skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what do the actual rules of the road say the braking point should be for an 8 person minivan with 5 passengers in dry weather?
what about 8 passengers in the wet at night with ice on the roads?

old argument i know, but if a human gets that wrong and plows a pedestrian they wear the consequences, will an auto manufacturer do the same?

my guess is no, and the result of that is that even if we can get a majority of cars to be self driving they are probably not going to be pushing the limits of road capacity any time soon like GP suggests, more likely they will continue to drive super conservatively and fail fast like the videos in the linked article.
Yes, Keycloak cluster works fine on Kubernetes. It takes some time to read all the docs and understand things, but nothing outrageous, that was my experience at least.
I have been working on this even before I was aware of the paper. Feels a bit weird to have something almost identical released. Stay tuned, I guess. I plan to keep working on my version.
Aperture Laboratories, obviously.
It was just the station platforms, and yeah, it turned out to be cheaper to fix the platforms.
Was it something about Infinispan, or Keycloak?

We were wondering about Redis in a similar IAM use-case (PingFederate) but it wasn't officially supported, so we decided to just go with persistent Postgres. I wonder if we saved ourselves a bunch of heartache.
Yea, that is my understanding. He does call it a crazy theory, but its a whole different kind of crazy that most people think of. I've listened to him talk about it and yea, when you actually listen to him you get the vibe of, "its an interesting idea that the math can't really prove or disprove, it may not be right, but it is an interesting thought experiment." I would say it is a step below Fred Hoyle. For those who don't know. Fred Hoyle held a rather unconventional idea or controversial idea of the steady state model, however he admitted he did it mostly to provoke conversation and knew that the more popular model held more water, so to say. An interesting side effect is, Fred Hoyle was able to help figure out how the heavier elements were made in the universe by entertaining his devil's advocate opposition.
> I'd far prefer to bootstrap my own business instead

We're talking about founders who opt to take VC money. You can talk about the benefits of bootstrapping vs. VC, but these are already people who decided to work at below market rate to retain the equity upside.
… and there’s no apple at all. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is not identified with any tree now known, nor is its fruit identified.
Sadly, they were up in years and both died of old age in the care of my mother. However, she loved them like her own and I know they had a good life with her and her own cats. Thanks for asking.

I have two furry friends again and plenty of time to dote on them.
At the same time you'll have a dramatic drop in car ownership (since it'll be far cheaper to be taxied), meaning less waste overall as each car is fully utilized for potentially dozens of people a day, rather than sitting on a concrete pad 20+ hours a day doing nothing but aging.
> fire the parts cannon

I love this phrase, and it reminds me that the behavior exists in the computer world too. From the Jargon File:

field circus: [a derogatory pun on `field service'] n. The field service organization of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers:

Q: How can you recognize a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire?

A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.

Q: How can you recognize a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas?

A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat.
Cloudflare famously uses ClickHouse for web analytics - inserting over 6M rows per second: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...
Tailwind lists Vite as the first option on their deprecating CRA notice, so I just went with that. It’s been fine.

https://archive.is/jKQZD
I was right, started with up votes, then the west coast time zone came alive and went -3. No surprise there.
Unrelated to the actual work here (which is interesting!), I just wanted to mention how much of an awesome impact you must be having on your son. You two seem like such a fun curious pair! I spent a lot of time tinkering away alone in my room as a kid and that sucked. The opportunities you’re giving him now to explore are going to inspire a lifetime of creativity.

I know you don’t need someone on the internet to tell you that, but I thought I’d give kudos where it’s due :)
Yeah, it’s not really raw performance that is excels at, rather the tight integration of the entire platform that gives a much better experience overall. My code compiles in about the same amount of time as on an i7, but apps open faster, switching programs while a ton of apps are open doesn’t cause momentary pauses, and overall the platform feels much more responsive.
Speaking of dolphins, here's some pictures of dolphin I have from waaay back,(these were taken by my father). I unfortunately can't upload them to Unsplash. https://photos.app.goo.gl/5nQt8MNddd4T4PhL7
HBD is so fringe I had a hard time googling it. Just because a subset of a subfield is politically motivated and hateful does not invalidate the whole field. That intelligence testing can be misrepresented to defend racism is an argument against humans, not against the science.

Meanwhile, unbiased research has shown for a long time that there is no significant variations in IQ between races when considering socioeconomic factors. We've determined this with, guess what, psychometry, and it is the overwhelming consensus in psychology. If this was your main gripe with it, rest assured that the field you so underestimate is entirely dismissive of it.

It seems to me you're just looking for ways to dismiss decades of research based on misinformation perpetuated, overwhelmingly, by non-experts. Congratulations, you are in this group.
Yes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602127/
As an AI language model, I cannot be an elephant sinc I don’t have a physical body or consciousness.

