skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snyder would say you are practicing the politics of inevitability: https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-politics-of-inevitabilit...

What the politics of inevitability does is that it teaches you to narrate in such
a way that the facts which seem to trouble the story of progress are disregarded.
So in the politics of inevitability, if there is huge wealth inequality as a
result of unbridled capitalism, we teach ourselves to say that that’s kind of a
necessary cost of this overall progress. We learn this dialectical way of
thinking by which what seems to be bad is actually good.
And, of course, that applies to foreign affairs as well. When we look at
countries that are not making the quote-unquote “transition” to democracy the way
we expect, you know, we find excuses. We imagine that the general trend is going
to our direction in some deep way. And then we fail to notice, what has been the
case for the last 15 years or so, that the world is actually moving in a very
pronounced and easily observable way away from democracy.

Here is a relatively quick video of him pretty directly critiquing what you just stated: https://bigthink.com/videos/timothy-snyder-political-outrage...

But the way that things are breaking now in the U.S. is that our politics of
inevitability, which we’ve held to in the last 25 years, basically this idea that
“since communism ended in 1989 there are no alternatives,” basically this idea
that “technology must lead to enlightenment,” this idea that “the market must lead
to democracy.” Those ideas have now come back to clobber us. Neither of them ever
had any foundation. Both of them are highly persuasive to a lot of people and
that’s lead to some consequences, which are very dangerous for the rule of law and
indeed for democracy. Believing that, for example, more market means more
democracy means that you don’t regulate things that you really need to regulate,
like offshore wealth or anonymous transactions or shell companies. And that
creates a world, a gray zone of capitalism where, for example, a Donald Trump can
begin close relationships with Russian oligarchs. If you believe that technology
automatically leads to progress, then you don’t watch very carefully as certain
kinds of social platforms lead people into a politics of “us and them” and destroy
a sense of common factuality. The story that you’re telling yourself the whole
time about how “the market or tech have to lead toward enlightenment and
democracy” dulls your mind to what’s actually happening until you reach the point
that we’ve reached now.

> but not everything that goes wrong with an industry is a result of government policy,

It is not positive government policy that is the problem but government failure to act because the government operates on behalf of money (oligarchy), not on behalf of us (democracy).

If not the government, where do you think a solution comes from?
It should support pretty much any language! The commands will attempt to generate text in whatever language is already in the document (though, it's certainly not perfect yet and will sometimes return English no matter what).
> Smart money and retail both hit. Jump, 3AC, VCs, and small investors alike wiped out all the same from the same flawed idea.

I beg to differ, there was no ‘smart money’ invested in Luna. A 15% yield is an enormous red flag and anyone who put money into it is stupid as hell in my book.

To recap: if someone is offering a yield that is 1300 basis points above the risk-free rate, it’s a scam.
The potential of large language models is huge, but probably less of an impact than the Internet.

The potential of full AGI though? That could be as big a difference as the change from monkeys to humans, far bigger than the atomic bomb. A superintelligent AGI hiroshima doesn't leave survivors because its obvious that it should only implement its plan and kill everyone once it has a high certainty of success.

What really matters is how long it takes to go from human level intelligence to superhuman level intelligence.
The Playground doesn't have GPT-4 API yet.

As for Bing, despite the claims that it is GPT-4, it's clearly inferior to what OpenAI is offering. It's probably an older iteration of the model, and I wonder if it might also be a scaled-down version to run it cheaper at scale.
You're gonna take heat for that position, but I'd support you, having been in the same position. Came to a team in a company that had a handful of services where folks had been "doing things" in an FP manner where it was entirely inappropriate (CRUD app, without going into details). The had wonderfully illegible, but functional, code that was lacking required basics like transaction management, yet were befuddled as to why certain integration tests or deployments were behaving unpredictably. Similar to your situation, the original decision makers were long gone by the time I arrived.

