skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will it make sense? One of the first things coming to mind is that if we harvest energy outside of Earth and send it towards Earth, the planet will eventually need to dissipate extra energy as heat back to space. Given that we're currently fighting with raising temperatures, it could be a matter of concern given enough scale.

Solar system in space enjoy potentially 24 hours per day of sun - so they can be more effective than land-based systems. Downsides of course are the necessity to build in space, to deliver payloads to space. We need good numbers to determine.

Hope we'll soon make solar panels in space - maybe on the Moon - so won't need to use Earth resources for that. But "soon" here is of course relative.

We can surely use orbital power for space-related needs - running data centers in space could be one of the interesting applications. Space manufacturing, making fuels and metals... Sending energy to Earth usually has more efficiency the longer the sent waves are - microwaves are better to catch than light - but we also have the requirements of rectennas. It's definitely interesting application area from the engineering point of view.
Also EdTech background here, not OP.

There's a difference between the educational-industrial complex (or the ed landscape in terms of market), and motivated learner-centric models which can be done independently.

As much as degrees and certs are important in the current paradigm, it's long been the case in tech that credentials matter less than output, skills, and soft skills.

As much as I personally believe in a stronger credential system, the shift is toward individual learning. The popularity of coding bootcamps in the tech space I think demonstrates that.

Personal AI tutor? Without the pesky SME credentialing? Sign me up!
I put "green" not in scare quotes but to point out that there isn't any truly consequences-free energy, the datacenter itself may be mostly green but the PNW grid can and does have some peaking carbon-fuel based power plants in the mix, and there's well known environmental consequences from flooding vast areas of land to build a new hydroelectric dam.

Many of the dams we have now were permitted and built in the 1930s-1950s era when the external consequences of building them were barely considered.
> She uses a lot of recipes from the NY Times. They are heavy.

There’s a good chocolate chip cookie recipe from the NYT that I’ve used several times. Not only is it heavy, I’ve had to halve the ingredients and even then it still produces enough to satiate the Cookie Monster for probably at least a month.

As a Brit, I also had to convert all of the measurements (patent absurdities like ‘cups of butter’, ‘tablespoons of chocolate’, etc.) to grams — taking account of the variation in density, of course.
For example, in Covid he required the States to make their own rules,

He also suggested injecting bleach and sunlight might wipe out COVID in the body [1]. Federal institutions and health organizations had to warn people not to drink bleach after that, oh man.

In my opinion, any leader who actually cared about solving the problem would try understand basic things better or delegate to someone who does. If anything it proves he is an authoritarian. Do you think Kim Jong Un actually tries to solve any problem for his people, or just bullshits about it to stay in power / popular with those who matter?

You might see it as some type of freedom preserving move to let states do whatever they want, but his actions were about being popular with conservatives. If he actually has his way and is completely unaccountable for anything he does, he wouldn't even done anything at all.

A pandemic is a thing which absolutely requires a federal response, not a "hey Texas you do this, and California, you do that".

Please do not let this guy become king of America, It was fine when he was on the apprentice. He should stay there.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QdTOyXz3w
I use an AmScope ME300TZB-2L-10M metallurgical microscope that I got for cheap on eBay. My friends all have cooler microscopes :-)
Curious what the windfall would be for early employees
Is it better to be egalitarian in education or is it better to focus on raising the floor, or raise the median, or providing equal opportunity? They aren't the same thing, and it's very possible that the education system that focuses on one will miss out on parts of the others. You can make moral arguments in favoring each of those options (or even focusing on raising the average).

You can optimize for economic benefit, innovation, fairness, or passions. Their is plenty of non-draconian reasons for preferring each.
Maybe it was generated :)
There are some vector databases that already include both dense vector search and sparse vector search, such as qdrant. A hybrid search of these 2 does not solve many problems well, such as exact queries. Moreover, according to our experiments, as seen in the article, the performance of dense vector + sparse vector, improves only a little bit. In addition to these 2 way recall, infinity offers bm25 as well as colbert reranker, which can make the ranking quality of the hybrid search much better.
Just rerun the command, but use UNPOST instead of POST or GIVE instead of GET. Easy peasy
Nonsensical non sequitur
I've always thought of RPGs as narrative focused games with character progression based on improving stats and equipment. I think both A Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger would fit that description. ALttP may not have the same depth of character traits, but there's still a progression unlocking extra health hearts and stronger swords iirc.

