skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting from Bret Devereaux's blog (https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...):

> Rather than reinvent the wheel here, I’ll note that K. Chase (op. cit.) ran these numbers assuming two-horse 1400lb wagons and found that assuming the army acquired no local food (but could get grass for the horses), for a group of thirty infantryman the first wagon doubles their range from 120 to 240 miles (less really, horses cannot be worked so many days consecutively). Doubling again to around 400 (accounting for horse rest time) requires not two but six wagons for thirty men. To double the range again would require more wagons than men.

By around 3 months of campaign, you need more wagons than men to provide a supply train that doesn't require local forage for your army (but require it for your animals). Supply trains in pre-modern times are less "let's provide all the food for our army on campaign" and more "provide the mobile granary to store everything we're looting for a few days before it's eaten." In premodern times, absent the possibility of naval supply, not foraging the local land for your food is logistically impossible.
The middle three paragraphs are completely wrong. Clara isn't the Doctor's companion in this episode, that's not why the Doctor is confused, the Doctor is giving a year (not a time), Clara doesn't know about “the time difference” (indeed, that is the joke)…

That aside: I was suggesting this as an example of something existing machine translation systems can't translate. The 1207 / 12:07 wordplay could be “understood” by the model (I'm disappointed, albeit not very surprised, that GPT-4 didn't), but producing an adequate translation in a case like this requires actual thought and consideration.
Might not be hard as in difficult but those teeth look pretty hard as in Rockwell scale.
If VPSs had the same marketing and maybe a bit more polished standard tooling I have a feeling it would quickly gain traction and simplify life for most people. As well as prevent vendor lock-in, of course.

It’s in the SaaS business model. The incentives, even for fully open source like supabase, is misaligned with self-hosting. Even if they’re super honest and trying to be helpful, their fully managed globally available offering is going to have very different needs than self-hosters.

I actually more like the model of having FOSS where the company behind it offers consulting instead, to build, deploy and operate the product for customers who lack the in-house expertise. It’s not perfect, but it helps align the incentives towards simplicity.
>hold an elite accountable by the law written by an elite.

Laws are the tools written to control the general public by the elites, good luck with that.
Does anyone use a typewriter for this purpose? Just to have a distraction free environment?
I didn't know until now.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/1/31/galant-welcomin...
That's an overly simplistic hot take. You have to look at the interests involved.

Sure, in some other countries, for-profit health insurance is illegal.

There are many more for-profit hospitals in the US than there were 40 years ago. Many not-for-profits sold out to for-profit companies. I believe John Oliver or VICE did a piece on this years ago.

Then there are the doctors. Only in the US is being a doctor insanely lucrative. Not all US doctors are out to financially abuse patients, but there are enough who are complicit in the hospital and outpatient practice system who enable mass exploitation.

Single-payer wouldn't end this. Medicare for all wouldn't even be close to fixing the problem. Most of Medicare is administered by for-profit health insurance companies. Medicare pays, but doesn't cover 100%. It still requires paying for one of a laundry list of letters Medicare supplemental and prescription plans. Also, the US doesn't have a functional mental healthcare system. And that's not covered either. Dental and vision also aren't covered.
In my experience, people who start companies for the money always fail, because their conviction is weak. Especially risky ones like EVs and rockets. I simply don’t buy it. I think this attitude is mainly a defense mechanism.
Down the grapevine at least, a couple Micro VCs ik provide a pipeline for CorpDev teams at larger companies and early stage VCs (Series A-C check signers like Unusual Ventures) to choose pre-vetted companies. Mind you this seems to be more Enterprise/B2B Micro VC oriented.

If the startup is showing good growth metrics, they'd point them to friends at later stage funds. If they aren't, they'd give intros and help get the startup aquihired.
I do not think dealing fentanyl is a petty crime, and I do not think someone should feel so secure in brazenly walking out of a store with a bunch of stolen merchandise. If they want to do that nonsense, then they should understand that it is fair for society to hold them accountable to their own actions.
If robots can do everything, that includes duplicating the robots. And it only takes one country willing to tolerate robot "intellectual property theft" for free duplicates of the do-everything-robots to proliferate.

