skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have no idea about the 10% factor

As a single data point in California, the factor for my solar installation was 15.4% for the last twelve months, so your guess seems pretty reasonable
There is no evidence "AGI" is possible at all even in theory let alone with today's technology.
Yes, D. D has great support for compile-time function execution, and generics. You can generate code at compile time and use it with generics. It's what C++ should have been.
You want people to explain natural selection and evolution to you?
Firefox is actually decent for retrieving taged links, you just type * in the address field and it will only show you results from your bookmarks. It has become my second brain. I have written more about my use of the built-in bookmark manager in earlier comments if you are interested.

My only real gripe with Firefox is that the mobile client lacks the option to add tags. So frustrating!
Can you clarify what you mean? This sounds extremely untrue. The tax was passed as part of the whole package, and then the tax was repealed by congress while Trump was in office.
Protools has plenty of competition in my experience.
Your average farmer:

Grows food of some type. Is deep in to market speculation (what do you think a corn or pig future is? A "grain" marketing plan is impressive!). Has technology that would leave most of us gobsmacked. Does their own mechanical work (welding to engine repair). Has fiscals that would make most run in fear of their complexity. Have CDL's and drive 18 wheelers... They are not stupid people by any measure, they are humble, hard working and would likely run rings around most of us.

Farm YouTube is a thing! The people there are likely on the other side of the political spectrum from you. You should listen to everything they have to say. You dont have to like it but you should hear all of it.
The point is, the easiest way to keep it out of reach is to literally not have it within reach.

Everyone has finite willpower. Apparently they’d prefer to use some of theirs on things other than constantly minding their smart phone usage.
To be fair that’s just the size of the installer
I'm not personally surprised. To me, this is like the Fortnite case where the discourse has suddenly moved from hypothetical doomposting to a concrete scenario.
Apart from one or two things that are currently not implemented well by the browsers, your requirements can be met without a single line of JS or even a server at that. And you may very well not run into those one or two things.
Remember when Chipotle got in trouble for rounding 24¢ and 26¢ to 25¢, to save time making change? [1] It was not unfair on average, and it surely sped things up, but they stopped because it's technically not correct.

1: https://www.delish.com/food/news/a37579/chipotle-caught-roun...
This also really annoys me. Sometimes that fee is up to 4%, and I've seen corner stores that literally only disclosed it on a tiny sticker at the front door – not near or on the POS, not on the receipt (which you usually don't get by default).

I think at one point I've even seen 4% cash discount and 4% card surcharge in the same place. And I doubt that even the most expensive payment service provider out there charges the merchant anything close to 4% for card processing.
Dang, super disappointing. Hope Apple changes things up so that we can transact digitally without leaving a trail.
Sadly, looks like his next adventure, rowing across the Atlantic in 2022, was fatal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60097918
That’s the “moral hazard” in healthcare that’s used against affordable healthcare. It’s the only context it’s used in.

Obesity and opioid addiction aren’t “moral hazards” in healthcare, they’re literally things healthcare and society need to deal with. We’re far off the topic of insurance and I don’t even understand what you took issue with apart from nitpicking a sentence at this point.
> every kind of cheating that matters except input automations

So basically, except the most common types of cheating.

> which you can't prevent reliably with a rootkit anyway

Yes, this is basically what I was saying when I said you can't stop cheating so long as the consumer has control of the hardware.

> instead of just blindly believing it must exist

Well, with respect, I think it is you who is blindly believing all cheating can be stopped server-side. I find that claim to be patently ridiculous.

> no examples, because you haven't provided any.

> all I'm hearing is "nuh uh, sometimes you need it!"

You're right, I haven't provided examples because this is common knowledge in the industry or to anyone that knows anything about trying to prevent cheating. I wasn't prepared to have to give a lecture to defend my point. But really, if what you are saying was correct, then all these companies must just be incredibly incompetent for not preventing cheating server-side, right? Because it's just so easy?

More than that, it's a very basic principle in security that if someone controls that hardware, most security can be defeated. The exception is stuff with DRM and things like a TPM where the consumer doesn't have full control, and that is the only way to truly prevent cheating. That's just a fact.
It's not any different from the nervous system, really, it's just that we're now recognizing that those fields are involved in things other than sensation, perception, etc..
> I think mathematically this could be the missing link in evolution, where random gene modifications are just not probable enough to drive evolution. 3 billion DNA pairs cannot evolve randomly, there is not enough time and matter in the universe to randomly try successful generations of life forms

This suggests you have not tried writing a simulated evolution based optimiser.

They're quite easy to write, the hard part is what you mean by a "fitness function" (which doesn't matter for nature, it just is whatever it is).

Such algorithms are also more than fast enough — remember that for the first 3 billion years we only had single-celled life, and that can reproduce in 20 minutes, so we had potentially 79 trillion generations (edit because "78.84 trillion" would be overselling the precision) before the first multicellular life. You get good results faster than that.

