skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Ajinomoto became a serious player in the semiconductor industry
If covid is gone, how can there be an outbreak? If covid is not gone, why did people act as if it were the last year or two? Or is it just China?
I always thought it was interesting how the opt-in masks had also become integrated with street fashion over there too. Or, you can really make the right one work with an outfit’s palette.
Can you share any of the science you’ve come across that you find compelling based on sample size, effect side, etc? I’d love to know dosages.
Yes. Then we can sell the data to advertisers and the porn industry and make billions!
Some people (lots of people) really are just bullshit artists, and it's a waste of time to consult with them personally when their thoughts are already out there, in the form of a published book.
Without a blocker, I see 10 separate ads.
> maybe ChatGPT can generate a list of characters for each "chunk" of text and then automatically inject that into the "last" batch of text

Funny enough, that’s the automated version of what I do! Every X prompts, I ask ChatGPT:

List the cast of this story and their goals

I’ve found this really helps extend the shelf life of our thread :)
Both Barnes and Noble and Waterstones are owned by the same hedge fund (Elliot Management).

Looks like the hedge fund installed the new ceo when they purchased Barnes and Noble.

That hedge fund is probably filled with MBAs.
I shop at Barnes and Noble a lot, and I even subscribe to their membership program (for an annual fee I get 10% off purchases in-store and free shipping online). i dislike the way physical books take up so much space in my apartment but at the same time I can't in good faith buy e-books when they're covered in draconian DRM. I also can't get over the incident from the early 10s when Amazon deleted 1984 off of their customers' kindles.

My apartment is running out of space for all these books, and maybe the solution to this is that I need to borrow from the library more often instead of buying my own books. I really wish I could have an e-reader, but again, I don't want to spend money on things that will lock me into a single vendor indefinitely and might just arbitrarily go away.

I learned my lesson in the early-00s when online music purchases were DRM'd and I lost a lot of my collection due to Yahoo music shutting down. I also remember one of the problems being that purchases made in one store would not be compatible with a competitor's MP3 player, which locked you into a single vendor. Couldn't switch to iPod because it didn't work with the DRM that was designed for my Dell DJ (which was a POS that broke all the time but I had to stick with it because of my existing music collection).

I'd hate to have that same problem but with books instead of music.
People used to rewriting history will not tolerate losing that, Fossil will not go mainstream.
The Full Story of the RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told (2021)
Did you notice ? 80% of this article - including the illustration was made by an AI.
> FTX was mostly wash trades

Mate, I have some bad news for you about literally the entire crypto ecosystem.

Also, this does not address my question at all. If your theory is that SBF was going to blow the lid off this whole setup at the House testimony, and so he was arrested before it could take place, that does not explain why he hasn’t simply blabbed on Twitter, or when he was texting Kelsey Piper, or at any of the hundreds of other opportunities to do so.
https://media.londoncityairport.com/airport-plays-brian-eno-...
#1 and #2 feel like a contradiction. Does the individual have the same opinion too often? Lots of distinct opinions suggests (some) breadth.
Why Solana was decimated by FTX's downfall? Because in a silly, Scooby-Doo villain fashion, they were literally the same people more often than not.

Personal anecdote: I was supposed to get in a call with a few people on the Solana team -- received a calendar invite with a name@ftx.com address, which was then amended to a name@solana.com address. Make of that what you may.
To paraphrase Arthur C Clarke, any sufficiently advanced alien species is indistinguishable from God. And in that spirit, Merry Christmas...
thats pretty cool, its like ChatGPT is a REPL for GPT
works for some, but not for others. need a bag of tricks
Even in Eastern Europe, from my observations, budget airlines are almost always cheaper than sleeper trains. Still, I sometimes choose sleeper, no security, and you can arrive at the station literally at the moment trains pulls in, and not a second earlier.
Not here. Safari on iOS 16
> "Columbus bad" isn't really a "thesis", it's a fact.

Bad compared to who? Whatever faults you'd lay at his feet were not only de rigueur for both Europeans and Muslims of his time, but exceeded in many dimensions of savagery by the indigenous cultures he encountered. At any rate, disease and lack of immunity was far and away the agent of the demise of the natives, not Columbus or those who followed him over the centuries.

> Have you read 1491 and 1493. I have, and they are a couple of the most eye-opening books I have read.

Have you read Rousseau? The man never met a native American, and what accounts he read of their lives were certainly exaggerations, if not fabrications. In his own life, he was notoriously irresponsible. He fathered and abandoned for the orphanage -- a death sentence in those days -- five children. He was habitually leeching off friends and nobles who were susceptible to his charms, until he exhausted their patience and good will, including by e.g. seducing their wives at times.

