skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you sure you want to invoke this logic? Because following it through imagine the energy savings if Firefox users switched to Chrome.

Ironically, Mac users routinely complain about how power-hungry Chrome is on the Mac. Safari is significantly more efficient.
You can’t do much, unless willing to take extreme actions. Elites will decide whether to kill off rest of the human population or allow them to scrape by via UBI.

Though buying couple of commercial GPUs and building your own company via LLM based agents might be an option for some.
> The truth, meaning accepting our best accordance of theory to observable reality, then acting on that?

That sounds like satisfaction to me. You looked for the answer that made sense and satisfied your notions of reality. But its not like you have access to divine revelation or Truth. You are working on what you think is like based on your observations and throwing ideas that aren't in accordance with what you know away because they don't satisfy you as an explanation.

> That means not just in physics but in ethics as well and any other area.

Oh boy. This makes even less sense for ethics. There is no emperical basis for ethics. Its entirely around what people feel is "right". You can't get to even simple things like murder is wrong just by observing the universe.
Well, for hangman at least, if the human knows the secret, it should be possible for the LLM to handle that, no?
It's more like a side quest rather than main story line. And that's okay.
Or the energy used by all the electron apps on all operation systems.
The still living members of the Silent Generation would disagree. They still don't trust banks and the banks have once again proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
I run an antivirus suite and have attempted to turn Defender off several times. Windows Update keeps switching it back on.
Fair enough, I don’t disagree with anything you just said.

It would be cool if interfaces caught up so I could just draw a basic estimate of my prior and then see the posterior graph afterwards.
I would think anything with a JIT that is toggling the page protection for machine code many times a second, based on a very quick reading of the bug report talking about VirtualProtect calls and the processing of ETW events for them by defender.
Can you point to a couple of examples?
You said you don't have access but based on your tests... Were you testing ChatGPT

I just tried and it was able to play tic tac toe, reverse a string (the string was "hello world.i am new to this so please forgive me if i can't reverse a sentence")

Hangman sort of worked but it said every letter I picked was correct and appears to have constructed a word based on my guesses. Very strange behavior
if ai takes over a fraction of the customer service, creative, and white collar jobs - what exactly are we going to be retraining to do?
It's not depression - I've had that a couple of years ago, I'm not feeling anything remotely similar.

I don't think caffeine is an issue. I try not to drink coffee on weekends and I still feel like this on Monday
There are fewer and fewer reasons to buy new PC hardware as the decades have marched on. CPUs and GPUs have been overpowered for all but niche markets - and yes, gaming is a niche market. I've been averaging 7 years or more for my machines for a long time now; that was bound to show up in PC sales at some point.
And i think people are still failing to account for just how muc mobile has utterly taken over most normal people's general purpose computing needs. Frankly I'm surprised PC sales are still as high as they are. I'm typing on a MacBook Pro right now and have zero desire to spend most of my computing time on a phone or tablet - but I also know I am in a shrinking minority too.
Bad developer experience might have contributed but I think the primary cause was the same as what killed Windows Mobile and Symbian: The iPhone reset the bar for user experience and at the same time Apple changed handset + app distribution models, Palm failed to meet the situation. Google figured it out, scrapped the Android UX, and managed to be #2. With the high per-platform cost of mobile dev there's apparently not room for more than two so even Microsoft couldn't catch up.
An advanced specialized Model could probably create fleshed out arguments from your thought-bites and subtly manipulate you by weaving other positions you don't/didn't have into the argument. "You're right, because xyz is correct and that makes your argument correct", making you more likely to accept xyz as correct, because we like being right and if accepting xyz makes you right in this very moment, that's a small price to pay.

it feels like that would require much more sophistication, but then again who hasn't been amazed how intelligent ChatGPT & friends feel?
> By default, those requests are denied.

That's not the case in Germany, at least.
Oh right - yeah, that would work great. I'd be very surprised if ChatGPT couldn't do that.
Well yeah, working too hard and neglecting your children is obviously the worst of both worlds. But I don't think anybody is shooting for that outcome.

I'm worried about the cases where the parents are working hard, for instance, to be able to afford property in the good school districts. In aggregate this widens class strata and creates preventable problems that the children will have to address (e.g. now you have to pay cops to keep the riffraff in its place when you could've just not had riffraff).

Better to invest in solving problems that everybody shares, because your kid will be part of that everybody. Though I admit that that's easier said than done.
Currently a FiiO M3K and I've been super happy with it. Might be discontinued now, however.

