skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IF you are running frequent service, then a trolley bus with all the wire costs is cheaper than batteries or engines. However most bus systems have a lot of less frequent sections and so it isn't worth it.

The real disadvantage of a trolleybus is your are stuck going exactly where the wires are. If something is blocking your lane you can't go around. If you want to close the road for maintenance you can't run the trolley bus. This loss of flexibility makes the regular bus make more sense in a lot of cases.

If you do have a situation where a trollybus will work, you probably should just put in a train that doesn't run in traffic. A tram running on tracks that are not in a road at all isn't much more expensive, and can handle more people than a bus in the busy part of the day. I'm a big fan of the automated light metro system idea: it runs faster than a tram (because it doesn't have to worry about anything in the tracks), it is cheaper in the long run (operating costs the big cost in any transit system), is can run 24x7 (if designed for it - many are not), and you won't have problems finding crew (many transit systems have the money to expand service, but cannot hire qualified drivers). In the end though there are pros and cons to everything so you need to figure out what is best for you.
thanks so much swyx!
Considering the first Cybertruck just rolled off of the production line, after being announced almost 4 years ago, and they've never produced the second gen Roadster after announcing it 6 years ago, I wouldn't put much stock in their development pipeline.
Your statement is a specific framing of a friendship from an economical perspective. You may or may not find that perspective useful, but it's inevitably a simplification that focuses on some aspects of a friendship and leaves out others.

The (grand)parent comment is arguing that the things left out are the ones they find important. A friendship can be analyzed through value, but that's not necessarily a good way to build and sustain friendships.
as a layman, i imagine for someone at the scale required it may not be worth the risk or the added effort vs paying or using a different model but it'd be funny if we see companies creating a subsidiary that just acts as a web-passthrough to "legalize" llama2 output as training data
You must be new to WoW, blizzcon is just around the corner
>… understand it's an antagonistic and ongoing battle between SEO spam and search engines

On the other hand, those Stack Overflow clones get top billing all the time. I do not think this is a data problem, but an incentives issue. More ads=good
I feel like this is the modern equivalent of Colin Powell waving a vial of Anthrax in front of the UN assembly.
> Technology advances have happened many many times in history. But there is always more work to be done.

Long term, yes. But it's also happened many times in history that sudden economic disruption has had a very serious cost. That things might be better in a couple of decades is of no help to people who can't eat or keep a roof over their heads today because of these changes.
What rules? Google won’t scrape your part of the internet if you don’t allow it, right?
So? We talk WW2, military casualties were to be expected, weren't they? Just look at Soviet and Russian casualties on the Eastern front. Also, as an alternative to an invasion mainland Japan, cut them of by sea, bomb their cities to dust (still a war crime, but Tokyo was already fire bombed anyway), so basically what happened, atomic bombs or not.

And yes, tze end of WW2 was predictable in mid 1944, no doubt about that in any shape or form. The details were up for grabs, sure, the overall outcome was not.
It's not just in the LLM space; even for 'older' models, companies have aggressively embraced this approach. For example: YOLOv3 has been appropriated by a company called Ultralytics, which has subsequently released the 'YOLOv5' and 'YOLOv8' "updates": https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics

There is no marked increase in model effectiveness in these 'new' versions, but even if you just use the 'YOLOv8' Pytorch weights (and no part of their Python toolchain, which might have some improvements), these will somehow try to download files from Ultralytics servers. Possibly for a good reason, but most likely to, let's say, "pull an Oracle."

Serious AI researchers won't go anywhere near this stuff, but the number of students-slash-potential-interns with "but it's on GitHub!" expectations that I had to reject lately due to "nope, we're not paying these guys for their Enterprise license just to check out your project" is rather disheartening...
Vancouver, Canada has the best transit system in North America. Better than many cities of similar size in Europe.
You’re describing a pyramid scheme.
SBF desperately needs to spend a year doing wage work. He needs to work in construction, or fast food, or driving a bus.
How can a simple comment make my back hurt?
I was responding to:

> No rate improvement in chat GPT will make it "decide to kill all the humans" etc.

All I'm trying to say is that GPT-style architectures not having "agency" shouldn't be very reassuring. How intelligent they can get is a separate question and one on which I am agnostic.
Yeah, chat gpt is in no way intelligent. People are using it (incorrectly) as a substitute for an actual general ai...
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I think another person in this thread pointed out a good example — reading a book, then being disappointed when seeing the movie because the characters didn't look onscreen how they imagined them when reading. Not w/regard to the textual descriptions, but w/regard to the other visual bits that their mind filled in.

This is a widespread phenomenon; no shortage of examples. It has happened to me, too.

There are some people in this thread who claim they haven't experienced that, and had a hard time understanding what that would even mean. These seem like pretty different mental/visual experiences, so it seems reasonable to have a word to describe it.

