skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of one of my favorite blog posts :-) https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
Quake didn't even present the bitmaps in a consistent aspect ratio or size, it did a 1-to-1 pixel copy regardless of the target pixel shape/size. Quake shipped with a 320x200 default resolution in 1996, with configurable support for a variety of resolutions including 320x240. Over time, most people ended up on a 4:3 resolution on a 4:3 display.
I found it for them

https://images.app.goo.gl/Exs3ETednvMwXUwc6
Yes I pay $4/watt/year in bay area.
Can anyone recommend any other books like this where it is both a history/ethnography and covers the actual technical details/code?
> So it seems to me that you can get a Raspberry Pi SBC today, that has higher or equal specs in every regard, for a lower cost than the original. Am I missing something?

It’s just supporting whoever needs a RPi 1st generation. It’s the same reason some older models of things cost the same or more, it’s basically fishing for the “we need the exact same hardware” customer.

The Pi Zero models are also kind of priced to move to make a statement of “look how much power we can stuff in a $5 board”; IIRC they were at first sold at a small loss to hit that $5 price point.
I think the rot tends to be systemic. Even if you want something nice the local construction ecosystem might fight you every step of the way.

Building material suppliers don't stock or produce nice stuff, only shitty. Workers have no experience with nice, only fast, cheap, and shoddy. Code and permitting are suspicious about anything 'different'. If your building stands out someones going to not like it no matter what it is.
That is missing the point about the misdirection of costs. Your suggestion forces the people doing meaningful semantic changes, into involuntary servants to the goal of cleaning the stylistic problems. It's fine to have a policy that costs a little to each of the owners of their own code. It's a tax for the overall good. It becomes a problem if the cost of compliance is shifted to "the next person who looks at it." That encourages people to not look at it.
You’re the author of the book, right? I’d love to chat with you sometime about your work on this and more — care to email me at Lars.doucet@gmail.com?
You are assuming the issues with LLM's today will persist into the future and that they will not improve. Perhaps consider that the mass adoption of genAI by major tech companies isn't entirely due to an assumption that plugging in whatever is available now will be useful, but rather that their efforts are for the sake of establishing footing and infrastructure in a domain which will prove useful in the near future.

They are building highways when cars can travel 25mph because they know soon they'll be able to travel 50mph. All economic activity is based on the assumption that the future is a real thing.
You're right. "Way" is the standard translation for "道", then and now.

Reason is confined to rationality, but the way is not.
Interesting that the words acute and obtuse seem to follow the same pattern. Etymology says they come from ancient words for needle and club. Which also follow the same pattern.
The hardware to manage batteries and the hardware to manage solar panels is different (but sometimes can be packaged into the same box, or with one-off benefits like hybrid inverters), with batteries being considerably more complicated. You would struggle to ruin a solar panel with a bad inverter. You can completely destroy a battery by over-discharging it once.

A solar panel produces energy. A battery only stores it (and loses, round trip about 8% in the process) - which is to say, batteries are solely arbitrage instruments.
I agree and hope that will be the case.
If only the RP2040 supported SPI PSRAM!
Some? Most? All? of them have extensible/externalizable Lua logging/scripting capabilities?

https://www.avhzy.com/html/product-detail/avhzy-c3-usb-c-3-1...

>PC suite for advanced online data logging, PD listening, online fast-charge trigger, and firmware upgrade.
What's the failure rate of GPUs over a 10 year period?
one of the first things i did with html was to attempt to use m4 to simplify my personal home page. not only did that not work, it backfired to an incredible degree, but that's because i was using proprietary vendor m4. gnu m4 has a couple of features that make it significantly less error-prone:

1. built-in macro names that require arguments such as `define' are not "expanded" if you don't follow them with parentheses

