skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming 10 Mbit/s per stream that would serve 1 million concurrent streams 24/7. If we assume people watch 2.4 hours per day on average, it could support 10 million active users. Or a cost to serve for bandwidth alone of 1 USD/user per year.
Russia destroyed 2 of Ukraine's Patriot launchers, causing Ukraine to decide to stop stationing them on the front lines. (Now they protect Ukrainian cities.)

I think the argument you want is that if the US gave Ukraine a lot more patriot launchers, Ukraine would probably be willing to risk a few of them on the front lines.
Mithridatism is pretty well-studied at this point, and an allegist can likely help with any sort of desensitization that you do. Many common allergies have available therapies at this point.

Latex may be an exception depending on the mechanism of action, but almost all organic compounds that can be metabolized by your body can be adapted to.
Kentucky Bend Exclave
Define "one big road". Yes, Canada only has one major highway that spans the country but there's roads longer than the isle of Great Britain (e.g. Alberta Highway 2).
Yes, it's inevitable.

My guess is that the first step will be to re-encode all the non-popular videos with severe lossy compression.
Don't Comcast and friends throttle any peering points you use, until you hand over $x per subscriber per month for them to stop doing so?
Their moat atm is being 6 months ahead of everyone else on model quality. Plus the ‘startup’ advantage over their corporate competitors. Oh and they can hoard a lot of the best talent because it’s an extremely high status place to work.

Their task now is to maintain and exploit those advantages as best they can while they build up a more stable long term moat: lots of companies having their tech deeply integrated into their operations.
I think it's pretty elitist to judge the quality of a content via whether it's in a book/journal or not. In fact, the recent wave of scientific fraud discovery shows that one can hide data manipulation pretty effectively in an academic journal. I'd much rather scientists spend their time making eli5 videos.
Limestone spheroids: intentional symmetric geometry by early hominins?
We're at the foot of the mountain. We only just started.
Considering my doctor recommended acupuncture for my allergies, I don’t think this is true. Ah to live in a hippie area again…
I love to work with me hands
Speed/latency doesn't tell you much, because it's all on a hard drive somewhere.

The question is whether YT is serving up the one (redundantly-backed storage) copy they have of your almost-never-watched video, or whether it's serving it up from one of 1,000+ copies it's made across the globe for currently popular videos.
But organic brains aren't some magic unknowable mush, we know how they work on a low level, we can trace how visual processing is done, etc, etc. As far as we see, the raw computing capabilities of biological neurons that we understand are sufficient to explain the behavior of animals, and as far as we see, biological brains don't do anything that can't be replicated with sufficiently powerful digital computers. So while it's technically possible that consciousness is a specific property of organic brains, we have no evidence at all that it would be the case and some (although not conclusive) evidence that there's nothing special, so unless we identify some difference, those hypotheses are not comparable and we should assume that according to our best current knowledge there aren't any specific properties of organic brains.
I suspect you might be arguing with either an LLM, or someone using LLM help to write their responses...
Everything everyone says they want from Apple as far as openness and ability to install and run any software they want is available on numerous Android and non-Android devices. The ability to install one’s own OS is available on numerous devices that are not iPhones. The clear conclusion then must be that people don’t just want those things. They also want specifically iOS and specifically an iPhone. Otherwise they would buy any of the other options available to them.
The statement about shorter men earning less ("shorter men don’t marry as often, in part because they earn less") was surprising to me and I decided to investigate.

I saw similar statements elsewhere[1]:

> A 2020 study in the scientific journal PLOS One analyzed economic data from over 3,500 Chinese adults and found that every additional centimeter of height was correlated with a 1.3% increase in a person's annual income.

And in another place[2], a 1984–2005 study:

> Results at mean values for males indicate that being 10 cm taller is associated with (...) a $1874–2306 income premium

Fingers crossed for remote work bringing some sort of equalizer effect here.

[1]: https://www.salon.com/2023/01/19/shorter-height-lower-salari...

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15706...
Related question: how often does the wife earn a higher salary? Answer here: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/04/13/in-a-gr...
Creating programming language for the sake of creating programming language is not too smart or useful thing.

Have a real problem to solve first please.

If the main goal is to be popular go instead and be a movie star or a singer. Or if too old for that then be the President of the United States.
I got a 20 year fixed at 1.125% and I am really happy the bank can’t get out of it. I really did wonder why they even gave me that money but who am I to complain.
It's also easier to train and in particular easier to parallelize.
I think it's just that if you haven't started by age 40, you probably didn't need to do it, so no reason to start.
Doing something just for the fun of it is enough.
A by-far more common sentiment is that it will be sad if he is found alive.
> Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale

When you look at costs per unit, then it gets cheaper at scale, not more expensive.

