skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, Gaelic is much more phonetic than English, it's just a different mapping of phonemes to letters.

(much of English is actually phonetic as well, except there's no marker for whether the word is using the Anglo-Saxon scheme, the Germanic one, the Nordic one, Greek, Latin, or some combination of those within a word e.g. "television". Or absolute nonsense like someone using the Greek scheme for Gaelic resulting in "ptarmigan")
Can you comment on why you think it is a issue for anyone to hop on a incident call, whether or not they can contribute?

It is one thing if they are being disruptive, but I don't see a problem with observers.

For this thread, the fact that some people may feel scared to share a screen or participate if the group is too large, again that is for the IC to control. But I wouldn't kick anyone else just for lurking, there may be a good reason and I'm not going to call out every one on the call asking why they are there, that is just as disrupting.

TIA
But what's research? Would loading some new documents into model for training is research?
ho I see. It's kind of a programming interface, a "higher level" language, a plug-in.

for exemple, GdScript in Godot game engine would fall into the "embedded dynamic language" ?
Still, good for a country to have it's own on-prem AI supercomputer than being at the mercy of foreign cloud providers who can terminate you at any time because your research breaks some obscure and vague ToS they made up.
> Keep in mind that a string theorist would probably just flip all of this on its head by pointing at the total lack of progress from their detractors.

This is just the Politician's Syllogism[0], though:

We must do something.

This is something.

Therefore we must do this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician's_syllogism
Corona Borealis is easy to see from the northern hemisphere. This nova gets to around 2.5 magnitude which should make it fair game to pick out with the eye even with some light pollution as in the SF bay area.
Ah everyone should make a raytracer and an enigma cracker :)

My own exploration https://williame.github.io/post/145830743193.html
+1 Depending on how complex the system/tooling is, it is rarely just one log file to share in a text editor.

If you have logs, metrics, tracing, other dashboards for context you want to see how they are debugging.

Some of these tools are very complex and other eyes can help pinpoint inefficiencies.
They say Approximately 10 kg of MLI covers Euclid's two science instruments, but this material can absorb 1% of its own weight in water so at most 100 grams of water.

Assuming they were careful, maybe a tenth of that remains, so around 10 grams of water, a small fraction of which sublimates and eventually meets a mirror and deposits there. They say it's "several layers of molecules".

I suppose they could have used another type of insulation, but since they also have very precise temperature requirements, maybe it was a trade off they had to make.
In my years of doing this sort of thing. I only had it really be DNS once. The issues I usually see blamed on DNS is when DNS is 'abused' to do things like load balancing and the TTL is very small. Then you need goofy things like 'sticky sessions' and what not to work around that.
Not that bright but it is visible to the naked eye even in presence of mild light pollution.
What are you using it for? A disk based cache seems almost contradictory for my use cases, I would love to hear yours. Anything that I would store on disk, even as a cache, I can generally put in SQLite.
Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017
> If you're able to predict with high confidence how this effects the yen/usd rate, then you can make a huge amount of money on fx arbitrage.

Thats not true. It could be the case that the effect of interest rates on exchange rates is obvious to everyone, and therefore it is already priced in.

Interest rates are not an obscure, arcane thing. Lots of people in finance know how they work, and know how they effect various parts of the economy.
Honestly, Harbor Freight jackstands are just as safe as the others (sans the recalled ones from 2020ish). Regardless of brand, you want to employ a backup safety system—like removing some wheels and shoving them under there.
> Under a land value tax, building on your land does not increase the tax you pay. That’s the point!

The Georgist LVT is much more bizarre than that. Your taxes don't go up as a result of the improvements you make to your land, but rather they go up as a result of the improvements your neighbors make to their land, if such improvements lead to increased perceived market value for the entire area.

Ad valorem taxes already do this to some extent, but are tempered by assessment rules and annual caps on increases, to prevent people from losing their own property just because of external fads or the subjective feelings of others.

I guess I just don't get what benefit the LVT proposals are bringing to the table. Ad valorem taxation already exists, it's already well-developed enough to have safeguards against the worst-case outcomes, and all the Georgist LVT would do is reinvent the wheel, but this time using design principles anchored in a fundamentally incoherent ideology that brings along a lot of other dangerous implications.

I have to ask what real-world problem any of these proposals are a solution to, because from my vantage point, I don't really see one. I see devotees of an abstract doctrine going out of their way to contrive scenarios to apply their doctrine to.
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I noticed it happening to me a few times and I was curious too see how common it is
I'm not particularly interested in what constitutes a "real astronomical prediction", I'm more interested in the crux of the topic: Are there common traits shared amongst people with similar birthdates that experienced astrologists can identify and use to correctly place an individual into one of 12 buckets based on a short interaction?

