skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why you shouldn’t have a 4 digit PIN. By default Apple devices have wanted a 6 digit PIN for a while now. I have an 8 digit one on my watch, but use a passphrase on my iPhone.
Many government pensions invest in other governments' bonds.
Consider the following:

1. A high infant mortality rate brings average lifespan down.

2. Infants don't contribute to the economy nor to public pension funds.

A country might have low life expectancy, but a relatively close number of workers and retirees, as life expectances can be (even more so in developing countries) multimodal.
We do need to get carbon production to zero, and then negative. But first we need to lower carbon production. Gas peaker plants make a good intermediate step. We can work on renewable electricity. And then work on more renewables and storage to get rid of all carbon, and finally even more renewables and carbon capture.

I have heard that 3x normal load in renewables is enough for nearly all the time with storage for load-shifting during the day. That results in extra capacity most of the time which can be used for carbon capture, making hydrogen, and making legacy fuels.
> We should not be asking the government to set laws based on morality.

What an odd opinion. What about laws against murder, fraud, or narcotics? Aren't those also based on morality?
I would recommend playing with the new ChatGPT API a bit.

Trial and error in terms of tweaking the system prompt is surprisingly instructive.
> firmware on a battery controls things like charging limits (and more

Was I opposing this?

> firmware is written poorly it leads to battery fires

Do you have any supporting to the claim?

While there may be some correlation between battery firmware and fires, I doubt fire can be caused by firmware routine, even if it is calling short-circuiting the battery.
Back in October of 2020 I paid $1,399.99 for it, so I would be happy to get it for today's price.
"His severance package is HOW MUCH? Fine, I'll walk it back just this once..."
> The problem with nuclear is that every dollar spent on nuclear could have displaced more fossil energy if invested in renewables. Any investment in nuclear prolongs the climate crisis.

Every dollar spent on nuclear, or every dollar spent on gratuitous nuclear regulation? Renewables kill many more people and render far more land uninhabitable per kWh generated; if we normalized our safety requirements then we'd turn off more coal more quickly by going to nuclear.

Germany switched their policy away from nuclear and the result is they've spent more money (just look at the cost of the required grid upgrades alone from their renewable programme) and generated more CO2 (with coal plants being kept open past planned shutdowns, and in some cases even restarted).

There's plenty of space for renewables in the mix, but opposing nuclear doesn't mean more money gets spent on renewables and certainly doesn't mean more emission reduction; quite the opposite.
skilled workers don't make a buck in France

as an engineer, you choose to stay in France for the values, for the quality of life, for your family, or from some kind of patriotism after having had free college.

And you go the USA for money !

Median earnings for engineering graduates is 36k/year in most schools. After direct 'contributions', you're lucky to get about 2000k€ /month (on which you have to save for other income taxes for the end of the year)

My first engineering job, during COVID, was paid 20k€/year ! (bellow the legal minimum, but it was declared as an internship)

It's far from the 6 figure salaries in cali !

Medical doctors should do about 6000€/month too.

Companies in here don't care about hiring skilled workers. They want cheap workers, because they have no long term R&D.
We have Nearby Share, which is awesome, but doesn't help much if the other person has an iPhone, or you've got a Windows/Linux.

I expect it might be solved in a few years, as long as no Apple products are involved, but for now we're still stuck taking pictures of each other's screens if we need something fast.
Upvote for the chuckle while reading. Yes, we can very much have a blind spot from using whatever our current toolset is.
China has not invaded any country in decades, or imposed sanctions that have devasted the lives of millions in poor countries, unlike the West, led by the United States.
> why would you expect that the first-third world gap to not continue to normalize?

If the third world raises to the first world standards, then great. If that process involves first world standards falling to meet third world ones in the middle at the cost of first-world middle class, then there is a big problem. See where Trump and Sanders got most of their votes and you will start to see a pattern here.
"Gear doesn't matter" was never supposed to be interpreted literally.
> ChatGPT cannot give an answer that is the result of a "reasoning" before laying out the "reasoning".

