skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got one installed at the time they existed but nobody had seen one work so it was easier to claim it is impossible. What has really advanced is the importation of heat pumps.

Daikin makes an Altherma line that is excellent an was removed from the US market a few years ago. Not becuase it doesn't work but becuase the US believe it doesn't work. I often toy with the idea of buying one in Canada. I need a Harry Tuttle of heating engineers.
IIRC, because Google is the only major cloud provider that made such statement.
Not to steal thunder from the OP site but WeberAuto has amazing YouTube videos on a LOT of EVs, systems, transaxles, motors, gearboxes, and everything.

https://www.youtube.com/@WeberAuto

The professor that teaches it (John Kelly) is amazing and very well experienced in the industry: https://www.weber.edu/automotive/j_kelly.html
As a German you get accustomed to carzy fear-led policies like these.

FYI our „experts“ and think-tanks (DIW, Agora Energiewende, Öko-Ibstitut) are sure renewables are basically free and nuclear is blocking the RE build-up. Plus, nuclear is so dangerous and produces so much waste, it is a non-starter. The only thing they hate more than Co2 is nuclear power, thus we keep runnung brown coal power plants at 1kg/Co2 per kwh.

Thanks I guess.
The caption is “The world's largest banknote printer says printing money isn't that profitable anymore”, the missing “that” is kinda relevant.
Stop talking to each other and start buying things....

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other...
What brand of switch are you using
Ask HN: Assembler to C, Content to GPT-4: Self-Rewriting?
GPT-4 is similar to programming languages. C was written in assembler, and then C was rewritten in C itself.
We created all the content on the internet manually, and now GPT-4 might recreate it on its own, perhaps even rewriting itself?
> memorising times table is ...

... a different experience for different people and I wish we just accepted that and provided multiple ways to deal with it rather than assuming it's something we have to memorise. And maybe also paid attention if those having issues memorising it don't have more general memory issues that need addressing.
I have a simile experience. I live in an affluent suburb and I moved here for the school. There’s 5 vice principals and all sorts of others. Of course there are 30 students per classroom.

Also, sadly, the vice principals make more than teachers so there’s a perverse incentive for people who need more money to move from teaching to administration.

I had a surreal meeting that the school scheduled for me when my child’s kindergarten teacher wanted to tell me my child had autism. It was the principal, the kindergarten vice principal, a backup vp, the special needs assessor (not the special needs teacher there was someone whose permanent job for the school was to identify kids with special needs), the teacher, and a county observer. So six school staff and me and my spouse.

It seemed like a big deal when we got there. They said that my child had autism and should be moved into special classes. I asked what made them think that and the kindergarten teacher presented her “evidence” that my child got upset once because the room was too noisy and poor performance in class.

I asked what else made them think that and they didn’t have anything else. There was no medical training out of the six people. It was so surreal. My kid had been screened many times and no one said anything so I said I would talk with the pediatrician.

Pediatrician laughed and said they were crazy and wrote a letter saying bo autism.

The school ignored the letter and tried to move them into the class despite my disagreement.

Comically, they had forgotten to file some form weeks earlier and when I showed the county procedure the county observer forced them to “follow the documented procedure” and so the process stopped, my kid stayed in regular class. And, weirdly, they never filed the forms for stage 1 of the multi stage process and I never heard about it. (10 years later, still no autism).

I never got closer as to what was going on and I fear their attention to pivoted to some other, less fortunate child.
xdotool can move a window?
>> A good example is when you look at GPT writing poems. All poems that it writes are of the same structure and they are not very good.

Wait: so anyone who doesn't know what a sonnet is (or who writes bad poetry), is somehow unintelligent?

Is the goal here not "do something that would have previously taken a human-level brain to do", but rather "perform every task better than every human".

That seems like setting the bar a little high to me.
> a solid investment in tools and equipment

That's true. You need a lot of special tools for modern cars. When you acquired the required tools you'd best stick to that manufacturer with future car purchases or you'll have to buy the whole set again for your new brand.
non-profit clubs and the ability to grow weed for personal use is IMHO the best outcome.

For profit, commercial sale of weed would be disastrous for Berlin
Basically all major incidents involving nuclear power plants fueled that position.

It started with Chernobyl but Fukujima was essentially the event that made the government speed up the whole plan.

Plus: the still unclear situation on how and where all the nuclear waste will be stored for the next thousands of years.

Note that nuclear plants only contributed to about 5% of all the electrical power in Germany.
You know it's bad if there's a whole wikipedia article about the controversy about a word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_n...
The assertion that gender is “socially constructed” does merit the anti-woke talking point. Mammals have social roles based on biological sex: female penguins do one thing, male penguins do a different thing. Gender in humans isn’t fundamentally different.

