skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to note, comparing existing economic systems in different countries can lead to very flawed conclusions. The solutions won't necessarily come from mimicking a particular system either.

Your example -- Finland -- is a very homogenous society with a population that grew from 4.5 to 5.5 million since 1960. The US, on the other hand, is vastly more diverse, both economically and culturally. US population grew from 180 to 345 million since 1960.

When advocating for UBI we can't also advocate for open borders. We have to pick one. Do you want a more open society that is also more economically inequitable, or do you want a more closed and homogenous society that is also more economically healthy? We can't do both unless we transform into some form of the World Government and an extremely globalized economy.

All economic systems (all systems in general) have to adapt to scale. What works for a village is unlikely to work for a country. European economic systems that seem more fair to you have not been yet tested by what we can expect the future world to look like. And when they have, they cracked and showed their flaws (e.g. the recent influx of immigrants from poor economies).

Also, a natural side-effect of more complex systems is that they become harder to manage. That's what we see in the US today. Disfunction at so many levels. China and a few other cultures are attempting to solve that by embracing a varying degree of authoritarianism - a more centralized control of, and distribution of, resources. This system has been proven to be fairly effective at scale (and the scale we can expect in the future). American society lately seems to be moving in a similar direction (both major parties). I don't have high confidence that our economic issues can be solved by anything other than a higher degree of authoritarianism than we currently have.

Lastly, we have experienced major automation breakthroughs throughout the 20th century. E.g. fields that took whole villages to plough now can be handled by a single operator of large machinery... I don't believe in automation as a singular solution for the reason described by inquisitorG above, i.e. human biology and human nature.
> In NYC I can tell you that the metropolitan area lost about 500,000 people since 2020, added ~20-30k housing units per year in that same time. The vacancy rate somehow dropped dramatically despite this and rents also rose dramatically. I've >yet to see any good explanation for this

Taking these numbers as given, the obvious explanation is latent demand. A lot of people who used to live five to a 900 sqft. New York apartment are now living 2 or 3 to an apartment instead. Probably the rent dipped briefly before soaring, yeah? People took advantage, and when leases are up, many of those people will presumably consolidate back with their families.

Very similar to the concept of "induced demand" (which is also really latent demand) with regards to highways. Build new lanes, people who were unwilling to drive before use the lanes, traffic delays stay the same (but with higher throughput, and therefore still a net positive, even if the money would've been better spent on trains).
It looks lovely but it's absolutely incomprehensible beyond "maybe it'll rain" and "maybe i'll be sunny". Without the explanation of what the symbols meant I'd never guess.
Just have to say: ticks terrify me. I spend enough time in the woods and the real risks of disease in addition to them just being amazingly creepy little bloodsuckers.

Yikes.
Nuclear plants trip off all the time. It was a big problem in one of Texas' recent cold snaps where people died.

And many of those nuclear down times are for month+ times. Good luck getting enough batteries to get through that!

Offshore wind typically has a capacity factor of ~50%. Add a smaller number of batteries than you would need for nuclear, and it's going to be cost competitive against any new build.

As far as if it's cost competitive with TMI, I'm not so sure. New build nuclear is likely going to be >$190/MWh. Running the numbers being bandied about for the "Pennsylvania GDP increase", which is a really funny way to say "cost of the electricity for 20 years," and you get $115/MWh. Which is really pricy still. I'm not saying that it's a bad idea to get TMI going again, just that it's pricy, and there's likely lots of other constraints that went into deciding to do this.
Hi - we encrypt everything at rest and use metadata to improve LLM performance.

We don't yet have enterprise-grade data permissioning or compliance certificates like Soc2. Those will come in time.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590688
This is absolutely insane - hats off to you. To say it's impressive it's like to say nothing.
I tend to agree, but is that really a fatal flaw? A lossy compression scheme that gets it 90% right only has to encode the delta for the remaining 10%. Which is a big cost, sure, but the alternative is evaluating how important the thrown-away stuff is, and that evaluation is rife with subjective value judgements. There are no right answers, only differing flavors of wrong ones. It's the question of what is important to generalize over, and nobody is ever going to agree on that.
I did the same. Requiring an account for a browser is immediately disqualifying. I don't care how many features it has.
> 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.

