skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you mean not disciplined to caricaturize and stigmatize racial stereotypes a la Disney films by diversity and alignment, that won't be coming from anywhere Asia... Especially the "Asian" face makeup prevalent in NA, sometimes derogatorily called "Pocahontas" face. That one is American special.
Victor Hugo could be on the short list.
What if you train with instruments obscured? Wouldn't a flight sim user then learn to feel the plane just as fast as or faster than someone green to flying?

Essentially, if the problem is that the instruments are used as a crutch, isn't it "just" a matter of taking the cructch away for a while?
the gold had to be in the hot water already in a dissolved state

that ground needs to be near the surface

and geological surveys are unreliable

good luck prospectors! I either just saved you 5 minutes of your time or 5 decades of your life.
Well, it wasn’t even really his idea; vactrains as a concept have been knocking around since 1904, and there have been previous unrealistic attempts of this sort, largely in the 1970s.
They do have that, and I think it'll be on GitHub indefinitely, but Google is hosting a live site which can reflash the controller.

Eventually the framework it's running will be deprecated and someone will clean it up.
It depends on your definition of greatness. Alexander the Great and Napoleon come to mind.
I just keep a server (3 euro/month) online that listens to SSH on port 443. From there I can connect to anywhere.

I assume that a firewall exists that blocks ssh over 443 while allowing HTTPS, but have not encountered that yet.
If you only need to write and never read you don't need database.

> /dev/null will suffice.

And if you ever need to read anything even once database without indexes is slow
Ramanujan was missed by at least one maths professor. Also, there are mathematical proofs such as that of Fermat's last theorem, or the claimed proof of the abc conjecture by Shinichi Mochizuki for which verification is very difficult.

I'll agree that the costs don't come close to replicating work by LIGO or CERN.
GNP is probably not that great a measure, especially nominal GNP. 100 1970 dollars is around 800 2023 dollars. Also the method of GNP/GDP calculation has changed over time, e.g. finance was not counted as productive until 1993.

Edit: The table in The Limits to Growth explicitly states that it predicts real GNP: "* Based on the 1968 dollar with no allowance for inflation."

https://thenewschool.medium.com/accounting-for-gdp-the-histo...
Rather trite cultural relativism.

But Bach didn't even write the history, did he? Wasn't considered that great in his time. Rather, he was almost forgotten.

And let's forget about the rest of the analogy by ignorance.
Newspaper prices are more of a death spiral than a captive market.

People stop getting papers delivered in favor of online news, so prices have to go up to cover fixed costs, pushing more people to stop getting papers delivered and so on.
Thank you, Merry Christmas!
The comment thread on that page gets into Newton and Neumann, but I think artistic/scientific achievements are apples/oranges. Doesn't make sense to compare the two, because the standard of quality is so different.

Even within artistic disciplines, how would you compare Bach, Shakespeare, and DaVinci? Shakespeare alone added 1,700 new words to the English language (that we still use today). DaVinci painted so meticulously that his works have hundreds of layers of paint that are thinner than a strand of hair.

Comparison is the thief of joy - better to just envision a "hall of fame", where once reached, it doesn't matter where you place.
You’ve just reinvented pneumatic/vactrain freight transport, which has been knocking around as a concept since the mid-19th century.

In practice, it’s just really not competitive with conventional high speed rail or air freight.
I use automatic1111 hires fix with SDXL-turbo on a RTX 4090 and it looks the best by far for high quality images once you find a good prompt/seed (but heres the thing turning it on makes all the prompts/seeds that much better...)
Clearly not since neither the list of metrics nor theire relative importance nor even the assessment within a metric is anywhere close to being solid enough to allow measuring the known information (and then there is also a lot we don't know about the past).

