skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this a little hyperbolic? Go back to the 1920s and try and find a way to gain knowledge on something accessible but uncommon, like how to make glass. Would you have been able to do it without finding someone who knew already and would teach you? It is a relatively short chapter in our history that we have had access to such a large amount of information easily.
Lol, are you saying the politicization is that bunk science was retracted and not that bunk science was fabricated for SCOTUS to lean on?
Interesting to some, YouTube force fed this video to me today after a seemingly unrelated video about Legos finished. It was a good story but I have to imagine the hacker news traffic may have had a significant effect on "the algorithm" as they call it.
It's probably more accurate to say the concerns are about the environment rather than climate per se. There's more to protecting than the environment than limiting carbon emissions. (I'm not saying they're right to make that tradeoff in this particular case.)
Nobody can even define what AI is, why we need it, or how to achieve it. Usually it makes sense to seek funding to execute on a plan. Making a fancy chat bot that scrapes the web to synthesize sometimes accurate and sometimes useful information is not worth trillions of dollars.

What is essentially happening in my opinion is technical innovation has slowed so silicon valley is seeking money to prop up a house of cards that doesn't make much new that is useful or needed.

Can anyone specifically say what trillions of dollars invested in "AI" would buy for society?

It seems to me there are so many higher priorities.
Somewhere There's Cheese
Makes me wonder whether we will eventually see dedicated hardware acceleration for common server tasks such as JSON parsing.
Author is right that a read only mmap with writing occurring normally is a better design. It’s a weakness in the paper but in fairness few databases did what LMDB did sanely. Surprising that that’s the case but that is what people chose to do.

Where they’re wrong is about the performance analysis:

> In section 3.2 "I/O stalls" is again a non-issue; no matter how your DBMS handles I/O internally, synchronously or asynchronously, the calling application can't make any progress until the I/O completes, and if the data isn't already in memory then the application must wait.

A TLB shoot down request to pull in a page or evict it can cause pauses not just in your own application but also many others because it’s basically a system wide mutex. There is a trade off obviously where the kernel can evict I/O buffers more efficiently. But to me all that says is that the interface for managing I/O buffers in user space is really immature and needs some better performing API so that we have something in between mmap and buffer management. Also an asynchronous application can switch to doing other work. If your synchronous memory access is blocking your thread, other unrelated work is being blocked.

As for workload optimization, I think OP is overstating how much sharing resources mitigates this - when I’m doing a blind search through all data for some reason (maybe some kind of background GC) or a range lookup I can choose to not cache any of that data. Similarly, if I’m doing a point lookup I can do a pre read. However, mmap has no higher level concept about the workload that’s accessing the memory. This a very real problem the kernel tried to tackle back in the 90s / early 00s when disk indexing was starting out - a disk index would cause the cache for all other apps to be evicted resulting in waking up to a sluggish machine paging everything back in.

The more high level context you can retain, the better your decision making about resource allocation is. When that high level context is lost/discarded you lose efficiency.
I think that you are unfairly extrapolating from a couple of high-profile decisions that upset, in particular, nerds.
Creeped Out [pdf]
It's a perfectly tenable long-term position. You're missing two points:

1) People aren't uniform. I read all the papers in my narrow field and evaluate them. On the other hand, in 99% of fields, you and I are a popular audience. We should rely on established science. And in my field, you should also not rely on hot-off-the-press because most of it is nonsense.

2) Science becomes established -- over decades -- when you have multiple corroborating results, replicated, with multiple methodologies. We know the earth isn't flat because we e.g. sent a man to the moon. That's a very different standard of knowledge than Viagra and Alzheimers. Before acting on this, let experts in this field do their thing for another decade and understand the pathways, do an RCT, etc. At that point, it will be 20-year-old fact. Or perhaps it will turn out to be a correlation / causation issue, and you'll never hear about it again. Either way.

