skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CRT terminals were a thing by then. Spacewar!, for example, used a CRT in 1962, and the original PLATO paper from 1961 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4322215) says:

> The computer communicates to each student by closed circuit television. It selects slides and writes or erases sentences and diagrams on a storage tube. These two outputs are superimposed and displayed on the student's television screen. Not only are textual materials presented to each student at a rate determined by that student, but the computer frequently poses questions.

(See also https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4812121.pdf p36 for more details.)

Also, it doesn't need to be a CRT. Plasma displays were developed for PLATO IV because, to quote the 1966 paper (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1464291.1464349):

> Display technology, however, has not kept pace with these advances. The TV-storage tube displays, of course, perform well in the PLATO system, and other CRT devices are used successfully in information retrieval systems. However, no display device is now available that performs well, and is sufficiently inexpensive for use in these large systems.

This make it possible to read the 1967 Final Report of the BASIC (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED024602.pdf) in context. When they write:

> Our experience does not include what is usually called CAI. While more elaborate CAI systems using fancy terminals (including TV-type presentations) could be attached to a general purpose computer system such as ours, the terminal costs would be much greater than those for teletype machines.

the "CAI" there means "computer-aided instruction", and is, I think, mean to include PLATO with its more advanced displays.
> Bret Victor is very much Alan Kay's protege and has unfortunately inherited the curse of people cherry-picking particular ideas and missing the bigger picture.

Maybe it's time we lay some of the blame for us idiots just not getting Alan Kay's ideas on Alan Kay. At this point he only has himself to blame if he's spent 50 years trying and failing to communicate his wonderful ideas.
You don’t get it. Some companies (bigger ones) have their accounting department operating independently from their development/IT department. This is not the case for small businesses which the OP is softly suggesting not to work with.

Clients with such departments will pay if your invoice is approved. The payment process is disconnected from the team you’ll be working with. It also happens that the team you work with will not care with the costs since it’s not coming out of pocket directly. The finance team, which will pay you, has no idea what you are doing exactly except that you are authorized for the payment.

The process is slow, so bear with it and price for the delay of the funds. But if you are a regular, it’s a constant flow.

Small businesses where the decisions making, IT and payment (ie: director of tech is also the CEO, is also paying out of pocket) will scrutinize much more on payments, and also miss a payment if they can (a surprising amount of people will try to do this).
Most of the mining waste you refer to is related to COAL. They produce roughly 5 billion tons a year of coal for which many times of that is waste rocks.

5 billion tons of coal gets mostly burned up.

Meanwhile 50 THOUSAND tons of lithium is produced per year. For which maybe millions tons of waste gets created.
Hah! Author of that 20-year-old web page here.

At the time I was attempting to use standard open source image processing software like ImageMagick to manipulate scientific data. I was disappointed to find that it was not suitable, both due to approximations like this one, and because all the libraries I looked at only allowed 8-bit grayscale. I really wanted floating point data.

Here is what I was working on back in those days: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~fricke/projects/israel/project...

I was a summer student at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, processing electron micrographs of a particular protein structure made by a particular bacterium. It's very interesting: this bacterium attacks plants and injects some genetic material into the plant, causing the plant to start manufacturing food for the bacterium. By replacing the "payload" of this protein structure, the mechanism can be used to insert other genetic structures into the plant, instead of the sequence that causes it to produce food for the bacterium. Or something like that.

Here's a random chunk of my research journal from those days: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~fricke/projects/israel/journal...

The work contributed to this paper: https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(20)66439-0/fulltext

Here's the Wikipedia article about the author of that algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Paeth

And his original web page that I linked to, now via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20050228223159/http://people.ouc...

If you liked this trick, check out Alan Paeth's "Graphics Gems" series of books.

Kudos and thanks to the OCF at UC Berkeley which has hosted my web page there for more than a quarter century with just about zero maintenance on my part.

And thanks for the trip down memory lane!
ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam and it’s still in its infancy
As it was explained to me (and from reading I have done), the mammalian diving response (which all mammals have but to varying degrees) works to preserve oxygen and energy expenditure when underwater.

For seals and other water dwelling mammals this is a controlled sophisticated mechanism that is deliberately used when underwater.

In humans it is a survival mechanism, triggered when the trigeminal nerve on our face gets submerged in water. And the colder it is the stronger the response seems to be.

