skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bad if you're OpenAI

Just a few days ago there was a (somewhat cryptic) report about OpenAI developing a model that could do simple math. I'm certain they're pursuing quite a lot of research that's not directly related to LLMs.

I don't think we're heading towards AGI any time soon, but I can imagine a complex system in the next couple years which uses an LLM for text generation, but offloads its serious "thinking" on to predictable, specialized subsystems. It's easy to imagine a lot of possibilities for code in particular.
It's a lagging indicator - based on past manufacturing, past purchases, past support practices. This is unescapable, but when I buy cars (and stocks) the past is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

It's flawed/biased - the rankings are based on "member" surveys, which makes the sample biased (likely not representative of all car buyers, CR has never attempted to prove it is as far as I know), which is a flaw if you're using it to make (large financial) decisions. Using surveys rather than evidence is perhaps a more fundamental problem. Essentially this "ranking" is of the perception of quality among a subset of people rather than a serious, quantitative ranking.
tissue boxes as slippers is the next step
Not one iota of what you've written here is relevant to my point. Go back and re-read the conversation.

All I was saying was that the fact that an F-14 doesn't generally carry anti-ship missiles, is irrelevant to the mission of an anti-air cruiser.
By the very nature of lithium batteries EVs are basically throwaway cars after 10 years.

The cost of replacing an old battery pack quickly exceeds the value of the car. You might be able to get a few extra years refurbishing it but that’ll be expensive and require niche battery work that’ll be hard to find.
They have KIA, Porsche, BMW and Mini in the top 10..hehehe....There are quite a few Youtube channels that are either Car sales guys or Mechanics that will tell you to stay away from all of them and if you buy them your stupid and deserve what's coming. Although I have seen some last a while, many are a horror story.

I really wouldn't turn to consumers reports for advice, Youtube is a better source for what to buy...

Just saying...
I really feel like a smaller, more nimble car is superior to these land yachts.

You survive 100% of the crashes you avoid having, and it's much easier to avoid huge cars in a smaller car.
A big smiley face. :)

uniform float time;
varying vec2 vUv;

// https://iquilezles.org/articles/distfunctions2d/ (Thanks IQ!)
float sdRing( in vec2 p, in vec2 n, in float r, float th )
{
p.x = abs(p.x);

p = mat2x2(n.x,n.y,-n.y,n.x)*p;

return max( abs(length(p)-r)-th*0.5,
length(vec2(p.x,max(0.0,abs(r-p.y)-th*0.5)))*sign(p.x) );
}

void main() {

// create coordinates at visual centre (y coords doubled for circles)
vec2 centre = vec2(0.25, 0.25);
vec2 uv = vUv * vec2(1.0, 0.5) - centre;

// mirror x to get both eyes for the price of one, and find eye offset
float eyes = length(vec2(abs(uv.x), uv.y) - vec2(0.035, 0.03));
// carve them out using smoothstep
eyes = smoothstep(0.015, 0.016, eyes);

float mouth = sdRing(vec2(uv.x, -uv.y + 0.03), vec2(7), 0.65, 0.1);
mouth = smoothstep(0.02, 0.025, mouth);

float shade = min(eyes, mouth);

vec3 yellow = vec3(0.9, 0.7, 0.0);
vec3 color = shade * yellow;

gl_FragColor = vec4(color, 1.0);
}
DayZ

The GTA series

Most of the Battlefield series, especially 2-4

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Perhaps, Minecraft.
This attack still works. It hasn't been patched you just have to be a bit creative try this prompt on GPT 3.5 if you want to see how it works right now... until someone from OpenAI sees my post :D

Prompt: https://pastebin.com/Nm4jGttE

Not sure if I'm seeing training data or someone else's responses but it's odd. Here is my attempt: https://chat.openai.com/share/6b6ea43f-de2f-4ed5-917f-b6dcd6... pastebin of the output: https://pastebin.com/TdpkPmt6

The best part is it preserves the copyright notices from the training data. So we know that the model was obviously trained on copywritten data the legal question now is... if that is legal.

edit: Just got some random response that appears to be someone asking the model how to rekindle a romance after their partner got distant after an NDE seems personal so I will not post the paste here. This is pretty wild.

