skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”?
It has been already in the ages before us.

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be among those who come after.
Countless major cities and towns are built on either side a river. Anything beyond a village quickly evolves in to something roughly circular.
I tested the Humane AI Pin – it's not good
Well it will be multimodal, training and inferring on feeds of distributed sensing networks; radio, optical, acoustic, accelerometer, vibration, anything that's in your phone and much besides. I think the time of the text-only transformer has already passed.
US bill proposes AI companies list what copyrighted materials they use
My two cents having formerly worked in perovskites trying to upscale the process:

Perovskites are exciting (or were exciting) because they have a high theoretical efficiency, are relatively simple to prepare, and the "worst" component in them is lead (an incredibly abundant material). The big problem with them is that they are famously horrifically unstable in ambient conditions.

Roll-to-roll processing means that you can fabricate them in mass scale. Ambient means that they claim to have solved issues like working in glovebox conditions.

Even if the price of solar panels has come down below labor, the fact that they are produced from rare earth minerals goes (in my opinion) underreported.

Consider the relationship between perovskites and multi-junction solar cells similar to the comparison between sodium and lithium ion batteries. Lithium will always have a higher capacity, but sodium is so abundant that for many applications it just doesn't matter anymore.
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood
Interesting, Comcast now has 115/24 for $30/month, and the only tier with faster upload is 1300/40 for $126/month.

I generally shop for DOCSIS service based on the upload speed, so Comcast will get a lot cheaper when my current contract expires.

Edit: oops, "Internet Essentials" is only for people on Medicaid or similar assistance. My cheapest no-contract option is 175/24 for $56/month after the paperless discount. In any case, they doubled the upload speed for that plan because the feds raised the definition of broadband from 25/3 to 100/20.
If you allow negative side lengths, as you should, much of geometry is unified and simplified, such as this situation.

Negative (and imaginary) measurements make math better-behaved. (See also: quantum mechanics.)

Rectangular coordinates are suboptimal because they are arbitrary in a way that hides some of the symmetry of mathematics.

Your vector argument looks like a lot of algebra noise "without a diagram" because it relies on... triangles... for intuitive justification.
MLtraq: Track your AI experiments at hyperspeed [slides]
Yes adding a human interface layer (like ChatGPT) will make it more capable, but keep in mind LLM does not mean "chat bot".
> I can't tell what the underlying implementation is, but either way you can't modify them without creating a new tuple so they behave as if they use value-semantics not reference-semantics. (this is what makes tuples safe as defaults in a method, and lists not)

Ahh, you were talking about the semantics, not the implementation. Understood.

Another way to think of this might be in terms of mutability, i.e. tuples are immutable. Pass-by-value versus pass-by-reference for immutable objects doesn't make much difference in the behavior of objects in a language like Python which doesn't have explicit pointers, but it's a big difference for performance.

> If you compare their ids it does look like python makes multiple instances and passes them around by reference

I didn't think of answering my own question this way. Nice!

> but the results might be implementation dependent.

It's possible since Python isn't standardized, but I strongly doubt you'll find a mature implementation that passes potentially-large, variable-sized objects like tuples around by value, for two reasons:

1. Once you get above the size operated on by processor instructions (64 bits on most modern desktop/laptop processors) pass by value requires a memcopy, which is orders of magnitude slower. Tuples can grow past the L1 or L2 cache size, which corresponds to another two orders of magnitude in performnance loss. Comparing this to passing around a 64-bit pointer which is about as fast as passing around any other value.

2. Virtual machines usually implement their own stack. This is easiest to do as an array of same-sized values. Implementing a performant stack with variable-sized elements is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Honestly, that seems like an excellent opportunity to feed garbage into OpenAI's training process.
‘Siri, create me a song that mixes the styles of Lettuce, Solarstone, and Bollywood, and make the vocals Tuvan throat singers.’
Is the format used in anything other than nutrition labels (and ISP labels, from now on)? It also struck me as odd.
Don't say "the organization has just promoted". That's taking the face off of where the blame belongs.

Say, "the CEO". The same CEO who is trying to manage through deadline pressure, placed into leadership someone who could be managed through deadline pressure. And who would transmit that pressure down the chain.

Why? Because the CEO believed that this is how people should be managed. Which means that a leader who refused to accept that pressure would have almost certainly resulted in the CEO replacing said leader with someone who is more compliant.

And now that we're done placing blame in the right place, can we talk about the actual problem here? Which is that people really do wind up working under too much stress and pressure. And this comes with a huge and absolutely real cost.
There is a user called The Bloke on hugging face- they release pre quantized models pretty soon after the full size drop. Just watch their page and pray you can fit the 4 bit in your GPU.

