skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll slightly modify your argument; because Pure HTML does suck:

Why don't people make static sites with a simple "Markdown-or-Similar to HTML" converter, CSS, and vanilla JS...etc?

(This is what I do, btw -- http://zim-wiki.org + a template)
Is it better to fix the problem now or spend decades doing it properly? Consider how much money it would take to dig up every street, add new sewer pipes, and coordinate disconnecting the rainwater pipes.

In Portland, we did similar combined sewer pipe. But they didn't size it to handle the largest rainfall. The sewers still overflow a couple of times a year, but it is much better than dozens of times. Especially since it now only happens in the winter when no one is using the river. It would have cost a lot more to handle peak rainfall. It is already expensive, sewer costs twice as much as water here.
Ha! I worked on that hardware, or at least, on the software in the service processor (aka, ILOM) in that hardware. I transferred out of the Linux group at Sun (which was being disbanded) and joined the group formally known as Kealia, still in its original office space on Deer Creek Rd in Palo Alto.

Context here: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2665260/sun-buys-server-co...
I think stall would mean not being willing to ramp up the spending at each generation, unless there is corresponding return on investment within grasp.

Say in a couple of years Microsoft and Amazon have each just bet another $10B on their respective horses, and resulting model performance gains are leveling off towards some limit (with no secret backroom glimpse of a breakthrough on the horizon). Do they keep on pumping in another $10B a year to eke out those diminishing returns? Perhaps, but that would seem best case. It would be hard to justify spending $100B on next generation just hoping for a miracle to happen.

So, if this is the way it pans out, with nobody willing to fund continued model scaling due to diminishing returns in terms of performance gains, then any further AGI advance would have to wait for changes in approach that are less expensive to pursue.
What's the Delay with Perovskite Solar Cells?
I wish more people posted questions like this. Questioning yourself and your path (and importantly, the ethics of it all) is a vital survival skill to avoid losing yourself entirely to the capitalism game, where you start to listen more to your analytics software than your sensibilities and moral compass.

I don't know if your AI products are scummy or not, but the fact that you're asking this question makes me less worried about you than a lot of other folks out there furiously rushing to get their AI pre-crime hot dog detectors rushed out the door so they can get on the NASDAQ.
For physics simulations they are using double precision. They increased the cluster to 400 PS3s so it continued to be useful in the 2010's.

https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/

But I guess the cluster overhead would reduce performance to less than a 4090 in real applications.
At what point do you use the waste heat to generate electricity?

120KW is not an insignificant amount of energy.
> "parents could be held accountable for their children's actions"

> So, it seems to mean you can justify your decision

No, not at all. If you can justify your decision, that doesn't mean you're being held accountable for it. Being held accountable means being punished, whether you can justify a decision or not. If you cannot be punished for something, then you are not accountable for it.
I am in a similar boat. Starting a masters in cs in the fall. What resources are you using to study? I have neem doing some refreshing on Khan Academy but looking for other options.
> the tools you are using were trained on the work of other people without getting permission, offering compensation, or even providing acknowledgement

I find that viewpoint rather myopic. Once information is generally available, it's unreasonable to expect that you can retain control of how that information is used.
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They compared people's subjective judgements of consonances tuned to perfect ratios to ones slightly off from those ratios and found they preferred the latter.

A) Most people wouldn't be able to tune an instrument like what you describe accurately enough to contradict the result. Practically all the intervals would be slightly off, and

B) The result really does contradict Pythagoras, who postulated that musical beauty arose from the mathematical perfection of those ratios. Contradicting Pythagoras in this is, of course, hardly new. More interesting is the idea that there may be entirely new forms of naturally appealing harmony out there to explore.
> Seriously? A bunch of talented, hard working hackers, researchers, and investigative journalists doing their own independent investigation is now called a "witch hunt".

Who ? Where is the list of those vetted people who can be called "the OSINT community" ? Who define that list ?

Because the way it was phrased, ufo_lover56 and anon98 are just as much part of it as the undefined talented bunch you said.
It kinda feels like the mining GPU being bad myth when in fact miners nursed those GPUs like babies because their income depended on those devices.
That would be extramarital arts, sir.
What does borderline dishonest mean? I only read the abstract and it seems like such an obvious point I dont see how its contentious
Not sure why you’d bring up the US, there are plenty of countries with saner systems.
It doesn't matter if it is a rumor or not. The fact is it was non-public and material information. And that's the definition of insider trading.
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Canada clocks fastest population growth in 66 years in 2023, almost hitting 41M
same, using it for years. Its great
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I think "adventure" is how I'd put it, too. Perhaps that which I found most surprising was the difference in defaults between the two. ESXi gave me what I considered pretty good defaults, where Proxmox were more conservative or generic (struggling to find the right word). For example, I was surprised that I had to pick an option for CPU type instead of it defaulting to host, which I would have expected. Saying that, I never checked on ESXi, but I never had reason to look in to performance disparities there.

