skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Finns would like to have a word. A very long one.
How is that challenging? This is not challenging, this is hyper simplistic 8-year-old way of thinking without any nuances. When someone says something obviously over-simplifying with some implication of "us and them" and "this group that I don't like is obviously more stupid/barbaric than me just because they are of a different origin", that does not challenge anything to someone who see more nuances.
Answering peer comments: oh but it DOES work.

I forgot my charger in another town so I bought a USB-A/C cable and tried it out. Again, the iPhone charger is 8W. This is also the value reported by '/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep Wattage'

When the Mac is open and in use (2023, M2) the iPhone charger can just about keep the charge level level, depending on usage.

But then when I close the Mac, it can easily take 10 hours to reach a full charge... but it does hit 100%.

So I am wondering if this is in fact a gentler way to charge the battery.
I think your understanding of "static" website is off.

A static site does not have any backend, thus cannot provide you with search results because it cannot do any computing at all (just provide you the same (static) content again and again).
Realtime Planet Shader: Interactive 3D planet animation
A process which clearly does not work. No reason to trust Instagram either
IIRC for powered paragliders, it turned out propeller noise drowns out ICE noise.
Appreciate the response. Yes, I misinterpreted the context of your comment. I think you are right on this.
They still do (update: not they are not). It is not and was not a full genome sequencing, but rather a SNP genotyping. Current 23andme raw report (using their v5 chip) contains around 24K SNPs.
Product Owners Are Not Backlog Managers
4x my current inbox, accumulated over 2 years since I moved providers.

45GB and a a lot of it's just text. If it includes documents, it could be next to nothing.
ouch, lol:

"Sunway’s new supercomputer therefore feels like a system designed with the goal of landing high on some TOP500 lists. For that purpose, it’s perfect, providing a lot of throughput without wasting money on pesky things like cache, out-of-order execution, and high bandwidth memory."
You're asking why the Securities and Exchange Commission is concerned with securities and exchanges?
That is very confusing to be sure but the explanations I’ve heard to this point that people are speculating on make absolutely zero sense. The board would fire him to protect a board member’s competing product? Why? Multiple people given the same project? What?

I’m not going to speculate why they would withhold any commentary this long because I have no idea but nothing about this adds up and calls for an alternate explanation. Remember that a lot of people have wagered their own reputations on Altman and so have a great interest in him coming out on top.
Perhaps you shouldn't post the entire content of the FT article here? Archive.ph helps avoid direct copyright infringement :)
Not really news. Tesla's are cheap cars with terrible quality that basically "everyone" owns, and similar cheap Chinese cars like Polestar also has a lot of problems.

Getting work done has always taken a long time too, and that has only changed in the last few months.
Something Weird Happens When You Keep Squeezing
For what it's worth, you can move Markdown -> Typst by way of Pandoc.
well... it does help to motivate the lazy. sometimes.
I live in Sydney and we have a bunch of these on the street. There’s also one in my next door neighbours small back yard growing over my house.

I think I might be in the minority but I really don’t like them. The tiny leaves fall all the time and make a mess, and the purple flowers smell really bad and also make a mess.

Not only do they make a mess but they block my gutters and the roots have destroyed a lot of sewer pipes. I’d much rather see some native Australian trees planted such as paper barks or flame trees. I really don’t get the love affair with them.
Because people are not islands? If you live in a non-society then that is fine, otherwise financial schemes can pretty much bring down countries (see Albania).
My M2 Air will sit comfortably for weeks with little depletion at all.
It's the only laptop I've ever owned where I comfortably walk out of the door without a charger with 35% battery.
I use it every day too. Issues are not rare. It can even bluescreen windows (docker garbage collect on a many core workstation). I would not recommend over Linux if one has a choice (I don't).
While adding more coal power plants in the process.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-pla...
>As someone who works in the defense industry, I can assure you...

Defence industry is broad, though, perhaps you needed to be for security reasons. However, stating your job then saying individual people don't matter but commercial entities do may make you unfit for certain defence careers.
One would expect this to be thought of at the planning approval stage.

People buy property purely as an investment, it would seem that to some people it is a simple choice.

Perhaps they could replant with Leylandii?
Another reason is that batteries are ... small. Too small. If it charged to 80% from the get go, then your phone is already effectively living on reduced battery, it is already kinda broken because battery runs out too quickly.
ah I see, ok I’ll try to delete the comment
Hm. Apparently I was wrong. They indeed "temporarily" disabled it after the credential stuffing attack [1].

[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212196868...
> Apple's know-how in battery management is always a couple of generations ahead of its closest competitor.

> M powered MacBooks added (...)

