skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agree, my thesis on 2023 was for stocks to start trending down, but for some reason there was this strange bump in the stock market and then when SVB collapsed I said yup its finally coming(a healthy correction). But the fed/treasury bailed out SVB's toxic assets(non-FDIC insured) to the detriment of the broader market. I feel like the fed will do anything to prevent even the slightest failure, but bad assets/institutions need to fail. Its analogous to not removing cancerous cells and letting them spread through the body.
>I trust any engineer who responds with an “it depends..” over someone who has an absolute answer.

That heuristic matches on the hordes of liars who try and sound smart while hedging their claims with a liberal application of weasel words to avoid being provably wrong. And those people outnumber the "good engineers" probably by at least an order of magnitude...
Humans Need Not Apply is one of the most phenomenal videos on YouTube, what do you think is wrong with it?
We've lost another music creator from the soundtrack of my life.

Thanks Harry. I could never sing that Banana Boat song like you have but it will never stop me trying as I fly down the highway alone, cycling through all the songs of the soundtrack inventing lyrics for all those I have forgotten.

I've never quite been able to get any of them close to the originals but I've always done well enough to serve as a reminder to myself that I should be glad I never tried to make it a career.
How to get a true headache: brute forcing NTRU
If only it was this easy.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ladybird-truly-68649206
What would it cost the US government to buy out the major tax prep providers? The IRS could then provide free tax estimates to a large percentage of filers, and hire many former tax prep workers as IRS agents.
Hmm curious what the differences are, it’s the same person who wrote whisper cpp that hosts that website.
I think that this is a really big deal for at least two reasons. A lot of people in large companies can't or won't use ChatGPT or Copilot because management is worried that their data and code will be used to train new versions of OpenAI's models. Also, although the pricing for ChatGPT Business isn't yet available, I'm guessing they will make orders of magnitude more money from enterprise customers than with ChatGPT Plus, which might make it possible for them to make GPT-4 tokens less expensive. The current cost of GPT-4 is what is limiting its massive adoption as I see it.
Absolutely love Notion, but that time it went down for a while a few years ago was the last time I've used it. The fact they still don't have an offline version is baffling to me cause I'd love to throw money at them for the product but here we are.

Obsidian is my main alternative as it mostly does what I want and does it locally. Not affiliated, I just think it's an incredible tool and the extensions you can get can turn it into something else entirely. For example, Joshua Plunkett turned it into an incredible RPG manager: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67310539
Relatedly, there is interesting indirect evidence that the US market is dominated by "Spiders Georg" ("SUVs Georg") outliers that should not be counted. The SUVs Georg buy/lease new SUVs, crash them in 1-5 years, then buy/lease new SUVs. The used market sees a strange fraction of SUV sales and interest in SUV ownership compared to the new market, but the car companies don't sell to the used markets they like the high profit margins of the SUVs Georg.
Also keep an eye on "bugs" in Edge's source code which might ignore the setting in some cases ...
You’d need to go back further than that. Way back in 2002 I was shocked at my then girlfriend’s family’s overuse of antibiotics.

Her family was from Mexico and they regularly bought them without a prescription at the Mexican grocery store. They’d use them the way I used Tylenol.
Good luck though. Even the PinePhone has a Qualcomm, and it is probably one of the most promising devices for privacy.

(that said, I'm not sure this particular service is used, especially if you use a custom firmware which provides an open source replacement to many of the original firmware components. GPS does not work very well until the userspace itself sends an xtra A-GPS file to the modem)
How do this kind of models know when to stop? Does anyone has an idea.
I hope they keep the original ones though... e.g. (Billy Classic).

Wish I had never sold the Jerker desk from 20 years ago. It was built like a tank.
600hrs: 1hr/week for 12 years!

Amazing thank you. Very classy engraved cover for the boards.

And love the Pong game, it's a cool effect the way the "ball" cascades through the segments.
I recently started using vivalid, which also has vertical tabs baked in. I tried some firefox browser extensions but I find them to be really sluggish and feel tacked-on.
It is, however, far more interesting to me when people are able to split the hypothesis space well. For instance, take the question "Is drinking 1500 ml of water daily good for you?". Well, that depends on what other fluids you consume, whether or not you are on an IV as well, and whether or not you are drinking it by accidental consumption via waterboarding. It even depends on whether or not Baldur the Interstellar Water Hunter exists and will kill you for every drop over 1499 ml that you consume.

