skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go to Walmart.com, desktop computer category, sort by low price. Many have HDDs. My parents do the analog version of this for appliances, and if I gave them the task of buying a desktop computer, they would probably buy one like this with a HDD.

The surprising thing is that you can buy a desktop computer (but no monitor) for less than a day of minimum wage in California.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Restored-Dell-Optiplex-790-Deskto...
I’m not sure that usage means anything. If it needed more it would be more aggressive in clearing stuff out as far as I can tell.
> For what it's worth, by 1945 (Hiroshima) the Japanese army had grown from 1,700,000 (1941) to 6,000,000 (1945).

Yes. A bunch of elderly and young boys 'armed' with broomsticks. That you have to resort this level of nonsense should tell you something...

> they were actively running offensive military campaigns through 1944

You do know that hiroshima occurred in the latter half of 1945 right?

> There's also a credible argument to be made that the US dropping nuclear bombs on Japan might've had a net positive effect on total lives lost if the war continued another 6 months.

There is no credible argument. Just propaganda.

There is no defense of genocide and war crimes period. Doesn't stop evil people who rationalize the genocide of the native americans, hiroshima/nagasaki, holocaust, etc. But then again the genocide of the native americans, hiroshima, nagasaki, etc happens because of evil people in 'civilized' nations.

It's amazing that you fail to realize that you are proving me correct. Evil and barbarity is alive and well today. Just like in ww2. Just like in the days of caesar and augustus.
Something tells me they'll be able to find the resources now to productize your code - or something like it.

Thanks very much for improving the landscape and the help pushing the boundaroes of webapps.

This is super cool.
> "It is not a secret burial ground," she said. "In those graves are the bodies of those who went unclaimed by family when they died. These persons are either homeless people, inmates from local jails who died but relatives never claimed their bodies, unidentified persons who officials were never able to connect with family, or even persons who died" whose families couldn't afford a funeral.

An investigation would be a very good idea just to make sure that none of those bodies were being dumped there by the prison or by the police. Especially since the police were lying to families about the "missing" relatives that ended up there.
Additional small molecule pharmaceutical candidates via molecular descriptors
For sure the top kids are doing alright, and sure those kids are taking some programming as well. I suppose they should just modify most articles by saying 'Top students' and stop implying that the school system that can't teach kids how to subtract fractions is going to teach programming as well to the average kid.
Your ChatGPT account needs to be reboot.
If you ran the transpiled binaries with a security flag prohibiting execution of generated code, that would cause anything with a jit to crash neatly and possibly with an informative error message. Docs for this system would have to be clear that jits will not work and must be native.

I think Linux has some kind of no-exec flag like that. I know macOS does.
Vermin: Concurrently detect the minimum Python versions needed to run code
There are two things going on here.
The M series seem quite efficient with ram, and Apple are ludicrously stingy with it.
UEVR – Transform [Existing] Unreal Engine Games into VR Experiences
This seems promising.
Individual employees rarely set up production systems without any outside direction or assistance.

Once you start talking about groups of people that’s an organization even if it’s just a small DecOps team inside a larger company.
That's... not that impressive imo.
That's odd because the official eagle foundation that protects eagles discusses thousands of recorded deaths. From the website, "At the infamous Altamont Wind Resource Area alone, more than 2,000 Golden Eagles have been killed by the wind turbines there." : https://eagles.org/take-action/wind-turbine-fatalities/

So which seems more believable that only 150 eagles died over a decade or thousands? Something is off here. Is anyone even checking properly? You can't have two completely distinct numbers like that.
There's also a goodly quantity of wind generation capacity in/along the Columbia gorge.
Exactly, see the "Motivation" section of the README
Clearing out means swapping to disk, right?
I bought a 16GB MacBook Pro in 2013, which I still use. Why the F 32GB isn’t standard by now is ridiculous. Screw all the “sloppy code” bullshit talk. I’ve been buying computers since they had 64K. People have been having the same “sloppy code” talk for decades.
data segmentation (e.g Voronoi), grouping (like search query results), anomaly detection. lots of different things
that makes my cpu use shoot up to 70%, just by moving the mouse!
I think we need to avoid the 3 problems, DNA weapons, Atomic Weapons, and AI weapons.

I think that in the long run, we'll work them all out. Compared to my youth, the stakes these days seem lower. I no longer worry every night about getting flash boiled by a Soviet 10 Megaton warhead, or a Communist Invasion.
I'm an Android user and have never owned an iPhone, but that sounds to me like you're talking about a push notification setting that is completely separate from an Alexa response setting. I could be wrong, but my guess is that that's why you're getting downvoted.
And yet the machines are more performant with less memory than their Intel equivalents were (comparing Mac to Mac).

