skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was what I came to comment. Very strange.

This article https://beebom.com/nvidia-rtx-4080-4070-ti-super-gpu-specs-r... says "the RTX 4070 Ti Super is up to 10% faster than the non-Super 4070 Ti on average"

So, on average, up to 10% faster, yeah seems pretty incremental.
This will soon turn into a PR exercise for DuoLingo ... or in fact it's been mis-reported in the first place. I've just seen the following:

Duolingo has contacted us following the
publication of this news to provide us
with some details about the layoffs,
which clarifies the current situation a bit.
This is what they tell us from the
American company:

“We can confirm that some Duolingo
workers have not been renewed upon
the completion of their projects at the
end of 2023. But these are not layoffs.
This affected a small minority of
Duolingo workers, as the majority have
been retained,’ their communication
agency explains.

Thus, what becomes clear is that
Duolingo has not actively fired the
translators, but rather did not renew
certain parts of the staff after
completing their assignments.
Undoubtedly, the situation is quite
different from what was initially
portrayed.

-- https://nitter.net/Originals_in/status/1744397019475550318

Regardless, DuoLingo was one prong of a five pronged approach for me, and I'm looking to augment or replace. Now investigating Busuu to swap in.
There's an audiobook series I listened to during the pandemic by Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard is the first, and all the main characters know that they are simulations.

As I listened to them before ChatGPT came out I wasn't thinking of LLMs, but I was nevertheless thinking of what it would be like to do to the characters from that series what has been done by this… anonymous paster?; turning them into fully fleshed out people with a wavefunction collapse algorithm to procedurally create the missing gaps of personality and backstory that necessarily don't fit into a novel.
> There are not. You cannot solve a social problem with a technical solution. If the data exists, it can and likely will be used.

Except in reality we use often use technical solution to solve social problems. Or rather technical capabiltiy gives us the means to approach a social problem in a different way.

> unless you value privacy at zero

The assumption that privacy is 100% impossible if something is recorded and stored is simply categorically false.

> only look at these recordings as a technical problem

I didn't do that. I suggested that the FAA, the Unions, the Airlines and the manufactures sit together and come up with a solution of what the exact data access policies are.

> Under most circumstances when it's needed this system has functioned exactly as designed.

And yet when going threw the history of air incidents, there are lots of cases where this isn't the case. Most isn't good enough.

> You read about the failures because they are the exception.

Sure and a server crashing is the exception, and yet somehow most of use still run 2 server if we want things to work continuously.

The argument 'mostly its fine, its just occasionally that a couple 100 people die and we don't know why' just doesn't work for me. Yes in most cases its not that dramatic, but it would still be very useful.

> . Believing that CVRs as-designed fail under "most circumstances" would be a lack of critical thought to me. I was limiting my scope to this statement.

Fair.
Geolocation API has "watchPosition", so it sends updates as often OS/browser decides.

Was very unreliable in iOS, but is much better now.
Sure they do: children might live lives of weakness and disability, even die.

That risk elicits a disproportionate response in rational people. Dismissing it is useless.
I would say that CGI might be cheaper in terms of CPU usage on cloud, as on idle it does not use CPU more than the system. I wonder what is the "idle" cost of java running spring for example. All I know is that if I run my application I am developing right now, the laptop I am using is trying to fly away (It's already warming up the engines), but it has also a postgres in another docker
Is it possible to work with Phoenix in Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE) [0], or any of the other Erlang based languages, instead of Elixir?

[0] https://lfe.io/
Hope they learn from PHP. Their gradual typing is very pragmatic.
Sounds like you briefly became aware of a cognitive dissonance and even stumbled upon an subconscious ideology, in this case Carnism.

Melanie Joy speaks wonderfully on this subject and your realization: https://www.richroll.com/podcast/melanie-joy/
Totally the same on distracting myself from pain by talking to others pattern! It is a big part of why I put myself in social situations despite being in pain.

At the end of the day, it is all crappy 1st order approximations of ideal behavior. That is the best humans can do. So we should try and make sure the "error" on those gets spread around/rotated in time rather than consistently excluding anybody.
After its initial acceleration, the phone probably decelerated as its altitude decreased. The air density at 5 Km is about 0.6 of that at sea level. As drag is proportional to the air density and the square of the velocity, I think that implies the phone would reach the ground at a speed ~3/4 of its peak velocity (putting aside the admittedly significant issue of its orientation and rotation throughout the fall.)
Indeed more and more conspiracy theorist have found their way into HN.
Show HN: I Made a Voice Bridge with Soundboard for Prank Calling
I wanted to prank call my friends using funny sound effects after listening to a prank call show where the host plays them at their victims. I also wanted to try out Ruby, so I decided to create a prank calling application as my first project.

