skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Number of comments and upvotes doesn't suggest lack of curiosity

Yes, I agree with you. I was doing double speak. Many things of public interest are nudged "off the front page". Promoting Political Bread & Circuses instead. I think the networks of the Managerial Class are tight. Due to shared interests, values, & upbringing. So I'm not surprised to see the circling of wagons. I'm more surprised that this post was not flagged yet.
I got raised eyebrow at "pictures from web" a decade ago, but then realized decade ago was '13/14 and not '03/04...
He's Not Just Looking to Make a Quick Billion
So if AI is randomly as smart as any given cross-section of society, it has an %80 chance to be a benefit, then, doesn't it?

The way I see it, we could replace our government (murrika) with a d20 and do better than we're doing now. A d20 with a nominal likelihood of thinking it's dice rolls through ought to just be an improvement on that.
BYD to slash EV prices even more with new platform, looks to crush ICE car sales
There is nothing inherently wrong with unions. The trouble comes when they are given power that goes beyond market forces. It's the same problem as when the government gives monopoly protection to a corporation.
You definitely can use POP3 and IMAP with gmail:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=how+to+enable+pop3+and+imap+in...

I've heard good things about fastmail:

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Mig...
https://archive.is/ZHRpa
> ... something more like how humans get along with dogs, cats, cattle, insects, or microbes?

There's some MASSIVE selection bias here. Note that we're significantly more capable than anything you listed. Where are the Neanderthals? They're all long dead, because they were credible competition but we were just better.

In a hypothetical scenario of superintelligent or supercapable AI imbued with some physical capability of force, we'd be the marginally weaker species before we hit the threshold of "pet".
>And poverty reduction in China could have happened with less damage to workers in rich countries if Chinese policies caused it to save less of its national income, allowing more of its manufacturing growth to be absorbed at home.

Isn't it more relevant to look at the individual savings vs. investment of the countries which were "damaged," and the policies which encouraged that? I also don't see how that's an argument against free trade, putting up barriers to trade wouldn't encourage saving.
Reminds me of Turn https://www.turn.audio
Newspaper articles detailing method, outcome, and witnesses. Marvel at what man is capable of when he wants to believe.
Wow so they will tell an entire group of people to pound sand at the same time. Neat
I'd describe Typst as somebody wanted a TeX reimplementation in Rust with better syntax and modern ideas, and made that their Masters projects.

It's markdown-like (but definitely not exactly CommonMark, don't expect that), with # acting as escape into the world of layout and programming. Templates are just functions that return a datatype called a content block, and so on.

https://typst.app/docs/tutorial/writing-in-typst/
Parent comment is likely more evoking a bit of a https://xkcd.com/2030/ response, aka humour.

SignalK is neat. As you note not all protocols are suitable for all use cases, but marine sensor networks where most signals are in the realm of 1-10Hz it definitely has its place.
I know nearly nothing about this field and yet at least one big reason is obvious to me:

A country set up for global trade is not ready to lose access to that trade. They depend on things not produced locally, and depend on the proceeds of exporting things they produce in surplus. It would take decades to adapt by returning to a self-sufficient economy. And some goods (phones, for instance) could barely exist without global trade, so an embargoed country will lose access to those things inevitably.
You know... I've been working in an interesting combined AgTech and Aviation (drones, but big ones) for a while now and using JSON over Websockets for IPC is one of the best decisions we've made. We don't use it for everything, mind you, there's lower-level protocols that we use to talk to embedded hardware devices, but when we can we do. And while it's a draft standard, we basically riffed on a variant of this for most of it: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-inadarei-api-hea...

