skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Backstabbing, politics, bad engineering, nepotistic promotions.

What job doesn't have this?
As I mentioned in another comment, this view is skewed. Even China has lost more jobs to automation than the US has lost to China. There will just be fewer and fewer jobs in manufacturing, no matter where it's done.

Further, from a purely economic sense, outsourcing makes the most sense. Most people will be able to by everything for much cheaper which more than compensates for the lost jobs in one area. We also have record high employment. So from a purely economic perspective, we are doing great!

To me the real issue is the strategic importance of certain manufacturing areas. China can build 200 military ships in the time we build one. 20 subs in the time we build slightly more than one. We need to get our military supply chain back in shape if we want to remain globally dominant and keep us and our partners safe!
BC Hydro (British Columbia electric power utility, government owned) was 98% renewable sources in 2022, ~91% of that hydro[1] - for the entire province.

that last 2% is going to take a lot of work to replace, but I'd be surprised to see it backslide.

[1] https://www.bchydro.com/content/dam/BCHydro/customer-portal/...
This is extremely correct and captures all the problems quite well. I will add that the Amazon 2 pizza team model is inherently unsuitable to building a whole class of products. I remember all kinds of small 2 pizza teams having multiple "scientists", even if they did nothing other than running models from Github.

Almost all big tech companies face the same problem in slightly different ways, and further increased due to the sloppy hiring in recent years. In Google they hired tons of extremely incompetent folks, and now those folks band up together and try to closely guard information, as that is the only way they can ensure their performance is not very bad compared to others. People who are both technically and politically incompetent get pushed out, while the politically savvy and technically incompetent ones manage to create moats for their survival.
Of course, devil's advocate would point out COBOL in 60s was written with a lot more focus on lasting in general. They didn't largely have the same general attitude of 'we iterate quickly with our script kiddies' as is prevalent today.

Not that all software from then was wonderful. Or that COBOL magically guarantees great code.

But, on the flip side, you can't say the code base isn't battle-hardened (to various literal degrees).

* edit: corrected sp
Disagree. They claimed it did useful stuff; many people (including ex-scientists like me who are not short-sighted) saw the examples and how easily it was made to produce inaccurate information. In science, truthiness matters a lot and saying you have a LLM that can summarize scientific articles, users can reasonably expect that the LLM produces accurate information at a much higher rate.
Apple acts as if the app store is the driving factor behind users installing apps when in many cases it's not. In many cases users install apps because of the developer's own marketing efforts while Apple did nothing at all to deserve to be an intermediary in this relationship. Most iOS developers I know don't see the app store as the godsend that Apple wants it to appear. On the contrary, they see it as an asinine obstacle they have to clear to reach their users.

Mac app store has to compete with developers doing their own app distribution and we can see pretty clearly that its adoption is kinda meh.
I can imagine a future where new software is, mainly, written by humans while legacy software is maintained by ai.

It can take months for a new developer to understand a legacy code base but an LLM with a big enough context window would be instantly productive.
"I have no idea who i am but i get to know myself better each day"

This sentence helped change me from being close minded to open to new experiences
Most ebikes you have to pedal to make them go. Some just push the throttle, but most are motor assist but if you don't pedal you don't go. As such most ebikes give the same fitness benefit but let you go faster (read farther). My ebike almost forces me to work harder than the regular bike as because it is heavy it feels like it doesn't coast as nice as the regular bike, and so I'm pedaling more. (part of this is probably I'm going faster and so wind resistance is lowing me down more - but to me it feels like I have to work harder to make the ebike work, in return I go farther on it)
Anyone know when the new Honda eMTB ebike will be available in US market?
Apparently, Amazon truly believed people would get in the habit of saying "hey Alexa, buy this thing" and that this would drive revenue. I'd assume Amazon of all companies would know that most people prefer to compare products, read (fraudulent) reviews and look for deals before spending their money.
Didn't say anything about nobody being allowed cars.
Can it though?

