skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look into the work of Tony Seba: renewable are on an exponential growth.

Tesla Master plan 3 highlight the step needed to fully transition

Bjorn Longburgh explain in his book and interview what are the different priorities and costs associated with the different way we can do good in the world.

I am super into renewable, but climate change will not be a problem at the current speed of innovation. We should focus on making the poor richer so they then can care about the environment. We should also tell young people to have kids, that there is not too many people on the planet and we should be way more careful with the risks of nuclear war.

Not too long ago we were afraid of widespread famine in the 2000 and the return of Ice age, and probably many others thing.
Weren't they already doing this? I swear I remember hearing complaints about this in Windows 8 or 10...
What you mean is social policy is mostly an excuse for expanding government, and government control. And "helping with root causes" always means expanding government departments, rather than, for example, dealing with housing shortages.
Is Moore's Law Dead?
In terms of complexity, a computer is more like a car than a hammer.
. . . or believes that the laws of physics apply to our bodies too.
This was an inspiring read! Reminds me of Simon Willison's analogy of LLMs to "calculators for words" but this author takes the idea even further. I agree the analogy points to foundation model companies like OpenAI and Anthropic having the most revenue but not the highest margins. Who will the Apple / Microsoft / Google of this new wave be? Who can take this raw technology and actually make it usable by all? "An LLM in every home"
Yeah that’s what I want to know too. Is it legit?
But they have never been "far right" in the way that the traditional racial supremacy kind of neo nazis are.

If anything, they are good evidence for horseshoe theory, or perhaps invalidity of the left-right scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
I think a lot of folks looked at 3D printers and thought "Star Trek Replicator". Those folks were likely disappointed. They might get there eventually, but 3D printers aren't there yet.

OTOH, if you're working on hardware and prototyping stuff, 3D printers are an amazing tool. It's like CAD-CAM software: not everyone needs it, but if you do, YOU NEED IT.
Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug
This is like saying reddit is far right because of the_donald
Warren Buffett Is Bullish on Japan. Why Other Investors Should Be Too
Archive link for those who are having issues getting the article to load:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230410132952/https://lukasrose...

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I was like the author, except I have had a burning desire to have family and children since I was a boy. I started thinking about fatherhood when I was maybe 12.

After a failed long term relationship, and three or four girlfriends I finally settled with the fact that my drive to fulfill this desire overrides pretty much any degree of pain or dissatisfaction from prior relationships. I've prayed plenty of times to have this desire taken from me because it screwed with my head to be single. As if this one thing was a gateway to the rest of my life. I know that's not fundamentally true, and I haven't put my life on hold just because I lack a romantic relationship.

I generally advise even hesitant men to "go for it" because they won't make any progress towards a goal if they don't get over themselves and try. To the guys who have tried and failed, I say "take damage, keep moving".

There are whole groups of men on the other side of failed relationships that are utter poison to everyone around them.

If anyone needs a cheerleader or someone to keep them accountable, let me know.
That's not true though. Yes, if it needs to be a complex and breathtaking frontend that has all the bells and the whistles.

But backend developers often need or have a desire to build a perfectly usable frontend for their service, without relying on a frontend person to start with. This could be due to project ambitions or budget.
To reply to myself, this is some fantastic word soup, but it looks like I can use the Google app? Or the Home app? Possibly they're different things? It'll be fascinating to see if I can do fancy modern high tech thermostat things like... override a schedule.

>Once you add your Google Nest thermostat to the Home or Nest app, you can easily control it even when you're not at home.

> The Nest Thermostat can only be controlled with the Home app.

> You can control the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E with the Home app after you migrate your Nest Account to a Google Account.

> The Nest app also offers full control and settings for the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E.
I’ll be installing this tonight! Spotify on my Apple TV is my go-to for winding down before bed. I’ve always wanted what I call “video mute.”
>Every numbskull to every professor now has the ability to generate information on a scholarly level

I'm hopeful about the future use of AI, but this strikes me as potentially overly optimistic. Or possible misinterprets what academics do.

ChatGPT is very good at collating existing information. I don't know that it is anywhere near the level of creativity necessary to generate novel ideas (especially those that have to be rooted in reality to solve engineering problems).

For example, if you ask "How can we redesign a Wankel engine to achieve 2% better efficiency?" it does give a good summary of the main mechanisms that impact efficiency (thermal losses, friction, combustion efficiency) but it doesn't give any actionable, novel ways of implementing them. It's basically a 101 course summary of combustion engines. "Generate better materials" is not an actionable solution. So unless you think a freshman/sophomore understanding is all that's needed to solve our big problems, we've still got a ways to go before we can turn the reins over to AI.
Maybe I'm a prude, but I think there should be a discussion of variance in an article that is basically just a bunch of words wrapping a comparison between two proportions.
That would be nearly impossible to implement and enforce with many thousands of instances.
I really think it's the depth, not the breadth, that makes the recommendations work. I've been a member since 2005, and SciFi was pretty good right out of the gate. Now, everything's pretty good. If it hasn't been harmed by its growth up to this point, I honestly doubt a little more will hurt it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230410132952/https://lukasrose...
Not just that, they even ask for money! Companies these days...
There will probably be a market for anti-ai checkers, just like anti-virus checkers.

