skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still a few Common Lisp features the mainstream would benefit from ripping off. Relevant here is the condition system. Conditions and restarts are still foreign enough that it's hard to explain to people why the "debugger" was a fundamental part of the lisp machine UI, and how much sense that made, and harder still to fathom how you'd adapt that to Unix, where it would morph into some kind of weird IPC tied into the command shell.

It's not just about being able to stop your program and hot-patch code to recover from errors - this should be trivial in any dynamic language. Rather, it's about being able to composably control how to recover from exception conditions (or, really, any branching behavior) both interactively and programmatically in a unified framework.
All of AWS' big money makers are the meat-and-potatoes services around compute, storage, databases etc. where you could drop their offering and replace it with another in a straightforward way. It will cost you to migrate in terms of time and direct spend (those egress fees...), but it's possible. Companies ultimately stay put because the products work and the price is reasonable, but if they tried to 10X the price overnight everyone would eventually bolt.

Yeah they keep pushing higher-level services, but the uptake of these is extremely limited. If you used something like SageMaker, which has an extremely high lock-in factor, it's probably because you're an old school company that don't know what you're doing and AWS held your developer's hand to get the Hello World-level app working, but at least you got your name printed in their case study materials of the project at the end.

I think OpenAI looks at AWS and thinks they can do better. And for their investors, they must do better. But in the end I think the commoditization of LLMs is already almost complete, and this is just a futile attempt to fight it.
>what do you do about election manipulation? 'Nothing' isn't an acceptable answer.

I agree, and this reinforces my point about the ambiguity of the social contract. When the US constitution was written in 1787, the telegraph wasn't even invented. Now we all live in a single "global village". People from all over the world are commenting on politics in other nations in real time. Where do you draw the line for "election manipulation"? No one seems to know, exactly.
If the goal was "be better than the US" then sure. But presumably their strategy is aimed at actually improving their country as it is for it's own people to live in. Much of which has nothing to do with the US.
I live in an area where we get a handful of outages every year. From a few hours to a few days.

My current setup is a 2.8Kv generator I haul our of the shed, run a few extension cords to core things like fridge/freezer, internet, office etc.

This is a nice fit between a generator and a Powerwall. Generator is a pain if you have to setup + if not home the fridge stays off or my wife will leave to me unless its urgent. A Powerwall (or similar) is a significant investment.

This product covers people like me with occasional outages but it doesn't have the setup or out of home hassle, and its a more financially accessible solution than a Powerwall. I could def see people interested in this.
It depends on the wattage and duty cycle of your sump pump.

My experience with sump pumps is low wattage and intermittent use. Sounds like this does not correspond to yours.
Was this entire blog post written by AI too? Honestly, this is an impressive feat if so, but the fake benchmarks are really not a good look.
If you can put a backup battery into an outlet and have it work well like an appliance there is a lot of utility there. Pumps and fans for gas hvac systems as well as sump pumps are more critical and less power hungry than a fridge. I would much rather have a web page on wifi to monitor it than another blu tooth app, but whatever.

That being said 1.6 kw/h for $1000 is WAY overpriced. Lithium Iron Phosphate battery prices are dropping like a stone. This should be a third of the price and eventually that's exactly what someone will sell it for.
>how does this polar orbit stay over the terminator?

Because it's launched at a angle greater than a straight north-south 90 degree orbit, so orbital precession will correctly follow the terminator. Depending on the orbital altitude this can be more than 140 degrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit
cocomelon i like
He is gonna import raw materials from where ? Currently he started trade war with all of his allies ?
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking as I see LLMs being applied to all these complex problem domains. Humans did not conquer the world because our intelligence can solve every problem, we did it by using our intelligence to (1) break down complex problems into small, manageable pieces and (2) designing tools and machines that were exceptionally good at efficiently solving those subproblems.

The other recent example that comes to mind is the paper that explored the reasoning process used by LLMs to answer trivia questions like “Name a national capital whose letters can be rearranged to spell a common greeting in the language of a neighboring country.” (answer is Hanoi by the way)

The LLM responses show that they intuitively grasp the algorithm for answering such a question, but then they basically run the algorithm in their own thoughts (self-talk) which is horrendously inefficient.

