skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He explained it like this which really helped: you can choose all sorts of frames of reference when you think about this stuff, so choose one where the sun and earth are stationary compared to each other, and then only the moon is rotating - less stuff to think about!

Even easier: choose one where the sun and moon are stationary, and place the Earth somewhere near the moon. The side of the moon facing the sun will always be fully brightly lit, and the proportion of that which is seen from the Earth is based on where we place the Earth.

Of course the Earth doesn't orbit around the moon, but for the purposes of this model it's irrelevant.
A civilization-ending development, no.

A job-ending development for many people, yes.

The chattering classes see themselves becoming obsolete. Fast. They're freaking out.
From professors of English literature to op-ed writers, word slingers are in trouble.
Not novelists, though; none of these systems can hold a story together for any great length.

If everything you get paid for goes in and out over a wire, you're in trouble.
The French Wikipedia entry for Lord Energy is still full of these insinuations.

Poor guy.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Energy
Would love to see the overlap of people concerned about threats to the conditional right to own guns, and those who are completely unconcerned about this direct attack on freedom of speech.
I'm with you. I understand the critique, but experience has shown me "boring" is more maintainable, and at some point even "clever" tools stop being worth the effort. Besides, eventually scale pushes tech to roll their own, or rewrite/augment tools.

I dislike using boring as a measure of sufficiency. It makes me wonder if those drawn to the clever solutions carry a "I know better than you" perspective, the kind of dogmatic optimism that tanked SVB.
The point of the author's exercise is to see if the requirement of public transparency enacted by Congress actually means anything.

If the meaning of these prices is only decipherable by an elite priesthood that is too busy to work on the problem, there is no real public transparency.
Vaccines and mass masking work.

Lockdowns not so much:

"Overall, our meta-analysis fails to confirm the notion that lockdowns – at least in the spring of
2020 – had a large, significant effect on mortality rates. Studies examining the relationship
between lockdown strictness (based on the OxCGRT stringency index) find that the average
lockdown in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 3.2% compared
to the most lenient COVID-19 policy. Shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs) were also ineffective" (p. 58)

[0] - https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/06/A-Systematic...
Because China has strict censorship laws, so should the US?
As with a good chunk of MS's desktop dominance, a big factor was Lotus' inability or unwillingness to embrace the common interface in Windows (what we now think of as standard menus for File/Edit/etc).

Lotus had its own proprietary menu structure generally invoked with slash. ALL programs did when Lotus was introduced. Its partisans made it hard for Lotus to abandon it, but its failure to shift into the new reality meant the oodles of new people flocking to computing as Windows exploded went to Excel by default, because 1-2-3 was impenetrable.

Word vs. WordPerfect played out in much the same way.

In both cases the MSFT offering was, in many ways, superior, but a key piece of it was the legacy player's refusal to adjust to the common menus Windows users expected.
A strategy doomed to failure: kick the far-right off Twitter so they can plan a revolution on Parler. Kick the QAnon people off Facebook so they can reorganize on Gab. All this will ever achieve is to scatter people into deeper and darker ideological echo chambers.
So, are you just slurping up everyone’s chats?
Even though I usually use OpenAI's APIs, just because that is the easiest path, I do also use Hugging Face open models (via their APIs, and running locally) and I will check out Cerebras also.

Alternatives are good!
It's not just the chattering classes that are freaking out. It's the majority of ordinary people that I've talked with.
I’m not sure I’m looking forward to the politics that would come out of 10-20% of the previously middle class becoming instantly redundant and out of (middle-salary) work. That’s the fast path to fascism, unless we’re able to quickly implement UBI and other major societal overhauls.
How do we know it's real? And not produced by ChatGPT, someone who believes to be funny or has an agenda?
> It doesn't do anything good for the seller.

Sure it does. It gives them relatively more chargeback protection at the expense of the consumer. And yes I’ve heard all the seller griping that this isn’t the case - as if it would be expected that they could shield them from 100% of chargebacks - it doesn’t make it true. It’s relatively harder for a customer to even get forward in the dispute process with PayPal in the mix. These sellers often aren’t evening seeing these killed disputes.
It is called the core of the web: noscript/basic (x)html. Basic (x)html forms can do wonders.

