skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very very restrictive way to explain "terroir".

The simplest way I could describe this word as we use it in france is "a region along with its traditions and local peculiarities". So yes, the earth is part of it, but the culture, the traditions, the people, the crops, are part of the terroir.

For example, anyone can grow ducks. But the southeast of France has a long tradition of duck breeding and food products made of ducks, and is renowned for it. There is knowledge and craftmanship involved in the notion of terroir.

Or, hunters will often turn their game into terrine (i'll let you google that), and pretty much anyone will make it roughly the same. Granted boar may be tastier in the south due to the sun and the soil, but I have really no idea. But the notion of terroir enters there because each region will add its own twist; like the cognac region often making "terrines au cognac", or normandy "terrines au calvados".

Another example is "saucisson" or dry sausage. Regions will often make produces of terroir by adding local stuff; like in savoie where you'll find saucisson with beaufort or other mountains cheese in it. Or in normandie you'll find barbecue merguez (hot sausage) with bits of camembert inside.

We tend to use the term quite loosely, and it's pretty common to hear about humans being pure products of the terroir they grew up in.
I don't agree with the third law; complexity is bounded by failure.
Human dominance is a fact, not a debate Essays
I was hired to revive a near death startup that got an infusion of money. The original team built the product with OpenEmbedded, pre-cursor to Yocto Linux.

The build no-longer worked because many of the links to the dependencies were dead, and the original team didn't cache the dependencies and put them someplace safe. I spent a couple weeks just tracking down packages, from probably not great sources, to get everything up and running again.
Or a non-simulated BBS or MUD.
Interesting strategy. As employee leave is used, this won't cost the union a dime in strike payouts.

Is it really a strike at that point? The company can just revoke leave in the future and call the bluff. Then they'll have to take unpaid leave and risk their jobs for real.
I mean... it is a lot easier to do, than to program a procedure to revoke an api key.
> We tested AdFlush on a dataset of 10,000 real-world websites, achieving an F1 score of 0.98, thereby outperforming AdGraph (F1 score: 0.93), WebGraph (F1 score: 0.90), and WTAgraph (F1 score: 0.84). Additionally, AdFlush significantly reduces computational overhead, requiring 56% less CPU and 80% less memory than AdGraph. We also assessed AdFlush's robustness against adversarial manipulations, demonstrating superior resilience with F1 scores ranging from 0.89 to 0.98

Neat results, I wonder how it compares to uBO or the different blacklists. I assume it self-update with newer techniques and can detect certain patterns?
While I think the intentions of the voting system are for marking low quality, as you've said, I think in practice most downvoters are using it to mark their disagreement.

There's something interesting about that; it implies that grey text signifies a non-conformist view and approach to a technical issue. As is the case here.

I like to skip to the grey text.
It’s not considered dishonesty from either party. This has been true for 10 years at minimum with online dating.
Horrible advice: find a way to blend your work with your interests so that you no longer understand where your core work hours start and the obsessiveness begins. Do this for > 12 hours a day, every day, holidays included. Tell your loved ones that you're busy with work, and take small satisfaction that what you just said was half true. Develop an unhealthy addiction to liquid stimulants and spring out of bed every morning with a burning curiosity that wont abate until you've tripped over enough hurdles to crush your enthusiasm for a few hours. Rinse and repeat for a decade until you're no longer a jack of all trades, but a master of most. Try to convey your interests to those around you, and failing that, retreat to social media where you will attempt to spin these as career developing STAR moments. Accept the disappointment you will feel in knowing that no one will appreciate the efforts you went to in achieving this level of tedious mastery.
How does this compare to list based solutions? An overblocking/underblocking comparison would be great
> Sample many times and vote is a highly effective (but slow) strategy.

Beam search[1] has long been a great way to sample from language models, even before transformers. Essentially you keep track of the top N most promising threads and sample randomly from those.

OpenAI doesn't offer beam search yet, just temperature and top_k, but I hope they add support for it because it's far more efficient than just starting over each time.

