skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to see cloud embrace something similar to this, imds and cloud trails come to mind as a poorer implementation
Yeah, fair, it doesn't add up. The landlord gets a potentially-large boost to marketability by offering a lower nominal rent... But so what? Is it just that that sets a lower competitive equilibrium? Idk.
To save people time, here's the inverse

> Can you explain to a human how you understand things and respond to this question?

GPT: As an AI language model, I don't have understanding in the way humans do. My "responses" are generated based on statistical patterns and relationships in the data I've been trained on. When you ask a question, I analyze the text, identify keywords and context, and then generate a response based on the most probable language patterns that align with the input received. My process is purely computational and lacks consciousness or genuine comprehension.

It's actually fairly easy to prove GPT doesn't understand. My current goto is the fox/goose/grain problem but condition that all items can fit in the boat. I used to use the feathers/bricks question but give it different units (kilograms and pounds), but they patched that. But you only need a single example to show it doesn't understand. People will try to prove it understands by asking follow-up questions, but they don't realize that the questions they act spoil the answer. It is very hard to ask follow-ups and not give away the answer.
And unemployed people don't have to go into the mines.
>If they price them at what they're worth, people grumble and complain about how expensive they have gotten, but that doesn't stop people from buying them,

So by now they're pricing them way more than they are worth, and people are buying it regardless, so there's still further upside :\
Searched for "torch" and first result was the one I had on my geocities page. Brought a smile to my face
I find the entire idea to be ridiculous. The idea that we can measure "better" in the response between "please" x and x, is total nonsense.

On the other hand, it would be trivial to setup a pseudoscientific experiment to "prove" this is true.

I am sure we could "prove" all kinds of nonsense in this context.
>So yes, part of the government is serious, while another part is serious about doing the opposite, which does produce the intended effect: public perception that the US government is not serious about these things.

I disagree with your conclusion. My conclusion is that, yes, the US government really is not serious about these things. It's not just a "public perception", it's reality. It's reality because half the people in that government act this way and make it reality, and because those half the people in government are voted into their positions by half the voters in the population.

>What it will take for all political interests to align for the sake of US interests? Probably turning off financial lobbying from shadow money groups.

Financial lobbying isn't the reason that half the people are voting for a party that works against US's best interests. Those voters really do believe in the people they're voting for, and think that they really can make America like the 1950s again somehow.
I'm not as extensively informed about this guy as you though. I'm familiar with Trump and musk for instance, but this guy less so. He might be the most dangerous man alive tbh.
FAANG salaries are roughly comparable. But they further illustrate the problem: Alphabet and Meta are advertising companies, Apple is essentially the Louis Vuitton or Prada of computers, and Netflix makes entertainment. Amazon is the closest thing to a real company, and it is a delivery service for cheap Chinese products. Moreover, the middle-class jobs generated by those companies, outside the engineering teams, are crappy service jobs.
Related:

FTC Order Prohibits Data Broker X-Mode Social and Outlogic from Selling Sensitive Location Data

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/...
It's the Jevons paradox, but for labour.
It's a hot take, but it is supported by a ton of evidence.
Correction: I've got the integral wrong, of course :)

I've got an expression (after correcting my rusty maths) of

i = k*(n-1+k) / ( (1-r)*(n-1+k)^(p-1) + r*k^(p-1) ) ^ (1/(p-1)) - k

I think there could be precision problems (with p<2 specially)
will do when I share with you the streaming string library I talked about on your discord. I use these arrows in every single namespace I write so this is already part of the plan.

Sometimes, the repetition of encounters is just as meaningful as the people we meet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-shows-that-expander...
https://telecom-paris.hal.science/hal-03814119/document
> The iFixit team was on-hand to advise the overall design, so there are plenty of customer replaceable parts, making it easy to swap out the DIMM, SSD, WWAN card and battery, among other components

So not the display nor the keyboard, the parts that most commonly need to be replaced.

