skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A surprisingly large fraction of TSMC output a couple years ago was going to bitcoin mining ASIC's. I wonder if that is still happening.
Sometimes old words and terms acquire new meanings. The only meaning “Open Source” had before the OSI was the intelligence “open sources” meaning. Is this the only meaning of “Open Source” you accept? If not, what is your definition, and why should that prevail over the OSI definition?
If you swap out the CPU on your computer, is your computer still the same computer? Something has changed. Perhaps a more accurate way of looking at a model name like an F91W is that it's a configuration of components. Ergo, an "F91W configuration can be modified to do xyz". Is it based off of an F91W? Yup. The information that's being conveyed is that if you own a cheap F91W, for a few bucks in parts and a little time, you can do something interesting with it.
This is an absolutely fascinating development from the GLP-1 treatments. A Reddit thread (yes, anecdata at best) titled "It's correcting my impulse control disorder" shows Ozempic takers discussing their experience: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ozempic/comments/10r334j/its_correc...
That is why I found algebra to be annoying, unless it was algebra from algebraic topology. Ring of polynomials is too complicated.
Before the internet, your access was limited to the people you met and interacted with in real life. Now, an attractive person has access to hundreds of people messaging them.
Those damn degenerate Gen Z kids, can you believe they didn't spring fully formed into the world knowing how to do everything I now know how to?? /s
Even better, make sure the difference between your market rate and what you are getting paid is listed as a loan earning a modest interest payment.
Should avoid thinking in terms of yes or no.

It should be the amount being considered, and the amount should be low.

The $130k amount in the article is absurd and that's just the starting point.
Take a look at my other comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516985
Goldbach's conjecture: one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory
> Cars can park away from you and come back to pick you up. This should alleviate parking problems, and reduce parking-space-search based congestion on the street.

I know this sounds nice for just a moment, but if you consider it longer, it's awful. It won't decrease congestion, it will increase it. Why?

1. Cars will still be searching for parking: many people will prefer to have their car nearby. It's not as if every car will altruistically drive to a far-off area. Since self driving cars have more patience than humans, they'll be on the road much longer searching for their parking. It may be more efficient to keep the car circling the block, which is even worse.

2. Parking availability is a major inhibitor of car trips, especially in cities. This is a good thing. If it becomes easier to "park" (ie leave your car driving on the street or send it away), that will induce more car trips, and more car trips means more congestion, until there's a new equilibrium (maybe a 7-minute parking search is eliminated, but it's replaced with 7+ minutes of traffic).

3. Pick-up and drop-off in cities is already difficult with rideshare services. If all personal vehicles are doing it as well, they'll definitely congest the curb lanes more. This is definitely a more solvable problem than the first two, but still an annoyance.

And for what it's worth, the 4-hour commute may be a bit far fetched, but it's hard to deny that many wouldn't mind an extra 20 minutes of commute time in traffic if they can relax, nap, read, watch a show, etc. People will chose that option more, adding more trips and more congestion, until an equilibrium is reached. Maybe it won't be 4-hour commute times but it will be a major increase and added congestion.

All of these extra miles traveled searching for parking, and adding extra congestion, are disastrous to cities and neighborhoods. Sure, the fossil fuel emissions alone would be awful, but suppose (charitably) that all autonomous vehicles are electric, and assume that their electricity generation is emission free (unrealistic for decades). The weight of EV batteries will dramatically increase road wear and tear, and they'll increase the pollution due to rubber tires, which are already the major source of microplastic pollution. And of course, it's a dramatic waste of energy from the power grid. And all of this is ignoring that dedicating that much road space storing to idling and parked vehicles is a no-good, terrible, awful way to utilize public space in a city or neighborhood, when it could be used by some efficient public transit, parks, and safer infrastructure for personal vehicles when necessary.
It's a well-known problem, for which unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a reliable, one-size-fits-all solution, though, see (including lots of suggestions for potential fixes):

https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/16-macbook-pro-gets-excessi...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2019-16-is-hot-noisy-wi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/f10ip5/how_to_fix_16...

The culprit is the Radeon High Side GPU power consumption rising to 20W when connecting to an external display.

For some configurations, customising the screen refresh rate (using SwitchResX) seems to work, for others it's connecting the external monitor to another port (and / or not charging via the same port), while yet for others none of those suggestions seems to work.
In a bizarre coincidence I've just been working on code handling Korean cluster breaks and while it's true there's a lot of codepoints, the rules for handling them are mathematically trivial when considered as codepoint values.

