skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying "we don't need teachers because we've got books". A how-to guide has to assume a certain level of knowledge, so will inevitably be insultingly basic for some readers or completely impenetrable for others. A static document can't elaborate on something you don't understand or fill in gaps in your knowledge. It can't help you debug a problem or look at your setup and point out where you might have gone wrong.

We now have good evidence that AI-assisted learning can be substantially more effective than traditional methods, at incredibly low marginal cost.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/professor-tai...

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to...
... but most of those PHD are seriously "smart", and "smart" does not go well with authoritative regimes, namely it is very, very hard to make those work together to acheive results at scale, and that unrelated to science at all.

The silicon world is waiting for China to announce their EUV photolitographers (and the other required tools) on par with those from ASML (or maybe some brand new process able to build at scale similar cutting edge chips).
They're generally bigger as well. That's more or less the tradeoff: the denser the energy storage, the worse all other attributes get.
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It's not sure much about hoovering, as targeted spying.

Plenty of evidence of companies and governments using spying for commercial/national ( sometimes the same ) advantage.

So let's say you are a big company, and suddenly the US government decides you are a competitor in a nationally strategic industry - is your data safe if held by a US company?
> this year most PCB fabrication houses have gained support for putting Chinese characters onto a circuit board

I've yet to see one of these in the wild, but it sounds cool to me and I would like to see it.

There's something of a problem the CJK languages have in not being able to do abbreviations or acronyms, so in Japanese you will occasionally see a couple of Latin letters standing out because that's much shorter than an inconveniently translated word.
Start here: No BS guide to Linear Algebra https://a.co/d/6em7tXE . There’s also a No BS guide to Math/Physics which goes through calculus and geometry. This is freshman level content. I read this on the couch next to my wife act age 37 for about 20-30 minutes a night, a few times per week and got through it in six months. You will need to work some of the exercises, i used a lap desk and clipboard which I store next to my spot on the couch.
https://archive.is/04Cuc
There are different options.

If you put the power planes on the inner layers and the signal on the outer layers, it's much easier to visually inspect the signal layers. And if you got something wrong on the prototype and you have to fix it manually, the traces are right there where you can get at them.

On the other hand, if you're doing some performance-critical RF wizardry, you might put the ground planes on the outer layers and the signal on the inner layers, sandwiching your signal between two ground planes. So if you look at a wifi module or something like that, sometimes the outer layers will have very few traces.
Because my original comment was about the 80s?

Nuclear was the only viable green option back then. It failed because of mass psychosis and because it was more expensive than coal and gas.

Of course it’s too late now. But had nuclear plant construction continued to grow at the same pace as in the 60s and 70s CO2 emissions from power generation would have be been solved by the 2000s.

> adding pollution control to coal plants

Even if it was 100% effective that would do nothing to slow down climate change.
I've seen a lot of that happening recently. People claiming they did this and that, when they actually followed the steps from a LLM. I actually don't mind this, except for the part where they omit the use of a LLM to get all the credits to themselves.

Reminds me of all these YouTubers making video essays parotting something they have just learned, without actually mastering the subject.
Afaik it includes inference which they seem to be offering at a loss.
I'd be interested in how an LLM could become more sensible than the average internet, they are by definition the average of the internet. I'm waiting for the next major innovation, and given AI's history I might be waiting a long time.

Fusors are somewhat dangerous, they use extremely high voltage, in the thousands to hundred thousand volt range.
x-rays become an issue above around 30,000 volts, but they are frequently made by high school students, and I'm not aware of any deaths.

lots of details available here: https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=4843
That's what I mean, Joe average is going to go with free over $2400 a year.
Firefox on Android - works.
This is very much a Java phenomenon. These things do have value .. when correctly applied. But sometimes it's like seeing someone make a gadget with fifty different types of bolts rather than one or two simply because they want to use all the bits of their socket set.
Improve AI security in Gitlab with composite identities
Oh absolutely. No question. Definitely.
Surely that will end in fragmentation along national lines if monopolies are defined by governments.

Sure US economic power has a long reach right now because of the importance of the dollar etc - but the more it uses that to bully, the more countries are making sure they are independent.
So, as you state yourself basically, the result also depends on training data, which makes it part of the "compiled source" in a way, just like the architecture of the model. If you have the training data, you can modify that.

