skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. There is nothing about biogas or biofuels that's more efficient. We've known this for at least 15 years and nothing in the space has changed.
This is the most bullying way to make excuses for the government, but okay.

By the way, until convinced, he's not a criminal.

You don't even see the problem that's crept into your own language, do you?
Fine but, consider that in the cases of these university presidents it was always cases of plagiarism
As large as the absolute largest models are today, they are still microscopic compared to our brains. A 1.7T param model would only store an actual total of about 850 GB if fully saturated (4 bits of information per weight estimated for bf16 transformers), a lot less than a human brain with 150T synapses running in full analog precision. We need to scale the current gen of models at least another 10-100x to even reach the human level of complexity, something we'll be able to do in the next two decades.

And well then there's going beyond just text. Current multimodal models are basically patchwork bullshit, separately trained image/audio to text/embeddings encoders slapped onto an existing model and hoping it does something neat. Tokenization and samplers are likewise bullshit that's there to compensate for lack of training compute. Once we have enough to be able to brute force it properly with bytes in, bytes out, regardless of data format, the results should be way better.
I am similarly skeptical. I think everyone focuses too much on the what when we should be focusing more on the why. I think people are emotionally eating, and that is the cause of obesity.
Unrelated, but reminded me of the good old Flesh + Blood movie[1]. Feel it's one of very few medieval movies that really conveyed the grit and grime of the time, at least that I've seen. Anyway... NEXT!

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089153/
The problem is that there are a lot of humans, and a lot of humans with online presence. I wouldn’t really be confident in identifying a „stolen face“ online because you’re bound to look similar to someone when creating a face. Does that mean that the look was stolen or is it just coincidence? What is the likelihood of a random AI voice sounding similar to some real online creator?
Criminal _suspects_ are not the same as criminals.
Apple Adds 12 Macs to Vintage and Obsolete Products Lists
To a degree, yes, that’s possible. But leaking a private type over module boundaries is bad form, so a better (though possibly over engineered solution) would be to have a separate public interface, implemented by the private record type, and the static function would have that interface as return type.
you're being a bit misleading here by implying that humans have perfect voice recognition to begin with.

Try to go to a foreign language and figure out the difference between 10 famous voices. Odds are at least half of them will blend to you. Becuase you do not spend everyday listening to that language.

Now try and find a person who has a similar voice to your parent, then ask 10 random people to see if they can tell the difference. I'm sure 8/10 wouldn't be able to. I'm sure you can, though.

Voice recognition is a mix of factors, which includes familiarity and language processing. If Scarlet wasn't famous, it wouldn't have been as huge an issue because not enough fans would be familiar enough. Friends would still complain though.

>and Sam Altman didn't offer her the job

Handwaving this doesn't help. That's the entire basis of Ford v. Milton that made Ford lose the case. You can't just go behind a VA's back once they decline and use their likeness anyway. Even outside of law, that's just scummy.
> telegram, not being a UK company (imho) shouldn't be forced to give UK government/police peoples ip addresses and phone numbers

They absolutely should if they want to operate in the UK.
In general this is good. Most markets are way too concentrated.
I'm assuming that some of that number is mixing in industrial uses of water?

That is, I'd love to say it is something silly like US people shower/bathe far more, but I have a hard time seeing how personal uses of water can add up to that in any way.

If you find a good read on this, please share it!
Good ventilation is something worth paying attention to and worth fighting for
>Text query in -> relevant text out.

Wait that's it ? I guess humans also exhibit similar behavior to a search algorithm in certain instances. Nothing about LLM inference seems particularly similar to search even with our limited understanding.

All you're saying here is Input goes in > Output comes out. Well no shit.
Watering our yards instead of living in cramped comblock apartments?
(If you have to fill out timecards): does your timecard reflect that implicit understanding? Or, alternatively, if your timecard doesn’t, could you be hit with timecard fraud?
I was waiting for the day that two SUVs would hit each other, and I happened.

Now I am waiting for two self driving cars to hit each other... they already drive like "American idiots", guess we know what the training model is.
It’s the maintenance of the software that gets tiring. Constantly keeping up with updates and security patches. That makes SaaS attractive.
I imagine this would be a great use case for solar - desalination plants are mostly needed in hot desert places where the sun is strong. I imagine you could use energy at off peak times, since clean water can easily be stored.
Yeah I'm sure it was better in the good old days ahaha
there is something of a difference between 'per household' (US) and 'per head (Germany). So maybe introduce a factor of 4.something and the US doesn't look _quite_ as extravagant, or Germany _quite_ as frugal, depending on which way you look at it
In raku,

use Net::SMTP;

Net::SMTP.new('smtp.gmail.com', port => 587, ssl => True)

.login('your-email@gmail.com', 'your-password')
.send(
:from('your-email@gmail.com'),
:to('recipient@example.com'),
:subject('Daily Snippet'),
:body('A random snippet'))
.quit;

Then,

crontab -e
0 4 * * * /path/to/raku /path/to/send-email.raku
> releasing resources (optimally) and resource exhaustion / ageing (crash recovery) are orthogonal.