I agree it's hard to measure such internal things exactly, and it's full of self-reporting problems, but the core concept doesn't seem like purely a semantics issue.

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Aside: I once had a conversation about thinking, and my friends were surprised at the idea of thinking without using words. But that is very much my experience! It is something I semi-trained myself to do (I felt that translating into words slowed me down), but I think it was a natural tendency, too. But it can be likewise difficult to convince someone it's a real thing without resorting to brain scans (:
There seems to be no level of hypocrisy to which they will not rise and claim excuses and conspiratorial reasons for. I have heard from those sorts, among other things that "Putin is a great capitalist".
Especially base images. The size of your own layers might be worth worrying about, but not the shared base that should only be stored once for arbitrarily many containers
Also the main business model of Google (and of search engines in general) is to republish rearranged snippets of copyrighted content and even serve whole copies of the content (googleusercontent cache), without prior authorization of the copyright holders, and for-profit.

It’s completely illegal if you think about it.

So why LLMs who crawl the internet to present snippets and information should be treated differently from Google ? (who also reproduce verbatim the same content without paying any compensation to the copyright owners (all types: text, image, code)
Shaving the yak: I find `$FNAME.test.odin` to be a bit nicer than `$FNAME_test.odin`.

I'm confused about this caller_location thing in tests. It looks like you're just passing `loc = loc` a bunch of times for no good reason. Why can't the language automatically or implicitly implement that functionality? Having to write `loc = loc` at the end of every assertion just seems silly.
I have deep concerns regarding imperative programming w.r.t infrastructure as code. It's mostly developer-experience related: as a developer I just want to tell AWS/GCP/Azure to "give me three boxes behind a load balancer in two regions". I know it's currently popular to hate YAML (or HCL) but it works and at a glance I can get a feel of what my infrastructure should look like. Therefore IMHO declarative should be the preferred standard for infrastructure.

From an infrastructure management standpoint I completely agree with your take - do exactly this enough times and you get skew, compliance problems, pets instead of cattle. Hence you would want a CDK to facilitate those enterprise needs. Any sort of composability that doesn't break and has sane defaults would be ideal in a CDK. The problem I have with current CDKs is the amount of boilerplate to get this reproducibility, and then on top of that I have to write it in a non-declarative way.

I like where your head is at but I do not think AWSCDK extensions are the answer. I think cdktf and Pulumi are a little bit closer to the right ("my right"!) answer but still have a ways to go.
I think "You wouldn't steal a car" is a reasonable comparison.

In both situations you're taking something without the consent of the owner
Disclosure: I am a cofounder of a startup in Northern California focused on wildfire risk inspections and making recommendations to homeowners about what they can do to reduce their risk. I'm on the science side with a focus on the impacts of risk mitigation.

Dealing with outside storage and debris are part of both the Safer From Wildfire standard and the Wildfire Prepared Home standard. Addressing ember accumulation areas (read: any where leaves/ dust/ crap piles up) adjacent to a structure or any where else on a property is one of the easiest things a home owner can do to reduce their overall risk. Its cleaning up your yard and moving things that might catch on fire away from your house. If you have a problem with that and live in even a mild wildfire risk area, good luck maintaining coverage. This is the absolute lowest hanging fruit with regards to reducing wildfire risk.

Sources:

https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2...

https://ibhs.org/wildfire-prepared-home/

https://wuuii.com/
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Tangential - Today I have figured out that FT2232 chips on Infineon kits and Infineon MiniWiggler probe does not work when room is cca 35-38°C. It just kept connecting and disconnecting to the computer. Tried 2 different devices, different USBs on computer and different USB cables and nothing.

When I cooled down down my room to 25°C via A/C, everything started working again.
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True, D1 involves strategy and resembles traditional roguelikes, yet its tactical breadth feels limited..

So in absolute comparison to other roguelikes it's all mere coating, even on the tactics / strategy side - it tends to be more about positioning and resource management.

This is a highly subjective take of course and its appeal varies player by player..

I'd be in full agreement that Diablo 1 is the "most worthwhile" of the Diablo games and I do have a love / hate / on / off relationship with it (really glad that I'm not a smoker).
It's not that he's asleep at the switch. Rather, people blame the insurance commission when insurance gets expensive. However, when companies are leaving the market it's clear rates are too *low*.

Note that this is sometimes the result of those in high risk situations managing to get the legislature to require the risk to be spread to others to keep their rates from being insane. (Florida is a prime example--they're spreading the cost from property on the front line for hurricane damage across wider areas, so now everybody's insurance is high rather than some being completely uninsurable.)