Things that Lenovo laptops have had for a generation?
An android device in standby in airplane mode will last a week in a single charge easily, in my experience. But if you have radio on, yeah, 2 days tops.
Russian weather? Is this an euphemism for Russian air defense?
byproducts that require
Indeed, and one for ChatGPT.
That might make an interesting blog post. If you write anything up, you should submit it!
Of course. All we're asking for is an optional "limit charge to 80%" feature. And, just like macOS has, you can have a very easily accessible "charge to full now" option for those times when you know you're going to need a full charge.

Don't forget, "100%" isn't really 100% any more after a year or two of charging to 100% all the time. You've probably lost 20% or so of your battery's capacity and it will be charging slower due to increased internal resistance.

> "Where does this 80% come from? Would it be even better if I stopped charging at 60%?"

Yes, but only marginally better since there's diminishing returns. 80% is generally considered to be the sweet spot that best balances practicality with battery health.
As a follow-up to the most upvoted comment in the previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353330), Dustin Moskovitz said it was totally false: https://www.threads.net/@moskov/post/Cz482XgJBN0?hl=en. Listening to random HN commentators might not be a good idea.
Are those cells 4.4v? Samsung makes great cells, and if you only charge them to 4.2V or less they should last quite a while. When charging to 100% means different things in different cases for the same battery technology then things get murky.
Except that the new CEO has explicitly stated he and the board are very much still interested in commercialization. Plus, if the board had on this simple kind of disagreement, they had no reason to also accuse Sam of dishonesty and bring about this huge scandal.

Granted, it's also possible the reasons are as you state and they were simply that incompetent at managing PR.
Yes, Spotify seems to want to force you to listen to the same things over and over, almost as if someone wants to boast about how many millions of seconds of loading time is saved by their clever caching.
There are no free markets in human societies. You can pick your trade-offs, that's it. Privatly regulated markets can fail, goverment regulated markets can fail.
Thinking of Laser Quills.

Monks with Laser Quills copying out Laser Discs.
OpenAI Implodes [video]
> ActivityPub puts timestamps on things so you can ask your Mastodon server for everything that's been updated since the last time you polled. RSS makes you poll over and over again and download everything. so instead of downloading X kb of content you could be downloading 20X kb if you are polling too fast, alternately you could be losing content if you poll to slow.

You have to download the feed when something changes, correct. But you do not and should not download the whole thing over and over again. That is exactly what If-Modified-Since [1] is for.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1945#section-10.9
I’m curious as to why the global privacy header will supposedly have a different fate than the do not track header. I don’t understand the incentive structure here.
So they actually kicked him out because he transformed a non-profit into a money printing machine?
I meant the automatic one. My charge cycles are not very predictable, but periodically my Mac says that It'll hold-off charge, and uses battery until 80%, then uses power adapter. Then charges the battery fully later in the day if I'm connected.

Sometimes it flat out refuses the charge. Then I disconnect and use the battery until 30% or so. Then charge when convenient (clarification: It'd possibly charge if I hit a certain percentage, but I always disconnected voluntarily, to give a good use to battery. I lasts a day. Why not?).

My MacBook Air M1 has 165 cycles in 3 years, at 90% of design capacity. I think this is a very solid management of the battery for a computer used every day literally.

My MacBook Pro is at ~85% after 8 years. I don't remember total cycles now.
> I kind of miss the "welcome back, I hope you didn't smuggle anything in" routine TBH.

I mean, you're not actually required to use the kiosks. You're allowed to go to the regular stand with an immigration official and get processed the normal way. Given that the vast majority of countries don't support this system, I don't see this option going away any time soon.
Airbus needed a corpus to train its LLM. Now they have.
I see you added it to your username too.
The point is that majority mining is disassociated with the majority ownership of the underlying crypto in the pow case
Eh, at this point are there any successful people that don't have these 'qualities'? We raise our children with stories about great men and fair leaders, when reality is nothing of the sort.
Bored Ape NFT event attendees report 'severe eye burn'
Germany is trying Syrians for torture and other crimes committed in Syria for the Junta or other factions
IBM Thinkpads have "cap charge at n%" setting since 1999 or something, but it's not smart. You set it.

It was also present in HP and Dell's business notebooks for quite some time, but again, it's not smart. Just a pre-defined percentage.

Apple manages maximum charge capacity automatically depending on the way you use your computer.
I think that the Caleb Mission meantioned in the article has a Youtube channel [0] and it has some narly videos from inside North Korea. Definitely worth checking out.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@calebministry
> “Somebody should have to officially tell you if you're allowed to do something or not, ahead of time.”

And how would this process actually work in practice?

