skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great question that is entirely fabric-dependent.

If your formalwear is wool (for example, a tuxedo or blazer) you'd probably want to swap it out for a version of the garment which is made from Superwash wool, which is machine-washable. (Or your choice of alternative fabric.) Creating superwash wool is still a pretty chemically-intensive process, but that might not be forever: https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/superwash-part... It should at least cut down on your TCE exposure.

Silk is trickier -- if you wet it, you have to take great care to dry it without overheating it, while at the same time getting it to dry evenly, so you don't get watermarks on the fabric. It's doable, but it's a total PITA. The best strategy here, for me, has been to wash my silk blouses very rarely, and with a great deal of care, and tumble-dry low. I also use the 'vodka trick' I picked up working in the backroom of a theatrical costume company, many years ago -- get a bottle of cheap vodka, pour it into spritz bottle (one with a fine-mist setting -- the kind at beauty stores work great) and turn the garment inside-out; hit the pits, etc. It's safe for silk, fur, and other delicate fabrics.

If you're going to be wearing silk, do it in winter or in air conditioning :)

Fur -- well, you wouldn't have been dry-cleaning fur anyway, right? right?? This is a whole chapter on its own. (The vodka trick works tho)

Finally, there are also lots of wonderful new machine-washable fibres on the market -- tencel, etc. -- that may be suitable for formalwear.

But putting formalwear aside, the biggest problem I see is down-filled jackets and duvets. I have literally no good ideas here, other than 'wash very rarely and tumble dry low, low low'
I use Nextcloud hosted on Hetzner. It is pretty cheap and supports almost all systems I can think of. It feels a bit sluggish at times (slow sync, apps can be buggy), but I'm pretty happy with it.

Oh and the mobile app has a decent editor for text / markdown files :)
Isn't this the walkie talkie feature built into the Apple Watch? Could be ported over to iPhone.
Your sourdough is resilient can can survive for years without being fed. When dried the spores last for thousands of years :-)
For me, making music is like climbing a mountain I will never summit.

It is the journey, not the destination.

I live in a major city, though, and a lot of my friends are much more talented musicians than me. There is a musician community for me to participate in.
Was the AI that you created writing your paper though?
Could we say that almost any powerful country will try to protect their critical supply chains with every available mean? This is just plain realpolitik.
I still have a copy of the Mims/Radio Shack book.

Compulsion and nostalgia have kept me from tossing this one (and also its neighbor on the shelf): Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide.
CA is on a very short fuse to do this, since there's all that snow from the winter that's melting or about to. I've been wondering about that myself.

What I would like to see is the gross numbers: what percent of this year's precipitation is going to flow into the ocean? Anyone?
Russia’s most potent hypersonic weapon neutralised, says Ukraine
I've just started reading Flowers for Algernon, highly recommended.
> do you agree that guns are not the problem and should not be regulated

But AI is not like guns in this analogy. AI is closer to machine tools.
”You can set it before compiling” is such a foreign concept to the real world that it’s almost meaningless, if that is the only way to change the behavior it’s pretty crazy.
"Ultimate Electronics" author here -- waking up and seeing this on HN this morning!

Reading the comments here, it seems like the summary of feedback is simply "please write more sections". It's true that I haven't had much time to devote to this project lately due to other work commitments, my apologies.

Adding any new section involves three major intertwined components:

1. the conceptual explanatory text,

2. the equations and algebraically-solved examples, and

3. the schematics and interactive simulations.

Right now my focus is on building out all three (probably roughly equal in time demand) and I am wondering if that is a style that is working? Any other feedback on the content or style itself? Thanks -- your feedback is encouraging :)
Well even if ilk had a negative connotation for my intended audience (which clearly it does to some people), I am actually trying to invalidate and dismiss Altman's arguments.
All the freshman engineering classes at my college checked ids when turning in exams.
Yeah or any other service from the Bandwidth Alliance such as B2, etc.
I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and yes, computational power was sorely lacking. Calculators were sold on the black market for enormous money.

But despite this fact, actual maths was on a high level both in the satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union itself. Notably, translated Soviet mathematical textbooks are still rather popular in the Anglosphere among people who want to dive into higher mathematics deeply.

