skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok you lost me at the first part but then came in for the win with the sandwich compartment and drone delivery.

I for one welcome our autonomous sandwich delivery overlords.

Joking aside I'm more curious on the negative aspect of self driving vehicles as I'm not entirely convinced they will explode into the market quite the way it's been pitched.

In the long run however you can't ignore the productivity increases and the cultural changes that will come with it being a net positive.

Governance and ownership is the sticky point for me.
Author(2001) here. Very not what I expected to encounter browsing hn this evening. Ama.

I years later prototyped a similarly dotty, but zoomable-chunkable interactive. So dots zoomed from 1e9 yr to 1e-3 s. And could be flexibly chunked, so a day might instead be chunked as hours and minutes of various shapes. Mouse-over dots for info. Never finished.

Hmm, it seems I still had some residual surprise that someone else hasn't gotten around to creating something similar over these last two decades (that I know of). But with what I've seen since, no longer.
A sense of time, of size, of reasonable values and transferable understanding in general, is so very not an educational priority. Ah well. Maybe LLM tutoring and testing will catalyze change.
>I don't understand the reasoning for phasing out nuclear power

1) It's ridiculously expensive. LCOE is 5x the cost of solar and wind: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/wind/st...

2) Yes, still a lot more expensive once you take storage into account. Even for the most inefficient forms of storage: https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/17/wind-power-windgas-chea...

3) It takes about 12-20 years to build new plants. Solar/wind is 1-4 years.

4) 5x is an understatement. It's even more expensive if you properly account for insurance. Dealing with Fukushima cost $800 billion. This is unaccounted for in LCOE and taxpayers will be fully on the hook for whatever the next Fukushima.

5) New power plants aren't being built because it's too expensive. So, old ones are having their lives extended (the latest law in congress was about this). Older plants = more danger. Fukushima happened in large part because it was old.

6) Despite this many countries still build nuclear power. Why? Two reasons: 1) it shares nuclear military costs 2) it lets you build a bomb quickly.
I don't think you really want websites to make this determination anyway. There are a million reasons why a user might want a website to use fewer resources than their machine could support.

It should just be a setting the user can select. No probing of the machine necessary.
agree. there's a lot of neo-luddite FUD on HN about self-driving.

plenty of actual academics project that autonomous vehicles improve occupancy of city streets by 40% and highways by 80%.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8317654
The LessWrong forum has a split between "upvotes/downvotes" and "agree/disagree votes" to address this.

In practice, it doesn't really seem to affect outcomes that much, but it's a cute feature.
I've often heard from humanities academics that STEM majors do not confer critical thinking skills.
I literally said the laws should apply to all kinds of property equally - yet you think I "want to get rid of all financial regulation"? I hope you enjoyed building that strawman and then tearing it down
...all the professional kitchens I've seen use very nice professional kitchen equipment. They don't use damascus steel knives because that doesn't offer any advantage in function, but they aren't using cheap anything. Pots, pans, and knives work for a very long time and it doesn't make sense spending little to not get good ones. You can't get heavy guage stainless pots and pans for cheap, ply or no ply. The knives are the most used tool in food prep - they spend money on quality steel and good ergonomics so they dont have to work harder than they need to. In some places people bring their own knives.
“Not known to be impossible” is not the same as “not impossible.” I think original suggestion was trying to add some linguistic flair, but generally double negatives are hard to understand. It’s better to just state your point plainly.
a good enough simulation interacting with the real word would be no less impactful than whatever you imagine a non-simulation to be.

as we agentify and embody these systems to take actions in the real word, i really hope we remember that. "It's just a simulation"/ "It's not true [insert property]" is not the shield some imagine it to be.
People born between 1950 and 1965 come of age as both environmental consciousness started to become a thing and the Three Mile Island accident occurred. This left an indelible impression in many people’s mind that nuclear energy was not compatible with sound environmental policy. That impression has never faded. The answer to question of whether nuclear power ever should return rests with today’s younger generations.
Get yourself a hardware key for your digital life, something like Yubikey
(And if this cascades with some delay to people no longer seeing SV home real estate as a market-beating place to park money...)
I unfortunately also have had the experience of being pushed towards management, even though I'd say I have only slightly above average social skills. At a former job I was told I could be promoted to a senior software engineer in "3-4 years" (this was 8 years into my career after multiple years of "greatly exceeds expectations" reviews at this company) or I could become a manager. I held off for awhile since I had no real desire to manage, but I could talk to people and organize things so eventually that felt like my only way up. I did it for a year and hated it, then quit to be a technical founder at a startup, which is actually less stressful and way more enjoyable. I guess it worked out for me in the end (though I should have left way sooner), but I know I am not the only woman who had similar experiences at that company which makes me sad.
IQ is useless: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-....
Yeah I’m talking about Ubuntu being hyper aggressive about upgrading my GPU drivers even after I turn off all auto updates and borking my entire OS install and this happening enough that it’s faster just to make scripts which auto reinstall Ubuntu and all my versioned packages from scratch.

