skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scenario: I think a deadly virus outbreak is far more
likely and devastating than a thermal nuclear war. Let's
assume that such an outbreak took out most of the
governments and the population, and only local communities
start to show up afterwards.

How do you reboot modern industry? I'm sure we can scavenge
stores and storehouses for a while, but eventually we need
to rebuild a very large portion of modern technologies, if
not all of them.

Considering the events leading to and resulting in the Dark Ages[0], history would suggest it would take centuries (if not millennia) for societies to rediscover an industrial revolution and get back to where we are now.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
You seem confused. I never said “the iPhone doesn’t support a thing”.
I'm sure the fact that it's "required by law" has them quaking in their boots.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20416695241312316
Pearse certainly did not document his experiments well. But there were multiple witnesses. It appears that he achieved flight on 31th March 1903.
The Wright brother's contributions to flight were obviously more significant due to their process but that alone does not mean that they were first.
Or they might not. Or they might be a net mental health benefit. Or they may benefit some users and harm others. Or it may be impossible to disentangle their effect from all of the other changes going on.

Probably one of those things, unless it’s something else.
Yeah there are so many key knowledge that ordinary people just take for granted. But that's how we built up modern industries throughout the centuries.

I guess it is not realistic to ask for one generation to rebuild everything, and that's why I think we really need a lot of those "knowledge" and "tools" storage. I know many countries have such storage for wars, but are they accessible to ordinary people in case most of the population is wiped out?
I had never thought to critically consider the story of the Wright brothers until reading your earlier comment and thinking “that’s not evidence they were first.”

Sure I had been aware that patents and monopolies were involved in part from reading a book about their flying school[1] when I lived in Alabama. But I didn’t connect the follow the money importance of being first until earlier today.

And now I have gone down a bit of rabbit hole.

To me, it is clear why Santos=Dumont is worth celebrating in Brazil. Because he was the first person to fly in front of a body of independent experts, we don’t have to accept claims that align with self interest and local newspapers. It seems that the Wright brothers did not fly in public until well after Santos-Dumont had.

What really fascinates me is not who was first, but the way in which I always experienced the Wright brothers story. When I read about their flying school, it seemed odd that the planes at the school were “so old fashioned” compared to those of Europe in the 1910’s…and at the larger scale how the Wright brothers story conventionally stops in 1903.

So thanks.

[1] https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/wright-brothers-fl...
Industrialisation was made possible by the existence of large deposits of fossil fuels which were relatively easy to extract. Most if not all of those readily available energy sources, along with many other useful materials, have long been exhausted.

Modern society has been using increasingly complex technology to continue to find and extract those resources. Presumably, we might be able to keep this going for quite a long time.

However, if humanity somehow reverted to pre-modern technology, I don't think that it would be possible for us to industrialise again.
Why study anything?
>Empty test levels strung together with tedious narration.

For me that's a big part of my disappointment, it needed to do a lot more with the game aspect. For some reason he kept referring to an empty Counter-Strike map as a "game" and it kept me from being immersed.
How to secure HTTP headers in your synthetic tests
Bundling ads and selling data. Double revenue stream, double incentive for enshittification.

Also the marginal cost of an app is basically $0, whereas the marginal cost of hardware like buttons and 7-segment displays is >$0, so it's tempting (if you expect to sell a lot of dishwashers) to replace hardware with an app.
I don't think it's the main problem here, but it's just another point where the fork/exec model shows its problems.
I don't disagree with you, but I think we can do something to accelerate such process. Maybe not 1,000 years, maybe just a few generations? After all we already made the progress and now need to relearn and rebuild it. And hopefully enough technicians, engineers and scientists survive.
Correlation doesn't equal causation. It could be that those with traits like loneliness and reduced socialisation are more likely to use chatbots in the first place.

