skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It brought me from A to B, but it didn't feel like I had been spending energy.

This may be a downside for you personally, but more broadly it's the reason why people may replace cars with ebikes.

Normal bicycles are in a stable relationship with cars, meaning that the sorts of people who would replace their cars with bicycles have already done so. There's no new impetus right now that wasn't present 8 years ago.

Ebikes open up the "replace cars" space to a new group of people that it didn't previously apply to.

You complain that these people aren't on regular bicycles. But the option isn't whether these people should be on ebikes or regular bicycles. It's whether those people are on ebikes or in cars. Which do you prefer?
Wow, that’s a very interesting use of the word “Conclusion”.
> I'm sure there are lots of fun things to do with an Arduino that could recognize gestures

Arduinos can recognize gestures, faces, etc. right now with well-established tech, no servers needed. I've had a couple of robots running around my place that do this sort of thing for a number of years now.
They didn't address the popular media of the day, only what science was really saying.
Now it is completely impossible to understand the meaning of mysterious definition "a solid authoring experience" because it's completely unclear who is the author.
I'm pretty sure that you get arrested quickly if you start to surveil random politicians even in very democratic states...
Took the words out of my mouth. I love complex boardgames taking hours (twilight imperium is probably my favorite), but I can play settlers. My parents like games with few rules (not necessarily simple ones), but they also can do settlers, so that is where the family meets.
>We don't really know how they work inside.

I keep reading this, and my response is so what?

Do you have a ball sitting handy somewhere? Pick it up, throw it in the air, and then catch it.

How did you do that? Can you regurgitate all of the equations used to define how objects move, how you determined the approximate mass of the ball, how you calibrated your muscles to apply a specific amount of force and then how you orchestrated the whole thing? Of course not, that's ridiculous. You don't need to know physics or even be literate in order to throw and catch a ball. Your brain "knows" how to do it but that knowledge is opaque and the part of your brain that talks to people can't actually communicate any of the nitty-gritty.

So why does it matter that an AI can't tell us how it does what it does? We're the smartest things we know and we can't even do it. We can give rationalized mockups of a lot, sure, but the AI can, too. Why do we think introspective clairvoyance is a requirement of AGI?
Joel Kotkin has made his career on being an urbanist who champions the suburban development pattern. He's a contrarian in that sense (that's cool!). He's also the archetype of the home owning californian boomer (that's lame!).

Over time, he's always shifting the supports of his thesis. For the longest time, it was that urban development was inherently more expensive compared to single family homes. Then it was that the market showed a revealed preference for suburban housing because there was more suburban development (points at sunbelt). Now it is the collapse of urban office real estate. Five years from now it'll be something else.
I'm...aware. I think a lot of us that aren't using NumPy or ML stuff are rather looking for a good excuse to get away from what the ecosystem has become. (Yeah, I'm still bitter about Py3...Python user since the 1.5.2 days)
Wait for the piece, somebody is probably writing that
A device that doesn't need a network connection to work beats a device that does every time.
Yeah, uh, they are not Protestant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_of_Catan_(novel)

The Elasunders encounter a large flock of white ravens, which they ecstatically interpret as a good omen from the god Odin. The white ravens evoke their well-known Legend of Catan, leading them to believe that Catan is the shore they now walk upon.

Shortly after landing, Candamir's slave-girl Gunda bears him his first-born child, Nils, whom he names after his sister Asta's deceased husband.

... Osmund and Candamir both are attracted to Siglind, but she has devoted herself to the Christian God. Osmund proposes marriage to her, but she refuses, saying she has sworn off all men.

Osmund instead marries Inga, a 13-year-old girl. Brigitta, Osmund's grandmother-in-law from his first marriage, deems them anointed and secretly prophesies to them that their firstborn will be king of Catan. Furthermore, Inga is to one day take Brigitta's place as the priestess of their religion, while Osmund will be ruler of the island.
Closing security gaps in software development pipelines
In Norway, the authorities had a problem with our SSN equivalent a few years ago - for decades, it had been SOP to assign any immigrant with unknown birth date the birth date January 1st.

Eventually, they ran out of valid SSNs for Jan 1st births in some years. (The number is on the form DDMMYY XXXYY, where XXX is assigned sequentially and YY are control digits.)

Hence, for any given date the system can accommodate 1000 people, plenty in a country with some 1000 births a week. Until you start assigning a certain date to people with unknown DOB, that is. They are now assigned a random date.
Here's a star/heart that's the same idea: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-ambiguous-star...

I've printed it and physically fiddling with it made it much more clear how it worked.

I haven't seen a print for that dog, though.

