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AGI and GPT Algorithm Explained
I did as well. From an espressif employee.
It's hard for them to iterate. Every batch must sell so any improvements come really slowly.
It's confusing as hell.

I know what options are. I trade options on the public market frequently and make some beer money.

But when it comes to my stock options in the private startup I work at, I'm lost, mainly because the share price is shown as one of two numbers: Fair Market Value, and Issue Price.

Let's say I joined after a funding round where the company earned a $5B valuation. I'm given the option to buy 10,000 shares at $4/share, which is the "Fair Market Value" price. But the investors paid $16/share. How much are my shares actually worth? $4 or $16? I THINK the answer is actually "neither", since my shares have no liquidity without using a private equity trading firm like Forge. But is the $5B valuation determined from the FMV or the issue price?

But ignoring that, let's say we IPO with a $25B valuation. Ignoring dilution, if my shares were worth $4 before, they're now worth $20/share, and I've profited $160K. But if my shares were actually worth $16, they're now worth $80, for a profit of $800,000.

Which is it really?
While technically they were "local"--like the vast majority of newspapers, people usually don't mean something like the Chicago Tribune when talking about local papers and local news.
> Over time you start realizing that there are no silver bullets

I hate to be that guy, but there is 1 silver bullet. Erlang. Whether you are writing code for a cluster of machines or a single node, the developer experience is the same.
Maybe they should try applying in the east coast. There is no AI, cloud or startups here.

You will have to stomach finance or the military industrial complex though.
Well sure. But if Russia has initiated effectively a war against an allied nation, and we see the missiles Russia shoot into Ukraine contains these commodity chips... we need to have a discussion with customs.

We can see that Russia prefers to import these $1 or cheaper chips, rather than build their own.
We're talking about the economy so the GDP matters, not the social aspects so it does matter. Culture isn't government either. I don't think the US citizens today agree with the us government. But I don't talk about them interchangeably as you do, perhaps you could somewhat make a case for china but most cultures don't associate the citizens as one with government.

>If you banned the burning of oil in the US, that would be awful for GDP, but many americans would like that.

If I banned it, nobody would listen to me because people need to heat their homes, and get food to live. You don't get to pretend to turn off the power, lower the GPD a little and say "many Americans happy". That is fantasy.
Yes - its a truly impressive thing - a world I knew nothing about.
I think this is closest to the truth. Microservices allowed each team to own their own container/jdk and support what they wanted to from the frameworks they were using (mostly spring).

It was trivial then to supply the company with packages that made communication between services as simple as throwing a pojo over the fence. This was simplified again with messaging protocols like protobuf.

Just to add some infrared to an already colorful description of “how we got here”.
Or you can produce Configuration with nix
Simplicity is underrated by a lot of people. I think engineers (myself included) like to overcomplicate things, and think that if something simple implies it not being an intelligent design.

As I mature, I realize that intelligence != complexity, and more often than not, a simpler approach is harder to design and much better in the long run.
in other words, what driving in the South already feels like!
Yeah... Unfortunately the advice becomes much less good when you aren't white.
"We've partnered with $company, but we don't really know what that means, so stay tuned" is the oldest PR stunt ever.
I used to uninstall food delivery apps when not using them, but found that just killing their ability to notify me was equally effective without the hassle of re-signing in every time I needed to use them.
There are several versions that fits different bike handles. I still haven't found anything that fits mine though so have to survive with double gloves.

There are also lobster gloves where you pair two fingers next to each other to keep warm and still be able to use the breaks and shifters.
Kidney Dialysis Patients Were the Pandemic's Perfect Victims
For sure as others have mentioned review it yourself in the web interface of whichever PR tool you use. (Generally after having a break first)

This is something of a superpower for catching things before review and in my experience makes the actual third party review pointless 95% of the time.
Our brains are clearly physical reactions. Check and mate.
From an American perspective, “free” or “open” are better translations than is “liberal” here.

