skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen this claim, but what I don't understand is, then how does the body actually fuel the exercise.

Surely someone who sits at home for a all day would burn fewer calories than someone who exercises?

I can understand, that if someone does exercise for 1 day and then quits, that day the body may compensate for the extra energy requirement by reducing its own metabolic activity, but I assume that couldn't last if someone exercised regularly.
If your belief is correct in that the Congress and President are coerced into doing what the shadow government wants, then they would have zero need for a revolution or regime change in the United States.
> For 75 years we've been told that fusion power was only 25 years away

This one always cracks me up. When I studied Physics in the early 2000s the joke was “fusion power has been 50 years away for the last 50 years”.

If it’s 25 years away now that is finally progress, even if everyone forgot the previous predictions. Although perhaps assume a 2:1 estimate:progress ratio based on the evidence?
Deep Blue was the name of the computer itself rather than the software, but to answer your question - it didn't use machine learning, its program was written and tweaked by hand. It contained millions of different games and positions, and functioned by evaluating all possible moves at a certain depth. As far as I know, practical machine learning implementations wouldn't be a thing for a decent while after Deep Blue.
I was more referring to Nokia's complacency which led to its demise. Nokia was infamous for incremental updates to their phone line, making users upgrade regularly. You could never find a "complete" Nokia phone; each phone was deliberately crippled some how. Apple does the same with their iDevices.
Viva la France
sorry guys, i don't know clojure, so i'll write this script in my favorite programming language:

#/usr/bin/english

if clojure is mentioned, can rich hickey be far behind?

and if rich is mentioned, can this video of his be far behind?

methinks not.

lo, and behold, said video:

https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc?si=Fy-1QcLkIiXVnqPo
Reaction: Mostly, the judge sentenced the guilty party's future co-workers to getting stuck working with her.

Better idea: Sentence Ms. Restaurant-Rage to working for 6 months on the serving line in a high-security prison cafeteria.
> And doing so in an electric car, which naysayers often state can't go the distance.

It didn't go the distance. It's on its 14th motor and fourth battery pack.
Hey Nicolas! best of luck on the product, you gave me a demo a while back and it's excellent - excited to see what comes of it.
I have an Aeron but it aggravates my sciatic nerve, so now I use a basic office chair I grabbed out of the waiting area. It doesn't even swivel, but it's comfy enough. Haven't thought much about chairs since.
I don't think memory layout is the sole draw, it's also about incrementally building up programs live.
> attempts from other brands at making a modular graphics system in a notebook

i.e. Dell.

> the off-the-shelf FXBeam connector from Neoconix

So that's the company that makes the Dell Graphics Form Factor (DGFF) connectors[1], and that's why they're called beam connectors in the service manual[2] (search for it on that page; notice how similar the connectors are to Framework's). These have been used in Dell Precision workstations since the Precision 7530 and 7730 (released in 2018).

I ought to have realised that surely Dell didn't develop this themselves.

> We quickly found that these connectors (on the left in the image) could only reliably be installed once. On removing, handling, and reinstalling, it was easy to bend or break off the small pins.

After working with these connectors, they require some finesse, but they're not as fragile as the post makes them out to be. They're essentially tiny LGA sockets. Dell's implementation put the pins on the connectors and the contacts on the board, so the cheaper (and more disposable) component could break more easily. I'm not sure why Framework decided to forgo the connector and try to join both graphics card and motherboard directly together; this isn't addressed in the blog post.

That being said, 'beam connectors' still aren't cheap, though; when I asked Dell's service centre for spares, I was quoted something like SGD20/connector. They're roughly the same price on eBay[3].

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/aMal40L.jpeg

[2]: https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-uk/precision-15-7560....

[3]: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313...
Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions
Ericsson T28
If you are curious, I believe I have identified some of his accounts and malicious editing activity: https://www.reddit.com/r/media_criticism/comments/17zqwgb/th...
There are humans who do this. Do you recommend killing all humans just to be sure that this wouldn't happen ?

Where were the tranquilizer shots ?
"That and getting the world, well, not on their side exactly, but on not-Isreals-side."

I think we're saying the same thing. We're talking about the public support moving away from Israel and for the Palestinian people.
Sounds like we need legislature to void these "customer non-compete clauses". Not holding my breath though, see what govts allows copyrights to become. Govts seems to protect (interests of near-) monopolies more than anything.
Lol. Without benchmarks against H100 you can’t take this seriously.
There's a pretty huge difference between dual nationality - which anyone could end up with purely by virtue of having parents from different countries - and "dozens" of nationalities.

