skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically despite Australia being a major producer of uranium, its current Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, constantly denigrates nuclear power [1]. But that's par for the course in Australian politics ("Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck").

1: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwit...
There's no such thing as working too hard. There's just being under rested
Inhomogeneity is always the thing that keeps these architectures from being successful, in the end. It's a premature optimization that seems like the right thing to do at any given moment. Then conditions change, you find out that FP32 isn't needed, and FP8 is ok... then 3 bits... then Trinary... all require new hardware.

Memory that computes directly, in as simple a model as possible is required. Imagine a huge grid of LUTs that just talk to their neighbors, and I believe, you've got an approach that can work for almost any compute task.
While everyone on HN is hyperventilating about DEI crap, the malfunction Pichai is most likely referencing is Gemini AI calling Modi a fascist. [0].

A Union Minister has already gave a veiled threat that Google broke Indian Telecom Laws [1] surrounding fake news.

It's election season in India and governments get very ban happy during this time (look at what happened to Amazon India in 2019)

Edit: Please don't make this an Indian politics flame war. The point is, a public company like Google is constrained by PR.

This is why OpenAI has been innovating so fast - they are private and don't have to answer to almost anybody

Public companies need to protect their brand, otherwise they lose out to similarly sized competitors (eg. Microsoft or Facebook)

[0] - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/googles-gemin...

[1] - https://twitter.com/Rajeev_GoI/status/1760910808773710038
It's a GoPro doing automatic white balance.
Reminds me of this, which I used back in the day when I was competitive on that site
https://www.hacker.org/hvm/
I don't think the tattoo ink they used on me was made in America. I doubt it.

All tattoo ink sold and used in Europe is regulated as per ResAP 2008:
https://rm.coe.int/16805d3dc4
Other than for entertainment purposes, who cares what a statistical analysis of English has to say about ethics?
Operation Atlantic Resolve – U.S. Government Activities Related to Ukraine [pdf]
Any thought on how this compares to Meltano and also their Singer SDK? We use it at $DAYJOB because it gives us a great hybrid of standardizing so we don’t have to treat it differently downstream while still letting us customize,
Emergefs: Serverless, object-oriented, computational file system for Python
That is correct. I think it's bad policy for the government to disallow voluntary transactions between private parties with no third party harm.
> Pretty sure most solar panels are also sourced from countries that are not aligned with western values

That's purely a pricing reason, and a bit of a "let's outsource the environmental pollution to China" as well (anything involving silicon tends to use quite nasty chemicals, there's a reason like half the Silicon Valley is a Superfund site). Germany for example used to be the worldwide leader in manufacturing solar panels thanks to a massive subsidy program that kickstarted the industry.

Should China decide to cut us off, it's trivial to establish domestic production again - essentially, a solar panel is a bunch of decently purified sand. That stuff is available everywhere on the planet, unlike gas, oil or uranium.

> while Australia is one of the largest producers of Uranium ore and nuclear powerplants are built locally.

It took the US almost two years to ban the import of Russian uranium [1] despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Besides, Australia and Canada are the only two stable, clearly Western-allied democracies out of the 10 top uranium producers and only account for ~18% of worldwide production. The rest is either too neutral for my taste (Namibia, India), failed states (Niger), an active warzone (Ukraine) or some sort of autocracy (the rest). With these circumstances alone, it's beyond foolish to rely on nuclear.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-passes-bill-bannin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
On the other hand, I did remember from school that January was named after Janus, the two faced Roman god of beginnings, so explaining the year started in March might have resulted in more questions than answers!
While I don't find dream interpretation too useful, I do find that merely recording one's dreams in a dream journal yields considerably more lucid dreams than otherwise. In fact, this is one of the core ways to induce lucid dreams in the first place.
They got so high that they ended up in space.
I can understand how that would make things more explicit - but given how common nullability is in the realm of databases I think it'd be a bad idea to force that much syntax in a situation where id=id is essentially what we want to discuss - especially since columns becoming potentially null is so trivial to achieve (even when impossible due to model constraints) as soon as you start throwing left joins in the mix.
How badly does this guy have to fail before he gets the boot? Google is an embarrassment in areas it should be excelling and leading the industry at. They _invented_ transformers.
TBF the books kind of make it fairly clear that Wonka is a scam artist, so this event is on brand, kind of.
As far as I can see there's no need to re-encrypt the signal - just leave it as a non-HDCP stream?

