skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pipes in your house burst right now

> primary purpose of your life

In this thread, we're not talking about the primary purpose of one's life, we're talking about the primary purpose of school as it relates to parents. In that way, the pipes are analogous to the school and, as you said:

> If the pipes in your house burst right now, your immediate emergency would be to pretty much stop everything and stop your house from completely flooding.

Just like

> If every school were to close the immediate emergency would be that people would have no one to watch their kids.

Specifically because the schools are as important to watching kids as pipes are to moving and containing water.
I can see my house from up here!
Author here!

My wife (also raised SDA) saw this article and literally told me,

"Oh, my aunt built a harpsichord from scratch when I was a kid"

Looks like my metaphor wasn't so farfetched haha
You'd teach them both common signal UIs, of course.
The authors all have UCLA email addresses. Having a foreign name doesn't mean you can't speak English.
The Russians seem to have an unusual attitude to human life, currently illustrated by the tens of thousands being killed in Ukraine for no particularly good reason. The reaction seems to be

>Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put...

rather than avoiding it all by going home and having a cup of tea or some such.
How about this one:

"This analysis demonstrates that the SpaceX CP terminal is not a radiation hazard because the terminal does not exceed the MPE limit of 1 mW/cm2 averaged over a thirty-minute period."

https://fcc.report/IBFS/SES-LIC-20190211-00151/1616679
Reaaallly cool project. These are the innovative OS stories I like to see, not the latest useless marketing department driven 'feature' that some Microsoft PM thought was a good idea.
Some years back, Russia hijacked a BGP belonging to a major transit provider. For a few hours, international traffic was rerouted thru Russian networks where it could be cloned (like the NSA does in the states) and examined.

They could have been after something specific in the traffic but my unqualified guess is that it was a test or they were showing off.
Yeah, they both just looked "old fashioned" to her. Obviously she could pick out some differences, but when they first went back to 1955, she didn't really notice that the cars, outfits, signage, etc. were particularly more dated than they had been in the 80s version.
FWIW I would not hesitate to hire a felon if they were talented. Smaller companies and startups won't really have a problem here. Larger companies doing background checks might - but then again they might not. TBH I would use this opportunity to help find an even better match. If a company is going to blindly say no to you, they are probably not worth working at. Unless of course they have some kind of legal issues where they are barred from having a felon on their team.
SF rapper who criticized Mayor Breed over crime was threatened by Amos Brown
with all the free power we could give the roughnecks all the juice they need to mine bitcoin... while they are at work
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... contains the necessary data, but it seems old.

...is this a joke?

That's Q3 2023. Assuming the quarters are calendar quarters, Q4 2023 ended literally 3 days ago. They're not going to have a report out right away.
Reading the title I thought this was about electrical transformers :p

Although this is HN but my background is still stronger.

And by the way, is it worth it to invest time to get some idea about this whole AI field? I'm from a compE background
You mean m@getzoneapp.com ?
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Show HN: I built this Twitter scheduler (it's free)
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There's a certain sociopathy in your assumptions. Making stereotypical assumptions based on someone's skin colour and even worse is your condescending "poor native" take.
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15 nanowatts received at the dish.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-power-does-a-Starlink-satelli...
Show HN: Generating QMK config files in plain text
This application allows you to generate QMK json config files with a concise, plain text format. I made this so that I could update my keymap in a text editor rather than a GUI.

Not all QMK keycodes are implemented, but it should be enough for most people's config.
Right, it is lame alone. They should consider reducing the number of cars as well.
I'm not shocked. They've successfully "played defence" against a host of others, including OS/2, Be, and DR-DOS. And that's just the operating systems. Don't forget Stac, WordPerfect, Lotus, Novell, Sun, and a host of others.

The shocking bit is that Linux is even still alive, given the graveyard of Microsoft competitors.
i... really don't think kris de decker is on niklaus wirth's level. i don't think he can write so much as fizzbuzz

fabrice bellard is wirth-level, it's true. not sure about tedu and jcs, because i'm not familiar enough with their work. it's absurd to compare most of the others to wirth and hoare

you're comparing kindergarten finger paintings to da vinci

you said wirth was "far from the last" apostle of simplicity. definition of apostle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle
The issue is not having access to the cpu, the issue is that the model being able to be trained in such a way that it has representative structures for applicable problem solving. Furthermore, the structures itself should

Philosophically, you can start ad hoc-ing functionalities on top of LLMs and expect major progress. Sure, you can make them better, but you will never get to the state where AI is massively useful.

