skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your description of "dumb AI" as being "just useful enough to maintain a flow of funding" reminds me of A Collection of Unmitigated Pedatry's description of the start of the Industrial Revolution [1]:

> The specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required not merely the discovery of the principle, but also the design and an economically viable use-case to all line up in order to have impact. The steam engine is an excellent example of this problem. Early tinkering with the idea of using heat to create steam to power rotary motion – the core function of a steam-engine – go all the way back to Vitruvius (c. 80 BC -15 AD) and Heron of Alexandria (c. 10-70 AD). With the benefit of hindsight we can see they were tinkering with an importance principle but the devices they actually produced – the aeolipile – had no practical use – it’s fearsomely fuel inefficient, produces little power and has to be refilled with water (that then has to be heated again from room temperature to enable operation).

He goes on to say that the very first "commercial" steam engine only happened to be commercially useful because of the particular situation in which it was invented: England had cut down most of their trees, but luckily had lots of coal. The engine wasn't quite useful enough to use to (say) pump water out of an iron mine, because it was so resource-hungry that it the cost of the fuel plus getting fuel to the engine would be too much. But it's just barely useful enough to pump water out of a coal mine, if you can provide it coal without having to transport it. And that gave it just enough of a commercial toe-hold to fund its optimization.

It sounds like "dumb AI" of the 2000's may have performed a similar function; and we are, perhaps, on the edge of the "AI revolution", similar to the Industrial Revolution, where we reach a hockey-stick proliferation.

EDIT: Fixed link

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
New Technique Allows Robots to Learn Fine Motor Skills (with short video demo)
Even if we fixed all of the above, changing jobs would still require uprooting your family. In an era where you worked for one company for life it made sense. Today I don't think it's feasible.
You presume a great deal, and it misleads you badly.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365180>
I appreciate your opinion. I disagree that remote work is for me, though I am fine with the occasional travel for work for those high bandwidth in person activities.

I appreciate that you still support choice in work location, a lot of people (see amazon/twitter/apple ceo's) do not. I think that is critical here. Some people, or groups work better in person, those teams should decide that.

I wouldn't say remote work is morally superior, but it can reduce carbon emissions by truncating commutes and potentially allowing conversion of downtown office buildings into housing. But I'm sure there's caveats here enough to drive a freight train through.
is it a static site for fools? https://web.archive.org/web/20200401045104/https://www.isita...
Technically? Limited to Germany?

ID cards, Resistency cards and Bank cards in Germany (to some degree inter-compatible (partly) the EU) have a function which can be used to indicate if someone is an adult, without handing out the name, card id or anything like that (through potentially the full birthday).

Browsers could use that to provide an "is adult" (yes/no/unknown) API which doesn't provide any additional information (and should use need user permission for access).

Which would not be hack-proof, but would be more strict and privacy preserving.

Now AFIK such an approach would be a no-go for the US due to they having a very different situation around passports and similar.

But in Germany especially if it also works with resistency card, bank cards including many non German EU versions of those this is much less of an problem.

Now that I think about it you probably could make such an API work in a hackable but more strict and good enough way in most western countries. E.g. you could use other less privacy conversing ways once for the browser to know (e.g. based on credit card number) and then just cache this information. The age proving provider would _not_ know about the usage (where, when, if at all, how often, etc.) and the site using it would just know 18+ yes/no/unknown.

Through to be clear such a thing would only work if you want a "good enough but hackable" API. The moment you want to remove the "hackable" part things become a shot show involving certificates leaking hints about other private information, DRM, and other nonsense.

But then any "real world" age checking is fairly hack-able too so IMHO hackable should be fine.
I've never heard of that YouTube channel, but I loved his work in ALIENS.

(I prefer Hoffmann, and he definitely does the same thing -- ie, point out that some given object might be pretty, and it might do a fine job, but not enough of a BETTER job to justify its premium.)
That's not what a shame culture is.
> That means that transmitting data to a banned entity (for example, perhaps TikTok) would be a covered transaction, meaning that running a VPN would be illegal unless you also block websites yourself.

