skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one thing about some of the shitty products out there today is we got MUCH better at making things out of less material. So they break easier and wear out faster, but we've been able to reduce material usage along with price.

If you're a person who loses pens or holds onto them so long the ink dries up, it'd be better to waste an object made as cheaply as possible than one made to last.

This is a balance to play as well.
Has Newag provided any evidence of their claim that this is a conspiracy by their competitor and the hacker group? Or is it literally just them saying "no we didn't"?
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> if I were a small business that sold (unintentionally) poisonous cookies to my neighbors, I ought very well to be shut down

That depends a lot on the circumstances. If a malicious, sophisticated, actor broke into your shop and poisoned your dough, which resulted in you selling poisonous cookies, should you be liable because your security systems weren't good enough to stop the poisoner?
I also generally feel like most of the really substantial open-source projects are able to get a good amount of donations and corporate sponsors. People DO pay, when the thing you're creating (an operating system, a programming language, a database) is complex and business-critical.

But nowadays it seems like everyone who creates a JavaScript package that concats two strings together, wants to be able to quit their day job and live on donations. It's just not realistic.
> Let's assume that the brakes are working at their limit, and as they do so, they are shedding energy at a maximum rate that doesn't change. The cars are identical, so they are both shedding energy at the same rate per unit distance.

Interesting (and I think very reasonable) first-order assumption. Maybe to second-order, the calculation could assume the braking force is proportional to velocity, which I think is roughly true of friction generally, but is also harder to model.
Polyphasic Sleep (2005)
You huff glue, eat cat food, and chug some beer.
We have friends that just laid out $3000 for a new washer drier set and washer is already leaking from the front door. Pursuing warranty repair has been a major hassle.

My wife and I use a washer and drier set from the late 90's that are nothing to look at but work really well. They appear to be designed with service in mind and changing components is usually extremely easy - something I have done infrequently. These machines are used almost every day. Honestly, for a while I was kind of embarrassed by our beat up old machines. We discussed getting something new but dropped it after sticker shock set in. We also found it nearly impossible to get an honest review of any of the newer appliances. I also just hate "smart home" stuff that requires a wi-fi connection to work correctly.

The workman we hired to re-model our rear entry mud-room was looking at our old washer/drier set and unprompted said if we ever want to get rid of them - please let him know. I wondered why and he explained that he and his wife purchased new a couple years ago and have had nothing but complaints. They miss their old setup that cleaned superbly with minimal fuss.
Interesting perspective thank you.
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Reptiles didn't use language tokens, that's for sure. We don't have reptilian brains anyway, it's just that part of our brain architecture evolved from a common ancestor. The stuff that might function somewhat similar to an LLM is most likely in the neocortex. But that's for neuroscientists to figure out, not computer scientists. Whatever the case is, it had to have evolved. LLMs are intelligently designed by us, so we should be a little cautious in making that analogy.
These look nice.

You can do a lot more to customize an icon with the “Studio” on this site as long as you’re using a desktop browser.

Pasting from the Studio page [1] (emphasis mine):

> The Studio is the set of tools displayed in the left column of each icon page when you browse the site on a large enough screen (sorry phone users).

> These various controls let you tweak the default icon to better suit your needs. Note that it's voluntarily quite rudimentary, and you should always rely on a complete editor like inkScape to do the heavy work.

[1]: https://game-icons.net/studio.html
I've long wondered if some people are sensitive to the fairly rapid change in oxygen levels (sea level to 8000 feet/2438m cabin altitude) on board an airliner. Might that constitute mild hypoxia or hypoxemia? Combine that with alcohol, cannabis or psych medications and perhaps that may explain why people act out.
Not to get too deep into this, in the 80s cars were crap. That is based only on my own personal experience. But I have no idea how reliable cars made 70 years ago were (like the kitchen appliance mentioned in the article). I've seen really old cars still on the road, but those are probably owned by collectors / people that take effort to preserve those types of cars.
Learn enough Verilog/VHDL/RTL to design a chip, and get it through the Google chip shuttle.

Become proficient enough with CoPilot and Python to write the code required to support said chip.
The population of old cars that you see driving around today is very different from the population of old cars that ever existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
> Wall-E was made in the pre-messaging-first age.

Which part of the fat consumers destroying their planet was pre-messaging?
Microsoft's AI chatbot app Copilot is now on the Play Store
What's stopping salt from having a much higher concentration of iodine than the normal advertised value?

e.g. manufacturing error such that a dangerous amount of iodine is accidentally added.
We don’t even call them toasters anymore in my household. Our Cosori air fryer has a toast setting that works beautifully.

It cost less than $250. It warms, bakes, roasts, dehydrates, as well as 10 other settings. It has 3 different racks, so I can toast 3-4x as much bread than I could in a regular toaster.

