skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freeways are amazingly cheap. 1 mile of new 6-lane freeway on level terrain is about 3 million: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/27/how-much-does-...

Amazingly, railroads are not much cheaper. The current costs of tracks are estimated at about $2 million per mile, and this is without taking into account all other necessary rail infrastructure (such as sorting yards, maintenance facilities, etc.).

And CO2 emissions are being fixed by switching from gas cars to EVs.
Not all uses cases for a car are the same. Some are held entirely on private property and are used as work vehicles where the seat belt chime would be unnecessary and distracting. Which is why most manufacturers provide a sneaky mechanism to disable it. I own the vehicle, why wouldn't they let me disable the nag?

Their solution? Make it intentionally complicated, but still possible:

Step 1: Turn your headlight switch off

Step 2: Unbuckle your seatbelt and turn the key to the off position

Step 3: Turn your key to the on position till the seatbelt warning light turns off

Step 4: Buckle and unbuckle the seatbelt three times and end on the unbuckled position

Step 5: Turn your headlight switch on for three seconds and then turn it off

Step 6: Repeat step number 3

Step 7: Wait for the seat belt warning light to turn on and off again then buckle and buckle the seat belt
Homes should not be an investment vessel. We have policies that make them reasonable investments, which leads to price increases, scarcity, NIMBYism, etc.

it never was a policy to make the street or sidewalk a residence

That's literally the end-result of NIMBYism run rampant. If you don't want lower income housing (or homeless shelters, or drug treatment centers, or mental health case facilities) anywhere near your home, then you have to accept that there will be a population of people that need any of those things who now must go without, which then leads to homelessness, crime, etc.

The extreme outcome is walling off neighborhoods and hiring armed guards as they do in many parts of South Africa.
I can believe that it's 1.5x less concise and that there's 10x less training data in Spanish compared to English.
Very good point. Spending the money on security engineers at a crypto company sounds like a no-brainer to me. They have a lot of good ideas and the work is essential.

(Demanding that crypto keys be stored in Google Drive is the kind of suggestion you'd make if you were planning on stealing all the money, I guess.)
Ye olde ammeters were secretly voltmeters with a low-value but high-precision shunt resistor in series with the circuit to be measured.

Current passing through the resistor causes a tiny voltage drop, which is measured by the meter. As the voltage is proportional to the current, the scale painted on the cardboard behind the needle did the actual conversion.

In the author's setup the fuse takes the shunt's place; its resistance is apparently a known value that can be gathered from a datasheet.
That's a great idea. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Thanks!
If you're curious what spending the night on Antarctica might look like, this video shows one experience (although it's from a part of the year with daylight & darkness).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9fmEe8nJU
Ask HN: Which React framework for a new project?
I know there are a lot of projects out there these days (Next, Remix, Redwood, Blitz, etc). I'm curious, if you were starting something new today, what would you use?
Three Programmers Turned a Dating Website into a $1.65B Product in 2 Years
Here's a recent release of fine-tuning Flan-UL2 on instructions (alpaca). https://medium.com/vmware-data-ml-blog/lora-finetunning-of-u...
There are plenty of scenarios we should be thinking about. I'm mainly concerned about the logical leaps and scant evidence used to go from "scenario X is possible" to "it's more likely than not that scenario X will happen, therefore we should ban all research".

>Then our fate is out of our control, which might as well be death.

I disagree with this part. Dogs aren't in control of their fate, but a lot of them seem to live pretty good lives. I think the ethically important thing isn't being the dominant species, it's getting what you need in order to live a meaningful life. Humans need food and shelter, social connection, creative projects, entertainment, art, etc. These things aren't inherently threatened by AGI.
There are no separate instances for different languages. ChatGPT is inherently multilingual.
For others like me who didn’t know the term:

> Sideshows entail street stunts in which parties perform “doughnuts,” or high-speed circles, burn-outs and other risky maneuvers.
https://ozgurnevres.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/terminato...
Elon proceeded to gather everyone around, put on glasses and cut directly through the $30k motor. He then gave a little speech about how it is costing to company $4m a day to not be at run rate.

