skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trinity Remembered
Admittedly, yes. This is the massive appeal of Mongo et al., or just JSON[B] columns in an RDBMS.

Unfortunately, at a very deep level, that’s simply not how RDBMS works. The tuples are a B+tree, and in some (MySQL [InnoDB], SQL Server) cases everything is clustered around the PK. If you don’t create a data model that’s easily exploitable for optimizations designed around that data structure, you’re gonna have a bad time. It’s no different than if you decided to use strings to store ints – you _can_, but it’s a bad idea for a variety of reasons.

What you can do is give yourself as much leeway as possible, by following some basic best practices. For example, it’s a hell of a lot easier to update a tiny reference table than to update billions of rows when you decide that column `region` should say `European Union` instead of `EU`.
The Future We Simulate Is the One We Create
Try styling it (CSS). I've been there. One more reason not to use it.
Some other local LLM iOS apps:

- MLC Chat: https://llm.mlc.ai

- LLM Farm: https://llmfarm.site

- Enchanted (not local, just a frontend): https://github.com/AugustDev/enchanted

But I don't think any of these support Mistral 0.2 which is a pretty big deal.
American ballistic missiles are all solid fuel, which avoids the need to babysit liquid fuel. For liquid, you either need to keep cryogenic propellant and/or oxidizer constantly topped up, or use a hypergolic fuel (which are almost universally quite nasty). Solid just sits in the silo until you push the doomsday button. Falcon is a liquid fueled rocket with a cryogenic oxidizer (liquid oxygen), so it'd make for a poor ICBM.
But what does the patch stand on?
> Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card.

Have you, uh, been paying attention to Ukraine?
>They can pattern match on some aspects, but it's not calculation

Oh ? So what is it then ? Magic ?
When you give GPT-4 random multidigit arithmetic that would not have appeared in it's dataset and it's more accurate than you can manage without a calculator, what is that ?

"Pattern matching" has really lost all meaning.
I spent a while looking to see if split-unit refrigerators exist-- not really (except giant commercial room size stuff). The reason is that mostly refrigerators are so well insulated that their waste heat is extremely small making it worthless to do much of anything with it.
Huh? How would the Russian arsenal being degraded and not effective in any way argue for more US defense spending?
> But getting everything right is still an hour or better process, post-install, in 2024.

If you mean Linux, "a week or better" is a more realistic, yet still optimistic estimate to get "everything right". Until the next odd regressions come in during a follow-up update.
My favorite parts are site and blog. Had some requests for websites and blogs and I like the idea, that it comes with a lot of other stuff integrated. I could offer this to my clients as a solution, but... It needs an e-commerce and a payment solution, at least with debit/credit cards. I saw you don't want to integrate external services, but this would make it a lot easier to sell the platform to businesses.
Note that Riis's results were before the 50% hematocrit limit (he was nicknamed "Mr 60%'). Hematocrit is a measure of the hemoglobin content, or oxygen carrying capacity, of the blood. So, even though later cyclists were also blood doping or using EPO, they have been limited to a 50% hematocrit, and that may explain why Riis's power output has not been matched.
Mistral instruct doesn't have system prompt AFAIK. Also llama chat system prompt is very useless in my testing.
Definitely hinders their development
Do you think this could be responsible for some part of "muscle memory"? Sometimes when I switch to other identities (DID), they can forget steps. That presumably happens because those steps are automatic for me, so I don't have to think about them, but when others try to do the same thing (not think about them), the automatic thing doesn't happen, and they end up missing the step entirely. They have to remind themselves to think consciously even about things that are normally automatic for me, because they don't have the same muscle memory.

