skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is explained in the article:

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That does happen, of course, but research shows that it is not the full story. A study of more than 17,600 overweight and obese patients from 41 countries who took semaglutide found that participants lost about 10% of their body weight and had a 20% reduction in serious adverse coronary events, strokes, heart attacks and all-cause mortality. Crucially, these cardiovascular improvements long preceded any meaningful weight loss.
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"_Among_ the most important..."
There has been a bit of hyperbole of late about energy saving AI.

There isn't a magic bullet here, it's just people improving a relatively new technology. Even though the underlying neural nets are fairly old now, the newness of transformers and the newness of the massive scale means there's quite a lot of low hanging fruit still. Some of the best minds are on this problem and are reaching for the hardest to get fruit.

A lot of these advancements work well together improving efficiency a few percent here, a few percent there.

This is a good thing, but people are doing crazy comparisons by extrapolating older tech into future use cases.

This is like estimating the impact of cars by correctly guessing that there are 1.4 Billion cars in the world and multiplying that by the impact of a single model-T Ford.
Private servers of two games (4 servers and 1 server) I played got disconnected at the same time. They're hosted in FR/DE afaik.
There is a spike of reports on DownDetector for OVH. [1] 87 at the time

[Edit] Reports declining as of 14:09:04 UTC.

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/ovh/
The long-term side effects of GLP-1 drugs are not well-studied, but the press seems to talk about them as if they are—in glowing terms as if their broad adoption is a given and a lifetime attached to the tit of a friendly drug company (with your credit card inserted) is merely a temporary problem.

I think we need to greet this whole class of drugs with skepticism, if for no other reason than they’re being a pharma companies’ wet dream of a product. The incentives to interrupt their rollout don’t exist.

I’m aware of the wide range of benefits, and understand they may end up saving lives. But skepticism is warranted here.
I’ll come in again…
What would be an accurate phrase that would not be unnecessarily divisive? Clump of cells? Feteus? Everything is political and divisive nowadays so no matter what you choose it will be wrong.
Jesus, Ozempic and the weight loss drugs "revolution" are all what the Economist seems to talk about these days. For the past week it's literally the only thing they have been focusing on, world economy be damned.
well by that logic, every HN poster is _among_ the most important people in tech
In theory, yes. Those are called radiovoltaics and are being researched.
> Experimental licences have more bandwidth than commercial licences, allow for “frequency hopping”

I think there is another angle to this where the modulation scheme makes a lot of the difference. If you figure out a way to send market information below the noise floor (i.e., spread spectrum schemes) how would anyone even know what you are doing?

If I was operating an HFT firm I would be all-in on the "ask for forgiveness, not for permission" angle, because the politics around my business are really nasty.
Flashlight body would probably want a lathe, but one of the newer flat ones would be easy in two halves.

For an example of a knife blade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TYla5x-Nk

small tool:

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/nomad-made-custom-titanium...
Zen 5 deep dive (video with detailed die shots)
I would say it's one of the most important breakthroughs of the 21st century, but as far as the most important breakthrough's ever? Sorry, antibiotics, penicillin and ivermectin hold the podium for that accomplishment.

I equate GLP1 hype in the medical industry to AI hype in the tech industry. Yes it's an important breakthrough but there are other much more important breakthroughs that humans have achieved in the past.
That's nice. On the other hand, I'm fat because I eat too much. It makes me unhealthy and less attractive. I welcome GLP-1s and think they definitely should be prescribed for cosmetic weight loss. Others can use whatever psychological coping strategies they deem fit—I'll have the pharmaceuticals.
Using AFL++ on bug bounty programs: an example with Gnome libsoup
>Say the tax brackets are rewritten for 2025, starting “January 1”

