skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know many skilled weightlifter who eventually fucked their backs doing deadlifts. I know even more unskilled folks who tried to learn, didn’t quite do them right and got the same outcome.

Deadlifts are great if you always do every rep perfectly. But it can be quite easy to let your guard down, or get distracted, or just not really realize your technique is a little off until you hit weights where irreversible damage happens. I think the game theory on deadlifts for the average joe is unequivocally “don’t do them”, especially because side there are so many other alternative and less risky exercises to build similar strength. You’re gonna be fine until the one time you’re not. The rest of those exercises are more than enough.
Pay for business class.
>> Until you get unlucky in the mix. Then the penalty for failure can be death.

Totally agree. I suspect everyone who hikes for long enough can think of at least one instance where they are glad they weren't "unlucky" that day.
Probably better to capture all the content and not just what fits on one screen. Most pages should fit as text (or HTML?) in the new extended token window.
>Directed ads degraded user experience.

This is literally propaganda for people pushing for control of the internet through the idea of "privacy"

There isn't a world where someone is using and app, and would prefer to see generic advertisements versus finding out about deals on products they care about or new products that they may be interested in.

Unless of course you are bought into the bullshit bogeyman of "oh no, company is building a profile on me, that MUST mean they are going to use it for nefarious means", despite no evidence of this being true, ever. If you believe this, then you either virtue signaling off the ideology that companies and capitalism is evil, or you personally don't feel like you have enough self control to make decisions on your own despite what is being shown to you, and if so you really shouldn't have a say or vote in this.
From OpenAI docs[1]: "For safety reasons, we have implemented a system to block the submission of CAPTCHAs."

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision
fuck the optics.

Really, I’d like to flip the script here and dare anyone against EFF protecting Omegle to post their real life resume/linkedin/etc.

I’ll do my part to make sure you’re unhirable, because the “optics” of destroying something as simple and innocent as this are terrible, and what’s actually happening is pseudo-anonymous pressure.
Anyone know the tech stack this awesome 18 yr old used to create this service back in the day that was able to support so many concurrent users?
In older places here in Singapore, that predate widespread indoor electricity, I see that the cables are often on top of the walls (but hidden inside some plastic sheathing).

So that works like you suggested, but is a bit ugly.
Yup, that's my long term goal. I want an "anything API" that brings structure to anything on the web.
Fast switching among many LoRAs is already supported in Lamini.

Great paper talking through some of the design issues and optimizations, eg Orca and custom fused GPU kernels.

I’d love to see more research in this direction.
Maybe you should take a look at those guidelines yourself, bud.
Depends on jurisdiction. There's no 'the' building code.
The idea that we can, as technologists, build or continue to do something that is so intuitively wrong because it is, in some sense, profitable and there is an absence of data to prove it’s harm is an indictment of modern society and ethics.
It's hard for you to imagine, and I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, because you're not a ten year old girl.

I've been the parent of a ten year old girl, and can say with confidence that it's within the realm of possibility that an adult could manipulate a child in ways that ultimately would make that child afraid, if not utterly terrified, to be disobedient.

You scraping and digging through the comments here imploring to know about how she was coerced suggests to me that what you're really looking for is a justification to blame the ten year old girl. "coercion implies a threat" implies that with no evidence of a threat, the girl must have played along. She must have liked it. That's the vibe you give as you dig in and keep demanding people prove there was a threat. I sincerely hope I'm wrong about that vibe.
When you say “go the other way around”, it’s important to note that you still use U+0028 "(" LEFT PARENTHESIS as the opening delimiter and U+0029 ")" RIGHT PARENTHESIS as the closing one, despite their names; but when the bidirectional algorithm decides they should be rendered right-to-left, they get replaced with the opposite glyphs, according to the Unicode Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph property, and so LEFT PARENTHESIS is rendered as a right parenthesis.

