skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely understand why it is this way, and like I said I don't know the solution - unless AWS was able to or would want to fork Kubernetes in the same way that they did ElasticSearch, but that is understandable why they may not want to do that. Was mostly just griping that this process is a complete pain in the ass for tons of people (IME).
It's worth noting that when George Sowers and ULA did their well-known business case analysis for re-use (nearly 10 years ago, in 2015), their analysis concluded that it would take 10 flights to pay-off the penalty of re-use.

The analysis was flawed from the start, because it falsely assumed you could charge for every kg of capacity, but in reality customers are largely paying by flight, and much of the Falcon 9 capacity is unused.

But even according to their flawed analysis, they assumed there would never be a need for so many flights, and re-use would just eat into their production line productivity, raising the cost of each rocket.

These false assumptions caused them not to pursue any real type of reusabilty. Though they proposed a janky system where the engines would be recovered by parachute and helicopter, they never funded it, and the current Vulcan doesn't support any type of reuse.

Flash forward to today, and ULA has a contract for possibly 83 launches from Amazon for Kuiper.

What a terrible lack of foresight.
As a first pass, you could try "profiling" how you spend your time, like you would for improving the performance of software.

That might be the easiest first pass. Then you can do the bigger things like: "I'm spending 1/4 time managing contractors, and 1/3 doing planning for which most of that time is due to needing to coordinate and adapt to contractors... So, do I need contractors? I need someone. What about a different contractor setup that doesn't need so much handholding? Or an employee? Or change the nature of the work?" Etc.
She doesn't seem to have a (public) twitter account anymore, so I'm on the better shape side.
Actually doing a sort of interesting experiment right now. I really want to get into an EV but I just love my Mazda too much. I have had too many memories with this car and I'd just pay to keep the car going another 5-10 years but the premature rust has put it on its last legs. Naturally the car I should get is a new Mazda 3 but its not an EV :/

So what I am doing is renting various EVs I can afford for a day each with the intention of striking them off on my list. While driving 100+ miles in the day, I come up with reasons why I definitely don't want this car or that car.

The final car to be rented will be a modern Mazda 3 and having tried out all the EVs I will have to think deeply about whether I can really give up Mazda.

This is an expensive and time consuming experiment but it has already helped me dodge a bullet. Test driving a Mach-E would have been a decent experience but it was only after several hours of driving the car did I realize the hard plastics of the center console would be pressing hard into my leg causing pain. Also the "premium B&O" system is good but not that much better than my 17 year old crusty system in my Mazda. Especially not for the price. You only really internalize this when listening to a variety of soundtracks over many hours.

I've joked with friends that maybe I should just buy a plane ticket to Hiroshima, get on my knees and beg Mazda to make an EV. :P
CFPB needs to be burned to the ground. How tf is this even constitutionally legal?

It doesn't matter what your political leanings are or what you think about the matter at hand. No agency should have the much power to be the judge jury and executioner. Oh and also to just write laws at a whim.

This is really not cool. I have no idea how anybody who calls them selves an American can be cool with this.
My doctor prescribed exactly this for me.
Yes, I run into this too!!
Having been the subject of a number of photos for the local paper when I was a nerdy high-achieving high school student, awkwardly posed “candid” shots are kind of par for the game.
Affecting the thoughts of other humans is close to the purpose of all inter-human communication. Consider the following cases:

- Your neighbor knows you need a new table and their brother sells tables so they tell you about it and offer you a special deal.

- Your daughter is an avowed pacifist who tries very hard to convince you that you should move your family to another country and stop paying taxes to one that is currently waging a war.

- Your son really hates broccoli and pleads with you to make carrots for dinner side instead.

- A company that makes packaged dessert foods pays theaters to covertly insert subliminal imagery into film reels designed to make viewers crave their food.

- A group takes over a rural commune and recruits people from broken homes, convincing them to become sex slaves and take part in ritual suicide pacts over the course of many years of sophisticated psychological manipulation and isolation techniques.

- A charistmatic totalitarian politician spends years on the stump gradually convinging a voting majority of what used to be a liberal democracy that directing all national production toward warfare, attempting to conquer their entire continent, and exterminating an entire race of nationless people is the only way forward for human progress.

Are all of these activities morally equivalent? Does it make sense to call all of them by the same term? Or does that decrease, rather than increase, the usefulness with which we can discuss these kinds of things?

That said, I can't disagree that 20% of a national economy being devoted to marketing and advertising seems unlikely to be a socially optimal allocation of economic activity.
I don't know that you're right on this. I could argue the opportunity cost of high school was a million bucks, too. Or grade school. Or preschool. Clearly it breaks down _somewhere_. But is that before or after a Master's? I don't have the data.