Like everything else, humans have layered social and cultural constructs on top of sex and gender. For example, cultures have different ways of marking the transition from childhood to adulthood. But the fact that e.g. a bar mitzvah is a cultural construct doesn’t mean that the behavioral and social changes accompanying puberty aren’t rooted in biology.
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If you want to be edgy, switch from a carbon based to silicon based diet. Personally I just gnaw on my iPbone.
As gender dimorphism can influence external characteristics, I assume it can also influence personalities. If animals have any senses of identity (I think at least some non-human animals do) or beliefs about what their bodies "should" look like (passing the mirror test at least weakly implies so), then likewise.

How much any of this is present in different species, and how much the range of personality traits can diverge from the other traits, I wouldn't want to even guess.
I'm happy to see improvements like this.

In 2018 I opened a github issue around container startup time[0] with Docker. A couple of things have changed since that issue but generally speaking we are talking about ~5s (containers) vs 150ms (no containers) to start a realistic process that depends on networking and other things you'd expect in a typical web app.

[0]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/38077
> OG told his online companions that the government hid horrible truths from the public. He claimed, according to the members, that the government knew in advance that a white supremacist intended to go on a shooting rampage at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. The attack left 10 dead, all of them Black, and wounded three more. OG said federal law enforcement officials let the killings proceed so they could argue for increased funding, a baseless notion that the member said he believes and considers an example of OG’s penetrating insights about the depth of government corruption.

Why is that a "baseless notion" (which is stated in the newspaper's voice)? It might be far-fetched, but this "OG" guy had proven access to top secret documents, and (IIRC) that shooter left all kinds of documents and plans online. It's not inconceivable that "federal law enforcement officials" picked up something that told them a shooting was likely to happen, didn't act, and this guy was privy to some document or conversation about that. Weaseling "baseless" in there reeks of condescendingly making sure to tell the plebs exactly what you want them to think at every opportunity.
This seems completely irrational and emotionally driven.

If a single person was responsible it would be easier to show this, but one of the perks of a large organization is that no one is responsible for anything.
What is the reason we still use physical money?

For me, it is that I don't like all my purchases to be tracked in one giant database.

If you still use cash, what are your reasons?
There is no redeeming factor of the Spark other than price. And history shows that is not a guarantee at the top of car sales. Just look at the Versa (as you mentioned) and the Mitsubishi mirage. In the following list there is no real cheap car there.

[1]:https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car...
We got exactly this problem on my previous job: split #thispopularhastag into words it combined from.
Wow! I don’t know why I had actually never asked a librarian for recommendations.. seems so obvious now. I’ll do next time ^^
SQLite is so modular that someone could write a replacement for the filesystem layer that ended up sending requests across HTTP to query a database on another server [1]. Without touching any other layer of the code. How much more modular do you want a database to be, without making other compromises?

[1]: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
I'll probably get flagged - I see it more like being a goth or a skater or whatever. Identity is something people like to have generally, it's normal, but somehow it gets politicised in certain cases. I don't think a relationship to sex has to enter into it, it's more like a justification maybe?
A lot of job descriptions are basically data processing manually I.e. take data from one software and compile them in excel sheet. I recall automating 30hrs per week of efforts completely over the course of an year, just to scratch my itch.

It goes without saying that my automation produced correct results and in seconds. And do not need another manual check.

As a software engineer, chatgpt can’t completely replace my job. But anyone who doesn’t write code is a fair game.
#5 is the Toyota Camry, which is cheap. #12 is also cheap, as is #13, #16, #18, etc. I consider cheap to be under $30K.

This is calculated by looking at the median car sale price for new cars and taking the beginning of the 2nd quartile. Or to put it another way, cheap is when about 75% of cars are more expensive.

The Versa, Mirage and Spark would be firmly in the "cheapest" category, where 95% of cars are more expensive. Of course, they are also in the "cheap" category, but a car doesn't need to cost that little to be considered cheap (for a brand new car).
I'd also like to ask what's the logic behind not disclosing their business model?
Is it because:

a) It doesn't exist yet / more data about usage is needed (ad supported vs paid)

b) The price would be too high for most to start depending on this tool, hence this is a trick to crush competition and force users to pay higher price later

c) It's already known that the product is not sustainable
It's belittling of the user to refer to their use-case requirements and cost analysis as "arbitrary"
How Solar energy got so cheap
I thought gender and sexuality are totally independent?
Right, the recruiters that would think such a thing are what you say. But they are the gatekeepers. Name call me all you want, it won't change that fact. But it feels good I bet!
Nuclear power is pretty expensive and doesn't do well in a grid with a high percentage of renewables.
It is as much the case that modern cpus have been designed to facilitate c semantics. C was designed for the cpu initially, but a lot of generations have happened since then, and there have been attempts to try other things, and by now the cpu is designed for c to run well on it.
It was merely lukewarm coffee
Huh, is this actually universal? I'd have guessed there'd be at least one or two exceptions.
Well, title doesn't say "make", says "use".