“Liberal research” will leave people scratching their heads.
Just looked and close to me the record low was -37C but we still get -30 every winter for sure and -20 on many days throughout the winter. (Quebec)

Probably just a normal distribution
Ask HN: Hiring a white-hat hacker to validate the security of your personal life
I'm very anxious about my online security, and I lack the advanced skills to validate whether I'm truly safe.

I do all the usual things; I use a password manager, enable 2FA on critical accounts, never give my passwords or passcodes to anyone, even those I trust.

However I constantly stumble on the same question: if a hacker found a crack in my defenses, to what extent could they wreck my life? Today I nearly fell victim to a spearphishing attempt. I hung up before any damage was done, but the experience shook me up.

I've been considering hiring a white-hat hacker to essentially do a dry-run of what a malicious actor would do to me if I were their target. How far could they get? How much of my personal information could they glean? What accounts could they access by abusing that information?

My question is twofold:
* Is this a good idea? Or is putting my security in the hands of a third-party equally dangerous?
* If hiring someone is ill-advised, are there guides for securing myself to a point where I am safe from the majority of attacks?
Bandcamp has always lacked a coherent vision.

They have an app but it is incredibly underpowered and lacking logical features.

Each band can list their tour dates but there is no feed where users can see all of the bands that are going to be in their area, etc.

Just very frustrating because all the primitives are in place, but there’s no product vision.
I have firstname@lastname.io (younger me got swept up when .io was a big thing). Customer service gets confused, but also occasionally websites will tell me it's not a valid domain and I have to fall back to Gmail.
It's always surprised me how the governments in power have done almost nothing to counteract this, given how political the misinformation can be.

As an example, the federal liberal government in Canada is facing an onslaught of very right wing American-style propaganda. Why not actually take steps to minimize this?
FWICS on YouTube, potatoes can be grown in a jute bag or a 5gallon bucket with a hole cut in the side for harvesting and tomatoes on top.

Hopefully we discover additional methods of efficient home cultivation.

Soil depletion in industrial farming is probably more work to remedy because there's not enough residue mulch (~compost) for a field but there is enough for a garden.

How does mandatory composting of food waste change the - indeed probably contrived to affect real estate markets - relative efficiency of no till farming and no dig gardening?
So screw/stud termination. Yes, ring or spade(/fork) lug would be much better than bare wires, twisted or not. As I understand it, crimping is almost always the preferred way to terminate/connect wires.
I have never seen something like his appearance on Crossfire on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

And here is him speaking to Congress over their shameful handling of benefits for 9/11 responders. Nuff said?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM
Just try the barmits already :-) With the right ones you can use your summer gloves inside.
I sure wish <keygen> had had a good UI. We could be living in a world where two factor authentication based on PKI and personal HSMs would have been a thing. (I'm sure I'm thinking of it thru nostalgia-colored glasses...)
Would it be possible for someone to make some "night-time driving glasses" that are shutter LCD-type (3d TV glasses) and which synchronize to the duty cycle of any bright LED lights in the FOV and minimize the brightness to a certain threshold?

Do newer LED headlights even have a duty cycle?
Microsoft video games division lays off 1,900 staff
Tumbug: A pictorial, universal knowledge representation method
I was working with erlang for around 2 years at Ericsson where of course it's used right.. I really miss it to be honest but advocating for it at my later jobs was just a nightmare !
The part which comes after the embrace is extend..

..and it's a very specific strategy, about "embracing" an existing standard (integrating it into their products and pushing it), then adding a bunch of non-standard "extensions" to the standard, which "extinguishes" the standard and the other implementations because now everyone's writing against Microsoft's proprietary version instead of the actual standard. Think "Works best in Internet Explorer" web pages which used ActiveX controls (Microsoft's "extension" to the web), or Microsoft's Java implementation which omitted the standard JNI and introduced Microsoft's own proprietary FFI solution to make sure Java programs written for Windows wouldn't work on other systems.

