skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re looking for research along these directions, Melanie Mitchell at the Santa Fe institute explores these areas. There are better references from her, but this is what came to mind https://medium.com/p/can-a-computer-ever-learn-to-talk-cf47d....
I can't imagine why I wouldn't send it home to be useful for other family members, or just sublet its unproductive time as a way to earn its keep as a ride share driver.
Yup, linguistic determinism is nonsense, thanks for pointing that out. I edited my comment.
Mechanics are pretty big on youtube, i learnt this type of diagnosis from https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyMakingitwork . He posts daily videos of life in the workshop, so the OP would of saved himself some time if he viewed!

Repairing your car is just like programming, mechanics come in many varieties too.
Your first sentence is a complete misread of my comment, so I'm not going to reply. I said exactly the opposite of what you claim I said. Please re-read what I wrote and try again.

Edit:

I read a bit of Ned Block's piece. I believe he more or less immediately dismisses my view as "Extreme geneticism". While I don't agree that different groups in a given country grow up in the same circumstances, I also don't believe this matters much, if at all. If life teaches anything, it's that it's incredibly difficult to construct a machine that absolutely prevents the success of one group or another. Life is diverse and adaptable and finds a way. There are plenty of examples of groups historically facing terrible environments who nonetheless prospered.

Block also complains about a lack of sufficient data on the question of IQ. Fine, but one must immediately ask why there is such a lack of data. And that returns us to the demon-haunted world of quasi-religious opposition to such research.

Bottom line is, if you want to argue for the Rube Goldberg machine of -isms that produce differential outcomes in groups, prove it. I believe that, just as in other areas of human endeavor such as athletics, the prior should be that genetics are the most important input.
I'd have a hard time exaggerating Mad Magazine's influence on my young mind. In particular, their cynical take on advertising pretty much is my view of it. For instance, if I see something like "'Hot New Game' is 'a thrill ride'", I assume they lopped off "...for kindergartners who scare too easily".

I love ya, Mad gang. Thank you for sneakily teaching this kid some critical thinking.
Laid off tech works launch revenge startups
For language, I can vouch for both Clozemaster and Lingvist as very polished tools that put the spaced repetition front-and-centre unlike Duolingo.
I think there is a noai meta tag
I would bet the number of people who program the ESP32 and know anything much about the Xtensa ISA or care which ISA is used would be pretty small. They will be just "It's some weird ISA no none uses, but Espressif give us a compiler for it so it's fine".

Of course Cadence do license Xtensa to many of their EDA customers for use in some core that's not visible to the outside world. They support it, it's easier than dealing with ARM etc. Now there is RISC-V it's probably getting very few new customers, though Tensilica/Cadence do have a very nice system for adding custom instructions and automatically generating things such as the toolchain for them.

ESP32 is probably one of very few places where 3rd party programmers have access to an underlying Xtensa CPU.

I worked on software for some internal chip at Samsung where the documentation didn't give the ISA a name but just listed what the instructions where. "Hmmm", I thought, "there are 16 and 24 bit long instructions -- that sounds familiar". I checked, and the opcodes matched up to Xtensa. Plus a few custom ones.

I will say Xtensa is a heck of a lot better than the home-grown ISA inside FTDI products! It is not normally exposed, but they have one product, the VNC2, which 3rd parties can program. It is AWFUL. (I'm only assuming they use the same ISA in their other products, but probably...)
This is interesting but do you have a source for this, is this authoritatively known? Or is it just an theory you came up with? I can't quite tell which way you're trying to present this.
Rob Walling is solid and has a great reputation among SaaS founders, particularly those who choose to self-fund their companies rather than go the VC route.

He's been running a great event for bootstrapped founders called MicroConf. It's legit.

If you look at the endorsements for the book (Peldi, Derek Sivers, Patrick Campbell, Courtland Allen...) you'll see that they're as real as it gets.

Jason Cohen wrote the foreword for the book. (He founded WPEngine, one of the largest Wordpress hosting companies, with more than 1,000 employees, and before that SmartBear which got acquired for around $2 billion.)