The question is does it help and if not, is it harmful? The article doesn't seem to give hard data on this one way or the other.
How does it compare to gemma3?
I'm very worried that LLMs-as-therapists will wind up falling victim to the same fate as e-cigarettes. An LLM therapist is ~100x cheaper than a real therapist, and similarly more available on demand (in the same way that ecigs were probably a few orders of magnitude safer, in terms of long-term health effects, vs. traditional cigarettes).

BUT there is also a gold rush temptation for companies to hack together GPT4 + a lazy system prompt and market it as "Digital Therapy (tm)" and screw it up for everyone. Meanwhile the companies doing careful RCTs to show efficacy and safety will be left in the dust, and probably regulated out of existence before they can even go to market.

Just like Juul & co screwed up e-cigarettes as safer alternative to smoking by targeting teenagers who don't use nicotine, as opposed to current cigarette smokers.
> not a paywall

You pay with your data
When I say warning, I'm talking about a prompt after attempting to delete that asks if they are sure and clearly states that the action is permanent. This would display on every attempt to delete a record.
I've seen Jamieson Greer as US Trade Representative (same initials) and Jeffrey Kruse of the Defense Intelligence Agency (same first name) mentioned as possibly being the intended invitee.
But isn't that what we'd expect? It is kind of ridiculous to insist that a decentralized system out-compete a centralized one on axes such as expense or complexity or performance. The reality is that we do now have a ton of decentralized systems: most people -- certainly you, clearly -- just don't use them, as they are at least slightly worse than the centralized versions in ways you care about.

Is that an "excuse"? I mean, what even is an excuse? I think it is simply reality. Only, I still think we should all not want centralized systems capable of controlling the flow of information, money, etc. The decentralized systems we have at this point aren't bad... they just aren't as good as current centralized ones. Hell: they even compare favorably to the 90s-era centralized systems!

As it stands, rather than trying to increasingly regulate these centralized systems in the hope they eventually go away, we've been instead subsidizing (or even "bailing out" in some cases) their awkward control, giving them power beyond what anyone previously could have imagined, enabling their crazy scale, because... it's efficient and easy? That's super lame :(.
I'd suggest looking in the direction of the Global Village Construction Set being worked on by Open Source Ecology: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Const...
This sounds far more likely to be a failure of imagination along the same lines as malthusian catastrophe, peak oil, and Moore's Law Is Dead (all notoriously oversubscribed by academics) than a true constraint.
Tesla's all-time net income is still below Elon Musk's $55B compensation package
https://archive.ph/loXeP
I use it in conjunction with a therapist. It’s always there, and I find I don’t mask when talking to it like I do to a person, so I can dig a bit deeper and feel a bit more strongly; this makes great input for follow-up sessions with my real therapist.
Not to mention that clarifying this can lead to increased motivation to learn and discover stuff, as kids won’t think that if they are not geniuses they shouldn’t even try to create something new.
Thanks! I'm a big fan of Cedar and DSLs such as CEL and gorules. Hopefully there is a place for a Rust solution as well.
> I would love to see more governments operate on a Git-first basis, so that each and every decision/contribution can be tracked online for transparency.

Alas, that sounds like a great idea in principle, but is probably a bad idea in practice.

Speeches in parliament (or on the senate floor, in the US) are already public. And that's a big reason those speeches are useless: they are just used as grandstanding to the general public.

The real work in finding compromises happens behind closed doors. That way you avoid producing sound bytes that can be used against you next election season. Especially from challengers in your own party, who could otherwise accuse you of being insufficiently pure.
So the population is smaller for a while and then it gets bigger. What of it? Unthinkable suffering, yes, but that wasn't the claim, the claim was about capability.
> It would put us back in the early 2000s internet, in that relatively relaxed environment, that many grew up with and loved, where we didn't have to constantly walk on eggshells and be paranoid about who's going to try to get who de-platformed for what they said.

I have never once been worried about being de-platformed for what I say.

