skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I crunched some numbers to model different scenarios and different start-up valuations to compare whether the YC deal is any good and what the other options are. In general, thinking about the 7% of the Safe and whether it's worth it is the wrong mental model to start with. It’s like announcing winners and losers in a race immediately after the start and before anybody even runs half a distance. The thing is 7% Safe is just Step 1 in a priced round when YC’s shares convert — and there are 3 steps that depend on the priced round valuation and share a new VC gets. Anyway, I modeled 3 scenarios with 7 different start-up valuations of the priced round for each to compare founders' shares as a result.
Judging from a Nissan Leaf's appearance, its short wheelbase alone isn't doing it any favors in the aero department...
The knockoffs are still of less quality, especially the manuals.

In my opinion, the strategy of quality-first is the main reason for lego's sustainable success.
Can’t seem to find it sorry.

He talked about how it was impossible to get the necessary insurance to check for resources.

If you can’t get insurance to check, the rest doesn’t matter.
What never made any sense to me was the incentives. Is the company supposed to hire people to write a public report saying the company committed fraud? It doesn't really seem like it makes sense for anyone. If anything, you'd just do some minimal performative work to say you had a good look in the company, and then you pick up more work next year. If you write a critical report, how many companies will want to hire you? I'll pick the easy going auditor who doesn't give me a hard time, thanks.

Contrast that with say an HMRC tax audit. They're not there to be your friend and it actually makes sense for them to investigate certain firms.

It would be interesting to read a history of the industry to see how we ended up here.
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The problem is a bit like climate change. If everyone is paying these prices, the prices will just keep going up. People just have to stop, but they won’t. You can think of markets as pricing engines, and prices will rise up to what the market can bear. Pretty simple.
I love the picture; HUGE bus bars at the top; stuff held together with random metal framing, and a couple of dangling UK 13A plugs!
It's fine on CO2, but it has other risks, not to mention its own pretty long-term waste problem.

But for the short term, I think that's preferable to the much bigger disaster of global warming and climate change.
However, the bigger the mirror, the smaller the effect of an individual micrometeoroid strike.
No. That’s literally what the article is about.
llama.cpp has great support for 65B, and I've been using it on a Linux box (I upgraded my RAM for that purpose). 64GB of RAM for a desktop is like $160 today, so it's not out of reach for most people here if they cared to.

Admittedly, it's quite slow and therefore not useful for chatting or real-time applications, and it's unreliable enough in its quality that I'd like to be able to iterate faster. Definitely more of a toy at this point, at least when run on CPU.
It is incredibly amazing how every story about a former tech company that lost its mojo and ended up being sold for peanuts always have this bit about “they brought XXX as CEO, a Harvard MBA…”
Sometimes I feel like Harvard Business School was a communist plan to bring a faster demise to capitalism.
> Automate control of the sails and you're getting "free energy"

There have been auto pilots for sailing ships and motorized ships for decades, it's nothing new. Ocean sailing is usually keeping the same course and sails for days.
> the US are powerful enough to bully everyone else. Up to a point

This is an adversarial model of international relations. It’s dated to the imperial era. One can model any countries’ relationships with it. (It’s vaguely tautological.) And it will make them all sound imperial. (For example, France with her former colonies. Or Norway with Denmark: they’re nice because it is below the limit of what they will tolerate from one another.)

For sake of argument, let’s embrace this flawed model. Using its lingo, the entire point of this discussion is whether that point of decoupling is before or after Beijing invades Taiwan. Whether France has the strength to stand up, or is constrained in its policy options in response to an invasion.
I kinda like this analogy, though the idea of street fighting is pretty unsavory in real life. Whereas Martial Artist in the article's analogy is like suburban children's Karate classes leading to later study for organized sports competitions and exhibitions. (BTW, IIUC, there are other kinds of study of martial arts, including people who focus on internal development separate from external accomplishments.)

Even though it's unsavory, I did use a "scrappy street kid fighter" analogy on HN a couple months ago, criticizing some academic attempt to make declarations about software engineering. Then spun that into one of my favorite topics, which is startups and other smaller companies playing house self-destructively, by cargo-culting behaviors of insulated massive megacorps. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34753570

Instead, we need to lean more towards scrappy street-smarts than we have been during much of "tech". (We also need to always learn from our predecessors and conteporaries, but to be smart about it, not cargo-cult, so I'm focusing on the smart part first.)
Yes, restaurants have gotten more efficient. When was the last time you went to a restaurant where you sat down and then someone walked over and took your order?

