skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The need for continually improving AI inevitable. We have an age population bomb where retirees will soon outnumber working adults. This is no longer just a problem in Japan, South Korea, and Italy. It’s a growing problem everywhere in all but central Africa. Even the majority of Africa is affected by it.

Its cause is not primarily socioeconomic either. The more industrialized the nation, the more pronounced the effects.
It simply meant that "there is always a reason for things[: if you do not see it, your world model is incomplete]".
Show HN: Bridging the Gap Between Generative AI and Human Intelligence
looks like a TRS-80 Model III or 4

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TRS-80_and_Tandy-brand...
> for instance, I'm a deep introvert, but I'm able to socialize for long periods of time and talk to strangers easily now, but only after I kept practicing for a period of 2 years -- I discovered it's possible to "bend" your introversion if you don't put yourself in a box and are willing to make an effort

How did you practice?
No, I think it's unfair. If you look at a map of the shinkansen lines in Japan, they're not just in Honshu; they span the entire length of the main islands (not including Okinawa, of course). They go all the way from Sapporo in Hokkaido down to Nagasaki in Kyushu, and beyond. The one to Sapporo goes through a deep tunnel under the strait.

So a more fair comparison would be: why doesn't the UK have bullet trains stretching from Cornwall to northern Scotland (past Edinbugh), and another branch going to Belfast in Northern Ireland?

But yeah, your point is exactly right. Density has nothing to do with why Japan has the rail network it has. It's entirely because of political will. If it were just about density, you'd only see shinkansen lines connecting the 3 major metro areas: Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kansai (Osaka/Kyoto), since they're the largest three metro areas, and they're all relatively close together. Instead, Japan is happy to build a shinkansen line even out to Kanazawa, which only has 500k inhabitants (but is a popular tourist spot), in addition to cities at the ends of the island chain (Fukuoka and Sapporo).
The economic calculation problem exists form any type of economy regardless of whether it is dezentralized or centralised.

The difference is that a central miscalculation impacts the entire economy while a decentral miscalculation usually only impacts a small area surrounding that person.

If a group of independent people makes a miscalculation like during the global financial crisis then you end up with the same problem it is just less frequent.
Similar is true for practically all countries that have reduced their CO2 emissions. Can’t be bothered to dig up a source, but probably yours also links this data.

Exported CO2 emissions negating improvement is a myth, or disinformation.
Your triton code is great, nice work. Wouldn’t feel too bad about spending your time that way!

As it happens I was also thinking it might be worthwhile to dive into the Triton sources but for another reason: half2 arithmetic. That’s one thing that the Triton branch lost that the (faster) CUDA kernels had and I think it made a difference. In theory with compatible hardware you can retire twice as many ops per second when processing float16 data which we are in this case.

Can’t see anyone having tried to get half2 to work with Triton though.
Has it even stopped? From where I am sitting it doesn’t look like it has stopped, just that a small subset of people who were doing it previously are no longer doing it now.
>Republicans on any environmental issue is too often "screw nature", so any exception is welcome

Republicans have generally been active in the "save the wetlands" movement, as wetlands are necessary for there to be waterfowl and other wildlife for them to hunt. See Ducks Unlimited, with a Florida Republican as CEO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducks_Unlimited
No, you can't initiate a session with someone you know the number of, it demands access to contacts so "you can stay in contact with your friends". The usual weasel words.
That process is called /decarburization/
I'd wager that the first person to mention an idea in a publication is almost never the originator of the idea. The obstacles for publishing something are so enormously high that the effort to publish is often much larger than the effort to invent the thing being published.

As a result, academia and industrial science are largely institutions that formalize and describe ideas, not institutions where ideas originate, even though those ideas are often (wrongly) attributed to them.

It's even worse in the humanities, of course. I can pretty much guarantee that no philosophical idea was first conceived by the person it is usually attributed to. Most of those ideas are ultimately so trivial that countless people probably had them in the Stone Age already.
Silvio Gesell applies the land value tax on money. This results in a so called demurrage currency.
You just blew my mind. Dweck's theories are used all over the corporate-sphere.

Here's the article (the wikipedia link 404d):
https://web.archive.org/web/20210216192213/https://www.spect...
Kotlin also seems very similar to Swift, which is handy. The last time I saw the topic debated on this site, the consensus was that native is still the best way to go when developing mobile apps, even when you have to support both iOS and Android.
I love this horrible, clever, horrible tech and this writing style. The first paragraph links to a related earlier post, and I can confirm it’s also worth reading in case you skipped it: https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/1228730-taking-the-de...
CO2 in the air is damaging all life on earth, while a lithium mine at most damages the local area around the mine. It's probably much better to have a few local "dead" spots than a complete planet out of whack.

