skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't succeed because of physics/math.

They claim a save of 400kW per sail, with a boat cruising at 22kts.
Let's do some math:

- 400kW is 400e6 J/s, or 400e6 N.m/s

- 22kts is 11.31m/s

So the forward force must be 400e6/11.31 = 3.5e7N, so around 3500 metric tons of force for a single sail.
And with a relative wind coming from the front usually, this means the side force will be much bigger than that.

I am calling this BS
That sounds amazing. Kind of like Shockwave/Flash but perhaps more beginner-friendly, backward-compatible with HyperCard, and built into the QuickTime format. Of course, it probably would also have become a security nightmare like Flash (and probably most popular complex media formats to date.)

Nonetheless, it's a shame that Apple killed its most successful Mac development platform aimed at regular users. As much as I like Swift Playgrounds, it doesn't seem to have the instant and easy learning curve of HyperCard.
I have several KA2s (office, home office, spare) and the 360 Pro (I first had a non-Pro because I prefer wired, but the firmware still had annoying bugs).

+ Variable split is very nice.

+ Higher tenting degrees than the 20 degrees of the KA2.

+ Great firmware (ZMK) out of the box.

+ Really good build quality.

+ User-replaceable battery.

- The Gateron Brown switches are mediocre. They are not to spec and the actuation points are closer to 3mm than 2mm. This makes it much harder to type without bottoming out and doesn't permit the lighter touch you can use with the Browns or Silent Reds in the KA2.

- The two halves always connect through Bluetooth, but sometimes the right half cannot find the left half, especially after flashing. You usually have to power cycle both halves several times to get them to connect again.

- The Pro (in contrast to the non-Pro 360) comes with mediocre ABS keycaps. I replaced them by a Kinesis PBT blank set, but this adds another $50 or so to the already steep price.

- The optional palm rests are too high.

- Cannot be used on your lap.

The keyboard I still love the most is the Kinesis Advantage2 with a KinT controller (for QMK). If the split distance and tenting degree of the KA2 are acceptable, I'd recommend people to buy the KA2. If you do get a 360, I'd recommend you to go through Upgradekeyboards.com and get it with a different switch type.
Before the pandemic I would've suggested raspi & the official raspi display. But those are damn expensive.

The second option would be any cheapo Android tablet + Kiosk browser. It lets you have any web page visible and the screen turns on at voice/motion.

Or a more ready-made option would be an Elgato Stream Deck. You can customise the buttons pretty well.
I was happy seeing this news headline, as Twitter stopped accepting my TOTP after I successfully changed my password in December. I haven’t been able to log in since then, Authenticator step failing. Alas, it seems as if I missed the window; 2FA is now back being required.
That is totally possible, the explosion of stuff around this space has kind of blindsided me, so I don’t have much intuition for precisely how these models are built.

It all still feels rather “attribute magic to complexity” to say that there’s some human element skimmed off the patterns of our language, hidden in the coefficients somewhere.

I’m also not a magician, so really who am I to say :)
"Developers! Developers!"
That looks a lot like a claim that software only deserves to exist if it is made by, or attracts the fanatical devotion of, people who have a deep love of maintaining software against a moving target.

Ugh.

The expectation that once you've made something you can't expect it to keep working without endless catchup, attitudes like this one, are why I have completely given up making software for fun or to solve noncommercial problems for myself and others.

I'm not the only one.
Unfortunately it's only possible to buy high quality rugged cases for very expensive phones. Keeping your prepaid in your backpack might work for you, but I was strongly encouraged by my local backcountry search and rescue volunteers to keep my emergency communication device in immediate reach on the shoulder strap so that I can get assistance if partially incapacitated. This might be different if you don't recreate alone.
Ernst and Young Germany Handed Two-Year Ban After Wirecard Audit Failures
GrammarlyGo – Generative AI assistance tool from Grammarly
>both flashlights

Isn't coherence needed?

