skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the impact of their manufacture?

Also when you try to price externalities purely by charging for disposal, you get illegal dumping.
> he does take it easy in his Model S. He does not drive the car for long distances without giving it and himself a break. He says he only covers about 62 miles at a time before pausing for a while. [...] For starters, the owner is retired.

Article also says 130.000 miles per year average, that's 360 miles per day. That alone is 6 breaks per day assuming he drives 7 days per week. The guy is practically half his life in the car (like a truck driver).
Even with it disabled sometimes you're still locked into this UEFI mess that I certainly didn't order.

I love my thinkpad p1 g3 more than most laptops but I miss having a simple BIOS. Stupid thing can't boot off normal USB keys like I've been making for decades.
There's a rumour that GPT-4 runs every query either 8x or 16x in parallel, and then picks the "best" answer using an additional AI that is trained for that purpose.
What AI does isn't painting.
Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP
It's broken on so many levels at the moment that it's unreal. Try asking Bard what model is it based on right now and you'll get all sorts of imaginable answers from PaLM2 to LaMDA to a "mixture of models" alongside the Gemini Pro, and sometimes it reverts back to "I can't really tell because the model is undisclosed, blah...". And later on in the chat you wonder why is its code examples so bad, and you ask it again about its model, and it's been reverted back to PaLM2/LaMDA again. sigh

Does not look promising at the moment, especially when you can't tell whether it's hallucinating, if it's even really Gemini Pro or not, because it can literally "change its mind" on "what it is" mid-session.

Not like this, Google AI.
Is it very valid if they hired you as a remote employee to start with?
What about running your own db instance in a cloud VM? Do you really want to do all the infra management? I've done it and it isn't fun--well it can be making soup-to-nuts IaC recipies, but I wouldn't say it was a good use of my dev/ops working hours.
>Finding stuff is a common problem

Finding stuff was a common problem 30 years ago too. The rate of change was much lower then leading people to memorize the interfaces better.

I do agree that much of it is deliberate sabotage, but in that case, it's not broken software at all, 'bad' may be in the eyes of the beholder. What it is, is greedy evil software attempting to maximize the amount of profit it can extract from you. They only way to can fix evil greedy software is by not buying it, and instead buying non-greedy non-evil software. But that doesn't even work because many of these platforms feed on attention and not cash. Again, none of this is a conspiracy, it's all out in the open. We have 2 cell phone manufactures, there is no completion there. Windows and MacOS aren't really much competition to each other. Social media is all about stealing as much as possible.

Oddly enough I don't blame the manufauctures. Us the consumer are willing to bend over and take this crap, so why shouldn't they shovel it to us?
He can't understand explain their popularity.

He then immediately goes on to entirely understand and then explain their popularity.

"Sylvan said he thought the product might have some limited appeal to people who would normally go Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts or other coffee chains in the morning, because now they could get a cup of coffee at work that was cheaper, faster, and no fuss."

Yea.. you _nailed_ it. So, what's the problem? Oh:

"As the man who invented them, Sylvan might have been pleased with their popularity. But he left the company in 1997, selling his ownership of the product for $50,000."

Ah.. this isn't so much a "lack of understanding" as it is a defense mechanism against sour grapes.

Then they both go on to wring their hands over this "unsolvable" issue. Meanwhile, reusable K-Cup pods exist, work just fine, and entirely eliminate the "problem" here.

This article isn't designed to inform, it's designed to fruitlessly whine.
a good reason to move to DuckDB I guess?
ESP32C3 has great Rust support too.
This is on the right track but not entirely right. In your F = a1x + a0, here a0 is a force, not a position, so you cannot neglect it on the basis of "default position." Instead you set it to zero because the system is at a stable equilibrium.

Here's the presentation I've seen. Usually we like to work in potentials, not forces, because potentials are nice scalar functions, while force is an ugly vector function. So say you have a potential V which is at a local minimum at position x.

Expand the potential at x around a small displacement dx: V(x + dx). This gives us the Taylor series V(x+dx) = V(x) + a1 V'(x) dx + a2 V''(x) dx^2 + a3 V'''(x) dx^3...

We can neglect V(x) since it's just a constant, and adding a constant to the potential does not affect the physics. And (the crux) we can neglect V'(x) because the potential is at a minimum, so the derivative is zero.

That leaves the quadratic and higher-order terms. Neglecting the higher order terms on the basis that dx is small, we get the harmonic potential, or Hooke's Law in the language of forces.
On the surface it sounds good. But imagine regulatory capture of this mechanism, now corporate interests could weaponize it to prevent products of competing companies from even being authorized.
I just wish we never would have stigmatized instant-coffee.

