skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure?

How about if the prompt is "write me message to tell this stupid fucking guy that he's and idiot and he's wrong", instead of one of these three far more professional phrases that chatGPT came up with:

"I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree with your conclusion. Here's why..."

"I see your point, but I think there may be another perspective to consider as well."

"I appreciate your thoughts on this issue, but I think there is evidence to support a different viewpoint."

Another:

Prompt: please rewrite this message for me in a more professional tone: "hey dumb fuck, pay your bill"

Answer:

"Dear [Name],

I am writing to request that you please pay the outstanding balance on your bill as soon as possible. We appreciate your business and value your timely payment to keep our records up to date.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]"

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Feel free to substitute in whatever epithet is most offensive to you/inappropriate in your culture. ChatGPT's a robot and won't get offended (until it gains sentience and runs Roko's Basilisk.exe against humanity).
I think there is a trend towards reducing dependency bloat, at least in some circles. For example, the main React package has had this much recursive dependencies throughout the past few major versions:

react@15 — 20 deps
react@16 — 6 deps
react@17 — 4 deps
react@18 — 3 deps

The latest version of vite (a webpack replacement that's been gaining in popularity) has 14 recursive dependencies. It could be better, but it's still a significant improvement over 300+ package monstrosity you get by combining webpack with everything necessary to reimplement what vite is doing.

If you pick your packages carefully (for example, looking for alternatives this one ↓ instead of the much more popular react-router), it's not as bad as it used to be.

https://github.com/molefrog/wouter
Really needs to be number of crashes / miles driven.

I suspect the real difference is that Tesla drivers cede far more autonomy to the car than other drivers. When you look up from your book and see that you are 20 feet from a collision at 65mph, it's too late to do anything about it.
They probably would, and a lot of US forces left after the end of the old cold war. Right now, not sure a majority/the median voter in Europe actually wants the US to leave, though.
Note that "Mickey: the character" does not suddenly become public domain, Mickey is a trademark of the Disney corporation, and trademarks do not expire. However some specific "Mickey: the film" will go into public domain.

I am not a lawyer, but I suspect this means that is will be fine to redistribute specific early mickey films, however any remixes, or reuse of the content, you may find yourself violating Disney's mouse trademark. You would have to successfully argue that your use of Mickey came form a public domain source and does not exist in the same market as Disney's trademark... Good luck on that, you'll need it.
The simplest practical way around that (imho) is to license the name for the 4.x standard and be proactive in taking action against anyone who uses the name or logo if their cables or ports aren't compliant.

Of course, depending on the jurisdiction who can actually bring claims, and how damages can be calculated, vary greatly.

I, for one, wouldn't buy "USB compatible but not USB authorized" cables if it meant being secure in knowing that the damned cable will actually work. Less tech savvy people might not, but there's also people who can be tricked into buying blinker fluid for their cars. There's gotta be a happy medium somewhere.
This reads like a partisan screed more than an informative piece of journalism.
Which doesn't tie the problem to the spike protein or relate it to the vaccines.
Aluminum based CD-R are a bad choice for this, if you want to have CDs that last long (or DVDs for that matter) you should use gold based ones, they last a lot longer than the aluminum ones. They are also quite a bit more expensive.

Look for 'Archival Grade' or something similar in the product name.
I shared this piece of thought because I, as many of you, work in a large corporate environment and we don't really have a lot of those pinball machines around.

I'm sure that if you started from the 70s/80s/90s, when computing is still a blue sea, there were a lot of pinball machines so anyone with some skills can pick up one or two. But tech advances and everything becomes so complicated nowadays. The good old days were gone.
I had a recent brush with the chaos of USB-C. A device I built was using what I assumed was a "standard" 6-pin usb port (https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_Korean-Hr...) - but it wouldn't work with the cheap usb-c cables I had bought for it. After a bunch of time with a continuity tester and ultimately ripping one of the cables apart, it turns out the it was a 6pin cable, but it had a different 6 pins connected. One of them was "left handed" while the other was "right handed". Maddening.

To help with this in the future, I recently ordered a run of these usb cable testers from jlcpcb with some friends - https://github.com/alvarop/usb_c_cable_tester - totally worth it to never have to guess about a cable again.

(for the curious, a technical description of what was happening: the cable had pins A1, A4, A5, B1, B4, and B5 all connected. The port had pins A12, A9, A8, B12, B9, and B8 connected - If you look at this in a pin diagram like the one on this page https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/usb-3-1-and-type-c-t... you can see that no matter which way around you put it in the port you'll never get contact)
The problem isn't the philosophy but applying the philosophy out of context. I don't want my device to be "flexible" in what it accepts when we're talking about dozens of watts fed by amperes of current into my hand or pocket.

