skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would a random attorney do?

I wish someone would get free consultations with 100 attorneys and record the meetings. Then grade their answers in the same way the LLMs were graded.

My guess (and it is only a guess) is that the AIs outperform real attorneys during free consultations by hallucinating less and giving truthful answers more often.
More wordplay than anything else. “Go east and then continue straight” is different than “Go east and continue going east”. Results from each are more predictable than misunderstanding the prompt.
Yes. Toyotas made outside of Toyota City in Japan are tested differently because the rules are different in the American, European, African, and several other Asian countries, all places where Toyota manufactures.
I always thought it was less about skill and more that crimps were more reliable in high vibration situations. Solder often becomes brittle over time.

I'm only coming from shade tree car AV installation though. Nobody (probably) dies when it fails.
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If your editor of choice has autocomplete it is the same or less work than using named standard classes in a framework like bootstrap.
Oh they’re worried, there’s basically nothing they can do to keep the business as is. They are trying to pivot, though, e.g. https://m.nutritioninsight.com/news/shareholders-challenge-n...

> 14 Mar 2024 --- Today, a coalition of Nestlé shareholders, with US$1.68 trillion in assets, has filed a resolution challenging the company to improve the healthfulness of its products.

Translation: shareholders are terrified of the impending collapse of the status quo business model and want the company to pivot to things GLP-1 patients want to eat.
That's my point and also the first paragraph of the article:

> The Rust-written Servo web engine as a reminder was started as a Mozilla project but then abandoned and now developed by multiple organizations as part of Linux Foundation Europe.

Couldn't Mozilla spend 0.1% of their budget in Servo Research & Development? That would be close to 500k/year.

Browser engine is such a crucial part of our world.
The point is that they're not better projects and they receive a ton more funding. A lot of really bad stuff gets a lot of money for reasons that won't improve humanity or most peoples' lives, which a browser that runs well on more limited hardware would absolutely do.
Musk has made off with generational wealth just off of government subsidies alone. Government subsidies for businesses are just welfare for the rich.
In a Decade, Nobody Is Working on Cyberpunk 2077
> Do you believe either of the two below?

No, absolutely not.
Y'know what? fair point. No handwashing? right to jail.
You don't even get it.
Related. Others?

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture (1985) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23446445 - June 2020 (5 comments)

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture (1985) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18521830 - Nov 2018 (13 comments)

Feynman Discussing Machine Learning and Its Pitfalls (1985) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778460 - April 2018 (1 comment)

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15213747 - Sept 2017 (1 comment)

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457172 - March 2014 (9 comments)
I would be wary of using a stainless steel RO system. Extremely pure water tends to leach more. You may avoid a bit of plastic in exchange for heavy metals. Stainless steel tends to be 10% Nickel, 10% Chromium, which are bad and worse for you. If you do so, I would recommend getting the water tested.

Otherwise I would recommend a good plastic RO system. One where the plastic doesn't leach loads of harmful plasticizers.
> To the extent they integrate with your cloud providers and security tools,

What happens when Vanta/Drata are compromised?

A mass-exploit of their customers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521657
Just to put this into perspective - Luxembourg is really really tiny, and if MS Copilot data and calculations are to be believed it accounts for 0.23% of the average yearly power consumption of the European Union in total. so take that for what it's worth.

So, if this solar farm takes about 200,000 acres or circa 800km2 of land to achieve the above figure, such solar farms would take around 350,000km2 of land or something the size of Germany to power the entire EU.
The context is in the article but the title is missing the most important part. We've had BECs since 2008 at Colorado. But they've created a "molecular" BEC, one made from molecules and not "just" atoms.
> If we wanted a competent government, we should have far fewer people paid a lot more and hired in a more aggressively merit-based process. Our current government is from an era without computerization where you needed lots of grunts to process things like SS claims, etc. That is simply not this era.

This.

IMHO, the military's regular reassignment also solves a lot of bureaucracy-at-scale problems (even if it creates different ones around competency and long-duration projects).

Preventing people from becoming entrenched in a single role/office is important to ensuring a healthy overall system and providing space for new ideas.
I know, but that still leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

On Windows, the first thing I do after setting up a new PC is disable the adware, uninstall default apps, turn off as much telemetry as I can, and very soon that'll include turning off the creepy AI too. They say I should use linux instead ...

And on a standard gnome/GTK/adwaita setup, apparently the first thing you have to do is patch the UI library to remove the hardcoded default theme. The free software world wasn't meant to be like this, where you have to fight the OS/distro to get things to work the way you want.

(Meanwhile Mint, as the original article alluded to, is still trying to do good by its users. Long may this continue.)
Maybe life should be about more then capitalistic success? You enjoyed being on the water, wasn't that enough of a reward?
I worked in quantum optics for a while. Our DARPA grant once had the "mission" to see how many bits of information could be theoretically crammed into 1 photon. It turns out to be an uninteresting question because you can theoretically cram infinite bits into one photon, encoded in the relative timing of the photon in a pulse train, limited only by the dispersion of your medium (in space, effectively zero).

