP is slow at handing out an IP address out as it takes several minutes, but it is automated. When the same operation is done for an IP on the LAN, it is a second or or two to get a new IP address.
I figure the main reason to get a new IP address is so that web sites can't track one by IP. If carrier grade NAT is used, then is there a point in changing one's IP?
If one does not use any peer to peer, then it seems that carrier grade NAT should lower the cost of one's internet service and that should be preferred. If one needs anonymity for bittorrent or other peer to peer, then shouldn't a VPN or i2p be used? I got the impression that i2p might be slow.
You realize they are using drones that you or I can buy on amazon, to blow up tanks and people in an ongoing war?

> The logic was simple, Pharmacist says: Exploding drones cost roughly $400 to make, while a conventional projectile can cost nearly 10 times as much. Even if it requires multiple drones to take out a tank — and sometimes it does — it is still worth it.

> But first they had to modify commercial drones with hardware and software to suit the battlefield, enabling them to penetrate deeper behind enemy lines without being detected or jammed. A breakthrough came through the clever use of several drones in unison.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-ukraine-soldiers-use-...

Cell phone w/ 5G and a time investment from a software engineer could make the range limitless. The point is, it's entirely possible to remotely drone strike using shit from amazon if one were so inclined.
Eliminating deserts doesn't make cravings go away for me. I feel hungry (or a weird similar feeling) until I eat something sweet, no matter how much I eat of a main course.

But I tried the potato diet and my cravings were gone. For two weeks it was trivial to keep, but then social aspects intervened and I gave it up.
Yeah the rest of it can be chalked up as narcissistic business personality, but this? This is psychotic. A billionaire chewing on scotch tape.
By move I mean permanently in a new position. I agree while it's being flexed the text is going to get distorted, but flexing it back would mostly move those fibers back. If they always kept sliding forward, you'd pull all the fibers out after flexing it a few times. They're mostly going back to where they were when you flex the cable back.

I've written on braided ropes before with markers and they're still very legible despite being used a lot. Make a mark on a shoelace and flex it a bit. Does the line become completely messed up?
Browserling now has the Brave Browser
Apple Puts Freeze on Software Updates to Fix Bugs [video]
Apple made a big deal about the switching-mode power supply that was used in the Apple ][ computers, although this author thinks that they were over-hyping their contributions to the technology a bit.

http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...
> Every little thing in that photo is incomprehensibly large.

And that's just a small portion of what we can perceive, as humans. It's mindblowing; daily concerns are so trivial in comparison. It's so sad we can't see the night sky clearly anymore, that must have been fantastic, especially with an understanding of what those little specks of light are. Probably more fulfilling than watching screens.
billions

super pumped

person of interest
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Part of the problem is a bank training you on recognizing that they have countless silly obscure rules for their own purposes - for example in what your password may be and how messages to their employees might be (mine limits the messages to be very short - no space to explain anything.) So you are quickly trained to make do with the silly rules. I.E. multiple ACH over several days and move on with your life... Or in the case of messages, I just continue my explanation in multiple messages.

Either way, the bank has trained the customer to work around limits. They can't have it both ways.
Snowden was _trapped_ in Russia. He was on his way to a country with no extradition and his passport was revoked, it's worth looking up to know that he didn't chose Russia.
It does affect some consumers, without valve and proton, I would probably not be playing many games.
Gleam is awesome
yeah, fair enough
Bret Devereaux had an interesting analysis of this effect[0], mostly in relation to Hezbollah (but also pertaining to the other Israel-oppositional militant groups in the region): They have to walk a balance of looking like they are involving themselves (to keep their supporters happy) but not committing themselves (so that they don't get directly targeted by a very well-funded opponent). They very much want to be the chicken in the ham-and-egg sandwich.

To the direct point, hitting a city from 1000 miles away would demand quite a lot of precision (to be clear, this article at least doesn't say they were on target, but even hitting Israeli territory from Yemen is on par with hitting New Jersey from Cuba). On the other hand, Russia is targeting specific installations and infrastructure, which is an entirely different feat.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2023/10/27/fireside-friday-october-27-202...
There are a few on YouTube already if you want to check them out. And for an old Golf that's probably even easier. EVWest and others probably already have a drop in kit for those.
> It really boggles my mind that this works on anyone.

I’m wondering whether you have to live through in world of plenty during formative years before you have that realization.
Some surveys conflict with your personal observations

"In fact, according to a recent Deloitte survey, members of Gen Z fall for these scams and get hacked far more frequently than their grandparents do."

https://www.vox.com/technology/23882304/gen-z-vs-boomers-sca...
Biblos 2.0 – Enhanced Semantic Bible Search with Instructor Embeddings
I'm pleased to present an update to Biblos, a semantic search tool designed for in-depth Bible study. This release incorporates community suggestions and introduces instructor-large embeddings to enhance the precision of verse retrieval.

Biblos aims to facilitate a deeper exploration of biblical texts, offering nuanced search capabilities for those delving into themes or seeking interpretations of theological nuances. The updated version is now available for use at https://biblos.app/

Technical Insights:

- Utilizes Chroma for vector search, now powered by instructor-large embeddings for improved semantic accuracy.

- Features Anthropic's Claude LLM model to generate summaries that provide context and clarity for search results.

- Developed with a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, the app offers a streamlined user experience through a Streamlit Web UI, all orchestrated with Python.

