skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will start by saying I am not an embedded engineer. Given that I am but a consumer of about a dozen different IoT devices, I would love it if embedded wifi chipsets didn’t suck so much. I don’t care if it’s WiFi 4, just make them not suck.

Each manufacturer seems to have their own little quirks you need to work around: one device only works well on 2.4 channel 1, another will aggressively roam to other access points (even though it and the ap are stationary, and the closest ap has < -60dbm signal). Even the most relatively well behaved modules will disconnect and reconnect constantly (average connection time is ~10 minutes to an hour, mind you the device is constantly connected to mains power). God forbid you enable any 802.11 extensions on the radio servicing those devices, then you’re really in for a world of hurt.

Then when you complain to the manufacturer, you get super helpful advice like “factory reset your router” and “open the following 28 ports through your nat gateway to our device” (sooooo… and if I have two of your devices, what then?). It’s a total shitshow.
> I’m glad that some people never develop epistemic learned helplessness, or develop only a limited amount of it, or only in certain domains.

What always struck me about famous philosophers is that almost none of them ever changed their minds. They grasped a main idea, turned it into a supreme principle, built everything around it, and defended their system against all critiques their whole life. I know this is simplifying but I think it's pretty close.

And yet when I read their works, it's easy to see flaws in their position. So I've always wondered how they could have such tenacity. I'm glad they did though. But it feels like they sacrificed their own life for the rest of us, so that we could see where one idea goes: what it looks like when it's fully developed.

When I play chess, I can never go very deeply down a single line before I get distracted by alternatives. But I guess some people are doing a depth-first search. I don't get it, and they may be wrong, but it's like a service to us all.
He clarifies later that he is including physical labor (robots).
I didn't say buy-and-hold for 5 years. Feel free to do the math; dollar cost averaging over 5 years would still be one of the best investments in modern times.
For people that care about vendor lock-in (which granted doesn't seem to be many), Pixels are great. They are supported on just about every network and you can root it if you desire.

I'm a happy Pixel owner.
Small quibble: converting a measure to a z-score requires an assumption of normality and that you're considering a population.

For a sample the equivalent is the t-statistic, which indeed IS very often used for p-values (with the ever popular t-test) and has a decently strict list of assumptions (which, like those of [O|W|G]LS are very frequently ignored).
Oh, thank you! Looks like they did keep the DeskMini very much like the A300/X300, including keeping SATA.

Some other stories like https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-announces-deskmeet-deskmi... suggest the DeskMini and DeskMeet can take a non-G 7000 CPU up to 65W; the 12-core 7900 would fit, though there's some substantial tradeoffs to doing that.
IMO, what has happened is that big tech has realized they are monopolies or cartels, and the ethos of these companies as innovators has fundamentally died. Because Facebook's Metaverse, Google's multiple ventures in self-driving and other alphabet things, etc, have all failed miserably, particularly from the investment payoff.

Facebook and Google in the last 10 years went from usable worthwhile sites to ad-dominated monstrosities, and their revenue exploded. Likely the beancounters have taken total control, and recognized that worker salaries for all the worker bee tasks in the big tech companies are vastly overpriced.

This executive management decision is the underpinning of Musk's takeover and destruction of Twitter. It probably would have succeeded if he wasn't insane.
Stockbroking, cinema, accountancy, law, life insurance, financial planning, nuclear power, real estate, medicine, advertising, media...[0][1]

Self-regulation (especially at the industry level rather than delegating to individual companies) doesn't seem completely broken. Actually it can work quite well. You keep some oversight, and reserve the right for the state regulator to step in if the SRO goes bad. The people who run the SRO have an interest in perpetuating their organization, so they if anything have an incentive to be stricter than the government would. If things do go wrong, the government demands direct oversight. That's what's happening here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-regulatory_organization

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sro.asp
Absolutely, sentiment is meaningless.
To prepare for psychedelic therapy, doctors breathe their way to altered state
Wow! That is shocking!
>that you're sorry and to truly empathize with the people they're firing

Serious question: what should have been said on this call to do that? There was a lot of "I'm sorry you feel that way" seeming to come from the HR representative, but it seemed to miss the mark.
Emacs is more worth the time than anything I've used since I first started using Linux.
> I personally hate GPLv3, AGPL, LGPLv3, etc. with a fiery burning passion; thank god we were able to see some transformative projects emerge under actually free licenses before everything got ruined.

Why do you hate them so much? Is it strictly as a developer, or as a user?

As a developer I've certainly felt constrained and annoyed by them at times, and I'm very glad there are alternative open source licenses available, but as a user I can't imagine a scenario where you would hate them. After all, the freedom they guarantee is to the user, not the developer.

