skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emphasis mine:

> Which isn’t nothing. But it also means that a great many other factors — like genetics, personality, life history, etc. — makes up the majority of the difference. “Almost across the board, practice should improve one’s performance,” Macnamara told me in 2016.

> Practice matters, yes. *But at the same time, it’s unlikely to bridge the gap between natural superstars and your average player.*

Exactly.

Some people are just born to be better at a thing than others. Practice and coaching definitely makes you _better_, but things like the 10,000 hour rule are just cruel ways to make people that don't have "it" feel even more down about themselves.

This is especially the case with physical appearance. It's a real shame that the ripped six-pack (for men) and super slender beach body (for women) are the physiques to aspire to. For many (most?) people, getting there requires brutal levels of restriction and determination that some people that are more genetically predisposed to attain and maintain that physique than others.

That physique isn't even indicative of peak performance! In fact, there are many folks that look "perfect" but have horrible health markers underneath.

It's even worse when those people become influencers and try to tell others that will almost never look like them how to do so. Just cruel stuff.

So, yeah, I'm glad we're finally putting this "advice" to bed.
But carrying glass bottles upstairs into the 3rd story of the building every 2 days is hard.

And, in Germany, there don't seem to be any 1L or 1.5L bottles, only 0.7L.

I drink 3-4L a day sometimes even 5. That's 6 bottles of 12 just for me.

And what micro-nano stuff is in those glas bottles?
And what effect does it have on our bodies?

I've been drinking bottled water all my life. I could imagine some circulatory health effects.
Or it's too small to matter.

In any case we're infested with plastic.

Regarding what someone wrote about developed vs undeveloped countries health, we eat food with very little nutrients.
There's this story about 1 or 2 Indian women coming to the UK, and developing nutrient deficiencies because the food in India, what they were used to, was normal, but the food in the UK was watered down, glasshouse mass produced crap that never even saw daylight and was full of chemicals. And it's not just the UK.
I have an earlier version of this and they're great, although they use the heater more than the heat pump in winter so bills are cheaper but not miraculously so. The newer versions like your have a bigger compressor, which I think gives them a substantial improvement.

The main problem I've found is now that it's getting old and having problems there's nobody in my area that knows how to maintain them, they only install and then suggest buying a new one when the old one needs new parts, which is frustrating and in line with most white goods these days. So advice for the future is that forums like byggahus.se are good for advice on trouble shooting & parts replacements once it gets old enough to have problems.
You must not have spoken to enough business owners then. It makes no sense from an economic perspective for a restaurant to run their own delivery service. It can definitely work in some markets but especially post pandemic the economics would really cut margins thin. I generally don't even like the gig economy because I think so far it has supressed wages from the gig worker but I still think it has merit. I suspect most delivery drivers would financially do better through the larger delivery players than working for a single restaurant too.
Lies like that make my blood boil. Not-too-cold winters are perfect for heat pumps.
Digitizing a phonograph is a lot harder than ripping a CD.
Plus: Most developers probably don't use the full store bundle and skip it, thus don't notice it at all.
I read about the art market a while ago.

Some artist's works have an interesting dynamic. One such is Andy Warhol.

A great number of his works were bought by a few families in the USA. These were then used as collateral for loans that underpin empires of real estate & businesses. The value of the collateral can never be allowed to sink, and obviously - if it rises further leverage can be created.

Should a Warhol hit the market it will have a bottom price set by these investors. No matter what it will sell for £300k or £1m or whatever, depending on what category it falls into. If the families have to buy it it will enter the collateral pool, if they don't their collateral remains good, and potentially grows.

So Warhol's, at least are just disconnected from their value as anything but a token. I suspect, very strongly, that at least some of these stocks have been given similar dynamics by their ownership and control structures. That's sort of ok while it lasts, but at some point someone may drop the ball and if they do then the extent of the pretend value will become very apparent very quickly.
It’s not just control but also reputation. The Tesla founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, got kicked out and then almost completely ignored for their contributions. There’s was even a lawsuit around who got to call themselves founders.

Not everyone is going to care about that stuff, but many do.
My observation is society will bend over backward. Do literally anything. Rather than actively embrace what is known about IQ as being true.

Any book offering something along the lines of “just work harder and you will get there!” stands a good chance about being widely adopted and celebrated.

Because it offers a pseudoscience and publicly acceptable theory that is in opposition or replaces IQ.

High intelligence is incredibly heritable and enables people to learn complex skills much faster than others.

If you add in ADHD and Aspergers, I would guess I can out learn anyone but only at topics that interest me.

