skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is necessarily a correlation between talent, effort and success, because you need at least one of the two parameters to succeed. And the third parameter that will be decisive is luck, but you need a pillar to allow luck to serve a purpose. The pillar is work, done with talent, effort or both. I agree that many artists who are very talented or who put in a lot of work may be less recognized than others. But in general, a great majority of artists, before having the luck, had the talent and the effort, it should not be denied. The only thing that really separates these artists from other talented artists is luck. So I would say that success is the result of a mixture of these 3 main ingredients: effort, talent and luck.
It’s pretty hard to run out of room given the technology we have for building up.
Ask HN: Is Apple about to be left behind?
Within months (if not already) I think for most consumers Siri is going to feel like a third rate substandard AI assistant as google and Microsoft continue to weave their solutions into their product lines.

Is Apple about to be left behind?

Do they have a plan?
Is this similar to how it is handled in the life sciences?
PyPy is now working onwards 3.10, to reach 3.12 quickly they only need a couple of contributors full time, which many legs can effort.
Finally, a relatable perspective.

AI/ML licensing builds Power and establishes moat. This will not lead to better software.

Frankly, Google and Microsoft are acting new. My understanding of both companies has been shattered by recent changes.
Do guests in your home have to consent to Alexa or any other device? I don't think so.
can confirm. Decent fresh beans are the key.
> Another current employee within the firm's commercial-banking division said she and her colleagues have resorted to discussing some work-related topics on forums like the iMessage app

> You mean like just normal work?

Not in a commercial banking division. I would expect that to be at least a reprimand, if not straight termination. There are very strict regulations about that sort of thing in banking. You are absolutely not allowed to discuss work on non-official media without approval. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's actively and strictly controlled.
I second this, I have both this and art of electronics and they truly complete one another
This is really interesting and I would like to follow development.

Unless I decide to live truly off grid, I guess I would not use this 8h/day, maybe 2h on average and otherwise continue to use a regular on-grid setup (which itself is already a variation of sitting, standing, and treadmill).

Do you imagine the "switching" between setups to be made simpler?
These things are conflated because it usually takes time to accumulate wealth especially if self-made, so older people will tend to both be richer and more small-c conservative.

Also although in the tech industry this link has been broken/inverted, there's usually a correlation between excessive risk taking (i.e. lack of conservatism) and losing all your money. In most sectors of society wealth is built up over time through care and perhaps a bit of moderate risk taking, but not too much.
I've heard of bosses asking about whether they could monitor WFH employees personal conversations in their own homes. I think the answer was "there are loopholes". In the US there are very few protections for workers. The only buffering people can get is by reaching C level positions. But even then... It's only what you can negotiate.
> they have been so hypnotized by smartphones that they just had to make a "big-little" clone that disable the most advanced AVX on the good cores so the weak cores not only waste your money, time and power, but actually sap performance from your strong cores.

Absolutely, absolutely, amen. I'm going to hunt for a good 12600 with AVX-512 because my BIOS has an option to force-enable it—but I have to find a CPU that doesn't have the AVX-512 fused off on a hardware level (despite it being on the silicon).
If one of many keywords got dropped in a written communication or on a recorded line my boss would get a call within 5 minutes to explain, and an incident report would get filed.
One is substantially cheaper than the other. That means more profit. And if you don't maximize profit, you are the weakest firm, goodbye.
The agenda is preventing the extinction of human life.
Humanity isn't stateless.
Vote with your wallet.

I buy from small family farms who use better methods — and you can too.

I also didn’t say anything about “break up corporations” nor “force people to leave their current jobs”; I only said that it’s fine if we make a pivot that’s more labor intensive… we can use people rather than robots.

Vote with your wallet for farms that use permaculture or similar; the market will naturally shift in response to the changed incentives and capable people will fill the void, through the personal pursuit of profits.

We could also, eg, preference small farms or permaculture in existing government subsidy programs.
Literate Programming: Articles
> Salinity would need to be kept in check, of course, but with a corridor big enough for tides to flow between the Mediterranean and the new sea there should be a quite manageable maximum salinity.

First of all, this is not what the OP is suggesting. OP is using pipelines and wants to generate electricity from the potential energy. And for good reasons: between the suggested Qattara sea and the Med, there sits El Diffa square in the way. Which is 200m above sea level. You could tunnel that with a pipeline. Trenching that for a channel would be quite the project.

Secondly, the Med only has a tidal range of 50cm. Using that to move a significant amount of water along a 100+km canal needs a truly humongous channel cross section.

OP suggests using electricity to desalinate his sea. This would take insane amounts of energy, creating freshwater from desalination at the rate its evaporating across thousands of square kilometers in the Sahara takes orders of magnitude more power than the power station is going to generate.

