skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI runs on GPUs, and GPUs are made out of sand, so maybe AI is sand's way of organizing itself.

I have a hard time dismissing those stinky crystal worshiping new-age hippies, since I spend so much of my time playing with patterns of electrons in little silicon chips.

Hippies get a little too excited about the minds of the crystal and spirits inhabiting rocks and communicating through ethereal protocols too, yet here we are in 2024, programming and communicating with silicon CPUs and GPUs and wireless internet smartphones ensconced in shiny layers of Gorilla Glass that we obsessively carry around with us everywhere and continuously gaze into and hold up at each other and rub and tap on and talk and listen to.

Ways to Make Sand (2020) [video] (youtube.com):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyvjkAs5-Y&list=ULcxqQ59vzy...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38037110

TodePond 2023 Roundup:

https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/year/2023/roundup/

>What’s next?

>2024 is the year of chaos. Much more will happen.

>The next sandpond saga video will be TOP 99 WAYS TO MAKE SAND.

>There will soon be a vote for the one after that. If you want to vote, sign up to my patreon.

https://patreon.com/TodePond

Top 99 ways to make sand repo:

https://github.com/TodePond/99

Sandspiel Studio:

https://studio.sandspiel.club/

Making ALIEN ELEMENTS (to learn the basics of Sandspiel Studio):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48-9jjndb2k

Making "Huegene" in Sandspiel Studio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltpkO7jcFOY

Making "Flower" in Sandspiel Studio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifyYITDq1oo

SandPond Saga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nER7-DVLEjA

Top 9 Ways To Make Big Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbs0sx3z2A

Top 9 Ways To Make Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyvjkAs5-Y

Sand of the FUTURE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AK53vQoEBU

Sinking Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8Vu03i5ic

Hello Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JwFhq2MSJo

SPLAT-like Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz8g4GEMpYw

BIG Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWFfhaOWJ1Y

3D Falling Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gi8fdvmvqY

2D Falling Sand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLP4ZwudAKs

And my favorite sand-free but trippy-hippie-mesmerizing Screens in Screens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OIcwt8vcE
Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? (2022)
It depends on the game, but certain kinds of games have been shown in a number of studies to improve a wide array of abilities - from daily hand-eye coordination tasks [1] over decision making [2] all the way to problem solving [3]. The only question is if you want your kid to play COD or Starcraft, but the benefits are there and if your kid is not interested in learning an instrument, it's way better to have them play these types of games rather than some low mental effort smartphone attention sink.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761665030...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705092...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235367249_More_Than...
Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected
His motivation isn't primarily about saving money but about experiencing lots of places and things.
How is this any different to someone choosing to go backpacking for a year? Or do also consider that to be incredibly stupid?

It’s pretty clear from the article he’s not doing this to save money, he’s doing because he loves travelling on trains and sees it as an opportunity for exploration and adventure. There’s nothing stupid about being curious, and brave enough to indulge that curiosity.
At first look, I misread the title as GPTDOOR.
Consuming resources is a necessary part of living. Question is, what do we get out of consumed resources. And at this point, it's logical and clear, the only way to go from here is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab_mH8R0KTM
I remember calling up yahoo on the phone and arguing that weddings should get its own category. We had a wedding website and it was lost under "Business".

Yes, we called and talked to someone on the PHONE at Yahoo.

No, we did not get a separate category.
I would argue that you probably can, but not anywhere one would actually want to live in or where there is any sort of opportunities. For Finland that level means living in even poorer than average conditions in essentially dead areas.
I was researching this because I was wondering how fast you can make LED flicker for lighting effects before it looks like constant brightness.

I found most of the information on Wikipedia[0], and the limit seems to be at about 80hz, but together with movement, some people can see stroboscopic effects up to 10khz.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold#Strob...
It absolutely is in all of southern Europe except the center of some large cities, same for eastern Europe, rural France and Germany, etc.
I was with you until you said it’s disgusting, how is it disgusting to put an extreme emphasis on health, when it’s been neglected for like all of human history.