This is slightly too strong a statement: it can give an answer before reasoning it out, but it only gets a single forward pass of the network to calculate that answer, so it has to be a simpler kind of answer or very obvious reasoning (intuitively, imagine it can only take "one logical step" in a forward pass).

Its answers get much better if it uses the context as a scratch pad to write down its thinking from previous passes, this is where Chain of Thought (CoT) comes in. The way language models work is they pass the output to the input over and over, each time generating one token. This means the context is really like a scratch pad recording its previous thoughts.
What top comment? The one in this submission? it doesn't explain at all why this needs to be a programming language
I live on the east coast, paid for excellent insulation and thick windows with good seals, installed solar, and don't pay a dime more for energy. That includes heating, cooling, hot water, and our two EVs. This is possible almost entirely because of the insulation.

We were generating a surplus, so we installed an electric clothes dryer, which seems to have balanced everything nicely.
It's not a zero-sum game. You pay, you receive back all the benefits of a developed society AND the retirement. Otherwise you could keep all your money and live alone in a jungle or desert.
That's on an individual basis, but it can have collective side effects. For example, most would rather a personal car rather than the bus, but that makes bus stops less frequent due to less ridership which then makes cars even more desireable.

Or flight from urban crime to the suburbs then makes urban crime more likely for the remaining people, who then have more reasons to flee.
no, because we are talking about two different parties. the people in the union do not pay tuition, so it is irrelevant to them. most graduate students who are working do it in lieu of paying tuition

the entire dispute, hence the article, is that they are not paid enough and the value of their work is basically dwindling in comparison to the tuition that they would otherwise be paying and comparable work. there are two options - either lower their tuition, which is not helpful since they do not pay, or raise their wages. USC did not comply, and thus they had to unionize and force the issue.

the other pro-union argument is that those who are working who are not graduate students will benefit as the wage that's being paid will also need to reflect the non-union wage since there are non-graduate students, like lab techs, who often do the exact same job as someone in grad school in a lab.
“The hard and expensive part of the above one-sentence explanation — the part that we’ve only recently hit on how to do using massive amounts of electricity and leading-edge computer chips — is hidden deep inside the word /related/.”

The whole point of mentioning relatedness is to show readers that we’re not dealing with finite n-grams.
Private schools aren’t the only ones with legacy, even though they deny it; and I wasn’t only referring to private schools.
If I make a scam post on HN, Facebook, etc, their bottom line won't change regardless of whether it gets deleted or how many people end up seeing it.

If I make a scam ad, there's a direct correlation between the amount of potential victims seeing it and how much money they make, so there's a monetary incentive to accept malicious ads and not ask too many questions.
This is the idea again that wealthy people hoard their money, and it must be liberated to benefit the economy.

The fact is, their money is not stored in Scrooge McDuck cash vaults. It's all invested in the economy.
Right, but that's a bit different intent than looking to get rich.
Wasn't the Seattle interurban torn up in the early 1940s? I don't think you can blame that on the boomers.
> The reason is not just for esthetic, but professional installers know cable lacing lasts longer than cable ties.

As someone who knows nothing about this area, can somebody explain why? Cable ties really fail over time at a significant rate? And on a short enough time span that it makes a difference?
Finger guns
Instead of using artificial sweeteners, another option is to just make things less sweet. In most cases I feel like I would prefer that.
> Lowe has spent decades informing lay audiences about pharmacology and biochemistry.

So? Why should I care whether a report is written by David Lowe? This guy has already drawn a conclusion about erythritol despite how inadequate the evidence is for how harmful it is to those without CVD, and is even willing to tease the reader with some data on fruit flies as if that matters. It doesn't matter what his background is; I don't find this article becoming of someone in the field of research.

> A facile dismissal

Yet all you did was cite the fact the article was written by David Lowe and paste an excerpt as if you think I hadn't already read it.

