skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Installing one should be certified, performance should be mandated to protect consumers and grant money.

How is a certificate and a mandate that
oliwarner suggested going to provide heat? Burning a certificate takes at most a few seconds.

To spell it out for you, the mechanism is pretty much the same as elsewhere:

Companies can offer customers some warranties that their system will work as advertised (ie provide heat with a minimum of fuel). Lots of companies in the private sector offer such warranties on a variety of products. The warranty by itself does not keep you warm, but it typically provides for some restitution in case of failure. (In an extreme case, you can imagine that people would be happy to be paid a million dollars in return for putting up without heat for two weeks. In practice, the warranty will probably settle on something less extreme. For example, some modest monetary compensation plus help with sourcing propane heaters as you suggest. Your imagination is the limit here.)

Because the small companies that do this kind of heat pump installation go bankrupt and disappear all the time, you can administer the warranty via a third party insurance company.

And here's where the certificates come in: just like some car insurance companies give you discounts in return for eg a clean driving record, you would imagine that your heat pump installation company would also be able to purchase much cheaper insurance to benefit their customers if they can provide evidence that they know what they are doing.

In practice the main benefit of the whole scheme would come from insurance companies keeping an eye on the installation companies. The payouts are mostly there to provide discipline and align incentives; but in a well running system the payouts shouldn't be necessary very often.
I wrote my first program when I was nine years old. It was a very simple quiz written in QBASIC on my parent’s PC running Windows 95. I loved programming as a kid, and 26 years later, I still do.

There’s more to life than career preparation, and what I find joyous about programming is the feeling you get when you create something. Programming is a fantastic, flexible creative medium. You can create all sorts of interesting things with code. This is what excited me about programming as a kid, and this is what still excites me.

Even if all our jobs disappear through automation, outsourcing, or other forces beyond our control, I still find computers interesting, and I still find programming creative. Even if my programs have no economic value, I still get joy out of making my computers do things, and I also get joy out of figuring out how to convert vague English into solid logic.

So, teaching students programming is like teaching students music and art. Most students who study music are not going to become Wayne Shorter-level composers or make Kenny G-levels of money, but they learn more about a medium that brings joy to people. We have been fortunate to work in a field where JavaScript creates multi-billion dollar enterprises, but even if we made nothing but smiles, I’d say it’s still worthwhile.
> There were a handful of shops that catered for foreigners. All transactions had to be in Euros as possession of local currency by foreigners was forbidden

This stood out to me in the article, as most countries incentivize foreign visitors to use local currencies to boost its strength. However, NK seems to have long ago come to terms it's currency will never hold value, so perhaps they instill this rule to boost their counterfeit money operations, or reserves of foreign currency.
It's morally indefensible to create incurable bacteria or another pandemic, destroy antibiotics' effectiveness, and destabilize the climate balance of the only planet we have through the supply-causing action of buying and eating a fucking Big Mac.

Also, I suggest anyone who eats meat and has a functional sense of smell to take a trip to Greeley, CO.
Interesting. How did small towns in the past get created or become medium towns? Guessing there simply weren't those services.

I wonder what was the last town in a america to be established? Are there suitable areas within 1.5 hour drive of a major one?
Nike is losing market share to Hoka and other brands that make shoes that are actually comfortable for long term wear. Capitalism is doing its job perfectly - it doesn’t matter how much of a sociopath is at the helm, if you don’t do what your customers REALLY need, you lose money. Money is a feedback mechanism that makes even people with no empathy develop empathy for the masses. Nike was making pretty but expensive shoes that made you hurt. People switched to comfortable less expensive shoes with less bells. The basketball star marketing can only take you so far.
Hey, we are still early and are figuring out things. Thanks for being candid, was there something you are interested in seeing in the product? (use case, feature etc)
Maybe gdp is not the best normalizing variable to choose, any suggestions on something better?

