skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly? I do not care much about charts in general, while I do care much about the availability of the data used to produce a chart... In way too much cases I see plots and no data, sometimes data are there but not easy to use, and another thing I do care is the ability to tweak a graph.

The above are between the reasons I prefer remote meeting where data are to be shown instead of in person: anyone attending should have a computer ready to use and IF data are shared and ready usable I can live tweaks a plot ad reason on it while I listen end eventually pose relevant questions shown at my own turn something. Surely not all presentations are meant to be interactive session, but being able to interact even in async form reading a journal article, playing with the data and eventually drop a mail to the author is a nice thing, typically uselessly hard today where in tech term it can be extremely simple.

That's another reason I have presentation software/office automation one instead of plain org-mode, Jupyter, R Studio etc because change things it's hard while it should be easy. Org-mode is excellent to present but not really interactive, I have to regenerate plots to see changes or push data to external software, Jupyter is not really meant to present, R Studio offer nice LaTeX integration and tabular view but do not offer nice means to present, though they are still FAR better then presentation software and even if have some safety aspects to be taken into account I prefer countless of time receiving an active document (org-mode, jupyter notebook etc) instead of a pdf or even worse some office formats.
99% of pizza in New York is garbage. I live there a lot of the time. Just because locals think it’s okay doesn’t mean it’s good. People like McDonalds and that food is garbage.

New York’s pizza pride is entirely misplaced.
I see these terms used in contexts that are beyond the dated dictionary definitions all the time.
Imagine you try to get independent of one service by becoming dependent on at least two others. (ChatGPD and Cloud provider)
These drones are designed for long range saturation attacks. I think the choice of composites is quite reasonable. Plywood means sacrificing range and decreasing reliability.
>That's not free labor. It's government coercion, again.

That was the definition of "modern slaves", HOW you force people to be slaves is really not important.

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/

>???

Rubber -> Car-tires from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

>None of them have been able to compete in the free market.

If you can sell your good's at the cheapest prices you compete very well in the "free market", there is also coltan in Brazil, Australia and China, but DRC sells the cheapest.

https://globalforestcoalition.org/the-dark-side-of-technolog...
That's only because there's even more salt.

The 'tomato' sauce is more ketchup than tomato, which has sugar, and the bread has the rest of the sugar.
> Follow the strangler fig pattern, and map out every single task that is required in the migration on a whiteboard.

> Write tests if you can, and set up a staging environment for V2 that you can setup and tear down easily for battle testing way before going live.

I've successfully helped migrate a critical project and followed exactly this strategy. Older versions were being developed and run 1:1 in parallel to the newer ones until the customers got only a small downtime due the change of IP Addresses were the system was running
And they pretty much made up a number. It’s a pretty clickbaity headline for an article that is mostly about vector databases.
> I find that less onerous than a paywal

With a paywall you know what you’re missing or not. With Twitter that’s harder to determine, which I’d argue is worse. But I wouldn’t say either of our opinions is objectively correct.

> and HN is mostly fine about those.

It is explicitely fine with paywalls which have workarounds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
It’s about 8 square miles - in Manhattan that would be about the area below 42nd street
I have heard this exact sentence so many times already. Are you sure? I'd take a good look inside myself now if I were in your shoes.
People have been saying this 20ish years ago (or probably much longer) - more, simple cores are the future.

In my experience, people just don't know how to build multi-threaded software and programming languages haven't done all that much to support the paradigm.

Multi threading is still the domain of gnarly bugs, and specialists writing specialist software.

The only kind of forward looking thing I've seen in this area is the Bend language that has been making strides a couple months ago.

And besides all that, Amdahl's law still exists - if 10% of the program cannot be parallelized, you're going to get a 10x speedup at most. Every consumer grade chip tends to have that many cores already.
> Pizza is Italian. Period. American style pizza is a riff on that

Sure, do you have a contemporaneous source?

Because the food historians who have traced its history through primary sources do, and they point to one story: pizza marinara and its variants in Naples in the 18th and 19th centuries, which had almost no cheese, sometimes no sauce (it wasn’t marinara then), and—crucially—wasn’t heated nearly as much as today’s Neapolitan pizzas, and the modern Italian pizza after WWII.

Also, I didn’t say pizza is American. I said it’s a post-War invention. Certainly in its proliferation across Italy, and strongly influenced by America’s Italians.

And I’m referring to the pizza one gets in Italy. (I’m on the Gulf of Napoli for the umpteenth time in a week.) American pizza is distinct, and also different from its own pre-war form.
What next? Electric aircraft?

It’s difficult to get a lead on companies with entrenched mature technology like ICE cars, but new technology, with new logistics levels entry.

A caveat in that I’m not an expert on any of this just an arm chair pundit mainlining YouTube videos.

Aircraft is a huge market with Boeing seemingly throwing away its position, Airbus unable to expand much more.

