skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d like to say

- Factfulness or

- Sapiens or

- Richard Feynman’s various writings

…but the most measurable impact was probably from something like

- “Strunk and white The Elements of Style” or

- “How to win friends and influence people” or

- “Oh! Pascal!” Or

- “the dictionary” or

- some specific bus timetable that enabled a pivotal moment in my life
Tesla is preparing for the coming onslaught of Chinese BEVs by lowering prices. Chinese companies have currently over 180 big ships for transporting cars ordered and in production. Very soon the Chinese car makers will take over the auto world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73KmleCuBg
i remapped caps-lock to compose, so i guess i won't be celebrating this holiday.
Hi atmosx, just send an email to you.
Probably time to switch search engines. Duck Duck Go results are as good as Google’s, and have been for a long time. Also, they don’t fill the first screen and a half with user-targeted spam and query-targeted structured data spam.
I mean 3D connexion makes a good product. I just figured they never went out of business :)
EleutherAI Sued over Books3
I discovered that I have the apoe4/4 gene, which not only explained why keto -despite helping me lose weight- threw my cholesterol to dangerous levels, but also explain some other important things about my family and genetics (some things that weren't even in the results, but they let you download the raw data of your genome so I did some bioinformatics). It helped me with changing my lifestyle and having a clear picture of what the focus on.
There are a lot of different studies and my comment was pretty short, but this is an explanation and evaluation of the generally used system for classifying food into ultra high processed versus not.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-022-01099-1
Most studies involving human diet involve self reporting so that's why its important to understand the limitations of that classification system.

There have been lots of studies showing a connection with microbiome changes, though some countries have been later than the USA in adopting more ultra high processed foods, allowing a more timely study, here is one about Spanish citizens and tried to guide the self reporting diet a bit more specifically about where to categorize their food intake.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8398738/
You watch the Edison Motors shorts on Youtube?

They are making a hybrid diesel electric semi that uses the diesel as a generator. They are getting a lot of inquires from the large work truck related industries because of the capabilities to be a large power source without having to constantly run the engine.
“Substandard” media was very popular on TV before Netflix, see the popularity of “reality” tv shows.

And there were copious ads on TV too.

I assume the large population that put up with that stuff on TV channels doesn’t mind on streaming either.
> The only major difference so far is that these chips by default don't have the typical power limit set, so they can actually achieve about +2-3% more performance in gaming at +100% more power draw.

I heard that Intel might have gotten their Digital Linear Voltage Regulator working which would decrease power consumption. It was disabled in 13th gen because it was broken.
Oh, I agree with you; there are more examples if you look at the CWA and OPEIU. Look hard at those contracts and see what kind of deal you'd actually be getting. Doesn't seem much like what the SAG or sports unions offers, does it?
That was basically his MO. Learning things and discovering things are really the same thing in the end, and he was good at it. I doubt he ever did anything that didn’t have the possibility of teaching him something new. Even the really mundane things like reviewing textbooks for his local school board, or visiting a high school in Brazil as an invited speaker, he seems to have always approached everything with the goal of learning something. Of course sometimes he only discovered the mundane facts that American textbooks are badly written and the review committees basically never actually read them, but learning was accomplished.
For a while I had my phone charger plugged into a smart power outlet and a shortcut to turn that smart power outlet off when the phone's battery hit 80%. It would then turn the power outlet back on at 2pm the next day for it to be ready.
Reason #637,973 to use Brave search or DDG.
For the cities, I'm kinda hoping cars will be banned altogether or made really expensive like London has done. Especially in cities with amazing public transport there's no reason to have so many cars around.
lol, I have that! I never noticed it on the show.
> Developers still support the Apple ecosystem because they have no choice. They want a still Unix experience but their companies require remote management software that isn't available for Linux for security compliance.

If that's what it actually was, they would be using WSL. Or their companies would have them using WSL (because supporting Mac endpoints is a pain in a Windows-first shop, which is to say most shops). The fact that so many developers still use Macs even years after WSL came out indicates it has to be something other than the unix experience.
I think the reference was to a Turing machine, in response to your mention of transferable data and algorithms.
Entertaining stuff, even if it makes you seem a bit more crazy (but you know, a good kind of crazy). Rock on.
Meh. PR overreach hoping for a Euro vanity project. University of Turku isnt a "hotbed" or "powerhouse" of LLM experts
i barely get through the day with a fully charged phone, and i don't get enough runtime if my laptop is not fully charged.

so i'd like to know more about the science behind this. how much does the battery life actually improve by doing this. is the trade off worth the inconvenience of a shorter runtime before i need to recharge?
> That’s a trivial statement.

