skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The East Indies company's didn't exist, or the Compagnie du Congo Belge, etc. and no loot was transferred to Europe from the colonies?

Shocking.

You might want to visit the Louvre and the British Museum.
A bit more intuition on how training works: in natural language processing, some phrases/collocations, for example "remind ... of ...", "make a decision", "learn a skill" etc. are used together. We can ask LLMs to learn such collections & frequently appearing n-grams. After learning, the model can use parallel decoding to predict many tokens that are frequently appear together in one forward pass.
Aside but one interesting consequence of using plastic in certain kinds of products is that it can be a sacrificial part. If you don’t design a point of failure into your system one will be assigned to it. I recently had this realization after installing a new garage door opener. The motor on it is much stronger than my old one but some parts are far flimsier. Then it dawned on me that I’d rather have a cheap plastic gear break if something goes wrong than have it burn up the unit or swing a high tension belt around.

Longevity doesn’t always mean making everything out of cast iron and stainless steel. It can mean making the thing repairable using cheap and available parts.
> Obviously linux is king but that's for server side my dude.

But isn't that what we're talking about? The submission title is "Apple is developing AI chips for data centers".
A human can easily defend the position that the earth is flat. If you google for these arguments, you will find hundreds of them.
Thank you for posting this. :-)
We call the shots... to our own feet.

Seems like studios are forgetting that you can't just drag some random person off the street and get them working on the next "Quadruple A" experience. Even a talented new grad would struggle with that scale. This is really going to come back to bite the industry long term.
My thought was that when people are looking for a recipe for apple pie, they aren't going to their favorite recipe website and searching for apple pie. They are going to google and typing in "apple pie recipe". Whatever site is on top is the one they go to. SEO wins out over a quality site a user wants to go back to. I'm pretty sure my dad has actually talked up a new dish he made for the holidays by saying it was the #1 result on Google for whatever the dish was. He equated being the top result with highest quality and best tasting.

This is my theory anyway, based on how I see people doing stuff these days. I don't have any hard data on this.

Without SEO, back in the era of bookmarks, I think people would bookmark sites they enjoyed using and wanted to come back to. If the site was hard to use and littered with ads, it wouldn't get bookmarked and get a repeat visit. At least that's how I did it. Maybe I'm not normal in that respect.
I went through my coffee hipster phase. But I eventually came to the conclusion that my palate is just too unsophisticated to tell the difference between supposed “hints of blueberry and molasses” in third wave hipster coffee from a boutique roaster versus the cheap coffee that my local newsstand brews every morning.

Now my only concession to coffee is brewing a cup on a Technivorm. Also Hawaiian coffee is super smooth and mellow which I like, but serious coffee aficionados apparently don’t like it for the same reason.
What about LSD
My personal end game if I have one and I'm not sure I do would be to ensure that I can help individual novice programmers become better at their craft. Not to make billion dollar corporations even richer.
That struck me too. You don't need to lobotomize the model that answers questions, you just need to filter out "bad" questions and reply "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".

Would it be 2x cost? Surely the gatekeeper model can be a fair bit simpler and just has to spit out a float between 0 and 1.

(caveat: this is so not my area).
SpaceX unveils next major iteration of its spacesuit program [video]
I think you and I have a different opinion on what “modern” means ;)
Yes, and help setters create more interesting routes. Maybe a layout with multiple ways to solve it, but all the approximate same difficulty?
Early workstations (Alto, CADR, PERQ etc) were portrait, and a lot of development was done on portrait ASCII terminals too (e.g. AAA). I was always puzzled as to what caused the switch in the mid 80s.
I'd say the job of an operating system is to host applications, provide interfaces for communication and I/O, and provide access to the hardware. Sound familiar?

(Operating system is a very vaguely defined term)
No, you win.
Solar Max Is Coming. The Sun Just Released Three X-Class Flares
Industries built to make money from the poorest part of society, particularly in the form of rents, should be scrutinized heavily at the least.

But to be honest, I don’t think any society which tolerates profiting from its citizens’ poverty can last. It’s a sign of a society whose values are in decline and whose relationship to justice is patchy.

We need to distinguish between the concept of housing as a good (something to be bought, owned, and invested in in the sense of improvement/effort) and an investment (REITs, short-term rental portfolio, non-human scale landlords). The latter is an unsustainable risk and out of accord with the traditional values of property and ownership. If the best way to succeed in society is to take rents from your fellow man, that society is unwell and approaching feudalism.
50% of those asked who are employed?
Just a point of clarification, the user moderator base (its power users) took a strong stance against AI, and the company, chasing every possible dollar, overruled them.

Short term profits over user preference is what happened here
The price to get an answer from stack overflow is usually free as most questions have already been asked and answered. You dont even need an account.
This millennium :D
I think Gandhi sorta covers the penultimate conclusion of this train, and that's highly local production.