2. there's an option to require a magic sigil character to invoke macros, such as % or something; this turns out to have been required in the original gpm and its bell labs clone m6. this helps enormously with complicated macros

however, the fact that the output of your macro is always immediately run as new code (as opposed to m6 and gpm, where this was optional on a per-call basis) makes m4 just ridiculously error-prone. i feel like trauma from debugging m4 macros was a major consideration in the design of the weak-ass c preprocessor
Not sure about everyone else but where I'm from customer service is intentionally horrible everywhere within a 10 mile radius. To be fair I live in an affordable housing project from the 1900s but yeah. AI would definitely beat shouting matches in the drive thru.
cfront was the actual compiler; it was written in c++, not m4
Since US doesnt have GDPR it would be the fiduciary duty to install mic's in all cables and record all conversations
Doesn't sound plausible to me. It does seem arbitrary more than related to the sound. There is der Titel and der Tisch, but die Tinte and die Tasche, das Tier but die Tür, etc.

ETA: Having said that, certain endings strongly indicate a specific gender, e.g. for masculine: -or, -ling, -ner, -smus, -er, -ich, -ist, -ant, and -us. See e.g. here:

https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/german-easy-learning/h...
> The point is SimCity is no more a simulation than Monopoly is.

Simulation or Game is a false dichotomy, there's plenty of opportunity for overlap.

Consider the original X-COM: obviously a game, yet also a simulation, not withstanding that the situation it was trying to simulate was not real. Units with individual statistics, status effects, individual gear with weights and placements that affected movement and actions, etc.

Another example to consider might be the Napoleonic warfare origins of Dungeons & Dragons.
i've used a linux setup for wireless access points that used the unix shell as its html templating engine. (openwrt 20 years ago, maybe?) the web server would run a shell script and send its output to the browser, cgi-style
Would be interesting to see whether that is the case across writing systems.
pointing finger vs. moon
Well, in my country, a kiwi is called that because that's what the call of the most common species sounded like, ditto kea. And likely a fair few others.

So you have a rough idea what they sound like.

Waxeyes/silvereyes are called tauhou (stranger or "new arrival") which tells us something very interesting about them indeed - that they self-introduced across 2000km of windswept ocean.

Can know _some_ things from a name.

Like that Feynman likely just made those names up :D
This was the entire draw for me
Because as soon as you adopt the s-expressions, what you got is no longer <language>, but lisp itself. Something like this:

static char _getch() {
char buf;

if (read(0, &buf, 1)) return buf;

return '\0';
}

would become:

(define _getchar ()
(declare static)
(return-type 'char)
(let ((buf (char)))
(if (read 0 (& buf) 1)
buf
"\0")))
Naming something gives it shape and form.
It only makes sense to pay extra for AI if you scream “WE’RE USING AI” at the top of your lungs to investors, hoping they’ll throw more money at you.
Not exactly esoteric but I use PowerShell for everything. So it isn’t a mainstream language for many of my use cases since they’re not system admin related.
Erm. I fail to see how this moves the needle unless usb-if is doing extreme firmware level source analysis and deterministic compiles and checking them against shipped firmware. Which I doubt is happening, with every atom in my body.
Niki Bourbaki is the name of a very well balanced multiperson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
Hi! Abhi here, feel free to provide feedback and your thoughts on the project :)
I think the idea that Lisp was so much more productive than other languages originates from a much earlier time. But now the most important features of Lisp - like garbage collection - are commonly available in most languages.
Congrats about Stewart Brand, that’s a ringing endorsement. Can’t wait to read the book.
What's wrong with Java's sun.misc.Unsafe?
What is your expertise?
> That's YOUR definition of intelligence anyway.

Please tell me your definition of intelligence.

On a related note, I keep hearing that LLMs will never do X. As a teacher, I doubt that very many if any of my students can do X. LLMs may not be the perfect/God-like problem solver, but they are much smarter than anyone I work with at the community college.
> coherced [sic] to implement it mainly due to GDPR restrictions

Google Takeout existed long before Google Cloud existed, and before GDPR existed. At any rate, it was novel at the time, meaning other vendors were not so compelled. So this is an obviously incorrect statement.