U.S. income taxes are calculated on an annual basis, not hourly, so that is not an issue. (Wages are taxed according to when they are paid, which is a specific point in time, not according to when they were earned). A better example is trying to figure which calendar (tax) year an item of income or deduction belongs to. On tax professional forums, there are occasional discussions about what happens if I make a business payment online just before New Year's Day begins, but the recipient doesn't "constructively receive" it until after (or similar scenarios involving time zone differences). Do I get a deduction for the old year, but they have income in the new year? (The best answer, of course, is to not wait until a few hours before a deadline to conduct business transactions of this type, but not every type of business has that choice available).
They will eventually get to charge to comment when the squeeze gets really tight. In the end only the carcass will be left.
Super Micro Computer Auditor Ernst and Young Quits Amid Probe
It reminds me of one of the arguments against assisted suicide, particularly for disabled people. If the option is there, people start to question why you're not taking it (e.g. if you were extremely disabled, why wouldn't you use assisted suicide. If you're overweight, why aren't you using Ozempic).
>- Isn't this addictive? No, it isn't.

I've heard this one before.

There's a little thing called the opioid epidemic that started because Oxycodone was meant to be free from the potential to be addictive.

30 years later - oops.

I trust medications which haven't become generic less than leaches on any claim they make.
I have to think economies of scale are coming into play for Apple. They can cut deals for chips and other components at a scale no one else is really capable of and they have the luxury of being able to pay up front in advance if they need to.
This is a problem with the nature of sites such as HN, or forums. They live in the present, and there is no mechanism to build up a body of knowledge, every reader has to re-process the whole log himself.
IIRC, a cascade of turbines, going from high-temperature water steam to basically room-temperature ammonia, can reach a total efficiency exceeding 50%.

Of course, ammonia is chemically active, and water at 700K is also chemically active, so the turbines, as usual, require special metallurgy and regular maintenance.
A Spooky Tale of ChatGPT – The Error That Won't Go Away
How I lost hours of my life by blindly trusting ChatGPT.
Oil companies? Airports? Servicing companies? Frequent flier and credit card programs tied to the airlines?
How is that different from covid vaccines? The long term risk wasn't known, but covid was super dangerous for a subset of the population, so for those it was absolutely a risk worth taking, and so is obesity.
They wouldn't have more than the USA's army.
No, we really aren't.
> In 1910 there were 240,000 carriage manufactures in the U.S, only 4 years later, there were 5.

This makes no sense. Carriages weren't invented in the 1900s. They were displaced by a new technology. LLMs are not the carriages of our world, they are the cars.

> We have no use for crypto-currency

You have no use for it, but a lot of people do (not just for speculation).
Compared to plastic 3D printers, metal 3D printing ones are at minimum 100x more expensive, if not 1000x or 10000x.
These are submarines*

* https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
In what way exactly? I wish Zed was better here but it's at about the same level as the current nvim plugins avail. As far as I can tell it's just a UI for adding context.
Cells are predominately electrical in nature. Our sense of physical being is an emergent effect of electromagnetic repulsion at the atomic level. The smaller you get, the less sense it makes to model things as solid and the more sense to model things as charge fields. Modeling proteins and molecules is largely about modeling their electric field.

Quantum mechanics get outsized attention as the “small scale” world. The electrical exists just above it in size, but is much more relevant to how we perceive reality.
Wall Street Giants to Make $50B Bet on AI and Power Projects
Ive moved all my flows to uv but still use venv and pip install -r for quick things.
You gotta love a hedge that removes all meaning from a sentence.
Of course not, that's my point. Phrasing it as "among the most important" is marketing doublespeak.
Elffont: A "Chinese Elvish" Font
In 2021, a Chinese MMO 天諭 (Revelation Online) introduces an "Elvish" in the game as the language of elves[1].

People later discovered that the "language" was actually not a newly constructed language but Chinese in plain Bopomofo (Mandarin Phonetic Symbols).

It is said a Taiwanese member in the development team came up with the idea. The difference of transliteration system between China and Taiwan made it a viable and interesting idea.

As the main remaining user of Bopomofo, many Taiwanese found it amusing thus it went viral and became a meme in Taiwanese internet culture.

