skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time to train * flops per chip * number of chips in training fleet

You can estimate it quite accurately, actually
There's a book by Oliver Sacks that covers people affected by strange neurological disorders and it is fascinating [0]. I can't recall any of them being viewed in a positive light, but it's still worth a read.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistoo...
Fortunately we're talking about the future, not the present.
>People are hurting, and they don't have strong communities to support them.

Strangely your comment holds true in areas where community means you get many different perspectives.

In my experience (growing up in the south), it's "strong-knit" communities that are doing the most harm in perpetuating mistaken beliefs or amplifying anger.

What's especially weird is that this holds true when some communities' economic status is considerably better than the majority of the country!

There's a momentum behind beliefs that get culturally amplified. And it's hard to disagree with people when you don't have immediate examples to compare and contrast. Or worse, when your very livelihood gets threatened for going against the flow.

My own experience (given the above) is why I'm eternally grateful for the unfiltered internet I had when I was growing up. I wouldn't be half the person I am today without the many varied perspectives that I had access to per-social media bubbles.
This is one of the consequence of strong Anti Money Laundering law.
Bank much prefers to avoid False Negative (letting money launderers operate).
> How is that relevant to the vast majority of the code targeted by LINQ?

The people I responded to were discussing applicability of LINQ. I think very fast sum of List<int> collections doesn’t compensate for suboptimal performance of pretty much everything else.

For 80% of problems that “suboptimal” is still fast enough for the job, but for other 20% it’s important. Using the same C# language it’s often possible to outperform LINQ by a large factor, using loops, SIMD intrinsics, and minimizing GC allocations.

> partially covered by a recent System.Numerics.Tensors package

They don’t generate code in runtime, they treat C# as a slower and safer C. I’m pretty sure the higher-level parts of the runtime allow more advanced stuff, similar to expression templates in Eigen, but better because runtime codegen could account for different ISA extensions, and even different L1/L2 cache sizes.
I think it's interesting that HN in particular seems to be fascinated by brain injuries, myself included. Losing brain functionality is a scary thought for people who enjoy using their brains all day.

edit: also I find my HN comment history to be a really good check on my perception of time. It's weird to see the random thoughts I wrote out in my down time. I ALWAYS think, "wow that was 3 months ago?"
Very nice. I have to say I see games here I've tried and didn't like. This one was great!
I actually considered including one in the README, but there were (are) lots of other topics to consider.

The tl;dr is that there is some cross over, but the use cases and patterns they support are largely different. Message channels are two-way, channels are one way. (I believe) message channels are 1-1, while `ts-chan`'s channels are n-n, though each send corresponds to a single receive.

The primary use case I aim to address is coordination between independent, asynchronous operations (concurrency in JavaScript). Having an analogue to Go's "select statement" is fairly key to that, and I am not quite sure how to articulate the value it provides, but it does not overlap with message channels.

Example using a single channel: `ts-chan` may be used to implement a set of workers, which accept requests from n sources (e.g. incoming http requests in a web server), then perform some operation, as a mechanism to bound the concurrency of that operation. Personally, I find it much easier to model it as:

1. Start the desired number of workers

2. Wire up workers to await incoming requests then process them, in a loop

3. Send requests to said workers

Rather than (for example) tracking the number of running operations, starting a new worker only if possible, after enqueuing the operation, then having the workers need to operate like "check for any work, increment number of operations, perform operation, check for any work (loop), otherwise decrement number of operations".

The `ts-chan` pattern (which is, really, just a Go pattern) also makes it much easier when the requirements are more complex, e.g. if the requester needs to wait for a response, and might timeout before the operation is even started - in which case the operation should be cancelled.

I should probably include demonstrative examples for all that, heh.
Simply spending money can trigger anti-fraud measures, but those are usually easily sorted out with a call.

What all the people profiled in the article have in common is that they were depositing money in "suspicious" ways.
Researcher Claims to Crack RSA-2048 with Quantum Computer
Hacker news can't figure out world peace? Propose a practical set of steps to ensure this never happens again (both sides).
Not in the traditional sense of the word, but: I have read enough philosophy and thought about the topic for long enough to realize that it’s an extremely complex one - and unfortunately one that (as you can see by the comments here) many otherwise intelligent people seem content to ignore. Religious history and beliefs underlie just about every part of the modern world, even the so-called atheist ones.

And so my position on religious matters is something like agnosticism, with the caveat that I do think some of these questions are answerable, even if there isn’t much societal energy trying to do so.