The United States is chock full of examples of people who worked through their college years and are dead broke. So I don't think "skipping college equals a million bucks" is a conclusion that's remotely close to a sure bet, especially if college is offering valuable advanced training.

(Edit: college now costs a goddam fortune compared to when I went--that changes the calculus.)
If they start selling ai in their platform, it's a really good option, as people know they can run it somewhere else if they had to (for any reason, e.g: you could make a poc with their platform but then because of regulations you need to self host, can you do that with other offers?)
Booster processing between launches sometimes takes as little as 7 days. That probably rules out any engine replacements at least on some launches.
not as many as you would think. They don't do very many static fires of falcon 9 at all anymore.

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/spacex-building...

"For example, the company changed its requirement to perform a static firing every time an engine was removed.

“Now we have to drop three engines before we go do a static fire because we determined we can put the high-pressure joints together, verify that they’re leak-tight and everything works,” Gerstenmaier says. “We’ve removed like 14 static fires out of the flow that would have been required under our old criteria, and all 14 of those flights launched on the first attempt.”"
The colloquial definition is 1, not as much 2, which is where the semantic bickering will come in.

Most people do not view being "convinced" as brainwashing. They see brainwashing as a sub-conscious activity. They view being convinced as a conscious one.

I think this definition is too broad myself.
I don't think they are saying it's a downside. Quite the opposite: "but also soothing." I think she means more "If this is the price I had to pay to get there, I'd rather have a noisy mind."
German GTA: SA (and VC) was even more cut. No dismemberment, no blood, no money from corpses.

Austria imports...
It can be fun, though, to prompt a text completion with something like "I'm thinking about" and just seeing what random thing it completes it with.
BTW, the "woke white Republicans" bit was a joke ... as indicated by the typed smiley-face, a widespread (albeit perhaps-dated) typographic convention.
> The fact that they CAN exert so much power on information access in

They don't have any power on information access. They just require their citizen can decide what you do with it. There is no central system where information is stored that can be used in future by authoritarian leadership. But the information stored about American by American companies can be use in such a way if there one day an authoritarian leadership in America.
> You can sample GPT-4 not once, but 10, 100, 1000 times.

Is there a study on improved outcomes based on simple repetitions of GPT-4? I would be very interested in that study. I don't think gpt hallucinations are like human hallucinations. Where if you ask someone after a temporary hallucination they might get it right another 9 times, but I could be wrong. That would be an interesting result.
A reorg at this scale?

It doesn't even happen annually.

A reorg of two teams of 10 people? Sure. Google is a ~180k person company.
AI Has Made Google Search So Bad People Are Moving to TikTok and Reddit
There’s a lot of Social Security money flowing to all those retirees.
Honestly, if you're not playing video games or require Windows for certain apps and if you're a little tech savvy, why are you still using Windows?

It's not a rhetorical question, it's a real one. I'm really interested in what's keeping people on Windows nowadays, considering all the spying, nagging and overall hostile attitude Microsoft has against its users.
I am about 190 cm and the ceiling in the passenger rear touches my head/hair slightly. The front had adjustable seats so its not an issue. (Im referring to Bolt EUV)
In the context of rockets, what is important and salient here is reuse, and even if some motors are swapped out, they are still available for refurbishment, rather than destroyed on reentry.
I can't think of what Windows 7 did that was better than 2000. I'd be curious to hear what people liked about it?
I've observed this as well. People who believe in evolution can't seem to stop themselves from using "intelligent design" language to anthropomorphize evolution.
Honestly I think other solutions would be possible if manufacturers cared enough.

Easy solution: pressure plate that measures which part of the pedal is getting pushed. Floor mats/loose pedals press on the bottom, humans press at the top.

Fancy but probably excellent when functioning solution: Use computer vision to detect foot position using camera(s) down there. Maybe IR lighting too.

There's more possible ways but I think you get what I'm trying to say.
It being a joke does not justify POTUS lying to US citizens :P
I self-host it. But you can also use the SaaS version. The pricing for that can be found here: https://www.kimai.cloud/pricing

Currently, this is:

Standard
€2.99 Annual €35.88 per user

Project time-tracking
Billable and non-billable hours
Invoicing
Data export
Audit logs
Industry-specific translations
Personal Support

Professional
€3.99 Annual €47.88 per user Most popular

All the features of "Standard"
Overtime account
Public holiday, vacation, sick leave
Expense tracking
Custom fields
Task planning
Daily backups for download
Single Sign-On with SAML
Custom domain with SSL
Access restriction via IP
Annual plan: less bookkeeping
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Just imagine how long it would take the public to realize such dirty play by alibaba.
I don't manage it all. Something is always slipping and I always feel like I am falling behind.

