skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Minimum wage will eventually will get adjusted for the workers in the service sector to have similar lifestyle.

So they just have to suffer until that adjustment happens? the middle class needs this now so tighten your belts, we will get back to you come next election cycle if we have time and by the way you did not get the skid marks out of my undies? How about people accept a 5 day work week until they figure out how to make sure it does not fuck over those who really need the hours? How many people in the service industry would loose their full time status because of this and all the benefits that gives them? but that is ok, they will eventually get them back, right?

Also, minimum wage increases only help those who are at or near minimum wage, if you make $5/hour over minimum wage and minimum wage goes up $2/hour you most likely will not get a $2 raise, you will be lucky to get a $0.50 raise. For the most part the only people who work minimum wage are people in a first job situation and jobs with good tips, it is mostly a political talking point and easy to work around for anyone who wants to legally pay less then minimum wage.
It's absolutely ludicrous nonsense. It's like saying someone invented the idea of 'wondering what would happen if the sun blew up'.

VR is a trivial idea that pretty much everyone has thought about at some point. It's implementation is hard to do, and if I had to point to anyone there, it'd be Carmack who's probably done the most.
Wikipedia is quite amazing in terms of that social collaboration he is talking about.

For example, during the recent pentagon leaks I was watching that Wikipedia page evolve day by day. It was much more interesting and faster than any news org covering the issue. Plus it was quite diverse.

1. Cuz of the sheer number of ppl that were drawn in and were focusing on it.

2.There were experienced editors making sure things didnt get to crazy, info had decent sources, filtering out crap etc

3. There were domain experts showing up from all over

So we get a constantly evolving real time decent summary of the subject. Strip away the real time aspect, which is really not a big requirement for most knowledge ppl look up, and it does feel ChatGPT is producing something similar as a wiki page. So in a sense it seems to have generalised the above steps.
Batteries fed cheap solar power can provide relatively cheap peaking power whenever you want. That’s going to effectively be the maximum daily wholesale price per kWh long term.

Wind/Hydro and possibly some Nuclear might survive in that kind of an environment, but most industry insiders think Nuclear is basically doomed outside the far north without truly massive subsidies.
> completely neutral and unbiased

That's either naive or a lie
I've read time and time again that there is no such thing as truth or fact. If the news is to be truly unbiased, it cannot have any basis in reality.
> They might change the rules more slowly than some entrepreneurs desire, but when the purpose of the rule is safety, better safe than sorry.

The larger the authority, the slower they move, and the less sophisticated the technical understanding they have (because in a large bureaucratic authority, many non-experts have to be convinced of a change in addition to the experts).

It’s also not something that only impacts laissez faire capitalists. Information Security experts understood for decades that conventional password complexity requirements produced harmful outcomes. How long did it take an authority to produce an alternative standard? How much reputational risk did they take on by depreciating a security standard? Thank god NIST and the NCSC had the courage and competence to adopt this change, but how many lesser authorities have failed to keep pace with it? How many individual organisations?

Alternatively, how much do you think the European Parliament has slowed development of new USB connectors? Are we all going to love USB-C as much in 20 years as we do today? How could a new and improved connector even distinguish itself for consideration? Experimenting with improvements in the market is prohibited by law. If an improved connector became popular in an outside market, how long would it take the European Parliament to notice? How long would it take them to make a change?
Gotcha, so does share structure with some niche western music but hemiola is kot quite the right term for it.
Apple will launch a journaling app
At least in the US we can protest, debate, and oppose these laws.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/30/politics/what-happens-if-the-...
It's a great point- I've been looking into this path myself: ScyllaDB + logic inside app.

The main issue I've run into is deployment. It's just very rough compared to CockroachDB or Postgres, which are single binary or very close to it.

If ScyllaDB became as easy to set up as CockroachDB (or close-ish), they'd have a lot more users, I think.

You can make Postgres setup this easy: https://gist.github.com/gnat/cfe3754c3dc817c7fb8b2225ef4db62...

