skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pearson is not the worst but depends on destination. (International flights have a nicer terminal, but national flight has been some years).

That said, Air Canada (also mentioned in the article) is also investing in AI while their default online booking process is still quite bad. Last time I wanted to book a flight with a pet, the website told me to book the flight without pet, then make a phone call to tell them I would be taking a pet with me (and cost would then depend on destination) just like two decades ago.

So I decided to use KLM and booked my flight, with pet, all through the website without needing a phone call.
Thanks! Do you mean an integration that would push the email HTML file to your git repo directly? That's a really cool idea, I'll look into it!
Google updates Chrome to match Safari battery life on M2 MacBook Pro
U – Multi-Repo and Git Shortcuts Utility
When you say you can spend months alone, do you mean literally alone - not interacting with anyone during that time at all?
I built this utility to remove a lot of friction and time-consuming steps associated to working with multi-repo systems. I'm looking for feedback and would like to know if any tools like it already exist!
Signal was starting to gain some traction here IMO because it was open source and therefore a bit more trustworthy, and it gracefully fell back to SMS so people could adopt it without risk and interruption to their existing network. Then they decided they were going to shoot themselves in the foot and drive off a cliff. Unbelievably frustrating.
I don't see anything wrong with using an unofficial API, as long as you don't, say, circumvent the number of images you'd get for free.
If I have to trust any company with my data, I'll take Apple over Facebook any day. WhatsApp is not the answer.
Something tells me there is no free lunch here as well.

It seems everything that gratifies the tongue is bad in some way.
GNU and Clang toolchains have useful diagnostic abilities in this direction, though no single "master switch".

For example, with -Wold-style-casts you can diganose every use of the (TYPE) EXPR casting notation, which is often seen in the lower-level C-like C++ code for punning memory.

Somewhere in some commonly included header for the project you can write declarations for C functions that should not be used, marking them deprecated. Then if people introduce strcpy or malloc or whatever you don't want, that can be diagnosed (and can fail compilation, if desired).
Language models certainly generate their fair share of bullshit. But then, they are actually trained on bullshit - raw human output, much of it informal - so as a first step, it is a sign of great success.

By the time language models don't ever generate bullshit they will have succeeded in understanding and communicating at a level most or all of us will never achieve.

But most models, including photoshopping detection, are not language models. Their job is to perform some well defined problem (classification, pattern recognition, relationship generalization, etc.) better than alternative methods. They perform, or they don't. There isn't room for bullshit.
I certainly appreciated the breakdown.
also this https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.02252.pdf
One exception is Metal, it is actually implemented in Objective-C with Swift bindings.
While the article is super interesting and talks about many different scientific finding I think there's an excerpt that's really important to pay attention to:

> Of course, the chicken-and-egg question about all these findings is: Do differences in the brain predispose us to loneliness, or does loneliness rewire and shrink the brain? According to Bzdok, it’s not currently possible to solve this puzzle. He believes, however, that the causality may point both ways.

So the truth is "Loneliness Reshapes the Brain" might not really be true and it's possible it's the other way around. Anyhow we understand so little about the brain we'll probably just be speculating for a few decades about this. However, one thing's sure, we are social animals, and that 100% means being isolated is bad for whatever your body has evolved to do over the course of millennia.
Yeah, it’s like growing your own food or fixing your own car. Most people can’t, and don’t care.

Remember Heinlein:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.
That's my point, I made a tongue in cheek parallel between molecules and software.

Neither are sentient, yet humans think they are sentient, so why wouldn't it be the case for a system made with software?
Who knows. I moved recently, so I'm still getting a handle on how my new city works.

In previous cities where I've lived, I went to city council meetings semi-regularly. You might be surprised how quickly or how often an idea goes from "some rando speaking into a microphone at a meeting" to "ordinance passed."
Main thread, with link to original Medium post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308
Studied Japanese in Kyoto for a year. Quit my job and turned down offers to continue working, which was the correct decision. I took it because I was feeling burnout but also because I was 27 and felt like language school had a time limit to fully enjoy it (you can go later of course, but socialising becomes harder, and I was able to join university clubs at that age).

Positive benefits: learned Japanese, massively improved social skills (met more new people than the last 10 years), chance to redo university as I sort of wasted it. Got into a relationship. Had all kinds of new experiences. Hung out almost exclusively with Japanese people although getting to know people from Thailand, Taiwan, Russia etc. using Japanese as a common language was also fun.

Negative: lonely at times, I didn't work on personal projects as much as I wanted (felt like a waste), went back to my old job instead of trying to look for a new one in Japan.

