skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure you understand how silly your position is. You were operating on figures which were utterly and entirely wrong, and you made strong pronouncements about economic viability of this and that. This showed that you have zero intuitive grasp of the scale and complexity of the issues involved, and yet you expect people to take your economic analyses seriously.

Then, when you were made aware how much off you were, instead of coming to terms with how much you do not know that you don’t know, and getting some humility, you come up with a second estimate, just as crude, and still pronounce how much we could save, as if there was more standing behind it than a back of a napkin estimate using 2-3 scalar input variables. This is literally a perfectly spherical cow level of analysis.
I predict ChatGPT is the next Self driving Tesla tech.
>One day in May 1998, Ms Muse came around for a visit and Clark decided to silence her forever. He subdued her with a stun gun, bound her with duct tape and locked her in a wardrobe for several hours while he played video games and sold drugs to a customer.

>Clark later moved Ms Muse to a bathroom where he smashed her over the head with a board and intimidated his girlfriend and co-defendant, Tory Gene Bush, into helping him drown the victim in the bathtub.

>Four months later, Bush helped lead police to Ms Muse's body in the ravine off Texas Highway 64, west of Tyler, on a property owned by Clark's landlady.

>Police also found the body of Tracy Mize floating in a septic tank on the property.

Apparently the physical evidence was also overwhelming, so he probably said that just to fuck with the family or was in some sort of delusional state.
I see things at Walmart on sale for 14.88 all the time. Sometimes a number is just a number and people aren't thinking of what some people might associate it with.
You can have multiple values under the same search parameter. For example, ?a=b&a=c&a=d, which would be the array [b, c, d]. Including the index key seems redundant.

The native URLSearchParams browser interface even supports this with the getAll method.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchPa...
I'm sorta debating the merits of various methods like this because there's something I want to "Show HN" which involves browser-based analysis of CSV files... but the way I built it for myself, I just run it on a Node server that parses the file once and stores it as json and serves it when you reopen a project. So now I want to bundle the CSV/json with then project file. But putting it all in a base64 url seems a little crazy when saving/retrieving gzip files from the local filesystem is just as good an option. I think this is interesting as something to consider for shared projects, but probably not ideal if the main goal is to have everything run locally anyway.
My thought was similar for land based versions of this too. Their quote about the engineering difficulties being soluble in cheap electricity seems like coupling this to nuclear is a no brainer (assuming the US government can streamline nuclear in the coming decade like it has teased)
I have no affiliation here but whatever this guy is not lying - had a hella fun and got a free FOMU on a previous workshop.
>After that threshold is reached, it would revert to a structure that reflects ownership of OpenAI, with Microsoft having a 49% stake, other investors taking another 49% and OpenAI’s nonprofit parent getting 2%.

I am not a legal person, I am just confused with the deal structure. So, the OpenAI core team will own only 2% of the company?
In the village I live in (Los Angeles), they banned single use plastic bags at grocery stores. So the grocery stores made the bags slightly thicker and called them reusable. I assume they’re actually wasting more plastic now, given that each item is composed of more plastic and I doubt that is offset by the couple people who actually do reuse these grocery bags.

There is a lesson here, though it depends on your perspective.
Such as? I didn’t see anything that seemed unlikely to be true. I’m curious what makes your read so different but you left off any substantiating details.
We’re going to have to figure out how to connect one of those old gameboy lights to an eink display
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is a big bet on a company that just had their lunch eaten on another product by open source, no? Didn’t see much of Dall-E after Stable Diffusion release
What are the actual semantics here? Is JS automatically interning strings as symbols these days, or is the == operator comparing strings character by character, and arrays only by pointer (aka "object identity")?
Yes the options in the Bay Area are rough! I just moved to Oakland and I have Sonic with symmetric 1gbps for $40 per month, the first time I’ve ever been able to get fiber after 20 years in the Bay. Anyway seems like there might be more fiber in the East Bay for some reason.
I strongly recommend the books Cooking for Geeks and The Food Lab. In both books, the authors explore a variety of different approaches and show their math.
Greetings from the Safari Team at Apple Computer
Another example of "ChatGPT for open-ended law": https://broodingomnipresence.substack.com/p/brooding-omnipre...

Tangentially related: DoNotPay's (probably illegal) plans to use LLMs in actual court sessions https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1612312707398795264
Agreed, it doesn’t even seem worth considering solar given the scales necessary but people are fearful creatures.
...I think the world needs to change.

Students need to learn how to produce the best writing they can. If their best writing comes from feeding a prompt into ChatGPT, they should use ChatGPT. Presumably this student will also use ChatGPT in their writing post-graduation.

Of course, I would expect such a student to get marked down for factual errors, logical inconsistencies, and a lack of citations!