In the context of the previous 25 years its not. "following World War II tax increases, top marginal individual tax rates stayed near or above 90%, and the effective tax rate at 70% for the highest incomes (few paid the top rate), until 1964 when the top marginal tax rate was lowered to 70%..."- wikipedia

it would be interesting to have the full historical data set to play with
Dialogue systems vary by game and are generally custom. But they amount to hard coded if-else branches if you squint. The only one I ever wrote was a simple announcer for a sports-ish shooter.

Your question is weird. Every video game ever made has shipped using not LLMs. Not a single commercial game has ever shipped with an LLM. So I’d say what makes classic NPC systems better is they’ve shipped tens of thousands of commercial successes over 50+ years. And what makes LLMs worse is they haven’t once been proven viable for even a single title. Nor have they produced even a compelling tech demo.

Geez people.
And The 300!
Just saw this at work recently - 94% of log disk space for domain controllers were filled by logging what groups users were in (I don't know the specifics but group membership is pretty static, and if a log-on fails I assume the missing group is logged as part of that failure message).
This is a meta-analysis.

“While there is some evidence that eating unprocessed red meat is associated with increased risk of disease incidence and mortality, it is weak and insufficient to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations. More rigorous, well-powered research is needed to better understand and quantify the relationship between consumption of unprocessed red meat and chronic disease.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01968-z
So much for free speech absolutist.
* Use a low level language already proven durable over decades: COBOL, Fortran

* Minimize your footprint and test space in your application by eliminating features and options.

* Eliminate use of external dependencies. That means abandoning certain utilities and writing your own as necessary.

* Couple your application tightly to a given piece of hardware, like a very primitive RaspPi or some small hardware controller.

* Provide documentation. Keep it precise yet small, like a wrist watch instruction manual.

* Carefully consider your approach to data storage, if necessary. This can be a database or a file system or something else. Keep it primitive. Speed and cleverness are not important when the primary goal is archival.

* Consider the physical and chemical nature of the hardware. Metals degrade over time and plastic becomes brittle. A purely glass, crystal, or other silicon based media could last many thousands of years in isolation.
We need to decide on a new design for "LED bulbs" that maximizes cooling, instead of insisting on sticking to a design that was optimized for a completely different bulb type (vacuum bulbs) where the electronics have to be stuck in an unreasonably small and difficult to cool base which is then mounted inside a cavity with no airflow.

Here in Japan, ceiling lights have a standardized socket[0] so ceiling lamp fittings are easily user-replaceable without people being stuck with old bulb fittings, and so ceiling LED lamps are not fitted as bulbs but typically a large flat metal plate with the LEDs mounted to it[1], which results in fantastic cooling and good lifespan.

[0] https://www.garageland.jp/wpimg/hikkakeceiling_topimg.jpg

[1] https://kensroom.c.blog.ss-blog.jp/_images/blog/_bda/kensroo...

Edit: Our apartment was built in 1998, at the height of "CCFLs are the future", and the hallway lights are all recessed "G24q" bulbs, which I had never heard of before.

There were supposed to be the CCFL-native replacement for Edison screw bulb sockets, where instead of having to build the CCFL ballast into each bulb, it was external in the ceiling socket, increasing longevity and decreasing the cost of the bulbs themselves.

We have yet to need to replace any of them, a much longer lifespan than I've ever had from one of those CCFLs with the ballast embedded in the base of the Edison bulb. With a less-compromised ballast they also work much better (light quicker, less affected by temperature)
Same for dubbing.

Voicing a game in English is doable, voicing a game in n languages is only doable if you're the size of EA / Activision / Ubisoft.
Wireless Application Protocol
On the contrary, _not_ expecting at least 20% per year (more for generations farther apart) is actually only a recent take for CPUs [1][2] which formed in what I like to call "the great stagnation" of the mid 2010s where AMD bombed, ARM was still a low performance mobile play, and Intel didn't have any stiff competition. After that things have started to pick up a little again now that there is innovation on said fronts [3]

I remember there was even a period Moore's law was commonly conflated with "a doubling in performance every 2 years" (implies people being used to an increase of at least 41% per year) instead of a doubling in transistor count. Because Intel's tick-tock model started ~5 years prior to the great stagnation people commonly claimed it's the end of Moore's law and that's why we have tick-tock's now. Of course these days it's common knowledge that Moore's law (the actual transistor count version) has been holding steady all these years still and that the performance lull wasn't related to hitting and innate technical scaling barriers.

