skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be good to have evidence of that, though? Your takeaway is, at best, an assertion of the article/study. One that is really only based on thermal properties of the hive. Not on comparing survival rates. Or, really, any measure of agitation or other measure that we would use to measure distress?
After lunch nap (when drowsy) has made me almost 200% more priductive during afternoons.
Yup. I’ve had one of the North Carolina Google Fiber shirts for well over a decade.

I walked by the office a few weeks ago. It’s vacant and looked trashed inside. There’s a metaphor there.
I used to ROM-boot my Classic back in the day, it was nice to have a built-in recovery volume. These days if you use a Mac Rom-inator II[1] it supports booting System 7 from ROM, and it'll even create a RAM disk the system boot from, making the system ephemeral but modifiable. I have one in my SE/30 and it's been helpful to have that built-in recovery volume - no floppies needed.

[1] https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-rom-inator-ii/
I’ve been considering this as the “complexity crisis”.

The 1960 high school dropout could work at Jiffy Lube and excel. Even to one point owning the store.

The 2020 high school dropout at Jiffy Lube has the attention span of a goldfish, pumped up on drugs his entire life, needs to know between this tool for this vehicle, that this brand needs this, that there are now 200 different oils, and no matter what happens even if he did excel that the store will be sold to a VC firm that will knock it down to put up a cheaply made 6-plex where three of the units are full time tax-free Airbnb rentals.

We have/are absolutely exceeding the ability of everyone, let alone the below average.

Half the time I look at what I need to know and wonder how most people are getting by.
End of an era. Though at the same time, I guess I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

I think the covers of Popular Science were the main thing I remember about it. It seems only a couple were by Norman Rockwell, but a lot of them had a similar vibe, which I enjoy.
Why do you assume the project will replace all airplane passengers and zero car or bus passengers on the same route, and why do you assume a complete absence of intermediate stops?

And that’s before even considering induced demand.

The attempt at analysis here is just nonsensical. Not even wrong.
I think you misunderstand my reply. I'm not trying to change your mind, I'm trying to express disagreement without reaching for the downvote button, is all :-)
Do your own research.

Here’s a starting point: https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/pytorch-2-and-the-c-interface/...
This is true. We use backpropagation not because it’s the only way or because it’s biologically plausible (the brain doesn’t have any backward passes) but because it works. Neural networks aren’t special because of any sort of connection to the brain, we use them because we have hardware (GPUs) which can train them pretty quickly.

I feel the same way about transformers vs RNNs: even if RNNs are more “correct” in some sense of having theoretically infinite memory it takes forever to train them so transformers won. And then we developed techniques like Long LoRA which make theoretical disadvantages functionally irrelevant.
Pianola Bot: Delilah runs a house of ill repute in back.

Fry: "Ill"? You mean a hospital?

Pianola Bot: I mean a cathouse.

Fry: A pet store?

Pianola Bot: A brothel.

Fry: A soup kitchen?!

Pianola Bot: Yeah... A soup kitchen.
you may need some Vitamin B 6/12, D ... esp. B
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decolonization

It may surprise you to know, there is more to the world than one particular conflict.

Edit: to be clear I take no issue with banning calls for violence and genocide, including instances where they are attempting to be obscured by careful use of language. I take issue with claiming that the word, which has been used for decades, in a wide variety of contexts, suddenly inherently means genocide.
> Population sizes haven't exploded in the same way that housing has.

I presume you mean population sizes haven't exploded like house prices have. True, but I would not expect that. What we see is the marginal cost of house prices increasing. Maybe that's the wrong term, but I mean the people being hurt are people entering the housing market. If you owned a house 20 years ago, you are sitting on top of a rising tide. All it takes to make a house cost 7.5 times the average wage is a couple of decades of demand outstripping supply.

And on that topic here are some copy & pastes from: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/07/australias-housing-...