Personally, I find process theology to be extremely interesting and promising, although I haven’t spent the time to delve into Whitehead and other thinkers. Other interesting things are Daoism, Zen, and interpreting Nietzsche’s ideas in a religious manner (Julian Young wrote a book about this.) One of these days I’ll start a newsletter/blog about the study of religion…
The whole post is a single anecdote.
Yes; you might have seen mosquito "dunks" that are small donut shaped things that you can drop into flower pots or other areas that don't drain properly. They dissolve over time. There are also mosquito traps (bird-house sized or even just small plastic bags that you cut open). They can be filld with water to activate.
You might then like RockPaperShotgun and The Register
How Propaganda Became Public Relations
That maybe true - I don't know much about the legal system. However, my guess is that the implications of being able to lock down vs seize and sell user handles in private companies are more far reaching than some of the recent cases the Supreme Court did agree to consider, e.g. whether "Trump too small" can be trademarked.
It's much easier to make the economics work than it would be to make the economics of batteries work for seasonal storage or rare event backup.

If you look at cost optimized solutions to providing steady electrical output from solar + wind in high latitudes, hydrogen is strongly featured. It becomes much more expensive to use just short term storage like batteries.

Hydrogen is often useless, but it's sometimes essential. Hydrogen critics bleat about efficiency without understanding the limits of that argument.
Thomas Jefferson for one.

> "Gentlemen, I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie than believe that stones fall from heaven."

http://www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/metics.htm#:~:text...."
If I were pursuing this line of inquiry, I'd use a variety of questions to understand biases in both directions on a number of topics.

For instance, when Covid was at maximum political polarization, you had some people partying like it's nothing and other people convinced that the Covid mortality rate was 20%. Both groups may have been swayed by fake news, but with different directionality.

You also need to provide similar sets of facts in different contexts. E.g. news that came from a friend vs a three-letter agency vs podcast vs CNN vs Fox News.

As presented in the article, the study just seems to be a conformity test.
Some things do change for the worse, others for the better. Smaller, more tight knit communities, like raves were in the 80s and early 90s were, in my mind, better than the predominately business-oriented DJ-festishization parties of today. There are good parties still going on, but it's not the primary mover of the rave scene like it once was.

Kids these days may not need those scenes as much these days, since they're more open to people who are different. Much of the early rave scene was for people that didn't fit in, for whatever reason.
Perhaps I will go my whole life not understanding why nations didn't switch to nuclear fission.

Covering 2% of the UK's land in solar panels seems very silly when we can just use the special rocks to boil water. But then again the UK is known for it's sunlight... oh wait
Ask HN: How to transition from non-fiction to fiction reading?
I'm a dev who's been living off a steady diet of non-fiction for years — think self-help at 17, then into pop science and psychology. It's been awesome, but I've got this nagging feeling that my brain's become a bit too linear? Plus, I'm starting to think my English could use some flair beyond the facts and figures.

I've heard fiction is great for stretching your brain and buffing up your language skills. I would like some of that, but every time I open a novel, I end up zoning out and reaching for something with a bit more facts and data.

So I'm curious—any of you been in these shoes?
- How'd you flip the switch and start getting lost in a good story?
- Are there fiction books that you would recommend starting on?
- Or maybe some of you have some hacks or mindset tricks that made fiction click for you in the initial days?

Would love to hear your thoughts or advice!
Isn’t Banias in Syria lol
Separation of church and state for both?
Does the benefit of it being embeddable on a QR code outweigh the lack of quality of life features like subtraction? Nevertheless, truly an impressive feat that shows how simple computers can be without all these modern API layers.
Except that they're not small or modular enough. To get decent learning curve effects they need to be 10 kW to 100 kW each.
Regarding the first example in the readme; where is the result variable declared?
Right, that’s what I understood and I have been trying to achieve that for years. I have made my peace to buy and bring both. But if I have to pick one most of the time I’d pick the MacBook Pro.

My point above is addressing this kind of needs. As a programmer one would of course think that having that extra capability would be a strictly more capable device. But that kind of thinking is missing the big picture. The limitation Apple put in place enforces a certain level of quality, and also the direction developers are working towards, etc. I.e. to maximize the expected value of the utility function over the whole population, the expected value over a subset of the population can be lower, and in this case is lower. And I can’t blame Apple to choose the mass than me (and the small bubble around me). That’s what I’d do too if I want to make a great product that people love (note that if “I want to make a great product that programmers love”, then the optimization would be different.
This looks really interesting and clever, I'm going to have to try using it for some of my python utilities. I really like how it handles arguments using click-like semantics.

In some ways this is similar to a project I've been working on for the last month that is kind of a pythonic reimagining of Ansible and Cookiecutter. It's still a WIP, but I'm starting to successfully convert my YAML-style declarative snippet/cookiecutters into Python, and I'm working on improving the documentation now.