Surely it would fall on the government to prove you used the VPN for such a purpose? What are the technical details behind that?
Strange. I live in Australia, where incandescents were banned years ago. I have noticed literally none of these supposed issues. I never see LED lights flickering or making weird colours or humming or anything.
Fwiw they are right that it produces bogus citations depending on what you ask. I did their tree example with GPT4 and got the following:

------ PROMPT --------

Can you give me citations for recent research on trees?

----------------------

====== RESPONSE ======

Certainly! Here are some recent research articles on various aspects of trees, including their ecology, physiology, and response to climate change. Please note that these citations were published after my knowledge cutoff date in September 2021, so I cannot vouch for their accuracy or the impact of the research. However, they should give you a good starting point for your research:

Anderson, T. E., Gonzalez, M. A., & Smith, K. L. (2022). Tree species diversity and its impact on forest ecosystem services. Journal of Ecology and the Environment, 33(2), 147-158.

Baker, P. J., Oliver, R. J., & Dearing, L. E. (2023). Carbon sequestration potential of urban trees under climate change scenarios. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 68, 102139.

Chen, X., Xu, L., & Zhu, H. (2022). Tree-ring-based reconstruction of drought variability and its potential drivers in subtropical China. Science of The Total Environment, 796, 148896.

Ferreira, J. T., Cardoso, S. M., & Sousa, P. M. (2023). The role of tree genetics in adaptation and resilience to climate change: A review. Tree Physiology, 43(1), 1-15.

Grant, N. C., Matthews, T. J., & Wilson, R. J. (2022). Assessing the vulnerability of tree species to climate change: A global meta-analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(4), 623-637.

Leonard, S. D., Smith, D. W., & Thomas, E. M. (2023). The impact of tree age on leaf photosynthesis and water-use efficiency in deciduous forests. Tree Physiology, 43(2), 243-255.

Nguyen, H. T., Sato, T., & Yoshida, T. (2022). Exploring the effects of tree diversity on forest productivity and stability: A global meta-analysis. Forest Ecology and Management, 509, 119102.

Patel, S., Sutherland, W. J., & Diaz, A. (2023). How do trees respond to extreme weather events? A global synthesis. Global Change Biology, 29(1), 219-234.

Please make sure to access these articles through proper channels, such as a university library or research institution, to ensure you are reading the most up-to-date and accurate versions.

================

I didn't check all of them but the ones I did are seemingly completely fabricated, which makes sense because for some reason it tried to produce research from after 2021 despite seemingly knowing and mentioning the date of its knowledge cutoff.
Doesn’t that suggest using Americans as your mules is the riskiest?

Ima think most volume is moved via cargo or tunnels.
There is one guy that does the same for batteries, chargers, power supplies and more: https://lygte-info.dk/
I had similar issues with Phillips. I bought six over a year for the relatively excellent quality of the light, but they'd start flickering after a month or two. I had first suspected an electrical problem, but then tried them at entirely different locations in entirely different sockets and found the same. Haven't considered buying Phillips since and won't, ever. Nice light, shit construction.
His name is Newey BTW.

What you're describing is not how engineering is done.

There's no overnight printing of the drawings.

The 3D CAD models are designed and available in real time, they are used in various CFD and FEA models. The only time drawings are printed out are dimensioned production drawings sent to manufacture the parts.

https://fractory.com/engineering-drawing-basics/

There are no digital draftsmen, it's sort of semantics but design engineers are working directly with parametric 3D models, they can produce 2D drawings from the models.

