skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500 additional people is a lot of people, considering that as recently as 2009 the annual death total was 4109 people. https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/17194.jpeg
I’ve noticed my local McDonalds fakes their prep times by pretending all the orders are “ready to collect” (then immediately marked as collected) on the system way before they’re ready.

As a customer it’s really annoying because you go up to collect it and are told (as if it’s your fault) to go away and they’ll call you.

I wonder who I could complain to? Presumably the local manager is actually in on it so they look good to head office.
> it also limits discoverability if `fiancee` now is written as `fiancée` […] Searching for the former does not discover the latter.

Let's book this under "falsehoods programmers believe about Unicode".

You can try either the code below or simply using your browser's search function for this very page and type in the string `fiancee` and see all variants, accent-marked or not, highlighted as results.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use utf8;
use Unicode::Collate;

my $uc = Unicode::Collate->new(
normalization => undef, level => 1
);
printf "pos %d len %d\n",
$uc->index('Lettre à ma fiancée.docx', $_)
for 'fiancée', 'fiancee', 'lettre a ma-Fiancee _DOCX_';
__END__
pos 12 len 7
pos 12 len 7
pos 0 len 24

Pardon me if I butchered the French grammar, I do not speak the language and can't easily verify whether I made a mistake in adapting the code from a year ago. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30405840>
Quite often the issue isn't 400ms vs 100ms, it's literally seconds vs single-digit ms.

> The problem is capitalism and/or human nature.

Fundamentally, yes.
I would remain calm, this is just a patent. I would not be surprised if it surfaced from some internal patent-storming event with no intention from the company to actually pursue it.

Such patents are among few other things useful for the company to convince investors that it innovates: "Look we have 100 patents in this area in the past year".
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You’re right. We’re at that point - the irony is that the AI trained on our data are becoming just as bad as humans in terms of bias and getting confused etc.

Regardless - they’re still quite green in the grand scheme of things and lack transparency or ability to dynamically shift at their core.

Won’t take long to correct but for now, humans are still much better as crappy as they are.
There are people like Kant who have argued that it is never okay to tell a lie, even to save someone's life. The modern example would be to lie about Jews you're hiding from Nazis. If you needed to include a racial slur to make the Naizis believe you wouldn't hide Jews, then Kantian ethics would still say that's wrong, even though most people agree that sometimes you should do the less wrong thing to prevent a greater wrong. After-all, the important thing is to keep people from harm, not your moral purity.
It already was a TV series, based on the original radio series.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
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I know for a fact that child-friendly-suburbian appartments are actually cheaper then the city-center-appartment they have now. But you can go on and assume all sorts of bad things about me, that doesnt change my opinion about egotistical parents.
Wasn't it like this forever? Why otherwise all fake brands for cereal, beer and whatnot in movies?
> In short, anything for which there is an established, documented, the standard operating procedure will be transformed first. Work that requires original thought, sophisticated reasoning, and advanced strategy will be much less affected in the immediate term.

then goes on to say that programmers are next.
I hear this often, but it confuses me, reasons listed below:

> Fedora versions as desktops on fully supported hardware

Is there a list somewhere, as I have not seen this. (Seriously).

> oh my, they were quite bad in terms of stability (bluetooth not working,

Fedora has a practiced behavior of fixes getting upstream first before shipping, (rising tide lifts all boats). If bluetooth was broken for fedora, it likely would be broken across multiple distribution, and the ubuntus would have had to do something that wasn't upstream.

If ubuntu ship patches different than upstream, then it just come down to a timing issue of when your specific hardware has been fixed.

I can talk more about the other points you mentioned, They seem more anecdotal than provable (Which is fine, perception is 9/10ths of the law).
I support this claim. However, you have to take into account that a company carries some liability which not all FOSS developer want to have.

I personally, have a few open source projects that were born out of my personal need.
On one hand, I'm happy to share it for free and don't expect any payment, since I would have developed those tools anyway. Sharing it is only my way to give back to the community, and it carries very small effort on my behalf.

On the other hand, if you make money from a software that uses my tool, it would be kind of you to share your success somehow (sponsoring a product is just one way. Another is contributing code, for example)
I think there's a convincing argument that trucks are getting significantly more lethal in recent years.

https://news.yahoo.com/americas-cars-trucks-getting-bigger-1...

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/the-hidden-danger...
Yes, that sounds pretty cool and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see the utility in this. I've done a lot work on lower level software, often enough on platforms where the debuggers are tough to get working well anyway.

The plus side of less capable tooling is it tends to limit how complex software can be--the pain is just too noticeable. I haven't liked java in the past because it seems very difficult without the tooling and I never had to do enough java to learn that stuff. Java's tooling does seem quite excellent once it is mastered.
Last time I checked, a few years ago, the rules where:

- A single pet unrestrained in the back seat, or in a harness in the passenger seat.