It never ceases to amaze me how far you can get with going back to basics of solid software engineering and the manifestations of those basics, mainly:

1. OOP to prove that you have a good grasp of the domain and problem space. Show me you know what's actually happening through code and tests.
2. Build relations - it's far, far, FAR easier to go from BCNF/3NF to a denormalized state than the opposite when you've got lots of data. It's also far easier to perform operations on that normalized state with certainty that your change will fucking work.
3. Focus on APIs first. Whatever the bounded context, focus on the APIs and how they'll be consumed.
Mineral deposits in our bodies (teeth and bones) are pretty good.

In non-replicating cells DNA would be pretty good too. Some of it gets replaced as repairs occur, but most of it would not. I'm not sure that carbon dating would be very accurate over the lifetime of a person (though specific events could cause specific sorts of deposits in bones during the occurrence of those events). And even if it was, radioactive carbon, either because of damage, or because of electrochemical effects, would probably be replaced in DNA more frequently than non-radioactive carbon, as long as the organism was alive, even in non-replicating cells.
That's impressive, although the second iteration isn't a uniform improvement over the first. Did it work?
Thanks, English is not my native language, today I learned something!
do you think such payment flow would work in the US / in the EU as well? I know that for example in Sweden Swish is super popular and you can pay with it in stores by scanning QR code (and then showing your phone to the merchant) - seems like such device could fit there perfectly.
"I’ve been in the self-driving space for over 15 years and led a number of brilliant teams in pursuit of a similar goal. None has ever been this close."

https://twitter.com/sterling_a/status/1642914968550117376
A good cartoon is that a form factor is the function that describes how an object deforms when exposed to an outside influence with a particular momentum. The form factor is a function of momentum.

There are many different kinds of outside influence. They can be scalar (think: just increasing the pressure uniformly), vector (put in an electric field), tensor (zap with a gravitational wave), pseudovector (magnetic field), pseudoscalar (zap with a pion).

Of course, you can apply a scalar outside influence and a vector at once. But the scalar, vector, tensor, pseudovector, and pseudoscalar labels denote different representations of the Lorentz group [lorentz].

What's more: the Wigner-Eckhart theorem [wigner] basically says [cheat] that the response can be factored into three pieces: the strength of the external influence, a factor that depends only on the representation of the external influence, and a factor that depends only on the property of the thing you're talking about (a proton, in this instance).

So people call it the gravitational form factor because if you exposed the proton to a gravitational wave, it's the thing you need to know about the proton to know how it deforms.

Note that because of the factorization you don't actually have to zap the proton with a gravitational wave! You can measure it by zapping the proton with other stuff, as long as you can get that stuff to have the right rotational properties or measure the response to many different perturbations and sum the responses the right way to mock up a tensor operator. The experiment at JLab doesn't use gravitational waves, it uses these latter approaches.

Roughly speaking at zero momentum the form factor is the charge of the object you measure if it's just sitting there. So the electric form factor evaluated at zero momentum is the electric charge, the gravitational form factor evaluated at zero momentum is the mass.

What are radii? Express the form factor as a function of momentum^2 [possible]. In units that physicists like to work in (where c=1, hbar=1), the units of momentum are 1/length. Expand the form factor as a Taylor series in momentum^2 and you will get

form factor(p) = charge + # radius^2 p^2 + ...

where # is a known dimensionless number.

The above story is a cartoon but can be made more-or-less precise depending on how much quantum field theory you learn.

lorentz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory_of_the_L...

wigner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%E2%80%93Eckart_theorem

cheat: this is a little bit of a cheat, it's only true to leading order in a taylor series in the strength of the external influence.

possible: it's always possible to arrange this, or at least to separate the momentum dependence into a factor dictated by the rotational symmetry properties and another factor dictated by the object, just like in the Wigner-Eckhart theorem.
Kevin Lynch's book is free and very good: http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/index.php/Modern_Robotics
- someone already mentioned his course.