Today, justfont, a type design studio in Taiwan, took on the meme and released Elffont, a Bopomofo font which turns Bopomofo symbols into fancy Elvish characters.

This font is free to use without further notice, and can be used for commercial applications. The font itself can not be modified, sold or re-released.

1: https://p2.bahamut.com.tw/B/2KU/41/9b4631794e4b986e0dfe62f74...
Twig Block Versioning in Shopware PhpStorm Plugin
You can use K4 to build a columnar database for sure. It's a storage engine primarily.
Wasn't Windows 7 a rebranding of Vista with some improvements, maybe just lipstick on a pig but still, I really don't know.

I do know I liked Win 7 way better than Vista.
That isn’t true yet, because most cold places don’t use electricity for heating; in Boston for example the norm is oil or gas furnaces. Europe typically uses gas for heating, as we all learned during the Ukraine war’s beginning. When I lived in the Boston area, our electricity use, peaked in the summer during air-conditioning season. That is, until we got a heat pump, then our electricity spiked like crazy in the winter. but we are long way from having the majority of homeowners using heat pumps for their primary heat source. (Also heat pumps are kinda awful compared to furnaces in my experience so we might never get there).
~2 months ago. A typical laptop is more stable when sitting on my lap, etc.
I have 2 Sony TVs with Android/Google TV and there is an "apps only" mode that you can choose in the settings, which reduces the clutter. I've dabbled with alternate launchers like ATV Launcher and Projectivity, but have had quirky behavior. I find the "apps only" mode to be just fine without needing the third party launchers.

Instructions:
https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10070784?hl=en&sj...
I keep thinking the transistor is being wasted in AI. We use binary states to remove entropy from the system. In AI, however, much more entropy is acceptable. It seems that we should be able to do a lot better than NAND gates for this use case.
"As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision"
Oh hey another one that takes responsibility by taking on 0 consequences.
Off topic but the designer who came up with that logo is a genius! :-)
I always turn my monitors to the lowest possible brightness for long work sessions, so I assumed (perhaps mistakenly) that this eco mode would already be close to my settings out of the box, and if anything, too bright. Assuming 20c per kWh (California rates, mostly solar during the day) and one kWh per day (8h at 130kW average use), much higher than the allowed EU limit and the eco mode, the monetary cost comes down to about 4 USD per month. So definitely not negligible but also not a reason to avoid being able to tile 64 terminals if one wanted to do that.

[edit: the above estimate is almost certainly an upper bound on the energy I would ever use myself with such an item; I would be curious to measure it properly if/when I upgrade to one, and curious if the OP has a measure of their own usage. My best guess is that in practice I would average between 2 and 3 kWh every week (2 USD/month) rather than 5 kWh, because I tend to work in low light.]
I would argue that the gain is more than "negligible" in some cases. I'm building an app involving storing and serving images and I'm surprised that for the same images with the same resolution/quality, WebP is often 3x-4x smaller than PNG, which translates to lower storage cost, faster serving time, and happier users. You made a good point that people with older devices wouldn't be able to use apps like mine. But for me, the gain is so significant that I might just accept that.
It looks nice and it's a cool little project for a developer portfolio. However, there are some issues.

I wanted to read some info about the site, like where the photos come from, but the limited info that is provided is in the footer, which instantly gets pushed off the screen when you try to scroll down to it I had to disable javascript so I could read the info in the footer.

The footer has almost no info but it does says this: "We provide a curated collection of stunning images from various sources."

What sources? My first guess was this is just a wrapper around Unsplash. I looked at the source and I was close, it's just a wrapper around a similar free stock photo site called Pexels.

The Pexels license does say attribution is not required but I think you should offer it anyway. The bigger issue is that the license specifically says you can't use the photos for a site like this:

"Don't redistribute or sell the photos and videos on other stock photo or wallpaper platforms." https://www.pexels.com/license/
Vagrus: The River Realms[1] is excellent.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/909660/Vagrus__The_Riven_...
Ask for 100% upfront. Real companies who want results may not agree off the bat, but you can negotiate around it.

