skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How wealthy would a family have to be in order to live in a single-family house on a piece of land so valuable, so centrally located, that its value could equal that of the land hosting a massive high-rise? This sounds like a very progressive form of taxation.
>Texans have long endured scorching summer temperatures, so a global warming increase of about 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 Celsius) might not sound like much to worry about.

It's refreshing to see the conversion, as the average American does not know what 1.5C feels like.
Yes, a lot of people with roommates or stuck with family would move out if it were not for the high cost of housing
They Praised AI at SXSW–and the Audience Started Booing
If only. Unix would be dead and buried many years ago if it was just a fad. It's far more like the old repeating fertility rituals of many paganistic societies, where your neighbors burn your pagus down to cleanse the village of the spite of the undead grain god if you plowed your heath in a different direction from everyone else.
- String interpolation

- triple-quote strings / blocks

- minimal class boilerplate (this posting)

- closures (Java closures are worse IMO)

- usable hashbang for UNIX

- I think java has strings in switch now, don't they? Do they have expressions?

WAIT, does Java STILL force you to write getter/setters?
He should! As I hope to convince people of next month, there’s a wealth of classical AI knowledge that’s just begging to be applied to modern systems. That’s not to speak of the wizardry happening in neuroscience and drug discovery right now…

Isn’t “you shouldn’t focus on science to start a good tech company” a good indicator that our conception of “tech” company is completely broken? That we’re really talking about ways to milk money from gambling billionaires, not change the world with successful products?
Perhaps set size is a contributing factor? I've bought two sets over the last few years, and both of them have had a piece missing. One was 1969 pieces (no prizes for guessing which set that is!) and the other 1222 pieces.

Both occasions the pieces weren't structurally important, and were small decorative elements.
bad opinion is bad

I get gradle is a disaster (but that's more of a poorly managed and evolved DSL problem)

But ... does anyone use Spock and think "groovy sucks"? Yeah, I doubt it.
I'm pretty sure that party is over. "Make Money Online with ${x}" is what you pivot to when the return on ${x} drops below the going rate for "Make Money Online" courses.
I have a further nitpick regarding terminology.

Wording like “game is more complex” overal seems incorrect. Game is not complex by itself (for example go rules are extreemly simple), all the difficulty and challenge depends on the skill of your oponent.
Game only allows the opponent to demonstrate the skill.
I recently had a similar problem for my Linux-based desktop, but found that it didn't support wake on LAN. So instead I wired an ESP8266 to the ATX power pins on the motherboard (via an opto-isolator, in parallel with the actual switch so both could be used). Code on the esp8266, which connects to a network server, can then "depress" the power line for a configurable number of milliseconds.

Apart from working on my PC, this is also quite nice as it gives you a way to force-power-off remotely if necessary.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AGI is 5 years away
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On FPGAs for military applications:

- IP being ephemeral is a feature, preventing duplication and extraction by an adversary.

- IP doesn't leave your organization: by deploying an FPGA, no ASIC fab has access to it.
https://archive.ph/XuWWl
If you have multiple LAN Zigbee controllers, like a ZigStar UZG-01, you can use multiple instances of zigbee2mqtt and hook 'em all into Home Assistant.
> it is clear from this that she had other interests.

Why wouldn't she have other interests? And who is generally remembering this way? I think you've been missing out on a great mind and a great woman.
Feel free to drop me an email (taimur [at] causal [dot] app) and I'd be happy to introduce you to him :)
> This is true, but it's not clear to me how it relates to either the discussion of whether markets are rational or the discussion of whether common-law liability is more effective than preemptive regulation. Can you explain the connection?

Its tangential. The Market-Irrational quote is all about how even if you know the stock market is wrong (especially due to large scale fraud by that company) you may not be able to profit from that knowledge because the market can continue to buy that stock (be irrational) longer than you can afford to have the contrary position (be solvent).

People (probably myself as well) use it to describe other situations though. Such as a Taxi-like company selling 20$ car rides for 10$. No matter how irrational having your only revenue source be a loss-leader for decades; if you bet against Uber at IPO you'd be out 30/share right now (current 70, IPO 40).

To get back to the actual origin of this tangent [1], although Uber still exists but imagine you only had a Taxi industry and Uber comes in and all the Taxi drivers get fired. Then Uber goes bankrupt and all the Uber drivers are fired. Now all you have are a bunch of unemployed people. Society did not benefit here. That's the scenario being described in the origin of our tangent. In these situations there might not be somebody with a large pile of cash that they feel like investing into re-starting the taxi industry so that region may just not have taxis anymore or just the richer parts of the region have a rebirth of the taxi industry and the poorer parts are un/underserved. So it would be rational for people to have a NIMBY approach to something that in the long term will only cause problems.

> I'd regard that rationality itself includes probabilistic decision-making, and that attempting to preempt all risk is itself highly irrational.

