skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
doubt it because I suspect the FBI is mostly run by science believing democrats rather than cave dwelling science denying republicans
> Making me ride on the shitty pavement at the edge of the road, and watch out for cars everywhere slows me down, and reduces my danger. :P

Statistically, it does not.
https://letter-press.netlify.app/

They are not impressive but my kids like them.
Is the idea that we should we repeal helmet laws with the intent that it will lead to more people getting hurt, then try to harness that wave of misery to get bicycle infrastructure?
Repeated sessions of deep concentration in a particular subject or problem over a prolonged period clearly creates neural growth. I've tackled several extremely complex projects in my life, and in each case I found that I became increasingly proficient at working on them as time progressed. I started to realize epiphanies typically aren't that you suddenly discovered something, but are that your cognitive ability ultimately progressed to the point where you can fully understand something. By the way, in each of these periods I was regularly napping because of the mental fatigue. I have a sense that a lot of the neural growth happened during those naps.
I think if more population is good then immigration driven developed nations would have open border policies. But they don't, instead reserving space to brain drain high end talent while limiting low end labour (i.e. farm hands) to transient / seasonal work.

There's a need for low skill labour, but not that much. For reference US agriculture has 2M farmers and imports 2M seasonal foreign workers. Combine with automation that's all it takes to become one of the largest ag producers in the world. Meanwhile PRC has 200M farmers doing labour intensive farming simply to maintain a massive rural jobs program. India is even worse. There is a thing as having too many unproductive people.

As for attitudes toward PRC, it's sunk among US led order countries, had a big dip during covid, but is recovering in the last few years in the rest of the world, especially global south which all the western surveys and news reports leave out and pretend 1st world consensus is somehow world consensus. Ultimately, compare US containment proposals from 5 years ago and what actually got done, the TLDR is despite heavy lobbying by two US admins, and its evident economic benefits still drive most relations with PRC, and most US aligned parties aren’t voluntarily falling into US orbit, i.e. there’s a reason US had to announce unilateral export controls, because they couldn’t get CHIP4 partners to play ball.

Cordially dropping out of this thread now.
Let's assume you didn't have a pre-existing knowledge of "what are real, reputable journals for scientific research"? (As opposed to being in a "real world" community where that's institutional knowledge, where you would be looking to curate your internet usage instead of trusting the full public one).

How far away do you think we are from some being able to auto-generate entire fake journals, with plausible-sounding and -looking fake text, fake images, etc, pushing pre-specified prompted conclusions. Maybe mix in some real plagiarized articles as well in tangential areas.

And then you auto-generate a bunch of blogs, that occasionally have some posts talking about how JoesFakeJournal is just as reputable as JSTOR, etc, and actually better because [some random, probably fake, controversial claim]. Or how it's even better for certain topics.

And then auto-generate a bunch of other blogs which occasionally have posts claiming that the legitimate ones are actually fraudulent.

How big of a web of this sort would need to be faked before you, the outsider without special inside-baseball knowledge of academic publishing, would struggle to tell which journals you could trust from which you couldn't?

EDIT: And could a clever enough spammer not just brute-force the creation of all that crap, but figure out how to use prompts to get the language models to create the necessary follow-up prompts, etc, to recursively build out the web of bullshit?
Yea it would be great to know better ways to donate to him.
Most of those workflow tools support at least two execution contexts, one for development and one for deployment (`cargo run` vs executing the compiled binary directly, `npm run` vs `node foo.js`, etc.). There are various reasons for the separation including hidden build steps or to set up the runtime environment, generally you want certain things automated during development but not when the program is deployed. A more accurate way to say this `python foo.py` can’t replace `cargo run` while still doing what it currently does; obviously it could be changed to run the program in the development context. The problem is it’s currently used in multiple contexts, and nobody really wants their workflow to break.
BimmerCode / BimmerLink makes coding/customising supported BMW models even easier, as long as you've got a mobile device and an adaptor (e.g. OBD II to Bluetooth, inexpensive), you can DIY coding and obtain visibility into a lot of the car runtime parameters (e.g. engine oil temperature, boost, etc.) - can connect a screen and display whatever you like, turn off the pesky `ASD` (fake exhaust sound pumped into the cabin via speakers...).

What's more amazing these days is that technology like `bootmod3` (bm3) makes flashing (remmaping) stage one as easy as 1-2-3. One needs to understand what they are doing though.
Show HN: I made a tool, create GitHub Repository from local directory directly
Create a remote repository directly from your local folder to GitHub.
My vague one sentence summary is exactly what the article is saying.

> I don't contest that the US would have casualty but the fact that they know this alone tells you it is unlikely for the US to attack head on with fighter jets and carriers. The bases around china and inter-continental targeting capabilities are crucial in disabling their defenses.