And how long did the company wait to replace that motor? How much did that cost?

Maybe that was, in fact, the right thing to do. But it's great to be the guy who doesn't have to answer to anybody if you do it wrong.
I don't know much about AA, but whatever the case may be, I wonder if measuring effectiveness based on success rate numbers is all that meaningful. That is, does it makes sense to view it in medical terms? While it seems to be the case that some are more prone to alcoholism than others based on genetic factors, whether one actually becomes an alcoholic is not a matter of deterministic factors like a disease might be. There is a huge component of assent. Thus, it is related to character, virtue, and habit. Temperance is, at bottom, a matter of "orderliness" (vs. disorder) of the faculties and appetites moderated and ruled over by reason and a will that conforms to the truth as known by reason. This entails restraint, moderation, self-denial, and the ability to suffer well when illicit desires surface, such as the desire for a drink when you know, rationally, that you ought not drink, that it is harmful and wrong to do so. Indeed, for all of us, to be able to suffer is essential to being a good human being; those who cannot suffer cannot live well and cannot love well. Practices of self-denial, like fasting, and self-sacrifice help cultivate this self-mastery. Sacrifice is always that of the lower for the sake of the higher.

My point: perhaps success rates are to be understood also in light of personal commitment, understanding, and what makes commitment possible. Most people struggle with bad habits and addictions of all sorts and sizes. Alcoholism is just one of them and one that happens to be conspicuously destructive. Perhaps the "success rates" for the others are comparable because most people simply prefer to keep the bad habits and avoid (or lack the basic knowledge of the need for) the suffering they must endure to be made free of such things. Why assume alcoholics and alcoholism are any different than most people and most habits, mutatis mutandis?
Just to add to this: I see that you took it down for some valid reasons but don't be dismayed. This is a cool idea, probably not best to be implemented as a product to improve mental health but there's something here. If you find that this has been helping you personally then keep working on it. You may find what you end up building may not be the product you originally envisioned but solving a broader 'technical issue' around language models, perhaps in predicting emotion or understanding the sentiment behind the words.

Overall, I'm just saying often these personal projects don't translate to the public well at first. But eventually you fine tune it for yourself enough and find the true value in it. Then you figure out how to translate that to the public
> It should be fine with the car not "on"

No. Not if the meter is in "Ammeter" mode (or is purely an ammeter only). An ammeter presents a very low resistance to the circuit you are attaching it to, low enough that for almost all circuits, it is effectively a "short".

If one connects an ammeter across a low resistance voltage source (i.e., across the car battery) the ammeter will appear as a short circuit to the battery, and one or more bad things will happen. The 'least bad' will be blowing a rather expensive fuse in the ammeter that protects it from this kind of accidental use. Several of the "most bad" will involve hot molten metal and/or extreme heat.
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So aside from the lithium, what is causing the runaway thermal to fire/explosion??
> The few who attempt to follow the instructions and find them lacking are also unlikely to post verified reviews about why the explosive boobytrap did not kill the target as advertised.

These days, who knows. We had Silk Road for a while.

Long ago, SWIM attempted some of the napalm recipes. It did create a flammable, gelatinous muck, but also ate holes in and leaked out of the storage containers the guide recommended.

At the time, there was no public forum in which to complain about this oversight, just a lot of "oh shit" heard echoing across the backyard when a test batch was ignited.
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https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet

Controlnet is a neural network added to an already trained model so they can be conditioned on new stuff like canny edge, depth map, segmentation map. Controlnet let you train this model on the new condition "easily", without catastrophic forgetting and without a huge dataset. In the repo linked by OP, they have trained a controlnet model on the segmentation map generated by SAM: https://segment-anything.com/
where can i see the demo for this?
FTX Lost Track of Its Money
Probably not an issue with more modern systems with solar panels and the detector on the house batteries.
Mobile apps should require more than a couple of taps before charging for a $4K+ upgrade.
DOS ain’t done till lotus won’t run.
>If nuclear works for the world's subs, it works on land too.