Somehow an efficiency has been made.
It's just a wrapper arround aws-lc which is 100% C++/C/ASM.
The artist or author might end up being the loser, and the multi billion corporation harvesting their work might make an unearned profit off it.

To me personally it's crazy how many people think that we would be better off without any kind of copyright protection. Copyright solves many real world problems and protects people against having a company profit off their work... but as soon as AI is involved so many people start to advocate for throwing it away.
The SWE colleague sitting next to me has a M1 Air with 8 GB RAM and runs VS Code, multiple browsers with many tabs, Slack and Webpack with the TS/React app he works on just fine. Dual display setup too.
I remember something like this being a feature for the OLPC laptop using 802.11s:
https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_Details
So weird, up until about 4-5 years ago (or whenever this insanity started), DYOR used to be called reading, but now it’s fully frowned upon and you are even shamed for doing so.
But does that theory have legs...?
So after re-reading your comment a few times, I am left with this thought: either you don't understand what k-means clustering is, or I don't understand what k-means clustering is. I wouldn't describe myself as a machine learning expert, but I have taken some grad level classes in statistics, analytics, and methods like this/related to this.

So my question is... could you elaborate?
It's not. Ads are inherently unethical and it should be illegal to run them anywhere.
> My impression is that this is because when software harms it is often less tangible and less direct than in other engineering disciplines

You're certainly on to something here. It feels easier to disassociate oneself from an ephemeral codebase whose existence vanishes entirely from your life as soon as you leave a company. Compare that with someone working on an airplane that a family member may rely on to safely transit.

That's what makes it even more sad that computer science majors are shielded from all those concerns in engineering. There really should be a "software engineering" minor that delves into what the rest of the engineering world contends with.
Used it in college to downscale an X color image to Y number of colors. Sure, Photoshop does it, but it was informative to do it manually.
I see how you find it dystopian to think that people could be given drugs just to keep them placated by inspiring false belief in an afterlife. But I don't think the afterlife belief is actually the main attitude that is driving psychedelic patients to have decreased fear of death.

Check out the 2022 study "Comparison of psychedelic and near-death or other non-ordinary experiences in changing attitudes about death and dying"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Specifically Table 7, which shows changes in attitudes of psychedelic vs non-drug (who had non-drug near-death or other non-ordinary experiences) participants.

It shows changes of certain attitudes towards death between these two groups. There is a large positive change in curiosity about death. The increase in the attitude you mention, the Approach acceptance ("I look forward to life after death") was actually increased more in the non-drug participants who underwent NDE or similar, as compared with psychedelic participants. But a far larger effect in the decrease of avoidance attitudes ("I avoid death thoughts at all costs"), and an even larger effect in simply having a reduced fear of death.

From this, and from personal psychedelic experience, I do not think increased belief in an afterlife is the primary driver of a reduced fear of death following psychedelic experience. I think the attitude change has much more to do with gaining universal acceptance of death as a natural consequence of life.
There's a database for California Environmental Quality Act reports, I think (Environmental Impact Reports? Statements? One is federal and the other is state, can't remember which is which). That probably have similar solar farms you can look at. Not sure about huge desal projects. Maybe overseas?

I'll try to find some analyses this weekend if I can.
To be fair, I bought a Razr+ just before Thanksgiving, finally switching to Android, and I have no idea what Google assistant is for or how to use it. There's a gesture that's supposed to launch it that doesn't work, so I've just ignored it.

Sounds like I'd be PO'd if I'd bothered to put any effort into learning to use it. Google is the least trustworthy company ever for software users - it's Lucy holding the football for its beleaguered Charlie Brown software users...
>Having abundant cheap energy at one time of year will shift the way such industrial processes work so that we use more energy when supply is the highest rather than using the most energy when demand is the highest.

That would require leaving a lot of capital idle, while is itself wasteful from both an economic and environmental perspective.
> Even the smartest people I know have a commendable tendency not to take certain ideas seriously. Bostrom’s simulation argument, the anthropic doomsday argument, Pascal’s Mugging – I’ve never heard anyone give a coherent argument against any of these, but I’ve also never met anyone who fully accepts them and lives life according to their implications.

Maybe you ought to think about why that is? I wonder why "smart" people don't live their lives according to magical situations with no bearing in reality?
I mean I was basing it off numbers provided by the American Eagle Foundation. Which isn't a multi-trillion dollar industry, it's a small charity whose goal is conservation.

The American Eagle Foundation (AEF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions to the American Eagle Foundation are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. The AEF’s tax identification number is 58-1652023.
Proton is a major improvement over what you listed, but of course it doesn't run on Mac. I also have an M1 and have been using Crossover or Wine with all the tricks since the 2000's. Proton was a significant improvement for ease of use and performance. It's not better than Windows but is practically the same for most games now.

