skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Efficient: Offers very high thermal-to-electrical efficiency compared to other heat engines

It's 28% heading to 34% which would begin to approach other steam (mechanical) engine efficiency. So, this is contextual not absolute, in terms of "its efficient"

I think this is an amazing engine, but I bet there are a tonne of corner cases around it. Massive amounts of high-frequency vibration, under continuous compression to force this to be "stationary" inside a magnetic inductive system.

It sounds (hah!) like it might be efficient, and even capable of being "silent" but I begin to suspect that HF is going to be unavoidably imparted to the hull and the surrounding waterscape.
Larry Summers, Bill Gates, if they keep on like that they can fill the board with all of Epstein's "associates".
This is a particular misnomer.

An excavator is a superhuman digger.

A calculator is a superhuman adder.

Both of these things are obviously artificial.

We can measure individual facets of intelligence too. It gets much more complicated when talk about 'general' intelligence and spectrums of intelligence and how they interact with each other.
The maintenance contract is probably very relevant in day-to-day business operations but easy to overlook otherwise. I'm not intimately familiar with this type of work but get the impression most (structural) welders are responsible for their own equipment (and operate their own company/business) or Big Construction Co. rents whatever welder they need from Enterprise Rental Co.

The needs of location-static manufacturing (building a vehicle in a factory; fabrication) will always be different than location-dynamic building (structures etc.)
The alternative is to leave it all in the hands of the existing private shareholders, which… well, regardless of your opinion on literally anything else he does, how much do you trust Musk on matters of national security?
Yes, it matters because it's evolutionary bias to protect the young, because historically the trait of protecting youth was more likely to keep those genes spreading.

It matters to me because I have inherent bias to want to survive because that's what was successful through evolution. I'm aware that I have it, but it still exists.

Why does GPT keep generating tokens after a token, should it matter to it whether it would keep responding?
The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines [video]
The geography around most of the China/Russia border sucks. It would be tough to push through a mechanized invasion force even with numerical superiority. They previously fought a few limited border skirmishes with neither side able to make much progress. Even if China somehow managed to take part of Siberia the technical challenges and logistics would limit what they can actually extract. And of course the Russians would nuke Beijing before they surrender part of their core sovereign territory.
Curious about MTB trails and fiber. Where is this?
This reminds me of seinfeld scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ

Anyway, for the bottom line of your company I think it rarely makes sense to frivolously spend more just to decrease your tax burden. There's smarter ways to spend money.
> How can it be a good idea to have such an important company to national security public?

Well, it is not going public.
Where did I say it didn’t? That’s actually a rather bizarre tangent.

Ukraine and Russia seem quite applicable, since Mr. Nadella was basically making it clear that:

1) he knew the potential direction someone might take to harm the company he is in charge of, and

2) there were already plans/things in place to make their chances of success zero. Plans that the opponent knows about and can verify, and in Microsoft’s case they were a party to making.

It’s the ‘I see what you’re doing there’ notice.

You’d have to be pretty desperate to keep going after that kind of notice. Russia was, and it has cost them immensely. We’ll see how it plays out OpenAI wise.

If those things weren’t all provably true, then it would be a really dumb move to do as it just exposes him to tons of direct risk with no plausible gain, as the opponent would have zero compunction in hurting him with it - and tons of ability to do so.
This question reminds me of the cookbook recipe for Ox Tail Soup: 'First, slaughter your ox.'

All of the methods described in the question have the underlying assumptions: that all of those resources are available to you. In the case of electric kettle and microwave, we have to have electricity at a nearby outlet waving away the whole question of generation and reticulation of electricity, and the same assumption with respect to gas. In both cases, there is the huge cost of energy and infrastructure which has magically disappeared.

The question is essentially unanswerable because of all of the variables which are involved.

In terms purely of a kettle containing a defined amount of water and a magical source of energy directly to the kettle, the resistive electric kettle is most efficient in terms of converting energy to heat with only a little wasted to the surroundings.
Speed is the number one reason I hate Airflow. It does not meet that "certain threshold".
It may also be tax depreciation related.

2016-era MBPs failed in about three years though because the keys would fall off the keyboard or stop responding.
Title is somewhat misleading since this would be another tender offer to select investors, not a public offering. Which is disappointing to me since I'd really like to buy some shares myself. Starlink is perhaps overvalued, but their primary launch business is so far ahead of the competition already that it's kind of ridiculous. With the progress of Starship, I'm expecting another massive step ahead of everyone else within the next 3 years, which would in turn expand the launch market itself to people who couldn't afford it before.
That's true. What they need is what they had started doing, i.e. breaking down Google into Alphabet and letting some companies within the conglomerate act like startups.