I struggle to see the connection to this ActiBlizz/Xbox case. EEE doesn't stand for "embrace then extinguish".
> These results demonstrate that closing the toilet lid prior to flushing does not mitigate the risk of contaminating bathroom surfaces and that disinfection of all restroom surfaces (ie, toilet rim, floors) may be necessary after flushing or after toilet brush used for the reduction of virus cross-contamination.

I fear the collision of safety culture and robot technology that will make it cheap and easy to actually keep bathroom surfaces sterile. We'll adapt to our increasingly sterile bubbles and become increasingly vulnerable to Earth's microbiome.

The same kind of objections apply to things like clothes, shelter and agriculture. I'm not advocating that we do away with these, or the idea of cleanliness. But our dependence on them comes with a cost that isn't always worth paying. Particularly where the cost is a compromised immune system.
> You can't decide the fact - if you could, it wouldn't be a fact. Or do you mean something else here?

It's a distinction between facts and the law.

The judge decides what the law is, e.g. the statute says "knowingly" and someone sent a letter to the company informing them, but the person who read the letter isn't the person who performed the act, so does that mean the company acted knowingly?

The jury decides what the facts are, e.g. the company claims the letter didn't inform them but the sender claims that it did. Both admit the letter existed but neither of them kept a copy of it. The jury decides whose version of the facts is the truth.

> I mean, that should be really obvious in a case like this, no?

Kind of the opposite.

This is one of the problems with "professional" fact finders -- prosecutors get a pretty good idea of what kind of cases they can win and don't bring the ones that they can't. So then any kind of a repeat player keeps seeing people they're likely to find guilty because they're disproportionately more likely to be the ones who come before them, and start to assume guilt, and then carry that into the determination even when someone is innocent. To mitigate that you need fresh eyes.
Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry into A.I. Deals by Tech Giants
Who pays, and why: A researcher examines the ransomware victim's mindset
Agreed, that's why functional governments ( democratic or not ) always offer some kind of "candy" for the plebs. It's an optimization problem, what it the exact point where we lose control of the situation? then dial it back a few notches.

It's not because of morality of being "good", it's a practical mechanism for every power structure.

The "saving grace", is that these power structures tend to become so corrupt they can't assess that threshold anymore and then "people revolt", which by itself is far from any guarantee of success or any meaningful change. That's one of the reasons the "silent majority" is not too adept of "revolutions" and always wait to see which horse they should bet.
&nbsp; has been my go-to when I'm working in markdown and don't want to use html elements
The patient is alive. The lander still functioned on batteries. The solar panels are facing the wrong way, but they hope that the panels will produce power when the angle of the sun changes.
Users certainly do still need to care about having encryption at the physical layer. Wi-Fi networks having done key exchange and taking that out of the equation for regular users so that they get some guarantees of encryption without constantly doing key exchange on their own is a big deal.

You are correct that transport layer security like HTTPS can protect many connections end to end, however if you have MITM attacks on your physical layer they can do certificate pinning attacks, redirection attacks and more.

Sure, there is a good chance they won't get into your Gmail because Google embeds the certificates of their and the top other websites into their browser, but that's not much consolation.
Absolutely right. My point is just that it isn’t that people couldn’t, but that they can’t. The former meaning that people generally do have the needed skills, the latter meaning they don’t have the opportunity.
Not that long ago, Tesla was seen as producing electric cars for the hippy-dippy set -- with a side business in solar panels.

Musk appears to have changed his ideological alliances, but the Wall Street Journal still has beef with electric cars and solar panels. Their editorial page still regularly calls climate change a hoax.
> Why did you decrease the number by an order of magnitude for your example?

I guess I didn't make that clear -- I was talking about the cost of Prompt 2, since it was an up-front purchase of $10 (back in 2014) and they were complaining about it having been abandoned.
Unless... it's the Powerline trail in Kauai. Then my friends and family will think I'm special for having visited there.

