skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In economics there's supposedly something called "induced demand" that also applies to a lot of human behavior in general. Basically, give more resources and capacity to someone, and they'll just fill the space, and not necessarily more efficiently.

AI-assisted answer:

Busy roads, so we build more roads, right? Except no, it just makes more traffic.

Give more time for people to complete a project, and they'll still just end up with a crunch time at the end anyways. "Work expands to fill the time available."

People make more money, then they just spend more money. Buy a bigger house, and it gets filled with more dubious value stuff (conversely, move into a smaller home and realize how much pointless junk you bought) "lifestyle inflation" or "consumption smoothing"

Project behind schedule? Throw more money and people at it, right? But does it help much?

A lot of modern software is arguably suffering from major inefficiency bloat, both in file size and hardware requirements.

So it's probably not quite as "obvious" of a solution to just build more power -- there has to be some incentives to encourage efficient usage instead of just throwing more resources at a problem, otherwise it encourages a long-term build-up of inefficiency.

Here's the other side of that, which is equally as somewhat counter-intuitive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#Reduced_demand_...

There's also the matter of the potential inefficiencies of a plant that produces way more than is actually being produced, in which case it's a very expensive waste -- afaik most power plants can't just dial up/down their output to a large degree. Then there are environmental, social, and civic problems, which I guess are easier to bulldoze over in countries that might give less consideration to its citizens. I'm sure there are plenty of other considerations, which you can probably get a good critique on from your favorite AI service.
If that were true you'd expect this replicated in everywhere.
Unless/until you have fuck-you-money, you're a slave too.
Don't be offended. I completely understand that in personal level the view is very different. It's normal that in personal level you make your own choices and choose whatever is better for you personally. But it doesn't mean that a lot of people choosing whatever it's best for them are creating outcome that's better for the world.

PS. I didn't say that people calling this imperialism are from west.
I just want the tasks done without thinking about them. How it happens doesn't matter to me, just get it done. 1 robot, 1 million - I don't care, just so long as I can afford them and they stay out of my way.

While I don't care if everything gets done at once, I care that things are done right and not otherwise inconvenient for me. Maybe the best way to have robots that work slow and then apply a lot of then.

The important thing to note here is robots for many of the things I want do not exist. When they come we will see. Maybe is a a specialized robot, maybe it is more general purpose. That is irrelevant.
I'm in favor of a bureaucracy, because I think it's the only proven method of implement government at scale.

What would you, instead?
It is, you could mess it up if it lost focus if I recall.
Nah, Nokia 3330 with WAP, that stuff was awesome. I built a bunch of WAP sites way back when. Slow, clunky, but usable on a phone with a tiny screen and a numeric keypad. Happy days.
I entered 1/1/<year> instead of 01/01/<year> and it wouldn't enable the ENTER button. So that's the stupidest UI I've seen today.
This actually does work and is implemented in a few renderers.

You can obviate the issue of having too many lights by combining them into light groups. As for area lights with different spectrum at different locations, you simply can't change the distribution after the fact.

In the tracing pass, you can store the shading interactions, then apply them across the spectrum of your light at the end after the shading pass, onto brightness values that you save for each light (group).

Changing the spectrum of the light after the fact, however, is going to be an approximation, but not changin the brightness.
That's the old/regular model. This post is about the new "instruct" model.
It was agreed upon by a BoD made up of his friends and/or people he effectively controls. The BoD is not independent - which it should be. That is playing loose with the system rules.
the Dude abides
I would state that I have very little in the way of good objective experience with Reddit opinions. But at the same time, I have zero good experience with everything else.

Reddit comments are genuinely better, but not by much! One significant problem I find with Reddit users is that they tend to be unable to see past their purchase. Hordes of fanboyism. Even more Stockholm syndrome.
What do you mean "fend off" ?

Reddit is the one generating fake content to prop up their engagement numbers and make it look like they didn't take a giant hit from last year.
Yep. Google is mostly useless these days aside from a Reddit search because everything is fake.
You are simply a horrible little monster and I pray for your quick and merciful death
Good article.

I thought I was going to hear that some type of ceramic consisted in part of ground-up Neanderthal bones. I think I'd be unpleasantly surprised to find a human jawbone on the bathroom floor.
It's true of a lot of things that, if you taste them in isolation, there's a noticeable difference. But if you're using them as just a supporting element or mixed in with a lot of other flavors, they may not be worth 2x the price.
Limiting public funding for college students majoring in arts programs hardly equates to abolishing the arts. Of the great artists throughout history, how many even attended higher education programs in that field? The more common path for great artists has been to go out and do more art. Practice makes perfect.