The person quoted in the article claims this is not possible:

> Cancian said part of the reason for the heavy U.S. losses is that the U.S. cannot take down China’s defenses without first moving in close and putting themselves at risk.
The civilized world drives on the right so as to not enable road rage for right handed swordsmen.
Wouldn't China be astronomically more deterred from invading Japan under any circumstances, given that it would lead to all out war with the US (wouldn't it?)
I'm so glad you 1. read the article 2. precisely understood the vulnerability 3. carefully analyzed the situation 4. came up with a high quality analytical comment
On number 2, even if you are John Carmack you may have trouble getting the right people on the phone.

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1305967411749892098...

Anyone at Google Cloud out there? It seems I can't get my GPU quota raised to 40 x V100 as an independent researcher. I was told that setting up a website would help, but I would rather not. I can pay the bills...
So did Ancient China, prior to the Romans.
I'm still a fan of The Witcher, although I think the most tightly plotted episodes are actually the prequel that recently came out (that lacks Henry in it).
Ars covered this a few days ago: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/wyoming-republicans-tak...

This is one of those stories where it's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.
I'm not sure why this represents a victim mentality or some kind of penance. I don't see it that way at all. It's simply risk/reward and understanding how the economic incentives work independent of moral judgements.

As a founder it's crystal clear: you quit your job, you start building a company with no salary, you get some traction, get some investment, and if you work hard and have a good dose of luck along the way you can be very successful (far more than any salaried employee), or you might fail and earn nothing.

Now you add employees, they are expensive and you don't really know what the business climate will look like over time. You know you need some to fulfill your growth potential, but where is the point of diminishing returns? There's no way to know. The Silicon Valley VC model is: if you get a whiff of product-market fit and think you have a potential category-defining product, pour as much money in as you can to maximize scaling—even if it is wasteful or risks flaming out, you do it anyway because otherwise someone else may do it and win.

Now, if you are in a country like France, worker protections mean that if you over-hire, you risk killing the entire company because you overshot your mark and you can't do layoffs. This absolutely plays into hiring plans, and if you don't acknowledge this then it is you who are engaged in wishful thinking.

Note that I don't have anything against worker protections, I liked living in Europe and there are a lot of things that are preferable to the States, but economic upside for programmers like me is not one of them. FAANG definitely broke through the old glass ceilings for tech folks, but A) that competition was introduced by American capitalism and B) even for FAANG it's still significantly higher total comp stateside.
Typing this on a Tex Shinobi, I can't recommend this keyboard enough.

Its Trackpoint is even better than a Thinkpad one. It's the original module with 2 improvements: the ability to adjust the nipple sensitivity from the keyboard and the large buttons which are actually full-blown keys with mechanical switches.

It's also a very nice keyboard on its own. The keycap shape is unique and very nice to the touch, once you get used to it.

I can even place the Shinobi directly on top of my Thinkpad's (X1C6) built-in keyboard so that I don't have to use the latter unless I'm traveling (and unwilling to bring the Shinobi along).
Coincidentally, the acronym you came up with can be pronounced in the same way as 我慢 [1], which, in modern parlance, is the Japanese equivalent of "grin and bear it".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaman_(term)
LANL definitely needs and uses generalist engineers. I interned there as one, many years back. Standard CRUD-app stuff to help the lab do its main goal of nuclear stockpile stewardship.

But it will help if you enjoy research culture. The location is rather isolated and you will probably be friends / co-workers with people doing research. (I say this because not everyone likes being around PhDs; I've met several people in software who disdain academics.)
> What I was pushing was that Chat, and any AI, should be forthright about certain attributes in its programming and training.

Maybe asking the AI itself to do this is the wrong approach. That's just a very tricky matter of programming that won't really solve the root problem.

Who we should be demanding this transparency from is the organizations that build the AI tools.

Google lists when they remove things on their index via DMCA requests.

We've now been given a unique insight into the moderation process at Twitter which showed exactly how hard it is to say no 100x times a week to multiple federal agencies combined with media pressure to "do something", even when the internal data doesn't back up their narratives.

So instead of gambling your internal mod team will make the right choices and push back when it matters, just list the stuff they remove, lists the blacklisted keywords, list the blacklists. It's still making the platform 'safer', you're not debating each choice publicly, but at the same time it doesn't hide decision making behind some backroom moderation team being fed thousands of requests per week from federal/state governments and other power players.

I'd also propose making the "rules" public, but Reddit moderation shows how meaningless the sidebar rules lists are when the mods can do whatever they want to retroactively justify it with vague catchall subsets of rules.

The answer to this problem is far more Wikipedia (as flawed as it is) and less Reddit/Twitter/FB.
We're not talking about an economics program - that would not likely have a Marxist professor - but rather a history class, which could easily have one.
The big thing you left out here was Amazon's relatively-easy returns process and policy. Japanese retailers are not known for easy returns at all.

