skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think most people considered the WTC as a symbol of anything other than tall buildings. Or at the worst, a symbol of unfettered capitalism. It seems to me it was made into that symbol after the fact to get everyone's feathers rustled.

In 2000, if you were to ask someone what building represented the success of the US, I'd bet the majority would say Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, or Sears Tower. Maybe that answer would be different for New Yorkers though, idk.

The psychology that should be noted was the government and media whipping the populace into a psychotic frenzy which made us willing to murder a quarter million people in a country that had nothing to do with the attack. The fact that this isn't brought up every time 9/11 is mentioned is a travesty.
The aero is actually quite good
Beautifully put. I wish this nuance was more widely understood in the current AI debate.
Just use landscape orientation
IME, when having to remain in the "right zone" for your building section during an emergency, people who parked farther away are invited into the cars of the people who parked near the zone. Either that or you tell your boss "it's too fucking cold out here. I got out safely and I'm going to sit in my car in the other lot."
Is there a cap? AIUI this is how those Texas power bills got to $xx,000 last year.
> There is no such thing as "UTF-8 that is invalid for my application".

In fact, yes there is! Your application may vary. :)
cARTegory Theory: Framing Aesthetics of Mathematics
The governments require this. This is 100% the governments' fault.
The Intel N100 is a Alder-Lake N chip, based on Intel 7. It's four of the small cores you find on 12-Gen Laptop processors, made with the same process.

It's successor arch, Meteor Lake has only recently launched, so the N100 shouldn't be too far off in terms of efficiency.
They should re-publish is as The Sad Motherfucker's Cookbook. There are a lot of sad motherfuckers out there who could use some skill.
I use High + Hold and I don't think it makes the car feel sluggish at all. It just takes a little bit of mental training to get used to not completely releasing the throttle until you're under 10 mph unless you really want max regen braking, which for comfort reasons, is rare.

To me, what makes a car feel sluggish is...well...being sluggish and having no power. Since I have the Model 3 Performance, that's not a problem at all. :-D
I gave it huge windows :)
No doubt someday we'll be killing people on other planets with remote vehicles.
3000 civilians were killed in a single attack. It's not about the buildings or any symbolism, it's about the tragic loss of life in first hand. Everything else second. If you're looking for symbolism, you have the January 6 insurrection.
> Why spend so much to save 10 watts ?

That's a wrong mindset to have. How are we going to improve environment if we will be careless about energy?

As in the saying
> If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves
Which mini PC was that? That sounds great.
'What kind of fruit are you?' How to answer the worst job interview questions
> People preferred Google Search the most — even more than meeting friends in person — followed by YouTube and Google Maps. Twitter and Snapchat were the least preferred services, while Facebook was somewhere in the middle. The researchers used their findings on how much money people would accept to stop using Facebook to extrapolate the dollar value of other products. The study was conducted in partnership with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; the company had no veto over published results.

People would rather have Google Search than meeting friends in person? Well we are marching towards a sad dystopian future if thats the case.

Its also interesting that Meta partnered for the survey. We have heard rumors of Facebook wanting to offer some sort of premium or paid version of Facebook which sounds like it could still be something on their radar.
Thanks for the comment. I realized something while composing this poll that should help me finish my blog post about alcoholism.
Or the estimates are based around guaranteeing a high statistical chance they hit the estimate which is perfectly fine to do.
I've got a Ryzen 5560U mini-PC in my k8s cluster at home, and it's great. It is faster than the OPi5's that are also in the cluster; those are around the same speed as a few-year-old Celeron or so (edit: originally I said a N5105 but I'm not actually that sure). But I have them in my cluster because CPU perf isn't the only axis that matters. They're also cheaper, they're fanless, they're physically small, they're ARM so I can use them for arm64 builds at speeds faster than qemu offers, and they use less power. I guess I'm here for heterogeneous hardware.
I don't speak Chinese, but the USA sells shredded currency too. Here are their Mutilated Currency Redemption & Shredded Currency Distribution rules.

https://www.bep.gov/services/shredded-currency-distribution#....

https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption#:...
By base model do you mean off-the-shelf? I think the bigger limitation there would be RAM, as the machine comes with just 8GB soldered on board. You can expand to 24GB for +$400 though, and increase the GPU cores +25% for an extra +$100.

The CPU/GPU speed of the Air is the same as the MacBook Pro base model though. The only difference is the lack of active cooling, which for large workloads can result in performance degradation. Chat apps are intrinsically interactive though, only using bursts of GPU when it is performing inference. Shouldn't be an issue.

The expensive PRO/MAX variants of the MacBook Pro would be 2x - 4x faster. But the plain M2 in the MacBook Air is sufficient to get real-time speeds on sizable models.

