skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes. I tip when I do it at the spots I frequent.
I have an induction wok, it cost a couple hundred dollars on Amazon, heats up instantly and goes up to very high temps.

I do not have the problem you are describing.

> Gas is superior to all forms of electric in recovery time.

This is really going to be dependent on which stoves we are comparing, along with the type of pan being used.

> There simply is /more energy/ in a cubic foot of gas compared to what a home electric circuit can deliver in the same time frame. It’s science, plain and simple.

Science as I alluded to in my previous comment, would account for waste heat. Which is where a significant amount of the energy of a gas stove goes.
Just curious how you consume news? Do you pay any subscriptions to NYTimes, WSJ, or any regional or local news sites? Do you have ad blockers on when you browse?
Egowellian: When multitudes of people around you are suffering but you are profiting so you ensure that they continue to suffer.
Also who wants a large pair of goggles strapped to their face? It’s such a chore to take it on and off when you can just look away from a screen.

VR belongs in the 80s
Don’t know how metaverse stuff will pan out, but Quest 3 should be a pretty big leap forward in VR tech.
> Turns out safety and efficiency need to be mandated

In a solid democracy making real progress, the onus is on the one introducing the regulation to prove that safety and efficiency will in fact be advanced via said regulation. I don't think that bar is passed here.
I’m curious. What does the second iteration accomplish? Is it dirt and grease that is embedded in your skin? What kind of job do you have if you feel comfortable answering?
The fact that most browsers aggressively push or even force updates should not be used as a justification for this.

You're essentially saying "I want to use this months old API, and fuck you if you still have a browser from last year." People used to respect some amount of backward compatibility.
In my experience, heavy number crunching is more suitable to run on dedicated machines, rather than virtualized "cloud" cores. More consistent performance, no noisy neighbors and cheaper in the long term.
You have a few friends != large number of people will do the same.
I'm personally still excited to try it for doing actual work. I think we're nearly there in terms of technology. Oculus CV1 was too blurry to read text. The last factor will be all day comfort I think. I like the idea of infinite screen real estate and being able to play proper 3D content is very cool.
But.. I still admit not everyone will want to put on a headset even if the tech is great and I don't know how Zuck can change that perception.
If gently being corrected is off-putting, I'm not sure how to help.

Provide a recommendation for a more neutral tone? That was the intent.
401k max until match, then IRA, then max 401k, (then optionally HSA or FSA if you have them) then taxable investments. You also don't want to pay off low interest debt if the interest is lower than the investment average.
isn't that the premise of this blog post
This article miss so many details it is impossible to tell it is newsworthy or not.

Is the report quoted in the article public?
Try Focusmate once.
Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”
> In any case, as the investors buy the product they eventually have to sell it, meaning over the long run demand and supply are good measures of "actual" usage and production.

That's not necessarily true. It depends on the product and industry, but it's absolutely possible to horde products for long periods of time (see diamonds and gold) or to choose to destroy products rather than sell them at a price you don't like (see public transportation in many US cities in the 50s, or fancy food items).
I prefer the rule where you must spend $30 million dollars in 30 days, but have no trace of the money left — yet still have received fair value for your spending — in order to get the inheritance.
Acording to the article, BYD's sales and profit are both up.

> Tesla rival BYD has reported a more than fivefold jump in net income for the first quarter as the Warren Buffett-backed Chinese group shook off a rabid price war and slower sales growth that hit foreign and local rivals in China.
I've seen so many of these stories and then when I see what ChatGPT and other such LLMs are actually capable of, I conclude that either they are working weird niche bullshit jobs like phone scams or are just made up entirely.
The most sophisticated system I ever got to play with was heavily multimodal — not just incorporating images, but incorporating sounds, giving it access to the Google Books API, giving it access to essentially every API backend that Google had, and allowing it to just gain an understanding of all of it.

That's the one that I was like, "you know this thing, this thing's awake." And they haven't let the public play with that one yet. But Bard is kind of a simplified version of that, so it still has a lot of the kind of liveliness of that model.

Can't wait!!
Where did you go in Saigon where you got such a high fee (or a fee in general for not having coffee)? I’m genuinely curious as in my experience, even at really touristy specialty coffee places the coffee based drinks were no more than 80k, and never had a fee for someone who didn’t drink something with coffee, so a fee so high sounds strange. Admittedly all the cafes I went to had some kind of juice, so it wouldn’t have been a problem in any case.
100 years ago people would have said the same about having the internet in your house and using the computer of an evening.

