skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been anti-nuclear for a long time, and SMR is the least unpalatable choice.

Not without caveats though. Humans are shit at statistics. Their sense of the aggregate danger of putting 100 'safe' items in close proximity often underestimates the odds by half, and in some cases by an order of magnitude.

You might get lucky and lose two personal hard drives in your entire life, but the IT guy managing 100 drives is dealing with failed drives 'all the time'. Backblaze reports on something like 10,000 drives and they are claiming something on the order of 200-300 failures. And I think that's per quarter, not per year.

What do you do with an array of reactors where one right in the middle did not fail cleanly?
No offense, but as someone that makes hardware devices, that hardware does not look great. It looks the very opposite of great.

Through hole DIP array? This is a prototype and it makes me skeptical of the whole thing. There is nothing a single $5 FPGA couldn’t do. So why not start there? I suspect because the people that made this doesn’t know electronics or programming well - but then also didn’t find someone that did.

This was put together the way long way, and it’s strange to me.
Yep, you need to do all that for your brain to function properly.

Many studies show exercise is as good if not better than drugs at treating depression.
That blog is from 2020. I'd love to hear more about how Shopify is building with React Native today.
> I want to understand how things work. AI feels like a black box to me. The amount of papers I’d have to read and mathematics that I’d have to ingest to really understand why a certain prompt X results in a certain output Y feels overwhelming.

How is this a legitimate argument? We have invented so many algorithms and used so much math to build our software along the years. They are not easy to understand. Understanding them requires tons of effort, including reading papers. People may have forgotten that 30 years ago, the "host stuff" was still systems, and people did read "deep" papers. People still do nowadays, except that only the very experts do so.

Besides, the math is really not that hard -- merely college level. In contrast, go read an introductory book on program analysis or type system or distributed algorithms. Those maths can be harder as they are more abstract. In addition, the amount of code in a model is orders of magnitude than a compiler or a distributed system or game engine and etc. I'd argue that it's actually easier to understand how a model works.
Serverless Infra for AI Engineers
>>... that russian regime change wouldn't really change much on their side.
there is more to this. The power there is usurped by a group of KGB officers, and they control all the government and power branches, etc (including even russian orthodox church). Any hypothetical elected outsider as a president will be coerced into doing what they demand. Anyone non-compliant will be eliminated.
What you are or aren't entitled to is written down in the terms of service. Support agents can only help interpret the terms for you. They may be authorized to go beyond that to some degree, but the company will also have the right to reverse the decision made by the agent.
> Their dev estimated that he’d only need a few days to complete the switch, and it would accelerate the rest of the project.

This is bad.. If your time and planning management is this bad then you shouldn't be in a position to give estimates directly to clients.

It sounds like this project may have been offloaded to other Devs a few times as it was a less priority so some ramp up time for each new handover.

The site looks good but 45k is wild to me.
Seems like a misreading of the law. [It just means the copyright goes to the person who generated the AI image and that is the current working situation for AI copyright in the US.] [EDIT: WRONG]

And the information about Steam banning AI is outdated, it is allowed as of the updated policy here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/38624...
I don't understand your mindset that says you should decide when other people multiply some numbers.
That's what I mean by naive. I doubt you'd find anyone from a country that was a member of the Warsaw pact with a functioning brain that would disagree with me. I'm saying that being a representative myself. And you really don't have to look all that far to see that what I said about him is true: being the other side of the same coin. Literally a few scrolls down the results page on google and you find this [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT0tCSaWZ9Q
Apple reinstates Epic's dev account, Epic Games Store launching in EU this year
Have you heard the metaphor of the chicken and the pig at breakfast time?

I could probably stand in the Krasnaya Ploshchad and yell "Vladimir Zelenskiy Sucks!" without repercussion, but that wouldn't make it effective criticism.
Not may, it definitely does. There's a lot of research that shows the combination of harmala alkaloids and nicotine are a lot more addictive than either one alone.
Yep I also disagree. I would say I have a mastery of a lot of backend programming, architecture/infra deployment, microcontroller programming, assembly, React + Redux, and at least 3 or 4 other languages I’ve worked in through my career. I’ve had jobs doing data engineering - building and deploying machine learning models at scale, advanced computer vision stuff (before ML became the rage for it), building, designing, and deploying tiny sensors on wind tunnel models, etc etc. I have a couple of open source multiplayer projects with a few thousand MAU each. Now, the one thing I will never master or care to is CSS - the devil himself must have come up with this abomination.
Radioactive Polonium-210 is the most potent carcinogen within tobacco, and it is not intrinsic to the plant. It is a result of past use of phosphate fertilizer [0].

[0] https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-tobacco
Depending on how dense the urban area the cost of moving utilities even before construction is astronomical. If it can be done to coincide with cut and cover it can still be financial effective.

