skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because you're on SMUD, not PG&E, so you're not getting charged to cover the maintenance and liabilities of above-ground high-voltage power lines going into a forest on a mountain in the middle of nowhere.
All these ai models make it nice and clear that they severely edit their responses. In case there was any question that they were providing unfiltered information. It's like going to the BBC or CNN for information - there are strong biases, but with ai its filtered answers are coded; it's quite impressive really. One just needs not to forget how managed information is.
I noticed the same behavior in my Vision Pro the other day. The conclusion I came to was actually that I was not seeing the boundaries of foveated rendering, but a UI element. When staring at touch targets, it projects an overlay over the target with a slightly bright large circle around your eyes, fading further away from your eyes. As you move your eyes around, the circle follows them. This is particularly noticeable where a very large touch target (like a large text box) is present, you can easily see the entirety of the circle overlay, whereas with smaller targets it’s cut off on the edges of the target. It also happens to align with the foveated rendering downsampling circle because of course they both follow your eyes. I’m guessing this is what is happening here. To test this myself, I looked around on a large, lighter colored page in safari with no large touch targets, and could not see the same circular glow.
A few years ago I thought "how smart I am" when I built a smart TV out of a dumb TV, old computer, small server and light apk on my phone to control the newly created dumb-smart-tv, but in fact even this toy project mediately depends on a the linux kernel, drivers, android and a lot of code I cannot even hope to have the possibility to read in my lifetime. The true smart solution would be to have some kind of system on chip that would send via hdmi the proper signal from a source fetched by a sort of curl but with streaming. But then I would expect the source itself to rely on lean software; something like netflix but instead of a web app you would just have some catalog (a printed one?) of the available routes or codes you can send (like a telephone number) to ask for the emission of bytes to your hardware. But then I would ditch software, you would just compose a number on an old analogue phone and plug the video cable in the enclosure to receive your movie, while listening to the audio via the phone speaker.
Well, let's compare them to the videos made by the other side in this conflict, then, shall we?

Anybody being stabbed while being raped in these?

Any kids being waved around?
Three questions I immediately had

- Is it Gmail only -> yes, looks like it. There is a "Google Security Partner" claim but I can't find information (on the web) what that means (even less how I could verify). Is that the program where the app company has to pay $50.000 dollars for accredication to access Gmail data?

- Is email data sent to the company? -> Unclear. The website doesn't seem to mention it. Data FAQ doesn't mention it.

- Can I find out who the company is? -> No. Website has an info@ email address only.
So they're creating a DOM-like api in front of a sax style parser and getting faster results (barring FPGA and GPU research). It's released as part of SIMDJson.

I wonder if that kind of front end was done in the age of SAX parsers?

Such a well-written paper.
The power of turning information into data that can be processed by relatively simple Unix commands and pipelines is still mind blowing to me.
I'm not familiar with that package structure, unfortunately. It might be good, but I'm not sure what the reasons are for structuring the project that way.
Pretty neat ideas and pretty accurate :)

https://nichenavigator.io/reports/cf4c2c17-086f-49dc-9a08-23...
Maybe I just haven't worked at a large enough company yet, but it's fascinating to me how in some organizations a very common sense exercise of "let's have some stakeholders sit down and reason about what everyone wishes to do" could be revolutionary.
I think we have rather different opinions on what laws are for. I think they're to facilitate a liberal ecosystem - one in which violence is delegitimized and disputes are resolved via due process. They should explicitly not try to influence the outcomes such an ecosystem produces.
Imagine being a researcher from the future and asking this same question of the AI. The safety concern would be totally irrelevant, but the norms of the time would be dictating access to knowledge. Now imagine a time in the not too distant future where the information of the age is captured by AI, not books or films or tape backups, no media that is accessible without an AI interpreter.
Right now I have team members from Ukraine, Croatia, Montenegro, and Romania in Eastern Europe as well as Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico in LatAm.

Some countries have more stable talent pools than others - Ukrainian engineers tend to be notably high quality while Mexico can be very hit or miss.
Thinking about high-quality human data
I'm not sure it is the Halo effect here. Imagine how much more money they would have made if more employees ignored the new CEO, or if there was a different CEO.
The other commenter explained, but I'd like to remark it is somewhat to my point that one can see that propaganda and not know the provenance. I certainly didn't a few years ago.

I don't think you believe that premise, but I do think less savvy people can be led down a road of increasingly implausible misinformation until they eventually find themselves invested in highly delusional thinking.
> Oh, it wasn't the C++ 11 feature, see, he worked on Project Chrono and they put everything in the std namespace, see.