As a senior engineer Newey is likely reviewing Wind tunnel data, CAD designs of concepts, CFD/FEA Data, laptime sim results, and collaborating "over the shoulder" of less senior engineers responsible for specific aerodynamic packages, who then feed that info in collaboration with design engineers and surface modelers to update the CAD models.
It's a bit tricky for OpenSUSE to replace CentOS at the moment, as their stable distribution Leap is due to be obsoleted and replace with immutable-bases distribution, which is still not quite ready. No one quite knows what happens after Leap 15.5.
There's something to be said for having churn in some disciplines rather than a comfortable consistency.

And that something is Goodhart's Law. The longer the game, the more game theory you're dealing with.
Ah yes, people, famous for living less than checks notes 2,500 hours.
Can learn arbitrary functions says nothing about efficiency or any practical considerations. A vanilla neural network can't learn a sine function or anything periodic, for inputs outside the range of the training data.

Re the question of other methods, Jeffrey Hinton proposed what I think is called a "forward-forward" alternative to back propagation somewhat recently. I don't think it's been proven to be better in any way, but it shows people are searching for new methods.
It seems like this could be done differently, and perhaps more cost-effectively. Can't give cites right now, but here's a path I'd explore if I were in the field.

I'd pattern the inner surface of the glass envelope with a cube texture - think of taking a cube and pressing a corner normally into a clay surface, then removing the cube. This pattern is a so-called corner reflector, and returns incident light to its source. Figure the cube indentations at about 0.5mm deep, close packed. I'd deposit a dielectric film reflector stack tuned to reflect most infrared radiation onto this surface.

This combination would transmit visible light, but would reflect IR directly back to the filament, reducing the amount of electrical power needed to maintain filament temperature. Glass textural molding and dielectric film deposition are mature technologies. I think this could readily triple incandescent lamp power efficiency, maybe even better.
The Prius prime already gets about half way there.
OK, but on the plus side you'll soon be able to access it for only $100 month, or for free if your only ambition is to post tweets automatically.

Now, people say the previous entry-level, elevated, and academic tiers were all free and provided a lot more functionality leading to lots of utility for twitter users, social science etc., but most of those same people balk when asked to affirm that 'Elon Musk is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.'
I was looking for a tool exactly like this not too long ago.

Some observations
- clicking browser back button loses inputs
- ukraine not available?
- needs date/month selectors to plan ahead
i roast my own coffee and besides the roaster cost (which isn't negligible, but can be considered a hobby expense instead of a consumable expense, so not 1-1), it is 50-75% cheaper to roast your own coffee.

i order green coffee from sweetmarias.com and it's $5-8/lb which makes a good deal more than what's in the $15-25+ 10oz bags from 3rd wave roasters.

plus i learn a new skill and can roast to my preference every time!
Yeah. I've known this for years but it really struck me when I typed it out here.
[are you a real human being?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdDROtrPcQ
Do you think that the Sackler family has had a positive impact on overdoses in the US?
It certainly looks like the business was becoming sustainable

The downturn in early 2022 hit them badly. They were losing money again when Elon bought them (one of the reasons he tried to pull out of the deal)

Admittedly the way he structured his buy out made it worse by adding more debt.
Virus are not Protein => DNA or Protein => RNA. Their information is in DNA or RNA, so they are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Genome_replication

* DNA => RNA => Protein

* RNA => Protein

* RNA => DNA => RNA => Protein

As far as I know, there is no method to do Protein => DNA or Protein => RNA at the celular level.

It would be very surprising. RNA and DNA are quite similar and have similar encoding, so RNA <==> DNA is a 1 to 1 translation.

The translation to RNA to proteins is not 1 to 1, and the translations table is quite arbitrary, so untranslating at the celular level looks extremely difficult.
It'll still weigh well over 2 tons, if not 3.
lol I'm not that you even need to spend this amount of money, I think the deep house bros just like signalling to each other that they're in the yellow woofer gang. Just buy Behringer and be done with it!
You mean anonymous like cash?