Isn't it amazing that the wealth generated by capitalism is so enormous that people don't even notice it? Wow!
The prevalence of dementia vs. latitude would be an interesting factor to see included in any study regarding Vitamin D.

I must be missing something... too easy? What is it?

This study seemed to miss some pretty basic baselines:

> They were no data on dose or duration of vitamin D exposure or baseline serum vitamin D levels.

?!
The M18 chainsaw can conquer trees up to and probably a bit larger than the bar length.

However you need to keep the blade sharp.
Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa

Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Tao Te Ching (various translators)
Oh man. I want to love this, but SiFive sort of killed me on treating fabless semiconductor companies as SaaS plays.
You must have used some insane electric chainsaw because the ones I've seen take 15 minutes to get through a 2 inch diameter branch that you could snap by hand faster.

Going to a customer's house and consuming their electric all day isn't going to work out, or having extension cords strung everywhere, where you're literally dropping heavy trees with sharp right angle cuts, and cord snagging brush and branches, and you know, the chainsaw itself which will go through a cord in an instant and if it doesn't you won't be worried about loud noises anymore. Cord powered saws for real crews are not practical at all. That leaves the options - battery powered, and those do not have enough power to cut down large trees (I'm talking about more than falling a tree), or bring your own electric, ie, run a generator, which would be gas powered and just as loud and non-green as gas powered saws and still has the whole cord issue.
Would Feynman have been better off if instead of doing his undergrad and most of his phd, he had instead dropped out after freshman year to work in the manhattan project? Physics typically requires quite a bit of work and studying to be useful. Perhaps in an alternate universe he dropped out and became an inventor of businessman, but I would highly doubt that Feynman would agree with the stance that dropping out is beneficial for the vast majority of people. Feynman lectures on physics seem more inclined toward study very hard to deeply understand what is happening and building intuition.
"Newton was an alchemist (which isn’t about lead to gold, it’s about the transmutation of the Self)"

Well, maybe not so much. That's kind of a 19th-20th century interpretation. We didn't want to believe that all these smart people really were into stupidity like turning lead into gold. Surely it must be much deeper than that! It must have been metaphors! But maybe not. Maybe they literally were into what they said they were into. It's not unlike how people want to claim that various religious stories weren't "really" about what they claim to be.
Thanks for your valuable feedback! I'm going to fix it.
Technological progress is enabled by capitalism.
Yes. There are executive recruiters. IYKYK.
Partly this is because of enterprise security and procurement. You can invest all you like in the desktop, but getting anything new past change control is like flying to the moon.
I should be the one in the crosshairs, not Eleuther. It’s true that books3 was included in The Pile, but I released books3 before The Pile.

I guess I’m lucky, for now, but I feel like dirt. My colleagues have to defend themselves for work that I did.
> even if we get infected it isn't anywhere near as likely to escape outside of the respiratory tract

That hasn't stopped the virus from spreading with increasing effectiveness and each time it moves to a new host it has a chance to mutate into something we aren't able to defend against, or something that brings new harms. The loss of warning signs letting us know when we're infected is a bad sign.
The C Programming Language

Course of Theoretical Physics
Interesting. I'm always amazed at the passion and talent that people put towards these things. And a community I wasn't familiar with.
thanks!
That's the point. Apple wants other models' batteries to degrade fast so that the users can upgrade to 15
So if I'm browsing your site from a VPN, you'll block me because of a datacenter IP. Then when I turn off my VPN to make your site work, you'll block me because I traveled too fast to my new location.
Like so many things in life, if you put it off "until I can afford it," you'll probably never have it.
What kind of academic advancement are you referring to? Marxism?
Someone would get shot if this became widespread in the us
> vouching for someone who would not be a good CEO would kill your reputation, so it doesn't really happen among the highest tier of companies.

Are you sure?
As a kid, "The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science" by Isaac Asimov. As an adult, "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx.
I'm impressed by the ingenuity of people who keep old software running just a bit longer! When Catalina first came out, I used Retroactive for iTunes. This let me get one last update out for my track joiner (https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/trackconcat), targeting both the new Music app and iTunes.
Yeah I think basically the reason is they want to show you the various ads before/after/during the video and they won't work in the embed view (just guessing)
Ah, the Labor Theory of Value once again.
My dev environment is emacs + gcc + gdb + <insert database here> and sometimes <insert fun scripting language here like scheme, javascript, lua or tcl>. I have an EC2 instance I ssh into and as long as my network connectivity is decent it's not a bad experience.

But that's probably not what you're talking about.
> some specific bus timetable that enabled a pivotal moment in my life

Story time? Don't leave us hanging :)
To me it feels like one of things if executed really well would be amazing, but the first thing that comes to mind when I unwrap it is all of the things that could make it a bad experience.

