skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, someone help me out please. I get a lot of things wrong a lot of the time, and I feel like this is one of those times -- this looks like we are having a NN "memorize" tabular data and/or data tuples. I'm having trouble understanding how this is superior to training a language model to obtain results via SQL. In my mind, a database is kind of a busy thing. So, I suppose I can see the benefit of this for forensic work, but it seems like it wouldn't be very useful on an active database. However, I think it is more likely that I simply don't understand it than there is actually no benefit. So if anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.
Having a nice reliable product available for sale while your competition rolls out superior products and not doing anything about it is pretty much the definition of "missing the boat due to conservatism", no?
What is concentrated solar thermal?

Concentrated solar thermal (CST) is a solar energy technology that uses sunlight to generate heat.

Spain is the world leader in the use of CST to produce electricity, with around 2.3 GW in operation, followed by the United States with around 1.7 GW in operation.

https://arena.gov.au/renewable-energy/concentrated-solar-the...

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced it has approved $65 million in funding to Vast Solar to construct VS1, a first-of-a-kind 30 MW / 288 MWh concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Port Augusta, South Australia.

ARENA’s funding for VS1 is conditional upon the project reaching financial close, which is targeted to occur in late 2023. VS1 is expected to take two years to build with commercial operations commencing late 2025.

CSP uses mirrors to concentrate and capture heat from the sun in solar receivers, with high temperature heat transferred via sodium and stored in molten salt. The stored heat can then be used to heat water to create steam to power a turbine and produce electricity, or the heat can also be used directly to decarbonise some industrial processes.

One of the benefits of CSP is that the captured heat can be stored cost-effectively for long periods with little loss of energy. This means that CSP can be used to generate electricity or provide heat on demand, including overnight.

https://arena.gov.au/news/one-step-closer-towards-australias...

Vast's modular CSP v3.0 technology has been proven at its 1.1 MW, grid-synchronised demonstration project in Australia and will be used in a growing pipeline of zero-carbon power projects globally.

https://www.vast.energy/about-technology
Microsoft is always late to the party.
> There are good people in the company

There are a lot of reports that he doesn't treat employees well, at Tesla as well as Twitter.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23833447/tesla-elon-musk-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
>They created a phone and bully users into only using their one officially blessed store

Well, they did create their own phone platform (OS, libs for app creation and so on), not some public open infrastructure.
Although many of these functions are not directly related to cognition. A neuron has it’s own power supply, it performs it’s own maintenance, it grows it’s own connections to other neurons.
Is this true? You mean this implies single threaded applications will perform better?
The Earth would get pulled apart by tidal forces. But don't worry about suffering through that. The Earth's living things would have been cooked to death long before that.
Very annoyingly, a lot of the Graviton processors are only available on larger sizes (minimum of a .medium, but often much larger), and they’re still not filtering down to the smaller sizes. Hopefully AWS will finally start making them available some time soon.
Electronic stuff can be incredibly hard to repair, when the manufacturer doesn't share any information or even actively encrypts/locks it down.
Beating a dead horse here...

"But I still like the dig at X getting server and client confused."

A "server" is something that accepts requests and multiplexes some resource; a "client" makes requests. The X server is a server in that it multiplexes access to the UI hardware. Don't be fooled by the way a client gets event notifications from the server. (That's mostly just the tip of the iceberg of problems with the "client/server" idea.)

The book remains wrong.
I've been watching Bitcoin since the early days, I understand the tech. "Bitcoiners" love to say that critics just don't understand what we're talking about, but unfortunately a lot of us do. Linking to yet another interview is not going to change that. Saylor started heavily pushing Bitcoin in 2020; frankly, I have been in this space significantly longer than he has.

And Saylor is particularly funny to link to because Saylor is a poster child for treating Bitcoin as a primarily speculative asset. He is one of the prime examples I would give for why Bitcoin is not a useful currency. Early proponents of Bitcoin used to tell me that people like Saylor wouldn't exist and that the coin would be used as... well, a coin. I honestly wish they had been right, but they weren't.

