skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though the headline is sadly correct, the article is about a study that is random crap that doesn't speak to the well-known issue.
lastgen A6000 is about 5k
Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop
Same here, but I have my caps lock an esc when I tap it and windows key when I hold it (I use it for my window manager). I have z and / as ctrl when I hold them.

What kind of hardware are you on? I'm on an ErgoDox Ez
Yeah it's all shenanogigangs all the way down if you dig about out it
The original Roman calendar was based on lunar-solar calendars, and they don't line up with a solar year, because a moon cycle is 29.5 days, not 28. The Jewish calendar is one such calendar. It's why Jewish holidays vary so much. Some Christian holidays are based around moon cycles, like Easter. All lunar-solar calendars get around this problem by adding an extra month every few years.
You sound like one of those guys who can’t figure out why he gets speeding tickets when everyone else gets a warning.
I use it daily to work in + watch movies.
plot armor

noun

used to refer to the phenomenon in fiction whereby the main character is allowed to survive dangerous situations because they are needed for the plot to continue.
Oh. They're not going to raise prices when demand is high. They're going to raise prices and then discount them when demand is low.
> 24x365 at sub 0.05 USD/kWh

https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

If you average the low and high estimate, onshore wind is almost exactly 50USD/MWh, and nothing else is that cheap.

(Yes, you said batteries and 24×365. But the "24×365 capable" fossil sources are nowhere near 50USD/MWh either. And power consumption is not flat across days, the week, and seasons. Particularly solar can be predicted and worked with in adjusting load to match availability.)
Their launch review process is anything but strict. Google makes awful launch decisions all the time. The culture is one of launching rather than launching something good, and there's no individual accountability for anything, as evidenced by Sundar's email.
I'm moving my domain name and personal site off Netlify (already deleted the sites, DNS transfer requested), probably moving to Cloudflare pages.

It may only move a few MB a month, but I just can't risk if I put anything more substantial there that I might get hit with a bill for $100k and you maybe will forgive it. And that this has apparently been policy for nearly a decade makes it even worse.
The paper talks about LLMs a lot, but would this result hold for all Transformers? Are Ternary Transformers going to make things like Whisper faster/better?
a lot of the true AI value is context window size limited, not compute limited.
Why do we screw over researchers who make innovative discoveries in industry too? Employers own employees, that's the business model everywhere. This outrage about academia is maybe ok on its own, but academia is for the public benefit, that's why you work there in the first place. Meanwhile, inventors get squat for their patents in commercial enterprises whose entire mission is monetizing work.
Aren’t device drivers compiled into the Linux kernel?

I would think that support alone would be worth more than 1.2B dollars in collective time spent ironing that out. I don’t really know but I am thinking their estimate is rather low for the cost to reproduce the Linux kernel.

Edit: missed the link to a paper for the estimate.
Women incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals their whole lives due to pregnancy
The lists are interesting. I would not have considered canned beans to be "processed" in a way that would be worrying. And why is frozen meat "unprocessed" but packaged meat is "ultra processed"?
> This is tragic but it's noteworthy because it is NOT the norm. Unlike, say, what's going on in Ukraine with frequent missile strikes into arbitrary civilian areas.

Let's not dismiss the propaganda factor here.

No one caring about their livelihood in the west will ever be digging too deep into US/NATO totally-not-war-crimes-just-collateral-shit-happens-you-know, as well as no one will be arguing Russia's case the same way Ukraine's attacks over Belgorod Region and office buildings in Moscow are excused with "this missile/drone was on its way to a military target, but was shot down over civilians heads by air defense".