See https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring for description of the process, and https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/BidiMirroring.... for the full list of mirrorings, including mentioning cases where there is no appropriate mirrored character defined by Unicode (like √—in fact, I think they’re all mathematical notation), and so they suggest the renderer horizontally flip the glyph instead (which isn’t perfect, as things like italic slant will be inverted).
In my country, using Google Maps is nuts, hell, the official 1:50000 topomaps can often have errors - tracks marked on the wrong side of a creek, tracks marked that are only passable with a chainsaw these days etc.

You'll never beat local knowledge. Go to the ranger station or visitor centre or hell, the local bar.
Also much more interested in BWRX300 as well. Old and proven working technology fine tuned. And will continue to get cheaper as they are much more standardised.
I love seeing global shutter on this camera. It's been amazing getting shots with cameras with global shutter for me.

Unlike film grain, the weird artifacts for sports/action, camera moves, rotary motion... it's all bad looking and disappears completely with global shutter.
I used to blindly rely on google maps until it misdirected me on my way to Redwood National Park. It led me to a house in the mountains that had a sign saying something like - google maps has misdirected you and there is no path through this house to the Redwood national park. It was a place where even the cellphone did not work. This happened ~6 years ago and hopefully google fixed it by now.
Latency would be a good reason, wouldn't it?
Stuart Feldman? Got a source/name?
I invented a game that uses tiles in the shape of a regular hexagon plus a rhombus. IMHO, you can tile the plane aperiodically with them. See the first picture in [1].

[1] https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/orinoko/
> That story seems excessively tidy and flattering, and in any case, its pessimistic corrolary is that most of today's philosophy is a junk drawer of dead-end intellectual projects that never yielded anything useful.

I think it is a matter even worse than being a junk drawer. It seems to be actively opposed to practicality and regards referencing the real world with scorn. That is frankly an ancient form of stupidity that goes back a very long time, to Ancient Greece at the very least. And it continues to today: any time that something becomes practical it gets banned from philosophy and philosophers stop writing on it.
I think one reason is that when I am refactoring I am thinking about other larger logic, and as expressions get reduced, I become blind to the details that I and previously internalized as correct. Linters really help because I can’t always be thinking at both ends of the abstraction.
The blackmail was threatening her into thinking she'd be in legal trouble too. That's not true, but a terrified child isn't exactly running an optimal risk calculus. Even without that the content itself is blackmail material.

How was she coerced? Who knows. I'll take a guess and say she was probably tricked at first into thinking he was someone else. Threatened after that.

(EDIT: and for chrissakes get identifiable information out of your user profile if you're going to argue this hard about something like this! Internet 101, man!)
Funny how it's only not wildly inappropriate when it's censoring your political opinions. When it was other's it was fine and dandy.
Woz would be one of those select few who I won't care if I look like a fanboy of or not, because I am. :-D
This seems like a bug.

The IRUs are aligned and fixed to a position before the aircraft is even pushed back from the gate (you cannot align and fix them while moving). What conventionally happens is that you tell the FMS what airport you're at, and it knows the coordinates for that airport. You also tell it what gate you're at, and it usually knows the coordinates for that gate. It will also show you what it thinks your current GNSS position is, and then you pick one of these as your IRU starting point -- usually the gate, but sometimes the GNSS receiver position. One would hope that the pilots would visually validate that the GNSS receiver position is very close to the airport position before entering that into the IRU.

If, in the air, you have 2 or 3 IRUs all in agreement with each other, and telling you that you're at position X within an uncertainty of, say, 1 nautical mile, and you also have a GNSS receiver telling you that you're at position Y, and Y is greater than, say, 10 nautical miles away from X, then the GNSS receiver is obviously wrong and should be ignored.

IRUs are not perfect, but they are certainly accurate enough to get you to where you need to be, unaided.

