skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT can keep some state for you, but there is a limit to the amount of tokens you can keep going in an instance.

It’s enough to keep a todo list going, it’s not enough to make it your friend / coworker

If you built what you were describing right now, either the flight questions would push out your todo list, or you would need to build something to keep state yourself.
Deploy notebooks as apps – Livebook Launch Week Day 1
Hey HN, Hugo from the Livebook team here!

Super excited to share our first-ever Livebook Launch Week with you all! Each day this week, we'll announce new features and capabilities in Livebook 0.9.

Kicking off Day 1, we're introducing the ability to deploy Livebook notebooks as apps!

Now, you can transform your interactive notebooks into user-friendly web apps, making them accessible to a broader audience.
Oh my god they killed Kenny!
The size of the market just for identify theft protection is 10 billion USD [0]. There is 30 billion USD in credit card fraud a year [1]. I don't think that is working well enough, that is a multiple-FTX sized loss of money every single year going into a problem that is fueled mostly by really bad underlying security systems.

0: https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/03/23/240....
1: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/credit-card-fr...
The spot checks I've done mostly show everything but nissan and gm having active cooling beyond a fan. But even within liquid cooling not all use the ac to keep the pack below ambient temp nwhen it gets too hot. I think kia and tesla are the only two I decided I was sure would be ok.
https://arewewaylandyet.com/
My father (a professional auto mechanic) took about 6 months to find a random engine shutoff during harder cornering in his Toyota, the culprit was a damaged inner insulation layer for a few wires within the wrapped wiring harness for the ECU, engine moving on the engine mounts would sometimes cause a slight harness shift and a short would cause a hard reset of the ECU.

Another story I have is my computer geek friend finding an issue with my Subaru Legacy, when no other mechanic could (I tried 3). The issue was that the car was old, first gen OBD, he downloaded some legacy asm ECU reader and made a diagnostic cable from spare parts, the issue was that the car would not start when cold, or be extremely hard to start. The culprit was damaged wire that tells the ECU that the engine is in cranking condition, therefore needs a different fuelling mode, without seeing this mode there was not enough fuel to start when cranking. Eventually this was found by hooking up an oscillograph to see the injector impulse length (duty cycle), as the old gen. diagnostic didn't show any errors, he compared a working car injectors to mine when cranking cold and found this. 10 years later I'm still amazed by his skill and dedication, I'd have scrapped the car otherwise. The car was sold eventually to another person who restored it (rust repair mostly) and his wife still drives it to this day, a 1994 Subaru Legacy.
I suspect, eventually mostly insurance writeoffs, wrecks etc.
I recently watched a YouTube video from someone who'd tracked a nasty intermittent parasitic draw [0]. The problem only happened after turning the ignition on & back off (so the standard test of disconnecting the battery & reconnecting via the ammeter wouldn't show it), and the draw cycled between 3.6A and 0.3A.

Also, after turning the ignition on & back off there were a lot of (normal) transient draws (from things like the dome light that don't turn off immediately). Even with the problem circuit disconnected, it drew around 6A (!) immediately after the ignition was switched off, dropped to 0.4A after about a minute, and sat at that level for another 9 minutes before dropping again to 0.06A. That means if he hadn't waited ~10 minutes per test, he'd have been chasing draws that were actually normal.

Combine an intermittent fault with intermittent normal behavior, and you've got a troubleshooting nightmare.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVScppKsfHs
I don't know about .NET or OpenBSD specifically but Mono claims to be available on all BSD platforms -> https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/supported-platf...
"Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide fellowship of sobriety seekers, is the most effective path to abstinence, according to a comprehensive analysis conducted by a Stanford School of Medicine researcher and his collaborators."

March 11, 2020

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/alcoholics-an....
As the author, what really confused me about this app... was there is only a single user facing form. You add your email address and your HN username. The bugs came from the dataset mostly.
Continuous. We need one less coal plant to support the Firefox code after the bug fix.
I don't know Manhattan very well, only what I've seen on TV and in Movies.

Back of napkin answer:

Build bigger buildings, lots of them. All of those 'quaint' places with 2-6 story buildings? 50-60+ story sky-scrapers.

However that's probably also the answer you assumed. Yes that would change the 'character' of a place, because the only way of keeping that the same is to keep the number and type of people in a place the same. How could someone preserve an idea that directly contradicts a reality? No, there would need to be a new idea that supports the desired conditions. Hopefully a good idea that is well executed.

As another commenter said, 'more ''Manhattans''' is another way, try to replicate the sort of feel / idea at existing scale or larger in other locations.

