skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And if you've ever met a kid who stubbornly prefers to be introverted or extroverted...

My mom says she had an inkling I would be introverted (like my dad) and my sister would be extraverted (like her) just based on our behavior in the womb. I was very calm and nonreactive, while my sister was a big kicker and very reactive to external stimuli. Those personality traits have indeed persisted through adulthood.
Neither do most ruraloids and especially not the ones actually paying for the satellites.
Adding a payment method doesn't work for any AWS account
Today, I created an AWS account. After a few minutes, I received an email saying that my payment method could not be verified. I tried many different cards, and nothing worked. So I checked on my old production AWS accounts, and adding payment methods also doesn't work for them!

Am I unlucky, or does AWS have some huge issue right now? Does it work for you?
"Linear" here doesn't mean "a linear transformation is applied at each time step", it means "a constant rate of change over all time".

Multiplicative growth by a constant factor is an increasing rate of change over time.
Yes, Ruby Is Fast, But
A minimal TLS 1.2 client implementation in a pure Bash script
Why now? They're expected to announce a successor printer in the next few months and they've said the X1C, as their oldest printer, will stop getting firmware updates next year.
> This is a blunder of epic proportions.

Really? Would you put this blunder on par with Meta’s quixotic quest into the Metaverse? Or Boeing’s ditching of its engineering culture? Or “New Coke”?

Or would you say it was an ad that a very small subset of the population was able to take out some of its woke-rage at for a news cycle and then move on?

Like come on. Epic proportions. Ridiculous.
Bing's version of ChatGPT/GPT4 cites sources. My limited unterstanding is that it uses your question to do a web search, brings the results into the context window, and then generates an answer that cites sources.

OpenAI could integrate StackOverflow the same way.
I love when people say stuff like this. When people read “interact with brand” they automatically assume it is some dumb, low value garbage like chatting with Burger King.

You “interact with brands” all of the time. You are literally posting this on YC’s public forum, an asset which YC uses to foster a community of the consumers of its investment portfolio’s products. You are interacting with the brand.
They wouldn't, because network effect, which is why there is no alternative.
Not a lot. As mentioned in TFA, the chargers are designed to operate in the rain.
Is it good at digesting huge lists of PDFs (say, 100 000)?
> The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons.

This is great and provides a hard data point for some napkin math on how big a neural network model would have to be to emulate the human brain. 150 million synapses / 57,000 neurons is an average of 2,632 synapses per neuron. The adult human brain has 100 (+- 20) billion or 1e11 neurons so assuming the average rate of synapse/neuron holds, that's 2.6e14 total synapses.

Assuming 1 parameter per synapse, that'd make the minimum viable model several hundred times larger than state of the art GPT4 (according to the rumored 1.8e12 parameters). I don't think that's granular enough and we'd need to assume 10-100 ion channels per synapse and I think at least 10 parameters per ion channel, putting the number closer to 2.6e16+ parameters, or 4+ orders of magnitude bigger than GPT4.

There are other problems of course like implementing neuroplasticity, but it's a fun ball park calculation. Computing power should get there around 2048: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38919548
I admit I was overly dramatic in that phrasing. But there's only so much one can expect the platform vendor to do when it comes to things like medical devices. I'd rather the certification were by an (ostensibly) accountable agency, not the corporation taking a cut of the profit.
I recently started using an eink Supernote device in A5 size and it is really change the way I interact with PDFs. The best part is the software is native PDF highlighting and commenting and leave comments using handwriting recognition.

Unrelated to PDF I built a Supernote Obsidian plugin too.

https://github.com/philips/supernote-obsidian-plugin
They make the mistake of thinking the government will do a better job than individuals.

maybe they do, maybe they don't. but by preference, it is easier to demand transparency from the government than to demand it from individuals. because transparency from individuals implies removal of privacy.

so i'd rather give billions to a government and have it clearly documented how they spend the money instead of demanding the same from individuals.
PG&E (dunno about the others) is not a public utility, it is a private company that has been granted a monopoly by the local government. They made 2.2 billion dollars profit in 2023, after going bankrupt in 2019. There is no incentive to reduce prices since there aren't really any competitors.

Every fee increase has to be granted by a regulatory agency (CPUC) which clearly hasn't been doing much regulation, and gives us odd pricing strategies like this one.

One small city (Alameda) in the Bay Area, surrounded by PG&E customers, has its own municipal utility and they pay a third of the cost.
This is a lesson that like all good Hitchhikers, you should always carry a towel.
If you replaced the '"' with 'cm', the analysis and visualizations would be identical.
You could just run a plugin hybrid vehicle with an inverter and power a house for around around 50 cents a kwh, at $5.00 a gallon gas.

