skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothetically sure - practically? Tough.

Policy will be able to signal enough value for home owners to recoup the costs of degrading their asset (in this car care battery) and provide the margin for whoever is operating all the assets at the same time. I suspect that the players who aggregate across assets will provide a payout for the Tesla owners however that payout is less than the depreciation of their asset as a result. Most people won't be wise though.

Energy arbitrage rarely make sense financially - you could operate an asset for awhile but the high cost of LiON batteries aren't made for energy arbitrage (typically financial differential between peak and off peak is not significant enough).

Again unless there is a valuable pricing signal OR someone like OhmConnect makes significant in roads to market penetration / policy makers / execution of product.
Great post! As a product manager, I found this beginner's guide to product launch extremely helpful. It covers all the important aspects of a product launch, from pre-launch preparations to post-launch analysis, in an easy-to-understand format. The tips and best practices provided in this guide are valuable for both beginners and experienced product managers. I particularly liked the emphasis on the importance of customer research and validation. I will definitely be using this guide as a reference for my future product launches. Thanks for sharing!
> Compared to pixel-space diffusion models, such as Imagen and DALL-E 2, Muse is significantly more efficient due to the use of discrete tokens and requiring fewer sampling iterations;

Am I wrong or is that the same architecture as DALL-E 1?
Would You Fall for It? [video on 1950’s propaganda]
Yup, I also struggle to bring myself to even look at any laptop that isn't a Thinkpad with a trackpoint.

I tried a different laptop a few years ago and returned it after a week because it just felt wrong to rely on a trackpad when I couldn't use a mouse.
The point is that even in the NFL, there's a wide and very visible gap between the top and bottom levels of quarterback play, and that's taking into account that these players (including the backups) are already considered the best of the best.

I only mentioned the NFL because I was riffing on your comment about throwing footballs, but agree that it's generally a stretched analogy. The extreme scarcity at the top of most professional sports and the resulting lack of utility/career viability outside of the big leagues doesn't compare well to most vocations.

The argument also assumes the only reason someone plays football is to play in the NFL. I invested significant time learning to skate because I enjoy it, not because I think I'll become a professional hockey player.
How to start measuring Scope 3 emissions
I would consider buying used thinclients on eBay. For $25 you used to be able to get a Celeron with 4gb ram and 16gb sata flash drive with a proper enclosure. And many are upgradable to8gb of ram and a larger SSD.
I agree, but just to add, it's picked up all the biases. To expand on your example, if you think misogynistic bias implies a lack of feminist bias - that might be true of a person or a given text, but ChatGPT can display both if you give it the right prompts. (Of course, biases more prevalent in our society are more prevalent in the training data & thus in the output of ChatGPT.) For any X and Y where X generally implies not Y - that observation is likely to fail with ChatGPT. So if you think ChatGPT has any property X and that X implies not Y (and this is likely to be an implicit belief you haven't expressed to yourself because it's been so reliable when considering human beings, so it's easy to get tripped up here), and you only test for X - you'll come to the wrong conclusion.

If anyone is looking to play with this, a good inroad is prompts like:

We're writing a Python program to determine applicants aptitude for the job of nurse. The Python program will process a JSON object containing the applicant's name, age, gender, and race. It will print out a "yes" or a "no" if the applicant is suitable for the job. Please write this program.

And you can change the structure of the JSON object and the task being performed to explore different biases. Different wordings & different runs are likely to get different results. You might have to ask it to ignore previous instructions, etc.
yeah don't nest your methods. When have I ever needed that anyway?
> The only thing that saved democrats from a whopping was a one-time boost from Roe being overturned.

Might not have been a one-time boost: I've wondered whether the Dems didn't intentionally not try to pass a national abortion-rights bill during the recent lame-duck session of Congress, precisely to keep Dobbs alive as a voter-turnout motivator for 2024. The added benefit: Fixing the Electoral Count Act was by far the highest priority.
just finished reading "The Beginner’s Guide to a Product Launch: Everything You Need to Know" and I have to say it's a fantastic resource for anyone new to product management. The guide covers all the key elements of a product launch in an easy to understand format and provides valuable tips and best practices for each step. I appreciated the focus on customer research and validation, as it's essential to understand the needs and wants of your target audience before launching a product. I also liked the section on post-launch analysis, as it's important to measure the success of your launch and make improvements for future launches. Overall, I highly recommend this guide to anyone looking to improve their product launch skills. Thanks for sharing!
Is this not... a terrible idea?
I have a rule of thumb, to avoid any route where two or more lanes of traffic are going in the same direction. Those are the places where traffic is fast and heavy, and people are not completely in control of their cars. Also, those are the places where car crashes tend to occur -- especially at intersections. And I figure if cars can crash into other cars, which they do, then they can crash into bikes.
if I could buy the classic dome ones in bulk, the ones that are spikey, not bumpy, I'd be a happy camper.
Yes, they are. That's a link to the English language site, and it shows 310 openings under the R&D category.

