skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of other stuff that gets loaded and parsed when you visit the site. I see 151 requests and get a DOMContentLoaded of 27.51 seconds. The slow requests aren't between me and the GQL API as far as I can tell.
Sure it does, but it still doesn't make us anyhow magical beings suddenly transcending cycle of life and death, when all out ancestors and other even quite smart beings don't / didn't for whatever illogical reasons. We just desperately wish for it to be so, because the concept of permanent death is fucking terrifying, for everybody.

We may still be mentally on a level of bacteria compared to maximum intelligence obtainable in this universe, so self-awareness may not be such a huge milestone some here think it is. A bit of humility about ourselves would serve us well.
If this were the only article, my judgment would be unfair. But have you read the web site of late?
Before they realized Chris Roberts shouldn't be allowed anywhere near project management authority, there was a lot of rework.

Which means a lot of torched developer-hours.
Sam Altman Vows to Give Away Majority of Wealth
I haven't seen any ads on Windows 11 (besides constant nagging about switching to Edge..). It seems pretty easy to disable all of that crack in regedit, of course that's not ideal but not really a huge deal for all "power" users.
They should really buy Ubuntu and shut down Windows entirely. Then release a compat layer for Windows software and sell the enterprise add-ons on top. Linux won.
They're stuck trying to figure out how to monetize a product that people don't want a subscription for. Their only choice is to keep releasing new versions with different features (or sneak in advertising) and hope people keep buying in. Unfortunately, people haven't really wanted a new version of Windows since it switched to the NT kernel. So it seems like every new version is a lose lose scenario.
> You really think investors like sequoia and a16z are dumb enough to fall for Elon hyping things up?

a16z invested $350 in Adam Neumann's real estate venture - after WeWork. VCs will absolutely knowingly invest on hype if they think it's going to last long enough for them to cash out with great returns.
She Was 29. And Doctors Helped Her Die
Building a GUI for Insphex
James Nachtwey (American photojournalist and war photographer)
.today is screams scammer. Spend the $3000 and get a "normal" looking domain name. Yes that sucks, but it's the world we live in.
There are different froms of this and it depends on your goal.

For the 1-5 billion year range your issue is the Earth overheating because Solar output is increasing by about 10% per billion years. There are three basic ways of doing this:

1. Putting something between the EArth and the Sun to reduce the amount of radiation that hits the Earth. This is by far the easiest;

2. Move the Earth to an orbit further from the Sun; or

3. Removing mass from the Sun to extend its life or reduce its output. This is the hardest.

So how do you move the Earth to a different orbit? Well that's pretty easy actually. I mean "easy" in the sense that it requires no new hypsics, no negative energy or negative mass. It just ruses gravity.

The Earth interacts with any mass. A sufficiently sized mass will attract the Earth. So you just fly large bodies of mass past the Earth to slowly nudge it in the direction you want. The Earth is relatively heavy (~10^24kg) so the energy requiremetns are still immense but it can be done slowly (and probably should be).
>If you have a wind, solar, and storage setup on your house that supplies 110% of your household needs... who pays for the hookup and maintenance for your house to be connected to the grid?

Presumably people do pay taxes, no? This should get them basic infrastructure as a public power grid - and their house being hooked to it, amond many other things like bridges, roads, running water, and so on.
Can disease-detecting dogs help save South Dakota's bighorn sheep?
10 years is the guideline because you can't predict most of the future, but, you can predict the physical wear fairly well. It's likely that the plastic terminations will be iffy by that point basically, which means reterminating, or, running new fiber, and most of the time you'll just run new fiber.
We all love cookies – but perhaps not in the digital environment?
The final layer of the transformer prior to the logits pretty much does what you want already. The KV of the final layers are taken into account when generating the final hidden state for your new token. The first layers of the model are really just contextualizing the token within the sentence, forcing hidden state from a higher layer through lower layers isn't going to help you much. Replacing the last 5 or so layers with an RNN could certainly be interesting though.
And thank God for that. Now I've got to go watch Fifth Element after that scare.
They haven't eaten anybody, have they?
Perhaps it's a good thing then that articles like this are using the term in a scientific context to describe something real instead of something make believe. Maybe this will reach at least one person who clicks this article thinking aliens and paranormal, and leaves with a new appreciation for how cool the real actual science and technology is instead.
> If there were a carbon tax, net metering of retail solar would still be unsustainable, just with different price points.

If there was a (correctly priced) carbon tax, I wouldn't be making this argument. Clean forms of energy would naturally win in the market, because they are in fact much cheaper when you take the long-term consequences of dirty energy into account.

We don't do that, so we need to subsidize clean energy production instead. The free grid connection is a reward for performing a social good.