[1]: https://www.width.ai/post/what-is-beam-search
Then things will work themselves out without the need for endless jawboning.
The article discussed here plainly states that the batteries in the hybrid cars are about 10 and 16 kW. The article you link is about the technology being used in buses, with capacity up to 500 kW giving buses ranges of up to 600 km...

Anyway.
I found one of the weird positives of going through a life changing crisis was during that period, what interests I did have at the time really were what I wanted to do. I kept just those interests up and it really helped give me some direction. But YMMV on that one.
see my other comment, but terroir is not only applicable to wine. it's more about stuff that's made in some specific place. and the people with their traditions are, I would say, as important to the notion of terroir.
It won't help you discern speech, but it'll stop your ears ringing.
In fairness to op, the out of date pricing may not be that out of date.

recent legislation in the US was meant to bring down hearing aid cost and to break the monopoly on devices. It’s seemingly worked so well that TV commercials for individual brands have started to show up for low cost aids (sub-$5k)
It's not irrelevant.

A rogue (automatically run) annotation processor will generate exploit code bundled into the build output artifact, which will then run on the production systems.

Besides, annotation processor can attack the build system as well.
There’s the guy that made _a_ mistake. Then there’s the guy who continues to make the same mistake over and over again.

That second person is way to common in companies that hire from the bottom of the barrel.
> So when you need to figure out if a device is in the same building as you, is it easier to say "1.2.3. - oh, that's my building" or "1234:5678:90ab:cdef:1234:5678:90ab:: - oh, that's my building"?

This is a very poor straw man.

In IPv6 world you wouldn’t use all the significant digits randomly and because you have so many you could actually use one of the octets to perfectly encode the building information:

Building 1: 2001:1::
Building 2: 2001:2::

(You can go further with this concept and encode region/country/state/etc into the addressing as required)
Some people say they don't know what to do with all their time when they retire. I feel like I could live three lifetimes and still have plenty more I wanted to do.

You just have to prioritise and cull based on your own personal set of factors. Things along the lines of:

- what makes you (the most?) money?

- what keeps you healthy?

- what keeps you sane?

- what do you enjoy the most?

- what maintenance is necessary?

All the things you don't have time for, make a list of them as backups in case others fall through.

One somewhat odd thing of mine is to delay gaming until I'm actually less able to do physical pursuits that I enjoy and contribute to my physical health. This is partially a reaction to being essentially gaming-sober for a good decade and a bit; but I still hear the call every now and then.

P.S. just wait until you have kids...
Longer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68620253
> ...restaurant and public space designers have stopped thinking about sound.

Theory: The bars and restaurants want young patrons, so the poor acoustics are a selection mechanism. Only young people can converse there, so older folks stay away. The place gets reputation as “young and hip.”

Whether by conscious design or “natural selection” for establishments, this seems to be the case.
Piracy-wise it's a good strategy though.

Most of leaked copies in recent years were specifically bought to be pirated (except Keen Lab one, rip), and as Windows binaries are the actually portable executables now because of ABI stability and Wine, they almost always buy the Windows version.

I've never seen a single leaked Linux IDA Pro and it's immensely useful to have IDA on a real OS without headaches caused by Wine.
The lack of communication of potentially valid reasons such as these might contribute to why people view RTO mandates with cynicism.

If we knew why we were being asked to RTO, we could solve that problem in the way we thought best, combining in-person and remote time. And those of us with junior team members we care about are already solving for this in the way we think best.
most of these have been outright publicly denied by Google employees, despite people showing with A/B tests that things like CTR and backlinks impacted rankings
How realtime is this? Or well enough to not be noticeable while browsing
Intel's 1nm-class fabs in Germany delayed by black soil and EU subsidy approval
Retention and maintenance is easier than progress. If you get a skill to some level, then stop constructively practicing it, then you’ll allow your ability to slide back a bit but it’ll stay pretty good.