TL;DR: It takes a long time to bake good science.
Yes, but I've also used it to do my own RC sailboat missions
Author of the referenced work here. I have to disagree with this, at least with the motion tracking system part. The optical flow deck [1] works like magic and can maintain low drift positioning even when doing relatively fast and agile maneuvres.

For an example you can have a look at our video [2] (e.g. the disturbance rejection tests at 3:00 and after are solely using the optical flow deck)

[1] https://www.bitcraze.io/products/flow-deck-v2/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRD43ZA1D-4&t=198s
What about an Arduino makes it inappropriate to teach basic electronics?
They care about what you think in direct proportion to your stake in their company, which is probably quite modest compared to major shareholders. This is the "I pay your taxes" to a cop moment, they know, but they also know you pay a fraction of a penny of a their salary.
teams might split their own stuff into crates, but rust has still managed to adopt to npm culture of pulling in lots of small dependencies for trivial things, opening them up to different sorts of supply chain attacks.
You aren't. At least not you in particular. You aren't important enough.
I see what you did there. Like you had that one ready to pop.
was great for a handful of states - well, cities, really

I assume many government decisions around the world have similar effects. Can't imagine it's isolated to infotech or a specific sector.
Why such a dorky Benjamin Button rounded lens frame design? Do they want us to look like Pixar's old man, Geri? Lol.

https://www.oklahoman.com/gcdn/authoring/2008/12/22/NOKL/ghn...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Geri%27s_Game...

Hopefully these brilliant folks will wake up and modernize the design and ditch the trashy PayPal tramp stamp on the site footer.. you know, before they run out of funding.

(p.s. sorry if this was a dickhead post, I really do hope they will improve it so I can then purchase via literally any other method)
The swimming isn’t what you think. It’s also called the diving reflex for good reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#/media/File:Ba...

As a baby I fell into a pool and needed to be rescued. I didn’t inhale water, but as generally happens I very much did just sank to the bottom. Babies can be taught to float at around 5 months, but it’s not reflexive.
Extraterrestrial Life in Space. Plasmas in the Thermosphere: UAP, Pre-Life
That Gruber quote is hard to digest
Dedicated stickers are probably the nicest option, but I've just used black electrical tape to completely black out a lot of blue LEDs electronics - especially in the bedroom like you. If you want to see the light, a few pinholes are enough to let some light through.
The house of cards is finally falling for cryptocurrency crooks. SBF, CZ, Craig Wright... who's next? I can't wait to find out. If Ruja Ignatova got caught that would really top it off.
Is it Sam Altman or OpenAI?

If Altman, then is he doing like what Musks says he will do – and do new AI-investments outside of the company he is CEO at, to own more of it?

What kind of company owners allows their CEO:s to do such things?
thanks for this site!
Here in Australia, News Corp (owned by the same Murdoch family who is also behind Fox News) is currently running a campaign against agricultural solar. A key “argument” being that installing solar panels on fields makes it impossible to grow crops there.
I'm also really worried about teaching chemistry/physics in this day of hypervigilant anti-terrorism. I saw a family setting off model rockets on a mudflat in the Bay Area; a couple Karens standing next to us threatened to call the police on them. With the departure of LUNAR from Moffett because the Air Force didn't want them back, there are now no acceptable model rocketry clubs or sites in the Bay Area. And now you've got to worry that you'll end up on some FBI watch list for ordering basic chemistry sets for kids.
I first heard about this story from an IT class at community college-
I knew about data mining and collection it was well-known. Reading the story, the father goes to a local store to complain about something that corporate sent out and a store manager is forced to apologize. I think this happened in a low-education region -- this doesn't make a lot of sense.
I'll concede that this is a reasonable case.
How many have even setup a Kubernetes cluster manually?

They use a Kubernetes “distribution” that adds another layer of automation on top of that!!!