You could try links2, netsurf, edbrowse... or any new one since it is reasonable to code such a browser, which is not the case with the other web engines due to their absurd and grotesque size and complexity, including their SDK (do you realize how insane is a c++ compiler, not even an optimizing one).
This is really innovative use of Alexa skills. Can't wait to try it.
The equivalent here would be if you drew that same stick-figure house but put the door adjacent to the roof rather than the floor, or the triangular roof along one side rather than opposite the ground.
Then your genetic and cultural lines will be replaced in society by those that are more disposed to reproducing.
(10) ICTS COVERED HOLDING ENTITY.—The term “ICTS covered holding entity” means any entity that—
(A) owns, controls, or manages information and communications technology products or services; and
(B) (i) has not less than 1,000,000 United States-based annual active users at any point during the year period preceding the date on which the covered holding is referred to the President; or
(ii) for which more than 1,000,000 units have been sold to persons in the United States before the date on which the covered holding is referred to the President.
(11) INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.—The term “information and communications technology products or services” means any hardware, software, or other product or service primarily intended to fulfill or enable the function of information or data processing, storage, retrieval, or communication by electronic means, including transmission, storage, and display.

this seems pretty broad, not just TikTok, but WeChat, Little Red Book, Yandex and any cellphone made by Chinese companies has 1M+ unit sold may all be subject to same restrictions
How much of the book is written by GPT?
Good, they're doing more harm on Twitter and Facebook anyways
Books rob students of the motivation to memorize and recite for themselves.
On one hand, I've been one of Microsoft's biggest fans. I've been using Windows since it first came out, then NT, then 95, then 2000, and so on. I've been using Visual Studio since 2003. They used to be my favorite products.

And yet I hate what they're doing now. I turned off automatic updates, or so I thought, and returned to my machine one day last week to find it had restarted anyway. I'd spent a fair amount of preparing a commit and most of my work had vanished. Another time I returned to an unwelcome restart and I had actually lost a fair amount of work. Sure, I retyped it, but really?

On the same machine, I have another account on the same machine that I use for testing. Every single time I sign in to that account, I have to start Task Manager as an administrator and then kill Windows Compatibility Telemetry, even though I have allegedly(?) disabled it several times. Otherwise it consumes so much CPU that I can't get my work done.

Also, Visual Studio is a hot mess. Why do I have to wait when I drag and drop an int into the watch window? Why does my machine slow to a crawl when I'm running debug builds? Why are there so many bugs with breakpoints? A lot of the time, I have to use page up/page down to see the breakpoint appear even though I hit F9. Why is it agonizingly slow to type things when I'm debugging? Why do I fantasize about finding a new job that doesn't require me to use Visual Studio? Visual Studio has become my least favorite piece of software. There are days when I just write code in Notepad++ and only use Visual Studio to build.

It's frustrating. The seeming inability to exert developer-level control over Windows makes me feel like my devices aren't mine. For fuck's sake, I had to tell Windows that my internet connection was metered in order to get them to stop with the updates.

Yes, the article might be hyperbolic, but the whole jail argument is starting to line up pretty well with reality. Dear Microsoft, please stop fucking with everything.
Where are you getting €2 coffee? I live in a small town (10k pop) in the Netherlands and the cheapest coffee I can buy is €2,20. In the city it’s easily double that in most places.
At high speed on flat ground aerodynamics matters significantly more than weight, so velomobiles tend to be a lot faster.

Uphill is a different story.
The media is the fourth branch of government. It is wildly considered to be essential for a healthy democracy. You don’t want to have it controlled (for many people) by an untrustworthy and adversarial party, especially when they have a long track record of censorship and are trying to extend their own influence and rules globally.

We can still say and post what we want - it’s not content that’s being censored.
When you are also banning VPN access to whatever tools you deem under the control of "foreign adversaries" (which, more people should look up the government's actual definition on this lol), then privacy is very much a core narrative. If it was just about China then Chinese apps would have been banned off Apple and Google stores years ago.

This is going to be one of those things Americans look back at, like the PATRIOT act, and wonder how the hell they allowed it to happen all because of one app/event.
Best get some safety glasses while you're at it.
Certain things I will just not buy on Amazon because I have had either nothing be delivered, but a charge held in my card for months, or a product I suspect is counterfeit or somehow made cheaper(and worse) for Amazon. Clothing and shoes are particularly susceptible.

It is worth it for me to buy direct and pay a bit more to not have to deal with the hassle.
You're understanding everything just fine. Speech advocates should be livid about this, but their silence on the question is quite telling.

As the sibling post mentions, the public is too stupid to be allowed to be communicated at by an untrustworthy and adversarial media. Of course, untrustworthy and adversarial refers to foreign enemies, not domestic[1] ones.

[1] Fox and friends, et al, would be the poster children[2] for untrustworthy and adversarial, but they are our untrustworthy and adversarial media firms, so mysteriously, they get a free pass.