Okay it still happens but until the 1990s it was pretty much all restaurants except fast food chains. Now, it seems like most new restaurants use the "customer orders at the counter" model to save money on wait staff.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone
Free is not counted in economic figures. For example, if all the in-house food prep, cleaning, child care and elder care was billed and paid, GDP would rise a lot, but nothing new would happen.

Economists confuse money for the economy, that's a widespread problem.

However, lots of specific tasks have been obsoleted by the internet. Some new ones have opened up. Probably it's a wash based on the fact that the net needs and capabilities per person have not changed, and by definition people generate all economic activities.
Are there any new ICE vehicles currently selling in the US for less than $20k? I'd expect the Model 2 to be priced at least at $30k.
2.3 to 2.5 - changed the syntax and semantics of the language by adding class variables.
2.5 to 2.7 - changed semantics by changing class variable to package variables.

Certainly you're not claiming Python hasn't made breaking changes in the syntax or semantics over the years?

I mean... this still compiles with my c compiler:

??=include <stdio.h>

int main( argc, argv )
int argc;
char *argv[];
??<
printf( "hello %d %s\n", argc, argv[0] );
??>

Though... gcc makes you add the -trigraph option.
And even if they do, if someone uses the api and makes a publicly available website with no clickwrap, it would be legal to scrape that right?
Citizens and municipal and state governments are not in an employment relationship and are not remotely comparable to one.

> I'm more than okay working toward the common good, I just want this common good decided between the parties through negotiation, not handed down from on high.

What you’ve just described is an inherently adversarial relationship with an employer by virtue of your desire to co-opt ownership and authority over their business.
Add zalando to the list, for well over a month now throwing error in FF on Linux. Experienced folks got priced out, Angular/React devs use only chrome.
Apartments come to mind. In my business we also help restaurants take deposits for reservations, which is now becoming the market standard.
I'm a Platform Engineer but I've never actually understood (or really looked into) what they mean by encryption in this context.

I checked that link and they call it "server-side encryption" -- do they mean encryption at rest? If so, it seems terrible that they would allow data to live unencrypted on their non-volatile storage, why do they even give the customer that option?

Other than for very specific kinds of customers that want to supply their own encryption keys, why should it even be their concern? The whole point of cloud is to take the hardware away. Encryption is cheap, just do it.
I think it’s still possible to use some modern aspects in combination with boring old tech.

One thing I found useful is: try to build something that is boring old tech, but the boring tech can be switched out easily. Like a monolith that can be also split up into micro services (via a build flag).
Exactly. And as the Overton window opens, the AI x-risk might become common knowledge, like climate change. And then there is perhaps some chance for international agreements. Although the situation is game-theoretically highly unfavorable.
The new bricks made from ecological materials seem to last shorter than the old ones made from ABS.

Feels like planned obsolescense marketed under the guise of ecology.
Outright banning due to fear seems far more likely.
Gods in the machine? The rise of AI may result in new religions
Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks for the kind reply.
Chalmers? Yup, I'm definitely adding that to my Watch Later collection.

Thanks!
Yeah, I find it super useful when you want a maximally quick look at the shape of your data. Even if I'm local (ie not SSH'd onto a remote system where displaying graphics could be a hassle), using UnicodePlots can "break my flow" less than generating prettier plots in another window.
The way it's addressed is wishful thinking
Moroccans also had to spend a lot of time learning French.

They probably had to study Ebglish too.

People often forget how long it takes to learn another language.
There's been a brain drain from alphabet, why do you bet despite this?
aerodynamics mostly, motor efficiency partly
Interesting, but how does your experience relate to the linked story? Is EY somehow related to Accenture? Are Accenture also doing auditing?
The only counterpoint I have is that it seems the gpt models have trained on most available information on the Internet. So what’s the future progress there exactly.
It seems similar to the analogy of a circus lion vs a wild lion.
Finally an OS that uses all four protection rings of x86 CPUs? :)
There, you can $$$ your way out of data corruption. You can even loss all the data if you have enough replicas and backups.

That's absolutely not true. All the money and all the backups and redundancy in the world won't save you if the data doesn't make it to persistent storage. Even in a totally closed AWS environment, the fallacies of distributed computing [1] still hold. Was there a network connectivity glitch? A latency spike? What happens when two connections attempt to write to the common data store at the same time?

You can't buy your way out of having to deal with the fundamental problem of, "How do I provide the illusion of a single unified system for a highly distributed swarm of microservices?"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
There are some low end Nissans, Kias, and Mitsubishis on cars.com for sub-19k USD as of right now.
One caveat here is the note:

> (Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.)

This means that it is easy to pick up a habit to smash the enter-button a few times before doing this dance, and as noted on a nordic layout it can be a bit tricky and since you might seldom do it you might do it a few times.

