skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if we are talking past each other, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofuel

Electrofuels, also known as e-fuels, are a class of synthetic fuels which function as drop-in replacement fuels for internal combustion engines. They are manufactured using captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, together with hydrogen obtained from water split.

It is my understanding that there is actually a shortage of concentrated co2 if we want to produce e-fuels as drop-in replacements in e.g. planes.
Easy, just explain exactly what you collect, what not, for which exact purposes you will use that data and why — and exclude purposes you will definitly not use it (e.g. send it to third parties, sell it to the highest bidder). Additionally say what is anonymized, aggregated etc, if that applies.

Then add a: "If anything about that should ever change, you you will be notified and asked again within this game".

Then consider addin an option where technically interested users can actually see that data in full.

If you collect reasonable data and explain clearly why people help you the dev when they share it with you, more people might be inclined to do so.

If you make a wishy washy marketing speech that says nothing will just click no.

TL;DR: Be honest, precise and make a promise that people can check you on and explain why they help you with this.
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
>The only real barrier is interest/motivation.

My barrier at that age was just information. Obviously things have become much easier now.

Having windows 95 as your first OS made this particularly difficult and the Internet was what it was at that time.

It took me years to find the right questions to ask and the right information. What took me several years to figure out I have tought someone in an afternoon. (getting from 0 to a short roadmap to something functional).
Rather a debriefing than a postmortem (the author successfully finished the PhD).
They’re barely profitable, balancing on the edge for years. Paying a cut to Steam is one of the last things they want to do.
Somewhat depending on writer, The Guardian is highly biased and fairly inaccurate. I don't think they are filling any type of niche in reporting that we will miss. https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/
Tabloids? Not when 51 intelligence professionals sign a letter, claiming the laptop to be false when in fact it was not. I think the laptop story is a classic example of why people distrust a journalists. You had many media outlets, backed by government officials, essentially covering up for Hunter Biden and lying to the public. The laptop exists. It's contents exist. But for years all we heard was that this was a false flag operation from Russia.

That was a lie
Sony has great audio codecs and doesn't treat my Linux desktop as a second-class citizen. I have zero reason to even consider Airpods as a serious alternative for as long as they treat multipoint bluetooth as an optional feature.

Once you factor price into the equation, there's very little reason for an educated customer to pick the Airpods besides marketing. Apple doesn't give people a good reason unless they already own thousands of dollars in other Apple hardware.
If you have a wired connection to the box you should be able to use wake on lan from a phone (this is what I used to do, now homeassistant took over this responsibility).
Companies that run DuckDB in Prod
Thank you! Currently fight (and losing) a battle with Sony headphones on windows & LDAC protocol
We wrote optimized C++ software.

We had all kinds of scary tech, like custom-compiled metrics software from Intel.

They insisted that all of our machines run their malwa- er, security software.

It would totally screw up our measurements.
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I wonder how well magnetometers would work inside metal trains full of electric motors.
Yeah. It was that time iirc when all similar companies were trying to get market share whilst their sales went through the roof due to lockdown.

I wonder whether the project started a couple of years ago to consolidate the systems of all the acquisitions has actually borne fruit?
Kelsey Hightower is a great follow, sage advice he often giveth

https://bsky.app/profile/kelseyhightower.com
There are some people without sight who use clicks of their tongue to build a mental map of nearby objects.

It would be fascinating to compare fMRI images of bats and humans performing a similar task. Not sure if that would qualify for an ignoble prize, but it'd be an interesting study to read!

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish is who I am thinking of. I've tried it myself in a very dark room with a sleeping mask on: You can definitely hear differences, and with practice it might help you to navigate. I also became a lot more aware of air currents, and had to move slowly to prevent disrupting "useful" air movements.
Or adapting to specific dietary requirements.

Simple formats and clear written language go a long way for human use cases.
Bitwarden moved away from MAUI IIRC maybe you can search about that
If you are going with MMT with a state monopoly on money creation (that extra assumption isn't automatic), then the only way private entities can make money disappear is if they literally burn it. Only the government can do that by transactions.

(And if you decide to go with private money creation, it's way more complex, and I have very little confidence on you solving the problem you stated.)

> And that ladies and gentlemen is how MMT looks like Keynesianism with a new coat of paint

Your explanation doesn't sound like Keynesianism at all (with the "ism" it's that theory that Keynes didn't believe in). It sounds exactly like Monetarism (with the "ism" it's that theory that isn't derived from the MMT).

> It does mean that when the bond market that every government is afraid of starts charging 7% then governments response really should be - ok that’s too expensive a means of reducing inflation - we are going to tax the wealthy instead.