I find it bizarre that the aircraft systems would ignore perfectly functional IRUs that are in agreement with each other, or, even worse, use (potentially hostile) GNSS data to "correct" them. In the absence of this "correction", the IRUs are completely tamper proof; there is simply no way, without being on the aircraft in question, to get them to say anything different.
Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn't ever come across Harry Mack. That guy is fantastic. And he gave so much happiness to those people he was rapping for! Just seeing all the delight on their faces gave me a tear in my eye. There's a lot of lonely people in the world, and for a moment, he improved their lives. We need better ways to connect; today I can VC with anyone in the world in a second, but we don't know how to connect like he does. Creators, work to make that kind of connection happen.
https://archive.tinychan.net/read/img/1196772434

archive link for those who don't want to google
I was even more curious, and it's pretty hard to search for what information was available on the web in early 2021. So don't judge me, but using ChatGPT is the fastest way I could think to get an idea.

This is what chatGpt thinks was the CDC statement in early 2021:

> In early 2021, the CDC indicated that while COVID-19 vaccines were highly effective at preventing severe illness, the ability of vaccinated individuals to transmit the virus, particularly the delta variant, was still under study. Vaccinated people could carry viral loads similar to unvaccinated individuals, but these would diminish quickly. The CDC differentiated between "breakthrough infections" (vaccinated people testing positive) and "breakthrough disease" (symptomatic cases), noting that both were uncommon. However, exact rates were unclear, leading to updated guidance for vaccinated individuals to be tested and mask up after exposure, especially in high-transmission areas. CDC's program focused on real-world vaccine effectiveness, including against variants and over time

Edit:

I also checked if ChatGPT knows if Fauci ever stated that vaccine would prevent transmission, this is what it had to say:

> Dr. Anthony Fauci initially stated on February 4, 2021, that there was insufficient data to confidently claim that vaccines prevent the transmission of COVID-19. However, by February 17, 2021, he referenced new studies indicating that vaccines might reduce transmission. Fauci cited research showing that vaccinated individuals had significantly reduced viral loads, suggesting a lower likelihood of transmission. Studies supported the idea that the lower the viral load, the lower the chance of virus spread. Fauci highlighted the public health implications, suggesting that vaccination could diminish the outbreak's dynamics

Do with that as you will, it's ChatGPT, not a thorough research into the historical archives, but its better than nothing.
Why didn’t he sell to Facebook or something?
Both the article and your link talk about Southeast of Carlsbad, NM which is the Permian basin, which spans New Mexico and West Texas.
Oof really? That’s a horrible pattern! In my professional opinion of course. Separation of causes, man! :)
Epley Maneuver: https://youtu.be/9SLm76jQg3g

Fascinating stuff!
Btw, instead of PoE, you can also look into ethernet-over-powerlines. That way you can re-use the power cables you already have in your home.
Yeah, sad is a loaded word too.
I think this is very similar to how city council members generally never ride bicycles, so they don't care about bike-safety issues.
I donate a large sum yearly to the EFF and so should all of you. Great org overall.
We're hackers and someone dear to us has a problem, so our natural tendency is to attempt to problem-solve.

Yes he's a stranger and his health problems are none of our business.

But also he's not a stranger: he's us.
First time seeing dashmap, but a cursory inspection shows it works via sharded locks:

pub struct DashMap<K, V, S = RandomState> {
shift: usize,
shards: Box<[RwLock<HashMap<K, V, S>>]>,
hasher: S,
}

so an array of RwLocks.

That's quite different than what .NET offers, which is multiple readers and a single writer with NO locks outside of the allocator/GC.

I'm not shilling for .NET (I've never written a .NET app) but it does have a really cool hash table.
It will take some effort to implement operators but not too much (cutlass's group gemm already support different mnk's), however the performance benefit is marginal compared to padding all LoRA ranks to the same rank because all these kernels are not compute bound.
i get that - i wonder if people would repeat that mantra or behave similarly if you changed facebooks name to Marlboro?
It seems the hypothetical developer in each example didn't know the language that well, and didn't use parens when they were in doubt. Prettier will remove the parens automatically on save, if auto format with prettier is set up in your editor, when the parens are not needed.
> Half of what goes into documentation is stuff that isn't obvious from the code!