Conflating these two cases and acting like the latter is the norm is such a nonsensical thing to say that it makes it clear you're arguing in bad faith, so I'm not going to respond any further to what you've said. You don't actually want to talk about this, you just want people to have your opinion.
Bad coffee, terrible for the environment. The title should have the (8 year old) publishing year appended.
I think the analogy is kind of strained here - at the current stage, OpenAI doesn't have an overwhelming superiority in quality in the same way Google once did. And, if marketing claims are to be believed, Google's Gemini appears to be no publicity stunt. (not to mention that IBM's "downfall" isn't very related to Deep Blue in the first place)
DP?
Yet another Wikimedia project with way too lofty ambitions... this is what Wikimedia donation money gets spent on rather than the operation of Wikipedia. For reference, the greater project this is a part of has been in development since 2013[0] and seems to be an attempt to basically remove the editor from Wikipedia.

For the uninitiated - this is part of an attempt to basically turn WikiData[1] into article text. From what I understand, the idea behind this is to create a bunch of text rendering functions to make it easier to provide automatic translations of rendered text.

Don't get me wrong, the idea here is neat, but from what I understand the Wikipedia community has been having far greater needs not being met rather than some lofty goal to drive even more editors out of the site and replacing them with data entry drones. It's a bit too often that you hear about some ailing extension and the WMF response being "no budget for it", while a lot of it gets spend on projects like this.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia

[1]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page - basically, Wikipedia data meant to be in a machine-readable format.
So are humans. Where is the presumption of innocence ? /s
AMD MI300 performance – Faster than H100, but how much?
> technical level that makes it cheaper for Amazon to run but introduces multi-hour latency.

Are you not assuming here that the multi-hour latency is due to "technology".

It is also very possible that the multi-hour latency is merely a business decision meant to discourage using "Glacier" as an active read/write virtual disk.
Yeah it was compact and light for its time, but that tiny 2-row LCD really made for a sub-par UX when the competition all had dot-matrix LCDs already so you can play Snake or other games ;)
8 zone systems from Mitsubishi are 8-10k

https://www.acdirect.com/ductless-mini-splits/8-zone-mini-sp...

80k is hilarious. That’s a 70k install for pulling lines, charging them and maybe an electrical run and pad.

Even if you have to buy two or three systems the price is laughable.
> Authenticated and validated secure boot is an important feature that keeps us all safe.

It also causes a great deal of trouble (at least for me), which is why disabling it is the first thing I do when I get a new machine.
No, there's an odd disconnect between the impressiveness of the multimodal capabilities vs the juvenile tone and insights compared to something like GPT-4 that's very bizarre in application.

It is a great example of what I've been finding a growing concern as we double down on Goodhart's Law with the "beats 30 out of 32 tests compared to existing models."

My guess is those tests are very specific to evaluations of what we've historically imagined AI to be good at vs comprehensive tests of human ability and competencies.

So a broad general pretrained model might actually be great at sounding 'human' but not as good at logic puzzles, so you hit it with extensive fine tuning aimed at improving test scores on logic but no longer target "sounding human" and you end up with a model that is extremely good at what you targeted as measurements but sounds like a creepy toddler.

We really need to stop being so afraid of anthropomorphic evaluation of LLMs. Even if the underlying processes shouldn't be anthropomorphized, the expressed results really should be given the whole point was modeling and predicting anthropomorphic training data.

"Don't sound like a creepy soulless toddler and sound more like a fellow human" is a perfectly appropriate goal for an enterprise scale LLM, and we shouldn't be afraid of openly setting that as a goal.
This is silly. He obviously wants money from major advertisers. Why wouldn't he? He still runs a business and has employees to pay. That motivation is enough for him to want them to stay, yet he is clearly making a major sacrifice for his values.

The stretches people to through to get upset about him is bizarre. He did enough real shit to dislike him, no need to obsessively twist everything into what it isn't just to have new things to get upset about.
It's stunning how many do not understand that.
Headline should read "MAC" layer like it does in the article, not "Mac" layer. Two very different things :)
How it manages its promotions, even moreso than org.
USPS 'Informed Address' Pilot
I don't see how any of that is being inconsistent. Wanting companies to remain advertisers without bullying him into censoring users (or his own speech) is a valid position and obviously something he wants. But he doesn't have to bend over to make it happen.

I highly doubt Disney etc would suddenly start coming back if he was simply polite in response to them making a very public statement about leaving. Obviously they want him to make concessions in censorship that he finds untenable and his response was to fuck off if that's their demands.

He didn't buy Twitter just to run it the same way as @jack and say yes to whatever powerful company/gov agency demands of them.
They would have had to choose at 20, not 18 (in Japan, 20 is the age of majority).

Also, no one comes after you to choose. Perhaps when you renew your passport, but I do know some Japanese people who just never filled out the paperwork to select a nationality, and continued with both citizenships. Kind of Schroedinger's passport.
The article claims that the ESP32 costs $5. The reality is around half of that for the MCU, and around $3 for pre certified modules including crystal, PCB antenna or UF-L connector. So it's really affordable.