Do you want to make cash illegal and the government to trace every single financial transaction you do? Even worse, web3 is mostly not about money in the first place. Do you want them to track everything you do online, every app you interact with, every file you uploaded?
Thank you. Had been looking for something like this! Batteries are one of these items where you really don’t know what you’re getting.
I literally quoted his comment how can it be a strawman?
My first CS course used Scratch to teach it and I have to say I enjoyed it a lot more than the C++ which followed and I certainly remember more from the experience. C++ was my introduction to pain.
Equitable and equal are different. That’s not a value statement. They’re different.

equal treatment would be every account getting 1/n of the money used to save SVB. Equitable treatment is everyone being restored by the same % of their losses (in this case 100%). It’s different.
> we low-quality people out in the regular world

I understand how easily this feeling can arise. It may not be obvious but we spend a lot of energy on HN trying to mitigate it. I don't want a high-status-insider vs. low-status-outsider dynamic on HN.

One thing I'd like to tell you is that as someone who came from little class privilege and a geographically provincial place, and had zero connection to the "Silicon Valley startup sphere" or really any other sphere, YC welcomed me and gave me a shot and a lot of help.

These dynamics aren't simple but I'd like to think (and do think) that YC is still one of the best ladders in the snakes-and-ladders game if you're talented, ambitious, and sincere. And at the same time, there are still lots of obstacles.
I need a dummies guide to mastodon.

Do you need an always on machine to have a ‘server’?
Railroads (in the 19th / early 20th centuries), AT&T, Du Pont, General Electric, and other large multi-division type corporations both created and inculcated standards of communication and information management, dating back to paper-based systems.

James Beniger and JoAnne Yates are amongst two scholars who've studied and written on this in detail. Beniger's book, The Control Revolution (1986) particularly.
I thought you were going to go in different direction with your comment.

... problem solver that uses their creativity and all most modern AI tools in clever ways.
Does it really need to be stated that you can learn a ton from advice you don’t directly take? It could be relevant later, get you to think up a different solution, help you understand a competitor’s business model or decisions, improve your understanding of the industry you’re in, etc.
Your comment makes me happy as I strongly believe interacting with analog enriches our senses and gives satisfaction.
>> I've been wondering is how many people have left Twitter because of the service's recent instability issues.

I remember about 6-8 years ago fervently trying to get my friends and family off of FB and Twitter. It was completely useless. I even offered running my own Diaspora server with zero luck. I was constantly pushing decentralized platforms including Mastodon and others for years before finally giving up.

Its crazy what it takes nowadays to get someone to move off of a social media platform for good. I know many have left Twitter because of Musk, but many haven't stayed away and have come back. Its like a drug for some people, its incredibly hard to just walk away from.
Ask HN: Will GPT4 result in a shortage of doctors and lawyers?
Those careers perhaps will not be as prestigious as they used to be given how well GPT4 does on their exams.
Perhaps the planned obsolescence helped the consumer, because perhaps there would have been no willing producers if producing the lightbulbs at a price the users were willing to pay for wasn't going to turn out to be profitable, with respect to setting up production in the first place and then producing until the investment was paid back.

When we're talking market price, we have to acknowledge that it is a meeting of the price needed to bring a product to market and the price the consumer is willing to pay. We can't assume that the price of the longer lasting bulb would have been attractive to consumers, when compared to the price of the shorter-lived bulb, even if they had all the information available.

It's perfectly valid for a person to decide they'll spend more over the long run, rather than ponying up a larger sum now. And it's perfectly valid for producers to take the chance of deciding this for the consumer. As Henry Ford noted, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Was anybody stopping anyone from offering the consumer a higher-priced and longer-lasting bulb?
Lance also accepts more freebies whereas Hoffmann pays for everything. it's because of this impeccable ethic which drove me to be a patron of his for a few years - though i think it's time to move to a smaller channel.
I think it's just a matter of habit: we're used to paying for physical goods, but over time we were accustomed to get digital stuff for free.
I would argue that SMS is the other popular standardized push protocol.
I would not call machine-produced XML at all human-readable.

