skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Squeeze the side of the avocado, and if it gives AT ALL it's ready to eat.

If it's soft it's way way overripened. Take a piece of cardboard between you fingers and squeeze - that's the firmness level that indicates the avocado is ready. Actually even more firm than the cardboard and the avocado is still ready.

> where you can sometimes feel the level of hardness/softness more accurately (if it is a particularly thin-skinned one), you bruise it

You are squeezing way too hard.
From the article: Musk added that he himself arguably had done more for the environment, at Tesla, than anyone in the world, based on Tesla's massive sales of electric vehicles. "It would be fair to say, therefore, as a leader of the company, I've done more for the environment than everyone -- any single human on Earth."

He has previously claimed he knew 'more about manufacturing than anybody alive'. In this interview, he calls upon planet Earth (to be his judge?). None of these statements would be expected to be uttered in earnest from a grown up.
They say it no longer reproduces on current Chrome/Grammarly, so taking it up with them is fruitless. They're not going to investigate crashers from old versions.
> Culturally curious people, young and old, seem to accept that a “challenging” painting—or modern dance work, or play, or independent film—can be exciting, mind-expanding, really cool, and sort of out there precisely because it’s challenging. Why in classical contemporary music do so many people equate challenging with intimidating—or even infuriating?

I think that misses that a lot of "challenging" music that isn't Schoenberg is very widely accepted. Composers like Glass or Cage are popular enough to be used in film soundtracks.

I don't think there's necessary anything about music over visyal arts that means people don't like "challenging" or "experimental" music, but Schoenberg for whatever reason hasn't ever reached a wide level of popularity.
> I hate this

This is a natural response to divergent opinions [1]. It’s the mechanism through which social media polarises populations [2][3].

Our brains simply didn’t evolve to deal with multiple hypotheses and different opinions, and most of us never get the training to do so calmly and effectively.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sorting

[2] https://pnas.scienceconnect.io/api/oauth/authorize?ui_locale...

[3] https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/80/S1/351/2223236?login...
Honestly: I rely on my shell scripts working and any "grep replacement" has to work with all the old crusty shell scripts out there, likely including ones that use odd "quirks" and GNU options.

If you want to innovate in this space, why sign up for all that? Invent a better wheel, and if people like it, they'll migrate over time.

I remember using ag in the old days, and I use rg now. But there's things rg does by default that I don't like at times... so I go back to old fashioned grep.

rg is at the point where many programmers use it. I think it is on its way to becoming one of those "standard tools". It needs... another 5 years?

When POSIX has a rg standard... we'll know ripgrep "succeeded" and teargrep will soon come into existence ;)
I guess your definition of "right-wing" is a bit different from mine. "Centrists" in post-WW2 Europe are largely conservative: fundamentally religious, pro-business, anti-immigration. That, to me, is right-wing - respectable, not touting nazi tattoos (mostly), but still fundamentally reactionary in nature. Those blocs are usually allied with "liberal" parties, a term which in Europe carries right-wing connotations because "liberalism" is meant in the original economic sense: free-trade, unbridled capitalism, etc. Occasionally they ally even with ultra-right parties, which often include real neofascist / neonazis.

If you consider them like that, traditionally-conservative parties account for over 65% of current MEPs.
I suspect the trick only works because DeepFloyd-IF operates in pixel space while other diffusion models operate in the latent space.

> Our method uses DeepFloyd IF, a pixel-based diffusion model. We do not use Stable Diffusion because latent diffusion models cause artifacts in illusions (see our paper for more details).
Amazing news, been waiting for years for this.
Clicked on “Watch livestream”, denied because it demands login on X/Twitter.
We used an A100-80GB GPU. We didn't compare explicitly to Huggingface TGI but I think you should be able to compare the tokens/s achieved.

One note is that this release is optimized for latency, while I think HF TGI might be more optimized for throughput.
Traditional sand drawings follow principles of graph theory
100% this. Keeping the pit in guacamole is the trick. I am happy you commented. I was about to do the same when I realized the article missed this!
that map shows most major cities in North America have the sun set before 5PM (traditional work end time). New York, DC, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Chicago.

New York, Boston, and Chicago all set before 4:30, a minimum of 10% of the population just there.
They shouldn’t be frozen if stored below 7C and above 0.
Computation is a purely physical phenomenon, so no, saying that sentience is computation that is substrate-independent is not dualism - it's hardline materialism. Dualism is saying that sentience cannot be entirely reduced down to physical phenomena.
I think we agree, just define terms differently -- video games are art! In other words, gamers are consumers of artwork, and that consumer demand for a new kind of art drove demand for the hardware to go with it. (Naturally that wasn't the only source of demand - engineering and research applications were there from the beginning too).

