skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the other comments highlighting this is an editorialized headline, I must add that I found the M1 generation of machines to be absolutely fantastic. It got me to buy a Mac for the first time in 10 years. They convinced me to spend £800 on a machine with un-upgradable 8GB RAM / 512GB SSD. That's an achievement.

Naturally, I wanted to reccomend them to people (many less technical) getting frustrated with Windows machines. The M2s were at least 40% more expensive.

This is really not more complicated than this. Their pricing model was wrong. I genuinely would have sold and upgraded if they were priced similarly. But 2020 M1s didn't decay in price at all over 2 years. So what else could they do?

If they had reduced the M1s and M2s, they would have sold an extraordinary amount of computers.
"Modern" .NET is not compatible with it (or as Microsoft would say, "OpenBSD is not compatible with .NET"), and there doesn't seem to be much interest in resolving that. For comparison, it is available from official repositories at least on Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, and Arch Linux, and I use it daily to build and host stuff for $DAYJOB.
> Since humans have yet to figure out the whole process behind brain thinking/intelligence/abstractions, then there is no way they can replicate that into machines.

By that logic, humans can't write a superhuman Chess/Go program unless they can articulate the specific algorithms to select the next move.

But that's clearly not true. Neural networks have been trained to play superhuman chess just by example. Not by programmers figuring out the whole process behind chess/go playing.
Same way you navigate everything else, by paying attention and making frequent and small adjustments as you acquire new information? You chose a good metaphor: selecting a straight line and expecting not to deviate from it is not "navigation" in any useful sense.
That's what the "ever expanding" part refers to. It's an old project that's periodically being updated.
> Is there much that absolutely can’t be ran on OpenBSD

Virtual machines for non-openbsd guests? That's the only thing blocking me to fully move to openbsd.
Could it be that the initial set of M1s was just “too good”? Mine is several years old now and I have zero desire to upgrade to an M2 or whatever we’re at. It’s so fast and snappy, even when doing 300k row DB updates (to pick a potentially meaningless example).
You can also play a decent amount of games on M1 Macs, but nothing spectacular or amazing. They can emulate almost anything with DirectX 11, but 12 is just not operational in any way at all.

Most emulators work swimmingly.
I aspire to implement this vision of modernity on my life as well. Perhaps it’s time to dust off an old UX40/UX50 and finally make this happen.
Don’t give off predatory vibes and remember that nobody will trust a total stranger. It takes time.

I’m talking about things you can develop over years, not minutes.
I can't understand why anyone would want to support a manufacturer that designs a configuration that has the storage an memory soldiered in.
Exactly.

Or to put it differently: Is "GPT-4 is just a parrot" a falsifiable claim?

If so, what does the test look like that would falsify it?
The problem is that when you put a dollar in savings or a dollar in the stock market you are actually "creating" an extra dollar from an economic standpoint.

If I put a dollar in the bank the bank can then use that dollar to loan to someone else, but I still have "my" dollar. So where there was 1 dollar there are now 2. Once we start pulling money out of investment vehicles we aren't only removing that money but also the backing the loans that depended on that money had.

Thus the boomers pulling out for retirement result are the capital destruction event.
Doctors do often recommend those - they just won’t touch anything that might requires FDA approval and doesn’t have it. I have indigestion issues and it’s my doctor who recommended a supplement with peppermint oil and castor oil. Worked like a charm for me. I had tried a whole suite of meds prescribed by my GP but the GI specialist went straight to the supplement.
Strict EPA Rules for 2027–2032 Vehicles Are Expected This Week
Whenever I teach soldering to someone, I try to keep it short - and tell that the only things they really need to know is

1) Keep the surfaces of the two metals you want to solder clean. That means removing rust, oxidation, dirt, etc. If possible, make a mechanical connection.

2) The three metals (surface A, surface B, solder) need to be equal temperature.

9 out of 10 times, the solder errors I see are due to the above points. It is important to purchase an iron that can get hot enough for the things you want to solder together, and which can control the temperature well enough.
GPT3's answer:

Richard Feynman: "Okay, so the man sees PULL written in mirror writing on the glass door and there's a blind man on the other side of the door. So the blind man can't read the word PULL but he needs to know what to do to open the door."

Albert Einstein: "Yes, I understand the situation. It's quite simple, really. The man just needs to tell the blind man to push the door instead of pull."

Richard Feynman: "Wait, but why push and not pull? The word on the door is PULL, not PUSH."

Albert Einstein: "Ah, but you see, the word is in mirror writing. When the blind man feels the letters with his fingers, he will feel the letters backwards, as if he is looking at them in a mirror. So he will actually feel the letters as L L U P, which is like saying 'push' backwards."

Richard Feynman: "Wow, Einstein, that's brilliant. So we just tell the blind man to push the door because he will feel the word PULL backwards."

