skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny because these days we call Dell all the time for bulging lithium ion batteries in their laptops. I think they don't understand the concept of not charging them to 110%.
I can't replay to the archive.ph link, but I'm seeing some odd behavior.

Firefox is throwing a "502 Bad Gateway" while Chome happily renders the page.

Suggestions as to what is up?
> I've not seen anything that's pegged my "doomsday" alert as aggressively and unexpectedly as the ChatGPT bots.

PREDICTION (and I tend to be wrong): society comes around to the conclusion that, like checking Wikipedia and AutoTune, ChatGPT and ilk have their use.

However, we really want to minimize that and focus on actual human interactions and decisions.

It's more likely (and efficient) that we replace Congress with a phat ChatGPT instance and (initially) get better legislation more quickly, but then descend into an Orwellian hell when K Street figures out how to stuff it.

But I like my happy prediction better.
Part of "execution" is having the right strategy, and presumably/hopefully (I doubt it) that is being provided as part of that vetting process; like, one could even imagine that vetting being sufficiently deep that the result is a nigh-unto turn-key product roadmap.
Looks like it's tracked in Debian, but not addressed yet.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-23521

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41903

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/git
I think this is also possible with GitHub's own 'gh' tool?

I'm afk, but iirc it's `gh repo create`.
Back in these days I worked at a small electronics shop run by an electrical engineer.

People would come in saying their PC didn't work. He would pop it open, take out the motherboard, go "ah yes, puffy caps. See right there", then open a drawer full of recycled capacitors, and desolder the bad ones and resolder correct ones back on. And it worked!

The shop ultimately closed but I still think back to that and a few other tricks as especially impressive.
Was there any bug bounty?
> sad like her mother — she couldn’t have imagined a worse fate than to give birth to the person she was trying to escape.

What an excellent story. Thanks for posting.
Academics and the grid. Are they studying the right things?
> Being headquartered in a jurisdiction that doesn't care for intellectual property sure must be convenient.

Like… YouTube with their shorts?

A continuous, infinite scroll stream of $media is everything but an original invention, and most likely not protected by any IP law.
Greg Egan, Matt Parker, myself, and a slew of others (eg [1]) all attended math and physics classes in what some astronaut called the city of lights and the most isolated city in the world ...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKp1XeEF74

some of us also appeared in a film with Nicole Kidman
Hard disagree on the idea that research should be the exclusive domain of some special tier of “top” research. Certainly there are varying degrees of aptitude for the skills of research. That said, there are infinitely more questions than there are geniuses. Many of these questions are of pressing importance for humanity. I’m very glad there are people working on them who didn't quit because they failed a problem set.
Indeed, this article, while interesting, seems to fall into the common trap of overly anthropomorphizing AI. It's a mistake to treat large language models as if they are humans with opinions. While I think many of us want to believe that these models possess some kind of innate intelligence, they are ultimately just algorithms.
JFK Near Miss 13 Jan 2023 (Analysis)
I meant that if you say "there's no way to avoid the bias", it sounds like you're basically admitting defeat and not even trying to reduce bias.

I don't think we can achieve 0% bias, I agree with you on that. But I think that, if you decide to spend some amount of effort (let's call this amount "X"), it is possible to reduce bias compared to if you spent zero amount of effort.

And that furthermore, if you spend a "Y" amount of effort where X<Y, then you can reduce even more bias.

Obviously, at a certain point this would have diminishing returns, so presumably there is some sweet point where, even though you can't be 100% unbiased, you can at least say you made a reasonable effort to be unbiased and that your remaining sources of bias are unintentional (and probably, almost just as likely to go in one direction vs another).

To bring the conversation back to the original topic, I think ChatGPT/InstructGPT is actually being actively biased towards one political side as a side effect of RLHF being done by people from OpenAI, even if this bias is being introduced unintentionally.

It would be much better, for example, if OpenAI could somehow accomplish RLHF using a sample of its users as the AI trainers.

It would still be a far cry from reaching 0% bias asymptotically, but it would already be an improvement, I think, as I think its users are a more representative sample of the population than OpenAI employees.
Spain had massive colonial profits from gold extracted from South America, but it did them little good.
Around 285,000 people in the United States have FSD beta in their cars right now. The FSD take rate (FSD sold with a new Tesla) is around 19-20%. YouTube is full of videos showing FSD in action.

The software isn't perfect, nor is it finished. Drivers are required to keep their hands on the wheel and be ready to take over at any moment, and there is a monitoring system to enforce it. You can pick it apart and poke at the issues all you want, but Tesla is obviously far ahead of all of their competitors if you look at it from the perspective of a computer person rather than a car guy. The competition is still using LiDAR and pre-programmed maps which can't deal with real-world conditions, which is where Tesla was back 6-7 years ago.

