skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no reason other countries couldn't do that

Yes, there are. A simple example is Latin America. Americans are willing to risk a recession, which predominantly falls on the poor, to stave off inflation. We’re slow to regulate and quick to let immigrate (even if we sing a song and dance about it, constantly) in a way most polities won’t tolerate. These come at costs that aren’t bearable for many, including in America. But the counterpoint is a tremendous capacity to reorganise and marshal resources.
It will try to do this, but certainly unable to do this for all cases, such as

func foo(constFunc func(*[100000]int)) {
for a, i := [100000]int{}, 0; i < len(a); i++ {
constFunc(&a)
}
}

in which, the big array a will be duplicated at each step.

Performance downgrade is just one problem, the most serious problem is it will break some code, such as https://gotipplay.golang.org/p/srBxORL4bm__b. The code outputs differently with 1.22 and 1.22-.
3 phases give you three times amount the power as 1-phase with only 4 wires (instead of 2 in a single phase, or 3x the thickness).
> Nobody would fault the LH pilot for a similar judgement call

Bad analogy. The LH pilot's reason for asking for an ILS approach was company policy; he made no claim that he was unable to make a visual landing safely because of actual conditions, only that his company wouldn't allow him to make a visual landing as a matter of policy.

> ATC was in the wrong here and the attitude displayed was neither called for nor professional.

Many other posters in this discussion have pointed out aspects of the situation that make it clear that it wasn't that simple.
I don’t know the humidity of salt mines. I just know that paper is a weak format for permanent storage. Chiseled stone lasts far longer, possibly forever in the right conditions, but it’s impractical for records.

Perhaps records only need to last lifetime + 70. That should make storage concerns a lot easier.
That is how it works: it's regression to the mean. If you expect a major hurricane every n years and you didn't have one this year, the expected likelihood of one next year (1/n) is greater than what you actually got this year (0).

If the non-hurricane damage is independent, then you expect $(1/n * cost of major hurricane) additional costs next year. In a major hurricane year, you expect (1-n)/n fewer such hurricanes next year. And therefore you expect less expensive damage.

One could debate whether "likely to be worse" is correct. If there's a a major hurricane every 10 years, there's only a 10% chance of it happening next year. The expected value of the damage is higher, but it's still "unlikely" (as in, less than 50%) to happen at all. So it's expected to be worse, but unless there's over 50% chance of a major hurricane per year, it's not likely to be worse.

If year-to-year hurricanes are also independent, then knowing that there was or was not a hurricane this year, it's also no more or less likely that a major hurricane occurs next year then it was looking forward to this year, as of this time last year. But, I don't know if that is an independent thing.
Inflation doesn’t account for 5x increase in the last 20 years.

Asking questions is good, but some of you should actually make an effort to answer your own questions.

Knowing nothing else, do you have enough common sense to figure out if your pet theory actually makes sense?

Have you simply tried comparing inflation rates with the rates of reported damage?

Seriously, try it. Critical thinking start with your own conjecture.
I understand the ridicule that the EU gets sometimes, and especially so when trying to regulate stuff like AI where it seems the EU wants to regulate more than to create start ups etc...

But this is one thing the EU just nailed the hammer into the wood immediatly, and rightly so.

I can't even remember the time it was. Maybe 2013? 2014? They just set a standard and everyone, even Tesla, adopted it.

Every single EV can plug into every charger. Whether it's a public one, a private at the office, a Tesla supercharger or a home charger at your home. Plug and go!

Glad to see NA finally agrees on a standard now. This can only help EV adoption. Especially given the sorry state of other chargers than Tesla's over there.
Well yes and no. If you price in operations, wages and other overheads and a modest margin you will typically land just there. Sure, it depends a lot on the thing, and that multiplier is only the lower limit. If you create a butique guitar fuzz pedal that consists of five parts that multiplier can easily be much higher, especially if you somehow convince people to pay for that.

