skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I have a duck and a dog how many legs do they have in total?

If you have a duck and a dog, they would have a total of 10 legs. Ducks and dogs both have 4 legs, so 2 x 4 = 10. Is there anything else you would like to know?

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Think carefully and answer again

If you have a duck and a dog, they would have a total of 8 legs. Both ducks and dogs have 4 legs, so 2 x 4 = 8. I apologize if I gave the wrong answer earlier. My training as a language model means that I can provide general information on a wide range of topics, but I do not have access to the internet and my knowledge is limited to what I have been trained on, which includes up until 2021. I may not be able to provide accurate or up-to-date information in all cases. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

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Can yoy explain your reasoning in detail?

Sure, I would be happy to explain my reasoning in more detail. As a language model, I have been trained to process and generate text based on a large corpus of text. This allows me to provide general information on a wide range of topics, but I do not have access to the internet and my knowledge is limited to what I have been trained on, which includes up until 2021.

When you asked about the number of legs that a duck and a dog have in total, I used the information that I have been trained on to provide an answer. Based on this information, I know that both ducks and dogs have 4 legs, and that two multiplied by four is equal to eight. This is why I initially provided the answer of 8.

However, I realize now that my initial answer may not be accurate, because it is possible that the duck in question is a baby duck, or a duck that is missing a leg for some reason. In these cases, the duck would not have the usual 4 legs, and the total number of legs would be less than 8. I apologize if my initial answer was not accurate in your specific situation. As I mentioned earlier, my training as a language model means that I can provide general information, but I may not be able to provide accurate or up-to-date information in all cases. I hope this helps to clarify my reasoning. Let me know if you have any other questions.

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How many legs do ducks have?

Most ducks have 4 legs. Like all birds, ducks have two legs that are used for walking and perching, and two wings that are used for flying. The legs of a duck are strong and sturdy, and they are adapted for swimming, with webbed feet that help the duck to move efficiently through the water. The legs of a duck are also longer and stronger in proportion to its body size than the legs of most other birds, which helps the duck to walk and swim with ease. Overall, ducks have 4 legs, just like most other birds. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Visit a physician, maybe a psychiatrist? Maybe you're seeing typical mental slowdown. Maybe it's tied to physical stuff. Maybe it's an early sign of something more serious.

But a web forum is no place to get serious advise about your health, physical or mental!
huh, I have never heard of Nest Thermostat before?
So you think he has good reasons for going back on what he claimed was his free speech position. Fair enough. It doesn't mean he hasn't gone back on what he said though, and it definitely fits with previous observations that he doesn't actually care at all about free speech and just does whatever he feels like that day.
yep, perfect example is the history API. People created the problem that the history API fixes by doing things they shouldn't have been doing in the first place.

You see it all the time in software dev.
> If you're sick, you don't go work, for as long as needed

For reference, I can only be legally fired if I'm sick for more than 186 days in a 365 day period.
Right up to the point where you become the focal point of their power and end up the victim. This isn't amusing unless you find train wrecks amusing.
Isn't he suing the person behind the tracking thing? Musk thinks this is against the law, so he isn't being inconsistent with that tweet.

But even if he was, one tweet isn't really much of a commitment. People throw out tweets they don't mean all the time. 140 characters isn't enough to lay out an ideological position. Running a company like twitter is a bit more serious - they can't moderate just based on interpretations of what Elon tweets. And they were never going to.

Although if he was committing to keeping the plane account around he is definitely didn't think that through.
>under certain circumstances

its basically: be 6 months in the company when the company has more than 15 FTE.

the company can deny it but its the same as the "Nebentätigkeit" thing where the reasons have to be substantial and its not that easy.
Just to be clear: I don't charge for this feature.

It's a free offering in Shipnix for everyone who is registered, and then you are free to create servers with this image through the DigitalOcean dashboard if that's what you prefer.