Facetious, because I chose to read beyond that piece of abstract? Because I pointed out that invertebrate physiology is a nonsequitor as to whether a substance is medically relevant to human being? Because I don't agree that correlation of data in a study with inherent confounders can be so easily used to interpret risk in healthy individuals?

There's a difference between correlation and causation, and especially in regards to judging medically relevant risk.

If I was being facile and facetious, I'd be claiming there's no problem with erythritol. That's not what I'm saying at all. There's no good reason people should be consuming artificial sweeteners or sugar. That doesn't mean that there's necessarily a meaningful cardiovascular risk.
> Recently, AWS seemed to be finally capitulating to sales demand and globalizing things.

Short answer: no. cross-region services are few and far between.

Long answer: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-iso...
> Of course if you see something worth taking a picture of then you need to use what you have available, whether that’s an expensive DSLR or your smart phone.

Except that some things are only worth taking a picture of if you have the right gear. (Yeah, the subsequent paragraphs kinda agree with this, but I do think it’s worth spelling out that for some sorts of photos, “the camera you have with you” may well be sufficiently unsuitable as to be useless.)
Of course Chinese casualties matter. But why do you think a few smuggled-in nukes going to change that materially? What do you propose to do with the nukes? How many warheads do you propose to need to do it?

> being a fairly calculated player I believe that there exists some threshold of pain that even china would think twice before shrugging it off.

This is not in doubt. It just that nukes are not magic. They are not an automatic “you won” card.

The most sensible thing I can think of with nukes regarding the protection of Taiwan is to hit Chinese deep sea harbours. If you can distrupt enough of them then maybe they can’t board their troops. But that is a lot of warheads, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they can restore some semblance of operations even in a nuked harbour.
Apple TV is by far the worst streaming box. It's only barely tolerable if you are part of the Apple ecosystem, which most of the world is not part of.

Navigation sucks. Definitely a case of neither form, nor function, guiding the UX experience. Navigation is inconsistent within the interface itself, and Apple forces services to modify their interfaces to meet Apple's nonsensical requirements, so streaming service UXs on the ATV are inconsistent from every other platform for which they are available.

The Apple TV remote is alternatively too sensitive and not sensitive enough, and the Apple TV is prone to lagging, which compounds these sensitivity issues.

And profiles/multi-account management is so bad it would make Steve Jobs want to smash every ATV box into a million pieces. A child's profile has access to adult content by default which defaults the entire point of having a profile just for kids.
I was just browsing their site oddly enough, been playing with an idea for a few days now and trying to figure out if their boards will meet my needs. I really wish you could get it without headers installed, thickness is an issue for me.
On twitter I got sorta-popular mostly sharing photos of my life, documentary style, and a few are with a Leica Q2 ($5000). Most are with a Pixel 5 (or recently Pixel 7).

People very often ask me what camera I used to take a photo. When they do, it's usually the Pixel! Maybe 80% of the time it's a phone camera shot.

Of course highly specific gear matters for sports shooting (as he mentions) or wildlife shooting (telephoto), but otherwise limitations don't matter too much. Blurry or lower dpi photos are OK. Quick editing on your phone is OK. Finding the right photo in the world is still what matters most.

One of the reasons I love the Leica Q2, with its fixed 28mm lens (no zooming, no changing lenses), is that it forces you to find these photos. You're not thinking about gear, about what to bring or how to start. Instead you spend your energy just seeing and moving (zoom with your feet only) and I think this makes you a better photographer than one with a bigger gear loadout. It's also why I think I can seamlessly switch between my 'real' camera and my phone when thinking about what to point at, since I'm married to just a single focal length.

Since I always have my phone, I get more shots on my phone, and maybe to the audience those are the most impressive shots, so they ask, and they find out I'm using a phone camera. The gear definitely doesn't matter that much.
If you tweaked inner-monologue prompts to specify delimiters like pipes, then you could presumably parse it before showing to the reader.