Classic pathological liar stuff. Just keep digging with bigger and more outlandish lies.

> He says "object orientated" instead of "object oriented"

To be fair, "orientated" is much more common and natural to say outside America. It's not the common term but it's not wrong.
> A spokesperson for YouTube said it had removed tens of thousands of harmful videos and terminated thousands of channels during the conflict between Israel and Gaza, and that it had teams are working around the clock to monitor for harmful footage content.

I wonder if procedures are in place to ensure evidence preservation. Many of these videos are evidence of war crimes. Does ICJ have the power to subpoena Youtube and other media, to retrive removed videos depicting human rights violations?
It gets lumped under "safety", but I bet it is also due to perceived reputational damage. The powers that be at Google don't want it generating insecure code (or to look stupid in general), so it is super conservative.

Either it ends up with people comparing it to ChatGPT and saying it generates worse code, or someone actually uses said code and moans when their side project gets hacked.

I get the feeling they are touchy after Bard was soundly beaten by ChatGPT 4.
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I don't think your math adds up.

Combined cycle is like at most 70% efficient, subtract 10% of distribution, you end up with 60%.

At 50f my 5T heat pump takes 6.6 kWh to generate 50,000 BTU.

6 kWh of energy takes 71cf of gas to make - accounting for transmission and generation losses.

71cf of gas will make 71,000 BTU of heat, assuming an 80% efficiency furnace, that comes out to 56,000 BTU usable.

Yes a heat pump will vastly outperform resistive strip heat - but not even an 80% gas furnace.
I know basically nothing about physics, so sorry if this is a dumb question.

The existence of infrared LEDs seems to indicate to me that infrared light can exist without heat.

The existence of infrared thermometers seems to imply that hot stuff radiates infrared light, at least usually.

So my question is, is there any case where heat does not cause infrared radiation?
What are those cases? Some special materials? Special colours(perhaps outside the visible spectrum)?
Yeah that’s not right - the most prominent examples are about the state restricting speech, but the first amendment provides really broad protections to all manner of speech that would have to be refereed by ‘the state’.

Ken White (Popehat) is a prominent 1st amendment attorney and has written about this - the second bullet point applies;

https://web.archive.org/web/20240116140758/https://www.popeh...
Adobe Flash used to bundle Chrome. And Chrome used to bundle Flash. Average people just click [Next] reflexively without reading and a whole bunch of potentially unwanted software is installed.
You should look into a PGE EV time of use rate plan if you can charge your car between 12am and 3pm - that should drop your rate for charge down to about 34 cents per kWh (though on my last bill mine was 28 cents per kWh).

https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/find-your-best-rat...
Nothing, just like there's nothing wrong with racist fanfics. The line should be drawn when someone rapes a child or hangs a black person.
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>Have you ever tried using more than one monitor? It helps productivity.

I have and I haven't been delivering code/tasks 50% faster when my monitor count increased by 50% from 2 to 3. Then went back to one monitor with virtual workspaces as that made me more productive than having to constantly move my neck eyes across a sprawl of windows. Plus having to manage windows around and tile them "just right" across several monitors always interrupted my flow, and worse, was costing me even more time when those windows were moving around and they weren't in the place where I remember I left them last time.

>Imagine [...]

But I'm not asking what you imagine it might do. I'm asking if it actually measurably improves your productivity, not if you imagine it could, because those are two very different things.

I also imagined that having as many monitors as an operator from The Matrix would make me more productive but it hasn't. My coding and task delivery speed has stayed the same or even gone down inversely proportional to the number of monitors.
Here’s some stats relevant to the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/polyamory/s/LAArXpkU0A (not related to queer people in particular, just polyamory in general.)

Although the statistical methods are dubious, it does show that polyamory is on an upswing. Thankfully. Choosing a single partner for life is one of the most ingrained pieces of rhetoric in the modern era, and most people don’t even know you can choose anything else.

Still a bit sad that this topic is too divisive for HN. Last time I tried bringing it up, a half dozen people chimed in saying it can’t work, that it’s a bad idea, and so on. But maybe in a few more years it’ll get a nice discussion.
This to me is just indicative of a larger problem that is already in play (and has been all of my life) and thats the issues surrounding the internet. I would prefer NOT to use AI to learn about things. I'd much rather read a first hand account or an opinion from an expert presented alongside facts. So why are we so unable to do that?

Its becoming increasingly impossible to find useful information on the internet, a giant part of that issue is that a single company essentially controls 99% of the access to all of humanities information. Things like Wikipedia, the Internet Archive and government archiving are becoming increasingly important. Its time that we think about decoupling corporate control of the internet and establish some hard and fast ground rules that protect everyones rights while also following common sense.

