skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it can be challenging to squeeze so much performance out and still meet environmental requirements.

So much so, in fact, that nobody meets them but cheat in the tests instead. Those that haven’t cheated haven’t been caught yet.

If you choose to drive a sports car, at least have the courage to admit that you value your personal satisfaction over the environment and future generations.
I live in College Station. Drones did not fly over my house, but the people who lived in neighborhoods with Amazon drone service were out of their minds. First off, it is illogical to deliver little itty bitty items to one person, while profoundly disturbing all the neighbors and everyone on the flying chainsaw's rout: a very unbalanced social interaction. Great – now they are moving to Austin to try this, moving from a conservative town to a liberal one. I don't think they will do any better. Is it OK to lasso them? Shoot them out of the air? btw it is legal in Texas to shoot bothersome wild pigs anytime....
Sounds like a R&D problem. Why the dig at the EU?
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Given our history of encounters with other life forms on our own planet, I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope. If we can kill/eat them, we will.
Wow! I had no idea that the concept had been explored for over a hundred years.
I'm not going to investigate it again, there was probably more than this. But from what I recall:

* The compiler isn't actually guaranteed to store them by value at all. Basically, they're written to be an "optional extension" rather than a first-class feature in their own right.

* Everything is forced to be immutable, so you can't actually write most of the code that would take advantage of value types in the first place. Hot take: functional programming is mainly a bad workaround for languages that don't support value types in the first place.
Don't swallow it. Your digestive system can't really break down wood. Small particles will pass through, but you definitely do not want a punctured intestine.
Sending ascending/descending ascii punctuation is fun.
> I’d just keep trying to draw public attention

This does nothing. It did nothing in 2016 and would do even less now.
People mistake a helpful "view" for a useful UI.

None of these mind map, zoom first interfaces actually help with creating a global understanding.

People take an occasionally helpful "view" for navigating items and then mistakenly believe it should be turned into an active interface for creation and editing.

Graph/Mindmap views should only ever be a view and maybe a linking layer for nested text lists, actively operating in these interfaces is worse for global understanding and systems thinking.

I suspect this is because mind maps don't actually map to how our brain stores information.

Visual programming and even tools like KNIME work for stepwise workflow creation but they are not a good UI for new thinking, it's too much UI for novel idea generation and brainstorming, these interfaces are also useful for quickly understanding a DB structure.

That's why they never take off and remain a niche tool for the small number of people who have brain structures that find them useful or are willing to bend themselves to an arbitrary interface.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports-by-countr...

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/canada

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/mexico

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/china

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/lis...
Yep.

Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/) is trying to address this use case with a fully isolated PG databases. Though, I don't know how they handle scaling/sharding.
It is funny seeing this thread's title compared to the disclaimer right on the title page (specifically that the numbers in this report are NOT an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed):

>Note: The Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate is a model-based projection not subject to judgmental adjustments. It is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed, its president, the Federal Reserve System, or the Federal Open Market Committee.

Actually, it says that in the first sentence of the second paragraph on OP's link too:

>GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed.
A carbon dividend solves that problem. Put a price on each ton of carbon released in the atmosphere, then redistribute an equal dividend to each citizen.

The wealthiest people will end up paying more than they receive back, while the poorest will receive a boost. All while incentivizing low carbon alternatives in every sector of the economy.
The formula that correctly predicted `Anora` to win Best Picture at the Oscars
> If we magically made the federal government 20% more efficient would that decrease GDP substantially?

Not in the long run. (Particularly not if being done in the current deficit-increasing way.)
I see you are using these two words - Interpreter and Translator - interchangeably! They aren't same; there's a big difference between them [0].

From your demo, I gather you are a translator, which is a big let-off for me. Reading and understanding text is much slower than just listening. Also, spoken words are just 30ish% of the overall communication. I'm afraid while your users would be busy in reading translated text, they'd lose out on other vital communication cues like hand gestures, facial expressions etc.

Is real-time audio interpretation in the pipeline?

[0] - https://www.google.com/search?q=translator+vs+interpreter&oq...
I live in College Station. Drones did not fly over my house, but the people who lived in neighborhoods with Amazon drone service were out of their minds.