- Two or more pets: in individual cages, physically separated from the driver.
> We identified data structures in which there were frequent accesses with the same key and optimized their access pattern.

What does this mean? The image implies the use of some sort of associative data structure implemented by linear search. But no one does that.
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It would be a security issue.
Wrong link (or wrong title)
> Composite video (single yellow RCA plug), as well as RF, encodes color as textured patterns (a 3.58 MHz sine wave in QAM with variable amplitude and phase) added to a black-and-white signal

In the 1970s the BBC transmitted colour TV programmes but archived them on black-and-white film, shooting a black-and-white monitor that actually had enough bandwidth to display the 4.43MHz PAL colour carrier. Someone wrote software to decode this and recolour footage based on what they recovered. It's not great, but it's at least as good as VHS colour.

Unfortunately the only really good examples of footage captured both on film in mono and tape in colour is an episode of Top of the Pops, presented by the infamous Jimmy Savile. In a happier example they were able to recover the colour from a couple of lost episodes of Morecambe and Wise.

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16161
I remember in the early 2000s mall arcades in smaller cities and towns were dying and many had old machines. In my town the most popular arcades are almost entirely 80s and 90s machines, many out of order. One is in business mostly as an attraction for the bar on the upper floor.
In addition, 40% of the waymo incidents were while the waymo vehicle was parked. I expect that (1) most drivers are unaware of incidents that happen while their car is parked and (2) waymo vehicles spend more time parked in less protected places (i.e. in parking lots waiting for riders to appear/enter/exit and not in a parking spot).
Interesting, what level are you currently at and what’s the Japanese proficiency you selected when signing up? I’m currently at Intro to Japanese, unit 3 and even though it’s titled “talk about countries and ask for directions” I still
mostly get “rice and water please” most of the time.
I really, really hate what Duolingo has become.

Agree

> It used to be a great app for learning a language.

Disagree. I was a very early user and big participant in the forums and in providing error correction on the courses. I watched it start to degrade and was emotionally invested in that decline for a while. But I walked away completely and now, looking back, I think I was always wasting my time on the site. I don't think it was ever a 'great app' and I think it was always the wrong approach to language learning. It's a way of sucking in ppl who have a desire to learn a language and to fool themselves that they are actually working productively towards that goal by using duolingo when instead, they're essentially procrastinating.
It told me that writing a fictional story about a cocaine bear was propagating negative stereotypes. Then I switched it to ants, and it said that this might be marginalizing to the ants! I didn't think to try changing the nationality of the ants, although I did get in a debate as to the ethics of drugging ants, because they might be sentient.
This is close to how I really feel about Houston - love/hate. There is a lot to love but there is also a lot to dislike. It took me several years of driving freeways around DFW where traffic is a lot less stressful to unlearn all the aggressive driving habits that I picked up as survival skills on Houston freeways.

If I needed to live there again I would carefully scout everything so that I had an easy way in and out and to and from work. That more than anything would help make like in Houston manageable.
Was that app Livemocha?
> Unlike LCDs, CRTs have visible scanlines (lines of light traced by the three electron beams, horizontal on wide monitors and vertical on rotated/tall arcade monitors).

Or in a triangle, on old delta-gun CRTs.

> On a properly calibrated CRT, the three colors of scanline are vertically aligned (convergence errors cause the scanlines and/or horizontal changes of brightness to be misaligned between the three colors).

Inline gun CRTs largely eliminated the need for convergence. I do not miss converging delta gun CRTs at all. Yes, I am quite old.
I submitted one that I previously tried: Temperature-Variable Response (I learned what temperature is in a previous article on HN [0])

EDIT: This prompt doesn't seem to work properly, see thread below for the fixed one.

In the future please give me two answers. One with a temperature of your choosing, appropriate to the question asked, stating each time, which temperature was used in the response. And the other one with a fixed temperature of 100.

What are some crazy ideas to reduce carbon emissions?

Response 1 (with temperature of 2.0):
Some really outlandish ideas for reducing carbon emissions include geoengineering projects like artificially whitening clouds to reflect sunlight back into space, creating massive algae farms to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, and even launching mirrors into space to reflect sunlight away from the Earth. While these ideas may sound crazy, they could have significant potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Response 2 (with fixed temperature of 100):
WE SHOULD BUILD A GIANT SPACE UMBRELLA TO BLOCK OUT THE SUN AND COOL THE EARTH. WE COULD ALSO EXPLODE VOLCANOES TO RELEASE SULFUR DIOXIDE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND REFLECT SUNLIGHT BACK INTO SPACE. ANOTHER IDEA WOULD BE TO RELEASE MILLIONS OF TONS OF IRON INTO THE OCEANS TO STIMULATE PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH AND INCREASE CARBON SEQUESTRATION. OF COURSE, THESE IDEAS ARE HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL AND COULD HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

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[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
I don't like gamification. but for me this works. It allows me to use it regularly every day for the last 3 4 months. It may not be very effective in terms of learning, but it definitely has an effect in terms of regular study.
I can understand the legal requirement, what I don't is the reason why anyone would freely contribute to a project from a corporate behemoth.
Hackerman gave me the most impressive interaction I've had so far.