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/hawaii/kaua-i--2/powerline-t...
I think you're optimizing the wrong thing here. We don't need to be hyper efficient in terms of Sun's energy, as it's one of the most abundant sources of energy available and will not run out any time soon.

First one should optimize over land and resource use, as well as sustainability (CO2, fertilizer run-off etc.). Not to mention cost (including subsidies).
Startups, sure, but <1% of people are running such startups I imagine. So it's fair to say this isn't relevant to most people?
I love research articles that include TL;DR bulletpoints/ Highlights

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Viral aerosols from toilet flushing pose a possible route of pathogen transmission.
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Toilet lid closure prior to flushing is believed to mitigate cross-contamination.
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We show toilet lid closure prior to flushing does not mitigate cross-contamination.
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Brushing toilet bowl without disinfectant results in contamination of surfaces.
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The use of a disinfectant during bowl cleaning reduces cross-contamination of surfaces.
An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server
Please show the measurements for that real life application performance.
> distance may help keep the peace

Its the opposite actually, distance increases the information latency.

The higher latency the more uncertainty (and paranoia about what other side will do).

You will notice your neighbor slowly changing their attitudes and ideas because you can see it happen. You can intervene or prepare for whats happening, but

At space distances by the time you see those changes, their relativistic weapons were already fired. And even if there was some cultural shit and they regretted firing it, its already too late to do anything
>"The antenna is already coherent because it is driven by a single signal.

1) Did you mean laser or antenna?

2) By single signal, did you mean single frequency? (If so, I get it. If not, please elaborate...)

>"The lightbulb isn't because individual electrons are being shaken randomly by thermal noise. The laser is coherent because it is taking advantage of stimulated emission which makes the output photons coherent with the environmental field."

3) If thermal noise is the reason that a lightbulb's light cannot be made coherent -- then could you suggest a method whereby the thermal noise in the lightbulb could be removed such that the light emitted could be made coherent?

4) What do you mean exactly by "environmental field"? (A Google search for that term in the context of Physics -- seems not to yield any results -- but then again I lay no claim to being the best Google searcher out there...)
Peacock spider's (a jumping spider) mating dance is one of my all time fav's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxM_cag99nU
A lot of people are heavily invested and bought in at high valuation so the “copium” takes are going to be littering the internet for a while.
If anything, having computers do the judging with cameras setup from all directions with human judges available to override in particularly suspect rulings is more fair to everyone and everything involved: The players, the spectators, the judges, and the game.

It will take away most of the fun(?) of arguing a judge's ruling and gaming them, but I will fundamentally always support making games fairer and objective'er.
Installing Linux may indeed be the safest thing. If the OP's aim is to get at some old files, running Linux off a live CD (i:e without actually installing it) might be a good option. I've lost track of what's the best distro these days for old hardware - maybe someone else might comment to that.
I have 2 Macs, PCs, and Linux. I need a cross-platform editor, for which I use emacs or VS Code right now. Will Zed eventually go cross-platform before 2025?
You would think that it would dynamically check the system on first run and set appropriate defaults.
Yes and it is. If they actually believed in libety or democracy they wouldnt drag their feet like this and be content with merely bei g “more liberal” than your standard dictatorship.
Christ! Kill it with fire..?
> There’s a market for people who want something snappier than VSCode but less labor-intensive to set up than emacs, and I wish them luck

Basically AstroNvim or Doom Emacs. Not a huge fan of Doom Emacs but AstroNvim got me to drop my main editors (Sublime + Atom) and I basically only use AstroNvim.

One enormous advantage of Nvim is that I can run it anywhere. I run it on a Linux machine, a Mac, and a Tablet (w/ Termux) extremely easy (just clone my dotfiles, install nvim, and that's it).
I'll have to take your word on recent Lenovo laptops. It's been well over a decade since I got my Yoga 11. The hinge on that laptop was quite good. The keyboard sucked though.