And as a sibling comment said, lithium can be recycled.
When Alice is in the co-moving frame, I'm not sure of what Sabine meant by "And now ASSUME that faster than light travel is only allowed forward in time in this particular frame.". This is an assumption so what can she infer from it other than the obvious? I know that this is just an example of a situation where FTL -/-> paradoxes, but I'm unable to see if this is a factual example or else.
CNG is stored at something like 300 bar.

LPG is stored at about 8-10 bar. That's less pressure than is in an air suspension tank, and only about three or four times as much pressure as in the tyres.
Mobile home parks are universally reviled by city councils for reducing property values around them, hence there is very aggressive zoning against them. Any type of affordable housing will have the same problem, "it's great, but we don't want it around here". We could solve the problem of homelessness in a heartbeat by just subdividing large residential properties into tiny apartments with just 1 bed and a compact bathroom. But who wants a capsule hotel for the homeless on their street?

Homelessness is always and everywhere a lack of social safety net and class problem, not a housing supply problem (although that could be one of the apparent symptoms).
Big picture, yes.

Though they generally need much more power storage/distribution grid construction per GW, to actually deliver a reliable supply to users.

Then you get to countries where the NIMBYs fight tooth & nail over even tiny grid construction projects...
For some things yes. For others, nope. The realisation that, when you pour a full long-life milk tetrapak, the opening goes at the top not the bottom of the top face? That changed my life instantly. I mean, it’s not earth shattering but it’s had a permanent and measurable impact on me, and I’ve passed it on to a few people with similar results.

Likewise a friend once pointed out that swinging a closed sauce bottle to get the sauce to the top is way more effective than shaking it linearly. That was 15 years ago and I still think of him every time I use this trick.
Column-Oriented Row Reduction
If nothing matters then there’s no reason not to.
Lot of comments suggesting children's toys, but I don't think that's the best way to go here.

An old VCR is safe enough. He might cut a finger on a sharp edge but that's ok. Sounds like he's already curious, so let him have at whatever you can scrouge from a junk sale for $5. Cheapest education he'll ever get.

Some other ideas that cost next to nothing and let him explore the open world we live in:

USB Microscope - he'll be able to see the mechanics of texture in silk vs cotton and salt vs sugar vs flour, as well as the 100s of creatures in a drop of puddle water.

Infrared thermometer - highly useful and informative from now into adulthood. "Hey mom the oven temperature is wrong, it says 400 but my thermometer says 380," and "Little sister has a fever, it's 100.5 inside her ear," and "it's 935 degrees in the fireplace, and the windowsill is 41." Wholesome stuff.

A kitchen scale. High quality magnets. Samples of different materials. One of those green plastic sheets that make magnetic field lines visible.

And real tools - whatever he's ready for. In my generation, boys got their first pocketknife at age 6-8. I'm sure he'd appreciate a quality multitool.

If you love the kid, the next time you have to fix something like a lawnmower or a car, do it at his house and both of you will have a fun afternoon in the garage. Bring lemonade to keep the bloodsugar up. He will remember that day fondly for the rest of his life.

tl;dr: skip the toys. show him the real shit.
Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)
That would be very difficult to do, Postgres prepared statements are attached to connections so prepared statements would require connection pinning of some sort.

It would be nice to have a wider scope for prepared statements.
Thinking is often a habit as well, and this is where habits start.
idk, openAI products are pretty useful for me and I can use them now, wheras bard is borderline useless (and not even available yet here). Not only that, regular people seem to resonate with openAI products. Just because they aren't literally perfect in every way isnt a reason not to release them, these arent self driving cars, they write text for goodness sake.

Sure, eventually there will be case where someone asks if its safe to drink chlorine and it will say yes or whatever, but banning/refusing to release/heavily restricting a minor miracle of productivity and usefullness so it can literally never say something harmful is on its face obviously impossible and counterproductive
"Planning to do" sounds like it won't happen. https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/green-taxation-0/carbo... gives October 2023 as a start date.
Am alternative to lego technics: Fischertechnik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik). Depending on where you are it might not be available, but in my opinion its a far better system for kids who like to tinker with machines.
That's great, you should take it up with them. Like I said you can call it whatever you want, but to quibble with the common name and the one used it all references to it - you're probably fighting the wrong fight, or at least with the wrong target.
You asked the question of why "talentless" founders get funded. If so, then there must be "talentless" people who became VCs as well.
The article (and its predecessor) makes a big deal out of "they turned BIOS into a hypervisor!!1!". What exactly does the author think a hypervisor is, other than code running at a heightened privilege level that interposes the running OS's communication with the hardware.