Kind of like saying that if solar panels work on the ISS then they work on land too.

It's surface level true while missing the broader issue.
Play.ht's API is like $99/month. Is it possible to use any other TTS service? (Also, does play.ht just use Azure underneath?)
Once you find the fuse that passes the highest current, why not just place a switch button in series with it? Turn it off when exiting the car. Add an LED to show when it is on.
I learned about this with my 2013 Scion iQ. I was living with my brother who didn't allow weed smoking in or near the house so I would go hotbox my car.

Weirded me out the first time I'm sitting there in silence smoking a bowl and suddenly fuel pump noises. Which were easier than normal to hear because I took the back seats (the only sound deadening in the back) out of that car so I'd have room for a full size spare tire instead.

With my current car (2020 Kia Sportage) I've noticed the head unit is waking up before I even start the car. As soon as you unlock the car I can see my flash drive light up with activity as the head unit gets ready to pickup music from where it left off.
It's so frustrating this discussion took five years.

I'd be grateful for an overview of the bug. I don't think I've seen it on my two systems but I can't be confident.
I was around 5 years old so my logic was pretty simple. I think I tried a heavy rock lol
At Math Academy (https://mathacademy.com), we implement spaced repetition in combination with a knowledge graph consisting of several thousand math topics and tens of thousands of connections (and growing). We're working on a post that explains how this all works technically.

We have a Linear Algebra course (https://mathacademy.com/courses/linear-algebra) that some of you might find interesting given how often that topic shows up on HN, and we just finished our Math for Machine Learning course (https://mathacademy.com/courses/mathematics-for-machine-lear...) for anyone who might be interested in giving that a look.

I'm the founder if anyone has any questions.

Sorry about the shameless plug.;)
thanks, will check that out!
Show HN: Receiving Email with SES, StepFunctions and EventBridge
I'm weaning my many domains off Gmail, and it seems there are many others seeking to do the same. My approach isn't for everyone, obviously, but if you're into AWS and serverless and need inbound email to drive automations, this might be interesting.
Hypergamy is psueoscientific nonsense
What is it with newer projects coopting the name of existing stuff lately?

First it was the term "crypto", then it's "LoRa", and now we have a "grep" that isn't.

This is quickly becoming a pet peeve of mine, as it's really polluting search results if you want to find the original things.
Ask HN: Devs – How would you prefer to explore data products?
Hi!

Lately, I have been working on a project in the database space. The project is a tool that connects to existing databases and offers a different approach for creating aggregations using code.

I have been considering different ways to offer a trial of this tool for developers to try out. Some options I have considered include:

- Providing a downloadable binary that can be run statically
- Offering a Docker image
- Providing a one-click cloud deployment, such as an AWS CloudFormation instance that creates and configures an EC2 instance in a subnet of choice.

I'm trying to figure out which of these (or other) suggestions would be preferred and why.

I would love to hear any thoughts or other suggestions :)
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It's inspired from literature. It means someone who views themselves as the main character of the world's story. In some literature, the world tends to revolve around the main character. (This is not true of much of literature that deals with, for example, character studies, but think of books like Ender's Game or Lord of the Rings.)

Although we are each usually the 'main character' of our own story, we typically know that we are not "the main character" of the world broadly. Some people act in ways that suggest they may not understand the difference. People refer to them as having "main character syndrome."
Good idea! Let me figure this out :)
> All the AIs will be trained on the available media - most of which is English.

Is it?
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I remember doing this sort of song and dance with my RAM and Jeep. Sometimes I am just moving around a parking lot for a brief moment, or especially when off roading (read: stuck) and don't want the constant beeping.