A sort of sentimentality and pride. Maybe you chipped in somewhere along the chain, all the socks in the city have a little bit of your blood, sweat, and tears in the fibers. I think we try to replicate these sensations with all the green-washed corporate mission statement bullshit, and psychologically I think it's a very successful line. Practically, though, not so much.

This of course comes with the curing of all the one-size-fits all shit, too.
I'm starting to wonder if the days of "free, ad-supported, user-generated content wells" are over. The audience and participation base have grown larger than the ability of these single entities to rationally cope with while still maintaining their original mission and profits.

We've outscaled our original hopes for the Internet. It was originally meant to be a tool genuinely controlled by it's users; unfortunately, it's largely ended up in the stranglehold of a few monopolists.
1. Maybe, but wouldn't Apple want to use M-series chips to do this either way?

2. That's an interesting angle.

3. It's the same total amount, and both will go idle when there's less demand.

4. I think the average data center gets cleaner energy than the average house but I can't find a proper comparison so maybe that's baseless.

Also as far as I'm aware, inference takes significantly fewer resources when you can batch it.

> but it's tiring to see everything called greenwashing without applying any critical thinking

That does sound tiring, but in this particular case I think there was sufficient critical thinking, and it was originally brought up as just a possibility.
Every time Neuralink comes up, there's a whole lot of speculating in the comments. Is there no real, hard data from them?
Sea scooters already exist. They pull not push from what I see. Basically they’re EDFs with a place to hold on.
These look great. I'm a bit ignorant on the topic - what makes an icon a 'Reach Icon'? Can these only be used in React apps? Am I missing something fundamental?
We've trained generations of children on what to do if the floor is lava.
If it's posted on stack overflow, it's not new, it's merely been published. If this is the bar for LLM "learning" then they are doomed to live in a hazy bubble of the recent past.
>Unlike Telegram, Signal doesn’t allow researchers to make sure that their GitHub code is the same code that is used in the Signal app run on users’ iPhones.

I remember Telegram not publishing their Android source code for extended periods of time, which caused Telegram-FOSS to be significantly behind:

https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/1...

I'm not up to date on the current state of affairs, but I hope this has improved since then.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess we're also looking at 10 hr battery vs 1hr battery.
It’s Unix, not Linux, philosophy fyi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
In some conversations, maybe it's easier to form complete sentences. In some others, the best we can do is: have a rough draft about what to say in mind and then refine it word by word while speaking.
Aeropress should make this acessory standard-issue with their coffee makers, so that we don’t have to rely on other methods to reduce drip-through:

https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-flow-control-filter...
LLMs and big data through SQL Vector Database
Oh, I see. shuf is a program.
Especially in the water I neither want the burden of being attached to something nor the burden of retrieving it.
LLMs can easily produce data not in training dataset.

LLMs do not navigate stored data. An LLM is not a DB of the training data.
Apple has had this for several years and it has been quite a nice feature. That said, I don't trust Google with it. I assume they'd use it to better target ads, despite it saying otherwise in the post. They like to bait and switch.

I'm surprised they didn't pick a more unique name, considering Apple's feature is called "Find My". It seems like it will lead to people assuming interoperability between Apple and Google Find My networks.
>I suspect that most likely, a LLM developed in China won't respond with anything like that, no matter the language.

This is my problem that always comes up about this though. Everyone makes these grand conspiracy theories about chatgpt being big brother, but when asked to provide evidence of it, they either never are able to use a concrete example, or when someone tests their theory and they end up dead wrong (as in this case) they move goalposts to say that isn't exactly what they meant, or give a ridiculous request to really prove them right(such it only happens when using chatGPT in China). I'm sure if someone does happen to run the (most likely banned) ChatGPT in China and get the exact same response, they will move the goal posts again and say it only different on the premises of the Chinese prime Minister office.
There was a post here a few months ago saying that blooming prevented static electricity build up within the coffee grounds which made them clump together (or something like that anyway), I thought it was interesting.
You can now play games on LinkedIn
FTX Is the Rare Financial Blowup That Will Repay Victims in Full
Tiring is good though, it means you can reach a maximum of energy expenditure. There’s a trade off with how big to make the fins though, similar to gears on a bike. Too small and you get bigger losses, I assume.