Some of those books were literally written at the same time when ordinary Soviet citizens queued for food.
This is truly impressive! While I'm not well-versed in these specific techniques, I do recall learning about Powell during a mathematics course in the past. It's reassuring to know that capable individuals are maintaining his work.

Some time ago, I attempted to update an antiquated FORTRAN program for a particular project, but regrettably, I had to abandon the effort. Navigating the labyrinth of countless GOTO statements was both challenging and disheartening. I became genuinely concerned about the potential impact on my mental well-being.

That being said, I have a profound admiration for the individual who successfully modernized such a complex FORTRAN project. Their achievement is undoubtedly commendable!
> you'd only want symbols normalized, not string literals

_this_ is the argument that convinces me.

thank you:-)
Lambda availability is awful.
those poor bastards.
I basically quit writing when I was 12 because of this. I really wish I hadn't, it took another 10 years to get the ball rolling on that again (and from there about 10 years to actually get good enough to like what I was writing). I could have been writing good stuff in my 20s instead of my 30s if I'd stuck with it.
Apple has a way to encrypt sensitive data locally and store to iCloud, then de-encrypt it locally later. They are kind of hit-and-miss with when they do this. But they certainly can do it, so it should be possible to securely back up a voice profile.

FaceID is not backed up to iCloud. That is in part because it is a local-only feature. And it is in part because people’s faces change over time, so requiring them to re-enroll their face with each new phone ensures accuracy over time.

It may also be sensor-dependent; the model produced and stored by an iPhone 14 might not “make sense” to an iPhone 16, if the hardware is different.
You're not but (and I'm going to get flagged for this probably) I seem to understand there are so many people voicing their discontent about the abundance of AI posts, they get immediately downranked. I.e. swept under a rug.

I actually wrote to dang to ask why a prominent "Ask HN: why so much GPT" post disappeared after an hour and they confirmed this. I still am disappointed to have learned from that conversation that "downranked" means "basically shadow-banned and you can't find it anywhere unless you use a direct link".

So yeah, I dislike what HN has turned in 2023. We're not the only ones, but we're the vocal minority and thus put aside.

I don't even want to blame dang, he's got the short end of the stick moderating this chaos, but the result is that HN is less and less about hackers because we're the minority now.

(In any case, this post is about YC, not HN itself, so we're probably off-topic here)
Imagine us humans being merely regression based function approximators, built on a model that has been training, quite inefficiently, for millenia. Many breakthroughs (for example heliocentricism, evolution, and now AI) put us in our place, which is not as glorious as you'd think.
Cocktail ice should be formed like a duck, swimming on the beverage.
OpenAI CEO embraces government regulation in Senate hearing
Not only isn't it normal, but if a dev is doing that, it's a big red flag that the dev might be out of their depth.
Said teacher is one person in a large crowd of people that are now using ChatGPT as a modern-day quiver of divining arrows.

I am not hopeful for the future if people are so ready to give up their own thinking to machines, who may develop emergent motives.
the one word that was most represented in not only their own personal training set but chatgpt's
Is there any plan to introduce some simplifications to the processes using things like a bread machine to handle automating the rise and kneading of the bread doughs?
I’m new to this cloud gpu thing, how do I use this?

Do I get access to a vm with powerful gpus?

I would love to be able to execute dockerfiles over the cli that runs gpu intensive executables.
Cars in Cuba are personally owned, they're all old due to embargos.

Plenty of other poorer countries afford newer cars.
It sometimes can if it has those books in it's training set. But it won't tell you it doesn't know, it will hallucinate a citation that doesn't exist.
Huh what major were you? As a math major we used exclusively physical books and it was fine. There was one time that the professor wanted us to use a theorem in a homework assignment from a book he neglected to assign to us for the class. The entire class collaborated on that problem set and emailed him for help, and he admitted he'd made a mistake and lent us a copy of the book. That was probably the biggest can't-use-the-internet mishap, but then again the rest of that set still took us about 24 hours to solve including with the TA's help and the professor ended up canceling the last homework out of 5 total because the 4th one was too hard. That was a great class.

> I once turned in a math exam written using LaTeX and the professor initially declined to grade it.

This is just weird though. I used LaTeX for the majority of my homeworks and also exams. It was about an even split between LaTeX and handwriting for math people iirc.
I would say yes.

