skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that increased reliability which began in the 90's makes this possible, but the other aspect of this is the "features" which began to be introduced around in the middle of the past decade and those which began to be removed. Auto-engine off was added. Fewer naturally aspirated v6's, more small, underpowered turbo engines which are prone to issues around 90,000 miles. To a certain view, the value proposition of a vehicle peaked around a manufacturing date somewhere near 2012.
At my last org, we spent hundreds on confluent and then they did a pricing adjustment and our bill went up 4x. No exaggeration. We moves from kinesis to confluent because it was cheaper. After that, we moved back to save money.
I'm not sure it's that hyperbolic to describe trends that have basically been in place since about WWII (and there were streetcar suburbs before that) to be "forever."
Singular they goes back to the 1300s. Whatever it is, it is not neologistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I agree it's a primary source, and primary sources are often terrible. That's why I'm looking for outside confirmation.
Meta comment: parent and GP are an interesting contrast between the "settled science" drum-beat dismissiveness narrative and the science/study-based curiosity counter-narrative.

Here's to hoping that with the death of the dollar, the "settled science" practitioners lose their bullhorns.
Huge parts of California have been declared disaster areas. Filing and payment deferred 6 months. This certainly does not help.
Gender is an individual's perception of which chromosomes they have (among other things)?
I mean, you aren't going to finding massively successful products in a matter of months -- people here are being very unrealistic. I'm just saying it works.
The training data is books and the internet. Unless you believe that every book and every word written online is “truth” then there is no hope that such a model can produce truth. What it can at least do is provide an unfiltered model of its training data, which is interesting but also full of garbage. A better strategy might be to train multiple models with different personas and let them argue with each other.
Philips Circle Pattern
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813821 ("New C features in GCC 13", 11 days ago, >260 comments)
Really? We had the opposite experience. We got the impression that sales loves to sell against their cloud. Probably commission related.
> It looks like Maybe/Option is just a Booleans-in-disguise.

This is a unique take. Care to expand?
That is indeed what I am referring to. Thank you for teaching me the name of this lunacy.
what other courses have you considered taking. You might want an official degree from some place to signal to recruiters etc.
Nicely written. I want to add some usability ideas to this:

- Don't show multiply modals of the same error if possible. Add something like "(# errors)" to the existing modal instead;

- If some error is not critical but possibly recurring add an option to stop showing it for this session to its view;

- Don't send users to support for errors neither they nor the support can do anything about;

- If there is an error reporting option, provide a common report template for each type instead of forcing users to explain it as they see fit with a single "explain what happened" textarea.
My family bought both our current vehicles (Toyota) with >100k miles and they are now around 250k. Average cost (including depreciation!) is <$2k per year, so a little more than $150 per month, each.

Running cars longer is likely to slow down the transition to electric, unfortunately. I really want an EV, but I have never bought a new car and don't ever plan to, so I'm going to be waiting a long time for the market to deliver reasonably priced used EVs. Battery lifetime is also a question.
I sort of agree, the instant satisfaction of base human desires a smartphone offers, particularly if wide open to psychosocially optimized personalized social media and related applications, is dangerous at any age but especially for people who haven’t built the social experience and resilience necessary - both young and old.

Additionally the form factor makes it ever present and open for use / abuse.

For my child, she has an iPad mini that’s heavily parental controlled. She has no access to social media, and only a few games - Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and Terraria. She has drawing programs, education programs from her school (RazKids, etc), and a locked down messenger with only her family members in contacts. It has her kindle, which she has a epaper version of as well. She does have access to safari, but as of yet she just uses it for Wikipedia and stuff. I watch her use and will tailor access as appropriate.

Further we talk to her about the ills and the causes of the ills from social media and addiction optimized user experiences in these devices. The device isn’t the problem, it’s the “impressions, conversions, and stickiness at all costs” mentality that drives so much revenue, and thus so much UX.

I was raised on NES and c64 games, and I gained an awful lot out of it. I don’t agree that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with computers presenting content vs the real world. But I do know there is something wrong with the relationship between users of modern internet media and the companies extracting maximal value from shaping our behavior. That impact increases as you become younger / less sophisticated.
We're talking reasonably informed caution here. Science doesn't come into it, at all. Science is trying to make sense of the world, this is about preventing harm. And, as I wrote elsewhere, the social sciences have almost nothing to offer in terms of policy and decision making. They're too unreliable.

We can however easily imagine what's happening in this particular case, and the data support it. The damages are enormous. Like climate change, continuing is not an option, nor is waiting until we've got conclusive evidence, because that will take ages.

Making claims based on scientific method (not even theory or findings, because we have them, and they support the tenor of the article) is not helpful.
Nowhere near that much.
We can just print our way out of it.

