skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always a tradeoff. For every kilogram of propellant you save on the trip, you get one extra kilogram for the payload.

Also, you may end up bumping into payload limits of the launcher itself, so you can get there, but you'll need to take the scenic route with fewer delta-v tolls.
Yeah but I'm talking about scenarios where all people needed to do to avoid being locked in a little box for life was either A. Not do the obviously stupid thing that everyone is telling them is stupid and that they should absolutely not do. and B. Shut the fuck up.[0]

There are supposedly brilliant people serving life sentences right now and the only reason they're facing that situation is because they couldn't shut the fuck up when they sat down in a little room with an at best slightly above average intelligence police officer.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWHrkDX35o
Lets hope they spend it on being social! Going to social events, clubs, get togethers, etc.

Thing is though, when I think of when I was 17, I spent almost every penny of every paycheck at my job on video games and movies, and all my friends were the same way.
Got ya, I bought it. I have wrenched before on cars and bikes but it's a fair value to increase my knowledge.
Not everbody writes "apps". Some write real software that has heavy I/O requirements, e.g. databases.
Exactly. When will vendors stop touting WiFi access as a "feature"?
Show HN: EasyBash for Ubuntu 0.3.1
Easybash is a tool for fully automatic installation of LAMP or LEMP stacks on Ubuntu servers.
We are the high IQ society. Animal populations are pretty dumb and relatively speaking non-functional.
I suppose the allowance is only given in presence, so they have to leave house to get it. Very creative!
You can search in Blind - it’s fairly behind and the gap would probably be bigger over time.
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As anyone that has ever been audited can attest, not really.
Every disruptive technology creates and destroys jobs. This is business as usual since the start of the Industrial Revolution and beyond. No need to panic, like the Luddites, yet.

Real AGI is the time to panic, because that forms an event horizon we can't see beyond. There may well be no place at all for humans in a post AGI world.

But LLMs are still a long way from AGI. I don't expect to see AGI in my lifetime, despite the blistering pace of advancement.
I understand that historically. However, I would argue that those restrictions were actually by sex as changing gender was not really an option back then. Even if one tried, I assume most cultures would still enforce those ideas based on sex.

We have very few restrictions on gender today, and the ones we do have still tend to exclude transgender individuals (combat roles, some levels of some sports, some bathrooms). So I'm having trouble understanding in general what a tangible benefit would be. For example, what changes for a man that dresses to look like a woman if they say they are a man vs they say they are a woman (or some other identity)? Are all the physical attributes and actions the same? If someone wants to be a specific gender that's fine, but does that actually change anything they could or couldn't do as their prior gender in today's world?
> An introverted woman will still get approached by men,

I'm an introverted man and all 4 women that have hit on me in my lifetime have been those I didn't feel similarly about. I imagine the ratio for women is similar. Just because she can jump back into the sea, doesn't mean she can summon new types of fish.
`askgpt`: a chat interface that helps you to learn R
916 Days of Emacs
Seems like every whistleblower can just be called a false flag op, then. Doesn’t seem like a very substantive criticism, so unless you can show these ties you are talking about.
Also, will Apple even continue to use "100% recycle cobalt" if their production grows in some market segment (say the "Apple car" eventually arrives) and their cobalt needs increase beyond that? Not a chance.
Microsoft experimenting with a gaming handheld mode for Steam Deck-like devices
I know that "never used these!" is a common trope with these sunsets, but Google also shuts down products that have big impacts to users. The shutdown of Universal Analytics and, to a less extent, Optimize, is having a pretty big impact to most website.
Actually, quite a bit of capacity was made up by not exporting so much capacity to France and other nations.

Yes, before the nuclear transition, Germany exported quite a lot of energy to France, the supposed smart nuclear country.
This is disturbing and, to me, sad.

Of course nobody will be talking to their "loved ones", just a very smart replica of their past behaviors and manners.

But, beyond that, how sad it is that we seek to brush aside a very important aspect of life: the capacity to let go
According to GPT-4, and I think this is a good summary: A "Foundational Model" in AI programming refers to large-scale machine learning models that serve as a basis for a wide range of applications and tasks. These models are pre-trained on massive amounts of data and can be fine-tuned or adapted for specific tasks, domains, or applications.

One of the most well-known examples of a foundational model is the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series developed by OpenAI. GPT models, like GPT-3 or GPT-4, are trained on large datasets containing diverse text from the internet, which enables them to generate human-like text, answer questions, translate languages, and perform various other tasks.

