skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude there's a book called the identity trap on there. https://archive.ph/44kD4.

I don't really follow the media. And I've heard that the economist is essentially "neoliberal". But the fact that they have that book and even the review of that book makes me think they aren't that liberal?

And what do you mean by "china bad? " Are liberals supposed to hate China? I thought hate on china was party independent. Can you elucidate your perspective on the bias with the economist?
Wikipedia says 1 year: official team development started Nov 1992 and the first episode was released Dec 1993. IMHO this is underplaying it given Carmack started on the engine before that and it evolved from Wolfenstein 3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom
Love this! Remember a thread from years ago on 1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999 giving the Fibonacci numbers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9815839 — was even linked from https://kottke.org/15/07/fibonacci-sequence-hidden-in-ordina...) — but that trick (using a fixed "base", in the terminology of this post) eventually runs into "overflow" issues (of the mathematical kind, not actual computer arithmetic overflow), so the idea here of using a base that varies with n is a really cool one.

I think the post says b=3^n and b=2^{n+1} were "experimentally found" to be enough, which raises the question: can we say what's the smallest base that would work, for a given n?
Seems to me most of today's "calculators" are either (a) dinosaurs of the past or (b) what used to be called a supercomputer. Lately, I've gotten interested in the less unexplored middle ground!
it's not just area, it's also powering the machinery. If you could turn it off for workloads that don't need it, you could achieve a reducing in power consumption. It would be better to also save the area, but perhaps a tradeoff if worth it?
The economist is known for it's heavy liberal bias. He could've set it in a more polite way but he's not wrong about the reputation of the economist. Ironically the list doesn't seem too liberal? There's a book against identity politics in there. The most liberal thing I see in this list is the excessive amount of books on the "patriarchy".
I'm saying a + b in Python can do whatever you override the __add__/__radd__ to. Not sure why you invoke C/C++ here.

If you only limit yourself to numbers (the title doesn't specify that) it should be bounded, but the article goes into some depth here, so I'll leave it at that.
If the device is cheap enough(so theft is not a concern), and it has a wifi signal, a barcode scanner could easily be plugged in, or added wirelessly so it can track SKUs or whatever the shop uses. It syncs to a more powerful device which can maintain inventory counts .
It seems so if I read this right:

https://mastodon.social/@bramus@front-end.social/11144816695...
You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.
It's so frustrating trying to find quality brandnames in the sea of randomly generated incoherent dropshipping sellers.
Do you have any examples of these lost technologies and references to the papers that discuss this?

Or is this some Quadrant sourced opinioning?
Also: time of day restrictions.

There's sweet FA traffic that should be going out to the 'net when everyone's asleep. But make sure these rules can be switched on and off in case of emergencies.

I had to take my daughter to emergency late one night a few months ago (didn't end up being anything worthy of a story), but got home at 2:30am. My garage door opener gets smart-home-switched-off at 1:00am-ish. At 2:30am, just wanting to go to bed after the stress of an emergnecy room, waiting for that thing to boot up felt like 15 minutes.
It's trivial to store a ban list of several billion User IDs in memory. That's only a few tens of GB.

As long as it can be guaranteed that one specific individual can only ever create one account, it's not a problem at all.
Hey all, I lead the team that runs this site.

We moved our site to a different infrastructure that doesn't support the automatic generation of RSS feeds.

I'm painfully aware that this isn't the best solution right now. I needed our team to hit a deadline for migrating all the content to the new system, and then manage cleanup of known missing functionality after.

We are working on making sure this lands asap.

Paul
Some will say: it’ll be log structures again
We'll see what comes out of ALTEDIC - https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/lds/items/797961/en
Depends how and where you source your energy. If you invest in your own solar panels and batteries, all that energy is essentially fixed price (cost of the infrastructure) amortized over the lifetime of the setup (1-2 decades or so). Maybe you have some variable pricing on top for grid connectivity and use the grid as a fallback. But there's also the notion of selling excess energy back to the grid that offsets that.

So, 10kwh could be a lot less than what you cite. That's also how grid operators make money. They generate cheaply and sell with a nice margin. Prices are determined by the most expensive energy sources on the grid in some markets (coal, nuclear, etc.). So, that pricing doesn't reflect actual cost for renewables, which is typically a lot lower than that. Anyone consuming large amounts of energy will be looking to cut their cost. For data centers that typically means investing in energy generation, storage, and efficient hardware and cooling.
Good luck chasing money, I'm sure it will work out for you. As a homeless member of the techno-optimism church I believe profit incentives and corporate institutions built for worshipping money will get humanity to the technological singularity and the merger of biology and silicon.
That makes sense, I never knew that. Thanks!

