skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some comments are missing the points a little bit. It's not just about scale and I think not at all about not needing new addons to the project not wanting to decipher your bash wizardry. Deciphering Jenkins pipeline scripts or Ruby playbooks for Chef is no easier. In fact, fully figuring out what a Chef recipe will do without running it can be quite inscrutable, way more than figuring out a shell script.

But Jenkins and Chef give you servers. The pipelines or recipes are in a central location with access control that can tie into the same sso or ldap controlling access to everything else in your IT infrastructure. They can run automatically without having to install separate cron jobs on every server you own. Your deployment scripts are probably running from your laptop, which is accessible only to you, not always connected to a network, probably not accessible remotely to anyone, may or may not have any of its own backups, might be unmanaged and impossible for a third party to know you're running it securely and it doesn't have malware.

Organizations are trying to avoid having Dennis Nedry control all of the core infrastructure they rely on.

Sure, as an individual consumer, I might have questioned the utility of something like dropbox, and as it stands, I have never personally used it. But I don't question the utility of distributed filesystems existing when you could just have cron run periodic rsyncs between the root filesystems of some arbitrary number of servers. Yeah, ultimately Chef and Jenkins are just doing what your shell scripts are doing. But Chef and Jenkins are real software. They're well-tested, have a formal development and release process that involves peer review, they're used by thousands of other customers, they come with support contracts and SLAs. Your shell scripts don't have any of that.
Keuffel and Esser Deci-Lon Slide Rule
Not anymore, it seems.
They eliminated the budget deficit during the Clinton years on the backs of the Reagan 80s boom and the end of the cold war. It was a unique time. Also, we did not spend nearly as much back then and it was easier to do.

It didn't last very long and soon we were to Bush 2 spending and massive deficits again. Every subsequent administration has dug the hole deeper to the point we spent 140 billion in June alone on federal debt interest payments.

Who will you raise taxes on? The "Rich"? (see my other comment, it's not enough money), the "middle class" who are being squeezed silly by inflation at the moment? I don't know that they can shoulder much increase without big upheaval.

I agree no problem is unsolvable, but that doesn't mean the problem will be solved gracefully. I suspect a new order of things economically is how it works out in the end, and what that looks like and when it occurs I do not know.
The deeper problem, say from childhood food insecurity or poor self image, or whatever the root or real problem, is a detail. For me the root of the problem is "I love pizza" so the solution is not to change my relationship with pizza but to stop eating more than I burn. The outward physical change of behavior, however approached, is the solution.
Possibly this: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n#what-does-n8n-mean-and-how-do-...
So? You can buy an AppDB pro subscription or something similar for $20 a year to do the same thing on newer iOS versions with way less effort. Yes trollstore can do some other things but either way Apple did definitely not intentionally add the core trust but Trollstore uses and it’s more or less irrelevant now tbh
Too hard to believe the Germans developed this train in 1902. No wonder they were almost invincible during WW2. https://cautiousmez.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-lean-startup-ho...
Someone thinks your comment is worthy of down voting, but you're absolutely correct.

Heat is a primary killer of many electronic things, including LED bulbs and their constituent parts.

And LEDs -- the diodes themselves -- do tend to become more efficient (in terms of lumens produced per Watt of input) when not pushed to their extreme operational limits.

And it is definitely possible to create a longer-lasting, more-efficient LED bulb.

It's absolutely trivial to do this, even: To start, just add more LEDs, reduce their individual RMS current, improve heat sinking and dissipation, and use better capacitors.

But it does cost more to do these things, and regular consumer products are all built down to a price.
Iran doesn't chill my blood in the same way imagining being in North Korea does. I have no desire to go there. I wouldn't go if offered. It still strikes me as a more or less rational country that stridently disagrees with my own country's politics (and my own), not a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
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> nothing does not beat entropy

> Nothing beats entropy? That's like saying a vacuum cleaner can clean itself. Entropy always wins, folks!

Lame
US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules
Possibly.

A corrections: a prion (the disease agent) is believed to be a self replicating protein fold, so it needs a source protein ("prion protein", aka PrP, one word) to feed the folding.

Now, although the evidence is pretty solid that the fold is the infectious agent, there's a lot of unanswered questions: we can try to make prions in the lab but iiuc no one has made a fiber of PrP in the lab without seeding from an infectious sample that itself was infectious.

Moreover, a lot of related Alzheimer's research has come under intense scrutiny recently[0], so much so that the viral hypothesis of Alzheimer's is now dominant and no longer the "prion-like hypothesis", so, it's possible that the self-propagating protein fold is not the infectious agent for prion disease either.

