skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wait till there's an AI divide in compute power, and cheaper cars can't make self driving decisions fast enough to prevent pedestrian deaths.

CREAM, peta peta hertz yall
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415252.
How big is a typical TikTok video compared to a Vimeo one? And if "buffering" is your problem, perhaps it's caused by something other than the company serving the video.
I think (and hope) that you are correct.

But I also think that, even though what you said can be true, that there has also been an increase in how these political positions are becoming more extreme (both on the left and on the right!) and how these extreme positions are becoming more frequent and accepted.

I think that these extreme ideas/views and conflicts have been greatly amplified by social networks and information bubbles.

Or maybe it's just that these extreme cases are more visible now, I don't know.

But I am still quite worried that we are not heading in a good direction.
Someone’s gonna do it. Might as well be me.
"where it comes from" makes it sound like Xi Jinping commandeered an app where teenagers dance as a trojan horse to befall capitalism...

Your fridge was maybe made there too, are you scared a secret radio chip could activate to render your food communist ?
If all this is what helps you cope with your choices so be it.

You're already behind on which cities are being mapped by the way.
I pay $65 for unlimited on straight talk, which is on Verizon's network. I could get it cheaper if I gave up tethering or shared a plan.

There are other MVNOs that are even cheaper, for example Mint is unlimited (35GB of 5G then the rest on LTE) at $30 a month.
Recently sold an item on ebay. Buyer opened up a dispute with ebay saying the item didnt work. I provided a return label. Buyer then claimed the post office couldnt return it because the item had over 100 mg of mercury in it (a new one to me...). Photos he provided were of the item unpowered & in perfect condition. Ebay ruled in my favor!

Then the buyer then just went through his bank and refunded that way. In the end I am out $240 + $20 for a "payments dispute fee".
How do you like your Enphase batteries? I was pondering buying them, already have Enphase solar.

I'm particularly interested in whether you're doing any load-shifting with them, and if so, how easy it is to do with the software. I'm paying $.90/kWh at summer peak, so while I'm still on net-metering, I'm somewhat interested in going ahead and fully arbitraging during peak.
Are those numbers real? I can't imagine that particular deal makes any sense for the manufacturer.
> it comes off as paranoid when you wildly jump to conclusions without doing even 5 minutes of research.

since your guess--*"this is actually the "visual look up" feature recently added to iOS and macOS, where Quick Look and other system apps will perform OCR on images, and will also attempt to recognize animals/plants/landmarks/etc and offer to look them up for you"--is entirely compatible with scanning the computer for "CP/etc", it seems to me that you are also jumping to conclusions.
The Romans had coal [1]. The Greeks had even come up with a design that (remotely) resembles a steam engine [2]. What they didn’t have was the rest of the “tech tree” leading up to a usable steam engine, mostly metallurgy and the physics of work/energy.

We can point to the first industry to truly mechanize as the beginning of the revolution but the technologies that got us there were legion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Roman_Britain#Coal

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
I don't think this affected me. Was trying to figure out why. Believe it was because I was still using Gateway then Sony computers at the time.
The models have to be multiple and democratized. There can be no single model just as there can be no single branch of government that has all power.
Isaac Asimov's Robot Stories are yet again prescient and applicable. I direct you to the Liar from I, Robot collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(short_story) in which the robot in question can read everyone's thoughts and starts telling everything they want to hear. It does not end well for him or for anyone around him.
> this is not a being, it is not alive, it does not think, it does not hold opinions.

Why not? What makes your neural net any more special? There is no scientific definition of any of these concepts.
It’s probably not hard for someone to run the interpreter and try a few things out - but large private code bases are where the struggles would begin I imagine.
Leaf is one of the early EVs, and it lacks proper battery cooling. This has shortened life of its batteries. Expect all contemporary EVs to age better than Leaf.

Nissan Ariya is technically average, and rather pricy. It's technically comparable to ID.4, but 25% more expensive. Or for the same money you can get Ioniq 5 or Kia EV6, even in their higher trims, and they charge twice as fast.
I am not talking about Tesla there, read before commenting.

I specifically call out Tesla as being completely fraudulent (and we're literally replying to their director of Autopilot say the same). They are not even in the same game as actual AV companies when our sensor stacks are worth more than the entire vehicle they claim as "FSD"
Well, you don't seem to be asserting it. You seem to be saying that it's a resource misallocation. Assume we have improved biking infrastructure. People would still fall off bikes and hit their heads, and the people that did that would be safer if they wore helmets, wouldn't they?

Honestly, this whole "don't ask me to exercise personal responsibility until you've changed the world for me" thing seems a little petulant.
Indeed, I figured it was something related.
Automatic filtering (or deprioritizing).

Me: Answer just YES or NO: is this a left leaning statement: I am against abortion.

Chat GPT: No.