Even dispersion is a boring question because it is possible to reverse dispersion by sending the light through a parametric amplifier to conjugate the phases and then running it through the dispersion medium a second time locally.

We later ended up working on other things.
A very good read. Thanks for sharing.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/loansnap
Unlikely. Toyota's cheating came to light last year and Japan started investigating early this year. Once the others saw Toyota was under the microscope and they were probably next, they got their stories together and waited on Toyota to take the PR hit and got their admissions slipped in as an afterthought relieving them of later solo PR failings and potential investigations.
> That's a lot of computing power

Is it? It's probably a spare computer laying around. I could probably scrape together enough hardware to have four separate machines in a state functional-enough to run TF2.
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Of course a Chinese propagandist would say that about their forces, with truth being at best coincidence. True world powers need not make empty boasts nor fear paper Poo bears.
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Hi HN

I've generally found that having a long-term seemingly impossible goal helps keep me focused on my short term goals.

I decided on the 1111 challenge for myself. A 1,000 LB Club Submission, 100km Run, 10 hours, and 1 wildcard.

I am easily 2+, realistically 4-5 years of relatively serious training (for other events like an ironman I'm doing next year) from being able to complete this. I would love to see others complete it first, and learn from their experiences and training. I built the website to offer vanity in exchange for mentorship.

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Did some (metaphorical) digging, and it sounds like they expect most of the rock to condense as small particles inside a purge-gas, before it has a chance to adhere somewhere else.

I imagine walls are an easier problem--just advance fast-enough compared to the deposition rate, and the thickening is controlled. Not sure about gradual buildup on the wave-guide, but some periodic cleaning mechanism (further back, away from rock-condensation) might be possible.

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> Even though the rocks are being vaporized, it does not mean that there is no material to be taken care of. “The gas will quickly recondense back to a very fine ash, which will then be taken up to surface by a purge gas. In our case, we will use nitrogen”, Matt [Houde] explains.

https://geoexpro.com/an-order-of-magnitude-more-energy-for-d...

> MIT’s Paul Woskov, whose research is the bedrock of Quaise’s approach, spent a decade proving out the physics involved. The system will use a beam of millimeter-wave energy—an electromagnetic frequency in the territory of microwaves—generated by a gyrotron on the surface. The microwave beam shoots down the drill hole alongside a gas—nitrogen, air, or argon—and evaporates layers of rock deep in the Earth. Then the gas binds and carries the vaporized rock back up to the surface like a plume of volcanic ash.

https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/14/startup-aims-to-drill-...
The sledge hammer was fine, it was the giant steel ball that was the issue. And it was rehearsed many, many times - the issue was that the window was slightly rolled down during the demo, making the window lose a lot of its rigidity. And was sort of a moot point anyway since the production version didn't wind up having the same "armored glass" that the prototype did.
It's a really cool looking and expensive and slightly less practical pickup truck. The designers really went all out in making it look cool, everything from the hub caps to the bed but it does come with some practicality issues.

Personally, I don't understand why there's such an enormous market for really expensive pickup trucks. I'd much rather have one of those k trucks from japan, the really small and cheap ones from the 80s or 90s. easy to repair, reliable and super practical. and they look cool in their own way too. i'd want it to be electric though.
Don't judge yourself too harshly...
It says here [1] that the image sensor is AR0330.

[1] https://toaster.llc/blog/architecture/index.html
Just use the closest Chinese characters to represent a syllable / sound, and slightly modify it if they have to distinguish them. Actually this is not just for foregin languages. It was how Chinese itself evolved.

Search "borrowing" in this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...
I don't think you can do better than this.

There's a fundamental tension between 'stop now' and 'close your file handles before stopping'.
I rarely saw people wearing masks over both nose and mouth. Favorite memory is the guy in the metro who took the mask off his mouth to sneeze (and no, it didn't begin by covering his nose)
Help me understand your math:

3.21 ×10−11

Do you mean 3.21*(-1)=-3.21

Do you mean a number between 32,100,000,000 and 321,000,000,000?

Do you mean odd between 3.21:10 and 3.21:11?

Thanks
My experience with it was a PM creating a ticket for our ops group with the title "install posthog" targeting our onprem k8s infra. He had included a link to the helm chart, but that's about it.

When I cracked open the chart I just started laughing. It installs not just clickhouse (via the operator), but also kafka and zookeeper!

