skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does one carve the interior cavity of an urn with the most rudimentary of tools?

Abrasive grit. You can make a saw out of a plank with grit -- the grit will eat the plank faster than stone, but it can cut through granite because quartz in the sand is harder than granite. Similarly, you can make a drill with a dowel and grit. The step from drill to lathe is pretty obvious to me.

And don't forget time. People with primitive technology have an astounding amount of patience compared to soft-handed technologists. Speaking as a soft-handed technologist, of course.
Remember when they fought the VHS cassette tape, and lost, and then Hollywood disappeared and we have no Hollywood movies from ca. 1980 onwards? Sad times :(
It’s what they do anyways. The file suit after takedown after DMCA and never ever hesitate to drag court cases out over months and years, wasting everybody’s time to make sure grandma pays up because someone in her house was using Napster.
> GPUs are a bit harder to find in stores, admittedly.

If you live in the USA and have a Microcenter anywhere nearby, I suggest paying a visit.
Some people need the best route given traffic conditions.
Ah ok. That makes sense, there just doesn’t exist such a model and it might be hard to actually track. But even if reused for investment, it again is a tax break because now you’re paying only capital gains but the original investment never had any taxes applied to it as it would with normal income -> investment
Here’s a very simple toy demonstration of how K-Means works that I made for fun years ago while studying machine learning: https://k-means.stackblitz.io/

Essentially K-Means is a way of “learning” categories or other kinds of groupings within an unlabeled dataset, without any fancy deep learning. It’s handy for its simplicity and speed.

The demo works with simple 2D coordinates for illustrative purposes but the technique works with any number of dimensions.

Note that there may be some things I got wrong with the implementation and that there are other variations of the algorithm surely, but it still captures the basic idea well enough for an intro.
There's images on the product page:

https://www.dji.com/delivery
Yes, but it still is useful since your kids will also be affected by their classmates.
That may be true, but here it concerns people that have never gone into academia at all?

I think having done it is important, otherwise you just have the regret, but people with experience in academia already, never seem to long for those days after moving to industry.

At least I haven’t heard of any.
Some of the highest estimates of death toll caused by both atomic bombs combined are in the low 200,000 range.

The Battle of Okinawa alone had nearly 200,000 military casualties and another 150,000 civilian deaths.[1]

People asserting dropping of the bombs was wrong in any way are divorced from reality. Their position is devoid of all facts.

To be blunt. Dropping of the atomic bombs was not just the right decision, it was the most humane decision.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#:~:text=Th....
> but as soon as AI is involved so many people start to advocate for throwing it away

No, it's been years I've heard it.

Don't try to portray some people opinion as they are some AI zealot.

It's brought up on discussions about torrent, Disney, streaming platforms, music, etc...
This became my primary newsreader outside NYT. I’ll be sad to see it go.
Linux itself is a pretty fun game, right? Like I'm trying right now to figure out why samba won't work for my ntfs partitions (I have it installed side-by-side with Windows). And I have to tell you, this game is not for some average gamer. It sometimes can be quite hardcore :)
Yeah, it's a bit disheartening to hear some (presumably) experienced people advocates for never allowing the junior to dig and deal with things on their owns.

I can imagine the scenario where a build fail due to some missing incantations that needs to be invoked, and sure, you shouldn't spend more than 15 minutes on trying to resolve it. But that should be rare, while the common blockers for junior tend to be their lack of understanding in even bog-standard systems and situations (why can't system X do Y, why did person Z require A). In those cases, part of the expectation when assigning them the work would be for the junior to learn those on their own.
> Physical property is a consequence of the laws of physics. If I have a gold coin in my hand, then you don't have that gold coin in your hand.

So do you believe people should only be able to own real estate that they are currently physically occupying? By your reasoning, no one could ever own a piece of land larger than what they were currently standing or lying on. So no one could own land. So abolition of all property rights, essentially.

I'm hella down for this, but then we should also be able to walk into the OpenAI offices and inspect their source code, cause that shit won't fit in any one hand afaik.

This is incredibly naive misunderstanding of how property rights work: they are 100% a social and conceptual construct. IANAL, but I believe you are confusing property with possession.

But, yeah. I'm down: no one can own anything that isn't currently in their hand. Let's go liberate a lot of fake property that is "owned" in violation of the laws of physics!
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> Hydrogen electrolyzed/stored (pressurized or as NH3) during the summer can be used to add supply to the grid.

> Pumped hydro increases its output during the cold snap.

These are essentially other types of storage, and you're trying to go for something where you trade the cost of storage against the cost of the conversion equipment. (It can't be cheaper for both or that's what you'd use all the time.)

