skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that most of the upvotes and many of the comments on this post were completely inorganic. They were done by people trying to help promote your thread.

I'm not talking about the replies you posted; I'm talking about top-level comments that appeared to be organic and actually weren't.

If you didn't ask friends/fans/users to upvote or comment, or pass a link around (which is usually interpreted as such a request), then someone else did. No doubt they were trying to "help" you. Whoever it was, they need to understand that on HN, it doesn't help, it hurts. It's against HN's rules and we ban accounts and sites that do it. It's also something that the community here is extremely vigilant about and considers spamming.

If you don't want to get banned, and/or flagged and flamed by HN users, you should make sure this doesn't happen again.
I wonder if Google has not yet released an API due to a desire to keep control and also ensure their products (docs, gmail) have a major lead over everybody outside Google? What is their motivation for not providing API access? It can’t be purely due to it being too difficult for them, since they are very skilled engineers.
Archived: https://archive.is/z3UQm
> The elected legislature doesn't have the expertise to write regulations in highly technical areas.

People with backgrounds in science and engineering can't run for Congress?
Thats all I think when people espouse the "become a prompt engineer instead!" lines, as if the end goal isn't to remove that exact friction. Otherwise we'd be learning S-LLM-QL instead of "talking" to the bots.
what site do you not have a feed for? There are feeds for basically everything short of like... twitter.
I think it is a mistake to consider this an inherent weakness of LLMs. Nothing precludes a system architecture for a next generation LLM to have loops for rationality or morality reasoning which filter the output.

We are likely to see many human psychotic disorders arising in the LLM output when we start doing this but we will likely see less of the pivoting on answers we see now.
That surely makes a bit of difference. But, I corroborate the ideas about the clients' differing abilities as well.

We run Microsoft and Apple workstations at work, but for Wi-Fi planning reasons, we keep some cheap laptops around as well. If we only test with our good machines, some issues will be invisible to us. And since I am in higher ed, many students cannot afford the high end computers, but they still need the service to work, so we have to test with cheap computers with terrible Wi-Fi chips, which reveals issues that are invisible to the latest Macs/Surface Pro machines.
You queried the economics.

Those involved are making bank on some 800 million tonnes of iron ore sales per annum shipped to China and hold leases on significant (as a percentage of global supply) Lithium deposits and Australian land in the millions of acres (a lot of sunlight).

They understand industry at scale, the use of automation to deliver volume, the draw of large economies to sunlight abundant areas for processing and refining, etc.

Transport is planned via Ammonia (hydrogen + nitrogen) - with an excess of sunlight and rapid improvements in domain of electrolysis making seawater as a basis economical, energy losses due to conversion can still be covered to turn a profit delivering bulk ammonia for fertilizer, power generation, and other applications to Europe.

FFI (offshoot of FMI (Fortescue Metals)) has a handwaving set of web pages:

https://ffi.com.au/technology/green-hydrogen/

and have lodged more detailed tech reports for their shareholders via the Sydney, London, and Canadian Exchanges (IIRC).
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Ok but that means there would be more such objects, for every level before mastery right?

And also such objects would be much more rare. Imagine all the objects that have been found and melted down during the last 2000 years. For us to have found over 100 of these so far is already an indication that it was a lot more common than an apprentice piece.
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My mistake, I meant to say use "Save As" in my post. With save as used, I add a number to the existing file name, thus undo copy only erases the original file copied from one folder to the other folder. (The original file is still persevered in the first folder.) Sorry.
Ground.news does give some background checks to an article
There are some interesting points there.

1. (For those on the state-owned retailer/distributor) Although you can't be credited for any generation over 100% (up from 65%), the extra credit does carry over in a 6-monthly cycle (up from 3). Which means, while you can't make a profit out of your generation, it does cater for seasonal variations to keep your bill at zero. Not the best, but not terrible.

2. (For private retailers) As you said, there's nothing requiring them to do anything.

Also of interest is that, even with deregulation efforts in the early 2000s, the state still holds near-monopoly level of distribution/retail - especially in the residential market. The small number of private operators are either remote, or focused on industrial complexes.

On the generation side, there's plenty of major private players, but most of them simply sell to the state (again, because of the near-monopoly).
This had to be higher, they got what they wanted, at least take some of their GPT cash, so they can't fund Skynet or Roku's basilisk or worse, fill our elderly ears with perfect reproductions of our parents and children selling us plausible products, adding product placement in our photos in exchange for more storage as we weep helplessly in confusion until we step into the street and are pounded down by self driving cars who instantly and algorithmically spit out scripts so that our killers skate.

