skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the usual variety of machines and I like to keep the old ones running for "regular people" in the family.

Yesterday an older machine with 4GB of actual memory and 12GB of paged memory on a fast drive running Windows 10 (I know, not an Apple story) died mid use and auto rebooted.

The cause?

Google Chrome, 14 tabs, 8 inactive, an app running extracting subtitles from a queue of MKV files, a terminal window and ... <drumroll> .. windows update triggered to sanity check for new updates in the background.

The (windows) update checks are getting pretty damn heavy these days, you can hear the drives thrashing in the background as every critical file is version and CRC checked and who knows what else these days.

The failure and rebooting was likely linked to my hard limit on paged memory - just this dedicated 12 GB partition and no more .. but the workload was light by any past standard and it's the first instance of the updater kicking in and exhausting resources.
There doesn't seem to be any clear signal in the data. Maybe with a higher n than 10 a multimodal distribution might arise. At the very least I'd be interested to know if all the participants had done cold plunges before or if there is a mix of experienced practioners and newcomers in the cohort.
It's a few years away, but more and more manufacturers are moving to the Tesla standard.
I recently build my own a level 2 EV charger from an OpenEVSE kit. The heart of the charger is a big mechanical relay, which connects and disconnects the charging cable based on whether a car is connected. To control the relay, there is a small circuit board that communicates with the car, and also provides over-current, over-temperature, and GFCI monitoring. If any of these things go wrong, the relay will not close and the car will not charge.

The DC fast chargers include similar safety features, in addition to a big AC-DC converter. The DC power supply puts out several hundred amps at whatever voltage the car requests (usually 300V, but sometimes much higher). Normally, currents this high would require super thick & heavy cables, but DC fast chargers often avoid this using water cooling and active temperature monitoring in the cable. As the cable heats up from the excessive current, the charging equipment actively throttles the charging session to keep things from melting.

So yeah, there are a few mechanical things that can go wrong.
A particular point in the space I find very appealing is emulators running on RP2040 class microcontrollers such as Raspberry Pi Pico. These have most of the advantages of FPGA, including latency measured in microseconds, near instant boot, and "racing the beam," but at considerably lower cost.
2024 is the biggest election year in history
Yeah I love how people thinks it's easy to mass produce designs that take hundreds of individual steps and weeks for a single wafer to go through the process. 50+ Layers, aligned at the (sub?) nanometer level. Trying to tweak the process so that your electrons stop quantum tunneling across layers in all directions.
you can also learn things on google and youtube, dont see how chat gpt makes anything better in education
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/20...
Probably unpopular opinion: "Online Safety" has long been a pernicious euphemism to justify censorship.
China launching any kind of missile at ASML is WW3
But the current British generations stand on the shoulders of their giants. The reap all the benefits
Toyotas have a well earned reputation for running forever if you take care of them. That's why there's a premium for them, even though they often run a generation or two behind on features.
Steel plants polluting nearby rivers is an optional aspect of steel plants. Potentially being hit by attacks is not an optional part of having nuclear weapons.
I've been thinking about this for a while now but I've been approaching it from the opposite direction.

If we were attempting to put someone into some sort of Matrix like reality simulator but we lacked the technology to provide a perfect simulation what level of simulation would be 'good enough' that a human would consider it reality and be able to develop into something we could relate to?

If you gave someone the Helen Keller level of experience, but with reduced tactile sensation, how much could you reduce that touch sensation before they wouldn't be like us?
Ask your Indian colleagues about this specific grind and you might be surprised.
Thanks for the article. Maybe I’m confused, but why in the section near the end about how the two recommendations go together, why is the code this:

if condition {
for walrus in walruses {
walrus.frobnicate()
}
} else {
for walrus in walruses {
walrus.transmogrify()
}
}
and not this?

if condition {
frobnicate_batch(walruses)
} else {
transmogrify_batch(walruses)
}
>“I’m known for my love of theatrical and put my whole life into that, but, the truth is, the way the film goes out at home is equally important.”

Thats respectable. But if he cares so much about that then him and the studios should demand more from streaming services, if they're not reaching his bar for video and audio quality.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38284020
The nice thing about this particular application (deep neural networks) is they're usually fairly insensitive to weight noise because they have a lot of redundancy, just like our brains.

Your question still stands, however. And for an analog chip it's basically the question of how to qualify, validate, and characterize neural networks in general. I'm not convinced we have the faintest idea how to do that in any formal sense.
Is most of the media you consume potentially unlicensed background artwork, overheard music, and magazines found on the side of the road? (You actually are licensed to consume the later two). And for memes, I would say most meme creators create memes knowing they may be cross posted, which is kind of an implicit license to consume.

So, while some edge cases may technically exist, I wouldn’t call them meaningful in any way whatsoever.
Is the inverse true? Does novelty create life? Can something be novel devoid of life?
Obligatory xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1448:_Question
Are you completely sure about that?

