skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a speaker of a gendered language in a neighbourhood of a non-gendered ones: aside a few anecdotes nobody cares.
Dune: Part Two was actually scheduled for release end of last year, but got delayed due to the writers' strike. Maybe it hasn't changed afterall.
> Collection happens at central points shared by a few houses. So if you fuck it up, your neighbors will know.

> Collection happens through individual small trucks and the guy check the items and sort them directly into larger bins. If you made a mistake they will label it and leave it behind.

See, that's the key. In my area, we have compost, recycling and trash bins for each home. What you put in it is up to your moral compass. Nobody is checking or seeing what you put in there. If there was some peer pressure around that, things would change rather quickly, I'd imagine. Though I can't see such a system emerging in the states. People like to do their own thing, individually, and not be bothered with it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_ports
Some nations have fossil oil deposits, some nations have cool TLDs
You've got it exactly right, and the same technique works well for giving presentations.

Run through your slides in front of your rubber duck, as if they're the audience.

You want to program your brain to work like a soundboard - for topic X, say "Y". I find it helps me greatly to have these prebaked responses ready to go, and I get to choose when I'm talking whether I adlib entirely or just repeat the same script i trained.

Often even during the talk there would be times I'd feel out of it, distracted, or something else. Then you just do rote script until your brain recovers and you can be fully "on" again.

Finally, people LOVE hearing stories. So the more stories you can work into your answers or your presentation, people will stay engaged. This is a common thread from watching many very competent presenters at cons
There are a number of problems with increasing car utilization. They tend to prevent other forms of transport from co-existing as busy roads are not attractive to walk/cycle/scooter along. There's also the sizable amount of pollution from tire and break wear which is not solved by EVs (except electric scooters/bikes - they produce a negligible amount of tire particulates due to their reduced weight).

When you have increased car usage, there's also a demand for car parking and once you start assigning a large amount of space for car parking, you end up pushing facilities further apart. This means that more journeys then become impractical except via cars and the problems increase.
Stuff like this says a lot about the current state of Google search.
Would you mind cleaning up your script and open-sourcing it? It could be a sort of external component to many such projects...
It depends on the contract. Everyone thought Android and Car Play were a standard for cars, but nope GM went their own way with it.
I cancelled my Amazon account a few years ago for very similar reasons. But instead of seeking out a different amazon-like marketplace. I just started ordering the things I need directly from the manufacturer's websites.

Usually, the pricing is about the same it's about the same amount of time from placing the order to receiving it. Much of the time, shipping is still free. But even if it isn't that's a small price to pay, considering that I'm certain to get what I thought I was ordering rather than a counterfeit or substitution, and if there's a problem then it's much easier to get it resolved.
Do not blacklist. Whitelist instead. By default they should touch nothing at all.
this isn’t a europe vs u. s. issue. many cities in asia have lots of rail services. this is about high density cities vs medium/low density.
pretty funny to sell this since large portions of major AI systems are "not currently understood" by their authors or closest reviewers. They say it repeatedly in the actual published research.
In my somewhat uninformed opinion but based on experience, the decrease in model quality is inversely proportional to the explosion in userbase.
Well, it's an issue of double standards.

Nobody expects highways to make money or break even. Suggesting that a road have tolls is the quickest way to lose. However, transit is put in another group, for some reason.
Not really. A checkbox toggles between two binary states of a single option. A toggle switches between two different options.

UI design isn't simple. You can't just pick basic options. Getting it right takes a lot of effort.
Full disclosure I am head of product at Protect AI. To make this easier for everyone we have an open source tool (friendly licensing) called ModelScan https://github.com/protectai/modelscan/tree/main I wouldn't be shocked if they are using this under the hood, but all the best if they are!
For a bit more info on this type of attack: https://protectai.com/blog/announcing-modelscan
I'm sure it still exists, for some specialized legacy systems, but I was describing my first programming job in the 90s.
Hopefully, more suspicions will be confirmed with further episodes :)

Totally! Some decision-making forces in the market are 100% based on superficialities, ya know. The purpose of the show is to illustrate that. So engineers protect themselves from those shallow judgments. And learn how to get more offers because they understand the game better. Not like it, but learn it.

"Open to work is an anti-pattern" and "We only want candidates who have worked at Google" are equally shallow models some recruiters actually use. I wish it was all less biased.
LlamaEdge 0.4.0 Released: Multimodal LLM support, RAG assistant API and more
Easy. Time and incremental cost.

I live in a small city. I work a 8 minute drive, or 20 minute bus ride from my home. In the summer, I frequently walk. During the school year, I have to drive to get my kid to school and other events.