Like sure, maybe it doesn’t make sense for most people to put so much focus on something they have little control over, but disgusting? Nah.

Also trusting science is a complete misunderstanding of science. That’s how religion operates.

Edit: Also also, I have some faith in the scientific process, as soon as business and money enters the picture though all trust goes out the window. Corporations do not care what poison they give you, as long as it does not affect their bottom line. Have no doubt that they will ignore their scientists if they can get away with it.
Essentially Godhood. There is a reason the singularity has been called "the rapture for nerds" for decades.
Yeah i was really enjoying working at this company and making progress at my pace, as a smart person but a non-engineering-wizz. I was feeling optimistic and letting go of the pressure to get into at top tech company. This was allowing me to put in my best at work (which was making me improve a lot), and give myself permission to fully enjoy my arts and humanities hobbies outside of work rather than constantly guilting myself into using all my time to catch up to STEM people. But now they have told me my raises will never keep up with inflation, I feel like I have to do better and spend all my evenings trying to learn everything as quickly as possible with no patience. How did you deal with this?
Hmm I wonder. A modern Concorde might be more spacious and better pressurised but much faster than Mach 2 is going to be very difficult due to higher speeds needing incrementally more energy and generating more heat.

Supercruising at Mach 2 is a huge accomplishment and I don't think there's any aircraft in operation that can still do that. Jetfighters can do it while afterburning but it is impossible to reach Singapore that way.

I just don't see a supercruising aircraft being possible at Mach 3.
They recently banned the same thing in germany
Sounds like it’ll be downloadable. FTA:

> In early, unoptimized inference tests on consumer hardware our largest SD3 model with 8B parameters fits into the 24GB VRAM of a RTX 4090 and takes 34 seconds to generate an image of resolution 1024x1024 when using 50 sampling steps. Additionally, there will be multiple variations of Stable Diffusion 3 during the initial release, ranging from 800m to 8B parameter models to further eliminate hardware barriers.
The best way to enjoy HN is to just ignore these comments. There are a lot of bored, angsty, frustrated, lonely people, many struggling with mental illness that like to make comments like this for no other reason than getting attention.
Everything is set to default. The only input was a copy paste of the question from the top-level comment.
No, the DDR “spy on your neighbor” situation is much more dangerous.
you can choose which nodes you follow and which nodes you block - you can even decide that you will seed particular repos and not the entire node.

(P.S. I am working at Radicle)
Wow. Did you get any compensation for those years?
Good question!

One of the key ideas is that each user chooses what repositories they host via pretty fine-grained policies. This means you can easily block content you're not interested in seeding, or simply configure your node to only host content you explicitly allow.

You can also choose which public nodes to connect to if you'd rather not connect to random nodes on the network; though I don't expect most users to go this route, as you are more likely to miss content you're interested in.

Though Git (and thus Radicle) can replicate arbitrary content, it's not particularly good with large binary files (movies, albums etc.), so I expect that type of content to still be shared on BitTorrent, even if Radicle were to be popular.
That they can put English mustard side by side with Dijon mustard suggests so.
I'm from Italy and lived alone in Greece, Spain and Portugal so I know it is surely possible. And lived in cities not in the middle of nowhere.
I would not do it.

But he is young and everyday another place. Try going skiing and visiting North See multiple times per year AND have a place to live.
I guarantee you that you cannot get house, bills, and food for this amount per month.

That is basically the minimum state pension, which some people do live on, but it is a pretty miserable existence.
What product does SpaceSeX provide off tha shelf?

I genuinely do not know.
> improve to where

I guess "improve on a vector we put it on".

E.g. the dystopian idea of "Give AI with autonomy some power and tell it to improve itself until it can solve climate change". A nice vector. Except one with a real danger of "solving climate change" by simply eliminating 99% of humans.

