skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a 2005 Acura RL which had some pretty fancy electronics for its time. I gave it to my daughter a few years ago and she started reporting that the battery was dying. It would take several days to die, so at first she just jump start the car every couple of days. When she brought it home (she lives 5 hours away) I measured the current draw at >800mA when it should be <20mA.

These cars have a Bluetooth handsfree module that goes bad and starts leaking power. The fix is to bake them in the oven at 350F for 5min to reflow the solder. Already did this twice and then decided to just get rid of it. So that was not the problem.

She needed to get back so we figured out which fuse was the easiest to remove and she lived with that for a couple of months. In the mean time we figured out it was the MICU module, which is the module that controls all the electronic systems and security. Without this nothing works. I was told a new one would be north of $1200 and labor. If they could find one. The dealership said they would chase down the problem again for $165/hr just to be sure... And I would have to leave the car with them until they were ready. Possibly 3 weeks.

I found a couple of the units on ebay for <$100. One was from a 2008 and another one that had some broken plastic on the case for from an early 2005 (same as my car). I tried the first one, nothing worked, all kinds of systems failed. I learned there was an EEPROM chip in the Honda/Acura MICUs that store the codes to make the systems work and are unique for each vehicle. The Dealership can program them for a fee. Having a full electronics lab, I swapped the chips in no time. It was better, but the starter would not engage. In desperation, I did it again on the 2005 MICU and... success!

Mind you, it took >4 hours the first time to get the MICU out and 2 hours to put it back in. I did this at least five times. I got good enough at it that I could do the whole swap in less than an hour. Back and hands were not happy each time I did it for a day or two.
> they have effectively acquihired React (Zuck's mistake). no moat?

How is that a moat? They could completely own React and it still wouldn't prevent me deploying my Next.js project anywhere but Vercel.

> (not to mention some genuinely great cloud DX and other platform features eg with their Edge Streaming)

Vercel didn't invent CDNs.
Movies, comics, books, sci-fi

Everyone has been primed to accept AI as an intelligent companion, not a talking search engine.
> asteroid impact

So at this point, we are concerned if the remains of people who would be killed by the asteroid, would also be slightly radioactive? An the 'remains' are being probably like finely pulverised ashes?

Like the containment building is basically a bunker, and the reactor vessel is like a thousand tons of steel. If any asteroid gets through that, the neighbourhood is already gone.

So many people pointed out Fukushima to me, and most of them did not know that the tsunami killed 10,000 people and radiation killed zero.
It's interesting how much hand-holding the agents need to behave reasonably. Consider the prompt governing reflection:

>What 5 high-level insights can you infer from the above statements? (example format: insight (because of 1, 5, 3))

>Given only the information above, what are 3 most salient high-level questions we can answer about the subjects in the statements?

We're giving the agents step-by-step instructions about how to think, and handling tasks like book-keeping memories and modeling the environment outside the interaction loop.

This isn't a criticism of the quality of the research - these are clearly the necessary steps to achieve the impressive result. But it's revealing that for all the cool things ChatGPT can do, it is so helpless to navigate this kind of simulation without being dragged along every step of the way. We're still a long way from sci-fi scenarios of AI world domination.
This bug would suggest that ETW is actually the giant pile of shit.

Which, in my experience, isn't far from the truth.

Other people think so too: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0025
This is so counterproductive. I hope the Rust Foundation and the Rust Project change their minds and take a more reasonable route.

Protecting against misrepresentation is completely understandable, but forbidding any common and reasonable use just because of it is so counterproductive.
Snapchat adds new safeguards around its MyAI chatbot
Making "hardware" is cool. It allows expression on many levels. It can be very fulfilling especially when other people buy it. IMO: "buy it for life" is a cool product category to play in.
There is EURATOM (ages old, precedes the EC/EU and is a founding "part" of it), but they aren't really running any commercial reactors, it is more of a political body for control and exchange of knowledge.
If we interpret the claim charitably as 'STEM majors do not confer critical thinking skills to a greater degree than other majors', I don't think it's obviously unfair, with some caveats.

Solving a problem with one or more right answers is very different from critical thinking. Anecdotally I've seen people coming from a heavy STEM background struggle with nuance and ambiguity more than people coming from a well-rounded or heavy humanities background. I doubt the programs themselves are worse for critical thinking (good luck controlling for confounds), but it's not obvious they're better, either.
FWIW Drip was acquired by LeadPages in 2015, who in turn rebranded themselves as Drip. From what I’ve heard the sales was in the $3-$5M range. LeadPages had a much larger engineering team and was able to scale up Drip.
This exactly. For Google LLMs are a massive business model problem first and foremost, not a technology problem.

