skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be a middle ground. The US did some amazing things without autocracy, such as the public works projects under the New Deal [1] [2] [3], the Marshall Plan [4] for helping to rebuild Europe, the Federal-Aid Highway Act [5] to build 41,000 miles of Interstate highways.

I don't know why things are so difficult now. There's got to be some detailed studies into this problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Works_Administration

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal-Aid_Highway_Act_of_195...
Novel microwave isolator points the way to new radio cameras, quantum computers
Narwhal is working, maybe the loading of new pages is slower.
I have thought some time now that we need a model for determining the difference between the actions of a person, the actions of software acting for the person, or software acting for it's own internal use.

It's a bit of a tricky issue when technically all things people do on a computer are software assisted, but there is a clear divide between editing a file in a text editor and a program generating a thumbnail image for it's own use. Similarly there's a distinction on sending an email by pressing send and a bot sending you an email about a issue update.

All in all, I would be ok with AIs being able to create issues if they could clearly do so through a mechanism that supported something like "AGENT=#id acting for USER=#id" People could choose whether or not to accept agent help.
Clarification: none of these were achievements rejected by GitHub, simply humorous ideas from a developer known as "flet" with no affiliation to GitHub.
Weird. I added to that original post, but I'm not on your list. Maybe your code didn't go to the "See more comments" page?
Interesting article. I think a big challenge here is crunching the data.

I was looking to see if this scraping is a Sheets feature or something, but it's not clear if the author manually visited all of these pages and extracted all the headers.
> All of this "our tech is so powerful it can end the world" stuff is just marketing buzz.

I see no justification for this claim.
What if they add some fast ones that were fast but that didn't work out so great, like Theranos or the submarine guys. Also Apollo 8 is in there but I mean a relatively large percent of astronauts died compared to like your company's new agile plan how many agile blackbelts do you expect to literally decease because of shortcuts taken in the implementation of their workplace environment.
NHTSA guidelines on re-use post crash are at https://www.nhtsa.gov/car-seats-and-booster-seats/car-seat-u...
In a technical sense yes, outside of niche systems such as evaporative coolers.

Also all refrigerators contain a heat pump.
Whoa. Yes, the altercation with the woman copilot is the context. It doesn't change what the Captain said:
> "These are the kind of women you don’t wanna get married to. You know, some men, they lose their temper and the next thing you know, the wife is dead... it’s the woman who can drive you to do crazy stuff, you know?"

How do you go from the statement above to: when a man kills his wife, it's the wife's fault? He is simply saying the wife's behavior is a factor, nothing more.
Good point.

The "out of sight, out of mind" approach doesn't really work for code you're actually responsible for.
Is there a problem with mobile? I tap the link, it deeplinks into the ChatGPT mobile app, opens a sheet named "Shared conversation" and a spinner keeps spinning forever.
JavaScript was also famously built in 10 days.

I'd say that internally git is more consistent %)
Someone need to capture this one...
We have heatpumps in Seattle. They have integrated resistance heating (like baseboard heaters) for cold weather situations where the heatpump doesn't work well -- no need for a separate unit.
Unfortunately this has been my observation seeing internal deal making, and it becomes stronger the more higher level discussions I see. To take a hypothetical example, let's say a team owns some very simple central config store, and every now and then someone needs to get an entry added there. The speed of getting it added would so strongly depend on the favour you can do for them. A matter of adding a new key in a json file can take from hours to weeks depending on who asks.

The idealists just lose out on promotions
> Life cannot be made riskless and Nothing Untoward Should Ever Happen isn't a viable innovation strategy.

Very well put. Life is all about tradeoffs. We should discuss them, both sides, instead of ignoring the downsides and pretending "you just want people to do!" You are right, it is not helpful and we can't solve problems like that.
I couldn't agree more. We pay top dollar for second-rate healthcare in the US, and the involvement of a wide array of for-profit corporations is a very large part of why that is.
There's "loss of functionality" and then there's "I am enjoying functionality that's due to an extention potentially taking over my system". More of the former, less of the latter please.
John Graham-Cumming's blog: How to beat an adaptive/Bayesian spam filter (2004)
That sounds like wishful thinking, individual training items have significant impact on the result.

Anyway, suppose you’re building an AI to walk, there’s nothing creative about selecting 9.8m/s/s for gravity that’s simply the ideal value to achieve a desired goal. Labeling an elephant as “Elephant” rather than “coat hanger” is similarly a functional choice.