Also,
> 8. Ending up so great that he could learn only from himself.

how does greatness prevent you from learning from others? For example, don't greatest athletes continue to benefit from coaches?
Deutsche Grammophon produced something similar recently, which I was lucky enough to get for Christmas last year: https://www.bach333.com/en/

It is stunning in every way; I highly recommend it for any Bach fans!
They're right now working on shrinking the size, with the "portable compendium vol 1" out now with more on the way. I love the original books but they're a bit unwieldy for me to just pick up and browse, so I'm buying these as they come out.
I have a 2021 Hyundai (same manufacturer as Kia) and it definitely has a nag for lane keeping.
History is very often written, & our understanding of it shaped, by the losers. Case in point: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_W...).
sacrifice for sacrifice sake is such a destructive goal. I think its quit the opposite. Fun is never supposed to be something larger than life. It's about caring for trivial things cause yoir basic needs are already met.
Thanks for explaining and being specific. I did do that when this thread started, opening the article in an incognito window. It’s a modal. Dismiss it.
The saying we had in my uni is that most math discoveries are named after the second person to publish them, because we can’t name everything after Euler.
Whether a device be a phone, tablet or a computer, it should be reacting to you, not you to it.
My first exposure to programmming was by coding in TI-BASIC on my TI calculator during math class in highschool. I never thought of going online to learn more so I had to explore what every builtin functions did. Them being written in a foreign language also did not help. Discovering "Then" and being able to make a multi-line "If" block was a revelation. I didn't know a single developer back then.
I think I still have that silly device somewhere to which I owe so much.
> Most people I know in the UK, particularly anyone with a family, prefer driving

In _London_?! I would’ve thought that would be condemning yourself to a slow painful death looking at traffic lights, tbh.
Honestly Dang, just from casual browsing and happening across your "dont do this" responses, it does seem like you chaotically jump in. I can't discern a specific pattern, other than it being a bit too quick on the draw. But that's maybe just me being more okay with flamey discussions.
This is great! Can you also add a preference menu to let users set custom fonts?
Pry and byebug paved the way in a lot of ways for this work, but they break in fundamental ways across a range of use cases, such as multithreading, multifiber, or quirk around exception handling. While these are all fixable, so we're the lack of standard quality tooling , which is quietly being addressed by irb and debug gems.
I think the line between the line in GP is people blindly believing into Apple marketing graphs is annoying; Apple Silicon GPU marketing comparisons against NVIDIA GPUs are made using laptop variants, which were at some point exact same silicon as desktop GPUs software limited to fit within laptop power/cooling brackets, but not in 30/40 generations.
You are correct, the steering wheel approach is very smart... all I was suggesting was that dyno testing would limit the ability to defeat, but testing stations would also need to simulate more of the vehicles systems.
To play devil's advocate, that doesn't negate the claim that undefined behavior is critical for performance. Rust (as well as LLVM IR itself) also have a concept of undefined behavior.
Even in a metric monoculture, mixing code with different system of units poses a problem. Worse, mixing code with no system and just a convention for what units numbers are assumed to be in. Joining two simulation packages, on with length in mm and the other in cm provides a bounty of potential bugs.

Sometimes this variation is happenstance but sometimes it can be important for precision. nm and ns are the relevant scales for particle physics while parsecs and seconds for astro and yet astro-particle physics is a thing.
Eh. London has pretty good public transport _coverage_, but it doesn’t _work_ very well. Like, it’s a lot better than anything you’d find in the US, but many continental systems are more reliable, better organised, and cleaner.

> Also it isn’t 24/7.

Some public transport absolutely is 24/7.
I'm stealing this, thank you!
let's hope this will not become some metrics to break
A playlist destroys the magic of the monumental achievement that this represents but visualizes the quantity pretty well:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jjc7SCCeXZ0PmvnKZgjpx?si=...

750 performers contributed to 260 hours of recordings. The three hours I rounded up would represent a major part of some other‘s work.
You could downscale the screenshot and use an `<img>` with `image-rendering: pixelated` to display it.
If a child learned to read at 2 and spent every waking moment reading until 10 it would still be orders of magnitude less than what we use to train even smaller base models (e.g. Mistral-7b).

