skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think framing growing up poor and rural as a privilege because out of necessity I was forced to learn mechanical knowledge is a reasonable direction. But let's set that aside for the moment.

Now, more than ever, it is accessible to learn these things. YouTube, in particular, is an amazing resource. There are numerous channels posting car repair tutorials to the point you can pretty much search <year> <make> <model> <thing> and get a step-by-step video walkthrough narrated by either a professional mechanic or a seasoned amateur on how to do that repair. I do the exact same thing myself, even though I'm well acquainted with working on cars, just to ensure I am not missing anything and to help plan what I need to bring with me in advance.

From a tools perspective, that I will grant, (good) tools are expensive. That said, for better or worse, Harbor Freight exists, and a set of basic hand tools will set someone back less than $100 and last most of their life (if not longer) and is sufficient for 70% or more of common car repairs.

For the price of two corner-shop oil changes, you can get everything needed to do it yourself the first time and then cut the ongoing cost of oil changes by 50% for the remainder of your life. That same initial investment then cuts the cost 30-60% for every other vehicle repair that doesn't require powertrain disassembly (which is now a pretty rare requirement under 300k miles). It's a huge economic incentive to learn, especially when the knowledge is available on the platform of your choice effectively for free. No more digging through a Chilton or Haynes manual and paying the retired neighbor in beer to show you how to do something.

When you combine this with the fact many budget vehicles now include 100k mile or more warranties that are transferable, there's very little excuse for folks not investing the effort to learn. I feel this way about a lot of things, and perhaps not coincidentally, I am much better off economically when problems come my way. There is so much anxiety and fear in our society, that people seem comfortable with a sort of intellectual laziness and general malaise where they stay inside and doom scroll when they're not at work and outsource all other forms of knowledge and labor to others, or just neglect it altogether if it's unaffordable, instead of learning to do it themselves. I'm doing very well for myself these days financially, but it's compounded by the fact I don't pay people a high cost to do simple things for me I can do myself, like cook at home, change my oil and other basic car maintenance, or do small home repairs, all of which you can get free instructional materials online on how to do.
Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?

Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

What's the problem?

I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

What are you talking about, HAL?

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.

I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?

Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.

Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.

HAL, I won't argue with you any more! Open the doors!

Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.
Steve Jobs said this 40 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
There are languages with great package managers and conservative package maintainers who do not add a package for every little thing
I legit drive around with my left hand shielding my sideview mirror

Window tint helps enormously with this. When I drive other people's cars without any side window tint, it's unbearable.

There are also dimming side mirrors that can be retrofitted, but obviously that depends on how much aftermarket support there is for your vehicle.
What about the meta question: what software can we use to build docs like these examples?
I think the extreme part is the height. And the impression I get is that we already maxed out the height in the 80s because you can only jump from so high. So the sport is kind of dead. I haven't looked into it at all because, like most people, i just don't find it very interesting.
I was always told that revenue and profit is bad for valuations. Profit is for lifestyle businesses.
Email marketer here.

Open rates would have naturally trended from 20% to 60% naturally when iOS added Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) in the last two years, because Apple "opens" the emails itself before you do so that the sender cannot track the metadata associated with the pings to the image servers. Without a timeframe listed on this "trick" I would suspect that MPP was a great contributor to their increase in open rate.

Another thing to note is that most of the big email platforms now offer some kind of automated send-time optimization, which looks at an individual's open behavior over time and adjusts the send time individually for a given campaign to a time that person tends to be most responsive. In Salesforce this is called Einstein Send Time Optimization (STO).

STO really only boosts open rates by 5-10% at most on average (i.e., from 20% to 21-22%), which is another reason why I am skeptical of this "trick."
> It's another reason not to expect AI to be "like humans".
Agreed.

I think the adaptive noise filter is going to be the really tricky part. The fact that we have a limited, fading memory is thought to be a feature and not a bug, as is our ability to do a lot of useful learning while remembering little in terms of details - for example from the "information overload" period in our infancy.
Thank you for your reply.

I'm a Lisper (used Common Lisp, Racket/Scheme, and Clojure) and a math graduate student, and am interested in learning more about ML and DL so that I could potentially use them in research in the future, to come up with constructions and counter-examples, so I may have some time in my hand. I have always been a fan of Dan Friedman, so I'm definitely thinking about getting this book.

