skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could argue if it weren’t war we wouldn’t have nuclear power or have landed in the moon, and many other things. There are many technologies out there completely obtainable, but without the investment of billions it won’t happen.

Commercialization is the commoditization of an established technology. Many technological leaps are far beyond what any company is capable due to the amount of investment and risk required.

Biotech for example is so far behind compared to our advancements in computers.
The thread spent 11 hours on HN's front page.
I presume this still requires the postgres drivers to connect but then just accepts Oracle syntax once connected? That seems like a very specialized replacement case -- where I guess the app has a lot of complex reporting logic or a monster amount of stored procs that can't be changed, but the consuming app(s) can change drivers and exception handling for the PG ones
So I haven't had an e14, but I've had two P14's in the past year. One ryzen one intel. My only gripe is getting the power usage down while running linux took a few hours of fiddling.

I used to have a T480 that idled around 5 watts, I could get the newer laptops down to there but I had to make sure all the various devices didn't have power saving disabled. The thunderbolt pci devices were the big culprit which is unsurprising as I drive two 27" monitors via thunderbolt. The power usage is still a little "spiky". When the laptop comes online or out of hibernation it takes a few minutes for the fan to spin down but overall it's alright.

I guess personally I'd go for the newer laptop. But that's mostly because TB4 is a hard requirement for me at this point. It might take a little more fiddling with the power settings (linux or windows) to get it where you want it but lenovo is pretty good a polishing it's business laptops.

As for your original worry of soldered on RAM. I don't like it either and I try to avoid it, but it doesn't weigh heavy on my mind when choosing a laptop.

Edit; I don't know how to use commas I guess.
You can't just announce the problem is "easy to solve".

The other article on the front page is about the decommissioning of Sellafield, predicted to take over a century.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997375
Utah is heavily associated with Mormons, a particularly unorthodox subsect of Christianity. (I'm not sure most other Christians would even consider them Christians) Alot of things like this are just to make the Mormons happy.
This going to sound silly but I hated reading the Pragmatic Programmer series of books because of the font and the size.
Why would anyone subsidize nuclear instead of batteries?

(Well, I know why, and yes, they would favor nuclear jut after oil and coal. But it wouldn't happen for any good reason.)
Those of us born in 1986 (in New York at least) had neither form of drills
Am I missing something here ?

At the end of the day, aren't ChatGPT, AlphaCode, etc still just finetuned LLMs, or has there been some significant changes to the architecture that give reason to expect the output to be anything more intelligent than LLM "predict next word" continuations ?

Of course GPT, Codex/Copilot, ChatGPT are all impressive, and have some unexpected emergent capabilities (this being the interesting thing about this "scale experiment"), but even with "think step by step" prompt hacks and finetuning, they're still just LLMs unless something (intelligence!) has been added so they can learn from their mistakes at runtime and test their predictions ("understanding") by interaction with the external world.

So, if these are still just LLMs, then why are people treating them as if their prompt answers might/should actually be correct as opposed to what might be expected from massive training set prediction - i.e. right a lot of the time, but catastrophically wrong a lot of the time too, with no insight as to which is which.

I saw a ChatGPT example the other day where it confidently explained how taking 90% of a number then adding 10% of that would get you back to the original. It sure doesn't appear if there's any intelligence there, even if it seems it's generating "correct" answers enough of the time that people want to ascribe intelligence to it. I'd trust advice from ChatGPT about as much as I'd trust advice from Eliza (a simplistic 1960's ChatBot that also managed to fool some people).

I'm not sure what it says that this type of "contextually correct bullshit" is being productized into things like OpenAI Codex. What next? Use it for medical advice too ? If I want untrustworthy suggestions I'd rather just Google for it where I can at least judge the source, as opposed to ChatGPT where you have no idea whether it's regurgitating stuff from NASA or 4chan.
They actually discuss that: https://death.andgravity.com/pwned#position-heuristic
I've never had a job that requires or has even asked about social media. You don't need a smartphone to keep a LinkedIn account or Instagram. You can simply log in when you're at home on a desktop or laptop.
Can you guess what "/s" stands for?
Lee knows this isn't going anywhere. It's December; we get a reset in a few weeks.

It's just virtue-signaling to his constituents. Like politically correctness for the politically-incorrect crowd.
If you are correct, then the decrease in page length could just be the result of more people using ebooks, where the physical size of the book is of no consequence.
The entire part where you need to build machines to gather, use and cool it down.
I mean, if you want, you could choose to not use this nonexistent product. You don't have to hypothetically use it.
Super, super cool talk. It's so nice to see what Bret's been working on - biology seems like a great application for the Dynamicland technologies.
thinking i'm going to forgo this
Couldn't this also be said about, say, Postgres specialists?
Ioannidis did a antigen survey and found the vast majority of cases were mild; https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/340124

A survey by the most cited epidemiologist alive is not a forecast for one. It is the best appeal to authority one can make. I've seen it shown that h1n1 in england in 2009 had a IFR of 0.05% which is greater than the revised figure for covid.