DIMMs and SSD slots are already standard aside from Apple machines and WWAN functionality has damn near always been a slotted card. All Lenovo did was make the battery easy to replace, really. That got them a 9.3 out of 10?

I'm going to take a wild guess that iFixit got a contract for parts or something in exchange for stroking Lenovo's, uh, Trackpoint?
It's more about talent vs. experience. In some fields, you need more time to study the prior art and hone your skills before you are ready to contribute.
The idea that in 1924 people were working 84-hour weeks (including Sunday!) is preposterous. For example Ford introduced the 8-hour day at its factories in 1914.
Just to be clear, as outlined in the article both US and UN require inspections and these plants are “certified”. Clearly the inspectors do jack all. On the other hand, I’m curious how these investigators get all these local managers to give them tours of these plants and be so open like that. Like if a stranger shows up at my work and asks for a tour (whether or not it’s media), I’m not just going to give them a tour.
It's an American newspaper paid for by American oligarchs to promote their goals.

I don't think their goal is improving people's work conditions in far away poor countries.
The mall in my hometown had a giant fully functional clock tower at its centre. It would chime and you could hear it everywhere, too. It was pretty nice, actually.
False dichotomy promoted by American oligarchs.

North Korea isn't an alternative to technofeudalism we have now, let alone the only alternative.
Ryzen Z1's Tiny iGPU
For zsh I use this to setup $PATH, which seems to address most of the use cases of this tool:

### Setup PATH
dirs=(
/usr/lib/ccache/bin # ccache
~/.local/script ~/.local/bin # My local scripts.
~/.local/gobin # GOBIN
/usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin # local takes precedence
/bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin # Standard Unix
/usr/pkg/bin /usr/pkg/sbin # NetBSD
/usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/sbin # OpenBSD
/opt/ooce/bin # illumos
~/.local/share/gem/ruby/*/bin(N[-1]) # Ruby
~/.luarocks/bin(N[-1]) # Lua
~/.local/dotnet/root ~/.local/dotnet/tools # .NET
/usr/lib/plan9/bin # Plan 9 from userspace
~/code/Vim/gopher.vim/tools/bin # gopher.vim
~/.nimble/bin # Nim
~/.cargo/bin # Rust
~/.ghcup/bin # Haskell
)
typeset -U path=() # No duplicates
# Use full path so /bin and /usr/bin aren't duplicated if it's a symlink.
for d in $dirs:A; [[ -d $d ]] && path+=($d)
unset dirs d

typeset -U makes the $path array "unique", and :A ensures the full path is always used (in case of symlinks).

You can probably do something similar with bash, but idk.

$path is tied to $PATH and an array, so you can use it as such for some of the other things:

print ${(F)path} | grep /bin # (F) to print one array per line
print ${(F)path} | sort # can also use (o) to print ordered
>This logic is just not describing what happens in practice. If the government is giving someone monopoly power then yes, but under normal conditions someone trying to execute this strategy just goes bankrupt because competitors will undercut them in high demand periods and supply power in normal periods.

That doesn't track with my experience (Northeastern US).

While I can choose from multiple companies to provide me with electricity (using the extant infrastructure as mandated by the public utilities regulator), the owner of that infrastructure (in my case Consolidated Edison) charges more for delivering that electricity than the cost of the electricity itself.

As such, it doesn't really matter who is providing my electricity -- I end up paying more for the "delivery infrastructure" regardless of my $/kwh costs.
Most undergrads who took Control Engineering courses can "PID without a PhD", what's the point ?
There was a big deal [1] about Russian hackers reverse engineering PRNGs in older slot machines and then scamming casinos for millions.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-sl...
I don’t really care about the conditions of tech workers since the lion’s share of the industry is just a speculative outlet for finance which produces no ‘technology’ whatsoever.

