skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is a polite way of saying the GP doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about. Or they are trolling or filling airspace for the machine.
We can run any algorithm using billiard balls:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball_computer

What I’m saying is that we don’t know that consciousness is just an algorithm. If the physical implementation matters, then modelling it might be useful or interesting, but it wouldn’t actually create the real thing. Maybe consciousness arises from a specific pattern of movement of electrons, but not from any pattern of billiard ball movements.
Sure but I don’t think those examples really matter once you establish basic familiarity with a language. The semantics and constructs a language provides are much more important and debating syntax is missing the forest for the trees
Yes, we've been discussing "specific and exact" output. As I said, you might wish it called at different tool; nothing in this discussion is addressing that.
> Restricting the rights of those with the power making the rules never works.

Why use fallacy in argument? It's poor rhetoric and easily ignorable because it's a fallacy.

> Its best to just accept a certain level of corruption so its at least out in the open.

Or maybe it's best to uncover and destroy corruption as swiftly as possible.

> It is and always will happen, in fact it's part of the very foundation of power structures and cannot ever be removed.

Such black and white statements ignore the chilling, strongly deterrent effect of taking-down high-social-status people. In today's world, we hardly see examples of well-connected people being broken and losing their social status by being found corrupt and losing assets. In fact, I would argue there is practically no other way to have an effect on corruption without symbolically and visibly ruining corrupt people.

> All laws will do is increase the layers of deceit making it even more difficult to see why bad things are happening.

Laws should be a means to uncover and punish corruption. If a law isn't serving that purpose, it should be re-written and remade to be effective. Like you point out, laws are constantly under attack by deceit, and it should be the people's obligation to craft laws that can be nimble and adaptive to deceptive attacks from deceptive erosion by corrupted politicians.

> I always think it is weird that so many people that don't work in government have this odd belief that government work should basically be a vow of poverty.

The annual salary of a US Senator is $174,000... you think that is poverty?

> To pretend that people pursuing positions of power would accept universally that they should be poor is to deny human nature, which never works.

This point you raise is an excellent point and should be the focus of government. It should be codified into law that "we cannot trust ourselves to be uncorruptible, therefore it is necessary for government to demonstrate exemplary denial-of-human-nature via sacrifice, service, and swearing of vow of poverty."

My words can't do this theme justice. It's much larger and existential than simple words. The strife of humanity is the two sides of the existential coin: on one side, you can dedicate yourself to collecting money as a demonstration of your worth/genetics/legacy/etc; on the other side, you can demonstrate your understanding of the moral failures of men and use wisdom to demonstrate your worth/genetics/legacy.
You can get the ones with indicators, which change color according to how saturated they are.

You can check the color to see whether it's time to microwave them, and whether they are dry once you microwaved them.
You gotta remember people are often picking languages based on what they can easily find out about it and extrapolating/guessing about what problems they'll run into with their expected use.

A few years ago on here I had an interesting conversation with someone who wasn't going to use rescript for something because they didn't like how it handled object types. I can't remember ever using an object type in rescript; we all just convert js objects to record type in the extern binding. But that's not information easily available to someone who has never used the language.

Same thing here I think. If you don't already have familiarity with this paradigm, it's hard to imagine what using an IO monad for side effects is like. It's not easy to tell how hard it'll be to learn it, how much it may affect the rest of your code, etc. It's easy to imagine someone (shit even me a few years ago) going "eh I'll take the language with the big easy escape hatches just in case."
I hear you, people have different preferences and rank their preferences in different order.

For what it's worth, I use Rust daily and I don't really care about memory issue. It's nice that it comes with the package, but it's not why I do it. Believe it or not, the borrow checker is first and foremost why I enjoy writing Rust. It's such a brilliant idea I don't understand why it's not more widely used. A helpful compiler and a good (if imperfect) crate ecosystem are probably 2nd and 3rd.
`if (color === "Red") {`

This counter example against using unions of literals would result in a compiler error ts(2367). Which only furthers the argument for using unions of literals instead.
This makes me incredibly grateful for my physics lecturers, all of whom would bend over backwards to assist their students' journeys towards learning any time any stumbled or showed a spark of curiosity that needed fanning into a raging fire.

I had lecturers give me bonus marks above 100% because I noticed issues like this and thanked me for helping to improve the course material!

These lecturers, when merely overhearing a curious "huh?" conversation between students would spend hours of their own time scouring the library for relevant information and just "leave" photocopies for students to find the next day.
thx! can you please paste any links you tried here. I'm going to add some fall back options when youtube-transcript-api can't retrieve a transcript.
I do agree that's shady, but there's a good chance at least some of those shoppers wouldn't have converted because they thought to themselves "I'll wait to make sure I can get the best deal" whereas someone with honey was in theory "sure" they were getting the best deal because no deals were available and pulled the trigger. Obviously in some cases that wasn't actually the case, but either way honey DID contribute to the sale.