I hope we can talk about this in the future to see how my prediction did. I'm @realtaraharris on Twitter (different handle because I began transitioning in October 2022).
Thank you! That is a very nice resource
Maybe that's because Global Warming isn't the only environmental issue that they're concerned about? We started getting massive bio diversity reduction since the 70s and that wasn't because of AGW. Human consumption of natural resources (esp. habitat) is a huge issue for the environment and "a lot of factories producing ev cars, appliances, and batteries" will accelerate that.
Fwiw (in my opinion, it's a great show of support by Tailscale), Tailscale actually hired and fully supports the person who maintains Headscale.
I'd imagine minimum that's sellable would be A/C + android auto/carplay/bluetooth.

Backing camera is kind of must for US market so I guess it would have to have it too
You know, I used to agree; I watched the movie again recently though and I've come around on the future-robots stuff at the end.

The movie should definitely have been edited down, but I think the point of the movie is that David was determined to become a "real boy" the entire movie, and fundamentally the way that that could happen is that he does the most human thing of all: die. He's given one perfect day with his mother, and ends knowing that he truly is a "real boy".
https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
> Or, simply by virtue of being more intelligent. Life is not fair

…

> If you are pursuing a research career, and you observe other students putting similar amounts of effort, but obtaining much better results, understanding things more quickly and getting better ideas, you should probably just drop out.

That seems drastic even without accounting for untold ways people enter any stage of life with disadvantages. I mean, I don’t know what I’m talking about in terms of research, just a fairly demanding professional life for >20 years. But dropping out isn’t the first and only advice I would give anyone who feels they aren’t performing as well as they perceive their expectations or just the performance of their peers.
How can you set screentime permissions for specific websites ?
The hardest part is dealing with GPT token limits. You can't summarize long form text, where it's most needed.
Do they sell the different caps as a set?
> Head injuries are a leading form of death for car occupants, so why don’t we wear helmets when driving?

What percent of bicyclists have been in an accident that would benefit from a helmet? Must be at least 10x the percent of car occupants who have been in such an accident.
Sometimes. There were certain topics that I didn’t have to do any studying for and others that took a lot of effort.
Most of the tech jobs are not in China: https://jobs.bytedance.com/en/position?category=670421586260...

Chinese FAANG is probably geared more towards hardware, things like Xiaomi and Huawei.
Conan O’Brien reflects on the making and legacy of “Marge vs. the Monorail”
I stopped watching The Simpsons around season 15, and I feel like I held on a lot longer than I should have. The jokes became a lot less clever, usually devolving into "LOL RANDOM HAHA HOMER DUMB!", which to be fair seemed to be popular with most cartoons of the mid 2000's.

I thought maybe I just outgrew it, but recently I watched a lot of the earlier seasons, and no, they still hold up.
I haven't had to look for a job in over a decade. They come to me.

No idea really
Wish other states would follow its lead.

The extra weight of electric vehicles is far more dangerous than another degree or two of global warming.
What are your preferred alternatives to Laravel?
I feel you missed the opportunity to say "So, nu, did you hear about Nushell?", 'nu' being the somewhat untranslatable Yiddish word for "Go on! Well? Come on!"
Thanks for the link. Looks like I won't need macOS at all! :-)
> Compare that to the Reddit video player

This is worthy of it's own question. Why is Reddit's player so uniquely bad? It's worse than any other video player on the entire internet.
Juicero for garbage
1M stranded Southwest passengers deserved better
Honest question--is Michelle a real person the author is recounting events about or is this some kind of literary device? Maybe my brain isn't working today but I gave up halfway through this without getting it.
> RICO

It's never RICO until it is. But it's never RICO.
To write something obvious: companies generally don’t succeed or fail based on their technology. A good user experience is necessary for TikTok to do well but it doesn’t matter whether they achieve because of ‘good’ tech, whatever that is, or in spite of it.

I think there were a few things for the business where tech was important:

- being good at serving/storing videos

- the recommendation engine. There are two parts, one is taking user preferences as a strong signal (not a tech decision) and another is recommendation algorithms which produce this effect (I think they’re rote a paper that suggested things about how this worked)

- being an app people wanted to use (weakly tech but mostly not)

I think a some of the explosive growth came from the app having been iterated on a bunch in China first so it seemed more polished when it reached the west. But I could be pretty wrong there.

To answer the question about engineering talent:

- Chinese people will go to the US, get great educations at US universities, some get denied work visas or otherwise choose to return to China. TikTok can employ them in a less competitive labour market and not fight companies like Google which don’t operate in China.
Nice job taking the time to build it out!

For what it's worth, "gh" works quite well and has all kinds of functionality. "gh re --create" would replicate the functionality here as far as I can tell.
> it is a terrible tool for beginners

>> If you're already past a beginner level and need to practice a lot

I think we might be in agreement.
This is actually how the FastComments docs works. I did it because I hate taking screenshots.

https://github.com/FastComments/fastcomments-docs/blob/main/...
Is it Mozilla's fault Google marches on with MV3 with no regard to standards?