If it is, then it's likely that turnjng down PrP in the brain will slow or even reverse the disease. The PrP fibers probably can be degraded, if very slowly, and turning off the spigot of source material for the fold will push the equilibrium in the other direction

[0] see marc tessier levigne (current CEO of AI/biotech form Xaira)'s firing?resigning? from stanford due to fraudulent data in his lab
How do you get it to run the code? I try some toy examples to generate a graphic and it tells me "Claude can't run code yet."
Here's a video of what one of those shops looks like by an Indonesian diplomat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYJ9u0sEE4
You’re the one that brought battery life into it, which certainly does put power consumption in play.
I have seen so many Chinese projects fail/collapse that I am wary of the efficiency and longevity of any major Chinese infrastructure.
The Chinese know/agree = look at tofu-dreg on youtube.
It refers to structures so weak they seem to be made from bean curds...
That's usually how it's done in systems using int as well: internal calculations are done with as much precision as needed, and only the significant results are converted back to int using a defined rounding strategy.
Impossible and Beyond burgers, sausages, and crumbles are fantastic. Total drop-in replacement for their flesh counterparts. Breaded nuggets are also indistinguishable. Oscar Mayer and Impossible just both introduced plant-based hot dogs that are uncanny.

One area still lacking is a plant-based alternative to lean meats like chicken. Simulate has a chicken ("chicken") breast, but I haven't tried it yet.
I agree with your second and third paragraphs, but I encourage you to realize that AI does not exist--not in the form you're implying by predicting transformative technology. AI has not made a meaningful impact in nearly anyone's lives, let alone a transformative impact; instead, it's just the latest VC money sink, hype train, bubble, or whatever you want to call it. The West is a great place to live not because of AI but because of consistency of experience (e.g., first-world infrastructure for the most part) and higher quality of life, "AI" or no AI.
Claude-3.5-Sonnet is SCHNITZEL mit BRATKARTOFFELN.

Waiting for 3.5-Opus or OpenAUs response...
Yes:
https://labs.leaningtech.com/cheerpx#cheerpx-versus-v86jslin...

Also, a little below:

CheerpX currently focuses on user mode (ring 3), and does not fully emulate the kernel (ring 0). We do, however, implement a subset of the Linux system call interface, which is enough to run most applications.
When you scale something to 0, indeed there are issues with cold starts. On the Neon free tier, you will get a cold start if your database is inactive for 5 minutes (you can configure this value on paid plans).

As an exercise, I decided to try for myself what my cold start time is + query round trip, on Neon's free tier. Note that I am in Austin connecting to us-east-2.

$ time psql -c 'SELECT 1' 'postgresql://neondb_owner:<password>@<endpoint>.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech/neondb?sslmode=require'
Null display is "(null)".
?column?
----------
1
(1 row)

real 0m1.156s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.020s

You can't make a trend out of 1 data point, but thought I would provide it nonetheless.
The unspoken point being made here is about corruption, not efficiency per se. I want all my tax money going towards the public good, not just fractions/percentages of it.
$ uptime

Error: /proc must be mounted
Right; DFS is the solution to this one type of well-covered maze problem. But I think it is less interesting. I guess what I was trying to ask is, if there are other more interesting problem/solution pairs that could allow for more interesting types of difficulty.
This Harrison was early 70s rather than late 70s, though Harrison Ford was still a known name back then.

Still, Harrison wasn't even in the top 200 names in the 70s. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1970s.html

Compare with 136 in the 2010s. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2010s.html

One of the things to take note of between those two charts is that the most popular names are less popular. Parents are choosing distinctive names rather than common names.

In 1970, the top five male names represent 2.5 million births. Michael (the most common name) was 707,377 of them.

In 2010, the most common name was Noah with 183,258 births. In 1970, a name with that much popularity would be #20.5 between Thomas and Timmothy.

That 2.5 million again... in 2010s that's 19 names.

... Another visualization of the data. https://namerology.com/baby-name-grapher/ This looks at the top 200 names for boys and girls over time. However, the downward slope isn't fewer overall births but rather the reduction of popularity of the most common names.

And another visualization of the data - The Evolution of US Boy Names: Bubbled https://youtu.be/WQv99sEPDsw and Girl Names: https://youtu.be/qVh2Qw5KSFg

The thing to watch in those is the size of the largest bubbles. The 2014 bubbles look fundamentally different than the 1974 bubbles.
> end as a user you get a slighly faster machine

You don't, though. Unless you only care about single core performance and/or power usage.

