skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US cannot claim a single victory in the past 4 decades, it's been debacle after debacle

Militarily? You've got to be joking. Russia is still struggling with the military part of the campaign.

Russia's "top of the line" weapons are routinely being potted by decades-old NATO kit. They are a spent force, conventionally. The military turned from a fighting force into a propaganda tool, aimed at projecting masculinity to a domestic audience over maintaining martial capability.

The problem in the West is there are a lot of Soviet-era talking heads who make money when Russia gets attention. There is no money to be made if Russia is a loser. So it's in the interest of that foreign policy wing to trump up Moscow as if it's a competent military versus the dumpster fire that it is without Pyongyang and Tehran.
Technology and Grieving
That is hilarious. He drives better than a lot of people I see on the road.

So chill!
> "set of explicitly defined states"

this is called algebraic data type (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type), and it is the best way, imho, to reduce bugs in code.

By making it easy to pattern match, it reduces the possiblity of producing an invalid state, because at the time of definition, you have to figure out how to get that type (and checked by compiler).
The criticism was not about “bringing facts”, it was about pedantically parsing word choices. Whether you think 2.5ish people per day is “regular” is irrelevant to the larger point.
Maybe it is hard coded in sentient beings to enjoy moving at speed with very little energy expenditure. To quote C.S. Lewis in the The Last Battle-

“If one could run without getting tired, I don’t think one would often want to do
anytrung else?”

As a runner, I agree. :)
I would bet 99.9 % of Americans have no clue we are at war. They have no idea what is at stake.
> not exactly in the interests of NATO to have those ships start spilling tons of oil in the North Atlantic

Since when did engine troubles cause an oil spill?
they can try to justify it all they want, using these apis still breaks multiple federal laws

i noted this in a previous thread with them, to which they replied if its your data you can access it which ever way you like. Which is like saying i can hack into my bankers computer remotely to view my account balance. Which is still illegal.

Using unapproved apis is unauthorized access to a computer or network, illegal in the US at least, which ever way you want to try and look at it

Remember both Plaid and Aaron Swartz did this, it can end if very different ways. Obviously the government can pick and choose who to send to jail, but that’s a risk
txtai 8.0 released: an agent framework for minimalists
> It might still be a good idea, but you shouldn't seriously consider it until you hear an actually convincing reason (not a "just so" explanation that skips several steps).

If everyone follows that then every decision will be bikeshedded to death. I think part of the point of the concept of "best practices" is that some ideas should be at least somewhat entrenched, followed by default, and not overturned without good reason.

Ideally your records of best practices would include a rationale and scope for when they should be reexamined. But trying to reason everything out from first principles doesn't work great either.
According to Google it's 854nm.

The spy ship is alleged to be able to go 15 knots which means it could make the distance in 2.5 days.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russian-spy-ship-present-off...
I like to analyze everything that involves consciousness in a similar way to computer logic in order to understand it more deeply and perhaps find some application or replicate it. I understand you, I have rarely had that kind of control in my dream, what I feel is that there is something, like a kind of memory that forces you to remember that you can have that kind of control, I say this because really in my most common lucid dreams I do not have control of the dream, only a small part. I think we could differentiate them, there are dreams where I only have a little control but I cannot change everything to my liking no matter how hard I try to do so. Among other things, there are also lucid dreams where I live a kind of hallucination totally different from the dream where a strong emotion is felt to understand what is happening or part of it, but I understand that those are false memories, that the dream reaches different fundamental parts of the brain such as the part of remembering or experiencing artificial emotions, well in short, in these hallucinations within the dream graphically they are at their maximum, super clear and it is strange, when I wake up I feel that there was still some effect on my way of thinking about things until my recurring thoughts overwrite that way of thinking after a few minutes. Another thing, in a series of lucid dreams and sometimes when I went to those dreams from the moment I went to bed I lost the sensation of gravity (it happens to many people), then it was like being in a light first-person scenario (like reality, but in a watchful dream) until an invisible force takes me to the real dream (REM sleep) but if my consciousness was very charged with many ideas to do it is like I lost complete lucidity (something that was difficult to recover that memory later), so it gave me more results to create a kind of minimalist consciousness (I don't know how to explain it, it's like I could feel a physical place for my ideas and that they are not lost in that abrupt moment of entering REM sleep) to maintain my lucidity and the direction I wanted to give it before falling asleep, I don't think it's relevant to describe the experience, I only know that there were several entries to different dreams, where I followed the premise "if I can change something about the dream then it's not what I'm looking for and I have to keep exploring" it was a very intense dream I reached a kind of hallucination in different fragments with dialogues, external voices and different experiences, but the last one hurt my "soul" (it was not negative on the contrary, I am somewhat sensitive), when I woke up I felt a great emotional drain, I felt very tired and I knew it would take me a long time to do this again and continue in an objective way, it was 4 years ago and I still have not had that kind of control of the direction of the dream and to reach those limits. For now only short lucid dreams that occur to me in the middle of dreams (But nothing to do with the experiment). I hope that at least this is useful for someone else and hacking dreams, good luck xD
The problem with notifications is always "deadlocks".

