skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government does tell Twitter to do things, the same way they tell you to do things, by passing laws saying not to murder people or have CSAM on your website. That is what happened here.

Sometimes individual government employees report posts, the same way you can; this doesn’t have the force of law and you can ignore them.
It's really not a great argument considering that's all he had.
A similar perspective from Sam Altman that I like:

"The days are long but the decades are short"

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
And then confusingly enough in the mid 1980s those same people who took the LSD were 45 year old Reagan voters.
Yes ChatGPT seems to not understand the makeup of words. We got it to make a game of hangman for us, and it did not go well. In the first game, the word was "table" and despite e, a being the first two guessed letters it did not credit us with a single correct guess. The second word was apple, and once again despite guessing e, a first, it told us we got none correct.

The funnier bit is I told it that we guessed both a and e, and it said it made a mistake and apologized. I also told it we guessed "p" as well (we didn't) and it apologized for that one as well. So basically, it definitely doesn't actually understand what's going on. However, some of the chats were very interesting and even productive.
8 years with your kids is short, 8 years with cancer is long, 8 seconds with your hands on a hot stove is very long.

If you succeed in developing a good or at least occasionally enjoyable life, your perspective on life is different than others barely enduring it at all.

In general, it is short in the way of a bell curve. It is long when you are a child or at the end of a long life enduring hardships of old age.
You can give them away and make someone day’s better though
They are just saying that you can't start adjusting without any priors and personally, I don't think .5 means "I don't know". However from a practical standpoint if you are saying that the method converges to the same distribution at the same rate in any case no matter where the prior is, that would make sense.
Aren't most of these towns smack dab in the middle of 100 year floodplain problems?
That’s what they were saying.
I mean most of the time there running around breaking things and being loud wouldn't say that's great. It's better when there older.
This is the kind of racist, anti-Asian irrationality that made this principal think she could play God with kids' lives.
Suckless can work well if you do things alone and uniquely within text, but when it is time to collaborate in three-dimensional space, you'll find yourself hiding your cringe "Suckless" desktop like a dirty little secret on TTY2. Because who wants to be that guy in the office? Imagine swiveling around to a bewildered colleague, who just watched you struggle to zoom in, scroll down or resize a window. Imagine having to explain to them what they're looking at.

Suckless also leads to wild misconceptions about your ability. It has the minimalist and snappy aesthetic of a hacker wunderkind's monitor, even though you're secretly doing equivalent work to everyone else within this setup, often at a reduced rate due to compatibility issues with the rest of your department. So what then? People start saying things like, "Oh, that Mike really knows what he's doing. Have you seen how bonkers his screen looks?" That's a lot to live up to.

Here's an interesting experiment: Pick a random Suckless fanboy on YouTube. Skim through one of their videos. Then skim through another video from 9 months before. Notice how everything about their work-setup constantly changes. These guys never learn to let things lie, never learn about the power of habits and the unique human ability to adapt to almost any interface, rather than forcing their immediate surroundings into a narrow stencil. Flow with it.
'Baby, It's Cold Outside': The song's origins and controversial interpretations
Someone should post a link to the blog somewhere where the experts on the topic would see it. Like, if this was a machine learning blog, posting it on r/MachineLearning could destroy the offender’s academic reputation.
And then you're replacing the fuel filters when it's below 0 F out because they got destroyed by the gelled diesel. And then you learn your lesson and keep a bottle of Power Service on hand if it's going to get cold and it's never a problem again.

It's literally as easy as having the right fuel additives on hand before it gets too cold. It's not even an infrastructure problem.

I will say that you left out the most fun part of a good winter driving a diesel, which is when you can't fill up even at a station with diesel on account of the fuel gelled in the pump hose. Luckily the gas station on the way home from work is a truck stop and the pumps for the tractor-trailers were still working.

On a related note, it's not unusual for us to lose power here for a couple hours to a couple days at a time either in the worst of winter, or during summer storm season. What do you do with an electric car when the electricity is out in the neighborhood?
I feel sorry for you.

Someone at Google PLEASE, PLEASE, make it enough for a registered phone number to reset the password. I got my phone number with my passport, it is the last thing that don't need any verification. Why is it not necessary? AND stop sending verification email to the email address I am recovering. It is a sick joke.
This is hilarious. You're wrong for like every reason, but I'll give you 3:

1. Berkshire has not significantly outperformed the S&P500 for 20 years. Go take a look, they've basically converged. Markets become more competitive over time. People lose their edge.

2. Investment returns in excess of diversified market returns (which represent underlying growth across the entire economy) ARE zero sum. If you get them, Berkshire does not and quant firms do not and hedge funds do not. If you can beat these guys, don't use your money. Go get a job doing this.

