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A point I've been making for several years is that the pandemic changed everything. Academic jobs are no longer viewed as having the special status they had even 10 years ago.

How do universities compete? They can't, but they don't need to right now, because they've got a large existing stock of employees that have heavily invested themselves in the academic enterprise. That's a problem for a decade from now, but few administrators think ten weeks into the future, much less ten years. They'll still have a plentiful supply of humanities faculty, so at least that 10% of the university will be okay.
Hey there — I’m Brian, the founder of Sindarin, the company behind this pitch deck.

This demo is pretty bad compared to what we currently have in development.

We’ve been in code freeze in prod for over two months to get our substantially improved engine finished.

It’ll be out in a few weeks, and it’ll blow this version away in every way that matters.

Thanks for checking us out!
What’s even worse is that our elected officials had an opportunity to protect consumers and their data. Instead it’s a front for regulatory capture. I used to think it was malice but it really must be incompetence. Astronomical levels of incompetence enabled by an uneducated and complacent public.
OK-Robot is super impressive, but there is a huge difference in the manipulation ability OK-Robot shows with a simple 1-DOF gripper and parallel-axis arm to pick up objects and place them largely on flat surfaces, and the human-analog arms and fingers of Figure 01 picking up a plate in both hands and placing it in the right slot in a drying rack, or dropping the apple into a person's moving hand.

It would be absolutely amazing if they really are at that level of manipulation in general, and it would put them vastly beyond what anyone has been able to do date. However robotics demos have a great history of being a mix of slight of hand (partial/full tele-op), heavily cherry picked, or tuned to a extremely specific example.

Because it's such a leap being implied by this video, it's reasonable to want significantly more evidence before believing they can do this type of interaction and manipulation in a general way. But even if it is heavily leaning say on imitation learning for this exact scenario, there are tons of potential applications for this level of capability.
Sure - zoning laws are often a good thing! But you also have zoning laws like this regarding SRO units: https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/01/09/micro-apartments-coul...

Do you think zoning rules like this - that Washington state is currently trying to change - exist for valid reasons? I really don't see a good reason, other than `NIMBY-ISM`.
Is singapore properly designed?

About 10 years ago I had a project and stayed in an apartment in haugong, a residential area about 6 miles from my office. Uber was the only realistic commute - about 15-20 minutes. Public transport was about an hour to do the journey.
'Those who opted [to submit SAT scores] had a median SAT score of 1420, compared with a median of 1160 among those who did not.

The higher standardized scores translated on average to better collegiate academic performance. Of 9,217 first-year students enrolled in 2023, those who opted in had an estimated average GPA of 0.86 grade points higher during their first fall semester, controlling for a wide range of factors, including high school class rank and GPA. Those same students were estimated to be 55% less likely to have a first semester college GPA of less than 2.0, all else equal.'
I have a ST486-DX2-66GS (1998), and I found it is unstable at the stock 66MHz. I actually have to run it at 80MHz to prevent random freezes.
In attempting to defend themselves (which is fair) they did the exact thing that their opponents have accused them of being able to do.

I don’t know what the right move for them was. Maybe it was just to say this was happening or link to a new story or something.

But saying it’s a “ban”* and helping people find the number to call their representative went over the line and made them look very bad.

*It’s not strictly a ban, only a ban on Chinese ownership. If an American company took total control they could continue to operate. So calling it a “ban” is a little disingenuous in someways although it’s also a lot easier to say
Necklace Splitting (2019) [video]
I don't even know where to begin here. Of course we have the land to spread people out, but it's insanely expensive on everyone (especially those who are spread out) over time to sustain it. [1]

If you don't have time to read - here's a video I could quickly find about the same topic from the same source - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3kkk2JdoI

You have a lot of straw man arguments that but the one that I'll focus on the most is "Our leaders just FORCE us to flock to cities cpz it's cheaper on infrastructure" - prove it.

1. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growt...
Yes it wouldn't be a hackernews thread without some neoliberal telling us about the harmonious society that the profit motive is creating.
You can control LLMs to any arbitrary degree of specificity by a mix of retraining and changing the decoding strategies. They can be as predictable as needed, I think the bigger issue is more like how do you write stories when the possibilities get so much larger.
https://www.zippia.com/founder-jobs/demographics/

The average founder is over 40. They are the folks making money. Not sure what geniuses have to do with where you are coming from. Sure, most mathematicians who make a name for themselves are young. But most people changing the world and making money with tech? That's the over 40 crowd because they have been professionals and understand what other professionals need.
I’ve driven an ev for the last 3 years (over 100k kms) and find my tires last about half as long. So yes, it has a big impact.
They want a perfect changeover where new fuel can run in old engines. Problem is general aviation is stick in the 1950s, and dont want to have to replave their valve seats with hardened ones.
What fraction leave vs stay? I thought most left because the population of PIs was relatively constant, so on average one person per lab (not per year, per lab over the lifetime of the lab) "made it." In this case, an unbiased sample would include mostly people who left academia with a very occasional person who stayed.
Some vaccines can be good, some vaccines can be bad; why is that so hard to understand?
A new winter is never coming, the last few years have shown the potential of machine learning and its use is only going to increase
it's completely impressive how hackers here are multi-field specialists
I use nix and the documentation is dogwater. It’s the best system I have ever used, but by god you need to get your hands dirty with it for a while.
Yes. We have designs to allow for more powerful configuration for experts. A good example of this is let people use alternative manifest representations; JSON, Nix, etc.
I tried NixOS because I needed to recreate an environment with a specific GCC version. It was absolute hell, you are likely looking back on your experience with rose colored glasses now that you know how things work. Even really really really basic shit was insane, here's an example: the whole system is built on hashes, and there is no consistent format for them! I was getting an error with hash A even though I explicitly requested hash B, and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out nix can't decide whether to use base32 or base64....

I also tried passing arguments to specify the GCC version in like 10 different ways, *that all failed silently*. Staying far far far away from Nix even though on paper I should love it.

Edit: oh yeah and `nix shell` and `nix-shell` both exist and don't do the same thing
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The City of Los Angeles is still over 4 million people, more than most states.
That's the irony, survived from Polio for decades only to be brought down by Covid, which by all points was and is being handled poorly.
Ask HN: What do you recommend for SaaS broadcast emails?
I have been using SMTP2GO for transactional emails for my business and I have been surprised most transactional APIs do not deal with broadcast emails (not marketing, but important stuff like price or ToS updates) and I was wondering what other SaaS businesses use. I also checked Postmark, which has the same problem.

I am happy with SMTP2GO, so I am only looking for something to send bulk mostly non-marketing emails (though I might use this for a future newsletter too), that can import a CSV of emails, and comes with a rich text editor.

Any recommendation with generous free plans? I have about 200 users right now.
YC companies are drowning in money, they’re probably not looking to save on tax filing.
Eight years isn't very long at all. Many of us love programming, 20, 30, or even 40 years later. It's the challenge of making a lump of metal do exactly what it is that you want it to do.

In the beginning, I thought that playing computer games would be great. They aren't. I find them boring because they can't give me the challenge that plain old programming can do.

Eight years. <grin>

That reminds me of the story of the city boy who met an old moonshiner and proceeded to tell him that he drank a bottle of hard liquor a day.

The moonshiner replied "A bottle? Hell, I spill more'n that!"
100% agree! Or have a "lifestyle" business. If you are experienced you should think about learning how to hunt and kill on your own.
So we need a fediverse based short video implementation now, to make sure the truth about the genocide gets out
Kate Middleton and the End of Shared Reality
You broke the site guidelines extremely badly in this thread—way over the line at which we ban accounts. Moreover, you've been doing it in other threads too - e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636608

and we've already asked you once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362247.

