skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any 'ai' model right now requires classified data to train. It takes human work to classify data

Interestingly that isn’t actually the case. I would guess most data used in ML is not human labeled specifically because it is so expensive and error prone. For example, most work done in the natural sciences simply utilize sensor data. Want to forecast some aspect of the weather? Grab a couple decades of historical data collected by weather sensors. None of that needs to be human labeled, only sensor collected. Some applications certainly do rely on manually human labeled data but not all, and I would personally guess only a minority of applications because of the difficulty in collection.
I don’t know what people are complaining about. The amount of quality entertainment available today is breathtaking. From Breaking Bad to The Wire to excellent series from France, Denmark etc. the choices are amazing! Just don’t watch the super hero crap (except The Boys of course!)
I also find tiny body-text-sized emojis hard to grok. A thing that’s helped me is heavily focusing on context and trying to imagine the human speaker/writer making the same face in said context—i.e. relating it to their apparent emotional state or other clues in their language. It’s like learning vocabulary from scratch all over again, with some prior learning pathways as a shortcut.

I don’t know if that’ll help you (or anyone), and I have other problems with meatspace facial expressions (partial face blindness, probably partly attributable to finding eye contact uncomfortable; although weirdly enough trying to “get” emojis has helped on both these fronts to some small extent). So … idk if this will help but I took all this time typing it so here we are.
I think they're saying that you can conclusively say two strings are different in constant time, but it requires O(length of string) to confirm that two strings really are the same since there can be hash collisions.

So the runtime depends on the frequency of hash collisions. You could construct an adversarial input where there would be many collisions and that would not run in linear time, but the average expected runtime over random inputs can still be O(n).

I wonder if some of the approaches that are used to make hash tables collision could be applied here to make it linear in the presence of adversarial input distribution?

Edit: Maybe if you could update the rolling hash in constant time to account for the distance of each element from the center? Seems like that might not be possible though...

Edit: Hm, that wouldn't work though, since (obviously) if the text is all the same then you must have two two values the same if they are equal.

Edit: To flip the problem a bit, I'm not sure it's possible to construct an adversarial input that is adversarial everywhere but also not trivially a palindrome. So maybe you could assume that all collisions are actually equal, and then backtrack at the end based on whether the collision really wasn't a palindrome? This wouldn't work if constructing adversarial non-trivial inputs is possible, but it seems at least like a somewhat hard problem.
Ukrainian Ministry of Defense paid $15 mln to the victims, but then lawsuits followed demanding more money and the Ukraine suddenly started to deny its guilt. Classic story.
Profoundly bad leadership, that was bought.

Sincere thanks to our legislators for your deep commitment to monied corporate interests.

The founders would be proud of you.
There is a lot of complaining in this thread about the website, the idea, and the author but I have to say I really enjoyed this webpage. There was a another website posted recently [0] that a different style than most things posted here which I also enjoyed. I don't understand why people get so up in arms about things like this. I thought the in-article conversations were fun and playful and added to my enjoyment of the post.

It all comes across as very "bah humbug", "get off my lawn", "I hate fun". I'm not going to say I wish the whole internet looked like this site or that other site but I do enjoy something different than the same look everywhere and I like seeing people try new/different things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446673
I own one (bought new), and don't use the subscription.

It's good for note taking and reading, but uploading PDFs to it and exporting stuff from it is extremely painful and buggy.

I saw a paid FL/OSS desktop app for it at one point, but lost it and my google-fu fails me. Possibly would make it less painful and more useful.
Your core assertion remains false because (1) lithium is not the only battery chemistry, and (2) batteries are not the only, or even cheapest, storage technology.

CAT-L, the biggest battery maker in the world, is today ramping up sodium battery production capacity. Will you now insist on a sodium supply bottleneck?
https://archive.is/d0QYF
I really like how they have their own Mastadon instance. That's better than any "blue checkmark" ever could be. Wondering if @ivory@tapbots.social is the real Ivory app account? Well... the domain is company domain!

A cool business idea would be to host a Mastadon instance for celebrities, where everyone is verified, and there's no open registration at all. It's more of a branding company than a tech company, but then you would know that if you see @barackobama@bluecheck.social, it's the former president.
At the time of (my) commenting parent is heavily downvoted.