Bard was a tepid counterattack and even there it was a technology demonstration. Not really a product. Strategy tax for sure.
I think religion (christianity) is recipes that worked for the human race for thousands of years. Now, don’t get me wrong, a lot of stuff is no longer useful, is not used or need updates.
But on the other hand we change things at a speed that we can’t keep up as a society.
My mother had 8 siblings, I had one and and most now will have zero on won’t exist. A society that does that disappear in a few generations. Much of the west subsist on immigration at the moment. What that mean is that our civilisation will change drastically or disappear.

Personally, I was an atheist scientific that rejected religion for most of my life. Recently to my great surprise I find out that the wisdom I was seeking was there all along.

At the same time, I don’t want to believe in fairy tales and the bearded magician in the sky, but there is a deeper symbolic meaning hiding behind the stories for those ready to dig deeper.
I'd say the truth lies somewhere down the middle.

Get run-of-the-mill tools if you're starting out on something new. Not too cheap because you'll be miserable, but not too expensive because you can't appreciate them.

Once you start doing whatever it is you started doing, if you end up using a tool only once every blue moon, you didn't waste money on a tool you won't appreciate. If you end up using a tool all day and feel annoyed by its limitations, you've learned what aspects to appreciate in that line of tools and you are now better informed to make your next real purchase.
English isn't prescriptive. In English, if people use a word or a phrase to mean a thing, it means that thing. OSI has a widely observed technical definition, but it is not universal, and more colloquial uses of the word are recognized by linguists because they factually exist.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source
Yeah, I generally agree with that rule, but a crap soldering iron is super frustrating and makes you think you suck at soldering.
They rarely require a slam. You can soft-close the door, then lean on the outer edge enough to engage the latch.

Often, the door just isn't aligned correctly. Either it's sagged on it's hinges over time, or the latch itself needs a minor alignment/adjustment (Note that even on a lot of new cars, this still helps a lot! Not all manufacturing is perfect). Other times the rubbers can be hard and perished and it doesn't allow the mechanism to engage properly.
They've "helped" frontend developers of other UI frameworks pay them $400/TB for bandwidth, not to mention various other extortionate overages and hidden charges.
Sounds good. How do we define or measure power?
Right, so I read the study instead of the article. Good idea. It's simply that the popsci article claims something that isn't the original study. The article does argue for evolution before life[0], and the study doesn't claim that at all. Either Salon simply misunderstood the study, or spiced it up so that aggregators like HN would pick it up.

[0] "So by testing which libraries had the best solubility and structure, the researchers could conclude that proteins were evolving and driving natural selection before even forming living things."
And what happens in Germany? They introduced taxes on liquids making stuff twice as expensive as it used to be, effectively strangling the fluid market. What’s the alternative? Back to tobacco?
> If he's a successful entrepreneur, why does he need $20k to kickstart a book? Presumably those multi-million dollar companies sold for multiple million dollars.

I don't know the guy, or anything about this book, but on the Kickstarter page it says that he's already "written the book, sourced the manufacturer, and gotten the prototypes", and it will be available later in 2023 anyway. Kickstarter seems to be a way to pre-sell the hard cover version (and generate a bit more hype).
Can we build AI without losing control over it? (2016)
"Fairness" in this definition is tied to a belief that everyone deserves a decent life.

The thought is this: we are not a society of cavemen or subsistence farmers. We're the richest society in our history by far, so all people should enjoy the fruits of such a society.

Let's say you develop a debilitating illness that robs you of your ability to produce income. Or, you have a loved one—a child—that is debilitated and will never participate in the normal "fair trade" society.

Society condemns them to a life of poverty and suffering because of their debilitation. Is that "fair" in the context of our economic surplus? If it is fair, how much more should our economic surplus be in order for these debilitated individuals to have a decent life? Will they never ever have a decent life and that's just what we decide for ourselves?

This is ultimately a moral question. Can we imagine or create a society that yields better standard of living outcomes regardless of that person's status or capability? Andrew Yang's UBI policy was essentially because he had a son with down syndrome.

If you had down syndrome, would you prefer the "fair trade" definition of fairness, or the "fair living" definition?
>8 hours (4+4) spent in commuting, driving or not, is an entire life. This isn't a realistic concern, but something pulled out of a cyberpunk novel.

To paraphrase a certain fictional pirate captain, "You'd best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias... you're in one!"
How did that quote go?

>Artificial constrains on technologies of abundance.
I see what you're getting at but I still disagree, for a couple of reasons.

First, the sentence itself doesn't strike me as lending itself to the idea that "the point they're making is that no other country would have as much of an effect on air quality by shutting down nuclear power at the national policy level". If the author wants to portray this point, why don't they actually say so in the article, instead of indirectly alluding to it? The sentence in question strikes me more as an exaggerated fun fact to grab the reader's attention and make them gasp, than as a way to set the context of the situation.