Most of what's happening here is pretty standard that's-how-a-minimal-hypervisor-works. The Outlook-data-migration part is interestingly janky, but not technically complex.
I don’t really get why this is so offensive. It’s some guy’s webpage, where we are just visitors, on which he has shared some knowledge with a title that plays on a double entendre. It’s not about taking a joke as it’s not something addressed to you at all. People need to stop being hall monitors on the internet. Just close the page, move on.
That doesn't matter. If you can use `unsafe` you can make syscalls directly.
> Eric Idle: «Now, here's the meaning of life. (Thank you, Brigitte.) M-hmm. Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations»

~~~ Monty Python, The Meaning of Life
I went to Meetups and talked to strangers. I want to say I had a specific practice routine, but the fact is I just went out and did it.

At first it was awkward and tiring, but because I truly wanted to get better at being a conversationalist, I kept doing it. I picked up a few conversation starters like "what keeps you busy these days?" but a lot of it is just reading the person and coming up with the right questions. And there were definitely ups and downs but now I'm able to walk into a room and have an easy conversation with a stranger (most of the time).

It does help that I can read social cues very well, an ability without which would have made it much harder. But we are all dealt a different deck of cards, and the idea of growth mindset is not to achieve some specific goal (we all have limits), but knowing that it's possible to get a lot better from where we started. That change of mindset is huge -- I've often been surprised by how far I'm able to push myself by not allowing myself to be put in boxes.

Introversion is not a binary setting. It's a social energy tank. And I've discovered the size of that tank can grow with practice. I've also discovered that introversion and antisocial tendencies are orthogonal concepts. Many introverts who have learned to grow their tank can be very social people. Their tanks drain much slower than unpracticed introverts.
> LLMs work on tokens, which, for the most part, are words (longer words are generally split up into multiple tokens).

Although this is mostly true, there are exceptions to the rule. Look at the ByT5 family[1] of models for instance. These models operate on byte level representations of text and are inherently token free. I read a recent paper[2] that found that replacing token based text encoders in text to image models with these byte level models improves the spelling abilities of the txt2img models (which are otherwise notoriously bad at spelling in all human languages).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10562
That’s very interesting and I remember reading of ergot, but never realised it could give these sort of symptoms nor that it was what LSD had been synthesized from. Thanks for sharing.
The group who met CEO also met Web3 crypto scammers. I don't expect most of them are capable people, but they just ride boom.
coz reselling code without permission is not OK
I don't know about sound theory, but pulling something out of bullshit:

Firstly, the nice part about DFAs is that they're really simple to implement - in terms of capture groups bare in mind that the generation mechanism means that the nodes are probably super-positions, and the extracts across aspects of your language can intersect if you're not careful.

You can get into messy places really quickly - so I'd suggest not fucking with the machine directly.

However, there's one thing that you can do without compromising machine generation: add a processing mode that returns the trace of machine states for the matching string.

And then process that state trace.

Now bare in mind that some of the states that you went through might have been super-positions, so you don't quite know what they are.

But (now that you have a match) you can run the reverse of the match through the reverse of the network and intersect the reverse of its trace.

(I haven't actually done that, but it will clean up some trace ambiguity - where earlier branches were only later found not to have been taken.)
The best computer, by far, was the DEC LSI-11 put out in kit form by Heathkit as the H11.

DEC missed an enormous opportunity.

Source: I had one. You can see a pic here: https://twitter.com/WalterBright

The RT-11 operating system will look very familiar to anyone who used DOS or Windows.
Judging by people's waistlines they're already eating the extra needed for the cycling, they're just not cycling.

According to COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas[1], the figures for the UK are:

- 63.7% of adults are overweight i.e. BMI >25kg/m2 (2016)

- 27.8% of adults are obese i.e. BMI >30kg/m2 (2016)

[1] https://www.worldobesity.org/resources/resource-library/covi...
Get out of your box. Go to a foreign city, take public transport, wander around public places, and just talk to strangers.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I could spend hours scrolling thru floor 796!
It was the case before, but I can do it now. It says "enable contact access to make it easier" but I can also just punch in a number and start chatting... Contact access is off.
Yes, I have access to both ChatGPT Plus and the GPT-4 API. I use GPT-4 on ChatGPT Plus daily, primarily for quick coding help, and it is significantly more advanced than GPT-3.5 in this regard. As for the GPT-4 API, I don't use it extensively at the moment, just occasionally to experiment with newer applications like Microsoft's Jarvis project (HuggingGPT). Eventually, I plan to integrate the Whisper API, GPT-4 API, and Elevenlabs API to create my own personal assistant.

For those without access, GPT-3.5 is still an impressive tool. A friend of mine uses GPT-3.5 with autoGPT and achieves remarkable results. I recommend exploring GPT-3.5 and not solely focusing on obtaining access to GPT-4.
They're not very clean to make, which is the bigger problem.

If you convert a petrol car to run on propane, the exhaust emissions are water vapour and carbon dioxide, with no CO, no HC, and pretty much no nitrogen or sulphur oxides.