This is the way.
Stack ranking is back masquerading as (bi) annual layoffs
But what would be the point of that, beyond the thrill of building a robot? The joy of LEGO is finding the pieces and building it yourself, not in owning an assembled model.
+++1

THIS!

exactly my style of working and how i think about that:
i've also not enabled/installed CoPilot or similar, just AutoSuggestion by default in VS.NET
But i use LLM heavily to get rid off all the exhausting tasks, and to generate ideas what to improve in some larger code blocks so i dont have to rewrite/refactor it on my own.

It boosts my productivity by 10x at least.
I lived in Hobart for a while and I was a firm proponent of having a Tassie south timezone that had a 2 hour winter shift to get some afternoon light. That six week pit in winter when the sun goes down at 430pm is tough.
Have you looked at Shapeways or sendcutsend or xometry or 100k Garages?

That said, I have an especial interest in archery and multiple machines.

Contact me at: https://community.carbide3d.com/u/willadams and we can at least work out doing a couple of prototypes.
Honestly, this doesn't strike me as a bad layoff announcement, with one caveat.

I’m writing to let you all know that after careful consideration, we've decided to reduce our global workforce by approximately 20% or 528 Dropboxers.

Should be replaced with

I’m writing to let you all know that after careful consideration, we've decided to reduce our global workforce by approximately 20% or 528 people.

You should never use your pet names for employees in a layoff announcement. It makes an otherwise serious announcement seem tone-deaf.
A vaccine only takes a few doses, plus they're pretty cheap. Worst case scenario you get a booster every year. These drugs stop working the second you drop taking them
Speaking as a writer, I would use an IBM Model M keyboard in a heartbeat. Made in 1985, so 40 years old.
Sure. But that's completely different from saying it's strange because software doesn't accommodate it.
ArrayBuffer, Binary Arrays in JavaScript
It's pretty obvious from the accounts of the partners he worked with that he was a straight forward guy who did the opposite of what you suggest. If you read the story, he got a detail wrong, it wasn't due to an immediate bankruptcy of the railway, but a strike that eventually let to the bankruptcy of the railway operator. In any case, the computer did not get to its destination in time. We don't know if it ever got there or not as it had become irrelevant to the story.
I’m 22 and work on a 3-person team so it’s hard for me to imagine why a company would more than 4 or 5 total employees.
Being sorry - check

Takes full responsibility - check

Layoffs are still there
Whoa whoa whoa, he’s only taking responsibility for the decision.
There are many competing definitions which is why these comment threads devolve.
Delivering a Package in a Country With 17,000 Islands
Prolog's resolution engine is more about logical inference - it will happily backtrack through different paths to find solutions.

What Graham proved specifically was about relational databases: if you try to maintain consistent joins across all possible paths (aka "join consistency"), it becomes an NP-complete problem. The "Universal Relation Problem" requires ALL possible join paths to give consistent results.

Prolog doesn't have verify consistency across an exponential number of join path, so I fail to see how it is a "universal relation" system.
Took the responsibility right to his bank account.
> I'd sooner believe it's because they want you to buy 2 of them, so you can charge one while using the other.

We're discussing in this context. I still stand by the claim that there are probably around zero people on the planet that bought a second MM specifically to use it while the other one is charging.

I'm not doubting that there exists a group of people that happen to have acquired two MMs, however that came to be.
Restore the classic YouTube front end with the current back end
Well, for the latter parts they do this already by a perfection of 90%+, i'd say - finally you are glueing together the pieces you get from the LLM.

ClaudeAI Pro rocks, since you can create Projects/Worksapces and put documents into.