> “Corporations are bound by fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit"

This is often repeated on HN and elsewhere. I'm not a corporate lawyer or any sort of lawyer but an Internet search indicates this isn't true. I wish people would comment instead of just downvoting.
Ugh - the disappearing clusters are frustrating
> which happens just as often

What happens just as often? Two nuclear power plants going offline vs it being rainy and not also windy?
You don't have to utilize the talent; you just have to keep it out of the hands of your competitors.
The Legacy of Aaron Swartz
What? How is the site not safe for work?
The dismissive attitude v WEF this year is interesting. The generic globalist-capitalist vision does not sell as much as in the past, it seems (for good reasons). Good signs, maybe there will be a generational shift from the gerontocracy that controlled the global agenda
PS: The commands in Unix pipes are executed in parallel, and “|” could be interpreted as a mnemonic of that fact. However, the same is not true for the programming-language feature discussed here, which only processes singular values, not streams.
But it says right there which square you have to visit next.
> Commodity prices are rising… causing more mines to open…

Yes.

> causing more supply…

Yes

> which will cause prices to drop.

Nope! Remember, the expanded supply is only profitable to operate at higher prices. So the price will drop if demand drops and then supplier will operate the more efficient extraction sites. But if demand stays high, so will prices.
Who said it’s over?
Y'all need some Jesus.
how to type the emoji on terminal?
I am 67 years old and ChatGPT is just a more efficient LISP as far as I can tell, but I could be wrong, since I am 67 years old
This is a great resource. I was recently surprised by the different ways to note boards/moves/pieces when trying to get ChatGPT to play a game of chess with me.

Bonus points: Ask it to invent Fairy Chess deviant moves [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess]
I think it's you that has the problem. They are cartoon characters with bunny (or whatever) ears. Fur/furry isn't mentioned once.

If you're triggered by bunny ears, how do you cope with seeing 𓂺 on a toilet stall?

> he or she

From the bit you claim not to understand 'Please do not use "he"' is very clear.
Truly, one of the main reasons I might stop increasing the complexity of a bash one-liner and move it to a full shell script, or bail for Python, is specifically so I can turn those chains of pipes into imperative steps with temp vars so that they're actually legible and easy to reason about. I can't imagine why I'd want to go the other direction.
Furry isn't a fetish.

https://soatok.blog/2021/04/02/the-furry-sexuality-blog-post...

Hope this helps.
No, it's use of cheap labor in Africa.
The difference? It’s one more burden for the female to bear while relieving the male of the species of personal responsibility and accountability.
Where is Kaczynski now? Whether you run to a far off country living a decent maybe modest life before ultimately getting caught vs living like it's the 1800s in not very comfy lifestyle before getting caught, you still got caught. Do you really think ms iAmSomebodySpecial is going to live like the unibomber for 20 years?

so the point is why would someone recommend that a poshSpice type of person live like a mountain man? hell, even Heisenberg couldn't live in the woods by himself before escaping back to his home to his eventual capture.
Okay, I read it...

> Sexual attraction to furry characters is a polarizing issue. In one survey with 4,300 furry respondents, 37% answered that sexual attraction is important in their furry activities, 38% were ambivalent, and 24% answered that it has little or nothing to do with their furry activities.

So I'm reading "no reason to assume it's a sexual thing without specific contextual evidence", which I'm not seeing here.
This starts from the assumption that billionaire funds are intrinsically malign in intent.

While it may be helpful that some portion of the public believes this, to keep them on their toes, it is not really fair.

For instance, this video itself criticizes Gates Foundation malaria funding for drawing resources away from other diseases.

But it is obvious that the enormous funding given to battle malaria was philanthropic rather than a way to get even richer.

Soros, the Templetons, Dustin Moskowitz, Warren Buffett, and so on are all likewise philanthropists and there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of it.

So the problem would be mainly about differences in worldview. Their view on how to make society better involves using the market, or taking a rosy picture of the role of private enterprise.

And this is likely a reflection of their sincerely held views.

So the problem here is that some dont like that people can become vastly wealthy and then use it to promote their views with a larger megaphone, even if there is no direct financial benefit or nefarious goal.
I was specifically citing the wind and solar share delivered to loads on those grids over the last year and you know this, this attempt to derail is hilariously transparent and pathetic. Additionally South Australia has almost zero storage or hydro and is at 69% for the year. Their link to the rest of NEM suffered storm damage throughout the year so there has been very little interconnect, but unlike last time when they relied on imported coal, gas and hydro this has not resulted in anything remotely like a shortage. This also puts the lies about transmission being more precarious with renewables to bed.

And why stop at 60 indeed. Feed a little surplus into dispatchable loads like EV charging, district heat storage and electrolysis, and 80-90% is pretty trivial.

It's very easy to see this as you can just scale up the current mix in many grids until curtailment hits 30% or so (plus whatever portion can be peak shaved by plugging your car in at work, plus the extra during low generation for new generation including less-correlated offshore wind or vertical solar) and see how much of an obvious lie the 40% claim is, and how incapable of critical thinking someone would have to be to believe they could pass the lie off as anything related to reality.
> His employer could have prevented such a “disastrous” outcome, said Farahany, with a “simple wearable hat” that, using “embedded electro-sensors,”

I figure if I'm doing an illegal shift my boss has pressured me into I'm going to take the hat off because either my boss tells me to or its uncomfortable over the course of a 20 hour shift. I don't think it solves the problem in the way they pretend it does.