I also wonder if neurodivergency affects this region. I'm autistic, so my brain is detail-oriented. Sometimes it feels like I can perceive "neural circuits" that are implemented by the so-called FPGA. When I have a compulsive behavior or trigger, I can sometimes observe the entire execution flow, not just the result. I think that's neat.
There are still only two types of gametes, and a body may produce only one. Infertility and other disorders don’t change that fact, and your linked material says nothing to contradict this.
Sounds like you didn't read the post?
The first step is to develop some unit tests. Unit testing the missiles themselves is not too challenging, remove the nuclear warhead and announce it ahead of time. Fire it somewhere into the Pacific. Unit testing a nuclear warhead, however, is more difficult. You may need to break some treaties first.
Concurrent Locks and MultiXacts in Postgres
> And when it settled there were various claims that Buffet got lucky in that stocks just went up over the 10 years

It’s funny because that streak of luck just seems to keep happening for most 10 year periods.
Cool, thanks!

Are commercial space flights subject to the Outer Space Treaty?
Here's one:

https://www.theverge.com/23820202/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-5-re...
I have an IQ of 148 which the educational psychiatrist who did my test told me put me in the top 0.02% of the UK. I63 is.. insane

It's pretty neat to find someone smarter than me (and actually be aware of the fact).

If it helps: I think we're all a bit broken.. But whilst the first 23 years of my life were pretty rough, I'm thriving in my late 30s.

My unsolicited advice would be to find something that makes your feel good about who you are and throw yourself into it. Life and your resilience/ability to take on challenges will get so much better with a few wins under your belt.

I also can't overestimate how valuable a supportive partner is. Step 1: make sure you're worth it. Better to be kind than clever as Bezos famously said.
I was hoping there would be one in Georgia, but we're one of the 8 states without one.

These are fascinating.

Of course Walt Disney owns the most famous instance of these.
It's well documented that 1) children are/were barely affected by COVID, and 2) mask caused more problems, especially for younger kids who are learning to speak, and need to be able to see facial expressions.

COVID is around, and always will be. And "protecting" causes more harm and weakens the development of the immune system.

All well known and common sense stuff, to those who don't live in fear of merely getting sick.
> the earthquake extended the coastline by as much as 250 meters,

I took the 250 metres (I know, I know ... a 'metre' is approximately 0.2 Ford Mustangs), and the wingspan of a bald eagle of 1.8 metres (1 Steven Spielberg).

Divide the two numbers and you get 138 bald eagles.

Rounding errors in unit translation may have occurred.
Thanks all below, I was not aware. I'm (a little) wiser now.
Why?

The vehicle is mine, I make sure its maintained properly, has correct tires, I make sure its got what I need. I have access to it even when the local rental company has only Nissan hatches. The diesel costs me maybe 15% more than the petrol for my old honda hatch. Its also more comfortable, safer (for me) and a more enjoyable ride.
Can computers cope with human races?
Modern space launch vehicles are liquid fuelled because it’s the most energy-dense fuel and you can shut the rocket down if necessary. In SpaceX’s case, you can also refuel the rocket for reuse. But you have to fuel it for a couple of hours on the launch pad.

ICBMs are solid fuel because you can leave the rocket fuelled up indefinitely in its silo.
I do not know the author, but I’m deeply impressed and generally supportive of his core argument: public investment in supercomputing (and the simulation capabilities that brings, for solving the world’s hardest problems) can and should be multiplied by orders of magnitude.
Thank you so much! We went with AWS finally because we have startup credits, but good to know the options and previous discussions here!
Putting trident missiles in silos seems like a great plan
You can call 911 or your local police station and they can verify if there is a law enforcement officer at your front door.

I guess someone could run a Stingray and re-route your 911 call to a hostile party but at that point, I don't think a CA would help you given that they are right outside your front door.
I have absolutely no idea how complex an ICBM system is, but I would imagine it's a lot easier to make with modern technology than with technology from 60 years ago.
> I remember reading some persuasive arguments that Russia probably only has a small amount of Soviet era nukes left for the same reason.

They are incorrect. Russia has many thousands of nukes. If there's a possibility of defects, it's for the hydrogen part, but the plutonium part will work absolutely fine. One can envision that Russia's megaton bombs don't work anymore, but Russia still has thousands of Hiroshima-sized well functioning bombs, and most people in this world don't care if they die form a 20 kT bomb or from a 2 MT bomb.
It was an interesting interview.
I suspect modern diesel electric drivetrains are probably in the low 90's, especially with a lithium battery in the middle acting as a buffer so there's never any over-production by the generators.