There are HDMI splitters which silently strip HDCP to output to two screens at once - they don't advertise this feature but they do it anyway in order to function. In order to achieve the overlay you'd just need one of these and then a non-HDCP-aware overlay apparatus before the display.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VIDEOENGINEERING/comments/xme482/hd...
Plebbit: Decentralized Social Media
Can processor perform addition on them effectively?
They're one of two shrimp associated with the tapping noise, so it's an easy mistake.

You usually have to special-order mantis shrimp. It's easy to accidentally get a pistol shrimp when you asked for a peppermint; they look similar.
I'm surprised their LLMs passed the strict Google launch review process, how do you test something that gives a random response every time you query it?
Reminds me of the guy who pranked his roommate with Facebook ads targeted to an audience of one: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
Azure appinsights logs
Apparently they were renamed (from the no longer accurate Quintilius and Sextilius). Why they didn't get around to renaming the other numerical months, I don't know...
Tuxedo Computers
In theory, but I think it's common for devices to only enable it on HDMI ports.
> You're not changing anything as one small European country.

An amazing example of the tragedy of the commons, thank you.
In theory, nobody should, it would be ridiculous. The answer to your question is: lots of people today, probably even more tomorrow.
> The smallest distance in relation to the target set for SDG 7 can be observed for Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Austria. By far the greatest progress in period 2010–2021 has been achieved by Malta, and significant for Cyprus, Latvia, Belgium, Ireland, and Poland.

Surprised not to see France on this list with all their nuclear power, though from glancing at this they seem to be using some aggregated measure instead of just CO2 which probably makes it much more complicated.
Take incoming energy and make antimatter. Store for use outside of the sphere. That will be my premise for the book I am writing. ;)
The QUIC Protocol in D [video]
Air pollution is not the same thing as what you’re discussing. Generally speaking, yes, we should probably expect them to use renewables because renewables are gradually cheaper than fuels.
A game like Rogue.

Slightly less obtusely, it usually was a procedurally generated dungeon-crawler with potions and scrolls and varied weapons to use against varied mobs. When you died, you were dead. Your character began each time with no knowledge and had to learn what a "cloudy red potion" happens to be this time around by drinking it or using an identify scroll.
If renewables are cheaper, then yes.

If the centralized power grid is poor quality (think South Africa) or there is poor quality central government, yes.
There’s nothing to “realise” because you just made that up.

It’s hilarious how you can be condescending and wrong.

“Isolationism” is completely different from not wanting the US to get entangled in Europe’s BS.
This will be big for FPGAs - adders are extremely cheap compared to multipliers and other DSP blocks.
"Github saddled with millions of garbage repositories in 15-year-long attack ..."
How's perf for the compiled queries? The first thing I see in the examples is what appears to be a CTE-by-default approach that, in most (all?) engines, means the generated query ultimately runs over an unindexed (and maybe materialized!) intermediary resultset.
>How the media industry keeps losing the future

click

(giant image) 2 sentences talking about some dude I've never heard of.

close

Huh. I wonder. I mean, obviously it wasn't the only nail in the coffin and they need money but I mostly see nytimes, Wired, BI, etc links and look for an archive link or just move on.

I'd value it more but half of the time they don't even do any actual reporting. It's just rewriting the same crap 5 other papers wrote from a 100 character release from the AP.