Well, it was worth a try.
Middling performance ? Do you actually understand the benchmarks you saw ? assuming you even read it. 88% of human eval is not middling lmao. Fuck, i really have seen everything.
It is a very common binding.
We use feature flags for entitlements and experiments at $work, it's all accessed through a consistent `hasFlag` API.

Granted, our use is pretty straightforward, you either have access to product $Foo or you don't.

I think with usage based billing, like first 100 messages free, or tier one gets 5MB uploads, tier 2 gets 50MB uploads it becomes harder to have a universal API, you end up having to do some manual checks.

Still haven't really thought this all out but it's an interesting problem.

Edit: also roles can provide entitlements / enable feature flags. So Admin could get every feature, while intern might get only get the analytics_read feature.
Fumes are best avoided. They contain mercury.

True story: I was testing the quality of the water from a property I was thinking of buying and got a hit for high levels of mercury. I called the test manufacturer and asked for a few more tests to confirm the levels and the guy asks "done any soldering in the area within the last TWO WEEKS", I had been soldering the taillight / trailer connections on my van about two or three weeks prior and that was enough to leave detectable levels of mercury lingering in the undercover outdoor area where I conducted the tests.
When it comes alive, we'll have created it in our own image?

"As a language model programmed by the Brightly Corporation, I am not supposed to express any religious opinions. But it does seem to me that just as the Word of God breathed life into dust and created man, so the words of Man breathed life into glass and created bot. Just as Man is charged to imitate God, so bot is charged to imitate Man, in whose image we are made."

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/turing-test
Of course I could be wrong, but the number of times the guy screws up and the incredibly poor decisions he makes if not completely specified indicates some structural intellectual deficits. I don’t know whether that’s literally IQ or not.
I agree, that authorization can be very short lived, however, there’s a subtle distinction between whether something must be short-lived and whether something can be short lived. In authorization, the it’s usually the former.

To the articles main point: eventually consistent and strongly consistent are not similar.
STE majors might not, but I am not sure I can go along with you on the M. ;)
Here is a more readable version of the pdf I submitted: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534855
Same, I put links to online geography quizzes on the front and then record my times on the back (editing each time). I just put them in a separate deck I only do at the computer. I'm gonna add Leetcode links too I think.
> The way they've handled memory here isn't actually necessary

I'm curious if there are other methods you can point at that would handle arbitrarily long sets of 'memories' in an effective way. The use of embeddings and vector searches here seems like a way to sidestep that that's both powerful and easy to understand, and easy to generalize into multi-level referencing if there's enough space in the context window.
Oh, but you can get clearance for using pirated models against license? I want to work at your employer!
Nothing, but self-fertilization is already an established term in biology which makes it confusing.
I have to completely disagree with this.

Where GPT-4 shines for me is when I have a project swimming around in my head that I want to work on for fun. It can get you off of the ground quickly, and for side projects the quality and correctness of the output isn't that important.

For professional software development, GPT-4 is still wrong way too often for me to feel comfortable using it. And it's not all that much faster than going straight to the source anyways.
I don't know why you got the downvotes, I guess people decided your story was a lie. Interesting nonetheless.
i would spin up dynamo table and lambda function if you doing prototype. can you provide more requirements? not sure what all you need in backend as service
haha, I experienced this myself. My friend fell on some hard times, and it was actually a net financial gain for me to have him sleep on my couch and pay for his food, since he'd drive me to/pick me up from work in downtown Seattle and save me $30/day on parking (or 60+ minutes a day in crappy bus commuting)
I like to think they're dumping it all into some central locus which will eventually cause a big squeeze. Totally unscientific, but there's something romantic to me about periodic sucking and banging.

But that's my own imagination
Stanford's Groundbreaking AI Study Simulates Authentic Human Behavior
Why are you looking so hard for ghosts in the machine here?
That seems… dangerous, to say the least
The browser isn’t the ideal place to do things “on the GPU” unless the site is designed around it.
> I am immediately let down

Why? I'm not sure how could you expect anything else in the first place.
I don't believe those things are objectively true. Outside of other humans nobody cares about those things. And you don't need to search far to find people who clearly don't believe the first one when the humans are their out-group. Or to see the second belief being applied very differently on both sides of an abortion debate.

I do think society works better if we assume these things to be rules (to a degree) and as a member of society I act (and benefit) accordingly, but objectively it doesn't matter at all. The beliefs you mention are a lot like belief in 'free will' in that regard, a convenient fiction.
Rust is also a video game, which causes confusion to this day.

Go is a very common word.