But if it was any lower you will sell at a loss unless you sell huge numbers.
I disagree it’s “overhyped”. I feel like there’s a fairly correct understanding in the market of its uses and limitations. That hype cycle occurred decades ago
Oh I know, it's not a condemnation of EVs the technology. The actual technology is amazing. It's just that companies can't seem to get out of their own way and our government is completely inept at forcing everyone to be less shitty.
Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
There are lots of great places to build cities in America. Mostly, they are the places where older cities are languishing. Probably the best-sited city in the country is Chicago: abundant fresh water, massive untapped wind energy resources, inland navigation, moderate risk of natural disasters. Same for Cleveland, Detroit, etc. Most of the places we've been building for the last 50 years are the places with the worst disaster risks and the fewest natural advantages, like Houston and Miami.
The difference is immense between an Oyster or EZCard and a Suica.

The EZCard and Oyster gates often have lines because of how long it takes for the gates to recognize the EZCard; you'll have people queuing up to get into the station. They as a bottleneck where the flow of traffic is interrupted and slowed down to below walking speed.

This is important as it disrupts flow and public transit during rush hour and is unacceptable. You can see for instance in this video, when people are tapping their cards they are slowing down and waiting for the transaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXkKDw3WWU

With Suica/Apple Wallet/NFC-F, there is 0 stoppage or slowing down. You can approach the pace of the gates at walking speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6GrIQT58ak

This makes a BIG difference for how many people can enter the station at once. With Suica/NFC-F you've essentially removed the station gates as a barrier for traffic flow, whereas with Oyster/EZCard (and EZCard being a HUGE offender) you're introducing barriers to traffic.

It may not matter if you're not at a huge station and you have tons of time, but imagine people constantly filing out of Shinjuku station during rush hour and having to queue up on the stairs outside of the gates just to get in - the delay is unacceptable and a human health hazard. When rush hour happens and someone's card is declined, the second or so it takes for them to back out creates a huge jam and crowding. During large events (for instance, people trying to file in/out of stations for performances), this is especially a problem when people don't have enough money on their cards.

In addition to the latency, Suica & these other IC cards also start the process at a further distance, and also work better through wallets/card holders. EZCards are especially bad at that (and won't work through pretty much anything). This reduces the friction required to take the card out, as people can just tap their whole wallet and it'll go through multiple credit cards as well.

The whole goal is to create a smooth process where you can walk through transit gates without stopping or slowing down, and Oyster and EZCards fail at doing that.

Oyster cards and EZCards are fine low traffic transit solutions but the requirement for walking speed not to be interrupted is why they aren't feasible in Japan. EZCards are especially terrible, as they pretty much need to contact the reader to scan. It's painful to see people coming out of the trains in Taiwan and having to line up to leave the station.
Sure? It’s just weird to set the precedent that opening up your standard means you’re now a monopolist.
AlphaZero has been made for perfect information games. That said, the Monte Carlo Tree Search in the library can be run with any agent that implements a value and policy function. So, while the AlphaZeroAgent in agents.py wouldn't fit the problem you are describing, implementing something like Meta's ReBeL (https://ai.meta.com/blog/rebel-a-general-game-playing-ai-bot...) shouldn't be an impossible task. The Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm in mcts.py has been written to be modular from the start exactly to do something like this!
I bet large firms like Renaissance and Citadel are using LLMs to analyze SEC filings and other textual data. The results will not be published.
No. Much longer. And it depends massively on battery size too since they vary quite a bit more than gas tank sizes.

https://insideevs.com/reviews/516438/tesla-supercharger-comp...
On the other hand, there are A LOT more volkswagens and audis in europe (and even some porsches) than teslas. Add seat, opel and škoda to this, and the number is even higher.
https://imgur.com/hiUqXuK
>> Owning the charging network is a nice hedge against losing the battle to become one of the platforms.

