skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this "The humble pocket calculator should have taken Sociology by storm half a century ago." post criticizing how psychometrics has become bunk as it hasn't kept up with the times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29798887
What do you think this proves, and why?
I saw this on the Gears and Gasoline Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/XgOowUWbCdk?t=628 -- looks like a lot of work to trace a parasitic drain.
ugh thanks for the warning, I'd forgotten about the hate speech. No doubt they use "hidden Jew" hatefully too.
Wow Microsoft should say at least sorry to Mozilla and somehow repay them for this!
Depends on what you do; I routinely use double that, and for me even my 64GB starts to be limiting.
The whole point of this article is that driverless vehicles are causing delays which are qualitatively different and longer than what human drivers would do. Pointing out that bad traffic already exists elsewhere (presumably caused by human drivers) does not decrease the problems that these companies are creating for the public, and certainly doesn't create accountability.
God forbid that they should ever have to compete on price.
Please. Adopt this already.

Visa MasterCard paypal are ancient dinosaurs that need to die.
2% is a fucktonne of commission to be charged on an invoice. Agreed a lot of it goes to banks and intermediaries but still, its totally avoidable because as upi has shown, its totally not needed.

Oh, before you say "fraud protection". Please make a habit of two factor authenticating your payments. Make that mandatory. You must type your pin or otp or whatever.
Second, isn't fraud protection the job of the bank? If someone hacks your bank because of flaw in their system, shouldnt they be responsible?
Hakko is also resting on their laurels.

Hakko is what everyone recommends but I have no idea why. It's awful stuff with a design from the 80s. The UI is awful and inscrutable without the manual, the tech is long obsolete.

Get a TS80 or something else that's actually modern -- it has excellent temperature control with a tightly integrated thermocouple like one of the expensive Hakkos (FX951), but costs less and actually displays stuff in readable English. It also has nice features like using an accelerometer to sense its own orientation and turn itself off if you leave it lying around, instead of burning a hole through your desk.
We don't have consequences if a normal person blocks a train for 15 minutes why would we add them for automated cars first?
totally love it as an alternative to Anki, didn't mention it since it has already been praised by the original post
> Most of those expats you mentioned simply wanted to live above their means.

Actually, I had a friend working there as a nurse who bought property to live in, and they were underwater for a while. They were not stupid: it was an easy and normal mistake to make given their background (mortgages are not thought of as jail material at home, I’m not sure if they were warned of dangers).

I expect there are other unknown serious “gotchas”, because you are not a citizen in Dubai. You could easily be treated the same as the third-world working imported labour, and the legal system there can heavily penalise non-citizens.

Yeah: 0% tax is nice, but personally I think it is not worth it to live in a crappy place and there are hidden costs. Been there for a week just to have a good look around: fucking hated how people were treated there - weird economy.
If that's what you've taken away from it, you need to rewatch it; the financial theme is not "sustainable cities are impossible" the theme is "American sprawling car dependent suburbia is insolvent because it doesn't generate enough tax revenue to pay for the sprawling roads/water/sewage/garbage disposal/other services that it uses", and it's like a Ponzi scheme where the construction and sale of a new chunk of suburbs pays for the maintenance work on the previous one.

Denser inner-city areas generate much more tax revenue with less cost of services because they have to cover a smaller area, and this can be solvent and subsidises the suburbs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI "Suburbs are subsidized: Here's the Math"

NB. the last time I linked this on HN someone dismissed it as "Strong towns propaganda" claiming that if suburbs didn't exist, everyone would starve. They completely failed to respond to followup questions about cities which are not sprawling suburbs and are not starving. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238666
I dont understand why google keeps doing this!
Safari is an awfully platform to support. Its prevalence on iOS and the Draconian way in which its presence is imposed makes me consider it the new, and worse, IE.

In the past I would test it via crossbrowsertesting.com, and that's worth a shot, as it can provide tunneling software to your local environment.

Recently I've chosen to treat it the same way as any other closed platform: I don't support it and don't wish its poison to propagate further. Granted, I am but an irrelevant drop in an ocean.
Sure, but if there's a leak you have a problem.
I found that my old (1997) Range Rover would flatten its battery after being parked outside my house over a weekend. If I didn't drive it for two or three days, it would be too flat to start.

It turns out that the BECM (body ECU) wakes up from sleep if it hears anything coming in from the RF keyfob receiver, on 433.92MHz, a standard ISM frequency. If it's not a valid fob code (and there is a surprisingly complex rolling code sequence) it'll go back to sleep after 20 minutes or so.

The oil tank gauge for my central heating had a remote sensor that... yup. Transmitted on 433.920MHz, of course.