Its called InmateBridge, after one of the included sound effects.

The application is in essence Asterisk PBX, Asterisk Statis application (the Ruby part), and sound effects in a container for easy deployment.

You give it SIP trunk credentials to call out to victims with and connect to the bridge using IAX2 yourself. While making calls you operate the soundboard on the console UI.

You can also bring your own sound effects.
It’s been a while since I brushed up on that question, thank you for the impetus!

The EWG attempts to enumerate the federal subsidies, which, by its count, total some $50bn directly to livestock producers since 1995, plus $160bn to farms that produce mainly feedstock for the meat. [0]

To be fair, EWG’s count includes disaster assistance, COVID subsidies, and direct compensation for losses related to Trump’s trade war-all of which is consistent with what the feds provide for any industry.

But in agriculture particularly, in the US as in most territories, the stated rationale is to protect farmers. The idea being they can’t control the weather, but one bad year can wipe them out through no fault of their own. And these types of failure, from the vicissitudes of nature and of market conditions they couldn’t have foreseen, can be coordinated across a region or market in a way that makes it hard for conventional insurance to handle.

But they also don’t look at subsidy programs beyond those direct payments to meat and dairy producers; skilled (though motivated) observers seem to estimate that larger number at close to $36bn/yr in 2013 terms. [1]

To get to that larger number you’d probably include consumption-side subsidies like school lunch programs, marketing support, and backstopping private crop insurance; and you’d include the major crops like corn and soy that, while not directly bound for the supermarket shelf, will end up feeding humans as well as livestock in some form. Or as ethanol shrug. The kinds of subsidies that the EWG counted toward the 160bn-since-1995 in [0].

Their broader point though was that the latter type of subsidies aren’t subsidizing things you or I would call a fruit or a vegetable and buy at the grocer and eat directly (those are <1% of federal subsidies); instead they’re subsidizing inputs to livestock and processed food producers.

[0] https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2022/02/usda-livestoc...

[1] https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/news/removing-meat-subsidy-our...
I've had a successful offline LLM app[1] on the App Store since June, last year. Works on all iPhones since iPhone 11 and ships with a 3B RedPajama Chat model and has an optional download for 7B Llama 2 based model on newer iPhones and Apple Silicon iPads. I'm currently working on an update to bring more 3B and 7B models to the iOS app.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-llm/id6448106860
Its still crazy to me all of the people who are out there starting racist companies. If you aren't anti-racist you are...
Usually that’s the case but a lot of the smaller startups no longer have VC money coming in so they aren’t hiring much either.
From Audio to Photoreal Embodiment: Synthesizing Humans in Conversations
Vertical scaling will be enough till I sell that business.
While helpful, it is at the same time a content marketing piece, going a bit meta.

It might not be as objective; the author benefits from people who take this advice and decide to try one of the advertised products.
Tape recorders are a century old, and tape loops were how answering machines, toys, instruments like the Melotron, and many other devices worked until the digital era.

There a lot of things today that are less human-usable than they were a half-century ago, but also much more flexible and less expensive. We're still in a weird transitional phase post-transistor.
I'm not really in the SV/VC world so what do I know. But I see what you mean.

I actually put this in my list of articles which I call "Another planet's worldview" because the way they phrase their experiences and thoughts is entirely self-consistent but so alien to my own. No judgement and I actually find it valuable to read but it does feel a little like a "CS Savior complex" (although still less egregious than some of the AI savior complexes I see lots of places)

I can read Graham without thinking he's in another planet but, as an example, George Hotz's livestream really makes me think that.
I find this line of reasoning extremely far fetched.

Is this how far you're willing to go to boss other people around to fit your preferences?
It was written before ChatGPT, GPT-4 and maybe even before GPT-3. So his impressions of limitations of LLMs should not be taken as facts and should be re-evaluated.
If you check yourself, I'm sure you will find that ChatGPT is quite capable of abductive reasoning.
If you just want something for yourself, you can set that up with a Shortcut and the "Get contents of url" action. You can then configure the shortcut to be available in the Share page so you could then easily share links/whatever to your self hosted app
Can't you take a C library and compile to JS?
I believe the opposite is actually true: in general, a physical piece of evidence means nothing unless accompanied by witness testimony tying it to the crime. A smoking gun is just a smoking gun unless a witness comes forward saying they saw the accused pointing it at the victim after the shot. Even for things like camera recordings, a witness of some kind must testify what it represents. The objects themselves merely serve to make the witness testimony more credible evidence, basically.
Knowing a company is going to fail doesn't automatically mean the compensation and/or culture don't work for you.