My own comment was about the technical and physical goals a society should strive for, which are within reach, should we the people have the will to reach for them.
There's an argument that Microsoft's Edge use of Chromium and then the Surface Duo would cause 'don't bite the hand that feeds you" problems. Not agreeing with OP, but it would make sense.
The Linux Desktop is a Joke. It's a Potemkin village run by IBM, they'd like to be able to make custom user interfaces for this application or that application but they just don't care about the requirements of the average user. Customer service makes Google look like white glove service.
If you're not encoding your prior probability, you're just making stuff up. You almost always have some information, even if it's just sanity bounds.
The average man or the average father?
Same. As a pedestrian in SF I very frequently get put in danger by impatient human drivers at 4 way stop signs. No self driving car has ever put me in danger, and I interact with them quite frequently.

The national media of course wants to produce content confirming the biases of people who are (in the back of their minds) anxious about the prospect of SDC but don’t have exposure to them. I have a lot of exposure to them - not as an employee though - and think Cruise, Waymo, and Zoox are all doing a great job at being cautious and respectful with their testing programs. Sure they do get stuck sometimes, but human drivers disrupt traffic too, and honestly SDC are already better at being safe drivers around pedestrians and other vehicles than humans IME. It’s just that they are so cautious sometimes they just stop and create situations like this.

Most people who haven’t been living with SDC for years like we have in SF want to hand wring about them based on articles like this, but the reality is quite different. You’ll note you don’t hear much about the cars injuring people or getting in accidents despite the appetite for negative SDC media coverage.
Gentrification is pushing people out of their environment due to high rent prices which happens because white people 'feel' comfortable to live there now.

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

I'm saying that our neighborhoods should reflect more or less the ratio of diversity in the population but it doesn't does it?

Presumably there's more poor white people than poor black people in America, right? So if price of rent was the main determining factor for where someone lives presumably lower income communities ought to be pretty mixed then, right?

That is white people ought to feel comfortable enough to have black neighbors and lower rent and mortgages before the gentrification happens.
P < 0.05 considered harmful 5% of the times.
Each one of these systems has a better replacement, but not all of the industry has moved to it.

The largest related issue I believe is that the use of “knowledge databases” by credit bureaus (and all of the companies and governments that trust credit bureaus).

Each of these has been solved, but until the last system using the inferior authentication is upgraded, they all remain weak points. I have argued that the US (or each state) should create a digital certificate system similar to Estonia’s “digital residency card” or S Korea’s online transaction signing (although hopefully not implemented as an ActiveX control for Internet Explorer 5).
Sure, but look at the timestamp on the linked comment. No one took the money for the next 4 months after that.

And they had a lot of crypto to take.
It's worth noting that this only for GPT-3. If you're using ChatGPT or GPT-4, both use a different tokenizer that's more robust and uses/generates about 10% fewer tokens. (unclear how well it performs for non-English languages)

You can test it offline using tiktoken: https://github.com/openai/tiktoken
Numbers of wires
Slightly offtopic, but:

> One of the models listed above called NLLB (No Language Left Behind) has been open sourced by Facebook allowing for translation for 200 languages.

It was not. The model's weights are under CC-BY-NC, which certainly motivates commercial entities to not leave those languages behind. /s
> My gardener is not high IQ.

Wow! You must have ran a battery of IQ tests to assert this with such absolute certainty.

My father used to be a gardener to make ends meet. Because of a lack of education and a language barrier, I'm sure he would appear low IQ as well. Now he works in electronics manufacturing and the efficiency by which he debugs production problems and reasons from first principles would put many of my educated peers to shame. What can be easily dismissed as a lack of ability can be more reasonably explained by a lack of opportunity and resources. But it is easier for privileged people to look down on others and believe that everyone is in a position they deserve.
Not 1/2, closer to 1/10 (for the exact space of the car). Cars also need far more buffer space, parking space, overall road area for maneuvering around a city. If completely replaced, infrastructure area could probably be reduced by ~20-100x
Is there a huge difference between that and what Mono offers?
One of the things I always thought was funny was that Amazon always tells you to put everything in one DynamoDB table, but the Amplify splits everything across multiple tables.
Vercel have controlled the narrative that, managing your own infrastructure is too difficult or, it takes too much time away from shipping products. They want you to put your trust in them, but you’ll have to pay for it. This would be ok if you could trust them.

Many stories are emerging where it’s clear that trusting Vercel is a risky strategy.
So humans discovered a way for matter to be configured in a new configuration for this uranium isotope, but we didn't discover how to arrange things into the shape of a chair?
> How do you manage to be productive, not be in a constant state of annoyance?