But I’m also beyond believing that the goal of media outlets which shape people’s perceptions is to present objective reality out of the goodness of their hearts.
I've found altair/vega to not 'feel' declarative as whenever I sit down and try to pass in a json config for basic scenarios... something always gets in the way. GG is composable, so this should work in theory, so I've been curious - it feels close.

We have been enjoying Perspective as a more declarative & high-performance flow. Altair/Vega is beautiful though so it was a bummer when we dropped it for a recent project.
HMD Fusion Development Toolkit
HMD is releasing unlocked smartphones with an open specification for accessories using contacts on the back providing power and USB host/device connectivity.
> We dont need less capitalism but rather more and faster.

There is no clean spectrum. We need more good capitalism (free trade, free movement of labor, entrepreneurship) and less bad capitalism (negative externalities, money in politics). Just like we need more good regulations and less bad regulations.

We shouldn't force heterogeneous things into a single conceptual basket (called "capitalism") and then conclude more is better, or less is better. Components of the system should be separated out and analyzed on their own merits.
From a high-level design standpoint, wouldn’t the general-purposeness of NVIDIA’s GPUs (even if they do have some AI/LLM optimizations) put them generally at a disadvantage compared to more custom/dedicated inference designs? (Disregarding real-world issues like startup execution risks, assume competitors succeed at their engineering goals) Or is there some fundamental architectural reason why NVIDIA can/will always be highly competitive in AI inference? Is the general-purposeness of the GPU not as much of an overhead/disadvantage as it seems?

Also how critical is NVIDIA’s infiniband networking advantage when it comes to inference workloads?
"Now that you clarify it's 1080, I'm not sure why you brought that up."

Because I stream at 720p and not 1080p.
Maybe this is a maintenance thing? If the clock is broken/wrong at a plausible time, you might not notice it until it's too late. Better to not have one and make people double check their own time.
“No participation”—-spot on. The brain evolved for social learning.
Perhaps such users tend to disable telemetry
Yeah the title is kinda meh. Teenagers on the robotics team I mentor have figured out PID loops and calibrating them (and how funny robots are when you don’t)
The opening rant in the video is familiar, I've been inspired to colorful language on many occasions too.

I use linux and, reluctantly, macos (and will switch as soon as feasible). But my kids still use windows sometimes though, to play Roblox and Minecraft redstone edition, etc.

I dread any time I'm asked to help with microsoft accounts, or OS re-installations because windows update borked the system (happens at least every 6 months or so), etc. Microsoft's user experience seems to suck in absolutely everything they do.
I did this few years back https://github.com/tuananh/reader

also 2nd version use golang and copmile to wasm https://github.com/tuananh/reader2
amazing how i just read this a few hours ago on HN https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle/ and this article seems to be exactly that
Given what’s outlined in the description above, forced labor doesn’t sound like it would meet the criteria as the chance for defection would be higher (+ glowing reviews from your boss). It sounds more like a description for a highly competitive jobs program.
You're right in every way, it just doesn't matter in this context.

We're talking about using one intel-certified part with another intel-certified part using intel-certified default settings.
"while the majority of the crew fight a fire underneath the kerosene filled cable spools (with kilometers of microphone cables) during a monsoon storm."

That reads like a scene from a distater movie. I am talking regular people with day jobs!

Also, your use of India / Pakistan while you could have used any other nuclear power smells of prejudice.
I love this feature so much, I built a website to let me share clean text URL with others.

The first one use js lib but it's kinda limited. the second one use Go, compiled to wasm. Both deployed to Cloudflare workers

- https://github.com/tuananh/reader

- https://github.com/tuananh/reader2
The way the cabbies talk reminds me of a Cormac McCarthy novel.

This is a good companion read about the taxi vehicles of that time too: http://tlc-mag.com/archive_issues/amer_taxi_oct06.html
San Francisco store tests new shopping method to deter 'rampant shoplifting'
A massive effort is currently underway by undersea mining companies to dredge the life out of huge swaths of largely unexplored seabed, including Antarctic and Polar regions.