Espressif has also launched a new ESP32C3 based on RISC-V, with modules priced at around $2.
How to enforce documentation / file structure at an organization
I got some unbelievably better results searching in bing + chatgtp the full page newspaper ad that Trump bought in the 80s on the NYT and other newspapers to shit on nato (or something similar).
With google I got absolutely nothing even rephrasing the search in multiple ways, with bing + chatgtp the first link was a website with the scanned newspaper page with the ad.
I think that google search dominance is pretty much gone. The results are full of SEOd to the death websites rather than anything useful.
I use uBlockOrigin and the now defunct uMatrix - I never see any ads or warnings related to ads.

uBlockOrigin may also work similarly with noScript - I've not checked.

Might be worth asking on the NewPipe repo on github how they avoid the ads on the server side.
Late it might be, but lame it is not.

Amazon Q has been pretty useful for AWS console and I find it using more and more to clarify different ways to architect a solution. Most of the times, it can generate command line, API calls and IAM policies pretty okay.

Rest - all models are actually fakers, hallucinators. It's just that those hallucinations coincidentally mapping on to the reality.

No model even ChatGPT has any understanding of anything whatsoever, the fundamental building blocks and algorithms are all the same. Pretty much.
Would like to try it out but the developer decided to force sign-in with google and I have removed that from my AOSP build.
The thing is that OpenAI doesn't have an "iPhone of AI" so far. That's not to say what will happen in the future - the advent of generative AI may become a big "equalizer" in the tech space - but no company seems to have a strong edge that'd make me more confident in any one of them over others.
That sounds like a better use-case for an eGPU.
>But somehow it's the people pointing out that the environment isn't safe who are getting accused of being against pluralism?

Pointing out that it's unsafe is one thing, denying funding is another

>Taking politics out of Python should mean that whoever you are and whatever you believe and whatever your identity is, you are at least safe at a Python conference because Python conferences are not the places where we debate identity, they're places where we talk about Python.

I agree. So I don't see why you are talking about giving a tech talk in drag. Drag is a costume, worn voluntarily, in the context of LGBT entertainment. A Python conference is not an LGBT entertainment venue. LGBT entertainment wasn't what the attendees signed up for.

Political pluralism means give and take. Seems like you want LGBT people to do all of the taking and none of the giving.

>So it is not LGTBQ people who are injecting politics into Python when they point out that they can be imprisoned for their identity, that they can't go to a Python conference and just focus on the tech.

I mean, they pretty much can? Just don't advertise your LGBT status?

Isn't it true in general that African countries tend to be homophobic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Africa

Most attendees are going to be from Africa anyways, so this situation is sadly pretty much expected for many of them.

Question: Is there even a single LGBT African who is complaining about this conference situation? Seems like you may be working very hard to save people who didn't ask to be saved?

In any case, in line with my "give and take" point from earlier, I think a reasonable conference policy would be as follows: Don't worry about this problem until an LGBT African person makes a complaint about it. At that point, talk to the organizers about whether the next conference could be organized in one of the few LGBT-friendly African countries, for the sake of LGBT Pythoneers in Africa. If you make that request, recognize that it may increase expense and inconvenience a lot, and be willing to foot the bill for the extra expense.
The linked study suggests benefits to "individuals who already hold religious beliefs". I don't doubt that a belief that there is some all-powerful entity looking out for you and giving meaning is beneficial psychologically, but not all of us are capable of believing in such a force; I've never seen any evidence for it myself.

If I told you that Mormons or Scientologists were the happiest people on average, would you consider joining them?
Google tells me perjury is still very much a thing. Do you have a source?
You know what animals "can be incredibly dangerous when in close proximity to humans" ? Dogs. The only difference seems to be that the Dog is man''s best friend.
Sure but the future is not the past
> We are not sure why this was overlooked, particularly in light of the project requirements described above.

I can guess the actual reason for this and it amounts to "managerial pride causing NIH". It's no big secret that the WMF is so overly ambitious with the projects it works on that it would throw away any and all prior art they've already made, just to make something that seems new (not to mention that many WMF projects kinda just quietly strand and are left to rot because of that).

I really wouldn't be suprised if some manager at the WMF decided that "no, using Scribunto for this is off the table", just because Scribunto is an existing project and they wanted the project to have additional complexity (so they wouldn't have to consider the viability of the project since a "demo" would then be years out).
Open Source JSON Web Key Set Website
I released a JSON Web Key Set (JWK Set) website. It helps with generating and inspecting JWKs. This is attached to the open source Golang package on GitHub.
When those decisions were made (to shut down asylums, etc.) what techniques were intended to backfill the same need? Did evidence suggest that something else (drugs at home?) would be at least similarly effective and more humane?
CUDA is becoming less important over time
For us there's been two major motivations, and another few lesser.