For the other games you mentioned, I would say they have RPG elements (ie. increasing player stats in Mario Tennis), but the narrative isn't really the focus of game in the same way as with a traditional RPG.
Hacker News does have some reactions - upvote, downvote, flag.
well for the last point, at least, you have the fact that HF self reports profitability
Dell employees used company's corporate survey to tell bosses post-RTO feelings
The full analysis is too long to go on here, but on the chapter "Narrow Framing on the Upper East Side has this conclusion: "The implication of our analysis is that the equity premium - or the required rate of return on stocks - is so high because investors look at their portfolios too often. Whenever anyone asks me for investment advice, I tell them to buy a diversified portfolio heavily tilted toward stocks, especially if they are young, and then scrupulously avoid reading anything in the newspaper aside from the sports section. Crossword puzzles are acceptable, but watching cable financial news networks is strictly forbidden."
Of course there's the usual caveat about rebalancing as you approach retirement, basically the target date strategy. Really, the book gives great context into just how irrational we humans are. It has lots of studies, examples and anecdotes on behavioral economics. It was the book that actually helped me make sense of sunken cost fallacy.
Google's $500M effort to wreck Microsoft EU cloud deal failed
Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
Seems like this kind of mentality boils down to "I like the art direction and broad story tropes but not much else".

It always baffles me as a JRPG player that grew up with stuff like Final Fantasy 7, Wild Arms, and Tales of Symphonia how people would play these 40+ hour adventures made up of 10+ hours of cutscenes but also not care about the characters (you know, the ones you take the role of) and the story. Even if we are sticking to the Japanese art style, you have games like Devil May Cry or Bayonetta for a "turn your plot brain off" action game, a myriad of fighting games that is 95+% gameplay, and platformers like Mario that has set dressing at best for a plot.
https://archive.ph/cBWK6
This site looks to be a mirror of Bitsavers? It has more on Convex. The overview ( http://bitsavers.org/pdf/convex/C-1_Overview.pdf ) is more high-level look at it.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/convex/

And 1000bit has brochures

https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/brochures.asp?id=538
You don’t even have to go that hypothetical, it’s doubtful that these guys want to live under the reign of a Gulf prince or the Sultan of Brunei. Though maybe they’d be okay with MBS these days.
I would love to hear your view of handling ambitious changes in a large system.

(In the middle of this scenario. Mix of experienced/talented and low trust environment.)
…or be accused of cooking the books, labeled as anti-union, or other ad hominem attacks.

I’m not a fan of SV edutech ventures for various reasons, but the school districts that they hope to sink their pointy teeth into have very effective immune systems against change.
Startups that have their spec aligned to chaotic good.
Scientists Turn Seawater to Drinking Water with the Push of a Button
Hey, just going to say what I've been telling folks IRL, if you are reading this, and your parents and family members aren't tech savvy, you need to set them up with two factor authentication now.

Because you know how to do that, and it's so much easier than helping them when they get hacked.
There is no such thing as a generally best model due to the no free lunch theorem. What works in hedge funds will be bad in other areas that need less or different inductive biases due to having more or less data and different data.
go complain about it to the dept., maybe they will, complaintdept :)
I've always felt that (so far) ChatGPT is better at teaching than actually doing things.
Even if this ends up being nothing more than "Khan Academy but I can ask questions and get answers and it's all in my local dialect of Urdu" it is a huge step forward for educations AS LEARNING.
On YouTube, I saw a deepfake of Elon Musk asking people to scan a QR code and buy crypto.
As an interesting example, i passed that passage to chatgpt3.5 with the prompt "make the following passage much simpler to understand"

Wibbels says that poorer countries are in a tough spot in the global economy. They rely a lot on money from other countries and mainly sell raw materials to get cash. Because they're so reliant on foreign money, they can't borrow much to manage their economy when things are going bad.

This is a pretty basic prompt too, you can add qualifiers to fit your general audience: "easier to understand for a high school student". You could provide context of previous and subsequent passages as well. Yeah its not perfect, but the right prompt could provide at least a consistent output style.
The standard pace is for chumps
Despite being vimian I've found set -o vi hard to work with. Do you like it? Neovim terminal seems better for me since output is selectable in the buffer.
Life has taught me so many lessons. No matter how good, humble and honest you are to them that doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same way. I married my husband for almost five years now with no idea that he was cheating on me. I noticed some changes in his character and I decided to confide in a friend who introduced me to a hacker whose name is Vladimir. This guy did a wonderful and perfect job for me by hacking his phone call log, facebook messenger messages, phone messages, whatsapp, Skype, database and so on. Contact: ( SPYRECOVERY36 @ GM AIL C OM )
I feel so stupid to left out h1-h6. Also completely forgot about the entire table related tags.
Except that the LLM is actively dismissing its discrepancy with the other tool. Just adding to the confusion.
That’s why most satire is pretty lame. The more obvious it is, the less funny; the less obvious it is, the less interesting. And the whole thing is built on an inside/outside dynamic that is pretty basic.
A person who runs all day, every day, from the hours of 9 to 5, for decades, suffers the most 'physical deterioration'.
Perhaps it was John Koza?

http://www.genetic-programming.com/johnkoza.html
For what it’s worth, I’m not a big user of outlook, but I use reactions a lot in chat.

