skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left a well paid gig in the finance industry, where I'd been supporting a team of ~15 through a large restructure. I was getting fed up with the pointlessness of it all - there was more distraction than value creation going on and it was the kind of place that succeeded despite itself. I was stressed-by-proxy for my team who had all been told they needed to reapply for their jobs, and I needed a change. I left, and went to work for a small government agency, I think it was around 1/2 the pay. The work was ultimately much more meaningful and fulfilling, and I could make a bigger difference in the smaller team, but believe it or not the small-office politics and personalities there ended up getting to me, and I decided that if I was going to have to deal with that kind of BS anyway, I might as well do it for more money. I'm back in a large org now, but with a different perspective, which has made it easier mentally to deal with things. I pick my battles, try to help improve things as much as I can for my team, and let a lot more things wash over me. I'm still not completely fulfilled, but I'll be able to retire earlier here than I could otherwise and that thought keeps me going.
I can feel my mind going, Dave.
Bastl had a similar product called the OMSYNTH. They demoed a eurorack upgrade several years ago but never released it.
Where did you read about a single particle forming an interference pattern?

“The atoms themselves are only ever observed in a given experimental run as particles – just as quantum mechanics says they should be. The wavelike behaviour – which is to say, the smeared-out probability distribution – is reconstructed from many particle-like observations.”
Could a future variant of this motherboard include Xilinx or Lattice FPGAs? That would enable new board functions based on LiteX OSS FPGA toolchain.

Similar to the AMD/Xilinx Zynq family of boards ($150 to $3K), https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/device-famil...

Or Bunnie Huang's Precursor dev kit for RISC-V with handheld kb/display ($600), https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

> Precursor draws less power than most other FPGAs thanks to the "-1L" variant Xilinx Spartan 7-Series at its heart. (The "L" stands for "low leakage.") That efficiency — combined with a super-low-power Lattice iCE40 UP5K FPGA for deep-sleep system management and a Silicon Labs WF200 with integrated network co-processor for Wi-Fi connectivity — allows Precursor to achieve a standby time measured in days and an active screen time of about five to six hours.
Apple scraps its Pay Later loan scheme
Agreed, once you know what to look for and how to reproduce it. What do you do if you can't reproduce? That may mean the original research paper doesn't disclose everything (malicious or not, but malicious is REALLY frequent) or missed an important factor (sometimes doing a reaction in a slightly scratched glass container will change the outcome entirely).

To come back to the malicious part, for many researchers, not publishing the exact way they do things is part of how they protect themselves from people reproducing their work. Some do it for money (they want to start a business from that research), others to avoid competition, others because they believe they own the publicly funded research...
Nvidia doesn’t do the manufacturing, so presumably it’d be worse if the fabs ceased to exist. We’re only dependent on Nvidia because they exist and the fabs need to pay them to license their IP…
Presumably people who use the law to oppose distribution of child pornography are the “same type” then too, right?

A censorious impulse is a censorious impulse, after all!

Obviously you can use whatever taxonomy of people you want, but yours seems like an extremely esoteric and rather useless one.
A single particle is never observed as a wave afaik (not my area of expertise).
Thank you, that was indeed the one!
The economics of scale that result in WalMart displacing local grocers and local general stores are separate from the zoning policies that result in insufficient affordable retail space and affordable housing, but they're interdependent, creating something of a chicken-and-egg problem...
London fintech firms recruit thousands more staff on course for expansion
What do you think a TPU is?
'Crockery drifts across the surface of "clinamen", and when gentle currents get these white porcelain bowls clinking, French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot creates a changing, chiming soundscape.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdCutpuUrX4
Afaik most of the energy is traded otc, spot markets are a tiny fraction of what gets delivered.

But that fraction is still interesting: since p=c must be respected, and there is always some small delta that is hard to predict and has to be covered. The spot price is not relevant to consumer prices, but it is relevant to the cost for energy providers to fine-tune their supply.
They fumbled the bag so bad with their Ocean launch.