Why was this effort unsuccessful? Perhaps they were unable to get rid of middle management? I have had lengthy discussions with employees from several of their companies, e.g. Calico, and that seemed to be the case. This article only reinforces my view.
Basically that’s it. Yeah. If you can afford BigQuery just use that but otherwise building off of blob storage and bolting on query engines and catalogs makes for a flexible approach but I find BigQuery solves most problems rather well just throwing money at the problem lol
Much to the regret of anyone trying to manage them.

Cheap is nice, but I miss the days when chips did things you wanted.
Elon has a very close relationship with the Texas government as can be seen by the very brazen investigation from Ken Paxton into media matters.

From the beginning, the appeal of Texas for Elon has been lower regulatory oversight.
Hey! I am the @karmedge who wrote this post on Twitter

I wonder what do you guys think about tool which will be able to automate actions on computer? Like clicking smth, automatically opening the window for me after I type in some request?

Something like hyperwriter assistant but for Mac. Very similar to open interpret but with accessibility option

I wonder what else is there in the space?
Maybe founder isn't the most accurate word here. Maybe 'owner CEO', i.e. has major control of the company. He is definitely not 'hired CEO' in any of those. (also he is CTO of Twitter, not CEO).
True, to a point. But how much control can Amazon exercise over what dodgy sellers sell (as long as it's not a human organ or living creature)? Sure, Amazon can kick them off the platform but by then, it's too late and the damage is done.
Hey author here. Yes I agree about the 'vagueness' of a walkout. For any given walkout, it could be for any reason. But when you put the numbers together, you can see clear patterns.

One person walking out means nothing. But ten walkouts at the same time tells you something. It feels like analytics. And those people wouldn't feel as free to do this if there wasn't an element of vagueness.
> There is often high motivation to bring in a smaller/newer tool

I must be misunderstanding the definition of "enterprise" here. I can't picture any of the 3 enterprise companies I've ever worked for adapting any sort of product like this.
I will never get people who have never been in the wild salivating at the idea of having 500Mbit broadband while in the wild. That's overkill in a city, let alone while you are busy enjoying Nature.

I mean this company is solely based on this idea of bringing broadband to the wild, because if God forbid any ICBMs are ever launched they'd be launched all at once so even if the booster makes it back thanks to SpaceX tech the US/NATO would have no MIRVs to re-load.

My infrastructure bet is on 5G and fiber to dominate connectivity, however my poker mind would love to scoop some SpaceX shares to offload to bigger fools down the road, for some reason people have this weird fetish about Space irregardless of practical applications. Ever since the Apollo days.
That's a bit of a generalization from one task though, no?

E.g. bard is hooked into the Google services like Maps and YouTube, so if you want to plan a trip or search contents of a video, it is likely better.
It's because ChatGPT isn't being monetized with ads yet. I use "yet" quite deliberately, mind you. The question isn't whether ChatGPT will eventually have ads; the question is how easily you'll be able to tell they're ads, or if it's going to be product/service placement worked into responses as seamlessly as possible.
Jobber looks like it is more in the "project management" space. All of my processes are post-sales. We're not inventing new projects that we need to organize. We have a short list of services we sell and each of them has a process with a lot of dependent steps that require a lot of communication and coordination.
in fact vizio makes more from selling data than selling the tv itself.
Yes by this logic if a poor person doesn't have food it's okay for a billionaire to make him dance a jig for them to in order to eat. If a school doesn't have funds for buildings a billionaire should be able to mandate that they teach Charlie-Munger thought for one hour a day in order to stay open.
How did you come to the conclusion that it was RLHF?
The answer to the first paragraph is the second paragraph
I've found the same thing. Systems like these feel like a one way street that consume time and information and don't give much in return.
The rationalization given in this comment for the layoffs is obviously false. Google had ways of getting rid of underperformers without massive layoffs that they have been using for many years. Google has ways of getting rid of projects that do not involve layoffs.
Indeed! I also maintain a list of entities that have leaked the unique email addresses that I have shared with them.[1]

1. https://gist.github.com/eligrey/5084991
Academic studies of social media are often very hampered by tooling and data access and studying a moving target.

It's hard to even know if the methodology of the paper you cited (analyzing comment trajectories) is a good one, given YT is constantly tweaking their algorithms, including in response to public outcry, and this phenomenon does not show up in other analysis: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...

I assume the methodological questions are even trickier for TikTok which has many more creators than YT.

