skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally with my family and some family friends the men have outlived the women in more recent years. My sister was dead at 50, my mother died 10 years before my father, four close family friends outlived their wives, my wifes father outlived her mother etc.. I know very few where the wives outlived the husbands.

Obviously the stats tell a different story across society, but I found this interesting.
Seems your site got hugged to death. Was interested in one of the 'random' generated items it could put out.
One possibility you lose from a well insulated house is the heat collection potential of your roof on a cold day. The roof is receiving close to 1,000w/m2 and that energy is just wasted.

Passive houses use a lot of tricks around the angles light enters a home and skylights etc to collect that energy, but a system that uses little energy and doesn’t have moving parts so it can last the lifetime of the home should allow for more options and thus lower costs.

PS: Solar thermal systems work well and have a fairly short payback period, but involve both moving parts and fluids.
The highest yield current mining and enriching processes beat that by about a factor of 10; there are a few sites globally that achieve that, Canada would be the most relevant.

Don't forget that only the high density fuel needs to be shipped long distance as well...

For a fully reliable 1gw of wind, that's something like 600 turbines (to simply), each turbine lasts about 20 years, and weighs about 200 tonnes. So about 5000 tonnes of finished wind turbine a year, with an equivalent waste stream.
Tbf, I think the commenter was responding in the context of the 93 existing reactors previously mentioned.
If men and women are equal, the problems of one are also problems for the other and both must work towards the solutions.

If men's problems are not the concern of women and vice versa, that implies men and women are not equal.
it does have graphs though
> The thing about healthcare in America is that everything is unregulated and completely opaque.

I would say "heavily regulated and completely opaque".
Go counts time from year 1. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(computing)#Notable_epoc...

Arbitrariness aside, some other complications would be (A) having to store 64-bit numbers on very early PDP machines; and (B) the Julian/Gregorian transition
This happened to a friend of mine. He had no programming experience but was tech savvy.

The organisation was using an excel spreadsheet for a bunch of things. The org identied his tech savvy-ness and asked him to add some functionality.

He taught himself VB for this task. I still remember the message he sent me happy he'd discovered functions. I asked him how many lines he had written, he was 3000 lines deep by the time he discovered functions.

He knew this was bad. He kept telling management this was too complex for an excel spreadsheet that is emailed around, and they should hire a developer to build proper solution.

He later left the org for greener pastures and on more than one occasion they contacted him to asking to add additional functionality to the spreadsheet. Each time he'd tell them they should hire a developer to write a real application, with a real database and they weren't interested. So he'd quote some stupid hourly rate hoping they'd go away and each time they agreed to it.

Last I heard, his spaghetti spreadsheet still lives on 10 years later.
Forget about life expectancy. What are the odds you'll want to do big things and be able to do them after age 70?
How is it not about exploration? And how is it about profit? Who do you think benefits most from having cheaper access to space? Society as a whole benefits way more than old musky.

A billionaire's mega yacht is for his exclusive use. Starship is definitely not that. Starship's purpose has nothing to do with any personal transportation plans for Musk himself.
According to [1], "homicide, suicide and gun deaths" is the 2nd highest factor in explaining the difference.

[1] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799922583326720/...
Ok phonetic phonatic
Sure it does, people ask others all the time about a solution to a very specific problem.
Notes on VLLM v.s. DeepSpeed-FastGen
That’s per annum. The rate decreases by age, but over a lifetime the cumulative odds start to add up to a more significant number.

Also, by killing men in their twenties it affects the average more than something like heart disease that usually kills men over 50.
I checked both the issues mentioned, people have been respectful and showing empathy to author's situation

https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/issues/91

https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/issues/92
I have no idea. For instance does France require special flight clearance after taking antidepressants even for non-psych gastrointestinal issues?
With their resources, can’t they just steal the designs digitally?
I'm not really sure if I understand the intuition here, this seems rather disconnected from what I understand to be the math of optimization.

It seems like you're referring to an associative Hebbian/Hopfield-like lookup, which the current 'dumb' optimizers already do. Better yet, the learning rates are normalized by the diagonal of the empirical Fisher so that the learning w.r.t. to some estimated expected information is more constant, for said associative lookup operation.

Additionally, the training loop (which you call 'dumb') is just...a teacher-forced version of inference, which you call 'smart'?

It's better to simply minimize the log-likelihood in a scalable way. Hand-engineered solutions rarely survive compared to strong-scaling ones.
Cambridge Analytica collected structured data: friend networks, likes, and interests. At that time, it wasn't plausible to obtain equally powerful insights from unstructured data. That only became a realistic scenario when GPT-3 came out, in 2020.
Your point stands, but the comment is misleading.

