skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this an experimental or hobby distro or does it intend to be something grandma can use?

It's an experimental hobby distro. If you want something grandma can use, you want to use use something everyone uses.

Chimera is fairly niche and goes against all standards. You're always going to run into Chimera specific issues. Chimera also has a nice transparant build system that one can tinker with.

As for Manjaro, I don't think it's hard to make a distro based on Arch that just works. Manjaro developers just suck.
The question is how much of the surface is still the surface, and if the old surface would be encountered by us (e.g. while digging) or is now deep down or churned into magma....but this would obviously mean that the civilization occurred prior to dinosaurs...and if there was one thing that a civilization wouldn't stand for is dinosaurs eating them all up.
Those units sound made up. Nobody will believe them.
Years ago, Zalman used to make something like this that you could put a 2.5" SATA disk in [1].

It was much cheaper, but you needed to add storage. I wish they still made them. I normally have spare disks around and it worked out much more cost effective.

[1] -https://www.zalman.com/EN/Product/ProductDetail.do?productSe...
Usually, there's a politically driven initiative to ban something without giving any real thought to the long-term unintended consequences. (This is essentially the story of the entire EPA's existence.) Often these initiatives are spearheaded by vocal groups with murky agendas.
interesting how MCTS decoding is called out. that seems entirely like a software aspect, which doesn't depend on a particular chip design?

and on the topic of MCTS decoding, I've heard lots of smart people suggest it, but I've yet to see any serious implementation of it. it seems like such an obviously good way to select tokens, you'd think it would be standard in vllm, TGI, llama.cpp, etc. But none of them seem to use it. Perhaps people have tried it and it just don't work as well as you would think?
Did TSA care about the magnesium heaters in the MREs or did you fish them out first?
I believe the parent wants the lint to trigger for any unsafe code in the argument to `then_some`. This would not require any real analysis of the expression.
Going from 1 nm to 0.7 nm is hardly as impressive as going from 3 nm to 2 nm. It’s only 0.3 nm less!
When you refer to bitcoin as a "store of wealth" do you mean that a bitcoin will retain its value over time? Which bitcoin do you mean, some coin you recently minted or one that's from a hacked exchange and hard to cash in because it's tied to a known crime?

Is this a bitcoin you have in a cold wallet somewhere? Are you running a connected node with the intention of exchanging your bitcoins with someone else? Or is your "bitcoin" just an entry in an exchange's ledger somewhere, in that case is it a bitcoin or just faith in that exchange?

Is a bitcoin a store of value in the same way a bag of uncut diamonds is a store of value?
London's black cabs are now 50% electric and rising https://electrek.co/2023/12/07/half-of-londons-iconic-black-...
It depends. Mainly on the cost of electrolysis plant, and partly on how close to free "excess" PV power becomes.

Natural gas infrastructure can be maintained and used to store and distribute hydrogen to hydrogen peakers if required. Or electrolyzed hydrogen could be used to make methane, which simplifies re-use of existing infrastructure at the cost of some efficiency loss. That's not an insurmountable problem if sufficient surplus PV capacity is available.

That's one of the competitors to rapid-response nuclear. The main current one is pumped hydro, but expanding that quickly takes more time and money than re-using existing NG plant would. And of course there are all the "revolutionary battery technology of the week" ideas. One of them might be super cheap, super reliable, and super scalable--it could happen.
You get security in the current system, just not privacy.
I’ll ask again, what’s a good use case over Postgres jsonb.
BTW, even modern humanity knows how to hide IR signatures of small objects (yes, Stealth fighters use slit nozzle, mix hot engine gases with cold air, and supersonic without afterburner, to hide IR).

And I hear once, about laser cooling technology, so it is possible, to emit IR exhaust in directions, where no observer.
No time, even suspended time? You don't have suspended prison time in California?

I mean, i understand it's the US, but you got to at least remove the driving licence for like 5 years and add a 5-10 year suspended prison time (until his next road infraction, seems a good way to prevent him from killing people by arrogance and negligence again).
LMFAO thanks that was hilarious
"Isolating" is where the performance (innovation) is.

I used a very similar setup, first time I needed to implement a tree. Now, I'm a fan of Eytzinger layout. (referenced in a previous comment in this thread)

Yeah, most coders in general don't seem to be as interested in this stuff, but it's still necessary. They'll want more performance.
"that a simple system does not have to require endless setup and customization to be practical" and "alternative userland" don't go together since obviously any "alternative userland" is going to break lots of stuff and thus require extensive tweaking work.
The market seems to disagree with the piece.
The stock was in free fall from early October and recovered a bit after the layoff announcement.