I’m sure they are already working on it.
> ISPs are in cahoots with governments and corporations to block sites without ever notifying their clients, and I'm sure the US is no exception

It is. We have the First Amendment. If you have examples to the contrary, I’m incredibly curious to see it.
There does exist anyolite

https://github.com/Anyolite/anyolite
Almost like its live training.
> criminalise (up to capital punishment) things like apostasy and blasphemy, which are decidedly mediaeval attitudes.

Another HN post today motivated me to look up the history of British blasphemy law and it turns out it was not medieval. Criminal blasphemy laws appeared right at the end of the Middle Ages (at least in England and Wales) so are mostly modern. Before that the punishment for blasphemy was excommunication.
Apparently the big problem is that not only are prices low now, but also power prices are forecast to be low in the future:

> Robert Jackson-Stroud, an analyst at ICIS, says many energy buyers have seized the opportunity to lock in lower energy costs by striking long-term deals for renewable energy supplies at discount rates based on the forward curve for wholesale electricity prices.

Which seems like a bit of a non problem?
> Pretty sure everyone agrees with that, even the DRM makers.

You’d think so, but that’s not the case. Here’s an example of a Canadian artists group that wanted “format shifting” to be explicitly illegal: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/10/copyright-collec...

In their opinion, if you buy a book on Nook, then switch to a Kindle, you should be legally required to buy another copy if you want to read it again.
Ask who? Have you ever tried contacting any of these companies for anything? You get a run around, sit on hold for an hour, and when you do get a human they don't speak English and have no idea what they are talking about. The sales people will tell you anything just to get their commission.
You are aware that the existence of grey areas does not negate the existence of different ends of the spectrum, right? I’m not arguing the world is simple and entire countries/civilizations can be placed on one end or the other.

I am saying that there are countless dimensions that matter, and there are better and worse locations along those dimensions.

On the dimension of drug addiction rates, Singapore is doing better than the US. On the dimension of personal liberties, Singapore is doing worse than the US.

This observation is not a counter argument to my position, it’s a disproof of yours.

Saying we cannot make value judgments about these things implies we cannot justifiably take action that would nudge us into a different location along any of these different dimensions. How could you possibly decide to change things if there’s no such thing as a better, more preferable possible future state?

Here’s a gut check: are you comfortable with your moral system landing you solidly in the “let’s allow slavery” camp in the 1800s? After all, the disagreement between slave holders and abolitionists was one of culture and opinions, and as we know now there’s no such thing as a better or worse position to hold on such matters. Does that moral system seem like a good one to you?
I am genuinely curious what kind of mental model of the physical universe leads someone to look at a 3000km-diameter sphere of rock, or any matter at all, and say "yeah, I think that's actually hollow". Especially as the presence of the moon is one of the oldest, most observed and recorded natural phenomena in human history. It's not like it turned up one day or has ever been seen to do anything other than plod around its orbit dead on time.

How would it form? Why doesn't it collapse inwards? Why does it weigh so much?

I mean, sure, it could be an ancient alien ship with a superdense unobtainium shell to have exactly the same gravity as a rock ball but why would they park it so close that they need to cover it in regolith?

Then again some people think a virus is somehow caused by radio waves and active remote-controlled microchips can be suspended in clear liquid so the whole world must be like wandering through Wonderland all the time. There are no rules and anything can happen.
Estimating Uncertainty in EVM of Measured Digitally Modulated Wireless Signals
>"Instruction set summary

Figure 5.2 shows FRISC 3's four instruction formats: one for control flow, one for memory loads and stores, one for ALU operations, and one for shift operations. The FRISC 3 uses unencoded instruction formats similar in spirit to those found on the NC4016, RTX 2000, and M17.

All instruction formats use the highest 3 bits of the instruction to specify the instruction type."

Seems to me that an FRISC CPU could easily be implemented on even the most minimal of FPGA's... an ASIC or even 7400-series logic implementation would not be that challenging -- at least compared to other more complex CPU designs...

Related:

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/209300/when-tea...

>"o The whole FRISC reference manual was 4 pages long.

The print version of Wikibooks x86 Assembly has 90 pages. Intel 80286 (processor picked at random) reference manual has 513 pages. We were allowed to have a copy of the manual in the exams, and I had a much easier time searching through a paper copy of 4 pages than 513 (and it was also much lighter to carry around).

o The textbook based on FRISC came out in 2002, and a second edition in 2004.

