skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, are you saying Europeans are surprised talking about it is still a thing, because everyone wears them? Or because nobody wears them?

Just got back from Germany yesterday, and while masks are required on most public transport (but not airplanes), you'll see a decent amount of compliance (50%?) but not anywhere else indoors.

Minimal masking in public spaces on public transport, stores, airplanes, etc in my experience in Germany/France/UK. There's absolutely more masking going on here in the Bay Area.
That seems like a distinction without a difference.

If you’re required to have it and present it on demand, then almost everyone will carry it, and the tiny minority not carrying their card will be automatically suspicious.

It’s a very short step from there to simply requiring that it be on your persons.
Coal plants are also digging coal to directly use in steal processing.
Huge respect for Norvig, but I think this is a shallow analysis.

For example, I just took Norvig's 'backspacer alpha' function and asked ChatGPT about it. It gave me an ok English language description. It names the variables more descriptively on command.

I'm sure it'll hallucinate and make errors, but I think we're all still learning about how to get the capabilities we want out of these models. I wouldn't rush to judgement about what they can and can't do based on what they did; shallow analysis can mislead both optimistically and pessimistically at the moment!
I just use favorites as saved articles. Who cares what anyone thinks?
And even if not become bad... For myself I have something called the 5 season rule. Not literal (quite) but somewhere around 5 seasons I just get bored--even if the show if still on a good trajectory, which it often isn't.
Its one of the reasons Value Added taxes are popular everywhere. (except USA)
Would be curious to see this broken down by fiction vs non-fiction. I read very few non-fiction books cover-to-cover. Most of them could be probably cut by 50% and not lose much.
My 6.5yo has just gotten access to an iPad to do some learn to read training through a specific app. No other apps permitted. Before this there was no access at all to iPads or computers and very limited TV time. We'll continue to slowly introduce tech with heavy guidance and restriction as she ages, but she'll be a lot less online than her peers seem to be. I don't really see this as a detriment.
If you work for a certain company and you recommend it, you should disclose that you work for said company. Your comments are also near copy-pastes of each other so I wouldn't call them merely related at all.

For the record I have used Hasura before, both cloud and self-hosted versions. At the time Hasura didn't have serverless functions so it was very difficult to do anything custom even with workarounds. Now it seems Hasura has serverless functions now but now I feel that I shouldn't need to tie my backend and code to a database product lest anything happen to said product, lock-in sucks. That they are OSS or self-hosted does not make them any less susceptible to lock-in. I could also use, for example, Vue, also an OSS product, but if something happens to the primary contributor and no one else wants to maintain it, now I either have to deal with bugs slowly creeping in over time or rewrite my frontend.

So, no thanks, I'd rather keep my own backend and not use a BaaS product.
Plenty of countries without nuclear weapons have extensive nuclear power industries: Belgium, Slovakia, Sweden, Korea.
A friend has his own computer business, and some of his work involves tending to AIX systems. I don't remember now what his AIX customers use their machines for, but one might have been a biology lab.
At this point, there are multiple well-developed western economies with regulatory regimes that are generally trusted to adequately keep the perverse incentives of business in check. It would be an interesting regulatory experiment to charter a project that would be subject to a different regulatory environment than the country in which it was physically built. For example, a nuclear plant in the US that was exempt from all US regulations, but had to meet all of the French ones - built by French companies, inspected by French inspectors, etc. Just a wholesale transplant of the entire business/regulatory culture, as a point of competition.

(Obviously there are a thousand ways for this to go wrong, but entertain the idea anyway)
Old, but very interesting

Old discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790779
The more commonly-cited quote from this comment:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

The opening quote kinda shifts the usual reading: if you're flipping the script to protect your group and not protect others (even if they're rich, privileged, etc), you're not progressive. You're just differently conservative.

I'm not entirely sure I agree with Wilhoit that this means that there is no such thing as progressivism. Anti-conservatism exists. It can't always keep its bottom line straight to ensure that the currently-privileged groups retain equal rights, but that's not really at risk now or any time soon. Privileged groups have done a fine job of looking out for their own interests.

If it needs to be said, I'll go ahead and say it: no, we really don't want to eat the rich. If anybody really believes that, I'll waggle my finger at them and tell them not to do that. Happy?

His ultimate conclusion is too facile: "The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone." It's easily said, but once you get into the nitty-gritty it's less clear in the details. You get conflicts of rights, e.g. my right to choose my employees vs your right not to be discriminated against based on something irrelevant to the job. It's not always possible to protect everything everyone wants.

