skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend reading Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone (2000). American civic and social engagement has been declining in almost every measurable way for 50 years now. There is no way to deny this.

The largest contributor according the book's surveys and studies (and I love saying this) is television outcompeting in-person fun. Car dependency is a factor, but IIRC was factor #2 or #3. While this ranking was true at the time of publication, I would wager that time spent on "screens" is likely factor #1, #2, and #3 now.

Please read the version with the 20 year update: https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Commu...

I would wager that many people are fleeing their hometowns to socialize in cities not because they're walkable, but because the density of people increases, allowing you to have better odds meeting real humans who haven't been lost to the allure of the indoors.
It seemed to me that it was using the dependant variable intentionally so that it could build up to the twist: actually it's all about race.

To be fair, the twist did get me. I thought it was leading up to discussing injury rates, or health in old age. Since I'm not from the US, the pivot to discussing race wasn't very interesting/relevant to me.
its pretty reasonable that rhe wild rose folks would want to end funding for the rat patrol. im surprised that they havent
Dyslexia strikes again.

I appreciate you pointing that out (and I see what you did there); now I know to double check that word until it becomes consistent. And also spend more time to figure out what MacOS setting or feature got added with v15 to make typing worse for me. Before, it would simply be underlined in red--sometimes still is. Now, when my spelling is so far off it guesses something and changes it--I keep auto-correct off so not sure where it is. I would rather right click and choose an option or be so far off I have to look it up and get a little closer to getting right next time.
Don't know why this is grey. You will reach a point where you can't hold down a steady job anymore. Age comes for us all and the "old people" working as Walmart greeters
are younger than you're probably imagining.

Being old is expensive. You don't necessarily realize how many things you do that save money rely on being at least somewhat youthful and able bodied. And 1 million sounds like a lot but that is going to be in 2070 dollars and has to last you between 10 to 40 years.
> Doctors prescribing medication balance those risks with the potential benefits

except for the thousands of doctors who overprescribed opioids due to either ineptitude or their own benefit, or perhaps lack of alternatives

yeah, the Sacklers are primarily at fault, but I think people forget that they weren't handing out these pills themselves on street corners, but that __doctors__ were handing them out, triggering the biggest health crisis in America
Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10x Bigger Than SaaS [video]
Do they or even should they have the authority to demand that people correctly report the prices they trade domain names for?
If cultured meat and EVs take off like they're expected to, it won't just be the US/EU having to retool their economies.
This is actually my preferred measure too. I was happy to use GDP PPP figures because they tell a similar story to the energy statistics on ourworldindata.org. Asia miles ahead, China the most dominant, then the US and then EU. India looking to overtake the EU fairly rapidly if they follow China's footsteps.

Of course the per-capita numbers favour the US still. But by absolute figures, the crown goes to Asia. And per capita the Europeans can realistically be said to be behind China for policy making purposes, the trends are clear.
No surprise here. If someone files to cancel your trademark and you want to fight it, you file an appearance.
If people are interested in the DX7's technical details, I've done some work reverse-engineering it, and some of Yamaha's other FM synths: https://ajxs.me/blog/tag/DX7.html

Ken Shirriff has also done some amazing work analysing the DX7's sound chips: https://www.righto.com/2021/11/reverse-engineering-yamaha-dx...

A really awesome documentary on the DX7 by MadFame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXt_NXjc7oY

There are a lot of software emulations of the DX7 that are quite realistic, like the amazing Dexed. Here's one that deserves a lot of credit for how accurate it is: https://github.com/chiaccona/VDX7
Nursing assistants are some of the most likely to be injured or ill. Similar to corrections officers and much more so than meat cutters ore tire changers. I found that surprising.
Integrating LLMs into applications can get expensive, so we built a platform to help developers cover those costs without compromising user experience too much, all while providing value to advertisers. Feedback would be much appreciated. Also, please feel free to reach out for potential collaboration.
> Benchmarks are performance tests, not popularity tests.

But presumably they're meant to test something that matters. And the popularity suggests that what's being tested in this case doesn't.

> But "useless" is way too strong. No language is so wonderful on all other dimensions that it can have something as basic as a function call be dozens of times slower than some other language and yet keep up with that other language in general.

And yet Python does keep up with C in general. You might object that when a Python-based system outperforms a C-based system it's not running the same algorithm, or it's not really Python, and that would be technically true, but seemingly not in a way that matters.

