skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'd want from social media (actually, from all of the internet) is to remove the existing ad-based business model. When content publishers are paid by advertisers, their interests are no longer aligned with the interests of the consumers.

Unfortunately, I think that people simply don't want to pay for anything. Two years ago I launched a (paid) service for social media and messaging (Mastodon/Matrix/XMPP) and I got barely a handful of paying users. People got so used to receiving things for free and apathetic about how their privacy is violated by Big Tech, it seems they can't even think of a different alternative anymore.

People here love to shit on Brave because of crypto, but one of the reasons that I am so supportive of it is because I think that it is the first time where it flips the business model in order to get the users paid, who then get to choose who they can reward as their favorite creators and service providers. This, to me, is a model that creates a healthy market competition, and enables users to "vote with their wallets".

Alas, turns out that most Brave users are doing just to be able to collect meager $3-8/month as "rewards", or to speculate on the price of the token. I thought that with 50+ million users and 8+ million users receiving the token rewards, I could get at least a tiny percentage of the users to be interested in paying for the service with the token... but no, you go to the BAT's subreddit and all you see is people involved in the pettiness of their rewards or trying to pump the token.

I'm pivoting my service to host for companies. At least they understand the concept of a paid SaaS.
Does anyone know how you can hire a mathematician for a consultation? e.g. a PhD student in a certain area?

Sometimes I’m down a rabbit hole and I realize that the level of mathematics is becoming outside of my (undergrad-level) comfort zone and I often think it would be helpful to sit down with a mathematician for an hour and have a chat with someone expert in X (where X could be combinatorics, probability, statistics, linear algebra, etc...)
SQLite WAL mode means readers and writer don't block each other: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

Since it's SQLite, it's also trivial to just copy the database file as a snapshot for separate OLAP queries if necessary.
Yes, it's just a .CSV file of a 1920x1080 image. Every value in the .CSV file is 9.

9,9 ... until 1920 columns.

...

until 1080 rows.
That would be my recommendation.
Now that I see your list of manufacturers, I can only think: “of course, manufacturers don’t do squat in a car, Bosh, or some other equipment company did it and sold it to all the manufacturers”
Also, where's the scientific approach Google's putting forward?
What's bullshit about this research? The general agents resulting from this research will be highly adapted to every culture, they will be a neutral entity that will exist in the background doing useful tasks. If anything I'm more perturbed by signal given to people who 1) don't even work in the field and 2) have shown virtually nothing over decades of fear mongering.
Smart. This will be the move that triggers widespread adoption. Cheaper insurance.
Systems with basic acc and lane centering, sure.

But for systems closer to AP (that claims to stop at the lights, take highway exits, etc), it’s de facto industry standard to have dedicated camera for monitoring.
But did you read the OP's comment?

His wife uses it not because she wants to necessarily, but because her relatives in OTHER COUNTRIES are on it already.

You'd be surprised how popular WhatsApp is in other areas of the world, especially since it offers peer-to-peer fund transfer.

The problem is not his wife finding an alternative, the problem is finding such an alternative AND convincing all her relatives to install/start using it also.

The only thing that would make that worthwhile for a sizable group of people would be if they could also be able to convince other existing users on their previous platform of choice to ALSO ditch that platform for the new one.

Sort of a catch-22.
Doesn't Tesla have that too? Not that I trust Elonbois with a camera looking into my car, but hey, maybe someone will offer to buy me a horse...
Yes, it's called any TV you don't give internet access.
I get that. In general I find scrum/agile to be unhelpful when run by people who don’t adapt it to the team/business needs.
Pretty sure I said 30-60 minutes. We also don't just talk about issues. We talk about wins and things that go well too.
Then yet another reason to encourage everyone to do it. A list where half of the world can be found is as good as no list at all.
Yeah, but it's fun.
Yeah, brew requires the CLT because it’s built on git, so I assumed that’s what you were talking about.
This is certainly one extreme way to organize your life.