The Robotics resources and texts by Peter Corke are good: https://petercorke.com/
-also has this good related course: https://robotacademy.net.au/

"Controls Engineering in the FIRST Robotics Competition" by Tyler Veness is free and a good short reference: https://controls-in-frc.link/

Also add the MIT Robotics Series books: https://mitpress.mit.edu/series/intelligent-robotics-and-aut...

Algorithms for Decision Making is free and awesome: https://algorithmsbook.com/

Also looks really good (MIT Press hardcopy): https://introduction-to-autonomous-robots.github.io/
This looks really cool! I think the UX around selecting a subpart of the text and asking it to rewrite that is very promising (also for stuff like code editing; it'd be awesome to have this built-in to your IDE, not sure if VS Code already has it).

My only worry with this is that I'm not sure what the long-term edge will be. This whole product looks a bit like just a feature that will soon be added to MS Office Word. I'd love to hear more from the authors about how they plan to differentiate themselves here.
The 20 bits of address was likely a direct result of Intel's decision to package the 8086 in a 40-pin package.

They already multiplex the 16-bit data bus on top of 16 of the 20 pins of the address bus. But with only 40 pins, that 20-bit address bus was already using half of the total chip pinout.

And, at the time the 8086 was being designed (circa. 1976-1978) with other microprocessors of the time having 16-bit or smaller address buses, the jump to 1M of possible total address space was likely seen as huge. We look back now, comfortable with 12+GB of RAM as a common size, and see 1M as small. But when your common size is 16-64k, having 1M as a possibility would likely seem huge.
ML has been on IoT devices for years. Heck, there are embedded arm SOCs with built in CNN coprocessors that will run your tensorflow models as-is. Again, they've been shipping in volume IoT products for years.

If ML is a win for an IoT device, the hardware's been there for a while, though I'm sure yet-cheaper hardware might unlock a few more applications, it doesn't feel like much of a game changer.
A similar project in the circuit-sim space which is also part of GSoC every year: https://circuitverse.org/
> I don't understand why Westerners are so keen to make major sacrifices to quality of life in the name of fighting climate change when nothing we do will make a statistically significant impact in the long run with major population centers like China, India, and Nigeria continuing to grow more wealthy with rapidly increasing demand for reliable, 24/7 energy production, cheap air conditioning, etc.

Because we still all gotta share this earth together, and destroying it faster helps no one. How is that difficult to understand? Do you honestly think that just going "fuck it, let's keep polluting because other people are doing the same" is really going to get us to a better place?
I'll stick to bat
> They're exploitable because they're economically desperate.

2.5k € after taxes doesn't really count as economically desperate in Germany, I'd say.

Sure, housing is expensive - especially in Munich - but education and health isn't.

This is another hype-driven mania where some people gamble away their money. This guy could have just as well played roulette and bet 50k on a number.

I wonder if any kind of investor/debitor protection would help in these cases.

How did he get those loans? Why would a bank approve a 1.5k down payment with just 2.8k income after taxes, leaving just 1.3k for rent and food in Munich? Might be OK when buying a flat - but for gambling on the stock market?

Should more verification be required for risky or high volume trades? I just need to check some boxes with "yeah, I know that stuff" and I could trade derivatives + options with leverage.
I've been intermittent fasting for about 30 years now, although I didn't know it was called that and I never consciously decided to do it. It's just the way I naturally eat: one meal per day.
Today's nukes can be very "clean". Even the old Hiroshima/Nagasaki did not cause that terrible residual radioactivity (neither city stopped being continuously inhabited).

Chernobyl released ~400 times as much radioactive material into the environment as the Hiroshima bomb. The nuke isotopes are also much shorter lived than what Chernobyl released.
Big fan of ClickHouse, but in the case of S3 there doesn't seem to be much point fighting city hall. I was the author of the original clickhouse-local-in-Lambda ticket FWIW. Even if that approach worked well, it'd still only be <50% cheaper than Athena's fractions-of-a-cent for queries on efficiently partitioned data, and still there is setup work involved. I think CH-local-in-Lambda might still easily compete on cost with Athena for raw CSV queries though
Were hundreds of millions of people interacting with nuclear energy and integrating it into every device in their vicinity?

