skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the point of the Attention portion in an llm, to use context to skew the embedding result closer to what youre looking for.

It does seem a little strange 'ruler' would be closer to 'king' versus something like 'crown'.
The big question is how does it find bugs without knowing if it is intended behaviour or not?
Matzah pizza!! Super convenient, you can just leave a box in your pantry and take one out whenever you need a quick and easy crust.
Evolution doesn't do back propagation.
Unless you want to get into a pure management position, the most senior (pay) technical resource is almost always a consultant. And you can give yourself the promotion to consultant any time you want. And when you're a consultant, job hopping is the expectation.
All well and good but is Clean Energy actually accomplishing what it's supposed to do? That is, make the environment less likely to imploded?

80% of new capacity sounds great, but that still leaves 20%. Do those offset? And what about old capacity, is that being replaced?

Economic growth as a KPI for Clean Energy feels counter-intuitive.
If you can't decide what is better for your kid, maybe you shouldn't be a parent.
Undervaluing experience is a major threat to your team
https://archive.is/hm5Ai
Cellpond: Spatial Programming Without Escape [video]
> Tables for layout (not tables in general) were discouraged with various arguments in favor of "float/clear"

Table markup was discouraged. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with display:table from a CSS/semantic markup evangelist’s point of view, it’s just awkward to use, requires you to arrange and order your markup just so (sometimes contrary to semantics), and was rarely mentioned in the days of float/clear because IE screwed it up in various ways (that were more difficult to fix than those for floats). It works reliably now, but as far as laying out the page goes the requirements for ordering the markup will probably be incompatible between desktop and mobile. For insides of buttons and such, though, go nuts.
> "Pennaceous feather" is a funny term too, then, meaning something like "featherlike feather"?

I'd probably render it as more like "typical feathers" or "standard feathers". Note that "typical feathers" and "feathery feathers" mean the same thing, but one is perfectly normal phrasing and the other isn't.
sorry, but a peaceful sit-in in a public place or semi-public-place (shop, college etc.) is one thing.

in this case they were:
- not-peaceful. damaging property. antagonizing people.
- in a private space. in a private office in a private space.
- in the employ of the very people they were protesting. OK, even if they had the right to be there (which they did not), the company still has the right (moral and legal), actually imperative, to fire them.

i don't agree that you need to "check your opinions at the door" at work. you can put up a poster or a flag. you can wear a t-shirt. within reason. you CANNOT harass your employer or other employees.

would you say the same: "it isn't necessarily just" [to be fired] if it were 24 KKK members protesting hiring H1Bs in otherwise exactly the same manner? if you can't, it isn't a protest, it's thuggery.
I tried to report many times. It's not easy at all where I live. I instead intentionally install scamy apps to burn their ad budget
I agree that more regulatory effort is needed against Meta and YouTube, but at least there we have actual entities in our sphere of influence that our democratic systems can hold accountable.

Anything China however, we are reliant on the goodwill of a dictatorship. And that cannot stand longer, especially as China is not giving us reciprocal access - Youtube and Facebook for example are banned there, so it is only fair to do the same against anything Chinese.
It says the book is in beta. How complete/finished is it?
inappropriate? depends. hilarious? fuck yes haha.
My mental model of this is that Snowmobile was for companies with their own data centers looking to transfer petabytes of data to the cloud so they could stop self-hosting it.

The number of companies with that problem is going to naturally fall over time. Companies that are already using the cloud don't need Snowmobile to move their data.

Illustrative point from the article: "A spokesperson for satellite operator Maxar said the company used Snowmobile once in 2017 to move more than 100 petabytes to AWS from its own servers. Snowmobile was an “ideal solution for that moment in time,” the spokesperson said."

You're not going to get many repeat customers for that service!
It's creepy because it looks human enough but doesn't move like a human. We pick up on the head, torso, arms, and legs and subconsciously expect it to move as a human would but it does not- or at least in the teaser it didn't. Since it did something you didn't expect it could be dangerous so you should be careful.
If you just read it it sounds like a scam to some. Going thru all states does not find you bugs magically. You need to know what a bug is first or if it’s an actual intended feature. This article fails to explain it
amazing build and repo. make hardware and software!
> I can't even imagine the hourly bill

Yes, and no. As a replacement for a reasonably well used cluster, its going to be super expensive. Something like 3-5x the price.

For providing burst capacity, its significantly cheaper/faster, and can be billed directly.

But would I recommend running your stuff directly on AWS for compute heavy batch processing? no. if you are thinking about hiring machines in a datacenter, then yes.
123% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Didn't someone say that a basic test of if humanoid robots are useful if they pass the garbage test: can they take out the garbage in an average American house.
Do this for 'touching fire' to clarify the actual issue.
Percona is Valkey Project's supporter – Redis ecosystem needs Open Source Option
I'm in a local parent group where people share second hand stuff all the time. It felt pretty efficient to me. I don't know, do we really want every interaction a big platform thing?
KDE does this too, and I'd be non-functional without it. Grabbable window decorations seem a thing of the past.
Generally, all insects have four wings, but they are not always used for flying.

