skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the GitHub repo Readme:

> we can achieve this within a span of "just" 90 days using 16 A100-40G GPUs

I knew the computational power required to train LLMs was absurd, but seeing the figures of larger networks (which are just too large to intuitively understand) it didn't really register. With this one I could actually imagine the 16 machines with A100 GPUs sitting on a server room running at full blast for 90 days so it was more tangible... And now to think about the larger ones is kinda scary

Edit: Did the math and just the GPUs (at 250W each) consumed around 8.64 MWh, which is at the same ballpark of the power consumption of the average US home in one year (10.5MWh)
Yet, steam turbines attached to nuke and coal plants spend 10-20% of their time offline, being overhauled mainly because of high-temperature/high-pressure steam's corrosiveness.

Cold distilled water is not corrosive. Superheated steam, howsoever pure, little resembles cold liquid water in any detail. Furthermore, hot water will pick up minerals from whatever it runs through.

Many materials that are not especially corrosive as cold liquids behave quite differently at extreme pressure and temperature. Water has uncommon valuable thermodynamic properties, but not uniquely so; its chief virtue is that it is good enough and cheap.
Who's Using React Native Expo OSS in 2024
Highly recommend reading the various interviews and papers by Bruno Putzeyes. He’s been pushing the state of the art in PDM / PWM / Class-D amplification for the last 20 years or so.

Here’s a white paper of his specifically about direct PWM amplification.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242013327_All_ampli...
When I look at this chart, I'm still pretty worried about peak fossil fuel happening too soon. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...
Pulling movements in general are pretty hard to do with just calisthenics. Anywhere in that big park, is there a nice sturdy pole or post? If so, you can get an elastic band set, usually very inexpensive and portable, and use that to do rows (and face pulls, if you want).

I would also try to incorporate pull-ups (some parks have pull up bars, or you can install one at home) to work your lats. This might be tricky if you’re not at the point where you can do a body weight pull-up yet. If that’s the case, you can probably figure out how to do a lat pull down with elastic bands and the right kind of rigid surface.

You can use your feet to stabilize the bands to do curls (biceps, some forearms) and shrugs (traps) to round out most “pulling” movements. Also you can isolate your triceps and side delts with bands. And do “harder” ab exercises than just sit-ups. They’re very versatile, like a much less expensive cable system.
I love it. Thank you for making it
I came here to mention MenuMeters as well. It's the closest thing I can find to those beloved X window system load indicators of yore.
writing a script to trigger on a cronjob - which scans your sitemap at regular intervals and sends the data via indexnow api / GSC to google / MS etc seems so trivial that i would imagine there are 10000's of free plugins scripts to do this for any website
Politicians and high ranking unelected officials also will want privacy so truly omnipresent surveillance would be concomitant with jamming and obfuscation technologies. There’d just be endless arms race.
That’d be some mighty selective baiting leading to a disappointingly feeble number of clicks. Unless the population of Arduino+audio nerds is secretly massive, which I’m pretty sure is not the case.
Range is obviously a clear advantage that missiles will basically always have over guns for anti-air, but the cost difference is also huge. This is currently a very real issue in the Red Sea - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/missile-drone-penta...

Although I would agree with what I think is your implicit thought, which is that the US really needs to work on interceptors that are significantly cheaper (i.e. the Tamir used by Iron Dome)
> Now: If you build a building of this size, you MAY build as many parking spaces as you think you need.

Remember who is doing the planning and building. It is a developer who only has a short-term interest in the site. They want to build something, extract the maximum profit per sqft they can, sell it off and move on. They won't be involved by the time everyone moves in and starts living in that area.

You could blame the people moving in that they should've thought of parking before buying, and that's true. But people can be too optimistic when they like a place and just hope it works out. It doesn't work out, then they spend a lot of time driving around hoping to park somewhere. Early in my adult life I lived in an area like that, it was a nightmare.

The developer who decided to build a 6 story (24 apartment) building with just 8 parking spots? Long gone, not their problem.
I thought this was talked about in high school biology...

S-curves for populations that settle. Sometimes a population goes above the carrying capacity and it crashed and oscillates until it stabilizes. Humans are in an exponential J-curve that seems to keep going, but it's just because our culture and technology continually raise the carrying capacity on an S-curve.

But if we "break" either culture or tech, then the carrying capacity immediately becomes lower. And then it crashes more and becomes even lower. Etc until society rescues itself from crash in carrying capacity. So the crash is potentially harrrrrd. I recall it being referred to a J-curve crash.

But maybe my high school teacher was just riffing a bit, and this isn't established understanding... When I search, I don't find this talked about online in the ways I recall from 2002 biology class haha :)
Agreed, I also like writing and especially reading (good) C. The Linux kernel, Wine, and FFmpeg are a joy to read, and much more approachable than one would think.