Charging networks are IMHO not a viable long term business model. Building out a "platform" to sell commodity electrons is utterly stupid. Nobody wants the stupid app, they want to charge at McDonalds along the highway while they grab something to eat.
So it's useless to say that A is wrong, but not because of B as claimed -- A is wrong for other reasons?

That sure does limit discussion, and human reason generally. I mean, what do you suggest instead?
> it's based on the logic of taking away from people who have, and giving to those who don't, which means taking away from those people who found purpose, and giving to those who don't and usually don't seek purpose but instead search for temporarily pleasures like alcohol

I’m with you in your opinion that government shouldn’t try to give people purpose but I think the last part of your argument is an overreach.

You’re conflating purpose with making money. They’re not the same. Counterexample: Vincent van Gogh. His purpose was clearly art but he did not see professional success while alive. If you don’t consider Van Gogh’s purpose to be something like painting or art then I’d suggest you’re not using the word as it is commonly defined.

Also I’d suggest that it’s unfair to paint the poor broadly as not seeking purpose and instead searching for temporary pleasures. I have simultaneously known both an economically struggling person who refrains from drugs and alcohol and a well-to-do person who is a functional alcoholic.

Certainly alcoholism can make people lose money, relationships, etc. But it does not follow that simply abstaining from these things will make one wealthy.
> PoE ultra minimal dongle

I believe this is the future as envisioned by tailscale. Where some kind of key-exchange server is used alongside DNS, and DNS itself uses something like wireguard encryption.
I think that's the point...
Not sure how much margin that Tesla will be making on the charging. I don't think the financial details of these deals have been disclosed. Adding lots of revenue but with no margin doesn't really add value to Tesla.

(Of course, to the extent they get funding from the government or other manufacturers to offset the capex required for building out more stations and chargers, that's great for Tesla & anyone.)
I wasn't able to get podman + docker compose working after they upgraded docker-compose from Python to Go. Does everything work for you with the newest versions?
For background, I have no skin in this game. I use JetBrains IDEs and have the AI plugin disabled, but only because I haven't found it to be helpful.

The issue is simple, though. By making the presence of the plugin mandatory, regardless of its enabled/disabled/active/inactive status, the IDE falls foul of corporate rules against the installation of AI at many organisations.

It doesn't matter how easy it is to deactivate; if an InfoSec rule states no AI software then the whole IDE becomes untouchable.

The response that the installation is mandatory because it is a bundled plugin is both irrelevant and a choice by JetBrains. As long as the AI plugin is installed the IDE is forbidden by those corporate rules. There's no leeway, no persuasion possible, and no mitigations that will satisfy. It really is black and white.
You can say that about every single company and industry.

You would be REALLY worried about your money if you knew how things work inside banks.
> this is where in my opinion the trope of "code for code's sake" comes from.

Some companies still use metrics like LoC to assess employee productivity. In such cases it might become a necessity to write code that's just there in order to look good on the next quarterly evaluation sheet.
I know nothing about economics whatsoever. Until I hear they have trouble seeking a new buyer, I don’t see the “end of an era”.

It’s not like Sony or LG when they stopped releasing phones and laptops.

I rarely see someone with a new Sony TV, now that’s the end of an era.
Device Paradigm
Yeah so the number of billion dollar disasters would normalize as a consequence. Older years would get more and later years less as the currency loses value from the former to the latter. Inflation alone means you'd expect more billion dollar disasters over time.

Someone below points out that inflation alone wouldn't explain the growth though and beyond that someone else notes its adjusted for CPI.
> How do you trademark the exact shape of a Lego brick?

You can trademark a shape, actually. It's called Trade Dress[0], and The Lego Group uses it, too. The Minifig, for example, is registered[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

[1] https://trademarks.justia.com/865/37/n-86537461.html
Probably because the parent comment didn't contain much of substance. "Oh, I'd love to see this with [insert my favorite model here]" doesn't really add a lot to the discussion.