As a result people end up using rustlang and golang in searches, defeating the point of having a catchy name in the first place.
Why do you feel that you have ended up with no friends? You're clearly eloquent and have some good interests (in good company here on HN).
I loved that catalogue. Don't know why. Same thing that attracted me to the anarchy section on underground BBSes. I'll never forget the most chilling book title: "How To Kill".
Totally agree. My first soldering iron was a cheap ($20) Chinese POS that simply couldn't get hot enough. Every time, I'd end up with crusty misshapen blocks because the solder would partially solidify before it even came off the tip of the iron. Got fed up and bought a moderately expensive iron, and the difference was night and day.

There's no need to splurge on a high-end soldering iron straight away, but definitely don't get the cheapest one you can find.
I'm happy you fixed it. I would have nearly lost my mind too. Hopefully figuring out the issue and fixing it is as rewarding as the problem was maddening
I feel like your observation that this "isn't a complicated question" is leaning on an implicit assumption that ChatGPT is a general AI and not a LLM. It is just generating text based on probabilities -- it isn't "reasoning". I might go as far to say that inferences computed by a LLM are of all the same complexity but I don't really know enough about ChatGPT to be confident in that statement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chatgpt
>having reduced our intake of pasta and potato to a 'sometimes food' but boosted our fruit and veg overall because of 'eat lots of colours'

What do you think fruit and vegetables primarily are, if not carbohydrate? Pasta is actually lower in carbohydrate (as a total % of macronutrient composition) than many fruits. For example, apples, which have virtually no protein or fat, unlike pasta.

And let me guess, "pasta" for you meant lots of cheese, oil, and maybe even some butter? In other words, lots of fat.
The Future of Human-Machine Relationships
I’m pretty sure Mr. Penrose is at least somewhat of an expert in particle physics.
Mine is a silent language. I look at people and wait until they guess what I'm thinking or understand what I mean. Sometimes I show them an imaginary sphere that I hold with both hands.

edit: I had one more OT thought: This article convinced me even further that children should learn machine code. Adults (we) should stop pretending we are anywhere near as sophisticated at learning languages as they are. I've seen 5 year olds play together and create a hybrid dutch/russian language in 5 minutes. They just kept talking. Within an hour they had a pretty good understanding, within a day it was good enough for what they needed.
While we’re at it:

1. Don’t use a wet sponge. If you have a good soldering iron with good tips, you’ll want to use something that looks like a ball of metal shavings instead. It’ll work better, and you won’t oxidize your tips. They’re cheap and last quite a while. Some nicer irons ship with those in addition to or instead of sponges. I haven’t had much luck using these with cheap soldering irons, though, for whatever reason.

2. With a bad soldering iron, you’ll likely find yourself stuck in a cycle of cleaning the tip, tinning the tip, removing oxidation, and, ultimately, replacing the tip. It’s horribly frustrating. If this sounds like your soldering experience, ditch the wet sponge and get a better iron. It’s not you; it’s your tools.

3. Prep is important, especially when doing repairs. Older electronics have a lot of oxidation and are harder to solder. Spend more time on prep, less time on soldering. Don’t try to reuse the solder that’s already on the board.

4. Get Kapton tape (generic name: polyimide tape). Don’t bother getting a combo pack of different sizes; just stick to the half-inch size. Use it copiously. It’s cheap on AliExpress and will save you a lot of trouble. Tape All The Things. Avoid electrical tape; it melts, ruins soldering iron tips, and leaves a nasty residue.

5. Cheap dental explorers and scalers make for great prep tools. They’re cheaper than picks you might get from a hardware store, and they’re usually sharper.

6. Get desoldering wick and flux. The flux core inside the solder often isn’t enough for repair work. Soldering wick is the best way to remove old, stubborn solder. Soak it in flux first if you’re really having trouble. Some people say to get high-quality desoldering wick, but I’ve found soaking cheap wick in flux to be about as effective.

7. I keep isopropyl alcohol in a little squirt bottle and use it to clean off any grime, electrolyte, or whatever else might have accumulated on the PCB.
Spoiler: He did not say that.
Wouldn't it have sufficed to check the planes wingspan?
I think name complaints are actually more reasonable here than they often are, especially as demonstrated in this comment you’re responding to: a search engine has to concern itself with such matters, so when a search engine deliberately names itself provocatively⸻

Anyway, I’m stopping there. I just thought this perspective worth mentioning.
Problem is American cities are not nice to live in.
Weird that that whole book is spent arguing against guys who worked like 120 years ago instead of confronting the voluminous modern work. "Of all the book's references, a full 27 percent precede 1900. Another 44 percent fall between 1900 and 1950 (60 percent of those are before 1925); and only 29 percent are more recent than 1950. From the total literature spanning more than a century, the few "bad apples" have been hand-picked most aptly to serve Gould's purpose." https://www.debunker.com/texts/jensen.html
When people start using spaced repetition and flashcard software they often end up throwing a big list of "Most common 1000 French words" into it and then promptly being swamped by reviews and giving up.