Of course, I suppose some amount of human-readability is pretty important. It's why textproto became a de-facto standard for protobufs.
> That’s sneaky. Ironically more like a computer virus than the classical viruses. Taking over the host and modifying its boot partition so that it permanently gets produced by the system.

More like infecting compiler so every application build using it will include virus, including building compilers that will add virus code to their output and propagate it.
The BYD seagull is an ~$8000 car that meets Euro safety specs.
The spilt between "we want to go back to the office" and "we want to stay remote" on my team was perfectly decided based on if the individual had kids or not.
Roblox Studio is, by far, the most encouraging environment I've see for kids. Being able to easily share a multiplayer 3D world with friends is a HUGE motivator. My 6yo has been using it almost daily for a few months now and things like Scratch never held his interest for more than a few hours total. Only downside is you need a decent PC for it to be usable.
As a tool to read the output:

https://explain.depesz.com/

Not entirely necessary when you're more familiar with it, but still useful. And when starting it's much easier to read.

https://www.depesz.com/tag/unexplainable/

This series of blog posts is one option. But my impression is that most of this comes simply with experience. At first the main thing you'd look for is simply whether it uses the indexes you want it to use, or if it does full table scans.

I'd also recommend to simply read the Postgres manual, at least the parts that are not entirely about the syntax of various commands. There is a lot of information in there that will help to understand how Postgres works.
how your bank's push notifications work without native app? Recently I see there is fingerprint support in browsers on Android, but AFAIK it's quite new - have you had to enter password each time?
interesting! I hadn't seen that before

ai_fn is just a specific way to use Marvin's Bot abstraction, which is one of the few abstractions Marvin offers

but a couple differences I notice off the bat between ai_fn and com2fun:

- marvin uses pydantic for parsing LLM to result types

- you can pass plugins/personality/instructions to the underlying bot via the @ai_fn decorator kwargs

- (unless I'm missing a dataclass version of this in com2fun) marvin can parse output into arbitrary pydantic types like this example https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin/issues/106#issuecomment-...
Minecraft server forks almost seem to develop as fast as Javascript toolkits. It's impressive, in a way.

I think this has to do with the way that ultimate, true upstream involves the closed source Microsoft components. None of these servers seem to be built from the ground up, each extending an existing package (closed or open source) in one way or another.
This towns police dept has long been an incompetent lot (while not anywhere nearly as bad as say, NOLA or Baltimore, they are still fairly boorish and prone to overreach) and prone to such stellar missteps as how it handled the Floyd protests in town (e.g. https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-maims-activist-who-t...)
[Surprised Pikachu pic]
> It will affect their cashflow if they can’t continue to pay staff in stock based comp.

That's not how cashflow or stock based comp works. Lyft doesn't buy stock off the market and use it to pay their employees - they just issue new stock.
Second the recommendation Ben Rich's "Skunk Works" as a good read. A fascinating tale of hardware development in an earlier age.
But how would we even? Imagine all of GPT-4 is purged. Small groups, private individuals, and open source hackers have the capacity, in terms of both hardware, and datasets and algorithms and knowledge available on the Internet, to recreate GPT-4-like technologies within a decade at the most. (Probably much, much sooner.) And perhaps people will find a few more tricks to make the task feasible compute-wise along the way.

The shift required, in every aspect of society, to actually stop work, is hard to even imagine.
Hyperloglog in PostgreSQL
https://www.lumixtar.com/5w-ir-780nm-high-power-led.html

This seems to match what you're asking for. But converting longer wavelengths to shorter ones is always going to be difficult, so I don't think there exists a practical way to make visible light from 940nm.
Where does a data center go to retire? Decommissioning Wayfair's 2,000 servers
True, though perhaps maybe "low hanging fruit is all you need?" :P
I've seen green blackboards in UK universities, pretty rare though (and still usually called blackboards).
Why employ them for 40 more years if you don't even want them today?