Now I wonder where the Audio CD 44.1k sample rate came from. 44,100 divided by 75 is 588 samples per channel. That doesn't seem like a particularly useful number, whereas 48k / 75 is a more appealing 640.
I wrote "consider", not "you are without a doubt at fault here". Learn how to read.
Intel shows off backside power and stacked transistors at IEDM
The thing is it kind of is one long track on the actual layout. This kind of messed with people at first one they were ripping these discs. The tracks are basically designated by a gap. That gap can be a few different lengths of basically silence. This is sort of left over from where CD's came from the vinyl era where the disc was one long groove and the start of the songs were just basically a spot where nothing played that you could see it was secondary. So CD players though had a different issue. They could not touch the disc. So they would designate a gap zone an the player could seek to a particular timeframe which should put you in that gap. Also remember what would be 12:00 for one player could be 12:00:01 on another. So the gap had have some wiggle room.

I am surprised that the scumm group did not just grab an existing disc container format like CHD (which I think is BSD3). They have solved most of these issues already.
1 sounds like a point in favor of Kagi to me. Can't stand Googles agressive IP-based localization.
> EU budget cut by half

I realize this is a joke, but the EU being the EU, it of course does publish[0] information on its translation costs. In 2023, translation in fact is budgeted for only 0.2% of the total EU budget. All costs included, that's €349 million for EU translation services.

[0]: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/86b...
Genuine question: would this software also have to become AGPL licenced, if it's connecting over a network?
Over 26M Americans are unemployed. Now imagine you're one of them
Your savings are gone.
You've lost your house.
And you're down to your last $1,000.
Can you make it through the month?

Prove it. Accept the challenge.
https://playspent.org/
Linux 6.6.6 Released Due to WiFi Regression
In developing mods for Warcraft 3 using its World Editor, we'd often have to create invisible dummy units for the same reasons, like to cast a spell as part of a more complex custom hero ability. Always felt like a hack, but it's funny, surprising, and validating to learn that Blizzard essentially does the same thing in WoW.
Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing – Even in the Human Body
> For Andreessen... you’re either a techno-optimist who won’t question the faith, or you’re one of their enemies: the Communist boogeymen,

After complaining about this extremist point of view, the author goes on to compare tech optimism with fascism. Equally droll.
In my opinion, you will be much better off if you either do not even read or, if you've already read it, ignore both this article and the original manifesto.

If this demonstrates anything at all, it's that we somehow lost or are in the process of losing all nuance.

Reality is rarely black and white. You can have both sides of the medal at the same time, or at different times, overshooting to one side or to the other.

The only truth here is that nobody gives a click/like for the hard process of working with real reality. It's much easier to fall for the trap of one side vs. the other. But there are no easy solutions.
Not if you do things the Google way. What takes you 30 minutes takes them 30 weeks.

Google has two big strengths: (1) they build systems at huge scale and (2) they are wildly profitably.

(2) is also weakness because it means they can afford to have highly inefficient processes. It is the reason why Google keeps pushing trash software on the world like Kubernetes (takes that 30 minute project and multiples it by a lot all by itself) as well as cargo cult management processes like OKRs. (Ever see what happens to a startup that is just treading water when management stops everything and introduces a layer of meaningless paperwork?)
Django: Defer a Model Field by Default
> It's not a skin color question, it's a question of other cultural elements. For example: My Indian & Chinese friends & family enjoy having a deep community of friends, restaurants, heritage events, bilingual schools, etc

Sure. That’s why a lot of my family has moved to NYC or Dallas, because there’s large populations of Bangladeshis in those cities, and they can be around people who share their language and cultural background. But why would you care about that? (Why is it mentioned in the Tech Crunch article?)

And clearly skin color does have something to do with it. If you’re talking about culture and food, Austin is pretty “diverse” for a white person from the west coast.
Surely it would have to increase global warming unless there were effects such as a nuclear winter caused by a sudden uncontrolled release of the heat.

If you consider that that heat is stored underground where it doesn't affect weather patterns, then moving it to the surface is bound to involve the use of energy to move it and that energy will contribute to global warming as well as the heat released by the whole project.
> I was thinking the other day, why doesn't Israel offer the west bank to Jordan?

Jordan absolutely does not want the West Bank. They washed their hands of that mess years ago.

> I think that by permitting, providing security and infrastructure for, and aiding settlement activity, Israel demonstrates a lack of interest in actually passing off occupation. Because of the settlements already there today, it would be already very difficult to maintain the rights and security of Israeli citizens who live in the west bank without the military occupation.

