skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. I think a lot depends on how "real" the protagonist is. I have read and enjoyed several works with protagonists who make choices that extremely different from my own. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson comes to mind. Hardly any character in it is good or admirable, but it is written well enough to illuminate why they behave that way, and the rewards that offers. IMO, TFA doesn't pull that off.
Because they are a red herring.

With EVs the focus becomes how wonderful they are because they do not burn fossil fuels in their engines. Great, but what about what all the other issues (including non renewable issues in the rest of the supply chain involved in building the EV)? They're greenwashed away - no need to discuss public transit and densification. EVs will fix everything and we don't need to change our life on any significant way.

They are a way to continue going down the wrong path and feel good about it.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, d.1788, director of the botanical gardens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_d...
I remember it as having quite a bit of fan service, as was typical 20 years ago. There are also warranted negative connotations about incels today that didn’t really exist at the time. Overall I don’t think it would resonate with me like it once did.
The "mixture of experts" goal is to add more parameters to the model to make it more powerful, without requiring any more compute. The way this is done is by having sections of the model ("experts") that are in parallel with each other, and each token only going through one of them. Think of it like a multi-lane highway with a toll booth on each lane - each car only drives on one lane rather than using them all, so only pays one toll.

The name "experts" is a bit misleading, since each expert ("highway lane") is not really specialized in any obviously meaningful way. There is a routing/gating component in front of the experts that chooses on a token by token basis (not sentence by sentence!) which "expert" to route the token to, with the goal of roughly load balancing between the experts so that they all see the same number of tokens, and the parameters in each expert are therefore all equally utilized.

The fact that the tokens in a sentence will be somewhat arbitrarily sent through different "experts" makes it an odd kind of expertise - not directly related to the sentence as a whole! There has been experimentation with a whole bunch of routing (expert selection) schemes.
If that was the good side, I certainly don't want to see the bad side. Maybe they gave her an honest answer, but the better answer would have been to help her learn the language.
20 years ago I introduced a Japanese person to Vegemite and, I think because I described it to him as like miso, he really liked it.

I wonder if the shock value is derived from an expectation of chocolatey sweetness. If you’re expecting Nutella, Vegemite is guaranteed to disappoint.
Out of curiosity, did they start by politicizing the social sciences first?
Why does that upset you? Many shells build a hash table of command locations (in bash or zsh, see the hash builtin command. while you're at it, also check out the which command) so they don't need to go "recursing through directories" more than once.

I've dealt with systems where you need to update a file with a list of executables and their location. Having the shell handle that automatically is better.
What's up with the sudden uptick in 3-body problem content? I figure there is some general reference I'm missing since they all seem to be exactly n=3 instead of n>2 and so common lately (here, YouTube, news).
Autonomous weapons systems are nothing new. The US Navy put the fully autonomous Mark 60 CAPTOR mine into service in 1979. It can be placed in a fixed location and wait months for a target based on a passive sonar signature, then launch a homing torpedo to attack. Zero humans in the loop.
The big difference here is that most dangerous sports involve your own training, your own due-diligence and your own ability.

People go on the most dangerous motorbike trials after gaining a lot of experience, and training a lot. Moreover, they won't do it unless they've used the equipment before, know it well, they tend to prepare everything themselves, and test it themselves beforehand, etc. They are experts, and take full responsibility.

In this case, someone who had never sky-dived before, went to center where he wasn't expected to prepare the parachute, understand the mechanics, test or operate any of the equipment themselves. A "professional" would do it— as makes sense. So it really is upsetting when it turns out, as per the verdict, that the "professional" was actually not properly trained.

There are risks to everything, but the reason there's tight regulation and licensing for life-threatening industries is that those of us who aren't experts should at least hope our lives are in the hands of someone doing their best effort to ensure safety.

Going to a hospital to have surgery done on me, and doing the surgery myself are two very different decisions. I agree with you. I certainly have no reason to be upset if I cut myself open and end up with a nasty infection. If this happens at a hospital, and I later learn it not only happens often, but the surgeon isn't properly certified to do surgery, I have reasons to be upset.
Being a partisan brand can be decent business, but Elon seems to be chartering a particularly dangerous course as the Venn diagram of right-wing cultural warriors and people interested in buying green technology is exceedingly small.
I've used pgmem https://github.com/oguimbal/pg-mem for the last couple of years for the same thing.
Wasn't that Handspring rather than palm?

[edit: referring to Treo specifically, not the rest...]
The First Alert RM4 is an officially supported first-party product and costs $25. It really ought to work reliably.
It’s about material discovery[0], Aramco built a 250b model to help them improve efficiency [1].

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi...

[1] https://www.aramco.com/en/news-media/speeches/2024/leap24--r...
MozJPEG not being more precise than Jpegli at mid or lower qualities also matches with our experiments, both internal uncontrolled experiments and the rater study we published.