I would love to see someone actually study TikTok though, since people love to ascribe blame to platforms for radicalizing people rather than accepting that some users just have views we find unacceptable regardless of the platform.
FWIW some of these 'injuries' are basically paper cuts.
I hope the robots are okay.
It's less about risk aversion than it is about position, size, and complexity. As these things grow, the incentives change and the ability to understand what the organization even is becomes impossible.

A startup starts at the bottom. It begs investors, customers, and employees from a position of optimism and humility. The organization enthusiastically changes itself to find a good balance between those three or it dies. As the organization grows, it starts demanding everyone else change for them instead. Google's interviews are an example. Its famous customer service is an example.

Then we get to size and complexity. Thanks to Dunbar's numbers, we know that there are numerical limits to a human's ability to know people. This makes sense. I can know everything about 6 people, most things about 50, and keep track of about 250 well enough. As the organization grows, your ability to know it disappears. You begin making abstractions. Instead of knowing exactly what Susan does, you say she works in X Department, for Y Initiative, doing Z position.

Google is so big that one person can't understand it anymore. The inevitable reduction to a corporate abstraction occurs and then people treat it like the X Company, which is just like Y Company but makes X instead of Y. Short term revenue and expenses are the only measures at the end.

And in this faceless abstraction, the professional parasite class infests and extracts resources and morale. Eventually the C-suite stops fighting it and joins in on it until only the sheer size and momentum of the company keeps it going. Maybe an investor group will come and force a rework of the company, but not before the company is just a shadow of the shadow of its former self.
Ahh those were the days ... when I got excited about a Tesla.

First the Roadster, and then the Model S ... after that it was all downhill.

RIP, Tesla design language and any semblance of taste ... you were but a spark, and a beautiful one at that.
Don't worry, you'll get a chance to buy in once all the private investors have made their killing.
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
I don't know when you graduated, but in my post college days, minimum wage was $5.15 an hour. Even if you manage to land a full time job, that's only $800 a month, before taxes. Back then, a 1br in the Midwest was about $400-$500. By the time you pay for health insurance, car insurance, gas, food, utilities, you come out negative. Most people scrounged around for food, and went without any kind of insurance.

I haven't kept up with what it all is today. I imagine it's even worse due to the runaway housing inflation.
Odd how the swings and round-abouts of this one has most of us believing Altman probably did distract/mislead/economise-on-the-truth but he's basically "won" and his board has been re-constituted.

I don't like this.
Very much depends how it was used. You might be able to tell with the SMART report.
Ahh damn! Now carboblack has to be renamed again. One product of theirs has already been renamed 4 times at least lol. It's like a game of snake with these companies.

I wish an MBA can explain to me the value of rebranding and losing brand loyalty/familiarity.
> Nobody is innovating their way to a new Web browser or maps platform. Those products need a massive organization behind them.

OpenStreetMap Foundation, 1.5 FTE.
Some L.A. apologists were offended by facts. Shocker. They'd rather kill the messenger than stand up for a better reality.
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This is why it’s a good thing it’s staying private, public investors would focus only on the high profile explosions of a test vehicle rather than on the fact that SpaceX has a 99.3% mission success rate, the record for the most launches in a year, the only company to have reusable first stage in use, and the only way for American astronauts to reach orbit in the current geopolitical climate, all of this at a fraction of the cost of competitors.
I agree with your points but still found the article interesting - was also a bit thrown off since "construction" more commonly applies to the site welding you mentioned rather than manufacturing/fab.
The vast majority of professionals resist the urge to call out their manager on a blog after they quit a job. Even without Googlegeist.
I suggest you work with a copywriter and come up with a better way of presenting windmill.dev. How you're presenting it makes sense to you, because you built it. You know what you mean when you say words like "boilerplate" and "business logic". That has a specific meaning in your head. But it's different for every person in the software industry. To a customer, it's confusing.

For investors:

> We are a developer platform for enterprise, offering a performance-focused solution for building internal software using code. Our open-source platform allows businesses to focus on their unique business logic while we handle the boilerplate tasks, resulting in high-velocity development and the ability to scale at enterprise levels.

For devs:

> We are a developer platform for enterprise, providing a system for running code written in Python, Typescript, Go, Bash, and query languages at scale. Our platform focuses on performance and offers extensive capabilities to build internal software, including APIs, workflows, background jobs, and UIs. With a fully open-source and flexible architecture, developers can concentrate on their business logic while leveraging our robust ecosystem for efficient development and hosting options.

Generic:

> Windmill is a developer platform designed for enterprises to build internal software efficiently. It combines the speed of low-code solutions with the flexibility of coding, allowing developers to focus on unique business logic rather than boilerplate tasks like permissioning, queuing, and front-end development. Our platform is fully open-source, offering high performance and hosting versatility.