LLM's are currently trained on actual language patterns, and pick up facts that are repeated consistently, not one-off things -- and within all sorts of different contexts.

Adding a bunch of unnatural "From Wikidata, <noun> <verb> <noun>" sentences to the training data, severed from any kind of context, seems like it would run the risk of:

- Not increasing factual accuracy because there isn't enough repetition of them

- Not increasing factual accuracy because these facts aren't being repeated consistently across other contexts, so they result in a walled-off part of the model that doesn't affect normal writing

- And if they are massively repeated, all sorts of problems with overtraining and learning exact sentences rather than the conceptual content

- Either way, introducing linguistic confusion to the LLM, thinking that making long lists of "From Wikidata, ..." is a normal way of talking

If this is a technique that actually works, I'll believe it when I see it.

(Not to mention the fact that I don't think most of the stuff people are asking LLM's for isn't stuff represented in Wikidata. Wikidata-type facts are already pretty decently handled by regular Google.)
Yes but if the Pharaoh decided he wanted a golden chariot made out of the state treasury, would someone complain that's the state's gold, not the Pharaoh's gold?
this single-point-of-view analysis fails to account for market dynamics over time, adoption of innovation, commodity markets, disruptive inventions.. and many, many other things that someone with experience and real critical thinking skills would discover quickly with any research on the topic.
Up here in Saskatchewan, Canada, we have a crown corporation that provides broadband access to the entire province. The legislature has mandated that they provide access to a very large portion (90? , 95?) of the population. They are treated as a utility, so maximizing profits is not the benchmark, but rather providing a reasonable level of access and ability at the lowest cost.

There's no mention made of race, wealth, or any other demographic. They simply need to make sure everybody* has broadband Internet access.

This simple metric works wonders. Whether rich urban areas or tiny rural communities, nearly everyone has adequate broadband access. The speeds aren't equal everywhere, but the minimum levels of service are enough for video streaming, so the minimum standard is plenty to give everyone an ability to participate in our online society.

Part of providing this access also includes reasonable pricing. Again, less dense areas aren't always as cheap as the most dense areas, but the difference isn't much. Even in poor, remote communities, you can afford to use a mobile phone with adequate broadband capability.

This price equality despite cost inequality does mean that technically the more dense areas are partially subsidizing the less dense areas, but again, the differences aren't that large. We still have private broadband providers in the dense urban areas and their rates aren't much cheaper. What they could save on costs, they continue to charge anyway to increase their profits.

This is all to say that you can have equal access throughout a huge area with widely different densities - it's entirely practical and feasible. The only reason it doesn't happen in most places is because it's left up to private corporations whose primary concern is profit. This means they fight over the low hanging fruit of high profit dense urban areas and don't bother to invest in the less profitable, less dense areas. Regulations or other mandates that put availability above profits fix this.

You can still run a profitable business while serving everyone equally, but if you only care about maximizing profits, then you will inherently prioritize dense areas over sparse areas. And while that may not be intentionally discriminatory in any legally protected way, there are strong correlations between race, wealth, and population density, which leads to the kind of incidental discrimination that the FCC is trying to address here.
Don't they have caps and levels for federal employee salaries? I agree that raising the salary would decrease the issues. I think that they'd need exceptions to account for these increases though.
Many therapists will work on line. If you are only dealing with social anxiety, and not a lot of comorbidities (like ADHD etc.), online might be fine.

Might be better than nothing in any case.
How much of our technology was directly inspired by ideas by the Star Trek TV shows?

Indeed ChatGPT is now achieving something close to what "Computer" used to do in the Enterprise bridge 30 years ago.
Good point, and it mirrors what happened with popular music. Growing up in the 80s, I was almost completely unaware of music from the 50s, and didn't care for what little I'd heard. But plenty of younger people today listen to even-older music from the 60s through the 90s without batting an eye.