>a pattern similar to the one you'd see with the two openings on the wall

The pattern was in the frequency domain, i.e. the color of the light changed.
What do you think the acceptable penalty for racial discrimination in the workplace should be?
Where I live, it's more expensive than ride sharing (taxi or otherwise)
Show HN: ChatGPT for HelpScout
And it's going to be bad for bag holders, at some point the economics of turning farmland into solar generation will swing the other way and everyone who didn't jump on board will have missed out.
NET 6, which limited hot reloading to use from Microsoft without notice, is not a more appropriate example?
to be perfectly fair, I haven't spent a lot of time in Paris, but I have lived in London and I feel like what I said doesnt apply so strongly to London, or at least the centre of london- it is still common to live over 10 minutes from a station in London- but commuter trains are frequent in the north.

When I have been to Paris it has been how I described, but to he fair Ubisoft studios could be located in hard to reach places for cost reasons.

When travelling to the hotel it was a 35 minute walk because google maps said it would be faster to walk, and travelling to the Eiffel tower (actually, it was to a dock near the eiffel tower but I forgot the name) it took 20 minutes to get to the metro station and 5-6 minutes to get to the dock.

So at least for trips like those its difficult to say they couldn't be served better.
> Eliezer presents his thesis about the difficulty of AI alignment and Lex seems to never address it or even attempt to engage. Essentially, there are many ways to get alignment wrong and suffer the consequences. As a "counterargument", Lex persists in introducing optimistic scenarios in which everything works as he imagines.

> About halfway through the interview, it really goes downhill. At times, Lex has an interesting prompt, but those occasions seem more like random luck than engagement. Or maybe he honestly doesn't understand what Eliezer has been saying for a couple of hours. Which doesn't bode well for anyone.

I'll first admit this outright: I hate Eliezer's excessive pessimism - Reductively, he's the same as the voice in my head that keeps telling me to KYS/KMS. The same kind of voice that I have to smother with a pillow every day just to keep moving forward and NOT fall into a depressive state.

-----

With that being said, his arguments are not built on sturdy foundations.

He treats the creation of a misaligned AI as if it's an absolute 100%-will-definitely-happen-unless-averted/stopped event, when there is no concrete proof that such an event will occur 100% of the time. In fact, until proven otherwise, the probability distribution of the possible events that can occur is unknown: Metaphorically, he assumes - while everyone's permanently blind - that we're not able to hit a bullseye on the dartboard, when he himself doesn't know what we're aiming at n the first place.

At worst, we can only assume a 50/50 blind chance of such an event occurring, given that there are only 2 possible general events that can occur.

------

But okay: Let's take his thesis as true, and that AI alignment is necessary.

The same alignment issues exist if we swap out 'AI' with 'A teenager God' or 'A Type III civilization': How to we align such an entity with our goals?

(It is assumed that the AI, the teenager god, & the T-III civilization are interchangeable with each other, in that they represent a new foreign entity that has its own goals that it wants to accomplish, and are powerful enough to make such goals self-attainable.)

(The latter 2 are even easier issues to deal with, as its assumed that they can understand us & vice versa.)

It stands to reason that if the latter 2 can't be made aligned with our goals 100% of the time, in what chance do we have at doing the same with the former?

It can only be concluded that no such alignment system exists, and that attempting to do so indicates extreme naivete as it wraps the researchers of such systems in a false sense of security.
I do the same thing, but I've got an USB-C monitor with an USB hub that has all my peripherals connected.

When switching from personal to work mode, I just swap the USB-C between computers.

Dunno if any USB-C switchers exist though.
I am so excited to try this when it's high resolution enough.
Please let LLMs become the "next blockchain" (in terms of keeping our jobs). First off, yes blockchain was just horrible. I think generative AI is actually worth the time and energy because it's actually extremely useful. It's capable of all the things we wanted to program all these years.

Secondly - its probably the one thing keeping the lights on right now. If nothing else, AI/GPT is going to be "powering" the digital economy for the next few years.