Flies in particular are also among the best flyers, and yet, they use only two of their wings for flying, the other two shrank to became halteres, a sensory organ acting like a gyroscope.

Dragonflies may be the best fliers in the insect world thanks to their four independently controlled wings, but flies may be the second best, and they achieved that by losing two of their four wings. Evolution is interesting.
> Some have mentioned security concerns around how they handle auth

(Supabase maintainer) Just to sure: supabase is secure, audited, pentested, and well-maintained.

You can use it as a Postgres database, connecting to it in a "traditional" way. Or you can use it with some additional tools that we provide on top, so that you don't need to worry about middleware. Both are as secure as each other, but they require you, the developer, to take responsibility for your application security.

The latter relies on Postgres Row Level Security: it's built into Postgres and isn't novel to Supabase (but we are one of the few who really advocate for it because, well, we love Postgres and we're postgres-maxis)
In Mandarin Chinese a pen is 笔, obviously derived from the word for a paintbrush, 笔. Feathers don't come into it - Chinese is traditionally written with a paintbrush - but the pattern is the same.
Care to share a specific example?
Yep, I know that. I'm pretty deeply interested in pharmacology (and related research), despite I've never earned a degree in either. And from all the contact I had with people holding either, the differences are striking, indeed.
> "OpenBSD was late to the game of multiprocessing, deliberately ignoring multi-CPU machines. They only had to change their minds when suddenly consumer CPUs started being multi-core/multi-threaded."

Which seems like an entirely reasonable choice if they felt there were bigger priorities. OpenBSD received SMP support in November 2004, right at the same time as the first mainstream dual-core CPU arrived on the market. I get what you mean by "late to the game", but I also feel that it's not really a fitting statement.
Very well written article! I remember the time when I was tuning Postgresql for achieving the maximum possible ingestion speed for ad analytics data. I end up with the following recommendations - https://gist.github.com/valyala/ae3cbfa4104f1a022a2af9b8656b... .

After that I discovered ClickHouse and forgot about all this performance tuning, since ClickHouse could ingest the same as analytics data at 10x higher speed on the same hardware with default settings. On top of this, it could perform analytical queries by up to 1000 times faster than Postgresql on the same hardware. And, as a bonus, disk space usage dropped by more than 10 times compared to Postgresql.

My prediction: if the ingestion of 750 billion rows takes 20 days on highly tuned TimescaleDB and Postgresql, it will take less than a day on Clickhouse with standard settings on the same hardware.

P.S. I was conducting a similar benchmark on a single-node VictoriaMetrics a few years ago - it was capable ingesting 500 billion of samples in ~2 hours - https://valyala.medium.com/billy-how-victoriametrics-deals-w... . Every sample contains a single measurement, while every row in the original article contains 5 measurements. So, if extrapolating, it would take `(2h * 5)/500*750 = 15h` to ingest 750 billion of rows with weather measurements into a single-node VictoriaMetrics.
I didn't want to be specific since many solutions could be worth exploring and I have no idea which standardized form factor would be best. Something like a drawer or set of drawers. Only the front and the floor would have to be strong. The rest is a concrete shell that stays behind. Not all rooms need to be personalized. The employer can provide some extras as a perk. The drawer doesn't need to be full length. If there is a room between home and work shouldn't bother anyone.
>Large companies such as ByteDance, OpenAI and Stripe are staying private

Why is SpaceX and X staying private? It's fully public knowledge. It's the same reason.

Legislators went too far. Stay private and you avoid a huge amount of problems which are far worse then any upside of being public. Plus, you always have the option later to go public; after legislators fix their overstepping.
With that much data you're paying a fortune for AWS Operations people either way. Every company I've seen that tries to large-scale AWS thing lean ends up driving themselves into a ditch where they spend millions on contractors, consultants and 3rd party vendors to dig themselves out of. And when they're in that ditch they are neither secure nor reliable.
ABC.au had a similarly named show on the topic back in December. I have to imagine they are related:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/cloud-under-the-sea/video/NS23...
Does the ISA Matter? A Simulation Based Investigation (2019)
Exactly, not many internal solutions have 11 9s of durability across multiple AZs like S3.
Maxar is a case that maybe makes sense. They have boatloads of satellite imagery that needs to be delivered to customers on demand.
Yeah I mean put it on the books.

