skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been writing/posting a lot lately because I got laid off recently :)

Honestly, I've just been yearning to meet new people who love making things.

It's super fun chatting with strangers on the phone!

EDIT:

Actually, if y'all have extra money lying around, consider donating to my AIDS/Lifecycle campaign :)

Improve living conditions for people with HIV/AIDS

[1] https://giving.aidslifecycle.org/participant/taylor
I realise this is a different class of bike, vis a vis e-bike vs. e-motorbike, but just by way of experience I've been an avid rider of electric mopeds (Vespa, UNU) and now an electric motorbike (Bonfire X) in a European city where such devices really are the best ways to get around, given the appropriate weather conditions.

These are kind of 'traditional' moped and motorbike (scrambler) form-factor machines, but fully electric. The Bonfire X has a nice regeneration factor, so it really whines like tron if you get it lined up on the right PID slope.

The riding/getting around town experience is delightfully quiet, not necessarily super-charged (although it could be), but also nevertheless non-polluting - in the city/sphere of use - and I can only say I hope these kinds of bikes really are just the beginning of what can be done to truly make an efficient transportation system based around electric power.

Wind, hydro and solar are perfectly cromulant ways to charge ones batteries, and get around. If only we could get the component manufacture and assembly done in a way that was ecologically better than the petro-system, alas .. there is work to be done on this but I am sure I will personally within the year, wire up my electric transportation devices to a solar system, and go pretty much off-grid for charging for a few months, at least .. I will attempt to get 100k'ms worth of free ride out of the sunshine, over the next year.

If the e-bike / e-motorbike markets begin to coalesce, I can only imagine we will see extremely efficient machines on the horizon .. or in the mirror (in my case), hehe ..
Tons of products have been built on a single great feature.

Tons of amazing products have also completely failed to gain traction.

In this case, the goal is to build a business. If they can get enough people excited about their offering, it doesn’t matter if you consider it a feature or a product. You are not their target market, and that’s ok.
Could it be your are missing "protection" in the sentence above?
It's not so bad, a headstone engraving will usually be gone after a couple of hundred years.
interesting to see a company go from a reputation as a young, fast, forward thinking millennial company to one with archaic HR practices reviled by the world
Non-toy usage of chatgpt, that's all I was sharing.
> As a society, we should look out for the vulnerable part of our population.

Having read a bit about the neuropsychology of gambling addiction, I agree.

Slot machines are specifically designed to turn those who are susceptible to it into addicts.

Some people simply don't have the mental capabilities to distinguish a legit investment from a scam.

Maybe some kind of authorization should be required if you try to wire your life savings to a crypto exchange. But banks only ever ask questions if a lot of money comes in, not when it flows out :D
Why wasn't the https://archive.md/kCklr link promoted instead of the paywall site?
I love that the TMS34082 math coprocessor had user-definable microcode! This was intended to work with 3D graphics, so you could really get the most out of the ALU by chaining operations for your specific need (e.g. divide-and-sqrt single instruction)

See chapter 8: http://www.bitsavers.org/components/ti/TMS340xx/TMS34082_Des...
Presumably the consumers who are showing up in the engagement metrics for these applications on Windows 11
It's the one I still use! Between it's constant updates and plugin support, I have no desire to swap to something new.
Or, what I believe to be a more plausible future, you just read, watch and listen to content from sources that you consider worthy of your time.

Example: videos uploaded in the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips have a high probability of being made by the Linus Tech Tips people and not just being completely AI generated, unless of course if that made the videos better, but I still think that the videos would be curated by the Linus Tech Tips team.
How will it look in 3 years then, and why doesn’t it look this way today?
Perhaps in the middle of the object. Near the edges it probably breaks down.

Anyway, if someone asks you to make a physically correct rendering of a scene, would you reach for a shader?
I dislike telemetry as much as the next guy, but it is a little funny to complain about it on the post for this editor, which instead sends your entire codebase to OpenAI.

Also it's a somewhat recent update, but VSCode asks you if you trust the code author now when you open a project https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/workspace-trust
is there any demand for this? The market for human writing services seems small. Why do you expect people to pay for inferior AI writing when so few are paying humans to write or edit for them?
What is a DD guy? and what does LOI stand for?
> a 10x engineer might not exist

10x engineers do exist, but they're vanishingly rare. I actually met one once. He eventually burnt out and left the industry permanently.
Also, even if you take the position that the age gap is so statistically unlikely as to be impossible[1], it tells you nothing about where the error is. It does not imply a swap. A swap is one possibility, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I don't see any credible evidence of a swap having occurred. Isn't it more likely that her age is simply wrong by a few years?