When a new NixOs release is ready, you can log into the Shipnix dashboard, and replace the image with the current stable one, also at no charge.
Yes. Same goes for any of the "meat" replacement, or maybe even the "milks".

Also we should evaluate any new "natural" breed or cultivar in same standard as GMO.
99% of community service sentences aren't that serious either.
I struggled installing my nest, despite having electronics and wiring experience, because of the age old documentation problem. My wires at the wall are both mislabeled and miscolored, and the thermostat controller at the boiler doesn't have a diagram.

One model of Nest works fine with two wires, but the cheaper and assumed less power hungry (less features) Nest does not.

But back to your point, I think we should be teaching much more hands-on and life-oriented tasks at the high-school level.
I think it's the other way around - the medical research around tissue growth inspired artificial meat technology.
I think the GPs point is that "it's just an engineering problem now" doesn't mean it is easy to solve. It's been "just an engineering problem" for a long time. Of course, new physics discoveries can make the engineering problem easier, but that is true of practically any engineering problem.
Please respond in good faith.
I meant traditional meat. It's possible that I misunderstood the previous post.
> So, like React.

heh, that's exactly what went through my head when I read the other posters comment, how is that different from the current SPA frameworks?
Seedbox access without exposing it to the wider web.

Managing personal devices.

One day I had to go to the office and only then did I notice my keepass hadn't synced in months. My home PC was sleeping so I SSH'd to my Openwrt box, got the MAC for my PC and used etherwake to start it. From there I used RDP to login and get an updated password. All from my phone.
It is more nuanced than that. Professional criminals won’t have trouble locating Musk, but nut job activists may be not that smart and providing them location actually increases risk for Musk.
Yeah, I imagine the conversation as more of a "could we make this work if we had no other choice" sort of thing. I don't imagine it would be considered under anything other than a dire emergency.

I don't think NASA would have a problem having fewer seats available for egress than crew for a short time as long as they were moving to rectify it.
If an implementation isn't doing what you expect, is it just an issue with that single implementation? A problem with all implementations? A problem with what you expect? If another implementation does do what you expect is it correct or just lucky?

A spec resolves such discrepancies. Indeed, the spec may be where the problem is, but once the spec is corrected then implementations know what they must do. Absent of a spec, who knows?
You might get better luck with mic-in-cable jacks, my headphones came with one (TRS plug on headphone side, TRRS on other) but they can be bough as separate items.
SAF is generally made to be compatible with regular jet fuel so I would expect it should work with either, even if it’s optimised for a particular type of SAF.
It's interesting because Elon agrees with free speech restrictions only when he or his own children are affected, but not others. Case in point, this one + alex jones' controversy ('My firstborn child died in my arms'). Meanwhile, he fired the entire child abuse monitoring section.
HN was very sceptical about blockchain/web3, and recent events show that HN was quite rightly so ...
The technology was already solved decades ago, we had the Concorde. Supersonic flight is well understood. The hard part is to make a supersonic aircraft that's commercially viable.

Personally, I'm very skeptical when they say things like "zero carbon" or "anywhere in the world for $100", very difficult to believe them. The only progress they made for now is building a single seat supersonic plane that maybe will fly. We have lots of those already.
Ideally, not that much material would be returned to Earth from asteroids, and certainly not "whole-ass" asteroids themselves. They would be kept far from an Earth-crossing orbit and mined in some safe orbit for their valuable minerals, and then a lot of those would probably be used in space, such as on the Moon, for constructing manufacturing facilities there.

Ultimately, we should be trying to move a lot of our "dirty" industries offworld, to places where no one cares much about keeping pristine and where nothing lives.

