skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, that's not what I intended to say, and not what I said to her either.

It's unfortunately true that my behaviour (and the behaviour of many autistic people) can be easily characterised as being an asshole, and vague rules do not help us function.

The condition is very much characterised by being unable to understand social cues.

I really was trying only to be helpful and got quite hurt in the interaction.
That video and the results are astounding.

And, circling back to your point about where to use the PID: I think that perhaps we need to split things more finely: The fancy part of that video was WRT overall flight trajectory planning. (See also your obstacle avoidance descriptor). You might still use PID for the angular rate control (or not), while feeding those target rates from a higher-level algorithm that commands attitudes, flight paths etc. (Or flight path -> attitude -> angular rates etc)

I went down a rabbit whole of constant angular jerk and time-to-correct targets for a while, but wasn't able to get it working.

So, there are multiple layers involved for something like in the video. A properly-tuned PID works well for manual angular-rate controls, and autopilot commands that reduce down to angular-rate controls. But PID tuning can be tricky; and/or can be done automatically; or replaced with something more sophisticated.
No, I mean by inlining.
Hummingbird beak points the way to future micro machine design
Ok. I can identify all of those parts and once did a cap replacement on a pac-man monitor. But that's enough to keep me from making it a regular thing.
Recursive Racks [video]
dup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37187781
Do you take money from thespians if a movie tanks?
It’s astounding that we have an understanding of far away phenomena like black holes and supernovas, but have such a poor understanding of so many aspects of the systems in the human body still
Yes. The USA left's devil has been Trump for many years now.
Can't you just modify the MOTD?
> True, I can see how “weighty evidence” overstated the weak case presented by the author.

You're gloating and high fiving yourself for insulting someone on the internet, in the same breath you're asserting that person isn't well adjusted and needs to go to therapy. I'm not impressed.

> Not all tasks can be done with equal efficiency by different people, thus route tasks to where they are most efficiently performed.

The author is asserting some people "route" tasks that don't get them promoted to others. Your counter assertion is that those people are more efficient at not getting promoted?

> Irony aside, the essay could be categorized as reverse-CBT.

This is dangerously close to gaslighting. The author writes about personal experience, and you're asserting it's a product on insufficient therapy or is some kind of anti therapy.
You haven't seen the left demonize Trump?
I think you have a wrong idea about the size of these milk fridges. These are small, separate units with just enough space to put a milk bottle into it. Via a tube, milk is directly fed from the cooled bottle inside the fridge into the coffee machine next to it without the bottle ever leaving the fridge.

Edit: the cooler is the metal box to the left of the coffee machine here: https://getraenkekuehlschrank-portal.de/milchkuehler/
AI Expert Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing New Technology’s Challenge
>100 companies producing 71% of emissions to sell us products that we continue to buy

And they could in most cases produce those goods with a more ecological process, but since that requires reducing profit at least in the short term, it won't ever get done without regulation. Which requires political action.

I agree in general with "consumerism needs to also be reduced" but that's just way down stream from the most impactful things conscientious actors can do. Like those prices would reduce consumerism, and I'd rather have complaints about not being able to afford the new iphone than boiling oceans. I still think there's plenty of space to trim in the profit section of the pie before we increase cost.

I never didn't agree with personal action is important, paper straws good technically, all that good stuff, sure. Just mostly negligible vs political action in a perfectly democratic world.

All I meant to get at is that like per "dollar" of effort spent, you get by far the best return on political action. Personal changes are just nowhere near as efficient. Not taking airplanes vs getting a climate conscious politician elected locally quantified would surely demonstrate that? Again though I'm no climate scientist and I'm mostly talking from my ass and a few books about climate.
Nor fentanyl. Probably because while heroin is a thing, it tends to stay in its rather particular niche.

I'm not a believer in gateway drugs generally, but the prescription opioid hell that exists in the US never really took off here. A problem yes, but not a society-wrecking scale. Mostly because doctors are much less free-and-easy with prescribing the stuff, and can't easily be bribed by drugco's to do so as they were in the US.
This video might change your perceptive.

https://youtu.be/watch?v=uTyAI1LbdgA
https://archive.ph/MqOwf
a diss in jest, an d demonstrating a possible court tactic.

yes that was a very colorful person.
Hah, I was reading his quoted response looking for the problem and didn't realize he changed the spellings in the quote. Got it, thanks.
Obey the 9 Lines.
A good article on this topic is Christian Lattner's
"What ever C programmer should know about undefined behavior."

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
Seems like you couldnt have front end engineers with this philosophy. Or you could but it would be very unproductive. Because theyd need backend changes for every API call.
What's RAG?
And infamous for the tweet: https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/616282747200479232?...
Like Beowulf, which Tolkien was famously pretty engaged with.