CockroachDB, also dead easy: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v22.2/start-a-local-clust...

ScyllaDB is an enormous mess of daemons and ports: https://university.scylladb.com/courses/scylla-operations/le...
I think Nassim Taleb does a good job of identifying the core issue, which is “skin in the game”. A key problem with regulation is that it diffuses responsibility, in the sense that an engineer adhering to some regulatory scheme is partially absolved of personal responsibility for the outcome as long as they check the regulatory boxes. This point is raised by Brunel as well.

In other words, the harm of regulation is not that it trades progress for safety, but that it stifles both. See also Frederic Bastiat, The Seen and the Unseen.

The modern counterargument might be that engineered systems have become so dense and complex, and in some cases capable of catastrophic consequences for failure, that we simply can’t afford to let practitioners figure it out on their own.
This article depresses me in how wrong it is. It’s like reading about someone in Ancient Greece writing about how fire works. I’m almost certain we are doomed - which one could argue is a rather conservative philosophical opinion.
I can't think of a worse way to make money than a thorium energy start up. The people that are into Thorium are zealots, they're not in it for the money. The author of that article founded and sold a software company, worked as a VP for Boston Scientific, and is a professor at Dartmouth. He has easier ways of making money.

That said, Thorcon has one of the more practical Th reactor designs and has government backing already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsi7lzbiq5k
>> the black-box nature of our current A.I. tools must end. The systems must be made more transparent. We need to get better at saying what is going on inside them and why

But humans can't do that either. I have opinions, preferences, ideas, and if you ask me to tell you exactly why or where they came from I can't tell you. I mean I have an idea, some idea, but I can't really tell you.

To you, I am a black box.

Are you going to tell me, "you must be made more transparent"?

There is A.I. but it scares people (like me).
when i moved my hand and let go of the ball the ball kept going so balls spontaneously fly actually
The 7950X is probably close to 40 vCPUs in terms of total compute power (32 threads, big cache, higher frequency than datacenter chips).
GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators or Simulators
And even if something capable of all the aspects of human cognition were created with no internal resemblance to cognition, so what, it still works. There's a reason it's called "artificial" intelligence, not "natural intelligence identical to human brains except in silicon instead of neurons".
It's like when the wheel was invented saying it's not "true" transportation because it doesn't involve legs, or when the phone wasn't invented that it isn't "true" communication because you don't see the other person's mouth or physical expressions.
Yeah, at first I just asked it to respond to the comment, but to put a little stank on it.

It was using some outdated terms so I then asked it to only use slang from the last decade and this is what we got.

This is stank level 7/10. You can turn the stank up or down.
What in particular will give you the greatest joy from this development?

What will be the greatest benefit to humanity?
PDF

https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48697/1/1747703_Waller.pdf

Text

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/36991032/
Read what I wrote again, I said 300Wh/kg is 50Wh/kg above what's used in expensive UAVs. There are setups out there using high amperage Panasonic cells at 250Wh/kg for 12S systems. You build a pack with 12S strings of high amperage rated Panasonic 18650 or 20700 and then parallel multiple of those strings together for large capacity (such as for something the size of a freefly alta X).

A small quadcopter that uses a gensace/Tattu 1200 mAh lipo pack is not an expensive uav. I think everyone who uses hobby size lipo knows their specs around 135-160Wh/kg.
>The crazy thing he mentioned is that if there was zero compression, the latest COD games genuinely had over 1 terabyte of uncompressed assets.

I think what this shows is there should be smart delivery of assets. Before installing perhaps you should be able to choose your graphical fidelity and only download assets related to that fidelity level and below.

This makes manifest building and delivery more complicated, and probably UX too, but I'm sure it's a problem that the infra/marketplace provider (Valve, Epic, Microsoft, Sony, etc.) could solve and make easy for devs.
In a sea of madness, that stuck out to me. I'm sure he's getting paid somewhat more than anyone he's castigating. That guy is suffering a bad mental break.

