skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
25 years ago, there were experiments to move element 72 hafnium (Hf) between its low and excited isomer states, which would allow for the creation of a nuclear battery that could store 100,000 times more energy than a chemical battery, with a 31 year half life, but without neutron release:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium_controversy

This would be Iron Man and Star Wars tech if it worked. Unfortunately experiments went dark after 2009, probably because it worked haha, but maybe because Hf is too rare to make a practical battery. So it looks like they tried spalling element 73 Tantalum (Ta), 74 Tungsten (W) and 75 Rhenium (Re) with protons at 90-650 MeV to create 72 Hf with atomic masses 178, 179 and high spin 178m2, 179m2 isomers if I read this right:

https://publications.jinr.ru/record/151982/files/071%28E6-20...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA525435.pdf

There's a lot here though, so I can't really get a clear picture of what the yields are, or simply how many joules it takes to store one joule in an excited isomer. Which is of course all that matters, but papers often leave off the one part we're curious about, forcing us to learn nearly the entirety of the subject matter to derive it ourselves. Although on the bright side, maybe that protects us from nuclear armageddon and stuff.

Maybe someone can fill us in?

Edit: dangit _Microft beat me by 17 minutes, please answer there :-)
how do you handle models that are bigger than 16GB on that? my m1 max 64gb whips through dolphin-llama3:70b just fine, that's around 42gb usage. I get partial offload on dolphin-mixtral:8x7b, that's significantly slower but still reasonably usable, whereas even the quantized models chug on my work m1 max 32gb.

everything i've seen is that once you seriously cross the threshold of VRAM usage/gpu offload, the performance collapses. and sure, if you stay within that the 4090 (or even 4070 mobile) is a lot faster, but the most popular current families of models don't generally fit on a 4070 or even 4090.

on a 41.5gb model, would a 4070 mobile/4060 ti 16GB really beat a 64gb m1 max? it seems doubtful but idk.

if there's viable ways to split models across multi-gpus i'm all ears, but afaik there's not (outside NVLink). Other than buying or renting A100s, the only serious option would be bergamo with avx-512 and a bunch of memory, much slower but avx-512 does have inference instructions now, and that gets you into the class of memory you (currently) need for things like snowflake-arctic-instruct:128x3B.

(and of course training is a whole different kettle of fish, but everyone knows that at this point.)
How likely is it that a "Internet Archive v2 foundation" will be founded, "partner" with the Internet Archive, rescue all the content, and the IA v1 is allowed to go bankrupt?

Because I surely won't donate money just to fund greedy copyright holders, but I'd be happy to fund The Archive.
That doesn't work, the standard endpoint always remains available.
> To be honest, I'm much more comfortable with a doctor looking things up on wikipedia than using LLMs. Same with lawyers, although the stakes are lower with lawyers.

Yeah, a Wikipedia using doctor could at least fix the errors on Wikipedia they spot.
So instead we get Windows Xi boxes?
In a side note: how do you check for the level of nudity/sex in a show or movie? I use the rating but I don’t find it provides enough finer grain: some R rated ones are OK to watch with my 13 year old but some have graphic sex scenes which I feel uncomfortable to watch together.
I appreciate the skepticism, however :)

We will release the open source server-side - promise :)

With three developers and the lookup involving 1M+ possible entries, we are trying to find an effective method.
>"and what are the downsides"

It works the same was in the US. Your taxes pay for the CIA, the CIA overthrows governments for United Fruit, and you buy products from United Fruit. You're paying for bananas twice and they are receiving "security" (wink, wink) for free[1]. Later, CIA high-ups get high-paid sinecures at the United Fruit company, making them the only ones getting compensated for the deployment of the government's resources. Russian citizens are not going to get parcels of land from occupied Ukraine. The soldiers who survive the war aren't going to get mineral rights. Instead of asking, "what are the downsides," a more pertinent question is, "who's getting the upsides?" (It is never you or me.) In practice, at least since the British Empire, wars of imperial expansion have served as another method of transferring resources from the public to a few influential business owners - corruption in so many words, not any different from stealing the funds for a highway.