Or, more practically, a vector "become better than X¹ at doing Y so our company can take over the niche that does Y and make profit". Improve to write better code, improve to make popular music, improve to write more viral content and so on.

¹ X the variable, placeholder, not the sewer formally known as twitter.
You could do it here in Vienna.
Would be basic but not terrible at all.
Beautiful building.

A large open space with lots of hard materials though, I hope sound isn't an issue.
The ceiling looks like it might be sound dampening though?
AI's craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energy
Thanks for pointing that out. Super promising.
The most useful Mozilla-family browser is MyPal68, which is highly usable.

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68
A lot of people send and read phone messages while driving. I highly doubt that same people gives a second thought before playing with the screen while driving, unless they are under a real stressing situation (pouring and twisted road at 2 AM).
Isn't the world already kind of like that ("somebody else's dream"), just with "nobody at the wheel"? Like, technological society has "taken over" and there's no real way for humanity to opt out of it.

We all have tiny bits of agency / freedom but for the most part our lives are bounded and constrained by the gigantic complex systems which support yet trap us.
Classic git does not evade censorship, such as the extremely recent news concerning Nintendo. An idea like this has been rolling around in my head, and I'm overjoyed that someone has done the hard work.
Lighting using using LEDs vs incandescent bulbs: streets and buildings are not ten times brighter than a couple of decades ago.
I try to minimize posting (edit: and having) opinions most of the time, they don’t tend to generate interesting discussion (edit: and are highly limited by perspective). Kinda hard to come to a conclusion when the assertions all boil down to “this is my experience”
I think most of us called it "going down a rabbit hole."
From his blog: "I spent many nights trying to figure out the best way to sleep in first class. In the end, sleeping on an air mattress under the seats proved to be a good idea."

https://leben-im-zug.de/meiner-erster-monat-mit-der-bahncard...

So I guess he really is just sleeping in the regular compartment rather than a sleeper berth.
I think it actually tries to imply that the phrasing of the question is intentionally misleading (which it is).
I said most of Europe, not all of Europe and the UK is known for being one of the most expensive countries in Europe. Same for Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark.

But there are like 20 other countries in Europe where it is totally possible. Don't judge everything based only on you backyard.
Nope, all hand-written apparently.
You would still use floating point for training afaik.
The Bene Gesserit can kill with voices: the musicians mining Dune for tunes
Renewable energy does deplete a lot of natural resources. Even assuming it is carbon neutral (it isn't). Even assuming we're still capable of constructing those without fossil energy (we currently can't). Even assuming mining of various minerals is done without fossil energy (it isn't). Even assuming it doesn't require any mining (it does). It still largely requires "natural surfaces" where we have to disrupt local environments. It might be net benefits (offshore wind farms seem to improve diversity), but we have no renewable energy growth that doesn't require first for the natural resources to take a toll.

Don't get me wrong, I do think this is where we're heading towards, and I feel it's okay. But let's not be blind that yes even assuming we go towards fully renewable energy (still a big if, or rather very long when), any growth of energy consumption comes with a cost to natural resources.
What people call "real buttons" usually require a certain force and travel to activate. Capacitive buttons require little to no force or feedback, sometimes not even solid contact.

I think the easiest way to understand the difference is to ask 2 questions: "can I put my finger on that button and not immediately trigger it" and "can I can physically tell that I am triggering it (ideally some physical travel)?" If the answers are "yes", then it's probably the kind of button people look for when talking about wanting "real buttons".
Some "insights" from this mediocre KSP player:

a) for launch you want your rocket to be slender and tall. For a stable landing you want your vehicle to be broad and flat.

b) The engine is at the bottom (moon-wards), by definition. The fuel is above the engine. As you land, the fuel tank depletes significantly which shifts the center of mass towards the top of the vehicle which makes it less stable.

c) The lunar (mun-ar?) surface is really uneven and gravity is low. What you want to land is a steamroller but what you actually have is a springy, ultra-light, top-heavy contraption that's more likely to bounce off of then to flatten moon rocks.
No, I'm not being partisan. This ruling will affect everyone running for any political office going forward, regardless their political positions and affiliations, if someone decides to cite the 14th against them.

