skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not wasting lives on worthless activities? Is a bench player in the nba or someone who bounces between minor and major leagues wasting their life because they’re not Lebron James? Or are they getting paid to do something that they’re pretty good at but certainly not great at? Sorry you can’t score 30 points a night, maybe just go find fulfillment with your family…
i am pretty surprised so few people identified what is by far the best way to quickly get better at (virtually) any game: watching a very skilled player play. especially if they are introspective / able to explain why they are doing what they are doing. literally, just watch Twitch streams.

all the other metalearning stuff the other commenters point out works even better when watching the gameplay of someone who "knows" the things that to you are still "unknown unknowns". when the skilled player makes a choice that you yourself wouldn't have made, stop and ask yourself why she did that-- was it a contextual decision? was your read on the game state just categorically wrong? is there some underlying principle that eludes you, or is the difference more a byproduct of her inhabiting a competitive universe of equally highly-skilled players that plays by different rules?

in terms of the "micro" aka "hands-related" aspects of video games, the only way to improve those specific skills is via practice/doing, although it doesn't necessarily need to be practice specific to that game to be generally quite helpful, much in the way that playing any sport improves hand-eye coordination. i have found that time i put into mastering any specific game tends to have positive externalities for my gameplay in other games as well.

once you reach a certain level, however, it is definitely valuable to identify key high-leverage mechanics and mastering them via more specific practice (e.g. difficult, but highly impactful ability combos)-- even a little goes a looong way compared to other players at your skill level, who usually don't put in that dedicated of practice (until you reach god tier).

and one more point on watching skilled players play: while you might think that it's impossible to glean much from observing someone who just has wayyy more raw mechanical skill than yourself, oftentimes you can actually distill a lot about how to put yourself in the best positions to succeed with minimal amounts of risk (minimax / maximin thinking). it's usually a sign of bad play to put one's self in a situation that requires raw-outskilling one's opponent ("<something something Art of War something winning the battle before it even begins>"). that said, while you're learning, it is very valuable to put yourself in these sorts of scenarios, even if it leads to worse results in the short term (they call it "limit testing").
It looks really nice! I spent a few minutes trying to simulate the old nuclear test footage, trying to get a mushroom cloud rising! :-)
Why would VPS provider need to be trustworthy at all? They just need to be reliable. Having VPN doesn't absolve you from securing hosts within it, like you would in any other network. VPN just simplifies the networking.

And if they're not reliable, VPS providers are much easier to switch than "Tailscale".
Max-Min Learning of Approximate Weight Matrices from Fuzzy Data
Nice reply. I laughed. At the office, when I am asked "Do you really need it?" I sometimes answer: "I don't _need_ my left leg, but I really like it." Same for toilet paper in the stalls.
I read your comment as:.

Everytime I use X I see how dead Y is, and you should stop using Y because X is better and your use case does not matter.
What kind of measures for privacy can be implemented for this? Technically or regulation wise.
Well it's not a "random" 3rd party, it's a company you decide to rely on for your security. You pay, they offer you a service. If you don't trust them, that's fine, the product+service isn't for you. But it's not a "random" 3rd party.
nice: 2007! that was a time when some good music and some not so good music was made, too
But was it a failure financially ?

I can see effects on the long term, but if on the short term, more (incorrect) articles produced cheaply means more ad revenue, we are going to see more and more ChatGPT written articles.
5 EUR per month for service? That is crazy cheap in a highly developed country. Which provider?
No no no.

This is what’s gonna happen: AI will read the article for you and then go buy the advertised products on your behalf.
One important difference was that AmigaOS bumped the priority of threads that dealt with user input - the user always had priority over other tasks.

