skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The climate system is fiendishly complex, so even with all the modern computation power we have to throw at it, I don't think the scientists have a great understanding of the future that we're careening into, but they sure don't seem all that happy about it, do they? At some point you start looking at the climate science and the economics (hard to call that a science, but I think you're correct that fossil fuels are so deeply embedded as to be intractable) and you start to see two giant opposing forces that human civilization is caught between that may be the end of it.

I also find it hard to believe that people can just go on living as normal and having children in the face of that, but I also wonder what happens as more and more people figure it out.
When I integrated something similar into my site I did the fetching server side, which dramatically reduces the load on HN. You might want to do something similar?

(I'm a big fan of pulling comments back to the original post, as long as you can do it without causing trouble for the discussion site!)
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As an outsider, you're best off waiting to hear the consensus of a field, rather than grabbing an arbitrary study and trying to evaluate its quality.

It's hard to spot the difference between a good paper and a charlatan who carefully paints a picture that supports his claim or even outright fabricates data, unless you've read dozens or hundreds of papers in the field and know the lay of the land on who tends to be reliable and who are the well known cranks who have been publishing academic fan fiction for decades.
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Silicon Valley is only diverse if you count Asians as diverse. It’s also extremely segregated: my recollection from all the times I’ve been there was that it was only whites/Asians in tech and VC and other groups in service jobs. East Texas is better in that regard (quite integrated, I suspect because the oil industry is a source of good jobs for both whites and Hispanics). So is Atlanta, with its large affluent black population.
Because their larger models are super powerful. This makes sure their models start becoming the norm from the bottom up.

It also solidifies their name as the best, above all others. That's extremely important mindshare. You need mindshare at the foundation to build a billion dollar revenue startup.
I agree with you, stavros. There is no transfer between C coding and ML topics. However the original question is a bit more in the business side IMHO. Anyway: I've some experience with machine learning: 20 years ago I wrote (my first neural network)[https://github.com/antirez/nn-2003] and since then I always stayed in the loop. Not for work, as I specialized in system programming, but for personal research I played with NN images compression, NLP tasks and convnets. In more recent times I use pytorch for my stuff, LLM fine-tuning and I'm a "local LLMs" enthusiast. I speculated a lot about AI, and wrote a novel about this topic. So while the question was more in the business side, I have some competence in the general field of ML. More than anything else I believe that all this is so new and fast-moving that there are many unknown unknowns, so indeed what I, you or others are saying are mere speculations. However to speculate is useful in this time, even more than before, because LLMs are a bit of a black box for the most part, so using only "known" things we can't go much far in our reasoning. We can understand embeddings, attention, how this networks are trained and fine tuned, and yet the inner workings are a bit of a magic thing.
1. Have a problem yourself in a field you know deeply

and/or

2. Talk to potential users and buyers, they are not always the same

You can do this without building or spending money
Yes, they mean the same to me.
Typically, high mortgage rates slow down home sales, and home prices should soften as a result. Not this time. Home sales are certainly falling, but prices are still rising—there just aren’t enough homes to go around.

Before the Fed started raising rates, a person with a monthly housing budget of $2,000 could have bought a home valued at more than $400,000. Today, that same buyer would need to find a home valued at $295,000 or less.

It is still not clear what started this. There has always been a shortage of rental housing, but homes were selling with low interest rates five years ago. Home sales are slowing so there is less inventory in the marketplace, would that not lead to a higher price for those homes?

I am trying to understand if the increase in interest rates caused this imbalance in the housing market, the pandemic, or some other restriction on homes being built, bought, sold etc.
Thank you, Lorenzo! When I first read about chDB, I thought it was a great idea. When I tried the implementation, I was even more impressed! So this little tutorial was born.

I have been talking to Auxten about adding some interactivity to the code examples on doc.chdb.io, so hopefully the chDB docs will soon be even friendlier to newcomers.
Extract enough heat from Earth and Earth loses its magnetic field and then its atmosphere and oceans (from the effects of the solar wind) which sounds like a negative externality to me.
> I don't use Emacs so don't know how its undo works, but when I use named registers in Vim it is often to hold something that I'm not going to paste for quite a while.

Hm, I use consult-yank for this and order less search things I've yanked (copied).

