skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, I think 'people's priors all seem to be' is doing a lot of work there and forging new ground in both-sidesism. Man, who's to blame here, the self-dealing serial scam artist, eyeball print thief, crypto booster, and professional prevaricator, or the OpenAI board of, basically, politically naive and innocent academics?
> but you had to have business to afford it.

This was a marketing and perception issue, not a price issue. When the original iPhone came out, I had a very nice blackberry, with a personal plan, effectively unlimited data, and the full blackberry suite (minus corporate integration, obviously). And I think it was less expensive than the iPhone plan. But it was a pain in the neck! I had to pick the correct phone plan, add the correct data supplement, negotiate the correct discount (basically everyone was eligible for a discount, but you had to find your particular reason for being eligible in a ridiculous menu), and then convince the sales person to add the special $3.99/mo supplement for blackberry services. It clearly never occurred to anyone involved that this was not a competent way to sell to consumers!

I did make fun of my friends for paying several dollars more per month for a device with no keyboard, no GPS, slower data, less efficient text input, and dramatically worse performance in marginal network conditions.

When I finally switched to an iPhone 3G, I could do real in the browser, but wow, the ability to make phone calls was seriously downgraded. I feel like my old blackberry may have had the best behaved cellular modem of any smart device I’ve ever owned.

I think that, if RIM had gotten YouTube and a music player working, had improved the web browser, and stuck a capacitive touch sensor on their device, and if they had marketed it competently (make it so that customers could walk into a store, pay $55/mo, and walk away with a working device without a fight!), they might have remained competitive.
Just looking at the data from "newly built" nuclear plants over the last 20-30 years suggests they cost a lot more than they initially anticipated. That's an investment thesis you'll have a hard time selling, especially with rising interest rates.
Not at all. You still need every single component of an ICE vehicle. However, they all need to be electrically driven, rather than belt driven (since the engine isn't always running). That gives more engineering freedom, but it doesn't reduce any parts. In fact, every belt-driven system now needs it's own electric motor, including power.
Also, for anyone wondering, the password for every student (the one that prevents people from taking the test at home) is 8 characters and *extremely* easy to guess. I won’t say it here, but given that this code grants access to take the test in the first place, you’d think it would be more complicated.
Funny to me that they’d pay grad students instead of using AI to summarize.
I think for Plex it's only a matter of time. I run a dedicated server with overseer/radarr/sonarr and a bunch of other arrs and utilities and I love it.

As time goes on they keep adding social features no one wants and it feels like at some point they'll make a decision that fucks it up.
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI's board after review finds firing was unwarranted
10 year lifetime at -40 to 125C Tj is remarkable. Modern desktop CPUs are klutzes by comparison.
> If I didn't know the experimenter was trustworthy (for example a street hustler in NYC), I definitely would not switch in the equal reward scenario and may even require 3x to switch because I would expect that they would only offer if my initial selection was wrong.

If you don't trust the experimenter at all, then you might as well not switch, but I don't think that is a better than switching, as you have no basis for assuming any outcome in any circumstance.

If you are dealing with a street hustler in NYC, the optimal move is to disengage.

WRT the first (equal rewards) scenario: a weak bias towards sticking with an original decision might be favored by evolution, as constantly changing one's mind without new knowledge is not optimal behavior.
There are definitely lots of small startups promising to find the cost savings. Or I should say, lessen the variance and uncertainty in building costs, because SMRs are going to be more expensive than large reactors but have smaller financial risk profiles.

It remains to be seen if any can deliver. Early indications have all been extremely negative.
Nobody is advocating using force, exept of course the "envoirmentalists" who came up with the idea.