In the middle ages and earlier, soldiers would be rewarded in the form of titles of nobility, or in the Roman Empire, with land and prisoners of war to use as slaves. If that was a practice anywhere in the world today, perhaps I'd comprehend the argument for war from the pursuit of economic interests. Then, at least, it would be a moral issue - otherwise, as it is today, it's another pretext for the few to steal from the many. That means you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
Okay, but spies, terrorists and tax evaders (or military duty evaders for Iran) with double nationality have been using the double-passport trick for over a century: Is it time that airlines feed their incoming passenger list to the destination authority?

I mean… isn’t that built-in to the system already? I never supposed entering Thailand that I wasn’t already known to the Thai border police, who surely must have checked that I’m not a banned and/or wanted criminal, right? Or is this system supposed to a single safety net of the destination’s border agent recognizing a fake passport just by checking the numbers in a DB? Is that why TPB’s founders escaped to Thailand, is this why Wolkswagen’s pollution manager thought he could cross the USA freely on holidays without spending 8 years in jail, is this why Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan?

Or do countries carefully avoid reaching an agreement on airline IT systems, just because they do need each others’ spies to cross freely?
1 - I said very clearly that you need both of them.

2 - Have you ever been an innocent victim in a serious car accident? Have you ever been diagnosed a debilitating illness independent of your habits? Have you ever lost all your material belongings in an earthquake? I suppose you didn't. Thus you are lucky.

And thank you for confirming what I had written: lucky people often don't even realise they're lucky - and I'll add: especially if they believe that idiocy called prosperity gospel!
Uyghurs are Turkic, and Turkey makes only mildly disapproving comments on the situation because China is anti-american, and having solidarity with that is perhaps more important than having solidarity with Uyghurs. Meanwhile, China being douchebags to Uyghurs may indeed be exploited by America as an opportunity to say "look China are douchebags", sure, why not.
[dupe]

Lots of other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40183125
tried it with some dna/snp related questions and I am getting great results so far-now getting this message:

"RATE LIMIT OF THIS MODEL IS REACHED. PLEASE COME BACK LATER OR USE BATTLE MODE (the 1st tab).
USER_DAILY_LIMIT (gpt2-chatbot): 8"

any way to test this model elsewhere?
Craig Mazin who developed Chernobyl is also the showrunner for The Last of Us - season 2 is out next year. He'd be perfect for an East Germany based spy series with a tone similar to Chernobyl combined with The Lives of Others
Copyright in the UK predates the existence of the United States by quite a bit.
Crazy, I wonder what AWS's margin is on these unauthorized requests? Questionable incentives.
Is it a stretch though? If one is impressed by something, then one might have something to say about it too, so having nothing to say (being nonplussed) because of being unimpressed... That is, if being unimpressed generally leads to one being nonplussed, then maybe being unimpressed can be expressed as being nonplussed.
That's the clearest indication that OpenAI should be seeking permissions and paying rightsholders for training data.

If OpenAI loses value as a company if it does not have that content, that indicates the content has value, and OpenAI should pay for the materials they 'use' to create their own value.
I came here for this comment, thank you!
I think you're reading way too much into it with little context. For instance, we don't even know how old the kid is, or if the workload on the kid from school is super high.
The lawsuit is not about the “National Emergency Library”.

It’s about, as the IA calls it, “Controlled Digital Lending” - which the IA was doing before and after the “emergency”, and is still doing now. The idea that, if they have a physical copy of a book, they can lend, one-for-one, a digital copy.