The nice thing about batteries is that you can draw power from them as fast as you'd usually ever want to, to the point of discharging the entire battery within 30-60 minutes. A 100kWh battery could give you 200kW for half an hour. And of course then two 100kWh batteries could give you 400kW for half an hour.

Whereas if you have a 100kW generator and 100kWh of NH3, you can generate 100kW. If you have a 100kW generator and 200kWh of NH3, you can generate at 100kW for two hours, but you can't generate 200kW, much less 400kW.

Which kind of leads to the problem here. If you're going to have a 50GW average shortfall for a week, you need 8.4TWh of storage. Ouch. Okay, so that's why we're using the ones with the cheapest storage, but that's still not cheap. And then you need 50,000,000 kW of generation capacity for that type of storage, on top of the storage.

But you're only going to use either of them for one week every two years.

That seems impractical.

> Power imported from regions that aren't experiencing the same cold snap with no renewable generation.

It's not obvious how this one is supposed to work either. Say it's -15 in the Northeast, that's trouble, we'll have to import power from Texas. Where it's also winter, and therefore 25 degrees with significant heating demand, and generation there isn't as low this week but it's below average. Texas can handle that, they charge a higher rate at night, people shift demand enough or lower their thermostats and they can break even. But they have none to spare.

Okay then, the Midwest? Nope, too close to the Northeast, it's -15 there too. The South then. Finally, a region with spare capacity... but it's only 10% of what you need and the Midwest wants it too.

And the general problem with this one is that people are going to optimize it out. If you have cross-continent transmission lines, they'll be used whenever they're useful, which will lower the price of electricity. And then people will build less generation capacity, because it's less needed and less profitable. And then the whole grid has less slack in it and you can't rely on the slack existing in situations like this. See also "just in time" supply chains in an emergency situation.

> Since you said "nearly", there is some room for geothermal, synfuels, and maybe SMRs (if they can ever be built economically).

But this is kind of the point. You don't build geothermal or nuclear plants for periodic use in an unusual supply crunch. If they're enough of the grid to address this, they're that much of the grid all the time.
If you register your work, which requires some effort, but is not prohibitively expensive or difficult, you can sue for statutory damages, which are substantial enough (up to $150k for willful infringement) that lawyers will work on contingency. There are many individual artists how have been successful here. The law actually has some real teeth that individuals can use to protect their work.
Helluva pivot
Sounds like LLMs having their SQL injection equivalent moment.

I’d also say this described phenomenon isn’t new - except for it’s applied context: it’s essentially disinformation - a well known technique used by military since decades. Except now we hack LLM agents instead of real people’s minds.

Nonetheless interesting to watch.
Hm, you normally need more nozzle (/bell) as you ascend. I'm not sure how to square this with autophagy but if you figure it out I will subscribe to your newsletter.
Well a core-plugin can still be disabled just not uninstalled.
The behavior of the plugin indicates bugs and for a plugin that exfiltrates data it is rater bad to not have gone through proper QA.

For number 3 we will have to take them at their word which, to my mind is not worth a lot at this stage as they have a clear incentive not to follow through on that. They want to generate their own models to be used in their products. What better way to garner data than to have their already good autocomplete make suggestions and then the developer uses them and it is then send of to the server to train models.

In general, as said, I don't mind the occasional bug, BUT when it is vital to be fixed where the vendor has a clear incentive not to fix it as it would be in their favor and where they force something like that upon someone it is different.
In such situations I call bullshit. There the vendor has be presumed hostile.

As for the thing you said about Apple.
A) I don't use their products. Where I have clout I even advise/discourage/actively go against Mac-products.
B) And this is most important. It is whatabout-issm. Just because someone else did it does not make it right.

We, as societies and professionals that hold a lot of the keys to what goes and does not go in society have have to own up to our responsibilities.

What am I to say to my neighbour who is a professional writer when an AI takes his job or the truck-driver that is out of a job because of that or the woman next door that lost their child or husband to one of Tesla's autopilots that they unleashed on the public for beta-/or even alpha-testing knowing that it has bugs that can cause the loss of limb and live?
Those engineers,PMs and Managers that go along with that are nothing but despicable to use a generous term.

And here we are :
Jetbrains plays the game as well now, muddies the water, pleads ignorance and hopes it can keep the hand in the cookie-jar.
Next time around they might be more creative. They can already say that it is YOUR responsibility for keeping your employer's code-base save and YOU should've know better. And they will not thank you for doing your part of being a sucker and helping them build a product they will make millions with. They will laugh all the way to the bank as you still pay them.

The Whataboutism of your's mentioning Apple aside: You basically say that you don't care who falls under the bus as long as you can have it as commfortable as possible. The IP that your employer entrusted you with to keep safe? Na!! Hubub... I wanna plead ignorance, play the sucker, pay for being the product and not think and not be disturbed in my comfort-zone.