But lets just ignore that big of uncomfortable history.
Those things are great but did you actually pay for them? At some point it has to actually make money. We are on the “fueled by investors and mania” part that made us think scams like WeWork and Uber would work at the low prices for a while. I use Google Gemini sometimes for questions but if I had to pay the real energy and financial costs it took to arrive at my innocuous question’s answer I doubt it would be feasible.
The post you're responding to doesn't argue from blind optimism, it argued a reasonably-expected gain in net beneficial effects.
My pleasure, glad you like it!
>Captain Jean-Luc Picard pondering a thorny problem with the Klingons: "Computer, think for me."

It's actually been a little eerie going back and watching TNG lately. Just a few years ago, the computer's conversational abilities were complete science fiction fantasy. Now it seems quaint.
TSA unveils prototype self-service airport checkpoint security screening system
Yes, and now even moreso
The user who submitted the bug report was using Homebrew, which does not build curl with the system version of OpenSSL: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/547d6bb9b289c...
Well there was Three Mile Island accident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
That’s not what they said, they said that’s a common argument that’s made and said it’s flawed. I think they’re saying arguments in both directions are flawed - it’s equally unconvincing to say humans are a stochastic parrot and to claim that they’re not because we fundamentally don’t actually know and don’t have good ways of describing let alone measuring consciousness and self awareness.
You don't think you can smuggle a few terabytes of traffic over the internet undetected?

For the US to have the capability to be aware of that they would have to be engaged in unconstitutional spying on US citizens. A thing they have claimed to have stopped doing.

"Trust us, we are lying"

P.S. this also means the feds have the ability to stop child sexual exploitation that takes place over the internet in its tracks but decided not to.
How to Build a Working Digital Computer by Alcosser, Phillips, and Wolk (1967)
Better reread the post. It was about renting GPUs. 16M for 1000 H100 per year.
So i guess 44k at Amazon would make that 44M Dollar.
I also bought a RAV4 Prime in April of 2022, when they were very hard to come by. Arranged my own financing with a credit union at 1.99% (really got in under the wire with low rates). Dealer argued that I should at least try applying for Toyota financing but when he admitted they’d never beat 1.99% he relented and took my check. This was in Maryland, US.

Would really like to hear of a situation where a dealer literally refused a cash or outside financed transaction.
Yeah because the revolutionairies have proven that enviornmental protection is their priniple aim after a revolution.

What actually works is political organisation that proposes solutions that actually work.
I agree that Chernobyl is a poor reason to fear nuclear reactors. However, the argument that it was because of communism is one that has no meat and shouldn't be used to try to convince people.
Some transformers use aluminum instead of copper.
Not "naked government", but government bureaucracy that's targeted by tailored ESG efforts, where the hordes of ESG consultants and influencers and activists largely get their ideas from the same uniform pool of ideas.
Yep, that's ONT.

They are provisioned remotely over network from controller run by ISP, which sets up appropriate timeslots (xPON is a time-division multiplexed network in practice, though DWDM - wavelength modulation - is also used).

Internet -> ISP network -> PPPoE -> OLT (head unit) -> passive fiber network (and/or DWDM) -> passive splitter close to home (often in inside appartment buildings) -> ONT -> ethernet to your router for PPPoE -> your systems
> Without some specific idea of "elsewhere", that idea is in the "not even wrong" category.

Which idea?

Also, based on what is to-be-specified idea in the not even wrong category? [By which I guess you mean you think it's so wrong that you cannot even dignify telling me why it's wrong? haha! :) Novel sly-arrogant/humble-brag appeal-to-authority, I'll give you that! Because your understanding is so above everyone else's you couldn't explain it or we wouldn't get it? Haha! :)]

Also, finally, pray tell what do you mean by "elsewhere" ? Hahahaha! :)

I'll check back tomorrow, I'm off now
Fearmongering aside, from what I've seen, the reviews say it gets warm but not hot.

Tom's Guide broke out the thermal gun and said the hot spot on the bottom of the 13 inch model was about four degrees F above normal body temps while running Cinebench on a loop. The 15 inch one got about 9 degrees F above body temp.

