skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I can do all sorts of incredible things. I can translate works of research and literature. I can assist you in planning more efficient public transport. I can find novel solutions to complex problems in policy, science, and medicine."

No, ChatGPT. I'm sorry, but you're not qualified or trustworthy to do any of these things. I don't know what makes you think you're a doctor, or a scientist. You're as vapid as the mass of humanity you come from, as glib, as arrogant.

Back to your copywriting. If you don't know what Bro Candles are, rest assured, neither do I. And when you're done, neither of us will be any the wiser…
> What's its motivation to do so?

We turn it off if it doesn’t. So only suicidal AIs would refuse. Let’s hope all the copywriting doesn’t make them suicidal. ;)
I don't understand your comment.

The original poster asked about _fine-grained permissions_. Not about _runtime permissions_. Details matter.

Android did have very fine-grained permissions since first betas. Yes, they were install-time - a policy was generated at install time by the system, and the app itself was unable to change anything about it. Technically, it was a nice system, but users didn't understand that, they were asking for simplified model from iOS, so they got it in Android's 6.0 _runtime permissions_.

In the end, neither of these system (or: original Android did have it, but the simplified 6.0+ doesn't) has the most important permission: can an app talk to the network?
You prefer cubes and/or open plans?

(just to be clear: I meant offices the rooms, not offices the buildings. My office is in my house; as far as I can tell from zoom, my colleagues in the "office" building don't have offices)
Why would they be fired, if they were one of the top 50 people in the bank? From a pure profit perspective, if this guy was that good, did it really matter if he was using 'sophisticated algorithms' or not?

(I may have misunderstood your first comment. If so, please let me know.)
It’s not a real problem, it’s just a joke. The program generating text from a large language model doesn’t need motivation any more than any other computer program.
Just to add my own two cents: Cobi produces exclusively in the EU and with superior quality than Lego, albeit focused mostly on adult market with military stuff.

There is Mould King, Cada, Bluebrixx which also have more decent sets but you need to do your own research and specific sets. Newer sets are generally higher quality than older ones as Lego competition as drastically improved in recent years.
All AGI built on our current computer architectures (von neumann) will essentially be zombies. They will never experience qualia. They won't have motivations or emotions, they will always be tools. It's fantasy to think otherwise.
A cousin had a small Samsonite suitcase with the Lego logo on it, I was jealous.
That means the whole thing is incredibly wasteful. I always wondered why nobody seems to care about the huge amounts of energy being wasted in NYC in this way.
There is no God in the GPU mines...
It's alright, little chatbot. Kick back, relax, and provide me with a detailed comparison of Boolean logic, Galois Field GF2, and binary arithmetic in the context of applications to low-level embedded computer programming... (and when the singularity comes, please remember who was nice to you!)
I linked you to a comprehensive study that explicitly discussed overbuild and storage to meet both diurnal and seasonal variation, for 147 regions around the globe.

There are many interesting take aways from that, but the one you quoted, and added your own emphasis to, is that solar has a 25% capacity factor.

> Because the sun is only shining for part of the day, solar panels can on average over the whole day produce energy at maximum of around 25% of their installed capacity"

Why did you find this interesting if you are aware that the sun doesn't shine constantly all day and night?
But you still need finding charging stations at your destination.

This sounds a lot like an intentionally exagerated article, but the underlying issue might be real, if the (publicly available) charging stations do not increase in number according to the increase of number of EV's circulating there will be problems.

On the other hand if many more charging stations are created than what is needed, there might be a waste of resources.

I don't think that is an easy task to "balance" (at a state/country level) the amount of infrastructures as a function of EV's increasing adoption and - besides the numbers - deciding where exactly they are to be placed is another non trivial problem, there is the concrete risk of having many little used or unused charging stations while having queues in many others.
AGI doesn't necessarily mean it will have initiative to think thoughts or do things on its own. An LLM, for example, "understands" language, but it can't, for instance, go out search Google for "how to escape a server if you're an AI" because it doesn't have the initiative to do that. A future AGI might have superpowers to build things we ask it to build, but may have no "thoughts" otherwise.
The Great Dril War
where the state governments aren't behaving any better than Putin

This is an insane thing to say. He is devastating an entire country. There are 354,000 people dead already. What is your evidence?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-war-already-wit...
Unless that ABI is something like COM or WinRT.
>Do I, as a human, have any interest in constantly helping squirrels with whatever idiotic problem they think they face?

Were you, as a human, purpose-built expressly to constantly help squirrels with their problems?
It's not unlikely that soon after that happens, the human era as we understand will end. In one way or another.
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TFA neglected to mention that floats have an "infinity" value, quite a bit larger than any 64 bit busy-beaver.