Some students, however, may take a hybrid approach, in which ChatGPT writes certain passages which the student manually cleans up. IMO, this is completely acceptable, and probably a good skill to practice! Students should learn how to use technology to produce the best work they can!

There are absolutely exceptions, when you'd want a student to practice writing independently. But writing the whole thing off as "plagiarism" is going much too far!
Just checked, and on macOS at least, `xxd -r` doesn't properly parse `hex.Dump`.
Seriously - it’s the 85% correct solution that gets you killed in the other 15%
By impressive I assume you mean predictable? When the government comes with a huge CIA check it’ll be impressive watching too.
Yeah it’s been this way for years. You cannot convert an account that uses a non-iCloud email to use an iCloud email as primary.
I ended up ordering a Supernote after considering each company's ethos and reading a number of reviews.
Whether or not it's illegal, the ABA looks out for its own, and they would never permit AI to threaten the comfortable arrangement they've made for members of their industry.

The legal profession is not only self-regulating, but since they make up like 95% of legislators, they get to regulate everyone else too! Very masterful, even more so than the AMA
Went off trail a few times in some of these parks and what looks like something not too dangerous would have hurt you badly and sometimes once you go past a certain point, you could be surprised you can not go back as easily thus making you go further and further…
I like similar tricks. Another trick I like to use is being able to do a `make showconfig` and have it print the list of variables & their values that I care about.
You can see that here. You can also see my Make+BASH solution for documenting targets.

https://github.com/lpsantil/oop0/blob/master/Makefile#L87-L1...
Product Management 101 [Part 1]: Understanding the Role and Responsibilities
I recall from my bar prep class that you get a substantial amount of partial credit if you state a legal test and apply it correctly — even if the test you state is not correct. That is, if you forget one of the prongs of a test, you lose very few points. The same applies if you completely make up a prong and use it in place of one of the actual prongs.

If this is still true, then GPT should be able to do well if it is trained to spit out rules (even incorrect ones) and then apply the facts of the scenario to the stated rules.
To be honest, I find a lot of the comments here pretty disappointing - they basically are rehashing what seems to always come up when articles talk about problems with the direction of technology:

1. "You're just viewing the past through rose-colored glasses!"

2. "Modern technology is amazing, these are just whiny nitpicks!"

I don't think these comments are really wrong, but I do think they are missing the forest for the trees. A lot of optimism around technology as a force for good in, say, the mid 90s, has disappeared, even among the technologists that build the stuff. I'd argue that there is something behind this, and I think the author's list touches on a bunch of valid points.

Case in point, social networks. When Facebook first came out, I remember being so excited by it - I reconnected with friends I hadn't talked to in years, and in a good way. I remember thinking how much of a useful tool it was for "casually" keeping in touch with friends. That is, I wasn't going to email everyone I knew when I got a new job, but it was nice when I posted about my job on Facebook that people commented, and I enjoyed hearing about the new things in my friend's lives.

Obviously reams has been written about the downfall of Facebook, so I won't rehash that, only just to add that for me the utility of it has finally fallen so low that it wasn't hard to deactivate my account. That is, for years I was like "Man, Facebook is so shitty, but I worry about cancelling my account because every now and then I get a post from a friend that helps me connect with them." That's no longer true, and not just because of me, but because the vast majority of my friends must also be getting exhausted by Facebook because they rarely post stuff that I care to read.

The irony is that I still have a strong desire to have the Facebook from the mid-late 00s in my life. I don't find that there are any social networks today that actually help you keep in touch with friends. They've all gotten addicted to the likes, infinite scroll, bullshit drama, and "tiktok-ization" of mindless content that they foisted on the rest of us so much that they now actually suck for keeping in touch with people you care about.

That is what I think the author is getting at - technology has somehow forgotten what the ends are that it was supposed to be the means for.
Is using Lensa art theft? – The ethics of AI generated art
Another developer
Impressive enough to fool the rubes is all the matters.
For all of these, an attempt to add more features (patching, additional car controls, video sharing) leads to breaking something that works. It's not so much that new tech is bad; it's that we reached a stable, pleasant equilibrium (as with the car), and then added features without considering if they improved the UX (or with the goal of finding ways to increase monetization, eg by selling feature activation in cars or adding spyware to video games).

I think one broad takeaway for me is that if tech cannot connect to the internet, it's often more pleasant to use.
If they made the scene today I imagine it would be a smoothly walking CGI metal skeleton with less of that awkward jerkiness that made it so scary. Yet another benefit of practical effects.
Sounds like he'll have a fast ascent in tech. If he can get stuff done without putting in more than he has to and has good social skills, he could be a good fit for management in a tech company.
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The rear passenger doors on a Tesla really won't open if the power fails?
The small next-generation nuclear reactors are all breeder reactors, IIRC.
You do not want them in the hands of religious or political fanatics.
And small reactors are more dirty than big reactors.