This is why programming is paid so well. You get paid to bang your head against the wall and live in Google and Stack Overflow. The trick is in the delayed gratification premise, in that you only see the fruits of your labor after a long period of headaches.
Well here is what ChatGPT has to say. Pretty helpful actually:

“ Balancing a job and a side project can be challenging, especially when it comes to staying motivated and focused on your current job. Here are some tips to help you stay interested in your current job while working on your startup on the side:

1. Set realistic goals and deadlines: Setting achievable goals for your side project can help you stay motivated and focused on your current job. Make sure to create a timeline that allows you to balance both your job and your startup without feeling overwhelmed.

2. Prioritize your tasks: It’s essential to prioritize your tasks and focus on the most critical ones first. This way, you can accomplish what you need to for your job while still dedicating enough time and energy to your startup.

3. Create a routine: Establish a routine that allows you to work on your startup during your free time, while still giving your job the attention it deserves. Set aside specific times each day or week to work on your startup, and stick to them as much as possible.

4. Communicate with your employer: If your side project requires you to work on it during your job hours, it’s essential to be transparent with your employer about your situation. Talk to your boss or manager and explain your situation. You may be surprised by their willingness to work with you.

5. Stay positive: It can be easy to get discouraged or overwhelmed when balancing a job and a side project, but it’s essential to stay positive. Celebrate your wins, no matter how small they may seem, and remember why you started your startup in the first place.

Remember that balancing a job and a side project requires discipline and dedication, but it’s worth it in the end. Keep your eye on the prize and stay focused on your goals.”
3. For the "big 4" applications at least, the Palm was significantly faster and significantly more usable than anything I've seen on smartphones.
Oh do I wish there were carshare options near me. Just moved from Philadelphia where ZipCar seems to be the only remaining contender, and you're lucky if there's one within a half hour's walk in the part of the city I was in. It's even worse in the town I moved to. There used to be a few at the nearby train station, but those seem to have disappeared. (This reminds me, I should go cancel my membership.)

I'm jealous of the carshare options that seem to be available elsewhere. If it were as easy here as in this NJB video, it'd be a no-brainer: https://youtu.be/OObwqreAJ48
Adding to this, a reminder that lithium ion batteries contain very little lithium, and it's not elemental - an extremely common misconception leading to people thinking that they can't use water to stop a pack undergoing thermal runaway / on fire - something that can only be stopped via the cooling effect of water.
> [Clojure] is really optimized for [\snip] data centric stuff

Not sure what this means. Stu Halloway made a comment to the effect of "all programming is ultimately data transformations". Honest question here, what programming language is NOT for data-centric stuff?

I find that when I'm working in verbose programming languages: Java, C#, it doesn't feel like all programming is data transformations, when in reality it is.
Do bikers pay usage taxes or registration fees?
Gotta tape the coin to the track so it doesn't rattle off before the train gets to it, or use chewing gum.
Capitalism that great bogeyman in the sky. I can only imagine this is what people felt during the Cold War when they had to deal with that one person who just always had to make it about communism. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Would you mind sharing your setup and/or deck?
Yes, vehicle batteries and stationary storage are used in much more "forgiving" environments than laptops and power tools, when it comes to cell life. Lower power draw, better battery management systems, less temperature fluctuation, less physical impact.

Battery production is still massively wasteful in terms of partially finished or finished products that need to be scrapped. The reason is that battery quality is critical at every level. One tiny piece of iron embedded in one battery out of a million can mean a catastrophic fire and tens of millions in damages. If there is a systemic defect that manifests during cell testing and is caught, the whole production batch should be scrapped. Most of this scrap happens before the batteries are shipped, and you never see it, except in this too-honest article. You see how this plays out in car fires, resulting from battery defects, resulting in large recalls.

Run into defects in semiconductor manufacturing, and scrap cost is lower, and you don't have an obvious and direct link between the defects and catastrophic failure modes.

Keeping iron particles and manufacturing defects out of batteries isn't a "solvable" problem. You try to minimize it and catch it. Without technical breakthroughs and using existing technologies, the higher the batteries' performance, the less the margin for error.

We don't have a good baseline cultural understanding for what lithium-ion batteries are. In general, household batteries, AAs, AAAs, car batteries use a water-based electrolyte. They do not catch fire. Lithium-ion batteries use an organic solvent as electrolyte and when punctured, dropped, or just cycling in everyday use if defective, turn into red-hot self-propelled blowtorches.
> Jaime Viloria of Equity on Public Transit, a grassroots group of riders in the Tenderloin neighborhood, says companies operating autonomous vehicles should be fined for causing delays.

Insufficient. They'll only count it as part of the cost of doing business.

