skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How could anyone think that rolling this out without warning would go smoothly?

They had numbers on the percentage of users that would be affected by this change as well as content to tell these users what they should do to fix things on their side and someone decided the number of people affected was small enough to not bother to warn people in advance.
Reminds me of this 2010 article: "micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill"

https://www.richsoil.com/electric-heat.jsp
"Others still have reported that the internet outage could be circumvented by connecting through a virtual private network (VPN), giving a hint of where the wider problems lie, and suggesting that Virgin Media’s outage, like that at Facebook in 2021, may have been the result of a flaw in the deep-level routing systems that allow internet services to connect to each other."
Upload your ipynb to Deepnote and publish as an app. That simple.

https://deepnote.com
This reminded me of a video I saw recently about the Bahamas, whose capital (Nassau) is a small island (~1 hour across via a bike), with near-perfect weather (all-year sunshine, but not too hot, rainfall mostly in the summer), no hills, perfect conditions for biking, right?

In spite of the above almost everyone has a car. Public transport is almost non-existent, and bicycles are rare (and of course, there is no bike infrastructure).

It is really not about the weather, it is about the mindset.
I love staplers. I love playing with them and the rows of staples. My favorite unused-in-decades office accessory that some offices still stock is the staple remover, it's a great little (sometimes painful) fidget.
I would accept that as a proof of AI, not AGI. Provided it can do it repeatably and reliably. Hallucinating a proof that's 90% time wrong is just a parrot.

For AGI, I would expect it to be teachable during the conversation. That is, to be able to form abstract models of reality and utilize them on the fly. Repeatably, reliably. Like a human with a pencil and a piece of paper can.
Because in Europe ebikes are bikes with assistive motor, so you need to pedal and the motor just assists. So there is no throttle. And pedaling, even when it is easy, is an activity which consumes calories.
Bike insurance costs £15/month (depending on value of the bike) and covers theft. Bikesure is well regarded.

Seems to be fine?
Agreed.

Our conception of 'intelligence' is based on us rather than some objective metric.

There's absolutely no reason for an intelligence to be anything like us. We are flawed in a great many respects. We'll parrot things we have no reason to believe in etc, etc,etc.

Im not even sure there's a distinction between intelligence and emergent behaviour. Did we evolve to speak and write complex language or is that emergent behaviour?
I'm definitely attributing that mindset to "tech" people but I don't say it's exclusive to them.
>Batteries are getting cheaper, but they're not being produced on the scale necessary to supplant base load power

Snowy 2. Fengning.
Maybe they just keep a safe margin so they can add their own metadata inodes or something. Or it's arbitrary.
3 months off after 10 years to travel and see family/friends should be zero big deal for any company worth working for. Some companies offer that after 10 years (long service leave)
So the staplers continue to sit in cupboards, unused. They've already been bought, so how is Google saving money? Selling the staplers? I bet they were just thrown in the bin. How wasteful.
There is nothing new or unfamiliar required to generate an explanation of what a dozen assembly instructions do, of all the tasks in the world this is one that definitely should be doable by a glorified pattern-recognizer.
Then perhaps you might be interested in Purism laptops.
Training domain-specific models from scratch is both very difficult and also not possible in some cases. Sometimes we want to generate some niche content where there isn't enough training data to create a domain-specific model. We would have to somehow find a model that can produce the niche content through understanding what we're asking rather than through actually being trained on it. Producing "understanding" is not something you can do at home unless you have a bunch of A100s and have studied machine learning for years.

-Emily
What replaces them?
They did develop fine control in their eyebrows to appeal / communicate to humans. And cats developed mewling similar to human babies to draw their attention.
What they say is one thimg, what they buy is another. If women really wanted clothes with big pockets, women clothes would have big pockets. But big pockets, specially when they have some things in, are not esthetically pleasant, and most women value esthetics more than utility.
is this the right URL for Portal?

https://withportal.dev/

I'm getting a DNS lookup error
Both polars and data.table should be proud!

