skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple blacklisted Parler in January 2020. Of course, they were an app store app, not a user, but they established the precedent that they ban for political views they don't like.
Not the handle it's the frameless window, which is my least favorite feature on my car. It's just needlessly complicated and throws passengers off all the time.
I know people keep saying "higher interest rates do reduce inflation", but I'm yet to see any supporting evidence for this. Japan is a nice example where the exact opposite appears to be true.

The soft landing in the US could easily just be down to the stimulus effect of handing out free money in the form of interest when inflation was going to come down anyway as the supply shocks work through the system.

Interest rates predictably influencing inflation is now on the level of a test of faith.
Edit: Eating clean is associated with all cause mortality, not diet [1].

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578477/
while retirement communities exist, that certainly isn't what I was describing.
6174 is only remarkable if you count in base 10. This is HackerNews, so we all use hexadecimal. Sadly, according to https://kaprekar.sourceforge.net/output/sample_hex.php, there is not a simple Kaprekar Constant in base 16.
Cities aren't writing tickets or fines if you don't decide to purchase an electric vehicle.

They may choose policies that incentivize EV use to meet climate/environmental goals, but any sort of enforcement policy that mandates private citizens must purchase and drive EVs would quickly get shot down in court.
> but it will turn out that the patience is almost more important

You never used a 3D printer or other kind of slow robot, have you?

Computers are infinitely patient and relentless. That has huge implications.
Even now we see many cases where "files are stored in the database" eventually migrates to "we store files on the filesystem and pointers to them in the database". I know at least a few projects that have done that migration at some point.
Code changes should be trivial to roll back. Infra changes can be very difficult to roll back, however.
I did this / am doing this. It is indeed nice. However, depending on where you want to live and of course how you want to live, “several million post-tax” after buying 2 homes doesn’t necessarily cut it. I think this is what leads to the “dragon” mindset described.

Maths:
- 7MM post tax (let’s say)
- Less 2MM for 2 houses (rates being what they are you’ll likely not mortgage both properties, or even one; if you do your monthly burn is so much higher it comes out in the wash).
- 4% because you read about FIRE
- 200k pre-tax (you tax burden should be low, maybe 15%)
- 170k post tax for your family. If you live anywhere higher than average COL you might find yourself feeling a bit like a large reptile at times.
I live in Quebec. A lot of people here own Teslas, but a common complaint I hear from Tesla owners is the sub-par winter reliability.

It's not even the range reduction - EV owners here are prepared for that - it's the fact that the car seems to have been designed by someone in California who has never seen a winter storm in their life. A colleague had her windshield crack when the defrost was running in her driveway. Another broke the driver's side window because the window was iced shut after freezing rain and Tesla for some reason requires the window to automatically retract an inch when opening the door, which it can't do when frozen. There have been numerous reports in the media of paint peeling on brand new Teslas when exposed to winter road salt.

Notably, other EV manufacturers don't seem to suffer from these issues, but Tesla is currently the only game in town for reasonable delivery times - everyone else is 12 months plus.
is this a serious response?

before they had cars people used horses.
Isn't most of norway's population concentrated in the southernmost part, around oslo? I would guess that electric car ownership is even more disproportionately concentrated there too.

Checking wikipedia quickly it looks like oslo and chicago have similar winter temperatures, so chicago's cold snap would be an outlier for most norwegians too.
I'd say that a tool itself can't be guilty of copyright infringement, only the person using the tool can. So it doesn't matter if the GPT has some sort of "notion" of a copyrighted work in it or not. GPTs aren't sentient beings. They don't go around creating things on their own. Humans have to sit down and command them, and that point, whoever issued the command is responsible for the output. Copyright violation happens at the point of creation or distribution, not at the much earlier point of inspiration or learning.

So yeah, of course imo it should be permissible to share a model that can reproduce copyrighted works. Being "capable of being used" to violate a law is not the same thing as violating a law.

A ton of software on my computer can copy-paste others' work, both images and words. It can trivially break copyright. Hell, there are even programs out there than can auto-generate code for me, code that various companies have patent claims for. Do I think distributing any of this software should be illegal? No. But I think using that software to infringe on someone's copyright should be.

(Note: This is different than if the program distributed came with a folder that included bunch of copyrighted works. To me, sharing something like that would be a copyright violation.)
One could argue that the development of any technology, including medicine, is augmented by the internet allowing people to instantaneously pool knowledge and skills across the entire world. There are obvious benefits to that - the rates of technological development seen since the invention of telephone and fast transportation are sky-high, compared to pretty much the rest of known human history, so it stands to reason that the internet will do the same but even better. Would have we seen a COVID vaccine (or rather, multiple vaccines) in a matter of mere months, without the internet? Probably not - it took decades to get a vaccine for influenza.