But probably it is impossible for them to release the training data, as they have probably not made it all reproducible, but live ingested the data, and the data has since then chanced in many places. So the code to live ingest the data becomes the actual source, I guess.
The "mass psychosis" theory is comforting to the zealot, but not in accordance with the facts. Nuclear failed for economic reasons. In the US, these reasons included: cost escalation (even before TMI), moderation of what had seem inexorable growth in electricity demand that increased risk, and sudden introduction of new competition (non-utility generation unleashed by PURPA) that soaked up what demand growth there was.
FYI:

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https://archive.md/eTxkh
I would just kill the scrollbar styling if it’s breaking the site in common browsers. Styling the scrollbar is absolutely a nice-to-have—more important to have people able to read the content. Otherwise, what’s the point?
From the author summary:

> We find that variation in both nares width and alar base width appear to have experienced accelerated divergence across human populations. We also find that the geospatial distribution of nares width is correlated with temperature, and absolute humidity, but not with relative humidity. Our results support the claim that local adaptation to climate may have had a role in the evolution of nose shape differences across human populations.

I really wonder how nose shape can affect evolution. What is the mechanism? How can better air lead to higher numbers of successful offspring or fatalities?
Role of autophagy in aging: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Losing 20-50 million lives through "panic" seems like a crazy estimate. What are you basing this on?
8Mt would be on par with a major nuke, right? Or will it become more energetic? or did I get it wrong?
I know, but these things can be trained for. Siri/Alexa is 2010 tech, not 2025. And the big benefit is that there's a pretty limited vocabulary and phraseology in aviation.

I don't see ATC being replaced yet but in the future perhaps something more automated could happen including more visual instructions.
You mean Danish Gulf?
Rule 1 of web development, don’t reinvent and mess with scrolling.
I didn’t mean radiation specifically. Rather overall damage due to pollution compared to the casualties in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

e.g. NIH estimates 460k excess deaths (just in the US alone) between 1999 and 2020 were caused by emission from coal plants. And that’s the period when coal became relatively “clean”.

So it must have been much worse back in the 70s and 80s.

The highest estimate for Chernobyl is 60,000. But 16,000 is probably more realistic.
I gave a long-ish answer to a sibling comment, that maybe sheds some light on that question, but I'll try to also give a concrete example where ownership complements immutability. (You best read that response first before continuing here.)

You are right in that immutability or more precisely the persistence that copy-on-write brings somewhat solves many of the issues that ownership also solves.

Persistence allows you to not care as much about who owns what, because whenever something is modified it is simply copied (with structural sharing), so you know that whatever you have is local anyways, not because you are the only one who has exclusive access to the thing, but because you make a copy of it at the point where answering that question would matter.

But you miss out on two things from that:

- Performance: Those copies are cheap but not free. Borrowing complements _persistent_ immutability in that regard extremely well, because it allows you to check if you're currently the only one using something and modify it mutably in that case. Clojure has a concept called transients, where you create an intermediately mutable version of an immutable thing to perform batch updates, but you still have to manage that yourself, with ownership it happens magically behind the scenes.

- Exclusive types: The other comment I wrote contains an example of this. I have an `ExclusiveID` type in my Database that is similar to a `row_id`. I can recover a lot of the capabilities of transactions and software transactional memory from these, simply because a user can rely on `ExclusiveID`s existing only at a single point at a time in their code. And `ExclusiveID` itself is a completely immutable thing, but the "contract" on how it can be used is what makes it powerful.

Immutability on a domain logic level also does not help you when it comes to dealing with inherently immutable things like devices and networks, whereas ownership does.

So I would argue that those two concepts are complementing each other extremely well, both implementation wise, but also in terms of a the mental model of how your code works.
> some people are going to be in for a very uncomfortable time in short order

> it made me feel old and alarmed by the number of new tools at our disposal

> I believe that laptops and PCs will give way to a more novel device rather soon.

> So, er, like, good luck if you’re not paying attention to this stuff.

All I see is some serious effort to hoist some FOMO on me. "Something big is coming soon" is repeated ad nauseam in this article and many many others.
> Renewables are outpacing nuclear at such a pace that you could legitimately wonder why to bother with such projects at all.

Indeed, especially as renewable will more and more eat into nuclear 'baseload', lowering its load factor and therefore raising its total production cost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udJJ7n_Ryjg
Yes, this multiplies the complexity. When you talk to ATC you always need your tail number and airplane model. Why? Because a landing Cessna 150 is moving at 70mph. An incoming jet is moving at 130mph. And the jet can’t just slow down to 70 or it will fall out of the sky. They need to consider aircraft performance in all aspects of planning.
He apparently is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ericmigi.com/post/3lgr5paghx22u
It doesn't matter.

US companies will want to have consumers and Europe has them, so they would like to offer their services in the EU.