Somehow this simple trick seems to have been forgotten or is ignored in modern OS development - or if modern operating systems still do this, their process schedulers seem to be pretty terrible at handling priorities.
As other parts of the EV have a longer lifespan, like an electric motor, it may be more common to do a battery exchange mid-life ?
I think the answer to this is more technology not less. I personally use black and white display on my iPhone combined with freedom site blocker and all notifications switched off. This way I am in control of what I want to do.
Enjoyed the simulation for sometime. Changing the parameters didn't change the experience much, but felt some difference they way it moves.
yes indeed - able to act, rather than just talk about big tech. Or least, act in the different way. US method is more infiltrate and capture, with less conspicuous outcomes though perhaps in then end, more effective as it keeps the perception of non-interference
emacs org mode will work in the terminal.

For example, in an org doc you can have something like this:

* Python
#+BEGIN_SRC python :results output
def myTest(a):
return a + 2

print (myTest(8))
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: 10

#+BEGIN_SRC python :results output
def check_even(n):
if n % 2 == 0:
print("even")
else:
print("odd")

check_even(5)
check_even(2)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: odd
: even
Ask HN: How to stop phishing site ASAP?
Hi, I'm working at staffing agency and some bad actor had created a web page for phishing purposes - she created form to enter details and upload documents as if for employment contract creation. We reported to policed, wrote to Domain registry, reported on https://safebrowsing.google.com/. What else can we do to take down the domain, before more people becomes victim.
Absolutely I understand (most) of the complicated history of power distribution in Italy. Currently living here though, the bureaucracy has become something to just be expected and there really doesn't seem any interest in changing it.
The industrial revolution is generally considered to have started around 1760. That’s 50 years after adoption of the Thomas Newcomen steam engine and 150 years after steam engines where in use.

This shows it wasn’t specifically the steam engine that kicked things off, but rather a wide range of factors which eventually caused people to say something different was going on. The stated start of the industrial revolution is really quite arbitrary, but linking it to the seam engine is really a misunderstanding what was going on.

If you want to point to a single invention Benjamin Huntsman developing the crucible technique for steel production in 1740 had a larger impact on the early years of the first industrial revolution. But again it wasn’t any single invention the transition was simply continuous.
Intriguing question. Would it need large sets of hieroglyphic training data and is there enough of it? Or would a translation module be enough?

a follow up question: could a chatbot teach you said language?
I got used to the trackpoint like other less common input devices, believing there are strong merits to it. I don't use it as much, but I have also a logitech trackball I still occasionally use I bought back in 2008, rarely having used a mouse since then. I got it being worried about carpal tunnel issues. I still do like it, but I haven't used a desktop setup in a long time.

Now, I use the trackpoint a lot for general pointing on my laptop with occasional use of the trackpad, because it is better for a lot things. I think having a couple of options is better than just one, because one or the other tends to be good at certain things that others aren't. Trackpoints simply are better at being closer to one's typing fingers, can do infinite scroll easily, is easier to access when the laptop is in slightly awkward positions. Setting the correct sensitivity makes it extremely comfortable to use. I tend to use trackpads when I am working on something quickly and my hands are floating in different places. It's also good for more casual cases for me, but otherwise nothing too serious.

I can understand that no one will deliberately seek out to learn a device that has a bit of a learning curve to it, just like learning a better keyboard layout, but I am personally happy that I was mostly right being myself deliberate for these few things. The thought of going back to trackpad-only would be hard for me, because it's just not that good (so still hoping to see a framework laptop mod with a trackpoint :D ) FWIW: I helped setup a few 2019-era Macbook Pros at work, so I used them a little. The experience was not really that spectacular. Maybe I am biased - I sworn off of Macbooks years ago.
Eh. I disagree and agree at the same time.

<< The diff is the amiga is doing maybe three things total.

This is indeed the crux of the problem. Windows Start is trying to do everything at once including guessing what the user may be thinking of wanting including, but not limited to semi-random bing searches. Some would argue that less is more.

