skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most essential tool I recommend to any new Mac(book) owner is BetterTouchTool. It started out as a tool to allow you to assign and define new gestures on your trackpad, but has become a lot more since. One of the things it does is window management – drag a window to an edge to full/half/quarter-screen it. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut or trackpad gesture to do this, if you prefer. I couldn't use my macbook without it.
I think Starlink is still part of SpaceX for now, so it's already counted there.
The real issue is hidden in the title: it’s short term storage, ie the daily cycle. Mid-northern Europe has much more of a seasonal supply problem.

That said, smoothing out the daily cycle would help a lot too, even in cold winter days. But Germany and friends have decided to phase out nuclear before alternatives are actually deployed, which has led to like the worst winter… so far.
Wouldn't gait tracking be the obvious next step?
I don't, LFP batteries are quite resilient. 80% -> 20% is a usability nightmare nobody with a $50k vehicle should accept. My Ioniq (first gen) doesn't even have an LFP battery and is optimized for 100% -> 13%, maybe even 100% -> 10% (turtle mode starts at 5%). Still at 100% SOH after three years.

Way more important for battery life is the charging rate (again, LFP are more resilient there too). Which wouldn't be an issue for grid use.
>converting massive amounts of coal to fertilizer

This isn’t anything new, IIRC PRC was converting ~50 million tons of fertilizer using coal gasification, which it has curtailed significantly under Xi to focus on emission goals by relying more on imports. But now that great power competition is back, security > environment. Combined with moving to better ag practices where net fertilizer use is decreasing while output increasing (PRC previously used a stupid amount of fertilizer / unit). Peak PRC fertilizer production was like 100M tons, current consumption is ~50M, down from high 60M. Circling back to ops point = PRC can indigenously supply their own fertilizer with domestic inputs which is enough for food security in terms of calories.

>elaborate hypothetical war plans

If by elaborate hypothetical war plans you mean establishing deterrence to mitigate world war levels of destruction by establishing more rungs of escalation than homeland strikes straight to nukes, I call that responsible planning. PRC pursuing a prompt global strike is part of the PLA's 2020 Science of Military Strategy, and acknowledged by the 2022 DoD report on PRC military. It’s no different than various US blob/warplanners plotting interventions on a TW scenario, replete with mainland strikes. If the US expects to escalate that far, of course the PRC is willing (and most importantly, increasingly able) to reciprocate.

Ultimately, this is merely the flip side of US efforts of "integrated deterrence", US wants to deter PRC reclaiming TW, and PRC wants to deter US from "blundering" into greater conflict by showing existential cost is now mutual. Then it circles back to the question of who wants it more. I imagine US polity wondering if intervening in TW is worth it if war follows to the US homeland. Not just revolutionary skirmishes but existential destruction that the US has so far been isolated against. I can imagine that impacts actual US decision making regardless of propaganda layer. What I can also imagine is CCP telling coastal elites, as it has consistently, that peaceful reunification is preferable but military force is not out of the question, and in the event of military force, mutual vulnerability to deter homeland strikes means their QoL will not spiral out of control. If the US is deterred from intervening, PRC can prosecute TW like US conducted wars in the Middle East, with little impact on domestic affairs, even less with strict media controls.
Somebody is maintaining an awesome claude repo with claude use cases, claude vs chatgpt comparisons as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404536
Even when I'm at home with a mouse, I tend to fall back to the trackpoint to adjust sliders or pick colours precisely in Lightroom.
Trackpoints on my Thinkpad give superior position control to everything tried from Mac trackpad to digital tables.

The only drawback is that moving the cursor across 3 screens is way too slow using the trackpoint.
There will always be this uncomfortable balance between need to know information to be useful being essentially the same as everything an adversary would need to really act against you.

With something like chat gpt being plugged into some voice assistant thing and having access to all your documents, emails, and other content, you could imagine having conversations about work content, content creation, calendar management, etc. Basically it would become like a secretary that is able to write letters based on your input, manage your calendar, etc. It could be pro-active and remind you about things, summarize incoming messages, search through your documents, message history, etc.