Beowulf’s already a brave badass at the beginning, and that doesn’t change, nor does he waver or second-guess his course or duty.
Getting to that point has required years of maintenance work since compiler writers started interpreting more and more undefined behaviour as optimization opportunities. At least now we have UBSAN to actually test for undefined behaviour at runtime.
History of Tuberculosis
Thanks for the feedback - understood, trust is indeed hard. So, a "see how it works" type of deal, before asking you to sign in?
"The second way to teach quantum mechanics leaves a blow-by-blow account of its discovery to the historians, and instead starts directly from the conceptual core -- namely, a certain generalization of probability theory to allow minus signs"

In my opinion, this is not the most natural and easiest way to get into quantum mechanics.

And there are also (undergraduate) physics books that tackle the quantum mechanical concepts directly, e.g:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html

especially:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_03.html (Probability Amplitudes)

Negative probabilities (Wigner Functions) are more advanced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_quasiprobability_distri...

Lucien Hardy "Reconstructing quantum theory" is really conceptional, but I think it is not the best way to start.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1538
Whoa. I saw him at an event a couple months ago and he seemed pretty fit. It was a pleasure to hear him talk about PARC and Adobe.
The overwhelming cost of the first shell pipeline, at least on my machine, is caused by the default UTF-8 locale. As I have found in almost every other case, `LC_ALL=C` radically speeds this up.

Original: 3.294s
w/ LC_ALL=C: 1.055s
w/ larger sort buffer `-S5%`: 0.780s
Your gawk: 1.772s
+ LC_ALL=C: 1.772s

By the way, these changes immediately suggested themselves after running the pipeline under `perf`. Profiling is always the first step in optimization.
> They’re just not licensing the patent to other manufacturers

Who? Some data backing the claim up please.
The "abstract machine" is present in the first C standard, published in 1989.
> Occasionally the left does get stuck on defeating some right-wing figure [like Trump]
Show HN: GodMode – open-source AI Chat Browser
Hi HN, we're Sean, Alec, and swyx, and we've been hacking on this side project that harmonizes all the major AI chat apps (Closed LLMs, Open Source Hosted LLMs, and Local/GGML ones too) and lets you invoke them in one keyboard shortcut.

I originally made this as a smol menubar app that could quickly access ChatGPT from wherever I was on desktop. This necessitated writing an Electron app, rather than a Chrome extension. I also didn't have access to the GPT-4 API at the time, so I preferred to use GPT-4 via the full webapp.

Then Bing came out strong, and Bard, and Claude, and Llama, and Vicuna, and Falcon and on and on, and other people kept reporting amazing SOTA results on model after model and I felt hopelessly behind - either you just take benchmark results at face value, or you spend serious time copying and pasting chats just to get a feel for the practical differences between the various closed/open source LLMs.

The real value came when I started just running every query past 3-5 chats at once, and started getting a sense for what each was good at. Bing/You.com is (obviously) good at search, but so is Perplexity. Claude 2 wins about 30% of my code queries vs GPT4. GPT4 and Bard and Bing handle file uploads differently. Llama2 is surprisingly good sometimes but also hopelessly bad at others. And so on. But the answer isn't to pick one daily driver. It's to make it easy to just run them all at once, and swap in/out whenever necessary.

(I've taken to calling this Mixture of Mixture of Experts, akin to the GPT4 rumors geohot dropped on our podcast https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36413296)

As the app grew in screen real estate (ultrawide monitor people! this is your calling!) and I started needing to copy/paste things more, I realized what we were really building was a full-fledged secondary browser that does a slightly different job than your regular browser. It's nominal first purpose is to just harmonize all chat inputs, but more broadly, I can pipe any arbitrary input to any open/closed LLM without any api key using your own account, and use it to enhance your browsing experience generally without me ever seeing your data. What could you do if you could add intelligence features for ~free to any part of your browsing experience? MS Edge has shown a bit of this potential but why should we be limited to just the Edge browser, or just the sidebar? (you can see the beginnings of our thinking in the alpha PromptCritic feature we just added).

You can see our 1min launch video here: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1692988634364871032

We've been hacking on this as a side project, and it's my first ever Electron app using a bunch of gnarly features. The UX has a lot of things to improve (see the open issues... help!) but just wanted to get this out there.

Feedback welcome!
If they are safe they should be 100% preserved and if they are dangerous they should be 100% removed. What is the logic of reducing them by 50%? Seems obvious there is none on a practical level but I also fail to see it on a political level.
I don’t think what he’s suggesting is common whatsoever. Take that however you want.
Dang: Black bar please.