E.g. if you train to run 5k in 15 minutes (vvv hard, will consume much of your life for a long time), then return to a lower volume program, you won’t be able to run as fast but you’ll still be much, much faster than average.

So you prioritise. Pick something to do now, and say ‘I am doing this for June. In July I shall do this other thing.’ Maybe a SMART goal for the month. Stick to your schedule. Once it’s over, don’t forget the skill, but prioritise your new focus.

Having a back-catalog of skills is so much fun. They may only be 80% of what they were but that’s enough for 95% of cases.
Do You Still Need Framer Motion?
If a junior struggles with WFH you have an engineering culture problem. Which the junior is not responsible for by the way... It's staff and senior engineers responsability ˆˆ
You could probably achieve the same outcome by combining two approaches though. Use traditional timing and phase management that existing noise cancelling headphones do. Then, using the data from that same set of microphones use AI to extract the conversation of interest (maybe using timing differences from left/right to determine who's "in front" of you) and inject that as the thing to overlay on top of the inversion. This way there's no risk of AI error on the noise cancellation and you can rely on existing solutions.
Relax. I think with the exception of a passionate few, were all that way.

I would say try something like invest a third of your time and stuff that will help your career.

And invest a third your time in learning new stuff.

And use a third of your time pursuing things that are keeping your interest.

The other piece that I think is really important is you don't have to do all 200 at the same time.

You gave the example of woodworking, it looks like you had a fun time doing it and you enjoyed the work. But you got to a point where it's not your primary passion. That's okay. You can always pick it up later.

I try to take the time to do one or two things in depth as a current interest. But when it ceases to be fun I set it aside.

One of my hobbies that I really enjoy is bicycling. There have been times in my life where I spend 10 hours a week. And there are times in my life where I kind of let it lapse, but I'm back to doing it again and I'm enjoying it.

In general, we live a long time, and the stuff we're interested in will change over time. And the stuff you learned today, will always provide a foundation for your future interest tomorrow.

So give yourself a pass. You don't have to do it all at once. Interesting stuff isn't going away.
Other than reviews of Google search itself obviously
I once wrote a small piece of software which did everything for everybody in constant time with no dependencies. It was very simple.
SEO is vandalism and I one day hope the majority of Internet users see that
Create a Windows 98 Style UI with 98.css
Yes, NGI is funding several similar efforts.
Aura can stream responses and has a time-to-first-byte around 200-400ms
> You don't need to hit a LLM multiple times to get multiple distributions

This isn't correct.

You're just sampling a different distribution.

You can adjust the shape of the distribution with your prompt; certainly... and if you make a good prompt, perhaps, you can narrow the 'solution space' that you sample into.

...but, you're still sampling randomly into a distribution, and the N'th token relies on the (N-1)'th token as an input; that means that a random deviance to a bad solution is incrementally responsible for a bad solution, regardless of your prompt.

...

Consider the prompt "Your name is Pete. What is your name?"

Seems like a fairly narrow distribution right?

However, there's a small chance that the first generated token is 'D'; it's small, but non-zero. That means it happens from time to time. The higher the temperature, the higher the randomization of the output tokens.

How do you imagine that completion runs when it happens? Doug? Dane? Danial? Dave? Don't know? I tell you what it is not; it's not Pete.

That's the issue here; when you sample, the solution space is wide, and any single sample has a P chance of being a stupid hallucination.

When you sample multiple times, the chance of that hallucination is P * P * P * P, etc. by the number of time you sample.

You can therefore control your error rate this way, because, you can calculate the chance of failure as P^N.

Yes, obviously, if your P(good answer) < P(bad answer) it has the opposite effect.

...but no, sampling once with a single prompt does not save you from this prompt no matter what or how good your prompt is.

Furthermore, when you evaluating prompts, only sampling once means you have no way of knowing if it was a good prompt or not. While, if you sample say, 10 times, you can see that obviously, from the outputs (eg. Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete, Potato, Pete, Pete <--- ) what the prompt is doing.

