skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly you haven't heard about EATR

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tac...
Hmm interesting. Yes, kind of related still different. It's a sqlite extension to query existing redis server data. Not a redis server itself. But interesting. Thanks for the link!
If only I had known they were listed in the US. Just assumed they were an offshore company (based on their pretty terrible support). Disclosure: long time user.
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Opus easily
I think its the later - I have always understood grip strength to be an easy to measure proxy for your overall health; no harm in doing only grip strength exercises, but the better way is to lead a healthy and active life where your good grip strength is side effect of all the activities you do.

Watching TV all day on the couch drinking beer and potato chips - but with a grip exerciser in your hand is probably not going to give you much of a benefit.
No it does not. Your biases want it to.
>Five years ago people were in agreement that the turing test was a really good test

The limitations of the Turing test have been discussed for much longer than that. Ironically its dependence on human judgement is arguably a weak point.
Any advice for good ones?
It's repeating what the GP said, but: exercise. Your bones are strengthened by use -- put them under mild stress by doing load-bearing exercise and they'll get stronger.

(Getting plenty of calcium and vitamin D probably helps, but there's a lot of argument about whether supplements actually work there.)
Lift heavy weights
I suspect that's a bit low to cover evening streaming usage, but my main issue isn't so much the available bandwidth as selling it as 1 gbps. There should be some statutory minimum sla or something to limit the ISP's bullshit of selling you an ULTRASPEED™ GIGABIT* 1† Gbps‡ plan that reliably drops to about 0.5% of the advertised performance every night.
What would cause the oscillation?
I worked on project planning software years ago. We got caught in a loop arguing about fonts and data density.

We were getting lots of clipping of text and I asserted that even a couple more characters on the screen would improve people’s abilities to guess what the entire phrase was. You can derail momentum in project management meetings by having people ask what something says repeatedly. Seen it happen, it’s dumb and we can fix it.

So it came down to a shootout. We put five fonts on a projector screen, at multiple font sizes, stood everyone against the back wall of the fairly average sized meeting room (maybe 70th percentile), and had them vote.

Verdana 13pt won for legibility, even over some of the 14 pt fonts. It also got more characters per inch, so win win. Something in the range of 5-10%.

Then corporate made us change it back because their flagship app used a different font and they wanted them to match. Which made no goddamned sense because they weren’t even used together.
This statement seems very naive and hyperbolic, like “chicken little”. The people crossing the southern border of the US are economic migrants that are not fleeing “climate change” that is preposterous. There are more military aged males relocating due to criminals situations per day than the amount people coming to the US because of a “hole in the ozone layer” in one year. People that think this way, I think are consuming way too much leftist media and are not thinking critically.
A good counterpoint to show someone who did stay fit is Jack LaLanne.
And the best weight by far to lift - your own weight. Our bodies are naturally designed to work with this weight (unless you are obese), our joints and connective tissue is literally built to match it. If given movement becomes too easy, just slow it down, add repetitions, modify slightly and voila - challenge is back.

Sure, with weightlifting you strengthen everything including those joints, but only to certain amount, and road there is full of booby traps in form of variously crippling injuries. Look at powerlifters, how much joint protection they need just to perform, and look how they look retired (if they are actually still around, most have massive weight issues). People who consistently want to look like Arnold and actually execute it have often some deep childhood issues they are compensating with working out insanely (and taking various chemical crap that bites back later to stay on top).

Being lean, have decent power and endless stamina is literal heaven for everything you ever wanted to do - work, longevity, sex, confidence, happiness, women love it. Supplement it with moderate weights, for sure, even include them in workouts (ie in nature hiking with heavy backpacks with camping/climbing gear is amazing). Or weighted squats in very good form. But only once you built a very solid base in joints and connective tissue with easier stuff repeated a lot, for some time.

Patience as with everything else is the key to long term performance. And discussed longevity requires decades of consistent efforts.

Or do it like my grandparents, both lived till 95 - have a decent garden with various fruits and vegetables, take proper care of it daily. Just find something to do in winters too (ie ski touring). And no vices ala alcohol nor cigarettes.
weight bearing exercises and a proper diet.
Anyone interested should also look into Gridcoin, you can get some crypto back in addition to doing some good science.

https://gridcoin.us/
Just last week my brother in law (in the US) wanted to send an Uber Eats gift card to my girlfriend (his sister, in Mexico) because she is staying home recovering from a minor surgery.

He is not able to purchase such a gift card from the US site (gift cards are country specific). He is also not able to purchase such a gift card from the Mexico site (which demands a Mexican national ID to process the payment). He asks for my help. I try to use the same Mexican site, which refuses to take any of the 4 cards I try. I then use the website's option to "pay at OXXO" (a low tech system to pay for bills, in cash, through a large network of convenience stores owned by the local Coca Cola distributor).