Edit: this discussion is interesting because I have always just taken it for granted that video games are a form of art. Clearly others don't see it that way, which is fair! Nevertheless, I think a strong case can be made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_as_an_art_form
> I do like the idea of being in UTC and not having to worry about this timezone nonsense between my computer and any server application.

It's an automatic watch. You do not have to worry about it. Communicate UTC timestamps with timezones between computers, but don't make people use those "because it's easier to program."
I was hoping there would be more details on why exactly this happens, but maybe this is one of those things where no one really knows?
Is this still the case for sliding window attention/streaming LLMs, where you have a fixed length attention window rather than infinitely passing in new tokens for quadratic scaling? You even get better performance due to purposely downsampling non-meaningful attention sink tokens.
1Password (password manager), iCloud+ (cloud storage), Arq (backup software), BackBlaze B2 (backup hosting), various streaming services (switching from month to month).

I have also paid for e.g. Sublime Text 4, not sure if that counts as a sub. I used to pay for email (KolabNow), but recently switched to a free email provider.

I would pay for Dropbox if they offered a reasonably priced tier between 2GB and 2TB (similarly to Apple’s 200GB tier), since Dropbox handles Git repos well compared to Google Drive/iCloud/OneDrive.
I use it neovim with fzf search.
As a kid in vacation at my grandparents, I'd ride in one of these, a wagon pulled by cattle, with no rubber tires but same technology used 4000 years ago: https://cdn.adh.reperio.news/image-1/1a50f3f9-77af-4588-ae4c...

Well... sometimes, other times I'd just prefer a good ol' walk to the bone shaking.
Climate: Why disinformation is so persistent
I don't know what you want to tell with this, but in that picture every surface I can see looks almost perfectly flat. For the purposes of aerodynamics a curvature you have to measure with a tool is likely not going to help much.

Edit: In case this is a thread you might want to link the exact post/picture we're supposed to see because threads aren't accessible without login.
> A chief goal of artificial intelligence [would be] to build machines that think like people

"A chief goal of levers (cranes, etc.) engineering would be to build devices that lift like people"
> but in the story there is not enough matter in the universe to in some way encode every possible traditional Chinese poem!

In fact if you formally describe how you generate the permutations that's one of such encodings of these permutations (and the optimal one - see Kolmogorov Complexity :) ).

So there is definitely enough matter to do it. Similarly we can encode PI despite it having infinite number of digits.
China's River of Gold
I guess there's also a chance of someone snapping and doing something bad in bad faith as an act of revenge. Especially that from what I understand PIP/Pivot basically means you're out.
Sure, there's good examples out there of democratic governments with high transparency and low corruption like Finland and Denmark, but too few of us have the privilege of living there.

Granted, there are worse places to be in the world right now than Canada (most of Africa, certain parts of SE Asia, Russia, Eastern Ukraine, etc), but why I think Canadians are so loud(not Canadian BTW) is that they witnessed a steep drop of their living standards and purchasing power withing a much shorter timespan than most developed countries (the same phenomenon is happening everywhere in the west) so you feel let down and hopeless when you know those from just a few decades ago had it so much better than you, and you're stuck in a cycle of relative poverty by comparison despite busting your ass off, while those in leadership positions are favoring those already financially well off instead of the struggling little guy.

I know the feeling because a lot of Europe is in a similar boat right now, albeit less severe than Canada.
Same path I took. I'm liking Aerospace so far. I just snagged the "i3-like" config from their docs and it feels like home. Not quite as snappy as i3, but very workable.
Couldn't the plane of each concentric orbit be a little different, minimizing the problem?
Feels like it should always be included by default on grep level now.
Researchers restore lost brain function after stroke in mouse models
Probably rage-bait with subliminal erotic/violence-inducing undertones that succinctly imply some new outgroup/ingroup stage-shifting drama that sends every layer of the status/survival preserving brain into instinctive overdrive. Fox news/MSM has tried it but get stuck on too many single-order local maxima.
I heard a similar tale in high school.

A friend of mine had an aunt who passed away, and so he ended up inheriting her car. The car came with a petrified apple pie in the back. He was insistent that the car would not start without the pie in the back window.

Several of his friends who he played in a punk band with confirmed this, that they had tested it. Take the pie out, car won't start. Put the pie back in, the car starts.

I don't think anyone ever figured out what was going on, I graduated a couple of months after hearing the story, and fell out of touch. But - timing and vapor lock makes sense, if they were always testing it by first starting the car, removing the pie, and then putting the pie back in.

As an aside, the aunt who had passed away was one Aunt Martha (after which the car was also named), which in honor of the strange car and its strange pie was what their garage punk band was named after. There's some totally unrelated band now called Aunt Martha - any evidence of their band is not on the internet.
Oh my heavens, I would never let ripgrep into POSIX. You can pry it out of my cold dead hands. :-)

> so I go back to old fashioned grep

If you do `rg -uuu` then it should search the same stuff grep will. Not sure if that's what you meant though.
Nonetheless, I think most business functions are more societally established, and for that reason they can be more easily outsourced.

