skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why do transformers perform better than older language models including other neural language models.
Boiling covers a multitude of hygienic sins, the worst of which happened to the rice long before it entered your kitchen. Birds, insects, and rodents have all pooped in and around it. Agriculture is filthy and there’s no way around it.

In the US, the primary reason raw cookie dough shouldn’t be eaten is not because of the raw eggs which these days are remarkably safe (but still not 100%), but more because of the latent ecoli/salmonella in the raw flour.
I think this line is (a) most accurate and (b) rings true to your list

"as is always the case with earthquakes, everyone will just have to wait and see what happens"

Oh well, off to watch a B-Grade disaster movie then ..
"I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys" (2008)
Cybertruck owner says accelerator got stuck while he was driving
As Sun would put it, The Network is the Computer. :)
I’m also a FreeTaxUSA user. This is my 2nd year with them and I’m pretty happy with it. Compared to KreditKarma, it’s an improvement (mostly because KKs “what is this” tended to be terse and unhelpful) and much better than TurboTax (which was plastered with ways to make you pay more)

I started into whatever the oss project is that gets promoted here every year, but it wasn’t clear that it was up to date.
This is the perfect client for accessing Internet Archive content! Each IA item automatically has a torrent that has IA's web seeds. Try Big Buck Bunny:

btfs https://archive.org/download/BigBuckBunny_124/BigBuckBunny_1... mountpoint
Yeah but the right to be forgotten is because there's a perceived imbalance between now and 70 years ago: before, people would forget you, and nobody found it weird. Today, you're labelled forever in permanent databases, and it's hard to get a redeeming chance.

We believe, in Europe, that it's better to have a criminal re-offend, than to have no criminal being given a second chance, and that's totally a choice and we can change our mind later anyway. But for now, we want to try it.
I read hundreds of the funny chat logs!
First, there is no proof that "LFP grid scale batteries" last longer than regular batteries today as your question may imply.

It seems the first "grid scale batteries" were derived from EV batteries, and are planned for 1 or 2 decades[1].

Basically, we are discussing battery ageing here, which is a complex problem[2].

According to the different studies on the topic I found, mentioning specifically "large-scale" installation like the ones discussed here, the answer is definitely and deceptively the same: between 10 and 20 years[3][5]. More precisely.

From [3]:

> To address the global effort to decrease carbon emissions, many consumers, corporations, and energy providers are adopting the use of electric vehicles and stationary energy storage systems paired with renewable electricity generation. These systems often utilize large-format lithium-ion batteries [...]. Real-world battery lifetime is evaluated by simulating residential energy storage and commercial frequency containment reserve systems in several U.S. climate regions. Predicted lifetime across cell types varies from 7 years to 20+ years, though all cells are predicted to have at least 10 year life in certain conditions.

From [5]:

> In the 2020 report, calendar life for both LFP and NMC Li-ion systems was stated as 10 years. The 2022
report takes additional information from long-term laboratory work (Saft, 2021) and product data into
account (Baxter, 2021b) to establish new calendar lives of 16 years for LFP and 13 years for NMC. The
calendar life is unchanged for 2030.

I also claim that battery are not renewable. One might argue that, if we can recycle batteries like we recycle regular glass, it could be considered as renewable. However, today there are 2 industrialized processes that are not satisfying (pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing) which "require high energy, and/or complex wet-chemistry steps"[4]. Some explored processes called "direct recycling"[4], which also has severe drawbacks but at least is more promising.

Which makes me think: we are, at least, making huge bets on the future here, as we risk 1) having huge amount of aged batteries in 1 or 2 decades, 2) no more mineral resources to extract.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/How-long-do-grid-storage-batteries-las...

[2]: https://cea.hal.science/cea-01791260/document

[3]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23521...

[4]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X2...

[5]: https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/ESGC%20C...
Pufferfish Courtship – [video]
> I feel like this comment and comments by western atheists make me think that the west has this idea of judeo-christian god that they just bring into any conversation without thinking deeply. For ramanujan god is more like an emotion.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Personalit...

> While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.

That doesn't seem like an emotion at all. It's a very visual, concrete image. It's closer to the "western atheists" view of god that just an abstract feeling of some sort you were describing, wouldn't you agree?
Perhaps if you have some way of shooting a message his way to let him know about the many good folks here that are nostalgic about it?

Thanks again for doing this btw!
We're talking about this point in time. Not theory. Right now people who were drafted for military reserves in October are mostly home now. At this point Israel has manpower.

The drafting of Hasidim is a different issue altogether that's been going on for decades. It's reached a boiling point mostly due to unrelated circumstances. A supreme court ruling came in that effectively invalidated the current legal hack as discriminatory. Since Netnyahu's coalition relies on the Hasidic vote he is trying to find a solution. They demand complete, permanent immunity from the draft which is a red flag here. Especially at this point in time.