Seat belts are 100% an immediate habit for me. Driving at any rate of speed without one makes me feel super sketchy and uncomfortable, so the nag is not needed at all.

On my Ford's I would use FORScan to defeat it via the OBD2 port.

I do have a security gateway bypass module for my truck though so hopefully I will be able to start playing around with AlfaOBD soon.
Nooooo! you can't use wikipedia as a source it's not reliable >:(

jkjk. Thanks for sharing!
Besides the Gigerenzer article mentioned below (there are others by the same author worth reading e.g. 'Mindless Statistics'), I would recommend:

'Moving to a world beyond "p <0.05" by Wasserstein et al in the American Statistician
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1...

as well as the classic article by Jacob Cohen "The Earth is Round (p <.05).

YMMV, but in certain disciplines still, "statistical analysis" is little more than checking for p-values and applying a binary decision rule.

That is without recognizing the shaky theoretical ground of NHST as practiced.
I'll email you thanks.
Can't find one, it's too bright outside...
It went from ~20 seconds of freezing on every server request to no freezing at all after adding the exception. That's quite the amplification.
Wait isn't everyone else winding down their NFT and other "Web3" businesses?

Is there any reason Porsche is so late on this?
"la mesa" isn't a female table, it's just a table. If you want to specify that the table is female (in reality) then you might say "mesa hembra". The fact that "mesa" is _grammatically_ feminine is a red herring. It's a rule of the language that occasionally corresponds to nature, but that's in a very limited minority of cases. You can think of grammatical gender like an optional redundant bit (against, say mishearing) when giving some information, but since there's no other way to talk about a table it doesn't give any more information than "the table" when written down.
You have that backwards. Low occupancy vehicle travel is the most wasteful form of personal transit.

Rail passengers displaced by freight become low occupancy vehicle trips.

In my state, a commuter rail coach car has about 180 seats. Let's be cautious and assume 50% occupancy.

That's 90 people, and based off the US passenger car fleet averaging 25mpg, they collectively would have used 3.6 gallons of gas per mile.

An eighteen wheeler gets 5-10 miles per gallon.

Even assuming just 5mpg, the passengers in that one coach car would have used eighteen times more fuel than the truck hauling a container would.

Furthermore: freight and passenger use of rail are not mutually exclusive uses. Freight is in theory far less sensitive to scheduling, and like a lot of trucked freight, can happen during times passenger use is low. But because industry has squeezed their supply chains to the hair of breaking under "just in time delivery" to minimize warehouse space and the like...which bit us pretty severely in the pandemic...freight companies are optimizing for shareholder profits and own the tracks. So they prioritize their freight over passengers. Result? Passenger service is riddled with service issues, leading to less passenger use, which is fine as far as the freight companies are concerned, because they can move more freight.

The core problem is that critical infrastructure is being run privately by for-profit publicly traded companies.
When everyone is index investing, then active investing becomes incredibly easy because there is no competition. It's a problem that solves itself. The more passive investors there are, the more incentive there is to actively invest.
Buck Mason makes nice cotton T-shirts. They're plain, but the thick fabric also makes them look way sharper than your average solid-colored T-shirt.

That said, I have to ask: are you laundering your clothes in a way that makes them more prone to falling apart? (Not a dig at you; most people do, because most laundering methods aren't conducive to long-lasting clothes.) Almost any piece of clothing will hold up if you wash it in warm/ or cold water and dry it on the least-hot setting possible.