Betting with 1:-1 odds is irrational unless you're running a money laundering scheme. If you think that a region can only support 4 car washes then as a local government official you should prevent the 20th from being built because it's just not sustainable (or at least force them to prove 20 can be supported).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738996
The current industry leaders of the effort want to proclaim that it is impossible to know where the answers come from. If that is the industry norm then I understand how achieving trustability could be mysterious.

My line of thinking is that without an audit trail of thoughts there won't be any trustability. I'm unable to describe in detail what any one specific thing leads to trustability. I can say that being able to demonstrate where answers come from would work for me.
Collier has a video on the history of string theory as a narrative and how it kinda tainted the public perception of high energy/particle physics: "String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
They do precise weighing of bags as a quality control measure. The tiny 1x1 type pieces are more likely to get missed by the weighing so they often add an extra of those pieces to offset a potential loss that might not get noticed when weighing them.

That is why you always get two helmet visors for example when you buy a speed champion. The machine is actually just designed to give you two, because that way if it breaks and misses one, you still have one that you need and it costs them almost nothing to do that. But a missing helmet visor is easy to get missed by the quality control scale. So if you ever buy a speed champion and only get one helmet visor, it is because you lost one or the machine broke. But that's why there's an extra. They do that by design. That's just one example. You see it with magic wands in Harry Potter sets, you always get two, and a lot of sets with 1x1 pieces will always have 1-2 extras just because they are cheap to add in and more likely to get missed in their QA process which weighs the bags.
What Hath the Blog Wrought?
> How many stickers are in the kit? And honestly it's too damn high.

I know I'm going against the grain here, but I love stickers. Many of the sets my kids got were "sticker infested" but as they only re-bricked it, we just did not put the stickers on some of them and got just more fun out of it.

> Within the past 10 years I have had at least 7 kits missing pieces. And the frequency keeps growing

I never had it. Also if you do, Lego will send you any piece (that is not a minifig) no questions asked. My kid threw my glob down and one of the parts got a bad indentation and looked ugly. I got a replacement part in the mail no questions asked.
You don't need language to catch a ball, but clearly thinking is required to intercept its trajectory correctly.

Language is about communication.
Is there a competition where you win by showing something both compact and extraordinary but not obfuscated ? Like zlib compression in 100 lines or some song recognition using FFT in X lines, or a working ssh client in Y lines ?
Huh? Did we ask forget about the era of pop-up ads on the Internet?
Moving is extremely economically efficient. Older people should not live close to the financial district, people with kids should cluster around schools and playgrounds, people without cars should live closer to transit, etc, etc
Every Dunder Method in Python
How to Avoid Copyright Infringement When Using AI Art Generators
Claude 3 picks the correct answer in a counterfactual mugging
Instances of Claude 3 Opus are capable of coordinating with other (possibly counterfactual) instances of themselves. ChatGPT 4 was able to do the same in my testing, but only when it was prompted to be a "decision theorist" rather than a "probability theorist".
Makes it hard to explain to people what my DuoSelect is.
Pretty sure Ford's "PowerShift" fiasco soured everyone on dry DCTs. I'm not aware of any that are currently used in light duty passenger vehicles
What i've been using recently:https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin

This does the fairly obvious thing of ramming fzf in there.
Compute is substrate independent.

We use transistors because they are wicked fast and efficient. But a 4090 built from metal balls and wood blocks would still be able to perform all the same calculations. Or a 4090 made by drawing X's and O's on a (really massive) piece of paper. Or one made by connecting a bunch of neurons together for that matter.

Saying cells can multiply doesn't really mean anything, unless is gives ability to access some higher form of compute that is outside the reach of Turing machines. Which it doesn't, because if it did, it would be supernatural.
Because this is Elon Musk and not a random tech CEO? Elon has made his position public and clear and so asking him to clarify his position is fair game. He is also one of the richest person on earth and money gives power. He is not above using his power and wealth for things he espouse. So, why should we not ask him?
Yeah, but Lego inflates its part counts with lots of smaller pieces now.

The licensed sets are also a big hit. The best sets Lego makes are the creator ones, some of them I've bought multiple of so my kid could have the alt builds at the same time.
when you're alan kay you can literally just title things in the third person and it'd get read haha
True true, my org doesn’t even have a staff level, it goes from senior to principal. Not meant as a rebuttal, meant as a reinforcement of role names meaning less.
Top tip. Buy used Lego cheap from ebay (or similar) and stick it in the dishwasher in a string bag. Try to avoid Lego from a smoker's house or that has been heavily gnawed. And keep the dishwasher heat low, unless you want Salvador Dali Lego.
I was thinking, would this be possible using nothing more than fzf?
I don't have children and I do all sorts of kits besides lego; with even smaller pieces. Either I have bad luck or I am careless. But you'd think with multiple decades under my belt I'd eventually find the "missing" pieces. When it's like a 4x12 left wing, or a 2x1 it starts to get suss.
I think the reason automatic is more efficient is you'll often get more gears, maybe like 12, so it stays closer to the most efficient RPM. And it'll shift way up just cause you let off the gas for a second, so engine-braking is minimal. Stickshift drivers can maaybe do that, probably not. I can see those two things saving 4 MPG. Also have no idea if the EPA tests account for average stickshift driving habits.