In concept. In the reality of implementation they are not.

> I commented on GP's use of exit() not on finalizers / destructors.

You said they were "suboptimal." Implying there is an available optimal solution. I'm challenging that exact notion.

> It isn't optimal,

You perhaps missed the point. It _can't_ possibly be optimal given the nature of the problem itself. These are the wrong terms to understand the problem in.
I feel like this is an instance of "common senseism" for lack of a better term. You're not really engaging with the concepts presented (legally enshrined concepts of private property in a capitalist system) and dismissing it with some folksy sounding idea. Like others on the thread mentioned, you could pick a different arbitrary animal and come up with the complete opposite "conclusion"
Right, but you can do this outside of work without any of the downsides (i.e. reduced salary, sexual harassment and other HR type complaints, no forced time together).

You're paying by not job hopping, and your friends aren't that deep of friends. You bet your ass you can get into hot water with them when you have the corporate power structure standing in between.

I don't know why someone would be content taking the risks and downsides of corporate America into their personal relationships. I'd rather gain more time, by working from home, and then using that time to make friendships. And then also hop around and make a bunch of money without guilt.
Bathing, pooping, washing things, and watering lawns.

And you're comparing individuals vs. households.
Relavant:

Building an iPod for 2022 [0]

Ask HN: Nobody interested in an open hardware iPod Nano? [1]

Player mods [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345399

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39556206

[2] https://player-mods.com/
>Because the whole world just won't fit on any regular hard drive

Except it did. FS2020 had a base level of terrain quality that was installed such that you could play it even if you never connected to the internet. It wasn't Bing Earth quality sure, but it was way better than what you got in FSX thirteen years earlier. It was 200gb.

Which is conveniently about the same size as a single copy of whatever Call of Duty game is currently in vogue.
The CEO of Signal has not been arrested.

Also, Signal does supposedly comply with all lawful warrants. They give over what data they do have when properly requested. It is just they don't normally have much useful data to give.

Meanwhile, Telegram supposedly hasn't been properly handling lawful warrants in many countries and does have interesting data on their servers as only private secure messages are (meaningfully) encrypted and not most messages most users send on the platform
PProf Web: A public web UI for the PProf profiler (2020)
I could not believe that number but indeed its 300 gallons per day: https://www.epa.gov/watersense/how-we-use-water

That is about 1350 (!) liters per day

70% is used inside the house, meaning 945 liters
Correct, especially because heat + lithium battery = bad idea.
About time. Criminals hiding behind some technicalities!
Unlogged Tables in Postgres (2023)
>The FM Towns relied on Intel CPUs, but the rest of the hardware was designed more or less like any other Japanese system of the era with specialized graphics and sound hardware.

This was also true of PC-98, too, to some extent.
That’s not for telegram to decide and dictate to everyone else I’m not sure I’d call that sad
> In the general case there is no bound on the number of clients.

Sure. So?

> When your client crashes, does it assume a new identity on restart?

Um, no? Is that really a serious question? Do you think computers in the real world lose their identity when they restart?

> Because you didn't say that the sender saved its latest message in stable storage.

I left out a lot of details that I assumed would be obvious and taken for granted. I didn't say, for example, that the intended recipient would be attached to the message either, but obviously that must be the case if there is more than one possible recipient. There are a zillion little details like that which I elided. A complete treatment would probably turn into a book because I'd have to start talking about things like atomicity, mutual exclusion, databases and transactions. But those are all red herrings.
>"In these situations, I often introduce objects that wrap the map or dict, and have methods that make sense for that level."

I've been doing the same thing since the end of the 80s as well starting with Turbo/Borland Pascal, C++, and later any other language that supports OOP.
My guess is that the average is very different than the median here. In general there are a few considerations:

- Green lawns are considered a status symbol in the US and in many higher end neighborhoods houses run irrigation multiple times a day.

- Same goes for pools.

- Baths are common (especially for kids) and use a fair amount of water.

- Our toilets and showers are not efficient.

- We tend to do laundry and dishes with machines (though I'm not sure if that would really use more or less water).

I also suspect that number may include industrial and commercial. Since even considering the above it still seems high.
That might be research, but it's most likely not scientific research.
A few things here - 1) TFA is referencing household use, and you're referencing individual use, and 2) the linked source from TFA doesn't actually give the 1135L/day stat. What it gives is this: "Each American uses an average of 82 gallons of water a day at home" which is ~310 liters.

