skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For years automakers have been pushing people towards bigger and bigger vehicles as they have higher margins, but saying that it's due to consumer preference.

The Chinese automakers are showing that there certainly is demand in those segments if you actually make decent vehicles, and they don't mind operating on slim margins to take market share.
I strongly suspect that people are figuratively standing in line outside OpenAI headquarters with giant bags of money.

OpenAI is probably turning down multi-billion dollar investment offers on a weekly basis.
17000000 Deaths per billion flights for the space shuttle is not safe. This is more than 2,000 times more dangerous than skydiving, which is also not very safe.
I type each key on a different keyboard. But the AI has started to guess the order of the keyboards that I use.
From the article we are posting under:

> One presentation that David shared made the case that Hamas intentionally stations its military operations near civilian sites as part of its strategy of deploying “human shields.” United Nations officials have discovered Hamas rockets hidden in a vacant school in the past, and indeed, the militant group's vast, underground tunnel network endangers civilians throughout the Gaza Strip. Yet the recent IDF document uses broad categories to identify Hamas military sites and Israeli targets, including a “Hamas bank” located next to a Palestinian kindergarten.

You are repeating the talking point of the Israeli propaganda machine. These may all turn out to be true, but as of now there are no evidence for it except Israeli propaganda.

But yet even if some of these are true (say digging up waterpipes, stealing aid money for weapons) history will probably state these as part of the liberation struggle (at least among Palestinians).

IRA in Ireland and the FLN in Algeria both did stuff like that and worse for their liberation from the British and French respectively. Yet both terrorist organizations and their political arms (Sinn Féin in Ireland) had plenty public support among the colonized peoples.

If you are not suffering from colonial oppression it may be hard to understand this.
Post-covid ripples through time...
Woof, those charts say to me that recreational dosing amount is probably all over the place. Variability on species + drying + stem vs cap percentage + accuracy of consumer scale = no consistency between doses.
Per the comment thread, this doesn't have perfect explanatory power: drivers and ATC have also recorded statistically significant declines over the same time period.

In other words: remote schooling may have had a negative effect on ACT scores, but all evidence points to it not being the only (or even primary) effect.
Those who hate taxes, and have investigated them, universally point to the LVT as the "least bad tax."

Now, I'm not opposed to taxes, but given the choice between taxes that increase prosperity and taxes that decrease prosperity, I'm picking the ones that make us all wealthier and remove rentierism.

If you think that all taxes are "in practice a massive transfer of wealth from poorer to richer" I'm not sure you have a solid understanding of taxation.

If you think that LVT creates "landlord barons" then you really have zero understanding of the LVT. It eliminates the rentierism that creates barons. It takes their land rents and redistributes them to productive uses. That's the entire point.
Those microtubules don't necessarily contain consciousness. They may as well be antennas that connect consciousness with the brain.
Pagans / polytheists would respect other people’s gods. They would even worship them at times. They saw gods everywhere and in everything. One reason the Jews were seen as so weird was that they had one god, and refused to worship any others, but their culture was recognized as very old so the Romans respected their god as very powerful.

The Christians had the baptism ceremony, and part of being baptized is to forsake all other gods from this point forwards. Barbarians / pagans knew the Christian world as quite rich - the Vikings called Constantinople “the big city” and knew it as the place where they could sell all the cool stuff they stole during raids. A missionary would go to the barbarian leaders and tell them about their powerful Christian god, which was why the Roman empire(s) they fought were so grand and powerful. It was like a mind virus where one chieftain or leader would convert, win some battles, then assume the reason they won was their baptism. Because Christianity required ending worship of all other gods, they would aggressively convert the people under their control, and their nobles under them.
Prompt Engineering is clearly "a thing" irrespective of whether or not one trains or build models. LLMs clearly have a wide range of possible outputs given a particular prompt (even with just tuning temperature, top_p, top_k) but then, modification of a prompt can lead to significant improvements in the output. it's not a science. It's not really an art either. Certain prompts lead to better outputs than other prompts, and having a systematic way to characterize these differences is going to be important going forward.

I personally stay abreast of new models coming out and run an evals set against new models to assess their performance vs other models (say, gpt-2, gpt-3.5-turbo, etc, gpt-4.)

In terms of grounding, there is RAG, which can be built in any number of ways (PG+pg_vector, vector store, graph db). I would look at arxiv.org publicatons to stay on top of SOTA prompting stuff, as well as adjacent publications (LLMs, scaling, other things)
In Massachusetts, the Never-Ending Fight over Herring Marches On
Aviation is great because the industry learns so much after incidents and accidents. There is a culture of trying to improve, rather than merely seeking culprits.

