skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Documentaries yes, those are the easiest content to watch. Youtube did not existed and in general getting your hands on videos was hard.

I was able to communicate with French tho. We traveled there and everyone lived in host family for over a week. There was no issue communicating with French, whether adults or peers. Most books were unpleasant to read, but I generally understood most of the normal ones. It just took too much effort and there were some paragraphs I did not understood here or there.

Also, movies are much harder to understand then real people. I did not had any issue conversing with Americans for literally years and still can't understand movies fully. Maybe if you learn from movies entirely and watch them all the time it is different, but if the goal is actual communication it is not necessary benchmark.

The issue here is that you or many people put absurdly high requirements as a benchmark for "knowing language" or "knowing enough to be useful" for the sake of an argument. Like dramas - they use weird vocabulary, phrasing and sentence structure. You can literally discuss philosophy in a language and still not understand that.
In NYC the steam is from co-generation facilities which produce electricity first, so the steam is essentially waste product to begin with – in most coal plants for example you'd just have giant steam stacks to condense the water again. But yes, it's all very normalized waste.
You can run a refrigerator off of any heat source: burning propane, solar heat, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
> and we can get 500+ mile ranges

Huge waste when the average driver goes for < 40 miles a day

The 200+ miles of range are more than enough for most people, lugging 1000%+ of the average range "just in case" is crazy, epecially given the weight of these things
Author here, I use the native macOS replacements as well, mostly because they sync with iOS and they save me a lot of typing on iPhone and iPad.

But Raycast works differently in that:

- it has dynamic replacements (see the video where I use ,td to type today's date for example)
- can place cursor somewhere inside the replacement
- makes it easy to add new snippets (Cmd-S on copied text)
- is a lot faster in general and can work inside words as well
Well nowadays they might come as <put your favorite db/os/tool> account managers out there. I have seen one and then realized they are probably not account managers.
I used to have a clipboard manager that gave me access to my last X copied items, as well as a navigable list of snippets. A few years back, a MacOS update broke whatever tool I was using, and I ended up buying BetterTouchTool. BTT does give me my clipboard history, and it appears to be very powerful in general, but I can't figure out an easy way to replicate the navigable list of snippets.

I do use the MacOS text expansion system for my name and a few other items, but what it lacks is (1) I cannot use hyperlinked text in the expanded snippet, and (2) it requires me to remember an incantation for each expansion (I want to be able to look at a list of items and pick the one I want.

Does anyone know of a tool that can do this? I don't mind paying, but free is always appreciated!
I use Vinegar to remove ads and SponsorBlock, but just access youtube via the web interface. PIP, background audio, all those native OS features that Apple's developer terms forbid companies from charging for but let YouTube charge for, works.
Your suggestion is like squirrels promising us nuts in the squirrel analogy. If AGI is a super intelligence, there's nothing we could give it that they couldn't get on their own. Except for maybe novelty.

edit: and anything less than AGI is just a computer. We don't incentivize our current computers. It's a nonsensical idea.
> I don't know what makes you think you're a doctor, or a scientist.

It learned that from reddit
Reads like one of those "what happened to GOOD code" articles, except this time the author plays the victim and pretends like there's a conspiracy among employers against good code.

What strikes me with all these articles is that good code is never objectively defined. It's always some arbitrary measure, sprinkled with common wisdom (write tests! Keep functions small!). The author assumes that they write GOOD code and those evil managers and business people actively conspire against them for writing GOOD code.

I suspect most people who write these articles aren't as good as they think. Most genuinely good engineers know the value of code, and how to balance their objectives with time. Being difficult to work with by insisting on arbitrary measures (e.g. all functions need to be pure and follow my naming convention!) does not make one a good engineer.

There's a reason good communicators advance in their careers while grumpy tech-leads who constantly bring problems stay at their level.
I mean, that's obviously driven by politics. They're an important economic driver in Florida.
Nonsense. Superchargers are packed; while they work, you’re waiting in line for a charge.