Cash saves the day.

Next up he wants to pay me back. Cashapp/Venmo/Zelle are only for US residents. Local wires within the US are a pain. International wires are worse, and cost half of the amount he borrowed.

Solution? Pay me back in cash next time im in town.

The more suprising bit is that in this random anecdote cash ends up being superior to "cashless" even for one of its worse use cases (cross border transactions).
As promised, weights are available. For those who don't like Twitter / X, Here are the details from the README:

- 314B parameter Mixture of Experts model

- Base model (not finetuned)

- 8 experts (2 active)

- 86B active parameters

- Apache 2.0 license

- Code: https://github.com/xai-org/grok

- Weights: https://github.com/xai-org/grok?tab=readme-ov-file#downloadi...

Even more open than OpenAI.
Jet fuel does not contain lead. Jet fuel is for practical purposes roughly the same part of the dinosaur juice as kerosene and diesel. Jet fuel is burned in turbine and turboprop airplane engines, which comprise the enormous majority of the commercial fleet.

Avgas is the stuff with lead in it. Avgas is basically gasoline with lead added as an anti-knock agent and is burned in reciprocating spark ignition engines. Typically these are found in the general aviation fleet.
Isn’t that always the case? 1st amendment doesn’t change, no matter what is involved.
It's interesting you mention Tesla, because their sales clearly show that the growth expectation was not realistic.

And in case of Nvidia it's even much worse.

In order for Nvidia to be worth a decent premium over the yield of some index fund like VOO (you're taking much more risk), it has to grow in the order of 42% per year for a decade in revenue.

There's no such amounts of money to be spent in hardware, it's lunacy.

Not even the other tech giants combined have even a small part of the money required for such growth.

And on top of that, this is a very dynamic sector where any competitor, technological breakthrough can make you the new IBM.

Prices like Nvidia were highly overvalued but understandable with a stretch of imagination of 25% growth for a decade when it was 300$. I could almost see it and would've still concluded it was an unlikely outcome and risk/reward ratio was not there.

But now we long past that mark and in the territory of insane expectations and high premiums paid with a very high risk.
There's levels to tinkering though. When I was running Ubuntu, a lot of the tinkering came down to searching for what config files to update. Sure, that freedom is nice if you care to use it, but it's mostly just searching, configuring, experimenting. This is hardly fun or instructive.

A deeper form of tinkering is actually working on the code. I think an instructive example is writing your own X windowing system with xmonad. You get to see exactly how a whole windowing system works.
> LLMs already meet the criteria for what most people technically define as consciousness.

I strongly dispute this. Try "talking" to an LLM over time. It has no memory, no agency, no emotions, no desires, no pain, no sense of self.

I think cats, dogs and certainly primates are far more conscious than these stochastic parrots. It do agree it's frightening how many people are fooled by a fancy autocomplete.
Got any data on that? All of my mons injuries were related to syncope or loss of coordination (shoulder/arm/hip) due to BP/stroke/dementia. For the hip the nurse watched her trip on a corner
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> (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction

Banning pens and paper isn't a consequence of forcing Facebook to not allow drug dealing.

Or in the contradiction sense, forcing Facebook to not allow drug dealing does not lead to an absurdity of everyone being forced to ban pens and paper.

This isn't reductio ad absurdum.
Jack LaLanne, exercise guru and healthy-eating aficionado lived to 96. His brother Norman, who did none of the things his brother did to the same level, lived to either 96 or 97.
I thought it would be in the article, but it only mentioned muscle mass. I believe lifting weights actually improves bone strength as well, but I don't have the references available that say that.
I doubt the fact that we know we've had a good or bad sleep is related to the existence of awareness when in deep sleep. If someone remains indefinitely in deep sleep there will be no personal experience and therefore nothing to qualify as good or bad. When a sense of self returns with waking up then your body gives you the signals from the accumulated effects that you didn't sleep in a good position or whatever positive or negative aspect that has left a trace while you were out cold.

I'm not negating the possibility that consciousness might be a primary aspect of existence - it's just that if that is the case then it is not something you have or can remember. It would be more accurate to say that it is something that has you, and as some spiritual masters would point out, it would be even more accurate not to say anything about it :)
I don’t think solar powered irrigation is practical.

To water 10 acres of orchard in northern California, where our water levels are “good” (wells are 100-150 ft deep), we need about a 25 hp (20 kW) well pump. That’s ~2 kW per acre.