This is why things like warehouse forklifts run on propane - you can't die from breathing the exhaust fumes, unlike petrol or diesel.

Typically you'd convert older cars, of which we have plenty. We don't need to make new cars, because there are enough cars for everyone - we just need to make them run cleaner.
That's my assessment also.
Hmmm, might be "do the wrong things well", but probably... lumpenprogrammers.

The truth is that there are big differences in techie types. The hardware people are radically different from the software people, and on the software side alone, there are at least three subspecies of programmers, two of which we are interested in here.

Forget about the first subspecies, the lumpenprogrammers, who typically spend their careers maintaining mainframe computer code at insurance companies. Lumpenprogrammers don’t even like to program but have discovered that by the simple technique of leaving out the comments—clues, labels, and directions written in English—they are supposed to sprinkle in among their lines of computer code, their programs are rendered undecipherable by others, guaranteeing them a lifetime of dull employment.

The two programmer subspecies that are worthy of note are the hippies and the nerds. Nearly all great programmers are one type or the other. Hippy programmers have long hair and deliberately, even pridefully, ignore the seasons in their choice of clothing. They wear shorts and sandals in the winter and T-shirts all the time. Nerds are neat little anal-retentive men with penchants for short-sleeved shirts and pocket protectors. Nerds carry calculators; hippies borrow calculators. Nerds use decongestant nasal sprays; hippies snort cocaine. Nerds typically know forty-six different ways to make love but don’t know any women.

Hippies know women.

In the actual doing of that voodoo that they do so well, there’s a major difference, too, in the way that hippies and nerds write computer programs. Hippies tend to do the right things poorly; nerds tend to do the wrong things well. Hippie programmers are very good at getting a sense of the correct shape of a problem and how to solve it, but when it comes to the actual code writing, they can get sloppy and make major errors through pure boredom. For hippie programmers, the problem is solved when they’ve figured out how to solve it rather than later, when the work is finished and the problem no longer exists. Hippies live in a world of ideas. In contrast, the nerds are so tightly focused on the niggly details of making a program feature work efficiently that they can completely fail to notice major flaws in the overall concept of the project.

Conventional wisdom says that asking hippies and nerds to work together might lead to doing the wrong things poorly, but that’s not so. With the hippies dreaming and the nerds coding, a good combination of the two can help keep a software development project both on course and on schedule. The real problem is finding such superprogrammers in the first place. Often they hide.

- Robert X Cringely, Accidental Empires

https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/10/accidental-empires-part-...
So for me, it's all about instrumental rationality -- do the thing that works, not the thing that ought or ought not to work. It's important to put things into practice.

Social science is full of hypotheses that are difficult to measure scientifically. Some are straight out wrong.

Others are instrumentally rational -- they are correct enough of the time if done in the right context (which may not always arise, but when they do, you're golden). The latter are the stuff we need to try out. Growth vs fixed mindset is a heuristic -- this means it's not always right, but it's useful enough that when applied you can often see meaningful results.
Gasoline is not that much different from kerosine. Planes fly, why can't cars?
The thing I want the most from Rust in other languages is the immutability unless you use the mut keyword. I know a lot of OOP or Dynamic loving people might scoff at that, but after a couple of decades in SWE I'd really like for everything to be immutable by default. It's just so much easier to maintain the code-bases and systems over those 5-10 year periods, when being smart is disabled by default.

Sure, it shouldn't be that way, but I prefer it when we design our systems for the code we write on a Thursday afternoon. You know, those days where you've been up all week because of the baby crying and you've spent too much of the day in meetings that shouldn't even have been an e-mail. Because that's the sort of code someone is going to hate 3 years down the line, and chances are that someone might even be yourself. Unfortunately things seem to be going in the opposite direction with some languages. I didn't work with C# for a while, and I was surprised to see "var" everywhere when I came back to it.
google doesn't, as far as I know; changing teams has just required talking to the manager and a couple of engineers from the new team to make a case for them taking me on. so interviewing of a sort, but not the leetcode rituals that getting hired in the first place needed.
Can anybody elaborate on the overlap between this and the Great Mental Models (https://fs.blog/tgmm/)?
I feel like over time I’ve learned that I don’t really have the discipline for marital arts, but that I’m scrappy enough to get by as a street fighter. I appreciate martial artists, but I just can’t devote myself to the art the way it deserves.
Me too. I now look for companies that are fairly valued by my very simple definition, have consistent financials, and pay a big consistent dividend.
> For example 4 may be seen as 9

Except no, specifically because 9 has a slanted ending compared to 4. If some idiot writes the symbols whatever they wants instead of the reference then it's the the problem of the idiot.

And any way, most people would write it properly which means more mail would be processed efficiently and require less human intervention.
It's okay to make it closed source if you want
Precisely and simply spot on.
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