For streaming, at scale you can afford to do peering yourself, instead of buying bandwidth.

For encoding, at scale you can afford special purpose encoding hardware, instead of using general purpose hardware.

For storage, at scale you can get cheap bulk deals with drive manufacturers.
The author asserts that these decisions will have a negative impact, but one may disagree with that assertion -- and as it turns out, I think they're wrong.

Even the cases of B roads inheriting the number of the A roads they replaced makes as much (if not more) sense as a motorway inheriting that number. Knowing that a road used to be the main road before the bypass was built is useful information!

Around East Lothian, where I'm based, old alignments of the A1 are still A roads: the A199 and A198.
I am amateur and more or less an ignorant in programming domain so what I say doesn't matter much.

Why not a pick a language of choice and write some ambitious framework/library? Like Numpy/Pandas for Python. Maybe a web development framework? That way, there is a reasonable chance your work will be noticed or used. Look Maybe pick Julia and write a library for it. I believe Julia doesn't have as many libraries as Python does.

By the way, as much as I know, all the languages were written by 'old' people. Young people rarely have that much knowledge or experience. They don't even know one language fully well. So age is actually at your side.
The worst things that happened so far don't seem so bad because everyone involved is trying to avoid escalation. The worst thing that can happen is full-blown warfare involving China, Taiwan, the Phillippines, India, smaller countries in the region, and allied countries (along with all of the impacts to global trade).
Hungry for what? To throw all your experience away, by switching to the next vogue language framework?
Yeah you need to work very hard to lose heat without losing mass in space. Basically you can only radiate it away, which is slow; there are ways of concentrating heat in one spot so it is radiated more efficiently, but that’s where you get to the melting part.
> taste doesn't scale

The motto of so many social networks. Even if they don't know it.
We got lost in this big comments.

I am trying to tell you that Ruzzians refuse to accept that everyone in Eastern Europe, Baltic so Romania had good reasons to enter in NATO, to defend themselves.

I attempted to give you examples why Romania needs to defend themselves, it sure a Ruzzian will say that we should ahve stayed netural because Ruzzia would never, ever invade a neighbor (but then a big list of contra examples follows of invasions)
I think there's a consensus that you don't assume that the human experience of "green" is consistent, only that people do have such an experience. We can possibly try to "align" those experiences with communication and referring to a shared real world, but for that an interesting experiment scenario is communication between a person with the common trichromatic sight, a person with a tetrachromatic retina, and someone with partial color blindness, as the experience of "green" for them is not only inconsistent but also likely incompatible, without a possibility to align them.
If you already have curves, you can do that quite easily (maybe tediously, if you have to/want to do it manually).
That's fair. I taught myself to program using C, and C's conflation of pointer parameters with arrays, and its declaration syntax, confused me at first. And I also ended up with more unexplained glitches segfaults in the beginning due to arrays not being bounds checked. It might have been easier to start with something like Modula-2 in the beginning.
Ok, but all the freedoms people want from iOS and Apple are already present on Google and Android. And any restrictions by the 3rd parties that block non iOS or Android OSes are problems with those vendors not Google or Apple. Perhaps we’d be better served by mandating that banks and governments not dictate the OS you can use to access their services, rather than try to force Apple to do completely unrelated things that don’t solve the problems you mention.
Your balls are made of plastic now ?
The distinction is philosophical. Tech bros consider "art assests" or consumer oriented products as art. In their eyes its capibility as a tool for profit is a downstream effect.

My point was that since their entire purpose in life revolves around developing and refining technology for the reproduction of capital, it reveals their blindness to any deeper aspect of the human condition than what can be sold for a profit. When people post 3d versions of the Mona Lisa or a shitty remix of Monet's water lillies with breathless praise, it's because in their eyes the stylistic reproduction or reinterpetation of the literal shapes and colors on a flat screen is all there is to art, not merely because it demonstrates utility in replacing already exploited sectors of creative workers.

I don't think we disagree about any of this. I think that I'm just making a tangential point to the article in response to a dumb comment, while you are talking about the subject more directly. Otherwise I fail to see what you think is naive, if only because I've seen so many examples of this rot of understanding around the essence of artistic expression from the mouthpieces of silicone valley and our wider, increasingly corporatized, culture.
I appreciate linked data / the semantic web and its domain model-forward approach, labeled "ontologies". Organizing relationships between objects and actors contextualizes them and forces you to pursue parsimony. It's nice to see this philosophy appreciated elsewhere.