Taxing the wealthy tends to be healthy. And after several years, your tax rate may have some impact on the interest rate (nobody really knows, lots of people claim to know). But on the best case, there's a delay to take into account that your idea does not fit at all.
I don't want to go much farther down the road than "I work in tech" ;)
This is true. I suspect that a lot of these massive breaches, was because some less-technical person loaded the customer data onto an unsecured AWS instance, while they were running measurements on it.
> A lot of French nuclear plants are scheduled to be decomissioned

Really? Aren't they getting life-extended past 40 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant was closed down due to Swiss/German objections, but are any of the other PWRs planned to be closed down?

> French tax payers pay for the difference and have done so for years.

Social tariffs are a thing, as is redistribution of wealth.

> that somewhat artificial cost of 8 cents per kwh is actually on the high side for renewables

Let us not conflate the price paid to a generator with the cost to the consumer.
Also why do renewables need subsidies in France? https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/docume...
Possibly overly cynical, but I think a lot of people who are getting forced to shoehorn LLMs into their applications don’t have a choice about NOT using an LLM for the required use case.

Testing and validation kind of imply that it won’t ship if it isn’t fit for purpose, which isn’t an option and most devs will know it’s kind of junk already.

That’s not to say there aren’t good use cases, but when forced to add an LLM somewhere it doesn’t work, and you have no examples of “correct” output anyway, validation is usually an afterthought.
Like any tool, the right amount of AI in the right places could be used to improve healthcare, and wrong/wrong could be used to ruin it.

If your healthcare system is in the hands of politicians and/or capitalists, then expect the worst.
MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Archive
I think of MacNeil/Lehrer (1976-1995) as the high-water mark for quality TV news in America. I felt the quality declined after Robert MacNeil left in 1995 and Jim Lehrer gradually shifted the load to new people. I stopped watching in the late 1990s.
It's interesting that the results on Techempower (on TE's hardware) remain relatively stale.

On the more "focused" application and micro benchmarks the difference between 7, 8 and 9 is very significant. The annual compiler improvements match those that take about 3 years for OpenJDK, and more for Golang. This has reached the point where you could reasonably expect e.g. LINQ to breathe down the Rust's iterators neck in un-vectorizable code (which is 98% of it), I didn't expect this would actually happen.

I have been told that each Linux kernel update tends to hit Techempower scores particularly hard, and practically everything in 75th percentile tends to be very sensitive to specific hardware configuration and DB driver implementation quality.

GC improvements while somewhat hurting Techempower too should make everyone deploying on small containers very happy as it pushes GC design in a Go-like direction with very minor hit to throughput (which is still massively better) while yielding significant sustained RSS reduction.

Personally, I feel like .NET has an identity crisis of sorts - it is being marketed as a regular high-level language for regular applications and web development, where it has plenty of competition.

At the same time it never seems to be marketed for low-level, systems and systems-adjacent scenarios, where .NET's competition is far behind. Any new DB or a message broker or a web server that is written in Java or Go would have benefited massively from being built with .NET instead, as proven by projects like Ryujinx and Garnet/FASTER. Nor it is being marketed at FP public - F# has access to the whole .NET ecosystem and easily slots into existing .NET projects better than Kotlin, Clojure or Scala do into Java ones.
He needs a relationship with a solid professional therapist. That is absolutely number one.

Sounds like he needs parts-informed treatment. Google TIST practitioners. Janina Fisher has an institute with a list of therapists.
I get the impression that most of the 'understand the innards' work isn't scalable - you build out a careful experiment with a specific network, but the work doesn't transfer to new models, fine-tuned models, etc.

I'm just an outside observer, though...
Using the IMU seems hard as true signal of the train's gradual acceleration is likely drowned out by the noise of vibrations and the person's natural movements. I guess every time the train is stopped, you can calibrate the bias of the IMU if the user is standing/sitting sufficiently still, but even then the dead reckoning would drift a lot.
When I was in my 20's George W Bush was president of the US, Tony Blair was supporting him 100% on the importance of invading Iraq, and then when I was 26 the bottom dropped out of the economy in the worst economic crash since 1929. So yeah, life wasn't great! Part of why now seems worse is that underlying trends kept getting worse- both US specific things like healthcare and college loans, plus things across the Anglosphere like real estate, and things across the world like climate- but I think a bigger part of it is the lack of real alternatives and the "End of History."