Yes, there are many facets to the occupation, and no government body is 100% attached to any facet - sometimes they'll flip flop. But being that despite the narrative commonly mentioned in social media that the settlements are illegal, I do understand how a government agency tasked with a purpose will fulfill that purpose to the best of its ability to all Israeli citizens and Jews worldwide - that is the stated purpose of the state. I'll remind you that even our Home Force of the army has traveled to foreign countries to help Jews there, such as Ethiopia, Turkey, etc. We are a state for the Jews, even if those Jews are not on our sovereign territory.

> So while I think your argument about Ottoman law is mostly sophistic (why is Ottoman law in 'force'? Because Israel has not allowed self-determination) I think it's really hard to argue that Israel has demonstrated any commitment to ending the occupation: rather, the settlement program makes the occupation a permanent necessity, even if the Israelis elected a government that had ending the occupation as a number one issue on the agenda.

It is actually very practical. In fact Israel has allowed self-determination for specific areas in coordination with the PA. And Israel has completely left the Gaza strip.

You need to understand that these organizations are for the benefit of a future state called Palestine, not for the benefit of the people who would live in that state. The people - and their suffering - are a means to an end to establish that state. I know that is very difficult for Westerners to comprehend, as Western states are _for_ the citizens.
It's quite an elegant solution, especially for older people who are not used to smartphones or lack the budget for expensive POS.
Why so many new immigrants are leaving Canada?
Grand Seikos are some of the best mechanical watches. Their quartz line is also exceptional. Very underrated and much prefer them over overpriced Rolex.
What specifically do you assert is false in my comment?
I don't understand why this does not imply the possibility of faster than light communication. If you had a long tube with a zero refractive index, couldn't you type Morse code into one end, by simply turning the signal on and off, and have the receiver receive the message immediately?
Can this scan barcodes aswell?

That seems like a useful feature.
Multiple people have tested it. Code and weights are fully released .
Even more realistically, crypto mining farms would quickly move in to use that energy and it wouldn't be hard, once you've established a stable footing to then give cheaper electricity to carbon capture types of ventures.

Love or hate crypto, it is uniquely capable of quickly moving in and making remote energy production facilities valuable. Which could then provide the infrastructure for things like carbon capture plants to exist remotely.
The success of AWS and Gmail and Google docs and Azure and Github and Cloudflare make me think this... probably not an up-to-date opinion.

By and large, companies actually seem perfectly happy to hand pretty much all their private data over to cloud providers.
NASA's Odyssey Saw Mars in a New Way
Nice touch in the HN bio!

> RSS is alive https://paul.kinlan.me/index.xml
If it was a burned structure, maybe the burning affected the measurement of the dating.
Google, you helped kill widespread RSS adoption to begin with. You can't be trusted with anything technology.
Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology? [pdf]
Exactly, thank you my friend. I'm happy to see that such ideas are entering the mainstream.

(Ok, you and I are probably not the most "mainstream" people in the world, but what I mean is these ideas aren't understood exclusively by antitrust lawyers anymore)

Companies are catching up too though. Google coaches its employees on what language to use internally.
Neoliberalism is an economic theory advocating for privatization, deregulation, austerity, etc. Usually goes hand-in-hand with NATO "bringing freedom" to oppressed peoples around the world in the form of bombs.

Needless to say they don't like China, who is kind of the opposite of all that.

There's only a tenuous (conspiratorial) connection to liberalism as practiced on twitter.
RSS is the antithesis to the interest of link aggregators like Google. It is no accident they didn't support it properly.
> Flowers of Fire. By Hawon Jung.

> A brilliant examination of South Korean feminists’ struggle for equality with global resonance. It describes how many South Koreans still see women only as cooks, cleaners and “baby-making machines” and tells tales of misogyny, from spycams in public toilets to bigots in public office.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this book probably isn't a great idea. The birth-rate in S.Korea is now, by far, the lowest in the World -- TFR 0.7 for the nation [1], and Seoul itself might be as low as a stunning 0.3 -- with many asserting that a "cold war" between traditionalist men and feminist women is the culprit.

Really seems to me that we might want cooler heads to prevail, and that promoting books demonizing Korean men and claiming that they see women as "baby making machines" (lmao) is a step in the wrong direction.

[1] - https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20231208000534
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"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
That’s insane how much money is flowing is between these investors and startups
Cyber 0.3: New JIT compiler, Embed API, and more
I just released Cyber 0.3, a scripting language that can be embedded and also used as a CLI script runner. The JIT compiler was created in an interesting way, matching luajit’s, and beating node’s baseline JIT’s perf in the fibonacci benchmark. Someone mentioned that the perf falls off in higher fib counts but that is only because Cyber starts with a lower virtual stack and has to realloc. The performance is still the same in longer runs.
It's not varied. The economist has a political bent and the list has a bit of this too.
" Silicon Valley will deliver a future of wonders far beyond what we could ever imagine."