And, it is not "unfair" to make PG&E pay extra for clean energy when we let them release carbon into the atmosphere for free.
A friend of mine claims it's an actual voice and he has conversations with the voice in his head. He claims it's like having an internal editor. He's also super proficient with writing and speaking.

I struggle with having anything in mine. I don't see pictures or really hear anything at all. I struggle explaining myself to folks, as the verbal/written expression is entirely different then my internal process which is largely around feelings.
The USSR tried that at the beginning. Lasted all of a few months.
I've been seeing links on HN to Chatbot Arena results pretty regularly after any kind of model releases or updates for a long time, at least six months, probably nine. That's way before GPT-4o was released, so it seems unlikely your theory is correct.
A lot of stuff cannot be turned off in the home editions and even some stuff cannot be disabled in the professional or enterprise editions. Microsoft is adding more and more espionage to its OS knowing all to well that whole countries cannot just switch easily away from it.

I hope that this triggers what is needed for people and companies to move over to open source software like FreeBSD.
This is exactly how I feel, so fatigued from fighting the Microsoft BS of "making windows like it was before the last update". If you're going to make me buy new hardware to go to 11 I'll have to seriously consider buying a Mac
You conveniently forgot immigration. Canada alone has added 500.000 people to their populace since the beginning of the year.
Does it matter for 90% of business?
I will say no, the vast majority of business is rather localized for very good reasons (as a starter, language/culture/legalese) so it is an unnecessary "feature" most of the time.
The reality is that manager drank the Kool-Aid and wants to pretend that they are Google/Facebook or the likes but almost no one else has this kind of scale.
Outside of tech behemoth nobody need that cloud bullshit.
Store bought, if I have planned ahead. A temporary card that's a feature of my bank if I haven't.

> If the latter, you're just shofting your trust somewhere else

Of course -- I'm shifting it to a bank that I already use. So, it still represents a privacy gain in that I'm cutting PayPal out and not bringing anybody new in.
>Let the market work

Funny how that only works when I borrow the energy from the grid, but not when I’m adding energy to the grid.
I’ll bet $100 this is wrong and Meta continues to grow both users (slowly), revenue, and profits over the next five years. Anyone want this action?
> Is there any business benefit to constantly updating major Windows versions that I’m not seeing?

Well sure! Remember that whole kerfuffle over Windows 11 requiring TPM? A new major version means new hardware requirements and new hardware requirements mean new vendor obligations. It's their silver-bullet solution for whenever hardware vendors get uppity.
Probably, but he's not in StarCitizen. So I have my wires crossed regardless.
> mine and OP's point is that a better choice of words can avoid these debates and make the world a little less ambiguous.

If you changed the words to different ones, we would just be having a different debate, because two words cannot resolve the inherent complexity of the subject matter. It would still be ambiguous because the concepts themselves are too complex to address in two words. You would, however, feel like they were simpler, because you chose simpler words that only cover a small fraction of the overall subject matter. This is a self-deception; you'll feel safer in your understanding of what's going on, but you will still have the same problems when trying to use them in different cases. Call it "login" or "jskjfhskjdf", your experience in doing engineering with them will be the same.

("login" does not encompass everything that is authentication, and "permissions" does not encompass everything that is authorization. there are "authentication permissions" and "authorization permissions", and some systems authenticate without "logging in". so you're still going to be confused later on with this choice of words, even if they had the same definitions as the current words)
This is one of the most interesting new developments in Detroit. It's an artists village surrounded by trees that a real estate speculator planted around the time the city went bankrupt. I haven't visited it yet but plan to on my next trip to Detroit.

Nearby a real estate developer put in a row of brand new suburban houses. If they sell well he has the land to create an entire new subdivision with a view of downtown. Few other cities are there so many interesting experiments going on at the same time. What is making it happen is so much vacant, low cost land.
Incredible. The degrowth movement is really something.
I actually did some color animations to status bar of build tool I created while ago.
In my opinion this distracted enough to make build feel faster

Edit: popular example of less invasive animations would be new docker cli, (pulling, buildx build)
If you take all the money that you have spent on a down payment, closing and selling costs, taxes, and maintenance, subtract rent, and put the remainder in a market index fund, for the vast majority of situations you will have FAR more money by retirement. Like it's not even close.

I guess I'm just a bit tired of the messaging that real estate is such a great financial investment. Historically it's better than a lot of options but not even close to the best investment vehicle. Houses are homes first, not money makers, and if we continue to emphasize the latter, we will never solve the housing affordability crisis.
Perhaps they're just mad we stopped paying our tolls
Using Parquet's Bloom Filters
Unless you suspect Mirela Ivanova to be a child, it's pretty disrespectful to refer to the author as "this Mirella girl". But I'm guessing that the disrespect was intentional.
Better comparison would be llama 3 70b whose pricing is $0.59/$0.79[1]. Gemini Flash pricing is $0.35/$1.05. For similar quality and price I would select open model, if only for the certainty that the model would perform exactly the same and can't be tweaked/deleted without warning.