Fast software only ever helps.
We call people like you "philosophical zombies". ;D
Poll: Is GitHub's new higher contrast UI better?
I just saw that GitHub's UI in dark mode was made more high-contrast. The text is more visible but I had to lower my screen brightness to withstand it. I'm not sure if this change made it better for me at least.
Yeah, I know. Apologies I was on mobile, and didn't want to look up which S Book data.frames were in.
They do communicate, usually in the form of yelling to indicate they want food, pettig, to be let outside or let back in. That's err... all the communication they need, the rest of the time they sleep.
I love the allusion to Rocky Horror.
Thanks for the heads up. This is a useful warning, as the magnetic adapters seem attractive, but they are not worth it if they risk frying your device.
Occulus can be its own company
It doesn't, it's CPU-only.

-Emily
C23 follows C++ in requiring signed integers to have two's complement representation. I think by this point it's pretty much settled that it's the "optimal" way to implement signed integers. Now if we change to non-binary architectures (or something radically different) things might change, but at that point quite a lot of the C standard will have to be thrown out as well.
> if the AI can do it as well (or 80% as well) at $0.01c/day and be replicated infinitely, where does this leave me?

Most likely you've forgotten some costs. For instance, having the same AI as everyone else means you have no advantage, so you probably want a custom one.

Also, it being an AI, it's best suited to doing completely different tasks for the company that no human was doing before. (Comparative advantage!) Google Image Search didn't have people checking if every image on the internet had a cat in it, but now they can do that.

Using a human-complete AI to do human-like tasks raises questions like, why does it accept 1c/day when a human would want $15/hr? Shouldn't it want to buy stuff too, being a complete human-equivalent agent? Wouldn't slavery be illegal?

> comparative advantage for humans almost completely disappears with decent AI, and you seem to have missed that entirely

Since humans are very different from AI of any imaginary variety, they have pretty strong comparative advantage - it's everything human about them. Living off food, being self-repairing, capable of online learning, two hands, can throw rocks, same culture as your customers, that kind of thing. Comparative advantage appears whenever you have any differences. You'd have the lowest advantage vs your identical twin.
I've just bought a 16 inch high-ish res (QHD) one.

I don't do dedicated co-working spaces, but when desk-space and etiquette allow, I use it as a replacement for my 14inch FHD work laptop screen, rather than a second screen. I use it with a portable keyboard and mouse and just stand it on the folded laptop.

When I'm in a normal cafe or pub I just use the small laptop and mouse, no external keyboard or monitor.
On the day that Estonia entered Nato, that same morning some Belgian F-16s were in the air patrolling Estonia's eastern border. (A message for the neighbors.)

I wonder if Finland gets a similar treatment, today or tomorrow.
On my first job, I wrote a Sha-1 implementation in 8088 assembly. The platform was a smart card, but there were a few additional proprietary instructions. So, a real chance to beat the compiler, who didn't know those instructions.

Ten years later, when I met someone from my old job, it turned out the assembly was still used. Probably the only consequential thing I did in all the years I worked there.
We had a greyhound that was completely silent (besides the odd sigh), her communication was completely nonverbal - pawing at the door at best.
> You would need a prove for the statement that higher car insurances are themselves a cause of poverty. Maybe higher car insurances make poor people less likely to get a car, and they end up richer because they don't waste time in useless holidays that would've made them poorer.

I definitely didn't make such a claim. If I communicated unclearly I apologise.

I merely made the point that insurance premiums are regressive, in that you'll generally pay less as a richer person, as you (and others like you) do not need to claim for small issues with your car. More claims = higher premiums.
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There's an entire show on this. AI being used to get people to commit terrorist attacks, and AI being used to save people from terrorist attacks too.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799862/
'The Annapolis Book of Seamanship' is the de-facto sailing 'bible', in my opinion.

'Machinery's Handbook' is my choice for metalworking.

'Drive to Win' and the other Carrol Smith driving books ('Engineering to Win', 'Tuning to Win') are great for people that want to get into high performance driving.

the 'U.S. Army Field Manual 3-05.70' is a fantastic introduction to survival bushcraft.

GNU's 'Introduction to the Command Line' is good for beginning the life-long journey into *nix CLI expert-dom.
I think it was the precursor. It’s been a while since I wrote that article.
With an e-bike the range you can comfortably and regularly cycles roughly doubles (says I). So the number of useful destinations you can use your bike for roughly quadruples.

An electric car has enough batteries and other raw materials to power about 100 e-bikes. So if more than one in a hundred people can ditch their second car because of e-bikes this is already a win. But especially with the advent of electric cargo bikes the number of replaced second cars is much higher. As long as at least some e-bikes replace cars, e-bikes are a giant win for the environment. Cars are just so wasteful compared to everything else.