When the M3 comes out for the MacBook Air, discounted M2 machines, new or refurbished, should be an ideal entry-level machine for local inference.
I got one for review in December. Had a few initial issues with it (this was way before release), hope to be able to test it fully soon.
Beelink sells a bunch of them, as do a few other vendors (who are all probably rebadging from the same manufacturers somewhere). If you're willing to spend more, the ones with Ryzen 7840HS processors are particularly impressive.
Yes, same thing - and I think we can assume that NASA has people smart enough to know it's the same thing.
> Amazon in all its wisdom has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook. They won't tell us why.

I mean.. I assume it's right there in the title?

Not that there isn't other stuff available with such words, but there's not much, and the bar/automation might be higher for self-published or other 'indie' stuff? (If anyone's interested in jars of 300 F's to give or not, by the way...)
Yes, US engineers tend to be better. In India engineering is not a prestigious career. It is a stepping stone to management. So few Indian engineers stay in the profession long enough to get good.
And not a single link where to buy them :-). The only non-explosive demolition agent I've used is composed of 'oak seedlings'. Wherein you plant an oak tree and its roots go out and demolish sidewalks, foundations, etc all around it. Takes a while though. :-).

What I'm missing from that article though is the application process I guess. We would get water freezing in pipes that would ooze out the tops (if the pipes were sealed they would fracture but not if the pipes were open). How would one 'seal' the bore such that the expansive force of the agent used was directed outward toward the thing you were breaking up rather than popping out of the bore hole right back at you?
Elon Musk and a Big Problem Called "Domain Generalization"
Somebody call… all of psychiatry/medicine

Depression has a perfect cure!

Reductive perspectives like this perpetuate myths that are not only wrong, they’re harmful.

How’s somebody who works 60h a week in a shit house in a shit town earning shit money supposed to take time out to enjoy the iconic flora and fauna meters from their doorstep?

People who don’t use social media have depression too my guy.
Five nines engineering.
A 99% chance of lasting 5 flights is likely the same build as a 50% chance of lasting 72.

OTOH there is approximately 0% chance a Ford is going to last 10 years without any maintenance or repairs.
Assuming you don't get in front of the car in front of you, wouldn't the maximum efficiency gain be one car length?
Solarwinds was a supply chain attack where the company itself was hacked first, trojanized an installer, and then let that installer released to eventually end up in the target organization. This is an exploit, not a supply chain attack in the same manner. I would not compare them.
Uh...correct. The computer tells you if it is possible. Isn't that the whole point of the exercise?
> with any [E]ndeavour

I see what you did there.
A curry house can have delicious food. I don't know that I've ever considered a curry house a nice restaurant.
This is the real future of the space in my opinion - https://www.fastcompany.com/90978057/this-groundbreaking-tec...
I remember seeing panhandlers with a mobile card swiper as early as 2009.
Snowcraft Game (2001)
Another post earlier today brought back the memory of this game. Incredible that it is still playable all these years later!
Why was your comment dead just 5 minutes after posting? Very puzzling.

And it shouldn't be a controversial comment either.
Weight has very little impact on range
I doubt that there was any target of strategic importance in Mongolia, which would have justified the expense of an ICBM.
Why do people seems to always advise against using sqlite in production let says for a system with financial transactions? Is it really risky? Anyone have experience?
Related: Anyone using libSQL (SQLite fork) and Turso for production apps? Any lessons learned to share?
The limit of two souvenirs per visitor is interesting, perhaps they imagined someone would try this.

The trick, then, is to collude with other souvenir purchasers, similar to McDonald's Monopoly, so you can quickly swap your own duplicate pieces to others who need them. But unlike Mcdonald's Monopoly, there's probably no rare Park Place that virtually guarantees an instant win to whoever holds it.

The bank could do something like that. They could cut all the bills in two, and incinerate the left 60% of every single bill, so the souvenirs only contain shreds of the right 40%, thus guaranteeing that nobody can ever reconstruct 51% of a bill no matter how many souvenirs they have. But there seems to be no evidence that they're doing this.
For all of human history, the only way to know how an event happened is to either have witnessed it yourself, or heard from someone else. It's only the last 100 years or so that we've been able to record exactly what happened as audio, video, or photography. And still, it's possible to doctor any of these. That's not to mention that you can craft excellent propaganda even by using this "real" recorded media, just by cherrypicking and presenting it in a certain context. I don't think AI generated media is going to a massive sea change in misinformation.

edit: downvoters should reply instead
Take a minute to extend your argument, and it will fall apart: SNL is "screwing" Trump/Biden because their jokes wouldn't exist without Trump/Biden. Movie critics are "screwing" actors, because the review wouldn't exist without the movie.
I'll be waiting for Mars Guy[1] video before forming an opinion

It has already happened before, when the helicopter flew far ahead of the rover and just stayed there until rover caught up

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@MarsGuy
Fuse needs to protect against 2 main things:

1) a dead short in the circuit. Fuse will blow pretty much instantly.