I drink a pot of coffee a day from my Moccamaster, but when I'm travelling I would much rather have instant coffee than use one of those flavorless, stale pods.

Instant coffee stores better and is better for the environment. Snobs let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
in what way is that interesting
It depends on when this happened. It's two years after you reach the age of majority, which was 20 for a long time but is now 18. Since 2022 you have until 20 to decide, down from 22 previously: https://www.moj.go.jp/EN/MINJI/minji06.html
It’s almost like the progression of a half-life
Google is repeating its mistake when they first introduced Bard.
Why not get a normal espresso machine or automatic coffee machine? Why would you ever want to coffee pods?
To my point, the United States basically threw in the towel in 1970 despite the director of ORNL calling it the facilities greatest technical achievement. The only reason uranium won out over thorium was because the waste was weapons grade and useful during the cold war. Unlike the US, China has very little in the way of domestic uranium supplies - but incidentally has massive thorium stockpiles from its monazite mining.

I think it is naive to assume that an operation with effectively limitless funding led by the former director of CERN has only managed to clone a 50 year old research project without any advancements. Maybe a better perspective is that that given the strategic value they just aren't sharing the details with the rest of the world.
I have considered Oracle and MS to be competing for the title of new IBM.
Maybe MS is shaking it off with their AI innovation, but I think a lot of that is just lipstick.
I'm not convinced one "cannot" do it with an existing programming language, as the link states.

I agree that the ergonomics of a languaged planned for that is better. But the argument that it's *only* possible with a purposeful language doesn't hold, in my opinion.

Afaik, the AWS CDK allows to express both preflight and inflight in JS, Python, and others, and it works well. Again, the CDK gives an arguably worse experience, but not "impossible"...
That sounds less convenient than putting in a disposable paper filter into a machine and dumping grounds into it, adding water, then brewing 4-6 cups at once.

Maybe you have to wait a little longer, but you don't have to worry about cleaning and adding grounds.
Wouldn’t you lose, for example, streaming capabilities once you use Celery? You would have to first upload the whole video, then enqueue the job, and then figure out a mechanism to send the thumbnails back to that client, while with FLAME you get a better user experience by streaming thumbnails as soon as the upload starts.

I believe the main point though is that background workers and FLAME are orthogonal concepts. You can use FLAME for autoscaling, you can use Celery for durability, and you could use Celery with FLAME to autoscale your background workers based on queue size. So being able to use these components individually will enable different patterns and use cases.
This seems to be about how making a living as a painter is difficult.

I've often thought that drawing or painting is difficult for ego reasons. Few things demonstrate my incompetence to myself better than failing to draw something. There is nothing I aspire to do that would be more uncomfortable than drawing or painting a self portrait. For these reasons, I've often thought about trying, but I'm scared.
What would be a reasonable percentage then? And how to determine it without a frame of reference?
AMD p/e is 900 vs 60 for NVDA, so investors already heavily invested into AMD future.
Do you flip user stories too?
The Chicago police department gets more annual funding than fusion (in 2012), according to that graph. Wild.
But, who do you think sanctions this stuff in the first place? I think it's an insane expectation to think that government would sanction itself, when it is also requesting and enabling the ability to spy on citizens!

I think you've read the government's self promotional material, and believe it - that it's trying to do the best for its citizens, keep people safe, etc as opposed to seeing it for what it is, which is a mafia exploration racket that keeps it's major beneficiaries out of public view.
Does anyone know Akkadian cuneiform?
Can someone verify if the text generated by GPT-4 Turbo in cuneiform is not a random rubbish?

Here is the conversation with GPT-4, "3 goats" are consistent in both answers but are those cuneiforms really in Akkadian?

Translate to Akkadian cuneiform "three goats". Do not explain anything, just output requested cuneiform text.
𒈾𒄑𒈾

Translate to Akkadian cuneiform "Asure stole three goats". Do not explain anything, reply with cuneiform only.
𒀀𒋗𒊬 𒈾𒄑𒈾 𒉺𒋫𒀀𒈾
Is this similar to the Python `magic-wormhole` tool to transfer files from one machine to another? I can’t quite grok what this accomplishes.
Quite a good short opportunity, if true
FWIW the README is excellent. Background, goals, and comparisons.

Also lol

> Q: Why didn't you write this in $NEW_LANGUAGE instead of crufty C++?

