skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be used as a consciousness override, replacing your own thoughts in realtime. I can think of some good applications and many terrible ones
According to the Forbes Technology Council, one of the leading causes of software project failures is the lack of clear requirements. With this in mind, businesses aspiring for a top-notch software vendor must articulate their needs meticulously from the outset.

This is where the Request for Proposal (RFP) comes into play. An effective RFP is transparent, objective, and precise. It not only mitigates risks but also equips potential software development providers with the vital details. The more vivid you outline your requirements, the more precise the technical solutions you receive will be.

Statistics reveal that companies suffer an average annual revenue loss of $725,000 due to poorly crafted RFPs. These RFPs not only drain financial resources but also lead to protracted software development timelines, often far from the desired ones. Naturally, you wouldn't want your project to face such setbacks. Hence, it's essential to pay attention to your software development RFP.
If you look at the outcomes of the assessments, they add zero value. They are intentionally designed to waste time and money.

As an example, the nuclear storage facility was delayed, and ultimately cancelled, because the geologic analysis had only established the stability of the ground for the next 800,000 years, and the lawsuit demanded that it be extended to several MILLION years into the future. ...and they WON.

Absolute INSANITY.
> This is not because renewables cannot tackle the challenge, but because this is a work in progress (not quick enough) => not enough electricity produced

What is the end of this work in progress? 1000% overprovisioning of renewables?
> Again, with two people, it's been about the same price the last few times we've done it.

What rates are you finding? Because in my experience just earlier this year, while moving cross country, I found that an Amtrak across the US costed exorbitantly more than an airplane ticket, and comes with a dozen times as many transfers. It was cheaper still to just say screw it and rent a uHaul the entire way.
I would recommend filing a complaint with the state regulatory agency responsible for issuing dealership business licenses ("Michigan Department of State" in your situation).
What is a good starting point to follow all the implications down the rabbit hole?
It depends on what kind of "atomic".

Assuming sequential consistency is pretty broken. Assuming acquire/release atomicity is much more reasonable. Assuming "at least relaxed" is outright mandatory.
And I was SOOO happy when I heard WhatsApp's business model: Finally, I'M THE CUSTOMER! I gladly signed up for the "free year" and started getting other people to sign up for it... only to have it bought by FB, and never charged my $1 yearly fee. :-(

Then I tried to get people to use Telegram, but hey never implemented encryption by default, instead implementing things like chatrooms with millions of people... then I signed up for Signal, but waited to see what would happen -- and they started doing some weird crypto thing. Thankfully that all seems to have not been an issue, so I might actually start recommending Signal.
Yup. Incandescent uses thermal emission, which has a smooth spectrum peaking in the IR. LEDs use phosphors (usually a few different ones) targeting specific wavelengths, giving it a "spikier" spectrum.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Emission-spectra-of-diff...
Well, there is plenty of insanity still:

- buyer can't walk away after exchange, but your mortgage provider can with impunity, screwing you up

- There is no CGT if you sell your first home, but tax duty (paid by the buyer) can be significant

- buyer (well, buyer solicitor) is responsible for fetching all the documents. This can be a significant time cost.

- let's not talk about the headaches from selling or buying a leasehold.

But yes I agree that solicitor and agent costs are relatively cheap.
Even if not... I've managed to link at Gigabit over category 3 cable of a short distance.
> It's a puzzle to you because you had the personality & motivation to do the work of marketing+showing+negotiating the house yourself. You have inadvertently projected your DIY savvy onto other homeowners to do the same thing. But, a lot of home sellers don't want to DIY a home listing.

I might have implied I did much of this work. I didn't, outside of negotiating. The marketing is simply getting the house on real estate sites and in-front of buyer agents, which is what MLS self-listing services do for you for a flat rate. The showings were still handled by the buyer agents. The only thing I had to do was represent myself in negotiations, which was not that difficult.

