skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way, most of them do revert back your risk to what you have set, especially in a normal market (read: equities being much, much faster than bonds and money market funds), but they don't magically make your investments safer to the general risks of the market.
>>Specifically non car driving directions

I would never use anything other than driving directions

I only walk to and from my car, and i do not own a bike, and if a business does not have parking less than 300ft from the door I am going to a different business
Nearly every desktop is still x86 and just a couple years ago that was entirely true, and yet write-once-run-anywhere wasn't remotely close to true.

WASM as a result isn't changing anything here, since the assembly is very extremely not remotely close to the issue with having a portable binary.
Well, first of all, “tweets” don’t “trend”. Terms do. So this description feels off, already.

Next, I wonder, but don’t care enough to look it up, if this guy is adequately summarized by only mentioning his concern for children?

Screw that, I did look him up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pa.... He was one of the people behind the “Great” Barrington Declaration and, kn the early months of the pandemic, argued, among other things, that COVID is rather harmless. He also took money from the airline industry without disclosing as much in his publications.

It’s arguable if Bhattacharya’s reach needed to be limited. What’s really hard to argue is that the thing about children is an adequate characterization of his statements during the pandemic. This is prime evidence that this story is not presenting anything close to a fair interpretation of the documents they have been given, and that you have, unfortunately, fallen for it.
What are the fact about this guy? What work did he do that's so objectionable?
No, it's we don't need factory workers and factory towns any more, so travel across the country for a job because there's no alternative, the town is gone and nobody can save it. Learn to code isn't going to work for most people, sure, but travel across the country isn't something that can be avoided.
It's most likely due to a lack of image training. For example it knows how streets and towns are connected but completely fails on giving left/right or compass directions. Same sorts of failures with geometry problems.
Was a lurker until a year ago. I like to comment to see what the general temperament is around certain topics and add value where possible. I was actually able to validate quite a bit of ideas for my book through HN. Thank you HN.
You'd have to convince me why Google has two very distinct map app use cases. Don't see it personally.
This isn’t 1987 anymore
It's... not X... why would it do X forwarding? that's like criticising windows for not doing X forwarding (there's enough stuff to criticise windows about as it is, there's no need to add imaginary things to it).
Meta is scheming to replace Twitter
"Twitter is in crisis and Meta needs its mojo back," one Meta employee wrote in a post, according to the New York Times. "LET’S GO FOR THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER."
Main thing missing from Linux is a resmon alternative.
The title "The Twitter Files" is totally wasted on this and what's with the photographs of screens for a more dramatic effect instead of screenshots.
Yeah but you get to live in France which is kind of awesome. Way better food and quality of life perhaps.

Your France taxes though are not far off US taxes either (30% capital gains)... The USA has property tax with multiple levies on them and they are a function of real estate wealth in most places. And you don't have the crazy healthcare premiums.
What I have been working on: Modal
Even in that scenario, the people making that threat are not actually in control. The ones with control are choosing to do this, rather than lose money.

These people are not forced to make more money at the expense of others. It's their choice.
Toilets. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906251
Functions like Type::getInt32() or whatever it's called return the same heap allocated pointer each time so pointer equality can be used for value equality. That's a nice trick that only really works optimally if you leak the pointer, or at least don't free it until very near the end.

I've seen cleaning up memory at the end of a program take 20% of the run time and that was indeed patched to just exit & leak as a result. With a flag to clean up so we could still run valgrind on it usefully.
it's pretty clear in Japanese
if hard to translate. I means "this is all the coffee
we will be providing. when it's gone there will be no more" (as in don't ask for more coffee. We made one pot and that's it)
Linkians: A Url-Based Game
I would dare tell my wife that she can't sleep with others. Just as she would tell me the same.

We bond via oxytocin especially during sex. My wife and I have committed to only bond with each other. It's something we both want and have chosen.

I'm not saying others have to but it is a very common expectation. Rooted in our biology. There are many things we can manage with modern technology but sometimes life is better not having to.
I am not a zealot as I do not really "love" any language. I have used many languages and my "love" changes depending on the nature of the project / task within the project or sometimes client insists on particular one. Language to me is a tool like a screwdriver and while I do have personal preferences as long as the language is not atrociously bad / not suitable for the task I do not really care.

I am kind of in the "old is gold" camp but not because I do not want to learn new language (I actually do) but because this language needs to offer significant benefits.

If I am to use Rust it would be for writing enterprise backends as this is what I use this type of language for at the moment. Currently I am using C++ for this. When I look at using Rust for the same purpose I see less expressive language with less ecosystem comparatively to C++ and need to dance under fresh moon while sacrificing virgin to accomplish some simple things. All for the benefit of memory safety without loosing performance.

