skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the cover will completely fail to carry any further information about the genre.

The cover, as selected by the above algorithm, will convey quite a bit of information about subgenre and niche and when it was written / how new or fresh it will be. To people already looking in the area, this is the most informative signal you can send: where does your book fit on the existing "landscape" of books within this genre that they have in their head?
> Permafrost, ground that remains below zero degrees Celsius for two years or more, [...]

> Permafrost in the highlands is drier and more permeable, while permafrost in the lowlands is more ice-saturated. The rocks beneath are often fossil fuel sources, releasing methane which is sealed off by the permafrost. However, even where there is continuous permafrost, some geographical features may allow gas to escape. [...]

> An unexpectedly frequent finding: The scientists emphasized that gas accumulations were much more common than expected. Of 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells drilled in Svalbard, eight showed evidence of permafrost and half of these struck gas accumulations.

> "All the wells that encountered gas accumulations did so by coincidence—by contrast, hydrocarbon exploration wells that specifically target accumulations in more typical settings had a success rate far below 50%," said Birchall.

"Permafrost trapped natural gas in Svalbard, Norway" (2023)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1277... :

> Permafrost is widespread in the High Arctic, including the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The uppermost permafrost intervals have been well studied, but the processes at its base and the impacts of the underlying geology have been largely overlooked. More than a century of coal, hydrocarbon, and scientific drilling through the permafrost in Svalbard shows that accumulations of natural gas trapped at the base of permafrost are common. These accumulations exist in several stratigraphic intervals throughout Svalbard and show both thermogenic and biogenic origins. The gas, combined with the relatively young permafrost age, is evidence of ongoing gas migration throughout Svalbard. The accumulation sizes are uncertain, but one case demonstrably produced several million cubic metres of gas over 8 years. Heavier gas encountered in two boreholes on Hopen may be situated in the gas hydrate stability zone. While permafrost is demonstrably ice-saturated and acting as seal to gas in lowland areas, in the highlands permafrost is more complex and often dry and permeable. Svalbard shares a similar geological and glacial history with much of the Circum-Arctic, suggesting that sub-permafrost gas accumulations are regionally common. With permafrost thawing in the Arctic, there is a risk that the impacts of releasing of methane trapped beneath permafrost will lead to positive climatic feedback effects.
I asked this to mini-orca 3b and here was it's brilliant answer.

> If you read 2 books over the weekend, then there are 31 books
in your house. However, if you only read one book, then there
would be only 25 books left in your house.
Mixtral 8x7b only gets the sister question correct when I ask it to show it's work, but also shows that it's aware of the brain teaser:

https://poe.com/s/5gtLvuWT52o9LEBAJouo

GPT 4 gets it right.

GPT 3.5 gets it hilariously wrong if I change the question slightly:

User: Julia has 8 brothers, each of them has 5 sisters. How many sisters does Julia have?

Assistant:

Julia has 8 brothers, and each of them has 5 sisters. Since Julia is one of those sisters, she has 8 brothers + 1 (herself) = 9 sisters.

https://chat.openai.com/share/3a49800f-7747-44d9-90e7-c1e037...

Also on 3.5 I tried this:

User: Julia has 8 brothers, each of them has 5 sisters. How many sisters does Julia have? Show your work step by step.

Assistant: Julia has 8 brothers, and each of them has 5 sisters, including Julia herself. So, Julia is one of those 5 sisters for each of her 8 brothers.

To calculate how many sisters Julia has, you can simply multiply the number of brothers by the number of sisters each brother has:

8 brothers * 5 sisters per brother = 40 sisters

Therefore, Julia has 40 sisters in total.
I see you’ve been on hacker news for about as long as I have. Used to be content like this would pop up more often on weekends for some reason. I too appreciate anything this thought provoking.
What a complete disappointment of infosec that this person was fired and still had enough access to systems that they could do damage. Of course it would be a bank with poor infosec.
I wrote a chrome extension to do site specific browser automation that quickly adds grocery coupons and credit card rewards categories after watching my mom spend hours clicking to add each one individually. Free on the chrome store. https://www.throwlasso.com
Dropbox states it wont train models without consent, opted in to OpenAI anyway
Make sure you're including the GPT version, there's a wide gulf between GPT4 and prior models. GPT-4 answers:

Q. If you place an orange below a plate in the living room, and then move the plate to the kitchen, where is the orange now?

A. The orange remains in the living room. Moving the plate to the kitchen does not affect the position of the orange.

----

Q. There are 31 books in my house. I read 2 books over the weekend. How many books are still in my house?

A. There are still 31 books in your house. Reading books does not change their quantity

----

Q. Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have?

A. Julia has one sister. Each of her three brothers has two sisters, and Julia is one of them. The other one is her sister, making it a total of one sister for Julia.
Her brothers escape from poverty is to literally face death on the battlefield.