The claim is birthdate+zip+gender could uniquely identify 87% of the US population, and there are respectable studies to back this stuff up (https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priv...). There aren't a lot of days where there's only one person celebrating their birthday in an entire zip code.

Even factoring in birth year and gender, I struggle with this a bit, because I know that in densely populated areas of the country, where more and more of the population lives (upwards of 80% of the US lives in urban environments), you'll find multiple babies with the same gender being born in the same hospital on any given day... and there are often multiple hospitals servicing the same zip code!

Despite all this, your point still stands: it doesn't take much data to deanonymize someone.
Not to be a wet blanket, but I'm really surprised to see posts about this all over social media today. This isn't even a nice round number, and we hit a new decimal value every 5 years or so.
All the feminists I know also care about homelessness and suicide rates. You can believe in gender inequality and still care about men.
The relentless attacks from the far left on the court are far worse.

First off: they’re highly politically motivated with allegations that do not survive closer scrutiny.

Second: there’s a serious risk that Trump may not only be nominated, but also win 2024. If the court has by then been weakened, that’s a significant check-and-balance misbalance.

Stuffing the court (or wherever they’re going with these attacks) is the path to Latin American dysfunction.

I get that overturning Roe v Wade sucks. I’m pro choice. But the foundations of our system of government are way more important.

(And separately, the dems are crushing the reps on this issue - overturning Roe has given the dems a huge electoral advantage)
How is Saty even relevant here?
That first screenshot is an incredibly polite comment from someone also willing to offer help to the maintainer.

In my opinion, it's perfectly reasonable to ask if a project is still being maintained. I often come across packages that have had no updates in a year, and it's hard to know if that's because they aren't being maintained, or if they are being maintained and no updates have been required.

I hear the argument from some open-source maintainers that they have no obligations to the people who use (and depend on) their software. But there are lots of open-source developers that actually want people to use (and to depend) on their software. Being an open-source developer of a widely-used application or package can bring great benefits to the developer - at the very least it garners them respect from the community and potentially from future employers, and in some cases it can lead to huge financial rewards: acquisitions, great career prospects, paid trips around the world to speak at conferences, etc.

It's definitely more of a two-way street than some developers would lead you to believe.
Why would high interest rates not be even worse for nuclear, which requires a far larger and earlier initial capital investment?
I agree with you. That being said, I also suspect there are a lot of rude and entitled people who treat maintainers poorly. Here are my thoughts:

1) Be polite - Open Source developers and maintainers are incredibly generous, and they should be treated with respect.

2) Treat maintainers with respect - For example, instead of asking if something is dead, try writing something like "Are you still working on this project? Would types of issues will you fix? Security bugs? Serious bugs? What else?"

3) Give back - If you depend on a project, ask the maintainer if there is anything you can do to help?

4) Consider giving money to the maintainer as a thank you. If you really like a project or really depend on it, you should probably give the maintainer some money. There are two reasons for this. First, it shows you appreciate their work. Second, it encourages them to keep on supporting the project.

5) Let maintainers know that you appreciate their work. Also, let them know what you like about it.

One thing I think a lot of people are not thinking about is real people work on open source software and these people have limitations, desires, likes, etc. They are not meat bags which create software because users demand it or feel they are entitled to it.
> How? They could either not be who they say they are and/or not located in the United States.

Require either US Identity papers or a corporate identity that is registered in the US in order to file a DMCA (or <country here> id/corpid for filing a <country specific> copyright claim)

Furthermore, tweaking the reporting times for DMCA would help:
1. Claim made, soft-takedown immediately (delist but don't remove)
2. Proceed to hard-takedown after 24 hrs if no counterclaim is made.
3. Counterclaim made, reinstate and inform original claimant.
4. Original Claimant can then either sue or obtain a court-ordered injunction.
5. Optionally Claimant can pay a nominal fee for "human decision-making" by Google or a mutually agreeable arbitrator.
6. Respondent has 14 days to file their own nominal fee to move it to arbitration or can proceed to countersue.
I've tried using DDG for years, on and off, and it's been a terrible experience.

Local searches simply don't work. My favorite example is searching for "restaurante" and getting Spanish results, even though I'm from Romania. By comparison, Google understands what I want and delivers a list of "restaurants near me", alongside websites in Romanian.

But it doesn't stop at local searches. Programming-related searches are terrible too. I have to second-guess DDG on every search. The Google search doesn't always yield better results, but it does so enough that it's making me not trust DDG.

Honestly, even the ads on Google are better than DDG's search results. As far as alternative search engines go, Brave Search delivers better results for my search patterns. They are still terrible at local searches, but I'm not noticing the DDG-like blunders. When Brave Search isn't delivering, it's probably due to the size of their index, but at least it's their own index.

"Works for me" doesn't cut it. First, because nobody cares. You all should spend more time with the normies to see how they are using tech. They don't refine the search phrase to make it more specific (even though that doesn't help much with DDG either).