So yeah, I really recommend language school, working holiday, etc. if you don't have any grand plans for your sabbatical. Be prepared that you might not work on any big projects and you might be too lazy to find a job after. But I can't imagine not having done it now. It'll always be a part of me.
Post fact, there can be. But we are terrible at knowing one from the other ahead of time. More, we don't always have "meaningful" things to do at any given moment.

This is why we don't all work to type as fast as court reporters. It would not gain us much if any meaningful time.

More, you can give meaning to things. Puzzles and such.
> The reason WhatsApp is in the backup phone is because you cannot backup between iOS and Android. So I left it there. i recently got a new phone, so I tried to back up WhatsApp, but it claims no such backup exists, which is not true.

You can migrate between iOS and Android, but I think Android > iOS is a very recent feature.

iOS backs up to either iTunes as part of a phone backup, or separately to iCloud within its own app container; and Android backs up to Google Drive. I'm very surprised that WhatsApp on iOS doesn't support Google Drive either, given that it's the more "open" of the two.

[1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/1295296267926284/

[2] https://faq.whatsapp.com/686469079565350/
I think I mostly agree with it, but I think having a culture that inclines towards trying to talk things out in public is probably better, but you're right about there being value in also being able to talk to your manager or your teammmate in private to share your thoughts or build consensus.

In general, I think it's one of those policies that can absolutely be toxic, but can also be healthy, and it's dependent on the surrounding culture and team and how absolute the policy is.
I'm pointing the inconsistency of the argument.

If you want popularity, there is already Electron.
Python is exception-based, so it's easy to avoid a crash. Say it's a webserver, you catch all exceptions around each endpoint and give HTTP 500 if it's not something you understand to be a 4xx. Exceptions are nice in that you either explicitly handle them or the caller will.

C++ has exceptions too, but I've never used them, so idk. The abseil statuses end up being used like DIY exception handling, and it's ok but a bit easier to mishandle something than in Python. And a segfault cannot(? or shouldn't) be caught and will crash the whole program.
This is the same mechanism utilized by Tesla and their "iMessage" integration.

It won't be patched (any time soon at least); however, it is severely limited. No prior history is able to be loaded; no sending/receiving/viewing of pictures, group chats don't function... the list goes on.
"Although the settlement and the apology should not be misconstrued as an admission that we were responsible for anything that happened."
I always look at adages like these as something to keep in mind for the future. We can choose the simplest thing now and make it easy to swap it out for the more correct and more time-consuming thing later.

Sometimes the difficulty in distinguishing what the simplest thing could be comes from being in a group setting where people have equal say in the matter.

I think everyone has personal anecdotes to support the idea of doing the simplest thing suitable for that moment. But how to convince the group? I'm not sure, I don't always succeed.

A situation where I did do just the simplest thing is when I was asked to use project management software and a build server for a very early stage project with only myself as a developer. I declined.
Instead I made a script to compile and package everything and emailed that to the others. We used an instant messenger for communication. It worked great for the early stage when the focus is on the MVP, though the project didn't go anywhere due to business reasons.

It will always still be possible to use the project management software and build server later. But it wasn't necessary at the very start.
In general, we have a lot of interactions online, but unfortunately those do not have the positive effects physical contacts have.

On HN we are normally not even "online friends" with specific other users. The users are identifiable just as some little grey nickname. Who even is this "GalenErso" guy? Or "cubefox"? What are they up to? We might as well all post anonymously, the outcome would basically be the same.

That's not a natural way to interact, no wonder the brain breaks a little if it does not much else.
> The opera houses and theatres are full

That is amazing.
Found thanks to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34960377
Is it handled by a browser extension? Curious if it might be hacked into Firefox.

There's a suggestion to add "AMD FidelityFX or similar technology" here:
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/video-upscaling-in-brow...
I agree, but for "violent crimes" I would think along the lines of the "hire a hitman" forums that were reputedly on the Silk Road dark web site before it was taken down.
I don't think this works. The universe existing is not evidence that we can create the universe. Logic that says "if we can see it, we can do it" is not valid, at least at this level of specificity.
I don't have long notes precisely because I haven't ignored progress and try to use a pocket computer.
Also, what's your theory of communication that explains why people casually dismiss serious flaws and switch the discussion to people and culture?
Another pointless, confusing MS rebrand: Yammer becomes Viva Engage
> all this US "be nice and smile all the time" thing seems at best naive

This is hardly a universal US thing, though. The vast majorities of companies I've worked at weren't like that.
> When you finance a car, the vehicle becomes collateral for a loan, but it belongs to you

Is it not correct that the lending entity you use to purchase a vehicle is the party that legally owns it? The borrower has possession and right to use the vehicle, but the lender holds the title. That's why you get the title transferred over to your name once the balance of the load is repaid.
Being a nice language, is secondary to working.
Can you source "most" and define "carrier" specifically for your comment?