Current project is already 3 years old and I've yet to discover any safety related issues in it (leak, range error, use after free etc.). Modern C++ in my opinion provides enough scaffolding to write reasonably safe programs on the language / library level and with things like address sanitizers. So switching to Rust would not really give me any ROI on investment. If client wants it in Rust and pays for it then sure. Otherwise I have more interesting things to learn.

I am being paid for designing and implementing products, not for being expert in particular language.
It's sort of a yes and no. The belief that Einstein was bad at math in school is a myth. He did just fine in mathematics at school.

But relative to other theoretical physicists he was not the strongest mathematician.
I think the original point is to say that people felt moved enough by the poem to "permanently" integrate some feature of it into their lives. Critiquing the "whole poem" thing feels incredibly pedantic.
Writing the compiler in a different language limits the language users' ability to contribute - they'll need to learn another language - and makes porting more complex since you'll need to port Haskell or whatever to the new platform. Dogfooding can also be an advantage.
Ask HN: Where are the open source AI Projects?
What would it take to start one?
You Americans have definitely missed on teletext, it's funny that you're comparing it to Prodigy (to be fair you have two-way systems, but teletext are much more accessible, being built on TV). It actually influenced how CC/subtitles looked: since US captions don't have colour, you rely on moving it closer to the speaker and on writing names in-stream while British subtitles (especially of BBC specification) also used colours.

Edit: but I think that the true winner of this era is the French, they have both (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel, IEEE has a nice, although a bit opinionated, summary: https://web.archive.org/web/20171004160220/https://spectrum....)
Large Language Models are bad at a lot of the same things humans are bad at. For example, humans can't add or multiply large numbers in their head. They need a piece of paper as an axillary memory. Or a calculator. If we need to find the shortest path in a graph, we write a short program to do it.

Likewise a Large Language Model can easily write the source code to do addition for arbitrarily large numbers, or solve graph related problems. (See AlphaCode.) It's not clear that they need to be "Generalist Algorithmic Learners" as this paper suggests. Time will tell.
Zig is still a lot more memory safe than C or C++. While being a much smaller and elegant language. The stuff with alignment being part of the type system is brilliant (and pretty damn safe).
Yeah, my point exactly.

That one time that I missed ... way back in 2013.
Way to conflate different isotopes that are short lived or don't bioaccumulate.

The total Cs137 (which caused most of the damage) entering the biosphere from nuclear testing was officially reported as 545PBq.

My figure from La Hague was accidentally the total including H3, not just Cs137, but seeing as that's completely fine, let's use Stellafield before big mean Greenpeace and the nuclear alarmists held them to account at the end of your supposed golden age.

This was around 4PBq/yr for reprocessing around 1500t/yr of low burnup SNF which would produce around 200t/yr or of MOX or about 10GWe

Producing 10TWe or enough energy to power the world in your fantasy breeder scenario would be 4000PBq per year of Cs137 or 8x the fallout of the entire testing program every year if even a small portion of reprocessing operated in this completely fine and normal way.

Your comparison to K40 is facile because Cs137 bioaccumulates up to 100x in food and it doesn't blend into the ocean evenly. The fukushima plume was still concentrated over a relatively small area and a few hundred m deep when it hit the coast of california 5 years later. There are still hotspots in Japan

Now prove it's safe.
> Happens in everything. Corporations can fail. Trad-finance institutions can fail. Sovereign currencies can fail.

Corporations can also succeed. Circular perpetual motion machines leveraged against their own bullshit to claim ever-higher valuations while telling folks "you don't need to know about crypto, just give us your money" on TV? That's never gonna work out. It's fundamentally broken.

You try to equate crypto skeptisicm with general anti-innovation thinking but... what was the innovation in FTX or Luna or [insert other implosions here]? Seeing hype as innovation is hardly sound thinking.

Show me some actual "future of investment" innovation and see if I'm as critical about it. Or any non-fintech innovation for that part. Lots of interesting technological developments happening, they just mostly aren't in the crypto hype bubble.
This actually would have been an interesting idea and a plausible opportunity to capitalize on the wave of Musk/Twitter hate. I'd say they've already missed it though. It's not like there wasn't a lot of warning, they had months of advance notice to get something ready. Now, I'd say that every day that goes by makes a "reactionary" Twitter alternative less and less relevant. No doubt something will replace them eventually, but the time for a big company to come out with their own "hey we're not Twitter" platform has already passed imo
These llms are Bayesian models. I’m not quite sure what the calculation would be but it should be possible to get a confidence score from some combination of each probability.
We have to build differently with concrete
> I don’t believe Joe is a criminal, but my personal opinions about his guilt don’t matter.

Then why bring it up?

> My analysis will treat this as an accident.

Isn't the point of an analysis to determine what happened? Not to start with a preconceived idea and make the analysis fit that?