Or, don't fine them at all, but don't fine me either.
That's not why they burned him at the stake. If anything it was because of his hermeticism.
This is already happening in South Africa. The grid pretty much can't provide and is now turned off for people for up to 40% of the day.

So over the last decade, a huge amount of solar installations have made people a few small steps away from going off grid. But separate to that, they're paying less and less (0 in some cases), so "the grid" is stuck keeping: subsidized customers, customers who use almost 0 and customers that use lots illegally and don't pay.

The power utility's answer: tax users that don't use any electricity. And not just a connection type flat fee. They want to punish people that use very little, ironically after begging people to "please stop using so much electricity".
Yep, and we have the text. It’s very transparent that way.

But it might be worth thinking about what a satisfying explanation of the LLM’s behavior would look like. It would have to be a high-level summary of the calculations that were done to predict each new token. Knowing which previous tokens got attention and what higher-level concepts it calculated would help. (Also, if the temperature isn’t zero, there’s a random number generator involved.)

The LLM doesn’t have access to that, once the calculation is done. It has the text, same as us. It can guess what might have happened, same as us. When it guesses it’s going to anthropomorphize by picking an explanation that would make sense for a human, because it’s trained to write justifications that a human would write.
> Christie, Galileo’s great bluff 2010

A search for this returns only this article. Anyone knows what it is? Is it a book, an article, a scholarly publication...?
I'll take Linux or Windows with ARM thanks.

Apple ecosystem/jail is worse than useless to me.
Part of this is caused by the spate of long term illnesses that turn your final decades a slow descent into death, e.g. heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and dementia.

But the good news is that your chances of suffering from any of them goes down drastically if you take good care of yourself.

The point isn’t to live forever, but if you do stay healthy you’re far more likely to have a few good decades in retirement and die quickly.
Having one's assets frozen in Canada for protesting is pretty much the economic equalilant of being gunned down. Blocking business as usual is pretty typical for protests. The insidious nature of the government's response is not.
My partner hates fan noise as much as I do. There's other compromises, of course... :-)
My father's 87 (88 later this year, he was born in 1935).

He still drives hundreds of miles here in Western Australia to maintain several sections on three different walking tracks (eg, two thirty KM sections on the thousand km long Bibbulmun Track [1]).

Tell your dad to pull his finger out and just do it.

[1] https://www.bibbulmuntrack.org.au/
There are several attempts to rank the reliability of newspapers. Check for instance:

https://iffy.news/

For US audiences and fact-checkers, RAND maintains a comprehensive catalog of lists and tools:

https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-...

These lists have been frequently used in attempts to train ML models for detecting dis-/misinformation, but I think the results are somewhat questionable.

You can also enter into an endless debate over the reliability of the ranks and the rankers. Further limitations include limited geographic coverage, slow-pace curation and inability to pick-up "flash websites" designed for propaganda dissemination, and so forth.
Why should vore be shamed and rejected?
> What's true in [CatB] isn't interesting ("the importance of having users", "release early release often") and what's interesting isn't true ("Linus's law" being perhaps the most notorious example).

At the time or now? You were there, and so might mean the former, but I suspect most of the discussion here means the latter. And as a work of philosophy that has been assimilated into the mainstream, CatB has to look like a mix of trivially true and blatantly false things—that’s what mainstream acceptance of philosophy looks like[1,2].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philos...

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/17/highlights-from-the-co...
'Third places': The ways losing our local haunts hurts us (2021)
I'm sorry you are going through that. Thanks for sharing.
https://archive.is/cCslZ
> Exercise is trendy again

Is it a last 20 year development? I remember people going to the gym in the '90s. Step aerobics anyone?
Just curious why don't they training except denial responses. Is Copying ChatGPT ethics a purpose?
I couldn’t work out what you mean by DMS.

When I googled it, it said “Document Management System”

Is that it?

I don’t have a very clear concept of what a “Document Management System” is, other than some I’ve seen used by government departments etc that have features like archiving, classification (top secret etc.), a lot of meta data like authors and editors and approvers…

It doesn’t seem to really fit this.

Tags however are awesome, and I love anything that does tagging.

Maybe this is more of a document tagging system?
Another one that is starting to get on my nerves (though not really in the same category as the above) is "first world problem". Person A states they have some kind of problem and person B says "tisk, tisk, first world problems" in order to attenuate whatever problem person A has. If person B is currently living in the 3rd world under 3rd world conditions, fine, otherwise stop cheaply leveraging the poor in order to win arguments.
It seems possible that some better eyeballs (possibly automated ones) have been developed and deployed en masse.
The ergo community loves their 40% keyboards. The reasoning is that your fingers can not reach large number of keys anyways without moving the whole hand, and by eliminating the hand/wrist movement you can be more ergonomic even if it leads to more keypresses.

