skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it have been better if ownership of the company, essentially comprised of the workers and managers, actually passed to the workers who knew what they were doing?

To me this just highlights the absurdity of capitalist ownership.
Is there a brief blurb about how this differs from Obsidian? Just curious mostly.
You talk about "countries" as if anybody other than the ruling elite mattered at all. They do whatever they can to improve profits from their family business - the state itself. The opinion of the population doesn't matter, it will be censored or suppressed if it goes against the interests of the ruling elite.
Weeks before the 2024 Olympics Eiffel Tower ticket prices increase by 20%
Suppose that they had realized back then that electricity was going to become one of the most important technologies humans have in the future and decided that they should make a major effort to figure out the direction of the charge so future generations wouldn't get stuck with the wrong convention. All the top scientists, engineers, inventors, and crackpots in the world try to come up with some way to tell.

Was there some method reasonably within their reach that would have worked?

I'd guess the first thing they would try is weight. The body gaining the charge carriers should gain weight and the body supplying charge carriers should lose weight. That would probably fail because the mass of electrons is very low, and I don't think they had anything that could resolve weights that small. (I'm not even sure we have anything now that can do it).

The second approach might again use weight, but with the realizing we don't have to measure what the weight is, just whether it has increased or decreased. So take two weights that are as identical as you can make them and put them on a balance. Seal the balance in an airtight container to prevent random air currents from disturbing it (or pump out the air--the vacuum pump was invented around 100 years earlier), and put it someplace very cold and with very little temperature variation, and adjust the masses until the balance shows no apparent movement for months. Then charge one of the masses and see if the balance can still remain apparently still for months. If it can't, and consistently goes out of balances toward the charged side conclude that side probably has the charge carriers. If it consistently goes toward the other side conclude that the charged side gave up charge carriers.

I think that this too would probably fail. The mass difference is too small and isolating the balance sufficiently from outside disturbances is probably too difficult.

Could they produce a stream of charges in a vacuum? Let's say they can. Considering the material they had to work with if those were negative they would probably be electrons and if they were positive they would probably be atoms or molecules with a missing electron.

They would probably quickly discover that streams of charge in a vacuum are deflected when they bring a magnet near them and figure out that lighter charged things deflect more. They would then discover that all the negative charge streams they produce have carriers of the same mass, but the positive charge stream carries have different masses depending on how they are produced and they all have mass much greater than that of the negative carriers.

I think they might lead them to conclude that the negative charge carriers are the fundamental ones.
Yes, maybe the slaves did the less "worthy" jobs:

>Slaves were a constant presence in ancient Egypt. Starting with the Old Kingdom (2613 - 2181 BC), slaves took on different roles. Some became soldiers, others scribes.

https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/were-slaves-used-to...

>Does it?

Yes it does, or do you have another argument against the Chinese wall or Belgium for example? Do you really want to argue against the fact that slaves did (and do) the hardest, most back-breaking jobs?
Always rebase and push --force.
Devs who cannot pull --rebase or reset --hard to latest should quit their jobs, and stop whining.
> I first remind myself of the strategy to do it, which is first I will do 60 x 60. Then it is 3600, then I add 2 x 60, 3720, and then there is 2 x 62 left, but I have to keep reminding myself occasionally what the last numbers were, that initial multiplication was 62 x 62, then I got 3720, and now I have to add 124... okay lets go 3820, 24 left, now 3844. Of course it is easier to remember as I am typing this, but in my head I have to keep reminding myself. And now I am not sure if I did a mistake so I go verify that on the calculator.

I do multiplication in my head similarly, just strip out the words, the numbers just flickers through and operations happens by themselves and I'm done in a second or two when I'm not rusty. Now that I'm rusty I do it more like (60x60=3600, 2x2=4, 60x2=120, 3600 + 4 + 120 + 120 = 3844), without doing any words, I just did that in my head right now and I am 100% sure not a single word, just the steps, I do sometimes verbalize the numbers so what I wrote in those parentheses is the most verbal my process for mathing that out gets.

Edit: Looking at that, I think it might be easier for someone to correct your thinking if you think in words, but thinking without words is way faster and way more creative since it removes the restriction of only thinking about concepts you have words for.