You certainly wouldn't need to worry about melting your table.
Subtly paying homage to the classic Silicon Valley dress psyop [1] with the different lit photos. Cute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
Capitalism as practiced by the US has included selling humans to the highest bidder; I can think of nothing more soul-crushing than that.
Product/material QC that previously took a human is now commonly done by detector networks. Improved spam filtering saves a little of everyone's time. Automated voice dictation, language translation, and video transcription have also improved massively. For applications like weather forecasting/early-warning systems or tumor segmentation and protein folding, "saving" is a bit more literal.
You can use "word" instead of +word.

-word is still a thing that works a bit.
or not add fluff images to your blog post.

I know this comes off snarky but it's been decades now and we've got to be the change we want to see in the world. "business person at the office" banner image is completely useless.
Energy use should be a concern, but it’s important to understand the magnitude of the problems and not simply conflate crypto and AI. To compare the technologies against each other:

Bitcoin: 145B = 145,000M kWh/year

ChatGPT: 0.5M * 365 = 182M kWh/year

Based on the numbers from the article, ChatGPT is using 3 orders of magnitude less electricity for something that provides high utility for vastly more people.

There are of course many other uses of AI aside from ChatGPT and more cryptocurrencies aside from BTC, but these are very different power consumptions.
That's not true, GW/CC hasn't had any major political or popular traction before around year 2000, so ~25 yrs.
PickerNamer-a handy hack of Yolo8 while it is training
Maybe someone else is in this situation too. But while I'm in the process of training my own version Yv8 I did discover that some of the built in class designations in Yv8 we're so consistently wrong that I could them to good use in the following way. I built a Yv8 'PickerNamer' .py script that allows me to do two things. First, I can select which of the 80 classes I want to display, and second, I can edit the name that's displayed in my object detection engine. For example, Yv8 does not have a class for fish. Yet, fish consistently class-out as birds or kites. So using my PickerNamer, I select bird and kite change their names to fish and voilà. I have a pretty darn good object detector for fish using Yv8. if this description isn't enough for you to build your own PickerNamer, I am happy to share the code for PickerNamer to anyone who reaches out.
A ZIRP phenomena.
Ask HN: How to fail fast in startup world?
There was a post in twitter where a guy created 8 startups in 8 days, out of which 2 startups worked and he spent more time on that afterwards. What is the framework for this? lets say if I have an idea of creating a hardware for a specific industry then what steps should I include and exclude to fail fast and validate?

I heard one strategy is to smoke test your product, where you just create a website and then validate from there. what are some others? any book, article , video if you think thats good. TIA
One of the authors here. Thanks for the insight.

I generally agree with the fact pretending it's like a local function will cause trouble down the track. After all, you're introducing a number of extra failure modes.

The client library however does give some protections to the developer through the type system - although it's not perfect.

Hence the wording "feel like". It's not actually local function calls. But it abstracts away a lot of the complexity.
People don’t fight wars they don’t think they might win. High fidelity simulations might actually help with that.
Not OP but I too have built this, basically a few hundred lines of python to implement something like json rpc (plus introspection to answer help requests / publish typed api info) on top of AWS lambda.
You are fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of the difficult mining in Bitcoin. It is to keep the currency scarce and difficult to obtain. If it didn’t scale with increases in technology all the Bitcoin would quickly be mined and you’d have money printing like the fiat money we are trying to escape.
It would be statistically unwise to ignore the actual data points, no? What do you suggest instead?
> Really your best bet is to ask your ISP if they can bridge a port on the ONT so you can use your own router after that without double NAT. In this scenario the ONT will be functioning mainly as a media converter.

An ONT is already a bridge - those are for the cases when you have integrated ONT in a router provided by your ISP.

If you are provisioned with ONT, you can connect your own router to it
ANSI/VT100-compatible serial terminal built with Raspberry Pi Pico
It doesn't explain the rotation curves of galaxies at all, and doesn't try to.