I'm not going to ban you right now but we need you to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and start following the rules strictly. No more personal attacks, especially.
This is an infomercial. We don't need our id to be held captive in a private company, we need decentralized self-sovereign identity.
That’s great. I assume that isn’t in a captive hunting facility.
but*
just wanted to mention the error because the comment was about speech recognition errors
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Depends on how you define 'the field'- if you mean SV cutting edge unicorn selling ad stuff, then yes. If you include some place like Lockheed Martin or Northrup Grumman doing boring non-cutting edge stuff like aerospace or signal analysis, then no.
> But if you concoct a novel problem that isn't found anywhere on the internet and confront them with it, they fail absurdly.

Often they do, but sometimes they don't.

> Even if it's something that a kid could figure out.

Intelligent and smart aren't synonyms. Modern LLM's are obviously pretty stupid at times, but even a human with an IQ of 65 has some intelligence.
Should the term AI just not be used until we have a skynet level ai?
The Daggerverse
So the issue is cost which is raised by limited space matching infrastructure criteria.

So if we had 100x more of the land that matches that criteria:

- ppl could pay a lot less to build houses there

- ppl would pay more ?

Ps. Its just an infrastructure issue our moron leaders failed to account for. Any 3rd grade RTS player understands that.
I believe that MemGPT makes AGI possible this year, if it hasn't already happened.

Thanks to the structure inherent in writing, Word2Vec maps words into a coherent latent space.

Thanks to positional encoding, self attention mechanisms are enabled. Giving rise to next word prediction at superhuman levels in Transformer LLMs.

Thanks to synthetic data, you can train an LLM to follow directions.

Thanks to being able to train LLM s, you can generate synthetic examples of them successfully using a memory prosthesis.

They can be trained on those examples, and suddenly you have MemGPT which can be a packer[1].

It remains to be seen if a mapper can also be emulated by an LLM. I'm not sure how you could generate a ton of examples of finding an inconsistency between internal chunks of knowledge for it to train against.

[1] https://reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/index.html#:~:tex....
> We choose to use Tailscale since they allow WebSocket-based connections via their DERPs.

Some context that I wasn't initially aware of: apignotti is the CTO of Leaning Technologies, which is where the article GP linked is from.
This.

Interviewers and executives are often younger than me. I never make the claim that I’ve seen this or that mistake being made before. If I need to inject something, I say “anyone read [that book on JAX]” or “happy to help setup a long-term Kanban for Kubernetes if we go that way”.
And I can't even remember the last time I've met a geocentrist astronomer...
To quote their official response "If the WSE weren't rectangular, the complexity of power delivery, I/O, mechanical integrity and cooling become much more difficult, to the point of impracticality.".
My notes looked like crap almost always, but I knew some girls in university where notes looked good while writing and then exactly did this rewriting for perfectionism (and besides that, this written reiteration is likely quite good to ingrain it, like spaced learning).
While the parent commenter did exaggerate, they are correct in their idea. You could subclassify cancers all the way down to individual gene mutations, and even then there is heterogeny within the cancer itself.

Medicine tries to draw boundaries where different therapies help differently or where there is different pathophysiology going on. The article was able to draw one such additional boundary. Its relevance is yet to be confirmed with its phenotype or druggability.
more ways to die, exactly what rimworld needed.
Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet
You also broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread, including with personal attacks. I know the other commenter was being provocative, but it's not ok to post the way you did in response.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
Exactly!

I believe those myths, like the Bible's and others, were used in part to teach people a few basic things, so as to ensure some amount of social stability, hence allowing societies to persist.

"Controlling the masses via fear and tall tales" is unfortunately too common of a caricature: we're probably making a sizable mistake by discarding them, and replacing them with whatever's trending on TikTok, or whoever's agendas.

For example, the definition of "courage" exemplified by Herakles's behavior has nothing to do with the "courage" of a man showing off his breast implants on TV: using the same word to qualify both behaviors is ill-suited (regardless of any opinions, positive or negative, on the latter case; I'm merely pointing that distinct words would be more appropriate to qualify fundamentally distinct behaviors) (it's a real example, but I won't be able to source it).
ECSS also means "European Consortium for Space Standardization". They edit the standards for all fields within space engineering :)
How we added full networking to WebVM via Tailscale (2022)
This is a new announcement from the previous Claude 3 announcement last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590666

Specifically, the smallest/likely will be the most popular model is now available when it wasn't then. (The model ID is claude-3-haiku-20240307 ). Notably, this is also a cheap model that supports image input, but per the documentation you can only provide 20 images at a time which won't work for video inputs.