> if you're dismissing these sorts of things, you're throwing away real data

Everything is data. The most important part of programming is often ignoring the things that aren't important.
DBeaver's UI/UX is.. functional.
Way to down vote my comment without posting that data you refer to. Nominal wages surged post-pandemic in Q2 2020, but cooled off after then. Someone already replied to my comment with a Brooking institute article which confirms the figures I had previously heard, in that real wages have only increased 2% annualized since 2019.
And it works on a wide variety of games, instead of just a single one with a relatively consistent art style. On the other hand, Oasis was realtime, while this one is offline; IMO getting the inference speed down was their most impressive feat, as even most decent video gen models are slower than that.
> does the "lead time" grow and shrink substantially?

it changes based on other people's guesses in their participation in the stock market. Aka, it's chaotic.
I used to love table plus. My favorite part was that you could hook a query up to a chart. Then you could have the query fetch fresh data every second to give you a live dashboard.

At the last company I worked for I made a command to ssh into our servers and extract job data. I saved the data in a local SQLite database. Then I made a dashboard in table plus to show the it in a chart that would refresh every second.

I had a real-time dashboard in about an hour once I figured out all the job info I wanted to capture. It was really cool!
Propaganda of the Deed
AGPL does not prevent anything that anyone has any right to want. The more someone cries that agpl (or gpl3, or gpl-any) is "overbearing", the more they expose how they wish they could steal. You can't say one without saying the other, they are the same statement. And it's an extra level of amazing to need to steal something that's already free.

You can absolutely not only use agpl software, for free, you can even sell access to it. SO OVERBEARING

If you can't stand the burden of having to share with the next guy that which you yourself were given for free, there is no reason for anyone else to feel the tiniest bit of sympathy.

Feel free to write your own software and set whatever terms you like. Surely the need to write it and develop it to the point of actually being any good is not overbearing at all.

Or feel free to license software from someone selling it. Surely Oracle or IBM terms will not be overbearing at all.

Do people even hear themselves?
You can run and play several publicly available world models on lower end graphics cards today, and that's with "academic" code: crude, unoptimized, written just to accomplish the science.

Here's one: https://diamond-wm.github.io/

There are lots of others.

From their paper: "Our model was trained in 12 days on an RTX 4090, and can be played at ~10 FPS on an RTX 3090."

This is incredibly accessible, and "this is the worst it will ever look". There are so many low hanging fruit optimizations, and that's without even considering a different model architecture.

Here's someone's world model side project from over two years ago that you can play in your browser:

https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/demo/

This stuff will be everywhere soon, and you'll be running it on consumer hardware.
Hey this is the synth I started with way back! I used this[0] 3 hour video to teach me the ins and outs of sound synthesis from the NY School of Synthesis by Dean Friedman.

It still holds up today as it did back then for anyone trying to get into synths.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFa4_po__8wMNscyFfDy6...
Um, no. That isn't sharing it. That isn't even having users run it. It's just letting others use it via the network.

It's Freedom Zero because you certainly have the freedom to use it, along with a lot of other freedoms. But you have to adopt the license for the code it touches if you involve others in your Freedom Zero use of it.
California has a Mediterranean climate with world class outdoor features and the freshest foods. They also ban all non competes, and have a solid history of pumping out valuable tech companies. They can afford to have taxes others can’t.

Connecticut also lacks a big city with a big airport.
Nobody is disputing that. Just because we have gone to the Moon doesn’t imply we are at Mars.
the largest expediture of the US government now is fake interest payments on fake debt then? or we pay that with fake money fake Americans pay with fake taxes? :)
> The use of mathematics to produce sounds resembling real instruments quickly became obsolete once we could just go out and sample the real thing. Sampling is a boring, brute-force approach to sound synthesis, but it’s a relatively straightforward one, now we have the computing power and memory.

I guess this is true, but the next thing to come along that made me leave the DX7 at home was an Ensoniq EPS-16+.

https://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/eps-16
"Phoenix" is misspelled in the title of the Atom feed. Sorry for reporting this here, I looked for a repository to open a fix PR but couldn't find one, the previous Phoenix site repo is archived.
I have to open two windows in my home office, otherwise the co2 just hangs around.
Maybe we could change the filetype from .js to .bho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litigation_involving_Apple_Inc...
No multicoocular O? And try Luwian for a real kick: the cutest script.
I dunno, doesn’t feel like we ever saw the ass-end of that “bullwhip effect” does it?
When Rogue reached Caltech in the '80s it quickly became so popular that it got banned during the daytime so people doing real work could use the computers.

The version of Rogue then was quite a bit harder than later versions and it was almost unheard of for anyone to actually get the amulet and get back out. Then this one student started regularly making the high score list, and soon had pushed everyone else off. Then he got the amulet and got out. Then he did that enough time to have the high score list full of games where he got the amulet.

Then he stopped playing, until someone else would get on the high score list. Then he'd come to the computer center and play for maybe a half hour until he'd pushed them off the high score list.

This was driving everyone else completely nuts because he was, as mentioned, playing in the computer center. The way the terminals were arranged there was no privacy. Everyone else could watch him play, but no one could figure out why he did so much better than the rest of us.

He eventually explained it. He didn't actually do any one thing significantly better than the rest of us. For any given thing he was just slightly better. But he was slighted better at many things and that added up.

