skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll believe it when I see it. Millions of applications use MySQL, and Vitess has only matured and grown.

They said Java was done like five times. It's in the midst of another massive revival. I think the bet on MySQL is a solid one, and I think reasonable minds should be able to differ about this, so I can't bring myself to be as sure as you seem to be.

I can say this: Our app, built on Planetscale and MySQL's protocol, has been fantastic to work with. We run locally against MySQL and H2, and in prod against Planetscale. Everything works really well. Boost, replication, backups, branching, etc etc. We use all of them. Every feature works great, does exactly what it says on the tin. We have never had a single problem.

So, in theory, yes, these things are all on a timeline of some kind between life and death, but I find it very hard to believe MySQL or Vitess are near the end of theirs.
If we are going to go your route, why wouldn’t the user just set THEIR sentiment reader to only show positive comments? Why is this being done at the source instead of the destination.
$1k+/hr, something along the lines of that, lawyer.
Writing a toy compiler for one sane input language and one target platform is indeed surprisingly easy, and very educational. I had to do this back in the 90's for C when the O/S SW group I worked for needed to start work on a UNIX port to a new proprietary architecture (simulator) and the company's compiler group wasn't getting anything started any time soon. It took maybe 3-4 KLOC to get a boring old recursive descent parser and simple code generator working well enough to compile a minimal kernel configuration and pass a compiler self-replication test. The most interesting bit was actually the preprocessor.
BSC headcount grow 500+ people in 2 years thanks to EU funds. Because the government does not know where to spend them.

What will happen after 2025 when NextGeneration EU funding ends?
The fact that people given a choice between "abortion is illegal" or "poors don't starve to death" choose "abortion is illegal" doesn't mean they want poors to starve to death (although they do want that); it just means they want abortion to be illegal more.

Okay, it was a bad example because those kinds of hardliners do want all the bad things to happen. People given a choice between "close the military base and lose your jobs" and "keep your jobs, but we drop more bombs on brown people" don't necessarily want to drop more bombs on brown people, but they do want to keep their jobs.
probably not communicated. Banks usually don't like to say: "your account will totally get frozen if you do this thing up to the limit of what we said you're allowed to do".

They like to keep the impression that account freezes are discretionary not automatic.
Everything Is a Cat
I think it's worth pointing out that they've also said multiple false things in their blog posts, and have refused to address or fix them despite repeated requests over a period of more than one year. I think people should be careful before believing in things they read in SMTM's blog. See e.g. https://manifold.markets/Natalia/how-many-of-these-falsemisl...
I believe that brains in jars is the only acceptable path to immortality, but reading about it still unsettles me.
I can imagine a future where map routes are optimized to give subscribers to Google services priority while allocating free users to alternate ones to free up traffic.
From the first few sentences of the article:

"ECS meant that iteration was quick because adding new or modifying existing systems or game objects was easy, and performance gains were clear when saving and loading the Case Board."

and there's an accompanying screenshot with perhaps 20 objects on a case board.

I scanned through the rest of the article with one question in mind: what the hell? ECS is not a solution to putting 20 photos on a case board. You're pushing 100Ks or Ms of objects and need performance and are willing to suffer for performance = ECS. Not this.

So, despite world class developer, I did not find the article credible. The main cause of the lack of credibility is the author of the article did not anticipate the reader glancing at the case board and the ECS claim and saying: bullshit. Alternatively, they did anticipate the claim, and were told to ship the article anyways.
30B uncensored OSS model with no guardrails
FreeBSD Journal 2023/09-10 Issue [pdf]
A ton is 2000lb.

So...five 400lb people
I can't see how zero moment point (ZMP) is relevant here? I think what you are saying is why don't we use the same algorithms to control game characters as robots? If its a robot or game character the issue is the same. You can try and predict the next movement but if you are wrong you again have the same problem and the response time suffers even more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_moment_point
... and no amount of money or technology can make "Now and Then" a good song.
That marks an interesting question though. Why is base GPT-4 superbly calibrated when humans are not ?
The classic shot on iPhone 3GS! behind the scenes.

https://fstoppers.com/commercial/iphone-fashion-shoot-lee-mo...
I have noticed this as well. I speculate that it is knock-on effects from the tight monetary climate we are in.

I think there are a lot of companies that have an uncertain future and are trying to be "default alive". Perhaps the services they rely on have trimmed free tiers or raised prices?
> Freedom of speech almost never meant and never will mean to be able to speak whatever you want to whoever you want wherever you want whenever you want

That is quite literally what it means. Everything else is a retcon. (It still doesn't mean freedom of social consequences though)

You said it yourself: uncontrolled free speech is harmful. That means there should be mostly free speech, but not completely free speech.
Then take the success probability and multiply it by the value a woman would expect from being free of PPD. I'd wager it's still considerably higher than $16k.
Was just thinking the same thing. I remember that they went through a long time period to get their algorithms to work, so maybe that's what OP means. I also remember that they found some algorithms that work but they don't know why, but they keep running them anyways.

