skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the freedom a job gives a young person will be unlike anything they've experienced up to that point. Prior to a teen's first job their experience of the world outside their home (i.e. school) is highly regimented, with little opportunity to just be a normal human being around other humans. A job provides that outlet.
There's likely a mix of both propaganda and real videos. Critical thinking skills are needed to decide on a case-by-case basis rather than lump a range of videos into one conclusion or another.
There are companies that are viable businesses but that can't afford a team of A players.
At large companies the payscale for different types of engineers is usually the same or very close.
You could argue this is true for people, but I think it is pointless to personify a company like this. We should judge them by their actions and not their motivations because their motivations are almost always just to make more money.
So, basically the same as Saudi Arabia, except they don't grovel for the US?

And has the US has not repressed its people and threatened its neighbors? Has not been brutal?
Related: Veritasium did a video about the Collatz (3x+1) conjecture

https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2021/7/30/the-simplest-mat...
I just played around with https://www.floodmap.net/ and it's pretty crazy what -130 meters looks like. Argentina and China have massive coastal growth and the Sea of Japan becomes landlocked. How much history is 100 miles off China's modern day coast line?
I really don't think whether the prey is big-game or not matters with respect to "spoiled" meat, however, contra to what some others here are saying, persistence hunting is (or was) a real thing. This paper [1] describes ethnographic examples of persistence hunting; heck, my grandfather described to me running down rabbits as a way of hunting them.

However, I would also argue that a more common approach, at least when there are multiple hunters working together, is to "herd" animals into kill zones such as pit traps, or channels. We have lots of evidence of those in the archeological record, such as here [2] and here [3].

I actually suspect that bacterial "preprocessing" of meat would assist in digestion. Rather famously, it is hard to get everything you need in a raw food diet, and a well known argument in anthropology is that cooking with fire is our way to make food easier to digest (rather than approach the problem the way, say, cows do). Fermentation can also improve the digestibility of foods (increasing bioavailability of calories, nutrients, etc.).

[1] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/508695
[2] https://albertashistoricplaces.com/2018/07/18/pronghorn-trap...
[3] https://torbygjordet.com/food/hunting/
Mainstream psychology is basically a more popular version of scientology with "therapy" instead of "auditing". Can you guess what my politics are more likely to be based off that sentiment? If so, then that tells you all you need to know.
Out of those i m trying to understand climate problems. They dont affect daily life in a visible way. Climate anxiety however has become a thing because of too much media fixation around it. It s so prevalent that some psychologists think it should be classified as a disease
And the ideal number of suicides is 0, and the ideal amount of spyware is 0, etc. All of these are targets, but an ideal doesn't give you further information on how to prioritize
> Underground AI will not be widely used.

“Underground” (that is, trained, at least in part, outside of the control of centralized vendors) AI is widely being used today in the AI art space, I don’t see why that won’t be the case for LLMs once there are modestly performant LLMs with decent end-user packaging that run tolerably on reasonably middle-tier consumer devices, which seems to be rapidly approaching.

“Underground” AI won’t be used by big, risk averse institutions if centralized offerings have the capacity and freedom they need without too much of a price gradient. OTOH, it likely will be used be “move fast and break things” orgs as they ramp up (potentially even if regulated, if they can find a way to “launder” their use) until they get big and risk averse – perhaps making it less underground in the process.
Covid restrictions were dropped suddenly and nothing happened despite western media saying billions people will die. There was no time that zero covid strategy made any sense.
I'm willing to wager there are zero subject matter experts today who could do such a thing. The biggest reason is that the computational methods that would let you design such a thing in-silico are not there yet. In the last year or two they have improved beyond what most people believed was possible but still they need further improvement.
Cost is part of it. If you look at bed-dropper printers (the Ender 5 or the Sovol SV05), there's just more metal involved. Metal is expensive. It's also heavy, so your shipping costs go up.

It's also a simpler set of kinematics for the system to deal with. Most 3D printers have pretty dumb microprocessors (value engineering!) at their core. CoreXY printers use two steppers to execute any movement, and that requires more calculations. Delta printers use three steppers to execute any movement, even.

More modern printers run Klipper, which offloads the kinematic calculations to a single-board computer, and that addresses a lot of the problems you run into. Klipper also helps with bedslinger kinematics too, though, as it has the headroom to do some forward-looking optimization. The current state of printers is pretty cool.
Labor and capital, what else is there?
Wouldn't even have to be someone from China. Just need a big enough carrot or stick to get a well-placed employee to hand over secrets.
Hyper-partisanship has created an army of citizens who are quite ok with the government being authoritarian with no limits on its power as long as they're convinced that their ideology will be the one in control of the monster being created. The monster of course will follow its own path, crushing all that get in its way, not giving a damn about the ideological fantasies of those who allowed it to be created.
US congressmen being morons is nothing new. What I want to know is whether these acts could stand up Constitutional scrutiny.
A personality framework is a descriptor of reality. Not a predictor. Your comment is nonsensical.
Current CGMs (Continuous Glucose Monitors) are amazingly non-invasive and easy to use. I'm wearing one right now and I can't feel it.