Mozilla will continue to support V2 and working towards V3 support. Expecting a fully compatible implementation on the first go is a lot. Especially since Mozilla has a fraction of the budget and other priorities besides aping Chrome.
I've always seen their big selling point as it being required by other giant software packages. At least that's the way it threatened to enter burrow into various places I've worked.
Genuine question.

Does this kind of "weeding out" actually have any value in the real world, or is it just gatekeeping slash carnival-prizes?
There's a trick with Spotify, where they buffer a few seconds from expected next songs and load the rest once it picks which song is next. You can test this by cutting off internet, then pressing next song at the same time.
https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2000-series-bug-qui...
Andrej's "Building Makemore" series is exactly this, it includes a wonderful lecture where he computes all the gradients for a simple network by hand and compares them against the values produced by torch's autograd.
That's cool. AoE2 scenarios sometimes had a different kind of anti-cheat, preventing players from deleting buildings that would otherwise count as points to enemies who raze them. That relied on a lot of complex triggers that I think involved spawning birds to keep count of things.
Getty Images Is Suing AI Image Generator Stable Diffusion
How do I get back into programming?
I'm 22, currently taking a gap year from university. Next year I'll graduate from a fairly renowned European university with a good degree in an arts subject with a minor in maths, and at this rate with good grades - so I'll get a "good degree".

My dad is a programmer, and he encouraged me to learn basic coding: I grew up surrounded by computers, playing video games - long story short, I spent a lot of time in my teen years messing around with computers, Linux, designing websites, learning to code in JS, Python, C++. I guess the most advanced project I ever completed was an aim-bot for Counter-Strike.

I thought I knew what I wanted to do entering university - pursuing an academic path - and I just didn't have time to program as a hobby anymore. Then in college I worked part-time in an unrelated field and I've taken a gap year to explore working in that field. I'm leaning away from that now, and I guess I'm reverting back to something I was once passionate about and could honestly see myself doing for eight hours a day at work.

Not having touched programming at all besides basic personal website-making since I was about seventeen, and at the time never being invested in any particular technology for job-seeking reasons anyway, I find learning programming all over again intimidating. But I know I'm intelligent enough to do it, I _enjoy_ it - I just don't really know where to start, or if I can genuinely self-teach myself to the point of getting hired without some kind of software diploma.

My areas of interests are fairly niche/disparate - I really enjoyed the low-level programming in the video-game hacking stuff, and I love the idea of (audio) DSP engineering. But I don't know if there are many junior roles available in those fields. I also love design _tout court_, and web and app design seems like a nice way to get into that space, but it seems like such an enormous task to learn all the different frameworks, and knowing which ones are most up-to-date and trendy in the job market.

I guess I'm asking how should I approach getting a job as a junior developer, as a graduate from a non-coding degree, with a year or so to get back into this kind of stuff? What are the technologies to get into for safe junior dev jobs? Should I just make some kind of portfolio?

Thank you guys!
Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options
Nice little tool. This has reminded me that I should put all the initial GitHub commands, for pushing an entire directory, into an alias, script, or binary. Or, learn the gh command, apparently.
I had a hard time getting Wireguard to work with mobile android clients. Gave up eventually and now just use Nebula.
I don't ride much currently, but when I did, I would go out of my way for routes that were easier and safer to ride, usually due to less traffic. I was able to relax a bit and it was a nicer and more enjoyable ride.
But Twitter/Reddit don't know if you'll play the videos, meanwhile TikTok can assume you will, so can already fetch them from the server.
It's the implementation. In many cars stuff like automatic braking is kinda unreliable and twichy, can trigger by just someone changing lane in front of you (or so I've heard from colleague that have it).

Personally I'm in for anything passive (cameras, sensors) as long as it is not intrusive, acc and lane centering is kinda.... I'm already driving and have hands and feet on controls, I don't need that automated in the first place.

I am 100% or 0% on any "driving automation" or self driving. Either work as automated taxi, let me enter the address and let me read book in peace on back seat, or let me drive the car without bothering me. So I drive 15yo civic type R lmao.
Its one reason for sure. Most things come back to natural resources.
This is the way of Dell. I bought one of their laptops that has fried itself because you can't close dell laptops and put them in your bag as though it was a laptop, you have to shut them down and wait to close the lid. FFS. Of course just out of warranty and you cannot even contact them to enquire if they're happy with that being what they are as a company. Dell is way overpriced for the quality you get.

Compare to Samsung where I had a tv with bad caps out of warranty and they came to my house, quickly replaced the power supply and left a note asking if I was happy with the service. I was. I am.