While I have not kept up with the California situation I suspect something of the sort is going on, they aren't being allowed to look at local wildfire risk in setting premiums.
For the Love of the Game
> https://www.heyartifact.com/ Is a group trying to facilitate this.

In my time as a software engineer I've seen this pitched dozens of times.

I think it's a noble cause but I've seen it fail so many times it's discouraging.

I personally was hoping the advent of LLMs would make this more scalable since it could be a 'bot' doing the interviews and people might have less social anxiety about talking to a machine than another person.

Anyway if you're involved with the company I hope if successes, good luck!
> My guess is that many people don't consciously acknowledge relationships are transactional.

If two people do not treat their relationship as transactional, then it is not transactional. I don't know how to make this any simpler: at least one counterparty has to, at least, agree to the notion of "transaction" entering into the interaction in the first place, for a transaction to be taking place (and, I think, it could be argued that both counterparties must approach it this way). If they don't, then there is no transaction.

You seem to regard the idea of transactions as something fundamental to all human behavior, like a law of physics. This is not the case.
Not a doctor or a researcher in this base, but I think they are using immune to include auto immune as a subset. lots of people call some subcases of Alzheimer's as diabetes 3.
About a quarter of all single-family homes in the US are owned by investors:

https://www.billtrack50.com/blog/investment-firms-and-home-b...

The percentage of investors that buy single-family homes in a given year may rise or fall but the long-term trend is clear: Investors are owning more and more of the total market over time. Actual single families are being priced out.

Some markets are worse than the national statistic and entire neighborhoods are being bought in order to turn every single home into rentals. The New York Times wrote about this last year:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/us/corporate-real-estate-...

It's a very real issue and a few simple changes to the laws in regards to how many single-family homes may be owned by corporations would make a huge impact.
I don't think they meant better in the artistic sense but in the sense that they outperform on metrics?
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As a broke high school student, I downloaded this Windows utility called JAcKED that sniffs the DUN/PPP credentials from a variety of free ISP dialers:

https://www.docdroid.net/1JrYKEd/jacked-readme-2001-pdf

You could install some ISP adware, dial in once, uninstall, and then stay connected 24/7 with no ads or restrictions. That worked for at least a year, until DOCSIS reached our area. 1500/128 kbps was massively better than 26/26 kbps over miles of copper.

Combined with AllAdvantage and a mouse mover bot (custom VB6 named notepad.exe to evade detection), you could "earn" like $8/month via questionable ethics.
Those are perfectly consistent, despite what ideologically-driven people may want to believe.

Copyright is literally the right to copy. Arbitrary Internet data that is not copied does not have any copyright implications.

The difference is that LLaMa imposes additional contractual obligations that, for ideological reasons (Freedom #0), open source software does not.

This issue reminds me of the FSF/AGPL situation. At some point you just have to accept that copyright law, in and of itself, is not sufficient to control what people do with your software. If you want to do that, you have to limit end-user freedom with an EULA.

If someone uses LLaMa output to train models, it is unlikely they will be sued for copyright infringement. It is far more likely they will be sued for breach of contract.
iPhone user in AZ: I put my phone between driver seat and center console. Anywhere else makes it cook.

Wireless charging isn't an option.

And I would love to use CarPlay over a cable, but no can do with BMW.
Sure. They can contact me, arrange a time, and then go through. Just as required if they were a landlord renting out property to me.

We could put it another way: police also ostensibly protect your property, should they also have unfettered access to it to ensure you're not doing anything that might increase the risk of intervention on your property?
One can use machine learning and AI to evade culpability: for instance, if you want to debank a group of people, just have an AI tool to calibrate the score for risk, then debank them. Now banks/financial institutions can hide behind that AI tool. We will see more of this in coming years: use algorithms to deny access to people the ruling party or the elite don't like; when confronted, the elite say "we are not doing that, but algorithms are doing it".
> I think the right response is awareness of the issues and broad collaborative innovation to democratize the tool for as many people as possible

That is needed long term, but I don't see how it does anything for the more immediate problems. If enough people are out of work, that's a crisis.

The right response, in my opinion, is to be honest about the risks and find ways of mitigating them. I don't see anyone of substance doing anything like that.
I recommend using buildpacks.io or gcr.io/distroless or scratch or others of the ilk.

Using alpine for achieving slim containers is a waste of time and frankly stupid.
Basmati rice has generally lower arsenic content than the other rice types, at least those they sell here. That's the main reason I buy it, not really for the taste.
I think the article interprets Chesterton's Fence too strictly. Chesterton's point was simply that you shouldn't destroy something before making sure that it no longer serves any purpose. The fence was simply an illustration.

Or, to put it another way, figure out what the consequences are before you decide whether you're willing to intend them or not.
ZigBee seems like one of the few long-term-reasonable options, yeah. Self-hosting (as an option! it's insane for most, but it guarantees replacements can be made) and a reasonable standard is critical for longevity.
There are many problems that people like Adam Curtis try to document.