I get exhausted by people denouncing C in favor of the language du jour, and suggesting it's been obsoleted by newer and especially more abstract languages. A hammer and nails are still useful for specific jobs, even if you have screws.

All tools have their trade offs. Even when you have a battery powered impact driver, sometimes you still need to pick up a basic hammer.
If they came in cereal boxes I wonder if it could help improve noninvasive BCI to the point of usability.
A comment left on the post mentions in days of old you could detect viruses via drive sounds...

I have a 2u server sitting in a closet running a lot of things, it sits over a pool of spinning rust, one day I happened to be in the closet and hear the disks getting hammered, no alerts about any network hijinks, no login alerts or high volume traffic coming or going so I log in and it turned out to be a friend I had given a shell to because he wanted to learn linux and he was messing around with dd... His account now has an alert on login so I don't have a stroke.

Not exactly fun but did bring back memories.
On a related note, for those who don't mind reading 17k words on industrial decline, is Ian Jack's great take on (civilian) shipbuilding in Glasgow.

The relevance to TFA is the difficulty of recovering the arts of ship construction lost to offshoring, financial engineering, politics, whatever. And it's a great read.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n18/ian-jack/chasing-ste...
The CEO and co-founder, Karri Saarinen, is a designer, and was desigining it in the early days. I don't know about now, but the attention to detail is still there.
For the interested reader: https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/
(The Good Commander has dedicated himself to exposing problems of this sort that plague our Navy)
I had the pleasure of spending part of my service trying to escape the shipyards. I lacked the perspective of these widespread issues as a lowly Junior Officer (I was trying to survive the equivalent of the daily standup without getting flayed for any number of issues that would become our responsibility with little agency to help). But I mostly fought against system upgrades that had no semblance of deconfliction ( my tracker had something like 8-10 medium mods with another 2 large ones eating our bandwidth). A shop of a handful of sailors that had to provide maintenance support, and operational support, conduct training/development and also quite literally babysitting some of the shipyard workers and many lacked experience (I certainly did). The QA work was poor as was acceptance testing, and always created issues later as kicking cans down the road created issues during workups. Also culture goes down the drain as the leadership has no incentive to address the inevitable scope increases ("growth work") will require more time in the shipyard which is unacceptable. I've read a lot of administrative action proposed (which is part of the issue) but as others have stated the quality must improve, shoddy work does absurd damage down the line (fires a la Bonhomme Richard and Oscar Austin) and defeats the purpose of mooring up to get the vessel right.
I think you're a bit too deep there if you think what he's done with twitter should be cause for anyone to think deeply ill of him.

and that's been _my_ point from the beginning.
Again, anecdotal, but your story checks out in that fit people who have described LC symptoms are almost always distance runners or very overweight. I'm really curious if there's something there and if the correlation to body-type exists at the tails for some reason.
> I gotta do data entry with something that can’t be OCR’d for whatever reason

I regularly use the numpad, often in the context of a throwaway spreadsheet where I'm doing some napkin-math. (Or sometimes a tiny Python script, depending on what needs modeling.) Not true "data entry' in the "finish these X pages" sense, I guess.
I don't think it would be totally impossible for Google to try this, but even the percentage of phones that have functioning GMS (i.e. on a recent enough Android version, receiving updates, and even having GMS installed in the first place) is far lower than the percentage of iPhones that are still receiving updates.

Sure, most phones you can buy in the US will have GMS, but part of the benefit of AirTags is being able to track things through, say, China, and you could be somewhat hard-pressed to find a chinese Android with GMS.

Meanwhile, all sorts of people all around the world want the latest iPhone, and every single latest iPhone in the world gets the latest updates.
Lots of people in this thread reporting “success” with filtered PWM/PDM. Are we ignoring that it sounds terrible? It’s a recognizable audio signal but that’s about it.
In a lot of neighborhoods that's exactly what it does.

Also, you can shop for iOS apps in other places, like https://setapp.com/.
Depends on the factory and depends on your age.
Well, the market for local inference is already quite large, to say the least. “It didn’t pencil out in my business favor” doesn’t seem like a fair criticism, especially for an app clearly focused on the hobbyist—>SMB market where compute costs are dwarfed by the costs of wages and increased mental load.

I definitely see your specific point tho, and have found the same for high-level usecases. Local models become really useful when you need smaller models for ensemble systems, to give one class of use case you might want to try out —- e.g. proofreading, simple summarization, tone detection, etc.
I agree.

The observations of foreign shipyards and competitiveness I thought was interesting and bore resemblance to points I'd seen made elsewhere. It read as credible.