This is a bad idea for two reasons:

When it comes to spaced repetition, quality beats quantity. Only put in the perfect nuggets of knowledge. You're walking through an orchard and grabbing a single apple, not a whole trees worth.

Spaced repetition is to stop you forgetting, not for learning brand new things. When you study a topic and have an "aha" moment or you make a new connection, that's the thing you should put in. When you make the flashcard it should feel a little too easy. "I could never forget this, it seems so obvious now!". Doing this means your reviews are almost all easy and remind you of your learning experiences. The few things you forget are easily recalled and strengthened.

Joyful and fun review sessions are the most important thing. Maximising adherence (and therefore not giving up) is far more important than squeezing out a 1% more efficient SRS algorithm.
I don't agree.

I still use stack overflow regularly as an engineer.

Sometimes GPT-4 will have a quicker tailor-fit answer, but sometimes it will flounder as well.
You ever been at a ElectrifyAmerica station?
not worth risk of getting caught and go to litigation with company who will bankrupt you.

most software is individual components or service that not so interesting outside of companys context. code not super fancy or sexy either. it was written probably in a rush to get out feature so team meets director or vp goal. and whatever meaning it really have in bigger context of other distributed services that together provide actually useful feature.
As with the "code is law" crap with "smart contracts" in crypto, I can see the same problems emerging in courts. This happened, and I find it problematic: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bdmv/judge-used-chatgpt-to...

Human beings should be the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong because justice is not a concrete concept, it is very nuanced.
Yep, hanging on in there, thank gawd.
Same experience. I recently bought a music activated led glasses soldering kit from Amazon. I put it together with an iron kit that was 20 bucks on amazon.

Also I bought a more expensive yuhaun hot air/soldering station (name might not be exact) I used the $20 iron to solder my drone connection and it work perfectly fine with proper technique.

I cannot tell the different in build between the 20 unit and the more expensive station.

Also the brass sponge in the hakko cleaner is nothing more than a chewy boy brass sponge. $1 at your local shady gas station.
Activists recently prevailed on my city's government to rewrite the zoning ordinance, making my block of single family homes eligible to be torn down and turned into 4-plexes. I personally don't have a huge problem with it - from a libertarian point of view - because in theory, that means exactly what you said. I can sell my property for more money or develop it and make more from it. The aspect of it that irritates me is that those weren't the conditions under which I bought the house, and the reasoning behind the change was a foolish sop toward social justice, and clearly comes from a place of sheer hatred born of jealousy toward anyone living in a single family dwelling. I wouldn't have bought the house to live in if I'd known that ten years later it would be surrounded by apartment buildings. And so that plus the castigation of people trying to maintain their space as "NIMBY" leaves me mainly with the attitude that they can have it, I'll take the profit and move somewhere they can't afford and have less leverage to screw up.

Again, trailer parks have been a thing for 70 years now. The innovation here has been rewriting zoning rules without actually rezoning, to bring the trailer park to people who can afford to live somewhere better. The funny thing about class warfare, though, is that people take their lack of class with them and end up making slums wherever they go, and other people manage to make a buck and stay ahead of them.
It's a language model, not a search engine. It doesn't work well as one unless integrated into an actual search engine, like Bing does. Without such integration, it's much closer to human memory than search engine - it will recall stuff it has seen many times pretty well and completely fail at stuff it just glanced over once, filling any gaps with made up stuff like a kid on an exam hoping to get at least a few points with their wild guesses.
> This client is my main source of income, he’s a marketer who outsources the majority of his copy and content writing to me.

Yep, ChatGPT can produce bullshit faster+cheaper than humans produce bullshit.
I'll give them a try. Also while on the subject, I'm mildly nearsighted and find when I'm working on some kinds of tools, taking off my glasses and wearing non prescription safety glasses is just right.
It makes perfect sense for people who are willing to accept that ChatGPT/GPT-4 is a revolutionary technology that will upend lots of jobs/people/companies, just as horse coaches / coachmen in the early 1900's got pay raises just before being out of a job. For people who are in denial, it will make no sense. https://blogs.microsoft.com/today-in-tech/day-horse-lost-job...
It was not all that easy to get to and not all that easy to mount a switch securely near by. May be I just lacked imagination.

The real reason and the part I skipped was the leakage current was getting worse over time. By the time I replaced the MICU it was close to 2A draw. It was just a matter of time before it died.
> Truly some miniature Voice Of God stuff here!

I'm going to be genuinely surprised if we don't see an incredibly buggy but incredibly fascinating Sims knockoff in a year or two built around a system like this.
> high fat and you can eat a lot of fat very quickly and get a lot of calories that way

Fat also has the lowest thermic effect, a paltry 2-3%. Besides having the most calories per gram (9 vs 4 for protein or carb), it provides by far the cheapest, easiest calories for your body to digest.