They basically released a beta car and people reviewed it poorly because it was buggy. You might think Tesla does the same, and they do, but if you see the reviews of this car specifically some of the stuff was REALLY bad.

Let it be a lesson, don't release products that aren't ready. Even if you're feeling pressure to do so
Exactly this- modern concrete high rises generally have much better sound isolation than stick framed
The same thing. A wave is just something that obeys the wave equation by wiggling in a certain way.
Do you have a source for any of that?
> Well it's one thing though to use the storage for a cell phones and some cars, another to keep all the industries and homes going on.

Not really. If all vehicles on the road where 100% PEV’s your looking at ~250 TWh in batteries. 1/5 of that would be ~50TWh.

Global electricity demand is about 70 TWh per day. You don’t need 70 TWh worth of storage if daily production is > daily demand. It all comes down to which is cheaper, extra storage or extra generating capacity. However ~25 TWh of storage is likely sufficient for a grid equally stable as what we have today. (100% EV’s would increase that 70TWh/day but that’s offset by charging them when power is cheap.)
This interesting part of this is the age of the fragment, not what is says, which isn't new.
Why would any commercial energy producer, of any variety (nuclear, coal, solar, wind, etc), put money into building excess capacity to the point that the marginal profit of extra production is zero?
There have been an implementation of GS for video since day one.

They have also included spherical harmonics for view dependence since day one.
Just want to point out that the blogpost doesn't seem very effective it achieving it's stated goal. I'm curious how many people actually acted on it (i.e., approached their MEP representatives) and if their actions had any effect.

You are urged to take action, but neither of the linked posts makes it easy for people to do that. Ok, there is a link to a website where I can find some email address for "Permanent Representation of <country name>", thanks. Is it it? Should I send an email? Like, do I have to prove I'm a citizen of <country name> or is emailing them anonymously from some batman69@gmail.com email account is totally fine? I have no idea. Who is my counter-agent, how should I talk to them? Should I assume they are very well aware of the proposal and have their opinion, or are they most likely ignorant about all that stuff? What do I write? What this is supposed to achieve? Do I just email the url to this blog-post? Well, this should be actually a preferable solution, I imagine, but the blogpost doesn't seem to be written in a way to be convincing to a random MEP (assuming he NEEDS to be convinced).

I don't claim I could do better (I'm totally ignorant about all that stuff), but just saying it isn't as actionable as it could probably be.
As a user at the time, Chrome just looked better than FF. It was fresh and clean. The logo was brighter, the UI was rounder and clearer.

FF looked like a Windows 98 settings menu by comparison. Tiny, fiddly, cramped controls.
Boeing Starliner's return to Earth pushed to June 26
The goal of using secondary sources that summarize what others say is to prevent bias introduced by individual editors. As you acknowledge, the media can pick and choose which domain experts to highlight to spin a narrative. If an editor writes an article cited entirely to domain experts, they can easily spin their own narrative.

By basing articles on secondary sources, we can outsource aggregation and replace the bias of Wikipedia editors with the bias of the media.

The question I'd like to ask is if you see a better tradeoff, because we can't.
You observing that GPUs are TOO FLEXIBLE for ML, in theory, and a more specialized ASIC could do better in perf per watt and perf per mm^2 is notable, and much attention has been given to this thought.

Modern ML is mainly made of a few parts:

1. large matrix multiplication

2. a few other things like element-wise operations, often exp() or other sources of nonlinearity.

3. data movement and reshaping

Accelerating all of those is easy. The issue is that ML is still not yet stabilized in terms of data flow between those steps. RAM bandwidths are not growing fast enough, which is why some latest ML developments trade off more compute for less RAM bandwidth. The field is developing fast. New proposals come out very often that change the way those building blocks get used.

GPUs are used because they are:

1. fast enough at mat-mul

2. flexible enough to reorder things and change what is sent where when and how.