However, I have been told by an insider that supply chain integrity is an underappreciated issue. Someone has been caught selling fake plane parts through an elaborate scheme, and there are other suspicious suppliers, which is a bit unsettling:

"Safran confirmed the fraudulent documentation, launching an investigation that found thousands of parts across at least 126 CFM56 engines were sold without a legitimate airworthiness certificate."

https://www.businessinsider.com/scammer-fooled-us-airlines-b...
Every time I visit America, I’m amazed by the sizes of the vehicles on the road. Entire living room sized cars carrying just one person. Wild!
Also been an 18% increase in road accidents.

Just post pandemic recklessness?
You say that like there’s only one time Apple has flubbed hard with mice…
Maybe look into a wine cooler/fridge. Adjustable units top out around 65f.
A researcher over here at UNC has identified a marker for folks who don't get potential therapeutic effects from psilocybin https://news.unchealthcare.org/2022/07/unc-research-reveals-...
So many people quit the industry during covid, you can't ramp that back up in even 5 years without major compromise.
Amazing work and a very entertaining read. Thank you for sharing!
ATC makes extensive use of automation for scheduling, queuing, etc. The hard manual parts are what remain: communicating with pilots over unreliable channels, handling unpredictable scenarios and emergencies, and maintaining spatial awareness for the airport and the tower's area of control.
"At the moment" is the key phrase. It remains to be seen if they will turn out to be the Nokia of the car world or Samsung.
Empower has been a package of software from a scientific instrument vendor for decades now.

Bad choice in that respect.
I would believe so, anything tied to that account goes poof.
>Rapid Changes in Dopamine Levels Guide Our Behavior.
Study measured dopamine levels while participants played computer game during deep brain stimulation surgery.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/rapid-c...

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>How Subsecond Changes in Brain Dopamine Levels Impact Human Behavior

https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/how...
> There's a reason why JPEG and PNG are so popular: because they ARE stable and unchanging

PNG is on version 1.2
Until we have formal verification that works across an API boundary where the parties are at different companies or much more extensive than usual test suites, changes to one end of an API endpoint will pass all manner of testing and still fail a customer use case. On Sunday afternoon in industries that ship over the weekend and start working again on Sunday.
Oh, that makes perfect sense. I assumed there was a valid reason, and that makes far more sense than anything I could think of offhand.
> To be able to zero in on what turned out to be a single faulty part and then trace the entire provenance and environment that led to that defective part entering service speaks to the robustness of the industry.

And to be able to reconstruct the chain of events after the components in question have exploded and been scattered throughout south-east Asia is incredible.
Your government id card is not widely adopted as method of authentification, i guess. This is where this new pass key approach comes in. My concern is, that this new method might completely replace old fashioned passwords. And once every one is used to have a hardware token, the next step of only accepting or selling government approved devices is a small one. This could could ultimately make anonymity impossible. Because you dont control the hardware or the spec.

Imagine being required to have and use your govID for simply everything, because there is no alternative.

This is not a risk of secure authentification, which passwords can also provide.

$Corps loved to harvest phone numbers as a second factor despite a second fall back email address would be at least as secure as SS7 communication. But phone numbers are tied more strongly to your identity so more valuable for the data brokers.

This is the same thing actually. Tieing identity to something you have and not something you alone know. Something external.

Having a single external dependency for all your identities sounds like a good idea to you? For facists and data brokers it certainly does.

To me, this is an attack on anonymity and i know that i sound paranoid. Lets wait for the enshitening.
It’s worth pointing out that there are also plenty of airliner crashes that are attributed to pilot error.
>I don't really see much difference with some counterfactual world (or with some hypothetical person) where I find it worth my time to watch, but not worth (my time + $50) to buy it on ebay and watch. Or (my time + $120) to get the UHD one.

Well value is subjective. You couldn't pay some people to consume certain media and other have people spending hundreds on virtual skins.

That's all the invisible hand is about. Finding the sweet spot and accepting that some will not value what is offered. Or at all.

>The people who most caused the company to shut down would be people like me that just weren't interested in the thing at all, a

Sure, but at the same time you aren't their paying audience. Why should you be frustrated when a company metaphorically locks their door? As a thief that is just a basic expectation of the "job". Find an easier target or get better tools. If people didn't steal to the point where it impacted business, the act of selling door locks wouldn't be a million dollar industry. That now extends to the digital realm.

I can sympathize with greedy practices, but I don't know how you expect someone to bemoan your lack of ability to obtain free media (especially when there's ALREADY so much free media out there).

>I would love for all of these media companies to go out of business though so they would stop pushing for treacherous computing.