Assange's case is a very illustrative example what happens when something gets loud enough to actually matter and disrupt the image of righteousness.
She was mainly fired for not withdrawing a paper when it was requested by a leader in research (the leader who asked for this had no research background and asked for a retraction, which doesn't make sense because the paper hadn't been published yet). But there were other important factors; for example, she attacked other googlers (prominent ones working on LLMs) on internally public mailing lists (about woke things). Realistically, the world would have been better off if she hadn't been hired in the first place because she was always going to eventually have a conflict with leadership over publishing works like this. I think she would have done much better to become a professor at some liberal university where she would be free to publish her work.

I kind of wish the stochastic parrots paper had focused entirely on stochastic parrots, and not on energy consumption. In my opinion, Google has actually been a responsible steward of energy usage (way ahead of everybody else for at least a decade), and ML isn't really the source of most of the energy consumption in computing anyway.
(when shot out of a gun).
>> The percentage of cobalt in modern lithium ion batteries (ie: tesla/panasonic's nmc-811 cells) <<

Tesla uses Panasonic's NCA-9 mostly for North America; LG's NCM811 for Europe/China. Recycling nickel-based batteries are already profitable[1].

[1] Financial viability of electric vehicle lithium-ion battery recyclingVolume 24, Issue 7, 23 July 2021, 102787, Journal home page for iScience
Of course we do, but imagine your a local farmer losing money on sheep production, you could normally at least have side income. Not it’s illegal
I remember watching streaming video on the real player on a 56k modem. It was a complete joke but you could envision things getting much better.

Is it fair to say TV broadcasters/production professionals were in danger of losing their jobs in that moment? Kind of, but TV broadcasters/production professionals were also the people in the best position to take advantage of the new advances.

Of course, that was predicated on being open to change and not clinging to the past.

Surely, anyone on HN talking about AI right now is in good shape.

We are inside the bubble. There is a huge % of even young people who have no interest in any of this. It is like 50% of 18-29yo haven't even used chatGPT themselves in the US.
I have said two examples: mod-ui: https://github.com/moddevices/mod-ui/issues/145#issue-203423... and Yocto, no link for that.

Installing multiple versions of Python? You have got to be kidding. But I did try that. I cannot remember the details, all I remember was the inability (a software hellscape) to get a system that had to be built with one version of Python to play well with a package that had to be built with a later version.

It is 2024, what have they learnt? Just keep backward compatibility, it is not that hard.
As opposed to just negligently allowing it from the outside?

Netlify still looks terrible here.
Yeah, that’s what I originally posted. So why are you disagreeing with me when you said:

> A character’s explained powers saving them isn’t plot armour, it’s just armour.
It sure seems likely that it would convert a transducer into a transdonter, doesn't it?
Right next to the headline it says:

> The discovery may help shed light on how prehistoric societies treated children with rare conditions.

I apologize if I mis-summarized that, but this is what I was trying to convey.. Some commenters there said similar things to what I did. The sub heading feels like bait and switch.

I guess "may" is doing a lot here... Like you said, a future hope based on a new ability to identify.
> Support for RP2040 is good,

I've done a fair bit of stuff with embedded Rust and the main reason for this is manufacturer documentation. The RP2040 is really in its own tier of documentation quality, nothing comes close. Other chipsets are so bad that the Rust SVD codegen has a way for maintainers to fix errata.

I've concluded that I'm only going to use RP2040s going forward.
> Don’t shoot if you aren’t sure you’ll kill the animal.

Nobody can guarantee they will kill an animal with any given shot from a rifle or bow. Nobody. That you think this is a remotely reasonable position makes me wonder if you've ever hunted, or fired a weapon at a (potentially) moving target before.
I'd hardly call it a 'mission' to truthfully say that third world countries are struggling with much bigger issues than emissions...and that they are also the worst offenders when it comes to pollution.

These countries may have some small successful projects, but as a whole, most of their citizens are burning whatever they can get their hands on to stay alive, and living in garbage piles. They're not doing higher-level thinking about large-scale green energy projects because they're still in basic human survival mode, and they're being kept there by oppressive dictators and regimes.