Also depends a lot what you optimize for. For underwater swimming, especially scuba, you want to optimize for saving air, meaning minimize the total energy expenditure and keeping heart rate low (the mammalian dive reflex helps here too). In water, that means moving very slowly and with longer strokes, for the same reason container ships move slowly to conserve fuel. It looks really inefficient to pedal fast because all that water around your knees needs to be pushed back and forth for no gain.
Would it be fair for parents to say, "My throughput is capped and what was possible in the VHS and TV area exceeds my ability. However, if rather than being completely uncurated, social media systems participated in curating their content so that it had a minimum standard, much like TV did, I would have the bandwidth to responsibly curate the remainder for my kids"?
Taxpayers Are About to Subsidize a Lot More Sports Stadiums
Thing is 2M doesn't quite get you as far as you think. You get 10 devs (let's say, 4 programmers, 4 artists, 2 designers), pay them 100k each (which is lowballing it in med/high COL areas), and work 2 years. That's 2.4m just from labor, before advertising and other duties like community outreach. Sell for $30 (which is basically the top end of an "indie) and you need 80k copies to break even, more after platform cuts.

That's definitely a scale a AAA studio can afford, but far from what we associate "indie" with in our heads.That's where the exploitation begins.
Generative AI is speeding up human-like robot development
> The web is littered with abandoned standards, and Web Components - while by no means a failure - have not really achieved widespread adoption yet.

Web Components are used by internally by browsers to implement elements.

As dannye stated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292970): input, textarea and video are all web components. And since the major browsers have implemented those elements in that fashion I think it's safe to say they have most certainly reached widespread adoption. (even if most people haven't realized yet)

> I can't think of any other frontend library (web or native) that has had that long of a run at the head of the pack.

Flash and jQuery come to the front of my mind. React (or at least the React of today) will one day be looked back just as we look back at what came before it.

I think it'd probably be fair to say we're at that point about 10 years after the record-tuple proposal goes through and the explicit resource management gets a syntactic sugar upgrade a la promises to async/await. They shift the paradigm enough that the old assumptions used when building our current frameworks will need to be re-examined. New frameworks will be able to blossom, and/or the current frameworks will shift enough internally that they won't resemble how they are today, and they will have to drop support for older code, or run slower compatibility layers that no one would want to use on newer projects.

Even if one of those proposals fails to go through, we would still have other standards moving with enough momentum to eventually change the landscape. In the long term, I'm looking at a lot of capabilities being added to wasm to make compile-to-wasm look more attractive.
I once worked in a phone survey company and they definitely used something similar. It was probably linked to a mainframe.
The linked blog post goes through that.
X11 Windows, not the obvious Windows
3D printing options aside, there's no possibility of me replacing random plastic components that break. I'm dependent on some industrial manufacturer producing the random plastic broken part for me, and getting it to me. If something metallic fails, it's much simpler in comparison to fashion a replacement / repair the failure myself. I can work with metal. I can't work with plastic.
Hey, did you make these all by hand? I’m curious and impressed.
They do affect net income when they vest. It is treated as an expense in GAAP.
at 2022 bottom prices, so not quite. Yes, it's easy to be repaid in full when the glass is half the size
I'm still in that phase, but I like my coffee to taste like coffee. Not necessarily one-note, but not akin to fruity tea (as can be the case brewed with blonde roast, coarse grind, lower water temp, fast percolation). I stick with medium to full-city/espresso roast. Though some single-origin differences can cut through, they don't make much of a difference to me. Where I am enjoying variety more is in my brewing process, french press vs hario switch vs moka pot.
I spent 8 years lead climbing at Mission Cliffs in SF 2-5 days a week (5.12 range was my top). They had excellent route setters there that I spent many hours just watching between climbs.

The route setters would effectively do what you're saying, while they were setting the route. They knew exactly what would work and what wouldn't. The holds/wall are really what dictate things and if you're not able to climb it... it isn't really their problem.

As far as I can tell, while this project is cool, it really has nothing to do with climbing or route setting. It is an AI project where the developer just kind of made up some task and had AI follow it.
Have you assessed they quality of QA's that aren't years old? Anything decent that I find is usually quite old and possibly out of date.

It doesn't help that asking for a more recent answer gets your question closed as a duplicate, and new answers can never overcome the inertia of the historical ones.

September has came for stack overflow
My Mac IIcx with Apple Portrait Display was a lovely system.
Luckily most modern screens like my LG can be pivoted to vertical, and then the Mac lets you specify the rotation. There's no more need for vertical-only screens.
On a related note, it costs my employer way more to pay me to solve a captcha than it would to pay a captcha solving service.

At some point, passing the hoops turns into a negative predictor of comment quality.
There's different answers here for different types of black holes. Effectively, significant enough charge or rotational speeds can create a second horizon where inside the black hole, allowing for stable orbits inside the event horizon. The issue is there's no real explanation we have that would explain why a black hole would have accumulated enough charge to create a large enough second horizon for there to be stable orbit for us to sit around in and look at stuff.

It's more complicated with rotating black holes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.6140 and some other papers contend it's potentially possible, but I'm not sure if black holes large enough to support this sort of thing can rotate fast enough.