Even without deadlocks it's common to accidentally create a loop that quickly starts using 100% CPU until you kill it. This isn't theoretical, e.g. I ran across it after encountering a program that used `bash -l` to run scripts (fundamentally wrong, but not the bug here), when my `~/.bash_login` happened to touch the part of the filesystem it was watching.
My doctorate is in biophysics with deep experience in genomics. I've attended talks from the world's leading experts (as well as scientists/researchers/engineers) who work in this field, and read papers. From my inspection of the data, identity by descent does exactly what the researchers say, with a level of accuracy that is consistent with our current understanding of population structure and its changes in the past.

BTW, the main reason african genomic inference is so complicated is not the lack of genomic data, but rather that africa itself has far higher genetic diversity than any other continent, due to populations (whose genomes we can infer!) moving and interbreeding for a long time before humans left africa and spread out to the rest of the world.

(Article #1 is correct, there are definitely populations for which our current models are inaccurate due to bias and underlying complexity. I am not disagreeing with any of that).

(Article #2, where an individual compared the results, shows that the results are nearly identical, and well within the expected accuracy of the tests)

(Article #3 isn't interesting- yes, 23&Me and other companies have marketed truly terrible ideas. That doesn't mean IBD is scientifically invalid. The article also strawmans many of the realities underlying the nature of the tests and their relationship to disease prediction, or any other phenotype of interest).
Watching him go by that tiger has given me so much joy tonight thank you.
Isn't openapi pro-profit? Or at least I thought it was.
Precisely. Thank you for affirming that setup aha
It is interesting that sometimes I forget that people fear this type of behavior in different situations that from an external point of view seem illogical but that have an explanation that can prevent this type of dream experiences.
It's also because American consumers, on average, are large
OP here.

Thank you for posting this here, and for all the corrections. I have updated the post with them.

My idea behind a mental model is to describe how I visualise a concept in my mind when I think about it.

The level of abstraction of a mental model is supposed to keep out the details of implementation, ensuring which I failed at. Because the deeper you dig from this level, the more inaccurate things will turn out to be.

A mental model for me is meant to be only a starting point for a concept.

In other words, the aim is such that when you think about a concept, its mental model should put you into the right perspective. Right, this is how something works, now let's check out the manual to see how I can put it to use.

I've now configured my site to add this explainer to a post classified under Mental model.
It should work, I believe. And anything that doesn't fit you can leave on your system RAM.

Looks like an H100 runs about $30K online for one. Are there any issues with just sticking one of these in a stock desktop PC and running llama.cpp?
Google employs a lot of academics that probably use it. And of course they have a few AI related products that are probably being trained on scientific content as well. I bet Google Scholar feeds data into that effort. My guess is that keeping google scholar up and running isn't breaking the bank for them and it is actually a valuable resource for them.
I can't believe no one seems to even understand my post, because they keep focusing on the euthanization bit. The post was a thought experiment, and was simply asking whether, hypothetically, society would be actually better off without sociopaths or not. Many people seem to assume it would, but perhaps it wouldn't, which is why I brought up the Star Trek reference. I don't know either way.
hate to break it to you, but if you are spraying poop off, you are aerosolizing poop. full stop (except for the poop, which you have not stopped, you have sprayed). No shit? no, shit.

(and it would no longer be aerosol, it would be pooposol)
I'd love to see the heatsink for this lol
Additional citations:

https://carnewschina.com/2024/11/18/catl-announces-second-ge... (“CATL announces second-generation sodium battery, normal discharge at -40°C”)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9950943/ (“Anode-free sodium metal batteries as rising stars for lithium-ion alternatives”)
I would reccomend that you refine your media literacy and avoid Daily Mail, and coherts.
But I appreciate the reference to a tabloid article...
This looks like a very simple wrapper around golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/secretbox

What’s the point of this?
How does binning work when your chip is the entire wafer?
I think the problem is that the definition of "best practices" is a little muddy.

for example:

- use source control

- don't put spaces in file names

- camelcase is better than underscores in variables

- vi not emacs

some are really best practices, some are controversial choices someone is pushing.