Don't like it, don't buy it. I don't like making that dismissal but I also don't line imposing my personal will on society. Which you're doing at this point. There will be people who just want convinence over free media and companies found an audience. Adapt to that or find media you do want to support.

Or just steal, I guess. Again, I don't care. Just don't be pompous about it like youre defending the integrity of software.
iMessage is Apple's proprietary chat protocol. It's still named that -- for instance in iMessage apps and iMessage stickers. "Messages" is the current name of the user facing app that speaks both iMessage and SMS, which was formerly named "Text" when it just used SMS. I think you're thinking of the defunct iChat message client on macOS.
Well you don't know it's a real problem until it cannot be ignored.
Yes but they claim it runs on Linux when it runs on Systemd.
>uncertain of their objectivity.

How do you deal with something that is objectively therapeutic?

If you ask me about the benefits of isometric exercises, you're going to get something that will make you question my objectivity, because I'm not at all objective about it. I had chronic upper back pain for a decade, that got so bad at one point I could barely get out of bed. An osteopath gave me "super ibuprofen" and isometric exercises, and the isometrics literally, over night, cured my back pain. In the 25 years since, whenever I've started getting a little sore, I've done them again and been back to normal.
People did continue to drive though. At least where I was. Please continue trying to rewrite history.
Judging by the way motorcyclists in the bay area drive, "obsession with safety" is about the last thing I'd accuse them of. They're some of the worst offenders for weaving and doing dangerous stuff in crowded traffic conditions.
3 pci slots in the photo and two in the specs. Am I to understand it’s 2 @8 and 1 @16?
of course they can't be, because google's RCS encryption extensions are proprietary and they've refused interop.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-t...

people forget that google has every interest in playing up the situation, and perversely this incentivizes them to refuse compromise or half-measures that might actually improve user experience. It's in google's interest for your apple<->google experience to be as poor as possible too, not just apple.
> it's a "low impact" dependency in terms of side affects and complexity.

I wish that were true in my experience. But we have struggled to support {macOS, Windows, Linux} x {x86_64, arm64} with JavaFX and one .jar for our application.

This is a 250-line diff, not a 4-line diff: https://github.com/ra4king/CircuitSim/pull/93/files. We have to manually manage .dlls and .sos by hand.

If you know a solution that is 4 lines, we would be very grateful. All we want is one .jar with JavaFX in it that supports many OSs and architectures.
Should I call you or nudge you?

I had to get a wiser roommate to explain that one. So naive.
The cost in human lives and misery of these larger vehicles is...staggering

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tall-trucks-suvs-are-45-dea...

https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safet...
While I applaud the effort would A controller for disabled people work?

Doesn't what works depend on the disability the person has?
The Science of "Muddling Through" [pdf]
> shallower pools of capital

Why do you think all the capital is allocated in the US? Because we don't smother as many companies to death

> It’s no more difficult to start a tech company in Europe than it is in the US, and it’s generally no more onerous to grow it,

This is an extremely bizarre claim.
Microsoft banned controllers that they didn’t license. Microsoft-licensed 3rd-party controllers are still allowed.
One of the common charges that Christians were prosecuted for was atheism.
Penn loses $100M donation over antisemitism hearing
Waveterm
this is a great general tip for salting or seasoning something dry
Isn't the time for the generous qualifiers long past? Such, often, can, our protection, unfortunately, skepticism... There is a good track record by now. Something like:

"under the guise of protecting trade secrets and swear words in the code, the code encryption actually protects crappy code stuffed with vulnerabilities (i.e. future entry points available to the right friends and foes) and backdoors (some forgotten and some very much not)". And in this case "future" was a while ago.
> "Jewish adopted family structure"

What? I don't think that had anything to do with Christianity becoming a political force. Citation, please.
Reply hazy, concentrate and ask again.
The XuanTie C920 cores in the SOPHGO SG2042 are an older design without support for Bitmanip, cryptography or Vector 1.0. You could compile especially for it though, and take advantage of T-Head's proprietary ISA extensions and the draft version of Vector supported, but it would still be far from comparable to a Zen core.
> Anyway, I was always confused that Graham called this "bottom-up programming," because he explicitly goes top-down. He discovers a need at a higher level ("As you're writing a program you may think 'I wish Lisp had such-and-such an operator'") and then he drops down to the lower level to provide it ("So you go and write it"). To me this is opposite of the approach that says you start at the bottom and implement a Platonic ideal of the domain, without first explicitly considering the needs of the program.