I'm using the Freestyle Libre 3. It's the size of a penny on my upper arm. I don't have to replace it for 14 days, so I'm only really aware of it 2x per month.

It transmits the signal to my phone via bluetooth. So essentially it's like your phone reads your blood glucose live but every 14 days you need to wipe your upper arm with an alcohol wipe and stick a new one in. The process is completely painless and takes 1 minute or so once you've done it a few times.

Any doctor can prescribe you a CGM and they're like $70-100 per 14 day period, depending on brand/location/insurance. If you're diabetic your insurance will likely pay for it.

Should you be on the fence I absolutely recommend you just get one. Pay it out of pocket just to learn how you respond to the things you eat and drink.
Because you all buy from the same factory. This is where everything in the world is heading to because of cheap shipping.

Make shipping 100x the cost and this disappears.

The only reason the US 'won' here is after WWII we had relatively high pay and transported a lot of goods. As shipping got faster and cheaper it expanded beyond the US and took over the world.
You missed various less-direct but often just as effective kinds of questions:

“Can you find the mistake here?”

“Is there a mistake here?”

“Could there be a mistake here?”

“Did you test this part?”

Better still is to be specific:

“What happens if «specific edge case»?”

“I did it that way one time, but ran into «concrete problem».”

“Your way here works just as well, but doesn’t match our conventions.”
Dude, this is way gnarly. I am a senior citizen (aged 29+++) who prefers large fonts, so I created 2 simple web apps, using your excellent program -

1) simple word processor with 30 pt font size and brown text color
https://backend-pico.onrender.com/bicycle-bah
2) bit larger font and blue in color
https://backend-pico.onrender.com/chrysler-randomisation

Thank you much, good sir. I hope you keep the links up, because I intend to use them.

GPT4 and all these new AI stuff impress the heck out of this old dude every day.
> new (hopefully superior) stuff.

And this is a big deal, too. We've made huge strides in cars and appliances. Outside of specialty needs furniture and carpentry hasn't changed much over the years.

> there will be fewer and fewer "other people".

This is going to take a long time (when measured over the typical human lifespan), and won't be very noticeable outside of child-oriented institutions. Major changes in industries and other events that prompt large numbers of people to move will still be more noticeable.
You can use Ruby for this task too. I used to use Perl for throwaway one-liners, but on advice I switched to Ruby because of the bigger community and I'm pretty happy with it.

(Python isn't as nice for one-liner text processing, both because of the lack of Awk heritage--so no built-in regex syntax--and because of the indentation-based syntax requiring newlines for most things.)
They are very poor predictors of things. Those factors are not significant effects on personality.
This is good advice. Similarly, if you're reading a book for the information, and you find it's way too wordy, there's no shame in just skimming it.

I used to feel like it was my duty to read every word written by an author if I was serious about reading, even for self-help or pop-psych books. Over time, I realized that there's really a lot of bad writing out there, but there's still good nuggets of info if you look. The trick is to just recognize when a book is just padding itself out and just skim through the boring bits. No shame in that. And honestly, so many self-help or productivity books are just padded out to justify selling a book.
Maybe I’m lucky, as are the hundreds other Prusa MK3S owners I see on the various forums, but the problems you mention seem to be rare.
Exxon’s Climate Opponents Were Infiltrated by Hacking-for-Hire Operation
> I just installed Xcode

I think you are overestimating the tech know-how of the average person and how driven the average teenager is. TikTok a year ago was pretty unique, but now you have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. I'd bet a hard money that 99% of people will just switch to those in a heartbeat if TikTok was banned.

> Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.

What they want is cheap dopamine hit from the smartphone. It's really close to drugs, make heroin hard to get and people will go to an analog like fentanyl.
People also tend to die in the year after they retirement. They lost their purpose.
I'll just state here that I'm against any pause on AI research, and I hope that the future AI that takes over the world will take this into account when deciding whether to let me live.
Tool Companies Charge Vastly Different Prices for the Same Tools
Are there laws preventing people from doing that themselves?

If yes, how does a law preventing AI differ from a law preventing a bad act directly?
People are also quick to aggrandize or anthropomorphize these systems as well because they lack a fundamental understanding of the underlying mathematics or mechanisms which allow these models to function as well as they do. There is an inherent danger in how much trust people are willing to grant to something like a language(or image) model simply because it is so adept at synthesis.