If I had to pick what I think is the most important of the reasons that this isn't going to work for most people, it's probably that most people live their lives in a certain default rhythm and with a certain default temperament.

Win the lottery? Experience a tragedy? After a few months or years you'll return to your baseline.

Most successful and well established life advice seems to try to help one methodically improve that baseline, little by little.

I don't think whiplashing back and forth between extremes is going to be very sustainable for most people.
I remember with PE in high school that I'd just throw myself up the wall until I succeeded. Took me 3 tries and 4.5 hours in total. I was super bad at it due to very bad flexibility (one of the worst in class). However, I wasn't scared of throwing myself up and I knew how to fall well.

It can be done.
Yea that feels like a stretch tbh
To be fair in the comparison; you can also query (via curl) icanhazip.com via HTTP instead of HTTPS, and it is only 5 packets and 385 bytes.
you're using electricity just to comment on this thread - presumably you're okay with that, so what makes your electricity usage justified and not bitcoin owners? Both forms of electricity have been paid for (presumably) with resources you own and traded in good faith. It's not illegal to use electricity to mine crypto in the vast majority of places.

as for altcoins I really don't know what your point is
No, and they've announced they do not plan to support it. However you can use x86_64 containers with Docker and virtual machines through QEMU, Lima.
Are there iterated versions of that?
The interface and overall feeling reminded me of the internet 15 years ago. I like the vision, not the execution. What I didn't enjoy is that it's really slow.

How is this concept different from reddit though?
No. See https://electrek.co/2021/01/20/tiktok-star-criminally-tesla-...

Edit: Sorry, I should have said _mostly no_.

Last year they pushed an update to use the built-in cabin camera installed in 2021+ cars for "driver attentiveness."

Compared to Ford and Cadillac's IR-illuminated driver attentiveness cameras pointed straight at your eyeballs and can see through sunglasses and works in the dark, the wide-angle cabin camera may not even see your face if you wear a hat, certainly _does not_ have a clear view of your pupils, and doesn't work in the dark or if you have dark glasses on.

https://electrek.co/2021/05/27/tesla-releases-driver-monitor...

https://electrek.co/2021/04/08/tesla-driver-monitoring-syste...
Not if you're trying to build mass
I'm currently going through this, with the caffeine and everything, exactly as described. I know it will get better eventually, but while it doesn't it makes me feel quite powerless.
Hey! As many have already mentioned in this thread, you might want to look into spaced repetition if you haven’t already. To summarize, it’s a simple algorithm that forces you to recall something at an increasing interval until it is committed to long term memory.

Anki is a popular app that uses spaced repetition. I personally wasn’t quite satisfied with any of the options out there so I decided to build a new app to solve this problem. Feel free to check it out: https://activerecall.com/ It allows you to create flashcards using a rich text editor with support for things such as code and latex blocks. I’m using it daily both to learn new software development concepts and for general knowledge.

Even with a spaced repetition-tool however there is a lot of nuance that goes into the process of acquiring new knowledge. A couple of pointers here:

1. It’s important to distinguish the learning step and the act of remembering what you’ve learned. Learning for example means using a new programming concept to the point where you understand it. Now that you have that context, you can encode it in the form of question and answer in a spaced repetition based system to ensure that you will remember what you’ve learned.

2. Some things that you want to remember are purely factual, while some require deeper understanding. In the latter case, you’ll want to structure your flashcards in a way that you’re solving a problem when answering it rather than just stating facts. This ensures that you’re actually remembering how to solve something rather than simply stating what the solution is.

3. Some things that seem like they are worth remembering when you first put them into your system will later turn out to be time sinks. Don’t be afraid to just get rid of them or keep them for reference (in my app you can “suspend” cards so that you can still search for them etc, essentially turning them into notes).

