skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An even simpler explanation is return to mean. They were going to get better in a few days anyway, with or without antibiotics. But if they keep getting antibiotics each time, they're always going to think that they helped. Confirmation bias comes in here too, why not.

What's even worse is that unnecessary use of antibiotics can affect someone's gut biome and leave them worse off for months, in some extreme cases years. I have had antibiotics only a couple of times in my life (for bleeding injuries) and I noticed the effect on my gut each time. To think that people create this problem when they don't have to is alarming. I hope for their sake their doctors _are_ prescribing them placebos so it's harmless ignorance.
Yes, mobile-first design has greatly accelerated the decline of usability in interfaces, but that decline also began before mobile-first really became a thing.

All I know is that usability keeps getting worse as time goes on. Where is the floor?
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The UK uses Contracts for Difference. A government entity (the "Low Carbon Contracts Company") agrees deals with supplies who are going to build (in this case) a wind farm, with an inflation adjusting "strike price" where the government agrees to pay say £68 per MWh for up to 850MW of electricity delivered from the farm. The agreed deals are set up via an auction process periodically in batches, with plants constructed over the subsequent few years after an auction completed. So e.g. they hold an auction this year, maybe the plant is built during 2024-2025 and starts supplying power in 2026.

This news is about the UK government seeking new bids after it had previously asked for bids around a much lower strike price and it got no takers for the auction. In a world where everything is more expensive, the government somehow imagined people building wind farms would be willing to charge less money and none of the builders were interested.

They're not minimum payments. The risk is eliminated by promising to pay a fixed price for the energy, in the form of an adjustment to the wholesale price given for the sale of the actual electricity. If wholesale electricty prices are very high (as they were e.g. shortly after Russia turned the gas off) the wind generators actually have to pay the government because the contract is for the difference.

It's exactly the right shape of deal for Wind and Solar, which are mostly about capital investment to build the power plant, with no fuel and minimal maintenance necessary. CfD is also a reasonable shape for a nuclear power deal, fuel is very cheap but there is much more maintenance for a nuclear plant than a wind farm, although less than for a coal plant.
I'm sad that the little guys can't compete. I thought for a moment though that maybe this is less bad than Apple saying "nobody can even touch ios?" Does anyone think Apple is being more evil? I mean at least Google lets other people use it's OS and then pays them to get on it. Am I making sense or is this just crazy talk? I feel like copyright is the worst form of big corp. Why don't governments get rid of it, then we are all equals. I mean yeah, you can't become a billionaire without it, but isn't that kind of the goal - everybody treated fairly? I know this is a hot topic, and I don't mean to cause a war, but I don't get why Apple is considered great when at least Google is sharing their code and paying to still be on the platform.
So to clarify, do you agree or disagree with the statement that if Hitler only made politically correct statements (including his book), that he wouldn't have been able to motivate the war?

The most fundamental part of my position is that I find it hard to believe that the average german citizen, in a calm and rational state of mind, would have decided World War 2 was in their individual self-interest.

I think there are two different positions you might be claiming:

1. That Hitler did whip people into an emotional frenzy, using nationalism (as well as other forms of tribalism), but didn't rely on what we'd call "politically incorrect" speech today to do so.

2. Hitler did use such techniques, but didn't need to.

Taking a step back, even if it turns out I have Hitler's speeches all wrong, it really only takes one dictator who uses such language to try to justify the overarching point (which again is that moderating speech actually does serve as a mechanism to reduce tribalism/hate/war in people).
https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html

The curl tool comes installed in addition to the dreaded curl alias that plagues Powershell users since it is an alias that runs the invoke-webrequest command and therefore isn't acting much like curl at all.

A work-around is to invoke curl as "curl.exe" to prevent powershell from treating it as an alias
I believe that the results here are true, but it's also worth noting that the company which performed this analysis is a "hybrid work management startup" and they have an incentive to report that hybrid work is superior.
Both my son and I have a GAI in the gifted range. Our psi and wmi pull us down out of contention. I'm talking 88 and below. Both are heavily executive function loaded; a halmark of ADHD. Same happened with algebra. He was forced to repeat in 9th grade and they tanked me right out of algebra in 8th. Both of us taught ourselves calculus in HS because we were bored to tears. Algebra is heavily executive function loaded. Imperative languages with good debuggers or scripted were easy for us. Declarative languages, like SQL, not so much. Functional programming depends heavily on where I am with respect to the cortisol curve.
Isn’t it most likely just a software fix for the CT?
The trend seems to be to make everything into appliances, masses of individual ad-hoc tasks, all with their idiosyncratic logic and no way of interoperation or composing them to accomplish anything but the exact task intended.