In theory, I think you could use Sugihara's approach to automatically generate such a model for most closed curves. That'd be a cool little program that I don't know how to write.
Yes, it's possible to do physically based diffraction grating effects in the traditional pipeline. Here's a tutorial on it: https://www.alanzucconi.com/2017/07/15/the-nature-of-light/ (I actually implemented this effect recently: the article is great overall, but you can get rid of the loop by using some simple algebra.)

However, as pointed out in sibling comments, this makes assumptions about the coherence of the light coming in.
Now you are just arguing for sake of arguing. I was replying to your context free claim which was simply untrue.

If you go to system-level energy cost with the constraint that it has to cover demand all the time then of course you end up with different numbers.

For me, I have a battery system. With the LCOE of about 65EUR/MWh. It's good for 6h in the winter and combined with solar probably good for the entire summer.

Your numbers for battery cost are for installed capacity, but you are not using the battery one time, you cycle it thousands of times and therefore need to divide that 180k number by a number between 1000 and 10000 most likely.

Problem for people in my latitude is seasonal storage, I don't believe batteries will ever be an efficient solution for that.
I get what you're saying, but I don't good definitions are the problem.

Whether an architecture is objectively excellent doesn't really matter. The question is whether the people who are going to maintain the thing can work well with it. A tribe of OO partisans will produce a very different system than a tribe of FP ones. Each could find their own system highly maintainable but find the others' incomprehensible enough that they'd rather rebuild it than take it over.

What I think really matters is close, respectful collaboration among a group of people in a context with frequent iteration, so that the team can learn to make good choices together. And, over the longer term, enough continuity in that team so that new people can absorb enough context that the culture is transmitted for as long as the code lasts.
Google says per capita is for each person. And there are a lot more persons in both India and China. Much lower isn't going to help for long.
Pre RISC-V hardware. I'll pass.
if my university did this, I would never in my life donate even a penny to university.
Yes, let’s investigate it:

"Republican-leaning red states tend to have less wealth and receive more federal government funds than they pay…Policy choices may partially explain this relationship…"A really conservative state might choose to tax itself at a lower rate, which means by default, they can give fewer state-funded services… "That can exacerbate the situation.”

Blue states are subsidizing red states, red states that have socioeconomic problems largely caused by red state policies.
Prominent Russian blogger assassinated in St. Petersburg bombing
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I've helped (and am currently helping) several companies save a huge amount of time and money.

Some areas where I've been able to help:
- You need a cost-effective way to build some internal tools
- Your developers spend a small, but significant, amount of time solving tickets that involve manual database updates because you can't spare the resources to build customer support tools
- You have a lot of data but it's all over the place and not connected in any significant way so you spend a lot of time working in spreadsheets
- You spend a lot of time thinking about and doing a manual task you wish could just finally be automated
- You want to prototype and build something quickly so you can start showing it to your customers
- You want to have your operations managed at a lower cost

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>Phantom limb pain is still part of a physical system and does not 'arise from the mind'

Careful, because you seem to have implied that the mind is not a physical system (i.e. you've assumed that dualism or idealism is true and that physicalism is wrong).
Tether Used Signature Bank to Find Path into US Financial System
Rust's Display is superior to everyone else's To string precisely because it is stream-oriented rather than allocation-oriented. Allocating f-strings are a major language smell.
And how is this good for them or for NATO?
Small towns have a more closed circle form of gossip
Yeah, audit can mean many things and the scope matters.

Typically, it's just compliance.

Diligence usually means talking to top customers, but deals get rushed, access is a negotiation point, and liars are hard to detect.
Apple Weather App Data Not Loading for Many Users
Huh. I always thought of "private cloud" as meaning "my own server", not a carveout on a public cloud. I learned something new today.

How does such a "private cloud" differ from using the "public cloud"? The two seem identical to me.
> If the lane's not wide enough to share, don't share

You're suggesting it's the cyclist in the wrong if they stay close to the road edge, but a wider-than-average vehicle then passes them without leaving a decent gap? The vast majority of drivers do leave enough space and I'm happy to ensure they can pass safely by using no more of the road than is necessary. The sort of drivers that don't are going to be unpleasant/dangerous to share the road with no matter how determinedly you "hold the lane". The worst offenders are cars towing wide trailers/ caravans - they often seem to be entirely unaware of how much road they take up.
Yes, but I’m cheating with my adderall prescription. I stop eating at 8PM and start at noon so I’m mostly just snacking through my eating window and when it wears off I’ll have a larger meal with a bunch of fiber so I’m not starving before bed.

Much easier to do when your appetite is suppressed. Also - don’t know if taking adderall breaks a fast, so I may be totally off.

Haven’t measured my weight change, but I’m certainly burning more calories than I’m eating so it could be a number of factors.
They work exactly the same way. All of the popular quadraphonic formats work modulating or encoding the four channels together into two signals which are cut just like a stereo record.