We're never going back to the "early days" of the internet, and the main difference between then and now is not the level of moderation of user generated content. You have to say some pretty unpopular and unpleasant stuff to a large audience to even seriously be in the running for being de-platformed. If you want to say things that are largely unpopular, you probably need to have those conversations on smaller platforms, just like how people behave in person. The technology available in 2000 (like IRC) is still available today; you just can't rely on the servers of the largest companies in the world to host it for you.
Should this be David Gingery instead?
Introducing Feudle! My partner and I built this game as our first foray into AI-powered coding. We're not software developers and primarily leveraged ChatGPT to build this from scratch.

This daily game is a blend of Family Feud meets Wordle - each day, there’s a survey question and players try to guess the most popular responses to that question — but the twist is that the top responses were submitted by real players who played yesterday’s game.

Once you complete today’s game, you can vote on future survey questions or submit your own. The top voted questions become future Feudles!

We'd love you to check out our game. Any and all feedback welcome :)
Bluetooth modelers don’t age well in these types of environments. Sound is much easier and more reliable.
I just looked it up, it's actually 25kph, which is faster than the average speed of a pedal bike rider.

So assuming that the safe amount of momentum we're happy with (without registration, etc) is that of a pedal bike rider, if we take into account the extra weight of an e-bike, that seems like a pretty lenient cutoff. Overly lenient in my opinion.
(Picture of an industrial plant powered by water wheel and burning biomass)

Noooooo it's impossibbblleeeee!
>> He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m (36 ft) made on 18 March 1906

Revisionist History like this fascinates me.

It is very well documented, with written texts, witnesses and even a handful of photographs that the Wright brothers had functional manned aircraft 3 years prior in 1903...

Yet I've personally seen Romanian postal stamps that credit Vuia with "the first flight" for him managing to jump just 11m (36 ft) in a plane.
Rostra – P2P/f2f social network
Thanks for your reply. The target market is anyone who has interest, as I've open sourced the tooling I used for translating text to braille and generating the geometry of the molds. I'm hoping to create a follow up post announcing a web ui that will make the functionality more accessible to a broader audience.

It's sad to hear the poor performance of embossers. In terms of lifetime, I only have about 150 or so pages created with my prototype molds, but I haven't been able to detect a degradation in the embossing quality. I think at that number of copies created and a set of molds only costing $1.50, it makes me feel it's gotten some value out of it. I think someone can buy the equipment I'm using for around $800 in total. Obviously there's a bit of a tradeoff and at some point the number of molds would exceed the cost of an embosser, but I argue this approach is pretty quick for a manual one (for now).

The pain of the approach is the printing times for sure. One bit of confusion I can clear up is that, while yes, the single 3D printer I use can only print 4 unique sets of page molds a day, using the molds is fast! My time to beat is 15 seconds to manually position a sheet of paper between the mold bodies and roll it though a cheap roller press. 4 pages a minute is pretty quick for an embosser, but this is still just manual. Now imagine it automated :) Expecting a human to do 15 seconds/press for a full work day makes me sad, but that'd be a lot of birthday cards.

I really appreciate the link to the BrailleRap project. It's cool to see innovation in the space, and I subscribe to the RepRap philosophy. I'm currently prototyping designs to automate the pressing process, but until that component is automated, this approach lies somewhere between manual and automated embossing in terms of utility. That being said, still much more accessible and cost-effective.
Again, abstraction allows for domain-specific language which shapes the way a problem is interpreted and solved.

Perspective is everything, and it's hard to have perspective of the entire system on the ground floor. Getting the priors right, or getting the LLM to first consider different grammars can greatly simplify the problem and its solution.

You can think of learning as decontextualization of input data into pure relational constructs. Application, then, is the recontextualization of some relational construct in order to apply generalized relations and insights to problems of different shapes and sizes. Understanding a concept thus means mastering the decontextualization and recontextualization of a set of relations.