It's also worth considering that DDG is basically just a Bing shell, so I wouldn't consider it competition. If it doesn't have its own crawler, index and ranking algorithm, it's not competing with Google.
Ok, seems like your UI is not coming from a place of malice. However, pulling out an email input form at the final step is a very widespread UI dark pattern, so if nothing else please let people know that you will ask their email before they start interacting with your forms.
I'm really tired of this claim. Every single time its made its entirely a figment of the writer's imagination, because there is no quote you can find of Elon attributing the success to himself. In fact when people attribute SpaceX's success to him in interviews he almost universally immediately deflects that praise to the people at SpaceX. I've seen that personally in numerous interviews over the last decade and a half I've been following SpaceX.
It's a bit of mathematical bikeshedding, hardcoding reversability would cause far more problems than it would help.

Best to simply scale log-likelihood-based training, next-token-based training trivially contains a requirement for learning all of the subproblems that predict said, next token, and hardcoding something to get warm human fuzzies would be creating a biased estimator (and move us back towards the 90s a bit).

Models already very constantly do context-dependent token utilization, it's an autoregressive feature based on the entire stream of incoming tokens. Humans have a bias to focus on the 'last token used', this is not what language models look at.
Terrible metaphor, obviously. All electricity generating methods are compared in the same way, cost per power generated.
Historians who don’t have access to anything other than text (which is your hypothetical situation) cannot justify any claim about real world events in the past.

However, this does not happen in real life. Text does not fall from the heavens into the minds of historians. It comes in books, manuscripts, stone tablets, etc. Unlike digital text (which is the only thing LLMs have access to), physical texts have physical properties which can be examined experimentally. They can be subject to radiometric dating, they typically are found in a particular place (which is usually recorded), and they have version and copyright information which enables them to be traced back to the original. In the case where the original manuscript is lost (such as Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War), we have to rely on copied manuscripts by other scribes, often made centuries later.

All of this is to say that it can be very difficult to trace a book back to its original author, especially without the original manuscript, but the evidence historians use to piece all this together is generally not in the text itself. It’s physical evidence. Exactly the thing that LLMs have no access to.
All work and no fun
The Secret Behind the First $1 Billion Green Hydrogen Startup
> The company is on track to produce 20 kilograms of HALEU by the end of the year, and then expects to produce 900 kg in 2024

> Centrus and the Russian state-owned company Tenex, which are the only two outfits that can produce HALEU in the world

> For now, the DOE intends to purchase about 25 tonnes of HALEU per year to kick-start the industry and give HALEU producers secure contracts from which they can expand production

So in 2024 the DoE will buy 0.9T from the only American producer, and the remaining 24.1T from Russia?
The "automated way" is just a matter of perspective. What matters is that the more efficiently you can do it, the fewer resources you need to devote to "investigate" anyone. That can certainly create ethical quandaries. I don't follow how it creates a legal one. AFAIK, the boundaries on privacy laws tend to be tied to access & consent, not scale. Scale just changes the size of the violation. Can you give me an example of a privacy law where the legal line is drawn around scale?
Yes, this is because there's no assignment happening up front w.r.t. the word 'red'. However, you'll notice the same kind of ambiguity for the word 'apple' in the reversed sentence, as the word 'The' can imply quite a few things following it.

The entropy gotta get slung around somehow.
The commenter was referring to Microsoft's GUI frameworks on offer in .NET and not .NET in general. Of course .NET is used everywhere at Microsoft. C# is one of the most popular languages in the world.

They were talking about Microsoft constantly re-inventing GUI frameworks and then abandoning them. For example, you bring up Teams, but Teams is actually an Electron app, which gets to the point of the commenter.
Global South here, is this a new conspiracy? Food poisoning is very common, you should be thankful of your safety standard.
I've had success using a variation of Gwern's system prompt https://gwern.net/tla#system-prompt
Show HN: AssistantHunter, a GPT that searches through 9K+ GPTs for your task
There will probably be over 1M GPTs by the end of the year, so I built a search engine for GPTs.

It's built with GPT custom actions and qdrant.

We're accepting new GPTs, please submit yours at assistanthunt.com.

Enjoy building!
> en masse, both ethically and legally.

I think only problematic ethically. From what i can see, there can't be anything illegal about collecting publicly available information and using any algorithm to analyse and deduce information from it.
You get it, "record macro" is the key to this. MS could switch them to C# or JS or python or whatever, if they just added a button which did that.
I'm curious how you went. Here's my attempt: https://github.com/chewxy/hm , the core of which (i.e. the interface type) is what powers most of the languages I wrote (different languages I wrote have different unification schemes)
I'm not entirely sure. SkiaSharp is the driver behind all the 2D graphics, isn't it? But the SkiaSharp repo is effectively unmaintained except maybe to support critical things for MAUI.
Drug overdoses.
As a man, I am resentful of feminists because they do not further the cause of equality. Feminists want to be more equal than others, which is just word games to say they want power over others.

