skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Von Braun claimed that they learned more from failed tests than they did from successful ones.

Now they have an extra two months to analyze data from flight. So even if it takes three months until the next flight instead of 2 under your plan, I think launching this week instead of two months from now likely shaved most of two months off their schedule.
Well, it's easy to have two good years. It's also easy to have a bad two years with multiple major repairs.

I went one year where I spent at least $16,000 on repairs.

But that's the point - having $16,000 in repairs unexpectedly is the opposite of "semi-fixed and mostly predictable."

In the 10 years I rented I always rented from small landlords. I had three apartments during that 10 years. Because of that I've never had my rent increase without moving.

As far as black holes go - I spend more than $600/month in just property taxes and insurance. Add to that $360/month currently in interest.
At minimum it used to be much smaller in scope and reach.
I know. The implication of that argument is that the motivations or goals of humans are different from those prompts in some way that means that GPT is not "really" intelligent.

That's my point. It's raising some arbitrary human trait to special status, when it really isn't. Human goals are set by some external process too - evolution. And they aren't really even intrinsically fixed. They can be modified through drugs.

I think the strongest demonstration of that is post orgasm clarity (if you're a man anyway). Your whole motivation changes in an instant.
It's RL though. Its output comes, in part, from interaction with an environment. It also has a well defined objective (win games). GTP doesn't have a clear objective other than "do more of this".
$ yes "a cat is an animal"

Does `yes` also have "knowledge"?
I understand this argument, and there are definitely many Google engineers who believe this, but I believe this belief to be mistaken. Unfortunately, most engineers really are replaceable cogs.

Google’s origins can be traced back to really smart people innovating through brilliant new algorithms. So it’s understandable why people at Google believe that being brilliant is an irreplaceable asset. If only enough Jeff Deans could be brought together, something amazing would surely happen. But how accurately does this belief match reality? Most successful companies today innovate on product, not raw technology. 99% of product work really can be done by anyone. There are now plenty of multi-billion dollar companies that had original products engineered by total amateurs. Raw technical ability just isn’t that important anymore. And you see this in Google’s business. For how self-proclaimedly smart Googlers are, they sure have a hard time growing the business through new products.

And when I say total comp is down, I’m not talking about existing employees (although their comp is down too for the reason you mention). Go look at job openings near you. More likely than not, base salaries and equity packages will be much lower than before.
Same here Gandi has been my choice for years, rock solid, lots of Tlds available and reasonable prices.
I started blocking blue checks on sight a couple days ago and it has significantly increased the overall quality of the Twitter experience.

I’ve found that I end up blocking accounts that I would have otherwise (weird culture warrior nonsense, low-quality Facebook meme reposts, an astounding number of people claiming that everyone spends $8/day on coffee etc.) and the check mark just makes them stand out visually along with putting their posts at the top of threads. Heck, until they disabled it there was even an entire tab of folks to block in my notifications section.

Kudos!
> You can't just say that and not give a reason

They can, because the purpose of the statement is to answer a question I asked about what people believe. There are other drivers of climate change, other seriously impactful greenhouse gases even. In light of their acknowledgment that pollution is humanity's biggest problem, and without more of an understanding of their specific beliefs, it's completely disingenous to compare what they're saying to "the sky is really purple".

On the science-being-junk point, the science on climate change is highly correlative and I don't blame someone for wanting to hold that science to a higher standard. (I understand the arguments why it's ok that the science is less classically scientific, I'm not trying to stake a position here, I don't care, please don't start a flame war with me)

And the rest of their comment is totally reasonable. Ecological collapse __is__ a much more complex and unambiguously serious problem which, depending on your view, is either a bigger risk than climate change or a superset of it. At least with climate change we have silver linings like a possible increase in arable land just as we're hit with a species-threatening rolling food crisis.
> The supply being finite is not that relevant. The relevant part is that the supply is predetermined, and that yearly supply inflation is acceptably small [1].

Yeah, some folks - notably the Ethereum crowd IIRC - are of that opinion.

I'll confess that I'm sort of undecided on the topic. In fact, I believe the overall effect are identical (because the currency can be divided to quasi infinity).

But my gut tells me that finite supply is better. Also, with finite supply, the math involved in anything forward looking is most certainly simpler.

However, I do agree that predetermined is way nicer than the amount of currency injected in the economy being controlled by whomever corrupt asshat is in control of the central bank at a given point in time.
Probably. And working as designed.