A typical irrigation cycle is on the order of 10-20 hours. So budget about 20-40 kWh/acre for a cycle, and repeat every 10 days or so (crops need to dry out between waterings else disease spreads.)

In theory, a kW of solar panels charging a 20 kWh battery for 10 days should work to water 1 acre for an entire summer season, at a capital cost of a wildly uneconomic cost of perhaps $20,000 per acre.

These are my wild guesstimates informed by some orchard experience, but please correct me if my numbers seem badly amiss.

ps: With PG&E power, we currently pay about $400/acre, per year.
Open Release of Grok-1
14% of a mouse life is several weeks.
The article references the SSJ Java package which is developed by the author and his colleagues. This provides implementations for many RNGs -- and some nice tools for simulations:
https://github.com/umontreal-simul/ssj
That’s a common refrain, and I guess seeks to explain academic blind spots. But I do wonder if it’s not rather a form of victory disease where some of your intelligence can effectively shield you from the consequences of your stupidity allowing to hold incorrect beliefs far longer.

As best I can tell the smartest people hold more true beliefs and have fewer blind spots which has me leaning towards the latter explanation. But as this is purely based on my subjective observations it’s possible that this is merely the result of my own biases.
That's a stupid metric, I don't know why they keep bringing it up. Japan is a good debtor and it's probably cheap for them to finance their debts so they could end up paying less for them than a bad debtor would for a debt worth 50% of their GDP.

Money spent on the economy stimulates growth even if it comes from loans.

I'm not an economist but probably I would probably define the ideal amount of debt a country should have is when the amount of economic growth coming from the extra money is equalled by the costs of financing said debt.
> (see Minneapolis just now)

Uber and Lyft decided to leave rather than prove that it's possible for them to pay better wages. They did not say they left because it would be unprofitable, they left because they said it would make rides unaffordable for riders.

> The companies argued that they would be forced to pass the increased cost on to riders, which would result in drivers eventually earning less. In a statement, Lyft called the bill “deeply flawed,” adding, “this ordinance would make rides unaffordable for the majority of Minneapolis residents.”|

(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/technology/uber-lyft-minn...)
i don't know.. few months ago, i asked myself similar question - should i still keep myself around programming-or-anything-IT - first time in, what, 40 years? i am 54, and been everything from bottom to top, transistors to prolog to CTO, but recently i see only politics and newbie-shortsightedness.. seems IT turned into self-entrenching Institution like all the rest. Maybe i should try hand-carpentery, total-DIY, fix-everything, cook, ... and ignoring the bills..

Mentoring and coaching maybe the only thing that still drives me in (and around that, may turn all the other cogwheels too).. but noone needs/pays-for that either.

hah. Will do some e-foiling. Bake on the sun. Then.. will see then.

email in profile, if you feel like it
I moved late in 2019, just in time for the 2020 election. When I updated my voter registration, I updated my phone number (a required field on the form). Huge mistake. I got endless SMS spam and since it was coming from an army of volunteers from across the country, asking any one of them to stop was of little value because it was basically a DDOS attack on my phone. The number of texts peaked at over 200 right before the election. Before correcting my phone number, I never received any political text message spam.

The same thing happened with political postal mail but at least that was something I could ignore until I opened the mailbox once a week and tossed most of it in the trash. Interesting aside is that dozens and dozens of handwritten (or auto-pen) postcards had local return addresses but they were all postmarked San Francisco, which was over 2000 miles from where I lived.
???

For the majority of boinc projects its just citizen science, they results are published for free. No money is involved.

I donate my computer time (and corresponding electricity costs) to projects I believe in or find interesting.
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Nowadays it's often hard to even notice a 4 MB file, especially when you're on a gigabit connection or better.

Of course unfortunately not everyone has a connection like that. But can understand how someone might have missed it.
I‘d also like to know what you mean by tab sleep restoration.
> Relation between consciousness and intelligence seems to be a problem for everyone including the authors of the article.

Which parts of the paper gave you the impression the authors struggled with this?
Any advice on this that makes it not so boring?

Push ups, squats etc. I find so mentally unstimulating it feels like torture to my brain. Podcasts audiobooks etc only help so much. On the elliptical I can watch documentaries which makes it tolerable to enjoyable depending on my mood so I stick to the elliptical but I know I need resistance training (re: weight training) but I hate the boredom
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Literally tons of aviation fuel vs. trace amounts of fresh lead solder. I think the fuel is obviously worse. Neither one may be so bad that it needs to draw excess concern of course.
Most obtuse poster award goes to…
As far as I am aware the virtual particles near the event horizon of black hole behave nothing like stars in a galaxy. For a start, stars much more massive (many many orders of magnitude) and aren't influenced by quantum mechanical effects in the same way as individual particles.
Or drones could take out your stealth planes on the ground.
It’s worth remembering here that correlation is not causation. An alternative explanation is (simply) that healthy people have stronger muscles, and are also less likely to die in the coming decade.
It's a 314 billion parameter mixture-of-experts, apparently trained using a custom framework using Rust and Jax.
Stanley invented, or at least popularized, a new kind of tumbler. It is insulated to keep drinks hot or cold, it has large capacity but fits in cup holder, has handle to make easier to carry.