My point is the issue is not honey. The problem is affiliate marketing (specifically last click attribution) as a whole. Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
Not so fast... You might be surprised.
This looks like a case of erroneously inferring causation from correlation. If there is variance in the degree to which people are impeded by factors outside their control, then all that is required to observe such an association is that people be aware of such impediments. Beliefs need not have a causal role.
have you tried installing win11 and creating an account without internet access?

After their most recent shenanigans, the writing is on the wall, the nails are in the coffin - https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/microsoft...

They've disabled the ability to finish Windows installation without having an internet connection and connecting your Microsoft account.

> According to a Windows Insider blog post announcing Preview build 26200.5516 (KB5054687) the bypassnro.cmd script has been removed in order to "enhance security and user experience of Windows 11."

> "This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."

lol.

Never been a better time to jump ship to Linux, honestly. I held out for ages because I was a princess and wanted everything to be perfect. I used Linux 24x7 as an admin and developer, but from afar and never locally as my daily driver. Finally bit the bullet July '23 and it has been nothing but smooth sailing.
Yes, I'll add that to the writeup! You're right, initially excluded it because it was really dependent on the providers, so lots of variance. Especially with the Qwen models.

High level results were:

- Qwen 32b => $0.33/1000 pages => 53s/page

- Qwen 72b => $0.71/1000 pages => 51s/page

- Llama 90b => $8.50/1000 pages => 44s/page

- Llama 11b => $0.21/1000 pages => 08s/page

- Gemma 27b => $0.25/1000 pages => 22s/page

- Mistral => $1.00/1000 pages => 03s/page
I’m really impressed by the interesting work you’re doing.

Could you share more about the interview process?

I just applied and believe the role is an excellent fit for my experience and my passion for learning new things.
The 2024 presidential election's outcome depended on about 100-150K people. Out of the more than ~120 million that voted it's a tiny sliver.

Not a lot of people have to change their minds.
I'd need a source to back up those claims, as you note it's not trivial to understand how economy would react.

I also don't see why buying a house would be much riskier? If you buy a house for your family it's because you either prefer the lifestyle or think it provides economic advantages over renting. Given you only need housing when your alive, I think what happens after you pass is not as major a concern as presented.
Fear not, he's being paid well.
I have done enough mathematics and have spoken to wolfram personally, it's interesting but not connected enough to existing theory despite his personal genius at QCD
I think the idea is that you'd play with a chess engine that randomizes the positions for each player.
They're not just executive insurance.

They're also a normalized industrial espionage and wink-and-nudge collusion service. They call all that stuff "best practices".
It's probably the DuoLingo World Cruise thing: https://www.carnival.com/duolingo

The "prank" itself is just regular corporate PR noise, but there's some gems in there, and I think the HN crowd would appreciate the terms and conditions at the very bottom:

> Passengers also waive the right to pursue legal action against Carnival or Duolingo, including participation in any class-action lawsuits filed by Menchetti & Sons LLC., a law firm with a history of unfounded litigation against companies providing “transformative” experiences. Any legal concerns will be handled exclusively by Legal Steve, Duolingo’s Chief of Legal Counsel, who has pioneered the “litigation loop” strategy, ensuring that all claims are met with immediate counterclaims until the original complaint is forgotten.
Having read this book, I set some codes for my son to break. Each code, once broken, told him the location of the next coded message. And they got progressively harder. It was a fun challenge.
Don't try this at home kids. I'd at least keep those batteries at least in a dedicated steel structure 100m from the house.
The fetish that unfortunately is not yet fading is `p { font-size: 23px; }`
The real problem is not the effort (or lack thereof), it’s the perception that modern AI is dropping them off at the peak of Everest, when in reality they’re being stood on a plastic-molded crag at a sea-level tourist trap.

Creative vision is not being realized, it’s being stunted.
I've never used it for drying wet electronics. The couple of times I've dunked my phone, I've just let it air-dry for a couple of days and it's been good.

I use silca gel for storing 3D printing filament and long-term clothes storage.
Unions remain the killer F# feature missing from C#.

Also, basic object initialization in C# has turned into a nightmare with recent versions. You need a flowchart to select among the 18 syntax options which suite your current needs.

