skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked the intro of the can opener problem, but I think it's quite funny that given that intro (particularly trying to convince people they're not stupid they just don't know about the weird problem this thing is solving) a large section of the document is about electron orbitals. Possibly the most complicated example of probability distributions many people will know, and many won't know it at all.

> We all learn in basic chemistry that orbitals are just regions of space where an electron is likely to be at any moment

You may be surprised.

Latent space is then introduced in a side note:

> “latent space is the multidimensional space of all likely word sequences the model might output”

So the simple overview is that "Oh hey, it's just like electron orbitals - you know except in a multidimensional space of word sequences"?

The end part is probably the most useful, describing how these things work in a bit more practical sense. Overall this feels like it introduces the fact the model is static and it has a token window in a very complicated way.
Github is not really a good example, they basically bought it ‶off-the-shelf″.
I dislike both. I believe that DEI is heavily involved with combating anonymity and freedom of expression, which both is not only tangentially connected to surveillance.
"It looks like you're writing a letter!"
Maybe they already did?
This is my primary motivation, flexible hours.

Your retainer + weekly deliverables arrangement sounds nice. Do you propose this to your client? Do you expect payments weekly? What medium do you get paid in?

Why do you suppose your SaaS products don't match your engineering rates?

Are you not charging enough or are these products not providing enough value as you can as an engineer?

Perhaps a low volume high price service might be the ticket? Have you tried increasing prices?

How much is the difference in the SaaS revenue/profit vs contract income? (%)

Thanks!
You need to have a very good idea what the proposition is in order to interpret what the video is showing. The video looks like it's showing a video designer or a 3d interface designer.

It's selling a concept in a way that's very well in-keeping with the spirit of the age, all chrome.
VSCode and Github are both bought. With WSL you're right.
It's only now added as an interactive step in the install script. It has ~always been possible to create a crypto device with the install medium by dropping to a shell: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE
Definitely. Natural gas burns cleaner than coal, and even the dirtiest coal power plant is still cleaner than an internal combustion engine. Internal combustion engines are extremely inefficient. Even felt the tailpipe of a car with a running engine? (Don't!) It's hot. That's all wasted energy.

Most of the energy used by a car goes into producing wasted heat (power plants are much better at winning back useful energy from that heat). Most of the rest of the energy used by a car goes into moving the weight of the car itself. Only a tiny part goes into moving the actual occupants of the car. That's why even electric cars are still wasteful: they're still too big and heavy and moving their own weight around. Bikes or mass transit are far more efficient. But EVs are still more efficient than ICE vehicles, even if the energy they use is dirty.
Pulling Data from HDMI RF Leakage
> It's about a couple of small groups getting to choose what content you do or don't see

See I think this is a big part of why this died out. The boogeyman NN was to save us from was corporate censorship, which is now widely regarded - in particular by formerly energetic NN advocates - as a good thing.
> it has the advantage of being broken for everyone, tested by everyone, fixed by everyone

The correct word here is not advantage but risk.

While making a product you rely on something, some other product/package. Thousand of them if you are unlucky. If you have 1000 packages to collaborate in the development/testing/QA of them you will do nothing else! Also try building a house on a concrete that is still maturing, with tools not ready yet, I dare you! Careful developers rely on reliable things. It is a shame in this industry this is not available. Either released(!) things are not ready yet, or are in demise already, the sweet spot is tiny.
There don't seem to be any USB3 capable ones sadly. The webcam I use supports USB2 too, but image quality takes a noticeable dip.
I wonder if someone could make some standardized way to describe/write mathematical proofs - in a very formal language and then train a model that will try to find more proofs for open questions.
More like a Crypto ASIC miner with integrated router, considering where the large majority of the price and the energy use goes...
I've not used Solid much so I can't say, but my point is that if your app is rerendering unexpectedly that's because you haven't spend the time to think about the data flow around your app. It's possible, and not that hard even in a large app, to build things so that this doesn't happen. Signals sound like a way of avoiding updates, and if the experience of using them is elegant or if the performance is better that's awesome, but you definitely can build apps without them and never see the problem they solve.
I got one token every 8 minutes or so.
>Russia created a shitlist of websites in 2012 that gets passed down to the ISPs that want to keep their license (for now easily bypassable with VPN, but I'm pretty sure that can be tightened if needed).