Marketing departments are definitely going to be marketing departments but they aren't the origin of the idea CPUs can have more than minor increments in performance each year.

[1] https://preshing.com/images/integer-perf.png

[2] https://preshing.com/images/float-point-perf.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/HlGbJE9.png (note this chart is linear not log)
My AI app https://netwrck.com doesn't appear in search after tireless work and paying them to join getting through reviews etc...

They ask me to pay more via ads otherwise I won't show up in search
I would be very interested in that research!

Anecdotally, I have triggered many more bugs with the edge-case-preferring generation:

Basically, that was me using Rust's proptest library which does uniform generation by default, and I hacked it up to prefer edge cases. For simplicity, for eg u32 I set it up to with something like 50% probability to pick one from 0, 1, 0xFFFF_FFFF, 2, and a few other special values, or to pick uniformly at random.

I vaguely remember some research that compared carefully hand-picked values vs property based testing. And the carefully hand-picked values performed slightly better at the same number of test cases. But if you modesty increased the number of test cases generated for property based testing, that swamped the advantage of careful hand picking.

Similarly, I suspect that any disadvantage that might exist for the scheme I outlined above compared to uniform sampling would go away, if you increased the number of test cases slightly. At least as long as you give a decent chunk of probability weight in my scheme to uniform sampling.
Of course “AI alignment” is bunk.
I don’t care who designs the CPU. I just would love to see a Nvidia SoC that targets laptops and desktops that has a high end GPU built in.

Does that require them to design a custom CPU and not use an ARM design? I don’t know. I also don’t really care. Either way is fine!
The actual podcast and interview is here https://youtu.be/dzQlRt3y5mU?si=qfS0DlPVcjBn-0zd
https://irlhtml.glitch.me/pages/9926049b-e7f1-4942-b98d-38ab...
The thing is the the lifespan of bulbs is a tradeoff between brightness and lifespan. You make a 2000 hr bulb and it's half as a dim as a 1000 hr bulb, and so you're going to need 2 bulbs instead. Even today, long after the cartel is gone, there is no magic technology to make longer-lasting incandescent bulbs than they conspired to enforce back then.

The cartel was more of a marketing self-regulation conspiracy so that one manufacturer can't make claims that their bulbs are more cost-efficient when they're just plain dimmer.
44,000 Afghans in Pakistan Still Awaiting U.S., Foreign Resettlement
Learning to code is all about the joy of discovery and overcoming obstacles that seem insurmountable. ChatGPT just solves everything for you, and I think that skips a lot of the basics and foundations that make kids excited about computers in general. I would absolutely teach kids how to code and how computers work, just maybe figure out a different angle that chatgpt can’t provide.
> It also uses about half the power of the LED bulb it replaced.

This may or may not be the only thing in play for that much of a difference, but my absolute favorite thing about LEDs is that their power consumption vs brightness is not 1:1, so taking an LED to 50% brightness will use <50% power. (So then doubling the number of LEDs means you will always get more brightness or less power or I suppose both if you split the difference.)
I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
Probably exhaustion of human created data. The plateau is coming and much smarter techniques will be needed to go beyond it.
There are many stupid choices: violent religious extremism, picking altercations with strangers, snakeoil wellness products, driving a giant diesel SUV without a seatbelt, trying to control others online, and listening to The Eagles. Eating meat is just a middling unsustainable practice amongst many. Organized civilization has about another 20-30 years before a cacophony of unsustainable practices brings it all crashing down because there is minimal appetite in enough centers of power for either awareness or reform. The Roman republic/empire is history that is repeating itself slowly.
I don't see any point in emulating MongoDB (NoSQL) document store on CockroachDB (NewSQL) which is already sharded and replicated.
> And LEDs -- the diodes themselves -- do tend to become more efficient (in terms of lumens produced per Watt of input) when not pushed to their extreme operational limits.

