skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe it is because I spent a lot of time with AI generated imagery but I would figure notice that this is an AI image right away - even ignoring the hands (the days of us being able to do this by eye is numbered though). Surprised that the jurors in a prestigious photography contest did not figure it out or even suspected.
> See as well Baez’s old issue of “This Week’s Finds”

Well seen! TFA is certainly inspired by that very old Baez post, where he explained to Oz the many viewpoints of Fourier analysis. I was dismayed to see that all such viewpoints were algebraic in nature, requiring special structure in the base space, thus neglecting the fundamental case of a general manifold without symmetries. Now it seems that there are still missing generalizations!
In addition to removing the light-truck loophole, vehicle registration should incur much higher fees for high weight vehicles. Perhaps a sliding scale. This would allow states to recoup some money lost to gas taxes by EVs.
This is a crowded space, no?

Here is one idea - if you can list the advertisers for podcasts/episodes, that might interest new podcasters/other advertisers. Kind of a search engine to search podcasts by advertisers (or vice versa)
Went to Dubai, I don't do drugs, but prices seemed not horrible.

Then I checked if I would spend my local money for some candy, but I noped right out. On principle I weren't going to pay those prices.
This is just false. Even forgetting about all of the overhead of making sandwiches, it's more than just a dollar's worth of ingredients. The skimpiest sandwich will probably have more than 2 ounces of meat, more like 3 or 4 ounces. The cheapest turkey from the supermarket is about $0.50 per ounce. So that's more than a dollar right there.
> The argument for SkyNet happening is missing an important element: why would it happen? Because sci-fi says it will?

That element isn't missing. It's explained every time someone asks, and the answer never relies on sci-fi as evidence. The reason is because of (A) orthogonality and (B) instrumental convergence. If you aren't familiar with those terms, (A) refers to the thesis that an AI's degree of logical reasoning ability is independent of its goals. This stems from Hume's Law [1]. (B) refers to the observation that regardless of an agent's terminal goal, many instrumental goals will be predictably shared: the agent will be incentivized to increase its own capabilities, as a means toward nearly any possible end. This includes steps that would prevent humans from interfering with the AI's goals, such as a human attempting to turn it off or reprogram it.

If you have questions about either of those, there are great learning materials available, including a well-made youtube series by Robert Miles. [2]

> Because LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns and there isn't enough compute globally to do produce a hypothetical AGI.

What makes you think LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns? So far, the benchmarks are continuing to show accelerating returns, to the point that it's becoming difficult for benchmarks to keep up.[3]

[1]: Hume's Law, AKA the Is-Ought problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo

[3]: "Foundation models and the next era of AI", Microsoft Research, https://youtu.be/HQI6O5DlyFc?t=958
Healthline says "In other cases, nutmeg overdose has been linked to death when used in combination with other drugs."

I take it to mean you may be more susceptible to death by nutmeg overdose if you are suffering an Irukandji sting - that their venom contains something akin to one of those "other drugs."
I have an economic question. Several people in the hedge and equity industries have asked that hedge funds in general pay a 5% tax. If that were to happen how would that change the outcome as in such a situation one has to factor in making enough on investments to cover the 5% tax?

Or in general what can be done to economically align hedge funds with making some basic 5% or more return?
Which only proves the point robocat was making
In the context of innovation, the original Xbox truly was a trailblazer. Standard PC processors, onboard storage and high-speed networking in every unit, online service subscriptions, downloadable updates and content, game achievements, huge and ugly: the following three console generations have closely followed the path cut by Xbox 20+ years ago.
Cars having high and large hoods has nothing to do with technology.
Yeah, this surprises me a bit. If a company tells me "Pay $X to X company and $Y to Y company to get your cargo delivered", I'm going to do X and Y unless they actually look illegal.

Submitting invoices to two different companies wouldn't ring any obvious bells. If you have a company that calls making bids/examining cargo/whatever a "consulting fee", I'll roll my eyes, file the paperwork and pay the invoice.

I'm assuming the DOJ has emails or somesuch that actually acknowledge the scheme. However, that's probably going to be held for court.
Sure, but people like being in the tall car. Kind of an arms race situation for 25 years. More and more people have tall cars, so “I don’t wanna be the loser in the short car who can’t see over all these a*holes!” says every SUV buyer.
If it’s a reasonable option, most people end up choosing a large vehicle.

(Note than large vehicles are not a reasonable option in cities with poor auto infrastructure.)

It’s a classic tragedy of the commons situation, would you rather buy a car safer for you and your family or buy a small car hoping the world changes overnight?

