skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline is misleading and kind of troll-y. Sure, self-optimizers can get in their own way, like everybody else, because there are lots of ways to try to improve, and not all of them work. This guy is basically saying he learned to focus and then he did the task in front of him better. That's also optimization, even self optimization. It's just not visualizing your future in a pink bubble/Tony Robbins stuff. The funny thing is, the headline will attract a lot of people who care about self-optimization and they'll read this and think "yeah that makes sense" and wrap it into their workflow. There's noise in the self-help space, nothing new. People who try to get better make mistakes (experiments), and try again. It worked for this guy!
I'm not sure what you mean by twitter going "subscriber only". I pay them nothing per month and I just opened this link in an incognito window with no trouble...
> Today most young kids are glued to an iPad. At dinner, in the car, at home, everywhere. Maybe we'll look back at this behavior one day, similar to how we think of smoking or eating too much.

This is all a very selective lens, I'd say the younger generations now are better informed, more empathetic and curious. I don't blame them for "being glued" to their devices, they have the option to have friends and collaborators the world over, it's a more interesting life to be younger now than in any previous generation, notwithstanding the political and socioeconomic pressures (but I guess all generations have/had their demons to slay).
America was not critical defeating Germany. The soviets did this one.
It is a lot easier to hide planes than to hide runways.

It could be a dumb waste of money either way, but your conclusion doesn’t follow from your premise.

Consider the current Russia/Ukraine war, Russia destroyed the vast majority of the runways Ukraine could have used but Ukraine still has an air force.
This is more about enabling expeditionary operations in areas where there are no airbases at all.
> Being fat was no longer so feted. Membership at fat men's clubs began to dwindle, as did waistlines. For instance, at the last meeting of the New England Fat Men's Club, in 1924, only 38 members showed up, none of whom met the 200-pound mark, Tafrate reports.

Ouch. I'm about 235 and 6'3" (190cm). I haven't seen the other side of 200 since 1993

Down from 275 and trying to reach 200 though (Mounjaro)
The tone of the parent post might not have been ideal, but it is correct on the facts. By ending the program, the opportunity lost to subscribers was to begin financing of a new device with a new 24 month contract period. There was no sweetheart discount involved in getting a new device.

To be clear, I’m a mild Apple apologist and strong Google critic, but even I can see this wasn’t scummy. It was only disappointing. (And even then, it shouldn’t have been disappointing. Google is famous for three things: search, ads, and cancelling stuff.)
Yeah when I was developing it, it quickly became apparent that I needed to be able to interrupt it. So I implemented that. Pretty easy to implement actually. Much harder would be to have the model interrupt the human. But I think it is actually desirable for natural conversation, so I do think a turn-taking model should be able to signal the LLM to interrupt the human.
And by tank a business you mean trying to increase revenues to stop losing 500 millions a year I guess
As a soon-to-be parent who is left-leaning but disturbed by what the so-called 'progressive' movement are pushing, I agree with you. It gives me immense concern, knowing what my child is likely to be exposed to online.

The only thing that gives me some peace of mind is seeing the growing backlash to all this nonsense. Seems to me that thrusting this crazy ideology onto kids, chopping body parts off teenagers, celebrating creepy pedophilic men if they happen to align with some bespoke 'gender identity', attacking free speech and attempting to ruin the lives of those who criticize this delusional denial of reality is most likely not a winning strategy after all.

I just hope this is all done away with before my kid is old enough to be affected by it.
Well, clearly not, if the community is going to have a fallout with the product and never trust it again. You can have the most maggotty type of an ad company, if you don’t have shelf space to show ads you won’t be making money.
Blue Origin to Replace CEO Bob Smith with Outgoing Amazon Exec Dave Limp
Shoulda put that on the preface just to save everybody some time!
I believe the comment was talking about the internal Google Cloud frontend, the one that's named after a temple, not Borg.
New Cities by Adora Cheung - https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/new-cities
Related discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987032
Were those the only two options available to them?
FYI Dave has worked for Amazon forever and most recently was the head of the Devices and Services group, which includes Alexa, FireTV, Prime Video, etc.
I have found that happiness seems to be inversely proportional to how much time I spend worrying that I'm acceptable or likeable to others. Got a notion early in life that being liked would involve being the way other people are and trying not to be the way I am and that messed everything up for fifteen years or so. It was the realization that 'as myself I will still be appealing to others' that finally dispelled a ton of anxiety, or at least, seems to be dispelling it.

Sounds trite but there you go.

