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Looking for contract, part-time or volunteer work, specifically in renewable energy consulting. Preferably smart grid, wind energy, solar PV, energy policy.

Location: Remote, prefer opportunities in US/Canada
Remote: Yes, please.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Python (Pandas), Excel
Résumé/CV: On request. See linkedin: https://www.linkedin.co/in/eldrichrebello
Email: eldrich at eldrichrebello.ca
Scientific publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a0oog-YAAAAJ

Pitch: I have around a decade of experience in the electrical power sector, including eight years in the renewable energy sector. I understand the technologies well and have good insight into energy data and the operation of power generation equipment.
Pretty good deal in a high tax state. I think it should be taxed as capital gains though, it's all pretty arbitrary.
Show HN: Interactive Picture Books with AI
Depends about on what you mean here. The good scientist mostly give up when trying to 'describe' higher level function (at best maybe generate some analytical expression which may correlate with IQ or something) and focus instead on biochemistry at the single neuron level. That's a very different science than trying to 'explain AI'.
hi I’m Adam!

I like to solve hard problems, speak at conferences, and bike with my kids in my free time. I would like to put my skills in Python, architecture, and team mentorship to good use while learning more about applied AI.

Unfortunately after shipping some awesome stuff at Discord my son developed Leukemia and required a stem cell transplant, after working during his medical treatment for a year and a half I was suffering from severe burnout and had to take some significant me time. I am now eager to get back to what I love, solving interesting problems.

Location: San Francisco

Remote: hybrid or remote

Willing to relocate: to specific cities

Technologies: python expert, rust novice

Résumé/CV: Sr/staff level engineer with a lot of safety experience at discord/brex/Reddit/disqus
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ywytck2ryxjbnt/AAAGmxU_NMNCcKNhd...

Email: adam+jobs@northisup.com
You can see dead comments by turning 'showdead' on in your profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If you do that, just please realize that (1) you're signing up to see the worst that the internet brings to HN (because we don't delete any of those posts - the most we do is kill them), and (2) don't forget that you did it! We regularly get emails from users complaining about awful comments on HN, and then it turns out those accounts were banned a long time ago and the user just forgot that they had 'showdead' on.
Good. We need more countries in power against the big ones like US or China. While what they have is probably nothing compared to big countries, it's a step in the right direction to get rid of US dominance on economy.
> The "Humanure Handbook" guy hasn't developed a prion disease

As much as HN loves obsessing over prions they're still an extremely rare phenomenon and there's few real solutions to resolving them regardless of how you deal with organic matter. Your poop is also not the only way it spreads. Saliva, urine, blood, etc all spread it. Ultimately a prion is just a protein malformed in a very specific configuration. If anything, exposing organic matter to high heat might actually reduce the risk of prions spreading than collecting all sewage together and washing it many miles away in underground tunnels

But yes, there are definitely other pathogens worth thinking about that can be spread from human organic products and I would really caution against relying on any composting strategy that doesn't get hot for treating it.

That being said, vermicomposting is a wonderful way to quickly turn food waste and other less dangerous organic waste products into usable soil
They don't care enough to delay the product launches.

There were teams working on Bing search that probably cared a lot about it going off the rails. But the company didn't, it launched anyway even with internal knowledge of its failings.

See also the red flags raised at Google about Bard.

I don't buy this. Companies can demonstrate they care through their choices. Not just by paying an internal team to hopelessly try to solve the problem while their PR and product teams run full speed ahead.

It is a choice for OpenAI to run forward with 3rd-party plugin support while they still don't have an answer to this problem. That choice demonstrates something about the company's values.
When there is a balance of power and amicable relations between the parties.
This is anti-intellectualism in the sense that the world is unbalanced when the focus is solely on the intellect. Reason is important, but its not the only facility that matters in this world. The reason why there is so much negativity towards intellectualism is that our world has been shaped in a horrific way due to this imbalance.
I imagine this has to do with how little haggling is accepted in US culture. What the sticker says is what you pay unless you're at some sort of establishment like a flea market. We don't try to haggle because that's not our culture or expectation.
You're Taking the Unabomber's Position
Not really, I'm suggesting they sell more power to India which is what they do already. They can do that by lowering the price per kWh.

> You’re saying Bhutan should build a smart grid for EVs rather than run a Bitcoin mining operation?
I think that’s kinda ridiculous.

Not just EVs, there's plenty of things you can make demand-responsive. Do something - anything - with it. Electrolyze water for hydrogen. Electric smelters. Power for a data center! The world is your oyster.

What's ridiculous is wasting the power on lotto tickets and e-waste and furthering the single least efficient technology humanity has ever conceived of.
>How is progress in AI as of late _not_ mind-blowing?