There were/are a great many schemes for achieving the multichannel encoding/decoding all with inherent advantages, disadvantages, and compatibility with legacy equipment. Dolby Pro Logic (and related successor tech) were probably the most successful multichannel tech that people will be familiar with, though that particular scheme came after the heyday of vinyl.
I'll give you two sheep for the stone I need to build his mausoleum.
RPG-module: Typesetting old-school Dungeons and Dragons modules
Hopefully that's not my bug :-) Before my code [1], small ellipses looked terrible: a small circle looked like a stop sign and others looked corrugated.

[1] I can't take much credit. The code was Bresenham's algorithm, as explained to me by the OS/2 group. At the time, OS/2 was the cool operating system that was the wave of the future and Windows was this obscure operating system that nobody cared about. The impression I got was that the OS/2 people didn't really want to waste their time talking to us.
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I've helped (and am currently helping) several companies save a huge amount of time and money.

Some areas where I've been able to help:
- You need a cost-effective way to build some internal tools
- Your developers spend a small, but significant, amount of time solving tickets that involve manual database updates because you can't spare the resources to build customer support tools
- You have a lot of data but it's all over the place and not connected in any significant way so you spend a lot of time working in spreadsheets
- You spend a lot of time thinking about and doing a manual task you wish could just finally be automated
- You want to prototype and build something quickly so you can start showing it to your customers
- You want to have your operations managed at a lower cost

contact - ilyatkachov.com
Large cities frequently have higher crime rates than smaller cities. The fact that democrats are popular in large cities creates this perception.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25388091
It seems quite plausible that most of the money paid for the company was placed in escrow for some time, exactly to cover scenarios like this where the seller misrepresents something material about the company.
After the initial obsession with Jupiter-scale models, we quickly discovered that very small models can perform even better if you reorganize your problem.

Last week, we were trying to fine tune a 175b parameter model to take a natural language prompt with hopes of directly-outputting correct, domain-specific SQL. Now that reality has passed, we are looking at different paths.

As of this week, we are trying to hit everything with the binary classification hammer. Turns out you can train a model to output 1 of 2 possible tokens with exponentially fewer parameters, training items, machine hours, etc. The statistics available in binary classification are also incredibly powerful and the results are trivial to reason with.

Even if you need thousands of binary classifiers, their scale and granularity makes this a non-event or potentially an advantage.

The real integration magic with AI/ML is starting to look like a weird form of set theory. At this level of complexity, detecting (and potentially confirming) the user's intention is way more important than trying to draw a direct map from input to destination.
What criticism? That the prompt injection protection I created with zero effort does not prevent 100% of all possible evasion techniques? I apologize if it seemed like that is what I was proposing?
Wait, was this NOT a belated April Fool's joke?
For a while now they've made the default user account name by truncating the first 5 letters of your email (so if your email starts with 'robert' your username will be 'rober'), and to stop this you need to do a weird workaround where you dodge some UI tricks that get you to login with your Microsoft account so you can create a local user account with a name of your choice.

I believe when I setup my recent machine I had to be disconnected from the internet to be able to complete setup without a Microsoft account.
Do you have kids, by chance?

I can understand these comments from a fit single adult. I basically had to give up biking once we had kids. A cargo ebike has been a life changer.
That's just a restatement of the control problem and the issue of what constitutes AGI, which is what a lot of people are talking about.
I feel like an old guy saying this. But please, stop the glorification of power consuming stuff.

You reveal below that you live in the Netherlands. You live in bicycle paradise. Abundant bike lanes and FLAT LAND.

Until you can figure out how to export the flat land, you're going to need e-bikes if you want adoption of bikes by the masses. Regular people don't want to show up to work sweating or face an uphill ride at the end of the day.
Smoothies are one of those “health things” that aren’t healthy at all. Loaded with sugar, and all the fiber from fruit is pre-digested so you get a huge jolt of easily absorbed sugar and then an insulin rush and crash later. Almost as bad as soda pop.

Just eat the whole fruit. It still has sugar but the time it takes for your body to slowly digest it means the sugar is released slowly and you get a steady flow of energy.
I think it can do what you're suggesting, if I'm understanding correctly:

> $ trurl --url https://example.com --set path=/abc/123 --set scheme=ftp --set host=foo.bar

> $ ftp://foo.bar/abc/123
> Sure living 3 years more then anyone else is pretty unlikely, but at the same time it's not proof.

The previous record at that point was 116 years, that's a 6 year gap. If you look at the distribution now it follows a fairly nice curve, except for that one far outlier.