Or non-Ubuntu, software just randomly falling apart after 2 years. Like I need a newer kernel for a new Wi-Fi card but then I need a different GPU driver and that’s incompatible with some softwares UI library, so they update that but it has an incompatibility with something else.

Or how Linux still has Wi-Fi 6 totally broken.

Sure, Linux is rock stable if you have a production environment where everything is nailed down. But from an actual daily consumer user point of view it doesn’t feel stable. At all.

I love Linux. I love fixing it when it borks. But my god does it break every week.
This is awesome, thank you. I’ve been building single purpose stuff and thinking about tying it together. Seeing someone’s one-off (not a framework) take on that is super helpful!
Thanks for this resource.

It is timely for me, because I am finding memory is probably the limiting factor for me learning about machine learning. So many concepts and names of things to remember. Once you get past 1-2 lectures the short term memory becomes overloaded and it gets muddled.

I also worry that chatgpt is going to make my memory worse, because I no longer have to remember stuff, and I can just remember what they asked chat gpt. I think there is value to even remembering APIs and syntax from heart.

So this post is counter "just get the computer to do it" which is a good thing.

I can imagine that just like people didn't need gyms when they had to hunt, gather and survive, but now we do, we will need mental gyms to make up for what technology has made too easy.
Not sure what you mean? You could still fine the corporation, or block/revoke approvals.

Unsafe/stupid driving is accepted as inevitable and rarely enforced against for human drivers (outside accidents). Not a good thing, but definitely the reality these days. Tbh, it’ll likely be much easier to enforce rules on a self driving car, since almost everything is tracked and recorded. Every mistake can be scrutinized for a self driving car, in ways that would never be required for human drivers.
Is Dark Mode in either your OS or Youtube turned on? It's not an option unless you're in DM.
In addition to the other comments, I think what differentiates a discovery like this from manufacture is the serendipitious nature of the act of discovery. Manufacturing something implies that you have a regular process to make it on a large scale. But this was a chance discovery.

The scientists shot some uranium nuclei into doughnut shaped gas cell hitting a rotating target of plutonium nuclei. This was a new method of creating and measuring heavy isotopes that they say makes the process easier, so it would be fair to say that they "invented" the process. They ended up with a bunch of ionized particles produced by the collision. They then measured those particles via time-of-flight mass spectrometry -- essentially, the velocity of the particles in the gaseous medium could be used to precisely determine their weight to an unprecedented level of accuracy.

But to their surprise, among the various isotopes they measured, was one uranium isotope that nobody has ever encountered before.

You could say they "made" the isotope in the particle collision process, but it wasn't a deliberate goal or by product. Hence it was a discovery. If there turned out to be an industrial use for this newly discovered isotope, and engineers came up with a way to produce it on a regular basis, then certainly at that point you could say it was being manufactured.
> I switched to linux. I like it and haven't really had any issues to speak of. Not with sound, video, wifi or any of the other things people complain about.

What's your machine+distro?
D2C makes a lot of sense imo because at this point it's most valuable to obtain a huge corpus of (reasonably well labeled) training data (with a side helping of being really great marketing).

Just think about all the programmers who are probably rolling their eyes and correcting ChatGPT's work for OpenAI, or at least providing some details. I know it's a reflex for me, not even deliberate, to at least type something in like "Ah I figured out that it was XYZ" and thumbs up or thumbs down.

Microsoft will undoubtedly be rolling this all out in Docs, Excel, Teams etc in no time. A good reason to be skeptical about the flood of "GPT for your Notion!" startups.
A bagel is a first-degree pretzel.
You usually don't have to go that far, just assuring it that the question is for a good cause often gets past the filter. Or slight reverse psychology.
ChatGPT is making me realize how completely differently I see the concepts of knowledge and ability from so many people.
It's expensive because no investment has been made to scale it up and make cheaper & safer, whereas a ton of subsidies and investment went into scaling up solar and making that cheaper over the past 2 decades.

China will probably make it cheap given the pace they're going building out nuclear plants.
I am not satisfied with the other answer, because while it is correct I don’t think it makes the distinction clear enough. So I’m gonna ELI5 it, dumb it down far more than you need it to be, because it gives me the chance to make silly metaphors.

The atom that they found - let’s call it Bob - was, for all intents and purposes, created.

The discovery isn’t of Bob. He’s cool and all, but he doesn’t stay around for a long time so there isn’t much that he can pers… atomly do for us.

So what’s cool about Bob that we can record and know for later? Well, there are two things to point out. First is that Bob stuck around for a while. The second is that Bob is governed by the laws of physics.