For example, lets say you gather a whole bunch of experts in respective fields, and you give them a task to put together a detailed plan on how to build a flying car. You will have people doing design, doing simulations, researching material sourcing, creating CNC programs for manufacturing parts, sourcing tools and equipment, writing software, e.t.c. And when executing this plan, they would be open to feedback for anything missed, and can advise on how to proceed.

The AI with above capability should be able to go out on the internet, gather respective data, run any soft of algorithms it needs to run, and perhaps after a month of number crunching on a cloud rented TPU rack produce step by step plan with costs on how to do all of that. And it would be better than those experts because it should be able to create a much higher fidelity simulations to account for things like vibration and predict if some connector if going to wobble loose .
At least several Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon-2 compilers.

My very first compiled programming language was Pascal. I got the free "PCQ Pascal" from the Fish disks as I wasn't able to get the C headers from Commodore which I would have needed for doing proper Amiga programming. Likewise later Oberon-A although I don't remember where I got that from.

There were also commercial Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compilers. I just found that the Modula-2 compiler was open sourced some years back. https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/

Aminet has directories for Oberon and Modula-2 related programs: https://aminet.net/dev/obero and https://aminet.net/dev/m2
Yes it’s laziness. It’s essentially equivalent to hearsay without proper citations. However it opens the door to less lazy conversation for those who care to ask for sources, and most importantly it sets the baseline expectations that those sources will be grounded by science and not like, my reiki teacher told me kids should wake up after 8 am

There’s something to be said by beginning a conversation with a shared understanding of what is considered a reasonable ground truth.
> Do you really think all the states and people that decided these things in the past were all stupid, or not following "the science" back then

I don't really disagree with your point, but... Have you looked at the overall quality of the decisions those people made?

They were not stupid, but the overall amount of real information they dealt with was ridiculously low. And the overall amount of fake information they dealt with was ridiculous high. The odds of any random choice they made being a good one aren't very high.
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We're seeking technical talent interested in working with our research team to build state-of-the-art LLMs and scale up our systems. Our new LLM training method - reinforcement learning from human expression (RLHE) - learns human preferences from behavior in millions of audio and video recordings, making LLMs superhumanly helpful, interesting, funny, eloquent, honest, and altruistic. Join us in the heart of New York City and contribute to our endeavor to ensure that AI is guided by human values, the most pivotal challenge and opportunity of the 21st century.

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Maybe just touch a file somewhere in /tmp or /run or somewhere and do if [ -f $file ]; then touch $file ...

If you never reboot could set up a cron job to delete it. Or store a counter in the file and output each time it reaches x % N.

Might be susceptible to race conditions, so could wrap it in a flock or something...
Do any GUI frameworks support WASM?

I've been looking for a way to run GUI applications remotely for a while, specifically on a wlroots compositor. Projects like this (maybe one day) and https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield are interesting since they essentially make access universally accessible.
uxn ftw <3
it's true that htmx is mainly focused on partial HTML replacement and we usually recommend that people load javascript and CSS up up front and/or adopt inline scripting solutions for locality of behavior[1], but htmx also has a head-support extension:

https://htmx.org/extensions/head-support/

for htmx 2.0 i'm integrating this functionality into the core, it seems useful enough to be there. The extension is based on the head morphing algorithm of idiomorph:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph/

which 37Signals is going to integrate into Turbo for v8:

https://twitter.com/ben_pylo/status/1717975035669876790

[1] - https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
I have a Tesla, and I still have an issue with the range. I’m going skiing this weekend and having to build three charging sessions into my trip doesn’t sound very fun, plus cold weather kills the range, so I’m gonna take a friends gas car instead.
Forecasting Bifurcations Through Physics-Informed Convolutional Neural Networks
Because it's largely being done by law enforcement.
Update: Looks like I had good reason to be surprised. Thanks everyone for the examples.
I know this is a controversial view, but I think employers should not be allowed to run background checks unless important for the role (government work, access to children, etc) and where it is important for the role it should only return the criminal convictions that might be relevant to the role.