So soon yes I think people may start just using cheap gasoline generator, or their plugin hybrids, to power their houses if electric companies go crazy.

It's already common for people to not want to pay for electric hookup when building new developments. Solar, batteries, and generators are cheaper by a wide margin.
Very cool! I was hoping to be able to navigate to the HN post from the map though? Is that possible?
These things have to run in downpours of rain. A wet towel is nothing.
I wonder if we manage to annotate this much level of detail about our brain, and then let (some variant of the current) models train on it, will those intrinsically end up generalizing a model for intelligence?
For me, Google Search is just a way to search Reddit 95% of the time.
People already do that with vendorizing, too. It was noted the other week on HN of someone "collateralizing" their tech debt by vendorizing a dependency to remove CVE/deprecation/obsolescence warnings for a Rust dependency with no update path: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645

A metric like this can't keep you honest (just about no matter how you design it, people will find loopholes), but it can help honest people document their needs.
But it's a $50 dollar drill, that failed due to a cheap part.

I don't know where you live, but just a diagnosis by a repair technician is more expensive than that. Even if you open it up yourself, find the broken part, find that part someone, get someone to print it,get the part delivered, and replace it, it'll be more than $50 of associated costs... and just because a company wanted to save 50 cents on a plastic gear.
General public can buy a M1 MacBook Air for $799 if they need a laptop at all. An air will serve them well for a long time.
The fire alarm IS the senor, it's an alarm, it's in the name, it's pretty obvious to most people what happens if you fuck with it and what the consequences are, and people still do to combat false positive alarms.

But most people have no idea about the senor(s) in tesla charger plugs, since it's a plug, not an alarm. How should it be obvious for the average layman without open disclaimers? People always tend to fuck with stuff they don't fully understand if someone tells them that doing something quirky means extra oomph.

And forget about people putting towels on it, what about rain or wet debris falling on it? Seems like edge cases that should have been covered during the concept and design phase by EEs with experience. For something meant to survive and be used outdoor these are not even edge cases.
No Country Should Be Making Speech Rules for the World
Sounds like inhabitants of that state need to get together in local groups where everyone has solar panels on the roof, some have wind generators, some have ICE-powered generators and maybe some even have some small-scale hydro (does that exist there?) into local 'microgrids' and just go 'off-grid'. From what I read here even running natural gas powered generators end up being less expensive per produced kWh so it should easily be less expensive than pulling power from the grid. If the grid does not want you, why would you want the grid?

Call your local groups 'electrical power councils' (Электроэнергетические советы or 'Elektroenergeticheskiye soviety') - and it should go down quite well with the more 'progressive' sections of that state.
Agreed. Any stock app that doesn't plot stock prices in log scale is considered by me to be an amateur app. My favorite litmus test for stock apps is to view the ten-year price history for UVXY. If it doesn't look roughly like a straight line the app is for amateurs. The iOS built in stock app fails this test. The Schwab app passes this test.
I think you're being overly obtuse, and I'd request you try to work in good faith. If you doubt what I claimed, you can quickly verify on the wiki page[0].

In essence you aren't wrong, but that's not what we'd typically do in a zero (or few) shot setting. We'd be focusing on things that are more similar. If you want to understand this a bit better in what we might do in a ML context I wrote more here[1].

And I like Nico's comment about how different professors test. Because it makes you think about what is actually being tested. Are you being tested on memorization or generalization? You can argue both these kinds of tests are testing "if you learned the material" but we'd understand that these two types of tests are fundamentally different and let's be real, are not reasonably fair to compare scores to. I'm sure many of us have experienced this where someone that gets a C in professor A's class likely learned more than than someone who got an A in professor B's class. The thing is that the nuance is incredibly important here to really understand. And you can trivialize anything, but be careful when doing so, you may overlook the most important things ;)

Now... you could make this argument about geometry -> calculus if we're not talking about the typical geometry (single) class most people will have taken in either middle school or high school. Because yes, at the end of the day there is a geometric interpretation and we have the Riemann sum. But we'd need to ensure those kids have the understanding of infinities (which aren't numbers btw). We'd have to be pretty careful about formulating this kind of test if we're going to take away any useful information from it. Though the naive version might give us clues about information leakage (in our case with children this might be "child who has a parent that's a mathematician" or something along those lines). It really all depends on what the question behind the test is. Scores only mean things when we have nuanced clear understandings of what we're measuring (so again, tread carefully because "here be dragons" and you're likely to get burned before, or even without, knowing it)