He also suggests using salt extraction pools. This only work, if rainfall creates fresh water rivers feeding his sea. Otherwise the water evaporating from this pool is lost to the sea, meaning you can only ever (at best) keep the salinity constant, but never decrease it.

I think it's best to face it from the beginning: we're creating another Dead Sea. Salinity will prohibit life in the water and directly at the shore. Rainfall might make it possible away from the shoreline.

But there will be absolutely no algae, shrimp or flamingos.
They were all active duty military and largely the same socio-economic cohort, and use the same medical system. Maybe they could draw a distinction between enlisted and commissioned, but my hunch is the disparity between raw numbers would lead to low statistical power.

(This isn’t to say they originally came from the same socio-economic group, but that isn’t the type of distinction usually made in these kinds of studies.)
You can without attribution verbatim copy the parts of GPL code that is not covered by copyright, such as anything purely functional, like an optimized sorting algorithm.

Copyright is for art. Patents are for utilities and tools.

The art in GPL code is in the arbitrary decisions made about how to structure that code… the class structure and not the algorithms.

You cannot copyright an algorithm and for very good reason. Think if Microsoft had the assumed powers granted by the GPL!
Mental health is not an individual matter, but a political one
>You also literally said that:

> We already know that the higher the parameter count, the lower the training data required

>And if you scroll up a bit, you'll see that this was the assertion that I've been questioning since the beginning.

They follow each other. If you have a target in mind, it's the same thing in different words.

>AFAIK, there's no reason to believe that the current architecture of LLM scaled to 100 trillions of parameters would be able to be trained efficiently on just a few millions of token like humans

I didn't say it was a given. And in my original comment
, I say as much.

Also Object recognition leads to abstraction. Motion perception to causality. Proprioception is a big part of human reasoning. We're not trained on only millions of tokens. And our objective function(s) are different.

Humans would not in fact outperform Language models on what they are actually trained to do. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11281
After 20 years (for me) Java is still kind of alive
If it's cheaper for more nutritious food, and every other aspect remains the same or better, then you won't need to convince anyone, it'll sell itself.
The idea that "American society" speaks with one voice on this now, let alone consistently over 70 years, is preposterous.
Depends on the sub. Personal anecdote subs are the same yes, and not surprisingly they are very popular. There is a reason subs like /r/thathappened exist.

But there are good ones too imo that I follow, usually the more on-topic ones like /r/buildapc, /r/datahoarder, /r/networking, main sport sub like /r/soccer or /r/baseball.
The chemical in question was originally banned due to its carcinogenic properties.
"Actions have consequences" is explaining why you are punishing your child.

I'm not saying you're a bad parent for punishing your child, I'm saying you could be a better parent if you stopped leaning on punishment as a parenting tool.

Also, stop telling your child you aren't punishing them because they will ALWAYS remember that bullshit. At least own up to the fact that you are punishing them and tell them why.
I started journaling in November 2019 using the Day One app on Mac. I haven’t missed a day. That’s 1273 days of consecutive journaling.

Has it changed me? Not really. It’s nice to look back and see what I wrote or pictures I took but that by itself isn't life changing.

Why do I still continue to do it then? Mostly as I developed the habit and it’s automatic now. Every morning I make a new entry for the day when I get on the computer then I finish every day writing in it, adding pictures etc.

It’s a nice way to clear out my brain at the end of the day. I guess in some way maybe it helps me organise my thoughts at the end of the day. Also planning the next day (or few days) is quite helpful to do in the evening vs in the morning for the day ahead.

Having said all that I started journaling at an amazing time. I captured the few months building up to the pandemic and reading back on my entries in the first half of 2020 is pretty wild. For a while I captured headlines and data on cases and deaths which are quite shocking to read with hindsight.

The lockdowns are quite interesting too. I can see when I started to struggle with different aspects of the pandemic and how I managed those depressive episodes.

So while it hasn’t changed my life I would probably say it does give me something to look at and learn from to hopefully be better in the future. I guess you could argue that is a change although not quite what people generally mean when talking about life changing habits.

My guess is you're asking if I feel journalling is worth it as you're interested in doing it? I would say yes. Don't do it expecting to change your life but it something I would suggest pretty much everyone do.

Looking back on happier or sadder times can be quite powerful in helping deal with any struggles of today. I have had a few health issues the past few years and being able to look back gives me a lot of positive mental energy when dealing with the next thing to come along. I can read and feel again how I felt during the harder times and track my progress even when things got harder for a while. This gives me the hope I often need when struggling in the present.
> very few chips have AVX512 unless you have the latest 11th and 12th gen Intel CPUs

12th gen had AVX-512 physically fused off because the E-cores didn't support it.
Not sure why you're bringing OpenAI into it. My comment and the article is about "Copilot"

I'm talking about when using "Github Copilot" and you ask for a code suggestion, it would send the "context" back to GitHub / Microsoft and use that code as training.