But it’s just theater
My wife had gone through half a dozen doctors or more over a decade, giving them the same description of her issues. They never correctly diagnosed the issue. We typed her descriptions into chatgpt and it suggested multiple sclerosis. It was right. It must be what other folks feel when they talk to tech support, but I've never, not once, been impressed by a doctor and have found them lacking in nearly every interaction.
Do you know of a write up that illustrates this extra simplicity by comparing OpenBSD’s implementation of something with a previous mainstream implementation?
Really nice writeup!
>it's causative in the same sense that the formation of our solar system eventually caused me to write this reply.

More like in the sense that smoking causes cancer.
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Yes, but I suspect the parent meant that storage density has significantly increased, so you now don't need an entire truck's worth of it. The other "AWS Snow" options may now suffice? You gotta wonder how many companies actually used the truck...
"Superior to alpha but only barely" is really hyperbolic. I use a modified Gnome via Zorin as basically a daily driver, and I have no issues with it. It's easier to use than Windows and MacOS in most cases for me.
My field is different, but as someone from the industry side that keeps up with our counterpart in academia....most of what is being published is worthless. It serves no purpose other than to inflate publishing statistics. It has a lot of relevant keywords, but nothing I can actually use in industry to solve the problem the paper reports to.

For example, there will be a paper on how to fix X and I'll get really excited, but then realize that the idea shows that the person fundamentally doesn't understand the field and then they'll apply some obscure algorithm that is vastly inferior to the state of the art 20 years ago on a tiny model and then claim success.
It may be misleading to look at only to the design of the feather. Flight and such a long and sustained flight can only happen because of the sophisticated programming. Evolution must be a great programmer too.
I wonder how much they pay for 100PB in AWS, depending on the storage service/tier. Also it will be quite expensive if they ever want to move out of AWS. Or is a project like this considered to be "eternal"?
Did you publish any of it? Your work, as painful as it sounds, is very valuable.
While some papers do not replicate, more authors than ever release papers, code and models together.

Nowadays, conferences such as ECIR (European Conference on Information Retrieval) have reproducability tracks that seek such work, and reward your kind of efforts with getting a peer reviewed publication. The results are often not "can be" or "cannot be" replicated, but more nuanced, and often interactions with the original authors are needed as space in publications is limited.

On a related note, giving a paper to a Ph.D. student to replicate is a pretty good warm-up exercise to get started, specially when combined with writing a survey article on a field (so that the week has a balance between "reading and doing"!
Infovis, Infographics, and Data Visualization
If you find this interesting, I highly recommend the book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage".

The book discusses "Operation Ivy Bells" whose mission was to tap the underwater Soviet communication lines during the Cold War. The submarine installed a recording pod onto Soviet cables and recorded everything.

How did they find the cables?

A technician told a story about growing up on the Mississippi river, and how you could often find a sign on the bank, telling you that there were underwater cables. He hypothesized that the same thing might exist in the Soviet union.

Sure enough, the submarine secretly crept into Soviet water, popped the periscope, and found a sign in Russian on the bank, saying be careful, underwater cables.

It's rumored that when the Soviets learned of this, they went down and found the pods. During disassembly, they found a stamped plate deep inside which read "Made in the USA."
Apple had a feature like this, I believe it was inherited from OpenStep, where an application could advertise "services" that would appear system wide. I don't know if it's still a thing, but this workflow of "highlight text and submit to ChatGPT" seems like it would be a good fit.

https://www.macworld.com/article/215544/how-to-use-services-...
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Depending on capabilities within the simulation, that method scales unpredictably. If you can build supercomputers and run programs on them, these need to be simulated accurately at all times lest it becomes noticeable that they don't perform according to spec. Basically, the more machines you build, the larger the set of interactions that must be simulated becomes, and if your simulator's capacity is limited, then either things have to break from the perspective of the simulation, or the simulatees are effectively performing a denial of service attack on the simulator.
You could do secants rather than diameters. Just image the surface layers. Although even just the 5km or so to the horizon sounds like a scary amount of energy.

How about neutrino imaging? (I thought I was joking, but... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0319-1)
Long time ago I had a concussion resulting from a skiing accident. It wasn't immediately apparent, but it was severe enough that I lost my job and spent ten months on unemployment. For the worst of it I was stupid, I couldn't be funny, and I was overall greatly diminished as a person. Luckily, it wasn't as bad as concussions can get, and it faded with time.

This type of injury terrifies me though, and from what I read about the long-term effects of Covid, I can't believe people are just going along with it as if it was a common cold. To lose my mental faculties, long-term, is prospect beyond depressing.
>The fact is that Bostrom gave credit to science quackery

The measured IQ difference between races is not science quackery. It's a fact accepted by most who seriously study the issue. For example, the American Psychological Association issued a review of the evidence and concluded there is a Black-White IQ testing gap[1]:

> The differential between the mean intelligence test scores of Blacks and Whites (about one standard deviation, although it may be diminishing) does not result from any obvious biases in test construction and administration, nor does it simply reflect differences in socioeconomic status. Explanations based on factors of caste and culture may be appropriate, but so far have little direct empirical support. There is certainly no such support for a genetic interpretation. At present, no one knows what causes this differential.