Feel free to review or fork the source code here: https://github.com/dssjon/biblos

Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping this update, and I look forward to your thoughts on the enhancements.
type /start
Very true. Writing a compiler that works on correct code is often trivial. It’s not much harder than a minimal lisp or forth.

However, figuring out errors, adding type checking, etc now that’s hard.
"A Chemical Hunger" has multiple inaccuracies that have never been addressed or corrected. For example, they made up the "fact" that wild animals have been getting fatter out of thin air. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-get...
Ford is so stupid. Is it no wonder America has lost its competitive edge with blue collar workers driving $100k Ford Raptor trucks?
(the problem with these ideas is that they make you responsible for knowing all these things - which ideally is what you pay the bank for.)
He's the guy that tips at grocery stores.
UPRO[0] is highly leveraged(3x), and regularly loses money. It's down over 14% this month alone. It's a 3rd party taking your money and doing incredibly risky things with it. I don't think you are trying to argue UPRO can't exist, because it has since 2009 and nobody cares.

I think what you mean to say is, You can't take other people's money and promise no risk, and then go risk it. I.e. you can't lie to the investor, you have to tell them the truth as you know it.

SBF clearly didn't do that, he promised his customers, your money is safe like a bank. And then took that money and did ridiculously risky things with it.

If his customers are lucky, since some of those incredibly risky things actually paid off, they may not end up actually losing money when it's all said and done, which is pretty awesome for them.

0: https://www.proshares.com/our-etfs/leveraged-and-inverse/upr...
Another aspect of this kind of system is that it favours visible over invisible jobs. The people working their asses off in the technology sewer might literally keep everything running, but because they are:

A) underfunded and understaffed

B) have no time and energy for niceties

all those in more comfy positions might be inclined to vote against them, while they probably don't vote at all because they got no time for that shit.

As you said, if you let a pidgeon vote on how good your chess moves were you will get pidgeon shit on a chessboard. A costly form of bureaucratic performance art, sans the art.
As long as you don't call it a claw/gripper. /s
Yeah, I've got a 2016 Tacoma TRD OR Access Cab (6' box, tiny back seat with suicide doors) and it has been absolutely fabulous. The little back seats are big enough for my nephews or my dogs... not so much our wives when we went on a couples' hiking trip.
Yes it does. I took the oral version and it's incredible. I basically immediately stopped being hungry and achieved a large calorie deficit with ease.
The source is the article? That’s rather one of the points of the article.
Defaulting on the debt would be an erasure of an entire political party nearly overnight. There is only one party that even attempts to hold the country hostage via debt ceiling tactics, and they are incredibly beholden to their corporate masters who would go absolutely nuclear on them should they actually follow through with that threat.
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>I guess the problem there is pretty fundamental

yes absolutely, you can't have both realism and snappy response times.
I don't find your "if people wanted it, it would happen" argument very convincing, nor do I understand how the situations you describe in your second and third paragraphs are (a) different from each other and (b) different from what I'm arguing is undemocratic. As far as I can tell it seems that we agree that different interest groups have different capabilities for manifesting their political preferences in local government. Is there an actual difference between our viewpoints? Like are you arguing that people don't actually want more housing? Or are we just quibbling over semantics?
The point is that this is just blatantly wrong.

>Asking a token prediction model to do math is like asking a human to do math without doing the math. What's 9 times 9? I can tell you it's 81 from sheer memorization. I can probably invoke 9 x 9 + 1 = 82 without needing to do any calculation either. But if you ask me 32 * 64, that's very difficult to do without doing calculations. Implicitly doing math is not sensible.

It's not about memorization. It's trivial to test on instances that would not appear in training and see GPT-4 be better than a human who would attempt the problem without a tool or pad.

The biggest problem with LLM arithmetic is tokenization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989

Other than that, the algorithms it uses for arithmetic will continue to converge during training until it is correct.
Ah, I guess that makes sense. “rust” comes from the PIE word for red via German, and “ruby” comes from the same PIE word for red via Latin. So it makes sense that the Latin word for “rust” would be similar to the Latin word for “red” :)
I'm working on classical simulation of quantum computers using tensor networks. Basically trying to push the frontier of quantum advantage / supremacy from the classical side.

BSC is fun due to its interdisciplinarity. I do quantum and HPC, but I have friends working on iron deposition on the seas (i.e. climate change), nuclear fusion simulations of a tokamak, large scale scientific visualization, protein folding and synthesis, ...

The European Chips Act is also coordinated from there so there is a ton of people working on hardware design (specifically RISC-V).
Really? It occurred in multiple food packagers, suggesting a supply problem. Do you know how many American suppliers make cinnamon domestically? I believe that number is very close to zero.
> Robert Bork would be shocked to hear you say that.

I think that's the first time I’ve heard a hypothetical negative response by Bork invoked as if it constitute an argument against the position supposed to trigger that hypothetical response.
We're not talking about "grow a few percent a year, combined with price increases, to combat inflation." We're talking about "grow massively in a way that makes the founders of the company rich."

That's what I am unconcerned about. Being so concerned about attaining wealth that you sacrifice the value of what you already have in a misguided attempt to do so is the naive thing.
> unscrupulous

Exploitation for profit, expansion, and longevity is how capitalism works and as long as it is the system currently used, none of these actions are a surprise.

Change capitalism and we’ll change AI’s impact on humanity and the working class.
Haha. Well obviously that what I meant by my shorthand phrasing!

But like, for other people who aren't so smart, thanks for detailing the mechanisms I would use :)
The Remote Encoding Center [pdf]