Amazing how all the proof in the world makes such little difference to the average Luddite who will just defer to authority regardless. Stanley Milgram was clearly right about everything he said.
I actually am building one of these but not from wood I purchased a dome home kit from pacific domes one of the first company's to develop the dome from its originators idea
What are these managers getting 400k/year to do if they can't list the accomplishments of their subordinates?
I tried with something that was not so obviously in the training set, the response is terrible

What's the measure of the set of real numbers whose square is between 1 and 4.

The set of real numbers whose square is between 1 and 4 is known as the square root of the interval [1, 4]. It is represented by the notation √[1, 4].

To find the measure of this set, we can take the square root of each endpoint of the interval and then subtract the smaller value from the larger value. In this case, the measure of the set is √4 - √1 = 2 - 1 = 1.

Alternatively, we can rewrite the set as the union of two intervals: the set of real numbers whose square is between 1 and 2, and the set of real numbers whose square is between 2 and 4. The measure of the first interval is √2 - √1 = 1, and the measure of the second interval is √4 - √2 = 1. Therefore, the measure of the set of real numbers whose square is between 1 and 4 is 1 + 1 = 2.

It's important to note that the set of real numbers whose square is between 1 and 4 is not the same as the set of real numbers between 1 and 4. The set of real numbers whose square is between 1 and 4 consists only of the positive real numbers 1 and 2, while the set of real numbers between 1 and 4 includes all real numbers between 1 and 4, including negative numbers
Raises the question whether or not anyone writing this kind of software actually uses it.
supposedly some of them only reported the LAPD statement saying no police report had been filed for the alleged stalking incident
Curse Words Around the World Have Something in Common
TIL the etymology of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke

When the banks holding the debt are taking a bath marking it to market, investing in equity of the same firm seems ... brave.
His repo is a gold mine
https://archive.vn/2UzYj
> Have them create their own video game before playing other video games

Brutal
Where, on the spectrum of time spent per year, do you think your company lies with regard to writing annual self evaluations as compared to other companies?
Articles like this make me think about how the software community has chronically under-invested in developing managers. It is not crazy to think that a manager could actually -

* Have the time to know what you are working on

* Set aside time to talk to you about your career development goals

* Help you work and progress towards them - with a plan that is personalized for you.
Do you count deaths caused by mining rare minerals which is needed for the production of renewables?

Re your car example: And that’s why everything should be talked about in context. Cars are essential for our modern lives and it would be close to impossible the negative impact of its disappearance. And the relevant such context for energetics is the deaths per unit energy.
Lumping all people over the age of 12 together doesn't address what I was saying. I used the data I could find that had cohorts by age and vaccination status. I'm trying to dig through your source to see what the numbers look like per age cohort. I'm assuming we are going to find similar numbers in your data as we did in the MN data.

As for 60 days, that seems fair as that's likely to capture the prevalence of the most recent variants and not delta, which we know the vaccine worked well against...

So, looking at your source for the last 60 days, if you're in the 18-49 range your likelihood of getting Covid is about 2x if you're not vaxed and 2.2x if your not boosted.
Show HN: DirCrypt command-line file/folder encryption utility
Maybe. I’d have to think about it some more to formulate a more solid opinion. Thanks for the criticism!
This is really nonsense, and it was already nonsense shortly after it happened, why does such rumor even stick on HN? Most likely, and officials assume it too, is material fatigue.
Not disagreeing, but I just want to point out Pynchon and Foster-Wallace as authors that require effort on behalf of the reader.

Admittedly, the reader effort is still ridiculously far below that of the author.

Quoting Fry:
"It took an hour to write, I thought it would take an hour to read"
did you read the article? the kids mention that critique
If you use an iPhone, explore the “Hacker Feed” app, which gives you this exact feature
I wonder if they could improve this by queueing multiple positions to read at once. Presumably the disk will be able to do some of them more efficiently.
In the UK, you can get texts sent to landline numbers. Not sure if it's carrier-dependent, but my Mum would occasionally get texts sent to her landline. She'd get a call saying that she'd received a text and the text was read to her by a computer. Perhaps that might work in Canada?
Getting the vegan message across is incredibly difficult. I don’t image many non-vegans would watch or be converted by this film.

The two documentaries that made me go vegan were:

- Forks Over Knives
- Earthlings

I’d recommend them to anyone who wants to elevate their morality.
The point is that Wikipedia is infinitely more fallible than a mathematical equation.
This is a great review but it still misses what seems like the point to me: these models don't do any actual reasoning. They're doing the same thing that DALL-E etc. does with images: using a superhuman store of potential outcomes to mimic an outcome that the person entering the prompt would then click a thumbs-up icon on in a training model.