AI hardware is also produced in China. Americans don't want to talk about it, but Huawei has good inference hardware and software.
Yup. If languages were characters in a computer RPG, they'd have "special skills" listed on their character cards. Off the top of my head:

- English: verbing and nouning. All languages have ways of introducing new words, but only in English I've seen it accepted as something anyone can casually do in a throwaway manner. Have a noun but want to talk about the (contextually) default action related to the noun? No big deal, just stick an "-ing" or "-ed" to its end and carry on. I adore this feature.

- German: word concatenation you mention, it's a killer feature. And then there's the peculiar grammar that puts the most important verb at the very end of a sentence, giving you stuff like "Gegen die hohen Preise für Gas, Strom und Treibstoff will die Regierung etwas machen", meaning "The government wants to do something about the high prices for gas, electricity and fuel", but structured as "<tone> <stuff> <blah> <blah> <subject> <stuff> do something". So not only you need to listen to the end of a sentence to know what it's about, but you can actually zone out a bit early on, catch the last few words, and still recover the meaning. I'm sure one could write an interesting signal processing take on this.

(If anyone knows examples of such unique/special "skills" for other languages, I'd love to hear about them!)
Yes and since few weeks ago it now comes for free with WebStorm.
I only meant the total mind share :) looks like folks have never heard of MC in other contexts than game bots.
Many non-English-language countries end up with most people who've been through higher education knowing at least some English, not only so they can handle sources but also so they can talk internationally to any other country as well as consume American media.

It's also a status symbol.

The smaller the language pool is the stronger this effect is. Japan is large enough that it's less guaranteed. Places like India and Indonesia that have a lot of internal languages end up using English as a lingua franca (+) as well.

(+) latin term!
Is it so strange to have logs in plain text? In my experience most logs at companies are in plain text. Only passwords are usually encrypted.
Their black Friday special does not seem to work (at present, anyway). I followed the .blackfriday link, tried to sign up and got a notice that "Black Friday 2024 - BF2024 Small plan is currently unavailable".
Also, on the .blackfriday site, when they say "Price: $15 / 3 years", do they mean $15 per year for three years, or $15 for three years?
Exactly my point! :)

...but if it does happen, inflation will come down, too.
I’ve never been on a team that migrated to Aurora PG for raw query perf. It is slower than a bespoke setup that is optimized for raw latency, but Aurora is going to hold up under much higher traffic with much less fuss. It also has an excellent snapshot/restore facility.
People focus a lot on the 'web', and not enough on the 'log'
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whoa! there kelly! not flight! uncontrolled hops!
read up about the wright brothers at the worlds first "air show" in paris france ?1909? therabouts
where they casualy went about there business, and everybody else was completely astounded, and concided there mastery....the wrights were offered
the keys to all of europe, litteraly, but declined
as they had to rush back to the US, to attend pattent litigation procedings, and this world we live in, happened, and another, didn't.
One of the moments where a clear fork in destiny
happened, and is still relevant.As per your comment!
> Edit: Plus the CLOUD act requires a public warrant or subpoena that must be granted in a fair court, as opposed to China's laws, which allow the government access to data whenever they please.

Laws - haha - Snowdon revealed mass illegal surveillance. Clapper bare faced lied to Senators about it.

Also those laws only protect US citizens - as far as the US is concerned everyone else is totally fair game for anything - including arbitrary assassination, kidnappings, torture, imprisonment without trial etc.

I'd suggest the US wake up and take a good look in the mirror before moralising to others.

In a multi-polar world the US is going to need friends - and the US has some great people and characteristics - but as a friend - you need to sort yourselves out or soon you'll be on your own.
> My main concern is OS updates and AirPlay protocol changes breaking it

Then you can safely ignore your other concern:

> doesn't appear to have changed its feature set or UI

Those things aren’t related, you don’t need to change the UI or features to maintain core functionality.
I forgot the name but 10 years ago there was a popular free vpn extension for browsers that let each user exit by the other users ip and you could choose the location with a click.

But behind that free service, the model was to provide an expensive service to companies needing high frequency testing or scraping (sometime illegal) with multiple ips and locations. I got a trial for 1 week after a visio with them, it was complicated to setup, but it felt like exploiting unknowing free users.
There's an inherent contradiction in the current US approach to China. On one hand, China has developed an unparalleled manufacturing ecosystem, particularly evident in places like Shenzhen, where the physical proximity of component manufacturers creates an efficiency that's nearly impossible to replicate elsewhere. The iPhone supply chain is a prime example of this integrated network, where design issues can be resolved through direct factory-to-factory collaboration within hours.

The attempt to slow China's AI development through tariffs and trade restrictions seems misguided for two key reasons. First, as we've seen with Russia, trade restrictions often just lead to the development of alternative supply routes through intermediary countries rather than true isolation.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, restrictions may actually accelerate Chinese innovation. The "necessity is the mother of invention" principle suggests that trade barriers could push Chinese AI companies to develop novel solutions and optimizations, potentially making them more competitive in the global AI race, not less. This is particularly relevant in the context of large language models, where alternative approaches might emerge from working under constraints.

