MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tinix | 2025-05-01 23:44:22+00:00
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by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 23:45:02+00:00
Since you seemed to have missed the point, I'll try one more time:

> I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about

You accuse me of bragging, while you are bragging about making double what I make

> That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live

You accuse me of hubris when you call other people losers

> You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way.

You're the one putting their foot in their mouth

> You obviously think a great deal of yourself

Every flaw you are accusing me of, you have demonstrated in the very same post where you made the accusation

Like I said. You should invest in a mirror and take a good hard look into it
by john-h-k | 2025-05-01 23:45:05+00:00
> If you sell your time for money you are working class.

This would put a trader earning $3m/yr as working class. That’s fine I guess, but then we need another distinction, for the difference between that person and a minimum wage worker.

Now in all the conversations where we would say “working class” we use this new term, because we almost always mean things relating to income level rather than labour vs owner.

And so all we’ve done is changed the name for “working class”
by CursedSilicon | 2025-05-01 23:45:12+00:00
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by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-01 23:45:38+00:00
My hypothesis is until they can really nail down image to text and text to image, such that training on diagrams and drawings can produce fruitful multi modal output, classic engineering is going to be a tough nut to crack.

Software engineering lends itself greatly to LLMs because it just fits so nicely into tokenization. Whereas mechanical drawings or electronic schematics are sort of more like a visual language. Image art but with very exacting and important pixel placement, with precise underlying logical structure.

In my experience so far, only O3 can kind of understand an electronic schematic, but really only at a "Hello World!" level difficulty. I don't know how easy it will be to get to the point where it can render a proper schematic or edit one it is given to meet some specified electronic characteristics.

There are programming languages that are used to define drawings, but the training data would be orders of magnitude less than what is written for humans to learn from.
by arduanika | 2025-05-01 23:46:04+00:00
Hmm, so which of those three cases are we in? To his critics, his gender sure doesn't seem irrelevant, and in fact the whole gist of his odd appearance in TFA is to lump him together with all males, who the author sees as "more or less all the same person". And his gender is certainly not unknown.

Which is why I ask, do you know something different about what gender this referent prefers?

Or, did you just trot out this overly academic tripartite definition out of pure snark, with no intention of defending your asinine usage of "they" as a valid instance of any of the three cases?

HTH indeed.

FWIW, I don't love what Damore did, and I think he was sort of naive and inconsiderate. But if his critics can't be bothered to go further than ad hominems and passive-aggressive misgendering, as you've done here, it feels like a point in his favor.
by boshalfoshal | 2025-05-01 23:46:15+00:00
This may be true, but paradoxically, the data might be slightly skewed since Tesla's driver monitoring system (which is only active during autopilot) actively rewards drivers who are paying attention.

So is the accident rate lower because people are forced to be more attentive during FSD? Or is it genuinely lower (i.e, if you took out the driver, would there be less accidents)? To be fair, I'd still wager that yes, FSD is probably statistically way better than the average driver.

Maybe some combination of miles per intervention + accident data would give more insights into that.
by nobody9999 | 2025-05-01 23:46:17+00:00
>For years, Amazon enabled everybody to bypass sales tax which gave Amazon a 4-8% advantage on books over brick and mortar that had to pay both rent and sales tax.

In 1992, SCOTUS ruled in Quill vs. North Dakota[0] that a business must have a "nexus" in a particular state to be required to collect sales taxes. I'd note that Amazon was founded in 1994.

And so, yes Amazon did have an advantage WRT sales taxes. But it wasn't, as you said, "outright illegal" until 2018 with SCOTUS' ruling in South Dakota vs. Wayfair Inc.[1] At which time, IIRC, Amazon continued collecting sales taxes that it had already been collecting in many states, as already it had nexuses (warehouses, distribution centers, etc.) in many places.

I'd note that I'm not "defending" Amazon here. They do plenty of shady stuff WRT pricing, as well as abusing their employees, suppliers and third-party sellers.

Why don't we take them to task for that stuff instead of making stuff up? Just sayin'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair%2C_Inc.
by trod1234 | 2025-05-01 23:46:20+00:00
Well that's extremely shortsighted, almost to the point of blindness.

The author clearly went out of the way to put code in to signal to people that if you use the software and you are a company earning revenue using it, to help support the project.