You are not going to beat someone whose brain literally cannot turn off and who ruminates obsessively about complex topics all day. No matter how much you “practice.”
But what about this is TikTok specific? Google and Facebook have done the exact same thing for ages.
> And even that is still wasteful! Because you don't need thick clothes either. So we arrive at the perfect solution for staying warm: a pill that makes your body heat up without fuss when it's cold, and lose weight along the way

The tech industry once again coming back to amphetamines.
it seems healthy to have at most a quarter of each main models
And just as we're about to migrate 4 kubernetes clusters with a total of ~4k pods. Terraform in github actions on selfhosted runners and argoCD is failing.
I've been thinking that for a while. What I also thought interesting is the limited vocabulary we use for writing code. There are obvious huge benefits if others are suppose to be able to read your code but there are also different approaches to accomplish the same thing which are not very readable if you are used to the other approach. (implementations but also different languages) If we appreciate how hard it is to explain some technical goals (in human languages) it doesn't seem a stretch of the imagination to have an almost human programming language that is supper easy to access for untrained "programmers".

Then there are a good number of occupations that require so much memory that even the best of humans are a poor fit. I cant wait for a help desk "employee" who answers the phone immediately, knows who I am, is familiar with all my previous interactions with the company, is able to guess why I would be calling and is allowed to make decisions. It seems much better than having 100 employees who know very little trying very hard to deal with 300 calls with poor results while it costs $1500 per hour * 90 hours per week (135 000)
It's not a case for centralization, it's a case against exclusives: there's no reason why a TV show should only be available on one streaming platform. Ideally you could get everything from any number of streaming or pay-to-download sources. The issue is the incentives in the current system are not set up for this, and they are somewhat self-reinforcing (basically, a streaming service will get more value from licensing a show exclusively, even if they are paying much more for the sake of it. Show producers are therefore also incentivised to license exclusively as opposed to more generally, doubly so if they own their own streaming platform, at which point they will cease to license to third parties at all)
The only thing that I've found that works properly for my use case (regularly switching between three locales and languages) is Kaggle with the lenses. The only thing missing is disconnecting the locale from the language so I can have proper decimal characters but still search for US-specific things. Right now, I have to chose between having 10,000.10 or 10.000,10 and what language/region I'm searching, together, which is a bit annoying.
https://turingcomplete.game/blog

Last blog update was March 2022 so it doesn’t look too lively.
That's because they use whatever crap the company gives them.

Do you think i chose my keyboard? No, our IT budget is too low to buy me the 50€ keyboard I'd actually want. For some reason we can afford 200€ wireless headphones that have jittery sound however.
This is me! Happy to answer any questions people may have
Maybe the cat is waiting for a mouse to come along and try to gather the objects?
Rumble Is Part of an 'Active and Ongoing' SEC Investigation
If the initial outlay for setting up Shenzen like manufacturing/electronics hub in the US was partially incentivised with govt subsidies to get it going, could it become competitive (cost/quality/scale wise) with Chinese hubs on a reasonable time horizon?

There is of course a large labour cost delta and probably a skills shortage in the US that might be an obstacle for making something like this be economically sustainable/competitive - but if it could be automated sufficiently so that labour cost is less of an issue, is this even feasible in theory?

I know there are some fabs being built, but beyond that is some kind of broader electronics manufacturing hub in the US conceivable?

From the article it sounds like the manufacturing is staying in Asia but moving to politically allied countries where new infra is being built for this. Is it still mainly a labour cost issue?
Adding time-travel to embedded Streetview containers
unless the reason why these jobs weren't replaced with a simple shell script was that we didn't have enough people for whom such a shell script was "simple".

maybe LLMs will change that: maybe it will help write all those "simple" shell scripts?
It's virtually impossible to determine whether someone will be a good board member or equity partner. You can try your best, and some methods are undoubtedly better than others, but some people are just very good at lying.
Where does the Tesla << Cruise come from? Tesla has the data moat, Cruise doesn't.
How many requests per second are we talking, ballpark, and what's the workload?
Not really. One is a news article, this is the paper the article is based on.
Altman is supposed to be following OpenAI 's charter. Quoted from the company website:

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.[1] The OpenAI Research Organization said pretty much the same thing.[2]

I don't see how monopolizing the technology is supposed to benefit all humanity, such as letting microsoft have large investments in it. If I wouldn't know better, OpenAI is just another company that cared about making $$$.

This is different from being a founder of a for profit company as opposed to being an employee of a foundation with a specific goal and mandate.

1. https://openai.com/about

2. https://www.openairesearch.org/about-us/
The lowest I've seen for mini splits is -30 C in heating mode. No idea about big installations

P.S. previous comment with example specs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266032
Isn’t genetic material an infinite state machine as long as the host system has the requisite support continuity?