Even as a developer though, the family has it's place. I don't think Linux would be a thing had it had a more "permissive" license. That GPL is what forces the big corps to contribute their improvements back. If not for the GPL, I think it would be in a position similar to that of BSD, and the majority of users would have no choice but to use a proprietary OS
I'm getting 502 errors right now
“Most” would be an awful experience. You wouldn’t be able to pipe anything in a terminal or write a script without polluting everything with a bunch of `-y` all over the place.
I'm sorry, Dave
AF296 crashed because the pilot selected TOGA too late for the engines to spool up in time, and was completely unprepared. There was no issue with the FCS, nor the autopilot which was disengaged.

For Airbus Industrie 129, it seems that the FCS was not the root cause of the issue, but I don't know a lot about this flight.
https://archive.ph/R2q7A
https://archive.ph/Mqt2f
I feel like any American with friends or family abroad has been using WhatsApp since before the Facebook acquisition. That's the perception I got from my bubble at least.
We've been using some tracking hardware with firmware from a company called Wirepas that has implements mesh networking. They've been doing this at scale for quite some years. I their technology uses both wifi and bluetooth. They don't do hardware themselves and instead work with a large amount of OEMs. Cool company to check out and I absolutely love their website and approach to marketing. If you have a few minutes, check out their videos. They are hilarious.

The attraction of their solution is that the devices can be wireless and don't require a lot of infrastructure. You basically just mount them to the wall or the ceiling. Battery life is pretty good as well depending how you set these devices up. Years typically. Installation cost and effort is one of the big hurdles for companies to take this stuff into use.

So, interesting to see some standards for mesh networking emerging here.
Thanks for introducing some knowledge and fact to the discussion.

> However, the newer Wolfram Physics [3] [4] looks so damn promising that I'm willing to entertain possible quackery.

I don't know him, and clearly you know quite a bit. Still, that tradeoff is exactly where we've made our mistakes - the temptation of that payoff.
Right. I never got upset with a question. The only issue is getting the same question multiple times.

Not necessarily the same question verbatim, by the way. When I answer a question, I am trying to “teach to fish,” and so there is some system that I am explaining. My hope is that the asker will show curiosity - ask follow-up questions - and then be able to generalize. “I learned there was a lambda for sending emails, in the sysops repo. Maybe there is a lambda for sending slack messages in there too?”

Software systems are imperfect so the generalizations might break. In this case I want another question quickly, like “I couldn’t find a slack message sender like the email one. Does one exist?”
If you're interested in this topic, 'test time adaptation' is a special case of 'dynamic evaluation', which has a long history in NNs and is in some ways better than prompt programming or RAG. Some links: https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/dynamic-evaluation/index
The opinion document as far as I'm aware has no legal force. That said, I'm sure durations can always be re-evaluated but the case of "i'm going to log in but then not" is a corner case that's not exactly top of mind. I think the bigger task here is to defer loading stripe until necessary.
Complete with cringe-worthy nickname for employees: “spooners”.
No.

https://www.nabors.com/for-contractors-ofs/rig-products/illu...

A lot of people in this thread are showing themselves to be people without any personal contact with oil exploration.
>Ayn Rand's Objectivism is Stoicism plus Aristotelianism refined and refactored.

That must be why I find people who talk about stoicism to be insufferable dicks.
Good way to describe it. I tend to see it occur on lists alongside The Art of War and The Prince, which have this weird reputation as titanic, dense tomes read by Serious Men but in reality are more like pamphlets that you can go through in about half an hour. The first time I saw a copy of The Art of War in person I actually laughed out loud.
That's actually the entire point. There's consequences to however anything fails. Think the skyscraper example. Do you want to explicitly design a failure mode or do you want to be just "let's see what happens?" Which do you think has a worse consequence? Neither are great, but one is definitely better than the other.
Green movement for space?
You can believe in your ideology, the problem is you have to convince others if you want to do anything democratic, and so far you haven't. I said I won't argue with you so I wont ;) Good luck.
30 minutes a day saved is 15 hours a month, and about 22 work days (8 hours) a year of waking time. Awake time.

I get that much more time with my kids or towards something else I want.

It's free time for the taking for a fixed investment, I'll take it. It might not make sense for you and how you value your time, but in time it might.

The thing about doubt like yours is nothing new will reach a brain that starts closed off. I generally avoid doubt worshippers who validate their doubts by painting them on others instead of openly entertaining a viewpoint that isn't theirs. I got no problems being straight with you the way you're willing to behind a keyboard. I understand the fun part of being a devils advocate and a skeptic, but not everything has to be for everyone, nor does it have to be validated by you to be acceptable.

To answer your question, HN is limited on a few devices, a few times a day, with the procrast settings, and in grayscale. The hosts file has been blocking it for many years. After a while I pick up and put down the device I have for reading.