/s
To suggest it is merely lack of drivers is an oversimplification. There is a chip errata that prevents PCIe GPUs from working properly on Apple Silicon: the architectures are not compatible. Apple Silicon GPU drivers are deeply integrated into the system. Due to this integration, only graphics cards that use the same GPU architecture as Apple Silicon could be supported, and there just aren't any, and I don't see how there could be unless Apple developed one and released it.
Correctness advocates like the author tend to take the concept of "correct" for granted.

99% of software projects don't have a reliable definition of "correct". They don't have a watertight ontology that you can infer types from. Requirements continuously change. Your "Whys" quickly end with "because so-and-so said so", and will change tomorrow. "What if?" Driven Development presumes that there is a finite and known set of states that you can design around.

Most software development (outside of extremely well-studied domains, like financial exchanges and aerospace) occurs in the absence of well-defined specifications. That's the fundamental reason why correctness-oriented paradigms and languages aren't popular and never will be. And that's okay.
Who is running single az deployments who also cares about data loss and availability? Seriously? I’ve personally supported 1000s of kafka deploys and this isn’t a thing in the cloud at least. There is no call for wanting fsync per message, it is an anti pattern and isn’t done because it isn’t necessary. Data loss in kafka isn't a real problem that hurts real world users at all.
the biggest opportunity for clutch wear is starting. If you can be easy on the clutch during start, and rev match very well the rest of the shifts, and shift infrequently, (highway miles) they can last a long time. How many miles in 15 years?
Which also seems like a reasonable reason for the FBI to get involved. The discussion tends to veer into "this is politically motivated" territory, when the law enforcement angle is more in the "preventing death and destruction" category.
Oh, it works now. Thanks!

For those reading the comments here, https://kidneybone.com/c2/wiki/CategoryCategory is a great place to start browsing.
I won't quibble about the bar of "write an app"—presumably that's something you'd be able to help them with.

I really like the idea of helping kids see computers/phones as tools for creation and exploration, rather than entertainment boxes. I personally feel like the danger for most kids with computers/smart phones/etc. is the addictive entertainment aspect, not as a thing in and of itself.
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$27B Electric Vehicle Deal Shows SPAC Silliness Is Back
>creeps and ex-generals

You mean spooks and ex-generals?
> If you try to coerce other people according to your preference, you need an argument, as you would in any other context.

You may think you're more likely to get your way if you have a compelling argument but history has proven that's not always true.

The argument is, "I would like this better."

> For reason, the RTO arguments are very bad. Is there some part the proponents can't say out loud?

No, I believe the part being said out loud is, "We prefer to work at a company where all employees are in office." That's all you need to say. The only people I've ever heard talk about water coolers are the dismissive WFH people.
https://archive.is/yW5hp
That feels like an odd example. Going on a google for speeds, that means they are responding to a bump after they have traveled 30 feet past it. Impressive, to be sure, but I'm not clear what the learning is there. More engineering went into the vehicles so that, by design, many other things happened before the driver is aware of it.
Whether or not something is 'simple' depends on what type of simplicity you're optimizing for and your use case/requirements. Front-end js frameworks could make development much simpler than relying on vanilla code or back-end frameworks to accomplish the same tasks. Personally, I don't see the benefit of defining simplicity by how much work the browser has to do unless there's a specific, tangible requirement that demands it.

Accessibility isn't any more of a problem than it is with HTML. For screen readers, et al it's still something that needs to be deliberately incorporated into the document structure, and modern frameworks are more than capable of handling it. What about older browsers with crappy JS implementations? Front-end frameworks have tools designed to extend support to much older browsers with limited JS support. The percentage of people who have access to a web browser but can't use javascript applications is vanishingly small. When I've worked with people making publicly-funded tools for which accessibility must accommodate people with very limited technical means-- unhoused people, for example-- developers tend to skip the web interface altogether and go with SMS combined with telephone or in-person service. JS is not the barrier.

Obviously that 50MB binary is hyperbole, but the baseline Vue include is 16k. It's certainly easier to make make front-end JS heavy and unreliable than plain static HTML, but it's pretty easy to avoid it, and design that poor would probably fuck up plain-old HTML and CSS just as bad. The fact is that most users do appreciate the dynamic features and responsiveness that is only possible with js. If you don't, and want to exclude yourself from modern web functionality, then be my guest. I think it's pretty strange that you'd expect other people to go out of their way to accommodate your rather uncommon preferences to make an experience most users consider worse and doesn't work towards satisfying any tangible business needs.
Not only that, but a lot of British films will make british-only casting decisions, eg the Harry Potter series. I've never heard of a major American film making that choice, and it would probably be blasted as xenophobic if it did.
The list seems to cover 90% of all sci-fi, and, if you squint a little, 80% of all stories ever written.
Ordered a box, can't wait to try this out! I've really been looking for something like this. My dream would be to have an LLM "agent" running locally, that knows who I am, etc, that can also double as a smart assistant for HA.
Anyway to tie this into homeassistant? Siri is such a POS that I been debating for a while to replace it with something Whisper based.

