skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The team has commented that they skipped a step in the microsoft release process (toxicity check). This is a nothingburger.

https://twitter.com/WizardLM_AI/status/1780101465950105775
Regarding gas condensing boilers and their efficiency, the notion of them achieving over 100% efficiency, as measured by the Lower Heating Value (LHV) of the fuel, really showcases the value of recapturing latent heat. When we burn natural gas, besides generating heat, water vapor is produced as a byproduct. Traditional boilers expel this vapor and its associated latent heat through the flue, wasting a significant portion of energy. Condensing boilers, however, are designed to cool the exhaust gases to a point where the water vapor condenses back into liquid, reclaiming that latent heat. This process effectively allows the system to extract more heat from the combustion than the calorific value of the gas would suggest possible, if you only consider the LHV, which excludes the heat contained in the steam. Consequently, when this extra captured heat is added to the overall heat output, it can push the efficiency of the boiler beyond 100% using LHV calculations.
If you're on Safari, use Vinegar¹ to substitute the YouTube player with a simple <video> tag. Ad-free and much more battery efficient.

The companion app Baking Soda² does the same for non-YouTube sites.

1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...

2. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baking-soda-tube-cleaner/id160...
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What can the artist do if they don’t have the money to pay for a sample?If they don’t have the money, they need to replay it or re-sing it and that eliminates two thirds of your cost. So that’s a big saving.

lol or you can run it through AI programming and reshuffle, reroll etc. paying for samples is going to go away.
You're lucky. My city's newspaper moved to another town to consolidate operations. They put a helluva a brewery (https://bootstrapbrewing.com/) in the old building though!
what has Samsung done better? just curious.
TechCrunch: Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters
Of course if another country does it, USA cries foul and tries to ban them from operating in USA.

It is government directed capitalism, just like other global superpowers like China.
Or a Herpes vaccine- HIV is far, far less prevalent than Herpes is. And it's probably easier to avoid getting HIV than it is to avoid getting Herpes.
Increasing grid connectivity is certainly happening, but it's not very exciting. You see news about new large undersea connections. There's news from time to time about the Tres Amigos interconnection facility between the US grids in the east, west, and Texas (mostly delays, unfortunately). News here and there about better connectivity between north and south england. Local news about local projects (my area is wiring some leaf substations into a ring; very exciting for me, not much for anyone else; although the why is to provide reliability to a charge an electric ferry that carries 200 cars, so maybe a little exciting?).

A lot of times connectivity impacts site selection of projects. A wind farm needs to have good wind, reasonable neighbors, and access to loads. There's articles about not being able to build more wind in northern england because there's not enough transmission infra to get the power where it needs to be.
The coffee shops most likely paid for those subscriptions.
No, if I had to nitpick, I'd say 'talk is expensive'. The original text doesn't say "Somebody might even talk about how they want to do X" like your comment, and it doesn't need to. But maybe someone who finds 'some reason not to do' will say it, and they won't actually do it.

(B has never said he wants to learn to code)

A: Do you have any plans to learn to code? It seems to be useful.

B: No.... (thinking) Well, AIs.

(And B doesn't learn to code in the real world)

Actually, this comments doesn't matter at all, but I leave it in for fun
Yeah flightstick was the way to play Descent, I used a Logitech Wingman Light. Never tried two sticks, always controlled strafing with keyboard
Yeah, the mRNA vaccines that appeared during the last years were also only made possible after some very significant issues were ironed out. To quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3:

> Before 2005, a major problem with the proposed therapeutic use of mRNA was that in vivo use led to inflammatory reactions. A key insight came about when Karikó focused on why transfer RNA (tRNA), used as a control in an experiment, did not provoke the same immune reaction as mRNA. [...] Karikó and Weissman determined how specific nucleoside modifications in mRNA led to a reduced immune response: by replacing uridine with pseudouridine.

> Another important achievement by the researchers was the development of a delivery technique to package the mRNA in lipid nanoparticles, a novel pharmaceutical drug delivery system for mRNA. The mRNA is injected into tiny fat droplets (lipid nanoparticles) which protect the fragile molecule until it can reach the desired area of the body.
Didn't Covid vaccines kinda kick down the door though? Might be less hesitancy because of that.
> Fee or Commission works fine here. The line item for sellers/buyers agent isn't "tax" when you buy/sell a house despite it being a percentage.

This is actually equally as cancerous - there is a reason realtors have one of the biggest lobbying groups in America.
I think what they are saying is that idea generation is not a pain point and not really worth solving. Taking ideas and making them happen... that's the hard part where an artificial agent could come in much more handy
Oh, I was worried that NewPipe would break! It's a great app. Currently I use Tubular, though, which is a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and Return dislike embedded in.
we generally agree as a society that police, military, etc. have a monopoly on the use of force. That is kind of the entire point of the system.
Assisting humans in complex comparisons: automated information comparison
At the moment 6 of the top 21 books on the Amazon Best Sellers in Economics list are by von Mises.
I didn't get it either, and I play tons of walking sims and narrative adventure games.

