skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations on producing yet another specious half-assed defense of USA militarism! Wouldn't it be nice if its record spoke for itself?

We still occupy Hawai'i, as well as the entirety of continental USA. We still occupy the eastern third of Syria, as Trump said and Biden hasn't contradicted "to steal their oil". The various nations we occupy in Africa invite similar explanation. We occupied Philippines for decades, as colonial masters, until Japan kicked us out, after which we reoccupied it. As observed above, that wasn't a different thing from the colonization of North America, because it was done in the same racist way by the exact same racist army officers. We maintain military bases all over, every one a direct threat to the host nation should they stray from our political line. For example, how successful can Korean reunification efforts be while our sword hangs above their heads? This isn't winning wars. This is terrorizing populations.

Over the decades we spent in Philippines we pioneered the sort of financial colonialism we codified at Bretton Woods. This has been extensively documented by economist Michael Hudson. After we trick a nation (i.e. pay off whichever corrupt locals we can maneuver into power) into signing up for this program, we oppress working people, extract resources, privatize public assets, and financialize the whole mess. Most of the surplus in the economy is exported to e.g. NYC and London. This is the real explanation for USA capitalism's "century of success". Our system can no more support itself without victimizing other nations than the Roman Empire could have thrived without slavery. As developing nations throw off our yoke (witness the "Россия" t-shirts worn in every nation in Africa), we'll have to organize very differently, or else the American 99% will suffer the same predations from the American 1% that were previously focused overseas.

In four thousand years, China has never fought a war on the other side of the world with a nation (or with a ragtag bunch of goat enthusiasts) that could never threaten the territory of China.
I really wonder if there is any way to change the structure of government so that politicians are forced to reckon with some of the longer term impacts of their decisions, as opposed to "I'll be out in a couple years, that'll be future mayor's problem".

Right now Austin is trying some very dubious eminent domain measures (which were pretty drastically clobbered in court) to get out of a long term lease they signed just a few years ago to have a private operator run a small separate terminal at the airport. I think it was especially braindead for Austin to ever sign that lease - we were (and still are) growing like crazy, it didn't take much foresight to think Austin would eventually need to seriously expand the airport.

Of course, hardly anyone involved with the original bad decision is still on city council, so it became someone else's problem.
I see Amazon's electric trucks in Berkeley quite often. I wonder how that fleet is working out for them. Of course the mail in my city is delivered primarily on foot.
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For one, having a trauma-aware therapist made a huge impact on my early progress. I specifically sought this out, and switched therapists to find the person I currently work with. Standard talk therapy with elements of CBT, but trauma-awareness was the difference between me melting down in session and not.

I've been using the same Waking Up app mentioned in the sibling comment. I started going down a bit of a rabbit hole on consciousness awhile back, and eventually that led me to Sam Harris, and his book "Waking Up" was a bit of a gateway for me. I then started using the app, which is like taking everything you read about in the book and having it carefully presented to you bit by bit as you go through the practice. It's the first app that actually made meditation make sense to me, and the results have been life changing for me. It's mindfulness meditation also known as Vipassana, or "seeing things as they really are".

Regarding Yoga, I've been using the "Yoga with Adriene" channel on YouTube. I'm not very experienced with this yet, but taking one of her 30 day journeys was a great way to get into it. I could feel my body get stronger bit by bit, and my awareness of the sensations in my body (something I've struggled with due to repressed trauma) has improved significantly.
I'm pretty sure large developed country/ low population per unit of area did that. Pick any city and drive an hour in any cardinal direction and you'll find woods and racoons.
I’ve been wondering what the most repairable vehicle might look like, and I guess the USPS already put a lot of brain power into that problem. I presume this is ugly because it’s both purpose built and highly repairable.
This is good right?
No, this was a successful test! Very small changes in the energy of an object can cause large changes in its trajectory. An impact at this same scale could be the difference between a direct collision with Earth, and not even getting inside the moon's orbit. We don't need any mass to be knocked off. In fact, it's probably even more effective if the target stays intact.

What we do need is time. If the asteroid is weeks away, we've got a great chance of deflecting it. If it's hours, we'll certainly be struck.
>Windows was a poor substitute for the feel of the Star interface.

I'm intrigued. Any specifics about design decisions come to mind?
Shaking off 1/4300 of the mass, roughly, is likely not the most important part. Changing the trajectory even a slighted bit may mean much more after the asteroid travels a few million km. To avert a direct impact at Earth, we only need a correction of about 7000 km of the orbit intersection point, at the very worst case.

