skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No that's not how it generally works. Many countries create money out of thin air. Try again.
> The commonly held belief currently seems to be that you can't beat the markets.

The commonly held belief is that you can't beat the markets consistently on a risk-adjusted basis, which is a much weaker statement. Furthermore, the idea that all private information is accounted for in the current price only holds in very strong variants of the EMH.

I don't even disagree with what you're saying, but it's entirely uncontroversial.
This is like the “IE is the default browser”, or “I have tested it in Chrome which is what majority uses anyway” arguments that have proven to falter over time anyway. Linux is better off avoiding such “default” choices. It’s not like it is cohesively built like MacOS anyway. We might as well enjoy the fragmentation.
"MRSK" is a play on "Maersk" the container shipping company.
…I’m out to get him… but jokes aside. I see his point.

I’m not really active online for the majority of my usage of sites like this.

I’m just here for the content.

Rarely I will submit something interesting I come across but over the years I’ve noticed the cycles of the same sites and the same content.

The “Dead Internet Theory” really does resonate with me. I’ve been browsing HN since ‘06 when Tesla was just the weird roadster maker.
it's incredible to me how laxly we treat driving multi-ton vehicles at high speeds. you'd think operating such beasts would be something for which a real license and strict guidelines were put in place, instead it's just treated as a more complicated form of taking a stroll around.

see what running the equivalent of a red light does to you as a train operator or airplane pilot. in a car? who gives a crap lol! and let's not even touch upon maintenance...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

WebText and WebText2 referenced in their papers are corpuses based on Reddit submissions which had a 22% weight in their training model.

https://openwebtext2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This is larger than Wikipedia (3% weight) or either of their two book corpuses (8% each).

The only other data included was a filtered set from Common Crawl (weighted 60%).
How to build a consistent workflow for development and operations teams
sad. just means they have container image vulnerability scanners, which are most useless.

all this is is they signaling to investors that they managed to close the door to competition on defense contacts by helping them invent a bunch of red tape and red tapping palantir.

hope they all choke on all the taxpayer money they siffon.
In philosophy, some take the absolutist position that lying is always wrong, no matter what. Famous philosophers who have embraced that absolutist position include Aquinas and Kant.

Does anyone approach racial slurs with the same moral absolutism? I don't know. I know less about Kant, but Aquinas (and his followers up to today, for example Edward Feser) wouldn't limit their moral absolutism about speech to just lying, they also include blasphemous speech and pornographic speech in the category of "always wrong, no exceptions" speech. If one believes that lying, blasphemy and pornography are examples of "always wrong, no exceptions" speech, what's so implausible about including racial slurs in that category as well?
That's down to the longer persist. LCD goes on and off (almost) instantly, CRTs have a certain amount of "persist" where the phosphor glows for a moment after the beam has left it.

It's also (kind of) why interlacing worked, when black-and-white CRTs had a persist about as long as one field. This would make fast action a bit more "smeary" though, and you can think of its effect as similar to a wider "shutter angle" in a camera.
Ironically my company sends letters fully rendered as raster images, ugh.
It was very much inspired by that, yes.
How do you prove that it happens and is not an artifact of the training data?
Obviously this is one stranger’s uninformed opinion, but I do believe this situation will change faster than people would think.

So much money has been put into real estate as an investment due to unprecedentedly cheap debt over many years that it’s only beginning to unwind now.

Prices are falling, at least regionally. I don’t see how the real estate market can support small falls without a full crash, as unless there are substantial gains each year, landlords are facing mounting adjusted losses due to interest rate rises. Given the amount of leverage in real estate, most won’t be able to weather this storm without becoming insolvent, and those that can won’t be willing to do so.

tldr; I have high confidence this is just the beginning of a severe correction. (Again, just an armchair observer with an opinion).
The IIHS is looking for results.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/acura/integra-4-door-se...
It'd be interesting is to see this data plotted on a map, even though, from a high level, it would probably be yet another population density map. There might be correlations with locale, demographics, environment, zoning/development, traffic engineering, etc.
AVM Routers now support WireGuard
I tried auto-vectorisation, and it worked pretty well. But the code became just as big as using intrinsics would have (that with explicitly unrolling loops and rearranging things in memory), and intrinsics generated code that was easily 35% faster.

I decided not put it off for later, and keep things simple for now.
India leads world in cutting internet access for 5th year in a row
I'd love to go back and work on it more, I wanted to have both Z80/6502 based systems, just like the 8-bit wars of the 80's, but with networking. I couldn't decide between "1980's in space" or a post apocalyptic world where only 8-bit computers were robust enough to function. Maybe one day.
Memrise is pretty good (or was, when I used it years ago). Much more serious, less gamified.

