skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain the difference more?

Is it about light pollution? About being somewhere quiet? Is it about a field specifically or about being away from road traffic? Like is a park OK? Is the beach OK?

Or is it mainly just being in 100% and you usually have to go somewhere rural for that because statistically it doesn't pass directly over major cities?
Or "self-deletion" instead of "suicide".
Chrome's New Right-Click for AI Tool Will Fill the Web with Robot Writing
People did cry for them. The loom workers started an actual armed rebellion. Thankfully, the army put it down or else we'd still be weaving our clothes by hand.

Consumers decide whether something is too "special" to automate. If you want hand-drawn art, you're welcome to pay extra for it - just like you can get handmade pottery or clothing today.
C'mon ya'll just use AP?
FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes
I mean, it could be as good or better at a lot of reasoning related tasks and just have less baked in general knowledge, in which case it'd make an amazing RAG model if the context length is reasonable.
Just tried it out with a Python query. So nice and fast. Great work!
> It is also really unfortunate that in the west we miss out on tons of fungi based foods (not talking about anything psychedelic here) as many mushrooms contain tons of prebiotic fiber like substances that feed the probiotics already found in our gut.

You're right that we get far fewer varieties of fermented foods. It's notable how certain cultures go very far in some directions, like how many types of lentils/legumes are used commonly in India, and how many types of chilis are used in single dishes in Mexico. Japan's in that direction for fermentation, perhaps.

French cuisine deeply relies on mushrooms for umami and richness. There's a rich mushroom culture in France - a bunch of varietals are used.

I think we're going to eventually come to a point where we consider fermentation a sort of "food group". Many cultures had cheese, yogurt, kimchi pretty much every day - the probiotic benefits are great.

At the very least, being able to eat a variety of (fermented) foods in winter must have reduced the monotonous dreariness of the season - and helped improve nutrition, too.
This reminds me so much of the early internet hacker culture that it's actually triggering nostalgia. What a great write-up! When ESR talked about becoming a hacker (hacker in the Hacker News sense), this is the type of person he was talking about.

The combination of curiosity, dedication, and technical ability is exceedingly rare, and majorly impressive. Thanks so much for sharing!
Dhol (Drum)
Billions of dollars spent on hardware kind of makes this rational to try
Is flicker an issue with headlights? I'd think a DC-DC converter would run at 50kHz or more so you could use cheaper smaller parts.

IME, LED flicker is predominantly from cheap LED bulbs running off mains. (Slightly) More expensive ones have better filtering or something and I can't detect any flicker.
We've grown attached to "Strada", so for now no plans on changing.

I do have friends/colleagues forward me the occasional DHH tweet from time to time, whenever he mentions Strada :)
Carriers have mapping independent of networks. Drivers keep personal GPS too. You would lose traffic and road conditions, I guess, but nothing proper trip planning wouldn't cover.
At first glance, this looks very cool!

On my queue at work coming up is to try to speed up our github action CI runs and I'll definitely take a look at this. Our runs aren't particularly slow by most standards (about 4 minutes), but I would really love to make them much faster. I'm not sure if 1 minute would be possible, but one can dream ;-). But I figure if I can run our test suite on my macbook air m2 in about a minute, I don't see why it's not possible to get my CI near that without spending a fortune. I feel like so much time is wasted in our GHA workflows by downloading the same container images and dependencies over and over. Anecdotally, I also find the GHA hosted runners to sometimes have huge performance swings, where some runs are 25-50% slower for no apparent reason (although time of day seems to affect it). I'm thinking running on EC2 might help with that too.

I've considered some of the third party hosted runners (e.g. buildjet), but didn't love the idea of trusting them with our code base. On the other hand, I looked at some of the projects for running self-hosted gha runners and they seemed like they could require a decent amount of "babysitting", and I didn't see any that supported persistent disks.

Just out of curiosity, can you explain how the persistent disks work in a little more detail? Does it work something like the following:

1. Create EC2 Instance for Runner #1

2. Create new EBS volume and attach it to Runner #1

3. Runner #1 shuts down due to inactivity and EBS volume is detached.

4. Create EC2 Instance For Runner #1 (or does it just stop/start an existing instance?)

5. Attach existing EBS volume created in step #2

Assuming you had multiple runners, would it check for an unattached EBS volume first before trying to create a new one?

Another question I had, do you manage the AMI that the runner uses? Is it the latest ubuntu like GHA uses?
People roamed the streets killing undesirables during the cultural revolution. In a quick check death estimates range from 500k to 2 million. Never mind the forced oppression of the "old ways" that really doesn't have any comparison in modern Western culture.

