skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hybrids cost more to repair, but much less to maintain. Hybrid brakes can last decades, and their tires and suspension wear is very near an internal combustion engine. However, the added complexity of a hybrid powertrain almost always makes engine repairs more difficult and therefore cost more money.
This is a great comment ^ whenever you use two booleans like this, you're opening yourself up to "unrepresentable state" logic errors. Finding and noticing this in code can be tricky, but it's a great example of something that should be caught during code review.
A simple note: if you live sufficiently south for p.v., in a home, you can sustain services disruptions significantly:

- p.v. with storage means freezers operational, and freezers means food, protein in particular, for potentially very long periods

- even without p.v. a home in the wood means being able to heat in the winter sourcing wood in nature, uncomfortable but still heat, also usable to cook

- you have room to store water, from the aqueduct with a personal pump in home pipes, so with p.v. you get cold and hot water, potentially for a week or two, and in nature sources tend to be common at our latitudes

In an apartment in a dense city you can just keep a bit of water, but still much less than the countryside, next to zero chance for p.v. and energy storage, very limited chance to source water in nature, even issues to walk for many stairs if elevators have no energy. Long story short: you can't be resilient. Oh, and you might be targeted because hitting a city it's easy and some damages are assured, hitting the countryside is essentially wasting weapons. Remember as well: with wood you can cook various long lasting foods, like rice, beans, ... without wood or locally produced energy your cooking ability going down to zero.

Floods? Spread homes might be or not at risk, but they are still spread, meaning few per flooded are, so rescuing it's doable as temporary shelters, emergency food supply etc. Dense areas? The same in risk terms, but extremely hard to help simply because there are too many people hit together.

Earthquakes? Very similar, plus the fact that light homes tend to allow quick escape, tall buildings do not, and even if they might be well designed in seismic terms they are still very problematic. Fires? idem.

Long story short: it's pointless to publish such next-to-obvious recommendations, some could do something, many could not.
Well, even Fortran is still around us in some lapack code in numpy and in a lot of the stuff behing scipy, so, a lot closer than a lot of people can imagine.

Basically a lot of AI depends on a bunch of absurdly optimized
numeric libraries writen in Fortran.

Fortran is well into the way at becoming a centenarian programing language at 74 years of age.
Unquestionably some of these were unacceptable acts. But the numbers don't stack up. There's also a huge qualitative difference.

According to [0] there was a population decline adding up to 4 million native deaths (from all causes, including hunger and disease) over the past half a millennium.

Russia and China killed 5-10 million of their own people just in the past century. They had cannibal banquets where they quite literally ate the rich in public ceremonies. China, right now, has more than a million Muslims in prison camps, churning out gadgets for the communist economic machine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_th...

If the issue is that you hate the United States, you'll always find something to criticize, and I think we'll never find common ground.

I grew up surrounded by many anti-American ideas. But when I tried to examine that place from a neutral point of view, in the proper context, after traveling to and living in many places, I found it impossible not to become a raving fan.
Vfx subreddit reaction to this

https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1grgyps/affleck_on_ai_...
Every aircraft I’ve ever flown as either Pilot in Command or required crewmember, and also every marine navigation system I have used in my life has displayed distance information as nm, Nm, or NM, interchangeably. I have never been confused by this, and I have never seen any other crew be confused. I have not ever seen any version of nmi used, in any variation of capitalization. This includes Boeing flight decks, Airbus flight decks, general aviation Garmin equipment, and a few MIL aircraft. And some boats.
You're mis-reading what he says. People create new stuff, AI (so far) remixes old stuff. Down the line you will be able to order a remix of succession and AI should be able to do that for you but it won't be able to add any interesting additional spin - it's just gonna make it to order (obviously a big deal! which he says).

>implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique

You just inserted this, he doesn't say or imply this - he asserted that all of the new ideas (so far) have been generated by humans. Sure lots of it is slop - but all of AI content is slop. That's his point: the new, creative stuff is still coming from humans - even if they are using "AI" tools to do it.
> That doesn't defeat my point- is the smaller/poorer army using best practices?

I don't agree, but neither do I disagree. But I do think it is ambiguous enough that it is not using best practices to illustrate the point you intend.

> malnourished army to win against those with machine guns

With my example I meant literal birds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Does swatting only exist in the US? By swatting I mean “causing life threatening police action to innocent people by giving false information to said police”.
He is wrong.
Movies will be automated and when they will be, all these actors will be first one to go. I say this despite him and Matt Damon my favorite actors.

When it pours it rains. They don't know what is in store and what we are working on.

Hint: codename: Project Hailey (named after Ho--y)
I believe we are more aligned on this issue than it might seem from this exchange. Like you, I value sustainability and recognize the importance of nature for both physical and mental well-being. Living near sea level, I experience the direct effects of climate impacts.

