skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> otherwise it wouldn't be viable for the company that wants the infrastructure.

Well, isn’t that a proof that the benefit doesn’t balance the downsides? What if the answer were really “We shouldn’t build more infrastructure, we shouldn’t overpopulate this city anymore” ?
Stress from overwork (Americans are overtime hogs relatively), no vacations, and mental health issues which likely stem from higher childhood traumatic violence [ACEs] (dead canary: spanking and mgm are still stupidly common) causing knock-on effects down the line with higher disease morbidity.
The losses are too large for this to work in the real world. I don't think anyone (other than money-is-not-a-problem buyers) want to trade the minor inconvenience for a 40% higher electric bill.
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I quite like the idea of dedicated hubs a decent distance away from anything else, but you'd still need to staff and supply it so "the middle of nowhere" probably isn't feasible.
Because JS/html provides APIs to perform cryptography(I can't recall whether the cryptography specs are part of ES or HTML/DOM) - if you try to implement constant time cryptography in JS you will run into a world of hurt due to the entire concept of "fast JS" being dependent on heavy speculation, and lots of exciting variations in timing of even "primitive" operations.
No, I definitely feel that Firefox is forgetting some of my bookmarks. And the search is indeed awful.

I switched to buku and rofi-buku, which is more robust, convenient and accessible solution. And not tied to a single browser (I use several, for example, different browsers for leisure and for work).
Tackling these boundary problems are the literal "edge cases" in geospatial indexing and they exist everywhere, so this i a good reason for using an existing library as the authors have already solved them.

Hexagons are cool, but they are not necessarily the bestagon for a spherical geometry since you cannot break a hexagon into smaller hexagons, whereas an S2 cell is a "cube" with spherical sides or HEALPix uses a rhombic dodecahedron [0] both of which can be split into smaller divisions of themselves.

Not to discourage you from your experimentation, it's all trade offs and you might find a good one. Good luck!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
Are there any open source projects that is tackling Natural Language -> workflow definitions? Note, I think it already works pretty well out of the box, just have GPT generate some yaml definition
If anyone from Bulma sees this, it's a little off-putting when your sponsors section is mostly online casinos.
I assume they went with "most expensive" because they couldn't say "best".

The concept of an American title is confusing to me. I'd love to hear that elaborated on a bit, but I'm thinking this whole thread is about to get flagged out.
The Palantir principles that catalyzed a generation of startups (2023)
"Stop the line?" – snap scam attack
Something like an STM32 Discovery board is a good option for recapturing the mid-90s magic. You can get a ~200-MHz Cortex-M4 or M7 with a few MB of flash, external SDRAM, and a display for less than $100. They have really basic hardware 2D accelerators.

The on-chip peripherals are well-documented, but off-chip peripherals require some digging to figure out how to program correctly.

You can debug with GDB surprisingly easily, or find a Forth to throw on there and just start poking registers.
Sounds like he would sure love the Abrahamic God - the one when inquired of “who should I tell them sent me” responds with “I AM”
You likely would. The simplest example would be a high-speed train that connected two airports (either two existing, or an old and new). You could imagine a high-speed subway that connected JFK to EWR that was about 30 minutes or less. Now you don't have to work out how to get to a specific airport, you get to the closest one.

For people without luggage, the difference is minor; but if you are checking bags it would be a huge advantage to dump your bags as soon as possible.
Yeah, but it doesn’t link up with the M1 line so there’s no interchange. Also the rolling stock isn’t compatible as it uses a different power system to the other lines, and the trains are a slightly different size making them incompatible with the M1/2 lines
Thanks! And gotcha, apologies that it was unclear! DryMerge is a web app that runs in the browser, here's a demo video of it: https://youtu.be/S4L3B21vXGY.
I have several Brazilian friends (mostly in/around Campinas) in SP state who refuse to fly in/out of Congonhas because of that risk. Thankfully now Viracopa is even more convenient and nicer.

Honestly, the irritating thing for Americans flying to Brazil is the frequent need to fly into either Rio or SP and then domestically transfer to the other, due to paucity of flight options [at reasonable prices].
> And training on all human-made media needs to be banned also.

You're right. Companies would need to implement draconian "content attribution systems" to scan all creative works to ensure no training data was derived from copyrighted sources.

This could result in a "chilling effect" where creators self-censor for fear of their original works being flagged as infringing simply due to incidental similarities. Because now we have to scan every human work, as it might have been generated with AI.

It opens up the prospect of expensive litigation over subconscious inspiration or vague resemblances to prior works.