Even if trucks do spend the majority of their time on the highway, it's not all of the time and the efficiency gains every time they need to stop and start are significant.
The hard part on an ICBM is down, not up. Also, liquid fuel is a bad idea for rockets that need to be ready to go at a moment’s notice for decades.
Chinese researchers claim they can break 2048-bit RSA using quantum computers
There's a good biography of Milton - "Poet of Revolution" by Nicholas McDowell. Really fascinating to see how he was educated in England ca. 1600 (e.g. having to debate in Latin, as well as write any of a variety of poetic forms in Latin and Greek).
And also patently false. Knowledge is knowledge, it's useful without source citations.

Is the knowledge of how to do CPR somehow ineffective because I can't cite whether I studied the knowledge from website A or book B? Is reality a video game where skills only activate if you speak the magic words beforehand?
> (not sure what the people who are encountering 1.5 second navigation times are doing)

On CPU-limited devices (and my computer with 4x CPU throttling enabled in devtools), react.dev appears to block the main thread for 500-1000ms while navigating to some of the "Learn React" pages—even if all the data for that page is already cached in memory.

I remember reading all kinds of blog posts about how Concurrent Mode and Time Slicing were gonna magically solve this by breaking up long tasks and prioritizing above-the-fold content so that it would pop into view faster. It would be funny if, in addition to being unable to correctly use the History API, the React team was also unable to use their own framework's performance features.
It seems to work well on GPT4All (macOS) with system prompts?

Can you link to any doc why it shouldn't work?
> "We can't do it at all. ... That thing is so old that, in some cases, the drawings don't exist anymore [to guide upgrades],"

> The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 billion contract to engineer and manufacture its next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile.

The ironic thing is that they just need to bring back the LGM-118 Peacekeeper that was decommissioned for purposes of treaty compliance twenty years ago. Unlike the drawings for the Minuteman III, it should not be all that difficult to make a Peacekeeper derivative: today Northrup Grumman makes the Minotaur IV, which is a derivative of... the Peacekeeper. [0]

It's a pity geopolitics is in such a state that the countries of the world cannot simply agree to stop having weapons like this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV
> You can interrogate an LLM

No you can't, an LLM doesn't remember what it thought when it wrote what it did before, it just looks at the text and tries to come up with a plausible answer. LLM's doesn't have a persistent mental state, so there is nothing to interrogate.

Interrogating an LLM is like asking a person to explain another's persons reasoning or answer. Sure you will get something plausible sounding from that, but it probably wont be what the person who first wrote it was thinking.
Lots of people want or need to be reachable, even if they're not making a lot of calls. And having a dumbphone might actually be cheaper than a landline these days?
Why is that zero? I don't want to die in a plane any more than the next person, but is zero really optimal? It's least life losing, it's least catastrophic, but is it optimal? the question becomes, what are we optimizing for? If the optimization equation is for lives lost, I can make that zero real easily by just stopping air travel entirely. If no one travels by air, then no one can die by air. But of course that's not a useful solution at all. So we're not optimizing for lives not lost. We're optimizing for people being able to travel. Loss of life is tragic, but not the be all-end all. The gross reality that we don't want to face is that there's a price for a human life, the only question is how much?

Would you take a $10 10,000 mile flight across the world with a 1% chance of dying? How about a $100 flight with a .1% chance of dying?
In the presence of catalysts such as metallic sulfides, these produce complex hydrocarbons, and together with ammonia also the 10 primordial amino-acids that are abundant in abiotic environments.

All the complex organic molecules require energy for their production and only elemental hydrogen (reacting with the abundant carbon dioxide) or the less abundant carbon monoxide (reacting with the abundant water) can provide that in the absence of living beings.