I can also concur that I work in an area a that is doing somewhat bleeding edge infra work (probably second stage adopters) and none of my colleagues or myself is actively seeking out this technology. We don’t really seem to have the problems it purports to solve in a major way at this time.
I recall a post on HN a while back about the EU planning to invest billions in AI. I can't find the HN link but found this source: "annual investment volume of €20 billion over the course of the digital decade"[0]. I wonder what happened with that money. It seems like using it to train large scale models would be a relatively effective use of that money.

[0] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-a...
Yeah, everyone claims sota, but the funniest ones are the ones claiming it before training even starts

Also, the focus on "trustworthy" seems problematic. Beyond the obvious who is defining what can be trusted, trustworthy models are significantly harder to work with.
My dad introduced me to Visual Basic when I was 13 and it honestly changed the trajectory of my life. Prior to this I wasn't overly interested in learning anything in particular. VB became a creative outlet and since that day I never stopped learning.

Loved hitting up PlanetSourceCode to get scripts and reverse engineer other peoples code to learn.

I built so many fun programs - the best of which was a chat programs using UDP so we could chat over the schools local network.
> You're ignoring second and third order consequences, and you're insisting people simply tolerate harassment, bigotry and threats of violence against themselves simply because [ad hominems]

First, nobody is ignoring second and third order consequences as evidenced by the discussion of consequences in the GP comment.

Second, nobody suggested "simply tolerating" because free speech absolutists see speech as a thing they can engage in, not just something that happens to them.

There is room for a more rational discussion of this, but please understand that I think you have every right to your style of discourse, too.
It's not strange. there's abundant evidence the juries are over-reliant on scientific expert witnesses in matters which jury members are not competent to assess themselves, and that this often leads to mistaken outcomes. You probably wouldn't be convicted just because you had a hoodie and jeans on that made you resemble a suspect; the idea that two people dressed in very common clothing might be mistaken for each other is something anyone, even a kid, can understand. But juries are likely to take the opinions of forensic experts very seriously, even when they're not well founded in fact or experience.

https://www.thepmfajournal.com/education/medico-legal-forum/...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581010/

Now the chances of your DNA being at the scene of a serious crime and you being convicted a a result of a data breach are fairly remote, more the stuff of crime fiction as entertainment. But strange things do happen:

https://daily.jstor.org/forensic-dna-evidence-can-lead-wrong...
I’ve done lots of “useless” software.

* Lexers, Parsers, Compilers
* Shortest path, traveling salesman
* Physics sims, numerical methods
* Discrete event simulation
* Document formatter
* Tried to add a GUI Tab pane context and lifecycle to Java CDI. Yea, that just doesn’t work. Lipstick on a pig in a square hole.
* Object based drawing program (i.e. MacDraw, not MacPaint). Lots of Edison progress, I know hundreds of things that don’t work. (Anyone write one of these?)
* An interesting DB and query language that had some novel temporal capabilities.

Currently fighting with a “spreadsheet engine”, though I’m teetering on the abyss of machine learning and might step off.

If it needs graphics or a GUI, it’s Java. If not I tend towards Common Lisp or Elisp.
I have one of those, although I bought it for the Zynq FPGA SoC.

I tried to find a use for the Epiphany cores, but the speeds and feeds were too unbalanced for anything I was looking at at the time.

The way that particular story played out suggests that I wasn't alone.
The Walton family is not Walmart, and the individuals in the Walton family are free to donate to whatever causes they want to.
I like the idea of losing the weight of the batteries.

As others point out though, running overhead trolley wires up and down neighborhood streets is a non-starter.

It would be cool though if main streets had the overhead power infrastructure and if any electric vehicle could engage. Get a recharge on the go. This too could ultimately reduce the requirement for large capacity batteries.
I have not tried it myself, but apparently it can be done.
Can an 8-bit light gun work on a modern TV?
Do you have anything other than context clues to go by when making this assertion?
Sorry, why wont you get caught dead driving one?
I agree. I've applied to approximately 50 data scientist/engineer positions over the last few years. I have not received a single interview despite having a PhD in a quantitative field and several years of industry and research experience, etc. This is odd since I typically get at least one interview for around 15% of the jobs I apply to.

I assume many employers are flooded with candidates too, but that does not explain the salaries. If the supply of candidates exceeds the demand, you'd expect the price (the salaries) to be lower. I don't know what to make of it, but applying to jobs in general just seems to be getting harder and harder as the years pass.
The Smell of Parkinson's Disease
Money Transmission License, eg Venmo needs one of these for each US state they want to do business in.
Model weight are akin to markov chains and compressed data. They are direct representations of the data they where created from in the same way that markov chains are created from hidden markov chains and Zipped files are created from files.

