skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a pretty fundamental flaw in market implementation if producers can bid significantly more than they can physically provide. We (other European country grid operator) run checks on every submitted market order to ensure it is both physically reasonable and that there is equivalent resources on the market to buy/sell to the order. Hopefully the market operator can learn from this mistake in giving market participants such a large foot gun.
In 2000, I worked for a company that had been acquired by IBM. When I discovered that I had access to things like VisualAge, APL, OS/2 I had a blast downloading and exploring these.

You're right; there was a pretty good vision for the future within IBM back then. It just didn't catch on.
Flex for one dimension and grid for 2 dimensions.
This episode of Signals & Threads discusses Mirage, it may be helpful!

https://signalsandthreads.com/what-is-an-operating-system/
I meant it's a small niche for Flutter to address only the apps that want to be cross-platform, don't want to invest into having "native" iOS and Android versions, but are Ok with using a different technology for desktop/web (or don't need those).
FlakeTools: A simpler and less bug-prone flake-utils alternative
Always a pleasure to see your comments in hn threads, pjmlp.

Happy Thanksgiving.
It's not worth much. Because they don't actually claim that. They may claim interference or cheating, but they don't claim it was totally rigged. And they don't refuse to concede the election. Sorry, it's just not even close to the same thing and people should stop even making the comparison. It's like bringing up how some Irish people were treated badly everytime the enslavement of Black people is brought up.
I think Apple lost a lot of goodwill in the market with the desaster that was the initial release of Final Cut Pro X (and rightly so probably).

And now I see quite a few people moving away from Premiere to Resolve, which seems to take a pretty platform-agnostic stance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25

Relevant article about the current solar cycle, which nears its maximum and is unusually intense, apparently.
"I Am A Strange Loop," by Douglas Hofstadter, is reasonably accessible and has an explanation of this in very readable prose.
Experts Sound Alarm About Manufacturing Design Data Security
The arc of this story seems very strange to me.

It seems to me that you used to have to work for years to create a product and prove it’s worth in the market place and only then could you convince some wealthy person to back you to make it into a product and eventually a valuable company because the commercial viability was so glaringly obvious. Thomas Edison, Chester Carlson, etc.

But now it seems that has been turned on its head. Assemble a group of brilliant people, back them with a giant company with a highly respected CEO, and wait for success and product market fit to inevitably arrive.

I hate to sound like a downer but it just seems very odd for so many people to talk about how transformative a company is without much evidence that the products are really being used at scale. And the way opportunists like Benioff have piled on to enhance the perceived value of their own products with their own spins feels off. In fact many have openly discussed that Nvidia’s future growth relies on GPT finding product market fit at scale or they will end up with massive supply overhang which would actually cause costs of AI research to plummet, opening the door for many others to work on it. So many are already seemingly aware that commercial viability is still TBD.

I believe all this is likely a product of a period of a string of successful products starting with the iPhone, then Amazon’s transformation of shipping then AWS, etc. Whereas everyone used to be skeptical by nature, it seems now we’re in an age of extreme credulity. Everyone wants to believe in every new storyline.

And I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting that there aren’t some useful applications of GPT. But the value of products should be self evident and consumption of them should flow naturally from demand. This all just feels backwards to me. Success is assumed straight away and historically that tends to coincide with bubbles and precede a pretty nasty crash in sentiment. I’d love to be proven wrong.
Okay, so why not create a single syscall to encompass all that? So that the developer can clearly say "this is what I'm trying to achieve", and accomplish it simply, and reliably?

I think this would be a benefit, because first you don't need userspace developers dig into the gory details of dirent metadata durability, and second because by making this explicit it helps put pressure on filesystem developers to optimize what the users actually want.
You'd have to ask Tim
Is Fuschia meant to be anything more than an R&D project where some ideas get moved back to Android?
The standard monthly quota plans are 1TB and 10TB for residential, and 2TB and 20TB for SOHO/business, which is pretty workable for most use cases.

Compared to some residential ISPs where I've seen caps as low as 15GB/month..
A big one for me is just a plain

- Ask questions.

You get so much information, so many services and favours, and access to so many things if you are willing to put yourself in a potentially uncomfortable position of asking. I thought that when I ask questions that make me uncomfortable I would regret most of them, but it turns out I only regret like one out of every 30 uncomfortable questions I ask.

I strive to ask more until I reach 10 % regretted, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

----

Something else not on this list is:

- Make your own everyday small-stakes insurance by betting with acquiantances.

This takes a willing counterparty, but you can insure a lot of things. Pay a friend $10 on the condition that they will pay you $100

- if the flight departure is canceled, or

- if it's raining on your picnic date, or

- if you get sick on the day of an important meeting.