I suppose the article author no longer has the original photos? Because the obvious solution is to start from the originals, and store them in the multiple places.

Lastly, this article is not why. It's how. That's too bad because I am more interested in the why.
> crates.io does not host compiled artifacts.

It definitely does contain generated files, at least one crate has Rust code generated by a Python script that is not in the crate, only in the upstream Git repository.
Also all the bad publicity / videos on social media hits their corporate image of competence so it's also damaging their brand.
People are going to want to use GPT-4o style real time conversational voice AI a lot. I can see people having hour-long conversations on a regular basis within a few years. That application alone is going to need mountains of GPUs, more than are needed for training. And it will be extended to real time video input and output within a few years with another increase in GPU requirements.
I will not provide data, your data shows it quite well enough. The mechanism by which PHEV's achieve strategic dominance is more than enough evidence.
Sell NVIDIA, buy buckets of worms, profit.
> [citation needed]

I'm sorry. I didn't save screen-shots in 1997.

I do remember that there were Rick Astley videos uploaded to YouTube under throwaway accounts for years before Rick Astley started uploading his own videos to YouTube.
The Hostages Next Door: Inside a Notable Gaza Family's Dark Secret
I will commonly count things in safety critical situations with my fingers. Usually accompanied by pointing. And with a second party watching.
> it doesn't distribute binaries, it distributes source code.

It definitely does contain generated files, at least one crate has Rust code generated by a Python script that is not in the crate, only in the upstream Git repository.
How do they get this beam of pure Si-28 though? Do they just end up having to centrifuge a smaller amount, or can they do some sort of mass spectrometry trick?
So you were looking for a top-down approach and you got a bottom-up approach. I guess those biologists have enough intrinsic motivation not to care about such things.
I just figured out what’s broken. The front facing cameras are obscured due to what appears to be glue outgassing from the glue holding the flocked material surrounding the front camera enclosure. This is the second time this has happened. The Tesla allows you to drive, and gives no warnings that it can’t resolve properly. I reported it to the NTSB before, with no resolution. Time to do it again.
JS is fine for scripting, sprinkling a bit of interactivity on a page. The issue is when you want to create whole software out of it, and the last thing you want is forgiveness. You want the compiler and linter complaining loudly.
That's what I was wondering. If it is self-aggrandizing vanity. I guess it really comes down to personal meaning and preference. Other commenters brought up the valid point of increased sensory bandwidth or curation. Interesting to think about.
How much does this cost???
If you had access to the compute power that open ai has, what would you make?
Explicit internal broadcasting (by adding an axis with an explicit `indefinite` size instead of `1`) would be so much simpler to reason about.

Unfortunately there is far too much existing code and python is not type-safe.
Simplyblock sponsors the domain, yes. Good point. Should have mentioned that. It's not on the simplyblock github account though and as you can see on GitHub, I've built it over the weekend :)
I suspect the C ABI break to be the biggest issue, though maybe fewer packages than I imagine compile against the numpy C ABI...
It is absolutely true that there is massive amounts of room for performance improvements for Python strings and that performance is generally subpar due to implementation decisions/restrictions.

Strings are immutable, so no efficient truncation, concatenation, or modifications of any time, you're always reallocating.

There's no native support for a view of string, so operations like iteration over windows or ranges have to allocate or throw away all the string abstractions.

By nature of how the interpreter stores objects, Strings are always going to have an extra level of indirection compared to what you can do with a language like C.

Python strings have multiple potential underlying representations, and thus have some overhead for managing and dealing with those multiple representations without exposing those details to user code
This reminds me about one time when I was buying surplus equipment there was an ion milling machine in mint condition and it went for $100 to the only scientist who had a lab to put it in and wanted to move the very heavy base unit.
The insanity of normality. Arno Gruen.

sincerity is the key to success, once you can fake that you’ve got it made
I bet there are lots of mistakes yet. It's not really automatically generated, but I started from the list at https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html and split the table into a YAML file, marking the features that are mentioned in the docs.

