skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so you define some characteristics and the room in which those characteristics were measured. Now the consumer should emulate these to standardize their listening practice? Lol.

Who is this calibration meant to serve? The audio engineers geeking out on measurements and the box they defined those measurements in? Unfortunately, 100 million people are just gonna listen to it on their airpods.
Works very well on my Android, on a not-very-powerful phone...
I’m including maintenance costs in “productivity”. I’ve worked on large dynamically typed codebases and never experienced what you’re talking about.

I think it’s a question of understanding how to work and think without explicit types rather than something that makes statically typed codebases easier to maintain.
I would find the information useful. It would allow me to adjust how I'm interacting with whatever is on the other end of the line.
Why is there no univeral EV plug?
It really boils down to which stack you are familiar with / which stack integrates better with the rest of your infrastructure / use case.

If you're already ingesting a lot of data to ES and you want to vectorize it, it has a good support for cosine similarity in its indexes.

If you store data in a PG database and you want to make it searchable by similarity, then pgvector is a good choice. It's especially powerful coupled with the ease of use of the supabase platform. You can make a document-based chatbot very very quickly.

In both cases it is more of a datatype and a lot of your logic will still reside in your application layer.

In my case I was already ingesting data into elastic, so I just added a dense_vector property to my index, and a vectorization step in my external code by calling the openAI api and saving the result into dense_vector.

In the future, I'm planning to build an AI powered webapp and my stack of choice will be supabase + pgvector because it's a better option as a public app backend.
You can buy adapters from one manufacturer's battery to another's on Amazon for like 20 bucks. It is 100% manufactured scarcity and lock in.
Oh come on...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln#/media/Datei...

Coal gave us such nice installations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron_in_Bottrop

Pretty shiny, isn't it?
Oh, so now we have terms and conditions on "Privatized censorship is also known as the freedom of association, and a fundamental right both legally in the US, and morally as an inherent human right." Sounded pretty absolute there for a second while it was conveniently the kind of censorship you approve of.
Corded tools have more power and are cheaper.

Cordless is more convenient but way more expensive when you add in batteries,
especially for power intensive tools like grinders.
> The majority of my printing happens from my smartphone, so my printer needs to be on wifi

It needs to be on your home network, but it doesn't need to be connected to wifi per se. Ethernet works fine, including ethernet to a wireless mesh AP.
Agreed. But examples here will be super helpful!
Because it's a very marginal improvement. It's Facebook verifying that Facebook's other server is providing you the right key; I'm not holding my breath for Signal to start doing the same. I'd honestly hope they'd instead focus on usernames, message editing, markdown, or any of the other features it's still missing compared to Wire or Element. (In Signal's defense, it's the most stable of the three so that's why I've got my family using Signal, but I wish for Wire's, or even better, Telegram's feature set on a daily basis.)
Until the prompt jailbreaking issue can be fixed, I don't think any of the non-American players in ML are willing to publicly release ChatGPT-level competitor applications/endpoints, or at least none that is not heavily censored. The potential liability for the provider is just too great.
A good compliment is this interactive walk-through:

https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
I would argue that the smartphone is a smaller change to society than the quickly ubiquitous automobile.

You can argue about precursors to automobiles on that adoption curve, but there were many precursors to the smartphones on the go connectivity such as the first pager system launched all the way back in 1950. And of course the internet had been around for decades by 1993.

We think of the internet as a huge revolution in how people shop for example, but fundamentally it’s the same basic idea as introduced by the ubiquitous sears catalog by telephone or even mail.
I am not sure if they justify Facebook's actions, or if they just don't care.
Eliminating net metering is a strong enough incentive to install batteries that subsidies themselves probably aren’t needed. And it probably wouldn’t make sense to subsidize batteries while continuing net metering, because as long as the battery cost remains > 0, it would still be better in many circumstances to forego it and just use net metering.

If we did subsidize batteries down to 0 it would make more sense for them to be centralized because it’d be a lot simpler to install and get some economies of scale.
Woah! thanks for your reply! Exactly the type of insight I was looking for when I wrote my comment :). Does the very high CPA indicate that the core vpn service by itself is fairly inexpensive to run, meaning that a vast majority of the costs are related to marketing and customer acquisition? Was it a "better" business to run a few years ago when competition was less cutthroat?
Festool can’t even use the same battery across their tools (and even at the same voltage!) so there’s no way they could handle a standardized battery heh
The anti-woke would like to #CancelAllJournalists
If consumers were signaling their demand for meat from ethical farming, then be sure that American capitalism would change plenty of things to improve animal conditions.