There's an App for That. Except when there isn't it Just Can't Be Done.

P.S. Gnome 3 is way ahead of Blender in usability. Blender is nowadays very usable, but it's still not great. Having a billion buttons shoved away in menu hierarches is not power, it's more akin to having a billion idiosyncratic Apps.

Edit: Want to add that Blender usability keeps on getting better. The increased use of the node interface is making Blender a lot more usable and powerful. Being able to connect any too ports is something that would require combinatorial explosion with buttons and menus.
Is the CT four wheel drive? How do locking differentials work with electric?
The FBT exemption incentivises the common crop of dual cab utes. Those are Hilux, Ranger, etc.

The much larger F150 shown here can only be had by first importing from the US and then converting locally to right hand drive. The associated engineering certificates and approvals are non-trivia. By that point they’ve picked up the luxury car tax due to the costs involved. They also attract a higher registration/CTP fee due to weight and risk.

So, they’re actually heavily disincentivised by taxes and policy. That’s before you even look at the cost to comprehensively insure. Very steep due to the substantial repair costs driven by parts availability.
Apple's China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation
Can I ask which tire brand you had before, the ones that were skidding?
I think I saw a Wiz demo that was pretty good.

LLMs can very easily fill in a template and also image generation with SDXL or DALLE-3 can be very good.
There's two different things here.

Q: I need to run existing Docker containers on my Mac.

A: You have to use a VM; it's no big deal.

Q: What's the best way to package a new native Mac app?

A: Not containers.
You’re straw-manning. Nobody said that open sourcing the server component would increase trust in the SaaS service. The whole point of open sourcing a server side component is so that you can self-host, so you don’t have to trust the provider.

Also, regardless of whether someone is actually interested in self-hosting or not, one can still call Tuta disingenuous for repeatedly marketing themselves as “open source” when they are clearly not.
ULA chief on the Vulcan rocket: "The path to flight one is clear"
From the article:

>An exciting finding of the present study is that alcohol ethoxylates that are responsible for these toxic effects can be extracted from recently washed dishware and still kept the toxicity.

Scientists.
Scintillocartography
> Where is the floor?

You could try to cram it into an Apple Watch?
If you're speaking about the US, you are incorrect on the legality.

A license is issued by a state to a physician, and carries no qualification of specialty. A licensed physician can do anything for which they have informed consent.

A board certification is a piece of paper put out by an Academy or Society or College that says a physician has been trained in a particular specialty and passed their post-training exams.

I am a board certified anesthesiologist. I also hold a license to practice medicine in the state where I live. I can do neurosurgery, if I can find a facility and a patient willing to let me (and although that sounds like a joke, how else would you describe placing an epidural for labor during childbirth but "minor neurosurgery"? Which is why a license to practice medicine is necessarily broad.). That doesn't mean anyone would insure me, or that any sane hospital would let me, but it would be legal.
Not a massive factor on that dusty surface. Tyre pressure would make more of a difference I’d wager.
Personally, I don't really see a problem with it as long as it's not used deceptively. In this case, it's pretty clear that it's not really David Attenborough speaking.

Outside of that, I am not sure I'm seeing a moral or economic argument for making voice copyrightable. The usual argument about incentivizing creation doesn't apply here.
Y'know, I hesitated to use that word. I meant "authoritarian (derogatory)". I suppose "fascist" relates to a particular political movement. Withdrawn and replaced. It doesn't affect my message or opinion.

I'm also not swayed by whataboutism here. I can do normal expected things on my handheld general purpose computer (like install a new browser or app from anywhere) that are simply not allowed on iOS. I'd love it if one of the many Linux phones were more usable now, but they're not.
Hi, thanks for your comment.

Like any problem, system design is good to look at from different perspectives. The TCP/IP model groups the OSI's Application, Presentation, and Session layers together which would be fine if the accompanying descriptions for the TCP/IP model still described the concerns of the OSI's Presentation and Session layers (e.g. encoding, encryption, and SOCKS sessions in the context of web tech). But what I've seen is that the concerns of the Presentation and Session layers (from the OSI conceptual model perspective) are typically watered down or omitted altogether from explanations. For someone that is learning software engineering and who may end up as an application engineer or a network software engineer, this is not helpful at all.

While modern logical implementations don't typically adhere to the OSI model (separate layers with clear well defined boundaries), the concerns of the conceptual layers are still relevant, and still need solving in most applications. In practice you can have many different variations in logical implementations, e.g. applications or operating systems that blend functions for separate conceptual layers into the same binary file. The biggest problem that I see is that traditional explanations of the model (including the one I received at university) focus only on the conceptual overview, and don't relate the model to these more practical examples.