Understood that some may want to do that, but the price difference is insane. If you save 4.5% (assuming buyer agent gets the 1.5% difference from 6%) on a $400k house, that's $18,000.

Regarding FSBO, this is where MLS self-listing plays a huge role. I tried selling my house for a few months by listing on Zillow (assuming Zillow is way more popular a decade later, but still) and sticking a sign in my front-yard. MLS gets you on every real estate site and at the fingertips of buying agents.

Lastly, as you say in your replies, the issue is justification of the 6%. There are lots of issues here -- super expensive, there is already a very serious principle-agent issue incentive misalignment, and the value is questionable. When housing prices skyrocketed, did their value skyrocket in tandem?
I agree with the sentiment since I block unsolicited emails but..you and I are not the intended subjects of the OP's post. They are talking about sending a topic or idea or suggestion to someone rich and/or powerful and/or otherwise impacting or leading many people perhaps.

In that sense, I do not believe it violates the CAN-SPAM Act: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...

"If it contains only transactional or relationship content, its primary purpose is transactional or relationship. In that case, it may not contain false or misleading routing information, but is otherwise exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act."
Only $3k? I took the kids back home after an exhausting three hour session. In that 45 minutes the dealership managed to convince my wife to agree to $9k on top of the base price of $45k.
Any new home for the last decade, including "freehold" ones, comes with financial obligations to pay for public areas. Older homes have that as council tax, but new homes have a privatised council tax in addition.

It's known as "fleecehold" due to its similarity to leasehold.
No, most/a lot of activities are low risk, but my point is we seem to struggle with AI in high risk while we automate human flaws.

Also, LLMs don't understand other than via the language representation.
Two factors are the small working set (fit the code and data in cache) and heavily optimized IPC. The IPC in L4 kernels is "a context switch with benefits": in the best case, the arguments are placed in registers and the context is switched. Under real workloads, microkernels probably will be slower, but not by much.
I think "data mining" must have had less of a negative connotation when they wrote those titles 20 years ago.
Shakespeare was about a century and a half after Gutenberg.
There are an almost unlimited number of ways you can prompt it that will produce obviously bad results.

The trick to using it effectively is to figure out the ways of prompting it that produce GOOD results.
> As a tought experiment, if all cars in Germany would be EVs, those could store 2 days of electricity usage.

If you didn't need to, you know, use those cars.

Storage is a huge unsolved problem.
I had the same problem and it's the light fixture.

LEDs (or actually their power electronics) can't stand nearly the same temperatures that incandescent lights can, so they get cooked. You'll notice brownish stuff coming out of the base when it happens.

My fixture was a series of thick, donut-shaped aluminium rings connected via spacers forming a sphere around the bulb approximately the size of a melon. Three such spheres in total.

The damn thing destroyed two whole sets of lights before I:

-Disassembled one of the fixtures so that only the top is left, exposing the ceramic base.

-Replaced the other two with "efficient mood lighting" 2W 2700K bulbs - those with a transparent head mimicking a glass bulb.

It's not particularly beautiful, but hadn't had any problems since.
See Miniminuteman's "I watched ancient apocalypse so you don't have to" detailed critique (in 4 parts) starting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A .
The Cocktail Revolution
I think kotlin is one example. It uses the same idea but it uses powers of 10 for incremental fixes and numbers for 1 to 9 for hotfixes. That's if for the 3rd number, I do not know what will happen when the second number reaches 2 digits. I guess they will do something to make it comparable again.
The big one to look at with CRI is the R9 index. That's the "pure red" rendering, and it's not included in the main CRI measurement. There are two types of bulbs: Those in which the R9 value is solid, and they report it, and those in which they don't report it, which means the value is crap.