That's where AI becomes really useful. But the issue of trust is a big one. I don't think a lot of this requires a lot of breakthroughs either just a lot of integration work and engineering. Chat gpt is more a proof of concept than a well integrated thing at this point. It basically is running in isolation and it's only window to the world is chat. Changing that should not be that hard. Running things locally might help with this but it may not be a hard requirement for this. All depends on how useful this is.
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Just this week I had an issue with a Letsencrypt cert that wasn't updated.

All of my users had visited the site and the certificate was the same. Browsers should give a less dramatic response if they have already seen the certificate and it simply expired. It's completely different from visiting a new site whose certificate the browser has never seen.
(Almost) everything about storing data on the web
Présentation.app: a presentation tool for pdf slides (e.g. for LaTeX)
There is a paper?
That's basically the problem of unsupervised machine translation using mainly monolingual corpora. It means giving a machine learning model tons of text in two languages and let it figure out how to do translation between some old language X and e.g. english. There's no need to feed it a parallel corpora, i.e. examples of sentences in X languages and their translations in english.

In some situations, this seemingly impossible task is doable and can yield good results. Researchers sometimes need to kickstart their models by giving them a mapping between words of the two languages (for english <-> french: "cat" <-> "chat", "book" <-> "livre" and so on). That's just simple vocabulary. While it's technically possible to learn this mapping from scratch, it's too difficult as for now.

Do you know of the Encoder-Decoder architecture? You feed something (image, text) to the encoder which compresses it to a very dense representation, and the decoder try to use the resulting dense vector to do useful stuff with it. The input could a sentence in english, the encoder then encodes it and the decoder tries to use the output of the encoder to generate the same sentence but in french. These architectures are useful because directly working with "plaintext" to learn how to do translation is way too expensive. I mean, that's one of the reasons.

What the encoder does is mapping a "sparse" representation of a sentence (plaintext) to a dense representation in a well-structured space (think of word2vec which managed to find that "king" + "woman" = "queen"). This space is called the "latent space". Some say it extracts the "meaning" of the sentence. To be more precise, it learns to extract enough information from the input and present it to the decoder in such a way that the decoder becomes able to solve a given task (machine translation, text summarizing etc).

One of the main assumption of the unsupervised models using monolingual data only is that both languages can be mapped to the same latent space. In other words, we assume that every sentences/texts in english has its exact french (or whatever) equivalent, that the resulting translated sentences contain exactly the same information/meaning as the original ones.

That's quite the dubious assumption. There's obviously some ideas, some stuff that can be expressed in some languages but can't be exactly expressed in some others. While theoretically unsound, however, these models were able to achieve pretty damn good results in the last couple of years.
I was hoping this would autoupdate user documentation based on the latest version of my app.
mosparo – The Modern Spam Protection
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The spam protection should be adaptable to the design of the website
Data should be protected as well as possible
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also sounds like a world where items are subscription based.

If you desire a luxury colour like blue; you have pay monthly credits otherwise your clothes items are downgraded to brown.
Thanks! Yes, that’s the way to go. There is only a compromise between code simplicity/specialization and compression performance. And another point is the ability to use the format in memory without too much decoding or overhead when opening the file, random access for fast forward etc (when doing delta encoding) etc. (And I actually need strech too because my NPC interacts with objects, so the arm/hand bones should be at their exact place at replay, that’s 32 bones just for fingers.)
Portugal used to have that, but I think they stopped it because the EU said no. Thank god.
Thonny – Python IDE for beginners
All great points.

I'd like to add that depending on the game or game type, you might want to also incorporate "drills". It's easier to practice some things when not under pressure or overwhelmed by lots of decision making.

Edit: Drill should be like... If you play 7 days a week, have about an hour to an hour and a half of drills a week. Pulled these estimates out of my ass kinda, butt the general consensus is you should play way more than you do drills. Kinda like when practicing sports, I imagine

For example, if you're thinking of playing FPS games, they there's great aim drills for aiming techniques (flicks, tracking, microflicks, pre aiming, crosshair discipline, etc) in Kovaaks. But then you also gotta think about movement (long peeks, short peeks, dodges, strafes, etc) and positioning (corners, high ground) that are best practiced in game.

For mmorpgs it's all about positioning, cues and your practicing rotation timings (instead of aim drills) and counters. Understanding how buffs and debufs stack and interact. Movement can be important and a bit of meta gaming too

Also gotta think at a little meta (how does the game process input and animations, animatio cancels) for really competitive levels.