Your professors explanation touches on this somewhat, discussing how the Session layer concerns might be implemented logically alongside other Presentation and Application layer functions. Their comment about physical changes affecting how the models responsibilities might shift is valid too. You can see this with the TCP/IP offload capabilities of some NICs, where certain connection and checksum tasks can be delegated by the O/S to the NIC and may no longer be executing under the same process on the CPU. But you're still (for now) going to have a conceptual and potentially logical separation of concerns for Transport (TCP) and Network (IP) functions inside that NIC.
The think-tank -> influencer/trad media pipeline has been optimized to the point where it successfully has captured the long tail of most potential public political discourse.

On virtually any hot button topic, ready made points, counterpoints, and counter-counterpoints have already been disseminated and tested via the crucible of social media.

I don’t even bother engaging in impromptu debates anymore, because it feels like extremely lame high level chess where everyone knows all possible openers and defenses 72 moves out.
If your business has a critical dependency on any single vendor/provider, then your business is at great risk regardless of who that vendor/provider is.

This has always been true, and will always be true. It's why most companies go to great lengths to avoid that situation.
> having a body and sensorimotor interactions with the environment are already established as fundamental preconditions for cognition and in turn consciousness.

Does someone who is blind is not conscious then? How about when someone who is paralysed? or deaf? or someone with low IQ or mental illness?

Stephen Hawking was paralysed most of his life but was a smart guy. If he was not only paralysed but also blind and deaf he would be smart guy still.

I don't think AGI needs to have a body, sensorimotor interaction or even vision to be conscious. We need those for training - if you would be blind, paralysed, deaf from the beginning it would be hard for you learn anything and interact in any way.

Machines have 6th sense that humans don't have - kind of a telepathy where they can exchange tokens/thoughts with different machines or humans much faster than we humans can type or speak.
Other products that provide similar capabilities are Rows (rows.com) and Spreadsheet.com.

See https://www.spreadsheet.com/integrations/openai
For the record, I personally like that you left your original first impression documented and added the additional thoughts later. It feels more honest.
How does the AI program planner work that costs $10? Would love to see some screenshots of it in action
You said it would be too much work to go through state by state but you still make strong assertions in you're the three points above. You are speaking from ignorance and declaring things in multiple places and your excuse is that you believe these things and it would be too much work to find the truth. That is the problem.
In exchange for paying to build out TSMC's 3mm capacity, Apple gets exclusive rights to use it for the next N years. Who knows what other exclusivity deals or other shenanigans are in place that would prevent Microsoft from acquiring capacity?
I understand, what I'm trying to communicate is how now it's a triumph for them to get up a modest hill. Totally different power to weight ratio.
I believe that historically the direction is the other way around - that elective cosmetic facial surgery was enabled by the experience of the many surgeons performing the many reconstructive surgeries for facial injuries which were needed on a mass scale in the years during and after the world wars.
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sorry... I should have said please
Branded types in typescript are an interesting way to do this.
An apple is like an orange. Both are round fruits, containing visible seeds, and relatively sweet. If you're hungry, they are both good choices.

But then again, an apple is nothing like an orange, particularly if you want to make an apple pie.

The purpose of a comparison is important in helping to define its scope.
Only in the sense that they set a floor, but not that they set a ceiling. Thus, very limited utility in the context of understanding consumer prices.
One of the key advantages of FPGA retro game emulation is its low overhead processing input and audio. This is because the FPGA emulates hardware directly and doesn't have to go through OS abstraction layers built to accomodate multitasking.

I wonder if bare metal emulators can achieve similar latency for software emulation.
> NuScale was going to use this stuff.

No, NuScale's reactor will use 4.95% enriched Uranium [1].

[1] https://www.nuscalepower.com/-/media/nuscale/pdf/fact-sheets...
Yes, “surface of simultaneity”, but you have to keep in mind that it's inherently relative: your “now” at best only approximately corresponds to anyone elses, and is a weird cross-section of history and future for _most_ reference frames.
Most rigorous social science theory
And even then, it has no actual legal effect if you do, because at death your body becomes the property of your next of kin. It's just another part of the estate. They absolutely can override your wishes, and the most you can do is put a clause in your will that says "if my organs are not offered for donation, Andrew gets $0.10 (ten cents) inheritance; if they are, he receives 100%".
1) I'd much rather have a function check a condition in a single place, than have 20 places in the code which check the same condition before calling it -- the whole point of functions is to encapsulate repeated code to reduce bugs