In short, he was a scoundrel, and he saw in the the story of the natives something which he desperately wanted for himself, but which wasn't there: the possibility of a life free from societal constraint, obligations to be decent, to use one's life productively, to be responsible for others, to live morally. The man confabulated for the natives a lifestyle free of the bonds under which he chafed in France -- and we have been laboring under his romantic "noble savage" delusion ever since.

I mention all this to say, anyone who would read about the lives of natives would do well to read a little Rousseau, then read a little about the man, and mentally subtract his influence which is virtually omnipresent in all subsequent popular thought about natives.

TLDR; nobody wants to consider that the colonel may have been the good guy in Avatar, and Sully a delusional loner.
> what else would you call my particular lfl

'unregistered lfl' it has the spirit and purpose of an lfl, but just isn't registered.

Nothing against the LFL organization, we set up an LFL for our neighborhood and did register it. They even sent us a bumper sticker. But there are also lots of unregistered ones around town as well, free exchange of books is the point so it all good.
Awareness. You need to start keeping a log of the events preceding an episode. Give no regard to the scientific method or anything, just start writing them down. Once you have a solid collection (however many that is to you) then start re-reading them and look for common threads. The hardest part of this is being brutally honest with yourself.

Also, as another commenter said, professional help is gold. If you have access to it. If you don't, then you should explore ways to get such access. I dealt with debilitating depression in the past, and ended up getting care from government-run facilities. They were excellent.
Japan is still and independent country full of Japanese people, who held their own against Western militaries within decades of opening. That's a very different from the apocalyptic collapse followed by replacement of the New World.

Of course, there's a huge difference between the two: Japan always had some contact with the Old World, and with Old World diseases in particular. America would probably have faced the same wave of disease, even if discovery had happened much later.
Companies lie to their prospective employees all the time. About how much runway they have, about the work that you'll be doing, about what it is like to work there.
The other carriers made it through this high volume period. Do they have better programmers?
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Why doesn't Google Maps (or Waze) offer 3 choices:

1. Fastest route

2. Shortest route

3. Safest route <-- this is the big one

The insurance companies would love it, and I'd love it. The data is out there... I've been asking this for over 10 years.
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Oh hey, this is my project! Great to see it show up here. This post is a bit old. I’m currently working on two big video updates (and associated blog posts), but there is a newer update from March of this year here:

https://community.twistedfields.com/t/march-2022-update-simu...

A common question is “okay but what does it do?”

The answer is that right now it doesn’t do any farming. To do farming we need to develop tools. Tools are highly specific to the farming process used, and our machine is unlike a tractor or a human hand as it has less power than a tractor, more power than a human, and doesn’t get bored or require any marginal input costs like human labor does. This means existing tools aren’t exactly right and it’s going to take a bit of work to get that sorted.

Because tools are such a complex part of the system, our plan is to finalize and release our autonomous rover without any tools to early adopters, and then work with the community to experiment and design tools together. Remember that this is an open source research project and we encourage and will assist anyone in going in to production on their own machines, so early adopters designing tools will ensure they have a complete system they can manufacture that works for their farming context.

The end goal is a system which can help in every step of the farming process in a regenerative organic farming system. This includes clearing the rows of any cover crop, planting seeds and starts, thinning seedlings and pulling weeds, dealing with pests, harvesting, and resetting for a new rotation.

It’s a lot of work as I’m doing most of the design, engineering, and fabrication work myself as well as all video production and blog work, but as I’ve mentioned I’m finalizing two new videos and one of the new videos is a new easier to produce format. I got a little too in to fancy video production with four locations and multiple angles on one of the videos and realized I need to dial it back and produce simpler more frequent videos.

You’re welcome to follow me on mastodon where I post photos of some of the latest work, as well as personal stuff. Here’s a picture of the brand new vehicle we have developed that is our production intent system, as well as new electronics which have just finished production and are in transit to us now. Thanks so much for taking a look!

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/109570577090460530

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/109488692996964147
What I'm really talking about when I'm talking about the threat of extended unemployment is the threat of losing socioeconomic class. So much depends on class: where you live, what you eat, where you worship if anywhere, where your kids go to school, who your friends are. Almost everything. It's very difficult to diversify your social and professional network outside of your class.

In most cases switching from one tech job to another will keep you in the same middle-to-upper-middle class even if you have to take a relatively large pay cut. You can even lose your job without something else lined up and it's not a big problem as long as you're confident you'll find something similar soon.