Looking back, I don't think we'll look at it like "the internet allowed us to create technology X and Y", but rather "the internet turned our tech development rates, across the board, into hockey sticks steeper than we'd ever seen before".
I have been readding, or listening to Rick Rubins book, it's got some good stuff for finding and holding onto your passions, exploring within yourself what they are.
The James Webb Space Telescope hasn't found life out there–at least not yet
Walmart now has this. The first time I used it I was asked to allow a random screening of 3-7 items, but since then I have not had to deal with that. Just scan and go.
AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
In Spanish, just 11 to 15.
The article is a good summary of RAG in the enterprise. It shed some light for me on the quality of building KG using LLMs, as recently, it is an approach that Neo4j was proposing [0].

According to the article, it is either costly (if using OpenAI), or slow using open source AI models. In both cases, predicting the quality of generated KG using LLMs is hard.

[0] https://github.com/neo4j/NaLLM
Why don't they reserve some power just for that or have a separate battery using different technology? It's not a rocket science to have a low capacity battery which can last years in freezing temperatures.
The price is steep but if I used it every day I could probably justify it.

The one thing that I noticed immediately is it seems to still use micro usb.

Without usb c it is a non starter, especially at that price.
American Airlines Removing First Class, TVs AndLegroom from Cross Country Planes
https://www.dbreunig.com/2023/05/17/prompt-injection-seeding...
Then, why didn’t that school Just give them those Nokia phones?

Because this is an advertising puff piece for the light phone. I’m going to guarantee you that someone in that company has connections to that school.
The title is misleading and needs to drop the word "open".
48 miles assumes 12 hours of charging every day, in 50 degree or warmer weather. You haven't covered how you're planning on securing the charger or getting power to it for someone that lives in an apartment.

I have multiple EVs in my household, I'm completely onboard. People acting like they're for everyone today are delusional with the current state of charging infrastructure in the US.

We've had the unfortunate need to use public charging a handful of times and almost every single time it has been an absolute nightmare. From non-working chargers to long lines (because of all the aforementioned people who only have access to public chargers). The only time it has been relatively painless was road trips when it's the middle of nowhere middle america because most folks that live there don't have EVs.
I feel the emotionally charged nature of the topic prevents a lot of rational discussion from taking place. That's totally understandable too, it's the livelihood for some of those involved. Unless we start making specific regulations for Generative AI, current copyright law is pretty clear: you can't call your art a Picasso, but you can certainly say it was inspired by Picasso. The difference is that GAI can do it much faster and cheaper. The best middle ground in my opinion is to allow GAI to train on copyrighted data, but the output cannot be copyrighted, and the model weights creating it can't be copyrighted either. Any works modified by a human attempting to gain copyright protection should have to fulfill the requirements to be substantiative and transformative just as fair use requires now.
Google says enrollment was 78 students nine years ago, let's guess it's around 100 now; 25 kids per grade, managing those cell phones is a tractable problem compared to a school with 1000 kids.
How many operations are required to train a model and what is the base error rate of GPUs?
Off the top of my head, things like "Paste URL into Text" (which VSCode Markdown supports out-of-the-box), an extension for being able to define shortcuts for heading 1, 2, etc., connecting to Zotero, converting links to Markdown before exporting PDF, exporting PDF using pandoc templates, "Zoom" in sections while hiding the other sections (it was a neat extension), etc.
Not quite as revolting as "Doritos Liquor" or "Mac&Cheese Ice Cream" but in the same class.

AI central planning artifacts. They don't know what it is to taste, so they just try random "addictive" flavors in new products, appropriate or not.
I remember that tool, it did not work last time it was recommended.
Don't be. This merger being blocked means JetBlue now won't acquire Spirit at an inflated valuation. Instead when the company is liquidated they can buy the airport slots they so direly need without all the extra debt -and- they get to pick through anything else they want like airframes. So your favourite airline will likely get everything it wants (seems like they were willing to pay more than Frontier anyway) with nothing it doesn't. The only downside is they have to wait for bankruptcy proceedings which are about 4-6 quarters away looking at Spirits run-rate and revenue projections.

However you should be sad in general because this is a terrible judgement that dooms a business from taking the only way out that would have been a reasonable outcome for its employees, shareholders and users.
I heard the same story, but it was chiefly about equipment, and largely diesel (which is what kinda makes them okay to idle overnight as supposedly the consumption of diesel engines on idle is quite low.)
For sure taxes are down.

But having my tax rate go from 40% to 55% or 60% isn't going to solve, for example, NYC subway construction costs being 8x per mile more than Paris (a more socialist / strong union / pro-labor country).

So we have a serious cost disease in our cities.

