skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been approached by a company like that. They invest in "vertical SaaS". The deal was similar, they would have paired me (as CTO) and someone with business experience in the vertical as CEO.

The starting equity of each cofounder would be about 20%. Salary, I'm not entirely sure but you're a founder right? Are you _supposed_ to worry about salary at this point?

Anyway it didn't make much sense to me. I think I would be a bit unmotivated to get ready to rock as a "founder with 20%". Just feels weird you know?
GPT-3.5 and Wolfram Alpha via LangChain
Context: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-...
Lady Buys Remote Island
In that NYPost article Dr Natalie Gosnell isn't discussing the PhD requirement for advancement within the US National Labs .. so you may have to expand your point if you want to make one.
Big in what way, resolution or length? I'm sure Vimeo can serve lower-resolution, and the length of the video doesn't affect how quickly it can buffer.
A food safety expert’s rules for the kitchen
> Seeing how a lot of peer-reviewed science is based on improper methodology, bad analysis, false data and buggy code, maybe it would be better to question everything.

Peer-review isn't perfect, but it is still a more reliable source of information than (e.g) Reddit

At least retraction is a thing – it doesn't happen as often as it should, but sometimes bad papers do get retracted, and there is a process people can use to challenge work they think should not have been published. Also, many journal databases have a "Cited by" feature, and so you can always read papers/letters-to-the-editor/etc responding to it - often, if research is particularly bad, sooner or later someone else will publish a criticism of it
This is somewhat comparing the wrong metrics. The more people you have not driving a car and instead on a bike, the safer everyone is. Exactly like the more people you have out of a car and on a bus.

The bus is an easy comparison, as even on a bus, you would be safer with a seatbelt. But the added danger of not having a seatbelt is more than offset by the reduction in cars.
Someone or some company is paying for that? To what end?
You load a feed on Twitter. It knows what videos are coming up. You open a page on Reddit, it knows what videos are in the first few pages.
The article links to https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/06/02/why-helmets-arent-the..., which positively correlates helmet wearing with fatality rate. Of course, correlation is not causation, and you could logically argue that most of the causation is the other way around, i.e. an unsafe biking environment induces wearing helmets - but at the very least wearing helmets doesn't seem to solve the issue.

The part where the other direction of the causation probably crops up is that, when a society focuses on wearing helmets for biking safety, biking safety will be lower than in societies that focus on biking infrastructure.
This isn’t something I’ve been able to judge too well, because ever since I started working as a dev over 90% of my serious typing has been docked with a mech board and trackball.

Some time in the coming months I’ll be receiving the TEX Shura[0] (and more precisely, the DIY variant[1]) I preordered a few months ago which will let me see how well a trackpoint meshes with my desk setup.

[0]: https://tex.com.tw/products/shura?variant=42840179409051

[1]: https://tex.com.tw/products/shura-diy-type?variant=428450353...
Yes the idea a number of business have that everyone has a smart phone and can install an app ... or they have decent internet in the first place, I find maddening, not for the resulting situation but for the picture of what sad standards must exist, either the big wigs are deaf to the developers, or they've hired in technical people who are one trick ponies / low over skill set. I have a simple rule: If the business doesn't have a functioning web site, why should I trust some fly by night app, sorry, no can do. Turning off (or more quietly breaking them) non data phone access services won't work on me either.

After being given a few years ago an old, pre google raising its ugly head samsung, which I loved, I went on to purchase four more cheap phones on sale, the last two were merely to install apps that needed a much newer OS. My experience with the newer and cheaper phones were not the best. The last being damn right nasty with poor ability to properly clean up the phone's limited amount of storage, and permissions set that no app (I use) could write to the sd card. Sadly if that was the only small issue I might have considered it worthwhile to root the device. Reset ultimately freed up the internal storage space and it's now an excellent hotspot device and phone ... if I think to change the settings back to accept calls.
> Or because SaaS is easier to use and requires little or no maintenance.