It is a crutch of Western society, and a saccharine statement of moral superiority, that we feel we must make the world a better place for everyone. We should demand the same effort from every other country on the planet.

If we keep hand-holding these countries, giving them access to cheaper infrastructure and technology while turning a blind eye to their subversion of Western society, their oppressive regimes and refusing to hold them accountable for their impact on the planet, then we will condemn them to the pitiful state they're in by assuming they can't do any better - while we prostrate ourselves doing everything we possibly can, and yet never reaching the goals we set.
Welcome to the Future of Television
I understand the "clean room" reason behind avoiding tainting one's mind, but in court how do people distinguish plagiarism from "convergent evolution"?
Because by making the model larger you don't need 64bit precision floats you only need 64 discrete bits.
I've heard $5B+ estimates for development costs for fuchsia and it's barely made a dent on the market.

The goodness of a kernel is somewhat determined by how much people decide to use it.
That’s really interesting to see the breadcrumb trail goes back that far.

So what are the most important insights in this paper compared to what was previously done?

I assume there’s more context to the story and it’s not just that no one thought to apply the concepts to LLM’s until now?
"The law specifies that you had be operating a bakery that sells bread on the premises as of Sept 15, 2023 in order to qualify for the exemption."
MathCad works this way also, IIRC.
A Bassmaster Pro Is Using Augmented Reality Glasses for LiveScoping
I would love to integrate llava in the future!
Contacting a local organization is mostly finding their website to figure out how they train and approve ATCs.

Years ago, the region I was part of had a progression training where you had to read materials, shadow an active ATC for an X number of hours and then take a test. This was for each ATC level - you started as Ground, then Tower, Approach and Departures, and so on. For each level there was reading material, shadowing, and a test. It was quite demanding but very rewarding.
I enjoyed reading this! Take a problem, in a controlled environment, start with the simple implementation, iterate, and compare results.
I once lost track of a coworker at a coffee shop and eventually found her sitting on the floor under the bar spraying a tank of whipped cream into her mouth. It had been a long day.
Perl

Lisp

Guile

Lua

The world is full of scripting languages. I am really only familiar with Perl - but Perl 5 programmes I wrote in 1997 run today.

There is actually not a lot special about Python. It is a scripting language. Any vaguely modern (post 1990) scripting language would have all the qualities you attribute to Python.

What is special about Python is the Python central committee does not care of your code does not run, and many package maintainers write code that takes 2G to do what we once did in 40k.

Why should they care? It seems only I care.

I have seen this cost real money. It has cost me, personally, real money. Not to get too technical, but it is shit.
In Canada, and I’m sure elsewhere, you simply stay away from anything labelled “Frozen Dessert.”

There’s still a lot of positively phenomenal ice cream brands and varieties available here. But there’s a lot of that garbage too. This edible oil residue that somehow holds its shape even once it has melted.
I’m guessing it was just the author, but as someone who has done portraits in a food production facility…it’s not easy. I was using off camera lights but finding a backdrop that isn’t insanely busy, balancing that with the terrible overhead lighting, and trying to get good expressions out of people when it’s so loud you need to wear ear muffs is portrait photography on very hard mode.
Thank you for the kind words. At the very least it would give me space to explore my experience and document it.
"On The Historically Racist Motivations Behind Minimum Wage"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-t...
Apparently there have been a ton of advances in reading ancient DNA that make a lot more than 5000 years possible. There is a fairly readable summary of it all in the form of a somewhat-dry book, "Who We Are and How We Got Here", by David Reich.
I really had no idea that it was not a very clear term.

I was wrong.

Golly, I learnt something!
Sending virtual hugs to your coworker!
I agree it isn't straightforward.

Some things can lead to benefits, without themselves being beneficial.

In psychology, diagnosis is sometimes like that. It can lead to treatment, accommodation, and funding, but the diagnosis on its own may not be beneficial, may cause harm through stigma, and may not be necessary to access the benefits.