For example if most people were coming back through a room they had passed through the other way earlier they would take the most convenient route between the doors. That generally would not be simply the reverse of the route they had taken the first time through, because the first time they were exploring the room.

He on the other hand would take a route that only involved stepping places where he had stepped the first time through. That way he never sprung any new traps on the way back, unlike people who stepped in new places.
You should be. I don’t know anything about kepa.ai but before even clicking the article I assume they’re trying to sell me something. And “how to fix it” makes me think this is some kind of SEO written for people who think it can be fixed, meaning the article is written for robots and amateurs.
That's why I stressed the "being housed" part, which the commenter to whom I responded asserted was being provided for all illegals residents (or at least multiple millions of them anyway). And in France would cost (at the very inside) some 4.2 billion euros per year, by some napkin math. That is, at least 4x the cost of health care.

So that was my concern -- what purpose is served by promoting a grossly exaggerated characterization of the actual cost of having these people around?

How do you justify things like illegal immigrants having a 75% off on their subway pass[1] in Paris (I just paid mine 86€ today for the month) while a French national on unemployment benefits like I am currently doesn't even have a 25% off?

If it were up to me, I'd stick it incrementally to you-know-who have you also getting a Solidarité reduction. But that's obviously not kind thing the voting public wants to hear these days.
> he's repeatedly amplified nonscientific views about vaccine safety. For example, as recently as 2023, "Autism comes from vaccines".

I've heard this said in the NYT and elsewhere, but have yet to read any actual quotes of his __in context__.

> RFK Jr is doing is sowing doubt in established science.

the first rule of science is that it is never "established". This is especially true in health sciences, where thing that we were pretty sure were one way turn out not to be that way, or are much more nuanced than we thought. So challenging established thought is what scientists should be doing.

Now if RFK is a public health official then that is probably counter-productive and not really the place to be doing that. But he hasn't been a public health official to my knowledge so far.

I don't know that much about RFK but one thing I do like about him is that he's speaking out against the unhealthy processed food industry, which I don't hear hardly anyone else doing. (Lots of people say "eat healthy" but there's not that many people saying "these large multinationals are feeding you garbage for profit".
Care to provide any examples? If the US were to fall into disarray, the demand for USD would fall. People are free to choose GBP, Euro, Yen, Yuan, but apparently a lot of people choose USD.
The good health of the market is ultimately meaningless if there are no mechanisms in place for redistribution.

Historically it's been done through wages, but those have been de facto frozen since the 1970s.
There's a lot of debate over the true state of the economy, but it seems that, one way or another, pessimism abounds.

Consider, the top voted comment on an article about how good the economy is a disagreement.

I wonder how many of the negative effects of an actual bad economy can also be caused by widespread pessimism? Is it better to have a bad economy filled with happy optimists, or a good economy filled with unhappy pessimists?
Rockets are expensive Google should team with Blue Horizons or SpaceX to use their rockets to launch their version of Starlink or rent Starlink's satellites for cheaper to establish their Internet in space.
City dwellers do tend to lean left, after all. Really though, beware confounding variables.
Shout out to everyone from Ollama and the wider community that helped with the reviews, feedback and assistance along the way. It's great to contribute to such a fantastic project.
For better or worse, it's time to realize it's not the 90s, 00s or even 10s anymore.

I use macOS as a main device with Linux and Windows for verifying and measuring behavior specific to their environment, while doing so from VS Code. I have a friend who has his home server farm hosted on FreeBSD, still using .NET. Oh, and luckily most of the tools I use are not subject to ideological and political infighting.

I like when the technology can be relied on being supported in the future and be developed in a stable manner without sudden changes of project governance or development teams. The added bonus is not having to suffer from the extremely backwards and equally sad state that Python and C/C++ find themselves in tooling-wise. Python is somewhat fixed by uv, C/C++ - not so much.
‘ I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the "hallucination problem" in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines. ...’

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1733299213503787018
This kind of slider should ALWAYS have the middle part movable; IE grabbing it would move both handles at the same time.

For reference this is how Unity does it:
https://docs.unity3d.com/StaticFiles/ScriptRefImages/EditorG...
I had one. I wrote MIDI software. I wasn’t a particularly good keyboardist.

Pretty damn powerful, and a "pure" synthesizer. Too complicated for a lot of musicians.

Things really took off, when samplers hit the scene. People were much more comfortable modifying existing sounds, as opposed to creating them from whole cloth.
Actually he explicitly said that he was not against vaccines.