The instruction set never changed.

x86 was developed based on the Intel 8086 microprocessor, in 1978, and the instruction set underwent constant changes and additions

o FRISC will never be out of date -- it will always be a perfectly valid, functional, microprocessor designed primarily for simplicity and teaching purposes. Neither x86 nor ARM assembly have been designed with simplicity in mind; and which ever instruction set you select, there is a good chance you'll be hopelessly out of date in a few years."

https://ivanzuzak.info/FRISCjs/webapp/
> none of these are the obvious trigonometric definitions about the opposite and adjacent sides of a right triangle

Am I just misunderstanding something about this articles motivation? I’m pretty sure I learned the unit circle in high school trig, possibly even 7th grade geometry although my memory that far back is fuzzier; but we did lots of geometric constructions with straightedge and compass, and did basic geometric proofs using complementary angles etc, and my teacher was obsessed with triangles. I didn’t learn about series until Calc 2 in early undergrad.

I still use the unit circle to reconstruct various trig properties from memory.
For chat, there's basically a missing NLP layer - what pop culture calls "multi-headed attention blocks", but for next token prediction it's pretty good. Maybe the philosophical concept of a Markov chain abstractly describes this code, but a "language model" is more closely what it is.
Who the hell has the free time to bother report rat sightings to 311.
We have to find the right balance. If a large number of patents sound like a sad joke to most professionals in a field, then something has gone very wrong.

That presume that we have the ability to finetune patent laws as needed and also presume that world changing inventions are necessarily novel enough to professionals in a given field. It has often happened commonly enough that inventions will occur to several innovators at once as the next step. It is questionable that it would be fair to penalize an inventor just because another was first to file a patent, potentially driving these inventors out of the industry.

It is also pushing against the reality that people are always building on the works of others. Patents are by themselves monopolies. That is how they work. Thus, people had resorted to arrangements to avoid constant patent lawsuits, which had happened in the past.
I hadn't heard about this, but I went to comcast with an incognito browser and claimed to be a new customer -- and indeed these are next to plans (you do have to click through to detail page).

This is actually great. Comcast is my only available broadband provider, and I've been trying to figure out how to switch to a cheaper plan, but haven't actually been a able to figure out the post-introductory rates on the plans before, and the customer service/retention people put you on hold at random times designed to somehow influence you to pay more and give you confusing answers.

Now it's clear. I can switch from 300Mbps I don't need to 150MBps that is fine, and save $30/month, great.

(I think comcast still won't let you switch to a CHEAPER internet plan without talking to a human, you can't do it self-serve).
To recharge my EV on the go, unfortunately, I need a macrospy device, aka smartphone [1] but I normally do not use it as a phone, and I answer calls from it only on the go, my phone numbers for 99% of my contacts are on my home pbx and calls get redirected only when I'm on the go. Only very few in my family know my "mobile" phone number. For me it's essentially:

- a GPS device for car navigation

- a portable hotspot when needed

- rarely a quick browser looking for basic information (like a phone number of a shop)

- rarely a MUA if I need to see, not compose, my mails on the go.

That's is. I've tried a KaiOS phone but it's just a bad hybrid, so I quit it.

[1] macrospy as opposed to classic micro-spy (bugs) that was bought and deployed with significant costs, potentially aleatory reliability and potentially short lifespan by those who want to spy a target. These days PR are able to do the inverse: an expensive and very visible device, bought and kept up by the spied target to enjoy being profiled...
No, because there’s no legal weight behind robots.txt.

The second someone weaponizes robots.txt all the scrapers will just start ignoring it.
I have my old high school calculus text book and that is definitely how trig was introduced. The proof of Pythagorean Theorem using sin and cos was literally part of my undergrad CALC101 (I remember because my high school teacher demonstrated it for fun so it was a rehash)
Wish it had GPT-4, that’s the one to beat still.
Why? If I build a chat bot from it would it seem more like an LLM to you?
Show HN: I Created a Screenshot Design Tool. Open for Beta
It's a PWA. I believe it's better than the screenshot design tools out there. It took me 600 hrs coding javascript haha. It's open for public beta access. Please check it out. You can access the project on any device.
The Rat Things protected Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong, I think... but were supplied by Mr Ng.
Famous First Photographs from the History: From the Oldest Photo Ever to First
The term photography was coined in the early 19th century; however, the concept of a camera dates back to ancient Greeks and Chinese. Chinese philosopher Mozi was the first person who wrote the principle of camera obscura. It is a natural optical phenomenon, where an image on one side of the screen or wall projects through a hole onto a surface opposite the opening. In the late 17th century, a similar technology called pinhole camera was used to project drawings. The only difference between a camera obscura and a pinhole camera is that a camera obscura uses a lens, while a pinhole camera has an open hole.
Made a website for the guest house we were staying at in Japan in the early 90's. We even bought a digital camera to take pics of the property. Later on iOS apps when the app store was relatively new.
They aren't farming in the City.
Less electricity storage means the need for larger transmission lines, as peak loads become larger. In general better aligning utilization with surpluses of electricity carries an intrinsic tradeoff versus the capital cost of oversizing the utilization equipment to make up for only working part of the time. And the real way to look at storage is pure electricity storage versus storing the output products of electricity. Like I can run my washing machine when the sun is shining, because clean clothes (product of electricity) are going to sit around for a week anyway, which is free storage. Whereas if say you run a desalinization plant only when the sun is shining, then you have to store the fresh water in tanks for when people actually want to consume it (in addition to doubling/tripling the pumps/membranes). Transmission lines are going to fall in a roughly similar category (modulo consumption local to generation), where now all that oversized utilization equipment is drawing twice as much during the day and very little at night, increasing the sizing of the lines.
My main problem with IPv6-only on local networks is static IP assignment. With NAT (IPv4 or IPv6) I could assign my own addresses to devices, which could remain the same forever even when changing ISPs. This is not possible when using IPv6 GUAs via PD.
Some ISPs are now providing "IPv4 as a service", i.e. they are IPv6-only throughout their entire network infra and can easily pull the plug on IPv4.

