skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Probably all the way to being sworn in, at which point someone has to appear in person. People have occasionally been elected despite being dead, so it's not impossible)

Unless the people doing the swearing in are also fake.
The thing I find shocking is how many US homes I've been in that have a gas stove AND "fake" oven hood (essentially it filters and recirculate, instead of venting outside, which does little to nothing for gas fumes).

If they decide against outright banning them, there must be a push during inspection to associate a gas stove with a real oven hood, and ideally some consumer education that: "Gas on, vent fan running" or similar.

If a gas stove was invented today, if you compare it to regulation for other gas appliances (specifically how the fumes are vented), it would almost certainly have an interlock wherein a hood turns itself on to auto-vent outside.
Maybe I was too young, I definitely remember the hype, but people around me were just buying the Furby for store prices, I think it was 120 Dutch guilders. I remember the commercials on TV and wanting one, but couldn't justify it to my mom :P Maybe by the time they started selling in The Netherlands the hype had already died down enough that they had enough in stock?
I'm not sure Germany is famous for its good weather nor good food, but I've only visited a couple of times, never lived there, maybe I missed out on something obvious?
All those areas beyond 1 month travel? No longer a part of the empire. They kicked off the American revolution and the Indian independence movement.

So yes, it's possible to create an empire beyond a month travel. But I maintain that no one has held onto one, which is the point the author was making I believe.
“Afeela” is a great brand name for companies in the Sybian space. Reminiscent of “a fella”, but all feel, no fella. “Katana” would be miles better for a car.
Check out https://microstudio.dev/fr/

>microStudio is a free game engine online.

>Create games, learn programming, play, share, prototype and jam!
> I have seen zero thought pieces on how AI is amazing and hyped.

You didn't see this one? There are many more, but I remembered this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086462
You can look in this thread for legitimate non-deceptive uses. Voice synthesis for people with degenerative diseases like ALS, for example.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309432
Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
Maintaining / improving Spanish also on my list. You might check out the Spanish Obsessed podcast (free), which I've enjoyed as a low effort way to increase exposure on drives.
Yikes.

I think a remake of the movie "Gas Light" using these kinds of AI technologies needs to happen as a sort of social commentary on where this is going.
Honestly, I wish I could side with books for this for non-fiction (I'm old school), but often I find that much of it is filler. E.g. Wim Hof's book - as much as I love the WHM, it really could have been done in a chapter or two. The rest was just rehashing the same concepts again and again. That said, I have a real soft spot for College text-books. The newer ones are often beautifully written.
An intern with a side hustle? Not a problem fundamentally.

An employee with responsibilities split with some other business concern during the hours they're expected to be working? That is an issue at any level.

Again, this isn't about the criticality of the task - or its importance. It is about who is paying them for the work that they are doing now.
And in many cases below 18 years as nobody seriously have to do moderator tasks.
That's just crazy. What other large cat has more than one name in English? This one has... 5?!
Sure it'll become cheaper, but it still would be more expensive than a gas range. A gas stove is very simple. Furthermore the use of gas heating per the study are in the coldest places - the same places that are using fossil fuels to heat anyway, even with new construction.

This is not to say that we shouldn't move towards induction and heat pumps, but doing this under the guise of safety is disingenuous. The real issue is improper cooking procedure.

If the government wants to encourage emission free heating and cooking they should simply offer rebates, which some counties are beginning to do.
It's neither effective currency, nor effective store of value.
I imagine they say something like, "I couldn't see or here you. Did you see me?" through the other channel, and because modern tech messes up enough, it'll be believable to a lot of people. Especially the most gullible.
Sometimes I’m amazed that gas stoves aren’t regulated for fire safety much more heavily:

Gas stoves quickly ignite any kindling near the flame. Electric (radiant) stoves can ignore things but it’s slower and there’s more shouldering first. It’s hard to start a fire with induction, especially temperature controlled induction, although the latter is not widely deployed.

A child or careless adult can easily turn a stove on by accident. A gas stove left on is an extreme hazard. An electric stove left on is a mild hazard. An induction stove left on is only a hazard at all if there’s cookware on it, and it’s the safest of the three.

A gas stove that’s on but not burning will release explosive gas. I’ve never seen one with a credible safety feature to prevent an explosion.

Not to mention:

Gas stoves are incredibly inefficient. Electric is pretty inefficient too. Induction is highly effective.