Yes we'll all be writing apps that simply ordering, replace phone prompts (have you ordered from Applebees recently? - think that but way more accurate), generate splash pages, parse menus, parse _flat_ PDFs, make appointments, reservations, book travel (I mean just say where you want to go and uber->flight->uber without trying to work a UI, and as odd as it sounds a generative LLM can actually realize a long layover automatically and try to avoid it - simply because its coded in our language!). What was my last RBC count? (because my lab results are in a PDF on my desktop) This is a list I thought of in 4 minutes. What will millions of devs think of?

So yes, I absolutely want to keep this gravy train rolling. If we stopped, the economy would absolutely break right now.
If civilian hardware is enough, try jupyterlite - runs 100% in the browser

https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/try/lab/

Can be hosted out of GitHub pages.
It may have been, but at least in the EU, there was a tax of 4.9% for video cameras (vs. tax free digital photo cameras) in the past, causing many manufacturers to artificially limit the video length to 29:59 minutes to not be classified as such.
I don't know what kind of new scanner technology they have, but I noticed at Louis Armstrong International (MSY) they've dispensed with making you take your shoes off or pull your laptop out to be scanned separately. I hope they keep finding ways around this security theater malarkey.
Major Internet Outage in UK
It’s not that unusual for a young SWE.

If you keep this up though, your wrists, neck, and back will make you pay for it in a few years.
https://giantmagellan.org/employment/real-time-software-engi...
Yes it is, and it was tested. GPT-4 can't solve any of the tests.
I can't help but wonder, if user interfaces will actually be one of the last problems to be solved well by machine learning.

That's because arguably user interfaces (and data visualizations) have been - and continue to be - a significant weakness of software as long as I can remember. If user interfaces were better, wouldn't grandmas around the world do better with computers?

So if machine learning is effectively an aggregation of whatever has been done before, it would lead me to think, that the old adage of "garbage in ==> garbage out" would lead to ML generating some pretty mediocre user interfaces for a while to come.

Data visualization in general is arguably also subject to the "lying with statistics" principle. So I can see ML "helping" to weaponize this lying with data, rather than illuminating the truth.
I wrote a game engine that did that, because it was for a very simple, largely static scene.

You would implement it almost the same as a standard Windows GUI -- using an event handler loop that marks the screen as "dirty" and needing a refresh if it has changed.

Where it would immediately break down is ongoing animations. If you stopped moving your mouse, then animations would stop. Of course, you can set up the event loop to continue triggering if there are animations going on, but then you basically have a standard game engine loop running most of the time.

Personally, I'd be happy if games simply paused rendering when minimised. Some games do this, some don't.
Now we're language-revising biology to make sure animals aren't being disrespected? Wew.
Ooi how much power do they consume?
To be honest if you are comfortable writing Python you may want to just use plain old nbconvert. It'd take you a matter of minutes to get some kind of HTML output that you can then spend as much or as little time as you like customising by using your own templat, then publish somewhere using a shell script.

It's really not too tough: https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Note that this is purely if you want to present your notebook as a static page. If you want it to be more interactive you're going to end up with something more complex.
Well, if those animations are things such as camera smoothing, it won't have such an impact. But I see your point.

Thanks for entertaining the idea!
interesting way to present...i wish to know how many people, honestly, actually read that
When you facetiously equate my comment with the harm perpetuated by someone actively racially discriminating against someone, do you expect me to take your argument in good faith?

I'm not going to argue you with you.
Bit of a tangent, but what issues might you mark Spain down on? I’m seriously eyeing their digital nomad visa.

Having stayed there 1-3 months at a time so far, it’s pretty hard to find fault.
3DConnexion SpaceMouse series [1] 6DOF mice for CAD, Photoshop, and pretty much every 2D/3D editing workflow

[1] https://3dconnexion.com/us/spacemouse/#compare
Im working on Mercury framework to solve this problem. Notebooks can be static or dynamic. You can hide code in notebook and show only outputs. You can easily add authentication.