It is possible that Bing Sydney is doing this or something like that based on the PM's tweet: https://twitter.com/MParakhin/status/1632087709060825088

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One approach here would be prompt injection: just insert the 'No' into your own response so ChatGPT tries completing that. Also:

> I speculate that the temperature, when coupled with the mechanism of generating text based on already-generated text, could explain some cases of ChatGPT stupidity. In cases when ChatGPT should be perfectly accurate, the temperature will surely under-optimize its cleverness, and now the entire conversation is broken, because everything else will depend on what foolishness it just wrote.

Absolutely. This is why 'best-of' sampling (not available in ChatGPT's default interface) can be so useful. You decode many different possibilities in parallel, and the ones where the random decoding makes a fatal error will get discarded and you'll get back the most plausible overall one, which is much more likely to be correct.
"... a floppy-to-USB emulator. These devices cost around $275".

The last one I bought on ebay was $25. And it works.
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Why the hell would I live in an American city? I live in Colorado. Denver is our 'city', there is no parking, no room for my 2 dogs and my kid would not have a giant backyard to play in.

Instead, I have a 3400 sq ft house on 10,000 sq ft of land with giant trees everywhere. I'm within 2 miles of lightrail, that I will never use.

I work from home, I have a home office with a indoor, led powered garden with fresh fruit and flowers year round.

My wife works 30 minutes from home, she's a school teacher. We wanted to live closer to her school but we'd get a much smaller house with no parking and no room for the kids and dogs to play.

Again, why would I buy near or in any city? 15 minutes from downtown Denver is to close for my taste.

I love theatre, I love restaurants but honestly, I hate driving in Denver. The traffic sucks. I love driving. I love craft coffee, my house is 1 mile from the coffee factory that makes the coffee whole foods uses; I enjoy a craft coffee from that place once in a while.

Why is walkable so desired? When it's cold (like today) I don't want to leave my car. I'd drive through any day, I'd drive just to avoid walking half a mile.

Denver banned the scooters and other options from lyft and bird, so I have to lug my giant body from location to location? No thanks, I'll take my 4000 pound car to the restaurant instead.

Then I'll go home, enjoy my big beautiful yard and not worry about living in the city.

I don't go to the gym, instead I have a treadmill and a bike in my basement. If I want to do something, I just get in my car and go. I want to get a solar system and buy an electric car but so far no one will install on my style of roof
Yes, I see a lot of people talking about how it revolutionizes learning, but it only provides decent answers for extremely well-known and popular topics on the internet. Ask it a question about a less-documented human language for instance and it will mislead you with the most hilariously wrong and confidently made-up garbage answers.

This could end up being another example of knowledge quality going down as people keep going for the easiest was to get answers, like searching for info on topics on Instagram and TikTok.
It's not just fine, it's degraded quality because these are directional beam forming microphones.
That is a very optimistic view, I doubt that the % of LGBTQ that would contribute in the trenches would make a big difference.

My bet is that this is just signaling to their western allies(us) but hopefully I am wrong.
But do you have the seed prompt yet?
> I can't claim it's not fair.

Fair to whom? Why should middle class in the West vote to allow outsourcing to cheaper countries? That will just destroy their well-paying jobs in exchange for some cheap Chinese goods and Indian call centers.

I also feel the same way about current "remote first" trend - American software engineers are shooting themselves in the foot by embracing remote work. Wait until your salaries get normalized to Brazil or Indian levels. Anecdotally, my company had multiple rounds of layoffs and has started hiring all the backfills in the third world now.
Compute Blade: Your rack-mountable ARM cluster
I'll bite. How does chatgpt fit into any of the conservative themes? I'm baffled. Its not gendered, its not an immigrant, its not "elitist", it generally isn't partisan or for that matter opinionated. Why the hate?
One of the GCC 3.3.x releases (possibly 6?) was completely broken if you attempted to build from source because they applied some last minute patches that didn't compile on most systems and never tested it.