Perhaps they retained enough of the original employees that workflow and procedures remained similar, which resulted in similar products for a long time.

Certainly the tooling wouldn't have changed immediately.
> learning that the analog readings for a Pico and ESP32 come at a massive 16 bit precision (a number between 0 and 65536)

Sigh. No they don't. RP2040 ADC has output resolution of 12 bits with ENOB of about 8.7. MicroPython probably scales those up.

Also, 65535.

This is surprisingly low quality blog post for HN standards.
I'm not even that good at writing Rust and even I recognize that countless libs I'm using are written in a way, with Rust types, that prevent serious mis-use. In ways that would be infeasible and unergonomic in other languages, or require internal library invariant assertions that are prone to bugs.

Sometimes the errors wind up being nasty, but I've also gotten better at trusting that the compiler is giving me helpful info, even if it's a huge message. And usually those errors indicate some library invariant that I've missed that the type system is enforcing.
And this is something that ONCE by 37signals is trying to bring back: https://once.com
I do care in the sense that I don’t want to live in some sterilized clean room Disney world.

See also the neutering of all the big commercial models. No one is running / giving access to a high quality virtually (or completely) uncensored model.
FWIW, Homeworld 3 is coming out in 2 months, and I, for one, and psyched up about it
History of Philosophy – Summarized and Visualized
Egg whites were used to starch habits and for various other tasks, but communion wafers are pressed bread, and don't have any egg in them at all. I could not find any confirmation of your statement in a reputable source, and I have never heard of such a practice. The Catholic Church has long maintained that the host should be made of wheat flour (in the past sometimes with a small addition of another flour) and water only. Egg whites were used to clarify wine for the Eucharist, which might be the source of that likely fable.
Oh I'm definitely full gray beard at this point... I'm 49yo and been at this since 96. At this point it's KISS and railing against unnecessary complexity.

It feels like this is working against me in some interviews and for me in others.
Thanks. That's a cool site I had no idea existed. Frankly, most major news websites should offer this as a normal alternative. The news browsing experience would be so superior in many ways.
>There is no one standard human judge to abuse but with AI there is a single standard.

Having one and only one judging standard is a good thing.
Ask HN: How do I find my most popular HN posts?
On reddit, I can see my most upvoted posts, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/user/[yournamehere]/?sort=top and limit it by time period.

Is there a way to do that here?
I always thought audio quality was something for snobs, but recently my car's aux input died and I burned a few CDs with yt-dlp rips and I get it now. Youtube's 128kbps makes me wince on some of the quieter recordings, even compared to my previous setup of Spotify over a lackluster LTE connection.
Can get flac from tidal or qobuz.
I buy vinyls and go to concerts. That’s how I support musicians. Bandcamp is very nice imho
> If I need a bus schedule, I know to talk to my local transit authority

If this was the case, public transportation usage would go down so much.
Ask HN: What stocks / indices does HackerNews invest in?
I recently reopened a brokerage account and wanted to know what you guys are investing in. I'm quite young so I'm not looking to buy-and-hold for years, probably 6-12 months at a time.
My thoughts:
- Primarily indices / tech stocks (because that's all I can really make opinions about)
- I've heard people say Nvidia is overpriced but 2024 is going to be another AI year I think and so I think it's going up this year, but what are your opinions?
- My thoughts, invest 20-30% in nasdaq, 20-30% in S&P, rest are tech stocks
- I'm honestly quite bearish on Google so I'm surprised it keeps going up, they've stopped innovating imo, they've been doing a lot of layoffs, they're losing the LLM race, am I wrong?
and bearish on Meta & Microsoft

but please tell me (and each other) about any other stocks (or even crypto) you're thinking about
Should be (2022), I think.
You can largely say similar things with go.
Feels like Peter Watt's Blindsight, conciousness not needed for advanced problem solving, and may actually hinder.
Anduril's Comms Strategy