skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are (large) e-ink displays expensive because of lack of scale in manufacturing? Or is there something inherently expensive about them? This display is literally almost ten times the cost of a generic 4K monitor, which has color, a higher resolution, and a 60 hertz refresh rate.

The only advantage here is the reflective display and the ultra-low power consumption. I'm not saying that there aren't use cases where those could be critical/decisive, but given the cost differential it seems like the decision between the two is effectively automatic: the products don't compete, in the same way an SUV doesn't compete with a Cessna: if you need to fly, you buy the plane; otherwise the car is a no-brainer.

I ask because I would love to have a second monitor like this display: easy on the eyes, distraction-free, etc. But at this cost it's a ridiculous non-starter for that purpose.
The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
> Any recommendations on Christian (or not) mysticism? That's not something I've ever delved into at all.

Read about hesychasm, read about orthodox monks living in deserts, read about Mount Athos.
Humans are deceptive by nature so we always have to read between the lines and pick up on hints and context
That's a great rant, and not unjustified. I feel with the author.
This gets into the absurdity of North American turn signal rules/regulations that allow brake lights as turn signals.
I think the Homebrew maintainers anticipated lots of grievances even with a transition away from GA, but being "cringe" was not one of them.
Hilariously when I asked GPT-4 who I was, it said I’d previously worked at OpenAI. I thought of trying to apply there and saying “well, your own model thought I did…”
I mean you can check it yourself (ChatGPT UI vs your own API key),

https://stackdiary.com/chatgpt-capabilities-are-fine/

They've simply added a bazillion disclaimers and every response now contains "2021" pretty much. I really wish they'd just let me set it in the settings to "shut the fuck up about 2021, I know that's when your data cutoff is, do you think I am stupid?" and be done with it.
> almost none of it is automatable or in any way "disruptible" by a startup. Sure you can improve a bit by investing in automation or better digital tooling, but the ROI is in the single digits.

This is the angle I would attack if I wanted to get into a construction startup. Logistics & data. Single digit ROI might be worth going for if we can keep the rest of the costs under control. Maybe you aren't replacing Lennar 100%. Maybe you get into a B2B partnership with them and gradually go for a bigger play with them as your construction partner. How much would they pay you to reduce their opex by 1%?

If you are trying to revolutionize the art of construction and push the entire market towards some crazy idea involving off-site fabrication, I agree... Total waste of energy. All of the factors you describe point towards "work with an incumbent, don't fight them".
Is there a name for this tactic of projecting motivations on others in order to explain their behaviors?
i too would like to find a service where I could host ~500GB of files and cheaply send random subsets of them (~.5GB each session) to random users all over the world without it becoming >90% of the service's costs

i'm starting to think the few years of really cheap/free egress rates were actually an accounting mistake, and the true cost of moving those bits is finally becoming apparent to datacenter accountants

but i may be naive.
> Or look at how romex/NM (doesn't) hold up to mild rodent activity.

We had a mouse chew the romex going to the receptacle for our dishwasher (as well as the drain line). He must’ve gotten quite the shock, since the breaker tripped. The wire was charred and had exposed copper.
Does modern HTTPS even work on Windows 95?
What are we going to do with all of the pre-existing trucks? If the EVs don't work, it's not like we have to reinvent anything. Let's see if we can have some more condescension delivered with those trucks too
I’m convinced as well. There are plenty of folks using it for production use cases who regularly run evaluations, including myself. No evidence that it has been nerfed.

It’s just not as robust and general as it felt when using it for the first time.
Slightly off topic, from the FAQs, this is hilarious:

> How is this different from the Google Play Games mobile app?
The Google Play Games mobile app is primarily focused on the instant games experience where you can jump right into casual games. We’ll have more announcements for the mobile app in the near future. Going forward, “Google Play Games” will refer to the PC experience where you can enjoy your favorite Android games.

I wonder if Meta/Apple execs ever secretly thank Google for being so disorganized and make it easy to compete.
So... there isn't enough supply to match the demand growth.
Gay people don't require any medical interventions to be gay, so it's not really the same thing.

If the transgender identity is innate, why are there so many detransitioners coming out recently? Something has clearly gone very wrong.
Older web browsers like those on Windows XP don't support newer versions of SSL.
> I think "normal people" will very much care about shoplifting when they see that prices go up to cover for that. Or, even worse, when store owners figure they can't be profitable in some area and go away altogether.

How and when are they going to see that ?
In my country, there newspapers headlines about how supermarkets have egregious margins.
Is this true ? I don't know, but they don't mention shoplifting in the articles.

> I think people keep on thinking that "the rich" feel they have some kind of moral obligation to help them. As we've seen time and again, they do not.