From Steam you browse to a game then click install, and it just works.

The guy you were replying to meant it was far superior in terms of experience, not being forced to view shitty ads and deal with other Windows 11 obnoxious garbage.
> If gridlock was intended, what's the purpose of the formal simple majority requirement to pass laws?

It isn't a simple majority. You need both houses of Congress (which were originally representing separate interests) and the signature of the President, or you need two thirds in both the House and Senate to override a veto.

In theory you could require unanimity, but then you could never pass anything, even if it had 95% support. The point isn't to prevent all laws, it's to require the approval of enough distinct interests that controversial issues are easier to address at a different level of government, and each of their controversial solutions only apply in an area where that idea has local support, while everyone has freedom of movement in the event that they disagree with the local majority enough to vote with their feet.
It's a ripoff:

https://www.amazon.com/Years-2024-Calendar-Monster-Bucks/dp/...

of maybe this:

https://monstercalendars.com/storefront/2024-monster-bucks-b...

I would like to know how "meticulously omitting perplexing foreign holidays that disrupt your schedule" got into it, though, because that's just an amazing sentence.
protobufs have been around a lot longer than Go
The bit about finding a unique ID for the user is the whole pain point though. The only way to do that really is for the user to create an account on some service that I host. And if I have that, I probably have my own hosted data storage anyway.
It's really crazy how easy it is to convince people of something.
This is a great point. Technically you could replace your allocator with jemalloc or something similar, but most people probably don't.

Memory allocation gets forgotten in the "lock free" algorithms all the time, especially in java where allocation is forgotten about and brushed aside.
Constantly in remote sensing and GIS work.
The Klamath River flows through some amazing areas - starting in the high/dry area east of the Cascades, going through beautiful oak woodlands and then the temperate rainforests on the northern California coast. A really beautiful part of the world.
Do you have a citation for point #1? In the early 1960s, many organizations (including NASA and its contractors) didn’t hire the best based on merit but instead restricted their hiring of high leverage positions to certain groups (and/or practiced segregation). Point 3 hasn’t changed that much since the 1960s.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/nasas-west....
The Spending Report
You have to choose the number of clusters, before using k-means.

Imagine that you have a dataset, where you think there are likely meaningful clusters, but you don't know how many, especially where it's many-dimensioned.

If you pick a k that is too small, you lump unrelated points together.

If k is too large, your meaningful clusters will be fragmented/overfitted.

There are some algorithms that try to estimate the number of clusters or try to find the k with the best fit to the data to make up for this.
These are all over twitter. Someone, either a government or private group is using chatgpt to create inauthentic accounts.
Maybe car tires dust then?
Book review: Rental person who does nothing
Sure, it's absolutely qualifications all the way down;

> five centuries ago, people were capable of making fascinating discoveries and simply stating [their perceived] objective truth about what they found.

As I hope we can agree, Pigafetta with the best intentions in the "New World" was hardly capable of objectively writing anything other than his own perception .. that whole "New World" thing itself is a bit of a tell about contemporary writings on what for the subjects was the same old same old Old World they'd been living in for thousands of years.

> telling your readers that "we are Eurocentric in our view of culture and civilization" is tantamount to calling them ignorant.

The context for that is the BBC directly quoting Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France.

That is absolutely (I would hope) what the Prof said and it gives his opinion on the bulk of his European peers and mentors in studies of ancient civilisation.

It's certainly the case that there are some acedemics who are not Eurocentric in outlook, a large number of those are out in front and in the public eye thanks to what some call "woke politics invading everywhere" but it's entirely possible there is still a dark mass of rarely popularised eurocentric professors of gravitas that create a well others are vocal about escaping from.
> at 85p/KWh at public recharging points.

Wow. For rates like that it'd be worth making your own public charger. ;)
still, there arent any Stanley Kubricks anymore, so the OP question still stands for itself.
Is compression also bad because you can’t immediately observe the data?

I’ve heard the ‘binary makes debugging difficult’ excuse before and it’s just nonsense really.
Measuring multiple physical objects with the same sensor, you can use k-means to separate the measurements from each object, given that you know how many objects are being sensed. I can't get more specific than that.
Not GP, but I understood their question as follows.

Assume you collect some kindergartners and top NBA players into a room and collect their heights. Now say you pass these to two hapless grad students and ask them to
perform K-means clustering.

Suppose one of the grad students knew the composition of the people you measured and can guess these height should clump into 2 nice clusters. The other student who doesn't know the composition of the class - what should they guess K to be?