I think we would get better results by shifting arts funding away from education and towards just paying performers to put on free public events or buying art pieces for exhibition in public spaces. Focus on the results rather than the process, and let the artists find their own paths.
Collapse of self-trained language models
This could work but I think it would need to have a threshold of say 3 free posts a day. If you want to post more it's 2c or w/e each time.

Additionally, there could be some solution around crowd sourcing the detection of humans. Not sure how exactly this would look, but it would be something like letting people tag accounts with their own perception of whether the account is a bot or not. If some threshold is met, the account gets flagged prompting more people to review it and then the account gets a special UI treatment or something.
Hydraulics shouldn't have any give, as the working fluid is considered "incompressible". Of course in the real world the tubing can expand slightly and there are friction losses, but the reason they went with hydraulics in the first place is they can set a position and not have to use more energy to hold it there (since the cylinders are pressurized).

If the gear ratio on these motors is high, then there can only be faked compliance in the tuned force-torque controllers you mentioned. MIT's little cheetah robot, on the other hand, deliberately used low-gear ratios to keep things naturally squishy if needed. This is the way to go; putting elastic tendons or spring elements seems like a good idea but then you can't actually model the non-linearity well (the 1st order motor becomes a 2nd or higher order system).
Have any subreddit mods been exposed as paid corporate shills? I'm a bit surprised that I haven't noticed signs of that for subreddits with an obvious commercial angle. Maybe moderating is such a thankless slog that brands can't pay people to do it ;)
It's not because of science fiction stories, it's because things designed for human to use, is designed for a humanoid form factor. If you want to accomplish a task, it's going to be reflected by that machine. Eg a conveyor belt doesn't look like a human. But if you want swap a robot where a human used to be, it's far easier if that robot is humanoid and has the same approximate capabilities. Thus, we have humanoid robots.
Looking at the ingredients of "De la Calle Tepache" it contains ERYTHRITOL, which is a sugar alcohol/artificial sweetener but does not count as "sugar" on the nutrition facts label. This is why it tastes "plenty sweet".

So similar to Coke Zero/Diet Coke.
Maybe I missed the part about banning Facebook. I was more for banning users from countries that do a lot of scamming without any repercussions
The only problem is bad advice that can come up quite often on Reddit.

There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively.

Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication.
PlanetScale: Global Replica Credentials
There's a clear philosophical difference between a framework like NextJS and Rails/Django/Laravel. The former takes the approach of expecting users to integrate various third party libraries (ie. Prisma, PassportJS, ReactAdmin, etc) while the latter has it a lot of features built in as framework primitives and defaults.

Some of those features:
* ORM and DB migrations
* Auth
* Admin interface
* Form handling and validation
* Email sending
* Background jobs

Which is why you end up needing so many different SaaS templates for Nextjs that tie all these different libraries together into a pre-built package.
That's how I see it as well. In a layoff, the role is being eliminated as opposed to a person being fired. So they cut entire teams working on "unprofitable" products or certain roles deemed "redundant" within the product. You typically have the option to take a severance or apply for another role internally.

This is my understanding based purely on my experience getting laid off once - so take it with a huge grain of salt. The product I was working on was shutdown. I got paid a retainer to stay until the product can be properly wound down. Then got hired into a different role in a different team with a pay bump within a month. I got to keep the retainer as well - as long as I support the wind down efforts.
If you want to lower both bass and brightness, you can use the "volume down" key
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I always figured that liberal radio, e.g. Air America, struggled and failed because that point of view had too much competition from other media, e.g. newspapers and television. Back before internet, conservatives only had radio to hear what they considered their point of view taken seriously and the other side derided whereas liberals had lots of other options to hear their points of view taken seriously while the other side was painted as rubes.
Ah. So you can keep your phone while in the drunk tank.
Levying taxes directly to the transit agency and punishing car usage doesn't incentivize the transit agency to make the transit not suck, it's just a different way for accounting in public funding.
How Antithesis finds bugs
And who shut down the next 10?
Not every game (or gamer) is of the competitive type.

RT is pretty nice and more and more games are featuring it, problem is at least on consoles they cannot go crazy with it so some games only do reflections for example or just shadows or just global illumination.

Sony is supposedly releasing their Pro model of the PS5 later this year with improved support for RT.
> ...why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about?

I don't know if that exists, but there are rhyming dictionaries.
> And right now, the soonest likely to launch is being led out of a sprawling former Fry’s Electronics retail store in a shopping center complex in Texas.

