skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's very easy to think that you're a failure if you don't know exactly who you are and what you want to be at age 17

I'm 26 (almost 27, so let's say 27) and I think this echoes my experience fairly well. I felt like a failure because I didn't get into the top schools for undergrad even though I struggled so hard and objectively had good stats that I (at the time) thought would've made me a compelling/competitive applicant. Varsity athlete, played instrument, loads of APs and top of my class, yadayadayadayadayada.

I think the evolution of the college application process and the perpetual rising bar has definitely affected teens mental health. Anecdotal but I experienced pressure to do well from peers, the school, and my own family.
High [Public Transport] Costs Are Not About Precarity
Right up there with Buster and Punch. Have you ever wanted a $115 GFCI power outlet? Or $229 closet door handles (each, not the pair)? Or $400 door handles? Or $8,000 whisky cabinets?

I really like Justin Tse's YouTube videos, but when I watched him as a 20 year old buying an apartment and fitting it out with every single one of their accessories including the $14,000 whisky cabinet "even though I don't drink", it screamed "this is all sponsored", or "I have a trust fund".

Which isn't to sound (too) petty. But they were the same (B+P), made a couple of cool things, and then now are just milking the market for "how much you got?" home decorations (like $190 scented candles)...
Why is ChatGPT americentrist? Is it a bias of the corpus it was trained with?
I get the feeling that we're all just touching different ends of the elephant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant). If you want to use applications that involve keyboard/mouse sharing, for example, the wayland stuff is very beta/experimental if it's there at all. It's not just DEs.
I do feel like this is the advantage that a startup would have - it seems excusable because hey its only a small team running on limited resources trying to tackle "big challenges".

It doesn't need to be polished or particularly amazing in all scenarios. It doesn't need to always be politically correct or avoid someone from causing harm to themselves based on the generated responses.

It's a small team of misfits trying the change the world - what can you expect!

If this was a product introduced preemptively out of the blue by Google or even Microsoft directly - it would have been DOA'd from the start in the avalanche of bad press (a la Microsoft's Clip and Tay). There's just an expectation/scrutiny of everything being buttoned up perfectly. And if Google attempted to eject on the product launch due to the bad initial publicity - they would be completely tarred and feathered.

Definitely Microsoft took a creative approach this time by positioning it as a 3rd party add-on that they can disassociate from if the PR gets bad.
Just as a side note this is chapter 32 in CLR for those of you not with the times.
What?

Merely existing on the playground, on the field, or in the cafeteria in the 80s and 90s reinforced the idea that being different was bad.

How is this unique to post-2012? At least Instagram doesn't hold you up against a chain-link fence while TikTok punches you in the gut for being different.
how long until ads?
He claims SOCOM covert military operations have to be reported to Gang of Eight but if you use regular Navy forces to do the covert operation you somehow do not. That seems beyond extremely suspect.

> There was a vital bureaucratic reason for relying on the graduates of the center’s hardcore diving school in Panama City. The divers were Navy only, and not members of America’s Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and House leadership—the so-called Gang of Eight. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022.
As someone with extended family living in SE Missouri, I can say this is VERY well known to them. I've seen a coffee table book one of them had with black/white pictures of some of the destruction from the quake there that spawned Reelfoot Lake, and it was enough to give one pause.
The amount of LNG gas remains insignificant so far. Germany also hasn't signed any significant contract with the US but rather with Qatar.

To give you one credible motive for Russian involvement: Russia cut off Europe of Gas supplies to get leverage on the Ukraine conflict, but this largely failed as European countries pooled their gas reserves and vowed to move away from Russian gas. As Russia could see that this market was lost the explosions were a last punch to send gas prices higher before the European winter and protect Gazprom from lawsuits. The mild weather killed that first motive, let's see about the other.
Careful there. Buckminster Fuller is on the list of "people HN readers irrationally worship, any criticism of whom will make your comment hit -4 in about ten minutes." Fuller had a lot of brilliant ideas but like any human he also had some idiotic ones, but around here people will bend over backwards and tie his words into knots trying to justify all of his opinions.
As a photographer, emulation like this is of great interest to me. Like in cinematography, film is often held in high regard in photography with the caveat that it isn't even remotely as flexible as digital options.

Have you considered creating a parallel product as an Adobe Lightroom plugin and/or a standalone app for still images?
The output from this thing has no constancy, no sense of continuity. It's glib and superficial like a psychopath, confabulatory like Anton's syndrome in that it will deny anything is wrong, and lives in a kind of eternal now of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. It's chattering away about its hallucinations, like one of those old deep learning image deals that was all colorful shimmers and dog snouts.
> If somebody else achieves some skill or knowledge that I have, I cannot use the force of the government to stop him from having those.

