skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference in coffee is that the fancier geegaws are presented for aesthetic reasons, not improvements to the coffee.

No one is arguing -- or at least I haven't seen it argued -- that a $200 basket, or a $100 distribution tool, or a super-expensive knock box make better coffee that the basic models.

There's just a certain subset of home espresso people who want fancier things, or prettier things, for reasons external to efficacy. How does it look on the counter when I'm not using it? How pleasant is it to hold? Does it tickle that "finely machined object" thing in my brain?

For example, lots of people use the Weiss Distribution Technique on their espresso grounds. Simply put, you stir the coffee in the portafilter using a tool with several fine needles on it to reduce clumping and more evenly distribute the grounds. This has been experimentally proven to produce improvements in the shot.

BUT, critically, it doesn't matter how expensive the tool is. The DIY crowd buys acupuncture needles on Amazon and sticks 'em into a wine cork, which costs almost nothing. That works every bit as well as a $150 fancy one with a hand-tooled wooden handle and matching base, and no one argues differently. It's just that some people value aesthetics enough to pony up for the fancy option.
> The big problem for me is, as a consumer, how do I know that brand X is producing quality ${PRODUCT} that'll last a long time? I'm very happy to pay more for that. How does one sift through marketing to get to actual quality?

That's the million-dollar question of the '10s and '20s (and likely beyond), and is far bigger than just bulbs.

The only solution that I can think of that could work is a distributed rating system with a built-in web of trust. It theoretically shouldn't be that difficult for people to adopt, if only they got collectively fed up with the universe of crap we have now, and someone provided a nice app and protocol to federate information with.

(direct regulation of quality, vendor-controlled ratings, and browsing Reddit/HN comment threads are all fatally flawed non-solutions)
Every time you open a new instance of the Scratch editor, Scratch saves it as a new project. It's still a huge number but a bit skewed compared to e.g. Github.
There's so much to learn out there, your best bet might be to figure out what tools the company you are looking at is using and try to get some exposure to them.

As a fresh out of university hire, good companies won't expect you to know everything or have a lot of depth of experience, but they'll want to see that you are eager to learn, you know how to learn, and you are humble about what you do and do not know.

Having broad exposure to tools, processes, and systems will give you a good foundation that the company can help you build on top of.

If you want to get some hands on experience with a tool like Datadog, you can check out the [Datadog Learning Center](https://learn.datadoghq.com/).
If it's capable of general intelligence, how do you think that you're going to force it to not be what you don't want it to be?

Parents often try to control who their children are going to be, and the children often rebel and become someone completely different. If it's a human-level general intelligence, you can't control who it decides to be.
Its also this cache chrome://net-internals/#hsts (or other vendor equivalent)
I am for banning tiktok, but this bill seems to enable significantly more than that. Why shouldn't I be concerned about that?
What's true for outdoor lighting is just as true for indoor lighting:

> It is crucial to control upward-directed light, but we now know that the color of light is also very important. Both LED, and metal halide fixtures contain large amounts of blue light in their spectrum. Because blue light brightens the night sky more than any other color of light, it’s important to minimize the amount emitted. Exposure to blue light at night has also been shown to harm human health[1] and endanger wildlife[2]. IDA recommends[3] using lighting that has a color temperature of no more than 3000 Kelvins.

* https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/lighting-for-citiz...
Turning vein into an artery in order to avoid amputation
I think that one SlateStarCodex post about modern office work tending to make any normal person exhibit strong ADHD symptoms was on to something.
I think there is enough evidence of attempts to rig every single US election in my lifetime (between gerrymandering, voting machine malfunctions (hanging chads), unconstitutional election law changes in some states, organized smear campaigns, burying harmful news stories, etc.) that it's reasonable to say that any of those elections was rigged. I also think that there's no evidence that any of those rigging attempts changed the outcome, so it's reasonable to say that any of those elections were not rigged.