Oh man, I miss Fry's.

Anyways, ISTM that Starship itself can be launched, left in orbit, and retrofitted into a space station module. Just purge the tanks, cut up the methane tank's dome, the common dome, and the downcomer, disconnect the engines (and return them to Earth, maybe) or maybe build smaller tanks to feed the engines for boosting the station, and finish the interior using materials shipped as the payload. IIRC one Starship would have as much volume as the entire ISS, but I can't check right now.
Static holds. Once you pressurize the cylinder to make it move to a certain position, it can hold that position without using more energy.

This makes sense for quasi-static systems but obviously is a limiting factor for dynamic robots.
Yeah, there’s a real failure to understand that sugar and junk food while unhealthy in the long term remains the most cost effective source of calories.

Having little money doesn’t mean your kids don’t magically need fewer calories (and not providing those calories is itself a crime), so if you have an affordable source of calories that’s what you go for, even if those calories come with a side helping of excess calories (stopping hunger requires volume of food so high calorie/volume ratio results in over eating), and often huge amounts of fat as well.

I grew up dirt poor in the early 80s in NZ, and the cheapest food then was oatmeal and dried spaghetti, but by the 90s the time people were having to work and the amount being paid for that work and rent, and the super steep drop in price of McDonald’s etc (it went from being an expensive birthday treat when I was a kid to being cheaper than fish&chips) means that the diet switch was likely unavoidable.

Luckily for me by that point my parents had been able to start working, so fridge and weekly shopping was an option (bread wouldn’t go stale, we could keep meat and vegetables in a freezer), but I can’t imagine having the same outcome if my families life was shifted ten years later (much higher student loans, even less money while they were students, most non junk food being more expensive while junk food was cheaper).

I recognize 80s NZ poverty is not US poverty, but even in NZ I can’t imagine how much harder life would be for a similarly (economically) placed family is today vs for me, everything seems tailored to create obesity and struggles.
Here's a radical idea: cultivate some self-discipline when it comes to smartphone use.

Mine is a glorified iPod. I don't know where it is half the time.
I believe statistically, you are almost certain when you are peeing in the bathroom to be peeing out some of the exact same water molecules that exact same Neanderthal who is in the tile peed out when they were alive.
> To deal with the “untrust” issue it’s normal for operations with an SSH CA to rely on (very) short-lived certificates, meaning often issued and valid for < 24 hours (it’s configurable, I’ve seen this be as short as 30 minutes).

So you want a way to get rid of long-lived SSH certificates, instead authenticating users with your corporate single-sign-on system then issuing them a temporary credential?

And presumably you've got some audit logs, so you know who connected to what, when and why. Perhaps a familiar command line tool, that makes temporary credential rotation easy for users? Perhaps some paperwork to hand to your SOC2 compliance auditors?

I mean, this is sounding a lot like tailscale ssh, teleport, and suchlike...
Smoking bans are coming: what does the evidence say?
Shopping for a new mbp. Do you think going with more ram would be wise?
You said:

>The more local the more people care but half of the population voting is not really drastically different than 2/3 of the population voting.

And I was simply pointing out how the result is different. I thought you were referencing that it was a random sample. Though apparently you just decided it's the same even though you knew it wasn't a random sample.
That's one thing the Xbox version fixes (not the Switch version unfortunately). The Xbox port has pretty much the same control scheme as a modern console FPS.
If the President is elected, and the President holds the power to staff the executive branch (subject to the approval of Congress and the restraints on arbitrary exercise of the CSA of 1883 and CSRA of 1978), then in what sense is the bureaucracy uncontrolled by the electorate?

Or do I misunderstand the American system of government?
we need this into llama.cpp it seems somewhat stable down to 40% effort
I still prefer reddit most of the time. Front page (default) subs are highly manipulated (especially anything news, politics, current things etc.) but for hobbies, video games, and sports it's still the best site. Video game discusssions especially because unlike Discord every tip, guide, and walkthrough is archived and searchable. And for sports mostly because it's _insane_ how quickly you get highlights and videos. I watch a game on my TV > goal scored > reddit alrady has the highlight posted 30secs ago. And there are countless wholesome little hobby subs which are focusing on one thing only and that what makes them great.