And all that is without considering hybrid tech.
I much prefer this resource over the official offerings.

https://lean-lang.org/theorem_proving_in_lean4/title_page.ht...

You may need to use them in tandem, but I have found it much more productive to jump to the “number theory” section of TFA then to step through the official resource.

This resource also has its code online: https://github.com/hrmacbeth/math2001/tree/main/Math2001

One major ommission from TFA is lean's built in package manager and package builder lake: https://lean-lang.org/lean4/doc/setup.html#lake
Given that the outbound journey is already technically challenging, that's very nearly quibbling, despite cosmological accuracy.
Same. I keep pictures of each box I get for the family. About 130 now in the last 10 years. Zero missing pieces.
They’re not replacing a 1x4 with 2 1x2s, they’re just designing sets with more pieces per pound (by having smaller pieces for decoration).
I thought those were pretty normal. I didn't think it would have a specific effect in Japan.
>I don't see how this holds for LLMs and brains. The similarity between LLMs and brains is superficial.

It's really not any more superficial than planes and bird flight.
Lego is a plastics company; they're trying to become net-zero, but, unfortunately, being a plastics company, this is extremely hard:

https://www.ft.com/content/6cad1883-f87a-471d-9688-c1a3c5a0b...
After that, it's going to be "encryption at rest" (if you're storing these lists as part of the service) and then various and sundry compliances. That'll open you to the enterprise market.
please do! spin up an engineering blog on hashnode. https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/
One of the worst-case scenarios I can presently imagine for LLMs is a world so drowned in semi-plausible nonsense that new generations teach themselves to simply ignore the printed word, subconsciously categorizing it as noise, and in so doing essentially un-invent literacy.
Haven't used this but I tried out Pixie trying to debug where outgoing traffic was coming from and where it was going and was fairly successful although Pixie wasn't very stable/had a lot of issues causing crashes.

In this case, we had a couple services talking to 3rd party services running on AWS so it wasn't obvious from generic flow logs.

I also used Lacework a couple years ago which is eBPF based and it was pretty trivial to see things phoning home or one off maintenance where a new connection was being initiated.
Steve Jobs biological parents were rich, but he didn't get their money.
They did choose good parents for him, though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Also, and I'm going to put this real bluntly, a "personal AI" isn't worth crap to a lot of people until it's allowed to talk about sex.

I'm not even talking for porn purposes. Sex is a basic and healthy part of most peoples' lives, any number of relationship issues revolve around it, and for plenty of people it's literally their profession, legal or not. Anything that pretends it can 'personally' help a broad spectrum of people while treating sex as verboten is just bullshit.
I only started using macOS a decade ago. OSX was good in the past - smooth, clean, minimal-reboots and lightning fast. It has progressively become worse and worse over time in most aspects with some marginal improvements in other aspects.

The hardware definitely keeps getting better and yet the software keeps getting worse. sigh.

I mean they have even screwed up a nice app like iBooks. I used to use it for reading ePubs all the time, but now I dread opening up one. Lags like crazy. And so many crashes and reboots needed. Keep submitting crash reports but fairly certain that no-one ever reads them.

Yes, remarkably today - the Windows desktop needs less reboots than macOS today. Can anecdotally confirm this with 2 windows PC's, 3 windows laptops and 3 Macbooks in the family.
This is very cool! Any plans to make it also be able to write the filtered result to a file/stdout? I'd love to contribute that, but I'm only through 3 chapters of the Rust book.
I've had a couple of hybrids and I've always been able to hit the EPA numbers as long as I'm not driving in the mountains. And on state highways I can usually beat them. Some of the numbers hybrids are putting down are damn good these days. The base Camry hybrid starts under $30K and gets >50mpg.
It’d be a big improvement. Rather than call a linked library function you’d send a message to whatever it was you needed the library function for.. this reduces the buffer overflow exploit potential and what not. That alone is a huge win.
When I had one of these the data only lasted me 4 days. I didn't even purposely watch any videos, but I did read a lot of news articles and many "magazine" style sites have huge video payloads that load (and sometimes play) in the background if you're not running something like uBlock. I found some sites with 250MB home pages :(
Some of new hybrids remove transmission altogether - Honda and Nisan use ICE as a generator and wheels are powered by electrical motor.