And truth be told, we actually do this a bit. There's a reason you take geometry before calculus. Because the skills build up. But you're right that they don't generalize.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313501
You seem to be saying 'it was incorrect on Fuchsia, so it's incorrect on Linux'. No, it's correct on Linux, and incorrect on every other platform, as each platform's documentation is very clear on. Go did it incorrectly on FreeBSD, but that's Go being Go; they did it in the first place because it's a Linux-first system and it's correct on Linux. And glibc does not have any special privilege, the vdso optimizations it takes advantage of are just as easily taken advantage of by the Go compiler. There's no reason to bucket Linux with Windows on the subject of syscalls when the Linux manpages are very clear that syscalls are there to be used and exhaustively documents them, while MSDN is very clear that the system interface is kernel32.dll and ntdll.dll, and shuffles the syscall numbers every so often so you don't get any funny ideas.
No, in this case the server provides abstractions like a filesystem.
ThinkPad keyboards have gotten worse. I have a closet full of older models where the keyboards aren’t crap. But it really is a shame there are no high quality laptops with Linux preinstalled as an option.

Every time this comes up people suggest everything except the thing I’m looking for.

System76 desktops aren’t bad, I used one daily for several years. They’re also in the same price or higher as the MacBook Pro I replaced it with.
You are lucky to know ahead of time about your respective mutations. We didn’t (no family history and both asymptomatic carriers) and my son was born bilateral profoundly deaf (connexin 26). We have chosen the path of cochlear implant (which is an amazing technology). We are both looking forward to seeing advancements in therapies for GJB2 mutations sparing many parents (and children) what we have been through. However, corrective therapy for GJB2 might require much earlier discovery of the issue and earlier administration I believe, as usually those variants affect actual physical growth of hair cells in the cochlea.
> I think selling them as an automated engineer is a little over the top at the moment

Indeed. Amazon originally advertised CodeGuru as being "like having a distinguished engineer on call, 24x7".[^1] That became a punchline at work for a good while.

I can definitely see the value of a tool that helps identify issues and suggest fixes for stuff beyond your typical linter, though. In theory, getting that stuff out of the way could make for more meaningful human reviews. (Just don't overpromise what it can reasonably do.)

[^1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191203185853/https://aws.amazo...
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You can also use a plugin hybrid as a quiet generator and battery bank. My Chevy volt kicks out 2kw into the 12v system bus when on, and then you just need an inverter. Once you use up the available 10kwh battery pack, the gas engine will just turn on and it makes about 10kwh per gallon.
I think this would complement batteries.

One big use would be ev road racing.

Cars on a track have high acceleration, followed by extreme braking.

If this energy could be buffered by a large capacitor, the main battery could just be slowly discharged to a capacitor to provide energy for the race. The capacitor would provide and absorb fluctuating energy to speed up and slow down.

I also imagine complex ev battery architecture could be simplified if the energy in and out doesn't have to be radically managed.

I see it somewhat like running an internal combustion engine at one efficient RPM instead of having to run at all RPMs and use a gearbox.
Sounds like a solid value add. We have been thinking of integrating our system at ixcoach.com with slack. Will take a look.
Sure, but you still have to either open the device yourself, or pay someone to do it, find the broken part, find the part design, order it, ship it, replace it, and reassemble the device. If you don't do it yourself, it's not worth it at all financially, and if you do, it's quite a long process, usually not worth it for a $50 drill, where the company wanted to save a few cents with a plastic part.
That never seemed hard to figure out.
I honestly don't know what they were thinking.

BTW, most gene vectors today are based on lentiviruses... specifically, from HIV. It took a few tries before they found a method to reliably remove all the bad bits from the vector. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-018-0106-0 and other articles on the evolution of HIV as a gene therapy vector.
These types of keepalives are usually best handled at the application protocol layer where you can design in more knobs and respond in different ways. Otherwise you may see unexpected interactions between different keepalive mechanisms in different parts of the protocol stack.
Why would you assume it would swap? I have found that major personality traits generally persist throughout life.

I was like my dad when I was a little girl, and I am still like him now in middle age (probably even more so now even than when I was young). Meanwhile, my sister has always been more like our mom.
search amazon for matte glass screen protectors. thank me later
To clarify all data that is transferred from Linux ZFS to FreeBSD based systems or visa versa is copied using restic or rsync.

I only use ZFS replication when doing Linux to Linux transfers and when that happens they are running the exact same operating system and version of OpenZFS.
So I take it unless you're doing something which requires quick prototyping or a specific machine learning library one should always avoid interpreted languages when performance is a concern ?

I love C sharp and I'm really productive in it, but I've worked at so many places which have tried to get performance out of Python.
Right I never said it was about quality. I asked why an American would buy exported beef and quality obviously is a factor in a buying decision. Quality has to be proven, something that is difficult to understand and prove when the product is an export.