Problem can be that sometimes the connection is only broken one way, what you are typing goes to the server but the responses don't. So you might end up wreaking some kind of havoc on the remote server when you just want to kill the session. Maybe you had a half-written command. Maybe you had just done an up-arrow to get to the previous command, maybe you redid that up-arrow one or more times before you realized that the connection was broken. If you press enter now you will re-run one of your previous commands. Could be quite scary.

To save you from some of that, you could do a ctrl+c which will clear your current line, before pressing enter. But whether that is a good idea depends on the context...

The most apparent issue this has been for me is if on the remote you have IRC or something and you type a bunch of garbage to whatever channel you are on. No biggie, but the old restart the terminal isn't too bad either.
Agree completely. A society that thinks about the welfare of children is great but you hate to be always on the receiving end of "will anyone think of the children??!". I don't know where I was going with that analogy
For sure, I wouldn't call that a con, but I see your point.
The simplest answer that's part of the plan for most DT reactors is "as neutrons".

The fraction of the energy that is retained as velocity of particles with a charge vs that is lost as the velocity of neutrons turns out to be conveniently just about where you'd want it to be. So, to capture the energy you need to surround your reactor with something that effectively converts fast neutrons to heat, such as a blanket of molten lithium, which you then use as a heat source. Lithium is proposed because it would also breed the necessary tritium.
Most sailing yachts have this system, and it is generally prone to failure
People should also be expected to be able to read the context and not need explicit confirmation or denial. It's rude and pushy to chase people and try to pressure them into saying yes and force them into saying no.
This is actually one of the attack vectors I'm thinking about trying with the box when I get more time to hack at it.

The accelerometer and temperature sensors / settings could make it a little more difficult, since the heat sink is directly above the processor and one would need to get through it to gain access to the pins.

But it could be possible with some creative solutions. Probably not if all tamper protections are active though.
Good to know. Cheers mate.
The Model 3 SR in China is ~$33000USD and in the US (after tax credit), about $34000. Tesla is aiming for a much lower cost to produce... they've stated 50% COGS of the Model 3, which would put its cost at about $18000 USD. Their goal is to achieve > 20% gross margin, which would still be achievable at a selling price of $25K USD.
Most of the people from the original Transformers left Google as far as I know, (including for OpenAI), so...

NicoJuicy: Have you ever tried Bard, the "ChatGPT-Killer" (English-only btw) ?
I used it for a cli script that reads a log file and creates a histogram of the IPs. Pretty good if you don't want to save an image every couple of minutes. It's just text.
Japan did have the VLSI project a group of there largest companies:
https://youtu.be/bwhU9goCiaI?t=766

For Europe I could see a bigger group of companies, schools and researchers working towards open models with funding.
This would allow EU companies to be competitive with the US while not duplicating effort, more eyes on the problem too.
Maybe alignment work could be a goal, since the driver is not profit at any cost this time.
I can’t bet on Alphabet with the current leadership. You either need a visionary CEO or the original founders to have the courage to gut your entire revenue stream (ads) in pursuit of a new tech.

Pichai is not that guy.
I noticed a sharp uptick in recruiters reaching out, but it’s been almost exclusively for 12-month contracts. Different from the 50/50 contract and salaried posts that would normally come up a while ago. For someone with 0 contract jobs on their LinkedIn work history I thought that was a bit odd.

(Canada, most of these contracts were for USA based companies)
Depending on how you constrain your definition of "little to no oversight", I'd actually bet that 2/ has already happened. Maybe not in a fully autonomous way, but in a supporting capacity to scale up scammer/victim interactions. If I were running one of those Indian call center scams than I'd be jumping at this tech.
They, like many companies, pretend to care about their workers. They, like many companies, don’t. They care about profit, period.

Neither do they care about the environment, gay rights, privacy, or whatever other issue they pretend to care about.
It's funny that you named a framework for a language that emphasizes safety, "The Destroyer".
FYI Korea has one of the highest rates of stomach cancer in the world. It used to be number one. This is supposed to be diet related.

https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/stomach-cancer-statistics...
Ask HN: Do you have GPT-4 access?
Are you feeling crippled in the AI research & development space without GPT-4 (API) access?

Have any independent researchers here managed to get access? What was the app you were developing?

My interest is that two projects of mine, one solo health-related project (being trialed informally by an interested professional), and one as research for a medium-sized entertainment company, have not received ClosedAI's blessings. I feel I'm practically out of the game until access is granted, struggling with flint and tinder while the competition is cooking with gas.