The number of base pairs is also just a misleading statistic. For example: each of XXX, XXY, XYY, and Downs are found in around 0.1 of human births, each of which gets an extra copy of a chromosome. These specific changes may not be too good for us, but this kind of sudden massive increase is also found in some plants without negative repercussions.

> However, bioelectric might be a much much more straightforward and fast way of driving evolution instead of randomly mutating DNA.

I have no reason to expect bioelectric processes described in this article to be able to direct useful effects on the genome, for the same reasons I think it unlikely your own brain could by sheer willpower turn you into a werewolf.

Wrong layer of abstraction.
Years ago I thought an introductory course to python with a focus on processing text and language in the examples.

During the last lessons when people where generally pretty ok with processing normal text we started to work with markov chains. These can be very interesting for a kind of generation where you still "feel" the source material present in the branching paths of the output. I am aware that LLMs are different from markov chains, but I can't help to think about markov chains and their way of just giving you likely texts, not necessarily correct ones.
> Michaelsoft Binbows

Freaky, I had never seen the image before. It got posted on a Discord server I was on yesterday, and than you go and post a YT video. Heh
> As the Butthole Surfers song Weird Revolution says, The so-called weirdos in this country stand as completely freaked out by the normal man as the normal man is completely freaked out by the weird masses reaction to him.

The Butthole Surfers' observation was -- only recently -- given scientific support in autism research, where it's called the "double-empathy problem". Previously, the prevailing theory was that autistics suffer from "lack of empathy" or "mind-blindness"; the double-empathy theory posits that it's rather a case of mutual incomprehensibility between autistic and allistic minds. Dogs and cats get into conflict because they have difficulty reading each other's body language, but if you are a dog person (as most people are) you have a tendency to always blame the cat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
> My question - and I hope someone can address it in the discussion - how is it possible that we see such incredible investments in LLMs?

The same reason we did for blockchain. It's a sexy new technology, with amazing demos and hype. People who want to be entrepreneurs but have no ideas of their own race to apply it everywhere because they think hitching their wagon to this horse could be their shot. Boring old companies wanting to seem hot. Lots of FOMO.
Your resume should be on the block chain, all your achievements could be NFT's...

Oh wait.
Under the still-valid assumption that "AI" means not-just-LLM, why not just Deepl? Still gonna have to get it vetted/corrected by native speakers afterwards, no matter what service you chose.
Nio’s built-in assistant uses ChatGPT with Whisper (I think) and is almost real time already. It can change settings like that and rarely misses a beat.

I expect once GPT 4o becomes available it will be awesome (even more if they “unlock” it to be asked generic questions and hold a conversation).
i beat it by having the phone control the direction the robot would move, like an RC controller :)
Michael Levin is coming close to the positions of both Humberto Maturana (autopoiesis) and of Nick Lane (proton pumping).

Autopoiesis is not an easy set of concepts but one of the ideas is that details of structure are much less important that preservation of relationships that allow an entity to replenish its own constituents. Planarian are damn adaptable, but this is hardly news.

Nick Lane emphasizes that DNA is subsidiary to bioenergetics and “proton pumping” across membranes. His recent book “Transformer” focuses on the Kreb’s cycle and mitochondria as the crux of life (and autopoiesis, although he does not use this term).

Lane is extremely readable. Maturana is almost inscrutable.

I enjoined the target article, but am not comfortable boiling down development to “bioelectrics”. A complementary perspective but I do not think this will get us farther than good old developmental molecular biology.
How many more humans would be needed to support 4 of every company type?
I have the apple display pro and while I agree it's ridiculously priced it seems to be the only thing worth looking at.
Short version:

Git push deployment where it detects your stack and automatically builds, then deploys with zero downtime.
IRS Launches Last-Minute Audits Aimed at Puerto Rico Tax Abuses
Fairness is a wide spectrum. Bitcoin is fair in any 4 year period of fixed block subsidy, and clearly much fairer than any coin with a premine, such as Ethereum's 70% or worse still XRP's 100%.

Still, bitcoin is rather unfair to later generations, with each successive 20 year generation only getting to mine 32x fewer coins than the previous one.

A coin allocating the same supply to each generation could certainly be said to be more fair, if not the most fair.

Sadly, nearly all cryptocurrencies have followed Bitcoin's example and granted early miners/adopters a huge advantage.
Using stars as popularity doesn't work.

I have personally never starred anything that I use. And 90% of the open source that I use isn't on github.
More convincing (;
The benchmarks below show you need very powerful machines to get software encoding up to the sort of frame rates that hardware encoding will give you even on low end CPU/GPU combinations.

Even given the numbers in the benchmarks below I think the cheapest of Intel cards are going to make alot more sense than using the CPU of some honking great machine to do software av1 conversions.