Submerging one self in cold water up to your head seems to affect many parts of the human body, and in my case I am not sure which part it is that I am feeling the effects of. But it leaves me feeling more alert, awake and with less mindfog after doing an extended cold water dip (going to the pool without one in comparison leaves me sluggish).

Wikipedia has a good section on the response:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
I remember doing this on Paint to rotate a image.
I was commenting in general. Kudos for finishing and releasing the site!
If you exclude the M&As involving large software companies, which seem to be the usual topic around here, then I could tell you that such processes - if companies are, for example, in segments such as manufacturing, finance, insurance, consumer products or media (that I know of), one of the most difficult parts consists/ed in systems (back end, front end, end users) convergence or absorption, with people aligned and committed to assist/support the efforts. In all scenarios, without exception, I was part of an M&A (and even divestitures, at time), on the IT side, the companies lost quite a few players (on the "acquired" side), due to frustration of not being able to create or produce as prior to such events, allegedly because of new IT environments. We tried everything - from spending days at the side of critical engineering or R&D or Sales & Marketing departments, to attempt to comprehend and create similarly supported new systems, to preserving parallel systems, for a while - and some people still didn't feel compelled to "change" how they were doing things. Unfortunately some of those were the ones in critical positions, which may have originated the ideas behind the desire for acquisition, and also able to choose alternatives, outside, i.e. changing jobs - as individuals - even if to then change IT systems in a new company, appeared as more acceptable than learning alongside the "acquiring" teams.
It's intended to immediately differentiate from shops who sell cheap plastic sculptures. My customers appreciate heavy brutalist material I use. I spend zero time optimizing SEO, my product images and descriptions are pretty crappy, so I currently don't have much advice to give in that area! What's your shop?
then Joseph Smith's religion is also Abrahamic.
100 gen ago is ~ 2500 years.

So that log mark ~110 gen ago is ~3k BP.

A particular civilization doesn't last in a recognizable or functional form more than about 10 gen.
The important "men in their 50s" target audience for the musical/romance/comedy mashup!
I am building a book discovery website. I want to introduce more serendipity into the book discovery and exploration process -> https://shepherd.com/

Working to add genres and age-groups now :)

Been super fun! I've asked 7,000 authors to share 5 books around a topic, theme, and mood. :)
I think I already found it. Please try again :)
Except it does so by compiling into the same bytecode as Java, javap will just output Java like code from class files, and some stuff like co-routines cannot be called from existing Java code without wrappers that setup the runtime semantics as expected by Kotlin libraries.
Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?
I love HN. I check it out basically for hours every day, for the past 5 years or so.

But, HN is utter hell too… it’s worse than my addiction to The Guardian.

I see so many topics I’m interested in, so many cool projects, so I bookmark them. Then I see more and bookmark them too. There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.

But the constant reality is that I will never ever be able to do all the things in my brain. It’s a severely frustrating and depressing fact I feel faced with every day. A world of highs and disappointment.

But I’m totally addicted because there’s just so much new.

Anyone else with ADHD feel this way or have a healthier outlook about HN?
Lost Ark was developed and published by Smilegate in Korea for three years before Amazon published it in the west. Saying that they developed it is not really accurate.

Better examples of games developed by Amazon Game Studios would be Lost World or Crucible.
Thank you! The sample looked like it would hold my hand enough to be helpful but not insult my intelligence so I bought the e-book for 21 USD.

Thanks again!
If batteries has problems as a long term storage, hydrogen is even worse. If you store liquid hydrogen, you have to let the gas escape or risk explosions. Keeping things below -250ºC is not easy. Worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouW9_jyZck

Every single actor is pushing for their own interests and highlighting the flaws of the competitors. You cannot say in good faith that hydrogen, nuclear or fuel are supporting the "renewable energy gang", or that they are not a gang themselves. In fact, my opinions is that nuclear gang was so against renewables that they missed the bus of "renewables + nuclear" friendly mix, letting the gas gang conquest "renewables + gas".
Hydrogen doesn't work at all. Ammonia might.
Little reason to attack the game? How about knocking your enemies offline? Or getting their game or real money? Or recruit them for your DoS botnet? Because that’s what an RCE allows you to do…
Film and software seem like very similar businesses. Very high development costs, near-zero unit costs.
Technology wise, ChatGPT is not a challenge for Google. It was a blessing that OpenAI is charging $42 for premium tier. Google very much can build a similar/better offering in a near term and would not have to worry about losing ad $$, as it will be compensated from a paid product.