This is clearly breaking the social contract that comes along with that MIT license, guided by what the author says.

When you break the social contract, and by doing so you induce people to follow you to do the same, eventually (given sufficient breakage) you end up in a world on fire; filled with violence and destruction.

This happens because non-violent conflict resolution can't take place without society, which itself is based on the social contract. A contract that you broke by trying to work around the authors intent.

It is well known that with people, "What you do in the small things, you do in big things that matter when everything is on the line". This piece of old wisdom, shows a cognitive preferential bias.

Ipso facto, you are supporting that world on fire filled with violence coming into being by those actions.

Sure you don't see anything wrong now, but that is blindness, and you can hold that isolated view right now while society is still in a working state, but actions and choices matter, and society moves towards the aggregate, either towards stability or towards chaos.

There is a time that is not far off, where that kind of behavior is going to have severe consequences.

If you did this without any resistance or seeing this as wrong, you have to ask yourself how many other things you've done that you just didn't notice? Are your kids modeling this blindness in themselves? Mimicking you as a role model.

Blindness puts people at a significant disadvantage because they often can't see the dangers they often create indirectly for themselves.
by camcil | 2025-05-01 23:46:21+00:00
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by rep_lodsb | 2025-05-01 23:47:56+00:00
Whatever register is copied has to be one of the "type b" ones - ESP, EBP, ESI or EDI. Only ESP is special enough for the hardware to have that direct path for it.

Maybe it's not (just) for privilege transitions, but automatically saving the value of ESP at the start of every instruction, so that it can be "rolled back" when there is a stack limit violation?
by trhway | 2025-05-01 23:48:14+00:00
>Fauci used the actual regulatory definition of GoF, under which the WIV did not qualify as GoF.

that is just not true. Otherwise feel free to provide that magical definition. In the meantime this is definition by the government:

https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/gain-of-function.pd...

"Gain-of-function studies, or research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease,"

By the way that 2014 document above is exactly the document which was the base for the gain of function research to be moved from US to in particular Wuhan. And Fauci was instrumental in that move. So, Fauci lied. Blatantly.

>If you listen to his testimony about that testimony, he goes on to explain that if he were to take the more expansive laymen term of "gain of function," then the other side of the boundary becomes meaningless. E.g. Using e. coli to produce insulin is gain of function.

Again, he lies here. Just look at the government definition of GoF above - according to it, using e. coli to produce insulin isn't gain of function.

>Unless you're talking about these private individuals not somehow parachuting into WIV to conduct forensics themselves?

Are you kidding? Or are you really don't know about Daszak rushing there and cleaning up all the evidence?
by jagger27 | 2025-05-01 23:48:40+00:00
I prefer to frame it more like this: "People in your age range drive less or cannot legally do so and as such have few other options for transit, so we'll give you a discount. Also, the negative externalities of rail travel are far lower than other modes of transit so we should encourage as many people as possible to use it. When a frequent young user of rail transit grows out of the lower price bracket, they will likely continue to use the service to help keep it affordable for all."
by duunc | 2025-05-01 23:49:37+00:00
Hi I'm a member of the team. Overloaded methods are handled by using the method signature (method name & parameter list) as the identifier for the node, so they are treated as distinct methods and embedded accordingly, each linked to the parent class.

More generally, polymorphism is handled by linking classes to their extending and implementing classes/interfaces in the graph. Thus, method overriding just corresponds to the superclass and subclass each having a method of the same name, embedded distinctly but traceable through the graph.

Does that answer the question? Happy to answer any followups
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-01 23:49:52+00:00
>What amount of GHG emissions is from consumers?

Why not try some of your own googling too?

As for the companies in question. I was off on the percentage but here:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

Also, i'm not a "climate change denier" (a loaded, idiotic and ideological phrase to begin with, especially because it often gets used when someone even debates elements of something so complex as climate change) But I do think that one of the petro/gas/plastics corporate world's great PR tricks was to throw the mass media onus on consumer CO2 emissions and help create a massive consumer guilt campaign about individual activity while happily continuing to pollute on a literally industrial scale.

This is not to say that individuals should be wasteful and reckless in their personal environmental habits, but idiocies like mass anti-straw campaigns are partly absurd in comparison to industrial atmospheric contamination and etc.