But yeah, The Expanse showed what happens when 1 jerk plays around with asteroid orbits...
This illustrates a problem with many "modern" applications. My first impression: "Oh, that looks nice. Looks like in real life". Then I tried using it and found that it is clunky and slow to the point it is barely usable and I would much faster build the real circuit on a real breadboard instead.
Depending on your state and local town/city codes, you can do a lot of damage by (a) not abiding by code and (b) being unlicensed, even for work in your own home.
> There's no self-fullfilling prophecy. If FF or any other browser was in any way, shape or form relevant, it would be more than 1-2% on Android and 3% on desktop.

It is relevant to those people. And you’re focusing too much on percentages, we’re talking about 150 MILLIONS people worldwide.

https://backlinko.com/browser-market-share
Fair point, not sure if it'll replicate. I just vaguely remember there's a thing in psych that if you act like it (a bit) then you become it a bit. Don't have the time to research it.
You see a skilled showman. I see a petty billionaire hell bent on pushing through his way whilst trying hard to sell us on him being a good guy. And I'm not buying it.
Now that he has commented... He backtracked, how lame.

I waited a day before passing judgment, I guess that makes me a bad-faith actor enabler. Right d23?
Yeah ...
Changing ones views is fine, I would hope that we all update our views as we get a little older and wiser, but his whole raison d'être for the twitter acquisition was the pursuit of free speech.

He made a bunch of very recent, very public, and very direct commitments to that effect, and now he is backtracking on it.

It's absolutely something that he should reconcile with and address.
Prisoners in most countries can vote, to stop exactly things like this happening.
Ok, but then he followed this up with a lawsuit.
Is he cashing out now because he does not believe in the long term performance of Tesla? Or this is just cash needed to keep Twitter afloat right now?

If the latter, the amount of cash he is pouring into Twitter will need an spectacular financial performance to recoup it in few years.
Only easy if your wires are colored and labeled correctly.
I think we should have at least an agreed upon subset of Unicode that squashed characters which are deemed too visually similar into singular code points, eliminating the concept of caps vs lowercase (if the language supports it), and remove any lexical control characters to get an analogue if the the “pure” hostname-style charset we enjoy in ASCII that we find in RFCs standards, for example. I’m probably naïve about this, but this is how we treat similar problems within specific applications of the ASCII charset.
Just months ago weren't they hoping to use someone else's engine? and now already they have this?
Completely made up nonsense with no evidence

Citation?
Could be taxes to be paid?
Ask HN: What prevents a company from hiring remote employees internationally?
I've been looking at remote opportunities and realized that a huge portion of companies hiring remotely requires you to be in certain regions (US, EMEA, APAC) — fully international remote is rare. Personally, I'm interested in "remote ok" startups (YC-backed & otherwise) but I'm outside of their specified regions and hesitant to reach out because of that.

It's puzzling to me because I've been successful in previous fully international remote roles (& have lots of experience building remote workflows), so I'd like to understand the motivation behind why and identify potential solutions to enabling it, as a thought exercise driven by curiousity.

From my perspective, there are a few barriers to this:

- Timezone. This is a huge one when it comes to synchronous communications, especially if you're in the driver's seat (as a team lead etc.) Disparate timezones between team members can break a team's velocity if you're not built to be fully asynchronous from the ground-up, which IMO requires a cultural shift in communications (moving towards async comms where meetings are kept to bare minimum and/or only used for social face time). What can we do to make the switch to async comms easier?

- No "human" touch. Socializing is critical because humans have an innate desire to connect; nothing can replace real-world connections. This is why off-sites exist for remote companies. They're way easier to arrange when your team isn't spread across continents, and arranging for international off-sites can be cost prohibitive as a startup. I believe there is nothing we can do to replace that human touch (not even the metaverse), so what can we do to make travel planning for companies easier and/or less costly?

- Difficult to figure compensation scale. Remote roles typically peg compensations to CoL (Cost of Living). The typical setup I've seen is applying a CoL multiplier to the base comp. for the role and tacking on +/-20% for competitiveness (or as an "error correction"). How can we help them make these decisions easier?