Apple's chips are not even close to AMD/Intel value wise when it comes to MT performance on desktop. The $6,999 Mac Pro somehow losses to the $400 14700K (of course you still need a GPU/etc. but unless you care about niche use cases i.e. very high amounts of VRAM, you can get a GPU equivalent to the M2 Ultra for another $300-400 or so)
i had the bbc version of that as a kid. it was surprisingly immersive and addictive.
I'm pretty close to vegetarian, and don't find a need to ever eat meat substitutes. Every Indian and Mediterranean restaurant will have a vegetarian option, and elsewhere you can get a salad.
Germany should fight to the last Ukrainian, apparently.
I always want treemaps.

console:
rust:
cargo install diskonaut
python:
pip install ohmu
GUI:
gdmap
windows:
windirstat
mac:
grand perspective (I seem to r call)
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The super-expensive Tesla Model S and X barely sold until the cheaper Model 3 took off. Given that the people who have bought the Vision Pro consider this device revolutionary, this is probably headed on the same trajectory.

I would have gotten one if the DPI for text was as good as a monitor and I didn't need to depend on a MacBook. (I don't watch videos, but I'd love a monitor-less solution for coding on the plane.)
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928756
Instead of having Avogadro's number at all, chemists could just count using numbers like we do for everything else. We already have the prefixes to make 10^+/-24 easy. No need to re-define it, just stop using it.

It's nothing more than a conversion factor between two parallel unit systems that somehow both coexist within SI.
I agree, but also our accountants kept asking for the craziest of things. I guess its a problem that the real world of transactions is full of async processes and weirdness. There is always something new weird that will happen, so it always ends up back in a spreadsheet software.
you'll eventually forget this life too, so i'm not sure about your proof ;)
It's your perspective.

The real question is, given all the materials on the internet that can literally tell you why these tools are useful (I mean, surely if you just read the docs you'd find out?!), why have you not done the work?

It feels like you're in your comfort zone and rationalising why you shouldn't do the work. I mean, is finding a job and being employed not motivation enough?

Perhaps look inside yourself and be honest first. It sounds like instead of admitting that you need to do some work and learn some things you'd rather blame outside circumstances for your lack of personal progress.

I don't mean to sound harsh - sometimes we just need a reality check!

Take responsibility, get out there and DO THE WORK. A new world is waiting for you just over the hill.
You'll have to define your terms first. Physicists now believe there is such a thing as dark matter and that there are objects so massive that no amount of observation can ever make sense of how massive they are because it is impossible to model it mathematically.

I am not the one making any extraordinary claims. Physicists themselves admit there are aspects of reality with no computational basis.
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One of my kids’ middle name is my grandmother’s first name. The other’s first name is my great-grandmother’s first name (which is also my mother’s middle name).
Honestly I’d still like to visit both (particularly Iran) and I know people who have. But there is definitely advice you need to heed in both places (tbh in all places…)
You need to enable "Artifacts" under "Feature Preview".
"When art critics get together they talk about style, trend and meaning. When painters get together, they talk about where you can get the best turpentine."
That's a nonsensical definition. By that standard literally everything is political, which means the word has no meaning.

That rubric is a lazy way for activists to try to smuggle their opinions into environments that frown on politicing.
What a place we live in where someone can see "policing and prosecuting" as "basic government functions" rather than "community building".
X is building a 'dislike' button for downvoting replies
People who want to pay that little and can’t manage it themselves are very demanding. Better not to do business with them. I have a $2.50/mo racknerd machine. Just bare Linux. Just do something like that. If you don’t want to, chances are that no one wants to manage it for you either.
This is total nonsense. Putin does not care about AI, by all accounts he doesn't even use technology much personally, he cares about being remembered as a Peter the Great figure who restored Russia to their rightful place as a superpower. It's just bog-standard nationalism of a kind we've seen dozens of times before.
At no point did I claim whether they could or could not memorize. I was disagreeing with your statement "How can the AI spit out facts about a metal band if it has no memory". No one has ever said "AI's have no memory" in the way you're using it here.

Yes they _can_ and _do_ sometimes memorize. But they do not _only_ memorize which is what you implied with the statement I've quoted.
Well yeah... I was saying that they improved power consumption massively compared to Apple since 2020. Which is true.

10th gen was horrible and now they have almost caught up with the M series.
Funny enough, Claude couldn't tell me that.
Oh yeah, there are several plausible theories with decent evidence to support them, but nothing remotely definitive.

Anesthesia is weird. I'm an anesthesiologist; believe me, there are tons of weird things about the human body that you learn from throwing various compounds at bodies and seeing what happens. Xenon is an effective (though expensive) anesthetic gas by itself. People of West African descent occasionally (~10-20%, usually on the lower end of that) have a hypersalivatory response to cholinergic stimulation. Drugs that should be fine and got approved but turn out to kill kids disproportionately (rapacuronium).