Anyway, the whole time it felt like being driven to optimize.. the wrong stuff. I now believe that the healthiest way to be always seems easy and happens for free, without willpower. But it requires being able to hear your own intuitive preferences, instead of rationally computing what you think they are from from what others seem to think you should be.
Sextants don't track stars. They just measure altitude and leave it up to a human to line everything up, measure it correctly, time it correctly, then look up the right data in a log book.
If you’re into nostalgia, John is live talking about open source / quake, but mostly AI: https://www.youtube.com/live/aM7F5kuMjRA?si=jBbM-n7m9h1_DmvN
It seems a bit strange that Tesla can build multiple electrics cars for 150k$ but the robot that consists of much less material should cost that much.

The car has lots of compute power, likely they are sharing things with the car. The car has 5 cameras and a host of other sensors as well.

The car also requires the cost of a huge battery and tons of materials plus a lot of manual work for the interiors, plus cooling and so on.

Yes the robot has a lot more actuators and complex mechanical pieces but is that gone cost as much as 2 full cars?

What complexity do you think would be so costly here?
I was working on a program that sales managers would use to divide sales territories up between salespeople and one feature was the ability to select all territories a certain distance from a point and using the most simplistic algorithm the code would crash if the circle crosses the 180 line so we had to use a somewhat more complicated algorithm than we first thought for this, even though all of the U.S. is one one side of it
Sounds like you need to get rid of 4-month person

1. Talk to a real lawyer

2. see #1
It’s interesting they select specifically for Long Covid and not some other theorized to be post viral thing, like chronic fatigue. But I guess it makes sense too, since Long Covid has a far clearer cause/impact than “idk some virus made you disabled”.
Compared to the rest of the engineering, I don’t think the computation is all that hard. It doesn’t need to be that fast since you only need to do a correction maybe every 10-20 minutes or so. The math was innovative in that they invented the Kalman filter for these types of computations. You pick your star such that it’s by far the brightest one in its neighborhood. So the image processing is just finding the brightest pixel.

From what I’ve read (mostly the excellent book “Inventing Accuracy” the main challenge is very precisely aligning the telescope with the “stable member” in the gyroscope.
.5x makes the part where the human interrupts the robot while sorting look natural.
I can’t speak for all of the US, but locally the most common way that affordable housing is built is because we have local government mandates which require it of large companies who build in my area. It seems to work very well; ours is the fastest-growing region in my state, and homelessness has been low.
Fwiw, Skydio is failing in Ukraine, where Russia's electronic warfare downs its drones. Their "vision-based autonomy" has severe limits, because GPS jamming can fell them.
You can only see one tweet, not a thread.
How curated and censored are the search results with Kagi? As someone involved with Tantra, for example, I rely on sites that are niche and not always SFW.
Interesting correlate with "stocks take the stairs up and the elevator down" - stock prices being strongly influenced by trust.
This is probably a nice project to throw to a team at Apple that wants to ship something in Rust. Many years ago, you had to write the C library in C, but those days are over, and doing a bunch of string processing doesn't sound that fun. (If the code's already written, sure, keep it. But if you're writing brand new code to replace Perl oneliners, there are probably a lot of fun bugs you're going to add with a C rewrite.)
Where does "digital paper" rank in this?

Over the years I've gradually transitioned all my computing devices to be ones that support pressure sensitive stylus input. Most of my note taking thus ends up being handwritten, but still offering the benefits of digitization.

For me it's the perfect compromise since I always have a device I can access all my years of notes on (although I don't tend to need to access them). With paper notes, I used to just throw them out every few months because they'd pile up and it was clear I wouldn't miss them.
The Mini 2 has a battery range of close to 30 minutes. It's a big improvement over the Spark, in particular the 3-axis gimbal makes a big difference.
The weight is largely not behavioral, it is diet.

Hence why every single weight loss advice says 10% of it is physical exercise, 90% of it is diet (but highly recommends the physical exertion anyway for many side bennies)

https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/weight-loss-drugs-obesity-...

Unless you believe we're not animals too, numerous animal studies have shown this. The GLP agonists were discovered, I believe, during an experiment on diabetes meds with rats, where the rats ate so little that they nearly starved themselves.

Hunger is a drive controlled by hormones, and something in the Western diet has hijacked it.
Cloning is nice, but what's the point if it doesn't sound natural? Will people really pay 100-1000x (if not more) just to get their preferred voice, but won't sound anything like that person when speaking?
The image capabilities card https://cdn.openai.com/papers/GPTV_System_Card.pdf spends a lot of ink on how they censored the system.

One part of that is about preventing it from producing "illegal" output, there example being the production of nitroglycerine which is decidedly not illegal to make in the US generally (particularly if not using it as an explosive, though usually unwise) and possible to accidentally make when otherwise performing nitration (which is in general dangerous)-- so pretty pointless to outlaw at a small scale in any case. It's certainly not illegal to learn about. (And generally of only minimal risk to the public, since anyone making it in any quantity is more likely to blow themselves up than anything else).