There was an earlier version which was not very good at medium or low quality, but Zoltan fixed that about six months ago.
The Greaseweazle device discussed in the article appears to be a specially-designed floppy controller that is low-level enough to read arbitrarily formatted disks.
Tesla accused in lawsuit of cheating California workers out of wages
One of the streaming services has released a TV series called the 3-Body Problem based on a Chinese authors book series that features the name (as a book or series title).

The TV series poses a four body problem early on (three suns and a single planet).
what do you mean by draft? Is this something actively worked on
Have you ever tried running it with a non-Nvidia GPU?
Garlic, a strong flavor?

Try asafoetida.
So performative then, gotcha.
Just Fascism? They would have been exterminated. This subthread shows a lot of ignorance about what we are talking about. Just watch [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(1999_film)
> You can buy a commodity PC and install Debian on it.

But your motherboard will still be full of chips that are closed and proprietary and some of them will have their own OS with network/wireless access that you'll have no control over. You'll just have to trust that the Intel Management Engine backdoor and radio chipsets you have no access to aren't taking advantage of you.

> Most of these datasets are public.

Most of everything Google has indexed and cached is "public". Libraries are filled with the same books Google has already scanned. Good luck using the entire internet and your local library to train your own personal AI though.

Microsoft has access to an incredible amount of non-public data including the emails of corporations using outlook and the files on people's hard drive. If they were to fully leverage their access to train AI you'd have a hard time keeping up. Facebook has every post and "private" message ever sent on the platform including ones that were deleted years ago. We can't expect a few publicly released datasets to compare to what they're capable of getting.

Even if we had that kind of access to raw data, could we realistically process it? https://fortune.com/2024/04/04/ai-training-costs-how-much-is...

> But the "AI is bad" rhetoric only feeds into that. What do you expect an "AI is bad" bill to look like? It will be the one that restricts access to only large institutions.

There are a lot of different versions of "AI is bad". One is "AI is bad when it's only controlled by corporations", but that's not what the laws will be about. They're more likely to say that "AI is bad" because of terrorists and spammers and pedos or whatever other boogeymen they can summon up to scare the ignorant and provide some justification for keeping that power out of the public's hands.
In my city, it’s brown, blue, and green bins, respectively. They are slowly changing the green bins to black ones, presumably for consistent messaging with the rest of the state, but it will take years.
Musk's environmental bonafides never extended farther than milking Uncle Sam for tax credits or lucrative federal contracts. He doesn't give a shit about colonizing Mars or combating global warming, but he sure is interested in the fat federal contracts that those activities would entail.
I use an Apple Watch for sleep tracking and it seems to do relatively well. Whilst I haven’t found the data directly actionable, it has been useful when talking to healthcare providers in the past.
Thank you! This is comforting to know!
This seems a bit redundant to be honest. Any maniac who is actually super competent would be able to fool you into thinking otherwise. Because they can outwit you by definition.

And the inverse also is tautological, of course you can spot those not that competent.
Can you give a specific / concrete example of why I would want to use this instead of running a postgres server a different way (docker, binary, whatever) and having the tests connect to that server? I really don't understand when this would be useful.
- uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
- uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
And also… Bethesda
Ask HN: Which developers you wanna hire at SF/Bay Area?
Curious if there's a bigger need for full-stack, dev rel, AI, or mobile developers out here. Who's on your hiring wishlist and why? Also, is there a preference for folks with FAANG or startup experience?
Looks like it's defined in the clean air act

https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/lmop/frequent-question...
Wireless Markup Language (WML)
If you're interested in this sort of thing, Ryan Mcbeth has been talking about this recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUqYmCeZN4
If foreigners are in of the hated groups, my personally lived experience serves a counter point.

During my naturalization I was caught by surprise by how quickly my application had been handled. The agent giving me the exam winked and said: "it's election season".

Whatever that means.
IIRC that's the name that friends and colleagues used to refer to him. It pops up in a lot of their quotes.
Right, it was ex-Palm employees at Handspring that created the Treo.

Nice documentary about this with interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw
> If your building PG for an embedded, light weight, or under powered system then this would make sense for verification testing before real E2E testing that would be much slower. (a use case I have)

If this is actually just Postgres running in an x86 emulator (*edit: originally this said "compiled to wasm"), then how could this be faster than Postgres in any given environment? I don't understand — if it were faster, wouldn't you just want to deploy this in prod in your weird environment rather than Postgres? Why limit this to mocking?
Originally, but then Palm bought them.
"At this point objecting to capitalism itself (I’m not talking more or less regulation within a capitalist system) is like being a flat-earther."