It seems clear to me that the 1930's everyone was down too: between The Great War, the Influenza Pandemic, and then the Great Depression everyone was clear that the world was on the wrong track and couldn't continue the way it was going. Depending on their particular biases, lots of people ended up thinking Fascism was the answer, and lots others thought that Communism was the answer, but not nearly as many thought that (small-l) liberal democratic capitalism was the way to keep going- the world of 1932 seemed to discredit that entire mode of living. A fascinating book _Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time_ by Ira Katznelson argues that the American leaders who built the New Deal were aware of that, and that they created the New Deal in conscious opposition to either Fascism or Communism. Unless they acted RIGHT NOW, with a response of sufficient scale to offer something better one or the other would inevitably take power.

And today, decades after the end of the Cold War, leaders and people largely can't conceptualize any other way of organizing people and power, and if they do it's largely in dystopic stuff like "what if companies ruled everything." (This is what Francis Fukuyama meant by the End of History, not that events would stop but that the great struggle of how best to organize people and power was decided and capitalism and democracy won.) Which has meant that we're right back in the same situation, but no one seems to be taking seriously the threat of losing the fruits of the Enlightenment, so they aren't acting with sufficient vigor or scale to deal with the scope of the problem.
100% agree.

The LLM's have a specific use purpose in an amalgamation of architecture that we will find will likely converge on something akin to a brain: modules that when collectively used, give immediate rise to much-appreciated conscientiousness, amongst other illusions.

Limiting these models before they can themselves give emergence to give further
emergence to enable negative externalizes is the job.

LLM's have the "uncanny" property of approximating, whether it be "illusory
", and whether that illusion is deceitful, or impossible to delineate, and whether those who job it is have reason to lie, is all part of the fukin fun.

sic hunt dei!
Hang on, op didn’t call the police, they called a crisis team who are trained professionals.

Those professionals, for better or worse, chose to include the police.
And people write nonsense books about nonsense topics all the time.
If you want to do something like connect a LED driver today, give SMBUS a try! It's basically I2C bus with some limitations, and a lot of motherboards bring it out right via convenient headers.

In general, I2C bus is a great way to interface with computers: it's needs only 2 wires, can be easily connected even to 8-bit MCU, and it has great development experience: start with $10 USB-I2C bridge (like CP2112) for development, then connect final device via internal SMBus connector or via unused monitor port. Linux comes with all the drivers, so there is no need to write kernel code.

(You can also do USB, but this is annoying to implement from scratch, without any libraries. And USB-Serial bridge might be taken over by ModemManager and various embedded IDEs.)
Perhaps someone with more knowledge can comment on why solutions like these can't be used to solve the energy storage problem. Is it just economics?

That is, renewables are now the cheapest form of energy by a significant margin, but they are unreliable with respect to timing, so a storage solution is necessary in order to provide electricity on cloudy days when the wind isn't blowing, at night, etc. Most of the research I've seen into solving the storage issue involves batteries or things like pumped hydro. If things like solar and wind were "overbuilt", could a solution like this be used to create hydrocarbons when there is excess electricity? Power prices already go negative in some places when it's particularly sunny/windy. If the excess energy at that time could be used to make gas that could then be utilized by gas plants, well then there is your net 0 storage solution.

I'm assuming solutions like this are uneconomic (and similarly with hydrogen plants, e.g. by using the excess renewable energy to generate green hydrogen by electrolysis for storage and later use), but I'd like to understand better why.
> Using Kubernetes where it's not needed is just that - wasting your time and making your life harder.

I think this is a very ignorant and misguided take.

Kubernetes is a container orchestration system, just like Docker swarm mode or even Docker compose. If you need to deploy sets of containerized apps into your own VMs, you can pick up any Kubernetes implementation. You don't even need Helm or anything. Plain old kustomize scripts will do. Some aren't even longer than a docker-compose.yml.

More to the point, Kubernetes is an interface. One that you can use in local deployment and in major cloud providers.

You should really check your notes because your comments contrast with the realities of actually running a service.

> Before you say that I just need to research more: (...)

All your appeals to authority are falsified by your claims.

I, on the other hand, actually use Kubernetes both professionally and in personal projects, as well as Docker swarm mode, and can tell you I'm no uncertain terms that none of your points have any traction in reality.

> I still claim that there are production usecases that are better served by docker-compose.

I'm sorry, but your comments simply sound deeply uninformed and misguided.

I mean, it makes absolutely no sense to comment on using docker compose in production when Docker swarm mode is far more capable and Docker swarm mode stacks already share most of the schema with docker compose. You literally have virtually nothing to do to adapt a docker-compose script to launch a stack.

