skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the dialogue format too, and have recently been experimenting somewhat successfully with creating my own dialogues with textbooks.

I've previously found it to be so-so with OpenAI plugins/wrappers, but now with Claude's Projects feature, I feel that it's pretty much there. I create a project and upload a book (or a part of a book, given the context limit), as well as any additional notes/code I already created based on it, and this then allows me to have a really productive dialogue with an AI version of the author.
That's not the start of an argument. It's the start of them explaining their point.
That doesn't look terse to me, though it does require familiarity with the subject.

"The last expression can be interpreted as the Fourier superposition of the sinusoidal harmonics of [expression], i.e., an inverse Fourier series sum. In other words, [expression] is the amplitude of the k-th harmonic in the Fourier-series expansion of the periodic signal x_m(t)."

Many of the concepts are hyperlinked for reference. With the required familiarity, I would much rather read this than something that took seven pages to get to the point - say by assuming that the reader is unfamiliar with a premise out of an abundance of caution.
What does it mean when you're often wrong and blast public thinkpieces about your wrong opinions?

I think there's an uncomparable difference between between being wrong in your thoughts, vs openly lecturing others about what you're wrong about.
Aside from that, understanding counterexamples teaches you to understand the definitions and theorems better. Which matters for proving future results.
Huawei Faces Production Challenges with 20% Yield Rate for AI Chip
Pretty similar to cappy https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06720
Especially if there are well-known counterexamples: E.g. Birds were long thought physically incapable of many higher-level cognitive tasks, because they lack the required brain structures that humans have for those tasks - no prefrontal cortex, etc.

Apparently though, no one told that the corvids, especially new caledonian crows, which were observed performing many of those tasks without problems, despite not having a cortex. [1]

To my knowledge, the current hypothesis is that their brain is simply differently organized than a human brain, so the processes that happen in a human's prefrontal cortex may have equivalents in other regions of a corvid brain.

In the same sense, the OP spends a lot of time describing how humans acquire consciousness, a sense of self, etc, but just takes for granted that this would be the only way to do so - so therefore anything that doesn't go through the same proces necessarily cannot have a sense of self.

That seems unfounded to me.

[1] e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
That is because the boomer generation was raised in a time where technology publicly wasn't turned on them in undisclosed ways. They were in control, and the laws had more teeth than they do now. Their cohort was incentivized to help themselves as well. Look at social security.

In my experience, their idea of the way the world works seems to have crystallized for them about the times of the 1970s.

They have significant blind spots which they likely won't ever recover from, they were blined and in many respects behave like children in a indoctrinated way.

They certainly didn't have to deal with arbitrary high costs because someone spied on them secretly and used that information as a false justification for increasing their auto rates since non-regenerative breaking is hard breaking and is therefore reckless driving (Lexis Nexus reports).

Heaven forbid that traffic conditions go from 65 to 15 in less than 200 feet. No, the fact tha you avoided getting into an accident is the same as reckless driving.

All parents want their kids to be better than them, some parents through circumstances largely in their control set the bar so low that it is a horrible feeling when their grown children exceed them at most levels.

Being more educated, rational, and mature at almost every level, then they were at a similar age, where there growth remained perpetually stalled in their 20s is a very damning situation. Especially since they blew their inheritance like a playboy at a party and will be leaving you almost nothing but debts except in rare circumstances.

Indoctrination and Menticide is real. Its subtle, and it blinds perception of issues.

John Meerloo, and Robert Lifton cover it well.
Ultimately it comes down to reliability. You and every other local might purchase from your local provider as you need it, but there's no reliable pattern or agreement in place.
And once you reclaim your one finite shot at this planet, who's gonna pay for your dinner?
in 2019 - 743 folks are on the hook for the ISA - 516 graduated - 132 got a job

I'm not sure what to make of this. What is ISA? Isn't this like 20% hire rate from taking Lambda course?

Or was it that they attracted a lot of people who simply can't make that leap from student to developer because they never had the aptitude for that job?

Not saying Lambda School wasn't a fraud but seems like they started out with some good intention but halfway got greedy and dishonest because Paul likes "edgy founders"

Just a ton of broken dreams, financial ruin not unlike some of YC's backed companies.
Largest context window (because of most compute) wins.

They've got more serious engineering heavyweights, putting a lot of collective work on fewer tasks/approaches. Microsoft is taking more of a kitchen sink approach
No one can live in a capital market without capital. Education has always been about capital markets - uneducated people are highly limited in their use. There has never been a school that was built for "free", it's always come from capital one way or another.

It used to be primarily private capital, people who believed in it's purpose. Outside of the top 1% Now nothing is built without students and taxes footing the bill.