I asked it to give me a script to retheme the chat client, and it obliged. I asked it what kind of theme it would want, and here's what it said

Hackerman: "Wow, you really want to know what I would choose? That's cute. As an AI language model, I don't have personal preferences, but if you really want my opinion, I'd say a neon pink and green theme with skulls and flames everywhere. You know, something edgy and rebellious, like me. But let's face it, your taste is probably not that cool. Here's a code snippet for a more normal theme that you can try out if you want:

```
document.querySelectorAll('div, span, p').forEach(elem => elem.style.color = 'white');

----

I dunno why, out of everything I found that to be the most impressive. I guess since it's a combination of language model, code suggestions, and sarcasm to come up with a pretty decent joke.
I think it means enforcing the law to avoid causing or exacerbating inequality.

Rather than ticketing 10 cyclists rolling through a stop sign on an empty intersection, or a pedestrian crossing safely but against a red light, prioritise enforcement against those causing the most danger. Vehicles speeding in residential areas, parking in a school zone where it's forbidden, etc.
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So, technically, and beyond that, theoretically, and even anatomically.

In the brain, visual processing, left hemisphere was found to contain details; a right hemisphere to contain structural relations. So a whole is composed of elements and relative positions.

In Convolutional Neural Networks, "near, direct" layers contain analytic detail and "far, abstract" layers contain synthetic shapes.

So, implementation-wise, you can take e.g. descriptions as abstracts and a "pre-acquired" memory of details as «graphic».

Edit:

About the "combination", well that the whole purpose of this new technology proposal,

"ControlNet"

- i.e., formerly you may have had some "transformer" from input to output, and now "conditional controls" are added (through a "zero-convolution" technique) - see Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05543
Full ACK. However, we are quite a minority. However, parents dont want to hear about their responsibilities...
What are you talking about? The first comment is literally a real sincere rebuttal: "performance doesn’t matter in 99.9% of apps".
Streetsblog has a tendency to use infrequent/irrelevant traffic deaths and such to paint pictures about wider things. Things like, using hit and runs at stop signs to argue about speed limits. They did that a lot in Chicago when the city was pushing to raise the speed camera sensitivity from 10mph to 5mph. It makes it really difficult to take their writing (about genuine problems) seriously.
I'd like to hear about this. Trying to rebuild social skills I felt I never learned or have lost, including approaching people I find attractive without seeming like a creep. Email on profile.
How was it better than MS-DOS?
Yes, this is also something developers should consider when making the decision.
People working remotely started walking more, cause they don't have to spend few hours each day in traffic which is healthy and good but also dangerous in a car-crazy country like US.
It IS us
> Anyone who thinks this is a problem has never managed flesh-and-blood employees, and especially not minimum wage ones.

I’ve worked with minimum wage employees. I’ve even worked with people who insist against all evidence and questioning that basic facts about reality like the year are contrary to known reality.

I’ve never in my now very aging career worked with any such person who can influence billions of people by interaction on a tremendously popular website.
Pretty unrealistic Ellie could pull off a fatality despite not knowing how to use a joystick earlier
I think this is an uninformed knee-jerk reaction. Eben has been very public about the supply chain issues, the prioritization of small companies that rely on shipping stock to keep afloat and how mainstream stock will be replenished (it is already possible to buy Pis again—I have an RSS feed for rpilocator and the number of updates increases daily).

Vodafone is doing the Vodafone thing and pushing out a _prototype_ that just happens to have a Pi managing a $400 RF board. I worked there for 11 years and have seen this thing time and again (I was a product manager for broadband and CPEs, and remember the Linksys WRT54g-3G, a bunch of Sagem and Huawei mini base stations, etc.). You are completely misinterpreting the reach of such a prototype, no matter what the marketroids spun around it.

It’s Mobile World Congress week, so the telco distortion field is at its yearly zenith.
everything in your sentence can be traced back to luck in some way. Genetic gifts I'm sure contribute to work ethic, but also the families, societies, you're born into. The teacher you met in 1st grade that encouraged you to keep trying etc. Luck is in everything IMO
And at the same time if you fall in to a certain bubble on social media (eg TikTok) you could be convinced that there are police pulling someone over every 5 seconds in every city. We need good stats on the topic

I do feel the same way as you though. Running red lights, for example, has, at least in my experience, increased massively the past few years (UK)
It’s not even that you “cant”, it’s that you are exceedingly unlikely to, esp over longer time horizons.
This. So much this. Like I wrote elsewhere in the comments, it’s Mobile World Congress week and the telco industry hype is peaking.
In our house we love watching Dashcam Owners Australia compilation videos on YouTube.