You can find a "pre-packaged" MBA, attorney, etc. because society is very good at churning out those roles. Just go the most recently graduated Wharton batch and hire the top grad for $300k, and you have someone who can do your legal, fundraising, operations, etc.

It's much harder to find someone with unique technical insight and the ability to deliver, which is the true value of a good "engineer".
I have one. It works, it's fine, it prints, and replacement toner and parts are cheap. That seems to be too much to ask these days.
Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try Out Mozilla's .deb Package
This tool rocks but is intimidating..
I clone the project and the install script is a bash executable without the .sh suffix and is

310 lines long

Sure go ahead execute this thing and cross your fingers..

I use powerline-shell and git auto completion for branches and such and I was
sweating this thing was going to shoot me.

They added a Docker file for the scared cats like me so I can see it in action without messing my environment. I verified that it left my .bashrc alone and does not encroached <so far> with tmux and bash key bindings. So I installed and I can tell it projects my brain birds-eye view into the screen. The *<TAB> keybinding is the best.

Great find.

Thanks!
>It's a sure way of losing their power and becoming a puppet

They're already blackmailed puppets to the spy agencies, that's why they keep pushing this stuff. There's a reason none of the people Epstein was accused of trafficking young girls to went to jail.
DST is social terrorism at this point. "We" keep it that way because the herd is too scared to change. Never underestimate the awful raw power of herd thinking, it's the worlds greatest cancer.
Bullshit. Facebook as a matter of policy manipulates people's feeds - the chances of something appearing, in what order, etc.

People have found that certain sites, topics, and words will trigger an outright shadowban on that post - your friends never see it.
oh wow you just got another user sir/madam GYAAAT

Edit: okay a lot of these look just bizarre as hell and seems to favour massive grotesque breast size

I wonder the damage on women this does
Tesla Cybertruck delivery event livestream (starts now)
Thanks for the reply. "show that the performance component and the "convert your model for deployment" component can be disentangled" makes sense.

Also, I liked the part of the article about torch.compile producing faster matrix-vector multiplication than cublas. I've seen the same thing on CPU, that it's way faster to just write and manually optimize a loop over a bunch of dot products than it is to use BLAS routines because of how simple the "matmul" actually is. I don't know how widely known that is.
A neat attack, but probably unrealistic in the context of those downloads being on github.
oh and there's this one: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
> note, this good engineering advice but bad career advice: "yes" is magic word for more shiney rock and put in charge of large tribe of developer

> sad but true: learn "yes" then learn blame other grugs when fail, ideal career advice

> but grug must to grug be true, and "no" is magic grug word. Hard say at first, especially if you nice grug and don't like disappoint people (many such grugs!) but easier over time even though shiney rock pile not as high as might otherwise be

> is ok: how many shiney rock grug really need anyway?
In your metaphor the battery would be akin to the gas tank though, rather than the gasoline that fills the tank. I think my gas tank can be emptied and filled more times than a battery and it doesn't lose capacity the more it's used or when it's cold out!
quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine#Histo...

> The general concept of artificial machines capable of producing copies of themselves dates back at least several hundred years. An early reference is an anecdote regarding the philosopher René Descartes, who suggested to Queen Christina of Sweden that the human body could be regarded as a machine; she responded by pointing to a clock and ordering "see to it that it reproduces offspring."[9] Several other variations on this anecdotal response also exist. Samuel Butler proposed in his 1872 novel Erewhon that machines were already capable of reproducing themselves but it was man who made them do so,[10] and added that "machines which reproduce machinery do not reproduce machines after their own kind".[11] In George Eliot's 1879 book Impressions of Theophrastus Such, a series of essays that she wrote in the character of a fictional scholar named Theophrastus, the essay "Shadows of the Coming Race" speculated about self-replicating machines, with Theophrastus asking "how do I know that they may not be ultimately made to carry, or may not in themselves evolve, conditions of self-supply, self-repair, and reproduction".[12]

iirc in erehwon the narrator visits a land populated entirely by self-replicating machines
The article ends with a reference to Trout Tickling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_tickling, that sounds like some kind of Urban Dictionary euphemism, but is instead exactly what it sounds like
Now imagine not even having a union. But yes, the level of delusion here, particularly around the pay for tradespeople, can be striking. I suspect they will encourage their own children to go to college and not pursue a trade (and I don't blame them for that).
You put the people leaving or who have left down as the low performers over the quarter. You have your quota of low performers. No pip show required.
>China generally adheres to a principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, a stance rooted in its own historical experiences with foreign intervention. (...)
Additionally, China has increasingly sought to play a role in international peacekeeping and diplomacy, which might influence its perspective towards seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

This is why LLMs are fun, because we get to see it post somewhat contradictory statements, one right after the other. Does China want to interfere, or not?
Well we are the most intelligent species known to us as of now. Of course it would be considered the holy grail of simulated intelligence.
> art has always been about taking existing images and ideas and tweaking them to make them your own

It's an open secret in the art world that modifying existing works and putting your own spin on it is a common technique. But blatant copies with no such 'spin' on the original need to be called out. Also there are places like China who do clean room reverse engineering of existing tech and make new tech in the same likeness, but the engineering is completely different from the original. It's how they avoid IP/copyright suits.
"Centrists" are right wing in European politics.
Is Asahi your daily driver on MBP?
I think the balance is closer to 80% shiny, 20% working code.