3. Watching Michael Phelps swim is a terrible way to learn to swim. Anatomically he's totally aberrant, but he's also optimizing for fractions of a second racing across an indoor olympic pool. That's all inapplicable to basically everyone swimming anywhere.

You're choosing not to hear what folks are saying and I wish you luck. Your hubris will be rewarded justly by markets, but perhaps only after a few confidence building wins that convince you random jitters of a trend line are really signs of your hidden brilliance yet to be recognized.
I understand what you're saying, but I would hardly call self-checkout "automation." All they did was turn the counter around and made the customer do all the work.
> In the opinion of a LOT of my peers at Sun, THAT was the event that killed Sun. They had fully switched to the dark side of "not open" systems and proprietary everything.

At the time, sure, but surely OpenSolaris was a redemption arc before the end?
There are a lot of great lines in this, but the one that’s always stuck with me is simply “bullshit is the junk food of experience.”

It’s a perfect metaphor in so many ways, there’s some fundamental truth glowing behind it like a lightbulb.
That’s an important detail, I assumed they were German. That makes it much sillier.
HN. Really, that was back at the time of PG essays and Kalzumeus’ 10,000-words blogposts. But I’m probably not an effective manager, I was just a good founder, a passionate creator, and luck/market fit struck me.
Yes the landscape for programming jobs has changed a lot. I still work as a programmer and system admin. I think employers miss out on developing and keeping good people by not offering a career path for enthusiastic beginners. No training, no mentoring, hit the ground running. And then they complain that people don't show any loyalty to the employer.

My first job was with Nike, junior programmer brought on as a contractor with a big crowd of other young programmers looking to get training and experience. We got access to training and assigned two mentors. After two months we either got offered full-time jobs or let go. IT/software development didn't exist as a separate division in big companies back then. I worked in inventory/logistics, so I learned a lot about that business domain along with the programming stuff (DECSystem 20 BASIC, Fortran, COBOL, assembly language). That was a great opportunity to launch my career, and I met some great people there. Decades later one of my former Nike mentors hired me at a software company he had started up.
This reminds me of discussions with some Indian colleagues of mine who were telling me how they were cramming for years in school (with private tutors and studying till late at night) in order to get into very competitive IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology).
Except I don't have these failures with self-checkout in the NL. Self-checkout is my preferred way to shop.
It is my instinctive reaction that if you think you can win your students hearts and minds by eliminating distractions like this, you don't belong in education.

On the risk of sounding hyperbolic, this is the mentality that would ban pencils because they can be used to scribble drawings instead of paying attention to class.

To butcher up a Montessori quote: it is an interesting piece of work that grabs a child's concentration. Not rules.
Happens every year.

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays!
The battery heater is a fixed overhead, so even at the same amperage (and twice the power), if the weather conditions are such that the heater was taking 80% of the available power on a 15A/110V circuit, it'll only be taking 40% of the available power on a 15A/220V circuit, meaning the charging power is 6 times greater.
Interestingly, this is something I tell everyone I encourage to start a blog, with the opposite meaning.

Nobody cares about your blog. They will just read if it's interesting and discard otherwise, but no-one will judge.
Good luck, I hope it calmed down a bit OP. Merry Christmas from fellow on-call to you, HN
this is not just happening to Google, epicgames, steam, GitHub, you name it. It is every online service.
I doubt that his installer is useful for other users than bt.

installer.sh:
mkdir /home/bt/.suckless
cd /home/bt/.suckless

And then installing lots of outdated x11 tools.
> The weight of the battery pack is great for traction in warm / dry conditions, but when driving on ice that weight is just momentum sending you sliding into snow banks.

Not necessarily. In Minnesota, people often put sandbags in trunks/truck beds to get better traction in Winter. Also, one has to be careful when following semi tractor-trailers, as in some Winter conditions, they actually have a shorter stopping distance than your car.
I get the downvoted. Now all you who downvoted: so you have eyes on all those other rich people in jail? Is there a webcam? So how do you know they are there?
Approving parties although based on their response they still have a staffing gap there.
Yesterday, I drove my M3 from Nashville to Chicago in the sub-zero wind. Yes, range was slightly down, but not nearly enough to frustrate me.

I imagine today's battery chemistry won't be viable for mass adoption further North, but other than that, I wouldn't let it stop you. Anecdotally, every other aspect of owning the car is wonderful.
Firefighter/EMT here. Always on call when I'm home. Hoping we don't get a car crash tonight because it's damn cold out there. Turnout gear helps but not enough.
The modern cryptographic functions we were talking about are all based on primes.

Unless you are suddenly trying to shift gears to muddy the water for some other purpose and apply what I said to 'all cryptography', it was pretty clear what we were talking about prior to this response.

Perhaps you should do a bit more research into the origin of those magic constants that get used to initialize those functions.

Where do you think they come from... yes you could change them but then you wouldn't be following the specification, and you can't legitimately call it the same thing.