Anyone have an idea why?
Fun fact: it is believed that there are stars that have a neutron star at the core, formed by a giant star "swallowing" its companion neutron star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_obj...
This is a silly article. The numbers Tesla releases themselves say "we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact", so Autopilot aborting less than one second before a crash would still be counted as an Autopilot crash. (I think this happens because AEB takes over.) But sure, this should obviously be accounted for in some well-run government study.
The tin foil hats among us will be quick to say that this move is to drive sales of real time data.

If they remove history but sell real time data, customers that require location history will be forced to be buy real-time data at scale in perpetuity.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/agrivoltaics-solar-and-agr...
Certainly. We're near the top of the computational capacity for silicon chips. However, the computational capacity of a cubic centimeter of our universe is mind bogglingly enormous, what we can do now is a drop of water in the ocean (or much much smaller). There are lots of other ways to compute and many of them in active development.

Folks have been saying exponential growth is over for many decades now. It may have slowed in some ways or growth might be going in different directions, but it's still growth and I see no signs that the end is near or we're close to a major longterm slowdown of growth.
yes, it is an interesting topic, but the article reads more like a hit piece than curious and open minded scientific investigation.

Similarly, it strikes me as odd that the author repeatedly struggles to wrap their head around the idea that a forum of > 1 million people holds heterogeneous and even conflicting opinions.

It also implausabily glosses over the idea that there could be a real and sizable contingent of people with unhealthy personal relationships with sex or pornography
I’m so glad I don’t remember how much money was in that wallet. Let’s just call it 5, with no units. Helps.
Somewhere above I witter on about sciatica and how basic research (ok: one point of data) without involving rats ... OK - an anecdote,

... Anyway, I "fixed" my sciatica.
First autonomous, AI-powered restaurant
RGA is a terrible name. It sounds more like some sort of new alternative to B-Trees than a concurrent data structure.
I suggest searching for a makerspace / hackerspace in your city, and scheduling a tour. Day 1, you’ll meet interesting people working on projects like that - meeting them and geeking out, you might quickly have a local advice / how-to / project partner buddy.
Why would you assume their assets are worth more than their liabilities
I don't think inorganic material reactions can be described as an evolutionary phenomenon.
Sorry, I think I misread your original comment as implying that libraries were somehow overbuying, or replacing books that didn't need it.

I think I assumed you were using the term "core business" sarcastically... maybe I'm just used to so much snark on HN and the internet in general that now I'm seeing it when it's not there. :S

Never mind, sorry for the confusion!
It’s generally unintentional. It’s rarely the case that the collision would have occurred had the driver been in compliance with the law. Road design is often a factor because the biggest thing which makes it a fatality is speed, and we have many roads where the speed limit is supposed to be 20-25mph but the design is like a much faster highway, causing almost everyone to go over the limit and thus have less time to react to anyone unexpected and hit them at higher speeds.

This recent blog post was making the rounds based on Washington state data showing the speeding rate _in school zones_ was over 70%, which I think is what you’d find almost anywhere in the United States:

https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/12/12/drivers-are-speeding-...
There is a lot going on in the LLM / AI chip space. Most of the big players are focusing on general purpose AI chips, like Cerebras and Untether. This - what I understand to be more like ASICs is an interesting market. They give up flexibility but presumably can make them more cheaply. There is also Positron AI in this space, mentioned here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38601761

I'm only peripherally aware of ASICs for bitcoin mining, I have no idea the economics or cycle times. It would be interesting to see a comparison between bitcoin mining chips and AI.

One thing I wonder about is that all of AI is very forward looking, ie anticipating there will be applications to warrant building more infrastructure. It may be a tougher sell to convince someone they need to buy a transformer inference chip now as opposed to something more flexible they'll use in an imagined future.
Happened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down
The civil lawsuit cannot give suspended prison sentence i guess. Who does this person know? Or is it usual in the US? In my country, a killer will always get time, even if its "only" negligence: the time will often get suspended until the next infraction. This end after 20 years, so at least idiots like this will maybe be careful about other people lives.
Yes, but, operations like, “Does this node have children or is it a leaf?” should not require reading the entire array. Or, how many children; get the first child. Traversing the tree in pre-order or post-order doesn’t just have less cache locality than a B tree (say), it involves sorting a vector of vectors and is at best N log N and O(N) extra space. Deleting a node requires a O(N) writes. Every little operation is massively less local and less efficient.

