skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just going back and look at GPT-2's output, it's amazing how much better this system is. It still doesn't "understand" anything, but the coherence of what it spits out has gone up drastically.

https://thegradient.pub/gpt2-and-the-nature-of-intelligence/
What does the “activist entered our stock” line in Dorsey’s post refer to?
Yeah but being near beaches with rolling waves improves mood too… and we’re way past having lived in the seas…

And people love imagining the ability to fly yet as far as I know no one serious claims we have flying ancestors…
And then what happens when it is still equally badly run?

We go on streets?

How do you handle booting an incompetent government. You can't even force liquidation. You can't fire anyone. The only thing you can do is force the issue on the Governor but booting him is close to impossible.
I’m willing to bet that that’s also how Google will be completely disrupted by an AI-first competitor. The execs will be too chicken to kill their current golden goose.
I started a small agency and do consulting. So now I’m a guest in various different project channels across several client Slack teams + manage my own contractors etc. Much quieter :)
They already do. If you are selling from a tax haven (especially services), there is a 15-30% withholding. Of course, you might be able to recover some of that. But it's a defacto tax.

Nobody here seems to understand that this is not about taxes but rather about re-shoring trade power back to the Western world (which is why it concerns the EU the most). EU/US and other developed countries offloaded a part of their industries 20-30 years ago to under-developing countries to save up on some costs.

These countries (evil 0% tax countries) reduced taxes, wages and regulation to attract these offshores companies. Not because these countries like to play games, but because that's their only attraction point. And here we are, 30 years later or something like that, and the EU/US have lost a significant portion of their industrial base.

Now, they want it back. Either because they have a high unemployment rate (ie: France, Italy) and they have actually people who can do these jobs; or because they think the balance has swift too much in favor of these "international" companies and zero-tax countries. Some of them have become too powerful and one of them even downright dangerous to the world order.

Of course, I'm not holding my breath for the "developing" world. It still lacks lots of the infrastructure and many key industries that the EU/US can pressure with. The place to look at will be South East Asia. Europe seems to have lost here to US/Japan and China. I think Europe is going to come to a dark realization real soon. The US might emerge, again ugh, as the winner. China is hated by pretty much all its neighbors.
I doubt very much that F#/.NET is faster than OCaml. The latter is very fast, and the CLR's runtime generics have runtime costs.
> Speed of sound can be literally thought of as the speed that force propagates in a material.

A.K.A. speed of mechanical causality
Hacking Past the Age of 40
My parents kept all of my cars from the 80s and my brothers from the 90s, so my kid plays with 50 years worth of them.

The shrinkflation was between 1980 and early 2000s. The cars today are cheaper, but not junky. They are raising their margins by other means now. That low price point exists, but with a much smaller number of cars. When I was a kid in the 80s, there was 50-100 cars at the same price. Now there is much less, but the cool cars are often branded and may be 2x-3x the price.
I dunno man. I think I'm a pretty good dev, but if John Carmack told me I was wrong about a technical issue/overall technical direction I'd give him some serious consideration. The only time I can recall disagreeing with him was a few years ago when he said people who want better gaming on Linux should focus on improving Wine instead of native support. And it turns out he was largely correct there and I was wrong, if Valve's success with Proton is any indication.
ChatGPT is increasingly handling the bulk of my major queries, and that’s when its rate limited and hard to access (behind a sign up, behind captcha)
For what it's worth, I know maybe 5 or 6 kids that age, and two of them have literally hacked together an e-commerce side hustle over the weekend.

None of them have read Dostoyevsky and pretended to be deep.
An incredible intellect, combined with an amazing wit, and a truly talented performer. - Thanks Tom.
These companies are cities, not villages. You'll find every type of experience at them. You'll find some incredibly exciting work, some boring work, great managers, crap managers, and everything in between all of that.

