skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The private sector funds most global research and development, and many of the results of such work are not published in peer-reviewed journals. We at Nature think it’s important that journals engage with the private sector and work with its scientists so they can submit their research for peer review and publication … But this goal will not be achieved in a single step. It will require a process. And that requires engagement and dialogue between all stakeholders.

I can understand this line of reasoning if the researchers involved needed convincing to publish their results in peer-reviewed journals at all. But this is Nature we're talking about, and more likely than not I imagine the incentives work the other way around. As it stands, the AlphaFold team gets to use a Nature publication to lend their work the veneer of prestige and credibility, without actually being held to the same standards of openness that are demanded of us ordinary mortals. As far as I can tell the uproar is about this specific double standard, and to the extent that this editorial doesn't really address this, I think it misses the point.
Of course, it's also a real thing that the home builders' and contractors' association lobbies to make every pool be legally required to be enclosed by a fence, which naturally needs to be built by a licensed professional.
It seems like if culture is important to the brand, having the CEO be one of the most vocal culture warriors in the world is an extremely bad idea.
I don't agree with you. Between us and a redshifted galaxy, for a specific cross-section "tube", there is a dV/dt of new space and a -dE/dt of energy from the redshift. It is possible to calculate both so at least the circumstantial "cubic metres for joules" metric is possible, and interesting. But it seems I'm not geting it out of this discussion.

You were talking about stress-energy tensor, and it did sound like density decrease is linked to the volume increase in a mathematical sense so that conservation happens. Now you say they are not related in that way. If the density decrease is not linked to the volume increase then you have to explain where that extra energy went.

"perfect fluid whose pressure is minus its energy density" does not make sense because you said it is expanding but keeping the same density. If a fluid is expanding but not becoming less dense, it wasn't a fluid in the first place.

Unfortunately what I can see is lack of understanding the mechanism and being able to productively reason about that, and stress-energy tensor is sufficiently complicated abstraction that one no longer feels the discomfort of not understanding.
Argo AI used to be in that space in Europe, in collaboration with VW commercial vehicles and MOIA, until about a year and a half ago.

I believe VW still has a group working on this.
Lisps are great to challenge your thinking, but (with Clojure) I got stuck at making sense of macros — way out of my depth at that moment in time.
> We're sorry but this website doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
I dont agree.

It's more about the relative income from the warehouse workers to the CEO.

Even if the post office has the exact same percentage of workers on food stamps, I would argue that because the postmaster general makes so much less than Amazon leadership that Amazon has the privilege and ability to do better, and still run a profitable business.

It's about profit, and sharing it more equitably.
Fundamentally centralized control has an information problem. Decisions about how to allocate resources require complex information that mostly exists at the edge, but communicating all of that back to the central controller would just overwhelm them. This is why markets work so well, the decisions about how to allocate the resources are pushed down to where the information is. But this is also why market are bad at solving systematic issues, in that case the information is above where the decisions are being made. You can see where there are tradeoffs and cases where one system works better than the other, so anybody who issues a blanket statement like "markets are always the best solution" is not operating with a complete picture of the world.
The used car market has been pretty strange for the past few years. I’ve been considering replacing my car recently and finding the discount for buying used is way less than it was before the pandemic. I’m seeing some five year old models listed at basically the same price they originally cost new.
You need to apply marginal thinking here. They are better off with welfare benefits, which means it's a good thing that they have them. If you gave them more benefits, they would have more negotiating power and be able to become even more employed[0], and then would you complain more?

[0] assuming that's what they want to do
I'd be very interested in a package up of mega man 2 with all levels from all games. For those of you that never played any mega man games, all games from mega man 2 onwards until the X games were basically the same game with new levels and bosses.
~12.6% per:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/food-stamp-...

>More than 42 million Americans receive a federal stipend for food through the program formerly known as food stamps.
The 51 states huh
I thought you meant "free" in terms of computational cost; running local is technically free of charge, but also requires a lot of processing power. Inferecing a properly-sized LLM will potentially starve the rest of your software from GPU/CPU/memory access, so you have to plan accordingly.
https://archive.ph/2e6pe
Strictly speaking, your example qualifies as a VFX shot.

However the line between practical and VFX/CGI can still feel very fuzzy. Top Gun Maverick was marketed as having filmed all the jet sequences "practically". And while it is true that nearly every shot of a jet started life as a shot of a real jet, the jets themselves were replaced with CGI in the final product. You couldn't tell, of course, because CGI has gotten very good, and the actual shot composition is still grounded in the reality of shooting with a physical camera looking at a real airplane.