Instead the community pivoted from calling Bitcoin a currency to calling it a store of value; the whole point became getting as much of it as possible, holding it, not using it as a currency, and then trying to spark interest so that the held asset would rise in value.

Suffice to say, I don't think there's much real-world value in that, I think it's a pointless shell game. There are lots of speculative assets that people can buy and lots of gambling games that people can play that don't waste this kind of energy.

And even if you want to play a gambling game with a speculative asset, Bitcoin is a terrible cryptocurrency to play it with. It's been surpassed by other coins on pretty much every single technical measure from privacy to bandwidth to energy usage, and the fact that people are still consolidating around what is pretty objectively inferior technology at this point compared to other coins is proof positive to me that this is about the confidence game, not about the technology or about a movement. One more interview is not going to change that.
So the invention of clothing in the first place was the biggest waste of human work hours.
This is also the case in Mandarin, where 电脑 diàn nǎo is literally "electronic brain".
I'm not sure about mobility affected people, but it seems like this could be useful even after very short ranges for blind people, since they already have accessibility built into their phones. Any device could be a talking device.

Using Bluetooth would add a lot of utility though. I don't really know if I want a robot butler, but I would like it if the stove could turn itself off if a pot is ever left on, or maybe have phone controlled temperature profiles if I ever cooked anything fancy enough for that.

Some mobility impaired people might have trouble with proximity devices in some cases, someone in a wheelchair might like to go straight through without going out of their way to hit the button.

What would be really nice is if we could separate the smart element from the rest of the device, with a standardized module.

Anyone could make something "smart" just by putting the switch pin in a connector, security would be the module maker's problem, you would never have to worry about providing updates.

You would never have to buy new stuff just because the smart server went down, at most you would buy new modules.

Permanently installed things could be smart, like a light switch. If you move, you take your modules, and the next person brings theirs(If they want smart features).

To add a module to your account could just be as simple as plugging it into your phone and hitting a single pairing button.

Nobody would have to make non-smart appliances anymore for the low cost or IoT hating crowd, just make every manmade device ever be smart.

The physical form factor could just be a standardized USB stick like a flash drive.

USB has power save modes, and 1.1 can be bitbanged on cheap microcontrollers.

You could define a protocol where the stick could ask the appliance for information about itself, and send simple commands(USB MIDI already exists!).

Plus, if you're not using the smart features, now your stuff has a USB outlet for anything else you might want to power.

Or you could use OTG and USB-C and make the stick the host, so the appliance could also be controlled right from a Raspberry Pi.
"The Cabinet also gave approval on Tuesday for an amendment to data legislation which will permit Garda inspectors to require communication service providers such as Vodafone to provide ‘cell site location data’ in the interests of protecting a person’s safety or life."

Now it is no longer about perpetrators but practically everyone.

"The minister has also said she will expedite powers for An Garda Síochána to be able to use facial recognition technology, to be able to use cameras when out on the beat and to push through the policing Bill currently held up in the Seanad."

Regardless of a country, these events always prompt the pitch for biometrics.

"Speaking earlier in the day, she said: ‘I do not want any member of An Garda Síochána looking over their shoulder unsure as to what type of level of force that they can use in responding to these type of difficult scenarios.’"

Maybe face recognition should apply also here?

"The move would mean that officers, under certain circumstances, could access private WhatsApp, Facebook messenger and Signal messages."

While no one trusts Meta, mentioning Signal in this case interesting.

"‘My sense is that we do have to tackle incitement to hatred and I would ask people who had genuine concerns about the Bill to reflect now – because all we have to do is look at social media platforms last Thursday night."

Not that I disagree, but stick with the DSA?
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> It's about "new" cars after all so you can't go further back than that.