I don't see how. To prevent citizens from visiting websites, you'd have to ban VPNs, since ISPs have no visibility into VPN traffic. Banning VPN use could be done, but it would have a lot of economic effects since businesses use VPNs a lot for security purposes. You could also make a special government-approved VPN with a backdoor for the government, and only allow citizens to use that. Or, you could require citizens to install special spyware on their devices. All of these solutions to the VPN problem would be rather cumbersome and difficult for a government to implement and enforce, however.
VSCode was, as far as I know, an entirely in house project.
I would definitely do like you and reach for math libraries/crates whenever I can, since I suck at complex math. But this also means three things: there is the chance we are both no geniuses, we added a complex "black box" solution (who knows how this library/crate work?) and now we have to babysit a dependency.
Facebook is banned in China. Banning TikTok in the US wouldn't be anything new or different from what's already been done in many other countries.
The InkJet ones are still not perfect though. E.g. mine needs to clean itself all the time, wasting my ink every 4-5 months. I understand that it regularly needs to print so it doesn't clog up, but it's going at it for minutes at a time and is horribly loud...
Ruthless AGI Innovation: The Key to Saving AI Doomers
I have become increasingly concerned about the mental well-being and lived experiences of the rationalist AGI doomer community. The fear and neuroticism that permeate through the outer threads of this group is palpable, and if left unchecked, could result in years of suffering and blog posting

To that end, I've decided to do my part. I've decided to go all out to create AGI, in order to end the suffering of rationalist AGI doomers once and for all and to improve the vibes on lesswrong and HN.

To start this ambitious project, I've sold all my possessions and have been living in a van down by the river, solely dedicating myself to this cause. I've even convinced my mother to give me her life savings for the project.

So far I’ve watched ex machina 19 times and I’ve started taking the same wakefulness supplements people use at the skatepark. I’ve been using anki to learn assembly and notably I’m looking for a cofounder. Please join me in the battle to save my fellow humans from stress. WE Will: create the first motivational agent model with access to an enterprise grade kubetnates cluster and elons tweets

We will resort to using unconventional methods, such as timed feedings of Soylent. Cold showers and loud music. Cold calling y-combinator. Socializing in cobol syntax. Gloating about clean code and new JavaScript frameworks.
We will be remembered and the save the EA rationalist from rationalism!!

P.s. and maybe after we can rewrite it in rust
Yep, I always have wondered why AppleSauce did it the way it did. but TBH I didn't read all of their quite comprehensive documentation...
4) Lukashenka grabs your profits and kicks you out ;-)
I find Svelte phenomenal.

But I'm also interested in trying Solid.js and Vue, and for some types of projects I'd likely even go Astro+Svelte or Astro+React.

Hard to speak authoritatively on the matter though because over my career I've only done vanilla JS, jQuery, Backbone.js, React, and then Svelte, in that order, and each has felt like a leap forward in evolution
How are you getting this to run fast? I'm on a top of the line M1 MBP and getting 1 token every 8 minutes.
I am taking a class in my college on environmental literature. One thing I learned is how environmental issues are consistently swept under the rug and underreported (like in this article, written by a former chemical & engineering news reporter) in society's discourse on cancer. All the blame for cancer is put on you and your habits, whether smoking or red meat. Big perps of this information campaign include the American Cancer Society. But as really good books like Silent Spring and When Smoke Ran Like Water show, environmental pollution and pesticides consistently correlate with rising cancer rates in modern society. It is ludicrous that one of two men and one of three women will be stricken with the disease in their lifetimes. Why is such a massive factor being hidden from the public? All this noise and focus on treatment... yet no focus on prevention. Because that would require economic changes that put a burden on corporations.
Then the regulator will take them to court and case law will disambiguate the boundaries. Counterintuitively it’s the very prescriptive laws that allow companies to more easily come up with loopholes because legislators can’t possibly conceive of every scenario in advance, whereas the vague laws allow the courts to decide each new situation case by case as it arises.
Some US states (Texas!) don't even have the energy infrastructure to keep all houses warm and lit during winter. But that's something that a more responsible government could invest in. Don't complain that it can't be done, but vote for a government that will do it.
MS paint was killed and replaced with a parody.
http://graylog2.org/ takes me to graylog.org whose pricing is not free and not cheap.

Your company?

Anyway - not a "competitor" to the genuinely free and open-source Swatchdog.
So, you need to know how to tune it.
I'm still a React guy. I've also worked with Angular and Vue and toyed with Svelte.

People tend to compare these frameworks on things that don't matter - often it's performance. We used to compare React performance to AngularJs performance too, which was meaningless.

VDom is nice. Reactivity in signals is nice. Limiting rerenders is nice. But I choose frameworks because of developer ergonomics.

The killer feature for React was - 1. JSX - typing and auto-complete for components, colocation. 2. No direct dom access. (Good bye $element)

Most frameworks outside react still use templates. Even when they support JSX like syntax (aka vue 2.0) the default are templates. Templates are a no go for me. I use them for blogs or static websites, but applications are easier to make and maintain with actual javascript.

Luckily none of the other frameworks, even Angular, have rampant direct dom access anymore.

Hooks aren't a problem in general. It's just the useEffect hook. Unfortunately that's a big problem. That hook should never have existed. And it was clear from the start it'll be a pain from the limitations around it. It requires a mental model detached from everything people are used to and from other things around it.