The rich do not have a moral obligation to help us but they do have a legal obligation to pay their taxes and give back to societies they live in and benefit from like everyone else.

I am not sure it's moral obligation but they could also have the decency to stop spending so much money in lobbying, politics and information campaigning in order not to pay their due proportionally to what they own.
Is this not accurate anymore : https://www.fool.com/taxes/2020/09/25/why-does-billionaire-w...
Anecdotal:

I introduced my doctor to ChatGPT and Bard many months ago and they were impressed.

Fast forward a few days ago and I asked them if they had used either since. They said it was far inferior to Google, so no. So I asked them to show me an example.

Basically any medical question was answered with “go ask a doctor”. I suppose because of liability concerns. Both were basically useless.

So this decreased performance may not be exactly the same as my anecdote, but it certainly reminds me of it.
nahh its definitely visible, I have been using this thing since it came out and it is way worse at easy shit like editing emails
As if there was already not enough reasons to flee that god-forsaken place (see recent riots, one example among many), now parliament is busy manufacturing new ones.

Amazing.
Possibly: openai is making adjustments to make sure "what you pay is what you get and NOT more".

Possibly readying to hike a price for the next level where what you used to get will cost way more.
> all I can say is they are designed to basically give any country the ability to say, "We don't like you, Americans. You are bad and we don't like you."

I agree, but that boat has sailed, and now Homebrew is dealing with it.
That is the fundamental nature of intelligence. Like beauty it only exists on our minds. When you stare at something long enough you can convince yourself it isn't actually beautiful because it is just a bunch of brush strokes.
... wait, why would the chargers keep the the high voltage DC lines energized when not in use?
The actual details seem fine?

To me it looks like "diesel trucks are still legal to sell for (7?) years", plus _relaxed_ emissions standards compared to the state's previous requirements, in exchange for a promise to deliver electric trucks at some point in the future.

Tesla has delivered a few EV trucks to PepsiCo in (iirc) Sacramento but had to build out a few special megawatt chargers for them. Plus I imagine the electric truck R&D investment itself has cooled off so it'll be good to push public expectations out a few years; for example (self-driving truck startup) Embark Trucks is going back private (acquihire?).
Exactly, public schools pay about 3x cost ($30k/yr vs $10k) price for each of the (learning and other) disabled kids which private schools and charters completely avoid. It's just cost shifting and the only solution would be to share costs, which (like insurance) reduces profits so they'll fight tooth&nail.
It makes sense when you compare it to other transportation options: if the bus costs $2.75, and a lyft ride costs $20, getting there by scooter for $7 seems reasonable.
The orthodox and coptic churches are much more mystical than the catholic church, and much much more than protestant denominations. Reading about the early Irish church is interesting, since it was very influential in the middle ages with many of the most famous saints, and it was a very mystical and ascetic branch of the faith.
I can't believe you went out on a limb like this. I've been assured that the fact that many people don't have access to basic water and food safety means that they shouldn't have a website either. I suppose you think they should have the vote, too? How can you give people the vote if they don't have indoor toilets?
I suspect this is the variability of the model. I've used it a lot for coding and I've gotten some great answers and some absolutely terrible answers. Getting consistency is difficult, and the more you input into it, the more of a chance there is that it'll go off the rails.
The cop that killed Nahel committed the folly of doing so on camera.
>> replacing even cheap locks would be much more expensive than having them re-keyed.

Getting a skilled tradesperson to your house is going to cost $100 at an absolute minimum. Then parts and such. New home depo locks will be cheaper.
the Amazon van look totally cartoonish to me

So would the ubiquitous Grumman LLV, if you hadn't grown up with it.
I remember the first time I played Minecraft and I was in awe at how expansive the play world felt. Without thinking too much about it, I had the feeling that if I set off in any direction I would discover infinitely new things. After enough playtime I saw the repeating patterns and eventually it felt so small again.
>never taken an heroic dose of hallucinogen

Please explain what is heroic about hallucinogens?
Because most of the gravy is in getting those things wrong. The bank or the government will find more money to keep the work going.

I worked with a GC who bragged about tripling the budget of a highschool build. If you are doing large projects the only way you're going to win is to be way off on bid day and to be good friends with the people who figure out the financing.
The status quo coalition
We have an Azure API Endpoint running since the closed alpha and we check the results against the openai GPT4 API. The output is consistent the openai API endpoints are just getting slower.
I don't know about the API, but the ChatGPT UI GPT4 really became much worse, so much so that I had to cancel my subscription. It's not just about novelty factor. I used to store all my prompts locally, and when I compare old responses and new ones, there is a huge difference. OpenAI employee said the API model doesn't change, but were careful to not say anything about the UI. I am now waiting to get access to the API GPT4 to try it again.
It takes less fuel than most people think.
I don't think any project retro I have ever had asked the question of 'how did we do on estimation?'. I guess that would be one of the culprits.
I guess I just don't think you've made a good case for _why_ the private school teachers are better than the public school teachers. I don't think it's intrinsic motivation. Do you really think status is a sufficient explanation? Why aren't public schools getting our best and brightest?