You can measure the error rate in your prompts this way.

If you don't, honestly, you really have no idea if your prompts are any good at all. You're just guessing.

People who run a prompt, tweak it, run it, tweak it, run it, tweak it, etc. are observing random noise, not doing prompt engineering.

Never sample only once.
> Do people genuinely have that ability

Indeed! however like visual depth perception, not everyone has it. The human ear has a load of bits that allow removing noise from the signal. (I don't have a block diagram, sorry!)

In theory one should be able to locate a noise in 3D. You can test this by getting someone to hide your phone and then ring it. if you have 3d sound perception you should be able to work out if the phone is behind/front/up/down.That forms part of the "steering" ability.

Then there is filtering the noises that you don't want. Music is can be a good test for this, how many instruments played on this track, what instruments were they, what were the lyrics, etc. Being able to do this requires that you be able to filter out noises that you don't like.

Again like all human senses, there are levels of ability, and in some cases can be improved with "exercise"

But, hearing what people are saying against a loud background is really really hard, so don't worry too much. Plus voices have specific human social encoding, so they can be affected disproportionally
You're right, it is. They dropped it when they released the Bolt, or more correctly, Chevy went all electric with the Bolt.
Ditto here. An audiologist recommended something called LACE therapy, but it wasn't cheap so at the time I didn't go for it - I need to look into it, and see if it's a legitimate treatment for this, or snake-oil.
Food delivery apps rack up $20B in losses in fierce battle for diners
Indeed! That way the EU is just blocking my access to affordable electric mobility.

- "But think of the pain that would inflict on 'our' auto industry!", they would say.

...but the EU has no second thoughts on inflicting pain on its citizens. (austerity, inflation/interest rates, etc.)
https://archive.ph/bZ2rh
I'll reply only on the second point because that's a topic I know (I happen to wander quite often in those quarries). And no, there is no mushroom production anymore in the quarries.

The paris area is too crowded now, and for economies of scale, existing quarries are too hard to use, and will use old quarries further away (but not as old as the "catacumbs" to have larger tunnels easier to work in). Also, what's often called the catacumbs are quarries dating back to the middle ages, and thus are narrow, turny, wet, etc. Just a pain to work in.

Oh, and don't forget the dwellers that like to go down there, and would be sure to spoil all the crops.
I live in the US.

I noticed that someone else posted a comment, saying that Americans exaggerate medical costs.

We don't.

Our doctors drive Bentleys.

I'm really glad that they have broken the monopoly. Maybe some politicians retrieved their souls.

It's absolutely insane how expensive healthcare is in the US.

But THANK GOD we don't have socialism! /s
That's one option. Quasar was configured to run as a runtime agent while the Lombok compiler runs at compile-time, but the Lombok compiler could perhaps indeed be implemented as a Java agent of javac's. This, however, would also require a special configuration of javac, just like all other alternatives. A simpler option is to offer a separate launcher for that compiler (and/or a special build-tool plugin, which is also what Quasar did in its AOT mode).

No matter what, code that wishes to break the guarantees that JDK programs want to make needs to configure that program in some special way so that there's some record, auditable by the application author, saying "this program has been modified in a way that may make it behave not in accordance with its specification".
The trusty one dimensional model of things. This is why I always train my neural nets with one parameter (sign bit only).
I remember reading a funny story somewhere recently that back in the day, ms developers intentionally left gaps in the docs or straight up didn't document certain apis etc so they could put them in their books and sell those so if you were working on certain things you'd be forced to buy said books.
We don’t know whether that particular module was used to promote or downgrade small sites in the SERPs.
Valid-ish points. My calculation is my situation right now, and I don't claim it is going to be true for everyone across all time and eternity. But over the course of someone's working life, renting will net you far more money than buying in the vast majority of cases.