[1]: https://wow.groq.com/
[2]: https://ai.google.dev/pricing
I think apple devices still try to be reachable at <hostname>.local over their mDNS implementation. It's nice when it does work.
The only thing this tells me: your metrics are bullshit, you need better ones. There’s no way Gemini of any flavor is “closing in” on GPT4o to anyone who uses both
what a nice comment, cheers
1. The natural thought process is always to go .com

2. plan-b.com is also some sort of SaaS
I am sure indeed other tools have that, indeed the value prop might not be as clear as I supposed it was, probably being heads down for the last few months made my vision blurry ;)

The first thing is that the methodology is different than what you can use potentially be used too. No ceremony, no estimation and more

Second thing is that I am not trying to rob you with an abusive pricing

Last is that I recognize the value of open source and decided to redistribute half the benefit to it
This piece is written by Ed Zitron who has made an entire writing career out of incorrectly predicting the deaths of Facebook and Twitter.

Just in the past few months,

[0] Facebook is dying

[1] Facebook is dying

[2] Google search is dying

[3] The internet is dying

0 https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/

1 https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/

2 https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

3 https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die...
For profit utility participants are desperately afraid of their return on equity being crushed by the new energy model, hence the need for strong political response from the citizenry. The grid can absolutely operate in the manner you describe, but profits will be diminished and investors will struggle to reach for previous profit potential unless you're in a non profit config (coop and whatnot).

Shades of "The Innovator's Dilemma" and what not. Incumbents do not care for their gravy train being taken away.

Edit: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=40913 ("Investor-owned utilities served 72% of U.S. electricity customers in 2017")

> Investor-owned utilities, or IOUs, are large electric distributors that issue stock owned by shareholders. Almost three-quarters of utility customers get their electricity from these companies. IOUs are most prevalent in heavily populated areas on the East and West coasts. In 2017, 168 IOUs served an average of 654,600 electric customers. The two largest IOUs are in California: Pacific Gas and Electric, with 5.48 million customers, and Southern California Edison Company, with 5.07 million customers.
>Windows 10 is the maximum intrusion people are willing to take.

HN commenters have a habbit of massively overestimating how important this is to normal users.
Let me correct that headline

Microsoft should accept that it's time to give up on Windows
Sure thing!
I often use it to add code comments to my powershell scripts after I've written them, sprinkling in quotes from some of my favorite movies from the 80s like Spaceballs, Princess Bride, Airplane, etc...

"User '$username' found. Preparing to eject them from the AD universe."
"Failed to import Active Directory module. Inconceivable!"
"Failed to delete user '$username'. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

Other times I will ask it questions related to scripting commandlets and it often responds in a tone that is more fun to read at least.

"Firstly, ensure you're connected to the mystical realm of Exchange Online. If you're scratching your head wondering how, refer back to the ancient scrolls on how to establish a connection. It involves Get-Credential, New-PSSession, and a bit of patience."
In France we have a fixed grid monthly fee depending on the maximum feed power (usually 3, 6, 9, 12 kVA in single phase and up to 36 kVA in triple phase) and a variable part proportional to the kWh consumed.

As of now the official rate "tarif bleu" available to all consumers are 151.2 EUR per year (12.6 EUR/month) for grid free of a 6kVA feed and 0.2516 EUR/kWh.

Average electricity consumption of a household in France is 5681 kWh/year.

For homeowner with solar when you export to the grid the excess you are paid (currently) 0.1301 EUR/kWh so less than the consumer price per kWh. There is also a small annual fixed fee for grid injection (24.36 EUR/year currently).
T,P,X models should be fine. check the arch wiki before purchasing. popular with kernel developers!

daily driver has been a T,
P or X series thinkpad running linux since ~2005/6.

although, fair notice, kde 6 is hot off the presses and it will take some time to reach kde 5 levels of stability.
> What does this have to do with using animations in production? What you are saying is "how would you feel about using animations in inappropriate places?"

Production will always be an inappropriate place. QED.
> As a result, Meta is kind of like an absentee parent, occasionally looking up from their phone and muttering “don’t do that” when something obviously awful happens, and even then they’re extremely hesitant to intervene.

I felt so seen that I had to turn around when I read this!
I wish the captions would just stay on instead of fading in and out.
So when the collective meets its quota of chips at month's end what are you going to do with them? Grind them back into sand and make them again?
The sine wave syncing is probably the only real issue.

There have existed automated transfer switches for years and years. My FIL, when he lost power, would very loudly start a countdown from 60 to 0, where his system would kick over to natural gas via the detection of a power-loss event, via an automated transfer switch.
Because the virtual hardware is a more stable surface, than the plethora of hardware Linux is supposed to run on.