The “National Emergency Library” was basically uncontrolled - they were ‘lending’ digital copies of books they did not have physical copies of. But there are no lawsuits about that - presumably because they stopped and it would be bad publicity fore book companies to pursue them about it now. I do wonder if it’s what precipitated the book companies’ ire - but I also think a lawsuit about “Controlled Digital Lending” was coming sooner or later anyway.
I thought the original was scoped and paced perfectly: no fluff, all action (of the suspensy kind), didn't wait for itself to peter out.

The remake just drags on and on and on. Tons of irrelevant detail and uninteresting sidestories.
Google never rebranded. It's still Google. They just had all these unrelated moonshots like Verily and Waymo that didn't make sense to keep pretending were a part of Google.
I think your criticisms are legit. I think the books are love 'em or hate 'em.

Like you I never connected to any of the characters, but the direction of the story and its almost exponential growth in scale was what drew me in.

But c'mon, almost nothing is as bad as Atlus Shrugged (aside from maybe The Fountainhead). :-P
Gradient AI Releases 1M Context Llama 3 8B
The emergency library was the trigger for the lawsuit, but the lawsuit contends that even controlled digital lending is illegal.

There seems to be continued confusion on this basic issue of what is at stake in the lawsuit.

> The court fully rejected the Internet Archive’s argument that fair use protected its digital lending program. Notably, it did not limit its analysis to the National Emergency Library. Instead, the court rejected fair use as it applies to controlled digital lending in general. [0]

[0]: https://www.library.upenn.edu/news/hachette-v-internet-archi...
I usually don't correct other people's typos, but they are much more funny when they're made by pedants.
I'm honestly not a fan of what Louis DeJoy has done to USPS, but I'm pretty sure they've used the dot com domain for as long as I can remember, way before DeJoy became Postmaster General....
Greenmask database anonymization tool release
You didn't invent singular "they" as a child, you were using it because that's what you'd naturally heard and picked up.

Then ignorant teachers told you that you were wrong and they were so successful in brainwashing you, that even after you have learned you were actually correct, you are still trying to argue you were wrong!
> Take it further down the stack and see that functional semantics are always executed by imperative machines

And the other way around too. Even your C compiler can't reason about mutability, so it un-imperatives everything first:

int foo(int i, int j) {
while (i < 10) {
j += i;
i++;
}
return j;
}

That (j += i) line becomes:

%9 = load i32, ptr %3, align 4, !dbg !23 // read i into %9
%10 = load i32, ptr %4, align 4, !dbg !25 // read j into %10
%11 = add nsw i32 %10, %9, !dbg !25 // sum %9 and %10 into %11

(i++;) becomes:

%12 = load i32, ptr %3, align 4, !dbg !26 // read i into %12
%13 = add nsw i32 %12, 1, !dbg !26 // store i+1 into %13
At least they don't wish it to C++ away...
> "sharing access to customers’ location information without consent..."

I'm not seeing anything here preventing the carriers from just adding "sharing location data" to the EULA / privacy policy that no one reads and continuing on - now with "consent". Without a requirement to offer a separate opt-out, this just seems like a temporary road bump that changes nothing in the long run.
I use Github co-pilot but 55% productive is a bullshit number. Perhaps 1% may be. Most of co-pilot suggestions are either simple pattern matches or subtle hallucinations where I have to catch and fix silly bugs.

Github Chat is not very useful at understanding what the code is doing. Tried it once or twice and gave up.

The hype will help with Microsoft Stock though. Seems like bean counter management is taking over.
Give an example of "structuring and executing large-scale changes in entire repositories". Let's see the complexity of the repository along with what it structured and executed.
TV is very predictable and is moderated a lot more than online platforms where any random person can decide they want to make a mental illness or a dangerous challenge into a "cool" trend.
Or at the very least the requester should b charged for the failed auth.
I was saying the same type of thing can extend to the others. Yes, pot and alcohol are extreme examples. However there are still kids who would question it if others are allowed to and they aren't, especially if maybe they know their parents do pot in a state where it isn't legal. Event the network effects and marginalization can happen with substances. How many sober people do you see at college parties? There's some of that presenting in the high school crowds too.