What is interesting is that everyone agrees this is the norm, but not many believe there’s a way to reform or change the status quo. The author doesn’t even talk about the easiest solution of not participating. They simply move to a new platform and think their problems are gone.
Unfortunately they somehow forgot that throughout the WinRT/UWP evolution, Project Reunion reboot, and Xamarin Forms rewrite into MAUI.
who is the ‘you’ in your question?
Yes, and it's also the home of E6-B Mercury "TACAMO" communications aircraft operated by the U.S. Navy:

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/milita...

This unit pretty much represents the last remaining Navy presence in the Bay Area. Ironic, given the history of the Navy there, beginning with the establishment of the shipyard on Mare Island before the Civil War, and the first Navy radio station on the West Coast in 1904:

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collec...
Undoubtedly it had many hits, but a lot of the greats have also since been remastered and can be enjoyed on newer platforms with HD graphics and modernized controls.
For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (1992)
Mere identity is not usually covered under attorney-client privilege, I’m not sure why you think it would be.

Here’s a semi-recent analysis of the situation.

https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2020/05/fifth...
From an efficiency standpoint it is preferable for a Land Value Tax to incentivize selling to whoever will put the property to best use.
It looks very similar to the “secure boot” mechanisms in Windows and other commercial client OS.

Strikes me as very dangerous though on the web where there are so many paths for malware to get in and this could get in the way of plugging the holes.
An almost billion dollar PR campaign?
Sure they do, albeit a shitty one: it's called a class-action.
> I'd think in this case it's about the response. What group of epidemiologists wouldn't get a sense of power, prestige than having daily Whitehouse meetings, continual press coverage, and effectively setting public policy based solely on their subject of expertise? That essentially hits on all three points I gave.

That is definitely one possibility. The other possibility being that a group of contrarian epidemiologists would get power and prestige by claiming that the first group is biased. This has happened in France, with Raoult growing a cult-like following.

> Most of the advice and policy also wasn't scientifically based in that the effectiveness wasn't well researched, so H-factor scores wouldn't play much of a role.

Well, in that case, H-factor-style scores wouldn't play much of a role because this was not research but policy.

I seem to remember that the effectiveness of lockdowns on diseases has been pretty much proved way before covid. Of course, their effect on economy may not have been studied quite as well :)
No sane company wants to leave a market the size of California on the table. They are leaving because the risk is just too high. There is nothing Commissioner Lara can do about the risk analysis associated with the previous 20 years of wildfire.

IF Californians don't change their collective behavior around addressing the issues related to wildfire risk, its unlikely they'll be able to maintain coverage.
> I'm sad to hear that the house was never torn down afterwards though and likely has squatters in it. I wish they would have done that for my grandparents.

You’re sad that the government would not allow your grandparents to continue living in an area which is designated for plane crashes?

I lived in VB for over 20 years, family in the military and such. I’m very interested in where your grandparents house was. The house my parents bought in the early 90s would have the windows sounds like they were shattering when jets would break the sound barrier over the neighborhood. The sound of jets was almost consistent. It was a wild time. Over the years the jet noise has become less and less with the ever sprawling suburb of Virginia Beach (I don’t claim it to be a city because it doesn’t really have city vibes, it’s just one big suburb with lots of neighborhoods). There’s no more breaking of the sound barrier on a what seemed like a daily basis. The pilots have calmed down their maneuvers and changed locations to further out in the ocean.
Discrimination is also a a pretty terrible way to run a society.
The article is interesting insofar as it explores the possibility that increased retail access to equity investments biases a population towards deregulation. But to be honest paragraphs like this one just seem like a distraction and a base appeal to emotion. Investors aren't just biased by their investments; they are bad people, incapable of loving or being loved. I don't think capitalist societies have a monopoly on people who reduce their relationships with others to a series of transactions.

It's unclear what specific policy changes are being advocated by the author. Even if we decide we want to go back to the 1980s (do we? was life that good back then?) how specifically do we do it? Is it just by banning the marketing of securities to retail investors?

Incidentally retail participation in public equity markets has traditionally been much lower in Europe and this is something that lawmakers are actively trying to remedy there: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/capital-markets-union-and-finan...
I guess Big AI is following the Big Pharma playbook - I recently read an article about children being unable to afford Penicillin shots, each costing almost a thousand dollars - which is absolutely infuriating considering any competent chemist can make Penicillin with rudimentary lab equipment, most of the cost being price jacking due to regulatory capture. Probably they are looking to avoid the marginal cost of AI services trending to zero by restricting the supply in a similar way.
You should learn both and be able to use both comfortably.