So I guess you can take your pick.
I'm really curious about Oracle's motivation for fighting this. What value do they see in continuing to hold a trademark they aren't really using, and no one associates with them anyway?
I guess its relative to what the voters experienced or assumed they experienced before the 4 years vs what they were experiencing in the current election cycle. So if you are used to $3 eggs then a $5 egg would be potentially anxiety inducing. It wouldnt matter if the actual cost of eggs is $1 as the fair price in other countries.
Wow, a whole article that didn't mention the word "sampler" once. There's pretty strong evidence coming out that truncation samplers like min_p and entropix are strictly superior to previous samplers (which everyone uses like top_p) to prevent hallucinations and that LLMs usually "know" when they are "hallucinating" based on their logprobs.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=FBkpCyujtS (min_p sampling, note extremely high review scores)

https://github.com/xjdr-alt/entropix (Entropix)

https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling/index.xhtml
Offline evaluators such as laminar and (evalite wip) stay out of the way fortunately. Evals can be very useful when they do.
The CCADB tracks the various root programs, so you could do this today[1]. In practice however I think you’d be best off just using the Mozilla root program; I believe they’re as (if not more) strict than the corporate root programs in terms of inclusion.

[1]: https://www.ccadb.org/
> As for toyota their new engines and transmissions arent really any better for fuel economy but seem to have reliability issues anyway.

I mentioned HSD specifically, which refers to a Hybrid Setup where the transmission is typically a setup where in simple form there's a single speed gearbox, two motor/generators (one of which more or less replaces a torque converter to minimize losses) and an electronically controlled clutch for the motor to act in direct drive to, again, minimize losses.

Rav4 Hybrids, Maverick Hybrids, Escape hybrids all have pretty good overall reliability track records as far as the engine/transmission goes (interestingly, some of the Ford models have a 'potential recall' on some VIN ranges but it seems like a supplier issue on the crankshafts... which TBH sounds like it hit other manufacturers e.x. Toyota.)

The 'simple' Hybrid model like this typically involves:

- A boring engine with atkinson-style capable VVT. Ford normally uses a variant of a Mazda design that is well proven, You don't need direct injection or turbos, AFAIK even Toyota follows the same pattern (unless they're doing D4S now... but doubt it based on observations of hybrids in the winter)

- Transmission like noted above

- A battery between 1.3 and 3.0 Killowatt hours (probably closer to 2.0 median tho). For comparison a tesla model 3 starts at ~50Kwh battery, costs for maintenance are overblown on hybrids frequently.

- A mileage above 35MPG for something like a Rav4/Maverick/Escape hybrid. Far more for a Prius sized/profiled vehicle.

- Maybe 1-2 seconds of torque decently above 200 lb-ft of torque in a burst, again on something like a 2.5 liter.

> I think its more of a problem of too much power as the HP war rages on for more powerful engines.

Yeah people miss the point there. Most people really want torque to help get them to a highway driving speed safely enough to deal with the rest of the folks out there and have enough HP to get to necessary evasion speed. (And, a transmission that can keep up with that.) For >90% of my driving, the Hybrid gives me enough 'oomph' compared to my older M/T WRX that, well, the WRX now has a maintenance backlog (FML).

If you can hit >200 pound feet in a compact to midsize (C/D class), frankly, that's enough. The average person on the highway being able to hit 0-60 in <10 seconds is often a liability, because it makes them overconfident.
Oh, it's pretty tough to be in your 20s in the US compared to other times. But we are comparing with other countries, and most have the very same pressures as the US, but with lower salaries.

I look at my home country, Spain, where salaries are far lower than in the US for most jobs, and housing costs are ballooning. People might not have huge student loans and very high healthcare bills, but taxes climb really fast when you go past minimum wage. You have people demonstrating because, in their 30s, they still cannot live independently. Pensioners helping their kids, because they get checks a bit over 2000 a month, which are much better than what the recent college graduates are making. If you compare median salary to median rent, or median condo price, the US is still more affordable.

For all the stresses we have in the US, there are few countries that aren't facing very similar situation.
poetry2nix has actually been deprecated[1], and is in my experience subtly broken, as is the entire python packaging mechanism in Nix[2].

So we're now getting yet another attempt, this time called pyproject-nix[3].

I'm now considering taking similar stab with common lisp packaging, because the amount of time I lost fighting Nix trying to run a development environment is making me reconsider using Nix at all.

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix#:~:text=announce...

[2] https://pyproject-nix.github.io/pyproject.nix/build.html

[3] https://pyproject-nix.github.io/pyproject.nix
> If the word was "paralell," that would be four L's, but that's not the correct spelling.

Better but this is still a hallucination.
Yep we get the sources above. We've definitely thought about contract capture--we've just been hesitant because it seems like such a competitive space. But it's definitely tempting, and it wouldn't take much to convince us for sure
You start out by measuring tires with some metric, like "pounds of of particulate released pe 50,000 miles when loaded at x", and tax tires with a worse rating higher. Them you're gonna have to keep an eye on additives to tires, because it's always possible someone will find something that makes tires wear slower but the particles more toxic.

It's not impossible.