The reason I love it so much is that it's just so straightforward to make server or client that can talk to it. All of our embedded Linux systems are written in C++ right now and they have absolutely no problem publishing and consuming messages in our standard format. One of the original driving factors for this is that we do have some web-based and Electron-based UIs and any protocol that we made that wasn't HTTP-based or Websocket-based would require them to do twice as much work: first, connecting to whatever service from a "backend" server and implementing whatever protocol it needed, and second exposing that backend service to the frontend over a Websocket (generally... since it needed live updates). By standardizing on our in-flight services just exposing everything as Websockets natively we pretty much eliminated a whole tier of complicated logic. The frontends have a single generic piece of code that has standardized reconnect/timeout/etc logic in it, and the backends just have to #include <WSServer.h> and instantiate an object to be able to publish to listeners.

I definitely didn't start there. And I 100% understand where your opinion comes from... from so many different angles a lot of the "modern" web systems shouldn't come within a mile of a safety critical system. Websockets though? They're great! And while JSON isn't necessarily the most efficient encoding, it sure does make debugging easy. We run everything on a closed network that usually doesn't have an Internet connection, so we don't run TLS in between the ground and air systems. If we need to figure out what's going on and an interface is acting up, we can just tcpdump it and have human-readable traffic to inspect.

The flight critical stuff is isolated from all of this and spits out a serial telemetry feed (Mavlink). We do send that directly to the ground station over a dedicated radio, but we also have an airborne service that cooks that into Websockets and in many cases the Websocket-over-very-special-WiFi connection has been more robust than the 915MHz serial link.

And it's not as if existing protocols like NMEA are all that good either.
I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Imagine editors try to anticipate all kinds of ways a candidate headline might mislead the reader, and rewrite the headline to discourage those inferences — succinctly if possible, verbosely if necessary. For this particular piece such a outlet might opt for something like:

"Ex-Boeing Employee Who Reported Safety Issues in 2019 at South Carolina Facility Dies by Apparent Suicide"

or even:

"Ex-Boeing Employee Who Reported Safety Issues in 2019 at South Carolina Facility — Distinct from the 737 Max Whistleblower! — Dies by Apparent Suicide"

To be clear, I don't find the headline by The Hill ("Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide") to be especially misleading or clickbaity. It's perfectly defensible against charges of intentional misleadingness. But I suspect for many readers it is part of the experience of reading this article to have a moment of realization halfway through to the effect of "Ah, so this is not about the 737 Max whistleblower I've recently read about". What a breath of fresh air it'd be to have a news outlet that immediately gives off an impression of honorableness by trying actively and aggressively to avoid misleading its reader by its headlines (rather than focus on how its headlines can be defended from charges of misleadingness)!
I love Tuta!

https://tuta.com/
Hi, haven't followed this thread for a while so just happened to see this now.

I'm assuming you mean in other languages/implementations? (since the gemma.cpp repo linked above has code + links for gemma.cpp specific weights)

If so, you can find the weights here https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma - each of the "model variations" (flax, jax, pytorch, keras, etc.) has a download for the weights and links to its code.

If you're comfortable with flax, that's DM's own reference implementation:
https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemma
It's a minority of my searches, but I sometimes find myself doing this exactly because I am looking at something related to a current events story. Something pops up in the news and I want to read background about it, understand it in context, see what people were saying about it before whatever controversy arose, whether it was predictable, stuff along those lines. So I google it but because my search term contains [current events thing], no matter how I phrase it google simply fills the results with recent news stories as if I could only possibly be interested in reading what journalists who only discovered that [thing] exists this morning when it [verbed] have to say about it, as if I want nothing more than whatever basic information they dredged up, filtered through them. Useless! Restricting the date does wonders in that circumstance.
It took me a while to also figure it out, until I got to the example.

I am definitely going to play with this.
Do what Jesse Itzler did and have someone live with you and be around 24x7 to make sure you’re eating the right stuff, doing the workouts, etc. But it has to be someone who can stand up to you and has the authority to not let you quit when it gets hard or you have weak moments.

I’m sure if you throw up some ads offering a free place to stay for a year and $75k, you’ll get a lot of applicants. Maybe also offer a 25k bonus at the end of the year if they get you to hit your goal, or hit the goal and maintain through the full year.