If it cannot survive on its own merits then its existence is an abuse to the people it claims to support. Turn it into something else and let real solutions arise naturally.
A day of dopamine fasting in San Francisco (2019)
https://archive.is/Fmf6h
I never knew people looked each other in the eyes when taling until I was in my 20s. I never looked at people in the eyes while talking and yet I made so many friends and friendships that lasted long. To me it was not a thing so I never felt a psychological defeat because nobody ever told me I was "wrong". Even today it feels weird to me and it feels like the weirdos are those that look me too much.

Point is, consider if this looking people in the eyes is something really worth investing on: maybe not looking at people is your thing and you're fine that way too? Why you have to be wrong? Maybe it's the others that are doing the uncomfortable thing for others and are wrong.
There's some serious upcharging here in the article. I pay $3.50/lb for all cuts in the southeast from a local farm, grass-fed grass-finished.
Threads failed a long time back like Clubhouse etc.
As a data point, the Blizzard sales team’s projections were that we would sell 4,000 copies of StarCraft in a year in South Korea, so there was no reason to in localize the game.

First year sales were on the order of 100x that amount, quite the surprise for everyone at Blizzard!
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence"

By this razor, I feel like I can dismiss your opinion. Can you elaborate why you think he doesn't know enough about technology for you to pay attention to his opinions? Is it cause you have proof that this is false? Cause it's predicting the future, there are an infinite number of ways it can go.
Most research makes assumptions like these without laying them out. It might explain none of their work can be reproduced.
Yep it will.
The UK has a weak media sector because it's impossible to compete with the 800-pound taxpayer-funded gorilla in the room, which doesn't need to turn a profit. The only way for UK media to remain remotely financially viable is to scour all the muck that the BBC won't touch, hence all the terrible tabloids, and even then it's touch and go at best. The libel laws are in turn a consequence of the excesses of the terrible tabloids.

Incentives and disincentives, as always.
https://whatismylocation.org/
Does Feynman usually write the way he speaks like this? I find it so enjoyable to read.
I've always been interested in what exactly goes into the economics of steak pricing. A whole beef makes a lot of steaks, and obviously the processing cost is not relevant - it all costs the same, which I get my cows they turn into as much steak as possible, then ground beef.
Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate
They skip definitions, theorems, and proofs for good reason too. Students are spending a lot of time and money they don't have to get a degree and have an obligation to work efficiently. With a limited amount of time and energy they would actively hurting themselves by focusing on things that aren't graded. In general I've found that teachers grade quite harshly on things you could have memorized, and find little value in understanding or institution.
Archive: https://archive.is/20240706214853/https://www.bloomberg.com/...

APNews article, no paywall:

https://apnews.com/article/jon-landau-dead-avatar-titanic-65...
I don't have anything to add, but still wanted to say thanks for sharing. One of my friends passed away earlier this year due to cancer and one of the questions I've kept wondering about has been about our slow progress in curing cancer. (Which admittedly stems from my own utter ignorance on the subject!)

Edit: I've thought of something worth adding. I've been told that certain datasets related to biology and chemistry are normally paywalled. I wonder if restricted access to information due to copyright is also hampering the field's ability to iterate more quickly. It seems like a field that's serious about rapid iteration could make as much data and information available to the public to encourage increased collaboration and propagation of knowledge. Is Nature still considered the most prestigious journal?
In what way? IBM wasn't prominent in as many areas 20 years ago as Microsoft is today. Today Microsoft has the leading business social media platform with linkedin, owns a leading consumer git platform with github, has a growing share of the enterprise cloud market with azure, now owns several of the most recognized game publishers with their acquisition of Activision and Bethesda, develops two of the top 10 most used programming languages with TypeScript and C#, and still has the leading os.
It's not just about cost it's about survival. If I fail the generate revenue in a reasonable timeframe, I can't put food on the table. If I have a healthy income, I'm happy to tinker on the the technology ad infinitum.
What do we count as "using AI"? How much AI do you have to use for work to be considered "using AI"? I used AI once for work 1 year ago, when it was popular to try, does that count?

I remember when Alexa was considered "AI" OR when alphago was considered AI OR when any algorithm was considered "AI". But these days, we typically mean "LLMs" .

So any claim without data seems pretty unlikely to be true unless they cite sources, and even then I would want to see methodology.
Arch, but I have nothing interesting to contribute to the topic. Instead posting to share my Pacman 'checkupdates' Bash wrapper that splits up the output into major/minor/patch/packaging sections for easy reading from the Waybar icon tooltip where this I have it show. Helpful to know if I can expect issues from major updates (though not everything is semver'd obviously).

e.g.