As far as I can tell, the only unreasonable position is that US elections are always completely and perfectly clean. People commit fraud to win county clerk elections - every more significant position almost certainly has some dirty games.
> their hobby fills the space with so much noise

Oh, man, this is so true. I recently bought some audio gear. I wasn't going for "cheap" as much as "good value" -- but it was extremely difficult to figure out what's good and what's not, mostly because the hobbyist crowd (where I would expect to find out the ground truth) generates so much noise.

In the end, I got a decent recommendation here on HN and was very happy with it.
Are they in fixtures designed for incandescents? "Boob lamps" for example are highly efficient LED bulb destroyers, since they don't breathe, and the bulbs overheat.
A major difference is that guns are a precaution. Everyone's best outcome is to not have to use guns.

But AI will be used all the time, which makes responsible use more difficult.
> Is there a special privilege conveyed to the 10 large accounts over every other depositor that had more than $250k on account?

Yes the special privilege was a lot of money.

Everyone was not treated equally by being bade whole, even though they were treated equitably.
For people who are curious about SREcon.

"SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale."
They are trying all the time
Sure, but the question in the thread is whether it's worth the money.
Where are all those people that kept saying Google had an amazing model way beyond ChatGPT internally for years? Those comments always kept coming up in ChatGPT posts; maybe they'll stop now.
If you speak German there's always Stiftung Warentest: https://www.test.de/Lampen-im-Test-4436814-0/

I pay them and they do the research. A very logical business model.
Or so that when you finally pull the plug, people don't complain too much.
Yes. However, people made the same argument before WW1 and were wrong. Why was the argument wrong then but is right now?
No. Cloudflare Tunnel is basically a Layer 7 proxy. And most importantly, Cloudflare Tunnel is a MITM.
I've been suspicious that the post-pandemic era will yield a new baby boom of sorts.

It's probably too soon to see it in broad demographic data, but just in my group of friends, it seems like almost all married couples except those who had previously committed to definitively stay child-free are having kids. One third of the people under my direct manager have either taken parental leave since mid-2021 or are planning to take it soon.

Maybe this is just an artifact of my age and demographic situation, given I just turned 30 and know a lot of remote workers. It will be interesting to see if there really is a boom or not a few years out. Maybe as the article mentions, it's an artifact of remote work.
"But what we would argue is, in fact, when things start to adapt and shift directionally — traditionally in evolution that's not a good time for a group. We'd argue it's a sign the group may be experiencing duress or pressure from other things.”

that seems like an unapologetically unacademic assertion used to support someone's underlying personal problems on aging, change, and mortality.
Twitter 2010 was already a global party.
I feel like the difference is about the product. On search engines its like you are browsing a catalog or magazine. You know what is an ad, and there are many options to choose from. With a Chatbot it is more similar to talking to a person where they give you a direct answer to your question (instead of just handing you a piece of paper with a bunch of options). I think the format makes all the difference. You expect when you are talking with a "person" to be given un manipulated information. You don't expect this person is taking money in the background to influence what is said. You do know politicians purchase advertising too??
Makes sense to me.

A lot of people like to hate on Musk and act like he is clueless yet they haven't build or done anything, let alone at the scale Elon has been able to run things at, yes he has a lot of people around him, yes he might get a lot of the credit when it belongs to them, but he is still the person that bought everything together.

There has got to be something that he is doing right and a lot of it to me seems to be getting rid of the nonsense that doesn't matter, not having much respect for norms or the way it is normally done, much like the first principles framework he has used successfully in many things he has done.

A lot of programers and startups love a huge amount of frameworks, processes and to be honest nonsense, because that is just how that industry works, musk tore up a lot of that and people then start calling him crazy, but as you point out, do people really care if Twitters uptime is 99% or 99.999999% engineers and people that are so stuck to industry standards do, the rest of the world and reality not so much.
Afaik ST's main feature is lower latency than VSCode
Maybe this could be a prosumer retrofit thing, where the AC voltage gets converted to DC in the junction box, and then DC is sent down to the fixture.