This sums up why I've never really understood this essay. I agreed with the technique but was mystified by why it was called bottom up programming when you first had to approach the problem top down to discover what you needed to implement.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BACNK6rbJioVWT1DA

Hard to hear for about 10-20 seconds but it's I Want It That Way. There's remixes that are kiiiiind of similar but nothing that's exactly the same, I've found.
also check out DaveSeah.com > The printable CEO series of templates

the compact calendar, and emergent task planner have been my favorites
The successors to the classical Roman Empire shaped the surviving narrative, from the linked article:

By putting a stop to its use as a quarry for building materials, Benedict’s intervention rescued the Colosseum, as Edward Gibbon recognised.

Gibbon was somewhat sceptical about the centrality of the Colosseum, ‘a spot which persecution and fable had stained with the blood of so many Christian martyrs’, to early Christian history.

Despite the stories of Christians thrown to the lions so often repeated there is no solid evidence that any Christian martyr actually died in Rome’s Colosseum.

Or, putting it another way, there's a lot of writing from Roman times and not much evidence that Christians as a group were specifically singled out for persecution any more than any other group that was not the ruling elite.
>There's a weird standard established in this post

This post is just restating Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, but in way too many words and with a bit more of a polemic bent that makes it slightly less accurate than it could have been.

The trick is separating "people there to drive an organization's goals forward" (or 'innovator') and "people there to advance the power of the organization" (or 'bureaucrat'). You need to protect the first group of people from the second group of people- the more protected they are, the more productive your nation... to a point. There have been many attempts at this- this is the key insight behind Marxist thought, after all (the fact that it ends in complete ideological capture 100% of the time is positive proof that the optimal amount of "parasitic load" on a society is not zero, and that you actually need competent leaders else you get taken over by unremovable, unaccountable grifters).

Recent examples of this class's parasitic excess and non-accountability are left as an exercise for the reader.

Of course, the post is also wrong in another way: these parasites actually do have a weakness. They get fed to a conquering society by the productive if they perceive the parasitic load the enemy would impose on them is less than the one imposed by the domestic parasites. The fact that societies capable of conquering any Western nation are in short supply doesn't change the fact that, historically (and even still today, in some parts of the world) this is how it has always been.
Sounded like the solution was to tell them that they've been out-ranked. That's the part that was missing from the text conversation. After that, of course they'll be meek.
People are seriously concerned with aircraft near misses when we let cars kill 45,000 Americans a year. Absurdity.
In Praise of Repair Culture
I get what you’re saying but that’s not really true, is it? You can ignore social injustice, economic inequality and environmental harm but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem. In fact, one might even argue that just because the decision makers can ignore a certain problem, it doesn’t necessarily mean it isn’t impossible to ignore by a large swathe of the population.
It’s possible to be concerned about two things?
In Pre-Sculley Apple, Steve Jobs was also likewise known to have been manipulative, worked people against each other and being a total dick to get his way.

The visionary assh*le Silicon Valley founder/CEO has been, to a large extent, right or wrong, the reason for SV's reign as the pre-eminent global tech hub.
Amazon Cuts Ties with Riverside's Cheech Museum
Much of your question depends on defining "human-level" and AGI. AI is already better at humans at a number of specific tasks. That will only continue to broaden over time until it all aggregates into something that doesn't exist yet but I suspect will look a lot like a multi-modal digital super human. Attempts will be made to slow or deter the effects of technological advances but the evolutionary process will march on nonetheless.
Sure, I was talking about the workaround mentioned here:

> You can also invoke any arbitrary executable [https://chriskiehl.com/article/gooey-as-a-universal-frontend], not just python, which is pretty handy.

Rhetorics aside, you can use Gooey for any CLI tool using a small Python glue (pardon the pun) code, so it was not a flat out lie.
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Beside the technical approach I make sure that the future leaders in your team understand why the business is important, how to speed up delivery, where to cut corners and when to focus on quality.

I help shaping engineering cultures.

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Thanks for the advice - hopefully it helps others. For me, it happens infrequently enough that I am unlikely to remember anything specific for the situation. I never select multiple tabs otherwise.
When I was still in college I got an internship at a local startup. One day, the other SWE and I went to lunch with a former coworker of the other SWE, and he told a story about how he worked on a team for YEARS that ended up not creating anything of value. I forget if the software just wasn’t needed in the end or what, but I remember thinking “damn, that must be really rare”… fast forward 8 years, I’ve now been on a similar team. The job was lax as fuck, like I worked maybe 8 hours A WEEK, but it was still somehow soul-crushing. What little work I did do, I knew it was garbage and wouldn’t live to see production use. The team was laid off a few months ago and I assume the code is in the garbage. Somehow I wish I worked even less than I did.