I'm still intrigued at a possibility of detonating a megaton-classl nuclear device at a very close proximity to a tough metal / rock asteroid. Consider the blast happening close to the surface but on the "side", as much off-center as possible. Won't it evaporate enough material for a jet of it to significantly push the orbit sideways, thus shifting it enough away from a collision course?
It pronounces GitHub as git-hu-b
The purpose of a podcast (for me) isn't just to curate content (as this is doing), but to get the perspective of the individual domain experts hosting the show. AI can't address that key motive until it produces models whose particular opinions and analysis I want to hear about topics I probably have already found elsewhere.
>No one is training LLMs to generate “misinformation”.

That is phrased like it is stating a fact about the training process, but it is a statement about the intent of the training, isn't it? So I don't see it as rebutting my comment.

>It’s the opposite - it’s trained to generate the most likely next word

Sure, of course, what else? But if you take any correct statement about something and modify it slightly, it's not very likely it will still be correct.

It seems intuitive to me that there are going to be a million billion (understatement) wrong things next to anything correct in the inputs. As a sort of combinatorial, mathematical thing. You just (in principle) count all the ways to be wrong that are similar to being right.

Nobody trained it to get anything right! It doesn't matter what people expect if they don't have a procedure to do it.

If a statement is adjacent to things that are also "correct", that almost implies a lack of information in the original statement. It seems born out in the impressive BS'ing - the key to BS'ing is saying things that can't really be wrong.
For what I'd call "stupid" compliance (GDPR,...), allowing for regional storage of data at rest is definitely important.

For any internal data where protecting it is a core interest of the company you'll also either need to prove your whole handling is trustworthy or you'll need to design a process that can do all the steps (preprocessing/vectorization/...) on customer controlled hardware.

If your solution can run in a customer owned environment without any external dependencies, that could save you a lot of auditing/certification.
StableDiffusion is almost entirely not trained on "art" images. I daresay you could easily produce art assets from a model trained entirely on non-artistic images.
Reminds me of this kurfuffle!

https://youtu.be/6egeUxIEQnM

Human brains sure do funny things sometimes.
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My point is that we have understood the properties of our stagnant forest management practices for some time. Global warming does indeed have everything to do with the effects of forest management, what do you think creates these ridiculous once-in-100-year rainstorms that cause a surge in undergrowth that accelerates these massive wildfires?

It is a vicious cycle and feedback loop. Weather patterns the previous year create a tinderbox for the next. And then we aggressively suppress the inevitable fires that spring up, leaving even MORE unchecked undergrowth and denying the forest bed the nutritional products of burned foliage, which just worsens its health and creates even BIGGER fires when they eventually roll around.
I switched from their gpt3 davinci model to the new chatgpt3.5-turbo and everyone who used the IRC bot was really disappointed. The chatgpt3.5-turbo is incredibly puritanical and refuses to answer a good fraction of the type of input bots on IRC get. Even innocuous stuff. I was excited about the system/user prompts and being able to easily add short term memory and contexts but if it only responds with, "Oh, it wouldn't be right for me to talk about that." it's not fun.
Various folks have scraped this, see https://hnhiring.com/ as an example :)
That contract was investigated, controversial, scaled back, and might end up being cancelled. Oshkosh has never built small electric delivery vehicles. Their specialty is big, heavy vehicles. Fire trucks, concrete mixers, military vehicles, etc.

Using the boring but practical electric Ford Transit van makes sense. Those things are going to take over the local commercial van market. They're already in mass production.
> At least private business pays for with blood for it's mistakes.

> The beauty of capitalism is that it allows society to thrive even when all actors are irresponsible. Which we, humans, are.

I think the laid off tech workers and people of Ohio might have a few things to say about that..
Frankly I wish more people spoke more formally all the time, myself included.
If copyright was more reasonable, we could also have avoided the whole hullabaloo about Roald Dahl: those who want censored versions could have them, and those who want the originals could have those. I think we'd see a rise in small-run book-on-demand style publishing, which I have always had a soft spot for.
what I've noticed in my lifetime is that the attempted narratives of mainstream science continue to edge towards original local knowledge.

if locals abandoned their knowledge and accepted the 40,000ya story told when I was a kid, they'd be out by just as much given the 80,000ya now indicated by artefacts at M2, Madjedbebe; the oldest site of continual human habitation.
Last of Us is starting.
Ugly is subjective. I see it as "modern style has been sacrificed to achieve functionality/safety/..." and that's a form of beautiful for me.
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The hardware must still obey the laws of physics. New cars will have a hard time connecting wirelessly without a functioning antenna.
> businesses do a horrible job of accounting for the externalities of their decisions

Today they aren't expected to. They're expected to extract profit and then socialize any losses, externalities or otherwise.