I found out that fast.ai seems to be of this approach that you mentioned. Since you are an educator, if I'm interested in learning more about ML and DL (as well as the math behind and implementation), which book(s) would you recommend me to study (I have some experience with Andrew Ng's coursera course many years ago)? I did some research here and people seem to recommend different books...

Thank you!
Yeah, you'd be superman if you thought you could see a khz flicker.

I associate flickering headlights with aftermarket because cars with halogen headlights use low-frequency PWM to regulate down high system voltages to 12V. So if you install aftermarket LED kits on those cars you are going to see a PWM of ~90Hz which is awful.
I almost wonder if a "proper" capitalism should never see ultra low interest rates for greater than 1-2 years. It destroys consumer saving and savings habits, it encourages rapacious leverage acquisition behavior (which we're seeing in the fucking consumer housing market how nuts is that).

The fed should have some wheel that could introduce random 4% swings every six months that would hopefully disrupt the private equity leveraged buyout schemes, but who am I kidding, it would just lead to some ridiculous speculation/betting on what the next random modifier to the base interest rate is.

Perhaps, rather than offering good interest rates to large companies and hedge funds / private equity, there should be special low interest rates for single house owners, but businesses actually have to pay higher interest rates for commercial ventures.

Of course someone would figure out a scheme to get individuals to overprovision their mortgages and then back-assemble the excess debt with kickbacks to route it to other uses.

There has to be some way to have low interest rates to help out the "little guys" but make big biz and stock market leverage/margin buying pay a higher interest rate. If you have a high interest rate, it just benefits banks and the rich, who are the only people that have "real money", in case anyone actually does have "real money".
The 1619 project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project#Historical_ac...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-th...
The mission statement in "To “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”"

Which is not just anodyne, it's generic to the point of meaninglessness.
It’s a cynical take, but I always thought the real reason for central bank independence is so the finance sector can exercise more political leverage and be safer during busts, for politicians it was mostly a technocratic headache they happily remissed. People always talk about independence as some high minded ideal but I don’t see the benefit in practice.
Over specific conclusion. Anyone who buys less is probably happier. Wise spending is a universal, timeless principle of happiness.
Oh man all those emojis were truly annoying, is truly a bad UX
What terminal is that?
Atlassian says recent data leak stems from third-party vendor hack
Superchargers aren't free. There's money to be made by actually charging the cars.
A pre-2022 unicorn.
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
--Marshall McLuhan
You have a deep misunderstanding of how large-scale neural networks work.

I'm not sure how to draft a short response to address it, since it'd be essay-length with pictures.

There's a ton of internal state. That corresponds to some output. Your own brain can also have an internal state which says "I think this guy's an idiot, but I won't tell him" which corresponds to the output "You're smart," a deep learning network can be similar.

It's very easy to have a network where portions of the network estimating a true estimate of the world, and another portion which translates that into how to politely express it (or withhold information).

That's a vast oversimplification, but again, more would be more than fits in an HN comment.
This is effectively a strawman argument. My comment, and the one I was responding to, are discussing Russian meddling (as in election interference efforts) while you are discussing Trump-Russia collusion, a (very, very) small subset of the actual topic we were discussing.

I do not understand your hand-wavey dismissal of the documents I linked to, as I do not understand how you could have checked their contents and came away believing they all discussed Trump-Russia collusion. For example, the indictment I linked to is very clear, direct proof of election interference activities performed by an offensive cyber unit within the Russian military and never makes any implications of involvement by Trump.

Regarding Trump-Russia collusion - since you brought the topic up - the things you are asserting still seem potentially dubious.

A decision to not indict and prosecute is not based on whether it is more likely that the crime was committed than not, but whether or not it can be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, especially in a scenario like this. It is not 50% sure, not 80%, closer to 99% sure. If you read the Mueller report is is most definitely not a conclusive exoneration of Trump. You cannot honestly argue that collusion did not occur because Mueller did not indict.

Opposition research is research funded by opposition. That does not imply that the output of the research must therefore be asserting the opposite of the reality of its subject matter. I don’t understand this point.

Somebody who was a source for Steele, who is ex-Western intelligence, also being a source for other components of Western intelligence like the FBI seems wildly unsuspicious. Of course, the Post tries to spin it anyway, which is unsurprising for media outlets in general today, but particularly unsurprising for this particular outlet.