One way a company can be mismanaged is burning money it can't afford on ridiculous employee perks, like when Twitter got its own DJ.
CES 2024 Live Coverage
Again: strongly depends on where you live, and what businesses are legally required to do? If you live in a world where people pay for everything by credit card and banks are hyper-for-profit institutions, like the US, then it might blow your mind to learn that that large parts of the world never allowed credit card companies to replace banks, with banks actually offering services that people want need banks to offer, rather than having to rely on visa or mastercard.
It was a complex situation regarding a fintech SaaS and to appeal high enough to a court with actual expertise that’s not going to railroad us could have cost a lot. Plus our time and the chance the damages get worse.

All these legal eagles who think the courts operate with strict precision have no idea how things actually work. Hope everyone who has some glorified view of reality gets to actually pay for this beautiful system out of their own pocket.
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Sun light is polarized.

I literaly have a polarizing filter for my camera.

And bluntly saying: yes you do fully read as someone with a head problem. You would not survive a blind study regarding EMF and your nose bleeding and would be a very famous person if you could proof that.

All EMF fields we have and face daily are not strong enough at all for any 'ion channels'. Are you even aware how many fields you walk through every single day? Public transport, power lines, wifi etc. your own electric cable has a magnetic field.

Weird that you actually connect ion channels/EMF with blood vessal issues at all.

Feel free to read the wikipedia article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivi...

"Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, to which negative symptoms are attributed. EHS has no scientific basis and is not a recognized medical diagnosis, although it is generally accepted that the experience of EHS symptoms is of psychosomatic origin."
Yeah, but these are people in the same car who are very likely in agreement about whatever risks.
Because it coincides with there being no VC money and it’s hard to build something without funding.
> If you think this is truly about putting pressure on Israel to halt their campaign in Gaza, I have major questions for the news sources you are ingesting.

These attacks coincided with the bombing and are the stated reason.

> As well as how much charity you are giving comically literal terrorists in this.

I know this might get me downvoted, but I don't think that the designation of terrorist is super helpful here. It's usually just used to delegitimize a group by saying they can't be negotiated with. It's hubris to think that anyone you decide to designate as a terrorist no longer has to be negotiated with like any other political entity.

In my pov, the bombing of Gaza is a terroristic act. Yet the US finances it and sanctions it. If the Houthis have done worse, then I would agree with the terrorist designation. But it should be clear that the distinction is arbitrary.

> As for why they would want to destabilize the region?

What do you consider destabilization? I think most of the time I see "destabilization" it is used as a code word for weakening US influence. The US destabilized Iraq by taking out Saddam and disbanding the army. It destabilized Afghanistan by removing the Taliban and sanctioning warlords. It can be argued whether these places were better or worse under US occupation, but just like the word "terrorist" used earlier, my point is that the word "destabilized" is a moral signifier that is used when people don't want to engage in a realistic conversation about the situation.
Using Phind for Academic References
Peregrine: 'Anomaly' occurs on private Moon mission
I wonder if it would be worth it to express unlikely events like this in powers of Dunbar’s number? Round it down to 100 to make the math easier, and also because there’s a lot of overlap in social networks. One million is 100^3, so in your acquaintances-of-acquaintances-of-acquaintances network there’s an expected value of one person who has to deal with this one in a million problem, I think, right?
This paper [1] (PDF) indicates it is likely a complex interaction between multiple parts of the ecosystem. One example is that large cod are apex predators, competing with seals and when those cod were removed, seal populations increased, and predation on small cod increased correspondingly.

[1] https://oceansfirstjournal.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/ocean...
This is for a different audience.

A gap in food, sleep, or exercise in someone who has no pre-existing mental health problems will reduce productivity and can induce or exacerbate a mental health decline. Founders tend to start skipping these and it's a good reminder that these are important.

People with pre-existing mental health problems should absolutely look to food, sleep, and exercise to prevent exacerbating their problems, but this is not sufficient.
The reason why CGI is slow is because it is missing many things that would typically be cached in persistent processes. Loading and starting the executable or interpreter can be slow (especially if you have lots of imports) but that probably isn't the biggest issue. Bigger issues are backend connections such as databases or external APIs. If those are on localhost than it is entirely possible that CGI will perform well enough for your application. But even if they are a handful of milliseconds away it can add up real quickly.

