skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is not reading the report correctly. It isn't saying there is x% chance of rolling blackouts. It isn't trying to predict the weather in December in January. It is a series of models, not a predictions.

The root issue is coal and natural gas plants being retired. At 8am solar is not generating much, so if a winter storm knocks down wind again, there isn't enough production to meet morning demand.

Full report here:

https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2023/10/02/Winter-2023-24-C...

In winter, peak demands typically occur before sunrise and after sunset, when solar generation is not available to serve those peaks (except for a
negligible amount), making the system dependent on wind generation and dispatchable Resource availability to serve the peak demands. [...] The ERCOT Region has also experienced a large increase in the number of thermal units that are planned to be indefinitely mothballed by the start of the 2023-24 winter Peak Load Season or will operate under a summer-only availability schedule.
I'm sure there's been movies about the scenario.. But yeah, it'd be weird to look at another person and he thinks he's me. It'd be hard to look from the outside at my copy and think "That's me, with all my knowledge and my thought processes", but.. it'd be the case.
Not sure where to start with this but the giant leap to dystopian hellscape from the premise of density and transit, of all things, is amusing.
Some observations on the final text of the European Digital Identity framework
This is my dream. To those worried about bending, I would be really curious to try one of these with levels of sheathing to see how they hold up in reality.
>Consumer fiber was actually tried in the past: [...] It faded away.

Not everywhere. It's still not as popular as copper but it's not extinct.
It does include notes for every change introduced in v2 (there aren't many changes from v1)
Trajectory Generation Tools offering advanced capabilities for precise and efficient motion planning. These tools are designed to cater to a wide range of applications, enabling users to create and manage complex trajectories with ease. Whether it's for robotics, simulation, or any system requiring detailed motion control, ToolboxR's trajectory generation features stand ready to deliver exceptional performance and flexibility.
Personally I think execution time is too late.
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Thomas Jefferson's Proposal to Limit the Length of Patent and Copyright
to be fair TOSLINK was a particularly bad standard and offers lower audio quality to similar or cheaper analogue devices. It's whole selling point was basically "it's fiber optic so that makes it better" while not actually being better.
Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
I’m not sure why people struggle to believe that extended power losses can result in deaths. Knowing how much Texas wanted to shove this under the rug, I’d expect extreme underreporting.
One thing that’s always struck me as strange about modern NNs is they tend to be two-dimensional and one-directional, right?

Whereas our brains are three-dimensional and have neural feedback loops. It seems clear to me that those feedback loops are an essential part of “thought”.

Any idea why more architectures don’t have neural loops built into them? Is it because they would cost too much to train? Lack of control?
I really got tired of this baseless argument during COVID-19. Nobody says X number of people died during Y event, therefore X deaths were due to Y event. At least make a good faith assumption that it's "excess deaths".
The "sentiment" weights are just the supervised classification part on top of the "compression" piece. An autoencoder is closer to pure compression. SVD is compression as well. SVD is also useful to solve some equations.
The more surprising part is the income tax cap discussion.
> My point was that insurance isn’t about unpredictability, it’s about cash flow and risk hedging based on probabilities.

I disagree. If you can predict that your house will never be burnt down, then you wouldn't need buildings insurance - it's the unpredictable nature of these events that makes insurance useful. Yes, the costs of these unpredictable events are spread out across the insurers so that they can turn an unpredictable event that causes a huge expense into a predictable insurance premium instead.
That sounds like a Firefox bug
Create an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners. There is a call to action for feedback and looks like at least one of the contributors are in education, so will probably take the feedback on board.
You just typed a bunch of vague stuff because you can't actually respond to me.

> There's never been an alternative to vote for, and every attempt gets smeared in the media owned by the two-party system representing the oligarchs.

The two parties aren't controlled by anyone except primary voters. There is hardly any mechanism in the US to stop anyone who wants from joining either party, as long as you can get votes.

This is an unusual case of other countries' politics infecting ours; in other countries the parties actually can fire people and control their candidate list. Here they can't do anything.

Also the US doesn't have oligarchs. That's a specific word with a specific meaning. Closest you can get would be defense contractor CEOs but those just aren't that important here; you probably only know one.
Nobody has any connection to the land, people are not plants.
I skimmed this, but it's all "which LLM is best for you? One from OpenAI!" and "Ready to deploy your app, get started on Azure!"

This is marketing too.
That is not the theory, that is the goal. Sprint reviews have a goal of identifying something as being shit and then removing it, they have a theory as to how this will be achieved which is the sprint review process.
I not only believe that (and I first used GIMP more than 2 decade agos), I believe that the entire project has a culture that is proud of being crude and inaccessible that is shown most strongly not by their bad UX but the fact that they still haven't changed the awful name.