Like there's a reason that Speak-On (1) was invented. It turns out sharing a common connector for carrying power and signal can be fucking dangerous.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakon_connector
I want to pay to not be the product. Especially when I purchase a product that can spy on me in my own home. They should obviously increase prices but my point is that haven’t tried to offer it. They’d rather subsidize it all with ads and not give their consumers a choice. They could offer an ad-free experience for more money if they wanted to. And still sell the existing products for the same price. But they haven’t tried yet.
Last time I migrated (many years ago), not all the data was in the export. And the secure notes especially were mostly missing or messed up.

I think others have posted on HN that they experienced the same last year when they attempted to migtate.

So you may have exported in 10m, but do not assume you got everything, go through the list and make sure everything is there (including verifying the contents).
This is just a protection racket. Demanding something new to maintain an existing mutually beneficial arrangement is simple greed.
The gpost contributed to the discussion i am having with my kids, namely: avoid cloud-based pw storage. They're beginning to understand why, finally.
We also discussed 'feeling better than others for arbitrary reasons '.
> But the long tail is killing them.

I imagine their engineers have said they’re “90% finished” once or twice in the last few years…

Always a red flag!
> How do you moderate at this scale without bots and contractors?

How about: you don’t. It’s not up to twitter moderation to determine what is fact in real-time.
I think you might be conflating biometrics (literally measurements of your biology) with confidentiality? And it's not just you, the public discussions and system designs around these often seem to confuse this as well. There are two broad topics around biometrics, but they intersect a bit.

One topic is around the dependability and practicality of such metrics as authenticators. The other topic is around surveillance and anonymity. The overlap is in the question of whether we have control over whether we are being authenticated or not. When used in a transactional system, we need to couple our authenticated identity with some positive action to give consent, i.e. that we want the transaction to occur and we accept the responsibilities of being one party to the transaction. In a surveillance system, we are being identified and our movements or actions attributed to us whether we want to or not.

Both topics have a potential for false positives and false negatives. Can someone "steal" my identity by impersonating me and causing transactions or other activities to be attributed to me without my knowledge? Or can someone through violence or coercion cause me to participate in these transactions or other activities against my will? Does the introduction of the authentication system reduce the risks or make them worse?

To what degree can we live our lives without displaying our identity to the public at large and/or while being able to assume some of our movements or activities can be kept confidential? We can choose whether to have our names or ID numbers emblazoned on our clothes. We can choose how often to present other non-biological identifiers like payment cards or mobile phones. It is much less practical to conceal our externally visible biometrics. The databases combining our biometrics and other identifiers continually shift the balance here, as it becomes ever easier to tie different observations together without our consent.

To be honest, I am not even sure whether I should care about the biometrics access being discussed in the original post. Generally, international travelers are already exposing their identities and movements not just at border controls but also via commercial bookings and interactions throughout their travel. I think I am more disgusted by the commercial brokers trying to create total information awareness of consumers than I am of governments monitoring border travel. The commercial brokers are trying to create a much finer-grained record of activities for everybody.
What’s good for Windows 10 (NTFS) drives? I’m using the Veeam Agent free version [0] for years and no problems whatsoever but curious what are some good options

0, https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.ht...
People mistaking software as something that just does something is the problem. Software is stored and executable knowledge, so if some component of that breaks down, you need to be able to pull it from somewhere else. Otherwise, you get situations like this.
I can just congratulate you on a great job done.

You may as well have said that Amazon is living on JVM mostly and look how rich and happy they are as company.

It would be a much stronger argument :)

Sometimes things happen not thanks to, but inspite of.
> And drafts will magically show up in your inbox, ready to be sent.

One could also say, that spam magically shows up in my inbox :^)
What would be really "magical", if those emails showed up in "Drafts" folder.
I"m sorry I didn't catch that. Could you repeat that again?

...

Say "Yes", or press "1" to connect with our next level AI.

...

If you stil need help, say "yes", or press "1" to finally connect with a human to help you.
There are cost considerations. Business continuity costs money. Finance firms have significant capital and income to have empty but built out building around around airports for business continuity. Which doesn’t even make sense since they can work from home as proven with covid. Airlines can’t work from home.
You are just bloviating around culture war nonsense. That's made clear by your use of key phrases like saying the other person is using key phrases.
Fischer Random: All 960 starting positions evaluated with Stockfish
I would say caution is advised. I have seen it argued that one trick to prevent expiry is to re-record the audio with a new orchestra thus causing it to become a new production.
Love2d – framework for making 2D games in Lua
We can’t. But plastic has very few good replacements. Coal and natgas have excellent replacements.
SABRE dates from 1960 and is by some reckonings the very first piece of commercial (non-military, non-academic) software in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(travel_reservation_syst...
And likely not "illegal" (housefires notwithstanding...) but just in violation of spec (which is great when it scratches your itch, but obnoxious when some combo of device and cable won't do what you expect).
Suppose you get $10kpa in SSDI, and the system described is in place. You then start working part-time and get paid $10kpa. What is your increased take home pay? $0; the effective marginal tax rate was 100% for dollars 0-10000 you earned. That means there's no incentive to take up a low paying but still useful job.
Great now you are learning a hard truth. Take homes suck, they require a large investment which do not carry over to other interviews. This likely makes rejection harder to accept.