I don't like since prefer smaller water bottles, but I understand why some people would. I also don't get the viral popularity, but I understand why social promotion of something people want and is new can take off. It is turned into phenomenon that people want just cause its popular.
It says we should all be rich together. Which would happen if
we all loved each other a bit more.
not all (or even most) of them are profit ventures, like at all. There are some along those lines.

I do Asteroids at home, they need help figuring out the shape and size of asteroids. The data is published for public use.
Leaders often need to make decisions based on incomplete information or uncertain outcomes. You have to trust your guts
Lots of confusion here. I really can't force myself to believe that training my grip strength with a small spring-loaded tool will extend my life and make my brain work better.

What I do know, though, is that my grip strength is fantastic, even though I don't squeeze any spring-loaded thingies. It's a side effect of doing regular deadlift exercises, as part of my strength training (roughly based on 5x5).

I also don't find it hard to believe that my strength training does bring benefits. Some are certain: life is much better when you're strong. Some are less certain, like living longer.
In addition to a few ill-considered projects to make reefs out of used tires, many tens of thousands of steel-hulled ships have been scuttled in tropical waters.

It's fine.
All depends on the companies goals and priorities, right?

Assuming Apple’s goal is to be the largest, richest, and most diversified company in the world - then sure, keep chasing honey pots. Maybe they can drill for oil, try to become an ad agency, and get their own bank charter next.

I’m obviously being cynical now, I just really don’t like (and think it’s gross) the direction Apple is going in now. It’s all shareholder and board appeasement, meanwhile employee retention and convictions are at the lowest I’ve seen from them. They just keep launching subpar devices and services hoping consumers will just follow them along for the ride, without actually offering any innovation in return.
WHO THE FUCK IS DOWNVOTING THIS?

@Dang - are you beholden to trolls now?

Jeauses.. asking who consumes bandwidth is not "dont criticise the bandwidth providers"?))

SERIOUS

Show me every sing account that downvoted this.

I gave you content, I uploaded an opinon for which you monetize - yet you take censorship on my provided content as well as revenue.

Show me.
Almost as if they did not want to prove it by showing how much demand dropped...

As the price increase would have just made them more profitable if they kept the same cut...
> In case you are interested, there are a total of 65,536 4x4 monochrome glyphs. Here is a uber texture atlas that shows all of them with our glyphs highlighted (red) where they are in the table.

So did this font exist all along and was simply discovered?

And same goes for everything we create, but just in higher dimensions??
I wouldn't surprised if that factors in as well.
I didn't mean anything nefarious here :)

Since Google would rather have the best brains in the industry build the next search indexing algorithm or the browser, they didn't have the time to invest human capital into building a better open source friendly dev environment.

A natural alternative is to contract out the work. Linux distributors were good candidates for such contract work.

But the vibe back then was Google could build better alternatives to some of these libraries and therefore bridging the gap between dev experience as an open source dev vs in house software engineer wasn't important.

You could see the same argument play out in git vs monorepo etc, where people take up strong positions on a particular narrow tech topic, whereas the larger issue gets ignored as a result of these belief systems.
I mean it's possible to have large scale programs that offer treatment and support for those who need it and decriminalization or a diversion focused approach to drug laws, while also making it illegal to shoot up in parks or defecate in public, and to enforce those laws.

It's really not all that complicated. The only places I see people breathlessly explaining that it's impossible are a few specific cities on the west coast of the United States.
So this isn't something anyone without H100s is ever running no matter how you quantize it.
Models like Claude's Opus are starting to eat into GPT4's cake. I think we are not far from OpenAI announcing GPT5 - could be tomorrow if you were to ask me.
"What he meant was..."
Unlike the flagrant dismissal in other comments I actually find use for projects like these. On some electronics that I write firmware for the OLED screen space real estate is incredibly limited, and when they need to output logs or debug info for developers it can be a pain to fit everything in a way that is usable, especially when there is no input to allow for scrolling or whatever.
Not my experience, and even if the depreciation is faster, the capex is so much lower that point-to-point wireless still comes out ahead.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
Do pull ups. Much more fun and satisfying than push ups
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