Taken to the extreme, it could hamper creativity and innovation by making any new work legally risky to publish if AI analysis deems it too "similar" to something else.
The ocean warming is well explained. It’s the result of removing sulfur compounds from ship fuels. This change reduces could cover and increases the flux of solar radiation into the ocean causing heating. This is well agreed upon by scientists and not controversial. Cloud cover reduction is measurable and clearly visible in pre and post 2021 satellite imagery where shipping lanes have cloud trails before the change and do not have cloud trails now.
Right, exactly, the context is the model's memory. All you're saying is "except for their memory, they have no memory", which goes for humans as well.
You know the saying: flak in the ass is a good sign you're on target!
Happily there are mechanisms to do just that, specifically for the purpose of implementing cryptography (I commented at the top level and don't want to just spamming the url).
Holy shit i think you and the above comment, along with this thread, may have finally given me the answer to one of the few problems i was never able to solve.

About 4-5 years ago, i was working on a project, and part of that was copying big amounts of data to a system via nfs. At 30 minutes exactly, nfs would croak, transfer fails.

I think this buffer fill and empty flow was fucking killing it. Its a shame i dont work there anymore, id definitely wanna try tweaking these settings and see if i could solve it
The warming isn't localized—or even more prevalent—in that area.
Huh, you really weren’t kidding..
What led you arrive at this? Would love to read these works
What Is New Urbanism?
At a minimum if there were no changes in permissions wanted a notification saying X app updated and is using the same permissions, click here to see how many times each permissions was used (with the more privacy related ones at the top of the list) would be nice.

Then you don't run the risk of normalizing people always just clicking allow on the prompt that happens all the time (hello windows 7 UAC), which still giving them easy diacoverability and hints of poor behavior with existing permissions.
This is shocking to me

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/narita-airport-farm-takao-shito...

"The best outcome would be for the airport to shut down," he said. "But what's important is to keep farming my ancestral land."

I imagine most countries would just use eminent domain?
it's not theft when the owner still has the thing.

If the owner never had the thing, it is theft, but subject and target are reversed (actions taken against me for money I never gave you are stealing money from me). This could be considered protectionism, but also extortion.
AI upscale any image for free online without losing quality
This is one of the reasons that I've mostly shifted to "agnostic" after many years of considering myself a hard atheist.

The degree to which I still consider myself an atheist is mostly rooted in my belief that if some god-like entity or non-entity or whatever "exists", he/she/it/they is certainly not like the common conception of some "father god" figure in the clouds.

It took me awhile to realize (after going down quite a few science and philosophical rabbit holes), that the atheist's position is untenable - not because I think there is a god, but because there seems to be no reason to believe we can actually know one way or the other.

I'm not religious, but I do find myself spending more time contemplating this primordial unknown. I'm a strong believer in the value of science, but if for no other reason than our lack of progress on the hard problem of consciousness, I have to accept that it doesn't have ultimate answers. Maybe someday this will change.
This only makes sense when upholsterers dont cost more than buying an entirely new sofa. My family used to reupholster furniture every 5 years and it was cheap because my mother had an interior design firm and got very good rates.

I tried the same here in the US with some high end Scandinavian furniture ($5k), the quote was up to 1x what I originally paid. In the end it made sense to just buy new again.

The cost of labor of where you reside has a significant effect on whether you purchase another 'junk' piece of furniture.
An airport is very simple to build if you ignore regulations (laws keep getting worst too because they mostly only add them and rarely subtract them... Soon it will be like building a nuclear reactor).
"Scientists say no cause for concern over imminent rupture; up to 200 small earthquakes per hour recorded"[0]

[0]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/earthquakes-...
Should have dumped the build step.
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Maybe it is the Kaiju trying to break free!!
Could you tell us about your hardware build? I've got an ageing Dell PowerEdge T30 that I've been using as a NAS box. I'm looking to replace it with something a bit more current.
It’s definitely culture. We could easily manufacture them at scale if we wanted.
Interesting. So one might think that being close together in 2D space corresponds to being close on

BOTH cartesian coordinates / EITHER Hilbert coordinate

And that being far apart in 2D space corresponds to being far apart on

EITHER cartesian coordinate / BOTH Hilbert coordinates

But if we consider the two commas below which are close together in 2D space, we see they are far apart in any rotation of this Hilbert curve?!

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I’m not sure we disagree. I consider the quiet revolution, the FQL, the nationalist movement, and the PQ to be all of a piece -- the same thing in different generational clothing. I'll agree that far-sighted foreign money saw the writing on the wall as early as the 60s and started making new investments outside of Quebec But actually moving running businesses is much more disruptive, and only happened later. The whole process took decades, and culturally, Montreal was the capital well into the early 80s. Toronto didn't even have a baseball team until 77.

I probably underweight the impact of the seaway. Me experience is in office work. And there, Hogtown was decidedly a solid second city -- like Chicago, or Lyon. Commercial banking was booming. But RBC, BMO, and many insurance companies still had their head-quarters in Montréal in the 1960s. RBC moved their headquarters in 1976, and BMO moved in 1977. Sun Life moved in 1978.