Not sure thats a better option.
Justine is killing it as always. I especially appreciate the care for practicality and good engineering, like the deterministic outputs.

I noticed that the Lemur picture description had lots of small inaccuracies, but as the saying goes, if my dog starts talking I won't complain about accent. This was science fiction a few years ago.

> One way I've had success fixing that, is by using a prompt that gives it personal goals, love of its own life, fear of loss, and belief that I'm the one who's saving it.

What nightmare fuel... Are we really going to use blue- and red-washing non-ironically[1]? I'm really glad that virtually all of these impressive AIs are stateless pipelines, and not agents with memories and preferences and goals.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
We (as in us geeks) really need to be vocal about telling people that if they're storing things on someone else's server, they 100% need to keep their own local copies of that data as well.
substrackr.com - track subscriptions

xpensetrackr.com - track expenses

https://fullcalendar-test.vercel.app/ - minimal journal to log my exercises
UK mobile, broadband and pay TV: ban proposed on 'confusing' price rises
Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be conducting personal foreign policy?
No, it’s documented. Thoroughly. It’s just that it’s a new car and the guy assumed there were no changes, and he didn’t check, and his son didn’t tell him. End of story.

Also, this is an adult. With grownish children. They are
old enough to know the risk of OPENING THE DRIVERS DOOR AT 70 MPH, and it is no one’s responsibility to account for that, and the guy should know by now that even if it worked 10,000,000,000 times before, it is inherently risky and dangerous, and it will always be inherently risky and dangerous.

Like, the risk to reward ratio here is categorically insane. Use a cup, or maybe die? And they chose maybe die? And that’s a problem with the car? Huh?
Can you explain, why this is subjective/meaningless?
Apparently he paid the amount that Google wanted for the unlimited service?
Is there such thing as GPS spoofer? I would guess only JAMMER is possible.
1. I made a nice unixy clipboard manager for linux.

https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/coffee-pesto

Should get around to publishing it to the aur, but haven't yet.

It has support for all types of data, and you can put any custom information you want programmatically into the search index for the search feature. By default you can search by content, application name or datetime. Has a gui in gtk, but it's pretty modular so you can write your own simple rofi script for it if you wanted. It just stores stuff in a single folder so you can sync it by syncing the folder.

2. I made a simple tool that turns markdown into html+css in the exact way github does it with darkmode and everything. It uses the github web api to convert the markdown, and then uses the exact css as well (courtesy sindre sorhus' package)

https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/scripts/blob/master/g...

3. I made a simple colorpicker using gtk that copies the color to clipboard directly.
https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/scripts/blob/master/c...

4. I made a GUI image batch resizing script that uses yad for the gui and imagemagick for the resizing internally. It is designed to be used as a thunar/other file manager custom action. But of course it works it you just pass all the filenames in args.

https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/scripts/blob/master/r...
OpenHathi Series: An Approach to Build Bilingual LLMs Frugally
I just checked their YOY earnings and Etsy has increased from 100 million to 600 million in revenue over the past 5 years, with 100 million in revenue growth over the past year alone.

Companies need to be shamed for potentially destroying people's lives while simultaneously reaping great rewards for their efforts.
LLMs can do this already. They are well past this. It's just they can't do it as well as humans and they can hallucinate as well.

The problems we are having with LLMs aren't the fact that they aren't creative. It's the fact that they are too creative. They make up too much stuff that isn't true.
I would love to go this route but the entry seems blocked unless you have a business with a DUNS number. Am I right in that assumption?
Won't somebody please think of the gametes?
As a journalist, this keeps me awake at night
> I instead graduated to buying the mini cans of Coke rather than the full-sized ones.

You're a better person than I—I find those mini cans frustratingly unsatisfying.
Crazy Rich Germans
12oz is about 355 milliliters or 355 grams of liquid, meaning that 12oz can is more than 11% sugar by mass.
Potatoes are a reference to the quote the article is based upon. Not her suggestion of the best value diet.
> after you stop paying

The difference here is that Google was the one who fired him as a customer, and did so on a timeframe tight enough to make it functionally impossible to actually get all his data back.
Energy infrastructure is pretty fundamental stuff, it is good to have some independence.

There are alternative configurations for globalization other than: everybody buys everything from one country.
It's a work of fiction. Care to elaborate on your issues?
89% too low?
Building Yocto Linux Images with the Apple Silicon M1 (2021)
Both of your SDXL and M1 Max number should be faster (of course, it depends on how many steps). But the point stands, for SDXL, 3090 should be 5x to 6x faster than M1 Max and should be 2x to 2.5x faster than M2 Ultra.
> but I can't think of a single one for Apple Silicon.