I’ve only had it for 6 years, but it has held up nicely, no issues whatsoever. I guess what I am trying to say, is that the product is the bells and whistles these days.
China is ramping up the pressure for Taiwan's election
Things used to stop working even in the past, but back then it was worth repairing them.
> Plagiarism is not related to copyright at all. The whole point of the free culture movement is reusing and remixing previous works. I can plagiarize something in the public domain

I'd half-agree, but I don't think "breaking copyright" matters to the question of "is LXM 'AI' plagiarism?".

Like you say you can plagiarize without braking copyright(for cases where the copyright allows usage without attribution such as with public domain), and it's also possible to break copyright without plagiarism(e.x. redistributing with attribution when you don't have the license).

But I think this is irrelevant to the point being made. LXM's need to take in a large amount of data, and then the outputs are attributed to the "model" rather than the originators of the material.

Since most of the content being digested by LXMs is not public domain that's where copyright gets twisted up with it, since for the majority of LLM training data 'plagiarism' and 'breaking copyright' come from the same act of redistributing/using without attribution(and since the "LXM" is considered to have created the data by most people the 'plagiarism' comes in).
Little File Explorer – File Manager for Android 1.0 and above
Darkly, probably correct; and worryingly precient.
There's a lot to say on this topic: "All engineering is value engineering, it just depends whose value you're talking about"; "The affordable 'tools' you can buy in a regular store are just toys for the home gamer. Real tools that make money, cost money".

But I won't mention those. Instead an observation about "They don't make them like they used to" as it pertains to automobiles. I work for an automobile manufacturer (anything stated here is solely my own opinion and experience). For a good long time, cars HAD to be worked on every so often. Carbs get fouled up, valves wear down and need adjusting, ignition system timing drifts - so people learned how to work on their cars. The things they had to fix were relatively simple and observable. Then the 70's and 80's happened, and about 4 big things changed in short order: Insurance went up for high horsepower cars, The Gas Crisis made the big old boats unaffordable, Smog regulations went into effect, more safety systems got added.

Unfortunately this meant: People missed the power and torque of the huge old engines. Smog compliance added a lot of gizmos and computers. And the safety stuff made cars safer, but sometimes people died anyway, and sometimes the safety systems were part of the cause (this is more complicated than I'm willing to write about in this brief comment).

And you can't adjust a fuel injected car like you can a carb, even if it's not running right. You can't adjust the points or the dynamo or the distributor with electronic ignition. Lot of stuff got much harder to access, because midsize and compact cars just don't have the real estate that the old boats had.

So lots of folks started saying "They don't make them like they used to" - because you had a lot of new problems, and lost a lot of things you were used to. You still had to fix the problems, but your old diagnostics and understanding didn't go very far - you had to talk to a computer and it didn't talk very well. You still had to work on it, because some of the old stuff broke, and some new stuff broke; but you couldn't work on it. So it felt like it was just crap.

Companies started using cheaper processes to get the painting done faster. They used plastic instead of metal, and thinner metal to save weight and improve gas mileage, and it all sucked.

But slowly they improved the grade of plastic they used, made the computers smarter, really dialed in the engineering standards for components, and ever so slowly people stopped saying "They don't make them like they used to", because nowadays you can get the same horsepower in a tiny 10 year old compact hatchback that you used to get in a souped-up Mustang or Camaro, and with better gas mileage and safety.

It's just that now we can also complain about the Bluetooth and touchscreens not working.

They sure don't make them like they used to, eh?
Any specific reason to avoid Lidar? Cost?
> Given how people strive to learn their own things to their personal maximum, the fact that so few become elites suggests that it would not be possible to successfully attempt to gain super skills in areas outside what you're already struggling with.

But that’s the thing. What if the way that we can learn could be radically improved? Seems we haven’t investigated it enough

Maybe I’m just rehashing the kind of loathsome hot housing mistakes of helicopter tiger moms of the 1980s but I don’t think so. I think the new effort is to tiger mama sweatshops, as modern post graduate tuition is to phrenology

I appreciate your perspective too; I find it quite realistic. However, I’m not suggesting that everyone should undertake a rigid, utilitarian socialist work regimen, akin to a dystopian ‘assignment camp’ for divergent personalities. Rather, what if we explored the diversity of specialized skills and how people excel in them? We could identify common factors and use that knowledge to boost overall competence in a broad range of skills. It’s unknown whether there are common elements—‘hacks,’ so to speak—in our underlying biology that could activate certain genes, unlocking new potentials through training methods or different mechanisms. But I believe they might exist.

Through rigorous study of these aspects, we could make significant progress. Implementing what we learn in training could potentially revolutionize education, raising everyone’s skill level. Imagine integrating this into our education system and enhancing people’s innate, generalized competence across various skill sets—even by just 5%. Applied to tens of millions, this improvement could be transformative. Therefore, it seems worthwhile to pursue this endeavor.
So you let some corpo decide what you're allowed to watch or read?