If you disagree, the car companies must also be very wrong about what the customers want, because they keep making bigger and bigger cars and people keep buying them.
I've never liked having an API team / Front End Team distinction. I don't think it makes good software in most cases, it creates that combative element between the teams due to different priorities that you saw. A team with a product, needs to have the freedom and ability to work at any level of the stack to get that product out, sure that rarely happens 100% and there is coordination between teams, but Vertical slice teams do it better than Horizontal slice teams in my experience.
Heavier, yes, but having the form factor of a very tall front end is not a requirement for EV design.
Do cheap tickets actually impact airport revenue? My understanding is that airlines pay a set price per takeoff and landing. So airports should generate constant revenue regardless of fluctuation in ticket prices.
> They will sanction any sort of quackery...

pubmed doesn't 'sanction' anything. it just a database of published articles.
This is one of the reason I dislike separating API and frontend into different teams.

Find people who can do both, or create cross-functional teams that can ship things somewhat independently
Wider and/or longer make a vehicle more difficult to park and to turn in tight urban areas.
That's assuming EVs will become popular which is pretty ridiculous for most of the world. Most people want to stick with their smaller ICE cars, and that's really what we're going to continue to live with.
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any airport that actually cares will adapt a policy like PDX's street pricing, and then actually furnish the airport with places that exist out in the real world--not just these weird airport-only chains (who tf is wolfgang puck) or one-offs (e.g. "TrendyNeighbourhood Burger," "TouristDistrict Tavern")

I guess a really nice, mall-like airport with amenities you don't want to use (because they're too expensive) is still slightly better than a smaller airport whose amenities you don't use (because they don't exist). At least you have an option, though it doesn't stop it from being annoying.

Sidenote, maybe LAX needs $15 sandos if it means they can afford to unshit their airport.
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Sorry non technical person here; has this been benchmarked against ChatGPT? Do you have any idea how it performs alongside GPT3 or GPT4?
I think you mean that the committee comprises humans.
That stress doesn't come from empathy, it comes from treating death as something to be feared and not talked about.

In other cultures death is not such an icky subject, and making bonds doesn't mean generating attachment that will lead to stress.
Not sure I'd say 'dominating', they have a 60-40 split IIRC.
I did the same (upgrade from Catalina) and had no problems. I only bought an Apple Silicon MacBook because the mid-2012's hinge got too loose to keep the display upright. Yes, the new computer is significantly faster, but I could have lived with the older one. So, three cheers for OCLP!

PS - the mid-2012 is now a backup, so is still useful.
Melbourne airport makes more money from car parking than anything.
Side question, but how do these models are benchmarked, and how is this subfield evolving these days?
I have seen many papers relying on standard student tests performance, but they don’t seem very accurate since LLAMA-based models perform almost as good as chatGPT (3/3.5) despite being apparently being an order of magnitude worse in practice.
I assume they aren't counting crossovers as SUVs here? Because crossover front ends more closely resemble the front ends of cars than they do those of trucks.
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> That reason largely disappears for electric vehicles.

An electric truck will still use more electrical energy to accelerate than an electric car. The cost to drive a mile in an electric vehicle is lower than a gas vehicle (maybe like one third?), but it's still a cost. Also, there's the larger initial capital cost of a larger vehicle.

> We will all have to learn to live with more massive vehicles.

Or we can start legislating against them and stop de kindermoord.
Perhaps a CDL or similar license requirent for large SUVs/Pickups? Add some friction, cost, and minimum driving competency.
LessWrong did a post<1> on AutoGPT the other day, seems like a lot of their statements also apply to BabyAGI.

<1> https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/566kBoPi76t8KAkoD/on-autogpt
Device A -> git push to remote repo

Device B -> git pull from remote repo

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was dropping my kids off at school and a 1st grader was riding her bike through the crosswalk and another driver didn’t see her. He bumped her at less-than walking speed so no one was seriously injured. I was amazed at how she bounced up and away from the car. If I would have hit her with my (old) truck, even at that super low speed, I’m sure she would have gotten caught on the bumper and pulled under the wheels. The new pedestrian safety designs are cool even though they do make all cars look the same and bulbous now.
It can make a difference in your braking distance and agility. Not specifically for pedestrians/cyclists, but that greater kinetic energy is a safety concern in higher speed collisions with other vehicles.
SUVs are more dangerous to their drivers too, on average.

https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2002/suvs-really-safer-c...
It's $29 in Manhattan https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq_FJyDMYoU/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%...
Electric vehicles are often heavier than comparable ICE vehicles, but not necessarily larger or even large. Chevy Bolt, VW ID.4, Smart Fortwo EQ etc are all perfectly small electric vehicles.
Everyone who works in the united states must fill out form I-9 to prove your eligibility for employment.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9

Report card/school records is an option for children who don't have an ID. So ID doesn't appear to be strictly needed until one turns 18.