I suppose registers could be more efficient if you copy a lot making narrowing more difficult.
I've had one or two really annoying merges that were complicated by these renames. TIL thanks to these responses that it's not actually a rename.
Is it possible to zip the content and use the hex string instead of plain text in the URL?
To the contrary, I want need things locally/cheap/fast for generic internal business automation, so it will never generate content any outsider would ever see. Basically glue code between services with classification of data built-in.
i mean sense of own existense
Dude old Twitter was conservative west-coast brand libertarians and it's silly that people keep confusing them with liberals for seemingly no other reason than the NAP "as long as you're not hurting anyone I don't give a shit" means they're tolerant on social issues when they have basically nothing else in common with liberals.
Here is a press release: https://loyalfordogs.com/posts/loyal-announces-historic-fda-...
(GNU/)Linux's forgotten man
How would you let the market sort out what works in terms of life-extension drugs? How would you measure that without well-structured trials?

People love their dogs and are willing to spend large amounts of money on them - how do you prevent people from selling them snake oil?

On top of that, we're talking about the first-ever drug approved solely for the purpose of life extension - yes it's in dogs, but it's a topic being heavily pursued in humans as well. While the approach taken here isn't directly relevant to people, one can imagine that developing this class of drugs in animals could lead to useful information on how to do so in humans, but only if there's actual evidence to prove their validitiy.
Bought a big house on the Hills, throws big parties with superficial people, tweets shit as if the political opinions of an instant billionaire suddenly mattered.
I'm a maintainer for the GitHub CLI. When our prompting dependency became unmaintained, the folks from Charm reached out to us looking to collaborate on a replacement (collaborate is a strong word for the amount of work they actually did compared to us).

While we haven't yet been able to prioritise using this package, our discussions with them were great and I think that in typical Charm fashion, they've created something really awesome here. In particular, we mentioned to them our desire to have accessibility as a first class experience and I think they really took that on board.
AutoGluon 1.0: AutoML at Your Fingertips
Wonderful example of going from needing something for research purposes to using in “in production” for so many other things.
Andreesen favorably quotes Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the authors of the literal fascist manifesto. So sure, that doesn't mean Andreesen is a fascist, necessarily, I guess. But the comparison is neither spurious nor preposterous given that context.
Writer-friendliness doesn't need to be at odds with reader-friendliness.
My understanding is that it can't really affect it. To the extent we extract heat beyond what the greenhouse effect can warm the earth to, it will radiate out into space. The only real way to heat up the planet long-term is to prevent heat from radiating out by increasing greenhouse gasses.
The only way this can work in practice is restricting the memory patterns that the developer can use, which is what we see in Rust.

Is it impossible to prove memory safety in the general case due to the halting problem?
ohh this is cool
> What the GP explained is commonly true when it comes to interacting with other humans,

Not really. It's company culture. It does not have to be that way at all, and is honestly a symptom of poor leadership and a misunderstanding of roles on a team.

> foregoing fundamental soft skills is, ironically, even more counter productive.

I disagree with having a culture that makes people afraid to submit a pull request because someone might help out and fix a problem with it, or make it better. Being angry comes from misunderstanding and fear that a developer's standing will be diminished because of the rewrite. A developer being angered by a correct or better rewrite is a symptom of bad leadership and a toxic culture.
This is pure speculation, but maybe it's beneficial in some circumstances to make way for the younger generation?

Natural selection doesn't necessarily favor genes that optimize the health of a particular animal. Natural selection favors genes that optimize for more copies of themselves, at whatever cost to their current carriers. Perhaps under some scenarios of canine evolution, the fittest genes might have been ones that selected for higher turnover than would happen if bodies wore out naturally.
Here's a link to the paper [0]. It contains photos of printed objects shaped like letters, honeycombs, gears and other things.

Maybe they should have included some of images in the reporting.

[0] "Direct Sound Printing", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29395-1 (Open Access)
You can teach basic statistics without a lot of math background.

If your class of 12 year old physics students has just timed a block of wood sliding down a sloped plank at different angles, and plotted an X/Y chart of their results, you can just have them put a best fit line through the points by eye.

No need for matrices or differentiation or X-transpose-X-inverse-X-transpose-y - just bang a line through the data by eye.
Jesus christ the number of people that learned a list of fallacies but never understood them or their applications and now mindlessly accuse people online of them in ways that aren't at all applicable while thinking they're so much smarter than everyone else cause they memorized this list of gotchas that aren't actually gotchas regularly astounds me.