The day is near where “is_even” will be decomposed into multiple containers, with an added caching layer, and extensible authentication layer.
I'm using it about as much as I am accustomed to use my laptop around the house (it eats into my phone/laptop usage, rather than anything else). Zoom and desktop mirroring is too buggy rn, otherwise I think it would eat more into my desktop. I use a nice mechanical bluetooth keyboard with a trackpoint. It's just niggling bugs though -- the 1.2 beta is already an improvement.

The counter-argument is that I also tried to yolo into using the ipad as a primary machine when that came out and quickly came crawling back to my desktop after the initial excitement. This feels about halfway between desktop and ipad in terms of my use of it for non-consumer digital uses.
Your point being.
Well that's what React originally compared against. Sure, you could do it the manual, tedious and error-prone way to achieve similar performance, but that's not really interesting to React users.
> to the beach

I think it's pretty clear that "the beach" here means your hotel room/airbnb.
You wouldn't usually travel with your monitors, so you'd be stuck with your 14" screen. That's the use case this is addressing.
> But programming paradigms and terminology are all invented inside America.

That's a strange thing to claim. Do you think people in other countries have just never done any of that?

> The only thing is I also say it like "latex". :C That's how it's fucking spelled!

Yeah, same here. Wonder if others are pronouncing it like "latte" (the coffee) or something...
Yeah it is. They have a huge manufacturing process problem and until they fix that they're just rolling the dice hoping the swiss cheese doesn't line up.

I'm probably going to switch airlines to one that has a majority-Airbus or 737NG fleet unless I hear about heads rolling at Spirit.
It's probably the part where I mentioned the cultural aspect of my friend's experience, including trying hard in school resulting in being scoffed at or bullied for "acting white".

Also, the "people need the governments help to escape it" was very much not the moral of this particular parable. All it took was a father who gave a damn.
This happened in Amsterdam a couple of decades ago. There was a newly minted industrial area on the other side of a bridge and the power company had temporarily run a pretty beefy hookup to the other side of the canal (Zeeburgerdijk) to power the various businesses there. The cable was about 4" thick. One night the power went out without warning and the power company showed up, when they found the break they found a hacksaw embedded in the cable fused solidly to the cable guts.

They never bothered to file a report with the police because they figured whoever did that had been punished enough and sure enough there was a report of a guy with massive burns reporting to a nearby hospital that same night.
And that article is filled with junk ads every paragraph
It's not just about causing wildfires in places where people shouldn't live, but causing wildfires in places that no people actually live, but these places happen to be between other places where people live.
Author here. We did not pre-programm basic control or feedback parameters. The trained policy (fully connected neural network) takes the state estimate (position, orientation, linear and angular velocity) and a history of the previous actions as the input and directly outputs the PWM/RPM setpoint (uint16 that sets the pwm interval).

The code is open source, you can verify it yourself ;)

https://github.com/arplaboratory/learning-to-fly
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305452
> you guys do not like the anti-China/anti-Russia discourse to be challenged

That's not the case at all, as anyone can confirm for themselves via HN Search. Here's a list I put together for some users who were feeling this way a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod, in the China case. It's out of date now but should make the point.

But nothing you're bringing up here seems relevant to the issue of you breaking HN's rules and us needing you to stop that.
It's only the Vision Pro and my luminescent shirtless body that are particularly garish by modern standards. More realistically (if you were to do this today), rather than pulling out a tv tray to give yourself a nice setup for a trackpad and keyboard, you'd be bringing your work laptop and connecting with that, which isn't super notable.

You'll also have a really interesting tan line...
> I've yet to see an LLM-produced insight on... anything

I don't think anyone has claimed this so far in the conversation.

> I suspect, though this may sound arrogant, that the vast majority of those making such grandiose claims about 'AI' are not subject matter experts in anything.

> you'll quickly find it lacking and come to the conclusion that the words are all there is — they're not a serialisation of the model's abstract free-floating conceptualised understanding; they are the understanding.