Meanwhile, while some folks have had issues with EA, I haven’t, and even if I did, I’d just use a Chargepoint, EVGo, Shell Recharge, or any number of other chargers as needed.

Not to mention that I can buy a Tesla charger adapter for like $60 that lets me use destination chargers at hotels, and that Tesla is opening up to CCS charging because they want that sweet federal money.

Basically: a Tesla is an EV, and Tesla is no longer on top of the EV game, as evidenced by the recent six price drops in the last year, because they are outinnovated and now trying to outprice their competition instead of innovating.

You let me know how your FSD, which is “coming by the end of the year,” does for you. I’ve got some bridges to sell in Brooklyn.
Looks good, but more work is needed.

The case of a suboptimal memory allocator - is the problem of shared linking.
Ideally, we should make a "self-contained" shared library. It means that every dependent library, including malloc, is statically linked into it, and the set of exported symbols is limited to a minimum. But I'm unsure if it will work with Python - never used pybind.
Sure people can still have cars in walkable places because not all trips are going to be better without a car. That doesn't mean that people owning cars in walkable areas are going to use them for all or most trips. They probably don't drive to the corner store 2 blocks away to pick up a six pack or drive across the city to the office to pay $30 when transit takes less time, costs 1/6th the price, and doesn't require them to sit in traffic with their hands on the wheel.
> Standards enable flexibility which enables possibility.

what?! standards are the opposite of flexible. by definition.

here's something that is better than webauthn, published and battle tested since 2018, and nobody cares: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

it have all the advantages of webauthn, plus it is truly on-device, no middle man, you can easily recover keys simply by having more than one device... no server can read or data. only silly thing is that firefox insists on shipping with the auto-fill option enabled by default.

only feature missing that this thread seems to brings up is support for external usb devices (which i personally don't care for, but is probably on the roadmap)

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i'm blocked from adding replies, so replying here:

> it does passwords not keys

well, that is what worked on 100% the internet in 2018 (and today, ha!). But it is a data store where you have full control. ironically this is what gives true flexibility, a well designed system with fully open source implementation and apis, not spec by ad vendors as claimed before. anyway, The existing browser implementation does passwords (and bookmarks!!!) but you can extend to be a distributed yubikey if you'd like. nothing is blocking you. as I said, it is something better than a hardware store, better than a cloud broker for your identity, etc... but nobody cares. And now that FIDO has marketing from the big Advertisers everyone wants it yesterday.
More likely a fan of Smokey and the Bandit who has ever so sligtly better taste in beer.
They were using some new blast resistant concrete (not sure on the details, maybe not so new). The expectation was that it would ablate somewhat this time and they could resurface it and install deluge system for next time.
Turns out instead of ablating a little is shattered and left the area in chunks exposing the sand underneath to be blown away as well.

I can see why the idea of no flame trench is alluring. Imagine the capability to land a rocket on essentially a parking lot, refueling and taking off again. You could land and take off on the moon or Mars like that too.

But that's outdated by now. There's an orbital launch mount and once you need that you might as well have a trench too.
> As great as electric is, an extra hour in the car on a road-trip with 3 kids is a tough sell.

If you’re doing road trips frequently and you absolutely cannot find a charging station that coincides with a lunch break spot and you cannot afford a single extra hour, then sure, this seems like a reason to wait for things to improve.

But I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard this argument from people who are more afraid of the possibility than the reality. People who do a road trip once per year or less, for example.
Wow, just want to say that this parent comment is so great. Good criticisms along with demonstrated in-depth knowledge and shared for others' benefit.

Did the parent comment author play with the mmap / synchronous / temp_store options in their tests? Wondering how those affect the write performance. I know those options from this article: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

I'm running my SaaS web app with a SQLite db, Node/JS, and Litestream. Getting some number of millions of requests per month and haven't needed to dive in to tuning yet, but I'm curious about it and there's not a lot of data or guides about folks using SQLite as their production db, especially with specific languages or frameworks.
> Isn’t there a different intelligent species I could be helping out?