Please learn what the fallacies actually mean and maybe read actual organized debate rules. I promise you, in one of those "the researcher has years of experience in the field and you're a programmer, they are more likely to be correct" is valid support for an argument and not some how negated by "I cast 'appeal to authority' fallacy" without an actual argument that indicates why the authority does not have weight.
Arrival of Sundar as CEO was the obvious sign, but probably few years before then.
you said this:

> you agree to the terms when you license the song.

that agreement is a law, no?
The only missing thing in NativeAOT (for my use cases) is EF Core. It's getting there. Once EF Core works well on NativeAOT, C# would be a fantastic alternative to Go.
They weren't implying anything other than that the phrase may be less common outside of Great Britain
yes. common bit depths to represent pixels range up to 64-bits.
2023 Atlantic hurricane season ranks fourth for most named storms in a year
Well it's all gradual and diffuse; for that matter there are still pockets of the "old Google" around today. My point here was just about, in a big company, different teams having their own domains that you don't/can't interfere in, rather than a free-for-all where everyone feels part of the same whole and can just jump in. (Which was probably never going to work anyway, so maybe encouraging such a culture in the first place is what Google did wrong.)

This is actually ironic in light of popular HN sentiment in Google-related articles, where many seem to imagine Google acting as a single whole, rather than different teams working in their own interests and not thinking of the big picture. E.g. people in this thread imagining that "Google" thought about RSS support and made a decision based on advertising revenue (or whatever imaginative reason), when in fact the team working on the "DevSite" infrastructure probably barely thought about RSS at all. Maybe they should have, but the reality that RSS (unfortunately) doesn't matter much seems harder to swallow for many, than theories about maliciously breaking it.
Please add RSS to your blog thing. It's not dead technology, there's still some people like me that would like to keep up-to-date with other people's writing, but I won't give out my email for any newsletter until you buy me lunch first.

Please add RSS. Thank you. This is a good blog, that now I am gonna forget forevermore.

(Can't comment on TFA because I have my iPhone set to Lockdown Mode and WebGL is disabled, so nothing shows up. It's on purpose.)
Since ~2007: https://blog.berniesumption.com/software/inheritance-is-evil...

Jedi "has dark powers", not Jedi "is dark jedi".

That way R2D2 can "has dark powers", as well as can "has light powers".
There's also Jetbrains Rider for .net on mac & Linux (google it)
Sorry - what does "open an API mean"?
Can you elaborate a bit more on the example in your footnote about propagating client-side state? Does that provide functionality similar to Alpine.js's data objects/stores?
Is that a US thing though? Most of my contacts use WhatsApp.
End of the decade, hopefully.
But what about the "moral" part you've been harping on about?

The consumer pressed a button labelled "Buy" and paid their money.

Yet later on they've been deprived of this same said item - which they purchased - yet you're claiming it's not "moral" of them to fix the problem by alternative means.

You've a strange sense of morality. :(
yes a ux disaster
It's a USian thing. The default for diversity is Panda Express.
> ELO takes a while to establish.

Well, Starling-7B was published two weeks ago; GPT-3.5-turbo-0613 is more than a month old snapshot, which should probably be enough time. OpenChat and OpenHermes are about a month old as well.

>It does not sound likely that the newer GPT3.5 is that much worse than the old one

In fact, this version received complaints almost immediately. https://community.openai.com/t/496732

>In the immediate test, GPT-3.5 clearly outshines these models.

It might be so, but it's not clear to me at all. I tested Starling for a bit and was really surprised that it's a 7B model, not a 70B+ one or GPT-3.5.
I still picture him as something like the Encyclopedia Brittanica kid (back from when encyclopedias still came in paper volumes):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpgcz6s-eI

Even though he has aged, he still seems like a 90s whiz kid, and that's something every hacker wishes they could pull off in middle age.
from logs to logits
Well, as COVID proved, whatever drugs get made for animals will one day be consumed by idiots. Why argue against approving veterinary drugs, when you could argue for greater resources to be committed?
Bear in mind dogs are pretty unnatural creatures at this point - we've done so much breeding that you can't really assume any natural forces apply to their development at this point. After all, why would any creature develop a facial structure that makes it hard to breathe (like bulldogs, pugs, etc.)? The answer is because humans are selfish.
If anyone here has any anti-aging resources for cats, I'd love to see them. I have two 9-year-old Maine Coons whom I'm supplementing with glucosamine for joint and urinary health, and wonder if there's more I could be doing.

Edit: Getting some great tips on core diet and health down below! Luckily we're already doing most of those, and I guess I'm largely wondering about advancements in supplementation or preventative medicine (of course everything would have to be considered with a veterinarian). Here are other basic things we already do:

* My most important thing is not giving any dry food. Especially since one of my cats is prone to urinary problems and gets sick within just a couple of weeks if given even a partially-dry diet. But even if he wasn't prone to it, with what I've learned over the years I would not feed any cat dry food.

* We eat partly wet partly homemade raw (but the latter needs to come with careful research and caveats since cats have very delicate nutritional needs).

