skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with you, but I do think it's important to acknowledge that this approach requires someone else to do it. If you're at a big company where there are tons of specialists, then perhaps this is just fine because there is someone available to do it for you. If you find yourself in a different situation, however, where you don't have that other specialist, you could end up significantly blocked for a period of time. If whatever you're working on is not important and can afford to be blocked, then again no problem, but I've been in many situations where what I was doing absolutely had to work and had to work on a timetable. If I had to offload the work to someone else because I wasn't capable, it would have meant disaster.
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I believe the core reason for popularity of it is that literally anyone can play it. this is also why - as you stated - “pro” makes no sense and it is boring as shit.
The ideal solution for safe bicycle lanes would be to have them away from the highways on a separate walk/cycle road network. But then you'll instead have the problem of rapists hiding and attacking people using these roads.
The magic of climate science is they literally use correlation as evidence of causation.

Climate change getting worse means anything else getting worse at same time can be bucketed into climate change.
I think this is a trick question. I don't think it's even been settled that quantum mechanics are truly, for sure probabilistic. The universe's true underlying nature (deterministic or not) is still unknown. Additionally, classical mechanics inherently assumes states can be predicted if initial conditions are known.

I think more practical questions would be along "what classical situations are non-deterministic from a human perspective or in-practice?", which would lead to questions about what is calculable or not with the tools and knowledge we have now
I don't think it generates better results than Adobe Indesign nor it is easier to use.

One wonders why LaTeX has many users?Larger userbase can easily explained by being free. Students and PhDs usually don't have extra money to buy or nowadays rent Indesign but LaTeX is there for free. It doesn't mean it is technically superior or nice to use.
Maybe not Kubernetes, but what about Docker Compose or Docker Swarm? Having each app be separate from the rest of the server, with easily controllable storage, networking, resource limits, restarts, healthchecks, configuration and other things. It's honestly a step up from well crafted cgroups and systemd services etc. (also because it comes in a coherent package and a unified description of environments) while the caveats and shortcomings usually aren't great enough to be dealbreakers.

But yeah, the argument could have as well just said running code on a VPS directly, because that also gives you a good deal of control.
Children comments to theirs, not childish commenters. For what it’s worth, I thought the same thing on first read before I realized another interpretation.
No code at all even - just use excel
I'm not a lawyer, but I have 20+ patents. There are some pathological situations where company A launches a product after Company B has applied for a patent, but before the patent is issued. Also, there are rules for prior art, related to the timing of when the prior art became known (through publication, release of a product, etc). It can get even more screwy when an inventor files for a patent in more than one country.

Company A might have known about the application, but was confident that it would not be issued or defensible.

Things like "obviousness" and "prior art" can be hard to judge unless you're a patent lawyer... or a judge.
If my "automated" CI job takes more than 5 minutes, I'll do it myself..
Haven't we seen enough by now?

The problem is very easy to solve; quit buying their products, refuse to deal with them in any way, tell them why, inform others; lather, rinse repeat.

We tend to underestimate our power, without us they're nothing.
The Constitution as a wiki?
To find the absolute minimum you just multiply the number of parameters by the bits per parameter, divide by 8 if you want bytes. In case 8 billion parameters of 4 bits each means "at least 4 billion bytes". For back of the napkin add ~20% overhead to that (it really depends on your context setup and a few other things but that's a good swag to start with) and then add whatever memory the base operating system is going to be using in the background.

Extra tidbits to keep in mind:

- A bits-per-parameter higher than the model was trained adds nothing (other than compatibility on certain accelerators) but a bits-per-parameter lower than the model was trained degrades the quality.

- Different models may be trained at different bits-per-parameter. E.g. 671 billion parameter Deepseek R1 (full) was trained at fp8 while llama 3.1 405 billion parameter was trained and released at a higher parameter width so "full quality" benchmark results for Deepseek R1 require less memory than Llama 3.1 even though R1 has more total parameters.

- Lower quantinizations will tend to run proportionally faster if you were memory bandwidth bound and that can be a reason to lower the quality even if you can fit the larger version of a model into memory (such as in this demonstration).
Most of the ones that are profitable for cloud providers.
Here is the case for carbon capture:

- Even if CO₂ production ends today, the elevated CO₂ levels will remain for at least many centuries. The only way to get back to normal levels is some form of carbon capture.

- Anyone can do carbon capture anywhere. You don't need to make the whole planet agree to and implement some treaty. Just put up some solar cells and pump the captured CO₂ underground. The costs need to go down a few orders of magnitude, but I see no fundamental reason why that would be impossible
Exactly, you make up nonsense, call it official, and when they won’t go along with it you ban them for spreading lies. Autocracy 101.
Is that a fair comparison?