I would not hire people that are non-conscientious or critical willing to throw everything aside for their convenience.
But... to each their own I suppose, at least do yourself and others around you a favor and be honest about it.
Don't utilize strawmanarguments such as whataboutisms to justify decisions.
Conspire? It's one system controlled by one company.
Nope. Must’ve been someone else!
It's in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

HN gives three features to YC: job ads (see above) and startup launches get placed on the front page, and YC founder names are displayed to other YC alumni in orange.
Ship the Airplane: Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover (2020)
> Boeing deliberately did not want to use both AOA sensors because, as I said at the beginning, “a man with one AOA sensor knows what the angle of attack is, a man with two AOA sensors is never sure.”e. if Boeing used two sensors then it would have had to deal with the problem of what to do if they disagreed. And that would have meant training which would have violated ship the airplane.
I'm sure you'd feel the same way if it was your life's work these systems were hoovering up and regurgitating.
As you note, the title is simply wrong.

I'm not entirely sure that the anti-fanboy rant is completely misguided, but it ignores the fact that Apple's products - iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, etc. - transformed their respective categories. Cult-like followers and marketing weren't enough to turn iPod Hi-Fi or AppleTV into huge successes.

The mobile software market seems like a nightmare, while paid desktop software seems to have been largely replaced by web apps and monopoly subscriptionware. I'd like to hope there are some opportunities, since I'm greatly turned off by mobile monetization hell and bloated and unresponsive web/electron/etc. apps, and the only software I'm even slightly tempted to subscribe to is Apple Arcade.

(For games I'd rather pay $30 for a game without gacha microtransaction hell - that's why the Switch is my main gaming handheld; I'm also annoyed that many of my purchased, not-exactly-cheap iOS games are no longer playable due to Apple's complete comtempt for backward compatibility.)

I've always thought StopTheMadness looked great but I'm part of the problem since I can't bring myself to pay for it. I also have trouble convincing myself to pay for any Safari extensions on macOS.
I appreciate your remark. Perhaps you agree that part of what's missing from the worst of immigration (including settler colonialism) is humility and reverence for the land?
Our Kids Are Living in a Different Digital World
99 cent pricing wasn't a done deal in the first year of the App store. I wonder what would have happened if Apple (and/or Google) had mandated a price floor for games and if Apple had allowed free, time-limited demos.

I greatly prefer "paid" mobile games without obnoxious monetization schemes. Conveniently someone on HN made a web directory for them:

https://nobsgames.stavros.io
I will give you my list (East Coast USA):

Walmart, Staples, Best Buy, Microcenter, Ace Hardware (there is usually a local one near you that is a Mom & Pop with the affiliation so they can do online orders and inventory management, etc), Walgreens, Lowes/Home Depot, Digikey, Ikea, eBay, or if you don't mind waiting you can just skip the middle man and go right to Ali Express.

Also, it is always a good idea to check the manufacturer's site if you know you want something specific -- they almost always have a 10% - 25% off new customer/newsletter signup deal.
Re: 3, users will absolutely anthropomorphize chatbot AIs, regardless of whether it’s “technically correct”, it’s just human nature.

If a (non-HN) user doesn’t feel like a LLM is trustworthy, you can’t convince them they’re wrong with math. You have to address the issue if you want people to use it.
Raising jet fuel prices via taxes has my support. Raising jet fuel prices only on a specific segment of jet fuel usage does not.
Have you looked at burn.dev? It’s kind of a neat approach where they backend to torch/candle/other things and are also building a pure Rust backend that compiles to webgpu shaders.
Kim Dotcom’s adventure calmed things down for the last wave of digital ip theft. Once that happens with one or two ai copyright disbelievers the rest will calm down.
This just isnt true about "statistical chance". The IQ distributions are very different and a huge amount of the top talent emigrates anyway. 130 iq is order 1/100 in america and more than 1/1000 in india. Population difference doesnt make up the gap.
I've used it for identifying dominant colors in images.
A big benefit of partitioning is being able to drop partitions that expire instead of doing deletes. Assuming you’ll ever need to delete of course!
They take more than that into account see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Open_Market_Committe...
> Got it resolved by reaching out to some high level executive contact we got via our investor.

Oh man that is my nightmare. Nothing says "broken system" like having to circumvent the system to get something done.
The article very clearly is trying to make it sound like we didn't think there were any pre-Columbian cities in the Amazon:

> While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.