> fool everyone in the small town she lived in

If I recall correctly they were living in a remote location and didn't meet with a lot of people.
The statue was crowdfunded

From Wikipedia:

> Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar (equivalent to $30 in 2021)
> 1. The age gap between Calment and the next oldest person is the strongest evidence. It's very, very hard to ignore this.

This is in fact a very weak evidence, that only appears to be a strong one because of a common epistemological mistake, let me explain:

The odds of such an age difference are extremely small according to a certain model of how people age, such a model has proven to be pretty accurate for the majority of the population, but that says nothing about the outliers. For biological entities like humans, one only need a single exceptional mutation or pathology to be a super-human of some sort, not fitting into the model at all. In fact, the tallest man in history is also a statistically impossible outlier, yet there's no doubt about his existence and actual height, he just happened to have a rare condition that caused him to grow up to a disproportionate height. (And if you grabbed a Guinness book of records, you'll find these kinds of things in almost every category related to human anatomy or physiology).

Confusing the models with reality is a very common mistake in the history of science, often committed by people having a math background instead of a physics one, but not only. A very famous example is how French explorer Dumont d'Urville was ridiculed when he described the rogue waves he witnessed in the Indian Ocean, because such a wave would be statically impossible. It turned out that the physical model of waves at the time was just too simplistic, as rogue waves do in fact exist (and AFAIK we're still looking for a proper model explaining the phenomenon entirely).
There are also critical topics that will be maligned as “unserious” despite being common pitfalls in human existence.

I expect people to start worshipping AI , either overtly or implicitly. That means allowing AI to tell them what to think and what decisions to make. And forming deferential relationships with AI.

In other words a big risk is an AI religion of sorts in the way that we have “science-ism” or “atheism” – with less formal structures.

When people imagine “AI taking over” they describe AI getting launch codes , or deactivating power stations like the movie War Games.

A far more likely scenario is people asking AI political, economic or military strategy and carrying it out. I see this happening in a couple years.
Of the 25 who made it to 116, 10 made it to 117.

Of the 10 who made it to 117, 4 made it to 118 and 3 of those made out to 119.

So the data are roughly consistent with a 40% chance of living another year at the age. That compounds to a 6% chance of living 3 more years. Two of the 119-year-olds dying within a year and one of them living 3 years is completely consistent with this model.
In those languages it is used in all contexts and for all centuries. It's just a formatting convention that is occasionally helpful in e.g. history textbooks.
I just want to let you know that even if you believe in the words you are saying, these kind of hollow empty platitudes have historically been weaponized by bad faith agitators to either perpetuate or propagate abuse.

I already gave you one example: reactionaries appropriated those criticizing Trump's policies as "fascist" to call those that disagree with public health lockdowns as the same.

Likewise, your original terms of "flawed and self-defeating beliefs" and "mentally ill" are currently being weaponized by the same people to brandish transgender people as harmful ideologues.

Just thought you should know, in the slim hope that you don't. Because if you do, you either don't care or are doing it on purpose. Both of which are harmful.

Ultimately, you sound like AI-generated. You say a lot of words that individually have meaning without saying anything at all.
> In my latest trip, I don't believe I paid cash in any shop and I was in a second tier city the whole time, not one of the big metropolitan cities.

If you’re a tourist or business visitor, this isn’t possible. UPI isn’t available to you. Also note that many smaller shops which accept cards and do accept India-issued MasterCard/Visa/Rupay won’t take MC/Visa issued abroad, because their payment providers charge them extra.

Digital payments for business visitors and tourists in India are pretty terrible outside of upscale places.

If you’re an Indian living abroad, for now, you need to keep an Indian phone number active to use UPI (this should change soon). You can use cards though, especially if you have an India-issued card — those have much wider acceptance.
I think the simple explanations are just that guy's style. He often has oddball videos about stuff you've probably seen but never thought about in depth - from lava lamps to retroreflectors.

He gets quite a few views and educates a lot of people. No need to look down on it - if it isn't for you thats ok.
I tried to touch on that in my comment. I've used training methods such as LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models. I feel they work well to train it on a specific subject, but it's at the cost of over-riding other weights in the model, and it tends to distort things that are unrelated because what a ML model considered to be related is likely not at all what we as humans believe to be related. I've tried LoRA in the context of stable diffusion only. You can see images using LoRAs can be tricky, and even harder to combine 2 LoRAs etc. Adding too many LoRA modifiers can straight up give distorted messed up images.
I suppose it's inevitable that the first uses are going to be the trivial ones. They'll be first to market.

I'm sure they imagine that when they figure out something actually worth doing, they'll already have a user base and revenue stream and reputation. If there's somebody out there doing something more innovative, they'll either buy them out or reproduce their idea in-house.

Me, I'm skeptical that there's a "there" here. But that's why somebody else is getting rich and I'm not.