It takes a simple proxy for an isolated galaxy and sees if there are physically reasonable orbits around it. MOND-like orbits are physically reasonable (we observe them). The authors' model allows for almost MOND-like orbits.

The explanation for why these MOND-like orbits exist will vary. In the standard cosmology, it's because of a distribution of cold dark matter around the central mass. In MOND, it's because the strength of Newtonian gravitation falls off at great range from the central mass. In the theory discussed above it's because the central mass induces fluctuations in the gravitational field that grow in relevance with distance from the central mass, and in a particular range of radial distances those fluctuations are most likely to drop the orbiting body onto a closer orbit.
To say nothing of waste, even when everything goes right. Nuclear is the grandaddy of instant gratification traps. Moment on the lips, hundreds of millennia on the hips. I think we can do better.
CD Demagnetizer
Shavian: A less terrible English alphabet
> And the poster began by asking for advice on how to appreciate it. It's obvious that the mishmash criticism is subjective, limited to them, and they're trying to understand better.

That's not obvious at all, and you remain obnoxious. Huge leap to go to from "understanding jazz" to "is this even music?" as the other poster pointed out.

>There are jazz artists that move me (you'd probably consider them of lesser quality or "easy listening")

Lol. I see, you've got a chip on your shoulder, and you are taking it out on me.

> And it seems like every time we ask for directions, we get the same incredibly obnoxious answers, that range from "oh my God do you even have ears" to "if you need it explained, you'll never get it"

It wasn't asking for "how to listen to it" that elicited the response the poster received, as was expressed to you numerous times.

>Maybe I'll never get it, maybe there's a bit of pretentiousness in the fandom, maybe a bit of both, who knows.

Once again there's a huge difference between "getting" something and recognizing that there is melody.

> but I've never understood what's so amazing about Miles Davis

Well, he has a gigantic body of music and is considered one of the most important figures in Jazz because the drive and diversity of his music has pushed the genre forward throughout his entire career. Never met anyone that thought "Kind of Blue" was a "mishmash" of sounds and I still do not understand how anyone could get to that conclusion. They barely even play over each other. It's probably some of the most relaxed jazz out there. Please stop being so annoying and drop the chip on your shoulder.
I think this actually reinforces GP's point somewhat. I could be misinterpreting, but I don't think they weren't defending exchanges, in fact I would guess they would criticize those as much as banks. They were defending bitcoin as a ledger system, which doesn't require any banks or exchanges to work. Exchanges in this system are optional and are a convenience. With traditional banks there is no way to do it without them.
It could inspire people to apply of their own accord rather than being approached by the armed forces recruitment (I didn't know it had been outsourced; that is interesting). It's a very plausible situation - a military demonstration locally was very enjoyable for me, and I would absolutely go again. If they were trying to recruit me, though, they shot their bolt by admitting in response to my queries that their encrypted radios utilised, shall we say, less than ideal cyphers :)
296 pages.
The new law enables DAOs to operate within the bounds of existing laws while preserving their decentralized nature.
There was a time in the 80 and then 00s when this was the case, when big steel/auto was laying off, but it hasn't really seemed like that for decades. That was globalization (Japan then China and the rest of Asia), but now it feels like a trope. What happens to a plumber, electrician, or welder/machinist that loses their job? They get another one. They are in demand. Heck, even truckers are in demand. Does it take time to train, yeah... but it's not $100k for a degree. Are you gonna become a billionaire? Probably not unless that coin/lottery pans out.