We'll see the same thing happen with movies before long. A cynic might say that, for various reasons, the best ones have already been made.
You're an album too late.
Why do you say there are no reprocussions? It's a signicant issue in Congress, which writes all of the Department of Defense's checks, oversees them, investigates them, confirms their leaders, and makes laws controlling everything they do.
"I don't know what language will be used to program high performance computers in 50 years, but we know it will be called Fortran."
or just to try it out. But that, like it, and then buy in bulk. I have seen some -massive' amounts of cloths stuff in closets.
About 10% were still working in agriculture: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-agriculture-in-t...
Not sure how things are in Chattanooga, but you will still have to exert yourself to climb hills, just way less than before. Also, REI lets you test drive these for free, so I would definitely try it out before buying!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305097
> What makes a business have government approval is two things

I see no evidence that you have the expertise to make this claim. It’s just an opinion you are stating as fact.

> We all have the ability to judge tonality and the detail Elon puts into that statement to make the qualitative judgement call whether he's pandering or he believes in what he says…

Actually this is just wrong.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18605814/

“In accuracy, judges range no more widely than would be expected by chance, and the best judges are no more accurate than a stochastic mechanism would produce. When judging deception, people differ less in ability than in the inclination to regard others' statements as truthful.”

So all this tells us is that you are someone who personally finds Elon credible. Given your own stated views of China, this seems like just confirmation bias.
in fairness that's a pretty tight window for parent commenter to notice. +1 it's never not worked for me
That’s exactly what it is. 20MB/s isn’t 20mbps, it would be 160mbps.
Very cool stuff! Definitely feels like an intersection of art and programming. Not a lot of websites I pull up make me feel like I am connecting with an actual person staring back at me, however brief. Quite likely because, well, they're not. Written words are a kind of connection, one way video is a kind of connection, but two way is it's own whole thing obviously and a type of feeling that is novel in my web browsing. I know chatroulette and omegle did it first, but still the feeling is so outside of the norm of using the internet that it feels novel.

I think you definitely captured some of the intimidating vibe that unbroken direct eye contact with a stranger can create. It was very fun though. I enjoyed seeing people's facial expressions go from neutral while staring at their own face, to lighting up once they are looking directly at another person who is also trying to not blink. The eyebrow wiggles or nose contortions people pulled in order to emote while not blinking was also very fun.

I was beaming a huge smile back at folks, and eventually used a sticky note to write !iH and put it on my nose. Definitely got some reactions from that haha.

Yes, some folks are using a virtual webcam to just show a static stock image of a person's face (cowards!). But I got some unique real humans.

The disconnect is really quick, and felt like maybe there's some bugs. In terms of, folks would frequently disconnect quickly. I don't think I ever SAW anyone blink, so likely the stream is cut off immediately and the blinking frames aren't sent? I'd love to be able to see someone blink in this before they go away. Even a freeze frame of that would be nice. Grounding them going away with the human expression of blinking would help keep me in the experience, cutting away without seeing the action that caused them to "lose" breaks the experience for me.

Very cool project though! I'm not sure how often I've written code that makes a human _feel something human_ that isn't frustration haha.
Statements are reasoning. You can't transfer logical information without making a statement.

Anything is better then a link that can't be read. That offers nothing it's even lower then just a "statement"

This is getting into combative territory here. We both need to end it.
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With robots a lot depends on the scope of movement and speed, and whether or not it interacts with environment/people. For some applications the controller is already dedicated hardware on the joint module anyway with some sophistication, connected to an CAN (or etherCAT) bus or something like that - so no OS is the tightest loop - I could see the high level control working on a RT linux or whatever if you wanted too, lots of tradeoffs. Mainly though it's the same argument, you probably don't want a complex OS involved in the lowest level/finest time tick updates. Hell some of the encoders are spewing enough data you probably end up with the first thing it hits being an ASIC anyway, then a MCU dealing with control updates/fusion etc., then a higher level system for planning.
Fwiw, I've had good luck creating routines to cover wordings that should work but don't. One of the available actions is a (single) custom command, so you can use a one-action routine as a map from this wording to that wording.