It is highly disruptive to the entire area so it really depends on where the tunnel is being placed. Appropriate traffic and pedestrian accommodation plans are essential.
> The "wrong" here was somewhat skewed by the 4 GLSL shader code files that were in the dataset for some reason, all of which it detected as C code

To be fair though, a snippet of GLSL shader code can be perfectly valid C.
None of those things are what the comment was talking about. LLMs may make those things work better but they all existed previously.
It's less hyperbolic than you might imagine. Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas. On a long timeline, I believe it is possible to follow a chain of CO2 increasing the temperature until we get uncontrolled CH4 emission that will then increase temperatures until we get into a positive feedback loop of increasing water vapor.

I have read that this is likely how Venus became a hot dry ball.
I loved this line from TFA:

“But exposure,” some folks will say. People die of exposure.
This is #1 topic in Russia right now. Even some state media outlets report on this.
Diagram aside.

The thirty through hole parts made me the think the same thing.
Nice, I feel like this is a good use case for AI. Pretty fun and challenging as well.
Well now Steam accepts AI in games, so that's not a problem anymore.
Does the DMA allow for that level of data security being required?
Soviet AA isn't even the biggest threat - As many Ukrainian pilots put it, the main threat is the R-37M. You can at least fly low and out of the way to defend against SAMs, but without a missile like the Meteor there is no answer to the combination of long range SAMs and R-37M carrying fighters.

Basically the problem is that to avoid AA you have to fly low or far from the front lines. If you fly low, you can't give enough energy to your missile to threaten even just Russian bombers.

If you fly high but far away, there is no way to deal with Russian planes carrying R-37s that will be able to fire their missiles far before you.

The only way to even the playing field would be to give Ukraine modern Gripens with the Meteor missile, as the F-16 cannot fire the Meteor.
Their in-context long-sequence understanding "benchmark" is pretty interesting.

There's a language called Kalamang with only 200 native speakers left. There's a set of grammar books for this language that adds up to ~250K tokens. [1]

They set up a test of in-context learning capabilities at long context - they asked 3 long-context models (GPT 4 Turbo, Claude 2.1, Gemini 1.5) to perform various Kalamang -> English and English -> Kalamang translation tasks. These are done either 0-shot (no prior training data for kgv in the models), half-book (half of the kgv grammar/wordlists - 125k tokens - are fed into the model as part of the prompt), and full-book (the whole 250k tokens are fed into the model). Finally, they had human raters check these translations.

This is a really neat setup, it tests for various things (e.g. did the model really "learn" anything from these massive grammar books) beyond just synthetic memorize-this-phrase-and-regurgitate-it-later tests.

It'd be great to make this and other reasoning-at-long-ctx benchmarks a standard affair for evaluating context extension. I can't tell which of the many context-extension methods (PI, E2 LLM, PoSE, ReRoPE, SelfExtend, ABF, NTK-Aware ABF, NTK-by-parts, Giraffe, YaRN, Entropy ABF, Dynamic YaRN, Dynamic NTK ABF, CoCA, Alibi, FIRE, T5 Rel-Pos, NoPE, etc etc) is really SoTA since they all use different benchmarks, meaningless benchmarks, or drastically different methodologies that there's no fair comparison.

[1] from https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

The available resources for Kalamang are: field linguistics documentation10 comprising a ∼500 page reference grammar, a ∼2000-entry bilingual wordlist, and a set of ∼400 additional parallel sentences. In total the available resources for Kalamang add up to around ∼250k tokens.
This doesn't make sense. Assuming it's worn on the left wrist, and the crown is on the right of the watch face, then the crown is _always_ facing down (when hands are down) - no matter if you're wearing it on the inside or outside of the wrist. Am I misunderstanding something?
> According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch OLED display.

Well, there goes the humanely usable phone size, my reason to buy an iPhone.
I think my company was told a year ago to not use IoT Central as it was going to be deprecated.

They also made ThreadX open source a few months back. Be interesting to see what else happens in the IoT area for Microsoft
> Complexity will only increase in the years ahead, essentially requiring new declarative programming models focused on intent, the user, and business logic.

This line of thought has never occurred to me before. The idea that complexity will be so unmanageable that we’ll need to rewrite the computing stack in a more easily debuggable, functional way. Modern computing seems simple: The kernel and your application on top of it, but the existence of solutions like Antithesis suggests something different.
Yeah, the alarm is the built-in excuse alarm. Isaac is queueing up excuses for things not going well before work has even started.
plot thickens: the people who own the banks fund the dumb people who borrow from the banks to buy guns from the MIC who the very same people who own the banks and the press also own.
Assuming anyone wants to change it to begin with. You know the 5 monkeys experiment? In reality, russia is simply a large scale version of it - "this is how it is and the way it's always been".
I hate Microsoft but I respect Satya so much for what he accomplished.
The scene of the train, could easily be used in a transition scene in a movie, like theres so much here like stock videos are gonna be f*cked in short order, and if they add composition and planning tools, and loras, so will the movie industry.
That is true, and you would assume that if he sold he would either work retained and draw a salary or hire someone at a fair cost.