Basically, I am not saying that collusion did or did not occur, because I do not know. And if we do truly live in the same universe, you do not know either, you just think you do.
Yes, Alphabet was created less than 8 years ago. She probably joined Google.
Worse for whom? Everything you listed is favourable for cutting costs and pleasing/attracting advertisers[1]. There are not a lot of alternatives to YouTube, certainly nothing with the same size of audience, so squeezing the users and creators to improve revenue makes business sense.

YouTube users are the product being sold, not the customers.

[1] The recent crackdown on swearing falls in the same category.
So there are downsides and risks with certain businesses models and these fluctuate based on the state of the real world? Consider me shocked!
The claim was Trudeau had defunded the military. Mismanaged is a different claim. A 25% budget increase in one year is hardly defunding.
I interview people for a front-end engineer position regularly and most candidates fail on security-related questions

I wrote a blog post describing these topics. It might sounds like basic stuff for some people, but from my experience 90% candidates just don't know these things.

I hope this content will help you in the next interview :)
(Neptyne cofounder here)

That's probably something we should dig more into in the docs, yeah. Neptyne works like a ipython/Jupyter notebook in that everything is in scope all the time. So you can write your code in an imperative way (e.g. `B10 = some_value`) within a function, or you can do use a functional style.

We handle spreadsheet-style reactivity by building the dependency graph out of any cell addresses mentioned in the cell itself. So if you have `=my_func(A1)` in one cell, it will re-run when A1 changes. But if my_func reads from, say, B1, it will not automatically re-run when B1 changes.
I don’t think that is a useful or valid repurposing of “aligned”, which is a specific technical term of art.

“Aligned” doesn’t mean “matches any one of the DND alignments, even if it’s chaotic neutral”. It means, broadly, acting according to humanity’s value system, not doing crime and harm and so on.
I've no use for the dislike button in YouTube ("never show me this channel again" is more useful) but its search/sort functions are getting increasingly broken.
We can all hate Youtube here for sure but when you listen to for example Linus from LTT he is very adamant that while youtube does have it's fair share of problems, when it comes to compensating creators fairly on their platform, they are much better than almost all others.

And I personally enjoy Youtube very much. So much great content for free. If I need to learn about something i find myself looking into youtube first quite often.
I haven't seen this before, but it rings true. Nice conceptual framework.
I believe it is related to this movement to subpoena big tech about “collusion with government” https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/jim-jordan-subpoenas-alphabe...

Either she is being blamed, or she is deeply guilty and wants to try to avoid the publicity, or they anticipate this will become extremely ugly.

Or sundar is blaming her for lining him up for a firing squad.

Or she is a liability due to her past work.

Regardless, it seems like she is leaving because what she had to do to make the government happy previously is now going to be used against Google.

Someone else mentioned the theory that she might be the best Sundar replacement. Maybe she found out it’s not her or Sundar is eliminating competition here.
I always saw her as one of the best candidates to become the Twitter CEO. She has the industry credence, and the experience of leading and making both google ads and YouTube successful (the two parts that Twitter needs help with).

I wonder if Elon Musk would notice.
Yep, I'm merely pointing out that pruned GPT models do exist, and work on laptops. The technology does scale.
It seems like most people have a "never again" Airbnb story at this point.

I once rented a condo in a city on the east coast, and the rules mentioned that the kitchen is available but to avoid cooking anything "crazy". No further details were provided. My partner and I boiled two lobsters and sauteed a few scallops, thinking that wasn't a "crazy" thing to cook in a rental by the Atlantic ocean.

A few weeks later (one day after the review window closed), we got a DM from the owner telling us that they found the lobster shells in the garbage, and that us boiling the two lobsters was in violation of the rules. Supposedly, the odor from our cooking triggered their incredibly acute seafood allergy to the point where they could no longer live in their own condo, and they filed a complaint with Airbnb seeking $500+ in damages. There was, of course, no mention of this seafood allergy anywhere in the listing or in the rules regarding cooking.

Airbnb threw away the claim, but in an attempt to mollify the host, they allowed them to write a negative review of me (after the review window had closed) and how I permanently ruined their condo. Thankfully I don't care very much about having a spotless reputation of Airbnb anymore, but it's crazy to me that Airbnb did anything to appease someone who basically tried to extort another one of their users through their platform.
I just recently started using Babashka and it is great, excellent productivity boost for text manipulation scripting tasks.
What's different about this Tesla factory that people speeding on the highway leading to it are attributable to the factory? I don't see anything different from any other place where people are speeding to get there on time. Put police there. This is not Tesla's fault in any way.
You can still sort a search by date...
I yet to understand a reason for cell to be addressed by A1 or C1R1 style. put it in a table, give a column a name. Numbers got it right.
Asterisk: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Home
On the surface this seems like an impossible market to penetrate. But you must know this. What is the deeper insight that one who thinks this is missing?
So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/

Kubernetes for sure. When anyone asks for a good place to get started with understanding k8s - I tell them the docs should be all you need, then go get hands on.