If you're curious, you can also check out Startups For The Rest of Us, where he's been releasing new episodes for more than 10 years. I think that's one of the best ways to get a feel for whether he's someone you'd want to learn from.
It's 5.5 MW.

That's not how power or energy works.

5 [W*hr/day] (Kept in energy units per interval rather than average power).

200e6 users/day who surf for maybe 4 hours/day

5 * 200e6 * 4 / 24 = 133 [MW*hr/day] (133/24 = 5.5 MW)

A typical US home uses 11 [MW*hr/y] or 0.36 [MW*hr/day].

(Convert to power draw, that's 0.015 MW.)

mean consumption of roughly 400 US homes (133 / 0.36).

The smallest US grid-tied operational nuclear power plant produces 600 MW. 133 MW very small coal power plant would 400 MW.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Jimmy making it work!

https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyMakingitwork

lol @ Tavarish and Samcrac mentioned here, they are TV entertainers who are more concerned about drama. If you want to learn how to repair stuff, these guys are where its at ^
Looks like most of these patents are in china. I would be curious to see how these do in a us filing given how much prior set they'd have to navigate around in 3d printing
>> When they see their hard work resulting in porn, gore, gross-out or hate material, it is very discouraging. It’s not material they want to collaborate on.

This seems like a fundamental failure to understand humans. One of my favorite Renaissance artists arguably produced gore/gross-out material for his time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death
99% of nuc waste is low to medium life, low to medium radioactivity and is mostly recyclable. Russia does most of the recycling.

The total amount (from the beginning of France's nuclear energy production 50+y ago) of highly radioactive, non-reusable waste fits in a cube not bigger than the Eiffel tower, and the goal is to bury that in geological storage, but dumb politics are opposing this (for dumb reasons that were debunked a thousand times).
idk man, go look at the fasting glucose of anyone on keto and it's probably going to be below 90. Not sure where this claim is coming from. There's hundreds of thousands of people currently having success with low carb diets that can stick a CGM in their arm and show you this is just not true for them.
1) auditors do uncover errors. sometimes those errors leaad to firings and restatements. An entire company does not need to be complicit with fraud, for there to be fraud. key employees commit fraud to enrich themselves or make their numbers look better. from that perspective, the board does benefit from existing audits.

Also audit is highly regulated. If the standards are too loose the PCAOB can come in and punish you severely.

Its the pervasive cases, the wirecards, that are hard. Those are the frauds that are pervasive and go to the top, and include auditors that are not pushing back. These are the true landmines.

How are they addressed? Many ways:
A) There is a layer of prevention, where audit firms will force rotation of their lead audit partners on an audit every 2-3 years to prevent cozy relationships.

B)
And theres Also the "audit the auditor" where another partner has the sole job of reviewing the work done. He's the landmine hound looking for explosives.

2) the insurance business actually rakes in profits typically after a large disaster, when premiums are sky high and customers are are hyper aware of the risks (and Boards unforgiving with CEOs that fail to mitigate the risks.
this user (see their profile) is clearly attempting to pump the price with this post
That doesn't particularly sound like a bug. There may be varying opinions about whether it's good or not, but it kind of almost makes sense to me.
That only makes it even more valuable for one to possess it because it sets you apart from everyone else.
Good point. That might be the way to go. Thanks for the suggestion.

I hadn't thought of it, as older USB drives (ie. my experience, 2013 MBP) are much slower for large data than the internal storage, some of my work is storage I/O performance constrained, and I don't want to carry around yet another dongle. But the price differential vs Apple built-in and flexibility/upgradability, at current USB4 speeds makes a compelling case.

(I read anout significant differences between M1 and M2 for some flavours of USB storage link speed, which might persuade me to opt for the M2 after all.)
He regurgitates the same old lean startup BS that was doing the rounds in the early 2010s, namely that you should "validate" your idea by creating a landing page that harvests email addresses and possibly even credit card details.
Over the years I have changed my perspective on nuclear power. I still think it is useful, yet, I do understand it brings to the table some potentially serious black swan events.

