skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is, 99% of taxi drivers in Australia are Indian. Makes a lot of sense and it’s the context you’re not allowed to say.
It's kinda great for those of us wanting GPUs though. Nvidia might eventually decide it's not worth their time to bother with.
I wonder when Emad will be outed as a fed or a fraud. He's certainly leaving a trail of nasty behavior in the industry.
Standing by for the reckoning when the Treasury holds a T-Bill auction to a chorus of crickets.
Gen Xers and boomers are most confused by these emojis: study
> if unemployment is zero and everyone is flipping burgers, that doesn't seem to be an actual win for the working class.

That is nowhere near reality, so the supposition is a waste of time. Plenty of work is highly in demand, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, driving, etc.
When I was little, I had this... vision, idea, software that writes itself, land that is automatically farmed by machines/food that is grown by machines, and humans being able to focus on enlightenment, developing their mental capabilities, doing arts, exploring .

I think when you're young you might not see the whole picture, but you're still fresh and untainted by greed and way the world works.

We're already seeing software wrote software, we're kind of seeing autonomous machines and by the time I'll die we'll have machines growing our food.

But the monetary crisis will need to be solved. The accumulation of wealth being the main goal of everyone will destroy us in the end.

We could already feed the planet, but we aren't because of money and what it means. It means power over other people. Power to change things, power to live a comfortable life where others need to work.

If we can get machines to work for us, at we won't need to subjugate other humans, which might lead to a better world.
But the way there, if those with money don't want to let go of their control of other humans and additionally use machines to extend their control even further, this will be a bloody page im human history.

It could go either way.
Loneliness in Midlife: A Growing Gap Between US and Europe
Is it the first? The Apple Ultra series chips are two Max’s fused with an interconnect. In which case it’s both CPU and GPU.

I believe this is just the first for a GPU only product.
Once every 3-7 years? I've heard of them breaking before but I've never had it happen in a place I lived, including my parents' house growing up, and the houses I've personally owned. I've never had the spring worked on other than to have it installed in the first place.

Again, I know they break sometimes. It should not be happening every few years.

(But if/when it does, take my money. I'll replace my car's brakes and wire a new ceiling fan but I'm not touching that spring for love nor money.)
The economy is strong but people aren't feeling it because wages haven't caught up to inflation. It's a soft landing, which is great news, but hard to get excited.
An elevator on the ground floor and an elevator at the top floor have the "same" weight.

Not so for a 100%, 50%, and 0% open garage door. The 0% open door is the full weight; the 100% open door has very little weight (as most of the door is on the horizontal track).
Do you want every single subpage in the world to reexplain its context again?

Do you expect every SF Chronicle article to explain to you what SF is?
>Indicating that the aforementioned techniques are only useful for "panic attacks and anxiety" could come across to some in the same way my comment came across to you?

but the parent position in this case was rather extreme, denying any consideration of the future or past, saying all that matters is the present. It is one thing to attribute a generic description to a narrow and specific philosophy, and another to to attribute a narrow description to a generic philosophy.

> I think if you look at what's currently going on in the world and come to the conclusion that everything is fine and we should just continue the way we were used to, then that's actually quite cynical in my point of view.

My point was rather that there is a lot of bias in both domestic and foreign events coverage. If you did a global survey of "what's going on", you would probably find a overwhelming majority of people living peaceably, loving their children, and being friendly and kind, ect.
> Passing an ethics test and background check may indicate you're fit to be an attorney, but it certainly doesn't give you the skills or knowledge to be one.

Why should someone be prohibited from hiring such an person as their attorney though? The implication of what you say is that people shouldnt want them as an attorney but the question is if they should be disallowed.

Being presumed to be unskilled just doesnt seem like a good reason especially since you grant they are fit.
Ok actually, im on board
the massive blackwell SoC he showed is two Blackwell dies with an interconnect. It’s very similar to what Apple does with their Ultra series.

Then the B200 package is 2 of these plus a CPU. So a total of 4 GPU dies in each unit.
Great info, and now some chips are supporting Octo-SPI which is even more vendor dependent. At some point we're basically back to parallel flash...
Nvidia Blackwell Arch Technical Brief
A strong economy tends to cause higher housing prices. When people have more money then they naturally tend to spend a lot of that on upgrading their living arrangements.

Immigration is also a factor. I'm not trying to start an argument about immigration but the de facto open borders policy has brought in millions more people. That must have an effect, particularly at the lower end of the market.
Same transition some years ago. Siri is noticeably much, much worse to me. Borderline hopeless on a mixture of HomePod + HomePod Mini hardware.
Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
Enshittification strikes again. Sit out the Reddit IPO.
Dude is saying that someone who is works for 1h in a week is not included in the U-3 statistics.