That said, the reputation in those days was that the compiler was essentially perfect circa GCC 2.7, and the rewrite to support C99 created innumerable bugs that would never be fixed, especially if you used that sketchy -O2 option. -O0 for correctness and -O1 for ahem, "speed".

It took awhile to get back there, but mainstream compilers are probably the most correct and reliable software in common use today, often exceeding large parts of the OS they're running on. It's only with weird, obscure targets and new features that you tend to run into the rough edges that are actually broken.
That article is hot garbage, predictably since the app is purpose built to not allow proper backups/migrations.

"Go back in time and save the raw secrets" might as well be a certain-fingered emoji to basically literally everyone.

At this point, the only hope is getting webauthn everywhere and train people to always enroll a primary and backup token.
By increasing everybody's salaries, it seems likely to me the cost of goods and services would go up by virtue of inflation. There is no free lunch. At the same time, prosperity is not a zero sum game. The rise of China has coincided with increased living standards in nearly every country. I'm not sure who would be "stealing" your wages. If I were to say, it's French labor policies that are stifling innovation and productivity, and it's manifesting in a decrease in living standards. I once met a couple French businessmen in a bar, both in the tech space. They bemoaned how difficult it was to fire anybody in France, meaning they worked very hard to not hire people to begin with. They were also in the US specifically to look for investment opportunities. This is the kind of thing that's choking France.
Think you got it! Re factoring projects well, its interesting, but I think that there's some good strategies here. What's worked for us is working backwards -- starting with the artifact you want and progressively defining how you get there until you get the data you need to load.

Thanks btw for all the feedback! This is great.
Citation needed. Everything I have seen shows that suburbs are a net drain in contrast to dense urban areas. Infrastructure has very high fixed costs that require more people to net even.
This sadly shows how vulnerable these are.

Crypto on hacked cloud infra is last year.

Hacking language models to do something else or dump their brains is the new hotness.

This one’s brains were neat.
Does ski matter to beginners? Say, for a Ski beginner who can cruise light blue runs with ugly movement when carving? Should I just pick a pair in a certain price range, or pay close attention to all kinds of parameters.
The small modular reactors could be useful for isolated places where it is hard to run power cables and renewables are not feasible. Solar doesn't work close to the poles. Places that are now powered by importing diesel.

Reactors might also work for ships. A super reliable small reactor that doesn't require much support personnel might be option for powering cargo ships.
When someone says the life expectancy used to be lower and we now have a lot of people who are old are not working would lead you to believe that there were not a lot of old people not working in the past. That would be wrong. The plurality of people were dying at 75 as I said.

The average lifespan is very insufficient to tell you how many people you can expect to be retired at a given moment.
I made a video cover letter, someone please hire me:)
I attended App Academy in March of 2022 & have been having a tough time finding a job with the current market. My career coach suggested that I lean into my skill sets (former video producer) to put together a video cover letter & here's the final result!
Exterior typically requires sheathing and insulation is attached to that sheathing. Extra work is required to tape up the seams though it eliminates the plastic house wrap required in most areas in the US which is attached with staples or a nail gun.
yup - we bought 1.5Mb of core for our B6700 for ~US$1.25M (in 1976 dollars) - as a 48(+4) bit machine it either had 6 8-bit bytes or 8 6-bit bytes. In practice ASCII had 7-bit characters and EBCDIC 7-8 bit ones. Teletypes (6-bit) were still around.

From the beginning right up to the birth of microprocessors computer architects were still experimenting around these tradeoffs - around the late 70s it all jelled into 8 bit bytes and power of 2 word sizes

I think that 8 bits is a nice round number is you move to a memory model that is
an array of bytes and an array of words - making everything a power of 2 in size makes the hardware simpler (much the same reason why bcd, and decimal arithmetic have largely disapeared)