Once ML field stabilizes a bit, and we're done with new papers coming out every month with new proposals for the ways to flow data through the steps, you can fully expect real ASICs for this. But if you build one now, either you need enough flexibility to change how it works on the fly (read: you're building a GPU) or your accelerator becomes useless once a new paper comes out (see: 4NX from imagination once the attention paper was published). Once the field has stabilizes a bit, it will happen. The reason bitcoin ASICs happened is because sha256 was stable and nobody had found new ways to calculate it much faster

"But what about TPUs?" you might scream! They are a large mat-mul block with a nearby general-purpose core with a large vector unit to try to do "the rest of the things". This is the alternative approach, with pros and cons compared to GPUs, but it is also basically a hedge against "new ML paper comes out between chip design being locked and chip taped out and in use". You could argue whether this is better or worse than GPUs. There are valid points on both sides
Awesome to see our Rust fine-tune here on HN. We (Sourcegraph team) are here if anyone has questions or ideas for us!

BTW, Cody is open source (Apache 2): https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody.
I agree... but it all depend on the situation. For example, existing power grid, including conventional power plant can take 20% or 30% of intermittent power with close to no extra cost... And the energy mix, the interconnections, the location, the consumption habits all have an impact on the price. Simulation at a grid level, including demand response, thermal storage... can give some precise ideas.

Note that for doing apple to apple we should also include positive and negative externalities
I'm not sure what this is responding to. Can you explain how this relates to the parent and grandparent messages?
> She probably spends 3x on herself compared to me, and I’m fine with it.

Plenty of people are "fine with it" until the court awards spousal support on the basis of lifestyle acclimation rather than needs.

50% divorce rate, 75% of which is initiated by the wife, and don't require you to have done anything wrong. Effectively, you're playing roulette and you've staked your entire financial future on Red. I really hope it works out for you.
Are there any apps that use gaussian splatting in VR?

Is there something I can download on my Meta Quest to try it out?
Integrating Vector and Graph Databases: A Deep Dive into Gen AI and LLMs
Any chance you could provide some analogies to someone with deep computer expertise who wants to learn quantum physics?

Is QFT analogous to binary? Everything builds up from QFT?
The fabs don't "license" the IP. They manufacture the product based on the designer's design and the contract's terms.
>is a little far to be a simple misjudged tone, even if it was intended as a joke. I did find it a bit funny but it still felt a bit insulting too.

No. Not a joke. Just pointing out something you already knew: That I (or anyone else) don't know what's going on inside your mind unless you tell me.

That you ignored such a simple truth and didn't think to define your terms was a waste of my time. As such, I felt insulted at your (apparent) complete lack of respect for the time and attention of others.

Take that as insulting if you wish, and if you find it insulting enough, please ignore me completely going forward. I promise you I won't mind.

Have a good day!
> Aren't traditional styles of single family homes also far too expensive to build now for non-luxury-premium prices too though?

That's a good question. I'm not an expert, but I think what was cheap in the 20th century is still generally pretty cheap now. A stick-built bungalow or ranch house with siding was cheap then and is cheap now.

I also think there's more room in the market for not-quite-the-cheapest-thing when it comes to single family homes. Like private automobiles, single family homes can be more expensive than they need to be, if the extra cost allows the buyer express their individual taste or their social status. If someone prefers a brick facade, they might pay extra for it, just like they might pay extra to drive a $60k car that has roughly the same practical utility as a $30k car that is also available in the market.

> the issue is that we just don't like cost-competitive new construction much, whatever the layout

Agree 100%.
Chomsky, even in recent years, speaks in very clearly and well-thought out, structured arguments.

The way he phrases it, NATO was essentially at fault and the Russian response followed from that. I don't buy that he misspoke or we misheard; the line of reasoning was very clearly stated. We can quibble about what "taking sides" means, but the message he meant to convey was that the current outcome was the US's responsibility.