And gas stoves apparently pollute quite badly. Sure, a good vent will mitigate it, but then you need makeup air to avoid other issues, and you still lose conditioned air.
Money and intention I think. There’s plenty of money, but it must be paired with the intention to use it in such a way. This is what is rare.
In the US where stealing a SSN is enough to impersonate someone I doubt the government would provide anything to mitigate these
ChatGPT is pretty good at coding. I have been using its LaTeX capabilities, where bugs don’t matter.
François Chollet already have a response[1] for you in his thread:

> One last thought -- don't overindex on the web3 <> LLMs comparison. Of course web3 was pure hot air while LLMs is real tech with actual applications -- that's not the parallel I'm making. The parallel is in the bubble formation social dynamics, especially in the VC crowd.

[1]: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/fchollet/status/1612178630494...
Have you seen a terrain park at a ski hill?
I'm not off non-fiction entirely but I do agree with one variation: I don't read non-fiction books that are written as prescriptive "do this to succeed" business advice. Nothing turns me off more quickly. Those books are right up there with top-X lists or "do this to succeed" twitter threads.
I have a PV inverter which doesn't work if there's more than one AP with the same SSID and is 2.4GHz only... ended up buying an el-cheapo AP and giving it a unique name. PITA
I think a lot of this is from 1491:

https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu...

It's been a while since I read it but IIRC, the theory is that some of the pigs the Spanish brought with them got loose and went wild, but brought the flu with them. As wild boar spread so did the disease.
I run a crawler and I dunno if I agree with this description.

Usually anti-bot measures are in place for a reason, either to protect some paywalled content from scraping, or to prevent bots from getting at forms and causing a mess.

Few webmasters have cloudflare (or similar) anti-bot measures turned up higher than it needs to be (because it 100% will annoy people), and content that isn't a high-value target for blackhat bot activity is rarely difficult to crawl.
Once perfected, I can imagine there are many legitimate use cases for it. Like an author using their voice to narrate their audiobook without having to spend time in a recording studio, or Hollywood using it instead of dubbing sessions for re-recording muffed lines. It'd also be interesting if this could be used for foreign language dubbing - imagine if it can use the voice profile of an actor to convert subtitle text files into foreign audio language tracks in in the same tone of the actor.
Why parquet files are my preferred API for bulk open data
> Didn't this sentiment come with hypertext? If books had clickable links we'd have a difficult time finishing them.

Absolutely!

I think that the hyper-twitch consumption model has become so ubiquitous that some people have forgotten how to slow down, though.

I prefer the slow model, personally, but I was born before the internet went big.
Induction has already taken over the low budget range. There is no reason to have a gas stove anymore other than inertia and ignorance to the health risks.
> companies essentially battle trading bots against each other

Bot A is trading against Bot B.

> surely they are making the traders money though

It is not possible in a trading battle, exclusively between two parties for them to both make money.
I started writing a real blog.
My mindset is notes to myself. A place to collect my own writings and thoughts that I myself would like to refer back to that I also don’t mind sharing. It is almost entirely for myself, but I might as well make what I can public, maybe someone finds it interesting.
Making Sorbet More Incremental
You can spawn a (priv) container with the host PID namespace and then trace from there.
This made me chuckle abit, not that you are wrong i dont know. But it reminds me of how my parents generation understood the internet, full of scams and grifters :)
I'm not sure about that, if I recall they used 3ds max everywhere at least for Diablo 2.
It's just a reflection on how Apple's security can't be trusted, regardless of the possible vector. Big companies like Apple need vulnerabilities for deniable intelligence and national security access, but anybody can find and use these to achieve a breach.
"My ID got stolen with my phone..."

It'd be better to ask something personal. "What did we do to Christmas/Birthday/[other event] last year? Who was with us?"
Find another. It would not change anything.
The difference is that nukes and - in most countries - guns are harder to find. Regulation is easier when you have more centralised distribution channels. Code is infinitely replicable at marginal cost, and so highly accessible once it's open source.

While I agree with you that the net effect of such technology will be negative, there's no way regulation can keep up.
Can't update the post now, but I've actually got it down to 713 bytes, which I'm pretty happy with! I could remove features/colors/styles at this point, but I think I'll leave it there for now.

If anyone's interested, I've tried to annotate a fair amount of the tricks I've used so far: https://github.com/lukebatchelor/url-snake/blob/main/golf/de...

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I think they are just reusing technologies commonly used in China on TikTok website so they don't write it twice. In China many frontend developers write code for WeChat mini program. WeChat mini program is just a typical HTML website with extra APIs and the restriction that code has to be uploaded for review before they are deployed, and `eval` (and anything else that allows executing string as script directly) is disallowed in order to prevent sneaking code past review. Many developers developed their own JavaScript VM and interpreter to bypass that restriction, and that same code happens to be reused on all HTML based platforms even outside WeChat.
Considering a given person's voice would sound different if they were brought up speaking a different language, yet all the speakers of that language have distinct voices, I'd say it's a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Lindy" filter is instructive here. Age is a pretty good filter, so it's just overwhelmingly likely that an old book that's stuck around is going to be better than something newer.