However, this is not a popular opinion these days. User is assumed to be an idiot and to not know what they want. As a result, MS menu does 3000 things as opposed to 3 Amiga did.
> I wonder if there's any actual market demand for a car with nothing smart whatsoever that isn't also a budget econobox?

This is literally why I drive a 25-year-old Range Rover.
Recording & sharing video footage using on-board cameras. I mean the cameras and stream is already there, it's trivial to store the data and make it accessible. Better yet, clips could be filtered by sensors being triggered - alarm, door opening, locking of car, automatic emergency brake engaging etc...
> But night-time is exactly when the vehicles are charged in people's homes

Average wind production over the last 2 years in the UK is 5.8GW, with the peak (>6GW) between 1400 and 2200, and trough (<5.7GW) between 0200 and 0800, a total of 140GWh a day

But that's only a 5% variation between high and low.

Total demand though is lower at night than in the day. It's 25% down on the low at 0300-0400 and 17% up on average from 1800-1900, which more than offsets the daily variation in wind.

Throw in grid solar and sure, more renewables during the day (domestic solar isn't measured aside from a drop in demand) and you get an average 24% of current UK electricity driven by renewables, with a peak of 33% at midday and trough of 18% from 1900-2100.

But if you doubled wind that average peak would be 52% at 1200 for renewables, and a trough of 36%.

Assuming an infinite capacity grid (as the data isn't readily available), doubling wind+solar energy would save 40TWh of gas a year even with current demand. Tripling would save 60TWh, increasing 5-fold would save 76TWh, reducing Gas usage from 88TWh a year to 11TWh a year.

Those savings are based on real world generation and demand data from 2021.

Sure wind and solar can't entirely replace gas on its own, but it can knock usage down by 90% quite easily by putting up more strings between areas of the grid and simply building more.

You don't need to eliminate fossil fuels completely to make a difference.
If you don't mind it being a little pricey there's a single purpose site that sells what you want, no knockoffs: http://www.trackcap.com/
I've found Windows window management to be pretty poor. They removed always on top (except in OneNote, and it's in power toys). Open a second Word document and all your docs get maximised. Undock and re-dock your MS machine from it's MS dock and the MS OS suddenly has no clue where to put your windows. Dock to a different dock (hot-desking; same brand and size of monitor) and the entire display options need to be re-written - no option to preserve it. Restart your machine and you can only load your Startup apps into one virtual desktop (I tried powertoys but it didn't seem to make anything better). Et cetera ...

It's pretty hard to believe that the people designing this system use it for work.

At least they got zones, coming from KDE and not having zones nor virtual windows, initially, was a big shock.
Next.js is great as long as what you're building is not much more than a landing page, or you're proxying to a real backend system (by another team, etc).

Trying to build a "full stack" application with just Next.js is suiciding everyone that comes to the project after you leave.
Yeah, right.

If only all of those cows would just stop farting the Earth would cool down mighty quick wouldn't it?
Apple's most basic multitouch trackpad (the one from 10+ years ago, prior to the haptic stuff, prior to the force touch stuff, prior to the massive dimensions) runs absolute circles around every other laptop pointing device to date, to the point where it's not even funny. Its only weak point is the 125hz sample rate.

The big downside of the trackpoint is that it's more of a joystick replacement than a mouse replacement; more waiting around is required to get the cursor positioned where you want it, even with acceleration.
I have access to Claude. I think the length of the responses vary more depending on the context than at least the previous version of ChatGPT. It would give sometimes longer, but also sometimes shorter answers and it would feel better overall. But ChatGPT recently had an update and it also improved, so now I'm not sure anymore who is better.
People blaming the "idiot" in front of them for braking is the reason we need these features. The sooner they are mandatory the better IMHO.
> Mass layoffs give you the opportunity to quickly purge poor performers without as much paperwork

This is repeated a lot but having lived through 3 layoffs (and survived 2) in my career, that has never been the case. Every time it seemed random, one in particular where EMs were upset that they didn't have the chance to pick their faves.
>Venice lacks the infrastructure to deal with unwanted boats

That seems unbelievable, given the nature of the place, especially when "To a Venetian, owning a boat is almost like owning a car".
(How) is Geoffrey Hintons recent result related?
This.