Chomsky's line of reasoning was clear, but it's always been very weak on this matter (he's said this quite often). It largely ignores the Kremlin's agency; it hardly matters what the US did here since the Kremlin had choices too and those mattered much more. Even more problematically, it ignored both Ukrainian and the wider post-Soviet region's agency as well. NATO expansion was never forced on anyone; to the contrary, it was eagerly sought after, and why? Because the Kremlin wasn't to be trusted, which turned out to be an accurate prediction.

It didn't have to be so; the Kremlin's institutional mistreatment of its neighborhood _caused_ that mistrust and sustain it to this day. The Kremlin could have acted in good faith, and would have continued to receive the warm welcome from western governments that the initial post-Soviet governments did. It could have mended the Soviet-derived mistrust in eastern Europe, and likely easily so given it's richness in natural resources, and the logistical centrality that attracted trade between former USSR nations via Russia, and it's initially warm reception by western powers.

The hint of far-future NATO membership was a "threat" to Putin the way mere talk of bolt-cutters are a threat to a kidnapper. That threat might well have been real, to be clear, but framing it the way Chomsky did isn't helpful; it obscures Putin's (or the Kremlin's inner circle's) choice to be an oppressive, almost colonial power ruling over it's neighbors.

The problem never was talk of bolt-cutters, the problem is that people _wanted_ those for a reason.
I don't have my eye on these technologies (there were at least two that I've run across that were REALLY HEAVY), so I can't tell you how close they are to production. But every bit helps and the amazing pouch batteries in your laptop weren't developed overnight... 18650 batteries are astounding compared to the Eveready Alkalines of my youth, and available for $3 a piece in quantity.
Most gigs are fine as long as you refuse the responsibilities of leadership. The compensation bump rarely compensates for the weight of catching the crap that's falling down the org chart. Don't let your ego drive you up the org chart either, it will never be satisfied.
How much involvement did framework have in this becoming a thing? I'm asking because I want to get a feel for how long a decent (probably third-party) ARM mainboard might take.
Apart from my parents, I pretty much decline incoming calls (with a text message response if warranted, usually if it’s from someone who doesn’t usually call out of the blue) across the board. I thought this was mostly pretty common these days! People still just expect you to pick up rando calls without prior notice?
I imagine both Trump mania and Trump-induced rage were massive drivers of traffic for Facebook.
How far behind are Rivian and Lucid? All these niche EV companies are too far from profitability, they have no secret sauce making them useful acquisitions for a legacy carmaker or tech companies. The Chinese might want their established manufacturing sites though but I bet we'll see domestic BYD plants instead.
> Maybe I just don't understand biology, but there seems to be something up here.

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that.
Facebook's recruiting funnel is super broken after they fired a ton of their HR teams
No, many honest researchers retract their own papers because they found a problem that cannot be solved by publishing a correction/errata (a kind of mini publication that corrects the original work).
It is extremely bad to use number of retracted papers as a judging factor for a researcher. Using the number of retracted papers because of fraud (fabrication of images, data, stealing work, plagiarism...). Self plagiarism is a slightly different case with a much broader grey area.
It's important to distinguish between the types of stem cells when referring to pluripotency (i.e., the ability for a cell to differentiate into almost any cell type in the body). Embryonic stem cells are considered pluripotent. Adult stem cells are more correctly referred to as "multipotent" in that they can be coaxed into differentiating into other cell types, but typically into cell types close to their own lineage.
Rock and Roll is the devil's music!
You will regret it if it ends up collecting dust.

I have a Xiaomi walking pad that goes to 10km/h. It has a small footprint on the floor and folds up nicely. It feels amazing to walk during a one hour meeting. I work from home, so I often have the chance to use it.

My work is fine with me walking during meetings where i am not actively participating. Be sure to ask if the noise is leaking out to them. These days it shouldn't be a problem, noise cancellation is getting real gud.

Make sure you dont overapply the lubricant! It will make the band slip as you walk or run making it useless, even dangerous.