Because vegetarianism is mainly a habit of the wealthy in the US, it may even increase the share of industrial farming, as the ethical farmers lose their natural customers with enough spending power to buy their products.
A Map of Places in the US with the Same Name
And then you posted it here
You're all over this comments thread trying to say black is white (let me guess, you're pro UK and pro Brexit?), but I refer you to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35562072

I rephrase, technically I haven't needed to carry my driving license for the last several years of my driving career, but legally, I may be asked to present it at any time. I'd take the advice of the website cited above rather than believe you. I.e. you could be asked to prove that you're a UK/Irish citizen (easiest with ID or passport), and if you're a EU citizen entering the UK (the website even mentions crossing the Irish sea to enter Great Britain), you have to have a passport (although you might not be asked for it).

Before Brexit, the UK was part of the EU, and other EUians was allowed to enter it with just their ID card. So...
Gunpowder is an interesting case to suggest. It was already well known around 0AD that saltpeter emitted a dangerous poisonous smoke, already was clearly an interesting element anyone could go mine & put to use hurting people with. It's already overtly a mineral that, like, doesn't conflagrate, but does pretty weird interesting shit when on fire, and lots of folks figured that out.

It seems like by the time 13th century medeival Christiandom rolled around there were two main sources, Aragon & Montpellier. The limited supply indeed did probably greatly slow down the understanding & use.

And indeed, you can make saltpeter... by collecting & refining excrement. Queen Elizabeth paid 300 pounds of gold to the Germans after going to war with Spain & thereby losing access to Spain's natural extract.

The Chinese developing actual black powder is another interesting case. Known for centuries, it wasn't until 904 we had the first recorded use of it for combat. By the 11th century the Song dynasty started greatly controlling access & trade.

In general I think there's probably a ton of primitive chemistry/discover even much earlier ages could have done with access. The actual material being somewhat not easy to scare up is definitely an issue here.

I think the situations you're talking about don't apply very well to the moderm world. The Enlightenment project of building instruments & understanding natural science have built up, and today it would not be hard to figure out how to reproduce black powder. There is definitely more murkiness still with biology, with figuring out how to concot some chemical compounds, or even in material science with figuring out what conditions a certain combination of elements were brought together in. But these historical challenges rely primarily on a darker time in human history to contain the not-so-secret. Enlightenment observation won, it brought us out of that age, it gave us tools to figure things out with.

Im interested in being challenged more, but holy heck AI still feels enormously forbodingly dark & immaterial. Yes, bring able to observe a thing counts. Trying to persuade me that having zero access is OK or normal in the world doesn't sit with me well at all.
Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Security-by-Design and -Default [pdf]
What makes it obviously not conscious is that it isn't a process. It can't do anything unless you ask it a question. I can certainly imagine a conscious or nearly-conscious AI someday, one that likely uses an LLM to handle language processing in much the same way that a cpu might use a coprocessor to do floating point operations. But just as you wouldn't say a computer is intelligent because it can do math, I think chatpgt has proven that the same can be said of processing natural language.
Had a quick look at the relative numbers.

The original, 2014, directive aimed to eliminate 51,000 tones of e-waste annually [1]. That works out to about 0.11kg per-person annually.

Currently the average EU citizen disposes of 0.74kg of "electrical tools and medical devices" annually.

So you are correct that power tools and medical devices are a much bigger source of waste.

If you are lucky enough to have an MEP represent you, do ask them why they are not addressing this also.

[1] https://interferencetechnology.com/eu-radio-equipment-direct...
[2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202...
Only with PDFs that have been exposed on another website.

Why? Inspect the network traffic when expanding an `nhsta` item, and notice that it requests `api.nhsta.gov/...` for the PDF link.
Anyone who’s ever outsourced to India knows what a horrible mess it can be.

The biggest problem is the timezone differences.. it basically slows down everything by at least a factor of 2x

Then there are issues with the talent. Most of the time resumes are inflated, knowledge is faked, people are swapped without your knowledge, etc.

If you’re only hiring one person they might know how to do the work, but they are often not skilled and end up making extremely poor architecture decisions that will cost exponentially more to manage long term than hiring someone knowledgeable to do it right.

Even hiring the best Tata consultants, you’re still dealing with a mixed bag.. and it’s gonna cost you as much as someone local anyway.

Short sighted businesses people will try and make decisions like this that look good on paper and they will have moved on to a new company before the current company realizes how badly the shortsighted decision making has hurt them.
The last thread was full of people advocating a violent police response to the homeless and this is the comment you choose to take a stand over?
I wrote a few functions for my emacs configuration. It's simply that I wanted the editor to work differently. And I could not do that in literally any other editor.
Well but the other brands are even worse. Have you ever designed or worked with something with a battery? It's a big liability if the thing catches fire or explodes or doesn't charge up to full performance and it's not easy to design for inter-compatibility while still providing good after-customer service and remaining liable. Ryobi at least is standardized on two battery formats with I think 6 capacities among both and virtually all their products just use those except for the tiny ones that charge on a dock.
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VPNs are insanely profitable, they're probably BEING shut down, so that would explain that.
> One proof of this is the various battery formats a given manufacturer can have; some compatible some not.

