skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These LLM's are not Turing-complete.

Aren't they? I view them as "language processors", that execute one token (instruction) at a time, and use the token window as their working memory.

Sure, they have a limit to their instruction count (8k/32) before stopping. The working memory is small, but 8k tokens goes a lot longer than 8 kB.

I've seen you state in other comments that LLM's cannot reason. I used to think so too until a couple of weeks ago.

But I had to change my mind. They're not just fancy autocomplete tools any more. They exhibit intelligence in that they can understand a given problem statement, reason about it, and make predictions and recommendations.
The plural of anecdote is not data.

I use my MBP 6-8 hours every. single. day. I plug two monitors to it and leave everything on 24/7 (I only dim the screen but never close it). I'm sure I put way more use into them than the average user. I once went close to two years without a restart.

No other laptop I've owned has been as reliable as the MBPs.

... but yes this is still an anecdote.
One still has to have enough motivation to make small changes, yes. I'm not claiming that there's a magical path that requires no effort at all.

The point is that small changes are often achievable in situations where large changes are not. It's a classic case of breaking a large problem into small enough chunks to make it possible to tackle.

This is a drastically different undertaking and is far more likely to succeed than any kind of "big bang" approach.
That's kind of not the point.

Having those apps run on the main screen has advantages...
- touchscreen is easier to access
- screen is bigger
- screen is better placed (less eye movement = safer)
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Especially when the software-based solution very likely will fail in weather that is very unusual in California but relatively common elsewhere.
> Why shouldn't I be the only one with the right to sell that image?

The real question is why should you? Copyright is not a natural right (if it was, it wouldn't require enforcement actions on people who never interacted with the original copy). It's a privilege meant to provide an incentive for artists (the effectiveness of which is questionable, even without taking into consideration the negative side-effects).

> The course of action for "lose the rights in 20 years" isn't "ok, that's fine" but rather "ok, then I won't publish any of them and deal only in direct sales of prints from a gallery."

And that is entirely within your rights. But once your photo is disseminated into the public sphere, it's information that you no longer have control over.
I gave up trying to solve this at the mobile operator level, they don't care, they don't get fined/sued enough and legislators are too incompetent/slow to fix this.

I just never use any service that forces 2FA by SMS. If it not avoidable for some reason, I make this account completely isolated from the rest of my online identity (new email just for it, regularly change password).

If your bank/financial institution forces 2FA by SMS, it is time to change, most of the serious ones have their own app that handles 2FA. I'm yet to find one that allows to use your own OTP generators, so I'm usually forced to use their app for now.
Reminds me of this article:

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
I like the lack of any screen in front of my face - no distractions, just the road. The buttons on the steering wheel are all I need. Voice control works fine as well.

I used CarPlay in my old car, it was great, thought I would miss it in a Tesla, but nope, I can see my phone screen fine from the dock and bluetooth audio works as well.
>Outside of Peter Zeihan...

Talk about a weirdly polarizing figure. He's like a clock that's right once per day. Every time his name comes up here on HN, it's a flame war. To reinforce what you state though - at least he raises some interesting topics for us to all discuss.
I love Django, but I can’t help but feel FastAPI > Django these days.
Microsoft offers free Windows 11 Virtual Machine files:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
I just got into Django after working with Node/Java for years. It's honestly depressing once I realized I have spent so much time building CRUD stuff that would have taken 10x less time with Django.

I haven't built SPAs yet, but I'm looking into trying Unicorn: https://www.django-unicorn.com/
It just works in most cases. It is nice to be within Python's ecosystem as well.

Overall, I've found it great for prototyping up something really quickly. I think this is where the "batteries-included" helps a lot
How does Windows have a reputation for "backwards compatibility" when every single piece of legacy software that people want to use shits itself on the latest Windows version, yet somehow runs on WINE.
I can confirm that in multiple European countries you just walk to your GP's office and wait an hour or two (worst case) if you do not have an appointment.

I waited 20 min last time I went without appointment.

Specialists is a different story, the worst being psychologists/therapists (wait time counted in years where I live).
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I see two big constraints to use it right now:

- This runs on the CPU only and does not require GPU. It requires around 60GB of CPU memory for Vicuna-13B.

also

- We release Vicuna weights as delta weights to comply with the LLaMA model license. You can add our delta to the original LLaMA weights to obtain the Vicuna weights. Instructions:

...