(But I guess I also won't be surprised if the OpenAI guys can't write algorithms worth spit if it's not a large matrix multiplication.)
The flag is the result of brigading, and means absolutely nothing to me. And you are being disingenuous. Consider this my final reply.
I come from a country which is under-banked.

It used to be non-banked, because in 1990 in Romania there were no commercial banks.

Trust me, being non-banked/under-banked is not better.

What you want is decent banks, not no banks at all.

The alternatives are all awful from a combination of peace of mind, convenience, etc.
>The reason it is not “invoked” is because energy prices are sufficiently low (due to not pricing in externalities) that there exists little incentive for end users to optimize for power usage.

You're right in principle, but in practice even factoring in externalities electricity prices won't be high enough for people to care. Using current US carbon intensity for electricity generation[1] and the higher end estimates for the social cost of carbon[2] gets us carbon costs of $0.142 per kWh. The average prices in US is $0.168. Adding in carbon costs would almost double the price, but there are countries with even higher electricity prices[4] and they're not exactly switching to more efficient software in droves to save energy.

[1] https://emissionsindex.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cost_of_carbon#Carbon_p...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...
Yes, you should pay yourself. How much? Working out a pay structure is quite tricky, and reviewing it constantly so you can raise it gradually is a good way to lose focus.

The approach in the article is one way, but I don't like the lumpiness of it and the big bonuses won't work if you're bootstrapped.

A better approach is to pay yourself a fixed percentage of MRR. Some VCs may add salary caps but this works until you reach that point. I’ve found that 2% works well.

I wrote this a while ago and a bunch of founders (particularly bootstrapped / tiny seed rounds) said they found it helpful in figuring out their pay structure: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/how-to-set-your-salary-as-...
This tracks with what I have. Still waiting to obtain my ASV (the second machine he tried; I also have central and obstructive sleep apnea). I had a home sleep study, then a sleep study with a CPAP, then another sleep study with an ASV the following week. Been waiting 6 weeks since then for a call back from the sleep clinic to actually get the ASV. I tried calling them after 2 weeks and they said I had to wait for them to call me which takes 2 to 4 weeks (it's been 6; I'll call them tomorrow).

I actually had a a disnosis and a CPAP two decades ago but I could never sleep with it. I did exactly what he said he did: throw the mask across the room. Since I made myself stick with it in the sleep study thanks to his breathing tips (and not really having an option), I'm sure I can sleep with it now. Also the ASV and the masks available now seem to work a lot better.
Ironically, in Canada the same "must be reasonable" applies but for the opposite reason: The government doesn't want business owners "hiring" family members and overpaying them, since typically employees pay less tax than business owners.
All those cars at long term parking that wont start!
Sterile compared to what? Is there another manufacturer of acceptably-tuned rear-drive sedan chassis out there at a semi-reasonable price point that I should know about?

(I'm talking about pre-2010 BMW here; I would totally agree with most new ones being sterile)
it's 10PM - 5:30AM to be precise
> A significant portion of the economy functions with limited government intervention, as the government sucks at managing the economy.

This just isn't true, government participation can be found throughout the entire US economy. Import and export controls, labor force participation and visas, a massive small business loan portfolio, R&D investments in things like clean technology (e.g. Tesla was initially funded by a government clean energy grant), on and on and on. The assertion that the government just lets the economy run itself is laughable.

> In other words, one can agree with certain roles for government (e.g. justice system) while not agreeing with others (e.g. managing money). I don't see the irony or the contradiction.

It's not a question of what the ideal role of government should be, the question hinges on the government's legitimacy and ability to do things like collect taxes (which is an important function of a government). Lots of participants in crypto believe that taxation is theft and that government is an inherently wasteful entity, all while continuing to enjoy the largely invisible benefits that government policy and enforcement provides them. This is the contradiction.

EDIT: The government is the only reason that FAANG and other tech companies aren't bringing in foreign software developers who will work for $15/hr en masse. You know that if they could, they 100% would.
Who was “Not Even Wrong” first?
Surely it can't have been genuine if people are dismissing her in this way? Texting "I'm sick not this time" and then no more communication ever?
With my car, trying to lock the doors just doesn't work if one is left open — not always the most obvious failure mode, but it's been enough to get me to notice something's wrong.
Oh, I do a very heavy analysis before each venture. My family and I have done very well with them, thank you. When I'm doing a startup, I'm living on savings, not a minimum-wage salary.

My businesses can't pay me my going wage at the start because I try to avoid debt when starting a business to the greatest degree possible. There are much more crucial expenses that money needs to go to (such as paying others).
I’m not fighting an uphill battle. Ever since The Bell Curve came out, there has been a slow but steady distancing of both psychological research and policy makers from the whole field of IQ research. Modern psychology couldn’t care less about on the heritability factor of IQ, and most policy makers don’t want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. Heck the SAT has even been renamed as they don’t want to be affiliated with anything resembling IQ any more.

