skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I dislike Musk, I think he's undoubtably a great hype man and fundraiser; for both public and private markets. He happened to promote and have a lot of success with some causes that progressives are passionate about, which got him way too much credit in other regards.

A combination of greater exposure and success going to his head is making most people realize that his skills in other areas are limited and morally he's pretty gross.
Might be cool to add instructions on what to do. I landed on that page and was fairly confused as to what I was supposed to do other than read the facts.
"Benetton and Compiani acknowledge financial support from Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative."

Ripple is a competing blockchain that doesn't use PoW. I'd say that the paper was funded to make Bitcoin look bad. It even starts off with two quotes that are not relevant. Further down in the article it even declares Ripple as a 'top crypto' among BTC/ETH, which in reality, while it does have a large mcap, it is orders of magnitude smaller than BTC/ETH.

There was certainly some issues with the residential and small time miners in upstate new york. Most of that got banned, pretty quickly, in 2018 (5 years ago!).

The larger miners, who took over the old smelters, and the ones drawing the most amount of power (by a lot), are definitely getting their feeds directly from the dam and those feeds were not being used once the smelters had shut down back in 2014.

Why not look at other states that have a huge amount of hydro mining, like WA? They focused on, literally, one portion of one state. Is that enough of a data point?

Another good tidbit... those dams actually need a constant draw of power to remain in service. Bitcoin is helping with that and providing a source of revenue that went away when the smelters shut down.
"AI is expensive" may become invalid in the future when we achieve limitless fusion energy, semiconductors at the atomic level and quantum computers

Edit: added quantum computers
This is mostly unique to the US. Where I'm from, we don't use our SSNs as passwords, bank checks and direct debit are simply not a thing, and credit cards have two-factor authentication for online purchases.
I switched from a 15” Intel to a 14” M1. The screen is WAY better, but certainly somewhat smaller. As you note, pixels are still pixels.
The law has always struggled to keep up with technology and the velocity today is higher than ever before.

By the time a copyright dispute makes it to trial these companies will be able to hide behind actual killer robots.
Both "je voudrais" and "j'aimerais" translate to "i would like", albeit with some nuances in the connotations.
The later has more of a wishful quality, more open to rejection. In spoken form, they're mostly interchangeables.
Are small angel checks the most impactful?
“The people who write the $1k, $2k check are the most helpful at supporting the founder[s]” - Brian Nichols of Hustle Fund Angel Squad
Only to a degree.
Once again illustrating that the powerful thing about ChatGPT is that no matter what you do, it does its best to play along. Its eyes do not glaze over.
There is a certain weight to experience and prevalence, you can go wrong, sure, but it's often worth it to try.

Parachutes aren't scientifically proven to work on humans.
If God exists, they sure aren't here when we need them...
I just re-contextualized my FOMO as JOMO (Joy of Missing Out). A master craftsman does not blame their tools, or get obsessed with tooling to the detriment of their craft.
I use this service to hold me accountable to “Anki zero” every day:

https://bossasaservice.com/
You can see all of the utilities this way. The ex editor is also standard.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/
We'd love to see that too! However, I'm afraid that creating a substantial number of examples would transform this delightful family activity into something akin to punishment. Kłeti is quite the challenge for us Indo-Europeans, and it seems that even its creator isn't immune to the struggle.
There is no safe way to be near a black hole.

If you have one of a "mere" 606 million tons, the Hawking radiation is hot enough to directly include fast moving positrons (and has a luminosity of 1.178 GW), while still massive enough to spaghettify you (370g at 10cm).

If the black hole is lower mass, the radiation gets even more energetic. The radiation from 606 thousand ton black holes (sometimes suggested for Hawking radiation drives for spacecraft) is hot enough the radiation will either include antiprotons, or at least the photons will be energetic enough to spontaneously create them on impact: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/no-a-black-...
> taste as good

Is that important? The corn (not to be confused with sweet corn) we grow now doesn't taste good, hence why we largely don't eat it directly, using animals or chemical processes to make it palatable.
Not really, it was around spring 2018. He was joking about how one can never have enough flux.
So I was reading up on this new rocket engine using Argon.

https://www.adastrarocket.com/our-engine/?fbclid=IwAR3EY93sM...

The deeper I got the thought occurred to me why aren't we using this principle to generate electricity? A little deeper dive (which only the Internet makes possible) I found this company that is actually trying to do it.
In context learning is hands down the biggest breakthrough of LLMs. The flexibility the model displays without updating weights is genuinely mind blowing, bordering on absurd especially if you've trained other kinds of models before.