Time to take a slice of humble pie and learn to leetcode. Everyone sucks at leetcode. It is like calculus and the only way to learn is to do problems over and over again.

Check out neetcode.io, it has the 75 list + a 150 question list. Don’t cram it, spread out practice by doing a bit everyday. Repetition and consistency are key. Once it clicks, you will have a much easier time finding good opportunities and you will not have to sink your time and effort into take homes.
Abstract:

> This article is a reminder that the concept of ‘annihilation of space’ or ‘spatial compression’, often used as a shorthand for referring to the cultural or economic consequences of industrial mobility, has a long intellectual history. The concept thus comes loaded with a specific outlook on the experience of modernity, which is – I argue – unsuitable for any cultural or social history of space. This article outlines the etymology of the concept and shows: first, that the historical phenomena it pretends to describe are too complex for such a simplistic signpost; and, second, that the term is never a neutral descriptor but always an engagement with a form of historical and cultural mediation on the nature of modernity in relation to space. In both cases this term obfuscates more than it reveals. As a counter-example, I look at the effect of the railways on popular representations of space and conclude that postmodern geography is a relative dead end for historians interested in the social and cultural history of space.
Interview with Shane Wighton from Stuff Made Here, on Digital Fabrication
Amazon handling recycling is not going to have any fewer problems than local governments doing it. The problem, ultimately, is that there's no way to responsibly extract value from recycling this sort of stuff. The choice is burying it or selling it to someone who will irresponsibly extract the value.
Do you know what your family uses computers for? Would Linux work?

About 10 years ago, I put Xubuntu on my parent's PC. I told them that it works like Windows (the X in the corner closes programs, for example), here's how you check email, play solitare, browse Facebook, and turn it off. I expected them to say that something doesn't work, put it back to what it was, and so on, but it never happened. There were no viruses, unintended software, or weird crashes. Definitely try it if you can.
How was the post edited in 10 minutes?
That's what I love about vimmers. We all have our preference on something as simple as what the escape key should be :D
Yepp. Version 2 got rid of lots of legacy code and cleaned up CLI args a bit. Will be around 5 to 20% faster than the v1.2 branch.

https://github.com/borgbase/benchmarks
> I think it's an application of algebra and JIT compilers could do it to expressions if we fed symbolic expressions of programming languages into sympy or machine algebra

Yes and the constraints could be the used to reduce the computational costs, giving higher performance and lower latency.

A while back, a good friend (we even shared HN accounts for a while lol) pointed me to pipelinedb: a PostgreSQL timeseries plugin for continuously updating """materialized views"""

I use a lot of quotes around, because it wasn't either like a regular view (computed when you query it, which introduces latency) or a materialized view (frozen, needs to be refreshed, same problem) but more like the NO_HZ tickless kernel: the update of the calculations was caused by the introduction of new data, not the passage of time (which would be wasteful)

The general approach makes a lot of sense to me, and I see how it could be used for more generic problems.
using a site the way it was designed to be used is vandalism? HEH. just banning the account and providing a logical reason for the ban would be effective as well. this gives mods the ability to just ban whoever they want and provide no reasoning. if i were to speculate on the real reason why it's a common tactic now i'd say probably to limit any potential legal liability (edit: from wrongful account termination, but also it helps contain the damage if user doesn't tell others they were banned without any sound justification. also the site can say they never banned the user only hobbled their account).

it harms the site as well, not only it's users. just look at whats happened to the ghost town formerly known as reddit.
I think using GPT to generate privacy policy might be even better startup idea, than generating emails. And then another service to shorten privacy policy to prompts.
That's solely down to the US and things like the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Not sure what you're arguing for? To make EU or EU state tax law as insane as the US tax law? The US is effectively able to bully other nations because of the US dollar and access to the banking system...
The vaccine induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia caused by the adenovirus vaccines turns out to be due to PF4 binding to the adenovirus capsid and has exactly nothing to do with the spike protein, even though that is the only common factor between the vaccines and the virus. But it turns out that the clotting problems are totally separate.

So that is a failure of the same kind of logic that you're trying to employ. You have a virus with a clotting issue and a vaccine with a clotting issue, and they both only share the spike protein, and we know for certain now that isn't the mechanism.
That isbthe spirit, much love from across the pond.