Or in other words: your comparison is more than a little hysterical. Indeed, I would say that comparing some changes in cultural attitudes and taboos to a violent campaign in which a great many people died to be huge offensive and quite frankly disgusting.
Ran across this recently upon finding that time trial bicycles don’t really aim to be lightweight, only aerodynamic. When you’re cycling on flat ground, wind resistance is the greatest drag. (Pun intended.)
Now ban every other company from doing it too
Given that there are some so-called Twitter / X alternatives and options to choose from like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky and are now open for registration, we can now see which platform the most users will choose to go to if a major destructive change happens on X.

Once that happens we now wait for the platform that has the most sign ups.
That would only work if Bluesky stays the only significant network node. Which is _possible_, but we haven't seen it with, say, Mastodon. Google Chat was arguably a bit of a special case; vast majority of users never used federation at all, whereas any Bluesky user will, pretty much, just by naturally using Bluesky.
Marble (GL-B3000) / a Router That Reflects Your Flair
The funny thing is, a casual viewer might be more interested in the ads/promoted products because they’re bored and looking for something to do.

On a certain movie/show, you can’t be bothered to divert your attention: you’re committed to the show.
GK Chesterton on Tradition
… and if not, what the heck is the business model here?
It's very raw right now. Any suggestions or feature requests would be great. Thanks.
This is how Jesus is described in Islam: "I saw Jesus, a man of medium height and moderate complexion inclined to the red and white colors and of lank hair"

Try that prompt in various models (remove the part saying it's Jesus) and see what comes out.
Yes, literally every time this comes up, people who never click "don't show this" keep posting "recommendations don't work", which does nothing more than reveal that they actually DO watch really basic videos.

Even if you would watch things like that, you can STILL just say "never show this channel". You should review your feed periodically, imagining you are at a trial, being asked "why didn't you eliminate this feed from your life? was it really helping you?" If not, just nuke it by banning that source. You won't regret it.

Shorts are another story - the org behind that does NOT care about letting you keep yourself clean from memetic trash, and has been given the right to pollute the YT feed. My policy there is "not even once; resist watching them and definitely never let a short automatically transition you to the next video; have some self-respect."
> (how do the inuit do it? perhaps their diet has enough vitamin d even without sun?)

Two parts:

First, they're not exposing their skin to the sun. There's no reason to have paler skin to get more UV if it's covered up most of the year.

Secondly, for the Inuit diet there are parts that are very Vitamin D rich... and there are still problems.

Vitamin D-rich marine Inuit diet and markers of inflammation – a population-based survey in Greenland https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709837/

> The traditional Inuit diet in Greenland consists mainly of fish and marine mammals, rich in vitamin D. Vitamin D has anti-inflammatory capacity but markers of inflammation have been found to be high in Inuit living on a marine diet

Vitamin D deficiency among northern Native Peoples: a real or apparent problem? - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417586/

> Vitamin D deficiency seems to be common among northern Native peoples, notably Inuit and Amerindians. It has usually been attributed to: (1) higher latitudes that prevent vitamin D synthesis most of the year; (2) darker skin that blocks solar UVB; and (3) fewer dietary sources of vitamin D. Although vitamin D levels are clearly lower among northern Natives, it is less clear that these lower levels indicate a deficiency. The above factors predate European contact, yet pre-Columbian skeletons show few signs of rickets—the most visible sign of vitamin D deficiency. Furthermore, because northern Natives have long inhabited high latitudes, natural selection should have progressively reduced their vitamin D requirements. There is in fact evidence that the Inuit have compensated for decreased production of vitamin D through increased conversion to its most active form and through receptors that bind more effectively. Thus, when diagnosing vitamin D deficiency in these populations, we should not use norms that were originally developed for European-descended populations who produce this vitamin more easily and have adapted accordingly.

Vitamin D intake by Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Arctic - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10260879/

> Vitamin D is an especially fascinating nutrient to study in people living in northern latitudes, where sun exposure is limited from nearly all day in summer to virtually no direct sun exposure in winter. This essential nutrient is naturally available from synthesis in the skin through the action of UVB solar rays or from a few natural sources such as fish fats. Vitamin D is responsible for enhancing many physiological processes related to maintaining Ca and P homeostasis, as well as for diverse hormone functions that are not completely understood.
the fermentation idea sounds interesting, and i can buy it to some degree, there's never one magic switch when it comes to evolution, there's always multitudes.

> The problem with this theory is that the earliest evidence places the use of fire at approximately 1.5 million years ago — significantly later than the development of the hominid brain.

but this, isn't really a problem. evidence != truth, its always pushed back upon new findings, and its sensible to assume we will never know the true date, but we will definitely know it was earlier than our best evidence.

nonetheless, that million year difference is a whammy. that's a lot of time for divergence and development of just a single organ.
Rare to find a fellow ST4 user these days
Are you aware that millions of people were murdered during the actual cultural revolution? Honestly, are you aware of literally anything about the cultural revolution besides that it happened?