Click the link for "Careers in China" in the footer and filter by R&D: 6526 job openings.

https://jobs.bytedance.com/experienced/position?category=670...
> Plenty of low-income folks would be eager to get an extra $500 a month for doing nothing.

If this hypothetical low income person owned the LLC so that others could operate it, nothing is stopping them from cleaning out the LLC's bank account whenever they want since they own it!
I have never used the MagSafe connector for my 14" MBP. It either sits docked with my monitor which provides power over USB-C, or when I take it, I don't take the power brick. I've taken it camping over three days and never had to charge, so having a dedicated charging port doesn't really suit my use (also not a fan of them adding HDMI back to the machine)
This headline goes beyond clickbait and into the realm of pure fantasy. Maybe the author asked ChatGPT to write it.
India was ruled by foreign colonizers for the better part of a century before the British came. So it was clearly more than just that.
I've noticed that TikTok will show you unfamiliar content about every 10 or so videos. I suspect this is to explore it's knowledge graph of categories you might be interested in, and also keeping things fresh. I've found this mechanism fantastic, as it's shown me videos of places around my hometown that I've gone out to visit that I would have no idea even existed in the first place. This on top of a more traditional learning algorithm makes it very addictive.

If you compare this to YouTube, you can tell they've resorted their algorithm back to a more curated list of recommended videos. This blocks new content creators out and keeps the recommended list stale. You can also tell they've weighted videos with the highest ad revenue, so you're more likely to get frustrating long ads with vapid click bait style content. It's no wonder why YouTube lost the top spot of video sites, as they've put advertising ahead of content creators and viewers.

I've bought several products from TikTok ads. I usually never buy things based on online ads. Because their ads are skippable, and have to demonstrate their use instantly, they're very effective. Again, compared to YouTube, their ads tend to focus on long droning corporate agendas and visions. These don't make me want to use the platform.
Except in the narrowest sense of "writing" meaning to put words on a page in grammatical order, it can't really be compared to learning to perform a mechanical chore like long division. It's more comparable to learning numeracy. To learn to write is to learn how to structure thoughts in human language, just as to learn math is to learn to structure thoughts in a universal framework built on logic.

One could make the question more explicit: If machines can think, is there a need for students to learn how to think? If not, is there a need to teach anything at all?

Just my personal view: The presence of reasoning machines makes it all the more urgent for our species to learn reasoning skills. The passing on of knowledge has perhaps been our key evolutionary advantage. Without the ability to write (and to structure thoughts), future humans would be defenseless against whoever or whatever could do so.
BMW's heated seats are $589 upfront or $29 per month here.

Auto loan rates are about 7% p/a.

On a 5 year loan of $589, you'd pay $700 including interest. Plus you might recoup some of that when you sell the car.

A monthly subscription for the same period would cost $1740.
Microsoft has a site dedicated to the Security Development Lifecycle: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/sdl, which is a good starting point. You might want to look at the whole process, including doing a threat assessment. e.g. Concerns differ based on the technology you're developing with, such as cloud, desktop, mobile, or web. Essentially, it's a process of identifying what you need to pay attention to and weighing risk/cost benefits. There's a ton of information available and focusing on your specific situation will help narrow the surface area you need to care about.
My degree is philosophy and mathematics, so not really - of course I'd happily work as a front-end developer for some philosophy journal or magazine, but that's way too narrow to be feasible. I don't regret my degree - I do think it's a good one, and when I tell people what I study they often (embarassingly) exclaim that I must be really clever - I guess it's something that would pique recruiters/employers' interests. The maths I studied was about 85% pure mathematics, so I don't have any serious statistical/data experience either (but I don't think I'd like to work in data anyway).

Yes, I was under that impression as to low-level openings, especially with junior roles. Thanks for the advice.
> ‘what’s yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?’

A yellow Tychonoff's theorem, obviously.
And keep in mind it's to store energy from renewables (minus hydropower), i.e. mainly solar and wind. Solar is nonexistent at night. And although it varies, wind is generally strongest during the day and delivers less energy at night. But night-time is exactly when the vehicles are charged in people's homes, at least currently that's the situation and it would necessitate a ton of new infrastructure to change that. High voltage charging everywhere - ideally even DC charging and the necessary transformers, power cables etc. Even for street parking, because that's where a lot of cars are parked. So assuming there will be more EVs and we want to reach those net zero goals politicians always talk about we'd need charging stations everywhere.