I definitely do not remember anything about Simon making trades based on 'hunches'
This is great, but I hope in the future there would be a speech-to-text model with a focus on low-resource languages, probably by balancing the dataset similar to No Language Left Behind (NLLB) released by Meta, it's a translation model that works really well even with low-resource languages, it would be really cool something similar for speech transcription.
When writing a compiler you want to first look at what you expect and when you get that, what to expect next. If that does not come, where do you go?

We call this a graph, but there is no need to confuse things with advanced terms.
Then why is security clearance required? This is the same level of clearance that Snowden had. He had access to be able to leak a bunch of programs that he literally was worried about being murdered for exposing. If he had access to information he might be killed by exposing, you don't think he and everyone else at that level has the ability to gain access to information someone else might be willing to kill in order to obtain? Cmon now, no such threat, that's ridiculous. People have killed people for a name, of course they will kill to get into these systems.
I mean, it makes sense. What could you prosecute them for? They have no control.
right, and the trade off there is you may get flagged for structuring and locked out, right?

As I said, there is a range of cost/risk/PITA options available. This is niche enough I don't think it's particularly worrying the banks don't support it easier.
Why not use flat paddles instead? For better friction hold and less crushing. Also single arm/paddle support like an open hand for light boxes? Closest I could find: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DQ9c1cFmNg

In the second video of the article the first box picked is crushed by the chopsticks.
I played RDR2 and was very happy to walk away from the molasses like movement once finished. It was realistic in both its behavior and cadence and I can emphatically say, give me fantasy (better/faster) movement in a playable fantasy world. Imagine waiting for a real time washer and dryer cycle in a video game because it’s “realism”. There are limits…
An extremely high quality analog 4 track. Not to be confused with (not even in the same universe as) the cheap 1980s or 90s tascam 4-track cassette tape recorder that people are much more likely to have encountered.
The strapline of the article literally says that the manufacturer would be held accountable.
The US doesn't have free speech. It just deluded itself into thinking its version of unfree speech is either somehow not speech, or just doesn't count for some dumb reason or another. There are many things you can't say in the USA.

The EU is just more upfront about its limitations. The EU says: Free speech is good, but some of it is dangerous so you can't have all of it, sorry. The US simply says: We have free speech. Then it arrests you for speaking anyway.

Find something you can't say in the US, and ask a (sufficiently educated) American about it. They'll tell you it's not really free speech or it doesn't count or some nonsense like that, and that America has free speech. A (sufficiently educated) European will tell you it's one of the exceptions.
Not if it precludes using a more efficient algorithm/mechanism vs the hoops you'd have to jump through to get something functional without it
To add to this, you should also be getting regular (like twice a year) blood draws done to check where all your nutrient levels are. This way, you can decide which supplements and how much.

Through this, I've learned that my Vit. D supplement works. My multivitamins work, and my B12 supplements work. My previous iron supplement was not working, and I was able to make a change to a different product. Then, six months later, a blood test showed my iron levels back in the normal range.
> almost no litigant other than Congress acting as a whole

The House as a whole would probably have standing.
Well, you are welcome to do your own review and share the results. At the time we were deciding between all the major DB as a Service providers. Not everyone has the same architecture as Bluesky, and from reading the code it seems pretty mechanical and complex.
wouldn't that only be true if your hardware doesn't have the decoder isn't built into the hardware of your gpu?
I'm not sure either why you feel that way. The BEAM has amazing tools to debug at runtime and explore/modify your system while it's running.

Yeah you'd need to learn it, but it's like any other tool.
Relevant Daniel Dennett short story exploring the philosophy of mind: https://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-WhereAmI.pdf
The context at the time was doubt that the treasury would pay its debts, because it was widely viewed that it would not post the civil war. The language is not clear, but the intent as I understand it from a historical perspective is pretty well understood to mean the treasury must always pay its debts. The language continues to clearly delineate debts accrued by the confederacy (insurrection) as NOT payable, which further enforces the topic is payment of debt.
If you can manage the risk of rising interest rate, then SARON isn't a bad choice. At least in the past, sticking to LIBOR/SARON was the cheapest option on average. But of course, if you can't handle the risk of rate increases, you shouldn't do it. (One option to reduce the risk is to pay the difference between SARON and the current fixed rates onto a dedicated savings account.)