Fixed a few, where I saw thinks in their respective docs, and added features like file or object storage. Also added a few that weren't mentioned.

Topology is https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/topology.html, ReadWriteOncePod is supposed to mean https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/04/20/read-write-once-pod-ac...
Only if you’re comfortable being converted to lisp
Does the IDE transform the existing code in the repo back into your preferred style on the next checkout?
>The cost of implementing this system vs paying a teenager minimum wage makes it not worth

That's a math conclusion so lets show our work

Minimum wage is $16/hr in California + employee overheard so lets say $25/hr. With 3 people covering shifts at the drive thru, that's $219k per year.

Now for this system, lets look at off the shelf retail API prices to get a conservative guess. $0.006/min or $8.64 per 24 hours to listen & transcribe the customer, then add TTS + GPT-4o for $50 per million tokens in and out (thats way more than they need for a day). So that's $21k per year.

So back of the napkin math says it's 10x cheaper to implement this system. Unless you're referring to the corporate R&D budget.
Most languages, including some without writing system, but not Mandarin Chinese, indeed.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.039...

Chinese/English speakers also seem to map the shapes differently to tone contours:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

(Note that this article contains some tangible object instantiation of the bouba/kiki forms.)
Especially in the case of the heavy carbon emitters, yes this is ultimately one of many necessary steps to avert climate disaster. No person is having their right to free speech infringed and the bans actually serve the common good. It's a pretty reasonable compromise.
They are probably using 5+yr old STT model and then passing to an LLM.
I think GPT4o's purpose is to solve this
Seems like the solution here is to set up buildifier so that it can send out robot CLs on an ongoing basis.
I could have sworn I read that Intel was already using depleted silicon more than a decade ago and they made it sound like it was a standard for high frequency chips. Is that wrong?

I’m getting a sense the article is playing fast and loose with the state of the state/art to aggrandize their accomplishments. I distrust the author.
In the context of the verb, everything else is a noun. When you understand what the verb does, then you can care about the difference between a verb and a noun.
So when we start seeing advertisements for robot consumers, then head for the hills
These have entered our common household vocabulary after I called one of our houseplants "a little too kiki for my liking" and was forced to explain. Humans love categories, it's great to have names for splits like this :)
The read me could benefit from a picture of what it is like to use.
I hate formatters like this with a passion. I realised when I tried it that there’s hundreds of tiny editorial choices I make throughout my source files. For example, I use different numbers of new lines between functions in a file to indicate similarity or to group functions together. Sometimes I’ll put a simple function on one line - like lerp or vecadd and then make a block of similar functions in my code. Stuff like that.

By removing the maker’s marks, these tools make my code less readable. While, in my opinion, adding practically no value. I’m more than happy for every line of code to have consistent indentation (of course, but it did already). I also don't have a problem with silly but arbitrary formatting choices - like sorting my import lines. But these tools seem to drive so far for consistency that it costs readability.

That’s a nope for me. No debate.
Exactly. A textbook example of using first principles for reasoning rather than just saying 'The cost of implementing this system vs paying a teenager minimum wage makes it not worth' - the equivalent of cavemen reasoning.
I'm not sure I believe that math though. The person taking the order is also the person responsible for the drinks and the payment. Most of the inside is already done through app and kiosks. Drive through also has the ability to pick up app orders. The drive through order taking isn't the big cost here. You would still need that person to hand food, prep drinks. The real time is in prepping the order not taking the order. Reason for the line at the drive through is the meal prep not the ordering process. If AI slows down the ordering process in any way it is actually a net negative.
Same. It's sad that a real paper in a real journal is flagged (not just downvoted) evidently just because it appears antagonistic to the prevailing AI-optimism narrative.
> Due to the advanced capabilities of the O.MG Cable, regulations require that they are shipped "deactivated"

Which "regulations" might those be?
Thanks, I sent you an e-mail, you might need to check in spam folder, as gmail doesn't like my mail server.
I have a gaming laptop for which noise and heat are directly correlated with power draw, but not always so obviously correlated with graphics settings, and having a power readout on the cable let me see what different low vs medium shadows had, etc.
Couple years ago I have ordered a charger from ali, and similar cable was added “as a gift”. Pretty neat to quickly identify charging issues with various devices.