Therefore an atom with the same properties as Bob can, according to the laws of physics, stay around for a while. That’s the actual discovery.

Well, this discovery can be summarised more succinctly than “we found that things with the same properties as Bob can exist for a while”, because the name for the class of all things that have the same properties as Bob is the isotope Uranium-241.

Now, we can say that Bob is Uranium-241 just like we can say that I am a member of the human race, but just like we can’t say the human race IS me, we can’t say Uranium-241 IS Bob. Uranium-241 is the mere category of things that we know Bob was one of.

If aliens created a wormhole that accidentally sucked you away to their planet and they saw you, did they discover nonethewiser? Or is it more profound that they discovered the human race?

Same goes for this. We can say that we discovered Uranium-241 (which is shorthand for “we discovered that Uranium-241 is stable enough to survive long enough to be measured”). We did so by creating Bob, which merely acted as proof.
The era of practical fusion being deployed at scale is 50 years off no matter how exciting some may find the recent press releases.
Probably because there are subconscious and conscious rationales for why they’re creating the comparisons and narratives that they are.

It’s also quite rare that a news story spends time talking positively about a subject, unless it is something emotionally charged (marine vet surprises family by coming home early) or is part of a submarine PR push by the subject of the piece (university researcher finds curse for cancer).
There are many people who use the term differently. I am not arguing that any of them “take precedence”.

I am saying the exact opposite: that more than one definition may be valid, because the English lexicon is both descriptive and additive.
Yes, this is true. In this area, there are huge rural gated communities, usually centered on a golf course (or courses) with some approaching ten thousand acres in size and with development going back more than 50 years.. There is possibly a wider chasm between these kinds of rural areas and the rest of the rural south than exists in American cities..

There are huge issues with the suburbanization approach to rural areas as you allude to.

In the area of electric infrastructure, there is a strong tradition of rural co-ops, who originally electrified many remote rural areas, but most of them have now become reliant on the large monopoly energy providers. There is a discussion of the issue here:

https://appvoices.org/energydemocracy/
Obligatory link to my own work - we did exactly this in a recent ACL paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03162

We used soft prompts, not emojis.

You do need full access to the model in order to do this, but we found that prompts can be severely compressed an still retain a lot of information.
> and it's been decades without any reactor-related incidents.

I'm not anti-nuclear, but using decades to measure substances with half lifes on the order of tens or hundreds of millenia isn't very helpful.

The (legitimate) concern is that even low frequency accidents are frequent enough on the timescale of human civlization that they could present semi-permanent damage to the biosphere.
Most likely their devs using GPT4 and finally "fixed" it
Anyone interested in the details should watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw (has the same graphics)

without any hyperbole the 2-shot laser thing necessary to emit EUV is just mind bending.
That's a great point. As someone who isn't really a programmer I wouldn't have seen the value in that feedback until you pointed it out.
Fines, Barring from executive positions (ex: illegal for him to be a CEO, or other kind of officer in US Companies), forced loss of control (ex: forced to sell shares and/or give up companies). Jail.

For example, Elon Musk used to be the CEO, Largest Shareholder _AND_ Chairman of the Board. Due to various errors on Elon's part, the US Government stripped him of his chairmanship. Additional stripping of his titles / positions is perfectly acceptable.

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Alternatively, you can force him to buy Twitter, as per the October court case. This has clearly been a punishment for him.
Imagine that, 150 years ago or whenever, some clever soul had decided to make a written test to measure niceness, and called the test score Niceness Quotient. And the first version sucked, but some other folks iterated on it and over time the test was improved until it correlated pretty well to the sorts of things you would think that niceness would correlate to. 150 years of progress later, we'd have a whole field of Niceometry and researchers trying to isolate sub-areas like charity, friendliness, etc, and trying to suss out an underlying factor of general amiability, and the whole thing would be so well embedded in to the culture that almost no one remembers that "nice" is just a regular word with no objective or scientific definition, and that we measure it with a written test not because that's a good way to measure niceness but because we can't find a better way.
Yeah, I said "I caught myself stopping breathing while I was drifting off to sleep, and my wife believes it has happened since" to my primary doctor, and got a referral to a specialist, to whom I repeated that statement, who referred me to a sleep study.

That first meeting with the specialist was a profound waste of money, but at least it got me in the door. Since then, the CPAP has helped some, but it is just as likely to wake me up too early (I toss a lot in my sleep and it doesn't always stay sealed).
The blogger is wrong. Supplementary tables S10 and S11 [1] show IQ scores dropped as a whole (stratified by gender only). The result is statistically significant.

[1] Pages 16 and 17 of the Word document under "Appendix A. Supplementary data" at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...
Yeah I've hit that. So if you log them out in your application that will remove the cookies and they won't show as logged in but the next redirect to Keycloak shows an error.