You can have a reasonably high CRI for the main 8 elements, and still have very little red, which is something humans are quite sensitive to in terms of perceived light quality. It's not hard to find R9 ratings of >90 in LEDs, but you're into high end LEDs that cost quite a bit more (some of the really high end ones are $30/bulb in small quantities), and the efficiency is somewhat less (lumens per watt), because putting energy into red is less effective than "putting it all in green" with how human eyes work.
Most people and scripts using the GIL to ensure safety likely don't even realize it is necessary. That is the hard part of this type of migration. Decades of code written with the implicit assumption of the GIL for all situations.
Yes, that's exactly some of the time periods I was thinking of. The mid 1800s was a time when literacy was rapidly increasing and new serial magazines became popular. This new medium paved the way for the fame of authors like Dickens and Bronte, the sort you may be thinking of.
Teaching people to distrust celebrity endorsements wouldn't be the worst outcome.
We used to joke that Cisco would sell you either a switch that could route or a router that switches also.
Yeah you have to get a personal/dual cabin ($$$) or travel with people you know otherwise it's a gamble.

As for the stops you get used to it, I couldn't sleep during my first night train trip, after 5+ I know sleep like a baby. I haven't used planes in a few years too, and for my use case it's actually cheaper/more convenient than planes
FCC rules to eliminate 'digital discrimination' for those with poor internet
Yeah, I meant #if directives, like static_assert. I asked it to help me statically verify my assumptions about ELF files and it gave me some pretty insane code. Here's the excerpt:

> Certainly, you can use a combination of sizeof and #error directives for conditional compilation to achieve a similar effect without static_assert.

// Compile-time check for structure sizes
#if sizeof(Elf32_Phdr) != sizeof(((Elf32_Ehdr*)0)->e_phentsize)
#error "32-bit structure size mismatch"
#endif

#if sizeof(Elf64_Phdr) != sizeof(((Elf64_Ehdr*)0)->e_phentsize)
#error "64-bit structure size mismatch"
#endif

> In this example, if the structure sizes don't match, the preprocessor will generate an error at compile time using the #error directive.

> I didn't know sizeof could be used with the C preprocessor

> Yes, sizeof can be used in certain contexts within the C preprocessor.

> It's commonly employed in combination with the #if and #error directives to perform compile-time checks on sizes or other constants.

> This usage allows you to catch potential issues during compilation rather than at runtime.

I should probably go sleep a bit before I embarrass myself any further. After nearly 24 hours awake it seems I have lost the ability to tell macros and directives apart.
I mean, I grew up in environments like that and I and there is no noticeable difference as I walk out and back again (order miles).

I will say that if folks are having proper bonfires - that absolutely makes a difference. Largely because they are not burning dry wood.
Many of the expensive US military programs are flyover state job creation programs masquerading as weapons programs.
Exactly - I've been seeing this argument for 20+ years - and we're going to see it for another 20 years.
I'd actually find that quite disappointing. If you can generate practically infinite variations of a show using AI, it completely eliminates scarcity and makes the result meaningless.

It's not even unique to AI really. The whole genre of games that depend on procedural generation are similar. Who cares if there are a thousand planets in Starfield if they're all just the output of RNG? There's no actual handicraft involved to set one environment apart from another. There's more music on Spotify than anyone could listen to in a lifetime; it just makes it harder to find new stuff that is actually good or else you stick to what you know.
- An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet - Chen, Francis F.

- Elon Musk - Isaacson, Walter
> So.. we’re back to self-hosting your own services?

It never stopped: plenty of places have on-site VMware and Hyper-V, both of which provide (IIRC) APIs to automated VM creation. If you're more open source, there's OpenStack (which VMware has a API-compat layer for).
>so they have to develop management strategies where they ignore the noise

I believe this is called “please use the template when submitting an issue” and we all know how that goes.

I’ve honestly found myself laughing like a madman at GitHub issues where the maintainer calmly and repeatedly tries to explain to the increasingly disgruntled reporter to UTFT (use the fine template)
Inefficient boiler, yep. A medium-sized house, I would say.