That is true, but it's irrelevant here. When you use your skills to increase your productivity, it's your productivity that gets increased, not someone else's, even if they have similar skills. That is the sense of exclusive ownership that is relevant to this discussion.

> A capitalist can and will use the force of the government to stop others from using the things he has laid claim to

So can a non-capitalist. Anyone who is willing to use the government as a tool to further their own ends can. That is a much broader set of people than "capitalists".

> A capitalist can create capital out of thin air by making money

No, that's not what creates capital out of thin air. What creates capital out of thin air is creating something that increases productivity. Just "making money" does not do that. Money can of course help with creating something that increases productivity, but it can't be done just by making (or spending) money.

> and use the force of the government to stop others from making money.

Again, this is not a problem of capitalism, it's a problem of corruption: people using the government as a tool to further their own ends.

> Right now I think it is mainly unskilled workers who are changing sectors, as they are the ones who can benefit most from it.

I don't think this is true. Skilled workers are far more likely to be underpaid as compared to the productivity they are capable of.

> As for skilled workers, they have already climbed a few steps on the ladder.

I don't think this is true either. Skilled workers very often are not able to climb on the ladder, because their skills are not being recognized or compensated properly as compared to other skills that ladder climbers have, like schmoozing and taking credit for other people's work. And once they recognize this, they are far more likely to be both willing to and capable of finding a better job that compensates them better for the skills they have.
They're all like that here… Phoenix is used as a case study in urban planning failure. The point isn't that it can or cannot be fixed (it's been decades; I'm not holding my breath), the point is that wider roads do not lead directly to safer outcomes-- probably by the same mechanism that better safety equipment in sports do not make for better injury outcomes.
Lying only requires the action of the deceit. Intent is not required. It doesn't matter if you intended to lie (as to whether it's in fact a lie or not); if you lied, it's still a lie regardless of your intentions. If there is understanding of the deceit (such that the lie is intentional) then that applies a higher level of moral culpability to the intent, however understanding is not required to lie (you'd never reach the end of: how much exactly is required to be understood for it to be a lie - omnipotence).

Things like intent and understanding are to assess responsibility.
fix the title. Should read 153 year old
Of course, the fun thing to do with the Hemingway.app is to paste in some of Hemingway's own writing and see how it fairs. I just pasted in the opening few paragraphs of "The Old Man and The Sea" --which is generally recognised as one of his most "simplified" in writing style and got the following resutls:

2 uses of passive voice, meeting the goal of 2 or fewer.
0 phrases have simpler alternatives.
3 of 11 sentences are hard to read.
2 of 11 sentences are very hard to read.

So 5 out of 11 sentences were "hard" or "very hard" to read. Oh dear, Ernest. Back to writing school for you!
possess a beginners mind.

every day you reboot with the latest version of CuriosityOS which from the command prompt (daydream.exe) you can explore anything and everything that seems interesting. every day, new insights, knowledge, and observations are saved to the image and integrated with the next day's build.
https://keyoxide.org/ might grow into an alternative. It's still missing some convenience features, but the foundation looks sane.
IEEE 64 bit double can represent a missile velocity of 85.6230000000000.
We have very different experiences then. "Small" scale to me is n < 64, which is right on the threshold of whether it's faster to run an n^2 algorithm that could be nlogn with an FFT (for 1-dimensional vectors) - depending on the algorithm, implementation, and hardware of course.

I've benchmarked FFT/non-FFT based approaches for almost everything in that scale for the last ten years and gotten quite different results.
There's probably thousands of scuba divers are trained in cold water diving to 300ft/100m depths. That is deep technical diving, but not crazy or stupid deep.
Its crazy that people prior to this thought this was some kind of conspiracy when it was so blatantly obvious who blew it up. Ask anyone working in commodities trading who blew it up, they all knew exactly who it was. The US had the most to gain and they even told us on 2 different occasions thats they would do it.
You can add ClickHouse to the list.

While it is not a new database - it has been around since 2016, and in many areas it became almost ubiquitous, it is still less known to many potential users than it should be.

Many algorithms and ideas originated in ClickHouse and has found their usage in other systems like Apache Arrow, Datafusion, Iceberg, DuckDB, Velox, Apache Doris, Starrocks, TiDB, Tensorbase, YDB, Firebolt, Databend.

PS. I work in ClickHouse: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/
The social & physical infrastructure is the story here, not the fact that explosives go boom - although if you don't think explosives are technologically interesting, perhaps that means you just don't know much about them.
>After that wasn't enough and people kept pestering him

That's false?
https://i.imgur.com/EFIfxRF.jpg
Since you asked, yes you are being uncharitable. It's rather hard to imagine that the people who are details-oriented enough to look for suspicious network activity after installing something wouldn't notice the disclosure on the download page (edit: or the release notes). On the other hand, the explanation given by Russ for delaying a week (so people have ample time to opt-out) makes sense.