If you end up trying Active Recall out please feel free to reach out with any questions or if you just want to chat more about learning!
I meant that there has only been one boom-and-bust cycle to end organized human existence on Earth. That’s what I meant…
Third-ing the use of Anki, and I found it weirdly inspirational to watch YouTube videos of how Med Students use the system. It's some combination of being energized by their go-getter attitude, and being deeply relieved that I'm not in their shoes
That doesn’t appear to be true; on Tesla’s site, the delivery estimate doesn’t change if you add the FSD option. Unless you’re saying it’s an undocumented policy?
GM cuts cost of electric vehicles by $6k
I worked in open offices for 10 years.

I’d kill for a cubicle.

Everyone is different of course but open offices, lack of visual privacy, lack of personal space, it just drains me.
Gotta love the apologists as well, because hey, if I admit I was conned out of money for some buggy-ass deadly software, then who's the idiot, and I know I'm not an idiot, so this software works, yeah it has a few kinks, but it's great, and soon it'll be chaffeuring me all over the place! Soon! He tweeted!
If they don't say they value privacy and freedom, what are they?
I suspect the venn diagram of people paying $10k for Tesla vaporware and people who've realized >$10k in gains trading TSLA stock is pretty close to a circle.
https://blog.the-pans.com/when-and-how-to-invalidate-cache/ Does this address the "knowing what needs invalidation" part?
People can be very employed doing pointless tasks which have no overall economic benefit.

When you look deeper, you see that many jobs are 'pointless' from an overall economic perspective. For example how many parking attendants is the right number to employ? In a perfect society, everyone would pay for parking according to the sign, and those attendants could have another more beneficial role.

If you get rid of 20% unemployment by just making 20% of everyone's role pointless busywork, you haven't really fixed the problem.
i like hanging out and talking to my coworkers, it's fun:)
Agreed 100% that teaching is the best form of solidifying learning (that is, second to consistent application of the knowledge), but there's something that's been troubling me lately: is it the act of teaching that works, or the witnessing of the teaching being learned?

In other words, if you are a "bad" teacher -- if your students do not understand, do not care, or do not otherwise learn from what you impart -- does the mere act of trying to pass on the information work for retaining/refining the information yourself? And if so, is a blog or forum post or drunken rant at a pub any different than a lecture?

I ask because I have found myself expounding on things in informal contexts and learning more about my own ideas as I go, with the supposed intention of telling and teaching others, but my feedback at times has been "dude you suck at explaining this". I do try to adjust according to feedback, but useful feedback is rare, especially when marred by the emotional reaction of "what do you mean I suck?? you sure you ain't just stupid??" etc.
Whenever I'm coding all those auto complete popups almost 100% obscure some visual information I'm keyed on to complete the task.

I absolutely don't understand who those popups are designed for.
In Seattle, it became the norm. Honestly, my commute from an island required exiting a ferry terminal. On the way from the terminal to the office, I eventually went dead on the inside after stepping over sleeping homeless and wretched smells.
Companies live or die on the size of their clientele.

Companies have to earn the right to your custom. If they don't shape up, make them ship out. Remove your custom from their income.

As Vlad said the other day :"You're either sovereign, or you're colonised. There is no other situation." Don't be colonised. Tell all the bastard companies to just piss off.
Maybe you didn't read all the way to the end.

"For all that, debt sustainability is not an imminent risk."

The UK is in far worse shape because Brexit has nuked a huge hole in the economy. 4% is about £80bn a year.

But the real problems are systemic and political. The UK has been taken over by a far right cabal of criminals and opportunists who think nothing of wasting tens of billions of government - in addition to Brexit - while demonising asylum seekers and those on low earnings as a distraction.