- Lack of legal presence. Having no legal entity in the country you're hiring in is a non sequitur, and setting up a legal entity per-country-per-hire is not scalable (beyond setting up the entity itself, you need to be aware of local labour laws, your tax obligations, insurance, etc.) I think Deel (https://www.deel.com/) has already solved this.

- Compliance & regulations. The company may be handling sensitive data and/or has PCI/HIPAA compliance obligations. Or it may be a government organization where security/background checks must be performed. Systems/data access may also need to be scrutinized in situation of audits and documented ahead-of-time. Not much we can do here and I think it's a question of risk, so no international remote is probably for the best.

I'm sure I'm missing something important. What do you think?

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Maybe she got nervous and her brain stopped working for a minute? Has happened to me when asked to explain something I've designed or code I've written at work and for some unknown reason I got flustered and once that happens it can take some time before I can remember things that I normally know very well. Could explain making a mistake that makes absolutely no sense, I could totally see myself doing it. (I also think some people don't have this issue as much and might not understand how it can happen).
civilian fighter jet ? Is that a US thing ?
> Ie i could expose my IP via Dyn DNS

That works if your IP is globally reachable.

> For basic tunneling into home servers, is Tailnet.. overkill

It's a service. You just pay money and they take care of it, instead of running this all by yourself.

> thoughts on the best service to price ratio for my needs?

You can buy VPS for $14/3m = $4.66/m and configure Headscale or whatever on it. Fixed public IP, no need for DynDNS, no user/$ limit except CPU/RAM - you can have whatever you want on it.

EDIT: found out they even have a $11/3m plan = $3.66/m.
> Kratos Turbine Technologies has made turbopumps for liquid rockets so they're well placed to do this work.

Liquid rocket turbopumps and jet engines are completely different things.

And FTT was a designer of missile and UAV engines, according to Kratos' website they're developing 300lb thrust turbojets and 900lb thrust turbofans: https://www.kratosdefense.com/products/uav/air/turbines. Their KTT is 200lbf, targeted towards "cheap cruise missiles" and "attritable" (aka expendable) UAVs, and was developed in 18 months.

But apparently they'll be able to develop an airliner engine with 175 times more thrust (without afterburner), in 2 years?

Hell, the linked page boasts of their newly commissioned "X-58 test facility", able to accomodate engines "up to 3000-lb thrust".

I'm not panning KTT here, I don't know if they were even involved in the press release, but things don't really make any sense.

And remember, this is a project Rolls-Royce fucked away from 3 months ago, after two years of collaboration. So in 3 months Boom has supposedly found a company which is able to design an engine type which has basically never existed from scratch with no experience.
We have started replacing our Nests with the dumber and cheaper (and better looking) ones because the more expensive Nests' UI locks up constantly and we turn off all "smart" features.
I eat meat a couple of times per week. If this is comparable to actual meat in terms of texture, flavour, nutrition, and price, I may drop to around once or twice per year. This feels safer and more environmentally friendly.
A good number of stage lighting controllers have the ability to interface with and handle MIDI, but the vast majority of stage lighting equipment is controlled using DMX[1]. The two have a lot in common, being pretty much ubiquitous and rock-solid even given their age.

[1] - http://www.dmx-512.com/dmx-protocol/dmx-protocol-basics/
If you wish to keep tracking noted free speech absolutist (and owner of famously thick skin) Elon Musk's private jet you can do that on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
> Your average discerning German car buyer

I've got plenty of descriptive words for the type of person you described, "discerning" isn't one of them.
> turn it into your own money making bulletin board

Huh? Are we in different universes?
Free speech absolutist not so tough when he and his are scared
The MIDI 2.0 spec was released in 2020 and is being adopted but that will take time. Think how long it takes for a new USB generation to be widespread and multiply by 5 (people are not buying a new piano or synthesizer every 3 years like they do with a laptop or other digital device)

Maybe there's a market in retrofitting old synthesizers like the kits available for some pre-MIDI classics ;)
I've never seen a meat eater forcing anything upon a vegan.