There's a lot of babbling about how coding is the limiting factor, but it really isn't. What people struggle with is solving the problems in their head. Writing the actual code after you've done that is almost trivial.

Another angle is how you need to think in abstract terms in the solution space. Most people whose knowledge of algorithms is weak think like: "okay, the problem says the word 'array' so I probably need a quicksort here". People who are successful think like "if this array were sorted, I could search an element in O(lg n) time instead of O(lg n). Can I solve the problem with this additional hypothesis?".

It's almost like being a chess player: when you're weak you come up with moves and hope they work, when you get stronger you look at a position and come up with plans and reasons why certain moves will or will not work.

The top-down mode of thinking is how you write a solution but not how you come up with one, the actual process is more "inside out", you find out stuff thinking about the problem and then you connect the dots.

Part of it is just experience and wit, but much can be taught, and formal mathematics helps the most.
Versus the previous generation (m1) as mentioned by the comment this respond to.
Do we know that this would be mitigated by https://tailscale.com/blog/tailnet-lock/? My instinct is yes...
And status updates.
> I've read that frequently looking away from the screen, so your focus doesn't remain fixed to one position, is helpful for eyestrain. Thanks to touch typing, I can write text and even code with my eyes closed.

Interestingly, not knowing how to touch type would also mean that you frequently switch your eyes from the screen (to look at the keyboard). In fact, as someone who has learned to touch type but is still making a lot of mistakes, my eyes are much more glued to the screen than when I used to have to look at the keyboard to find my place again.
Why did you move to Australia? You must be out of your mind. Kidding, just wondering.
No, you need billions of words to train a large language model.
You are right in that this has nothing to do with trademarks. Copyright assignments can be researched on this US Government site (here a sample output for "Cloanto"):

https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V3626D795
https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V9946D337
https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/doctitles.cgi?V9943D475
The fact that the sister doesn’t like Michelle, but she likes her brother when Michelle is inside him. It feels like a little betrayal to learn that the person you like to talk to might only act that way when they’re using amphetamines. To me it makes no difference if the person has altered the dopamine and serotonin levels in their brain with diet and exercise or if they did it with a pill. If they’re a happy, successful and well adjusted human then why would it matter?
JSON is the default serialization format that most JS developers use for most things, not because it's good but because it's simple (or at least seems simple until you start running into trouble) and it's readily available.

Large values are by no means the only footguns in JSON. Another unfortunately-common gotcha is attempting to encode an int64 from a database (often an ID field) into a JSON number rather than a JSON string, since a JS number type can lead to silent loss of precision.

A more thoughtful serialization format like proto3 binary encoding would avoid both the memory spike issue and the silent loss of numeric precision issue, with the tradeoff that the raw encoded value is not human readable.
> Aliasability-xor-mutability is just a rough approximation of the real rule, dereference-xor-destroyed.

This is true in a single-threaded context, but in a multithreaded (or interruptible) context, aliasing-xor-mutability is the real rule for everything other than atomics. Breaking that rule is a data race, which is per se UB in C/C++/Rust/Zig/Go/Swift.
Even with US levels of 11,000 miles of driving per vehicle per year, or 30 miles a day, that's about 10kWh a day.

Why can't you charge that with a 1kWh draw over 10 hours you park the car overnight?
> Strange though that nobody knows their names, must be censored by the Neo-Confederacy.