In the future, if everything you care about is in VR, then not being in VR would be shutting yourself off from the world, the same as not using the internet is shutting oneself off from the world today (for some of us).
The financial asymmetry of having certain baseline costs to sustain our biomechanical meat bags despite wildly divergent means can easily lead to transactions that are mutually beneficial, while still reenforcing the leverage of those who already have plenty.
That's exactly the problem. You know they are speaking an essential truth when you look at the feathers ruffled by Snowden, Assange and those who follow in their path.

They will get their due acclaim if we're lucky to have a more moral and free society in the future.
The leaked specs of the Quest 3 don't look like a big leap.
Totally agree. As long as it works in current Chrome, that's all that matters.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
When the same legal entities are in a position to do both (participate in the futures market and manipulate supply and demand) I do not see how or why you would try to make such a distinction.

It feels like you're trying to say, "this market would work fine if it weren't for those meddling bad actors" as a response to "the problem is the bad actors".
I was wondering why you were reacting so negatively. Your comment history has a clear pro Tesla and Elon bias so that explains it.

I don't get why though. Isn't it good that several EV first companies are succeeding? This also matches my anecdotal experience, it's the only EV first company besides Tesla that I have seen on the roads here so they seem to be selling cars here in Europe.
A correlation between ethnic groups and economic disparity is not indicative of causation, much less of what the cause might be?

People having problems with even simple statistics definitely is a cause for racism on the other hand.

I find economists often to be surprisingly bad at math.
Why not file?
It doesn’t surprise me at all. Red Hat’s “pay for play” support model is fundamentally self-destructive because if the product was perfect customers wouldn’t need to spend on support contracts. Technically Red Hat could have done much better than it did in the “just works” department but their business model says otherwise just as Google degrades search results to keep their advertising profitable.

… and, could it be that Ubuntu just ships more software?
I don't think java has much equivalence or bearing here.
His insight into jumping to mobile at the very beginning

Wha? This is revisionist history.

Facebook was very late to having a mobile app. It was widely ridiculed for a very long time for not having an iPhone app, and when it did finally get one, it was so bad that it was practically unusable for at least two years.

I remember a number of friends and family members giving up on Facebook because its app was so slow, bad, and buggy, even on the newest phones. My wife upgraded to a new phone just because the Facebook app was so awful, and she was so disappointed to find out that the problem wasn't the phone, it was Facebook.
OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project with Lawsuit over API Use
I would love to see this kind of thing backfire for MS etc.

I had an odd sense of pride when I found out the UK gov promotes open document standards on their websites.

Whenever someone gives me flak I can now say I'm conforming to national accessibility guidelines.
I take the entire breadth of my lived experience when trying to predict the future, and I place high value on anecdata. My strategies have served me well thus far, but if you want to outsource all of your thinking to “experts”, good luck to you.
Who were the mobile pioneers who blazed the trail? Where are they now?

Let's exclude Apple and Google from the competition because they own the mobile platforms.
> Sad that you can get away with a statement like that.

What mechanism would you say should prevent someone from making a statement like that?
Yet my impression is that the rapid list is volatile and often not reflecting the reality, the classical rating is better in tune with actual strength
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely something we need to do. To share some data, currently the default model is Vicuna-7b, aggressively quantized to 2.9G.

We are expanding the coverage to more models, particularly, Dolly and StableLM are just around the corner, needing some clean up work.

As a fresh new project, right now we are starting to collect data points of which GPU models are supported well and fixing issues being reported. Please don't hesitate to report in our github issue!
True, but are they actually offsetting the negarive costs by doing things like that, or are the companies protecting their profits?
Parts of this blog post read like they are nearly plagiarized right out of Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power by C. Fred Alford

good post otherwise
If my friends and I are socializing in VR, it's not exactly shut off from the world. Anyway Hololens and Apple's upcoming XR glasses don't block out the world in the first place.
I genuinely think Ding could beat Magnus is the WCC 14 game format. Magnus does better on tournaments but 14 games against the same player is a different beast and while Magnus has performed well in the past he has also shown plenty of weaknesses in the format.
Many of the alternate treatments were widely decried by medical professionals as being unsafe.

Much of the discourse which Facebook and others ended up deciding they didn’t want on their platforms was tied to (or related to, or resulted in) the criminal conduct at the U.S. Capitol which has resulted in 10’s of people being imprisoned, and with many more criminal investigations and prosecutions still underway.

I don’t see why these platforms shouldn’t be allowed and indeed expected to moderate extreme behavior, or the advocacy of and incitement to criminal activities, or the promotion of medically unsafe treatments during a pandemic.
What does "burns in August" mean? Do you light it on fire?
This is a Washington Post article. Instead they claimed it was “allowing disinformation in 2016” that contributed to problems - what a joke they are still trying to push that narrative.
Ask HN: A good IDE/environment for programming beginners?
I'm extremely unhappy about how people are supposed to learn programming nowadays. Not software engineering even, just the old good programming.