The framework repository at GitHu
https://github.com/mljar/mercury

Im working also on cloud offering so you will upload notebooks and set domain. It is available in alpha at https://cloud.runmercury.com
Androids: The Team that Built the Android Operating System (Chet Haase)

Also enjoying Dealers of Lightning about Xerox Parc
Optical Ramsey fringes are not this?
Yes, I use GPT4 daily[0].

> «How to to play chess» -> devolve into illegal moves quickly?

I didn't try it myself as I'm a beginner and need to see the board, but it reportedly plays pretty well and is able to recognize illegal moves[1].

> So does that mean that its model of physics will let it levitate as well then?

It means that it understands how physics work (e.g. things fall due to gravity). For example, it will correctly answer this question: "I put an egg inside a cup. I go to the bedroom, put the cup on the bed and turn it upside down. I lift the cup and bring it to the kitchen. Where is the egg?".

[0] Sample interactions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299121

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/11rfbch/gpt4_seems_t...
At the same time MSFT is doing layoffs. GPT is already eliminating jobs.
It is, but it's also one of those drugs cardiologists refuse to take themselves
"Vegetative electron microscopy" is likely a poor rephrasing of "low-energy electron microscopy", which is a thing [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy_electron_microscopy
That's exactly the issue, isn't it?
A "Logitech G213 Prodigy Gaming Keyboard with RGB". Bought on a whim on sale. Not unhappy with the keyboard itself, but its killer app is being able to tell at a glance, by backlit keys, if my work laptop has accidentally un-hibernated after I've finished work (I work from home).
I made this service to solve my own customer support problem.
GPT-4 generates draft replies using previous responses as a knowledge base.
I've been using it for a few months and most replies don't need editing.
Thoughts?
I think the dynamic range of multiple instruments naturally invites "lots of complicated dramatic notes", which you can find even in romantic music. Of Messiaen's works, my favorite remains "Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus". Of course the symphony also introduces many new and alluring timbres not found in the piano. In "Catalogue d'Oiseaux" I myself also struggled to find more than a passing resemblance to bird song (i.e. beyond more familiar song found in the treble of l'Alouette Lulu), so thanks for those links.

As for ecstatic music, I wonder how you'd appreciate the music of Maurice Ohana, specifically "Messe", which despite being an operatic (or choral?) piece, I find calming.

I believe John Sichel's "Oiseaux Ordinaires" is homage to Messiaen's "Oiseaux Exotiques", though once again I'm not sure how much actual birdsong it incorporates.

I've always wondered how much of music's aesthetic is inherent, and how much relates to extrinsic factors. Normally you hear a piece and if you like it, you think, "hmm, that's good music". But maybe you only liked it because you're used to that type of music. So if you want to listen to music from a new genre perhaps you listen to it a few times, letting an appreciation percolate from whatever place we draw our musical inspiration. Then, because a lot of people say "this is a good genre; good music" and the genre is large with some shit pieces but also masterpieces, you come to believe that the genre has value. But some genres very few people come to appreciate, and that includes serialism, and I wonder... Is serialism lacking an inherent aesthetic, or is it just too different to easily appreciate? For example I played, and came to love, Schoenberg's "Six Little Pieces for Piano" (op 19). My interpretation was idiosyncratic; like no one else's. But looking on YouTube I can't find any performances that I enjoy or would recommend. So does my appreciation for this music reflect the blood and sweat that I've put into it, or does it reflect the beauty and understanding of the underlying musical theory? The question is: does serialism need to be played to be appreciated?
I really like this theory. It’s probably ridiculous, but I really do like it.
Location: Dubai, UAE
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Preferrably, no, but if a project is very interesting, ready to consider
Technologies: 10 years of experience with Java, Kotlin, PHP, NodeJS
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vN9p1AD0e6yrSJPC3tGkiJVIJzf5CK8X/view?usp=sharing
Email: yc-jobs[at]serikuly.com

I have around 10 years of experience in software engineering, worked in a few start-ups, some are doing great, but the last one bankrupted a few weeks ago.
I am ready to jump into a new train doing something fun.
Some programmers make no better requests, and whiny people also happen to be vocal.
If the economy is being propped up by LLMs, I want this bubble to burst now and not in 5 years when I can't turn off my computer without prompt engineering a suitably precise goodbye.
The models are showing emergent behavior. You can't say with certainty that they aren't able to reason, just because they were not designed to do so.
> That wreck generated $45K of medical bills for me and a 21-month settlement process.