Yeah, I value quality, honest reporting. The problem is most of the time they all are in the same race to the bottom. I saw a video on youtube the other day from "Forbes Breaking News" titled "Biden's dog bit secret service agents on 24 different occasions".. WOW Forbes that's definitely breaking news! It's really important that we watch that RIGHT THIS MOMENT isn't it? Really important info there.

These "journalists" and their papers can whine all they want. The reality is they are out of touch and toxic. Yeah, you lost to comment sections because people can actually just read through them.

You also lost because half of the time when I see a tiktok or video on twitter about an event, it's from the source. Someone, on the scene, actually looking at what's happening. Then the bigs swarm on that person's DMs "CAN WE WRITE AN ARTICLE?!"

And as far as investigative journalism goes, youtube is full of people doing it 100x better than most of the crap I see these days in big orgs. Do I want to watch the 25min rundown of the whole situation from the perspective of some dude who spent the last 3 months researching with his team? Or do I want to read a 3000 word article that bloviates about irrelevant things while occasionally repeating the same factoid they based the whole piece on?

I'm just one person with a pretty cynical view of most things but my view is that news orgs lost because they dug their own graves. Because they continued to be out of touch and manipulative and wrong in so many cases that I stopped caring about whatever clickbait garbage they were trying to serve me.
Imagine having your mind so melted by politics that you’re supporting Boeing & Lockheed’s bullshit lobbying to get their revenue up.
Ask HN: LLM Rigs: What are people building?
What kind of Rigs are people building to finetune or host or run LLMs?
I’m a predator hunter and do most of my hunting at night. The reason they don’t want you using lights is that deer are mostly crepuscular creatures and so jacklighting them gives you a huge advantage. I see trophy bucks at night every time I’m out after coyotes - the same animals would be really hard to sneak up on during daylight hours, when their senses are more highly attenuated to avoiding threats.
Is this about the movie industry again?
Just browsing the web is enough to deliver enough metadata to RTBs to make correlations possible.
Are you suggesting #2 is sufficiently unlikely to occur naturally that it becomes a likely technosignature of an alien race whose programmers got so fed up with calendrical calculations that they megaengineered their planet’s rotation as a way of streamlining their datetime libraries?
Test Containers for Golang
Wow, translating it to English [1].

[1] https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20180522_00062344
Can AMD fork HDMI, add in driver support, and call it their own standard that just so happens to be compatible with HDMI?

I'm sure they wouldn't make such a move lightly, but is there something fundamental here about the laws or specifications that prevents them from doing this?
using what to "see"? naked eye? binocular aided? telescopes?

also, seen by who/what? for the only known living things that could see it, it would be the last thing they did see. so maybe as far away as a couple of inches?
AFAIK they intentionally inject randomness to reduce the effectiveness of jailbreaking.
The link you cited, says Gemini says: 'Modi has been "accused of implementing policies some experts have characterised as fascist"'.

Is this true? Or more specifically, is this issue here that Gemini is saying something that's accurate but that the Indian government doesn't like, or that no experts have characterised Modi as a Fascist and Gemini is saying something inaccurate?
Is it malfunctioning? Or is it just being generative AI? Maybe it's time people accept that generative AI is good at making shit up, and so we should just use it for that. Maybe we should stop pretending that "probabilistically predicting the next in a series of words" counts as intelligence.

I say, let the generative AI be racist. Let it hallucinate and come up with all kinds of crazy shit. And with that, stop using it for things that matter. Use it for art, entertainment, experiments, explorations. Use it to mine the depths of the human soul and reflect back at us what we are. Don't use it for law, health care, directions, or anything humans depend on. Acknowledge that it's just a stupid program with output that "looks impressive", and that we've all been fleeced into thinking it would be anything more. Regardless how many billions we sink into it, it only appears intelligent when we conceal how batshit crazy it can be.
It might be hard to justify the need for that software -- I don't think 501(c)3 orgs can do literally anything they want and keep their 501(c)3 status. The things they fund have to go towards a specific mission, and "putting more OSS into the world" might not be a valid mission (?).
True, plus not many devs are directly exposed to the problems and thus the will to fix the problem never has a chance to materialize.