It doesn't have to be that way.
Are they coming out with progressively bigger ones? I must admit that 10 inch is on the small side for reading sheet music, at my age (59). I'd love to ditch the paper sheets.
> criminally prosecuting people (with taxpayer resources) to enforce private debts owed to the meter company, there’s a good chance a court would find the practice to be illegal.

The deal structure is as follows:

- if the city fails to prosecute a parking violation, the city pays to the parking company anyways.

- so your debt is to the city: fee for a parking violation, not a debt to the private company.

- the city can immobilize / tow your car if it has an unpaid ticket. That’s very expensive.
This is often referred to as the tea shop scam. The girl doesn't have to be "too good to be true".

It's often just someone who appears friendly and speaks English. They might tell you they are a student looking to practice.

In China, and really anywhere, it's sadly best to not respond to anyone approaching you.
Slightly better article: https://phys.org/news/2023-02-hydrogen-boron-fusion-magnetic...
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And yet, TFA is about a completely separate phenomenon. Why are you seemingly incapable of staying on topic by discussing it?
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Maybe not so great. I imagine a good portion of these are services being run with development configuration, which could indicate that people aren't running a more robust configuration with a reverse proxy on 443 pointing to 80 behind a firewall.
Or to put it another way:

A hyperthread logical processor is a way of obtaining better efficiency by using surplus resources left on the table by the "real" logical processor that otherwise would remain idle (read: waste).

Considering hyperthreading as a way of obtaining an extra "real core" is a gross misunderstanding of what hyperthreading is meant to achieve.
Eliminating fossil fuels should really really have nothing to do with the political alignment.
Neither does Sci-Hub. I'm certainly willing to advocate for copyright reform through legislative action, for instance, but of all the hills I could die on it's not the one I'd choose above all others with respect to monetary fines or imprisonment.
What is cool about Fusing Hydrogen to Boron is there is relatively low amounts of radioactive particles, the only emission is Helium nucleuses and those have a charge that can make electricity directly without a heat cycle. Other fusion types make neutrons which then can make materials they hit become radioactive or at least weaken them. This is still proof of concept but they are estimating putting power into the grid in the next 10-15 years, which is a big jump from the constant 30-40 year timeframe fusion has been stuck in up to recently.
Maybe. I’m pretty frugal and a big fan of doing things myself. I certainly hope that they can some day can provide me with enough value to make spending $20 a no-brainer, but until that’s obvious or unavoidable, I’m not giving them $20 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also missed the opportunity to say "10M hectograms" or "100M decagrams".
Yeah, but you only have to do it once.

I keep mine floating over my bed; it's great for comics and pretty good for ebooks. The best upgrade would be a screen with better blacks.

I have a clamp like this: https://www.amazon.com/Gooseneck-Tablet-Mount-Holder-Bed/dp/...
End of the road for podcasts more like. They are incredibly labour intensive to produce (recording + editing time), and more and more of them are becoming not much more than plugs for their book, TV show or what not. I can see them turning the medium into an automated marketing channel, the way email lists are today.
>That GPT-3 is just vomiting stuff up out of its training set and not producing any new knowledge?

Hmm. Seems obvious to me that it's producing new output, but that output isn't knowledge and it can't be.

Sometimes ChatGPT tells me something that turns out to be correct and relevant. And I get excited, and then I Google it and what it told me is the first hit on Stack Overflow.

There's a subtle point here, that other people might say "well, ChatGPT is ok, but no better than Google" or something like that. But I differ on that. The key is that I don't know it's Stack Overflow until I check independently. So it's giving it too much credit to say it's as good as Google, and the amount of information it can output is not lower bounded by its training set, but is actually zero due to being adjacent to an infinite amount of BS that by its nature always requires external mechanisms to separate out.
Wouldn't just doing the boom on surface made more sense ? Less energy wasted and possibly more directional blow if bomb landed in a crater.
There are a lot of responses to this comment along the lines of 'privatisation leads to more/less efficiency'. I'd like to point out that although 'efficiency' is usually the stated reason for privatisation, in reality it is often simply a distraction from the more significant (and fundamentally more ideological) consideration - providing those with capital with more investment opportunities.