And if so, how exactly (show exact steps of reasoning process) please?

In Physics, if something in the Universe (let's call it thing or phenomenon "A") -- is related to something else in the universe (let's call it thing or phenomenon "B") then if B is also related to thing or phenomenon C, then it's very likely that

A is related to C

as well...

Sort of like in logic, if A implies B, and B implies C... then A implies C.

Well, same thing, but with relations/connections in Physics -- if A is related/connected to B and B is related/connected to C -- then A is related/connected to C and conversely, C is related/connected to A...

So it follows (logically) that if Heat is connected with Frequency (and it is, see my original comment) and Radiation connected with Heat (and it is), and Black Body Radiation is connected to Heat (and it is), then Switching Frequency (as mentioned in the article) must be connected to all of those other things via Frequency...

I feel that people might learn a lot about Physics -- by simply studying the known connections/relations -- between various phenomena in Physics...

Maybe you are right and maybe there is no connection/relation between the two -- but I'll let future scientists make that determination by experimentally completely proving that -- or experimentally completely disproving it...

Until that point in time, I know that I for one keep a completely open mind about it, one way or the other...
I think this kind of user abuse is intentional. If people put the time and energy, and emotional effort into understanding a piece of software, they're less likely to jump ship.
I fail to see how running something like protoc before running or compiling code is a show stopper. There are even npm packages that will install protoc for you [1]. That means you can use it in a custom npm build script action, or invoke it before staring the dev server? Put in a git pre-commit to run it to assert there are no changes? Run via a file-watcher?

IMO writing a schema in something like JSON for OpenAPI is way more verbose and time consuming than writing a proto file and a script or Makefile to invoke protoc. There also is the mismatch in capabilities. The JS-adjacent schema standards mostly do not directly support native types like uint64, let alone directly specify how to encode numbers like fixed64. I mean, look... the work around in JavaScript still is use "string" [2].

On the other hand, there is a standard in OpenAPI for validating values. But that doesn't make sense in the Protobuf world since usually the API is expected to be forward and backward compatible, within reason, so something like a min and max value needs to be done at runtime, and not fixed within the schema. And don't get me started on trying to define cross-field validation in a declarative schema. It is easier to just write the code. :-)

So, IMO, no, a single standard won't happen in the industry. The many dimensions like logical vs physical models, validation, or error handling that make it impossible.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@protobuf-ts/protoc
[2] https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/2617#iss...
As little time as possible.
I hate grocery shopping more than any other adult life admin task. I maybe spend 1 hour every two weeks as a serious grocery shop.
However, because of my ADHD, despite having a shopping list, I almost always forget something. Or multiple things. So I end up having to make numerous mini-trips between shops, where even on my mini-trips, I usually forget something.
How is this possible to be so disorganised while attempting to be organised? Well, despite having a list, and a meal plan, I seem to get so distracted by the background music of the supermarket, the other people shopping (who sometimes do weird stuff if you watch them), interesting items that I’ve never noticed before, analysis paralysis when there are different flavours of the same item, or different brands of the same item and I’m trying to decide which is the best deal, or likely best quality, all combined with an overwhelming urge to leave the shop as quickly as possible because I just don’t care that much about buying food… until some point later when I realise I’m actually hungry.

I go through phases where I just bulk buy eggs and porridge with the plan of just eating the same thing every day for two weeks so I don’t have to think about what to eat. But then I get bored of eating the same thing.

Thankfully my work provides us with free fruit, vegetables, milk, bread, cheese and crackers, and unlimited coffee. So I can get away with being disorganised.
Logically, look at the scenes, the colours, textures and the theme... They all match.

Also, it's not a cash prize. The prize is a tour of an animation studio.
Tell me what incentive would there be to falsify this kind of submission?
he's not wrong. I heard they cut entire episodes of community
Can't a Blu-ray's playback be disabled by revoking the AACS cert (or whatever key) the blue-ray uses for DRM in the blu-ray players? Especially since they're all always connected now.
An LLM is math. It outputs text. Those things aren't alive, and both the software and hardware used to facilitate it is artificial.

Once you get that out of the way, sure, I guess it could be "alive" per the same loose definition that any electrical system can exist in an actuated state. It's software, though. I don't think it's profound or overly confident to say that we very clearly know these systems are inanimate and non-living.
Thank you. I didn't know about the complexity of the charging platform and power delivery cables.

