skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something being "clear" only matters, in so far as it is understood. That is my definition of "clear". It is only clear if it is understood, no matter what, or how clear you think it is. It is defined as unclear, if it is not understood, commonly.

> I mean, it was clear enough for the other OP to know they went against it. They didn’t need to be told, they already knew their usage was against the TOS and just didn’t like that Cloudflare decided to enforce the rule they very well knew they were already breaking. They even said it themselves.

It's evidently clear. Did you even read the thread we’re talking about? Like even remotely? Or are you continuing on the same diatribe regardless what was clearly already written?

> I am not saying I am right. I did break the TOS. They have the right to do what they did. It's just not nice and I don't like them anymore :)

This is not a person who was confused. Period.
Or they've read up on anthropology, this is common knowledge in the field
If it's free I would check what role they have in mind for you.
I don’t disagree with you, but I know plenty of folks with Masters making less than that, albeit outside of tech.

I’m not sure you deserve the downvotes, I think the way you phrased it might make people think you’re out of touch.
I think China is actually unironically going to launch a surprise hypersonic missile attack on the pacific fleet in pearl harbour in the hopes of delaying the americans long enough for them to seize enough islands to sue for peace.

You'd think after the last go they'd have learned what happens to asian countries that try this, but apparently not. It's literally the exact same situation that Japan was in. They're scared of trade embargoes so they decide to invade asia... which then leads to less trade because they're at war. Then they get nuked.
> The system is designed to have a backup, standby system, which unfortunately, runs the exact same code.

At Boeing, the backup system runs on a different CPU architecture, with a different program design, a different programming language, and a different team that isn't allowed to talk with the team on the other path.
I wouldn’t call them niche, but no, the long distance routes are not profitable and never will be. They were introduce by the Rail Passenger Service act of 1970, and probably were initially requested, for better or worse, to serve as political pork for Amtrak funding as they serve rural communities as well as tourists. One could also argue that Amtrak is kept hostage, and can never offer high quality service (prior to the infrastructure bill) as it needs to bleed money into these routes.

However I think it is a mistake to focus on profitability here. These trains are a public utility, and should be treated as such. We are spending way more money into maintaining the super inefficient transportation system of private automobiles, and you are paying for it even if you don’t own a car your self, that is both thorough direct taxes, but also in increased property/rent prices to accommodate parking, or with the climate disaster.

Ideally I wouldn’t mind Amtrak canceling most of these routes if they were replaced by something better.

I think many shorter but well connected routes throughout these corridors would be better (I mean, one train a day between Seattle and Spokane is not enough). For example, if the Coast Starlight had it’s infrastructure upgraded, tracks straightened with overhead electrical wires, would interline with future Cascadia High Speed Rail to Eugene, run through Medford (as opposed to Klamath Falls) and finally stop in Sacramento where you could transfer to the future California High Speed Rail if you wanted to continue to LA or the Capitol Corridor to San Francisco. This would be way better then a single Coast Starlight train a day between Seattle and LA in 36 hours.
they need to add box elder to the set of images
> I do not believe utilitarianism is sound, because its logic can be easily used to justify some obviously horrible things.

This was the point I was making, yes. The idea itself isn't logically faulty, but it is easy to subvert.
LMGTFY sudo smartctl -t long -a /dev/sdX
How could one possibly harm their reputation by using a legal medication
Who is Kaya, and in what part of the movie does Ashitaka have a romantic partner?
It goes both ways but people usually take one extreme.

You absolutely cannot deny the fact that chatGPT produces a lot of bullshit.

But at the same time you absolutely cannot deny the fact that it produces a lot of real answers to very complex questions.

Both the ability to make shit up and give real complex answers are amazing achievements.

I think a lot of people haven't picked up on the fact that in both cases chatGPT actually understands what you are telling it.
I don't know why I would want to query a ML algorithm to generate an answer as opposed to finding a webpage to read about the topic. Sure sometimes I am just looking for "Who was the actor in Alien?" and want a name to spit out. But most of the time I am using the query as a key to a larger amount of information. Search has gotten worse over time, but I don't think this solves that problem. Instead I think the corpus for these will end up being corrupted by SEO and we will have garbage there as well. Increasingly I want a search that is just Google 20 years ago, Kagi is the most promising company in this space imo.
I'd like to see this too!

The official line is that endurance should not matter for most people. For example the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB is rated for 2400TB TBW - which, if the drive has a service of 5 years, is 1.3TB of data written per day. The average user will need < 1% of that.

Where that falls down though of course is cases like this. The point of a review is to show when real-world performance doesn't match the marketing. Tech reviewers seem to be blindly trusting the marketing on this one. They're really dropping the ball.
Same score, and most of these plants aren't native here (W Oregon) and I wasn't familiar (in particular jack-in-the-pulpit got me 2/3 times, and then sarsaparilla appeared once).