Just because a person is holding a camera and taking a photo doesn’t mean the result is copyrightable.
https://asemic-horizon.com is about theory.
How far is “just off the coast”.

This tankers appears to have been in international waters. The Iranians had no reason to stop it, board it, etc. The exception here would be suspected terrorism, drug trafficking, or other major crime (none of which appears to be the case here).

The US generally considers anything within 12 miles to be within American territorial waters. Inside that, a request to stop would need to be observed. Outside that, the US doesn’t have a legal right to stop or board a vessel (subject to exceptions as noted above).
https://openai.com/research/language-models-can-explain-neur...
We need to move away from thia feudal way of seeing knowledge work. My guess is that all big corporations that fucked around amd jerked people around are going to enter the finding out phase shortly. Watch them struggle hiring decent people for the next few years because of their shortsightedness
You also get "hybrid" heatpumps that work alongside other sources of heat.
Baseline framework performance is pretty much bullshit in any case.

Real world performance degradation happens due to poor coding, endless dependencies, large amount of API calls that block rendering, and a huge amount of 3rd party (tracking) tags.

The core framework is the least of your problems.
HVAC techs can work on Heat Pumps just as well as on dedicated ACs. They are not significantly different.
I have been using zod to create validation functions. The validation functions give the TS compiler hints about the types that are output after validation.

I think you either:

(1) start with the runtime code and derive the types (what TS does by default).

or (2) start with the types and derive the runtime code (like "macros" in some languages).

Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to do this in a Node runtime?
http://softwaredoug.com - about search and AI, being a staff engineer, and team dynamics
Thank you for commenting! I didn't get those details in the first read of the report, but looking through now I can see what you mean.

It definitely does convey that once things were going wrong, the relationship broke down quickly, and it was hard to adapt once the trust was lost.
As evidenced by other comments to this parent, this kind of strategy, even without GPT, certainly seems effective :)
Exploring the Future of AI with Superalignment
Mh, I'm not new anymore, but there is one thing that's a huge confidence booster.

Someone coming around with a pull request going "Heyjo. I needed new X in your project. And, I looked at it and X and tests for X just slotted right in there. Can you take a quick look if that's right?"

I consider these easily and obviously extensible workhorse code bases my best work, even if after a certain point, I may have built like 10% of the thing and shouldn't consider it my thing anymore.
Its 48C down to -10C here. Some years get down to -18, but not enough to build for it. That extra 8C has a qualitative difference to the steps that need to be taken for people and structures. The problem this year has been high humidity at that high end, much more than normal. When you have over 40% relative humidity and its over 45C it makes air conditioners work extra hard due the specific heat of the water vapor they are cooling. There were some dessication technologies being talked about last year that would really help as they operated prior to cooling the air but I haven't seen them rolled out yet. I've heard anecdotes about EVs refusing to operate due to battery safety, and public transit shutting down due to insufficient cooling capacity.
Most of the inconsistencies, like "checkout" having three different functions, were added much later, in attempts to make UX niftier locally, without thinking about the product as a whole.
> Richmond Voyager was more than 20 miles off the coast of Muscat, Oman, and was in international waters when the Iranian Navy approached it.

Not sure what you mean by “just off the coast” but 20 miles from Oman would put it ~100 miles from Iran.
Gizmodo’s Io9 Published an Error-Filled AI-Generated Star Wars Article
from what I understand this is the mystery of the Alfred P Murrah building bombing. There was never any conclusion as to how the torpex acting as the primary explosive was obtained.
It's the other way round: Just accusing people of being in a cult is unscientific. There are plenty of arguments that AI x-risk is real.

E.g. by Yoshua Bengio: https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-r...
The I960: When Intel Almost Went RISC
Hmm, my blog wasn't added. Maybe when the data was scraped I hadn't posted it yet?
This article title is what you call Orientalism. 初心 is not a mystical ancient philosophy term unknown to the West. It's "beginner's mindset" or "openness to new concepts".

Actually, knowing "openness" is more important because knowing what Big 5 personality traits are protects you from believing in MBTI.
You shut off my server because you thought it was being DDOS'd (it wasn't and the traffic wasn't even that much, it was just abnormal for that box), even though I explained it and provided evidence during the surge. As a result I was offline during a big viral marketing push.

So I want to say from the deepest of my heart: Fuck you and nobody go work for Hetzner.
We are building Hito (https://hito.xyz) - easy to use crypto hardware wallet.