One of the best-oiled teams I was in had devs and sysadmins work together closely. If Jim made a huge Python mess out of its small throwaway project (that the CEO needed because he wanted a nice chart for an investor meeting) that required several virtual environments and a particular (older) version of something then the sysadmin had the power to call him out and question his methods. While not many programmers appreciate that, those that do make for a more positive workplace IMO.

RE: idempotency / immutability in general, I heard about Nix many times but I have been put off every time I tried it: cutesy (and rather dumb) terminology like pills and flakes and such, a Haskell dialect the world really did not need, tight binding between things (forgot which at this point, sorry), and the list kept growing until I just gave up. With all their quirkiness and edge cases my scripts still beat the pants off of Nix for my own goals. I mean, pacman/yay have a flag that says "only install this package if not already installed" so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I really do want something like Nix (and no, not Guix either). Not only for packages -- for the entire system. I want to be able to plug an USB drive and issue a command that says "show me new devices plugged in the last 5 minutes, or last time I checked".

We don't have stuff like that. Or if we do, I am blissfully unaware of it. Can't we just start writing them and push their adoption? Every sysadmin team invents magic from scratch. Surely we can and should collectively do better...
Capacitor, a general purpose UI for Flux
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414641
> Second, as a person who is generally regarded as quick-witted and sharp, most of that sharpness comes from either having a few pre-known responses to ideas or anxiously revising situations in my head ahead of time. This is, generally, a bad thing because it means I have made decisions on how I will respond to things without all of the information (as some will come over during conversation).

I'd challenge that. I think that being both quick and sharp comes from having an accurate mental model of what kind of information is important for the decision. When new information comes in, you don't discount it, but you have an intuitive feel for how much it should affect your priors.

For example, say that your team works on a minor page of a major tech product, say something that only gets 0.1% of traffic. Your TL reports back that a change they made to an ads widget on the page drops conversions by 20%. The change was done in service of a visual design consistency effort across the company. Normally a drop in conversions by 20% would be an immediate no-go, but knowing that the page only gets 0.1% of traffic, you can run the math and figure this is a 0.02% decrease in revenue, almost imperceptible.

Now imagine that the news was that 3 other key products in the company are dropping the visual consistency effort. The right move here is probably to cancel the project, because if you go ahead with it but others don't, you actually make the consistency worse. You can't know that without knowing the context and reasoning behind the initial decision. Normally, when an unrelated product cancels a project, it doesn't matter to you.
It's still nonsense and devoid of meaning, and the nonsense has nothing to do with the unit presented or any simplification of that unit.

Sound pressure level measurements relate to the pressure at a point in space, and do not relate -- by themselves -- to the total sound energy being produced by a thing.

I can make an SPL measurement, in air, that is ~6dB higher or lower by halving or doubling (respectively) the distance betwixt the thing making the sound and the thing measuring the sound.

If a sound measures 100dB at a distance of 2 meters, then the same sound also measures 106dB at a distance of 1 meter, or 112dB at 0.5 meters, or 118dB at 0.25 meters.

A difference of 18dB is a difference of nearly two orders of magnitude.

The study says this fish made a sound at a level of 140dB at a measurement distance of one fish length of 12mm, in water.

To compare a 140dB fish-noise that to a the SPL of a gunshot, we'd first need to measure a gunshot -- in water -- at a distance of 12mm (or extrapolate for a larger distance).

And I have certainly not done this measurement myself, but I strongly suspect that the intensity of the gunshot will blow the noise of this fish out of the water in an an apples-to-apples comparison.
Lot of R&D, tech companies operate out of west. Improving tech in the west reduces the cost for the entire world.
F9 landing is not trivial, and despite all the comments on this thread trying to back up the claim this is the “first commercial spacecraft to land on US soil” ludicrous.
I'm sure uranium mining releases some CO2 - unless someone invents electric mining trucks (those things are just mammoth and drive slowly, maybe it can be made to work).

