skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Note on printing the regenerator/heat exchanger:

The latest and greatest heat exchanger is produced directly with python script generated gcode specific to the printer I use and cannot be practically produced diy, unfortunately. However the old model can be, and the STL is included for that, in the source repository. To do this, simply use Cura, load th STL in, put it in the center of the build plate, and set it to do “lines” infill with about 2.5 mm on center (between centers of the lines) spacing and 0.45 mm width, no top layer and no bottom layer (set them to zero). Check the preview and it should show you a structure which is much like grid infill, parallel channels which are square in cross section, with the outer wall. Tape can be applied over the nubs on the side to fit in an oversized pipe, or they can be sanded if the pipe is too small. You could also use grid infill, but the roads tend to have problems where they intersect. When the nozzle goes over one road, it wipes the plastic off, and not enough is deposited on the lee side. I don’t know how to solve this in Cura without using lines infill. If you could make it so the nozzle went in alternate directions each layer that would probably solve it well enough.
...or worked with any mathematicians/physicists/engineers who program. As soon as I saw that, I thought "typical quant".

Like my dad (A chemical engineer) learned to program in FORTRAN, which used to insist variable names were 1 letter and up to 2 digits. He later learned Basic, but his code was still spiritually FORTRAN so the one-letter-two digits thing stuck. I thought that was just him but then much later I went to work on Wall St and had to work with quants who were copying code out of "Numerical Recipes" and it was exactly the same just now in C.
Is it just me or do all these models generate everything in a weird pseudo-slow motion framerate?
> they demonstrate that substantive rather than incremental changes are possible at all.

Substantive-not-incremental change has always been possible, but it's mostly avoided for being a bad idea. Only when we identify an opportunity to make substantive improvement, clear and well understood, should it be used; the default is substantive destruction which is rarely more helpful than harmful.

In software terms, they're looking to rip out entire modules, because they don't understand the business logic that demands those modules. Such substantive change would be pretty idiotic in almost all cases. Refactoring is virtually always the better choice, even if it's hard and takes a long time.

Ripping out a module entirely, only to find it was necessary after all, tends to lead to the same module being rebuilt piecemeal as the missing logic is identified and being as bad or worse than before. In the end, you still need to refactor it if you want it to be good. If you can't afford to refactor, (and you don't have well understood problems,) you're better off not changing anything.
Might've replied to the wrong comment: I don't think io_uring is bad, and the comment doesn't contain 'bad', and I certainly don't think async IO is bad :)
You can always make magit behave as a standalone program if you wish. For example https://github.com/gizmomogwai/magit
That the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine belong on the timeline of computing history isn't particularly controversial, but the Difference Engine itself I've never seen anyone try to claim was a computer (it's a mechanical calculator)--the Wikipedia page doesn't even try to link it directly to the history of computers, you have to go to the Analytical Engine to see the Difference Engine's place in the "history of computing" timeline.
> One of the things that is not immediately obvious from Lambda is that it has a local /tmp directory that you can read from and write to.

The other big thing a lot of people don't know about Python on Lambda is that your global scope is also persisted for that execution context's lifetime like /tmp is. I ran into issues at one point with Lambdas that processed a high volume of data getting intermittent errors connecting to S3. An AWS engineer told me to cache my boto3 stuff (session, client, resources, etc.) in the global namespace, and that solved the problem overnight.
>A lot of white western adult men fantasize about being female Asian children.

I have questions/concerns.
also bold take to proclaim we'll still have human bodies before moving up kardashev scale
Also known as The Bip Buffer (from 2003) https://www.codeproject.com/articles/3479/the-bip-buffer-the...
Hernan Moraldo is from Argentina. That may be all there is to it.
yes in general when it comes to rust it tries to make sure that any new abstraction of features don't cause unknown unknowns, at least wrt. safety/soundness.

Like make abstractions only leaky in ways where either the compiler will yell at you if you mess up or it involves unsafe functions with clear definitions about under which conditions they are safe to use. With a strong style bias to not use unsafe.