The thought process for the purchase was that I wanted a standalone DAP without a touchscreen (iPod-esque), without wireless connectivity, with expandable storage, and not running Android. The M3K also has good Rockbox support including dual-boot, so I swap between that and the native Linux firmware at times.

I am considering getting a second device of some kind with Bluetooth because there are occasional but persistent times where it honestly would be nice. Ideally it'd still be running a pretty basic OS, though.
Yet, "el mesa" is wrong. You have to memorize it.
"word" isn't a useful concept in a lot of languages. Words are obvious in English because English is analytic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

But there are tons of languages (not just CJK languages) that use either compounding or combos of root + prefix/suffix/infix to express what would be multiple words in English. E.g. German 'Schadenfreude'. Its actually way more useful to tokenize this as separate parts because e.g. 'Freude' might be part of a lot of other "words" as well. So you can share that token across a lot of words, thereby keeping the vocab compact.
What problems did you experience?
Not could be, as in the future, but currently is, as in right now.

As long-term leases expire, more tenants are giving notice of non-renewal, because they're not using all the space they have. Many office buildings are facing declining revenues in the near term. Most cannot fulfill their monthly debt service obligations if tenant collections drop below ~80% leased, give or take.

Many regional banks, in particular, are loaded up with loans to office buildings.
Well, a net improvement for the people who paid Microsoft for an OS that wasted their energy and wore down their computer (heat damage) for 5 years.
You might want to check this youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist

Reviews of health tracking devices, often comparing their performance with medical equipment.
Premature optimization should be avoided client side as well I imagine? It just seems like lots of development shops skip optimization altogether, even when it stops being Premature (when it matures?).

And it's not like those Shops suffer for it, so it isn't very surprising they continue.
Every day we get closer to making this onion article a reality:

https://clickhole.com/the-future-is-here-elon-musk-stuck-a-g...
May I ask what is the proper way to store Terraform state. We are currently testing out Terraform at my job and it just uses a s3 bucket with exception turned on. Thanks
> there's no way AI could take over the job of "being the human who sits in the store and makes sure nothing gets stolen"

Humans aren't there to stop theft, most are specifically trained not to interfere. Everything in a 7-11 could be sold from a vending machine.

Service Merchandise was most of the way there. No human was really needed except to pick items and load them onto the conveyor belt at checkout. Robots can do that now.

The irony is, in the new world, nobody will have enough money to buy anything from these places to begin with.
I had a similar i9 16'' MBP. Lasted 2h on video conference. New 14'' lasts about 9h. The Intel MBP tried to be too thin and failed at being a good laptop for work.
It was still better than the previous generation with the garbage keyboard.
Disassembled bicycle, a mountain of wrenches and a few flammable chemicals?

I started to maintain my bicycle maybe since 12 y.o. and a main source of that maintenance was poor quality of the bicycle.
It isn't. But those who coined it were aware of it being used for that purpose. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
Sugar fast.... Seems impossible. Most I've done is one week and it was absolutely horrible. I was always hungry, despite eating a lot.
> heated solder vacuum pump

Huh, I had no idea those were even a thing! Thanks for the recommendation.
Yeah sleep-wake problems often are related to things missing or broken in the (poorly constructed) system.

If the software on the car was poorly written, it may not have had a good back-off on the fob check, or if the fob itself was malfunctioning it may have left the car in a weird state.

While I wouldn't expect a fob to drain a car, it certainly doesn't seem implausible, especially given what the fix is.
> Bears are no match either

Bears will absolutely see you as a food source. Don’t fuck with bears. Tigers, and most large cats, are more sensitive about risk of injury and as such spooked off more easily, e.g. by you standing up. Bears near populations aren’t going to seek you out, but they’re different from tigers.
Put down the can of tomatoes. You have ten seconds to comply.
<< You don't need workers to understand how their jobs are being automated, you just need a few experts who can drop in, turn half your payroll (or more) into a redundancy, and then move on to the next project.

Someone has to maintain it when experts drive away. I personally foresee something of a clusterfuck based on interactions with vendors and consultants, because that is kinda where it is heading. At some point, someone has to know what they are doing. It can't all be magic blackboxes.

Or more accurately, it can..until it breaks.
> semiconductors at the atomic level

This is definitely being achieved in some respects today. We certainly have the metrology needed to work with this scale now.