You're welcome to that delusion but you're cheerleading a system that among it's many flaws is predicated on continuous growth that's based on a closed system with finite resources to draw from. Three guesses how that ends.
He got drunk, did a bunch of coke, and stole a brass penguin from the hotel he was staying at; also a spot of tax fraud and theft of a suit, but I care less about that.

I get that the lobby of the Hilton is not an art gallery, but an artist stealing a sculpture is not hustle culture personified, it's theft of the exact kind he should hate most.

The story is great and I appreciate it on its own merits but he's kind of a dick.
GnuPG has by default started emitting keypairs with a preference for the LibrePGP version of the OCB block cipher mode. That mode is not compatible with what the other faction is doing and is not generally supported in any case. Arch[1] and other distributions have apparently patched this default out.

Is Rpgp emitting any new block cipher modes or generating keys that might cause such emission in the future? The risk here is a sort of incompatibility nightmare where decryption becomes a crap shoot.

My article on this mess:

https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:schism

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG#Disable_unsupported_A...
The m = n Anomaly (video introduction)
This is pretty neat! Some questions, if you're able to answer:

* What was the inspiration for developing this project at work? Was running Postgres in a Docker container too slow?

* What did your CI setup for E2E tests look like before and after integrating pgmock into the flow?

* Was migrating over to this solution difficult?

Thanks!
So many people assume that everything that came before they were at school was primitive, and barely chugged along :)

A little reading shows the opposite. Most of our smart ideas were already used in 1940s/50s/60s computers, and are recycled on our fab new chips!! Pipelining, out of order exec, multiple cores, etc.

That old-time hardware might have been a bit "chunky" but the architectures used some very smart techniques.
I might try that, thank you. Would love the best of both worlds
What role does Elon Musk have in the Brazilian judiciary?
> a customer (UK Ltd) who declared bankruptcy owing us a money and then then next day founded a new Ltd company and tried to act like he didn't owe us the money because it was a new entity.

That is... how bankruptcy works? He literally didn't owe you money anymore. Obviously you shouldn't extend his new company credit, but extinguishing old debts is the exact purpose of bankruptcy.
Why would the postgres container need to be nested inside another container? Why not just have the CI environment also run a Postgres container, along side your tests, and give your tests a `POSTGRES_URL` environment variable? Or why even bother running Postgres in a container, why not just run the Postgres binary on the host that's running your tests in the container?
Usually not - modern landfills are completely enclosed (sealed in plastic) and primarily composed of things that don't compost at all, like metals and plastics. The materials in a landfill aren't recovered.

By comparison, the point of composting is to break down the organic waste where it can be reused as soil and fertilizer.
Hmm, when I was a kid while at my friends house I had a small statue fall on my head from a bookshelf. I still have the mark from it. My parents were informed, and with two of them nurses they decided to just watch me for concussion. My parents didn’t sue them, just chalked it up to accident. A friend of mine broke their arm on another friends giant trampoline. Again, no lawsuit. These days parents will sue their child’s best friends parents for something like that. So perhaps there’s something different with modern Americans that has made them more likely to piss on their neighbors?

Unfortunately this is the normal ebb and flow of populations. And the stage the US is at we just have to wait for severe economic disaster to remind people what trauma is.
Yes, although there is now a secondary competition, for 25% of the prize money (donated by the winner), to see who can reduce the prompt size/cost the most. The winning prompt will be published on wednesday.

Interestingly the top solutions all used Claude-3 Opus (via the API, with temperature set to zero). The winning prompt apparently cost $1+ to run, which given the $15/M input token cost of Claude-3 Opus means the prompt was around 100K tokens in size(!!), which in turn implies heavy use of examples/in-context learning.
Edward Witten probably falls into that category as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten
> tell the regulators

You write a letter -- takes about 15 minutes. Or send an email. Simple. And it works.
100% great suggestion. I found this solution the hard way, by hand, on paper, a few weeks before learning this algorithm already existed. Reminded me that a large percentage of efficient engineering is just knowing what tools you have available off the shelf.

The algorithm I figured out was mostly equivalent, though about 3x slower than implementing Goertzel. In my use case, it was already a win hitting the product requirements, but implementing Goertzel allowed background functionality to operate better while capturing data.
I don't understand why the comments are trash-talking Groq. They are the fastest LLM inference provider by a big margin. Why would they sell their hardware to any other company for any price? Keep it all for themselves and take over the market. 95% of my LLM requests go to Groq these days because it's 0.25 seconds round trip for a complete answer. In comparison, "Claude Instant" takes about 4 seconds. The other 5% of my requests go to Claude Opus and GPT-4, when I'm willing to wait an excruciating 5+ seconds for a better answer. I hate waiting. Latency is king. Groq wins.
Obsidian Rollover Daily Todos
It's the same in Australia; when you apply for permanent residency your application goes into a black hole. I wanted to learn more about my status and all I got back from the immigration people was 'the agent processing your application will contact you. We do not give out contact details for your agent. You will have to wait'. It took about 8 months.