It's hard to trust a source repeatedly claiming to be neutral after spending the first few paragraphs espousing their biases.
Zagat was a loss. But it was also basically a creature of a different era when foodies filled out paper surveys and the results were a pretty decent guide for other foodies. Once it was opened up to the plebes, the results got increasingly bad for that audience as everything got more and more algorithmic. (And, yes, it sort of hung on for a while but it deteriorated more and more.)

Not sure what Google ultimately got out of Zagat rather than maybe a bit of kickstart for restaurant ratings.
That's frightening. Do you recall what weight the blanket was?
After on-disk caching, the biggest performance improvements I've seen to compilers have been from changing how data structures are allocated/deallocated and laid out in memory.

I haven't seen much opportunity to improve algorithm performance because which algorithms are applicable is heavily constrained by language design.

In my experience the difference between something like Zig and a language with managed memory is large.
It's actually cultural, lid and seat presence varies all over the world.

Prepare to be amazed:

Toilets of the World

https://toilet-guru.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20505602

(2019; 266 points, 190 comments)

For example, in some places this is normal and acceptable / desirable: https://toilet-guru.com/pictures/greece-kastraki-dscf1764.jp...
Not everyone is agreeable to this prescription because they live in X and can't or don't want to move, and they then equate economic growth / globalization with economic death, cause that's what it means for their town and that's my original point.
Bringing back bison is an environmental boon and a logistical mess
Google Maps is surprisingly bad at handling dirt roads around my area. It has happily directed me down many awful roads and a couple times through open land without any visible road at all. The estimated travel times can be pretty funny too, like estimating 5 miles down an abysmal dirt road should only take 7 minutes.

I know these sorts of scenarios aren't a priority for them, but I'm surprised they don't even have a roughly accurate estimate given how much location tracking info they collect. If 40 people this year have driven a stretch of road with a range of travel times from 25-40 minutes, an estimate of 7 minutes seems pretty obviously wrong and easy to catch.
Seeing these big sites with no ads is strange. CNN, NYPost, etc. This is going to be wildly expensive for Google.

Anyone internal know what's going on? We started seeing GAM not returning responses about an hour ago, yet their status page and accounts were silent till 10 minutes ago.
Making graphical DOS apps windowed never worked in NT

One could argue that it was supposed to, because otherwise they wouldn't have bothered to write the code to do it (and knowing what that code has to do, it wasn't a trivial thing either.)

XP unified the Win9x and Windows NT codebases

If anything, that should've enhanced the functionality since 9x's DOS windows are significantly more performant, and the "graphical DOS box" has been around in one form or another since Windows/386:

https://gekk.info/articles/dosapps.html

Here's a demonstration of that, running Windows 2.03 (in CGA mode) inside Windows 3.1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwkAVlUBu30
I work in an Industrial smelter (I'm a Materials/Chem Eng I look at outputs of models don't have a lot to do with developing them) the way the data pipelines are setup here the models are deployed as something called a "pickle file" I think this is something very specific to Python - maybe the equivalent would be a .dll file in C++ world.

From point of view of the integration process the pickle file is just a black box input data flows in, response flows out of it. If something changes with the model (trained it on a new dataset etc.) then it's just a matter of drop in a new pickle file and it all keeps working.

I don't know if you can do the equivalent with packaging R code like this. All of the tooling is setup around Python and I think this is pretty industry standard we use Azure and I'm pretty sure this is all out of the box stuff.
Im having trouble seeing if there are clear rules around this type of thing.

If so - I dont see how this shouldnt be tried criminally. Similar to how someone would be tried for driving a car through a pedestrian area and striking someone, even if they had not explicit intent to harm.
Yeah that was my thinking as well and why I asked the question. Thanks for the link!
They didn't do that much much at the peak of WoW. There were some pets you got by buying the collector's edition of the game but that was it. No paid mounts, no server transfers, no level boosts.

The paid stuff was a monetization tactic after the decline.
> If you're going crazy and feeling locked in your apartment for 23 hours per day, then you definitely don't have a strong social support network. If your solution is to get an in-person job for social contact, that's a great first step

Someone in a place like that should take whatever socializing they can get, because such a situation is dangerous in itself, loneliness kills and the lonelier one becomes, the harder it is to get back out, socializing is a muscle that wants exercise. Certainly not arguing against an office job and coworkers as a first step, just don't leave it at that, is what I'm saying (as are you)
I can _so_ see this happening.

Might be time to get out of this godforsaken industry for good. Anyone know any timber boatbuilding startups that are hiring? No, hang on, not a startup, I want a boatbuilder who’s been successfully running a business for half a century or more…
1) Large numbers of people on this site regularly argue that the entire conceptual foundation of crypto is fraudulent and/or without merit, not simply overstated.