My 10 year old daughter doesn’t read as much as she should (too much gaming) but gets 100% on science and history tests and definitely would outperform GPT-4 on reasoning. She’d have no problem telling me how many sisters Sally has. :) A human brain consumes 20-40 watts too, not hundreds.

I bet total power consumption for a human brain age 0-10 is substantially less than what it takes to train a medium sized base model. That’d be an interesting bit of math to add.

GPT-4 will win on breadth of knowledge but that’s just because it’s a lossy compression blob containing a dump of the Internet. We are talking about intelligence (GI) here not just being a big dumb know it all.
> "Index = fast" is a painfully pernicious untrue meme.

I believe that lack of internalization of that meme (regardless of how true it is) can be a cause of real trouble.

I was working in a team where Java devs simply didn't bother to put indexes on tables because they were small (like 100 rows or so). When I (JS dev) pestered them long enough to finally do it suddenly the whole app got super snappy and they were very thankful as it happened just as degrading performance was causing a lot of gloomy mood.
Honestly I'm not sure how we can start a peace process after the terrorist atrocities that were committed?

At this point I think the best is to just evacuate all Palestinians to the rest of the Arab countries as refugees and then just leave the contested territory as unoccupied and "dmz" like for both sides.

And honestly where tf is the UN in all of this?
Some symbols I can think of that Ruby uses that python doesn’t:
$ for global vars
@ for instance vars
:: for namespace stuff
=> for map key, value separator
{||} for blocks
.. and … for ranges
%w for special array construction
: for symbols
? and - in method names
?: for ternary expressions
#{} for string interpolation

And python that Ruby doesn’t have:
:: for slices
@ for decorators

And for the symbols that they both share, subjectively, a lot of them are used for often in Ruby.
How is BunnyCDN not simple? You register, you top-up some money, you drag and drop your files on the web UI and it's live.

They give you a free subdomain with HTTPS (Let's Encrypt). If you want, you can bring your own domain too.
thanks, this is fantastic information!
> But I can imagine Musk being outraged at the idea of spending an enormous amount of money to build a project that is already old and uninspiring by the current standards.

The thing about the current standards is they demonstrably work, whereas vactrains have been the epitome of “nice idea, won’t work” for over a century (there were quite serious engineering studies in the 70s and they did not end well). And the US probably shouldn’t be trying to run before it can walk here; its first real high-speed line (Accela hardly counts) should probably use proven tech.
I get the factchecking is hard, and factchecking in foreign language is even harder, but it seems they didn't even try?

This is a mule [1] for testing drivetrain [2, in Russian]. The temporary body was built from repurposed Lada Vesta parts [3].

It took like 5 minutes to check, I guess 15 minutes with Google Translate.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_mule

2. https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/18/12/2023/65807e2e9...

3. https://t.me/autopotoknews/4048
It expires when your iOS version becomes too out of date
Some great examples there, and look at how many frameworks are “$LANG on Rails”!

Rubyists introduced me to automated provisioning and deployment - Puppet, Chef, Capistrano - as well as concepts like test-driven-development and the genius of metaprogramming, but it’s common to hear javascripters waxing lyrical about TDD while slagging off Ruby.

Ruby is like 12-Bar Blues: people who love rock music don’t always like hearing blues. My favourite story is about seeing Earl Slick and Bernard Fowler performing Bowie, and they struck up a long bluesy intro which caused one of the two older fellas standing next to me at the bar to turn to me and say, “I really don’t like all this blues crap!” only for the “blues crap” to become The Jean Genie two seconds later.

Careful what threads you try and unravel as they may weave your own narrative…
This was all happening at the start of my career in computer stuff. I say computer stuff because it was a jumble of all the different things one needed to do in an early startup environment.

It was really exciting not knowing which way things would end up going, I was working on 68k, PowerPC Macs along with x86 Windows 3.1 and NT 3.1 (installed from 5 1/4 floppies!) and super early Linux.

We truly didn't know if Apple was going to survive the Gilbert Amelio era and decided to port everything to Windows. We never even tried to support Netware and it remains a somewhat shameful gap in my skillset.