I know plenty of people, some I'm related to, who are full in on what amounts to "Well, they know everything anyway, why shouldn't I use the most convenient payment option?"
I think you are operating with a different definition of "knowledge" that the parent does.
Sure. In before people used to say that currency is dead because crypto currency has replaced money already, and already people are using them, and already [insert marketing statement]. I see they now moved on to ai.
"System D, arguably, reached its heyday in the Victorian-era railway hotels, where the menus were huge and it was not unusual for an extra two hundred guests to show up wanting, say, the Fricasse of Lobster Thermidor — for which only fifty portions were available. Suddenly, Thermidor for fifty was transformed into Thermidor for two hundred. Don't ask how. You don't want to know."
Mostquito-larva-eating fish have often been intentionally deployed for mosquito control, though the use of non-native species may have sometimes backfired:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitofish#Environmental_imp...
There are no real shortcuts to learning a language. Immersion, constant practice, high quality feedback from native speakers are essential elements and they dont come cheap, especially the last part.

Having said that, it does feel that scalable, cheap software solutions that give you to a tangible boost should be possible. Duolingo isnt that boost though. It is a very preliminary step, so simplistic that its not even clear its in the right direction.
I think most of the "iPhone is doomed" people fundamentally misunderstood what the iPhone was and what it did compared to existing phones. And of course, they judged Apples future on the first device, which they considered flaws in a bunch of ways that didn't matter (I recall how many people laughed about it missing MMS and multitasking, which turned out to not matter (it could multitask for the features people used), and something they added later.
This should be the top comment here: a reference to an actually scientific analysis that uses an argument that is plausible from an evolutionary perspective.

E.g.: someone else here was arguing that maybe the mirroring helps the brain keep processing inputs from the side that was hit. Evolution does not work this way! Flipping doesn’t “just” happen, that’s a huge morphological change. It had to have evolved incrementally, with each intermediate step having an immediate benefit.

The paper explains how and why this may have occurred.
It does not. It has a language output that you find pleasing.
What exactly is it that disqualifies the Guardian from being deemed journalism, or an entitity where journalism takes place?
Can someone explain why ROM was slower? I would have guessed it was faster.

Is there some technical limitation? Or was it more of a “can can shadow the ROM so save the extra few cents on faster ROM” thing? Just that no one was pushing as hard as for faster RAM.
I ended up, ironically, asking ChatGPT for a summary of the article. That's the argument it derived too.
It’s how a talented artist, craftsman or sportsman makes things look effortless, when it took them years of grit, determination and hard work to reach that point.
I think that's already taken and more about hacking via variables in the prompt like SQL injection.

I would just got with prompt tuning.
This is the actual reason. It has nothing, or almost nothing, to do with Elon Musk or politics. The average person, the average Californian, even the average EV buyer is not doing it to make a political statement.

There are so many more options now than Teslas out there which provide quality and affordability. And there are used EVs on the market now that are viable, when there weren't before, including used Teslas.

Yes, there are people (like me) who would never buy a Tesla because they don't trust the company or don't like Musk, but we're a severe minority. The reality is that Tesla is becoming less special simply because the rest of the industry is catching up - as Tesla should have known, and probably does know, that it would. The question is what they do about it.
I once read that an ancestor of ours evolved to have its head rotated 90' relative to its body (like a flatfish or something), but then later when it evolved a normally aligned head again, instead of twisting back 90' the way it had come it just twisted another 90'degrees
The recompression/decompression logic could (and I would argue, should) be packaged separately for distribution platform instead of being embedded as part of the game's logic. In the case of using Steam, it would be no different than how it shows separation of time spent downloading vs time spent installing.

This allows it to be ran automatically after download without having the user need to launch the game.
The heart of the issue is always the same: is a perfect simulation actually the same thing as what it simulates. I would argue that yes especially when the definition of knowledge or intelligence is already so fuzzy but some people will probably always disagree.
Right

#1 it’s not clear that this ∃ ∀ construction is a fair representation of what is being ‘sold’ by GPT-x