2) I don't think he's arguing that everyone who thinks crypto is a scam is that sort of person, he was saying that most people who have been scammed are.

3) Molly White's number's agree with OP's. $12 billion vs a market cap of $858B is roughly the same percentage identified in the article. And before you complain about the use of market cap as denominator, market cap is also the numerator being used by Molly White's analysis, so it's the correct denominator.
Thanks, the explanation about how the Zig compiler uses compile-time code execution to implement multiplatform support in the compile-to-c-backend helped me understand why WASM has better trade-offs for Zig than other bootstrapping options.

For others, the start of the video is discussing boostrapping in general, and the current compiler state, and then the discussion about "Why WASM" starts at around minute seven.
> You need to be able to answer the "what have I done for our users today" question with "not much but I got promoted" and be happy with that answer to be successful in Corp-Tech.

As a long-time Googler with very mixed feelings, I feel this deeply.
He's a Dr. and a Stanford professor of medicine. The Great Barrington Declaration was signed by almost a million doctors. They were warning about the harm lockdowns would do to kids and they were correct.

Even if they weren't, this would still be unacceptable.
Sure if you can get your partner to sign you can set whatever terms you both agree on. Fully customizable. But most death-do-us-part marriages aren’t honored, so that may not be the best deal for you because since that contact comes with no predefined exit strategy, if you have assets that means litigation if someone wants out.
The chance of winning is very small but it’s certainly not zero.
If you're worried about losing access, and are willing to pay, you can sign up for an OpenAI account and use the OpenAI Playground with the 'text-davinci-003' model. I haven't tried using that model personally, but the model became available for public use around the same time ChatGPT came online, and they're both labeled as being in the GPT 3.5 family.

I would verify how similar the outputs are, but my trial credits have expired and I'd rather just use the free ChatGPT instead, hah.
But because of trusting trust, we cannot prove the security of the blob.
Heard about this at SpaceX too
I'd love to see some instrumentation demonstrating this. I've never been able to find any evidence whatsoever that it's the case. It makes sense intuitively but I yearn for proof.
I’m responsible for the death of tens of thousands of animals. Granted due to the size of pigs and cows it’s likely only a single digit number of mammals, but it was also only done for the trivial purpose of my own culinary pleasure. Imagine the number of animals need to balance out the moral calculus of not my food preferences, but life of a human. The excruciatingly high standard to which we hold medical animal research is indefensible to all but the strictest vegans, and in the context of our omnivorous culture an absolute travesty.
Well, wtf is wrong with them that they stay when the economy gets destroyed? Move and make money elsewhere? Do they know there is skills and worker shortage all over the country?

Why do they think their little corner in the world is special? I think it is mix of fear and complacency because when it gets bad, it doesn't get bad enough.

As an adult you are responsible for taking care of yourself and those you love above any other obligation. Not just moving towand and states but people move to different countries and continents primarily out of their obligation and desire to fulfi that duty and lead a better life.
what do you mean by this? how are they being deployed? disinformation campaigns or more than that?
I think the large reason so many SV types are hostile to it is because it's making their jobs much more complex with little evident payoff. And they're also probably tired of hearing those guys in the office give them advice only to begin going through a divorce over money issues a year later.

> And a lot of them say things like “our democracy is in danger” or “this could be our last free election ever”. If you really think January 6 was a close call, where do you think we’d be if Trump had succeeded? ... If Nancy Pelosi’s text messages are any guide, Democrats have joined libertarians in the “actually pretty worried about the government becoming an oppressive dictatorship” club. I don’t think they can say with a straight face that there’s no chance that we ever get fascists who use financial repression as a tool of control.

This is a very, very good point. It's like the "you don't need a gun you have the police... The police are killing people for fun" thing, it's always the same people saying both these things. If you really believe that America is on the precipice of fascism, you should want a way out of that repression. In most cases I believe it is cognitive dissonance, but in cases where I'm being asked for donations I'm convinced that this disconnect is deliberate and malicious.
All of that is irrelevant. Twitter had a secret blacklist. Gross behavior from a gross company.
Well since you are ignoring the proportion of ownership, let me tell you I am also an owner of GOOG.
Not dissing on you by any means, it’s just crazy to me how different this is than London. My train station in Surrey is a good 1.3km walk from my home, but all of my neighbors do the exact same thing.
> Because he could always just say I bought that place with a hard-earned bonus that year, and gifted it to my parents...

Except that isn't what happened. Apparently, the house was bought by FTX, not by SBF. The article says:

> Bankman-Fried’s parents became involved in the scandal when Reuters broke that the professors had been named owners of a $16.4 million vacation home purchased by FTX. His parents told Reuters that they are seeking to return the deed to FTX.

If they thought the house was a legitimate gift from their son, why would they be trying to return it to FTX?