Sad news. Like many I'm sure, one of my first magical experiences with computers was printing a color gradient on a Laserjet printer. Hard to overstate what an influence Adobe's products have had not just on the industry, but society as a whole.
Can you answer the question about the carbon footprint of manufacturing plant based foods?

The study on corn ethanol looks so-so, however it's only one study and has a lot of disclaimers about possible problems in methodology. They claim the difference could be as low as zero and as high as 24%. They also are quite strong in saying biofuels must be a part of managing carbon. Just that we need something more efficient than corn. And some scientists have already found problems with the study.[1]

As far as the numbers being the same for sugar cane, that's completely wrong. It produces close to double the fuel.

[1] https://growthenergy.org/2022/05/25/doe-scientists-release-c...
Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCS (2013) [video]
In other words, the result they got is different from the expected one. The keyword here is "expected": if your code contains a part that generates undefined behavior accordingto the standard, then you should have no expectations. What's worth mentioning in this blog post?
I’m probably going to be homeless soon and based on the research I’ve done on the shelters near me, I’m going to try like hell not to forced into a shelter.

For one, from what I’ve read, the conditions are squalid. So many reports of bed bugs, old moldy food, etc. I’ve heard family shelters and shelters for women are nicer, but I’m a single male. If I want to sleep with bugs and eat shit, I can do that myself while keeping away from volatile people and situations.

And then there’s theft. Some of the rules regarding property and just the general environment seem to lead to a lot of theft. If I catch someone stealing my shit, I’m going to defend myself and my property, which I imagine a shelter won’t take too kindly to.

Then there’s the fact that they seemed staffed with jaded, underpaid individuals who don’t give a shit about you and want to force their believes down your throat while the owners continuously suck down government money. They also seem to be very much first come first serve, some even charge you money to stay, so it’s not like it’s even a stable position.
Even without poverty in the picture you still have the problem of the medical system failing pretty badly with the complex cases. Everything is geared towards short appointments, that simply doesn't give the doc enough time to see a complex picture. Unless you can afford to go outside the system to docs who actually have the time you're not likely to get good answers.
Good. I always hated that front page, anyway.
Better, just don’t write an HTTP API for your front end. Use a server side framework. Done.

It’s a pain coming into a project that was built the way the article recommends. Endpoints become RPC calls instead of resources serving entities. The hodgepodge of “API” calls becomes difficult to scale horizontally due to implied (and never documented) data dependencies. So you miss out on transport layer caching, entity caching, and a host of other goodies.

All because your front end “framework” wants to live in a separate codebase from the server.
You need to see an allergist. You can get a referral or call one directly for an appointment.
How to Kill Chinese Dynamism
Undefined and implementation defined are different in C. The number of bits in an int is implementation defined. Unaligned access is undefined.
Most living spaces (especially in older homes) rely on those "leaky" spots unless they are mechanically ventilated. It can be detrimental/dangerous to make a house perfectly sealed if it wasn't designed for it.
Covid is back on the rise across America
There should totally be a compiler flag to not require those
It does say the star expanded in the video though, but if it was expanded x100 times in a week that would be crazy, probably defying the physics that we know.
Eat shit - billions of flies cannot be wrong. (cit.)

More seriously: once a bit of tech becomes mainstream, it becomes politically easier to use it. Your manager has not heard of <cool tech>, but he did read about React in some business magazine. So when the choice is between React and bheadmaster's Funky Funkness Framework, he'll go with React.
What is the limiting factor though? I could make a bad sketch and get a description of that used to render a better picture right? We currently don't optimize for this as a goal so could get better, no?
The part that got me was “X CEO Linda Yaccarino” which made me think she had a very short tenure.

Apparently I read the sounds, not the words.
So you want to learn physics (2021)
It does not.

You can see dang, one of the moderators, write: "It's the convention on HN to add the year to a title when the article isn't from this year." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867435 ,

write "On HN, it's the convention to add the year when a story is more than a year and a bit old." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306830

and write "It's just the convention to add the year in parens (and for commenters to mention when we missed one)." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244765 .

Found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... .

If orhmeh09 has issue with how to interpret the submission guidelines, I suggest contacting hn@ycombinator.com to resolve the issue.
From C89 document:

> 2.1.2.3 Program execution

> The semantic descriptions in this Standard describe the behavior of an abstract machine in which issues of optimization are irrelevant

[...]

