skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same should have been true about Bitcoin mining, but 32nm ASIC miners would get smoked by Nvidia cards in price, performance, and power efficiency. Nvidia's real power here is that they're the only company competing with Apple for the latest TSMC silicon. Their ability to drop 9 billion dollars on a foundry investment secured them the 4nm node, which is their bid for future-proofing their products. So far, it's worked.
we would laugh at this kind of dissembling gobbledegook if it came from a nonwestern country. the dutch need to charge him with something or release him. 110 days is preposterous.
Prob upstream suppliers know the demand and are artificially limiting their inputs... idk why RPi org would care that much. Plus if it gets out that would damage their rep BIGLY.
It’s intertwined but not totally. There are non-EA members of Less Wrong.
I think you're confusing my use of basic.

Basic here means fundamental, not surface-level.

It's like saying carbon is a basic building block of life. It doesn't mean that if you dig deeper, it's actually something else. It means that carbon is where everything starts, and you go from there.

I personally have a bit more than a single undergrad econ class under my belt.
"each individual decision seemed fine and I didn't realize how big their sum was until the end"

This reads to me as "I was viewing all these situations in isolation instead of looking at the full system" not your reading which seems to be more "I thought I could get away with each individual thing".

To your last point, Parker Conrad was dragged through the mud and shunned everywhere when Zenefits imploded but he came right back with Rippling and is a tech darling now.
I want to be dead honest with you: The Internet is full of "I would have said X" situations where everyone acts like X is this big gotcha. It will make you outraged, but these people are all paper tigers. Drop the argument. Walk away. Your life will be better for it. Their advice is worth nothing.
I agree that Approval Voting seems better in almost every respect to RCV/IRV, and (therefore) much better than FPTP. For that reason I would encourage more states to experiment with Approval Voting so we can gather some more data about what sort of results and UX it produces in practice.

The reason I mention UX, though, is that I think there is one respect in which Approval might be lacking, namely how voters interpret the instruction of "vote for whichever candidates you find acceptable". Have you ever stopped to think what "acceptable" means in that sentence? More importantly, have you asked a wide range of different people what they think it means, to check they all interpret it the same way?

That's a rhetorical question, but my point is that some people (based on their personality, or the advice from their party, or misinformation that they are exposed to) might think that "acceptable" means "I can tolerate this candidate winning, because they're not quite as bad as the worst outcome", while other people might interpret it as "this candidate is practically as good as my first choice candidate (but I don't like his haircut as much)".

This is somewhat similar to the "disenfranchisement" issue I mentioned above, where some voters are able to cast a more-powerful ballot by carefully calibrating the threshold at which they "approve" of a candidate. There's also the potential for people regretting the reform, if they discover that, for example, millions of anxious Democrats "approved" of DeSantis out of fear that Trump might win, when actually Bernie could have won if they had just stayed loyal and believed in Bernie's chances of success.
Just add gravel and sand to the grease? Or just wear spiked shoes.
RedBull & Ketamine?
Yes, this is what America needs, AI guns. The ones controlled by the manual morons aren't a big enough problem.
It's cool technology, but let's be careful here. If we've learned anything about technology in the past few years, it's that the benefits usually come with a host of new problems.

Cars, phones, and many critical pieces of infrastructure are quickly becoming impossible to service or fix by anyone but their manufacturers. Even normal operation relies on services that can be shut down which the flip of a remote switch. Not a huge problem in the individual case, but when our farming relies on similar technology, threats like cyberattacks, bugs, datacenter outages, chip supply issues, political disagreements, etc all become major national threats really quickly. Granted, farming has had sophisticated technology for quite a few years now, but smarter AI systems will inevitably involve more interaction with cloud services, and at that point, we're setting ourselves up for some scary possibilities.
He compared it to writing a novel. A novel can serve more functions than just being a representation, such as a puzzle, an entertainment device, an empathy exercise or a learning tool.

I read it more simply like, "Code is a craft that deserves careful attention."
So he's not prominent for having been the current richest person alive at various points or for leading a company that revolutionized commercial spaceflight?

It's just for making noise? Strange.
I was going to say maybe you’re right. Then I checked Ars Technica. I went to the last two Twitter stories. Which are also Elon stories. No one was saying what you’re claiming. Can you show a few examples or at least point out the news article and roughly where the comment is?

I’m sure there are enough of them since I also saw a first comment saying they wish they shorted Twitter when they had the chance. Some one corrected them right after but still it’s not filled with the highest degree of seriousness.