For distance trips, I frequently go to NYC for personal trips. I live in upstate NY and can quickly use Amtrak to get to NYC. The problem is, even though NYC has great transit, I can get to any single point in NYC faster and likely cheaper from upstate than most arbitrary points within NYC. I only take the train for Manhattan or overnight trips.

If you live in suburbia, forget it. Cycling is dangerous, and walking is time consuming with poor infrastructure in most places.
Huh, for some reason I thought that jan Misali created Toki Pona, based on the extensive videos they made about it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYLhuXt4HrQwIDV7FBkA...
I do hope so! I love Denis Villeneuve, but felt initially that Dune part one didn't live up to the standard I was used to from him. Mostly due to the structure and pacing.

But Villeneuve did explicitly intend this as a two-parter, and I've held on to the hope that it was all intentional and that his decisions will serve the films as a whole experience.
I absolutely loved the first film. I am very excited for the second part. I enjoy long movies, so having two parts is good.

One part of the first movie that sticks out to me is seeing their space ships for the first time. It was such a different style of space ship that it (plus the music) really struck me in the moment and stayed with me.
I have broadband wireless internet run by our provincial telco. The antenna on my roof accesses a tower about 10km away. It works in -40C weather just fine and has for years. Hardware is by Huawei (yeah I know, but my options are limited). I live in a rural area and other forms of internet (ADSL, cable) are out of the question.

I'm looking for alternatives because I am limited to 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up and pay extra per month after 100G of data. There are plans that can at most double those data rates but it starts getting expensive.
Slightly off topic, but I got tired of looking for a good weight training tracker, so instead I bought a notebook and a pencil and I've been using it for nearly two years. If I want to change up how I long my workouts, I just write them in a different way. I've changed how I log number of sets/reps, weight per set, etc, a few times and I've never had to re-program how the info is displayed. I log how I feel after the workout and use that and the weight from last session to guide what I'll be doing in the current session. I don't need a graph as I can clearly see the values going up or stagnating. I honestly feel like the analog process has helped me keep consistent. It's motivated me to get more notebooks to track stuff like household chores. Sometimes the best app is a piece of paper.
and I think your language skills are lacking, words can have multiple meanings with subtleties. I doubt you would get most of the general population to agree that a competitor knocking someone out of the running or forcing them to fundamentally change how they do things is not a disruption.

you can even see it in the wiki article you linked. They gave it a unique phrase (disruptive innovation) rather than just saying "disruption" followed by a mic drop.
Customers literally can't, because ISPs are not a competitive market, and customers have no means to change that.

Hell, my current ISP is literally written into my lease agreement. If I could vote with my wallet, I would.
I really wanted to like it, and the visuals were fantastic. But, I had no emotional reaction to the characters and feel like the plot was just flowing along without a reason for me to care. I gave it 30 minutes.
Tulum is a weird example, you can't really even walk from town to the beach. PDC, on the other hand. I agree with your general point.
If it’s real, it’s from a small model. Meanwhile, I just tried asking ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 similar questions, and despite ChatGPT having plenty of alignment tuning, neither version had any objection to them. There’s no trick; the larger models are just smart enough to differentiate this situation from situations where they actually shouldn’t give out last names. Those models may still get tricked in more complex test cases (either false positives like this one or false negatives like “jailbreaking” prompts), but my guess is that future models in turn will be resistant to those.

In other words, LLMs making stupid mistakes about safety is just a special case of LLMs making stupid mistakes in general. That’s essentially their fatal flaw, and it’s an open question how well it can be ameliorated, whether by scaling to even larger models or by making algorithmic improvements. But I don’t think there’s much about it that’s specific to alignment tuning.
Possibly, though these models have a tendency to just ignore the prompt, which is why there are "instruct" models that are finetuned to follow instructions.
Especially if the alternative is cold turkey, or a good old DT... All my heartfelt deep thanks to everyone who keeps digging for solutions, workarounds... anything that might help there.
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy invests in U.S. geothermal startup
Product Engineer Manifesto
There haven't been many good sci-fi films in the past decade though, especially if you think the Marvel cinematic universe is boring. Competition is thin.
> If you increase the capacity of the road system however that's accomplished and more people use it that's a win.

This ignores the cost/benefit of constructing more car infrastructure in heavily urbanized areas and the cost of owning a car for transportation. It ceases to be an economic multiplier when you compare it to cheaper alternatives. You are also painting car infrastructure as some sort of panacea, but it costs households a lot of money (almost 1/5th of their total income[1]) to use a car for transportation.

Not only are cars expensive, but their expense is inversely correlated with income (poor people spend more money on cars). In the USA we spend much more on transportation than in EU countries[2]. From the standpoint of the average American family, car infrastructure is much costlier than the alternatives.