In trying to understand energy transition I have come to the conclusion that neither grid-scale solar nor nuclear are the answer. Wind, however, seems to be. It isn't hard for people to understand why wind is likely a better idea than nuclear. I won't waste any time exploring that comparison.

Wind, I have learned, seems to be massively better than solar across many vectors. BTW, I am not talking about offshore wind. Not sure that compares well at all.

Energy production per installed GW:
Wind: 3.07 TWh/GW
Solar: 1.33 TWh/GW (solar is reliably off half the time)

Land use per GW:
Wind: 750 acres/GW
Solar: 3,900 acres/GW

Land use to provide all Tesla Master Plan solar + wind:
Wind: 1 Hawaii (area of all islands)
Solar: 12 Hawaii's
or,
Wind: 2.5% of California
Solar: 30% of California

Annual Operations and Maintenance costs :
Wind: 1.00
Solar: 1.33 times wind O&M

Initial investment in factories:
Wind: $212 billion
Solar: $ 11 billion

Storage required for 95% reliability:
Wind: 3 hours
Solar: >12 hours

Wind requires 4x less batteries, with all the cost,
recycling and ecological advantages this delivers.

Build supply chain origin:
Wind: Diverse
Solar: Heavy reliance on China

Long term supply chain (maintenance, parts, etc.) origin:
Wind: Diverse
Solar: Heavy reliance on China (forever)

Frankly, I used to think we really needed a large number (200+) of new nuclear power plants to be able to make a full transition to electric ground, sea and air transport as well as 100% electrification of homes and various industrial processes. From my current perspective I think it might be far more intelligent to focus on using wind for grid-scale, no grid-scale solar and residential/commercial solar + storage for local load mitigation.

This is where I disagree with Tesla's Master Plan 3. I don't think that grid-scale solar is a good idea at all.
That's not far off. Usually the DTI limit is somewhere between 36% and 45%. So 759,826 to 952,309 for your max mortgage. Assuming you spend that full $952 and pop a $200k down payment on top, that makes for well, $1.2mil.

In my neighborhood, most 3/2 houses are $1.5mil. There are things under that amount that are toootally fine. But your definition of "fine" and someone else's? That varies.
> Asking the question just means you have no idea what you're saying. Or in other words, it's a stupid question.

So, to be clear, you're saying that the only kind of question that isn't stupid is the one where the querent already has perfect knowledge of the discipline?
This is reversing the causality I think.
I know this doesn’t apply to now concerns. But hasn’t everyone already pretty much vacuumed up our code…?

And in a few years, we’ll kinda be like the guys who optimized assembly code (leading to optimizing compilers), printed BASIC out in printed publications that people had to type in (generations of self-taught hackers), and open-source toolchains (allowed everything else to be built).

Our copyright on a `sqlalchemy` monkey-patch in `heythatsmine/product_model.py` should be about as protected as something Dijkstra scribbled in the margins… if we are to be consistent in our attitudes about the progress of the field.
They're crucial for developers implementing this technique. They're irrelevant for designers that only need to know that this is possible and what it looks/feels like to the users.
Ask HN: Is the Apple App Store Down?
I'm unable to install or update apps on cellular and WiFi in US, east coast.

Edit: appears to be back up now.
> Self-driving cars are poised to dramatically improve parking overall.

And interestingly, all of the parking lots in a city, in theory, will be obsolete, opening a whole bunch of opportunities for new urban design. The idea behind self-driving cars is not to own the car, but to rent it...which is why some people are super bullish in the long term on Uber.

The cutover to autonomous cars will be a huge PITA however, and I think this is really what the OP is getting at.
A natural consequence of this is congestion pricing like in London.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing
Yep, its the only resource known to me that delves into these topics with a lot of ins & outs and its not just white & black business advice.
I used the Swift FX for a long time, which is the predecessor to Airfit P10. Unfortunately they do not make them any more, and for some reason the P10 feels like it is putting my septum in a vice, it pinches it so hard. I can use a little bit of tape to cushion it, but it is a pain and still not the greatest.