There's definitely some cool stuff here (disabling the nag screen, thank you!) but I really dislike the way it's presented.

I don't like the curl|bash very much, but mostly I think this would be far more interesting as a collection of one-liners to accomplish each task vs the current form of a curl|bash with dialogs and prompts. I think that's better for security and better for learning you should know what commands you're executing!
Ask HN: Show me your RSS feed subscriptions
Aside HN and email newsletters, reading RSS feeds brought me lots of joy lately. They remind me the wild-wild-west era of www.

I wonder if we can discover gems together.

This is my current list of feeds: (The clickable format: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478397)

http://computationalculture.net/rss

https://2019.wattenberger.com/rss

https://austinhenley.com/blog/feed.rss

https://blog.ouseful.info/feed

https://jakelazaroff.com/rss.xml

https://joshmpollock.com/feed.xml

https://lilianweng.github.io/index.xml

https://maggieappleton.com/rss.xml

https://runzhe-yang.science/feed.xml

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/feed/

https://thesephist.com/index.xml

https://topos.site/blog/index.xml

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/feed.xml

Please submit yours :)
Not even one of the signatory experts is from UK/Ireland.

They could be completely clueless of what dynamite they are playing with.
Yes! Let's settle the matter now and forever! We could probably solve most sports while we're at it, settle who is world champion once and for all!
Avocados are like oranges. The better way to store them is hanging from the tree.
Author here, I have 4, soon to be 5 small kids, a full time job, church responsibilities, etc. This exploring and tinkering and learning doesn't have to take up a ton of time. 30 minutes a day can make a huge difference. I get quite a bit done while sitting with my kids while they fall asleep each night.

I also play tabletop and board games, watch TV with my wife each night, and even play Mario kart with my kids. There's plenty of time.

That said, my advice was primarily targeting recent graduates or young developers who are looking for a job. That implies they have plenty of time and are trying to put the bulk of it towards finding a job. If I were in that position, I'd treat building my resume and finding a job _as_ my full time job.
How does one select a good candidate for the draft model in speculative decoding? I imagine that there's some better intuition than just selecting the next parameter count down (i.e 70B -> 13B, 13B -> 7B).

Also how does that interact with MoE models? Do you have a mini version of the MoE, with smaller experts?
Also available as a PDF if you're interested: https://www.sensible.so/history-of-the-pdf-pdf
Llama AI at Home: QuickStart Guide
Extremely disappointing that they seem to have neither investigated nor enabled others to investigate (e.g. by filing a bug against Chrome).

This smells like a potential security vulnerability.
that would make sense - they've reached out to me frequently over the years - seemed a bit desperate. Stopped the interview process the first time after learning what their PM salaries across a couple of levels were from an acquaintance who had recently interviewed there and realized they didn't value engineer's time.
What makes this doubly frustrating is that they also didn't report the bug to Chrome. It's super easy to do, plus they're very responsive if you have a repro case which in this case they do. I think I'm now up to three or four Chrome bugs reported that their team has subsequently fixed.
It's persistent because oil companies have paid for it to be persistent for decades now. Can't have reality threatening quarterly profits, now can you?
Will this startup Idea work in India?
So the thing is that one my uncle keeps mobile phones and other electronic items on mortgage and charges 10% monthly interest on them, the interest is high as the object is an electronics product and their value decreases exponentially, and many times people are not able to pay up for their phones, so the point is that there is no similar scalable startup yet been made, can such a startup be made online and scaled atleast over a city?
My theory is that he started with some silly poems and wrote the rest of the story around them.
You seem to get downvoted, but I completely agree. Not from US, but from western Europe and here it's in essence the same. The problem is not building these homes, everybody can do that. The problem is you're not allowed to live like this.
I added

<meta name="google" content="notranslate">

to all pages in a single-page-web-app after discovering some bug or other with Chrome screwing up the page.

Apparently the new incantation to fix an app (can be applied to an element) is (ugly: I presume it isn't CSS to avoid supporting dynamically changing it):

<html translate="no">

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

Every now and then I would look at the meta tags for a major single page app and discover some new horror when searching for the reason for the meta tag!