AFAIK, they are all in some form related to primes, whether that's a truncation of a floating point representation of a prime or some other operation like a square root of a sequence of primes, because evidence has shown that the chaotic nature of primes works best and this is a property we want in cryptographic systems.
Taught myself programming in high school from books and other students who were into it. "Audited" (sat in for free) what few programming classes the local university offered. Read a lot of books. I got lucky and had a couple of good friends/mentors. When I enrolled at college (as a history major) I worked as a tutor in the computer center to pay my tuition. While at that job I got recruited by Nike. They sent people around to local universities recruiting tutors and students working in the computer center. I didn't apply for the job.

I've worked in the software business for over 40 years and I don't think I have ever applied for a job. I always got hired because I knew someone, or someone knew me. Contacts and friends always worked best. I got a couple of jobs through recruiters but in both cases I had contacts inside the company.
Get fiber and host this from your own home. When i see these absurd costs I'm happy with the k8s I built, with ceph for storage.
Can I just say that it's both surreal and ironic seeing you be able to criticize an AI for not Holding Off On Proposing Solutions - and I can only imagine how surreal it must be for you.
You sarcastically accuse me of not being up to speed on current events, but clearly you haven’t read (or at least haven’t comprehended) the multi part “Twitter Files” releases that indeed show that

1) Twitter censorship often took place at the discretion of employees, including Yoel Roth

2) The FBI was in consistent contact with Roth and co, directing them on which topics and individuals to censor

3) the CIA also had representatives who met with Twitter to help arrange censorship.

Best to catch up on the latest breaking news before wading into these discussions. Im sure you’d agree that mis, dis, and malinformation are extremely dangerous to our democracy!
I suppose to some extent this is a matter of taste. I'll just say that, in my experience, people are typically very comfortable with, e.g., logical connectives and the primitive notion of a set of objects from grade school mathematics education. So this framework is "natural" and readily believed.

Further, in ZFC, the only basic notation is that of a set. In something like the calculus of constructions, there are five fundamental notions (if I remember correctly). From the standpoint of ontological parsimony, that's a win for ZFC.

Axiom of separation just says we can make subsets of things - I think this is not so hard to swallow. I'm curious what you find counterintuitive about it.
UHNW is $30 million or higher, so yes, $100M is very much in that bracket
Sure, it probably will hapgen and work, but it feels so wasteful to use AI when we could have just[0] had everyone post the information in machine readable format to start with.

[0] I'm aware that "just" having everyone converge on even a handful of standard formats is, in the real world, a high bar. I do think we could do it - yes, probably by Google applying pressure - but adoption remains Hard.
Very interesting, thanks for the stories.

I think you were right to identify Opteron as a major threat. x86 had taken at lot of market from the UNIX/RISC vendors with Pentium Pro particularly before that, but Opteron really opened a new front in taking the fight beyond the low-end. There were of course big boutique x86 systems from Sequent and Unisys and the like, but those were more like the big UNIX systems -- expensive low volume custom parts. Opteron was the first x86 with scalable, glueless SMP that shared most IP with low end parts. It wasn't until Nehalem 5 years later that even Intel had a comprehensive answer to it either.

I think Scott was right about BSD being too late though. Linux just had the momentum at that point that the BSDs would never again match. Particularly in commerical and "enterprise" supported products. Oracle DB for Linux was available in 97 for example. Sun would have been pushing shit uphill to convince Oracle to support a new port for a BSD they would sell on x86 systems.

OpenSolaris was really the last straw response to Linux I guess, but that was entirely a case of trying to imitate competitors. Not that it may not have gone somewhere if it was opened earlier, but for a time they actually threw open a lot of their internal development forums and things I remember reading through some of them and their performance and scalability and feature targets for OpenSolaris were literally "try to close our gaps with Linux". It was too little too late.

OpenSolaris around Opteron timeframe might have been a little more interesting, although 2003 saw the release of Linux 2.6, at which point it had really built a good head of steam. So unlikely to have made much difference in the long term IMO. The iron would have been far hotter in the 10 or so years before that.
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I'll just link you to a comment of of mine where I explain ChatGPT demonstrating a lack of understanding of what it's saying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125077

Also, for your own amusement you should ask it these two questions and compare the outputs:

Which is older, a baby or a teenager?

Which is older, a 12 year old baby or a teenager?

To the first, it will first explain what a baby is and how old a teenager is (it says 13-19) and say that generally a teenager will be older but that babies and teenagers vary in age and there could be exceptions to this rule.

To the second, it will tell you that the question doesn't make sense because there's no such thing as a 12 year old baby because 12 year olds are much too old to be considered babies.

Generally it is able to compare quantities correctly but it cannot make indirect comparisons this way. It will incorrectly compare 13km and 10mi 100% of the time, for example, despite knowing that 10mi is 16km.