With F# (and other newer languages), record fields are either `T` or `T option`. No need to worry about whether the value needs to be computed in a constructor and then remain immutable, whether it needs to be initialized by an object initializer and/or a constructor or not, whether it needs to remain interior-ly mutable throughout the life of the record, and so on. (Although as I recall you do still need to consider null values assigned to non-nullable references in your F# code that consumes C#.)
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring Front End Engineers
I agree, that's a valuable skill. But do I, an expert in a narrow (very far removed from any soft skills) field, am the person who should teach it? When some students raise a complaint, how will I explain to the University management that this twist, even though completely unrelated to what I am supposed to teach, was actually a good idea?

I just say, even with good intentions, the incentives are not aligned with teachers going too far out of line.
You're reading a lot that I didn't write into what I did write.

Do you think a government-administrated drug development program would be more efficient than private industry?
We used to pull similar shenanigans in middle school. Teacher computers were finally on wifi, So I'd pull out my little android tablet and USB Wi-Fi card. Run an evil AP, deauth, downgrade to HTTP, and put whatever I wanted on the web page. Good times.
These people are probably beoynd saving. Up Musks "shit creek" if you will, with no map and no paddle, nor will to find one.
yes. I also made an Atari 2600 version but that one's only a subset of the game (though it's enough can beat it using the speedrun route)
I cannot draw for the life of me. I would however like a ghibli version of my D&D character. Am I a bad person?
I don't think I've ever seen an antistatic bag with a very good seal, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to drop something directly out of a hot oven into them either.
Five ads and seven "subscribe" buttons, for one short article about silica gel.

Wikipedia has a better article.[1]

> You can just microwave them too, on low power... Oven drying has the advantage that you can set the temperature so there's no risk of overheating anything.

It's hard to hurt silica gel itself with kitchen level heat. Melting point 1200C. The packet it comes in is more of a risk.
Although there are forms with other chemicals that change color when humid. Also, heating wet desiccant fast enough to produce steam might crack the material.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silica_gel
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AO Labs is an applied AI research lab building real-time reinforcement learning, unlocking AI that can be hyper-personalized with less data than LLMs.

Our first product is an API that learns by combining end-user context, application data, and a feedback signal (eg. an end-users' likes and dislikes) in a fast learning loop that's lightweight enough to provision a distinct agent per-user. There's no gap between training and inference-- train at the edge, learn all the time.

With our framework we increase training efficiency and also combine the static pre-trained intelligence from LLMs with continuous training to learn local contexts. AI progress is bottlenecked by backpropagation, which necessitates labelled data to set the ground truth while also leaving a gap between training and inference that result in increasingly larger, more homogenizing models.

We are hiring for applied researchers & various engineering roles– please reach out to ali@aolabs.ai
That sounds both wholesome and horrifying. Like we are well into the digital age but sometimes people are just stubbornly analog.
Show HN: All Books, All Languages – Read short stories and books in any language
I've been working on a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I've come to call "All Books, All Languages", or ABAL for short.

It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique user profiles as I like to think of it. Both the marketing and application sites are fully internationalized - even response messages in 4xx responses use i18n. A lot of the work went into automating the i18n diff generation system to make sure I can release UI/UX changes quickly.

The name All Books, All Languages is intentionally quixotic as it serves to set the amibtious and unreachable goal of hosting all of humanity's written works while making them available to all language learners and readers across the globe!

Today, it hosts a number of generated short stories categorized by subject matter and CEFR level. I'm currently working on supporting (private) self-uploaded files, and works in the public domain. Work is also going into adding support for more languages while evaluating and optimizing for cross-language translations accuracy.

I've already recevied a lot of great feedback about the application among language learners. In addition to what I hope is an intuitive UI/UX, one of the unique things about ABAL is the way that pronunciations are customized to a user's native and target languages.

Systems like IPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...) don't make pronunciation any easy to get right for a majority of - if not all - language learners. ABAL gets around this by showing phonetic hints that are written in the user's native language script and are meant to be pronounced in the native language's voice.

Why did I build this? I was always a fan of printed parallel text books when I was younger. They allowed me to absorb new vocabulary and internalize grammar much faster than from flash-card/quiz-based systems after a certain point in my language learning journey. The existing parallel text applications provide sparse coverage across the languages and books they claim to support. ABAL's mission is to fix that by making all books available in all languages to all people.

I hope you'll find it useful if you're learning a new language or need to practice one you already know. If you're not learning a new language, but wish you could read classics in a language you're fluent in, stay tuned!

Links:
Marketing site: https://www.abal.ai
Application site: https://read.abal.ai
X for updates: @abal_ai
I really like this, this is the perfect size project for exploring a new piece of tech. I especially like that you implemented an actual cli and not just tests.
Because it's presenting a bunch of smooth prose that utterly fails at logical continuity.