I also use air quality monitors to track CO₂ levels at home and in my office. (As a side note, I think more people should pay attention to indoor carbon emissions; in many offices and fitness centers, CO₂ levels can rise to an healthy amount)

While the suggestion about printing $100T to $200T is thought-provoking and is intended to address pressing global issues, I also consider the outcomes of similar actions during COVID. The significant money printing at that time—though aimed at stabilizing the economy—contributed to inflation and widespread challenges. I think we both share a desire to find solutions that address these needs without exacerbating suffering.
>I can absolutely believe that such people didn't learn and remember anything meaningful from those courses. Whether the course is to blame, is far more questionable.

It's the same as all the people who say "Why didn't high school teach me how to balance a check book or calculate a mortgage or blah blah?"

In nearly every case, they literally did, but you weren't paying attention.

You also had to cheat off me to pass biology, so I'm going to go ahead and press X to doubt that you "understand the immune system"

We are surrounded by people who failed to invest in their own education, and instead of facing that awful reality, they INSIST that WE are the dumb ones.

It's infuriating.
We're getting the worst of both worlds with these atrocious EV trucks - Big, heavy, and relying on electric torque to be bigger and heavier.
How does this differ from what Nasuni offers?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Leaves Everyone Speechless (Supercut) [video]
yea, hosted-mediawiki was my immediate thought. cheap or free, basically the same kind of permissions/etc as any other.

and 100% agreed, self-hosting is usually not a good choice for a small company, and cost is basically not an issue beyond ~10+.

Notion is an interesting one. I wouldn't personally call it a wiki, but I can kinda see why some would. but the performance and cost and and etc combined with feature-lock-in that Notion has would put it pretty far down the list for me too (though probably still well above confluence), and possibly completely rule it out (which confluence avoids).
Oh interesting! So you map exactly to the structure in s3? It’s like fuse backed by s3 with good performance?
Their northern neighbor infringing on the border and trying to reduce the size of the country?
It seems like Beider-Morse outputs more variations of each word, which I guess means fewer false negatives, and using only equality tests?
FC speeds have really lagged. 64Gbps is available but not widely used and 128Gbps was introduced in 2023. But since by definition 100% of FC bandwidth can only be used for storage it has been adequate.

https://fibrechannel.org/preview-the-new-fibre-channel-speed...
So what's the solution ? Assign a surveillance UAV to every Russian ship parked "without a good reason" over a cable ? It would be expensive, but doable, and create a reserve of vehicles for wartime use.
You are now changing your claim; you originally said or quoted lower cost models.

Yes, I'd take that bet.
It’s a tough life and an isolating one. You have to live in wide open spaces with no one else nearby, but it also isn’t the idyllic land you think of. Economics means getting cornered into maximizing what you can get out of the land. Think tearing it up with machinery and planting giant areas with monocultures of high yield GMO crops. A lot of people have a fantasy version of farming in their head, where you have small plots of land, with diverse crops, wildlife, streams, and natural landscapes around you. Instead what you end up with is sort of a harsh outdoor factory for converting local resources (water, soil, etc) and additives (seeds, fertilizer, etc) into a very low margin product. All you can see from your modest home that you went into debt for is giant plots of land that are dusty and ripped up or covered in a single crop as far as the eye can see. Meanwhile, everyone from seed companies, to fertilizer companies, to John Deere, to insurance companies, to buyers of crops are squeezing you into nothing.

Our system as a whole is problematic. We allow big companies to bully small players due to their capital or control over distribution or anti competitive practices or whatever. And farmers who are doing the actual work are in a place in the supply chain where they can be marginalized. Food is also insanely cheap for what it takes, when in truth it should cost more and reward these people for their hard work, which often leaves them with broken bodies. But when you are struggling to survive financially, and have a broken body, and have no community near you, and things are getting worse every year - it isn’t surprising where it leads.
> Your points about skilled slaves leave me puzzled. If they were agricultural and engineering geniuses, surely we should find thriving civilizations in Central Africa from around the time when they were abducted into slavery?

This isn't some topic of debate. There is well documented historical proof of slaves designing and then building the rice field levees!

> To ascribe America's economic and technological success to the slaves is not an argument that will convince anyone, or win your side any votes.

The early economic success of the country was built off of slavery. That isn't something that seemingly needs discussion. The southern part of the US was a large economic power, even by European standards of the time.

> Are you sure? Have you read much history from the formative years in other countries?

I have, and in general other countries had a lot longer to perfect being assholes. The British empire did many horrible, horrible, things, but they took awhile to work up to it, it wasn't part of their initial founding.

Leopold II was in charge of an existing kingdom when he went on a quest to be one of the biggest assholes in history.