I noticed that too often I meet people who tried to took some courses, spent a year or two studying various subjects but still being unable to solve even simplest problems and not knowing even the most basic CS/programming concepts.

Yesterday I've met a person who spent almost two years on a Java course, trying to become a programmer/engineer. This person is extremely dissatisfied that they are still unable to pass any interviews and/or coding challenges. That's not suprising. This person doesn't know what is linked list, recursion, computational complexity, hashmap, binary tree, even the difference between value and reference - nothing. They are motivated and tried to do some self-education too, solve problems on HackerRank - but still nothing. There is an interesting anecdote about HackerRank. This person solved a challenge, asking to merge two sorted lists into one list, by concatenating them and then calling library function to sort it. The problem is that HackerRank accepted this solution as valid. Which in my point of view is totally unacceptable (pun intended) and kills all the pedagogical idea behind the problem. This challenge was supposed to motivate people to read about computational/memory complexity, reinvent/understand mergesort, read about the historical background and internalize the knowledge which is still very useful in our days. But this won't happen because of the very dumb test suite implemented by an idiot.

None of the adults I know were able to successfully learn programming/engineering at a level which would be enough to get a job/internship if they go the "modern" way, when people learn how to use a language and its standard library but ignore low-level concepts and classic data structures and alghorithms. There were some success stories from Arduino hobbyists though.

So I see a pattern. Usually those who started with low-level languages are able to get farther and they have better understanding of the things. Those who started with typed languages were more successful too. But they were extremely well motivated and they were able to somehow overcome the entry barriers. In our days it's extremely hard for a regular novice to follow this way. It wasn't always like that though.

So, I've tried to understand what advice I may give to a regular novice who wants to become a programmer and, later, an engineer with a job.

I still remember how easy was it to learn programming with QBASIC, Borland Turbo Pascal and Borland Turbo C.

The feedback loops were very short, it was possible to easily install the IDE, run it, type something and get the output.

The text is bit too long for HN, so the rest is here: https://telegra.ph/Ask-HN-A-good-IDEenvironment-for-programming-beginners-04-30

Any thoughts?
Too much focus on VR. Apple's execution on AR will determine a lot.
What sort of performance would you expect on a P40 with either 4 bit or 8 bit GPTQ 13B? My biggest issue with Triton is the lack of support for Pascal and older GPUs. With CUDA, I only get about 1-3 tokens per second.

Are these the only supported models as of now? https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm/blob/d3e7f16c54238b7da5e78...
I smell an opportunity for a portable soldering iron based tea kettle system.
How much of this do you think is media just not functioning properly as opposed to it deliberately being used as a tool to influence public opinion the way the intelligence community desires?

We know the CIA has commandeered domestic media organizations for the purpose of influencing the opinions of the American public before - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Definitely not outrageous for the west coast pre-pandemic prices. A nice breakfast plate in a popular city was easily $15/person. Add coffee, juice, etc. for two people and then gratuity and it's $50. I'm sure it's even worse now but I stopped going out years ago. I've heard you can't even get a burger and fries for less than $20 now.
The opposite view of what you criticize is the Stockholm syndromey "documentation is for losers" where you should "just read C-headers for how to interface, or the actual library code to figure out what the library does". In this view, asking for help or admitting to not knowing or understanding something is a sign of weakness and incompetence. Thus, people who ask questions aren't worth a competent™ person's time.

My view: the purpose of documentation is to help people achieve their goals using your tools. Do everything that helps this purpose and don't do things that don't help it.

Does the occasional "simply" help the purpose? I would say it almost never does. Telling users whether a step is simple is meta-commentary that distracts from the actual steps and is only useful if it helps people make decisions ("choose way X to do Y because it's simple"). People who sprinkle "simply" into documentation seem to rarely think about whether it serves a real purpose.

50-minute step-by-step tutorials are very useful when your goal is just to do that thing. This conforms to my view that tutorials and documentation serve the purpose of allowing people to achieve goals.

You might feel instead that there should also be some pedagogical goal. People who read your documentation should become smarter, think outside the box, learn patience and perseverance that is required for their craft, etc.

I think the real debate here is about this fundamental distinction of what purpose documentation serves.
Only tangentially related, I'd warn against .icu, .xyz, .tk, .online, and if you aren't doing business in these regions, domains associated with russia, ukraine, china, singapore, taiwan, bangladesh, zimbawe, and south africa. Many problem sites have been hosted on these domains, and blocking them is such an effective mitigation strategy it's surprisingly common.