The heritability of IQ is only well established within true believers of a pseudo-science tightly linked with the eugenics movement. Most psychologists today believe that the supposed heritability was observed because of bias within the research. And given the people who were doing these research in the 1970s and the 1980s, and their motivation for doing those, there is no question on what these biases were. Some of the researchers went so went quite far in bending the data such that it would fit their narrow—and racist—world view. They tried really hard to define intelligence such that it would make rich white people smarter, they were regrettably successful for far to long, but ultimately failed.

Your anecdotal evidence of high IQ parents (ugh!) having high IQ children is the same anecdotal evidence that sociologists have been describing for decades that high SES parents have high SES children, and is the main reason for why parents with high SAT scores are likely to have children with high SAT scores.

What IQ researchers discovered was basically the same thing that Marx described in 1867, class, however the eugenics were no communists, and instead of providing the simpler explanation, that society rewards the ruling elite, and wealth inherits, the eugenics went all conspiratorial and blamed other races for their perceived decline in society.
The vector database would be good for retrieving vocabulary, but could it be expected to do things like retrieve sentences with similar syntax or tenses? It feels like it would be hard to successfully retrieve examples that were important for reasons other than semantic content.
Conspiracy theory — could this have been done on purpose for browser share dominance purposes?
There are plenty of places between SF city and beyond Sacramento which would be just as affordable.

this kind of commute daily no less seems to be more of a stubborn personal choice than any economics forcing it .
Are you sure that they didn't? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-10/apple-s-4...
Yep, an extension is only interesting if it is a true extension, i.e. retains the properties of the thing being extended. So complex numbers are interesting as an an extension of reals since reals are isomorphic to the subring. Likewise with quaternions and reals / complex numbers.
I have the Garmin Epix gen 2. It doesn't have the edge flashlight of the 7x, but I like the light it does have, especially at the bright red setting. It's enough for me to see by without messing up my night vision. The double click access is great. And, with my current settings, I love the 14 day battery life of this compared with the approximately 1 day of my prior Apple Watch 6. I also like that I can switch iOS/Android without having to get a different watch to use with the other phone.
The second paragraph is about why they didn't send just one officer. If they're shutting down the school, that can't happen at 5 p.m.
Is that because of the quality of Chrome or because Safari is a "blessed" application and probably gets to do things other applications do not?

Entirely serious question. Apple is known to severely privilege their own applications over competitors.
The name Accenture was also chosen because they were able to keep using Andersen Consulting's existing ac.com domain w/o interruption.
I stopped drinking 30 years before this article was published. A 12 step program played a big part in it. Since then I have been an amateur student of the field, and I feel these gentlemen are more wrong than right. AA is an easy target because when you read the text there is a lot of BS in it---But the organization created by it does work better than anything before it, and most things since. I am not sure if the record is 5% or 30% or whatever, but it is surely more than zero. One of the best defenses AAs methods I have seen is the opinion of Charlie Munger, who talks about how AA uses several common human tendencies that are hardwired into most of us all at the same time in a synergistic way.
Paying shouldn't only be a California thing, but the $130k amount, which is about 50% too high even for CA, should be limited to high COL areas.
You are being overly charitable.

He worked at the American Enterprise Institute, so if you just imagine their attitude to the scientific facts of climate change, transposed onto genetics, you'll have a good idea of what they were saying. So it's not so much as not being aware of the science, but of not liking the obvious policy conclusions it leads to and so having to work really hard to counter it.

https://www.desmog.com/american-enterprise-institute/
I thought of Robert Hofstadter, who won the Nobel physics prize in 1961 and was Douglas Hofstadter's father.
> imagine the energy savings if Firefox users switched to Chrome.

Nah, I like my privacy. How about replacing Electron apps with native apps instead?
Woof, that's a long time for a bug like that to have sat around and Mozilla to not have come up with a workaround for it.
Here: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
I don't think OP it's saying they are not important just that their names get used so much that they lose all meaning.

Both schizophrenia and depression are linked to dopamine and serotonin limiting our understanding of the diseases to has more or less of x neurotransmitter is naive. Same with chronic stress and cortisol and probably ADHD and dopamine.

The problem is trying to explain every single thing using the same neurotransmitters and nothing else while just serotonin alone can make you puke your guts out or see god (god meaning: whatever you believe in) or alter your sleep.
Got a blank page.

