skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did interbreed just like we do now. They had distinct geography and culture and stayed mostly separate for the same reasons we do mostly now.
Free Threaded Python with Asyncio
Maybe I misread the docs, but it looked like it was generating a visual for the whole day. If this were offline you could have it double as a clock and regenerate the image every N minutes.
In the robotics community, the stuff coming out of George Hotz has always been considered a kludgy mess, and unsuitable for serious work. Dude is a talented hacker, but the idea that this will replace ROS is kind of a joke.
In my (not so) Humble opinion, setting appropriate constraints is the most freeing thing leaders can do. It's also really difficult, especially when trying to figure how those may change over the life of the software
This is so far out of line I wonder what the background is for this issue. Lichess is not emergency dispatch software running in a 911 Call Center, if they have an outage the cost is that users can't play online chess until it is fixed. Additionally, the founder of this open source project is objectively good at what he does. Exhibit the fact that he built and hosts a top 2 online chess platform that competes well against the biggest commercial sites. How does that not lend some professional credibility.
IIRC the actual model is private and only downloads once you activate the device so presumably if the company was shutdown you couldn’t use the device anymore unless someone shelled out for training
Are you able to share what functions or situations result in speedups? In my experience, vectorized numpy is already fast, so I'm very curious.
Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations
A kick in the balls isn't per se good compared to a full beat up.

>what military op

Try to cut funds to madrassas bound to terror and indoctrination.
Bifurcation lets you allocate the lanes in more configurations, but doesn’t actually give you more lanes or allow you to dynamically allocate a lane. Unless you’re connecting more devices than are planned for by the cpu and chipset, you’re not going to see an advantage.
I think it's also cultural. British for example are very worried abou sub-text and saving face. West coast americans are more worried about coming across as positive and use superlatives that other cultures find exagerated.

Nordic and Central Europe cultures value 'straight talk' and saying what you will do, and doing what you say you will do. Generally when you ask for feedback you are expected to have a thick skin when professors/experts review your work.

I am not excusing abuse but I am pointing out that it is misguided to look at one work culture through the lens of another.
Great seeing you too Jon! I figure if a thread on something travel-related comes up, there's bound to be Hopper people on it
Yes, I mean I was young and a republican at the time but even I was pissed that Joe Liberman voted single payer down.

My perspective at the time which was naive/wrong was that we should either deregulate completely (which was a foolish perspective from my youth) or switch to single payer like France's system where doctors stay independent (unlike the UK's NHS at the time) and we just shoot the health insurance industry.

It was very obvious to anyone who had regular dealings with our system that it was opaque, cruel, insane and a premium cost for an inferior experience.

Not to mention the history of insurance companies losing lawsuits because as a "cost saving tactic" they would deny claims by default so people would die before procedures were approved.

From a cost efficacy and perverse incentives perspective it was clear that things had to change but that the ACA as it was passed would be easy to pick away at and sabotage by insurance industry and health provider conglomerates, and that is exactly what has happened.

Still the protections in place are FAR better than what we had.

It was very common at the time to hear even Republicans refer to themselves as "wage slaves" because of how beholden the populace was to corporate insurance and how it effected career choices.
The liberals are conservative today and the conservatives are liberal. Old Republicans now support the Democratic party. I fully believe the R's are currently the counter culture and the liberals are staid defenders of "how things should be" like the housewives of the 1950s.
This pretty much only happen when you buy something at checkout. Your printed bill says total comes to CAD 5.12, you pay CAD 5.10 in cash. If you do a return, they will return in cash as well, and pay you CAD 5.10, because of the above rules.
Somehow you never hear these people say "What if the nuclear fuel supply chain becomes compromised for an arbitrarily extended period."
> They speak in term of raw energy, carried by the photons the sun sends us.

Or is it saying that you would get 173,000 terrawatt-hours of electrical energy? It refers to energy then gives a number in units of power.
Are you defining amateurs as people who are not your coworkers? It can still be an amateur mistake.
No, OpenAPI has nothing to do with REST. (In fact REST API's are an extra pain in the ass to desribe properly in OpenAPI.)
Oh no! Some people find it inappropriate to hold a conference where the state apparatus has the legal framing to arrest all the non-cis attendees!

This must mean they are cowards, and waging warfare, and hiding behind ... something? Get a grip, sometimes holding a conference somewhere just doesn't make sense.
> they aren’t just reselling stuff from China

At this point everything you buy is from China in some way or the other. From iPhones to Nikes, from your electronic batteries to garlic. At this point stuff from China isn’t exactly a bad thing, considering how poorly things made elsewhere are doing. I have had so many issues with American made things that I almost prefer items made elsewhere. From cars to refrigerators.
If the board has PCI-E slots, it should support their features. If customers never used them they would have been dropped for cost reasons and no one would care. And indeed there are plenty of mini PCs and laptops where that is the case. Presumably people not buying those have their reasons.
I haven't quickly found more recent numbers, but switzerland had a good experience from 2010-2020, and the following article claims the apprenticeship system helps:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/why-is-the-drop-out-ra...