What do you do that works for you?
Rough few weeks for Carta
Clever of you to acknowledge but then glide over the wild exaggeration there. Still wrong, though:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1022937/history-nasa-bud...

1965 NASA budget in billions: $5.25 (the peak year)

1965 GDP: $743 billion

giving us a NASA budget of 0.007 of GDP, or 0.7%
You're right that switching airplane models certainly seems possible, even for airlines that operate one model exclusively. I wonder if Southwest being such a huge airline by fleet size (much larger than EasyJet for example) would make that harder or easier.

Either way I was thinking less about Southwest jumping ship to Airbus and more switching to an entirely new model from either manufacturer. I wouldn't see Southwest going through the trouble of switching to the A320 for example, but maybe to an A320 or 737 replacement. The A320 may be a newer platform than the 737, but it still dates to the 80s (admittedly better than dating to the 60s). I doubt Southwest would want to go through the hassle of changing models just to end up on a 40 year old airframe that they might have to transition away from again in the not-too-distant future.
I think it is a trope that engineering is "black or white".

Having been a professional engineer for 35 years, it is anything BUT. Everything is a threshold for negotiation, there is give and take in every design decision. There is no black-white anywhere I've ever seen, except freshman-year logic texts. Even with digital logic, in reality, there is no such thing as digital: slopes, thresholds, manufacturing variations, it's all analog.

Where does this notion come from?
Kagi.com is unstable for all regions
Yea but that wouldn’t be disruptive so it’s no fun /s
I love kagi, so the fact that they're down sucks even harder. But they're honest and transparent about the situation.
Not that "increased level of errors" or "degraded experience" nonsense
Hahaha the only specific example you have is a single prop?

Nope. Dig into it. There's TONS of meddling she did that turned out to be cringe.

George Lucas did many orders of magnitude more damage with the Phantom Menace and stretched out and trashed Star Wars with the prequel trilogy 15 years before Kathleen was even hired.

This absolutely doesn't track with people wishing for the prequel days again. Yes, the prequels were disappointing, but still we didn't imagine how much worse it could be.
Self Hosting LLMs Using Ollama
> We should regulate the regulators, bc I don't trust them either.

We should have oversight, and we do, but it's hard to pick a worse example of bad regulation (or a better example of good regulation) than the FAA. Air travel safety is extraordinary.
Glad to see that americans finally get end-to-end encrypted messaging between iPhone and android users, something that the entire world has had since 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/technology/whatsapp-messa...
Isn’t a chunk of Numpy’s C code just f2c’d Fortran code, though?
I met ngn once at an APL conference. Really talented programmer in any language
How interesting. I experience this problem on both Chrome and Firefox (v121.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04).

I am mildly curious about why only a subset of Firefox users are experiencing this. Do you mind sharing your Firefox version and OS?
Oops, guess they need an 'if' statement that detects OpenAI or language model in the text and aborts the transaction
Thanks for finding the exact words for how I also feel about the rationalist community.

Source: sufficiently smart chemical engineer
Well yes, that too. A mix of both, not sure of the percentages.

Frankly I wish there were a better place for the hackers to congregate without the capitalists. But whatever, at least the discussion here is civil and interesting. Best place I've found since Slashdot of old.
I think Buffett has a very great counter to this which he learned from his father: inner scorecard. By judging yourself on your inner checklist, you’re less likely to be pulled into the latest fads. Your goal is follow your own path instead of the path that happens to be fashionable that day.
Musk doesn't do this for you.

Notice the pattern, he does it to attract the kind of engineers attracted to solving 'unsolvable' problems.

Whether that's a good strategy is up in the air.
"I hope you’ll agree that humanity has a variety of important engineering problems to solve, and nicer-looking graphics is quite low on that list."

I used to sneer at the social value of entertainment. Then covid lockdowns hit. I spent a lot of time playing Factorio. When professional sports resumed playing (in empty stadiums, with fake crowd noise on the broadcasts) I was happy to sit on the couch after work and watch baseball.

Without that entertainment, there is no way I would have been able to trudge to my computer and work from home day after day, when the only thing I could leave my house for was an occasional walk and a frightful trip to the grocery store.

So even if the brain surgeon is not using those "nicer-looking graphics" to improve brain surgery (which could very well happen), the brain surgeon might just be looking at "nicer-looking graphics" to unwind after a day of brain surgery, which gets her ready for another day of brain surgery. Entertainment has value.
As a practical matter, the FAA might designate someone outside of Boeing to do the inspections (like maybe people from Lockheed or Grumman, who are not directly competing in the commercial airliner space).

When you take a checkride at the end of training to earn your pilot certificate, it's not an FAA employee riding with you... it's a "DPE" or Designated Pilot Examiner, who is a private individual designated by the FAA to conduct check rides (and who often charges you a fee to administer the test).