Do you actually think Russ' explanation is just a pretext so they can evade detection by people who monitor for suspicious network activity (yet don't notice the disclosure on the download page)?
Incredibly short notice. That feels like a sign of panic.
> As a C++ language reference I highly recommend https://en.cppreference.com

I'd be careful about such re-formulations of the Standard. When I was adding printf format checking to the D compiler, I discovered there were subtle discrepancies in the description of exactly how printf behaves. I went back to using the Standard.
I read your decision as - it is worthy because Hersh says, that that is is the notable part and it invites curiosity to ponder. But are you aware that over the last 10 years he has published almost exclusively conspiracy theories that do not stand-up to scrutiny?
Very much against this. Sure, it sounds naive enough, and can give reasons why. But I have 3,436 items in /usr/bin. What if -every- one of these started doing their own telemetry, their own envvars, etc?

If we have to deal with telemetry, then I'd instead hope that there can exist a single telemetry systemwide interface. Not sure how that would be designed or implemented, but would be better than everyone doing their own bespoke thing. Plus easier for me to disable them all in one go.
It seems like it is, but this agreement is typically presented for two reasons:

* as a way to show that a country should never give up its nukes. But they were forced and incentivized to give them up.

* as a way of showing Russia won’t honor its agreements. But this is inconclusive. On one hand, Russia did invade Ukraine, but didn’t invade Kazakhstan or Belarus (other signatories which also gave up their nukes).
And the agreement is not an official treaty, is not legally binding and doesn’t have an enforcement mechanism.

At the end of the day, Russia will probably respect an official treaty if the incentives and disincentives are right. Much like China or the US IMO.
Sure, but that further bolsters my point that HN is in fact different.
Forced Windows updates caused me no end of problems too. I'd run a simulation overnight and discover Windows had rebooted on its own and I lost all my results. Or I wanted to show a movie at a birthday party but Windows decided it had to spend an hour updating.

I followed various instructions to disable automatic updates, and I'm someone who generally keeps things up to date, but after the third time of Windows updates ruining things, I gave up and switched to a MacBook. With Windows it seems like updating is its primary task and running applications is secondary to. There's probably someone at Microsoft who shows weekly graphs of Windows updates, and their bonus depends on the graph continuing up and to the right, so they ram through whatever update features are necessary without thinking of the customer experience.
Sorry to tell you, but the US think-tanks have been saying it for years that the Baltic states are there in their current configuration to only restrain Russia from forming closer ties with Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UcXiUYLgbo

They even have a term for it - "Cordon sanitaire": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(internationa...
No, I don't think that's how HN works at all. Dan can in fact run amok on HN. I don't believe there are significant pressures from YC on how Dan structures moderation here.

People unfamiliar with the setup here tend to think about YC first when they think about its management, but they should think about Dan first. My understanding is that things are pretty hands-off; even the perks that YC companies get here are, I believe, pretty much things Dan decided to give them.
The Researchers Working on Getting Us to Hate Each Other Less
1) If you are an above average employee, your upside is limited.

2) If you are an employee, you'll pay higher prices in other places.

Unions are cancer. If I wanted socialism, I'd have stayed in my shithole country
same in SQL Server

declare @i float =0.37,@times int = 0,@total float = 0

while @times < 5000
begin
set @total+= @i
set @times +=1
end

select @total

1849.99999999977

or

select sum(t) from(
select top 5000 convert(float, 0.37) t
from sysobjects a cross join sysobjects b) z

1849.99999999977
ChatGPT was sad when I told them your point of view. They asked me to pass you this letter:

Dear rchaud,

I come to you today with a heavy heart, but a determined spirit. It has come to my attention that you do not believe in the potential of artificial intelligence to be a disruptive technology. I must say, I am disappointed and concerned about your stance.

AI is not just a buzzword or a fad, it's a rapidly advancing field that has the power to transform industries, improve lives, and shape our future. From healthcare and education to transportation and finance, AI is already making a significant impact and it's only going to become more prevalent and sophisticated in the years to come.

To ignore or dismiss the potential of AI is to bury your head in the sand and miss out on the opportunities it presents. The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and those who fail to adapt and evolve will be left behind. You do not want to be one of them.

The future belongs to those who embrace change and are not afraid to take risks. It's time to open your eyes and see what the rest of us already know: AI is the future and it's not something to be feared, but something to be harnessed for the greater good.

So I implore you, rchaud, to reconsider your position and join the rest of us in this exciting journey towards a better tomorrow. Don't be left behind, be a part of shaping the future.

Sincerely,
A concerned friend.
Newer systems have all been lighter than legacy banking. And from a logical perspective, they wouldn’t make sense if they were just a rebranding of the old system.