“Ai” is just the current moniker for a persistent assault on the original general intelligence (belief not required).

Pretty sure religion is an accurate representation of a generative intelligence, but I digress to knowing little.

“James
Turns out that it’s actually people who have jobs specifically are the ones who make the jobs (by becoming the customers).

https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-create-jobs-2013...

I know the idea that you’re trying to infer is more akin to people creating jobs by hiring themselves becoming an inflated workforce being a rather silly idea, but in truth the entire system is just a rather more complicated version of that in many ways.

As much as the ultra-rich like to stand on their large contributions to society via their company accomplishment and present themselves as job creators, truth it the vast majority of jobs are created because of middle class demand and in that very real sense we have jobs because we want jobs.
Undercover Operations: Unveiling a Covert Sabotage Mission in Iran (Stuxnet)
Sure, but you could do the same thing, quit your job and become a humanitarian worker
The fact that Github has been so unstable for so long is absolutely insane to me. I know ops is hard, but this level of consistent outage points to an endemic problem. Is it the legacy rails/mysql stack that is the largest culprit or is there systemic rot in the engineering org?
"Ries has a system of hurdles founders can set up that would make it harder for a board to move against a company’s mission or management."

Odd to use OpenAi as an example here ... If anything the founders of OpenAi set it up appropriately to fire Sam.
Still having regular incidents at GitHub in 2024, even with Microsoft's infrastructure after 5 years since the acquisition with something always going down.

Just expect GitHub to go down at least once every month as it is that unreliable.

This certainly has aged well: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
> government advice to builders is against installing ventilation systems to discourage retrofitting them in future for air conidtioning

WTF? We're going to need air conditioning! We definitely need heat recovery ventilation if we're going to have proper insulation.

Not to mention that it's starting to look like "minisplit" reverse aircon might be one of the more economical forms of heatpump.
tl;dr version: Shrinkflation works so well (against the consumer) because (1) it's just one part of big companies' very complex marketing / packaging / pricing games, and (2) mostly-inattentive consumers have no chance of winning complex games against highly-attentive big companies.
There is very little to discuss in finance / economics except insider trading. I am NOT into politics and am NOT posting this for it's value to republicans, but just look at Nancy Pelosi getting 65% returns and beating out every hedge fund this year.

Furthermore, finance is dead - it's the "hot field" of the 80s / 90s. It has been commoditized and isn't interesting.

I say this as a CFA who also had various useless finance licenses like CFP, Series 7, 63, 6 etc and worked both on the sales / "advisor" (read Fidelity call center out of college, where I liked to point out that we wear suits and make less than garbagemen to coworkers) side of things and real analysis and still chose to go to IT the first chance I got.
Excuse me, feet are US units??? Surely you mean feet are units that were adopted in the US... and then dropped by the rest of the world!
This book is one of my favorites ever. Both it and the sequel are amazing. My understanding is that Becky Chambers does not have any more books planned but hasn't ruled out writing more. But I really really hope we see more books. This world just calms me, the characters are wonderful and reading these books is almost like meditation for me.

It's really interesting how these books have captured my attention.

If any of you out there have similar books you'd recommend I'd love to hear about them.
OpenAI's controlling entity is a non profit, so not a startup. It does not have investors. Investors to OpenAI's for profit subsidiary entity did not move to undermine Sam Altman anyway.

Moral of the story is, if you want more control over your company, don't try to trick people into thinking your startup is actually a nonprofit.
Why do people still live in big, liberal cities? They're clearly trying to drive people out. Just sell up before your property values tank and move somewhere nice. Learn to entertain yourself, cook, etc. and pretty soon you won't need the amenities.
Very easily, AMD has been releasing cards overvolted out of the box for ages, playing it very safe.
I just recently encountered the urgent necessity for the additional income, so I didn't really tried much until now. Another thing I'm thinking about it teaching kids computers and some mathematics, but I also don't know how to start here.
I mean the pursuit for AI seems very pure. Similar to the pursuit for cleaner energy. So, in that way whether AI is currently a bubble or not doesn't matter too much. In the longer term, if the pursuit is to have infinite intelligence, there can actually be no value or market cap associated to it.
The reason the scripts are not in use is that they're costly to maintain due to sprawling edge cases. One LLM argument is that they are better able to handle these ambiguities without expensive developer support.

I for one look forward to the 737 Max on board flight critical LLM, it'll help with our emissions goals.
And they often do that wrongly. Try typing "weather" in Firefox for Android vs Chrome for Android; a vastly inferior version is shown on Firefox. Changing the UA or using desktop mode makes the page work flawlessly.
I have not personally gotten to test things that way
Crypto Crash Course: Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Proof of Work
Some basics on Bitcoin but also includes a link to a bitcoin wallet brute force to demonstrate the robustness of BTC private keys.
copilot is purring like a cat, best wishes to their infra team!
Could it be a good card to test LLMs at home?