This conversion command needs around 60 GB of CPU RAM.

Hope they can optimize it further, to make it work with lesser hardware.
Article: “It must be emphasized up front that there is no official confirmation that the image was taken at Volkel Air Base, that the bent B61 shape is a real weapon (versus a trainer), or that the damage was the result of an accident (versus a training simulation).”

Headline writer/editor: “Hold my beer”
Interesting, any relation to pubnix ?

https://www.pubnix.net/
The Improv Instinct
A practical collapsible container still has not been made. If you could stack 3 collapsed containers in one slot, that could be a game changer for repositioning.
I personally prefer Django Ninja over DRF for APIs, it's all the good parts of FastAPI mixed with Django.
Neat! I just set up void on my old x200. It’s a cute OS.
The damage is at the non-nuclear end of the bomb.
I don’t know if it’s still true but Wes McKinney’s (Pandas author) rule of thumb for Pandas was “have 5 to 10 times as much as RAM as your dataset”. But he wrote this in 2017 so things may have changed.

That said, this is a 2023 comparison of Pandas and Polars memory usage.

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/polars-memory-pandas/
Beautiful.

Somehow it gave me the vibe of watching a transitional scene from Regular Show.
It’s easy to envision things that would induce people to have fewer kids, it’s harder to come up with things that would make them want to have more. These birth rates are completely new experiences for the world and we’re not quite certain what the outcome will be (as it is, there are likely subcultures that are still above replacement on average, even in the most declining societies).
That seems so much worse than the oft memed about "glacially slow elevators" or, more recently, "tiny gaps your character crawls through"
Thanks for validating!
2000 is far far too low to declare things urban. That line should be drawn at least above 10k-20k, I think.

Also critical infrastructure is out “in the sticks” like dams, power infrastructure (lines/plants/storage), and the support of the container trucks. Then there’s agriculture. It all needs to be electrified and reachable by electrics.
What's with the title change? I kinda thought the article would be about Stalin.
Lighted USB volume knob - they're inexpensive, the large aluminum knob is on a sturdy base, can be pressed down for mute.

ReMarkable2 e-ink tablet -- okay, it's a standalone device, but interfaces to the computer in cool ways (like screen sharing), and it's changed my life as far as note-taking goes
I would personally lose because I would no longer have radio when travelling. FM radio programming is not often appealing to me. If I want music, I play my own.

AM typically has at least one or two interesting things to listen to. I value that quite a lot, and will grieve a little if it goes away. There's nothing that can replace it, as near as I can see.

My two main arguments for why it should be preserved are: it's one of the last bastions for programming that actually comes from local communities, and it's indispensable in disaster scenarios.
Oh, I am, just not much I can do about it.
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https://chabad.org/torahtrainer has a similar (free) web based program, but it appears to use a recording instead of a synthesizer.
That's something we would love to do in the future. For now extending the base development template so that it has the most popular programming languages already installed is on top of our todo list.
Skysails seems like it would just be too much for boats to manage. I can't imagine the amount of time you can run that is a large percentage of the trip.
Have you ever tried to manage outsourced work?

Trust me: the problems with outsourcing have almost no overlap with the challenges of remote, on-shore work.

Think: timezones, talent quality, language barriers, cultural differences, just to name a few.
Beyond what jcranmer wrote, if OPEC tomorrow priced oil in renminbi or rubles, China or Russia would be pleased because it would simplify transactions for them. But that decision isn't up to China or Russia; it's up to the various OPEC member states, who all want dollars and not Chinese or Russian funny money. And why should they do otherwise, when the Chinese and Russians themselves don't want their own currency, much preferring to hold dollars?
Pop OS is great. You get Ubuntu but:

1. No snap packages!
2. Easy full disk encryption during install.
3. Optional tiling window manager right in gnome.
4. Nvidia drivers just work with no effort.
5. HiDpi displays just do the right thing with no effort.

I also use ZFS (non-root), which was just an 'apt install' away. This is also true on Ubuntu, but nice either way.