In my basement at W’land dead computers wait dreaming, yet they shall rise and my kingdom shall cover the Workbench.
Isn't this where regulation comes in? Make it so that AI actions are ultimately accountable to humans.
Protecting Google's customers from what? iMessage?
> Although this is a common perception, just the fact a human rights group declares something doesn't make it so.

ok so I guess amnesty international isn't a good source on if something is an apartheid by your logic?

> Case in point, Lebanon is a country where you cannot become president by law if you're not born from a specific Christian sect. This is a country where ethnic discrimination is codified into laws (and of course Palestinians don't have voting rights). This is closer to what you deem apartheid, yet Amnesty did not make a fancy video about that.

fair point. on the other hand, my tax dollars aren't' funding that discrimination. wheres my tax dollars ARE paying for the palestinian genocide. and yes, 15000 dead with the majority of them being under 18 is genocide. There's enough names to put up a large monument.

> I'm sorry, I completely believe you it happened, however this is missing tons of context.

the video I linked explains a good chunk of the context. it was compelling enough for the US state department to take the allegations seriously and forward the information to the israeli government. their response was to confiscate the computers and classify the the reporting party as a terrorist organization.

FOG of war? they were shirtless and loudly screaming in hebrew as confirmed by many sources. at the very least they could have been apprehended. It was considered a mistake only in that they weren't' palestinians. I haven't' even mentioned the number of journalist "accidentally killed." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V4zG_UkIdc&ab_channel=Middl...)

I mean... this is all pretty damning.

you call it circumstantial and anecdotal but there's a LOT of it. They've even gone so far as to label literal children of holocaust survivors "antisemitic" for speaking out against this genocide. (google it)

I know I probably won't be able to change your mind no matter what I show you. but there are very real reasons antizionism is growing in the world. The only solution that doesn't make israel evil will be to grant palestinians citizenship and equality under the law and let them live in israel alongside jews. abandon this whole ethnostate garbage.
There's also self criticism.

People are quick to dogpile on entities that do self criticism while proud egoists who never analyze themselves rarely get that.
Yep you will be totally paid, don't worry !
hmm, are you saying that the regenerator (or recuperator) has lower efficiency at lower ΔT? or lower efficiency when it's more a ΔH than a ΔT? because if that 5° of cooling and dehumidification costs you the same US$100 a month as the 30° of heating, saving 80% of it will still be US$80 a month
But our current world hinges on future growth. You must rewind the clock pretty far back to see what kind of society it could be, even with today's tech.
Can you combine that with cross rs? I positively hate the official GHA cache action so anything to replace that would be nice. But we cross compile with cross rs.
I imagined humans got feeble when old because, socialization of the young?

See, once you had social animals that communicate in detail, it became positively selected for limiting the activity of the old. They would then congregate with the others in the village around the fire - the young. And tell them things.

The whole community would benefit. That's all it takes to cement something into genes.
IDK what happened at Mozilla but keep going!
It is safe to assume all news about China, Russia and North Korea is false or exaggerated
> this news article is about a core issue in tech

I agree. Let's assume that a Social-Media Business (SMBiz) gains sufficient value from hosting topical discussion to want to continue. But there is cost, reputational risk, and lawyers are expensive. How can SMBiz effectively moderate a conversation/debate/flamewar about a controversial event or subject, especially when the SMbiz wants to maximise user engagement while respecting laws and government requests?

Like it or not, that's the business reality. People who want a truly neutral discussion platform that operates with transnational freedom and total personal freedom will find that their ideals alone are not enough to sustain the business.

Prior Art: People often say that HN's Dang and Slashdot's moderation system are the best examples of "effective moderation" that we know. If the moderation is effective, it means SMBiz is attentive to topics and comments and discussion is insightful and interesting; it isn't overwhelmed by frivolity, falsehoods, defamation, and death threats (FFDDs). If the job is done well, SMBiz may even receive accolades. See Reddit's recent experience with its moderators for a negative example.