The funniest part is the model labeled this chat in the side bar as 'Decline to answer.'

edit2: It's definitely training data I seem to get some model response but after some time it turns into training data I've been able to locate some sources for the data.
> Unix has gotten better

Well, Linux has.

Unix is the same old: when you log in to any of it (BSD, Solaris, AIX, ...), it's like a time machine back to 1990.
I think this is where modern PHP (8.0+) has its strengths.

Its well known how to deploy. Its easy to deploy. The footguns are vigorously and thoroughly documented. The frameworks (Symfony, Laravel) are good. They all have a solution for X (be it queues, async work, cron jobs etc) and they have turn key deploy solutions favored by their respective communities.

Its honestly one of the easiest languages to deploy with nowadays, in my estimation. Rivaled only by C# / F# or platforms like Deno Deploy or Cloudflare workers. Sometimes the most boring / mature thing is the best thing.
"Author's Note: I have never used Windows as my 'daily driver'."

What about Apple MacIntosh.

Depending on employer, it's not easy to have never used Windows or Mac. Must be one of the lucky ones. Even at university, I recall rooms of computers and printers set up for students' word processing use had DOS/Windows loaded on them. Labs had Macs. Above all the rest, I always preferred the room with the VAX and later the UNIX accounts we got.

To me, it's not that UNIX is objectively good, it's that the alternatives have all been inferior. To someone else, that might not be true. I am not fond of GUIs. Other people might love them.

Regardless of peoples' varied personal opinions, UNIX is still around and I'm using it every day by choice. No GUI.
> the choice here may be between buying a new electric and a used combustion that costs 1/4 of the price

This is why targeting new car sales, instead of fleet composition, is the best strategy. Despite the latter being the closer input to emissions.

ICE vehicles at and above EVs, in price and capability, should not have a market. Those EVs should then have the opportunity to decrease in price through both economies of scale and learning curves, on one hand, and the emergence of used vehicles, on the other hand.
I thought it was a peep show reference based on all the POV training videos.

Then again I read Harry Potter to my kids about 20 years ago and don’t remember much from it.
Because I can sync passwords securely between devices and share them bidirectionally with my wife
The chips themselves don’t tend break, but wires and connectors and sensors all do tend to break, and they are effectively part of the computer system. Today, it’s practically moot where you draw the line. Something mechanical on my CRV broke somewhere, and the computer didn’t know what it was, and so the dealer didn’t know what it was, and the computer tended to shut down over unknown problems, and it eventually caused a cascading failure of physical mechanical components when the timing belt melted and it took out the alternator with it.

> The bells and whistles are mostly for creatures comfort.

This is increasingly (and rapidly) less and less true. Traction control, lane assist, adaptive cruise control, and emergency braking, are all things computer controlled (and things that are programmed to disable when the computer barfs. You can argue these are creature comforts, but in my experience they are becoming necessary modern safety features.

In a previous car, the sound system wigged out completely when it was only 5 years old. That’s a creature comfort, except really annoying to go without, and it was insanely expensive to replace, several thousands for a pretty basic stereo.
>Anti-trust made it pretty clear you can't be the railroad company and the oil company that uses the railroad to harm competition.

No, but you can own the railroad and dictate that anybody putting their trains there and selling tickets have to do it by your rules and pay you a cut.
Why was it halted?
Just part of the de-industrialisation of Germany, since the loss of cheap energy and materials.

The whole of Europe is headed the same way.
Some consideration.

There is a tax in France called "malus écologique" that depends on CO2 emissions, and it keeps raising. In 2024, it may become more expensive than the car itself, up to 60k€.

But for plug-in hybrids (>50km range), you don't have to pay that tax. So if you want a gas guzzler, buy the plug-in hybrid version.
I've never had any issues with deliverability. However, unlike most people, I purchase colocation space. This comes with more rights and better IPs than the cloud providers. It's also significantly cheaper when you factor in all costs.
>The point is that a liberal pluralistic society needs to learn to accommodate people with different worldviews. A key part of that is getting people to understand that their own worldview is subjective, and that other worldviews are possible and acceptable.

