skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re completely missing the point.

It was the Luddites that complained automation destroyed their jobs. They were right.

People now are complaining AI will take away their jobs. Others disagree with them. Which of these two groups takes the modern role of the Luddites?
Just found one - http://www.hnreplies.com/ [Edit - hmm...except I'm not sure it's working. Edit 2 - yep it works. :)]
That would make sense to me, but AFAIK the existence of text-only trained GPT-4 is not publicly reported? Or I missed this.
Thoughts on AI safety in this era of increasingly powerful open-source LLMs
The math gets REALLY easy when you do none of it.
> Autonomous cars in San Francisco made 92 unplanned stops between May and December 2022

So about one unplanned stop every 3 days? Seems a bit of a stretch to call it "clogging" San Francisco.
It is no accident, otherwise going to meetings wouldn't be an essential part of it
In Europe we almost never tip.
Include the cost of workforce in total price, stop relying on tips. I don't care, if this doesn't make you earn a living, quit. And I'll gladly do pizza at home.
> This combined with the fact those interactions have been happening for billions of years in parallel at such a massive scale does not make it surprising that persistent and self replicating patterns emerge. On a large enough scale, even improbable events become likely.

I don't think anyone has proven the scales necessary for life to happen by chance. What you have done is worked off the base assumption that abiogenesis happened accidentally and therefore the time and scale needed to do so is the age and scale of the observable universe. Under the infinite monkeys theorem the works of Shakespeare will eventually be produced, but we are not working with infinite time and resources here. We are working with "just" 9 billion years and "just" 100 billion galaxies, which, for abiogenesis seems pretty short especially considering what % of planets have zero chance for life due to their composition and star proximity.

How many billions of years of compute time across how many parallel computers do you think it would take Conway's game of life with random RNG seeds to simulate itself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8)? Regardless of your answer, I still find it more likely Conway's game of life simulating itself points to an intelligent force of some sort having iteratively created it.
That is literally what is addressed by the first section of the document. Both in "Summary" and in "Goals"

> Far from using a separate dialect of Java, students can write streamlined declarations for single-class programs and then seamlessly expand their programs to use more advanced features as their skills grow.

I remember when I started with Java 20 years we had a special IDE (BlueJ maybe? DrJava?) that wrapped the main class so that <code>System.out.println("Hello world");</code> was a complete program.

So that is clearly

> Do not introduce a separate beginner's dialect of Java.

Perhaps this is in response to Python growing as an initial programming language (IMHO wrongly because types are fundamental to thinking about programming).

They also mention:

> Reduce the ceremony of writing simple programs such as scripts and command-line utilities.

You can question the merits or trade-offs, but it's very clearly spelled out.

> Reduce the ceremony of writing simple programs such as scripts and command-line utilities.
Super roughly, but you might be able to implement an Authentication SPI[0] and wire that into an Authorization Code flow.

[0] - https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/#_au...
I moved out of the state during the pandemic when I bought a house in the PNW, however, I am mostly surprised to hear there are sideshows happening in SF after living there for over a decade.

As for the Cruise cars, I believe they were still being trained so were not carrying passengers yet. They might have ironed out the kinks.
All EFNet IRC channel names and titles circa 2000 (NSFW)
Nice. Amazon found someone better at monopolies, fake markets, and price inflation to learn from.
New Mechanic: Low battery is causing your low battery

Ok, thanks.
>They were right

[Citation needed]

EDIT: Oh, we're being pedantic (I guess I kicked it off). "They were right", as in a group of individuals lost the employment they had at a particular time, reasonably believed to be a result of automation. Not that these people were unable to find new employment or that the total number of jobs available was reduced.
Google Is Removing 4 Attribution Models for Advertisers
Very few RVs come with solar.
I would check your owner's manual. Mine says not to be alarmed about noise coming from under the truck. In my case it's a fuel evaporation check.
Totally agree about visualization, and that those authors are great advocates for it. Confidence intervals are definitely much more informative and intuitive than p-values.

