skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grid will never be ready for that, but smart charging may be the solution.

What do I mean by that: there is already a number of solar panel installations that are feeding the grid at daytime, sometime even more than what the grid can consume. There is no way currently to link the PV systems and the cars so that when the PV generates a lot of electricity all the cars in the area will start charging, maybe discharge at night to cover home consumption, practically using the cars as very large and intelligent batteries with the side effect of using all the excess PV energy to change cars for driving.

Otherwise we will be in the situation of cars charging at night will fail the grid and PVs overproducing at day will fail the grid, while most cars are used less than a couple of hours per day on average (ignoring commercial vehicles and taxi/Uber, cars carry people from home to work and back, eventually with a round trip to shop for groceries).
Even my rather ancient Leaf has a simple charging timer. I plug mine in when I get home from work, but it doesn't charge until after midnight.
"Lurked into"?

You can lurk but surely you can't lurk into something?
If you go to that website and then back to hn, the hn background looks blue.
its falling everywhere...
and its linked to... tada ... covid
In the UK, my provider has a thing called Intelligent Octopus that allows them to control when my car charges.

They offer me discounted rates (41p KWH vs 7.5p KWH) if I charge between 2330 and 530, but I can plug it in when I get home, and they control that charging block. It allows them to turn on charging anytime they like if the load on the grid is low, and they charge me that lower rate even if it's outside the off-peak time.
I always wondered if one could feed history into some abstract parser (or nowadays, maybe a LLM) to extract the most frequent "idioms":

ls <dir> | grep <pat> | less

vs

ls ~ | grep .bak | less
ls .config | grep *rc | less

you get the idea
Hug of death. What was there?
No, it seems most spammers here use cheap SIMs without spoofing (which seems to be what OP is about). They even leave voicemail messages asking to call back.

But spoofing is also something that should be fixed. I know it's difficult because of VoIP and backwards-compatibility, but it's not impossible either.
So, what is the right way to deal with gamma in a graphics application?
See also Kleenex
I asked it to draft a legal document based on some bullet points and it created it, in a different language, in keeping with the legal norms of that country. I sent it to a local lawyer for review and they only came back with very minor things.

Did the reverse with some regulatory documents too, asking it to summarise in vernacular then asking specific questions to better wrap my head around the docs. I wouldn't trust it fully for this of course, more like a supplementary learning aid.

I keep hitting limits with context size though. Eg. When coding it becomes cumbersome once your project hits a certain complexity. You have to carefully construct prompts to get useful outputs. Being able to add the entire source code into a prompt to have more contextual responses would really increase utility.
Why 10k Hours?
It also makes playing less painful if you are RSI-susceptible
Govt id is required to purchase a sim card in many EU countries. If the UK Govt decided to implement such a policy based on something like 'security' there wouldn't be a lot of push-back.

Let's overlook the fact that such policies just make stolen id a lot more valuable than it is already.
Plenty of civic minded people find services like these useful for registering Signal accounts not tied to their own number. Or for scraping sites like LinkedIn. There are companies like this run from other countries if you don’t trust Hong Kong. I don’t think arguing that some unknowable fraction of fraud traffic flows through these devices is persuasive when the legislative conversation in the countries that banned these devices is almost entirely about carriers losing some termination fees and national security fears.
Yep. I grew up there. Chrissie Hynde's song "My City Was Gone" is right on the money.
We narrowly avoided what could be the coldest AI winter. What I don't understand is if we are already in plateau of productivity or not yet
Will there even be 300M drivers by 2030?
I have grown quite fascinated by how people call cats. I was born and raised on the Oregon Coast, we always called cats by sucking back with our tounge tip on the front roof of our mouth (slightly behind the teeth) making a I guess clicking sound? I would type it by maybe nch, nch, nch sound. I've always been perplexed when people write the pspsps sound and now with articles description of the French kissy/pff pff sound.
Would there be some limit that it approaches over a large number of iterations though?
How to Create a Axure Plugin?
Microgrids are the future.
"Yes AutoGPT would be the singularity if it was way more advanced and could manipulate physical reality at will"

Way to handwave all the difficulties with this in reality.
Worse evolving opposite meanings is a real problem. Another example that became popular this century is 'entitled'. Now it means both 'being entitled to something' and 'wrongly thinking you're entitled to something'. So now a word we don't have a simple alternative for is less useful because it has become ambiguous. It also retroactively makes past uses ambiguous. This has a real cost to communication and the remedy is to enforce style to avoid it happening to other words.
They do help with promotion by giving "top rated" and "raising talent" badges and work history. Hard to say how much value and leverage it really gives and whether it worths all the downsides.
What is the latest in conversational models that allow GPT3 like (or close) performance w.r.t running things locally?
> As an example showing that it is true, read https://math.stackexchange.com/a/362840/6708 explaining how it is possible that the real numbers are complete (all first order statements about them are either provably true or false) while the integers are famously incomplete (no set of axioms can prove everything about them).