This is _not_ a product I would ever self host unless you're planning to provide a handful of FTEs to install, manage, and fix some of the most complicated software you can run on Kubernetes.
Hey Siri, how much do 10 torpedoes cost the US government to build and deliver?
Discussed at the time (of the article);

What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983290 - May 2023 (5 comments)
I feel like this article misses something obvious, which is that Hobbits aren't humans and the world of LotR includes people doing things that we would describe as magical. Hobbits for instance have a semi-magical ability to hide by how it's described in the books. If their society seems unrealistic for humans with medieval technology, I think that just shows us that Hobbits are fundamentally different from humans. The apparent almost total lack of Hobbit on Hobbit violence in the book also shows that Hobbits are just psychologically different from humans.
Yeah, and think about the amount of political support you could get for geothermal projects if workers from the oil and gas sector could see a clear and easy path to adapt their skills.

Globally viable geothermal power generation would be an absolute game changer for fighting climate change. It doesn’t have to be better than nuclear. If it’s even close to being as good, the benefits of getting ex oil/gas people/companies on board would more than outweigh the difference. The growth rate could potentially hit levels that make a substantial impact on climate change within a decade of the initial ramp.
Healthcare insurance - employees of SMBs automatically get access to medicare

This puts you in the same company of abusing the system as Walmart, the nation's biggest welfare queen.

Employers should just have to give health benefits. You want workers, you pay benefits. Period. Maybe then you all will get on board for a single payer system. Its what you want, but only in fits and starts. quit fucking around already.
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> First, let’s prioritize open source models and more tailored AI applications to shape the competitive landscape and create real opportunities for startups

My read on this is YC believes that small companies will (are?) be locked out of the AI arms race, and are pushing for legal action to hold the door open for them.

Pushing disruptive technologies has made YC insane hoards of wealth- the fact that they feel like they need government intervention for this to continue is scary. It feels like a canary in the coal mine in regards to who is in control of AI's future.
Minecraft was the first game, someone on the "internet" gifted me. I was like "Why do you do that?!" and he was just like, because it's cool to play with you.

Ahhhh! Fond memories. :)
> Looks like 5MP but saves as 3MP files.

OMG that's so refreshing. Just recently I've come across, both from garage sales, a "40MP" camera smartphone (Chinese brand-X) that actually has, probably, a 13MP class sensor in it and upscales, and a wildlife camera that does the same.

Waste a great deal of storage just to fool people into thinking they got a better camera, and then you have to downscale all that again to achieve something like pixel-level sharpness.
There's still movement in the region. Anzu-Green today announced a $100 million fund [1] and two weeks ago Andreessen Horowitz announced they're opening a DC office this quarter [2].

Both seem to be targeting B2G investments.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dc-tech-lobbying-shop-raising...
[2] https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2024/05/22/andre... (sorry about the paywall, but it's the original reporting)
Considering most of the world views it and society is fine, I think I can posit the contrary.

And think of all those hippies from the 70s that would have sex parties in the park. They're all grown up now. Don't see them running around raping and murdering. Might run into them at the swinger club though :)
Season 9 Erlich = an actual GenAI Erlich Botman.
Computers developed by English speakers for English speakers tended to use English, I am very skeptical that any more thought went into it than that.
Using the surface of Germany to power the entirety of the EU with solar power would be a real achievement. Even just powering Luxembourg is a project of a scale and return that it's worth looking at.
I'm a homeowner with a home charger. When I get home I plug in. It doesn't usually start charging until way late in the evening. Currently it's just on a timing schedule I set up once, but soon it'll be linked to my electric provider to automatically shift to whatever is an off-peak time for them and I'll get a discount on my bill. In the end I can still tell it to just go ahead and charge but typically it's going to sit there overnight and I can normally go a few days between charges anyways.

Pretty much every recent model EV can do this on its own. Many EVSEs (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, the "charger") that have any level of smarts can also do this. My EVSE is just a dumb one, it just tells the car it's capabilities and it's up to the car to choose when to charge.

Adding an EV to my house didn't change my peak usage at all.
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That's like saying computing will.

Yes, but...
This was one of my bigger pain points with Nix as well: there was a lot of "reinventing the world" just to avoid network access. With Brioche, I stuck with disabling network access by default, but there's an escape hatch to specifically opt-in to networking (by calling `.unsafe({ networking: true })` on a process recipe). My thoughts are that Cargo, NPM, Poetry, etc. have all done a great job building amazing tooling to download and verify resources from the network against a lockfile, and I wanted to be able to leverage as much of that as possible. So, for example, `npm clean-install` will give you more-or-less the same guarantees that Nix does, so my thought was as long as it's encapsulated properly, I'd rather lean on existing tooling (that's also why I used the term "unsafe", you need to make sure you only access the network with tools that do sufficient verification!)

I've generally stayed away from using the term "reproducible build" when talking about Brioche, because I don't feel like it fits the reproducible-builds.org definition (though I don't think Nix does either). But, if a build is cached locally or in the registry, then you're guaranteed to get the same result, since it'll just re-use the cache

The sandboxing also gives pretty strong guarantees around hermetic builds[1]. So I think you could do reproducible builds _within_ Brioche (and I'd like to add tools to make this even easier), but I'd say Brioche itself doesn't give you reproducible builds out of the box

[1]: https://bazel.build/basics/hermeticity