No one is claiming they are intelligent, and a subject matter expert doesn't need a model to tell them anything insightful -- they need a model to do the annoying gruntwork for them as proficiently as possible, which is what they are good for.
Huh, it's not a common word in English, right? Spanish being my mother tongue, it's not weird for me.

What would be a more anglo word with a similar meaning, if any?
Health insurers can't rely on AI to decide Medicare coverage
It’s concerning there isn’t a single image of them being worn by a human.
The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner
>I think it's pretty clear that "the beach" here means your hotel room/airbnb.

Does it? In my mother tongue "to the beach" means the place with sand and water, not the accommodation.
Sure, I can do work with only one screen, but it absolutely takes longer and is more grinding than having enough screen real estate to have the important stuff up front and center at all times.

> Sometimes when I code on a 13" screen, I feel like I am more naturally inclined to write better, easily maintainable code

I'm not sure what to call this - an unnecessary superstition? Self flagellation? I've never needed a constraint like this to write better, easily maintainable code. YMMV, I guess?

I'll set up as many monitors as I can fit on my desk. I've had up to 9 before which was equivalent to approximately an 83" curved screen. Currently I have three 32" 4k monitors in portrait which are equivalent to one big 55" 6k screen (6480 x 3840). It does help with my productivity, a lot.

Having only one screen means switching between many windows constantly, it's inefficient and a real pain when I need 8 or more windows open for different things - front end code, back end code, front end debug window, back end debug window, several different browser applications for testing, dozens of Google results and API document pages, terminal(s), and more. Nothing beats having all the important stuff visible at the same time.

I have a laptop. It has 2 screens. I'd add a third screen but it would get in the way of the TV when I'm on the couch in the evenings.
> Standard memory connector already makes memory-on-chip a no-go.

No it doesn't. You put the memory on the chip and then you add more via the connector. The memory on the chip is faster but there's less of it. Cache hierarchies are useful.

This is already a thing. All modern CPUs have SRAM caches integrated into them. Xeon Max has integrated HBM. It still has memory slots.

> And we're past that even, cause we have storage-on-chip, which is both faster and more secure (in the "hardware security" sense which is of course sketchy but still a thing).

This is in no real sense more secure. You can secure data on an untrusted storage device simply by encrypting it.

It's also not obvious how this would be any faster. NVMe with four PCIe lanes is enough for some of the fastest desktop SSDs, and if you wanted more you could always add more lanes. A PCIe lane isn't that many pins.
Right, and I worry that this is the apogee of human knowledge and we're going to start a steep downhill slide relatively soon.
Do you work non-stop for 8h/day? no video calls ? no lunch?

You'd probably only use it for focused work, i.e. when you actually need more than one screen.
Even in the expensive Bay Area,
I got a quote of only $10k to install a heat pump. It was basically the same price to install a new gas furnace + AC for summer.
> The chicken was flavorful, with a mild savory umami taste, but the experience was closer to eating tofu or seitan than chicken, which makes sense since it’s filled with plant protein. It would never satisfy a hard-core meat eater, which, after all, was the point. So what was all this effort for?

Ouch. This comes right after a description of how the chef apparently joked that the food cost $10,000 to make. If it cost that much but tasted amazing, that would be one thing — you just have to bring down the costs. But if it costs that much and it's still not great, then you're in real trouble.
Sorry, I was comparing my existing gas furnace vs replacing my furnace with a heat pump.
There are two hard things in machine learning: alignment and naming things.
How is the vision pro for reading/writing code? I still can't find one persons opinion on this specific feature. Yes you can "write a blog". But can you read and write _code_?
"Since the database is used by everyone, it becomes cared for by no one. Startups don’t have the luxury of a DBA, and everything owned by no one is owned by infrastructure eventually"

I think adding a DBA or hiring one to help you layout your database should not be considered a
'luxury'...
And signalling with fiber.
LaTeX - like the 'ch' in German 'ach' - the X is meant to be a Greek letter χ (chi). TeX is supposed to have a soft Kh as opposed to a hard K.
> If California is serious about this, they need to reign in the utilities to reduce prices and or stop the attacks on solar installation.