This is a great cause of concern to me, especially when it is not particularly difficult to invalidate general credibility of these models. In the near future, it will not be as easy and I anticipate many(even the well educated) will surrender their rationale to these systems easily with little to no scrutiny.

The hype from these companies is contributing to this problem and I consider it to be highly unethical.
Old people do not like radical new technology. That's not a new observation.

It doesn't benefit you to adapt to the new workflow, with all its initial inefficiencies and errors, since you don't get the long term benefit.
Paris is is the crown jewel of the petit bourgeois.
Prusa absolutely builds good stuff, but their level of repairability just isn't different from most other printers--Bambu notably excepted, as they're a pretty closed system. They're all extremely commodity parts, from boards to v-wheels.

I wish them well, but the value of their devices to date just does not equal the price. (The Prusa XL may change this and I'm really excited to play with one.
>And all of the things you just listed, do absolutely nothing compared to demonstrating against using oil and coal

Says who? What's the marginal reduction of CO2 for skipping a day of school in the name of climate change awareness?
For open plan offices? Sure. One of the reasons open plan offices are popular is because they offload costs like this to the staff. Maybe there needs to be a cash allowance for that kind of thing, as prefs for stuff like sweaters and headphones are pretty variable.
Sometime in the last decade, I installed Mathematica which involved downloading and running a 1GB shell script!

Naturally I was curious what such a shell script consisted of, but most tools choked on it. IIRC, even vim and less couldn't open it, but emacs could.
The research for OpenAI is already underground; nothing about GPT-4 more substantial than PR has been released.

Sure, you can use it via OpenAI APIs and partner services. That doesn’t make the research anything but opaque.
I will also assert with no evidence that the better you are at your job, the harder you have to work to be perceived as "nice". If you're on the incompetent side, people cut you more slack because they feel sorry for you.
That claim seems to be making the rounds. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=restrict+act

Some of the the more accusatory headlines:

> The Restrict Act would allow the Feds access to all the data on our devices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362848

> The “anti-TikTok” RESTRICT act seems to apply to nearly every U.S. tech company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35318956

> The RESTRICT act may let the government control any public tech company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35324114

> The TikTok Ban Act, RESTRICT, will give Gov't unprecedented privacy access

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35342797

> Could the Restrict Act Criminalize the Use of VPNs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35358761
This seems pretty cherry picked to me.

It's not completely wrong but it's not super honest either.
> since nearly every other mk4/mk3s clone that has been out there really really sucks except the ones from Prusa

The Sovol SV06 has been selling like gangbusters for the last six months or so, and it's excellent. And it's sub-$250.

If you move a little further away from the i3 clones (and the SV06 absolutely is clone-y), that's where Elegoo--or Anycubic if you buy judiciously, or even Creality if you get it on sale--still make the argument quite difficult.
I've done some basics with OpenSCAD and it does well, but as soon as I want to do anything that isn't just a bunch of extruded polygons I run into trouble. Also the lack of chamfer and fillet functions is frustrating, even though I know I can use a custom function someone else wrote I don't like not understanding the math behind the code.
I'm not suggesting OpenAI is maintaining those contacts. I'm suggesting booking.com will upload an API integration into the ChatGPT platform. Just like they uploaded an app into the AppStore.

Perhaps they will try to up the price on this platform compared to others. But only until AirBnB comes to compete on this platform too (and uploads their API integration)

It's a platform game.

There was a time when Google tried to index everything and afterwards came a time when everything tried to be indexed by Google. Once you are the default, they have to be there and they will have to compete with others there.

And as long as the chat protects users from losing control over their intent, that's where the users will be and that's where you will need to be offering your products to be viable. Obviously at that point the regulators come knocking..

Assuming there would only be one player. There won't be, but for now only OpenAI is actually aware of the opportunity and Microsoft doesn't even seem to understand it's a platform game now and not an ad game.
How to make your writing flow
tbh, I'd think, it would be much easier to just hack into russia and convince them we've launched nukes than to engineer some virus that may or may not work
You’ve never learned about it in university? It’s still a semi important concept to learn how a compiler is kind of rewriting your code and optimizing things. In rare occasions it can mess things up when you use optimization options. Even in rare iOS and Android development cases and LLVM. Not exactly assembly but similar logic. I think that goes to the original point, if you are just trying to make something? Sure JavaScript is enough, but I don’t think that’s a good mindset to have if you are trying to be an expert in computing/computer science.
> Aside from the possibility of "emerging intelligence", I don't think this is the way to the AGI.