Testing around image inputs in the web Workbench, it's surprisingly good for the price.
While suburbs certainly are financial sinkholes, there are other factors. Housing in cities like NYC is expensive in part because there is a housing crisis in NYC, because nothing is being built. And what is being built is preposterously expensive and beyond the teach of a typical New York family (not to mention cramped; you can barely fit a queen-sized bed into many of these bedrooms). Another issue is that developers have been snatching up real estate to cater to single yuppies who will accept living in a rathole-sized bedroom. An average bedroom is split in half to accommodate twice the occupants so that rent can be raised. This can make real estate hostile to anyone but such renters. And never mind pied-à-terre apartments, a controversial practice for which we can come up with pros and cons.
it is indeed iron-y...
How are you managing to read "Potential Applications Include" as "The following is an exhaustive list of all possible applications"?
Local elections have notoriously low voter turnout and candidates are often supported by developers and real estate brokers. Often local city council members are outright bribed by people who have an interest in only approving their own projects. In addition, sometimes city counselors will prevent zoning changes to increase the value of their own property. City officials are often the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to corruption.

A really prominent case in Moreno Valley, CA exposes how this often works:

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/losangeles/news...

And LA:
https://www.dailynews.com/2024/01/26/13-years-in-federal-pri...

And Dallas:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/dallas-city-council-mem...
I'd guess what they mean is there are two clusters with some clear distinguishing properties, and perhaps some resulting implications for treatment.
Because TikTok is owned by one of our adversaries. They’ve been accused of pushing propaganda and they just accidentally proved how effective they can be at causing political change in the US.

Exactly what their opponents were afraid they had the power to do.

It looks REALLY bad. In this case it wasn’t anything sinister and they were open about it but tactically it was probably a massive mistake.

Also why didn’t they just tell everyone in the US? Why did only certain users get the message? Because of where they lived? Because they were voting age? They also proved they have an ability to target specific people for political action based on some (unknown) criteria.

That also looks horrible and plays right into their opponents hands.
Low/No Code used to be called CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) or 4GL.
I find it useful to keep in mind that LLMs are essentially "just" random generators based on the probability distribution of some language (or more accurately a sample of that distribution in the form of a finite amount of text, a dataset).

You don't expect a random generator to spit out facts, you expect to get random nonsense. But it can be very good at replicating the fitted probability distribution in its output, i.e. generate convincingly coherent language.
>yt was about making ‘fun content’

yt was about selling ads on fun content. With shorts/reels/tiktoks, long form fun content no longer works.

But that is not the point made in this article, at all.
It's technically correct, but AI has become such an overloaded term that it's impossible to know it refers to "the use of neural networks" without explicitly saying so. So you know, maybe just say that?
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Timber is a crop. Wanting to build houses with less wood is like wanting to make clothes with less cotton or wool; there’s no fundamental reason to economize on a renewable resource.
Well the perfection of a steam-powered car was interesting even though technically far too late to matter. Early steam cars were more like steam trains: big boilers that need to be fired an hour before you want to go anywhere and need regular stops to take on water.

In a Doble there technically isn't a boiler as most people think of it; the modern equivalent term might be "steam generator".

The Doble system flashes water to steam almost instantly and on-demand, then uses a condenser to recycle the water. The flame is also not burning continuously, but only when steam is needed. With modern insulation materials the firebox is very efficient with little heat loss and lasts a long time.

This gives the Doble steam car a responsiveness closer to a gas engine, without the need to pre-heat the boiler or continuously refill with water. The fuel system is more flexible too, it can operate on almost any liquid combustible with some adjustment.

By the time the Doble was developed it was too late; gasoline and diesel won.