skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that. China seems to have found a middle ground that allows for a pretense of exploratory and associative free-will ("special economic zones", China even has billionaires) with people in reality being one wrong move away from the usual sudden and drastic crackdown you'd associate with its style of government.

On the other hand Western democracies largely seem to fund this kind of "exploratory and associative free-will" to the benefit of their aristocracies (i.e. wealthy people who hold a lot of social, economic and often political power but can not actually directly control the government itself despite often benefiting from selective enforcement) while at the same time clearly being aware that ideas like the state monopoly of violence (even in the US) or the "right for a country to defend itself" are vital to the state's continued existence and that democracy is a threat to that ulterior motive if taken too seriously.

China seems to be an example of a "disciplined obedience" system adapting to its economic environment (more the international one than the internal one) whereas "the West" seems to provide examples of systems creating layers of misdirection to hide their inherent "disciplined obedience" based nature that ensures their self-preservation.
Llama 3.3 70B 8-bit MLX runs on Macbook 128GB at 7+ tokens per second while running a full suite of other tools, even at the 130k tokens size, and behaves with surprising coherence. Reminded me of this time last year, first trying Mixtral 8x22 — which still offers a distinctive je ne sais quoi!
Bollocks. "Hype language" has a very strong correlation with people who don't know what they're talking about. (Probably because most people who use it do not, in fact, know what they're talking about, even if some might.) So other experts in the field will look down on you if you speak like a British university press release.
In my experience there are just people built differently, I have known a few of them, it can actually be “scary” to be around them and realize that, no matter the effort, you would never be able to reach a similar output.

They are able to be extremely productive while also maintaining a good life outside work. I attribute it to a mix of incredible intelligence and wit.

By working hard and acquiring domain knowledge one can improve, but typically won’t even come close to matching their output.

To me a good analogy would be similar to saying, you could wake up every day at 5am and train all day, but most likely you won’t make it to the NBA, NFL, or what have you. There are just people built differently (quite literally in this analogy).

People typically don’t have a problem accepting the NBA analogy and that they are not a 10x athlete, but are uncomfortable with the other, as proved by the various “there must be sacrifices, shortcuts, a price to pay, etc” in this thread. In many cases I’ve seen there were none, these people were just 10X, at work and life.
I am not a traditional anything, but the usefulness of the concept of "demon" - as the personification of a vice, or misfortune, or cultural problem, or even mental illness - is shown I think by its durability across traditions as a useful explanatory model (and a metaphor.) They exist like an uncollapsed wave function - you will never meet one, so the validity of its existence" is always somewhat unclear, but it can be very useful to act as if it is quite real.
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In the chart where you compare the "total burr area", and then... Hmm, I could swear that the shop said that it is coming in march 2025, and used the name Oculo there? Sorry, can't find it anymore.
Your couple of comments on this thread are insightful, I will be watching that documentary! Cheers!

What have you focused on in your chess learning to get to where you've gotten? I presume - everything?
Mechanical properties are very important, too. Able to bend, able to be cut, able to withstand mild shocks and vibration without fracturing. Something you can make actual wires from, at least at some stage. This, superconducting at liquid nitrogen temperature, would produce a revolution. Transmission lines alone would be huge.
>I'm surprised by the number of adults I've worked with who had graduate degrees and yet could not read a paragraph out loud on the spot and sound natural

It's hard to shift gears like that. I can read vastly faster than I can speak so it can be difficult to coordinate the two on the spot. Most reading people do is silent reading, so this shouldn't necessarily be that surprising.
As someone who knows nothing about this, how is something like "Tungsten disulfide/boron nitride" selected? Is it based on some models? Or, is it more of a random walk?
This is neat. I've touched ESP32 programming a bit, but need to go deeper.
They do exist: many geocoding APIs (address to lat/lon) can optionally return a timezone as well, like this one: https://opencagedata.com/api#forward-resp

Or you can get a latitude/longitude and derive the timezone from that - I built an API for that here https://timezones.datasette.io/timezones/by_point?longitude=...
It is going to be even more fun, once LLMs or alike are embedded in the pipelines by default ..
I used Storyteller to align the most recent Sanderson's novel on audio and the result is 1.7Gb. That's... painful. It resulted in it crashing the reader on Remarkable2 tablet.

I'm now actually working on a Calibre-Web change to strip the audio and media overlay from the books it serves via OPDS.