Edit2: I think your verbalization there is a ritual for the concepts to get to you. For me all I need to do is see 62x62 and imagine I want to solve it and all those thoughts flow to me automatically, basically a shortcut instead of having a large verbal ritual to piece together the concepts. I never did math verbally the way it is taught, so I am not sure how people think that way, to me this was always automatically this way.
Then it could be said, that their privacy control does not work, when you need to rely on security through obscurity.
Regulators hit Citi, JPMorgan, Goldman, Bank of America over living will plans
India Is Ground Zero in Battling a Cancer That Kills a Woman Every 7 Minutes
They claim that it jumped from toddler to high-school, so jumping to PhD does not break the pattern. One can argue that undergrad degrees are just a marketing gimmick and were not really meant to exist in a true academic sense.
“It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”

As we move to a world where art is totally devalued, the early returns are not promising at all imo for AI generated music. It doesn't seem to make great art, but to allow talentless people simulate great art for cheap. It doesn't seem to inspire humans at all, it just makes them annoyed and angry.

Its primary use case to me seems to be "create royalty-free music for my amateur tiktok/youtube video that sounds how I want it to sound." That's valuable as long as the royalty-free thing exists, but no one is sitting around excited about the idea of prompting AI-Tupac rap to about them or their personal interests.
Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'
The established players - and occasional well-behaved newcomers - are buying at (say) 33 paise on the rupee.

The "1 rupee" is what the business would be worth, in a highly efficient, open market. Which this market clearly is not. And the regulars are quietly colluding to keep it that way.
any idea what the cost for training GPT-5 is going to be?

Dario Amodei of Anthropic threw a ballpark number[0] for training future LLMs which is frankly astonishing

> The models that are in training now and that will come out at various times later this year or early next year are closer in cost to $1 billion. So that’s already happening. And then I think in 2025 and 2026, we’ll get more towards $5 or $10 billion.

but maybe there have been some improvement in efficiency?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
These are my memories of learning English in school as a foreign language. French courses that my wife took recently also had past and future tenses in A1.

Even if it's not the tenses, still schools typically put a lot of focus on grammar and order of words but not even nearly enough into speaking. I have an suspicion that these corses are modelled after native-language programs which rightfully focus on grammar because everyone knows how to speak already. But starting from it is madness.
>Why are the buyers referred to in derogatory terms?

Because they are taking advantage of the owner's impaired judgement due to their personal situation/ill health in trying to extract an unfair price. Such behavior is referred to as "morally reprehensible" at best, and is skirting the legal line of what would be considered a contract made under duress at worst.
??: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/#why-was-forgejo-create...
It's a feature flag, they're not all necessarily floating point related. As an example though, I still intentionally humorously misread -funroll-loops as funroll loops even though it's f(eature) unroll loops
Fish may use punishment to promote help from their offspring
> Water jet cutters or EDM cutters could both be used on silicon

Wouldn’t they contaminate the just fabbed silicon surfaces? (That being said i have no idea how swarf is typically managed in die cutting.)
Some balance of 4 things - wind is stronger in winter, overbuild solar, import solar, seasonal storage like hydrogen. But clearly it's preferable to be near the equator and not have to deal with that issue.
Nah, am email client like thunderbird is sufficient. It's annoying that I don't have one that works both on Android and ubuntu. Maybe there is a good webmail somewhere.
After ranting about AI, the disclaimer is rich
I found this interview, by the US Surgeon General, a master class in ignoring the idiotic, condescending, and business friendly, questions by the CNBC journalists, while in a very focused way, laying out clearly, the seriousness of these issues today, as confronted by many parents.

Mark Zuckerberg reinvention of the last few years, as a friendly character, with the help of the best paid media consultants in the world, will not erase the harm done.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/20/dr-vivek-murthy-social...
Wind is weaker in summer
I knew someone would pipe in with that suggestion as I was writing that comment!

Yes, I suppose that would be the canonical way to go. But it's just one function; four lines! I'm getting isEven() vibes!
Numbers do not exist in the world. Umbers exist outside the world.
excellent write up, i wonder if rather than sleeping using some regular math benches could better hide sleeps without being too heavy on a cpu...
Insanity that some of these institutions cannot figure out their data. We are talking tabular data in the tens of millions to hundreds of millions annually.

All the data generated by these institutions in a year is dwarfed by what Google or Meta takes in a day. A colossal failure of institutional capacity. Banking is a purely information processing business around tabluar structured data most of whose structure dates back decades.
I have at times seen some of this even in the responses of 3.5 vs 4. But overall, the higher version always wins. The key is to use the right version for the right task.
A Peek Inside San Francisco's AI Boom
It's because all the font sizes in the page are relative to:

html {font-size: calc(0.5vw + 1rem)}

In other words, the (user configurable) browser default size plus 0.5% of the viewport width, which is kind of insane. One (intended?) side effect is that the font size grows and shrinks as you resize the browser window horizontally.
I wouldn’t call the original post here a review, it’s more of a first impression. It seems to make a good first impression on someone who is in the target market.
I like it.