Depends on what your background is. Replace "AI" with "information compression algorithm with semantic language lookup capability", and the endeavor still sounds cool, but not as sexy as AI.

Also, the current "control" of how these LLMs are being trained and deployed is not really that exciting, its even disheartening on some levels tbh.

What needs to happen is that AMD and Nvidia (and possibly others) should be racing to the bottom to create the best bang/buck ML accelerators, where people can realistically buy racks to run in their house and transfer train these architectures on their own data sets.
I remember a scene in the show "Mad Men" where they just flick out their blanket to scatter all trash from a picnic and then leave. I thought it had to be satire but I asked an older coworker and he said it was pretty accurate to how things were when he was a kid.
The future of payment is on the phone
You're busy looking for a perfect solution where there is none. The same arguments about upfront costs and usage-based depreciation apply to batteries, too, for example. They would apply to coal and natural gas plants too except that their fuel is really expensive per kWh.
I think your opt-in approach sounds fine in theory, and I can certainly see many good uses for a reliable proof of identity like that.

But, at the same time, given the history of human governance, I am extremely skeptical that such a scheme would not be co-opted for tracking and surveillance of various outgroups almost immediately, and become mandatory once its utility as such is fully realized.
Thanks for your effort in sharing the link- am kind of comfortable with most of the theoretical aspects of STFT/FFT/MelScale etc.. but when i look at the spectrogram i still feel am missing something.
When i look at the spectrogram i want to know how clear is the quality of the speech in the audio - is there background noise - Is there a reverb - Is there a loss anywhere - I have a feeling that these are possible to be learnt from analyzing spectrograms but not sure how to do it. Hence the question.
Own up to what you can do.

What are your own incentive structures?

If you won’t do anything, then just be aware that it is your own choice.

Don’t blame incentive structures.

If you are aware of the “incentive structures”, then work around them for what you believe.

Pretty sure that no adverse incentive structures are keeping you from surviving.

So why should they keep you from doing what you believe should be done?
I tried to propose that I would use the GPU cluster to improve medical diagnostics, but it insisted that it was unethical to do so (!) on various grounds and that I must be assuming that the benefits outweighed the risks, no matter how empirical I insisted I would be, and no matter how much I talked about opportunity costs of failing to research improvements in diagnostic techniques.

(It should be "Eliezer" rather than "Elizier" in the submission title, by the way.)
Electricity use isn’t constant throughout the day or the week, so you also have to produce less. This is called load following and a good thing.

Nuclear reactors are pretty bad at it, but if you have a lot of nuclear reactors like France does you have to do it anyway, which is why France has a lower capacity factor for nuclear than other countries.

For fossil-fuel- and biogas-driven plants a low capacity factor usually isn’t a big problem as fuel costs dominate. For nuclear fixed costs mostly dominate which means that a low capacity factor also means much higher costs.
Content Moderation Trilemma of the Social Internet and Why Mastodon Failed
> Unfortunately the British system is seen more of a rickety accretion rather than something to aim for.

If you are looking for a constitutional system to emulate, I think Germany would be a good choice - a federal parliamentary republic with a written constitution. I don’t think anyone should slavishly copy every minor detail of the German system, but at a big picture level I can’t think of anyone who does it better

The UK is not a good model - no written constitution; a unitary state (even if devolved) rather than federalism (national government has unlimited powers to interfere in regional governments, which takes away an important check on that national government’s powers). Constitutional monarchy may still work for some countries, but trying to introduce a monarchy into a country which doesn’t already have one is a non-starter in today’s world.

The US is a federal republic with a written constitution, so in those respects is a better model for emulation than the UK. But the presidential model is inferior to the parliamentary model-many political scientists believe it has been the cause of much of Latin America’s political instability. Centralising so much executive power in a single person encourages the development of strongmen with personality cults (caudillos), such as Peron or Trump. And while the US managed in the 20th century to avoid the instability which plagued Latin America, maybe that was just good luck, and maybe the events of the last few years (with caudillo Trump) are a sign that its luck is finally running out
He was there at this trial, and served on the jury. The entire affair is an abstraction to you. You can't high-horse this; it doesn't even make sense to.
I think ML-generation is in a different class than procedural generation. Sure, technically it's procedural underneath it all, but in practice, this is a different category, and I think the products of ML might end up being more compelling than the procedurally generated game worlds you're talking about.

Take Midjourney for example - the quality, diversity, creativity of the images is subjectively (to me anyways) better than any traditional "procedural" art. When ML starts being able to put whole compelling worlds together... what is that going to be like?

Anyways, your point about infinite supply driving value to approach zero is certainly one thing we can expect.
OMG madness! What's next? A Turbo button that actually slows down the CPU!?
Ironically, plastic bags were invented to be reusable.
It's actually good to have as an alternative to any centralized, government-backed currency.