The challenge is execution. Most of the leadership have done amazingly great, but only when they had no competition. For FB, Cloud, Gaming, AR, self-driving cars - they could not do much. They did great on Android and Nest - both were founder led for a while.

Right now, OpenAI is adding new features like crazy - they are a startup. Google may have better engineers, but they will lag behind in execution. Plus, changing a 20yr search+ad mindset in a month is hard.
With the small difference that Circle can use the complete language at compile time, constexpr is still far from it, and also gave birth to constinit and consteval.
That was not a German umlaut
We are adults here, you know. No hypocrisy please.

Just see what happened in Nuernberg and you will understand that no one was seriously prosecuted.
The name is a bit confusing because there is another program called Synthesia that is basically Guitar Hero for piano.
I improved the game and functionality over time. The game has always been above the fold, but the content was greatly revise this past year. I've been doing a lot of optimizations on the game, but nothing big. After all, it's limited how much innovation can be done a game like that .
Thanks for the feedback. Optimizing the ads are on my todo-list.
I support that proposal ... but I can't immediately think of anything.

Vaguely related: www.marchmarchmarch.org.uk
"... power a turbine with energy produced when liquid cooled by stored snow is then vaporized by the heat of the surrounding air."

Is it a reversed heat pump?

The straight heat pump has a COP of roughly 3. The reversed will have then the COP of 1/3?
Your comment on utilization is spot-on, there are no two ways about it, and everyone should pay very close attention to this.

Even if you're truly solo, you will need ~20% for sales, account management, accounting, and residual business management tasks. If you're at 100% utilization either you are neglecting these areas and hurting yourself in a much shorter term than you'd think, or you're working 6 days a week, which means you're not really at 100% utilization.

Regarding paying customers, I agree with the sentiment, but probably not with the detail. I've worked with a few Fortune 500 companies and their payment terms are 30-90 days. On the other hand advances are very commonly accepted and I've never had any pushback. I go for 50% and could possibly push higher. It still doesn't create entirely positive cash cycles but it's decent.
That's quite a lot of time and a lot of things changed: genome, technology, food, pollution, radiation, climate, biosphere, medicine, lifestyle.
Ah, I missed that. Apologies.
>post delta when Covid stopped becoming very deadly

Is covid no longer very deadly?
It's listed now. Feel free to open an issue if you think a tool is missing, thank you :)
To hell with only focusing on code. We should break copyright completely and take back the intellectual landscape.
They are all listed now. Feel free to open an issue if you think a tool is missing, thank you :)
That's your philosophical position then, are humans innately good or not. I wish it was true but in the entire history of humanity tribes fought for resources, did they change...
Error AD0: Religion in valid. Please check your non-Eurocentric worldview and try again. /s
Copy for ChatGPT
The RF transmitter is probably why battery life is limited to five minutes
That was for the specific subset of cars towing a heavy load.

A new passenger EV designed for range only has to stop for 20 minutes every 6 hours and this is dropping quickly.

The lack of standards is also a purely US thing. The rest of the world has some sanity.
Embracing Antifragility in Tech
Thank you very much for your information.

Unfortunately you invalidate your own work by not providing the sources of your knowledge. The internet has a cool feature called "URL", it is meant to provide the source of some information so that your readers can access your sources, too. Just use it!

In a mature, scientific discussion you always want to provide these sources.

Just saying something without sources is an internet discussion style of the past and should not be accepted by modern humans.
The Pixel 5a battery fits in the Pixel 4a 5G, incl. the BMS (after modification)
I don’t think many people consider science as a sole arbiter.

It is more a high bar arbiter. And that high bar is especially useful for human concerns when we (each of us individually) wade into unfamiliar territories that mix fact based things (health) with cultural beliefs or practices.

That feeling of “this is so obvious”? It is just a feeling. No smarter than any of our other fallible feelings.

Lots of obvious things, even obvious to billions of people, turn out to be false on closer inspection.

It is worth giving anything valuable the scientific treatment
Amazon’s layoffs and the battle for the tech giant’s future
Mass layoffs hobble Google's future-building Fuchsia and Area 120 teams
They are pre-trained. This project is running a port of the original open AI release [0] to C++.

From the OpenAI paper and release notes: "We are releasing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for further work on robust speech processing." So I guess they are either truly altruistic in this, or they are planning on monetising whatever they build on top of it.