I found Babbel's lessons to be very helpful, they do a good job actually explaining the rules of things to you, but they have a smaller selection of languages to learn and I believe they only have a brief free trial; there's otherwise no free tier.

For Japanese: Wanikani (for Kanji) and Bunpro (for grammar); nhkeasier.com for reading material. Ideally also get an Anki deck that complements Wanikani for other vocabulary.
I've started a project that has the potential to go down this path but have a very strict 'implement your own diffs if you want them' for this particular project.

Like, feel free to fork away if you like. The core repository needs to be simple and stay true to its goals, and when it updates everyone downstream can update if they want to do that to themselves. But for what it is and does, maybe the project as it is is good enough.

I start feeling almost physically sick when I see the potential for bloat to creep into the software I write. This makes working with scaled software development with others particularly hard, however.
>I run into little things like hardcoded Ubuntu paths in apps

what are you referring to? do you mean packages shipped on your distro are broken because the maintainers didn't change the paths or do you mean that pre-compiled binaries don't work?

because, I mean, the whole point of open source is that you can personally get your hands dirty and change the stuff. if you use binaries instead of compiling then that's what you get unfortunately
If Americans are anything like Australians, this should surprise absolutely no-one. People are driven to distraction here, often glued to their smartphones with zero situational awareness.

When this applies to both drivers and pedestrians, the outcome is predictable.
There's a whole other set of niche magazines for people who like their women square jawed[0].

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OWqz5FMEY0
Working at a pizza place, I was surprised there was a well-done and an al-dente option. Nobody knows to ask and it was a pain to track, so I never asked customers. . IIRC there was a button to slow the belt, but generally sliding the pizza back before taking it out generally did the trick and that pizza did not have to be cooked individually
The leaderboards have no good rewards, the best strategy (if you don't want to spend hours every day to stay at the top of the top league) seems to be to let your rank slip into the lowest league and then to win each week until you get back to the highest league, because there is no reward for staying in the middle of a high-ish league. Also the new daily quests seem to scale requirements with your engagement, but not scale the rewards.

So I have checked out of the unrewarding hamsterwheel and just do one or two lessons in the evening.

It is, however, one of the few places that is showing me ads so I guess it's working anyway.
"Canonical is unlikely to be that interested in the views of people who have little or no chance of giving them money, people like us."
A university in one of the richest countries in the world, the academics employed by it, and the students who attend have little or no chance of giving them money? Of course you do. You just don't want to.
I'm absolutely behind both the message and call to action of this article; the evidence is irrefutable; this comment should not be interpreted as calling into question the headline at all: the underlying data looks solid.

However. Why oh why did this author trash their own credibility by explicitly citing the "even more alarming [surge] at the state level" where "walker deaths had increased a shocking 266.67 percent in Nebraska, 150 percent in New Hampshire, and 87.5 percent in Delaware." They of course give the bare minimum caveat that "[t]hose dramatic numbers are partly explained by those states' small populations," but they are entirely explained by those states' small pedestrian fatality rates. Such as New Hampshire's increase from 2 to 5 fatalities. The other two "alarming" surges are equally unmentionable[1] in the light of actually reading the numbers.

I do have to give them credit for including the relevant numbers directly in an image in the article so that I didn't have to do any digging to figure out why those states had such high increases. But that just makes me even more baffled why they didn't catch themselves.

[1] Literally unmentionable, as in: those particular percentages cannot in good conscience be mentioned anywhere near a self-respecting argument for transportation reform.
Tesla's FSD will likely perform better than your average distracted human driver within the next few years.

So, no.
That is a test of collision avoidance.

It does not test what actually happens in the event that a collision cannot be avoided, and the car hits the person anyways.

It's also worth noting, the test only goes up to 37MPH, which is lower than common speed limits on arterial roads in suburban areas across the US. https://www.iihs.org/ratings/about-our-tests#front-crash-pre...
I think there are bolt-on hardtops for NA and NB Miatas. Looks kinda funky.

Also yeah, the Toyota 86 family is still too expensive to be a project car for most.
Parenscript
I'd love to pay for Ubuntu, but they don't make it easy.

If I start an AWS windows, rhel or suse EC2 I pay far more than with ubuntu. I'm not sure if the Ubuntu AMI has any "software" charge, but RHEL on a t3.large is 14.32c/hour in US-East-2, Ubuntu is 8.32c/hour.
I wonder how much of Mark Shuttleworth's personal funding is still at play in keeping Canonical alive.