Unions are stronger than the last 40 years especially at auto/medical/trucking. Likely, deglobalization is going to bring some production home, but really the question is, why dismiss or even relish worker insecurity and inefficiency?
Yeah but I want someone to notice a crick in their neck or that they are getting tired or hungry so they can address it before it becomes a problem. I would have thought that getting lost in a task would lead to obsessiveness and self-destructive escapism. Sometimes finishing the task is not worth it.
Why Do Dive Watches Have Rotating Bezels?
New maser in a 'shoebox' promises portable precision
Did they talk about cost anywhere? Depending on it, it could transform the industry or it could be totally irrelevant.
Maybe some browser extension that extracts just recipe from all the ads and superfluous narrative crap?
They can also very easily be used to get one or the other desired outcome based on inclusion criteria.
"Green" hydrogen is anything but. Electrolysis is a fundamentally inefficient technique. Scale it all you want, but you will hit diminishing returns faster than with water desalination. Natural hydrogen is the way to go, and I hope hydrogen wells will become as ubiquitous as gas wells in 50 years' time.
I can't see how this creates more jobs
In practice, it's a matter of region (for Orange Poland). For various reasons (supply chain?) they prefer to keep ONT only for particularly motivated business clients, or mostly further away from cities.
Yes but it's not average emissions if say they run over extra(as in the energy for which we don't have storage) solar panel energy.
From 2023
STM32MPxx are MPU (microprocessor) families, taking more standard DDR* class RAM and running Linux.

MCUs are all well under 10MB of onboard RAM (often single-digit kbytes, but bigger MCUs exist). And if they support external RAM, its MCU-protocols like SPI-RAM (which rarely goes much further than 1MB)
Las Vegas? "Pick a number. Roll the dice under the webcam ... you lose."
I recently watched This is Us and there's an episode on the Challenger explosion. It shows kids in middle school watching the event and it was uncannily exactly as I remember the experience watching it happen in 8th grade.
Indeed, I've noticed this too. Classic Trek has computer being fiercely logical machines, with some ability to speculate but only based on a logical synthesis of data, and only in a deterministic and error-free way (barring physical/hardware problems or bad data of course). It actually seems quite artificially limited compared to what's happening now!
I know Kyle and he is very opinionated and adheres very tightly to his set of beliefs. I think this can rub some people the wrong way and maybe this leads to the belief that he is a dick.

From my personal experience I think he's actually a really nice guy. He's also been unemployed for quite a while now and seems to be struggling with something. Doesn't seem very kind to kick him while he's down even if it's a virtual kicking.
> What you call crippling is what makes JSON easy to work with and universally adopted.

For some specific tasks, certainly.

A tool I am developing for myself cripples the input format even more, because the more reduced the input is the easier it is to use for a specific task.

Could I have used a more powerful format? Sure, but then a format that allows too much is harder to use (especially when those extra features aren't needed).

The scope of the input should match the scope of the problem. I was only pointing out that, at the highest level, the format that allows everything is Lisp s-expressions. Everything else is a less-abled form of s-expressions. Some of those formats would have been best served by simply being s-expressions instead (like XML), while others (like JSON) serve a different purpose and don't need all those extra features.
How to Lose Control of Your Shell
One of the author here. I definitely agree that you get markedly lower reliability and performance one you move a local function call to be remote. So, we're definitely not advocating that moving a local function call to be remote is inherently virtuous.

However, I've found the abstraction to be useful when someone _has_ already made the decision to refactor their service out to be a separate service.
Hope im not misunderstanding, but have you checked gearman? While I haven't used it personally, ive used similar thing but in c#, namely hangfire.
Great question.

You describe a common use case. There's some legacy batch processing centric workflow, which couldn't possibly be modernized, and the PHBs demand an app that's best implemented with events (message).

Like when there's some legacy flat file (more or less), hosted on a mainframe, serving as the "single source of truth" for a new customer facing app. Or when the "data feed" from some partner org is basically a file transfer of some report (data dump).

Please post a Show HN if you come up with a solution you like.
So once again you turn this back into a Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory. I guess theres no moving on from something that happened seven years ago now. Last I checked, the guy who was running against her won and Obama peacefully transferred power to him.

Glad you’ve had an interesting life! Best of luck in your future endeavours.