[2] Just imagine if the 'batshit right-wing conspiracy' half of the US media landscape were ran by the Kremlin (Or some other boogieman of the week), instead of a billionaire from Australia. Same content, different source, would drive people utterly livid.
> I was trying to compile rust

why would you try to compile Rust? You can just download it already built.

> i was shocked to see that it connects to the internet during the build process to download crates

how else is it supposed to get that software? unless you want to manually download 100 crates and put them into the correct folders, this is a normal process.
> > You only need to charge your car for a few hours every 300 miles

> But where?

> https://goo.gl/maps/giAwwS5qRKBuKNDH6

> This is one of the many neighbourhoods in my country and many other european ones, with a large parking lot with a lot of cars. All there cars now need ~5 minutes at a gas station every 600-1000km.

I am not sure I understand your point here. You are showing a residential car park that is a very nice location to install multiple slow chargers for cheap. The only reason this is not done at the moment is that there are not enough EV around, but otherwise you are looking at a small investment for regular revenues on electricity sale (or you can get your building association to buy some and keep the electricity as cheap as possible)

> Add some studies that electric cars are even more expensive to charge than gaspowered ones are to refill, and it's even worse - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/electric-shock-study-found-ev...

Be careful about this kind of studies, and even more about news article about them. While this one has a bit more data and is doing less mistakes than the usual rogue journalist study we see once in a while, the electricity cost they used for residential charging is wrong: they use at least very high prices for home electricity, in one of the worst state in the US for electricity pricings without using off-peak prices.

> And 2035 is not some distant future project... if you want to retrofit all those parking yards with chargers, you literally have to start doing it today... also build a bunch of nuclear power plants too, because if we do it the german way, by digging coal, we didn't do much.

Yup, that's the point of this bill. To provide guarantee to the industry that they won't be building these chargers and power plants for nothing. Now they know that the market will shift towards EV with hard deadline in 2035, and you can pretty much guarantee that the vast majority of the cars on the road I'll be EV by 2040/2045.
No, we do the most American thing imaginable. Just like we did with the space race, we got to the moon first therefore we won, even though we weren't first in much anything in the space race at the time. So I fully expect we ban TikTok then declare one of the American social media networks the winner of the social media race.
Yes it's a fine worry to have on a personal level, but tiktok is a threat at the national level as it threatens the very culture and system of democracy.
Try one of the free models on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-...

You can run it on your laptop and it's free.
900 signatures vs... probably more than 900 people who use ChatGPT daily. And 4 million people watched a remixed GameCube boot screen with fart sounds that I made in middle school.
I'm working on building a CEO-aaS for fun, more than profit, though that too... Something mere mortals (not langchain experts) can just input maybe some competitor info, api docs, and benefits/features and then the CEO bot basically can help begin building a company around the tech/offering/business idea etc.... Whether it's a SaaS or a marketing agency, or landscaping business -- it'll give you the best items to work on to expand your business so you can just focus on that, and not have to think about what to do to build your business.
In the mid-2010s both Ebola and Zika got a media boost as well, and Candida auris in 2019 or so.
I'm sorry, but that's absolute twaddle.

Excel is genuinely excellent. I was as big a MSFT-hater in the 90s as you are likely to be able to find, but credit where credit is due: Excel provides a level of data analysis power to a lay user that is just not available elsewhere.

Sure, tech people (cough HN readers cough) often want to trot out arguments about how "well, that sort of stuff just shouldn't be done in Excel! They should learn to use R or SQL or some other $MoreCorrectTool". That's poppycock. Excel is already on the analyst's desk. It's immensely powerful while ALSO being very accessible. Nothing else comes close.
Maybe not a "real" AGI, but a system that could adequately impersonate an AGI with improv and self training seems quite practical in the near future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
the language model itself is just LLaMA-7b.
Good. If American software companies face anti-competitive restrictions on accessing the Chinese market, then we may as well do the same. Paradox of Tolerance and whatnot.
That's how I found out about this rabbit-hole: Baker references Lafont's Interaction Nets in that paper.

I also really liked https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319868 -- It is great. Clear and to-the point. I just adore the hand-drawn pictures.
""" In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm; robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause. """

All your datacenter are belong to us too
The goal is to get self sufficient people (who will stimulate the economy through consumption and not incur costs on the government), not buskers or low-impact nomads.