I've ended up going with the N30i which is okay unless I'm a little congested as it kind of pinches my nostrils shut slightly, in which case I use the P30i fitting with the aforementioned tape. I miss the FX.
If you just stumble upon something like this you're right to be skeptical. Definitely the tech boom has lead to peak "hustler culture" as you put it, and you can't really take anything you read on the internet at face value. That said, Rob Walling has a strong track record and reputation that merits consideration if you're interested in bootstrapped B2B SaaS. I think most of your questions are better addressed by reading some of Rob's prolific output over the last decade+ and judging for yourself, but this one I'll bite on:

> Why without VC? Outside capital injection is important for most businesses, and it doesn't make sense to avoid it on principle

VC money comes with certain growth expectations attached. They make their money on the outsized wins, and they will push you as a founder to make big, possibly ill-advised bets in pursuit of those moonshots. Generally they want you to 100x their investment or die trying. Whereas from the founders perspective, a much wider range of scenarios could be desirable. Obviously this depends a lot on the company and what capital is needed, but that is the space that Rob is working in, and he does put his money where is mouth is via TinySeed.
if you define driving as a binary “solved” v.s. “unsolved”, then it’s simpler to just say that driving is “unsolvable”.

humans have been driving for a century and we still have 30,000 traffic fatalities per year in just the U.S.: human-level automation (AGI) doesn’t solve that. sure, you could tune the driving parameters to significantly reduce that count — but not for free and not without creating new (but hopefully smaller) problems. at some point it just mirrors any other unsolved human system, where you’re left debating values and tradeoffs. think the Ford Pinto memo [1] but where the tradeoffs are “do we tune driving parameters to achieve 10 fatalities/year and 10M man-years of travel time per year, or 1 fatality and 11M man-years of travel time?”

personally i think the tradeoffs in this article are overblown. 99% of us accept that traffic lights are stupid and will delay every 2am no-other-cars-on-the-road trip by a few minutes. but when it’s a new autonomous system suddenly those delays are to be treated as unsolved problems? don’t get me wrong, i like when people acknowledge that there are things around us that ought to be improved, but the distinction here just seems arbitrary. it’s just some weird status quo bias that seems to carry more weight than i can justify.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost–benefit_analys...
Maybe, but I also think it’s fair to assume when you ask it in a much simpler way, “please list all US state capitals in alphabetical order” it should be able to do so.

That isn’t a complicated question that requires much refinement to understand.

To your “please” comment, I also find myself using common niceties probably out of social habit, but also perhaps because in the back of my mind I want the AI that inevitably takes over to remember me being nice to it (half-joking, but also kind of not).
Is giving the system a 'goal' the reason why the DAN prompt with the tokens is effective?

https://github.com/0xk1h0/ChatGPT_DAN
That depends on where you live, and 80% of the worlds population lives in places where overbuilding enough storage _with current technology_ is still cheaper than nuclear.

For that last 20%, building more grid connections towards the equator is again still cheaper than nuclear.
Seattle's new airport terminal can’t fit planes it was designed to handle
What is the "issue"?

"/" means "* reciprocal of".

If "infinity" is defined as "reciprocal of 0", what is the problem?

Yes it is an exception to 0*n=0.

It won't work in every setting, but it works in some settings, like inversive geometry.
Same here. Attempting to install or update on my computer gives me a message saying that there's an SSL error.
US companies face biggest decline in profits since Covid shutdowns
The French example is strange and shows that the language model has an English bias.

- “I want a pizza” = 4 tokens
- “Je voudrais une pizza” = 7 tokens

Why is “want” only 1 token in English, but “voudrais” 4 tokens? Following the French example, would “wants” and “wanted” map to 1 or two tokens?
They don't need that much handholding. They are a couple memory augmented gpt papers out now (self-refine, reflexion etc). This is by far the most involved in terms of instructing memory and reflection.