I am a solo founder. We've built everything from scratch - hardware, firmware, backend, mobile. First year from MVP to sales - 200 devices shipped in Q1-Q2.

We are assembling devices in my room in Mission district, San Francisco. Feel free to come and say "hardware is hard" to me, I would love to prove you another ;-)
The job hopping is a symptom of the shortsighted decision making that optimizing only for your next quarted gets you.

Proper planning, execution, building knowledge? Fuck that. We'll just jerk people around. What are they going to do? Form an union?
I think they would if either Azure or GCP lowered theirs. The bandwidth pricing for all 3 is very similar.
I think neither of the 3 wants to reduce the margins on this, since it might significantly make cloud a much lower profit business, and that would make winning in it pointless. It's better to make good money being 3rd than to be first in a commodity market.
edit: I can't tell if you edited this since I read it, or I just skipped the last few paragraphs outright, my apologies. I'll leave this here for posterity anyway.

To add something amusing but constructive - it turns out that one pass of Brotli is even better than using LZ4+zstd-1 for predicting this, but integrating a compression algorithm _just_ as an early pass filter seemed like overkill. Heh.

It's actually even funnier than that.

It tries LZ4, and if that fails, then it tries zstd-1, and if that fails, then it doesn't try your higher level. If either of the first two succeed, it just jumps to the thing you actually requested.

Because it turns out, just using LZ4 is insanely faster than using zstd-1 is insanely faster than any of the higher levels, and you burn a _lot_ of CPU time on incompressible data if you're wrong; using zstd-1 as a second pass helps you avoid the false positive rate from LZ4 having different compression characteristics sometimes.

Source: I wrote the feature.
Nobody is sure. This is mostly about risk. Personally I'm not absolutely convinced that AI will exceed human capabilities even within the next fifty years, but I do think it has a much better chance than an extinction-level meteor or supervolcano hitting us during that time.

And if we're going to put gobs of money and brainpower into attempting to make superhuman AI, it seems like a good idea to also put a lot of effort into making it safe. It'd be better to have safe but kinda dumb AI than unsafe superhuman AI, so our funding priorities appear to be backwards.
> "I still wonder if Patrick's fart was a deliberate and calculated"

I mean if it was planned then that's some impressive intestinal agency. But maybe with his diet he always got it chambered at that time of day so he can plan around it.
Ariane 5 lifts off on last mission as Europe faces space gap
An A/C is a heat pump. Stop trying to change existing terminology
You got who you voted for. (again)
Yeah, that's the part of all the "heat pump" coverage that I find amusing and odd. I've lived with a heat pump for at least 40 years at this point. Every house I've lived in for the last 40 years has been fully electric actually.
Definitely. I thought this was going to be a single, semantically correct table that had some fancy use of the display property across the different elements to make them align differently (though that would help with the table headers).

I actually think this is probably the more practical approach, though I wonder what screen readers make of the mobile version compared to traversing a normal table structure.
The recent additions to the Rome Metro were also built faster and cheaper compared to, say, the Central Subway in San Francisco, despite all the archaeological artifacts in Rome slowing down the digging.
That's what I believe too. They knew it wouldn't be great, and instead of waiting to get it perfect they decide to test the rocket anyway. I doubt they expected the damage they had, but that's why you test, so you know.
> A good example is that a teacher can use a private/school photocopier to make 30 copies of material for classroom use according to fair use

I disbelieve that this is the case, for copyrighted material; this is not supported by your citations, and that behavior (30 copies in a classroom) seems like a flagrant violation, in fact, and although most teachers wouldn't generally get in trouble with it, most teachers also tend to steer clear of violations like this. A teacher either obtains permission, or uses public domain materials, or finds some other way to convey the information to their students.

In fact I researched this when I was teaching a class, and I wanted to use some copyrighted handouts. I was able to obtain permission from a local blogger to use her article and distribute it to the whole class. In fact, she was very glad that I'd asked. I was less successful in contacting a publishing house overseas and obtaining permission for their stuff. So I didn't copy it.
The US military intervenes in world affairs in the interest of geopolitical stability, which benefits the taxpayers that pay it.

But even if that's not the case, do you believe that if you are a tax dodger (individual or corporate) that you no longer should be:

* Helped by the state department such as being given protection at a consulate on foreign soil if being threatened by a foreign nation?

* protected by the military if your life is in danger in international waters?

* helped by an emergency room if your health is in danger on home soil?