France is complicated, because their revolutions were so frequent for awhile, and a lot of the blood shed was French.

Meanwhile in America we got:

1. Mass murder of the natives
2. Inventing an entire new, more horrific type of slavery
3. Manifest destiny, with more genocide
4. Building the Transcontinental Railroad, with Not-Technically-Slavery
5. Massive racism against the people who built the Transcontinental Railroad

> They moved to the US for a reason. It is a shining beacon for nerds who would like to be rich.

Correct, the late 1800s and then the 20th century were a major turning point. Loosely enforced IP laws allowed Hollywood to thrive (super interesting history!), and poor environmental laws and a well educated workforce allowed the initial version of silicon valley to come about (look up why it is called silicon valley, and why it is also a superfund cleanup site!).

The US being slightly-less-racist against some people helped, and the less racist we were, and the more people we invited in from around the world, the better things got.

IMHO the best move the US Government could make for the economy is to offer the top 1% of graduates from the top universities in each major country an automatic VISA and a guaranteed path to citizenship.

The 2nd best thing the US Government could do for the economy is enforce Japanese style zoning laws on all major cities so people can actually afford to live in major metros again.
They're obviously talking about the broader topic of "AI in the movie business" not the technically accurate meaning of LLMs.
Funny you mentioned that since it took me two days of ripping them off before some kind waiter informed me that wasn’t the intended use.
If you've heard Ben Affleck speak before I don't really think his take is surprising. He's not a dumb guy. His take is also extremely realistic in contrast to the AI utopians that assume AI will just do everything better because computer magic.

Generative AIs are cool tools people can use to make things but they're not magic. Once you ask for things outside of their training set you get really weird results. Even with a lot of fine tuning (LoRAs etc) results can be hit or miss for any given prompt. They're also not very consistent so which means series of clips are incongruent or just mismatched.

That doesn't mean generative AIs aren't going to be useful and won't impact film making. You're not necessarily going to be able to ask ChatGPT to "write me an Oscar winning screenplay" but you can certainly use one to punch up dialog or help with story boarding.

I think he's right on that visual effects people will be hard hit because there's going to be a lot less jobs for mundane tasks like cutting out an errant boom mic or Starbucks cup in a shot. I'd extend that to other "effects" jobs like ADR since can AI can fix a flubbed line in an otherwise good take.
Generally speaking RAG comes in the game when it is impractical to use large context windows for three reasons: (1) accuracy drops as you stuff the context windows, (2) currently, context windows do not scale past 1M tokens, and (3) even with caching, moving millions of tokens is wasteful and not viable both in terms of costs and latency.

So we should really compare this to other RAG approaches. If we compare it to vector databases RAG, knowledge graphs have the advantage that they model the connections between datapoints. This is super important when asking questions that requires to reason across multiple pieces of information, i.e. multi-hop reasoning.

Also, the graph construction is essentially an exercise in cleaning data to extract the knowledge. Let me give you a practical example. Let's pretend we're indexing customer tickets for creating an AI assistant. If we were to store the data on the tickets as it is, we would overwhelm the vector database with all the noise coming from the conversational nature of this data. With knowledge graphs, we extract only the relevant entities and relationships and store the distilled knowledge in our graph. At query time, we find the answer over a structured data model that contains only clean information
> I don't understand your point

In my view best practices emerge from a body of knowledge (or sometimes from the practice and wisdom of others that haven't been documented/accepted/etc yet) and are "shortcuts."

I'm not defending Postel's Law; I agree that, after years of practice and research, it leads to security issues and surprises.

However, the point is that these kinds of principles don't arise out of people's heads and become accepted wisdom for nothing; they're usually built off of an implied (or explicit) body of knowledge.

Does that make sense?
Is there a fundamental reason why FC is more expensive than Ethernet?
I agree. Do you want to sign up and go fight in a war? Or should other people besides you die? It's easy to say it "needs to be dealt with" but it's not an easy thing to do.
W541 was one of the last models with upgradable cpu.
Kind of tangential, but I don’t think you can brute force go. We’d run out of energy before it finished.

Statistical models shortcut that search space.

But I agree that just because a screwdriver is good at screws doesn’t mean its good at hammering a nail, even though both tools are made of metal.
Source tweet: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1857816146688217099
>Real estate is, by its nature, a bad investment; it's only the scarcity of it that makes the value continue to go up exponentially.

It's very nature is it's scarcity though. Land is the one thing they don't make more of.
It is also the smugness that gets me. Huge trucks are a signal saying "Fuck you, got mine". Their first strike, I'm merely retaliating
I don't completely disagree but I believe it's a bit more fuzzy than that. From what I understand, the models learn a very compressed version of what they receive as input and produce as output. While not sufficient to generalize, you could say they memorize some very high-dimensional function to cause the expected text to be produced, and they can turn on and combine multiple of these functions (multiply by non-zero, sum, etc). So on some level an LLM can kind of perform logic on the input, even if it has a slightly novel pattern. But at the same time, no model is shown to completely generalize the way a human would.