Much of our practice is derived from "we've been doing this without too many bad effects for a long time with these drugs, so we're going to continue using them rather than try something new unless the new one brings something to the table that's a slam-dunk". Diethyl ether is slow, it smells awful, and it's flammable (and will form explosive peroxides if stored too long), but it's still a good anesthetic. If I had to re-create civilization from scratch, that would be one of the first drugs I tried to make.
This strikes me as an extremely difficult but not intractable problem.

I'm not sure what the state of the art in compiler optimisation is with regard to data positioning and targeting maximum processor usage

There was a video on optimisation a while back that showed small optimisations caused increases in speed that were insignificant when compared to the speed variance induced by the memory layout that the optimisation (or even a random change) caused.

While that talk was more focused on getting a signal past the noise. That noise itself is an artifact of compilers being not particularly good at handling a much simpler form of the problem you describe.

CPU and memory architectures are complex when caches and access patterns impact upon speed.

When you add in GPU architectures to the mix I think you might be in fairly uncharted territory.

Maybe one day.

Of course since we are in the field of AI there is also the question of could a sufficiently smart AI do this. It depends on the value of sufficient.

I would like to think that an extremely high level test for an AI model could be to give it something like micrograd and tell it to produce something with the same interface that outperforms torch.

We're not even in the ballpark of being able to do that yet, but it will be interesting when and if that happens.
> What is hard to understand here?

What I said:

> how did it handle that case?

You haven't said a) whether this hypothetical actually happened or b) how it was handled. That leaves all this in the realm of rage-bait hypotheticals.

> Representation relative to the workforce is what's relevant.

You're defining "workforce" narrowly to exclude people who do not currently work in the "field." This is unnecessarily narrow because e.g. there are people who work in tech who do not work at pure-play tech companies in Silicon Valley (this is where the policy pulls its stats). So setting a low bar and barely clearing it.

There's also likely the possibility that they are conflating "engineering" and "tech" roles. Female CS majors are indeed ~19% in the US, but "tech" jobs often include lots of people on product teams who are not engineers: QA, UX, etc. I don't know whether Dropbox counts a UX person as "tech" or not tech. I also don't have good stats on e.g. gender balance in UX, but I would wager that it is not the same as for CS grads.

Incidentally, Dropbox non-tech is only managing 43% women. This includes roles like marketing, sales, finance, HR, etc. where the excuse of the college pipeline is not operant. (For example -- women are the majority of accountants in the US.)
Yeah same here. It cheapens the post for me (justly or unjustly).
Most correctly: Financial Accounting.
Lead and methanol poisoning rates rise in spate of car radiator removals, tire theft down.

(In Australia, backyard stills are a smallish "thing" with many migrant communities 40% of the population is or descends from overseas. They know how to avoid the risks of the first flows, and dissolved contamination but poisoning still happens from time to time, maybe once or twice a decade)
Strange. It looks like some movie set in the DDR, but with the wrong manufacturing date on the car props and Korean extras in modern cloths. I guess the sparse city planning is the reason? Like, a lot of space.
Doesn't exactly seem like a particularly well-validated model at this point. Given they're saying muscle speed is limited by the speed at which water can move through the muscle, pushing more water through the same sized tube takes longer, so that would seemingly mean anything that caused greater water retention would slow you down.

But obviously that breaks down pretty quickly. You can't make yourself faster by dehydration. Your body maintains the water level it does for a reason. Catalysts and enzymes need to exist in specific concentrations to work best. Presumably, you retain extra water when taking creatine because creatine's role in catalyzing ATP production relies upon being at a specific concentration and more creatine means you need more water. But even if that excess water slowed down the maximum theoretical rate at which a muscle could contract, muscles that contract are also limited by the availability of ATP. If creatine is doing its job, then you'd have more available more quickly. You can contract faster with available energy than you can with no energy. You can't just isolate a single factor in muscle contraction and intervene in that without having other effects on the same complex, multifactorial process.
Thanks! I'm not trying to say anything :D I'm just trying to understand it better. That's why I sprinkled all my comments with healthy doses of "I don't know". I really don't know.

The 3rd party seeing blinks at the same rate was just a guess, I'm happy to learn that this guess is false.
According to Wikipedia the lastest meteor lakes have a peak draw of 57w. My entire Mac Studio draws 38w.
That’s true. But good luck changing century old work schedules for teachers and parents. The reality is that most grownups don’t particularly care how kids and teenagers feel in the morning.
That's great it will serve you well.

Once you choose a problem to solve, then you'll have the motivation to learn the tools needed to solve it. So find that problem and solve it, and then maybe you won't need to find a job.
a mobile remix :https://claude.site/artifacts/94090c6f-ca8d-47a5-85c3-1517ed...
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