(All you have to do is let them snoop on everything you say or do)
Of course, but NPR's origins are from a government-controlled organization.
I am guilty as charged of saying impulsively that the first solution is O(n)!

The reverse trie is genius, but with dynamic programming do you still need it? I would say that if in the general setting you can afford O(n^2) preparatory steps, and therefore you can just remember which (start, end) pairs correspond to a valid word with regular trie lookups. That is O(n) steps for each start position, giving a total of O(n^2).
I use the Apple Music app constantly and never get nagged to buy the service. On macOS, I just unchecked the "Apple Music" checkbox under "Show" in the Music Preferences, and on iOS turned off the "Show Apple Music" toggle in Settings > Music. Boom, no nagging.
The ARM server hype was 10 years ago. Every Linux distro wanted to be first, but then they all waited for the year of the ARM server.

Nice to see that things seem to start moving a bit now. Energy consumption and cooling are major concerns for data centers. ARM is just so much better when it comes to energy consumption. So the potential should be there.
What is in the connector? While the only evil usb connectors I have seen are the big ones. Putting evil in and lighting or usb-c should be more than possible.
History runs in circles. Everybody wants to be an hero, so they will refuse to see the danger or to understand that ecosystems don't grant a second try if you change something and regret it later.

Mao died in 1976. Sparrows still remain extinct in most of China.
Yep,

> A “small” number of Windows 11 users will now see “notifications” encouraging them to use other Microsoft products when clicking on the Windows Start Menu

Is the red dot on System Preferences a software update, or is it "Update Apple ID Settings" which wants me to sign in to iCloud everywhere just because I use Apple Music.

Apple even goes so far as to change the behaviour of the notification 'X' so that instead of dismissing the notification it opens System Preferences to iCloud for me. The only way to dismiss it is to swipe it off screen (not what you usually do), and it returns each time I wake my computer and periodically through the day.
Are Chromebooks still ad-free? Even if so, I wonder how long we can count on that to last.
The origin webserver might also be single... threaded.
Why not offload this to the device?

Why doesn't my device today have an option that allows me to set the USB port to "power only"?
"Tesla has received more than $3.2 billion worth of direct and indirect California subsidies and market mechanisms since 2009, according to an estimate from Newsom's office."
- https://www.govtech.com/policy/gov-newsom-says-california-su....
Most of these people aren’t in the top 1% for sure, absolutely sure. Top 1% richest in the US have a net worth of >$10M, and you need >$1M to get into the 90th percentile. Let’s say that you’re fresh out of college and land an IC3 data scientist role at Meta. Your total compensation is probably below $200k and your base salary is closer to $140, maybe $130.

From that, you can run projections on how long it would take you to get to the 90th percentile of household wealth in the US, assuming you stay in the same role. You can try running different scenarios—suppose your rent is free (you’re living with your parents to save money), suppose that you’re paying $1,500 for your share of an apartment with roommates, or suppose that you’re paying $2,500 for a tolerable studio or 1BR in a high-COL area like SF or NYC.

By my math, our IC3 data scientist with a $140k salary has a take-home around $8,800 a month after federal taxes, and if you subtract say $2,250 in living expenses for living with roommates ($1,500 rent + $750 other expenses). It would take this person 12.7 years to save $1M—you can accelerate the timeline when you look at RSU grants, but this is still a lot of work for a “high-paid” worker to get into the 90th percentile of wealth. RSU grants are also tied to employment, so if you are assuming that people are vesting their RSU grants, you’re assuming that people manage to stick it out at places like Meta even when there are morale problems and layoffs. It may be fair to assume promotions, but not everyone gets those promotions and we should hope that the people who don’t get promoted are still able to live their lives.
The difference is now there is the ability to do it at scale, and convincingly.

Bots on social media that can argue with you, share experiences, other forms of astroturfing, etc. Bots that can directly respond to your questions.

The difference IMO will be that previously making interactive propaganda was very difficult and expensive to do in a convincing manor. And also literally anyone can now ask for "a CDC article describing the dangers of [literally anything]" and have an article so convincing even diligent people won't be able to immediately recognize.

Currently unless you know what you're looking for, GPT4 is very convincing. I think even the hn crowd is already seeing bots on hn/reddit/etc and not realizing it.
Yes.

In the implementation the units are actually integers, 1 is the minimum.

