skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the unnamed security risks the admins mention, Texas A&M undoubtedly has an Acceptable Use Policy in place for their campus networks, and this would be an AUP that restricts usage to academic type only. Technically it is against the rules of any university or college or school to be using non-academic, frivolous apps like these, by way of academic resources.

It would be like renting a classroom to hold your bachelor party. Or a homeless person living in the library. That's not what school is for.

Academic institutions are well within their rights to block all kinds of social media, especially when those apps are hogging bandwidth, memory, storage, screen space, or whatever. They're disruptive to the learners who pay tuition and they're a drain on taxpayers and alumni alike.

Good riddance.
> But, as will become clear to everyone later this year, that is not the world we live in.

You seem awfully confident. Not sure what analysis you are reading to give you this impression.
And then there is the realists take with running your own: OH F*K. Another bug I have to deal with.
Not sure if it was universal, but it felt like the capacitor plague was the start of people actually caring about the components on their motherboards. The reviews I recall back then was basically just performance and money. Then they started to highlight the polymer capacitors which weren't prone to leaking.
These days you get detailed info[1] on all kinds of support components, and manufacturers boasting about the number of layers of their PCBs[2].

Maybe just a coincidence, but it felt like it started there.

[1]: https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8685/asrock-x470-taichi-am...

[2]: https://www.gskill.com/product/165/167/1536719010/F4-3600C18...
Great points. I like that way of articulating it — the expectation to solve “normal” problems with normal solutions is actually quite reasonable when you frame it that way.

That’s actually a very important aspect of all of this. As hard as it is to have ADHD and have to do the whole square peg in a round hole thing, it’s understandably hard for the people around us as well. It’s totally forgivable to expect what works for them to work for us.
Getting capital is hard. Much harder than having an idea. (one day, when you are rich, and dozens of people a week are lining up to spend your money for you, you'll understand.)

As the parent says, ideas are easy. Executing them is difficult, and figuring out early that an idea is "out of reach" is part of the process to moving on to another idea.

Two annecdotes;
A customer came to us with an idea, but no funding. We didn't gave the ability to simply do the work for free. So we went looking for funding, and also invested some time in the domain space. Short answer, _someone_ will make a mountain of cash from the concept on day. But who that is will be done what arbitrary, and will rely on a lot of luck. We gracefully left the project (and as far as I know so did the customer.)

Bear in mind that ideas are not special. I can have 10 ideas a day. Figuring out which to do, and which to let go is important.

After school it was "clear to me" that Energy would be a good sector. Alternatives to gasoline were the future. Solar technology, converting ICE engines to run on hydrogen etc.

I had no clear path into that area, and no real skills beyond "ideas" so I went into programming instead. Turns out I was 30 years too early. Now solar is huge, and electric cars are a thing. (ocean wave energy is still waiting for its day in the sun.)

But I don't regret passing on that career. I've had other ideas and done other things.

My point is - don't obsess over "one great idea". You had one, cool. Let it go, have another. Get a real job. Save some cash. Keep thinking. Practice the art of taking (small) ideas to market.

If you hold onto ideas loosely, another will be along soon.
There are bases in Japan and Korea as well as Taiwan. So that guys opinion needs to be backed up with an explanation of why those positions are not close enough short-medium range stealth bombers are a thing?
The real reason behind layoffs in big tech
I've been using TurboTax for almost 20 years. Yes, I could save a few bucks by doing it a different way, but I learned how to do it one way and I don't want to learn how to do it a different way.

The bigger issue has to do with how US politics work. "What makes sense," is what most countries do: the government sends you a completed tax return and you just verify that it is completed correctly. Due to lobbying, the US government is prohibited from telling you how much tax you owe. Instead, what happens is the government does your taxes for you in secret, and if the amount you pay is significantly different from what they believe you owe, the government sends you a bill with a suggested payment. You don't have to actually pay the amount that they suggest, but if you don't, you better have a darn good reason to explain why the government calculated your tax wrong.

In general, it is to your benefit to err in your favor. The interest rate on a "tax mistake" is extremely low. But, if you accidentally overpay, the government will very rarely send you a refund automatically.
That's why I've basically quit software. The vast (vast) majority of the code I've written over the past three decades is useless. It is no longer used, and it could not be used even if someone wanted to use it. It's obsolete, because all the underpinnings have moved on. It's sort of depressing to be in the final years of my career and be able to point to nothing that I've created. I'm still working but I've quit learning new frameworks or languages. It used to be fun, now it's just tiring and seems pointless.
Is your usage of GPT3 user facing in realtime? When you implement prompt chains, doesn't the UX become really slow?
> The remedy for bad benchmarks is good benchmarks, not no benchmarks.