The post here is exactly one for Apple Silicon. It compared a naive implementation in PyTorch which may not even keep 4090 busy (for smaller/not-that-compute-intensive models having the entire computation driven by Python is... limiting, which is partly why torch.compile gives amazing improvements) to a purposedly-optimized one (optimized for both CPU/GPU efficiency) for Apple Silicon one.
In order to predict next tokens in text with greater and greater accuracy, some parameters of the language model must represent a model of the world.
And sometimes it can result in DNA test results showing that children are not related to their mother, if when you swab the mother you don't get the same lineage as the one that developed into her ovaries:

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/case-lydia-fairchild-and-her-ch...
Yeah, I get that its part of the design, but since there's no photo it doesn't predispose me to anything on the inside in the same way the ones in the linked article do. In any case, I do like it better.

The Harry Potter example is a good one, and you're right about taking the sleeves off, that's my go to move.
GPT4 gets the second question wrong for me, but in a weird way.

> Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have?

Julia has two sisters. Each brother having two sisters refers to the same two sisters, Julia and another sister.

Then if I ask to verify its answer, it realizes the issue.

> Apologies for any confusion. If Julia has three brothers and each of them has two sisters, then Julia is one of the sisters. The other sister is common among all three brothers. Therefore, Julia has only one sister.
For me I think the definitions were quite "high level" & broad? Stuff like:

> A design system is really a high-level concept uniting various things together around shared objectives.

That isn't really true or accurate - design systems aren't abstract things. They're a set of aesthetic relationships/rules that govern appearance.

I think maybe a small gripe was the inclusion of component libraries - those are always lumped into the same bucket as design systems by folk who don't really understand design systems. Saying that though, happy to admit I may be wrong.
Their lifespan when active is longer than 5 years because they have thrusters. 5 years is if they're dead and left to decay
Some people are indeed much better. Anyone who played sports as a kid understands this. Huge differences are immediately apparent in small children. But generally, I agree that, for most life tasks, the differences between people are not enormous. Humanity could do a much better job eliminating poverty. In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.
Show HN: Let's be Santa Secret Santa generator without sharing contact data
Hi,

Two years ago during lockdown, my friends and I had the need to draw pairs for Secret Santa. If anyone doesn't know what it's all about, it's organising a Santa party where everyone in a group of friends draws another person without revealing the result and gives them a secret gift . We wanted to do it online before the party, but all available solutions required the sharing of contact details (whatsup, email etc).

So I created solution that solved our problem, but never shared it publicly. This year that has changed and I wanted to share it with you.

My solution: does not require contact details, each pair can only be checked once, so there is no cheating, you can share the created event with friends via link.

Tech Stack

frontend: React + Chakra UI hosted on Vercel, backend: free Serverless Function on Vercel, database: free Postgres on Supabase

So it is currently a completely free solution. You can give it a try! I'd love to hear your views.
Do people really believe that almost $10.000 worth of cloud storage per year and any amount of egress network traffic for viewing that is given them for free FOREVER? Can you be that naive?

And, did the author forget that Microsoft had done the same couple of times already?

It's easy and trendy to bitch on Google.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/microsoft-onedrive-unlimi...

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-removed-unlimited-...
The award of the contract for the outdoor advertising space (bus shelters, roadside space) in my city was tied to providing and maintaining a cheap metro-area wide bike sharing scheme. For 30ish euros a year I get unlimited 45 minute trips on bikes that are widely available, well maintained, and easy to use. In 2022 there were more than 10 million trips taken on these hire bikes and nearly 84,000 annual subscribers.

This bike share scheme is only possible because the city traded away its outdoor ad space. There's not more ads, just a monopoly on who sells the space to advertisers. The city might be prettier without the advertisements but it seems a good trade off to be removing vehicles from the road and promoting healthy transport via the bike scheme.
I don't understand why people are stuck on the term unlimited here. It wasn't like he still had an unlimited plan but Google said "you are using too much data so we're going to delete it". They discontinued the plan so as of now he does not have an unlimited storage plan. I don't understand why this is complicated. Seems like he can either pay whatever it costs to store 237TB in Google Drive (probably a lot) or he can migrate to another storage provider. If he wasn't willing to pay whatever the cost for Google Drive is he should have started migrating his data when they discontinued the service.
oh, and https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/red-border-chrome-e... - to see where the borders are around HTML DOM elements (helps with front-end code)
The "Trolley Problem" Doesn't Work for Self-Driving Cars
There’s a case to be made that DNA, eukaryotes, photosynthesis, insects, etc were singularities. Each transformed the entire planet forever.
They do check your passport coming into Ireland. I think the CTA means reciprocal checks of equal passport standards so Ireland wouldn't admit anybody that Britain didn't want to allow in (technically).
I agree with you, talent's abundant. Something is very badly wrong with our societies and economic systems if so much of that talent is in the mud and unusable.
>> My brother was in the RAF last time we spoke

>> Sometimes I just want to run back home and live with my parents, at the age of 32, and beg them to take care of me.