I could keep giving examples of silly or contradictory responses to prompts here. But it's clear that it doesn't really "get" what it's saying in many cases.
When some of your users are kids and some are adults, it seems like a situation where there really is no happy medium that will make everyone happy. Kind of tricky to deal with users who have diametrically opposed goals.

It's interesting how strongly people feel about a basic little game.

(full disclosure, I work at Google but I've never had to deal with upset teachers and upset children arguing in bugs assigned to me)
Learn from the mistakes of others, do not do this. Remember Yevgeniy Nikulin?
You will miss these interactions as they outgrow you. No one looks back at their time when their kids were little, to miss that didn't tap more in their screen
I'm not sure you can call the type rules for CiC "intuitive for programmers". They're quite powerful and go further than "type of argument matches expected type".

Compared to CoC, first order logic is a model of simplicity, and I think it's reasonable to argue that adding the inductive types to get to CiC is as complex as adding a handful of axioms to Fol to obtain ZFC. And don't forget to pick a flavor of universe polymorphism or cumulativity to make it usable. That's not exactly simple.

I think there's a good case for CiC or HoTT being nice and usable for mathematicians. I don't think they're simple or more appealing to programmers. A kernel for metamath is the simplest, and it has more independent implementations than any other system.
"Do pellet stoves use a lot of electricity?
They also require electricity to run fans, controls, and pellet feeders. Under normal usage, they consume about 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) or about $9 worth of electricity per month. Unless the stove has a back-up power supply, the loss of electric power results in no heat and possibly some smoke in the house."

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/wood-and-pellet-heating

In other words the same situation as when you have a natural gas furnace: the electricity goes out and your furnace no longer operates.
Alternative explanation could be they need to keep inventory levels low. In other words, not selling now could be also a logistics issue.

Also like most large manufacturers, Tesla typically pays the subcontractors etc. only after the car is delivered, getting an effectively interest free loan.

But perhaps it's just about meeting Q4 goals.
I host a Canvas LMS on Hetzner to run online courses. We sometimes have hundreds of students simultaneously giving quizzes and exams on the LMS.

I think we pay 16.81 Euros/month.

I am fairly sure a mastodon server should run on a server with half the stats and price.
This is how the zombie apocalypse happens.
> Only North/Central America and Japan uses ~100V systems. The rest of the planet uses ~200V systems

Brazil (which is in South America) has many cities using 110V/115V/120V/127V (you can see at https://antigo.aneel.gov.br/tensoes-nominais which voltages are used for a given city). Note that a single city can have both ~110V and ~220V, and sometimes both can be found in the same building, or even in the same room.
Maine.
This massive resurgence in generative AI has me interested in the AI space all over again.

Going to spend the next 3-6 months just learning everything I can about it.
There may be no solution to the sports industry existing, but that doesn't prevent it from being a waste of capital and labor. But in it's current form, it can at least be improved by switching to soccer. See my other comment to your sibling for more detail.

>Athletes are actually underpaid in the US, if you look at the wage to revenue ratios of most professional leagues.

You need to compare the wage to profit ratio which I'll assume you meant. And while I don't say you're wrong I'd like to see the numbers. Also I guarantee the thousands of faceless workers built around these athletes are more underpayed than the athletes, although whether that's relevant depends on exactly what point you're making. In any case, while the work and drive needed to become an athelete is very high, the amount needed to fulfill the demand is very low. Again, see my other comment. So the effort put in is just to be the one to extract the resources from ticket buyers. And the more effort put in, or more accurately the more exclusive the talent pool becomes, the higher the total cost becomes, although perhaps that amount is negligible, and that depends on the numbers which I don't have and which are either way unnecessary for my central claim.
Anywhere in the middle of the U.S.?
I’ve written a few tens of parsers during my career using recursive descent…along with lots of type checkers. There are lots of tricks here.

Ever since I became a SWE rather than a researcher, I haven’t found a case to write another one, however. It’s much easier just to embed the DSL in kotlin.
Anyone who wants to make art or code or write?
1. Put a computer in everything

2. Connect all the computers to the Internet

3. Gather all the data from all the computers

4. Train machine learning models to automate some tasks <- you are here

5. Gather data about automation initiatives

6. Train machine learning models to learn how to automate automation
That seems irresponsible to me. Shouldn't you be at least saving enough to never have to go back to living like that, no matter what happens, knowing how it feels? Knowing how to live like that and actually living with nothing are 2 different things.
The type of computation used in AI is irrelevant for understanding. If our brains are computable then they are Turing machines. If our brains can understand, then so can any UTM using any system of symbol manipulation it likes.

If you want to define “understanding” to be limited to organisms which interact with their environment, then I think that is an overly limiting and not very useful definition.