Would making such a request be free? Probably not, since they would consume a lot of lawyer time at the relevant agencies. If it were free, people could file thousands of slightly different requests for all imaginable variations of their dubious business plan, hoping that something would slip by.

If filing such a request costs money, then maybe the process would be more like applying for a patent. There would be some kind of guarantee about processing time, and some kind of legal promise that the response you received actually offers some level of protection when you do proceed with the thing you applied to do. This is clearly a big deal. There would maybe need to be a new profession of counterfactual judges who decide on the legality of things that haven’t happened.

How much should such a process cost? Seems like $10k would only get you started. Who decides the fee structure? What if the case is very complicated and involves many different aspects of law?

Overall, seems like a massive change from how legal systems work today.
My uncle got a passport and then a week later he vanished.
The argument I have heard for CRISPR are if I recall correctly more about avoiding mutations from "accidental matches" and what that would do to patients and possible descendants.
Zig May Pass Everything by Reference
I like to read that, besides the problems others have listed, OpenAI seems like it was built on top of the work of others, who were researching AI, and suddenly took all this "free work" from the contributors and sold it for a profit where the original contributors didn't even see a single dime from their work.

To me it seems like it's the usual case of a company exploiting open source and profiting off others' contributions.
Not quite true. The hardware supports it but iOS does not.

https://worthdoingbadly.com/hv/
No, it’s based on the fact that workers (often poor) generate all wealth, yet they don’t get to keep it.

In China they do get to keep more proportionally, as a class. That only happens because they form the ruling class.
Like I said, unnecessary expenses.
> Ooh, the old 'unprofessional' epithet! What do you mean by that slur here?

For an action I generally mean "malpractice". Something bad enough to bar repeat offenders from the profession (if we even were a profession, which we’re not). For a person I mean "unfit to program code other people rely on".

> My care for code robustness scales with income.

Good point: the conditions for us to write code that actually works are too rarely met. The only answer I have for this one is political though, not technical.
I can understand very well how other companies want to steer clear of this whole burning pile of garbage, even beyond the issue with this single ad. We terminated our efforts on that site because it's not a place we want to be associated with. The promoted content and the mentally unstable man-child owner is a risk to our reputation, and we don't want to be seen anywhere near it. It's simply not worth it anymore. There are alternatives that don't suck quite as hard as "the social network formerly known as twitter".
Which "tax or something" screws over the little guy while having absolutely no effect on the global climate?
The advantage of a traditional ID card is that that you usually know when "the readout" of your ID happens. I don't know about you, but my idea of a good society does not involve states reading out the identity of their citizens without them noticing. If they have to do that they are not that good at the whole state-thing.

A good ID system has to solve two problems:

- Allow verification that the holder of the ID is the owner of the ID (identity verification)

- Allow to read out certain facts. Bonus points if this can be done granular, e.g. verify to the other side that you are older than X years without telling them when you were born, where you live and what number a state assigned to you. Extra bonus points if you can see which information is read out and can deny (or even flag) over-eagerly information requests.

Note that for the identity verification you just need to know if the biometric identifier of the person holding the ID matches the picture on the ID. You do not know when they were born, what their name is, where they live etc.

In a safe digital future this need-to-know-principle is IMO necessary to keep the power symmetry between inividuals and governments/corporations/criminals.
The first problem with this argument is that referential transparency is a property of syntactic positions, not of languages.

The second is that languages like Lisp, SML, C, Pascal and BASIC all have referentially transparent and referentially opaque positions in exactly the same way that languages like Haskell do.

This means that all these languages enjoy referential transparency in the same way, because when you unpack the notion of equivalence, referential transparency itself is within a whisker of being a tautology: if a is equivalent to b, then you can substitute a for b or b for a. The relevant sense for "is equivalent to" can really only be contextual equivalence, which is all about meaning-preserving substitutability.

That said, not having to reason about effects within one's program equivalence sure makes things simpler in a pedagogical setting. But that's not to do with referential transparency per se.
Also many in Lisbon.

From the article [1]:

They were brought by Felix Avelar Brotero, the father of Botany in Portugal, at the Ajuda Botanical Garden from 1811 to 1826. He offered seeds to whoever wanted to cultivate them in the city. They precede the return of the Portuguese Court from Brazil, at a time when blue spectrum pigments were very valuable. For the royalty this plant, due to its exoticism, had a non-commercial value: it was a way to demonstrate the royal power.

[1] https://www.visitlisboa.com/en/p/only-in-lisbon/jacarandas-t...
The following blogpost by an OpenAI employee can lead us to compare patterns and transistors.

https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dat...
The ultimate model, in his (author's) sense, would suss out all patterns and then patterns among those patterns and so on, so that it
delivers on compute and compression efficiency.