It's a basic power law situation. The only real question is WHEN the 11% return will overtake the 4% return. The interest on the 4%-returning loan is a factor, but it's secondary.
Personally would put the blame higher up than that.
Counterexample: the US, a society containing about 330 million people of immigrant background.

(a simple economic solution: increase productivity)
You could follow Warren Buffet’s method.

1. List all your interests.
2. Circle the top 5.
3. Do those 5. Avoid the other 195 at all costs.

There are a lot of articles about it. It’s called the 5/25 method.
I don't see the word "office" in this quote?
Choices of vendor are not binary. There are tradeoffs between available solutions in software. Software Quality is not a linear gradient.

If your solution is the best compromise, it is more likely to be selected.
15 minutes of fame
Lowering the volume can help with the SNR, because neither the signal, the noise, nor the lowering effect caused by earplugs are consistent with respect to frequency. Highly objectionable, harsh 4-8 kHz noise that might echo around a concrete and steel venue is blocked well by good earplugs, while low-frequency 100-400 Hz speech is ineffectively blocked.
People can post things because it’s new to them!
I was excited to try Kagi, but I couldn't justify the cost. I find DDG with the occasional Google search to function almost as well. I'll try Kagi again at some point, but it wasn't the panacea people here made it out to be
> still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there?

I think the curious crazy tid bits are still there.
Lithium can be pulled from seawater. Japan might have to pay more for their lithium, but they can never be cut off from it.
Falling into a black hole simulation by NASA [video]
Get them out now before they find out the truth about academia...
The models get red-teamed, do the corporate structures?
Prompt Teacher: An Educational, Free Tool for Mastering Prompt Engineering
Hey HN :),

I am excited to introduce "Prompt Teacher", an interactive and educational interface designed to help you master the art of prompt engineering for large language models (LLMs). This tool teaches you how to craft, refine, and optimize prompts to get the most effective and targeted responses from LLMs.

Quickstart:

- Try it out directly: https://pwenker-prompt-teacher.hf.space/

- Inspect the code:

https://github.com/pwenker/prompt_teacher/

https://huggingface.co/spaces/pwenker/prompt_teacher/

Happy prompting!
Wow! Yet another proof the EU just behaves like an oligarchy.

Large business interests always come first: automotive, pharma, banks/finance, etc.
The Legendary Alto and Research at the Edge [video]
iSH/a-shell are equally amazing and "amazing" Linux shells on iPad.
Well, not yours. I mean, in most countries you can own a flat BUT you own just the unit, not the soil. A home on ground it's your property, you can rebuild it as much as you want (with eventual limitations from local norms, in terms of height, kind of roof, color palette etc but you can), a unit is just a part of something bigger you do not own, so when the building will be ready to get demolished you'll own nothing. You might own some fraction of the building, depending on local laws, but you still can't decide alone.

It's by far not the same.

When I've built my current home I design it (well, sketched, the architects have done the proper design) after I've decided to add domestic p.v., after an EV charging station, a kiosk (gazebo, not sure the proper name in English a structure open on all sides with a tiled roof and a platform on ground to be outside but a bit protected from rain, Sun etc). I can't do nothing like that in an apartment. I can't get backups in an apartment, for instance I have here a heat-pump domestic hot-water system, it's very simple in principle, but demand a certain amount of space for the hot water reservoir, much bigger than classic water heater. I've decided to stock a bit of clean water (1000+1000l with a pump and pressurized tank system to have a week backup or even more if a day water supply freeze (happen once since I'm here) or there is any other interruption), it's pretty cheap but again it demand space. I have also a diesel car with a 1000l reservoir in garage, topped up once in a while when the diesel cost less than the average. Again pretty cheap, comfy, simple, but demand space. There is no space in an apartment for anything like that. In a home there is room to OWN, in an apartment you do not really own nothing but a shelter and some stuff you put in it. For me it's the prototype of the "in 2030 you'll own nothing", the service economy where you are forced to rent anything because you simply can't own anymore, and we know from history how devastating is such model once you get trapped in it.