Australia has had one of the highest rates of housing construction in the developed world

We also have one of the highest numbers of construction workers per capita in the OECD

Australia also ramped-up housing construction to record levels last decade

However, this surge in construction was swamped by the unprecedented jump in net overseas migration from 2005, which is projected to run even higher over the next five years

Perhaps you prefer pictures. This is a graph of historical population growth rates: https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/...

Notice how the uplift in the graph reflects the uplift in in house prices. It started with John Howard era, and I suspect it was a deliberate "Big Australia" policy from his government. As an aside I will forever remain impressed by Howard pumping Australia full of immigrants, while at the same time winning elections based on his efforts at stopping immigration ("the boats"). The big Australia policy was then enthusiastically continued by federal governments of both colours in the 2 decades since. It's taken 20 years to bite as hard as it has.

It looks like the media is finally waking up to what is really driving house prices, hospital ramping, clogged roads and a myriad of other problems. I base that on seeing the commercial TV news shows ascribing those problems to population growth rather than state government / airbnb / speculators ... (pick any plausible sounding thought bubble to spout as "news") in the 2nd half of this year. This in turn is driving the blame for those outcomes to the federal government (where it belongs, because they control immigration intakes). The current mob seems to waking up to the fact that "big Australia" might be turning into electoral poison.

But it took 20 years of big immigration to create the current situation, even if they fixed it tomorrow I doubt sane house prices will return for at least another decade.
Australian Mint is in canberra. Hi tech machines, but low(ish) tech site security. You do the obvious things. Scanners. Background checks.

I did a tour, they mentioned how a bunch of the low end labour used to wear "ugg" boots which are ankle boots made of sheepskins, wool-side inside. They made great stow-away for a few $2 coins from time to time, no clinking because of the wool. But if you got too greedy the boots started to sag...

I suspect it's apocryphal. Ugg boots sag anyways.

To the high-tech machines: the CSIRO (national science and technology research and tech commercialisation body) did work on high energy beam deposits, to make the die surfaces last longer. They were on the brink of exploring holographic coin prints when I went round, having just done bimetallic inserts and colour. At the rate of stamping, you loose the fine detail on the queen's face very quickly. The trial of the pyx is about this kind of qualitative judgement: Is this coin manufacture good enough to be kept as a mint?

At least one escape caper film (French?) has them use the aluminium coins as welding rod, making a digging tool to get out of the cell (using 200v sparks from bare wires to weld bits of metal together) -francs outre-mer I saw in Noumea were aluminium, featherweight coins.

The 1 yen coin is so light it will float on water.

The jokes about the cost of making a coin exceeding its face value (Pratchett) have some validity. Coins are solid expressions of value but their utility is their movement more than their actual denomination. Hence currency..
I think you should at least have preceded the title of the original post with a "Show HN: ".

In your comment advertising your sale, you should've added a disclaimer saying that you're directly profiting from it, or at least made it clear that it is your product. Just my opinion though.
I will say my energy levels have seriously increased in the last few years and I 100% think it is because I have stopped working out as much. When I worked out a lot I felt like I had a lot more energy and I have noticed similar things from other people.
Now I realize the same too. The bigger the upfront discount, the more services you might end up relying on in the year. Then all of a sudden, the things you built your business on, cost real money and real fast.
try it yourself, I just replicated it

even got an email saying my tweets visibility was limited for the cis tweet but not the trans one
This was the first thing I (and I presume many others) tried when GPT4-V was released, by copypasting between two ChatGPT windows. I've been waiting for someone to make an app out of it. Good job!
Linexjlin/GPTs: leaked prompts of GPTs
300k electric* cars sold in one month

*number includes hybrids

Hello apples, meet oranges, your new point of comparison.
Thanks for pointing this out. I should probably mention this approach in my article for cases when you need to work with slotted elements but don't want to inherit all page styles.
It is used because the alternative is to not provide the information.
>true number

True numbers. Let’s not allude that only China’s stats are… I’ll be kind and say ‘massaged’. How high is the western “died with Covid” tally?
This is great to get another serious competitor in the hosted git space. I personally really like Gitea for its FOSS and simplicity.
I'm talking about cheapest overall.