To properly understand Section 3 of the 14th Amendment you first need to understand the historical context it was written under: The Civil War.

Section 3's purpose is to bar present and former enemies of the United States who broke their oath to protect and uphold the Constitution from holding any political office. In other words, its purpose is to bar former Confederate politicians and soldiers who broke away from and acted against the Union from holding political office.

Congress subsequently pardoned all former Confederates, and Section 5 also makes it clear it is Congress who enforces the 14th Amendment via legislations. I actually wasn't entirely aware of Section 5 until I re-re-read the whole Amendment again as I was writing this comment (thanks for giving me a reason!), so SCOTUS's reasoning becomes even simpler.

TL;DR, SCOTUS from what I can tell clarified two things:

1. Federal matters such as Federal political offices are the sole jurisdiction of the Federal government, not State governments.

2. Congress's sole authority to enforce the 14th as they and only they see fit.
My 2 years 5 month old toddler uses Adobe fresco on my wacom tablet every now and then, she knows how to switch colours and draw, I erase the page every now and then for her.

She also watches every now and then "C'est pas sorcier", a french documentary series for kids that's pretty advanced (go into details of biology etc.), on all sorts of topics (nature, science, food etc.). That's also a good way for her to experience some French as we live in the UK and her only source of French are talking to me, or to her grandmother on the phone.

Just to be clear she does plenty of other activities, we cook together (she has a children's chef knife and uses it to cut things like tofu, carrots etc.), she draws on paper, she sings and dance, goes to the swimming pool weekly etc.

As for video game, that's more for later as she does not have yet the skills for that but at a glance

- Logic : Puzzle games, things like incredible machines, but also management game like sim-city.
- Creativity : Any sandbox game, the sims, minecraft, drawing game, sculpting game, animal crossing etc.
- Motor skills: Platformers, fighting games...

Essentially any game that requires a lot of effort for little reward, as opposed to games that makes you touch something shiny and shower you in visual and auditive feedback.
I've greatly enjoyed https://musicforprogramming.net/ since it's so easy to access, has free downloads, and a web player.
Why not have both software and hardware improvements? This is like saying we shouldn't have any new CPUs after the the PDP-1 because quicksort got invented
also people who are retired _usually_ already own a place to live in so they don't spend money for rent/mortgage. OTOH, a 17yo will probably have less health-related expenses.
Apparently "physical controls" in new cars now work almost as badly as touch screens. Turn the fan speed knob then wait two agonizing seconds before the fan speed changes. Gods know what kind of telemetry they stuck in the middle of that operation to gum up the works.
Voice commands are absolutely crap and are never ever a substitute for actual controls. The device can't either hear you, mishears you, doesn't speak your language, doesn't understand your accent, doesn't understand your dialect, doesn't like the tone of your voice or just doesn't like your particular combination of words.
£680 is about what i paid for a room in a HMO 20 miles outside the M25 a decade ago.

Providing German healthcare can keep up with all the antibiotics he'll inevitably need it sounds like a good deal.
"...And once we've got a lead, we'll solve alignment at our leisure

Then even odds, we'll be as gods,' said Sam to Eliezer"
That's because they get other benefits. The rent will be paid for with housing benefit. You can't typically get that if you are working age.
The speed gains would be due to lack of stopovers, assuming higher range, not due to higher airspeed.
My electric car, a Zoé, have real buttons to toggle the defrost.
I know what the buttons are like, so I can jut move my hand until I feel I'm on the right button.
I don't need a "quick glance".
I agree with you, but there’s no need for ad hominem
> And specifically the horn button being capacitive co-located with the voice assistance and windscreen wiper buttons.