> Our active community of developer users provides constant feedback, driving our platform's growth. By emphasizing commonly used languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go, and Bash, Windmill serves as a generalist tool without compromising quality, enabling complex functionalities within a production-ready, enterprise-scale environment.
You have to pay to use hg in gitkraken?

I use it for git all the time for free.

I liked hg a lot when I worked at a place that used it but I've since just sortof defaulted to git for my own stuff since that what everyone seems to be using.
Right, a BIOS upgrade will break the hash chain, because the system has gone and replaced the current trusted early boot software with new early boot software.
> It works but it doesn't capture the meaning of the nature of a tuple.

That's backwards. It doesn't work (as noted in GP, because Python supports unpacking only a single variadic parameter in a type annotation), but it does capture the nature of a tuple.

It is (or, more precisely, would be, if the syntactic limitation was relaxed to allow it) a generic function that operates on two tuples of arbitrary tuple types and returns a tuple of a third tuple type whose shape is a simple concatenation of the shapes of the input tuples.

> Doing what you're doing here is equivalent to creating a Struct with variadic properties.

Well, a "struct" in Python is a particular low-level byte-mapped datatype, but the generic concept of a Struct differs from a tuple in two ways -- fields identified by name and that Structs are generally mutable.

> If you want some container that holds an arbitrary amount of things that is a List

But... I don't want that, and that's not what this works on.

There's a difference between a function that works on containers of changeable length and a generic function that works on immutable containers (so, fixed length and contents), but is adaptable to any length (or more specifically, shape, including not only length by order of types of elements) of arguments, producing a result of a container type whose shape is strictly determined by the shapes of the inputs, with the shapes statically verifiable.

Python is very close to allowing that, which is very different than:

def concat(l1: list, l2: list) -> list: ...

which is a fine function, but not at all what the other one is about.
I fail to see how that excuses sloppy engineering.
It would be nice if there were an accessibility option or slider to adjust the cost. We don't all have the stamina or range of motion to play as many hours as we'd like, or in the way that fits us best.

Understandable if indie devs cannot afford such accomodations, but for AAA it seems reasonable.
The post opens with the author describing how his key wouldn't work. But moreover, his account was renamed. Git has no knowledge of usernames. If the old key was kept on the account that was renamed, it wouldn't have given anyone access to anything new.
> And that's a pretty strong indictment of Google! Googlers who worked on this research and technology believed that they'd have a better chance of doing something life-changing and making some bank outside of Google! While that isn't all that uncommon, it's also something Google could have taken steps to prevent. Better culture, better compensation. It's a huge risk to strike out on your own with something like this; Google could have made it both safer and more lucrative (or at least lucrative enough) to stay. But they didn't.

For a while Microsoft was infamous for having talented engineers leave, found a startup, and then MS acquiring that startup for a lot of money.

It was, in hindsight, a really great system that worked out well for everyone involved.
"It's like all the cities who defunded the police"

Tip: Stop regurgitating this lie.
Well, disease may be another big risk, but not for you, for the people in the past.

If you shed MSRA you could make all the drugs of the 20th century ineffective killing billions.
Your concrete example is Netflix’s CEO saying he doesn’t want to do advertising because he missed the boat and was on Facebook’s board and as a result didn’t believe he had the data to compete as an advertising platform.

Attempting to run ads like Google and Facebook would bring Netflix into direct competition with them, and he knows he doesn’t have the relationships or company structure to support it.

He is explicitly saying they don’t compete. And they don’t.
For show.

Brother in law often complains he can't carry anything in his truck because of the giant tire in the back.
Hey Daniel, congrats on your work and nice to see you here! Definitely, Colugo hit the audio project idea bullseye with this one :)

Let’s talk / collab if you want / have time!
> Of the bugs that I've experienced in large-scale, Rails production systems, typing is a small subset.

Really? Are you counting errors where a value turned out to be nil when it wasn’t expected to be? Because that’s a type error. It’s not a type error that many statically typed languages fix (Java is notorious for null pointer exceptions) but it’s a type error that can, in principle, be fixed with static typing.
I'm on that journey myself. Two years ago I followed several tutorials and youtube videos to create my first 3D engine. It's very simple, but I like simple stuff. Right now I'm working on using this engine to create a city builder game [1]. It is a lot of fun to learn to manipulate stuff using matrix and cross products.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyrfPUpyp0
If accepting a job offer from Richard Nixon doesn't sink you, then nothing will.