See here - https://imgur.com/a/w3DAYOi
from the paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066

GPT 3.5's (4 is much much better) addition accuracy tanks after 2 digits. However, by approaching arithmetic as an algorithm to be performed and taught similarly to how it's done with people, you can supercharge accuracy to basically 100% for up to 13 digit addition and >90% after.
How did the idea of avoiding premature optimization get misapplied to client-side apps where the entity writing the software is not the one paying for electricity, cooling, and people's time when the software takes much longer to run than it could? When did a lot of software devs stop caring?

Pardon me, I think there are some electron devs at my door asking for a word. They might have baseball bats.
>... and bury the fact that the majority of the shooters are on SSRI's and a host of other medication.

Can you please cite a source for this?

>It's because when you peek behind the curtain, you find they're just a form of culturally acceptable medicine men. "Here, take these pills and it will solve all your issues! No we don't have any idea what 'chemical imbalance' is happening, or even if it's happening, but that's beside the point! Do not question the great and mighty Oz!"

This is an incredibly broad blanket generalization that is not accurate.
The Nature of Work
Yeah so if people can profit short term off index rebalancing:

https://archive.is/54uIY

Then stocks that have more "time on the S&P 500/index" are prone to survive and see higher returns also over the long term.
OpenEuler, Huawei's version of RHEL, is also UNIX-certified.
The example program is calling foo(y), where the value of y is read from standard input. You suggested to evaluate that expression at compile time, which is not possible. How is this unrelated to the thread?
Doctor sells vulnerable people a dependence on his brand of snake oil, “debunks” one of the valid, well-studied, and free paths to recovery; NPR unquestionably parrots hot air on their weekly hot air power hour.
IMO the people that throw around phrases like narcissist, main character syndrome, lack of empathy, etc. usually know nothing about the person they are attempting to diagnose and simply have differing perspectives that they can't see eye to eye on.
> Cars are all electric [...] So less [...] noise

Tire noise dominates at speeds above roughly 30 kph (20 mph), so on reasonably fast roads not really.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Propulsion-noise-the-tyr...

Of course, self driving cars might also mean slower cars, because the drivers are less impatient, and if that is true then noise would go down. On the flip side, self driving cars might end up meaning faster cars because they can coordinate better, increasing noise levels.
You believe being non-religious should be illegal?
I suspect a lot of people won't want to own self-driving cars, especially if you're right and people forget how to drive themselves. We could drastically reduce the amount of parking we need, at least within cities, meaning there probably won't be many cars idly circling blocks.

Personally, I'd be down for a driverless Uber-like service.
"Fixed" in the same way I can "fix" a stuck key on a keyboard by physically removing it. They've circumvented the problem but are left with less than what they originally had.
What does that have to do with anything? "Coal plant" is being used as a unit of power here.
Would be interesting to see the energy usage of Windows Update computed in a similar way.
Hang on a minute, 'most' pasture might not be natural, but no arable ground to grow the alternative food is natural at all! And even if 'most' pasture is not natural we should not ignore that significant pasture was natural. Lets take the Great Plains of North America as an example. Ploughing it up to turn it into arable land was not natural and released much carbon.

> Pasture doesn't really sequester carbon either

Simply untrue. In the UK if I had pasture land I could even get paid for the carbon I had added to the soil. Here is a nice quote that says the complete opposite of your unreferenced comment:

"Prairies have the ability to store as much carbon below the ground as forests can store above the ground. When carbon is stored below ground it will remain locked there and be unable to enter the atmosphere."

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ageconugensc/73/#:~:text=Prai....

I think you are making the same mistake as everyone else by pretending there is a simple solution. Special interest groups, like those who are dogmatically opposed to meat production, are twisting the science just as much as their opposition is.
I don't know about other subjects, so I can't comment on that. I use Anki for med school and language learning, and both have high quality decks. I guess I'm lucky.
You don't climb in and out of an iron lung. If you're using one you're in it 24x7.
I had a similar problem with a Silverado. It is very annoying. When WFH started and I stopped driving every day, I had to jump the battery seemingly at least once a month.

I had people tell me it was the battery - I knew it wasn't because I had replaced the battery a few times due to the parasitic draw emptying it over and over and wearing it out. I took it to a trusted mechanic and they told me they didn't want to fix it. I pulled all the fuses myself, one-by-one, and never figured out which one was the problem.
This also implies that some nontrivial amount of the driving on roads will be cars with no humans in them, which may also be worse than the status quo.
Funny to see that quote "This requires a massive, 100-year change [..] to the way Americans drive" when this has no real effect on a century of autocentric land use in the US and only represents an even heavier subsidization program. Even if the motors change this is entirely aligned with the way Americans drive/live.
Debatable
endpoint detection and response: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/def...
Not sure I'd go quite that far, but wouldn't surprise me to see an overlap in the ol' Venn diagram...
If you use Windows Pro and Enterprise, you can use GPO to disable Defender. Just run gpedit.msc and edit a few of the policies to disable real-time protection etc.