I'm wondering if there are any messenger clients that can basically strip out the other portions of social media if you really want to use it just for communication.

I suppose with the mention of what is legal and what is not, we could start passing age laws on social media usage. Although many places have laws about the age needed for an email account. Seems to be generally ignored.
This is the most reasonable solution as far as I’m concerned. There are still challenges related to this he electrical service the building is provided. For example you may find the building doesn’t really have enough energy to provide every spot L2 charging.
A thousands of small cuts, almost everything comes first to VSCode before other editors, even mainstream things are underrepresented in most other editors (Jupyter, commercial integrations, etc…).

Although that was true about Atom too though?
My point was Andreeson wasn't first with a GUI web browser. It seems like you didn't even read my comment.
Yeah, never seen that usage of "cleave". I would have expected that sentence written with a different word: "People in the remote mountain villages still cling to their old traditions."

With regards to "cleavage", I always thought that it was based on the other meaning of the word, the one about splitting things apart:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleavage
That's the same output as gpt-4-turbo for me, so no real improvement for that particular prompt.
Great find. This has serious exploit potential.
Years ago I spent thousands of hours trying to figure out how to organize a digital library.

My final answer was to use the Library of Congress catalog system. They need to add some sub-categories for how-to explanations.

Then have a field for media type (video vs. PDF vs. image)

Then note the style of presentation (academic vs. folksy vs. a manual vs. a dad showing you how to do this)

Then note the language
i'd wonder with #3 if you're slowly training your child to misbehave? i'm sure you're aware of this, i ask more to start the convo if you have observations
What does that have to do with selling data?
No, as I and others have commented, this wasn't changed by the current Postmaster DeJoy (not ignoring all the other wonderful stuff he's changed). They've been using the dot com domain for decades at least?
The delay is important for increasing security, but then why not have it after the check?
Pretty sure he's the same one mentioned vying for president. His name showed up in the list when I visited the page.

(I will always love the fact that a prominent politician in Iceland used to be in the Sugarcubes with Bjork.)
Have you seen the number of people giving money to Scientology or the Catholic Church?
Hi dddw, sure. Thank you.

It helps with work prioritization.

anilc [at] kaytu.io is my email. If you can shoot me a note with some details on the workload (number of VMs, monthly spend), I'd be happy to add it to the backlog.
Boy this is a long screed by someone who doesn't seem to understand that companies' main goal is to make money, not great products. Yes, we are in a period of enshittification, and yes this names a lot of the people and processes responsible. But if you don't understand that the owners and investors are extremely happy with how this has gone so far, you're just shouting at clouds.
Crazy. Would not have expected that.
That there's an established clique? I agree.
Nothing is preventing you from doing NAT in IPv6. There is the Unique Local Address[0] range which is analogous to the RFC-1918 addresses from IPv4. That being said, there are very few reasons to do this in IPv6 (the only that comes to my mind is running virtual machines on a laptop connected via wifi).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
How is that possible? AWS can't bill anyone on the planet.
I remember when Second Life was new and touted as "The Future". Gamers jumped into it but many left because there was simply nothing to do unless you were a creative type who had the skill to create and sell items in the 'game'. I'm guessing today it's just creative people hanging out with creative people, which is probably a fun experience for them, but not something that will appeal to a wide audience.
Suppose ot were true, how would you turn the evidence into profit? Sell it to western media? Let the wrong person know and they'll tip off western intelligence and then your car will drive you into a tree. Sell it to Russia? Maybe they would pay, but would you like life in Russia? Once you're there, maybe they don't pay after all. Or maybe you sell it to Russia, stay in the west, and spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.

The proof, if any exists, is worse than worthless.
Yet if the business model / customer's _existing_ service agreement is changed, the temperature of the water that the frog is in just went up a little bit, so folks continue using it, which is what often happens as well.