It takes a bit more effort, but all of my "nice" clothing (jackets, shirts that don't have logos on them, anything 100% cotton) gets washed in a cold water cycle and hung dry. Stuff keeps it shape longer, doesn't shrink, and doesn't erode in the dryer—the lint you pull out of your dryer's filter is proof that your clothes are slowly losing mass every time you dry them!
Yeah, that's a total showstopper for me. If I have to sign up to find out the terms and pricing, then I'm not signing up.
Had a similar issue with a 1.5-year-old vehicle that would have the battery fully drained in a little over a week if the vehicle wasn't driven. Had the dealership "fix" the problem three times and the problem was never fixed. I used the lemon law to get a brand new vehicle. I won't name the brand, but dealing with the manufacturer for this was rather trouble free.
I do have a little familiarity with lithium-ion technologies, but no direct insight into battery recycling. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

I absolutely do think that "recycled" battery materials are being stored as combined goop or "black mass"! For the following reasons:
1. I'm not aware of a commodity spot price for battery sludge/powder
2. I'm not aware of any cell manufacturer using recycled materials in their cathode materials
3. I'm not aware of any cell manufacturer or recycler processing recycled battery sludge/powder and re-selling cathode materials made from recycled materials
4. I am well aware of the large technical and cost barrier to processing and separating this "black mass": The chemical elements occupy all of the positions from #24-#30 in the periodic table, and existing processes to separate the elements are expensive and resource-intensive.

What I don't have insight into is: who is buying recycled battery material mixtures? If they are available cheaply, we could speculate on them and hold them, assuming that refining processes will grow cheaper over time, and that the value of the recycled material mixtures will increase.
Wow, I have a 2012 Mazda3 and have the same problem, which only really surfaced during the pandemic when I stopped driving my car regularly. The dealer said it was just a normal level of drain (even though it would die in just 4 days of non-use) and I should get a trickle charger. Which I did, and is annoying, but is something that I can deal with. I’m not sure if I’m willing to disconnect my remote entry to see if this fixes it, but I’m glad others have seen similar behavior because it really bugs me that the mechanics would just shrug and not really diagnose why this was happening.
They have accessibility from https://userway.org/ "Representative Accessibility and Consulting Provider".
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It is not plausible that he didn't know better. No jury would believe that claim.
According to both of them that’s what sank them and not the blatant shenanigans going on.

If there were more of a delay, like the maturity rate of whatever bonds, SVB would be fully functional today.

FTX, as long as nobody looked too hard they probably could have lost the few billion they had left while keeping everyone happy.

Bank runs… always blame the customers.
I know that a lot of people think HN is humorless, but it’s not entirely true. This kind of snarky, culture war laden humor is unlikely to go over well though.
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If you stand in front of a muni train for 15 minutes, and refuse to speak to or respond to anyone, I think there's a decent chance you'll experience a negative consequence.
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I think yes, but more precisely the tokens were chosen to optimize training on a dataset that's biased to English content.

I am curious how the token set affects quality of responses, ignoring the factors related to token count mentioned in the post (cost, prompt expressivity, latency, etc)

Is it always better for the token set to be "native" to the majority of the training dataset and prompts/completions, or is it possible there's some "intermediate representation" (in compiler terms) that would be better?
It all depends on what you're experimenting on. I do think there are many teams out there who are (in effect) making decisions with less certainty than this, but they wouldn't want to actually quantify it.
No one at almost any income level buys small cheap $20k - $30k cars. They take out a loan to buy an F150, RAM, or midsized crossover. Or buy used.

*In the US
If Microsoft were so good at software engineering that they could pull off such an attack on Firefox, then maybe they do deserve to have a monopoly. /s
> The solution is to wear a modern iron lung whenever you want or need to sleep forever

Calling it an iron lung is extremely disingenuous.

The Iron Lung uses negative pressure and had to be used 24x7 to keep the patient alive because their lungs weren't able work on their own. They had no mobility and were confined to a bed for the rest of their lives.

CPAP / APAP machines use positive pressure and only assist with breathing while asleep, when apnea events occur. It does not replace lung functionality, it only assists.

Yeah, having to use a CPAP/APAP at night can be bothersome, some people have a very hard time adjusting to using one. However, comparing it to using an iron lung is ridiculous.
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Tesla owners _claims to have_ butt-dialed an upgrade.