It's true, it does depend. But machines can exhaustively describe the hypothesis space now. Comprehensiveness is not the only virtue of a human.
This is incorrect.

Power is energy "over" time.

> Put another way, "1.5 gigawatts" does not in any way describe a rate

It most certainly does. It's 1.5 gigajoule per second.
SIMD support in wasm is a bit weird. You'll need to compile into multiple targets, and many compile flags are not supported: https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/simd.html
I think the biggest gain is actually EV in commercial vehicles. Like delivery vans, construction vans and work vans in the bigger cities. Those vans are quieter, NEVER IDLES!!!, less polluting, and don't required 300 miles range (I read average miles driven is 75 miles per day), usually return to shops where they can be charged. Given the right incentive and competitive pricing, I definitely see a huge win there both in global warming and quality of life in neighborhoods.
I was able to build a very nice desk[0] for my wife using wood from one provider[1] in Germany. It was CNC cut extremely precisely. I requested all the plates and used my wood tools to do all the small cuts, holes, etc. But you can ask them to cut the holes too. It saved me a lot of time and energy to have the plates ready at the right dimensions. I am sure you can find the same kind of providers wherever you live.

[0]: https://dl.ceondo.com/public/stuff/desk.mp4

[1]: https://www.plattenzuschnitt24.de/
From sanguine to hypersaline: Global salt lakes in decline
It's not good enough for dealing with climate change and it's a hard conversation we're not having as a society.
Intuit is like $125 billion and has many other divisions besides TurboTax.

People just don’t care enough (a state like California could make it illegal to charge for e-filing, for example, but they don’t).
For the fuel definitely. But we have to solve the problem for other components anyway. EV batteries in particular are great because they are 99% recyclable, so that's going to be the long term strategy.
I think the FSF's heart is in the right place here, but the real travesty is that the tax code and forms are so complicated for average people to navigate, and the consequences for a mistake can be so great, that even poor people with standard income sources feel they absolutely need professional help filing taxes.

This is absurd. Particularly with W2s and 1099s and the like, the government knows what your tax bill should be anyway and is just sitting there waiting for you to mess up complicated forms and penalize you.
Constantly looking to shave pennies off of products is understandable from a business perspective, but as many are commenting, quality often suffers. With some household items - not just from Ikea - it seems like the race to the bottom leads to everything becoming so bereft of raw material that they are disposable. Try to buy simple things like a dishpan or dish rack, and most brands have become so flimsy that they don't last.

I really wish that Ikea would offer a sub-brand which is more premium. They did that many years ago. I have a dresser from the early '90s which is still in good shape. It was differentiated by design. materials and construction. It also cost a lot more than other similar items. Around that same time they sold a series of shelves/cabinets with aluminum extrusions for the corners, and some of their more dense particle board with premium veneers for the shelves/panels. It really competed with high end stuff from other contract furniture companies like Steelcase, Knoll, and Herman Miller.

Ikea no longer seems to be interested in competing on quality.
The progression you’re outlining here sounds perfectly acceptable to me. I encounter many problems per day and they aren’t always worth understanding and solving, especially if there is a 10s bandaid for it. When the bandaid becomes expensive, that’s when I’ll put in the effort to fix it.
As somebody who doesn't want to drive as much as I have to, advocates locally and vocally for permitting life with out cars by enhancing bike trails, building housing close to jobs, eliminating parking minimums, and increasing density, it's a slow route.

It seems like small changes in regulations should be easy to accomplish, but it's actually far far harder than inventing entirely new technology and building entire industries around it.

Social change is the hardest change to accomplish, despite it getting the most attention from so many.
It wasn't just the store brands that came more recently, but the longtime "name" brands that made lines of items exclusively for BBB. This was especially the case with things like bedding, shower curtains, towels, bathmats, anything with memory foam, and so forth. They were just overpriced crap, you'd discover after a few months.
Spot on analysis.

Only thing you forgot is Macrons powers of persuasion will surely just convince the USA and China to give France equal footing. Pretty sure after he single handedly ends the Ukraine war he’ll get right on it.
Anytime soon is one thing, but "If at all"? It's been happening for millions of years, and it sure seems like there still "activity" there.

Not sure what kind of scientist could say they don't expect it to ever erupt again?
That’s what they’ve been doing.
You maybe already know, but I write it anyway in case you or someone else find it interesting:

AFAIK Logseq docs encourage new users to put everything under Journal and just tag the relevant blocks. Multiple hierarchical tags are possible, as are aliases, which comes in handy, e.g. I have examples of good ux nested three steps down from root, but in practice I write [[Good UX]] and paste the screenshot and I am done, it shows up at the right place, but is a lot more readable in my journal. BTW, that alias could have been #GoodUX as well and I would have gotten away with hashtag notation.)
> I used to think user choice was important, and then I realized I was sacrificing user experience for a freedom that I never exercised.