YUP

We recently deployed Tailscale in our organisation; I had looked at Wireguard very closely but decided that the ease of use of Tailscale meant we could get up and running much more quickly and easily and at relatively low cost (small team).

We'll re-evaluate as we move forward & probably need to deploy it to more users, but it was the difference between a few minutes setup to get all users into it versus several hours of figuring out the ins and outs of Wireguard & then getting the team onboarded.

While any security incident is frustrating, they are inevitable, and the only way to really judge an organisation is by its response. Tailscale's response here gives me more confidence, not less.
It wasn't just access to coal, it was access to coal coupled with the heat engine: heat engines used coal, but led to the production of more coal and in turn created more demand for coal. This positive feedback loop created exponential growth.

The Chinese widely used coal in metallurgy, but did not have an effective heat engine.
Counter-counter-point that poorly paid five year review doesn't have to be poorly paid or take five years - that's a function of countries and their approach to education etc.
Are you just ignoring the speed of the vehicles that hit you?
They were being sarcastic, BMW already did this
There are different sorts of studying. To some people, studying means downloading the lecture notes, reviewing their own class notes, getting the slide deck from the professor.. To other people, studing means they actually crack open the assigned texts (which many students didn't bother buying in the first place.)
I had a "conversation" that began with a prompt about the ideal kind of government with no money. It described a bartering economy and then as I pressed further with "how would X work?" "how would Y work?" it described communism, just straight communism with a central planning committee that would oversee the distribution of goods and services. When pressed about the fallibility of man with such power (as all communist nations suffer from this fatal flaw) it stated that "appropriate oversight" would be enough to prevent abuse.
That is a very defeatist attitude.
It is a lie by omission, some facts are so important to a statement that eliding them is lying. You can't just say that the driver wasn't necessary when he had to intervene in your other tests, it is like saying that the safety net for your line dancer isn't needed even though he would have fallen and died many times over without it. Such lies kills people.
I’ve been binging A History of Europe, Key Battles podcast which traces European History from Alexander to WW1. It really gives a great overview of European history and allows for one to see broad trends. For me, the Industrial Revolution is a product of the Enlightenment, Centralization of states (decline of feudalism) and the competitive nature of Europe (no single hegemony on the power).

Even without the overseas Empires Europe probably would’ve been the birth of the revolution.
What was the fate of the old, not-yet-dead motherboards?
It's 'a rite of passage', or is 'a right of passage' an American thing?
This is why I love BMW. They have the entire coding/updating software used at BMW dealerships online for download (not-official). You can change parameters for almost every feature on the car. Anything from disabling headunit warnings to injector control.
Romans had access to coal, even mines. That acoup article says it's the demand for coal that made the difference.
> If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical keyboard I would love to.

There's precedent. :)

If I heard correctly, when the inventor went to pitch TrackPoint in a meeting at IBM, he showed up with a normal keyboard, a TrackPoint assembly, and a drill, and proceeded to retrofit a TrackPoint in front of them.

He once spontaneously offered to give me a new TrackPoint SpaceSaver II keyboard (he had a couple retail boxes of them in his office). That happened to be my dream keyboard at the time, so I knew it was $170, which seemed way too expensive a gift for a poor grad student, so I couldn't accept. :)
Not really the same thing, but Tesla does it on a 10x scale: The monthly cost of the FSD Subscription is $200/mo, costing $14400 if you were to pay for it over the entire 72 month loan, but you can also choose to buy it outright for $15k ( $16800 over the loan term at a 2% interest rate; at current interest rates of 7%, $21300) - and for FSD, you can cancel anytime to save money if you don't want it. With the loan, you can't get a rebate for removing the feature.