Its not that people are afraid of knowledge, it is purely due to corporations wanting to be perceived a certain way and those same corporations covering their ass from lawsuits and scrutiny. Corporations will never change. You may as well call that a constant. So the solution isn't going to be focused around how corporations choose to operate. They have no incentive to ever do the right thing.
Not to say that we couldn't budget better as a country, but that's far more ambitious than most of the people I encountered while in a 6-year-long relationship with someone in the rural lower Midwest. Hell, most people in those areas don't pay a meaningful amount of federal income tax, so cutting military expenditures wouldn't help there.
I agree. Setting how LEDs work aside, I never really got how semiconductors worked, despite reading about it and talking with experts for years, until this video.

I mean, I could explain how they worked in the same ways that they were explained to me, but I couldn't connect those explanations to a true physical understanding.

But thanks to this, I finally actually understand.

Also, the LED story was fascinating.
This seems less about DRY and more a story about a hypothetical junior dev making a dumb mistake masquerading as commentary about “DRY purism”.
Yeah I have that with locking the front door! It normally auto-locks and I just need to make sure it is latched and I need to check the handle to make sure I didn’t have the auto-lock off. But this latch-check happens so fast (I do always do it) that I will often forget. I have never gone back to check and found it unlocked but I still go back and check often. But for me this happens when I’m 100 feet away at the car so it’s not too bad.
I'm aware the key to LED commoditizing is making fundamental materials for blue LED. Veritasium is a great story teller with just right amount of physical for the geek alike.
The foreign employees are often employees of a foreign company, because it's more convenient that way. It's difficult to do business in a country if nobody around you understands the legal status of your company. That foreign company could be owned by the same holding company as the American company, or it could be technically independent. And if you impose tariffs on buying services from foreign companies, other countries will reciprocate, which will hit US tech companies hard.
I'm working on a blog post documenting what I've been doing as a newcomer to llama.cpp and the mixtral model. The steps can apply to any model really. Its mostly about optimization steps I'm experimenting with. Be warned its all new to me and my explanations may not be entirely accurate yet, as I'm still learning the lingo so to speak.

The blog is at https://geuis.com. I'll try to wrap it up today or tomorrow and get the post out.
> "Heat pumps use refrigerant to condition the air in your home by adding or removing heat through thermal exchange."

This is what air conditioners do, too.

> "Air conditioning is a cooling system that circulates cool air into an enclosed space, creating a comfortable atmosphere and improving indoor air quality."

This is what heat pumps do, too.

These are two sentences that describe the same process, just in different words.

The last quote is potentially relevant: a heat pump is an air conditioner that can run in reverse to provide heat in the winter, so you're running it in both situations, and thus for more time.
I think it's always instructive to break out all the costs of owning a car on a per mile basis.

I but about $700/year in gasoline. And pay about $600/year insurance. And drive about 6500 miles a year.

So insurance and gas are both about 10 cents a mile. I think depreciation and maintenance are higher at about 15 cents/mile. So 50 cents a mile. IRS says a business can write off 67 cents a mile.
The use-case of viewing images is possibly (likely?) special-cased to be mip-mapped for correctly filtering / downsampling them, whereas generic applications which draw arbitrary content to the frame buffer likely don't have this?
The first ten minutes is the best explanation of conductors, insulators, and semiconductors I’ve seen. The rest is a gripping human story with science sprinkled in. The maker / experimentalist spirit strongly resonates with me. There’s a line at the end for climate change and fusion folks.

This video is to adult me what Back to the Future was to kid me: it has it all.
Whataboutism is for simpletons.
https://www.oct7factcheck.com/index

Some of these claims were debunked already. Oct7factcheck compiles most of these october 7 allegations that later were found fake.
> Are you sure about the unemployment?

Definitely not sure, and it probably varies based on location.

In CA, where I am, one criterion is “unemployed through no fault of [their] own”. Getting fired is widely considered to be the individual’s fault (e.g., non-performance). I’ve heard something about the standard being “egregious misconduct”, but that’s just beyond the details that I know about.

Getting laid off usually isn’t considered the employee’s fault (e.g., due to lack of work or change in direction).

Iirc, companies might have increased payments into the state unemployment coffers when they do layoffs versus firings. I have only heard about this second-hand, so I don’t know the details.

Anecdotally and perhaps only tangentially related, I have friends and family who have had to or chosen to fire people, and they have all said the same thing — layoffs are much easier than firings.
If you're interested in the Flipper community, the 3rd party Xtreme firmware has a very active discord: https://flipper-xtre.me/

The Xtreme firmware appeared to be one of the easy ways to get the 'BLE Spam' app which could crash the latest iOS devices until Apple patched it in December.