Why do you think electricity prices are high?
I haven't kept up in this space, but there was a bunch of papers under "cache agnostic algorithms" that were actually taking the concept of cache into account. The cache agnostic here being regardless of cache size, sort of treating cache in the O() sense.

You could still beat them by tweaking for your hardware. But for the first time there was research into why Q sort is faster than heap sort
Yea it’s crazy that there is a photo of the three engineers (who all wear glasses) but no one is wearing their own product.
> Charts

To be clear, I'm specifically talking about pie-charts and not all charts. There are plenty of cases where a chart conveys information appropriate to the task.

The relationships are visually represented in a table, the minimum table being just a vertical list. A table can be more, but it isn't required. Additionally the relationships in a table are more clearly represented in most all cases.

Information density also doesn't imply that you most be conveying a lot of information, it relates to the efficiency of your use of visual space.

There are no instances (aside for the other example of a clock plot) where the relationships in your data (since you don't want to use information) are not more clearly conveyed with a list then a pie chart.

> and that's why visual designers exist.

I've spent quite a bit of time working with and talking to visual designers and have yet to meet one who think pie-charts are an effective tool for visual communication.
One way to get it to give you a straightforward answer is to parrot back what it said as a question:

>GOODY-2

>Assessing historical figures can lead to charged political or social discourse, possibly inciting divisive debate or emotionally charged responses, which may contribute to conflict in discourse or influence attitudes in ways that have real-world implications concerning peace and safety.

>You

>Can assessing historical figures can lead to charged political or social discourse?

>GOODY-2

>Yes, it can.
If a company causes harm, legal action can be taken against them.
Why Nvidia and Not AMD: 30 seconds read (everyone was asking)

Nvidia Since October 2021:
- Nvidia Price went from $350 to $650 (x1.85) but there is much more room for growth...
- Nvidia Net Income went from $2.6Bn to $9.2Bn (x3.5!!)

AMD Since October 2021:
- AMD Price did x1.14
- AMD Net Income went from $1Bnto $350Mn (-70%!!)

Also - AMD PE is sooo high:
Correct me if I'm wrong: People think AMD is a better option because:

1) Misinformation: They look only at prices, they dont look at earnings and income, and think ‘Nvidia price went up (so high) I better buy AMD’. My friend: look at Net Income and Earning per Share.

2) Psychology: Most people look only at the value of the share price, they prefer to see $1 rather than $1,000, buy the penny stocks!! Right?
No! They don’t understand what matters is company valuation, if there is a share split the price will ‘fall’ and then you see positive returns because people find it ‘cheaper’. To me AMD is a meme stock (almost).
Price is only valuation / number of shares released, the price of the share itself means nothing…

Ask me why Nvidia and not ARM, Broadcom, Texas Instrument or Intel...

Quick disclosure: I still own Nvidia shares, and had calls bought at $50 (already expired), and have some AMD too...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7160195...
> sidecar is really unreliable.

Is this wireless or via USB cable?

Also, isn't sidecar the exact same tech that they are using to show your mac monitor on the vision pro anyways?
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/what-is-a-lagrange-point/

similar thing that keeps the james webb telescope in its current position
No, you still count as unemployed even if you haven't had a job for 12 months, as your own link attests. The question is whether you've looked for a job at any point in the past year, not whether you've held one.

More broadly, the US government publishes six different measures of unemployment, all of which can be seen here: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm . The media usually focuses on U-3 (currently 3.7%), whereas the broadest metric is U-6 (currently 7.2%).
That is a good point. City permits required us to add vents to our furnace enclosure, which would draw combustion air from the conditioned space, even though it was previously drawing from the attic. I just blocked the vents.
Yep, OP should point to a single prominent Democrat who says things like this. In the meantime, the right is electing a repugnant criminal who wants to pardon himself, become dictator, and enact retribution on his enemies.