Britain has the potential to be a powerhouse, but its political class is one of the least competent and credible in all of the G20.
"GPU-accelerated" is a poor name because it actually uses a hardware video decoder (a small CPU+DSP) that just happens to be on the GPU. In fact, video encoding/decoding is very poorly suited to GPUs, and CPUs aren't that bad at it although they aren't very power-efficient.
Something about the phrase "ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist" smacks of egotism to me, I dunno why but it just seems a turn-off. It feels like saying "I'm just deeply interesting, I can't help it, it's just who I am."
I've gone back to "the office" but I've realized that what I've really gone back to is the lab. And the lab is not the office. The lab has a door that closes, big Danger signs, and a flashing red light above the door.

I also have a desk in a cubicle, but there have been some chances since the pandemic. Maybe others have alluded to it as well: Work life is a bit more relaxed. Our supervisor moved to his home town, and now manages us remotely. It's working out just fine. So the thing about being in the office so we can be watched is gone, if it ever was a thing.

Folks have talked about sitting in the cubes and attending Zoom meetings (or Teams, whatever), but I think meetings have calmed down. Perhaps option of attending via Zoom has eliminated the attraction of calling everybody together into one big room. If the meeting gets too obnoxious, attendance will just evaporate, with people joining the meeting from their desk and "multitasking" to be charitable.

If somebody's not around, you don't know if they're on vacation, or sick, or just working from home. The chance of finding someone at their desk has dwindled to where it's pointless to look for them, just for a chance to interrupt them.
Yes. See https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-interior-cameras-dr...
>Is this really for visibility within my team? Or is it for some kind of external visibility?

Both.

>Why does my team need to know that I spent two minutes fixing typos in engineering documentation?

Nobody said typos.

>Also, if they do want to know this, they can subscribe to the changes being made to the documentation repository / system and then they'll see what I did.

How is that more efficient than you taking 30 seconds to write a ticket and 15 seconds to talk about it on stand up?

If it was important enough to go update the docs why isn't it worth the 1 minute to tell your teammates about it?
Should Germany stop exporting cars because of WWI + II then?
Fabrice certainly is good but most of what people think he did in video codecs was mostly Michael Niedermayer, who is that good, but I don't think you'd also want to be a schizophrenic Austrian who can't leave his house.
That is cool! Anyone know the tech behind it?
> The leap from "asking for something" to "asking something for everyone" doesn't seem like a big one.

Sorry to reply again, but this is quite surprising to me! I would feel very differently about an individual asking me for a copy of my work for personal use because they couldn't afford it / couldn't find a copy / wanted to learn from it, etc. vs. someone asking me to make my work freely available to all.

Regardless of how you feel about the principals behind why someone should do that, I hope you see there are very real differences in what you are asking them to do.
>And yet, this is what ordinary driving requires already.

What? No it isn't. Ordinary driving has the driver controlling the vehicle at all times.
> The majority of the US population lives in the same 6-8 metro areas; so it's "reasonable" to put offices in those metro areas.

Isn’t this self-reinforcing though?

I moved to london because there were no jobs for people like me _anywhere_ else near where I came from.

Thus, I contributed to the problem.

When I broached the topic some years later with a company, they said that they moved to london because that’s where the talent is.

It’s surely self-fulfilling.
Yes, this is our website
I believe so – there's this little-known, oldie-but-goodie brand called, "Torrents+External Drive®" in the West, and China has their own approach to "I can't even anymore" called "TikTok" ... perfect for just sitting down for a while and just watching shit instead of rolling out a project management spreadsheet to figure out what to watch and how to set things up so you can actually watch it.
The level that I understand photosynthesis and enzymatic reactions is that of electron transfer, but I'm not sure how the probabilistic nature of wave collapse impacts that. I would also think its reasonable to assume that we just don't understand wave function collapse in order to be able to predict it. But again, my understanding is at a slightly larger scale
Not so, wordcel, there are indeed shape-rotators who can learn visually!
I like the review; it’s just that it’s unbalanced and extremely biased towards the present, with almost no attention to the time and place that Brand came out of as a person. Harris is evaluating Brand from the perspective of 2022, which is anachronistic and out of place.
> the problem is finding such an alternative AND convincing all her relatives to install/start using it also.