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Why would they be tech workers? I know friends who go to that site. One works as a PM in tech. That doesn’t mean much though. The rest don’t. It’s for tech oriented geeks in general. I don’t think they cover anything specific about programming or data science, etc.
I randomly got a RPi4 (8gb) online earlier this year for like $90. I assume I was lucky just checking at the right time
> So overall, society would be better off if that person just hoarded the money, buried it in their back yard, and preserved the scarce resources. That outcome is better than personal luxury consumption. Even better, of course, if they used it to get other people to do something productive that benefits wider society

Ok, so your argument is in the actual materials consumed? The water, metal, and all that being "wasted" for a yacht, as opposed to used for life critical purposes instead?

So, that's kind of the environmental aspect I mentioned, I'm not opposed here, sustainable resource use is important.

But donating to a charity can similarly be a temporary waste of resources with no sustainability improvements made.

Just feeding people food for an extra week for example, is very different from investing in sustainable farming methods that can guarantee us renewable and long lasting sources of food.

And on that topic, it's surprising how in practice discoveries that can help us with sustainability and production methods are discovered through various other ventures, often military for example, but it can happen anywhere.

The person who invented ammonia was researching chemical warfare, now it's used for fertilizer and dramatically helped boost our food production efficiency.

These second order effects I think are hard to predict, similarly hard to predict what the workers that got money from building the yacht than go on to use that money for themselves, maybe they spend it investing in food production efficiencies.
LoL, exactly. "Well, it wasn't pre-meditated 1st degree murder... just good old grossly-negligent homicide."
"No matter how well-intentioned you may be."

... and they should already know all that, and there is really no believable excuse for not knowing all that already, and I don't for a second believe they don't.

So, really there is not even any doubt to give any benefit of the doubt like "even if you're well intentioned". Passed that already.
Upside Foods cultivated meat receives the USFDA greenlight
sbcl doesn't always do it, depending on optimization settings, and clisp does do it when compiling; by "reliably" perhaps you meant "by default"?
$0 handmade stuffy, so cute!
Indeed. What the article describes is Emacs' terminals. Can also use `eshell` (albeit non-POSIX shell) for an even better experience.
Buildertool's guiding leadership principle is "Contempt for their Customers"
That’s what farmbot is going for
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/15/renewed-bitcoin-...
EV batteries are very safe. Yes there are incidents, but there's fewer as automakers learn to make safer packs.

We had a fire in a big parking garage here in Norway. Already many EVs here and not a single battery pack caught fire even though the car interiors burned. Our fire departments probably have the most experience with EVs anywhere in the world, and they consider them generally safe and not hard to deal with when trained for it.

Funny you should mention tunnels, it was recently found that millions could be saved on ventilation on a future tunnel project because there's such a high share of EVs now. There's a tunnel nearby that's very often closed because there's a steep grade and there's always some ICE truck that overheats and catches fire. With EVs that won't be an issue.

Meanwhile, a hydrogen station blew up just a few km from my house. Incredibly loud explosion. Yeah, I think hydrogen cars and stations can be made safe with engineering. Just like Li-ion. But it is fundamentally unsafe. It easily leaks through fittings if they aren't tightened with just the right torque. And when you get the right hydrogen/oxygen mixture it borderline self-ignites.

Many cars are moving to LiFePo as it's cheaper and good enough for most. It's much safer still. Solid state batteries will also be perfectly safe.
Raising interest rates discourages capital investment which makes it harder to expand. It also makes businesses that float on warehouse credit less able to operate. Raising the cost of borrowing hurts anyone spending while rewarding those saving. since economic growth happens through increased spending, you can only shrink economic activity by encouraging saving. This makes everyone poorer because there’s simply less money available. Only those with excess capital to save benefit, but they really don’t benefit in an economic sense but in a notional sense.

If the issue is supply can’t meet demand, you can either reduce spending or demand and increase savings or you can make capital expansion cheaper and encourage supply meeting demand. The former makes everyone poorer because the economy shrinks. The latter grows the economy, and makes everyone richer.

Now I agree inflation is bad for everyone. But inducing a global recession is an ass backwards way to solve it. Expanding supply capacity and ability to deliver while reducing frictional cost of transportation solves it in a positive way.

But either way won’t see results over night. It takes time for any of this to happen. But I’ll argue here that inducing a recession and economic downturn by rewarding saving and not spending leaves us at a worse place in 10 years than we would have been had we grown into the demand and rewarded capital expansion in the face of increasing demand.

Note, I know there’s a morality in our culture around spending and saving as a concept, but I think these are entirely specious. You should save regardless of the reward structure to provide stability and a buffer against turbulence, and being parsimonious is IMO the actual moral imperative. Saving and spending in the above isn’t necessarily at an individual level but at a societal level. Saving is necessarily contracting economic activity by making capital expensive and removing currency from exchange for goods and services, and creating artificial incentives to save will lead to misery - layoffs, shrinking economic activity, declines in equity markets and the value of real goods relative to savings, etc, all of which is not beneficial to anyone in the long run.