1. What point is the author trying to make? Leading off "Glubux even began" implies that the effort was extraordinary in some way, but if this action was "key to making the system work effectively and sustainably" then it can't really have been that extraordinary. The writing is confused between trying to make the effort sound exceptional vs. giving a technical explanation of how the end result works.

2. Why, exactly, would "removing individual cells and organizing them into custom racks" be "key to making the system work effectively and sustainably"?

3. How is the system's effectiveness related to its sustainable operation; why should these ideas be mentioned in the same breath?

4. Why is the author confident about the above points, but unsure about the level of "manual labor and technical knowledge" that would be required?

Aside from that, overall it just reads like what you'd expect to find in a high school essay.

Edit: after actually taking a look at TFA, another thing that smells off to me is the way that bold text is used. It seems very unnatural to me.
Dave was ever-present in the areas he had passion for and that presence and unwavering advocacy had many positive outcomes. I'll miss his friendly challenges during future work in this space, they were always enjoyable and valuable even when we had differing approaches.
The author of this book also runs an excellent weekly maths newsletter/quiz for 11-16 year olds, and it's free:

https://parallel.org.uk/parallelograms
OP said "Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each". That's where the number came from.

Nvidia seems to pay the bulk of their engineers 200k-400k. If the fully loaded cost is 2.2, then it's closer to 440k-880k per engineer. Probably 500k would be a good number to use
Do you make sure to run a linux kernel with all the MS stuff patched out also?
Inspired by his work on buffer bloat like so many others. Rest in peace.
Yes, it's not zero. But my expectations are pretty close to zero that we'll even have a functional FTC in the near future.
Nice chart. Can't rule out the old null hypothesis eh!
GPU efficiency numbers in a real production environment are similar.
Nobody has a position without being passionate about what they believe. :)

And we should all try to value each others' passion, whether or not we agree.
While I've never used it in anger, I really quite like dune. Was there something specific that makes you characterise it as "ridiculously bad"?
Please stop insisting on this. Task CE exists since F# 6.0 and handles awaiting the CoreLib Tasks and ValueTasks without any ceremony.
in rain, transitioning to vertical landing, with the helmet and primary systems power cycling and likely alarms going off? I'll defer to you because I'm not qualified in the F-35
> The annual salary of a US Senator is $174,000... you think that is poverty?

DC is expensive, they have to maintain two households, and a lot of travel and eating out. That salary largely makes it the realm of the independently wealthy, or at least the well-off.

(It also hasn't gone up in 15 years, IIRC.)
Recently in europe on vacation I noticed the the majority of electric cars were VW ID models then Tesla. I did manage to see two BYD vehicles.
I call April Fool's
This makes the rounds here every so oft, and I always read it again, seconded ...
Seems to be using the Indian numbering system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
In small quantities. As somebody already pointed, your body likes to keep its water inside it, it also doesn't like when stuff carries large quantities of unmixed digestive fluids from one part of your body to another.

They are probably quite harmful if large pieces get eaten in non-small quantities. Or powder in large quantities that are not previously mixed with a liquid. But I don't know of anybody that tested that.
The word desicant is burned into my mind from this guy talking about building some AC system
non archive.is link: https://www.ft.com/content/c97bd5e4-4eaa-4850-b94c-583fa5442...
It would be nice if the standard JS library was more feature complete like Python. Then devs wouldn't have to bundle third party libraries.

Or perhaps the caching could be better. e.g. if your'e using Tailwind CSS version XXX, why does the browser have to reload it every single time?

Local persistent storage isn't exactly at premium these days even for "lightweight" mobile devices.
That sounds pretty reasonable.

While home routers tend to set their rules as outbound allow and inbound denied.
My DC just provides me with a network cable to the big pond of data.

How I secure that for my home network is using my personal rig with multiple network ports.

One port acts as a public bridge. And the 3rd and 4th network ports then are then assigned to the private bridges

The 2nd port then sits in a middle bridge where it communicates to both the public and private bridge.
Your question is, incredibly, more dishonest than the original claim. Truly impressive.
As someone who "detects" AI frequently: it's often difficult or impossible to explain where the sense comes from. It can be very much a matter of intuition, but of course it's awkward to admit that publicly. I don't fault others for coming up with an overly simple explanation.
The main design goals were:

- construct a house with good insulation

No word of it being pretty. Houses should look pretty, but it wasn't art class, but physics. And the physics teacher clearly said insulation is the goal (so we learn about the concept).

We had a funtional house (roof, walls, windows, door) with very good insulation.
The winning house just looked pretty and its insulation was basically nonexistent.