Once upon a time, WhatsApp was also a system with a microscopic user base. And AIM, and MSN, and ICQ, Skype...

You have to start somewhere. For me, I told those closer to me that I wanted to get out of WhatsApp and offered to help my immediate family and some friends who wanted to try Element as well. Others said that they were on Telegram, which I am still keeping around, so it was not-ideal-but-acceptable.

The interesting thing happened when there was an outage of Facebook Messenger, and some of my wife's friends got interested in trying out Element too... slow and steady can win this race.
Carbon Management Made Simple
Agreed. Having spent substantial amounts of time in the UK, it is clear that there is a new group who are there to just enrich themselves.
Nowadays people will try and convince you you're weird and wrong if you say you enjoy seeing other people and not working in silence at home.

I like the office environment. The only thing I don't like is the commute. This is why I think the future is local shared working spaces within towns so that they're in walking distance. I'd much rather have a 15 minute walk to work than a 30 minute drive.
Ah interesting, didn’t know that. Certainly their main use case that drove their growth, though, has been a simple “get signatures on a document over the internet” product.

Also, if the CLM product targets a Salesforce integration, sounds like it’s more of an Enterprise than SMB product? While their core e-signature product targets both SMBs and Enterprise.
I see , thank you for your advice. I really appreciate it.
Oh, if you were expecting something like the images produced by the original DALL-E, then I totally agree with you, DALL-E Mini doesn't get even close to that level.

My guess is that it is be due to the combination of it being a "DALL-E Lite" model overall and (most significantly) only running for ~150 iterations max (using the website linked in the OP). ~150 iterations is way too few iterations to get something approaching the type of images you've seen from the original DALL-E
The page literally talks about "full self-driving capabilities [...] through software updates designed to improve functionality over time". Which to me sounds like FSD is not actually being advertised as currently existing, as opposed to something you'll eventually get.
Are AI Becoming Sentient?
What’s a viable alternative?
I agree, but this is both a different threat model, as well as running into "Too much data leaving you with a haystack worth of needles" kind of thing. I mean just in general, Canada is on a list [0]. Not just some citizens or government officials, but the nation itself.

[0] https://www.wksu.org/government-politics/2022-06-02/ohio-hou...
Collect consents, not privacy fines
I've been calling it cancer, but I get down voted for that.
I use OpenNTPD on my router. Apparently time on local network is "exact" (off by some 50 ms) which is good enough for me. I don't need my clocks to be light years ahead indeed.
I just learned the term insight porn, thank you.
I think it is. GM had their EV1 experiment, but they weren't serious about it and destroyed all the cars after the experiment was over. Tesla was the first serious effort at an EV that wasn't a shed-built project car, that had something approaching usable range, and looked like a normal car not a cartoon.

I don't think any other major auto manufacturer had EVs on the radar in a serious way before Tesla.

I'll add that I think the self-driving, glass panel display, and all of that was unnecessary. They would have had as much success with normal manual controls and simple conventional cruise control with maybe lane assist and auto-braking like other luxury cars had. But that's mostly based on what I like in a car, I could be wrong from the perspective of the market.
i really love your website
"Instead of meditating twenty minutes every day and getting marginally better over time, spend 10 days every year at a meditation retreat making giant leaps towards enlightenment, and just live your life for the other 355."

The premise was good (applying barbell outside of the finance world) but the benefits of some activities don't come from a one off effort.
Gotcha. Thank you! Really appreciate your response
What ever you were capable of in school as a child has almost no relevance to your adult self unless you have kept up those skills.

Kids also learn physical moves much faster. I only know a couple of adults that have learned how to handstand as adults and even then, they were already fit or had good strength to weight ratios. Still took a long time to get a good looking hold.

I’ve seen kids just pick it up and start walking and hopping with control in weeks.