Wikipedia has a small list for your perusal[1]. Several actually[2][3][4][5].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_at_American_colleges_an d_universities#Columbia_University
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vice_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_who_owned_slaves
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:First_Families_of_Virginia
No kidding. India has GDP per capita less than 2.500 USD and mobile phones are ubiquitous -- old, poor, kids, whatever. Plus service is dirt cheap. Reliance JioPhone is insanely cheap: https://www.jio.com/en-in/jiophone
The Red Hat but was supposed to be sarcasm…
I had apps crash on me 4 times in a M1 and I don't even own one, so I used it for a total of maybe 10 hours or so.
do you have to actually pay anything? in the us you also get a scare letter from your ISP but nothing happens if you ignore it and continue
Adding "just code, don't talk" is a lifesaver

I'm glad chatgpt can't quit
As others have mentioned, wasn't just Dell. At the time I had ~120 Supermicro servers, and we started having a lot of power supply failures. It was fairly maddening because we'd have a 1 year old box fail, sitting right next to a 5 year old box with no problems.

Worse, it was fairly hard to get replacements of the power supply units we were using for a time. In the end we were always able to keep a couple on hand, but it would often involve a lot of shopping around and sometimes paying a premium.

That issue resulted in us switching from the cheaper 1U units with single power supplies (based largely on over a decade of no power supply failures), to the "Fat Twin" 2U systems that had 4 "blades" and redundant power supplies. We were doing small scale dedicated hosting, so low cost of the lower end machines was important, but the mini blade setup evened out the price over 4 nodes, but with a steeper initial chassis cost, and more limited disk expansion.
The side-channel attacks are coming from inside the house.
You can easily put a hundred GB or two into a SQLite database
Cyberattacks on hospitals thwart India's push to digitize health care
Related: Autosummarized HN – https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/
I called it "stricter", not "strict" for a reason.
So why burn everything down? I mean he failed to completely do so, but he really tried to destroy it all. That's the tantrum. Asserting your boundaries is - "look I put it out there, you can take it or leave it. I'll do X, but I'm not going to do Y or Z. Don't push me." It is NOT "you guys didn't love me enough 100% so I'm deleting everything with no warning".

And there was nothing going on like an "abusive" relationship at all. Criticism != abuse. Work, commitments, expectations != Abuse. Just say "No. Hey I don't want to do this anymore, but I left all my stuff out on the curb". You don't delete it all out of spite with no warning. Option #1 gets sympathy. Option #2 is a major dick move.

"Immature". Yes that part is right. But we knew that already from reading the crunchy-bacon riddled adventures. And people didn't mind the immaturity and fun of it (I didn't like it too much, but then I'm just an old buzzard).

It didn't go wrong until he bailed and he didn't just bail, he burned it all down. That's the problem. That's the showing of the real person. He didn't just walk away and never look back. He said - if I can't have it, then I'll take it all back and destroy it.

That's not just an "artistic temperament". That's an asshole who didn't like the prize he fairly won and decided to be a dick about it.

Thankfully people who did care stepped up. I personally don't even like the stuff, but I never want to see it destroyed so those folks who stepped up are the heros. The system and idea of FOSS is the hero too.
I've previously worked around automation in an automotive assembly plant, and the thing that stuck out to me was the grinding being done in a robot cell. Grinding aggregate is very destructive of precision machinery (which is ironic when you consider that the highest precision machinery produced with grinding processes).
I like to compare these models to the Star Trek main computer core. The computer on a starship is explicitly not self aware, but has to interface with humans through mostly voice comms. It has to give accurate information for ship operations, something the chatbots so far still get wrong on occasion (or slip up details)

The ships computer also doesn’t seem to do entertainment like “tell a bedtime story” , since holography exists and does a better job. Now those might be closer to chatbots current evolution.
From what I understand, these models generate the response one word at a time. Every time you see a new word appear at the end, the model is taking into consideration the entire chat history + its own answer so far to generate that next token.
I _really_ recommend Keypirinha [1] for any sane use of Windows. This little tool has rocketed my productivity (I also prefer it above Microsoft PowerToys Run).

[1]: https://keypirinha.com/
I did too! See a link elsewhere in this thread.