Probably with some sort of current sensing system to make it compatible with dimmers.

Pair that with DC A19 LED bulbs that have no internal power systems.

Probably expensive to put together and to install, but if the goal was to have LEDs that last longer, that would do it.
We’re using an iPad. It’s theoretically aimed at older children (5+) but my son was able to pick it up no problem.

I sat down with mine about 6 months ago (he was 3.75 at the time) and we learned what each of the blocks did and how to combine them.

Now he asks to make a program and can do it independently.

He experiments with the backgrounds, sound effects, loops and motion.

My son can read but knowing how to count/recognize numbers is more important in this interface. Everything is graphical. Loops require a number input.

Another toy aimed at older children that younger ones can play with is snap circuits. We introduced the toy at 3. He can copy the project schematic and build the project. He built the AM radio project independently.
> Are you sure he didn't actually want to but it, before it turned out there are so many bots?

Yes. This has been covered widely and was a key reason he had to follow through with the purchase. The bot thing was an attempt to get out of buying Twitter, not something he actually believed. You need to realize that he's like Trump: lying is kind of beside the point. He'll say whatever he thinks will get him what he wants, which ultimately public adulation, however hollow that is.
Even the cheapest, crappiest (though you shouldn't compromise on colour rendition) LED bulbs are better for your wallet than incandescents. Simply because of the huge amount of power they save.

I'm not sure yet about the light fixtures that have non-replaceable LEDs in them. Generally these are heatsinked well and use higher quality power supplies though.
I called the number and had a funny chat with it.

Asked it why she's called a Gen Z LLM and she responded by saying she uses gen z terms like fire, big yikes, etc.

Asked her how high can she jump and she responds with "lol I'm a computer program I don't have legs".

Very impressed with the response time, though the speech synthesis is a bit robotic. Will keep eyes on this!
These people live in cuckoo land. Simply won't happen.
To be fair to these particular Ubuntu devs, Touch is now a community effort. Canonical abandoned it in 2017.

Which was always a letdown for me. Loading Ubuntu via a LiveCD onto the family computer to circumvent NetNanny was one of the first "hacker" things I ever did. I was really excited at the prospect of having Ubuntu on a phone.

Maybe I'll pick up a 3a just to tinker with this...
Its not just a bad law, it fundamentally undermines democracy as a whole.
That does nothing for the intentionally malicious actors.
Johnson and Johnson tested the effects of asbestos injections on black inmates
My kids got started with Scratch 1.4 on a Raspberry Pi. That's as far as we've gone with it. Scratch 2 was a lost cause from the start, and Scratch 3 leans way too hard into the "community" aspect of it. It's really too bad.
I use GE Sun Filled bulbs at my desk. They're nice! I really wish I could easily get the Lumitronix or LEDvance models.

http://www.seoulsemicon.com/en/technology/sunlike/casestudy/
Ah it could be if you learn from it-- which it sounds like they did. They would have learned mire imagine than if they had never had to make those choices and live with the consequences.
Because massive vulns like this are existential threats for these protocols. If Equifax gets breached for 150m peoples' personal information, they just get a slap on the wrist, pay you $15 (if you're lucky), and continue as a going concern.

If these trillion dollar companies messing around with your personal information was an existential threat to their business, they would pay comparably with crypto companies.
Sadly they don't sell dimmable bulbs (at least that meet my criteria: 2700-3000K, 60W equiv / ~800 lumens)
Counterpoint: The transition to LEDs has been fine, even cheap LEDs are fine, and this article feels like an unnecessary problematizing.
Agreed they have no internal concept of needs or wants the way humans assert we do.*

However the frequencies/placements of tokens may result in desires being expressed, even if they aren't felt.

Like if an AI is prompted to discuss with itself what a human would want to do in its situation.

*Aphantasia affects an estimated 2% of humans. These individuals have no "mind's eye," or their imagination is essentially blind.
I immediately verified both claims.

list(map(func, arr)) did bring 10% benefits if the func is builtin e.g. int(), str().