Would the policy be "look at our confidence intervals later and then decide what to do"? One remaining issue is how to have consistent decision criteria, and to convey it ahead of time. Imagine a context with 10-50 teams at a company that run experiments, where the teams are implicitly incentivized to find ways to report their experiments as successful. Quantified criteria can be helpful in minimizing that bad incentive.
Similarly, somehow a friend of mine had a Loompanics shopping catalogue. Lots of fun and eye-opening titles!

Loompanics was later bought by Paladin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loompanics
> There are fewer and fewer reasons to buy new PC hardware as the decades have marched on.

If Apple provided a way to use Mac minis to serve as distributed compile caching and distributed build tool, I'd have a reason to buy some.

Also, mac minis are expensive when compared with other miniPCs in the market. There are some ryzen5/core i5 systems with 16 and 32GB of RAM shipping with Windows 11 being sold right now on Amazon for 300-500€. If all you want to do is run stuff in a browser and do work then you'd be hard pressed to find a reason to buy a Mac mini, let alone a Mac studio.
What brand is your station at work?
It's threaded as of recently. Before that the throughput obviously hinged on single-core performance. 1 Gbit/s sounds like lower tier laptop spec to me. My 2015 low-power Celeron test rig could do ~700 Mbit/sec through a medium complexity PF ruleset on OpenBSD versions where PF was still single-threaded.
This turns out not to be a problem, because the engine runs cooler on LPG.

The gas leaves the tank in liquid form and has to be boiled into a gas. Its boiling point is -40°C, and so the vapouriser is plumbed into the cooling system. This pulls a lot of heat out of the coolant.

I regularly tow at the maximum permitted weight and speed with my LPG-converted Range Rover, and the coolant never gets above its normal 95°C even on the hottest day.
> Spanish is a lot more dense than English or French and might tokenize better.

I'm no linguist, so I apologize if I'm misinterpreting this statement. My impression has always been that Spanish is less dense than English, only because in almost all cases, the Spanish version of product instructions is wordier. Look at the back of a shampoo bottle[0] and notice that the Spanish version is either longer, or a smaller font, to fit it all.

[0] https://i.postimg.cc/xd2X5WJN/Ghub-Fo-N11u8jz-Pjj-RDt-W-CGA9...
A multimeter is cheap and really easy to use. This is the safest way also
https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
Iirc iron lungs are better than CPAP, as the positive pressure caused by CPAP, if too big can stress the lungs.

Iron lungs use negative pressure so they don't suffer from this
You basically just said you stop supporting things once they ship. Doesn’t work properly on Windows? Shrug.
I agree that it’s a neat demo, but it’s not all that useful in itself. You could also do this by writing a function in a programming language (if it weren’t built in), to arbitrary accuracy, and it doesn’t cost anything to run.

A more practical thing to do for algorithms is probably to use ChatGPT to help you write the function you need.
Well Apple updates are far more infrequent than Microsoft with Windows so you are still probably way ahead :p

When prompted I just pick "Later" and my Mac updates at night. Automatically. When I'm not using it so unless it was going to take longer than the time I'm going to be sleeping, update length is a non-issue.
A couple of things:

1. Sleeprider deserves to be raised to knighthood or some kind of medal or something. The man is a hero and a living legend, who has helped untold number of people with their apnea. I'm not kidding. Thank you, Sleeprider, for all that you do.

2. OP really should pursue the NHS route. Maybe it'll take a while, but once the gears are in motion he'll at least get access to a steady supply of ASV machines, for free. There will also be a paper trail of effective treatment, which might be important for insurance purposes further down the line (mortgages or life insurance or whatever which might require a medical checkup).

3. If you have a bed partner who tells you that you're not breathing, or that you snore loudly: get tested and get treated. Don't shrug it off. Deal with it. The sooner, the better.