Today learning about is as simple as picking up a book or doing an internet search-- https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+you+make+nitroglyceri.... But in OpenAI's world you just get detected by the censorship and told no. At least they've cut back on the offensive fingerwagging.

As LLM systems replace search I fear that we're moving in a dark direction where the narrow-minded morality and child-like understanding of the law of a small number of office workers who have never even picked up a screw driver or test-tube and made something physical (and the fine-tuning sweatshops they direct) classify everything they don't personally understand as too dangerous to even learn about.

One company hobbling their product wouldn't be a big deal, but they're pushing for government controls to prevent competition and even if they miss these efforts may stick everyone else with similar hobbling.
This sounds a lot like my neighborhood. The zoning is very mixed and the outcome is great. It’s now a highly desirable area.
Thanks. I'm going to try it
Yes! I'd rather not use it because it doesn't support uBlock but it's a feature I can't browse without. I try every other browser at least once every year and they're all massively uncomfortable.
Both fortunately and unfortunately that's not how sound works. If the drones are far enough away from each other that you don't get interference between them soundwise it doesn't matter if there are more of them. But if they do then two quiet ones may re-inforce to the point that they sound much worse than a single larger one.
Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work
I'll take it that you really want the answer to these questions. The Apache are a group of tribes in Southwest. The name comes from Spanish when the Conquistadors invaded. The tribes didn't have a strong group identity. This changed over the next few hundred years.

More than can fit in an HN comment, entire cultures were destroyed. This was through disease, war, imprisonment, and outright repression. "Apache" is an identity that some still hold on to after this genocide. And someone saw this history, thought what these people went through "romantically represented" his web server project, and took on the name.

If you don't see how this is any different from calling your company Apple so you show up ahead of Atari in the phone book, I don't know what to tell you.
DJI is fully compliant with China's policy of civil-military fusion. Anyone flying anywhere sensitive should not use them. They're beaming back home whatever they want, and China is using both tech and data to give an asymmetric advantage to allies like Russia in the Ukraine war.
The article kind of missed that Van was the author of RED, and later he and kathie nichols did codel, and later he was on the team that did BBR.

What would the internet have looked like without Van?
Sorry Mr. Judge. Says here I signed this agreement with my competitors that if I'm ever on trial, nothing about it can be made public.
I don't think you can do MIMO with wired stuff. Isn't it using multiple paths/polarizations to get more bandwidth? You can't do that with wired unless you run more wires.

Anyways there's a lot more differences between how a wired protocol works and how a wireless protocol works. Mostly not interchangeable.
https://archive.ph/fXaRI
There are specific grants available for studies focused on Long Covid, e.g. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/07/31/hhs-announces-form...
It’s entirely fair and rational for investors to urge companies they invest in to “focus on profitability” in particular during a possible economic downturn or looming recession.
You can - and this is almost as interesting - go down a waterslide from a 747 hanging from the ceiling!
I can't help but wonder who helped to astroturf this article. As if the wind farms come anywhere near the amount of habitat loss coming from Brazil's rapid deforestation.

It smacks of the concern trolling in the US about birds being killed by wind turbines, when that number is a rounding error of the number of birds killed by cats.
Upper Bound 2023: Insights into Intelligence, Keynote by Richard S. Sutton
"It’s profitable if you ignore cost of capital"

I implore devs to watch any of the business 101 class they think they’re too smart for
> They are often the result of companies bribing or otherwise coopting the government to enact those regulations.

Which is the thing that does this:

> automatically discredit any form of regulation.

The default assumption is that a proposed regulation benefits powerful interests, because powerful interests are the ones who can have regulations enacted.

That doesn't mean it's a violation of the laws of physics for a regulation to do something good, but if you open the US Code to a random page it's not what you'd expect to find, and if someone proposes a new rule they should be viewed with skepticism.

> Or you could just abuse your dominant position by preventing your suppliers or retailers from doing business with your competitors, outright buying them, running them out of business by temporarily dumping your prices etc. these are all both more effective and more realistic options than outright violence.

These also require the market to already be uncompetitive. If there are a thousand suppliers and retailers, you have to be able to strongarm them all or your competitor can just use any that you can't. If there aren't regulations creating a market barrier to entry then new competitors can form and you have to buy them out for more than they make in the market which in turn is more than their entry cost, but if you do this then it's profitable to keep creating new competitors to make you buy until you run out of money. You can sell at a loss but with low barriers to entry now customers or retailers can go into competition with you just to force you to keep doing that forever and lower their own costs.

Also notably such things have been anti-trust violations for a hundred years or so without requiring any new legislation (and this is still a useful check when some other regulations have caused a market to already be uncompetitive or have high barriers to entry).

> Sometimes this can be accomplished by reducing restrictions and sometimes by introducing additional laws.

