skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad title, and incorrect characterization.

> electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence.

> The IEA estimates that, added together, this usage represented almost 2 percent of global energy demand in 2022

First, Bitcoin by itself uses about 0.5% of work electricity. This is purely wasted on proof-of-work, which could be proof-of-stake instead.

Second, grouping all datacenters with AI models is disingenuous. I don't think anyone argues training LLMs is very costly in energy, but it's also a fraction of the energy costs of "literally all compute". It's just the hot thing to write clickbait on.
I also found the first five minutes hard to watch, but for different reasons (bad screenwriting.)
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It's quite robotic.
Yep. /s

But honestly a % of people will instinctively and stochastically Google anything that happens to them. It's readily apparent that using AI to identify potential bioterror attacks and pandemics by looking at both medical product and prescription purchase data in aggregate, and combining it with Google searches like how Google Flu Trends worked would be an excellent public service. This is similar to how BioSTORM worked. [0]

0. https://biostorm.stanford.edu
> It almost hurts, to read that PyTorch is faster.

Why?
“Revolt” meaning a small number of outspoken people rather than the 186,000 employees of Google which is not if fact a democracy.
This was addressed at the end of the video: The main points are that it can't be used outside, or when the shot includes the subjects' legs/feet (as the ground would need to be an amber-screen as well), and on top of that, it requires a certain level of setup which some shoots can't afford.
But also keep in mind that lipo batteries in phones self-discharge tens of times faster than CR2032s.
After seeing the Olafur Eliasson retrospective at the Tate Modern a few years ago I tracked down the components to build my own low pressure sodium vapour light.

It's so weird, as those people say, so see things coloured... yet monochrome.
Seems like a zombie project at this point. Maybe a sign that it needs to be put down?

- written in perl

- 1 maintainer

- not much activity on GH or mailing lists

- pivot from initial purpose as “symlink farm” to dot file management

It’s had a nice run but seems much better alternatives exist now (as mentioned in comments)
I think this skips one mega benefit for apps.

I’ve been using liteFS in production for a couple months.

Your web app is able to resolve db queries instantly.

You don’t need loading states if you’re using complex charts and other frontend JS that waits for data.

All the data is resolved so fast and you can just return all your data like more traditional apps, and the load times are insane.

If you’re multi region you can deploy one app instance there. Instead of 2-3. Postgres read replica, maybe something like redis.

It really replaces both of those, assuming you have a read heavy app it works great.
We humans are emotional. Users' submissions didn't get the desired reach, and comments were thrashed to oblivion- they got emotional and left/lurked without participating anymore. Besides the usual promotional accounts that crop up, this is one of the reasons people do not participate.

Leave the emotion out of the equation, and HackerNews becomes way calmer for you.

The same story you submitted that failed gets talked about/discussed when submitted by another -- eh! All the smart people shred your comment -- ah, let's take a walk.
Microsoft has done a lot of work in Speech and Sarvam is also now going into it. But Sarvam is yet to produce a decent LLM for Hindi and now on top of that, they are venturing into speech, so I am not sure how that will pan out. My guess is Sarvam would be more focused on increasing coverage of text to speech for all Indian languages than to make the model indistinguishable from humans for top 4-5 Indian languages. They have some tie-ups with the government for the same.
Frankly after reading Inferno, I am failing to see the hype about it. It is a descriptive poem where he describes various chambers in the netherworld, but there is no narrative, nothing lyrical, nothing elegiac.

It is like reading tour guide for a place one does not intend to visit.
> Will we care about young men being under represented in college before they get down to 20%?

We won't care about men being under represented, but colleges may worry that they are losing out on customers if the male population of college buyers swings that low. That may prompt marketing campaigns to try and attract men into college.

I mean, it is not like we care about women being under represented either. Nobody is ever bothered by just 5% of firefighters being female. Tech was only ever concerned about women in tech because the industry was desperate for a larger pool of workers and women looked like an untapped source of people.
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no, this is apache license-d. yes it is confusing that AI2 has custom licenses but they aren't using them here
Sometimes Kindergeld makes less sense than the income tax reduction. The best option can be calculated automatically, but the state still won't do it.