And let's also be fair, it would take a lot of effort for a human to generalize to a previously unseen pattern as well, so I always wonder just how useful it is to try to make such binary statements as "models don't reason" or they're "stochastic parrots". But maybe it's to counterweigh the statements that they are sentient, AGI is here, etc?
Thank you. You can't do Q(..r) in sqlite right? That's what I read in the tutorial.
Scooters are arguably more like traditional motorcycles than ebikes.

Reminds me of this scene from Police Academy 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cil6HFXlccw
What about the personal and family and friends' trauma of all the victims of drunken driving, alcoholism, and their circles?

Should we re-enact Prohibition, given that there are orders of magnitude more people who've been victimized by alcohol than firearms? No, that's absurd. You regulate the problem through hard, data-driven analysis, not waving the bloody shirt. Be that violent crime or addiction.
I’m aware but that article is overstating the problem: the issue is weight so the problem comes back to the form factor. Every office worker LARPing as a rancher is making the world worse buying an unnecessary truck regardless of the power train. EV trucks and SUVs are bad, but so are the ICE versions.
I'm not in the industry and I can tell he's failing to conceive many possibilities. I don't understand why he's being praised, I guess confidence impresses people.
Hum... Somebody has a list of foreign local-codes sharing the same space as the local ones?

I assumed IATA messed up, not I'm wondering how that even happens. It's not even easy to discover the local codes of remote aviation authorities.
Yeah, that's exactly right. I had some... experiences with Spark recently, that convinced me that this is something that could really help. I also really like the idea that organizations can continue to use S3 as the source of truth for their data (as you mention, it means that you can continue to use Access Logs, which would capture all usage of your S3 bucket across your applications).

> Will the mounted system _really_ be accessible as local fs and seen as such to all running processes? No surprises? No need for python specific filesystem like S3Fs?

Ha, well it depends on what you mean by surprises. We won't have a Python-specific file system. Our client is going to come in two flavors. Today, you can mount Regatta over NFSv3 (which we wrap in TLS to make it secure). This works for some workloads, but doesn't provide like-for-like performance with EBS. Over the next month, we plan to release the "custom protocol" that I wrote about above, that we expect to send to customers in the form of a FUSE file system.

Either way, it should be one package, you shouldn't need to worry about versioning, and it will appear as a real, local file system. :D
If this was the case, then why is the briny residue left after desalination always the thing that gets pointed back to being a big negative of desalination?

Either it's not as big of deal as people suggest, you are wildly underplaying it, or somewhere in between. I've never felt that the argument against being the cost to heat the water was a strong one since salt water pretty much means a coastline which tends to have steady wind and sun. The biggest hang up has typically been putting that brine back into the ocean.
I agree with MOBA’s position but I also think taking it out on these no-name artists misses the target. It is misdirected snobbery.

Some may dislike drawing distinctions between the art of low and high talent artists because it seems mean-spirited towards low talent artists. In other words, they dislike talent-seeking snobs.

Others may dislike it for the opposite reason: that there are many examples of famous artists who don’t display discernible talent. You might say these people dislike talent-eschewing snobs. Paging through an art history textbook yields tons of examples.

Compare Henri Matisse’s Music from 1910. If you told most people a 5th grader painted that, they wouldn’t have been surprised.

Ditto with Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus, 1920. Or even Rodchenko’s single-color paintings. And Arshille Gorky seems to have painted using a paintbrush tied to his forehead.

So maybe that’s the answer. This MOBA should be filled with famous artists, not no-name amateurs. There seems to be no shortage of them. And it’s not like the only alternative to Jackson Pollock is dogs playing poker. There are many obviously talented artists who got far less recognition because talent eschewing snobs pushed out the talent seeking ones.
Part of me wonders if we will see rising suicide rates among software developers if we have a recession in the middle of what is already the worst hiring environment in decades.
Don’t confuse, “the overall crime rate is down signicantly in very good ways” with “and therefore the remainder is fine”.
Absolutely not. Not on the client side anyway.

I know of one application by a large multinational that requires java in the browser to run. Almost impossible to run now because of security restrictions.
I'm tracking a few Latvian websites here: https://xn--skdatnes-9ib.lv

The page is generated by a script which visits a list of sites using chromium&selenium, and records what cookies get set on first visit.

The page is in Latvian, but each red cell represents a cookie that was set too early, before obtaining consent.

From the sites I've checked, news portals as a category are the worst offenders.

The script itself is here: https://github.com/cuu508/tasting-party