Put differently, natural language reasoning is brilliant at turning the messiness of the real world into well-defined abstractions, but as soon as that is done it needs to hand off the task to a machine. For “solved” problems this might be a formally specified machine, but it could also be another class of model such as AlphaZero (along with a proper specification of the problem the “subcontractor” is to handle).
Also known as "treknobabble."
Go doesn't run in the browser however (except WASM but that is different).
Exactly! Nothing if you don't ship physical goods.
I've been doing this for 24 years and only collecting sales tax for users in my home country. All other countries I just say on my invoice that any sales tax is included in the price. What are the going to do about me not charging sales tax in their country and remitting it? Come and get it?
Sure, and this VM solution is the exact path forward for “install stuff in a box” solutions as Android move towards trying to enforce w^x, which is probably why they chose a full Linux VM as their demo app. Emulators and games and apps with embedded JIT will be harder to deal with.
Mechanisms too simple for humans to design
I don't think the intended use-case is servers. The products they list are appliances and less critical electronics.

It has a 20 ms switch-over to battery backup. APC UPS' range from 2 - 6 ms.

There is a StackOverflow answer that says the upper limit for servers is 25 ms but 20 ms might be cutting it fine.

https://serverfault.com/questions/564156/what-is-the-interru...
I have a brand new still shrink-wrapped box of Windows 1.0.0 My local museum (https://computerhistory.org) has one on loan, this remind me to go there and offer them mine
Why would you presume that? CCP has become far more autocratic, and the goals of autocracy:

1) maintain the autocracy

2) have a strong police to preserve the autocracy from rebellion

3) have a good enough economy to defend the autocracy from external threats

... ten more "for the autocracy" points ...

improving the country for the people

Also, Zeihan overselling or not, China is facing an unprecedented demographic decline. So to the parent comment about "not doing anything and winning", honestly the US can do the same and watch China implode demographically.
> elite and economic consolidation plays a greater role in building lasting ties with a country instead of ideological ties

Elite and economic consolidation is a corrupting force, though. A country's actions are just as important as it's stated values - if it partners with others who don't share those values, then it's just performance. If your country signals that it doesn't actually care about its purported values, then why would any country which does care want to create long-term relationships or otherwise ally themselves with you? How would anyone be able to trust you if you compromise your foundational principles for economic gain? How could you trust them?
That’s an interesting idea. It’s amazing how far we’ve come without essentially any objective data on how much these various methodologies (e.g. using a scripting language) improve or worsen development time.

The adoption of AI Code Assistance I am sure will be driven similarly anecdotally, because who has the time or money to actually measure productivity techniques when you can just build a personal set of superstitions that work for you (personally) and sell it? Or put another way, what manager actually would spend money on basic science?
> I'm pretty sure that in any city in the US there is a store where you can walk in today, ask for a "pila", and walk out with a battery.

Being 2nd most common language does not mean this, by a long shot. It definitely won’t work in most of the Seattle, Portland, Denver, Salt lake, Minneapolis, stores for example.
"humans are terrible at building butterflies"

also, the Microsoft Word vs. genome size chart, <https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/f_auto...>
It’s fine, if it’s 2x faster after being feature complete, I don’t really mind. It still is a free speedup to all existing code-bases. Developers don’t need to anything than install the latest version of TypeScript I presume
ciao

I still use newsgroups (NNTP) and IRC everyday, hackernews is pretty good considered it's HTTP based
Unfortunately, politics is everywhere where there is more than one person and something to divide, and America is the most politicized country in the world where everything is highly regulated by laws, because the laws are strictly enforced. Politicians fight for power = control over people's lives and that’s how money and the economy are created, so everything becomes secondary to politics. If the world’s politicians would unite and stop wars and do everything for the humanity, we would have hundreds and thousands of better YCs across the planet. But until that happens, it’s better to sell a startup to politicians for big money. For now, we have the only wonder of the world, YC in the USA which is the best, as long as this forum hasn’t closed, IMHO.
So when you have the pack of cheese on the table at 19°C for 45 minutes for perhaps a week before it's used up... you should drive to the hospital? Most of the continent does this as far as I know (having lived in and visited friends around northwestern Europe) and I have yet to hear someone tell a horror story of getting food poisoned after leaving the cheese/salami at room temperature for a cumulative 2 hours

This is not realistic, this is perhaps an "absolutely 100% guaranteed still safe for your baby while it is sick" value, which I guess makes sense for a government agency but they could communicate whom this advice is for