Let me ask: How much did you already work with LLM like Claude?
Right now we're still all-in on pyenv & poetry.. I need to evaluate where this is at in comparison
Don't want to remind other workers that they share something with these workers. Solidarity can be contagious.
Please update the title. Suggestion: Pg_analytics has switched to PostgreSQL license

When I first read this, I thought it's a smirk on pg_analytics being some kind of a wrapper around PostgreSQL and that they license and charge you for using it, kind of like how AWS is famous for wrapping various open-source projects and selling them.
I mean yeaaa... it's just work. In big corporation. What do you expect from them? He will get bonus for "savings".
Ok so just to be clear, that's an entirely different and unrelated argument from the one I responded to.

Second, it's wrong. LLMs can learn within their context window. The main issue now is the limited size of their context window; animals have a lifetime of compressed context and LLMs only have approximately one conversation.
What the fuck lol
the http stack is updated as part of the app/browser, media codecs are often updated as part of the OS
> can just specialise by hand to get the same results

Sure, if you write all the code. If you're writing a library or more generic functions, you don't have that power.

And, even then, while you can do this it's going to be much more code and more prone to bugs. C++ is complex, but that complexity can often bring simplicity. I don't need to specialize for int, double, float, etc because the compiler can do it for me. And I know the implementation will be correct. If I specialize by hand, I can make mistakes.

In addition, this isn't something where C "shines". You can do the exact same thing in C++, if you want. Many templates have hand-rolled specializations for some types.

> apples vs apples

It is, they're both qsort. When every single comparison requires multiple dereferences + a function call it adds up.

> For some inputs if you're willing to use a specialist sort the best option today is C

I don't understand how. Even if this is the case, which I doubt, you could just include the C headers in a C++ application. So, C++ is equally as good of a choice + you get whatever else you want/need.

> Rust has significantly faster sort (stable and unstable) than any of the three C++ stdlibs

Maybe, but there's a new std::sort implementation in LLVM 17. Regardless, the Rust implementations are very fast for the same reason the C++ implementations are fast - encoding information in types at compile-time and aggressively inlining the comparison function. Rust has a very similar generic methodology to C++.
Anybody from Poland will be layed off?
A lot of people appreciate the fact that whenever some random government decides to change of rule of their timezone (such as announcing DST changes), they only get a file update where the file is not powerful enough to be Turing complete instead of a C library update.
how would you like the next CEO to handle it, for reference?
I don't see any literature showing myocarditis through the roof, can you share some sources? As far as I can remember the sources I've read after 2 years of the vaccines rollout showed a small risk of temporary myocarditis in a very small cohort.

The shots were quite effective at curbing spread by lowering the time people shed the virus, and also substantially lowering mortality among infected.

If that's ineffective I think... You had the wrong expectations?

I'd really appreciate sources for your extraordinary claims.
Having a sharp knife will make you far more efficient if you know how to use it in the first place and sharpening knives takes time away from doing the cooking.

This is kind of a wonky analogy though.
> it makes me unhealthy

...then it's not cosmetic weight loss? I don't think we disagree. If we prescribed these medications the same way we prescribe, say, blood pressure medication, I think I would be less worried. When you have high blood pressure, they of course put you on a medication immediately to get your blood pressure down, but the goal is to reduce the medication over time by helping you work on the underlying cause of the high blood pressure. Some people just have naturally high blood pressure and will need the medication support forever, and that's OK, but many people can engage in lifestyle changes that will give them most of the improvement they need. If we were approaching GLP-1's with the same mindset I think I would be much less worried about the future of our society with these medications.

And for what it's worth, the above isn't a "coping strategy". It's body acceptance, which has made me a hell of a lot healthier than all the attempts I made at losing weight I didn't really need to lose in order to be healthy and happy.
Don't worry your imagination will develop over time.
https://archive.ph/aVVg0
There's an article by Sequoia Capital asking how AI will return enough profit to investors, to justify the current levels of capex. Sequoia calls it AI's $600B Question.

In this article I am trying to answer this question.
It is my observation that most unicorn execs become tone-deaf and out of touch very quickly. Something about human nature.