The wife is reviewing job applications for a teaching position at her institution. There are people applying who did decent work in the past and are now writing assignments for study.com. That's some serious underemployment visible there.
It would depend highly on the model though. Some stuff will generalize better to FP4 than others.
If the problem is needing more competent people, that tends to be an expensive problem to solve because competent people generally cost more to hire.
Yet regardless of your nudging, the conversation moved into a productive and importantly curious discussion, which is one of the most important things when it comes to HN comment sections.
The idea is to introduce advertising into the responses—-subtly. Which will be extremely powerful.
"You're supposed to just be able to drink out of the river" seems incorrect at best
Yes and no are essentially the answers to your questions.
They are researching the use of certain ants as flavor enhancers. Mexicans know a thing or two about making food delicious, and Chicatana ants are used in Oaxacan cuisine to add complexity to sauces. Rest assured, this is entirely based on merit of the price-to-flavor ratio and not a conspiracy to replace your steak.
In this case, likely yes
Check out stoats hunting rabbits. Their strange antics put rabbits into a stupor, letting them eventually approach with little resistance.
would an adjustment of GDPR that forces websites to respect DNT solve the problem? am i missing something obvious? (aside from the pain in the ass that is amending laws) /gen
It kinda does explain a lot of their decision making though. Like the way they keep soldiering on with snaps that nobody wants.
Constantly rolling the dice comes at a cost of repeated rejection.

In the creative space, where the work or performance can be deeply personal and exposed, that quantity and frequency of rejection can be too much to bear.
What a f$&cking headache that is.
See sibling comment above about the variable counterbalance needed for a normal right-angle tracked garage door.

You'd have to match the counterweight to the varying load (i.e. garage door effectively gets "lighter" the more its raised).
rural areas have higher per capita crime. it's just less commonly reported.
I am skeptical whether "greedflation" is a real phenomenon. Corporations were no less greedy a few years ago. Recent high inflation rates are more likely connected to monetary policy.
Only after Operation Barbarossa. USSR was allied with Germans and started WW2 together with Hitler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland

>The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact.[15] The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September.

>The most remarkable event of this kind occurred at Brest-Litovsk on 22 September. The German 19th Panzer Corps—commanded by General Heinz Guderian—had occupied the city, which lay within the Soviet sphere of interest. When the Soviet 29th Tank Brigade (commanded by Semyon Krivoshein) approached, the commanders agreed that the German troops would withdraw and the Soviet troops would enter the city, saluting each other.[111] At Brest-Litovsk, Soviet and German commanders held a joint victory parade before German forces withdrew westward behind a new demarcation line

May 1st. 1941 Red Square, Moscow parade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbN_ujVWKY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day

>Notable parades included the parade of 1941 (which saw the presence of a Wehrmacht delegation led by Ernst August Köstring[133])
A strong economy tends to cause higher housing prices

A look at the data will tell you that housing construction does not meet demand since in the mid-1980's (!): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST. It's now obvious to anyone that the policy failure has caught up with the nation.

The problem is seriously compounded by the depopulation of rural areas and the fact that current new construction is not entry-level housing and never will be. You can't subdivide an exurban mansion into four apartments.
note that while Switzerland is sometimes used as proof that guns aren't the problem, they do ban private ownership of ammo.
Rivian starts offering adapters to access Tesla's Supercharger network
A few hundred points accelerating at 1g is still plenty of energy. It also comes with it's own challenges when it comes to releasing it.

It also provides a constant force, whereas the force required to raise a garage door linearly decreases the higher it gets. With the consequence that a garage door with a failed motor would slam into its stops over your head rather then into the ground. Followed shortly thereafter by the now liberated counterweight slamming into the ground.

https://www.physics.smu.edu/scalise/www/misc/bricks.html

*Wrong link
The better version of Claude 3?
They are claiming a 25x reduction in power consumption. That can't be right. Anyone understand where this number is coming from?
US standards body says ByteDance researcher wrongly added to AI safety groupchat
The various sigmoid activation functions have the effect of keeping bit growth under control, by virtue of clamping to the +/- 1 range.
The approach that Cranelift uses is what we call the "aegraph" (talk I gave about it: slides https://cfallin.org/pubs/egraphs2023_aegraphs_slides.pdf, video https://vimeo.com/843540328). The basic idea is that eclasses hold sets of operator expressions (think sea-of-node IR), and we keep that alongside the CFG with a "skeleton" of side-effecting ops. We build that, do rewrites, then extract out of it back to a conventional CFG-of-basic-blocks for lowering. The "equivalence" part comes in when doing rewrites: the main difference between an egraph and a conventional sea-of-nodes IR with rewrite rules is that one keeps all representations in the equivalence class around, then chooses the best one later.

We had to solve a few novel problems in working out how to handle control flow, and we're still polishing off some rough edges (search recent issues in the repo for egraphs); but we're mostly happy how it turned out!