My projects usually start with a "goblin mode repo" to explore the domain, its possible representation in code, and settling on a suitable domain model for the problem in question. It's explicitly a place for prototyping, experimentation, and breaking changes galore. Naturally this technique doesn't extend much further than a small, tight-knit team, but once you find something that works you can formalize it in a new repo and share access with a wider group. If you did it right, those others will have no trouble comprehending the domain from the organization of code structures you've provided and extending that code in ergonomic ways to add features.
Relatedly, less attractive people earn significantly less
Gas stoves continue to work when the electricity has failed (as it does sometimes, especially during storms). It can be days before electricity is restored after a bad storm.
(Former browser dev)

Agreed. Feature detection is the way, not UA sniffing.
https://archive.ph/NJsKY
It's in part a fire accelerant, it wouldn't turn the atmosphere on fire.

If there is a top secret Manhattan Project for "climate change" - then someone's very likely pulling a fast one over everyone toeing that line, someone who has ulterior motives, misleading people to do their bidding.

But sure, fair question - a public discussion would allow actual experts to discuss the merits of what they're doing, and perhaps find a better solution than what has gained traction.
C++ is much more powerful; but C++ could have added modules thirty years earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myst_Reader
Who wants someone who doesn't live in the neighborhood hanging out in their neighborhood cafe taking up space and not interacting at all and not spending any money either?
> Search doesn't give you answers. Search only returns results, and it's your job to evaluate those results and decide which is most likely.

Right, that would be Stack Overflow and all the sites which use SEO to rank for "best".
> There's still today another camp: Many allergists still preach avoidance however and put fear into worried parents about the dangers of oral immunotherapy.

Because immunotherapy can be dangerous, even when conducted in a doctor's office with supervision. I know two people with serious adverse effects requiring getting rushed to the ER.

We think we know a lot about the human body, and we do, but our immune and nervous system and its myriads of interaction paths are to a large part a mystery, with most of what we think we "know" being observed knowledge without understanding the foundation.
My wish is they would move on to the next phase. The whole deal with SSMs look really good. But looking for better architects is countered with "a regular architecture with more parameters are doing better. What's the point of this"
The problem is that while the post looks structurally like an appeal to authority, the first two appear to be advanced qualifications in areas completely unrelated to the question and the third is at best vaguely related. (It threw me on first reading too...)
Air Head: short made by shy kids with OpenAI's Sora [video]
Their twitter indicate Amsterdam, I just think they are an anime fan.

And they are not alone.

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1792261360430293176
I think it was Compaq reverse-engineering the IBM PC BIOS that lead to open standards on PCs (and clones).
Since it's a resonance of radio-frequency waves, the parent's not really in error.
> It's not a conspiracy theory. It's the world we live in.

It's the world you live in.

> And what

Follow the ellipsis.

> Should I remind you of their original stated goal vs. "some of the weights" and "we argue we can't release weights for more powerful models"?

"""This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas. Other disciplines such as biotechnology and cybersecurity have long had active debates about responsible publication in cases with clear misuse potential, and we hope that our experiment will serve as a case study for more nuanced discussions of model and code release decisions in the AI community.

We are aware that some researchers have the technical capacity to reproduce and open source our results. We believe our release strategy limits the initial set of organizations who may choose to do this, and gives the AI community more time to have a discussion about the implications of such systems."""

- https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

So again, you're putting words into their mouths, not taking them at face value.

> It's bad, so we must blindly trust "Open"AI that the work they do is correct, and proper, and...

And apparently either fail to spot how I was using an ellipsis, or ironically make the mistake you thought I was making.

But also, in your case, not bother to read the research.

> The proof, as I said, is in the pudding. That is, in the doing. There's a lot of grandstanding on a lot of issues, and very little to show for it. Oh, and a lot of weaseling out.

You sure you're not looking in the mirror when you see grandstanding?
I have read that the urushiol is also present in the skin of the mango fruit.

I don’t know if those who consume a lot of mangoes or have grown up with mango trees around them are immune to poison oak’s urushiol(arguably much more concentrated) as its present in stems, saps, leaves, skin more than the flesh..but they likely have more tolerance.

Also..in India, we don’t burn mango leaves or branches as it increases respiratory risks..which ..now that I think about it..is likely due to the urushiol
The US has a good deal more public services than other countries; privatized mail, utilities and mass transit are all pretty common.