... Wait, is this a real thing, or just a joke about them being bad at UX? If a real thing... goodness, I'm quite surprised that doesn't break some mandatory safety rule.
So you are wary of the motives of academics saying ''this is wrong for these reasons', but you dont think that Diamond has any motives, so you take his argument at face value (because it aligns with your feelings on the subject most likely)?
I guess you mean Mali GPU?
The big questions is, my heat pump is 2.6 kW, can I remove the heat pump and run 2 of these GPUs instead?
The way Apple has always had e-waste laptops at the bottom of the line is pretty disgusting with their environmental posturing. MacOS barely works on 128GB space and 8GB ram yet for many years that was the baseline, it was particularly bad because the ram gets full just browsing then your baseline OS and a few files is enough that the swap disk would get full soon after.

Have a crate with about 40+ of those machines at work, essentially useless from the era where the person in charge of buying laptops just bought the bottom end for every employee and considered it a job done.
TBH, if someone posted a job with the instructions "start with I am a bot", I -a human- would reply with that exact sentence. Obviously if I'm interested in the gig.

They are a common "CAPTCHA" on Upwork. And it's easy to just follow the exact requirements. As human, as well as a bot.

This "experiment" is extremely bad designed. It proves nothing.
Ah I see. True, a lot of advancements have been made in fuel efficiency indeed. Sorry I misunderstood your comment.
Why even put it on the bus? Adding a couple of meters of cable per critical system like steering or even 10 for braking couldn't offset the complexity of bus steering.
Sweetened drinks linked to increased risk of irregular heartbeat
You can even teach it to play Mahjong: Claude 3 leads GPT4 across the board
Yesterday, Anthropic released its latest model, Claude3, which has attracted widespread attention and praise for its outstanding performance. In the LLMRGB project of the open-source evaluation project on Babel.cloud, Claude3 scored a high score of 97.6 in a single test, greatly surpassing GPT-4 and becoming the current leader in large model capabilities.
Notably, in the LLM-RGB evaluation, 015_simple_mahjong is an extremely complex problem. In the prompt, the simplified rules of Mahjong are taught to the large model, with examples provided, and then the large model is asked to make a play choice in a specific scenario. This problem has rarely been correctly solved in past tests. However, Claude 3 Opus has a 20% probability of giving the optimal solution and an 80% probability of providing the suboptimal solution. This indicates that its multi-round reasoning ability far exceeds other models, and it can quickly learn and apply knowledge with limited context. This will make the application scenarios of Claude 3 far more than simple customer service and text generation. It can perform well in fields with longer engineering processes.
And how much cheaper can this stuff really be than real buttons?
Are you open for remote (EU) collaborators?
Accused of Caste Bias, Ex-Cisco Engineer Sundar Iyer Wants to 'Fix' What CRD Did [video]
These days you can already get water-cooled servers [1] and rack-mount water distribution manifolds [2]

[1] https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/liquid-cooling
[2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8?topic=POWER8/p8had/p8had_...
Just my own thought but I believe they were under immense pressure to achieve similar (or even some) margins with their very first broad market BEV, as they are getting with comparable ICE models.

As a car the MEB siblings are not bad at all and by now the software is fine I hear, but they cut just to many ergonomic corners instead of accepting the costs of getting started in a slightly different market segment.
I've answered the use-case question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588

But yes, we're not officially launched yet and the website is going through a rewrite to offer more clarity, thanks for the feedback.

Re: seed nodes: they are running the same software and work the same way as regular nodes, the only difference is how they're deployed (with a public IP address vs. behind a NAT). But yes, a little bit of asymmetry is needed because of NATs/IPv4.

Re: properties: mainly we need to provide encryption and self-certification to enable a similar user experience as GitHub/GitLab/etc. on a an untrusted peer-to-peer network. Additionally though, Radicle offers a level of censorship resitance and disruption tolerance that GitHub cannot offer.