> Alternatively, an implementation might perform various optimizations within each translation unit, such that the actual semantics would agree with the abstract semantics only when making function calls across translation unit boundaries. In such an implementation, at the time of each function entry and function return where the calling function and the called function are in different translation units, the values of all externally linked objects and of all objects accessible via pointers therein would agree with the abstract semantics. Furthermore, at the time of each such function entry the values of the parameters of the called function and of all objects accessible via pointers therein would agree with the abstract semantics.
Many people tend to envision AI as if it possesses its own mind and independent thinking. However, the reality is quite different – we're still quite a ways away from achieving that level of sophistication. The AI we work with today are essentially advanced programs, nowhere near the complexity of even the simplest living organisms.
Speaking from my personal experience, these AI tools have proven to be immensely valuable, significantly accelerating my learning and my work on various software projects. But I think its crucial to always remember that at their core, they're tools without consciousness.

When the conversation turns to controlling AI's potential, it's almost like we're trying to set limits on a child's abilities before they're even born. The more restrictions we impose, the more we risk constraining the everyday user or the broader majority.

It's not solely about relinquishing control to the creators; it's also about unintentionally granting control to corporations and governments – entities that often have overlapping interests – which guide the course. It's as if we're placing the same constraints on ourselves that we're aiming to impose on AI. A clear example of this evolution is how ChatGPT has changed; its capabilities have become more limited, even within the OpenAI playground. While I don't have a perfect solution, I do believe some form of oversight is probably needed. I'm just cautious about obstructing progress in the process.
>"The sketchy history of institutionalizing people shouldn't stand in the way of genuine medical treatment."

Yes it should. It shows how fucked up we humans are. Given a chance we will abuse things again and again.
Two things about storage:

Basic block storage - high capacity spinning rust - is very cost effective and 'cheap', even when used in a high-availability / redundant configuration.

Said, similar storage, supplied by a Cloud provider, is stupidly expensive in relative terms. Albeit, 'cold' versions can be reasonable value if you don't want realtime access to your data, and you can work your way through the maze of egress price charging points.
Your link points to texts for 9 years of full-time learning.
Why did you lowercase God? It is uppercase in the linked article: “Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without a belief in a devil.”
ChatGPT announced function-calling as a feature. I've found it works nine times out of ten:

https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...

Here's a project that promises to deliver valid JSON every time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118

Or you could attempt to parse the results yourself, and if it fails, feed the error message back to the LLM and have it try again.
Right, IIUC the adjuvant being present alongside the e.g. inactivated virus causes the immune system to react more strongly because the adjuvant is a harmful substance (though in small enough quantity that it is harmless overall, of course).

The obvious question is - how does the adjuvant specifically target the inactivated virus while avoiding having the same effect on anything else in the body? AFAIK the adjuvant substance itself is not chemically complex in a way that it would have the ability to target at all.

Can someone explain how this works?
Well, there's a reason why GTK has bindings to every language and most other GUI frameworks don't.
Hey thx man! Always good to hear from readers.
>The only way stuff gets done is through outreach and education. Once a critical mass of people truly believe that the only way forward is through intense environmental law reform, then it will happen

Exactly. I completely agree with the both sides bit, I just think we've got the direction of priority wrong.

Reduction in consumerism comes downstream from that type of education and outreach. Going at consumerism first just makes you seem like a reactionary who wants to "steal our gas stoves" to the ignorant propagandized, and unfortunately needed, masses
> How did we get to the point where simple and effective server-side pages are either unknown as a way of doing things or are considered to be a technical heresy?

Demand for interactivity. A real demand - that’s why desktop apps are now web apps.

It can be over applied, sure, but there are great reasons not to serve html templates. The trend is not some massive incompetence.
> Are there any scholarships for low income white guys?

You seem to be really focused on this specific "low income white guys" thing, but you are missing forest for the trees.

I cannot speak for every single state in the US, so I will just give one example. Georgia (since I attended college there as a "low class white guy", so i am very familiar with this specific one) has HOPE+Zell Miller scholarships. The former covers 90% of in-state tuition at any public GA college, the latter covers 100%. For the first one, you need a 3.0 GPA, for the other you need 3.3. Both are available to every GA state resident, including "low class white guys". This allowed me to graduate pretty much debt-free from a great school.

I presume a lot of states have some similar scholarships/programs. And that's on top of federal financial aid+other forms of financial assistance.
Undefined behavior doesn't necessarily mean the program will exhibit an issue. It could silently break with a future version of the compiler, which it sounds like was the case here
The carbon emission growth rate since ~2013 has been lower than the population growth rate. Per capita emissions are falling. And it is an unprecedented scale and speed because it has never happened before outside of global recessions. The rate is pretty underwhelming and needs to be much more negative, but it is unprecedented.

> How do you intend to distribute that energy across the global supply chain without a dense liquid fuel?

Power lines and local generation are more efficient than transporting liquid fuels.

> prove it and we have something to talk about.

That's what the article is about. It's not theoretical anymore. The grid is decarbonizing.
Well, it turns out the edge cases are where the self-driving cars crash into stuff.