The Wall Street Journal, Washington Enquirer, Fox News, etc. are all just as allowed to freely publish whatever they wish as they ever were, there is not mass brutalization or violence being done against you, most people I live and work around are openly conservative/libertarian and suffer no consequences because of it, there are no struggle sessions. There is no 'Cleansing of the Class Ranks.' There are no show trials, forced suicides, etc. etc. etc.

Engaging in dishonest and ahistorical histrionics is unhelpful for everyone.
What's the story behind the melted h100? I've been having down clocking issues when using fp8 because of thermals as well.
Columbia is known for incredibly good lifetime warranty- contact them and get something that works for free.

I use mostly Columbia gear for some pretty serious outdoor adventures, and generally consider their waterproof tech, especially outdry rain shells to be the best you can get at any price. However, I don't (and wouldn't) use any of their footwear.

For waterproof footwear, breathable membranes don't work well in my experience, they quickly tear and leak. The membranes are just too delicate for the forces and flexing on a boot. A really well built traditional leather boot with external waterproofing like Sno Seal applied daily is both more breathable, and more waterproof. Failing that, heavy rubber boots like commercial fisherman wear are really the only totally waterproof footwear.
> push it out from the lander

Selfie stick sounds simpler.
The Orexin/Hypocretin System Orchestrates Adaptation to Stress
White flight in 60's/70's being just about White people want to get away from black people is hard to credit.

White people were living in cities close to Black people for a long time - they suddenly decided they didn't like it?

If the answer is that they suddenly started allowing Black people to buy next to White people then how would moving to the suburbs help? I mean, we can no longer redline in the city but when can still redline in the suburb county?

I don't want to overstate it - some part of it clearly had to do with not wanting to live next to Black people. Some part was clearly not caring for the riots happening contemporaneously. I just think there was more going on.

I've talked to my Dad about house buying in that period in the past and he mentioned places in the city that they almost bought (generally he talks about one place in the city ruefully as it's price doubled after every sale) and the places in the suburbs that they ultimately did purchase. If they settled on a detached house with a yard in the suburbs because there were only white people in the neighborhood (which was largely though not entirely true when I grew up ) he (obviously I suppose) never mentioned that. The main impression I did get was that he valued detached and yard so highly that the places they did buy seemed very cheap.

I'm living in a row home in the city and I can sort of see how he must have felt. I don't really want those things that badly but the places in the city that are detached with a yard are out of my price range. A reasonable price for that - especially if the things you get from living close to city center didn't catch my fancy - would be very compelling.
I don't know what nonsense you're talking about with being native, but I was born and raised here, same as my parents. I'm as native as anyone else that was born here.
And what about me being too white to be in a tribe? This is the United States of America, ma'am, and we don't have tribes.
Unless you mean that the only "natives" of our country don't belong to our country at all but live in third world "tribes" in ghettos. Well, I wouldn't know about them, as I'm American.

Also, why are you improperly capitalizing random words? It's rather weird, and not conducive to a productive conversation.
Bluesky is starting to look like an elaborate reboot of Mastodon with a fancy username redirect, but I'm guessing its technical aspects, while those are series of great achievements, were not the crucial part to its success so far; the part that worked was community building.

Nostr worked to some extent despite existence of Mastodon because Mastodon bodged that part. Mastodon took off because Twitter broke its community. Bluesky's successes is really making me feel that the first S of the abbreviation S.N.S. do stand for what it stands.
>How is it someone who is so out of touch with the end user in position to make these decisions?

Maybe it's the same team behind Tensorflow? Google tends to like taking the "we know better than users" approach to the design of their software libraries, maybe that's finally leaked into their AI product design.
No GPS? That doesn't take an Internet connection.

Unless you mean the first fix took longer due to not having current AGPS info downloaded.
Anyone know if it is good enough to run Visual Studio?
> The leaderboard has many open 7B and 13B models that are comparable with 72B models: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

I follow your posts and comments here so I'm surprised you say that. The leaderboard at this point is pretty pointless. Lots of ways to "cheat" and get higher ranking there.

I do agree that smaller models have made significant progress, but somethings you can't just solve without adding #parameters and FLOPs. Not to mention, ctx_window is an important factor in code quality, but most OSS models (including llama 2) have pretty limited ctx, despite methods like grp and yarn.
Unfortunately they declared they didn't have moderation bandwidth to maintain it as an official channel, and then apparently moved to Discord :(
The authors of the metric found some cases where it works better is not the same thing as it being widely considered to be better. When it comes to typical video compression and scaling artifacts VMAF does really well. To prove something is better than VMAF on video compression it should be compared on datasets like MCL-V, BVI-HD, CC-HD, CC-HDDO, SHVC, IVP, VQEGHD3 and so on (and of course Netflix Public).

TID2013 for example is an image dataset with many artifacts completely unrelated to compression and scaling.