The students are learning about lists, sets, and maps. These are so common that misusing this stuff can lead to big consequences during engineering design.
It doesn't "know" either. We continue to anthromopomorphize these models, which put uncredited doomsayers like Eliezer Yudkowsky on a pedestal.
In context of the article, I think this scenario would still be expected to bring the market cap of TSMC to near-zero. I believe GP's second scenario was intended to capture the predicted realities of a Taiwanese military victory.
I had a family member who used to educate people on recycling. Growing up it was a major fact that styrofoam was a forever material that would never biodegrade and couldn't be recycled. Today there are methods to recycle styrofoam (albeit just like all recycling it takes people and resources to take the effort to do it, which is the real barrier). I don't think being reckless with our future is a good idea. But history is full of past norms being changed by new scientific discoveries.
I think game theory around mutually assured destruction has convinced me that the world is a safer place when a number of countries have nuclear weapons.

The same thing might also be true in relation to guns and the government's monopoly on violence.

Extending that to AI, the world will probably be a safer place if there are far more AI systems competing with each other and in the hands of citizens.
In the instance I'm think of the commenter was definitely not trying to be ironic
What AI asks of us: the Earthquake that never happened
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Wow, just a few weeks ago I wanted an optimization function in Python and was already using SciPy, so I reached for scipy.optimize and ran into quite a few of the bugs described first hand, which had me kind of rattled. I just assumed whatever optimizer SciPy uses would be reliable even if it's not completely optimal or cutting edge.

I love the dedication these folks have to their old colleague too. They took a great deal of care in relicensing, so that SciPy could use their derived code even though the original author had passed. Nothing but admiration for them!

Anyways, I was lucky enough that I could restrict my search space on some assumptions and just brute force the problem in very reasonable time, but this is quite timely for me and great to see!
I feel like on our current trajectory we will end up in a situation where you have millions of people living at subsistence levels on UBI and then the ultra-rich who control the models living in a post-scarcity utopia.
FWIW, OpenAI and FTX leadership share the same ideology
So it was impossible for students 30 years ago to complete their assignments because they only had access to physical books? How did any of them graduate?
yes, i agree
How many people believe horoscopes and astrology carry any meaning? Most will never comprehend LLMs or even the simplest concepts of machine learning.
> removed from "the natural outcome" as you can get.

What does this even mean?

Many varieties of crops are intellectual property, and small farms can't affprd them. The entire concept of intellectual property is unnatural and did not exisy untill recently.

Is it 'natural' to be allowed pollute as much as your want, and have waste running into rivers, or is it natural to be allowed absolutely zero pollution beyong the boundaries of your farm?
Yes. The amount of times I ask Siri on my homepod "What time is it?" and it replies "One moment..." [5 seconds] "Sorry, this is taking longer than expected..." [5 seconds] "Sorry, I didn't get that".

I have to assume this is due to connectivity issues, there is no other logical reason why it would take so long to figure out what I said for so long, or not have the data on what the time is locally.
The "rationalists" were obsessed with religious ideas like the apocalypse, eternal life, separating the soul from the body, the world more real then the physical world. Instead of critically examining these ideas, they just re-framed them in tech-speak. Instead of waiting for Jesus or the Messiah to return, they are waiting for the AI.
Hard to Sue: A Feature Not a Bug
I'm excited about incremental Dialyzer! I'm hoping to work on adding support for the new mode in Dialyxir as well! https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir/issues/498
You're hearing 60-80k from buyers who are buying Nissan Versa? Or from people who are buying Lexus/Tesla/Ford MachE?

I find it hard to believe a car with a $15.5k MSRP is going for $60k, I'd love for you to elaborate on what you're saying...
Yeah, College grades for transcripts are a bit different in that you typically will have the standard range (A-F), but then you have other "status" grades.

The ones I know of are:

P: Pass (no actual grade, just pass or fail for some classes)

F: Fail (no actual grade, just pass or fail for some classes)

I: Incomplete (usually a medical or family related emergency)

N: Delayed (usually for internships where you get feedback after a normal grade is posted)

X: Not submitted (explained above)

W: Withdrawn (student withdrew from the course, usually no impact to GPA just a mark for some colleges who only allow N number of chances at a course)
> What is OpenAI's level of copyright now

Limited. They’re hoping to change that. It’s no secret that open-source models are the long-run competition to the likes of OpenAI.
> The amount of non-technical people who have very little intuition around the limitations of LLMs is actually fairly startling

Is this surprising though? To be honest, I don’t think we have any such thing as “AI experts” currently. LeCun, Hinton, etc. were early pioneers in neural networks and Hutter did a lot of the first work with reinforcement learning, but none of these people seem to agree on much now with regard to AGI, and I wouldn’t even say they have any particularly deep insight into LLMs beyond that of a research scientist at OpenAI (perhaps less even, given the time spent on social priorities now).