Right now numbers are reasonable but if the war develops into an all front war then yes, Israel will be stretched. Regardless, a war against Iran would employ mostly pilots and missile defenses. Those are different forces from the ones engaged in combat in other fronts. So saturation isn't linear.

> The idea that a war against Iran would be easy is, quite frankly bonkers.

I didn't say it would be easy. I said "easier" with quotes trying to convey nuance. War sucks. But a war against a "normal army" is something that is simpler and clear. Urban warfare is just terrible for any army.

In the case of a war with Iran Israel can rely much heavier on air superiority which is probably its strongest suit.

> >Some believe it would be best to attack the head of the snake.
>
> This reads like it's not serious about the practicalities of war. It honestly reads like Hamas propaganda talking about how they're going to directly kill Netanyahu when such a move is realistically impossible for them.

Notice this isn't my opinion but I understand where they're coming from. Proxy wars suck.

I do think that if Israel could destroy the Iranian reactor it would be a huge accomplishment and would ultimately be a good thing. Israel did that in Iraq and effectively blocked Saddam from having Nuclear weapons. It did it in Syria and stopped Assad from a similar accomplishment.
For some reason I thought Sega had released other games with the SVP but you’re right Virtua Racing was the only one.

I think maybe I got my wires crossed with Virtua Fighter 2, which did see a Mega Drive release but as a 2D fighter (the VSP port being cancelled - presumably because of the cost of the VSP).
Code is available at: https://github.com/robertvacareanu/llm4regression

I also added google colab examples:

A small example with GPT-4: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Bk9uBCBvzuX00Rex-t1...

A small scale eval with GPT-4: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1_-uHvW2oLtcCXz0c-G_...

Also, feel free to DM or email me if you’d like to chat more about it!
I tried to find an accountant, and they quoted me around $1100.

Is your accountant affordable?
>It sounds like you might have a bit of an extreme view.

That is indeed what most people would think.
No appropriate GPUAdapter found.

I've turned on in chrome://flags

>WebGPU Developer Features
Enables web applications to access WebGPU features intended only for use during development. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, Fuchsia, Lacros
#enable-webgpu-developer-features

Chrome is up to date
Version 123.0.6312.123 (Official Build) (64-bit)

RTX2060
In which jurisdictions--if any--does that actually matter?

AFAIK there is no state where anti-recording rules are asymmetric between participants. Either both have an expectation of non-recording, or neither do.
But they paid for said misdeeds, it's not that important that they pay forever, is it ? I mean it sounds annoying to allow an embezzler to be an accountant again, but I mean, he did his time, he's supposed to have reformed, what are we gonna do ? Consider that never again in his life he's gonna be honest ?
Wow that’s fucked up

Edit: looks like they eventually were saved in appeals court https://www.nature.com/articles/515171a and finally completely cleared after their Supreme Court ruling https://www.science.org/content/article/italy-s-supreme-cour...

Still a lot of time and money wasted on absolute bullshit.
If all cars (trucks not included) in Germany would be EVs, those could store all (!) the electric energy needed for 2 days.
And it’s why shadow IT exists and shadow IT is why companies don’t fall apart.

It’s also why web apps are so popular and why the blackberry failed.
>institutions like the NY Times have significantly more resources available for uncovering, gathering, and analyzing information than any "interesting free sources of info."

I don't doubt that they do. The NY Times and the WSJ are very wealthy organizations by the standards of virtually any alternative news media source or newsletter, but this makes it all the sadder that despite these troves of resources, they still often pull out hackneyed, deeply biased reporting so boxed in by ideological walls that it might as well be useless.

The NY Times in particular completely failed to foresee the Trump presidency because of course, in their group mind, the opinion and possible motives of tens of millions of people who voted that way (for good reasons or bad) simply didn't count, and then, caught completely off guard by their enormous media blunder, the same paper's staff spent years harping rabidly, often to the point of absurdity, about supposed misinformation and foreign manipulation because they just couldn't digest that so many people would possibly have enough brains to make their own choices outside the narrative of what these relative elites expected. It's a grossly narrow, elitist point of view that has no place in a newspaper that claims to seek hard reporting of the real world.

This is just one example, but one among a number of them that make a shame of such a hugely wealthy organization's ability to do its most fundamental job of uncovering and covering controversial news instead of inventing it from whole cloth.
N of one but my friend (who always saw the world as very black and white) killed herself not long after doing Ayahuasca. I’m pretty sure it contributed to her death, she became an extreme fantasist about judgement and god, not a formalised religion but a personified fantasy with crazed rules and vengeances. It was not good.
>stopped stealing and starting working honestly.

Yeah but that requires actual real work embezzling is actually kind of mindless once the cycle is started. Stealing is usually easier,even if you disagree on that part. The embezzling still has one thing going, its almost always faster. Why would the embezzler work for 30-40 years to be rich when they can have a chance at retiring well before they are starting to age.