I am asking a different question than what is demonstrated by the article, intentionally.
That averages out to about 5 paid trips per minute, which is impressive considering the number of places where Waymo is offering paid trips: currently San Francisco, Phoenix, and parts of LA.
Sioyek has nice features, however, it was quite buggy. Fixing bugs and writing tests may take a lot of efforts.
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Crow/parrot brains are tiny but in terms of neuron count they are twice as dense as primate brains (including ours): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...

If someone did this experiment with a crow brain I imagine it would look “twice as complex” (whatever that might mean). 250 million years of evolution separates mammals from birds.
That sounds entirely orthogonal to the goal, which isn't a good thing for a metric.
Yeah, but since it's charging faster, it'll be done before the inaccurate temp readings allow the actual cable to melt. Or, if it's not the charger in your home and you're using someone else's charger, who cares if it melts. That's someone else's problem as long you get your batts topped off. At least, that's my cynical internal dialog for the world's mentality today.
Trypophobia, visceral, uncanny, squeamish?
What else about the Supernote changed the way you interact with PDFs, besides highlighting and handwritten comments? Does the form factor make a big difference?

Asking out of curiosity since I've been eyeing eink tablets for a while.
Only on AWS ;)
Yeah but it is still mass and volume that might reduce available payload?
Many folks don't know about what Protobuf Editions are, and it's about to be generally available. I was encouraging people to read the article :)
Back in about 1994, there was a server at I think MIT that would stream a live TV signal to your X Window server.

Yeah, with no compression, that's right.
Interesting that the V3 superchargers use a liquid-cooled cable. Without knowing anything specific, this implies that maintaining cable temperature is the objective, not just the handle. That means that the handle sensor proxies the temperature of the entire cable. I would imagine they measured the heat-dissipation site where the coolant flows to to be where they measure the temperature for regulation, rather than the handle.

All quite interesting.
Is it the shapes, similar to how patterns of holes can disturb some people? Or is it more abstract, like "unknowable fragments of someone's inner-most reality flowed through there"? Not that I have a name for it either way. The very shape of it (in context) might represent an aspect of memory or personality or who knows what.
Are we confusing smoke detectors with fire alarms? Most people screw with the detectors. A fire alarm is usually triggered when a sprinkler head is set off. And despite what Hollywood shows us, just because one head starts does not mean all of the heads in the system open up.
macro scale: GDP / labor hours worked.

company scale: sales / labor hours worked

It's very hard to measure at the team or individual level.
I think you would also need the epigenetic side, which is very poorly understood: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/biologists-trans...

We have more detail than this about the C. elegans nematode brain, yet we still no clue how nematode intelligence actually works.
A fan wouldn't cool down a dry plastic handle. Fans cool you down because you are wet and the air flow makes the water on you evaporate a bit quicker.
Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
“As a charity, we support families to make informed choices about medical technologies, so that they can give their deaf child the best possible start in life.”

A pleasantly measured response. For those in the know, has the deaf community calmed down in recent years? I remember a time when they were radically opposed to anything that smelled like a "cure" for something they considered more of an identity than a disability, though I haven't read anything on it in a long time.
Tangentially related. does anyone know a good pdf reader with LLM based search integrated? Suppose I want search for "cities in USA", in the document, it should show all occurences new york, los angeles and chicago, for example.
you can get a laptop with a much bigger screen and a keyboard for as little as 100 to 300$ and it will be much much easier to get work done on, than an apple phone. so i think apple is still very much a luxury product.
I've noticed this too but I just use the word 'okay' anyway. I mean, I'm not saying 'ock', I'm saying 'oh kay', so why shouldn't the spelling reflect that?
the first thing I do on any device is disable all forms of autocorrect
So with that much tax money collected, why are you expecting OpenAI to tutor students? Let the government build the product you would like to see.
OP should have posted this on Towel Day
> I do not expect to see large-scale germline modification for non-disease purposes in my lifetime (another 20-30 years).

Could you please share what makes you think so?
Do you mind sharing what your industry is? Just out of curiosity.

I’ve been programming side projects in Rust for a few years now, but wouldn’t really feel comfortable doing it for a living. Reading through occasional RFCs, without.boats, etc makes me feel like an absolute idiot.
It's different, it's sort of very shallow submersion. IPX2 is the rating for angular rainfall; immersion (admittedly up to a meter of pressure, as it were, not just a towel wrap) is IPX7. I think certainly you could have a 'rainproof' product not withstand a wet towel.
Linux doesn't even have consensus on what libc to use, and ABI breakage between glibc and musl is not unheard of. (Probably not for syscalls but for other things.)
I still don't understand why protobuf has to be in so many Go libraries. It's impossible to avoid unless you roll your own metrics, logging, maybe even mux...