Once I found the surface, I have really grown to like it, expanding my footprint to use their backup server, too. Proxmox makes you work for it, but is worth it.
> I feel I'm profiting off of "the AI hype train"

> While I'm not making any money off my projects

????
Is Bezos a good example of a moral or even good person?
Tom Scott video (because of course he did one):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OqAN4ISOw
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One theory blames "modern life" as a supporting factor, that since modern people eat more processed and softer food, that jaw muscles are out of proportion to the bone structure and this contributes to apnea, as well as tooth problems like impacted wisdom teeth.

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/21/toll-shrinking-jaws-hum...
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https://www.poolmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/indi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1bG3m6XaY&t
> MP3.com made mechanical copies without permission. Pretty black & white.

So does a Betamax device though?
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Pythagoras' ideas about tuning only make sense with instruments that have harmonic or almost harmonic timbres, which is true for most instruments. However, tuned percussion is typically inharmonic. It's long been known that inharmonic instruments sound most consonant in chords using non-integer frequency ratios.

William Sethares developed a model of consonance and dissonance that accounts for this:

https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance.pdf

Informal explanation:

https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html
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I put some of my family members on Ubuntu, it worked about as well as Windows ever did, but was hard to keep up-to-date, and every change I made to get them more recent software was a complication for future support. The end result was that they had a stable computer but one that was difficult to make do new things.

Last straw was jumping through the hoops to get proper Vulkan support on their video card for a game running through Wine. I switched them over to EndeavourOS and it's been loads easier, a lot of stuff works out-of-the-box specifically because it's a rolling release.

I think people sometimes underestimate how important it can be to be able to get OS/software patches immediately. Flatpak helps a little bit with that as well, some of the difficulty with Ubuntu was resolving dependencies -- but even with that, a lot of that difficulty came from trying to get bleeding edge or self-compiled software working with dependencies that just weren't updated yet in the Debian repos.

I spent a while worrying about whether being on Arch would mean everything would be unstable, but I've had the opposite experience, in practice it just means I have to break fewer things to get software running.
Entirely immigration?
I'm in 3rd year CS and I almost never go to office hours for my CS courses, because a lot of the time I don't have something specific to ask.

I go to lecture, don't understand the material, and then review my notes & the slides at home, working through the examples until I understand them.

If I get stuck on something, I typically just keep trying until I understand it, instead of stopping, remembering what I don't understand and asking it in office hours 2-3 days later, and then potentially getting stuck on something else later on in the proof/example.

Typically what I lack is is a more general understanding of the entire proof/example/algorithm instead of small individual details, and I really need to sit down with it and go through it instead of another quick re-explanation by a TA where I have to say "yeah, makes sense" before I've had enough time to think about it.
As someone who has used JAX-RS (Java) and ASP.NET, APIs are basically created with these kinds of annotations right in the language.

@GET
public Character getCharacter(@PathParam("id") int id) {
return db.getCharacter(id);
}

That's very similar to TypeSpec's

op getCharacter(@path id: safeint): Character;

Java and C# classes already have the type information that you'd be getting from a TypeSpec:

// TypeSpec
model Character {
name: string;
id: safeint;
status: "Alive" | "Dead";
class: Class;
}

enum Class { warrior; wizard; }

// C#
public class Character {
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Id { get; set; }
public Status Status { get; set; }
public CharacterClass CharacterClass { get; set; }
}

public enum Status { Alive, Dead }
public enum CharacterClass { Warrior, Wizard }

But with C#/Java you don't need to write the spec and make sure that it stays in sync with what your endpoints are actually doing. TypeSpec looks a lot better than writing YAML by hand, but I'd still rather something that was tied to the actual code that will be executing so that things are never out of sync or wrong.
As soon as I take my focus away from here, your entire industry will collapse. Because you are using my personal energy and my personal time, so I will do it. You have to pay for everything in real life.
I think we have the opposite problem: too much innovation in UI elements that don’t need it or sacrificing usability for aesthetics. I get the desire for uniqueness, but common UI elements have a huge positive impact on usability.

Consequently, I wish more sites used Bootstrap. As an end user I don’t care a whole lot about a brand’s identity or style. I don’t want to have to guess and check to figure out what’s a tab or a menu or how to access settings. The number of custom layouts I’ve had to memorize is staggering and often gets invalidated when someone gets promoted and decides the site or app needs a new design.