I stand by the lack of integrity that I got downvoted for pointing out! I’ll die on that hill.
lmao, nobody presented evidence based on insurance rates. I just suggested there are many other compounding factors that make insurance rates difficult to use for this purpose.

It's also absolutely hilarious to me you're assuming I think Autopilot is unsafe.
Can Sukeban Make Female Wrestling Fashionable with Americans?
> Nope. SMS and MMS.

This is simply incorrect. iMessage is the default for iPhones.

> Thanks. I thought you were here in bad faith, now I know you are.

I'm not here in bad faith at all. Adding RCS support won't do much to fix the division apples has caused between iPhone users and other phone users.

> Good grief! Beeper isn't the answer.

It's definitely a step in the right direction. Forcing Apple to be more open with iMessage is a good thing for consumers.

> A few months ago it was all about how anti-competitive Apple were because no RCS. Now RCS it "too little to late"?

They should have been using RCS from the start and cooperated with and contributed to the standard. Now, yeah it's pretty late and won't fix the problem they have caused.

> Whay are you all so damned incapable of using alternatives? This is as self-inflicted "problem".

Because in the US Apple users insist on using iMessage.
More exactly how does a proxy add an online DDL capability to the presumably remote database?

Or is a database proxy something completely different than eg a web proxy?
It sounds like you’re conflating time dilation with the concept of light being unable to escape once it crosses an event horizon.

Nothing is actually “frozen” around a black hole, but if you accept that light cannot escape once it passes an event horizon then it follows that there must have been one final moment when light still could escape. The light that was able to escape in that final moment would reach your eyes as a “frozen” image of the object where it previously was the exact moment before gravity became too much to overcome.
> There are multiple precious metals […] but only one "main" one.

Yeah: silver.
"No contest"

(in "the voice"... What was it, Super Smash Brothers on GC? ;D)

Edit: Found it - https://youtube.com/watch?v=sHBsF8SKLGU&t=20
Solar's become dirt cheap - it's replacing coal not because of subsidies or policy, but just because it's cheaper. Bodes well for its continued usage.

The bottleneck for continued electrification is going to become storage shortly. Solar can produce all the electricity we need, but it only does it during daylight hours, while we consume the most energy between 4-10 PM. Natural gas is currently bridging the gap, but utilities can't install more base-load solar than is consumed during peak daylight hours. So the key to letting solar replace more gas is time-shifting consumption from 4-10 PM to 9 AM - 3 PM. Here's my plan of inexpensive solutions for this:

1. Subsidize workplace EV charging, and create a standard that lets workplaces pass along energy costs from it to employees.

2. Invest in smart grid-aware EV & home battery charging technologies. Instead of charging whenever you first plug them in (which is usually ~6 PM), load from EV charging should be distributed to whenever the grid has excess power available, with a random factor so that not all EVs charge at once.

3. Subsidize insulation upgrades for homes. This turns them into thermal batteries where you can heat/cool them during the day and they will retain that temperature at night. Insulation materials are also really cheap for what you get now; it's installation that's the bottleneck in many cases.

4. Subsidize heat pumps, to make all heating/cooling electric.

5. Adopt V2H/V2G charging technology on all EVs, so that energy already stored in the car's battery can power home electronics at night.

6. Meet demand for EV batteries.

There, you're done, at least as far as residential consumers are concerned. Transportation + HVAC are by far the largest energy draws in the consumer sector. Timeshift them so that they happen during peak solar hours, and the problem of creating enough grid-scale energy storage to shift production from 9-3 to 4-10 reduces to the problem of creating enough batteries so that everyone can have an EV. A Ford F-150 Lightning has as much battery capacity as 7 PowerWalls; take HVAC out of the equation and you can easily power a home for weeks off it.
I’ve recently seen some work claiming this link is exaggerated: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780611/
Haven't read it so caveat emptor, but I've had this recommended and it seems potentially relevant: Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall.
I'll add that most anti-GNU people I know in the BSD space and related projects are not at all against GNU politically speaking or it's ideals or the free software movement.

We mostly think that a variety of terrible technical decisions have been made and allowed to metastisize over the years, and that they are largely unfixable so long as Linux remains an operating system devoted primarily to ease of use, popularity, and packaged for non-professionals. A lot of this happened rather early on due to the influx of hobbyist programmers from the PC space, and so I think the GNU userland was mostly doomed from the beginning due to the qualifications (or lack thereof) of its programmers when important foundational design choices were made (they are better programmers and more professionally qualified these days, but they aren't about to roll back most of these foundational mistakes because it would collapse the whole thing like a tower of Jenga blocks).