Edit:

Unfortunately, because of the nature of much of what is privatised, these investment opportunities are often rent-seeking opportunities.
At the moment they actually are buying electric Ford Transits, not the thing pictured at the link. Looks a lot like a van:

https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/e-transit/
My first therapist was a poor fit, and when I decided to make a change, I specifically sought out a trauma-aware therapist who specialized in cases that involved complex childhood trauma. This made all the difference for me, but it's possible the factors in play are not the same.

I'm also pretty interested in the book mentioned above. I should also mention that the book "Why Buddhism is True" is a book that really opened my eyes to some aspects of human experience that just hadn't made any sense to me up to that point. This is not a religious book, but rather an examination of the philosophical claims of Buddhism and mapping those onto a modern understanding of evolutionary psychology. I had just started meditating when I read this, and reading it convinced me fully that I was on the right path.

I've come to believe that this meditation practice is the single most important habit in my life at this point. It's a foundation for thinking more clearly, and thinking more clearly tends to sort out a bunch of other problems automatically.
"I'm glad OpenAI is committed to refining its API terms of service to better meet the needs of developers."

"Yes, it's important to make sure developers have the tools they need to create innovative products with these models."

"Oh look, I found an interesting article on thoriumsim.com about a star ship bridge simulator called Thorim Nova."

"Hmm, sounds interesting let's read it."

Absolutely painful. I would love something that summarizes the articles and discussion without pretending to be a conversation between two people. I mean it says it is AI generated but they are adding all this conversational fluff which really does not work for me.

It is interesting to see these pieces come together but I want to tear my ears out of my head when I hear things like "Yes, it's important to make sure developers have the tools they need to create innovative products with these models." or just repeatedly adding the word "interesting" to summaries of articles.

Please just give me a bog standard summary in audio form without this faux commentary. I do not find the "insights" of ChatGPT worthwhile.
From the article this is a separate contract for COTS trucks, along with some gas ones from Stellantis.
I imagine Ford is also a lot better at building huge quantities of vehicles than Oshkosh.
Hey, congrats on the growth guys! Drop me an email, happy to share some advice around this. I've run small acquisitions for companies and have some specific ideas that can help you guys (ofcourse, its all free advice).

The best case scenario is where you have inbound offers.

But typically all these ideas will revolve around a couple of things:
- Figuring out the right mix of companies of companies that will value this
- Figuring out the right people to connect with (it's not always corp-dev) and tactical advice around how to reach them
- Other creative stuff (like using influencers to your advantage)

rishabhkaul at gmail dot com I am based in London, so similar timezone to you.
For comparison, Australia Post went with mostly 3-wheel electric bikes for local deliveries (3100 out of 4100 EVs in the fleet mid 2022). https://auspost.com.au/our-stories/inspiring-stories/sustain... there's a photo in the link. The low noise compared to the previous powered bikes is really nice.
It's very unusual!
I have no idea for certain, but I would guess really well.

Mostly because I saw one of them for the first time ever in Seattle about 3.5 months ago. At first it was just one, then I saw another one a week later. The frequency kept increasing to the point where I see multiple ones every time I go on a short grocery trip a few miles away. They expanded to the point where they are everywhere here now, and I doubt they would continue expanding it so aggressively if it wasn't working out.
Ask HN: Where can I get my app reviewed?
Hi everyone,
in the past couple of days I have been thinking about how to get my app professionally reviewed... like by a community of bloggers, or someone writing an article about similar tools in the market. In other words, where can you get a quality review of your app?
Thanks in advance!
I guess they are saying it’s “functional” but lacks “form”. These are distinct things which do not imply one another. What we value is of course subjective.
Any links that described how they scaled their services?
Bullshit. You could replace Putin with any other Russian politician, and their opposition to encirclement by a pact motivated by opposition to Russia would remain. Care to cite anyone we've heard of and not because they murdered a bunch of air passengers?
Also, the current ones aren't all that stylish either.
I highly recommend Hungry Ghosts for anyone that wants to understand addiction (it’s an escape from pain that probably started in childhood ). You could also go straight to The Myth of Normal which has some of this information from his other works. The Joe Rogan interview was one of Rogans worst jobs interviewing- there’s a lot more depth that Mate has to give and some of it comes out in other interviews he has given. There’s a few on YouTube https://youtu.be/H9B5mYfBPlY
I've heard it is a dissolving house of cards that barely functions, absolutely refuses to make long term investments in things like electrification, and it focuses on scraping out every short term gain possible regardless of long term consequences. And yeah also passenger service gets absolutely ruined by their policies. All around it sounds like a dumpster fire from what I have heard. Perhaps I am misinformed.