Under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus

- Turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus -> set to Enabled

Under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus > Real-Time Protection

- Turn on behavior monitoring -> set to Disabled
- Monitor file and program activity on your computer -> set to Disabled
- Turn on process scanning whenever real-time protection -> set to Disabled
- Turn on behavior monitoring -> set to Disabled

Restart the computer and Real-time protection should be disabled permanently (until you reverse the same settings through gpedit.msc at least).
> What is the route capacity for a lane of freeway vs a rail line? I assumed it’s the opposite, since a freeway has continuous throughout while a rail line is discrete

According to this book (which provides assumptions and calculations supporting) [0], 10:1 in favor of rail, as a conservative estimate.

https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Industrial_and_System....
We may or may not develop processes to efficiently recycle the "black mass". For now, these processes do not exist.

Battery recycling may go in a different direction than it's currently heading. We may decide to focus on separating out the most valuable of these elements, or only elements from certain battery chemistries. We may even decide that it's not feasible to chemically separate ground battery materials containing iron, chromium, or other contaminants.

In the short term, re-using lithium-ion cells is not particularly feasible due to issues with cell safety and handling. In my mind, re-use doesn't enter into the conversation. If cells are being decommissioned, they would ideally be at or near the end of their useful lives anyways. For instance, if a vehicle was in a car accident, you would never re-use the cells, due to concerns about acceleration damage.
Great question. Based on my use, it would be a lot more than 5 watts/day.
The new sleep apnea device he used is really simple and easy. I think we'll see it utilized a lot more often.
By AI?
Don't underestimate Microsoft Won’t Fix which helped IE dominate the browser market for over a decade.
Amazon Teams with De Beers to Grow Diamonds to Boost Computer Networks
“path of least resistance” is very fitting.
https://archive.is/2I4bm
Words aren't an equivalent count between languages either. English uses a lot of helper words, some other languages use multiple suffixes. Chinese characters don't even make it clear where "word" boundaries are -- there are no spaces.
Internet porn has always been the boogeyman du jour, apparently made to corrupt young minds and commodify sex, but as the old meme goes: The Internet was made for porn[0]. It's a stark reminder that we're sexual creatures and the vast bulk of Internet traffic is essentially pictures and movies of people having sex with each other.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-internet-is-for-porn
Hit Parade would be a better title for such a book.

(KLF had a few hits and wasn't a solo act.)
A larger vocab takes longer to train but has no (practical) impact at inference time as an Embeddings index is just a key-value store, which is very helpful as GPT starts hitting scaling laws.
Don't forget the waste caused by people throwing away devices that are "too slow", and the resources required to build new computers/phones.

Somewhere I saw a rough figure about phones. Something like: if everyone was able to keep their phone one year longer, it would be the equivalent of 600,000 cars off the road or something. (Just looked it up - source is possibly the founder of iFixit).

But you know, development velocity or whatever.
> note: code is sketchy. Not really cleaned up for the public

No worries, you're in good company.
When fine tuning an LLM you can use the LORA technique to make the fine tuning faster. LORA involves fine tuning a subset of parameters (really it's a low rank approximation of the weight matrix determined by picking the n largest eigenvalues in the SVD decomposition). The size of the subset is determined by the rank. The smaller the rank the faster the fine tuning. However if you make the rank too small then quality will suffer. So you want to pick the optimal rank. This paper describes a technique which can be used to find the optimal rank more easily.
I feel pretty handy with car repair stuff, but "intermittent electrical problems" are the absolute worst. In this case they were pretty lucky to trace it to a specific module. You have miles of cables in a car and and most of them are completely inaccessible. There are never any fun, happy, clever troubleshooting stories. You always feel robbed of your time.

This isn't a new problem either - ask anyone who tried dealing with a British roadster. It's also why I stay far away from used cars with aftermarket accessories.
The "usual perverse effect" of policies (aka "risk compensation") almost never happens, people just say it's going to happen and then it doesn't.

This is a disease of the soul caused by reading Freakanomics which makes you think everything that's counterintuitive must actually be true.
> Even researchers can’t keep up with AI innovation

So things are improving so fast that researchers can't keep up... and therefore nothing will change?

This whole article smells like wishful thinking.

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.

It becomes way cheaper to start a new business, so the number of jobs for people who know how to use AI increases, but all other job-markets with AI-exposure tighten.
If you already know React I would narrow the list to Nextjs or Remix.

Afterwards I would recommend Nextjs.

Remix has some great concepts, however Nextjs is more mature when it comes to documentation, tutorials and deployment. So as a general statement by choosing Nextjs you'll have an app in production quicker than if you chose Remix.
> Sailboats can’t even make it under the Fremont bridge, so every rich dude with a boat blocks traffic (including multiple bus lines) for 10 min when they sail by.