I would say mechanical skill is usually 20% and the 80% is understanding when and where to be, and what to do; only then does mechanical skill matter. If you are out of position and have great mechanical skills, you will get punished before you can utilise your aim/rotation to their fullest potential, but with good positioning (ie cover, staying at the edge of range, highground control) gives you more opportunities to execute if your mechanical skill fails you.
Unfortunately, when someone thought cookies problematic, instead of a pragmatic solution (such as extending the syntax to support identifying the use-case for each cookie, and allowing browsers to default treatment thereof without other than initial user-intervention) the world decided it was better to panic and put nag dialogs on everything to "show" that they're pretending to be compliant.

Your web browser does not even have to "announce" anything, if there were categories of cookies "required", "optional features", "tracking" then the browser could simply chose to ignore those you don't want..

Sure sites could ignore that and do everything with the "required" ones, but.. they can do that today as well, the nag dialogs are pure kabuki anyway.

To be honest, at this point, I'd much rather have "all you can track" be default if it meant I could avoid the nag dialogs.. It's not like they can't track me without cookies, and I can always browse in privacy mode and use different browser profiles to isolate cookies in the rare cases where I actually care.

But the nag dialogs are actually there and actively annoying every time I visit some site. They make my everyday experience worse, where even the evilest of tracking wouldn't even be very visible to me..
Show HN: My daily workouts generated with ChatGPT
> Where are you reading "emotionally devastated"

here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34421487

On exam day you are just emotionally devastated

> describing feeling "devastated" when they can't crack a few questions in an important exam they thought they'd studied appropriately

maybe the expectations are too high?

You are a student, it's in the name, you don't know stuff because you are learning.

Maybe I can't understand what you're talking about because I am not American.

School is called school for a reason.

Once you finish school you realize how easy school was compared to real life problems, that sometimes have no easy solution or no solution at all, no matter how hard you try.

If an exam makes you feel emotionally devasted, what will happen when life throws life/death problems at you?

Maybe it's a matter of re-balancing priorities and not putting so much pressure on yourself, life doesn't end for a failed exam.

Maybe it's not exams that are too hard, it's the system that is pressuring students to finish as soon as possible, because it costs them so much, that the risk of going bankrupt it's too high, some form of sunk cost fallacy at play.

OTOH, in that system, who would pay premium rates for a lesser education where exams are so easy that anybody can pass them?

I started working at the age of 19, full time (6 hours a day/ 5days a week), while also studying at university and paying for my bills.

I still believe exams where the easiest part of the process, the bureaucracy it's what was killing me.

And I feel I have to specify that I am in no way a genius, I was just an average student with a soft spot for CS problems, meaning I liked solving them, not that I had it particularly easy.
Thanks for the pointer, I will definitely have a look at this format, I was not aware of this.
Another pro tip for using Spotlight: you can search by the initials of an app. For example, if you want to open "Private Internet Access", instead of searching for a substring, you can simply type "pia" into spotlight.
They may make plans, but when it comes time to actually wage a war against a fellow nuclear power that drops DEFCON levels, will they actually commit to a path such as striking American soil that will so inevitably wreck the very globalized interconnected system of political and economic ties that made modern China in the first place? Not to mention, it's all very well to build such intercontinental rockets, hard to say they will work as expected in an actual conflict. Perhaps the Pentagon will bring back Star Wars. Imperial Japan had such innovations as midget submarines and balloon bombs too, not all innovations work out in war, outside the imagination.

> mutual vulnerability to deter homeland strikes means their QoL will not spiral out of control

We are talking about a situation where the sheer disruption to world trade, never mind sanctions and the like, would drop quality of life. The sheer economic shocks and supply chain disruptions would be massive. You expect normal shipping to take place near a war zone, sanctions or no sanctions? The government can make all of the promises they'd like, things have a tendency to spiral out of control in war.

> PRC can prosecute TW like US conducted wars in the Middle East, with little impact on domestic affairs, even less with strict media controls.

