skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a weird, though pretty common nitpick, but I'll bite. The pilots he downed were actively fighting for a nazi state. They might have not been nazis themselves, but they were still fighting to spread nazi ideology. It wouldn't matter even if literally no german pilots were actually ideologically nazis, if they were still flying planes and combat missions in hopes of a victory for their side (nazi germany).
Taiwan would like a word.
14%, not bad!

It is interesting how the numbers work out in different places. Where I'm at it doesn't make sense at all. So much of my bill is just to have a meter and the per kilowatt rate is crazy low. Because of the high fee just to be hooked up the only way solar wins here is to get off grid - but winter kills that idea.
In tandem with that article there are also all those findings about GPT training smaller gradient descent models inside itself which is very interesting. That particularly seems rather... strange.

I'm sure Hofstader would dislike people saying "he was right about this!" "he defined this!", though, since that's not what he was setting out to do at all. GEB really is just an exploration, with some of the results being couched in mathematical language as an artifact of his background, not as an attempt to formalize anything.
It's a video, not an article, but here's Dave "EEVblog" Jones on "How to set up an electronics lab".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_PbjbRaO2E
At least "bad" wasn't changed to "doubleplusungood", but it feels like that's not far away at this rate.
In the future kids will never never know that Han fired first.
Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI) & Body Fat
I was in the northern part of Portugal in 1996; didn't get farther south than Porto. I actually saw ox carts on the roads. If I had to guess, I'd guess the main AirBnb action is in the south.

It was a very nice country, and I totally support their desire to keep it that way. With the understanding that it's hard to get foreigners' money without making some tradeoffs (namely, your main industry becomes catering to their needs).

With the few natives I talked to, a common dream was to go to America and save up enough money to come back home and be wealthy.
I was morbidly hoping to find a story about tech gone bad. A rogue AI or similar.

What I found was yet another compelling reason to begin a mental health in the workplace discussion. I do not know what Intel offers in terms of support for their employees, families, and contractors, but I hope they have something and that this was not a result of having nothing available (or having it be available but it being used as a tool to fire people with).
Not a pro, but the handful of times a month I solder, the Pinecil has been great. It can use TS100 tips so easy to get different tips.

It packs easily away in a plastic shoebox with my soldering accessories and consumables along with whatever project I'm currently working on.
Minimum wages increase the cost of living by making low level services cost more. This is a circular problem.

Also the definition of "living wage" varies wildly depending on what kitchen sink people want to throw into it. People seem to think that everyone deserves to make enough money for luxuries whereas that shouldn't be the case in general.
Not all that surprising. Take a look at obesity rates over time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/vucjky/oc_...
Just keep working remote then
> fantastic search term to click ranking data

Could you expand on what you mean here?
First thing I thought after learning Haskell and Prolog was “where the hell is my enlightenment?”
> you are at the mercy of a garbage collector, and those LOVE to use memory.

It’s not the GC that uses memory, it’s your program. Compare the memory use of Python with that of C++ in these benchmarks:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Or OCaml and C++ here:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I have always been frustrated by recommender algorithms for music. It seems like the classifications for music—whether a result of volunteer classification or from some type of mixture analysis-just don’t seem to match very well with how one “thinks” about music classification.

For example, I like jazz. I happen to enjoy listening to Toots Thielmann (a jazz harmonica player). There aren’t many well known jazz harmonica musicians, so a recommender system always gives me a bunch of other harmonica players from other genres. This is not at all a good recommendation, since the style of music and the style of playing in other genres is completely different (and not of any interest to me).

There needs to be a way of establishing “user input” as a way to weight the recommender algorithms better. Sort of like a search engine with “+” (more of this) and “-“ (less of that).

Then maybe recommender algorithms will learn and get better.
I haven't mastered the art of programming, and I've been programming for 40 years!

"Mastery" eludes most of us because programming has a very, very high skill ceiling. No matter how good you get in one aspect, there are other aspects that you still have a long way to go in before you get proficient.

Don't worry about mastery. Leave that to Knuth and John Carmack. Get good enough to build that thing you want, and then see how you can build it better (or a more complex thing). If you were meant to be a master, mastery will come if you follow the path, and you may not even know it when it does.
This is unexpected and amazing, because I was just showing my wife this game a couple weeks ago.

I remember getting it in a Chex cereal box as a kid, and my brothers and I played it a ton. Then in high school, I stumbled upon a new disc copy of it at Re-PC (computer recycler in Seattle). Then I stumbled upon it again just recently on Steam. I can't escape it. HN was the last place I would expect to see this. How funny.

It's just as I remember it! And exactly what you would expect for free in a cereal box from the 90s, but in the best way possible.
As a Briton not used to these things at all, I would think surrounding it in sandbags is the more aesthetically pleasing option.
There's freeciv too, although it is more of a civ2 variant
Although I prefer actual units be used instead of vague small, medium, large sizes for clothes and or barelycorns for shoe size. Just give me metric units!
> Can you live on $7/hr?