Edit: scrolling further down the table, also cooked pasta, rice, potatoes, vegetables, and sauce should be discarded. These products cooked, so they cooled down through optimal breeding temperatures while you had dinner for an hour, before they even started their journey from room down to fridge temperature. They should be discarded according to this table and never consumed in the first place (explicitly: don't even taste to see if it's still good). Not to mention what spoiled while it was on your plate
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I don't consider COBOL to be a good indicator of programming quality. Although frankly, I will say that about most software. Generally products stick around not because they're good but because replacing them would be too costly. And generally products get in not because they're good but because they're decent and get lucky with timing. I saw another HN post today about Excel. I think Excel is on the better end of the software spectrum. Still, the main reasons why we don't yet have "Excel++ but for real better" everywhere is simply because developing such a thing and then getting the traction for it would be infeasible. I will once again say that I don't consider COBOL remotely impressive for still underlying many important computer systems. The computer systems are important because of their purpose, and implementation is always a conflict with purpose.
Is like to optimize for low cost power ranges like 5 to 9 or other depending on areas
That’s still surprisingly young!
This feels very much like someone walking into a room with a complicated, but currently broken, machine, noticing that one cord isn't plugged in, and loudly announcing that you solved the problem before you even tried that cord.

Oh duh, why didn't we think of that slaps forehead. If we all deny reality and pretend that life is an infinite-sum game then we can have most of the benefits of a true infinite-sum game.

This simply doesn't stand up to game theory, because the spoils of defection are large and you can't stop people from doing it.
I looked through the material, but I'm still at a loss how this is different than any recent battery/inverter combination like Ecoflow/Jackery/etc or a UPS with an app. I'm an electrician, and very in to new electrical products but this one just makes me wonder how it's different.
I have the same question about the WARN
> I simply clarified the current state of affairs without saying a single negative word about it.

It's awfully grandiose to present your experiences as a parent as the "current state of affairs" and a summary of all of California's approach to school psychology.

> Still, you rushed to defend it. It appears (just my guess) that you recognize flaws in the situation and feel compelled to justify it to yourself, don’t you?

I haven't defended it - I stated that the worldview you described makes me sad, and that I feel bad for the faculty and staff (treading water in this system that I agree is broken!) that I fear you are making it worse for. Do you psychoanalyze them with extreme confidence, also?

> As an engineer,

This was already very clear.

> that a country neglecting its brightest students

Ah - you've conveniently moved the goalposts: until now you were talking about teachers not providing "extra focus" or "exceptional" attention to the "exceptionally bright" students, and now it's "neglect." But the assertion here is that the bright students are still receiving the _required_ amount of attention, but someone else is receiving "extra," which is neglect (somehow). We're back at zero-sumness! This is what bums me out!

> That might not matter if we had no international rivals. But do we truly lack them?

what are you even talking about man how did you get here
A Latin American perspective (from the B in BRICS):

There are 3 economic blocks dreaming on global dominance: Europe, US and China. The difference among them is how they pursue these dreams.

The Europeans talk, discuss, gather and don't do anything.

The Americans shout, yell, go alone and do everything wrong.

The Chinese just do it, mostly right.
I thought I tried that, but maybe I tried any of git's innumerable other options.

It might be a large blob that is bombing it regardless of version files. It seems to bomb in the exact same spot each time.
That is not completely true. The parties can incorrectly value the items being traded resulting in a non-positive sum trade for either or even both parties.

However, absent intentionally deceptive information (i.e. the overwhelming majority of modern advertising and marketing), that is expected to be fairly uncommon in total-value terms.
> OpenAI fighting against that fate as their valuation and continued investment requirements doesn't make any sense otherwise.

Is it actually the case that OpenAI couldn't be viable if all they offered was a simple chat completion API on top of the web experience?

It seems to me the devil is all in how the margin plays out. I'd focus on driving down costs and pushing boundaries on foundation models. If you are always a half step ahead, highly reliable and reasonably cheap, your competitors will have a tough time. Valuations can be justified if businesses begin to trust the roadmap and stability of the services.