First off, it is illogical to deliver little itty bitty items to one person, while profoundly disturbing all the neighbors and everyone on the flying chainsaw's route: a very unbalanced social interaction.

Great – now they are moving to Austin to try this, moving from a more conservative town to a more liberal one. I don't think they will do any better.

Is it OK to lasso them? Shoot them out of the air? btw it is legal in Texas to shoot bothersome wild pigs anytime....
As a postdoc with a background in NLP, I've come to the same conclusion. I feel like I'm stagnating in academia and have decided to quit my postdoc and self fund research that I can hopefully monetize in the future.

It certainly doesn't help that the pay is atrocious — I make less in inflation adjusted dollars than my first job straight out of school nearly 20yrs ago, in a higher cost of living place.
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Only the malicious repositories (second sheet):

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The question is underparameterized.

20% more efficient happens when you accomplish 20% more work with the same amount of money.

It also happens when you accomplish the same amount of work with 17% less money.

Right now it looks like neither option is happening.
> If its politically convinent to view things in terms of class then of course everything gets traced back to class.

You think I form my views for 'political convenience'? How strange.

People trace things back to class because that's the driving force behind so much of what's wrong with the world. It's not the majority of ordinary people who are fighting for stripping environment regulations, or clamoring to make defense contractors billions of dollars, or pushing to make torture legal, or fighting to give Israel more 2,000 lb unguided bombs. It's the .1%. And that isn't really controversial, or difficult to figure out.

When the political and media class are openly bought and owned by the .1%, refusing to acknowledge classes role in politics is profoundly silly.

> I dont think the poll supports your contention. Only 57% wanted it.

"Only" 57%? 57% is 'most'. By any and every definition.

And if you compare that to the ~3% (at absolute max) of media and political figures who argue for public healthcare, you may start to see what the problem is.

> its hardly just the upper class saying no.

Yes - because 99% of the media, owned by the .1%, work every day to convince people that healthcare for profit is somehow a good and clever thing.

The American health model is a sad laughing stock. It's a bogey man all over the world, a stark example of the perils of taking privatization too far. People in other countries are still cheering for Luigi lol.

This class war which we are all in (whether we are aware of it or not) has casualties; one of them is our more vulnerable and easily manipulated brethren. That's why it's "only" 57% - because lifelong propaganda does indeed have an effect, especially on the easily swayed. A lot of Americans don't even know that this is the majority view.
I published a paper in this area a few years ago (but with a different lens design), so I think I can answer.

In conventional diffractive optics, the focal plane (where the sensor should be placed for a focused image) is wavelength-dependent. This means that you receive an in-focus image of the scene for a specific wavelength λ_i when your sensor is located a distance d_i from the lens [0]. By varying d_i you can scan the scene for all wavelengths even if your sensor is monochromatic. You get blurry versions of all other wavelengths as well, but the idea is to use computational techniques to separate these out.

Here, they've designed an optic which tries to eliminate the wavelength dependence of the lens focal plane. Instead of you place an RGB sensor at this one focal plane to get all the wavelengths.

0: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9191355?figure...
Not directly, bu whatever they are eating ultimately gets energy from the sun. It's really just about how pedantic you are on redirection of energy.
It's higher energy prices yes, but that means higher everything prices. Even if your energy tariff is a 100% renewable one you still pay the dirty gas price because of the way the market is set up.

Combine that with high costs of housing (both to purchase but also to rent) and people are, generally speaking, fucked and living paycheck to paycheck. Renters especially live a precarious life where prices regularly go up 10% per year and you might be legally told to leave with not much more than a month's notice leading to much upheaval and associated costs.
Would you have protected Iraq against its invasion by the West, knowing it was based on lies and led to massive destruction, loss of life, and destabilization? What about Lebanon right now, with Israel's ongoing actions - shouldn't we ask the same question about justice and sovereignty there, too? And here's another tough one: would you speak about suicide bombers the same way? They often claim they're acting for justice - perhaps not your justice, but justice nonetheless. Does that justify their actions, or do we make distinctions between subjective and objective justice? Just because someone believes their actions are justified doesn't mean they're morally acceptable.