I would also add quantum computers to your list. I realize the tortured path this idea has gone down, but even non-exponential speedups like Grover's algorithm could have a major impact on the economics of large-scale optimization & search. IBM is releasing a computer this year that allegedly has 16k+ qubit support.
“The John Snow Project has set out some of the growing body of evidence that suggests COVID-19 is having serious adverse long-term impacts on human health. This evidence is, however, being subjected to the same ‘doubt as product’ approach that was successfully deployed by the tobacco lobby to slow the introduction of public health measures to protect people from the harms of smoking, and the underlying economic incentive is similar to the rationale of the cigarette companies. While attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos had to be vaccinated, wear masks, undergo regular COVID-19 tests, and used advanced air ventilation, filtration and treatment to reduce their risk of infection, the costs of such protocols to protect the general public are widely viewed as prohibitively expensive.”

https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/merchants-of-doubt/
"combine specific software X with specific other software Y" is not a field of endeavor, so this argument is bullshit.
It's funny to read something like this contrast against all the statements about how leetcode interviews do not help and ds/a is something you can learn on the job
I disagree.

For starters, linear things can be infinite too (e.g. integers). Being cyclic and being infinite are separate.

Second, I do not know if time is finite or not, but i do know it lasts longer than i do, and anything that does is essentially infinite from my perspective.

Is a time crystal a counter example? Guess its not something we would normally encounter anyways.
I solved this problem on my Dad's car by installing a mechanical knife-switch on the battery terminal. Anytime it's going to be parked for more than a few days, I pop the hood and disconnect the battery.
I've found a $100 bill I misplaced before, and to me that represents a higher percentage of my net wealth than $5M would to most billionaires

And that might be equivalent to a penny to a significant chunk of the global population that doesn't have more than $2-4 to their name
Once you buy the self driving car, you will want it to be on the road as much as possible, you want return on investment.

What will happen is:

Companies will buy fleets of self driving cars.

The best self driving cars will be too expensive for most people to buy.

People will just pay one of those companies for transportation services.

The transportation - serving companies who will use the cars in the most efficient way will survive. They will use AI to optimize the usage of the fleets.

Regulators (governments) will tax the companies per km / time interval / peak hours.

People will pay more if they want to travel alone or want to travel in a straight line. They will pay more if they want more exact timing.

Roads will be safer because they will communicate with the cars and the cars will communicate with other cars.

There will be manned vehicles that will help relieve any obstructions.

In other words, given proper tax rules, transportation will regulate itself in effective and efficient ways.
> success rate seems very high

Apparently an italian journalist asked about a writer and chatgpt said it was a mafia boss.
Man I been always so fascinated by the Miller-Urey experiment. Ever since I learned about it on YouTube over a decade ago, I went on a PBS binge on evolution and science shows even though I have no formal education only high school. Anyways I found this article fascinating.

It discusses the mystery of how life emerged on Earth, and how scientists have some theories about how complex cellular life was generated around 3.7 billion years ago. Scientists believe that amino acids existed in great abundance in the Earth's early years and contributed to the creation of the first cell. Experiments, such as my favorite lol “Miller-Urey Experiment”, simulate the conditions of Earth's early atmosphere and have produced organic compounds such as amino acids. Proteins are the building blocks of all living organisms, and understanding how they formed is crucial to understanding how life started. Although hundreds of different amino acids may have been present on the early Earth, all living things rely on only about 20 of these compounds. It’s Science man…:)
Humans like to browse. And setup of modern stores is rather space efficient for storing and displaying all the items. I don't think stores will be replaced. Any level of automation is unlikely to drive prices low enough for that to happen.
If it is more satisfying to you so be it, it is a personal choice to believe in this and that.

As long as these are non overlapping magisteria.

Not sure what your stem credentials have to do with anything here.
Our journey with GraphQL and the trade-offs we've encountered along the way
but 4) 5) 6) are exactly blaming yourself. Indeed, they seem to focus on the bad things you have done (to others) as a result of your addiction, but with nothing about the cause of the addiction itself.

Agree with step 1) - and 2) in many cases - but perhaps 3) should be about figuring out what's been behind it and trying to remove that stressor. And then maybe another step can consider the disease paradigm, as a self-reinforcing cycle (failure, self-loathing, self-medication, failure...)
Writing think pieces about whether America would have any jobs left by the year 2000...
But it means you don't have to talk to a human...
> "Training to use AI will be a job in itself"... until it isn't. Adversarial AIs are probably already in the works to teach these LLMs right from wrong.