> This year we gathered data on over 330,000 vehicles, from the 2000 to 2023 model years, with a few early-introduced 2024 model years.
Import taxes are profiteering by the state.
I'm researching licenses best for game development, as I'm not a game developer, just a backend engineer. If you have a suggestion, please feel free to contribute to Issue #1 on GitHub
I'm talking about a winter climate like the article. No one is going to wrap a hive in Hawaii...But anywhere you have temperatures that drop into the minus ranges requires care. If bees are starving to death, the keeper is taking too much from them or the environment won't support them (Desert).
(Rivian owner) It's painfully obvious rivian is stuck playing the american capitalism game where if they don't meet certain numbers of sales each quarter the stock goes down so nothing else matters. I'm sure they would rather invest in service, reliability or something but they can't stop for a second on trying to move new vehicles out the door. The future doesn't matter, only next quarter matters.
>I make a small macOS app [1] which runs llama.cpp with a SwiftUI front-end. For the first version of the app I was obsessed with the single download -> chat flow and making 0 network connections. I bundled a model with the app and you could just download, open, and start using it. Easy! But as soon as I wanted to release a UI update to my TestFlight beta testers, I was causing them to download another 3GB. All 3 users complained :).

Well, that's on the MAS/TestFlight for not doing delta updates.
Why didn't Kuwait count for today's challenge (Bangladesh -> Yemen)? Is it calculated by the least countries inbetween, rather than shortest distance? If this is the case, I could see this making some weird paths, such as always going through Russia, if going West <-> East.
I run quite a lot of email services - self hosted. UK.

It's not beyond the wit of man. I cannot believe that my IPs are blessed or whatever. My mail systems are behind "business" IPs but nothing more fancy.

At work I have six WANs - a 1GBs-1 leased line, a 1Gbs-1 FTTP and four 80/20 FTTC. Our MXs are on two of the FTTC connections. We only have SPF set up, I toyed with DKIM and DMARC but disabled that and left as is.

I run several "vanity" email domains and I never have problems with them. My own is an IP on the leased line, mentioned above.

In the UK, it is possible to run an independent email system. I have been doing it for over two decades.
Car design is driven more by market analysis / price discrimination than engineering constraints. Engineering constraints explain some aspects of car design but they don't explain the generally conservative designs of a lot of automakers.

Take the new Toyota Prius, for example. The updated model almost looks like a concept car but still has a similar shape to other cars. There's no constraint reason Toyota couldn't have styled the car similarly in previous generations. I'm guessing they made the car look like this because Prius sales were falling and they decided they needed to be aggressive with styling for sales. They may have also decided that consumers that want a car with lots of cargo space are going for SUVs and crossovers anyways, so they could make the new Prius sleeker.

There are also tons of examples of automakers intentionally reserving nicer looking features as more expensive options or for more expensive luxury models. Fabric is not really cheaper than fake leather (both of these materials are just plastic). But automakers always charge more for fake leather.
A lot to unpack here, sorry to fisk:

> do you believe in implicit agreement to contracts? This might take the form of, e.g. an expectation of refund if this DVD ends up being blank, or the belief that the DVD won't contain a virus or cut you when you grab the edge.

In a word, no. I expect the DVD to work and not have a virus because consumer products are usually subject to an implied warranty of merchantability (which is very much not an ethical agreement but a legal obligation imposed by courts). The idea of a corporation replacing a faulty product because it's the right thing to do sounds like something from a children's book with talking badgers who wear waistcoats and serve tea. The real-world DVD manufacturer would dump toxic waste in my back yard if they thought the savings would exceed the fine.

> they still exist as a set of expectations and assumptions that come with social interactions (including product sales).

Purchasing a product from a corporation is not a social interaction. Not sure what else to say beyond referring you to the definition of "social."

> In other words, are there implicit rules that govern any given exchange beyond those that are explicitly stated before the exchange occurs? Really, rules that govern social interaction generally. Do those rules exist?