Sorry I missed the mention of SPARK. TLA+, although I haven't fiddled with it as much, is more similar to Alloy than anything else. SPARK actually works on Ada code.
> Or is "open source" just a term for "free" as in beer software that doesn't actually give people all the freedoms it should guarantee? Because that's what the FSF thinks.

No it isn’t. The OSI invented the term "Open Source” as applied to software, and they get to define its meaning as what they intended.

> Because that's what the FSF thinks.

No they don’t. The FSF completely accepts the OSI definition of the term “Open Source”: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
By "going rate", I mean what a person doing the same job(s) would earn at an established company in the same industry and location. In other words, what I would pay someone else if I hired them to do the job.
The problem is you can't go through a whole deck like you can with real flashcards. It becomes a lottery as to what cards you might get. You don't know what cards you didn't see. This was the biggest frustration my wife experienced trying to use it.
Hi I wrote some other response in this thread where I called you a techbro, so sorry about that I probably count as one too I wasn't trying to insult you too much.

Anyway when you say "Furthermore, it's not only about whether 0.05 is the sole criteria, but also about whether it's a useful criteria for us to highlight at all, depending on whether the anchoring effect of it is damaging relative to alternatives." I love this analogy of the null hypothesis vs. alternative hypotheses in frequentist statistics to the 'anchoring effect' cognitive bias that you try to work to your advantage in marketing and sales and negotiation or management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)

If you don't want to be tied to p-values and you only care about downstream decisions rather than quantifying beliefs, you can use some ideas in decision theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory

For example, maybe you are deciding between two alternative ways of doing something. You don't know which one is better, and you are confronted with not only the decision of which one to use, but also with the decision of whether to experiment (with A/B testing for example) to be more sure of which one is right, versus whether to exploit the one that you currently think is better. This is the multi-arm bandit problem and it doesn't necessarily use p-values so your intuition is right! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

Maybe that's not your situation. Maybe your situation is that you have an existing business process and you want to know whether to switch to one that might be better. Someone might say it's a p-value problem, but again I agree with your intuition that it really isn't best to think about it that way, especially when there is a cost to switching. Instead, it's a more complicated decision that depends on what is the switching cost, how much better you think the new process would be (including uncertainty of it), and what kind of business horizon you care about. There might even be a multi-armed bandit effect again even in this situation, where you also have to weigh the costs of reducing your uncertainty of the switching improvement or even of reducing the uncertainty of the switching cost itself.

Anyway, these problems do involve concepts from probability and statistics but it's for sure true that the decisions don't always reduce to P < 0.05 at the end! Good luck best wishes living your best techbro life!
Woit investigates the origins of Pauli’s “Not Even Wrong” comment ...
Do you have a blog post or something detailing what you did and how you did it?
In Python, variable names do not directly contain their values. Instead, in your memory (on "the heap") there are "boxes". You can visualize them like cardboard boxes that contain values. In Python, these boxes are called "objects".

Variable names merely point to these boxes. They can be bound to boxes (`a = 9999` -- here, evaluating 9999 creates a box) and unbound from boxes (`del a`). The boxes exist independently of the variable names -- at least until they are no longer bound to, at which point they may be "thrown out" (deallocated) by the garbage collector.

>> Interestingly, in CPython you can see the "address" of the box `a` is bound to by evaluating `id(a)`.

With this in mind, let's try the given example. In the first assignment `a = [1, 2, 3, 4]`, the right-hand side (RHS) is evaluated first. This creates a "box" in memory that contains the list (see Note). So, visualize that the RHS evaluates to this newly created "box" in memory. Then the name `a` is bound to it (alternatively, "points"/"refers" to it).

When we `return a`, first `a` is evaluated. It is evaluated to be the "box" in memory. Just for comparison, suppose we instead `return 9999`. Similarly here, 9999 evaluates to a newly-created "box" (which contains the int value 9999).

So now let's call the function `result = func(5)`. First, the RHS is evaluated to be the "box" referred to in the return statement. Finally, the variable `result` is bound to that box. This is actually how all assignments work -- the RHS is evaluated to a box, and the variable name is bound to the box!

>> So if we evaluate `b = a`, then both variable names end up pointing to the box referred to by `a`. You can verify this easily: `id(a) == id(b)`.

(Note) Technically, a list is represented by one box. However, each element also requires at least one additional box. (In coding-speak we say a list is a "collection" of objects.)
Though in most cases, you can just type “reset” to reset your terminal to a sane state. If the problem is not the terminal’s state, but how software is trying to talk to it, setting TERM=vt100 (with a “reset” for good measure afterwards) usually works for most if not all terminals nowadays.