The current situation indeed resembles a Sputnik moment, but the strategy of using trade barriers might be counterproductive to maintaining technological leadership.
Very cool! I tried it out, and it worked like a charm.

How did you build the genre list? I was curious how you got that data.

(I wish Goodreads would fix their API; so disappointed in them for killing off access)

I've been playing with something similar to help people find books... for example, here is a filter page that is searching science fiction books for all books with AI from newest to oldest (but limited to only the books in our DB that someone has recommended): https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/science-fiction?topics=Q11660...

I'm working on a TBR tool for this year as well. Going to try to really make everyone's TBR pile come to life in some cool ways.
I won't ever touch Segate because at one point they released 3TB hdds that were failing catastrophically in 1-2 years of desktop use. I've lost some stuff I shouldn't have.
What an oddly aggressive tone x) It's not "my" Zed's selling point because I don't develop or even use zed daily atm. But it's also not the selling point period, it's one of them, the others being e.g. performance, responsiveness, and low memory footprint, as well as integration with tree sitter and LSP.

Not sure what you mean by gamification and social, we're talking about collaborative editing, not posting to twitter lol
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I've seen 3 epochs on some of the finetuning R1 blog posts. It's not my field so not sure how valid that is.
> they are by definition the average of the internet.

Are you referring to base models?

Nowadays they also train on stolen books and are further "aligned" based on feedback. I imagine they are already learning to teach based on feedback from users.
Meta will pay $25M to settle a lawsuit with Trump over his 2021 suspensions
Back in 2015 we developed indie game in 3 people about a year. After unsuccessful kickstarter we stop with development.

Some eastern guys bought our assets that covered our expenses for development. Few months later, they released it with absolutely horrible unfinished state. They don't even change wip animations for run. Original art style that we created was completely gone.

Since then, I decided to leave game development. It's like gambling.
I think it's mostly about BMW electrifying their lineup. People have options now if they want a premium EV.
Some others kiwi inventions of interest:
John Britten and his motorbike of same name.
Hamilton Jetboats.
Electron rockets.
The question is not, whether it is ideal to do some ML tasks with it, the question is, whether you can do the things you could typically do with open sourced software, including looking at the source and build it, or modify the source and build it. If you don't have the original training data, or mechanism of getting the training data, the compiled result is not reproducible, like normal code would be, and you cannot make a version saying for example: "I want just the same, but without it ever learning from CCP prop."
Whatever you buy, you buy a part of lifestyle and self definition. If you buy a Tesla today in Germany, you will be identified as alt right. And these are the people which may habe fewer financial ressources and cant afford one.
> assess if you need some bulk capacitance as well, but more likely you are liable to wind up with too much capacitance

Remember also that most bulk capacitor types bring in some ESR, and the associated damping can really help a PDN. If you're too lazy to simulate, at least leave a footprint for a tantalum or aluminum capacitor!
I'd think hard about the possible consequences of doing this. It could be challenging to explain if you're ever asked about it when undergoing official diagnosis, you might be forced to lie or risk being labeled a drug seeker.

And I don't think looking out for whether it "helps you concentrate" is a valuable metric. Healthy people also abuse stimulants because it helps them concentrate.

Perhaps a more valuable effect to pay attention to is whether it calms you down? This is a counter-intuitive effect common in people with ADHD.
The article sounds like an elaborate infomercial:

"It also excited me. Just spending a couple of hours with HudZah left me convinced that we’re on the verge of someone, somewhere creating a new type of computer with AI built into its core. I believe that laptops and PCs will give way to a more novel device rather soon."

"I’m not sure that people know what’s coming for them. You’re either with the AIs now and really learning how to use them or you’re getting left behind in a profound way."

It would be worth following the money of this submarine article.
> Their CEO met with the premier the other day.

Remind me of the list of US tech CEOs who were at (and paid for!) the inauguration?
It's "deterministic" the same way the weather is.
people already did: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1884678601704169965
Breeding is a counter-example. Fermi envisioned it in the early 1940's.

Lab breeder reactors emerged during the 1950's and were satisfying in the 1960's.

Big projects aiming at obtaining an industrial reactor were aplenty, worldwide, during the 1970's through the 1990's.

They all failed, and remaining efforts are quite sparse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Notable_reacto...

Obtaining something adequate (raw size, reliability, safety, ease of use...) isn't always easy.

The quest of an industrial nuclear fusion reactor may tank this way.