Anti-conservatism should fight against entrenching these further, and working against that. Wilhoit can't have it both ways, that nobody is doing it and that the ones who are doing it are really just conservatives.
You can certainly do this, and maybe it will even work out in the short term. But in the long term do you want your company to get a reputation of not paying vendors? How will you get new ones?
Pretty reasonable really.. Makes me think I should get a private jet made available to me if it’s that cheap..
I'm not the first to say it, but the distinction over whether models do any "actual reasoning" or not seems moot to me. Whether or not they do reasoning, they answer questions with a decent degree of accuracy, and that degree of accuracy is only going up as we feed the models more data. Whether or not they "do actual reasoning" simply won't matter.

They're already superhuman in some regards; I don't think that I could have coded up the solution to that problem in 5 seconds. :)
i have a 13 and 11 year old. We keep them engaged as much as possible off screen in physical activities. They get plenty of screen time though and I try to do my best to steer them to at least useful content. There's lots of interesting content that children can learn from on youtube especially science and history. I watch with them and try to steer to as much productive content as i can but am not always 100% successful.
Totally hypothetical for me yeah.
Years ? I don't know if the newest ransomware runs on Win XP.
> “The only thing better than a flip phone is no phone?” I can’t roll my eyes enough.

Yeah, but kids often say groan-worthy things, or have opinions that lack perspective. I still think she was being perfectly earnest.
Yes, I'd agree if everyone wanted to use Emacs too, fine by me. However everyone uses VSCode so that's what we will continue to use.
Okay so you think "spend a week, doing nothing else, on your annual performance review" is a normal way of operating at a tech company?

Cool, no more questions, thanks for your time.
What is wrong with the AMD L14 gen3?

It has socketed ram, 3 m.2 slots (although none are 2280, so your stuck with the 2242 NVMe drives, which limit the section a bit but there are still some solid choices), and the top end machine has a ryzen 7 pro (8 cores, 16 threads) wifi 6E and up to 64G ram.

Its a pretty decent range, has good reviews, the base model is fairly inexpensive, and the line scales up well, although it seems not all the options are actually available at any given time.

There seems to be various reports of it working well with linux, which is supported on lenovo's business range, of which the L14 is part.

Here is the tech doc:

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_L...

"Memory Slots
Two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots, dual-channel capable"

There are a few options in the pdf, that aren't visible on the lenovo buy page where i'm at, including the 400 nits screen and 63Wh battery, but you can probably special order them if your willing to wait.
The same people making it too slow say it's slow. QED.
opam 2.2's release cycle has fallen a bit behind the compiler's (actually because of the Windows support). It's an experimental branch, but this works with opam-repository-mingw to get a vanilla mingw-w64 build of OCaml 5.0.0:

opam switch create 5.0 --repos=dra27=git+https://github.com/dra27/opam-repository#windows-compilers --packages=ocaml.5.0.0,ocaml-option-mingw
It's from an experimental branch, so not very easy, but this works with opam-repository-mingw to get a vanilla mingw-w64 build of OCaml 5.0.0:

opam switch create 5.0 --repos=dra27=git+https://github.com/dra27/opam-repository#windows-compilers --packages=ocaml.5.0.0,ocaml-option-mingw
> A library of great books, good games, craft and art materials, and a collection of musical instruments would have been the best thing for my kids I'm thinking. Screens just make them addicted and miserable.

I agree in principle, and one of the saddest things to see is the pile of all these wonderful diversions sitting ignored while Youtube plays. (See my other comment about how we have essentially banned Youtube in my house for this reason).
http://web.archive.org/web/20221216204941/https://www.nytime...
Thanks, that's interesting. Is any production Google code written this way, or is it only Google-adjacent open source?
Ask HN: How to prepare for AI taking my programming job?
AI will likely make it easier to create high-quality software without the need for skilled and experienced engineers in the future, potentially within the next decade or two.

To prepare for potential impacts on salary and job opportunities, what are some skills or actions one can take to make oneself less susceptible to being replaced by AI?
The "From Nand to Tetris" course or in book form "The Elements of Computing Systems". This steps through building a computer from scratch. Starting with building logic gates from transistors, through to building a CPU and then writing assembly.
Wow, what a cherry picked choice, too bad it's still awful and even an overly generous comparison makes that apparent.

There are 23k ICU beds in the US.
The population of the US is 330M.
The hospitalization rate for COVID was ~120/100k in 30 year olds.
Average stay in ICU for COVID was 2-5 weeks.

So if the entire US was made up of unvaxed 30 year olds and 5% of them caught COVID every 2-5 weeks they would require ~3300x120x5%=20k ICU beds for at least an entire year! And since ICUs are normally about 30-50% full with other catastrophic medical events, that means someone else has to die for a self-important exercise of freedumb.