Where Jeeves seems to excel at collections of small "scriptlets", uPlaybook is targeting declarative automation of larger tasks, including templating of configuration files, triggering restarts on changes, etc...

https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook
pg posts many times a day on Twitter. He was briefly banned when Elon and he started arguing, but they quickly worked it out.
> great idea to reduce scope and skip "the agent" part and let the users do it, can be added later.

Yeah, you get it :)

I haven't really considered dynamic nodes but I was thinking of eventually giving out dynamic domains myself, so that you can just use that one for your Endpoint. Not sure if that would help though for true p2p/non-hub networks.
Anyone got an interview mail for YC W24?
That describes pretty much every human idea, cultural practice, and belief. You may think that makes it all seem arbitrary, but I think it just highlights its importance.
Do you happen to know if credit unions can hide behind banking regulations? As an account holder, I also own a share in the company.
Oh, I think I understand what you mean. Still, I don't think we can reconcile our differences if we can't agree on and enact some morals as law. We agree that there's no objective morality we can discover, but acknowledging that doesn't solve the very real moral conflicts.
Which is why I specified for older people who lived through the early scene. Kids today will create their own unique scenes while others will milk the nostalgia of past ones.
my understanding was that grain comes out of the opening on the bottom used to empty the car, rather than flying out the top.

whatever the mechanism is, grain on the tracks is definitly not exclusive to this run, it's a problem anywhere there's railways and bears.
Very exciting stuff! I submitted a link to the actual MR when this happened; wasn’t discussed much at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932016

(This current submission is really nice; you get to hear more from Matthew about what’s going on.)

Chez Scheme (pronounced “shay-scheme”) is the most performant and compliant Scheme implementation out there. [1] For a long time it was closed-source, but was recently open-sourced.

It now forms the foundation of the Racket language. (So, I guess that means HN relies on it, provided Arc is using a recent version of Racket.) I asked Matthew why he picked Chez to base Racket off of, and I want to say that he picked it because it implemented continuations really really well and had a good garbage collector too. I could be wrong.

[1]: https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/
Ahhh, cheers for that.

(EDIT: immediately followed by (in link provided):

Whether Jefferson's quote is truth or myth, his belief real or an opportunity for a witty Virginian to take a shot at a two Yankees, is not known

which undermines somewhat the claim that Jefferson held such a belief.)

Leaves the question of whether that was a widespread belief.

TBH it's the first I'd heard that anyone had ever not believed in rocks falling from the sky .. I'm 60 ish, have worked for decades in geophysics and read the original Scottish geologists, etc.
I like the interface but to be truly private it'd have to be offline first like https://everywhen.me. And I don't know if I'd ever trust a score I hadn't reasoned myself. I already do a version of this style of rubberducking with LLMs and the idea score you naturally give something changes with each unexpected key question the LLM spits out. Problem is you don't know what key opens your idea or closes it and it needs to be worded just right.

Like "who is angered most if they could no longer get your product" and "under what context is the value your product provides most apparent to your target audience".
> A DEA agent boarded the train at the Albuquerque Amtrak station and began asking various passengers, including Rivers, where they were going and why. When Rivers replied that he was headed to LA to make a music video, the agent asked to search his bags. Rivers complied. He was the only passenger singled out for a search by DEA agents – and the only black person on his portion of the train

Never answer with any info, never consent to searches.
We actually just had a cat change her food seeking behavior by exactly 1 hour during daylight savings, which allowed us to mostly exclude her internal clock and time sense.
Ok thanks for the correction, as I said the impression was really only based on my interpretation of the numbers in the Blog post. I will have a look at the book then.
Wrt keeping multiple accounts, what is the benefit of that compared to the overhead of monitoring and managing them? Is it just a contingency? Banks in particular have no real reason to give you your money back or respect your privacy. Why would I put my money in an institution that I can't trust?
My preferred dongle is the RTL-SDR Blog V3: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

They also have a new V4 version, but it requires updated drivers that will take a bit of time to percolate out to Linux distributions and the like.

NooElec also has a line of RTL-SDR dongles that I would recommend: https://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-receivers.html

The best antenna will depend on what you're trying to receive. Different antennas are optimized for different frequency ranges, and may be either omnidirectional (receiving equally well from many directions) or favour reception in one particular direction. To get started, you could buy a dongle that comes with an antenna included, but you may eventually want to switch to something targeted to the particular application you have in mind.

As for the computational cost, it depends a lot on what you're trying to do. As a general rule, the wider the bandwidth of the signal, the more processing power it will take to demodulate. HD Radio is relatively narrow-band (400 kHz), so it doesn't require much CPU power to receive it.
>> want to create a bubble of a space that’s free from the direct influence of AI.

It seems unlikely you will achieve that goal online, since there is no way (online) to differentiate between human, and bot. (Its unclear what constitutes AI in your mind but clearly a "dumb" crawler can gather information then scanned by an LLM.)