Same thinking can be applied to speed too, hand repositioning and finger-stretching are not fast things to do, so concentrating functionality near home positions allows you to do the keypresses very fast which trades off the number of keypresses.

This all said, I personally haven't used such keyboards, this is more of second hand impressions
> For ages 7 to 107, Small Basic is one of the easiest ways to learn to code.

I’m 109 and I feel I’m not being seen
Never heard of distrobox-assemble, but it sounds intriguing. I currently let Microsoft build and host my container once a week:

https://github.com/pkulak/boxkit

And yeah, like you, I basically live in Arch despite running Fedora. My terminal opens directly into the Arch container, and I’m even installing more and more GUI apps in there, since they are so easy to export to my host launcher.
Old articles about open source help show how dynamic the patterns of bazaar like software building and how difficult to grasp new phenomena in their entirety.

There are different types of bazaars. We have not seen them all yet. The "invasion" of corporate interests is much discussed, but its just one of many new types of legal entities that get involved: non-profit entities and the public sector.

There are two drivers that are persistent and act like heat elements that keep steering the pot of bazaar like behavior: 1) software is important and 2) software that is not closed and proprietary is possible and even necessary.

The involvement of the public sector in particular seems still quite nascent. Yet the concept of "digital public goods" is already here (there is even an initiative with that name) and will likely play more important role going forward.

The perennial issue with open source is funding, but this reflects some peculiarities of the most decentralized type of bazaar.

In other words, while the bazaar has been happening in the town square for a few decades now, it keeps changing and, importantly, it keeps growing.
Kent use md-faulty to test such a scenario, you can also see here the test-CI https://evilpiepirate.org/~testdashboard/ci
BlendOS is based on Distrobox.
Absolutely not. They went after him because he insulted and ridiculed the chief authority. This is something that can still land you in court in today's France (and would have lead to much much harsher penalties in contemporaneous France). Insulting the king is also apparently, not allowed in today's UK for instance -- to say nothing of countries like Russia, etc.

So we're not so different than the catholic church of the 17th century.
> The major diseases of aging (heart disease, cancer, neurodegeneration) won’t last forever. The more they become treatable

It’s worth pointing out that working to prevent them years in advance is still very effective.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably part of the modern world, and are likely participating in the unhealthy habits of the modern world like the rest of us. The time to start changing them is now.
Effort vs payoff is my educated guess.
I don't think ESR would appreciate the irony of you directing many eyeballs to his carelessly bug-ridden code.
You're forgetting that what we [should] optimize for is the general welfare of the population (based on human moral code). Taxes are just one way to redistribute [some] gains that are lopsidedly awarded by the market, since in certain cases we do not want winner-take-all behavior (but instead to optimize the welfare of the many).

This is a middle ground between communism and capitalism and seems to be what works best in practice. Or you could call it market socialism (though that's leaning more into socialist direction).

Unregulated, un-taxed markets do not do that. They support exploitation and extraction (at the extremes).
- pihole

- piVPN

The piVPN story is interesting. I am currently stationed outside my home country. Using the financial apps (bank apps, wallet apps) outside the country are restricted hence I needed a ip within the country. No major VPN provider provide IPs for my country. piVPN has been great in that sense to access the contents from my country.
I think both are necessary in different circumstances. I use a simple litmus test: where does the state live to provide the best UX for my app if a user moves from their phone to a laptop and back again?

If the state needs to persist across devices it it server side (though a frontend cache can make sense), eg: onboarding flow or "task wizard" state.

Some UI interactions are much easier with state machines, but persisting state isn't a concern even across page refreshes, eg: complex animations or complex form validation states (especially validation that involves time or websockety things).
Nice to hear from you, great work! As a lifelong dev who started by learning BASICA and who's first pro job was in Visual Basic, I love your thesis.

Nowadays I work with people living with disabilities and I come across kids who want to program but who cannot use a traditional keyboard and mouse. I was just discussing the need for a simplified ide and language syntax with full programming power and Small Basic came to mind.

Any chance this work will see new life outside of its 'side project' status?
This must be the reason. AI homelab market is too small while enterprise market will become extremely big.
They have released it I believe. I can see Palm being available: https://cloud.google.com/model-garden
How is it different from Toolbox? (https://github.com/containers/toolbox)
I generally hold up Japanese cities as examples of ideal multi-mode transportation solutions. It's weird to me to call Tokyo ANTI-car though. The city has one of the most robust car cultures on the planet. And I wouldn't say the cars are "invariably tiny, quiet". I feel I see luxury sports cars and higher-spec German performance offerings (BMW M models, AMG Mercedes, etc.) in far greater rates than I see kei cars in Okinawa, for example. Most residential streets having little or no traffic is accurate, though.