What can those of us without access do in the mean time?
So managers, accountants and VPs?
Melting a hole would likely raise the internal temperature enough to set off that alarm (again, only if enabled), but that might be the easiest way to physically enter the box—at least over the non-metal parts.
Yeah, if they cannot get even the "Hello World" example to be simple and straightforward, I don't know why anyone would switch from the status quo. It's a ton of added complexity.
I have an Asus chromebox running this which has been solid as a rock for many years now.
Yes, now I know how amazing and advanced Lego is from technological point of view, real marvel of precision molding.

But I'm talking more about marketing: post-USSR countries were ready to Meccano (because parents had played with Meccano clones, not Lego clones), but Lego won, and almost nobody knows about Meccano,
When I first read the headline I read it as the engineers behind the game street fighter.
Wdym? The LLM doesn't have access to your internal state either. Nobody's at an advantage here in a zero sum configuration.
C'mon they're public company and also EU based. How are they getting away with this?!
I loved that episode, and all other episodes I've listened to. Thank you so much for curating such a wonderful collection of interesting stories!
But it isn’t efficient; banks like overcharge you absurdly especially for OTM options.
Except... by the time it actually ships, probably $40k :(
I think that's a great way to look at it. Like those vertical farms that exclusively targeted luxury/high-margin crops. Incapable of competing with real logistical chains, but efficient enough to focus on capturing the cream of the market.
I think faster than light travel is possible [video]
I've definitely had bad experiences with take home tests, but well-run take home setups can be a lot nicer than phone-screens with live coding.

When I interviewed at my current employer they made it very clear that the take home was meant as a conversation starter, and everyone who gets a take-home made it to the on-site (virtual in this case since its a remote role). This removed the guess work into whether the test will be a waste of time, as there was a guaranteed on-site interview. The test itself was also a more accurate representation of a simpler version of problems that the team was working on, as opposed to a generic algorithm problem.

Overall this was the most positive interview loop I've ever bene through, and was a big factor in making a decision to say yes to the job offer.
Rust's error handling is roughly isomorphic to the Platonic ideal of checked exceptions. In both cases you're forced to deal with (recoverable) errors and you know which lines of code can produce (recoverable) errors and which cannot.

However, the problem is that Java didn't implement checked exceptions well, as Joe Duffy articulated.

https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/#checked...

> 1. Exceptions are used to communicate unrecoverable bugs, like null dereferences, divide-by-zero, etc.

> 2. You don’t actually know everything that might be thrown, thanks to our little friend RuntimeException. Because Java uses exceptions for all error conditions – even bugs, per above – the designers realized people would go mad with all those exception specifications. And so they introduced a kind of exception that is unchecked. That is, a method can throw it without declaring it, and so callers can invoke it seamlessly.

> 3. Although signatures declare exception types, there is no indication at callsites what calls might throw.

> [...]

The divide in Rust between recoverable Errors and unrecoverable panics is much cleaner (even if it's impossible to get right in every detail).
Can you explain how physiological altitude works? I've never heard of it.
Yes thank you. In particular they all use one of the gradients from that color scheme.
Is iTerm2 GPU accelerated? Wasn't aware it could do that kind of thing. I didn't use it in years, admittedly, haven't had a Mac for a while.
I wonder if you try to login in another device, doesn't it ask you to approve the login?
I agree with you. I don't think anyone who has spent enough time with React/Vue.js would want to switch to something like this. I cannot imagine what the code would like when you have a lot more components and nesting.

I would write frontend code like this if I really want to punish myself.
I would like to propose another candidate: Street-Fighter with Martial Arts training.
The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun
I'm not sure how usable it is, but Shiny for Python exists: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/
Worse is correlation break-down in a sense - e.g., that black swan event happening across an entire asset class because of liquidity squeeze, margin calls, etc.
Depends on the reaction. Most efforts are around deuterium-tritium fusion (that's the pair that's easiest to make fuse), which emits most of its energy as high-energy neutrons. So for these, yes, like the peer comment said, the neutrons are hitting something that heats up (that's the "blanket," which might be made of molten salt or metal), and then you can get the heat out of that with a heat exchanger. The company described in this article is aiming for D-T fusion.

There are other reactions one can pursue that produce charged particles instead of neutrons. With these reactions, there are alternative energy conversion pathways that turn the kinetic energy of these charged particles directly into voltage, and you can skip the turbine. Of the fusion startups, Helion is probably the most prominent pursuing this kind of approach, with a D-He3 reaction. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion for more info on this general approach.
Capitalism is a fundamental law.

It’s inexorably true that means of production control the outputs.

It’s unavoidable that whoever has power over production has power over those who rely on those outputs.

Unless you’re advocating for the destruction of factories, the razing of homes, etc. you’re in favor of capital. We’re just discussing who is going to control the capital.