skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you trying to move a .tk? I don't know if anyone can accept a .tk now -- the whole situation with that TLD is a clusterfuck now :( I can't renew the one I had.
If I ask to change the style of a long text, I would like ChatGPT to change the style of a bit more than the first three paragraphs.

I hope it will be better in programming too. It does beginner mistakes, that can be fixed with one snarky comment, but that would be better to not do them.
The point I was trying to make is what are the situation where an independent small startup can make it big. Your examples are instructive, engineers were able to make id Software big because you didn't need a lot of hardware to invent 3D shooters, but Jobs gets the credit for the iPhone because the engineers needed hundreds of millions of dollars in capital to pull it off.

pg is giving advice based on him getting rich from that period of time where the small startup could make it big. But those conditions are probably rare going forward.
> Am I missing the point or is this not how everyone was doing RAG before?

No, especially people wrapping RAG frameworks around models they don’t have access to fine tune (e.g., GPT-4 if you aren't OpenAI and/or Microsoft.)

Edit: Of course, further evidence that this method is useful doesn't help people in that condition, though.
The trick is to start your own company. So it's not a trick for avoiding work, because if you start your own company you'll work harder than you would if you had an ordinary job. But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do.

This is literally true, but it's disingenuous. Not every job has a boss telling you what to do. Many jobs hire people for their expertise and pay them to solve problems for them, and in these kinds of jobs the employee collaborates with her boss on deciding what kinds of problems you will work on. Of course, it will only be enjoyable if the company's problems are aligned with the employee's interests.

If you are a technical expert with the kind of ability and acumen needed to run a successful start up, I would argue that it is at least as easy to find a company whose problems are aligned with your interests as to find investors who will truly let you pursue your own interests with their money.

"Making it" as a startup founder should be seen in the same class of success as making it as a rock star or an actor. There are lots of aspirants and hardly any of them succeed. Even though some manage to become wildly wealthy, the prior expected payoff is negative.
I thought the point when computers pass the Turing test would be some grand event but I guess maybe it'll just be when you can't tell if it's a human in customer service.
Michael Redmond, to my knowledge the highest ranked English-speaking Go player, does youtube analyses of Go matches, including Pro vs AI games, which are very insightful.
Are you slut shaming Margaret Mead?
I totally acknowledge that automatics are now technically superior in most ways. But I just cannot stand the robot between me and what I want the car to do. When I am stuck in a snowbank and want to rock the car, or am about to pass a tuck on a mountain highway, or want to engine brake down a long hill, I don't want an unpredictable machine trying to decide when and if to shift. I would buy an automatic that would never shift unless told so to do, but such things are not available on consumer cars.

Automatics are also just one more unfixable thing to go wrong. An automatic has so many moving parts, most of which are tiny little things buried deep inside. Manuals just run forever, needing at most new clutch plates or slave cylinders, things external to the actual transmission. Fixing anything to do with an automatic is akin to automotive heart surgery.
When I was a teen, I had a strong aversion for being talked down to, and was resistant to attempts to patronize even if they were well-intended and even if they benefited me.

Paul's leaving a significant fraction of the intended audience on the table here IMO: teens who are resistant to being told what to do and how to do it. :)
Yeah, I tried my hand at some evolutionary algorithms and found it's all about the fitness function. I'd spend hours and hours refining it and eventually realized that you're really just optimizing the function to fit what you want to see. Kinda took the magic out of it for me.
Too few people these days understand the delicious sensation you get when coming round a bend, dropping the clutch, shifting gears, and feeling the whoosh of power that results from a mechanical interaction between your body and a machine.
> is not the point of my question

Um, you specifically gave "not demanding billion dollar funding projects" as an advantage of string theory. So pointing out that string theory is in fact demanding such projects is exactly to the point. And it's not just right now; as my comment should have made clear, string theorists were promoting the LHC for the same reasons they are now promoting the next collider.
Elon inserted himself into politics by buying Twitter and changing its moderation policies to whatever pleases him.
There is a lot of housing that is unimproved because the owners can't afford to improve it. E.g. you bought a long time ago, or it is used as low income housing now (conversely, in my neighborhood at least, the low income housing is older and less dense than the shiny new dense luxury apartments). The only recourse for that land is to convert it into a tower of new luxury apartments, gentrifying and pushing out whatever poor folks are housed in it now.

There are other ways to game this, there are always arbitrage opportunities when a tax isn't aligned with its expenses.
Task management, lists/views, and general "journeys" management are all on the roadmap. There's a lot of stuff you need to do to be generally competent in this space, we're definitely launching very early here.