I do agree remote work isn't as good as being there - and I did remote work full time for 15 years and it broke me. I finally got a good local job and look forward to seeing my team mates each day. But if I had to commute that far I understand the gloss would wear off after about 1 day!
New snot found. Did their AI choose the url?
Hell no. The startup I was working for fired me on a Friday, no notice, effective immediately. We had a team meeting the previous week about how macro environment was tough but everything was fine.

I'm so done bending over backwards to satisfy rich people who will dump me as soon as things get slightly bad.
Think lua in BSD kernels probably gets what people want
This is what we hoped WSL would be like, but it turned out very, very different.
FYI This was a reference to the Sacklers who own Purdue who did exactly what is described
Revisit this comment in 2 months, 6 months, a year. It’s mainly a matter of when OpenAI allows widespread access to the gpt-4 api and developers have time to build stuff.
So we're expected to use the layman's definition just because the technology became popular?
Since LLMs can't do arithmetic, one has to think there's more going on, at least in the arithmetic part of the brain, than is going on in LLMs.
The design of a battery for a phone is nowhere near the capability of C rate and discharge amperage needed to power multi hundred watt load electric motors. Totally different thing.
How is this coming war on e2e encryption different from similar wars since the 1990s? [1,2]

[1] "Doomed to repeat history? Lessons from the Crypto Wars of the 1990s", https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep10502

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
In a way it makes more sense to have the units come first, i.e. how the numbers are written in Arabic. Namely, when you do arithmetic you start with the units, so that in English (etc) when you compute 1234 + 5678 you cannot just start writing down digits, but you have to reserve space and work backwards.
Not knowing how something works doesn't necessarily preclude replicating its function a completely different way. You don't have to understand an induction cooktop to hang a pot of water over a campfire.
If white collar workers are displaced, millions will re-train as blue collar and bring down wages there too.
>The real purpose of fighting these fires seem to be protecting the logging industry.

also, the rural property owners.
I generally agree with you, but I think this argument overlooks the lack of an obvious reward function in large language models. GPT-N has no survival instinct, because there is no existential threat of death, no fitness function to optimize to extend its survival at any cost. Without this need to survive, there can be no motivation, and without motivation there can be no intent. And without intent, can there truly be any action?
If the US government outlawed crypto to save the USD, they'd have to also outlaw gold, because that's where all the money would flow to instead. The rest of the world wouldn't outlaw gold and crypto, so the effort to kill alternatives would fail and it would just accelerate fleeing USD into gold and crypto.
Ask HN: Which Mattress for Best Sleep?
Other 8-bit computers that have had modern re-issues:

Commodore 64 -> THEC64 https://retrogames.biz/products/thec64/

Commodore VIC-20 -> THEVIC20 https://retrogames.biz/products/thevic20/

Sinclair ZX Spectrum -> ZX Spectrum Next https://www.specnext.com/about/

I would personally be interested if some of the iconic computers from the 16-bit era were also re-released (Amiga 500, Atari ST). (I am into electronic music and having modern re-creations would make them more viable in a live set-up as you wouldn't be too worried about reliability, which is an issue with vintage machines).

Having said that, for anyone who is feeling nostalgic and doesn't want to spend a ton, a Raspberry PI 400 can emulate all of those and it's close enough in terms of form factor.
> able to generalize language, math, and positional reasoning and mix it with the older parts of the brain for reward and training mechanisms and it can do it in real time

most brains I run into don't do that much at all, mostly just existing and adaptation-execution
Why people insist on minimizing the fact that modern hyper-industrialized society (which people rely on to survive) is founded on cheap energy? Trying to execute degrowth at a pace and intensity that would be necessary for climate change to reduce the impact of climate change to the most ideal IPCC model would quite literally kill tens of millions in a year. Europe can barely deal with electricity becoming slightly more expensive.
Flying an airliner by hand at cruise is dangerous and usually constitutes an emergency. ATC expects the plane to stay precisely at its assigned altitude, especially in RVSM airspace. It's difficult to keep that altitude by hand at speed. Cruise is also normally done close to the edge of the plane's abilities, so small deviations can have catastrophic effects (overspeed or stall).