The entire project gives intense vibes of "we don't care what you think" that have made it the poster child for many of the worst parts of OSS for a long time.
Or sometimes we get really lucky and just find a food or spice that upregulates/downregulates the right gene or affects the right enzyme (e.g. ginger contains compounds that suppress the inflammation triggering enzyme COX-2 without affecting the related COX-1 enzyme, which is actually beneficial. Most inflammation-reducing drugs affect both).

Although I'm sure we'd have noticed it by now if a food item targeted these genes (assuming they do significantly affect how healthily people age).
My theory is that most (all?) mammals evolved a liking for fast movement to counteract the unpleasant exertion that usually accompanies it, and which might otherwise encourage them to sit around doing nothing all day. This is a simpler mechanism (and thus more likely to evolve) that something involving delayed rewards for exertion. If you can get the the fast movement without the exertion, net pleasure is even higher.

The cat being thrown probably feels the same as a human driving a fast car or riding a roller-coaster, or a dog putting its head out a car window, or a mouse stopping suddenly on an exercise wheel to let it spin it around.
The trouble with SSD arrays, especially for use as a boot drive, is the access time. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485...

You'll get more throughput (probably), but slightly higher latency.
I find these "short term" permanent fixes funny. It's hard for me to conceive of the reasoning that lead to this. My guess is the Ads team at Apple must be super locked down, and an outsider must of had to implement the solution without interaction with that team I suppose.
Really good humor :)

But in reality, sparse NN is just loose it's performance, mean loose precision and recall. Precision, means, larger probability of errors; recall - if you work with piece of information, which could consist of few, ie predicates, it will see not all predicates.

To be concrete, for good trained full-scale NN, usually considered 70-90% for precision and for recall; but if use small fraction of weights, usually will got drop of performance to about 40-70%, which is good enough for many cases, considering saves on size and computations.
Ask it to produce a citation for that claim so we can verify it.
I completely agree with these levels, but disagree with mapping them to “small, medium, and large.” That’s a lossy compression if you will, and the heart of the problem. A shorthand might start with good intentions, but rapidly is muddied by conflicting interests.
Is there any information on how much costs/compute this took to train yet?

I see they mention an upcoming technical report that maybe will detail this, however would he very interesting to know how big the compute moat is currently. Feels like inference moat is draining fast.
can you run this using CPU only? I have plenty of system RAM but I have a consumer GPU with only 6G of VRAM
I'd go like: "third time, I'm wrapping it in a kiddy pool noodle" for their embarassment
Does it work on links copied from the page for chats?
ChatGPT setup a drop-shipping business and accompanying website for me and then spam email people while maintaining appropriate customer service.
This is important because whenever I need to know if I am in danger I can just plant a potato and wait three weeks.
No ground loops is a feature.
I have one, its amazing obviously but the backlighting is not 100% perfect. Looking forward to the next one of course. I even got it to work with my PC via a [Belkin VR cable](https://www.belkin.com/support-article/?articleNum=316883). Even has USB support.
Etcd and Concurrency STM
Well except that it definitely has. From more than 50 million people in pre-colonial times to less than 3 million in the 90s. USA has done genocide on a scale similar any other ethnic cleansing or to any communist regime.
Devil's (heh) advocate: the prayer itself matters and is a nice thought, but mentioning the recipient of the prayer makes it a soft pitch, which some might reasonably find unwelcome or awkward.
What you already can do is attaching gdb -- either live or at a core dump. Please see https://github.com/Solo5/solo5/blob/master/docs/debugging.md for detailed instructions ;)

What you as well can do is record-replay -- well, at least there used to be this option, I'm now lost whether it has never been merged anywhere, or it is stuck in some PR somewhere. This was truly great - since the external interface is so thin, it is easily doable to dump all external events (API calls and returns) onto disk and replay one-by-one, inspecting the state.
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I can’t quite put my finger on it, but for me melancholy doesn’t imply sadness.
https://archive.is/m2bl1
This is from 2021. I'd be curious if Elixir is still in use, or has expanded at all.

Side note: Pablo's blog posts are always quite good.
So who is paying for the freely available models?

For example there is StableDiffusion XL here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/latent-consistency/lcm-lora-fo...
Is the model “censored”?
I think you only see the additional tweets you're talking about if you're for whatever reason actually signed in to Twitter.
Pirates want to negotiate with the boat owner for release, they don’t need to control the boat for that - it’s enough to stop it. Which they can easily do if they have physical unrestrained access and plenty of time.
Don't use graphene. Full control root Android's features are way more useful to me than some hack that won't be used on my phone.
Facebook wreaked havoc, and they reek (stink).
Thank for that. I used to be into photography and I did just once try shooting raw images with my Canon and view/edit.
Not much of an argument but when it comes to English it is. “Official” as in widely and universally recognised and accepted by government authorities? English in the UK (and US) absolutely is

Though now we’re just descending in to semantics which is not very entertaining
High performance on a single task requires simultaneous computation and communication between nodes. If there's high latency between nodes, such as between nodes in different data centers, the communication costs can't be masked by computation.
The best book about the application of engineering principles to software is SICP
[0].