When I talked about Apex, I really mean the "scripting language that sees data mid-transaction" aspect of the language. Sounds like you're not really seeing the value there either? I totally agree that good old webhooks or some other trigger is seems almost always good enough if the API is fast.

Appreciate the suggestions re: comms and consent management. We're still not sure how we want to handle dialers.
So what are the patents being claimed? I didn't see this in the article.
The Saturn V was a fun build :)
The strain gauge is an interesting one that I hadn't seen before, and theoretically should work. Very creative!

A few more fun things you can do with FPGA fabric:

* A temperature sensor - timing some ring oscillators against a reference clock generated off-chip can give you a measure of the temperature of the chip because transistor speed is temperature dependent.

* ADC/power supply monitor - Launching a signal down a TDC at a known interval gives you a time measurement that correlates with power supply voltage (EDIT: to be clear, this is a MUCH stronger correlation than with temperature). Also, ring oscillator speed correlates with power supply voltage. This is also a possible attack vector for side-channel attacks on multi-tenant FPGAs and multi-tenant systems that involve programmable FPGAs.

* An oven/thermostat - Switching transistors on and off creates heat by burning power. This can be hooked up to a temperature sensor (either a synthetic one in FPGA fabric or the one in the device ADC/system monitor) with a PID loop to create a temperature control system. This is actually kind of useful if you want to do analog stuff with reasonable stability.

Also, if the author is here, I would appreciate a link to https://arbitrand.com in the "TRNG" section.
The answer almost certainly has to be the manufacturer. I'm sure not responsible if my properly maintained and used self-driving car kills someone. That said, it's a novel area that doesn't have a clear analog to other products today.
I am fully aware of the customer service side of lego. That's why I still use their stuff. But I suppose that is where our agreement will lie. Knowing what they are capable of and where they are now is noticeable.
100%. Require that software be released at the end of the support lifecycle for all licensed customers to continue their use-case, and watch support lifecycles magically telescope outwards.

It would require modification to copyright law in certain aspects (requiring “pass-through licensing” so to speak) and there’s utterly no will to tackle this in the US.

But those sorts of issues are already problematic for, eg, music licensing for games/shows/etc. Some of these types of hyper-limited, time-gated, non-product-ownership-following licensing agreements need to just be outlawed as unconscionable when they’re gating hardware that ends up in landfills or cutting off the public’s access to cultural touchstones. Or just shorten copyright significantly in general.
But that would be an impossibility if understanding requires expressing it in language.
> why should there even exist a build system independent from a programming language now?

I want my build system to be independent of the programming language for two reasons:

1) What gavinhoward said: I regularly use several different languages, sometimes in the same project, sometimes not. But in all cases, I want to use the same build system in order to minimize my environmental complexity. Much like I want to use the same IDE regardless of language.

2) I don't want to risk version dependencies. I want to be able to use the same build system even when I'm compiling something using an old version of a compiler, and I don't want to be forced into a build system upgrade just because I want to upgrade one of my compilers.

For me, the separation of the two roles is very important. If they were tied together, it would mean that I'd have to add complexity elsewhere to cover my use cases. Languages that include their own package managers (like Rust, Go, etc.) give me headaches.
That a huge amount of the country's savings was locked up in state managed postal savings accounts is not normal to most countries, which is why the history section of the wikipedia article is interesting reading. From the article:

> The importance of the Japanese postal banking system lies not just in providing a savings vehicle and financial services to the people of Japan, but also in the use of the saved funds to promote economic development throughout modern Japan's history.

...

> To promote savings which could be invested into rebuilding the economy, Japanese officials issued relentless statements advocating for austerity and instituted measures to restore confidence in the financial system.[10][4] From the 1950s, postal savings experienced steady growth and increased its market share relative to private banks, thanks to the huge availability of postal offices, attractive financial products offering good returns and preferential tax treatment on deposits from the government.[11][4]
> Honda and Nisan use ICE as a generator and wheels are powered by electrical motor.

In some ways I'm surprised that more EVs don't have this as an option:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_extender
Imagine the IP camera vendors saying this :skull:

“What can you possibly be complaining about!? It was secure when we released it! Maybe you should just buy a new one with less vulnerabilities!”

EU isn’t wrong that people have an intuitive sense that appliances like printers should have a worthwhile lifecycle and for some classes of devices this lifecycle should be quite long. 10 years really isn’t unreasonable.

Also, just like everyone has to support usb-c charging regardless of whatever other proprietary alternative they design… vendors should have to support a couple generic standards (postscript/Ghostscript and CUPS) that relieve a lot of the ongoing maintenance. There are very few/no valid reasons you couldn’t implement cups/postscript if you really want.
I do like the form factor of the Anker. I was a little surprised that they don't come with international adapters. My Genki Switch charger does and it looks like they have a similar, removable plug adapter.

Oh well, I'll probably follow your advice or checkout a different brand. Thanks!
There is more to Not Even Wrong than criticizing string theory, there are great posts about theoretical developments, and great great discussion in the comments. Woit’s own interests of twistors and spinors are very interesting to me and seem very promising.
Why? As long as people don't burn the bricks....
>Having just had an ultrasound of my prostate, where the probe went up my ass, I welcome smaller ultrasounds!

Wait till you have to have a catheter inserted up your pp.
Even if you build a system that has no reliance whatsoever on the existence of good fortune, it can still be felled by a run of bad fortune.
My Pacifica PHEV has that configuration. It works very well.
I don't think they purposefully picked their farm though as the default, but rather their farm landed on the center of the polygon they were using to represent the area being searched. Maybe we need to figure out a different UI way of doing this, but isn't this unavoidable? Search any country on any maps app and zoom in to the max - you will be on someone's property.
Real estate agents take 6% and that's before fees and the cost of movers. This is not an insignificant economic cost.
"speed & 100% keyboard-oriented TODO app" == vim

plus you can use the same vim skills and mindspace for lots of other use cases

plus its free, offline friendly, VCS friendly, backup friendly
I recommend also “computer power and human reason”, his 1976 treatise. it really presages all of the last few years of AIspew.
Wild to think that potentially the most innovative company of the last five years, and next five, was run/founded by a VC. It goes against all of the VC hate
It’s like Cilium + Hubble but useful for you don’t/can’t run cilium. Uses eBPF to collect metrics and stats on what flows where, can record an impressive amount of stuff, without any required instrumentation of your applications. Amazingly handy for when you run both first party and 3rd party apps in your K8s cluster. The network maps these tools produce are handy too.

Although, Cilium is pretty great, so not sure why you wouldn’t run it, given the option…
They have been programming for two months so they are not total beginners, they just have no notion of best practices. They already wrote two 300-line programs. The goal would be to have them read a codebase they didn't write, and optimize it.

I'm not looking for expert refactoring or sophisticated design patterns (they haven't even touched OOP), I just want to show them simple ways to improve their code.
Don't know about proven methodologies; I'm curious about that, too.

Where you live/want to live, what your interests are, what your living situation is or can be are important factors.

(Depending on where you live,) If you're young and comfortable with manual labor, you can make a decent chunk of change in traffic management, construction, etc. until you figure out what you want to do. If you can save money, you'll have more options. If you work part time and earn enough to still save, you might be able to make time for your hobbies or gaining skills for other career options you'd like to pursue long term.
Look for chances to demo skills / show knowledge beyond book/classroom skills.

What subject areas / classes outside of direct classes were 'interesting'?

Figure out ways to apply what have learned to 'non-CS' areas. Perhaps start with finding related 'open source' software that might help with a given area & explore how to customize/change open source software to fit the situation.

Talk to prof(s) (cs & non-cs) about topic(s) for independent study and/or something realated to what instructor/professor does. (may/may not be related to above).

Look at internships / volunteer opportunities / hobbies to start applying/figuring/trying out how to use/apply/practice what know.

Use above experiences to get/broaden connections/learn about opportunies & different releated interests.

Document and present the above in some form (web, paper, conference, video, etc). Keep document/site statistics for future suggestions on 'what should I do now'
Toyota is the manufacturer famous for their 2-motor planetary setup (they call it Hybrid Synergy Drive), and they've licensed it to a couple of other manufacturers, like Ford and Nissan.

Honda's old system, 'IMA', which was a traditional ICE drivetrain with a motor assist. They abandoned it because mild hybrids don't really deliver a good value. It's a lot more cost for not very much improvement in economy.

Honda's new system, E-drive, usually operates like an EV with a generator attached, but it also has a lock-up clutch to allow the engine to direct drive the wheels in cruising conditions.
This can help with seeing the data structure which might help with incrementaly
creeping up on what values you are looking for.

https://github.com/TomConlin/json_to_paths
idk about that...i still feel like web sites with UGC should not be held responsible for what their users do in their freetime. what the guy needed was a pyschiatrist. its too bad our healthcare is such crap.
I agree with traditional slushbox automatics. You don't get that distinct gear shift feeling, so it's boring. But DCT seems closer to the manual feeling. Cannot confirm since I've never driven one, but it felt that way as a passenger.
Yeah, and plain Q learning is able to iteratively improve a policy in any environment. Every single loop leading to improvement, and yet it hasn't really solved much of anything since the 60s (just some toy problems).

My point being, we don't know where the asymptote lies. Computers have had self improving algorithms since the 60s, and people have been making the same bold claims, like you, that because an iterative process for improvement has been discovered, we're close to super human AI since the 60s too.
Are you sure that the complexity of a game has absolutely nothing to do with the number of legal positions?