Your comment is interesting to me though because there does seem to be a surprisingly large amount of defending OpenAI going on. Almost seems automatic now.
Because you’ll probably be only be using it for a small fraction of the time you have it, so sharing can be much more cost effective depending on how much you use it
I didn't foresee it, i do not object to it, and probably would not have had i known beforehand.

Code i dont want others to use I dont publish.
I didn't explain myself well but load testing is not the point
Did you mean Parkinsonism, because that is an umbrella term for symptoms, not necessarily the disease. It's an important distinction, because Parkinson's is degenerative.

https://www.parkinson.org/library/fact-sheets/parkinsonism
That's funny.
Why to waste so much money on obvious things?

I mean, a regular, moderately emphatic, non-narcistic boss just goes by a desk of the guy to see if he's stressed, or notices it during a meeting. It can be also seen via teams/zoom, just requires a bit more attention.

Why to build big and costly tech around simple things that sane humans are doing all the time subconsciously within seconds?
How to stay safe??? If you have any preventable pre-existing conditions then focus preventing them. You stay healthy by being healthy.

The continued fearmonkering narrative that the diabetic obese smoker's risks are the same as mine is getting tiring. Worse, it's a lie. Stop lying to me, to us.
I emailed them to ask them why France wasn't listed as a country that uses French, here is the reply:

"Thank you very much for your email and for the interest in the UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages (WAL)

Let me give you a small context about the WAL,

UNESCO Member States are asked to nominate Focal Points for the Atlas. These focal points are responsible for providing information on the linguistic diversity of each country.

As for France, we are currently discussing the nomination of a Focal Point, which is why there is no record of French or other languages in the current profile.

The Atlas as mentioned in the terms of use is a work in progress and the purpose of nominating Focal Points is that the information is up to date and from official sources.

Once the Focal Point will be nominated, the information will be published."

Looks like it's a WIP, I submitted it because it seems like a decent tool to see the scope of endangered language, as it was a lot broader than I'd imagined.
Naturally, Justin developed his own UI framework. Parts of it are open source: https://www.cockos.com/wdl/
Get somebody to release a better voice assistant in the app store?

It seems like more of a problem for the XR headset they are supposedly releasing in the fall because the whole point of that kind of thing is keeping your hands free. It’s a risky problem for Apple to release for many reasons but people probably will call out the weakness in the voice assistant.
Perhaps twitter was too good at promoting whatever speech there was to the forefront and rallying people in a way that would give power to them. Thus twitter needed to be stopped otherwise power would slowly creep from the hands of those that have it to the people they rule.

I'm not saying there is some vast conspiracy puppeting elon musk to buy and ruin twitter. But that there is some natural resistance in the system that would promote this behavior to begin with.
Did you not think they only care about money / profits ?
I think we are all obsessed and concerned with the world madness.
Mitochondrial disfunction is the basis for a huge number of cancers. See “Tripping over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer”[0] for a good history of it.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496164
No, 85% of revenue is hardware
> "AI is no longer fantasy or science fiction. It is real, and its consequences for both good and evil are very clear and present," said Senator Richard Blumenthal

I like the senator, but I wouldn't trust a 77 year old lawyer & politician to understand how these AI's work, and to what level they are `science fiction`.

This is the problem when topics like this are brought to the senate and house.
Someone is waiting for them become dominant, then whey will sue and try to "cash in"
I am aware of CO2 market being a scam, this is very diffetent to what I propposed.

CO2 market depends on assertations of intent, and on efficacy, both of which are easy to forge and hard to prove.

Forestry found is much simpler. Everyone put money into a pot, say. we hVe 100 billion dollars.

The. yoy get data from satellite, and calculate square miles of forest.

Then you divide the pot by square miles of forest.

Then countries det paid based on how many square miles are in their borders.

There is not potential for fraud - the calculation is sinple and idiotproof. You might debate if some marginal land is forest or not, but for 90% of it you can clearly see what it is from space.

You can also have debate about how muhch should be put into the pot, and by whom.
Depends on the audience i guess, im not sure i can name a basketball team.

Does the average reader of science.org know what trichloroethylene is without a prompt?
Clean room implementations are there to make sure that none of the arbitrary, artistically expressive parts of the code are inadvertently copied.

Class structure, file structure, APIs…
Don't get attached to your code, ever. You are not building the Pyramids of Giza, no one will study your work 3000 years from now, or 15, for that matter.

ALL of your code will be dead in a few years. The company goes under, or some punk CTO comes in and commands a "full rewrite ASAP!". Even with normal evolution and refactoring, your original work will be unrecognizable.