Consider getting a mat for the treadmill to stand on. The legs on mine need constant adjustment, otherwise it makes a noise as if something is loose.

If you actually end up using it regularly I believe it may change your life. Good luck with your choice!
Using an in-memory database does not increase my confidence that in my software either. I also started using dockerised dependencies in tests a couple of years ago.

Can you please explain what you did with a RAM disk to speed them up?
Demand is not that flexible, especially intraday.
Negative prices tend to be served by production program adjustments.
I'm in NL and often use this website to check for day-ahead pricing: https://energie.anwb.nl/actuele-tarieven

It's very frequent indeed. I noticed that it's mostly during sunny days in late spring / summer / early fall (solar). Much more rare is randomly at night (stormy days).

Solar is still pretty small in national grid charts, but I suspect that residential solar just reduces demand from the grid and doesn't show up as production.
I think they knew what they were doing. This is the second time for this founder, though technically separate companies. They were launched in the middle of EV hype bubbles both times, they got govt subsidies the first time at least, and buyers paid in advance. It's easier to hype an EV than it is to make one actually better than Tesla, Kia, BMW, etc.
Niall Ferguson: We're All Soviets Now
They're bad for cars, so the establishment is decrying them as ruining America. I went two years with nothing more than a carshare membership when I lived in a 5+1 because I was three blocks from a grocery store and that three blocks had every type of restaurant I frequent. As soon as I moved back into a "traditional" American residential neighborhood, I needed a car again.
Basically a meme stock at this point
Opensubdiv should be able to do this too. I wonder how much work it would be to glue that on. Maybe there's no benefit at this point? ;-)
Study suggests at-camera gaze can increase scores in simulated interviews
Name for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Could Advanced Nuclear Reactors Fuel Terrorist Bombs?
Nvidia Becomes Most Valuable Public Company, Topping Microsoft and Apple
(Almost) no country is going to leave a terminal decline unchallenged. In North Dakota, new single moms can qualify for a large number of assistance (https://singlemothersgrants.org/single-mothers-assistance-in...). Imagine this for any new mom, per child. Once the economics of incentivized population growth kicks in, I think there will be rapid change. Can it be sustained? Probably not, but that's an easier problem...ie Repeat programs every X years.
luckily, we have hundreds of millions of 6 year olds addicted to reddit who will answer whatever question you might have.
I have. R is far less verbose and maps far better to data analysis. The Wolfram lang is far more expressive and powerful for symbolic computation. So basically, Wolfram for doing math Research, R for applied stats.
Interesting insight, thanks for sharing.

I am seldom in meetings, so no risk of my meeting colleagues getting motion sickness. My thinking is that I can just wheel away the treadmill in those cases and stand at my desk or lower it and use my chair.

If meetings weren’t a factor would you still be using the treadmill whilst working? I’m curious about the overall comfort / discomfort of such a setup.

I’m hoping to try it some place first before I buy but have yet to find a setup in the part of the world where I stay.
Show HN: I made a simple hue/gradient game
Time-to-time, I create a simple small game I can play when I have a few minutes (wink-wink). Made with Angular (no particular reason other than it's the fastest way for me).

Source: https://github.com/deejayy/huezz
Well, such an algorithm existing would be a massive breakthrough in cryptography research. The answer should be no since that make it easier to do a preimage attack than brute-force.
Very fun. Reminds me of the old Flash game Boomshine [0]

[0] https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/boomshine
Not being familiar with her, that isn't telling me anything.

It seems like you're implying she's written exceptionally shoddy papers.

But on the other hand she could also just be exceptionally honest -- one of the very few researchers to retract papers later on when they realize they weren't accurate, as opposed to the 99+% of researchers that wouldn't bother.

Also I would imagine that retraction rates might vary tremendously among fields and subfields. Imagine if a whole subfield had all its results based on a scientific technique believed to be accurate, and then the technique was discovered to be flawed? But the retractions wouldn't have anything to do with honesty or quality of the researchers.

So I'm gonna need more context here.