Still electric aircraft aren’t physically viable, but should the engineering progress then Chinese industries would be able spawn a viable industry.
> smooth single-mode distribution

That IS a bell curve. While it's true that the Guassian distribution is often called a bell curve or even "the" bell curve, a non-Guassian single mode distribution is still absolutely bell shaped in a general sense.

So, although you started your comment with "nah", you're actually in agreement with the content you replied to.
Residents would largely not have to pay, if they follow the London model. The London congestion zone covers ~150K residents, but above 1 million commuters, not counting trade and tourists.
So, it's midtown Manhattan, which is a small portion of the area NYC proposed to meter.
Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
Hm, I do recall many people calling that girl a hired gun from the big proprietary evil bigcorp alliance.

And that really put me off, because reading a bit about her with an open mind showed quickly, she was genuinly enraged and a real simple student. She was maybe not right, but her anger was for real.

And dismissing this as hired defamination prevents seeing why the outside world has no idea about what RMS want to tell the world.
Use `git log --first-parent` and if you merge, write useful merge commit messages. There, I've resolved the difference between merge and rebase forever.
The comparison doesn't really hold.

He is comparing energy spend during inference in humans with energy spend during training in LLM's.

Humans spend their lifetimes training their brain so one would have to sum up the total training time if you are going to compare it to the training time of LLM's.

At age 30 the total energy use of the brain sums up to about 5000 Wh, which is 1440 times more efficient.

But at age 30 we didn't learn good representations for most of the stuff on the internet so one could argue that given the knowledge learned, LLMs outperform the brain on energy consumption.

That said, LLM's have it easier as they are already learning from an abstract layer (language) that already has a lot of good representations while humans have to first learn to parse this through imagery.

Half the human brain is dedicated to processing imagery, so one could argue the human brain only spend 2500 Wh on equivalent tasks which makes it 3000x more efficient.

Liked the article though, didn't know about HNSW's.

Edit: made some quick comparisons for inference

Assuming a human spends 20 minutes answering in a well-thought out fashion.

Human watt-hours: 0.00646

GPT-4 watt-hours (openAI data): 0.833

That makes our brains still 128x more energy efficient but people spend a lot more time to generate the answer.

Edit: numbers are off by 1000 as I used calories instead of kilocalories to calculate brain energy expense.

Corrected:

human brains are 1.44x more efficient during training and 0.128x (or 8x less efficient) during inference.
Paper Summary: How to Spot Fake News with AI
Thanks. I guess I was confused about the difference between remembering something vs seeing it in your mind.
Germany's autobahn bridges falling apart
I am not the OP but I've noticed it stuffed into recent plugin updates for Wordpress - WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, WP Bakery, Elementor to name just a few.

It's also now relentlessly pushed in platforms like Adobe, iStock and Mail Chimp to the point that it is intrusive. I would love to use Open AI more but whenever I've asked Chat GP about things that I do know a lot about , the answers have been laughably limited or flat-out wrong.

I personally would like a laundry drone that folds and puts away the clean washing, as well as match clean socks. Or a bot that can make calls to utility companies on my behalf.
Sensible, but unfortunately, that's not how it was going to work in NYC. Any car entering the zone below 60th would be covered, regardless of residency. Taxis, ride shares, deliveries, etc., were all covered as well.

The area in NYC was little more than a new tax on residents, disguised as congestion pricing. I'd personally have little problem with a fee that made carve-outs for the people who actually live here (and I say that as someone who doesn't own a car).

Thanks for the numbers on residents in the London area.
> Also, I believe the old PowerPC Macs (like G3, G4, and G5) used Open Firmware, so if you wanted this Forth experience, you have that option in addition to Sun workstations.

So did the OLPC-1 where the non-FOSS nature of "Open" Firmware was a bit alien.
https://archive.google/pigeonrank/
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=806823266114&skuId=54848...
> The author is way out of their depth and should retract the article and take a formal, accredited statistics course.

Maybe you should learn about the author before you make such assumptions. I find it hilarious you think he should take statistics courses when he teaches data visualization workshops to places like NASA, IRS, and the UN.

I'm done with this thread. Such a joke.
You’re holding on to a lost battle. We are biological computers. Maybe there’s something deeper behind it, like what some call a soul, but that’s hard to impossible to prove.
The reason is not the food, but the opening hours and the lack of decorum. (French places have narrow opening hours usually either 12-14 or 7-10-ish.)

"Come as you are" has been their slogan for a long time. No need to dress up, be fancy, no, just sit down whenever you need to grab a bite.