Maybe your use of quotes is intentional here, but for posterity's sake there is no actual fine-tuning happening using user input in the code you linked, insofar as the weights of the model aren't being touched at all, nor are they modifying anything else that could impact the original weights (like a LoRA adapter). You touch on this, I think (?), in some of your subsequent language but it read as a little confusing to me at first glance. Or maybe I've been too deep in the ML weeds for too many years at this point.

The paper details the actual process, but the TL;DR is that the memory module they use, basically a draft model, does go through a pretraining phase using the redpajama dataset, and then an SFT phase with a different objective. This all happens before and irrespective of the inference-time task (i.e. asking questions about a given text). Also, as has been pointed out in other comments, the draft model could really be any model that supports long context and has decent retrieval performance. So the actual training phases here may be non-essential depending on your infra/cost constraints.
Can't wait for the stable diffusion version :)
Sadly true, but Firestore has a security rules emulator and encourages you to write unit tests for it! There's just so many levels of "ignored all reasonable practices" here. Where's the code review? Where's the security/privacy audit?
safe spaces are segregation

inclusion of males in women’s advancement being done better by those males

I do find it all amusing at the very least, I get the impression that the proponents aren’t familiar with US history so I advocate for “separate but equal” facilities to get buy in for their safe spaces, just for maximum irony

I sidestep an opinion by trolling everyone
A Hackers' Guide to a Diplomatic Passport
You can turn any lossy compression scheme into a lossless scheme by encoding the error... The lossy scheme should be aiming for low error, making the error encoding progressively smaller as the lossy scheme improves.

What's harder to deal with from a measurement perspective is sematic equivalence. calling some kinds of errors zero-cost, but not having a great way to categorize what the loss of, exactly. But it's kinda what you want for really extreme compression: the content is equivalent at a high level, but may be a very different byte stream.
I know it seems counter-intuitive, but investors buying up scarce resources like housing, and pushing up their price, is what you want to happen. When the price rises to reflect the scarcity of the product, then the profit motive to produce more of that product increases. That means more houses get built. A high price has a real purpose in the economy, so we should let investors buy up the assets they want so that the price of assets aligns with their respective scarcitym

Now Single Family Houses are a slightly different thing, as much of their value derives from the land that they're built on, and you can't build more land. So the benefit of investors buying up SFHs is going to be much less significant than investors buying up units in high-density developments like condo towers.
Evaporative cooling (and the water required) is cheaper than the electricity for traditional cooling. If the economics changed or there really wasn't enough water, they could change how the data center is cooled. This is mostly a fake problem.
Nowadays, on macOS, "dict://Internet" will open the Dictionary app with the query "Internet". (Probably behind a security prompt.) Not sure, if there's similar functionality on other operating systems.
Nice. Although it has little to do with the "internet of things". It's an improvement in radio receiver filters, always useful but not a huge deal.
As nice as it is to have a drop in replacement, most of the cost of GPU computing is moving memory around. Wouldn’t be surprised if this catches unsuspecting programmers in a few performance traps.
> Why would you talk to a random human or read some random article on a regular basis?

That's literally 90%+ percent of content you consume. It includes newspaper articles whose authors you don't know, approximately every result you view from Google, and even most comments here, mine included. Same is the case for everyone.

You're right, it's about curation, but what I'm saying is, AI authorship is a non-factor once you control for incentives and context. Right now, there are no independent AI agents on the Internet - so behind every piece of generated content, there is a human that decided the particular piece of content should be generated and then published.

Put another way, how good or bad AI models are is irrelevant - any AI content you see has been deemed good enough by the humans publishing it. Identify those people and curate against them, like you always did.
No, it doesn't. I did not comment because of Intel specifically but because many comments I have read about similar mass layoffs tend to dehumanize ordinary workers for being "useless bloat" while completely ignoring that the root cause of the problems is moronic decisions by higher-ups.

Mass layoffs that unexpectedly upend the lives of thousands of people are basically guaranteed to cause a couple deaths by suicide, ruined families or homelessness so at least have some basic human decency when talking about those that are affected most.
Show HN: Brzzy Weather – A Fun, Interactive Weather App with GIFs
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Only $2k for an exploit like this?
Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds
A key part of creativity is picking up on what others overlook
I don't see how it changes the situation. You can never know the exact life situation of any particular individual. I may be a member of one (or many) marginalised groups. I'm aware I'm ignorant of many issues, including even those that directly concern me.

Still, TinkersW's comment amounts to "don't be gay". That's exactly the kind of thinking that enables this problem in the first place.