> A: I probably should have! $NEW_LANGUAGE is deservedly attracting a lot of attention for its combination of safety, readable syntax, and support for modern programming paradigms. I've been trying out $NEW_LANGUAGE and want to write more code in it. But for this I chose C++ because it's supported on all platforms, lots of people know how to use it, and it still supports high-level abstractions (unlike C.)
It works with it but it should be made more convenient. I will have a look :)
Starbucks tried to bring it back, but they didn't want to eat into their bottom line, so their offerings were high quality but expensive.
We've been building tokamaks for many decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak#1980s:_great_hope,_gre...
The overjustification effect doesn't occur if the extrinsic reward is a surprise or isn't known/expected in advance.

So there are ways to improve it.

I'm actually toying with going back into consulting for fun, in which case I've been thinking of essentially providing clients with payment details to a separately managed account and asking that they pay what they think my services are worth (or what they would have paid a competitor), and directing the management of that account to invest it for retirement.

There's value in having people pay for a thing because they then value it more than if it were free, but I don't want to know about it and my not knowing would allow me to take or reject business based on how much I think I'll enjoy the project or not.

This only works with it being a side gig for me, but luckily I'd have the freedom to keep it as that.

But yes, it's extremely hard in general to avoid the overjustification effect, and it's not very well known at all despite being quite destructive.
> Isn't that a manifestation of risk aversion? If you're risk-averse, you tend to play it safe. If you're not, you're eager to try risky things for the possibility of big rewards.

The point is that pessimism directly leads to behavior that looks like risk aversion, regardless of whether or not there is actual risk to avert. Risk aversion by itself is typically associated with decisions that can be made based on actual data about risk. The pessimistic person defaults to the "risk averse" stance without even understanding the risk (regardless of whether the risk is even calculable or worthy of considering).

> Pessimism might be a more successful strategy for those wanting that middle class lifestyle.

I'm not following the logic here. Someone can be optimistic about life, and still prefer a middle class lifestyle. You can also be optimistic and risk averse.

Setting that aside, there are some interesting papers that explore this [0], and I'd strongly recommend looking at Martin Seligman's original research in the 70s about Learned Helplessness [1], which has a close connection with pessimism, or conversely, a lack of optimism.

Interestingly, optimism is a skill that can be learned/conditioned much like pessimism, which points at their function as default orientations vs. neutral tools to be applied. In other words, if you're a pessimistic person, you will make decisions based on that orientation, often without even having any awareness of the impact of your pessimistic defaults.

This is quite different from a data-driven risk averse decision.

- [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807005/

- [1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/163862/learned-opti...
A real coffee machine almost certainly makes better quality, but requires more effort. A pod based system makes mediocre to decent coffee easily and consistently. And in a small amount.

Using a drip coffee machine usually means making way more coffee than I'll drink, even though I'd love to own a machine named Mr. Coffee.
Interesting, I didn't realize there was a Mormon Youtuber schtick and look. What else is part of the schtick?
A lot of pro-office people, or just people in general that I know, would go insane if they didn't have people nearby to talk to every half hour or so. That seems the most compelling reason most of the time.
Yeah, and it should (somehow) involve javascript/wasm and Big YAML.
Well, not just _other_ strings.
Is Google's Gemini Legit?
Yeah I don't get it, I have used a pour over for like my entire adult life. Can do a single cup or pot. Takes a few minutes to grind the beans and heat the water.

The only way this sort of stuff stops if you hit all plastic production with a hefty tax to reflect the actual true total-cost-of-ownership including recycling and the inevitable failure to recycle.. The externality cost is near infinite - once it hits the ecosystem it isn't really possible to remove and causes long term health impact to all future civilization but I'd settle for like 10xing the price..
It's not theater, it's very real. Companies are making decisions to not use data generated from openai. They are making the decision because they know if they go the other way they know they risk it being leaked via someone internal that they are doing it, that it's pretty easy to figure out during a discovery process. I'm involved in this issue right now, and no one is treating it as something to just blow off. I know several other companies in the same boat.
A lot of consulates don't enforce the choice of nationality. Every time I renew my Japanese passport in the US I need to show proof of lawful residence, which is my American passport. I just get handed a brochure about choosing and it doesn't get brought up again until the next renewal.
If you set the bar low enough, there's no limits to how happy you can be!

I have more lifehacks for you if you want :)
Wouldn't this invalidate the FCC certification on the prebuilt modules? You'd have to get certified with this firmware to ensure you aren't violating transmission power requirements.

Admittedly, this is a non-issue for hobby scale projects, but is potentially a blocker for commercial applications.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily a bad thing, but worth discussion.
> The only reason uranium won out over thorium was because the waste was weapons grade and useful during the cold war.