When the author began going into military strategy, that's where he lost me. With all due respect to the writer, it seemed like a lot of off-the-cuff ideas from a layperson who has the outsiders view on what they think naval warfare is like, combined with some knowledge elsewhere that doesn't necessarily apply.

The author had a simple solution for dozens of things, my reply to which I can only surmise as "it's not that simple". Ship design and procurement is very complex, and takes into account many factors that are not always apparent (in many cases because they're not very appealing to study). That's not to say that the US Navy always gets it right. But even in the cases where they've gotten it wrong, you can at least follow the path of logic that got them there.

These wishlists of "They should just do it this way, it's logically so much better!" I feel often fails to take into account the constraints and limitations of the environment, and how the things to be done fit into the greater warfighting picture. The latter alone I feel results in more misunderstandings of why some weapons are procured over others and why they do what they do than any other factor.

There's some good defense journals which cover topics such as these from analysts with backgrounds in the subject matter. I was reading an article from War On The Rocks just yesterday on naval procurement, and their site is good reading for those interested in more from a more knowledgeable base.
> When sperm disband their cooperativeness, it’s each pollywog for himself.

I'm surprised to see Nautilus implying that all sperm are male. Half of those pollywogs carry an X chromosome. You go, girls!
I am surprised they didn't respond yet tbh, and this makes me think that it wasn't a simple oopsy.
"If it's Boeing, I'm not going."

I was on a flight that made and emergency landing once, it was TERRIFYING. The pilot circled once then we went down at a very steep angle.

What was even worse was the three days we were stranded in Gander Newfoundland while they fixed the plane and then flew in a new crew. It was basically an refueling/military base and not a real airport, no food or facilities. After that I never flew without my toothbrush, change of clothes and contact solution in my carry on.
Orion is a browser on iOS that added support for Firefox and Chrome WebExtensions. It still uses WebKit.

Android Firefox only added support for WebExtensions recently, like within the last few months.

Safari on iOS has had support since 2020.

I would argue that Firefox and Chrome are not being restricted in any ways that harm users.

Firefox likely wouldn’t have added support for web extensions even with access to Gecko.

Chrome wouldn’t ever add support for extensions since Google is actively trying to fight against ad blockers.

The only outcome of opening up iOS to other browser engines, would be an increase in Chromium marketshare.
Oobagooda and other front ends and similar projects have in my testing had upwards of a 50% difference in inference speed on the same model and settings, So benchmarks are still useful.
Very true, and Go (or bash for that matter) are proofs that language limitations do not mandate complexity. Complexity is mandated by perceived need and culture. You can easily see how complexity would play out in Go by looking at Kubernetes. Most projects did not fall into the complexity trap, but there are many differences in form, functions and context:

- Early Java projects before Java EE (like Applets and early GUI apps) did not have this level of complex abstraction. The code wasn't great (old Java APIs like StringBuffer and Date were often quite horrible), but it was simple.

- Java started getting complex with J2EE. J2EE was strongly motivated by enterprise requirements for interoperability and dynamically configurable and interchangeable components.

- Another source of complexity was the popularity of XML and the widespread belief (back in the early 2000s) that moving part or all of your business logic to XML was a good thing.

- And then there was the design patterns obsessions, where design patterns transformed from being a common pattern observed in code into something that should be emulated.

- Most of the early J2EE complexity is dead (EJBs, XML configuration, CORBA, SOAP), but many users don't want to give up component interoperability and powerful dynamic configuration. That's why Java frameworks like Spring, Java EE and even modern frameworks like Quarkus or Micronaut have all their annotations and implicitness.

- Go was luckier(?) to be born in a different time and popularized in a different context.

- There was no top-down enterprise-oriented backing for Go (even within Google, it was a bottom up project).

- The Go compiler, runtime and libraries were fully open-source from day one, under a permissive license. Third party libraries were also almost universally open source. The existence of open source culture made concerns about vendor lock-in moot, and interchangeability was not a thing.

- The XML hype died and there was a consensus that component wiring should be done in code.

- Many of us got sober on design patterns. Peter Norvig's critique[1] gained traction outside of the LISP community and the anti-design pattern view became dominant within the dynamic language community as well, even in strongly OO languages like Ruby. This is the community that was feeding Go.

- Most servers written in Go were just smaller in scope than the equivalent Java projects. This has many causes (less top-down big-rewrite enterprise projects, microservices gaining popularity, UI logic usually moving to front-end or mobile app).

[1] http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
Feels like a bit of a dubious assumption that hard problems need particular tools to be solved.