So the question remains, do facts have any place at all in this debate, or is it just vibes? Presumably stating a fact in and of itself cannot reasonably be construed as evidence of racism. And so what is left is to condemn Bostrom for his vibe.

[1]: https://sci-hub.yncjkj.com/10.1037/0003-066X.51.2.77
Hmmm... instead of using "wallfacers", what if a "3-body problem" civilisation decided to use AI to simulate the digital exhaust of 18446744073709551615 other civilisations at a similar tech level, having somehow arranged to feed them all into the surveillance pipes surveying their own?
Interesting that you can't find one. I got one a few years ago when I built a little emulator system out of a Pi. Works fine. I can't remember where I got it, though. I thought eBay, but I don't see it in my purchase history.
Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That
If freedom of speech is not free from consequences then what is freedom of speech?
It cost 6 billion to build the current collider (in an existing tunnel) and CERN has a budget of 1-2 billion per year. In terms of data they are easily producing 100x of previous colliders.
Thank you for providing a short summary of the main point the link - and therefore also you - is trying to make.
I'd think with a username like that you'd be in agreement. Certainly I've not found any other truth about life.
Touchscreens don't really need that much padding, anyway. You need some padding around active areas for touch actions, but a touch target can still be pretty small, e.g. consider your on-screen keyboard, where each key counts as a separate target. Areas of the screen that simply display information or content should be totally unaffected.
Is it really a Wii without the optical disk :)
The best cake baker I know weighs her eggs and scales all other ingredients accordingly.
>> It does not matter what happened historically

I believe the opposite of this, and I believe that you cannot understand what is happening now without understanding what happened historically.
Why I Don't Use Game Engines
Another interesting question is how development distinguishes left and right. As I understand it, there's a small object that develops that has cilia in a tilted configuration. The rotation of the cilia causes a flow of fluid to one side that is determined by the sense (clockwise or counterclockwise) of the cilia's rotation. That flow is sensed and sets off signals that drive development.

Where does the rotational sense of cilia come from? From the stereochemistry of proteins, and therefore from amino acids. The left-vs-right handedness of the base chemistry of life is exploited to get a macroscopic signal.
I wonder how long the feature will be free of charge. Maybe OpenAI really wants the data today, or maybe Logitech is paying the bill, but neither will be the case forever.
Exactly this was made in my country, Lithuania, and did not work. Maybe needed more advertisement, but I dont think that economics work without burning investor money.
To me this is the most egregious opinion that came out of GDPR (I've seen in argued in other GDPR threads). That a company is required to provide a service even at a loss.

A company should have every right to deny service. Untargeted advertising pays 90+% less than targeted advertising. If they lose money by serving a user content because they denied targeted advertising, they should be able to deny them service or have them pay up. They're just legislating into law the Meta (and others) have to provide a service at a loss for a growing number of users.
No, that's just in web development. Otherwise things are pretty trivial to keep centered. HTML/CSS somehow dropped the ball so hard, it became lobsided and will never center itself correctly.

But even then: just use grid. It works.
What is "superblack"?
Yeah, you pick up .gov buzzwords pretty quickly if you want your grants approved.
Good for them. As a user I can much less about that though.
I've seen me try to do this on Windows so often when I run into a Windows machine. I disable the title bar on most of my things anyways so I need the key.
There's not much software that takes semantic HTML as input, because barely anyone writes semantically-valid HTML. It's a vicious cycle. (Look upon the parsing rules for a high-quality screen reader, and weep.)

No point making a semantic web browser before we get a semantic WYSIWYM HTML editor. Maybe those could be the same program, like in olden times?
Props for ships with knobs inspired by whale flukes.
Doh, maybe I was shelved … I do remember being very stoked to work on a franchise I really liked. Accolade, I believe.
I'd like to use this service, too, if it worked reasonably.

Pre-Internet, there were consignment shops for clothing.

In earlier days of eBay, IIUC, there was a third party business with a chain of physical locations where you could drop off your stuff, and they'd do all the eBay hassle for you.

eBay and Amazon have tried some ways to improve the one-off selling experience for select commodity-like used items (e.g., iPhones). There's also ways to get Amazon to warehouse and list misc. items (but that looked like more headache and risk than it was worth, for one-off).

There's multiple businesses here that you can pay to remove most items, and I assume they cherry-pick some items for resale rather than trash.

Goodwill takes donations, and has staff that intercepts some items to eBay (and perhaps elsewhere), lets professional third-party flippers into centers (e.g., finding designer clothing), and then the rest can go to their retail stores.
If you ever observed animals, e.g. just observing how chickens socialize, it becomes absolutely clear that they have similar cognition and perception than humans.