Working papers are permission to work as a minor - https://dol.ny.gov/working-papers this site says you get them from your school now. Back in the day when I got mine you had to go to the DMV.
Hero Kids is mentioned in this sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568686

It's available in English, Polish, German and Spanish.

I bought the English version yesterday, but I haven't started reading yet.
Not all the time, but often I would say it is.
> Do EVs really have to be so tall though? If they need capacity can't they be made wider or longer?

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide

Oh, I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Ride like the wind
Straining the limits
Of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LXKZq0fYDw

Based on "A nice morning drive" by Richard S. Foster (https://www.scribd.com/doc/33762958/A-Nice-Morning-Drive#)
I think the real tell for Apple’s future will be who Tim Cook chooses to replace him. Financially, Apple is incredibly strong. You could argue that operations was Apple’s weakest point when Jobs left, and that Cook was the right choice to cement profitability and the ops side of the business as CEO. Now it’s time for some new product lines to cannibalize existing products and bring the company forward. If Tim picks another business / operations guy to run the company instead of a product person, I do think the product first culture and DNA Jobs left will die out over time.
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yeah ive been riding bicycles 30 years. what we want is separate bike roads, bike crosses, bike parking, like the Netherlands, we do not want some giant police movement to regulate truck sizes.

this is like the definition of why liberals cannot win elections. the first instinct is never to solve problems, it is to find some 'wrongdoer' and punish them.
So I just bought a 256gb nvme drive for a build, but I've been waiting for large capacity ssds for years...

It seems the ssd market isn't interested in making large drives unless they are dram-less (anything cheap) or have very limited write cycles (eg samsung qvo).
This is the only intelligent comment I've seen in the discussion (which was destined to be a silly pile-on anyway). The only thing worse than people being allowed to choose big dangerous cars is a state regime where bureaucrats get to decide which car you can drive based on your needs.

Incidentally, there's going to be a massive jump in people driving bigger commercial vehicles anyway as gas vehicles get phased out for consumer use. A lot of big SUVs are the result of the regulatory regime already. Stupid regulations almost always make things worse.
Thank you for sharing this! The intros look like a good follow up to the videos in fireship.io’s “X in 100 seconds series”.
This kind of measures usually have a really negative effect.

Every car designed afterwards will try to be as close to the allowed limit as possible, eventually successfully lobbying for the limit to be increased.

Public policy is not a common sense topic, no matter how easy it seems to have an opinion.
How is a system that enables cheap airline tickets for everyone by selling expensive sandwiches to people who can afford it evil?
> ($1 = 214.6700 Argentine pesos)

It is more .. complicated.

The official pried is US$1 = AR$214 (probably) (today), but you can not buy anywhere US$1 with AR$214.

You can buy up to US$200 monthly in the bank, but it has a "solidarity" tax, so the price is closer to AR$375, but it has some rebate one year later in the anual taxes (they return the same number, not the same buying power), so the fair estimated value is closer to AR$350.

You can also buy additional US$ in the 50[1] shades of grey markets that have different restrictions, amounts and legality, and the price there is closer to AR$400.

So the price in the mind of the people is probably AR$390, not AR$214.

The only way to exchange US$1 for AR$214, if you export something and so you must exchange the US$ income to AR$. Anyway, the bank gets a %10 commission, and depending on the product the government gets an additional tax (like 35% for soy), so it's difficult to get the $214 anyway. And some activities like truism got a special temporal exchange, so tourist can sell US$ for something like $300 to try to reduce the street market. So there are like another 50[2] prices.

[1] 50 is an exaggeration, the actual number is probably closer to 10.

[2] Again, probably only 20, but legislation is more fine grained so perhaps there are more. For some time soy grains and soy flour had a different tax, and then for some time they got the same tax, and now I don't remember the current situation.
The weight is an issue for performance specs like braking distance and agility. Probably not a huge difference, but a difference none the less.
> Twitter has previously used those labels and context blurbs to weaponise their platform against accounts and messages coming from their ideological adversaries

"Previously"? It's what Twitter is doing right now. That is the thing people are complaining about. It used to be used specifically to point out state propaganda channels, but Musk changed it to using for media he doesn't like. Like NPR.

> going as far as removing the tick to people who stepped out of their line politically

By making fun of Musk.

Look, you can try to spin this as if Musk is making Twitter somehow more objective and neutral, but nobody is falling for that because that's clearly not what's going on. Musk is running Twitter as his personal propaganda platform, boosting himself and accounts he approves of, and hiding those he disapproves of. It's about his personal preference now.

> now they're out systematically pointing out the "category" of all institutional accounts

"State-affiliated media" is exactly what NPR is not. Their own explanation of that category explicitly listed NPR as an example of NOT state-affiliated media. And it clearly doesn't fit their definition of it, but Musk put it in there anyway, because he wanted to punish them for criticising him. I think they have by now created a new less-wrong category for it: "government funded", but the fact of the matter is that NPR is primarily funded by donations.