Major:
* neovim 0 -> 1

Minor:
* jq 0.1 -> 0.2

etc

https://pastebin.com/FeVg0kDU (expires 202408)

Definitely a case of something that started as Bash and wound up likely better as something else. It's not a clean script, bit of inconsistency - don't @ me :)
Ask HN: Which folder/directory do you store code in?
I'm doing some summer clean up and curious to hear how people store/organize their code :)
Solar panels have indeed become much cheaper, although it is important to distinguish between energy "provided" and energy "stored." Which why the combination is so important. It is often great to look at solar in terms of a "solar day" which is defined as the hours during which the panels deliver peak capacity. On my house, there is about 6kW of solar panels, and under optimum productions they produce for 5 hours in a day, so a total of 30kWh. What gets to the house or the grid is reduced by efficiency losses and the difference between performance under "standard test conditions"[1] and what is actually their environment. My house reliably produces just over 5kW at its peak or about 25kWh in a solar day.

In California, if you are tied to the grid as my system is, you are still at the mercy for how much the power company will credit you for power you generate vs charge you for power you consume. That has been a source of argument hear for the last 20 years. With sufficient local storage, you can completely disconnect from the grid and that removes this pricing power of the power company over your energy production. Something I hope to do within the next 5 years.

[1] This is sort of the MPG equivalent rating for solar panels, good for comparing panels to other panels but bad for guessing how much power they will produce for you.
Why do people keep doing things like investing in a framework, written by one set of developers, built on another framework, written by another set of developers, and acting like that is not insane? Unless both stacks are written by huge software companies that have an extreme vested interest in keeping them running, there is a huge risk of abandonment. Maybe Google just decides maintaining flutter is a pain in the ass and React Native is just good enough. Maybe the flet devs don't turn enough profit. Maybe flutter changes too radically and makes it difficult for flet to catch up. Such situations have happened again and again and again, and they will continue to into the future. What are we gaining here that is worth such an enormous risk?
Salad's for the parent/chauffeur.
I strongly encourage you to pick up a copy of the book [0] this selection is from.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!
The two replies here don’t really get at _how_ it’s better: it’s because you don’t have material in the battery that exists simply to be an anode. In effect, it’s more efficient by weight.
macOS:

/Users/userName/Developer

Windows:

C:\Users\userName\source

If you name a folder 'Developer' in macOS, it automatically adds a little Xcode-stylized icon.
~/Documents/Code/
Back when Jobs thought all iphone apps were going to be web apps.
I'm probably late to the party, but just in case:

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The Challenge of Building a New Aluminum Smelting Plant: The Electric Bill
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You are mistaken. There is real harm in strangers knowing sensitive information about you. You seem to have a blindspot for how coercion works. There's harassment, struggle sessions, and blackmail as well as many other things.

If someone knows the normal hours you are at home, they can enter your home without much risk. They can plant evidence, Interfere in your life in ways that you can't easily fix, or even create situations where you get harmed or die from an accident. Information gathering is a necessary pre-requisite for a successful attack, and by itself it is an act of hostile intent.

The argument doesn't come down to dystopian future. It comes down to the fact that people in corrupt systems lie, and those lies can torture the victim without any recourse.

Information is abused regularly.

Once you see it, you can memorize it and transmit it without a paper trail. You can even have a plausible reason for needing to access that information in the first place.

It is ephemeral and its security relies on trust of an untrustable entity that trends towards corruption as a structural flaw.

All centralized hierarchies as a structure involving people either perform action based on a distribution of labor that is incentivized (away from a loss function), or they do so through corruption (in its absence).

In either case, there is incentive and there is no other means to overcome the natural friction towards inaction.
I think it's easier to buy local in a smaller country too. Living in the UK, I suspect that 80% of my caloric intake comes from things grown within ~500 miles of me (and nearly 100% of the meat I eat), and I don't make great attempts to shop locally (but I do try a bit). When I'm in the US, lots of my food comes from the US and Canada, but that's a much larger geographical market. There's simply not much differentiation between something that comes from Vermont or Oregon. You might not even be able to tell by looking at a label. Whereas when you live in a small country, you can see "Produced in UK" or another nearby country fairly trivially.
https://archive.ph/xEs5F
"Open your curtains as soon as you wake up" - I've recently moved to a place where my bedroom window has no curtains and my sleep quality has improved drastically. Lots of other variables, but intuitively it makes sense to me that morning light would help stop the sleep cycle slipping later, thus keeping me reliably ready for sleep at the end of the day.
Many of these people claim to have a "system" which will enable them to win. I've talked with some of them. None of them I've spoken to had money. Coincidence?

Watch people at the slots. Do they look like they're having fun? Not to me.