It's the same insanity that allows industrial fishing fleets to drag kilometers-long nets through the sea scooping up megatons of bycatch -- although, this time we are likely to obliterate seabed ecosystems before anyone even has a chance to see them.

Some brilliant reads on these and surrounding topics:

https://susancasey.com/

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-deepest-map-laura...
> This logic is just not describing what happens in practice

It is though just not in a way that's obvious. It's not free reign capitalism, there's government oversight to prevent the obvious price gouging. The issue is when that 20 year mark hits and no one was ready but the automated systems were allowed to charge uncapped, 180x normal rate[0].

The power company cut corners where it could, on winterization because "what are the chances of that happening"? Were low, but not zero. They had happened before in Texas's history but they just chose not to because it's relatively expensive to protect against 50 yr time horizons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
Not OP (or in sales), but I'll bite.

First - who are you selling to? Does your product fit their needs or are you wasting everyone's time? How do you find who to sell to? Is there a feature that keeps getting requested that you can bubble up to the product team?

How do you close a sale, or even know who the decision maker is? Is the price too high or too low? Is there a way to work around financing or timing issues?

There is a lot that goes into sales that bleeds into product, marketing and user experience. Not every sale needs all this attention but a salesman needs some sense of all these things to make those extra sales and not waste extra time/money on dead ends.

Flip side would be saying making websites is just making product designs clickable and tying all expected functionality together. Technically true, but it ignores scaling, user flow, bugs, logging, robustness, optimization, etc.

When something looks simple you may be looking too narrowly at something that connects to lots of other areas.
The red/blue split we see is because every blue state has overtly stated renewable energy goals [1] whereas some red states have them, others don’t.

Wyoming wind offers a solution to California’s strained energy system and a path forward for a reliable renewable energy grid because Wyoming wind is at its highest intensity when California demand is highest [2]. But you need to transmit that energy across four states to get it from where it’s produced, to where it’s needed.

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/energy/state-renewable-portfolio-standa...

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/12/28/146566/how-to-ge...
Same goes for politicians that promise to fix things.

Politician that promises curtailing immigration won't do anything to actually do it because it's the source of his political power.
How do you keep them in check?
I load my TOTP tokens into two phones, one that stays at home fully charged. If I lose them, I can easily reset my TOTP with any reasonable provider - I have the account login and password, and can authenticate with my email/provide proof of identity.
https://cooltext.com/ is also a classic
There is always https://zombo.com/, the "Hello World!" of retro websiting
"Alcohol craving" is an interesting way to describe addiction
Offered Business on England's Worst Street [video]
The percentage of owners is trending downward. Homelessness and renting are tending upwards.
California was the leader in deregulation of their electric utilities. AB1890 was passed in 1996 deregulating California's electricity sector.

The '90s deregulation directly led to an 800% increase in wholesale electricity prices in 2000, and rolling blackouts for customers of investor owned utilities like SDGE (San Diego) and PGE (Central/Northern California). The government owned utilities, like LADWP (serving the Los Angeles area) did not need to resort to rolling blackouts (zero blackouts), and currently have much lower rates* while being fully sustained by the rate payers (not having the parasitic "investors" demanding greater profits allows for proper long-term planning and significantly lower prices for the rate payers).

* Average $0.26/kWh LADWP. Average $0.45/kWh PGE
The whole point of PID is any idiot can tweak things to make it work.

Ph.D means you're doing something like:

* H2-optimization and optimal controls

* System ID

* Intuitive classical controls (Bode obstacle course, Nyquist, root-locus, etc.)

* Fancy discrete state-space methods / search / shortest path

* Machine learning, and the thing training itself

... and so on. PID is nice since it's idiot-friendly.