Normally, 30 year olds are healthy and don't present so highly in the hospitals or ICUs so on a percentage basis it's even worse (normal ~2%/decade vs ~20%/decade for 80yrs old). God forbid you're in rural America or your skin color is dark so you don't have access to the beds available in the cities. If you can't be polite to others, you shouldn't expect them to be polite to you.
My grandpa didn't die of black lung just so you can go around spreading baseless lies that coal might be harmful. (/s)
Let me get this straight. OP searched for an entry in a sorted list using dichotomic search. Okay... Any CS undergrad can do that. Is there something that I'm missing?
I'm willing to take some nuclear waste right here, and I understand if the glowing green barrels aren't available so I can take the green glass.
Give it a few weeks.
Nicklas Hansen, UCSD: On long-horizon planning and much more
Listen to the podcast episode with Nicklas Hansen from UC San Diego where we discuss adapting reinforcement learning policies during deployment, why algorithms don't drive research progress, and much more!
I took a quick look at some positions in Munich and the pay did not look very competitive with industry. However, public service has other advantages, and if you prefer to not rent your soul to Capital like so many of us do, I think the salaries looked pretty nice compared to other government jobs. Which is pretty much the deal everywhere, right?

(You can find the rate tables by doing a web search for the code listed next to “Entgelt/Besoldung.”)

I got a kick out of the fact that Street Cleaner came up in my search for “IT and Telecommunication:”

https://interamt.de/koop/app/stelle?1&id=894097
Your analogy is reaching to the farthest edge case - one of complete non-understanding and complete mimicry. The problem is that language models do understand concepts for some reasonable definitions of understanding: they will use the concept correct and with low error rate. So all you’re really pointing at here is an example where they still have poor understanding, not that they have some innate inability to understand.

Alternatively, you need to provide a definition of understanding which is falsifiable and shown to be false for all concepts a language model could plausibly understand.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect a list of consecutive horizontal pixels (no diagonal).
Have fun rewriting your own ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶o̶n̶ ̶L̶i̶s̶p̶ React.
Internet is technology. It's a blurry line... When mine come up with creative ways to circumvent Internet access restrictions (e.g. use mobile phone as hotspot for the laptop, because for that I had set a limited time window in the router) I'm happy to see a future hacker on one hand, and really pissed on the other hand because I seem to have ended up in an arms race.
Probably because all of the French reactors are over 20 years old and the last operational reactor they built was in 2000.. how is France going to replace the carbon free energy they get from their aging reactors? Average life span of reactors are between 20-40 years. Intuition tells me wind and solar ain't gonna cut it.
The Future of ClassicPress
I used to think this until I moved to the USA. Property taxes here are insane. Add state tax, NYC city tax, Social Security etc the marginal taxes are well over 60% of income. And you still have to pay for your own healthcare after that.
As someone learning to code just to get a prototype off the ground, it's been invaluable.

I don't know if the code it creates is elegant or efficient, but I do know that it works.

For me, that's more than enough.

I seriously can't work without it anymore. Even Googling for answers seems like a primitive exercise.
No, the comment you commented on didn't do that. That person was commenting on the reaction to the paper - of the science journos that wrote an article about it, and readers who took the article's take as gospel. Which is why they ended their post with "I guess no one even took the time to read the abstract of the paper". Because the abstract is fairly innocuous and straight forward, as is the conclusion.

If your assertion is that GPs criticism is about the confidence intervals and the prevalence of "low certainty" - that is the conclusion of the paper. The researchers can't really know the conclusions until they do the research. So would it be better if they didn't publish their paper since the results weren't a glowing endorsement of honey? Isn't it a good thing they published results and called out the fact that they are low certainty?

And if the criticism was the conflict of interest, that is what I responded to.
Yeah, that's definitely true. At the grocery store near me (bougie area, a lot of older people) I see maybe 50-60% of people masked.

On the other hand, now that I'm quadruple vaccinated and use an N95 I'm not overly bothered by people not wearing masks around me.
FINRA requires retail brokers to make a report on price improvements based on a retroactive analysis vs NBBO. So, yes, they do know what NBBO was, and whether they were truly price improvements or not, and that's being monitored and tracked, and the brokers get yelled at if they violate that.

Pretty much all conspiratorial, "motivational" analysis of PFOF critics on HN are simply wrong. As Matt Levine explains it clearly, from the utilitarian perspective, PFOF is not a bad thing at all for retail investors. Whether it can be even better is a different question and clearly SEC is trying to find that with the new proposal, but as is always the case with a complex system with differently motivated actors, what exactly the new balance point for the new system will be is uncertain.
The law of diminishing returns suggests that it's unlikely.
Apparently? I'm not an HVAC guy, just poking away at understanding my current system and thinking about what I might change.

As an example, this damper has an adjustable bleed rate, with a 2 wire input for switching the state:

https://www.resideo.com/us/en/pro/products/air/forced-air-zo...