So, for example, on my system “start my car” actually maps to “tell blue link to start my Ioniq and set the temperature to 72” because the skill is godawful picky about getting all of that.
I would venture that if people actually tried living in a neighborhood that has ample foot traffic access they would love it. You don't need to be in the "city" proper, just a neighborhood with some corner store and a public park nearby. This is not a wild concept to implement at the city planning level at all.
Part of the problem is, you tend to need cobol experts to actually have any hope of successfully transitioning to another technology, and if we had enough cobol experts would look at the cost of migrating and say, “who needs to, we have a bunch of cobol developers?”
I'm wondering if it is possible to find out the exact system instruction for these GPTs
When you have 50% of your electricity made using hydro-power, it's really easy to integrate as much renewable energy as you'd like. This is not even the best story, there are countries with close to 100% clean electricity, like Norway or Austria. It just doesn't scale that well for large countries where hydro can't amount to more than 10-20%.
Unprompted, LLM Agents can strategically deceive users when put under pressure
What are you talking about? Its available right here: https://revanced.app/
What you describe is provided by XSL and XHTML! These are both standard web technologies, albeit not particularly popular ones. This is how you define a template:

<xsl:template match="put the xpath query for your components name here">

Anything inside that template will be expanded when you use your component's name in your XHTML file, either by the web browser or (more practically in an HTML5 world) by a server-side XSL processor. It's pretty fun :)
People named Alexa will be thrilled that this shit never caught on, and will be on its way out soon.
Whoa Peer to Peer connections with
strangers is scary stuff that almost no one would volunteer for. I get the bandwidth reasons to do it but everyone should know this is peer to peer before connecting and know the risks of being hacked/stalked as they expose their IP to strangers. I would put a huge disclaimer about it, which I didn't see on your site.
You're mad they're being given more freedom on resource distribution? They can either tell the ISPs _exactly_ where to spend the money, or they can tell the ISPs to do some more due diligence about disparate impact and more equitably distribute the money. The FCC is doing the 2nd.
> Python doesn't have a standards document. It has a reference implementation that defines the language.

That's not quite strictly true, Python does have a documented "Language Reference": https://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html

If there is a contradiction between the Language Reference and CPython then one, or both, of them needs to be updated and it's treated on a case by case basis.

If an alternative Python implementation follows the Language Reference but chooses different details outside it, that doesn't stop it from being "Python". Of course practically speaking most alternative implementations are incentivized to closely follow CPython.
Edit, got the first stage by email ... yeah it starts off really easy.
He's talking about population, not physical size.
Yes, but not for contractors. Most software sustainment ultimately ends up in the hands of contractors with government supervision in the form of program offices. Not all, though, many programs are also "organic", primarily or fully staffed by government employees and managed by government employees.
Equally wild is when "fiscal conservatives" complain about spending, it's only on social programs they disagree with.

Fraud and/or waste should be a subject of concern regardless of the program that experiences it.
20Mb/s is twenty megabit per second. Twenty megabyte per second is 20MB/s notice that the b must be capitalized for byte instead of bit.
> If you have a negative net worth (more debt than assets) you're generally not considered a wealthy person.

That's only true if your debt and assets are both small. If you have $200 million in assets and $500 million in debt, you will be considered a wealthy person. You would only stop being wealthy if your stuff got taken away.
> Apprehension toward containers is a red flag.

Unqualified statements like that are unqualified B.S.

Not all environments gain anything from containers, and if you have "ultra-stability" requirements like, e.g., those found in banks, avoiding newfangled containers for oldfangled methods which are known to work well and for which the organization has long-proven fallbacks is not only legitimate, but arguably preferred.
UK becomes first country to approve CRISPR gene-editing therapy
Those that sell for $4k+ USD? Perhaps they mitigate these issues (can’t find any research that compares the spectrum to black body and addresses the other issues), though not sure if they are more budget effective if you have a well fire hazard trained crew.
The only time the US was debt free was a few years during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
Hey that 20% is what they call "real America".
I still have pics of the concentrator and I'm pretty sure we should have a single print of the running motor but no video. This was in 2006 or so.