Asking why the model doesn't explain how the code it generated works is like asking a child who just said their first curse word what it means. The model and child alike don't know or care, they just know how people react to it.
«With the examples of surveillance discussed above, we now know why contemporary Germans so highly value privacy and limits on state surveillance. They are reluctant to go back down that road again.»

Source: https://www.wondriumdaily.com/germanys-surveillance-system-i...
how would a social media presence help anyone in a job application?
Always a pleasure to read Norvig's Python posts. His Python fluency is excellent, but, more atypically, he provides such unfussy, attentive, and detailed explanations about why the better code is better.

Re-reading the README, he analogizes his approach so well:

> But if you think of programming like playing the piano—a craft that can take years to perfect—then I hope this collection can help.

If someone restructured this PyTudes repo into a course, it'd likely be best Python course available anywhere online.
You are mistaken. Hunter-gatherers, and even medieval farmers, worked less hours on average than we do today.
It's worth noting that Carhartt is currently hot as a fashion brand. Yes, really.
Welcome to my factory on a boat and also my remote controlled factory on a satellite.
> We don't want it. We don't want to "fix" our tax system -- we want low taxes and lots of deductions, and that is why we have them

You can have that without having to rely on third parties you pay for to get there. How exactly does a middleman help if the point is low taxes?

> We want cars. We want suburbs

Funnily that's in direction contradiction to your previous want. Suburbs and cars are much more expensive, therefore you have to pay more for them, either in taxes to pay for the useless infrastructure, or to pay for it directly.

> Also just remember that if we built a competent bureaucracy that enforced a nationwide ID system, it might be handed over to Donald Trump if he wins the next election, and he really could win

And how exactly would someone like Trump abuse an ID system?
For our kids the big problem was youtube.

Give them a game on their tablet and they are quickly collaborating on it. Give them a show and they will go see what the other person is watching. After not too long (an hour or two) they are completely done and doing something else.

But youtube is different. They can sit alone, in a corner, slack jawed, for 8 hours per day, only watching youtube, as they respond to all questions with only a vague grunt.
Crypto collapses taught me so much about media management and public perceptions.

When the rumors first broke out that 3AC was toast, no one believed it. Zhu Su was perceived as the smart, wise man of crypto. No way HE would be so reckless.

Then when FTX rumors broke out, no one believed it, again. He was on the cover of magazines, hanging out with Tom Brady, writing these thoughtful pieces about crypto, and was our torchbearer in Washington...

Ironically, the folks with the scammiest public reputation (Justin Sun, Tether folks, even CZ/Binance) are still standing.
It is good this project is failing.

Such a thing will never fly in the US. Both the left and right will rightfully or wrongfully oppose it for different reasons.

Edit: E.g. see the left opposing voter ids in the US.
I suppose it's how you define 'build'.

If I build an IKEA bookcase, do I time the build from when I throw the instructions away, or when my significant other decides to buy it between mouthfuls of meatballs?
Solovair. The original Dr Martens was actually made out of parts of Solovair shoes.

Btw, there are still a lot of manufacturers operating out of this region of Britain: Barker, Church's, Cheany, Edward Green...some of these are way too expensive, they are often handmade (and tbh, probably not worth it)...but there are options.
Without commenting on McCandless in particular, pretty much every mountaineering accident report as well points out things that, had they been done differently, would have led to a better outcome. This becomes less true as you know you're going to be pushing limits if you go to climb K2. But lack of preparation or just shouldn't have gone out that day are pretty common themes.
Britain’s empire of science
If you think the NIMBYism for renewables is bad, imagine trying to build a nuclear plant in your backyard. In fact, the majority of problems with nuclear being slow to build boil down to "the NIMBYs wont have it".

This is probably a place where nuclear and renewable advocates could come together and fight back against the NIMBYs who would rather you just built more coal plants next to the poors. Because NIMBYism is just lower-case c conservatism with extra steps.
Aerosmith's "You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died" seems apropos here
> Say something connected to reality.

Easy. I even gave links to show how modern web "standards" work. To quote myself: "Is this true for 100% of things that Chrome is shipping? No. But it's so asymptotically close that the difference doesn't matter. They ship 40 to 70 new web APIs in each version. That is, 40 to 70 new Web APIs every month. Over 500 new APIs a year. How many do you imagine they even pretend to be a standard?"

All this with response to literally what has been happening for the past several years: Chrome ships its own non-standards (even if it spits out a spec doesn't make it a standard), developers start using them, due to Chrome dominance its now a de facto standard.

To think otherwise is to be completely oblivious to what's happening in web standards.