(Disclosure: tech lead of CL for a while; the e-graphs optimizer is "my fault")
The US produced ~31.5 megatons of asbestos between 1900 and 2003,[1] where it was widely used in construction, manufacturing, industrial processing, clothing, and even film sets and Christmas decor.[2]

The US produced less than 112 tons of plutonium,[3] the principle trans-uranium element used industrially or militarily in the US, between 1944 and 1994.[4] This was, absent nuclear testing and grossly misguided military handling, not casually spread throughout the environment and most especially not in manufactured and constructed artefacts. And where plutonium contamination did occur it's been a multi-billion-dollar, multi-century environmental catastrophe.

Your argument is specious and utterly disconnected from reality in the context of asbestos's past and present uses and distribution.

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Notes:

1. <https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1298/>

2. Snow & film sets: <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-snow-asbestos/>, cigarette filters: <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kent-cigarettes-asbestos-f...>.

3. Others include curium, used in RTG "nuclear batteries"; americium-241, used in smoke detectors; and californium-252. All are effectively produced in trace quantities, on the order of kilograms at best, rather than tonnes.

4. <https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/pu50yc.html>
I'd like to see a full example to download and read.
You put in an order through the app like with Uber or Lyft, the car shows up and you unlock it through the app and get in the back.

The car drives to your destination without a driver, while avoiding the interstate.

It reminds you that your luggage is in the back, and won't let you say you're done until you take it out.

There's also a tablet in the front where you can watch it see different obstacles, people, and cars.

It's pretty cool, and it's very good at a lot of the harder technical aspects of driving, but it doesn't like bushes, and can get lost when it has to make turns/park close to bushes
> Not Europe nor China or Russia will catch the first mover SV

Welllll Nvidia manufactures everything in Taiwan so I woudln't be so sure about China there.
I don't recall the specifics - but I think the settlement usually included language around remediation or dismissal was pending remediation.

Typically it was just an embarrassing experience for some middle manager, some lost budget, and some extra dev hours to add 'WCAG Compliance' to the QA checklist.
I'd be fine if "ID for the web" was implemented with privacypass https://privacypass.github.io/
don't underestimate the UX improvments from tiny friction removal features. It can become the difference between a site no one usess to a site everyone loves
the fact that it affected 1000 people doesn't really matter. all you really have to do is explain the first 2, which can be something as benign as a social hypochondriac woke up with a headache.
Man... I was trying to use WebRTC over ten years ago to implement livestreaming from your phone's camera *within a PhoneGap app*! Didn't work too well.
This work comes from GitHub's Security Lab https://securitylab.github.com/
They compare against Zero123-XL, but they should compare against MVDream instead. MVDream is quite good. If you fiddle with the loss you can get even better results.
Their usage is fine, and I couldn’t have imagined interpreting it any other way until I saw your misunderstanding. But if you’re more interested in correcting arbitrary grammar rules than gaining a better understanding of the conversation you joined, that’s my cue to drop it and go do something better with my time.
Well, there's a difference between something entering your body through your digestive tract, and something entering your body directly through the bloodstream. Additionally, different substances have different bioaccumulation characteristics - some substances may accumulate in only in specific tissues (fat, muscle, etc.), a combination of tissues, or none. How an insecticide bioaccumulates in cattle would affect their suitability for beef.
WebUSB is actually a really OK API from a security point of view. Most high-security-impact USB classes (e.g. HID devices, allowing keyboard input logging; mass storage devices, allowing access to local files etc.) are marked as "protected" and only available to "isolated web apps" (which at the moment don't exist yet, as far as I know).
The law is pretty crystal clear. In many cases the issue is that websites are outsourcing their tracking to ad companies, which in turn apply those banners indiscriminately because that's in their interest.

You think a small company should roll their own tracking software? A mom and pop website that wants to track its conversion rate on its little eCommerce site?

Come on. Be realistic.
What would be an example of a “white people” story that you would like to hear?

Also, what happens if you get more accurate, and ask for a “Germanic,” “Scandinavian,” etc.. people story?
It's not in depth but that is not really Oliver's thing. He has 30 minutes to take an issue most people aren't aware of and bring it to light while somehow giving you enough context to care and ends with a call to action.
I read Atomic Habits late last year and it didn't really resonate with me. Maybe I just had too high expections of it, as basically everyone says it's a must read.

This year I've read "The 12 Week Year" and it clicked so much more with me. The book is more practical and goes deep into processes and steps you can use to achieve your goals.
I am a terrible person and have done this twice with a couple angle-ground pieces of rebar (almost perfect diameter) + a pair of vice grips.

On the one hand, nothing went wrong because I was careful. And rebar actually works really well.