Verizon and AT&T are the other of the big 3 carriers in the US, and they're not reselling T-Mobile. And all 3 have MNVOs (mobile virtual network operator) that resell and/or combine the networks of the big 3.
Let's assume you speak English - and more importantly, not Chinese.

Now, you need to have a conversation with someone who only speaks Chinese. How do you do that? Well, you use an interpreter. They listen to what you say, and translate it to Chinese and speak on your behalf.

If you never had any interest in learning Chinese, this would be sufficient. Your conversation rate would be slow but it would get the job done.

Let's say there's an intense line of yes-or-no questioning, though. You need to say "yes" or "no" often, and decide that maybe learning the equivalent Chinese words or phrases would cut out the middleman, thus speeding up conversation in some cases.

This is what a JIT does, just replace English with Python's bytecode, and Chinese with your host CPU's architecture (e.g. x86 or ARM). The "when" of JITing code varies across implementations and approaches but the concept remains the same. Oftentimes the JIT runtime will translate just the hot codepaths.

If a compiler - e.g. one that compiles C code - is "ahead of time", then a runtime that compiles on the fly does so "just in time".
Was thinking about moving a line to Google Fi for this reason. I know they just resell T-Mobile bandwidth, but would they provide better account level security? Is it common for Google Fi customers to get SIM swapped?
I'm sure I'm just an old curmudgeon, but when I heard that undergrads were using ChatGPT to write essays my first instinct was to wonder how university standards had gotten so low that a generated essay would not simply be dismissed as a feeble attempt.

500 words on the Thirty Years War generated by an AI and submitted by a high schooler I could understand. But arent college standards higher?
The problem the author is describing is not really intrinsic to monorepos, and it’s probably a symptom of a specific problem that Stripe has in its implementation.

As the saying goes, the only thing worse than a monorepo is two monorepos.
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Lebron's physique is not gifted. He's constantly eating and working out
How can you train on changes, if you don't have access to both originals and altered?

In any case, they are labelled originals, not corrected. So I think they are originals.
You need to literally slow down. I genuinely think it is far harder to find inspiration in sound-bites, and that is what we are increasingly used to.

What you have quoted, incidentally, is complex because it combines a lot of ideas that follow on from one another. The second paragraph, in particular, starts with the forefathers of Boston allocating land for a prison and ends with disappointment and sadness that prisoners are not even afforded the beauty of nature.

In between it observes that the prisons decays rapidly and is a “gloomy” place with poorly maintained grounds, and observes the general air of hopelessness of the prison.

It’s kind of beautiful, really. It gives a lot of context.

Edit: FWIW, I have ADHD. This wasn’t an easy read, but it was worth it.
It's not exactly clear from the paper how they've set up the training, but it appears this model has an aspect which uses a secondary model to represent images as vectors, combines them with their text captions, and then uses those text representations along with the image vectors to train the LLM. I will leave aside the question of whether a 1024-dimensional image vector and its text caption are "images".

What's interesting is that it seems to actually lose information, as asking it to identify the studio that made WALL-E is beyond its capabilities, while asking it to describe the image (i.e. regenerating more closely something that was fed into it) and then processing on that text, is successful.

The "chain-of-thought" trick in LLMs I suspect underestimates the extent to which the interviewer is carrying water for the LLM's "reasoning" ability. The interviewer has a sense of what answer they want and will ask questions that produce further results that more easily prime the model to produce it. Reasoning supposes that these steps are carried out internally, but we see claims being made of reasoning when there is an external intelligence essentially directing the generation and combination of facts.

Another curious aspect is the flattening of 2D IQ test questions into linear format, which of course misses the point of the question in being able to reason spatially instead of linearly.
Honestly, I’d assume being on a MVNO carrier would actually protect you from this, as you’re simply roaming on the T-Mobile network through the carrier agreement. Even ATT and Verizon have roaming agreements.

The issue is for T-Mobile direct customers, which obviously their internal systems have access to. I see no reason why T-Mobile would have access to users accounts at another company…
Grow bamboo there.
"Women's studies lost eighty per cent."

I welcome this change. The less grievance studies majors there are, the better off society will be.
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If you owned a high-end liquor store, is this good news or bad news?
Sandstorm is awesome, but it's nowhere near as simple as installing an app on your phone to use it. Selfhosting something like NextCloud shouldn't be more complicated than selecting it from an app store and going through a quick OAuth flow to tunnel traffic from a domain name.
It's a tell of a weak argument to not answer questions directly and instead fear-monger with 'what-ifs.'

To answer your question, a nuclear weapon is an extremely complex system with an international supply chain and I think there are plenty of ways to keep states non-nuclear that aren't direct acts of war.