In my case I just find scale...fun :)
I agree. I think the 14 + 14 set out in the Copyright Act of 1790 is more than adequate. 14 years of copyright, plus 14 more years if you renew. After that, automatic entry into the public domain.
How good is ChatGPT at playing chess?
Only please, remember to always call it "research"!
> __My issue is in identifying what other people want.__

Probably accurate. So that’s what you need to figure out then. It’s great you are aware of it, now make it the nr.1 most important thing in your life.
After having read one of his books, I think I understand where he's coming from: he believes the ends justify the means (like EA folk?) and so there are very few war crimes that are so heinous that avoiding another WWI (of which WWII was arguably just a continuation) would not justify their commission.
Oh, no I didn't mean navigation software. It has GPS, to show location and to record activity paths for bike rides, runs, hikes.
I'm regularly amazed at how many people there are on HN that tell on themselves by complaining about ads in Windows. It's like complaining that IKEA furniture is difficult to assemble.

Ironically, I haven't made the jump to 11 yet just because my decade old Dell has an i7 that's been remarkably resilient for the kind of work I do on it.

My favorite thing about Windows is the backwards compatibility. I had a 2005 era Dell laptop that had come with XP. I think I paid $35 for an upgrade to Win7 after running the beta. Had the Win8 beta on there, which upgraded to a full version for free, and eventually upgraded to Win10 freely somehow as well. By that time, it struggled to run more than a web browser, and the internal wifi card no longer functioned, but it was remarkable that the upgrades all just worked.

And I've got some pretty nice Firewire audio hardware that runs flawlessly on Windows 10 despite the last driver for it having been released in 2006.
>How did we go backwards?

By incentivizing smart people to tinker with silly crap instead of work on meaningful problems.
I had a coworker once who had as an annual goal "convince the director of engineering of X" - given to them by the Director of Engineering. Dude, you should never have agreed to that. Responsibility for something you have no control over is a bad day waiting to happen.

One of the people who made it on my Never Again list was a technical lead who somehow thought "bring me solutions, not problems" was a reasonable thing for a technical lead to say. In a large, complex system that you built the person who's been there for a hot minute knows enough to see problems but not enough of the interactions to know the solution. You're supposed to tell me how to fix it, or fix it yourself, not deflect. Took a couple years before I could actually fix any of the problems and there are still bits of code that just look like a Shadow over Innsmouth to me.
Public Domain Day 2023 Is Coming: Here’s What to Know
Perhaps there's the possibility of nuclear power by direct conversion to electricity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion#Trave...
I would see a world where the ad business gets seriously impaired and Google struggles enough to keep up with the enterprise market that they lose out to MS.

In that fantasy world something like Salesforce could get bought by Google and they’d reshape the whole Google’s product tree to solely focus on enterprise money, and a landslide of redundant engineers would probably be let go.
For example (I just emailed Arducam about this):

The IMX477/R sensor supports Full (16:9) Binning 1080P @ 2028(H) × 1128(V) with 240hz/fps availability in a drive mode. However, no IMX477/R package I've ever found - including those from Arducam - support a CSI->USB board or similar that can drive this mode, only allowing 100 FPS maximum on most packages. (ex: https://www.uctronics.com/arducam-high-quality-complete-usb-...)

I am looking to buy a product involving the IMX477/R sensor that can drive this mode or similar 240 FPS modes, but cannot find it for the life of me despite the datasheet openly supporting this drive mode.
China doesn't build coal plants because areas cannot afford nuclear. They do so because need they need stop gap solutions. Their new coal plants use supercritical CO2, and phase out older, less efficient and more polluting coal plants. Check out this thread by Chinese energy sector consultant David Fishman which states that the new Chinese plants are amongst the most efficient in the world: https://twitter.com/pretentiouswhat/status/16004256242919055...

He explains that these more efficient coal plants are not only motivated by climate targets, but also by market prices.