#2 it’s also not clear what this proposed inverted formulation (∀ ∃) that describes what the author thinks GPT actually is even means. For every setting there exists a task that it answers? Does that even make sense?
See also, Tumblr sells them for $7.99 which is cheaper than other websites https://staff.tumblr.com/post/700564142648606720/hi-were-int...
My biggest takeaway from the article is my new favorite word: cryptomorphic, meaning equivalent, but not obviously so.
weird that there's no map scale provided - like a "___ = 1km" legend thingy

also the silver/gold infrared map reminds me of Brinstar in the original Metroid.
there's also a web app, just hidden under staging.bsky.app because it's not ready to replace the main address yet
That's hardly an argument against allowing people to build on their own property.
Duolingo has more to teach in terms of sales/marketing than language. Study them for the details, but the essence is this: sell people what they want to hear, what they want to believe, not what actually is, not what actually might help them, they seldom buy truth anyway.
The Microsoft Research "Sparks of AGI" paper spends 154 pages describing behaviors of GPT-4 that are inconsistent with the understanding of it being a "fancy Markov chain": https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

I expect that the reason people are constantly arguing with you is that your analysis does not explain some easily testable experiences, such as why GPT-4 has the ability to explain what some non-trivial and unique Python programs would output if they were run, despite GPT-4 not having access to a Python interpreter itself.
>You're arguing that oil & gas companies should have standing to sue over a specific mass transit policy

Yes, this is trivially true. Let's say there's a mass transit policy that said that ethanol fuel would be subsidized for the next 12 months, to help out local producers. Then after the 12 months the government just simply continues to provide those subsidies. Surely someone has standing to sue here, right? Why not oil companies? etc.

If that's more of an "energy policy" and less of a "mass transit" policy, then fine you can replace ethanol subsidies with high speed rail subsidies or something, though I think that gives you a less-tight analogy with the student loan subsidization scenario where you're illegally subsidizing a direct substitute for a company's product.

The implicit logic that I've seen every now and then is "if the government is doing something nice for someone, then no one has standing to sue to stop it." To me that's the more obviously absurd position. If the government illegally subsidizes student loans, who has standing if not the companies that are trying to provide competing student loans? If the government illegally subsidizes ethanol, who has standing if not oil companies?
Show HN: I'm building a Strava alternative without all the social media crap
I'm working on https://cubetrek.com, a web app to manage, visualize and compare your running, hiking, mountainbiking, skiing... activities.

Some features include: a github-style calendar heatmap, 3D visualization of tracks (especially useful for hill climbs and mountaineous terrain in general), a world map displaying all your activities at once.

Excluded features: although you can share yoir tracks to the world, should you choose so, there are no friends, no likes, no comments, i.e. none of that social networking stuff. And no ads.

Any feedback is appreciated, let me know what you think, what to improve!
Investment bankers job is to deploy capital. How would unionizing help them? Will unionizing increase the amount of capital? No, so no sane person would suggest that.

Software engineers are primarily manufacturers. They make products. The barrier to entry is extremely low for this line of work. I get that you think you’re really smart, but there are tens to hundreds of millions of people in the world who could do your job adequately. Your only leverage is to band together with others doing your work and demand your fair share from the business’ owners.
Are they? Since the last earnings margin went way down
Commandments of Reliability Engineering
“Or: testing on your training data is a common way to cheat, but so is training on your test data”

The need to hold back training data for testing, and issues around testing using variants of training data versus real world data are well known.
no, but `$ yes "a cat is an animal"` does (if you know how to interpret it)
As a tangent, Andy Bell and Heydon Pickering have the following, and you absolutely must check them out:

- Every Layout https://every-layout.dev/

- Inclusive Components: The Book https://book.inclusive-components.design/

- A mdoern CSS reset (slightly outdated): https://andy-bell.co.uk/a-modern-css-reset/

- My favorite 3 lines of CSS https://andy-bell.co.uk/my-favourite-3-lines-of-css/
https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee... ?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK an ID.4 GTX is £55k if you want a heat pump and not in flat primer grey.

A Model Y long range which is faster (by 1.4s to 60mph) and has better range is £2k cheaper.
How do we know that? Because of how it behaves in electric and magnetic fields. In particular, how it accelerates. It obviously has a negative sign in it somewhere. My point is that we don't know if that sign flip is in charge or mass. A lot of the math behaves in accordance with observation whether we flip the charge or the mass.
There is one case that's missing: variable input, say a USB-C PD powered device that can use anything from 5-20V despite operating internally at 12V (which, iirc, most laptops do), or automotive devices that can run at anything from 6V (motorbike) to 24V (truck, bus) while being tolerant of >100V spikes during load changes.

How do these work?
Ask HN: How does Apple Offer 4.15% APY?
Reminds me of Pratchett and the adaptability of the Quirmians when muddy old boots were substituted for the original ingredients ...

"... let's see ... Mousse de la Boue dans un Panier de la Pâte de Chaussures ..."