I mean I am open to hear the justification for this, but I was fairly certain that all measures of game complexity are a function of the number of legal positions. Now certainly there are other factors, namely the cost of computing the transition from one legal move to another legal move so a simple game might have a very low cost transition function while a complex game has a very complex transition function, but I can't conceive of a game where the number of legal positions bears no weight on the game's complexity.
I'd say yes and no. I find very few parts that are custom shapes for a single set these days. Most part shapes are very generic, but there is an absolutely wild variety of them now. There is an enormous number of SNOT, tile and slope pieces, for example. These can make slick looking builds, but getting a decent and useful collection of those for MOCs is hard.

Where Lego gets tricky is the combination of shape and color: the color palette has been growing over the years, too, but most of the weirder shapes are only available in specific colors and not always the colors you would intuitively expect them to have. I guess it happens because manufacturing/stockpiling the whole outer product of shape x color is just infeasible at this point. So the available colors are just whatever is used in the current sets, however weird it may seem.
> I would buy an automatic that would never shift unless told so to do, but such things are not available on consumer cars.

DCTs will absolutely give you this experience. Most don't expose a UI for shifting from directly to any gear arbitrarily, though.
I get the way a (worker) cooperative works in an imaginary world. The real thorny issue is that in this world where there is nothing else, it becomes almost impossible to start a business that requires real capital investment. Corporate Paper and bank loans are pretty much impossible since you have almost no revenue and not even a history of revenue. If you can get a loan, it will have a double-digit interest rate. You could impose a capital requirement on your first employees, but then you wouldn't find many. The way new companies in the primary and secondary sector start is always with an investment by passive partners. It has been this way since before the industrial revolution.

The worker board will also have the same perverse incentives current boards do to a lesser degree. Why wouldn't they make terrible decisions in the name of short-term shareholder value? What is the crucial difference between a company who sells shares on the public market (where anyone could get a profit share) and a worker cooperative (where employees [re-]invest their wages to get a profit share)?
A study says intermittent fasting is making people drop dead. Oh, come on
they arent using it as a proxy for an ability. they are just trying to hire people with high iqs
For me, 100 percent of the sets with over a thousand pieces have been missing at least one, during the pandemic. Now that’s only 4 sets, admittedly.

The smaller sets have all been fine, tho.
Fellow bass player here, I concur. Get a transparent class D and pair with a tube preamp of your choice. I love my Ampeg, but it lives in the basement now and doesn't leave.
Hacked – Installed a global KDE Plasma theme – it erased all my drives
> Now, you might be wondering to yourself “Max, you said you weren’t running as root. How are you binding to port 80?” Well, sudo setcap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE=+eip /usr/bin/busybox. But you could also run on an unprivileged port like 8080.

As you're launching from systemd anyway, I'd try something like `AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE` in the unit file (caveat: untested). Then it's scoped to that unit, where it's (1) needed and (2) clear why it's needed. Instead of the busybox executable that (1) likely is used in a bunch of places where that's unneeded and (2) may get reinstalled by the package manager without this perm, quietly breaking your setup.

systemd also supports binding the port for you, but afaict from a quick skim, Busybox httpd doesn't support accepting the socket from systemd, so that wouldn't be as easy a change.
Beyond rule complexity, there are at least 5 measures of game complexity in Combinatorial game theory [1]:

State-space complexity
Game tree size
Decision complexity
Game-tree complexity
Computational complexity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity
You know I remember hearing this way back in the early 2000s but forgot about it, Carl is pretty low key, no Wikipedia / etc
But we do exist!
I remember one such occasion back in a previous tech boom (late 90s) and it turned out the reason I couldn't talk to the guy who wrote this particular pile of Italian nutrition was that the Feds had shown up one day and taken him to jail (something to do with pump and dump market manipulation via a faked analyst report [edit: actually a faked press release I now remember. "SmallCapCorp (NASDAQ: SCC$) announces they have received a record breaking order for their next gen product / aquisition offer / something like that from RandomIsraeliCompanyThatMightNotEvenHaveExisted"]).

A lot of software engineers would spend a portion of their day tracking their volatile stock / options etc. in those years.
So buy Lego Classic.

They're not like 80s-era simplicity, but they definitely reuse peices.

They're not rare; they're on every shelf. (But they're not Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc.)
Don't kids want 3d-printers these days?
I grew up trilingual, and have noticed that I understand mechanical concepts better in one language, industrial concepts in another… but have mostly defaulted to English nowadays. I find learning new concepts easier by playing translation games; Which language is the root for this word, and how does it mechanically relate to the concept?