On this I am of two minds. On one hand, it seems that inevitably, the Chinese public will lose the stomach for a protracted conflict that hurts their fellow Han people, especially those who they consider as fellow Chinese nationals, especially people whom they have not been at actual war with in seven decades, who they have shared plenty of trade, cultural, tourist ties with. On the other, I have read that often the contemporary popular sentiment is actually more raring for war than the actual current government is; perhaps in a way not dissimilar to U.S. public sentiment towards war in the Middle East after 9/11. So your guess is as good as mine as how the general population reacts to war. But I still believe that as modern China sees itself as a developed, advanced, optimistic society, there would be no shortage of people not wanting to commit to a brothers' war, at the very least because they consider it to be beneath the conduct of a civilized, stability-obsessed society.
I use W10Privacy. It blocks all MS servers except those needed to get updates and antivirus definitions.
The grandparent is probably talking about the InstructGPT paper? But I don't remember seeing a preference for longer responses in that paper.
Consider what would happen if you did ask it to think about a treatment for cancer and got real results. Clearly you would think it is just summarizing papers it read.

That makes sense, since it is not a cancer researcher.

So I'm way more impressed by ChatGPT than that. Even if it correctly data-mined and answered the question, it would not be that impressive. That's right: getting a cure from cancer when you ask is less impressive than what it actually does.

Because what it actually does is show the ability to judge novel situations, to invent and act creatively, and to keep abstract notions in its head. That is much more impressive than spitting out a cure for cancer.
There is no reason to, as stated before, it is however a necessary assumption. It is also possible that the assumption is entirely wrong, and the LLM generates a plausible explanation to their language that we cannot falsify. If the shared structure hypothesis is incorrect, then it is no different from dealing with an alien language. (Note we can also feed in related information like where it was found, what the nearby pottery shards at the excavation site are etc. I am lumping all of these under the "shared structure" banner of the LLM's model of humanity/human languages)
Its Lithuanian is awful, I'd expect that any language further removed from that which the majority of it's training is in would be worse without a significant punt of data in that language. Its possible having that could affect it's English speaking capability, but that's just speculation on my part.
I’ve done quite a bit of work in and around venture studios and without knowing who you are I’d suggest:

-Do you think you can attract world class founders to work on them? Do you have the credibility to do so? (See the heuristics blank suggests in the OP link)

-Can you provide sufficient capital in one of the worst environments for fundraising in recent memory?

If the answer is yes to both of these, go for it!

I think the failure mode for studios is “moderately successful person with moderate conviction in a bunch of ideas brings good-not-great people in to build them. Lot of motion, no progress”

Whatever you do, it should be intense and excellent. If you feel like you can do that, the world needs a lot more good companies!
That doesn't seem like a very robust Turing test. But ChatGPT is indeed able to reason about cancer treatments at least as well as your average human.
As has been stated in other comments, the type of game you are looking at dictates what needs to be learned to get better.

Shooters require a different skillset than say an RTS, which is quite different from a turnbased Strategygame, which is completely different to a mechanical skillbased game like tetris, which is different to a card game like magic or Hearthstone.

If you are looking to get better at videogames in general, just play different videogames and try to identify what skillsets are required in them.

If you have a specific one in mind, or a genre, more detailed advice could be given.
> I think all of your points are valid. But I still think we should make an effort and strive to solve these problems. I don't think this is being done with ChatGPT, for example.

> But also, note that an AI doesn't have to be in complete agreement with someone for that person to not feel "biased against".

> As long as an AI does make some effort to not be prejudiced/biased, that could work.

> For example, if someone asks: "is climate change real"?

> An AI does not have to give a simple yes/no answer, or represent a single viewpoint. It could give an answer that is mostly representative of the major thought streams.

> For example, it could answer something like:

> "The vast majority of scientists/governments/people have reached the conclusion that climate change is real, bla bla bla.

> [Here's some good, convincing evidence].

> That said, there is a minor fraction of scientists/government/people who believe that climate change is not caused by human action.

Should it also answer the same way when asked if the earth is flat? Or if there is a "Liberal conspiracy of pedophile politicians drinking the blood of infants"? I am not just being factitious, a significant portion of people who believe (or pretend to believe) that climate change is false also believe the above.

My point is, that we can draw arbitrary lines like the one you just drew. The great success of the anticlimate change campaigns is that they essentially got reasonable people to accept that we have to take every viewpoint seriously, while they are actually not interested in the truth but in poisoning the well instead.