Nor do I buy the argument that copying what Chinese firms are doing (the example of the rail company) is necessarily a strong reason, given we might be just following micro-managing idiots into a dead-end of their own construction.

The true horror is this monstrosity is the oppression of neuro-divergent individuals by automated models trained on typical minds following happy paths.
FAA outage: US airline regulators blame contractor (By file deletion)
You should be linking to evidence that prices will rise uncontrollably if you want to support your argument that battery production won't keep increasing.

I will remind you that this is your absurd argument:

> By comparison, the entire world only produces ~400 GWh of batteries each year. So it'd only take a decade and a half of global battery production to satisfy the storage demands of just the USA. The rest of the world would be left with zero EV or electronics production for a decade and a half and no grid storage to show for it.

> Thanks for the site: it's a good tool to demonstrate just how unfeasible energy storage really is.

Which is totally different from "battery prices might increase a little", which I have repeatedly indicated is not a problem, and I even pointed out that it is a possibility a long time upthread from here.
If names are the source of crisis, wouldn’t it be better to define temporary variables without names?

var [$1, $2] = foo(bar(envars))
console.log(chalk.bold($2), $1)

Job done, no plumbing needed. Has the same level of semantics as %.
Nice, always love seeing fellow bartenders turned software. I had a totally different, arguably more [cliche and less well-written story](https://www.helloim.dev/blog/posts/Bartender-Perspective-On-...) and am always rambling on about the weird ways bartending prepped me.
I feel the smugness in this post overlooks that fact that most of the time ChatGPT is going to be correct.
Hey, at least it's not Medium.
Ctrl-Shift-U, 1, f, 9, 7, a, Return
For sure! I don't mean it's universal at all - I'm saying the question is setup to catch people who are nor primed with the right enculturation. It's not good! It just is a good filter that selects for the sorts of people the business wants to hire.
Also, Opaque Systems
Also the ones on world radio history are searchable. They have a search feature on their website to search all their documents as they have all been OCR'ed.
You can definitely compute predictions with Spark, for instance: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2020/11/16/how-to-train-xgbo...
Ok but American planes fly in and out of the US. Also domestic flights have no limitations on foreigners. Unless you are saying that it's ok to have terrorists onboard, as long as they're not trying to terrorize America.
>I understand the general public thinks their life depends on a company.

And do you think this is not a fair assessment?
It's more like many features are almost there but not quite and then do something differently. GATs are almost HKT but not quite and they're Rust specific rather than based in a common theory like category theory that many languages implement. Keyword generics are also almost like algebraic effects but not quite. It's more that I want Rust features to go all the way rather than do something 80% and in a different way than what other languages might commonly do.
How does that help you get to the indicated square?
I don't know how often that happens.

But anyway in my case I didn't say it was their duty, I was talking basically about the psychology.

From this angle, it's about whether they think that shareholders will/might think they made a mistake, not about whether they actually made the best judgement for the company.

I have no doubt that at least some CEOs will absolutely choose to do something that they privately believe is not optimal for the company, when they think shareholders will see things differently.

The converse of this is seen when a politician does something out of principle that they know will get them in trouble with voters. We have plenty of evidence that that happens -- and that it's on the rare side.
I resonate with this.

I ran into a guy in the early part of my job at a company several years ago. We had a 30 minute discussion about how to collaborate. By the end he was screaming at me.

I realized there was something deeply wrong. I realized he was completely incompetent in his job and was very threatened by being “exposed” by having someone like me (knows the market) enter his space.

He then started spreading rumors about me and trying to humiliate me in public. He screwed up and dropped the ball on a major deal I referred to him worth millions.

I was so fed up with him I told him exactly what I thought of him. He escalated it to Hr and it blew up hilariously in his face.

Incompetent people are the most dangerous and nasty people, and most vindictive. You have to be so careful.
Well that took me 28 minutes.

I love it.
Imagine you are running a restaurant and normally you get 100 people a night and you service that with 10 staff, and you know for the next year you will get 200 people a night and can support that business with 20 staff and then after it will go back down to 100 people.

So you can choose to:

1. Refuse to hire the extra staff for a year and lose out on the profits of 100 customers a night for a year.

2. Go with the flow, expanding when demand increases and contracting when demand decreases.

Most people will go with option 2 as that is what gets you more money and also allows the economy to respond to price signals in a rational way. This is particularly true of growth companies like Google. The idea of a growth company is not to maintain constant revenues and employment over time. People who go to work for Google should understand that Google will hire more staff when demand goes up. But then they should also understand that Google will cut staff when demand falls.