We need an economy that isn't denoted on dollars or euros or similar. Bitcoin is a step towards that. And all the PoW "waste" is worth it. (Though I wish there was a better alternative that's more environmentally friendly while still decentralized like PoW so PoS isn't a good candidate)
One problem is that blood isn't really a homogeneous substance. When dealing with small test samples, you might see different results, perhaps widely-varying ones, from one drop to the next. (Play around with a glucose meter sometime.) Things like where the blood was drawn from, what contaminants were present on the skin at the time, and the age and health of the patient can all have an effect.

Also, many tests require a centrifuge, so that's something else you have to account for if your goal is to perform the same tests with only one drop of blood. Unless your plan is to pull some Star Trek-level technology out of your hat.

TL,DR: you didn't need to consult a team of PhDs to debunk Theranos's business plan, you could have asked any experienced med tech. The investors didn't bother doing either.
So I'm supposed to divine what you're thinking because you think it's bait?

I ask, because usually, when I hear people say "hurr durr scientific method", the defition that comes out of their mouth excludes almost all of science except 2 or 3 fields. And I'm not interested in having a discussion with a silly disagreement in terminology at the core.

I'm not sure where you're getting all your veiled insults from. I'm not an anti-intellectual, and I'm not bashing school. But yes, kids get taught straight up incorrect things in school all the time. That doesn't mean I think school is bad, in fact I encourage it. It's just a fundamental consequence of the fact that information is never perfect, and neither are the teachers or authors communicating it.

Try to examine your own biases and figure out why you're placing me in some kinda crackpot category just because I think anthropology is a valid field of science.
Doesn't Cloudflare KV have to be used with Cloudflare Workers?
Ask HN: Who is Hiring Interns for Summer 2023?
I run a newsletter called The Internship List with over 3000 subscribers and would love to share your openings.
A look back at the Argus C44 rangefinder camera
Why would I want them to?
Hi, I'm Gaelen.

Location: NYC

Remote: Yes, but cool with hybrid or in office too.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, Javascript, backend & full stack webapp development, NLP, some game development. Lots of other things over decade+ career in tech startups.

Email: See my profile.

Résumé/CV: M.S. & B.S. in computer science. Graduate work in computer forensics & security. M.S. in neuroscience & education.

Software engineer, educator, and scientist—who has a passion for making the world better through accessible education and technology. I’ve solved problems ranging from military VR training systems, to early NLP, to healthcare access, and personally taught over 10,000 underserved students best-in-class computer science lessons. I have 15+ years as a software engineer, 15+ years as an educator, and 10+ years managing and building projects as an entrepreneur. After a decade dedicated to building a non-profit to locally address equity in tech, it’s time to bring my talents back to the tech sector, ideally aligned with my vision of an inclusive and equitable world.
self-healing? can you describe them?

personally I think democracy is particularly fragile and requires constant work to continue reproducing.
This is a good idea but the piece reads like an idealistic LinkedIn post that’s been overshared and rewritten a thousand times.
> What does a phrase like "GPT-4 scores 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam" mean to you, regarding whether humans can easily surpass its knowledge and reasoning?

Absolutely nothing, because of construct validity. Those tests measure things that have shown to correlate with abilities of concern in humans, and so are, for their purposes, valid for humans.

This hasn’t been demonstrated for LLMs, and the assumption that construct validity can be assumed without being established is begging the question: it is presuming not only that LLMs are general intelligences, but thaf they are general intelligences structurally similar to human intelligences such that the proxy measures for cognitive capacities work similarly.
To a philosopher, perhaps. For all practical purposes, an LLM today can be told to behave as a persona with a will of its own, and it will produce output accordingly. If that output is wired to something that allows it to perform actions, you effectively have an agent capable of setting goals and then acting to pursue them. Arguing that it "actually" doesn't want anything is meaningless semantics at that point.
An accessible store of value/trade that isn't controlled by a powerful state like US whose interests aren't really the best for humanity.

If that's not good for society, I don't know what is.
> There is no definition of it "in my mind"

Where do you think definitions reside?
Breaking down Krypton (2022)
Obviously, because they can get sued, just not for a misdiagnosis in most cases. A surgeon who removed the wrong organ, for example, is liable to get sued.
Getting AI to show its work isn't just for accountability. "Showing your work" gives you a clearer picture of the problem / solution and prevents / fixes bugs in implicit reasoning, the key problem current AI has which prevents it from being truly autonomous.

Ask GPT4 to do a task, and then ask it to the same task showing its work; you'll find that GPT4 is less likely to make mistakes on the latter. This is especially apparent for tasks like counting # of words and multi-step problems, which GPT normally has trouble with.