> “The decrease in NEET is most visible among women, whose NEET rate decreases from 9.6% to 5.9% [during this time], while it remains stable among men (2010: 6.7%; 2020: 6.6%),”

> Among the reasons why Switzerland fares so well compared to other European countries is its good public education system, and excellent vocational training – its dual track apprenticeships (which combine training and vocational school) are chosen by two thirds of young people.

> A look at the table also confirms low NEET rates in other countries with strong apprenticeship systems like Austria and Germany.
M5Stack Cardputer Kit
Right, but if there's 8 lanes to spare, and I could use 4 for a 10GbE NIC and 4 for another NVMe drive, that's better than wasting all 8 on one of those functions and not being able to install the other at all.
I guess part of it not being funny is it feels alittle over done.

I can't imagine it's the first time you've heard that sentiment.
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water
Yep it takes super long to get parameters from all nodes cause you need to query each one instead of the DDS caching it or something.

And yeah I forgot, there's the added annoying bit where you can't build custom messages/services with python packages, only ament_cmake can do it so you often need metapackages for no practical reason. And the whole deal with the default build mode being "copy all" so you need to rebuild every single time if you don't symlink, and even that often doesn't work. The defaults are all around impressively terrible, adding extra pitfalls in places where there were none in ROS 1.
The docs (https://docs.comma.ai/) begin with a more honest - and useful - description:

openpilot is an open source driver assistance system.
Looks nice!

Any recommendations for Python backend integration?
A beautiful comment. Well said
Was the post written for HN users only? I cannot see it on your blog page (https://arc.net/blog). It’s not posted on your twitter either. Your whole handling seems to be responding only if there is enough noise about it.
Ok understood and read that now.

> I wanted to share some insight into our world and get stuff off my chest as it’s been disappointing to watch go down, if not all that unique or surprising.

I guess what benefit do you get out of ratting out the company you work for?

Is it that you don't feel you have enough of a voice to change anything or to help improve things?
Physicist reveals tailwind has negligible effect on cycling speedl
The US is already forcing a lot of countries to follow their stead, to the point that the US is now one of the world's best tax havens to park illicit cash. With the Double Irish sandwich being shut down, I can only see more internal schemes being developed within the US - corporations aren't rushing to park gains in Seychelles or Guernsey.

The point is that the US needs to find a balance between taxation and good business, kind of like Switzerland in the EU (although I agree, both are different ballgames altogether). The way I see it, there's a triangle here with three vertices to balance against - business pragmatism, optimal taxation and regulations for private markets.
I’m a big fan of Meteoblue, they provide a lot of different forecast ensemble visualizations. While not the same as windy in terms of ux, it does a good job of conveying model uncertainty and model agreement.
In the past, this might have been called an "expert system".

Heh, it comes full circle... After ~50 years of Expert Systems winter, we're training our new AGIs to become more specialized! This is a memorable lesson that binaries must always be deconstructed, at least to some extent -- kinda like the endless dance we're doing between monoliths and microservices as each new generation of tools runs into the problems inherent in each.

I am naive about LLM technology so I'm not sure about the details or the nomenclature

You've got all the details right though, so that's pretty impressive :). AFAICT from a quick glance at the code (https://github.com/qhjqhj00/MemoRAG/blob/main/memorag/memora...), it is indeed "fine tuning" (jargon!) a model on your chosen book, presumably in the most basic/direct sense: asking it reproduce sections of text at random from the book given their surrounding context, and rewarding/penalizing the neural network based on how well it did. The comment mentions GPU memory in the Colab Notebook merely because this process is expensive -- "fine tuning" is the same thing as "training", just with a nearly-complete starting point. Thus the call to `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained()`.

To answer your question explicitly: the fine-tuning step creates a modified version of the base model as an "offline" step, so the memory requirements during inference (aka "online" operation) are unaffected. Both in terms of storage and in terms of GPU VRAM. I'm not the dev tho so obv apologies if I'm off base!

I would passionately argue that that step is more of a small addition to the overall pipeline than a core necessity, though. Fine-tuning is really good for teaching a model to recreate style, tone, structure, and other linguistic details, but it's not a very feasible way to teach it facts. That's what "RAG" is for: making up for this deficiency in fine-tuning.