Abelson and Sussman wrote SICP to illustrate the principles. Everything else in SICP is some means to that end.

They reveal that SICP is about engineering in the Preface to the First Edition:

> The techniques we teach and draw upon are common to all of engineering design. We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a "mix and match" way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others.

[0] Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs, second edition. Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman. https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...
It's literally the exact same digital signal sent over copper S/PDIF. The only meaningful advantage it offers is electrical isolation.
> He loved being tossed "across the room"

So you swung the proverbial cat ? :)
One problem is vanishing gradients. You can only back propagate through the loop so many times before you lose the signal.
I haven't seen a single Ruby job in my area ever. I always assumed it's a US thing.
Why did you put words in quotes that aren't what I said?

Do you think we invaded Iraq for their oil, or that anyone profited from it? (Answer to both is no.)
> One of the biggest puzzles to me throughout this whole drama has been why supposedly smart people are so desperate to reach "AGI", whatever that means. The stated motivation seems to be things like, if we have an AGI then it will cure cancer for us. But the connection between these two things is never made crystal clear.

People seek meaning in their lives; if you're someone who has eschewed traditional religion, then AI-hype promises all the same things with a different aesthetic.
I want to get a heads-up before you close my account.
It's better to give some notice rather than just suddenly deleting it out of the blue.

> Should a service be forced to keep accounts running in perpetuity?

No, but maybe wait for 3–6 months for inactive accounts before closing them permanently.
I enjoyed your post, but I don't see how it compares given there isn't much "how-to".
Yes,ultimately everything is just a bunch of ifs. Wired together in a very complicated fashion but ultimately a bunch of ifs.
The owner of the space.
> DuckDuckGo’s internal surveys, he said, show privacy is the biggest concern among users, beating their desire for the best search results.

Interesting, our own (anecdotal) data is the opposite. Better search results trump everything and this is the main selling point of a paid search engine. Privacy is important, but less people would be ready to pay for a privacy respecting search product without also better search.
https://twitter.com/SaintCirce/status/1726664070429085990
Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
I agree that value can be used for a lot of things; I disagree that those particular 4 things are the right subcategories, or even that they all represent useful categories for economic value at all. Judging economic value by sale price alone makes a huge amount of sense, and seems to subsume all of those subcategories (well - it is one of the subcategories. But the other three, at least.) And it also includes pricing for services that reduce risk, such as energy reselling, car insurance, or futures trading.
I think that Javascript's massive success with the terrible syntax it used to have goes a long way toward confirming your hypothesis.
OpenAI's Q* Here's what you need to know about the mysterious project
this is the kind of stuff you see in a tv show and think "that's ridiculous, this would never work nowadays".
PHP still supports C64's?
I thought Jesus was supposed to be God's son, not literally god?
Look cool but would be good to try without signing up
Commadore 64 also hasn't lost support and McDonald's made a new Gameboy game.

Android runs mainline Linux. The Linux phone has no benefits.
https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

https://khoj.dev/
It’s even better, it’s totally unrelated and non-restricted to running on a singular piece of hardware. A “Steam Deck game jam” would be a Linux game jam. Leave the proprietary hardware out of it.
Okay, sorry if I came across as evangelical. I understand there's no malicious intent.
By that scale it’s “no shits given”
All I see is a computer. I assume this is some sort of bug.
I wonder if Gretchen saying that in the movie was a nod to Merry Prankster Fetchin' Gretchen the slime queen.
> The block is free to return from its enclosing method, which effectively pops multiple frames, including foo and possibly more, off the stack.

As an aside, this is one of the key differences between a lambda and a proc. Last I checked, you can pass a lambda as a block, but it is implicitly converted to a proc.
The three-year cruise is canceled
Not sure about TVs but dumb projectors exist and most are capable of creating a 100”+ image on a plain white wall with very satisfying results.

A bonus is that there’s no tv in the room taking space.

I’ve been using a projector paired with an appletv for the last 5 years and am happy with it. Limited viewing hours after dark are a plus in my case.
Alas, we have stumbled upon the fact that capitalism only works on paper
Is it interesting? My prior (from using many gpt4 quite a bit for quite awhile now), is that it would work just as well to just say, "could you please rephrase this in a different way that means the same thing: TEXT" and then if I don't like the answer say, "hmm, that meant something different, could you try again?" or "hmm, you did what I wanted but I don't like that answer, could you try a different one?".