Damn, I sound like I drank the koolaid. I really only go there because I know they have coffee all day on the go and I like to be about.
Boeing CEO admits it's retaliated against whistleblowers
Your conscious brain, maybe, your subconscious brain, no chance. The maths which goes into something as seemingly simple as picking up a glass is far beyond the reach of GPT. Hell, it’s so complex that the world’s top robotics labs burn through immense resources just to get some jittery arm to replicate the action.
I don't have access to the FT article, which looks to be a random opinion piece. But the Wikipedia article contradicts what you claim.

> Before the 1940s, pizza consumption was limited mostly to Italian Americans. Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign, who were introduced to Italy's native cuisine, proved a ready market for pizza in particular

How could veterans bring pizza back the US if somehow pizza was unknown in Italy? That's absurd. I really don't get why some Americans feel this need to claim that everything popular originates in the US.
A brain is an electrochemical network made of cells; artificial neural networks are a toy model of these.

Each neurone is itself a complex combination of chemicals cycles; these can be, and have been, simulated.

The most complex chemicals in biology are proteins; these can be directly simulated with great difficulty, and we've now got AI that have learned to predict them much faster than the direct simulations on a classical computer ever could.

Those direct simulations are based on quantum mechanics, or at least computationally tractable approximations of it; QM is lots of linear algebra and either a random number generator or superdeterminism, either of which is still a thing a computer can do (even if the former requires a connection to a quantum-random source).

The open question is not "can computers think?", but rather "how detailed does the simulation have to be in order for it to think?"
I work for a company that provides solutions for customer support (basically we provide the tools that CS agents use), and the C-level has been heavily drinking the AI kool-aid as of late.

Lots of talk about automating 95% of all tickets and other frankly insane assertions like that. We're a relatively small player in this game, too, and I know our competitors are doing similarly insane things too.

It's going to get a lot worse soon enough, I'm afraid.
The question is, are those interfaces used for anything but mocking tests? If not, could there be a better solution?
Talk to them like an adult instead of ranting about them to Hackernews.

But to be honest, the “I’m an amazing engineer who does everything well and he’s just a college student without an internship” comes off as being petty.
The congestion charge in London has absolutely nothing to do with the City.
I don't get why implementing DRM support is the "original" sin. The DRMd content is playable in basically all modern browsers, generally at a lower quality level than what one can get via "native" apps that implement DRM in a more "secure" manner.

What would have happened if mozilla fought (and won) this DRM battle?

At best, the same content at its lower quality levels would have been playable in the browser (i.e. non in a non DRM manner), but the DRM would have still existed at the higher levels for the "native" apps to use.

At worst, it wouldn't have been playable at all in the browser.

And perhaps somewhat in the middle, it would have been playable in the browser, but at a lower quality level than what is available now.

I'm not sure how this is fundamentally different than allowing patent encumbered codecs in (i.e. either things wont work in browser, or they will work worse in browser). One might argue that its not, but that undermines then the concept of "original sin" as the patent encumbered codecs occurred first.

I also don't get the argument that someone would have "hacked" in support being an argument for not including it. If someone could hack in support, and that version would be come the version people use (instead of the ideologically pure version), what exactly does one's ideological purity get? "No one" (a bit of hyperbole) is using that version.
Not OP, but come on, would you rather work in sweltering heat and humidity with sweat coming off your body, or a cool environment? Doesn't matter if indoors or outdoors, and if it's physical or mental work.

I remember seeing an article from many years ago that said at year X (was it 2050, 2100?), the number of heat days in Singapore where factories would have to stop work might reach 365..
I usually do: 0, then *, then #, then I say Human a bunch, then I go into a swearing fit.

Usually by the human stage I've gotten through, but sometimes the swearing is inevitable
Ofc, as far south as Florida the absence of cold makes the buffer function of limited use. And indeed, humidity is even worse than heat.
And it has the fewest residents of any London borough by a couple of orders of magnitude. So it probably makes sense that businesses have a bit more say.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/381055/london-population...
How can Starbucks be so popular with such terrible coffee? Why McDonalds still profitable in Italy and other places famous for great food?

I'm actually surprised Domino's wasn't a success. There's something about the network effect and fast delivery that makes these projects thrive.
Most people are
> I believe that there were many in the league of Socrates who were never known.

Yes. History is choosing random names for preservation. If every century had just one worthy name or event, in 1 million years there will be 10000 of them, way too many to remember. Eventually the humankind will forget almost everything that we think is important about our culture. The information may not be lost, but it will be buried in some scientific databases. I bet that Stallman won’t last even a century. He is a pioneer, naive and controversial, but the main works on ethics of software, copyright etc are yet to be written, and the names of those authors will shine brighter.
Lot of potentially identifiable detail there. Does your co-founder read HN?
Which law in which country?
Java?

FORTH compilation is typically minimal (bit of a defining feature really), so there is no static (i.e. compile-time) type verification or much any optimization.