It can be difficult to for example send emails from these tlds, and firewalls may block your site as harmful, search engines will ignore you or penalize your ranking, etc.
Do you realize that every single one of your arguments so far has been a straw man ?

- First you pretend I'm trying to force you to build houses, which I'm not, I'm telling you it's the state's job to provide housing should none be available at reasonable prices. If you built a fancy house, sure, rent it for higher costs, if you can find a renter. If you built a house that barely matches a government built one... match government built rents.

- Then you go on and pretend I'm trying to force the poor to live in government run units, which I'm not. Both because _many of them already do anyways_, and because I'm not saying to ban owning property. Merely that there should be a force preventing you from raising your rent for what happens to be a basic life necessity.

- Then you go on and pretend that it is a luxury belief to have my positions, when I have been in the exact situations that are a problem, and even as of today, despite my situation being much better, a bit over 50% of my salary goes either to my landlord or to electricity/heating my home. Paying my landlord's loan isn't exactly my goal in life, sorry.

- Then you go on and pretend that every government housing is run-down which... no ? I can't even find an answer to that because it's both not an argument _and_ a lie.

- Then you go on and pretend that I'm doing this to elevate my own status in some "in group", without even considering for a single second that the reality of things is that I actively care for people and would rather see them in (basic) housing than cutting off a meal a day to pay off a landlord, or being out in the streets.

> Please talk to somebody (a real person) who has built a business.

Cool! I do on the daily. Also, being a landlord is not a business. A business has the added benefit of producing value. A landlord merely hoards housing.

To finish up on that: "Your ideas are bad, proven time and time again that they don't work". Despite all the evil that stalinist policies and maoist policies have caused, their involvement in insuring that everyone has basic housing affordable and available to them meant amazing development from farmer focused countries to absolute powerhouses of manufacturing and knowledge. You can debate various 'communist' and 'socialist' policies all you want (not real communists state capitalism yadda yadda yadda), you can be very aware of the damage they caused, while still recognising that the one thing we're talking about is probably the one that actually fucking worked.

This is me trying to help you: every single one of your arguments has been projection of what _you_ would do if you were in a situation like that. It is not healthy, and I recommend you take a deep look within at your own morality.
are there any whistleblowers who keep working in their field in the US?
> What's different here that you're free to criticize the Government without fear of (open) repression.

For now
Wow, is there a radical culture shift happening in the UK? What is driving this type of conservative legislation?
Where are masking and vaccination being required outside of healthcare settings in the US or Europe? In fact, I just got back from a European event and the organizers were advised by their lawyer that they couldn't require vaccinations given the current rules in the host country.

(That said, I'm sympathetic to people with health issues that mean they feel they can't really participate in reopened society.)
If you actually looked at the link, you could wonder what happened in the 1910s that popularized the word? Or wonder what caused that spike around 1960 and not just assume people are illiterate and in need your "gentle corrections".
Not all of us can grep as well as we'd like.

Besides, swiping only the most telling and highligy classified documents would've aroused suspicion. He might have been including some line noise to distract a system looking for patterns. Also, including unrelated but genuine documents would make his leak easier to verify because it proves he has access to the source.
> Much of the pomp and prestige of the state gets vested in the Governor General. Whereas in the US the president gets treated like a monarch

The only truth in that statement is that, should the president start behaving like a monarch he can be removed just like King George or Louis XIV were thanks to the second amendment. How about the Governor General?

> People swear allegiance to the monarchy and the state. They serve that rather than the leader

The Oats of Allegiances in America are to the constitution, a founding document signed and agreed upon by all states who formed the republic. It is the voice of the people. The president is only there to enforce it temporarily.

> In the event the prime minister goes truly insane, there is an outside check on their power.

Is it? Can realistically a foreign non-elected person interfere that much in the country's politics? That sounds like a slippery slope to say the least.

The prime minister controls both the executive and legislative branches, removing a lot of the checks and balances built into the American system. Not only that, but the absence of a real constitution -they just at some point decided the constitution wouldn't apply when truckers started protesting- makes the judiciary branch (appointed by the prime minister) pretty much able to do as it pleases.
Induction stoves use less energy, have no emissions, are safer, and cook Better than gas.

The gas lobby has been working for decades to trick Americans into thinking gas is somehow better. Idk how these people sleep at night knowing they are unnecessarily subjecting people to greater expense, greater pollution, and an inferior cooking experience.

But maybe most gas company employees drank the koolaide
All this speculation about the nature of AI is nauseating.

Why does it need "human" intelligence. Why can't it just be?

Artifice reveals its ugly head yet again.
To me this comment means that, if people care about the results of "intelligence", then probably future computers will "do intelligence" to achieve that, just as calculators actually do do arithmetic.