>>>Life expectancy overall is 84 years old, one of the highest levels of any city on the planet. A good part of this has to do with the lack of cars. Air pollution is considerably lower than in any other city of equivalent size anywhere in the world.

This is a huge claim for which the otherwise-reasonably-sourced article doesn't cite a reference.

>>>Even a well-maintained car can cost 100,000 yen to inspect (or around $850).

Emphasis on can. I take my lightly-modified 2008 Evo through the inspection line myself and it typically costs me less than 50,000 yen. Double that is if you have a mechanic shop do it, AND there's stuff that needs to be fixed like replacing your brake pads.

>>>To be allowed to purchase a car, you have to be able to prove that you have somewhere to park it. This approval is issued by the local police, and is known as a shakoshomeisho, or “garage certificate.” Without one, you cannot buy a car.

Note: this isn't a nation-wide requirement, it's basically by city. Major urban areas have it. Often low-density rural areas do not.

The lack of street parking is definitely accurate and a huge boon to the livability of Japanese city environments, agreed on that one.

>>>wealthy friends of his owned a top-end BMW, which they replaced every few years, because they were car nuts. But because they did not have anywhere to park it near their home

They are wealthy enough to replace their M cars frequently but somehow can't get a condo with parking, or a house with a garage? That's.....odd to me. I think this anecdote is quite an outlier.

I like the overall observations about how to successfully build rail-centric development though, especially the point about rail companies building up the commercial/residential real estate immediately around their rail stations to drive profitability AND convenience for the population. I'm in favor of things that get "average commuters" off the streets, it makes driving a more enjoyable experience for the car aficionados too! And I'm okay paying a mild premium for car ownership to support all of that.
Interesting, because a Google search doesn’t bring up his name until about 2019.

I would assume the original name would be captured on a university convocation program PDF within the last decade or two.
I see the small number of ports and reliance on dongles as a big mark against the MacBook's sustainability, yes.
Dan it’s not flamebait. The person tried to falsely paint a single example of behaviour as a common thing.

Unfortunately a lot of people seem to really hate Elon Musk, so “you’re right he only did this once but it was poor behaviour” turns into flagging anyone that points this out and then bringing up unrelated matters as an instance of whataboutism.

We’ve had three or four discussions over the last 16 years, one I’m fairly sure you’d now think you were in the wrong, so I’m not sure why you would say this is common.
15 years ago in Tokyo I was ordering via QR codes and tapping to pay with my phone. Seems pretty futuristic in retrospect.
Probably not the only one, but I enjoyed the post tremendously (it's morning in my time zone, first read of the day accompanied by an espresso). I understand why one might find that style annoying, though.
For an issue that is worth billions, if not trillions, $615k is not even a slap on the wrist. It's more like a warm and encouraging pat on the back. Not good.
Too many, I believe for the same reasons as Javascript. It's not a bad thing when the target language is simply unfit for developer tooling, but in case of Javascript and Python it's simply the speed. Doing massive AST manipulation in a language that is both slow and unsafe like Javascript just seems like madness, and it's strange that we've been kind of okay with it for the longest time.
When I was a kid, my dad started a business. He was very good at it, and the business was very successful. He was constantly working though. He would bring work home, it would cover the kitchen table. When he wasn’t working, he was absolutely exhausted. If he wasn’t working, he was sleeping. He was not only working for the business, but also running the business.

The amount of time that I spent with my dad dwindled to very little. Not to mention my siblings. I wish he’d spent more time with me. (It’s worth noting that he had other issues that contributed to our relationship).

I would treat your startup in this context as another newborn, but one from a different partner. It will require a substantial amount of time, money, and attention like your current newborn needs, but is under a different roof. Your co-parent of your newborn can’t necessarily also parent your other “newborn”, so you need another partner to step in.

Stepping away from the analogy for a moment, I (respectfully) doubt that your startup will be as important as your family. And as most any parent will tell you, the time with your baby will fly by and you will not believe how fast it goes. Prioritize your family over your work.
VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages
This book contains tricks that break down seemingly complicated operations, such as the equation ABCD*9999 = ABC(D—1)(9—A)(9—B)(9—C)(10—D). Although it's valuable to understand the logic behind these tricks, they could also help students who struggle with math in school.
I've had a ton of old headphones and I've never seen something like a 5 pin DIN connector. The old IBM keyboards do use a 5 pin DIN though.
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Famous example: motorcyclists get less cancer.
Can you imagine powering entire countries off storage for days or even weeks?

It’s just not feasible currently.

The further north you go, the less solar power you have. In the Nordics, you get no solar output for months.

You also have windstill days in the winter.

No amount of overbuilding is going to cure that.