I originally was like you and thought the answer was "no, my birthday says nearly nothing about me". However, over the past few years I've made a point to ask all new strangers I meet ("met at a bar" type folks who I had 0 prior connection to, so excluding friends of friends/etc.) who display an interest in astrology to guess my sign and state their astrological confidence. Roughly 85% folks who are "very confident" in their knowledge of astrology correctly guess it first try, often with little to no hesitation (N = ~8). The folks who are not as confident vary: some will also get it first try, some will take a couple, some give up after like 6.
It's curve fitting at its core. It just so happens that when you fit a function with enough parameters, you can start using much more abstract and higher-level methods to more quickly describe other outcomes and applications of this curve fitting. Really simple algebra just with a lot of variables. It's not a black box at all and it's disingenuous when people call it that. It outputs what it does because it's multiplying A and B and adding C to the input you gave it.
Of we can get AI to produce good quality images from ultrasound sensors and then to interpret the images, we can reduce the level of training required to use such devices.

Imagine high school and junior high health classes teaching the use of these devices, getting the students certifications that require maybe 8 hours of coursework plus a 30-minute exam, then sending most of the clas home with a 21st century tricorder.
Fresher is not a good term for this example.

There are engineers that are great coders but bad in a incident environment. They may not be fresh, but also need the same help as a "fresher"
> where the people speak a language that is not English

How would that be relevant...?

> they are basically a clone of the US

I don't necessarily see this frame in the article. If you mean that it cites "american" indicators, it's because those are pretty generic economic indicators shared by pretty much any capitalist economy. Are they the full picture? Certainly not (their infamous public debt, just to mention one, is not mentioned), but mentioning them doesn't imply that they are "basically a clone of the US".

> it really needs to be part of a "Japan Economy" wiki

I mean, each and every country needs its wiki, but life is short.

> IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate

I'm not sure what you mean - leaving banks free to set interest rates? Nobody in the world does this currently. Or just having an independent central bank? The BOJ is more or less as independent from government as the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank (at least formally).
> They're gambling with people's lives to make themselves look impactful, nothing more.

They laid people off, they didn’t send them to the gulag. It’s just business, no lives were gambled in the remotest stretch of the imagination.
Japan is not a mystical fantasy land where the implementation of fiscal policies is radically different. And interest rates are set by the central bank, it's literally a knob where a central planning can influence the economy.
Tomato sauce!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURB-vo9rZ4
> I get a requirement, find a solution and the solution is 99,99999% not a new algorithm. I actually believe i never invented a new algorithm.

I can think of tons of things I do in my day-to-day programming that, while certainly not new or remarkable advances in technology, are at least new enough that you're not going to find a Stack Overflow thread for it.

Again, you guys are pointing to a code generator that can generate functions or code snippets to accomplish a particular task, and again, that is cool and I think it has a huge usage if nothing else as an assistive learning tool when you're trying to pick up a new language or get better with a library or what have you. But again, my point is, ask it to do something that doesn't appear in a bunch of those threads. Ask it to solve a particular bugbear problem in your codebase. Ask it to invent a new language, even a high level one.

> It can easily try and do things 1000x fater than us, including reasoning

AI is not a reasoning machine, though. I'd be very interested in what you mean by the word "reasoning" in this context.
It is true for most web apps that are just moving data between a database and HTML.

Rust has features for maximizing performance and optimizing memory usage, but for a lot web apps JS or Golang can be efficient enough.

Rust has features for safely working with large projects and complex multi-threaded code, but for web apps simple request-response processing may be good enough.

On the front-end only JavaScript can touch DOM or communicate with the rest of the world, so all your Rust will only be delegating work to JS. That's a pure overhead, unless you have a lot of other computation to do.

Rust is still awesome for lower-level networking infrastructure (servers, proxies, etc.) and tooling (e.g. log parsing and stats, compression, image processing).