Env variables should be a solved problem but no one has made the simplest general solution yet. Seems like you are on track.

One suggestion: no need to use SQLite. Just develop a simple (and _lasting_), plain text DSL and save to a file.

Here's one I made using your example.

https://sdk.scroll.pub/designer/#parsers%0A%20valueCell%0A%2...

I'm happy to chat more to nail that design if that would be helpful.
The short answer: rem is for global sizing and em is for local or component level sizing.
>"you have to please other people "

Nope. Comparatively to what it used to be some 25 years "pleasing" factor went down the tubes. In many cases modern capitalism looks more and more like an extortion business
I agree. Robots.txt is a suitable means of preventing crawlers from accidentally DOSing your site, but it doesn't really give you any protections as to how your content is used by automated services. The current anything-goes approach is just too exploitable.
My first encounter with an Atari ST was when I visited a recording studio as a kid. They were in the middle of a recording session, and I asked if I can play with the Atari while they were doing that. "No, you see, we are running the whole recording session with this Atari..."
Watching elvis vhs tapes is hateful!
Linux without a DE would make more sense to me than win3.1.
Alternate theory: Open AI has run out of steam, but the second the market discovers that they don't know how to improve their products any further, the AI bubble will pop. Better to just kick the can down the road and pretend something is coming while the money flows in.
But had those people been lying around with no heartbeat for a week or three before they were hooked up to the machine? If they had, then yes, that would actually be resurrection. But what you're describing doesn't sound like it.
Sadly, no. It just says: "You're about to go to an unsafe web site! Nettvern from Telenor has therefore blocked this web site to protect you from digital threats." ("Nettvern" is the name of this "feature", and it's enabled by default)
A smarter way to streamline drug discovery
I don't have a primary source, but have seen articles similar to these links that mentions the toy to religious object classification overlap (with almost the same pull quote):

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-toys-kids-archae...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220816-the-worlds-oldes...

There's a lot of guesswork involved in the field, I would think?
Not really, rather a joke nowadays.
For me it was mindblowing the fact that before my brain tumor surgery I had something like a conscience voice and a richer internal dialogue. After that the voice dissapeared and my train of thought is more logic focused instead of instrospection focused, not sure why.
> the same can of soup at a health food store can easily be $6 while costing $3 at a regular grocery

yes, maybe because the regular store can buy in much higher volume, and will have faster turnover of stock?
why does the mayor keep equivocating about its cancellation then after specifically running on the issue.

he turned it into schrodinger's cancellation.
The Atari ST (for me, a 520 ST+) filled the gap between entertainment-centric home computers (Commodore C64) and PCs that could run Linux (some no-name with Intel i486DX-33), you could program it in so many languages (ST Basic, GFA Basic, Pascal, Modula-2, C, Forth etc.).

With a dream black/white monitor, this was a wonderful machine to improve one's programming skills on with structured programming and to do systems programming (TOS/GEM) on - it was the monitor and the available range of compilers that made me want an ST ASAP.

(At the same time, the Amiga had more powerful graphics hardware, but was very slow if you did not have a harddrive and "Kickstart ROMs", as it originally required two floppy disks to start up, not just one. The Amiga had a sophisticated OS but I always felt it was too demanding for the hardware it was running on.)
> Another small number of people talk about imagining complete objects out of nowhere that they then have to analyse to describe; the imaginary thing has complete shape before its shape is described.

But this is different from the kids tea party. I can easily pretend to hold a teacup without closing my eyes and visualizing a teacup, I don't think one has anything to do with the other.

If you ask someone to actually imagine seeing a teacup but what they're imagining doesn't have a colour or size, _what are they imagining_?
https://github.com/rburkholder/trade-frame/blob/master/lib/T...

Part of a simulator handling limit orders and market orders. I run this real time against a DTN IQfeed live market feed to perform some testing for options trading/execution.
TCP connections are identified with source IP:port and target IP:port tuples. When a new pod is created, it gets a new IP so there is not much way to restore the TCP connections. So crik drops all TCP connections and lets the application handle the reconnection logic. There are some CNIs that can give a static IP to pod, but that’s rather unorthodox in k8s.
Advice from my editor
There's no rationale, merely a decision. He chose Earth as the source of electric fire, instead of a sink. It's a completely arbitrary choice, as light source vs dark sucker.
About your third point: raising animals on pastures is not necessarily worse regards climate compared to growing vegetables on fields. It may well be the other way around. For example: the humus layer is much deeper with grass, hence storing more CO2.