That said, here are some tactics I've used over ~2 years as a solo founder to try to keep it together:

1. Focus weeks on certain functions - ie work on developing features for one week and then switch to marketing tasks the next. Admittedly harder than it seems, but when actually followed, find I make considerable progress on that week's topic of focus. Also forces me to accomplish harder work (marketing/sales for me) vs. retreating to what is most comfortable (developing).

2. Speaking with other founders / leaders in the space I operate. This has been especially helpful as I've struggled with a growth/marketing strategy and speaking with others selling adjacent products in the same space has unblocked me many times.

3. Keeping realistic expectations that I'm doing this solo and it will be very difficult at times. Also harder than it seems.

4. Keep a founder's log to persist notable events and learnings. Useful when feeling particularly overwhelmed as I can revisit how much has been accomplished.
> we'd switch to Starlink (at much lower total bandwidth)

That's some kind of understatement, assuming that TFA is correct:

> Satellites would not be able to pick up even half a percent of the traffic.

I very much doubt that the trading systems that today rely on international data cables can be run via phones and voice communications, and I also wonder just how much of the phone system (even domestically within the USA) paradoxically relies in submarine cables.
If it works, no one will care what it's called, beyond as a convenient wake word.

If it doesn't work, no one will care even that much.

Clickbait will remain clickbait, either way.
Qwik vs. Next.js: Which framework is right for your next web project?
The specific example I gave was from a 1982 paper (I forget who wrote it, but a big name in computer science) where that was used to prove an algorithm and thus argue that he didn't need to test it as it was proved correct.

The famous Donald Knuth has also stated "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", which again hints that there are limits to proved programs.

I'll admit that I don't know much about them, what I know meringues me - but I can't figure out how to use them in the real world. However I know enough to know that they are not perfect.
Fun fact, it's impossible to 100% the MMLU because 2-3% of it has wrong answers.
> the only people calling me “colored” are woke white people.

We can be confident that when "woke white people" use the term "colored" today, their intent is very different than it generally was in the South of the 50s and 60s — and in not a few places today as well.
In which way is Thunderbird ugly?
One consideration is maybe stuff that's "hackable", i.e. immediately accessible, can be incrementally and reversibly modified, is more accessible to "play" while stuff that's extremely capable but has a high activation cost (setting up the environment, learning all the stuff to make something basic etc.) is more accessible only to "focused / goal oriented study" and this has all kinds of implications on who does it, who succeeds, under which circumstances etc.

e.g. my friend tells me you can open game.exe in notepad + change this value to walk on lava, then I fiddle with it and tl;dr make a map of my school, then get frustrated with limitations and start learning a game engine with some practical background on what these concepts are etc.

vs. I decide want to make a game because that's cool, I buy a book on game programming, it depends on these libraries, I install them, I install a compiler, the libraries don't work with the compiler/each other, ......... and give up because the grit in my life is reserved for stuff other than video games.

... like really, what is the overlap of people that are really mind blowingly creative as artists, and the people that are super type A driven to go through all this frustration up front? less friction, more better art
The article is good, but as an aside, wow thank you for the introduction to "the bullet journal". Seems like an awesome time management tool.
Good enough that I haven’t had to think about it since switching back. With that said, I don’t have specific knowledge of any edge cases where that might be a problem.

I’m using an Nvidia RTX 3000 series with 1st party drivers and Firefox for my browser.
They should rebuild it from the ground up and call it Iris
what are you thoughts on projects like these: https://www.llm360.ai/

seems like they make everything available.
> Most software will requires a proper MPI environment with a parallel file system and (often) a beefy GPU

I’m but a tourist in this domain, but can you dig into this a bit more and compare/contrast w “traditional” development? I presume the MPI you’re talking about is OpenMPI or MPICH, which need to be dealt with directly - but what are the considerations/requirements for a parallel FS? Hardware is hardware, and I guess what you’re saying re: GPUs is that you can’t fake The Real Thing (fair enough), but what other interesting “quirks” do you run into in this HPC env vs non-HPC?
The 400B model seems to be a competitor, maybe not in parameter count, but benchmark-wise it seems to be similar.
Can I have an answer to the quession in the heading according to the article? This English is too complicated for me.
I think what Meta is doing is really smart.

We don't really know where AI will be useful in a business sense yet (the apps with users are losing money) but a good bet is that incumbent platforms stand to benefit the most once these uses are discovered. What Meta is doing is making it easier for other orgs to find those use-cases (and take on the risk) whilst keeping the ability to jump in and capitalize on it when it materializes.