Inflation, unless followed on with expansion of currency to try to battle inflation, will resolve itself naturally either way. But letting supply and demand work out the price in the market and making capital cheap means more people and businesses will try to capture more of that extra demand. That’s good isn’t it? Usually markets overshoot so you would ultimately see a period of deflation, especially if a recession pops out, undoing the experienced inflation.

But creating a recession to make people spend less and therefore decrease expansion and opportunity for growth is a truly awful strategy.
Totally agree with your sentiment.

I think the inertia of switching is lower for ML because libraries like pytorch support more backends besides just CUDA, such as ROCm (AMD) and MPS (Apple Metal). I used the pytorch ROCm backend recently and there's certainly some more work that needs to be done in this space to get it to the same level as the CUDA backend (performance and compatibility wise), but at least it makes other GPU vendors an option.
Winner of Dyson Award 2022 is an Affordable, Smart Wound Dressing
Did this book ask you to time yourself and solve it within 20 minutes?
Does SQL CLR support .NET Core/.NET 5+ or just framework?
Everyone knows Tether doesn’t have the bank reserves they say they do, doesn’t seem to matter though even though everyone shouts warnings on Twitter.
There are plenty of 3090s on craigslist as well, fairly common to find below 800$, but 4090s are more power efficient and it's easier to manage a single rig with 7 gpus than trying to network 2 rigs with 14 gpus total. It's also faster for inference without any model change.
Can’t believe they didn’t include “intimate partner violence”. OK, I can believe it but it’s the dumbest, least understood term I’ve ever come across.

For nstance, IPV usually doesn’t involve “violence” or at least what normal people consider violence (ie Punchin, kicking, slapping, etc…). IPV is more often financial or mental abuse.
Sounds like we found a male who not only doesn’t have to deal with the repercussions of any pregnancy complications, but hasn’t known anyone personally that has had to deal with a late term pregnancy complication.

You are the exact type of individual that should. It have any day in this debate. It doesn’t affect you and you’re imposing your beliefs on other people who don’t share your viewpoint.
It's meant to be a rejection of the inherent nihilism he found in Christianity.
I don't really have any advice for the negative colouring of incoming messages.

But for the onslaught of messages I simply don't have notifications on and will only check it a few times a day when there's a natural break in my work.

Also, just leave the channels, there's no reason for you to be on 100+ channels.
is something i wrote ↑ here incorrect or off-topic?

would appreciate a correction!
Connectivity at the datacenter level can’t be solved that easily. NVIDIA built its switch chip to connect GPUs and acquired MLNX.
Yes, agree with you both - probability * severity. The severity is high (unless you know how to run off the board - that lowers the severity quite a bit). The probability is unfortunately unknown.
Positions do all of the above exist. Just depends on the company and where in the stack you are. There's a lot of math and domain expertise on the controls and sensors sides. Most people in any particular company aren't doing those though. There are lots of jobs available for c/c++/Matlab/Python/js.

If you don't want to change what you're doing or using, most modern robotic platforms have a web interface somewhere in them for monitoring the fleet. Any web developer would find their skills perfectly compatible.
Wells Fargo suddenly closed my bank account because of an “executive decision”
Also I think maintenance of 1000 tiny drones is going to be a lot more difficult than that of one big tractor
AMD’s New IaşI Design Center Part of Romanian Tech Boom
I think of neurodivergence as having a cognitive style different than the commonly accepted cognitive style (the typical way of understanding things). It is not a diagnosis, but a way of framing differences in cognitive style and helping work out accomodations that might be necessary.

This means that not only can "your neurodivergent status" change (say, a non-autistic person in a group of autistic people would be neurodivergent), but it is a spectrum. You might be divergent from the typical in certain domains (say, you are very sensitive to certain sounds), while being typical in others (say, your way of using body language matches the way most people use it around you).

Bringing up neurodivergence makes only sense when you do notice that there is something different about how you perceive the world or act, vs what everybody else seems to be doing.

Specific conditions lead to neurodivergence, say ADHD or neurological disorders or mood disorders, while others might be attributed to upbringing or nationality.
Where is the money supposed to come from? User fees already don't cover the cost of road maintenance.
> So that's that, its done.

Not at all.

If Alameda really lost billions or tens in billions in trades, who was on the other side to collect the money? To random people who sold BTC at $64K and then all the way down?

Or were the losing trades a way to syphon billions somewhere else?