This isn’t some weird surprising tendency. The forward voltage (the amount of energy needed to shove each electron through the LED) increases with current, approximately according to the Shockley equation. The external quantum efficiency (photons out per electron in) is no more than 1, and tends to get lower at higher current [0]. The wavelength of the emitted photons is pretty much constant. So you get the best efficiency when the current, and hence voltage, is low.

Incandescent bulbs, in contrast, don’t have a meaningful quantum efficiency, and they produce a more useful spectrum as they get hotter.

[0] There’s a ton of detail here, for example https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2018-0...
That's a great way to go out of business. Just make a profit driven companies don't invest in the companies future.

Starbucks had a vision now it looks to maximize short term profits while playing a real estate game.
Which would completely invalidate the entire purpose of the SCIF, no? Unless it exists to feed fake info to the locals?
Not a big deal though, as long as they are independent of other nations (or regional coalitions), this is a huge boon for Europe, especially with what might happen in America after the next election and what happened to Russia and China a long time ago.
The NK official probably mentioned something that was only said in the SCIF

And I'm guessing the diplomatic pouches aren't fully in the custody of the german gov at all times there? idk
We Need a RACI Matrix and How to Create It
... or simply that the LOGO language syntax and choice of commands is confusing? Without formal explanation, how surprising is it really that a child would assume that STOP mean stop?

I'd bet that if LOGO had used RETURN, like many other languages, then the children's reasoning would be likely be more accurate. Or go the other way and make them tell you what this or that brainfuck[1] program does. So, to me, this research says more about LOGO choices than anything.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck
One data point from the above-linked Technology Connections video: decades after the end of the Phoebus cartel, the lifespan of most lightbulbs remained at 1,000 hours. You could get longer-life bulbs, but they consumed more power for a given amount of light, which made for a more expensive total cost to the consumer.
I spent two years trying to make SD cards more nostalgic
No one goes there anymore, it's too busy.
I can’t believe WIRED is more or less romanticizing this story. This woman:

1. Came here illegally.

2. Committed mass, mechanized identity theft.

3. Put many rideshare users in danger.

4. Had a sham marriage

… and then was surprised that anyone cared!

It sure feels like our systems are _not_ hardened enough to deal with people from cultures like this. Big https://xkcd.com/1499/ energy.
JSBen.ch – Performance benchmarking playground for JavaScript
thanks for the reply. incredible work
I don't think there'll be AGI (which is in itself a term that means different things to different people) anytime soon, if ever.

That doesn't detract from the utility of what is there already. I'm currently using it quite a lot as a "tutor" (of sorts) as I deep-dive into an area I have limited experience with. Like all tutors it gets some things wrong (which in turn reflects human misunderstandings). It is sufficiently good though at directing the flow, which in turn gives me Google terms to search.

I say this not as a rabid AI fan, I've come to it reluctantly, but its proving useful.

So I don't think shareholders will revolt (which means what? That the share price will drop?) - I think they'll just continue to provide (improved) utility and their user base will grow. This isn't like fusion where there's a binary measure of success.

Of course, like any business, there will be challenges along the way. Some survive those (Apple, MS, Google etc), some don't (Sun, DEC, Amiga). Predicting which ones succeed and which ones fail is hard. And seldom correlated to culture.

The article is fluff because it makes no conclusion, adds no data, is just a single ex-employees opinion. Meh.
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Tesla to delay Robotaxi unveiling, report says
Because the bet is that LLMs won't lead to AGI? We need to learn the lessons now, not later
Open-source platform for developing multimodal agents in low code
>You make a 2000 hr bulb and it's half as a dim as a 1000 hr bulb

First, I assume you mean half as bright. Half as dim seems like the opposite of what you mean, or a very strange way to phrase it.