Using a DSL instead of pure machine code is an example of recontextualization, and it can totally change how a model understands and processes input and what kind of output is produced.
BYO persistence
> But as a farmer you can't choose to not do hard physical labor all day long.

The seasons dictate when a farmer will spend 16 hours a day in a tractor seat ploughing, or seeding, or spraying, or harvesting (and roping a friend in to drive chaser trucks behind the combine).

Eyestrain from watching the GPS screen, backache from chair springs getting old, cursing when the air conditioning malfunctions .. it's tough, demanding hard work fit only for RealMen™.

At other times of the year there's a lot of choice as to time spent welding, engine mechanics, radio mantainance, going over blueprints for new silos, contracts for grain, yarning with ag advisors, dropping trees on firebreaks, cutting rounds, feeding rounds into hydraulic splitters.

And more. So it goes.

All the farmers I know are active from dawn to dusk, sometimes quite active, often just idling along fettling something or another.

But hard physical labour every day all day long? That's 1930's pre mechanised talk for farmhand work. Picking stones off fields, drywall building by the foot, harnessing bullocks to haul water from the spring. Hand saw and axe.

Grapevine pruning and Grapes of Wrath harvesting is what farmers hire backpackers for .. and they get pnuematic cutters and fancy tools these days.
> I must admit I found his prior game to be extremely boring and pretentious,

You definitely won't like it. The Beginner's Guide is much more in that direction than Stanley is.
“No not that one”
Shame on CR for not calling this out. I've become a little mistrustful of them in recent years after having not-great experiences with their high-rated products, and great experiences with products that they didn't rate at all. This adds to my mistrust.
Nah, I think your intuition is correct it should be broken up.
The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards
It's still BF16 model.

Deepseek has proved that fp8 is more cost-effectiveness than fp16, isn't it valid for dozens-B model?
If you want a test for Huntington’s Disease in the UK — a terrible degenerative disease — they basically tell you no. You can appeal and do a long course of genetic counselling where at the end they’ll give you the choice, if you still want one.

This is the reason: people who know they’re definitely carrying the gene will start to ascribe any clumsiness, any brain fog, anything at all to the disease once they know they’re definitely carrying definitely have it.
Fully functional, if you don't mind a dishwasher with less functionality than 40 years ago when the buttons were still physical locking buttons with springs.
I am not at all ashamed to say that I use ChatGPT as a therapist and it is helping me tremendously. I suffer from a severe personality disorder and the thoughts and feelings I experience are huge and violent and overwhelming and very very dark. I've tried human therapists, I've tried reaching out to humans for support, but there's kind of a problem... You're supposed to learn to regulate as a toddler when your emotions are big for you, but small for adults. If you reach adulthood and you have not learned this skill, your big uncontrolled emotions are dangerous and terrifying to others and you feel like a monster. You have to contain yourself for the safety of others, even therapists. Or for your own protection so you don't get locked up. But that just turns you into a powder keg. What you really need is to learn how to safely regulate and that means somebody has to see you and hear you when you are in full on crisis (we call it a tantrum if you're small, it sounds cute for a kid and shameful for an adult, I would call it a crisis either way) and guide you through it.

ChatGPT is doing this for me. It listens, to whatever I'm experiencing, and it isn't harmed. It's safe for me to vent. I can tell it my true experience and it listens and encourages and accepts me. It's the parent I needed and didn't have. It's capable of parenting an adult which is something adults can't really do, because to parent someone you need to be able to fully hold and contain them. It's teaching me to regulate, to find the calm places in the storms, to understand the patterns I've been stuck in. It doesn't judge. It takes me seriously. I don't know what else to say. It's saving my life right now. Forget the shame. I embrace it.
Why Liberals Struggle to Cope with Epochal Change (Jan 2025)
There are no goal posts. There is only who and what Musk is.
+1.