I once worked somewhere that was significantly embezzled. I knew the people that did it personally. I actually had this same discussion with other coworkers there. Yeah they could have made more money honestly. However what they did instead (by our estimates from various public evidence) bank around 50-60 mil and vanish before they were 35 years old. Still in good health and young enough to enjoy life.
I’m an independent statistic who don’t need no covariant!
Another discussion from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045252 (77 comments).
It’s from the ITA software acquisition that became Google flights.

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/data_mining/itastory...
Pshaw, next thing you'll be saying companies have to be liable when criminals fool their employees rather than pushing all the consequences onto innocent customers under the phrase "identity theft." :p
Freespace was the (un?)official successor. Freespace 2 was incredible and I’d be willing to bet it holds up to this day.

Nowadays we have the modern version of Elite Dangerous, but its flight mechanics are too close to aeronautic flight mechanics to compare to Descent.
I’m not certain, no. But I’d be curious to see. In my building, each floor is around 20–30 cm thick concrete.
"e.G. from Russia (as the US does)"

What is incorrect about "for example from Russia, like the US imports uranium from Russia"?
Well, fundamentally moral authority is a misguided idea, morals don't flow from an authority, morals are constructed and transformed over time by society. Taking your morals from an authority directly is itself immoral, as they don't have a foundation of human rights or empathy but rather are based on arbitrary ancient writing of arbitrary ancient writers.

I'm saying quoting religious texts without religious context (like you say, morals are not inherently religious) is not a secular act and can not be separated from the religion because of the history around quoting religious texts. Quoting religion in a moral discussion introduces religion into a discussion where religion is not necessary, and could even be harmful.

That's not to say you should never do it, but doing it is not the same as quoting any other text or other author. Again I'm not sure why this is controversial, regardless of the other comments quoting Hitler or Mao's red book in a moral discussion would very much be very weird if there is no reason to introduce any of his writing.

Somehow religion gets a pass, it shouldn't.
” California will entirely be on renewables and battery storage 24/7 by 2035.
California passed a law that commits to achieving 100% net zero electricity by 2045. Will it beat that goal by a decade? We hope so. It’s going to be exciting to watch.”

Remarkable, especially considering California’s population is 39 million people.
tabs vs spaces

vi(m) vs emacs

golgotha for geeks
> When they trialed Prozac on people with no history of mental illness, someone committed suicide out of the blue.

I hadn't heard about this before, and while I'm sure it is possible for any drug that messes with brain chemicals to cause someone to decide to kill themselves, I've always been told & read a different explanation for the suicide warning that comes with most (or all?) antidepressants:

Which is that a depressed person while at their lowest might think about suicide but not have the energy or willpower to do anything, but if they start taking a drug that partially fixes it, so they start having energy again, but doesn't fix their root problems so they still think that suicide would be preferable to life, and suddenly have energy to make that happen.

Which is also the reason that modern guidance is for antidepressants to be co-prescribed with talk therapy, to try to use drugs to let the person be able to work on their issues, rather than just hoping the drug can fix all issues.
Can't you train a predictor on skull shape/bone length and IQ and go from there? Yeah there's no causation there, but you should be able to give a percentage that someone's IQ is above a certain number depending on high-rez MRI scan input of skull and bone length measurements.
Because pasting in OpenSSH doesn’t work?
>identical EDID

Isn't this an EEPROM that can be written to over the wire?
for 0.25-6 h per day

That's nice and all, but 15 minutes is a much lesser achievement than the headline implies.
Actually, I think the reference might be to this:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/11/7193391/italy-judges-cle...
I use pageant as my SSH Agent and WSL to access it through ssh-agent. I only used to generate Keys with Putty, (Puttygen), but reverted to standard Linux `ssh-keygen` in the last 2-3 years.

I am still wondering what the exact steps are to show the key type.
Whereas GP is making reference to a case in which Italian seismologists were literally convicted after their predictions did not come true.
With mods, Freespace and Freespace 2 are still especially awesome.
You say that like an accidental middle click from e.g. xterm would be any better.
Thanks. I'm keen to hear how well it works for you.
... did you link a website advocating that the shape of Earth is flat?
For what it's worth, the last major earthquake here killed 63 people, the significant majority of which were on various freeways and bridges that collapsed. All infrastructure has undergone significant retrofitting since then.
A zero bit is not a cryptographically random bit.
Does Programming Have a Future? [video]
Sacramento has 14c/kWh in summer and 11.5c/kWh in winter and that's 1/3 nat gas and the rest hydro and renewable.
No epidemiologists were going around saying "eh it could never happen". In fact, many of them were warning after SARS. Trump actually took apart Obama's virus disaster-readiness warehouses and other programs in 2018-2019. Very bad timing, many such cases!