Kindergeld is a fantastic example of bureaucracy that could be abgeschafft.
This is speech to text right?
The original 6502 had exactly 151 opcodes, the same as the number of pokémon in the original Pokémon games.
BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20
I wish modern apps gave this level of attentive detail to my keyboard.
In my experience as a Colemak typist and heavy vim (or vim-emulation) user, the best solution is to bite the bullet and _not_ remap any of the keys. This is obviously annoying for hjkl navigation at first but you get used to it pretty quickly. Plus there's the added benefit of being able to easily use hjkl for navigation everywhere that uses them but _doesn't_ let you remap, which is a lot of places.
There's another big aspect which is performance. I do believe that if you buy software and hardware, you should be able to do whatever you want with it including dumping the rom and/or bios, but obviously it's very easy to distribute and illegal to break encryption due to dmca.
> Reality is that those fall into the same buckets as well - and each over optimized on some emergent characteristics of their userbase

Over optimized, or perfectly optimized? I'm sure that people debate whether to use #pragma or #define HEADER_H_ on these things, the debate will be better when done amongst two highly skilled C++ developers who care about the corner cases.

That's why I said niche. The broader a community, the less useful that debate will be, if it even qualifies. Having a fresh CS grad explain that #pragma once is supported in the latest Clang, MSVC and GCC and thus there's never a reason to avoid it are right for whatever small university project they are building, but a seasoned developer is annoyed they still need to target an ancient RHEL release on their mission critical open source project. (Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is actually a thing, I figure by now #pragma must be good to go even on older LTS distros)
ChatGPT only required the electricity of 130 homes to train? This seems quite low given the benefits to society.
I dunno what qualifies as south ON, but I see 144 houses for sale from $50-300 CAD south of Huntsville.

Your point however is (less charitably) put as "I can't purchase a house where I want the house to be, with the specs that I want", which is different than not being able to afford any house anywhere.

My parents also purchased a house with modest income when I was young. But it had fraying electrical (knob & tube!), peeling paint, 1 bathroom, no A/C, a wood-burning fireplace for heat, and was 45 minutes from where they had rented/liked to live. The place had its charms, they put sweat equity into it for many years, and I think of it fondly - but it was still a huge compromise, and by today's strict lending standards was probably not even able to be financed based on hazards alone. I am sure they would have preferred to purchase a house with bay windows overlooking the ocean like they had been renting, but they could afford something that was inland and needed a lot of work. I do not think they were unique in this way - I wager a lot of 'my parents bought a house in the 80s, dad was an artisanal pencil sharpener and mom was a ferret breeder' stories are actually more like this one.

My point is, I am by default unconvinced when an otherwise seemingly successful person says they can't afford to buy, even in an expensive place like Toronto or SF. As far as I can tell it just means they haven't lowered their standards enough yet. I have compromised on every home I've bought; in fact I entered the market a lot later than I should have because as a first-timer I wasn't ready to compromise enough. That probably cost me half a mill in appreciation over the years.
That’s a great point and I hope more people speak up to treat models as just numerical derivative works so they aren’t automatically granted these protections. It’s better if society meaningfully debates this and chooses the right approach.
There's got to be some cosmic irony to using Buddhism principals of impermanence to help explain the next phase of post-WW2 consumer culture.
I did create a self signed root cert, it works as expected when accessing net from my Mac. But mobile devices refuse to work, zero network requests succeed. I did trust the root cert on both mac and mobile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The "decreased per-user engagement" evidence in this post is a bit thin. Mostly based on a kind of strange apparent outlier of accounts going idle (1+ year) in 2023 but the binning is also a full year and the 'idle year' is counted in a weird clippy (i.e. looking at calendar year rather than elapsed year) way. So it's one (aggregate) data point at the very end of the data. It might not be wrong but it feels somewhat iffy to draw conclusions from.
The way I think about realistic conversational speech is that if you get a phone call, you should not be able to tell whether it is an AI or a human just based on the voice. For English and even some asian languages like Chinese, this has already happened.

If you are a non-Hindi speaker and want to understand the difference, then I might find it difficult to explain :P But whatever you are learning, if you start practicing with a native speaker, I am sure you will easily surpass the SoTA hindi TTS models.

Non-conversational example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayYk3XkP0ts&t=22s&ab_channel...

You can list to this and understand easily that its AI generated speech. However, it works very well for dubbing etc.
Should have used SQLite.
The original beamsplitter cube isn't some exotic custom device that would cost tens of thousands to make.

It's just a dichroic beamsplitter, which is a standard optical element available from online sellers. Variants of these are commonly sued in scientific experiments, optical devices, etc...

Here's one for under $300: https://www.meetoptics.com/beamsplitters/plate/longpass-dich...