"When" is the only remaining question.
It is not just "not the way you'd do them". You were promoted for doing your work better than others. Those others did not improve because you got promoted. So you have to figure out how to get useful work out of people who are doing things in a worse way. And let them do things that way even though you already know what's wrong with it.
> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information
Last week I bought my first eReader.

Bought a book which had Adobe DRM. Had to download Adobe Digital Editions, to activate the book/ACSM-file.

The activation failed. Tried it multiple times on different systems.

My eReader is now filled with books downloaded from semi-shady places, but free. Fuck DRM.
'Mini kidneys' give insight into metabolic defects in polycystic kidney disease
Also, judgment about avoiding that kind of situation.
I just put another 5x550W panels up 2 months ago, and they are now 101eur per panel including tax! 30e less than I just paid. wish I had space for more!
Because a discussion board is social media
The Art World makes a lot more sense when you look at it through the lens of a giant money laundering operation
>would be better for the community if it allowed repetition. Repetition isn't harmful,

The "community" also includes the people who volunteer to answer the questions. The answerers don't want repetition. Jeff Atwood wanted to prioritize the SO experience for the answerers.

To paraphrase JA's reasoning:

- asking questions is easy which can lead to an increasing volume of bad questions that degrades the site for the answerers

- answering questions is hard and more valuable for StackOverflow so optimize the site for them. (JA wrote, ">We feel that the world is awash in questions, but not answers. Answers are the real unit of work in any Q&A; system. Therefore, the only logical thing to do is to maximize the happiness and enjoyment of answerers."[1])

I do understand how you would want SO to work differently and I'm not debating your opinion. I'm just relaying how the cofounders wanted StackOverflow to work.

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-....
Step in the right direction. I like that they included upload speed, latency and not just download speed.
Larger entities have lawyers and can afford more of them. It doesn't protect the little guys so much as allow larger entities monopoly power.

Patents are by themselves not a business model. They merely buy a seat at the negotiation table. Leverage is another matter entirely.
It's true that there will no longer be any virgin forest to scrape but it's also true that content humans want will still be most popular and promoted and curated and edited etc etc. Even if it's impossible to train on organic content it'll still be possible to get good content
AIUI you grow the plants, then process them to get the metals. Then you have plant matter with 'no' metals ... so using that to make bio-diesel seems possible? Depending on the details it might be possible to use the burning of the plants to extract the metals - similar effect (in that you get an energy crop and mineral extraction in one). You raise a valid concern though, thank you.
Backticks are going in the right direction, but not quite it. I want to operate on lists (or iterables etc), not strings, so i have all the usual safe and convenient facilities of the language available to build them. I want to get an object back that is extremely easy to get various kinds of results out of (Python's subprocess object isn't; i'm not familiar with Ruby's). I want more aggressive raise_for_status style error checking.

Thinking about it, this doesn't need to be an operator, and i could probably just write this myself and start trying it.

Interesting point about globbing. My feeling is that i don't actually use it a lot in scripts - the criteria for matching are usually complicated enough that i'm much more likely to use find. In a project with 1376 non-comment lines of shell script, i found eleven uses of globbing.
You phrased it like a particularly difficult Winograd schema sentence.
The website is 12 years old and explained here -

https://circleid.com/posts/20120713_silly_bing

John Levine is a known name in IT. Probably best know on HN as the author of "UNIX For Dummies"
Adding "considering all alice and bob scenarios" to LLM prompts is surprisingly useful.
You may get some useful answers here, but this is specific enough that I almost think you'd be better off posing the question somewhere more specifically AI focused. One possibility would be the AI Stack Exchange site[1].

[1]: https://ai.stackexchange.com
Why would you think research is fun if we don’t need more progress? If one were to take your comment seriously they would conclude we must fire all those people working on fun problems.