Zipping a file does not grant the copyright protection of the zipped output beyond the copyright of the original file.

Moreover the American federal registrar has officially stated that AI generated artifacts are not eligible for copyright https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05....
I'd suggest books like:

https://equalityfiles.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/thomas_sza...

and any of Byung-Chul Han's philosophical books over the last ten years, though The Burnout society is probably the place to start.

My favorite thing about these books is that if the title piques your interest, it's a quick read because of the aphoristic style keeping the aforementioned short.
I made a page of some of the all-time favorite books I have read, re-read, and would recommend - https://brajeshwar.com/books/
Not arguing, but at 1M per station, that sounds like a self contained automated lab with various kinds of spectrometers. What could one do with 10k per station? 1k?

This looks pretty bad ass, https://ichrom.com/mid-4500-mass-spectrometer/

On the low end, there are MEMs VOC sensors like https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/environmental-senso...

It would be trivial to build a solar powered, voc sensor node that talked lora. Easily less than 30$ BOM in qty 10.
Here's effectively what you said, edited for information:

> Every bit of evidence is that the crypto boom has crashed to Earth ...

> Yet somehow BTC is still trading at close to historic highs.

> ... if it were remotely a functioning market or were at all "real", it would be trading at a tiny fraction of that amount. The fact that it still holds is the best demonstration of how illusory the whole sham is.

Which, as others have interpreted, is to say that the valuation (second sentence) is at odds with your perceived reality (first sentence). Therefore (third sentence) it's a "demonstration of how illusory the whole sham is".

Those are your words. You can't just alter reality to make them out to mean something else.
But apparently they don't care about future sales from iPhone 15s wearing out?
Nice job, i think below software are good for windows user too.

https://hovancik.net/stretchly/
The Threat to Democracy Is Coming from Inside the U.S. House
Should we censor our sexual fantasies?
Twiddling my thumbs in Nebraska for a few years now. No power outages in my neighborhood.

Maybe you mean Texas?
It will have the same name but be completely different under the stainless steel than what was promised 4 years ago.
It is funny they call it "Always Free".
It makes a lot of sense to realize that DS9 was direct competition to B5, which was being produced and aired at the same time. That’s why DS9 is so different from other Trek. It was trying to be or beat what Babylon 5 achieved.

Even saying that though, I don’t think you can say one is better than the other. I can see why your wife likes them both though.
Also, contractors can mandate access to an outdoor AC outlet while they work. It’s cleaner power than ICE alternator -> inverter, and also cheaper for the contractors.

Anyway EGo has a whole day backpack battery for this use case. Not sure how heavy/sweaty/uncomfortable it is, but it lets the tools be much, much lighter than ICE versions.
What is the bottleneck in building the "largest LLM" today for any interested party? AI expertise? Training data? GPUs?
Was cutting it open not an option? Or heating it up to remove any molded plastics? Surely the CT scan cost more than the $129 it would have cost to sacrifice the cable to the hacker gods (assuming we're talking about US healthcare rates for such a scan and no I'm not trying to make this political, it's an honest question, no trolling)
Perhaps they didn't implement this in their BCM, maybe they were so caught up in the cleverness of "optimized" charging they thought it would solve the problem once and for all.

Unlikely? Yes, however it's not impossible.... and not the only alternate explanation :-)
If you're not a person who tends to get sucked into a book, and has every waking thought resonate with what you've read, then read some Chomsky.

You may not agree with his views (it's so far to the left, that it makes your head spin) but rather read it for how he writes. His terse words are a window into his psyche.

Everything is presented in a very "matter-of-fact" way. I've read most of his books and it's surprising how very little he thinks of his own opinions. For him, it's not a revelation that the world is corrupt and full of structures that incentivise the destruction of the middle class etc., it's just a matter of fact. "That's how the world is and this is where I think it's going, good luck with changing that.", that's what it feels like.

I was pretty young when I started reading them, around 16. It temporarily changed me for the worse, the books are so pessimistic, that it tends to put that person I described above (getting sucked into books) into a depressive state.

If you want to start somewhere, try "Manufacturing Consent" (by Chomsky and Herman).

If you've already read that, then try "On Palestine" by Chomsky as well, I don't recall reading it but it does seem timely now.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan

It really opened my mind to the quest for knowledge being its own noble pursuit.
>Those Treasuries do in fact have a market price and although they'd return all their principal eventually, it isn't today and is actually a long time from today.

Yes, and if people don't run the bank, then they can hold on to those Treasuries until they mature?

I agree if they have to sell today, that's bad, but again, that's also true of any bank selling through any type of illiquid assets. We just got used to interest rates going down for 40 years and this not being a problem (banks got run for different reasons back then).