skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my favorite strange factoid of human migration, is that Madagascar was (majority) settled from Borneo, not from Africa.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-banjar-people-of-borneo-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Madagascar

includes the nice map:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Madagascar#/media/F...
The difference between good science and bad science is contingent on whether the search for funding aligns with the search for truth.
No - emergent properties are primarily a function of scaling up NN size and training data. I don't think they are much dependent on the training process.
I found the video to be great! Informative and understandable even when I'm just casually interested in compilers, with not a lot of real world experience writing them.
And over how many weeks? Humans are pretty darn good at walking for 40 days straight.
Why is it base off salary and not spend?

does this assume I contribute 15% to 401k or do I take 15% off my salary?

Does this assume my house is gonna be paid off?

What are the SS assumptions?
What is the unit of value? It doesn't exist.
> The author is a PhD student that has been using LaTeX heavily for 10 years. But what should a new student use, and why? When the only reason to choose LaTeX is old colleagues and gatekeeping publishers, I know it's a matter of time.

Sadly its more than that. Will we be able to compile a typst file made today in 10 years? I have to do that regularly with latex. Will everybody one collaborates with also use typst? Very unlikely. A new PhD student may find it beneficial to write papers with someone who only uses latex. then why bother with typst? (and I really want typst to win)
Totally wild assertion. Most physics departments in the world have only one or two theorists and most of them are not in string theory. And most young physicists don't have the inclination to pursue string theory (even if they had the capability, which many do not).
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I do wonder to what extent the MRI magnet poses a safety risk? Also these things are quite expensive, I wonder how the producers view the costs involved. I wonder whether fNIRS could be a cheaper and safer alternative. (Obviously, such a system is a good development.)
There is a set of techniques refined and published by noma that have been really influential in high end cooking the last decade. They use koji (the catalyst for miso and soy sauce, among other things) to break down protein and/or starch into sources of deep umami or complex sweetness.

The liquid forms of this are being called garum, though it's not a continuity of the ancient food by that name. The original book published a grasshopper garum, but recently I have seen much better ones based on bee brood, and a chicatana ant garum is one of the best things I've ever tasted. They are very complex and unique flavors, nothing is quite like them.
Proton should probably be splittable into quarks.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752116
> PBS Spacetime

I just tried that: Right away he was talking about the possibility of the universe being "infinite".

Yup, in physics courses, that one word was time to lose respect for the course, f'get about it, think about some of the pretty girls on campus, and get back to math, e.g., my paper on group representations, apparently of some interest in physics.
The application window switching has been glitching ever since I was forced to upgrade recently[0]. Instead of switching between windows of the same app it (using the keyboard shortcut) sometimes includes windows of all apps. Rebooting helps. Sometimes it starts working again for some unexplained reason after a while. Super annoying.

To be clear I'm talking about Keyboard shortcuts -> Keyboard -> Move focus to next window.

[0] I was running Big Sur because none of the recent MacOS updates really offered anything of interest to me, since I don't use most Apple software. But Homebrew and Element stopped working so I had to upgrade. I should've just upgraded to a newer, not to the newest version (which I tend to avoid due to issues like these that might come up). Lesson learned.
Just knowing the tax rate tells you almost nothing about tax burden. The US had high tax rates, but that’s not what people paid. There was an extensive system of deductions that were also eliminated when rates came down.

Japan is right at OECD average, just a couple spots above in tax burden for an average worker, and tax to GDP ratio. So people don’t pay the 56% published rate.
> Also it seems the Qt company makes it confusing on purpose.

Yes, things have changed. So annoying you can't just download an offline installer using a mirror of your choice, for example.

> One problem with Qt is that some modules are under the GPL and it is easy to end up inadvertently with a GPL dependency.

I never encountered such a problem, the GPL modules always seemed very niche and targeted toward specific industries (automobile, etc).
AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance
Ouch.

And far from the only bug in Sonoma 14.4: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/usb-hubs-printers-ja...
> Most of the search engines now have a summarizer at the top which is presumably LLM output, and search engines operate on the basis of ML in general.

There is still a difference between scraping content for the purpose of searching it and training on it.
This overstates things. There are many, many, theoretical physicists who worked on regular old quantum field theory in both a fundamental and material science vein. I'd guess that if you got all the theoretical physicists in the world together, string theorists would make up less than 30%.
I feel sorry for you that you live in the US. I don't. I've heard from colleagues from my (lovely) office that when they go to the US office the work culture feels so toxic. Sounds bad, mate.

I think you proved my point that WFH benefits older people and people with strong family units. I don't have any of this tying me down or supporting me, and if I lived in a hostile conservative area I would move because why would I want to be miserable about my surroundings.