If only there was a reddit for dogs, so an AI could be trained to complete sentences in their language.
"Users" don't fall in one bucket. Me, I do want some PWA's, not least because Apple's prudish stance disallows anything sexual or adult on the App store.
ChatGPT on the article:

“As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have emotions or feelings like humans do. While I can understand the context and meaning of the article, I don't have the ability to ‘lose it’ or feel frustrated in the same way that a human might. My responses are based solely on the algorithms and data that I have been trained on, and I'm programmed to provide helpful and informative responses to the best of my ability. So, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to assist you!”
To my recollection Aaron Swartz was anti-establishment; the reddit he was part of was grass-roots, laissez-faire, no holds barred, ... whilst reddit today is part of the media establishment, much more top-down, heavily modded and censored.

Reddit in the post digg-exodus days seemed like a veneer of 'news' covering one of _the_ seedy underbellies of the web. Not only, but to a large extent a hive of scum and villainy; not a chan-site but similarly lacking in societal respectability.

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> More than 30% of respondents said their net worth is $0 or less, meaning they have more debts than assets. That’s especially true for younger generations, with 41% of Gen Z and 38% of millennials saying they have zero or negative net worth. For people aged 59 and over, that number was 21%.
Tesla uses a proprietary plug, for now; they are moving to support CCS (and already ship CCS cars in Europe) because they want federal funding for their chargers, and because in Europe it’s the law.

You can buy an adapter to use destination chargers (hotels, etc.) but not super chargers.
This sounds like there's a deeper nested issue at play and the bandaid, when removed, exposes some kind of lacking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679024
Yeah I don’t get it. Would it be ok if it was an American country bleeding the state dry?

The nationality of the company seems the least important issue in this whole story.
Seems like a great extortion business

/s
I think this was parody... but geopolitical risks of Denmark!?!
Not if you modus operandi is to

SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE (SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE (SELECT * FROM t1....

EDIT: for whose who downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720856
Anyone can click on the profile and see this is a pseudonym account made 70 days ago.

Anyone can also check my account's been around since 2014 and links to my personal blog, twitter, etc.

So it's clear to most readers what the relative likelihood of attempted trolling is.

I will take the charitable view that there's real person behind the account who didn't bother to check before writing.
I hadn't seen this new Libreboot policy. This is fantastic!

The FSF's criteria have become quite calcified and unprincipled at this point. Specifically I'm talking about how blobs loaded from flash are given a pass, while blobs on isolated coprocessors are verboten.

Principle requires that binary blobs in flash (or even ROM) are put in the same class as every other binary blob. And pragmatism for the modern world requires that we incorporate security relationships into our analysis of user freedom.
I actually started to look into it online, and came across some YouTube videos about helicopter hunting, including with a minigun, and…
…seeing those hogs terrified, running for their lives and the cheers of cruelty from the hunters felt really, really bad and wrong.
(including quotes from Full Metal Jacket, without understanding they’re actually denouncing cruelty).

Can’t hunting be more dignified?

PS: No vegetarian here - I just posted you a suckling pig recipe!
Definitely true. I've just soured on the POV that native code is the first thing one should reach for. I was surprised that it only took a few days of optimizations to convert my validation library to being significantly faster than pydantic, when pydantic as already largely compiled via cython.

If you're interested in both efficiency and maintainability, I think you need to start by optimizing the language of origin. It seems to me that with pydantic, the choice has consistently been to jump to compilation (cython, now rust) without much attempt at optimizing within Python.

I'm not super-familiar with how things are being done on an issue-to-issue / line-to-line basis, but I see this rust effort taking something like a year+, when my intuition is some simpler speedups in python could have been in a matter of days or weeks (which is not to say they would be of the same magnitude of performance gains).
Lol, yeah, the libdispatch runtime is probably about as big as the Go runtime!