A quick web search returns articles claiming the company has been profitable since 2018 and that an IPO may be in the works. I can understand how something like Red Hat has managed to survive over the past twenty years, given the name it has built for itself in the "enterprise" Linux world (for better or worse), but Canonical continuing to operate off the back of Ubuntu has always baffled me.
Well that's the million dollar question isn't it. The "morality" of the situation hinges upon the quality of the work. If the work was getting done without intervention, that is bad news for you, your reputation, and your necessity to the marketplace. If your work isn't getting done to standards, who is held accountable? (hint: its not the tools you're using). If the work is getting done, and you're making sure of it by writing good prompts, reviewing responses, and implementing its logic into your environment - well that's just work. There's nothing wrong with that, and if LLMs let you deliver quality work at a sustainable pace for you and your employer(s), then the work is getting done.

If we want to talk about fraud, we need to talk about employers demanding exclusivity over a human's emotions and intellect in addition to the time they pay for. Its a maniacal notion that one should have such exclusive power and influence over another human being. Its fraudulent to pretend any moral superiority over the slaver or the thief.

Fraud as defined in criminal code with respect to directly material damages. If the work is indeed getting done, there is no rational way to justify that damage took place. Conversely, if a employer hires your sibling to work 35 hours a week but lies to them about their ability to work outside of those hours, that IS fraud with the damages able to be substantiated by the loss of income. In reality, Off-Duty Work is the subject of ongoing legislation, fierce debate, and conflicting information. Here's how that looks in my home state:

>With limited exceptions, the state of Washington expressly bars employers from prohibiting an employee earning less than twice the applicable state minimum hourly wage from having an additional job, supplementing their income by working for another employer, working as an independent contractor, or being self-employed. The prohibition doesn’t apply if it would:
- Raise issues of safety or interfere with the reasonable and normal scheduling expectations of the employer.
- Interfere with the employee’s obligations to an employer under existing law, including the common law duty of loyalty and laws preventing conflicts of interest and any corresponding policies addressing such obligations.

This is a hot issue for me personally, as I've seen employers actively, even vigorously deceive their employees solely to enrich themselves and exercise power. They target young, indigent, and disabled workers, all of whom are not with means to understand their rights or use given channels to assert them. Its a visceral injustice that hurts the most vulnerable of us the hardest.
I came from Digg…
Despite being based on science, software development is full of bs, opinions and lacks measurable metrics. How "clean" this code is? In numbers between 0 and 1 for example. What's the metric there? Does using polymorphism automatically make your code clean? We cannot reliably reason about even single responsibility b/c there's no real measure how to count responsibilities of a function. In such la-la-land some desperately seek any formal measure, and there's one - performance - you can actually put a number on a piece of code. But you cannot do this for code "cleanliness". So some people prefer to ignore unmensurable trait and replace it with measurable
Tell me a scenario where that is true that isn't from a contrived institution like K-12.
And walking.
That could help, but the article is ignores the obvious.

US population growth rate 2019-2022 was quite low due to the pandemic the actual increase was 18% or ~500 people from 2019. Further, working from home changed the dynamics around driving presumably a great number of people got worse because they didn’t do it as much. The numbers of pedestrians may have also increased faster than population growth rate.
You’re kind of proving everyone’s point. That ChatGPT is wrong here. And nearly everyone would agree that it’s wrong.

I get that you’re trying to argue the validity of the modified trolly problem by saying real people wouldn’t find this problem controversial. But the fact that the most popular chat bot in the world answers the question “wrong” is a big deal. That alone makes the modified trolly problem relevant in 2023, even if it wasn’t relevant in 2021.
Am I the only one who finds these kinds of 'discoveries' about ChatGPT incredibly boring? Think what you could have made yourself in the time it took to create good 'prompts'. There's no skill involved here in my opinion.
Could also be Sirens[1] which was all about sin as activation, while sinusoidal positional encoding are (iirc) just from the original transformer paper.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09661
It’s definitely a thing - but it would be used for augmenting moderation such as highlighting tone and flagging comments etc.
... "the coruscating armature of his pleasure", IIRC...
Here in Los Angeles, I noticed a dramatic uptick in phone usage while driving over this time period. I believe the primary cause of driver and pedestrian distraction is phone usage.
Thanks for the recommendation - will have a listen today.
"Linux is better off avoiding such “default” choices" - and this is what holds Linux (the desktop OS) back. Why do people choose Windows or macOS over Linux time and again? Sensible out-of-the-box defaults. They can fire up a new PC and they are off to the races. The same cannot be said for the majority of Linux distros, except perhaps for the *buntu family.
> I think you're expressing an unhealthy resentment here.

Just an observation. In a developing country anyone with better academic performance is compelled to pursue fields that pay well. So that statistically skews the other fields to people of lower academic performance up to high school. Academic performance correlates to cognitive abilities.

STEM grads I see around me have no problem with communication or anything a humanities degree claims to "teach". I think it all boils down to people and their cognitive abilities.

Second factor is subjectiveness of humanities fields; in STEM fields there are often objective measurements. It's much easier to bullshit your way to and through a non-STEM degree, especially when you have money and background.