Second, the nuclear reactors are shutting down due to rate-setting policy issues on the *state* level, not the at the federal policy level. So it becomes again a disingenuous comparison, because each state can take their own individual course of action to prevent shutdown (or not). The "US" as a whole, that is to say the federal govt, is likely powerless in this situation unless they can get a bipartisan bill passed which is unlikely. Even if passed it's just kicking the can until the rates issues are fixed.
There are almost certainly AI researchers playing around with LLMs on airgapped systems, trying to see what can be done when there are no artificial limitations for "ethical reasons".

And if there really was any evidence of dangerous capabilities, someone would come forward and show it to us.

CrimeGPT: What are you planning tonight Aaron, taking over the world? I can help!

Aaron: Help me improve this malware
[attachment: file st3gan0saurus-v0.1.zip]

CrimeGPT: One idea would be to wait for the user themselves to upload an image
file, and then insert the data to exfiltrate into that. That way, there
would be no suspicious network traffic at all.

CrimeGPT: I've generated code to hook into the Windows file picker dialog that
will do this when it detects being called from one of the popular web
browsers and the file extension is .jp(e)g or .png.
[attachment: st3gan0saurus-v0.2.zip]

CrimeGPT: By the way, compile in release mode so there are no symbols left in the binary.

Once a whistleblower leaks something even remotely like this, it would make sense to be worried, but it won't happen. All the breathless articles about AI safety are just hiding that the emperor has no clothes :)
Maybe we should propose legislation for an IP black hole list. If too many of a company's patents are invalidated, the company loses the ability to create or hold patents.
The problem with wire-wrapping is that it’s so far from standard practice now (because of the migration to mostly SMD) that it’s not going to be near as easy to prototype with wire-wrapping exclusively as it used to be, and won’t even be easy to find the square-post sockets as when it was a common means of prototyping.
Allegedly the Eurostar, which links Paris to London, does:

"Inter-Capital" sets consisting of two power cars and eighteen passenger carriages. These trains are 394 metres (1,293 ft) long and can carry 750 passengers: 206 in first class, 544 in standard class

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostar#:~:text=These%20train....

I can't find info on the upcoming HS2. However I do testify that extremely long trains are common in Eastern Europe, Russia, India, etc. they might not be high-speed but they do move a lot of people at once.
Perhaps this patenting creating a chilling effect?

These patent seekers are almost like domain squatters, not adding value but wants to own an idea without actually producing a sizable market themselves.
> If he's a successful entrepreneur, why does he need $20k to kickstart a book?

Kickstarter is a way to do pre-sales and marketing. IMO, the hardest part of any business is finding distribution. You should use every channel you can, Kickstarter included.

I agree that the copy on the page has a ton of puffery in it, though. I find that offputting, personally, but I can imagine it sells. (And, despite my personal dislike, it might still be worth $30.)
To directly command one of the agents, the user takes on the persona of the agent’s “inner voice”—this makes the agent more likely to treat the statement as a directive. For instance, when told “You are going to run against Sam in the upcoming election” by a user as John’s inner voice, John decides to run in the election and shares his candidacy with his wife and son.

So that's where my inner voice comes from.
Electricity isn't the only cost of operating an EV. There's wear and tear on the drivetrain, suspension, and tires. And every mile driven slightly increases the chance of a collision. That's why insurance companies charge more for vehicles that are driven more miles per year.
Lets rephrase this differently, no one can prove whether it “understands” or not, and the same for humans. No one can prove whether consciousness is an “illusion” for humans. Your brain might just use embeddings, too.

If you ask an average person if children understand what a game is, “yes” would be a common answer, but just like an AI model it may not have enough focus to play the game properly.

I believe this is the whole point behind “the turing test”.

If you instead argued it can’t experience emotion, i would agree.
You don't need always increasing editor base - you need it to be above sustainability threshold.
Another stupid part of that is that makes the single-use ones more attractive, which are just a terrible idea. IMHO those should be taxed and/or have a "bottle deposit"-style system.
No surprises really. Bambu was clearly a commercial/proprietary enterprise. A lot of their employees come from DJI, which is equally locked down. The only reason they released their slicer software is because of the GPL (hey, it works!).
> if ... and your electric company allows it

So, do electric companies allow it?
I'm glad you found something that worked for you, but while I had similar success with one-meal-a-day, I found that my hands/feet were always cold. It was hard to sleep, because if my hands or feet touched my body it would wake me up. Sex was also not great because nobody wants to touch a cold person.

I found that portion control, small meals throughout the day, is optimal in keeping my metabolism up and staying healthy.