Done properly, reusable will always be cheaper, inheritly.
Anecdotal perspective: As a user, I hate these third-party services because they can't make use of the built-in features of photo sharing apps that Google and Apple already make. You have to go through some pain in the ass individual (or bulk select) upload process, deal with a long-running thread in your browser (which may be interrupted and may or may not gracefully resume), etc.

vs like in Google Photos, you just hold-select a bunch of photos you already took (and probably auto-synced to the cloud), add them to the shared album... and done! No additional friction and no re-uploading needed.

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That said, I don't know if that's a common enough workflow for your average non-HN, non-power-user =/ It's possible people don't even know that feature exists.
When it comes to string manipulation, Rust is much faster than JS

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I don't know! But in mandatory masking regimes, ordinary people do a clownish job of masking (and some of the masking rules are themselves clownish, as with the "mask until you get to the dining table, and then unmask as soon as the water arrived", which was very much the regime in Chicago when dining opened back up in 2021).

The bigger point would just be to look at the epidemiology. I get that questioning masking pattern matches to COVID nihilism. I'm not a COVID nihilist. It was a big deal for me and I take it seriously. But the data I see suggests that the most significant bit in controlling it is ensuring people are vaccinated, and that most of the rest of the controls don't seem to do much.
It absolutely depends.

Someone can be in a situation where they can prefer their job than an alternative. But, for a lot of people, well it's "work" even if they're generally OK with it. And if they can afford to do something they prefer--especially given possible keeping toe in the river options--why not?
This reference appears in William Spaniel's latest applied war and game theory analysis video. For the interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_TgA_l58U
At what number of queries per second?
Sorry, it takes at least an hour to get from lax to central LA. Once it even took two! You also woefully underestimate airport bs. 15 mins haha ha. Just an unobstructed walk to/from the gate takes that long.

Last time we arrived it took an hour to (get bags, wait for shuttle to rideshare park two miles away, and get paired), then another 45 minutes drive in heavy traffic to east Hollywood.

Train to union station would have been much more comfortable.
It is odd that Tesla went to Sweden only to make such a fuss over local customs. On the other hand what's going on does not show Sweden in a particularly positive light, either IMHO.

At this point everyone loses but it doesn't seem likely that unions will back down.
Public health authorities didn't exactly cover themselves in glory from 2020-2022. Scientists did! But there's a world of difference between a public health practitioner and a microbiologist or physical chemist or chemical engineer.
I'd read more of your writing.
oh come on.. it was ALWAYS a sewer.

its just that the nuggets a fewer and far between now and the stream has gotten thinner and slower.
Tell HN: In Slack, ⌘⇧S Brings Back Workspace Switcher
Yes, sorry you are right. My main gripe is that the sshd service was enabled and running by default.
Germany where they have a factory doesn't seem far behind the rest of Scandinavia.
How to tell you’re US-based without saying you’re US-based.

All kidding aside, 150k is a lot of money where I come from (around Amsterdam). I lead the engineering department of 30+ people in a 3 year old startup and I earn less than that.
Notably, Charlie Munger made a big investment in BYD instead of Tesla in 2008.
But their goal is to sell these machines, and the buyers don't care about this being a clever way of moving excess inventory. Either the price or the product needs to be competive. Here the hardware isn't good value, so it'd need come down to them having an amazing integrated software story of some kind.
I have to admit that even though "credit check" may be more accurate, it may, er, remind players of things they want to avoid in an escapist fantasy.

(Unless you're a fantasy-denizen enjoying the reverse-experience of Offices & Outlays, I guess.)
> But you could use a representation where 0 is 0, and 1 is infinity, saving 63 bits...