Rust can be beneficial for web services that are compute heavy or process large amounts of data (e.g. working with map data) and tasks that need speed and low latency (e.g. video conferencing back-ends).
Disclaimer: I’m a total outsider, not in physics or even academia, so what do I know? But threads like these make me think that some entire branches of science are less and less about the search for truth, and more and more about establishing a “personal brand” made up of a bundle of research and papers, recruiting supporters, and defending that bundle from detractors. It sounds exhausting and not what comes to mind when I think “science.”
You mean in mid-conversation or after you finish a conversation?
this piece is quite old (latest release is sept. 2020), so i assume they sont maintain it anymore. what would be a suitable alternative (which is also configureable via puppet, ansible,...)

i know vyatta, openwrt, opensense, ipfire?
Livelihoods, then.
The Lord, our God, the Lord is one.

r * theta = 1

r ^ 2 * theta = 1
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That sounds clever, but it is actually devoid of both insight and information. There is nothing to be learned from that wit, witty as it is. Contrast with the question it is cleverly dismissing, which could potentially help us move technology forward.
Japan ranks number 3 in the world in life expectancy. United states is 47. Japan seems to be doing just fine so far.
One of the problems with psoriasis is that it seems to behave differently for different people and also changes over time too which makes it very much a case of trial and error to find what treatments work for people.

There's definitely a link between psoriasis and vitamin D, but as you state, it's not necessarily a deficiency that triggers it. However, anecdotally there's people who do benefit from taking vitamin D3 (along with K2 seems to be a popular combo) so I think it's worth a shot though I have tried it in the past without much success (that wasn't erythrodermic psoriasis though).

I've definitely noticed that sun exposure does help with plaque psoriasis and most people will see that their condition worsens over winter - that may be due to lower sunlight levels or cold, dry air exacerbating skin issues. And yes, psoriasis does affect people's self-image, so it can be embarrassing to expose skin when it looks like you've got some kind of plague.
But don't they already have the EuroHPC infrastructure?
> There's already a "pandemic" of incorrect and/or hypochondriac "at home" diagnosis going on, along with quack pseudoscience

There is also a revolution in hone medical technology.

It takes a long time for us lay people with cool medical gadgets we got off eBay to learn what the results mean, but we will get there.

If fed.gov wants to help, they could test these devices, then offer training and certification so those who take advantage of the certification classes will know how to get reliable results and (more importantly) what the machines can not do.
Also, if you want LBR on Zen3 or earlier, you're SOL. I noticed that one the hard way.

Stuff like this is making me lean more towards getting an Intel for my next computer, at least on desktop where their worse power efficiency is less of an issue. But then they keep gating AVX-512 due to their E-cores not supporting it... You really can't win these days.
10% of retirees have $1M+ in savings
Did you forget to include a link?
That reading doesn't make much sense though, because it was toxicity in a group working in a very different context: hep-th and hep-ex are such different fields by now they had to formally create positions for people bridging the two subjects.

He could just as well used the story about the PhD student in computer science studying in Florida that committed suicide because their supervisor was trying to force them to publish incorrect results. (And then added how smug they felt about that group not getting awards).
That is too bad. I actually was getting kind of turned on by Rust/WASM and was contemplating switching career in that direction.
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Short summary of other pieces of info:

- images are quite likely to dissappear, especially if there were many consecutive prompts;

- sometimes full chats dissappear;

- sometimes my prompt is replaced with a different prompt and I get totally random content;
Any thoughts on the part you missed out, actually talented people using these tools to either accelerate their production or even perform as a different type of/genre of performer outside the constraints of their physicality.

Think those lines of discussion are far more interesting than the well trodden "low talents will use it, then fail" path.
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I replaced my torsion springs a few weeks ago with little drama. The hardest part was measuring the old springs so I could order the correct replacements. The reason I did it myself was 1) the springs used by contractors are typically lower quality and will last 10k cycles vs about 30k for the standard ones I ordered. 2) I wanted to learn how the system worked so I could adjust it as needed and know it was done right and not be reliant on an ‘expert’ same as why people work on their cars 3) labor costs in Seattle area are higher than most other areas. The best video on replacement is https://youtu.be/xOXO01rdZ5c?feature=shared. I used zip ties to hold the cable pulleys and open mouthed bracket in place instead of the vice grips as he did in the video. I did not weigh the door. I did it alone, though probably not recommended. I ordered from DDM Garage Doors. I wouldn’t recommend Amazon vendors as they all look pretty sketch. Definitely order proper winding bars with good rubber stops to help you ensure you’ve inserted it fully before each wind. If you are at all mechanical minded (replaced a clothes dryer drum? ), this is doable. Just go slow and be safe. Took me about an hour to remove the old springs, 3 days to get parts and 3 hours to install including having to repeat the winding because the cables came off during the first try. I wore gloves, safety glasses and during the winding of the springs a bike helmet and an over the ear headset to protect my ears. Probably could have used teeth protection, and a chainsaw type face shield. The dangerous part is tightening the set bolts while the spring is tensioned . If you aren’t paying attention, I can see that it might be easy to bump the bar out of place, releasing the tension and potentially shooting the bolts back at you or the spring catching your gloves and fingers and shredding them.
The (missing word) person who 'nearly lost it due to the intense flavour'.
Titanfall 2 is also fantastic and still has a fairly active community!
I just think we're talking about a completely different problem with AI optimization. There's $billions of effort and research that goes into AI optimization. Scaling model size and training set size happens because it's what the research and evidence tells us will improve model performance reliably. If we could reduce any of it for the same performance we would. Top model performance is an arms race and it's happening at every expense. The largest players are all shooting to beat GPT-4 or Claude Opus and achieve AGI (whatever that means).