Like e.g. there are _ton_ of complexity in the exact rules of the borrow checker, but once you know the basics that's most times all you need especially. Or if you don't know async you don't need to know anything about async at all even if you provide a library with closures/callbacks.

and that is lovely, and also where C++ fails (hard IMHO), and where C kinda somewhat doesn't fail (it fails in other places tho IMHO)
I travel for work sometimes. You often don't really know about charging. I need a lot more battery capacity than at home to be confident of doing my work.
Pratchett and Bujold are pretty much my top-two, which extends the the degree to which I feel compelled to share quotes. Both are rather character-oriented and often I find things (jokes, references, turns of phrase) on a re-read that I didn't catch the first time.

My main caution is that I wouldn't start with Pratchett's earliest works--there are already bunch of suggested reading-order guides out there. I spent a decade thinking Pratchett was overrated because I started with the wrong book. (IIRC The Colour of Magic seemed just too much of a parade of absurd situations for their own sake.) I like the City Watch books (starting in Guards! Guards!) and Small Gods is a decent stand-alone.

For Bujold, the Vorkosigan series is the flagship, where I'd put the Curse of Chalion (fantasy) as a second.
> Are there any laptops that support 256 GB of RAM that cost less than a fully speced out Macbook Pro?

No, but there are absolutely laptops with more than 128gb of addressable RAM. If you did your research you might have found them, at a literal fraction of the Macbook's price:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/precision-16-768...

Really, this is what I mean by wondering whether anyone even cares anymore. When you work long enough in the tech industry, you end up sitting next to people that just do not care about anything they interact with. People that use a paid GUI to write git commits, people that pay Pakastani developers to do their work for them, people that brag about computers and smartphones like jewelry. Do you actually research the domain that you claim to care about, or do you just own things and then find reasons to get defensive when people attack your insecurities online?

If you have not used a non-Apple laptop since Apple Silicon released, do not pretend you're in a position of authority to make comparisons. I had an M1 Pro for work, and while it was nice for day-to-day browsing I would have never bought one for myself. It's GPU is truly one of the least appealing parts, both from a performance perspective and considering what little it actually supports.
Schema deletions usually have to be rolled out in two phases. Maybe this is just a light-hearted approach to be immediately compliant w/ the ruling without making a breaking API change.
getting splintered metaverses seem way more feasible than splintered physical planets
How different does that work out from just taking the first few results in the storefront or from a generic product search?

The problem is the esoteric domain knowledge that things like consumerreports doesn't catch - for example, the way they rank cars has lots to do with minor problems detected after buying a new one, but most people just want to know "if I buy this, will it just work without thought for ten years" and that's much harder to know without waiting ten years.

And with things like toilets you may get them ranked based on how well they flush golf balls (even though nobody shits golfballs, if you do you have other problems).

And plumbers might rank them on installability, ease of repair, etc, when all you want is one that works and keeps working and doesn't ever back up. https://terrylove.com/crtoilet.htm has to be read with an eye to that.

The main thing that review searching and research can find is things to avoid - it's much harder to have it find things you should seek out.
While its fun to explore ideas, this post commits the intellectual sin of simple extrapolation-ism when everything is just oh so much more complicated than that. As others are pointing out here in the threads, biological interventions for physical strength are inevitable.

This stands to reason once you mentally discard exercise as a pre-requisite of strength. An elephant is strong, not because it exercises, but because of the biological mechanisms e.g. genetics that says: grow big, grow strong, and the effect size of those mechanisms are much much larger than individual differences due to exercise. It is clear, at least to me, that the need for exercise for adjusting strength has more to do with not spending extra energy building a body that has high upkeep if it isn't needed for survival.
He means the project, obviously
Everyone has access to YouTube. It’s safe to assume that Sora was trained on it as well.
While Video means "I see" in latin
I'm cool with it provided I can use it as a very high quality HDMI display.

Most will work --- but not always *conveniently*.