Only downside I've seen is that it's still X11. From what I read there were Wayland stability issues so they are giving that more time to bake.
> And sequential hash computation, aka proof of work, means that even from inside the simulation we can be assured by math, that the upper computer running the simulation has done the work.

Actually, perhaps not. Your senses and memory are part of the simulation. There is no need for the PoW math to actually take place, just that you believe it has.
It's so, so bad.

Many accountants aren't even aware yet, meaning that some people who have already filed their business taxes for 2022 will end up owing the stratospherically higher bill PLUS interest and potentially penalties when the IRS notices (or their accountant notices and they re-file). The IRS starts charging interest as of the due date.
Use prepaid and don't associate your real name with your cellular account, which has a multitude of privacy benefits as well. Verizon will let you set a six-digit PIN which you can use instead. Also, stop using SMS-based MFA.
1999 - Funzo in Episode 9, Season 11 - "Grift of the Magi"

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I’ve used this in the past: http://futureme.org
Our current prototype is a 1/50 bench model using off-the-shelf tape measures. We're working on rapidly scaling that up to test on our Lido-14. I'm sure others will try to copy the concept, but as the comments have shown there will be quite a few engineering difficulties getting this from a bench prototype to production. As a startup rather than a legacy company, we are well situated to take on that difficult engineering task, whereas a larger company may shy away from it. We'd of course be happy to work with them to get this on a ship and de-risk the rest of the operations!
I do wonder what type of implications this could have? I imagine multiple roles at all levels at the company just got 10 more things to solve;

- Does this have any legal implications?

- Do we have the right to show this logo?

- What implications does this have on our retention?

- How hard will it be to revert this change? Is it cached?

- How does this affect current active botnets?

- Will this effect work morale, knowing we asked our employees to work overtime?
Gun ownership in the United States is all over the place, and the amount of guns (handguns or long-guns) in one particular area is not always an indicator of high gun homicides.

Wikipedia's entry on Gun Violence in the US [1] highlights some interesting points. If you look at their infographics for household gun ownership by state [2] and the state by state murder rate [3] things are all over the place. While Missouri and Louisiana fit the 'more guns, more murders' narrative, California and Maryland flight exactly the opposite to it. Montana and Wyoming's gun ownership rates are some of the highest in the country, but they have some of the lowest gun homicide rates as well. This makes me seriously question the 'more guns, more gun homicides' narrative. Yes, the United States loves its guns, and that's honestly perfectly OK. With approximately 350 million guns in this country, for every homicidal maniac with a gun there are at least 10,000 responsible gun owners.

Beyond that, whenever there is trouble the first call people usually make is to, you guessed it, the guys with the guns (aka, the police). There is nothing wrong with calling the police in such situations, but these situations often are over in seconds. This has led to gun ownership supporters creating sayings like "When seconds count, police are minutes away" which is not exactly inaccurate.

There is also no greater equalizer when it comes to self-defense than can be found in guns. On that note, a CDC led study [4] ordered by former President Obama estimated defensive gun uses to be anywhere from 500,000 to 3 million instances per year. This number has, of course and rightly so, been challenged but repeated studies and surveys have shown that they were not far off the mark. Results from these efforts are usually around 1 million (with a recent survey putting it around 1.7 million [5]), which means that for every life lost in gun homicides, which currently floats around 20k (not including suicide since that's a different category), around 50 lives are saved in some fashion with guns. I certainly don't want to diminish those whose lives have been affected negatively by guns, but we can also not ignore their positive use in self defense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Household_Firearm_Ownersh...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_states_showing_num...
[4] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18319/chapter/3#15
[5] https://reason.com/2022/09/09/the-largest-ever-survey-of-ame...
“Just north of $200” is insane - cheap mobos were in the $50-80 range forever, with good ones around $120. Prices be getting higher.
> If you make a report, and those reports are valid but ignored, they can be sued and the city or organization becomes liable because they were negligent.

That is certainly not the case everywhere, least of all the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale....

> Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband.
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Seriously. I'm about as Linux-clueless as they come, and when Ubuntu ate itself during a dist-upgrade a few years back, I had no idea how to fix it so I switched to Pop. It's been nearly flawless; the bizarrely-slow antics of the Pop Shop being my only notable complaint.
We're using AWS glue (basically pyspark) right now. I used standard python before.