Airline pilots routinely do takeoffs/departures/approaches/landings by hand to practice their skills, but not cruise. See this Airbus doc: https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/high-altitude-manual-flying/
My laptop is a small Windows + Arch (f2fs) partitions + a big btrfs "cold storage" partition. Some notes:

- "The btrfs driver for Windows is incredibly solid" is true... but (on NVMe) its also extremely slow. Like dramatically slower than NTFS, with or without compression.

- You can share data, but writing with winbtrfs will screw up the permissions on linux unless you get the mount options exactly right.

- Booting windows and ntfs conversion: there be dragons. The MS store isnt the only thing that breaks...
Or peyote.
Yeah, considering how poorly the US treats their service members and veterans, even if I were eligible for service and thought I'd do well in that kind of environment it'd be very hard not to feel like a sucker. When we demonstrate over and over again that we can't be bothered to take care of the people who are willing to put their lives on the line for our country's interests how can we expect anyone to sign up?
Like Amazon shopping, I come here for the 1-star reviews. Does it charge in cold? Will it catastrophically fail when punctured? Does it wear out over time? At this point only the negatives matter.
There's no possibility of confusion here, Oracle's not protecting anything.
I did do my math wrong. 220 gallons of gasoline for 3,000 lbs of timber
I think so too. Elon laid waste to Twitter devs & SRE and that has allowed other companies to feel it's ok now.

But that's not the whole thing - it sounds like there was massive over-hiring of devs and some madness of trying to stop other companies getting them.

What a wasteland. The thing is there is a whole raft of interesting jobs out there that don't involve actively making society worse, so hopefully some devs will move out of this scene and onto something more constructive.
I think it is interesting that their Figure 2 landmark configurations have the human adult and baby as the only pair that is not clearly smiling based on the lip configuration even though as a human, both subjects in the photos have a faint smile and appear content. Their lip traces do not suggest contentment.

Very interesting paper.
Well enough if you know what you're doing :)

With posix perms, users and everything, there's no reason it shouldn't!
The elephant in the room in these discussions of AI is the concept of the corporation. Most of the things people are worried about AI doing are things corporations already do. Deceptive marketing, exploiting customer information, conspiring to keep prices high, creating distractions from things companies are doing, setting up monopolies, lying to customers - the usual. With AI, this can be automated.

Most of this is ordinary consumer protection. Regulating AI means regulating corporations. Placing hard limits on what AIs are allowed to do means consumer protection with teeth. Nobody in power wants to talk about that too much.

As for AIs taking over, that will come via the corporate route. Once AI systems can outperform CEOs, investors and boards will insist they be in charge.
I asked it to reply with some stank, then corrected it to only use slang from the last decade.
It should have been obvious to all of us at AlphaZero that Intelligence in a general sense is emergent from large networks of feedback loops. But our monkey brains tell us that we are special so we look for data to confirm that bias. No one is more guilty of that than "Experts".

He is uniquely qualified to be wrong about this in a specific way.
Thanks for the detailed info. I'm glad it's not me trying to craft this code. Good luck with the optimizations.
Interesting, that's the S&P 1500. Do you think the 500 is next?
> Republican party will continue to "liberalize"

is that why they are pushing so many anti-gay/trans bills, banning books, and banning abortion seeming to no end?
They are. But you can’t expect something to be released and six month later we’ve completely exhausted all possible value from it. It takes longer than that at most big companies to agree to even use a technology and another six months to pass it through infosec, compliance, legal, fifty tech managers, etc. But as a first party source I can tell you these things are happening, pervasively, at every company, everywhere.
They occasionally get hepatitis or something and die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi%27s

Oddly, the restaurants are gone, but there is salsa using the brand in some supermarkets still. I wouldn't buy it, even though it presumably is just someone else using the logo.
At GitHub they limit you to 29 consecutive (calendar) days of leave. However anything over 14 days needs to be approved by your manager. And then there is a lower limit to the days you must be in the office to collect a full bonus. Finally there is a maximum time you can take off in a half year which directly relates to a negative employee review.