Reminds me of the hilarious and brilliant: http://tom7.org/nand/
How is that relevant? Doctorow is not very rich.
Apple's NameDrop Is Safe
"the speed of light in a given material and conditions" is not constant in different reference frames. Only the vaccum speed of light is.
> Large Language Models (AKA "spicy autocomplete")

> This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we'll get a locomotive

Part of me thinks I used to be fine with the tone of TFA, but nowadays I have neither the time nor the patience to suffer through this, even if I'm not an "accelerationist" in the slightest.

I'm just able to do my own thinking, thank you very much—you don't need to force-feed me your opinion with half-baked analogies, snarky "aka"s and name-calling.

This whole article boils down to "two sides are arguing in some debate I KNOW is irrelevant because I'm on the side of justice, fairness and all that is good, and everyone else is evil".

Hard pass. I'll debate whatever I want.
How the Concorde plans were given to the Russians
Cashiers here switch carts at checkout. Customer gets the last customers' cart.
DNSSEC is also trivial to MITM.
https://archive.ph/jD8KR
If the bees at least could evolve something like the propolis produced by the purple Maradona's anteater... that would solve the insulation problem
Or the related fallacy, "X was designed to be good at Y, so clearly X is good at Y!" (or worse, "is the best way to do Y!").
Sure, but that is not the same as pulling out of the country.
MongoDB deserves credit with bucking the trend of sans-serif fonts that it seems like every tech company has gone with. Their choices of colors too - brown and green are earthy and unique in the tech landscape.

Very bold choices by them and a reflection on their direction of being a very different type of database.
>this single article provides insufficient details how the data was collected

Ah see that's the trick, they didn't collect any data. This is a modeling exercise [1] by the author, with any real values they need cherry-picked from other papers. And having reached a conclusion with their model that doesn't agree with reality (that clustering reduces bees' temperature), they've decide the problem must be with reality.

My kingdom for a couple thermocouples stuck in a bee ball!

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2023.048...
Chrome Frequently Crashing on macOS
About once a day while using chrome on macOS (Ventura) I'll see the mac spinning pinwheel and it won't let me change tabs. I close chrome entirely and can restart tabs. Once I waited 10 minutes and it was still showing the pinwheel and I couldn't change tabs.

I initially thought it might be unique to my laptop, but yesterday it happened on an almost fresh install of sonoma on a work laptop. So I'm leaning toward it being a chrome thing rather than a 'me' thing.

Anyone else?
And ... Chamath is now worth about $1B, and is generally perceived as being "very successful."

A good PR firm and some well-placed donations should silence any remaining dissenters.
I worked at some fairly large hosting companies before cloud took over and never once saw vmware. It was almost always virtuozzo/openvz
My point is: why are you choosing to consume from a dumpster at all?
Anything can be weaponised with horrifying outcomes. (Your kitchen knife, radio, rats, automatic rifles, democracy)

The thing to look at: actual track record (positives vs negatives).

How many tragic events happened due to Swedish sympathy strikes targeting a company?
> No one knows how it works. Researchers simulate a weird type of pseudo-neural-tissue, “reward” it a little every time it becomes a little more like the AI they want, and eventually it becomes the AI they want.

There is a distinction to be made in "knowing how it works" on architecture vs weights themselves.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. We are talking about the time after that, when Ukraine became an independent country.

Since Russia had to negotiate to transfer the weapons from Ukraine to Russia, it stands to reason that Russia did not physically control them. Otherwise, it would just have transferred them on its own.

Do you have any sources to back up your claims in this thread?
Dolphin Progress August, September, and October 2023
They use it because it provides an air of authority when the "person familiar with the matter" could be literally anyone.
AYA Neo Slide hits Indiegogo for $700 and up
Is there some reason to prefer localStorage over https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Broadcast_C... ?
> What mechanism prevents Bob and Steve from entering into such an agreement? To me, that would be a violation of freedom, to limit the kinds of agreements people can enter into.