(... I don't now if this was simply Pratchett's standard cynicism / semi-jaundiced take on humanity, as applied in a standard enough way to French restaurants, or more directly related. Pratchett did have an awfully wide range of knowledge and constantly expanded that knowledge with research while writing.)
> but they even went so far as to send landscapers to my doorstep to "confirm" an appointment I never made.

Do you know this for a fact? I wouldn’t be surprised if some enterprising lawn engineer decided to use publicly available list of “ordinance violators” as a lead generation tool.
The author says that the builders of these systems are also the ones that run the scam. And they deliberately build it in a fashion that enables the scam. Seriously?

This is a gripe with sales and marketing. A tale as old as time.
My suggestions:

- Cancel all non-essential subscriptions, services and expenses.

- Calculate how much time you can afford to be unemployed, and how to extend that time if necessary.

- If you employer provided you with medical benefits, make sure to get any important pending doctor visits before you may need to switch insurances.

- You can be professional and proud of your job, but your job is not your identity. There is more to you than what you do for a living.

- Keep a routine. Get up in the morning at a given time, take a shower, cook a palatable meal, go for a run, read a few book pages, don't stay up late. There are habit building apps you can get for your phone that are good for this.

- Your new job is to get a job. You should look at it in this way. You do have a purpose, you do have something to do.

- Do not ruminate! Do not revisit arguments that could have gone differently. Use what you can as a lesson and move on. Don't get stuck in the past.

- Do not drink. It won't make things better. If you want to deal with emotional pain, go volunteer at an animal shelter or do something meaningful.

- Be honest about it with the people around you. If you think your partner and friends will look at you unfavorably because you don't have a job, then they're not really on your side and you are better off without them.

- Be kind to yourself. Nobody is perfect.
It wasn't intended as one.
But generating new prompts for GPT is incredibly cheap! You just rephrase and ask again.

That there are prompts which generate impressive results with GPT is the point. Because anyone can generate prompts - and get impressive results.

Whereas hyper parameter tuning is expensive. A system that generates good results with the right tuning doesn’t tell you much about your ability to use it to generate good results, because it will be hard to try lots of different tuning approaches to discover if you can get a useful result.

These things seem not remotely comparable.
Agreed, history is written by those who prevail.
There's not much to it. There's usually some stage-1 converters at a subnetwork of panels that step the panel voltage up to a common DC bus voltage with all the MPPT and relevant OTP/OVP/UVP/OCP/etc. Then the big DC bus gets combined across all panels and fed into a three phase inverter with IGBTs or sometimes SiC FETs (getting more common), which just looks like a hex bridge across a three phase transformer. There's gate drivers (maybe isolated), amps for current and voltage sensing (maybe isolated), some protection circuits, and a half-assed flyback to run the fans and the control DSP. Some models might host an MCU for data logging and comms out to a control plane.

There's a handful of projects where the size of the solar field is large enough to make it economic to step up from 400V or 800V bus. I've seen many 1000V buses, a few 1200V and 1500V buses. Honestly it's exactly the same circuits, just with higher voltage ratings; all your switching elements are still giant hockey pucks, you're still doing a three phase hex bridge, etc. The half-assed flyback is sometimes replaced with something a little less braindead.
I don't care if I'm taken seriously or not. There's nothing I can possibly say or show you to convince you of my position.
As a technology ai can indeed free people in a productive manner. But it would appear that we started on the wrong footing. Power will be consolidated in the hands of a few at a scale we haven't seen yet. It all depends tho on whether we can regulate how data is collected, at least at the basic level of not infringing copyright.
API Brew is a open source tool to generate REST API back end from config file
Margins are crumbling and now the story is that they'll make it back by selling fsd.

On top of that, all the insane valuations assume both of the things (high market share of EVs and high penetration of EVs across car market).

Anyway you already knew that.
400uA isn't "low"--that's roughly speaking a fully-awake MCU running at 10MHz.
"the BASE collaboration has shown, within strict boundaries, that antimatter does in fact respond to gravity in the same way as matter"

https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/research_news/pr/2022/2022...
Btw, at the very bottom (kinda hidden), there's a paragraph describing on how it works in broad strokes (Spring Boot, Postgresql/Postgis, Maplibre GL, D3.js are a couple of keywords)
And has it performed a radical reorganization of property ownership that has resulted in a better quality of life for its citizens? Well, I know almost nothing about Vienna, but a quick check would suggest that it has an enlightened if not entirely successful take on this.

But if that's true, then Vienna is just one of the handful of the exceptions that prove the rule.