All of that is at risk with extended unemployment or being forced to indefinitely work for lower pay in a different field. Consider all the life changes someone might have to make if they have to change from being a software developer making $150k to being a rideshare driver making $40k, after six months, a year, or five years. I don't know about buggy-whip makers but probably they'd be okay with losing their jobs if they were guaranteed equal work in the new car factories. What they really dreaded was having to work for less pay in the new factories, or becoming day laborers or similar. This is what motivated the original Luddites.
In their defense, gdb is a pain in the ass to use if your editor doesn't come with integrated support. The debugger that comes with CLion/Visual Studio is perfectly adequate. Ada is useful for automotive. Lisp and Forth, not so much (especially since Lisp isn't usually used in hard real-time applications). This isn't the 1980s, MCUs aren't that memory constrained. Knowledge of obscure programming languages doesn't necessarily make you a better software engineer. I want my
automotive embedded engineer to have a solid grasp of computer architecture, real-time safety protocols, and defensive programming. I don't see a problem with a Korean/Japanese car manufacturer having their documentation in a non-English language. As long as they do everything in-house and don't outsource to India like Boeing I have no problem with it.
Once I've got some neat stuff, how do I find someone to pay me money to work with these technologies?
It is a good project though...A very elegant account model, Rust in action, engineering practices that make sense for becoming the fastest chain in the market...And then, SBF showed up and shit hit the fan.
That's exactly the sort of exchange that I had in mind. Likewise for work at a previous company, your current salary, whether or not you plan to have kids and so on. Depending on where you live some of those may be illegal but still, you need that job...
Most of them are pretty thick so they can be used to line the walls of bunkers for extra bullet proofing.
The first is why Southwest (and others) only fly one type of plane.
They probably had that kind of wiggle room once upon a time. Then some sort of pandemic turned everything to just enough planes and skeleton crews.
There are ways to ask those without being illegal and these are employed quite frequently. Essentially any kind of probing into someone's private life should be off-limits.
I strip the DRM off of books the moment I buy them. Check that this is possible for you too, and you'll end up with a collection of DRM-free epub files that you can back up as you like.
It’s a good question and I incorporated my answer in to a top level comment here. Short answer: it’s a new type of vehicle so existing tools aren’t exactly right. We’re going to release the first vehicle to early adopters with no tools and then work with the community to design appropriate tools for it. This is important because every farm is different and so many people will have good ideas. We don’t want to gatekeep the design while we work on tools.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34167102

I will say that while it doesn’t do farming yet, that is the point of the system. And currently it autonomously controls 8 motors to follow precision GPS paths based on data from a central server and database system with a web page for control. It’s definitely a robot with some degree of precision!
I think I've seen this guy appear on at least a half dozen shows and podcasts including Lex, Tim Ferris, Sam Harris, Fresh Air, TED Radio, Hidden Brain... seems like 5 years or so ago he was everywhere. This site lists 67 appearances: https://www.owltail.com/people/Uw4Ky-matthew-walker/appearan...

In general the media has very low science literacy and loves someone credentialed, self-assured, and with an erudite accent and story to tell that can easily fill airtime.

Acknowledging that junk science has managed to platform itself on some of the podcasts you mentioned, for myself I'd say that the long-form format at least allows for a greater possibility that the b.s. will out itself over 1.5-2 hours, versus a show like TED Radio Hour that is happy to bundle up a few nice sounding stories into something they can slip a Blackrock ad into.
Yep, my guess is that the key point of failure tipping the system into a runaway cascade was increased latency in ingesting status reports on location/availability of crew. There probably exists an unknown "delay time threshold" in which to process and act on changing status updates. And once the average status update time exceeds that latency it just snowballs because the internal model the system is solving for is sufficiently out of sync with the real world that its "forward fixes" are causing new future failures approaching a 1:1 rate so the system can never catch up.
Something I took away from this is they don't discount books, they don't compete on price.

And that makes sense, anyone looking for a good price is going online, if you are in the store you are not price sensitive. And of course this means B&N is much more profitable than they would be otherwise.

Lowes is doing this too - their prices for plumbing products are insane - $12 for something that goes for $2 online, but they are betting that anyone buying in the store needs it NOW and will pay anything.
Archived: https://archive.vn/qIalq
Happy it worked out for you. I had a similar experience only my wife had just gotten pregnant with my second child.

That game me urgency like crazy and with a bit of luck I found my dream job in 3 months.