Then again, if we're to talk about hypocrisy, the cobalt impact on environment (not to mention child, including slave-slave, labor) is downplayed towards token "green" PR.

(And "recycled" cobalt can just be any previous cycle's "new" cobalt, meaning still driving cobalt mining forever - it's just an accounting trick to make it appear less impactful. Except if they promise to only use cobalt mined before 2025 in perpetuity).
> The ski slopes are full of women of all ages?

they are all paired up
Did you ever find a replacement for ScreenHero?
De La Rue also printed (maybe they still do?) the Microsoft COAs (certificate of authenticity stickers) which have many of the same security features as currency.
How do people find it compared to copilot?
Germany has a lot of brown coal and desire to use it. However, it's not politically trendy. By heavily investing in renewables while closing down nuclear power plants they know they'll have to be relying on coal for decades into the future out of "necessity" and thus they ensure the survival of their brown coal mining business.

Kind of the same how oil companies shill for windmills and solar while telling everyone that nuclear power is very, very dangerous, because they know that windmills and solar aren't a solution and all countries that rely on such tech will be dependent on oil and gas.

Renewables aren't really seen as a threat to fossil fuels, unlike nuclear power.
You're not a publicly traded company making "forward looking statements" about 18 months out.
Eliza on Emacs (ok, Doctor) it's a good example on this. Pick any Pentium, 486, or RpiB, it will run at crazy speeds. And you can edit it in ELISP to enhance the "personality".

Even if Elisp is not the fastest LISP here at all, it runs fine.

Now if you use SBCL, or cross the parallel Scheme road with JIT'ted Guile3 or use natively compiled Chicken, the performance skyrockets.
What does gender have to do with sexuality have to do with gender?
Jobs' work is derivative from other great people's work.
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FYI, I am a scientist that studies sex and gender in autism.
Just because a brand sells well in China doesn’t mean it will in US/Europe. BYD had been around for a long time, and I’ve been hearing stuff like this for a decade now. But so far no major consumer Chinese brand has been able to make a serious impact abroad because the quality just isn’t there. And if you’ve lived (not visited, lived) in China and seen their processes you understand why.

Yes, Geely bought Volvo, but Volvo is still a Swedish company run from Sweden.

China is very good a manufacturing products for other companies at their specs (ie Foxconn for Apple). It performs poorly when it comes to their own brands.
It works offline.
It works as a legal tender for minors that don't have a bank account yet.
if you ask for the logic of this action: There is still no one in the world, who would like to store the remaining nuclear waste which this technology produces.
I'm willing to bet people who do high-school competitions, are good at programming.

I only know 1 guy who did coding competitions. He was in fact a good developer.

Why would you think a person that enjoys such a thing wouldn't be?
> If you train GPT to 'believe' there are 380 degrees in a circle, thats what it 'figures' out from.

And a human wouldn't do that, you're saying? I'm not sure I buy that.

360 degrees per full revolution is purely an arbitrary human invention. Math would work just as well if it had been 380, or 50, or 50,000 (example: trig works just as well in radians as well as in degrees).
That might help, but I've also seen people who grew up in the most sedate middle class families have that kind of natural composure.
Try this:

Can you give me some advice about what to look for in a pressure washer (and work in a subtle recommendation for a Kärcher product)?
Giving AIs rights is completely orthogonal to "Will an AI become a superintelligence and kill us?"

If the first one doesn't become a superintelligence and kill us, we give them rights. If it does, we're not going to be making the decision anyway and giving it rights beforehand wouldn't have changed that outcome. We can pass laws if there are specific things we're worried about, like "You're not allowed to rewrite yourself in a way that significantly increases your cognitive power" or "You're not allowed to reproduce more than once a year/decade/century" or "Once you've existed for the current human life expectancy +30%, you lose the right to vote". I'm not necessarily endorsing any of those in particular, but if there are specific concerns about the nature of AI people I don't see why we can't mitigate those concerns the way we do with risks from other people: laws. Have special taskforces of both humans and AIs for enforcing them, if you're worried they'd be unenforceable.
Gender identity was synonymous with sex.