Albert Einstein: "Indeed. It's a simple solution once you think about it."

Final answer: The man should tell the blind man to push the door because the word PULL is written in mirror writing on the glass door, and the blind man will feel the letters backwards as L L U P, which is like saying 'push' backwards.
Thanks! I might integrate it too, in the future.
Objectification is dehumanizing.
Let's talk down the youngest generation

You're not the younger generation anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha

no one of Gen Z, that I know of, is unable to do any of those examples.

"That I know of" is the hallmark of Gen Z: Thinking that their experiences are the only experiences.

Taking the manual transmission example, there were a number of items in the news back when manual transmission was more common about Millennial and Gen Z would-be car thieves being unable to drive away because they didn't know how to use a stick.

But since you didn't know them, they must not exist.
You can use SRS to prompt the review, but do the actual "review" physically on the guitar. But yeah I think you need to build kinetic memory here, not just visual memory.
They seem to have pivoted BitBucket a few years ago. Rather than being a GitHub competitor, they moved to being the default option for companies that buy into the Atlassian ecosystem. JIRA was always their big product, and they've expanded into a bunch of other JIRA-adjacent products (sometimes via acquisitions) such as Trello and OpsGenie. For a company their size it makes sense to have BitBucket as a box they can tick in sales pitches, but I think they realised a long time ago that they weren't going to win anyone based purely on that.
I have cpap on the NHS. I got a quality machine, quality advice and quality follow up. It took a very long time to get it but the care itself was very good.
No, they just don't like Apple software and are looking for a reason to ding them. Which, fair, XCode is trash.

If they don't think either service is great, they can just run a local media server or use dropbox. Apple doesn't force you to use iCloud, and I personally think it's less obtrusively advertised on the OS than OneDrive. Personally.
Uniform distribution of appearance of life over stars.

Special relativity.
Oof, and it's too late for me to go back and fix it (unless Dang would be so kind, for posterity).

Definitely meant the positive version and I have no idea how I transposed those two! Apologies for contributing to the mess and appreciate you catching it. :)
I think Mac v. PC as a tribal dividing line has largely been replaced by PC v. Phone, given that most of the population no longer interacts with computers outside of work at all any more.
have you used this one? I'd like to buy it, I'd just want to hear that someone used this successfully.
I think that's a pretty unrealistic hope. I don't think the government is going to spin up up millions of workers to be in home caregivers and start building government funded nursing homes. That's not to mention the budget implications is such care.

Some states are looking at or implementing new mandatory Insurance programs nursing home care, but these are far too late for Boomers to pay into them in a meaningful way
Reductio ad absurdum: would you spend one million US dollars to make one dollar a year? No, that's clearly foolish.

Would you spend one US dollar to make a million a year? Of course, but what such investments would ever exist?

And so instruments which bare gains over time have some value, which is calculated by the means of cost of investment to returns over time.

If there are a market of such instruments, they can and will be in competition with each other.

This "things are only what people value them at" stuff is for the birds. Those other people you're talking about are actually calculating their investments. Others with such mentality will follow, not knowing what they're doing, and taking missteps when the goods are already gone.

What you think is "accepted by everyone else" is what you're seeing at face value. There are reasons behind actions. Those actions in and of themself have no meaning without context.

The mathematics of investment have never, ever changed in any meaningful way. The history of debts, interest rates, and returns have always fluctuated, but the math hasn't.

Anyone suggesting otherwise is uninformed.
I actually forgot about the brass you're talking about. I've seen it used, but never used it myself. I only occasionally solder though, just a few times a year either to fix something or to make a simple electronic project kit. I rarely do it correctly, I usually just heat my iron up and solder the item, the only thing I do generally is "tin" what I'm soldering first.
It's kind of interesting how handling this well varies from hobby to hobby and is tricky to balance from person to person. There's the argument that you don't want to spend too much until you get a feel for how interested you are but there's also the effect of quality of tools on enjoyment/annoyance/learning curve that has a big effect on interest a lot of the time. I guess, you're always just gonna wanna google around to get a better idea, but sometimes there's not great googleable info.
I think https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM could be used, but not all versions (namely instruction fine-tuned models trained on alpaca data)
Play them more, your fingers need to learn the shapes not your brain.
> The burden of proof is on the person claiming no form of value investing will have passed a backtest over the last decade

Says who?

In my book the burden of proof is on the argument being the less in line with general consensus.

Value being a bad investment in the last decade is not an argument, it's a fact. Value is not something you find, it is a defined factor with academic consensus on the definition. You can have some leaway and build a portfolio highly correlated to value, but that only goes so far.

Claiming to have found a good value signal is then akin to claiming being able to doing consistently good factor timing on value.