TIL that charging cables can be water cooled. Going to geek out a bit on this tonight.
You are aware the same transformer architecture that underpins LLMs has shown great success in multimodal applications? Such as successfully modeling sound and music?

https://bytedance.github.io/SALMONN/
I included that in my statement.
As anecdata rather than a commentary on the article's results, I find that a 10-min cold plunge produces up to 2 hours of elevated mood and energy. I think there's a decent dataset out there to back this up as a long-period increase in endorphin production, or maybe a heightened sensitivity to endorphins, but I can't find it at the moment. (SEO efforts by ice-bath merchants and fitness/recovery gurus is quashing any scientific publications when I search.)

On the thought of that "I accomplished something hard today" feeling, after a cold plunge I also experience a decrease in how hard it is to get myself started on some difficult task I've been dreading doing. Would you say you have the same thing, where you've already done one challenging thing, so the next domino falls more easily?
That probably comes down to how the infrastructure is built out. A lot of companies are selling EV systems that can be installed in a pre-existing parking lot. A gas station requires installing large underground tanks, so it's not much extra effort to throw the data wires. In order to convince someone a business to install an EV charger, every little bit of effort counts.
It was the offical act of a country that still exists.

Britain took out a loan to repay British slaveowners for the cost of their slaves when slavery was revoked .. that loan was repaid for more than a century and only recently closed out.

The responsibilities of an institution outlive the lives of the people that staff it.
Kinks** I believe what you wrote is called a Freudian slip
This is incredibly cool, I’m excited to try it out
Also the average gas payment is about 10x larger than what charging an EV costs around here. So the amount of money "lost" on credit card fees and whatever the actual physical device costs to operate is relatively a lot bigger.

VS an app, where you keep almost 100% of the money AND can track your users better.
Design has nothing to do with usability. Companies do not value designers. At least that has been my experience. When I was young and gullible I was hireable. Now I am too stubborn to compromise on my values to be a part of the bureaucracies and pandering.
Are analytics good?
They've done this without thinking of the incentives much too.

A supercharger station I visit is on the outskirts of an old mall (dead after 8pm) parking lot (with no pedestrian experience to the mall). It is okay to go get a milkshake or cookie at until 9 and the walk and bathroom break can top up on supercharger nicely. (The mall bathroom though is poorly maintained)

Or my state incentived chargers at State and city parks that are theoretically closed at dusk, and have no full time maintenance staff or security.

Who did this seeing gas stations and thought, let's put this charger in place that is busy only on fair weather days, not safe at dark (be it wildlife, crime, or the ability to injure yourself), with no secondary revenue (snacks, food) or even bio (restrooms closed after dark or you have to walk through a basketball practice) and said, this is the infrastructure we need. The power co has wisened up now though and worked with gas stations to add a few chargers.
That’s actually adorable.

I honestly admire anyone who has the patience to let a toddler “help” them with the grocery shopping. That’s truely awesome parenting.
I, on the other hand, am tired of being called in to investigate why the janky Excel macro written four years ago by an ex-employee doesn't work for all the external stakeholders this manager just sent the spreadsheet to, only to find that the hardcoded database and local admin user creds in the VBA script are now leaked and in the clear.

A lot of people pushing shadow IT "solutions" wildly overestimate their own ability, while maintaining garbage-tier information security standards. That doesn't sound like you, but it's the far more common situation those of us in "IT" are forced to protect the wider organisation against.
Synopsys, Microsoft team up for a chip-design assistant
Of course, for the ultimate in service, one can always visit that particular bay in sweden. Eye-patch, peg-leg, and parrot included free of charge!

You get to download the movie. You get to keep the movie. You get to play the movie whenever you want.

This was the service problem that streaming was supposed to solve of course. Unfortunately people have gotten a bit too greedy, which leaves us with the current situation.
>One hour later he was back, said he took antibiotics, and felt fine now.

Even if antibiotics did fix his cold (highly unlikely), there's no way it worked in an hour. He got something to pep him up for sure.
Yeah no it's not 2003 anymore, in not going to own a device to slot a plastic disc into so I can watch a film.
Until you get reamed for 2$ a kw/hr at the hotel level 2 charger.
The UK is no longer a wealthy country by European standards - its dead last in GDP per capita in northern Europe (The UK ranks Number 17 in GDP per capita in Europe) - basically whatever benefits the UK gained from Empire was consumed by two almost incalculably costly world wars - whatever was not blown up in Flanders Fields, was bombed flat by the Germans 25 years later.

Beyond that the costs of maintaining the few remaining trapping of empire today are a sizable drag on the UK economy.
This is super interesting. Are there more examples I can see? The one in the article is a famous song which makes me wonder if it's really "decompressing" the data, or just being hunted towards a very common popular pattern of tokens.
Same in Germany. So many broken chargers for weeks.

Read through the article, but I still don't know why so many are broken and stay broken, it says "So what was wrong with these particular machines? It could be one of many things—a broken part, a power issue, a defective connector."

