skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Performance in a vacuum doesn't mean much. How something performs depends on the task. If you take all the laptops in the world and ask them to dive to the bottom of the ocean, they all perform badly (because they will not reach the bottom and they also won't survive, double failure).

This is also why a lot of 'tests' doen't really tell you much on the actual use of the machine. Even if we can profile all users, and bucket their tasks in terms of system load you don't get a perfect testing system to compare machines.

How 'good' something is, is almost a quality factor where the only real thing you can describe is "to what degree did the device do what you expected it to do". Good quality would be "meets expectation", bad quality would be "did not do what was expected" (and you can extrapolate from there). This is also where consumer satisfaction is generally measured, people get satisfied with their stuff if they can do what they wanted to do, not because of numbers on paper or tests on a website. Ironically, this is also where building your own PC with some cool GPU, Ryzen, and a bunch of M.2 SSDs tends to be satisfying, not because those component's numbers enabled your day to be better, but because you built something and you can use it, you feel ownership and accomplishment, and that's a quality you can be satisfied about.

For an Air, the best you could probably do is describe what a user wants ("I would like to create some content, consume some media, play the odd game here and there, do some software engineering, some 2D work") and then after a while ask them how close the machine performed to their expectation. And even that will simply vary from user to user.

Even work fleets have this problem, IT departments love to standardise, but unless the work all employees perform is specified to the degree where it could be completely automated you won't be able to construct a homogeneous fleet that covers everyone's needs. So you'll always end up with cases where it's an expensive solution, a cheap solution, a bad fit, a good fit, and that just gets averaged out on a quarterly report so we can call it 'good enough'.
According to some reports, there are enormous amounts of "gold hydrogen," that is hydrogen in underground deposits, that's just waiting to be extracted:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134760-500-the-gold... ( https://archive.is/4g6dw )

How this enormous non-polluting energy source went unnoticed for decades is mystifying to me. That Toyota and other big auto manufacturers are investing in hydrogen fuel cell and even hydrogen combustion engines means that many people who know what they're doing are betting on this future. The math doesn't really work that well for a "green hydrogen" future, but it may work for a "gold hydrogen" future.
The bigger problem is transportation and storage, not comparative energy density. Still, my hunch is that shipping goods through trucking, planes, and ships is more likely to use hydrogen in a 0-emissions world than anything else.
Not using outliers for general talking points. At all.
Comparison is the key part. What were people doing with their time and money before they were generating images? Sitting quietly in nature? Hiring illustrators and photographers?
An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer
I'm not sure. Speaking as an extremely silly person, I'm liable to go barefoot, or do anything. But I think we should all be self-aware about these matters if possible. Like I said at the start, it was a nice tree, I like trees.

I think it was mainly a nice tree because it was nicely framed, though, and in a movie with Kevin Costner and that awful Bryan Adams song in it. The subsequent snowballing of sentimentality around the significance of the material traces of the memory of the tree in the significant movie is ... it all has a wild memetic life of its own. I don't suppose it's harmful, but it's a strange outgrowth. The main point I'm making here is not so much "stop being silly" as "oh, look at that".
> Electrolysis is a fundamentally inefficient technique

Yes, but if we’re seeing huge overproduction times on renewables that might not be a showstopper. Hydrogen is a poor choice for powering things like cars compared to the alternatives but if you have industrial processes which need a flame on the order of 2,000°C it could make sense to have peak capacity wind/solar splitting hydrogen & oxygen for those.
Las Vegas Is About to Get a New Massive Dome-Like Venue
It's not really that surprising. America is the superpower gepolitically aligned to the UK and the importance more so in the face of waning British influence. To put it blunt: 'what happens over there matters over here'.

As for the SCOTUK, they have been effectively independent as Law Lords for decades, appointed for life, unremovable, etc etc. What they got was a title change and a new building and removed from voting on legislation.

The independence of the judiciary stuff has always been the case, it's just rarely been newsworthy until recent cases - we've been doing some fairly fundamental legal restructuring. They've never been influenceable by the government post appointment.
We are still making clothes like savages, with the only improvement being the economy of scale. We should enter a store, take a instant 3d scan, then get clothes that are custom made to size, seamless knitted, of our choice materials, properties, colors.
60 vs 25 shows the ridiculous inefficiency in ICEs: a huge amount of the power in gasoline is wasted as heat- and then some of the rest is wasted again because you can’t reclaim it via regenerative braking. Hybrid fuel-cell vehicles are a great alternative to BEVs, but only if we can get the production, storage and transport of hydrogen solved.
AFAIK all fruit trees and shrubs that are grown for economic reasons (cultivars) are going to be clones grafted onto some related but beneficial (disease resistance, vigor, etc.) rootstock.

The cloning and grafting is purely for consistency of the fruit!
There are three parts to history: ancient history, things you remember living through, and what the young folk think the things you remember living through were like.

(Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: qui cum oleo coquunt, qui cum butyrum coquunt, qui cum adipe coquunt.)
I think it means that it's basically permanent - it cannot be unshaped. You can of course keep "tucking it in".
I've tried that add-on and while it works, it still feels rather incomplete. I don't have much CAD experience though so my expectations might just be out of the norm.

I've ended up preferring to use cadquery instead, since copilot makes iterating designs with it pretty easy. But it looks like Plasticity might have the kind of workflow I'd like.
If you want to do the math, do it right. How many images are you going to draw by hand in a year? For sure not 3153600 ... When speaking about environmental impact, absolute values count, not relative ones!
Gentle pedantic OT reminder: "there is no "g" in the phrase "rein in."
Well, SoC is different again. We're talking MCU, microcontrollers.

For ARM, its rather simple. Cortex-M cores are MCUs, while Cortex-A cores are Microprocessors.

Cortex A72?? That's a Microprocessor.

Cortex M7? This is a Microcontroller.
Downvotes for sharing an actual industry insight...nice.
Bettriges law of headlines strikes again.

However its worth pointing out that the 40h work week was considered hugely radical and was “cutting the nose” off of the Ford motor company business when it was introduced.

The other auto-makers followed shortly after and eventually it became a standard for nearly every working person on a salary. That was less than a hundred years ago, and as mentioned it was extremely radical at the time losing up to 50% of weekly working time for Ford (60hrs was average at the time)- yet we seem unable to stomach 20% reduction despite massively improved productivity and a much more “bursty” working environment than was conventional in manufacturing.
Bad ruskies again… Maybe it’s time to find another enemy of the state? How about reptilians from outer space?
Yes, because in Star Trek, they had solved the problem of AI hallucinations.
Jimminy crickets this thread reveals how much I have forgotten about networking. Ive been a tech for 33 years... I forgot how much I used to know about fiber.

Is this what getting old looks like?
An ALS drug fails, again
China Readies $27B Chip Fund to Counter Growing US Curbs
If you had your hand in the pocket or have been outside in freezing temperatures you usually cannot determine any lukewarm temperature in a precise way. It wouldn't make sense to use the term lukewarm or lukecool in those cases IMHO.
craigslist is full of free upright pianos and occasionally free baby grands. Of course if you show up with a chainsaw instead of 5 men and a dolly...
Honest Q: WHAT THE HECK is that username?
Thank you for tackling this critical problem for logic designiners. I think the tools available are much too old for fast paced workflows.

From my experience attempting to get a similar workflow down for my company:

I tried to use verilator a while back but ultimately I couldn't because it didn't have same constraints in the verilog language features that I was going to use in production. It doesn't even matter who was missing a feature, verilator or the proprietary tool, it was just about getting them to be same that caused the cognitive dissonance that I didn't want to deal with.

I ultimately decided to move away from verilator and use the clunky proprietary tools since it was what would be used in production. Getting "verilator compatibility" seemed like a "nice to have".

Second, the a winning local-first framework of verilator wasn't really established. You show in your example running a test from the yaml file using what looks like a bash script. Even as an experienced programmer who knows bash and sh well, I still find it very hard to write complex thoughts in it. The last high level attempt I found to bridge this gap is likely https://www.myhdl.org/ I don't know them personally, but it seemed like they had some very good thoughts on what makes writing good hardware level tests good. I think it would be worth reaching out to them if you haven't already.

The one thing that even more critical was a way to run our tests locally. The 10-20 seconds it takes to start a docker image (best case) in the cloud is really frustrating when you are "so close to finding a bug" and you "just want to see if this one line change is going to fix it". Once we got our whole pipeline going, it would take 1-6 minutes to "start a run" since it often had to rebuild previous steps that cache large parts of the design.

So I think you will want to see how you can help bring people's "local's first" workflows slowly into the cloud. Some tools (or just tutorials) that help you take a failing test, and run it locally and on the cloud will be really good especially as you get people to transition!
EDIT: "Didn't require any multiply or divide operations." Oof. Sorry.
Was the heart still considered the seat of "emotion", in such a doctrine?
Yes. It smells very much of motivated reasoning. A lot of people have clearly set their minds to opposing AI for a long while now, and will jump on any possible reason to prop that up. And a lot of journalists are motivated by the click-through statistics on sensationally-negative articles on the latest popular thing
In 1995 Pocohantas sings Colors of the Wind, including the line "how high can the Sycamore grow, if you chop it down, you'll never know".

Nevermind the tree was 500yrs old. There's a whole generation of 90s kids who valued growth and longevity.