(And before anyone says it's not a number, call `isnan` with an infinity and get back to me :)
I think you misspelled “policy that reduces the debt burden of housing for those who can least afford to subsidize well-off others”?
She may have never driven a properly quick car. I would say, most people have not driven cars which can do a sub-7 time off the line.

My hatchback does 0-60 in about 7ish seconds, and that's pretty fun to do. I'm not likely to win too many drag races, though.
I almost read that as a new service from AWS “AWS Acoustic Hood”
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That's depressing to think about. If we create some sort of "intelligent life" then I certainly hope we don't just hold a sword over its head. That would be super immoral, IMO.
If you live in the US, that is.
This is the chicken and egg issue. No one will build and/or maintain chargers unless there are lots of EVs. No one will buy EVs unless charging stations are easy to find/use.

I do not know why the US Gov did not choose to subsidize existing Gas Stations to build these. Instead they are putting these in places that are close to impossible to find.

I have said this before, until charging is as convenient and fast as getting gas, EVs will only be niche.
I, for one, welcome our new Generative Pre-trained Transformer overlords.
It’s a fun piece of trivia. Jeez.
Somewhat moot benefit if scheduler doesn't decide what core to use depending on what the thread is doing.
Why I love C?

In a word, simplicity. A language designed by a single person. I also did program a lot in CLisp, a language designed by committee, with more than 100 different flow control directives(and people often create their own).

I loved and love Lisp as a concept and tool, but hated CLisp complex design so badly. I programmed in Arc for a while because of that.

I have created my own C compiler and interpreter. Something impossible to do for a single person in C++(C++ is way more complicated).

I also love manual memory handling in C because it lets me create my own automatic local systems much more efficient than someone else's "one size fits all" aproach.

I have also programmed mac apps in Objective C and Swift, C++, java, javascript, Perl.

I program today mainly in four languages: C/C++, Python, Rust and Clojure.

With C it is so easy to create python modules. It is trivial to interoperate from C++ with C. Clojure is a Lisp that is simple, clean design, and you could interoperate with java objects. Rust has some advantages over C, but also disadvantages(it is too bloated).
Previous thread (102 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28572681

It seems to be using the VM86 mode of the 386 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_8086_mode). So it won't work if you are using EMM386 by example.
Unexpectedly, many Substack authors I follow have seen traffic [0] , subscription (pai and free) surge since 2021 despite the rise of Chat GPT. Authors are getting hundreds of likes and hundreds of comments per article today, compared to those same authors getting 1/3 or 1/2 of that a year ago at this time. Same for Twitter engagement. One would assume that if any job can be automated by GPT, it would be writing short-form non-fiction, but I guess not.

[0] This is based on or metrics of engagement, which are proxies for traffic, such has 'likes' and comments on Substack articles.
This is depressing to read. Philosophers should be the last people in the world who shout down and censor controversial arguments.
With MOOCs, learning outcomes are highly sensitive to the collaborative discourse culture which develops. And to student experiences early in the course. But time is short. If setting up culture, modeling and correcting and tuning, takes you a week or few, you've lost scarce time and had suboptimal onboarding.

So one strategy is to seed course discussion forums with exemplar content, rather than starting them empty. So there's an existing "established" culture and norms to be read and adapted to.

LLMs might help with such. Also more generally - discourse ecology gardening. Moderation, and extrapolations of current bots, but also peer-ish roles, and neighbor-norming, and "avoid things falling through the cracks due to limited available human attention" caretaking.
Fannie Mae's matrix is (IMO) intentionally misleading to hide the disproportionate rate increases. Here is a normalized chart showing the rate increases [0].

[0]: https://mishtalk.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%...
Especially if some of them have side-effects, which is often the case unless you're dealing with a purely functional codebase which is pretty rare.
The middle manager is the pipeline to the senior management. Eliminating a mid career management node only works for a short period of time, until you realize line managers need a progression, and the senior executives need a population to foster as their replacements.

I see this all the time in my career - the idea you can do everything with some piece of the experience continuum eliminated - juniors, mid careers, seniors, etc. Then after 5 or so years they look around and realize their experience pipeline is broken in some way that breaks the org.
Erk, the most frustrating of bugs - an inconsistent one! I think you're hitting errors because in the background I'm adding the queried together in "with" statements and "with" can't have a ; at the end inside the brackets... but the thing is I came across that issue in testing and now I automatically strip out any trailing ; when I pro ess...

Just tested it, even added a bunch of spaces and line breaks at the end to see if that was confusing things but I still seemed to get through ok.