Yes, of course. The income taxes are almost zero (or negative), and for one person living by themselves in a studio apartment that's $400 for rent for a cheap studio apartment and $800 a month in groceries and gas, which is quite a lot.

And that's assuming you can't live out of your parents house as you work, which is the suggested way of doing this kind of thing. There's zero reason to move out if you can't afford it. It allows you to save up money and gain skills with less stress.

The "living wage" myth gets repeated way too often.
Stranded wire to stranded wire, or solid wire to solid wire? Or mixing stranded and solid? Same gauge or mixed gauge?
I remember Token Ring and 10BASE2 (I never used 10BASE5). This doesn't sound like it though, it sounds like a traditional Ethernet Bus?
extremely well written.
I wonder if there's some other measure that can be made to mark the shift in technology.

For example, the processor transistor count.

Maybe (desktop) systems should be judged by total system transistor count, as GPUs have replaced processors with respect to transistors.

Or possibly, there should be a measure of transistors per person - many many people are carrying around phones with literally billions of dollars of development in them. Phones might arguably be the single most potent expression of technology on the planet. (I was going to say they serve one person, but arguably they might eually serve apple and advertising)
> Russell's opinions of Nietzsche border on libel.

Gee, Nietzsche's opinions of almost everyone go well past the libel border, and that's no exaggeration.

Russell's History is a good read, lots of good jokes as usual, but there are much fairer and more accurate histories of philosophy. e.g. I like Copleston's multi-volume History of Philosophy, or reading in the Stanford encyc of philosophy on particular topics/people. https://plato.stanford.edu/

My favourite historical philosophy book is Santayana's Egotism in German Philosophy[0], which covers from Leibniz to the Nazi philosophy - and was written in 1916! Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche etc. Santayana's sense of humour is much more gentle than Russell or Nietzsche's, more a wise twinkle in his eye. For example, Ch.2 The Protestant Heritage begins:

"The German people, according to Fichte and Hegel, are called by the plan of Providence to occupy the supreme place in the history of the universe. A little consideration of this belief will perhaps lead us more surely to the heart of German philosophy than would the usual laborious approach to it through what is called the theory of knowledge."

- comedic genius. He wrote other great historical surveys, e.g. Winds of Doctrine and Character and Opinion in the U.S. When I read him, on Emerson or Nietzsche, say, I'm always amazed how he puts his finger on the crux of the matter so elegantly, and describes so clearly what others can't even see.

[0] https://archive.org/details/egotismingermanp48431gut

(Am a huge fan of both Russell and Nietzsche, they're both among my favourite writers of prose.)
Would you even have gas for it to burn if there was no electricity to run its meter?
Excuse me, the word slur is offensive.
I have mentioned before that I worked as a bike mechanic in college. I came into it able to do my own repairs, and even build a few wheels. But there's a difference between being able to complete a task and being able to complete a task for money. I had to get a lot faster than I would have been at my own workbench, and even then I wasn't really fast enough to be the 'typical college student working in a bike shop'. What I was was thorough when I needed to be, so they put me on fixing returned repairs (nobody wants a customer to come back for a third time) and on Hail Mary wheel repairs, because I knew a few tricks that only the most senior folks knew, but the hourly rates didn't math out.

What I've learned from years of rubbing elbows with other skilled labor is that there's nothing special about bikes or software. It's all the same sort of problem all over. Intellectually understanding a problem is not knowing it in your bones. It's not acting on reflex and intuition without having to exhaust yourself thinking about what to do next.
No worries. Nothing starts in ideal form. Get feedback, iterate and improve. Most of all, have fun.
> Spying on users is Google's entire business model.

What does that have to do with anything? On Android, I can use as few Google apps as an iOS user. Even better, I can use fewer spying Apple apps. Apple's entire business model is marketing to gullible users who hand over their money and their data.
I don't know why a company that loses billions of dollars a year and is known for bizarre driving patterns is an example of AI success. Confidence in AI is a product of faith, a lack of confidence is a product of evidence.
Before Kali, in the mid-late 90’s, we had had a 4-node dial-in BBS in my area code (813) called The Arena that ran an app called SerIPX - basically IPX over serial - to allow 4 players to play Doom. It was an incredible experience at the time, especially when paired with Dwango5.wad and other 4-player centric maps. Worked great on a 28.8k modem, direct, with no TCP/IP.

So many memories, but I wish I remembered more from that era. Crazy to think it was a quarter of a century ago.
I used to hack up freeware games written in basic, to the point of destruction. And video and sound art. That's been my focus ever since, codewise.

I was drawn forward into mastery by my pleasure. I like code, glitchy crashes and trippy stuff.