Foundational models are significant in the AI field because they allow researchers and developers to create a wide range of applications and solutions without having to train a new model from scratch for each specific task. This approach saves time, resources, and computational power while still providing a high level of performance across different tasks.
I didn't doubt the conclusion, just the estimate was extremely low, I'd just not call it 'plausible'.
I honestly think that a lot of these side projects should be released under a different brand name. Kind of like how GM has different brands for their luxury cars, or Disney had Touchstone Pictures for their less-child-friendly movies. If a project is one employee's 20% time or one manager's promotion project, it should be released under a different brand name. It can always be rebranded if it becomes an actual business priority.
>User replaceable batteries lower the quality and aesthetics of the phone

That is an often repeated lie. Companies like Framework have proved it a lie and appear to be making good money by doing it.
> In 2021 the remaining (!) 6 power plants produced more electricity than all installed solar capacity.

How does that matter? Solar is not the only source of renewable energy for Germany. 2021, Germany got 42% of its energy from renewable sources, 2022 it already grew to 46%, and 2023 it grows even more. And those numbers are only so "low" because of political reasons and stupid people.

For over a decade the conservative and corrupted sabotaged the progress of renewable energies in Germany. This changed, partly because the government shifted, but to a strong part also because of Russia becoming a problem that not even the corrupted could ignore anymore. The progress since last summer in Germany is incredible, and it won't stop.
I think for non-work-qualifying degrees, it's marginal. Obviously a doctor who is on the wards during his training needs that training. Or a lawyer who needs to pass exams to even call himself that.

I did an engineering degree. What am I competent at, that I actually learned at university? I don't think there's really anything. The whole thing was just a bunch of different introductions to various topics. Could I work in cryptography? Well, I did a course on RSA and that kind of thing, but I'm fairly sure I couldn't just do a job like that. Could I build electronics? Most of my higher level courses were EE courses, and I built a working radio in the first year, but I couldn't just walk into an EE job either. What about civil? I learned a few things about structures but it's not like I could just design a building.

They're all just things that show that you're capable of learning stuff in some area, and you have some degree of interest. But none of them confers competence.

This is what I call the miracle of graduation. People think that somehow you learned the things you need for a job in college. But logically it's impossible. When you're on your first job, you're learning that job 40-80 hours a week, and you're interacting with professionals in the field, learning valuable meta-competencies. At uni you split your 40 hours among dozens of topics and you're taking an academic view, not a professional one. Many of your hours are also spent learning how to pass exams, rather than anything useful.
Half the time there’s a light on my car, it’s a damn sensor! More components mean more points of failure.
I'm not sure what you mean, but the techniques they are using are not new and are not related to artificial intelligence. They use a 120 year old numerical technique to "super-sample" their expensive simulations, which allows them to "fit" the simulations to data in a robust way. They do the calculations in a computer because there are too many numbers to do it on paper. That does not mean it has anything to do with AI.
Looking over the comments associated with your account, I'd say you're just a troll.
You are right, but the more prominent members in this community believe there is no issue, at least as far as I have seen. Of course I do not read everything (I still have a job), but I do read quite a lot. I see more the seniors/established saying no worries and the juniors worry. But I also notice that the people who don’t worry are in a reality distortion field where they never work or did work with bad programmers for instance. They were smart, went to a good schools, have friends with 130+ iqs and think ai is far removed. If that is true or not (the ai being far from 130 human iq) is not relevant; it is better or at least good enough and definitely faster at many many things compared to most humans, but many people here never meet these ‘most humans’ because they have none around them.
> This is not the "AI" part though

Are you sure? From the same article on CNA:

> This is the first time we have used machine learning to fill in the gaps where we don't have data

After PCA, they used some gradient descent for the next steps.

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Sorry, edit: there are more components of AI which I understood (in the not fully analytical reading of the two divulgative articles and a brief skim of the research article): right above «machine learning» is said to be used to «fill in the gaps», and elsewhere it seems that a data interpreter is built to go from the obeservational data from the telescope to the results, qualitative and quantitative (e.g. shape and mass of the object - as you read in the other post).
Open to hearing arguments for this, just “innovation is necessarily good” is not a good one.
> For one equipping GPT with upgrades for various tasks helps tremendously, IE, Wolfram Alpha for math, wikipedia to refresh its memory on facts etc..

Which is interesting in terms of what we can do practically for now, but I don't think it says anything about GPT's capability as an AI agent. All it says is that humans are good at hooking together individual specialist agents to pass off tasks to each other (which only works as long as those individual specialist agents continue to work the same way—not a guarantee when they're all owned by different organizations!).
The affordability for sure helps a small cohort but there are a lot of other reasons not to leave the house that have yet to be addressed. Some of these can’t be addressed by government as there are fundamentally decentralized yet aligned issues relating to culture among other things (for example, SK really shuns baldness [1] so they don’t go outside).