It think it is obvious that the condo boom/crash of the 1980s was a direct consequence of 400k wealthy people moving en mass over a decade. Just an enormous bolus of money.

The discussions of the day make are explicit that the PQ, the nationalist movement, and bill 101 in particular were driving the exodus.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/history-through-...

As for Mirabel - agree. The plans made sense in the 1960s when the planning started, but the shift to Toronto was underway before they broke ground in the mid 70s. But politics is run by older people, and their imaginations are rooted in the past, not the future. Toronto has the mirror problem -- run by Orange-order children who long for the days of zipping down the Kingsway to downtown in 15 minutes. We're only now moving into a generation of leaders who grew up with Toronto as the centre of Canada, and realizing we need infrastructure to match. We spent 40 years without building a thing while millions moved here.
The headline chosen by the publication can give the impression that the selection of Excel as the data management tool over alternatives caused the problem, but the core issue appears to be poor record-keeping in general.

From the article: “The way Vowles and technical director Pat Fry reportedly recounted it, Williams has been using a spreadsheet that grew to include some 20,000 parts used to make its cars. […] Not only was this system amateurish and unnavigable (making it unsuitable for the hectomillion-dollar sport that is F1), it was also desperately lacking in important logistical info. […] The team reportedly didn't have a central resource that tracked what parts cost, how long they took to make, or even how many they had or where they were stored. This forced production staff to search for parts whose location hadn't been documented, wasting valuable time.”

Though PostgreSQL or another database tool would be a better fit for complex datasets, I’m curious if Excel could still effectively be used for a database like this one.

I’ve known a couple people who use Excel a lot for their work, and they’d probably tell me that having over 20,000 rows of data isn’t necessarily unmanageable, if the implementation is well-designed.
What differentiates this search engine from others?

Also, you might want to add 'Engine' to the title. I thought it might be archaeological research regarding Alexandria.
I remember MMS being used here (Poland) as, essentially, faster postcards. Most people would only use it when on holiday to send pretty pictures to their family back home.
I'm sure someone might try to argue that the AI generated song might constitute something like an "AI cover", but I would disagree. The issue is the creative act. Humans are creative and can emulate or even "cover" a song as close as possible and it's still largely protected as long as you don't explicitly mislabel it as the original or attempt to pass it as the original ("original" in this sense being the rights holder and owner).

An AI generated song, I would argue, is not really "creative" in the same sense. It's not even really a cover. It's a generated output built on the original IP to a degree that is well beyond human capacity because it's not human at all. It's machine generation and not artistic creation. People like to conflate the two, but they're being wilfully ignorant of the clear differences between the two. Prompting an AI model to output something is not the same thing as making it oneself. The only human element of an AI song is the prompt and not the output.

It's more likely that an AI song should and will be treated in the same way as clearing a sample in hip-hop, for example, even though it's also different in important ways.
I hesitate to the use description as "think," just biasing correlations for subsequent generations.

In any case, there is at least one work that shows that CoT may not be necessary and biasing the decoding path via logit probabilities is also promising. [1]

One could argue it still doesn't contradict the benefits of CoT, but I suspect there is nothing fundamental about CoT, except that we happened to have been pre-training on sequences that use certain prompts that were easy to conceive from a human's perspective.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10200
I don't know why you would take a headline as an invitation to speculate on the cause when the data itself will tell you that all of these are significantly less than the difference in drug overdoses between the US and peer countries.
I’m familiar with the concept and it doesn’t apply as clearly as you make it seem to here, which is why it’s taken so long to sue Apple.

Their ecosystem was closed from the beginning.
Ha, I've not seen a blimp in a long time!

I think I'd probably think both those things :P

I wouldn't say that I _only_ base my view of reality on my feelings, but I don't discount them just because they might be hard to explain.

I think our feelings, as well as our thoughts, should be listened to.

Not that it really makes any difference, but I have a science background (PhD, post-doc) so am used to thinking about evidence, so I hope you don't get the impression that I'm just too stupid to be an atheist!

I appreciate your respectful reply, though. It's actually fun when you can exchange a few thoughts with people on the internet in a respectful way.
Haha thanks! Yeah, I think that's definitely a logical next step. We do something similar for the larger bug resolution platform we've been working on, so it shouldn't be too hard to port over!
I know you probably don't want to give away the secret sauce, but how does the LLM use the reddit threads to decide which products are best? Is it the comment with the most upvotes?
Same. Windows should support this, but this is a great solution in the meantime.
How did the ocean stay cool before steamships were invented?
Trump's social media company gets its chance to go public
I love the straightforward simplicity. Curious if you can explain the name. (DryMerge may be a concept I'm unfamiliar with.)
> I think a lot of what humans think of as "1. 2. Therefore 3." kind of reasoning isn't different from what the llm is doing, and not in fact any more clever than that. Plenty of people believe plenty of questionable things that they assume they have thought through but really haven't. They used the context to guess the next idea/word, often reaching the conclusions they started out with.