Of course, for things like heated seats, the question is whether or not they've actually reduced the price of the car to account for the additional post-sale revenue. For Tesla, the Model 3 started out at $35k so heated seats being an additional charge at first made a lot of sense, but as it crept well over $40k for the standard range/RWD version, it started to look like a money grab and IIRC it was the 2022 refresh that removed the heated seat post-purchase requirement on the RWD trim.
It's really a great MOS (military operational specialty), I hear. You can't rehearse all day, so you have lots of time to work on your tennis game.
The funniest is how Solidity does this. The language focused on transfers of money.
I've been using Linux on my old thinkpad for a very long time and I've never had to look at TrackPoint settings. It just works.

Looking now, the trackpoint shows up as a generic mouse. No special settings or anything. So yeah, on par with windows.
Everything is regulated. Why not a "no subscriptions on safety measures" isn't one i don't know. Having a warm butt is a safety measure
Not a pilot so I don't know if they'd use that language today, but there have been more than a few lessons written in blood over the years regarding ambiguous/unclear ATC communications. For example the worst air disaster ever occurred in part because a controller gave the instruction (paraphrasing), "cleared to beacon after takeoff." It was intended only as instructions to be followed after takeoff, but the pilot interpreted it as, "you are cleared to takeoff, then follow these instructions." The airport was under heavy fog at the time so he couldn't see the plane that was taxiing and hadn't cleared the runway yet. Two 747s collided and nearly 600 people died.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
I put in several papers I am familiar with that are long and complex and got back reasonable sounding summaries. Impressed.
Your earlier arguments about how the government should not exercise negative rights, e.g. taking things away from you, as well as your proposition that conservatives advocate that the government should leave the private sector to handle things would seem to be in complete conflict with the idea that the government should be able to control who can and cannot get married.
After COVID especially, NYC restaurants start to ask customers to scan QR code to get menu, not sure about other places. These penetrations into the real lives are making living with dumb phone more and more difficult. Of course, China has been like this years ago.
Wouldn't attention networks use less computation for the same number of weights? Feed forward networks have higher connectivity no?

If a network is the same size, less computationally demanding, and gives you 3% improvement, it seems extremely worthwhile, especially given the (mostly) diminishing returns of just adding more weights/layers.
> something that looks like insider trading is a lot more likely.

Or maybe, our AI overlords would do legitimate hard work, earn money and buy all the companies we work for.

Presumably through a complex web of intermediaries, so that humans never notice.

Maybe, they don't directly control us, but just vote for board members that drive us in the direction they want us to go.

Would make for sci-fi... in practice AIs won't matter anytime soon.
Your range figures seem pretty crazy high. Pretty sure most EV batteries are smaller than 100k--my Model Y is only 75k for instance, and I'm not getting anywhere close to 500km per cycle because (1) my Model Y doesn't actually get 500km on a full charge and more importantly (2) like most EV owners, I don't charge to 100% and run my battery down to 0% but rather something closer to 80%/20%. So for my Model Y scenario, it's closer to half of your total range figure.

Also, I'm not sure what components would wear out in an EV before the battery such that it would total the car out. If the EV batteries in totaled cars can be repurposed for grid use, then great, but I would expect them to get recycled and put back into cars unless strapping them to the grid is cheaper than recycling (seems maybe plausible?).
Processors also emit a signal when there's an over/underflow. Is it costly to check that at a low level and terminate the process in this case?
Last week I was travelling on a different country. I was mostly without WiFi and I bought a prepaid SIM card with some GB. TikTok ate 2GB of "background data" in two days, even if I did not open the app.

So it's not hard for me to guess how they do it...

(Yes, background data is now disabled for TikTok on my phone... I learned my lesson)
Yea, I’ve always seen Oracle’s big selling point is the admin tooling that they provide. At least that’s what I’ve been told.
Interestingly, they just updated their ToS [1] to force arbitration [2], and moved from Canada to NY (which my lawyers were happy about that second part).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357616

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358004
22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing
I think there's a meaningful difference between what we have today and a future where those poorly informed opinions can be trivially generated at scale.