This approach happens a ton in the industry, where they film a "practical" effect, then replace it with CGI. The benefit to this is that you get an exceptional reference for the lighting and physics of the effect. When executed well, nobody can tell the difference. In Top Gun's case, they were able to shoot scenes with real fighter jets you can fly today, then replace those jets with whatever fictional or historical jet they really wanted for the scene.
>The implication here is that $moderator [or submitter] knows better than the journalistic organization

I think that's exactly the intention, and personally I agree with it. I'm reading this via HN because I like HN's rules and community. I trust them to have better headline judgment than headline writers, on average. Not least because HN has apparently reasonable guidance against clickbait headlines, and many journalistic sources apparently do not, which is not terribly surprising considering the motivating factors involved.
That is the number that a friend working for SNAP told... 1 out 8 Americans is on food stamps.
You can 100% do that with quantized models that are 8b and below. Take a look at ollama to experiment. For incorporating in a game I would probably use llama.cpp or candle.

The game itself is not going to have much VRAM to work with though on older GPUs. Unless you use something fairly tiny like phi3-mini.

There are a lot more options if you can establish that the user has a 3090 or 4090.
The Teaching Company
Hey all: don't miss the music button in the bottom right!!

You can play classical music on the simulated instruments. This is the nicest thing I've seen in a long time.
If it was a subsidy to large employers it would be paid to the employer. Those are called wage subsidies. (Health insurance in the US works like this, obviously it's not great.)

These are paid to the worker though. That means it's a subsidy against the employer! It makes them worse off, not better.
But don't Ruby already have namespaces? Or is this about some type of anonymous namespaces?

Nvm, this showcased it pretty good https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427771
I can confirm the charging aspect. I've had a leaf since 2018 and we have a chademo fast charger, which only 1/10 stations have. It can be all but impossible to find a working, not in use chademo charger. I love, love the car, but can't recommend a leaf to anyone because of this problem. The only place chademo is even supported at this point is Japan.
How do you feel about the film Conan the Barbarian?
Safe Terminal Escape Codes
If it's Broadcom, it's positive for Palo and Fortinet. Look at other industries Broadcom has entered through acquisition, they come in and jack up the pricing.
Poverty can also cause mental illness.
If 3 delicious cans of Pepsi: The Taste of a Generation cost six dollars, how much does each thirst quencing soda can cost individually? We solve this by...
The concept you are looking for is "payslope", and it should be a standard part of such conversations:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/h...
> That's of little consolation to the people who bought Tesla stock when it was far more overvalued than the still grossly overvalued price that it has today.

You make it sound like HN is a forum for Tesla shareholders. Or Tesla short sellers. If you think Tesla is overvalued then short it instead of adding contentless noise and rants.
He tweeted "HER". That has nothing to do with politics. It was so easy NOT to do that.
I'm guessing because Bash is "more everywhere" than Python.
Just did this a minute ago!
What’s the point of a job, if you can’t live on it?

If you feel anger when reading that the largest and most profitable companies in the world won’t pay a living wage, the. You should be. There isn’t two side to simple greed and exploitation.
This is not true in Brazil. In Brazil, this is just an urban legend that several sites with ROMs spread in the 90s. By Brazilian law, you cannot download a ROM if you do not own a copy. It is possible that this rumor of 24hs is based in some old law that is not applicable anymore.
California needs to do away with restriction on property tax raise. They tax is probably ridiculously low for the amount of land they own.
Amazon is famously not very profitable, mostly because they reinvest everything in growth.
I'm in California. There's a $4k rebate from PG&E (electric utility) and a $4k rebate from the federal government if you buy a used electric car. It's income dependent too. The car itself cost $16k including taxes and registration fees. So, $8k after everything.
> Only EV early adopters want to sit in Walmart parking lots for half an hour charging.

You only need to do that on road trips, which aren't all that frequent for most people. It's not a reason to avoid buying an EV. At home, you just charge it overnight at your wall outlet. Yes, I know, not everyone has access to a wall outlet overnight, but lots of people do. EVs are ready for them right now.
> Attempts to completely eliminate risk leads to miserable lives and societies.

Covid response in certain jurisdictions was a great example of this. "If it saves even one more life, it's worth it!"
If Amazon took the CEO’s salary and reduced it to zero and distributed the savings to every line employee, how much money would each line employee get?
On the internet, no one hears you being subtle. (Torvalds)

I'll add my own view: when you watch a movie, read a book, listen to a song, play a game... you CONNECT with the mind of the person who made it. When there is no mind, or the source is a dead, statistical amalgamation of countless fragments of other minds, there is nothing you'll want to connect to, nothing you'll want to squander precious hours of your life on.