I'm not sure what part of 'I don't have strong family or friendship units' that you don't understand. If you hadn't had a strong family behind you on your 20s, maybe you'd understand me too. I don't feel like people at work look down on me, again, when I was in a job like that, I left. It's as simple as that. I want a workplace where I actually like the people and people are sociable. It's a priority.

This weekend once again I had a terrible experience. I was distraught all weekend by my own. Today, I got properly washed and dressed, got out of my house and into the office, had some nice conversations, talked it through with a colleague who i'm actually close to during a smoke break, she gave me a hug, I ate the healthy subsidised food, bought some sleep supplements during lunch break, and it all helped me. Otherwise, I'd still be rolling around crying in my flat. What do you not get that just having SOMEWHERE to go during regular days is important to some of us. I honestly don't understand people that function without obligations like this.
Yeah, that’s what we figured as well. I had no reason to think that anything positive could come out of giving them $300. Even if they did give me my phone back for $300, I don’t want to reward extorting me.

I doubt they got any money for it, so it’s probably resting at the bottom of the Hudson River now.

It was especially frustrating for me because I was unemployed at the time, and really didn't want to be spending $700 of dollars on a new phone, so for a brief moment I will admit that I did consider paying the $300 if I had a way to guarantee that they'd actually give it back, but it didn't last long.
> Size of the files can be large in many GBs.

> Security is the main concern.

> Tool should be web based.

From your question it kinda sounds you actually have 3 main concerns, not just security. I can't give you any suggestions for web based tools but I can suggest:

1. Obtain a public SSH key out-of-band with the party that needs the large file and give them access to an SFTP share with that key.

2. Upload the file to a private S3 bucket and send them a signed link[1]

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/ShareO...
>Whatever their reason was at the time

Selling access to shared accounts on eBay-like sites.
I have no experience with refactoring a Python project. Wouldn’t type hints make it only somewhat more painful than refactoring Rust?
And the propaganda machine by big oil is running full steam ahead!

[0] https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/11/29/from-russian-pr-to...
It's not a loop, it's just seeing how much free labeling it can shake out of you.
A FreeBSD User Tries NetBSD 10-RC5
There aren't any network calls; It's all pre-fetched and stored in the javascript file. The file itself seems to be tagged to the build, but it's in the ./hypersplit/assets/index-<ID>.js file.
Yeah it feels weird to me too.

Similar/inspired-by software is fine but if a commercial project were to rip off everything down to the style and design of an existing app it would not be okay at all, what makes it okay if it's open source?
In New York City, heat pumps that fit in apartment windows could cut emissions
So, instead of micromanaging your investigation, we micromanage their facial expressions?

If Oscar wants your ideas, maybe he should be able to ask for them, or accept a spitball-session.

Whatever you conclude from his facial expression, maybe he can verbalise that himself, unambiguously if relevant; instead of frantic speculation based on first impressions.
The History of Bitcoin
Infinite Craft was only sending queries to ChatGPT when it encountered a new combination. Otherwise it was hitting a remote cache, and I think also a local cache before that.

I am assuming that this game can fully pre-load everything, as all splits are predictable.
There are no network requests when splitting, so I believe it's all local. Not sure a local LLM would be necessary if all the splits are deterministic and pre-computed.
What? I am using it in parallel to writing this comment. Without DevKit just plain C# extension (but newer Roslyn LSP).
How do you think this works in case of HIBP?
If you have accurate records for several ancestors who died of natural causes then you can put a reasonable upper bound on your lifespan. Do you have anyone in the previous few generations who lived to near 100? Lifespans haven't increased much for people who make it to adulthood.
I would argue that the difference in phrasing is what makes OP come across badly. "I'm glad I didn't do what that person did" just evokes satisfaction with your decision, perhaps relief that you made the choice you did. Saying you felt "so smug I didn't do what that person did", definitely comes off worse IMO. Now you are not just happy with your choice, there's this sense of self satisfaction/superiority that's a bit unsavoury.
Composting Toilets: Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 78
It just has a giant database of concepts and their splits built-in. Most of the time it's pretty unnecessary to run an LLM (directly).

https://lantto.github.io/hypersplit/assets/index-DhIQc66H.js
I did say like not believe.

Specific errors?

Counter references?
We do a react app on the frontend and actix+diesel REST API, with Keycloak JWTs for user management. The actix+diesel REST API is much more solid and less troubling than another python flask API we have.

I still think frontend/backend split is useful for the types of applications my team works on. Stateful, interactive UI clients written in React, without round trips for full page loads is going to be our choice until a Rust WASM frontend client system reaches maturity.
I just wanted to second this recommendation - while the video is nearly an hour long, it feels much shorter and is well worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
Good. I hope this court case blows up in the automakers faces. It won’t, but I hope.
As someone who has worked on many a network outage, and as someone who values in-person work time to get to know my extended teams and see faces, I will say that live troubleshooting in the same room is not valuable.