This is why I say right now books are across the board a better idea than blogposts or videos, but I'm not 100% certain that can't change? Some kind of Wikipedia esque filter could perhaps accelerate this?
> it's all a part of career progression regardless of where you work at

Very much not true. It might be where _you_ work, but it's not universal, and decreasing as time goes by.
I think the "wherever possible" is implied. Where does this kind of cheap-shot snark end? Shall we next post the We Should Improve Society Somewhat comic?

...besides, maybe they're posting from one of those Raspberry Pi Model Bs that were fabbed in the UK.
I disagree that this has no legitimate uses. This could be a phenomenal prosthesis for people who have lost their ability to speak. For example, many ALS patients.
Induction is very cool but what sucks is touch flat buttons on the top surface of most induction stove top that either trigger when you spill something or don't trigger when your fingers are wet. Why can't we just keep the knobs that worked for decades and combine that with the new tech?

This is what prevents the "average person" from going with something new when they are in the market for a replacement.
There are crappy books, and there are excellent books. I find that business and self-books in particular match your description, and sometimes popular science books. But not well-regarded histories and biographies.
The owner could at least have put a helpful link to gmail.com at the top.

Would have saved millions of minor frustrations for millions of people.

Or, since they seem not to be using the root of the domain for anything but a smug FAQ, just an HTTP 302 redirect.
Two podcasts that I like, and pay monthly for both (more econ/macro/geopolitics-focused):

The first does a lot of research for every episode, and the second has ~30 years of knowledge about markets, trading, and goes into such depth in his episodes that it's hard to find equivalent level information elsewhere.

I also subscribed to Real Vision at some point, but I find that I simply don't have enough time to utilize all of the resources on there. One episode per week for each of the podcasts below is manageable though - to keep yourself up to date.

https://hiddenforces.io/

https://www.grant-williams.com/grant-williams-podcast/
Heh, don’t get me started. I personally rarely used ^Z, I simply banged out.

However shelling out was intrinsic to my workflow. We didn’t have screen or any of the other common multi session terminal programs at the time.

One day I decided to log out. I rarely logged out. If anything I was kicked off by a system restart.

So to log out I started closing sessions. Turns out I was at least 30 deep. Some files were being edited more than once, I even had shells within shells (which typically did to play ENV shenanigans).
You'd want a vent cooking on any of those ranges.
People overestimate what's possible short-term and under-estimate what's possible long term.

Current AI models have three main limitations:

- rapid skill acquisition. Example: someone invents a new programming language. Something like Elm or Rust. Humans can start using it right after reading a "quick start" page and few tutorials from the authors of the new language. How much training data will GPT-style models need to start using that language? A lot, like output of hundreds or thousands of people. This needs to go down by a factor of 10x to 100x to match humans.

- agency, or taking actions guided towards a goal. Example: Can you ask GPT-like model to book a flight ticket for you? Help it help you learning Photoshop? New IDE? Test your latest app or indie game and find bugs? No. The ability of current models is still not good enough to be useful to an average person with regard to interacting with outside world.

- acting in the physical world. Example: An average human can learn to drive enough to pass a driving test in the order of 100 hours during a driving course. How far away are we from a system that can control humanoid-style robot to learn to drive in the order of 100h? Currently, we can't do it with billions of dollars with specially designed hardware. Using humanoid robot to control a car is not even useful as a benchmark for the state of the art machine learning systems.

IMO the currently existing systems like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion are worth all put together in the range of $10B to $100B in the next 3-5 years.

Future systems that will address all 3 limitations mentioned above may be literally the whole reachable universe changing if we decide to build self-replicating space probes (Von Neumann probes). We know that there are physical systems that are not very intelligent but capable of exponential growth like viruses or bacteria (humans too).

The main limitation of biological systems is their adaptability, especially to lack of water. If robots can build other robots avoiding bottlenecks of human intellectual and manual labor then the robots are limited only by resources and energy available. We have plenty of both on Earth and Solar system is full of it.

Also, I'm just talking about human-like abilities. All of that is possible without involving concepts like superintelligence. Bacteria are not very smart, but they can multiply exponentially.

The spread of possibilities is enormous.

All of that hinges on your timelines on the 3 above mentioned limitations. It's like predicting when atomic bomb will be possible. It may not happen for decades, or there may be right this very moment someone with an idea that will make it all possible.
> Are we slowly losing a joy of reading blog post because there are so many?