In other words, this repo is basically like that post from a few weeks back that was advocating for "modular monoliths" that employ both strategies (monolith vs. microservices) in a deeply collaborative way. And my reaction is the same: I'm not convinced the details of this meshing will be very revolutionary, but the idea itself is deceptively clever!
This is because of zoning. When it takes a year+ to get approval there's no reason to ever build anything but luxury. If we allowed more to be built and but red tape lower cost buildings would make sense.
Because it’s reasonably cheap to buy two decades of fuel in advance, and it won’t take up much space. If such a thing were a concern, then people would do precisely that.

If it were still a problem towards the end of that period, then you can in fact extract uranium from seawater.
I think it might be a moot point since the transformer run times scale very poorly and the algorithm has a symmetric run time.
To be fair, even ROS I would consider a hobby one.
You are right, I extrapolated a bit too far.
Substack is an openly-available hosting platform with almost zero editorial standards, so I'm not sure why anyone would consider it to have "authority"? It's like asking which brand of ballpoint pen writes the most trustworthy content.

I linked to that article because I read its content, and I believe that content to be correct. If you're looking to go by prestige instead of content, then the authors and signers are professors of molecular biology and adjacent fields, many from highly-ranked universities.

The Cell authors think SARS-CoV-2 arose naturally, beyond any reasonable doubt. The Biosafety Now authors think there's a possibility that SARS-CoV-2 arose from a research accident, and that tighter regulation of enhanced potential pandemic pathogens is therefore required. These are directly opposing views, on a question that may correspond to millions of past deaths, and yet more in future. What do you think?
I expect most implementations of RAG don't mind this too much - if you're dealing with only a few hundred more pages of documents a day the ingestion time from using fancy tricks like this is going to be measured in minutes.
Scientists discover new genes that may trigger cancer
Thanks for sharing your insights! I agree that having a good tracing system is essential for modern engineering practices. Skywalking is indeed an interesting choice with a decent feature set, especially given its open-source nature and support for various integrations.

I would love to hear more about your experience with it. Have you explored any other tools, like Grafana OSS? Grafana has a robust stack that many find easy to set up using Docker or Docker Compose. It offers the flexibility to run in single-container mode or to scale to high-availability clusters, which is a big plus.

For me, having control over the platform is crucial, and I appreciate solutions that allow a smooth transition to their SaaS counterparts without the hassle of data migration. I'm curious to know what specific features of Skywalking stand out to you and what you're hoping to achieve with a tracing system
> You often still need to negotiate individual agreements with major airlines in order to be able to publish and sell their fares.

Out of curiosity, what's stopping you from just scraping/crawling this on a daily basis? I'm at a scale-up that offers a BI solution for the hospitality sector, and we scrape well into the tens of millions of data points per day using web crawlers.

They obviously don't want you to, so it's an ongoing cat and mouse game of integrations breaking, but once we we're established and had a customer base, the ability to negotiate data API agreements actually opened up. Especially if you have data to offer in return.
Whales May Be Communicating Across Distances
I agree then, the defaults are a problem.
Coworker implies paid work, and therefore they are not amateurs. They very well may make the same mistakes, but those mistakes would be professional mistakes.
The problem is the physical slot waste. If you have x16 slot and you put an x16 GPU card into it (like majority of people do), then, there is no waste whatsoever. But, if you put an x8 GPU or some other x4 or x1 card, then, there is a lot of PCIe lanes wasted, simply because you can't physically access them anymore. When your MBD can bifurcate, for example x8+x8, then, a £10 PCIe dongle can split that one x16 PCIe slot into two x8 PCIe slots.
In the US, "on average", a certain group of adult women are significantly more aggressive than adult men, and this really ruins the show. I don't mean merely assertive which is fine. Looking back at all the women I have dated, the few non-aggressive ones were gems. No men would want a relationship with the aggressive women with their egregious levels of hate. I do think that the system of education is to blame for putting society out of balance.
My only counterpoint here is you only notice the AI bots that are obvious. If you ask ChatGPT to speak in a different voice and add in grammatical errors, the text quickly becomes pretty indistinguishable from a real human already.
Consumes? As in, the water disappears?

Also, it's pretty incredible. A very comparable job can be done with a local model on my MacBook Air in few minutes. How many bottles of water is that? That's so gigantic, immeasurable difference in efficiency I can't help but think the article is totally wrong.

BTW I used ChatGPT today. If I didn't, I would have to spend a week doing menial work. Instead, the job was done in few hours. How many bottles of water it saved from being pissed away by me? None, I still piss the same amount of water, but now I have a better ratio of job done vs water pissed.

What a weird way to measure something...
Paper The physics of “everesting” on a bicycle https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/92/10/737/3312282/The-...
Just so we're all clear here, there is a lot of gobbly-gook in this answer which is either off target or irrelevant.