Edit. As to "then someone writes a standard". This also happens. See Web HID timeline: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459#is... Same happened to WebRTC, by the way. Stable spec version was finally complete in 2018, 7 years after Chrome spat it out and called it a standard. And so on and so on.
> This is a unique form of privilege. Most people don’t have the choice to “disconnect”.

Not seeing it myself. Where's the not having the choice to disconnect? You just have a flip phone. People can still call and text you.
fantastic analogy, A+ if you came up with that
Turn off notifications, put it on do not disturb mode, whatever.

And many people do carry a pocket knife or multitool in their pocket all day.
I'm not criticizing your approach at all I'm just wondering how you get from

> The foundations of addiction rely on the mind creating cycles of dependence on a single activity due to a lack of finding the same dopamine rush in other known activities. So if they understand what is going on behind the scenes that actually results in the dopamine rush, they can find healthier alternatives.

to what you've come up with? How does creating your own video make them understand what is going on behind the scenes when watching a video and how that creates a dopamine rush? Absolutely, creating your own videos is much more satisfying but I don't see how that relates to better understanding when watching a Tiktok feed.
Did you move your spending elsewhere? If not then their math worked correctly.

I think we need to be principled when dealing with companies. This is the only way to make them behave as they should.
> Yeah it's basically impossible to max out 401k contributions unless you're rich or at least nibbling at the bottom edge of rich.

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...: ‘The limit on employee elective deferrals (for traditional and safe harbor plans) is: $22,500 in 2023 ($20,500 in 2022, $19,500 in 2021 and 2020; and $19,000 in 2019).’

The median wage in the U.S. is under $55,000; anyone making $80,000 or more can max out his 401(k) contributions and still live an above-median lifestyle.
It just seems like a bit of an exaggeration. If they weren’t using the internet or phones in any sense I might understand, but not having social media or 24/7 access to it does not seem like an absolute prerequisite or something only “privileged people” could get away with.
Carhartt isn't unsusual at all, it's trendy and has been adopted as streetwear.

And I think you're overthinking the performative aspect, it's bog standard teenage behavior that diminishes over time but persists forever. Every branded piece of apparel, every vanity plate, all interior decorating are in the same performative vein.
That does not mean the second best time is to start now though! The second best time to start could be never, assuming that renewables and storage will become significantly cheaper and more efficient in the next decades, which does not seem unlikely.
Developed for a single use case: encrypting files/folders before uploading them to a cloud storage.

Uses scrypt password-based key derivation function and XSalsa20 cipher.
No you are right. All the fish were in there (and most now dead :(), this is a hotels lobby that maybe was a few degrees colder than previous winters, but still comfortable - and the fishes also need their temperature.

Except

> I guess its cylindrical shape is dependent on it being full of water

no, or how do you mean that?
The solution to this problem is actively parenting your kids. Take them on hikes, start a hobby with them, bond, etc. Letting the internet babysit your kids is the precursor to internet addiction. If you put in the work, then you won't have to worry.
We merged that thread hither, but I think I got it backwards - that one was the earlier submission and also has the more substantive article. So I'm going to reverse this.
The moving of the goalposts aside (which were originally "order in or starve"), Target and Walmart are two major examples, since you specifically mentioned “discount”, and all of the major grocery stores in my metro area (Chicago, so YMMV) have a curbside pickup option.

Some of them charge a service fee for pickups under $35, but from what I recall, the bigger chains do not. And with prices these days, you'd be hard pressed to do a grocery run that costs less than $35 unless you need a single item, but if you only need a single item, this is no longer a conversation about starving.

As for free delivery, I believe some of them offer free delivery for orders over a certain size, but I was focused specifically on non-delivery options.

Bottom line: there are many more options than “go in the store or starve”.
The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all.

The surprising thing is that it can make code that works - however, given that code can be tested in ways that "art" and "text" cannot (yet), perhaps it's not that strange.
From the website:

> With IRMA it is easy to log in and make yourself known, by disclosing only relevant attributes of yourself. For instance, in order to watch a certain movie online, you prove that you are older than 16, and nothing else.

That’s not “cool stuff”.
I would suggest a lack of social media presence is better when applying for jobs than having a potentially problematic social media presence. I have long considered giving my potential future children "unsearchable names" so if anyone puts "jack smith" into Google they are unable to get any accurate hits by which to judge them on.
I read this as a very well written feature request to the AlphaCode engineers (or anybody working on this problem).

I really like Peter's writing style. It's fairly clear, and understating, while also making it quite clear there are areas for improvement in reach. For those who haven't read it, Peter also wrote this gem: https://norvig.com/chomsky.html which is an earlier comment about natural language processing, and https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... which is a play on Wigner's "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".
Hmmm... Applying for a job with no social media should be easy, just send a CV to email. However finding a job without using social media is harder.
Minimum Viable Structure