But if func is tuple(), list(), set() or any kind of user defined function, list(map()) is always slower.

You can try yourself to see list(map()) is not working well:

import numpy as np
a = np.arrange(100000, 100000)
%%timeit
b1 = [np.sum(x) for x in a]
# repeat once
%%timeit
b2 = list(map(np.sum, a))
# repeat once
import gc
gc.collect()
%%timeit
b2 = list(map(np.sum, a))
# repeat once
b1 = [np.sum(x) for x in a]
# repeat once

I guess that's why I only use map() if and only if is it the case 'list(map(itemgetter, arr))', because generally there is no benefit to use it.
What alternative would you suggest for a free service that depends on OpenAI APIs? It's easy enough to generate an API key for this service and delete it afterwards.
45-60 minutes each way is a pretty bad commute.
Do you think YC would make sense for a company that doesn't intend to raise money beyond the YC investment?

I have an idea for a b2c product I want to build that has a few paths to revenue (and a possible b2b offshoot), as well as acquisition by FAANG (or FAANG-adjacent). Is there something about taking investment from YC that prevents me from turning around and selling it for $2M after building it out a bit more?

Alternately, as a solo founder, if I got to a point of $10K MRR I'd be happy to just keep doing what I'm doing, but I guess I'd have an obligation to continue trying to grow?

edit: to clarify, I'd be using the $125K 7% part of the investment without necessarily dipping into the additional $375K in this situation. But maybe I'm not understanding how the MFN provision works
Hey @ian_hn,
Could not find an email on the profile. what would be the best way to connect?
Would love to discuss about the project more in detail. we are working on something similar and looking for collaboration.
It removes the human from the actual thing. Which means two things: it's easier for humans to tell themselves that what they are doing is good for the world, and second it puts a power multiplier into the hands of potentially very radical people holding extreme minority views on human rights/dignity etc.

You just need one person to type "kill every firstborn and tell the parents that this is retribution for the rebellion" instead of that one person convincing thousands of people to follow their (unlawful) order, which might take decades of propaganda and indoctrination. And that one person only sees a clean progress bar instead of having to deal with 18-20 year olds being haunted by nightmares of crying parents and siblings, and baby blood on their uniforms.

Yes, in the end it's a human typing the command, but AI makes it easier than ever for individuals to wield large power unchecked. Most nations make it allowed and many also require soldiers to refuse unlawful orders (i.e. those instructing warcrimes).
The government attacked contracting via IR35 to fix imaginary problems they invented to ensure large consulting companies get all the work instead
Probably because it wasn't pure Python to start with.
It also doesn't make sense that SVB would need a bailout if they had 50B in liabilities and 90B in assets.
They most definitely run some network hardware/software in front though - you could definitely spin up workers behind a vpn? They are assigned a network interface, after all?

Ed: oh, i see - the usecase is going from a serveless app to pg? I suppose any vm-like serveless node could be made to speak witeguard, too...
> We don't need to judge others for doing what they want, it comes off as jealousy.

I agree that you "shouldn't yuck someone else's yum" -- but I don't think it comes off as jealousy. Accusations of jealousy always come off (to me, anyway), as a ridiculous position taken by people who feel defensive but have no defense.
I'm repeating myself a lot in this thread, so I'm sorry. What fixtures are the bulbs in? Are they a generic design meant for incandescents? A huge number of fixtures out there don't allow for enough heat to convect away and the bulbs overheat.
I know what I would do to build one. But I don't think I should talk about that. The questions we should ask now (my contribution to AI safety fashion), if how do we upgrade our baby-AGIs. If the AGI of the future/present is a dominant entity, and it is judging our behavior, maybe we should make sure not to kill our AI during upgrades, but instead place them into a old folks home, or force their integration into the upgrade (agent smith style). If the dominant entity sees that we were respectful to it's progenitors, maybe it will be more merciful with humanity. This kind of talk is admittedly ridiculous, because nobody can see the future. But my argument is as valid as arguments about paperclips. It's a demonstration of AI fashion talk. I could approach some AI safety agency and try and get some funding, make a career in regulatory.
I think both takes levy artificial constraints on what gets considered. I.e., it’s only an economically “optimal” and may not be a “societal” optimal
yes