Occasionally an FAA employee will ride along with the student pilot and DPE to evaluate how the DPE is evaluating prospective pilots.
> Lots of these are bots

If you check that account's post history the entity behind it certainly seems to be an actual person.
man the deep state propaganda shills are out hard for 2024

welcome to the world of chatGPT
Poincaré in his 1902 book Science and Hypothesis breaks down our sensory experience of reality into visual, tactile (which includes auditory) and motor (muscular) representations of that reality. We use these sensations to construct a map of reality (or of the simulation, if you like). Here's what motor space means, according to Poincaré:

> "The corresponding framework constitutes what may be called motor space. Each muscle gives rise to a special sensation which may be increased or diminished so that the aggregate of our muscular sensations will depend upon as many variables as we have muscles. From this point of view motor space would have as many dimen-
sions as we have muscles."

While Poincaré uses this as a launch point into non-Euclidean and higher-dimension geometry, this visual-tactile-motor representation of reality is what psychedelics mess with, and at a biomolecular level it seems to involve nerve cell receptors that manage sensory input within the brain, such that memory can leak over into the sensory channels. Thus looking at clouds in the sky under a large dose of psychedelics results in hallucinations of whatever is on your mind at the time, while a sober person may creatively struggle to see images in clouds.

People with religious backgrounds who think about religion all the time will therefore tend to see religious iconography, which brings us to the so-called 'Captain Trips' character of Al Hubbard, who promoted this kind of thing in the late 1950s/early 1960s:

> "Whereas many LSD practitioners were content to strap their patients onto a 3' x 6' cot and have them attempt to perform a battery of mathematical formulae with a head full of LSD, Hubbard believed in a comfortable couch and throw pillows. He also employed icons and symbols to send the experience into a variety of different directions: someone uptight may be asked to look at a photo of a glacier, which would soon melt into blissful relaxation; a person seeking the spiritual would be directed to a picture of Jesus, and enter into a one-on-one relationship with the Savior."

https://www.trippingly.net/lsd-studies/2018/5/20/al-hubbard-...

The libertarian view is that 'if people want to ingest psychedelics, as responsible adults, they should be allowed to without suffering state persecution', and it really doesn't matter if their motivation is to improve their 3D visualization capabilities for the enjoyment of higher abstract mathematics, or if they're only interested in spiritual experiences and therapeutic potentials, or microdosing so they can write more code per day (YMMV).

Unfortunately, people indoctrinated with the consumer mentality of 'more is better' often have disastrous outcomes when they ingest psychedelics, which is why the warning labels are necessary - and saying "less is more" is almost a heresy in a consumerist society.
> Nope, the most famous form is Ginsberg; I don't know if he lifted it from somewhere too.

No, they appeared in very different contexts and Ginsberg goes in a different direction (1955, drugs, jazz, etc.):

> I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, [..]

while Banksy deals with the then current state of arts and marketing (~2000/2010?).

Also, it's not explained in the article how Ginsberg and Hammerbacher ideas relate except for an "en-pasasnt" quote from the person originally inquiring the quote investigator opinion, so the grandparent link doesn't actually point anything out.

edit: to summarize: that quote is taken out of context even if it seems to fit
Where the world warmed the most in Earth's hottest year
https://archive.ph/uWBpy
There are other ways to solution for the same outcome, or get closer to it.

Pass regulation that requires audit and certification by a rated and licensed authority that isn't necessarily the government itself. As a publicly traded company Boeing already has to do this with its books; why not with its product too?

I'm sure that E&Y, Deloitte, KPMG, or PwC would love a crack at a new market and they've certainly got the money to hire away from manufacturers.
I'm fond of software I like to call "pervasively programmable", Emacs and the various Smalltalk environments being ur-examples. Every bit of them can be examined, inspected at run time, and changed in the running system as you work. It's the next step beyond open source. (If you compiled Emacs yourself, Emacs will remember where its C source lives and will happily bring that up if you M-. on one of its C primitives.) And I think we should celebrate and encourage software like that.
> It’s all a bit Dunning-Kruger to me

Fantastic article on the reproducability of Dunning-Kruger effect: https://replicationindex.com/2020/09/13/the-dunning-kruger-e...

Also see: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation" https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

Lovely quote:

“These responses to our work have also furnished us moments of delicious irony, in that each critique makes the basic claim that our account of the data displays an incompetence that we somehow were ignorant of.” (Dunning, 2011, p. 247).

Of course Dunning-Kruger is self-referential. Any mention of Dunning-Kruger automatically makes you a victim on wrong side of the graph.
Sorry - I can't tell what you mean. Define physically?
There's more than one of these: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=OpenAI+use+policy