But many of the laws proposed to address problems caused by a lack of competition are not even attempts to restore competition. They're commonly attempts to mitigate the damage caused by the lack of it. And these laws typically make it harder rather than easier to actually restore competition, because regulatory overhead favors large conglomerates with legal departments, reduces the flexibility that could allow new challengers to find a niche or is just literally drafted by the incumbents to create a regulatory moat.

> We should also take into account that unregulated markets are hardly ever competitive.

There is no such thing as unregulated markets. Governments at a minimum enforce contracts and property rights, and then must do so in a way that doesn't enable market consolidation, e.g. by not enforcing contracts for the formation of a cartel or allowing one entity to buy all of the land in a city.

But regulations should be directed to pricing major externalities and promoting competition rather than trying to micromanage a society made rotten by other rules that make markets uncompetitive.
The paper in question: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

It’s a research letter, which is peer-reviewed by JAMA but shorter than a traditional, full-fledged research article.

The full text of the letter’s description of the adjustments:

> with adjustment for known and suspected risk factors for depression, including

[followed by a list of over a dozen factors]

The data sharing supplement says that the code is on GitHub (hmm!), but doesn’t include a link (oh…).

That’s all I have to work with. I can’t make a specific criticism of the adjustments in this study. I’m left with my preconceived notions of how this kind of research is often done, even with peer-review.

When I read the words “we controlled for X in our population study of Y”, I usually take the lazy shortcut of not updating my internal model of the relationship between X and Y at all, because I’ve fooled myself too many times before. If they mention a natural experiment or instrumental variable I get excited.
I know you’re being sarcastic here, but indie game developers really don’t get compensated well enough unless they break very big. Most keep doing it for the passion.

To price your product so you make money to “stay afloat” with your tens of thousands engineers working mostly on ad tech or non-core stuff, while your customers are barely scraping is typically very bad strategy yes. You know how you can tell? They’ve lost a ton of business and the brand damage they’ve suffered is beyond that even. Maybe Unity will stick around, but it’ll be the engine those ad filled mobile casino games use, good luck finding developers who’d be happy doing that for the rest of their life.
I suffer from not being able to read my own handwriting. So I prefer electronic notebooks (Jupyter) over paper for note taking. With three exceptions:

1. Drawing is laborious on a computer, and it rarely needs to be precise. It gives me eyestrain headaches and wrist fatigue. I still draw things like simple wiring schematics and flow diagrams by hand, take a pic with my phone, paste into Jupyter.

2. Sheet music. My kids have the latest tech (Apple 12" tablet, Apple pencil, page turning pedal) but I haven't upgraded yet. Also, the "charts" for one of my bands have not been digitized. Someday, but not yet. My notebook computer in tablet mode might be an option.

3 Meeting notes, just because I don't want to have a device in front of me when I'm having face-to-face discussions. The time is too precious.
...with nearly 8,000 employees. I'd love to see a breakdown of how much is being lost by each of their various business units.
Nitpick: The North Star (Polaris) wasn't used over 4000 years ago:

So now you can see why Polaris will not always be aligned with the north spin axis of the Earth - because that axis is slowly changing the direction in which it points (precession)! Right now, the Earth's rotation axis happens to be pointing almost exactly at Polaris. But in the year 3000 B.C., the North Star was a star called Thuban (also known as Alpha Draconis), and in about 13,000 years from now the precession of the rotation axis will mean that the bright star Vega will be the North Star.
I have a home-spun version of ChatGPT that uses function calling to connect to my emails, calendar, and notes. This is really useful because I can say "Bob just emailed me to set up a call. Respond to Bob with some available times from my calendar."

That will be the real use case for plug ins.
Pebble. They had a great niche product that was growing organically and sustainably. VCs thought the smartwatch could be the next smartphone, and dumped a truckload of cash on them. Next minute they were burning all that cash pumping out too many new models.

Meanwhile everyone stopped wearing wristwatches except as a fashion statement. The original company would have survived this easily but the VCs wanted the next Apple or bust.
I've encountered this argument before, but also applied to other subject such as eg Latin:

> 3) math has an indirect usefulness which is a way of thinking that is transferable to a myriad of disciplines and solutions to problems in everyday life. And it is this third reason that makes math relevant for most people.

Are there actually any good studies that show this in a counterfactual setting? Like, do we actually know that spending time teaching maths (or, less plausibly, Latin) helps students aquire these abstract skills more than other subjects?
Is this "transferability" of meta-skills a testable outcome?
Without being rude, what are the nice features? I've worked with it a bit and constantly found myself wishing it was just SQL whenever I've bumped into it
In English, intonation changes the meaning of the word but not the word itself. From what I understand, in tonal languages tone changes the whole word. I don't think ML understands that difference yet.
He needs to go into a whole body calorimeter[0] to prove it if what you say is true. It will be a world first.

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