Unbelievable.
(disclaimer that I do work in a related area)

The novelty of the underlying paper notwithstanding, a quick scholar search for "gas diffusion electrodes ptfe copper" will show that this is hardly an unexplored space.
Some other aspects are covered in a favorite paper and recent book:

- How Law Made Silicon Valley by Anupam Chander https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... compares the US, EU, Japan, and South Korea policy including copyright, intermediary, and privacy and US policy was more permissive and very importantly, offered more certainty earlier, to internet entrepreneurs; I don't recall the Japan-specific details but the abstract includes the line "Innovations that might be celebrated in the United States could lead to imprisonment in Japan."

- Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition by Jeffrey Ding (not open access that I know of) uses Japan/US competition in IT as a case study in its critique of the idea that "leading sectors" determine economic and ultimately geopolitical dominance, roughly the idea that early innovators capture global monopoly profits which ultimately accrue to the state/military; instead it argues what's determinative is diffusion of general purpose technologies throughout an economy. In IT, Japan attempted to translate "leading sector" theory into reality with its 5th generation computing project, a widely known failure. At the same time, it was decades behind the US in both establishing CS as a discipline at top universities and making CS education widely available across state/equivalent universities.

I imagine there's substantial interaction between the above theories and the keiretsu system but I don't recall (which doesn't mean much) anything on that in the above two works.
I'm basically a troglodyte so this could very well be a dumb question, but... couldn't we just launch that shit into space? The only limiting factors I can think of would be the weight of the waste and the fuel cost to get it up to escape velocity.
I tend to agree. I would say they were just outcompeted rather than lost an innovation battle.
I could enjoy one knowledge today without having monetary interest in it ever, but instead I have another knowledge which is completely useless even for enjoyment.
Uber always had cash options in SEA and still does in countries it continues to operate in, like India .

Each country has and always has a lot autonomy on features and services offered . Just their booking methods in different airports can have lot of variation , OTP workflows in geos with high no show rates , transportation options like motorcycles or Tuk tuk or public transit integration all are unique to many locations

Consolidation and exits happened for variety of reasons i strongly doubt it was ever because of product features or lack thereof
Why not use gnu cmp instead of sha256sum?
Not asking to do that, I'm asking to make their games compatible with the Steam Deck. The platform is very open, it would be ok to provide a link and download something.

I used to buy everything from GOG, but with the Steam Deck release, I play mostly there and the integration with GOG is very poor, to the point I preferred to re-purchase some games.
someone please chime in, if im totally off base, but i have developed the impression that, if you keep all the wealth your economy generates and dont pay down your debts, you get reduced credit rating from world bank.

"helping" other nations is one way of spreading wealth, to those in need, with incumbency to pay it forward.

please be gentle.
It's far more than a single study, just one example of a very powerful development. The same phenomenon is also occurring in state bar exams, etc. And that one study is hardly misunderstood -- as you can verify for yourself.

> i understand the boundaries of their comprehension, capabilities and understanding.

It seems to me that you are quite far behind the current state of the art, and you apparently underestimate even stock GPT-o1, which is pretty old news.

I'm willing to place a friendly wager with you: Let's find a doctor who does online consultations and give him three questions selected at random from that sample test. These are diagnostic-type questions that well reflect what a country doctor would encounter in daily practice. We can leave the questions open-ended or give him the multiple-choice options. Then we put GPT-o1 to the same questions. I'd be very happy to bet that the LLM outperforms the doctor. I'd even place a secondary bet that the LLM answers all questions correctly and that the doctor answers less than two questions correctly.
> Spirit was always pleasantly better than expected compared to the horrible experiences I've had on other airlines

How were your reclining seats? And how long were your flights?
Time alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers – even when on social media
No, Docker changed the rate limits a while ago. You have to login to get a higher limit, which is an issue for machine-only systems.

We opted to mirror the images we actually use and created a process for getting/approving new images while we were at it. There is a mild peace of mind knowing that people cannot use random or rogue images
Didn't a court rule it was legal?
not sure why porn is assumed how the hell is that educational content? maybe there's religious things on there, any number of things parents would want a say on
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I'm not disagreeing with your overall point. But:

> Tax isnt to curb inflation.

In MMT, it is for that, and only for that.

> The speed that money moves in an economy is more important than the revenues the government earns.

AFAIK, that's not known. I'd really like to hear if anybody knows more here.
I recently caught up with a few people I used to work with who are still there. From what I gather, the consolidation is still happening and not moving very quickly.

Lots of internal politics, people not wanting to lose their areas, etc. I'd guess that's partly why they've also just done some more layoffs, but thats just a guess.