A good whiteboard software with incident exec summary, chat history, and "useful links" from troubleshooting chatter is needed.

Maybe I've benefitted from having my own team colocated during an outage. But it has rarely been useful to have a cross-functional outage team in the same room when doing log research.
I feel bad for folks experiencing problems, but the upgrade was uneventful on my Macs as well. Work also rolled out the update company-wide with no apparent ill effects, which is surprising given all of the enterprise-y junk they install.
I have a USB switch for my peripherals, but I haven't needed a KVM until now. That does sound convenient!
I don't think that is correct.

LLMs are literally predicting the outcome of an experiment really well constantly, yet they are best described as pretending to understand really, really well ...
What makes you say that? The first time I even heard of IF they were recommending 8 hours a day. I know there are different formats but 8 was definitely within IF
Is 0 meaningful as a boundary? It has nice numeric properties, but does it have real world impact?

To the extend that it does have real word impact, is that because positive different from negative or just the absolute value equal to zero is different from nonzero?
That's almost worse than leaking it themselves. There's also no excuse for sharing that data.
My "oh no" moment was a vision model reading this perfectly:

https://abadguide.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/jh66.jpg?w=640

Not an OCR program or anything specialized, just some generic (vision) llm that can run on my desktop with a dumb prompt...
They're on Chamblee Tucker Road right off of I-85 in NE Atlanta. Here's a screenshot from Google Maps: https://ibb.co/0tdBRR1
Cost overruns are a staple of government-led programs. Also, the government has very deep pockets (and plenty of credit) and should be able to deal with the costs as long as it remains a priority in our image competition with China.
I would expect James Webb has the same issue, and similar ways of dealing with it. It's just that it never hits the press, since it's a normal part of operations.

I'm not sure why Euclid's icing issue is getting some attention now, from the ESA article this was expected. Maybe it's just that it's slightly worse than anticipated, and they're changing their way of dealing with it?
Stanislaw Lem, Greg Egan.
Indeed, fantastic level! I was surprised I enjoyed the campaign as much as I did. FPS campaigns are usually a bit arse.
I had this belief for a bit while living in JP but i eventually realized there are some very key differences culturally that lead to JP’s stagnation. I worked with many college age students and their overwhelming sentiment was a feeling of being crushed by the conservative government and business practices. Entrepreneurship looks very different there.
Cost to Fine Tune?
How much it costs to fine tune in terms of some range and what factors influences how high the cost will be?
Any context? Is this a real live feed or is it some simulation (the URL is a part of this confusion, given it sends to play.trytrench.com)?

If real, then how are you fetching the data? Is it truly real time? Did you process it beforehand and then serve?

Like, the whole thing seems neat, but I am also struggling to really figure out the what and the why and the how. Perchance having a simple “About” page somewhere on the website would be helpful.
Good thing LLMs aren't a glorified statistical model, then, eh?

Anyway, why wouldn't there be? You reach out to the parent company with an issue and request for improvement. If you're a big enough client, you get your request prioritized higher.
Same as with any other product that's part of your product today.

The appliance of LLMs today isn't straight up text in, text out; It has become more complex than that. Enough that it can be improved without improving the LLM model.

Your argument is moot.
The legal and PR teams just stick their heads in the sand. For example one could say "While there was unauthorized access there is no evidence that any personal information was taken." There's zero incentive to confirm the extent of PII leaks as it just triggers more liability and regulatory scrutiny.
In NYC; they've got population density such that neighborhood scale heating/cooling systems become viable. See the steam systems.
the parable also has a "separating perception from reality" flavor for the science types.

that is, the market is perception of what is out there, reinforced by the herd mentality. the reality is what actually exists.

eventually perception and reality tend to converge.
Cantor's proofs showing that Z and Q are countable and R is uncountable.

Cantor's "diagonalization proof" showed that.

Turing extended to the computable numbers K, which can be conceptualized as a number where you can write a f(n) that returns the nth digit in a number.

The reals numbers are un-computable almost everywhere, this property holds for all real numbers in a set except a subset of measure zero, the computable reals K which is Aleph Zero, a countable infinity.

The set of computable reals is only as big as N, and can be mapped to N.

It is not 'non-standard numbers' that are inaccessible, it is most of the real line is inaccessible to any algorithm.

Note the following section for the first part.