There's currently some incentive for governments in poorer countries to put up with IP-friendly laws favored by richer countries. It might be the only way to get their exports into the European market, or get development loans, for example. But if robots can do literally everything then there is no reason that these carrots matter any more. Instead of taking development loans and trying to become the next low-cost-manufacturing location after China, just copy the robots and ignore everyone who says it's theft. If you're a Sri Lankan, Bolivian, or South African politician looking to improve your country and become wildly popular at the same time, "copy the robots" is the fastest way to develop. It's also the fastest way to modernize and expand a poor country's military, if they're afraid of gunboat diplomacy from the richer countries.
This is really exciting Inian. I’ve long felt that api gateways are one of the heavier and more complex parts of the modern infra stack and the work you’re doing to make this more self hostable is laudable!
Same, using it for https://findsight.ai (combined with Alpine). Backend is Nim & karax which makes HTML responses a breeze (fragments and full page).
Hey, myself and an ex-microsoft dev (like 2007-2008, not recent), with some VP experience have teamed up. We're working on memory solutions for AI, as well as creating better agents, workflows, etc... In the early days it'll mostly be a GUI over langchain/autogpt/babyAGI, eventually it might morph to creating our own in-house brain-like database, something beyond vectors (or built on top of them w/ a better ranking/indexing based on frequency/recency). Hit me up, if you'd consider partnering up.
But do they want to outspend you? Especially if the case is not a sure win for them.
No disrespect to you or Apple, but Apple is an outlier. If everything was like Apple then it wouldn't be Apple.
> It particularly interested me that Twitter under Musk is trying NOT to discuss Ukraine

Because of stuff like the NAFO trolls I can understand why that discussion is not brought to the top anymore.

Anyway, whoever is interested in the war going down there can most definitely have access to both sides' views, I personally find Twitter one of the few media/online outlets that still makes that possible (and props to them for that).
I kind of respect that valve isn't just a sequel farm pumping out Portal games.

I would like a new Left 4 Dead though...
Perfect excuse to get that XRF gun you've always wanted but couldn't quite justify to your spouse!
Exactly. People that want to apply IQ see it as a general performance metric. But general performance has many different aspects. In the example of the bushman it does not matter how fast you can count the alphabet,.it won't be helping your survival.
Local and prime time games should be free OTA anyway.
Capek: A Competitive Distributed Artificial Intelligence
I checked the price at my local discount chemist. 115AUD or 76USD.
> If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is that bad?

because you have exactly two use cases under that "utopia": backbreaking labor that robots aren't good at yet, and source of Soylent green.
This is just so weird.
Do some foods fill you up for longer?
>The problem is fusion is the extreme opposite of cheap.

That may change given time though. Most tech starts out pretty slow, pricey and useless.

>Most of the reactor designs also do seem to produce radioactive waste contrary to popular belief.

Interesting. I guess it's a question of how radioactive. If it's moderate it might not be a big issue.
Be very careful with stuff like that. I fed Lojban and Old Norse to GPT to translate, and found that it will often get things half-right, but then the rest is pure hallucination.
If I were doing it on my own account my estimate is close to yours. I have a cloud-native email newsletter system I built already, hooking up a payment gateway is routine, testing can be a bit of a hassle.

You could put a job like that up on a freelancer platform for a lot less money and you might get a good outcome or you might not.

My figure would assume there is a certain amount of arguing and barguing about requirements and that you’re dealing with somebody who will really come through, dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s and it is worth it if you are really making money on a newsletter.
The saddest thing with modern concrete constructions compared to Roman ones is that although Portland cement is much better than the Roman one, the use of rebar makes reinforced concrete construction ephemeral: as soon as the rebar start rusting, the concrete fractures, giving way to more water to further oxidize the metal leading to the inevitable decay of the building.
The first things I think of with "fake it til you make it" are Tesla FSD[0] and Reddit[1]. To this day, if you visit Reddit while logged out it makes the claim that it's a place for "empathy"[2].

Reddit is a hotbed of harassment, targeted abuse, political extremism, celebration of violence, and encouragement of health disorders. Depending on Tesla's self driving technology has gotten people killed. Let me know if you want any citations for those claims but I think you probably know examples of what I'm referring to in each case.

I would posit that people's health and lives are more at risk in both examples, but nobody is being imprisoned for it. Both companies are well aware of the risks but choose to profit off it rather than take responsibility.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-08/tesla-laws...

[1] https://www.inc.com/karl-and-bill/best-advice-fake-it-until-...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/y1Sicxl.png
> In addition, they created an architecture that simulates minds with memories and experiences

This sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m excited to see what they actually did. Semantic search in past text? Some lossy encoding if past world state? Something else entirely?

Also, I’m interested to hear what they’re doing with action spaces. It sounds like RL, so what’s the reward function?
I'd pay Microsoft monthly if they'd just give us untethered gpt-4 access, the same from the API, for those of us on the waitlist. I don't care if it wants to marry me, haha - I think being able to maybe full around with the settings could make it play nicer too.
All her mistake was scamming the protected class, if it was your typical scam, she’d be giving TED talks by now..
Very good point on the push model when it comes to devices like laptops.