I used to take the "this content is not available in your region" when trying to buy a kindle book as an excuse to pirate. If they don't want my money, they clearly don't care.

Now I stopped caring altogether though.
I agree. I feel like the author is upset at pens given out at banks and restaurants to sign stuff. As cheap as possible, Minimum Viable Pen for sure.

I buy a few packs of my favorite uniball pens every year and sprinkle them around the house and in all my bags. Very happy with them.
As explained by marcan: it's not "hashing", it's an error-correcting code. Much more understandable in that light.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111655847458820583
Wind isn't reliable.
He paid other people to shake up and revitalize two industries with his dad's minecraft money and probably told them "why don't you do it this way" a few times
you were listening to people calling two mechanics with their car troubles... selection bias much? if you did a radio talk show with two Tesla mechanics today, out of the tiny population of people who listen to radio, you'd find a stream of Tesla owners who were having problems.

Also, btw, Tom and Ray did always always always point out that repairing was cheaper than replacing. Most repairs are pennies. (thousands and thousands of pennies)
Neither is it correct to believe the myth of careful orchestration with only rational institutional goals and deep care about other people's money (though again, develop/use are different "these things")
I’m not trying to defend Apple but I think that line of thinking is pretty cynical and could be used to condemn basically any company or open source project that attracts enough interest for attackers.
I would love this project to serve that need and personally want this to.
Unitree B2 quadruped robot is better, stronger and faster
Have you seen the Lazard lcoe numbers? Nukes are 6x more expensive than wind solar.

And wind and especially solar have more economies of scale and materials research to make them even cheaper.

This comes from a LFTR fanboy. Boy howdy do I wish economical nuclear existed. But 6x as expensive? That ain't all red tape.

I think of course that LFTR has a path to cheaper nuclear with breeding and near waste elimination, full fuel use, safety, and scalability. But I don't think it will ever beat solar, especially once mature multifunction silicon perovskite cells or something like that and salt water batteries develop.

I hope to be proven wrong.nyclest power is so cool.
You can almost hear the lament of dealing with entitled people in the statement. These are words that originated from having to deal with people who assume that they get free stuff for nothing in return
Yeah, I know - I actually mentioned it in another comment here.

Even with Dualit, I would still only purchase from a professional catering retailer. Just in case, there’s any differences, and the fact that purchasing from a professional catering retailer, implies a greater level of longevity, if it ever did breakdown - for potential small claims court, reasons, in the future.

Regardless, Dualit also pretty much make every part of their toasters replaceable, for this exact reason. Hence why I think it’s one of the only decent toasters, out there!
A moderate civilian nuclear supply chain and skills base helps keep a lid on the maintenance and construction of nuclear submarines, carriers and nuclear bombs.
In a decade of following plans for 100% renewable grids, compressed air has never made it as a conceivable solution. Similarly hydrogen almost never gets on the list, and it's only there assuming some sort of currently non-existent tech advances far in excess of what is ever allowed to batteries. And yet, batteries make the list on all these plans!

As for your link, this is just flat out misinformation for grid batteries. Might apply to phones:

> How Many Cycles Can You Get Out Of A Lithium-Ion Battery?

>A Lithium-Ion battery's average life span is 2 to 3 years or 300 to 500 charge cycles, whichever comes first. As we put it, a charging cycle is a duration of utilization when the battery is fully charged, completely drained, and wholly recharged.

Industrial grid storage is rated to daily discharge for more than 10 years, with warranties typically around 12-14 years and expected life far afterward. 5000-10,000 cycles is more realistic.

Every five years, battery production capacity is growing 10x, prices drop dramatically. What is this limit? What is the reason it's suddenly going to stop? There's no answer other that I can see other than "I thought this 10 years ago so it's probably true too."
Can't the same argument be used to say "lossy compression is not plagiarism".

If I encode a movie with H264 there is no way to get it to output "exactly what was in the training data" and I can argue that "like humans extract important information from large dumps of data, the algorithm does the same".

I don't have any reservations about calling an H264 encoded video redistributed with the wrong attribution "plagiarism", so I don't see what's different about Large X Models that they deserve a special pass.
That guy was just tryin' ta get his dipstick wet. I tell ya, I havent had a wet dipstick since the carburator went bad on my 72 gremlin.

(If you ever listened to Car Talk - you can hear it)
They should have given out a normalized score like 8.1/9 in this case.

30 points is a lot. I had a perfect score (1600/1600). Getting a 1570 would have been significantly different. This is probably worse at admission cutoff thresholds.
From systems engineering, it's easier to track the amount of stock rather than the input/output. Stock here is your cash. If it's below a certain level, you can control it more easily. It's easier to have a fixed cash stock rather than a "budget" because you can exceed budgets. You can control it with a debit card.