[1]Really, in statistics, extraordinarily unlikely is not the same thing as impossible.
Same. These bother me a great deal, though the downvotes are usually well outnumbered by upvotes. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Once you got a pipelined architecture that stored instructions in a cache you could write a loop in assembly language that runs as fast as one of those string instructions, but if you didn't have that you'd be wasting most of the bandwidth to the RAM loading instructions instead of loading and storing data.
I think the issue is how fast it could happen. What if 75% of most white collar jobs disappear in 2-5 years. What would happen to the economy and demand? And let's assume the 25% left is out side of skill set to be retrained within the month of training most corps are willing to spend training someone.
It did lead to that though?

You can say “shooting someone can in certain cases lead to them dying”. We punish based on whether or not they actually died.
Agree that all models are wrong, but some model is better than no model and arbitrary Fud. Climate alarmists at least have a model of the dangers

> For AI there's tons of evidence of about the increase in capabilities

That is not evidence that AI will destroy humanity. The fact that Ai is increasing in capabilities also means that it is increasing its capability to align with humans, no? I don't get why the reverse is considered as the sole and inevitable conclusion

I also don't agree about ChatGpt being the inflection point. The capabilities of Gpts were known for years, but chatGpt popularized them because it made it so easy to use. If these scientists failed to see the capabilities of the model it was because they did not care until the media brought it up. That means they are not very good scientists
Missing: Start migrating the code base to new technologies/frameworks early, but never finish it.

Though that might actually end up costing more that 400 hours of wasted time.
Isn't this entire thread about experiences? Anecdotes as far as the eye can see.
>I would agree with that, although my experience is mostly limited to America.

I grew up in Ukraine and have been living in the Czech Republic for the last 5 years, it's pretty much the same here, there are some slight differences about what is considered beautiful, what grooming practices are expected across different classes, what's trendy etc, but the phenomenon is basically the same.

>how that pressure presents across different generations

That's interesting, do you care to share any of your observations?
I noticed that gen Z, while having broader ideas of beauty, is leaning heavily into the self-expression aspect of it, while nothing wrong with that, beauty and fashion industries picked this angle very quickly and run it into the ground through social media. (I might be biased bc I'm into makeup but these days I just cannot keep up with the makeup industry and community, mentally or financially.)

> people being stupid around attractive women is unfortunately one of those advantages, as gross as I feel about it.

There's only so many battles we can fight in our lives. Using lookism to your advantage, if you can do it in a healthy way, is just being a realist.

Coming back to the original topic - women who pick non-functional clothes are not irrational, imo, they just work with different input, so to speak.
I feel as if there's 100+ of these splattered across daily deals software sites and betalist.com.
Would the bank make 175M from 4M customers?
Thank You HN. I had BWRX-300 research term on my list for weeks but never got around to it. It is also interesting there are other people with similar Interest on BWRX-300.
Move.ai – motion capture, pace of evolution too quick
Quoting from the article (which quotes from the paper):

"Note that I am not even attempting to find an analogy for the gluonic gravitational form factors that would help you understand them. They're described in the paper as "the matrix elements of the energy–momentum tensor of the proton"

The energy momentum tensor is the same as the stress energy tensor.
The batteries are going to get better and cheaper so much faster than you think. It will seem obvious in hindsight!
The very top, sure. But there are effects all down the ladder, and at some point the effects of the laws stop helping build wealth and start hurting it. Some of these taxation regimes are functionally regressive, at least at the top.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2023/03/26/financia...

> The reason most people don’t get the mortgage interest benefit is because claiming it requires itemizing tax deductions rather than using the standard deduction. But to itemize, you need enough deductions. In 2019, the Tax Foundation estimated how many people itemized after those big tax changes in 2017 that made it harder for most taxpayers to do so. It was 13.7%, or more than 17 percentage points lower than before the 2017 law.

> Desmond pointed to a National Bureau of Economic Research study from 2015. Even at that point, about $195 billion of the $270 billion the federal government spent on housing was in the form of these tax code-based deductions. The remaining $75 billion is spent on the poor, or less than a third as much.

> That $195 billion now is for the people who can claim it on their taxes, or less than 14% of the tax paying population.
Yeah - gpt-4chan can behave a bit differently.
Not that I'm aware of. The people behind WSB are Wall St. pros and know what the hell they were doing. It's a social media based pump and dump scheme that prays on the young and vulnerable. That's why WSB stylized itself after 4chan, to attract that crowd. 4chan was already a hotbed of crypto scams and cryptobro true believers ripe for the picking so WSB swept in and showed everyone how the pros run a financial scam.
Nitpick about bat: it bothers me that they call it a drop in cat replacement. It is not.