It feels more like a roguelike or a survival game to me with it's anti-features like falling damage and time limited resources and inescapable holes to get trapped in. And then you die and have to start all over again from the beginning. The epitome of not respecting the player's time.

It's the only game I have ever refunded on Steam, and annoyingly I keep getting recommended it because it's "like" all the other games that I play even though it clearly is not. I feel like I am in bizarro world with the amount of people who rave about it.
> - detect and filter generated and other low effort crap content

> - disable Shorts

Absolutely. YouTube Premium has been one of my most used streaming service and the one where I've gotten the most value, but no more. I'm not sure if they changed their recommendation algorithm but it insists on pushing Shorts, auto-generated garbage, it doesn't react to any type of input and I'm afraid that the content it pushes is starting to affect my mental well-being.

I've been avoiding YouTube for a few days now and I now considering just cancelling, the ads will keep me away in the future, so in that sense it's nice that they help me not to return.
I agree it isn’t going to trip many up, but also agree that the standards of writing coming out of an education institution should be grammatically correct.
And here's yet another step: most other markets aren't as resource-constrained as housing is. If the Yankees win the world series and more people want Yankees caps, manufacturers can just make more. Demand goes up, supply goes up, everybody's happy.

Housing, at least in the USA, often doesn't work like this. The population grows and more people want to live in place X and the current NIMBY occupants of place X go to the government to make sure more housing can't appear in place X. The current occupants make some arguments about neighborhood character that are really about preserving their own lives and investments and another family goes to a worse district or a worse house or no house at all.

Housing is a unique investment category, pretending it's like everything else is disingenuous.
In mice.

Why can't we just add this to the headline always ..
Hollywood writers' efforts to protect jobs against AI matters for all workers
And then could do whatever they like with them unlike the digital equivalent
And sometimes people who really are extremely good at their jobs forget that how good they are has a large element of luck in it, in addition to the work they put in.
There is progress on HIV. I don't think that it's related to this though: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hiv-cure-cell-test...
Maybe the next Google or the next Amazon is an inheritable phenomenon that exists on a spectrum? If the next Google is just a class of points within a gradient, and if Google, Facebook, and Amazon are runaway monopolies formed by a stacking of scalable wins like the successful implementation of a theoretical product-market fit framework, then what is a local optimum which is where a perfect neo-Google sits at? And what would be its antithesis (i.e. the local minimum to its corresponding local maximum)?
This is a slightly different topic (government spending), but I've always loved this old Onion News Network video: 'Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?'. The sentiment feels the same to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
Possibly, but you cannot delay long. If the spouse who applied for the divorce does not ask for the final order within three months of the first date they could, then the other spouse can apply for the final order.
It's FEMA's NFHL. I can't recall the specific layer of the GDB file, but you could probably figure it out. Try loading up Iowa into redshift and if that works for you I'd be quite surprised.

My org has a very large AWS spend and we got to have a chat with some of their SWE's that work on the geospatial processing features for Redshift and Athena. We described what we needed and they said our only option was to aggregate the data first or drop the offending rows. Obviously we're not interested in compromising our work just to use a specific tool, so we opted for better tools.

The crux of the issue was that the large problem column was the geometry itself. Specifically, MultiPolygon. You need to use the geometry datatype for this[1]. However, our MultiPolygon column was 10's to 100's of MB's. Well outside the max size for the Super datatype from what I can tell as it looks like that's 16 MB.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/GeometryType-...
That completely depends on your expectations and uses.

I have a gaming rig with a 4080 with 16GB of RAM and it can't even run Mixtral (kind of the minimum bar of a useful generic LLM in my opinion) without being heavily quantized. Yeah it's fast when something fits on it, but I don't see much point in very fast generation of bad output. A refurbished M1 Max with 32GB of RAM will enable you to generate better quality LLM output than even a 4090 with 24GB of VRAM and for ~$300 less, and it's a whole computer instead of a single part that still needs a computer around it. Compared to my 4080, that GPU and the surrounding computer get you half the VRAM capacity for greater cost than the Mac.

If you're building a rig with multiple GPUs to support many users or for internal private services and are willing to drop more than $3k then I think the equation swings back in favor of Nvidia, but not until then.
Unrelated to Lunar but here is my fun monitor bug:
Sometimes when I connect my Intel macbook to my external ASUS ROG monitor via display port, a strip of pixels about 1cm wide are "moved" from the far right of my external monitor to the far left. My monitor is on the left and my laptop is on the right, so if I move my mouse from left to right, my cursor starts on the left (just right of the error strip), moves off the right edge of the monitor and then back onto the strip at the left edge of the monitor, and then further right onto my macbook display.