Itzler wrote a book about his experience called, “Living with a SEAL”. He lived when David Goggins (who you may have heard of). They’ve done some podcasts taking about it as well.
That was it, thanks! I thought I'd controlled for this by using a Private Window, but I'm getting 25.9 with extensions disabled (compared to 17.9 in my original post).
> Legacy automakers are already fearing BYD’s low-cost EVs. How will they respond to a new, even lower-cost cost EV platform?

Will they? Large companies have an astonishingly poor track record of even matching new competitors.
I've worked extensively with NXP's IMX6 hardware installed on carrier boards from a few different vendors. If you're looking for something bulletproof for long-term installation, I'd definitely recommend looking through their product lines.

Seco: https://edge.seco.com/usa/ and Variscite: https://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/?cpu... are two of the vendors I've worked with and had great experiences with.
Well, if you spend 8 hours creating something meaningful… like working on your startup, building a deck for your backyard, creating some art, or preparing a nice meal… it is quite intuitive that you will feel much more content and self-satisfied than if you had spent 8 hours flicking through Instagram and TikTok, binge watching TV, and ordering food for delivery.

So I guess it depends on what you mean by “create” and “consume,” and how you measure them.
I'm much more scared of the AGI, because even the most inhuman human is still human, and I can have sympathy for them.
> wrong

*illegal
Even if a terrifying AGI rises up and escapes our control, I am still eternally grateful that Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to us in the form of technology, knowledge, really civilization.
To extend on what I've said above, exercise was not my thing at all. It took me time to find what I needed not only to start, but to stick at it. False starts a plenty, amongst boredom and apathy. Perfect now, no, far from it, but better, and that's better.
The website is quite interesting, but when entering certain Chinese phrases like "我服了你" "我真服了" or "你吃屎吧" it provides incorrect translations in English and Chinese. It's essential to review and address these inaccuracies to prevent misleading interpretations for users. Indeed, many expressions cannot be directly translated into English; instead, they require interpretation based on context.
Thank you for your reply.
Your point about requirements is spot on. I guess that is the problem, requirements change pretty quickly for us, within few months and that makes commuting to a platform a bit more challenging.
Stop drinking alcohol, soda and eat salad and meat... some carbs are ok. I lost 40 pounds just doing that. Well that and walking every day for 30mins plus moving house by myself.

Keto is hard to stick with and you tend to yoyo.
Integrate exercise into your daily routine.. so get a job where you walk to work, or walk to the store or just walk. (Or move a lot of boxes) -- ask me how I know) but it was more about caloric intake than anything.

But more seriously ask your doctor about ozempic.
"How do you know I won't roll a 100 on a d100? Either I will or I won't, so it's just as likely that I will"
Using Hallucinations to Bypass RLHF Filters
Ok very interesting, i'll give it a try! Thanks for sharing
Dude:

>>First say which of my above statements you refer to.

>Nothing in particular.

>You might be reading too much into my comment, though.

I cannot be reading too much into your comment if you say that you refer to nothing in particular (out of my statements).

QED.

Be logical, like Spock:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy

kthxbye :)
Fair point, there was dithering about the link, whether the essay as primary or the commentary on the essay - I split the difference & went half & half and pointed that out in a comment to clarify.

The essay itself is interesting, the commentary that frames it as a break from usual economist behaviour gives a background that adds.

I've zero interest in self elevation and I heed your notes, it's always tricky when there's both an interesting source and and interesting take on that source.
elasticsearch / elasticstack

Check out this keynote from their last conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cMB7Sjzgt0
If anyone wants a fun quick summary of Hayek this throwback to the 2008 crisis is an easily consumed primer on Keynes vs Hayek:

Keynes vs Hayek rap battle 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

Keynes vs Hayek rap battle 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
They were lucky to get that going. The software support for the USB TPU was abandoned by google years ago now. Works fine if you run ubuntu 16 I think.
The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth Goes On
Will BYD ever sell in the US? Where are they exporting to? I have a feeling the US auto market isn't going to feel it at all so our legacy automakers will not have to respond in any way to BYD.
Could we use gravity lensing to directly measure the difference in redshift of the same star at different points in time?
Have your wife file for divorce after you find out she’s been cheating on you for 18 months and been planning for this eventuality since day 1 of her affair. Oh and she’ll have spent $300K in 11 months prior to the divorce.