Whether you're privileged or not, tolerance could be as simple as just letting people live their lives. Acts of discrimination, hate, aggression - whether mandated by law, by customs, or else - these are all wilful choices, made by people who commit them.
Steam 2003 [video]
Highlights include:

> The state is one of seven likely to determine the contest between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

> The board's chair, John Fervier, a Republican, voted against the rule, saying the "overwhelming number of election officals" who reached out to him were opposed to the change. "I do think it's too close to the election," Fervier said. "It's too late to train a lot of poll workers."

> Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the state's top election official, had warned ahead of the meeting that the rule would introduce "the opportunity for error, lost or stolen ballots, and fraud."

> The hand count rule would require three poll workers in each of the state's more than 6,500 precincts to open the sealed boxes of ballots scanned by machines and conduct a hand count, starting as soon as election night. A separate rule would impose the same requirement for any ballot box that collects more than 1,500 ballots by the end of the day during early voting, which starts on Oct. 15.

Are there 20,000 law students who can be deployed to Georgia as election monitors?

And another 20,000 law students, to be sprinkled around the rest of the country?
I’m not sure how this applies to the conversation. The challenges being discussed here are centred around managing compliance and long-term sustainability within specific platform ecosystems. It’s about navigating policies, ensuring longevity, and minimising risk rather than short-term shareholder gains. The generational divide you’re mentioning doesn’t really seem relevant in this scenario.
Oh, we all do run on them, I think, because our experiences are moderated by chemicals in our brains anyway. Shift your hormonal balance here or there just a bit, and this or that part of your identity or behavior can get marginally out of your control.

Some people, like you, in their "default" state can control their behavior to a degree that allows them to choose the "loudness" of their reactions to external stimuli. Perhaps you can still be technically angered by something minuscule, but at least you're able to choose to not react and refocus your attention onto something else. Therefore, it might be said that you have the ability to reflect upon your feelings and behavior in perceived real time and adjust them to some degree. It's like you're an external observer to a state machine of yourself, or you're running a reflective feedback loop always on, or that you can actually give the taxi driver of your brain actual directions that they would follow. Which, I certainly agree, is quite practical and useful, liberating even.

In my earlier comment I tried to imply that for many people what you experience as normal may be borderline impossible, therefore getting angry at a phone is "normal". It is that they may be not able to target their reactions with any precision that you're used to. I think you can find evidence of that pretty much everywhere.
> I hate that the AI pundits have succeeded in popularizing the notion of "hallucination", anthropomorphizing these balls of statistics into something that seems like it's actually in some sort of deep thought process akin to a person's mind.

I'd argue the opposite: people think a person's mind is in "deep thought" when it's actually just a ball of statistics.
As I understand it from a couple of my British friends talking about insulation, the old homes were built to breathe, so you can't just seal them up and put insulation in, because you'll end up with humidity problems.

I think Karl Marx only serves as an expensive lesson in what destructive ideas look like. Everywhere that has implemented any version of it has ended up impoverished, unfree, and frequently with millions killed. China's success came only after they junked Marxism, and Xi Jinping's quasi return to it has seen Chinese prosperity slowly drop.
For anyone not already familiar with Clarke and Dawe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Attention is a skill. You can train your attention like you train a muscle. There's a real proliferation, these days, of medical and chemical treatments for ADHD. And many of them really help people. But if your goal is to build muscle, maybe what you need isn't a steroid injection, but an exercise.

While there are some new treatments for ADHD which show some promise, some of the best ways to train one's attention are the oldest. Zen Buddhism, for example, has been around for fifteen hundred years or so, and has a lot of evidence behind it. If you sit in zazen for a full sesshin, at around ten hours a day for ten days, you will undoubtedly start to develop strong powers of attention. But even ten minutes a day is effective.
The Homely Mutt (2012)
Feels like right out of a Westworld plot.

Wait, it literally was.

So someone is paying massive insurance premiums on this right?

Not "privatize the profits, socialize the costs" right?
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Google has lost a small amount of market share, but nothing too significant to warrant "most of us have simply stopped using Google":
https://searchengineland.com/googles-huge-search-market-shar....
Also in Clojure, and reactive, and relational: https://github.com/wotbrew/relic

> Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script).
That’s why I set my no procrast to an ultra high value and use the service in unauthenticated mode. I can still comment, but I don’t get to vote, see votes, flag, or see flagged comments. All the posible engagement baits and flame war triggers disappear, and I’m left with just the raw text. Mano a Mano.
The author argues that constraints (or a lack of features) are very often imposed in order to provide certain guarantees (even if they aren't immediately obvious), and we should tend to respect them for that reason.