About your second point, you name it as "fact" that too much red meat is problematic. Scientists are not so sure if it is about the meat or about some side-effect, like e.g., a virus transmitted along with (rare/raw, or even higher heated) meat in Western societies. Reference: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.27413
When you care about nanometers of thickness variation the gap always matters.
I guess you meant methane - nothing happened to it, it's still a problem
Where are you located? Most grocery stores probably have at least frozen veggies and fruit and I assume some selection of fish/meat.

And btw granola really isn't that healthy.
Haven't yet read through it! I probably should at some point.
Ditto - long-time user here. Ubuntu was my intro... and for probably 200 of my classmates.

Those free CDs were incredible in the time of dial-up. This lasted longer than you think for most of America. My rural area and many others didn't get affordable ISDN/DSL/cable until the early 2000s.

Anyway, I didn't stick with them too long. This insistent nature of theirs goes back that long. It was a bit more acceptable, if not something to encourage, given the smaller size of the community.

Fedora/Red Hat are generally, in my opinion, better participants.

That said, with what happened RE: CentOS [releases] to Stream... I truly, honest to goodness, worry for Fedora. It might be next for some other business-minded shenanigans.

Technically/version-wise, whatever - I use Fedora! I'm not worried about new software. Upgrading, especially without testing, isn't compelled.

I'm more worried about new/unfriendly policies to the community; the systems I'm well in control of!
Technically, they are a React thing[1], but Next has the best implementation. You'll still need classic client-server request patterns in most applications, but server components and actions mean you can skip having to maintain a REST API for a lot of basic things too. It also means users cannot access data via an (undocumented) API, which can be a pro or con as a developer, depending on perspective.

[1] https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-actions
This might lead to a beneficial feedback loop for some traffic laws.
I would guess they compiled locally.
And probably the biggest "like living in the future" advantage out of all, true preemptive multitasking. However with the major Achilles heel of no memory protection; message passing done through pointer exchange was wonderful for insanely fast lightweight contact switching but terrible for system stability.
This was how the 18th Century worked. In the 19th Century mathematical language became rigorous and formal, better able to handle more complex constructions accurately, but harder for lay people to learn, as it became a new language.
How to Overcome Plateaus
Food isn’t all about macros, you need to get your micronutrients (minerals etc), which heavy processing partially removes. There’s also the rabbit hole of soil quality, where a plant can only contain the nutrients its soil has offered (copper, molybdenum, humic acid etc), where organic food tends to be better because soil health is actually looked at.
Interesting, I’ll have to read that one. There was another study discussed here several months ago that had the opposite conclusion.
Well I'm pretty sure they have some evidence to support that claim, especially considering they can directly link the word to the meaning "count". Do you always just assume science is wrong?
amusingly the older versions are still available on Adobe FTP

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/
same here...clickbait
Buying a home in the US has never been this hard
> Until I get an unbiased opinion form a independent third party

A core feature of Apple’s Private Cloud Compute platform is the ability for 3rd parties to validate the integrity of the platform.
> If you intertwine ... deeply inside ... you will have a hard time adapting to new requirements

This is true of REST as well and more about code organization. Actions are often in their own directory and reusable, much like a business logic function you might call from a REST handler
It isn’t a question of cutting at an angle, it is a question of cutting in a specific direction all the way across the water. Hexagons demand that you change directions multiple times while cutting at chip level precision across a wafer you are trying to hold in place with the same amount of accuracy.
You can find real food at any grocery store. You just have to keep walking past the froot loops. You can buy a bag of lentils, some onions and carrots, some potatoes, some oranges anywhere.
Compound interest.
Save early.
Hey that was a pleasantly great experience.

I don't have anything to add. Nicely done.

Thanks!
I didn't know about that site! I've queued up a few of the podcast episodes already. Thank you for the reference!
Unless you look at the actual objective functions for training: primarily, produce human like text, and second, produce answers that "feel good" to a human via reinforcement learning.

Neither function optimizes for an understanding of what truth means, generating confidences, reasoning, let alone higher level objectives like "doing PhD level research".

Given that none of these things are changing I wouldn't expect any major difference in its ability to provide truthful reasoned responses. It make continue to pick up some of these abilities as a coincidental byproduct of learning to generate text, but it will still be a glorified text generator without these changes.

That said maybe they will have some new training objective function, we'll see. Either way these systems are a far cry from human-level when it comes to having actual goals beyond being a toy text generator.