Edit: I have heard "humanities" as solution to engineers not writing proper docs or bug reports. That is missing the real reason, which is pretty boring. We don't have conceptual foundations of many things we use. Fresh grads even more so, due to abysmal education system.
This comment section just shows how so many developers are victims of group think. Here is actual evidence that at least hints that the primary paradigm is wrong, and immediately a bunch of nerds jump and attack, instead of taking the criticism in good faith.

Compare this to discussions about FP, new languages like Rust, and so forth. This really demonstrates the primary vogue mindset is increasing complexity and hierarchy to the detriment of all else, and is why the supposed new paradigms of "modern software development" are not really that new but just evolutions of the current paradigms. You really touch what is a culture's sacred cows by that which attracts criticism without any real sincere rebuttal.
I'm all for developers getting paid, but the thing with monetizing an open source project is:

If someone pays for your project, does the money belong exclusively to you as the project creator?

If the answer is "yes", you're literally making money off the effort of others without compensating them[1]; if the answer is "no":

* How do you decide how much should go to everyone else?

* Do you pay some percentage of what you earn to your dependencies? Only direct dependencies? When do you stop considering something a dependency (e.g. if you use a Linux distribution, do you donate to their maintainers as well)?

* Do you pay maintainers of your project?

* If you're not working actively in the project, but some devs are maintaining it, do you still get paid as the author? Or does "your share" go entirely to the maintainers?

* If some dev contributes one time, but it turns out to be a real important feature that becomes "core" because of how useful it turns out to be, do you pay them? Only once, or some part of your earnings?

* If someone forks your project, and you merge code from that fork, do you pay the author of the fork?

I'm not arguing for or against either position. I do what keeps my conscience clean.

I'm just trying to raise some questions that always come to my mind when the author of an open source project tries to get donations, or when they complain about others profiting off their project without donating anything[2].

[1] [2]: Notice the similarity between these two situations.
One area we've been poking at is better understanding API server and scheduler decisions when large number of nodes fail at the same time. We don't actually need to be running the workloads to get useful information.
I played around with this trying it on a few tricky cases. At least for the initial step of getting the data in a tidy format, it wasn't immediately obvious to me how crul could speed up my workflow.

1. Many JSON endpoints (especially not meant for public consumption) return a somewhat deeply nested list, and somewhere in that list are the individual items. Can your tool speed up (or automagically solve) getting just the itemns? I found that it just gives me thousands of columns (and truncates the results), where I would have wanted, say, two thousand rows of 23 columns. I couldn't wrangle the JSON within crul.

2. Many smaller sites still use wordpress, and may manually lay out items in a visual hierarchy that isn't immediately obvious in the structure of the HTML. Then you have to go in and parse every "row" and every "column" using xpath or css selectors. Crul wasn't particularly helpful for this either.

3. A scraping workflow requiring authentication, post request for searching, get request for picking the correct result, post request for downloading pdf and parsing said pdf... well, I couldn't get this to work at all.

Hope you'll end up solving such problems automagically and I end up paying you for it.
The reason for the behavioral change is that police stopped doing traffic stops during the pandemic and had already "quiet quit" in response to movements toward greater police accountability, and now people know they can now get away with almost anything.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a police officer pulling someone over, either around town or on the highway.

I was rear-ended by a guy who was clearly looking at his phone and the cop refused to write a ticket despite him rear-ending me at a stoplight that I had been waiting at for over half a minute.

Cops are a legal gang and we cannot have police reform fast enough, starting with federal minimum standards for fitness, education, training, and on-the-job apprenticing/mentoring. In huge swaths of the US, all you need to be a cop is to pass a background check, have a pulse, and be young enough.
Are there statistics on the number of SUVs and trucks on the road?

That is an obvious difference with Europe. Both have much worse pedestrian safety, especially the truck.

The default vehicle for someone who needs to move tools, materials etc in Europe is not a truck but a van like a Ford Transit or Mercedes Sprinter.

The other obvious difference is the huge, multi-lane roads in America, sometimes with no sidewalk.

Changing either of these will take years.
And that's exactly what journalctl -o json does
Ask HN: What are you doing with ChatGPT
Using ChatGPT has been the closest thing I have felt to magic using tech in a long time. I notice much of the conversation about it is being framed by the worst polarized discourses of the moment. I have so little interest in things that narrow thinking into black and white. There is soo many amazing things to explore with the state of art language models. I wonder what are the things HNsers are curious about or trying out that are getting lost in the noise?

for example I have been getting it to recreate classic art with HTML canvas, output it responses in homoglyphs, write useful bash system maintenance scripts in the style of Talk therapy for computers, draft outlines for things I need to write, and so on and so forth..