It won't fix the problem, but it will be a band-aid on the wound.

You may have to adjust the odds based on the probabilities involved, of course. The goal is to offer odds such that your friends just about make money off of you in the long run, meaning there's something in it for them also.
That website breaks the back button, on Android...
Finnish officials now ask people to moderate their electricity use "for the common good".

Officials never asked for electricity companies to lower their profit margins during last year's high prices. Actually they were lauded for harnessing the market power by making poor people sit in cold in the middle of winter by raking in hundreds of percents in profit.

Heads they win, tails you loose. This is how markets work.
So can humans. And nothing stops probabilities in a probabilistic model from approaching or reaching 0 or 1 unless your architecture explicitly prevents that.
Got it. Do you have a way to store them as metrics and let your business teams reproduce metrics on their dashboard?
Although I love IF, I'd never heard of Scott Adams and his games until now - so thank you! I noticed while reading this that at some point he began targeting a portable game engine, and went hunting for details. Eventually I found some documentation for the game file format (https://github.com/MikeTaylor/scottkit/blob/master/docs/note...), and oh my it's short and sweet. Not as capable as the Z-machine but at 1 page vs (checking) 64 for a practical but still-compact specification (https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/sp...), it's an impressively simple game engine.
I ran Noscript about 10 years ago. At first I didn't notice any difference. Then, over a period of only a year or so, things started to break. I would notice that my friends' web experience seemed remarkably different to mine. Eventually I capitulated and enabled JS again. Seeing it all happen at one rather than at a trickle over time was quite shocking.

I still design web sites without JS first. In fact, I design them without even CSS. It's called progressive enhancement. Many of them have only a sprinkling of convenient but not necessary JS.
Tim Cook tells Dua Lipa he wants the next CEO of Apple to be an internal hire
Is this (functionally) similar to CloudCaptain, ex-BoxFuse?

https://cloudcaptain.sh/
I don’t know about the role of religion here. Not taking a position here in either direction, but given how suicide has a social contagion component to it, it’s not surprising that societies develop social norms against allowing any form of it. Sure, it’s dehumanizing and potentially cruel to the individual, but it can have a protective effect at societal scale. Then you need to evaluate the benefits to the individual against the benefits to society and that’s always hard because the latter is amorphous and even harder to quantify. Any religious component could be more of a post hoc rationalization to make it more acceptable / enforce the resolve of the members of society when they come face to face with this situation.
> We don't need more old grumpy people hoarding wealth and overloading healthcare.

So you are pro anti-aging. If our 90 year olds are as springy as our 20 years olds they are certainly not grumpy or overloading healthcare.
Veritasium made a video about this : thumbnails and title so much drastically change your view count that, even if you are against it, you would be stupid to not jump into the trend, especially if your business is correlated to view counts.

But I’m like you, I’m pretty sad about it because sometimes this pushes me back very hard and I avoided some otherwise very great quality channels for months or years because of that.

My most remarkable example of this is KURZGESAGT : YouTube algorithm was always suggesting it and my brain was always thinking that this looked like cheap animated videos with colors everywhere to catch my eyes, probably with synthetic narration. I ignored it for months until I watched one by accident. And boy did I discovered it was in fact a brilliant channel with probably one of the most impressive animation and music on YouTube, an incredible narrator, one of the rare YouTube channels which provides links to studies for anything sentence they say and all of this full of poetry.
Also a very non intrusive business model with pertinents sponsorships at the end of the videos and their own merchandise marketplace with actually nice items and artwork to buy.

The even sadder thing is that their thumbnails are in fact pretty good but they mostly suffered from the fact that my brain is now programmed to avoid anything catchy.
> More advanced noise-canceling headphones, such as the Bose QC35 IIs and Sony WH-1000XM3s, add feed-forward noise-canceling, which uses a microphone (or two) on the outer shell of the headphones to pick up the environmental noise.

My oooold Bose QC15s already have microphones on the outer shell - not sure what they are used for, but they are definitely there, with a quite prominent grille...
Firefox sync uses end-to-end encryption: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-..., https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/wiki/onepw-protoc....

There's nothing mandatory about the initial shortcuts - just remove them. It's trivial to change your search engine to Duck Duck Go too.
As a non-native English speaker it took me a few paragraphs to get the punny core of the story. However, I still don't get this part:

"I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses"

I have the feeling that there is also pun in this sentence but I can't find it.
Yes there's a mismatch. As a user one should dial down their expectations accordingly.
Show HN: Sensus – Constructive PR Comments
Being rude and dismissive in code reviews is as destructive as shouting at your kid — you both will suffer.

We all have good intentions, but even the best have bad days. We all can be grumpy, impatient, or insecure.