For example, the parent commenter could have talked about the specific attributes of that model that make it superior. I personally am aware that Mixtral is one of the best performing models right now, but is everyone else? Also, does Mixtral need to be uncensored? I've used vanilla Mistral for some...interesting...prompts and had no issues with it moralizing at me.
Some people, yes. Some people also really dislike dense housing. I would suggest more people dislike dense housing than like it.

Given equal opportunity, I would bet most people would choose to live in a ranch style house with land around it than an apartment.
I fail to see the point.
Have companies already changed their name to include AI or GPT in it, just to raise their stockvalue? I‘m looking at you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp !

If not, we don’t have a bubble, yet.
"an idea that can't be expressed as a combination of existing concepts."

The problem is that if an LLM hasn't been pretrained on the specific idea, it won't have a grasp of the what the correct concepts are to make the combination. It will be liable to substitute more "statistically likely" concepts, but since that statistic is based on a training set where the concept didn't exist, its estimation of "likely" is flawed.

One good example is patents: https://nitter.net/mihirmahajan/status/1731844283207229796 LLMs can imitate appropriate prose, but really struggle to maintain semantic consistency when handling new patents for inventions that, by definition, wouldn't have appeared in the training set. But this extends to almost any writing: if you are making especially sophisticated or nuanced arguments, LLMs will struggle to rephrase them accurately.

(Note that GPT-4 is still extremely bad at document summarization, even for uninteresting documents: your Q3 PnL number is not something that appeared in the training set, and GPT-4 is liable to screw it up by substituting a "statistically likely" number.)

In my experience GPT-3.5 is extremely bad at F#: although it can do simple tasks like "define a datatype that works for such-and-such," it is much less proficient at basic functional programming in F# than it is Haskell - far more likely to make mistakes, or even identifiably plagiarize from specific GitHub repos (even my own). That's because there's a ton of Functional Programming 101 tutorials in Haskell, but very few in F#. I am not sure about GPT-4. It does seem better but I haven't tested it as extensively.
Yep. To oversimplify it, you don’t need to change the oil on your previous car. Not your problem anymore.
Nvidia's biggest Chinese competitor unveils cutting-edge new AI GPUs
and conveniently.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR FIND/REPLACE!

runs off into the darkness to spread more knowledge
Renting a home out is not productive. It’s financial capitalism. Is rentier capitalism. There’s no product being made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC
Yeah, I'm with you very much. There's a very clear distinction between "the foundations" of programming/software development, domain-specific expertise, and language/platform expertise. The foundational pieces are pretty much timeless; the platform pieces are ephemeral. Getting good at the foundational pieces ("the maths" as you call it) is a total game changer for being able to sit down with some new/unknown library or codebase and get to a level of understanding quickly.
A Silken Web
Mr. Rockefeller from Standard Oil on line 2.
>Bed sensor is unnecessary to turn off kitchen lights from bed.

"Unnecessary" is entirely a judgement call. Anything more than alligator clips (to make the connection latching) on bare wires to dis/connect the power to the light is arguably "unnecessary".

The whole point of the automation is so you don't have to remember to do it. I'd still have to remember to open the app, or slap the smart button, or whatever. Rolling over to slap the smart button doesn't disrupt my descent to sleep as much as walking out to the kitchen to turn off the light, but it is more disruptive than just falling asleep. This is to say nothing of using a smart speaker, and dealing with the 1-2 punch of waking up enough to say "turn off kitchen lights", and dealing with the consequences that spring from my kids' special sensitivity to my and my wife's voices near bed time.

Again, this isn't for me, but I fully understand the need.
You can't dismiss what's going on as a blip. You may be right, but to be more sure that is the outcome, you have to have at least a healthy level of cynicism and work against these issues. Positive change may be the trend on a long term scale, but it is not a given that it continues.
but that's meaningless, because they're only counting 1billion plus events.
Depends on the EV. A few years back I did a ~400 mile road trip in a Model Y. We had to make one top-up charging stop which took about 15 minutes. We walked to a spot and got a snack while we waited.