The alternative: when possible, provide the benefits without labeling the person as disordered.
Fair point. Unfortunately, the lore says 200-300k years ago, which is enough time for information about it to cross the galaxy 2-3 times.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eightfold_Stars

Now, while it's quite away from the Federation, the system sits in or close to Romulan space, so it makes zero sense for it to be a mystery that only the secret police inside the secret police of the Romulan Star Empire knows about it. I mean, it's like suppressing the existence of Mount Everest from citizens of Nepal. I can't imagine how strong the intelligence/counterintelligence apparatus would have to be to actually pull it off, given most people in that country can probably see it with their bare eyes on most days.

(And of course this only matters for real-life telescopes; Star Trek sensors work FTL (except when it would have inconvenient consequences)).
Well what is interesting is not how well the aggregate does, but how much better it does than individuals. After all if individuals can predict stuff consistently then what does the prediction market add?
Reminds me of one of the top voted answers ever by the #1 ranked account on StackOverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479

Calendars and timezones are hard to program for when you're dealing across centuries of weird changes.
This is a relatively similar architecture to that we are building at Evidence.dev (open-source data viz framework)

Architecture: https://evidence.dev/blog/why-we-built-usql/

1. Query SQL databases, APIs, or local data (eg CSV)

2. Compile all the data sources into Parquet files

3. DuckDB-WASM in the browser that allows you to aggregate across sources

4. Users write code in DuckDB SQL and Markdown, enriched with viz components (built in Svelte)

Some things that we have learned in the process:

- It can be pretty performant up to about 20M rows of data in the parquet files,

- Above a certain level, for speed, it's helpful to sort your data in your parquet files to take advantage of DuckDB's predicate pushdown

- It's helpful to map DB types into a smaller set of Arrow types when you convert to Parquet - otherwise you have to consider a lot of different cases in the browser when you render in JS

- DuckDB-WASM still has some rough edges, though is improving fast
Yes? Customers should definitely hold their suppliers responsible for features of the product the customers care about. But what does have to do with labeling requirements?

Eg patrons should hold restaurants accountable for the taste of the food, even (and especially because) taste is subjective. But that doesn't mean that we should try to shoehorn subjective taste into mandatory labeling requirements.
For the reference, Ukrainian Orthodox Church got the memo and switched to Revised Julian calendar as recently as last year. Calendars and timezones are still politcs.
“You” as in general, not “you” specifically.

I don’t have anything against anyone trying. One class of skills involving the consciousness is like that.
I assume all ads are vectors for malware, either for my software or wetware.

Facebook's business model is to make money off of providing the service. Why would they change it?
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Our sponsorship program has expanded and we now serve organizations of all mission types, including software, climate, and social movements. We sponsor over 1,500 organizations, most of them grassroots, and receive donations from funders including Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, and many others for them.

We've been helping many OCF groups that need a new fiscal sponsor, and 3 have transferred over already. For any groups reading this - we would be happy to work with you and continue supporting your work.

Please email me directly at zach@hackclub.com and I can connect you with the right person on our team.

There are two unique things about HCB that sets us apart: 1) we are software-enabled, with a custom Rails app for financial management, which offers dramatically better UX than most fiscal sponsors (there is a demo if you click the screenshot on https://hackclub.com/hcb/), including the ability to have physical spending cards, and 2) we are a nonprofit ourselves, and any excess fees go toward making HCB free for high school students and supporting their education.
It's an interesting topic.

The primary cause of Down syndrome is trisomy of chromosome 21, which is what you described. That form is not inherited. A much less common cause, mosaicism, is a random occurrence during cell division and isn't inherited either.