"It wasn't just Dell" There were fraudsters who hadn't been prosecuted when dell was doing this so don't criticise Dell. Yeah...
Run entire game on server, send stuff to clients, get inputs from clients. Or full-on stream the game like Stadia (RIP). Which is hard with low-spec hardware.
Yeah dawg! That sounds like basic decency that doesn’t cost much to anyone who’d be harmed. Also it’s a general principle of meritocracy. You can’t merit anything without access to merit it!
Here is your answer from a book called The American Trap:

Americans are very proud of their "process". ... Americans love their processes. In their jobs they rarely express their creativity. Conversely, they expend a lot of energy and time adhering to their processes.

Maybe?
3/5 is 60% which is barely not failing and in classes for the major wouldn't even get you credit
Look at FFRDC's (Federally Funded Research and Development Centers) as a whole. There are quite a few of them and depending on the type of mission, some will have very dedicated software development teams.
Yes. I got a set of three caps (convex, concave, and dome) from eBay a few years ago.
I've set this up in a staging environment of one of our apps to take a look. The staging environment we use for one-offs is on Heroku (can stand one up/down quickly), and the first issue is that a lot of the 'easy to deploy is a feature' PAAS platforms is that they bill by web/worker size restricted by memory rather than just pure virtual CPU power. Render etc all does this as well, and the memory headrooms are low.

This means that you often have to deal with, say 512 MB per instance, and then if using something like Puma, have to work out how to split concurrency vs memory footprint. What I'm finding is that v3.2 YJIT loves memory, so I have to trade off that, which means less concurrency per process. Benchmarking it quickly, the 15% gains I might get on the thread aren't worth having to move to just 2 threads on a 512 MB instance versus the 3 threads I can get with YJIT not enabled.

I think it's really neat and will continue to track it, but the performance in terms of memory trade-off isn't there quite as yet for our app profile. Not sure if others will find the same, but I guess its if their production environments aren't PAAS's with low memory headroom or not.
GFN works by linking your accounts on existing storefronts (Steam, Epic, GOG). Not all games from those libraries are supported (publishers have to opt in, not out), but if you own a supported game already, you can stream it on GFN for free, or subscribe to a paid GFN tier for a better experience.

Anecdotal numbers: I have a Steam library of 197 games and 44 of them are available on GFN.
Those feel great hen they're brand new but they very quickly fill with debris. Even if you clean them regularly it doesn't take long to wear them smooth. The newer dimpled ones provide a much more consistent and durable experience.
No, I'm not claiming that media is so evil it can't be tolerated. I'm claiming that there is a national security risk to letting an adversary control the information flow to the population. This has nothing to do with the contents of the media itself.
If it's a Subaru, that would be an app that leaves the radio in the state it was in when you turned the car off. Instead of the way it is which is for the radio to be on when the car is turned on regardless of how it was left.
I am a non-native speaker of English and several other European languages.

English is the hardest to perfect, because of the numerous loan words which defy any systematic rules for correct pronunciation when you read. Then you also have the problem of accents and dialects. Even within a single country there are differences. In the USA: New York vs New Orleans, in the UK: London vs Manchester or Ireland / Scotland.

You could record some TV or radio program, repeat what you hear onto a recording and compare. Best approach would be to get a speech coach. They will explain correct mouth, tongue, etc placements.
That looks so cool.

Do you have any resources you would recommend to someone who want's to explore (or develop as you have) in this subject?
Assuming you're using Chargepoint level 2 chargers (3.3/6.6kW AC, not DC fast chargers), they are reporting energy delivered. There is no data channel to report energy stored; only level 3 (DC fast charge) charging ports establish a data connection.
This didn't happen in a vacuum, wall street was full of slave-labor company shares. The speculators and financiers were closer to the financial center.
The Architect's Guide to to Data, File and Open Table Formats
If they weren't using TLS, I'd guess that this wasn't cutting corners but rather intentional to help caching. Ten people watching the same video can get the same data packets, ten people watching the same video over TLS have ten data streams with nothing in common.
Meanwhile many of the "lower end" brands started to include stuff into standard that you had to pay extra in higher end brands - because they are actually competing with their competitors on best deal
Someone will do it themselves, and then see the demand, release it publicly, and make a killing.
Same as for the demand for a small-screened smartphone. There's a vocal minority and they do exist, but not in numbers that can really justify the segment, especially considering it's one that makes less money for the manufacturer. If profit on the spartan model is $W, and you sell X of them, vs the luxury model, which you make $Y profit, selling Z units; and it turns out that $W * X is much smaller than $Y * Z, you'd be a fool to try and go after the spartan market because of some weird emotional connection to the product. X is definitely non-zero, but $W * X just small enough that it's not clear that it makes for a winning product all is said and done. I'm on an iphone SE 2nd gen. The fact that Apple made one is proof that X is non-zero. The fact that they didn't announceme a 3rd gen today is also a comment on how small X is.