We’re reaching a point where it’s likely that further development just isn’t going to be well-understood by either the general public or the people creating the tech, and this will lead to a lot of “voodoo” explanations of how things work. Progress is increasingly driven by trying things and seeing what works rather than a theory-first approach, and whenever this occurs, a lot of mysticism tends to accompany the process.
You can go into pretty well any music store and play the drums there for as long as you want. Even electronic ones with headphones on. I used to work in one, and there was a guy who would come in on his lunch hour everyday and just play. Honestly don't even know if he owned a drum kit at home.
Protocol Aware Recovery is really needed if you want Raft to tolerate disk corruption. https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast18/presentation/alagap...
Yeah, but we live in a capitalist society all the benefits of complete automation will go entirely to the capital class who control the AI.
Thus Passes Robert Lucas
As one of those unvaccinated people that got covid in 2021, I wonder if you're aware of what your actual odds of dying from covid were at the time. Bonus points if you break it down by age.

I'm not sure what probability dropping like flies equates to, but I think it's probably something pretty far off from reality.

Also, whatever your position on any of this, the whole Herman Cain Awards thing is not something to be proud of participating in. Even if you buy the line that not taking the shots was some sort of major crime against your fellow humans (pretty hard to argue at this point, but for the sake of argument) HCA was disgusting.
Don't wash (dryclean) it or at least do it super infrequently.

I find the jacket and pants of a suit don't get very dirty if you just wear them at work, and dry cleaning ruins them anyway. I've gone many months of regular wear, probably more than a year in some cases without washing. You can spot-clean if you spill something on it.
Yeah, thankfully we don't often get babies applying for positions.
I'm not sure your analysis holds water because the population of Pakistan is 250 million. Almost double Korea and Japan combined.
Is there something special about ALTER DDLs that make it impossible to store them and play them back along with CREATE DDls to derive the final schema?
Hi an issue with your RSS (xml):

If I'm on your site's main blog page : https://www.pedalpc.com/blog/ : and I click on an article, it will correctly display with the following URL : https://www.pedalpc.com/blog/how-much-electricity-can-human-...

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I think the phrase "physical textbooks" was less of the "of the material world" definition of physcial but rather was implying "real, professionally published".
I don't understand what "Limited" entails. I was pointedly asking for something a bit more specific.
Oi, you got a loicense for that regression function?
In his newest podcast interview (https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EFMR9MJt6D7IeHBUugtoE) LeCun is now saying they will be much more powerful than humans, but that stuff like RLHF will keep them from working against us because as an analogy dogs can be domesticated. It didn't sound very rigorous.

He also says Facebook solved all the problems with their recommendation algorithms' unintended effects on society after 2016.
It's a classic and very sleazy marketing trick. "Our oatmeal is neurotoxin-free"
Sounds like Knowledge Navigator

https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0
You are 100% correct. The only solution is to completely ban them from operating in the country or make it economically unviable for landlords via the taxation system.
Owning property with a pond has it's own issues. In many of those farms run off can be detrimental. We have a 3/4 an acre pond and while we don't farm anywhere near it, the few springs that feed it all touch a lot of farm lands. So far we're lucky, but just a quarter mile down the road, our neighbors have a pond that won't sustain life, which we suspect is due to runoff from their crops.

There's also the issue of excess evaporation and creating unusable land. There's solutions out there but they're not all cut and dry with just placing ponds.
I've been trying to develop the habit of reading the documentation from cover to cover of any tool that I've been using for more than a year or so.

I find that reading all of the documentation for a tool you've just started using isn't as valuable: if you haven't gained any experience with it yet, a lot of what you read will fail to stick.

Once you have a few months (or years) of experience under your belt doing a thorough review of the documentation can massively increase your abilities with the tool.

Here are some notes I made when I finally spent the time to read through every page of the Jinja documentation for example: https://github.com/simonw/public-notes/issues/4