First and most prominent is that Sybase was bought by SAP and SAP has pivoted SQLAnywhere from a general RMDBS to focus on mobile applications (ie more embedded). Apart from product development changing focus we've struggled to buy licenses for our customers, so the writing on the wall was clear.

The seconds is that we've got some big customers who run their own MSSQL servers, and they've been pushing harder and harder for us to use their servers so they can handle administration and access control directly.

A third motivation is that while we've been primarily on-prem, a lot of customers these days don't want that, so we've started offering cloud hosted options. Since we're a Windows shop Azure made sense, and as such the hosted MSSQL also makes sense and is quite convenient.

Fourth is that, while MSSQL is quite anemic in terms of SQL language functionality, it does support transactional schema updates, which makes schema upgrades much less error prone.

Given that MSSQL syntax support is quite limited and we now have developed tooling and library support for multiple databases, we'll probably also add support for PostgreSQL later.
Check out generating ibis, which can output SQL and many dataframe formats (pandas, polars, modin,...)
I'm not surprised by their popularity.

I'm going to set aside coffee quality for a second - because the truth is, the average consumer doesn't seem to care about this beyond a certain threshold, which judging by the popularity of these Keurig and Keurig-like products, the options clearly meet - and I want to focus on what it delivers.

What it delivers is consistency. You put a pod in, fill up the water as needed, and press a button. Rinse and repeat, and you always get the same specified amount of coffee. Its precision consistent. No making a big pot of coffee only to waste it.

Not to mention, its simple to clean up. Just throw the pod away. No grounds, no coffee filters, just pop the pod, and on to the next one.

As far as convenience goes, it hits all the notes.

It may not for you, of course, but the average consumer is still buying these systems and its only growing.

Given how cheap it is to make these systems, I'm really not shocked it went to the consumer relatively quickly and didn't settle as an office only thing.

Now, they are an environmental catstrophe, that is true, and thats a great reason to transition away from these systems
As in The Open Group: discrimination-free, as long as you're able to pay.
That is such an excellent idea!
An odd thing: Canadians can enter the Turks & Caicos islands (a British Overseas Territory) without a passport. I know that because my partner discovered that her passport had expired, the night before our trip. It took some time at the immigration desk (both coming and going), but in the end she was able to travel.
They do not make Openai look like kids. If anything, it looks like they spent more time, but achieved less. GPT-4 is still ahead of anything Google has released.
The module on the framework basically is an e-gpu except directly on PCIE instead of thunderbolt. Why they couldn't make it quick swappable I don't know.
It's time for a privacy bill of rights. You have to attach inalienable rights to people and then enforce them at the civil rights level.

These things are troubling now. In the post AGI world these are much more difficult problems because the data becomes training for purposes far beyond anything that could be foreseen in the data collection questions.
D-wave is somehow special case. What they have achieved and working is not what comes in your mind when you say quantum computer. They’re selling access to a special kind of quantum machine called a quantum annealer. It’s not like the general-purpose quantum computers that big companies like IBM are working on. Instead, it’s really good for specific problems, especially in optimization – like figuring out the most efficient way to do something.

Who’s buying it? Well, it’s not just for researchers. Companies interested in solving complex optimization problems are potential customers. These could be businesses in logistics, finance, or even AI. The key here is that D-Wave’s tech is handy for certain tasks, but it’s not a do-it-all kind of quantum computer. Think of it as a specialized tool for specific jobs, rather than a Swiss Army knife.
Aren't religious people happier in general? Community is important no doubt, but I think there's more going on. I'd love to be religious if it was possible for me; to believe that when I die, I'm not just going to cease to exist and lose everything I ever was; to believe that there is some eternal meaning to anything.
No, I mean I'd rather build tooling to run Postgres than use a 3rd party service to run it for me.
Nothing you mentioned is an inherent problem with the databases. In fact, databases have arguably more potential to solve these problems then any currently used system.

Like debugging - if every memory access is a database access, then you have a builtin logging for all your memory access that is both more performant and optimal then any normal normal debugger. You can take snapshots of your 'memory' pretty much at any time, the data layout is clearly defined. You can manually edit your memory any time you want, and serialization is already solved for you.

The more I think about it, the more possibilities I come up with.
Damn, this is actually genius!
Wow, how horrifying. The more I read about the Nixon/Kissinger era, the less I wish I had.

Also of note is the fact that the original compound was used as a pesticide for years. Pesticides in general give me paranoia as they try to delicately toe the line between effectively killing small beings and not causing harm to humans.
Don't forget the fax machines and inkans (personal stamps)!
It reminds me of the current discussions around AI and when will we'll have AGI.

It will happen sooner than expected.