To achieve compute and compression efficiency, it means LLM models have to cluster all similar patterns together and deduplicate them. This also means successively levels of pattern recognition to be done i.e. patterns among patterns among patterns and so on , so as to do the deduplication across all hierarchy it is constructed. Full trees or hierarchies won't get deduplicated but relevant regions / portions of those trees will, which implies fusing together in ideas space. This means root levels will be the most abstract patterns. This representation also means appropriate cross-pollination among different fields of studies further increasing effectiveness.

This reminds me of a point which my electronics professor made on why making transistors smaller has all the benefits and only few disadvantages. Think of these patterns as transistors. The more deduplicated and closely packed they are, the more beneficial they will be. Of course, this "packing together" is happening in mathematical space.

Another thing which patterns among patterns among patterns reminds me of homotopies.
This brilliant video by PBS Infinite Series is amazing. As I can see, compressing homotopies is what LLMs do, replace homotopies with patterns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7wNWQ4aTLQ
Not only you can fit Go into a kernel, there is at least two products that do so.

TamaGo, used to write the firmware used in USB armory.

https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...

TinyGo, which even has official Arduino and ARM support, and is sponsored by Google

https://tinygo.org/

Ah but that isn't proper Go.

Well neither is the C code that is allowed to be used in typical kernel code, almost nothing from ISO C standard library is available, and usually plenty of compiler specific language extensions are used instead.
Yes - ours is RWD.
I wonder how many products have components that downgrade under specific situations and they never explicitly tell the customer - and most customers don’t ask because it’s “complicated tech” they don’t want to know about it.
People keep speculating sensational, justifiable reasons to fire Altman. But if these were actual factors in their decision, why doesn't the board just say so?

Until they say otherwise, I am going to take them at their word that it was because he a) hired two people to do the same project, and b) gave two board members different accounts of the same employee. It's not my job nor the internet's to try to think up better-sounding reasons on their behalf.
I wish that would work with non-tech people. In my experience, no matter how hard you try to teach them, they'll end up messing up the formatting in some way.
> The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody.

That is one angle to influence politicians, though. In public they like to claim moral superiority.
The difference is that the US Army wasn't created with the intent to "keep guns from the hands of criminals" and we all know it's a bad actor.

OpenAI, on the other hand...
I wonder if there would be a way to train Stockfish to be better at playing with odds. I do not know much about chess, but I doubt the AI was trained on how to play openings when starting at a disadvantage, so maybe one could see a vast improvement on AI playing with odds if the AI was specifically trained/designed to do so
The official visualization video of the Falcon's Flight ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyCApJbi1Hs
$12m penalty, $48m payback to scammed customers.

That's getting of easy for running an industrialized scam.
No opt-out of personal medical data shared with Palantir
So 1 out 15 users who browsed twitter for an hour would see the same result?
It’s funny to see so much controversy when anybody who has traveled a decent amount has already had their eyeballs, fingerprint, and face recorded at immigration checkpoints around the world.
I've also successfully converted some rather large x86 assembler programs into C, so they could be ported to other platforms. It's quite doable by one person.

(Nobody else wanted the job, but I thought it was fun.)
That is not a particularly fair recounting of WW1. The entire world was at fault for that war. A Bosnian Serb, probably with state backing, assassinates the heir of Austria Hungary. Serbia then refuses Austria Hungary's terms for settlement of the affair, so Austria Hungary decides to invade Serbia. This then drives Serbia's ally Russia to intervene. But Germany had a military alliance with Austria Hungary which then drove them to intervene on behalf of Austria Hungary. Of course France then also had a military alliance with Russia, so they're now in the game. And so on, and so forth.

Germany is only uniquely guilty there in the sense that the loser of a war is always the one who did wrong.

And the Nazis didn't cause hyper-inflation. They didn't take power until 1933. The inflation, that would quickly end up turning to hyperinflation, began shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in the early 1920s, in the Weimar Republic. Germany didn't have anywhere near enough money to pay off their debts under the Treaty of Versailles, which demanded payments in gold or foreign currency only. With their gold reserves long since exhausted, Germany had little choice but to begin printing money in order to buy foreign currency. And even that wasn't enough, as their currency inflated to the point of worthlessness causing them to default on their debt, which then lead France/Belgium to make things even worse by invading and occupying the [industrially key] Ruhr region of Germany in 1923, and responding to predictable German acts of civil disobedience by killing civilians. And as above - 'so forth, and so on.'
Smaller in scale yet more absolute power? Do you think a large and powerful government has less power than a local feudal lord??
Texas attorney general is investigating a Washington DC based non profit for posting screenshots of a California based social network. That makes sense.