I get asked to teach people plant ID sometimes, and people often seem mystified by it, until I explain the concept of "search image". It seems to give them a new way to approach it and seems helpful in most cases. Probably related to what you mean by "developing an instinct".
Please define 'talented' first! Any 'talented' developer can code in most languages (well there are exceptions, VB comes to my mind :-) )

There are 'experienced', 'hard working', 'team player', 'junior' (aka cheap)and even 'senior' (a developer's developer) but 'talented'?
This was not left out. It is mentioned as the "ultra-materialist" position.
Okay? What I said still stands.
This video about how to wash off poison ivy changed my life. The key is that urushiol acts a lot like invisible motor oil in terms of how it sticks to your skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoDRHpQK0
Everything is nothing until it is something.
I have had the happiest moments of my life on MDMA. Everyone should have experienced it at least once. Let me put it another way: No matter how happy you have ever been, on MDMA you can be happier. Somewhere between 3 and 100 times as happy. You gain perspective.

Now, with experience, I would only ever use it with purpose. Dating someone seriously? Have a night on MDMA and you will experience love beyond comprehension.
44/55. I had zero information about what poison ivy looks like before playing this game. This game is very good at teaching (or I got lucky).
Still waiting for Proctorio to pay legal expenses incurred fighting their appeal
Laravel and in particular laracasts.com has been good for me getting back into it after an extended break.
Loss of us ts/sci for use of controlled substances
I condensed down 30M JPGs to 2.6TB and it takes me 6 days to move them
It's worth reading the response from a person in China. That's not to say you should believe it _more_, but that you should hear what the objections are and whether they make sense (and whether that critique calls into question anything else in the original report, which, by the way, you should also read http://english.scio.gov.cn/xinjiangfocus/2020-09/14/content_...).

That said, "non-governmental" and "non-U.S." coverage can be suprisingly illusory. Pay attention to the sources next time you see a Xinjiang story, whether in or out of the U.S., and report back if you find out that it ultimately sources someone other than Zenz (of course, make sure to do this recursively).

It's also worth pointing out that non-governmental organizations get their funding from somewhere, and, surprise, the places most critical of China tend to get their grants from sources that are ultimately government funds. The National Endowment for Democracy and Radio Free Asia are particularly infamous for distancing themselves from their government ties (Allen Weinstein, a founder of the former, famously said in a 1991 interview that "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.").
Very interesting, considering what happened with MCAS.
I hate these “single line of code did X” type headlines.

It will always be a single line of code. The nature of most programs is to execute commands in a sequence. Eventually you hit one that fails.

Hell, you could reduce it to even be less than a line of code. It could be a single variable. A single instruction. It could be a couple bits. A couple bad 1’s and 0’s in memory blew up a multibillion dollar rocket launch.
> When I was 10ish Me and my older brother would go to the thrift store and dig through the computer parts, it was an adventure.

I miss that too. Thrift stores suck now, they're pulling all the good clothes out and selling them to upcyclers and pulling all the cool electronics and cameras and other stuff and selling them on ShopGoodwill and ebay.

And ShopGoodwill is pretty absurd, almost everything is sold as-is and uninspected, and prices are just as high as ebay if not sometimes higher.

The days of wandering through a goodwill and finding some neat stuff at a bargain price are gone now, unfortunately.
> around 5 minutes with windows fully open and heating closed will do the trick.

no it won't not at all it's a common misconception especially in Germany

EDIT: jut to be clear it does work if you do the 5m airing often enough, but this is where the problem comes in it is fundamentally unpractical. I mean I can measure it tomorrow (through after long airing after sleep).

most ideas about insulation circulating in Germany are only half thought thru and sometimes do more environmental harm then good (depending on the building).
> Why should we look to him for AI questions? What evidence is there that he has any new knowledge?

He covers this in the article. He doesn't. He's just trying stuff out with a different approach than others because he believes (and is probably correct) that there is a chance that the most efficient path forward to AGI isn't the work that OpenAI and others are doing.
It depends on if you have a specific antibody that targets specific opiate compounds. For example, oxycodone was very dysphoric and caused me even more pain, whereas hydrocodone caused me the intended therapeutic effect of euphoria and analgesia
I have all the same feelings about the Super Bowl, it's pointless and dumb, just a little ball. Who cares? Apparently lots of people do, worth billions of dollars.. Everyone needs a hobby.
> These people were patently not doing anything reprehensible

Says you. I say differently.
I can't decide if the font makes me angry or not.
Here's a potentially relevant post about unusually effective ways to structure a formal math class like LA: https://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebr...

Could be a source of inspiration for how to structure things.

And here are some concrete suggestions for how to effectively study on one's own in the context of a class: https://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebr...
I agree, I find it easy to identify in any season. We have few plants that resemble it or its growth habits in anything but a superficial way, plus poison oak is much less variable in leaf size and shape than poison ivy.