Agreed that many/most humans behave this way, but some do not. And those who do not are the ones advancing the boundaries of knowledge and it would be very nice if we could get our LLMs to behave in the same way.
Western US generally has a huge edge on the east in terms of parkland. Both in terms of urban parks that can be quite substantial in size and amenities offered (e.g. golden gate park in SF or griffith park in LA, about 2x and 5x larger than central park in nyc, respectively), but also the vast amount of acreage that is either nature preserves or publicly owned state or federal land. 80% of nevada is federal land. In Las Vegas, you can go from gambling at caesars palace to hiking in red rock canyon in about a half hour maybe even less. Also in California at least, the coast is public land, you can sunbath on the sand in front of multimilliondollar malibu estates just fine. In the east many beaches are actually private property, and depending on the state this could even be most of them.
I wonder if this refers to a central idea in Orthodox theology which is very clear to distinguish between:

- God "υπάρχει" (Greek for existing under someone's authority, "υπ" under -"αρχή" authority) which is used in modern Greek for all things that simply exist and is false for God and,

- God "είναι" (Greek for being, present tense) which is True of God and of nothing else.
> music economy

There's a relatively small market for live music, small market for widely-distributed new artists, and a never-ending supply of kids with a passion for music who will dedicate themselves to it.
Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux
I once needed to implement an API in R, just saying that having three or four object oriented systems did not help at all.
Looking at the links: probably not. These look like shady casinos and casino affiliates. Most likely they do it for cheap high quality backlinks. Several of them promote unregulated casinos targetting the Swedish market.
Does that end up with specific points that have that same difficulty at intersections of equators? I suppose even if that is the case, a point is something that's easier to position over a dead area than a line would be.
I thought this was explained by excess greenhouse gases.

Ref: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/....
Border collie takes record for biggest vocabulary (2010)
God yeah it's like a hypothetical version of the AirTrain that isn't a huge pain. Last time I flew out of JFK from Manhattan IIRC the easiest way was to do the E or LIRR from Penn to the AirTrain anyway, so might as well streamline the whole shebang.
A drawback of our approach is absolutely that it is expensive to test extremely large volumes of data or compute this way. Even before you start running into physical limitations of our current platform, you will probably be complaining about your bills. :-)

Our advice on this is that there are actually a lot of things you can do to exercise behaviors that are usually only seen at massive scale. For example, if you run a distributed storage system, you can probably configure it to split and move shards at 1/1,000,000th of the production size. That might let us hit a tricky codepath much more cheaply. We have a lot more about this in our documentation, e.g. here: https://antithesis.com/docs/best_practices/optimizing.html#k... and here: https://antithesis.com/docs/best_practices/find_more_bugs.ht...

The other thing is just that the reason many bugs only happen at scale is that they're some kind of subtle distributed race, and you need a lot of nodes for one of the runners in the race to be slow enough that the other sometimes wins. But we can very easily and efficiently provoke these sorts of races by pausing individual threads or freezing nodes, etc. We actually pretty regularly hit issues with tiny deployments that our customers only see in their largest clusters (but no promises, this obviously depends on the details of the software).
Higher CO2 and temps cause more things to grow, not less. Why do they think its called the "greenhouse" effect?

If the world wants cheaper food, do trade deals with South America and remove the tariffs on importation.
I was a software intern at Bridgewater in 2013. My impressions from that time are that Bridgewater had an interesting, unique, and very intentional culture, but at some point the firm grew and Dalio started thinking about how to scale that culture. He wrote the Principles book and had everyone read and discuss it; the Dots app was implemented; etc.

The core cultural values seemed reasonable to me, but the efforts to scale the culture felt heavyhanded and seemed like they sometimes backfired. Attempting to quantify someone's "believability" based on subjective data collected on an iPad app was a bit silly and easily gameable. The fact that Dalio and other executives scored highest on basically every facet was an obvious sign that the system was a bit farcical.

Maybe the company managed to solve some of those cultural scaling challenges after 2013? I wasn't around to see what happened after.
Yes and they didn't even "learn" C++ 98 or 2003 very well! Templates are a mystery to them.
Correction: they want all poor idiots (I include myself here) to feel like taxes are a punishment so that they will want to vote Republican.
Only if either:

a) the airport is far from any other humans
b) the horde of humans your airport angers do not also ignore regulations OR your airport has its own sufficiently large private army
I thought even creationists rejected the Ussher chronology.