I agree with everything you've mentioned but the biggest +1 for me is that it's lonely. I'd add that all job searches are lonely in my experience.
If you need to keep things running and to make changes while doing the rewrite, then you might not have any other option than the Strangler Pattern.
C-t swaps adjacent characters
C-b/f move backward/forward a character
C-p/n move up/down a line
C-k kills (cuts) to the end of the line
C-y yanks (pastes) what was killed (but does not use the same clipboard as Cmd-c)
C-h deletes backwards one character
C-d deletes forward one character

Probably more, but that about covers the ones I use.
So common it has a name: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+strangler+pattern
The book's author was on Lex's podcast.
Every time I read this blog, I imagine that every popular author out in the world has one person on the internet who despises that author so much, they maintain a fact checked list and correspondence timeline as if it’s some way to discredit the author. Meanwhile the author gets even more famous and helps many get better sleep even if part of their magnum opus contains errors.
maybe openfaas then?
It feels like Notion AI is just building on top of OpenAI's GPT.

It makes me wonder: is their value created by GPT front ends like Notion AI and Jasper?

ChatGPT seems like a superior and more flexible front end. I wouldn't want to pay for Notion AI or Jasper post-ChatGPT.
Zapatos is a good example. https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
I’m always skeptical of turnaround stories that claim to be all about the love of the product or whatever. I’m sure that works sometimes - Apple in the aughts obviously - but realistically running a public company is a more hard nosed endeavor.
https://archive.vn/vExxs
I wonder if GPT-3 is really outputting the real source prompt or just something that looks to the author of the article like the source prompt. With the brain storming example it only produced the first part of the prompt at first. It would be interesting for someone to make a GPT-3 bot and then try to get it to print its source prompt.
> clearly that wasn't so: they were just making things up as they went along.

Where did you get your information? I have experience in the industry and scheduling logistics is clearly not how you describe it. The issue is that to optimize for profit you sacrifice the ability to maintain service through catastrophic events and can end up in a bit of a dominoes situation.
I'm working on opening a book store: online only, print books only (no eBooks), highly opinionated and curated inventory, mostly books published before 1980 (with exceptions), no current bestsellers, doubling down on store design (mostly text with cover images hidden by default), speed and ease of use, how recommendations (not reviews) are displayed, etc.

The catalog is still coming together, but "serious programming books" is a key offering.
It stutters for me when I have the tab in focus. What I switch to another tab the stuttering goes away. I guess it's the animations that are bogging down my Intel MBA.
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith), and its follow-up The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Landis).

Having been written in 1778 it still stands prominent with regard to its descriptions of how markets work, and the importance of the division of labor.

The latter book, also describes common pitfalls, often unknown to those living in the northern hemispheres with regard to Civilization development in tropical regions, and why Africa and Latin America are not more developed, and by extension what we can expect as climate change drives those tropical climates north.
Pour one out for Powell's technical bookstore in Portland. I was sad when it closed in 2010.
I do algo trading and you wouldn't believe the number of people that show up with ChatGPT generated code, asking if it will "work."

The answer is always "no."

I love ChatGPT but I didn't realize how many people _don't_ realize it's strengths and weaknesses. It's been amazing for generating boilerplate and small functions (you _do_ have to double check these as they can be confidently incorrect) but I still find it fits well into the workflow.

But yea... I am really at a loss as to why and where these people come from. They don't seem terribly proficient in programming/computing because they don't seem to even realize the output is BS for the context. Could it be kids/young adults?
I’m not sure I understand how you differentiate these in terms of how they can be addictive and negative for your life in unreasonable amounts. For example, RSS used to be the worst for me personally. I was severely addicted to my feed.
This is cool. I've been using it mostly to explain APIs to me when I'm too lazy to dig through docs. This works surprisingly well, even for some relatively obscure APIs like Libre/OpenOffice's "UNO" API.

I think a really interesting use case for this would be to have it read through a long standards document and produce a compliant implementation, and maybe point out flaws/omissions. Maybe implement a full web browser from scratch? Or something less intense like a GLTF reader/writer? Or something ludicrous like a brainfuck implementation of Office Open XML, which has like ~7000 pages of specs.
> Since women were excluded from the scientific establishment, unable to attend universities or present at learned societies, her research traveled into the world by proxy.

> By the end of her long life, Jeanne Villepreux-Power belonged to more than a dozen scientific societies.

The exclusion doesn't seem to have been very strict.
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> That’s something like 1200 miles (2000km)

On the other hand, a high speed train can do 200 mph (320 km/h) in actual operation. That would be a six hour train ride. A plane is faster, but once you add all the airport overhead, the train might actually be competitive.
Great points.

Books or music as a service, when you think you've bought them, is terrible.