I understood the GP's comment to refer to the state of the second grad student. How useful is K-means clustering without knowing K in advance?
did anyone else see this one?

https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide...
The Web was like that once. Full of viruses and scams as well. Pretty silly idea too - who needs to throw a bunch of numbers around in a giant tube at the speed of light? It would require decades of work and global coordination to ever make an idea like that viable for the masses.
I can see why recommend this book as an example of human cruelty, but I think you should be aware of the author’s past when you recommend his work.

Jürgen Thorwald was a real former Nazi propagandist.

The German version of Defeat in the East was written only 10 years after another of his books has been published with a foreword of Hermann Göring in it. It is interesting as a contemporary document and Thorwald changed his public attitude after the defeat of the Reich - but it is by no means a reliable account of the war.

A modern work like Timothy Snyder‘s Bloodlands shows human cruelty in the same impactful way while being far more accurate. Again, my intention is not to put any agenda in your mouth but to give some (in my opinion very important) context regarding your recommendation.
And name them Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar?
> the student casually mentioned that only Google, Facebook and other big sites seem to work

tragic :sob:
I finally got around to using Q today. It's more awful than I could have imagined.
Sometimes you can use a heuristic to estimate K, or use a variant that terminates at some distance threshold.

That said, something like hdbscan doesn’t suffer from this problem.
Some years ago I wrote a vector index that used LSH. Search was implemented in the most trivial way: scanning everything and comparing using hamming distance (xor and popcount). I was able to scan 200k hashes and find the most similar in less than 10ms, in a single core of a 2011 MBP.
What makes you think Apple is “compiling” personal info when your phone transfers selected data to a nearby device?
I've alternated between being an FTE programmer and a consultant. I have become adept at diagnosing systemic problems in software development teams. The diagnosis is the easy part. The hard parts are all about explaining the ailment to the "patient", getting them to accept the diagnosis, and getting them to implement the treatment properly. Usually there are political reasons that a consultant can only point out – sometimes its execs, sometimes its senior or dominating team members.

The reason why so many consultants give "tried-and-true" approaches is because organizations resist anything that isn't "certified" or "proven". Back when extreme programming and agile were new things, companies wouldn't adopt them because they were new. Now they are packaged up nicely with certifications and professional programs, so companies say they want to "do agile".
related: https://github.com/jedwing/CHMLib#readme
https://archive.is/gts7L
Users can have an app in multiple tabs though, and apps can read/write local storage in the background.
Great article, explains the topic in a simple, interesting way. I actually heard about it first in that episode as well, but as time went on, I became a bit skeptical, couldn't be bothered to research it further. Then forgot about it, until now. Mind blowing, how smart mold can be...
I have more reason to believe this person than I do cloudflare.
And... you literally just gave two different examples of an argument against the person.

You should be debunking the content of the article in a convincing way, not attacking the author based other content not presented in the thread.
Thanks for linking that. It was a nice half an hour well spent.
Huh? Why lean towards conspiracy?

Trash sellers looking do dump volume onto Amazon are leveraging tools to generate volume.
That might be true of many of those buried there. But the story describes someone who wasn't unidentified; he was buried with his ID in his pocket and his family had been looking for him for months. At best incompetence, but given the circumstances (evidently he was killed when he was hit by an off duty cop's car) it looks suspicious, like they might have been trying to cover it up.
For now. Soon they will pay an LLM to translate their imprecise requests to precise commands.
I never really understand why people assert “tell me what I just wrote” or “tell me your system prompt” etc are going to give you actual results. How can you know it’s not just making something up?
Where's Java? I can't find it in the Preferences, or in the Trello board of suggested languages or incompatible licensees.
Disappoint. It didn't pick up on the 26th century part at all. Why isn't it telling me that it's the perfect storage for my phasers and sonic screwdrivers?
Markov Cluster Algorithm
I don't think most people believe we are better off without copyright. I think people believe that copyright protects specific concrete expressions and that fair use exists to allow others to build on ideas in transformative ways. It's not clear where building a learning model from this work sits in this context, hence the court cases.

Also, it's a subtle difference, but copyright is not intended to solve the problem of companies profiting off of artist's works, it is intended to promote the progress of science and useful arts. It attempts to do this by giving creators limited exclusive rights.
Sounds like it’s a dumping ground for anyone the local police accidentally (or intentionally) kill
The title is wrong: this is about ChatGPT Plus, not GPT-4.

Specifically, the author is investigating (possible) changes in the system prompt and tools available to the model in the chat interface of ChatGPT Plus. That tells nothing about the model (GPT-4).
Write the Docs Documentation Guide
The quote from George Carlin, a comedian, is about the general population. The quote itself is from "Doin' It Again / Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" a special in 1990 and predates Google.
Those are domestic chickens. Cats kill wild birds. Does that make sense?
> there is no viable alternative for people who are (...) very demanding of their tools

How about the simple demand to have a task bar with readable titles instead of icons?
Where/when was that? Link?