The credit-card thing though makes some sense as others have said. If you live in Japan, you really should have a Japanese-issued credit card. It makes life a lot easier.
Can it be argued that the cause of the Industrial Revolution was man's insatiable appetite for using our planet's resources? A recurring theme in our history!

Great Britain was an island. By about 1500, its residents had denuded most of its forests for fuel for cooking and heating. So, they turned to using coal. This spurred the need to pump water out of coal mines. The Industrial Revolution represents the uses of these steam-driven pumps for other tasks, such as textile manufacture and steam trains.

"[M]ost of Great Britain’s forests seem to have been cleared for agriculture in antiquity; by 1000 only about 15% of England (as a geographic sub-unit of the island) was forested, a figure which continued to decline rapidly in the centuries that followed (down to a low of around 5%). Consequently wood as a heat fuel was scarce and so beginning in the 16th century we see a marked shift over to coal as a heating fuel for things like cooking and home heating. Fortunately for the residents of Great Britain there were surface coal seems in abundance making the transition relatively easy; once these were exhausted deep mining followed which at last by the late 1600s created the demand for coal-powered pumps finally answered effectively in 1712 by Newcomen."
https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
King County, Washington (Seattle)

Edit: actually, repealed last year due to racism [1]

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/kin...
They have launched Full Self Driving - it's being sold to general public, it's being advertised to general public, and it's being used by general public as a product; the legalese fine-print disclaimer about 'beta' doesn't change that.
The problem may be disk speed, but I agree it may not. The problem I see is the dropping of state.

Specifically, to produce a .o file the compiler has already read through and created indexes of module::function/struct names, their layouts, dependencies, etc.

My understanding is that the .o files need to be re-parsed by the linker to create these indexes, layouts, and dependencies. Especially with LTOs I'd imagine there would be additional inlining work (stuff the compiler is already good at).

This is all just wasted time, including the IO bottlenecks - even if those are marginal.
> But there are smart people who get all this stuff "easily" (previous practice, exposure).

Or, simply by virtue of being more intelligent. Life is not fair, and some people do have it easier than others, without having to pay for it with extra study time.

If you are pursuing a research career, and you observe other students putting similar amounts of effort, but obtaining much better results, understanding things more quickly and getting better ideas, you should probably just drop out. Not everyone can be world class athlete, and not everyone can be a world class researcher, and refusing to accept it will often lead to wasted years and wasted potential: many people who are not smart enough to do top research often can achieve great success in eg. corporate world or startups, or achieve higher family goals and do it earlier (most people will be made more happy by their children than by publishing a mediocre paper that nobody will read). Being hell-bent on following a particular dream can bring a lot of misery.
Yeah to be fair I did buy it off Amazon and got it cheap. I bought it the same day they released the new iPhones in October because I noticed the massive jump in prices and that they'd bumped the prices of some other stuff up so I went on Amazon which still had a bunch of stock with the old prices and bought an iPad Air and the MacBook.

£1725 as of today:

https://amzn.eu/d/5QbkdNz
So if whites were ticketed more for wearing helmets that would be perfectly fine? I don't like this newspeak. I suppose there is this ideal ticketing distribution we are not told of that would keep the law on the books?

I am pro helmet, but anti-nanny laws. I don't wear my helmet when I'm making a local trip to the grocery, but will on longer varied rides. God help me if I were ticketed for not wearing a helmet. I ski too... and don't wear a helmet... I'm not a maniac on the slopes. My 2 cents.
> I see no reason why the uniformed cop should be compelled to reveal his source.

If the defense asks at trial, what legitimate reason is there not to answer?
Funny, when I was Googling around for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34421594 , I stumbled across several questions about how to block TikTok in a router.
Would you prefer to offer seed funding to someone who sold their last startup to Google for 100 million or got 100 million in funding before crashing and burning?

That’s what I meant by a legacy. It’s possible you walked away from each of those startups with the same money, but the perception is very different.
I think the point is to encourage people to have a way to stop exporting when there is not the demand by passing on the negative price that all generators would see in that situation.
Football's very rules seem to be designed for ad breaks.
Why don't we all sing kumbaya and be friends.
Early Release of a CLI for Ansible
Just made an early release of a CLI to create Ansible projects. More intensive CLI features upcoming in the next releases.
Where Tesla’s former CTO thinks battery recycling is headed
Man, I gotta try reading the harder Greg Egan novels again. I'm fine with the biological and even some of the topographical stuff, but when he starts basing character development on actually visualising shifting through orthogonal dimensions like what you're talking about, my brain just exits via my arsehole and I give up.
It seems as though you've conflated the management of perception with the practice of ethical research.