This is a feat the top hedge funds on the planet would be weary to claim. Allow me to be skeptical when someone on HN claims to have done so with "basic value indicators" and found something that "prints money".
Western European and East Asian developed economies share their largest economic problem going forwards: declining birth rates. I'm not convinced the policy goals of reducing teen birth rates has ever been that much of an actual policy goal, despite what election manifestos might proclaim
> By ML you mean machine learning or meta language?

I meant Machine Learning

> if you are looking for a monolith then Rails is a good option.

I am really interested in learning more about the monolithic approach that Rails advocates. What would be a good codebase to study?

I am looking for some sort of large monolith that is open source.
Would Gitlab or Discourse codebase, qualify as a good candidate?
I tried find the RealWorld demo app on Github, but couldn't find a canonical Hotwired-Rails7 implementation.
I know how language models work. It's funny how you paint this obvious in retrospect.

Guess Jan Leike doesn't know how statistical language models work.

https://mobile.twitter.com/janleike/status/16252072516309606...
Yea, I find it a fair bit annoying that I pay $20 and have a 25 message cap every 3 hours.
Props to you, I also use the scheme but I had to get a bicycle one year, then wait, and get motor next year and install it myself. Because of the limit.

Most people would not even realise that there are little shops besides halfords on the scheme, and attempt DIY.

Basically I think it would be much simpler, and cheaper to administer if we did away with all the employer nonsence and just removed all taxes from bicycles, like VAT.
Could this have to so with smart people increasing pursuing hedonism over reproduction? Maybe Idiocracy was right all along.

From a strict evolutionary perspective I have doubts that a high IQ is useful anymore.
Yeah the most common mistake is actually not cleaning well and not heating all things up that need to be heated (e.g. trying to use the soldering iron like a "brush").
it seems that someone replied with a link and it's gone

here's the link:
https://hnrankings.info/35078392/

it shows "update to kagi search pricing" started and stayed in the front of hn for 1.5 hours

it then left the front page and raced to rank 300 within the next 4 hours

the disturbing thing is that this hn post with id 35078392 generates 116 points with 132 comments

poof, just like that
Going to add Supermemo's classic "Twenty rules of formulating knowledge", which is referenced at the end of the article.

https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...
Retiree wealth mining is the next great gold rush!

One interesting scheme I recently came across is an assisted living home that doesn't take regular payments. Instead, they have their residents sign over their entire net worth at the event of their death, leaving nothing for their inheritors. The tradeoff is that they get to stay for as long as they live. Of course, this scheme has some obvious perverse incentives for the operators of the home.
Not to mention a large part of their popularity and support for actions such as the beer hall putsch came from their open opposition to communist violence and intimidation.

Amazing how the world has forgotten that part of it, and how in vogue totalitarianism was in the 1930s
Yep.

I happened to help another crab and I think it may be the single best thing I’ve ever done.

My wife’s family was constantly making fun of my father-in-law for falling asleep during the day, falling out of chairs etc. One day I noticed he was fluttering in and out of sleep while driving me so I asked him if he wanted to try my travel CPAP that night - I have very mild apnea and can get by without it.

He tried it and after the first night he was a completely different person, it was almost like someone drugged him up with PEDs. The home remodelers that were working there were jokingly peeved because he started helping them and they said he was going to put them out of work.

Just transformative, I feel so good about it.
Just don't let it convince you to "reduce your carbon footprint" like the last guy did.
Out here in US flyover country, everywhere I look I see unremarkable dudes who certainly don't look like high earners, with reasonably-attractive women. Sure, most of them (men and women) get kinda gross by middle age (we do have an obesity epidemic, after all, and it's much worse in some states than others) but the whole incel thing is just baffling from out here—how are these forum-dwellers having so much trouble finding a partner? Maybe the forum-dweller bit is the problem?

But these women live away from the coasts and like dudes who are into fishing or hunting (not Final Fantasy Online) and can secure a trailer hitch blindfolded, and most of them probably voted for Trump, so, I guess that's the disconnect? But then, the voting thing, they may have in common with the incels.

It's like two totally different worlds.

[EDIT] Oh, a lot of them probably attend some protestant church or another pretty regularly, which I'm guessing most having trouble making connections do not. Maybe that contributes? Guaranteed socializing about once a week.
Every time I read articles like this, I think of what Dan Pena said when asked about climate change.

Now I will admit that he is a difficult guy to take seriously, but there is one point he makes: If the water on the planet is going to rise 10ft, the southern part of the US including Florida is gone.

He adds: If the risk were real as we think, banks wouldn't be investing in new construction or providing 30-40 year mortgages on new property in Florida close to the ocean.
But yet they are.

I realize that banks are not immune to horribly bad financial decisions, but surely they have done their own risk analysis on climate change as it relates to Florida property.