"Non-Absoluteness of Truth in Second-Order Logic"

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-higher-order/#NonAb...
I said I was done with the conversation, but: Good answer. Credit where due.
Typst is a single file binary. The preview packages are versioned too. If typst breaks the API in ten years, I'd still be able to download the old binary and make a PDF from scratch. I can't begin to imagine the complexity in installing multiple texlive distributions side by side.
Looking at the post history from that site on HN, it's amazing how the author of the post keeps finding projects with totally irrational leadership that can't accept brilliant ideas /s
What are limitations of open AI because those are opportunities?
What things open ai is not good at like coding, mathematics as they are fields where there is opportunity?
Thank you that's exactly why I posted that here, trying to gather the collective sleuthing about the subject.
Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays
followed by years of monotonic performance degradation as the flaws in the original are iteratively discovered and remediated.

This doesn't make any sense and nothing in this comment is something an experienced optimizer would say.

I'm not sure where the fantasy comes from that java is going to beat C++, but anyone experienced in optimization is going to control their memory allocations, then control data access being linear so the prefetcher works well, then control memory alignment, then worry about SIMD and multi-threading.

When people talk about optimizing in java, it's usually about turning off the garbage collection, fighting with the garbage collection etc. Memory allocation is trivial in C++ because so much ends up on the stack and preallocating memory is trivial. Java optimization gets stuck on step 1, trying to control memory allocations and pointer chasing.

Show me a program in java and I will show you how it can run faster in C++ (and possibly even faster in ISPC).
It's always on econ articles that people have to worst takes, good God.
I had no idea. Thanks for directing me to more readings on them.
Typst is exciting, but I wish their roadmap would prioritize features in common use in LaTeX like microtype rather than niche new features like style revocation.
it really is astonishing how little respect large american companies have for their customers and for the general vibe of society.
Betrand paradox (in probability) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)) is a great counter example of how you can have a meaningful discussion with a poorly defined question. A bit of a meta example, as the meaningful discussion of how what appears to be a well defined question isn't, and how specifically defining a question can give different answer. It also shows that there are multiple correct answers for different definitions of the question. While they disagree, they are all correct within their own definition.

Back to the topic of neural networks, just talking about why the question is hard to clearly define can be a meaningful discussion.
The jb .5 can be removed, saving 2 bytes.
There are other optimizations, like inc di/jmp short avoid_command which could be moved before avoid_command, saving another 2 bytes.
Getting the second resource (can't post emojis here) means you hit a quark, loop or a dead-end. I have a version where it continues splitting to up/down quarks and then fantasy matters but it quickly derails into chaos.
There's also: https://www.keyvalues.com/
Weird comment... yes, they are, but what is faster for me to type `rm .cache_dir/function_name*.pickle` or just to delete the one sqlite file in my file manager / vscode file tree.

Regardless, there are other reasons why sqlite is nice for this, you gain control over locking and thread safety without having to implement it all from scratch
Come on, be serious.

Pandoc can "convert" html to things too, but you wouldn't use it as a web browser.
There’s a whole genre of videos on YouTube simulating the PSAs of large scale disasters. Nuclear war, meteors, etc. My 12 year old is really into them.
Market forces at work. Make something too hard or too expensive to use and someone will 'innovate' to make it easier or less expensive.

I'm not saying this guy is in the right. But neither is Disney or the motion picture association. Lots of wrongs adding up here.
Now adjust for the fact that these are all ex astronauts, so will probably be fitter than the average 88 year old? Is there data for life expectancy given astronaut?
True. And at least some of them would probably be doing pure math if they weren't doing physics. Some of their toys are, but again probably not that much really in the grand scheme. I think there's just a generalized frustration that a cadre of mostly very bright people seem to have largely spun their wheels for 20 years.
Doesn’t Snow Leopard have printer sharing? i.e. you can skip the generate PDF and copy steps, assuming both machines are on your LAN
It's an interesting setup, and I like the idea of the service. But I'm not sure how well it'll work. Captchas have been fairly ineffective at stopping bots for a while now, and they'll only get worse as AI and vision models get better at this stuff.

Might work for a while just because of the novelty factor though. Don't think any bots/automated scripts are set up to recognise what a human check is yet, or that they'll need to open an external link and fill in a captcha to pass.
Don't disagree, but it is is nuts how AMD is leaving billions on the table by not finishing the project by writing the software.
They keep breaking and + unbreaking my old Samsung Laser Printer (PCL compliant) I think 14.4 fixed it, for what it's worth. Since Linux CUPS and Apple use the same underlying open source drivers, Arch is bug-for-bug compatible.

I wish they performed some sort of automatic regression testing on stuff like this.
It's an insincere argument

It's not reasonable to connect vitamin D to anything 100k years ago when vitamin D is so heavily influenced by diet and weather, both of which changed wildly. Lactose tolerance, megafauna, fishing, the last glacial maximum- just 20,000 years ago people were undergoing massive differentiation in vitamin D production and utilization.
Well noted physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper did eventually give up on string theory and switch to another line of research.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3554854/