- Additive Gaussian noise
- Additive noise in color components is more intensive than additive noise in the luminance component
- Spatially correlated noise
- Masked noise
- High frequency noise
- Impulse noise
- Quantization noise
- Gaussian blur
- Image denoising
- JPEG compression
- JPEG2000 compression
- JPEG transmission errors
- JPEG2000 transmission errors
- Non eccentricity pattern noise
- Local block-wise distortions of different intensity
- Mean shift (intensity shift)
- Contrast change
- Change of color saturation
- Multiplicative Gaussian noise
- Comfort noise
- Lossy compression of noisy images
- Image color quantization with dither
- Chromatic aberrations
- Sparse sampling and reconstruction

Doing better on TID2013 is not really an indication of doing better on a video compression and scaling dataset (or being more useful for making decisions for video compression and streaming).
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There is a form of moderation on the main instance.

A self hosted instance will have no such moderation.
It started as notation and grew into a language. The language retained the notation and so we get the special symbols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#His...
I suspect they're paying to avoid any future lawsuits or changes in the laws. Realistically they only need to scrape Reddit once, because the vast majority of useful training data will be years in the past.

If this deal lasts for more than a year I'll be shocked, and like you wonder even more just what the hell they're buying.
I agree...

Except for the leaderboard. Its all but useless, not just because of the data contamination/cheating but because the benchmarks themselves are flawed. They are full of ambiguity/errors, and they dont even use instruct formatting.
No source code? For a terminal?! Fuck no. In the trash this goes. Permanently not ever giving this a second look.
I've seen APL in use in industry for industrial simulation tools. I thought it was a pretty cool technical decision because of how good APL is at exactly the kind of vector math they were doing (I even offered to join their team just for a chance to learn APL.) Unfortunately, they were a little too excited about APL and went and built a bunch of APL GUIs on top of their simulations, which were giving them huge maintenance headaches.
I quickly skimmed through it but great detailed article, and love the excessive use of emojis, not the typical boring wall of texts!
I learned a trick from Clojure that helps with this (they call them rich comments).

You never type into the REPL but include comment sections across your programs where you write code as it's intended to be used/executed and then use key bindings to highlight/run in your REPL.

This allows you write several lines and highlight them in order to run them.
Arm Neoverse Roadmap Brings CPU Designs, but No Big Fat GPU
Which is bad, from a consumer protection perspective.

The retailer should absolutely be on the hook. They are the ones with a working relationship with the manufacturer, and hence are best positioned to be able to hold the manufacturer accountable.

As an Australian who lives in the US atm, they are right to be grateful for the ACCC (consumer protection watchdog). I certainly am now. In the US you have to rely on retailers who treat good consumer protection as a competitive advantage like Costco, REI, Best Buy, sometimes Amazon, etc. In Australia you can easily hold any retailer accountable (and they’re all just generally better behaved with this stuff anyway, so you rarely have to force them).
I would not say it's not about the quality of education at all - it's not hugely better than state universities but definitely not worse. I firmly believe I could not have received a better education anywhere else (except maybe even better institutions like MIT or Stanford).

As an individual, my decision then is: do I want to choose a place that sets me up for a high paying job and with connections I can rely on for life, and does not take my money for it, while also not having any downsides (that I can see) compared to a state university? Choosing a school for these reasons seems like the most rational choice anyone could make in that scenario.

Please correct me if I am misunderstanding your argument.
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VZW doesn't have dead zones on 101 in the Bay Area, in my experience.
I've found that GPT4 (via GitHub Copilot) and Gemini models are better at code tasks like reviewing for logical and functional errors, reasoning about structure and test/edge cases, and refactoring. Gemini is capable of devouring some very large files I've thrown at it.

Phind at times is hampered by whatever it is they're doing in addition (RAG?). It is still phenomenal, though. I regularly find myself using Phind to grok assembly code or learn Typescript.
Also, having a garage is to be in a privileged position, not exactly rags. It means you can afford a car (first barrier), you can afford a covered structure to park your car (second barrier), you can afford to use your garage as a hobby space (third barrier).

It's somewhat normal for the average American, but not anywhere else in the world.
Temperature drop, and shift of wind too. Amazing to experience the solar radiation difference directly. And the brightest stars, and planets, coming out.
Diseased worldview
I got a marketing email from GL-iNet about their "Marble" router that integrates with a picture frame. Great idea IMO. Even if you don't want to put pictures of your favorite cat, it could still be pragmatic to have the wifi SSID / password printed out in nice big readable text, or a captive portal QR code.
I understand this, yet, when presented with exactly this, the response was "well what about EEE."
>Are you aware that millions of people were murdered during the actual cultural revolution

Are you aware that the cultural revolution didn't start with this? No successful movement starts with "let's go murder a bunch of our fellow countrymen"; it gradually builds up to it.