Edit: should have read the README more carefully….
I've found Bard to be extremely useful, more so than ChatGPT.
It's internet capabilities is a small but super important change.

You can pass it a URL and perform actions on the webpage.
Huh? Does:
waypipe ssh remotehost guicmd

not work for you?
> [1] on April 22, 2019 ProPublica published an exposé heavily criticizing the implementation of the Free File Program, which the bill would codify. The House then removed the Free File provision from the bill, which passed the House and Senate and was then signed by the president.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_First_Act
My gut feeling is that if your only AZ goes down (or all your AZs simultaneously), you're going to lose data period because your producers are now all stuck, your APIs are unavailable, etc. Whether the data loss begins at the exact moment power failed or a couple minutes before doesn't matter, vs. the additional cost to fsync constantly.

I mean it's good to know all the failure modes, but at the end of the day it's also good to know how much handling them will cost, and it's often not worth it.
Thing is, we already applied precautionnary principles in a very organic fashion: hight end phones have always been expensive, and very few kids got access to phones able to access messages, email, then social networks.

Be it Blackberry or Vodafone/docomo phones it took years before regular teenage kids could buy them in significant numbers. Same for the iPhone, it's not like millions of teens got their hand instantaneously on a 3G the minute it went out.

By the time it became widspread enough, we already had devices in the wild for a decade or so (for reference imode launched in 1999).

We might want to revise how smartphones are regulated and/or social media policies, but IMHO we're far away from the simple "we don't know let's be cautious" phase, and there is a burden of proof on what exactly needs to be regulated to what expected effect.
It Wasn't AI
Is it really "injecting" to simply be accurate? "Had become extinct" is technically correct. As much as, "Jews had become less populous during World War II."

Teaching real history is not "injecting".

Bison had become nearly extinct due to extreme overhunting by European settlers would be fine. And if pertinent, you could add more reasons for the extreme overhunting.
> the shock of how we kind of randomly stumbled into solving multiple classes of seemingly intractable cognitive problems...

Another excellent point. The idea that we may stumble onto massive computational leaps based on imprecise data processing requirements is terrifying. I do think we are nowhere near where we will need to be with respect to computation and, more important, information throughput. But the fact that we "oops"-ed into such a strong statistical model of conversation is deeply unsettling. I do believe GPT based language models will be part of an AGI.
Could we not use Willow to cast music, say, via Spotify or some other network streamer, through HA, to my pre-existing sound system?
Mobile games are worse than my old Gameboy's. The controls are just bad. In all games. Hell, old button phones had better games.

It is the microtransactions that are bad for mental health I guess. It is not that the games are good.
BBC, NPR, and Washington Post are all neutral organizations.

WaPo is the home of neocons Hugh Hewitt and Jennifer Rubin. When I first started reading WaPo, they were considered (and they considered themselves to be) far right neocons. These days, Ms. Rubin would be classified as a moderate (and considers herself to be an independent) and Mr. Hewitt is frequently accused of being a RINO. They haven't changed their political stances (if anything, Hewitt is more conservative now than he was before); it is simply that the Republican Party has moved extremely far to the right in the past decade and what was once considered extreme is now moderate.
I think it's just a bot/spam site that does not have HTTPS enabled. Most likely the domain was taken over after the registrant did not renew.
I'm not sure if someone has already posted this here, but Cal Newport had a nice presentation summarizing what we know about the effects of social media usage on children.

https://youtu.be/VN5lrKMeAOs

I showed this to my teenaged daughter and while she was irritated, she reluctantly agreed that it made sense.
> we could go into an office and it would just be a desk we made phone calls from.

This has been every place I've worked for the last decade, honestly. Even before WFH was a thing, all meetings took place over videoconferencing and most discussions took place over email and chat even with the people in the cube next to yours.

Working from home didn't seem like a major shift to me because no work or communications flows changed with it.
Never happened. Thanks Propublica! https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-pro...
> millions of people trying it and determining it’s utility vs the competition is as good of a test as any.

Disagree. We aren't polling these people. How do I even get a distilled view of what their thoughts are?

It's a far cry from the level of evaluation that existed before. The lack of benchmarks (until the last week or so - thank you huggingface and lm-sys!) has been very noticeable.