But it's a very useful tool that I use often.

I'm not familiar with ccat but at a quick glance it does not appear to be a drop in cat replacement either.
> The aether hypothesis was the topic of considerable debate throughout its history, as it required the existence of an invisible and infinite material with no interaction with physical objects. As the nature of light was explored, especially in the 19th century, the physical qualities required of an aether became increasingly contradictory. By the late 1800s, the existence of the aether was being questioned, although there was no physical theory to replace it.

The grandfather of the dark matter, seems.
Oracle Database 23c Free Version Now Available to Developers
“ Javice claimed they couldn't provide user personal information "due to privacy concerns””

That’s pretty much what Theranos did. The due diligence people walked away and threw a few hundred million more at Theranos. That’s compares to the due diligence we went through when I worked at a small startup years ago. It was only for a few million but they made us go through hell with all their information request.

Seems if you want to commit fraud it’s best to go really big. The bigger you are the less scrutiny and less consequences.
There was like one story in a popular science magazine once that got a lot of play, and many people heard about it because it's a vivid story. That's about the extent of it.

Climate change deniers also keep it alive because enlarging it validates their distrust of scientists.
I’ve been using ccat (colorized cat) for a while, but this looks good too.

https://github.com/owenthereal/ccat
Just had a conversation about this.

Let’s let AI do all the busy work for us.

I personally just want to think deeply, share ideas and connect with people.

I don’t want to be forced to do any meetings, presentations, tickets, code, documents…

I do want to produce some of those things, as long as I feel like they help me in what I want to do.

I want AI to do all the shit I don’t want to do.

I still want to work, interact with people, feel needed and feel connected. Just not forced to waste my time.
"As ruler of all software/technology, what would you change to be better?"

Physical buttons/switches in vehicles. Less reliance on tech as a replacement for, and more as an enhancement for, human ability to drive.
Want an 'A' in His Class? You Had Better Go Viral
Used to be but it turned to q-anon tiered and gathered too many people there who didn't get the memo. It was a decent community at the beginning but turned to cesspool.
I don't understand this fraud. The whole point of a fraud is to try to "get away with it", but I'm missing that part of the story. What did this girl think was going to happen?
Vouched - your comment was downvoted or flagged for some reason? All looks pretty reasonable and on topic to me.
Does escrow really work though? If the author of this software had placed a copy in escrow 25 years ago it is not clear to me that it would much use if the customer pulled it out in 2023 and tried to get it working. Access to the source, sure, but recreating the build chain on modern systems is not guaranteed to work at all. If someone told me they had escrowed 1998 vintage code and it was all mine to tinker with I would expect to find a CD with the release binaries, and a fat lump of a Visual SourceSafe database that expected NT4, some ancient C compiler (or worse, some VB5 runtime and a plethora of random DLLs) and who knows what level of deep magic to resurrect. And thats assuming I could even find hardware to run the OS of the build machine. Lord help you if there any kind of copy protection dongle nonsense going on, as was popular back then.
I imagine so, not there yet. To me, it's certainly not just about programming but the project / product in particular as well as how much ownership / leadership over the thing I would have. If it feels like it's a part of the bigger picture and I get to develop skills I want to develop, that could be quite fun, even if I was doing it for someone else. My experience to date with other people's projects was not that exciting though but I liked it because I had the time to work on my own thing alongside. I remember working 2 months on a client's project exclusively while not having any time for mine, I was approaching 50h/week just for that project. I liked it on average but I remember the last week was tough, I really felt like I had enough and just thinking through some ideas about a potential future product / project felt like gasping for air while being underwater for too long.

I think that's the general theme of this. So long as a significant chunk of the work (i.e. 1/3) is genuinely enjoyable just for what it is, the other, more boring work is also more pleasant because: 1) - it feels like a part of the bigger picture that you like (i.e. whether you are doing something really boring or maybe earning money to buy yourself more time) and 2 - just conditioning, getting good emotions from one part of the work is partially transferred to the boring stuff and it needs to happen on an ongoing basis.