(Click the "Install" tab to access installation guides)
That is not what the post I was responding to was about, it was about the art as human expression. Nothing was said about it as a profession and making money creating art makes zero difference as to the worth of the art.
Did you link the correct document? This is about reading comprehension and the previous poster was asking for a source about class length (i.e. changing from the standard 50 minute class to classes of 10 minutes)
> I was not holding out much hope when "Damon Lindelof producer of Lost, decided what we really needed was for him to create a new TV series in the Watchman universe"

Well, Lindelof was also the showrunner for The Leftovers, which was a profoundly moving and well-made show. He also co-wrote the Alien prequel Prometheus. I wasn't too surprised that his Watchmen show was good!

Anyway, as for Neuromancer... Graham Roland was showrunner for Dark Winds, which was pretty solid, so maybe that bodes well. On the other hand, his writing work on Lost was entirely just on the final season, which was a nonsensical mess, so who knows.
I'm familiar with it.

Great comment.
Sit quietly, talk, color, maybe read. Is this hard to believe? We did that.
I too like Rings Of Power, it was one of the few shows I'd anticipate watching the next one. It had heart, some mystery and some fun characters. I'm a sucker for that music too (Bear McCredy). better than I hoped.

Andor was compelling and very Star Wars. HotD lost me, I didn't make it through. It seemed kinda soap opera. People are raving about Severence, I watched it, and though decent, but didn't have the positive reaction others in this thread had. Though I'm old and have had time working for the big co under my belt, which may have skewed things.

But I guess everyones different tastes are why they're making so many shows...
I guess Logan’s “Luddite Manifesto” is not on the internet…
Just curious how you are certain of the better performance and behaviour of Oracle given that Oracle does not allow disclosing of benchmarks without prior consent from them?
The longer a society wears masks, the sicker everyone will be when they eventually come off. In the formerly overly cautious US Northeast, kids are getting sick left and right this school year. And COVID is the least dangerous bold-faced name they need to worry about.
> There are a few reasons why people may argue about the answer to a mathematical question like “8 / 2(2+2)”. One reason is that there is more than one wav to interpret the question and arrive at a different answer. For example, some people may interpret the question as “8 / (2 * (2+2))” and arrive at an answer of 1, while others mav interpret it as “(8 / 2) * (2+2)” and arrive at an answer of 16.

Wow, this is kinda astonishing. Could it ruminate about the precedence of the operators?

Also: the words "may" and "way" appear as "mav" and "wav" in your text. Is this a problem with your input to the HN comment or did the model really make these textual errors?
This is a fantastic list of projects. From 3D renderers, blockchain protocols, frameworks to emulators.

"Build your own X" - "This repository is a compilation of well-written, step-by-step guides for re-creating our favorite technologies from scratch." [0]

[0] https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
Your 'inevitable' comment reminds me of the novice security mindset where something either Secure or it is Not Secure.

In the world of security, you grow up, leave behind the simple binary descriptions, and assess impact of event and threat you're defending against.

This applies to disease safety as well. It's not just 'inevitable' or 'preventable', but there is a difference between getting sick once a year and getting sick every month. Between working in a hospital and working from home. Between being sick by yourself and spreading it to your extended family.

There is a risk assessment to be done, and calculated measures to be taken.
Thanks, I think your perspective is very valid and it boils down to what we are more concerned with (and I think diversity helps here).

For me, I'm more concerned with high probability manipulators, bad faith players and power seekers (i.e. billionaires and their sycophants) exploiting the tendency to charity and pushing leeway to the limit than by failing to win over supporters (for various reasons).

But I do agree it will scare away the supporters and those who care more about the "principle of charity" (or the appearance of that principle, since it's so rarely extended to those without power when they commit desperate crimes or do stupid shit).
Thanks for the heads-up, this is pretty bad indeed. There's truly no escaping the fight between convenience and privacy.

Sigh
For seniors, sure that makes sense, use whatever editor you want, but for onboarding juniors, we definitely have a recommended toolset just so we can make sure there aren't incompatibilities and that their productivity is still high, ie having a debugger when needed, using code completion, error checking, linting tools etc.

My point is you could configure all this stuff in Vim or Emacs but it's not as straightforward plus it wastes time when onboarding. We'd rather have an IDE like experience.
> This is just one possible way to represent six in this numbering system, and there may be other ways to do it as well.

Gotta hand it to ChatGPT. It's not wrong.
What an antiquated argument. If you can't understand Geoffrey Moore's crossing the chasm and what those trends look like in market segments, I can't help you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California#/media/...

I don't need a degree from HBS to see where this is going
> As you yourself pointed, Dostoyevski is a required reading in high school and as anybody who had the "pleasure" of attending school, knows required reading usually isn't something what appeals to the youth (killing joy from this activity is another problem).

That's true of a lot of students, but not everyone! A couple of classmates in particular come to mind who definitely, genuinely loved the books we were assigned.

Heck, while I didn't like most of the books we read, there were a handful I loved! Montana, 1948, for example, was amazing.
It amazes me how many machines there are still out there, connected to the internet, running Windows XP (a 21+ year old OS)