You will get people claiming that LLaMa outperforms ChatGPT, etc. We have no sense of how performance degrades over longer sequence lengths... or even what sort of sparse attention technique they are using for longer sequences (most of which have known problems). It's absurd.
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While I agree with some others here that the idea of the government watching public tweets is generally fine, I think the concern here is that there's various legal restrictions on how the government can conduct surveillance, and by using a willing private company to do the surveillance instead, they can avoid oversight and bypass some (most? all?) of those restrictions.

Another concern is the perverse incentives setup by private surveillance tech like this, where you very easily get into ShotSpotter situations where the ability to deliver perceived value to the government is more important that not fabricating evidence to ruin people's lives: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/its-time-police-stop-u...

I know Palantir will work with your data, but do they also offer any sources of data themselves? If so, this sounds more or less the same as that (or at least that part of their offerings).

I'm very ignorant of the legal context for this sort of thing, so I really don't know if it'd be trivial (legally) for the government to try to get this information themselves.

As an analogy, I think this is (ethically) similar to parallel construction. But rather than hide the illegal activity outright, you tunnel it through a private company. That way you get the same derived value as you would if you had broken the law to do it for yourself, but without the law breaking. I guess something like Room 641A is the best of both worlds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
It took me a couple minutes to work that out... But now I see what you aresaying. Thanks!
Much as I wish it weren’t the case, anecdotally, I have yet to find a substitute for sweets that doesn’t encourage the same feedback loop of craving more sweets, and more calories, leading to overconsumption.

The only times I’ve been truly successful with weight loss is when I’ve weaned myself off any processed form of sugar. It’s hell for about 2 weeks, but at some point my cravings for processed foods and sweets drops like crazy and I’m then satisfied (mostly) with healthy, whole foods.
My reasoning is the latter requires significant resources thus agencies would exercise discretion in what they monitor. With automated systems they can monitor larger swaths of people without much effort at all.
That's obviously not true, because most industries do not need special subsidies just to exist.

And the notion that Fukushima is just some sort of "pie-in-the-sky" scenario is bonkers. It is a thing that actually happened. An actual nuclear plant caused actual hundreds of billions of dollars in costs. If the best nuclear power advocates can come up with is, "Well that shit just happens, and we're sure not going to pay for it," then I think the state is better of spending its money on solar panels, wind, and other things where the downside risk is not sized like a major hurricane.
Ask HN: AWS Networking Issues Today?
We're running in us-west-2 and have been noticing a really high rate of connection timeouts to RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Lambda, SES, and even some DNS resolution failures. The AWS service metrics seem fine, e.g. no high CPU or connection counts reported on the RDS side of things. We haven't deployed any application changes or infrastructure changes since Friday, and it's affecting all of our kubernetes deployments and all nodes, so it feels like an AWS networking issue. Anyone been hitting the same issue?
Not OP, but I'll chime in. For us, Islam plays a central role in how we conduct our lives and affairs. While our children are younger than OP's, they already grasp why we do certain things, and why we don't necessarily follow what everyone else does, even though it may appear to be fun at first glance. And if everyone else is jumping off of a bridge, if doesn't make sense for us to follow blindly does it?

We also amend with family and community interaction as much as we can, as well as constantly engaging with them and teaching them that they can trust us in anything that is on their mind. Bringing up how we were raised seems to also aid (e.g. we show them kids shows that we grew up with, we mention that we didn't have cell phones as children, talk about our parents and grandparents times, etc.). I see some parents leaving their kids to watch whatever they want on youtube, and it's quite astonishing what garbage they watch. We pick and choose what shows and programs they're allowed to watch, again, mainly relying on shows we have already seen as children and which instill good values. Thankfully many of them can be found online. And modern incarnations of certain shows are treated as suspicious until proven innocent after what we're seeing them do.

Of course having peers of similar values is also very important, which is why school choice plays a big role, and public school is off the table (though I know not everyone can do the same, but it does not change the fact that it is a huge factor).
This reply puzzles me somewhat. The first half doesn't seem to relate to the post it's replying to.

How aware are you of the main points around AI X-risk like orthogonality? Or how an optimising process that makes efficient use of information does not need (in theory) to have "conscience" or "sentience" to be lethal?

And on a separate tangent, are you aware people are already making primitive agents by connecting LLMs (given an initial prompt) in a loop with the result of feedback from its actions?
I don’t buy that. I also find it funny the one example you use are comedians (not actors) who are probably doing something very stereotypical.

Dominic West and Idris Elba are both English and often cited as 2 examples of British actors everyone thought were American due to the wire.

There’s an interview with snoop dogg where he was allowed on the set of the wire and couldn’t believe idris was British when he introduced himself.

Damien Lewis is also English and often cited as a master of American accents.