Or it's proof that they want you to have to buy their new batteries when your old tool dies.
From a different article it says he is a Air National Guard "cyber transport systems journeyman". Why does that role have access to such incredible amount of TS information? The Pentagon's lack of control of their data is asking for more leaks by the lowest level petty leakers
That's John Hammond's business model in Jurassic Park: build a bunch of chimeras that look like what people imagine Dinosaurs to be, clickbait people into visiting his park by calling them actual Dinosaurs.
Yes.

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

Or

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp

No different than installing plugins in VSCode for completions, they all work via calling out to a LSP server using https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

When you don't understand something it's only natural to be unaware of its capabilities, yes.
As Charlie Munger says “show me the incentives, and I will show you the outcome.”

There’s no question why different manufacturers use different batteries.
I’ve never bought a battery. I assume someone somewhere does, but I have enough “free” ones that will last for a long time.
Why waste time learning about some fad IDE that will get replaced by something ‘better’ in five years? Newer text editors don’t do anything better than Vim, and they are strictly worse when it comes to their primary function: editing text.

‘You can install a vi emulator.’ - Waste of time. I already have vim.

My vimrc file still works. New machine? Just install vim and copy my vimrc over.

Emacs is a totally different experience. Emacs is essentially the interface side of an operating system. There is really no replacement for it except a UNIX command-line with a bunch of CLI tools for things like news and email that people have forgotten about.
Yeah, heard this before, most all learn to hate Macs after a little bit of time. A fresh of breath air is when you have a ton of control, MacOS is not really good at that. You have to do things a certain way and in particular purchase the right type of stuff and it's doesn't always work.
The Paradigm Shift to Cloudless Computing
Oh yeah I couldn't make it work with letters. Rather I added tap behavior to modifiers. In QMK my command keys are Esc and Enter when tapped, shifts are parentheses (like the space cadet keyboard), controls (outside of A and ;) are single and double quote, Options are braces, and hypers are angle brackets (which I should probably change to brackets since I don't really write JSX/TSX/HTML much any more)
They don't want to deal with up to three companies being liable if a battery explodes or catches fire. It's not easy to legislate. EV charging is already challenging enough.
I didn't have a passport until I was six or seven, and until then traveled on my mother's passport -- her photo included me, her, and my sister. But back then the photos were bigger.

The article doesn't point out that passports were introduced on a temporary basis during WWI, and most countries that issued them did indeed do away with them at the end of the conflict. However they remain a prominent example of scope creep.
That was how it used to be in lots of places. But it was not allowed to last because the wealthy eligible voters kept selfishly exploiting those that had no voting rights.
I think I would rephrase this question as why would I stop using emacs for VS code and intellij? Seriously, there is no feature they have that my emacs config doesn't (AFAICT after using Intellij and VS code each for 4+ years). But I have the ability to work with emacs without ever touching my mouse. You may consider that only being "slightly" faster, but every time I use VS code, _feel_ slow because I know how fast I would have been in emacs.

Combine this with my tiling window manager and I pretty much only have to use my mouse to interact with web browsers. That's the killer feature that makes VS Code and Intellij _feel_ inferior to me.

Now I wouldn't go so far as to say that VSCode and Intellij are _actually_ inferior to Emacs. I think both are great in their own right, but after years of familiarity I have a fluency with Emacs (because of the keyboard oriented interface) that I could never have with them.

To be fair, for someone without emacs fluency I would probably steer them towards VSCode and Intellij as they are definitely more approachable. In fact, I have done exactly that for several of my friends and colleagues.
My understanding is that OpenAI did indeed find diminished capability across a range of tasks after doing RLHF. You're correct to question this though - as I believe the opposite was true of GPT-3 where it improved certain tasks.

The benefits from a business perspective were still clear however, and of course the instruction-tuned GPT-4 model still outperformed GPT-3, in general.

There are probably some weird edge cases and nuances that I'm missing - and I'd be happy to be corrected.
Since Notion excels in collaborative workspaces, could you elaborate on how Fabric sets itself apart when it comes to real-time interactivity, hierarchical content organisation, and overall user experience?
From TFA:

> As many readers might be aware, you can find 3rd party battery adapters on Amazon, eBay, and other such marketplaces.
I’m talking various lines they are currently selling, not old nicads
> they're not even aware that it was an option

Actually in this case I was - but my goal was to use "vanilla" emacs just like I use "vanilla" vi(m). After all, if I'm using vi key bindings... why not just use vi?
> Shared / Open source is super helpful when you're trying to figure out how to do something unusual that's not on the paved path covered by the docs and examples.