But in my experience, many libraries and systems try to impose constraints on users that are dubious at best, or actively hostile at worst, under the label of "encouraging best practices" or similar: the only resulting guarantee is that "users aren't allowed to do dumb stuff with my library or system", for some value of "dumb". While this can make sense for sensitive things like security, some authors' ideas of "best practices" can be unnecessary and at odds with interoperability.

So in general, I think it makes sense to question the value of constraints, and not blindly trust them to always be beneficial.
Documentation is largely static content. It isn't their job to play SEO games to convince search engines to surface it in the query results. Documentation is not a revenue generator for Google so it gets buried below the sites with Doubleclick ads.
Scheduling loads based on energy spot price tends to wreck the economics of manufacturing. If you have to shut down when energy prices spike then you're still paying fixed expenses for PP&E plus at least some labor. It's tough to finance that.
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Flames... Flames from the side of my face. This is an absolute user hostile "Go Fuck Yourself" by Google. There is now no way for a user to enumerate and incrementally back up their photos (read: access their own data). Your application would only be able to see either photos that you create with the backup tool, or that you have explicitly shared with it by hand.

Fuck you, Google.
> However, the AMD-GPU compatibility for CuPy is quite an attractive feature.

Last I checked (a couple months ago) it wasn't quite there, but I totally agree in principle. I've not gotten it to work on my Radeons yet.
The idea is cool but none of the design decisions made sense. Why would you need carbon fiber struts. Airship that size doesn't have to deal with pressure changes there was no reason to be semi rigid. Where do you attach the sensor payload. Anywhere above the very bottom is going to be unstable with the vertical design. But that's also the worst place for vision & lidar sensors.
The point of the bitter lesson is "leverage compute as best you can" not "use DNNs everywhere just because". Oftentimes your available compute is still a crappy ARM machine with no real parallel compute where the best DNN you can run is still not large nor fast enough to even be viable, much less a good fit.

And well some classical algorithms like A* are mathematically optimal. You literally cannot train a more efficient DNN if your problem needs grid search. It will just waste more compute for the same result.

Besides, the nav stack is not really the point of ROS. It's the standardization. Standard IPC, types, messages, package building, deployment, etc. Interoperability where you can grab literally any sensor or actuator known to man and a driver will already exist and output/require the data in the exact format you need/have, standard visualizers and controllers to plug into the mix and debug. This is something we'll need as long as new hardware keeps getting built even if the rest of your process is end to end. It doesn't have to be the best, it just needs to work and it needs to be widely used for the concept to make sense.
CPU-by-correspondence!
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Curious what routes you fly, I have been on full flights consistently in the past few years, mostly Boston to Denver
I am also just about to attach my microscope to a CNC system, but not for taking pictures of two dimensional manufactured objects but rather for Z-stacking use in biological light microscopy. Probably some horizontal stitching too.

The prompt was that someone gave me a broken project which they had never finished (small-scale benchtop CNC system which is highly rigid and heavy but had no wiring, an ancient power supply and a busted spindle motor). I considered finishing the project but the overall size was too small to be very useful for any CNC work I would want (we used to have a large scale commercial 4-axis!). Therefore I am retrofitting a new control system [acquired], rationalizing the power supply [done], and clamping on a USB industrial camera based microscope [clamp acquired, intermediate mounting plate TBD].

On my current microscope mount it's really annoying to zoom a little, take a shot, zoom a little, take a shot since there's a high chance of bumping the sample or some slight vibration affecting a shot, and it's very hard to move a tiny amount due to high-friction macro adjustment interface. I was part-way through designing a fix, with some axis modifications for a motor mount, but then realised it would be easier to just redesign the mount from scratch rather than retrofit a one-off modification. Before allocating time to get that done, the CNC fell in to my lap.
You can get boots that function as boots for $300. The thing is everyone has forgotten what high quality actually is. High quality boots are north of $700 starting price and can last 20 years.

This is of course a massively opinionated subject about price/quality so no one will ever agree but there are plenty brands north of $1000 now that probably are around as big market as doc martin was in the 80s. I'd consider that to be the more accurate comparison.