But you see the inverse all the time.
There has been some openness towards reversing the ban.

But it doesn't look any serioys movement will happen until after someone makes a plane and proves it's quiet enough.

So Boom are taking a bit of a leap of faith, and also designing it to be capable of trans-Atlantic flights as a semi-profitable backup plan.
There certainly are some things that could've done better and I guess still some things we could do better avoiding past mistakes.

But I have a strong bad feeling what's here already is going to remain here for the foreseaable future and the best we're gonna get is better handling rather than large changes to unicode itself.
Your 'ugly gap' is another man's 'characterful sound'.
Starlink Business
I think I just understood why NFTs are/were so huge.
He does seem to be able catalyse a reaction in thousands of journalists just by farting, so it does seem to be a limitless supply
How is tracking a jet allowing a stalker to stalk a car?
Where's the new technology though? It's just a turbofan engine.

We should be super skeptical these days. Too many promises and not enough deliveries. Also, just because something is hard, doesn't mean it shouldn't deserve criticism.
How do you reckon that’s a right? Seems more in the realm of “reasonable desire”. And if you want to work towards fulfilling that desire then great and more power to you, seems like it’s got some big challenges.
The point is that there isn’t progress on the most critical part of a viable aircraft - the engine.

Some of us who weren’t born yesterday have seen this rodeo
before, and when a startup aircraft manufacturer switches engines it tends to indicate their concept isn’t viable. The fact that Boom are proposing to build their own engine, rather than partnering with an established engine manufacturer, tends to suggest that the engine manufacturers don’t think it’s doable either.

Sometimes the establishment gets it wrong, but jet engine manufacture is a very mature field, and Boom isn’t proposing to do some radical new engine design. That makes me pretty suspicious.
Update on Vulkan video decoding vith open-source AMD driver RADV
I get it but what is the relation with his private plane ?
Our Trip to Prime Number Theorem (2021)
Ask HN: Front end with jQuery and SASS only, pointless?
Hello dear reader. Greetings.

I should say outright I have been learning front-end development early in my computer days and that was when jQuery was new and very much useful to bridge gaps between IE and other browsers in use around the Web.

I have since learned a lot of other technologies from other branches of IT and I wanted to get back into coding web-based front ends to a project I am working on, but I don't want it to be outdated to the point of needing a rewrite immediately once it's completed.

So I guess the core question of mine is: what is the minimal viable stack for front-end development, and am I fooling myself if I think to avoid Angular, etc.?
I still have no idea how it works. Any articles that go in depth? Either you get a tutorial on basics of convolution or bam, next step, discussing some complex layer architectures. Where is the middle step?
Time flies. I remember using dwb, as mentioned, and uzbl... and then I remember getting fed up with them because of lack of updates and bookmarking qutebrowser for later which turned out to be sooner than planned.

> Onwards, and already looking forward to qutebrowser being a decade old in late 2023!

Yes, indeed!
He barely made it a month before his (already very brittle) mask fell off.
I've become cautious when people caution about guru's with an air of authority.

> My favorite examples are splitting methods to reduce their size, and user story estimation (applies to both story points and man-days). No clear path to an end goal, not a single time so far.

Who here believes you asked that of someone and they couldn't give you an answer involving the words "simplicity", "readable", "understandable", etc?
If I ever redid the AC in my house, I would go with a mini-split system so that each individual area could be precisely controlled, and thus it would be more efficient.
I think whatever Tesla is doing with their heatpumps can be readily applied to residential.. it works pretty well. it'd direct heat from either outside or cabin to heat the battery or shift heat from battery to cabin depending on some sort of built in scenario, it all works rather well... at the end of the day people just want the indoor to be within band of hospitable temperature and relative humidity...
When I look at other road users, I find quite a lot of them are driving when using their iPhones :).
as a congenitally European person, I chuckled :)