But of course, if had gotten the chance to get a <1% 15-year deal, I'd have done it :) I'm slightly late to the party.
I wonder if this might be more useful if it were to use the 'chopsticks' to pull the boxes onto a centrally mounted tray that slides back so that the boxes can then be pushed off the other side - thereby keeping boxes upright.
Starlink has not brought an end to the subsidies. The Ontario government is in the process of rolling out subsidies of >$5000 per home under the AHSIP (Accelerated High Speed Internet Program). It should have increased competition (it was set up as a reverse auction), but the terms were such that all the smaller ISPs were unable to participate. The smallest award was $24.7 million to serve 3265 homes which works out to $7565 per home. The bonding requirement put that far out of reach of local ISPs as nobody can get bonded for $24 million when you're only doing $5-10 million a year in revenue. This program is supposed to be fully rolled out by the end of 2025.
I'm pretty sure Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel is a triazine sunscreen as well. Korean brand, amazing product.
Not a meritocracy, no, but when you're dealing with an instrumented system you're better able to prove whether an idea is good or bad. Compared to e.g. a teacher, an engineer can prove the impact of a piece of work much faster. Engineers in practical fields also have the advantage of decades of safety culture and strong institutions that will protect them if they report a problem that will literally kill people.

I agree that an engineer is still trapped by social concerns, but not that they're as trapped as anyone else, because anyone who can easily demonstrate that they're right, even if they aren't listened to and even if they can only demonstrate it in some specific areas, has an advantage over someone who can't.
For anyone curious what's going on here:

You can't carbon date human activity, you can carbon date the point that organic material stopped growing. If you carbon date some partially burned wood found in the remains of a fireplace, then you can be pretty confident the fireplace was built around the time the tree the wood came from was cut down. And the better you can prove that what you found was actually a fireplace and that the sample actually came from inside it, the more confident you can be that the date you got relates to human activity.

If you just dig a hole in the ground, find some organic material, and carbon date it, you can be pretty confident that there were plants growing in the area in the past, but that's all you've discovered.

Guess which approach to carbon dating was followed here?

There's basically zero evidence presented that the pyramid was constructed 16k years ago, but they have made a strong case that there were plants growing in Indonesia 16k years ago. ...not that this was ever in any doubt, mind you.
Inverse kinematics is used but, again, that does not solve the problem of the trade off between response time and realistic movement. It simply "snaps" the feet to the ground.
The Year Video Game Movies Took Over
There've been multiple studies that gave people potassium supplements and measured their body weight. (Primarily because potassium helps lower blood pressure). They haven't found that potassium causes weight loss. See my meta-analysis here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sR1T2Kb1X1fCLYeEE-U3Rwei...
The idea of a "base tan" that is protective against sunburns and skin cancer has found to be a myth [1], unfortunately. It has no protective effect, and may be counterproductive, since it gives you more confidence to go out in the sun without sunscreen protection.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-a...
> If you, as a reviewer, think that your review has really encapsulated everything anyone would get out of the book you're reviewing, you're either the greatest reviewer ever or an arrogant delusional dork.

To be fair, many recent non-fiction books are just bloatware version of a single blog article. While no one can summarize "War and Peace" or "Critique of Pure Reason", it is certainly possible to deflate a lot of these non-fiction insight porn books back into an original length blog.
Someone who is into making movies can also build cheap lighting. High end photography/videography is more accessible than ever before.
The title is a little misleading. It's about connecting the brain up to an external blood supply, basically, so it can continue to live without the heart and lungs running (useful for surgery, perhaps) and so in theory changes in blood chemistry affects the brain can be experimented on without also having to deal with different metabolic/chemical signals from the rest of the body. No brains were removed from their skulls
Don't mind at all. go ahead. I can sometimes be an ass about replying.
Wow, thanks so much for the in depth answer. This looks really great, I can’t wait to give it a try.
I remember the mention of "Death Panels" that were claimed would appear if there was federal insurance. I'm not sure, but isn't that what's happening today as is?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel
Tumble Forth
Ok I think we fully agree on pretty much every point. Cheers!
Page 59: "Even as Simons and his colleagues were uncovering Soviet secrets, Simons was nurturing one of his own. Computing power was becoming more advanced by securities firms were slow to embrace the new technology.... Simons decided to start a company to electronically trade and research stocks, a concept with the potential to revolutionize the industry."

Page 79: "In 1978, Simons left academia to start his own investment firm focusing on currency trading."

Page 99: "In the following days, Simons emerged from his funk, more determined than ever to build a high-tech trading system guided by algorithms, or step-by-step computer instructions, rather than human judgment. Until then, Simons and Baum had relied on crude trading models, as well as their own instincts, an approach that had left Simons in crisis."