4. CPAP doesn't have to be unsexy. I really don't understand why virtually all CPAP pictures include full-face masks with bulky headgear. The vast majority of CPAP users can get by with nasal pillows with minimalist headgear. Using those pictures instead would reduce the anxiety people feel about getting on CPAP. [1]

5. AHI is a largely meaningless number. "Mild" apnea can be just as devastating as "severe" apnea. AHI only looks at events/hour, it doesn't look at when the events occur (e.g. during REM), how many are back-to-back, and how much your sleep is actually disrupted. You can have a "normal" AHI of 5 and still get absolutely trash sleep because of un(der)treated sleep apnea.

[1] Nasal pillow mask: https://www.resmed.com.au/healthcare-professionals/products/...
I use a 7 year old low-power laptop. Cooling, electricity usage, and performance of Electron apps are never an issue. Crashes, bugs, lost data, and bad usability still are. I’d rather have devs spend time on that stuff.

If Electron frees up organizational resources to do what’s actually important, I applaud devs for using it.
Splitting vendor and index makes good sense, I use esbuild which has [iffy](https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/207) support for that. Still, the vendor code could be loaded independently while the application code (and styling!) is inlined into the initial index.html response.

> I try to make the experience nice even for people with really shitty connections

I see this sentiment a lot, though people seem to be able to use it to justify any design at all... the question IMO is what does "shitty" mean?

- In a low bandwidth case, serving only the absolute minimum data to do what the user has specifically requested makes good sense. A solution here is Server Components, which can send the client js event handlers on a per-interaction basis.

- In a high latency case, the total number of round trips should be minimized at all costs, so the Server Components approach is terrible, the client may need to wait for 2+ round trips to do their interaction (one to download the client js, one for that client js to perform the actual action). A solution here leans towards the fat index approach.

- In the case where connections drop often, all the data that the client might need should be transferred over as soon as possible, as there's a good chance they won't be able to access the server at the exact moment when the data is needed. The solution here is the fattest indices possible, with copious caching.

These are all three in conflict with each other to some extent, so the best approach is probably dependent on the specifics of your user-base.

In my experience, a "shitty connection" is one where the bandwidth is low, latency isn't typically a big deal, but the connection will drop frequently, potentially for hours or more. However, in such cases I'll at times have access to the occasional hotspot where the network is perfectly fine. Accordingly, I design my apps to transfer as much data as possible initially (ensuring that the main content can be seen and interacted with even if data for some other module is transferring in the background), and provide the option to store everything in stale-while-revalidate service worker caches so the full experience is available fully offline to the extent possible, even if you didn't fully explore the app while online. In this way, I can download the latest chunks when on the good connection and run fully offline from then on (obviously excepting actions that are legitimately impossible without a server).
Tic tac toe (on GPT-4) works with this

https://pastebin.com/cPwpZnZu
Correction, trains specifically. Subways and light rail are immensely higher ROI (as in, benefit vs cost) within a city since it effectively forces people close together, while a 6-lane-on-each-side highway isn't economically feasible for all of the high-traffic areas.
I know we are all very analytical on this site and love to comment "source?" any time someone infers something from a dataset, but this seems like one of those times we can easily correlate the two.

The lower class who needed those checks to pay rent and buy food did just that.

However there was a large portion of the population who did not lose their jobs and considered those stimulus checks "fun money." Many used it to purchase goods they typically wouldn't have 1k+ to spend on regularly.

Couple that with many working from home, their children going to school from home and needing a laptop, and the sheer boredom factor, I don't think it's a leap to correlate stimulus checks with a huge jump in Macbook sales given the time frame.

Again, you also have to factor in that the check was pretty much exactly what a new, entry-level (aka most popular SKU), Macbook Air would cost after taxes.
At my company we use Feature Flags for Licenses, and Authorization for users.

They are absolutely similar concepts, just as different levels.

If a customer wants to buy Analytics for example, it is controlled via a feature flag to enable it for that entire customer. By default all of thier user accounts can then access Analytics.