I live in Edinburgh in a tenemant house with 12ft ceilings. Combine that with spiking gas prices last winter, it's a recipe for disaster.
Google Analytics adds email report scheduling in GA4
> With chatgpt you find solutions to problems the same way you do with humans: through conversation.

the humans I work with were taught by people that spoke facts backed up by empirical evidence

meanwhile chatgpt was trained on reddit and twitter
I just saw the Kickstarter[1]. The margins on these coat hangers look so good that it'd make NVIDIA blush.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonegiertz/coat-hinge...
Waking up science's sleeping beauties
> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5?

Would you mind telling what's the fact you were searching for? (and how did you search for it?)
Show HN: Alerting in realtime RAG: spot changes to LLM answers, using few tokens
Hi I am Jan, CTO @ Pathway.

A use case we have been working on with LLMs is to let people know when an answer to their query changes due to revisions of source documents. Obviously, we want to avoid periodically re-computing all queries for the LLM.

Why I think it’s cool?
- We don’t spin in a loop to repeat with the LLM.
- Alerts are LLM-deduplicated - no spamming users with typo fixes
- And the best - our framework, Pathway takes care of handling the updates, the example looks nearly like a regular, static RAG chatbot.

More context + GIF of how it works for Google Drive document alerts: https://pathway.com/developers/showcases/llm-alert-pathway

Happy to have your thoughts!
ChatGPT and art stuff gets the attention and are seen as gimmicks, but that stuff is funding research that will actually drive an impact in less sexy areas.

Here's Nvidia showing they can use LLMs to teach robots complex skills - https://eureka-research.github.io/

lots of game changing technology starts off being used for toy or bullshit use cases, the GPUs being used to train AI were originally designed for allowing video games to have better graphics
280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
> Just because everybody does something the wrong way doesn’t somehow make it magically correct.

Depends on the definition of "correct".

One way to define "correct" is "as defined by the standard". However, standard serves a purpose - to maintain interoperability between components, so the other, deeper, way to define "correct" is "interoperable with the ecosystem".

The official standard can argue that relying on the implementation detail is incorrect because they didn't specify it explicitly, but they would go against the grain of the rest of the ecosystem. Which reminds me of an old joke:

An old woman is watching the news. She sees a news report saying there is a car driving in the wrong direction on the highway. So the old woman calls up her husband.

Old woman: be careful on the highway dear, there is a crazy driver on the highway driving the wrong way!

Husband: It’s not just one car, it’s hundreds of them!
Why doesn't Google have to pay the artists the full amount since the original payments were made to the wrong person?
That shouldn't be happening, and is a massive security/privacy issue. Your power line devices should be configured to use an encryption key unique to them.
Elon alone is responsible for the garbage he chooses to amplify. Media Matters, whatever faults they may have, is merely taking note of what he amplifies.
There is no point in discussing this with you indeed. Have fun.
I saw a similar piece in the WSJ and honestly my first thought was: these were arranged by the US gov to make XI happy and make it look like "hey the US really is friendly to China"

Sad if true but maybe I'm too cynical
Everything you need to κnow to build your own AI chatbot with GPT-4 on Windows 11.
Frankly, I think the pathwai.org taxonomy is far more useful in the long-term even if many of the individual attributes are speculative. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Deep Mind neglected to cite pathwai.org's research. I'd highly recommend checking it out (though full disclosure, as the author I have my biases.) http://www.pathwai.org/index.html (Desktop only, best at high resolutions)
1998 was the pinnacle of software development. VB6 composing off the shelf COM components purchased form a catalog sent in the physical mail.

Desktop apps were still a thing. The web was simple. ASP or some CGI scripts. Perfection.
Don't use the Verizon Messages app. The privacy policy was terrible three years ago.
Navy reactors are not subject to environmentalist lawsuits and local political delays.