Even these new plants aren't going to be around forever. They're going to be phased out eventually as China moves towards their 2060 net zero goal.
I'm instantly reminded of Eminem when reading your comment. Perhaps his subject material isn't to your tastes, but if you like interesting rhyme schemes I'd argue that his works are top notch!

His 1996 song "Infinite" could please your ear, if you'd care to listen :)
I'm hoping he brings back Armadillo Aerospace
Well, I googled the phrase "microscopy spores" and the first hit was a webpage that first defines the term to mean "observe under a microscope" then warns customers that the cultivation of psychoactive mushrooms is illegal in many places in the world. So at the very least, your competitors are pretty much implying that one _could_ use "microscopy spores" for cultivation, and I imagine the majority of customers are expecting to do so.

And hey, maybe you in particular have cracked the code in how to ship spores in syringes that only inject into slides and not say, a prepared cultivation point. But I am 0 percent surprised payment processors noped out.
If you have a US LLC without US income, you are disregarded by the IRS. The tricky thing is getting a bank account without an EIN, however. But if you can do that, you are pretty much set.
I'd say may restrictive parents don't teach them about how to use alcohol responsibly because they're not allowed to have it. It's obviously bad when Mr chug chug chug is teaching you
This is absurd, sorry. I don't think there is any value in continuing this thread.
Agreed. This entire thread was flagged for a reason.
Well, at least they have a somewhat limited scope to work with — there haven't been significant WinAPI updates for more then 10 years, unless you include things like modern DirectX.

I do wish they worked differently though. They're trying to build the entire thing from scratch all at once, but it would've made much more sense if they took a Windows installation and started replacing Microsoft components one by one with their own until there are none left. This would guarantee 100% compatibility with everything imaginable, because you get complete integration testing for free, and probably won't break any licenses either. Didn't the Haiku project use this approach with BeOS?
Construction on Hinckley Point C didn’t start until 2017. Until that point it was going through political and legal challenges and planning.
Fun fact: Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot.
“ I don't want to be that person that's not reachable”

You’re always reachable via email, just don’t open slack ever unless you want to ask someone else a question who prefers slack.
I actually think the cars are still decent quality. I’ve bought a number of them for my 4-year-old son recently, and we have a lot of fun racing and crashing them. They’re holding up well so far after months of daily use.

And even if the quality of Hot Wheels has gone down over the years/decades, I think it’s awesome that each car still only costs about $1. I can easily afford to buy one or two cars every time I go to the grocery store with my son, which makes the shopping experience much more fun for both of us. If the cars were 10x the price, then I couldn’t do that.
Ask not what the basilisk can do for you, but what you can do for the basilisk.
Probably also depends on whether you have Flash Player installed and which version.
The problem with collector models is that they break way more easily. Also $300 means I can buy stuff the caliber of Soul of Chokogin ( https://live.staticflickr.com/5553/15149130081_124d4867f0_b.... ), which is super high quality.
Or I might as well buy some of the power ranger mechas from my days, to inspire some interest in mechanics.

My daughter did fall in love with a small Gundam SD she built "oh I have an action figure too now!!!", but she of course want to play with it, she doesn't love the fact that's just in the display case.
> Protecting children’s rights often requires protecting parents’ rights, and this starts with children’s mothers.

Humans are funny creatures.
I find fishing barbaric, and I spent a lot of time fishing as a kid. Fly fishing is definitely more humane than a lot of other types of fishing, but ultimately you’re hurting a fish for pleasure. That’s basically a form of sadism. Of course, most don’t take pleasure in the fish’s pain, but the suffering of the fish is an essential part of the sport. You can’t catch a fish without it suffering. And ultimately, most just take a picture and throw the fish back. These days, I’d rather go for a hike along the river.
I would say that the Sellafield plant has a huge amount of nuclear waste that the UK has to deal with from nuclear weapons development and early power station decommissioning, and that modern nuclear power stations do produce waste but at considerably lower quantities than we already need to deal with, to the point that it’s basically a rounding error.
> Portal ended up failing so hard as a consumer product that it got transferred over to the Workplace division

The immediate response I heard from everyone who heard about it (not in my tech circle) was an immediate NOPE. Followed by “I’m not letting Facebook put a camera in my house.”