If you don't have these issues than by all means use CGI. There is nothing wrong with it. But at some point having an in-memory cache is just going to be faster, even if your executable and various other dependence are cached by the OS page cache. Your in-memory "cache" will have all of the common data it needs pre-parsed and ready to use and may have backend connections already warmed up.
Yeah, I think you would have to avoid many mammals, if you have these concerns; it's debatable how much this should even mater.

Alligators may seem "dumb", but they're smarter than us, if you go only by success. We don't know what all those nice sunbathes do for the animal.

Could bring the same joy and nastagia as climbing to the top of the mountain. Who are we to spoil this? How is it different from the joy we experience, or that of an octopus, pig, dog, ect as it frolics in the fields?
What can they do? They are the longest standing Arab security partner to the West and Israel. They gave Israel early warning about the attacks. They locked down the Palestine border at the request of Israel and are cooperating with the US and Israel on aid flowing into Palestine. They only control the Suez (north Red Sea) and the Houthis are across-the-sea from Somalia. Egypt couldn't defend against Houthi rockets if they wanted to.

Egypt has a vested interest in stabilizing the region and returning to the status quo. They are politically and economically aligned with the West and Israel and their best, and only, option is to remain a stable partner.
I think I might be willing to become an active user of the metaverse if they would pay me the $32 million directly.
It's distributed rocksdb with some extra fun.
> Would the CVR have helped in this specific situation?

In the next one, yes. Note the goal is not to do blaming and shaming, but to reduce anything similar happening, and to increase effectiveness of response. For example did multiple alarms go off, so it took longer for the crew to establish what the problem was? How quickly and effectively did the crew respond to the problem, and did the procedures they followed work effectively? How saturated were the crew with things to do? How well did training scenarios correspond to the actual event? How well did CRM work? [1]

As a result of looking at those, changes like the following could be made (and have been done as a result of previous investigations):

* Updating how alarms are prioritised and presented

* Updating flight management systems

* Updating the procedures to troubleshoot and respond to this kind of event

* Reducing workloads

* Updating training scenarios

* Using the incident as a good example of something being handled

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
Looks good! I've been thinking about building something similar but as a desktop app (and maybe browser extension) which would work with whatever text you have on the screen. It seems doable by (ab)using the OS accessibility APIs. I find it hard to stick to importing text, reading them in the app, and marking the words. Having something which works in the background and can tell you where you've previously seen words in different contexts would be ideal for me.
You’re talking about things being simplistic while characterizing everyone who is on the other side as a cartoon villain? Maybe look in the mirror.

I’m not saying the houthis are good or right, but the world is a lot more complicated than “the US thinks these people are terrorists”.
The big difference with the 4070 Ti Super is that it's using the AD103 chip (with a full 256-bit memory bus and 16GB of VRAM) found in the 4080, which is a huge leap over the AD104 chip found in the 4070 Ti (non-Super), which only touts a 192-bit memory bus and 12GB of VRAM.

While the TFLOPS of the Super variant does only see a ~10% increase as you note, memory bandwidth jumps by 42% and the memory capacity jumps by 33%, while the launch price is the same in my currency.

It basically bridges half the distance between a 4070 Ti (non-Super) and a 4080 (non-Super) for the same launch price as a 4070 Ti (non-Super).

Great card for memory intensive workloads like LLM inference with big context windows, IMO.

EDIT1: 4070 Ti Super TDP is 320W (same as 4080), higher than the anticipated 285W

EDIT2: launch price confirmed to be same as the 4070 Ti (non-Super), lower than anticipated!
Can you point out any vegan/vegatarian suffering from an amino acid imbalance (while eating an isocaloric amount of food; i.e., not starving)? Even a case study would do to demonstrate your point.
I had some experience with this after setting up social media accounts for a conference that I took over in March.

LinkedIn is beating them all, significantly. Instagram is next, which surprised me all little. After that it was X and then finally YouTube, which didn't have any content until September so it will likely/hopefully overtake some soon.

Threads AND Facebook have been kinda terrible. We just shuttered the Threads account and probably getting ready to do the same for the Facebook account. Threads just picked up some followers from Instagram after the initial launch.

Mastodon has a low follower count, but solid engagement among the followers who are there at least. Keeping that one around longer.

We may try Bluesky at some point and I'll continue remaining open to trying new things as they come out, but nothing made me optimistic about Threads from our trial so far.

Here's the report: https://twitter.com/CodesCarolina/status/1744410822720303348
Hmm, I live alone and I don’t leave my phone unattended. I think it’s important to consider your risk profile before changing any security settings. With kids, I would probably adjust my threat model to prevent accidental changes to things, etc.