I think the company is too early to realistically sell - but I don't think the value today is zero - it's likely worth at least 2x revenue today given growth potential.

Look at lantronix (nasdaq:ltrx) - the company that makes the "spider" product line - the original strap-on oob/ipmi. Worth $160M while doing $120M of revenue and losing $9M/year.
I guess that's why they were trained on that particular vehicle…

Just like the Ukranian crews were trained on leopard, Abrams, etc
“How long is a piece of string?” their lead designer asked."

The longest I can do is char[tree fiddy]
I still don't agree with the "there's nothing to listen to". Even now with a handful of users, I already uploaded some music to my personal library and shared some playlists with other contacts.

In any case, I do agree that talking with musicians is also important. I just think this is a chicken-and-egg problem, so both sides of the market need to show interest in the model.
What are the sources of the alternative numbers? (Up to Jamaika, 83%, more than 60 percent, etc).

As for the rates raising in 90-ies and then falling back down, that's understandable, if you know what were the 90-ies there. The same happened in all other post Soviet states.
Rights are just another layer of rules in a society. The most fundamental rules, I guess one would say. We can disagree about them but some people pretend to disagree for disingenuous reasons. For example, in almost every part of the world, one has at least some kind of right to self-defense. It's unnatural to not defend one's self. Even the stupidest and wimpiest animals will bite if attacked. Does the parallel with nature make it a natural law? I think one could make the argument. Besides there isn't too much downside in letting people defend themselves within reason.

I think we could get very analytical about some rights of course. The right to not incriminate yourself is a subtle one. But it relies on an argument about a number of biological and practical realities.

Not everything has a parallel so direct as pointing to what animals do. But as social structures are evolved rather than simply imagined, there may be naturalistic arguments to be had in favor of rights that facilitate everyone getting along.

Anyway, that's the overview of how I'd approach it all. It's probably been done by someone. If you happen to know, I'd appreciate the reference.
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Polyglot Notebooks
Jurassic Park definitely did
Also a bootstrapped founder. I couple of years ago I wanted to build an app for my site and posted the job to a freelance marketplace. I got abundant calls and picked a company that seemed to have an eye for design and a lot of good looking examples in their portfolio. They offered to do a redesign and a bunch of other work I refused - I knew what functionality I wanted and needed just a developer for a few weeks. They needed requirements in 24 hrs and were going to be ready in 2 weeks. I worked overnight to get wireframes and every functional requirement ready. I didn’t hear from them at all for weeks. Finally the deadline comes and I ask for an update. “We just assigned you an app developer”. I looked up the persons app store portfolio and he only had a starter calculator app project. I pinged them and asked for a refund, which they tried to negotiate without completing a single deliverable before the deadline. A deeper look into the company showed their address was just a registered agent in Delaware and not a real place. The freelance marketplace continues to sell my contact information to freelancers and I get at least one call a week from someone with a deep accent offering to finish the “Website project” or “Logo redesign project” We “talked about” a while back (we never did, the project was for an ios app). I ended up doing the app myself and learned a lot more and did it faster than the freelancers. With GPT 4 the effort is even smaller now.
> The same factor that makes private prisons problematic also makes taxation problematic - in both cases you've got a captive market that can't opt out thus no pressure to provide a good, efficient service.

What you should have are companies that offer their best prices/services to the government out of fear that they'll be passed over and those highly valuable contracts will be awarded to their competitors who do better. Governments are incentivized to select the best companies to award those contracts to because they risk being voted out if people are unhappy with the level of service they're getting for their tax dollars.

Prisoners can't kick politicians out of office when they're unhappy about the state of the prisons so that's a huge issue with prisons in general, but private prisons have another issue which is profit. Whatever it costs to keep dangerous people locked up, private prisons need all of that money plus they must extract a bunch of extra money from the public just to stuff their pockets with. If private prisons want to keep prices low to the public but also want to keep filling their pockets with money they need to provide substandard care to the people they are responsible for. A non-private prison needs only what it costs to do the job and nothing more.
> less of a power imbalance than if it was the company that you didn't like.

Not really. Sure you in theory vote for union leaders, but in practice it ends up being just as bad as any other politics and so you don't really have any more ability to change things.

> The union can't fire you like the company can.

What is the difference between being fired and being told we don't have any work for you? Labors often do lose their job - they may still be in the union and thus early in line if there is another job, but they don't have control of when jobs come up.
There are a million people that could do this with a single FPGA in an afternoon. Why were none of them approached?
> Spending $100,000 and making two minor changes that triple your revenue is an absolute bargain.