The comment you replied to just said Oracle allows running benchmarks internally, though.
This paper covers only one aspect - estimating demand. But the cost of the EV batteries is another affair. Recently it has come to light several human rights violations involved with the lithium/cobalt mining industry. Both are necessary for making batteries and other electrical components that make up rechargeable batteries.

But today, at least for the short-term, the only solution to stop those inhuman practices is to provide humanitarian aid. The proliferation of violations are at such a scale that even if some major tech players come together and decide that they should provide this humanitarian aid to the "miners", the profit margins drop drastically.

Hence EV batteries may not become viable to the end-consumers.
nope, i mean a website that serves billions
There are strong rumors that Apple plans to bring OLED to the iPads and MacBook Airs starting in 2024. It’s not clear if they will replace the mini-LEDs of the MacBook Pros. Apple promotes the HDR brightness of the mini-LEDs over OLED.

The rumors say that Apple plans to use a two layer OLED with essentially two OLED arrays one of top of the other. The reason for this is to stabilize the display as medium sized OLED are made with flexible substrate and can warp under some conditions. The dual layer is also suppose to allow greater brightness and to help prevent burn-in (perhaps by running each layer with less brightness).
Residual neural nets are a stack of feed-forward layers, and are equivalent to how the brain actually processes images
rephrasing the example:

Awk script stored in file.

In awk file, awk script makes use of mysql interface to generate information to use in awk script to process & return to mysql.

Awk file redirects error messages generated by the awk script to an error log file.

In mysql, aforementioned awk script is called in a different terminal than mysql from within mysql via system().

When/how does the message in the error log file get displayed to the mysql console?

Where does the error(s) generated by the mysql stuff used in the awk script get displayed? Note: example does not state what's done with error message generated by mysql called within the awk script.

Hint: Not to the invoking mysql console screen & maybe also not to the error log file.

edit: The assumption is that awk successfully runs the awk file & within the awk file the mysql api call runs successfully.

Is the mysql api call(s) always worked a good/valid assumption to make without knowing what the 'awk file' handles/does with the mysql api error(s)?

Is mysql & awk script being run on the same system?

Is system set up to log errors to the root console or is that disabled?

Did the printer on the serial console that is suppose to print out/log hard copy of the root console error messages run out of paper at the wrong time?
Meanwhile the New York City sewer grates: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26manhole.html
The industrial revolution was enabled by the rapidly declining price of first iron and later steel.

Making iron requires bringing together iron ore, coal, and limestone in a furnace. These are heavy, and transporting them by horse drawn wagons any distance is expensive.

England was fortunate in having coal mines, iron mines, and limestone quarries either co-located or on the same river so barges could be used. So once charcoal was exhausted and coking developed as the reducing agent, England had a distinct advantage in producing cheap iron.

Once cheap iron was available, it could be used for rails, wheels for mining carts, mining tools, pumps, and eventually steam engines, one thing feeding another in a virtuous cost cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy#Transition_...
https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british...
https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/iron-mining-in-the-british...
Have you used dating apps? Spam bots have been a constant presence since the earliest websites.
It's not "driver assist", it's "full safe driving". That's what Tesla markets it as, they explicitly distinguish it from "autopilot" which they retroactively decided was "driver assist" (after it injured people).

Tesla and Musk then try to blame drivers for trusting them with their lives by saying "you must be ready to take control at a moments notice", and "you must be focused on driving" while also not doing anything - things that are challenging for professional pilots, and the latter demonstrably impossible. That (1) it is legal, (2) not grounds for a return + full refund, and (3) not grounds for criminal charges against Tesla remains absurd.

The fact that Tesla continues to get to falsely claim it improves safety, despite having been caught not including crashes where AP/FSD disengaged moments prior to crashes, and not doing the most basic like-for-like comparisons, is also absurd.

We then got to see testimony on HN today that shows that Tesla knows it is committing intentional fraud: it knows that it has aggressively marketed FSD using fraudulently created videos, and made false claims using those videos as "evidence" of safety.

The fact that they're not subject to government monitoring, and Musk is still fellated by his fanboys as a genius remains an appalling indictment of tech and safety legislation.
Can you explain more your comment about carbs? Maybe some farther reading.
I think in the case of keyboard shortcuts, I was able to look away from the screen while typing, or at least, not focus so intently. The touch screen might be a bit more hypothetical, but I think it doesn't require as much visual acuity, so can relax my eyes a bit more.

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.

Of course you know how it goes... other things may have changed at the same time.
Easy to forget how far everything has come.
Quick turn, front wheel slips out, head on the ground.