I don't need an article to answer why are chargers broken if the answer is "Could be one of many things, ...". Why are gasoline stations mostly never broken and chargers broken all the time? (from my limited EV experience in Germany). Why are they unrepaired? That would be journalism.
> A stochastic parrot, as described in a seminal paper [1] ....

A bit of an exaggeration. The paper reads like a long blog post to me.

[1]: https://s10251.pcdn.co/pdf/2021-bender-parrots.pdf
SymForce is a symbolic computation and code generation library that combines the development speed and flexibility of symbolic mathematics in Python with the performance of autogenerated, highly optimized code in C++ or any target runtime language.
I mean memes that use a photograph (eg a screenshot from a movie) as background with some text over it.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/who-owns-memes

But if what you have asserted is true then me reading anything that I casually come across on the Internet is okay then it is okay for a web-crawler to do the same and feed that data to an AI.
Perhaps it's less about billing and more about disincentivizing excessive use? Even if the service is free, it's not infinite and is ultimately a shared resource that should not be monopolized.
James Cameron's The Abyss, True Lies finally get 4K Blu-ray release dates
There's a fundamental difference though. The LLM is itself inscrutable, while all of these programs used to be written and understood by humans. The language used for programming used to be specified and have unique (hopefully) coherent syntax and abstraction boundaries. Now it's "anything goes" and nobody seems to know how this stuff ends up getting used...

Someone might accidentally find it works well and then we might all end up writing fairytales in iambic pentameter describing the use cases of software we want...
> rust is used in widely used programs/kernels (Firefox, Chrome, Linux itself, Windows)

those few narrow components likely have good support.
I am pretty sure there are moving parts including a solenoid or relay and fans.
Some easy to access online demo videos of the end product (so I dont have to download code) would be a huge improvement.
There’s a whole book dedicated to turning gullible obedient designers happily producing malicious dark patterns into designers who own their responsibility to society and the end users.

It’s called Ruined by Design, by Mike Monteiro. He also has a talk on the same topic. Both are highly recommended.

In short, a designer has a responsibility to use the craft for good and refuse to weaponize it. For this to be a real possibility, we need a union standing behind the designer.
That’s what my mother said. She was wrong.
My experience with recruitment agencies suggests our CVs are parsed by some cobbled together AI which is hardly much more than a keyword matching program. Unless we score a "bingo", we simply get ghosted.

On LinkedIn I get inquiries by recruiters who have obviously not bothered to read my profile.
I just listened to a podcast, Huberman, that discussed how to improve your ability to task switch. Apparently, there’s some connection to how your mind perceives time. He mentioned an exercise to improve your ability to task switch that manipulates how your mind perceives time, switching back-and-forth between slowing it down and speeding it up.

I think the inability to task switch is a big part of ADHD and this thing you’re describing really sounds similar to what Huberman was discussing.

Now, I’m not a doctor and I have no idea what I’m talking about here. Every time I start talking about this stuff I imagine my doctor friend sitting in the corner of the room shaking his head (maybe some of you saying it’s placebo should do the same).
This article really leaves you on a cliffhanger :(
Agreed.

Intentionally trying to blow up non-combatants is bad - and there is no way to make it good. Its one thing if non-combatants are collateral damage (war is dirty), its another thing entirely if ones intention is to intentionally kill civilians.
I tried that. But their recognition model seems to be quite picky. And you need the voice change real time. No time to edit anything.
Does protobuf or capnproto have good tooling support out in the world?

Proto was very convenient at Google since everything was proto, your debug tools were proto, all your data pipeline tools spoke proto, you had command line utilities for protos, etc, etc.

It seems like the rest of the world is on JSON unless they actually need performance, so if you don't get performance, should you use something like a code generator for JSON types like Conjure so that you don't actually have to deal with these binary formats everywhere?
>I see no reason to think aging and death will ever stop, for anything

There are multiple species in the wild right now that disprove this. Biology doesn't require aging.

>And to reject natural selection, especially at a time like now, is something I find even more odd.

You seem to not understand exactly what natural selection is and its role in adapting an organism to its environment.
I will. There’s no streaming service that guarantees any level of bitrate or picture quality, and if they can save a few cents by compressing the hell out of my movie, they will. If I get a well-mastered 4K disc, it’ll always be a quality experience on a decent player.
I don't plan on buying any form of spinning media ever again in my life.
It has a very definite bias in the topics of blogs/websites that it finds which is partly an artifact of the kind of person likely to have such a site but also where they sourced it from (I think they might have started with a HN Blog roll or something). But I agree that it's generally interesting sites, and I find myself going back to it every couple of weeks for a while. It reminds me of a more substantive version of "StumbleUpon" from back in the day.
I’ve been getting into blu ray again thanks to streaming costs. Amazing deals out there. You can also sometimes get 4k blu ray movies with a digital download code included for less than the digital version alone costs.
No it's 'chink in the armor'
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/chink_in_the_armor