I know tech salaries outside the US can be much lower, but the requirements Iceland is putting up are basically enough (pre tax) for almost any tech employee in the US. Not just FAANGs. Not sure if Iceland is counting gross vs net pay but even if so, it’s enough for a very large portion of us tech employees still
I wonder how it will be able to do that for the tech that will be current in 10 years, if mostly everyone will be using AI by then instead of asking on Stack Overflow.
I feel a lot has to do with the technology that's available; in 1966 when Star Trek aired you couldn't really rely that everyone had seen all the episodes; who can always be at home at a given date and time? People got lives to lead. You can get away with the occasional two-parter, but that's about it.

VCR started to change this; you could now record that episode when you had something else to do; in 1985 about a third of people owned a VCR, by 1990 about two thirds. Later DVD and streaming changed this even more; I remember reading about a bloke who had all of TNG on videotape; it occupied an entire wall and must have cost a small fortune: 89 tapes (2 episodes per tape) it must of cost about a thousand, give or take. With DVD you can but all seven seasons for an affordable price and your girlfriend won't hate you for taking up a wall, and with streaming it's even easier.

Star Trek has a somewhat interesting broadcast history; from 1966 to 1969 it was broadcast in the traditional way: a set timeslot on a particular day and by season. It had a dedicated set of fans during the original run, but was never a phenomenon like it is today. After the series ended some regional broadcasters got the rights and started airing it ever day during meal time. There's about two months worth of material, and after that it would just start over again. It's that format that made Star Trek truly popular, eventually leading to the films, TNG, and all the rest of it. Today it's a common way to air older shows.

In 1983 Babylon 5 would have been a non-starter, simply because few people would be able to watch all of it, and you do need to actually watch at least a significant portion of it. Even with multiple repeats it takes a lot of effort to consistently follow a show with traditional TV. I never watched Babylon 5 when it originally aired; I watched some episodes but I had missed many and I was generally just confused by it; it wasn't until some time in the early 2000s when I downloaded and watched it that I actually followed it.

I think there are a few shows in the 90s leading up to the Sopranos: Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Babylon 5 (1993), Oz (1997), and The Sopranos (1999). Maybe some others I'm not familiar with.
I think that might be due to a change in the predominant TV format. In the Star Trek era most flagship shows were shot in the planet/crime/monster-of-the-week format which would get better as the actors developed chemistry, their characters were fleshed out, and writers figure out what works best in the show.

Nowadays, the flagship shows are either based on extensive literary works like Game of Thrones and Expanse which depend on the consistency of the writing and how easy it is to adapt, or they're concept shows like Altered Carbon that barely have an idea about what they're going to do with a full eight hour season when they shoot the pilot, let alone what to do for season two. The latter tend to work out really badly if they can't hang on to their writing staff

See for example the 2011-2016 show Person of Interest that went from a mediocre if interest crime-of-the-week to possibly one of the best serialized science fiction TV shows about two AIs fighting it out (I'm rewatching it now due to the relevance)
IMHO, Season 1 is very strong, but Michael O'Hare's acting can be a bit cringey. I hate to speak ill of him, knowing now a little of what he was going through at the time, but still...

That being said, I've tried to get into DS9, and I find that show's lead surprisingly similar.

Anyway, with Season 2, the cast really came together and the experience felt more smooth. But I still find a lot to love in that first season.
lol your privacy policy is a 404. https://www.macgpt.com/privacy
Show HN: Dashboard on Banking Crisis
Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Xi-tUe1CI - a different process!
Studies on mass masking tend to get similar results: they don't work either.
Yeah, if the US supported something decent, I'm sure most of the world would soon follow. Netherland unfortunately doesn't have that kind of pull. But the Dutch iDeal system for online payment is, as its name suggests, pretty much ideal.

When I buy something (on Steam or GOG, for example), I select iDeal as payment method, then select my bank, then the shop redirects me to my own bank's website which processes the payment, and then redirects me back to the webshop which knows that the payment succeeded. The webshop doesn't have to know anything about me except which bank to redirect me to.

Unfortunately it only supports Dutch banks, and lots of international webshops don't support it. To my bafflement, even lego.com doesn't support it, which is just plain weird (they intend to, they say, they just haven't gotten around to it yet in the 18 years that iDeal has been around).

For interpersonal payments, rather than from a shop, you can send someone a payment request. The brandname that named the idea is Tikkie, an app from a major Dutch bank, but I think it can be used by anyone no matter what your bank is, and it uses iDeal for the payment. But every bank now has its own payment request system. You just send someone a link, and they can choose how to pay it. It's ridiculously simple, and it's all done through your own bank. No need to trust any third party with your payment information.