Also, it's not clear if your source is including water use for home irrigation and recreation (lawns and pools?), whereas the US source is.
Reading about levels of energy, water and other resources used by Americans makes it much harder to sympathise when they complain about cost of living.
My reaction to this is best relayed as a song lyric from Ice-T:

> Nobody gives a fuck

> "the children have to go to school!"

> Well moms, good luck!
Cloudflare moves to end free, endless AI scraping with one-click blocking
While it’s a bold idea, Cloudflare is not sharing a fully fleshed-out idea of what its marketplace will look like.
Idiomatic in just the broad culture. Whatever alt right people do with it, and its special context in their bigotry, is another thing.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/shekel

> shekels, Slang. money; cash.
Author here if anyone has questions about ferroelectric RAM...
KQL, at least, is exactly a DSL intended for querying timeseries.

Also it's not like they've implemented a custom storage back-end, it's ClickHouse. ClickHouse itself thinks SQL is fine for querying time-series data (as do Snowflake and TimeScale, for that matter).

Ultimately of course Oxide can do what it wants, but the justifications provided in this doc are thin enough to make NIH seem like a very plausible explanation. Perhaps the problem domain is more complicated than just retrieving some time-series data out of ClickHouse, and the doc fails to make that clear.
To an extent I agree with you: that’s why I pulled all my code off GitHub. The website is (was?) called “social coding,” so I realized the conflict in putting stuff on there and then saying “don’t bother me, but this stuff is here if you want it.” I don’t think it’s wrong to post on GitHub and say “leave me alone,” but I just don’t see how it benefits me personally.
This is a brilliant project. public buildings need a sentry turret airsoft solution for pigeons.
If they want to operate in country X, they have to abide by the laws of country X, I don't see what's controversial about this.
I've never felt need to try those - just put albums I've bought from e.g. Bandcamp into my Jellyfin music directory, they're automatically scanned and available in seconds.
We recently wrote about how we decided to handle deleting tables etc. https://bigbinary.com/blog/rails-8-deleting-tables-columns-u...
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628019
I've thought a lot about this quite a bit. In my day to day life, which is a cog in the machine at $Megacorp, I regularly work on embarrassingly old versions of Java (hello JDK 8!). So, not having the latest and greatest language features is a topic close to my heart. As such, the book takes a very tool agnostic approach. If we cover something that's only available advanced JDKs, we also cover what to do if you don't have it.

Data oriented programming is about building around the data in your domain. The latest tools are nice, but they're just tools.
Privacy Service Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send OpenAI User Data
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628019
No, this is the domestic usage, not including industrial processes. And industrial processes exist everywhere in the world anyway.
> Why wouldn’t you choose to work with the people you enjoy spending time with if you have the option?

Because in practice this doesn't work. Someone gets mad at someone, someone leaves the company, HR gets involved, etc etc.

It's all fun and games but I can't call my work friend a dumb bitch, can I? Well then how good of friends are we?

Similarly, I have many friends who I love dearly, but if I had to live with them, I know our relationship would implode. Being roommates and being friends are ALSO two different things. And, often, living with your best friends isn't a treat - it's a nightmare.
It's attitudes like this why the UK is the way it is today. Shame on you.
The fact that humans are averse to change is a strong reason not to sleep on it.

Choosing status-quo has a gravity to it, and often the longer you wait the stronger the pull.
Exercise, eat well, meet people and take time to get to know them as individuals, spend time with the good ones, participate in community, date more (but don't be a doormat and don't be co-dependent)... hold down a steady job/school... spend time outdoors, meditate on occasion.

Be kind to everyone, especially when it's the hardest. It's good for them and good for you. Don't let anger or envy rule your emotions.

If I had choose just 2-3 things to focus on, it would be exercising, eating well, and participating in community, and the rest just tend to sort themselves out. You're 18, you don't have to have your whole life figured out already, just set a good foundation for it.

Health is the basis of everything else, and exercise is a huge component of both mental, physical, and emotional health. Most things in life you can fix later on, and most mistakes you can undo (obviously don't be a criminal or become an addict), but health is the one thing that is really hard to "fix" later on if you don't start & maintain it early enough.
> - Our toilets and showers are not efficient.

You can't make blanket claims about the US as a whole for things that are driven by the states - many states have highly restrictive shower/toilet efficiency requirements.
Fantasy IDE for GLSL Coding
The good old days when governments represented people, like before the 17th Amendment when states picked the Senate in smokey backroom deals. Wait that can't be right, maybe like before the 19th Amendment. Wait no, during the Jim Crow era. No, the McCarthyism era. Wait...uhh...hmm...