Also OpenAI is a startup (if we can call it that) so their value right now is more about being impressive, and looking a lot like future value; as opposed to showing an immediate route to profit.

[0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
The corners on your graph that line up with houses say otherwise.
Ha! I love this kind of thing.

It would make for a nice blog theme. In fact I might give it a go myself.
I don’t know how this works. But I’m curious:

Wouldn’t it be more cost effective to have one big address space than a lot of fine tuned ones? Even if you’re stateless, you could benefit from the fact that utilization spikes can be handled with less overall redundancy. Assuming the dollar cost is proportional per allocation.
Just a further comment on this -

As tptacek pointed out above, favours/karma can go a long way, so it’s not necessarily the case that you should never do anything for a discount or pro bono.

It’s a matter of setting the right expectation. If you’re doing a favour, make it clear that that’s what it is and what the limits are, and avoid letting that become the expected ongoing deal.
I feel like I've seen this on hacker news before, on other subjects. Someone will gush about how new technology X is great, but they give reasons that seem really odd to me. I've never really found Google laborious for searching for facts or especially coding solutions, and when it does provide me with differing options there are almost always great reasons why those options might all be relevent. With ChatGPT you're going to get one verbose answer that's probably wrong and presents none of the context as to why it might be wrong. So sure, if you're only using ChatGPT to answer questions to which you know the answer, it could be quicker.

>Why research: “give me 30 of the most common health conditions related to the human liver” and spend a lot of time in google, when the Ai can spit out that in seconds?

Because it's not going to be right! If you actually need to know the answer to that question you need to actually find a reputable source. And that's what Google gives you. I'm quite certain that the most common health conditions for the human liver vary by country, will ChatGPT give you the actual answer you're looking for? Maybe, some of the time. Will it save you time, no! because you can't use the answer unless you google it to confirm.

It sounds like your using ChatGPT to pump out worthless marketing SEO. Yes, that's a niche where creating volume of material with no value is common place. The aim shouldn't be to make that more efficient, it should be to find ways to entirely filter that out of the internet. What you're producing is literally the only material people should be using ChatGPT for instead of the web - low quality verbose text that is indifferent to fact checking.
U.S. is 16 weeks + tenure_years*2weeks, including accelerating stock vests.

Rest of world is going to be in line with local laws. Not clear if that makes it better or worse than the U.S. package.
I noticed that I like podcasts just how I like blogs. Even if it's objectively great (as decided by the masses), I probably don't like it and can't stand listening to it for long. But if I stumble upon something I like to read or listen to, then I'll follow that blog/podcast for many years. I would in general even go so far as saying that listening to people talking is not my medium of choice (I also don't like audio books) - but I'd say I'm actually a fan of a select of few ones.
Ask for references and follow up on them, that’s basically what background checks do anyway
> Can you imagine only being able to cook a hamburger on one brand of grill? [...] the crypto/cuda nexus of GPU work is simply not rational. Why are we still here?

Because nvidia spent a long time chasing the market and spending resources, like they wanted it.

You wanted to learn about GPU compute in 2012? Here's a free udacity course sponsored by nvidia, complete with an online runtime backed by cloud GPUs so you can run the exercises straight from your browser.

You're building a deep learning framework? Here's a free library of accelerated primitives, and a developer who'll integrate it into your open source framework and update it as needed.

OpenCL, in contrast, behaves as if every member of the consortium is hoping some other member will bear these costs - as if they don't really want to be in the GPU compute business, except out of a begrudging need for feature parity.

And in terms of being rational - if you're skilled enough to be able to add support for a new GPU vendor into an ML library, you're probably paid enough that the price of a midrange nvidia GPU is trivial in comparison.

All is not lost, though - vendors like Intel are increasingly offering ML acceleration libraries [1] and most neural networks can be exported from one framework and imported into another.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/onea...
Doesn't burning it create NO2, which causes acid rain?
> March 1, 2023

What? Did a timetraveller write this?
"Query" is ambiguous, because ChatGPT runs on "tokens", not "queries".
In real life you will want an order of magnitude more tokens if you're generating something useful and not just testing/playing.

Compute doesn't get cheaper over time, it gets more expensive.
This isn't 1993 anymore.
Referral automation saas? Makes sense.
Speaking of Polybius, the best gaming-related video essay produced! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg
Ahoy is top notch in terms of quality on Youtube IMO.