Google is very rich and that enables them to control resources and build things that make them richer. They're in positive feedback loop, and their job is to protect their advantage. Yep, sometimes capitalism gets out of hand.

It's the government's job (on behalf of their citizens) to apply the brakes, and Google has become pretty skilled at managing perceptions to avoid the brakes and maintain their advantage. This document is one part of their strategy.

So, apologizing for Google on the grounds of "they'd get bad press if they shared their toys" rings a bit hollow. They've dressed up self interest as social responsibility, and exploited this weird, radical left wing moment of ours to their advantage.
I found this to be helpful in talking to non-native speakers as well actually. I lived in Japan for several years (and did not speak Japanese), and noticed that Japanese had many loan words from English whose phonemes had been bent to the more rigid Japanese phonemes. Words like "toilet" and "milk" in Japanese are "toi ray" and "miriku." Turns out there are many more and speaking with a faux-Japanese accent made it noticeably easier for Japanese listeners to understand what you were trying to say.

Yes, from an American-perspective, it felt slightly disrespectful at first to do this, but the results were positive.
You can put a breakpoint on a function in a recursive descent parser and see the call stack. You can't put a breakpoint on a grammar production in Yacc and see the parser stack as a call stack in your debugger.

A grammar can be recovered easily only from a very clean Yacc file. A Yacc file can be a hot mess of ad-hoc predecence and associativity overrides which basically requires a specialist with a "Ph. D. in Yacc" to figure out.

GNU Bison (and only that implementation of the Yacc idea) has only recently added the possibility of the grammar having multiple start symbols: e.g. useful if you want to just parse an expression, rather than a file full of definitions.

In recursive descent, you just call whatever function you want, e.g. parse_expr(...).
> People would still fall off bikes and hit their heads, and the people that did that would be safer if they wore helmets, wouldn't they?

A bit, but I'm claiming it will help way less than improving the infrastructure, and there's a long way to go in improving the infrastructure before focusing on wearing helmets makes sense (at a societal level! individuals can still focus on that, of course).

Even in the Netherlands, which has comparatively speaking amazing biking infrastructure, the majority of biking deaths are due to a collision with a car, not people falling down [1]. That to me says that even there, focusing on further improving the infrastructure still makes more sense than focusing on helmet wearing.

However, looking at the data [1], I did find one (almost) exception: for people over 70, biking deaths without a collision approached those with a collision (though the latter were still a majority). So I'll concede that for people over 70, telling them to wear a helmet when biking might make sense.

[1]: https://www.cbs.nl/-/media/_excel/2022/37/maatwerktabel-fiet... (xlsx file)

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Edited to address the edit:

> Honestly, this whole "don't ask me to exercise personal responsibility until you've changed the world for me" thing seems a little petulant.

I'm asking society to focus their efforts on the measures that have the best ROI for improving safety. My claim is that focusing on improving infrastructure has a better ROI than focusing on asking bikers to wear helmets.

That is not to say that individual bikers shouldn't wear helmets. I'm also not arguing about whether or not they should take individual responsibility or not. I'm only claiming that at a societal level, focusing on individual responsibility reduces biking safety. I believe that is backed up by data quoted in the article.
Unlike some of my sibling replies, I see(quel) what you did there.
That was pretty much exactly what I was thinking. Get the political points now, but conveniently schedule the actual action sufficiently far into the future that it doesn't involve any real action or political risk.

Still, there's probably a whole stateful of habitually angry guys thumping their bar tables right now and saying "Yeah!!"
I mean, they don't automatically delete your account and messages after 5 years. They did get fined for this.

But I don't want them to do this. Keeping my messages is the service they are providing to me, the customer. I would be furious if they nuked my account as the regulator suggests. This isn't like advertising companies hoarding data indefinitely, because it's actually in the users interest. It's a shame regulators choose not to see the difference
Never had a problem using TikTok (the app) behind Mullvad.
Definitely pointers, but IIRC it does go over the concepts. I don't recall if it ever touches lifetimes tho.

The book basically uses the crate clap to create all the CLTs, along with specific crates for regex and creating ascii tables for the cal clone.
No, 4D space. Like, you can go forward and back, left and right, up and down, and yimlo and olmiy. We don't have yimlo and olmiy here but I'm sure somebody in 4-space is reading a copy of "Flatland" right now.

The problem wouldn't make sense if you're treating wavelengths as dimensions (and is a far easier problem).
Rust Concepts I Wish I Learner Earlier
Indeed - and at some point it is also forced to pass through a literal air gap, vibrating molecules as it does so at various frequencies — another “attack vector”.
I’m surprised how many people here who have worked in these facilities don’t seem to understand why they should never reply to a stranger on the internet who’s asking this question.
For sure, but I'm still gonna be talking about it.
Well, this projection of me does.