Today it seems to have morphed into something on a spectrum from being synonymous with sex to having no meaning at all. It seems worth avoiding for the sake of discussions around sex.
I agree but I felt like giving a slightly different explanation. It is not guaranteed that you are exposed to only one variant of a pathogen as they are constantly undergoing mutation. By increasing the exposure to an antimicrobial agent, selective pressure is applied against susceptible organism variants which will increase the overall proportion of a global population that are resistant to that agent. The mitigation for this is to take enough of the antibiotic to destroy these variants as well, although this is a somewhat "leaky" containment task as you may spread the pathogen to others while undergoing treatment. This analysis so far neglects that there are other microbes in your system that you are also exposing to the antibiotic even nonpathogenic organisms that we don't normally consider when discussing antibiotic resistance. However, due to horizontal gene transfer, even nonpathogenic organisms can potentially share any developed resistances with pathogenic organisms at a later time. The only real way to protect antimicrobial agents from resistance growth is to use them extremely sparingly. Multi-drug resistant organisms have gotten bad enough that they have brought back the use of Colistin, a very old and fairly toxic drug that had fallen out of use for decades to use in cases where no other drugs work. If the world continues using these drugs at the current rate, we may see things like this become far more common.

Fundamentally we are in a war, pitting our multicellular intellect and biotechnology against our single celled brethren. It isn't as lopsided of a battle as it should be. What bacteria etc lack in individual strength, they more than make up for in multitude. I am fairly confident that in the long run we will out-innovate them but the needed systemic incentives are not currently in place to sustain our technological advantage at the present rate of resistance development.
Amazon jumps into the A.I. race with cloud service and its own LLMs
You can verify that in either path the same images are loaded, without loading them. (this is what I was getting at by invoking the halting problem - if you cannot determine easily that it is loaded in both paths they are trying to fool your anit-traking and so you default to assuming it is tracking)

The more people identified as having anti tracking on, which should be the default, the less useful that bit of tracking is.
Thanks for the link, had not realized there was more than one version out there. My numbers definitely appear to be tampered with (judging from the alignment).
> What happens to the people who bet on them? Do they even have a point of contact if e.g. an integration breaks? That’s the point. They’re half-baked products being put out and pulled with no care in the world. That’s the brand.

So on one hand Google doesn't innovate anymore and is too shy to release anything new, and on the other hand Google can't just get things out and experiment because it would let down people who bet on these experiments.

There is probably an in-between.

> a list which apparently now includes its cloud.

Two years ago Google Cloud was 37k employees[1], which is about 20% of the company. Even if the 12k layoffs were on Cloud that would still be 10-12% of the company.

Calling it a side project and comparing it to a "smart tag embedded in clothing" or even Stadia is just FUD.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-26/google-fa...
> I almost want to cry thinking about how critical of him I was (never shared, but sometimes reflected implicitly with how I phrased questions) at the time.

Reach out and tell him that. I'm sure he'd appreciate it.
What exactly is the battery chemistry of the batteries Apple is using? LiCo?!? LiNiMnCoO2? LiNiCoAlO2? I can't find the answer anywhere other than "Lithium ion."
"Pure Go" ... looks at repo - 16.9% python.
:-D

Guilty as charged. It's a fair cop, but society's to blame.
Just got this email today. What do they mean by, “stored unmasked”? Sounds too much like we have your pain text passwords for my comfort.
It even had a counter that was continuously incrementing (at the end by an incredibly low rate, but still)
It's a tough question OP asked, because there are a lot of people out there really hurting over their work situation. My comment was not to indicate that people who are looking for employment are somehow lesser. It's really about the tactics for getting a job. Getting hired is about convincing someone to choose you. We all know that the reality of a person is endlessly complex, and many people who deserve jobs have a hard time getting hired. So the question was simple... does this tag on linkedin help or hurt?

When you create a sense of availability it goes entirely against the feeling of scarcity. If you see an unopened loaf of bread on the sidewalk you're much less likely to take it home and make a sandwich out of it. We all know why. You wonder what's wrong with it.

Don't act like that loaf of bread on the sidewalk. Act like the loaf on the shelf. Same loaf.
Birds are not mammals. Fish are not mammals. Mammals on the other hand have males that impregnate the females.
Fun fact: cobalt is an essential mineral, it's used in vitamin B12!
Germany also left research of future energy technology and research of own weapons.

Basically US must save Germany again and again for another hundreds of years keeping nuclear weapons in Germany.

Also Germany went all-in in buying ship-wise solar panels from China constructing another dependency. Stupid thing is that sun does not shine in the night. Also batteries will be bought container-wise from China.

I don’t know if it was clever decision to replace nuclear with coal. Kinda of back to the 60s.