Just search for: "589 nm beamsplitter".
Among the various free backend hosting options currently available, does Cloudflare stand out as the best choice with its offerings such as Workers and D1? I would love to hear users experiences with these services or if there any informative resources that discuss the costs associated with scaling applications on the infra?
Those benefits have yet to materialize.
Yeah, some of the bigger models won't work, but there are a bunch that will.
Perceptual codecs must almost by definition be perceived. So the “standard” comparison is an ABX listening test.
https://archive.is/r9vo2
Ironic that even our everyday governance has little 'Alignment' between ethics and law.
If anyone is interested on what I remapped, I deviated from HJKL for motion to JKLI (NEOI on Workman). I use space/shift+space for insert entry/exit, so losing I to a motion command was a nonissue. I then just mapped what NEO was to JKL. Wasn't a big deal surprisingly.
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I thought about it, and you might be right that a proxy for the comments upvotes can be established here. But I just couldn't come up with anything satisfying tbh. Besides, with comments, there are replies, replies to the replies, ...etc.
The whisperspeech one is pretty bad/uncontrollable even in English last I checked, but maybe it can be improved. MahaTTS is quite bad for now. It is trained on IITM data, and that data in my opinion is not great for realistic conversational Hindi TTS. But I need to take a second look.
If you have a chance could you talk a little about the decreased engagement part of the analysis? The 2023 datapoint of idle users especially looks unusual, I commented on it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975875
I bet modern day go players have become more stereotypical in their moves. The only parallel I can draw is from professional Starcraft players who stopped doing very exotic moves because it’s usually blocked by players who’ve seen them all.
Came here to say the same thing, seems like a bit of a glaring thing to not address since I imagine "isn't it being a parent as opposed to being pregnant" is probably one of the first questions a lot of people would ask
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why are you putting revolt in quotes? It's not like the word itself implies a specific quantity, nor does the title say anything about the size of the revolt, big or small... strange rhetoric.
Can you watch a solar eclipse in the Apple Vision Pro?
Ring 3 Kernel (ring3k) A Linux based Windows compatible user mode kernel (2009)
How is it for writes? Would a CRM type system benefit from liteFS setup?
I don’t think that’s relevant here.
It's not a non-sequitor, but I am glad we are in agreement.
Archived web page describing Ring 3 Kernel:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200428201250/http://ring3k.org...
Great git Readme! Practical and helpful. I'm def interested. Thanks!
I think you always need loading states to account for slow network, or am I missing something?
What portion of writes typically have to go to the primary server? If users are local then their data maybe is often local as well. In other words not all writes need to first go the central server from where they are distributed back to all edge-databases.

I can see that the organization running the application needs a global view of all data. But regional users perhaps don't. Often they just need to know their own data.

Write first to edge then copy to central database rather than write first to central database then trickle down to the site from where the write originated in. Just wondering what portion of applications could use this alternative design.
I meant instructions/mnemonics.

I was referencing Simonw's post:

> Here are the 65 hardcoded opcodes
I imagine insurers are working very hard to identify which low probability events are likely going to happen for specific people. They might be doing detailed continual examinations of their homes for example.
I use a MCE remote with kodi and it works fantastically.

I think right mouse click is "back" by default. Everything is configurable to a huge extent as well if you don't like the defaults.

https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_keymaps
Office on the web is actually great. They did the hard work of making it work with most of the features you want to use. It's definitely better than Google Docs. It's a daily driver for me.
Yes, sometimes I'll switch over to the corresponding desktop app, especially if I want to copy paste images e.g. select a range of cells in Excel and paste them as a picture in Powerpoint. The switch from web to app is usually seamless. (I'm on a Mac).
I agree it’s often not useful but I’ve seen some gains from using it. The Model T also was not exceptional.
LOL! No RSS, no nothing for me. For me, it is just consistency at a specific timeslot -- wind-down evening for me (Europe's in Office, West Coast wakes up). I tend to fire and forget. I think the hit is less than 5%, but the consistency pays off in the long run. The best I remember is that 4 of my submissions were on the front page over a couple of hours, which is 13.33% of the front page stories.
Michael Abrash in his Graphics Programming Black Book described something similar with regard to optimization. People become stuck at some point, when they confuse "it is good enough" with "it is the best possible result". But if some event made them seriously doubt that it is the best possible result they could do wonders, like going from "this is the fastest code possible" to making it 10x faster.

Just knowing that you could do better is a big deal, but if you have an AI showing you how to do better, then further perfection will become inevitable.
Huh, my bad, I thought thermal sources (ie. like random hot stuff, not glowing hot stuff) emitted a wide band of frequencies including near-IR, but fair enough. You'd still get it from any sort of incandescent light source right? (same as a sodium lamp)

> but with important advantages

What's the benefit over using any other single frequency visible light?

Even if the atmosphere absorbs most of a particular band, if any of it gets through, your mask is going to be messy, which kind of ruins the point; I don't know anything can really fix that for outdoor purposes?