Page 101: "The regulators somehow missed the humor in Simons's misadventure. They closed out his potato positions, costing Simons and his investors millions of dollars. Soon, he and Baum had lost confidence in their system. They could see the Piggy Basket's trades and were aware when it made and lost money, but Simons and Baum weren't sure why the model was making its trading decisions. [...] In 1980, Hullender quit..."

Page 102: "With Hullender gone and the Piggy Basket malfunctioning, Simons and Baum drifted from predictive mathematical models to a more traditional trading style."

Page 105: "Their traditional trading approach was going so well that, when the boutique next door closed, Simons rented the space... Simons came to see himself as a venture capitalist as much as a trader."

[Various things happen. Renaissance makes and then loses a bunch of money. It is now 1985]

Page 114: "Simons wondered if the technology was yet available to trade using mathematical models and present algorithms, to avoid the emotional ups and downs that come with betting on markets with only intelligence and intuition."

Page 201: "By 1990, Simons had high hopes Frey and Kepler might find success with their stock trades. He was even more enthused about his own Medallion fund and its quantitative-trading strategies... Competition was building, however, with some rivals embracing similar trading strategies. Simons's biggest competition figured to come from David Shaw."

So my timeline was a little off: Renaissance was largely a traditional fund from 1978 until AxCom in 1985, with D.E. Shaw only in 1990.
yes i'm going to believe an unsourced blog post over actual doctors...
Sure, but (now flagged) OP was specifically criticizing the FDA. Which very much didn't make this argument.

And, fwiw, I think it's important we don't conflate criticism of institutions with criticism of statements random people on the Internet made. (We can and should criticize either, but separately - the FDA being wrong has a much different meaning than somebody on the Internet being wrong)
> these were large, sophisticated, well-established civilizations before smallpox.

I'm not arguing against that. It's just that their metallurgy industries were quite underdeveloped in comparison to those in Europe/Asia. Some types of artefacts etc. are just preserved better than others.

e.g. we have massive amounts of clay tablets left by the Hittites, the Ancient Assyrians, Babylonians etc. We have very few or almost no little texts written by (and know relatively overall about them in general) more 'advanced' and 'developed' civilizations like the Etruscans, Carthaginians or the Achaemenid Empire because they used more perishable materials for writing (or possible weren't really that into writing things down like the Persians).

Same applies to many other types of material culture. Neolithic Europe for instance was fairly densely populated and possibly quite advanced yet people lived in wooden houses (the climate is of course also much more humid) and didn't write stuff down (possibly due to their more egalitarian nature compared to middle eastern civilizations) and we barely know anything about them too. It's possible that one of the largest cities on earth during the 4th millennium BC were in what is now Ukraine yet we know almost absolutely nothing about them (they had ample supplies of wood, so there was no need to make houses out of mudbricks and due to whatever reasons they had no inclination to build massive tombs or temples)
I think you missed the point of Jon's talk, it was in large to highlight some deficiencies that currently exist in the language but are actively being worked on.

As he mentioned the current situation with return position impl trait + 'a was surprising even to some of the core rustc developers so it's not like they intended for it to be like that.
By law the US government cannot permit default. Does that give the executive the power to trump limits on the Fed?

We'll see.

Others argue minting is more palatable. I think legally that's true. I think politically that's false: there is a visceral reaction to any talk of "printing." The various euphemistic ways the Fed can handle it will be preferred. Of course it will end up in front of SCOTUS, but that's a political win: SCOTUS becomes the bad gus trying to "destroy democracy". Or something.
OpenAI releases Whisper v3, new generation open source ASR model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38166965 - Nov 2023 (50 comments)
There's a community project in the Eleuther ai discord that has trained several pythia models on chess games and come out playing it just fine. and they play better with increased scale too.

Then recently Open ai released GPT-3.5 turbo instruct and that plays chess reliably at around 1800 Elo.

So i don't know about "notoriously bad". People probably just overestimate how much chess game data most language models are actually getting. That or chat RLHF tanks chess abilities.
It can. But sometimes the important thing is not the gear, but rather being in the right place and having the skill to frame a good composition or get good footage.
If you haven't seen it, the original conference talk on the Movfuscator is excellent – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk – it goes through it in detail and describes how version 0.0 had Brainfuck as a totally legitimately valid intermediate language ;-)
It seems like never because we had the tech before and everyone seems to be lazy about using it
Aren't the bypass machines using a peristaltic pump to get the same pulsed blood transport? Is there one with a continuous mechanism?
I thought that everything apple does is PR (well mostly, everything else is a secret)
When I managed just a half dozen of people (in a 300 person org), I soaked in every bit of feedback, especially if there were concerns -- whether in our group or at executive level. I get there are some "managers" that just skirt by and don't care, but there's many more that actually want to see the company succeed.