The fun bit was a crystalline fiber to transport the light from the collection point to the motor, and an improvised wrapper around the hot side of the motor that allowed to inject the light into the cavity where the hot piston was located. We had to make it black to get it to work. I'll see if I can find that picture but no promises. I still have the little engine but I no longer have the mirrors or the fiber.
When I was a uni student in an old house with thick walls these were worth it. My bedroom had terrible WiFi - power line networking got me a few hundred mbps but the latency suffered.
Capacity is the appropriate metric when talking about what we could do.
Globally, your stance is very elitist. Only about 18% of the world has a car.

https://www.pd.com.au/blogs/how-many-cars-in-the-world/

North America is already auto-dependent and EVs are an important piece of the puzzle for that region. Their point is that EVs won’t possibly work resource or cost-wise when that 82% inevitably gets richer and asks, “what about me?”
I did some testing a few years ago of the dimming of a handful of "smart" bulbs.

My test was to put the bulbs into a desk lamp that was aimed straight down at the desk. On the desk was a lux meter. The meter was 41 cm away from the bulb. I was in a closed room with blackout curtains on the window and it was night. I'd turn out all other lights before measuring a bulb.

Here are the bulbs I tested and the labels for their columns in the tables below:

Label Bulb
TP TP-Link Kasa white bulb
MIW Merkury Innovations white bulb
HW Hue white bulb
MIC Merkury Innovations color bulb set to white
HCX Hue color bulb set to X, where X can be
CW cool white
DW daylight white
W white
SW soft white
WW warm white

The various whites were set using Amazon's Alexa app rather than the Hue app.

For each of these bulbs here are the lux readings I got at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75, and 100%:

TP MIW HW MIC HCCW HCDW HCW HCSW HCWW
1% 14 135 64 135 10 7 10 5 3
2% 14 149 64 162 10 7 10 6 3
3% 26 162 65 170 11 8 11 6 4
4% 43 180 65 182 11 8 11 7 4
5% 58 190 66 200 13 9 13 7 5
10% 128 246 77 255 20 15 20 12 8
15% 196 303 91 322 34 25 34 21 13
20% 261 364 112 388 54 40 54 34 21
25% 325 428 143 451 74 67 74 46 29
50% 630 725 400 776 282 218 282 184 118
75% 909 1008 820 1099 650 483 650 410 263
100% 1160 1283 1382 1408 1146 850 1146 725 463

Here is the same data except for each bulb it is as a percentage of that bulb's 100% lux:

TP MIW HW MIC HCCW HCDW HCW HCSW HCWW
1% 1.2% 10.5% 4.6% 9.6% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.7% 0.6%
2% 1.2% 11.6% 4.6% 11.5% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6%
3% 2.2% 12.6% 4.7% 12.1% 1.0% 0.9% 1.0% 0.8% 0.9%
4% 3.7% 14.0% 4.7% 12.9% 1.0% 0.9% 1.0% 1.0% 0.9%
5% 5.0% 14.8% 4.8% 14.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.0% 1.1%
10% 11.0% 19.2% 5.6% 18.1% 1.7% 1.8% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7%
15% 16.9% 23.6% 6.6% 22.9% 3.0% 2.9% 3.0% 2.9% 2.8%
20% 22.5% 28.4% 8.1% 27.6% 4.7% 4.7% 4.7% 4.7% 4.5%
25% 28.0% 33.4% 10.3% 32.0% 6.5% 7.9% 6.5% 6.3% 6.3%
50% 54.3% 56.5% 28.9% 55.1% 24.6% 25.6% 24.6% 25.4% 25.5%
75% 78.4% 78.6% 59.3% 78.1% 56.7% 56.8% 56.7% 56.6% 56.8%
100% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Shenzhen is known for hardware manufacturing while SV is known now for software. Is this not correct?