As usual with benchmarks it takes some effort to understand what they mean.

Trying to get some tangible information into it with minimal effort:

Some benchmarks - use the dropdown to choose different preset/resolution combinations.

SVT-AV1 V2.1

Encoder Mode: Preset 13 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1&eval=0a8013353...

Encoder Mode: Preset 5 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1&eval=a618cfc70...

AOM AV1 3.9

Encoder Mode: Speed 11 Realtime - Input: Bosphorus 1080p
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=70043aa1f...

Encoder Mode: Speed 6 Realtime - Input: Bosphorus 1080p
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=fab03cd00...

Encoder Mode: Speed 6 Two-Pass - Input: Bosphorus 1080p
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=fab03cd00...
> I call bullshit on you paying attention, you're saying too many things that are provably incorrect.

I'm not incorrect. I don't think you have experience with what you say. Have you actually tried to use Proton without steam? Yes, the changes eventually make their way back into WINE but Proton is basically unusable without Steam unless you want to do a lot of work.

Saying Linux has a DirectX equivalent via WINE is preposterous. WINE is offering compatibility with the WINDOWS solution because Linux DOESN'T have an equivalent. WINE might forward some to SDL and Vulkan, but neither of those are anywhere near to being a complete replacement for DirectX.

And I'm not 'getting my panties in a bunch', I was just pointing out a fact. If you want to turn it into semantics and throw insults, that's your choice.
No. But it can be a learning experience if you are smart enough to learn.

Knowing what went wrong to cause your first marriage to break up can mean that your second marriage lasts a very long time. If you are willing to learn from your mistakes.
Smell, too. Clothes stores always smelled horrible to me and almost always gave me a headache.
This to me is the only argument about this image that stands to any scrutiny.

I happen to believe, though, that any and all information you release to the public is de facto no longer under anyone's control. This is the natural state of things and cannot be stopped, so a global optimum can only be reached in acknowledging this fact. Instead we create legal and bureaucratic fictions to try to manage and eliminate it, which only serves to disrupt and not to protect at all. I view the status quo on this (from this image to copyright) as counterproductive.
> Sam Altman is revered as a tech god in this forum

I don’t think that’s true.

> I will likely get downvoted, but there's something deep within his character that doesn't seem genuine or sit well with me

That’s actually an extremely popular opinion; see for example just about every recent article that’s been posted about him.
Coolify: Open-source, self-hostable Heroku/Netlify/Vercel alternative
That page is barely legible in that color scheme.
Out of curiosity; how many other displays did you try? Did you give any similarly-sized OLEDs a shot?
I believe the traditional approach is a Corvette you can't afford and a new partner that violates the half plus seven rule.
It's weird that they don't talk about what they're doing that supposedly makes the soil so special. They mention that once they installed the soil at the Pirates stadium (about 2 hours away from where it's manufactured) the number of rain delays dropped. If it were a property of the local soil you'd assume the existing soil in the pirates stadium would already have it. I can't believe the clay composition differs that much on a two hour drive.

Instead I'm guessing it has something to do with how they process it?
Why does there seem to be such a disregard for security in deep learning?

There's examples like this post, but also, until recently, almost every deep learning model was literally distributed as a pickle file.
I have no idea what the ____ _____ ____ is supposed to be, but I'm guessing it is a string of negative words.

And yes, thats the case. Everything in life is playing the odds.
Yes, and I didn't know that because I don't live in Spain nor trade in Spanish real estate.
Yeah, I understand cc minimums (usually $5, but sometimes $10), but the hidden fees bug me.
It's like there was never a business model there then. Well, in a first world country anyway.
Sucks living under real totalitarianism.
How She Built a Video Q&A Dataset
I also really hope that somebody steps up and fills the gap that the widespread disappearance of cash has left in terms of payments privacy and resiliency.

While Apple would be a great candidate from a technical point of view (unlike many other manufacturers, they exclusively control both the smartcard chip/"Secure Element" and the Secure Enclave in all of their devices, which would both be good candidate technologies for P2P digital cash that works without an internet connection), I don't see it happening.

Why would they pick a fight with banks, governments, and payment networks, when they can just continue in their position as part of that ecosystem?

Also, even as an Apple user I would find it quite concerning if we'd replace cash with a proprietary technology. And I don't exactly see Apple participating in or even driving the development of a new, open standard, unless possibly forced by a regulator.
You'll usually stop hearing the CRT whine in your 20s, 30s if you're lucky. It's at nearly 16KHz and the highest frequency you can hear always drops as you age.

Of course, these days people also regularly don't hear it since CRTs are nearly all gone.
>>The bioelectric network is itself an expression of the genes involved in development.

Yes, you may need genes to express the proteins of ion channels and gap junctions, but there is no anatomy coded by genes, no genes code for how many limbs will a biosystem have (as reiterated by Levin). And it is this level of resolution that actually mattered for years before the launch of molecular biology and medicine.