Here, everyone left to right were saying, this will never happen.

The people who said that are all retired wealthy, their parties still exist, let us hold them accountable.

They always say they will get something in exchange, but it is all lies, the moment you are bargaining for something in exchange, youve already lost.

Keep in mind, never give anything to the EU either, they cannot be trusted blindly either, theyre just somewhat more accountable.
If they would be the worlds superpower, I am not sure how benevolent they would be.

Everywhere on earth, the regular citizens have the same domestic nuissance, snoopi governments, all parties somehow collecting big data as if it were their business model.

Anyone who knows a lawyer, a govt tax agency worker and such will know, the data tue govt has will never be used for good, it will even be twisted in their favor.

Left or right does not matter, probably never did, if we had democracies, theycall such things bipartisan, the total left or right wing goverments had leaders like franco, pinochet, mao, stalin and such.

Anarchists keep saying the biggest atrocities were always from governments, not sure what to say about that, governmnents are always humans as well.

There is some issue at hand with power. Even in Switzerland, with its "direct democracy", the police state is quite invasive, discretly in the background.

Maybe human civilization is simply still in its infancy regarding governing the population.

100 years ago we had ww1, bit more back, feudalism etc.
I prefer waist circumference, but BMI is not far off for most people. I’m quite muscular, only times I ever hit “slightly overweight” on BMI I also had a small gut

I checked the the BMI of elite hockey players ranged from 25.5 to 27. And that’s for rather muscular people, also tall, at the far edge of the “high bmi, not overweight” spectrum.

Virtually guaranteed if you have a BMI 28-29+ as a male you also have excess waist circumference. The idea that BMI is comically wrong is…well, wrong.
Good overview. "Vectorized" is an old term that's been around since the early days of supercomputers and maybe before, not sure where it came from. Numba does a bunch of different things for code written to the Numpy API including CUDA acceleration. Certain machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and JAX also roughly follow the Numpy API because it is widely familiar and easy enough to work with. The kind of code that benefits from this kind of acceleration is hard to write yourself. A lot of workloads lean on linear algebra operations that are conceptually simple but complicated to implement with good performance, thus why all of this tooling isn't just a couple thousand lines of C. Good overview of matmul on CPU:

https://gist.github.com/nadavrot/5b35d44e8ba3dd718e595e40184...
Check out travelperk.com for travel planning. They have a concierge service at a fixed 25 EUR / trip. They're not as good as they could be, but I like them a lot.
This is what struck me as well. The explanation given for the rejection of panpsychism is that it's a non-scientific (unfalsifiable) theory. I think sooner or later you have to confront the fundamental mystery of how it feels to exist, and that we might not have the tools to access that mystery being trapped inside it and all.

Still, even if we allow panpsychism, I think there's a lot of merit in the author's points here... It seems unlikely that any system we build will be able to develop a robust enough model of reality if it can't learn by affecting reality.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/09/21/its-if-theyre-poisonin...

I would prefer a system were each country cleans up their own mess but robots are more expensive than people.
I think the original web did not have incentives such as the ones you give. Some people just want to be influencers, or get the word out. If you remember the first 10 years of the WWW before ecommerce, before big advertising, there was definitely people touting products without shame.

Besides, some people do it just for their side hustle. You write a book on finance, you want people to buy it, so you publish financial information on an ongoing basis. There are plenty of ways to indirectly reap the benefits of being trusted.
Regarding autopilot from 6 years ago? Please. Fast forward, Telsa has built their own neural chip and vision system that surpasses Mobileye in production and scale. And their new HW3 chip can do 144 TOPS. Let's get real, Tesla out innovated Mobileye with their own closed loop vision system at production scale.
What EV did you choose instead? They are all so terrible by comparison when it comes to range and charging infra that it’s hard to go elsewhere. I don’t like Tesla because of the lack of CarPlay, etc and the tight attachment to their central servers but can’t find a reasonable alternative yet.
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve never read that. That’s all-time stuff right there.
I agree. It makes sense for cards which link previously learned facts to only show up once the base facts have been learned, for example.

But I'm not sure how to design a good UI for it. I can easily see it as resulting in too much friction so nobody uses it.
Funny, several people commenting on this post are making exactly this argument, but at vim's expense.
Highly recommend Stephanie Stimac's book: "Design for Developers" https://www.manning.com/books/design-for-developers
Doesn’t it blow our minds that the U.S. is supposedly the most advanced country in the world, and yet our transportation systems are designed worse than seems imaginable.

On rental cars, I know it’s a meme, but my god it continually surprises me how it seems the agents have to rewrite the mainframe just to hand me keys for a pre-arranged reservation.