In summary, the question of whether boundaries or human lives matter more is a complex one. The dilemma is whether compromising sovereignty for the sake of peace or minimizing deaths is truly just, or if it's more just to stand firm for a nation's right to self-determination - even at the cost of more suffering. The comparison to Iraq, Lebanon, and suicide bombers underscores how subjective "justice" can be. What one side believes to be justice doesn't always align with what is objectively right according to international law or human rights principles (more about it later).

The core issue here is how we define justice in conflict situations: is it about preserving borders and sovereignty, or about protecting human lives? It's a deeper, more nuanced question that forces us to reflect on the values we prioritize in these difficult circumstances.
When my Shield started showing ads I installed another launcher—wish Apple were nearly as open.
Ah yeah I didn't have a chance to read it yet. I take my time with those :) But that explains a lot.
This was a super fun game back in the day. It was really cool to see the social structures forming on both the human and z sides during being events like mall sieges
You can't do it if you have the instances created with auto-scaling groups of course. But nobody would think you could, that's runtime not infra.

With Terraform you are supposed to have multiple coupled state files, with a tree structure of references, so that eg the state file containing the DNS can reference the previously applied state file that created the instances

You are supposed to run terraform apply in a sequence that respects the dependency graph. Terragrunt makes this trivial.
>New crypto-coins can be created at the press of a button

Oh? Can you prove this? How are you capable of creating new Bitcoins without mining them? Surely this big secret you have should be worth sharing.
Sorry, by "state" here I mean the federal government. The definition and tax status of corporations, LLCs, etc already lie with the Treasury department.

My point is that these definitions and requirements do not come from some sort of divine law. A government can always amend the terms of incorporating and it would still be completely within the function of modern capitalism, just as different governments around the world offer different terms when incorporating.
It’s a clear reference to shareholder primacy and it’s not wielded democratically nor is it something most even have a chance to participate in even though most have stock market exposure through retail buys, 401Ks, IRAs etc.
I concur. It seems like the US would be more peaceful if the various regions could separate and enjoy their values independently without fear of the other side’s values being imposed upon them. Create a market and people can live where they choose based on their values. It seems (from a Canadian’s perspective) like 99% of the problems are due to one side imposing its values on the other side, with a wide gulf in values between them. It is very zero sum.
10%-ish is about right. In Fred Brook's No Silver Bullet essay he makes the point that software development has multiple phases, say:

* requirements gathering

* design

* coding

* testing

* deployment

and suppose these all make an equal contribution. If you managed to make a tool that can do the coding in 0% of the time you still have to do 80% of the work!
Not necessarily. Hypothetically speaking, if the federal government becomes more efficient, i.e., it produces the same services for less money, the FED could stimulate the economy with low interest rates, so that the private market employs the people released from the federal government and we will have higher production and higher GDP.

Practically, speaking if you just fire a bunch of federal employees and close departments randomly, you are not making the government more efficient you are just making it less productive. Then if, at the same time, you put in a bunch of sudden arbitrary tariffs that cause inflation across the board, then you tie the hands of the FED and the FED cannot lower rates to preserve employment. So in that case, yes GDP will decrease.
The problem is internal to the CPU packaging, there isn’t a way to fix it externally. Later 65nm (both GPU/CPU) it’s almost a non-issue, but any others will almost definitely red ring at some point, all you can do is delay the inevitable.
Feels kinda refreshing at this point.
I'm struggling to find the protocol for VARA, although maybe my Google abilities are just failing me.l The protocol at least should be openly available according to the FCC
His last transaction had to match the size of his ego.
We work with API providers to write this file. It takes a non-negligible amount of thought to put together since we're encoding which outcomes would be useful to enable/disable for an LLM. The standard is open so anyone can write and read and agents.json. Mainly intended for API providers to write.
It was a core part of GCSE English in the 2000s, so almost everyone in England studied it.

Things like reading a Daily Mail article and identifying all the nonsense parts.

I don't know it out helps society. I suspect people don't think like this once the class is over.
I don't feel great about gibberlink. LLMs have got AIs to interact like humans do. Similarly for the multimodal models. gibberlink could evolve into a highly efficient machine communication which leaves humans out of the loop for better/worse. We/it could make it more efficient by applying AI.
A tax to discourage poor MFA methods?
> The Netlog looks scary because it not only contains the traffic while I reproduced the bug but also 1) all traffic from the Chrome plugins and 2) many websites that I have browsed before but haven’t visited during the recording

Isn't that a fantastic use for a 2nd Chrome Profile or even just downloading a Chromium build[1] and using that, showing the behavior in a bleeding edge build?