1. https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Transportation-Economic-Trend...
2. https://www.itdp.org/2024/01/24/high-cost-transportation-uni...
The Clock That Made Power Grids Possible
Odd. I can't see why. I think we had 128 MB on that IRIX box, and I know I loaded a 1 million atom structure with copies of 2PLV (full capsid plus a bit more to get to a million.)

Each atom record has ~60 bytes (x, y, z, occupancy, bond list, resid, segid, atom name, plus higher-level structure information about secondary structure, connected fragments, etc.) We had our own display list, so another (x, y, z, r, color-index) per atom, giving 20 more bytes. We probably used a GL/OpenGL display list for the sphere, and immediate mode to render that display list for each point, so all-in-all about 100 bytes per atom, which just barely fits in 128 MB.

That was also all single-threaded, with a ~0.1 Hz frame rate. Again, in the 1990s.

I wanted to see what more recent projects have done. Google Scholar found "cellVIEW: a Tool for Illustrative and Multi-Scale Rendering of Large Biomolecular Datasets" (2017) at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747374/ which says

> The most widely known visualization softwares are: VMD [HDS96], Chimera [PGH04], Pymol [DeL02], PMV [S99], ePMV [JAG11]. These tools, however, are not designed to render a large number of atoms at interactive frame-rates and with full-atomic details (Van der Walls or CPK spherical representation). Megamol [GKM15] is a state-of-the-art prototyping and visualization framework designed for particle-based data and which currently outperforms any other molecular visualisation software or generic visualization frameworks such VTK/Paraview [SLM04]. The system is able to render up to 100 million atoms at 10 fps on commodity hardware, which represents, in terms of size, a large virus or a small bacterium.

Following that is a section on Related Work:

> With their new improvement they managed to obtain 3.6 fps in full HD resolution for 25 billion atoms on a NVidia GTX 580, while Lindow et al. managed to get around 3 fps for 10 billions atoms in HD resolution on a NVIDIA GTX 285. Le Muzic et al. [LMPSV14], introduced another technique for fast rendering of large particle-based datasets using the GPU rasterization pipeline instead. They were able to render up to 30 billions of atoms at 10 fps in full HD resolution on a NVidia GTX Titan

Checking up on VMD, in "Atomic detail visualization of photosynthetic membranes with GPU-accelerated ray tracing" from 2016:

> VMD has achieved direct-to-HMD rendering rates limited by the HMD display hardware (75 frames per second on Oculus Rift DK2) for moderate complexity scenes containing on the order of one million atoms, with direct lighting and a small number of ambient occlusion lighting samples.

Those citations are 6-7 years ago, which make me scratch my head wondering why ChimeraX can't handle a picornavirus.
Sadly, at least today, archive.is and archive.ph are not responding, so have no known options.
The first one was good enough for me to see 2/3 times in IMAX :)

The director literally made some of his other movies to prep for Dune.

Movies with dozens of Millions in budget were his practice for this next flick, so hey, I'm ready to give my money and be blown away!
See also: Universities and theme parks
Name me a better alternative? This is all theoretical anyway.
> Nobody expects highways to make money or break even. Suggesting that a road have tolls is the quickest way to lose. However, transit is put in another group, for some reason.

The NY State Thruway, the tolled highway that crosses the entire state, is entirely self-funded by tolls:

https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2022/03/28/tolls-not-tax...
It says a lot that you evaluate traffic deaths as “crime”
Yeah but defense in depth. Now you have to own the VM and escape the VM, and the latter usually requires an attack against the exact VM you are running which may be hard to determine.
> Even better than the first film

The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing.

I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it should be a 6-8 session series at least), but I think for instance that the graphic novels do a way better job of conveying the essentials.

I'll watch this anyways, I am still a Dune fan.
I did some evaluation of HTMX a few weeks ago; while I understand the appeal, it does not yet ... vibe with me. Also, the use for HTMX is still very limited in this project. I don't think this will really change, because the project is fairly focused and will remain so for the time being. Maybe there is an opportunity with the statistics and graphs? Like switch the buckets between km, miles, and number of those (1 km, 5 km, etc), of zoom to more years.
I liked the first 2/3 of the first film. It had some fun takes on events and scenes. But after that it felt like it was on auto pilot plowing through plot bits. The events that close that film are really uninteresting / don't feel very climatic.

I get it's a two part film but I do expect a given part to feel somewhat complete, but I felt like it was more of a "to be continued" ending and I was less than entertained by that point.

I do like that there's such a variety of Dune films and content (the sci-fi miniseries including children of dune being my favorites). It's fun to see a different take on things. I really have never felt any of them were "wrong" or fundamentally "bad" just different approaches.