Mortgages themselves are unusually public in the US and probably staying that way. Other people don't get 30 year fixed loans, that's a huge benefit and inflation defense.
Creative writing + Hyperfocused autistic obsession = The Anime Guide to Neural Networks and Large Language Models.
Exactly! This was my go-to approach for reducing storage costs. Customers don't get spooked when they get an extra 1s delay for something they search once in a month. However, an extra 30ms delay in "everyday content" is a sure way to loose your users.

However, implementing this in practice is non-trivial. Knowing what is "everyday content" versus what is "once a month content".

To add more complexity -- you have these semi-predictable hype-waves especially two peaks in case of most YT videos where a "once-a-month" content becomes an "everyday" content before again becoming a "once-a-month" content. It feels you could specifically optimise for this -- reduce storage costs without sacrificing UX.
There is a very cool youtube video with something similar from Stuff Made Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw

Was very fun to watch and he also explains the trials and errors, he did.

There is also a link to a very interesting repository of handwriting synthesis: https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Newsrooms are experimenting with generative AI, warts and all
> Websites cannot accurately classify content a lot of the time without human review.

This is the same whether NSFW content is banned or not. "It's banned but somebody posted it anyway" has no apparent solutions different than the problem of "the user is required to mark it but they didn't."

As an obvious example, adult content is nominally banned on sites like TikTok, and yet there are thousands of TikTok accounts that serve as the funnel for OnlyFans, with the creators dancing on the line of the site's policy (and often crossing it), only to create a new account and carry on if they get banned.

> NSFW content consumers aren't valuable to advertisers or ad network operators because they don't sell products that could be placed as a 'contextual' ad.

Which is fine because the ad slots are sold at auction. The ad network's choices are to get something or get nothing.
Grace Hopper was 56 when she created COBOL. That was a hugely popular language probably to a greater degree than any modern languages (since there are more of them) Where is that on the chart?
Meteor seen in Portugal
> shown you how to confirm my understanding of the topic with entirely unrelated sources

You told me to Google it. I'll make a guess that you aren't the academic type, but trust me when I say that generally isn't accepted as a source.

> I really hope you reflect on whether you're more interested in being right, or feeling right, because the difference is consequential.

And what's brilliant is that I can both be and feel correct in the knowledge that this stuff will never be popular. You'd struggle to give it away for free, let alone get people to pay for it.

> you aren't entertaining any contrary information

I've entertained plenty of contrary information and explained why I don't believe it. You've addressed almost nothing I've said except by making spurious claims that you working as a bartender more than half a decade ago somehow means you are psychically in tune with people, and they all went to eat weird anti-alcohol jelly.

I really hope you can reflect on how to make actually convincing arguments for your perspective instead of just calling people stupid and flaunting your """experience""" while ignoring everything you are told.
> synchronizing probes’ on-board clocks with Earth and with each other to support accurate position-navigation-timing (PNT).

Damn, at first glance at least, this seems like a hell of a challenge when they're talking about travelling at relativistic speeds.

Also, what about deceleration? Do they flip the sails around at some point to get slowed down by the stars light?
This is a fantastic write-up. They take a number that sounds incredibly biased, "woah 1/40 pour one out for the short kings" and shows how this is predicted by only the distribution of men/women's heights and that despite the preference among women for taller men and men for shorter women the effect isn't enough to move the number away from what you would get with random partner selection.
And why can't the author pass its text into a LLM and simply ask: "plz fix frist word of each paragraf by using an uppercase letter k txh bye".

A just question.
I am well aware what it means. I asked you what you were expecting because it doesn't exist and probably never will. Nobody goes around surveying people about user agents. That just doesn't happen in the real world.
Great way to advertise Arc.
Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5
> Now, the mass of the support structure scales as volume X B ^2

No it does not, just as an example the fusion blanket is a constant thickness for a given level of neutron flux per m2 and sub linear scaling as flux increases. Same deal with your cooling loop etc.

You’re making several other mistakes, but because at a fundamental level the costs relationships are more complex than what you’re modeling.

Consider despite being a novel experimental design and having a huge research staff etc, Vogtle Electric Generating Plant still cost more than ITER to build. Sure the scale is an order of magnitude smaller, but fission has been around for a half century at this point is seemingly much simpler and you’d assume there was a great number of efficiency gains to be had. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...
Think about what you actually need to start a video. Maybe a dozen MB?

After that, you can plunge into colder storages and warm things up as you stream. Additionally, if you need longer to 'defrost' things, just cache a few more MB at the front. Cheat a bit by assuming 480p to start with if you need to; even less to store.