> ALL of the philosophically tricky notions that you list are only tricky when you mix in discrete notions like "integers" in your construction.

That may be so, but people generally don't use RCF exclusively. Real analysis always looks at the real numbers as an extension of the natural numbers, you can't go anywhere without sequences and limits. So it seems disingenuous to say that continuous mathematics is easier just because RCF is complete.

> And given that discrete mathematics gives us things like the Halting problem and incompleteness WITHOUT continuity being involved, shows that it is discrete mathematics that is harder.

While this is true, it's also true that a purely additive theory of the natural numbers is complete and several other theories of discrete structures are too (for example, while group theory itself is not complete, it's certainly completable, unlike Peano Arithmetic).

Also, the halting problem and incompleteness aren't where weirdness ends. There's a whole other range of weirdness that happens only once you add in uncountable infinities, such as Skolem's paradox, the Banach-Tarski paradox or the undecidability of the continuum problem.
Stolen ID in Spain is rampant, it may be just a coincidence though?
It really depends on sentence flow. With the usual SVO order, the subject becomes the focus.

If the context or dialogue goes like this: "Where are you staying for your vacation?" then the logical subject of the answer should come first, e.g. "I am staying ..."

However if the lead-in focuses more on the itinerary rather than the traveler, e.g.

"What is your plan? Can you describe your itinerary?" then it makes a lot of sense to start with "My itinerary involves..." or "My itinerary consists of..." or for a passive voice, "My itinerary is composed of..."
As a PM, I hate draw axure prototype for a long time. I want to know how to create axure plugin. I can't find the official develop document. 0.0
My lawnmower’s cooler than your lawnmower
I can’t believe it’s only been 1 month. It feels like 3-4 somehow.
Honest question. What good does that do? It’s a company they aren’t here to make you feel better.

They are treating you like an adult by giving you a nice severance package. I don’t understand the need for people to have companies admit they were wrong.
It's not hard to believe, as Photoshop is often broken and is known for massively janky workarounds. Adobe consistently ignores basic features improvement in Photoshop, from the outside it seems like a business decision. Most of the work is redirected into their other products (new brush engine in Fresco, Speedgrade color processing integration into Premiere etc).
Seems like charging at night is a problem if the grid is powered by solar, but a benefit if the grid is powered by nuclear. At least, if the chargers are timed to start later in the evening, when rates are cheaper.
Thank you! Yes and!:

> but so much of what we do is common that if it isn't declarative we're repeating a lot of effort.

We're not only repeating effort, we're also using artisinal approaches to wiring things up. Hand writing handlers is repeated work with low repeatability; there'll be a variety of forms & ways & places people end up writing similar-ish handlers, & creating the data model to pass all the references/targets around.

Being more declarative is not only less work, it also ought be much higher quality, more predictable, to have a lot less vagueries of implementation. It'll make it much easier to comprehend & maintain. Less work, for more repeatable/consistent outcomes.
Pretty much all three.
Ah, yes. IPA. Now it's super obvious how it sounds.
> or pulling people into your “we” that don’t consider you part of theirs

I think you've missed the point here.

My point is that it doesn't matter who you consider to be part of your "we". They are part of your we whether or not you acknowledge it. Most people never stop to consider the hundreds of thousands of people that impact their lives on a daily basis. Not stopping to think about this or choosing to ignore this doesn't change the reality of what is.

> It’s the same kind of “we” that people use in the sense “why haven’t we gotten jet packs yet?”

Sure, it's a similar kind of "we", but the impact of these we statements cannot be considered equivalent. Jetpacks and the future of earth are not in the same category. If jetpacks happen, cool! Their existence doesn't have much existential impact on me or you.

"We must stop doing a bad thing" in the context of environmental issues eventually becomes an existential statement whether you like it or not. Pondering the non-existence of jetpacks and pondering the collapse of the ecosystem that supports life cannot be lumped into the came category.

> Why bring all of humanity into it?

Because the survival of humanity depends on it, unlike the creation of jetpacks.
It's not a sports team. If it was, editors, teachers and code reviewers would be its supporters. I'd prefer not to live in a world without those.
Honestly, there is no reason why Netflix shouldn't allow streaming over telnet. It works for Starwars after all.
AWS Step Functions are great if you don't need to run a lot of them. In short, great for business processes, terrible for serving video.
Not DevTools but Matlab's product documentation is superb. I've learned a lot of signal processing, image processing, communications theory, statistics, and more just from the docs and examples (code, LiveScripts, and Simulink models). Very well written and easy to access from command line, editor, and/or the web.
But "thirds" occur every other note in the scale, since intervals are 1-based rather than 0-based. "Every third note" would more closely match the progression of a circle of fourths than a regular triad.
FYI, Reaper's license is for life, but the updates aren't.