That's fine, but it's often a good idea to separate "do some work on a thing" and "maybe do work if we have a thing". Using the example in the article, it is sometimes useful to have multiple functions for those cases:

fn frobnicate(walrus: Walrus) {
...
}

fn maybe_frobnicate(walrus: Option<Walrus>) {
walrus.map(frobnicate)
}

But also… in languages like Rust, most of the time that second one isn't needed because of things like Option::map.
What machines have we built that reflect a reduced and simplified model of how some part of a human works (other than as a minor and generally invisible research projects) ?
yes and no. no or little OS abstraction, but still there's layers in the way, and it's still sequential in places where an FPGA could be parallel, etc.

a Pi etc has a huge advantage in raw clock speed. FPGAs are pretty slow. at least the ones that you and i can afford
I don't know much about this, but my first association was with Fifth Element :)
I don't know what the odds are of getting accused, but let's say this was in the context of an interview question, and every answer submitted looks almost 100% the same, or even more telling, has the same logic mistakes, then the odds could be high that plagiarism is afoot.
How sure are they that doing this won't cause problems for those of us who don't use Wayland? Should I avoid updating FF for a while?
The term I hear used Jupiter Broadcasting's Coder Radio is "dark matter developers" - imagine 9-5 Java 8 guys.

However, I don't think HN forgets they exist, I think a lot of HN users are those enterprise people who want to use better tools.
They did not mention performance, just size.
Flor de Calabaza (zucchini flower) quesadillas are so underrated.

https://www.maricruzavalos.com/quesadillas-de-flor-de-calaba...
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No because your toddler has vision, audio, and touch sensors attached in order to correlate language use with 3D physical phenomena. Additionally, it has the ability to connect causal explanations of those phenomena with experiments it can perform to test or reject those explanations. And a brain composed of neurons that is exceptionally good at associative learning. LLMs have none of these features.
> Most people will do better for themselves financially by joining the elect of the fiefdoms of FAANG than by fruitlessly attempting to build a smaller company or product...

Perhaps, but not for actual, bonafide, geniuses and super-geniuses.

Which is more than enough, it's not like having hundreds of challengers instead of dozens is 10x better, there's rapidly diminishing returns for society past the first few bonafide, competent, institutional challengers.

It might even be net negative beyond a small amount.
The outages you're talking about were at OpenAI, and doesn't seem to have impacted Microsoft's service at all.
It's not about turning at the same pace, the side that has no traction cannot send its torque to the side that does without a mechanical connection. Each wheel is limited to the maximum torque of a single motor vs torque being sent to all wheels in a traditional single ICE engine with transfer case and lockers.

You can see a quad motor Rivian performing worse than the new dual motor due this issue, the dual motor can use brake locking to send full torque from one side to the other, the quad motor cannot:

https://youtu.be/I9J52zE5boc?si=Fn1KA6Mtb_FFTGDc&t=2652
Depends on where you're at. In my area while you're not going up this type of hill, terrain very similar to this is common when you're out in the sticks looking for a newborn calf to get it inside and out of the cold.

Not everywhere a truck needs to do this stuff, but also not everywhere is it all just towing capabilities.

Source: Live in rural Iowa on farms.
CT was on all terrain tires while Ford was with road tires in this test
I think a far smaller version of this could be built on top of UEFI functionality...

Ie. use UEFI to read/write the disks. UEFI to send/receive packets. UEFI to draw a splash image onto the screen.

Now, you don't need any network drivers, graphics drivers or disk/controller drivers.
> Am I the only one to have the expectation that software I use should never crash?

Nope. That's one of my two baseline expectations (the other, more important one, is that software I use should never cause data loss).
For your thought experiment, I'd assert that the key missing part is experimentation in the real world, as that is what acquires new information, not the complexity of human brains working together.

If you took millions of genius-level immortal humans with all the same Roman data but had them sit in a blank, empty room with their hands tied and simply discuss philosophy for eternity, I'm certain that they would not be able ever spit out a correct predecessor of modern science like atomic theory. Perhaps they could spit out billions of theories including the atomic theory as well, but they would have no data to presume that the atomic theory is more relevant than any other. Extensive information processing can squeeze out every last ounce of knowledge from some data, but anything that isn't in that data can't be acquired by mere thinking about it. On the other hand, if you gave some "LLM++" the ability to toy around with reality and attempt all kinds of experiments to test various hypotheses, then I wouldn't assume that it would not be forever stuck in the knowledge of the era it was trained in.
> Normal Light Water reactors could also use HALEU, which would improve the economics, due to less fuel refueling outages.

Not really. Most reactors in the US produce power about 90% of the time. Reducing the refueling time can increase that to 95%, but that's not going to make a big difference in the profitability of the plant.
No you are right. Stock prices of companies is the most important metric for how well society works.
The H100 is, to some degree, also a jury rigged HPC product. The H200 is starting to reach a more "AI" balance between compute and memory bandwidth.
Holy shit that is insanely good