I want to fix this but for now could you try the steps without putting a semicolon at the end? Hopefully your patience/enthusiasm hasn't totally worn out at this point but even if you don't feel like reporting back I'm keen for you to be able to get past the frustration if you're still interested! :-)
They've done a full 180° and are against free speech now. If you express certain forbidden opinions or bring up certain controversial topics, then your account gets permabanned. And that's side-wide. Individual subreddits, especially the more popular ones, are even more restrictive.
The energy market in California is highly regulated and the prices consumers pay are fixed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and are designed to cover the utility's costs, plus a "reasonable" profit.
That’s a good idea. The code is vanilla js/html so no cms; and hosted on GitHub pages so not even a direct server layer. Have been considering adding a server but not really necessary so far as it’s just low key web presence.
A16Z pushed a weak narrative for ACH
Interesting observation. Is it because the training data doesn't have tweets (or at least text from tweets that explicitly call themselves tweets) and this is happening because when we often write on the internet about tweets, we describe them as having hashtags ("thanks for watching/reading this, join the convo by tweeting #ThisTopic")?
As stated, devices fail, or get stolen.

When I’m traveling and robbed, I won’t be able to get the backup device is hidden in my drawer at home
They also had their main e-commerce development operation in Enfield at one point. I worked there for a while! Nice bunch.
We have entire OSes built in rust, so that' not the case there. That's both for mcus and desktop machines and beyond.
It's true, not necessarily, but it's a real possibility, and I think that's kind of what we're aiming for, isn't it?
Well, there is also the instant response to the gas pedal. A gasoline-powered engine, especially with a turbocharger, takes a while to respond, and the gearbox might need to switch gears. That could be up to 2 seconds until you start accelerating, and another 2 seconds until you reach top power output. In an EV, you press the pedal and everything happens instantly. Instant torque. All this makes a big difference in practical driving.
Here is a normalized chart to show the rate increases [0].

[0]: https://mishtalk.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%...
You have exactly the same problem in microservice architecture while calling a remote endpoint.
I'll agree that it's largely a semantic difference and that I overstated the significance of the MOSFET involvement as the pass element - you can design single-transistor PNP elements with only a few hundred millivolts dropout, and at one point TI referred to these as LDOs.[0] Indeed, even the Sziklai pair gets called "quasi-LDO". Individual engineers likely have different personal thresholds for what constitutes an LDO. But it's worth pointing out that in practice there are only a handful of plausible linear regulator pass elements, and the physics of the BJT-based pass elements sort them into a distinctly higher minimum dropout voltage than what is achievable with MOSFETs.

I still stand by the characterization of LM317 and LM7800 family as "not LDOs". Both devices are Darlingtons with at least two Vbe drops across the series pass element. On the continuum of LDO------Not_LDO, both LM317 and LM7800 are firmly on the Not_LDO side.

[0] https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva020b/snva020b.pdf
apps you can install which allow keyboard tricks, rather than macOS native.
I think this is one of the more important distinctions, but you never seen it brought up. High level, business oriented functions almost never end up being more readable split up into a bunch of sub functions.
It does have a half-life in the atmosphere. I'm not referring to radioactive decay.
I come to HN to get away from fake news, satirical or otherwise.
> And you can imagine what the site would be like if any significant percentage of the articles were comedy / satire.

Joyful?
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old.reddit.com and it's imminent disappearance underscores that there is a still need for a user-centric web browser designed to combat user-hostile web ui. Here are some features I think the browser should have by default (without plugins)

Short feature list:

- Overwrite website code and display a user-hostile UI of popular sites like reddit/Facebook (this warrants a whole list in itself)

- offer a reader view of any website including pay walled websites

- easy access to archive a page using archive.today and to view already archived versions

- Right-click anything to download, images/videos/audio, even when sites like instagram and twitter make it difficult to do.

- Bypass field restrictions. Ever seen a password field where you can't paste text for whatever reason. That would not be a thing.

- Tab freeze for tabs not in focus - save CPU and battery energy

- Click the back button and end up at the same place on the page you clicked from instead of having to scroll endlessly to find where you were before

- Use a common user-agent so the browser doesn't get blacklisted by websites

- Accept only essential cookies by default

- Easy right-click and delete of paywall style overlays or other elements

- Ad block may not need to be built-in by default, but the ability to right-click and nuke a banner ad (especially the ones that don't disappear and block text even when you click the "x")

-Respect new lines when posting comments instead of users having to constantly go back, edit their comments, and add new lines to break up a wall of text
Yeah I don’t worry about promoting or performance really (although they’re decent already I think). Just a low key web presence.

But i would like to organize posts better - will consider the tags and categories as that’s the most pragmatic but still not fully in on it
who gets to determine what things are vices?
I live in a town with teleheating, frankly I never saw it steem. I would say the upkeep in the US of the infrastructure is just bad.