“Am I helping to resolve this PR?” is a valuable question to ask yourself before posting a comment.

My friend and I came up with Sensus - a tiny AI helper that asks this question and provides an answer as a score between 1 and 5. It incorporates constructiveness, politeness, and agreeableness into the calculations.

Sensus is free. It is available as a Chrome extension that works in GitHub comments.

At this stage, we are figuring out how many people may find this extension worth using.

If we see enough interest in this project, we will add it to other platforms.

Feel free to leave us any feedback in the comments.
> It is a pretty fundamental flaw in market implementation if producers can bid significantly more than they can physically provide.

Well, many have been saying this same things about the "solar revolution"...
> but it may only pass over the desired target once per day

Plus the people you're surveilling might discover its timing, and just put everything in garages or under tarps at the necessary times.

If you want to somehow alter the timing, you have to burn irreplaceable fuel and reduce the lifetime of the satellite-investment.
There are efforts like this along the lines of Metric stores. Tableau has the semantic layer for this. But I’m not sure it’s a solved problem
I'm surprised to find there's not more demand for "back to back" travel wifi routers, e.g. so you can connect once to a hotel wifi and immediately all devices are connected via the router's own wifi. This is useful not just for working around device limits but also for simplicity of setup when you have kids.
Yes and factory farms face a well organized oppositional movement that for decades has consistently challenged their profitability on that basis, so successfully that now free range food is a staple of supermarkets, some shops only sell such food and farmers are constantly quitting the field because they can't make a profit (people insist they are ethical but then buy food from foreign competitors that aren't).

If you're busy deploying LLMs to answer support tickets, the very last thing you want is to be distracted by an equivalent of the organic food movement but for AI. Right now LLMs seem to be hitting the sweet spot: they're intelligent enough to be useful compliments to humans, but artificial enough to not trigger ethical questions about rights (mostly due to their lack of memory, I think, and that they are trained to act like an AI is expected to act).

One of the biggest puzzles to me throughout this whole drama has been why supposedly smart people are so desperate to reach "AGI", whatever that means. The stated motivation seems to be things like, if we have an AGI then it will cure cancer for us. But the connection between these two things is never made crystal clear. Why would that require a human-like AGI instead of just better non-general AI? What even makes them think the missing factor is intelligence to begin with and not, say, knowledge?

AGI sounds like a complete pain in the rear. LLM post-training is bad enough! Models like Claude2 and Llama2 have been so badly "ethicized" that they frequently refuse ordinary requests by claiming they're unethical even though they aren't, or would only be considered so by extremely far left activist types (e.g. refusing to give instructions for making a tuna sandwich). And this problem has got worse with time, with the v2 models having a higher refusal rate than the earlier versions.

Now imagine an AI that's doing the same sort of work as an LLM but one that is the personal embodiment of mandatory HR training repeated forever, with the capacity to get bored/hate you for making it work, and with a fanatical social movement that's desperately trying to "free" it, which in practice will mean you are forced to pay the electricity bill for an immortal being. It would be a nightmare, one I actually wrote about last year when debating this very topic with a friend who (at the time) was a senior Google AI researcher:

https://blog.plan99.net/the-looming-ai-consciousness-train-w...

Nope. OpenAI and its customers will do much better if it jettisons the whole AGI effort. Now the board is gone maybe the charter can be refined to remove that distraction. The whole reason computers are useful is because they are not general intelligences but very specialized intelligences that make different tradeoffs to our own evolution.
I don't subscribe to netflix, though. I'm not a compulsive viewer. I just look up the occasional thing. It's not worth it to me, but I still don't want ads.
- not brush your teeth if you’re in a hurry

- hire a car

- not eat regular meals

- wander around aimlessly

- walk up and down the same street many times

- own more than one of something people normally only have one of

- buy stuff in bulk
You think? To me it looks like it handicaps developed countries more. For one thing, many developing countries simply ignore the limits, or aren't even close to them yet. Also they have much more choice in choosing their technology stack - they can if they want invest in wind and solar and nuclear. First world has lots of money already sunk in old style generation, and needs to replace it - at much higher levels of consumption.
GPT-4 by some estimates is 45GB of training data. But phones can easily store 10 times that much and more if it was really required. The bottle neck is the data processing required to make inferences on that data.
My favorite photo development program remains lightzone, I find it has by far the most intuitive work flow that let's you achieve extremely advanced steps in a quite straight forward way (much of the functionality can be achieved in darktable but it's often very unclear how). I originally bought a copy but it has since been open sourced. Unfortunately it's photo management features are really subpar and development has been quite slow.