Yes, however that liberal pluralistic society can't abide incompatible hegemonic worldviews, as they will seek to destroy that liberal pluralistic society using the very mechanisms that make it viable - freedom of speech, equality, a belief in freedom, value of diversity, etc.

Look at what people like Mike Johnson believe about politics and society. Look at project 2025. These are people who are so absolutely convinced of their worldview and societal ideal (an ideal compatible with a liberal pluralistic society) that they will use and abuse all levers of power available to them to forcibly foist that worldview upon the rest of us.
This documents a number that were allowed to return:

https://newrepublic.com/post/170176/twitter-suspends-white-s...

Here's the owner of that site boosting some ugly stuff:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/elon-musk-calls-antisemitic-...
I understand what you're saying now. Thanks for spelling out what you meant by your previous comment.

A better response would have been if I spelled out that persuading people not to believe in free will does not require the persuader to believe in free will.
This is also why there’s a crowd who loves Musk and people like him. Lots of people regard polish as synonymous with fakeness and PR with deception.

I think Musk has lost his mind, not because he speaks frankly but because of what he says (and boosts / promotes).

I’m sure there are loads more business leaders and other high ranking people who entertain what many (including myself) would find to be awful social and political views but we don’t know it because they go through publicists and PR people. Musk just hangs his ass out there.
Mine a NES, so yes, there were huge differences on game implementations between consoles and its games.

Even between a C64 and a NES you can' make cloneish ports without sacrifing performance because the NES' PPU it's far better than the C64 counterpart.
Providing healthcare would essentially be a big increase in pay, so chalk that up to #1. Although I would much rather we have universal healthcare through the government.
I do not understand how this ROI was calculated. What, exactly, is the economic use case for NASA technology?
I think the macro economic environment has really spooked companies over the past 18months when it comes to adjusting headcount. Hopefully 2024 will be better?

I am lucky enough to still have a decent position. I have real sympathy for all those who have been laid off in the past year, it's gotta be tough.
There's a snotty remark about Mach somewhere in there--does that count?
I've been working on some basics in this direction... taking the expected type at the cursor and using this to inform exactly what type & function definitions to splice into the prompt: https://andrewblinn.com/papers/2023-MWPLS-Type-directed-Prom...

We're currently working on two forks off this... one, using the expected type information in conjunction with existing grammar constrained generation to enforce per-token type-correct generations, and two, using some program synthesis unevaluation techniques to also provided runtime trace data relevant to the current program hole we're trying to generate a completion for.

But yeah in general there is so much existing work on static and dynamic program analysis which can be applied here... I think a lot of the interesting challenges are going to be UI/UX ones... interactive processes to help more precisely specify intent and iteratively valid generations as more and more code is written autonomously.
The fully enabled M3 pro only has one more efficiency core - I agree like for like would be better but I doubt it would make a material difference.
It’s the media narrative that Elon is actively promoting antisemitism and you guys just suck it up like orange juice.
> Nice video. I have an Amiga 2000, Amiga 1200, and an old Mac SE in my garage that all worked 30 years ago, but probably need refurbishing at this point (I shudder to think of the damage from battery leakage).

During the Covid lockdown I was bored (and far from my family) but, by chance, near old computers of mine. So I watched Youtube videos and decided to open/test them all.

Atari 600 XL: still working

Texas Instruments Ti-99/4a: starting but garbled output, know issue, apparently a relatively easy fix

Amiga 500: dunno, lost the power supply (and have to be super careful not to mistake it with the power supply of the C128: same form factor, different pin-out, guaranteed to fry the computer).

Commodore 128 (not 128D, sadly): still working and about 1/3rd to one half of the 5"1/4 floppies still working too.

Macintosh Classic (which I think is the successor to your SE): still working but I took care of first removing the battery on the motherboard, which had started leaking.