The aerial for the keyfob is on the rear right corner of the vehicle, the oil tank for the heating was on the left-hand side of the driveway right at the back of the house, so when I backed into my driveway it was right beside the receiver.

I managed to do just fine with popping the lid off the oil tank once a month and looking inside to see how much fuel was left, having taken the battery out of the tank sender.
I have configured a review session to be at most 15 flashcards or 5 minutes, whichever is shorter. It usually takes 2–3 minutes. Often I do multiple review sessions back to back. But I'm only ever committing to 15 cards at a time, regardless of the size of the backlog – that is very manageable.
I don't look down on him. I'd rather live next to him than my existing neighbors. But do you think that maybe I have a better read on him than you do, given that I see him every 2 weeks and you have no idea who he is?
Nope, it's not about dataset. It's just bad tokenizer. Korean has couple of dozen of symbols in it's alphabet. Cyrillic languages have less than 50 symbols in total. Hiragana is 46 symbols. GPT-4 has 32k tokens IIRC. Including most significant alphabets would take less than a thousand.
Ask anyone waiting for an emergency withdrawal to settle from a failing institution like FTX or SVB.
Some counter finally overflowed. And now the new value is less than the old one, which breaks something, etc, etc.
And usually it only runs in a certain temperature range. Winter climate cars may get several months between a test.
The Traffic Congestion Mitigation Tax is designed for exactly this purpose.

https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/traffic-congesti...

https://www.sfcta.org/funding/tnc-tax
Very arguably social welfare resulted in the biggest increase in IQ levels in history as general health, nutrition, and education improved. Also social welfare improved social mobility which should cause IQ to have more of an impact rather than less of one.

I am not rejecting this point but I have a hard time accepting it Carte Blanche. If anything if IQ is lowering for generic reasons I would suspect birth control as a cause especially since it’s a more recent phenomenon than means tested welfare.
Defender, under certain licenses, is an EDR - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/def...
Some games (both computer games and physical board games) intentionally use "shuffled randomness" where e.g. for percentile fail/success rolls you'd take numbers from 1-100 and use true randomness to shuffle that list; in this way the overall probability is the same, but has a substantially different feel as it's impossible for someone to have bad/good luck throughout the whole game and things like "gambler's fallacy" which are false for actual randomness become true.
Not sure what your job is, but in my job:

- we implement a feature, test it thoroughly for functional and non-functional requirements

- when we are happy, we release it

I don't see myself being responsible for a third party software company coming along years later and introducing a bug in code that injects itself between my software and the operating system that users of the software I wrote happens to install at some point.
> Even Apple cannot promise human rights all of their customers

I'm not aware of a single case where Apple on-the-record promised to customers anything so abstract. Can you link to one example?
What makes you think there's a "should"?
> It seems like mechanics really don't like digging into the electrical part of the car

Probably worth taking it to an auto electrician, rather than a mechanic.
I think GP was talking about type 1 diabetes, which is an entirely different disease than type 2, and certainly not treatable with diet.
The article doesn't actually teach how to solder. Just a few tips but not practical instructions to follow. As an example this sentence: "so we’re going to start by adding solder to both the wire and the pad that it’s being soldered to—this process is often referred to as tinning."

Doesn't give a single hint on how to do it...
Vint Cerf, but point well taken.
I have never, not once, been held up by a side-show in San Francisco. I did have to wait 5 minutes to cross the street to get to the farmer's market at the Embarcadero while a motorcycle brigade zoomed up the street.

The only side-shows I have seen have been in Oakland and even further into the East Bay.

With that being said, I have witnessed Cruise cars lovingly tapping j-walking pedestrians and traffic abiding cyclists around the lower Haight. I have also seen self-driving cars block buses and the street car.
> It should not be surprising that humans find it fun to do something that we did for survival for most of our evolutionary history.

People did not hunt tigers for "most of our evolutionary history". In fact, it's quite recent that people have hunted tigers at all, and even then it's more of an outlier than a standard practice.

Tigers are difficult and dangerous to hunt, and they're not healthy to eat regularly, nor is their meat particularly attractive (despite the named "tiger meat", which is actually raw beef).

Furthermore, contrary to mass media depictions, tigers rarely attack humans unless provoked, and they avoid human settlements as well. So even as a matter of safety and defense, hunting tigers is a rarity.

Until, of course, you start destroying large swaths of their habitat by mass-clearing old-growth rainforest in order to produce enough food to keep up with the usurious demands of a colonial occupier. At that point, yes, you do start to combat tigers more directly.
Good article (although I would also add my vote to "do not buy the cheapest iron" group).