I've implemented a function for schema based processing JSON documents for both vanilla python and pyspark that makes the process really easy. It'll take a schema and a document and product a list of flat dictionaries for python or a data frame for pyspark. Vanilla python is really streamable and keeps memory overhead low so it was actually faster than the pandas based workflows that it replaced.
For media apps at least, they can be controlled fine from the buttons to the steering wheel, no need to take your eyes off the road. Any navigation app you're going to have to look over anyways. I've used Waze in a Tesla, didn't take me any more time to look at that than the map on the upper screen.
i have a budding interest in making viral apps!
Yes, this is the question - how many companies will make it to the point where they get the full write-off, especially with the double-whammy of 2022 higher + Q1 2023 higher hitting at the same time.
> professional aerospace engineer who worked at Tesla.

Being fair, this is really broad and doesn't mean much at all.
Is your unfamiliarity with a paid mastermind a reflection of the relatively low value they provide, or a reflection of the echo chamber that exists in the HN/Startup/EIR community?

Masterminds are big fitness community (martial art school owners, gym owners, dance studio owners, etc).

Masterminds are one tactic used to monetize an individual community. This isn't at all dissimilar to the annual conventions various tech companies put together for their customers.
There was nothing wrong with the MCAS concept. What was wrong was its reliance on a single sensor, such that a bad sensor made it misbehave. Other things wrong with it were it had too much authority, and it should have disabled itself if the pilot was countermanding it with the control column.

The other thing wrong was the pilots not using the stab trim cutoff switch, which is supposed to be a "memory item" for them.

I worked on the design of the 757 stabilizer trim system. The cutoff switch was always the backup for things going wrong with the trim. It's right there on the console within easy reach for a damn good reason. (Other systems could be turned off by overhead circuit breakers, but the stab trim cutoff was placed in a special priority position.)

As for needing software at all, all jetliners have an active yaw damper to keep the pointy end forward. This is to counter a stability problem from having swept wings. Pilots of low&slow straight wing aircraft are often not familiar with this. A Cessna will be stable if you just let go of the controls. A swept wing jetliner, not without augmentation.

The mass media also omits the reason for the MAX. The new engines gave it 15% less fuel burn. This is massive cost savings (and less pollution, too.)
Since you are in the job search phase, get completely organized for it.

Allocate your time for job research and apply for multiple open positions that interest you.

Followup on job applications from the previous week where you haven't heard back.

Focus on a side-project: If you are interested in AI, you may try to learn some of the frameworks, review open source projects and perhaps contribute to them in terms of code/documentation/issues/Pull requests etc.,

Meet different people and build a (real) network. See if there are projects you could work on for them that helps you learn and build experience.

Talk about all of this in your job interviews.

Good luck.
a basket of options is more valuable than an option on a basket

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/decisions-decisions-or-why...
> Many of these either vanished or transitioned to something else (I think both Komodo and Celtx did).

I know Celtx decided to drop the concept of desktop app altogether and went full web-based-only SaaS.

The desktop Celtx app was a good screenwriting program that was easily affordable for hobbyists and the pivot to a paid subscription service with less focus on just screenwriting and more focus on other preproduction activities left a small hole for a short while. (These days the Fountain ecosystem seems the best suggestion for the hobbyest screenwriter.)
Munro & Associates estimates the cost of the sensor plus installation to be $8 so $96 across the car, and the rest of the cost for the wiring totals to $114[0] all including cost to install them.

From sales alone, ie. 420k a quarter or 1.6 million a year[1], they save $180M in a year and Munro estimates $100k/yr savings in removing them from their inventory.

0: https://youtu.be/LS3Vk0NPFDE?t=276

1: https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-vehicle-production-...
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First what defines success in your comment?

Second, how would you go about measuring success?

Since it's hard to measure the efficacy of a mastermind, especially against a nebulous definition of "success", putting on an economist hat, find a near approximation and measure that.

Turns out, a mastermind is essentially like a fitness trainer that people hire to lose weight.

So does hiring a fitness trainer lead to better weight loss outcomes?
Historically, Intel and AMD had an exclusive IP sharing agreement with each other. That would not extend to other parties.