And while you may be curious to see, once maybe, a movie such an imaginary AGI-LLM has created from your prompt, no one else will have the slightest interest in seeing it. And vice versa. Which means there would be absolutely NO MONEY in that market. There would be no market.
https://youtu.be/yKAHGwCyamc
Nope, because power plants have generators that output AC (pretty much always 3-phase). Not to mention every generator you can buy in a hardware store has AC output (usually single-phase).

A generator is a device that converts mechanical power into electric power. A dynamo is a generator that uses a commutator to produce pulsed DC. An alternator is a generator that produces AC (which may later be rectified & filtered to DC). The term "alternator" is usually restricted to small generators used in automotive applications, larger AC generators such as those in power plants get described more precisely, e.g. induction generators or self-excitation generators. There are some other less-common generator types, such as homopolar generators that output continuous DC.
I continue to find him a clown and blowhard.

They certainly have a world model. What that is and how it compares to ours is the interesting part.
In Geordie you don't tend to have completely different words though, save for a few colloquialisms borrowed from old Scandinavian languages. It's not as far removed from actual English as, say, a Pidgin.
Firefox on Android is fine
The reason why it is attractive is to enable people who aren't ever going to get proficient at writing/debugging bash/sh to the level that you're at, to write enough bash/sh to get their jobs done both quickly and safely.

The majority of people doing DevOpsey kind of stuff aren't remotely experts with what they're working on, and won't ever be experts, but work still needs to get done.
That's not why it is in short supply. Plutonium based RTGs use Plutonium 238, a non-fissile isotope. Being an alpha emitter, it is a terrible choice for a dirty bomb - certainly no better than any other potential RTG fuel candidate. Obviously it is a radioactive isotope, and a hazardous one at that, but it is not meticulously tracked for security purposes. Indeed up until lithium batteries rendered them obsolete, Plutonium-238 was used in nuclear powered pacemakers.

Plutonium-328 is a trace impurity in general plutonium production, but production of RTG-grade Plutonium-328 needs to be done in special reactors, where Neptunium-237 is bombarded with neutrons. The US shut down its only Pu-238 producing reactor in 1988, along with the rest of the Savannah River Site. Since then, Russia has been the sole source of Pu-238. Since 2013 the US has been trying to set up a new Pu-238 production plant at Oak Ridge National Labs, but even at full scale production it can still only produce 1.5 kg per year.
What does all that even mean? My Bolt drives just fine. What features are you talking about?
Or Parinfer. I personally like Parinfer more than Paredit, mainly because I can't be arsed to learn a gazillion keyboard shortcuts.
> In the US I think it is very common these days to deal with very powerful people who are VERY crazy. So it has become normalized and no longer appears to be a concern.

I think a lot of potential Tesla customers in the US have been put off by Musk's behavior. There are even bumper stickers for Tesla owners that say something to the effect of "I bought it before I knew he was crazy".
Read between the lines:

"The private sector funds most global research and development, and many of the results of such work are not published in peer-reviewed journals."

I read this as:

Given the option of publishing pseudocode and not publishing at all, Nature is willing to accept the first.

and

Google would likely not have published if we required full transparency, and having them publish is more beneficial. (and this paper is impactful enough that it is worth making an exemption for.)

And in my opinion:

People are asking too much of Alphabet. Alphabet could easily choose not to publish anything. To be honest, I'm shocked that they do publish.
This triggered a repressed memory. I was once on an ops team responsible for an application that had been turned over to us written in Java. The application ran in Tomcat, and prior to turning it over to us, the external vendor had "helpfully" built some monitoring and alerting for the application. One of the metrics they monitored was how many errors per minute and per hour were happening the application's logs. When they turned this application over to us, they did not properly hand over the monitoring system or even tell us that it existed, and it was sending alerts to another external vendor team which had no association to my ops team.

Several years went by... then because we finally had the time our ops team decided to audit and improve this application, including rewriting significant portions of its code as was pretty typical when we took over an application built by an external vendor. Long story short, we resolved almost all of the errors by the expediency of simply correctly interacting with the database behind the application instead of relying on whatever horrific dumpster fire output to the DB that Hibernate was doing. That's when things got super interesting, because the external vendor team that was receiving these monitoring alerts (unbeknownst to my team) had more than 100% turnover in the intervening period of time, having lost all knowledge about this, but suddenly starting getting a bunch of critical urgency alerts going off because the application was no longer emitting the amount of errors expected for the alarm thresholds. This ended up triggering a massive company-wide incident call, even though there was no external customer impact. I'm leaving a lot of details out, but let's just say it sucked up days of my life and was a massive waste of time for all of that.