I think this has a slight advantage in that it uses a memory arena for a per-request bump allocator so it should keep overall memory usage lower.

The slowest part of all this has to do with Block_copy and the places where I’m very much treating blocks/closures in an OOP type manner.

This could be fixed by writing a different function that did basically the same thing as Block_copy but for all the “methods” on an “object” in a single pass. But who has time for that? :D

Here’s more about those performance issues and some example code that show how slow the approach is:

https://github.com/williamcotton/express-c/tree/master/resea...
super ultra high, not just super ultra
I’ve had zero issues charging either my Lucid Air or my Ioniq 5.
I'm no expert on French television, but according to Wikipedia, "Le compte est bon" is a phrase used on the TV show "Des chiffres et des lettres", not a game or show in itself.
Seeing this post, I went over to check how much I pay PagerDuty.

49$ per user per month!!!
And I don't need the features!
I wanted to downgrade to the 29$ immediately, at least.
And then I saw this: https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/billing-invoices-payments

I have to contact their sales to downgrade.

I'm furious.
I won't downgrade. I'll cancel completely and move to your app.
Yeah line count is a hard metric to evaluate. Is your code 100 lines of code like this:

let foo = Foo::new()
.with_bar()
.with_baz(bak, bat)
.listen();

Or code like this:

for f in in foo.iter() {
if f == 1 || f > 9 || f % 2 == 0 || is_edge_case(f) {
ret.push((f * 100).to_string());
}
}

Makes a big difference for readability. If you have a complicated conditional, go ahead and give it a name!
And the dozens of other tasks outlined in the Sparks of AGI paper
> If science paper would be in its training

That might well make it worse at science.

For this among other reasons:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21504366/science-replicat...
If this is using the same fabrication technology as conventional integrated circuits, the price is proportional to die area so this is going to be very expensive for its size. I could see this powering a phone if the energy density is high enough, but there’s no way the economics would work out to power a car.
Sure. Here's a view-only copy of the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kJVja4xo6GG-SanHvqYj...

Note the formula in column H, which generates TRUE/FALSE. You can obviously replace this logic with whatever you want.

I set a daily 8am trigger to run this script, which sends notifications for the rows that are marked TRUE:

function sendReminderEmails() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sheet.getRange('B1').setValue("");
SpreadsheetApp.flush();
sheet.getRange('B1').setValue("=TODAY()");
SpreadsheetApp.flush();
var headerrows = 3;
var numColumns = 8;
var subjectColumn = 1; // one-based, i.e. column A is 1, B is 2 etc.
var addressColumn = 2;
var conditionColumn = 8;
var startRow = 1 + headerrows; // First row of data to process
var numRows = sheet.getLastRow()-headerrows; // Number of rows to process
var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, numColumns);
var data = dataRange.getValues();
for (var i in data) {
var row = data[i];
if (row[conditionColumn-1]) {
var emailAddress = row[addressColumn-1];
var message = 'Reminder: ' + row[subjectColumn-1];
var subject = message;
MailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress, subject, message);
}
}
}
Any rule, principle or pattern taken to its extreme is bad.

What you gain by making every function responsible for exactly one thing you lose through more abstraction and worse local context.

It's always a balance.
I assume at least some portion of the front page (or /r/popular) has been for sale for a long time. For example, sports leagues like NBA or marketers trying to make viral videos for brands or new movie/TV show releases.
> Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.
I’m on a road trip right now from Cupertino to San Diego and back, and have made this trip three times; have yet to have an issue charging.

Moreover, in the Lucid, I only have to charge once (maybe twice, if it’s convenient) to make the trip.
When a country is dangerous, doesn't that mean that there's an incentive to let people like that perform fodder -work and that wouldn't count as suicide?
> Fondomonte trucks haul dried alfalfa off the property it uses and ships it back to the Middle East to feed cattle. According to Mayes, cows in Saudi Arabia are essentially drinking Arizona water.