I'll tell you what's not working right now is the insane model naming scheme and rapid fire vision changes. This kind of stuff is spooking the technology leaders of large prospective customers. Only the most permanently online people can keep things straight. Everyone was super excited and on board with AI in 2024 because who wants to be left out. I think that energy is still justified in many ways, but we've also got to find a way to meet more of the customer base where they are currently at. Wrappers and agentic SDKs are not what these people are looking for. Many F500s already have a gigantic development team who can deal with deep, nasty API integrations and related state contraptions. They're looking for assurances/evidence that OAI's business & product line will remain stable for the next 5+ years before going all-in.
I wrote two:

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting/

https://fly.io/blog/soc2-the-screenshots-will-continue-until...
A friend recently had a house fire from a handheld battery bank catching fire in a cupboard. She was ok but there was a lot of smoke damage in the house.

This UPS has LFP cells so that is a huge improvement on safety of LiPo but I am still not sure about a large capacity indoor UPS.

Edit: I am not sure why I am attracting so many downvotes.
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some people enjoy creating things
Is full-stack development now considered an advancement? I always thought that it is considered less valuable compared to more specialized roles these days. (I'm a full-stack developer.)
If I had to guess it sounds like they are using CURE to cluster the source documents, then map each generated fact back to the best-matching cluster, and finally test whether the best-matching cluster actually provides / supports the fact?
What's all this annexation talk then?

That sounds pretty disrespectfully inflammatory.
Why did they post on X? Most of the people on there probably think HN is a Soros front. Also, why does it say twitter.com and not x.com? Would have been better just to post a link from their blog.
I think if you looked at the typescript code base you’d understand.

It’s a mess!!!

As most functional projects are. There’s just data structures and code and good luck finding anything or trying to figure out why something is where it is.

Seriously go look at the code. It’s not like c#.
No problem. You know, the whole area is very flat. There’s no getting around that, and some people will never accept that any hiking trail can be good if there isn’t a lot of elevation change. That’s their loss.

I remember going to a talk at the cultural center ~10 years ago where some lady, who was apparently very famous in her line of work, talked about moving to Chicago because of her husband’s new job and spending many years hating the natural surroundings. Until one day she was in a prairie west of the city and decided to really look at the wildflowers. And that was the spark that got her to start drawing the flowers, and eventually made her famous for it.

Anyway, it’s no Coastal California or Colorado mountain meadow. But if you go out and explore with a desire to find beauty in it, you will :)

Edit - and by the way, on the South Shore train, Dune Park and Beverly Shores have trails you see from the train platform. Ogden Dunes is a bit trickier, the open space west of the train station is all national park service land, east is private property except closer to the lake. The town itself tries very hard to make it look like a private gated community but the roads are all public and you are free to walk right in. Miller Beach I’d say the train is too far from the parkland, but if you have a car, the area due north starting about a mile from that train station will blow apart every stereotype you’ve ever had about Gary, IN.
Cambodia used to be American leaning in the 2010s during their transition to democracy, with support for democratic norm building and actual democracy. China on the other hand decided to only conduct outreach to Cambodian economic and political elite [0]

The US government funded social infrastructure like health clinics, schools, and sanitation systems, but the Chinese government funded hard infra projects like canals, highways, energy systems, and weaponry without human rights oversight [0].

When Cambodia decided to end their democratic experiment, the US condemned it, but the Chinese government was indifferent. And now Cambodia has solidly shifted to the Chinese sphere of influence.

This story has repeated all across ASEAN from Thailand to Malaysia to Indonesia.

The reality is it's only the economic, military, and poltical decisionmakers that matter, and if you needle them too much, they will try to find alternatives or build their own strategic autonomy.

France did the same thing in the De Gaulle era for the exact same reasons (military regime that didn't like getting needled about democratic backsliding).

> then why would any country which does care want to create long-term relationships or otherwise ally themselves with you

Cold hard cash, weapons, and legitimacy. Which is what ASEAN countries have begun to do by shifting closer towards China. They don't want or need lectures - they want to maintain their own power.

Notice how Europe has grown silent about Turkish democratic decline now that European nations require Turkish support to stabilize Ukraine. And if PiS wins the Polish elections, you won't hear similar complaints about "democratic backsliding" compared to the PiS barely 3 years ago. When push comes to shove, values don't matter much.

In an era where great power politics has returned, values matter less than hard power.

[0] - https://www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/iseas-perspec...
I think what you're missing is that the premise of a hardware bug is just a frame story for a lesson in manipulating logical statements, which is the main point.
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Naturally occuring polymers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid are indeed very similar to synthetic ones, in that they both contain long hydrocarbon chains of varying length.