Either way, you take experience and friendships from your employment, you are not going to be the Picasso of software engineering.
This comment honestly smells like arrogance. It's frustrating that you are writing as if ClickHouse and MongoDB is only used by large companies that are either can afford new servers or cloud production since that I have seen cases where software (especially MongoDB) being used on desktop-class and embedded-class hardware. To note, "Not all CPUs from the listed families support AVX. Generally, CPUs with the commercial denomination Core i3/i5/i7/i9 support them, whereas Pentium and Celeron CPUs before Tiger Lake do not." Intel is rather famous of withholding features for the sole sake of market segmentation (ECC anyone?)

I'll withheld my expletives on you narrow-minded comment but the point is that you are only considering the subset of actual users to the point that it's not funny.
They either learn or some rand var is taken into account. Did not work 1 hour later.
> All I said was that we should change the standards around farming to stop providing legal support to mega farms (eg the current government policy that’s failing) and allow the natural outcome of more labor intensive farming to happen — which through shifting the incentives and existing legal framework, would have people shift back into farming.

The natural outcome is that production is shifted to countries with laxer laws and cheaper cost of labour not that people shift back into farming. Farming is not economically viable on a small scale without subsidies in Europe.
is that a fair comparison?
The best defense against potentially malicious hardware wallets is to set up a multisig scheme. If designed properly (with careful planning related to backup/recovery), you end up with better security properties (i.e. defense in depth).
Not sure if journaling means writing down the events of the day in a specific manner or what.

But just to comment

I write a lot, I have many little apps... My short term memory seems to be shot so writing helps retain further. I gotta get better at joining all these things together and doing some inference/reminders... Just analyzing. And long term storage so I don't lose the info. I remember writing as early as 2010s on OneNote but I also cringe at my past self, don't really want to relive that. I was uninformed/closed off in my own bubble/delusional.

I also have for several years now been doing this "positives" thing and this idk if it helps. I don't take it too seriously/just write something into it.

Writing does help me focus/prioritize/brain dump.
Yes. And so cryptocurrency is a reversion to a model of payment that’s been rejected by most people for its poor security.
> Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books.

I thought Google had a dominant position because they signed an exclusive deal with the authors guild that explicitly gave them a dominant position.

Anyone else could set up a project to go round libraries and scan books. Google has put more money into it than other organisations, but The Internet Archive has about 20 million scans (https://archive.org/details/texts).
> Really? You think they dont issue corporate laptops? The suggestion that they do "destroys" the case made?

I know they don’t issue corporate laptops to most employees. I had a Mac because I worked in Digital but that was the exception, not the rule. Yes some employees get laptops. It wasn’t the norm. In fact I believe MD and above aren’t actually allowed to have laptops.

This doesn’t “destroy the case” (whatever that means) - it makes me question the Reddit post given that most employees aren’t given laptops so suggestions “like cover your laptop cam” don’t make a lot of sense.

I have no doubt the firm is tracking a lot of stuff and always have been. Using swear words in chat apps like Symphony would get flagged to HR.

Like all good conspiracies there’s an element of truth. For example, let’s say you sit down at your VDI one day and you see some web cam flash. Does it make sense that they may have some app that takes a picture of the person logging in and makes sure it matches? Yea.

This, however, doesn’t make a lot of sense:

“You’ll notice that your web camera will flash right after login. This is not an “initial connection” flash. Your web camera just took a burst shot of pictures and sent them to WADU. The pictures will be scanned for anything deemed unprofessional or unsafe. Recreational drug paraphernalia, TVs, game consoles, and several other things are all flagged if detected in the pictures. If you see your web camera flash randomly, that was your manager or someone in security requesting a burst shot of pictures from your web camera.“

TVs and video game consoles are unprofessional? Surely they must hate when you bring your Switch to the office and talk about the new Zelda game with all your recent grad workmates!

> At most banks using non monitored communication tools to talk to colleagues would be a fireable offence.

It’s also illegal to drive over the speed limit.
Thank you for your feedback!

If you're working with Jetson, the RTX 4000 may be more powerful than you need right now, and it's the least expensive we've got. It's worth exploring if there are cloud service providers that offer lower-end GPUs, as that could potentially be a better fit for your requirements and budget.
Yes and a straw man also. Widely known and widely used are definitely not the same.

More people know the names of basketball teams than know the significance of TCE.
Those are good complaints but what's far more valuable is:

- Unix standard

- documentation

- established knowledge

- existing code bases

- stable and well tested
The solution here is to ban for-profit scientific publishing. Not to predict it's end. There are plenty of prestigious university presses in the world, they can continue to print, at the cost to the university, the opinions, discoveries, and what have you produced by scientists et al.
Do you think many Apple users will switch phones and tablets for ChatGPT and Bing? Switch to what? Do you think most Apple users even use Siri?