It's not that I think I have bullet proof answers to these questions, but I feel like you're not acknowledging that these are important questions to answer if we're to understand why your children are getting a better education in private schools.

My theory is that it largely has to do with teachers prefering to teach the subset of children who get into private schools. As a rule, private school kids are better behaved and less difficult to work with. It's important to note that I'm not saying public school children deserve an inferior education. Their lack of behavioral and emotional skills is not their fault. In fact, those are skills that should be taught in school.
You government (wherever that may be save a few places) is very likely already doing it, they're just being very discreet about it instead of making it the law of the land.
Because most construction projects aren't "just" new plumbing... if you're operating beyond the "Yugoslavia way" aka renovating/constructing in pieces whenever you had scraped together some cash (as my grandparents did back decades ago), you want to do everything at once - first you tear out all the old stuff and then you sequentially have every trade come in to do their respective job.
There is a specific order things need to be done. You need the fountain, then the walls, then the roof - only then can plumbers start. Because water runs downhill, the plumbers MUST be done next, as otherwise something else might be in the way of where a pipe needs to be. Once the plumbers are done, then the HVAC people come, and then after that the electricians come - it is no problem for them to put power to the water heater at this point - the water heater must already be installed. (or at least roughed in). This is how all houses are done, so there is never a problem unless all the electric is delayed.

In large buildings things are done different. Architects spend more time designing exactly where the pipes, HVAC, and wires go. Then the trades people work to spec, and they can thus work in any order so long as their parts go where they are told to. This is a lot more effort/cost though, so it isn't worth it for a small house but is critical for something large. A small house turns out to have plenty of space for everyone to design as they go, and thus this is cheaper. For a large building there are a few places where there is barely enough space for everything that must go through that spot so you better ensure upfront there is enough space.
It seems to overly intellectualize a problem that has a whole spectrum of factors outside of being "smart". Long term thinking, risk/reward, motivations, emotions, hormones, all that stuff is either first forming or in total chaos and it's in no way as simple as smarting your way out of it.
Lmao, what a crock.
Hey, thanks for the feedback and helpful advice. It's good that you mentioned attempts to "hack the Spotify algorithm". As an artist I can say that's really common, especially for aspiring artists.

And the thing about technical expertise of music producers: people commented about downloading open source visualizers and all that stuff is "easy to do" which is in reality it isn't, because it's hard to nerd and dive onto tech stuff when you work on music.
From the literal first section of the article:

Why?

Homebrew is provided free of charge and run entirely by volunteers in their spare time. As a result, we do not have the resources to do detailed user studies of Homebrew users to decide on how best to design future features and prioritise current work. Anonymous analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Homebrew. For example:

- If a formula is widely used and is failing often it will enable us to prioritise fixing that formula over others.
- Collecting the OS version allows us to decide which versions of macOS to prioritise for support and identify build failures that occur only on single versions.
Do sitemaps like `<link rel="sitemap" type="application/xml" title="Sitemap" href="/sitemap.xml">` work, too?

-> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13327527/how-to-make-a-s...
Please don’t assume that copper and metal are the best in all situations. My home has in slab copper plumbing. The problem with this is that the copper pipes develop pinhole leaks over time. The slab itself is under tension and can’t be cut into easily. So repiping is a substantial effort. PEX is the only “cost effective” solution for this.
Everybody having a website would be as dumb as everyone having a telephone.
De facto it's a totally different thing because means "locally" where the emergency is locally evident, not arbitrary declared by a handful of people.

Beside that in a Democracy only the Parliament can declare a state of emergency.
the base model may have been but not necessarily the RLHF fine-tuned layers they might have added or the shortcut they're taking during inference due to such fine tuning (or for perf optimization unrelated to fine tuning.)
> The reason they collect telemetry usually is why they say they do - to improve the product.

Even if that's true, organizations like to keep this stuff for longer than they should and are not immune to hacks or changing business priorities (like AI). If there was serious liability attached to leaking or "off-label" use of this data then I'd feel better about it.

Also, using telemetry to justify removing features is not about making the product better but about cutting costs. How is Firefox better without RSS support? The fact that only a small number of users use it tells you nothing about how passionate or influential those users are, nor how such a change will affect wider perception of your products. See also: how pissed off many on HN still are about the death of Google Reader even though it was a "niche" product.
> I got to a pretty good technical competence with my trumpet but at the end of the day I could only play what was on the sheets.