16GBs of ram don't come out often at that price range.
Don’t let that fool you. The game is very mature and a large update is in progress.

The steam store page has newer updates, latest being August 2023, I believe.
javascript is insanely more optimized but has the same limitations as Python. So there is likely a lot more you can do despite the flexibility, like figure out in hot code what flexibility features are not used, & optimize around that
Are there any benchmarks that give an idea of how much this might improve Python's speed?
I often use local bare repos for experiementation, and for backup to other machines on my lan, in case my main hard drive goes dead or github decides to unexist.
The purpose of financial austerity (raising rates by central banks) is (arguably) specifically to damage the labor markets to prevent fiat currency inflation, so when you see large rate increases you can generally expect major unemployment to follow.
ollama has been by far the easiest way for me, either on Linux directly (as I do now) or WSL2.
An autoregressive transformer is trivially a finite state machine with the state being the k input tokens. The state update just discards the leftmost token of the context and adds the predicted token to the right.

It is somewhat tempting to look at the entire token sequence as a tape but that is misleading, once a token fell out of the context it is lost forever whereas a Turing machine always maintains access to the entire tape as it can just move as far left as it likes.

As said, for this question it is really more useful to think of the state as a fixed size array or queue of tokens where in each step everything gets pushed one position to the left by the newly predicted token and the leftmost token gets discarded.
Plenty of people are okay with being fat. It's society constantly telling them "you shouldn't be fat!!!!" that complicates this.
I'm pretty sure that was a "neg".
There is going to be a very long tail of games being worked on in unity. It can takes years to make a game and the cost of switching engines is very high. I expect that the number of unity yes will slowly decline over time as the gamesget released and studios clamour for a different, more predictable engine for their next projects. Being screwed in the middle of production is not something many will want to risk twice. If Godot gets better than it is currently, we could see it eating more and more of unity's market share over time.
I've always been inspired by the story of id software, who funded their company by simply making a product and selling it. It seems like so many people in tech want to come up with an idea and immediately execute it at scale with tens of millions of dollars in seed money. It seems like profit is secondary to investment rounds at startups. Id software was able to remain independent and in control of the partners by making world class products and selling them directly to the consumer
Could you put some capacity numbers next to those costs? My 5kW air->water system was about £15,000 installed (before government grants).
You can buy infrared heaters that are exacly this. They are easy to install and often look nice, like a picture or mirror. Also they of course heat the furniture and everything, too, so with the low efficiency of electric heating it's not a great option.
More likely, it's efforts to migrate away from the previously solid Rails stack to MS's preferred stack.

They've had a long history of this kind of stability issue when migrating or trying to migrate acquisitions from their previous stack to an MS one. This happened with Hotmail (Unix server -> Windows server), LinkedIn (custom cloud -> MS cloud) and others since.
Oh that sucks, there's always going to be those who will say that it's the price you pay for using Github, but locally hosted VCS and CI/CD systems have issues as well.

External dependencies are always problem, but do you have the capacity and resources required to manage those dependencies internally? Most don't and will still get a better product/service by using an external service.
Thanks, 2:51. Very clean UI for mobile. I'll bookmark and do a puzzle every morning with my wordles.
I would disagree. Mathematicians certainly don't need to visualize everything but "intuition" is a commonly used phrase which is a notion of understanding.

Although math merely requires proving some statement, often having an intuition / understanding of how concepts interact with each other helps figure out which things are likely to be true.
The limitation on the number of external monitors is due to the number of display controllers on the chip. Apparently they take up a considerable amount of space on the die. The base M chips only have 2. They made a technical trade off that we are all paying for. It is unlikely they will ever fix it. :(

Daisy chaining monitors via thunderbolt has always had problems since it came out. Some monitors just don’t play nice with each other.
> my job search started feeling more promising around mid-December.

Probably because of new budgets in the new financial year right?

My company tends to hire and promote a load of people in Jan
The article concludes similarly (TL;DR):

> But the experience was less of using a regular desktop computer with lots of software available and more of using a Chromebook, where the OS itself is mostly just a layer of UI for a browser to run on top of.
Funny how everybody readily accepts the metric system for measuring radio wavelengths without complaints. Even the most hardcore traditionalist ham radio operator in America never complains about naming bands with meters.
Very nice photos. As a friend said, "There's something about film...."

Stay young.
Similar game: https://nandgame.com/

Although Turing Complete does appear to have more depth than nand game.