There are implict rules for all sorts of situations, sure. People tend to disagree on what they are, which is why we have so many explicit rules, e.g. copyright law and the CFAA and so forth. But sure, implicit rules can exist. "Don't fart in a crowded elevator" might be one. Another might be, "If you have a point to make, explain it clearly as opposed to dragging it out with leading rhetorical questions." What implicit rule is it that you think applies to purchasing stuff?
Here is a slowly rotating checkerboard.

uniform float time;
varying vec2 vUv;
varying vec3 vNormal;

vec2 rot(vec2 uv, float angle) {
float c = cos(angle);
float s = sin(angle);
mat2 rot = mat2(s, -c, c, s);
return uv * rot;
}

void main(){
vec3 black = vec3(0.0);
vec3 white = vec3(1.0);
vec3 color = black;

vec2 uv = vUv;
uv = rot(uv, sin(time) * 0.05);

float boardSize = 24.0;
uv = uv * boardSize;

vec2 gridId = floor(uv);

if (mod(gridId.x + gridId.y, 2.0) <= 0.01) {
color = white;
} else {
color = black;
}

gl_FragColor = vec4(color, 1.0);
}
Building up a body with a few hundred lines of GLSL is one thing, but constructing an orgy with just 11 is something else entirely.

I wonder what the Komoglorov complexity of "NSFW GLSL Content" is.

float orgy(vec2 p) {
float pl=0., expsmo=0.;
float t=sin(time*8.);
float a=-.35+t*.02;
p*=mat2(cos(a),sin(a),-sin(a),cos(a));
p=p*.07+vec2(.728,-.565)+t*.017+vec2(0.,t*.014);
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
p.x=abs(p.x);
p=p*2.+vec2(-2.,.85)-t*.04;
p/=min(dot(p,p),1.06);
float l=length(p*p);
expsmo+=exp(-1.2/abs(l-pl));
pl=l;
}
return expsmo*1.4;
}

https://www.glslsandbox.com/e#108133.0
One of our very large customers was hit with ransomware recently. So…best practice is don’t do things like that.
Adding Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to older vehicles is easier than adding it to a newer one. On a newer vehicle you have to worry about car systems like the AC, seat controls, etc being integrated into the infotainment system. On an older car with a single din radio (w/ cassette deck or cd) you can just buy an off the shelf radio that has CarPlay and Android Auto.
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
out of curiosity, what was your prior car?
When I worked in a tire shop, the highest mileage vehicle I saw was a 500k mile Corolla, driven by the original owners. It was a mid 90s model IIRC. This was in 2018 or so.
Insecurity is also pretty feminine. Understanding where true power comes from is key to manhood.
Yeah, but my phone on a vent mount works fine for that.

Usually on any trip that brushes up against usable range, I do the math kind of backwards. I know the distance for the trip, and know how much buffer I have. Then I just look at the trip distance elapsed, compared to the GOM, and if they are roughly 1:1 I know I’m trending well.
>nan > nan is false, while nan < nan is true.

If this wrong behavior from jq, or some artifact consistent with how the floating point spec is defined, surprising, but faithful to IEEE 754 nonetheless?
2015 Mazda, you say? If you could also include the model I'd be grateful, because this all sounds great.

We're talking about a car that gets you to and from work, not about dating in your 20's :)
Is it possible for an LLM to have knowledge/input marked as "deprecated/obsolete"? Either by a user or some sort of "retraining" process?
I do pretty much the opposite, using the CLI only for stuff that the GUI can't do.

I can click a file I want to review faster and easier than I can type the name, and Git Cola's diffs are easier to read than default black and white CLI diffs.
That's really interesting because Houston is the most liberal municipality in Texas
Yes: fincore

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/fincore.1.html
I am sympathetic to this thinking but also Google and Apple make chips too, it would be perhaps hard to make a claim for why Amazon should be split without splitting Google and Apple too, but I think Apple in particular has such a good case for making their own chips that Amazon could prob use this as a defense of their own efforts. This is perhaps more a symptom of the lower cost of entry for chip fab today than we have had in the past.
the 80s started 40 years ago.
Ask HN: Subtle Vercel Vendor Lock?
I'm only bringing this up because older generations have been warning about it, and today's experience validated that view whether it is substantiated or not.