Yes, much of it ultimately ties into consumer consumption, but much more of the blame should also tie into corporate emissions creation.
by xenadu02 | 2025-05-01 23:49:53+00:00
As the sibling comment notes: The US/Canada are already split-phase 240v/120v systems.

As near to 100% as makes no difference every single house is already wired for 240v. In fact wired for it and using it: electric ranges, stoves, dryers, etc are all 240v.

NEMA even defines 240v receptacles/plugs for normal amperage: NEMA 6-15 (two horizontal blades: meh face) and 6-20 (one vertical, one horizontal: wink with other eye closed). Unlike the common 240v dryer/large appliance cords that are huge and bulky 6-15 and 6-20 are about the same size as our current 120v plugs. They have the same compatibility as 5-15/5-20: The 15 amp version fits in the 20 amp receptacle but the 20 amp only fits 20 amp. And it is impossible to plug 120 into 240 or vice-versa. Everything made for 120v (to a rough approximation) is also rated for 240v.

Unfortunately no one bothers to install the 6-15/6-20 plugs. There is nothing stopping any builder from doing it standard, especially in the kitchen. There is nothing stopping a homeowner/buyer from asking for it either. But no one does. Therefore there is no market for appliances that use these plugs. And thus no demand to wire for them.

It would likely take a push from government, manufacturers, the NEC, etc to push for supporting 240v for common appliances. Start installing them in new homes. Offering the 240v version of electric kettles and such.

Note: some European appliances can be wired up this way and will run fine because they tolerate 60Hz but not all of them.
by metalman | 2025-05-01 23:49:56+00:00
perfect, lets build the new language, starting with good curse words from all the other languages, though if we follow your idea, literaly we wont be able to get more than one or two out, but I think that if we were to include all of the words in all of the languages for sex related stuff, and start there, we will all be laughing and smirking too much for the old throut claw out manouver
by hnick | 2025-05-01 23:49:57+00:00
Ritalin was a game changer. After the initial adjustment it just feels like it brings me up to normal, I'm not particularly stimulated (in fact my lack of wandering mind makes it easier to doze during the day), I just prefer coding to games etc. It feels like it unlocks access to natural reward mechanisms instead of chasing artificial feel-good rewards. I can't even listen to a YouTube video while coding when using it, which was a normal activity for me since my brain felt bored and went off on its own without it.

Just mentioning because curiously it almost entirely put me off caffeine. I still enjoy my morning coffee as a ritual, but sometimes don't finish it. If I have another then the side effects are severe, Ritalin massively boosts those - nerves, jitters, hitting the toilet. Not terrible or dangerous, but just interesting, and honestly caffeine never did a whole lot for me mentally so it's no big loss.
by mubou | 2025-05-01 23:51:53+00:00
Automating tasks is exactly what AI/ML should be used for. My concern is that they're going to be using LLMs to "translate" other-language articles into English and vice versa. LLMs are horrendously bad at this, compared to models trained specifically for translation tasks. They make shit up, invent phrases that weren't in the source text, etc., and with how much blind faith people put in ChatGPT, you can be sure a lot of those hallucinations will go unchecked.

The funny part is, Wikipedia is the #1 data set used for all sorts of machine learning training (not just LLMs). I hope they at least mark articles that were translated/edited by AI, because otherwise the AI machine is gonna start feeding back into itself sooner or later.
by ballerburg9006 | 2025-05-01 23:52:02+00:00
On multiple accounts(!) I have found every post I deleted within the last years to be visible again on my profile page (marked as deleted) to the public for everyone to see! It must have happened this week or so.

This is a known issue and has happened again and again for some users, especially in 2023 when they made up some BS explanation for it, which according to people on Ycombinator (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850) didn't even make sense and totally contradicted what everyone was reporting. Anyway ...

This means that if you ever accidentally doxxed yourself, pasted credit card information and other private things AND THEN INSTANTLY DELETED THAT POST within 5 seconds, so no big deal ... THIS WILL NOW ALL BE VISIBLE ON YOUR PROFILE PAGE TO THE PUBLIC.

EVEN WORSE IF YOU DELETED YOUR ACCOUNT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RE-DELETE YOUR UNDELETED POSTS (as reported and confirmed by many users on Ycombinator in 2023 incident - where also original posts only were restored but not any edits to them).