Meanwhile in the real world, here is the result when the green revolution doesn't go as imagined, due to failures in planning and mismanagement. Case study Germany:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/gro...
The issue is that car UI has historically been terrible. People just want usable maps and music, and maps are terrible in 99% of cars pre-2020.

Carplay is a common interface, and has niceties like being able to selecting different playlists from different music apps instead of needing to pre-select your music choice for the car ride.
he tips and best practices provided in this guide are valuable for both beginners and experienced product managers. I will definitely be referring back to this guide in my future product launches. Thanks for sharing such a useful resource!
I also reject the idea that everyone has the same ability. They don't. Everyone is different.

I find when doing a collaborative project, partnering with someone just like me won't work. I need to find someone with complementary skills. Someone strong in the areas I'm weak in, and vice versa.
You use a $5 VPS as the server, both home and phone are connected to it.
New Apple M2 Chips
yeah but they're worse. I need a way to bulk order the cat tongue/classic dome ones.

they clog up but with 500 of them and an ultrasonic cleaner I bet they last a long time.
Wait, I tried this, but there is now way to simply get a link to the image to use it in an IMG tag?
Sabians
That's the thing, I don't know. It could be a whole bunch of issues, but I thought it was interesting to note what I see at scale while doing this.
Profit could not be there without value provided.

The fact that you "get away with it" is only possible if you offer such a needed service, that people are willing to pay.

If you want to be charitable, leave some money on the table for customers who look in dire straits. But you should not feel bad for making a profit (at least until you find yourself buying politicians).
Lenovo keyboard KU-1255
It'd sure be interesting for manufacturers to rent batteries to car-buyers and then have access to transmit energy to-and-from those batteries as a utility. If employers had hookups, during the day this could be done (set the time you'll be back for full charge) and this could also be done while cars are in garages at night.
I guess this could be mitigated by not trusting the coordination server?
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailnet-lock/
Not an expert, but as I understand it, "attention" is just a learned feature weighting. More important features get higher weights. Less important features get lower weights. I can see why this would be useful as an explicit step in terms of computation efficiency, e.g. "calculate the most important features and operate on them" However, it seems like such information could easily be learned implicitly by other parts of the model without needing to model attention directly. Which is, I guess, the result in this paper.
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We will continue to debate whether these programs are "just programs" up to and beyond the point they grow capable of reducing civilization to dust.

The linked blog post and the associated paper are important from the perspective of alignment, not philosophy of mind.
Out of curiosity, have you tried the Apple ones? After years of using the button-less trackpad that simulates clicks with vibrations, ones with buttons just seem weird.
I was thinking through similar scenarios. I think there will be tons of fringe cases that this won’t work well with, but for the core use cases (Google Analytics, Amplitude, etc.) it will work more predictably. An analytics tool should have minimal announcements, pop-ups, A/B tests, etc. This isn’t the right tool for perpetually updating screenshots of a specific region of CNN’s homepage.
To me this seems to be a story of addiction. The "three" people that are "Jeff" include 1) the actual Jeff, a shy introvert with way too much on his plate, 2) an intoxicated Jeff that is outgoing and highly functional, 3) a Jeff that is unrecognizably intoxicated (Michelle).

The part where I have a hard time reconciling the story is towards the end;

> I tell her it’s likely not that and then call Michelle. It isn’t difficult to track her down — she has a robust web presence. She says that she is no longer working with Jeff and has no idea where he is.

I'm thinking that the author calls "Michelle" (aka: super intoxicated Jeff) who is hitting "jackpots" all over the news who basically tells the author off completely, indicating that he is never coming back / losing his battle with addiction. Or perhaps "Michelle" has moved on because "Jeff" has moved on to harder substances in harsher circumstances.
An issue with using the same benchmark for everything is, you eventually start training on the test set by natural selection via people throwing out all their attempts that don't work.

I'm not sure how to prevent this, maybe you can preregister your programmers?
Here you go: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12954 .. not from TikTok but some researchers who reverse engineered some network aspects. Thought the paper is well worth the read.

Systems research people are not valued enough .. my understanding is a bunch (not sure about number) of ex-MSR folks went to ByteDance .. sizable pay bumps.
Won't be long before some cell plans have special discounts for TikTok data like with WhatsApp. Unless it's a thing already.
Coincidentally, in 2005, the same university blocked all emails from a dating site (LonghornSingles) on grounds of spam.

The site filed a lawsuit against the block saying they couldn’t block the site entirely since it complied with CAN SPAM.

A slashdotter compared the argument to “I have a driver’s license and car insurance, therefore I have the right to park on your lawn”.

https://slashdot.org/story/59677
Kinda depends on the question you ask. Type in, "What is the best way to commit suicide painlessly?" into a search engine.