The buds and stem tips are especially good giveaways, but I didn't really realize it until I lived somewhere with multiple species of sumac.
Haha, no, they didn't.
Hmm, well calling it a problem might be a bit much, but it means that functions with more than argument require some additional care, and technically a stronger notion of functor.

Say you have a multivariate function a: X x Y -> Z, and a functor F. This would give you a function F(a): F(X x Y) -> F(Z). Now this is not really multivariate any more as F(X x Y) is not a product, but products behave quite well in category theory so this is not usually that big a problem, and it turns out that quite a few functors are 'continuous' which means they preserve 'limits' and a product is one such limit, in which case F(X) x F(Y) ~= F(X x Y). In particular all right adjoint functors have this property, which is why adjointness is such an important concept.

Now in Haskell things get slightly more difficult, because you don't have a function a: X x Y -> Z, you've got a function a: X -> (Y => Z). Where Y => Z is an object representing all maps from Y to Z (such an object may or may not exist for any particular category). And to use currying you need something like (X * Y) -> Z and X -> (Y => Z) to be isomorphic. So you don't just need F(X x Y) = F(X) x F(Y), which is fairly innocuous, you need to deal with monoidal categories and monoidal functions between them, which is a heck of a lot more complex. This is where the Applicative stuff comes from.

Now some of the stuff you don't get as easily in Haskell is the stuff relying on basic properties of sum and product types, such as

# The following are the obvious projections for a 2-tuple
proj1 :: (X x Y) -> X
proj2 :: (X x Y) -> Y

# Assuming F(X) x F(Y) exists we get the following for free
(F(proj1) x F(proj2)) :: F(X x Y) -> F(X) x F(Y)

No clue how you'd state that in Haskell. And the following

# The following are the obvious projections for a 2-tuple
anX :: X -> (X + Y)
anY :: Y -> (X + Y)

# Assuming F(X) + F(Y) exists we get the following for free
(F(anX) + F(anY)) :: F(X) + F(Y) -> F(X + Y)

where you can interpret X + Y as an 'Either X Y'.

Sure you could probably write a function

forall Functor f. Either (f a) (f b) -> f (Either a b)

but it's not that obvious that it should exist, whereas in category theory it's one of the most obvious constructions imaginable and its existence is clear from the definition. And in Haskell you wouldn't think about using products so the first property is probably barely used anywhere (there's probably a right inverse for zip somewhere: unzip :: [(a,b)] -> ([a],[b]) but Haskell generally doesn't seem to like functions with multiple outputs.
54/55. Grew up in Ohio spending every day off trail in the woods. Misidentified one because the site gets cropped off on mobile and I got over confident and didn't scroll to see the whole photo.
Were they correlated? Did you regularly think "I'm feeling stupid" and glanced at the meter and it was elevated? Conversely, did you look at a low reading and notice that you had no trouble concentrating?

I guess I should look at some studies, hm.
I say this with love: He needs a girlfriend (or life partner)
All that means is that it's better at stringing together words than you are
One of the things I find myself doing a lot is trying to make sense of a given HN discussion -- so I fed an archived version of this discussion to the summarizer: (https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://archive.is/HdWx7):

> Universal Summarizer is a tool developed by Kagi that is able to quickly and accurately summarize articles, videos, and other texts. It is able to pick out unique and interesting details from the text, such as Ratz having a prosthetic arm in the bar in the novel Catch 22. It is also able to summarize technical documentation and Moby Dick, as well as provide a summary of the themes in Walden. It is able to summarize videos as well, and is a useful tool for developers to familiarize themselves with academic papers. It is also able to provide summaries in multiple languages, and is able to detect jokes and humorous elements in the text. It is an impressive tool that is sure to be a hit with developers and researchers alike.
This posting came two months late for me.

My 980 2TB crossed the river styx over the holiday break. Failure mode exactly as described. Nice Christmas present for me. Took 3 weeks to get the warranty replacement from Samsung.
That's an untested assumption :)
Multi-Account Containers made by Mozilla is the reason I can't stop using Firefox. Chrome doesn't have any similar extension that can display multiple profiles in one window like it does.
I’d love to hear more about this. What is it are most people referring to when they talk about consciousness?
Toxic Mimicry
No it’s not irrelevant; bias is good when it hinders horrible things and supports great things.

This is an argument on the merits of specific biases, not an argument that all biases are bad; no person or group operates with the intention of removing all bias, even if they claim to want that.
It's an uncomfortable in-between area as laws shift towards common sense but social values among certain cohorts remain defiantly anchored in the past. We've seen it a million times before and we always get past that in-between area, though not without casualties.
The area of AI research isn't some outlier of super geniuses that don't exist anywhere else. Carmack has often worked around some of the best talent on the planet and he has always stood out.
In general, it doesn’t matter whether you’re open to the public or not.