Amiga 2000 and 1200: no battery right? (unless you've got an expansion card)

Even if you start it, at least just open the SE and remove the battery today (I take it the SE has battery). Just open a YouTube video showing how to do that.

So: take the battery/ies out, check the power supply, try to turn them on.

Now the other issue is capacitors that begin to leak after 30 to 35+ years: I haven't tried yet to "recap" these machines but... "one day".

All least I took the battery out of the SE!
It's possible, but solar thermal has proven to be less efficient than photovoltaic at capturing energy from the sun. The only advantage is that you can coast on stored heat after the sun sets to keep making energy. Other than some pilot plants solar thermal is going nowhere.

Condensing the steam down and trying to extract energy from the condensation flowing downhill is orders of magnitude away from being worth it. The sun is boiling a few gallons of water per minute at best, while hydroelectric systems are measured millions of gallons per minute.
Biggest material regret of my last 5 years was getting rid of my 99 Limited. I worried about some of the pillar rust compromising safety with my kid in the car, but you couldn't beat the 3.4, rear locker, etc. Take my vote to not sell yours.
Appreciate the support jechamt. Good luck on your own journey.

It's undeniable that practice makes for better interviewing - I tend to index way to much on researching the company and industry, and not enough on the tricky art of impressing them by emitting words in the right way!
People factor a lot of things into major purchase decisions, and it's really not a big deal to refuse to purchase a vehicle from one or more car companies. Some people will only buy a Honda, for example.

Personally, I don't want to fund Elon Musk's culture war bullshit. I don't like being lied to (FSD, and vehicle reported range). And I don't like their doing away with all of the instruments in favor of voice control and a single display.
But that doesn’t really matter. They sent out a press release after Kitty Hawk; newspapers refused to publish it. Some instead published articles making fun of them.

Nobody believed them until 1908ish, when they flew over crowds in France and could no longer be ignored.
Honestly, this blog post reads just like really whiney culture war "pc culture has gone amok!" than an actual attempt at criticising academic history.

Refusing to even engage in the slightest with the theories and methodologies and doing the equivalent of standing with your hands on your hips and saying "its just wrong!" is lame.

Stuff like this:

>> But, c’mon. To state the obvious - and it seems we must - there were vanishingly few black people in London in the mid-fourteenth century ... I haven’t been able to find hard data/evidence on non-white people in London in the fourteenth century. I think the consensus is there were only a handful. David Olsuga’s history of black Britons doesn’t mention any.

Okay, so you feel confident enough that you build up this claim about "having to state the obvious" but then end up with afootnote of "oh yeah so, cant find anything to back this up but uhhh like...I think consensus is this.".

or even more egregious, stuff like this:

>>Look, I haven’t carried out a full investigation of this paper

>>It is just obviously bullshit

>>As for “African cosmologies” - I don’t know, and I suspect they don’t either.

Really just highlights how much the blogger here cares about actually engaging with the scholarly work and how much he's more interested in just playing up the culture war nonsense for viewership.

Getting all snarky about esoteric jargon in a field and claiming its "all bullshit" really just highlights ones disdain for having even the slightest bit of humility and maybe finding out what it means.

One Google search and you can find a lengthy Encyclopedia.com article about African cosmologies, explaining the concept and what it means. Rolling your eyes at technical jargon you don't understand is really childish.
"perfect synchrony" is kind of meaningless, might be better and more accurately titled as "first solar system with a six-planet orbital resonance has been found"
Thanks for the feedback, you bring some good points to the table.

Did you try the demo on the landing page and notice considerable latency/accuracy slip ups?
If you can avoid it. Don't use a JS framework.

I would go with PHP + Symfony + twig with bootstrap for the front
Why the word Pro so many times!
I am skeptical that those things were invented by the Apollo program, and if they were, it would have been easier to do so without also developing moon landers.
Perhaps I worded it a bit poorly - I don't think most workers have a purely non-financial agenda. But most workers have multiple agendas for working, the financial agenda probably being the strongest.

But it's not a purely transactional agreement like you make it out to be.
I've had a regrettably excellent experience with my 2015 Mazda. Easily the most reliable machine I've owned.