And yes, normal bikes are greatly undervalued, I have a 80 year old "transport bike" and it is virtually indestructible. I can take one adult passenger and cycle or a ton of cargo and cover a few km without sweat. But I also greatly value my electric cargo bike, especially when shuttling the kids around on longer trips (regularly up to 10km in half an hour, and incidentally for day trips up to 75km). For my commute I use a normal e-bike. Most days of the week neither myself or my wife need the car.
1) that also means companies will have to lower their prices too, because of increased competition - it's not going to just replace jobs - and there's no decent reason shareholders should get most of the value here. Unless there's some monopoly.

2) perhaps - but I think it will both improve and degrade (because it will not necessarily propose the best adjusted solutions to the contexts, notwithstanding some "optimistic" consideration of its capabilities - for instance, will lateral thinking be among its capacities?) - AND it will require more of a collaborative editing mindset to grow, to stay in a programming role. Collaborative both with the AI and the other people in the same roles.

3) the problem is we're not sure at what extent AI will be predictably decent; will it replace only some computer programming tasks, or also researching/consulting/counselling ones (that is, the ones that _drive_ strategy as trying to make sense of the world, to draw a vision and how to implement it)

4) definitely; could well be a booming sector as the Web has been in the 2000's

Plus:

5) AI may very well become an accelerator rather than something else. When a company may find a local maximal niche for its business, it will become even more cheaper and faster to both optimize for this found local maxima and to explore around for even higher/different grounds.

6) we may not completely rule out yet that IP laws or RGPD-like laws could totally break down any commercial viability for LLMs and such AIs as we "fear" them today. Maybe we're just in a "Napster's so amazing" brief moment.
There’s big difference in 95 percent reliability and 100 percent. Also with a smart grid we can prioritize industry but limit the cooling of the house to something like 25 degrees C. I’m talking about doing smart things with energy without just having a free for all
What the heck, someone flagged this?
I think it's because Maus or Persephone are low-hanging fruit at this point; I'm glad there's articles that don't just relist the well known ones.
After experimenting for many years with many kinds of mice, trackballs, touchpads, trackpoints etc. in the search for the most comfortable graphic pointing device, I have settled to use, instead of a mouse, a small Wacom Intuos graphic tablet (usually with Linux), configured in its "mouse" mode, i.e. with relative coordinates, not with its default absolute coordinates.

At least for me, using a stylus has proven to be much more comfortable, much faster and more precise than using any kind of mouse or any other pointing device.

Now I regret that I did not have the idea of replacing the mouse with a small graphic tablet many years earlier.
Yeah, just like how the free market gives me the choice of having a matte screen on my laptop!
Another possibility. Get a Quest Pro VR headset.
Do they provide any third party certifications with teeth, legally binding guarantees, or contractual guarantees supporting the claims you are relying on?
> most women value esthetics more than utility.

This is the kind of essentialistic thinking that creates these issues in the first place.
Searched immediately for Taleb as he is the most notable example of calling this out.

The second being a classic Munger idea of misaligned incentives. Doctors hardly get to practice medicine anymore and is why old variations of common sayings like “Never trust a doctor who only knows medicine, a lawyer who only knows law, or a pharmaceutical company that only knows profits” still circulate. Except the punchline has become reality for a number of professions.
> You should be able to use motors, batteries and contollers from any brand interchangeably on your bike.

There is no way this (one standard for everything) will happen, because it doesn't work like this either in the car industry or in the bike industry. That said, the number of standards in bike industry is somehow manageable I think, and for some bike types (like road bikes) you can build a completely standard bike with every component easily interchangeable. However this is not the case for the motors and batteries. The price of the components is a different issue still.
I tried asking ChatGPT to do this a couple months ago and the results were not very impressive.
I’m looking for exactly something like this. What KVM switcher do you use? Does it support USB-C?
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I’m not talking about those extremes for fucks sake. A smart grid can prioritize hospitals and industry while not allowing you to spend energy on cooling your whole house at 19 Celsius. I’m not talking about going to the level of South Africa, I’m just saying we can be much smarter and deliberate about our energy usage.
Completely off topic but what is up with the dogecoin dog instead of the Twitter logo on Twitter?
They can and often do, but there are other issues then such a tailoring and colouring etc., again it's getting back to the social pressure to look a certain feminine way.