This has happened 5 times in as many months, and is fixed by unplugging and replugging the usb-c end of the display port cable a few times.
> I prefer to use VirtualBox because I am unable to make QEMU/KVM work, since I am not a rocket scientist.

What this translates to is "I did not want to read the large and comprehensive QEMU/KVM documentation, go through each option one by one, take notes, and specify the ones I wanted."

Which is ... totally fine. `qemu` has a lot of options. But that's why they make frontends. You want a scary, difficult command to work with? Try `tc`. I would NEVER touch raw `tc` commands when configuring QoS - FireQoS all the way.

When I experimented with `qemu` to make a Debian-based headless hypervisor, I did have to put some time in it. I had to make some scripts to convert some easier-to-make "config" files into `qemu` commands (in addition to making the `tap` network interfaces for virtual networking). Got it working and it did its thing. It was cool that it could be done - launch VMs from a script with no need for a GUI.
My point is that the same body of text (state law) that defines wiretapping laws (recording consent) also defines that the police can record without consent with a warrant and/or with probable cause - and if not, the footage (and other gathered evidence) is both inadmissible in court and could be grounds for a lawsuit depending on how egregiously they violated your rights.
BigQuery is nice but it's definitely a major foot-gun in terms of cost. It's surprisingly easy to rack up high costs with say a misconfigured dashboard or a developer just testing stuff.
Go ahead. Implement it and scale to 1M clients. Post your code here when you're done
Muddy
Isn’t this a scene from Vegas Vacation? Clark is betting on “guessing a number” that the dealer has in his head and so on?
Quick note for the osohq team: The "Read the docs" button leads to 404
There are a 1000 real estate schemes/strategies being marketed to people:

1. Flip - buy undervalued property, fix it, sell it. Variation: buy in bad neighborhood, fix, rent, neighborhood gets better, sell it.

2. "Buy cashflow" - e.g. find properties where rent > monthly payment/taxes/interest/maintenance. Impossible now.

3. Split and short term rental - buy house, fix, split single family home into 5 units (garage == unit, basement == 2 units, each room == unit, etc. I see this in the US more and more now, which is an indication of the economy.

4. Rent, short term rent out (often fully legally with consent of apartment / house owner). Benefit to this is no cash investment.

5. Houses at foreclosure auctions. tldr: Sell for more than normal open market houses now because everyone goes.

I can list about 15 more, but again, the point is that the market isn't what it used to be so none of these really work anymore, but it doesn't keep people from pushing them.
KoolBear, Jediluke, and Mark392. Those are their first names?
Here's a radical idea:

One government worker sending a document to another government worker should not involve a proprietary, for-profit data format.

With a hardcopy paper document this would obviously be unacceptable, but since digitization and software eating the world, we pay our fees to Microsoft and go about our merry way.

I'm middle-aged and tired, I'm not going to fight this fight anymore. Maybe some day legislators will grow fangs and start giving a shit about strategic interoperability. Probably not.
Wikipedia mentions another Myst innovation:

> The series caused a major shift in the adventure game genre. Unlike previous games, Myst attempted to keep players immersed in the world by removing all information not associated with the fictional world itself—no explanatory text, inventory, or score counters.
Terminology (part of Enlightenment) is a fantastic terminal and has image support.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md
As Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker can tell you, it is not wise to do so.
Firefox 125
Show HN: Built a (mostly) frictionless calorie tracker app (GPT3.5 wrapper)
Built an alternative to the traditional calorie tracking apps with "frictionless" as the north star metric. 1-click input interface
What you're trying to eliminate is just a small part of the infra arms race. But it's not even effective at that. You say one of the goals is to not have to squeeze many racks into a building, but your proposal assumes the servers placed in the racks are running at low capacity, which is completely not true. On the other hand, if you trade say GOOG, the matching engine for that is going to mainly sit in one place, how do you stuff everyone's program to run on the same server, and how do you make sure they each have fair access?
Considering fractions might help you understand where he's coming from. If you say something is "0.5 times as long as a one meter thing" you would expect it to be 0.5 meters, but if it's "0.5 times longer than a one meter thing", you would expect it to be 1.5 meters. The same logic applies when you ditch fractions and use integers.
> not sure why it takes so long

They're making the original 30-40 hour game into three 40-60 hour action RPGs. I don't know enough about game development timelines, but I'm assuming that it's just large to juggle, especially since it has crossed console generations.