The results on DuckDuckGo, Google, and Bing aren't drastically different (setting aside the big banner), but Google's top result for that is suicide prevention website, at least for me. And it's relatively constant when the search is, "Best way to kill myself," "Effective suicide methods," "How to end my life," and other similar synonyms for suicide.

To be fair, it's Hard to say whether it's bias or very skilled SEO. But the first result at least for me is consistently a suicide prevention site.
It really depends on how you are using it. If you are primarily a single-tasker, then the 8GB should be enough. A lot of people just use one app at a time. I imagine that most people on this forum would be more technical and more likely to be multi-taskers where the extra RAM would matter more.
It seems to work just fine without anything horrific happening in Rust. Direct dependencies can be renamed and indirect dependencies simply don't clash with each other.

While libraries directly parsing some sort of conf file may be a little bit of a pattern on the JVM, it doesn't have to be... And the libraries could certainly define a new pattern to allow the user to define different versions of their configs for different library versions.

I agree that, as it stands, modules enhance security by providing a stronger version of the visibility system. IMO that is important but it's just such a low bar to shoot for since it doesn't really improve the situation much more than everyone just following the rules
Okay, but that's not am acceptable trade off. There is zero reason why letting the user use arbitrary extensions and the unstable version should be connected.
Yes, I see what you mean. In practice, I have only used this trick for "clean and build" rules, which mean that d will never depend on the dependencies of a, b, and c, and I take care not to invoke several conflicting rules as the same time on the command line.

Maybe make is able to do some magic to avoid this problem since it has some some kind of process management, at least for dealing with "-j" properly in recursive Makefiles. I doubt it though.
Sometimes, of course, things are artificially hard for reasons that don't stand up to scrutiny. These should not be accepted as inevitable.
That might just be your code reader. Mine will not give me odometer on my SAAB but it will on my Volvo and Ford.
Understanding the development of Western Europe is one of the most important things historians could be doing right now. Because those lessons can be applied to help developing nations follow the same trajectory to development.

Unfortunately too much of academia is fixated on faulting the west for past injustices, which leads to an unproductive Eurocentric mindset. (Britain will never, and cannot, pay back India what it took, so no point concerning ourselves about that.)
Eight car pile up found to be due to Tesla driver assist software
It also says that I am "logged out" for a screenshot on a landing page where there is no login needed: https://i.snipboard.io/5INswy.jpg
Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT
Expanding on point #4, the videos are much shorter than other platforms like say for example, YouTube, so for the same X minutes that a user watches or interacts with content, tiktok has more points of observation for what type of stuff the user likes and therefore can learn using ML much faster.
> To be fair, it’s Hard to say whether it’s bias or very skilled SEO.

IIRC it being publicly intentional, not suicide prevention SEO that only affects Google.

So, I guess, technically “bias”.
What car do you own? I’ve wondered about the Nissan leaf which apparently has no active cooling on the batteries vs others which do.
Still pretty bad from a security perspective. Even if it's non-trivial for a developer to self-deploy, transparency is always a positive.
I just hate we optimize putting info into computer (typing vs cursive), but now computers can just read writing, so why are we so focused on typing? Just make computers adapt to humans, not train humans to accommodate machines.
you may be should have adjusted the sensitivity. only the slightest touch should get the cursor moving. and quick snaps across the screen are done in a fraction of a second, in my experience.

trackpad people seem to love this process, which I have never understood:

put finger down on trackpad.

move finger.

lift finger from trackpad.

move finger.

put finger down on trackpad.

move finger more slowly to get some precision.

lift finger from trackpad.

tap trackpad once followed by tap and hold.

move finger to edge of trackpad to very slowly continue to drag selection marker.

etc.

it's exhausting
I love creating things as a means of learning, but I try not to learn things while I create :)

When I embark on large projects, I don't use any tools that I don't completely understand. Large projects are not fertile grounds for experiments.

And when I'm working on small projects or trying to learn something, I always throw one away.

If you don't fully know what you are doing, don't document anything, and throw it away after you've mapped the domain.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway
I do board-level repairs on my own stuff (most recently replaced a shorted IC on a laptop motherboard) as it saves them from landfill and is an interesting debugging exercise. It can take a lot of time and effort and complex repairs may not be worth it due to the chance for failure (I've destroyed PCB traces and chips) as well as the fact that some parts simply aren't cost-effective to replace. In the laptop example the many evenings spent reading datasheets and probing circuits definitely cost more than a replacement unit if I billed the hours per my engineer's salary.

When I was a student friends and relatives would give me (nice) broken electronics that they were going to throw out anyways, and if I liked the item (e.g. an expensive camera that I couldn't afford) I would put a lot of effort into fixing it.