The tree was a historical symbol for multiple generations of Brits too. It's a terrible loss to cut it down and we didn't do enough to protect it.
Maybe they were hoping you'd join in order to fix them /s
Certain words, like "groundbreaking", have been totally ruined for me by LLMs which are too often trained to sound like each other.
I fully agree there are plenty of blog posts where the image is completely useless at best, misleading at worst, and I react in a very similar manner.

But I've found a pretty interesting middle-ground/sweet spot (mainly with less technical audiences) where a nice graphic can really improve attention and retention, especially on a slide deck. For a recent example, I wrote about the importance of passwords for a "security awareness" training (the audience here are people in Pakistan who have only recently started using the internet). To help illustrate/reinforce the idea that if somebody gets your password they can "hack" you, I generated some colorful images of hackers, computer security, and even one with a person being arrested (in that section I was describing the law that could hold them accountable for breach of others personal information if their negligence allowed an adversary to gain access to the system). Personally to me it's fluff, but I ran a small (and not very scientific) A/B test with the first and second group and the version with the graphics was shockingly better at it's goal of raising awareness.
> something that provides high utility for vastly more people

We have a really nice mechanism of distributed utility measurement called "prices" which suggests otherwise.
Blender CSG slows down extremely quickly though. Only takes about a dozen boolean modifiers to cause large slowdowns when editing.
How to Get Kids to Go Outside and Play Outside
Officers need warrants to use aircraft, zoom lenses to surveil [alaska]
https://x.com/Monodraw suggests there have indeed been updates
This is much closer than it used to be!
As other have mentioned I’ve used it for diagrams in code comments and READMEs (before GH added mermaid integration).

Making readable diagrams with 80 character width can be a challenge.

I bought it back in either late 2017 or early 2018 and used it a fair amount at first but will admit it’s been a couple years since and haven’t tried reinstalling since my last clean OS wipe.
The Miami New Times claimed that freedom of information laws in Florida make it easier for journalists to acquire information about arrests from the police than in other states and that this is responsible for a large number of news articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man
Bold prediction: AI will tell us how to solve the energy problem! /s
> If only it was like this with all the cooky ideas we come up with.

It probably is :) Any other ideas you'd like us to come up with a Star Trek episode for? There are nearly a thousand to select from these days!
Ah thanks, missed it!
I agree that the stock business images of smiling guys in suit & tie are cringe as hell at this point.

That being said, visual input and aesthetic are deeply intrinsic human things and expecting us to move beyond that is very unrealistic.

The best we can do is optimise the IG methodology and/or use open, perpetually royalty free images and clipart for illustration.
> snuggling data leaves too many breadcrumbs

I can understand these breadcrumbs in detail. From easy stuff like TCP and DNS to the design patterns of the radiation hardened firmware running on the communication satellites.

I propose a blinded trial, give me a API with a few terabytes of data I'll have it accessed and the data moved to a third party. Then Microsoft can tell me who that person is right?
To add to that, there are already a number of energy intensive processes that already use hydrogen. Manufacturing fertilizers for example. Currently the hydrogen for these Processes is produced from natural gass but it's a matter of time before production using green energy becomes cheaper.
How was this a psyop?
This same technique, extended can work well for detecting plagiarism from the underlying corpus as well, by tracking a trie of "good" completions in the n-gram sense, and a longer trie of "no-good" completions. This technique was (to my knowledge) first shown in [0], and particularly [1] is a really interesting video discussing these topics around max-order grams even in a Markovian setting. I used this technique a bit in symbolic music generation and was quite pleased with the results, always planned to work it into whatever next models.

I think there are a lot of methods from these older Markovian setups that can be employed in the outputs samplers of modern models, as well as the inclusion of structured searches and so on. Parts of deep learning have always focused on structured output search, but historically the LLM style generative setting has not employed these approaches (though I find beam search for generative settings needs tweaking, it usually works pretty well in smaller scale problems for me).

[0] Avoiding Plagiarism in Markov Sequence Generation, Papadopoulos et. al. https://axon.cs.byu.edu/Dan/673/papers/papadopoulos.pdf

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmDS5_w27bU
In Hindi/Urdu, one phrase to describe a beloved is jigar/kaleja kā ṭukṛā/जिगर का टुकड़ा/⁧⁧⁩جگَرکا ٹکڑا

meaning "a piece of my liver".
This drug was approved after Phase II trials largely failed and a second review panel was convened to override the first. Now it has failed again in Phase III after being given to many hopeful patients at great cost.

The last lines rang true:

You need what you've always needed: efficacy and safety. Boring, tedious,
expensive efficacy and safety. Desire and despair don't figure in much - in a
much different universe, one whose physical laws respected and validated human
emotions and human suffering, they would. But we don't live in that world.
until that lawsuit is filed and we have a judgement, yes, they are.
Photographer steps inside Vietnam's shadowy 'click farms'
I don't see how the largest nuclear non-disaster in world history prompts a comparison between the US and the country that built the people's chandeliers and couches so large that the head of the planned economy had to give a speech declaring them too difficult to move in and dangerous to hang to be tolerated. Oh, and also their actual disaster killed an infinite multiple of people.