Then if we want to restrict certain categories of their users from seeing Analytics we can do that at the Authorization level.

Is it possible we could control all of this with one Authorization layer? Yes, probably.

But this lets us have a bit more fine grained control over things.
> I suspect a lot of people won't want to own self-driving cars

If it involves the car having a data link to someone else's server, then I have no interest whatsoever in self-driving vehicles.
Space station 14: open-source remake of space station 13
I realized that, after a year of learning German on Duolingo, the app had become something that I hated. The initial gamified fun-ness became a stressor. Seeing the notification every night that my streak was about to end stressed me out. I had long since stopped enjoying the learning process because it had felt like I wasn't learning anything at all. Ending my streak felt amazing.

I'm learning Japanese now through books, Anki, and a few webapps. The gamification is gone and streaks don't really matter. I'm sticking with it because I'm enjoying learning, not because the owl is threatening me.
I wonder if that is how our brain produces dreams? The guardrails are down so it will just start producing ridiculous and/or implausible things.

Edit: It almost seems like you are anthropomorphizing it. It is just a program doing what it's supposed to be doing: to predict the next token based on its weights. Nothing more, nothing less. It does give the illusion of intelligence. Pretty soon, though, we may not be able to tell the difference.
Actually, if you bought an entry level m1 Air, there's probably not going to be a reason to upgrade for a while.
I’ve been using thinkpad for over a decade and have noticed decline in quality on hardware and even firmware/software on the device. They have been regularly making the keyboard worse and it’s gotten down to 1.5mm of key travel or worse from about 2mm prior (1.8mm more recently). This is in addition to the chicklet keyboard style, which also sucks compared to the keyboard style they had before (W520 and older)

It still has some of the best build quality overall, among PC manufacturers.
Also wrong are "a hour" and "an cats". Sometime Spanish uses one word ("hablo") where English needs two ("I speak").

Comparative analysis of language isn't taboo [1]. It's just vastly more complicated than you make out, and the specific examples you chose aren't representative enough to support any point.

You're likely getting downvoted for misunderstanding basic socio-linguistic concepts that belie the confidence of your arguing: conflating biological and grammatical gender, implying that English was created by a committee of clever language designers, a focus on letters and words over concepts and comprehension.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
I'm surprised it didn't already have a master shut off switch next to the battery. You should always shut off / disconnect the battery when not in use because, as someone else pointed out, the propane detector will drain it.
Dismissing the potential of AI is naive but so is the mindless optimism that surrounds it. In a lot of tech circles it’s being treated as an absolute certainty, like when the internet was invented and everyone said the office was dead. The reality was a whole lot more complicated than that.
Like all broken bot detection, detection breaks and unbreaks at random. Maybe it dislikes my timezone, maybe it's my exact GPU driver, maybe it's the weather.

My laptop's Firefox works, my desktop's doesn't. Same IP, same browser, same addons, same account. I can't explain it and the error message "verification failed" doesn't exactly give me much to go on.
> Teslas hardly depreciate at all through, so I guess that adds to it.

How can this be if the battery is a huge portion of the vehicle’s cost and it has a limited lifetime?
That would depend on the car brand. Not so good idea in some brands.

Assure to write somewhere your radio code password first.
Established science these days (since late 19th century) involves testable hypothesis, solid mechanical explanation and rigorous experiment when possible, reproducible too.

"Unestablished" "science" tends to skip one or more of these.
A lot of "soft" sciences also skip a lot of steps before publishing findings.

The most commonly skipped one is describing experiments in sufficient detail for them to be possible to reproduce. The other is making unwarranted conclusions from a special group or situation.
More like can exist for an observable amount of time. Can smash particles together, and for a tiny moment you can have an arbitrary isotope.
Damn. I never thought of SDCs as being particularly dystopic, but this would be squarely in that area.
It's a bit odd to me basing a purchasing decision on process nodes. I would consider overall product features rather the foundry or foundry node in of it self.