>>It’s not a separate magical force.

Indeed, it sort of (suppose - by up to 70%) is. If the fine structure constant, which defines the strength of the interaction between a charge and an electric field, were 4% less or more than its current value, the current world and biosphere wouldn't exist. So far physics can't explain why the fine structure constant has this exact value (~1/137, which is also unique that it is a dimenionless constant). (I'm not inferring anything, just presenting raw data).
Your assumption about context is not relevant to my argument.
Can I use this to convert ebooks to audiobooks? What's the amount of RAM and VRAM I'd need?
Yes, also our state doesn’t force utilities to pay you market rate for the power generated in excess.
I understand where you are coming from, but I’m not sure I completely agree.

Streaming music was popular even before it became legal, so I believe it's largely driven by people's desire to listen to whatever they want, whenever they want.

Regarding AI, it’s true that the current results might not always be the highest quality. However, there is no theoretical limit to AI's capabilities as far as I know. With this many people working to improve it, I would personally be surprised if significant advancements aren’t made. Maybe not just next year though...

Ultimately, I guess we will have to wait and see. Who knows, maybe you will be right in the end :)
I agree. But 2008 is old enough that exploits may be lost in time.
I recently pentested a client, and had great problems connecting to an old service still using SSL (i think it was 2.0). Every modern tool straight up refused to connect, there was no method to override that, oldest static curl binaries i could find were still too new, I couldn't easily compile curl from source because dependencies also changed in the meantime. Finally I've found sn acient docker image that worked.

The service was ironically so old that no modern vulnerability scanner or programming language would be able to connect!

This made me seeiously ponder the fleeting nature of modern world - SSL support was everywhere 15 years ago, and now I, as an expert, had great problems using it. What chance do we have in 100 years?
So you're saying that in your neck of the woods 60+% of drivers aren't texting, the average following distance is >0.5 seconds (ideally always, but at a bare minimum when it's icy out), the average speed through a stop sign is under 20mph, people choose to stop when the sun is blinding them instead of hoping for the best, ...?

Suppose drivers are perfect though. Things happen. You can't account for every kid, dog, ... running out in front of you. You don't know when there will be gravel on the road greatly increasing your braking distance. Top speeds of 15-25 are reasonable in a residential area in the sense that anything more greatly increases the chance and severity of pedestrian injury.
Yeah that is what I meant. To my knowledge, Andreas is the only person crazy enough to do it and also do it in the open.

You have to watch some of his YouTube videos to appreciate the insanity that goes into getting things to work, but he at least has some help from the OSS community: building automated tests, scripts, etc.

As I was reading the post I thought he would at least shout him out too!
>So much of talent is just really caring about something specific. Caring about it above other things

This is a really nice statement. Definitely agree with it. I've often seen so many fast-starters in many fields who just taper away, because the subject just isn't interesting to them, and it was the peeps who stayed in the field that ended up becoming really good at it. Definitely holds up the old "Average intelligence and persistence has accomplished much more than genius" quote
I’d love to see a double blind study done on this device and others like it, I figure maybe there’s a placebo effect, or perhaps many of the people sat still for half an hour which allowed them “time off” mentally, as if meditating. I don’t trust these types of devices without double blind studies being performed as otherwise there may be a confounding factor. This doesn’t sound like such a study.
I think what I’ll do is get a hobby that is not too expensive. Like, you have to buy something overpriced to satisfy a midlife crisis, but at least I will try to get some nice headphones (not harmful at least, and with nice headphones you can play your music quieter, save your hearing) or a good bicycle (healthy!) out of it.

Anything but a sports car, really. Driving around in a sports car is just advanced sitting, which I already do to much of, and they are very expensive.
As previously done by the rock group KMFDM.
It’s obviously not the bare minimum of the job because like you said nobody did it for years. So the bare minimum is just not doing it.

You think you’ll change from this experience or just keep doing stuff the way you like to do it?
It's the law regarding redundancies where I live (currently going through one now) that everyone should be evaluated against all open positions. Not just open, all remaining ones as well. So you can't just axe a specific team, those people could lay claim on the same role in different positions, and be evaluated against objective criteria (like experience, tenure etc).

So it's a huge thing we're going through in my company now. Last week lay offs were announced, and by end of this week everyone will have been evaluated against the remaining positions.
It's most likely a pulsar half of a binary being eclipsed.
This is what suprised me when I did a (very cursory) look in there. It seems some mills do ship back and forth quite a ways along the West Coast.

And I don't know that Home Depot and Lowes have that much of the market. They are not the ones that serve large construction projects. But if they did, it would be enough of a long term market that they could influence prices by funding new mills in exchange for more say into the price, a share of any profit, both, whatever. If they had this capacity, they could solve this funding issue.