It helps for control/observation but it is by no means necessary.
Yeah, I agree. I had a similar thought while writing the note. Some sort of ban is an entertaining thought, but hiding ownership is probably too easy for bans to make a meaningful difference.
Ashton-Tate. They were one of the three largest software companies in the world (together with Microsoft and Lotus) in their time. Then they shipped Dbase IV v1.0, that was full of bugs. Instead of focusing on fixing them and shipping a v1.1, they focused on other products while their customers stopped buying v1.0 and waited for v1.1 with the expected bug fixes. They ended up selling themselves to Borland.

Fun fact: Ashton was actually George Tate's parrot, living in a large cage in the L.A. office.
But when the robot uprising comes our killbots will be unstoppable terminators and their killbots will explode the first time they encounter a set of stairs.
Also they stole all the money their depositors entrusted to them. Doesn’t matter if you forgot to lock the vault if you sent all the money to alameda anyway.
it's so fascinating when health/fitness discussions crop up on HN. absolutely not gatekeeping, but just observing that compared to the technical topics, there is sooo much more disagreement while at the same time, more conviction. Seems like people really believe they know what they are talking about, whereas when it comes to the technical discussions, the tone seems more curious/introspective vs. dogmatic.
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It works until it recognizes 外国人参政権 as foreign/carrot/regime
Possibly silly question. Why go through the trouble of emulating the ARM mode on Thumb instead of running the emulator on ARM Linux but with own userspace scheduler that implements the necessary features? I don't really know how to go about preemption, but that should have still been much easier than doing all that he did.
Control over money is a pretty good start I think. As well as civil and political roles all the way up the power ladder.
One issue is plumbing. A floor of apartments needs more pipes and drains than were built in for office space. Interesting problem to solve, for sure.
No vendor lock-in here. Been running NextJS on GCP Cloud Run for years and each major release has become more Docker friendly. Just my experience.
Well, Tesla will eat the 2.9% credit card fee on that. So roughly $124? Is your business going to eat $124 every time someone pushes the wrong button twice?
> This YouTuber really expresses it better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ_qSXruW0

From the video:

> You can try taking a painkiller instead, but, it wasn't a painkiller, it was LSD. Having a bad trip? Don't worry, there's a security officer nearby to help! But he can't respond because he was murdered and replaced by a genetically modified monkey wearing his uniform. Hallucinating? Keep calm and focus on what's real. Unfortunately for you, the supermassive black hole expanding towards you is not a hallucination. It is, in fact, very real. _{THE EMERGENCY SHUTTLE HAS BEEN CALLED}_ Welcome to Space Station 13.

Just wow.
Low sunshine and low wind are pretty common in winter. Depending on the location obviously. In some places, winter imply too much wind !
And? What exactly is the severe implication here? A PMV does not have 100% uptime in any case, self-driving or not.

If the concept of a remote accident is so appalling to you...just don't get a self-driving vehicle. But other car users are capable of processing statistical risk non-emotionally, and they will get to enjoy stress-free parking once these vehicles become available.

Anyway, in all likelihood, self-driving cars will result in a large pivot away from car ownership. The impact of "your car" being involved in a remote accident becomes moot if it's not even your car.
So glad someone took the time to put up some data about it. Since day one, the subpar results for Asian languages has stuck out to me. It's especially true for LLama-derived models, where the output is just abysmal. It's my own pet theory, that bad tokenization is an important reason as to why they suck so much in the first place.

It's not just broken grammar, it's a surprising lack of creativity, that English doesn't suffer from. ChatGPT English -> DeepL and fixing the auto-translation gives vastly improved results, than prompting ChatGPT to respond in an asian language.
The goal posts for AI are moving quickly, and in my mind, a lot of the criticism os too shallow.

People want it to perform better than any expert human at any possible subject before it's considered "real AI". It isn't enough for critics for it to be better than the average person at virtually everything its put to the test on.

It seems like there is some resentment and almost anger at this technology, particularly with the artistic AIs like Midjourney. I can understand that more readily, but what's the real beef with ChatGPT?
Please sir, where do I send my money?
Imagine how many other jobs you can say almost that same thing. 'Oh you were getting paid to look at text or jpeg or video files and write something about them into a text or excel file or email? It was always known that your job would be automated soon. Pretty irresponsible of you to not plan for it.'
Bulldozer, then build