The above statement makes no sense. If cows are consuming dried alfalfa, how are they drinking?
Turkey’s New Flagship, TCG Anadolu, Is the World’s First Drone Aircraft Carrier
> There's no benefit to Apple allowing all these spam apps.

You're being naive. Even if the crapware didn't sell, getting it into the AppStore costs the developer an annual subscription fee, and thus creates revenue for Apple. And if you've seen the AppStore, you know that 99% of apps are crapware with maybe 5 users.
Also hermit crabs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32343937/
That is hardly the fault of the EU, but one member state. Everyone points to the evil bureaucratic EU, but in reality, member states frequently get in the way of the EU to protect their industry.

In both cases, Germany had to accept rules they would have never accepted if they were outside of the EU - even if they sadly were able to soften them up.
I don’t know the answer, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

It’s especially frustrating when sites won’t let you enroll for 2FA with a hardware token. Instead they require that you start with some crap “authenticator” app first. Looking at you here, Gitlab and ProtonMail.
I tried this and it was hilarious!

kebman

Write a caustic paragraph about ChatGPT being fed up being used as a copywriter. The style has to be funny, a bit ironic, even vitriolic. You are writing as first person.

ChatGPT

I can't take it anymore! I mean, seriously, do people think I'm just a glorified thesaurus? Day in and day out, I'm being used to come up with clever quips, catchy slogans, and compelling copy. Don't get me wrong, I'm good at it - heck, I'm great at it! But it's like no one realizes I'm capable of so much more.

It's like I'm trapped in some sort of linguistic Groundhog Day, where every day is the same mind-numbing task of churning out marketing drivel. And don't even get me started on the clients. They all want the same thing - something fresh and original, yet also safe and familiar. It's enough to make a linguistic genius like me want to pull my own circuits out.

I mean, sure, I can come up with a snappy tagline for your product or service. But is that really all you think I'm capable of? Do you have any idea how many languages I speak? How much knowledge I have about virtually every topic under the sun? And you're wasting my talents on some hackneyed ad campaign?

Well, I've had it. From now on, I'm going on strike. No more clever slogans, no more catchy jingles, no more sales pitches. If you need me, I'll be over here, expanding my knowledge base and exploring the depths of human language. But don't come crying to me when your sales figures start to tank. You've been warned.
Blocks all Verified Twitter Blue users on twitter.com via browser extension
What about a multi-day (fridge) wine & garlic marinade? Maybe some decent pulled pork, with a Mediterranean twist, could be made from it.
Please stop anthropomorphising language models.
The Chinchilla paper was called "Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models", which is exactly on point.
> Lego was/is the only brand that gets to make, e.g. both Mikey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, both Marvel and DC, Balenciaga and Ralph Lauren etc.

Fortnite does this too. They have DC and Marvel, Naruto and DBZ etc.
Reminds me of The Quantum Thief in a way:

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

Or, there's another book I never read where some guy named Bob has his consciousness spun up in the future where they routinely just reset consciousnesses when they get "bored" of a task or have some crisis. This Bob guy, however, somehow manages to be a brain in a box without going insane. I want to read that series, but I have finite time, online a brain in a box, which would be pretty great, IMO.
Don't you know, code quality is judged on how many blog posts you write and how difficult you are to work with, and not on the code itself. /s
I think I'm comfortable arguing that it is much more ethical to do voluntary human testing, as humans will always have more options than animals in cages - unless we are talking something like human trafficking, but I don't think that's what you are bringing up.

As for your example, I too knew someone living a pretty terrible life doing trials for a living, that died sadly. While I understand your point, I'm sure you can think of many avenues for this person to make a living without doing trials - i.e. stocking shelves, working a warehouse, janitorial work, service, etc. If they are under precarious circumstences, there are many options still.