Could easily fork in a new transaction format though.
Here you go:
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059262052/a-u-s-weapons-sale...

Criticism of the DNC specifically (and Biden): https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141499760/concerns-arise-ove...
It's a buzzword that is used for multiple similar things without a clear definition:

"Broadly speaking, the technologies companies refer to when they talk about “the metaverse” can include virtual reality—characterized by persistent virtual worlds that continue to exist even when you're not playing—as well as augmented reality that combines aspects of the digital and physical worlds. However, it doesn't require that those spaces be exclusively accessed via VR or AR. Virtual worlds—such as aspects of Fortnite that can be accessed through PCs, game consoles, and even phones—have started referring to themselves as “the metaverse.”

Many companies that have hopped on board the metaverse bandwagon also envision some sort of new digital economy, where users can create, buy, and sell goods. In the more idealistic visions of the metaverse, it's interoperable, allowing you to take virtual items like clothes or cars from one platform to another, though this is harder than it sounds"

https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-metaverse/
I've encountered several dangerous incidents of mistakenly ignored errors at an employer that heavily used golang due to the language's bad design.
I signed up to the GPT4 waitlist the first day and I still don't have access.

As these AI models get more powerful, giving certain people months to use them while the rest of us twiddle our thumbs seems unfair. It should be everyone has access but you only get X API requests per day. Then increase X for all users evenly. If OpenAI isn't going to be open, at least they could be a little more fair with access.
> Langchain uses this prompt: "The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know."

There seem to be a lot of cases where people claim the models can't do something, but with minimal direction, they can.

Like avoiding bias. Or doing long digit math carefully, instead of guessing, etc.

I don't know a human that doesn't need any feedback either.

Obviously, many of these things would be better handled in the learning stage, so bias avoidance, careful serial thought processes, etc., were its baseline thinking.

When that happens I would expect fewer mistakes, but also an overall increase in the quality of responses, and ability to handle greater complexity. Clear careful thinking reduces error in each step, making longer chains of reasoning more viable.
What are you doing in the bathroom that sets off a smoke alarm?
A couple of days ago there was a story on HN about fingerprinting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243355

The take-away I got from this article is that, companies found a way to uniquely identify you anyhow, without cookies.

Is this too little too late?
Presumably the Google Home app? That's where they moved the Google Wifi stuff too before they stopped updating the dedicated Google Wifi app.
It is a shame how few people will get to see this joke
Agreed - communication is important. This should be the very first sentence.

Keep your TV screen off while playing audio through your Apple TV.

Then the page can go into why they built this, the problem it solved, the benefits, challenges etc.

When I listen to a song I give it 3 - 7 seconds to see if I like it. Similar for books, 30 pages max. People move on quickly.
Do you mean ... program it?
> And yet it’s got basically perfect uptime.

Some monitors indicate that hackernews has a 99.84% uptime in the past 30 days. Hardly "perfect".

https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/
I asked,
"can i use plus sign to concatenate two strings in bigquery?"

it said, yes you can.

Correct answer is no. You can use Concat func or ||.

note, chatgpt also gets this wrong.

hopefully this comment makes it into their training set!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada for example. It looks pretty much like iPhone — no keyboard, just touchscreen. But it did not really "spark joy" (I had one), so it wasn't a big success unlike iPhone.
I am not opposed to involuntary treatment. I did not let "A Clockwork Orange" disproportionately shape my world view as it seems so many in the intervening generations have. I grew up with family members who required in-patient mental healthcare more than once. And I understand that letting people persistent in psychosis is not "letting them be themselves".

I believe though that making acts which people do in private, severely punishable when performed in public for want of private spaces is a depraved form of puritanical virtue mongering. I don't believe the constitution gives people an absolute right to "virgin eyes" or "virgin ears". And that is a personal judgement you will not convince me of otherwise.
Iain Banks' Culture stories have the same. Of course, Lem wrote earlier, not trying to make any claim otherwise.
I’ve heard Zizek repeat this a lot in his talks but has never been able to find a reliable source for this claim
The ACLU has become a parody organization with a thin veneer of supporting it's core goals.
Federal in this case is Canada.
Opt in vs. opt out. Those check boxes should be disabled be default. And they are not.
I'm pretty sure MOTD is only shown on server installations
I don't (yet) believe that what chatgpt does requires citation to be ethical/honest.
I absolutely loved it! One of the problems I kept facing when using GPT-4 was how old its training data was. This is just amazing. I've already spent almost $30 alone on GPT-4 this month alone. So I'd really consider paying you for this service instead.
> a lot of things that "have no place at a programming language conference", but surprisingly these are not included in that draft. Why?