But a little bit of spicy rocks give off such a ridiculous bounty of 24/7 energy that it's just a no-brainer.

We should do solar, wind, and nuclear; in the meantime we can replace a lot of coal and oil with the much cleaner natural gas.
The really dumb thing is that nobody wants to copy DVDs or Blu-Rays via HDMI anyways. It's much more convenient to decrypt the discs directly with tools like MakeMKV.

However, I suspect that isn't the real holdup here since DisplayPort also fully supports HDCP
Are any of these Real Time Bidding markets open to small companies or individuals? I'm curious to see what days exists for bidders.
"contraction axiom" for those looking to google
It doesn't matter.

The issue is Gemini AI spewed an answer that caused Google to enter Indian culture wars less than 30 days before national elections.

Most of the horrible crap that happens in India happens during this time of year, because Parliamentary elections are very high stakes.

Most companies want to stay out of these kinds of culture wars, and Google inadvertently entered one
Every big tech company needs a Steve Ballmer type of person to appreciate previous its engineering/design-minded CEOs.
Sure. I’m not sure if this is an adding-on comment or an objection.

Of course, in general ethical behavior also includes one’s own preparation, in this case practicing appropriately and making sure to only take a good shot. (Although, I don’t think I’m contradicting you here, actually I’m not really sure what you meant, sorry).
Agreed. I basically have no knowledge of what's happening within 30 min of me while world news is everywhere. I also agree that world news is mostly useless. Why do I care about most of it? How will it ever affect me? But it gives them infinite stories to write to make more clickbait so we'll click on their site and either see ads or pay for access. They dug their own graves.
Harvesting energy is a misnomer, what we want is the syntropy: the available work.

If we turned the Earth into a black body and used all Solar radiation to run computers or move stuff around at the theoretical limit, we'd still need the surrounding space to radiate off the heat as our cold well. So the temperature would be at whatever that equilibrium condition is, but wouldn't steadily increase. The equilibrium condition could be all over the place and would be largely determined by the composition of the atmosphere.

For the record I'm not in favor of paperclipping the planet like this. If anyone was wondering.
Yeah I'll even go a step further. Sometimes I feel it's actively psychologically harmful for a nonstop treadmill of very remote prescribed drama to piped into every citizen's head (election/israel/ukraine/etc).

Not to say those things don't matter at all, but I've noticed (take NPR for example) a huge bias toward negative news that is completely out of my control and often around political problems (as opposed to say scientific problems).
Renewable production is still rapidly increasing, and prices falling. At some point, you saturate the most profitable markets relative to production, and get a race to the bottom.

Worse off nations should benefit from the glut of cheaper panels from companies fighting to stay afloat, that are far cheaper than continuing to buy oil.
The funny thing is that for the images results it was hard to say if there was a manufactured result, an incidental one or completely nonexistent (ie. it's in people's minds). But in this case it's completely impossible to argue anything but an explicit instruction and comically explicit at that (by basically adding the desired result to the prompt). To be clear though this isn't a comment on weather search is being explicitly augmented in a similar way.
>“This wasn’t what we intended. We did not want Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group. And we did not want it to create inaccurate historical—or any other—images,”

The model seemed to respond exactly how it's been trained. The problem isn't technical. It's a cultural rot and the only fix is to get rid of the people rotting it. No amount of merge requests are going to fix this.
Another article here: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/02/28/how-panera-bread-du...

I wonder how successful Subway will be when they inevitably claim that they were selling bread before Sept 15th. I've never done it, but I'm 100% confident you can buy the bread they make... you just might have to pay for a veggie sub without the veggies.
Which minorities are those, exactly?