I don’t think the failure can be blamed on the lack of zoom support.
I used to play a lot with the power ranger mechas and those made from Bandai are incredible quality, unless you are up for the modern metal ones, but those cost SO much.
The net metering subsidy just didn't make sense anymore. Solar is "cheap" now and the next step of decarbonization is storage.

From a carbon perspective, net metering was basically paying homeowners to provide useless power to the grid (at the bottom of the duck curve) but be able to cash it in when they actually needed it around 7 pm. This meant generating useless solar power and in exchange for letting burning a ton of natural gas when you actually needed the power.

The next step is pairing solar with residential and grid scale storage. Personally, with how intermittent production can be now, the grid should be more like AWS. Allow for per minute billing and rates that fluctuate for some customers. If you can pair storage with solar (or even just storage if you could buy low sell high off the grid), that would be the next big step in the renewable revolution.

Net metering always had to die for the next step (storage) to happen. With the electric car mandate coming into 2035 so that millions of homes will own a giant battery this will eventually be even more important.
This is a good read. The 'wasteland' thing is a bit of a myth. https://thoughtscapism.com/2019/05/08/what-about-radioactive...
I wouldn't say they're popular ... BA-DUM TSH!

I'm here all year, tip the waitress!
He claims to have invented the Jell-o shot while working at the NSA. I believe him.
Any exponential backoff in the event of unresponsive endpoint? How doea the library deal with increasing backpressure?
He's fantastic. The fact that his songs are just as funny and relevant today as when they were written is what impresses me the most. This is super hard to do with that kind of material.
I don’t think there’s any left wing extremism on HN. This is an insanely capitalist site. It could help your political worldview to not see the world from an overweighted American perspective, which is quite right wing.
Rippable from a Vimeo vinyl recording here:

https://vimeo.com/254916343

I've still got an original I bought in the late 70s (?) out in the shed.
Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization
There's another post on HN several days back with similarly price Sipeed M1s that's based on the same Bouffalo Lab BL808 RISC-V SoC module including NPU providing support for WiFi/BL, 802.15.4 Zigbee connectivity and interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, etc:

$10.80 RISC-V AIoT module supports Linux:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33874032

EDIT: This is the official website for the Sipeed M1s showcasing the specs and application video for AIoT:

https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/zh/maix/m1s/m1s_dock.html
WOW, some stuff here looks amazing, thank you!
No joke, it helps if you toke anytime doc does.
I'm absolutely convinced that this is not the same internet now and that kids have to deal with a lot more challenges. Everything is actively built to be addictive and to fragment your attention. There are big players who don't want you off the internet. The content itself has also changed and there is a lot more false information that is indistinguishable from the "good"

You can't compare your own childhood to this, I don't think we even get it. You have to set limits both on time and content.
Sorry I forgot to mention, independently of my comment, that suggestion is good, I saw a bunch of cool designs.

The funny thing is that everything that actually looks good is marketed at collectors.

The problem is also that my children are still young, so I need stuff with some resistance, somewhat.
VS Code is not really open source.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4288/is-micro...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_why-does-...
Which is why they’re flagging people making jokes about elections on Twitter, obviously.
Anything around Canada (or north america)?
Does mandarake ship to Canada?
> There are a large number of people who would never want to have a private conversation or meeting using Facebook infrastructure or be forced to create a Facebook account to join a meeting.

A large number of people in your circle / on HN / etc perhaps, but I think the vast majority of the general population have no such concern.
>Several prominent right-to-far-right figures were unsuspended on Friday, including MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and Gateway Pundit editor Jim Hoft

How nice /s

Longer list here: https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1603873365441273873
> The RV64 core may be capable of running RV32 machine code

It's not, xlen is fixed on that core like most RISC-V cores.