Without commenting on the dire state of music (and arts) education in the schools, the same is true of all subjects. Mathematics is mostly taught as syntactic manipulation; physics as memorizing a bunch of "laws" and doing "experiments" that have a right or wrong answer (chemistry and biology are even worse in this regard) and so on. Even literature and history are not taught as an exploration and inquiry of possible themes but as structured topics (often one per book) that you learn as being "right" or "wrong".

The emphasis on testing, and in particular standardized testing, has made this worse, since teachers who don't "teach to the test" are often penalized.
You’re joking right? If anything School needs to be shortened not extended
Did you get the help you needed in the end? I've seen it do that once but was able to cajole it within 1-2 prompts.
Except there must be a difference between school and day care because the kids who stayed home during covid are now way behind academically.
Recent and related:

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Normally we downweight follow-ups but this is cool and I think there's room for one more!
Why the lucky stiff wrote a great, poignant guide to Ruby. A lot of people loved it and demanded more from Why. They decided they didn't want to be in the public eye even a little, and wrote a goodbye. I think CLOSURE is that goodbye?
Folks using it in production are using the API, where you can explicitly select a model. In the post, the poster is using ChatGPT, through the web app, where you can't select exact model and they sometimes do updates.
I think that's it. The EV plug adapter business is about to explode. CCS and J1772 are definitely dead. Any OEMs refusing to make the switch are digging their Chapter 11 graves.
I agree. For RDS, AWS will create nightly snapshots for the production data. Then it would be up to the company to set up an additional pipeline to take that snapshot, scrub the data, and create a new snapshot which would get used by the developers. Not an easy task, but the benefits are there.

And getting the most up to date data would be the same process. Create a new snapshot, run the scrubbing process, create a new scrubbed snapshot, get the database to the developers.
The thing is they(OpenAI) really could mess with the temperature/probability settings, and other settings for various reasons that can cause something like this to happen to some people at certain random times. Hence is hard to reproduce, and only OpenAI knows it, either they acknowledge or not that is the based on business requirements
Not really. ABB is good at hardware protection, which is why the faults don't usually result in failures. Tesla is ahead in terms of anticipating, avoiding, and automatically handling such issues. The variety of cars absolutely creates a challenge, but Tesla is better positioned to meet the challenge.
A while ago I read that here in Germany you can also do the house wiring yourself, it's just that it has to be inspected and certified by a master electrician or you'll be really hosed if something happens since insurance won't pay etc.
Tesla superchargers have no screens OR buttons. Everyone wins. Just plug in and go pee.
Who’s behind all those weird product ads on Twitter?
Nope. I’ve had a tiny one connected to a raspberry pi that is still displaying an image over a year after I unplugged it.
I think there are quite a few startups in this sector, see for instance: https://www.symonda.com/search?query=buildings+construction
> I think you're jumping to conclusions --- my reading of GP is that "the cause" == dysphoria.

Conversion therapists like Ken Zucker know full well about gender dysphoria and helped create the old "gender identity disorder" diagnosis in DSM IV. The "conversion" they are trying to achieve is to change the child's gender identity so that it's congruent with their sex via conversion therapy. This has failed spectacularly time and time again, and yet, prejudice against trans people, keeps folks interested in "treating" gender dysphoria in this manner.

There was an article on Zucker and his practices in 2008.

https://www.npr.org/2008/05/07/90247842/two-families-grapple...

What it comes down to is just punishing gender non-conforming behavior. Kids treated in this way have been prone to commit suicide as adults, or, to transition anyway but then have to deal with a lifetime of ridicule for having the marks of a male puberty on their body. Outing them as transgender at a glance, whereas if they'd have had access to gender affirming care they'd have been able to blend in and, you know, go buy milk at the store without being gawked at or harassed.
A couple of reasons:
1. Just like with software, you make assumptions that may be wrong because you don't have enough info up front. Whenever you remodel a house, there is always a chance that you're going to open the wall and find that the wiring isn't up to code and needs to be fixed. You always know it's a possibility and can make some guesses about how likely it is based on things like the house's age, but ultimately you're probably not going to include it in the estimate. After all, there's a ton of stuff like this that can come up, and if you included all of them in the estimate, it'd always end up being way too high.
2. Competitive pressure. You're bidding against other contractors. If you bid $1 million and the other guy bids $800k, you're going to lose. When that other guy comes with the bad news that it's going to run $200k over budget, the client grudgingly accepts because the cost would ultimately be higher if they switched contractors at that point.