Of course nothing limits you to creating this space online. Think about creating such a space offline (where identifying humans is easier.)

>> I believe that choice should exist,

Of course the choice already exists. There are no LLMs at my farmers market.

Equally online you can choose not to use search engines, llms, social media, copilot, github, or any other tech you choose not to use. Expanding that bubble beyond yourself may be harder.)

I'm not on social media. So are lots of other people. We tend not to socialise online.

>> just like the choice to not be indexed by search engine bots over the web.

I fear that choice does not exist. You can certainly -indicate- that choice via robots.txt, but uou don't really get to "enforce" that choice, much less do you have an expectation that search engines are universally respecting that choice.

Let me say this next bit with respect. I say it with kindness, not malice. It's easier on you mentally if you fight battles you can win. At this point trying to define, much less live, a life unaffected by AI is like a cyclist railing against the use of cars [1]. Of course you arrange your life without a car. Of course you can socialise with like minded folk. But carving out spaces where cars are formally banned is rare.

[1] yes, I'm aware there are places that are less car-dependant than the US. Yes in Amsterdam there are a lot of bikes. But bikes tend to share the road with cars - there are very few car-free zones.
Guess I touched a nerve.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, "VIP" forums and excluded from having to keep a ratio.
That's a good idea. I've considered that but my game is more similar to Wordle where it's a daily word game. It doesn't really fit in with the other games that streamers typically play. But if the goal is to simply get the word out, promoting it on a few streams might be the way to do it.
> every time I open a novel, I end up zoning out

Maybe you could start by reading short stories rather than novels. Given the constraints of this literary form, they need to get to the point much more quickly than novels do. If you find an author whose short stories you like, then maybe try reading one of their novels.
Good to know! How do you go about promoting your tools? Is it also through your existing content network?
> If they don't like you, they can close your account by simply stating that "we have an obligation to know our customers; after careful consideration, we decided to close your account".

What's really behind the decision is simply risk avoidance. It's like "firing" bad customers. The banks consider it prudent business to kick anyone who might be a problem out the door. Avoiding one criminal causing issues is worth kicking out 20 ordinary honest customers.
Protip: 400GB/s switches are just 4 bonded 100GB/s channels. What limit? =)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220623195738/http://www.barnes...
"The propagandists did their job well, and few people today know of
the connection between public relations and propaganda; many ‘public relations counsels’ do not even know the history of their own field. Propaganda popularly remains defined as any attempt at mass manipulation, but the reality is that it is a multibillion-dollar industry with a well-defined set of practitioners, knowledges, and economic relationships."

"This situation is made more dangerous by the fact that many people writing history about propaganda are themselves often public relations counsels, once were counsels, or were trained in related disciplines like journalism, communications, or public relations (even if they never
worked in PR)."

"In terms of resisting propaganda, successful displacements of propaganda will have to take seriously that propaganda is not primarily an epistemological apparatus but one of government and subjectification. Resisting propaganda is not so much a task of liberation from various kinds of falsehood, as if underneath all the lies remained an untouched, happy, and flourishing being, waiting to be set free by the truth."
It's hard to not believe in meteorites when your environment is desert or snowfields .. micro meteorites are a steady infall and people with sharp eye notice small black rocks appearing on previously clean sand and snow.

( If your routinely clean your gutters and pick through the silt with a strong magnet you'll likely find micro meteorites sooner or later )
When I read the title my first thought was that it was saying the Chinese calendar is almost adapted by the world.

But on second thought it can’t be right as 28 is wrong here.
In English letter writing lessons here in India, our teachers said date, place and signature were supposed to be right aligned but completely left aligned text is catching on due to computers. I'm 1989 born, but we were using DOS programs even as a teen.
Rails 7.1 sets the option of config_force_ssl to true by default in production.rb file. In previous versions of Rails, it was commented out. This change will enhance web security while developing an app.
So if MSM doesn't report, it doesn't exist? State the requirements of 'compelling evidence'.

You debate like that Chase email explains their reasoning.
He uses his iPhone extensively to do things like this. I recently learned that the native Calendar app can do the same thing for scheduled appointments that have a location specified. Reminders can be set for things like: (can set multiple) "30 minutes before travel time" or "Time to leave", etc.

One thing he's struggled with is establishing the habits to set up these kinds of tools. There are often other issues associated with TBI and memory/new habit formation have been a challenge. Needs reminders for the reminders.

He's determined to find the right combination of tools/processes so he can create a guide to help other people use their current tools to manage this aspect of their lives. The potential is definitely there.
And high fines for not accepting that.
Jeff b is up towards the richest person on earth. He's not a comparable rxample