2) an overload on the circuit. Fuse will blow sooner or later depending on how great the load excess is. If the fuse is rated at 3A, it's not going to be fine at 2.9A and then instantly blow at 3.1A. You'd need actual current monitoring to do that.

And some fuses are "delayed" to allow an overload for a few moments, such as when starting a motor.

None of this disputes that Amazon is well known to sell garbage, and not just limited to fuses. That's why I don't buy anything there.
I’d say probably never.
> Netflix (or similar) is.

Indeed, it's Netflix who is doing it. And has been always doing it. It's in a way a strawman to discuss whether they should be doing it or not, because they've been always evaluating what they're distributing. They do have to make calls on what is Nazi propaganda and what isn't. It's possible that they got it wrong a couple of times, but it doesn't seem to be a systemic problem in the case of Nazis.

The push here is whether they should make a better job at labelling or not.

> Sometimes it's obvious that there is no consensus (yet).

So, do you think there's no scientific consensus on Ancient Apocalypse being pseudo science?

In what ways would labelling it as pseudo-science on Netflix make the world a worse place?
> We are still running scared.

Not as compared to 9/11 through ~2017. America has largely returned to the geopolitical indifference it had in the 1990s but with much greater exhaustion for direct foreign military intervention and cynicism about strategic alliances.
What is interesting is that since 2022 a lot of sites and host services decided to ban access from Russia. Quite often to a very simple things - nothing related to technology. And I don't remember anybody outside Russia found it crazy.
(I am too lazy for VPN and accessed through web.archive.org to the most of the stuff).
So, when Russia closes some access it is an attack on the freedom. And when West blocks access from Russia it is protection of the freedom :)

For example, I found about some 'world oldest tree' competition through the news that it banned trees from Russia. Curious enough, I found their site and.... it rejected me by IP.
> this leads to uninformed reporters to make stupid claims like "a probe only designed to last 90 days...".

C'mon let's not blame the reporters. NASA pushes this line - why do think everyone repeats it, using the same language almost every time? You can even see it here on HN.
You’re obviously correct. It’s odd, I haven’t dealt with CSS in long enough I’ve completely forgotten about that or perhaps like many CSS issues I have completely blocked it out.
And "most of the time" is not a problem?
Demolition Grout.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dexpan-11-lb-Bucket-Type-2-50F-7...
I don't know about USA politics to have an opinion on the matter, so I'd rather believe you assesment. But I want to add another point of data. Or rather point of view from outside.

My experience of communication and collaboration with individual Americans points to the opposite direction. They are focused on a problem solving, not on a blame assignment. I can compare with my fellow Russians, I can't play games with them, because they kill all the fun looking for someone to blame.

But at the same time, if we take a look at our Russian politicians... If they even look for someone to blame, they look for a blatant scapegoat.

So, I mean, it seems like a complete reverse. Probably it is a coincidence or a result of a flawed methodology, but still...
Looks like he's done some interesting stuff, but: Some of his views I can't stand: No gun control; No freedom from religion; Contradictory views like "Government must not adopt policies that are offensive to any religion" - how does that work where two all options are offensive to some religion?

Sounds like a conservative kook.
> uses a secret only exists on each individual phone

There is actually a way to prevent individuals from being traced while having a strong membership proof. This can be achieved by issuing signatures on a relative generator created in an exponentiation mix together with a set of output pseudonyms. One can picture it as strands braided together where it is hard to trace the link between the input and output strands, while it is very easy to tell that such a link exists.

More on that can be found on:

https://github.com/PeaceFounder/ShuffleProofs.jl
Sounds like SharePoint in some ways (except the payroll stuff). Not a fan of SharePoint but it does offer opportunities to centralise stuff into one place.
What happens when training an LLM (or even a small portion of an LLM, like a domain-local update) takes milliseconds instead of weeks, and costs a millionth of a penny instead of hundreds of millions of dollars?

What happens when e.g. our smartphones can perform TRAINING hundreds of times per minute?

Isn’t that the true gateway to human-like AGI? Seems to me that we might be there in under 50 years…
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This is a topic about which I'm very passionate. I've written my congressional representatives several times. I've posted on LinkedIn. I'm raising awareness with my close colleagues. I'm trying to beat the drum as much as I can.

There is a minor win that was just advanced in the House yesterday[0] to delay US onshore amortization through 2025 via The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024[1]. It doesn't touch offshore amortization.

It's not enough. I was geared up to start a business this year; this, specifically, has put the brakes on it. I've written as much to my congressional representatives. I'm doing research into what it would take to incorporate in another country, and the implications therein, if it comes to that.