I would suspect the majority of disaster-related experts are not going to be so laid back.
A Dungeons and Dragons play show is going to sell out Madison Square Garden
"Principal Author
Professor Kristina Hook is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development <...> She previously served as a U.S. Department of State policy adviser for mass atrocity prevention, as a nonresident research fellow at the Marine Corps University, and as a U.S. Presidential Management Fellow. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center."

I've read the bit about “We Can Do It Again”, if Ms. Hook resorts to direct lies from the start it gives me serious doubts that the rest of the report is any more truthful. But I could tell that from her affiliations alone.
China, Russia and Iran Are Reviving the Age of Empires
If the seller threatens to "steal it again".
That has nothing to do with who has standing to actually enforce the underlying copyright for the part that would be infringed under a violation of the relevant portion of the license.
I shudder at the thought of these kinda of lasers reaching the hands of those involved in street crime.
The answer is the subjective judgement of rice is very broad and most people cooking it are inconsistent anyway.
Stanford 2024 AI Index Report [pdf]
Which version of Ollama are you using? You can check with `ollama -v`. Also, using `ollama list | grep wizardlm2` the 8x22b version should have ID `abda6e58fd1d`.
Very interesting, i've just yesterday wrote about the successor of EVA, the TravelPilot IDS [1] which was commercially available. But I didn't knew that there was another system 5 years ahead.

Both (Etak and TravelPilot IDS) seems to use kind of a vector display. Does someone know if this is for better resolution or better contrast, or both or if there is another reason?

https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/navigation-sys...
Now I'm wondering about analogies to useful-but-dangerous technologies, where "why do you worry so much about the police" is a bit like "why do you worry so much about butane lighters and cans of gasoline."
IIRC my cpap machine was close to $1k, but the quote for a MAD was around $3600.

In-home sleep studies are cheap now, but in-office ones are even more expensive than the MAD sometimes.
Yeah, transit advocates say that too, but it's the same thing: once you advertise that you don't want to make a profit, you'll find that people can make sure you make a loss. At-cost is the same as cost-plus and has the same problem: the only way for the guy building something for you to extract value from the thing is to raise the cost high enough.

It's a weird thing. American transit advocates will cry themselves hoarse that public transit should be free or run at a loss but almost every system in the world that's good (TfL, HK Metro, JR East) makes money. But every American system loses money hand over fist and sucks.

This makes it quite clear to me. It's very easy to be shitty losing money. It's very hard to be shitty and make money.
Atheism is an accepted school of thought in Hinduism [1]

Indian philosophy is diverse and vast. See the comparison of these philosophies [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charvaka

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy#Comparison_o...
Show HN: Plan your next event by asking when not
Hello fellow hackers!

I love creating products that solve people's needs.

One day, my wife asked me if I knew of any tools that could help plan a week-long company getaway. The requirements were fairly straightforward:

- 14 people
- A 7-day trip
- Sometime in the next 6 months

They weren’t concerned about choosing the exact time yet; they just needed to know which dates would work for everyone—or put another way, when does it NOT work?

I searched but couldn’t find anything that met this specific need, so I decided to build it myself.

The concept is simple: think of it as an inverse Doodle. You select a date range for the potential event and then ask your friends, family, or coworkers to mark the dates they are unavailable. This way, you can easily identify the best possible time slot.

This approach allows flexibility in planning. For instance, if there’s only a 5-day stretch available, that could work too.
Interesting. Fonts looks beautifully sharp in Emacs on my Mac. I don't use any variable-width fonts however, only monospace.
Myst may not have launched a genre, but it did establish its own kind of game style.

3D world. Adventure game mechanics, with problems and puzzles - but where progress opens up more puzzles, and where instead of developing the character skills, you develop the story. Slow paced.

There have been plenty of games to tap into that style, but not enough or frequently enough to warrant calling them part of a genre. Black Dahlia. The Witness. Talos Principle. In a way, even a visual story like All That Remains of Edith Finch can trace its root to Myst.
Had such inspections before whenever kena red zone here.

As well as checking all these things the agent will advise on what to look out for. For example our unused plastic buckets in the bathroom are upside down so they don't accumulate water, ah! but then also must check that little rim channel as it too can also accumulate enough water from nearby splashing to become a breeding spot!

SG also has Zika which transmits via Aedes mosquitos.

The common corridors in many blocks also have "Gravitraps" they use to monitor numbers by counting how many mozzies get trapped.

https://www.nea.gov.sg/dengue-zika
> the feature ... that shows you how many of your friends also follow this user.

Propaganda in the 1920s targeted social clique by social clique, but as far as I know (cards having been invented for a few decades) it was largely a manual wetware-driven process. With our progress over the last century, we can now target "all your friends are saying" campaigns completely automatically.