Not sure how I feel on the second point. Managing Linux at scale, aside from the laptop point is pretty easy. Maybe companies need better help desk employees.
This thread isn't about developed countries
Musk always said Twitter would follow laws of the countries it operated in.
Academic staff don't have access to that info do they? How could she tell them apart?
I should have known there was some shallow meaning behind it.
Scientists Confirm the Existence of Time Reflections
Not all hospital visits are emergencies. I had an implanted defibrillator replaced recently. It's a life-saving device but I had a 3-month window to do it, so I most definitely picked "the other hospital" that I didn't have billing issues with the last time.

Also, a car wreck should not be a reason to nickel-and-dime someone unreasonably. And if I knew they were giving me acetominaphen for $1000 and I could wait it out for an hour I'd 100% refuse it and ask a family member to bring me some from Walgreen's for <$10. I'm not exactly swimming in money here.
Both of these are exactly the kind of problem where our AI future is going to deliver cost effective modern alternatives. Primitive sensors wake up more sophisticated analyzers and use deep sensors (including video) to determine if there is a real problem.

Witness companies like Rivian triggering car alarms on aggressive behavior detected from ML on video. Don't even need to touch the car.
That's all well and good, but none of it would help me to pay rent, buy food, etc.
https://pinboard.in/about/

Social booking site, rose to prominence a little over 10 years ago after del.icio.us was bought by Yahoo and started to suck. Wound up buying del.icio.us. The creator, Maciej Ceglowski, is a good writer with a blog at https://idlewords.com/
As a leftie, I value a quick-dry ink. The Sharpie gels have become a quick favorite.

The s-gel ink cartridge is compatible with the Energel line, so I usually remove them from the plastic Sharpie body and put them in my metal Energel RT which has a much nicer weight and balance.
I gave much larger snippets from the translation of Alice in Wonderland, and it "translated" them without complaints, but it was about half gibberish.

Same thing with modern takes on Old Norse.
The problem is you kept saying "rebel groups". "Rebel" means that they are opposed to the government. Like the separatists.

Plus, you didn't answer the multiple times when asked to clarify.
I’ve personally seen people so mentally ill they don’t know where and who they are treated like customers buy a luxury yacht.

Do you like this hospital? How would you rank the staff? Would you mind writing a review of our food? What’s your credit card number again?
> The paramilitaries I was referring to are these

None of those are “rebels”, which is the term you used.

> Some have been absorbed into the UA national guard.

The National Guard of Ukraine is one of the “paramilitaries” on the list you linked, so, yes, it is fair to say it has been absorbed into…itself.

> I have never mentioned pro-Russia paramilitary groups

You said “rebels”. The only rebels in Ukraine are those forces consisting of Ukrainians (as non-Ukrainians would be invaders, rather than rebels) fighting against the government of Ukraine, i.e., Russian-backed and Russian-aligned armed groups.
That’s because Apple Silicon has a stupid-wide memory bus. It has little/nothing to do with the characteristics of the memory chips shipped in the box. They just put more modules in parallel than on x86.

Apple could ship cheaper memory modules with the same stupid-wide bus and achieve nearly the same performance for a fraction of the cost.

And that’s what I want. Give me 4x as much DDR4 on the same 1024 bit wide bus, and I’d be happy.
Wow, this is beautiful! Pretty fun to dump text into
Large Language Models Still Can’t Plan
Yes, I had my LinkedIn location set to NYC since I was living there before and forgot to update it. As soon as I set my status to #opentowork I started getting messages from recruiters for roles in NYC (and some in Chicago). To be sure, it was still nowhere near the same level as the "good" times before the recent round of layoffs, but it was something.

I changed my location back to the west coast where I'm currently located, and the drop in messages has been noticeable. So I'm inclined to believe that the west coast tech scene (what I consider "new" tech) has been hit harder. On the east coast there's still a decent amount of tech openings in finance, defense, and other old school/traditional industries.
I have run self hosted Supabase for awhile in Kubernetes. One of the main gotchas I will warn against is becoming too attached to the CLI, as it’s currently quite tied to assumptions that you’re using hosted Supabase.

Also be prepared to do your own infra work if you want something scalable and production ready. The HA guarantees are kind of “bring your own” eg not really there out of the box and IMO the default docker compose setup provided, while thorough and working, serves as more of a proof of concept of the system than something you should actually be running in production.
I am pretty sure that ID is not required, but they ask for it, so that they can access and update your medical records.
Speaking of hubris, is it possible there’s tons of non public factors that affected his rationale and we’ll never really know the whole truth?
LLMs create value but it's not yet clear how much.
I don't recall seeing anything like a monitor brightness slider in their control panel. And even if there was, it wouldn't be a reliable indicator of OS-level support for that functionality because the GPU vendor's control panel is the most likely piece of software to bypass the OS and control the display config through its own means.
Most popular js frameworks support SSR - it isn't appropriate to use an SPA for a public app like Hello Fresh, that's on them.
bad analogies are bad
It is easier to outsource now vs. 10+ years ago. Almost everyone in tech now has experience working remote from their co-workers. Whether that is 10 miles or 8000 does not change the communication needed to make it work.