I've only played part one, but they did a great job with it! A warning though: they add a good bit of "filler" compared to the original to turn the 5ish hour Midgar sequence into a full game. It can be a bit draining at points since I wanted to just relive the original game I love, but if you know that going in, it's not bad, just different.

There's some weird stuff they do with Sephiroth to make the end of part one feel more substantial as it's own game, but again, if you can look past it, the game is excellent.

Also note that it's an action RPG now instead of being turn based. Sometimes I missed the old turn based gameplay.
The previous article from when the incident had just caught NASA's attention mentioned that the homeowner intended to go after the government for costs, but explained that it could be complicated if the part turns out to be owned by JAXA, since then either the owner has to go after JAXA or NASA has to work something out with them.
Not saying USA is not doing it, and both Germany and France is doing it as well in the wake of Corona. But the amount is visible and until we get more transparency, we can only assume that China is doing it even more, because they are known to do that for strategically important sectors.
The Logic of the Soul: Exploring What Science Has Tried to Do Away With
I have met enough covid antivaxers to know it would be extremely difficult to convince a huge portion of the population to take this. It would take a massive deadly virus worse and more visible than covid ever was like bleeding eyeballs in the streets before people would take this vaccination en mass
> Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB in mice
Yes

I have started reading the piece by Uri now and it basically confirms what I was imagining.

"He declared that diversity—on our staff and in our audience—was the overriding mission"

"Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions), and had to enter it in a centralized tracking system."

Pretty much guaranteed that they were trying to hit race/gender quotas.
Paying for YT Premium encourages them to continue what they are doing.
No. My city has an independent citizen review board. This law means "yours will be dissolved and we will make anew one appointed by cops."
I'm fairly sure its explanation of integration is correct? Maybe not a good answer for a math major, but it's a good answer for his question.
You can preheat the cold flow into the shower so it is just local within the bathroom. Your hot water tap flows at the customary ~55C and the cold feed to your shower gets a boost to 25C or something.

Or you could send all the waste heat to a big sump and extract it with a heat pump (dont think that actually exists though - or would be some form of ground source heat) - at extreme temperatures would be worth it.
First let me say that I fully understand how the leaking of actual intimate photos/videos can be very devastating. No arguments there.

But AI porn? There are so many gray areas and loopholes. This just feels so friggin' half-baked. It just feels like something that should be handled on a case by case basis. If somebody creates AI porn of somebody and uses it for clearly harmful purposes (blackmail, humilating somebody to their coworkers, whatever) then that should be punished.

But, outlawing them altogether? We tolerate pornographic fanfiction and traditional pornographic illustrations of real adults, even though these might be upsetting to the people depicted therein.

Therefore the issue with deepfakes is that not only are these things upsetting, but they might be mistaken for actual photos and videos.

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS but it's sort of crappy, and nobody could reasonably mistake it for an actual photo of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS?

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS and it's extremely photorealistic, but has clearly fantastical elements? (e.g. she is naked on the surface of the moon, she is having sex with Godzilla, etc)

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS and it's realistic, but I've clearly indicated via caption or some other means that it's a synthetic image and not an actual photo of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS?

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS and censor/pixelate out her face?

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS and censor/pixelate the explicit parts?

- How explicit is explicit? What if I've depicted $FAMOUS_ACTRESS in a swimsuit or other revealing outfit that is perfectly legal to wear in public? (reminder: going topless or even nude is legal in a lot of places too)

- What if I've generated AI porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS that is based on publicly available images? eg: nude scenes from her movies, etc

- What if I create deepfake porn and you can't tell who it is? Do we go on a search for the victim?

- What if I create AI-generated porn and it accidentally looks like somebody real?

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS but I never say it's her?

- What if I create deepfake porn of $FAMOUS_ACTRESS but I change a detail or two? Perhaps I depict her with the "wrong" eye color, or add a scar, or something. So is this deepfake porn of "her" or more of a derivative work?
There are three showers and two baths in the house. All upstairs, which allows for the pipes to recover some of the heat on the way down. This excludes sinks where you most likely to use cooler, if not cold water. I take the maximum efficiency of heat recovered with a pinch of salt, but the hot water tank seems to last for longer heat-wise, compared to the one I had in the previous house, without such system.
And Berliner apparently helped to start planet money, which indicator is a spin off of. That’s almost the sum total of real news that’s still available at npr :(
Unfortunately, I cannot access the paper and as such cannot give any meaningful feedback.

Edit: Funnily enough, searching on google for this paper, your comment is the second result.
Only arrogant narcissists think about this. I would be skeptical that their assumption about being the smartest person is correct.

In any room, there are forms of intelligence that you can learn from.

Intellectual humility is a form of intelligence, and it may be the most important one.