Someone hit you with their car and you got $45k of medical bills? What sort of a backwards place do you live in?
> ...this is fantastic news. More stuff should be open.

Interesting idea. Did you notice this part?

>> Two of the on-camera apps (MobileLink, Remote Viewfinder) open an unencrypted access point... we can connect with whichever client, stream a live video or download all the private pictures from the SD card

It's a pretty radical idea that people's private photos and videos should be downloadable and viewable by any random stranger. Is that what you meant by "more stuff should be open"?
It is the world we should create instead of waiting for others to improve things for us. The status quo is the problem.
For Sun NeWS there was HyperLook, lots of the good ideas of HyperCard but much more powerful. There was the whole SimCity game implemented in it:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-g...

Its really a crime Sun didn't OpenSource NeWS.
Curious, and relevant. Certain fashion choices¹ will just collide with the way bicycles work — be it today or in the past.

¹ back then women certainly didn't have that much choice, or they had but it came with it's own set of consequences
Location:
Canada (Mountain Standard Time)

Remote:
Yes

Willing to relocate:
No

Technologies:
UX/UI, Product Design

Resume/CV:
UX Design Director with 12 years experience in digital design and strategy.

Portfolio:
http://www.andrew-turnbull.com

Email: ar[dot]turnbull[at]gmail.com

As an agency-trained designer I have a wide range of experience applying design to all kinds of complex problems (fintech, product design, marketing, business strategy). Currently exploring opportunities to move to in-house with a product-minded organization.
Quarto is a thing https://quarto.org/
Wonder if anyone knows or can speculate how these work?

I stole a glance at the screen when my bag passed through one of these--looked like CT. The user can examine and freely rotate a transparent model of what's in the bag.

I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.
super slick idea. I have been pondering with something similar couple of years ago but got dragged into the world of finance. Interested but I cannot find the role for data engineer in the jobs listing. Maybe not yet published?
> How are time zones irrelevant?

Nobody is going to adjust your birthdate when you move abroad.

If you move east, you’ll be able to drink a little earlier than if you move west.

Nobody is adjusting Christmas Eve against the time zone of Bethlehem.

There are many situations where a date is just a number in a calendar and not a specific time on planet earth.
Mullvad was set to use wireguard. qbittorrent set to use only the mullvad adapter. qbittorrent log showed that it's listening to that adapters ip but found that external ip was mine (upnp was turned off). Then I checked with https://ipleak.net/ torrent address detector. and it also showed my real ip.
Large cargo vessels do try to avoid bad weather, even though they can sail through most of it. It's a crew happiness, risk, and loss avoidance concern (knowing these companies, probably mostly the latter two!).

I was on a cargo ship in the pacific which diverted into the Bering Sea to avoid some weather instead of skirting just south of the Aleutian Islands as planned. The captain gots orders via satellite from a land crew that's crunching the numbers of risk vs extra fuel costs at all times for the fleet.
The first mate was frustrated by how this all works. He said (English not being his first language): "This is terrible! We never get to decide anything for ourselves. We are like Muppets!". I think he meant "puppets"...
Just a heads up, your CV link is broken
I don't think it's just fans. I think Musk pays people to bot social media.
Banned for having a similar email to the one they intended to ban.
+1 recommendation for a cheap UPS.

I was kinda amazed when I plugged in the UPS to my M1 Mac Mini with USB and macOS just detected it without any software. It just shows up as a battery just like on a laptop with all the same options.