This feels like a position akin to screaming at a police officer trying to give you a ticket that "I'm a tax-paying citizen, you work for ME"
Related: UI Drafter is specially designed for content design.

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I look forward to hearing from you
Interesting, this is coming on the heels of my own terminal [0] finally being announced to the public. I hope the plug is fair game - friendly competition in this space has been sorely missing!

[0] https://terminal.click
What would you dilute it with? Surely not the water we just extracted?
I’d be interested to hear Iran’s point of view on these seizures. I already know our take, Iran bad/crazy. Reality is usually more complicated than that.
The Fed my ass. Pure incompetence playing with the livelihood of virtually all people in the nation.
https://planet.scheme.org/
Exactly, this is not human in the loop. The plugin was created without guard rails. A human in the loop guard rail would be "here is an issue template, please confirm to post this". It's really a simple change and this is the sort of thing that regulation should address, it shouldn't try to ban the technology outright, but rather require safe implementation.
Runescape was crazy for the time (pre-WoW). A full-featured MMO you could play on a wide variety of computers without downloading or installing anything. All you needed was Java.
Actually, I think for FSD to work under any set of conditions, and with any vehicle, more or less requires AGI.

Until then, I'm guessing that FSD will have some limits to what conditions it can handle. Hopefully, it will know its limits, and not try to take you over a mountain pass during a blizzard.
It will be picked up in a few hours.
The Invisible Reason for High Housing Prices: Restrictive Land-Use Regulations
martypc: An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust
The way I’ve come around to digital tools is that I consider them a different, externalised type of memory augmentation. They give us another type of memory.

If someone interrupts me and asks me to do something that I can’t attend to right then, there’s two options (assuming I want to do the thing):

- Hold it in my working memory until I’m able to fully context switch or put mental effort into transferring it into long-term memory

- Immediately note it down, then make no further effort to remember it

The same applies for random ideas that might pop into my head that are unrelated to the task at hand.
Spotify stops accepting payments that were set up through Apple's App Store
What’s the value? Lol I’ve used the same $250 one for 3 babies now and 0% of them would have noticed “high end materials”.
It's on the Vegas strip. There's hardly a shortage of distractions.
It's worth noting that hard-drive based MP3 players did exist at the time, but they had several drawbacks that Apple found solutions for.

First, they used physically larger 2.5" hard drives, making them larger and heavier. The small 1.8" HDD that the iPod used allowed it to be the size of a deck of cards, meaning it was much more portable.

Secondly, hard drives consume a large amount of power to operate, so HDD-based players had terrible battery life because it was always spinning up the disk to get the next song. The iPod solved this by just adding 32 MB of RAM as a cache, so when you started an album the system would just read in the next 15 minutes (or so? that's about 30 MB at 160 kbit) of songs and then power down the HDD until the cache was running out or the user changed albums/playlists/tracks.

It was also fast; using firewire to transfer songs restricted it to Mac users at first, but it meant that you could rip a new CD and put it on your iPod in a short amount of time, or, later, buy an album on iTunes and have it ready for your jog in ten minutes.

It's funny to think how many people saw the iPod as an obvious immediate failure. As the infamous Slashdot post[0] said, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

[0] https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
Stressing out Bing using its new ability to recognize images
My dad is an old school EE and this post really reminds me of him.

It doesn't matter that he lives comfortably and could much more easily replace the hardware. He enjoys the process of taking something broken and making it useful again.

I liken it to spending hours configuring and modifying open source software when a paid option exists, if you have the expertise and/or interest. And doing that with hardware has the added benefit of reducing waste, which is something I admire.
> Mechanically computed from random numbers, no

Even random numbers are copyrightable.

Below is an implementation of Marsaglia's invention, from p348, courtesy infamous NR[1]. Its a MWC (multiply with carry) random number generator, with two parameters, variable a and base b=2^32.
---
For a, "The values below are recommended with no particular ordering."
ID a
B1 4294957665
B2 4294963023
B3 4162943475
B4 3947008974
B5 3874257210
B6 2936881968
B7 2811536238
B8 2654432763
B9 1640531364
---
as we all now know, the whole thing is copyrighted - you can't redistribute that code and can't use those specific numbers to generate random numbers without purchasing a license, which only allows you to use it once in your personal machine; that's why GSL[2]. The pseudorandom numbers you would get from MWC if you use above numbers are also copyrighted since they are work-product.

[1]http://numerical.recipes/book/book.html
[2]https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/design/gsl-design.html