Have a formula to generate your expected savings, maybe 3 months salary or expenses. I base it off gold price. I then split it into fixed costs (non-negotiable), impulse purchase, non-fixed costs (like food, gas, classes).

Invest in active income first - it's just way easier to increase salary by 15% than it is to invest in something that brings in 15% year on year. This can come out from general expenses, pay in installments, sometimes even going into debt for it.

Once expected savings are covered, then it goes into investments and stuff.
What do you use $comment for that doesn't work in "description"?
The keyboard and mouse stay locked to whichever computer is on.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746664
I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Hours of trying to convince management that it's actually not OK to release a product that's completely built on open source software without even attaching an open source license/acknowledgement to it.
My Miele dishwasher has totally failed less than 5 years old. Not worth the expensive price. Probably fixable but requires a multi-hundred-$ relay. I haven't fixed it because of my time cost (such a hassle).

Previously bought a much cheaper dishwasher for my previous house that is still going strong. I found a geeky person on the sales floor that dealt with dishwasher returns and asked his advice for buying a reliable one: his advice seems to have been solid. I recommend trying this approach.

Unfortunately we can no longer trust brand names. Most previously trustworthy brands have turned to shit. I now mostly aim for mediocrity because that seems to be the sweet spot (cheap is usually trash, expensive usually is poor value for money).

It is very difficult to make good decisions for most purchases - requiring too much effort and brainspace. I never want to learn the details of appliances but I am given little choice.

The other problem is that the UX/UI of many modern devices has gone to complete shit. Searching for a usable appliance is a nightmare.
As someone who drives an “old” Honda 2006, I’m surprised that this machine is still running very good. I could just take it to my local shop and had it fixed in 1-2 days. Based on my logs, I took the car for repair on average of 3-4 times a year.

I am looking to purchase a new family vehicle in the future but with all the softwares, screens, and fancy stuffs I am not sure if I liked it. Anyone feels this way?
Are there really people who actually read this many textbooks? I read half the textbook “Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms” and it took a couple months. And I had time because I read it for a research project in grad school. I can’t imagine going home after work and grinding these textbooks for years.
Even then, either you discriminate, or you don’t.

And they’re not really the worst one could think of, as FAANG thenselves contribute a lot to open source software.
I just poked wires in.
First time I reading the title, I had to think what "street fighting" is.

Then I remember a quote read from somewhere else: "the only rule on street fight is there are no rules."

After reading the comments, guess I'm close enough.
Yeah... but I hated these guys when I was younger.

Then I got to the point where I knew I was old... kicking the tires on the mini-van saying "shes a 'beaut"

But name a single other car anything talkshow that you can even name or even recall vaguely even if you cant recall what it was named?

So - like mycelium, ideas spread much further that you think they may have before the internet.

(so did STDs, if you catch my...)
There's also a survival bias in that we don't consider the appliances from yesteryear that packed up back when disco was king.
> Am I missing something?

Neurotypical has its origins in social media, as a (slightly) derogatory term for the group it describes.
Yep. As fun as SC2k was, I really prefer Cities: Skylines because it actually bothers to simulate people going about their lives. Traffic delays actually cause them to fail to accomplish their goals, to the detriment of your city.
I like to drop anything interesting I find throughout my day into daily journal in Obsidian (using iOS “Share via..”) for later review.

It works fine, but:

1. I prefer how logseq displays each day as a timeline so I can review the last few days easily (in Obsidian you check each file for each day one by one)

2. I like that logseq operates more granular on block level (bullet points) as opposed to pages, so I could reference blocks instead of pages.

I think interlinking thoughts and noted on block/bullet level would be helpful in finding content or thoughts I came across in the past. In Obsidian, it’s only possible via searching, manual tagging, and manual content management, which seems like a waste of time. I want to eliminate the friction for inbound information.

Both of these apps actually suffer from the same issue — on iOS, if the app hasn’t been initialized recently, it won’t actually drop the content using “Share via..” widget, it will just open the note for today. Sometimes you have to do it twice.

In terms of configuration, the way it would work is, in Obsidian, you configure the daily journal to use the same directory and naming convention to match Logseq. They both read/write the same markdown files, so it works seamlessly.
The other day I was telling my wife that the next blender I'll get will be a "fuck you" blender.

That's the name I gave to an old blender I had 25 years ago when I lived on my own while studying. The blender was an Oster brand and only had an on/off switch. I sold it to a friend when I left that city.

Fast forward 25 years, my friend told me that his mom is still using the same blender. No programs, no memories, no modes. Just Off and "fuck you" mode haha.

Now I also want a toaster with similar properties. Just let me put my bread slices, click a button and give me my good sliced bread. That's all I need. And hopefully that simplicity makes the gizmo last 20+ years.