That it's predictable that demand goes up and down does nothing to change this calculus. It's like people blaming the home builders in 2010 for expanding home building. I mean, when there is an increased demand for new housing, why wouldn't they expand home building?
When a negotiating party acts in bad faith, this can motivate creative reciprocal responses. If "right to repair" is being blocked, expand the Overton Window to "right to modify". Create a yearly Transformed Electronics contest for creative mods to consumer devices. Add new features, remove unwanted features. If everything is declared impossible, then anything is possible. Repair shops can compete in electronics surgery, expanding the art of the possible.

Create a super-premium market for modified devices, where incremental revenue goes to repair shops and not the original vendor. Since modified devices cannot use a vendor warranty, that redirects consumer budget to warranties provided by repair shops. Grow the market for quality 3rd-party components. Promote OSS firmware and vendors of modular, repair-friendly products like the Framework laptop.

HN ranking graph for this story: https://hnrankings.info/34460821/
I feel compelled to dive in here with a well actually, mastodon clients don't speak activitypub, the protocol used between servers, they speak mastodon api, the semi standard but predominant client server protocol.
Often a viable strategy during tough times of holding on to your house in case of layoff or not:

- Take in paying roommate(s) (those are good for medium periods of down years)

- Taking side jobs of disparate skill sets (woodcrafting)

- pare back non-essential utilities
Lithium is the only viable battery chemistry we have presently. Lead acid decays after 100-200 cycles. Who knows if sodium will be viable, it'd be a lot better to argue for its efficacy when it's actually on the market.

The other forms of storage have other shortcomings: hydroelectric storage is geographically dependent. Most of the other form of storage people are mentioning in this tread have never been operated outside of prototypes: like hydrogen electrolysis or compressed air. Again, technological feasibility and market viability are two vastly different things. If compressed air storage works, but it's more expensive than nuclear power what's the point?
it just stripped the emoji
They originated around the same time, but singular you was initially only used for addressing superiors/showing respect (using the plural second person pronoun as a singular for this purpose is still a thing in a bunch of languages), a few hundred years later “you” became the standard second person singular pronoun while “thou” fell out of favour.
Does HN no longer strip emoji characters, or is it just a bug that allows this specific character to slip through?
How does the knight move?

https://youtu.be/5lZEt6oz5MQ

https://youtu.be/wfDCLEAU9hE
Good points, I almost feel like we have this unusual "need" to build an asshole AI to find out what it's like to have an asshole AI in our lives...kind of like how people don't want to ski into a tree, but for some reason develop target fixation, then ski into...the tree.
People so dangerous we can't let them on an airplane, but not so dangerous, or with so little proof of any wrongdoing, that arresting them cannot be justified.

So yeah, the whole thing is bullshit. And it will continue because no politician wants to be the guy who fixes this mess then loses his next election because something happened and his "weak on terrorism" stance gets blamed.
I presume magnesium could be used instead of zinc for corrosion protection.

We're now seeing solar systems where the modules are simply laid flat on the ground, with a few steel anchors.
Kaczynski wasn't on the run and he had clear title to his property as I understand it. You could look up where he was in the property records.

He didn't get not captured because no one knew where Ted was. It's because they didn't know Ted was the guy doing the bad stuff.
The process in the article is for scale/large commercial operations. Smaller or family run ones will use different methods.
Thank you! The title of the post made me think it was on something entirely different.
This is going way over my head. Am I the only one here who just puts everyone in sudoers and does NOPASSWD? Where are these multi-user systems where you don't really trust everyone who has access?
They do believe it should be rewritten in Rust:

> The part about being annoyed that sudo is still written in C is coming from a sense of exasperation that there's still more predictable memory safety bugs involved with sudo because it's still written in C.
whoops - will fix, thank you!
I think (hope) this is for the other poster and others of a similar mind, but in case I flubbed saying so: I think your site and its furry content is rad, and do not personally want to see anything different.
I don't think they care. They can just shrug and say "Misinformation" and "You need to stop letting the alt-right scare you." And ten years later when you're squeezing the last of the bug-paste ("New Crunchy style!") out of your pre-third shift meal supplement packet and reading on the telescreen how the chocolate ration has been increased to five grams, well, you won't want to do anything rebellious in your safe little pod, lest your social credit scores sink enough that Amaflix and Marv-Ney deplatform your connection, and your options are twiddling your thumbs hoping another gig job makes itself available or you're reduced to leaving your head in the Satisfaction Tracker for one Hertz sampling of "engagement" as a nameless studio shows you pre-vis dumped out of MediaGPT-7 in between ads. Between your worries, your woes, and the relentless twenty smash cuts per second delivery of anything, your attention will be so atomized you won't be able to think back to how it all started.