"A new license includes free upgrades through REAPER version 7.99."
from https://www.reaper.fm/purchase.php
FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids
If it was?
It helps me to create thoughtful docstrings and comments which directs the copilot to much stronger completions
It sounds like it might not work as well for bash. https://github.com/ellie/atuin/issues/909
This is not the team's first paper on the desulfovibrio hypothesis. Their earlier 2021 paper, "Desulfovibrio Bacteria Are Associated With Parkinson’s Disease" explains why they're looking at this:

> Conventional and quantitative real-time PCR analysis of feces from twenty PD patients and twenty healthy controls revealed that all PD patients harbored Desulfovibrio bacteria in their gut microbiota and these bacteria were present at higher levels in PD patients than in healthy controls. Additionally, the concentration of Desulfovibrio species correlated with the severity of PD. Desulfovibrio bacteria produce hydrogen sulfide and lipopolysaccharide, and several strains synthesize magnetite, all of which likely induce the oligomerization and aggregation of α-synuclein protein. The substances originating from Desulfovibrio bacteria likely take part in pathogenesis of PD.

Three of the researchers work for the Department of Microbiology at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki. Presumably they're interested in Parkinson's because farmers are known to have a much higher risk of PD than the general population?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8126658/
> all the tallying errors and such

These are the types of errors I assumed he was considering there- I guess calling a close election a statistical tie makes even more sense if you're accounting for people not voting/having voted without 'perfect knowledge' as well.
Banning devices has not historically been a very effective way to prevent crime.

I am not an expert in modern mobile network technology so I’ll do something unusual for HN and refrain from suggesting a solution.
Remember when the Comic Sans creator said, “If you love Comic Sans you don’t know much about typography and you should get a new hobby. And if you hate Comic Sans you also don’t know much about typography and should get a new hobby.

This is the grammar equivalent of that.
> "What you said just now—the idea that we fall into a kind of trance—what I’m hearing you say is that’s distracting us from actual threats like climate change or harms to marginalized people."

Is the argument here that people are rather passive and go along with whatever the system serves up to them, hence they're liable to 'fall into a trance'? If so, then the problem is that people are passive, and it doesn't really matter if they're passively watching television or passively absorbing an AI-engineered social media feed optimized for advertiser engagement and programmed consumption, is it?

If you want to use LLMs to get information about fossil-fueled global warming from a basic scientific perspective, you can do that, e.g.:

> "Please provide a breakdown of how the atmospheric characteristics of the planets Venus, Earth, and Mars affects their surface temperature in the context of the Fourier and Manabe models."

If you want to examine the various approaches civilizations have used to address the problem of economic and social marginalization of groups of people, you could ask:

> "How would [insert person here] address the issue of economic and social marginalization of groups of people in the context of an industrial society experiencing a steep economic collapse?"

Plug in Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, etc. for contrasting ideas. What sounds best to you?

It's an incredibly useful tool, and people can use it in many different ways - if they have the motivation and desire to do so. If we've turned into a society of brainwashed apathetic zombies passively absorbing whatever garbage is thrown our way by state and corporate propagandists, well, that certainly isn't the fault of LLMs. Indeed LLMs might help us escape this situation.
The Sense of Beauty: Being the outline of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana and Aesthetic Intelligence: How to Boost it and Use it in Business and Beyond by Pauline Brown and up next is The Aesthetic Brain by Anjan Chatterjee
The acceptance of 'literally' to mean 'not literally' means English now has no simple, consistent way to say something is literally literal. At least linguistics nerds are happy though!
Mind sharing why you have such strong opinions on HATEOAS?

Is you problem that there aren't many implementations of it today or concerns with the architecture itself?
At $0.60 for 20k prompt tokens, it's not going to be cheap so they will need to bring the price down to get broader adoption.

As far as I can tell, the initial reading in of the document (let's say a 20k token one), will be a repeated cost for each subsequent query over the document. If I have a 20k token document, and ask 10 follow-up prompts consisting of 100 tokens, that would take me to a total spend of 20k * 10 + (10 * 11)/2 * 100 = 205,500 prompt tokens, or over $6. This does not include completion tokens or the response history which would edge us closer to $8 for the chat session.
I completely agree, I feel the same way as a dev. GPT-4 is not even 2 months old.

The developer livestream was on March 14th: https://www.youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ?feature=share.

The time since GPT-4 already feels something like 6 months. So far I'm perpetually feeling behind.
Oh certainly. It’s pretty rare to get things exactly right on the first try. For this reason we hide new endpoints from our public open api spec and documentation until we are satisfied that some dust has settled on them a little bit.

Still you only have to get it mostly right. Enough to get started. This only starts to become a huge problem when the endpoints is a dependency of another team. When you’re in constant communication between the developer building the API and the developer building the client it’s easy to adjust as you go.