Some places I've worked with good policies deliberately left some open. And made choices earlier on troublesome ones like spaces not tabs.

I think the choosing or defining vs not choosing is what companies should do to define themselves.
Except it isn't in the Gulf of Finland but the East Sea or Soth China Sea. Most of these ships are transporting oil to China, India, Singapore, The Middle East. The only allies able to interdict most of these ships are Japan and South Korea. Japan doesn't engage in such activities after WW2 and South Korea is reluctant to because of retaliatory actions from Russia and China. Maybe they'll change course after the DPRK has sent triops into Ukraine, but don't hold your breath.
Here's the man himself claiming this in his inimitably eloquent style:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-putin-no-way-ukraine-mu...

"No way." "Way."
litellm has ollama, you could go through that
EDIT: sigh, in a chair
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
It does still let you experience the story, and enjoy the stunning environments. But I agree the experience was tailored too much to VR for it to be an excellent gameplay experience in flatsceen. Some mechanics are pretty mundane and the combat sequences preferred less walking movement and less enemies.

I played in VR and it was an all encompassing experience, still the best VR game I have played. I had even been playing VR games for a few years before trying Alyx, and it still blew me away, in a way that other VR games had not yet. That level of graphical fidelity and immersion is simply not in any other game. Which means it's a skill issue for VR studios, not a hardware issue (in my humble opinion)
Well yeah, execution has to happen locally. But you did open this with a "Do you think water systems are managed at the federal level? They're not.". And I'm not sure why you think that because you seem to be describing a situation where the EPA, at the federal level, is in fact managing water systems. Obviously we have a terminology disagreement here somewhere.

I mean, if there was a software engineer designing systems, working with vendors, setting his own standards that were higher than company standards, collecting monitoring data, managing permissions, yada yada, we would still have to acknowledge that he was not the manager in the region, he is an employee and the manager is someone else. He is managing some aspects of the situation, no doubt, but if we ask "who is managing all this" the conventional answer isn't the developer, but the developer's manager. "Management" is typically reserved for the senior managers in the area monitoring the outcomes and setting high-level standards. By analogy, the EPA is attempting to manage water systems at the Federal level.

Do parts of that chain of logic seem questionable to you? Is it possible that when you say "managed" you mean what I would call "executed"?

> I don't understand why you think an agency nationally coordinating all the local governments' efforts and making reports to Congress should exist at any level below the federal.

I recommend asking questions if you don't understand something. It works well for me. This (drinking water) is a critical system. Centralised management is too risky, if something goes off the rails then it'd affect drinking water across an entire country. It is better to have disparate systems where failure is more localised.

Right now, the headline suggests <10% of the US is at risk. Trading that for a situation where there is a <10% chance that all of the US is at risk is actually making the risk profile worse. The chance of a problem is the same because nothing has been done to lower the triggers, but the consequences are substantially worse because the system is trying to centralise under the EPA. The EPA shouldn't be in a position where local authorities feel they have to sue them to keep the system decentralised, they shouldn't be trying to manage local operations.
Make the impossible states unrepresentable using an enum of only the possible boolean combinations.
Safari was late until a couple of years ago when they started implementing new features more aggressively. Now it's always Firefox. Just check how long it took them to add support for the :has() selector and RegEx Lookbehind. We're years into "manifest v3" and background workers are nowhere to be found.
GitHub: https://github.com/neuml/txtai

Release Notes: https://github.com/neuml/txtai/releases/tag/v8.0.0

Example Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/neuml/txtai/blob/ma...
I would also recommend looking at Directus (https://directus.io).

We evaluated PayloadCMS to drive the backend of a mobile app and eventually settled on Directus because it supported heterogeneous collections which was something we had to have.

Directus also has a template for a multi-tenant app which sounds like something you might need.
Absolutely overused but allows for cool puns
Some more:

- Google Search

- YouTube (more debateable, but I think it's a marvel)

- Google Books

- ChromeBooks

- Android

- Google Calendar

- Google Earth

- Google Drive

- Google Docs

- Waze

- Android Auto

- Google Pay

- Kubernetes

- Go

- VP8 / VP9

I'd rather take all those products than leave them.
https://archive.ph/uqy0m
Is this because 405b doesn't fit on Groq? If they perform better, I would also have liked to have seen.
Dozens of videos from TikTok of rats driving cars very similar to the ones in the article: (not a joke link)

https://www.tiktok.com/@emperorsofmischief
Retool is fantastic but truly priced for inhouse use cases only. My general advice with low-code / RAD is you only find out it’s showstopping limitation when you’re already too deep into it. It’s inevitable that something that seems obvious and simple to you will be nigh impossible on the platform, or at least require a series of expensive and brittle hacks. Use a common language to build the system your customers want, and accelerate your progress with coding LLMs if you want. You’ll own it, (hopefully) understand it, and can maintain it for year 2 and beyond operations.