If you were arrested for robbery when you were younger perhaps because you had a drug addiction then that person should have a right to serve their time and change their ways later in life without the state holding and distributing that to any potential employer, practically ensuring that individual is unemployable for a mistake they made in their youth.

The reason I think this is not a good assumption to assume that someone will be a bad employee simply because they did something criminal in their past. There are terrible employees out there who don't break the law. If we're so concerned about employers hiring bad employees then state should instead build a centralised database of bad employees and their reason for termination at previous places of work. I'd argue this would be more effective if we're concerned an employer might hire a bad employee.

Secondly, making it difficult for those who have committed crimes to get back into the workforce increases their risk of reoffending. Having a good job and a nice life to lose is a great reason to not commit crimes while having nothing to live for is a great excuse to do whatever feels right in the moment.

Best of luck op. If I was an employer I'd consider you if you had the skills and seemed like you could do the job. I have no idea why your past would be relevant to your ability to work outside of select roles.
The story from the blog post - https://ipp30.blogspot.com/2022/05/breaking-puzzle-news.html

> I made a few jokes in my blog post on May 2nd about wanting to buy a castle. Well, we did it! Now here is the real story of how this happened:

... and then looking for the cost...

https://www.jamesedition.com/real_estate/perugia-italy/a-rea...

It's less expensive than many California properties.

6 Beds; 4 Baths; 10,172 sqft; $107/sqft

(California *averages* at $425/sqft)
Looking too deep into the metaphor, but great question!

If I remember correctly, the restriction on drums is really a way to prevent dancing, which is a way to prevent sinful/lecherous temptations? That's just my guess -- many of these things are unspoken rules

But I think any instrument could be taboo if played with too much groove; drums were just a non-starter in most churches
It is too meta, I know.

But even the one free article they grant me is covered by a huge, fixed white rectangle covering 1/3 of the viewport and obscuring some additional percent of the viewport with a drop shadow, the collapsed version is still distractingly large.

Sharing news articles while paying news outlets is a big unsolved problem. Especially with cases like this, I am not convinced yet the article is interesting, let alone wanting to subscribe to Vanity Fair
I Spent New Year's Eve Trying to Do the Fafsa. It Didn't Go Well
Language design of Starlark (compared to Python)
Another interesting article by the same author is "Joy of small game development" discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37799387

Yesterday, a game made by this author, called 1D pacman, was trending with more than 1,700 points, available here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845510

For me, this proves that this guy really knows what he is talking about. Kudos!
OP is complaining about something most folks would kill for.
That may work as a starting point for groundwave, but anything skywave is WILDLY inaccurate.

That “tool” needs to go away. Time and time again people get accused of causing interference because their station falls in the center of the heat map and the person using completely fails to understand what it is they’re seeing.

I was so annoyed at this going public that I pulled my Kiwi off the internet. Nice experiment, interesting code problem of synchronization, failure to let the public use it.
Sundar lets the SVPs report directly to Ruth while he looks in the mirror at repeats “AI is the new fire” until he’s ready for the next soft focus interview.
That article is technically true but misleading. Most of Manhattan eliminated parking minimums back in 1982. Seattle eliminated or reduced minimums anywhere close to transit (which is a huge part of the city obviously) back in 2012. The entire state of Oregon eliminated parking minimums and single family zoning last year. Austin isn't setting a trend here, they're just catching up because the city has grown so quickly recently.
It will depend on what you are looking to get out of advertising - immediate sales or engagement/awareness.

If you are an eCommerce business selling a widget then you can easily get a cost per conversion, and then it's pretty easy to optimise your spend to maximise profits (i.e. If I spend $30 on ads, I can sell a product I buy for $40 for $90 making $20). I've seen businesses with this revenue model who will spend the equivalent of c.30-40% of revenue to get the sales due to the high margins often involved.

Your conversion will depend a lot on your product, target market, the ad etc (if you are selling a business rolodex your CPC might be better on linkedin, if you are selling a selfie-stick your CPC might be better on insta etc).