Honestly my main problem with reddit was always the moderation, that how one sub can be taken over by certain ideologies. Which is worse when it happens to local (country, city) subs. I can't ready my city's sub because it's always the same tired politics posts instead of "what are some good restaurants" or "here is a photo of a building I've never seen before".
Deno's Fresh is certainly a cool project! But I would say it's even further on the NextJS/bare-bones side of the spectrum.
I struggled to refind this post when searching on hn.algolia.com so I'll write a comment that'll help others find it:
This very long article describes the pitfalls of capping dependencies in Python libraries. It's specific about Python, it discusses the bad precedent that poetry is setting.
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
it's not black and white. we understand plenty! (eg. QED, semiconductors, lots of quantum optics, etc.) and then there are more murkier areas (strong forces, QCD, Higgs) and then there are the untamed beasts that eat their young and season it with Nobel laureates (fundamental questions, structure of the electron, SUSY, things beyond the standard model)
I just love ordering off the web beer list and then being told, "Sorry, we're out".
I remember learning an amazing randomized algorithm for max cut. If you pick edges at random 50/50 to be cut, you get a 2-approximation to the optimal solution. That is it's no more than twice as bad.

Really not bad for "just guess".
And of course, this is only because the spammers filling the web with shit were focused on the greater web. If Google makes Reddit a major search result for regular searches, that shit hose will naturally begin to focus on Reddit as well, until eventually Reddit's quality content is equally hard to find, and then presumably the cycle will repeat with a new platform.
There can be multiple reasons for this[0], including but not limited to:

* The people or industry have low tolerance or fear around risk of false positives

* The industry is centered around billable hours and has no incentive for automation

* The engineers or people perceive ML as this obscure/difficult thing

I'd say the incentives and risks have hindered lots of legal adoption (this is what I observed while working in legaltech for instance). Insurance sounds similar, but I'm less familiar and assume they are coming along more quickly.

[0] I agree with minimaxir's point, that it's a bad assumption to think few teams use basic ML functionality. This will become even more true as emergent tech such as zero shot classification with LLMs becomes more commoditized.
Also many affiliate marketers are trying to spam Reddit, since they lost a lot of Google traffic last year. We can't have nice things.
All other things aside, if a bunch of articles get written about the phone, a lot of people think of Heineken ;-). I'm far from a marketing expert, but I have definitely seen less effective marketing campaigns.
Yeah, that is the point more or less - it dynamically chise the weights layer per layer depending on the internal state.

A bit technical explaination here.
https://kolinko.github.io/effort/equations.html
> While you can forge a newspaper page, it is more complicated than tweaking some HTML.

With how many people are skilled in Photoshop compared to web development, forging a scan of a page is probably easier for a lot of people.
There are many assertions of facts in this blog article, for example: 75% skilled pragmatists. Do any of these facts have citations?

Even if the author were to directly state they are his observations as a developer, it would have more value than absolutely no citation.

As written, these facts are giving me a very made up or "story time" vibe.
I think that is a great plan and good advice, but you may find as you continue in your career that you enjoy work more. When I was starting out I was always tired, anxious and frustrated. Now I would never even get hired for those kinds of jobs (or take them). You may get to a point where you have a lot more power and discretion at work and enjoy it. There's a lot to be said for working at jobs you enjoy.
We provide this functionality in Lantern cloud via our Lantern Extras extension: <https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern_extras>

You can generate CLIP embeddings locally on the DB server via:

SELECT abstract,
introduction,
figure1,
clip_text(abstract) AS abstract_ai,
clip_text(introduction) AS introduction_ai,
clip_image(figure1) AS figure1_ai
INTO papers_augmented
FROM papers;

Then you can search for embeddings via:

SELECT abstract, introduction FROM papers_augmented ORDER BY clip_text(query) <=> abstract_ai LIMIT 10;

The approach significantly decreases search latency and results in cleaner code.
As an added bonus, EXPLAIN ANALYZE can now tell percentage of time spent in embedding generation vs search.

The linked library enables embedding generation for a dozen open source models and proprietary APIs (list here: <https://lantern.dev/docs/develop/generate>, and adding new ones is really easy.
While I do run SELinux on Fedora and RHEL, I gotta say the errors it produces just being I/O errors is incredibly frustrating.
If they can repo specter/meltdown/bit flipping via row hammering, then this is the time to report the issue before webgpu goes GA.

If they can’t, this is fud
Postgres isn't really hot on implementing the latest stuff from academia (most of what they do seem to be fairly home-grown, not the least because some of it was never really written about before they started doing it). Arbitrary unnesting is certainly one of the optimizations they don't do; fancy sketches and other estimation techniques generally likewise. But what they're really good at is polish. A thousand small tweaks and optimizations to iron out issues for 0.1% of queries. It tends to have fairly few sharp edges, less so than any other RDBMS I've used.
AI Conversational Voice Cloning Revolutionizes Speech Rehabilitation