It's easy to become a master of X when you like X.

So step 1 is to like X.
I use etckeeper for this, automatic daily commits if something changes, also does pre and post apt commits.

I use that for potential personal foot shots. Upgrades are almost always straight forward, just read the notes. I have been upgrading in place 6-12 systems since at least 2002.
> Is chatGPT a mathematical model of consciousness?

Unless we reduce models of consciousness to purely stochastic processes, this is trivially false. And no one seriously reduces consciousness to probabilistic pattern recognition.

> We know it doesn't represent the whole experience...

It doesn't represent any experience. ChatGPT doesn't "experience" things as conscious things do. It's not even comparable to the experience of a simple invertebrate, for example.
100% agree with the Enid Blyton take. I loved Blyton's books as a kid, to the point I actually developed a British-esque accent from reading them so much (I'm Australian). But if I had children, I would not read those books to them as they are. They're full of racist, sexist and generally outdated language, and were written by someone who was considered overly conservative for the 1930s!!

As long as the original books exist somewhere, I don't really think it matters if we give a cleaned up version to modern kids.
On front end, almost none. Apps are very test-hostile, so much so that just setting up the framework can increase complexity by ^3.

Well, unit tests are fine and often we do it for things like testing that email parsers and unit conversion works. As long as it's easier than manual testing.

It's also easier to do tests than debug sometimes.

Back end is a different story - the ROI on tests increases drastically because tests are easier to write and failure is more expensive.
The very first reason is "1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.", which is the exact point being made: at a population level BMI is useful.

Additionally, BMI is imprecise, but imprecise doesn't mean useless. If you took a random sample of people with a BMI of 40+ from across the whole population, almost none of them would be near optimal healthy weight; a random sample of 30+, still relatively few. Those few who are healthy at that BMI know it. BMI's maybe not so useful for someone who's hovering around 19 or 28, but at the extreme edges it's very indicative of body fat.
Yep; to say nothing of the psychological effects of being told that the whole world hates you. That sounds really traumatic.

I'm not generally a contrapoints fan, but I really enjoyed the video she made about her experience with this on twitter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8

Or the TED talk "How one tweet can ruin your life" from 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI

We studied To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible when I was in highschool. I remember thinking how barbaric and despicable "mob justice" was. I didn't understand it, and I assumed I never would - I thought it was something we reference from history. But twitter really has brought the mob justice style witch hunts back.

I don't understand how anyone can claim its not a real phenomenon. Being cancelled is obviously quite a real experience for the people it happens to.
Qutebrowser already kinda does this. You can use environment variables to access most browser details in python user scripts. For example, QUTE_HTML points to file containing current tab's HTML.

It has been one of my favorite things about this browser as you can quickly write up easily maintainable user scripts in Python compared to whatever unmaintainable magic greasemonkey scripts end up being.

See more: https://qutebrowser.org/doc/userscripts.html
could we get the link switched to an actual written source instead of some youtube person speaking for 20 mins?
In addition to what others said, it’s just not a common saying in modern English. If you described someone annoying as screeching, older people likely would understand but most would find it strange language for today.
It's "absolutely useless" because it doesn't do the thing its advertised to do, which is extract fumes from your workspace. It dilutes and mixes the air right in front of your face, but your workspace will still gradually fill with solder fumes as you work. If you're an infrequent solderer, that may be fine. But if you are making a habit of soldering, or its your job, get something that actually filters or removes the fumes. I'm giving this advice because I used a setup as effective as yours for years and it caused me health problems through sensitization even though it seemed ok for a long time.
Someone walked on that completely rusted out unpainted metal platform to install and remove the camera
This really is a fantastic podcast series if you want to learn about missiles, deterrence, and arms control related topics. Simultaneously very technical and geopolitical.

This technique for detecting launches and explosions with distributed magnetometers is pretty amazing.

I have to think the phenomenon was extensively researched in the post-WWII era. But I first heard about it when I saw @rrichcord tweeting detected events a year ago.

https://twitter.com/rrichcord
Nope. Google "reads" all your data and saves it to push ads & suggested content to you.

I know this because Google read my emails (AFAIK there's no toggle to disable tracking on this product) and suggested me a video based on the contents of one of my emails. Mind you, I wasn't even logged in on YouTube at the time.
There are a bunch of links in the video description that seem to back most of this up
> They might have not been nazis themselves ...

Perhaps surprisingly large numbers of the military did not support the Nazi ideals.

High ranking members of the military failed to assisinate Hitler several times.

The specific "nitpick" is that the pilot and crew were very likely to not be actual literal Nazis.

That's just history .. the point of current interest now is the question of whether niche ideologies can take over a state and take it to war on the global stage.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare a country to cities. Lisbon GDP/capita is almost $40k.