> How does Linux handle this? Can you just run an executable and have it automatically scheduled onto whichever cores can execute it? Wouldn't the kernel itself have to be compiled for both architectures?

With asymmetric multiprocessing like you get with OpenAMP. The RV32 cores are more real time management cores. One core only has an MPU, no MMU. The other core doesn't even have that. So run something like freertos (or just a superloop) on those cores to babysit realtime tasks and either respond quicker and/or more deterministically than Linux can, or avoid waking up the Linux core.
They turn off your power if you don't pay your electric bill. Do they keep charging a hookup fee after they've unhooked you?

(I know the answer is yes, because the answer to this kind of question is always yes...)
I know the whole Oculus / Quest has a reputation for being a gimmick, but those talks were the ones that inspire me to get a quest 2 in the first place, and I love that device, It's far from perfect and requires a lot of 3rd party accessories to be comfortable, but it made me feel the same way as when I was a kid and play a new generation console like the PlayStation for the first time, making me say "wow, this it's the future".

Plus PCVR (something I feel meta lately doesn't push as harder as they should) with the quest it's just amazing, being wireless makes up for the loss in the visual quality of something like an HP Reverb or Vive.

I feel sad about John his departure, he was one of the voices who pushed sideloading for 3rd app developers and those game communities are amazing, creating games that have given me more entertainment than most of the horizon-verse apps.

Even in his last talk about the Quest Pro he was straightforward telling people "This device it's great, but still needs a lot of development and has some rough edges, like FOV rendering is not going to happen soon for most games" to have people don't over hype their expectations... while Mark and the official presentation was using pre-render avatars with legs for a feature that didn't exist.
"The Elements" is the Tom Lehrer song that made the biggest impression on me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_(song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
...
But you haven't solved your chocolate problem, you've avoided it, which is what you're advocating for here with technology.

The generation raising children now may not fully understand how critical technology will be in your child's everyday life. You can't just avoid tech, it's literally how every job gets done now, how every leisurely activity is organized or even operated. It's everywhere, unlike chocolate, which can more or less be entirely described as a needless luxury.

This isn't "chocolate" it's "literacy", and by limiting your child's access to it, you're limiting their ability to grow fluent in this new language.

Yes, there are drawbacks and problems, but those will be valuable lessons to learn.
I use an entry level mirror less DSLR, the canon M50. And I think it was about $350 and it can connect directly via USB.
I think you just hit the nail on the head with this comment.
That's like calling Schwarzenegger a GYM owner... I mean yeah it's not a lie, but it's underselling a lot.
Jugaad takes agile to the extreme (2020)
Countries in the EU switched from coal to gas mainly because it’s about 50% of the carbon emissions per kWh:

https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/b...
Size isn't everything. It's not about the brain growing - it's about the teaching methods. Right now, I think it's still an open question whether current architectures and objectives are for sure capable of reasoning/AGI/etc or not. If they're not, then scale itself isn't the answer.
Yes. Other California, US examples are SMUD (Sacramento), TID (Turlock), MID (Modesto), IID (Imperial Valley), Redding, and Needles. Generally all have lower rates than PG&E, SCE, or SDG&E.
I think the course just got updated during the past year and now they use Python instead of Octave/Matlab
> as it comes after a (reverse) merger

The answer to almost every modern financial wizardry is M&A. Sure, a DCF yields the theoretical value of a stock’s stream of cash flow. But in reality, M&A secures that lower bound. Yes, an efficient firm may reduce headcount willingly. But in reality, M&A provides the culture shock.
How could this be achieved? I have one model in mind that might enable this type of long-term planning, but it would take quite a bit of work to make the US like China.
Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics

And the Catholics hate the Protestants

And the Hindus hate the Muslims

And everybody hates the Jews

— National Brotherhood Week, https://youtu.be/CgASBVMyVFI