Desktop window frameworks may have been bland, but they were based on actual usability studies and I think we gave that up too readily.
I wouldn't call them language engineers as they don't engineer languages. Such an individual would be more accurately described as a Language-Astute Worker Yielding Exact Responses.
i would disagree with you there, especially because there is very little on the sdn front which matches NSX-T in terms of SDN capabilities, this is something in which vmware has been ahead, the only other people with the same capabilities seem to be hyperscalers.
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I just checked on NixOs, and ldd reports sudo is not dynamic.
Well... Nice UI but... I track my finances with org-mode and Beancount/Fava for UI and well it's far more clear for me, not only because the current state of things but because the "new views" I can easily make.

Kanban was born to help mass produce mechanical parts, and for that's is very effective, but to follow or design things, like many do today, it's not good at all IMVHO...
I mean, by your own numbers, maple syrup is more than 3 times the price of its competitor. I would also imagine the type of syrup is not high on the priority list when comparison shopping.

For what it's worth, my SO grew up in Texas and absolutely prefers the taste & consistency of table syrup over maple syrup for our use cases (pancakes & waffles). I suppose it's what he grew up with and that's what "syrup" is supposed to taste like to him.
If economics is a subset of psychology and psychology is a subset of economics, then economics equals psychology.
How does this compare to OpenBSD doas[1][2]?

1. https://man.openbsd.org/doas

2. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/doas/
The Funeral Lady would agree with you. Well, if she's still around. This was 30 years ago, and I would have guessed the owner of the voice on the other side of the phone was already north of 80.

I've no beef with the genre but I think it would've been really boring to DJ.
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I wish CPAP manufacturers were a bit better. There has been little innovation, and if anything, there's been a downward trend in quality in recent years.

My wishlist:

1. Every CPAP device should be BiLevel.

2. All data they record should be accessible to the user (for tools like oscar).

3. Either more granular pressure controls, or better algorithms (or both). Some people do well on CPAP, others do better when iPAP > ePAP (BiLevel, or EPR), while others do better when ePAP > iPAP (vcom).

4. Better masks. Seriously. It's so hard to find a good mask, and so expensive to experiment with them. A new mask can set you back €150, and if turns you hate it, you're shit out of luck. I've toyed with the idea of personalized 3D printed masks to get a better seal for each unique nose/face shape.

5. Quieter machines. Without the Philips cancer foam.

6. Quieter masks. Some have excellent diffusers in the exhalation port (P10), while others blast out a concentrated jet of air that will wake you up when it hits the pillow, or will lead to divorce faster than your snoring ever did when it hits your bedpartner.

7. Bring back travel cpap devices. The market collapsed post covid. I'd love to keep a small device and super lightweight mask/hose in my bag for sleepover emergencies. I'd pay any price for that, because having to lug a full size cpap around ruins any chance of spontaneity in my bachelor sex life.

None of these are rocket science. But Philips Respironics are a bunch of evil cunts, ResMed are goofing off, and the other brands might as well not exist.
Reminds me a little bit of a bloom filter in its functionality
How happy are you with that setup? Would you use it for anything more complicated, like app deployments or maintenance tasks on your on prem / vpss?

I'm using ansible right now, and a custom playbook.sh script for some sort of auditing - what was run where and by whom. Kinda works but much more maintenable than let's say ansible tower.
The reason why the pussy in bio spam is so visible is because they're paying $8/month to have their replies boosted. Adding an additional 1¢ per post is not going to meaningfully shift the economics of it.
sure, it didnt start, but israel was "happy" defending itself from its neighbor shooting thousands of rockets each year... Yeah, it didnt start on oct 7th, but the escalation very much did. Actions have consequences, and a ceasefire was broken on Oct 7th... Let them resolve their issues now
So, I think Bluesky has it wrong and the Mastodon model is still better (theoretically, of course, I have no idea how to make this more popular) ; which is to say -- there are no huge advantages and probably tons of pitfalls when you try to do "one universal identifier that sticks forever" for people.

We already have a better working model for this; it's HOW WE DO EMAIL. On one hand, email is a very strong "centralized identity" thing, and on the other it's not absolute. Yes, it has problems, but as twitter has shown -- deeply centralizing the thing has MORE problems.
>Also the 3.5 / 4.0 arguments are trash, made by the marketing department.

All these words to tell us you didn't use 4.