In fact, I'd rather being inclined towards n-1 node and not take the risk of being first for high volume manufacturing for a new node.
Concept is cool but the delays in the conversion flow drive me crazy. I’d ask “are you there?” While waiting for the backend to respond with voice output.
I wonder how WeWork is going to handle this.
See also "A Bibliometric Review of Large Language Models Research from 2017 to 2023"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02020

The tooling on arxiv is great, but semanticscholar has some nice paper navigation features as well.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Bibliometric-Review-...
> at least at this time AI isn't going to ask for rights, time off for family, or even ask for a break after 340 hours of working.

People said the same stuff with the advent of computing. We’d all be living lives of leisure while computers did our jobs for us. It definitely didn’t work out that way.
So what you’re saying is that John Horgan made a rhetorical blunder by using life-expectancy as a case for how bad the health-care actually is? Perhaps it was, perhaps life-expectancy is just one indicator of many (as is maternal mortality). But as the parent of your sibling comment points out, John Horgan is not doing this to win a debate. Luckily Horgan cites a report[1] in his article which has spends an entire section on health care outcomes which includes life-expectancy (after age 60), maternal mortality, infant mortality, preventable mortality, treatable mortality, etc.

> The U.S. ranks last overall on the health care outcomes domain (Exhibit 1). On nine of the 10 component measures, U.S. performance is lowest among the countries (Appendix 8), including having the highest infant mortality rate (5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births) and lowest life expectancy at age 60 (23.1 years). The U.S. ranks last on the mortality measures included in this report, with the exception of 30-day in-hospital mortality following stroke. The U.S. rate of preventable mortality (177 deaths per 100,000 population) is more than double the best-performing country, Switzerland (83 deaths per 100,000).

Sure, any one of these might have alternative explanations, perhaps the abnormally high suicide rate has more to do lack of public transit, easy gun access, or something, than lack of psychological treatment, or the infant mortality is high because of endemic substance abuse (which is also a health care problem, but lets leave that for now). But taken together, the fact the USA consistently falls last in all but one of these metrics, must have a simpler explanation, and that explanation is that a large proportion of the USA population does not benefit from a good health care system.

1: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...
Not really, When powered down(battery diconnected) the computer then has to re learn parameters/pass internal validity checks. On a well preforming system this will be done in as little 1 or 2 rides but on a marginal system this can take many rides. the computer may not enter closed loop mode until these checks pass.

closed loop mode is where the computer set it's output values(fuel air ratio, timing etc) based on it's input sensors. open loop mode is where it sets it's outputs on known safe working values, but it may not run particularly well. i think this is related to the so called "limp mode"

Note My knowledge on this subject is very out of date. I had to figure it out for my old 2001 car. Newer vehicles may actually have flash storage and the computer parameters survive power out.
Yes apologizes, I didn't know this was a term of HN. I am truly interested in tech and reading this forum and would like to continue please. I agree not to post on one singular area as above.
This seems smart to me:

> Try this on for size: “I am raising $3 million right now, and once the financing closes, I will pay myself a salary of $130,000. Once we hit $300,000 ARR three months in a row, I will pay myself a $30,000 bonus and raise my salary to $150,000 per year. Once we hit $1 million ARR three months in a row, I will pay myself a $50,000 bonus and raise my salary to $250,000 per year.”
Why we Adopted Sentry Style Release Strategy
You have a comment flagged as dead for presumably being too mean spirited. I go out of my way to edit my comment to let you know I didn’t do that. Yet you still double down on insulting me again (!)…I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

My last question was not rhetorical.
You measure the voltage across the fuse. Then you look up the fuse's resistance in a datasheet. Current is Voltage / Resistance.
They're not "gullible" -- they exist to flog the views of those who elected them; that's their job. They exist to be a sock puppet for their voters.

Think tanks exist to come up with policy prescriptions. There are just so many topics, internationally, locally, nationally, that no one can be a deep-dive expert unless they focus specifically on it.