Once your 'regular' visa expires you go onto a bridging visa which same, you can't really leave the country.

It's expensive as hell too: I think in the end I had a total cost of $7,000, just in application fees. Sounds like immigration is horrible everywhere.
Can you elaborate on this analogy?
I wonder where in the fascist scale is an atomic bomb that actually got thrown to innocent people.
von Neumann also advocated for an immediate, surprise U.S. nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union: “If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o’clock, I say why not one o’clock?”. According to game theory you see, it was only rational.

The genius's genius.
What do you consider shitlit?
Coordination and fat finger mistakes
In Italy, getting something notarized costs $1-2k. As far as I know, the position is still passed down from parents to children.
> Didn't 16-bit Windows and classic Mac OS do something similar?

I assume this is what `{Local,Global}{Lock,Unlock}` were for when combined with `{Local,Global}Alloc({L,G}MEM_MOVEABLE)`

Similar idioms occasionally persist in modern code - e.g. when dealing with FFI in GCed languages (C#'s `fixed` statement pins memory in place.)
Furthermore, I pay for services I don't avail myself of (my kids go to parochial schools).
And since I don't live in the city, but a rich suburb, it means that Im subsidizing my neighbor's BMW.

I dont even mind school taxes, actually. I just believe that the monies should follow the student and not the school district.
I often start a new project and work on it using Copilot for quite a while before making it official, running "git init" and creating a .gitignore file.
I don't think so, I think it was topical just perhaps not in favour of your view.

The person they were replying to and to which their point related to, was very much narrowing down and exaggerating corporate entities to a "small group of people" of the "wealthy and elite".

While these larger corporations limit larger amounts of liability, most people can create a business and have it as a company, giving them limited liability. Yes, large corporations have the money and resources to better limit their liability than a smaller corporation.

They weren't disagreeing with that person, but providing a more balanced view in which liability limitations benefit companies of all sizes, not just larger ones.
Yes.

(source:
> In 2024, 13-year Brood XIX, which is the largest of all periodical cicada broods, will co-emerge with 17-year Brood XIII; these two broods are adjacent (but not significantly overlapping) in north-central Illinois.

- https://cicadas.uconn.edu/)
WhatsApp is a phone app for messaging. PGP is a protocol for email and file encryption in any operating system. It’s unclear why you are comparing them.

PGP could have a phone app that will do easy encryption, such as protonmail.
But then the locusts would be eating anything green in their path as they were swarming. Cicadas are a walk in the park, comparatively.
Show HN: A cross-platform asciinema terminal recording tool
asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web. To learn about asciinema, you can visit asciinema.org.

And this project is a cross-platform version of asciinema writtern in go with full features. You can use it to create, edit, upload, convert(to gif animation) an asciinema cast on MacOS/Linux/Windows.
How very droll and condescending of you. The Golden Rule is to treat others how you'd like to be treated, so I can assume you want to be treated in a droll and condescending matter in turn, so allow me to oblige:

A: What is sin?

B: Anything that destroys and leads to misery.

A: Do X or Y actually destroy or lead to misery, or is it moral panic, pseudoscience, misery more caused by socially enforced guilt caused by the belief that X or Y is bad, some combination of the above?

[B and A engage in an interminable discussion, and eventually B's Heritage Foundation links are exhausted]

A: it doesn't seem clear that any of these things "destroy" anything, or inherently cause misery.

B: Well X or Y must be bad, because they're sin, so they seem gross and bad to me. There must be hidden detriments that scientists are unwilling to admit, or just haven't gotten around to proving yet. Just wait, when you grow up you'll think just like me.

A: maybe.
If they market it as a feature，yes?

Were you expecting me to say something else?
You don't put a million-dollar rack on a credit card. I'm not sure they want retail customers for their API either.
Save up for Tenstorrent instead.
This is a ridiculous response. Have we extracted more natural resources than we had a hundred or a thousand years ago? Are the biomes that our species utilize for foodstuffs more or less healthy than they were a century ago?
> Is the Rust ecosystem just dependency hell?

Dependency hell is a consequence of the developer's choices, not the ecosystem. The most foundational packages in any ecosystem for any language almost always have a trivial number of dependencies, and not because those packages have no needs.
This kind of warning is a bit moot e.g. uBlock Origin seems to catch it, at least with the lists I have. The only way to really find out is to try your particular browser+adblocker+settings and see if your setup works as you hope or not for yourself.
The lock/unlock metaphor is also used when sharing buffers with video or a/v apis in Windows.

And the "safe array" type from COM/OLE.