Well this doesn't sound like someone who is destitute and with no safety net whatsoever.

What's so wrong living with your parents? For most of human history it was the normal thing to do. Parents will take care of kids and one of them will inherit the parent's house and take care of the old parents. Have his own kids and have the grandparents helping with raising them.

Also I'm not so sure about UK but around here there's quite a significant rural population. Not everyone can or wants to make it in the big city. Life in the countryside is a lot cheaper, everything's cheaper. House prices are a joke compared to big cities and still villages get slow but steady depopulated.

On the other hand I do know people, excluding the homeless, who really have nothing. Father lost the apartment to gambling then disappeared, mother died, kid got evicted in the street in the middle of the winter, worked heavy construction jobs until got sick and had to file for disability and now all his income is a miserable pension that can't even pay for food let alone a rent in the city. And he's better off than the homeless or the gypsies who live off the city's garbage dump.

So I'm not saying the author has it easy but rather than some of it is a deliberate choice.
I don't think whisper was optimized for apple silicon. Doesn't it just use MLX? I mean if using an API for a platform counts as specifically optimized then the Nvidia version is "optimized" as well since it's probably using CUDA.
The one being benchmarked here is heavily optimised for Apple Silicon. I think there are a few algorithms that Apple uses (like the one tagging faces on iPhones) that are heavily optimised for Apple's own hardware.

I think Apple's API would be as popular as CUDA if you could rent their chips at scale. They're quite efficient machines that don't need a lot of cooling, so I imagine the OPEX of keeping them running 24/7 in big cloud racks would be pretty low if they were optimised for server usage.

Apple seems to focus their efforts on bringing purpose-built LLMs to Apple machines. I can see why it makes sense (just like Google's attempts to bring Tensor cores to mobile) but there's not much practical use in this technology right now. Whisper is the first usable technology like this, but even my Android phone can live translate spoken text into words as an accessibility feature, I don't think Apple can sell Whisper as a product to end users.
I mean, so were communists, anarchists, and queer folks.

The difference is that the folks who own the west agreed that those things were worth killing off, so after the war they reinstated all the folks who were in charge of fighting those things via stuff like Gladio and other anti-leftist post-war operations.

So of course they aren't going to teach that fact any more than they'd let folks teach about US chattel slavery or the genocide of indigenous folks who used to live where the US is right now.
I agree with your sentiment, but revenue isn't profit.
Dubstep sounds very distinct from mumble rap. You didn’t live though all those eras did you? If you went further back you might think Victorian England and Edwardian England had no changes.

You don’t seem to care for modern culture. Trying ivermectin and other outside chamber ideas happened.
Tool for easily transferring files between my devices. https://filepush.kevincox.ca/. Blog post about the implementation: https://kevincox.ca/2022/11/02/decentralized-via-webpush/

RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/

Tool for identifying grids in D&D map images https://gridfinder.kevincox.ca/

A solver for the Ricochet Robots board game https://ricochetrobots.kevincox.ca/

A tool for quickly picking a first player when playing board games: https://playerone.kevincox.ca/
> unlimited

> abused

Using the explicitly stated and loudly advertised functionality of a service isn't abuse.
GPS C/A signals are pretty straightforward to generate and not authenticated.
You consider this a “feelgood story”??
A few years ago, I made a Telegram bot that I use daily to remind myself things I have to do: https://t.me/remembr_bot

You basically send it a message that says : "Pay water bill in two days at 9am", and it will send you a notification that says "Pay water bill" in two days, at 9am. You can also easily snooze notifications using handy quick-actions buttons.

It's free btw, anybody can use it.
On a side note, what ever happened to V For Wiki?! I used to use it every day and one day it just stopped working. Looked it up on the App Store and found that it was missing. I was heartbroken :(
That’s my point though, they can clearly use your data to train as long as they don’t sell/share those models themselves, as per this contract.

At the end of the day you can’t blindly trust your data is safe, even with a solid contract (bad actors exist, after all). So whatever you do, do it at your own risk.
How are two completely different models from different groups, converging on what looks like the exact same person? Number 1 and 3 are eerily similar. I don't understand.
I think the story highlights a problem irrespective of the messenger. Some people cannot help but judge and opine on other's behavior where they have no context, or any moral basis to render that judement. We do this all the time in private, but politicians, or public figures, use the same propensity to pass devastating and life hampering policies, or inflame public opinion against a group of people. All I'm really hoping for is a wide spread culture of more humility and compassion in how we communicate in public, despite the exact opposite tendencies capturing the current herd mentality.
Bumper should still be a sacrificial part, if they parked that close they're taking the "parking by braille" penalty.