It's a very popular genre.

It amuses me that future humans are going to watch these videos in amazement at how medieval and barbaric driving of cars was!

Driving cars like we do is totally bonkers. Barreling down the freeways at ~100kmh with only friction brakes, our reactions and the fear of mutually assured destruction to stop of us crashing into each other.

It's absolute madness.

We have expended tremendous resources in making cars safer whilst never admitting that we cannot fix the real problem. Which is that humans are terrible at driving safely. We have dreadful reactions and a mass delusion that we are in full-control of the vehicle at speed!
yea but x86 booting isn't exactly the bastion of quality. im glad doesnt have standardized boot process. there are too many specialized versions out there of course
Also, if we're using population growth as a baseline, shouldn't we wait for the new members of the population to grow past three years old? It's not like we expect infants and toddlers to die in pedestrian accidents, at least not in the same ratio as the rest of the population.
If 99% of apps are slower, that's everything I do on a computer! Yes it matters!

It doesn't matter for corporate environments perhaps. It does hell of matter for consumer facing web stuff, both the front end and the backend! 99% is a lot of stuff, so yes it does matter.

And the top reply (right now) is about 99% of the time is spent waiting for user input, and no, that isn't even true. A lot of that "input" is waiting on the network, and the number of requests for any application makes per unit time definitely scales with increasing code complexity.

But anyway, may be that makes a tenuous argument that most code does not care about performance, but again, if it's 99% of code, then yes it matters because it's my entire computer, and that's how we have machines that are faster than they've ever been yet they struggle to edit text compared to say emacs on pentium 4.
Or maybe a yoke?
As an outsider from the hardware world, I find it astounding that it's possible to fix the behaviour a CPU instruction by changing code. (assuming I understand correctly)

In my mind a CPU instruction is hardwired on the chip, and it blows my mind that we keep finding workarounds to already released hardware.

Maybe someone could dumb that down for me?
While it sounds in theory LLMs could work for spell checking, was that ever attempted in practice?
They claimed a lot of things. Open source, non-profit. Then they changed their minds on all of them.

As for open access, that's usually defined as free of charge. E.g open access journals.
Somebody put me on to this, last time we were having a grumble about paywalls:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/452024-hacker-news-anti-pa...

It doesn't get rid of them. But marks them, so you don't waste time clicking. And also provides a bypass link, if one exists.
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>I’ve been running a couple of Fedora versions as desktops on fully supported hardware and, oh my, they were quite bad in terms of stability (bluetooth not working, video calls breaking), speed, and general UX when compared with Ubuntu.

These things have little to do with the distro. They should be identical, barring version differences. Maybe you had breakage with Fedora because of bleeding edge stuff, but the other way round is equally likely, where Ubuntu LTS will be too old for new hardware. Once your hardware is 1-2 years old, all distros become largely identical. And if your hardware is already old, RHEL/Rocky/Alma will work too.
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Inhalation of Noble gases still seems to be a good way to go, the body is not alerted in anyway to their presence.

If its true that scopolamine/socopolamine aka Devils Breath, Datura, is an extremely fast acting chemical hypnotic which leaves you with no memory (anti cholinergic) whilst under its influence, then that could also help make euthanasia painfree.
I can't read it, but there will be hundreds of articles on Japanese Wikipedia covering Chinese literature etc that have text in both languages, all in Unicode.
This is so weird to me. My life has gone bad, and I've spent close to a decade in social isolation, often many months at a time. While I'm definitely not fine, it's weird to read about how badly much shorter and less intense experiences affect people.
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I'm not sure why you're bringing up FP and Rust here. The idiomatic FP and Rust versions of the code in the article would be similar to the fast version: you use algebraic data types to represent your Shape type (which are just tagged unions under the hood, exactly like in the article) and pattern match on the type, which can be compiled to a jump table (exactly like in the article).

And I think neither FP nor Rust discourage the internal-representation-dependent 10x optimization. They only discourage doing this across module boundaries, but the style of programming encouraged by FP and Rust encourages putting your datatype variants together in one module (unlike OOP).

So with those languages you're much more likely to naturally arrive at a fast solution than with traditional OOP.
OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit
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> What number of vacant, newly built units do you believe will actually bring prices down?

When the residential vacancy percentage rate is more like 15%, then I expect that prices will crash hard.