In my experience, it is just that, experience that makes or breaks a solution.
“then the frontier would open as the
great railway to orbit supplanted the first generation wagon trains“

Except the frontier had fertile lands and vast potential. It was not a cold barren emptiness. You could also make access to Antarctica cheap and affordable at scale. It wouldn't suddenly make it economically sensible to go there

I'm skeptical there is a huge amount of pent up demand that is just itching for lower launch costs. It's just a bunch of telescopes looking up and look down at every possible wavelength and then a bunch of telecommunications equipment.. There are some serious diminishing returns at play here

Tourism.. more telecommunications (ex: starlink).. what else is there to do up there? I don't see it being a huge market. Definitely not enough to fund a colony on Mars or anything like that
I am fairly athletic and do cardio and strength exercises since I was in a school (60+ now). I do it without gym though For cardio I bike, hike, swim in open water etc. For strength I do some bodyweight stuff that does not take up much time at all. I also have rowing machine and treadmill that I use in winter time. Thought of visiting gym had never even occurred to me.
You might find this recent article interesting about the uptick in people moving from Pentagon -> VC, as opposed to Pentagon -> Prime Defense Contractor. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/us/politics/pentagon-vent...
I once forged an offer letter to get out of my Equinox membership, the requirements are ridiculous
Yeah that was a great anecdote, I was going to post the same story! Parent pays you to install spyware , rich kid pays you not to install spyware, double payment for nothing.
What's the alternative? Solium with their Shareworks service, now under Morgan Stanley, did much of the same thing. You think Morgan Stanley isn't making informed bets off that data?

I could agree that Carta may be doing it to an extreme but it's far from unprecedented.
Before the 737 MAX maybe. As more and more glaring flaws are found -- and cause incidents -- this plane appears increasingly unworthy of trust.
Typing Arizona yields no results
The reason for that is because most software that integrates with OpenAI will automatically choose that model - this is meant to snatch those requests up and serve an alternative. Most of the time, that software doesn't let you choose what model you want (but maybe lets you set the inference server).

But... I do agree, this should be feature-gated behavior
This report was written by the Club of Rome, notable for having made some of the silliest predictions about population growth in the 20th century
How is that the best? To me the best custumer never even visits the gym, buys everything that is offered, and gives the business donations.
I suggest you review the definition of serverless.

Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand
Perhaps MBAs shouldn't be allowed to manage aircraft production. Like Boeing before the merger with McDonnell Douglas.
This feels like a good rule of thumb to me for nonfiction: read authors who are Ph.D. working for many years who are writing about their work, as opposed to journalists who jump from subject to subject with each book they write.

e.g. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
Love Sacha Chua.

So grateful for everything she has done for the Emacs community.
But do you have to manage them?
You can turn on mouse keys which let's you move move and click the mouse (left and right) using the numpad.
That's really nice and coincidentally I needed such a tool just a few days ago.

If I could make a small suggestion - always mark a few key times on the timeline so a user can quickly guesstimate, say, midday here is 9am there without the sliders.
I’m unable to drag the cards on iPhone.
That report is about plastic additives, not plastics themselves. Most of the chemicals named in the report for which there is evidence of actual harm have been banned, very heavily restricted or are in the process of being phased out in the EU.

To reiterate my original comment, I trust the judgement of the EU regulators. I don't know enough about US regulators to comment. I don't know if that report is just scaremongering about known issues that have already been addressed, or if it's still relevant because the EPA and the FDA are asleep at the switch. It certainly doesn't scare me, because the concerns it raises are ancient history from where I'm sitting. If the US government allows companies to sell you products that contain harmful levels of known toxins, then I don't see how anyone could reasonably conclude that the real problem is that some of those known toxins happen to be added to plastics.
Couldn’t this just as easily be a front end to an object store like s3 - without the need for mongodb?
Probably about 6 cents. Assuming a 30 minute shower with a 2.5 gpm flow rate and 110F average temperature. Maybe less if they have a more efficient water heater than resistive electric at ~11 cents per kwh.
I use Healthways. I pay $50 a month and I can go to almost any gym. One of the gyms that I used to go to all the time before I moved stopped excepting Healthways when they had a reorganization during the pandemic. My friend who works there thinks it's because it didn't make economic sense since too many of their members were using Healthways. Those people now have to spend $150 a month to go to that gym. And they may continue to pay for Healthways as well.
App store, just charge your lifetime price, instead of free with IAP.

So you'd have 2 apps listed:

- Paper (Lifetime) ... $99

- Paper ... Get

Companies can buy employees the first one because it has a price.

> Everything is done via the built-in, robust App Store mechanism that just works.

Good call, and so true.
Sincerely, there really is no meaning to life other than to make more life. Cancer is the extreme and absolute epitome of this.

Any other meanings we as humans might contrive from life are all just coping mechanisms from that brutally simple reality.
Based on recent events at Carta the culture there appears to be pretty toxic:

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/25/carta-san-francisco-lawsui...
Well it is a huge red flag to refer to items on the roadmap as if they are features, whether it is free software or has commercial intentions.