Once given up this is a freedom you will never get back, and when a government leverages this control to do something like erasing apps off your machine or tracking what you do there will be no choice left but to accept it.

Demand usability and choice from your products. The apples of the world have established a false dichotomy.
Carving Grinling Gibbons' Cravat
> Why does this need to be built in at such a low level that not even flashing a new OS can see it/stop it?

Nobody has shown evidence of that. The article certainly didn't
Yeah I'm honestly not worried about this at all.

- I have far more faith in Apple's security model than a traditional bank's model.

- I assume Goldman Sachs has a decent policy for fraud/hacks (though someone can fact-check this).

- I'm not a millionaire, if I was I'd be using many different bank accounts, is someone going to exploit a likely-already-patched zero-day in one of the most locked-down operating systems to get my five-figure account?
Loop seems a little more like Coda to me than Notion. Similar space, but not a similar "outlook on life".
iOS user spend more money
I've been following eww's development on the sidelines for a while. I wondered if you considered making it callable as a library, for some scripting language (e.g. python or lua or something), rather than growing your own bespoke language? To me it seems you risk people demanding more and more features in the "configuration language", and it turns into a (bad) fully Turing complete programming language before you notice. Like in the configuration complexity clock[1].

[1] http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complex...
The better question is why you think you're entitled to an inheritable multiple lifetime government assigned monopoly on literally any intellectual production of your mind. Even the proponents of patents aren't that entitled.

Intellectual property can be logically reduced to number ownership. Art, films, music, source code... It's just data. Data is just bits. Bits are numbers in base 2. You're trying to own numbers in the 21st century, the age of information and permanently networked pocket supercomputers. That's how delusional ownership of ideas really is.
> Lore has it that the decisive insight for the double helix came when Watson was shown an X-ray image of DNA taken by Franklin — without her permission or knowledge. Known as Photograph 51, this image is treated as the philosopher’s stone of molecular biology, the key to the ‘secret of life’ (not to mention a Nobel prize). In this telling, Franklin, who died of ovarian cancer in 1958 at just 37, is portrayed as a brilliant scientist, but one who was ultimately unable to decipher what her own data were telling her about DNA. She supposedly sat on the image for months without realizing its significance, only for Watson to understand it at a glance.

I don't think this is what Watson wrote in The Double Helix. He wrote that Crick, with his background in math and physics, could understand the image produced by Franklin but that he -- Watson -- could not.

Watson does write that Franklin thought DNA wasn't helical. The linked article provides an interesting explanation for why she thought that (at least at one time). As far as I can tell, that backs up Watson's narrative rather than undermining it.

One interesting takeaway from The Double Helix was that Watson and Crick cracked the problem with guess-and-check model building (the article mentions this). Sure, they had some vague idea that DNA was a helix and that A-T, C-G relatinoship, but they basically played with tinker toys until they got something that looked good. Watson claims that they decided on a double helix because of his intuition that "in biology, important things occur in pairs".
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Not a big deal. I have nothing to hide from Microsoft. I mean how them knowing chrome download page can hurt my privacy, right?
Because everyone assumes they'd be an explorer or visionary scientist when they'd most likely just be taking out the trash in a frozen desert.
If they are really compliant with the GDPR they must answer an information request. I just found the policy[1] . I guess I will write my first letter to Korea.. Also I guess I would need my unique id or chipset serial id: does anyone know how to get them? Then i would be all set to request which Qualcomm actually collected on me. Btw, using unencrypted connections allone probably is an easy gdpr violation. Qualcomm seems to have European offices, so I also wonder which national/regional data protection authority would be the right one for a complaint.

Edit: found the policy

[1]https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services
The original idea seems a bit out there, but technically you could use space as a heat sink. This is what happens on deserts at nights when the sky is clear for example.
BTW, we are also actively working on the GPT integration to bring a more futuristic experience in that you can simply describe your desired app, and having the live preview instantly displays the result - it's like magic! We plan to roll this out in May, but let us know if you're interested in trying it out sooner!
Plus GM's screwball decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in a moment where software feature competition is more intense than ever. I don't understand what GM leadership is thinking.
That's pretty funny. I don't remember ever coming across configs for Kermit or other protocols, just the [K]ermit | [Z]modem -type options on the front end of whatever clients I was trying out.