As for X-Risk? I don't think any of the big tech leadsership actually beleive in that. I also think that deep down a lot of the AI safety crowd love solving hard problems and collecting stock options.

On cost, the AI hype raises Met's valuation by more than the cost of engineers and server farms.
Linux apps to boost your privacy
As I understand, in the finance world lists like this are considered classified because knowing you're on one, or the circumstances that put you on one could help you/others circumvent the measures. Fraud detection works like this - if you're under investigation, you won't know about it, you'll have some vague issue with your bank account.
Zuck equated the current point in AI to iOS vs Android and MacOS vs Windows. He thinks there will be an open ecosystem and a closed one coexisting if I got that correctly, and thinks he can make the former.
Xeon processors first debuted 25 years ago. They are only on their sixth generation?????
Meta is an advertising company that is primarily driven by user generated content. If they can empower more people to create more content more quickly, they make more money. Particularly the metaverse, if they ever get there, because making content for 3d VR is very resource intensive.

Making AI as open as possible so more people can use it accelerates the rate of content creation
Start? They've been using dark patterns all along to get people to sign up.
Is there any source you can provide that says they have to swap the engines out?
>The term IS meaningless, there is no clear distinction between "brainwashing, "education", "marketing", "propaganda" and "convincing"

From Merriam Webster's definition of brainwashing [0]

1. a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas

2. persuasion by propaganda or salesmanship

So, the term isn't meaningless and, colloquially, is generally understood to emphasize the forcible or misleading / propaganda-based aspects of the formal definition.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brainwashing
App Mindset, Infra Mindset (2022)
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug
Where I think ML would be much better than what we (postgres) do, is iteratively improving selectivity estimation. In today's postgres there's zero feedback from noticing at runtime that the collected statistics lead to bad estimates. In a better world we'd use that knowledge to improve future selectivity estimates.

> In order to do that, they purposefully don't explore the true planning space...they might explore 3-10 alternative ways of executing, whereas there might be hundreds or thousands of ways to do the same thing.

FWIW, often postgres' planner explores many more plan shapes than that (although not as complete plans, different subproblems are compared on a cost basis).

> While Postgres has explicitly chosen to not implement planning pragmas to override planner behavior, it would be really cool if you could have multiple planners optimized for different types of workloads,

FWIW, it's fully customizable by extensions. There's a hook to take over planning, and that can still invoke postgres' normal planner if the query isn't applicable. Obviously that's not the same as actually providing pragmas.
No, but LLMs require orders of magnitude more language input than humans[1]. It's very reasonable to assume that architectural differences (size among them) is more likely a constraint for performance.

1. Specifically larger than the upper bound on lifetime language input for humans, even assuming 24/7 at max reading speed.
> Democratic elections are a farce in general, only the $$ power behind allow candidates to run, right now it's always pro democracy candidates because the money behind them want them to, once the money comes from mainland China it becomes pro integration candidates.

This is frankly silly. Democracy has many issues, but that doesn't mean there's a cabal pulling strings behind choosing the candidates.

The above is the typical excuse of autocrats and dictators that want to discredit democracy, even though it's by far the best governance model compared to the nonsense they want.
What will happen is that they’ll loose lifetime Windows users like me! I was using Windows both at home and professionally but had enough and bought a used MacBook Pro M2 and I could not be happier! If I really need to use Windows software I can use Parallels/CrossOver/UTM or remote into a VM. Far superior experience
> to actually playing with competitors software after buying a license via a shell or a partner (very common practice done by startups)

It can go further than that, it’s not exactly unheard of for companies to actively reverse engineer competitors software to try figure out its secret sauce.

Examples I’m aware of specifically being looked at as “competitive intel” in the industry I work in are stuff like antivirus or IDS signatures, WAF rules, and vulnerability check rules/scripts for scanning tools.

It’s not a bad thing either - I’ve had to reverse engineer checks/rules used by commercial vulnerability scanners to figure out why certain scanning tools kept having false positives.
I am sure Apple gets millions of requests a day for Siri just as Alexa does.

Starting from zero with yet another name for a similar product seems way worse than just fixing Siri.

The only reason to ditch the Siri brand name would be if they are pivoting away from the idea of having a general purpose “do anything” assistant, which I don’t think they are contemplating.
but do you think "next token prediction is enough for AGI" though?
You have to delegate. It can be a human or a robot. For example, make stock and use tools for social media content. Use IFTTT, Zapier, Make or n8n. Hire a freelance assistant etc.
The second way eventually fills your calendar with meetings with the IRS.