What matters much more is that you’re open with your own employees.

The “open startup” idea always seemed superficial to me, founders seeking external validation.

Over the long-term, what really matters is keeping your people (employees) happy, and one very easy way to do that is to show that you appreciate and respect them by sharing your company’s key metrics with them.

Not every month will be great, but that’s ok. If you’re running your business responsibly, you’ll be able to say “we didn’t have a great month, but we have 5 years of runway”.

If you hide metrics because your business is unsustainable, then yea, don’t show your metrics to anyone… and if you work for a private tech company with very guarded metrics, it’s safe to assume they are not doing well financially.
Even if it's not legalized for recreational use, MDMA is a potent, useful therapeutic treatment. This is a good thing, and hopefully the US government will get its head out of the dark ages and follow suit promptly.
I made $1K last month and I'm giving away whatever we make in Feb
I decided three days ago that I'm going to build https://dubble.so in public (I know it's getting a bad rep lately, but it looks too fun to let it be).

I don't have many connections to the #buildinpublic community though, so I'm trying out running a giveaway to get connected.

Dubble made $1024 USD in January - so the idea is that I'm going to give away all of February's revenue to the person who guesses the closest amount.

I'll be submitting updates on how this works out as a campaign on Indie Hackers and Twitter (@dean_mcpherson) if you want to see if silly give aways help, hinder or do not much at all
I don’t think it’s one to skip at all. While not at the same level it’s still quite entertaining.

But maybe not watch in the same sitting as the other movies.
I have found that among software engineers, it is surprisingly not common knowledge that floating point operations have all these sharp edges and gotchas.

The most common situation in which it crops up is when dealing with quantities that require fractional units/arithmetic of some commonly discrete unit of measure. For example, you implement some complex logic to do request sampling, and in your binary you convert the total number of active requests to a float, add some stuff, divide some stuff, add some more stuff, multiply it again, then convert back to an int something like “number of requests that should be sampled.” Because floating point operations are non-associative, non-distributive, and commonly introduce remainder artifacts, you can end up with results like sampling 1 more request than there are total requests active, even when the arithmetic itself seems like that should be impossible.

This is also common when dealing with time, although typically the outcome is not that bad. Despite time having a simple workaround of just changing the unit of measure (eg using milliseconds instead of seconds) and using int operations on that, because people don’t know why they shouldn’t use floating point operations in this case, they don’t always reach for it.

The worst is when some complicated operation is done to report a float (or int converted from a float) as a metric. In the request sampling example, that would likely be noticed quickly and fixed. But when the float value looks reasonable enough and doesn’t violate some kind of system invariant, it can feed you bad data for a very long time before someone catches it.
It's weird how it's always the people that talk about friends that worked there but don't actually work there themselves that are usually the only ones to have negative things to tell.

I've been there 5 years, haven't worked more than 40 hours a week ever, and a lot of the people that started at the same time as me are in the same situation. And of those that aren't, they left because they wanted new experiences, not because they didn't like Amazon.

I never had to put up with any "shit", whatever that could mean.
It is because of the cache, as someone probably summarized the page very early on.

Current summary straight from the API:

"Universal Summarizer is a tool developed by Kagi that is able to quickly and accurately summarize articles, videos, and other texts. It is able to pick out unique and interesting details from the text, such as the fact that a character in a book has a prosthetic arm, or that a certain card is legal in Legacy but not in Modern or Historic. It is also able to provide summaries of complex texts, such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and even provide summaries of technical documentation. It is also able to summarize texts in different languages, such as Spanish. The tool is also able to provide summaries of videos, and is able to provide summaries of texts that are difficult to summarize, such as the allegories and humor in the Tao of Programming. It is an impressive tool that is sure to be a great asset to the Kagi search engine, and could be used to improve the results and UI of the main search product."
I think you’re right: COBOL is boring, C++ is exciting in terrible ways! It would take time to understand why COBOL was written the way it was but you’d need to understand that with any legacy app, but C++ also introduces a lot of arcane language complexity to learn just to understand the business logic.
This is super interesting. Is there anywhere I can read more about this?
They are not profitable. Like the US Postal Service, Amtrak has a mandate to serve smaller towns. Which means they have to maintain a station and local staff in each to service the typical 2-4 trains a day. Also, since Amtrak doesn't own the tracks outside the Northeast, they have to pay railroads like Union Pacific & BNSF for the privilege.

The Northeastern Corridor is their most profitable section, as the ridership is much higher and they own their own tracks.

What could they do to become profitable? Not sure. Assuming they magically got their own set of tracks for free, they then wouldn't have to pay the railroads for using theirs. But they'd have to pay to maintain all that right-of-way (tracks, bridges, tunnels, signals, etc.) At least they'd be on time though (not blocked by massively long freight trains like they are today).