That is what I have been doing since hardware virtualization became mainstream.
It's only clickbait because of the general ignorance of the correct use of portal. If people actually knew and assumed that correct use of the word, instead of just for imaginary things like interdimensional alien technology or whatever, then it wouldn't be clickbait at all (though I'd still click, it's about ancient Egypt after all, and that's a fascinating subject)
> People seem like they don't exist anymore except on the terms and expectations already laid out by other people

Hasn't this always been true? think what's changed is the labels and identities being selected between, rather than the actual underlying dynamics. We are social animals, so it seems sort of natural that we'd devote a lot of mental effort to understanding ourselves in the context of other people.
The reason I had to make it my identity is to get other people to understand that it isn't just something I can change, ignore, or just do differently.
This works better if you do a Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Yeah, fixing that undercuts a lot of the article. I guess the worst thing that's left is that it's suspicious to aggregate everything, which maybe reflects a lack of confidence that Facebook.com will continue growing or whatever?
I have almost always done what I want and that is writing software. I like writing development tools, formal theories and low level stuff (databases, OS, editors).

And, since about two years, I am working with some friends on Common Lisp software again; far more enjoyable than anything else imho. I regret going for some of the new fads in the 90s while I could’ve been working with CL all that time. But he, regrets are useless and I did learn a lot.
The two "problems" are related in that California's not having capacity outages does very little to offset the fact that whoever decided how to provide electricity for Calfornia did a bad job.
The word portal was intentionally chosen to get the ancient alien click.
I've been using LMSYS as the best available high level "these are models to pay the most attention to" benchmark - I've not seen anything else that's nearly as useful on that front.

The other one I consult occasionally is https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html - the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard - because function calling is a really useful characteristic of smaller models.

I believe the best ways to evaluate these models is with your own set of task-specific evals for your own project, but these are REALLY difficult to construct. I still don't have a good solution there for my own work.
I don't think it should be stigmatized, I just feel that it's utility among older students, at least those interested in STEM, is limited. I've seen that with one of my own kids, hearing him complain about classes taught in visual block based languages being unable to switch to the coding based language to do things more efficiently.

>Harvard even uses Scratch in their CS50 course!

Even ignoring the 'appeal to authority' fallacy, I believe they only use scratch as an introduction to the concepts, it isn't even mentioned on the Harvard page for the larger cs50 class.
I honestly thought someone posted an old April Fool's article and this was a cheeky reference to the movie Stargate.
> Critics say the 30- to 40-year cleanup target set by the government and TEPCO for Fukushima Daiichi is overly optimistic.

Wow. By the time they finish the cleanup, we could be running profitable fusion power plants, have humans living on mars, discovered new physics…
> California has not had power outages not because California is better than Texas in terms of technology

California has had frequent power outages over the last 10 years due to a combination of old infrastructure and wildfires.

https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2023/09/05/califor...

https://www.bloomenergy.com/bloom-energy-outage-map/
Most pollen is captured at pm10 or higher level. PM2.5 tends to be created by humans

Crossing the blood brain barrier exacerbates not only asthma but other vascular/heart and related diseases, including diabetes, as well as lung diseases.
The level of espionage has been dialed up in many products like TVs, phones, Windows and so on over time. So more and more people are becoming aware and realize they don't want to be spied on. So it's becoming more and more an issue of public interest.

So at least one commenter on HN underestimates how important this has already and will become in the future for normal users.
Is there a good email address/way to reach you? I have a couple questions about your past job as well as the product at your current gig.
Melinda: The Enemies of Progress Play Offense. I Want to Help Even the Match
Why write in CUDA and not just use PyTorch etc?

if performance, how much faster is it, out of curiosity?
Show HN: Minimalistic collisions simulation using TypeScript and HTML Canvas
Hey HN,

@atan2 submitted a great post 4 days ago about 2D rigid body collisions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463764).

For what it's worth, here is a minimalistic simulation that I coded last year using TypeScript and HTML Canvas:

- Code: https://github.com/vandrieu/canvas-bouncing-ball

- Demo/Result: https://vandrieu.github.io/canvas-bouncing-ball

The main challenge was how to determine the angle and speed of each ball after a collision at a given angle.

I found the relevant theoretical material in the 2009 paper titled "2-Dimensional Elastic Collisions without Trigonometry" by Chad Berchek: https://www.vobarian.com/collisions/2dcollisions2.pdf

Please feel free to copy and use the code any way you wish.
Yes, but my bank already has deep insight into my spending habits anyway. Eliminating PayPal reduces the number of companies surveilling me by one. That seems like a net gain to me.

And that's not even taking into account that I trust my bank more than I trust PayPal.
At the beginning of every year, CIG releases their annual financial report from 2 years prior. This is the most recent one for 2022 released earlier this year in January.
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cloud-imperium...
Exactly! we just need to try again in 10,000 years...