I've dreamt of a reverse-toll system where those folks end up paying drivers, pedestrians, and bus passengers some token amount for the delay (not enough to encourage lolligagging but enough to encourage boats to find better travel times or coordinate to spread the tolls.
>He recognized the signs of sleep apnea and pursued treatment with sleep apnea devices, getting confirmation of the problem with the help of his doctor.

It actually baffled me that it wasn't his doctor who picked this up. A person waking up several times with confirmation from someone sleeping besides him that he has stopped breathing, I'm no doctor and gee maybe it's because there are a few cases in my family but that screams "sleep apnea" to me.
The French president acknowledged that the old continent is now more dependent on the United States because of the war in Ukraine.
https://hams.cc/ is a great resource.

Teaches you to keep your ego, empower yourself to change, rather than the helpless feeling of yielding to a higher power taught in AA.
Funny how they still have an image issue related to being driven by rich vegans or whatever else people think of them they see them. It made more sense in 2014 when seeing a Model S was as exotic as seeing a McLaren. Now I am fairly desensitized to seeing Model 3's and Y's as commuter cars between NJ and NY and the merely seeing badge doesn't really do anything for me these days.

It's weird how much a car's price and perceived price can vary when you actually look at how things depreciate. Seeing a Quattroporte and F-150 King Ranch next to each other and noting that used the Maserati is a $15k car and while the truck is nearly $75k is really odd. Teslas hardly depreciate at all through, so I guess that adds to it.
In the 00s, my dad had an issue with the infotainment system of its Peugeot 407 that would no longer boot.

An official Peugeot mechanic told him that it would cost something like 4200€ to replace the unit, so he asked me if I could have a look.

After a quick search, I found an update for his system, burn it on a CD, and put the CD into its car.

The system updated, and then would work normally. Problem fixed for one hour of my time and a CD.
Ah sorry, I just meant that light-heartedly. I wasn't assuming ill intent of the parent at all - just FTX. I'll be more careful. Tone doesn't always carry well over the internet.
When you say reduced by 75%, would that mean, say, going from %40 to 10% or from 75% to 0%?
That just digs deeper into cyberpunk distopia.
> While I agree with most of this, keeping a small number of things secure for yourself is far easier than doing it for thousands/millions of accounts in an automated way.

Of course, but the qualifier I used is "make a case".

Obviously, nobody can ever read SBF's mind, but the government might have enough to prosecute him from this angle if they could prove that he knew better from his behavior with his own holdings, but didn't do things in a certain way for FTX's holdings.
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> Even the Audi dealership won't touch it because they're backed up too.

Getting an appointment at my Audi dealer is always 6+ week minimum wait. I don't think I've ever dealt with a dealer this consistently backed up. And my issues have been recalls and brake problems; but simple oil change is a similar wait time.
There already are dramatically more efficient models in development, I don't expect GPT4 level models to be relegated purely to server racks for long.
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Yes

>Prompt: Someone said "Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong" Does this also apply to human worker?

>GPT4: This statement, while referring to AI models, can also apply to human workers in certain contexts. Here's a breakdown of each aspect mentioned:

> Expensive to run: Human workers may have higher costs associated with hiring, salaries, benefits, and overhead expenses. However, the costs of human workers can be justified in many cases due to their adaptability, creativity, and ability to learn.

> Hard to use: Human workers can be more difficult to manage compared to AI models, due to factors like communication, collaboration, and personal differences. However, humans are capable of adapting to new situations and understanding complex, nuanced scenarios.

> Frequently wrong: Humans, like AI models, are not infallible and can make mistakes or errors in judgment. However, humans possess the ability to learn from their mistakes, improve over time, and apply critical thinking to avoid making the same errors in the future.

> So, while there are similarities between the statement's implications for AI models and human workers, it is important to remember that both have their unique strengths and weaknesses. The best approach often involves combining the capabilities of AI and human workers to achieve optimal results.
There's a reason why all bankers from Nigeria to Japan wear boring gray suits in commercials.

Never understood what people saw in SBF.
If you want to figure out what someone else is saying, you need to figure out the way they have conceptualised the issue. You won't be able to do this by insisting on your conceptualisation.
And, 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.

We are having modern John Henry moment where the machines still stuck just enough that humans are ahead, but even small improvements in machines lead to a rapid replacements of parts of the workforce.

Much like we didn't stop improving drills, and no one in their right mind would drill a commercial tunnel without machine labor, our current AI models based in LLMs are still in their infancy, no one has any plans on stopping here.

We should also note that John Henry dies in the story from overworking, so we may want to take that in mind too.