And to clarify, Beijing and Shanghai are not provinces, they are cities. They are two of the four mainland Chinese cities “promoted” to the province level politically, but they are cities. Basically it would be as if Washington DC was a state. The other two cities like this are Chongqing and Tianjin.
How much does an f5 cost?
That's not bad, thanks. I'll test it out with a few people and see what feedback I get.

I've already had one person say "Why in the world would anyone target me? I am nobody out of hundreds of millions of people."
> Note the absence of such bikes today in pretty much all cities worldwide

I do not note this. My city has docked bikes, and has for a decade. They’ve been in NYC for the same period, Portland has them as well, and I seem to recall seeing them in New Orleans, too. I believe Boston also has a system. Hell, even Riverside had one, last time I was there. Come to think of it, I’m struggling to think of a city I’ve been to recently that Didn’t have a docked bike share.
There's a saying: "There's a big difference between ten years of experience, and one year of experience repeated ten times."

Someone who's just repeated solving the same problems over and over again, has the latter, especially if they've only done it in a single language.
Was there ever a multiplayer mod for this game? It was pretty awesome.
“This photo was probably created over several weeks, but that being said we could run a simple version where it runs 77 photos at 70mm to create a 2.6 gigapixel photo and that takes 15 minutes,” Cury explains.

https://petapixel.com/2021/04/27/this-120-gigapixel-photo-is...
While I agree with what you wrote, I’d argue that there might be a better name for your viewpoint. “Neopuritanism” is really just another attempt to lambast the puritans as a group. It’s a sad and tired revisionist trope.

The puritans were largely rebelling from persecution in England and surrounding areas as a continuation of the reformation. They were largely martyred by their own people for their beliefs. Again, it’s a shame that most people only associate that group of people with the fictional work “the scarlet letter” or “the Salem witch trials”.
If they mess with legal and go to tribunals to settle, wouldn't that attract unwanted attention?
It took a while, but this same kind of 5-minute conversation started happening a few months into the pandemic though it was with an online meeting (now huddle), etc

Now it is second nature, and I've been doing it frequently across continents. For all intents and purposes, this never happened at the office before the pandemic.
The rich want to maintain their position in society. They’ll gladly pay the guillotine insurance of full, but cheap employment.
I think a big part of it is lack of education. Despite the fact that most people outside the US have a pretty simple and streamlined time of paying their taxes, I think most Americans think that the US system is just how it has to be. Or they're victims of misinformation campaigns that tell them falsehoods about how the American system overall allows them to pay less in taxes, or that a streamlined tax system would make it easier for the government to raise taxes in the future (an idea the GOP hates) without taxpayers "noticing" (somehow). To that point, there are still many people who believe that filing taxes should be painful, as a reminder of where the money is going, and exactly how much.

It's dumb, but... there you have it.
The price I cited was from the article. While I didn't check the price of the soldering iron itself, I looked up the price of the tips and those were over $40. Personally, I used $10 irons for decades and only picked up a temperature controlled one (for about $150 CAD) a couple of years ago. While it was a very nice upgrade, I am firmly in the camp that you can do good work with a basic iron.
Acoup.blog had an excellent series on this[0], but anything made out of iron was stupendously expensive. Even neglecting the work to forge it into final shape, the metal alone was expensive. Kingdom Come Deliverance started with a good quest that highlighted this [1, sections relating to Kunesh] but didn't follow through and for game balance reasons iron is way too cheap in that game. In reality, even a small axe or hammer would have been so expensive that it would be an heirloom object.

We are completely spoiled by modern materials science, I'm typing this out resting my elbow on a workbench that would have been worth a literal kings ransom 500 years ago, and now having a 4x8' bench of 5/16" plate steel isn't an insane thing to own. 500 years ago, this bench would equal the yearly iron output of a normal European country, with a price tag to boot. And automated manufacture of fasteners makes the modern world run, even with a lathe making a single screw takes me at least 5 minutes assuming everything is already set up. Forging a nail? Here [2] is a modern blacksmith taking ~2 minutes and 3 heats to forge a simple nail. Having exposure to blacksmithing, I'm always shocked at how cheap modern fasteners are.

[0]https://acoup.blog/tag/iron/
[1]https://kingdom-come-deliverance.fandom.com/wiki/Unexpected_...
[2]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBfkmPt-WYw
> vscode is the only piece of software i've ever seen that will slow down keyboard input handling to less than 1fps. on a core i5 gen2, fresh install

Interesting! I had (sort of) the opposite experience.

I loaded VS Code on an old netbook and braced myself for a horrible experience... but it was actually pretty responsive. I was honestly shocked at how well it ran, considering how slow the computer was. Sure, VS Code was definitely slower than Vim, but it was fast enough that I kept using it (for the excellent TypeScript integration).
Going to be very interesting when Huck Finn gets this treatment.