Not just the unusual, but the usual too: Just this past month or so, a user on Fly.io forums helped debug just why reading from stdin / writing to stdout didn't work for non-root users (https://community.fly.io/t/10375/8). It all started from the fact that Fly.io had open sourced a snapshot-in-time of their init process back in 2021.

Also, it isn't uncommon in the Android world for developers to routinely find the right APIs to use by reading the OS source code.
Nonsense. Emacs and vi have similar use cases, right? And similar inputs (keyboard) and similar environments, for similar users.

They might be a difference of degree along a few axes, but they aren't a difference of kind like trumpets and mountain bikes are.
> What surprises me is that even within a single brand there are multiple standards.

It's kind of annoying, but less so if there's at least some logic to it. I can get pretty much everything I need as a shit-tier home handyman from Ryobi's 18V range, but if I were a more committed gardener or DIY I could imagine I'd want their 36V range as well. And then be irritated that the higher-power range only covers some tools.

All that said it does seem like, I dunno, a relatively pointless complaint. Are there people who are that keen to mix and match their Bosch and Ryobi? It's all much of a muchness.
I'd generally consider that different because whatever people scrape could be randomly reassembled but its not forming a canonical proof. A social platform that digitally signed content to have irrefutable proof of what you scraped would be closer and that would probably be adding the anti pattern they criticize for little reason.
Such a pessimist: YOU might have won the renewal lottery!
This is the core of what we do! Previously our job was distilling human knowledge into a model; now that knowledge is starting to come from bigger models with humans managing the objectives vs doing the labor.

> also are you worried about business model if people can distil to run on their own devices (so they dont need to pay you anymore)?

This is probably a risk to the current business model over the long term, but we're constantly working on reinventing ourselves & finding new ways to provide value. If we don't adapt to the changing world we deserve to go out of business someday. I'd much rather help build the thing that makes us obsolete than sit idly by while someone else builds it.

I think of this risk similarly to the way that I'm marginally worried that, in the long run, AGI will obviate the need for my job. Probably true, but the opportunities it will present are far greater & it's better to focus on how to be valuable in the future than cling to how I provide value today.
Only if you first send them only copy of your thesis.
Jumping on the blockchain bandwagon didn't cost new entrants that much, but this AI fever is going to seriously hurt some of these companies financially.
I remember MS reps coming to our offices in the 90s and "Teaching" us how to program and how it is cool to have one person writing GUI and the other "guru" writing high performance C++ to be used in critical parts.

I showed them a piece of software that was mighty fast, Internet enabled and GUI intensive. They liked the software but asked where did you get this particular screen control from. You've got to see their faces when told that the whole software was written by a single person in Delphi.
> I agree, but we can't only have this discussion when someone wealthy is implicated in a crime.

We don't.

If you're serious about this, you're also responsible for not pushing for doxing of random suspects. You can't argue that there are good witch hunts and bad witch hunts.
> A distributed blockchain would actually prevent the malicious server issue. It would theoretically be better.

No it would not: the third-party audit record is there to prevent the malicious server issue, while being infinitely more practical than blockchain.

Blockchain enables crypto-currencies. For the rest, we have more practical solutions already.
This isn't a secret in construction, you buy one brand of cordless tools and stick with it. DeWalt sells tools so cheap you wonder if they're a loss leader. A single battery (one of the big 60V, 12Ah ones you use for circular saws and angle grinders) is $285 on Amazon. The biggest cordless circular is $178, the biggest grinder is $163.

You'll want at least two of those batteries per day if you're doing any serious work.

The real pain is when they they change the battery's interface, which will happen every so often. They stop selling the older stuff and eventually you'll have to upgrade and buy the whole product line all over again.
"figure out what this big piece of mangled code does"

This is my use case for GPT-4. It usually does it better than most humans, including those who wrote the code and those who have maintained the codebase for years.
People need to stop representing Steve Jobs like some kind of visionary. He was an asshole who stole Wozniaks talents and money. Pretty sure once he saw the money coming in from ads, he'd be the first one to do it (in fact iCloud came around when he was around so likely he signed off on it). With our without Steve Apple is already doing this, many things Apple did that are shitty are being copied in the industry, including this ad; a direct borrow of the "buy iCloud ad" "buy AppleTV" "buy Apple Fitness" (etc) we've all seen.