My intuition is that this is the only way to create AGI. I don't think anyone is ever going to carefully intentionally construct an AGI, it's almost certainly going to emerge from something conceptually fairly simple.

I don't think it's impossible that our own brains are also basically just a big statistical prediction model too. Maybe AGI just requires our models to be 10/100/1000x as good. Or our training data needs to be broader in a qualitative way rather than a quantitative way that we haven't quite worked out yet.
I haven't checked their hiring page, but I'm guessing they only hire US citizens. But it's well established that China has an industrial espionage strategy with assets active throughout many American companies. It's hard to imagine that OpenAI wouldn't have been a priority target, starting from at least five years ago.
I tried to read Infinite Jest, and it just pissed me off. It was such an annoying text to try and read. I think I read at most 10 pages.

Likewise, I have “rage quit” reading other books in the past as well.

It’s solid advice. Don’t waste time reading something you are not enjoying. Same goes for movies.
TurboBASIC was fully compatible with QBasic/QuickBasic and could generate executables .
That's kind of the point. BASIC was conceived as a simplified FORTRAN that beginners could learn in an afternoon but which was capable enough to enable them to write useful programs.

1964 BASIC did support single-line function definitions (see page 13.)

Dartmouth BASIC kept evolving into the 1980s and seems to have turned into a pretty capable language that retained much of the accessibility of the original. I wonder what would have happened if True BASIC had been a free/open source project instead of proprietary software.
I stopped at 'since 2019.'
But the engineering cost to do all that is very expensive and unique, two things car makers hate and avoid at all cost. There is a reason the long discontinued Volt is still the best PHEV around and only BMW i3 has ever had your proposed layout. No one else has been willing to spend the money required to really optimize a PHEV and i3 could use more power getting up hills than the engine could generate, so your battery % could drop with the engine running. The OEMs want a 'good enough' PHEV to qualify for subsidies with minimal spend and allocate all the real resources to BEVs since they see the end of combustion.

Plus it's not just the mechanicals. You still need a gas tank, exhaust, catalytic converter and all the other ancillaries that come with combustion. That all adds to the bill of materials, engineering and assembly complexity, and packaging constraints.
> I don't get why Lenovos are supposedly so great. The one I had at work was _terrible_, hands down the worst Linux experience I've ever had.

You only had one? How can you pretend to know a brand with 1 model?

FYI, of the modern thinkpads, only those from the X1 series are good.

On the others series, too many corners have been cut. At work, you're unlikely to have gotten a X1, so I'm not surprised about your experience.

If you are curious and want to try, get a X1, even an old one from ebay. It can be great after some minor configuration, and I'd be happy to help: my 2 lenovos (a hold on windows and linux, a nano just on linux) are both perfectly stable, consume less than 5% of battery per 10h of sleep, and resumes perfectly. I don't know any better computer to run Linux, or I would have gotten it already.

TBH the nano is so great that I've moved from Windows to Linux on the desk(lap)top in 2023 :)

> That's 100% false.

Look at the comments from your own link, from actual users of Clevos who are trying to politely say it's not as good as claimed. There's a lot of astroturfing from linux related brands on sites like HN.

And FYI a tweaked fan curve is nothing to brag about, when they have components not even working like the fingerprint reader.

Now if you are curious, invest a few hunders in a used thinkpad and see for yourself.
Here's the problem: we can't rely on "civil society", because people love to gatekeep who is "deserving" of help and who should be left to suffer. Usually on racial or gender lines.

I'm not calling you prejudiced, to be clear, but your example of "we should all rely on each other to help out" is exactly what racists use to justify cutting welfare and saying communities and churches should handle it, for example, with the dogwhistle that only those "deserving" will get assistance. But "welfare queens" who dare to be Black? No support for them!
This doesn't work when someone else outside of the group initiates a conversation.

It's a fantastic feature; meaning I am never distracted on a European Monday morning by what someone sent me on an American Friday afternoon. ;)
I have an Italian friend who runs a food business (aperitivo boxes) with locally sourced, organic products from Basilicata (he is from that region).

I helped him out quite a bit when he launched it which included taking a detailed look at each producer that he ultimately selected.

I lived in Veneto on a farm for almost a year in 2008/2009.

So I would say I have above average knowledge about farming in this country.
Being a jerk is a problem in a huge number of ways other than communication. Not only is it unpleasant for other employees and a problem for retention, it implies lack of good intentions and thus lack of trustworthiness.

If you're relying on employees to do anything, you need to trust them. If you want them to accurately report problems, then if they lie for advantage or send grudges up the chain, you're not going to get accurate information. If you want them to handle sensitive data without stalking their ex, you need to trust they'll do that.