Bike rides off the side of the road, fall over, hit head on a rock.

Run head on into a pole.

Certainly, the style of bike helps and those are safer bikes... they don't prevent head trauma though. A helmet does.

This is also similar with skiing. I learned to ski when I was a kid and never wore a helmet. People wear helmets now. Even on bunny slopes. Kids wear them too. You're on snow, it is soft. Helmets are still a good idea.

It is the accidents you're not expecting that tend to hurt you the most.
Sure. Now tell me about Norway.
I guess this is bad news for the AR market. Apple delaying entry means technology is not mature enough for a quality consumer product that can go into the mainstream and indicate the category will remain niche for a few more years.
Ted Selker's description of the invention of the TrackPoint, as told to Bill Buxton, goes into a lot more detail about the path to product and the technical challenges overcome.
https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=60
We build a browser extension for people to demo their own SaaS ( https://www.demogorilla.com ) and while it's never explicitly blocked us, we definitely feel the friction in development from design choices because browsers are being used both as business tools (GSuite) and viewers of webpages funded by ads.

We don't touch anything but the websites a customer already owns, but there are a lot of design choices that really seem to focus on making adblockers (or cookie blockers, JS blockers etc) harder to make (in addition to some very reasonable cross-domain security choices that are annoying but 100% legit).
V2g has a a few challenges of course but people seem to not be aware that their EV batteries are much better than they think. The early ones from ten years ago had no battery management systems and had issues with wearing out relatively fast. But the newer ones have battery management. So, the wear and tear is a lot less these days.

A typical car battery is rated for thousands of cycles. 3000 cycles is a number you hear often. If you have an EV that has a range of 300 miles, we're talking about 900000 miles. That's more miles than the vast majority of cars will drive over their lifespan. The average driver drives less than 15000 miles per year. The car will die before the battery typically, not the other way around. And the battery isn't completely dead at that point, it should still be good for 80% of its original charge. The vast majority of EVs ever produced are still driving with their original batteries and will be for years to come.

A second point is that EV batteries are designed to discharge in a few hours to drive the car. There is no way you'd discharge at that speed via v2g. Most home connections charge/discharge only at a few kw. It's a comparatively light load for the battery and the wear and tear is pretty modest. Battery degradation happens a lot faster if you stress the battery. There are some indications that suggest that v2g discharging has only a very minimal impact on battery life. You wouldn't fully discharge the battery. Not even close.

A third point is that with smart chargers, you would be able to control when the battery is allowed to discharge and how much. A million cars contributing just a single kwh each is 1 gwh. That's a huge amount of power. You would not fully cycle the battery typically but maybe only a few percent. If you start with 3000 cycles and you use 10% of that every day (which would be a lot), you could do that for 30000 days. That's longer than most humans live.

Finally, instead of providing power to the grid, you could use a system like this to power your house and make save significant amounts of money in the evening by using your car instead of expensive grid rates using power that you got from your solar panels during the day for free.

Those savings can really add up over the years. If it worries you, you can invest in a house battery instead. In the end the argument has to be financial and v2g is probably cheaper overall than that. People are spending tens of thousands of dollars to put solar on their roofs. So, throwing their car battery in the mix is a comparatively small step and a perfectly rational thing to consider. But the numbers have to make sense for people to opt in to that.
appealing to authority? lol.
no. read my comment again.
it shows real production example of a juge, complex, website that serves billions.
average php devs can't do that? maybe. but the php lang doesn't block them.
It seems like most new cars have automatic braking at this point, possibly excepting Chryslers and Land Rovers: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-announces-2020-up...

Based on anecdata, I'd expect an economy car from a boring "legacy" automaker to brake sharply at nothing about once in two years.

I haven't seen anything in the reporting on Tesla that would shed light on whether they do it more often, or in more dangerous situations.
Private Substacks
I have no doubt at all. I think your case is exactly what I’m thinking of — in that uncomfortable zone (with ASD, ADHD, or anything) where you mostly manage to appear normal — but in reality you’re actually running at 110% only to meet 75% of people’s expectations. It really weighs on you and there’s never something to point to and say “This is why!”.

I strongly suspect the more divergent you appear while still being high functioning, the better off you might be (in regards to internalizing, at least). Of course that’s only based on my personal relationships and experiences; I could be way off the mark.
Netflix offers pay of up to $385,000 for flight attendant
The cases I'm thinking about would more be internal data protections.