And that story really echoes the parent's point about Flipper users being a 'gift of minimally destructive pentesters' (love that quote). The Flipper community effectively notified/pressured Apple into fixing an issue that might have been used more nefariously. (Some really malicious folks could have used the ability to crash iOS devices to DoS/shutdown peoples phones at some critical moment as part of a scheme or theft)
I'm actually kind of surprised Reddit didn't just cooperate? As a company which frankly has been acting with particular contempt for users of late, how does Reddit profit from fighting this?
It’s so strange why we’re doing all this now. Why not 20 years ago?

Better late than never but it’s a shame…
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I just read the Antimemetics division and qntm's short story collection. I loved the short stories and first ~40-60% of the Antimemetics Division and felt it then got too crazy and abstract. The "magic is real" thing has new worried as I usually avoid fantasy. Do you think I'll still like Ra?
The hubris of people who acknowledge our lack of foresight that resulted in the accidental geoengineering of climate proposing such a dangerous project that could kill everything without understanding the implications. This is a harebrained scheme of ridiculous proportions.
There were a couple of related ACX posts recently for whoever is interested:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/you-dont-hate-polyamory-you...
I don’t have a good feeling about retrofitted heat pumps at all. The government is pushing too hard.

In the UK we have poor insulation, noise concerns (dwellings very close together), high electricity rates, periods of sub zero temperatures in winter and from what I can gather a lack of skilled fitters in this space.

All together it doesn’t make a convincing argument

Plus all the comments here about broken systems, high electricity costs, inadequate temperatures etc doesn’t fill me with hope

Yes I’ve heard every rebuttal (“but Nordics”, “your fitter was bad”, “you under specced”, “you over specced” etc)

Building code should have solved insulation issues decades ago. Heat Recovery systems etc instead of relying on drilling holes in to window frames as the primary source of ventilation
Does Google use deceptive tactics to prevent you from installing another browser in Android or Chrome?
I run mine in a similar climate to what you’re describing. Air based, not ground or water. Absolutely zero problems at all.

Either I have some magic heat pump or a lot of the horror stories are overblown or based on using out of date technology.
Let's assume it works. So then ultra-religious authoritarians own part of AGI.

Sounds great!?
Blue LEDs are an amazing and badly needed advance -- but you're right, the abuse of blue LEDs has been, and continues to be, really awful.
It's the way people are wired. They need a hero to look to. Now usually the outcome is better in the end when the hero is genuine not a mimic. I think "show, don't tell," is a good rule of thumb for judging character. It's even in the Bible as a parable of Jesus something like judge a vine by its fruit.

In the early 21st century it seems judgements of business acumen have become untethered from actually making money by building a real product that is in demand by the market. At a certain point the game of shuffling money around as a shell game will become unsustainable. That's already evidenced in the high inflation rate we have.
> Ms Elvery says she discovered both still and timelapse images captured by the units of her children running around outside at their grandparents place in close-to realtime on a connected app.

> There was no prior discussion with her parents-in-law before the offending pole was erected, and Ms Elvery thinks it is it is "absolutely unacceptable that people's backyards are being monitored without prior consent".

> [...]

> QLDC resilience and climate action manager Bill Nicoll says, "The data showing private residences during the pre-launch testing period is regrettable as it was not intended for public access".
[dupe]

More discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310563
I'm not sure I want Meta (or anyone) directing public discourse away from politics and controversial topics either.
The old Wadsworth Constant[1] is being worn thin with each passing year. Half the time it feels like you should skip all the way to the last 30% of whatever to get what you're looking for.

A side note about YouTube in particular, I find SEO tactics to be like dart frogs. Bold titles with garish bright thumbnails means avoid!

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wadsworth%20...
If you’re going to make a typo, it might as well be about roaches in suits running the valley. Good lord.
I used to do a poor-mans version of that with low-bitrate mpeg4 (ASF or divX) movie downloads back in the day; the resolution would be low, and the MS MP4 codec tended to blur as well (plus noise killed the quality so much that there was often a denoiser in the encode pipeline), so adding any noise to the playback significantly improved the look of the movie.
Vinge definitely got it right. I love the title of "Programmer Archaeologist", it's an extremely good description of what we actually do every day.

For more discussion, see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4424
The encode example contains a bug and a lint issue. Firstly, calling w.Header().Set after w.WriteHeader is likely a bug, as the w.WriteHeader method call should occur after setting the headers.

The second issue involves passing an unused *http.Request, which will likely cause the linter to flag it.