I’m already $30K down in legal fees on top of it all.

The one bit of good news is that I lost 1/3 of my total body weight since Thanksgiving.
Self driving EV semis will do the job of night trains with low zero carbon. Self driving on highways should be very achievable with route specific AI, convergent infrastructure like sensors and more wildlife fences and networked status reporting.

Last mile delivery trucks will be the first commercial vehicles to electrify.

The real downside of long haul shipping is the race to the bottom arbitrage of loose environment regulations and enforcement.
The extra energy comes from the increase in gravitational potential energy between objects. The accelerating increase in this potential energy implies the total energy of the universe is increasing. I’m not talking about harvesting dark energy directly.
> Karma is unimportant, but downvotes fade away the comment.

Preemptive defense against downvotes is a good way to attract them, so that's another reason not to do it.
Isn’t ChatGPT et all already a general intelligence that’s escaped the sandbox ?
I doubt the police investigation is over, and a coroner report certainly isn't done, so there isn't an official cause of death yet.
I enjoyed this writeup - it has relatable moments! I'm an organizer [0] for indie conferences (and more recently, local meetups.)

As we look to grow it'd be awesome to talk shop with you and receive advice on marketing if you're willing to mentor a bit: abner at handmadecities dot com

[0] https://handmadecities.com
To buy:

1) Get therapy. There’s something wrong if you can’t stay reasonably healthy. Don’t have to be a nut just to take care of yourself.

2) Change your lifestyle. Move one mile or so from work and walk everyday. Preferably in a walkable neighborhood.

Standard advice, after the two above: Take stairs, eat vegetables, don’t eat late, have normal size dessert on Saturday evening only. Remove bad people from your life, etc.
I think consumption is equally important to creation because the latter cannot exist without the former.

Furthermore, too much focus on creation is even dangerous because it could lead to this "productivity hell" where you only evaluate your time in terms of productivity.
>Would this still allow AI development to reach a state of usefulness that has been promised for years

It is better that the ban start now because no one has a method for determining which frontier models will become dangerously capable just as no one at OpenAI had any way of determining at the start of training that GPT-4 would be able to get a 92 on the bar exam. That is a pity because the benefits of creating more capable models is considerable: they could've made us all wealthier and saved lives through medical advances.
Ask HN: How to get into writing software for more physical things?
In my spare time I enjoy writing lower level software for things that move around or have more of a physical nature to them. I would like to pursue this as a career and transition away from writing web services which I currently do as my day job.

This is proving to be difficult as I do not have formal experience in this field and only have my personal projects to talk about in interviews. Has anyone made a transition like this in the past? If so, how did you do it?
I lost ~50lbs (and put on muscle) in the last 8 months. Here's my tips:

- Go on a run every day. Start easy, ramp it up.
- Go to the gym twice a week. Same as above.
- Skip dinner while you're trying to lose weight.

The key is consistency, honestly. Just stick to it. Also use an app like Google Fit/Apple Health that gives you rings, since it's a good way to subconsciously motivate yourself.
B2B Businesses are copying Netflix's tactics and it's paying off
I’m glad I’m not alone. I’m all for good design, and I believe there can be a great deal of “science” to good aesthetics in advertising, but, whoa. I literally can’t latch on to what allll of that is meant to achieve. Is this the mystical “high concept” my simple brain will never comprehend but drives my subconscious to influence my purchasing decisions?
Don't know why, but I recently got this gentleman's channel in my feed,
who believes that there is no expansion at all:

https://youtu.be/TGpjGVNVYEg?t=397

It's beyond my depth to explain why he's wrong.
So that we can record our demise in high definition? Technology is amazing, and we have our civilization to be thankful for. But there are definitely technologies that in retrospect, if we had dodged them on the tech tree, we would be better off.