Very very few people are arguing this stuff should be stopped outright. They’re worried about the dynamics that will incentivize stronger and stronger systems while disincentivizing spending time on control/safety.

I suppose you don’t have responses to any of the actual content of my comment, once again? Obviously no laws were necessary around a top secret weapons program that required expertise, money, and materials that no other entity could accumulate.

The Manhattan Project did have, from day 1, civilian oversight by an elected governing body. And nuclear reactions had, up to that point, been controlled by default. None of these is true of AI development.

Is there a reason you’re declining to answer whether you think there’s risk?
FED started raising interest rates in 2017[1]. The market didn't really start reacting until 2018, and by 2019 the FED got cold feet and was lowering rates again.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFEDTARU
Couldn't find it on my phone :)

Thanks for the assist.
Tornadoes, winter storms, flooding, and power outages. Phoenix get few to little of these.
I posted that rather quickly, so a bit more information for those who are interested (inspired by some of the comments on the thread).

I found Paul's sim by chance and really liked it because it was the first electronics sim that I had seen that was properly interactive and visual in its approach. I thought it was a great tool for building intuition about circuits. However, at a certain point it became clear that Java in the browser was on its way out, and this really needed to become a plug-in free experience if it was going to continue to be useful.

This was about the time that V8 was coming along and revoluationizing the performance of JS. Originally there was no license attached to the project, so I asked Paul if he was OK in me trying to port it to run on JS using the GWT framework. He was fine, but said he'd done old experiments with some of his other sims and found that JS wasn't performant enough, but with the strides in JS performance I was more optimistic.

I took the Jave code and commented just about everything out to get a minimal implementation of the standard LRC circuit just to see the performance. Once I was comfortable with that working I started adding every feature and every component back. Most of the work was replacing the Java graphics primitives with the equivalents from GWT.

Once the initial version JS version was out I did quite a lot of work mostly on UI features, especially the 'scopes. They were rather weak in the original and still not as good as I would really like, but much improved.

I have thought about monetizing and extending with EDA features, socials, etc. but its never been enough of a priority to do it. I kind of like its simplicity as it is.

It has been used a lot in education and a couple of teachers have contributed to the code to support their uses in classrooms.

It's kind-of amazing that it still has a very distinctive niche that nobody else has really gone after in quite the same way. I think a lot of that is because Paul's original vision and work on the Java version was so good.

There is a bit more context and some tutorials here:
http://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/
The people actually planning trrorist attacks on chip fabs aren't broadcasting it to the world.
Continuous System Simulation by Cellier/Kofman [0]. The focus is mainly on Modelica, but analog circuits are a "special case" of this.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-System-Simulation-François...
Origami-based integration of robots that sense, decide, and respond
I've discovered that this can be a deflection tactic for some. Usually it happens in a situation where I try my best to explain a part of an app or system. The other person is overwhelmed or confused but doesn't just say that, and instead kicks the can down the road by saying there is a lack of documentation to reference or are in need of diagrams. When I then take the time to add info to a wiki or spend time diagramming concepts with those developers, it seems to not help aid understanding at all. Then I realize I just wasted a lot of time.
Pretty sure the US has laws about it. But their interpretation has changed since the famous AT&T breakup.
Usain Bolt and Magnus Carlsen have both better than #2 by more than the gap between #2 and #10. Of course, there are allegations that Bolt may not be competing fairly.
Its been an expensive hobby. I spent two years algo trading. My all-time peak profit was 400k. Which, I successfully and meticulously lost down to break even.

Its been an educational ride, as I learned alot of finance, stress management, algorithms in search of eldorado.