Is he also pointing out "corporate funded media", by the way? Because that would also be a really useful category to point out.
Try Narita. https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=RJAA
Definitely agree the algorithm is likely pretty well documented but as noted in the blog it is adapted in realtime.

Here's the current breakdown:

Apple 7.08%, Microsoft 6.20%, Amazon.com 2.62%, NVIDIA 1.87%, Alphabet 1.84% Berkshire 1.65% Alphabet 1.61% Tesla 1.44%

which if it was an active manager would be highly opinionated.
Cost cutting measures by hyperscalers in response to non-zero interest rates.
Windows Mobile 10 was pretty garbage, until the last release or two, after it was already very discontinued and suddenly the UI performance got good. If it had launched like that, and if Intel hadn't dropped x86 for phones days before the Continuum demo, and maybe if Microsoft had kept their promises about WP8 devices being upgradable to 10 and relatedly if WM10 was viable on low end hardware like wp 7 and 8 were... It might have been worth it for developers to rebuild their apps as 'universal windows' apps that only worked on windows mobile 10, not the versions that actually had an install base.

I don't think Windows Phone was necessarily going to get beyond a strong third place, but WP 8.1 on a low end phone was a lot more usable than Android on similar specs, and Apple had/has no desire to touch that part of the market. Continuum on the high end, if the desktop side included win32, could have anchored the other end of the market.

Would have been nice if they hadn't told Firefox they couldn't build for WP though. Mobile IE was garbage, and Mobile Edge for WM10 managed to be worse.
That's... Not even really unreasonable compared to restaurant prices. I've seen eggs and toast for $20 at a diner in Minneapolis, and that place had a line out the door with a 30 minute wait to get in. Wasn't even as good as the $5 or less Coney Island breakfast available pretty much everywhere in Metro Detroit.
It is very much reflected in prices.
Exactly the point: well-educated people use words that appear in scientific papers. Showing you are well-educated is a common status signal amongst many well-educated people.

Some people are lingual chameleons[1]: their language patterns completely change depending on their social surroundings. And many people are liguistic artistes[2] who choose their language to paint an image of themselves.

However, failure is rife.

[1] one Google result, different usage.

[2] Sprachartisten
If you're ever in Singapore, the staff canteens are pretty epic:

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/74945/is-there-a-...
I think all packages should be namespaced per user. The language's core team could promote widely used packages to a "standard" namespace and give it a good name that way, thereby making it the "canonical" implementation of something.
It's more accurate to say that the SSD vendors aren't interested in trying to market consumer drives that cost upwards of $1500, because there really isn't a market for such drives. Plenty of enthusiasts will say they would like an 8+ TB high-end drive, but few people are willing to spend more on their SSD than on their GPU.
The problem with such things is false positives.

I recall many years ago one of the Command and Conquer games decided I had a pirate installation and blew up all my units in an on-line game. No, I had a perfectly legitimate copy that thought it was pirate because I had done an over-the-top installation of Windows because it was corrupted. Most everything worked fine and didn't need reinstallation.
I travelled recently and when I got some foreign cash I noticed this. I was thinking, well if the fee is 0% you're clearly giving me a shit exchange rate and making your money there.

It seems bizarre to shuffle around the cost structure like that, but I guess it's a marketing thing that works because most people don't know any better?
Crossovers are just lifted hatchbacks.
Higher neuroticism? I am a psychologist and this means nothing.

This "believes" were entertained for a long time about ME but we have enough scientifical evidence that they were false.

Historically, this happened with multiple sclerosis, people with ms were labelled as fakers and ms was called "faker's disease".

Let's not go again to those horrible times today.

For an ample literature about ME I Invite you to visit the open medicine foundation website (the centre that studies ME at Stanford).
That requires a whole more competency than pasting a file on a cloud drive
This is normalized per million sold, which is the wrong metric penalizing cars which are sold more.

It should ideally be per kilometers driven.
I don’t know about you but when I switched over from HDD to SSD years back I did some crude measurements and found the time it took to boot into a usable environment went from >= 90 seconds to < 25 seconds.

And it’s not just booting the system that was noticeable. Everything became more responsive. It was like night and day.

I have no problem separating my OS drive from my games/photos/backups. It’s actually what I prefer to do. And I like to see that the operating system isn’t so bloated it can’t fit in 100 GB.
Right now, the incentive is opposite: bigger cars get a break on fuel economy standards. We could start by removing that.

US fuel economy standards are, as I understand it on a sort of cap and trade model with respect to a car maker's average fuel economy. Much of Tesla's profit comes from selling fuel economy credits. The result of removing the break larger cars get wouldn't be that they all disappear, but their prices would trend upward.
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