I'll give an example:

We have wikis that are internally and externally accessible, with permission systems for internal users and external partner users that carry different restrictions (e.g., VPN concentrator address range restrictions). If someone tries to access a page in the wiki that they don't have access to, the result is the same as if the page doesn't exist. This reduces leakage from link-guessing (I bet there's still a timing side-channel attack). Additionally, if someone builds a page that uses excerpts from pages that they don't have access to, the excerpt will appear blank. This has led to plenty of funny meetings where one party was talking about a status or readout and the rest of the room was deeply confused (due to a lack of access).

This particular wiki is one of dozens of internal tools with similar (but not identical) compartmentalization protections that I use weekly. Unless Plus can safely and securely account for such restrictions, it's going to be a tough sale for us, and limited coverage areas from partial integration would likely leave the tool with usage start-up issues. To some extent this is a classic uncrackable nut, as the most natural approach (integrate with services and systems) isn't entirely under the control of one party. The next left turn is to integrate with popular software/service providers, something they'll resist due to the natural incentive to avoid disintermediation and the high risk of incorporation of other access models.

Maybe in 10 years Plus will have been the source of a comprehensive delclarative permissions modeling system replete with formally verified macro system composition (boil the ocean style), or maybe I'm missing a clever simplifier to address these and other headwinds stemming from business model and tech architecture intersections. Either way, the explainability of the feature and the end-customer simplicity leave me hoping that things work out. It'll definitely be an interesting ride.
You can't order by date or filter on Google either. I think the fact that young people use it over google as a search says something.
Awesome-Chalice: Porridge for your LLVM'd λLLMs
> 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.

Its explicitly fiction, so “real” is…perhaps not the right word. I think the story is intended to be read literally as fiction; its a fictional world where “puppeteers” that can somehow temporarily exist within you and direct your actions, and also pop out of you and leave you on your own are a real kind of personal service you can hire, and where also VR headset that let you relive past experiences are real things you can get (by the end of the story, at least.)

On the other hand, I think the puppeteer element intentionally can serve as allegory for one or more things in the real world; both gender transition and mental health care via professionals and drugs seem like they could fit, more or less. I don’t know if one thing in particular was intended, though.
The sweet spot for the Mini is the 16/512GB M2 Pro at $1299. It is significantly less expensive than the Mac Studio. Unless you need 32GB of RAM and a lot more GPU cores, the Mini will do nicely.
Reflections after the avalanche (human factors in risk taking – 2014)
These are all things that improve general safety for sure! They don't prevent you from being injured when you bang your head. A helmet does.
Exposing the Cult of Artificial Intelligence
Inertiajs is the right solution if you need more interactivity than livewire. It can be used with react or vuejs out of the box (probably svelte too but haven't looked it up).
> It would also reproduce the biases of the authors, weighted by the volume of writing coming from that bias.

Yes, but I think there are ways we could reduce this bias, perhaps significantly, even.

> While one might object to the editorial choices, I can’t see any rational bounds for objecting to the idea that the creator of models would censor “certain ideas or political views” as a generality.

You are right, I was unfair with my words.

I think it would be more fair to say that OpenAI is inadvertently biasing ChatGPT answers as a side effect of their RLHF training being done using answers/rankings done by people (i.e. the AI trainers [1]) who are not a representative sample of the population, but rather, probably comprise a group of people who are likely to be significantly more leaning to one side of the political discourse (presumably, OpenAI employees or Silicon Valley-based contractors?).

This probably greatly biases ChatGPT to produce certain kinds of answers to certain kinds of questions that would likely not happen otherwise, and in fact, these answers are perceived to be quite biased by the other side of the political discourse.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
This. When doing a bunch of errands, that involve lots of stopping and getting out of the car, then getting back in, it seems to take a good minute for Android Auto to re-load every time I start the engine. Must be even more annoying for delivery drivers. This is on a 2-year old car. I don't even think it's Android Auto that's slowing it down, but the head unit's OS is taking that long to boot before it will allow Android Auto to start. Surely the whole thing could be kept switched on (in sleep mode perhaps) for 30 minutes after the car is stopeed?
I've been programming for 55 years now. I've seen lots of languages come and go. Object Pascal is my favorite by far. Writing an Object Pascal program is like writing a sonnet. It's difficult but rewarding. A properly written Object Pascal program is a thing of beautiful perfection.
> Any factory adjustments made to the device could well depend on the exact characteristics of the capacitors that were present in the device when it was manufactured.

Capacitors especially and in general most components age and their specs drift. This is not a valid reason for not replacing components. If something isn’t actually all that old, sure, but capacitors especially are just not precision components over long periods.
I'm in the same boat, but using trackpoint + vim shortcuts for most things (including window manager, browser, and of course, vim). Works really great for day-to-day coding and browsing. If I have to do something that's easier with a lot of pointing (like making diagrams on inkscape) then I just use an actual mouse.