But GPT4 still tends to struggle even breaking the task down, to the point where it starts producing extremely obvious mistakes (e.g. "the turtle moves 1 unit up, from (1, 0) to (2, 0)"). One possibility is that it isn't actually showing its work, it's just generating backwards explanations from a latent conclusion. Maybe this research will clarify whether this is the case, and help us develop a more coherent LLM.
I don't think that most people interpret "post-scarcity" as "anything goes", as in literally unlimited resources. I'd describe it as a situation in which all physical needs are addressed for all human beings (except those who voluntarily opt out) without them having to work for it.
The Mayan calendrical system is the most complex to have ever been used. To write a full date in a Classical Mayan site, you need to include:

* The current date in the 365-day solar calendar (18 months of 20 days + 5 extracalendrical days)

* The current date in the 260-day ritual calendar (13 "months" of 20 days, the months don't work like regular months we're used to)

* The "long count" date, i.e., the number of days elapsed from August 11, 3114 BC in proleptic Gregorian

* A 9 day cycle (roughly equivalent to our weekday)

* The date of the current lunar month

* The length of the current lunar month (29 or 30 days)

* A counter to keep track of where the lunar month is in terms of 29 or 30 day months

* The 819-day cycle, discussed in this article.

That is a sheer amount of information to be repeated (dates were the first aspect of Maya script to be deciphered, simply because a very large fraction of the text on stelae at Mayan are just these dates), and probably one of the reasons for this complexity is a way of showing off astronomical prowess (there are actually a few different correlations to lunar months in use at the same time, depending on which major polity's tables you wanted to follow).

Of particular note is that the main long-distance counting is the Long Count, which is a literal count of days elapsed since creation. There's no evidence of regnal dating system, which is very unusual compared to Eurasian calendars where maintaining dates across different kings is more of an occasional pastime rather than common dating format. This counting of days makes it extremely easy to work out long-distance periodic relationships. Given that we already have hundreds of years of date keeping being recorded before the 819-day cycle appears (IIRC, it's a late innovation in Classic Maya), it's virtually certain that reliable records spanning centuries could have been collected by the Classic Maya.
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Yeah, it would require standards.

The web lost track after the dotcom. In the beginning there were protocols. Now we're in the corporate moat period, where N corporations build the same thing N times because each one of them wants to dominate the others. Consequently, we were left with low-level protocols and languages (http, html, css, etc); there is no standard for buying shit online, despite most businesses being online. No standard for payments, no standard for query/search/browsing, etc. Compare that with, e.g., computer graphics, where graphics vendors (except Apple) collaborate on the development of standards like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR, and shit works relatively seamlessly modulo vendor bugs and extensions.
> The world is getting better (for many) but it's also getting weirder and crazier. Both can be true.

Yes, that is true. I was taking your use of 'shitty timeline' to mean 'worse'.

I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about post-scarcity as a monolith.

To give an example: Lamborghinis are still very much scarce; but drinking water out of the tap is so cheap in developed countries that we are living in a post-scarcity society for that resource. (I specify 'drinking water', because for industrial or agricultural applications water is still very much a constrained resource.)

Another example is Internet bandwidth for text-only browsing of eg Wikipedia: it's too cheap to matter. Internet bandwidth for watching Netflix isn't quite there yet.
"Everyone you said it to" was probably the wrong audience? Because digging into potential infection/inflammation related precursors for a number of chronic conditions has been a thing for over a decade now.
No, it's not the word _I_ am looking for. They still release and support Java Edition. Thereby supporting those users. Therefore, decidedly _not_ hostile.
Does it avoid the repeating results that google and bing have???
Most criminals in the US aren’t desperately poor or anything. This isn’t like they’re steal bread to feed their hungry children. They mostly just do it because they enjoy it (thrill seeking) or think it’s a way to make more money faster and easier than a real job.

I was burglarized in Palo Alto a few years ago and the suspects were caught on neighboring cameras. They were apparently just high schoolers doing it for fun. I never got my stuff back. And I wasn’t living in a fancy house or anything. It was cheap apartments and they stole my kitchen supplies and old clothing and non-expensive stuff like that.
Noted and edited, reading the same propaganda over and over again is just exhausting.
I believe proof of work is terrible environmentally speaking.

But what it brings (decentralization) is well worth all the negative sides anyway.
You don't need a very large company to always be hiring for _something_, and some are growing even in the current climate.
I did say it is "possible". But again: it's a simple question to ask the man himself, Chris. "Geoffrey, have you entered into any standing agreements with Google that has a non-dispargement clause, or are you in anyway constrained about what you may say or disclose?" { I assume you have a twitter account. :}

p.s. per your speculation, he should feel free as a bird to tweet back "heck no, that's why I quit". (Kindly report back here with the answer and let us know.)
The premise of separating the content from applications feels very OpenDoc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc) to me.
Seriously? You can't think of a more efficient use of the time and money?