This is a qualified statement that really doesn't add up in my head. No minor change is going to triple your revenue, no matter what ui UX designer says.
There was never any chance that the US would fund Ukraine indefinitely. NATO countries arent going to do a 180 based on this. Perhaps they will start contributing the amount towards NATO that they themselves pledged though.
As a Postmark customer, I strongly recommend switching to their service if you want better deliverability than Sendgrid, for example. However, if you have a poorly sanitized email audience, you'll suffer a lot of pain initially to reduce the bounce ratio.

It's like switching from a gym where you're on your own and no one cares to one where you're yelled at if you miss your training. Naturally, the former delivers much better results, but there is an adaptation period which makes a lot of people give up.
That just doesn't matter as long as they caucus in unity and vote in unity. Republicans are beholden to Trump's rhetoric so they can get the MAGA vote and keep their damn jobs. That's why they keep falling in line no matter how many times they say "no no we really shouldn't do what Trump says". They were perfectly willing to kill a bill they all agreed was good for the US because Trump said so, because not fixing the problem they've been bitching about fixing for decades will help Trump campaign on fixing the problem.

Surely they as individuals would be better off saying "look, we cowed the Biden admin into fixing the problems, look how good we are at our jobs re-elect us" but that doesn't work, because they are beholden to the MAGAs. So instead they keep giving awkward comments and going back on their own stated opinions because the only uniting strategy (which was the official Republican party policy BEFORE Trump's own progeny ran the Republican party) is to bootlick Trump.

When they vote how he says, pretty much exclusively, they are not "ignoring or shrugging off" his comments.
That's not right, no one owns the copyright on AI-generated images. https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/who-owns-ai-crea... That means the poster is wrong too, because without copyright, anyone is legally allowed to upload the images to the marketplace.
1. That’s not a very nice thing to say. Raised in Russia, I know that there are some people who hate Poles, however, all these haters are backwards and anti-progressive in general.

2. Lithuanians are not Slavs.
Yeah, he openly said that he accepts the Crimea annexation - which is a part of Putins strategy of reviving the Russian empire.

https://visitukraine.today/blog/3375/navalny-is-dead-what-wa...
Real cyclists know if there’s any wind at all, it’s never tailwind.
Interestingly, the existence of TBMs has made SF Bay Area transit impossible to construct. Because TBMs exist, cut-and-cover is impossible since it can be pointed to as an alternative mechanism. However, they are hopelessly expensive here and consequently nothing gets built. Fascinating outcome.

I think that's a cool outcome in a coordination problem, where added technology makes neither technology workable.

This article was wicked sick, by the way. Great use of illustrations etc. This is free? Incredible. It's like the old web.
Any FPGA could do the work smaller, faster, cheaper. So, I’m still skeptical.
He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West.

Do you remember the guy who flew over Belarus and his plane was redirected to seize him? Any news? I do not even remember his name.

Going back to Russia was a stupid move, he could have had much more visibility from the EU.
Looks like it’s just RAG? The paper is proposing an alternative to RAG due to its shortcomings
We are limited not by the answers we seek but by the questions we ask
I have neither that email address nor the book.
the reaction of a pedo or worse lol
> Europe will lose some territory

To be fair it never had that territory in the first place. Prior to 2014 Ukraine was clearly under Russian influence and Western Europeans countries never had any serious thoughts about somehow “taking it over” (despite what putin & al. are saying )

> gain it's own military security

I’m really not sure most Europeans countries (besides those that are very close to Russia like Poland, the Baltics, Finland etc.) are that keen about massively increasing their military spending. Certainly not even close to what US is currently providing.
I do wonder what the shelf life of those things are? Germany could hand over 200 - 300 of those things and just order new one to replace the oldest one in their stockpile.
>America is too hostile towards regular people.

So many family members constantly remind me that "your brain is capable enough to escape most of America's problems, just earn more money..."

And I keep having to remind them that I don't want to out-compete against others, just so I can have basic healthcare (not attached to employment). Universal healthcare would "lift all the boats," and not just the yacht-owners'.

>This is one of the many reasons that I’m traveling the world to look for a new home.

I just applied for my passport, and am looking forward to worldly exploration.
You'd normally expect a TV ad to be authorized to make offers.

You wouldn't normally expect an AI chatbot to be authorized to make offers. Its purpose is to try to answer common questions and it has been widely covered in popular media that they hallucinate etc.
My wife's therapist recently instructed her to start plunging her face in ice when she gets overwhelmed with anxiety (mostly because she was refusing to consider meds)

The ice plunge is generally understood to help by stimulating the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system. But I wonder if it is related to this too.
The Semi-Aeroelastic Hinge
workflowy is the best thing I've used to replace org-mode on my phone.
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