If individuals posting poorly informed opinions are small weapons fire, the AI equivalent is a nuclear bomb.
Is the tiktok tech REALLY that good?
You realize Tik tok is owned by the CCP right?
The examples given for an AI catastrophe are not based on the real engine of social cohesion: the economy. The catastrophe must come, if it comes, as a result of economic collapse.

Money has value because it is loosely tied to effort and scarcity.

Professionals—-those with high paying jobs based on unique skills, expertise and a lot of education and experience—-are the most vulnerable to AI disruption.

Professionals dominate the workforce. As of 2021, almost 60% of the workforce was classified as professional. That is a staggering 88 million jobs, at a rough average salary of $75K, or $6.6 trillion.

https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/the-professional-and-te...

If only 25% of high paying professionals were eliminated from the workforce as a result of AI disruption (I think this is conservative) over the next few years, that would account for a loss of almost $2 trillion in wages from the US economy alone. This would result in lost income for other service occupations, so the total economic impact could be several trillion dollars. The U.S. GDP is $25 trillion, so this could account for a 20-25% loss in GDP.

Routine recessions result in a GDP loss of 2%, and more severe recessions at up to 5%.

The Great Depressive saw a loss of 25-30% in GDP.

This is why I see the coming AI catastrophe as one of economics, and there is nothing stopping the AI freight train at the moment.
I paid a premium of about $60/sqft (about $90K in my house) for the high-performance stuff (heat pumps, HRV, airtight weather barrier, dense pack blown-in insulation, etc).

The remaining $/sqft is just like any other build in the Bay Area, so quite expensive, but a lot depends on structural changes, finish levels, premium features (or lack thereof), and other things that have little to do with energy performance of the building envelope.

As with all things, the bigger the house, usually the lower the cost per square foot for an individual system like a heat pump that have high fixed costs but scale up more cheaply. But the costs for things like a high performance external weather/air barrier and high performance insulation scale with the external surface area.

I'm not including things like electric stoves/ovens and heat pump dryer in that because those price differences are easy to find online.

In a new build, I think the premium for high performance could be brought down much lower, but only if performance is considered from the design stage.
> Stop drinking alcohol, as said elsewhere. It takes about 2-3 weeks of sobriety to regain 80% of the capacity you lost.

Capacity of what? And have you got any source on that?
You can get them for about 12 bucks and talk to them over usb. Pretty nifty
I consider the best cloud gaming use case for playing games in high fidelity without owning a dedicated gaming computer. My point was strictly that the cloud likely has nothing to offer on this front: any and every computer could likely run it locally.
While this island may be off the market now, there's still a lot more out there, several in the $100k range:

https://www.privateislandsonline.com/search?availability=sal...
Yeah definitely. There are some people who are real passionate about the magic-mushrooms-caused-cognitive-evolution theory because it validates their lifestyle choices.
> Turns out there is a convenient setuid binary called “amossu” in the stock firmware, it simply does:

setgid(0);
setuid(0);
execv("/system/bin/sh",__argv);

Amazing!
Too bad that architecture caps out at 96gb

32gb - 128gb all have the same utility for me, with expanded utility beginning at 128gb
>with a desktop like this that isn't going to be moving frequently

When I owned a Mac mini it moved all the time: I took it on the bus with me to and from my girlfriend's house 100s of times.

(Although it died faster than it would have if I had left it in one place, it did last almost 9 years.)
What's the #1 thing to change to be happier?
Well don't explain it, just sit there and tell us how you're better than we are.
How does a food ingredient have anything to do with a CCP surveillance app?