Machu Picchu was built in the ~1400s, not long before Magellan's voyage. Bringing that in as the example of the cities we knew about is clearly trying to communicate that we didn't believe in pre-Columbian cities in the Amazon, which is completely false. One example among many:

https://news.mongabay.com/2005/10/pre-columbian-amazon-suppo...
At first I got confused, because i thought this was a refreshed version of https://remotestorage.io ....but, i see now that its different/separate.
Interesting they didn't show it in any urban environments. Not pushing that application yet?
It's so much cheaper than tanks though, as long you can get a satellite connection. Which means Elon is ideally positioned to compete with nation states if he wants to. I mean more than he already is. Scary dude.
And fixing all the tiny little mistakes that will litter everything
You probably didn't mean to, but implying that's how the whole of humanity works is a bit out there.

It's the local rules (geographically and temporally), sure. But rules can be changed.
That, plus the Global Express, BBJ, and others exist (and Falcon 10X is coming next year).

Those are also very usable within the US plus on inter-continental trips. If a supersonic-capable jet can only operate subsonic over the US, a lot of the utility drops off (and the compromises required to permit it would become annoying).
The kids used to love our Google mini speaker. There were voice activated games, normal stories, choose your own adventure style stories and a fun little “animal of the day” feature.

Every single one of those things have been deprecated and removed for… reasons?

All we can do with the speaker now is ask it to play music, get the weather, or set a timer.
No, no one gets to get away with breaking the law over and over and over again with a simple "whoopsies" each time they get caught. There needs to be penalties.
I think back 10 years and I was pretty pessimistic about where we would be now, but I think things have mostly turned out worse than I expected. I can’t imagine being a child these days with the increasingly bleak future they’re facing, and I used to feel quite opposite of that; I was jealous of the future they’d get to see that I wouldn’t. So no.
Not to worry, Aeye is coming for all of us.....100% cut....
An further layer of debt has been added by private equity firms to their intricate borrowing arrangements on a regular basis, which has some investors worried about possible hazards to the financial system and the sector at large.

https://www.providentbotanico.org.in/
I wonder how many people actually use many of the newer
features. It seems there’s always new data sources and niche features, but I imagine it’s not deep enough if you work in the field [e.g., chemistry or astronomy].

For me it’s such a shame as I would definitely use it much more often if the language and environment were closer to a typical coding workflow. It’s just such a hassle to have to use a standalone desktop engine, a weird editor, and a quirky language [at least at first] with few 3rd party libraries.
Oh I just realized this was Cory Doctorow, who I generally like. I suppose the rant is on brand, though I think he gives too much credit to Tim Apple's[1] alleged mind control powers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/7/18254958/tim-cook-apple-tr...
There are zero examples named in your comment, and your TLDR ("hooking into the running process and changing the variable") has no relevance to either the question you're ostensibly responding to ("Can you point to examples") or the subject of the blog post I originally mentioned ("a TWEAK macro to do this at the source level"). It's a baffling reply all-around.
You are right. I also checked out NTSB incidents per year, also down or flat over last decade.
https://blog.google/products/assistant/google-assistant-bard...

Was announced in October, but haven't seen anything about it since.
Meshtastic has been deployed and used several times, with high success.
Any public facing service should not be allowed to certify internally. Other than quality assurance ofc, external certification should be mandatory and be done by certified agents.
not my area, but it seems like states who use small drones have begun manufacturing their own

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-produce-one-mil...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/construction-progresses...

^ not just ukraine but I think they're the farthest along this curve
Pascal is certainly not dead, at least some friends who are Delphi folks use it both for work and side projects.

On the other side... not sure how many newbies learn Pascal these days, though.
How is the smell?
Alexa does that too. It's the same offline wake sound model that processes Alexa and Hey Google. There's a list you can assign to do stuff (send you a notification or turn on a light or whatever)

dog barking, baby crying, snoring, glass shattering, smoke alarm beeping, co2 alarm beeping, appliance beeping, running water
Thanks for the mention! I remember playing a bit of the previous game from the same author (Dropsy!)
Why do you assume out of hand they would be low quality?

The short answer? Peers and past performance as a predictor of the future. Transport aircraft are way more complex and held to higher standards than military aircraft. Or look at where the SSJ100, SpaceJet, ARJ-21 and C919 are today. COMAC's delivered four C919s in three years and has yet to get EASA or FAA certification. Most of the C919 orders are from big Chinese banks or leasing companies with no clear interest from airlines (domestic or foreign).
Wacom is a totally separate device from a laptop, and can be positioned so that you can comfortably write/draw while looking straight on at your screen.
I mean, this was already heading to be the case pre llm.

The internet was already becoming ad farms. This is the final blow and now the internet as we knew it will die.

I’m not that pessimistic about llm generated content. I’m starting to use it to rewrite my online and slack comments for grammar, I’m also using it for brainstorming, enhancing things I create, code (not as in “ok ai write me an app” but as in “change this code to do this, ok this is not considering x and y edge cases, ok use this other method, ok refactor that” it is saving me a lot of typing and silly mistakes while I focus on the meat of the problem.