* Keep water bowls away from food and switch bowls/fountain once in a while for novelty.

* Indoor-only and we go for walks on a harness for enrichment when the weather is nice.
Yeah but do you want the HN typical-smarter-than-thou comments on your site? It sounds exhausting to need to worry about moderating that, for your mental health.
human brain cannot compress much data w/o loss. only few humans (like shereshevsky and peek) were able to remember about megabyte of lossless data
Should we move all veterinarians to humans then? Are you aware it's not the same biology?
Nice to see this again. Such a clear breakdown of a complex topic, presented beautifully.

Tangentially related, the documentary The Watchmaker's Apprentice [0] is a captivating look at the dedication it takes to create a mechanical watch. It's amazing that it's possible for a single person to craft each tiny cog and spring from scratch and put it all together.

[0] http://www.thewatchmakersapprentice.com/
No, my salary was was above average. But the taxing starting at 62000 EUR, which is not that much if you want to buy a house and have a family is at 47%. The higher you try to go the more they smash you. The PIT at 300,000 (which is a lot, but anyways, you already pay more at that rate) reached 54%. After that you have to add things such as IBI (tax for owning a house), indirect taxes such as VAT (mostly 21%), gas (50%), electricity (50/60%), garbage collection, if you have a car you pay 7 taxes more... freelance workers pay around 300 euros just for working, every month, before having any incomings.

After that they pay VAT and social security. If you see the average salaries in Spain you will understand that what they are doing now to the freelance workers (autónomos) is an abuse: a person that does not know how the coming months are going to be gets taxed increasingly more over the years and they did a reform that will raise the costs for this group (depending on earnings) by a lot. It can even quadruplicate the costs per month for people that get around 5,000/6,000 gross.

If you start to count and they can smash you like 60% or more. Things are going to go higher on top of that. It is abusive.

With that amount of taxes the debt should be lower and the services better. Where are we spending the money? Mostly in pensions (9.5 million people in Spain).

In Spain you have young engineers working for less than 1,500 eur/month, some working for around 2,000 (I mean Master's degree both), but you have local police, which is two years studying, which get 1,800 eur/month. Some people have pensions of over 2,000 euros at the same time, because the pensions are a Ponzi scheme. We have as much as 3.5 million public workers. To get an idea, in Germany, with 83 million people (vs. 47 million in Spain), they have around 800,000.

There is a lot to fix... and the unions... do not get me started on the unions and politicians. In the meantime, the private sector is going weaker and weaker and paying higher and higher bills to maintain all this.
Given that GC exists as a standalone .dll / .so when targeting JIT, you could theoretically replace it with your own implementation that only supports allocation. But realistically this may not be desirable since the allocation traffic in applications can be pretty high and require a lot of RAM to not quickly go OOM without reclaiming the memory.

There is also API to temporarily suppress GC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.tryst...
I think moving to a full blown operating system is moving in the wrong direction. I think moving in the other direction towards a strictly hardware double entry book keeping system would be progress.

I think any operating system over complicates and encumbers the idea with un-needed dependices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping
Nobody I know non-professionally is using Graphene. And zero-days exist and have existed for every platform. I’m talking about default security. Apps on Android can literally take over the messaging system.
<offtopic>Just shows the raw capabilities of the human brain without the support of advanced ideas discovered by previous generations. In other words if we forgot the knowledge and skills that GPT's have mastered, we'd be right back there. It took half a million years to get from there to here, and a single human brain can't do it during a lifespan. Our intelligence is amplified by 500K years of experience collected and transmitted through language.

On the other hand AlphaZero played millions of self play games under an evolutionary tournament style, imitating human cultural evolution, and reaching superhuman level. AI can do it too, if given the exploratory budget.</>
That's twice the average salary of an experienced "regular" software developer in France.
So the goal is to make big dogs live longer... by reducing the hormone that makes them big?

Couldn't we just adopt healthier, proportional, longer lived dogs? Or do people just really want to see how miserable a 15 year old Great Dane would be?
It is. I'm talking about redundant electrical wires being physically separated so they don't get damaged by the same event.
Cool. How many pins on the connector? 560? vs 288 on a DDR5 DIMM?

I can't find any pictures/vids of the connector. Would love to see how the stacked config looks/connects.
> People won't slow down at night, either.

I imagine it's mostly the "fuck you" self-absorbed entitlement that leads to willfully distracted driving in general, but in addition, brighter lights may be encouraging this, even though they do not help anyone see when they are being blinded by other lights.
And if you don't have a feed reader installed, that modal will send you to the App Store, with "RSS" as the search term (at least on macOS).