Now to play Devil's Advocate:

What if Iran strikes Israel's suspected nuclear sites? Would that be justifiable to you?

Because to your very point, there are plenty of people in Iran who see a nuclear Israel to be just as catastrophic as you see a nuclear Syria.

(Again, this is why this content shouldn't be posted to HN per the rules, because now what? We are going to argue about whether or not Iran is an inherently evil state?)
US mobile has good 2FA.
Core64: Interactive Core Memory Kit
Your observation that younger generations (male and female alike) are more cautious and less likely to take risks is strongly backed up by data. All forms of risky behavior–from sex to drug use and even driving fast—are down among teens. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-40992-001.html

As another supporting example: I'm a gay man in his late 20s, and because of Grindr I often virtually encounter a lot of early 20s and late teens people (cis and trans alike) starting to explore their sexuality through the LGBT version of hookup and dating apps. Guys under 25 are significantly more cautious and shy in how they present themselves and talk, which is surprising to me since I live in a progressive area where there are fewer social anxieties about being LGBT. Even literally in a gay sex club, I've seen younger guys are super super shy about hitting on anyone.

Something about digital media, lack of real life social interaction, and increased pressure on young people is creating a generation of anxious, shy, depressive people, and it's not because of problems uniquely between straight men and women.
I used to do that, but recently decided to try out deployment using Netlify CLI—and quickly decided never to drag-and-drop again, if I can help it! Now all I do is `make dev`, and if it looks good, `make netlify-deploy-prod`. Even faster than opening Netlify, going to the site, going to Deploy, and dragging and dropping. But I’m glad that it’s still an option, if I need it.
And then we'd be down to what, two wireless carries in the US? AT&T already tried to acquire/merge with T-Mobile some years ago but it didn't go through. I forget why, but probably due to antitrust issues. And wasn't Sprint just acquired/merged with not long ago, by T-Mobile IIRC?
YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot
I agree. Scarlet Letter is an example on how not to write. It is steam of consciousness without a modicum of merit. I don't think I learned anything from it. I read half of the book and was completely lost on what the author was trying to say. Maybe that was the author's point. But the writing is god awful. Below is a passage where the dude who got Hester pregnant confessed? Or is it her husband who felt cheated? Uggh. Who cares.

“Hester,” said he, “I ask not wherefore, nor how, thou hast fallen into the pit, or say rather, thou
hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy, on which I found thee. The reason is not far to seek. It
was my folly, and thy weakness. I,—a man of thought,—the book-worm of great libraries,—a
man already in decay, having given my best years to feed the hungry dream of knowledge,—
what had I to do with youth and beauty like thine own! Misshapen from my birth-hour, how
could I delude myself with the idea that intellectual gifts might veil physical deformity in a
young girl’s fantasy! Men call me wise. If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might
have foreseen all this. I might have known that, as I came out of the vast and dismal forest, and
entered this settlement of Christian men, the very first object to meet my eyes would be thyself,
Hester Prynne, standing up, a statue of ignominy, before the people. Nay, from the moment when
we came down the old church-steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale-fire of
that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!”
42.1% of American 18- to 24-year-olds are enrolled in college or graduate school

https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics
I'm still embarrassed to say "My online friends", but they've often had a huge impact on my life.
Captain Ahab made a long term bet, too.
IMHO Maxime's YJIT ported to python would be the better way. But someone has to do it, and this just Python, not Ruby.

Php's compiler and jit would also be better, and much smaller.
Thanks for your insights. Definitely in the past few decades, PLCs has evolved a lot However I believe the time has come to evolve further.

The replacement will come on the smaller functional ones to start with.
I've seen this take a lot, but as NYC based black/male software engineer w/ 10+ yrs experience, I can count on one hand how many other black engineers I've ever worked with (engineering orgs from 30 - 250 pp). Where are all of these race based "diversity" hires working?
My frustrations with the Tesla app are 100% about the poor UI and voice interaction, not the inability to send multi-recipient text messages from the car. The degradation has nothing to do with any limitation by Apple or its API, but rather Tesla's choice to lock users out of two well-established mobile platforms. Why do you feel like Tesla is the good guy here, they have the smallest, most exclusive, least open garden in this conversation.
Minted currency is a relatively modern form of money.
> What is wrong with that?

Publicly bragging in a way that gets widely reposted in the internet about your plans (including the contents and location of your emergency cache and bugout location) in case the AI you are actively engaged in creating becomes malevolent and hostile to humanity?

Well, for one thing, unless its entirely misdirection, it shows a lack of judgement with regard to the threat, because you just negated all the resources that went into preparing.
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