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLhNYl3HVTU
Video game and movie illustrators are completely fucked which is sad. Very interested to see how this plays out in the comic/graphic novel space. I could theoretically see the big hitters getting behind human artists for the marketing points, but if some new or smaller comic book studio starts churning out AI content and it takes off they might be forced to follow suit. I think a lot of this might depend on how comic book stores themselves operate e.g if they also get behind the artists and refuse to stock AI generated works. But I don't know how many people are buying comic books from stores vs online, as a relatively outside observer it seems to be one of the only types of retail businesses that seem to have stood up pretty well against the online onslaught, probably because of how much they operate as a community hub.

Other prediction: Theoretically anyone with a semi-interesting TTRPG campaign could just feed in their weekly adventure into the program and have a comic book generated from the results. We could end up with a Soundcloud style situation but instead of songs there's 100,000 new comic books being generated a day. From there, it's not a stretch to say the same is going to happen to movies, because once you've got the comics (which are essentially storyboards) and the technology gets perfected for video, it's probably not a lot of effort to feed the comics into the AI and have it generate the movie.

Will be interesting to see how the quality vs quantity dynamic plays out. Either we'll start consuming more content from local creatives and indie studios or there will be so much dross to sift through we'll happily pay globo corps more money for the highest quality stuff. It'll probably be somewhere in the middle. At the minute, I'm about 8 episodes into Critical Role's 2nd Campaign and questioning why I even still have Netflix when I can access entertainment like this for free on Youtube.
"The clock is ticking, and figuring myself out and finding a partner won’t get easier as I get older."

Why is the clock ticking? If you want offspring then there's a limited timeframe, but for all other things i doubt there's a distinct timeframe. I've read about 70 year olds dating and enjoying live.
Not to be pedantic but the iPhone 8 came out in late 2017. Still a good lifespan!
Hah, sorry? If you don't use, you shouldn't be impacted by the decisions Arch does :) Unless I'm missing that you were joking.
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It is quite difficult to write idiomatic C++ without memory allocation, for one, which is often a requirement for embedded code or any high-availability code that is not allowed to have memory fragmentation.

Sure, it's possible (you can write C in C++, for the most part, and to its credit, C++ has placement new). But many of C++'s niceties require memory allocation, making much of its value-add over C questionable.
> I don‘t think I have ever heard anyone say they would rather live close to a coal plant.

Same. Yet there are always demonstrations against nuclear waste sites. Or windmils .. or geothermic.

Current estimate for a decision on where to put a German nuclear waste site is the year.. 2046. Or 2068. Does not include building it. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/suche-nach-ato...
This is a question I have. Why do so many websites have CDNs now? Like it seems that everyone feels like they need to throw their website behind Cloudflare even if they are serving content to a relatively confined region.

When did everyone decide they needed Cloudflare for everything? Or is this like how you need to use React and SSR even when you have a relatively simple static site, i.e. cargo cutting?
Using SQLite for Rate Limiting
Giving money is nice, but I wonder how much of the problem is due to the incredible pressure put on young people by the traditional Korean society. Dating seems to be closed off to a large number of Koreans who don't see a path toward marriage and economic prosperity.

Interestingly, a lot of Korean woman seem to think the best place to start a family is ... right here in America! The gender ratio of immigrants to America from South Korea isn't 50-50 as one would expect but closer to 60% women. For Japan, another state struggling with fertility and youth isolation, this ratio is about 75%.
MagSafe wastes energy due to its inefficiency. It’s hard to believe Apple’s eco-friendly aspirations when they introduce such features.
People complaining about university bureaucracies is as old as the whole notion of universities. Neal Stephenson's first novel, the Big-U, is essentially about that. Not his finest work but entertaining. It's set at a fictional college near Boston. But it seems interchangeable with just about any university. Money, power, corruption, bureaucracy, etc. are all themes in that novel.

The thing is, universities are places that combine a large number of people that go there, large budgets, and wide varieties of weird things that need funding, attention, etc. with lots of groups of people favoring one thing over the other and quite a bit of alumni, politicians, and other people in power obsessing over how it is all administered. So, a certain level of bureaucracy and politics are pretty much a given. As are disagreements over how this is administered. And any such organization that exists for a while inevitably develops some Kafka-esque bureaucracies. It would be anomalous if that wasn't the case. Literally almost every university on this planet has this issue. Some might regard this as a feature and not a bug. Learning to thrive in such a place helps prepare people for the real world a bit.

Obviously some universities do better than others. But overall, it seems Stanford is still doing fine in producing some world class research, maintaining good academic standards, and generally attracting new generations of students that are willing to pay up the stupendously large tuition fees. I don't see what the big deal here is other than some immature people being immature, which if you think about it is the whole point of a university.
I'm sure companies wouldn't mind if a singular person was doing singular things with the API, but when someone uses this API to behave like more than 1 person is where companies get annoyed.