On the other hand, it was pretty dicey, especially near the maximally-wound state when you're putting serious muscle into another quarter turn.

110% agreed on it being a 2 person job though. Reason #1: so someone is there to call 911. Reason #2: you'll need someone to cable up the drums while you're adjusting the spring, and it's way easier with 2 pairs of hands.
I took a high enough number to showcase the problem, for a fresher it doesn't change much even if that number is as low as 15 or 20, or even if 5 people that they don't know or at higher levels

also I feel like, the number of people that hop on the incident call are almost always related to the category of the incident, sure you can always break out to a separate room, but often the person would have already realised the impact and the weight of the incident
asan only catches what your test suite covers. specifically, that doesn't include novel attacks.
did it wind up being like a big prominence in the backyard?

I've found where the builders of my home buried tons of stuff. I have had to haul it all off myself. Thankfully most of it is just plaster and stuff. Oddly enough I think at least one employee was committing some form of sabotage, as I found a pit of never used materials like nails at one point.
The US is actually the leader here, but typical of the discourse on HN, people love to promote their own ideas above facts.

This ban eliminates immediately all use in the US, including chlorine plants.

The 2005 EU “ban” on asbestos has an exception for chlorine plants. This will eventually be phased out in 1 July 2025.

Jeeze EU, get with the times! Why does the US have to demonstrate the right path before you take it? /s

https://chemycal.com/news/e6b71d43-1892-454c-80a9-740207f556...
It does no good to design similar or even superior chips if you can't get them fabbed. How much of the world's fab capacity has Nvidia already reserved?
Zoom has breakout rooms
> "Multiply an insane amount of stuff" is not an interesting point in complexity-safety-performance space.

So in other words, Java is bad at scaling a basic math operation like multiplication?

> "In many ways Java is running rings around C++ performance"

The AI-space is proof positive of that being false. C++ is kicking Java's butt, squeezing literally trillions of ops per second of performance, all of this happening before the Java runtime can even startup.

The first transformer-based language model was built with PyTorth; imagine if PyTorch was a python wrapper for Java code instead of C++ code? It'd be garbage. I mean how freaking long did it take for Java to even get a basic Vector API? C++ devs have been writing SIMD optimized code for years now. And besides that, try getting a Java program to scale at tens or even hundreds or thousands of GPUs for a large language model. You'd need GPUs with literally 20-30% more RAM just to accommodate the GC.
If you do a jpeg compression, or crop the file, then does that signature matter anymore?
I almost want to leave peoples' minds closed about this kind of thing to avoid an increase in demand. I don't want my Sal de Gusano doubling in price either.
Sorting out PIDs, Tgids, and tasks on Linux
“I don't see how there's anything particularly special about land that warrants construing it as something fundamentally different from any other scarce resource.”

I’ve overheard enough conversations between high net worth individuals to say there’s absolutely unique qualities about land as an asset class or they wouldn’t hold so much of it.

read some solid reasons for land focused tax regimes long ago but couldn’t remember deets on why they were compelling so googled helped me remember …

‘Immobility: Land doesn’t move, making it a stable tax base. (Important for local services like deciding whether a town can afford the new school(s) or a road).

Scarcity: No more land is being created, so taxing it efficiently is crucial. (Kind of like capital itself)

Non-distortionary: Taxing unimproved land doesn’t distort transactions.

Local Funding: LVT may be an effective way to fund local government since land cannot be moved to avoid taxes’ (1)

(1) which BTW is the main reason often given why ordinary folks have to pay higher payroll taxes vs capital gains the wealthier brackets ‘pay’ because you know capital will just up and move somewhere else if we ask too much of them.

Well just tax the land, and if the capital holders want to move all their wealth out of the community, fine, but good luck extracting wealth from a local community without owning any land near it.

So yeah. Tax the damn land already. Especially to fund local government and services, which you kinda need to have a functioning society.

I clicked through because I’ve wondered often why there’s a dozen of these new washes in my community with ten more on the way and figured it was some financing/tax write off hack.
Corporations have record profits right now. When a handful raised prices, every other company raised prices in response, well above what they needed to pay for increased costs. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/greedflation-caused-more-half...
There are research papers where even 1 bit (not floating point) was enough, with some quality loss.

4 bits is effectively 16 different float point numbers - 8 positive, 8 negative, no zero and no NaN/inf. 1 bit for sign and 3 bits for exponent, 0 bits for mantissa, mantissa is implied to be 4. It’s logarithmic - representing numbers in the range from -4^3 to 4^3, smallest numbers are 4^-3.
Google has little to gain and incredibly much to lose from doing anything as heavy-handed and transparently shady as actually doing that type of fingerprinting on the web.

And why would they? They control the majority of users' browsers and can push through things that expand their advantage in plain sight, like Privacy Sandbox, Manifest V3 etc.