1: https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
Sounds like the spec is Apache 2.0. The Python package is AGPLv3, but the vast majority of the code in there looks to be codegen from OpenAPI specs. I'd imagine someone could create their own implementation without too much headache, though I'm just making an educated guess.
Dow tumbles 800 points as Trump confirms tariffs on Mexico/Canada start Tuesday
There is a related article from 2020 linked at bottom about flat lens cameras

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-focus-free-camera-flat-lens.ht...

It says it can focus everything at once. I don't understand how this works either but these two are probably similar science.
Ah to be honest I really hate watching videos anyway. I prefer the long reads she does. I just don't have the patience for video.

I sometimes use youtube for things where you really need video, like for a review where you have to see the product. But even for things like repair instructions I don't like videos. I much prefer the iFixit writeups.
You’re catching some downvotes, but I agree with your perspective. I’m feeling very productive with LLMs and C# specifically. There’s definitely some LLM outputs that I don’t even bother checking, but very often the code is visibly correct and ready for use. Ensuring that the LLM output conforms to your preferred style (e.g. functional-like with static functions) helps a lot. I usually do a quick formatting/refactoring pass with the double purpose of also understanding and checking the code. In case there’s doubts about correctness (usually in just one or two spots), they can be cleared up very quickly. I’m sure this workflow isn’t a great fit for every language, program type and skill level (there’s experts out there that make me embarrassed!), but reading some people I feel like a lot of my peers are missing out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning

It's an established term in software. I would speculate that the word "intern" is short for "internalizing" here.
I believe this is due to a surge in imports in response to looming tariffs - supply chains are trying to stockpile before they hit. I am skeptical that this stockpiling is significantly displacing real investment.

The way that the figures are calculated views imports as a negative factor to GDP (because NET exports is an input to the model). Please correct me if I am wrong.

In any event, view the headline with suspicion.
In the short term, yes. Long-term, no (it would have the opposite effect). Productivity gains accrue compounded over time, spending cuts show up immediately.

Government spending is included as part of GDP, so a 20% reduction in spending would have an immediate effect on this number.

That's why a lot of economists think GDP is a bad metric, since a debt-fueled spending spree (like the US government loves to do) shows up as GDP growth which makes it hard to compare GDP numbers since nobody ever adjusts for debt-to-GDP ratios.

If you look at this chart, you can see what I'm talking about. For the sake of argument let's say both Sweden and the UK had the same GDP growth rates and similar levels of government spending. Sweden would be the more productive economy because they'd be doing that with far less debt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-to-GDP_ratio#/media/File:...
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Some adblockers on iOS are using VPNs to block DNS and block ads though and that works in apps too and has nothing to do with webviews.
But every country that bans payment turns around and buys plasma from countries that don’t. So it doesn’t make their plasma supply one bit safer. All it does is make plasma-derived products rarer and more expensive.
But the supposedly working Switch emulators only have experimental Mac support at best. Also idk if the CPU arch is really the hard part in general... we never got an Xbox 360 emulator for PPC Mac ;)
This is a cool concept but it actually seems slower than if they'd just continued to speak words.
The critiques she provided ten years ago, when still in academia, were interesting, but now that she's out its mostly tiresome.

In other words, the axe she grinds these days is one provided by the youtube content mill, which demands ever more logs to its boiler.
You know what is great about that blog post? The pictures. There is something so pleasing about those shallow depth of field macros of carefully laid out pencils and other stationary. (I found some of those items on Amazon, BTW.)
I don't know. If we had a time machine, we could go back to the 1950s and defund government-sponsored education and research programs instead of increasing spending on them, and see how things turn out, GDP-wise.

Trouble is, that could easily do enough damage to prevent the invention of our time machine in the far future, or at least seriously delay it. Maybe not such a good experiment after all.
That's important because it's a pure mathematical model which may be wrong as it cannot take in all influences that drive it.