"well, I'm not sure if they're going to start collecting or using my data, because I don't actually really KNOW that or the extent of everything, just an email from them with a vague update to an equally vague privacy policy that I apparently implicitly agree to if I don't discontinue using their service."

Just like a manufacturer/seller on say, amazon shouldn't be able to revise their product with cheaper quality under the same model number (and yet it happens all the time), changes to the agreement of a service should be treated as a new service.

Whatever the solution, it should be a big enough deal that it cannot be implicitly agreed to, and clear enough language (maybe vetted by a third party review of the agreement) to communicate to all users, what is at stake and how, to which third parties, etc.
Beware that not all port combinations are supported. For example, the Z270 chipset supports 6 SATA, but only 4 SATA if NVMe is also used. The motherboard manual will tell you this.
Previously/Related:

Cape dials up $61M from A16Z and more for mobile service without personal data

2 points by jseliger | April 18 2024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080673

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/cape-dials-up-61m-from-a16...

https://www.cape.co/
I grew up in a strict evangelical family with tv time limits, only the 4 major over the air stations (cable tv was a tool of satan etc), and overall very restricted access to media.

As a kid it definitely made me feel set apart in an uncomfortable way.

I still have this mildly as an adult. One example where I notice this most acutely is when I was doing a regular bar trivia night with friends in the neighborhood. I could help with science, history, etc, but with many of the pop culture questions I was the only person on our team that didn't immediately know the answer.

Again, not the most important thing in the world, but there is a feeling of separateness I've had as a result. I've felt like I was "catching up" to culture all my life. If I could flip a switch and change it I would.

I do think smartphones are a bit different than all that though. There's something psychologically unsettling about doomscrolling this new TikTok style content. A couple times now I've gotten sucked into Youtube Shorts and then realized I just spent a couple hours on it in a mental fog. I find the idea of kids as young as the headline getting sucked in like that unsettling. I'm not a parent but I can see how it's not a simple dilema.
Safari runs out of memory with web maps.

Reported it several times but no fix from Apple.

Most powerful iPhone crashes but 5 year old Samsung with 2GB ram works fine…
If you get sucked into the bodycam footage that is all over youtube, you'll see that "police impersonator" is incredibly common. There are even people who impersonate federal agaents, and stone faced hold their story while the cops are grilling them. Wild
Let's not forget that this begins earlier. Yes, you've seen them: The two or three year-olds in a stroller staring at a device and never once looking up. And quite often paired with one or more parents also on a device "out for a walk".
Common Sense Media reviews, like this one. [1]

IIRC, there's a bit of sex in The Americans, and a fair bit of discussion of how the spies had to sleep with targets as part of their training, and in the field. The father character also has a pretty dicey relationship with a much younger woman/girl, in order to access her father's home office.

1: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/the-americans
A bored or malicious actor can also just DDoS your CloudFront endpoint and run up an effectively unlimited bill on your end. That exposure is par for the course with AWS, they don't have a spending hard-stop and at this point they probably never will, you just have to hope that they have mercy and waive the bill if you get a surprise extra few zeroes on the end.
Good advice: I also found the start not a good salesman but some peristence worth the wait.
There is no typical police vehicle, every department and every unit can vary. Police can also travel in personal vehicles for work purposes, including investigations or surveillance.
Call your Congressperson.

"Hi, my name is ___. I am asking you to support and, if possible, co-sponsor the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024. My zip code for constituent survey purposes is ___."

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/committee-chairs-cant...

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/3F5EEA76-5B18...
I mean 'The Right to Read' sets up a story environment where Copyright/IP is a form of tyranny. I view any form of overly broad copyright as a form of government enforced tyranny itself. This can be anywhere from terms that last lifetimes. The lack of counter enforcement against actors bring false claims. And allowing very generic/simple systems to be copyrighted thereby enacting massive rent seeking behavior across most of the population.