Look at crazy stuff like this - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/la-sombrita-bus-los-an...
I disagree because querying is an important feature of most databases as usually conceived, so I think filesystems are only a subset of a database.
Beware of misleading GPU vs. CPU benchmarks
This is certainly a media frenzy and it appears to be all about a single charging station. My ICE vehicles have also struggled or refused to start in this cold.
This seems pretty clear to me. Open models are often remixed (e.g. fine-tuned, quantized, etc), which means it's pretty common to download an alternative model that leans on the trustability of the original open model. Look at all the llama finetunes floating around. This paper shows that these may not be zero-trust decisions, and it might be hard to determine if the weights have been subtly backdoored.

Closed models have a much worse problem - the model could simply be malicious and you wouldn't know, or it could be wrapped in a malicious wrapper with arbitrary parameters. On the other hand, usually with closed models, you know exactly who to blame if it generates bad code, and companies like OpenAI or Anthropic are very sensitive to the potential reputational risk of generating malicious code.
I have text notes that go back to 1997, PDF annotation notes back to 2003. I use PDF annotations for books, articles and webpages (save to PDF). About 70 gigabytes of annotated PDFs at this point.

I need to be absolutely sure PDF annotation tool will be around in a year 2050! Obsidian may withdraw their subscription offer at any time! Or raise subscription to $10000 per year (someone here says much higher price would be a steal!). I will always be able to run Logseq PDF annotator! Maybe in virtual machine. Or I will patch it (I have source code!!!). I have control over it!

And I really really hate fiddling with plugins. I was never much of Vim/Emacs guy for this reasons (prefer integrated IDEs such Idea). Logseq just works without setting up dozens of plugins and scripts. I use vanilla version with two plugins (video timestamp annotations and extra theme).
I tried both and am using Joplin. Has less fuss around it and I focus more on simply taking notes .. the syncing is also cheaper and you can use for work
My first vehicle in high school was a diesel pickup in Alaska that wouldn't start at -20F.
Fujitsu apologizes for software bugs that fueled wrongful convictions in UK
> there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system

Having written an interface to FoundationDB in preparation to moving my app over to it, I couldn't disagree more.

Even "has proper indexes" is not something we'd agree on. In my case, for example, I am extremely happy with the fact that my indexes are computed in my app code, in my language, and that I am not restricted to some arbitrary concept of database-determined "indexable fields" and "indexable types".

Then there are correct transactions, versionstamps (for both keys and values), streaming large amounts of data, all of that in a distributed database, it's really nothing like a filesystem.
That was the idea behind the (ill-fated) ReiserFS, IIRC?
What is wrong with America's "family court" system
Wait till you learn about the research done by the Pentagon that we all pay for that sees the light of day.
I wonder if models destined for Norway get better heaters.
I am confused by what youre saying. Anthropic's research and Karpathy's speculation about attack paths based on the idea of "sleeper agents" are both (as far as I know) new ideas and apply to closed models just as much as they do to open ones. There is nothing about this research that is specific to either open or closed source models.

This spin from ars technica and others seems to just be anti-open source AI editorializing aimed at increased regulatory capture for the big players.
This is more a issue with the current legislation rather than a technical one.
Griffin https://www.juxt.pro/blog/clojure-in-griffin/
Wavefront
Have you read “How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization”?

https://gen.medium.com/how-a-tv-sitcom-triggered-the-downfal...
The open letter says that "open access" would "[threaten the] financial stability that enables us to support peer review that ensures the quality and integrity of the research enterprise."

Fact: peer reviewers are mostly unpaid. Journals might have some paid staff, but the way peer review works is academics are expected to do the actual reviewing work for free. Doing this a lot and being famous in your field gets you a fancy title like "editor", but that doesn't usually come with money attached.

Peer review itself would work just as well in an arXiv + easyChair model like some of STEM does it, replicating the value of journals for a much lower cost (and saving some trees in the process).

Public access to publicly funded research is long overdue.
Anthropic Claude itself is a sleeper agent.

You are happily conversing with it, then all of a sudden it scolds you, calls you evil, and says it can’t help you because it is a helpful and harmless agent, thereby seeking to gaslight you.
The magic of water in clay makes objects cold, like the Olla pots for water or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator

I have no clay cars sadly, not sure how ordinary cars handle wind chill.
Should have gone the other way. I will never apply Hidden Valley ranch to my lips. However, I might find a use for a Burt's Bees flavored salad dressing.
I was in Oslo 5 years ago and even then, the parking meters outside apartments had been retrofitted with charger, and this was on parallel parking spots.

A lot of cold countries have plugs at every parking spot for block heaters. It's not too big a leap to retrofit those for some level of charging.
Yes, you can use that or you can use the API. Some password managers are integrated with the API so they will do that for you.

Edit: I know at least 1Password and Bitwarden do that for you.
How A TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization (2016)
I never understood the appeal of infinite canvas. Something about it makes me feel like I'm not in full control of my notes/documents. I like it when the information is clearly structured.
Which one should I support in my (automatically translated) SaaS?
>Or does everyone care, but some hold themselves to impossibly high standards?