What is your exit plan if Retool doesn’t fit your needs otherwise?
Source, I was a diver in their north sea for some time. These expedition / treasure hunting vessels are common. They are definately operating as low key and under the radar as possible, for other reasons, but they aren't "spy ships'. There is no stealth ship that exists and can't be detected on the surface. The US military learned this the hard way with the Zumwalt Destroyers. If Russia is sabatoging undersea cables, as the daily mail suggests, they aren't doing it with "spy ships". Please get a hold of yourself and stop reading the daily mail.
Google TPUs, Amazon, a YC funded ASIC/FPGA company, a Chinese Co. all have custom hardware too that might scale well.
Evolution theory is generally quite coherent and intuitive. But while it can explain how a monkey or ape turned into homo-sapien, it can't explain how an amoeba turned into human. It can't explain the consciousness aspect or how life ever came from the "life-less", or was life always there to begin with?
Check out BaseTen for performant use of GPUs
You can create massive variants of OpenAI's 01 model. The "Chain of Thought" tools become way more useful when you can get when you can iterate 100x faster. Right now, flagship LLMs stream responses back, and barely beat the speed a human can read, so adding CoT makes it really slow for human-in-the-loop experiences. You can really get a lot more interesting "thoughts" (or workflow steps, or whatever) when it can do more, without slowing down the human experience of using the tool.

You can also get a lot fancier with tool-usage when you can start getting an LLM to use and reply to tools at a speed closer to the speed of a normal network service.

I've never timed it, but I'm guessing current LLMs don't handle "live video" type applications well. Imagine an LLM you could actually video chat with - it'd be useful for walking someone through a procedure, or advanced automation of GUI applications, etc.

AND the holy-grail of AI applications that would combine all of this - Robotics. Today, Cerebras chips are probably too power hungry for battery powered robotic assistants, but one could imagine a Star-Wars style robot assistant many years from now. You can have a robot that can navigate some space (home setting, or work setting) and it can see its environment and behavior, processing the video in real-time. Then, can reason about the world and its given task, by explicitly thinking through steps, and critically self-challenging the steps.
1950: put a coin in and walk away

2024: this

We are not living in the future. I wish more people rebelled against bad "smart" implementations.

If "smart" features are a downgrade in speed and ease, do not remove the old way.
Notice they say supplier vetting, rather than "product vetting". Aka, they're vetting just the supplier, and is not vetting the product itself. This simply means the supplier could lie, and there'd be deniability!
Thry do but it only benefits Ukraine. So they're the ones who should blow it up, preferably with with weapons of their own in order to avoid NATO escalation. Just lke the Moskva sinking.
You should check out micromouse, it's a robo rat race.
21 petabytes per second. Can push the whole internet over that chip xD
DOE clusters are also massive arrays of customer grade hardware. Private cloud can only keep up in low precision work, and that is why they're still playing with remote memory access over TCP, because it's good enough for web and ML.

High precision HPC exists in the private cloud, but you only hear "we don't want to embarrass others" excuses because otherwise you would be able to calculate the cost.

On prem HPC is still very, very much cheaper than hiring out.
If you don't mind me asking, what were you and your siblings told regarding the risk level for the donor? I tried googling this and I didn't find anything particularly definitive as the sample sizes were reasonably small
Good book. Can be a bit dry here and there, but fascinating
Both parties are in the wrong on this. Americans (and others) would be wealthier and the world would decarbonize faster if the tariffs on China were lifted but it is what the people want
Definitely is where they got started, but Steam is where they made the money to be the industry magnate they are today. They almost ran out of money making HL2. Without steam they would probably have been bought up and eaten years ago.

It's interesting to think of an alternative outcome, where they needed to keep making games to make money. I think there is something special about the small team and structure at Valve that would have let them stay nimble and release great games, but as above the industry loves to consolidate good studios and turn them inside out.
Hi, I'm a flexitarian who finds a more restrictive diet than the one I am having unsustainable in terms of my habits, so I'm interested in information regarding the topic. Can you direct me to what you've discussed regarding vegan nutrition?