> a standalone device (the panda) that provides and enforces the safety model

What the actual safety model is that is being enforced is far more important here. The safety model could be "there is no safety guarantee whatsoever" and this sentence would still be true.

> All code is written in C to automotive safety standards including ISO26262, ISO11270, ISO15622, and MISRA-C.

26262 says practically nothing about software, what you really want is 21448. And 11270 and 15622 are super low targets for the amount of control authority available here.

MISRA-C is mostly a waste of time when it comes to safety. It gives software developers the warm blanket of having a checklist they can tick items off of, but does little to prevent unsafe systems from being built. Programmers have gotten pretty good about at least using tests and other analysis tools to make sure they're not doing the wildly stupid things that MISRA tries to prevent.

> 100% line coverage for all safety unt tests

100% like coverage is also rather trivial to achieve and doesn't say much. Branch coverage would be better, but being able to make some claims about state space coverage with exposure numbers would be what I'm expecting here.
Apologies for the cynicism, but that immediately makes me think of a node owner dropping a tinfoil hat over their node, waiting for an ACK from the technician, then taking it off again and splitting the "repair" money with the technician. Lather rinse repeat. It could even be automated.

You'd just need one crooked technician who can recruit some number of node owners. (If the tech did it via remote-controlled power interruption and only did it on scattered nodes in areas with lots of redundancy, they wouldn't even need to recruit node owners and split the cash. But they'd also be leaving evidence that could easily get them in trouble once someone started getting wise to it.)
If being nakedly reactionary is liberal now, sure, why not?
It’s just a colloquialism for disconnecting and engaging with the “real world”. Touching grass is just a stand in for getting outside, which represents reality, as opposed to being consumed by life online.
The list of things the consider is long almost exhaustive. Most of the points have already been made, some by other people too, if you follow these things online. While there is nothing there earth-shattering, it's good to see it all nicely laid out. People dismissing everything with a sentence, are not doing it justice.

However. The report is thin on recommendations "What is to be done now?", or did I miss them really!? That really surprises me. If I were to define it in two sentences: UK central gov is ultra centralised in Whitehall (#1) (almost Stalinist in that respect!!), and then that centralised power is further held in a strangle hold by the Treasury Brain - Deep State - OBR complex (#2). So together they are like Centralisation^2.

Atm that ensures - #1 nothing can be done by anyone else, and #2 they've settled on "do nothing" b/c everything costs money, and #2 care disproportionally more about that cost, and much less about what capability assets etc that cost buys UK. Once nothing tangible is done, laziness is naturally encouraged, activity punished, and every promotion every jostling in the hierarchy becomes entirely a beauty contest, divorced from any real-word results. All this seen afar by outsider without any insider knowledge. Just listening to Rory Stewart and Dominic Cummings relying info about the inner workings of UK gov machine.

So any intervention would have to come (walking backwards) into point #2, and or at point #1.

Point #2 means smashing the power of the Treasury. They are good servant, but a bad master. No.10 (the PM) needs to re-assert itself over and above No.11 (the FinMin) by 1st-ly taking decision powers out of No.11 hands. No.10 would have to work much more on getting things done, take interest in that, and leave behind the media PR Circus it's totally devoted to atm. Just assume you will serve 1 term (or less!), drop the "permanent electioneering mode" (that nowadays the position goes into while in gov??), don't think of re-election and try get stuff done, assuming you've run out of time. Can't see how a change like that can come but directly from the top, from the PM. Supported by legislation and votes to dismantle the 1000 roadblocks, via the political power of MPs voting in Parliament.

Point #1 means decentralisation of power. UK for a long time used to have vigorous local authorities that could innovate in various ways. Admired once at the riches of local gov building in Birmingham (UK 2nd largest city). The idea that some pimply fresh graduate 20yo SpAd 120 miles away in London would be telling these people how many pencils they should buy I presume would have seemed to the people running the City gov absurd, like a Monty Python sketch to us.

Mid-term UK needs to build another 10mil strong cities agglomeration, e.g. Liverpool - Manchester - Leeds - Sheffield - Hull, by connecting them with transport links, and building housing along the links for commuting whichever way people fancy. With Birmingham half-way between this new MegaCity and the old London. So London gets some competition, and raises its game too. Atm feels London is coasting because TINA.
Same reason that while I may use Kayak/others for searching, I almost always book the ticket directly with the airline unless it's such a huge savings that it's worth to go through a third party and deal with multiple airlines.
Many airlines will price-match these days so if do find the same flight cheaper through a third-party they'll give it to you at that price (providing all legs were with their airline of course).