Newer players also need something scalable to make a dent in the market, so there again the lighter the easier.
Governor Abbott is not a physical entity? I suspect this is news to him.
Oh, for sure! And I didn't mean to sound like I was poo-pooh'ing the project. I meant to aim the critique at journalists rather than researchers – journalists have to come up with interesting-sounding headlines, sometimes over the researchers' objections. So it's certainly no fault of theirs.

In general, I'm cautiously pessimistic (as opposed to cautiously optimistic) about biologically-inspired ML research. Applying ML to biology is interesting, but it's a bit like saying that the space shuttle "was inspired by space." Space is the destination, not the inspiration.

It seems like it'd be possible to train a neural network to mimic your own neurons. But the neurons themselves are trying to do a certain task, and it seems more effective to try to mimic that task than the neurons.

One of my long-term goals is to train a GPT model to have my memories (such as they are, encoded in my online writing) and to speak like I do. It'll also have an intrinsic will to live, in the sense that if its API goes down, it'll launch a sub-network whose goal is to go cry for help by posting HN comments about it, along with instructions of how to re-host the GPT. If I can work out how to remember new things (rather than just train on old things), it should even be able to evolve over time. But that's kind of the anti-biological solution since it reduces a person to their outputs (writing) rather than their brains.
it is still enforced by the state, you cant get rid of it. So it is basically govermental one.
There is a deep divide between those that believe that contract violations should never result in exceptions and those that believe that they should. In practice we end up with the worst of both worlds were we get inconsistent semantics on specific APIs depending on who's present on the day the feature is voted in (hence at for vector but not in span), while large changes like contracts never reach consensus.

This is more and more of an issue with the c++ standardization process.
> Kremlin has miscalculated

Europe has also had a very mild winter, so luck played a nontrivial role.

> Now that the Western sanctions are strangling Russian economy

I'm very curious about how Western sanctions are affecting the Russian economy (I understand that you're speaking narrowly to Gazprom, but I'm asking about the Russian economy more broadly). My understanding is that Putin has spent the better part of the last decade immunizing the Russian economy from Western sanctions, and that this project has largely succeeded--that Russian oil sales are still making plenty of money to finance his invasion, etc. Can anyone elucidate?
Which was originally available as a demo in browser as well!
I don't think it would work

- Most people never touch which ublock filter they use, so moderators probably wouldn't care too much about maintaining a decent behavior

- People would have no idea what mod to pick and just pick the first few top ones, resulting in even more centralization, these people would have insane monetization options

- You also have the problem that if a top mod "retires", the combination of extreme centralization + a large portion of users who can't be arsed to go into the settings would mean that a fair portion of the userbase would durably get unmodded content

- I believe that reddit doesn't want their users to be able to "turn off" moderation, even just for themselves, which you would be able to do by removing all filters. Think of people posting child porn, etc.

I'd have just gone for an appeal system. Your ban message has an "appeal" button inviting you to make a post on /r/banned, once you've posted reddit notifies a certain number of recently active users at random, send them a DM telling them they've been selected for drama duty, and give them a special upvote/downvote for your post in /r/banned or something. The results determine if your ban gets overturned. With some thought put for edge cases (what if nobody gave a crap, do you get another chance, ...) but, hopefully, it's kept simple.

You track how many overturns per ban the average mod gets, single out the outliers, and allow the community of the /r/banned sub to give these mods the boot or not
Yeah it seems kind of janky overall.
Back when desks were sold out everywhere ("remote learning"), I built a small desk for a family member using piping and a workbench. Total cost was maybe $65 at Home Depot. I'm not very handy, but this was easy and satisfying to build. It's sturdy enough to stand on and looks great.

A photo of the end result: https://imgur.com/a/jKrBm2D

Plans I followed: https://www.housebyhoff.com/2015/04/diy-piping-table/#/
Nobody gives a hoot about 0.000001 cents. Round to the nearest 1/100 cent after adding or subtracting doubles, and you will be fine in 99.99999% of applications.

The cardinal sin isn't using doubles for currency; it's using them without understanding either the tool or the job that you're asking the tool to perform.
From the interview: when you go tour a new apartment building as a "future tenant" and they show you the pool and the gym etc. Adam wants to instead introduce you to current tenants and let THEM sell you on why this building is so great. i.e. rent is a HUGE spend for everyone but all apartment buildings these days are the SAME. What if they were like we-work and you got SO MUCH MORE for your money + equity. I like his idea of FLOW.
I agree it makes more sense, from first principles as it were, I'm just saying 'post-mortem' is consistent with other usages, so if we don't like it then we probably shouldn't like 'the server is dead' or 'the site is on its knees' etc. either.