Quite sincerely, screw that noise.

I know of many wonderful women (and men!) who truly believe in equality, and I would call precisely none of them feminists.
This is what I consider to be truly useful AI without the buzzwords. Doesn't need those buzzwords either.
Awesome, I've been curious about using controlnet like this. I'm glad someone tried it out.
It really depends what ecosystem you are in. For example, the nodejs/npm ecosystem is on a never-ending cycle of package upgrades. If a maintainer is not maintaining a package, it will eventually have to be replaced for one of the following reasons:

1) One of the package's dependencies has a breaking change which breaks the package

2) One of the package's dependencies has a security bug. The dependent package cannot be upgraded to a fixed version because the dependent package's fixed version has a breaking change which breaks the original package.

Basically, ecosystems which do not have strong backwards compatibility tend to require packages/libraries/creates/assemblies/DLLs to be maintained forever.
Note that bug zappers do nothing to mosquitos but take lots of food out of the chain.
Seems unlikely unless they somehow emitted redundant prefixes
There's like... zero momentum behind MAUI. The wider industry has learned their lesson and nobody in their right mind would ever use MAUI for a new GUI project unless Microsoft converts 80% of their applications to it.

The only decent GUI framework for Windows is Electron, which is based on Chromium.

Microsoft's new GUI applications use Electron: VS Code, Azure Data Studio, etc...

In other words: Google makes the best Microsoft Windows GUI framework, as endorsed by Microsoft's own developers.
skytube lets you ban chans, idk how anyone finds anything common and useful without it, the autogenerated yt spam has made the real search interface pointless.
Testosterone is a steroid.
The language, the object model, and the IDE combine for a fun, highly productive programming environment.
You need perf measurements to understand the impact. It sounds like you're saying that it's a massive time stick to fix the problems, so it had better be a measurable impact to understand the ROI.

I've definitely seen careful memory management make a huge difference in custom RNN code, so don't doubt it can make a difference, but I expect it matters mainly when it's part of a very tight loop.
Ah, the assumption we always need some rent-seeking middleman.
Surveying Wikipedians
(I'm Australian)

Despite the excess COVID deaths in 2022, the super aggressive Australian response to to COVID (closing borders until vaccines were available) worked really well in comparison to other countries.

You can see this on [1] where Australia jumped from 14th in the world in 2019 to 8th in 2021 (sort by 2021 "all" in the first table).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
I have the 1st edition printed 1988. Chapter 6 is Type Checking, chapter 7 is Runtime Environments, and chapter 8 is Intermediate Code Generation.

WTF. The 2nd edition is really butchered.
I just have a hobbyist curiosity in the area, I think learning ml basics removed alot of the magic of ai hype, I at least like to think I'm less susceptible to hype and bs. I feel like I have a good idea what is going on and what the limits are of models and how to use them. There is a bigger world of ai besides llm

Depends on your goals though, using llm just seems like using any other api to me.
Fun fact: it's written in Haskell
Sometimes the watchdog needs to have fun too, you know.
VBA is a lovely language, that supports object-oriented programming (with composition... no inheritance). It has deep access to and control of Excel. It's mature and stable (Microsoft is no longer significantly changing it). "Real programmers" hate on it largely because of all the amateur spaghetti VBA code written by the business people (that the programmers are occasionally asked to debug).
I am using Maven

Getting the jar file is easy. But its deploying it that has been difficult
One of my managers asked me to write a keylogger when I first started programming. I'm glad I had the common sense to say heck no. This was 2015 and I was still a novice developer at an e-commerce company (Flipkart). This was for an internal application and not for our users but it was still wildly unethical.
Have you considered not working in that role?

And I know that feeling. I had a job once where if you wanted to install a text editor, not only did you need permission, but someone from IT dept had to come to your desk and install it themselves. And this was at an ordinary mid-sized private company manufacturing nothing special.

All you can do is starve these companies of support, by leaving as soon as you discover such attitudes, and encourage any other devs there to do the same.
If the rulers of the the eastern emperors are regarded as Romans, then the Roman Empire did not fall until the 15 century. Many historians would prefer 1453 as the date of the fall of the Roman Empire.

That’s a fair bit later than people realize.
This is really dreary.
I think the author is going through a tough time and probably just needs to step back from software, especially with the implied pressure being felt. We've all been there, in varying degrees, and software and technology is the least important thing in our lives.

But there's some general commentary here that I think is applicable to maintainers appropriately setting expectations that contributors can abide to or be held to when interacting with the given projects.