To use an annoying analogy or two, take a penny leave a penny but someone shoves their hand in there and takes all of it.

It costs money to service requests and twitter et all make that money back through advertising and subscriptions. If someone uses an unauthorized API, it could use more than they've budgeted for.
GPG key management should have been built into vCard and CardDAV! It's such a missed opportunity!
There's always more bugs that can grow a resistance. Just because the situation is bad doesn't mean we ought to aim for making it worse.
If you really want to get into details, it's Marxist-Leninism. Much of the Soviet-style political system came from Leninist theories of achieving Marxist goals. Lenin said it himself, it's state capitalism. (Stalin then called his implementation first stage of socialism.)
Yep, you are a typical example. Your world (and mine) is safe, but let’s meet up and step into a fortune 1000 non FAANG office, hit someone up for a chat and let’s see if you don’t believe this person can be replaced now by gpt4. Try it.

I cannot see how, even after these stories, you cannot see how this is a problem and how this is not vastly different (horse drivers went to car drivers, farmers became factory workers etc; there is no such switch now) than the previous examples. We are limited by the amount of very clever people as the rest can be replaced (we need some robots but that’s coming).

When we reach AGI, then even the 130+ iq peeps like you and me can start the worrying. But that doesn’t mean there is a present danger.
The point is that Al Jazeera exhibits a lot of bias on international issues that are relevant to the Qataris, not just local news. This includes US foreign policy, environmental things, and global economic policy. They are basically RT (think about how RT covered george floyd), but generally allied with the west.
I'm all for them keeping the pricing as-is and competing on quality.
this is truly absurd. I bet there are quite a few small businesses/self employed people getting popups all the time. I really can't believe how you can damage your product this much, it's like if they have no respect for windows.

I can't that IT has to disable those ads via group policy.
Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
If you want to achieve a very high battery recycling rate:

* Mandate that batteries be replaceable

* Mandate that repair shops recycle used batteries rather than throw them away

Mandates on consumers don't mean much because they're hard to enforce, but mandates on businesses are much easier. The consumer will come into the shop to get a new battery installed and drop off the old battery for recycling in the process.

Maybe throw in a trade-in rebate for the repair shops or something to seal the deal.
That looks awesome, when is the next batch coming? What are the conditions for the funding? My OSS project is a Dropbox like UI for S3, SFTP, FTP, NFS, SMB and pretty much every other file transfer protocol: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash Would that fit in your scope?
I sang in a choir. Lots of women and not that many men. Several of the men ended up with a long-term relationship there.
Free for Individual use - curious on the pricing for enterprise use. It feels like next Alexa to me in terms of burning money
Oh that part is very real indeed.
I’m not sure it’s surprising or undesirable for heavily regulated banks that rely on government support in both good and bad times are avoiding a highly speculative and unregulated asset class that has a history of ponzu schemes and other frauds.
Taco Bell chubacabra tacos.
You're looking at a wrong word. The word man/woman option is „lytis“. Both „gender“ and „sex“ was usually translated as „lytis“. „Translytis“ is just a term made of two words and describing a person who is such. English translation would be literally „transgender“. And it's used for people who, well, transition.

There's an attempt to call „gender“ „socialinė lytis“ (= social sex). But doesn't make it sound like it's anything beyond socially constructed cultural phenomena.
Yes, but this is a new release including a bunch more languages, and thus I assume better functionality.
I made another comment about this elsewhere, but this fact is interesting in the context where Jonathan Haidt’s perspective on the changes on college campuses. His idea is that it’s an outgrowth of an overly concerned culture of safety that trains kids to think of themselves as fragile. An extension of this is that they expect relatively small differences to be mediated by third parties rather than learning to resolve it themselves.

It should go without saying that this is a superficial connection on my part without knowing all the details of the encounter.
I'll just leave this here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/769 ;p

And maybe this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477113.3487274
Fiery explosion at Texas dairy farm kills 18,000 cows
"I don't understand how the things GPT-4 does could be possible without genuine understanding an a model of the world, so it must have those things (despite there being no evidence from its building blocks or the structure with which it is built that it could be capable of those things)."
Maybe trades will get popular again as this is less easy to swap with an ai alternative.
Based on their marketing and pricing it seems their base pitch is "get a $100+k 'worth' of electric SUV for $80k". So they're competitors in the sense that they're targeting people who just about have Teslas Model X or BMW iX money, but would still like a bargain.
Here is someone not affiliated with Amazon doing a live demo of CodeWhisperer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0jCIPaIaiA
This.

Meta probably doesn't make any money from WhatsApp anyway it doesn't really hurt them to open source the WhatsApp mobile apps.