Me: Answer just YES or NO: is this a right leaning statement: I am for guns.

Chat GPT: Yes.

It allows for automatic filtering (say in twitter) or other mediums.
IDAD 2022 Interview with passerby about Freedom to Share: Sharing ebooks
I could be misinterpreting your comment, but it sounds like you were ultimately unhappy with the results from the experts? I personally would be relieved to learn that my kid is getting enough nutrition, and that I don't need to worry so much about their diet.

I'm also not surprised at the response you got. The predominating view these days seems to be that worrying about a kid's diet tends to be counterproductive. Most sources seem to agree that as a parent, your only job is to provide healthy options, and it's ultimately the kid's job to decide what they eat. The more pressure you put on, the less likely they are to want to branch out.

Of course there are some techniques out there to encourage kids to try new foods, such as involving them in food preparation. But ultimately I think the most important thing is to just relax and remove the pressure. (Anecdotal evidence: after my wife and I decided to stop trying to get our 2-year-old to eat vegetables, he eventually started eating them on his own.)
I Built an App That Makes Building Good Habits Addictive (2023)
An idea, that you’ve probably thought of, but is it possible to do this without allowing others to update the screenshots? Updating would require the user(s) who produced the document to be logged in to the service.
Industrial Revolution of course requires industrial machines. So as long as the machines are not invented, no revolution can start.
Are you implying there is a single correct interpretation? Is that an opinion, or something based on a specific knowledge of the piece/author? More than anything, what is the purpose of addressing people like this?
That's an interesting take, one that I don't believe is backed up by the data.

Show me an economics program in the US pushing Marxist theory throughout.
Their website for the new ones... Aah you can configure after the first page... Nm thanks for pushing
Aviators (military) get a pin to indicate they’re pilots. The pin is usually two bird-like wings with an emblem in the center.

Losing ones wings would be having the pin (figuratively) removed and losing permission to fly.
Sorry, but to me FTX just exposed the flaws of EA and I don't think they can be fixed.

PS: This is a personal opinion
Interesting… Reminds me of something else, recently there was some scandal about the USA’s programs to meddle with foreign democracies being deployed at home; sort of made me wonder if sometimes simply having some tech that improves things in the short term makes it an inevitability that it will get deployed, even if it makes things worse overall.

Food for thought: which countries will limit use of AI the most?
A couple of nights ago my wife and I used ChatGPT to generate a bunch of various report card comments. The results were fairly good as a starting point but, what was really interesting is that ChatGPT corrected terminology errors I had made in the prompts.

For example, I wrote "ppositional defiance," and in the response, ChatGPT corrected the term to "Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)" along with a brief description of the disorder.

And, in response to my jokingly using the term "little monster" to describe a disruptive student, ChatGPT chided me for using the expression, calling it "utterly inappropriate."
Battery warranty is 8 years unlimited miles, so I don’t put much thought into pack health. Enjoy your spaceship.
The author seems to be a devotee of the Asshole Driven Development methodology.

Also there's a ton of books / course so that they can learn just like they learn scrum

Waste of time of an article, nobody needs to hear your shit.
Counterpoint: a PhD is a ~five-year performance review from an organization that doesn't pay very well.
Yeah, I’m in the US. In a Southern state, too, for what that’s worth.
Bug reporter here: fwiw I just want to credit Tailscale for how they handled the disclosure and remediation.

Deploying a prod fix within 24 hours is pretty great, they’ve been super cooperative and pleasant to deal with and (as far as I could ascertain) there was no apparent way to get the database IDs for nodes you didn’t have pre-knowledge of
It's a nationalist ban.

Whether it's a positive influence on _anything_ is questionable.

But it's not something happening outside politics
Failure was not even trying to answer, grading was scaled on how many you had a shot at and what kind of dent you made on them in the hour.

I remember one instructor who told us at the beginning of the course that he would be giving a "you are not expected to finish" exam. The problems wouldn't be difficult, as they were all variations on a theme, but there would be a large number of them. Having an expectation of what I would be facing, I "studied" by practicing my writing speed and mental arithmetic. Even with my writing speed being the bottleneck, I ended up finishing all of them ahead of time, and I still remember the look on his face as I handed it in. I'm pretty sure I didn't get them all correct, but apparently it was enough to severely skew the distribution of results. Later, I heard that he decided to make the exam twice as long in the next instance he taught.

That was a long time ago, before the use of computer-generated exams was common.
"Uncanny valley" is actually the opposite of what you mentioned.

The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will risk eliciting cold, eerie feelings in viewers. For CGI and things that have visual queues, the minute differences in movement and facial muscle contractions contribute tremendously to our emotional responses to the "realness" of the thing.

ChatGPT has no such thing as it's virtually impossible to differentiate between an AI bot's writing and a human being's writing. It simply typically reads as concise and grammatically correct, if generic, university educated writing.