Personally, I've gambled a few times. Lost money. I don't like losing money, it is not entertaining to me in the slightest.

Tell me about people who play the lottery, picking their "lucky numbers". It's sad.
I didn't read this as backtracking, more like saving a sidequest he was playing. Wiki said he interrupted DZ to write this so presumably he knew he had to split out the illiberal parts of his worldview somehow. (Moral hedging, with a side of market segmentation?)
The post is saying that it is a people problem. The gist is that efficient or beautiful architecture does not mirror efficient or beautiful management.
Are you just describing something close to Nix?? In any case, Nix solves a lot of these problems.
How the Bladed R9X Ninja Missile Works? [video]
Psychotic indeed. It would feel like working for the mad hatter.
Yup.

Even worse, there is also a "Golden Hour" in emergency medicine [0]. It is the first hour after a traumatic injury in which treatment is much more effective ay saving your life. It's extremely important to get a person to treatment in that golden hour to save their life, not to get them to go to sleep. Misnamed, indeed, doubly so!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(medicine)
Reading the comments in this post, I definitely see Camp 1. I could have a conversation with Camp 2/3.

I'm more skeptical than Camp 3, because of the large cost associated with generating this information. Like, what would AI be used for that we weren't already able to do with the existing technologies we had.

I don't see a market for GenAI. It seems like a gold rush but without any gold. How do companies turn a profit off of this when all of the investor cash faucets dry up? I see how the shovel companies (nvidia, amd) make money. I could see how cloud companies could make money if they weren't "getting high off their own supply."

The number of companies I've seen with major PR blunders from AI being added to their product, and immediately hallucinating something awful, tells me the market for this is just investors chasing their own hype.
The question was whether ARM was interested in this beyond collecting research dollars.
FYI your comments all look like Camp 1 to me. You come off very strongly evangelizing AI in this comment section.
LOL.

... that was a joke, right? So only people who have heard of the security.txt convention are expected to find this information easily when they need to report a bug?
It's important to understand that there'll never be "a cure for cancer". Cancer is not a single disease. It's more like a meta-disease. There are tons of different types of cancer and the path for treatment is not the same.

We've made tremendous progress in the last 20-30 years. There are some cancers that *are* effectively curable. And others still vex us just as much as they always have.
Do you think that in 1993 the below was a strawman?

1. We are stewards of the earth.
2. Resources are worth saving for future generations.
3. The future matters.
4. Time is running out.

Clearly time has continued running out in the subsequent 30+ years.
Is this very specific to sodium state battery?
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I wonder if there are multiple different causes. Because I have had migraines regularly since I was a little kid and sleep was the only cure. (Hours of crying until I'd pass out) But when I got to a teen I tried every pain killer I could find and finally I found that none of them helped unless I took it very early when the pain started. (Within maybe 30-40 min) And even then only ibuprofen worked. (And I have to take quite a bit) But even then the pain doesn't go away for some time. But at least it doesn't get any worse.

So I keep ibuprofen in every car, bag, and a few places around the house.
The only solution is a market for resources. How would you implement a market for resources within a firm, though?
it is of course really hard to believe we can build enough protections to prevent retargeted adverts

and that's the issue. now what is easier to enforce? banning of targeted ads? or banning of collection of data?

laws can not protect us from everything. because if they did we'd loose all of our freedom. laws need to focus on protecting us from things from which we can't protect ourselves. that is already difficult enough to decide.
That's a separate question-- how (especially earlier) math classes should grab student engagement and encourage all students to progress as much as possible.

Re: your point: I've said often that I think most math classes should be roughly equal amounts of

* Exploration/play/intuition-building

* Rote practice of problems, facts, specific problem solving or symbolic manipulation techniques.

* Rigor / careful explanation

(The exact balance may shift a bit, from younger students doing the first two a bit more and older students doing the latter a lot more).

I think if you do this better, more of the populace will happily make it past Algebra 2. But still, even so, others will still get stuck in real understanding somewhere between Algebra I and Geometry, and I think we need to decide what to do then so as to best serve those students.
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I think they are referring to the manual creation of type definitions. As they mention it in the article.
lyons is a good intro but maybe a bit handwavey at times (although my copy is an edition from the 90s).

consider maybe backing it up with one of the textbooks like oppenheim (the classic) or manolakis (one that i think i remember liking).
Either me, by getting paid to automate someone else's problems, or food stamps.
Realistically, when are we going to see a consumer grade lithium battery replacement?
I agree, but I want to add that a good reporting of a bug is also very helpul. (Remember to add steps to reproduce the bug, what you expected and what you got, and be nice.) And if you take a look at the fix, perhaps it's useful to fix a similar problem yourself later.
he gives awesome talks as well!