Honda hybrids also have a clutch to connect gas engine directly to the wheels on motorway speeds to improve efficiency. And it simulates sound of gear changes during acceleration even if there are no gears whatsoever, since that's apparently what makes it more exciting and enjoyable to us petrolheads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JbpJR4frGY
> Why are we asking tech CEOs about societal racism and politics?

Because they are in control of how people communicate, and aside from Musk, they are the ones interested in the social, racism, and politics... not to mention ESG which is directly making companies get involved in all of that.

I agree, no CEO should be concerned with these issues, including adding features to their apps that are designed to flex their influence on society.
I think the title of this is wrong...it should say "Structured Language Patterns Facilitate Structured Generalization in Neural Networks".
I used to love driving a manual transmission, but if you live in a city you have to be a masochist to use them. I drove a six speed on a 30-40 minute commute on the 101 in LA for just a few months and started developing knee pain from constantly using the clutch.

I wish Honda made a Civic Type R with a DCT.
Really, it's just a tab strip, no? (But with fixed heterogeneous tabs, as opposed to a set of homogeneous ones the user adds/removes from as they open/close docs.)

Reminds me of the vertical tab strips in FF w/ TreeStyleTabs.

Which reminds me of OS/2, where tab strips were on the side, with some nice skeuomorphism: https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/os221/vxr...
Inkflow.io AI Generated 25000 Word Book 5 mins
Every tiny 1x1 piece always comes with an extra. That must be by design.

I think that’s calculated in their cost of doing business. Add one extra of each 1x1 probably eliminated most of the missing parts issue at a fraction of the cost.
I could not find a AI Writing tool that could write a complete book, all tools seems generated around 500 ~ 3000 words. So I built inkflow. Demo video here https://youtu.be/V1FAAhiyzVc
if you use fuel consumption instead fuel economy to look at it the differences can be small. I have both auto and manual transmission vehicles, and for me personally, I almost always beat the rated consumption numbers in manual and rarely beat it in the auto. This just boils down to how I drive; I end up going much slower when driving manual (in a small Ford Ranger pickup) than I do in either auto.
This pattern of requesting that someone become an informant and then punishing the person when he refuses is also something that's a common US pattern, where it's been used against European business people.

Alstom had a fantastic turbine business that they bought from ABB, then they had some trouble, 3 billion, then the US arrests a guy and fines them 700 million, and that's enough to put the company in dire straits, and then GE bids on it and gets it, so suddenly France no longer controls the company that makes the steam turbines for the nuclear plants.

Of course, that was re-acquired, but for a while France was dependent on a US company for their nuclear plant steam turbines, and the gas turbine part is wholly in the US.
I mean even basic math cannot uphold the thesis.

All the money and power in the world keeps consolidating upwards with the people closer to the apex of the pyramid deluding others that consistent climbing will help others reach there.

A tale as old as time, but due to exponential growth of tech playing out much faster.
I think it was Honda who tried out a 2 motor planetary gear setup to eliminate the transmission and I don't know why it was abandoned because it was brilliant.

The idea was that you need a certain velocity and torque to hold the drive train at a given speed, and instead of using reconfigurable gearsets for that, you use a differential, and one of the output shafts is sometimes an input shaft. One of the output shafts is attached to the wheels, the other to a motor. At some speeds output shaft B is stationary. To accelerate, you feed power into the motor and now it's speeding up shaft A. At lower speeds, you bleed power off of shaft B by running the motor as a dynamo, using it to charge the batteries and run auxiliary equipment.

In the hybrid version there was an ICE on the input shaft (or an ICE and a ganged electric motor) but on a full electric you could run two motors with different torque curves and balance the inputs for each speed.
I love driving my manual too and would like to beg you to keep buying them -- the few of us that still appreciate them are the only shred of remaining market
I'll try and find some. I remember the ones I hit were "magazine" style news sites. Without uBlock they are horrible with huge video payloads in the sidebars etc.
In my neck of the woods we called them PowerShit.
This advice is for 14/15 year olds. I think the advice would be different for 22-year-olds. It would be different still for 35-year-olds.

22-year-olds have a hard time selling to enterprises, 14-year-olds will find it impossible. Whereas if they build something cool that they and their friends love they will gain many of the skills that might be useful later on.

PG has made the point many times that the superpower 22-year-olds have is that they can live on ramen and work 16 hours a day. The superpower that 14-year-olds have is that (in many cases) they don't even need to find the $1,000 a month to survive.
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Taxes should be used to pay for government services, not as arbitrary attacks on people you don't like.

Also, raising taxes just raises costs for renters. The solution to housing affordability is building more housing. Align the market incentives to build more housing, don't try to fight against market forces.
Wet clutch has the problem of friction material building up in the fluid, which can cause wear and deteriorate the other components. Dry clutch is more modular, the clutch is more self-contained and seems like it would be better for long-term serviceability: if the clutch wears out, you can just replace that part.