The effectiveness of advertising for engagement/brand awareness is much softer, and the spend will be much more discretionary as it is harder to track. It's these ads which are more likely to fall away IMO.
uxn is cool but it's definitely not the same kind of achievement as oberon, pascal, quicksort, forth, and structured programming; rek and devine would surely not claim it was
Here's a fantastic interview with him (in case you speak german): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:ProfessorNiklausWirth.we...
Wouldn't a hand that follows the head at an offset of ca 10% of the ring buffer size be mimicking the S3-FIFO quick demotion threshold and likely reap the same kind of benefits?
Your work is valueless, mine is priceless.
Mirror test of LLMs might be an interesting experiment to design!
The best thing to buy is just battery energy storage (or molten salt or hydro-pumped). Storage prices are falling even faster than the solar PV modules themselves, and there are dozens of huge factories being built every year, in the USA as well.
Barely a week ago I was quoting from a paper of him here in HN, "A plea for lean software". It's been discussed here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27661559

RIP
Gotcha! I was wondering if harpsichord and organ were referenced for specific reasons.
The free market will reward massive retailers with lots of parking space that exist in the suburbs. There is no pre-existing infrastructure to bring customers to these parking-free locations in most cities.

Furthermore, semi-urban neighborhoods and alleys will enter a battlefield between tow trucks and illegally parked cars.
> is it worth it to invest time to get some idea about this whole AI field? I'm from a compE background

Might be worth thinking about how it will specifically affect your field of expertise. Jensen Huang says your job won't be taken over by an AI but by a human using an AI.
to quote gp, "beautiful software is still being made today". It's not a competition.
> We arent going to see more progress until we have a way to generalize the compute graph as a learnable parameter

That's a bold statement since a ton of progress has been made without learning the compute graph.
Except demanding political allegiance to its ‘license’.
> Some people still jumped into the net, and crews then helped them out of there. A handful of them jumped into the ocean from the net and died, he added.

Should glue be added?
I don't want to critique personal taste, because it's ultimately preference and who am I to judge yours? On the other hand, one of O'Brian's strengths is his wonderful characters along with his beautiful prose. Even to the point that later books, like The Thirteen Gun Salute to The Commodore (a 5 book stretch) have an awfully boring and uncompelling series of plots and I still liked them anyway.

I do like Hornblower. I've read all the books more than once, I bought the ITV show, and I even hunted down the Gregory Peck adaptation. To me Hornblower was a deeper character than I might have any right to expect in a historical adventure series, but his repetitive self-loathing in the face of his genius (genuinely a compelling choice) grates after so many books and so many successes and he begins to feel like a caricature of himself.

Like the grandparent, Aubrey and Maturin are my favourite characters in anything I've read. Everyone will tell you how they and their relationship is wonderfully depicted, but it could also have something to do with how many books there are and how often I've re-read them. At this point they're old friends so it'd be disloyal of me not to love them as much as I do.
> Do you really think all the states and people that decided these things in the past were all stupid, or not following "the science" back then

Yes. Why do you believe otherwise?

> or just picked start times at random

No, they chose based on when they needed daycare to start, because the workday was starting. Or, because the children needed to be available to work the fields during certain hours. Things have changed.

> Do you really think you know better than all those states and people

Yes.

> Did the science change since then

Yes.

> you could maybe elaborate on that rather than just saying "the science is so clear"

Does every discussion need to re-articulate the accumulated evidence? Can't there be some assumption of informed debate?

https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.h...
I never said that having a foreign name doesn't mean you can't speak English, but writing a serious paper where the first sentence starts

> Large Language Models (LLMs) have began a groundbreaking era in artificial general intelligence

Pretty strongly suggests that your work should be judged on its scientific (and not linguistic) merit.
Maybe he should have stuck with that rather than running a sprawling corporate behemoth into the ground with purely short-term, market-based, decision making and the world wouldn’t be laughing hysterically at the abomination that is Bard.
They say it doesn’t need preference data, but it seems to me that this does use preference data - the preferred response is from GPt-4, and the non-preferred response is from their model. It doesn’t fundamentally obviate the need to collect a high quality dataset from somewhere else.

In AlphaGo self play, the only external data was grandmaster Go moves that were used in a first pretraining phase of the policy network, and in AlphaGo Zero there was no external data at all. That’s what I would understand as self play really.

Seems to be more efficient than DPO - will try it out to compare