That's your answer right there.

Do you know the age old saying "That is above my paygrade."? It means you shouldn't care more than what you are paid to do, which in turn will hopefully prevent you from burning out.

>I don't know how to separate "lower standards" and "stop caring".

You need to remember that your personal satisfaction ("I did good work!") is independent from your peers' satisfaction ("He did good work!"), and that correlation is not causation.

Life is short, draw a clear line between your personal and professional lives and budget your limited capacity for passion appropriately.
This article is not really about debugging, but I would like to add something about debugging, and how the author relates it to programming:

I recall one time I helped a relative diagnose and fix a problem with the plumbing at his cottage. My relative was so elated afterward because he enjoyed the evidence gathering, proposing a hypothesis, going down one path of investigation, crossing that off, going down another path, trying experiments, etc. That was all a new experience for him. I didn't want to ruin his excitement by saying what I was thinking: that it was exactly the same debugging I have done all day at work nearly every day for years, and so I did not share his excitement, although I always enjoy a good debugging session.

This is all to say that I don't think debugging should be seen as exclusively a programming skill. It's a general skill that can be applied to certain types of problem solving. I probably learned it initially by playing with toys like train sets and wooden blocks. Later, I would use it when repairing things around the home. The schools I attended never attempted to teach debugging. My parents never knew how to debug. I think it is a useful skill for any person to know, but maybe I am biased. If we wanted to, we could teach children how to do it with physical mechanisms, and it would probably be intuitive, and maybe even fun.
Great, but this is a private boarding school. I'm more concerned about the (over) use of Chromebooks in public schools. It's trivial for kids to tab over to Youtube or a gaming site in the middle of class. I would've done the same thing if I'd been given a laptop for 6 hours a day in school. When I see my kids trying to write math equations or use a virtual ruler/compass to do math homework, it really pains me. Let's go back to writing things by hand.
Why? They're not illegal to own. It's not clear to me what Nintendo would sue them for
I'm not sure how an Uber driver can solve the Chicago problem for himself. More infrastructure is really needed. Although the amount of additional infrastructure needed isn't necessarily vast. It sounds like they had enough chargers for normal days.
LLMs are just going to ouput "7". Then an infinite cycle of "Are you sure?"... "I apologize por the error, it's 5" etc.
AirPods are Bluetooth Class 1 devices and can transmit at 100 mW as well! A larger (omnidirectional) antenna doesn't increase the EIRP either, which is what is limited in case for both Bluetooth and 802.11.

> And in a busy environment (I often see dozen's of APs in a scan) pretty much every channel is occupied

Most of these channels are overlapping anyway, so we're really only talking about 3 or so channels in the 2.4 GHz band.

And due to CSMA/CA, 802.11 has to back off in case of sensing any sufficiently powerful interference. Bluetooth Class 1 definitely seems like it would qualify, so Bluetooth will actually make 802.11 on all of these channels back off, reducing the duty cycle and creating enough gaps for Bluetooth to statistically get its transmissions through.

Bluetooth audio (A2DP) only needs about 300 kbit/s anyway; that's less than 20% of the total possible Bluetooth throughput, so even if every single transmission needs 5 retries, you'd still not have audio dropouts.

I've never been in an environment where 802.11 was actually able to overwhelm Bluetooth audio connections, neither A2DP (which is heavily buffered), nor HFP (which isn't). Microwaves or older "non-backoff" 2.4 GHz transmitters (old babyphones, analog cordless phones etc.) definitely can, though.
This seemed entirely separate to the rest of the article. No one is literally running their battery down to absolutely nothing - they are just having longer queues than average at the charger. And if you do run your battery down to exactly nothing, this can be an issue even on a hot day.

The model 3 will open the window a bit when you open the doors, but if you use the mechanical override, it doesn't break the window, it just risks damage to the rubber seal around the window. I believe it's not really a problem unless you use that as your normal method to open the door for an extended period.
At Walmart, where I often shop, they have an overhead camera watching to make sure every item gets beeped. Sometimes I get stopped for that. Maybe that system is the bottleneck to faster scanning, or maybe they want to try to avoid double-beeping items and pissing off their customers so they set up a debounce. It would be great if stores were more open about their implementation.
ReFS has some learnings from WinFS
I'm not talking about retirement communities. I'm talking about normal small towns where >50% of the kids move to the cities where the jobs are.
I just moved all of my stuff into Notes.

It’s Good Enough. Other tools have a million cool extra features, but in practice most of those just give me an excuse to screw around with the tool instead of work with the information inside it.

Notes isn’t flashy. Howver, it does all of the things I truly need such an app to do. So fine.

It also has the huge, free feature that I can share notes with my wife and we can edit them together. That came in handy over Christmas with our shared shopping list.
That depends on whether one lives in a politically diverse state.