I wonder why more than one client would default to such comparatively-lame settings for Kermit though.
So it’s just Chrome all the way down.
No one claimed it was. But vehicles are the largest GHG emitting sector, so zeroing out emissions from it is crucially important. We just have to go sector-by-sector do this. Plus, technology developed for EVs helps stationary grid storage and electrification of other products and industries.
Additionally, solar charging is far easier to get out to a remote jobsite than is diesel.

Not at the size/scale you need to recharge and power a fleet of earthmovers and dump trucks. The energy density of diesel fuel is pretty high.
Do they even make money off of gas?
AI. [0]

Meta is a huge company. Switching to AI and spinning down their VR investments means a large restructuring.

[0] https://qz.com/meta-layoffs-2023-jobs-metaverse-ai-185019657...
The question to ask, then, is how much the interests of the two communities align and overlap?
Yes it's this. They have identified an expressivity level that they are calling FOC[+;MOD] which is intuitively supposed to capture the expressivity that transformers and transformers-with-rounding have in common. More formally they are trying to track down exactly how this level compares to that of transformers, transformers-with-rounding, simplified stateless counter machines, and uniform TC(0), and they have done it with partial success and they are reporting their results.
> They're pure math, and the agreement with nature

Sure, as far as the math is concerned, it appears that there is no need for "classical objects." But physics is not (and has never been) "pure math," which is why Landau and Lifshitz, in particular, keep insisting on the importance of understanding the "physical principles" behind the axioms, whatever they are, and the facts of the theory; and so the "agreement with nature" is all but expected; but in order to see that agreement we need to observe, and we can only make observations by looking at "classical objects"; then, to make a connection back to the theory we need to have a way of making the result of the observation directly available to the framework itself - its "physical content" and its math.
Powering a 100% carbon neutral EV "fleet" would require lots more (solar/wind)+battery or nuclear that is unlikely to be developed as quickly as the consumption.
I think we just want no-cost tax prep software and filing.

Mixing in the FSF desired source code licensing would muddy the waters, and I don't think it would provide anything 99% of tax filers care about.
As others have pointed out, it's not even what energy you use where, it's the laws of thermodynamics, you can't make the system colder, you shuffle heat around, so that's gotta go somewhere. I don't care if you're using the natural power of lightning strikes, you gotta put that heat somewhere and if you're venting it out into the atmosphere I can tell you where it's going to end back up.
also, people are glad to take slightly busted IKEA stuff for free or cheap. It goes quickly in all the facebook groups I'm in.
Not to mention, we know how to build structures that can last 1,000 years because it has already been done before! Using a dubious material in place of a known good one is not the best engineering approach.
Yep that's me, and fair point!
He regularly writes a column on Bloomberg called Money Stuff, you can see a few examples of him talking about BBBY here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
This is my exact issue with many "modern" languages. The code is not meant to be read later.
You're thinking of First Citizens Bank out of North Carolina. FRB is headquartered in San Francisco.
Does this have anything to do with decline in public education?
Over that long a time period it could be damaged just by rain - it's hard to say because corrosion tests aren't done with respect to a 1000 year operating life in mild conditions. I'm sure an expert could figure that out, but it would require looking at the corrosion rate of the specific steel, the exposure to any kind of forces that could damage the oxide layer (e.g. scratches), and the thickness of the member.
This isn't me, this is ggerganov's work. His demo is using gpt2, and whisper models (https://ggml.ggerganov.com/).
As an aside, EV doesn't mean renewable. In Germany the nuclear reactors have been turned off due to the influence of the Green party, and natural gas transfer from Nord Stream I was stopped by Russia due to the Ukraine war. As a consequence, more energy is now created from coal, since renewables like wind and solar are too volatile to replace nuclear and natural gas.
Rewrite this without all the cutesy flourishes. I was somewhat interested but gave up reading half way through because the technical information is getting buried under your sparkling personality. Being funny and clever is good, but it also makes demands on your audience, and this introduction demanded so much attention for itself that there was none left over to evaluate the tool.

The tool looks nice, but all I can remember about it 5 minutes later is the intensity of the sales pitch.
When you evaluate Keepassium could you look into if the application honors not contacting anything on the internet? For me this is a major point of feeling secure when using the application and iOS has no way to block apps from accessing the internet.

Otherwise thank you a lot for checking KeePassXC!