The original source of energy that produces the free elemental hydrogen is the internal heat of the planet, which creates underground minerals that are stable at high temperatures, but unstable at low temperatures, so when they are exposed by volcanic processes to the water at the surface they are oxidized by the water, so they release the dihydrogen from water.

Since life cannot have existed from the Big Bang, it must obviously have appeared at some point in time after the formation of the planets.

It cannot have appeared in any place that does not provide the energy required for the synthesis of organic molecules, so the place where life has appeared must have included a source of dihydrogen (and carbon dioxide, but this is ubiquitous). Additional requirements are the presence of sulfides of iron, cobalt and nickel, which are necessary as catalysts, and also of water, ammonia and potassium ions (the latter are required to neutralize the organic acids that form much of the living matter; all the cells of all living beings are filled with potassium ions for this purpose). All these conditions are encountered in submarine alkaline vents or volcanic vents.

Wherever there exists air dissolved in the water, including at great depths in the ocean or underground, the bacteria and any other living beings obtain energy by the easier path of using dioxygen (elemental oxygen from the air) to oxidize either organic substances or inorganic substances, like elemental hydrogen or hydrogen sulfide. All such living beings, even if they live in the dark, depend on the solar energy captured by algae and plants, which have produced the free elemental oxygen.

At higher depths underground or in the marine sediments, where there is no longer enough air dissolved in the water, there are only bacteria that can use the energy of the reaction between dihydrogen and carbon dioxide. In some places where there is no air there are also sulfate-reducing bacteria, which use sulfate instead of carbon dioxide, but those are also indirectly dependent on photosynthesis, because the sulfate comes from other bacteria which live where there is air and which create the sulfate by oxidizing reduced sulfur compounds with oxygen from the air.
google sheets can’t model safe conversion there’s a cyclic dependency that only excel can solve
The problem is that the people in the USA who think "national ID" is code for "they want to put us all into pods and use our bodies as batteries" really really don't want national unified identification, and the people who aren't crazy don't consider it anywhere near their top 10 issues that would sway their vote. So no politician with any actual power is going to push for it.

There's tons of issues like this, where there's a clear technical right answer, but the only people who are foaming at the mouth over it are on the crazy side, so it doesn't happen.
It can sting to realize your grand, genuinely useful technical idea won’t sell itself, but it just won’t.
Irrelevant but:

5280. 1320. 660. 2640*12 is 26400+5280 so 31680 inches.

Since we are playing games tell me the last time it was important for you to know that something was 768,342 millimeters away? Or do you just call that 750 meters? You use the appropriate unit for the task.

I know HN commenters get irrationally angry about the US customary system but you missed the entire point here. Fractions aren't unique to US customary units and powers of 10 aren't unique to the metric system. You fell back into that same trap of "everything is powers of 10!" like that's the only thing that matters.

But if powers of 10 are so great why isn't everything base 10?

How many degrees are in a circle? How many hours in a day? Seconds per minute? Days per month? Months per year? How many letters in the alphabet? How many bits per byte?

We all use different bases all the time, without really thinking about it. It's just not a big deal.
The Intriguing Story of How Yemen Got F-5E Tiger II Fighters
Yes, form factor and "dumbness" are orthogonal - it sounds like the commenter you're replying to wants an ultra compact smartphone, not a dumbphone?
> If you say it all out loud, it is obvious, but if you go step by step, each one was somewhat plausible.

The step by step at the time vs the "in hindsight" really is a powerful persuasion tool/learning tool.

e.g. the below is a real situation that happened at work:

- I run a SRE team

- We do a short term embed of an SRE member to do some one off dev work for a migration

- Dev Mgr to my team member: "oh, since you are touching that code, you should probably also work on this tiny business feature that depends on it"

- DM: "Oh, since you worked on that, you should also work on this other feature"

- DM: "Oh, since you worked on the above, just take over the whole feature"

- DM: "Oh, since you did all THAT, can you talk to the business and figure out the next features??"