The only form that can be inherited (that we know of) is caused by translocation. Basically a piece of one chromosome can become switched with a piece of another chromosome. If no information is lost, that's a balanced translocation. Those usually still produce a normal phenotype. When the balanced translocation is passed down a generation, it can lose information or pick up extra information and become unbalanced. If the extra information is from chromosome 21, that can become Down syndrome. That's a simplistic explanation, but should do the job.
I reported an ad that was so obviously a deep fake and Facebook said there's nothing wrong with the ad. I guess AI is already favoring AI generated scams. :)
The mega tech corporations are still developing. Gibsons vision can still come true.
Usually sentencing judges can offer a choice to agree to some novel restriction or face the codified penalty, as far as I know.

Not sure granting the judiciary carte blanche to make up their own punishments is the best idea.
Autonomous Sales Inbox and CRM Assistant
Not OP but I can share...

At KPAO the main thing to know is 1) on departure turn 10 degrees right after clearing runway for noise, and 2) they will often extend the pattern for more space when it gets busy. On the departure/upwind leg, they may extend you to the train bridge or the auto bridge (Dumbarton bridge) before you turn crosswind. On your downwind leg, they may extend you to the amphitheatre, which is the white tent looking thing near Google. This actually runs into KNUQ (Moffet) airspace but the controllers coordinate this so it's fine. And don't extend unless they tell you!

For KSQL, new pilots mostly get tripped upon the departure procedures. You can fly the Hillsdale departure, Oracle departure, Coyote Hills departure, or Woodside departure. KSQL is a short hop from KSFO and under their jet approach, so the procedures are intended to create more predictable incoming/outgoing traffic. Annoyingly, these departures are not charted and instead published as part of the "voluntary noise abatement procedures" by the airport. You can read them here (PDF) https://www.smcgov.org/media/57331

Both are great little GA airports. I learned to fly with West Valley Flying Club and wholeheartedly recommend them. Friendly pilots and a supportive community. If you have questions, just pop into their office and you're likely to find someone you can ask (and get stuck talking about airplanes for an hour :)).
Incredible how much he's milked being the PM for Chrome, which wasn't much more than a windows/linux wrapper for Webkit that stored your history on Google's servers.
> A business with no physical location is not practical in society.

That's an opinion, and my point is that I do not hold that opinion. It's only not practical because we make it impractical, not because any benefit is gained by forcing people to jump through hoops to set up and pay for virtual addresses.
A 65inch OLED isn't going to have DisplayPort input. Most laptops don't have DisplayPort output, just HDMI or type C which may or may not support DP Alt mode, and even then, that caps at 40gbps
I'm no expert, but this question seems similar to: "How is it that telecom companies cannot stop spam robo calls?"

The answer is: they can, but they have a financial incentive not to.

Surely somebody pays for those ads. If Facebook makes money from it, why should they prevent it?

Obviously it's bad for customers, so Facebook balances user outrage against the money they're making. I could see that calculus working out to be "a decent amount of outrage is acceptable."

So here you are, outraged (:
> Do we know how the order ultimately came about, and what it was originally based on? I don’t mean “because earlier alphabets had that order”, I mean an explanation in terms of the characters of the (earlier) alphabet themselves. I’m genuinely curious. I don’t remember having seen such an explanation.

It is still a matter of debate, however the order in which Proto-Sinaic scripts and the Phoenician alphabets laid letters out is thought to have been based on the acrophonic principle, where the first sound of the word that represented the object or concept depicted by the letter determined its place in the alphabet. Later alphabetic and abiguda writing systems have followed an earlier lead.

There have also been suggestions that it may have been influenced by the order of Egyptian hieroglyphic signs, whilst others propose that it could be based on a mnemonic sequence to make it easier to remember.

The short answer is that… we may never find out why it happened to be that way.
This is why pure communism is always a steaming pile as well. Who is going to fork it and feed and care for it? Sometimes projects succeed in the same way that road work eventually coalesces when a community needs a road, but many projects don't fit this mold and do much better with the drug dealer style of free for your first hit, then we charge you. Otherwise who is going to produce the stuff out of the wish to see a community do well without any benefit?