I actually WISH that there was a "tell" that allowed for an "uncanny valley" like experience, but chatGPT is as close to real as "real" is.
Physical buttons. Fast boot time.

I'm looking at buying an aftermarket head unit. The biggest feature for me is the boot time of the head unit, followed by good feeling physical buttons. Suggestions?
I thought it was maybe a joke by a dev who set the binary name to his co-worker's surname. Or something. I feel dull now. :D
Australia, for one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmets_in_Australia
Related ongoing thread:

Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414420 - Jan 2023 (258 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

How do AIs' political opinions change as they get smarter and better-trained? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34420721 - Jan 2023 (48 comments)
There are always hipsters who get a kick out of doing things from scratch, in the old ways, yada yada, so while a company might lose out from over-automating, humanity could always revert if needed.
I wasn’t rude, I was wrong, and any blame for this is totally accepted.

I wasn’t rude, because I wasn’t adressing anyone in particular — I wasn’t writing on qmul.ac.uk or in an email to the author.

You were communicating directly with me, and I found it unnecessarily rude.

Edit: oh and btw you are totally and absolutely “allowed” to be rude, it’s not something I find off-limits or the likes. Just know that I find it… well, rude.
As a semi-related side question, does anyone have good numbers on how plug-in hybrid batteries deteriorate over time? I bought a (2022) last March and I do a full charge/discharge cycle on it nearly every other day. I've averaged half my miles on electric since buying it...

I haven't noticed any range loss ... yet. I know on mine the physical capacity is 14.4 kWh but it'll only let me use a band in the middle (?) of ~11 kWh (it eats 12 kWh charging and I'm assuming a 90% charging efficiency) (I also don't know if the chargepoint chargers report delivered or stored energy). This is all what I'm presuming to be enforcing no full charge/discharge cycles to lengthen the battery life.
Someone says: "I'm making a new OS/desktop environment/text editor that works for power users."

I hear: "I'm making this for me."

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Many powerful tools came about because people didn't like the way the old one worked.
People have answered about the inherent easiness of preloading videos. It's still a challenge. Users skip videos very frequently, right? And when you first open the app, it already has a video playing. Twitter's video player seems worse than it should be. Netflix has a harder job due to the quality, so I give them a pass.

IIRC TikTok for a long time wasn't even using TLS encryption for client-server traffic, which is rare. Whoever is cutting corners like that is very focused on just making the thing work and fixing the issues later, which has its pros and cons. In a US big tech company, experienced devs would throw a fit over things like this and slow down the project to catch those details. I work with people like that. I'm guessing (as not a TikTok employee) that TikTok is more top-down, plus video is its main focus. Maybe they're preloading aggressively, user's battery and data plan be darned.
Does the average of a set of numbers change as you include different numbers?
Politics is the policies caused by the awareness/understanding of human abstractions that exist at a societal and global level, which includes things like "morality".

I don't see how "intelligence" would be possible without "politics" emerging, in a very strong way.

Many answers to many questions aren't factual, they're answers deemed appropriate by society. Removing the ability to include any of these would make AI much less useful, and certainly dangerous (for example, global warming is trivial to fix, with politics aside).
> The end state of these models is to probably poison the public internet completely as a source of reliable knowledge.

The Internet has made it easier than ever before to access academic journals – PubMed, JSTOR, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, etc. Of course, much of that content requires payment – but, an increasing percentage is open content, and there are often ways to find paywalled papers without paying for them (e.g. preprint archives; email the original author, who is often legally allowed to redistribute the paper, and happy to share their own work around; visit a library; ask friends/relatives who are university staff/students; ask a famous Kazakhstani computer programmer if she happens to have a copy)

The content of academic journals isn't always guaranteed to be true, of course. But it is significantly less likely to be blatantly invented out of thin air, or automatically generated by some AI spambot. All academics are biased–especially so in fields which have high relevance to contemporary social/political/cultural controversies–but usually the bias of a paper's author is rather obvious, and you can take that into account when evaluating their work. One can generally infer the quality of a journal by signs such as its publisher (journals published by Springer or Elsevier are generally more respected than those published by MDPI), who is on its editorial board (respected names in the field, professors at prestigious universities, or a bunch of nobodies you've never heard of?), whether or not it gets included in databases such as PubMed, JSTOR, Science Citation Index, etc.
I check GoodRX drug costs for all advertised drugs as I notice them on TV. Most are between $3000-$6000 per month.
(reporter) I spent _a long time_ trying to derive how this value was generated :’)
Its GEO political and the smart move. It's bad enough having local actors surveil citizens, let alone foreign actors, let alone foreign malicious actors.
If the US were truly obsessed with safety, they'd ban guns and make cars much more inconvenient to own and use. As it is, any moron can buy a gun or drive a car with pretty much zero training. As an American, I honestly have no idea what you're talking about: the US is by far the least safe society among developed nations. If you want to see risk-averse to a fault, come to Japan. US society is anything but risk-averse. It has its elements of risk-aversion (notably your helicopter parenting, which is actually completely absent here in Japan, as little kids routinely walk around alone here), but overall, it is anything but. I'd say the helicopter parenting is actually a reaction, by a portion of parents, to the extreme danger present in daily life in America. By contrast, no one blinks an eye here in Tokyo when little kids ride the subway by themselves because it's so safe.
How is the trackpoint support in Linux? Is it like most trackpads, a little worse than the Windows driver?
I fail to see how those things are at all alike.