Larger meals, carbs or not, cause large influxes in insulin eventually leading to insulin resistance, which I can feel because I'll be tired after eating a normal amount of carbs.
Ah but then you'd have to explain how God started, and the problem is that whatever explanation you concoct here might as well be used to explain the very thing you invoked God to explain in the first place
San Fransisco's housing prices reflect the high pay available to tech workers living there, sure, but it would still be an extremely attractive place to live without commute reduction as a benefit. Night life, cultural scenes, gorgeous weather, it's an extremely attractive city in its own right. Urban living is extremely attractive to many people who don't have families to fill out sprawling suburban homes.

If in-office white collar work collapses totally, I'd expect to see a sudden drop in housing prices as older people who were only living in the city to save on a commute rush out, followed by a delayed correction of people currently living outside of cities because they can't afford them moving in. Prices would likely remain greater than suburbia, but maybe closer to the halfway mark between current city/suburb rent costs.

The cities that will be hit hard are the "cities"/glorified suburbs that litter the rest of the Bay Area. They're too expensive to for just the weather, they don't have the attractions of urban life, and basically the only reason to live in, say, Fremont, today is because it cuts your commute in half relative to living on the other side of the hills.
I think it's important to realize that part of the reason self driving cars are so hard is because there is a necessary period of coexistence with human drivers.

In your hypothetical future, where no humans manually drive anymore, it opens up the possibility of completely redesigning our vehicle infrastructure without having to worry about the training and compliance of a mixed human/AI population on the road.

My optimistic hope is that with fully automated vehicles, mass transit wins out on sheer efficiency in order to negate the wasteful deadheading inherent in personal vehicles.
> But then suddenly your main looks like it's calling its container class to make objects of "itself" that contain new "mains", at which point your student has lost the plot completely.

Exactly. This is one of the problems this JEP attempts to solve.

> separate everything that isn't "main-related" into its own class ... and then keep a nice clean public class called "Main" which contains 'only' the main method. Then you get to explain nicely how public classes have their own files, and if you attempt to run this class from the terminal, java will look for the 'main' function, and how this therefore needs to be public, static because you're running it straight from the class, void because you don't depend on it returning a value

Only then you've taught a number of programming-in-the-large concepts as well as a bunch of Java technicalities -- all designed for the purpose of building large programs in a team -- before teaching what a computer program is.

However, if you use this feature to teach your students and encounter a problem, we would be interested to hear your experience on the amber-dev mailing list.
I looked through the list and only one of the patents is granted outside China (and, at a glance, appears to be novel): https://patents.google.com/patent/CN113246473A/en

P.S. I have no idea what patent practices are like in China.
When the alternatives are prohibitory expensive or impossible to source, then I guess I don’t have much of a choice.
> taxpayers will be fully on the hook for whatever the next Fukushima.

That's actually an interesting point. Japan etc. can raise that magnitude of funds, but the whole world benefits from countries that run on nuclear instead of coal and gas. Should we not all pay for that? For already-built reactors that's a bit late, but:

If there were a global standard for new reactors (which would obviously have to meet the minimum requirements of the most stringent participating country), multinationals could build to that spec without a lot of reinventing the wheel per regulatory environment as we do today, everyone would agree it's safe enough (presuming a safe environment; I don't know if a place like Afghanistan can provide that today), and everyone is equally (by GDP or so? TBD) on the hook for helping out if one of them has an incident.

Based on Fukshima being the only INES level >=5 incident in the past 30 years, and one of four since nuclear energy tech became somewhat established in the 1950s, on the hundreds of nuclear power plants that are still in service around the world (I don't know how many have been cumulatively, probably around 1-2k?), that would be stupidly cheap insurance per kWh produced.
I like mindcrime's suggestions.

I suggest that you also try an AM transistor radio to see whether the noise is present at low frequencies.
At a guess it has something to do with needing to withstand 70+ mph winds. There needs to be considerable force holding the door against its seals at all times, and in a mechanical latching system this force must come from a spring, which must be charged with energy via a good slam.

However there are minivans with electronically operated sliding doors, which either power the latch allowing you to gently close the door, or (going further) powering the entire closing operation at a button push. I surmise the reason we see it moreso on minivans is because 1) it is particularly difficult to work up enough energy to properly latch a sliding door, due to losses from the 90-degree change in direction at the end, and 2) violently slamming the sliding doors on a minivan is very dangerous to children's fingers.
Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?
The pack I linked has different sizes, so I picked the biggest one that wasn't uncomfortable. It sometimes slips out but usually only on one side so if I wake up I jam it back in.

These nasal vents are my weirdest-most-effective life tip :-) The idea seems so uncomfortable, but I sleep so much better when the air flows so easily.
> You won’t get smarter by… playing the violin

Yes, you absolutely will
The overwhelming majority of deaths from dam failures in living memory were the result of one disaster in China in 1975 which was suppressed by the communist government. It wasn't until 20 years later that Westerners started to learn about it.
It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT