skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it matters so much how the brain is made, what matters is the training data. And we obtain data by searching. Search is a great concept, it covers evolution, intelligence and creativity, it's also social. Search is discrete, recursive, combinatorial and based on some kind of language (DNA, or words, or just math/code).

Searching the environment provides the data brain is trained on. I don't believe we can understand the brain in isolation without its data engine and the problem space where it develops.

Neural nets showed that given a dataset, you can obtain similar results with very different architectures, like transformer and diffusion models, or transformer vs Mamba. The essential ingredient is data, architecture only needs to pass some minimal bar for learning.

Studying just the brain misses the essential - we are search processes, the whole life is search for optimal actions, and evolution itself is search for environment fitness. These search processes made us what we are.
This comments and many of the others on this thread strike me as written by people who have either never worked at a real restaurant and/or tend to order bland and fatty food (eat like a toddler) by default when they patronize restaurants.

This is fine but really not reflective of good restaurants and the majority of the food they serve.
This is China we're talking about, how is the government not deeply involved?
Thank you! I'm trying my best.
Excellent post, thank you
>1) Shakespeare didn’t use literary language. His works were written in the common parlance of the day.

I'm pretty sure it was a mix.

>3) “Early Modern English” is “Modern” only relative to “Middle” and “Old” English. It isn’t modern in any normative sense. It’s just a linguistic classification, not to be taken literally in casual parlance.

I don't remember a time when I found Shakespeare difficult reading, but I guess I started reading him at 16 at which point I had already quite a long and varied reading life.

I suppose advanced High School English classes could have the original Shakespeare and the non-advanced the modernized, but I think it's doing a disservice to those kids in Ohio who would understand to give them what I would at that age have referred to as the dumbed down versions, and which at this age I still have some tendency to think of as being of lesser quality.

>If I see a play live, I have to read it beforehand in order to refresh my memory. If I haven’t read it recently, I have no clue what the actors are saying.

there's a lot of actors who don't read Shakespeare well, and tend to hit the rhythm exactly and heavily, like a bad poetry reading - this makes the text harder to understand.
I’ll see what I can do to improve it.
I have a single Bash function called "please" that basically does the same thing

https://github.com/pmarreck/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/functio...
They’re also building more new coal plants than the rest of the world combined. Hundreds of new plants.
If you are in an urban area (especially at the time it was introduced), it will really improve things, mainly because GPS* signal reflections in urban areas disrupt proper positioning. It won't put you into another continent but it tends to be around two magnitudes worse, especially when you're moving (from ~1 meter to ~100 meters). The fact that multi-band GPS is now common does reduce this problem, but this is still helpful in dense areas with high skyscrapers that can still attenuate both bands.

* I'm using GPS here as shorthand for all GNSS systems (including GLONASS and Galileo).
My thing for any agile methodology is the self organizing team aspect really is the most important part, any time-like metric going up the chain is gonna be painful.

I liked story points when the team used them to get aligned on the work being done. I did not like story points when middle management had them on a chart they would review.
When I was in college in Massachusetts in the mid 1990s, there was a buffet-style Greek restaurant named "Brothers". (Somewhere near Peabody I think.)

The Greek woman behind the counter made me (well, guilted me into) getting some vegetables with my order. They weren't too salty or fatty; they were just good for me (and tasty).

It was like being fed by one's own mom. It was awesome.
A 2-input TTL NAND gate usually consists of 5 transistors:

Two multi-emitter transistors (counted as two separate transistors here)
One phase splitter transistor.
One pull-down transistor.
One output transistor.

The multi-emitter transistors are easy to make on-chip and are a clever way of getting two inputs into one 'device'. For a 7400 that was 4 sections x 5 transistors per section = 20 transistors, total.

NAND was the fundamental block in TTL; in the earlier RTL, NOR was the fundamental block - and used only 2 transistors, but needed resistors for the inputs and as the load pull-up. Power hungry and slow as a result.
I use this, though I find that many folks, including many technical folks, interpret it as an exclamation of distaste (as in, "agh! ach! ack!"), so it may pay to be judicious.
Author here. I agree with what I think you mean, but stating it like that is too simplistic in my view. Money is a great way to measure effort and results, and it's top priority in that at the end of the line, without profit there is no company. But without people, products, a mission, and not being hacked too many times, there is also no company.
Agreed - eyeballing it (or volume measurement for that matter) is good enough for the vast majority of baking recipes. I have made some finicky recipes in my day, but generally you will not need the precision of measuring by weight. For some reason people online hype up how exact you "need" to be when baking, but it's just not true. Hilariously, people also act like you can just completely wing it with no precision at all when cooking on the stove, and that also isn't true. Both forms of cooking benefit from some measurements and consistency, but you don't have to go too crazy with it.
This is a classic linear optimisation/operations-research issue. Its the best-fit problem for time to deliver, cost per kilowatt, distribution, and the time series of demand, against existing capital investment plans for non-nuclear energy sources. (fully committed existing investments as well as new clean builds where they haven't broken ground)

There is little doubt that in land-area, power-density, and constancy of supply Nuclear beats all other choices. Thats because the energy inherent inside atomic bonding is immense, compared to chemical forms of energy we're able to use burning things. How else could the sun radiate so much heat energy into us, as well as the RF we can see, if it wasn't a giant thermonuclear fission reactor 24/7.

The thing is, that despite nuclear power stations being very dense and productive, they cannot compete with solar and wind, for dollar spent RIGHT NOW energy production RIGHT NOW. Dollar for dollar, the same investment made into batteries, wind and solar produces energy we can use now, sufficient to the need. A typical wind and solar deployment has a 4-5y build time and is productive inside that time, if permitted. A typical nuclear build into an economy with NO EXISTING NUCLEAR is a 10-15 year build, and delivers no energy until the end of the build time. Nobody disputes in theory, you can make one faster. The problem is, we've never made one in this economy. There is simply no evidence to support an argument we will build substantive nuclear power faster than 10 to 15 years, and there is ample evidence we can build gigawatts of solar and wind and batteries, in 4 to 5 years. We know this because we're doing it now.

(we have a small swimming pool reactor for medical atomics and research. it doesn't inform power engineering at all)

We get more energy in the future, if we build nuclear, but we also get burdens such as the constancy when our demand patterns in the light of existing solar and wind, and known future solar and wind, are anything but constant.

To make nuclear viable in the Australian market (which is what the abc.net.au is talking about) we need to invent a time machine and build it 30 years ago. Starting from here, with existing committed solar and wind and battery build outs, even on an optimistic 10 year horizon, it won't be the answer.

No amount of "what about night time" and "what about days of no wind and cloud" alters the problem. Nuclear won't be economically viable when it arrives, if we continue to build out non-nuclear solar/wind because the capacity built, and available in storage, along with demand management means there is no hole for Nuclear to fill that it suits.

Gas peaker plants are more likely to be useful.

Most pro-nuclear people know this btw. Its "because I want it" and "because of other effects in the Australian political landscape" not actually "because Nuclear is the answer"
One of the main reasons to do virtual threads is that it allows you to write naive "thread per request" code and still scale up significantly without hitting the kind of scaling limits you would with OS threads.
Yes, obviously. "we stand with LGBTQ+ and are powered by pride" is consistent with conservative positions?

lmao.

sorry you cant see 2+2=4.
a new browser is very likely to also be "unsupported", so it's not solving that problem
So for sure talk to a professional at that point - if you’ve fixed all the sort of baseline health bullshit we all do to ourselves and still feel like you can’t do the things you want, talk to a doctor or a therapist or psychologist. Two notes - I had a friend with a thyroid issue that manifested in really pretty severe fatigue and brain fog that went undiagnosed because it mostly presented as a mental, not physical, problem. I’d also say what you’re describing sounds a bit like what I hear from friends with ADHD, so that might be another thread to pull.
The first time I heard hoist by one's own petard I had assumed petard was the ass, but it turns out it is a small bomb.
> i enjoy programming and would like to do more of it

The two timeless answers are (A) make your own language, or (B) make a game. Whichever feels more exploratory, experimental, open-ended in potential ideas to tinker with to you.

Another avenue would be to take something in widespread adoption and currently only offered in Electron-or-equivalents, and make a fully compatible, fully up-to-par "native-r" version. Make VSCode but as a TUI or GTK/QT. Same config file formats, same NodeJS-based Extension Host, same Extensions API, just not itself made in JS & DOM.

Or, make an LSP SDK generator toolkit that spits out full-protocol LSP clienting and serving code in any language it supports (using LSP's metaModel.json), where over time you add one language target after another. Whoever is making languages, in whatever language they're making them in, will be eager adopters.

Frankly I'm surprised this thread isn't dumping more ideas on you, since you're out of them. There's so many "would love to do|have this but not enough time given my other stuff" ideas in most everyone's head. Mostly developer tooling admittedly. But at least in that realm, there's just no limit to how much better things could be =)

Dev, and gaming — the two areas it's where the existing stuff is by definition never just "good enough". Good enough to use, sure, but not good enough to cease all further development, exploration, experimentation..
Android does this too. I am in several group chat's with Android users and their reactions are also sent the same way.
People often say it's impossible for the USA to replicate the success of, say, Sweden, because it's easier for smaller countries to be successful. Now you're saying it's impossible for Australia to replicate the success of China because it's easier for bigger countries to be successful. Which is it?
While this is correct, it's also not a particularly useful point.

A company can't just do profit. Profits aren't a thing that a company can choose (typically), they aren't an input, they're an output. You can't choose your outputs, you can only choose your inputs and aim them towards specific outputs.

How do you achieve profits? Well you do things that your customers want, and one of those things might be security. For some companies, the input of investment in security will result in the output of profits. For others it won't, or the two will be less correlated. If security does convert well into profits then it follows that it should be a priority input for the company, because that's how they will achieve profits.

This is still a huge generalisation, but perhaps less of one than "profit is the top priority".
There isn't even Privacy Policy or Terms of Service. No information about cookie usage either. And it's registered in China.

Sounds way too fishy.
I mean, children are just really expensive with no financial benefit no matter how you cut it, regardless of who the parent is.

It used to be that children would look after you in your old age, or would contribute to the family relatively young, etc etc, or in a single-income household with a stay at home parent incurred no material cost to the family beyond a mouth to feed.

Nowadays, in a dual-income household, children cost an income to look after or daycare until they are old enough to look after themselves. Financially speaking, there's no benefit (not that children are a financial decision, but certainly the financial logic today is worse than many times in the past)
And yet, used extensively
What's your advantages over paradedb? it also has dense+sparse+bm25
Why do you guys implement tensor data type instead of integrating colbert directly?
An app that makes my kid feel good about doing math? Sign me up!
My framework laptop does not have a non-type-c way to charge. I've fully depleted the battery and charged it back up using the usb type-c port.
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Here’s hoping improvements in healthspan save the day.
I think it's infinite, just not in all directions. It keeps repeating in one direction though.
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>The average age of childbirth has gone by ~10 years over the last 50 years.

The tarbaby behind this is there's a direct correlation between women's education and age of childbirth, and inverse with fertility rate. This crosses cultures and isn't Western-exclusive. The fallout is also the impetus for replacement migration policies, lest the debt-entitlement schemes fail.

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I agree, the CI module name is not the best. While whiteboarding the concept with the team, this http://en.spongepedia.org/index.php?title=Hooky_%28Episode%2... episode from sponge bob found it way to the discussion so we called it `patrick`.
> The reason he is choosing Trump over President Joe Biden boils down primarily to one major issue — he believes Trump’s policies are much more favorable for tech, specifically for the startup ecosystem.

This is at least clear. Trump will make Andreessen Horowitz more money in the value proposition of modern american investment than Democrat policies.

The fact that democrat policies might be more socially progressive, regarding female reproductive rights, or in housing, public utility functions, health, strategic posture in the world, defensive to real goods and services trade worldwide, has nothing to do with it.

No, Andreessen Horowitz is focussed on the bottom line: They will get orgasmically rich no matter what, but it will be multiple orgasms of money, if Trump wins.

Tech is not why I vote, that should be clear. I vote for reasons which do not relate to the VC model of finance, and the tech sector investment posture.

(I am not an american, nor reside in the USA and so this comment is from outside)
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reductive is a form of simplification, but a specific form, one in which what is discussed has been reduced to fewer (probably just one) aspect, simplification is not necessary reductive as you can have multiple aspects maintained but each of those aspects made less complex.

This, at any rate, is my usage.
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It’s comments like this that makes me wish hn supported emojis.
Sure, keep writing exploitable code then, have fun!
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> "weaponisation of dissent" from community groups over new wind farms and transmission lines.

Really baffling for an extremely sparse country with a huge desert in the center that shouldn’t be in anyone’s backyard.
Does it shake out to any real advantage?

To put it shortly: Writing single-threaded blocking code is far easier for most people and has many other benefits, like more understandable and readable programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449j7oKQVkc

The main reason why non-blocking IO with it's style of intertwining concurrency and algorithms came along is that starting a thread for every request was too expensive. With virtual threads that problem is eliminated so we can go back to writing blocking code.
The title was edited here by mods (I liked the original, but "BS" is a maybe a bit clickbaity?). Could it be changed to: "Security is our top priority" is meaningless. ?
True but misleading, the capacity factor keeps falling across their entire fleet of coal power plants. They aren’t installing grid sufficient storage to load follow and don’t have huge natural gas supplies thus load following coal power plants.