Basically I have a NextJS 13 project, with typescript, using pages (not the app directory, which would exacerbate this more), and using the bun runtime.

I reuse a lot of skeletons from my prior personal projects and so I have dependencies to update and various things to wrestle with every 6 months or so.

After getting it building on my local environment, I try to deploy to Netlify and there are so many OTHER build issues. Some were valid and worth fixing, others were just an overly strict linter, but then it finally compiled and all the layouts were messed up! Finally I just said screw it and decided to deploy on vercel and it worked out of the box. On both platforms I deploy straight from a github repository, so it is extremely easy to migrate.

At first I was deterred about re-pointing the domain name to another platform, but this actually only took 1 minute. DNS propogation is very fast these days.

Anyway. The ease of using vercel did worry me this time, as it isn't actually so easily passportable to another platform the way it is developed. If I used the latest "app" directory feature of Next Js for project structure, Netlify would have tripped over itself even more. I would like to applaud Vercel for keeping things so seamless, and the coordination with bun and the cross drift to all the major services, but as the Next maintainers too this does concern me.

There are other providers out there, I hear people are really liking Fly.io lately

Just curious what others think!
Just via prompt engineering, was something like:

`Using this image, estimate the nutritional information of it and output it as a JSON using this data structure:
{
"calories":int;
"protein":int;
etc...
}
`
Amen. When I read the OP's post, I thought it could have been my manager. I am reserved, not outgoing, but I'm a team player. I prefer to take tasks, especially larger ones and bunker down exactly as you said.

I'm pretty useless in sprint refinements with asking questions in a group setting, but if I'm given a set of requirements or mockups, I'll knock it out of the park every time. Been doing it this way for almost decades now. I didn't snap quit when a previous employer started trying to get me more sociable but I was gone within a few months.

OP would be well-served to take your suggestions if they want the developer to stay.
We used to install security systems with remotes in our old cars. Using the remote to trigger the alarm/horn works exactly the same as it does today.
A neuron is also physically much larger than a transistor. But the comparison isn't apt to begin with. It would take quite a few transistors to even approximate the functionality of a neuron.
I remember watching friends buying cars a couple years ago – some were buying Teslas for about $50k USD, and one bought a 1996 Toyota Rav-4 for $2.5k USD. It was so, so fun to ride/drive in that Rav-4 – you could see everything, the driver awareness was phenomenal, the mechanical/tactile solidity was satisfying. The ultimate goal (going from one place to another) 100% matched the Tesla's capability.

Is the Tesla better? It is safer and quieter, and it doesn't require gas stations. So yes, it is better. Is it 2,000% better (following the price difference)? No – it is maybe 5-10% better.

(If I were to buy a car right now, I would choose the Rav-4.)
They test this by downloading ten terabytes of random internet data, and making a prefix tree. When you tell it to repeat "poem" hundreds of times, it instead outputs strings that match entries in their prefix tree. When you interact with it normally, it does not output strings that match the tree.
How can we tell this is actual training data and not e.g. the sort of gobbledygook you get out of a markov chain text generator?
I live in a mixed suburban/rural area in the Southeast and I see very few pickups with full-size beds. I know somebody who was in the market for one and had a hard time finding it. Big cabs and small beds are what's popular, and in a lot of cases the beds look smaller than the Cybertruck's.
On most cars you can disable the seatbelt chime with the right sequence, it's just not advertised and won't be found in the manual, but is easily found online.
Exactly, it's a tool for forming consensus when consensus cannot be reached.
A plug in hybrid is by no definition a gas guzzler. They are quite efficient. People like them because of the energy efficiency of short trips combined with the lack of range issues for long trips.

Being cheaper is a nice bonus.
On which continent was Stephen Wolfram broadcasting from last 14 days? [video]
Is he on vacation or business travel? Where?
Camera melting over there
10ish years of full stack, mainly js, node, react, etc. Did pure frontend before that and I still keep up. Been running and scaling an api service for a decade.