I wish every great sci-fi content could get lots of versions / interpretations.
Sweet sugery Jello. I don't think "Jell-O" made non-sweet versions at the time.
.io used to be trendy but no more, and now some people feel stuck on expensive domains.
The spreadsheet DAG is derived from the formulas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting. Let me know if I'm misunderstanding!
Or let people refill their bottles at the shop/mall like from a beer keg. But it probably would be a hassle to deal with for the seller, so it won't probably won't happen.
555 554 something around that, I don't remember off the top of my head.

I might give nouveau drivers a go.
I just came back from the theater. Every word of this article rings true. The movie is a piece of art, the best of star wars with the grandeur of Game of Thrones. Its very rare to get movies like this these days.
Agreed. And I think it's worse than that. In the US, public transit's objective is not to transport large numbers of people quickly.

Public transit advocates in the US have a few objectives (in the POSIWID sense):

1. Job creation for construction workers

2. Job protection for train operators

3. Shelter for those who have no warm place to shelter

You can tell this is the case by the following actions by transit advocates:

1.

i. Efforts to increase funding for the same outcomes as before

i. Success metrics described are usually in terms of jobs created and small businesses contracted

2. Active opposition to Skytrain-style automated trains

3. Efforts to make public transit free

I think these objectives are transparent to most observers, most of whom do not share those objectives. Therefore, transit will face headwinds for the moment.
If I had a dollar for every time someone who had 30 seconds of accumulated knowledge about Dynamic Programming tried to argue with me that caching and memoization are the same thing, I'd have enough for a nerf bat to hit them with.

(Briefly: memoization is local shared state, caches are global shared state, which is a whole other set of problems. And caching is hoping you'll need something eventually, where as memoization is knowing you will need it immediately.)

A couple years ago I watched a very long video on Dynamic Programming and learned a new term: Tabulation. If memoization is encountering a common sub-problem and holding onto it, tabulation is seeking them out, answering the sub-problems before they can come up organically.

It's much harder to derive the tabulation answer, but I find it's usually easier to reason about after the fact. Which is enormously helpful when you go back to add new features or fix old bugs.

Look-Up Tables are fixed-size tabulations. The space complexity of tabulation is often ≥ O(n), while LUT are a fixed size, but big enough to reduce the computation time by a constant factor, like 10 or 100.
Being self-aware is the best defense against becoming a self-awarewolf[0].

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/
Well, Dune is kinda stale. It's certainly not for everyone, but I thought he did an amazing job of brining the books to life.
So like dot com?
i mean just google it, the pause in flynn is a very well known effect in the developed world
I just looked into it a bit. Timeline makes a lot of sense, Milkman was released in 1996, right during the height of the precautions (some farm kids couldn't come to school, needed to get sprayed down with some chemicals when we went into the high school, every shop/library/etc had a bucket of alcohol you walked through. However, it seems James was living in London during that period, and I don't think the restrictions in the cities were are harsh as the country. Interesting theory tho, I like it. :)
Folks around here don't cheap out buying car batteries, that's for sure. Trickle chargers and battery blankets help as well when things get really cold, as do block heaters that make it easier for the battery to turn the engine over and get it started.
Here is the paper linked in that piece:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4432
I'm kind of surprised that it is so significant, though I don't know the scale.. I went to Anguilla ~25yrs ago in a small sailing boat, lovely place and lovely people but as I understood it they were mainly into offshore banking, which should really dwarf domain registrations. Perhaps offshore banking has been cleaned up? I don't think they are big on tourism, they preferred to have fewer high cost hotels than lots of people visiting..
Understandable, though JVM strings can also use the UTF-8 charset under the hood. In fact, if you initialize a Kotlin string from a byte array, it'll default to assuming the UTF-8 charset [0]. (Kotlin chars are still 16-bit code units though, and it is true that you can't use the native JVM char type if you do this. Personally I think that's still acceptable.)

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.text/-st...
Frackers Are Now Drilling for Clean Power
> Only within the last generation or two perhaps has childhood changed from one of exploration and freedom to one of restriction and days scheduled to the minute. Do the kids benefit from this unique way of being reared?

Probably 90% of kids in the US live boxed in a relatively small area by roads that are 50ft+ (if not 80ft) wide with 40mph speed limits so that huge vehicles are actually traveling at 50mph driven by people looking at their phone.

In addition, the density of kids is far less. A single street light only have a handful of kids, and probably not all the same age. A neighborhood might have a bunch, but not enough for the kids to mingle.

Plus many send their kids to daycare or afterschool activities. I spend $20k per year per toddler just so they can interact with other toddlers.
Nothing to do with density. Europe has vast tracts of mountainous areas in which there are only a handful of villages with a few hundred people each and fast trains pass through all these zones.
The STAR format: Burned out, faded away
This is an opinionated yet researched post about why STAR is suboptimal for engineering interviews and exactly what to do instead.