I'm going to sign up to https://ssballiance.org/, as telesilla recommended.

Let's beat the drum together, folks.

[0] https://www.voanews.com/a/7448071.html

[1] https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_tax_relief_...

edit: formatting
It is quantum which isn’t exactly discrete. You receive one photon or two, not 1.5, sure, but the energy of that photon, its frequency is a real. At least I am not aware of a quantum mechanics over Q. I think the math would be hard because you loose all the convergence properties. Maybe there is some Hilbert space over computable reals, Google is not finding it but I no longer find that to be indicative of anything.
You're wrong in your concept of how AI/ML works. Even trivial 1980's neural networks generalize, it's the whole point of AI/ML or you'd just have a lookup-table (or, as you put it, something that copies and pastes images together).

I've seen "infographics" spread by anti-AI people (or just attention-seekers) on Twitter that tries to "explain" that AI image generators blend together existing images, which is simply not true..

It is however the case that different AI models (and the brain) generalize a bit differently. That is probably the case between different humans too. Not the least with for example like you say those with photographic memory, autists etc.

What you call creativity in humans is just noise in combination with a boatload of exposure to multi-modal training data. Both aspects are already in the modern diffusion models. I would however ascribe a big edge in humans to what you normally call "the creative process" which can be much richer, like a process where you figure out what you lack to produce a work, go out and learn something new and specific, talk with your peers, listen to more noise.. stuff like that seems (currently) more difficult for AIs, though I guess plugins that do more iterative stuff like chatgpt's new plugins will appear in media generators as well eventually..
This is pretty fascinating when living in an ex-USSR country. There’s a target between two major cities in the forest at a non-descript village. I know what’s there though. In the Soviet times there used to be a large facility hosting hundreds of tanks.

At the same time, I know of a place that used to be a rocket launch base. There were around 10 across my country alone. I don’t see any of those being targeted.
Won't work. With enough resources it's always possible to get secrets out of hardware. Once compromised then every video and photo ever taken by that camera model can no longer be trusted to be authentic on signature alone.

Photo/video signing in hardware might actually make things worse by creating a false sense of security. It's better for people to question everything they see rather than trust everything they see.
>The UK is the country that forces its chronically ill and physically incapable into suicide or death by starvation.

The USA, also, except here it's often done in tents on the street with fentanyl or deaths of despair elsewhere.
(I personally agree with you, but I just wanted to point out that https://news.ycombinator.com/front is how to see yesterday's front page at any given time. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-01-19 makes it clear who the black bar was about.)

One (rather cold) way of viewing the situation is that if they spend their time adding this feature, it's at the expense of something else they could be doing. There are technical reasons it's not quite as straightforward as just setting a title attribute.

Here's precisely how the black bar works:

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90...

; (tr (tdcolor black (vspace 5)))

They uncomment that line of code by removing the semicolon, then deploy it. ("Deploy" is also known as "copy-pasting that function into a REPL," but devs like to overcomplicate it in other languages.)

If it were as simple as writing "Dave Mills [YYYY]-[YYYY]", they might actually do that. But Arc doesn't have keyword arguments, and tdcolor has no way of passing along a "title:" keyword in order to set the html attribute.

It's partly why I updated Arc with keyword arguments.

But, there's still that other aspect: figuring out [YYYY]-[YYYY] takes some amount of time, so it increases the activation energy of the black bar considerably. Right now it's a one-character deletion followed by a deploy. Honoring legendary hackers is a good thing, but the black bar already does that.
Oh, strange that github had a date of September 14th, 2016 on this one: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/issues/2

I was just going by that.

Re: macros, I brought them up because their absence was a reason I wasn’t drawn to the language when I checked it out a few years ago. I really do think macros are a big deal and all the other newer languages I use, such as Rust, have them or some kind of meta-programming features.
How much energy was spent on raw materials, components, assembly, and shipping?
> All the other non-left joins are just syntactic sugar and can be expressed using only left join…?

A “vertical join” (SQL UNION) is one of the “non-left joins”. How can you transform a “vertical join” to a “left join”?
I remember reading that although France had a completely independent nuclear force they did secretly cooperate with NATO on targeting sites so that none of their nukes would be "wasted".
"killing each other over whose god is correct" is a profound misunderstanding of humanity. That's not why humans kill each other now, or in any time in history. It is and always has been simple & rational game theory: fear of the other tribe killing you for your resources, or just simply because they're afraid you might kill them for _their_ resources.

For example, this is (one of) the core reasons of why peace in Israel/Palestine is so hard (each side fears accepting sovereignty of the other side means they will continue to encroach and wipe them out).

Humans are pretty clever and ingenious at all levels
The problem is not the single source. The problem is that this single source is incompetent and refuses to properly provide for mistakes.