Seen the amount involved, the policital donations, the articles in the media portraying the guy as an altruistic genius and seen that tether/USDT/Bitfinex/Deltec are also in the Bahamas, it looks like, maybe, fucking maybe, it's time for actual journalism, actual research, actual congress hearings (at least one is coming in december btw), etc. about what's going on.

Do you really believe it's just a few trades gone wrong?

> Its actually quite a simple story here. FTX lent the money to someone else (even if Alameda Research is also owned by SBF), and that other group lost the money.

For a start you're forgetting the part where FTX was also pumping and then dumping tokens on their customers. Some tokens they created themselves. They're also somehow tied to hundreds of million of USDs getting frozen by authorities, where FTX then quickly raised money. That's fraud, too.

It's much more than "simple". There's serious shit going on.
There’s a lot that could be say about it, but I think John Taylor Gatto said much of it. The current system does not really do the literacy thing well either.

There are also some exciting things happening in the unschooled and regenerative education space. The main thing though, is kids who develop into adults with intrinsic motivation and capable of determining the wise choices for themselves, their children, and community.
I don't believe software development is their bread and butter. Traditionally these companies are known as "systems integrators" which basically means they have armies of people who have RTFM for popular enterprise software products and will provide you with bodies who sit in your office and install or provide support for the product.
Furthermore, with the right sensors, there's an opportunity for the swarm to self-correct without human intervention based on results. It doesn't have to be exactly right at the moment, because any ill effects will be noticeable and fixable well after a mistake is made.
The fact that such a command exists is an argument that terminal input is indeed bad.
I think it will be similar to how diffusion-based image generation currently relies on what the model is trained on.

This might work well for average folks, but for anyone sufficiently out of the norm / with expertise/mental hardware outside of the bounds of the trained model, the results will be subpar / useless.
I was born and raised in a 3rd world country, this doesn't happen over there. Kids are pretty independent from a young age and learn to take the public transport at like 7 by themselves..

From what I can gather, Europeans doesn't have this issue either.. This kind of insanity is only an American problem AFAIK.
Monetary policy definitely impacts prices. However high prices induces expansion if capital is available. This lowers prices. The rest you outline are fingers you can place on the scales in either direction. But in the end if supply is elastic and demand increases prices might go up for a while but as supply capacity builds prices will drop as competition increases. Monetary policy doesn’t change that equation, it just gives you a lever to induce spending or savings.
It's possible for SBF to be both guilty of a variety of crimes and also not an intentionally terrible human.

I don't know if he is or isn't a sociopath who lied to everyone while stealing billions. I just find the "wow, this guy is a monster" outrage interesting as the source DMs here don't really uphold that portrayal.
Stable Diffusion hentai plots.
A few reasons:

- EVs could drive in the bus lane, thus those who got EVs could cut commute drastically in many cases.

- EVs paid no or little road toll, and people have an irrational reaction to that.

- Due to massive increase in property prices over the last decade or so, many were in a very comfortable position w.r.t. loan and could afford a somewhat expensive car.

- Until the end of the year, you don't pay 25% VAT on EVs when buying new. In addition, new EVs don't pay the "engine tax"[1], which can be substantial.

For a semi-random example of the taxes, looking at a BMW M440i Grand Coupe xDrive, if I were to import it, the roughly $60k sales price[2] would get[3] a $31k "engine tax" and $15k VAT for a total of $107k. This matches the local dealer price very well. For the same kind of money you can get a Tesla Model S Plaid for example, or pay a lot less for one of their other models.

[1]: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/business-and-organisation/vat...

[2]: https://www.truecar.com/best-cars-trucks/sedans/luxury/

[3]: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/duties/cars-and-other-...
I’ve only watched some videos but the balance part of the unicycle seems to have a big learning curve. The speed is what worries me the most. I’m thinking anything with a motor should probably have a seat.
Vision, statistics, flight | ground control, etc.

Eg: A chap I work with has tens of thousands of ANOVA grow plots for seed varieties spread across Western Australian Climatic conditions .. he and various assistants routinely fly multispectral camera drones above plot areas and calibration images.

That's an aquisition, store, normalise, process cycle for a fairly steady data stream.
Posted because it's similar to the "Stripe/Twitter/Facebook closed my account" questions.

Anyone in finance know how this can happen? Maybe they thought the check was fraud, but why?
> says the nonprofit is avoiding use of its Future Fund grant money for now, except to pay the salaries of the three newly hired people. “We don’t think it is right that anyone should lose their jobs over a financial calamity totally unrelated to the excellent work they are doing,” Esvelt says.

They may be talented, but these are stolen funds that may be clawed back.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-11-14/bitcoins...
My ex did, she loved it.

She largely outperformed all her peers later in life.