The fact that there are boring parts to it (which one can still learn to appreciate) provides the contrast and makes the highs much higher. However, there's also something I did not mention initially. I'm spending considerable time on appreciating the now, I would set aside 40 min every day to do Zen meditation and it really does help with the discipline / will power but perhaps most importantly - appreciating work that's boring - if I can get myself to enjoy sitting still or walking circles around the room, I can treat boring work not unlike extra Zen practice that sharpens me further. It does not have to be Zen practice but just ensuring that you are spending some time enjoying the now basically every day is critical when you you are often trying to make predictions about the future which is stress and anxiety inducing.
It's difficult to wake up a phone to play custom audio. I believe iOS and Android has made that impossible without rooting the device.
Oh man. My eyes just skipped over that negative sign every time. Now it makes sense. I thought the article was sarcastic. I'm blind.
I mean... yeah. That's kind of how a lot of big enterprise projects with VP-level visibility get managed (I participated in versions of this at both Amazon and Facebook)

Obviously you don't need to pull all the junior eng offsite for a whole month, but the engineering leads + PMs + engineering management end up there. And obviously there's also ongoing prioritisation happening between leads/PM/management throughout the year - but that doesn't require pulling the whole team every week.
I find this mildly funny. My wife goes with a purse or that tiny backpack everywhere and sometimes I give her my stuff to carry. Mobile phones are getting too goddamn big.
I don't think it's too cynical overall.

I can't recall the quote verbatim, but somewhere in "The Glass Bead Game" a great teacher says that it's difficult to work with intelligence--you have to be lucky to identify it and then the best you can do is get out of its way. Stupidity, on the other hand is easy to identify and easy to correct on a case-by-case basis.

There's value in inverting a problem like you've done in the article. It might not be symmetrical. Things that might not have been obvious in the original become obvious in the inversion.
So close to realizing that corporations aren’t treated as people to the extent that is claimed.
This is such blatant rent-seeking nonsense and I think it will backfire.

These articles always call out Tesla as a success but clearly they have a cult following and have other innovations. Personally, lack of CarPlay is the reason I hate driving Teslas because if you’re not used to it the UI is abysmal.

Sorry but the Buick brand just doesn’t scream cutting edge UI to me.
There are large encumbents in this space that can't be hand waved away with 'not their target market.'

FWIW I am their target market. I will use AI powered document editing when Atlassian, Github and Notion integrate it as a feature.
Babbage's analytical engine used a form of microcode ~100 years earlier. Complex operations such as multiplication and division were implemented by lower-level instructions encoded as a series of pegs on a rotating barrel. Each micro-instruction ("vertical" in Babbage's terminology) could take several seconds to execute so a complete multiplication or division would take minutes.
Everyone is different. The key is not forcing people into your own worldview.

Some people do better with documentation or tickets or code or meetings.

The point is that forcing people to do shit they don’t want to do will backfire and make teams unhappy and unproductive.
I've been learning how transformers work, and also reading about RNNs.

It seems that transformers have succeeded because they can be parallelized, and solve many of the problems that RNNs have. This has lead to the advancements we've seen recently with GTP. Big companies are able to throw their data centers at the problem and train impressive and massive models.

Part of me hopes that a non-parallelizable AI architecture might be discovered which performs even better. Perhaps the problems with RNNs could be solved in a way that doesn't parallelize? We would be so fortunate if a desktop computer could run an AI that's half as good as Microsoft's or Amazon's best AI. I would love to see the advantage of the data center removed.

Philosophically, this does make some sense. The wisdom behind sayings such as "adding more people makes the project even later" exist because the greatest intellects we're aware of (ourselves) do not parallelize well.
Standardization is key to this, I think. Any device that cracks the 'fits all bicycles' electrification nut, is going to grow.

Same goes for some startup that comes up with a way to convert existing petro-cars into electro-cars, i.e. hub motors, super-capacity, etc.

It makes all the sense in the world to me that electric revolution/evolution is happening in the e-bicycle (and to some extent e-motorbike) classes of transportation.

Bicycles, generally, are an area where we have always seen how important it is to have standards...
I remember seeing these at vegetable stands and thinking it was a goofy shopkeeper quirk, didn't realize how useful of a feature this was to shopkeepers. Kudos to PayTM for a very good solution to speeding up digital payments across society
Yes. Presentations are summaries. There needs to be real documentation that they're summarizing.
Solar power isn't available 24 hours per day so the LCOE (levelized cost of energy) for solar is claimed be be between $59 to $91 per MWh, see [1], lets say $75/MWh, already higher than the article's $60/MWh cost for nuclear.

However, nuclear power is available 24 hours a day every day, rain or shine, summer or winter. To reach this level of availability a PV system would need to have battery back up. Let's be conservative and say 10 hours of battery is enough. This won't be enough during a hurricane or harsh winter weather with no sun for days, but let's assume 10 hours of battery is enough.

Now how much does the PV system's battery cost? I don't have figures for a 10 hour battery system. I do have an estimate based on a review of research literature for 6 hours of battery storage. According to [2], a 6 hour system in 2030 may cost under $180/Kwh. However, we've been talking Mwh not Kwh so this is $180,000/Mwh.

Unless you don't care about electricity when the sun isn't shining, nuclear is much cheaper.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

[2] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79236.pdf