On power up, a lot them will launch into setup if connectivity is not configured. Some may actually store/retrieve the TV configuration in their cloud.
and fails to properly convey outright stating both in the title and places in the article that drop can be responsible for safety (it can't, in drain it's responsible for not leaking non drained elements, not safety)
Well they are supposed to be confessions yet he does not confess the worst part of what he witnessed. IIRC he literally says "I'll tell you everything" then proceeds to leave things out. Somewhat contradictory.
i assume EMS (electrical muscle stimulation)
I use that technology daily. They better fix it fast.
The other advantage to buying used is you avoid cradle-death along with the discount. Then, if it works great, you might consider buying that one new when the time comes.
ESA to support the development of EU's secure communication satellites system
Will it be available in the EU appstore?
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders, thanks for letting us know! I've just run it a few times and seems fine on my end. It does take a second to load the models, but feel free to let me know if this persists.
We already know how to prevent it, it’s called anabolic steroids or testosterone. Once I read a study that showed sedentary people on testosterone gained more muscle mass than people actually working out.
That's surprising. I haven't met a single user who found Copilot useful in Excel.

I've found some that enjoyed using it a "smart auto complete" both in Word and Outlook, however.

Most of my users are financial analysts.
I have briefed Register journalists 100+ times and this is is absolutely their editorial style. If you go technical, they do their best to translate what you've said into analogies that mid-market IT managers will understand. It was embarassing because my fellow engineers would often read an article and be alarmed that I may not understand our technology because of this.

The issue is that you can't not brief The Register because they're insanely influential with customers in certain tech markets. All said, they're usually fun to meet with and many of their writers are real characters.
I was going to second your observation: i wonder if the language models are just better than what they had been using, because Siri has become incredibly more accurate recently, in my experience.
> I like to explore alternatives to the most popular choice, but more often than not I end up back at the #1 consensus choice.

Popularity is only a decent proxy for consensus if people actually look at the other options. I've been burned by trusting this metric more times than I can count.
Thanks for mentioning that. It seems the PDF and the google docs "manual" have diverged a bit. (at least in page numbers).

I was curious about materials for the core. I know that they're supposed to exchange humidity as well as heat. I know PLA will absorb and release water but I would guess it wouldn't transfer enough to be very efficient. Though I would be happy to be wrong.

I assume the Core in my Panasonic whisper comfort was made out of something more permeable than "simply" extruded plastic. (would love to know more if someone has details).
How so? My expectation would be that budgeting process and can be reigned in by decree much more so than an official enshrined in law system like Medicare.
If you read the guidance:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli...

It amounts to your basic terms of service. It means that you'll need to moderate your forums, and prove that you have a policy for moderation. (basically what all decent forums do anyway) The crucial thing is that you need to record that you've done it, and reassessed it. and prove "you understand the 17 priority areas"

Its similar for what a trustee of a small charity is supposed to do each year for its due diligence.
But I do.

Lots of people don't, but they don't need to. I don't need your permission to buy the hardware I prefer, and you don't need mine.
I just won't set up Apple Intelligence, just like I've successfully not turned on Siri this whole time. They ask you if you want to turn it on again after certain major updates, but it's really pretty simple to decline. I'm glad, at least, that they don't just turn it on for you, and not let you turn it off, as some companies would.
I don't know, to me it seems like biomedical engineering and manipulation will take off and develop a lot sooner than people willingly "upload" their minds to a machine – itself a dubious idea full of problems. I think it's far more likely that current-state humans won't be exploring the stars, but a genetically modified version of them will be.

I think there is much less angst regarding the idea of upgrading humanity piecemeal, a la the Ship of Theseus, than there is to fully discarding one's body for a digital existence. This has already sort of happened over the last few hundred years with the concept of transplantable organs. Prior to the widespread acceptable of the interchangeability of organs, it was not uncommon to think that your self and body are unified and linked in a way that implied organ transplation was problematic or undesirable.

And on that note - is it just me, or are biological visions of humanity's future fairly scarce in sci-fi and in futurism (another name for sci-fi)? My guess is because such topics seem dominated by software engineers, physicists, etc. that are less interested in biology.
"The Manga Guide" [0].

Japanese Python book and other related manga programming books [1].

[0] https://nostarch.com/manga-guide-13-book-set

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/12%E6%AD%B3%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81...
Siri is __way__ better on iPhone 13 pro too, i've noticed. i bet they pushed better language models with software updates, but have not proven such.
Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier into Upheaval
> Have you worked as a software engineer for a long time? I don't want to assume anything, but all of your points thus far read to me like they're coming from a place of not having worked in software much.