Now, I just invest in etfs and DRIPs and study other areas.
> Yes but not on purpose. It's just the natural way of living when I don't buy snacks and my fridge is usually empty.

Same--I've never set about intentionally doing so, I just developed the habit of not eating breakfast, and as a result my body just doesn't start feeling hungry until 1-2PM anyway. I have a late-ish sizable lunch, and then usually only need something snack-size in the evening.

It was different when I used to work in an office that had an endless supply of catered pastries; the temptation was too great, and it always seemed like a small amount, one at a time.

It's hard to be prescriptive about this, though--other people in my family have a much more intense relationship with food, and feel weak/ravenous if they skip a meal. For whatever reason I'm lucky enough to not feel it in a very physical way.
Just need to put two of these -10x engineers working together. The results should be amazing!
Australians can build their own bicycles?
Cascadia Code
I guess you have to ask Elon Musk...
Amen. I take my kid to school, do the shopping, sometimes do a bit of leisure cycling. It rocks. My son is growing out of his seat now, so my next purchase is going to be this bad boy in ebike form:

https://dutchbike.co.uk/Work4.htm
Is there something especially interesting about this? GPT is able to to make the message more concise, unsurprisingly, and interprets "10x more persuasive" as "using more emphatic versions of the same words".
I would be curious to see how it compares to similar tools: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/alternatives....
Wait to you see what else people piss their money away on.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/william-hill-fined-192...

For example.
How are you guaranteeing that this ID corresponds to a real human bean? Blockchain seems terrible for this on the basis of complete reliance on an external central authority.
Unbroken chain scams have been illegal since at least Reagan was in office. It's still illegal to exploit someone's ignorance.
> No one sane worries about AI "becoming sentient".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman for a rebuttal to your dismissal.
I agree - LangChain is totally awesome and unlocks amazing new capabilities of LLMs (easily!), but the code itself is pretty awkward. No logging framework, for instance, and the strong typing enforcement with pydantic seems un-pythonic and brittle to me (what if I want to use a different kind of Mappable instead of a dict for something?).
Still, great work overall and congrats to the team!
Yeah that must be it. Very unfortunate.
> nothing we do will make a statistically significant impact in the long run

We've already reduced estimated warming from ~6 degrees to ~3.5 degrees or so. It's not enough, but it's a hell of a lot better than statistically insignificant.
Settlers of Catan Creator, Klaus Teuber, Has Passed Away
Your Bayesian estimations make no sense. When the alternative is that it is the daughter who survived to 98 (which is already old) rather than the mother surviving to 122, the question should be phrased as "if you are older than 98 what is the probability that your age is 122".
Banqiao Dam failure alone killed an unknown number of people. The lower estimate is 26 000. The upper estimate is 240 000 people.

For Chernobyl the number is 4,000 deaths as the total number of projected deaths caused by the accident over the long term.

For Fukushima it's one direct death, and 2000 deaths due to evacuation.

Had we approached dams the way we approach nuclear power, not a single dam would be built in the world.
How soon do you think we'll have AI coming up with its own unique writing style?

When do we get AI Hunter Thompson?
They don't need to come anywhere near US levels of per capita emissions to stop being poor. Here are some countries that are generally considered to be reasonably wealthy, and their per capita emissions as a percent of US per capita emissions:

63% Japan
61% Germany
36% UK
30% Switzerland

India is at 12% now and China at 48%.
Yes. That’s one of the goals with e2b
Is this really a "help build" situation? Or is this a "I own the domain, you build the app" type deal where somehow the domain squatter gets a cut?
I appreciate the suggestion. I believe they were previously on Modafinil but it didn't allow them to function as well as the Adderall does.
I couldn’t have said it better. Why are the icons so large and useless at the same time. So much padding and such low information density
Upbound puts managed control planes centerstage, unlocks Crossplane at scale
TBD :) I ended up submitting the final version.
How to get AirBNB support to notice your hackernews post - evoke the recent hotness of GPT!