Those goals actually align a lot with the GNU philosophies and so I support the Linux community fully in that way and for making free software available to as many as possible. But technically speaking, GNU userland is a pile of dog shit, and you've really got to rip it out and start from scratch like Chimera is doing as a bare minimum to actually make any kind of progress there.
After trying various approaches, I settled on Glim. It's basically the same approach as TFA with the same just-mount-and-drop-an-ISO UX of Ventoy.

https://github.com/thias/glim

You'll still have to go through basically the same excercise of the article if you want to boot another dist/iso than the ones it already recognizes.
It's one of those things that looks kind of useful but the more you think about it the more the use case doesn't actually make sense. A randomart image is actually harder to share than a hash (you can't read it over the phone for example) and any situation where you can share the image you can just as easily share a hash.

It's visually easier to distinguish differences in randomart than with a hex encoded hash value, but there are very few situations where that's actually a useful property in practice. If you actually are able to share the whole value, you probably have a computerized way of sharing information that you trust and you might as well just programmatically compare it to what you expect and that can detect even a single bit difference regardless of the format.

A version of the idea that might be more useful would be something that translates hex values into something that's easy for humans to share in any number of out-of-band ways. Translating a hex value into English words would be great for verbal verification for example. Or if we're being very 2023, maybe use the binary input to feed an AI image generation algorithm and you describe the image to the receiver.
> "To our knowledge, this is the world's first operating restaurant where both ordering and every single cooking process are fully automated," said John Miller, CEO of PopID

This is some future shit. Whether we want it or not, eventually some subset of cooks will be replaced by robots. Look at Amazon trying to replace staff with robots. Next it will be McDonalds, which has the capital to invest in this tech. Their workflows are already extremely optimized.

In the future we'll be buying $6+ McDoubles where very few humans had a hand in its production.
Literally, and speaking generally, the stock price might go up due to short term gains? Layoffs are a form of cost-cutting and assuming it doesn’t affect the service or product, this leads to short term increased profits or offsets expected incurred losses? Not everyone playing the stock market is a value investor.

As the fine article notes:

> At time of writing, it’s unclear why Hasbro’s chosen to lay off employees at the single strongest company in its portfolio. This year, Wizards debuted a critically if not commercially successful major motion picture, earned a Game of the Year trophy at the 2023 Game Awards, and was consistently profitable, but Hasbro’s still sacking its employees. It’s the sort of math that only makes sense if you’ve got shareholders to placate.
I used to agree with you until I saw this presentation by Jim Keller, one of the biggest names in chip architecture. It really illustrates how many more options we have to improve performance.

https://www.youtube.com/live/oIG9ztQw2Gc?si=vCBGGm0tkhG-VOyd
Or maybe fossil fuels used to have springs all over the place. In medieval times there actually used to be oils streaming to surface and used in mundane lamps.
temporal.io just released .NET SDK. The observability and scalability of the platform is really good.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of the project.
The third book in the Three Body Problem addressed this. Carve stuff deep into rocks.
Isn't this kinda pigeonholing yourself to one neural network architecture? Are we sure that transformers will take us to the promised land? Chip design is a pretty expensive and time consuming process, so if a new architecture comes out that is sufficiently different from the current transformer model wouldn't they have to design a completely new chip? The compute unit design is probably similar from architecture to architecture, so maybe I am misunderstanding...
Yeah a huge portion of the geological record is missing because of gigantic glaciers grinding it all down. Of course that was a really long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Unconformity
Do you understand how ridiculous it is to say that guns aren't safe because I might intentionally murder my family with it? I can tell you now, that risk for me is 0. I would never do that.

You are missing the point of my post which is basically people have such a hard on for arbitrary statistics that they will completely ignore that likely outcomes are very easy to identify in many cases. Because I know myself, I know I am not part of the population of the average which contributes to the "self/family harm" side of the statistic. And its ridiculous for you to suggest that I am somehow just as likely as the average to murder my family or kill myself or have an accident.
I'm all in favour of getting people off meat, but you don't even need to do that in order to get enough land for PV.
You can argue the should but I very much doubt that it would. We are very happy to let other countries do the dirty work of manufacturing and import the product, and the places that are most likely to manufacture are the least likely to outlaw the production themselves.
A better link for the change log and downloads for this release can be found at https://susealp.io/downloads/alp-dolomite-1.0-milestone-7/