I like receiving reactions specifically because they save me time. When I get a typed message, I often take time to think through whether the sender is expecting some sort of acknowledgement (confirming that I got their message letting me know that I’m welcome to thank them again any time!) or whether it’s polite to terminate the exchange by not responding. Overall, I spend far more time than I’d like second-guessing my words. When I just get a reaction, it serves as a form of acknowledgement that doesn’t demand further response and frees me from an obligation.
Crooked-v is not hypothesizing: People already use this setup, myself included! (Actually I am even only using 5ghz not 6ghz)

On-device reprojection/ATW lowers the bar for bandwidth and latency considerably, and many of us spend hours and hours with VR streaming wirelessly.

Separate in-room WAPs would be the only real recommended modification for multiple vr users in the same building.
> A large amount of engagement is reading and responding to body language.

That's due to a limitation of the current medium, don't you think? When I started going to school, I had to improve my social awareness not because it's an inherently, objectively better way to learn, but because that's what was needed as a result of how the classroom is structured.
Claude 3.5 to the rescue:

“Wibbels claims that developing countries are at a disadvantage in the global economy for two main reasons:

1. They rely heavily on foreign investment.

2. They depend on exporting a limited range of raw materials to earn foreign currency.

Because of this weak economic position, developing countries struggle to borrow money when needed. This makes it hard for them to boost their economies during economic downturns, unlike wealthier nations that can more easily borrow and spend to stimulate growth. “
Oh this sounds great! It could simplify the process to get the data insights by non technical person. Yet i would love to see a demo and see how it works
Falcon 9 rockets burn RP-1, a hydrocarbon fuel, so the oxygen is being converted to CO2, and CO as well as H2O. [1]

Beyond that, I don't think the direct comparison of mass is definitive. Much of the rocket's fuel is expended at lower altitudes, and much of a volcano's ejecta return quickly to earth as ash or rain. It would be important to understand what percentage of a volcano's ejecta reaches the height of these clouds as well as what percentage of a rocket's exhaust is produced at that height.

Just to throw in some round figures:

noctilucent clouds are formed between 80 and 85 km altitude [2]

large volcanic eruption plumes top out somewhere between 31 and 45 km [3]

Falcon 9 launches stage at 80 km [4], meaning 23% of their propellant mass [5] is converted to exhaust at that altitude or higher.

So while I'm no expert on noctilucent cloud formation and happy to be given more info, the prima facia case seems to favor rocket launches seeding noctilucent clouds much more readily than volcanic eruptions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1#Comparison_with_other_fue...
[2] https://www.albany.edu/faculty/rgk/atm101/nlc.htm , though other sources give a wider range of 76-85 km.
[3] https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-high-can-explosive-e...
[4] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/spacex_nasa_...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Design
I feel personally attacked by this comment. This hits so close to home. I think I have some personal reflection to do.
> In general ADF is so inaccurate that its protected areas are massive

Great for listening to LW & MW(AM) radio stations in the cockpit though. Rumour has it some pilots would patch big sports games into the in-flight entertainment channels so you wouldn't miss them just because you're in the air.
No, I'm saying that their excuse that they're keeping things private because of safety is a farce and they should be honest and admit that they're keeping things private because they've abandoned the original mission behind putting 'Open' in 'OpenAI'.
OpenAI Completion for SublimeText
Some of the measurements are aided by how the ingredients are packaged. For instance, butter is sold by the pound, in boxes of 4 "sticks" that are marked as being 1/4 cup each, which ignores the density variation but is familiar to every home cook. Chocolate comes in "squares" that are some predictable amount. In fact some recipes call for squares.

"A pint's a pound the world around" is a workable rule of thumb for a lot of things, but of course you need to know when greater precision is needed. Since I don't bake sweets very often, I measure most things by eyeball. For instance my bread recipe is based on filling a glass measuring cup nearly to the top, above where the volume markings end.

Maybe it's a reaction to spending my day designing precision measuring equipment.

But yeah, it's a hodgepodge of archaic units, and quite unnerving if you hail from the metric world.
It isn’t streaming the ollama output so it feels slow (~3 words/second on a 3090 with the defaults). Using ollama directly streams within a second and you can kill it early. I don’t understand the UX of looping responses to the same question either. This does not feel like magic.
Oh, okay, so that's what you meant.