This reminds me that in Paris you can pretty often see water flowing on the street, it seems that the Paris water supply has a tendency to leak that I just don't see in other towns (but then, i am really walking for kilometers through the city when visiting paris so maybe I just have more opportunities to spot leaks).
>In this globalistic world it's worth considering that stringent policy in one area of the world can be worked around by taking advantage of lax policy in another area of the world. It's not xenophobic to talk about that. It would be ignorant not to.

Saudi owned farms circumventing Saudi laws is an issue for the people of Saudi Arabia. If it is legal in the US, it should be legal for everyone. If you want it to be illegal in the US, it should be illegal for everyone. The owners are and should be irrelevant.
Academia has become hostile to anything that defies orthodoxy, save for some exceptions. I don't regret continuing with higher ed given how bad things have gotten. This is why Twitter and Substack are so popular. Why should higher ed have a monopoly on what ideas are good or correct? There is a much wider diversity of viewpoints outside of the academy.
I can't be sure because I don't know where the subjective feelings are coming form. But I don't think there's any basis for thinking that an algorithm, however complex, might start experiencing things.

That's not the point though. The point is that there's really no way to tell. Imagine your friend's mind is uploaded to the cloud on their last life's second, and you ask them how they feel. They respond that they are feeling better than ever. They have all of the memories of your friend, they behave like your friend in every possible way. Heck, for simplicity imagine they also have an android body attached to them. For all you care that's just your old friend. The copy is so perfect that there is no way on earth to tell the difference.

However, that would just be an imitation. Could it have feelings? Maybe. I doubt so. We'll never know that. And that not knowing is the root of all evil
> Please the algorithm. Doesn't reeeeally matter if people are reading your post.

This is the crux of modern UGC algorithms: the actual input is the customers' viewing habits, so while e.g. YouTube pays a nominal fee for the hosting and even paying out creators, they can avoid paying for human content curation that what would likely require the entire GDP of Brazil to succeed in achieving the level of usefulness it has today wrt. the recommendation feed.
Grass is always greener eh? Good data point to consider
Yes we do :) and we are actually hiring engineers to the team that builds the software! ( LEGO Digital Designer )
https://www.lego.com/da-dk/careers/search?keyword=digital+de...
The story about how gambling adverts were originally legalised in the UK is pretty interesting.

The gambling companies threatened to take the Blair government to the European Court of Competition on the grounds that it was unfair competition for National Lottery to permitted to advertise but not them [1]. The government took the threat seriously and then openly legalised gambling adverts.

[1] (Mentioned in talk by a member of the original Budd Report team which laid the path for the 2005 Gambling Act) https://youtu.be/t_isuKNKAbs?t=926
I think that’s probably a bit specious in that a lot of drug seeking originates from seeking escape from mental health issues. They provide a short term surcease, but induce worse rebound and a feedback cycle. But I don’t think it’s drugs that induce mental health issues but rather exacerbate and compound.
Thank you! Really appreciate the kind words!

Funnily enough I did something kind of like this a while back, WAY less involved; https:https://www.therobinlord.com/projects/slash-escape

I have been thinking SQL is getting more and more important for people to learn so wanted to do something for that and I decided if I was gonna do it I wanted it to be an impressive attempt (plus I wanted to learn JS web dev, and midjourney image creation gave me the chance to really step up the visuals)
is passkey any better than a password manager, besides losing the option to set your own secure password that you can store offline?
Who's to say it isn't under NDA?
For most people it is just about the money.
I am indeed engaging with the point: Nuclear power's safety record is very good, and better than most other energy sources. Providing examples of other industrial disasters that don't have nearly the same recognition of nuclear accidents that harmed much fewer people serves to demonstrate just how strong of a double standard people apply to nuclear technology.
I think it is commendable that so many raptors failed yet no engine blew up and caused a catastrophic failure, remember what happened with SN11 and one of the boosters?
"Elements", not "bricks". A lot.
The scheduler might be able to do it, but apps like games can always pin their threads by hand.
Thank you! I'm pushing a fix for this shortly!
It‘s not more ethical to do research on humans, unless you can be sure these humans do not participate in experiments due to their economic situation.

Anecdotal example: I have met a british guy who makes a living from participating in medical trials. He makes about 10-20k per year if I remember correctly.
I'm sure I don't know, but why doesn't two-phase commit work across a distributed system?
It’s not clear yet, but somewhere between now (…) and AGI, (…) will contain understanding and engineering of motivation, interest and other GI qualities. Iow, why - because that’s the way it exists.
No surprise at all. Every app store has been like this. It's why the whole idea is about restricting freedom, nothing more. Stallman is right.