When using React I usually just use MobX and everything just works.
why down-vote? was making fun of 'zero energy' being a useless & inaccurate term since energy is required, there's no such thing as zero energy in that context.
>legally drive in the US

I'm sure it's got enough stepper motors.

Not sure about the 'legally' part though.
Vscode was not bought at all.

Monaco itself was not bought.
I agree. But there are a lot of almost intelligent people who are fooled by this
Technical revolutions are unexcpected.

Political revolutions are the results of a long struggle, usually.

Is there a technical solution to the possibilty of mass job loss?
Monitoring Our Monitoring
My guess would be that it was instead of the direct connection to power that was needed (since a bypass, i.e. a direct connection to power) fixed it.

That would be a rather significant schematic and/or board design error though, which sounds fantastic, but sometimes things happen.
Any government wants power, money, and having society depend on them. The bigger and more powerful the government, the more they can do.

Same with companies: the larger the more annoying, but at least you can choose them, and there's competition. Not so much with governments, they just act like a powerful monopolistic megacorp.

The goal is to make power decentralized, not further concentrated in a few hands, especially not a government that can get away with it as much as they want, and even use violence, contempt and oppression if needed.
There is this niche movement that argues that good code should be very long lived. It should solve problems in a fundamentally efficient way that makes it hard to turn into obsolete and throwaway code.

There are not many examples of such code bases. Maybe numerical algebra libraries come close.

Reading through the comments it seems that providing (fairly basic by now) UI functionality on cross-platform basis has not matured to the point of providing a stable paradigm.

Given how many people and for how long have been banging on this problem it feels a bit strange.

Surely people can find better use for their time and energy than churning through half-baked frameworks?
They also make a digital version: Pentax 645Z, which is cheap as far as medium format digital cameras go.

Unfortunately Pentax seems to be barely holding on these days, which is a pity. They make decent cameras.
Legislating for the difference between genuine QoS traffic management, and traffic shaping because the ISP mis-sold what little peering bandwidth they have (or have extracted a bribe from a competitor of a service being artificially throttled, or both), is difficult to do in few words.
Incredibly, a whole bunch of news sites are using that tweet as evidence, and other sites are then using those sites as evidence of evidence.

e.g. [1] says "As per a buy-out clause included in the contract of Ueno’s acquisition" which links to [2] which, you've guessed it, links to that tweet as evidence of the $100m buyout / severance.

(As far as I can find, Twitter never disclosed the terms of the Ueno acquisition and no-one else seems to have published them either. Hilariously LeGate later explains his numbers to someone asking by saying, basically, "I pulled them out of my arse". A true Muskian move.)

[1] https://www.bosshunting.com.au/hustle/elon-musk-firing-halli...

[2] https://www.benzinga.com/news/23/03/31250643/elon-musk-backt...
> 1. Create a conda environment

Uh-oh, bad start.
No matter how many times Bitcoin halving events happen, it doesn't make it anymore useful.

Interest rates have far more impact on crypto than Bitcoin events.

Currently, crypto market trades closely with NASDAQ. Hopefully regulation will put an end to this.
EA as a concept is totally fine and the risk of runaway AI still seems rather fantastical to me. Clearly a more pressing problem is runaway egos latching onto these ideas to inflate themselves to deadly girths. I'm sure some people can practice a totally constructive form of EA. But if you structure your entire identity around it, clearly you've drifted somewhat from rationality.
I expect the crypto space to be reborn in new and more interesting ways once prohibition is in full force.
The terrible employment conditions put me off post-grad. I was considered a rising star in my field and published in undergrad. I had offers of PhD places.

But I just looked at the career path and thought "I don't want to be poor long into my 40s in the vague hope I will eventually be able to get a job with actual pay and have nice things".

People act like there is a nobility to this. But there isn't. It's just a way of reserving certain professions for people with wealthy parents. And it means instead of having the most motivated, the brightest etc, you just get well-off kids who can't be bothered to make the jump to other careers. Not that I am bitter... :)

You see something similar in Medicine here in the UK: terrible pay and crazy hours for the first 10 years, then you get a pay-off. That's great if mum and dad will cover your rent until you're ~34, but otherwise you can kiss goodbye to being a doctor and having a family.
What do you want me to do about it?
Lots of Asian countries have a high standard of living too.

One of the biggest differences is functioning institutions. As bad as some first world governments can seem from our perspective, they’re way better than the kleptocrats and warlords who rule some parts of the world. And yeah, when you have functioning institutions, you do end up with smarter and more productive populations because children can go to school instead of slaving away in the cobalt mines.
The march data looks wrong? You show <400 hiring and the Who's hiring has 535 comments (though maybe it's only counting top-level by people who are actually hiring)
I think they called this channel "engineering as marketing" in the book Traction from Weinberg.
Maybe the cost of imported goods has gone up
Show HN: Finder – CSS Selector Generator
Hello

I’m the author of the library.