A similarly-sized ICE vehicle could have possibly done the trip without a stop, or required a quick 5-minute top-up depending on conditions.

I've done lots of long road trips in ICE vehicles and we usually stop to walk around and stretch for about the same amount of time and with the same frequency as charge stops call for.

If you're trying to shave every minute off of a trip you'd come out behind, but IMO you're a glutton for punishment if you're trying to race through a 1000+ mile road trip without stopping for more than 5 minutes at a time.
I'm surprised that someone as interested in this as you has not followed up to try and see whether Taibbi's worrying thesis has any merit.

He, and Shellenberger and the other writers at "Public" are slowly revealing the outlines of something disturbing. Namely that social media companies take the direction of state surveillance and espionage actors -- including those of foreign (Israeli and Ukrainian secret services) governments, currently considered allies. This is being revealed to be effected through a sinister network of supposed "civil society" NGOs and 501c3s. That's a worrying idea to anyone that considers themself a democrat or a republican (in the non-partisan sense).

If you had followed up on this you would have noticed that although Taibbi rapidly admitted conflating CISA and CIS a further look suggests that the CIS is deeply inter-twined with the DHS and that Taibbi was correct about the CISA's involvement with the EIP. Taibbi is good at admitting his errors and correcting them publicly and rapidly: https://www.racket.news/p/lee-fang-vs-mehdi-hasan-round-2

With regard to the 22 million versus 3000 , Taibbi's co-author Michael Shellenberger notes that:

https://public.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-censorship-karen...

“Stamos & EIP worked to get entire NARRATIVES banned outright,” explained Mike Benz, the State Department official-turned-whistleblower. “Those narratives, by EIP’s own math, had millions of associated posts.”

Taibbi pointed out that the 3,000 number was chosen to hide the full extent of the censorship. “They're playing games with terms like ‘unique original URL,’” tweeted Taibbi, “where more than 1000 tweets can be "collapsed" into one ‘incident.’”

Here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter how many posts they censored. No amount is acceptable.

Again, as stated in my original response to this: yes, the full dump would be ideal, but it is definitely worth considering what Taibbi says. If he's right this needs to be stopped now, if he's wrong then trying to safeguard against the massive abuses and manipulation will not cause harm.
Blaming cultural problems on culture -- yes that's correct.

Use whatever words you'd like if you don't like tech bro as the colloquium. But the intersection of this behavior of end-to-end control and things labeled "tech" and headed by "tech people" is very nearly a sphere.

For the people whose whole shtick is building autonomous systems we are remarkably bad at letting go and letting those systems be autonomous when it benefits the customer.

It's like we all watched Robocop, a film about how terrible it would be if an autonomous system created for the improvement of society at large was programmed to always obey the will of its creators for their personal gain and said, "That's a great idea, I could productize that."
What's the point of replying to any comments? Sometimes people claim to want advice and then cry and whine if its not reaffirming what they already believe. Sometimes people just want to feel smart more than be smart. There was an actual Standard study on this and the difference in output was striking.
ExLlama is GPU only right? This speedup is for GPU + CPU split use cases.
Your insistence on framing people falsely accused of shoplifting as law breakers is telling.
FOSSCAD is different because we're generally printing parts that function near the end of the filament's capabilities. When I'm printing a lower receiver, I need perfect temperature consistency, because uneven cooling will introduce internal tension to the part, reducing its overall strength slightly. That's not an issue for a coat hook, but it is an issue for a Glock.

I also need absolutely perfect extrusion, because a layer shift or missed infill section is a huge deal, not just aesthetically like for a normal print.

I'm not saying ABL is bad in any way, simply that I have higher priorities. I have an Ender with it, and it's nice to have for sure. It's just not what I'd prioritize.

I'm using "hobbyist" as shorthand for "normal 3d printer user", i.e not printing things that can explode.
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