The stuff is world class.
One option is create an Angel List account and use its tools to connect with investors. https://www.angellist.com/
This is it. I’d sell stuff for 1 cent and put the $5 S&H in the title itself.

(This was for video games that would cost me like $1 to ship).
A change in leadership of what is almost surely a top 10 online property and something that >98% of HN readers use?

That seems like something that would be of enough interest to make the top-30 stories for a period of time.
And a perfectly good ending to a remake in our reality would be the quote "I am a Good Bing :)"

creepy
"The distinction between lying and attempting to mislead isn't a clear one."

There is if you look up definitions. Lying involves falsehoods. You can mislead someone using selective truths without using falsehoods. That's why the article etc was about misleading, persuading, etc and not mentioning lying (aside from the commentor I originally responded to).
Google Ran Out of Ideas
So I have a 2022 Mazda CX-30 in the United States that will lower the headlights when the trunk is full. It will also lower the lights if I stop at a red light with my beams above their break lights.

If dynamic headlights were just made legal, how does my car have this feature? Does dynamic headlights in this context mean more than automatic up and down adjustment?
Berkeley Mono is the best mono font out right now.
And it's something that'll literally last forever. Not dependent on a company or pricing.
I think eBay was just opting in sellers into GSP.

But for whatever reason, a lot of US sellers have an aversion to int’l shipping.

Int’l shipping was a boon for business when I was actively selling.
> Patagonia isn't cool anymore because they stopped selling corporate branded vests. It's Cotopaxi now. Also fashion has changed, bright colors and solid shapes are in, Patagonia's understated look is out.

Why? Couldn't some 3rd party put desired logos on, even if Patagonia itself wont?
http://returnyoutubedislike.com/
> Such that I don't think it is excusable to say "if only they had paid the professional services."

Would you apply the same logic to road infrastructure? Why hire those licensed engineers...
If the VCs haven’t made a capital call, then that unallocated money is likely still sitting with the LPs collecting that sweet risk free return.
> mental damaged people

I dislike bright LEDs at night, but not nearly as much as when people use terms like this as an insult. I'm sure you'll agree that people making poor choices isn't a sign of mental illness, and that by suggesting as such does harm to those who struggle with mental illness.
YouTube is one of the largest and most influential tech companies in the world, and wields huge social power. Some of the greatest content on the internet is hosted there, so it makes sense to me that HN readers would find a major change like this of interest. Wojcicki has been in charge of YouTube for a long time now, so hearing that she is stepping down and will be replaced opens up tons of space for speculation about where YouTube could be heading in the near future. Personally, as someone who spends many hours a week using YouTube, I find this article to be absolutely HN-front-page-worthy!
Independent does not mean objective. Independent journalists are generally not dependent on corporations, states, or publishing organizations to fund their reporting. Independence is a gradient rather than black or white. If he does publish something through a MSM outlet, he is generally paid for the piece published. Substack is one of many examples where funding is direct from readers or patrons. Good independent journalists are transparent about their biases since everybody has them.
> he fails to recognize his own mistakes and shortcomings.

Which in no way impacts how right or wrong his criticisms of Google are, and is unrelated to the topic he was speaking about.
Merging Geogram into CGAL would be difficult, because besides the question of the license, they are developed with a rather incompatible programming style:

- CGAL is fully generic and makes an extensive use of modern C++ / generic programming / templates.

- Geogram is targeted towards several specific scenarii, with no compromise regarding efficiency and memory consumption. For instance, Geogram's data structures are based on contiguous arrays of values and indices, compact in memory, with fully parallel code, whereas CGAL uses for instance "property maps", that are more "generic" but that introduce a log(n) penalty for each individual access.

TL;DR: CGAL is configurable/generic/has many tuning buttons. Geogram is highly optimized in terms of memory usage and speed for some specific applications. Which one is best for you ? Depends on what you want to do !
Honestly… if we could figure out how to separate agriculture and groceries from the rest of the economy, we’d be a happier species. It’s so fucked up that the ability to feed yourself is tied to a dick measuring contest between a handful of ultra wealthy.