O.t.o.h., the JVM is stack-based and has been used for a plethora of programming languages, many statically typed.
One issue I see with this is Single User Mode (aka recovery mode in grub (or similar) boot loader). Now you can't login as root to recover from init (systemd) configuration issues without having alternate boot media to get you access. I know it might sound pedantic but I used just this feature two days ago while upgrading a machine to a newer Linux release (the upgrade introduced an issue with the systemd / netplan config that got systemd into a loop due to deprecated keywords in the netplan config).
Seems like the title here on HN is bait testing for people not reading the article - and most of you failed.
I came here to see what people have to say about his vector DBs comparisons
> looks to be a random opinion piece

It’s not, though it is a sceptical review of an Italian academic’s work. (How did you conclude it’s an opinion piece? It’s not even in the URL.)

> Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign, who were introduced to Italy's native cuisine, proved a ready market for pizza in particular

I forgot the term, but it’s a food that’s cross influenced itself.

Pizza obviously existed in America before WWII. We have documented evidence of American pizzerias, e.g. in New York back to 1905, opened by a Neapolitan [1]. Italian Americans in Italy, influenced by the American version, spurred pizza’s development and expansion across the peninsula. Those soldiers (and their comrades) returning to America influenced our version and in turn spurred its expansion across America.

> don't get why some Americans feel this need to claim that everything popular originates in the US

I said it’s a post-WWII invention and was strongly influenced by America. Not that it originated here.

Pizza was born in Italy. What Italians call classic pizza today is a post-WWII invention, by Italians, in Italy, strongly influenced by the way it’s cooked in America. Chief among the changes was the temperature at which it is cooked. (Something they dialled up further than we did.)

For whatever reason, pizza is a food that everyone makes up myths around. This is as true in New York or Chicago as in Italy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%E2%80%93style_pizza
Why haven't more people heard of git revise?
Unless you actually want to transplant your changes onto a new base, honestly, do yourself a favor and use this instead:

https://github.com/mystor/git-revise

Its inability to change your worktree (operates in memory instead) is a big speed and safety feature: It won't invalidate your build, and you can't screw up the end state.

It also has features that regular rebase lacks, like splitting a commit and editing all commits at once.
I'm more than a big fan of it.
> I'm sure you didn't mean to imply it but the way your post is worded could be misunderstood as if you were saying that some powerful entity is trying to mute rms through defamation

I said what I said, though, you should understand there doesn't need to be some 'entity' making dictates. Just powerful people whose interests align; who all went to the same schools, are in the same clubs, and have the same fucked up views [0].

'Muting' isn't the word I'd use; I'd go with 'marginalize'. Close enough though.

RMS' vision of free software is an existential threat to big tech, and to the ecosystem of mass surveillance they enable.

Much as Assange's autism was weaponized to paint him as 'arrogant' in corporate media, RMS' quirks have been magnified to mark him as 'crazy' despite the fact that it's possible no one alive, ever, has had such a clear view on software freedom.

> However, the website you cite points out that the beginning of the whole sex offender thing was a single MIT alumna who wrote a blog post.

Whereever the initial spark came from, it was carefully nurtured into a blaze, most obviously by Vice. Vice deliberately twisted RMS' words, craftily removing clear and vital context to make RMS look as creepy as possible.

Then, corporate media took that steaming turd of a Vice article and repeated it ad nauseum, without talking to Stallman, without ever adding context, and without any apology or retraction after the truth slowly filtered through.

Here's [1] a great and short article that shows how people like Stallman (Assange, Snowden, Donziger, non-establishment Pres candidates, etc) go through 'ritual defamation' in the US. Once you start seeing it, it's everywhere - look at how people protesting war and genocide are being labelled as terror supporters, for example.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs

1 - https://stallmansupport.org/the-practice-of-ritual-defamatio...
Sweden reports Russian jamming against Astra satellites
Yes. Us euros are poor and dumb. The lack of AC, or HVAC, is a great example.
> run on the equivalent of 24 Watts of power per hour. In comparison GPT-4 hardware requires SWATHES of data-centre space and an estimated 7.5 MW per hour.

power per hour makes no sense, since power is already energy (in Joule) per unit of time (second).
Yeah, for axioms like the above my next question is define 'understand'. Does my dog understand words when it completes specific actions because of what I say? I'm also learning a new language, do I understand a word when I attach a meaning (often a bunch of other words to it) to it? Turns out computers can do this pretty well.
Even with a real cofounder, unless you have a bulletproof contract, each of them can take their toys (I mean the code they have access to) and leave. And this guy's a buffoon, not a partner.

Only perplexity I have is what in the world drove you to hook up with such a loser? You seem to be fairly competent and accomplished ("I work a job in Big Tech") and he seems to be less than useless ("a [semi-technical] college student on summer break"). I guess the "semi" part is only as much as he was able to fake some basic competence while tickling your fragile ego, I bet he's unable to write FOR i=1 TO N without looking it up in ChatGPT.