Yes I've been a software engineer working in deep learning for over 10 years, including as an early employee at a leading computer vision company and a founder / CTO of another startup that built multiple large products that ended up getting acquired.

> I apologize for misinterpreting what you were saying -- I was clearly taking "for the cost of an hour of a software engineer" to mean something that you didn't intend.

I meant that unlike a software engineer, the LLM can do a lot more iterations on the problem given the same budget. So if your boss comes and says build me new dashboard page it can generate 1000s of iterations and use a human aligned reward model to rank them based on which one your boss might like best. (that's what the test time compute / sampling at inference does).

> This is not relevant to our discussion. Again, I'm reasonably sure that I'm not going to be convinced by any research demonstrating that X new tech can increase Y metric by Z%.

These are not just research papers, people are reproducing these results all over the place. Another example from a few minutes ago: https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1868710703793873144

> This is much more relevant to our discussion. Do you honestly feel this is an accurate representation of how you'd define the requirements for the pipeline you outlined in your post above? Keep in mind that we're talking about having LLMs work on already-existing large codebases,

I'm saying this will be solved pretty soon, working with large codebases doesn't work well right now because last years models had shorter context and were not trained to deal with anything longer than a few thousand tokens. Training these models is expensive so all of the coding assistant tools like cursor / devin are sitting around and waiting for the next iteration of models from Anthropic / OpenAI / Google to fix this issue. We will most likely have announcements of new long context LLMs in the next 1-2 weeks from Google / OpenAI / Deepseek / Qwen that will make major improvements on large code bases.

I'd also add that we probably don't want huge sprawling code bases, when the cost of a small custom app that solves just your problem goes to 0 we'll have way more tiny apps / microservices that are much easier to maintain and replace when needed.
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Bhasin et. al 2001. If you get in many internet fights about bodybuilding, it's an important part of your repertoire :-)
Is there a link to the big quiet fan project?
Why is it so hard to format text that is readable well?

Reading it on UHD monitor is almost impossible with full width of paragraphs.
All you can eat? Surely they charge a lot for that, at least. And how would you even find all the videos?
Yes that’s how you get an enlarged heart and die by 35.
Sometimes I think that is what metformin and statins do, because weirdly enough both seem to blunt the exercise response. I’d love to take them but I already exercise.
This time does feel different. The x64 emulation through Prism is a technological marvel and they just got AVX512 working which means that a lot more games will start to work. For companies that due pursue native ARM64 support, it's not all or nothing, there are ways to iteratively bring over pieces of that app. They also have this new App Assure program where they are working with both their customers as well as 3rd party app developers to get as much compatibility with existing apps as possible. Microsoft's previous attempts were silo'd platforms that weren't compatible at all with existing apps, so to me I see this eventually taking off like you say.
Where do I find 65" monitors?
Dont those already work via Bluetooth?

My Air Monitor Lite at least do.
yes drop can't be responsible for safety

in Vec::drain() by setting the Vec len to 0, std semantically moves all elements from the Vec to the Drain and in in Drain::drop it semantically moves the non drained elements back

i.e. vec::Drain::drop is responsible for not leaking non drained elements, not for safety

and sure not leaking means positioning them so in the vec that the len can be set to a value where all elements from 0..len have not been moved out etc. but that doesn't change that semantically it's responsibility is "not leaking" instead "making sure it's sound".
Does everyone have "legal" access to YouTube.

In theory that should matter to something like Open(Closed)Ai. But who knows.
You'd be able to tell the difference.
I said if _ALL_ they have is him it lacks legs.

But realistically was it damaged? He would have been deposed, no? That deposition can be entered into evidence. And because he is dead the defence can't cross so his word is basically untested. My understanding being able to bring in witness testimony and that the witness not being able to be crossed on the stand is beneficial to the side entering the witness testimony. So really, was the lawsuit actually damaged or is this just a bunch of people on the internet shouting conspiracy thinking a company worth 157b and invested into by companies worth trillions are going to kill someone over a copyright lawsuit?

Did he have special information no one else had? Or was he a rank-and-file researcher? My understanding is he was a rank-and-file researcher, so that would mean anything he knew others knew.
If you don't get in many internet fights about bodybuilding, testosterone can fix that too.