I’d say that greatly depends on your code. I’ve had GPT write JSDoc where it explains exactly why a set or functions is calculating the German green energy tariffs the way they do. Some of what it wrote went into great detail about how the tariff is not applied if your plant goes over a specific level of production, and why we try to prevent that.

I get your fears, but I don’t appreciate your assumptions into something you clearly both don’t know anything about (our code/documentation) and something you apparently haven’t had much luck with compared to us (LLM documentation).

You’re not completely wrong of course. If you write code with bad variable names and functions that do more than they need to, then GPT is rather bad at hallucinating the meaning. But it’s not like we just blindly let it auto write our documentation without reading it.
nicely worded. I agree with this as well...its just sad.
fischer-tropsch is about 60% efficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces... but that's being fed from energy that's already in the form of carbon

water electrolysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water#Efficien... is about 80% efficient, except that there's an experimental capillary-fed process that is supposedly 98% efficient

i wouldn't call that 'nightmarishly inefficient', particularly if you can do it at hours when electricity prices would otherwise be zero or negative because of abundant solar or wind power

but i don't know how efficient carbon dioxide reduction is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_utilization

nuclear power plants are not normally highly dispatchable, though obviously the naval ones are
Tech executives gone hiking: "If you haven't been close to dying on the trail you're not taking enough risks"
Author of the post/rule here. I'd be very curious to see this rule ported/translated to Python! While the gotcha's would probably be different, I suspect it would uncover real bugs. One interesting challenge with JavaScript is that its so ubiquitous that _everyone_ ends up needing to write it at some point. Even those for whom it is a second or third language. I suspect this makes its gotchas all the more common to encounter. Conversely, it makes the value of tools to guide around those gotchas that much more valuable.
Yeah, I've been feeding screenshots from selenium to the vision API, and when I trigger bot detection on a website, chatgpt refuses to process the image.
Is social media addictive? 'Digital detox' study suggests not
> The Stable Diffusion AI Horde already does this, just with no batching and tremendous inefficiency.

Yes, the inefficiency here is the sheer number of models that are served. Instead of every worker having SDXL and loading LoRAs, the worker is very rapidly switching between one of ~230 models... _and_ loading LoRAs, if the worker allows it! From discussions I've seen, there is a lot of encouragement to use LoRAs (and textual inversions) instead of a unique model, but there's still a lot of demand among clients for unique base models. Additionally, being a volunteer system, a lot of the workers are, well, strange. You have people contributing high-end GPUs, and then other people are trying their best to (abuse?) use Colab and Kaggle within whatever their TOS allows, so the capacity of the workers varies quite a bit.
Rec Room gamemaker sues player for circumventing ban, looting others
If you wanted to buy one...are you even able to order one? Aren't they massively backordered by big companies? Is there a black marker for H100 cards?
How much does the involvement of a bank of fax machines complicate things?
https://archive.is/8NwW7
Does the plugin use the codebase code in the model itself for training, or does it stay locally? Just curious about the privacy.
Well balls.
> Global shutter is a method of ending an exposure where all the image data is captured simultaneously. This is distinct from most existing shutter systems (electronic and mechanical) that start and end progressively: working their way across the sensor.

Buried at the bottom of the article. This is interesting for especially video and sports photography. Some cameras with slower sensors suffer from the rolling shutter effect where fast moving subjects get distorted because the subject or the camera is moving. Think e.g. lampposts looking diagonal when shot from a fast moving car. Capturing all the pixels in one go solves that.

Cropping the sensor is a common way to counter rolling shutter with current cameras. Basically, that means you are not using all of the pixels on the sensor and capture a smaller area. Aside from the quality, this also means that you don't use everything the lens captured; it's cropped away. So, it looks like you are using a larger focal length than you actually are and you can't capture at the full width of the lens.