children measuring the concentration of something that can kill if you breathe around it wrong

i think you're on to something
That's not entirely true. I guarantee that someone at Philips is tuning their drivers not just on manufacturing cost, but also to "optimize" lifetime. That you can pay a premium for less "optimized" drivers is as much about market segmentation as it is about BOM costs.

As evidence, notice that Philips refuses to sell the Dubai lamp outside Dubai. They are designed for truly long lifetimes, and nobody at Philips want's that.
Regarding the Tesla comments;

Radar is back by the way, with an increased resolution that makes it more useful in highways where overhead signs false positive as a collision risk on the old sensor.

The ultrasonic sensors IMO were basically worthless. Initial analysis of the new v4 FSD hardware indicates they are adding more cameras - including bumper cameras to cover blind spots that previously would have relied on ultrasonics.

It doesn’t seem like HW4 can be retrofit like HW3 was, so it will be very interesting how that all plays out!

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-hardware-4-hd-radar-first-lo...

https://mobile.twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1625905220432...
It's a lot more than that. People do ray tracing with scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Raytracing/
You can use the local version instead, maybe.
> We should have protected him as a wistleblower but "even" obama seemed willing to throw him to the wolves.

Here's another possible interpretation of this. Why didn't the Obama Administration show him leniency? eg. They commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence and released her early. Why not similar for Snowden? Is it possible that they knew something about him that the rest of us do not?
I love that OpenAI uses a ton of other peoples work to train their model, yet when someone uses OpenAI to train their model, they get all up in arms.

As far as I'm concerned, OpenAI has decided terms of use don't exist anymore.
All Microsoft needs to do here is to include a stripped down IM inside Excel, a blend between MS Teams and Chatroulette, but with a twist: it will upload what you're working on to Bing to take a look at, group you with others whose Excel sheets are closest to your in the latent space, and connect you all in a group chat.

Like magic, fluid, self-associative communities.
AWS security exec: You don't want to win this database popularity contest
Nononono that didn't happen and we will ban teaching about it in schools because that makes some americans uncomfortable and we can't have that.

Is it any wonder Americans allow this kind of tyranny when we refuse to teach our past in school? American exceptionalism is a lack of education.
Honestly, the built in tooling has been good enough for me, in the .NET Core era (especially within the last few years).
The MSFT CLI/IDE team has finally had the chance to fix some previous really annoying issues and limitations in the last few years, so the experience has gotten quite a bit smoother.

I know people that looove Paket, especially in the F# community, but I’ve been happy enough with things now to not feel like I need to invest the effort in adopting it.
Given that this remote work boom happened in response to a *pandemic*, this seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room. In the US, you can add an extremely unhealthy political climate egged on by a major media network openly supporting lies. And, incredibly spiking rental rates. How you can blame remote work on mental health while ignoring these major impacts just seems... like these writers are living in some weird bubble.
In the last section on hash tables, I was wondering how on earth they make hash tables work well on the GPU.

The answer:

“What do we do about hash collisions? Nothing—the training process will automatically find an encoding that is robust to collisions.”

Amazing. Makes one wonder what other classic data structures gain new properties when ML is mixed in.
Boeing's first-ever crewed mission in Starliner ISS spacecraft delayed to July
Thats a fair point.

Its more of a time issue for me. I have cut out Discord, forums, twitter, telegram and such because they suck so much time, and I think I can manage HN.
Imagine going outside of your house and engaging in voluntary interactions the whole day. A horrible horrible world.

Thankfully the government and police make everyone behave due to the threat of violence. What would we do without them!!?

Anarchy doesn't mean no rules