I think every person director or above at these companies should be eligible to be delayed at random for a time equal to the total human-minutes of delay caused to transit riders and people in private vehicles. If a driverless vehicle blocks a train with 60 riders for 15 minutes, those directors and executives should in aggregate spend 15 hours not able to go wherever they want to go, and in a way which they are unable to schedule in advance.
You were going to be my first downvote. Instead I'll answer in the same vein, but from an opposed political stance, to show how ridiculous this is. All ethical stances assert various propositions, and defend those propositions by pointing out harms (physical, psychological, or imaginary) that occur when those propositions aren't followed.

If Uranium-241 was meant to exist in nature God would have made it. If Uranium-238 and Platinum-198 were meant to merge they would be discovered in the same deposits. Our founders fought and died for the right of Uranium-238 to exist, and destroying it in this experiment threatens our freedoms.

It's not as good as yours; my critique lacks your inspiration.
One wonders whether highly agglutinative languages, then, might have even better performance than English in the tokenizer since they can pack much more meaning into a single word.

The linked article shows one such language, Malayalam, costing 15.7 times more. Try again.
Most work plans include a separate dental plan, for which I am thankful. However, near worst-case scenarios for dental issues are comparatively affordable ordeals. My routine dental care is covered for me, but it's affordable either way. I had to have a root canal and crown, which would have been annoying to pay for, but certainly not something that would bankrupt me. If I remember correctly, it was in the ballpark of $2k in the DC metro area. It's still possible to set money aside for possible dental issues and self-insure.

Because dental costs are more reasonable, insurance premiums don't tend to be very high and can be purchased outside of your main health plan. If primary medical costs were more on par with dental costs (as it probably did once upon a time, when the offerings were much more primitive), insurance wouldn't be such a big issue.
It should not be surprising that humans find it fun to do something that we did for survival for most of our evolutionary history. The evolutionary function of play is the practice of adult skills.

What's actually bizarre is that the billions of modern humans who would find it sickening to kill any animal personally have no issue thoughtlessly living a lifestyle whose need for ever-expanding consumption of living space, energy, and other resources is directly contributing to a human-caused mass extinction.
Hey, sorry to disappoint you, but that is the least "working" feature of this. :sweat_smile: It was a last-minute addition, not well trained, and should ideally be removed, but still is there.

We would really like to hear your thoughts on how we can improve this in a github issue, and we don't have much idea on LLMs, so there is a lot of room for improvements.

In the meantime, you can check the instructions page which lists the information and syntax/usage for them https://yjdoc2.github.io/8086-emulator-web/help

Hope this helps!
The infrastructure bill had funding for domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals. Also US has been encouraging Canada to do the same including providing some grants to Canadian companies to get started. Below is the list of minerals.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/us-geologica...
Neanderthals and Us: We’re More Alike Than Once Thought
Here's what worked for me, but probably only works for people in a narrow set of circumstances.

I read a lot of technical books and articles. I used to make notes on the interesting/relevant stuff I came across, in case I would forget about it after I had used it and need it again in the future, so I would be able to look it up.

Now I make flashcards instead. Since I keep reading new things, and keep wanting to make new notes, I also keep adding flashcards. And it feels silly to add flashcards without also reviewing them, so I end up doing that too.

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But yes, as another person wrote in their comment, part of it is also resigning to/accepting your condition for the effects it will have on the things you want to do. Sometimes you'll stop reviewing and you'll get a backlog. The important thing is not that you consistently review, but that you consistently pick up reviewing again once you've stopped.
I was laid off in 2009, in the middle of the housing bust and it was rough. Fortunately, I was on my own, so I only had to take care of myself, but being laid off taught me to keep current with my skills when times are good. I was caught flat footed and unemployed, and it took me nearly 9 months to get another job. 9 months is a looong time to be sitting around wondering about your future as you watch more and more layoffs happen.

The one good thing about layoffs is that it grows your network. Eventually you and your old coworkers find new jobs at different companies and now you have new contacts there. This is how I got my first job after being laid off, my old co-worker got a new job and he reached out to me.
So based upon rigorous analysis, approximately half of all Firefox users use the default choice, and half use a different AV.
Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Encryption – Explained in Plain English
https://archive.is/eYMZE
Yeah that's pretty normal across different manufacturers, and you only hear it if you park in a quiet garage and happen to be in the garage at the moment it turns on to do it's thing. It's testing the seal of the fuel cap to make sure you aren't just venting gasoline fumes.
I use amplify in lots of projects. It is a nice wrapper for the auth and registration stuff. We also use it for some frontend ci/cd. Nothing else though.

Custom authorizer in front of aws lambda with serverless framework works great with amplify’s frontend api client.

We also use dynamodb serverless but not with app sync and no graphQL. Would I rather have a good and easy to use serverless Postgres db that played well with aws lambda. Yes. Am I going to switch away because I have to plan my access patterns and indices out carefully… no.
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