Rly. Why should petty tyranny or totalitarianism have a seat at a programming language conference?
Ask HN: How far away are from having one's personality be preserved in an LLM?
This might sound a little ridiculous, but I had a feeling yesterday that we are very close to the day where one can train an LLM on written communication type of one person. And then use another generative model that generates voice use that person's voice. The end result will be an LLM that speaks/responds like this one person.

This sound creepy and Black Mirror like at all levels. And I wanted to ask HN how far away are we from getting there, technologically.
I will continue to use Open Shell as a replacement until it no longer works.
With Trump all but banished to a quiet existence somewhere in Florida, the mainstream media cash cow is gone. To boost revenue, they need a new bad guy. And for obvious reasons he needs to be white, male and wealthy. Enter Elon: new media baddie. The only sad part is even the HN kids fall for this clickbait
Anecdotally I've had more recruiters reach out to me for potential jobs when I have the Open to work badge. Why not have it on all the time even if you are currently employed, especially if you are well performing. Would that not be an incentive for your current employer to boost pay/bonus to retain?
You're pushing the jeans analogy a little further than I intended. Every analogy has its limits.

Is it a security? A commodity? I don't know! But neither does the US government. The CFTC and SEC are fighting a turf war. The CFTC calls them commodities. The SEC calls (most of) them securities. The IRS has created a brand new category called "digital assets". Who is right? If the government can't tell you, I sure can't.

I can infer there must be some legal justification for the current treatment. Even if you think Coinbase is playing fast and loose with the law, the old school players like Fidelity also don't charge sales tax on bitcoin, and I guarantee you they're not going to risk their core business over crypto. I am curious now how their lawyers would answer some of your questions.

Anyways it's been an interesting conversation, thanks for sticking around after the thread died. You've given me some stuff to think about.
People that choose to live primarily in the world of logic and reason sometimes forget to nurture their emotions and feelings, and that side of them can atrophy. I suspect this guy has hidden and suppressed his desires due to some fears about relationships.
It's the Google Home app. Hopefully they'll invest in the interface quite a bit over the coming year but it does a good job of managing all of the devices in my home right now. So this isn't a huge issue. The weird problem of having both the Nest app and Google Home has always been really weird.
That’s why you probably don’t use many Apple devices, which is totally cool. I on the other hand, expect something that I look at, touch and use literally for half of my waking hours to be as “tasty” as possible. It’s actually one of the most important factors, if not the most important.
Ok, that makes sense. I guess this project is targeting a compatible frontend for multiple backends. When I saw MongoDB alternative, I thought they were building both sides of the coin.
Yes, there is a subjective philosophical question here for sure. Are humans inherently lazy and greedy or cooperative and selfless? The answer is "both". But since you can't tell who's who, and the greedy selfish have a vested interest in hiding it to get more, how do you decide?

I think you decide what is a bigger moral crime:

* To leave someone who needs help without it, even when you have funds to help them

* To fund someone who doesn't need help, and who will take advantage of it?

It's similar to strong-link/weak-link theories on societies.

Ultimately, the homelessness is not the root cause. The root cause is poverty, mental health, drug addiction, or all of the above. Those are the things that need to be addressed first.
Huang's Law (performance of GPUs doubles every 2 years)
Nazis use the internet. You use the internet. Therefore, you're a nazi.
Java has records, pattern matching, and proper enums.

As of writing this comment, golang does not allow you to have generics on methods as far as I'm aware.
Hot shower = steam, which triggers a smoke detector!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuAeaIcAXtg
I don't assume that flag indicates the person is jobless. The person working BK while looking for a white collar job might well use it.
> Does the drinking age eliminate under age drinking?

No, but it massively reduced it.
Can we use AI to hunt down bad forms of propaganda?
RISC-V is inevitable.
I think this can be said about lots of nouveau riche/old rich/poor people. But maybe Scandinavia is different :)
Indeed, advertising and data collection is ultimately there to drive a profit in real money - at some point, someone still has to put actual money into the system - in advertising, this is typically from consumers buying the advertised products. If everything turns into an advertising platform with no actual way for real money (as opposed to "engagement") to get into the system, it will fall apart.

However, the same kind of people who are willing to sacrifice long-term brand trustworthiness of a previously-reputable OS supplier in exchange for some quick "engagement" metrics to justify their salary and/or promotion will be in other companies paying for these ads and then finding a way to coerce the data/metrics to justify that ad spend, even though in the long term none of those ads may actually bring net profits to the company.

As long as there is enough money being available from previous profits and/or other sources, both of these camps will independently cooperate with each other to further their own careers at the expense of their respective companies' long-term outlooks.
Guilt by association makes no sense… would this also apply to eg, communists?
>I will immediately stop using or sell anything I have that is acquired by google.

This is the crux though. You could be totally satisfied with a non-Googly product, but suddenly become a Googly user when Googs buys the successful company. I feel this way about Amazon buying the Roomba company.