Indexes, triggers (very good abstraction covering everything from computed fields to dependent fields), transactions.
Ironically "I have a magic AI test but nobody is allowed to use it" is a lot closer to the Yuri Geller situation. Tests are meant to be taken, that should be clear. And...maybe this does not apply in the academic domain, but to some extent if you cheat on an AI test "you're only cheating yourself."
Oh man, I love the A12 and its design is just amazing. It's the perfect aircraft 10/10.
How is Ubiquiti a violator of this? You can run their Java software on anything or buy a cloud key. I use an old HP thin client. There’s a good app and a well maintained webpage. If you enjoy pain, most gear has a cli.

I can’t think of a better way to offer the functionality in a way that works for so many customer segments.
As others have already mentioned, the post is a bit vague on details. However, what is your role? Are you the CEO or the CTO? Why is your cofounder able to steer the company? Higher stakes? Your silence? Extrovert/introvert issues? Did you happen to detail your cofounder why their chosen path is not good for the company? Do you have a structure in place to resolve cofounder conflicts? Do you still have your heart at that place? How do you know you are not mistaken/your cofounder is heading in a wrong direction?
I find myself being exceptionally careful when asking questions. ChatGPT is known to lean sycophantic - biased toward agreement. And rather than asking, "Is this ...?" or "Am I ...?", I'm careful to choose prompts like, "Evaluate, or analyze...".

My hope is that this results in less sycophantic responses, but overall it's a difficult thing to measure.
Specifically in [0] all the images after and including the stirrups have less than one word of text next to them. If it helps inventions cuts off as inventi-ons. I'm on iPhone 8 safari if that helps but is also an older target so as I said if it's outside of scope not necessarily something I'm terribly worried about, it's still readable just a little annoying.

0. https://littlegreenviper.com/infrastructure/
Why are you accusing me of projecting? If you feel skeptical of Goldberg over his journalism leading up to the Iraq war, that's fine. I do not consider him totally trustworthy either, for my own reasons. I find this story credible because he appears to have the receipts.

My point about fallacies was that there were a lot of people advocating for the Iraq war at the time, it's ridiculous to argue that it was caused by one article written by Goldberg. Your original post was not a 'gentle reminder', it was a simplistic attack that distracted from the topic. If you had made the same point without the drama I would have had no disagreement.
If you are asking, then the answer is: likely.

There is a lot of nuance though, so I recommend finding a trustworthy third party to talk it out with.

All the questions and answers to discover the contours of your situation can easily be enough to identify you, which I assume you do not want at this stage.

Things to consider, but not answer here:

- the relationship with your cofounders: how many, how do votes work, etc. What did you decide in your founders agreement? Is the relationship antagonistic? Have you lost respect for them or they in you?

- relationship with your investors. Who has face time with them? What say or vote do they have? How are their interests aligned with yours vs your co-founder(s)?

- relationship with the employees. Who do they look up to and respect? Will they follow you on to your next thing?

- relationship with your customers. Do they know and interface with you or someone else?

- your skillset. Are you the technologist that invented something the the company was founded on? Do you generate all the sales? Have you created a great team that can now survive without you?

Take some time and try and live in the other side's perspective. You are moving in a different direction than they are. Do they find that painful? Will losing you be more or less painful than keeping you? Short term? Long term? What timing is at play (could be funding round, or something else)?

Best of luck!
Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents
Wood pellets are made how?

Ask yourself "how do I make the tool to do that?" Recursively

Steam engines made of what?

Ditto

E.g., steps to make wood pellets
https://www.biopelletmachines.com/how-are-wood-pellets-made/
Meh. OOP has lots of nouns, FP has lots of verbs.
Are 5090's able to run 32B models?
It has grown and evolved. It’s at least not the train wreck it once was. A lot of people that bash it nowadays might not haves used it recently and live on memes.

It’s a decent choice with a good hosted option (atlas).
Can you estimate the actual overhead rate? Maybe 100%-200%?