Again, totally ridiculous overreach but spread out over 6 months in a fast moving, high stress environment, it can go unnoticed.
That doesn't make much sense. You'd think the military industrial complex would be playing up how competent and great a threat they are.
>What the hell is D?

I hope this is a joke, in that case it would have been better with XD or /s.
737 Mid-Cabin Emergency Exit Door Plug Option [video]
That's fine but the delivery system is older than old, and there's very little chance most of their "well functioning" bombs would even make it off the ground.
Isn’t that true for most pro sports? Skyboxes at football matches, horse racing, etc.
Can you describe in a sentence or two what he has been doing? That 2-hour podcast is quite the commitment.
I’m confused about the RTX Ada 5000-6000 line-up. It seems they compare poorly to much cheaper GPUs such as an RTX 4090 (not taking into account VRAM) and I figure if a company wanted to scale out nodes they’d go for A100/H100 instead. What makes them attractive for companies?
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Of course they do, hedge fund are about convincing rich people to pay you to invest your money in index funds. the more mathematicians on payroll the better.
They probably used TCL for scripting though... it's bizarrely ubiquitous.
Cheaper maybe, but the weight is significant to the point that federal laws have to allow higher weights for battery electric trucks to make them viable.

The biggest problem isn't the truck itself though, it's charging it. A single truck requires as much energy as a dozen cars meaning that a truck fast charger is going to need the equivalent of an entire bay of car fast chargers, and they require charging significantly more often. A car can get 95% of it's charging done at home overnight, whereas a battery electric truck is likely to need fast charging several times a day. The most convenient place to put these chargers would be at the loading bays where trucks pick up and drop off trailers, but these are generally not owned by the trucking company so the owner has little incentive to drop hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on chargers to save the trucking company money _sometimes_.
I think that just means "do you want to be able to install arbitrary android apps". At that point what's the difference between that and a regular smartphone?
Having a smartphone is also cheaper than a land line.
>It may well be outstanding and still not make up for it all.

That sounds like, at best, pretty great.
Carta's Conundrum

https://twitter.com/haridigresses/status/1744135421192208520
If you look at the spiva scorecard report 92% of hedge funds underperformed the sp500 - so the bet would essentially be a coin toss with 92/8 percent probability split
Pain or satisfaction, probably.

When a motion "feels good", or is painful, probably means you learn. So chase those.
>at the time doping was a baseline requirement for competing at the top levels of cycling

To a great extent, that was the direct fault of Lance Armstrong. He was the chief enforcer of the code of silence around doping. 1998 could have been a turning point for cycling after the Festina affair, but Armstrong scuppered any chance of that; where others saw the shame of a sport in turmoil, Armstrong saw opportunity.

Armstrong's comeback after cancer was a story that sponsors loved, he was the first American to be a serious yellow jersey prospect for nearly a decade, so he brought an unprecedented amount of money into the sport. Armstrong effectively became too big to fail, ruthlessly dominating the sport around him. When riders spoke out, he had the power to make them outcasts. When journalists tried to reveal the truth, he had the resources to silence them in court.

The bitterness that many in the cycling community feel towards Armstrong isn't really about the doping or the stolen yellow jerseys - it's about all the lives that he ruined in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Bassons#1999_Tour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Simeoni#Feud_with_Lanc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidentiel
Better don't run logcat for like 10 minutes of normal Android usage, or you'll be disappointed what actually is going wrong behind the curtains.
Yes it is distracting. I'm sure Greece, like all other countries in the world except America, treats its children wonderfully, but I don't need to know that the author spent 2 weeks on vacation there, and everybody was so nice to their kids in the bookstore or the library.

And maybe the article eventually uses data that goes beyond "my 2 weeks visiting my dad", but then why do I need this idiotic intro? Is it supposed to build some sort of credibility, like "I was there, I saw it, I experienced it, now you have to agree with me"?

Anyway, no I didn't keep reading.
All tech is political, and to deny that is a privilege not afforded to most.
Technically a flip phone with WhatsApp capability: https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/motorola-razr-foldable

Well, it does flip!