Link to video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxauhxtYtk
Art can be worthwhile for its own sake, no?

This has more value to more people than a painting of an apple, I'd guess. I don't see much point in either of them myself; but I don't have to. I can see the point in them in that they gave their creator joy while making them and even more in that others can appreciate them, even if i can't.
Not with the stock market. When you put a dollar in the stock market someone else is taking a dollar out. For every buyer there is a seller and vice versa.
Please consider revising your future comments here to be less combatative. This isn't in line with HN culture and simply kills healthy discussion. You can refute without being emotional and flaming people.
Brass wire sponge works great.
I've only seen the first four episodes, but they are fantastic. It is incredible how from ages 7 to 14 to 21 to 28 some individuals seem to barely change at all, whereas others appear to be a completely different person in each episode.
Yes, my son built is a few weeks ago, no issues and works great!
In relation to this, when using GPT4, I have added the addendum to my prompts: "This seems like a lot of work, please split the work into two chunks, and let's start on the first chunk now."

It will generally segment the problem in some logical way and work just fine, with vastly improved reasoning abilities due to not trying to do as much at once.
As far as I’m aware it will definitely forget things as the history grows. You can “remind” it about things to keep them relevant, and I think a cool product built like OP’s project would take that into consideration for long running tasks.
> why don't we apply PageRank for every user based on the upvotes they receive for the comments they leave on any post

Absolutely not, think about the incentives this creates! Imagine yourself to be an adversary, how would you game this system? Easy: spam low-effort highly agreeable comments across the site. The more the better, they're basically guaranteed to get some upvotes and boost your karma. Now, with your newfound power, you can shape the HN front page to your will.

Instead of the front page being a signal of quality, it would be correlated to the posters' karma. And because the front page is a limited resource, you basically get a crappier version of Twitter where relatively low-karma accounts have practically no chance to get on the front page even with high-quality posts, and high-karma accounts will be able to roll their front-page posts into even more karma. This is pretty much one of the biggest flaws of major social media websites today: they concentrate power in a few users with massive influence.
Seems like a temporary problem. Boomers convert savings into spending. One man's spending is another man's income. That person now has money to spend or save, and then we're back to where we started.
Having done this myself I recommend two things:

- 4 notes per string (there are fewer, bigger shapes to get into your head), helps you break out of the caged boxes

- thinking of the guitar as a pentatonic instrument and using that as your framework (notice how the open strings are a pentatonic scale). Check out the miles okazaki book, it's all about this

& Anki is a great tool. Good luck!
I think this might work for some subset of hobbies (can't think of any), but anything that requires some learning or training to improve, crappy tools will hold your progress back and might cause you to drop out. From ping pong balls to guitars...
That isn't what I said and I dont think you refuted my actual statement. PMs and PZs are incoherent by construction.
Materials costs are high. Transport costs were high. Loans and rents that underscore the business are high.

And because they can afford to sit on cars for 3-6-12 months; it's not like apples where they'll rot. Eventually they'll have to make space for next year's model but keep the price high and then negotiate.
Using a cloud-hosted AI with a Terms-of-Service as an assistant is a recipe for disaster in the future. I can't wait for the future where everyone is reliant on a corporate spy for everything they do.
Igor Naming Guide [pdf]
I'll add one by collabfund that might be relevant for the crowd here:

*Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking.* There is [little correlation between](http://climatescience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/978...) climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over pure analysis. There’s four parts to this:

• Tribes are everywhere: Countries, states, parties, companies, industries, departments, investment styles, economic philosophies, religions, families, schools, majors, credentials, Twitter communities.

• People are drawn to tribes because there’s comfort in knowing others understand your background and goals.

• Tribes reduce the ability to challenge ideas or diversify your views because no one wants to lose support of the tribe.

• Tribes are as self-interested as people, encouraging ideas and narratives that promote their survival. But they’re exponentially more influential than any single person. So tribes are very effective at promoting views that aren’t analytical or rational, and people loyal to their tribes are very poor at realizing it.
I used to "suck" at soldering, until one day I was recommended a Louis Rossmann video by Youtube and decided to watch it. Once I saw how much flux he used, I started to use more flux and as it turns out, that was my problem.

That is my problem with this article. Flux is only superficially in a sentence. So my tip to beginners: Cleaning flux is way easier than struggling to solder with little/no flux.
The people solving hard problems when it comes to building spaceships or electric cars have had limited options when it comes to getting a paycheck to solve them. Elons ability to raise capital and fund ventures in these spaces is going to attract brilliant people. If anything everything you listed further illustrates my point, Elon exceeds in capital intensive industries. When the barrier to entry is low, he’s not so good looks at Twitter.

I think genius in one place is good enough to be considered exceptional and achieve exceptional things. I don’t see why he must also be a genius in everything else… why must it be more than the money?