So it’s not unlimited, but recruiters won’t tell you the nuance.. you find out when you read the handbook and talk to your manager on day 1. But why take leave anyway, I watched someone get hired, literally do nothing, and it took 7 months for the company to let them go
So if you implemented it with analog circuits that would satisfy your criteria?
AI doesn't sleep so think of how many bugs it can create vs us fleshy blobs every day?
Their de-dupe filter needs some work.

Duplicate articles on today's (Apr 22, 2023) front page:

> World News:

> Russian Warplane Accidentally Drops Bomb, Injuring Two in Belgorod
April 21, 2023

> Russian Fighter Jet Accidentally Bombs City Near Ukraine Border
April 21, 2023

> United States

> US Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions on Abortion Pill Mifepristone
April 22, 2023

> US Supreme Court Reviews Case on Mifepristone Restrictions
April 21, 2023

> Alec Baldwin cleared of involuntary manslaughter charges in Halyna Hutchins shooting
April 21, 2023

> Criminal Charges Dropped in Alec Baldwin On-Set Shooting Case
April 21, 2023
If you give it a prompt telling it that it's controlling a character in a game that needs to survive or meet some other goal and give it choices of actions to do in the game, it will try to meet the goals given to it. Characters inside of GPT are perfectly capable of having goals.
Interesting observation. I can exactly see where the low status comes from.
I'd expect a lot of "you were never going to be a good culture fit" comments.

As a non googler I taste-sense aloofness in google. The 'wrong' kind of introspection is confronting for collective mindset.

At scale, the inefficiencies you highlight mayn't actually detract from forward pace. Sure, they're painful but a roll back happens sometimes, so obsessing it was predictable is kind of moot: if not this roll-back it was going to be another.

Really? I believe you. At scale, the dream didn't eventuate. Sad, and you made a good decision to trust your own instinct.

Did you wind up in another FAANG?

Would you attempt another entry.
> Same thing for ZFS with datasets that disabled CoW for things like that.

Does ZFS let you disable CoW?
I just gave a number of reasons why this is in no way "mysticism" and why it's highly worthy to pursue, so at this point I'll just dismiss your comment as it's clear you're making zero effort to justify your ultra-cynicism.
In the fullness of time, both generally get to grab for the pen. Plus other groups, such as those primarily interested in making sure there are not too may accredited professionals.

It is perhaps not as simple as any of us might like.
So.. why stop at 5? Under that logic it would be better for the janitor if we worked 7 days a week.

I mean the bike shop would close because I don't have time for biking.

Tourism would suffer because I never get in my car and visit the local spots.

Heath care would benefit, because working more means more heath problems. Mental health too.

When you see everything through the "come over here and work" lens, you forget that life isn't about work. I don't go to the office so the coffee shop can stay open. That's a silly argument to make.

The minimum wage thing. I agree with. It won't raise nearly as fast as it should. But I can with no doubt say, me working in an office 5 days until it does change, makes no sense. There's no reason to change the min-wage if I'm in the office 5 days. It's a catch 21.
I’d suspect these “default state” faces of other primates that look like they’re smiling to us are not perceived as “content” by them but rather the same way you perceive the human face.
This person seems to be getting downvoted but they aren't totally wrong, electric car batteries are massively paralleled so that the amperage draw per cell is kept to a reasonable figure. They are confused about cranking amps to turn over an ICE vs. batteries used in all-electric cars.

The 18650 Panasonic cells used in an older Tesla model S for instance are rated at only 10A draw per cell as their nominal 1S voltage (4.20V when full).
The treaty of Westphalia would have a word about "modern".
I realized this after I posted. I assume they're making semi-steady progress on it. IMHO, something that can't run every .swf file is not yet a proper Flash runner.
RustScript LLC sounds better