I don't know what time period you're thinking of with "It's not the good old days any more. Your government doesn't represent you." Seems like the government represents more people better today than it did in the past given before so many couldn't even vote at all and the government was far more active in suppressing minority rights.

And if its about them snooping in on conversations, these days they have to actually ask a lot of communication providers for data. Back in the day there was only one company providing electronic communications and the government was absolutely listening in to the conversations. Tons of those communications were happening over the air for anyone with the right antenna to listen in. US v. Miller was in 1976 and established what we now know as third-party doctrine.
In your opinion, why is the "trust in Proton" not considered "developing for Linux"?

Is your argument specifically about the game developer's mental model for Linux's priority, or something core about the Proton abstraction layer?

All software runs on some abstraction. So specifically, if the game developer prioritized a Linux port by explicitly testing Proton, would that be enough for you to consider the game "developed for Linux"?
Unsurprising considering how a lot of other media has become nothing but an endless series of big budget, overly "safe" or overly ideologically motivated remakes/adaptations.
I thought the difference was:

Inaka: the bus comes every two hours.

Not: the bus comes every ten minutes.
>Is it scummy to hire "discount" Matt Damon instead of Matt Damon?

If Matt Damon said no (e.g. leaving a paper trail) and you want people to pretend it's Matt Damon anyway, yes. Look up Ford v. Milton. You can't just go behind an artist's back like that.

If you want to argue about soundalikes in spinoffs, those are discussed in contracts (and those kinds of figures are making 7+ figures as is, so it's fair on them to choose to let them do that).
> humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data)

He's hand-waving around the idea presented in the Universal Approximation Theorem, but he's mangled it to the point of falsehood by conflating representation and learning. Just because we can parameterize an arbitrarily flexible class of distributions doesn't mean we have an algorithm to learn the optimal set of parameters. He digs an even deeper hole by claiming that this algorithm actually learns 'the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data', which is essentially a totally unfounded assertion that the functions learned by neural nets will generalize is some particular manner.

> I find that no matter how much time I spend thinking about this, I can never really internalize how consequential it is.

If you think the Universal Approximation Theorem is this profound, you haven't understood it. It's about as profound as the notion that you can approximate a polynomial by splicing together an infinite number of piecewise linear functions.
Hacking the "Bike Angels" System for Moving Bikeshares
I always like a good hack. And this story delivers. Basically, the New York City bikeshare program has a system to reward people who move bicycles from full stations to empty ones. By deliberately moving bikes to create artificial problems, and exploiting exactly how the system calculates rewards, some people are making a lot of money.

At 10 a.m. on a Tuesday last month, seven Bike Angels descended on the docking station at Broadway and 53rd Street, across from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Each rider used his own special blue key -­- a reward from Citi Bike—­ to unlock a bike. He rode it one block east, to Seventh Avenue. He docked, ran back to Broadway, unlocked another bike and made the trip again.

By 10:14, the crew had created an algorithmically perfect situation: One station 100 percent full, a short block from another station 100 percent empty. The timing was crucial, because every 15 minutes, Lyft’s algorithm resets, assigning new point values to every bike move.

The clock struck 10:15. The algorithm, mistaking this manufactured setup for a true emergency, offered the maximum incentive: $4.80 for every bike returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater. The men switched direction, running east and pedaling west.

Nicely done, people.

Now it’s Lyft’s turn to modify its system to prevent this hack. Thinking aloud, it could try to detect this sort of behavior in the Bike Angels data—and then ban people who are deliberately trying to game the system. The detection doesn’t have to be perfect, just good enough to catch bad actors most of the time. The detection needs to be tuned to minimize false positives, but that feels straightforward.
I love articles like this. I feel like too often in science education (at least my science education) that laws and theories are presented as just something that you need to memorize, when in my opinion the stories of how things were originally discovered and figured out is eminently more fascinating and inspiring. Like I remember having to learn all of these biochemical pathways, but I left school with nary a clue as to how these pathways were uncovered in the first place.

Thanks for submitting! Would welcome suggestions for any other publications on how scientific theories were first discovered.
How does DoP compare to Domain Driven Design (DDD)?
Pony Express, telegraph lines, railroads, a national highway system: what purpose and goals do you think were in mind here? So you could jaunt down Route 66 for a burger, and send back a 5c postcard??? Haha!

> How much of what you use today has anything to do with DARPAs original design goals or funding?

100%

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances research, science and engineering based in the United States.[1][2] NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,[3] and provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation,[1][4] [5] [6] the state of Illinois,[2] the University of Illinois, business and industry partners,[7] and other federal agencies.

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

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

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

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

Are you even serious rn?

If you're right then I shall take out my equity in the form of SAM batteries. How many will fit on my balcony.
The Military Shipyard Helping the U.S. Catch Up to China's Navy