Lots of cameras use cropping to support higher resolutions and frame rates because they can't read out the sensor fast enough. This new sensor can use the full resolution and doesn't have to crop.

And like with photography, you use shutter speed and aperture to control what the video looks like. 1/30th of a second is actually a relatively long exposure for a photo. And that's also potentially a lot of rolling shutter to deal with. An instant and fast readout means you have more wiggle room to play with this creatively or shoot in very bright or low light.
They have a different term over on 4chan...
Nietzsche made same point. Even in his time, there was difference between Academic Philosophers, that kind of studies and regurgitator others, and "True Philosophers" that struck out into unbroken land, broke new trails. Often a characteristic of the "True Philosophers" was they were despised, un-respected, and cast out in their own time. He would point to people like Spinoza as truth seakers.

On other hand. Like others have said, the ancient Greeks did treat it like self help. Stoics, were all about just dealing with life.

The problem is language. We have a single word "philosophy" and try to make it into like 4 different subjects. It is dealing with life, getting through the day, but it is also about things that turn into a science like Math/Physics, and it is also ethics and language, etc...

We are just trying to fit too much into one word.
I imagine a world where these kinds of models are a stepping stone to personalized autonomous assistants. Where every person is able to have an agent that learns how to help the user and is embedded into their personal technology. The assistant can be delegated to act on behalf of the user, dealing with common tasks in the user’s personal and work life. I imagine sending my AI assistant to work meetings on my behalf to interact with other AI assistants, and making decisions for me based on its learned delegated behaviors via shadowing and training. In terms of managing teams I already explicitly delegate decisions to the people that report to me, and I trust them to inform me of explicit types of things they believe I need to know, otherwise I let them just get on with the job. I want the same from my AI assistant. Maybe this kind of assistant takes the form of a orchestrator of many GPT-esque models dedicated to specific tasks, but in the end, I want my own interactive AI autonomous agent that can be federated to act on my behalf when given permission to do so. This brings many challenges with regards to topics such as GDPR and corporate BYOD policies in the enterprise but it’s nothing we can’t solve in the long term.

Until I get that, I’d like a tool that evaluates everyone’s diary in an organization and optimally reorganizes everyone’s calendars to make maximum use of time. Microsoft are optimally positioned for such a tool.
Seems like you answered your own question; either they didn't get that advice, haven't "been hiking a lot" (or at all), or just feel like they can brute force it for some reason.

Hiking is one of the first activities in which I learned the value of reps, as a discrete type of practice. If you go hiking once, you learn something about what you've brought with you, the conditions, different kinds of surfaces, and your own (current) physical ability, if you're paying attention. Do that many times with a little variation between each adventure, and you'll develop a generalization intuition that you can't get in any other way, including about advice itself for a given area, altitude, climate, time of year, etc..

Now that I've been a hiker for years, and continue varying my adventures—usually in the specific mountain range and trails these people were rescued from—I tend to think of different ground surfaces as a metaphor for life.

Incidentally, a lot of people probably don't anticipate completely losing cell reception so close to the city.
He was a wrestler of some renown in his youth and his coach nicknamed him 'Platon,' after his size or big shoulders (depending on who's telling it). Winning arguments by flexing is apocryphal, as far as I know.
I just took a break from reading a scene from Anathem revolving around tiling and came across this thread. :)

This sort of “HN coincidence” has happened to me several times this week, is there a term for it I don’t know?
Not just global shutter, but shutter speeds up to 1/80000, flash sync the same (which is simply bonkers, but possible due to global shutter), and pre-recording?

I love my A7IV, but the A9III makes it look like a toy.
the OP author, Oliver Milman's math is horrendous. Needs more peer reviews.
Almost nobody can keep a secret, including yourself. Keep your mouth shut.