It would be great to include a few ideas on what to try in this "how to get started" guide. It can be anything from an artsy soldering of a few small metal pieces to a custom switch to a simple electronics contraption. Or even a link to a few Make magazine mini-projects.

This could move the needle from reading a cool article to actually trying it. My 2c.
10% smaller vocab size, or 10% fewer tokens on average? I assume the latter, but total vocab size is also an interesting metric.

The tokenization speedups in that repo are very impressive. It was the most annoying part about processing 190,000 books. I think it took a few days on a server with 96 cores.

Surprisingly hard to figure out the vocab size from that repo.
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Hard Agree. Plus, generalize this to all tasks and sports.

Bad equipment will give you bad habits right from the start. This does not mean that you should buy the top equipment to begin at anything, but it does mean that you should find out from some knowledgeable people what is the minimum you need so you won't be unnecessarily fighting the equipment and learning bad habits (basically hacky workarounds to the equipment's flaws) that you'll later struggle to unlearn.

For some sports or tasks, it's just solid mid-grade equipment, sometimes it's the lower end of the top-grade stuff.

Also, even if funds do not limit you, don't start out with the absolute top-level gear. Better to get a solid start, then grow until your skills let you see which aspects of your mid-grade gear start limiting you, then use that info to buy the top level gear that is actually best suited for you.
heh true, edited post to maybe save someone some sparks.
After seeing the video, I wonder if someone could recommend some flux like the one shown there, the one that looks like a yellow-orange paste. Just so I don't end up "not using the right flux" ;)
> Estonia’s “digital residency card”

The EU is actually federating systems like that under an umbrella of regulations and technical services called eIDAS [1]. I haven't been able to use it in too many places yet, but if it takes off (which is a pretty load-bearing "if", to be clear), I think it could be an important step towards making these systems usable internationally.

Especially the US, which seems to prefer to handle ID card issuance at the state or even municipal level, could benefit from a federated approach like that – assuming that people would be willing to trust their local/state government to that extent, in any case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
in theory i also agree except the law enforcement that we pay for does almost nothing for us to go about our business without fear of being robbed, assaulted, or murdered. a prominent tech executive was just stabbed to death in SF, you cannot park anywhere in the bay area without clearing your entire car of belongings, elderly people are being mugged and robbed in their neighborhoods, asians continue to be attacked in broad daylight, home break ins are frequent, and the police are nowhere to be found and they do not even seem to attempt to find or book the perpetrators

i dont think that firearms is necessarily the right answer but i can understand why people may feel the need to take their protection into their own hands when our law enforcement agencies are like this
It is hard to accept, at least for me sometimes, that the answer to the question "Are those people stupid or fraud?" is more often than not is "both". It does explain a lot so.
precisely, there has to be nothing for there to be something. also above someone mentioned our conceptual framework for modeling such an understanding as lacking, but it works well enough, it’s more difficult to accept that the entirety is a comics soup and this is what our limited sensory capacity can contrive of it. time is an excuse for this reality.
I still don't see how this is relevant.
The ChatGPT of Finance Is Here, Bloomberg Is Combining AI and Fintech
Trying to fit your preconception into a mathematically convenient conjugate distribution is not as far afield from making stuff up as people want to believe. Maybe it is better with numerical approaches.

But yes, you usually do have some information and it is net better to encode when possible.
Oh wow, Paladin Press books from the used bookstore were such a big part of my adolescence. Maybe I shouldn't admit that, but how else is an 11 year old going to learn important things like the secrets of the ninja, or how to be a smuggler, or how to live off the land in a pre-internet era? Schools were sorely lacking in the important stuff.
Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Meanwhile from the sci-fi department, got to mention the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
If you like watching amateur YouTubers rip out their hair chasing electrical problems, I recommend checking out Tavarish and Samcrac. It turns out cheap flooded auction cars have tons of those
The article doesn't mention any protective eyewear. When soldering use safety glasses - the heated flux flies everywhere and it's not fun when a hot droplet hits you in the eye.

I am not soldering without safety glasses, lab coat and nitrile gloves. May seem like an overkill, but the flux really goes everywhere and it's not good for your health.

Also don't forget to have a fume extractor! - you don't want to breathe the fumes!

If you can't get one, at very least ensure you have a fan that will blow it away from your face.
This reminds me of a story that happen long ago. I was working at a farm, I was with one of my mates and we were tasked with some general farm duties. One day we discovered a shed full of bags of Potassium Nitrate... I then recalled reading this recipe for a smoke bomb on the Anarchist Cookbook. Perfect! we though... all we need is sugar now...

We almost burned the whole place to the ground... for sure we did learn a valuable lesson that afternoon hahaha We did finish the job btw, and got the cost of replacing the lino deducted from our paychecks...
What an interesting aspect I haven't considered before. All the AIs will be trained on the available media - most of which is English.