Thanks Reddit.

Lession learned in 2023 for Reddit's owners? ACTUALLY DELETE POSTS NOT JUST HIDE THEM FROM THE OWNER. But they did nothing of the sort, simply serving in self-interest to preserve their content offering. This is a blatant violation of basic data privacy laws.

Such an incident is unspeakable and remarkably worse than database leaks of user passwords.
by fredthompson | 2025-05-01 23:53:43+00:00
RFK Jr. " “Right now we have about 842 cases, Chris. And Canada, they have about the same number. They have one-eighth of our population. Europe has ten times that number. Our numbers have plateaued.”

He noted that for years, the CDC has insisted the only way to manage measles is through universal vaccination. But Kennedy challenged that approach.

He argued that people who have concerns about the MMR vaccine—whether it’s due to aborted fetal debris or DNA particles—deserve access to treatment options.

“And that’s what we’re developing at CDC right now,” Kennedy said, “protocols for treating measles.”

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"Terrain theory" holds that "you are what you eat." Well, uh...yeah, that's true.

"Terrain theory" also holds that ingesting pollution and poisons...poisons a living creature. Well, uh...yeah, that's true.

mRNA is dangerous, very dangerous. It was abandoned as such during animal trials. The large drug companies have been facing "patentagedon", the expiring of patents on which their profits are based. Traditional drugs are somewhat analogous to salves. What do drug companies want? Does it benefit them to prevent/solve disease or is it more economically advantageous for them to always be "needed?"

There is no substitute for healthy food, a clean environment, and exercise. No amount of synthesized chemicals artificially introduced to a human body will/can replace that.

Some drugs are highly useful, some are barely marginal. What's a multi-billion dollar company to do if/when it "solves" the majority of major problems?

The answer is "perverse incentive." Factory food, factory pharma, big tech, political parties, etc., etc., etc....any entity which becomes too large AND whose major reason for existance disappears...fights to survive, including creating false need. It's the story of human existence through all societies.

So...maybe, just maybe, both terrain and germ theory, like all theories, are an attempt to reduce totality into a useful modeling tool.

WRT that article, it's a desperate shill hack job, not structured well at all, and full of logical fallacies and lies.
by rep_lodsb | 2025-05-01 23:53:46+00:00
AFAIK, the 10 internal registers were first mentioned by Robert Collins in this article: https://www.rcollins.org/articles/loadall/tspec_a3_doc.html

They're only mentioned for the 80386 version of the LOADALL instruction though, where he confirmed that the CPU actually does bus cycles to read them. But the same registers already existed on the 80286 (only 16 bits of course). On that chip they are the 3 words before and 7 words after the MSW, the ones marked as "None" in the table there (note that it is slightly wrong, MSW should be 806H instead of 804H).
by lubujackson | 2025-05-01 23:53:49+00:00
I agree, to a point. Waymo has some vaguely aggressive habits that are usually for the best, like initiating their turn forcefully, but there is one specific thing I've noticed. Coming down Mason and turning left onto Bush it is a one way street turning left onto a one way street. Twice now while trying to cross with the light Waymos have crept into the crosswalk while I was already crossing. It's very unsettling.

I imagine the weirdness of the situation (legal left on red) triggers it's "creep forward so I can see" logic but it definitely shouldn't be blocking a busy crosswalk there when there is little to know chance it will be able to turn AND peds from both sides.
by tmoertel | 2025-05-01 23:53:54+00:00
In early 1990s I worked at a mid-sized software company making software to help big businesses do big-business stuff. One day, another programmer pops into my cube and says:

"Hey, how do you draw a 3d pie chart?"

"What?" I asked. "Why?"

"Well, Excel can do them. And somebody saw one. Now they want our software to draw them."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, I need it like now. I'm supposed to demo it later today."

So I get out a sheet of paper, draw some triangles, and work out that projection math. He walks away with the paper. Half an hour later, he calls me over.

"Hey, it's a 3d pie chart!"

And there it was: On a screen I was all too familiar with, where the 2d pie chart used to be, was a squat 3d pie chart, looking like it was a fat inch thick. Of course, there was too much margin above and below, because of the flatter aspect ratio, but hey, it was 3d and it was good enough for a demo.

I think that was the first day I realized that programming can be used for evil.