FTA:

> Even if you can (ideally) pull a path from a cache instead of building it, you still have to pay Nix’s evaluation tax in determining the derivation’s store path in the first place. [...] Fortunately, FlakeHub now offers an elegant solution to this problem: resolved store paths.

If I may paraphrase:

> [fundamental problem with Nix] -> [proprietary solution].

Cachix and nixbuild feel like they're solving something at a different layer. They fit into the existing Nix ecosystem (binary cache, builders) and just provide a hosted version of an existing concept. They don't change anything fundamental about Nix.

Maybe a better comparison would be devenv?
Yet for some things they work exactly the same way, and with the same issues :)
What we really need in this country is a really deadly virus and a really good vaccine to prevent it. That would solve a lot of problems
TASes aren't allowed in regular categories (I'm sure they are somewhere), they're used to find the fastest way possible then human players try to reproduce it.
Sorry! You’re right. My bad assumption, I’m embarrassed. Apologies to parent @szvsw.
>Looks like this patent is for capturing a virtual creature with a throwable item.

Pokemon came out 29 years ago. Even if you recognize this patent it should be expired rather than slightly tweaked and then extended.

Thanks for the reminder to buy Palworld, Nintendo!
I don't think that's what he is saying.

>Would switching entirely to these clean energy sources raise the price of electricity? Yes—at least if you don’t count the cost of the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels, says Richard Schmalensee, MIT’s Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus, Professor of Economics Emeritus, and Dean Emeritus of the MIT Sloan School of Management..

The electricity bill will be more expensive, but that's only because the damages to the environment caused by carbon are externalized costs.

Presumably, if those externalized costs did show up in the electricity bill today, then it would get cheaper if we switched to renewable.

>“If you take into account the total cost of running a system that puts CO2 into the air, [then renewables] will be cheaper,” Schmalensee says
Nothing is burning. You are just consuming too much sensational news that doesn't belong to your world. Ask an ant what its world is. Your world is what you interact with, not what you hear about.
I cycled for like 30 years before we had kids and needed a car.

The ebikes that the post refers to are a menace and should be banned. Both as a cyclist and a driver.

I've almost been plowed over by some idiot sitting on what should be a motorcycle but riding on the bike path. And I've almost had my kids run over.

Also, as a driver you just don't expect someone to be going so crazy fast in the bike lane. I've had people at insane speeds just appear from behind parked cars.

I'm all for pedal assist! But there should be strict speed limits.

I also find that people just don't take these electric motorcycles seriously. They zone out because they aren't doing anything. That's also very dangerous.
> When you walk up to the machine it's not turned on.

False. MRI: https://mriquestions.com/is-field-ever-turned-off.html

Permanent magnet scanners are permanently "on" by definition.

Resistive electromagnet scanners, in theory, can be turned on and off. However, it may take 30-60 minutes for their magnetic fields to stabilize after being off and hence they are generally left continuously on during daily operations. To save electricity, they are usually turned off or have their power levels reduced after hours.

Superconducting scanners remain on at all times as long as superconducting temperatures are maintained. The main field may be ramped down for servicing in a controlled manner with minimal loss of cryogens in about 30 minutes and restored in a few hours, but this is performed only occasionally. In the event of an emergency, all superconducting scanners have a "quench" button that releases liquid helium into the atmosphere and turns their fields off within a few seconds. Dumping that helium is inherently expensive and only done in a serious emergency.

“Faraday cages cannot block stable or slowly varying magnetic fields, such as the Earth's magnetic field (a compass will still work inside one).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

> then the magnet is activated

A magnet not THE primary one. Here’s a reasonable though simplified explanation of why there’s multiple magnets involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlYXqRG7lus

Anyway, it’s clear you have many fundamental misunderstandings so I can see how you’d come to such wildly inaccurate conclusions.

> it's impossible for any humans to be able to take advantage of the effect at lower field strengths.

The actual literature investigating the effect describes why it doesn’t work on earths magnetic field.
We do not use K8s.
Maybe it’s because we’re finding out that bad actors were getting federal funding for the last 9 years to disrupt gaming but Nintendo and Game Freak legally defending a patent seems like a non-event.
I bet the raspberry pi takes a smaller salary though.
Apple & Android took the smartphone from something that belonged in a businessman’s belt holster to something that lives in the pocket of every person on the planet who can afford it, from niche to ubiquity. For sure they did not invent “phone with store”, but they did create or strongly participate in a complete change of the market that left the earlier players - Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Nokia, etc buried six feet under.
They will jam "AI" everywhere they can to increase stock price, there will be no safety regulations, welcome to idiocrasy.
You guys should make it easier to donate (GitHub, link to patreon, liberapay, etc.). I cannot find an obvious way to do so with low effort or not much friction.
> I'm increasingly coming to the view that there is a big split among "software developers" and AI is exacerbating it

This is admittedly low effort but the vast majority of devs are paid wages to "write CRUD, git push and magic" their way to the end of the month. The company does not afford them the time and privilege of sitting down and analyzing the code with a fine comb. An abstraction that works is good enough.