(And even with a Ph.D and a complete understanding of all of the above, it's often more fun or efficient to be an idiot and just use PID; I've never seen a place where PID was the right answer, but it's oh-so-often a good-enough answer)
It's hard to see how the price problems are meaningful. Electricity in Texas is about twice as high than California. The 180x spike last only a few hours in a few spots.

The consumer's total costs over the course of a year are lower in Texas than a California, by a large magnitude.

I realize some people just had a perfect storm of a large monthly bill, but seems like that could be solved by more regulation on the pricing cap side while still leaving the production to be a more open system. I believe Texas has already moved in that direction.
>Wood can flex in a potential earthquake, that's true, they used that in Japan centuries ago, but we've got better materials and technology today. We build houses out of wood because it's cheap, not because it's any good.

Here in Japan, houses are made out of wood, despite what you may have heard. They're not made of "better materials", though I'm quite sure they're constructed much better than stick-built houses in the US. Homes are only made of concrete and steel when they're larger, multi-unit buildings; the 3-floor single-family homes are all wood. For smaller structures, it's a great material; that's why temples and shrines built centuries ago are still standing today despite all the earthquakes. The main problem are just termites and fire, but fire is a problem with steel and concrete structures too.

>Noise travels through wood way too well and that makes urban living a nightmare.

Not a problem in a single-family home. And the thing that makes noise a problem is a lack of insulation between units, not the framing material.
It may be a stupid question but why did you strike through 2022 and 2023? Did you create it in 2022 and maintained it since or is it a recent project?
Magnesium glycinate!
> To be time drunk means to be so “drunk” that one forgets time exists.

Hold up, there's something off about this terminology.

When alcohol-drinks are drunk on alcohol, they may forget many things, but the existence of (more) alcohol is not typically one of them!
Hacking group counter-hacked by the FBI via an unpatched PHP vulnerability. There's no coming back from that level of embarrassment.
Let’s not totally make up news. The extreme cold event did happen, 246 people died, obviously failings on getting facilities prepared for an extreme winter event, how parts of the grid were shut down and ultimately the limited interconnects with the other national grids. I don’t believe there are prime examples for people dead from the heat because of their grid.
I do envy the job specific intensive training though.
Maybe the GP added an extra zero by accident, but 29 vs. 400 is still a huge difference, more than an order of magnitude.
I don't like having TOTP codes available on any connected devices so I got one of these little offline authenticators.

https://shop.reiner-sct.com/authenticator/reiner-sct-authent...
Do you have about six or so virtual desktops? (I use six. You might be more comfortable with four, or maybe ten.)

I use a 43" 4K TV as a monitor, with six virtual desktops. Seems enough surface area for me. At the moment, anyway.

You can put a different 'task' in each desktop: email in one, the normal browser in another, 3 or 4 xterms doing program development in yet another, and so on.
It was supposed to be released in 2022 and then 2023 but kept getting frozen
You're going to make the Framework fans have an epiphany if you keep that up.
>That's true, but also quite meaningless. Before the nuclear phaseout started, renewables contributed less than 7% to electricity generation, now it's over 56%, so it more than compensates for the missing nuclear generations.

You misunderstood what I was saying. Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history and it was really incredibly poor decision making to start shutting down nuclear power plants while still burning coal. If one thinks that climate change is important, it makes zero sense to eliminate nuclear plants while you are still burning coal. Zero sense. Even if someone thinks it is better to pander to the coal industry or doesn't believe climate change is an existential threat to human civilization, burning coal by itself directly kills thousands of people each year. One recent estimate puts that at 1800–2260 deaths in Germany each year. As climate scientist James Hansen has said, “Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet”.
SP is talking about people who publish papers in scholarly journals, not people who score well at Trivial Pursuit. This is intensely specialized today; much more specialized than it was "a few century's ago". There are not many people publishing in widely separated fields.
Study in "Red Druids" with Recraft AI
I spent sometime the last few days trying to use Recraft.AI to create a diverse set of characters that feel consistent to pretty good effect I think.