I mean, broadly speaking, all you need is a way to emit a sharp frequency band and avoid having any environmental pollution in the same band.

If there's a good way to do that in near-IR, it would work; but I feel like the same could be said about pretty much any frequency.

I'm not aware of anything specific about near-IR that makes it particularly attractive.

(but, clearly, I'm no expert in near-IR)
Randomly stumbled over this[1] post with another fed up open source contributor, due to several serious issues with AMDs GPU drivers and firmware that remain unresolved for years. It also references the geohot decision you mention.

Some quotes:

I find it incredible that these companies that have large support contracts with you and have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into your products, have been forced to turn to me, a mostly unknown self-employed hacker with very limited resources to try to work around these bugs (design faults?) in your hardware.

In the VFIO space we no longer recommend AMD GPUs at all, in every instance where people ask for which GPU to use for their new build, the advise is to use NVidia.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1bsjm5a/letter_to_amd_...
I think this article says more about the author's own bias than what it says about China.
> It's not a real person whose biography they could have lied about - it's a creation they made of words

A lot of Christians would object to that quite strenuously, and quite a few Muslims would stone you if you say these words in a wrong country.

That's why it's important to highlight the inconsistencies in the very logic of the religion.
Yes, this is the observation -- comments (when they are meaningful and upvoted) accelerate one's karma. This is also hard, consumes much of your core time, and is more challenging to deal with hyperboles.
that and there are a subset of mining sites that reduce emissions and sell energy to the grid

and another subset that only reduce emissions and are using energy that is still isolated from the grid, has always been there otherwise unused, and is still too expensive to transport to other use cases - except maybe AI training now

data centers never showed up because they needed fast internet. bitcoin mining needs minimal over the last decade and a half, and now training a model only needs minimal too.
The SQLite database is located on the application server, so there is no network between the DB and the app.
Yes. As a dvorak typist, hjkl being in eccentric locations hasn't bothered me.
That same 2028 total solar eclipse is centred right on my city here in Dunedin, New Zealand, at least I don't have to find accommodation!

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/new-zealand/otago?iso...

Queenstown looks like a good option for it too.
Related: Arvid Kahl (who hosts the podcast The Bootstrapped Founder) recently launched https://podcast.fm , which essentially transcribes thousands of podcasts and makes them available for search.
The vast majority of users have automatic updates enabled for their native apps which makes the security properties very similar IMO.

And if you turn off automatic updates then you don't get vulnerability fixes. So you're really at the mercy of the people providing your software updates even if we like to pretend that you're not. In the event of something like a world war, theoretical concerns like these would quickly turn into actual concerns.
Reminds me of when I was hired as an SRE, then told you can't log on to any of the customer systems until you've committed code to the main infrastructure codebase and you're "trusted". This was the only thing the other members of the SRE team actually did though - the job itself was basically "figure out why things go weird sometimes in the customer systems and then fix underlying automation issues".

But there was an actual developer team as well, including all the original founders - who knew the system perfectly. So things would get posted and you'd be like "oh, that's a good starter task..." and instead a "core" developer would pick it, do the one line fix, and then just push it straight to the master branch (or PR it but it would get approved within minutes in their timezone) while I was still trying to get my bearings in the code and tests.

Within a month or two the manager who hired me had "resigned", and then I was let go near the end of my probationary period. The whole time I never had any solid work assigned beyond "oh figure out where you can be useful".
We haven't validated the idea with strangers yet. Just with favorable audiences that could potentially use the product.

Get it into the real world, your thinking doesn’t matter, only customers.

This is what I'm asking for advice on how to do. Right now, as in any hobby, my thinking and what I want are all that matter. How do I slowly let go of my pet project and let it evolve more naturally, subject to the desires of customers and ideas of new devs?
if you patch out the CRC check in the binary with

echo -ne "\x90\x90" | dd if=/dev/stdin of=tsac bs=1 seek=23914 conv=notrunc

you can corrupt the compressed files with very interesting results: https://meow.social/@mimir/112238998609778334

the fast mode (you don't have to patch the binary for this one, it seems to not do the CRC check?) and the normal (non-fast) mode sound different, but both quite interesting
Assuming you're serving a frontend that makes network calls to a backend, you'll need to handle loading states in the frontend regardless of how the backend retrieves its data.
I'm surprised this didn't get more votes. I thought it was fantastic!
I've never had a problem installing self-compiled stuff into /usr/local without conflicts. I'd have to have the problem of installing multiple versions (upgrades) and needing to be able to roll back easily, along with any config files and such.