The seasoned seniors get paid much more and afforded leeway to care about what is happening in the stack, since they are largely responsible for keeping things running. I'm just pointing out it might merely be a function of economics.
It’s fantastic and Tesla service has been really good for the one issue I had over the last １２ months. My wife bought a Model Y in 2021 so it’s the second Tesla in the house.
Based on the following I think they also meant _how_ the code is running:

> The other group (increasingly large) just wants to `git push` and be done with it, and they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money to have that experience. They don't want to have to understand DNS, linux, or anything else beyond whatever framework they are using.

I'm a "full full-stack" developer because I understand what happens when you type an address into the address bar and hit Enter - the DNS request that returns a CNAME record to object storage, how it returns an SPA, the subsequent XHR requests laden with and cookies and other goodies, the three reverse proxies they have to flow through to get to before they get to one of several containers running on a fleet of VMs, the environment variable being injected by the k8s control plane from a Secret that tells the app where the Postgres instance is, the security groups that allow tcp/5432 from the node server to that instance, et cetera ad infinitum. I'm not hooking debuggers up to V8 to examine optimizations or tweaking container runtimes but I can speak intelligently to and debug every major part of a modern web app stack because I feel strongly that it's my job to be able to do so (and because I've worked places where if I didn't develop that knowledge then nobody would have).

I can attest that this type of thinking is becoming increasingly rare as our industry continues to specialize. These considerations are now often handled by "DevOps Engineers" who crank out infra and seldom write code outside of Python and bash glue scripts (which is the antithesis to what DevOps is supposed to be, but I digress). I find this unfortunate because this results in teams throwing stuff over the wall to each other which only compounds the hand-wringing when things go wrong. Perhaps this is some weird psychopathology of mine but I sleep much better at night knowing that if I'm on the hook for something I can fix it once it's out in the wild, not just when I'm writing features and debugging it locally.
Oh goodness I’m a fool to not have tried that. I’ll absolutely give that a go next time!
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln... how was the play?
Think of this as a triumph of making car exhaust many orders of magnitudes safer over the last 50 years!
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Those examples are deterministic. The issue with them is that we can not precisely measure their starting positions and the locations of the objects diverge quickly with minuscule different starting positions. If we could measure the starting position of either of those problems with 100% precision we can predict what they would do.
I’ve been waiting for this for so long. I love bookstores and want them to exist but really prefer to read books on an ereader because they don’t take up space and it’s easier for me to read at night. Right now my solution is to buy Kindle books and then make yearly donations to my favorite bookstores (if they accept them) and buy gifts at the bookstore. But that’s not realistic as a plan.

This is so close to perfect. Right now to read these I’d need to get an ereader that runs full Android (BOOX, etc) which isn’t what I want. But they say they’re working on a partnership with Kobo, so I’ll wait for that and then finally ditch my Kindle.
I don't see how this would necessarily apply to every scenario. Transmission is expensive and storage is still not ideal.

Briefly reading the article it seems like the author is assuming there is like a 1:1 global marketplace where any energy produced in one area can replace energy demand in another. That's just not the case.
not a deal breaker :)
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> I think as a starting point, I would expect that tire wear should remain roughly in proportion to road wear

IMO this would be a suspect assumption to make w/o data to back it up. You've got two dissimilar materials interacting (in very different modes). E.g. rolling a metal ball bearing on a wood surface would obviously cause the wood to degrade far more than the ball bearing, (and even a wooden ball rolling on a wood surface would wear substantially less due to the mode difference).

(If I had to guess the road has a higher wear as the surface has a tensile stress around the contact patch of the tyre, causing most of the damage, but this is just armchair engineering at this stage).
So what is everyone doing with all this free time they've now accumulated from not reading, watching, or listening to media?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140608210519/http://meyerweb.c...
Yeah I think we'll be fine.
If you give out apples for free and one of them turns out to hurt someone, are you liable?

Edit: I'm not talking about deliberate poisoning or any other malicious intent. (Apparently this wasn't obvious?)
1 in base 42.
I really don't like that these models can be branded as Deepseek R1.
all the TSMC employees flee to the US to work at the Arizona fab or the Intel plants.
The author wrote a whole coffee table book called “Shift Happens”. But it was a one and done kickstarter.
Related. Others?

CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42161919 - Nov 2024 (184 comments)

Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924677 - June 2014 (25 comments)

In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863890 - June 2014 (69 comments)

The Truth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524028 - April 2014 (1 comment)

The Choice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7013747 - Jan 2014 (1 comment)
Isn't that what all of software development is? It's tools all the way down
I don't think the idea is to have the capturing machinery on the plane itself. The idea is to have capture machinery on the ground, offsetting the carbon released by the plane.
I mean... yes/no? EVs are on AS slicks, the tyre itself has less tread on it than something like CrossClimate 2. Overall they are replaced quicker and eat tread quicker. Its ~50% difference. I have both ICE and EV.

The new tyres that are coming out like Pirelli P Zero, promise a longer life span, but that remains to be seen.
> We gain energy by turning carbon into carbon dioxide.

But we don't [only]. A significant amount comes from nuclear power or renewables, especially in specific countries.
I don't know if they'd changed the submission title or what, but it says quite explicitly "Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40" which is a far-cry from "Deepseek R1" which would be misrepresenting the result, indeed. However, if you refer to Distilled Model Evaluation[1] section of the official R1 repository, you will note that DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B is not half-bad; it supposedly out-performs both 4o-0513 and Sonnet-1022 on a handful of benchmarks.

Remember sampling from formal grammar is a thing! This is relevant, because llama.cpp has GBNF, and lazy grammar[2] setting now, which is making it double not-half-bad for a handful of use-cases, less of all deployments like this. That is to say, the grammar kicks in after </think>. Not to mention, it's always subject to further fine-tuning: multiple vendors are now offering "RFT" services, i.e. enriching your normal SFT dataset with synthetic reasoning data from the big-boy R1 himself. For all intents and purposes, this result could be much more valuable prior than you're giving it credit for!

6 tok/s decoding is not much, but Raspberry Pi people don't care, lol.

[1] https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1#distilled-model-e...

[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/9639
The short answer is that meta submissions are nearly always off topic but there's plenty of discussion going on in the comments.

However, this is the sort of question I was talking about. Had you familiarized yourself with the relevant material, your question would have answered itself. For example, here's a recent subthread with plenty of back-and-forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993029. No one was "just listening and leaving things there", and I responded 20 times in that thread alone.

I don't expect you (or anyone) to see all of these, but there's a lot of redundancy, so you don't need to see all of them.
The difference here is that it's not deposit to encourage recycling, it's just a tax, and it's not a discrete thing you're getting taxed on, it's everything. It's costing everybody more and people are being paid twice. I'm thinking especially of the companies trying to sequester carbon in the wells they empty - they end up making money both ways.
It mainly sells beer, but some books too.
You can get even faster results with GPUs, but that isn't the purpose of this demo. It's showcasing the ability to run such models on commodity hardware, and hopefully with better performance in the future.
Sure. If it sounds like we're saying "cloud GPUs are not a product anybody wants", absolutely not. They're just not a knockout hit for us.
I'm not sure I can agree with that interpretation. CSI is basically an interface that has to be implemented.

If you discount issues like that, you can safely say that it's impossible to have any issues with CSI, because it's always going to be with one of it's implementation.

That feels a little disingenuous, but maybe that's just me.
clicked, watched, worth it
Luckily CO2 is fairly fungible. Instead of the airplane capturing its own CO2 we can just capture 3.5t CO2 on the ground for every ton of jet fuel fueled into an airplane.
Looks like the repo is private currently :(
Modern hardware is too complex to understand and bootstrap for a single person even more so as a hobby project. These known unknowns can be a powerful motivation for someone who (partially) understands modern hardware to tinker with understandable systems. Some go down the retro route while others use medium to largish microcontrollers.
How much does diffuse DAC cost?

Add the price of that on a flight ticket (which we ultimately have to anyway) and we'd be helping address the problem already, before the tech is even deployed.

And the next 35 years - to 2060 - have to be a much steeper reduction than 25%, or the 35 years after that will, one way or another, represent a _forceful_ reduction of a lot more than 25%.

Finally is that 25% on a production or consumption basis? Offshoring and deindustrialisation are not trends that are likely to continue, again more for political reasons than anything else.
The BBC Micro keycaps were made by Comptec (mentioned in the article) in Gorton Modified. Source: I work at signature plastics and have seen the original tooling for it.
>But, we'll need a lot less energy when we use solar/wind. We only need a third of the energy we use today, > 65% of the energy is wasted.

What are we wasting it on? Why will we suddenly stop wasting it when we switch to solar/wind?

I would think switching completely to solar/wind would massively increase the amount of wasted energy, because solar and wind energy production is quite variable, so to meet people's needs at low production times, we need to overprovision our production.