Fun example of fixing something and causing an "issue" because behavior changed from expectations/baseline.
I quibble with the terminology. Meta doesn't "give away" their model. They only let you run it for free. (They don't "give away" Facebook either, they only let you use it for free.)
Again? What's the purpose of spam posting this again and again? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40412135, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409129) XML, JSON, JQuery and Emacs aren't programming languages. What's the difference of Perl 6 and Raku in terms of their creator (who arguably ain't Larry Wall). Scala.js is not a programming language either and afaik not created by Martin Odersky.

If someone wants to plug this as a valuable data source on programming language they should probably clean up a bit.
"The carmaker registered just 13,951 vehicles in April, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said Wednesday, down 2.3% from a year ago and its worst tally since January 2023. Tesla’s result was an exception in an otherwise encouraging month for battery-electric vehicle sales, which rose 14% industrywide."

So Tesla is down 2.3% in Europe compared to 14% up industrywide.
The much more interesting comparison would be battery-electric vehicle sales in Europe in the same time frame for Tesla vs all other manufacturers. I'd be surprised if they did not both trend in the same direction.
Also no attenpt to justify why google is allowed to blatently disregard the code policy when others are not
> Car manufacturers don’t really care what used buyers like you want. They don’t make money from a used sale.

That's not true. Someone buying a new cars pays attention to resale value, so car manufacturers want the resale value to be as high as possible to encourage someone to buy a new one.
You can use a tool like gorun (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gorun) to run Go source code as if it were a shell script, by putting gorun in the shebang line.

Of course the disadvantage is that you need to Go have the toolchain installed everywhere you want to use the Go script, so it's definitely not as portable as using a regular shell script.
As the resident of a northeastern US state, relatives on one side of my family grew up speaking French, so naturally I took French in high school. I was embarrassed when I still couldn't speak French with the family and had to resort to English when visiting Montreal.

I was, however, vindicated later in life when I visited France and was able to get by without English.
1/4 mile is not far from a road. Of course, terrain may otherwise make it difficult to camp if the trail heads right up.
I assume Amazon pushes down wages accordingly and is happy that the public subsidizes their margins.

Why would they give someone more because they come to them with no alternative and under pressure from the government to take any Job.
I love clojure, but it's really lost a lot of the momentum it had as many imperative languages have adopted parts of functional programming (and much for the better) over the last many years.

On the other side I've felt a lot of the ecosystem work that was done has a more "timeless" quality. Coupled with java interop I haven't ever felt wanting when I do reach for it for some hobby projects I keep up with.

One thing I will say, since it takes a different tack and philosophy, I think any programmer learning some of it benefits from the different perspective.
Europeans have already solved this problem without need for non-existent technology. It's called public transportation. That's why Americans spend 101 minutes per day driving on average while Germans spend 36.

Imagine how much more GDP the US would have had if they had done that...

edit: Of course, Europeans also use that extra time to enjoy life versus driving GDP that due to increasing wealth inequality won't benefit them in any tangible way.
They won’t actively cut teachers, they just won’t hire as many specialists. We have a couple math specialists who just do remedial math. Kids who are at grade level or above get zero attention during math time. This will be a cheap way to provide attention to those kids, at a fraction of the cost of hiring more math specialists or classroom teachers.
I think the direction of causality does bring into question what the expectations are for an egalitarian society is.

Is a society just if people with drug abuse, mental illness, and general dysfunction have equality of outcomes?

Of course, this simplistic debate belies the fact that all of these attributes have multifactorial causes, and most are in cyclical feedback with each other.

Dysfunction begets poverty begets dysfunction. No single intervention is socially curative outside of storybook logic.

Getting on my podium, I think that these factors are worse in developed societies than poor one (which often have greater inequality) for numerous reasons:

First would be the visibility of inequality. Next would be culture of material consumption. Next would be breakdown of social community (and the efficacy of social norms).

I think this explains why this types of behaviors are seen more in places like the US, which has a longstanding culture of materialism and individualism. I think it also explains why the behavior is more pronounced for outgroups and fractured broken communities.

This further explains why some groups within the US with strong social community have relatively low crime rates despite very poor economic conditions
My Model 3 got totaled in a crash last year. I did debate whether I should give Elon Musk more money, so I looked at what the competition was offering.

Competing cars were often more expensive for worse specs, did not have access to Superchargers and made decisions that were less efficient (for example, most did not have heat pumps and had weak regenerative braking so as not to be too “weird” for gas car users).

So I bought another Tesla.
I don't understand the value of the charging network. Who drives 400 miles in a day? It's much more efficient to either have access to a gasoline car when that's necessary or just rent one for $50 a day.
I have an EV and I wish I could use Superchargers but my car is buggy and won't charge with them.