I'd also add that while workarounds are available these things add up to an increased cognitive load for women doing normal everyday activities such as shopping for shirts.
Same for electric cars and err... pretty much everything for that matter. Bike parts are pretty standardized for the most part, things like tires, cables, handles and gear shifters.

But it's BiG gOvErNmEnT and some people object to that.
There was a woman at True North fasting clinic with a 4th stage leukemia and she was cured by a ~20 days (or more) water-only fasting there (as it was mentioned in interviews on youtube with Alan Goldhammer, the founder of the clinic).

This psychedelics pioneer at John's Hopkins should rather focus on electrical theory of cancer (which may be neutralized by restoring electrical connections of cancer cells with their surroundings via ion channel modulators - morphoceuticals) rather than on these psychological pseudofarts.
Yes, power-apps was on my mind. But their licensing requirements made me feel as if there was unaddressed space.

At minimum (there are probably more), it required:

- A Microsoft Power Apps license.
- Capacity to create a Power Platform environment. This is a feature of the Power Apps and Dynamics 365 licenses held.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436199
I think that's a good approach, and I've also taken it. I was skeptic but now I'm evaluating its strengths and weaknesses.

But also keep in mind there's lots of hype and lots of productivity gurus praising it as the greatest thing, instilling FMO on others.
> Most of the time we read disassembly only to answer one simple question: does the compiler do what we expect it to do?

Actually, most of the time I read disassembly to figure out why something crashed. It's a useful skill in many contexts!
> And cats developed mewling similar to human babies to draw their attention

So that is a "developed" trait? As in wild cats don't have it? Very interesting.
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Window motors require wiring looms through the hinge void, which can wear out, plus the motors, switches and a logic board to handle "one touch" operation. All cross-wired through the car so that the driver can command all windows.
Should junior engineers be worried about AI?
My friend has one that mounts to the back of a laptop and slides out to become a second monitor. Probably useful if you need portability but also dual monitors.
If those .exe's (or Linux/OSX binaries) would work as intended, than maybe that is a solution..!
Not if your path trace kills you like the lightcycle trails in Tron.
Not yet but would like try.
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> because it doesn't work like this either in the car industry or in the bike industry

This is... not entirely true, there's heaps of standardized components in both industries. Think batteries, brake pads / brakes, springs, all the nuts and bolts, the OBD port, tires/wheels, airbags / seatbelts, and on the bike side, think cables, saddles (saddle pins), tires/wheels again, gears, pedals, etc etc.

While you probably can't fully repair one car with the other, there's plenty that has been standardized by the industry and legislation.
Have you not consider the idea that women actually want to buy clothes with no functional pockets? Most women buy clothes to feel atractive, and pockets, if they have something inside, are bulgy and ugly.
Plus most women like to buy and use bags, so they don't need pockets the same as men do.
Again, you can think that this is wrong, sexist, patriarchal or whatever, but it will only change when the people making shopping decisions actualy ask for that change with their money.
It's modern slavery, but without the racism component.
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Good previous discussion (6/2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31408431
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> A practical collapsible container still has not been made.

That's yet another idea that people often think of when people wonder about improvements for container shipping. The container shipping company I worked for studied it every few years. There's various reason why it hasn't been done. It's not just the container or the container vessel. It would be good to reach out to the right people and see what the problems were that prevented this from being used. It wasn't about making a container collapsible, it was stuff surrounding that.

There are sometimes some really nice cost saving projects that were pretty innovative. Plus maybe also easy if someone thought of it. But often it required a bit more knowledge to think of than "add sails" or "collapsible container".

One fun thing what a few shipping companies many years ago is to take existing vessels and make them bigger. So really cutting various parts of the steel and adding more (e.g. height). An random Google example (use retrofit as search term): https://gcaptain.com/upgrades-to-famous-maersk-e-class-to-bo...
Tried to use it for 3 months, couldn’t adapt, had to sell it.

Also, it has Cherry MX brown switches, which are not my favorite to say the least, with their middle-of-the-ground sort-of bumpiness. I much prefer either fully clicky or fully linear ones.
Chatbots are a totally other level than a TV show or 8-ball.

The later don't respond.
I wonder on the implications for portfolio management. Experts could be optimizers with historical pricing.
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Redefining a keyword via macro violates the C++ standard:

> Nor shall such a translation unit define macros for names lexically identical to keywords.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9109377/is-it-legal-to-r...