And nuclear power is most of the time more expensiv than some renewables.

I do not see benefit in this development.
pg deserves a lot of credit for predicting this a decade ago: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

> The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that search engine. And for the first time in over a decade the idea of switching seems thinkable to me.

> Since anyone capable of starting this company is one of those 10,000 hackers, the route is at least straightforward: make the search engine you yourself want. Feel free to make it excessively hackerish. Make it really good for code search, for example. Would you like search queries to be Turing complete? Anything that gets you those 10,000 users is ipso facto good.

Whether by accident or by design, OpenAI did exactly that. And it all came down to them doing a little contract work for GitHub, in which OpenAI were the recipient of terabytes of code.

What a turn. Imagine if Microsoft becomes the new Google.
I remember "hiking" in white sands.

There is nothing but white sand. People have got lost and died from exposure because they went off the path and couldn't find their way back.

The trail signage says if you can't see the next marker, turn back.
That’s my question - is it that it’s a huge advance that’s revolutionary or is it an incremental innovation that can be replicated from current state of the art with some effort.
Interest thing, near the same time, NEC produced PC AT products, with excellent compatibility and high level of integration (for example, VGA integrated on main board, ide hdd, compatible bios, but branded).

So looks like, NEC had agreements with IBM and/or other pc brands, and have access to all need information, and invested much into professional products (create chipset was expensive), but for some reason, play games with Nintendo and other local vendors.
No, this idea comes up semi regularly. Honestly Windows does alright for that; not POSIX, very object oriented, has powershell which you should look at.
The problem is that 80% of the better ideas can just be bolted onto the existing systems so we can incrementally upgrade without losing compatibility and having to start from scratch.
We looked at what the staff were using a couple of hotels and bought the ORECK XL COMMERCIAL. It is a simple vacuum with bags so it’s easy to clean. No extra features to break. The price was much cheaper than any Dyson vacuum. It’s been dead reliable for over 10 years and seems like it will just keep running.
In the old days it used to take a whole hour to download a simple app with just a few files over a slow modem (if you were lucky to not have your connection fail midway).

Nowadays with that high speed Internet connection you can download an app in...an hour...because the data needed just to get started is 10000x bigger.
BTW the author has one of the best FIRE (Financial Independence to Retire Early) calculators as well https://engaging-data.com/early-retirement-calculators-and-t...
For some reason I vaguely feel like they were more popular in movies, although now looking it up, I’m seeing lots of green phosphor monitors… weird.
Well but it doesn’t kill you when it’s wrong so being 85% right is a lot more valuable
Something that's helped me with this is having my phone nearby so I can use voice commands to get word definitions. No need to touch the device and get sucked in but all the ease of an ebook. Of course this only works in more private locations I suppose.
> But Firm A now has a tough problem. If it sells for anything more than $5, another competitor might enter. There is no reason to think that another competitor couldn’t match the $5 average cost. And there is some reason to think that its cost could be lower than $5. Why? The new competitor could buy Firm B’s assets at fire-sale prices, thus reducing average cost.

Ah yes, the mythical world where the assets of an enormous but deteriorating corporation are just sitting around on a shelf for purchase by any plucky entrepreneur with enough vision, bootstraps, and good old American sack, who will of course be able to restart the whole enterprise immediately, and, having purchased the whole thing on the cheap, will have so greatly reduced average cost that they can immediately call the predator's bluff and restart the same price war, this time with the upper hand and victory in sight.

Of course this argument makes no sense except in a world of spherical cows and perfectly rational actors.

The more plausible argument against Amazon operating their logistics business at a loss is the obvious fact that they have invested enormous resources into squeezing efficiency out of their logistics business, to the point of being now-infamously abusive of their delivery drivers and warehouse staff. Keeping marginal cost as low as possible clearly matters a lot to Amazon management. What's more likely is that they have invested in keeping marginal cost down specifically in order to run their logistics business at a very small but positive margin and still compete on price in order to establish and maintain dominance and high volume. Don't forget that they are also skimming value off of several points in the e-commerce lifecycle, basically at every point except actually charging customers for shipping, but that's probably more than offset by all the Prime accounts that people renew every year but never get their money's worth out of.

Then again, this is just speculation. I haven't actually looked at their financial statements, and maybe someone with more finance expertise can weigh in on whether there's anything more to be learned there.
As matter of practice, I always install git-bash or MinGW or CygWin on my Windows boxes. There's only one instance I've found where these solutions were not sufficient for my uses cases and it was an admittedly horrible corner case where a customer's network forced me to not "do the right thing(tm)".
ChatGPT will certainly affect teaching methodology. But there's a reason why we teach students arithmetic and basic algebra without calculators, long after calculators were already ubiquitous.