This is very different than a program that requires zero research breakthroughs to dramatically improve and is simply slow and bloated because people have different priorities.
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True, I hadn't noticed that at first glance, and I didn't see that as a third-party cookie in my site data. Nonetheless, I regularly see cookie warnings on sites with purely first-party cookies or even "just" session storage. (Mostly, I have been alert to this for the past year as I've started making non-personal web sites in Europe.)
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Either one. I first noticed in older conversations, but it happens also in current chats
This seems like a very practical and well thought out approach. Turning unstructured data into valid structured data is in my experience one of the most important things for integrating LLMs deeply into a pipeline. Doing that fast and cheap goes a very long way for these use cases. Also, if you need stronger content generation than this, nothing prevents you from generating some higher quality content in another LLM and then passing it through this to structure it.
Did they fix the servers yet? For a long while there it was nearly impossible to finish a multiplayer match, the servers were getting slammed with some kind of attack and rendered it basically unplayable. I would love to get back to some Frontier Defense...
Would it be possible to hack the management engine in such a way that during boot it makes an internet connection and imports some logo from the internet?

Or is it more theory?
Ironic that they're reintroducing being able to play games from a shared library at the same time as the sharer is playing something else, when they removed that years ago for . . . Whatever their reason was at the time.
Most of the developers and managers won't know what change needs to happen. If they did, they would have done it, and you wouldn't have been hired. They can give you insight into the lay of the land, but you'll get nowhere by considering everyone's prescription; the majority of them will be wrong and a minority will be right but you'll have little way to tell which is which.

Whether or not metrics will capture it, the efficiency of the organization can best be increased by centralizing the teams around one common toolkit to cover most use cases. You'll have to be judicious in deciding which cases can be exempted.

No matter what you provide for these teams, they will tend to stick to what they know unless they are forced to switch. Some can probably be persuaded, but your success will likely depend on having the backing to force them to switch one by one. The first ones will be the most difficult and then you can gain momentum.

Use your metrics cynically to this end. This all probably sounds rather dark, but leadership is tasked with leading, and inefficiency and disorder will rule the day until someone steps in and leads.
Man, we share a lot of thoughts in common. I would like to drop you a line by email.
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Certainly one aspect of GDPR is about how you share data with third-parties. But self-hosted analytics are still subject to GDPR and/or ePrivacy restrictions if you process full (unredacted) IP addresses, any user-identifying tokens, or anything else deemed as PII (Personally Identifiable Information) for purposes such as analytics without seeking user consent.
I don't feel confident a complaint would be easy to get through. After all, my MRI example is standard procedure, good luck making a case against that. Besides, layers cost money.
It's not difficult to just ask the persons involved. You aren't going to get a uniform set of responses arguing for the affirmative; many people (a) aren't doing their best, and (b) are comfortable saying so.
In case anyone is interested in learning more about this star, Dr. Brad Schaefer wrote a nice article about it in the March 2024 issue of Sky and Telescope (subscription required):

https://skyandtelescope.org/sky-and-telescope-magazine/insid...

There is also an open-access journal article from March 2023 that summarizes his research on the system:

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/524/2/3146/7077557.

And a blog post announcing the latest estimate for the eruption (2024.4 +/- 0.4):

https://www.aavso.org/news/t-crb-pre-eruption-dip

My organization, the AAVSO, has material that can help you learn how to observe variable stars and make scientifically useful measurements. You can do this by eye, with binoculars, with a telescope, or with various digital sensors. In the case of T CrB, visual observations will yield very useful information. Please see https://www.aavso.org/tutorials and https://www.aavso.org/observing-manuals for more information.
If I ever need a table saw I'm getting one of the pricy ones that stops before it chews up your hand[1].

My cousin is a professional furniture maker and lost the tips of 3 fingers to a table saw. It happens quickly.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/shorts/vCuLs31fDaQ
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Is it?

I don't see any code there, just examples and docs:
https://github.com/modularml/mojo/tree/main
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