>The underlying math for language modeling it uses is presenatational. This means that it is purpose trained to present correct looking answers. Alas, correct looking answers aren't the same Venn Diagram circle as Correct Answers (even if they often appear to be close).

Completely wrong. LLMs are trained to make right predictions not "correct looking" predictions. If it's not right then there's a penalty and the model learns from that. The end goal is to make predictions that don't err from the distribution of the training data. There is quite literally no room for "correct looking" in the limit of training.
> old school rocket engines are still some of the most efficient engines ever created

Sure. But there are other niches than maximal ISP. SpaceX and other launch providers have demonstrated it.

In both cases—airlines and rocketry—there was latent demand once someone looked for it. And in both cases, I believe, public support is necessary.
At least it doesn't halt
Yep, Dulles opened just as jet bridges became common. They were originally used for embarkation/disembarkation as well.

These days, they're mostly used to transport international arrivals from the gates (which have jet bridges) to the terminal that contains immigration control. Non-international have an option to use the lounges or a subway (usually depending on which gate you're at and where you need to go - sometime the lounge is faster than the train).

A bit of an anachronism today. But, having grown up in the DC area, they're definitely have a nostalgia factor.
Cool, it certainly feels like there's some unrealized better way to describe APIs -- but the part that's more interesting for me is the codegen story? Or some way to validate the service I implemented is actually conformant?

I guess for now it translates to OpenAPI, but the footnote implies that TypeSpec-driven codegen could be better. Maybe more is coming soon?
> I wonder why this isn't written in Typescript directly so as to handle documentation, validation and type definitions in one go.

I suspect they want TypeSpec to be more runtime agnostic (as also tends to be the preference with TypeScript). Specifically to support arbitrary validation/serde.

Having written a fully integrated generalized solution (runtime-defined schema -> parser, types, documentation, serializer), by far my biggest regret the first time around is coupling it so closely to a particular schema runtime. Partly this is because I have bigger dreams for designing a schema system purpose built for the task (I had previously piggybacked on io-ts, which worked but it took considerable non-essential effort and complexity); partly it’s because there can be significant tradeoffs between different runtime solutions in terms of performance and ergonomics.
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Why do people that have more money than they can spend in a lifetime engage in such high risk activities to acquire even more money that they also cannot spend in a lifetime?

It seems like it's more about the emotional connection to "winning", having more than others?

What's the risk/reward tradeoff look like here? It looks heavily skewed toward the risk side of the equation.
This reminds me, have we had a good 432 Hz vs 440 Hz discussion lately?
Thanks for checking it out!

I'd be happy to build and support an on-prem solution, but I'd a need commitment from an enterprise/government org. If that's something you're interested in, shoot me an email at alex@annotate.dev!
Our first attempt at a TypeSpec-like thing was in fact a TypeScript dialect! It works great for simple cases, but at the limit it falls over for a number of reasons. HTTP needs a lot of metadata that isn't found in TypeScript, things like HTTP verbs, query/path params, headers, routes, etc. API patterns also need their own metadata, like for pagination you need to know various bits of metadata that describe how to paginate an endpoint. Also many things in the TypeScript type system and stdlib don't apply in the context of API descriptions, so we needed a subset.

So after going down this road for a while, we found we were in a place where the syntax was actually very complex, with metadata spread between deeply nested generic type instantiations and JSDoc comments, and didn't feel at all like TypeScript. This didn't align with our goals of having something simple and easy to learn for all devs.

So I wrote the first implementation of a custom language in a day and folks really liked the direction. 4 years later, here we are!
Yup, exactly this
Google wave definitely got a lot of things right but we agree the UI was confusing and they tried to do a lot all at once. For Patchwork, we've definitely kept in mind ease of use and standard paradigms as we've built the product and also really utilizing LLMs where they're helpful (i.e. summarizations for catching new people up).
May he rest in peace
Oh that’s very smart & as a bonus, the free plan does exactly that (only 30-day history)
I'm not sure it falls under cogeneration but I suppose it might if your waste heat can be captured and used to power the GPUs.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/iedo/combined-heat-and-power-bas...
> Ordinary libraries can only lend as many copies as they have at a time

This is the same as controlled digital lending.

> and eventually have to replace them (due to wear and tear or e-licensing conditions)

Physical books frequently last longer than copyright terms and it's not obvious why authors should be entitled to double dip just because someone spilled their coffee, i.e. it should be equally reasonable for a library to print their own physical replacement copy of a damaged book that they already own, because they already own it.
thank you so much. so its alot like a resizable sorted array that doubles when it gets full, but instead of copying the old one, we keep an array of arrays
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It's LSP, and we also have a VS extension in the marketplace.