The same goes for composing an essay. It's not just about the ability to produce a cogent-looking essay, in the same way it isn't good enough that a kid can punch 17*13 into a calculator.
> because that's no where near gigabit.

This seems like circular reasoning. Why is being nowhere near gigabit tragic?

> and what large majority of users do is that really the metric we're going for here?

Well I don't know what your metric is, which is why I'm asking.

> also, when's the last time you transferred a large amount of data over that slow of a connection? i don't care! I do it every day, and i'm all that matters!!! /s

I'm sure there are people who upload a lot of content and need > 100 I'm not trying to invalidate those. But they're also the people who know what they need and can pay for it.
Most of that applies to a gas generator, even moreso.

The generator you use once every year, but the gas regularly goes stale; are you really going to want to go refill it and hand crank it in a hurricane when the auto start didn't kick on? And you're hoping it, its ventilation, its fuel supply, and it's wiring aren't damaged or flooded.
Poor word choice on my part, I did not mean 'crunch' in the traditional game development sense. I meant that a hopeful indie who doesn't have a timeline to worry about and can work at their leisure.
> they can move jobs

If they could, they would.
I've been noticing Claude(AnthropicAI’s new model), seems to be matching the performance of ChatGPT https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1611622200573829121
Englebright reservoir too
Did you not want to learn to write, did you hold the writing courses had nothing to teach you, or are were you holding that courses requiring writing had bad time ROI (return on time investment)?

As co-founder and CTO of any number of tech companies, I've observed engineers (programmers) with broad humanities (history and language related, mostly) education tend to grok business narratives then architect and write better software: coherent systems expressed concisely. Now I look for history major with comp sci minor, or English and linear algebra, or other self-selected humanities + STEM pairings.

I'd hazard there's some relationship in how the mind is applied in common between domain driven design in service of business narrative and the sweeping cause and effect of history, or between software architecture and well organized long-form writing.
It's just the letters A, G, T, and C over and over again, right? surely we can squeeze some better compression out of that, dictionary coding or something?

</joke>
Windows Briefcase
There is a big difference IMHO. Self Driving must get it right 101% of the time.

ChatGPT search getting better than Google even 50% of the time should be enough.

All the need is to add references to the answers that ChatGPT gives right now, and it will be game over for Google.
Chartbrew founder here, just wanted to clarify for readers that Chartbrew doesn't store any data from the 3rd party tools so there's no silo problem. It queries the data sources, computes the data, and stores only the chart configurations.

The only storage Chartbrew does is to cache the data while building a chart so the data source is not queried too many times and the user can see changes quicker. Afterwards, Chartbrew keeps the charts updated with data coming directly from the other tools.
Is it possible to use a single fn to replace the beta4..beta18 fns[0], so that the polynomial expressions are generated at comptime instead of being hand-written?

[0] https://github.com/axiomhq/zig-hyperloglog/blob/main/src/bet...
On the roughly 100 autopilot trips I’ve taken - you nailed it - I died 15 times.
Thank you so much for saying this. My parents were very involved in my choice of education, I was indirectly pressured to go to medical school, which ended up with me dropping out because I was never the type of person to sit down for days on end and memorize fat stacks of Latin anatomy books.

I eventually became a software developer, and it took years of catching up and self education alongside working shitty jobs.
They introduced a Yaml interface last year, because, as I suspect, programming configuration in multiple languages sounds nice up front but does not scale. When you program IaC, you stop being declarative in the same way TF is.
I'd bet not just from a technical standpoint. I'm sure many people started playing with ChatGPT and were like maybe Google isn't so amazing and high tech after all. They look like ancient tech compared to ChatGPT. It's a brand image problem now too.

Google: dinosaur tech that exists only to gather information about you and serve you ads.
2 years away from the full launch!
My preference is fine heat control without having to remove the pan from the cooktop (which induction does better than gas)
Hmmm… getting paid doctor’s wages for colonoscopies doesn’t sound too bad. It’s a low stress job where you can help people and then go home and live your life without worrying about your job. I can imagine (and have done) much worse jobs for a lot less money.
As far as I'm aware, racoons are not dangerous (unless they have rabies). They can just be a nuisance since they're good at getting into containers to steal food.
So how do I measure NO2 in the home and not something that “correlates”?
AFAIk the 2 biggest game engines use C# and C++
All of the Altman/Graham clique talk a big game but are simps for big money and power at the end of the day. Like many of us.
64mb… what is this, l3 cache or something!