Neither would let you see the singularity, though, because the singularity isn't really a physical thing, and even if it were, there's not really any reason to believe it would emit or reflect light.

But all of this is likely nonsense when it comes to practical reality, though - the very fact the math leads us to a singularity means we're almost certainly missing something, and spacetime is really weird past Cauchy horizons - trying to extend the math to figure out what is going on behind them is probably futile.

I would guess in the real world there's not really anything "interesting" here from a 'seeing stuff while alive in the black hole' perspective, but in theory there are some solutions where you could see whatever else is inside the black hole with you.
Human-powered flying cars are next. Peter Thiel will invest billions.
Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography
NASA’s Office of the Chief Heath and Medical Officer has published a number of technical briefs [0] that cover a variety of human spaceflight related risks and topics. In particular, they have one for carbon dioxide [1, PDF warning] with some references that may interest you.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/ochmo/health-operations-and-oversight/h...
[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ochmo-tb-004...
On blind color difference tests, I score 100% when your average person scores less than 60%.

I laugh when people say two colors are the same.
Such differences are actually at the heart of climbing. Is taking a helicopter up to the top climbing? Of course not. So from day one it is not about getting to the top but about following invented rules governing how you get to the top. How about a bolted-on ladder? Or pre-placed protection (bolts)? Clean trad, leaving the rock as you found it, is generally seen as the highest form.

(Climbing rock without ropes may be more "pure" but is so dangerous that it should never be idolized.)
Congrats on the launch! I love that you let ppl try it without even signing up! The mobile experience needs to work tho.
Worth remembering that these displays were small. The Radius or PERQ display was the same format as a piece of paper. It was "full page" only for 8.5x11, in the same way that 35mm camera sensors are "full frame". If you have a 21" or larger WUXGA display you already have 2 of these pages side by side and there aren't a lot of great reasons to run a display like that in portrait mode. Unless you are just dying to have realistic 11x17" pages, large portrait monitors are just an ergonomic problem.
I don't mind having a wattage limit on the slot. That's easy to factor into purchasing decisions. The much bigger issues are how custom each kind was, with very limited competition on individual modules and a big conflict of interest in wanting to sell you a new laptop.

A friend of mine was betrayed on this by MSI, where laptops with GTX 900 series GPUs were promised upgrades and then when the 1000 series came out they didn't offer any. I think they did make weak excuses about power use, but a 1060 would have fit within the power budget fine and been an enormous upgrade. A few people have even gotten 1060 modules to work with BIOS edits, so it wasn't some other incompatibility. It seems like they saw they couldn't offer a 1080 and threw out the entire project and promise, and then offered a mild discount on a brand new laptop, no other recourse.
> This is similar, except more boilerplate and much, much slower.

That's JNI, which really was truly terrible. Java 22 introducing FFM is finally an admission that JNI was crap and a dead end.
Please send a message to the manufacturer asking for a free product sample to try this out on a public beach.
Making glass is probably a good industry to work in, but we don’t wish to employ window breakers to keep them busy.
Agree with you in this instance, but consider - what if humans firmly believed in something universally and had proved it repeatedly until it was common knowledge / well-established, but was in fact, wrong. And a human came along thinking, hm but what if that's wrong? And our AI just says, nope sorry, I'm not willing to explore the idea that this scientific fact is wrong. (i.e. "Heresy!")
Yeah I wasn't sure if the "run on the bank" had actually happened or not.
That’s not the bloom phase, that’s misting the beans before grinding.
it all depends on the definition of "urbanized"
Ha! That was unintended.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." - someone somewhere (likely Steve Jobs)
Hey now, it's clearly a unicycle.
I like one in each orientation. I am using one huge screen now but I'll go back to two monitors the next time round.
Have you used polycaprolactone/PCL aka "InstaMorph" for hobby/projects? It's a very tough plastic that can be melted by putting it in hot water, then formed by hand. I think something like a linkage made out of this material could be a fantastic intentional failure point for certain mechanical systems, as long as the temperature requirement is not much higher than human conditions. Also, if you have a hot air blower, you can repair it in-situ.

I'm honestly not sure why we don't see more of this plastic used for consumer stuff. Something that you can melt down and fix stuff or make little ornaments sounds like a great marketing gimmick. It's also generally a pretty bio-safe plastic.
Understand the format of your data.

Look at the parquet file metadata: use whatever tool you want for that. The Python parquet library is useful and supports s3.

How big are your row groups? If it’s one large row group then you will run into this issue.

What’s the number of rows in each row group?
2/3 of a triathlon.
I have it. I don’t know how it can be L5 when the cameras get blinded by the sun in the morning and evening. Or when it rains too hard.

It also picked up the mannerisms of human drivers like hitting the brakes at a yellow light and then accelerating and in my case tried to run a red.