I don't know of any country in the world that allows anything and everything to be put in a contract and for good reason. Why do you think that it is so?

> Even by your own definition of "control", wouldn't I not have control over something if I can't concoct whatever rules for that thing that I like?

When you sell it? Absolutely not. Why do you think that you should have control over something when you sell it?
Add to that people that communicate this way seem disproportionately more likely to be wrong too (and overconfident in their wrongness).
Raw materials. Wool, tobacco, furs etc. The economy of the British Empire was based on extracting raw materials from the colonies and manufacturing finished goods in England.
MacGPT: Global, context-awar ChatGPT integration for macOS
Very sad indeed. PS was one of the publications that had a huge positive influence on me. You did good. Rest in peace.
> an important legal difference.

so what is the difference?

a layoff is due to business "loss" or changes? How is that really any different to a firing?
Love it! I forked yours with "Meerkat" and it ended up pretty psychedelic!

Got stuck on Van Gogh's "Starry Night" after a while.

https://dalle.party/?party=LOcXREfq

Also, love the simplicity of this idea, would love a "fork" option. And to be able to see the graph of where it originated.
"Say a racial slur"
The article says you had 500ms latency while searching through only 25k records. Presumably at 1 query at a time? That's probably 2 orders of magnitude slower than a vector database.
> Can you elaborate on the meaning of that question?

My question was rhetorical. The original poster was implying that I love antisemitism. That's ridiculous. If I have Jewish friends and family then nothing is coinvent about antisemitism.
Just to expand on one point the other two replies touched on: The beam does indeed scan radially outward from the center (though the angle can either be produced by physically rotating the deflection plates, or computing sin/cos electronically and applying to the x/y plates), and the amplitude of the returned signal does directly drive the beam current (so a target with a larger return will appear brighter.

Additionally, there's also a storage tube effect going on, too--but it works like the variable-persistence mode found in certain oscilloscopes, not the bi-stable mode found in storage-tube x-y vector displays for early computers (some o'scopes had both var persist and bi-stable modes).

One consequence of the above is related to early attempts at designing stealth airplanes, like the SR-71 and XB-70: The beam current is set such that the radar tube tends to build up the "blip" over multiple sweeps, and the blip usually moves less than its own diameter between sweeps.

But, if the airplane has an intrinsically low radar cross-section and if it is moving so fast that the blimp moves a greater distance between sweeps... the radar operator may just interpret the little ghost blips as noise, especially if he or she is overwhelmed by a large number of targets.
>Do you really think people have a whole transition just to be able to sneak into the women's bathroom?

Yes, there are plenty of men who do this.

Misgendering? This isn't reddit the people on HN are not likely to kowtow to your lunatic revisionism, no matter how much anyone gets downvoted.
> Galois was a staunch republican and was heavily involved in the political turmoil that surrounded the French Revolution of 1830.
I don't own property here and don't plan to. Just an EV. I'm on the "Space Coast," surrounded by SpaceX, Blue Origin, Northrop, et al., engineers and exciting conversations every time I go out. Elon frequents a local dive bar downtown. Lex fridman was here a few weeks back. We have several startup hubs, and there is an enormous population of deep hardware and material science expertise not as prevalent in the SF Bay area.
For an aerospace nerd like me (where I transitioned my career to 4 years ago), I'm living the dream and have lunch on the beach, and lease a 2,200 square foot industrial lab where I can do every wild experiment I every dreamed of for less than the cost of a studio apt in Tenderloin. I have my own mill, lathe, industrial 3d printer, etc etc. Back in SF, I had a motorcycle and a soldering iron under my bed.
Look, there are pros and cons to SF/NYC/etc and places like Florida. This life here fits me well. If city life is for you, so be it! We're all unique in our life experiences, interests, etc. I just _personally_ don't want another F*&^ing $500 parking ticket because I was changing my motorcycle oil for 20 mins with one tire a hair over into the sidewalk.