That's why they're cheap.
* only between a couple cities

* except for private jets

* in fact except anything that would give this ban teeth, since Macron's cabinet members all end up working for shady companies afterward
When an LLM fails, it needs you to tell it that it failed, and it needs you to tell it to try again. Conversely, we experience a desire to be thought of as just, and that drives us to seek information on our own. While it mimics the language, it doesn't mimic that honesty because it doesn't need to be honest. That said, it's impressive that the LLM fools you enough to be sobered by the comparison.
> Cheaper for you but if you live anywhere near others the cost to the communities health is a lot more.

I live in the middle of a city centre. My next door neighbour burns coal in an open fire too, it's shocking.

I don't disagree with you, but when I'm looking at saving £250/month on top of all my other costs skyrocketing, it becomes an attractive thing to use.
Always have to think about what happens if everyone adopts your strategy or everyone but your adversary.
An arsenal that small is already subject to virtual attrition by current ABM efforts.
Finally, some justice in the Wild West of YouTube copyright claims. Scammers forced to cough up $3.3M is a drop in the ocean compared to the havoc they've wreaked, but it's a start. Let's hope this sets a precedent and not just a one-off feel-good headline. Next step: overhaul the entire copyright ID system so genuine creators don't have to jump through hoops to prove they own their own work. It should be way harder to file copyright claims and actually take down content from Youtube, the amount of power these "copyright holders" have is crazy.
That would be plausible except that in my experience they are scrambling to hire people. There’s not nearly enough talent. Nobody wants to move to Nebraska or Utah. It would be kind of strange to create extra work in places where there’s already too much work.
> Counterpoint: most shops do not need most of the bespoke cloud services they're using. If you actually do, you should know (or have someone on staff who knows) how to operate it, which negates most of the point of renting it from a cloud provider.

Well said! At $LASTJOB, new management/leadership had blinders on [0][1] and were surrounded by sycophants & "sales engineers". They didn't listen to the staff that actually held the technical/empirical expertise, and still decided to go all in on cloud. Promises were made and not delivered, lots of downtime that affected _all areas of the organization_ [2] which could have been avoided (even post migration), etc. Long story short, money & time were wasted on cloud endeavors for $STACKS that didn't need to be in the cloud to start, and weren't designed to be cloud-based. The best part is that none of the management/leadership/sycophants/"sales engineers" had any shame at all for the decisions that were made.

Don't get me wrong, cloud does serve a purpose and serves that purpose well. But, a lot of people willfully ignore the simple fact that cloud providers are still staffed with on-prem infrastructure run by teams of staff/administrators/engineers.

[0] Indoctrinated by buzz words
[1] We need to compete at "global scale"
[2] Higher education
Maybe someone should build ecosystem with payments for this type of work. You pay for package and it comes with warranty, guarantees, fit for purpose and so on.

It notices the upstream dependencies and bills you accordingly.
>"Do you intend to share this secret?"

Please let Clippy just die...
I Don't Want to Join Your Book Club
I use a giant hosts file.

It makes me hate the work laptop where I can't use it, and any adblocker is just an inferior experience.
> It's by design not a fact-oriented system but it is capable of producing very good factual answers.

this is only by chance though, and you have no way of distinguishing it
Indeed, it's a complex topic. I was reading an article just the other day on nuclear targeting strategy(1); the thought that goes into this and how it interacts with the greater warfighting strategy, or arms control agreements, is daunting.

Suffice to say, the land-based fleet still has a role to play. Other powers still have or are expanding theirs(2). Arms control talks need to get back on track. But until then, a balance needs to be kept.

As an aside, I read the book "Inventing Accuracy" a while back; a really interesting look at the technology that goes into missile guidance and how it drove policy and strategy. Great read(3)

1: https://warontherocks.com/2023/11/two-myths-about-counterfor...
2: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-09/news/new-chinese-mis...
3: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631471/inventing-accuracy/
The replication is the new culture. Pop culture has been refrigerated and reheated for the past 2 decades , and it will be gone with the boomers. The new entertainment will be new , both in medium and in message.
but also has to act that way, otherwise people will not leave them alone
You can destroy information with noise. Accurate information about the conflicts (or anything) is also available in the digits of pi.