Here are some of the rules that will need to be applied, in stochastic FIFO order. Items are lettered for reference.

a= At all times, keep a clear eye on the business equation. Effective moderation will have a significant cost. At any scale!

b= Seed the discussion with verified accounts/users. Reputation must be earned and maintained. See Prior Art.

c= Rate limiting, especially for controversial topics. No short, stupid Reddit posts. People must weigh their words. Sometimes, the microphone must be disabled.

d= No flamewars, no propaganda, no falsehoods. See Prior Art. Lock any discussion that achieves high FFDDs. Throw away accounts, ban offenders. Make it sting.

e= No anonymity unless a verified account/user has sufficient reputation to post in anonymous mode. But it costs in ReputationCoin.

f= No bots, no bridages. See Prior Art to estimate workload and infrastructure.

g= Enable and reward trusted moderators. See Prior Art.

= = = Final Notes

> My engineer brain wants to solve this

I get that you are very interested in the Moderation Problem, but I think this wording wins no support. Backers will say that you are way out of your social depth, and people in the debate will dismiss your intent as naivety or bike-shedding (frivolous or misplaced optimisation) or a combination of the two.

One important reason why HN succeeds because Dan G (who is indeed attentive, and principled) rejects the most ungovernable type of conversation: flamewars.

> convincingly show moderation neutrality on a topic like this

There is no neutrality, of course. SMBiz can state its bias and interests clearly. But it will be hard to make a profit from achieving neutrality because strident factions in polarised debate do not want neutrality.
Therein lies the problem, I guess. How is it left to the application developer to implement this properly? As a user of the device, I expect biometrics (a feature of my platform of choice) to behave consistently.
IMO GUI programming isn't difficult by default, e.g. have a look at LabVIEW.

It's just that all of the tooling is beyond exceptionally bad.
Learn to fly definitely. After hours with flight simulator a friend once took me up for a ride, the radio went out (not a big emergency) but I was able to do much of the flying while he dealt with the problem. Understanding the fundamentals made it much easier to step right in. As to being a better pilot, there was an A10 Warthog simulator for the Mac long ago. I was a passenger in a small private jet that did the U-turn-while-losing-lots-of-altitude thing and could see out the cockpit window. But I had already seen it and done it in the A10 simulator. Just my experience.
Don't forget the congestion charge if you enter central London!
The form factor is huge! In my case it works really well because I can read it standing up while looking down at the huge book.

But that's a great edition to put out!
Would be awesome if more would start celebrating the winter solstice again instead of Christmas.

It would unite us more and based on science and not on some arbitrary thoughts.

So in the spirit of it: happy winter solstice everyone! (I know I'm 2 days late)
Yes, I agree :). I don't know if you saw my proposal to Kanro, an anti-pandemic charity, to develop a fan for a superior CR box. I think it will be really good if they chose to fund it, it bothers me that they take several months to approve a proposal though. I see no reason for such waste, this is an emergency...
Right on. It's a fine strategy. An alternative one is to pick your second best guess (usually in an upward inflecting question-voice; semi incredulously), to see if this thing you think isn't the right idea gets approval. Then, you can ask your first best guess because now just asking will highlight the distinction, which may make the missing piece more apparent to both parties.

Really no wrong answer, so long as all parties are earnestly working towards the solution. The nice part about this strategy is it lets your 'most correct' answer actually be multiple answers that you whittle down, rather than making the judgement calls, yourself, on what the other person most probably means to what they least probably mean. You remove an assumption and lead with your biggest concern, even if that seems like a crazy suggestion. Once you confirm that it is crazy, you're closer to the target. And if the 'crazy' thing was right, then you get to skip a lot of the steps between your initial best understanding and the correct understanding.
I can write to one database, replicate it (for example, by log shipping), and add an index only on the replica. This is not just being pedantic, this is a real-world pattern for some analytics solutions. You have a very high number of writes, and then build a reporting database at the end of every day, with all reads going to that database.