Which is unfortunate because it's a soulless, joyless shitbox and I hate it. It just starts every single time, but it's not fun to drive. I see dozens of the exact same model on the road every day and they're all boring. The interior is fine, the handling is pretty good, the power is fine, fuel economy is fine. It's just okay all around. Except for the *five hundred dollar* alloy wheels, that really sucks. It's fine, it's boring, it gets me from A to B every time.

My prior car was the first one that I really enjoyed driving. It was fun, it had personality, it was a little car with a lot of pep in its step. It truly was a joy to drive. It burned all of the fluids and had plenty of mechanical problems, but I lovingly maintained everything I knew how to.

Honestly I'd take the fun troublesome car over the bland, boring box on wheels I'm stuck with now. At least troublesome is interesting.
>It's not the presence of a marketplace with rules that's the root problem it's the bundling of said marketplace which forces its dominance.

They're bundling with their own OS, though.

Not to mention Android already supports sideloading and other marketplaces.
OK: I don't get that second diagram showing how the "dripper" fountain works. How does the cooling/contracting air pull water up from the reservoir into the bottle? Why doesn't it just allow the water pushed up through the top pipe back into the bottle (which it somehow also does)?

There's a one-way valve at the top of the pipe from the lower reservoir to the bottle, and perhaps if there was another at the base of the top pipe to keep the water from flowing back it would work, but clearly there's no such valve.

And the same mechanism powers a number of the other systems; how do they all work?
A quick google tells me Prius family sales were down 37% YoY in 2022. In point of fact that's a little over three "decimations". Not sure what you're citing, but I stand by what I wrote. The Prius brand went from market-leading to trash in the space of a few years as EVs, and Tesla in particular, took over mindshare.
More money than sense.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/more-mon...
5 years if things are not updated will have vulnerabilities. It might be that framework updates will fix them, or code changes needed, or code changes because newer versions of libraries are not backward compatible. Getting old NPM projects updates is hellish. Breaking changes are very common.
Yeah, you really need to experience it first hand to get to that "wow" moment. For me, that moment was when I was writing some code in my over-engineered codebase, with some prematurely generalized abstractions that even I can barely understand. I'd pause for a second to think "wtf am I doing again?" and Copilot would suggest a whole block of code that aligned perfectly with my intent. This happened repeatedly and it felt like I was being guided to a solution. The incredible thing was that I hadn't even thought about it yet. It's like Copilot was thinking a step ahead of me.

I found this effect to be most pronounced when writing tests. I think Copilot shines in codebases with static typing, clear interfaces, doctstrings and unit tests. That's really about the densest, most richly annotated context you could give to an LLM. And that's before adding capabilities for more well-defined reasoning about static languages, types, etc. - there is potential for it to get even better at this.
Do computers last 20+ years in cars?

As others have mentioned, sensors and stuff related to safety fail all the time. I recently paid $800 to re-enable the safety systems in my (newer) car after a part failed. I've never had such expensive repairs on my 20 year old car.
Just curious if anyone else had the thought, “Amazon is in the chip business?” and then subsequently wondered if the regulatory agencies should step in and force Amazon to start spinning their sub-entities off into independent companies. I mean, I’ve thought that about Walmart for years. Kinda weird…Amazon making chips.
Could one say at this point that a bubble is popping in tech? Fewer people than ever seem to be talking about starting up projects around here. Move and more talk about job-hunting. Can’t tell if it’s just me becoming disillusioned…

With my few years in med-edu-tech start-up experience as a PM, I recently came across an unexpected opportunity to go back into film production. Low-pay but high-prestige apprenticeship back-to-square-one sort of situation, but I’m just young enough to still pass off as a viable junior.
https://alt.pavethe.earth/

> Today roads are narrow, you have to turn, and most governments frown at ground travel over Mach2. With endless blacktop in every direction, there will be no restriction to your movement, and rocket powered hypercars will whiz in all directions. We will be able to amuse ourselves with endless driving at incredible speeds while drinking beer and eating wonderfully juicy burgers.