Interesting perspective. My experience so far is that I've come across very few blog posts, at least good-quality ones. I do agree that it's hard to find the good ones tho.

I also have this feeling that books are becoming stronger somehow. I'm big fan of books in general and I tend to read them cover-to-cover as they work best for me compared to video courses and other mediums.
I personally value Out Of Box Experience, and so, my personalization is more like installing software, instead of tweaking them. So I back up my /home, and on a new system, I just look at the backup, if I need settings for a program.
> There are no legitimate uses for this technology.

What about this: You have a voice actor whose voice is part of a company's brand (maybe for an animated mascot). You can now also use that voice for dynamic text, for example audio books or for a voice assistant.
> On the other hand, maybe those rough-and-tumble recreation areas of yesteryear served as an early life lesson that the world was a harsh and unforgiving place.

If that's the best argument in favor, I'll stick with the current playgrounds. Kids got seriously injured when I was growing up. One of them broke his leg. At least one broke an arm. Smaller injuries like getting scraped up and having bruises were very common. I don't think the cost-benefit analysis worked out in favor of dangerous playgrounds. Most of the arguments in favor apply equally well to having kids jump out of moving vehicles.
That's the opposite of what would happen. Competition pushes down prices. If gas is eliminated it reduces competition, pushing up demand and prices for induction.
Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use
1: Read "The Mythical Man Month," because it describes exactly how to structure a department around people like you. Basically, you're the lead but it's someone else who does the people management. In your case, your higher ups probably aren't familiar with this kind of arrangement and it's on you to educate them. (So you can bring sanity back to your job.)

2: Say very frankly to your superior (CEO, founder, whatever): "I don't want to be a manager." Then, discuss what a manager would do, and how it would reduce your load. (Remember, this is described in "The Mythical Man Month.")

But, if this falls on deaf ears, start interviewing. You don't need to take another job; the point is to signal that you're willing to leave in order to be happy. If you get a counter-offer, you need to be very clear about what must change immediately in order for you to stay. (It doesn't have to be money, BTW.)

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In my case, I was almost pushed covertly into management. I was assigned management tasks without being a manager in title. When I said to my boss, "I don't want to be a manager," the response was that I wasn't, but that I was going to do a bunch of things that sounded like management. I just refused to do the management tasks and went and looked at job openings.

A few days later, after I walked out of an interview, I had a panicked voice mail from my boss. The next day it became clear that the head of the department told him that I was probably going to leave if I was forced into management. Things were fixed overnight.

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Edit: You don't need to take a paycut, nor should you offer to take a paycut, nor should you accept a paycut. You're proven indispensable, and if your company is uptight about specific titles having specific pay, then you should leave.
>Are we slowly losing a joy of reading blog post because there are so many?

Also because they are so shallow...
> My point is that the public discourse is now mostly dominated by people looking to profit from hype

Precisely, and they will do untold damage when it comes to educating normal people about what AI can and cannot do.
I personally am switching from a propane range to a induction cooktop as we speak, but saying induction is cheap to retro fit is definitely a stretch.

My scenario is an unfinished basement below the kitchen and a really short electrical run.

Materials:

Induction Cooktop $900 (We are switching from a range to a cooktop, the cheapest induction range I know of is around $1100)

25ft 8/3 Romex wire: $153

So over 1k just in materials. I plan on wiring everything myself but if someone is not able to do that probably add another $500 for an electrician to do it. Finally that cost can balloon quickly depending on how accessible the install is and the distance.
...and the more we try to legislate away any possible source of danger we might encounter in our day-to-day lives, the less prepared we will be for places where nature is left to fend for itself.
Everyone needs a little punk in their life, and this is punk. "I ain't gonna be part of this system. Maaaaaaannn."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ
I think you're misreading the situation with AI. It's already doing extremely useful things, and will continue to pop up all over the place, I expect.

* I already talk to my phone to type more than I actually type on it. This is finally made my phone roughly as efficient as my laptop for simply inputting English text.

* An artist named darknut worked for years in the Morrowind community to retexture Morrowind and creating a new higher resolution texture pack. ESRGAN upscaling lapped his work in a matter of weeks. I love his work, but the change in efficiency was a change in kind.

* I haven't done it myself, but I've heard countless reports of programmers simply asking for a program with a given set of specifications to be written, and having the resulting source code available seconds later.

* I wanted character sheet portraits for a role-playing scenario I was creating, and stable diffusion was able to generate half a dozen portraits in about a half an hour that were perfectly suitable. This just wasn't possible a year ago.

I never got on the web3 hype train, but I'm already finding AI useful, and I don't expect it to play a less useful role over time.