Life would have continued just fine without many technologies, and I think AGI is one of them. We do not need AGI to survive and grow, and therefore any risk it imposes should be treated from that lens. If the choice is civil collapse, or no AGI, we should pick no AGI. I don't think we would though.
We're working out how to solve crimes in space – the final frontier
Tuta Launches Post Quantum Cryptography for Email
On my M2 MBA (16GB RAM, 256GB SSD):

REGULAR MODE

Safari 17.3.1: 27.1

Safari 17.3.1 (Private): 26.2

Firefox 123.0.1 (uBlock Disabled, Enhanced Tracking
Protection Disabled): 29.5

Firefox 123.0.1 (w/ uBlock Enabled, ETP Enabled): 27.1

LOW POWER MODE

Safari 17.3.1: 17.37

Safari 17.3.1 (Private): 16.99

Firefox 123.0.1 (uBlock Disabled, Enhanced Tracking
Protection Disabled): 20.0

Firefox 123.0.1 (w/ uBlock Enabled, ETP Enabled): 17.8

Safari has 0 extensions installed, and Firefox 0 extensions installed besides uBlock Origin. Benchmarks were run with each browser as the sole application open and plugged in to a power supply.
Ewww…hosts like you are the reason Airbnb gets a bad rap. I don’t think any reputable hotel would find it ok to not clean the sheets on both queen beds in a room if only one “looked” used. Logistics of cleaning should be built into your pricing and scheduling and not be a chore or something the guests have to think about.
You are correct, but they have (1) all of the money in the world as the fundamental programming language of the Internet and as a result (2) they have a state of the art tiered JIT for dynamic languages. The blood of countless PhD students flows through v8. I don't know if python will get the same treatment.
Lem wrote about this in Summa Technologiae. He called the field Intellectronics and explored what would happen once machine/electronic intelligence surpassed human intelligence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae
US legacy auto will have to respond to Tesla, as tariffs will likely keep BYD out of the US (while BYD consumes the rest of global TAM).

> After surpassing Tesla to become the largest EV maker globally in the last three months of 2023, BYD says Tesla is not the competition. It’s gas-powered cars

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
That is very location dependent as you need to transport water to where it's needed. Mining can happen almost anywhere.
Also, the Empire State Building is more recent, built 1930 - 1931. The Bauhaus building in Dessau, the first picture in the article, was built 1925 - 1926.
Show HN: Uber for Recycling
Available in the Bay Area
That's fundamentally not how DKMS works.
I’m an amateur woodworker. I’ve used Japanese saws, chisels, and other tools for many years. It has always seemed to me that efficiency and skill are the driving forces behind many traditional Japanese woodworking practices. They tend to be very efficient in using metal and wood, paying for this efficiency with greater skill requirements for the tools and techniques. This means they often need complicated tools or joinery to achieve the same things that a European carpenter may have solved by adding another oak beam, more metal bracing, or a longer saw.

For example, the article talks about the bimetal construction of this saw, using expensive and rare high-quality steel only for the teeth (this efficient use of rare metal is also the driving force behind the design of the katana). This is harder to make than a full-steel tool.

Japanese saws are typically very thin, again requiring much less metal. This means that the saws cut on a pull stroke, rather than a push stroke like European saws. Since the saw is much more flexible this requires more skill. But you end up with a very thin kerf and minimal waste.

Much traditional Japanese carpentry involves complex joints made of hardwood, not typically fastened with metal (e.g., nails, screws). The amount of slop you’d see in an 18th-century metal-fastened European joint would have been unthinkable to a contemporaneous Japanese carpenter.
Some discussion 2 days ago:[1] (107 points, 120 comments), [0] (28 points, 6 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39654426
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39655783
How long? How far?