Second, you're saying that bulb lifetime scales linearly with brightness?
Absolutely not. Good thing I only buy used cars - driving, for me, is a joy (not in traffic, for obvious reasons). I like driving fast when conditions are right, and I see no issue going full throttle it if it’s done safely.
Whether or not we can discern an instruction set is entirely orthogonal to whether or not something can compute.
In India [1] the standard dose for acetaminophen has recently become 650mg, because the 500mg variant is price-controlled and allegedly one manufacturer spent roughly $ 120 million to market the 650mg variant to Indian doctors.

[1] https://science.thewire.in/health/paracetamol-650-mg-drug-pr...
Probably just moving the goal posts in preparation for trumps inevitable return.
Have to think this would make an incredible movie. Smart, wily and charismatic Brazilian girl sneaks into America on a tourist visa. She makes an illegal fortune in New York City, then gets arrested and becomes queen of her prison. The last we see her she is fighting to stay in America knowing that only here can she do it all over again.
Well the US effectively does compared to other developed countries.

Where I am in Europe, I can do my own plumbing, electricity and gas work. No permits, no need to be licensed. This doesn't affect insurance or cause any issues when I sell the house.
Let’s not forget syscall filtering. Using custom eBPF for what is in effect a syscall firewall is something my coworkers did for one of our clients and it’s really slick. It’s like super seccomp.
Vegan 12 years, my second go around (I first went in the late 90s to early 2000s). My parents had to stop being vegetarian because I wouldn’t eat anything except butter, milk, potatoes, and beef, so you could say I have carnivorous impulses. I like stuff like Impossible. Good texture, identical as far as I can remember to what a fast food burger tastes like, holds up to the grill, and you can find it just about anywhere. In addition, it has made going out to eat virtually a non-issue.

It’s amazing to me that I can walk into just about any hole in the wall tavern around me and I can still get a decent burger and a beer with my friends. 15-20 years ago maybe once in a blue moon I’d find some place that had dried and tough Morningstar patty that tasted like burnt sawdust, but most of the time I’d be stuck with a shitty garden salad or fries, if not forgoing the depressing ordeal and just drinking my meal.

At home I prefer to make everything from scratch because it tastes better, is usually cheaper, and is healthier, plus I love trying new things all the time. Last weekend I made patties from beets, lentils, rice, onion, breadcrumbs, peanut butter, and a bit of fennel… so good. But I get lazy like everyone else, and usually like once a week I just want a big fucking greasy burger, and Impossible does the trick.

I also appreciate that better products has gotten more people to lessen branch out. I can think of a whole bunch of stereotypical “but bacon tho” veg haters amongst my friends and family that have decided for various reasons to reduce meat intake and have found these products and veg cuisine in general to be an enjoyable and eye opening experience… just like I did.
That's not blaming socioeconomics. They're acknowledging it, writing it off and then saying that it's a political problem and not a market-related one. It's buried at the end of a litany of blame write-offs demanding change without identifying the problem.

When you make your next alt account, please don't waste our time with another one of these godforsaken opinion pieces. They are low-quality and so obviously outrage bait, you will have your post flagged before it reaches the frontpage and your account(s) will be banned if you exclusively promote low-quality, single-source material. I guarantee you this is not worth your time.
It's government. Security Theater/"Look, we're trying" is usually more important than reality.
These terms have well understood meanings, and dark matter or black holes are entirely irrelevant to what I said.

For brains not to be computers would mean the physical Church-Turing thesis is invalid, and proof of that would be extraordinary enough to be Nobel Prize material.
After reading how they use human waste as fertilizer, I'm not sure not having access to local produce is so bad
Sounds like they need to split up the brand. Customers need to have a consistent experience across locations