This is the point in which I closed the article. The end of the first paragraph.
Command Line for the 21. Century: The Low Hanging Fruit
Isn't it possible to simply check when the request to the RSS feed is made? It won't tell you which posts the user read, or even if the user read them at the time of the request (I'm thinking caches), but it could at least tie IP or some other drive-by info to a rough idea of readership.
Anujdesh, this is amazing.

Is the calculator being manufactured fully in India or shipped from China? Curious.

Love the WiFi connected ability. Does the user have any choice on what api they want to export to? Or it has to be a specific app?

Even in the US, 90+% of gifts bought for Christmas are made in China. Almost anything containing electronics, plastics and some kind of plush fabric / faux leather seems to be made in China.

I wish the world didn’t depend on China so much.
I was watching "Our Planet 2" on Netflix last night and they showed a pack of lions taking down a huge male cape buffalo. 3 min from start to meal time. Very efficient!
For anyone who's interested, Fermilab has done several videos on this topic as well that I found highly informative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjt36SD3h8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmpNM0sgYk
Vivaldi has that built in and a good RSS reader as well. Still very useful.
And since then, the other browsers have removed their native RSS/Atom feed support. Firefox and Safari both used to have it and have since removed it. Visiting an RSS feed in Safari now shows you a page that resembles a 404, telling you that Safari no longer supports feeds.
A blue belt should be able to work in a team and execute his part of the work well, integrating it right

The purple belt can do the same but alone, developing a whole project by himself taking care of the important things, scale it to commercial use

And a black belt will managing the work of multiple purple belts to do what they do well at a large scale
you can use a disposable email https://temp-mail.org/

Or just maintain a personal throwaway email that's not tied to your real life identity
I don't understand on what you base this accusation / whataboutism. The Economist is widely considered a very balanced (though opinionated), high quality source of news and coverage. FWIW throughout its coverage it is very careful to disclose any potential conflict of interest, as also in the book list (for example where a recommended book is written by a current or former writer for the Economist or published by an affiliated company). For myself, and I guess many readers of HN, the Economist's annual book list is one of the best sources available for learning about new books. No wonder this made it to the front page.
It’s not entirely true that JS does not have magic methods. `valueOf` and `toString` can show up surprisingly deep into the resolution of operations, and recent JS has “well known symbols” to implement or override behaviour.

However it is true that this is much, much less extensive than it is in Python. As of 3.12, section 3.3 (“special method names”) of the data model documentation lists 107 entries (although some of them only apply to class protocols, and a handful are duplicates for async versions / context of sone operations).
Safari here.
and which is why the speed up is proportional to context length so starting near parity then, theoretically, see 100x at 100k tokens
It's a reference to The Economist's book #1's Murong Xuecun complaining about Chinese censors not allowing him to write "India-flavoured farts"[1] in his books.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murong_Xuecun In his acceptance speech for the Prize, Murong wrote a scathing commentary about his editor that he worked with for China: In the absence of a remedy. He also launched into a critique of the state of censorship in China in general. The speech was banned at the awards ceremony, but made its rounds across the internet. The draft of the speech was translated into English and delivered to the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club in February 2011, followed by a publication by The New York Times in November 2011. In the draft, Murong alluded to a wide array of censorship restrictions, including limits on discussing current affairs, contemporary personalities, and being forced to change the phrase "Chinese people" to "some people" in parts of his work. More obscure restrictions were also discussed, such as scrubbing the use of "Henan people" because it carries the air of regional discrimination, and removing references to "India-flavoured farts" because the editor was concerned about a diplomatic rift between China and India. Murong wrote that "The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint. We cannot criticise the system, we cannot discuss current affairs, we cannot even mention distant Ethiopia."

Such oppression. Much bravery.
Heh. Very apropos (it's been in there for a while).
The phonon oscillates both the electrons and the EM field.

A photon is EM only.

So you’re correct that it occupies all four dimensions, but we’re discussing an excitation in one field (photon) changing to an oscillation in multiple (phonon) and then back to only one field (photon).
If your motivation is to be able to run the model on-prem, with parallelism for API service throughput (rather than on a single device), you don't need large memory GPUs or intensive memory swapping.

You can architect it as cheaper, low-memory GPUs, one expert submodel per GPU, transferring state over the network between the GPUs for each token. They run in parallel by overlapping API calls (and in future by other model architecture changes).

Th MoE model reduces inter-GPU communication requirements for splitting the model, in an addition to reducing GPU processing requirements, compared with a non-MoE model with the same number of weights. There are pros and cons to this splitting, but you can see the general trend.