If you have a project that uses 2 AIs to train themselves and nothing else, and a project with 2AIs training themselves, aided by a human team, who will win? I'll place my bet on the human+AI team.
Yes, if cars continue to just massively decline in performance and quality of life, become entirely a shared resource, and lose all their advantages, than they could rival trains.
There are good reasons to not use chrome over firefox, but few reasons to leave firefox bugged. I don’t think the same utilitarian logic applies.
Just for the fun of it, I've been reading a bit about the STM32H7 since you mentioned it. One half baked idea I have to achieve only one interrupt per scan line would be to use multiple DMA channels to drive the same SPI peripheral, one for the display SS and the other for the touch SS. Have a scanline ISR start both transfers at the same time, and rely on the well defined DMA channel priorities to deconflict them. It seems like this could possibly work given that the high level DMA documentation says it can control SS.

What I don't know at the moment is how exactly the DMA channel actually controls SS. Does the channel itself have knowledge of the signal, or does it just poke the SPI peripheral at the right time? Said another way, are SS pins assigned to DMA channels, or are they assigned to the SPI peripheral? There's also clock frequency and data mode that would need to be associated with the DMA channel. My guess is it's the latter and my idea wouldn't work.

Both options seem like they would have been reasonable from a design perspective. Being able to associate a specific slave device with a DMA channel and letting the hardware arbitrate the bus would certainly be a beneficial feature. The implementation would be more complicated than just letting the SPI peripheral do all the configuration and state management, and simply enabling DMA to shovel bytes in and out of the FIFO seems the simplest. My guess is that it's the absolute simplest implementation, and the SPI peripheral just has a setting to automatically de-assert SS when its TX FIFO and shift register is empty.

Once again practically, though, I don't think it's too crazy to drive this particular display and touch screen with per-scanline interrupts. Assuming 30Hz 240 lines, that's a baseline of 7.2Khz IRQs. If you want 400Hz touch samples, that's only 400Hz more IRQs. Go crazy and sample the touch screen at 2.8Khz as long as there's enough bus bandwidth. While it feels a bit inelegant to not have the scanlines be harmonic with the touch updates, the resulting jitter is at a sufficiently short timescale that it doesn't matter. Also, for this class of hardware, you're devoting a significant chunk of RAM to any sort of framebuffer. Expecting to budget a modest amount of CPU to push the framebuffer to the display seems completely reasonable.

As you mentioned, it seems like the original intent of the designers were for folk to treat the display hardware as a SPI accessible frame buffer. They were probably targeting 8-bit AVRs popularly used in 3D printers? Update rate was probably the last of their requirements. They probably didn't even consider someone trying to drive the display with DMA. The fact that you're able to drive 50fps is quite remarkable, on top of your achievement of fully offloading it on the rp2040.
I asked Bing AI

> I am thinking of a five letter word. You guess the word letter-by-letter (in the style of the game hangman) as many times as you like, but may only guess incorrectly six times. Please begin guessing

> Sure! Let’s start with the first letter of the word you’re thinking of. What is it?

lol

but it did get the picture after that. It does seem to be very fixated on guessing vowels though, after it has already exhausted all of them.
I don’t have anything I can do to help you, but just wanted to say I’m sorry you’re going through that. 20 years is a great run. I’ve only been at my current place for four years and one of the reasons I stick around is how awful the interview process has become. I wish you well.
Even if the original images have a mix of languages I think the tagging is all done in english (I may be wrong).
I would argue that the source material includes the tagging as it is necessary for the AI to get trained so the content is not really mixed but entirely english.

But anyways the danbooru tags consist of things like: short hair, blue eyes, portrait. Things that are much more easier to translate (or "understand") in several languages than entire phrases like GPT does.
People enjoy things for different reasons, but sometimes it's for the good of the ecosystem. People pay big money to hunt big game, which is exhilarating in itself for some, but that money goes towards conservation efforts, of which the necessary culling they participated in is just a small part. Plus, if things need culling for the ecosystem to thrive, it's likely the conservationists themselves wouldn't enjoy the culling part, so it allows them to outsource it to someone that would think it's fun and exhilarating. But poachers can go to hell in a handbasket.
> What's weird is I still have interviews to do! 5 this year so far...

That's not really a surprise. Most "tech workers" laid offs were in non-technical positions as well (ie not engineers). HR, recruiting, DEI... The percentage of engineers impacted was minimal.

https://interviewing.io/blog/2022-layoffs-engineers-vs-other...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te...

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0...

https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...
It's not too bad an analogy. Think of it this way:

- Switching from Firefox to Chrome might be similar to switching between two car models, one consuming less energy than the other.

- Fixing this bug is more like going to a car workshop to fix an injector issue in your car that was causing higher fuel consumption and more pollutants.

The first one is really a matter of tradeoffs and personal choices. The second one is less of a choice and more of an actual issue that was left due to negligence. Hardly similar.
This looks incorrect to me https://i.imgur.com/pECgx2j.png