Total coal use was 82.4 exajules in 2013 and 82.5 exajules in 2019. It’s increased since then, but nothing like the number of power plants they have added. https://www.statista.com/statistics/265491/chinese-coal-cons...
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935688 ("HN: China's clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919052 ("HN: China's Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts")

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/15/china-switches-on-fir... ("China switches on first large-scale sodium-ion battery")

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-15/top-pollu... | https://archive.today/wioou ("Top Polluter China’s Shrinking Emissions Put Carbon Peak in Play")

Those coal generators will end up as stranded assets (I believe the Chinese term is "tofu dreg"), and China is ramping battery storage deployments to firm renewables.
paradedb could also deliver three-way hybrid search through pg_vector, pg_sparse and pg_search. Compared with paradedb, infinity has following advantages:

1. Performance

The performance of pg_vector is far slower than vector search of Infinity due to the vector index design.
The performance of pg_sparse is also slower than sparse vector search of infinity.
The performance of pg_search is much slower than full text search of infinity. pg_search is based on Tantivy, which is much slower than the inverted index of infinity.

Detailed benchmark could be seen in this article : https://infiniflow.org/blog/fastest-hybrid-search or github repo.

2. Infinity has all the builtin implementation of the above three search approaches. These indices could work smoothly together with the executor of infinity. The users could use any combination of the search approaches, together with the fused ranking algorithms, in a very efficient approach.

3. Infinity has also builtin support for tensor, which makes it possible to deliver an in-database colbert reranker compared with the cross encoder based reranker outside. The colbert reranker could bring much benefits for search qualities.

4. Infinity is much easier to use, it could be deployed as either a standalone server, or as an embedded python library just through pip install.

5. Infinity is designed start from scratch, it does not have the burden of postgresql, and is evolving fast. It will run on cloud in very near future which could save the cost a lot.
It’s true that these markets are the huge ones today.

But there is another buyer that your post leaves out: parents. This is not the same as individuals/self-learners (the buyer is not the user, exactly) — but the buyer has strong incentives that align with student performance that are different than the others.

Historically, this has been a very challenging market to scale up well — exceptional 1:1 tutors are rare, and hard to train, they’ll be expensive and often form a relationship with their tutees that incentivizes disintermediation of any platform that tries to capture some fraction of the value by offering a two-sided marketplace (YC has funded at least one of these!)

However, AI has the potential to dominate in this market. Most tutors are actually not amazing, but 1:1 tutoring is just so much more effective than basically any other kind of educational context (two-sigma improvements!) that it doesn’t super matter. AI could be a much more effective tutor — at a cost substantially lower than a human tutor. Of course, wealthy families may still want to hire the well-pedigreed, role-model-level, truly exceptional tutors. But folks who are lukewarm about their private (or small-group) tutors may just give the AI tutors a shot—and find that they’re better than what they were paying for.

Or not! That’s what makes it a risky bet. :)

But it’s a large, $50B+ market today, and growing fast — not one to be discounted.
Huh. Weird for such a simple "program" if you can even call it that, but I guess I get it. Thanks.
> Hot take thesis is that women still incur most of the cost of children, even in the most progressive socioeconomic systems.

This shouldn't be even remotely controversial, considering the fact that men don't get pregnant. The cost to employers doesn't start with parental leaves - it starts with pregnancy, which involves medical checkups, and an early health leave, and at least in some countries[0], making the future mother effectively unfireable for the duration. In some countries (again, [0]) this can, and often is, chained to keep employment going for multiple years over multiple pregnancies, without the employee showing up even once[1].

I'm not criticizing the women or families here in any way, only pointing out that a strong incentive for gender discrimination in hiring and (perception of) wage gap comes from the employers accounting for the above. Women in child-rearing age are seen as higher-risk employees, and businesses naturally want to mitigate the risk.

With that in mind, your statements that women "obtain equality by opting out of reproduction, eliminating opportunity cost and other expensive penalties reproduction incurs", and that "it is a material contributing factor in the fertility rate decline", pretty much follow directly.

People aren't stupid. Companies want to mitigate risks. Couples planning to start a family consider whether they can afford it in the first place. Costs of living are rising in the west, which can't possibly not impact fertility rates.

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[0] - My home country, Poland, being one.

[1] - The primary benefit isn't financial, but avoiding having a hole in your CV. Done properly, it looks indistinguishable from just working the entire time.
On twitch this a daily occurrence... and not just elon, it's mrbeast, kaicenat, and ishowspeed as well.

(That is, on top of all the other "free drops/skins" impersonation that twitch can't seem to shut down)
Australia is building loads of renewables, largely as a free market at this point. politics and media love suggesting government involvement, but by and large the problem is solving itself at this point.