There's no reason to think other solar systems wouldn't have water, in that case, as there's little that's unique about our garden - or, from a slightly different angle, we shouldn't be surprised to find ourselves living in a place that has water.
> Can you tell me your experience. I've been a teacher for a long time.

And as a result, your experience is mostly limited to kids who are forced to be where they don't want to be. That's a hugely biased data set.

> School is important. It teaches you how to deal with other people. It teaches you how to deal with people in authority.

And yet it does a worse job at it than those who are home schooled, as most studies show.
It’s actually worse than that - AI powered phishing sites will also copy your device profile and mouse, gesture and keyboard signature and use this to get past common anti-fraud techniques like device fingerprinting and behavioural biometrics.
Thanks KaisoEnt,

What do you also think of a website that uses GPT4 to generate variations of these top 500 sales strategy and tailor it your business?

Do you think this would be something you would pay for?
I think you’re confusing the technology with a product developed using that technology. The prevalence of poorly implemented products or the lack of fit of some products to a particular target market, do not inherently provide evidence for conclusions about the technology itself.
Completely missing the point, which often happens with xor thinking. The beauty of story points is that they rely on human ability to compare things quickly. It's almost instinctive. ex. You're being chased by a rhinoceros through the jungle. You come upon a tree with branches and a boulder with handholds. 2 seconds, which do you choose?

Story points are just a warmup for more elaboration, not an xor decision. This article is making a single-level decision, which completely misses point of using story points. The work-effort really required will be discovered in more elaboration. Story points just give you a live or die measurement, that's it.
I agree with that point, too.

My guess is that current models are not yet able to provide consistent, effective motivation to learners over the long term. Like a lot of new educational technology, they might be fun and engaging in the short term but will lose their effectiveness as motivators once the shine has worn off.

But the models might become better motivators as they become more multimodal, so that they are able to respond in real time to the student’s tone of voice and facial expressions, and as they acquire longer context windows, so that they are able to adapt their interactions to what the student has done weeks or months earlier.

The biggest issue, I think, is what the OP raises: Whether the bots will be able to—or allowed to—acquire sufficiently human-like personalities and indentities so that they can motivate learners as human parents, teachers, and mentors do—by making the learners want to please them, to be praised by them, to avoid angering them, to emulate them.
> Maybe curing cancer in the 2020s is way harder than going to the moon in the 1960s. I have no idea. But it doesn’t sound like we’re even trying to cure cancer.

Yep, that's the problem. After 1969, a moonshot means two things:

1) It's hard, very hard.

2) It's possible in a short time frame.

Curing cancer is hard. Check.

It's not possible in a short time frame. They are just lying. They call it a moonshot to sound cool.

Curing cancer in 10 years is like promising to open a hotel in all planets and all major moons in the solar system. And curing cancer is perhaps harder.

On the other hand there have been a lot of small improvements. I know someone that got like 10 years on no cancer grow with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal_therapy_(oncology) . It's not a cure, but 10 more years is a good step.
At the time I believed the proliferation of netbooks was caused by OLPC. I don't think it was a fundamentally bad idea either.

The project identified a legitimate need for a small, durable, and cheap laptop, but failed on a number of specifics: it did worse as a not-for-profit than it would have done as a company, the design was child-centric instead of something adults could use too, and Linux on every machine was a design decision that only made sense in the flawed context of a not-for-profit.

The MSCHF message of "press [F] to pay respects to capitalism" is incredibly ironic when applied to OLPC, since it arguably failed due to not being capitalist enough and was succeeded by for-profit companies who remade a similar product for a wider and less charitable audience.
Yes, but they were lost.

We stored those discoveries in mongodb. Apparently it had failed in a web scale way and nobody has figured out how to restore from backup.
Probably talking about student tracking. It was definitely a thing at my school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(education)
I thought Bernie put a pretty good system in Vermont?
The system doesn't matter per se. What matters is that you have one
> "It's as if every leader was given the OK to ignore it," said one Dell employee

Nothing like relying on a survey only when it gives you the results you want.

And a year down the line when performance is lower and morale is poor, management will scratch their heads saying “we just don’t get it”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Wright
Might be useful to post performance stats
Yes. I completely forgot that games need to be fast.
The problem with the proposed solution is that many teams can't accurately break down tasks small enough. And, even those smaller tasks have variability in how long they take to do. What I've seen is that most teams don't really know how far "stories" break down into their simplest tasks until they actually do the work.

So, that puts us back at square one, for the most part. A story point may not tell you a lot, but tasks in this form often present the same problem.