Reach harder.
I know at least about the DAO hack.
Possibly Pinterest. I am not sure if the browser extension was 100% necessary for Pinterest to succeed, but I remember it being part of the new user sign-up flow, at least at one point.
Smithsonian will restore hundreds of the oldest sound recordings
Can you share what amp you got?
If you have a VW, the RCD330 is an excellent OEM upgrade that is plug & play with most 2005-2015 VWs. I had the same list of requirements on top of Android Auto, and it checks every box. Other OEMs might have similar upgrades that come from other markets.
I've read that nearly all range reduction occurs in the first year. If you're seeing ~80% usable energy out of it, then it's probably keeping you between 10% to 90% which is probably fine. Another major factor is battery cooling. Some only air cool the batteries, and in a hot climate they will die much quicker that way. It would be nice if the details were made available as not all manufacturers will use the same limits. Even better would be if it were configurable to some degree.
Their licensing does not ban benchmarking; it only bans publishing the results. A subtle but important point.

By all means, run benchmarks on your workload profile and choose the technology that works best for you - that is perfectly OK. But not make claim that xxx beats oracle in yyy.

Oracle goal here is to make a good enterprise ready DB solution; not to fight the open-source community on hundreds of different performance claims, half of which have been specifically engineered to put the competing, leading product in a bad light.

You might not like what oracle does or how they do it, but it’s clear that they have a target on their back and sometimes the best way to play the game is not to play at all.

Just look at the « independent and fair review » that Top Gear made about Tesla.
I'm in the 21%. I prefer my phone in a dash mount for navigation. I don't need or want an expensive, outdated head unit that costs an arm and a leg to replace. Give me Bluetooth and analog knobs and I'm happy.
Generally I agree, but I think the malleability of neural tissue leads pretty easily to the conclusion that the embodiment of consciousness you're describing relates to our current form of consciousness and not consciousness generally.

It may be that it's key for consciousness to have an "outer world" perceived through some sensory input, but I'd say that that's a pretty wide array of configurations that doesn't require a full biological body.
Coopers, shipbuilding, stonemasonry, blacksmithing?

There are a lot of highly evolved arts (emphasis on art) that, through lack of subsequent generations of journeypeople and/or commercial need... just sort of disappeared (at least in high art form).
In the same vein I can also suggest ;
https://hackattic.com

and
http://newcoder.io
Both take the student through the process of building one fully-functional application.
I just tried a quiz of 15 multiple choice questions on New Zealand history, and I asked it to indicate the correct answer. It made a couple of glaring errors, which was disappointing.
Oh you're right.. Fuck it, I may as well just install a camera in my bathroom and live stream it. /s
An on screen keyboard that’s useable while driving like they used to have back in 1999, a century ago
Do you have any links or anything to support that? He's seemed pretty nice and supportive in the interactions I've seen. Given that you apparently registered an account just to shit-talk him, your word alone is... less than persuasive.
At many schools in the US there is an honors program that is separate from Latin honors.

Such programs generally require you to complete x honors classes. Honors classes are either regular classes with additional components or they’re just harder.

For example when I took honors biology long ago, we had an additional lab section where grad students lectured us on their research, and we had extra assignments.

So I graduated with “Honors” based on completing the honors program, and also cum laude based on my GPA.
I love the idea of being able to move your mouse cursor without moving your hand off of the keyboard. I just don't think that the trackpoint was fast and accurate enough to pull it off.

I want to see someone try out a solution where each key on a keyboard gets a dedicated sensor, and you can have one hand/thumb press a magic "activate mouse" button, while the other hand basically runs across the keys just like you would use a touchpad. For bonus accuracy, you could sum/aggregate the movement of all fingers for the single pointer so that you can avoid lifting even any part of your hand.
FTX US Balance Update
Not a plug-in hybrid, and not data, but I'm down 5-10% total range after 80k miles over 6 years in a plug-in (full) electric vehicle.
With commercial airlines, there’s 2+ pilots in the cockpit. So, they share flying, radio, etc responsibilities. And ATC splits various phases of flight operations across several radio frequencies (ground, departure, etc).

And once you’ve listened to enough ATC radio, there are patterns and cues. If ATC wants to talk to somebody, they call them by flight number, etc.

But, yeah, listening to a busy airport is confusing for anybody who isn’t an experienced pilot.