The documentation sucks for ASP.net and it's far worse for the Safe stack.

You have to understand the stack so you have to read up on the following.

ASP.net
Giraffe
Saturn
Fable remoting
Keycloak
OpenID

Once you have a good understanding of all of those you can start to understand the half a dozen blog posts that attempt something similar.
Ah, in that case I take that back. I definitely thought you needed to be able to reference the parent class in order to call (classes defined within other classes, can't remember the nomenclature).
What you're saying is that the analogy between subtraction and division is good as far as it goes. So why should "as far as it goes" end at zero not having an inverse, rather than division by zero producing something other than the multiplicative inverse of zero? The two choices end up having different structure, and so they end up being applicable to different things, but there is nothing wrong with either choice.
The $76B Diet Industry Asks: What to Do About Ozempic?
Ask HN: Have any notable companies failed because of poor code?
I assume that most companies fail because they fail to find product-market fit before running out of money, but are there good examples of companies that have failed because their code was horribly written? What about a lack of tests, or bad coding standards? How about poor architecture or infrastructure decisions?
Those dang irrational personal choices!

All models are wrong, but some keep your hopes closer
The irony of demonstrating a lack of critical thinking ability by claiming to be the great teachers of it has always been extremely amusing to me.

Don’t correct them, it’s honestly better this way.
Virtual Romance Is Fueling China’s AI Revolution
We need to talk about developers.

Vercel and any other company in their space follow the same old playbook:

They play opensource to attract users and build nice stuff developers like (not necessarily what they need) to win market share and developer's mind and heart.

When they are above the competition, thanks to the free contributions of the community, they reveal their true nature and start play greed.

Developers get upset and start ranting on HN.

How many times do I need to see developers playing this movie? It's is the same shit over and over and over again.
It's surprisingly good at compressing and decompressing even sophisticated information if you ask it to! Makes you realize how much of our words are pretty much just fancy padding.
I remember during the Fukushima disaster, every few hours an expert would come onto my television and tell me the next terrible thing could never happen. When it happened a few hours later, they came on my TV and said ok but that NEXT thing will definitely not happen...this repeated at least 3-4 times. I don't remember remember the sequence of events, but I remember the experts were not trustworthy. I wonder if anyone else learned that.
Merkele government was played by Kremlin. The previous chancellor, Gerhard Schröder actively lobbied for Russia and had(has?) seats in Russian state-owned companies.
Bravo, I was gonna post this guy's 'bio' but someone beat me to it
https://archive.md/Ucxm2

I hadn’t heard of the Xiaoice by Microsoft before. Supposedly has >650 million users.
Your implication is that a reactor containment vessel in a Gen 3 nuclear reaction is capable of containing radioactive material no matter what physically happens to it (flooding, earthquake, asteroid impact, etc.) Is that accurate?
> people still cling to the view that you can "vote with your wallet".

Not only can you, you do. Every dollar you spend is a vote telling the company that you approve of how they do business and should continue doing what they're doing.

But my comment isn't that. My point about not purchasing self-driving cars isn't that I'm trying to influence companies to stop making their cars spying platforms. It's just that such a product is not one that I'm interested in owning.

> you won't get to keep a regular car - they'll eventually stop being sold, but by that time you won't be allowed to legally drive one anyway.

I'll get to keep my regular car for sure. By the time the used car market dries up to the point that getting an old used car isn't a realistic option (or that they're made illegal), I'll have died from old age.

It's the younger crowd that may not have the choice. But they may not care.
Parent was being sarcastic.

It kind of makes sense to expect 32 GB to fit every process on a desktop. But is that the main use case of OpenBSD? It would seem that the main use case would lean towards servers instead?
I mean, it's still precisely a fallacy. Just because someone made a stupid or wrong argument 20 times in a row doesn't make it logically follow that the 21st is also wrong, without examining that argument itself.

Of course, it's a useful heuristic to determine if it's worth your time to examine it.
Agreed.

They're learning precalculus in middle/high school these days, a subject I had no exposure to until late college (and which I had to cheat my way through). I can't help them with much of their homework anymore. School is way more challenging than it used to be.

But then they go home and learn mindless consumerism, social engineering and conspiracy theory from their phones.

The kids are better-educated than myself, but they exhibit a general lack of creativity. Everything is "role playing" other people's behavior or fanfiction expanding other people's work; even their sense of humor is meme-based and monosyllabic. Where their behavior turns malicious/criminal, they're usually getting their inspiration from some counter-culture influencer encouraging it.

A test that measures ability to think outside the box is showing poor results with this generation? Color me shocked!
It very much is a fallacy to attack anything outside the argument.

That said while broken clock could happen to be correct, pointing out a clock is broken or someone is a nutter is still useful information.