Seems like these cables are (were) dirt-cheap.
Reintroduction of bison herd may have unexpected impact on air pollution
The SQLite author wanted them to change their name because it was literally called "SQLite," not because it had SQLite in the name.

From the linked GitHub issue:

> Please do NOT use the name "SQLite" for your project.

Resolution PR: https://github.com/vapor/sqlite-kit/pull/52/files
So shall we expect the USB protocol to go encrypted? The USB committee (I don't know their actual name) can act as a root CA.

It doesn't take a lot of compute to encrypt at my typing rate. I'd expect high transfer rate devices to probably already have the hardware (e.g everyone at rest).
Is that more probable than using off-shore low-paid workers, like Carl’s Jr. and others (as mentioned in the article), or like the "Just Walk Out" technology at Amazon Fresh stores?
I am from Florida, where there is a lot of southern hosptiality and east coast “kind”. We tend to be a bit more aggressive in our language and openly expressive but it tends to come from one of empathy and support. We tend to understand and communicate well, small talk is easy and normalized. People also will greet you even if you are a stranger, its really nice

Going to the west coast - it is weird. People arent genuinely empathetic or rather, its a foreign concept to them. Empathy is always done through some indirect means, through hobbies for instance. I do feel people on the west coast and midwest arent really used to community collaboration either near as much as the east coast either. Also they are not used to openly expressing themselves, I suspect this has to do with fear of being negatively judged

I also just went to LA. It is such a foreign concept to me how black and white everything is. A lot of people will believe there are truly evil or good people - its such a weird thing for me to hear coming from the east coast - we just think of people as like people.

I think at least on the west coast, alot of this artificial niceness has to do with rising CoL, asian influence, and homeless problems

Mid west is more so like less exposure to international culture compared to east coast

Conformity is like rewarded a lot more in the midwest and west coast, people imo struggle to be individualistic and most resort to some sort of pseudonym to express themselves

I do feel people on the east coast are just in general, simpler people used to simpler things and overall just happier people

I have some friends that moved from seattle, they do tend to express themselves better in text then verbally
That seem completely unrelated/off-topic. Those are patterns that people hear and repeat.
The article’s effect describes something that is apparently not just shared information, that is deeper.
Back of the envelope, 104 flights is like ~100 metric tons of carbon per year on flights alone (guesstimated four-hour flights on average), which is equivalent to about six and a half times the average American's entire yearly carbon footprint.

I know it's fashionable to say that "personal carbon footprints" are a myth created by Big Oil, but at a certain point you're CO2 Georg[0]. 104 flights a year is not more than what some people probably do for business, so I'm not calling her the World's Greatest Monster, but still: it's an impressive number for someone who doesn't charter business jets or own a yacht.

You could probably ride trains around Europe indefinitely like this guy and have a lower carbon footprint than most Americans: https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/07/exp...

edit: She says she's flown 16 days and 18 hours by plane[1] last year. That's almost exactly 400 hours, ~100 metric tons if the figure of 250kg/hour Google threw out is correct. She works in crypto though, 100 tons is about 250 bitcoin transactions.

Another reference point, spending 12 months on a cruise ship instead would emit about 150 tons of CO2.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg
[1] https://twitter.com/sophfuji/status/1740770070111068539
I wonder what alternative history paths were there if the Clovis people figured out how to domesticate the horse in North America. Too bad they had other plans.