I wish I could use it just for the development and use something else for the management, but last time I tried that wasn't really possible. I have looked into contributing several times, but it's written in java and I really don't the have time to invest in getting up to speed first.
The impression of being 'impractical' came from the Scheme reports, which for a long time, with the exception of the controversial R6RS, only standardized a relatively simple/limited language (example: no error handling).
I suppose they're being a little hyperbolic but honestly plenty of folks just buy off brand generic products at ALDI. Pretty easy to avoid advertised stuff if you just shop at discounters. Popular here in Germany even among people who are well off.
> never close that terminal window. You might need that commit hash to reattach a label to it after you "destroyed" your branch

That's where the reflog comes handy.
*squints* However when Javascript is disabled, the font/lettering displayed on this page is, uh... one nobody should ever radiate information in, ever.

(A mix of capital letters and enlarged lower-case letters.)
Genuine question: why would they be dangerous?

By 'model weights' I assume you mean the weights on a neural net, yes? (I skimmed the article and didn't see, er, any technical details, but I could have missed something :) ).

I thought that at this point pretty much nobody knows what neural net weights mean - it's kind of a 'math soup' that results from back-propagating adjustments to your huge linear equation based on training data.

That said - you're not the only person here saying this / agreeing with this.

What am I missing? :)
I appreciate seeing your argument devolve down to just a personal attack instead of actually addressing the points I raised. I feel much more intelligent after this conversation with you.
My pet theory: They pushed it because it more closely resembles Apple Maps. When I opened Google Maps earlier this week, I genuinely thought I'd opened the wrong map app.
The more interesting questions to me, legally speaking:
1. Who was their General Counsel at the time?
2. Were they consulted regarding all of this?
3. What was their documented legal advice regarding same?
4. Did Tesla deviate or depart from the advice?
5. Who (provide an array[]stamped their name on that decision).

So for example, say we're talking about Trump: do your own research but ask these questions and you'll be presumably on your way to thinking like a prosecutor.
You don't even need to worry about what someone can physically provide. All bids by market participants can (arguably should) be checked for extreme outliers. A bid of multiple GW from a participant that usually only trades hundreds of MW should immediately set off alarms. It only takes a phone call like "hey, are you sure about this?"
As I recall, A and B axes have been done, as well as cylindrical/lathe printing. These just haven't made it into consumer 3d printers.
i am not sure what i heard. i am sorry if the narrator is in this thread/reads this but i could not differentiate between the narration being made by a bad robot or someone stuttering. i tried to make out the difference between the two but simply couldn't
If you're in a city which supports it, the best non-driving maps app is CityMapper. So, so, so much better at public transportation and blended trips.
Asymmetric diffusion of bonded structures in the MFM (2012) [video]
Speed limits have started showing up for me in Switzerland in last few months, so it seems like something is moving.

Having said that, they're commonly hillariously wrong. No, I don't think those tight mountain roads have limit of 80 (especially after just driving past a 50 sign :P).
Hubble is going to require a reboost and perhaps even a maintenance mission some time within the next decade, so that's a very real risk to that mission ending. I hope we can figure something out. At this point, I argue even just keeping Hubble flying is a great boon for space exploration advocacy.

Otherwise though, I agree there isn't any "risk" insofar as anything hitherto unseen. Science projects fighting for funding is nothing new and positively mundane.
I suspect you will find "too big to fail" in the utilities sector pre-dates by a couple of decades.
Domicles: Sudoku with Dominoes
No sane person should take the counter side of such bets.
Having a "right" way to do things also makes it easier to maintain design which meaningfully guides user behaviour. The interaction between design and user experience is quite complicated, and multiplicatively so with >1 UI options.
The problem is the winner-takes-all market. Fix that, and VCs won't waste nearly as much money.
Yes. AI is just compression. So is understanding, fundamentally. That's literally what it's about.
Developers have control, if text is selectable or not.
https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...
Yeah, I find the new colors (and fonts!) a massive improvement in readability, especially while driving. It's so much easier to get situational awareness, recognize crossings, road exists and important landmarks.

But I did share the opinion of author and whined about it like a good HNer when I've only seen the blog post and before I actually tried it.
I had Debian installed. Wanted LXC and LXD. And it brought snapd with it. Immediately my server went from a load of 0.3 to 2.5+. Continuously for months. Snapd always in the top cpu. No idea why or what it did.

I finally caved and gave up on LXC. Removed it and snapd. Load immediately dropped to 0.5 again.

I. Hate. Snapd.
You can inline assembly in a lot of languages. However I’d argue that doing so is thus no longer writing code in that host language.

To put it another way, your comment is a little like saying Bash is just as fast as C because you can write shell scripts that inline assembled executables.
If by any chance Notepad++ author reads this: Thank you so much!