I find a key part of a workflow like this though especially if you have multiple teams is to have a lead/architect/staff developer or whatever you may call it be the product owner of the API.

You need someone ensure consistency and norms and when you have an API covering functionally as broad and deep as the one I work on, it’s important to keep in mind each user story of the API:

- The in house client using the API. This generally means some mechanism to join or expand related records efficiently and easily and APIs providing a clear abstraction over multiple different database table when necessary.
- The external client, used by a third party or the customer directly for automation or custom workflows. The biggest thing I’ve found helps these use cases is to be able to query records by a related field. For example if you have some endpoint that allows querying by a userID, being able to also query by by a name or foreignID passed over SSO can help immensely.
> Maybe a standarized national system to report spam, or maybe even as part of the cellular protocol?

Not government, but, forwarding spam texts to 7726 (SPAM) works for various carriers.
AI's biggest risk are governments with militaries controlling them. Mass human death and oppression has always been carried out by governments.
Not a lawyer, but at least for code, no license means you have no rights to that code, even if it's just one download way:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1720/what-can...

I don't know if the same is true of blobs, and I also haven't checked whether the blobs are licensed anywhere on their site.
Water bombarded with neutrons create tritium, which is it’s own nightmare.

The problem is the neutrons, not what they hit.
> A more at weight pedant would work on changing the style guide.

Language pedantry is deprecated in Wikipedia. WP is resolutely descriptivist.

I regret that; I'm fully on-board with the notion that language changes. But I'm not OK with the idea that there are no rules at all. Humpty Dumpty was wrong; English is not a language where any string of words could have any meaning.

This is especially important in an encylopaedia.
I mean it literally advertises itself as a service that enables people to make money by bypassing restrictions that require phone numbers.

You might not make money using it and instead just use it to sign up for a single signal account, but you’re not really the target audience in that case.
Applelink: Practical API Recipes for App Store Connect Workflows
https://youtu.be/lE4UXdJSJM4
"If people were ruled by a king, don't you think the king would have taken every last thing in taxes? Therefore there has never been a monarchy ever."
Thanks for assuaging my FOMO a bit. I think one of the most frustrating parts is that everyone in my lab looks to me when they see this stuff on Twitter and all I can really do is shrug.
Spaceship – Minimalistic, powerful and customizable Zsh prompt
I don't think you can really call it aggrandizing when you're able to CC Google's board and they'll actually read your letter.
Good for him, we should uphold standards and enforce correct grammar.
>If you thought that this blog post had provocative ideas, you might be interested in reading some of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language

Yes, I've mentioned Wittgenstein before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650343

The older writings about language/linguistics are mostly about observing misunderstandings -- or -- complaining that progress isn't being made in philosophy because people (unknowingly) use different definitions of the same word. They weren't talking about any new yet-to-be-invented machines to bridge the gap of misunderstandings -- and understandably so because they lived in a time before computer algorithms like Large Language Models existed.

In contrast, because Venkatesh Rao is living right now in this LLM world (e.g. him playing with ChatGPT/GPT4/Berduck/etc), he's revising his prior opinion about evolution of communication. This thread's blog post is talking about new possibilities of technology enabling a more direct understanding. Maybe it's a poorly written blog post and maybe his prediction won't happen. In any case, I'm just trying to explain what the article's is about since some readers seem to misunderstand it. (E.g. some readers may think he's a misanthrope detached from real human interaction but his article is actually envisioning future scenarios of the opposite situation!)

EDIT reply to: >Like I said there is a whole debate about the concept of private language that you are missing.

And as I was trying to convey back to you, the previous "debates about private language" are not relevant to _this_ thread's article about future technology scenarios. His article is about predicting a technology trajectory, and not about philosophical debates.

To use this very thread we're in as an example of the author's point:

This thread's article was written by a high-IQ intelligent author. And you, the reader, is presumed to also be highly intelligent. And yet -- you seemingly misunderstood the core idea of what the author was trying to communicate. (E.g. You feel his article is low quality because it re-hashes "private language debates" already covered by previous philosophy). And to use a mirror assessment of the author's writing, he didn't string together the perfect sequence of chosen words to make his point easier to understand.

So... can new technology (e.b. future improved LLMs) ... bridge that gap of misunderstanding ... between what the author wrote ... and your misinterpretation of it?

Neither you nor the author are illiterate... and yet there's a gap between you and the author. Can a future technology help bridge that gap?
No doubt. But probably not specifically for this stay, so basically all the people who also rent this place without using a travel agent are subsidizing your use of the travel agent.
So you are 100% certain that no emergent properties can develop from a LLM that transcends the limitations of LLMs. I haven’t read any LLM literature, so I am honestly asking, do you know of anything close to a proof that such emergent properties cannot develop?