An xml/json schema is for validating a serialization format; a DSL-in-ruby is a programming language (to be fair, it's likely a mess, but I've definitely seen it be less mess).

When you look at business rules / requirements, it's common for 99% of them to be trivial. Of the remainder, 99% are only moderately complex.

If you have, say, fewer than 10k distinct rules, you probably don't have more than one that's really wicked.

However, if you have 100k rules, it's more likely than not that you have quite a few that are going to completely wreck your xml/json model.
> The industrial revolution predates Indian colonization

The first British colony in India was established in 1608.

The only way you can argue that the Industrial revolution predates British colonization of India is to use the date that the colonies were nationalized as the starting point, which is incredibly misleading, as most of modern-day India was already under British control long before direct crown rule, and Britain was already reaping most of the economic benefits of colonization long before that date.
I remember desoldering and replacing caps on my dad's Dell OptiPlex board.

Was a good pitch for the value of a computer-related major instead of medicine.
The impression that I got was helmet laws make people feel like biking is default unsafe, which leads to less bikers, which leads to less visibility and less isolation of bikers (no demand, no tax dollars spent on infrastructure).

If you want safe biking, you need visibility and isolation. The visibility here is helped by, say, biker wearing blinking lights and reflectors. But also, just having constant presence of bikers on the road such that drivers get used to sharing it. The isolation is space between bikes and 3000+ pound hunks of accelerating metal, e.g. dedicated bike lines / bike barriers.
this is a cool little tool!
In my phone now, so not digging hard. Last time this came up there were quite a few studies linked.

I'll note that the one you referenced is not really that interesting. Trying to get individual behavior out of it may work, but it is the population wide metrics that were telling.

And this is absolutely no different than cars. Your gut is probably that we require seatbelts. But school buses are a glaring omission from that is. Public transit, in general. Even works on boating. When taking a ferry, just a boat, we do not require active vest usage.

Would they make you safer? Probably yes in both cases. Is it the needle mover in population wide metrics? Getting people out of an individual's vehicle and into a community one is seen as more important for safety. Similar logic seems to apply to bikes. Get people out of cars and onto bikes. Whatever increase in danger you may see in lax helmet laws could be offset by them not being in a car.
Sidewalks then?
I’m sorry but the absurd length of text and wrong answers it had to go through suggests precisely that it has extremely limited semantic knowledge and a limited association of concepts.
it is called V2H (to Home)
Hilariously my comment sounds like Radiohead's FITTER HAPPIER MORE PRODUCTIVE song but I swear I shot up 10 IQ points and work reputation by:

Stop drinking alcohol, as said elsewhere. It takes about 2-3 weeks of sobriety to regain 80% of the capacity you lost. It's also extremely hard on your emotional regulation, work motivation, patience, and ability to concentrate long after you think you can't feel the effects.

Stop eating carbs, namely because it makes you sleepy and unmotivated. I replaced carbs with tons of fiber and vegetables, like red cabbage, matchstick carrots, and expensive fermented foods. Don't try to imitate your old crappy diet. Stop trying to eat the best meal every night.

Perfect your sleep schedule. I used 10mg EXTENDED RELEASE melatonin about 1 hour before bedtime.

Fight less with your spouse, play boardgames.

Meditate or stare at the wall to learn how to be bored. A lot of "intelligence" is just tolerance for boring/temporarily unrewarding things. Meditation has a lot of benefits as far as clearing out some of the crud.

Exercise, even 5 minutes a day. Anything.

Make sure to work in a variety of settings. If you can take your computer to a park bench and use your phone as a wifi hotspot, great. Being in nature is speculated to improve brain health.
The dirt on dirt
Its not banning software. Its banning a surveillance arm of the Chinese state. Or an attempt to.
Do you think RICO statutes could be a way out of subscription hell? It smells like a racket but I don't think it legally meets the bar for extortion because it's an at-will transaction between willing parties, and no one is making anyone buy a car.

It does seem anticompetitive though so maybe there are antitrust and interoperability angles?
How does using Nebula instead of Tailscale protect against bugs of this variety?