Then I'll need to tackle cross-device progress sync. This turned out to be surprisingly tricky.
Even just Meta dwarfs Twitter's cluster, with an estimated 350k H100s by now.
Best I can tell, with the manual released, this is literally just a pump and a group head. The dial appears to control the pump 'power' (voltage, I assume), and that's about it.

I'm really, really not seeing what could possibly justify this price. If the 'control' is just as simple as an analog knob, then this is no different than adding 'flow control' via a common dimmer switch to any other pump. I've done this modification on vibratory pump models myself, and they function just fine when dimer switch modded.
> 1. Don’t assume a terminal type. Look at `TERM` and use termcap/terminfo or a library built atop them for anything beyond line-oriented plain text output, or least assume a plain teletype unless you specifically recognize the user’s terminal type.

I agree, but these days I think you can mostly get away with assuming VT100-compatible behavior.

> 4. Use the standard `<sysexits.h>` exit codes. They exist for a reason and they make use of your tool within pipelines and programs more straightforward because they make it easier to trace why a failure occurred.

I just took a look at this header file. (It defines exit codes starting at 64.) I'm not sure I've ever seen a program that uses these codes. Many programs for UNIX-like systems just use exit(1) for generic errors, or maybe something to distinguish between data errors and usage errors such as unrecognized command-line options. I mostly use Linux; maybe it's more common on BSD-based systems (it appeared "somewhere after 4.3BSD"). For example curl defines nearly 100 distinct error codes; none of them are based on <sysexit.h>.

> 5. Include both in-binary `--help`/usage information and a man page. Often a user will just need a quick refresher on argument syntax, which is what the built-in help text is for; the man page should be a comprehensive reference with examples. It should never defer to a web page or GNU `info`—it’s fine if those exist too and are pointed out, but they should not be the primary user reference.

In practice, GNU `info` tends to be the primary reference for GNU programs. The man page is often missing a lot of information.
Mirror: https://maps.app.goo.gl/soe6WX87ihvu4E1W9
Reappeared as Electric unicycles, which look hilarious, dangerous, and like a lot of fun.
> I'm a little surprised there isn't something more accurate than a camera for this.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the helicopter was made using off-the-shelves parts[1], including for avionics, to see how well they held up on Mars.

As such I think it did amazingly well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#Design
Quite a goal post move from "just go unemployed, and then bankrupt, and then die" to "poverty impacts health"
This is a useful fact to have handy.
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Thank you! I should explore the uv docs properly.
>to get the desired magnetic field tolerance

Interesting, then, that the article actually mentions a superconductor that got stronger in the presence of a magnet! Wild things we're learning here!
i was thinking rather the meet HN would summarize for all cities, or in the comments or whatever. or just link to a overview site on meet.hn.
but anyway, as i said: just random thoughts that were the first ones to go through my mind. might help coming up with better ideas.
Echo chambers are very effective at drowning out dissenting voices.
Love your use of ~ in "~agree". Such a nice shortcut. Might steal that :D
Electromagnets.
I too kept a log of my errors in the 1980's, hoping to become a better C programmer. I imagined that with careful enough reflection, I would never make the same mistake twice.

I found the log many years later. Last entry: "Forgot to eat. Got sick."
One very small correction: QUIKTRAN wasn't a “mathematical utility”, but an early timesharing system, I think running on a 7044 (coincidentally, my first mainframe). It offered an interactive Fortran system, with editing and debugging facilities. IBM's later CALL/360 system was a successor to this, adding PL/I and Basic.

Interesting UX fact: IBM researchers looked at user satisfaction on this system. They found that it wasn't poor response time that bothered people, but variability of response times. If users couldn't predict how long an operation would take, that bothered them. So they inserted delays so that average response times were maybe longer, but variance was lower. And users were happier.
Yes. Many exercise by pla and one is active even now (and the largest one). It is more a question of when. And would USA just sit and watch then. If so, how about the chip … the relocation of talent like physicist under nazi germany may not be done in time.
my thought was the opposite: "only EUR 100k for a giant sun tracking device mounted above a village? Maybe Montgomery Burns' idea of doing the same thing in reverse wasn't so ludicrous after all..."
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Depends on how you define "booting". While its true that the microkernel always boots, and there is one userspace process running, it's a bit more subtle than that imo.

The bringup module always boot which configures the clock controller, bootguard parameters, and releases the CPU core from reset. When in HAP mode, after that it only handles power management events and doesn't really do anything else. No other ring 3 processes are started on the ME in this mode.

Stuff like even the real read-write VFS, fw updater, HECI comms handerl, AMT, PAVP, ISH server, etc are never started in HAP mode. It effectively reduces your runtime attack vector to data in SPI flash only.
Human intelligence should be enough to understand what parallax is and how gimbals and IR sensors work.

All those published videos were no less than a psyop to demonstrate weapons system's capabilities - with the implicit brag that there's even more powerful stuff they're not showing.
Really? Meta looks to be running larger clusters of Nvidia GPUs already

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineerin...

This doesn't account for inhouse silicon like Google where the comparison becomes less direct (different devices, multiple subgroups like DeepMind)
To be fair, he knew what the problem was (errors in the lookup table) beforehand.
Oh to remember mid-90s humor

How many Intel engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 0.99999999
… what

No, you’re confusing finite AGI for an AGI that can only compete with a single person at a time.

In a world of AGI better-than-humans at both A and B, it’s a whole lot cheaper to replicate AGI that’s better at A and B and do both A and B than it is to employ human beings who do B badly.
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Google/Gemini have none of this baggage.
> line of research and development is leading to AGI

What do you mean by AGI exactly? if you want to come back in 10 years to see who's right, at least you should provide some objective criteria so we can decide if the goal has been attained.
Give it the data as separate columns. For each cell give it the row index and the data.

That way it's just working with lists but can easily key that eg all this data is in row 3, etc. Tell it to correlate data by the first value in the pair like that.
> Additionally the XHTML content can just be a single large file instead of one file per chapter/section.

Terry Pratchett books are notorious for that. Some tools EPUB authoring tools artificially introduce breaks, but you can't rely on them.
Kubebuilder
It's even worse than that, there are others, much more likely key combinations that are interpreted by the SSH client. For example "~v" increases the verbosity of the SSH client, "~C" opens a command line, etc.

Entering "~vicky/doc.txt" or "~Ricky/doc.txt" over SSH will actually only write "icky/doc.txt", and entering "~Chris/doc.txt" will have SSH print out it's internal command-line's usage instructions in the middle of the TUI. Screenshot from Vim: https://imgur.com/a/NCt0G9r
> I'm not a rust guy (I've only done hello world), but my understanding is it only gives you unique pointers

Some very rough analogies:

C++ : Rust
unique_ptr : Box
shared_ptr : Rc or Arc
references : references
> I thought everyone wanted him back, and that's why he was able to return.

Everyone working at OpenAI wanted him back. Which only includes people who have a significant motivation to see OpenAI succeed financially.

Also, there are rumours he can be vindictive. For all I know, that might be a smear campaign. But if that were the case, and half the people at OpenAI wanted him back, the other half would have a motivation to follow so as not to get whatever punishment from Sam.
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Doing what exactly? What industry could Mars possibly support profitably?
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Do you want to get social sciences defunded? Because this is how you get social sciences defunded. The academic obsession with identity is completely toxic.
I suppose the USA government wants to turn the youth against it in the name of xenophobia.
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Lol SF has woken up.

Yes and developing new commercially viable tech pays for one's future.
> foundational assumptions of economics may just stop holding true

Those assumptions are already failing billions of people, some people might still be benefiting from those "assumptions of economics" so they don't see the magnitude of the problem. But just as the billions who suffer now have no power, so will you have no power once those assumptions fail for you too.
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While I would certainly expect a radical change to economics even from a middling IQ AI — or indeed a low IQ, as I have previously used the example of IQ 85 because that's 15.9% of the population that would become permanently unable to be economically useful — I don't think it's quite as you say.

Increasing IQ scores seem to allow increasingly difficult tasks to be performed competently — not just the same tasks faster, and also not just "increasingly difficult" in the big-O-notation sense, but it seems like below certain IQ thresholds (or above them but with certain pathologies), some thoughts just aren't "thinkable" even with unbounded time.

While this might simply be an illusion that breaks with computers because silicon outpaces synapses by literally the degree to which jogging outpaces continental drift, I don't see strong evidence at this time for the idea that this is an illusion. We may get that evidence in a very short window, but I don't see it yet.

Therefore, in the absence of full brain uploads, I suspect that higher IQ people may well be able to perform useful work even as lower IQ people are outclassed by AI.

If we do get full brain uploads, then it's the other way around, as a few super-geniuses will get their brains scanned but say it takes a billion dollars a year to run the sim in real time, then Moore's and Koomey's laws will take n years to lower that to $10 million dollars a year, 2n years to lower it to a $100k a year, and 3n years to lower it to $1k/year.
I’m on my phone right now and getting search engines to limit their time frame in a mobile UI is tiresome, so I’ll do that when I’m back at a computer :) (but the core thing to do is compare projected budget under the previous govt and actual budget under this govt). Both of those numbers above are post-new budget. The budgeted “increase” in healthcare was less than the increases in population and inflation. It gets worse when we add in the fact that NZ has an aging population with requisite cost increases.
This govt gave us tax cuts and restored billions of dollars in tax rebate for landlords which decreased the spending pool available for things like healthcare.
Windows games have a larger market share, reinforced by Proton.
I have an ice cream shop by me that doesn't even have a website. They're mobbed every day, because good ice cream is fairly self explanatory, and doesn't need a web presence
If you are talking about an online language class as in "I'm learning Yiddish" then I don't understand why it would confuse that that someone who isn't a coder or writer (and they're a big if) who doesn't know what the heck markdown is and hence wouldn't want to deal with it since they're used to MS Word or other word processor app. that's probably like 95% of the population at least.
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Hey hackers, I have just started, let me know what would you like to see to be able to effectively track your goals. Maybe integration with Discord?
Since it's communicating with the rover, I was thinking it could use latency and/or Doppler effect as an input to narrow down the position, assuming the rover knew where it was, potentially by getting told by the satellites we have there.

However I assume that would require special radio software, and they were using commercial Zigbee modules. In addition, I guess perhaps the helicopter and potentially rover wouldn't have accurate enough oscillators for this to be viable in any case.
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This is from personal experience.
BTW, I've had this idea in my mind for a while, after slowly working through my e-library infrastructure.

Do you think it might be a good idea to set up a site to share the aligned overlays from Storyteller? This way, people won't have to waste CPU/GPU time re-aligning the same files over and over again.

It should be OK from a copyright perspective, as it won't be distributing any copyrighted material, only the media overlay information.
I find Koreader (linux version) leaps and bounds faster than the calibre reader.
https://archive.is/xBuPg
Careful, we are not supposed to discuss how many human jobs will remain. The script clearly states the approved lines are "there will still be human jobs" and "focus on being adaptable". When it seems normal that Fortune 500 execs are living at sea on yachts, that's when you'll know OpenAI realized their vision for humanity.
https://archive.is/q9Ry8

https://archive.today/q9Ry8

https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health...
I think you just showed lack of knowledge on Clipper product names.

Before 5, they had season names, I didn't mention to be using Clipper Summer '87 in 1987, rather having used it.
Altman created Worldcoin so maybe he did mean Initial Coin Offering.
I had not read this before.
It gives me more context than I
have been missing.
If there's not much money in the kitty to pay for the services it's academic. Far better to focus on potentially valuable tech so there is money to pay for things later, and do research then if there's any question how to spend it.
The Salk vaccine was developed in the 1950s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
Why is it that pretty much everything Knuth writes is wildly detailed but yet, somehow, deeply engaging?

Maybe I'm such a fan because of many great experiences with tex (and latex). The output is just so beautiful. And the notation (once you get used to the backslashes etc) is so clean.

But, heck, I got hooked when I studied Figure 12 of [1], as an undergraduate leafing through a math journal. At first, I thought "what's wrong with this nutcase, those "s" letters all look fine to me". Then I started to see differences. And then some looked ugly. That one in the middle, though, looked better and better, the more I studied the figure. Pretty soon, I was hooked.

1. Knuth, Donald E. “Mathematical Typography.” Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 1, no. 2 (March 1979): 337–72.
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Especially when that example is Facebook!
What might work better is an HN forum with regional or city subforums (structured based on HN member density). First get HNers living close to each other to communicate, then they will meet up by themselves.

Of course, there’s the moderation issue.
I didn't look that closely but isn't it exactly that?
The hardware may cost very modestly. But consider the salary of the people who designed it, built it, transported it, and installed it. These must be several pros, working on that full-time, at a salary near the competitive level (even if they agree to take a hit out of being charitable). Much of that salary would go to the taxes.