That isn't the only challenge, of course -- there are time zone differences and language barriers to overcome, but those also seem to be diminished vs. 10+ years ago. We're getting more used to being flexible with our time, and people are adjusting to working with people around the world, accepting both language and cultural differences.

I've had team members across the globe since 2018 and while it isn't always easy, it works just fine if people are willing to respect each other and respect everyone's needs.
that is assuming there are still tasks that robots are not good at, which I predict will remain the case for a long time. without those, humans just become unnecessary biomass. anyway, if you expect some part of these fantasies to come to pass within your lifetime, expect to give up your reproductive rights in exchange for ubi or some such.
I switched to edge on all my devices (in hopes of getting early access to Bing Chat), and honestly there's a lot more features and it performs better, so they won't get anything from me except whatever they can milk from gmail. I haven't searched using them in over a year, used to use Brave Search, and You.com for awhile.
Disagree. Adding signed communications as the default to replace email's completely nonsense zero encryption model is not upping the stakes. Email is the most successful federated software in the universe, but it's fucking time to get some encryption and authn.
Thanks for sharing that. Great comic - read it straight through. :)
By the time someone makes a bad argument its too late. We are beyond reason.
Why would anyone sign up for blue to get free doge when they can buy thousands of doge with the money it costs to sign up for blue?
If this is an actual problem, it’s not obvious to me. The fact that nobody’s been able to replicate this without pulling the trigger is concerning.

Having two redundant internal safety systems fail, and mysteriously fire seems so considerably less plausible than negligent discharge that I think anecdotal evidence isn’t enough.
> Only in the US is being a doctor insanely lucrative.

And only for some doctors. Most aren't making crazy money at all.

> Single-payer wouldn't end this.

I never said it would. But this is a thing that most other modern nations have figured out (imperfectly, sure, but orders of magnitude better than we have in the US). It's insane that the US can't seem to resolve this situation, especially considering that it kills people.

But then, we here in the US don't seem to prioritize actually helping people. The US is the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the history of the planet. That we allow anyone to go without a roof over their head, food in their belly, and adequate medical care is criminal.
I recently got a rhodia notebook to go with my Pelikan Souveran FP and recently acquired MB LeGrand rollerball. I've been using the RB more and more because it's just a lot easier to keep inked and ready to go (and the size is perfect for my hands). That said, it skips a lot - not sure if I got a bad refill or if that's just the way MB rollerballs are.

Definitely invest in a good notebook if you get a nice pen. The pelikan is a pain to write with on regular paper.
> so bears no etymological history with Rome

It still appears to be, ultimately, Indo-European and cognate with English 'warm', among others: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
It seems to just be a simulated delay and should probably mention that if that's the case. Running the first example locally does indeed attempt to send a network request when clicking the edit button.
What worthwhile insights can arise from someone who can't imagine a hypothetical?
I'm surprised no one seems to have commented on the lack of usernames, I think the lack of usernames may hinder adoption since it's much harder to follow someone just from seeing a tweet, err note, displayed. With Substack Notes you'll need to know the user's id, or search by their non-unique name.
> Perhaps someone could also invent car paint that changes colour every hour

That, also exists:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540358/bmw-color-changin...
I lived on that block for close to 10 years and can confirm that the safety situation around there significantly degraded over the last 1-2 years. Gangs of drug dealers moved in and took over key sidewalk areas (particularly 7th and 8th streets between Market and Mission), and violent crime and property destruction increased significantly. In my last year, there were two murders nearby (including one that I heard the gunshots for), and I witnessed a bunch of things I had never seen in the neighborhood before including trash fires, people screaming at all hours of the night, and overdose victims being revived on the sidewalk.

Although nothing bad happened to me personally, it just got really depressing and emotionally draining to live in a place where you're surrounded by so much suffering and destruction, and where you have to be hyper-vigilant every time you step outside. I packed up my things and left in December. My mental health and happiness have improved since then.

I don't blame Whole Foods and other businesses in the neighborhood for shutting down. The city leadership, including the mayor and a majority of the Board of Supervisors (SF's legislative body) really didn't seem to care one bit about the problems in that area of the city. Maybe if enough people and businesses vote with their feet, they'll be motivated to actually fix things.
That only means that the robots will also be in a similar situation: in the end the only thing that will be of any worth is resources (land, mines, oil fields) and market shares, while labour and IP will become worthless as we reach a plateau of science and development, and patents and copyrights run out.

Given the societal impact that the "curse of resources" has, future societies might look more like some african country or the russian oligarchy where a small percentage lives in utter luxury while the masses live in extreme poverty.