I'll be happy to compromise with you, though. If you support nuclear in spite of Chernobyl, I'll support the death penalty for any capitalist that oversees a nuclear meltdown not caused by an ICBM despite your lack of knowledge about the history of the USSR, and nature of communism. I might even support burning at the stake or something if that's what it takes to make the obviously correct decision for human progress. McCarthy wrote that link decades after Three Mile and Chernobyl. He wouldn't have done so if he didn't also know what I'm relaying to you now. Received opinion is the least grounded kind.

EDIT: Lol I missed what thread this was in. Again, was Three Mile Island a Thorium reactor? We'd all save so much time if questions were directed to Google instead of me.
The author didn't attempt it, but it seems pretty clear 4 of the pins on the exposed docking port would be a USB bus. So all you need really is a usb stick, some wires, and some patience.

The particular connector used even looks like you could directly insert/wedge thin gauge wires, no soldering required on that end: https://imgur.com/a/7T3agdg
Need to include a few strands of something like https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/metal-that-rem... .
To be fair, the last tweet is from 2 years ago.

However, I’ve made pretty good use of it, and it’s really a “complete” product. Not much more to update than the occasional mandatory platform upgrade.
6G Reflector Chip Tech Offers Road to 33 GB/S
Awesome tool! Also, for the web version, my friend made an alternative written in Kotlin https://github.com/tuanchauict/MonoSketch

I also have a half baked version in Rust too https://github.com/huytd/ascii-d
Couldn't run on Mac, runs on iPad only. Is this correct?
SEC's new climate rules were a missed opportunity to accelerate corporate action
Yes. This is all just the latest guise for the human instinct to suppress déclassé consumption. Any time you have people advocating for sumptuary laws there's always some grand moral excuse: it's for the sake of religious decency, for the benefit of the proletariat, for the sake of the environment, etc.
The full subtitle is "A Survey of Skiplists and Their Applications in Big Data Systems."
See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422528
That's totally valid HTML. Unfortunately, voice control software (Dragon NaturallySpeaking, macOS's feature) doesn't recognize the relationship unless it's explicit.
That will probably take some research. This might be a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#Powe...
No, guidelines specifically say only once charged, people may be named, in line with the principles of open justice.

Sources: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Reportin...

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/huge-victory-fo...

https://www.college.police.uk/app/engagement-and-communicati...

Being a suspect and being charged are different things.
Source code: <https://github.com/alexwarth/sutherland>

Demo: <https://alexwarth.github.io/sutherland/>
I wonder if this was due to the liver being the largest organ? Or perhaps liver disease is the most visible?
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24467987/sp-7690.pdf [PDF]
also note that cannabis is legal in alaska, and historically has been tolerated when not in conjunction with other offense
CDG Labs. But this is not it: <https://github.com/cdglabs/sketchpad14>
This is totally correct and in line with all guidelines, naming once charged.
I love this tool!

I've used it to do diagrams for Mapless:

https://sebastianconcept.github.io/Mapless/guides/2024/01/28...

And to document this Pharo VM Plugin builder setup:

https://github.com/sebastianconcept/PharoPluginBuilder
Estimations of maybe future adoption of AI vs actual usage of crypto. And putting the focus in the evils of AI instead of the obvious present crypto usage.

And the problem, specially when we are talking about the future, it is not so much energy usage but fossil fuel based energy generation. AI may eventually, by the time it gets within an order or two below crypto usage, be fueled by clean energy. Or not, but it still is the elephant in the room vs the little mouse you try to scare about.
>If you aren't 100% it is Russia and scream Russia, that's what you are doing

So anything attributing attacks to Russia is made up?

I think you've lost the benefit of the doubt I was giving you. The other reply to my post is probably right, you seem to be purposefully spreading disinformation.
"examining four recent Waymo incidents: two crashes into the same pick-up truck, one with a cyclist, and one incident of arson."
It seams you are assuming that the law in UK forbids publishing a suspects identity.

But maybe the law is written in a way that publishing someone’s identity is fine if it’s been made available by Police (in whatever country), in that case there are no double standards at play, just different situations.

Mind you, I have zero knowledge of the actual laws at play here.
This probably my favorite because it was mostly unscripted

Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFc379hu--8
NOT A FAN.

Its both terrifying and amazing.

Im going with terrifying.

But, also, this is how Mecha works... but in anime the pilot is inside the robot.

Teleportation is Avatar... but yeah, now its a reality is super FN scary

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WAIT: what was that movie with Dexter where they controlled prisoners though such as a game... its a brilliant movie...
I had the same experience. He's an inspiration to me in so many ways.