I sometimes wonder what it takes to unseat a lingua franca, but it looks like we won't see that soon. English is set to dominate for a long time.
As an ignoramous ; what is it about Lithium specificall that makes it special to batteries?

Is is that it freely ejects electrons at a higher rate than other materials, given a certain catalyst?
When I've heard people speak of changing Web browsers in recent years, I think the two most common reasons given are performance and privacy.

I wonder whether this situation with Microsoft Defender cost Firefox some market share.
As someone with excellent social skills in a technical field, I constantly get pushed towards management. In terms of upward salary momentum, I understand why a lot of women go that route. Investment of time to return is high if you are successful there. If you are constantly being told that you'd be a good fit for management, it makes sense that most people would gravitate towards it as a career.

I like to say that I am happy to be a leader in a technical role but have zero desire to be 'in management'. Interfacing with other teams and departments is critical for the long-term success of my work, but the bulk of my time is spent on heads down technical stuff. I wish there were more opportunities for everyone to try out having direct reports without it being a path of no return (or path of difficult to turn back). My experience with being a supervisor 10+ years ago was very valuable in that I found that while I was moderately good at it, the constant required social interaction for 90% of the day was massively draining and left me a blob after work.
And that's where we disagree. I would hardly talk about a strong LSD/mushroom trip as escapism.
It’s amazing to me that Googles reputation and trust as a development platform has been torn to shreds through product cancellations and yet the CEO has never been held responsible.

In fact no-one related to Google seems to care and no one seems to think it matters at all. You’d have thought maybe the founders or the board would care, but perhaps all they care about really is the firehose of advertising cash keeps blasting.

Google despite making unbelievable cash is facing some serious issues.
That’s a good question,
I believe working with infrastructure is much more fun compared to data, this is just my opinion

Also you are making wider impact as you are pretty much in charge or directly making impact on the infrastructure
You also have to assume that at least one Microsoft employee has Firefox installed. There's no bug if there's no users
Yeah, it's really unfortunate but a lot of people are users; they'll buy a Mac and Safari will satisfy 99.9% of their requirements; but it becomes horrible when you have to build web applications to support it, and it becomes a really tedious conversation when you have to explain how the browser they're using is an afterthought and they're better off using Firefox/Chromium.
Yes, I argue that individual p-values (as they are used almost exclusively in numerous disciplines) are bad, and adding more information on effect size and errors are needed. CIs do that by conveying (1) significance (does not include zero), (2) magnitude of effect (mean of CI), and (3) errors/noise (width of CI). That's significantly better than a single p-value (excuse the pun).
It's funny that you're calling English "effective" because it has shorter words, even though word length has nothing to do with tokenization effectiveness -- if a long word is frequent enough, it becomes a single token. That's the point of doing tokenization instead of feeding raw bytes into the model.

BTW, English might have shorter words than many languages, but the sentences get wordier. For example, English "die" is shorter than Czech "umřít", but the sentence "We are going to die." is much longer than "Umřeme." in Czech.
But the point of SRS is that it prompts you to review the cards when there's a high chance of memory decay.

Say you learned your cards and did a custom study to review them before your exam. Now you "know" these cards to some extent. Anki knows how many times you reviewed them and if you provided an accurate assessment of how well you retained these cards, Anki will know when to show 'em next, so you don't forget. You don't have to do anything.
Or they're people who see the convenience and flexibility of an EV and are comfortable with purchasing a used EV.

If you're not a Musk fan, the field is becoming competitive. There's a handful of models with 150+mi range that are in the <$30k USD bracket when new, and many models on the used market are now <$30k USD as well.

And just because you are charging at WalMart doesn't mean you need to be shopping there on the regular.

An EV fast-charger is not designed to be your neighborhood gas station, they're more like travel stops. Since most EVs will sit in a driveway for 8-10hrs a day, even a 120v charger should get you ~40 miles in that time frame. You should ideally be able to keep your vehicle topped up on Level 1 or Level 2 (240v) charging and DC Fast Charging is more of a road-trip or extended range system.

Most fast-charge capable cars can hit go from 10%-80% in 30-45 minutes, which is a decent amount of time to hit a convenient Wal-Mart for travel snacks and leg stretching. It sounds like a valid idea when put that way.
No it had nothing to do with Firefox writing files. Firefox was making a bunch of calls to VirtualProtect. Windows Defender (MsMpEng.exe) was then writing to file (an sqlite database) every time one of these calls was made, which was slowing down the system.

This comment is a good summary of what the issue was once they understood the problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441918#c82