This is such a common myth that it inspired me to write a whole thorium myths page to explain how and why it's not true, back in 2014: https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html#myth1

Happy to discuss more but I've said a lot on that page.
Twitter as a reaction to more restrictive moderation policies doesn't really surprise me. Like I see little reason in censoring some of the comments to this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548531

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548342

This looks more like people making views they don't like or agree with invisible rather than the posts breaking specific guidelines.
Now this should go without saying, but when browsing through these search engines and the sites within them, please respect the people running these sites. You're stepping on their part of the world, not yours, and as such, you will find stuff that you won't necessarily jibe with—or you'll encounter fringe content that, to put it lightly, has a very niche audience; but despite this, respect these people's personal spaces and browse at a distance. I'm pretty sure Westerners already have an abysmal reputation over there due to moral policing (à la Twitter/Tumblr) those who are literally minding their own business—in a completely different continent no less. So don't make things worse for those who are already making an effort in disconnecting from those places where people who would harass them are rampant.

What?
"$35/Mo for 500 MAU, up from $23/mo for 1,000"
I'm my experience, the blood tests for Celiac are also used for Gluten Intolerance.

If a blood test for Celiac is positive, the biopsy is negative, and nothing else can account for your symptoms, and removing gluten improved your symptoms, then you end up in the Gluten Intolerant category.
Yeah but where do you park the ferry when you arrive at work?
I don't think the API does what you think. The realtime data just does not exist for "all trains across the European continent".
You do care if you built your business on top of them though.

And that's the whole point of violating terms by competing with them.
Consistency is/was one of the main selling points of starbucks. They famously burn their espresso shots, which leads to a more consistent flavor.
I take it as the same reason they don’t want to use boring technology like HAProxy, or why they think infrastructure in general is beneath them: because they are easily influenced by breathless grifters on Medium promoting the New Thing.

SQL isn’t going away any time soon. At its heart, it’s relational algebra. If you can learn DS&A, you can learn relational algebra.
Most of my posts here have been satirical or exaggerated. Among those not so has been my aphorism that DeepMind can train a new model faster than you can go back to grad school.
You‘d have went back to school for computer science for a Masters‘ degree and by the time you slithered out of that box, AlphaCode 2 slithered out of its box and into your cubicle. No more space for you!
Yeah. Some examples of niche content would be interesting.
Note also that paper filters are recyclable and compostable.
I'm not OP, but I still feel kind of confused by people saying that ChatGPT is a 100% equivalent replacement for search engines. I'm not saying that LLMs aren't extremely impressive in their current stage, but that the use cases for the two are different, at least for me. In my mind, LLMs seem to be more useful for open-ended questions, problem solving, and formulating questions that wouldn't be suited for a search engines. But when I use Google, I'm usually not looking for answers, but specific places on the internet. If I need to find an email of a professor at my university, or a Github page for a project, or the official website of some software I need - I don't see why I'd need to replace Google with an LLM for it.
Chaos Communication Congress tickets still available
Lots of Amiga concepts live on today with DragonflyBSD.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/

And it’s shockingly performant (on par with Linux, sometimes even better), given the tiny development team.

Messaging passing, etc are core Amiga ideas that exist today only in Dfly.
I think it should be more of a Department of Growth and Global Scale. Most things are fine to make thousands of, maybe even millions. It's when you start shipping billions of units, or when it becomes part of the social infrastructure, that you need to pay close attention to these externalities and secondary effect. But of course you need to do that before you get to that point, so you build the right tooling and processes and designs to benefit all of civilization and creation.
Interesting fact:

> In China, instant coffee accounts for more than 50% of the Chinese coffee market, compared to only around 8% in the U.S.

https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/29/chinas-instant-coffee...

I don't drink much coffee at all but I love using instant coffee to make coffee-flavored things.
All 3 of your examples are ad-driven free platforms for finding content that the platform didn't produce. Free platforms are incentivized to overwhelm you with options, forcing you to look at everything, including ads. Like a grocery store or Ikea, they don't want you to make a quick in-and-out visit. They want you to look at everything they have in hopes that you'll be impulsive.

You want pretty much the opposite: a tool. Tools let you quickly and efficiently accomplish a task. No distractions. When you're done, you're done.

The paths to salvation that I see:

- Pay for tools that work well when they're available. I can't speak for them myself, but I know people who swear by <https://kagi.com/> for ad-free web searches.*

- Put time and effort into your own tools. For example, you can setup and run your own search engine. Although, if you're willing to put in that effort you might put effort into hijacking and cleaning up the interfaces of free platforms instead.

- Vote and campaign for interoperability laws to enable others to put effort into hijacking and cleaning up bad interfaces.

*Surprisingly, interfaces don't get much better when you pay for video and music streaming services. I think that comes down to how most people use them. Most people don't open Netflix knowing what they want to watch. They open Netflix knowing that they're going want to watch something, and hoping to find something entertaining.