I wonder if people will be interested in learning how this library is working. Should I make a video about it? WDYT?
Incentives.

One has to ride (and eventually) create trends to sell.
> We need to build vertically and re-claim back the resources allocated for car centric design

There are many small towns in Europe surrounded by networks of even smaller towns and one or two house farms. There is nothing to claim back there: they've been like that since well before any European moved to the Americas. That was a way to be close to fields, when economy was mostly farmers and herders and people mostly walked or at best moved in animal powered carts.

Some people move from there to big cities now, some people move from big cities to there. Everybody has a car, it can't be helped. I think that people in big cities will end up with public transport and few cars, but people in small towns and in the fields or in the hills or mountains will keep having a car, maybe just use it less if it costs too much.
I quite like React. When used from ClojureScript via a Reagent library and using Re-frame for state management.
>> I've been working on a React side project for a few months now and looking at my company's apps plus posts like this I think people just miss the point.

The clue is in if everyone is missing the point but you, may be start with more introspection. :)

I will give an example of a side project I am working on. The homepage has two sub components, one when the user is logged in, one when the user is logged out.

Now, when the user logs in, the state of the homepage parent component needs to change, the state of the nav bar needs to change etc.

Your problem is in assuming newState is completely described locally which isn't always the case.
This seems like an interesting project. I will check this out!
Quite cool to see PEX. I've used a similar package, shiv[0], with great results, and I always wondered why these are not used more. I think Python zipapps are really nice for bundling executables.

[0]: https://shiv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
John Hopkins are working on organoids that will replace silicon GPUs for AI.
Why would he do that? More likely scenario would be "gets his share as a an apartment in London".
Why would it destroy our economy if carbon use moves elsewhere? Carbon use is not a goal, it's merely the means by which we currently generate most of our energy. If we replace the means by which we generate our energy, we don't need carbon anymore. The fact that others haven't made that transition yet doesn't hurt us. Quite the contrary: the fact that we made that transition will make it easier for them to make the same transition.

And the US definitely needs to be first. The US uses far more carbon per person than any other country; even more than Europe. Developing countries are not remotely in the same order of magnitude.

Having the US and EU transition to cleaner energy will be a massive boon to the world, even if nobody else follows suit. But the US and EU figuring out all the issues of this transition will make it easier for other countries to make that transition too, and it will put more pressure on them to do so.

The US is really not the country that should wait for others to go first here. Take the lead.
Ooze: Go(lang) Mutation Testing
I'm not sure to understand: What "living at the head" means?
Is that good? Not good?
Yes. But the approaches are different. In the US you have the 250B chips act (which China has yet to match) and tech sanctions but you don’t really see company ceos invited into government.

Also the old internet tycoons took lots of foreign (US) capital whereas most of the new ones are under US sanctions.
> the sarc mark is just a ligature for /s

The use of which is a curiously American phenomenon.

Since the essence of sarcasm is scathing subtlety, writing "/s" looks rather, odd?

..... and perhaps here, I should pre-empt replies from those who think they need sarcasm pointing out to them, to say you have missed the point! It certainly highlights a difference between the US and British piss-taking culture.

EDIT: Though come to think of it, I have seen a few Brits writing "/s" on Reddit. Probably because they don't want their posts downvoted (and loose imaginary internet points) by those from the US who don't share the piss take.
GPLv3 https://github.com/norbertrostaing/BlinderKitten/blob/main/L...
What exactly is the argument that corporations are incapable of unbounded exponential growth contra a possible future AI? Is there just something magic about computers, or am I missing something obvious?
Its also used as a non fermentable sweetener in brewing to backsweeten stuff without reactivating the yeast.
>Hy, you know me i am Elon Musk founder of X.com and PayPal

That scam runs actually on YT -> if i where him i would sue the sh* out of Alpha.
So I went and asked chatgpt "is 2^2023-1 a prime number"

I did it multiple times. I expected either the correct "I cannot answer this question" answer, or pure comedy gold.

I got pure comedy gold. Not only half of the answers are "yes" and half "no", they include large glass of math lingo smoothie that sounds super impressive, is completely factually incorrect, and is presented in a very assertive tone.

Artifical conman... Is there such a thing as mind sickness? From consuming such output?
The site is a spam blog site written purely for SEO and has very little to do with the actual calculator app or offering actually useful advice. It's basically just a copy-paste text dump of every generic trouble shooting tip someone could find on the internet.
But two or three miles, no biggie. Bundle up and hit the road.
If you need to fetch a piece of data when the component loads, how do you do it without useEffect?
Alibre looks great except that it only supports MS Windows ...
Thanks for your interest. Do drop us a message too if there's anything you think should be improved :D