Do you think I would not get the results I want from a conversation like that? Maybe you're right, but I'm pretty skeptical.
Making a B2B SaaS? Don't innovate – 99% of the time
I see lots of complaints about street names not rendering, and that has been a problem for me as well. The tweet author has a separate thread about how India doesn't routinely have street names, and how that lead to a design change for maps. It's super interesting!

https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1719379064564166772

EDIT: The following link is among the replies in that Twitter thread.

Anatomy of an Indian Address [50th Edition] [AUG 7, 2023]
https://newsletter.theindianotes.com/p/anatomy-of-an-indian-...
Didn't stop manufacturers from making gold plated TOSLINK connectors though.
It's a video but the full text is also on the page so skipped the [video] in the title.
Look up the onnx file format.
A couple of questions that come to mind:

• Is it possible to go backwards? Obviously not from the later iterations of this loop — all useful information has been lost — but from the first couple of iterations, say, is it possible to recognize "these are probably the room's resonant frequencies" and de-emphasize them?

• What would the experiment be like if each round involved re-playing the tape in a different room (one with presumably different resonant frequencies)? Would it sound significantly different / would there be some possibility of regaining information after more iterations than in the former case?
Not defending goolag, but you can still install non authorized apps on your Android, root your device, and install a custom ROM. Hard to do with an iPhone'
Huh. Now I want to buy a magnesium ladder and set it on fire.
OTOH, almost all corporations are less democratic than the most dictatorial governments. Sure, corporations don't (generally) get to be responsible for genocidal armies (except when they do[0]), but "greed" does mean corners get cut on safety, which was a big part of how trade unions in particular (and communism more broadly) got popular in the first place in the latter 1800s and early 1900s.

There's no perfect solution. I think so far we've done best with whatever's the most democratic (which is sometimes trade unions and sometimes capitalism), but even then, democracy itself is what sounds convincing rather than what is true — and the difference between them matters most when you've got an AI trained to respond with what people upvote the most, which is all of them from ChatGPT's RLHF to the Facebook/Twitter/etc. timelines to Google/Amazon/YouTube etc. search results…

[0] TW basically everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857#Death...
He's on a jailbroken device running an older iOS version.
Lost reels: great films you won't find on streaming
I guess that's fair, it's more about the concepts. I will say that I would have liked to have read something like it before starting the project, it would have made the journey (which I have still only just started) quite a bit easier.
I find it interesting that of as I look (around 18:00 GMT) that there is so much traffic in GB but not the other parts in europe.

Image reference: https://i.imgur.com/2Les0QX.png

Is it safe to assume that brexit is the reason?
1. No
2. The AWS-equivalents in that space is not going to capture all the value, as OP assumes for Microsoft by multiplying their estimate of total value by expected market share.
Bleach is no more effective than water at killing off common superbug
> seat belt

Still sounds like an inconvenience cuz maybe they don't wanna and thats the extent of their articulable issues with it but it still constitutes a violation of "muh freedom/convenience", no?

If they could get the inconvenience/false positive rate to 0%, would you still have philosophical issues with it to the extent you wouldn't accept it or would uou? I hope thats true but what I worry about is that its efficacy is not the actual issue (like in sales where people put forth unknowingly false objections)

> police

Why do police have to be involved? Are there no other means or approaches to civil enforcement? Who said anything about police?

Sorry, I hope I'm not being a total dick cuz I feel like we're listening to each other now but I'm just exhausted currently and the previous response kinda rubbed me the wrong way :(
Phplovesong doesn't love php anymore?
“Used to have” :)
Lol

Well I guess it would be useful for growing in space, where there’s no protection from Earth’s magnetic field and stuff

You’ll have to grow some kind of food, and potatoes are famously what Mark Watney ate almost exclusively XD
Google Bard AI Now Has the Ability to Understand YouTube Videos
In my experience, in an RoR codebase, the dynamic-ness of rails severely reduces its utility to only enabling better auto-complete (as opposed to also helping out with writing logically correct code).

In typescript, when I do a refactor, or I add a feature, I will code for hours, relying solely on the typechecker for feedback, and then I will manually test, and then write unit tests. (It helps that I use discriminated unions with exhaustiveness-checks, and avoid shortcuts like `any`, to the extent possible).

Such a workflow is impossible with how limited sorbet is in the RoR context.

I'd still choose an RoR codebase with sorbet than without it any day of the week tho.
Any Python web framework is easier to install and start than PHP alone.
In my experience they wouldn't even mind or be embarrassed, so long as said solution sounded like it would stay out of the way and let them use the device more conveniently. To them that's the whole point of IT: make it less painful to use the devices how they want to use them to do their job. IT isn't the savior that designs things they want, it's the cost center that makes the things they have to use less annoying to use.